VOL. XXXI, No. 32 [PEICΈ TWELVE CENTS] MAY 16, 1929 Professor Alvin C. Beal, Authority on Gladioli and Roses, Dies Varsity and Freshmen Crews Win at Cambridge—Major Eight Impressive Cornell Evens Princeton Baseball Series, Winning by Score of 5 to 4 Reunions Planned for Twenty-Two Classes—Class of '69 to be 100% 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 Here is Your Timetable to and from ITHACA r These convenient Lehigh Valley trains link Ithaca with Pennsylvania Station, New York, and Reading Terminal, Philadelphia every day. Lv. New York Lv. Newark Lv. Philadelphia Ar. Ithaca Standard Time 8.50A.M. 9.24 A.M. 9.20 A.M. 4.51 P.M. 11.50 A.M. 12.24 P M I2.4O P.M. 8.17 P.M. fn.4θ P.M. 12.22 A.M. fi2.oo Midnight *7.28 A.M. Lv. Ithaca Ar. Philadelphia Ar. Newark Ar. 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Fraternity Jewelers Ithaca New York MERCERSBURG ACADEMY Offers a thorough physical, mental and moral training for college or business. Under Christian masters from the great universities. Located in the Cumberland Valley. New gymnasium. Equipment modern. Write for catalogue. BOYD EDWARDS, D.D., S.T.D., Head-Master Mercersburg, Pennsylvania CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. xxxi, No. 32. ITHACA, NEW YORK, MAY 16,192.9 PRICE 12. CENTS Man's Brain Not Superior Dr. Papez Announces Results of Study of Brain of the late Dr. Burt G. Wilder A comparative study of the brain of Professor Burt G. Wilder, a member of the original Faculty, who died in 1925, reveals that it corresponds closely to the brains of other noted scholars and confirms the claims of many women that "the brain of a woman need not be inferior to that of a man." The results of the study of Dr. Wilder's brain, made by Dr. James W. Papez, curator of the Cornell Brain Collection, follow closely the study recently made of the brain of Helen Gardener, noted feminist. Confirmation that the size of the brain is no measure of intellect is borne out by the fact that Dr. Wilder's brain weighed 1200 grams, which is not large as compared with other scholars or the brains of average individuals. In the pronounced development of certain areas of the brain, Dr. Papez found that "the length and depth of the furrows in the frontal, occipital, and temporal regions appear to show that these local developments favored in a very important way the acquisition of cultural and scholastic habits " Dr. Wilder's brain showed splendid development in the speech area which is located in the lower frontal region. In the visual area, located in the back part of the brain, and in the center of hearing located in the temporal region, the brain yielded large relative dimensions in comparison with the other brains in the collection. From these facts Dr. Papez reports that "it appears reasonable to infer that his musical as well as his literary abilities were in some way dependent on this endowment. In the brain of Helen H. Gardener who was not musical, the temporal measurements do not indicate a development above the average." The study of the brain served to explain Dr. Wilder's long standing and vehement abhorrence of tobacco smoke in any form. An abstainer from the weed himself, he crusaded against the smoking of others. His brain showed an atrophy of the olfactory center, devoted to ^ the functions of smell. The atrophy was of such advanced degree that Dr. Papez infers it was of long standing and thus explains Dr. Wilder's lack of appreciation of tobacco. Burt G. Wilder is recognized as one of the great men connected with the early days. He died at the age of eighty-four. During the Civil War he served as a surgeon with the 55th Massachusetts Infantry. He was an associate and student of Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jeffries Wyman, and Louis Agassiz. It was under the tutelage of Agassiz that Dr. Wilder received his instruction and inspiration which made him internationally known as professor of verterbrate zoology and neurology. Dr. Wilder believed in the laboratory method of teaching and as a result assembled one of the largest collections of brains extant. The collection now numbers 1600 specimens and includes in addition to the brains of human adults and children, those of apes, monkeys, and other mameals and vertebrates. It is steadily growing. The most recent addition is the brain of Dr. Daniel S. Lamb, curator of the Army Medical Museum, who died in Washington recently. CLUBS GIVE CUPS Following the custom of a year ago, fifteen of the alumni clubs have donated cups, known as the "Moakley Trophies," to be given to those members of the track squad who, in the judgment of Coach Moakley, have shown the best attitude, improvement, and performance during the year. A cup is awarded in each of the fifteen track and field events. The plan to give these cups was developed at the annual convention of the Alumni Corporation held in St. Louis in November 1927. Fifteen cups were awarded last spring, and the alumni are anxious to continue the custom. The contributing clubs this year are those of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Elmira, Philadelphia, Washington, Delaware, Cleveland, New England, Western Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern Ohio, Milwaukee, Youngstown, and New England. APPOINTED TO ATHENS Professor Horace L. Jones, Ph.D. '09, of the Department of the Classics, has been appointed professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for 1929-30. He has been granted leave of absence for that year. The Greek Government recently granted to the American School the privilege of making excavations on the site of the old Athenian market place, and it is hoped that important archaeological discoveries will be made. Professor Beal Dies Acting Head of Floriculture Department Was Widely Known in Field of Garden Rose Culture Alvin Casey Beal, M.S. '03, Ph.D. Ίi, professor of floriculture and acting head of the Department of Flori- culture and Ornamental Horticulture, died suddenly on May 6 of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was born at Mt. Vernon, 111., November 30, 1872, the son of Lewis N. and Sarah M. Beal. He attended the University of Illinois, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1897. He came to Cornell as a graduate student. He remained a year, leaving to become an instructor in floriculture in the Univer- sity of Illinois. He returned to Cornell as an assistant in that department in 1910; he became assistant professor in 1911 and pro- fessor in 1913. ; Professor Beal was widely known as a specialist in the culture of garden roses, and he was considered one of the foremost authorities on the gladiolus. His special research was with roses, gladioli, iris, peonies, and sweet peas. He had been in active charge of test grounds for these flowers at the University, and these grounds were official test gardens for the American Rose Society, the American Gladiolus Society, and the American Peony Society. Professor Beal held memberships in the first two societies. He was also a member of Sigma Xi, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Horticultural Science, the Society of American Florists, the Illinois State Horticultural Society, and the American Iris Society. He was a charter member of Phi Alpha Xi. 1904 CLASSDINNER Twenty-three members of the Class of 1904 were present at their annual class dinner at the Cornell Club of New York May 6. Dean Albert R. Mann '04, chairman of the reunion committee, and Charles A. Taussig '02, were guests. Seventeen of the twenty-three intend to return to Ithaca for their twenty-fifth reunion. 382 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S ATHLETICS Two Crews Win The varsity crew, in its first start of the season May n on the Charles River at Boston, rowed to a decisive victory over the eights of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, covering the mile and three-quarters course in nine minutes 20^5 seconds, cutting time three seconds from the former mark of 9.24 held by a Princeton eight. The varsity victory was Cornell's second of the regatta, for in the dual race with Harvard, the freshman boat was returned a winner by a length. In the junior varsity event, Cornell was third, a length behind the winner, Harvard, with Technology second. The varsity led Technology's shell to the finish line by two and one-half lengths, with the Crimson eight trailing four lengths behind. The three shells got away in the varsity race after two false starts. Technology got the lead on a perfect start. Both Tech and Cornell started at a 42 stroke, keeping that pace for the first fifty yards. The beat went down to 36 as the crews settled down and at the three-quarter mile mark, Technology was leading by a quarter of a length, with Cornell and Harvard even. In the next half mile Cornell gradually forged ahead, passing Technology. With a half mile to go, Cornell had the race well in hand, with Technology and Harvard fighting it out for second place. Technology sprinted, Harvard failing to match the burst of speed, and the Engineers took second handily. The rough water conditions prevailing at the time of the varsity race almost proved fatal to Cornell's chances. In the first false start, Abbott jumped his slide before the first twenty strokes, and the shells were brought back. When the start was finally made, the boats jumped forward together. At the half-mile mark, Behrman, stroke, caught a crab, slowing the shell and letting the Engineers gain a half-length lead. But the Red and White shell caught the leaders in the next thirty strokes. Smoother water at the bridge which marks the first mile on the course gave Cornell its opportunity, and the stroke went up slightly. As the shells went into the second mile, Cornell had a half-length lead. They increased the lead in the last three-quarters mile, finishing fresh. The Red and White oarsmen displayed an even stroke and fine racing form throughout the pull. In the freshman race Harvard gained the jump on the second start and held the lead until the mile mark, when the yearlings caught the Crimson shell and passed it. Just prior to the varsity race, Mann, No. 2, was taken ill, and Shallcross was substituted for him. The boatings: Varsity: Bow, Stillman; No. 2, Abbott; No. 3, Shallcross; No. 4, Heidelberger; No. 5, Scott; No. 6, Clark; No. 7, O'Shea; stroke, Behrman; coxswain, Burke. Freshman: Bow, Winetraub; No. 2, Roeder; No. 3, Langston; No. 4, Martin; No. 5, McManus; No. 6, Jarvis; No. 7, Hartman; stroke, Niles; coxswain, Mullestein. Turn Tables on Tigers The baseball team again broke even in two games played during the week. At Syracuse May 8, Cornell lost to the Orange 5 to o, and at Princeton May 11, the Red and White won a 5 to 4 decision over Princeton. The victory over the Tigers gave each team a victory in the season's home and home series. Captain Froehlich started in the pitcher's box in the Syracuse encounter, his first appearance of the season. He pitched five innings, during which Syracuse gained a 4 to o lead. Lewis finished the game, allowing only one hit. The Orange batters reached Froehlich for seven safeties. The Cornell captain, who has been handicapped by a recent operation on his leg, pitched airtight ball for three innings, but in the fourth Syracuse reached him for four hits, including two doubles, and three runs were scored. With the bases loaded in the fifth inning, Froehlich forced in a run by issuing a pass. The only hit off Lewis came in the eighth, when Stoneberg tripled. He scored on an infield out. Cornell got two of its four hits of the game off Balsley in the ninth, but lacked the punch to send the runners across the plate. The Princeton game at Princeton was marred by errors, the Tigers contributing eight misplays. Lewis pitched the game, allowing six hits in 8j^j innings. Boies finished the game, allowing one hit. Cornell started scoring in the fourth inning when Donnelly reached first onan error. He was sacrificed to second, stole third, and came home on Lewis' hit. In the seventh Cornell gathered four runs on a pass, two infield errors and hits by Hebert and Handleman. The Tigers picked up a run in the seventh when Bennett got a triple. He scored on an infield error. A rally by Princeton in the ninth fell a run short of tying the game. With one out, Lebhar and Bennett hit safely, sending Lewis out of the game. Boies walked the first two men he pitched to, forcing in a run. Hendey, a pinch hitter, singled, scoring two runners. An infield out narrowed the opportunity, but with the tying and winning runs on the paths Vogt struck out. CORNELL (5) AB R H PO A E Mioriana, cf 3 i i 4oo Hebert, 3b 3 i i 33o Cushman, If 4oooo i Steiff, ss 5i i i io Donnelly, 2b 52o i 3o Gichner, c ~. . . . 4 o i 5 o o Handleman, rf 3 o 2 4 oo Kohn, i b 500901 Lewis, p 401020 Boies, p oooooo 36 *5 7 27 9 2 Princeton (4) AB R H PO A E Strubing, c f 501300 Vogt, ss 4oo i 3o Ebbets, ib 40 i 10 o o Layton, If 4 oo4 oo Lebhar, 3b 4 i i 344 Bennett, r f 412000 aB eimund o i oooo Swift, 2b 3ioi i2 Carter, c 3oi 42i bM'Kinney oooooo Moles, p 2ooi oi Heydt, p i ooooo cHendey i o i ooo Score by innings: Cornell ooo 100 Princeton ooo ooo aRan for Bennett in 9th. bBatted for Carter in 9th. cBatted for Heydt in 9th. 400—5 103—4 Summary: Two-base hit: Ebbets. Threebase hit: Bennett. Stolen base: Hendey. Sacrifice hits: Gichner, Vogt, Strubing. Struck out: by Lewis 4; by Moles 3; by Heydt i; by Boise i. Bases on balls: off Moles 3 in 6 innings; off Lewis 6 in 8^ innings. Hit by pitcher: by Moles (Handleman). Wild pitch: Moles. Umpires: Watkins and Coffey. Time of game: 2.10. Pennsylvania Wins Meet Two meet records were broken in the twenty-sixth annual dual track meet between Pennsylvania and Cornell at Franklin Field on May n, when the Quakers won, 8ιJ/£ to 53%. Pennsylvania won eight firsts and tied for another. Berlinger, Pennsylvania's decathlon champion, set a new mark of 47 feet 11% inches in the shot put, while Boyle broad jumped 23 feet 6^ inches to a new record for this meet. Sachs of Pennsylvania equalled the meet record of 9^ seconds in the loo-yard dash. Elmer in the half-mile and Hendricks in the mile were the only track event winners for Cornell. Elmer's time was two minutes ^5 seconds. Hendricks' time was slow in the mile, four minutes 38^ seconds. Worden was Cornell's only double winner. He captured the hammer throw with a toss of 147 feet 11% inches and the javelin throw with a mark of 187 feet. Captain Anderson took his speciality, the discus, with a heave of 151 feet 3}^ inches. Colyer of Cornell tied with Berlinger for first place in the pole vault at 12 feet 9 inches. The summaries: Track Events loo-yard dash: won by Sachs, Pennsylvania; second, Kastler, Pennsylvania; third, Backer, Pennsylvania. Time: 9^/5 seconds. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 383 22O-yard dash: won by Saxer, Pennsylvania; second, Kastler, Pennsylvania; third, Meinig, Cornell. Time: 21^5 seconds. 44O-yard run: won by Saxer, Pennsylvania; second, Ward, Pennsylvania; third, Loane, Pennsylvania. Time: 49^5 seconds 88o-yard run: won by Elmer, Cornell; second, Saxer, Pennsylvania; third, Treman, Cornell. Time: 2 minutes ^5 second. One-mile run: won by Hendricks, Cornell; second, Ritchie, Pennsylvania; third, Collins, Pennsylvania. Time: 4 minutes 384/5 seconds. Two-mile run: won by Montgomery, Pennsylvania; second, Beaman, Cornell; third, Levering, Cornell. Time: 9 minutes 37^ seconds. I2θ-yard high hurdles: Won by McCoy, Penn; Young, Cornell, second; Becker, Cornell, third. Time 0.15^5. 22θ-yard low hurdles: Won by Beyer, Cornell: Young, Cornell, second; McCoy, Penn, third. Time 20.25V$. Field Events Hammer throw: won by Worden, Cornell, 147 feet nM inches; second, Weis, Cornell, 146 feet ij^s inches. Shot put: won by Berlinger, Pennsylvania, 47 feet 11% inches (new meet record); second, Lamberg, Pennsylvania; 45 feet 6^ inches; third, Levy, Cornell,44 feet 10^8 inches. Javelin throw: won by Worden,Cornell, 187 feet; second Berlinger, Pennsylvania, 178 feet 10% inches; third, Lee, Pennsylvania, 161feet 3^ inches. High jump: Stratton and Newkirk, Pennsylvania tied for first place at 6 feet i inch; Hoppenstedt, Cornell; Wickam, Cornell; Berlinger, Pennsylvania, tied for third, 5 feet 10 inches. Discus throw: won by Anderson, Cornell, 151 feet 3^/2 inches; second, Steiner, Pennsylvania, 144 feet n inches; third, Lamberg, Pennsylvania, 133 feet ι% inches. Broad jump: won by Boyle, Pennsylvania, 23 feet 6l/2 inches (new meet record); second, Newkirk, Pennsylvania, 22 feet 4% inches; third, Houghton, Pennsylvania, 22 feet. Pole vault: Berlinger, Pennsylvania and Colyer, Cornell, tied for first place at 12 feet 9 inches; third, Courtney, Cornell, 12 feet. Tennis Team Defeats Army The tennis team won over the United States Military Academy, 5 to 4, at West Point on May n, winning four of the six singles matches and one doubles contest. Detwiler, paired with Smith, captured his doubles match against Lewis and Corr after he had won his singles encounter with Watson. Lacrosse Team Loses The lacrosse team lost its third encounter of the season to Hobart at Gevena on May u, 5 to o. The Genevans led at half time, 2 to o. Early in the second half, Cornell's defense was hard to penetrate, but it cracked under the Hobart drive. The line-up: Freshman Results The freshman lacrosse team was the only yearling outfit to win on May n. The yearling twelve defeated Hobart at Geneva 4 to 2, while the track and baseball teams were losing to Pennsylvania freshman outfits at Ithaca. The freshman track team lost by two points to the Quakers in a meet featuring the all-around performance of Schoenfeld, of Cornell, who won four first places: in the hammer throw, shot put, javelin throw, and discus throw. The score was 68 ^2 to The freshman baseball team was outclassed in its encounter with the Pennsylvania yearlings on Hoy Field, losing 1 1 to 2. THE VARSITY COMBINATION READY FOR PRACTICE Right to left: Bow, Stillman: 2, Abbott; 3, Mann; 4, Heidelberger 5, Scott; 6, Clark: 7, O'Shea; stroke, Behrman; coxswain, Burke. 384 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S The President's Report Dr. Farrand Cites Opportunities for Expansion—Urges Pensions for Teaching Staff Opportunities for expansion that face the University are clearly presented in the annual report of President Farrand for the year 1927-8, just published. The President states that ' 'there are no particular comments to be made upon the general good order of the undergraduates which has continued during the year practically without interruption." Referring further to the subject of students, the report states: "The official enrollment of students for the year ending June 30, 1928, was 5,671 as compared with 5,776 for the previous year. In previous reports the problem of the selection of entering students has been presented in its various aspects. It is a satisfaction to report that an office of Director of Admissions for the University has been created and Dr. Eugene F. Bradford has been appointed to that post. It is confidently expected that with the increased facilities thus provided the process of selection will be facilitated and improved. "Certain changes have taken place in the organization and administration of the Honor System whereby responsibility has been thrown back upon constituent colleges of the University. It is too soon to estimate the degree of success of these modifications but they are regarded as marking an improvement over the conditions previously existing/' Referring to the needs of the University, the report states: "The congested condition of the Library becomes more serious with each passing year. The obsolete buildings and equipment which serve the College of Engineering have been repeatedly discussed in earlier reports and constitute one of the University's chief problems. The lamentable lack of gymnasium facilities is known to all Cornellians. Recent years have served to bring into sharp relief the need of new and generous provision for the Fine Arts. This has been recognized by the Trustees in authorizing the preparation of architects' plans for a building or buildings which shall house not only the professional Colleges of Architecture but which shall serve also as a center for all aspectsof the Fine Arts which it is hoped to develop in the immediate future. "On the academic side of our situation, while there is no striking development to report, there are plans in hand of farreaching significance and which offer promise of realization. The Dean of the College of Agriculture in his report mentions the formulation of a plan, first suggested by the outstanding service of that college to biological science, for the coordinated development of research and graduate instruction in the physical and biological sciences which would present a new conception in organization and might make possible contributions to the advancement of fundamental knowledge. This plan involves the strengthening of our provision for the basic sciences of physics, of chemistry, and of biology in its various phases and with the particular purpose of coordinating and converging attack on the border fields between the sciences, the importance of which is becoming constantly evident. If adequate resources are forthcoming it is proposed to crown this coordinated development by a center for research in general physiology which would embrace and emphasize the fields of biophysics, of biochemistry, and the variety of aspects of the problem of organic function. "It was estimated that the sum of $9,000,000 in new endowment would be needed to enable the University to realize this aim. For practical reasons it was decided to undertake the development, both academically and financially, in stages and to seek the required funds in three capital amounts of $3,000,000 each. It is a great satisfaction to report that upon presentation to the General Education Board the Board expressed approval of the plan and very generously appropriated $1,500,000, contingent upon the balance of that sum being obtained by the University from other sources. This constituted one of the most important opportunities in the history of Cornell and should engage the enthusiastic support of its friends in bringing the plan to successful operation. "The Dean of the College of Agriculture has also outlined the suggested extablishment of a Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture in Porto Rico under the uaspices and chief direction of Cornell but in cooperation with the University of Porto Rico and for which Graduate School generous provision has been assured by the Legislature of Porto Rico. "I wish to call to the especial attention of the Trustees the increasingly serious situation which we face because of the lack of provision for adequate retiring allowances for the University staff. With the failure of the University to meet the modified provisions of the Carnegie Foundation and with the limitations of our own Sage Pension Fund we are annually increasing the number of members of the staff for whom no retirement provision whatever is made and the dangers of the condition thus resulting are obvious. This situation constitutes at the present time a major problem to be solved. "I have at different times called informally the Board's attention to the high desirability of extablishing at the first possible moment a University Press. It is a pleasure to report that new interest in this important project has been aroused and it is probable that a definite recommendation for the establishment of a Press will be made during the coming year." OBITUARIES Carl M. Green '93 Captain Carl Melville Green, highest ranking officer of the Coast Guard in Brooklyn, died suddenly at his home there on May 5. He was sixty-three years old and had planned to retire in the fall from the Coast Guard, with whom he had served for thirty-six years. Captain Green received the degree of M.E. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and the World War. Frederick B. Slater '94 Frederick Raymond Slater, vice-president of the Queensboro Gas and Electric Company, died at his home in Yonkers, N. Y., on May 4, after a long illness. He was born in Washington, D. C., on July 30, 1772, the son of Samuel E. and Marion McLean Slater. He received the degree of M.E. in E.E., and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. His first wife, Mrs. Alma L. Slater, died in 1922. He is survived by three children and his second wife, Mrs. Winifred Lawrence Slater, to whom he was married in 1926. John C. Talcott '09 John Chamberlain Talcott, chief engineer of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, died in Buffalo on April 28. He was born in Buffalo on July 2, 1886, the son of Fred L. and Alice Chamberlain Talcott. He received the degree of M.E. and was a member of the track team for four years, and of Aleph Samach and Sphinx Head. Talcott had been with the Pirece-Arrow Motor Car Company since graduation. James P. Hewitt '09 Word has been received of the death in August, 1927, of James Prentice Hewitt, a farmer and former lawyer of Lewiston, N. Y. He was born in Lewiston on April 23, 1887, the son of James P. and Ida C. Hewitt. He received the degree of LL.B. He is survived by his wife. John Dubuis '09 John Dubuis, a consulting engineer in Bend, Oregon, died in May, 1927, following an operation. He received the degree of C.E. His wife, Mrs. Marion Curtis Dubuis, formerly of Ithaca, and two daughters, survive him. John Winslow '11 John Winslow, naval architect and authority on small boats and yachts, died suddenly on April 7 at Seattle, Wash. He was born in Ithaca on July 14, 1885, the son of Dr. and Mrs. John Winslow. He took enginering in 1905-6 and 1908-11, receiving the degree of M.E. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. His wife, Mrs. Helen Winslow, three children, and a sister, Mrs. Clarence F. Hirshfeld (Elizabeth B. Winslow '02) CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 385 survive him. James E. O. Winslow who died in 1926, was his brother. Frank A. Bernero Ί4 Frank Ambrose Bernero died at the Caledonian Hospital in Brooklyn on June 10, following an operation for appendicitis. He was born in New York on March 12, 1892, the son of Dominic and Mary Bernero. He took a year of arts here and graduated in '14 from Amherst, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. In'17 he received his A.M. and law degrees from Columbia. From 1919 to 1926 Mr. Bernero was associated with the law firm of Kirlin, Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox and Keating in New York. He then became associated with the firm of Rumsey and Morgan and was admitted to partnership on January i, 1928. His wife, Mrs. Regina Pessemier Bernero, and two daughters survive him. Joseph W. Nobel '25 Joseph William Nobel died at Hackensack, N. J., on October 7. He was born in Jersey City, N. J., on March 13, 1902. He took a year of civil engineering. THE CLUBS New York As a result of the annual elections on April 25, six new members of the Board of Governors were elected. For the term expiring in 1930 the following two members were elected: Francis Y. Joannes Όo and Paul H. Raymer '20. For the term expiring 1933: E. Hall Faile Ό6, Arthur Hiltebrant '15, Walter R. Kuhn '12, and Ernest R. Strempel '12. The following men were elected to the Committee on Admissions, with terms ending in 1932: Charles A. Ballou, Jr., '21, George R. Pfann '24, Hugh Troy, Jr., '26, Dr. Preston A. Wade '25, and Randolph W. Weed '09. Queens-Nassau Counties At the last meeting forty alumni and members of their families joined for dinner, dancing, and cards, followed by other entertainment. Charles U. Powell '98 reminisced on his undergraduate days when he was captain of the track team and intercollegiate high jump champion. Miss Jessamine S. Whitney '05, president of the Cornell WΌmen's Club of New York, brought readings from across the river, and John Roger rendered a number of Harry Lauder's Scotch songs and dialect stories. IN The Baltimore Sun for May 5 Elizabeth T. Halsey '24 describes "A Collection of Colonial Textiles." The collection is the one recently added by Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York to the Hamrnond-Harwood House, the colonial museum of St. John's College, Annapolis. BOOKS A Modern Anthology Chief Modern Poets of England and America. Selected and Edited by Gerald DeWitt Sanders, Ph.D. '22, Head Professor of English in the Michigan State Normal College, and John Herbert Nelson, Ph.D. '22, Associate Professor of English in the University of Kansas. New York. Macmillan. 1929. 20.5 cm., pp. xxx, 705. Price, $2.25. Here is a surprising value—a noble anthology of modern verse at a remarkably low price. The book is well done in every respect, and editors and publishers deserve hearty congratulations. The following poets are represented: Hardy, 36 pages; Bridges, 24 pages; A. E. Housman, 18 pages; Yeats, 30; Russell (A E), 20; Davies, 20; Ralph Hodgson, 20; De La Mare, 14; Masefield, 38; Gibson, 40; Harold Monro, 18; Noyes, 24; James Stephens, 18; Sassoon, 14; Robert Graves, 27; Edwin A. Robinson, 40; Amy Lowell, 38; Robert Frost, 20; Sandburg, 26; Vachel Lindsay, 32; Sara Teasdale, 20; Ezra Pound, 10; John Gould Fletcher, 30; Hilda Doolittle, 18; Aiken, 28; Edna Millay, 10. The bibliographies, which include biographical and critical references, fill 53 pages and the indexes of authors and titles and first lines, 25 pages. There would be no use in quarreling with the editors, even if we felt disposed to do so, over their choice of poems or of authors. One "important poet," evidently with a high sense of his importance,refused permission to use any of his poems, and three others felt unable to allow the use of as many poems as were requested. As it is, however, the editors have been remarkably successful in obtaining the use of copyright material; and we believe that the publishers who have thus generously cooperated will in the end lose nothing but even gain because of the increased acquaintance with the works of their clients which this book is likely to bring. As to the merits of the poems themselves we reserve judgment. The editors have doubtless given us the cream of contemporary English verse. Much of the verse in this book is fine and deserves to live. But there is some that seems to us both strained in form and obscure as to purpose and meaning. Tim the winnower will decide the fate of these products of the contemporary verse. Books and Magazine Articles The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for March is devoted to Farm Relief. Dr. Raphael Zon Όi discusses "Forestry and the Agricultural Crisis." Professor James E. Boyle writes on "Tariff Handicaps." Professor Jacob L. Lipman, A.M. Όo, Ph.D. Όi, of Rutgers, discusses "The Economic Significance of Commercial Fertilizers." In the first number of The Journal of Modern History, issued by the University of Chicago, for March, Leo Gershoy '19, A.M. '20, prints "Three Letters of Bertrand Barere." Professor Louis R. Gottschalk '19, A.M. '20, Ph.D. '21, writes on "Professor Aulard." Professor Ernest W. Nelson, Ph.D. '25, of Duke, writes on "Recent Literature Concerning Erasmus." Professor Carl Becker reviews John Cournos's "A Modern Plutarch." Professor Preserved Smith reviews C. G. Crump's "History and Historical Research." In The Journal of Physical Chemistry for May Ksenia A. Proskouriakoff '29 writes on "Oxidation of Halogen Acids by Sulphuric Acid." Professor Wilder D. Bancroft and R. L. Nugent write on "Copper Oxide in the Borax Bead." Professor Bancroft reviews "Soluble Silicates in Industry" by James G. Vail, "The Annual Survey of American Chemistry," volume iii, edited by Clarence J. West, and "Physikalisch-chemische Praktikumsaufgaben" by Arnold Eucken and Rudolf Suhrmann. In the May Rotarian William P. Rose Ίi writes on "Service Above Self, But Attendance Before All." In The Michigan Alumnus for May 4 there is a portrait and sketch of Professor Lucius L. Van Slyke, who has recently resigned as chief in chemical research and professor of dairy industry at Geneva and has gone to Hawaii on a vacation. In the February Hispania Professor Cony Sturgis, '04-5 Grad., of Oberlin, discussed "The Year's Progress" in the teaching of Spanish. In The Cornell Law Quarterly for April Professor Robert E. Cushman reviews Ernest J. Eberling's "Congressional Investigations: a Study of the Origin and Development of the Power of Congress to Investigate and Punish for Contempt." Professor Herbert D. Laube reviews "Jural Relations" by Albert Kocourek. Professor George E. G. Catlin, Ph.D. '24, reviews "Concepts of State, Sovereignty, and International Law" by Johannes MaHern. In The Northwestern University Alumni News for May, there is a portrait and sketch of Professor Donald M. Halley '22, Northwestern Grad. '26, now of Tulane, who has been made one of the advisers of the Northwestern University Aviation Club. Halley has to his credit almost thirty hours of solo flying time and has passed the test for a private licence. In The Sooner Magazine of the University of Oklahoma for May Professor Victor E. Monnett, Ph.D., director of the School of Geology, describes his department under the title, "Geology Oklahoma's Leviathan." There is a picture of the geology staff of fourteen men. In The New York Herald Tribune for April 28 'Herbert B. Reynolds Ίi writes on "Corporate Farming." 386 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Reunion Plans Progress Published for the Alumni Corporation of Cornell University by the Cornell Aluuni News Publishing Corporation. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. 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ITHACA, N.Y., MAY 16, 1929 THE NON-REUNING CLASSES WITH warm weather just in the offing, the announcement of the calendar for the reunions a month away will soon take hold of the minds of many tired business men and women. Three days of leisure and entertainment, with old pals that one hasn't seen for years, conversation, exercise, and rejuvenation, call alike to those that are bored with the canyons of big cities and with the banalities of small towns. Reunions have always been big events for those that have come to them. The alumnus who does not enjoy them is a rarity. Every fifth year, and other years under the Dix plan, there is an urge that is hard to resist. Many do not try to resist. There is a growing body of alumni, however, that sees the possibilities of reunions in between the regular scheduled affairs. These might, in earlier days, have preferred setting off a few roman candles themselves rather than wait for the de luxe display in the city park. Now annually, while the setting of new records is by no means easily done, the group of reuners from non-reuning classes has grown so that it runs approximately a third of the entire registration. The several class committees have tjieir campaign now in full cry. To those whose classes are not holding reunions we suggest that attendance of casual alumni has grown because the offering is a pleasant one and the experience is interesting and entertaining. We suggest that those who have not returned to Ithaca except when the class is holding a reunion should try an off-year reunion with no class responsibilities for records, and find out why the idea is growing. Twenty-two Classes to Return in June'69 Coming One Hundred Per Cent for 60th Twenty-two classes, a larger number than in any recent year, are this month completing their plans for reunions at the University in June. The official reunion dates are Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15, but the wiser committeemen are stressing not only the advantages of coming early, but particularly of spending a leisurely Sunday and Monday in Ithaca after the strenuous activities have abated. The Baccalaureate Sermon will be preached on Sunday; Commencement will follow on Monday morning. Although those last two days are primarily for seniors they are an important part of the alumni program. Reunions will be held this year, under the Dix Plan, by the Classes of '74, '75, '76, '77, '93, '94, '95, '96, '12, '13, Ή, and '15. Under the old rule of reunions every five years, celebrations will also be held by the classes of '69, '79, '84 and the rest of "the Early Eighties," '89, '99, '04, '09, '19 (men), and '24. '27 will be back for its first reunion. Another class that will, as always, be on hand in goodly number is '73. That class claims the honor of being the "reuningest" on the entire roster. An outstanding highlight this year will be not only the celebration of Cornell's first Sixieth, but the attendance of every living member of that honored class of '69. Charles F. Hendryx of Cincinnati and John A. Rea of Tacoma are the two living members. Both have bought round trip tickets. The program as arranged to date, not including the many events which the individual classes are scheduling, follows: Friday, June 14 ii a. m. Class Day of Senior Class, Bailey Hall. All Alumni invited, no tickets necessary. 12.15 to 2 p. m. All classes lunch in Drill Hall. 12.30 p. m. Annual Meeting and Luncheon, Alumnae Association College of Home Economics. At the home of Miss Van Rensselaer and Miss Rose, 2 The Circle. 2.30 p. m. Cornell-Pennsylvania baseball game. Hoy Field. 4 p. m. Meeting of Federation of Women's Clubs, followed by buffet supper. Prudence Risley. 5 p. m. Organ recital by Professor Harold D. Smith. Sage Chapel. 7 p. m. Senior and Alumni Singing. Goldwin Smith steps. 8.45 p. m. Performance by the Dramatic Club. University Theatre, Willard Straight Hall. 8.45 p. m. Musical Clubs Concert. Bailey Hall. Saturday, June 15 7.30 to 10 a. m. Civil Engineering breakfast. All civil engineers invited. Sibley Recreation Room. 9 a. m. Association of Class Secretaries, annual meeting. Willard Straight Hall, Southwest Lounge. 9.30. a m. Cornellian Council, annual meeting. Morrill Hall, Room 32. 10.30 a. m. Alumni Corporation, annual meeting. President Farrand's confidential talk to alumni. Baker Laboratory of Chemistry. 12 to 2 p. m. University luncheon for alumni and families, Faculty, out-oftown guests, and seniors, all as guests of the University. Drill Hall. 2 p. m. Costume parade of classes, to Cornell-Syracuse game. 2.30 p. m. Cornell-Syracuse baseball game. Hoy Field. 6 p. m. Class Dinners. 8.15 p. m. Performance by the Cornell Dramatic Club. University Theatre, Willard Straight Hall. 9.30 p. m. Rally of all classes, under auspices of '14. Bailey Hall. COMING EVENTS Thursday, May 16 Cornell Dramatic Club. "The 1929 Revue." University Theatre. 8:45 p. m. Friday, May 17. Musical Clubs' Concert. Bailey Hall. 8:15 p. m. Navy Ball. The Drill Hall. 10 p. m. Saturday, May 18—Spring Day Spring Day Hell—Schoellkopf Stadium. 10 a. m. Baseball, Yale. Hoy Field. 2 p. m. Lacrosse, Princeton at Ithaca. Upper Alumni Field. Tennis, Swarthmore at Ithaca. Crew, Yale and Princeton at Ithaca. Observation Train Leaves 5 p. m. Cornell Dramatic Club. Special Spring Day performance. "The 1929 Revue." University Theatre. 9:30 p. m. Sunday, May 19. Sage Chapel Service. The Rev. Ber- nard C. Clausen, D.D. of the First Baptist Church of Syracuse. 11 a. m. Tuesday, May 21 '86 Memorial Prize Competition. Wednesday, May 22 Baseball, Colgate at Hamilton. Friday, May 24 Lacrosse, Penn State at Ithaca. Saturday, May 25 Track, Princeton at Ithaca. Schoell- kopf Field, 1130 p. m. Crew, Syracuse at Ithaca. Observa- tion Train leaves at 5 p. m. Tennis, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. Baseball, Yale at New Haven. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 387 The Week on the Campus LET us nowgive a thought to debating. Your correspondent's study of the debating situation began in the autumn of 1910. The attendance at debates was at that time painfully small. The devotees of debate would commonly speak of a golden age of public discussion, which had apparently but just passed away. During those earnest days great throngs would, it appeared, crowd the debating halls and would sway to the winds of eloquence like a field of ripe corn. But, beginning with your correspondent's matriculation, the only attendants at debates were fledgling debaters and that little band from downtown, the campfollowers of culture, who never miss a lecture on The Drainage of the Zuider Zee or Higher Plane Curves. Well, the public prints have lately given us letters lamenting the undergraduates' incuriousness toward debate, and demanding a return to the days (apparently around 1910)when going to debates was the student's chiefest rapture. The Sun, in its fatherly way, suggested that the debaters choose a subject nearer to the student's heart than the reformation of the Jury System. The debaters acted, and advertised a student forum, for the discussion of the athletic situation. And who responded to this appeal? Why, nobody at all. The leagued debaters then debated with each other. IT THUS becomes evident that one of the most serious of our problems is that of finding an audience. Now that every student is mixed up in half a dozen goings-on, he hasn't time to spend in watching other fellow's goings-on. Add to the urgent needs of the University a fund for the endowment of an audience. HARDY ANNUALS: The Freshmen women held their banquet on Thursday. They were addressed by Professor Othon G. Guerlac, who spoke on "The Wizard of Oz," and Professor Frederick G. Marcham, whose speech was on "The Spires of Oxford." HAKDY ANNUALS: The Forestry Club's banquet last Friday was addressed by Ernest Sterling '02, who discussed "Industrial Forestry." Dean Albert R. Mann '04 presented prizes to Marvin L. Smith '29, George Haddon '29, and Charles E. McConnell '29. HARDY ANNUALS: The 47th annual reunion of Phi Beta Kappa was held on May 10. The initiation was conducted by Dean Robert M. Ogden Όo. The principal speaker was Dr. Wolfgang Koehler, director of the Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin. HARDY ANNUALS: The sophomore horse show took place on Friday. Battery D-i won the Louis Livingston Seaman Cup. BUT SOME of the annuals seem to be less hardy. We look in vain for an announcement of the Savage Club Show and of the Book and Bowl Banquet. The Delicate Brown Dinner was omitted, the members of Sigma Delta Chi making up for it by attending Syracuse's Gridiron Roast on Wednesday. It's a pity, I suppose, to see these grand old institutions lapsing. But they are most vigorous when young or when recently revived. The novelties absorb the students' enthusiasm and originality. A Fiftieth Annual Joke is impressive and respectable, but a First and Only is apt to be more fun. THE COMMUNITY was saddened by the death of Professor Alvin C. Beal '03 of the Department of Floriculture, who had been connected with the University for more than a quarter of a century. You will find on another page a record of his services to the cause of his science, to our University, and to the long succession of students who have been inspired by his example. HOWARD A. CODY, a well known Ithaca postman, died here last week. Some of you may remember that when he was a boy, thirty years ago, he used to travel as a mascot with the athletic teams. THE WEDDING of Miss Betty Talmadge Wyckoff '27, daughter of Clarence F. Wyckoff '98 and Mrs. Wyckoff of 216 Fall Creek Drive, to George R. Pfann '24, celebrated in Sage Chapel on Saturday, brought back to Ithaca a considerable number of Cornellians of the generation of 1925THE R. O. T. C. spent three afternoons firing its 75-mm. field pieces at targets in the lake during the week. This is one of the two institutions in which students fire service ammunition in their regular course of instruction. But the students persist in regarding their military training as dull. THE INTER COLLEGE boat house was the scene of a fire on May 7. The prompt arrival of the Fire Department prevented serious damage, if not destruction. SEVEN HUNDRED farmers were in town Thursday to witness the protein experiment now under way on the Warren Farm. The College of Agriculture, you remember, is conducting an exhaustive experiment in the rationing of cattle, to determine their best and cheapest diet. This is a matter, of course, of great economic importance. THE SPEAKIES: Professor Alban G. Widgery of Cambridge University lectured on May 8 on the subject: "Towards a Modern Philosophy of Religion"; Professor F. M. Jaeger, our non-resident lecturer in chemistry, on May 6 discussed "Around the Zuider Zee"; Lewis E. Lawes, warden of Sing Sing Prison, on May 8 spoke on "Life and Death in Sing Sing"; Professor George E. G. Catlin Ph.D. '24, of the Department of Government, on May 7 talked on "Censorship and Social Legislation"; Dr. Frederick E. Bolton of the University of Washington, on May 7 lectured on "The Junior College Movement"; R. Harold Shreve '02 of New York, on May 8 spoke on "The Economic Planning of the Modern Office Building." PROFESSOR OSCAR D. VON ENGELN Ό8 of the Department of Geology has been flying about observing and photographing rock formations in the Inlet valley. Probably they will be having Required Air Trips in Geology before long. DID YOUNOTICE (on another page) the examination of Dr. Burt G. Wilder's brain revealed that his crusade against tobacco was due to the atrophy of his olfactory nerve? There are many wholesome reflections that could be made about this item if this paragraph had to be long instead of short. Send your brain to Cornell and let the world find out about your cherished convictions. WELL, I SEEthat they played Grieg's "Erotikon" at the Congregational Church last Sunday. M. G. B. STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTS Charles E. Hewitt, Jr., '30 of North Tonawanda, editor-in-chief of the Sun, was elected president of the Student Council by balloting of the junior class May 8. Roswell G.Eldridge '30 of Lexington was named secretary, and John W. Hirshfeld '30 of Detroit, Mich., treasurer. Eldridge becomes permanent secretary of the Class of 1930. Senior representatives elected May 9 were Michael Cantalano '30, Forest Hills; Phillips K. Champion '30, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert W. Lewis '30, Suffern; Horace B. Shoemaker '30, Bridgeton, N. J.; Samuel Wakeman '30, Qαincy, Mass. Junior representatives: Henry M. Clark '31, Baltimore, Md.; Frederic H. Cowden '31, Yonkers; S. Lewis Elmer, Jr., '31, Brooklyn; Paul N. Hunt '31, New Brunswick, N. J.; Carl H. Meinig '31, Wyomissing, Pa. Sophomore representative: Miles R. Stevens '32, Lakewood, Ohio. BOOK ANDBOWL has elected the following to membership: Richard G.Belcher '29, Westwood, N. J.; John Billings '30, North Manchester, Ind.; Robert L. Bliss '30, Binghamton; Robert P. Ludlum '30, Brooklyn; Harold S. L. Weiner '30, New York; Damon Boynton '31, Chicago, 111.; Julius F. Brauner '31, Ithaca; Charles P. Hammond '31, Forest Hills; Malcolm Ross '31, Benton Harbor, Mich.; and Theodore S. Ryan '31, New York. FRITZ E. LOEFFLER '30, Yonkers, has been elected president of the Orchestra, and Harold E. Marietta '30, Dayton, Ohio, has been named concert-master. 488 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S THE ALUMNI '94 CE, '96 PhD—The Hooker Electrochemical Company, of which Elon H. Hooker is president, has opened a new plant in Tacoma, Wash., which is producing liquid chlorine for tank cars and cylinders and solid, liquid, and flake caustic soda. The company's Eastern plant is at Niagara Falls, N. Y., and its sales office at 25 Pine Street, New York. '95 ME—At the annual meeting held recently of the American Institute^ of Architects, Bernhard Hoffman was elected to honorary membership. Among the six others elected are Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Senator Reed Smoot, and President James Rowland Angell of Yale. Mr. Hoffman is a resident of New York, but at present is temporarily in Santa Barbara, Calif., where his address is P.O. Box 631. '04-5 Grad—Professor Cony Sturgis of Oberlin spoke in Columbus on January 26 on the events of the meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. On March 8 he spoke before a section of the Association at the University of Akron on "Some Aspects of the Contemporary Literature of Spain." On March 26 he spoke at Baldwin-Wallace College under the auspices of the Department of Modern Languages. Ό6 ME—Mrs. Anna Shingle Insinger has announced the marriage of her daughter, Josephine Jolley, to Henry Atwater Ό6, on April 27 in Philadelphia. After June i Mr. and Mrs. Atwater will be at home at 1421 Delaware Avenue, Wyomissing, Pa. '07 MD—Harry Cohen is president of the Eastern Medical Society of the City of New York. His address is 221 Second Avenue. '12, '26 CE—John S. Lusch is teaching science at the Great Neck, N. Y., High School. He lives at 180 Sunnyside Avenue, Brooklyn. '13 BS—Edmund H. Stevens is a special agent with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company and affiliated companies, at 324 Chimes Building, Syracuse, N. Y. He lives at 80 South Main Street, Homer, N.Y. '14 ME—A daughter, Gertrude Hollingshead, was born on April 28 to Mr. and Mrs. John James Munns. Their address is 1107 Michigan Avenue, Evanston, ill. '14 ME—Ward E. Pratt is still with the Duriron Company with headquarters now in New York at 1054 Grand Central Terminal Building. He lives at 3 Adelaide Street, Rye, N. Y. '14 CE—Laurence C. Hough is district manager of the Pitometer Company of New York, spending eight months of the year in Boston and four months in Char- Gordon's Gas Station H. N. Gordon '15, Owner 3 Years, Chemist Vacuum Oil Co. 6 Years, Chief Chemist Rae Oil Co., Rochester, N.Y. 100% California No-Knock Gasoline Pennzoil Mobiloil Quaker State Alemite Service Parking for Boat Races Fulton and West Buffalo Streets Where the Observation Train Is Taken lotte, N. C. He has been traveling from Nova Scotia to Georgia, studying municipal waterworks distribution systems. His address is Room 910, 77 Summer Street, Boston. '14 PhD—According to a recent note in School and Society, President George F. Zook of the University of Akron has declined the presidency of the University of Louisville, which had been offered him at a salary of $15,000. '14 BS; '13 BS—Joseph E. Godfrey has a tire and battery store at 120 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca. He lives at 114 Eddy Street. Mrs. Godfrey was Hazel W. Brown '13. They have two children, Gladys Irene, who is thirteen, and Joseph E., Jr., who is ten. '14 BS—Isadore R. Asen is a medical technologist conducting the clinical laboratory in Newark, N. J. His address is 33 Lincoln Park. He writes that his daughter, Betty Jeanne, hopes to be in the class of '41 if she makes the grade. '14—John F. Wilson is district manager of the Oregon-Washington Water Service Company. His address is P. O. Box 643, Mount Vernon, Wash. He has three children. '14 ME; Όo,Όi CE—Lynn B. Timmerman is a Ford and Lincoln dealer in Lima, Ohio, and vicinity, at 545 West Market Street. He lives at 437 Lincoln Avenue. He writes that Irving C. Brower Όo is city manager of Lima. '14 AB—J. Sherwood Smith is a member of the firm of Calkins and Holden, Inc., advertising agents at 247 Park Avenue, New York. He lives in West Nyack, N. Y. '14 AB—Edmund D. Sickels for the past eight years has been with the HarrisDibble Company of New York, engaged in selling the publishing business as a broker. His business address is n West Forty-second Street. He lives at Hudson View Gardens, ι83d Street and Pinehurst Avenue. '14 ME; '19, '20 CE—Edward J. Schroeter is president of the Macoustic Engineering Company, Inc., a national organization devoted exclusively to problems of sound control and the manufacture of macoustic sound absorbing material at 782 Union Trust Building, Cleveland. Robert H. Schroeter '19 is chief engineer. Edward Schroeter has three girls and two boys. They live at 2200 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights. '14—Edmund B. Rogers on February i became superintendent of the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. His address is 1344 Elizabeth Street, Denver. '14 AB—Robert Plaut is a broker in New York. He lives at 161 West Eightysixth Street. '14, '14—Howard M. Henderson is vice-president, treasurer, and general manager of Peter Henderson and Com- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS \o-day even the edge of the crowd can hear- 389 A few hundreds heard Lincoln Unlimited thousands now hear presidents AT present-dayinaugurations of Presj[\ idents of theUnited States, everybody in the vast crowd assembled at Washington is able to hear every word of the ceremony. A Western Electric Public Address System, with its loudspeaking horns above the speaker's stand and at strategic points in the crowd, makes this possible. This apparatus amplifies sound and distributes it to all parts of a city park or square or an indoor auditorium. In convention halls of hotels, it brings the speaker's voice loud and clear to people in the rear seats. The Public Address System has a growing use in hotels, in amusement parks, in hospitals, where music or other entertainment can thereby be distributed from a single source to any number of places or rooms. The equipment is adapted to a wide range of requirements ... A product of the telephone art, the Public Address System is electricallyand mechanically dependable. It is made by Western Electric and sold by Graybar Electric—two names that mean quality and service in things electrical. Western Electric PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS ^Distributed by GRAYBAR Electric Company 390 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S THE CORNELL ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DETROIT, MICH. EDWIN ACKERLY A.B. '20, LL.B., Detroit, '22 Real Estate Investment Specialist 701 Penobscot Bldg. KENOSHA, WIS. MACWHYTE COMPANY Manufacturers of Wire, and Wire Rope Streamline and Round Tie Rods for Airplanes Jessel S. Whyte, M.E. '13, Vice President R. B. Whyte, M.E. '13, Gen. Supt. BALTIMORE, MD. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH Water Supply, Sewerage, Structural Valuations of Public Utilities, Reports, Plans, and General Consulting Practice. Ezra B. Whitman, C.E. Όi G. J. Requardt, C.E '09 B L. Smith, C.E. '14 18 E. Lexington St. ITHACA, N. Y. GEORGE S. TARBELL Ph.B. '91—LL.B. '94 Ithaca Trust Building Attorney and Counselor at Law Ithaca Real Estate Rented, Sold, and Managed P. W. WOOD & SON P. O. Wood Ό8 Insurance 316-318 Savings Bank Bldg. NEW YORK CITY MARTIN H. OFFINGER, E.E. '99 Treasurer and Manager Van Wagoner-Linn Construction Co. 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Ό8 Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively 309-314 Victor Buiilding ι8i9 G Street, N.W. One block west State War and Navy Bldg. LUNCHEON AND DINNER RUTH L. CLEVES Ί6 THE BALLOU PRESS CHAS. A. BALLOU, JR. '21 Printers to Lawyers 69 Beekman St. Tel.Beekman 8785 POWER PLANTS—COMBUSTION—FUELS H. W. BROOKS, M.E. Ί i Member A.S.M.E., Fellow, A.I.E.E. (Formerly of U.S. Bureau of Mines) One Madison Ave. Central National Bank Bldg. New York, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. W^ilson fir9 Bristol ADVERTISING 285 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK Phones: LEXINGTON 0849-0850 MAGAZINES TRADE PAPERS NEWSPAPERS FARM PAPERS Arthur W. Wilson '15 Ernest M. Bristol, Yale '07 pany, seedsmen at 35 Cortlandt Street, New York. He has three children, a boy, eleven, and two girls, nine and six. He writes that C. Edward Murray, Jr.,'14, who is president of the Murray Rubber Company of Trenton, N. J., manufacturers of all kinds of rubber goods, has a farm in Princeton, N. J., where he is raising Holstein and Jersey cows, and police dogs. '14 AB—Hamilton M. Lufkin is assistant superintendent of the St. Paul Foundry Company. His address is 617 Goodrich Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. '14 BS, '15 MF—William J. McCarty is with the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works, Borough of Manhattan, New York. He lives at 4761 Richardson Avenue, Bronx, New York. Ί6 CE—Jeremiah J. Hayes, since 1923 rnanager of the Guam Paper Company, has become a stockholder in the Caldbeck Cosgrove Corporation and will enter the business about May 15. The Corporation distributes builders' supplies throughout most of Vermont and part of New Hampshire. '22; '22—E. Milton Lilly has been for the past year assistant cashier in charge of casualty underwriting at the Newark, N. J., branch of the Travelers Insurance Company, with which he has been associated since 1925. His office is at 60 Park Place, Newark. He lives at 115 Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J. He writes that John W. Thomas '22 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Dental College and is now practicing dentistry at the Corsa Building, Ridgewood, N. J. '22 ME—Edgar A. Rogers, for six years associated with McClellan and Junnkersfeld, Inc., in St. Louis, recently became representative in Philadelphia for Ford, Bacon and Davis, Inc., engineers. His address is 6655 McCallum Street. '23 CE—Benjamin H. Palmer, Jr., '23 was married on April 20 to Miss Rosalind Ray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.George J. Ray of Summit, N. J. Palmer is a member of the firm of Chandler and Palmer in Norwich, Conn. '23 AB—Jerold S. Meyer is assistant secretary and treasurer and a director of the Strouss Hirshberg Company in Youngstown, Ohio. At present he is engaged in the promotion of branch department stores. '2368, '24 BS, '23 AB—Harvey A. Weaver has had a farm for the past four years three miles from Ithaca on the Inlet Valley Road. His address is R. D. 5, Ithaca. Mrs. Weaver was Mary G. Nichols '24. A daughter, Elizabeth Anne, was born last June. Weaver writes that George A. Weaver '23 is returning from Venezuela, where he has been an oil geologist for the Pure Oil Company. '24 EE—Robert N. Leonard is an analysts in the switchboard planning de- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 391 partment of the Western Electric Company at Kearney, N. J. He lives at 50 Seymour Avenue, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y. '24 BS; '24 BS; '17 BS—Henry Arnold is farming in Stanley, N. Y. Mrs. Arnold was G. Lillian Bay '24. They have two children, George Henry, aged three, and Lorraine Barbara, who is two. Arnold writes that Clifford O. Henry '17 is a captain of marines, and is now in Nicaragua. '24 AB—A daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born on April 29 to Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Haines Halsey. Mrs. Halsey was Elizabeth A. Tower '24. '25 BS—Dorothy H. Brown spent three months last fall traveling in England, France, Belgium, and Holland. Since her return in November she has been at her home in Kingston, N. Y. She now has a secretarial position with the Arthur J. Harder Company in Hyrley, N. Y. '26—Douglass Boardman Lee, son of Duncan Campbell Lee, former professor of oratory here and now an attorney in London, was recently sworn in before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court as a practicing attorney in New York. After two years at Cornell, Lee went to Oxford where he received the degree of B.A. in 1927. He studied law in London for a year, and was admitted to practice as an English barrister. He is now taking special work at the Cornell Law School,of which his grandfather, Douglass Boardman, was the first dean. '26 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Philip Zachariah Hankey have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Phyllis Bancroft Hankey, to George L. Todd '26 on May 4 in New London, Conn. After July i Mr. and Mrs. Todd will be at home at 77 East Boulevard, Rochester, N. Y. '26, '27 BChem; '26—David W. Jayne, Jr., writes that he and Daniel D. Ritson '26 are research chemists with the American Cyanamid Company in Warners, N. J. Jayne lives at 260 West Jersey Street and Ritson at 470 Jefferson Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J. '27 AB—Alfred S. Ambler, Jr., is in his third year at the Cornell Medical College. He lives at 611 Thirteenth Street, College Point, N. Y. '28 BS; '29—The engagement has been announced of Grace E. Whitwell '28 and J. Stanley Putnam, a senior in agriculture. Miss Whitwell is dietitian at Sage College. '29—J. Robert Clough is with the Lawyers Trust Company at 160 Broadway, New York. MAILING ADDRESSES '93—George C. Perkins, 310 High Street, Newark, N. Y. '97—George A. Rogers, Room 909, Rowan Building, 458 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Calif. '05—William B. Atwood, 910 California Avenue, Avalon, Pa. Interior St. Qeorge's School, Chapel, Newport, R. ί. Cram & Ferguson, Architects. L. D. Willcuit & Sons Co., Builders. Built of Indiana Limestone. 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'' The House of Universal Service'' Ithaca, New York Is Your Class listed for Reunion in June? If so, it's none too soon to be thinking of costumes, for costumes can make or break a reunion. They're a mighty important part of the fun—and when given thought early, original ideas can be worked out most satisfactorily. It's a part of our business, and we're glad to offer our services. Information, ideas, estimates and samples will be furnished promptly on request. ROTHSCHILD BROS. ITHACA, NEW YORK OS—Kenneth M. Foote, 201 Bona Allen Building, Atlanta, Ga. Ίo—William H. Treene, 3950 Cherry Street, Erie, Pa. '14—Richard Gibson, U. S. V. B. Hospital, Tucson, Ariz.—Thomas B. Crews, Jr., 219 Broad Street, Red Bank, N. J.— William H. Upson, Bread Loaf, Vt. Ί6—Morgan B. Klock, 68 Canterbury Road, Rochester, N. Y. '17—Esther C. DeGraff, 426 Hudson Avenue, Albany, N. Y.—D. Harry Chandler, 741 Belvidere Avenue, Westfield, N. J. Ί8—Edmund S. Barrington, 821 Seventh Avenue, Altoona, Pa. '19—Fred F. 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WANZER The Grocer Aurora and State Streets Books from The Cayuga Press THE CAYUGA PRESS is the printing plant owned and operated by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. The books listed below, published during the past year, are representative of the fine and difficult work sent to the Press by individuals and publishing houses alike. The George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lectureships in Chemistry at Cornell University.—Muscular Movement in Man. By A. V. Hill (Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society of London). Physico-Chemical Metamorphosis and Some Problems in Piezochemistry. By Ernst Cohen (University of Utrecht). Salts, Acids, and Bases: Electrolytes: Stereochemistry. By Paul Walden (University of Rostock.) The McGrawHill Book Company Inc. New York and London. A Concordance of Boethius. Compiled by Lane Cooper. The Mediaeval Academy of America. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cornell Studies in English. A Bibliography of the Poetics of Aristotle. 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It is easily possible after finishing a book to put it on our own shelves before it is convenient to return it. It is embarrassing but it happens. Have bookplates with your name printed on them. What could be better for a Cornellianthan the bookplates showing campus scenes? Garden Books My wife says that I make a garden with a book in one hand. There are worse ways. The only trouble is that the book does not show where the bug is whichis waiting for my seed. Ask for our agriculture booklist. The Old Model Remington Portable Typewriter $4500 Not all Remington agencies have these old models. We had a few because the new model arrived nearly a year ahead of time. In a couple of months our stock will be gone. Are you interested? What Service Should We Render to the Alumni ? We are mailing many items now and these, in many cases, were suggested to us. The latest item is bookplates. Some time in the future our Board of Directors may develop a better plan of cooperation with the Alumni. 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