VOL. XXX, No. 24 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] MAECH 15, 1928 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 THE STAK \-AFTEKTHE THEAΊ The Cornell Columns AFFORDS an opportunity to spend the evening at the theater. Leaves New York (Penn.Sta.) 11.50 P.M. " Newark (Eliz. & Meeker A v e s . ) . . . . 12.22 A.M. " Philadelphia (Reading Ter.) .12.05 A.M. Arrives Ithaca 7.37 A.M. Dining Car Serving Breakfast Sleepers open for occupancy in New York and Philadelphia 10.00 P.M. JLehighΛ^lley Railroad CΊhe Route of The Black Diamond HARRIS & FULLER Members New York Stock Exchange 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK Telephone—Rector 3640 104 St. Paul St. Baltimore, Md. HARRY M. LORD, Mgr. CLARENCE R. NIMS HOWARD J. GUNN BENJAMIN JACOBΘON LESLIE A. HARTLEY HENRY B. FULLER ARTHUR V. 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WILLIAM MANN IRVINE, LL.D., Head-master Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Frequent showings of Luxenberg Clothes are held in the cities listed below: Jacksonville Boston Pittsburgh Tampa Syracuse Washington New Orleans Chicago Wilkes-Barre Atlanta Bethlehem Troy Birmingham South Bend $37.50 Write for new style booklet and dates of exhibitions. CLOTHES 37 Union Square, New York Between 16th & 17th Sts. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. xxx, No. ITHACA, NEW YORK,MARCH 15, 19x8 PRICE iz CENTS Professor Tout to Lecture English Historian to Give Messenger Series on "Administration of Medieval England" The Messenger Lectures this year, on "The Evolution of Civilization/' will be given by Professor Thomas Frederick Tout of Manchester, England, beginning Tuesday, March 20. He will give twelve lectures on "The Administration of Medieval England." Professor Tout was professor of medieval history in the University of Manchester for thirty-five years, and it is primarily due to his work as a teacher and scholar that the school of medieval history at Manchester during that period was second to none in any British university. Professor Tout has been the recipient of many distinctions. He is a Litt. D. of Manchester, holds the honorary degree of Litt. D. of the Universities of Oxford, Durham, and Liverpool, and is an honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh. He is an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, a past president of the English Historical Association, and a corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. At the International Historical Congress in London in 1913 Professor Tout was president of the medieval section, and he was a president at the Congress held in Brussels in 1923. His very extensive writings include numerous papers in the learned periodicals, a large number of articles in the Dictionary of National Biography, and several historical textbooks that are widely used on both sides of the Atlantic, including "The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History" (1914), and "Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England," of which volumes i and 2 appeared in 1920. Two more volumes are now on the press and will be published at an early date. When Professor Tout retired from his chair at Manchester in 1925, the University conferred on him the title of Honorary Professor, and he was further presented with a volume entitled "Essays in Medieval History Presented to Thomas Frederick Tout." This book has an international character, since it is composed of contributions not merely by a large number of his former colleagues and pupils, but also by distinguished French, American, German, and Belgian scholars. The Messenger Lectures were founded in 1923, when Hiram J. Messenger 'So left to the University $77,000 for this pur- pose. The first holder of the lectureship was Professor James H. Breasted who spoke in 1925 on "The Origins of Civilization." In 1926 Professor Robert A. Millikan lectured on "The Evolution of the Elements," and in 1927 Professor Herbert J. C. Grierson of the University of Edinburgh discussed "The World, the Flesh, and the Spirit in English Literature in the Seventeenth Century." SHEARN '90 APPOINTED Clarence J. Shearn '90, former Supreme Court Justice, has been appointed special commissioner in the investigation of the Queens County, N. Y., sewer charges by Governor Alfred E. Smith. After his graduation from Cornell, he attended New York University and in 1893 was admitted to the bar. Governor Martin Glynn of New York appointed him to the Supreme Court bench in 1915. In 1917 Justice Shearn was elevated to the Appellate Division, from which he resigned in 1919 to resume private practice. He is a member of the law firm of Shearn and Hare in New York. For many years he was associated with William R. Hearst, the publisher, as general counsel and political adviser. He was associated in the Independence League and the Municipal Ownership League, anti-Tammany organizations in New York. Shearn was a candidate for the offices of district attorney of New York County in 1905, governor in 1908, and Supreme Court justice in 1911. Later he became counsel for the Transit Commission and the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company. LEGISLATION FAVORS CORNELL A bill appropriating $2,500 for preparing plans for a class room and laboratory building for the College of Home Economics has been introduced into the Legislature. It has been referred to a committee. Another bill to establish courses in the theory and fundamentals of nursery work and landscape gardening, carrying an appropriation, has also been introduced. LIBRARY RECEIVES RARE VOLUME Fred N. Dean of Ithaca has presented to the University Library a volume of weekly political papers, published in Albany during the year 1840. The publication is The Rough Hewer, devoted to the. Democratic principles of Thomas Jefferson. The first number is dated February 20, 1840. Law Session Arranged Many Faculty Members of Other Institutions to Teach at Cornell During Summer Term The Law School will open its summer session on June 25, with faculty members of several other colleges and universities on its teaching staff. The Law School Faculty this year will include Professors George J. Thompson, Horace E. Whiteside, Lyman P. Wilson, and Assistant Professor William H. Farnham Ί8, all of Cornell; Professors Judson A. Crane of the University of Pittsburgh, George W. Goble of the University of Illinois, Thomas C. Lavery of the University of Cincinnati, Karl M. Llewellyn and Roswell F. Magill of Columbia, Douglas B. Maggs of the University of Southern California, Merrill I. Schnebley of the University of Missouri, Charles J. Hilkey, dean of the Lamar School of Law, Emory University, and Assistant Professor Maurice H. Merrill of the University of Nebraska. Dean Charles K. Burdick will teach at the summer session of Stanford. Other members of the Law School Faculty are also planning to teach at other colleges and universities during the summer. NEW ART EXHIBITION A collection of paintings, tapestries, antique furniture, Chinese porcelain, and pewter is being shown in the University Art Gallery in Morse Hall through the courtesy of the Antique and Decorative Art League of New York. The exhibition will be continued to March 28. Among the notable paintings is Sir Joshua Reynold's portrait of Dr. Philip Hayes, professor of music in the University of Oxford from 1740 to 1797. It is from the collection of Sir J. C. Robinson, former curator of the national collection of the South Kensington Museum in London. Other artists whose work is included in the exhibition are Charles Antoine Coypel, Giovanni Batista Morani, Jan Steen, Nicholas Largilliere, Marco Palmezzano da Forli, Pietro Maresolace da Feltre, Lelio de Novellara Orsi, and Sebastian Gomez. A seventeenth century Gobelin tapestry depicting Constantine the Great superintending the construction of Constantinople is included in the exhibition. 294 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Agricultural Report Issued Fortieth Annual Volume Reviews Year's Work in Detail—State Support of College Called Inadequate The fortieth annual report of the College of Agriculture has just been received; it was transmitted to the Legislature on January 16. It fills 156 pages. Dean Mann begins with a review of agriculture in New York State. In the past forty-five years 4,500,000 acres in New York have been withdrawn from tillage. A large part of this area is still idle. Progress in foresting this area should be accelerated. At the same time New York is producing more food than ever before. In 49 farm products she ranks first in the amount produced of eleven, second in the amount produced of fourteen, third in the amount of eight, fourth in the amount of three, fifth in the amount of five, and so on. Agriculture is thus of great importance, and education and research in agriculture are of vital concern to New York farmers. For fertilizer, feed, and maintenance of equipment New Y^ork farmers pay yearly $116,028,119. A one and one-half per cent saving on these items pays for running the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics for a year ($1,706,823). In recent years, however, the State support has been inadequate. "The State College has steadily fallen behind in facilities and maintenance. Its salary scale has not been adjusted in accordance with the costs of living since the War, nor has it kept pace with the growing competition for qualified men in agricultural teaching and research. For the past few years salary increases have been generally denied; only in a few instances have the urgent requests been granted. For example, for the entire staff of all grades, professional, clerical, and operative, the Legislature of 1926 allowed total salary increases of only $450; and the Legislature of 1927 allowed total salary increases of only $1640, of which $1200 was applicable to the janitor group. Promotions have been made possible for deserving men chiefly by losses from the staff and the opportunity which such losses have offorded for very limited redistribution of funds. The salary scale in the State College is now seriously below that paid in the remainder of Cornell University. In contrast it may be pointed out that, during these years of neglect, the researches and teachings of the college staff have added many millions of dollars to the agricultural wealth and income of the State. Investments in agricultural research and teaching are among the most productive investments which it is possible for the State to make. "The situation is highly acute. The College has no power to protect itself against the demands of other institutions throughout the United States which may desire to draw highly qualified teachers or investigators from its staff. It is equally embarrassed in seeking to fill vacancies. The years of foresight and of great devotion in bringing the New YΓork State College of Agriculture to its present high standing are jeopardized by this policy. There could be no greater shortsightedness than to allow this situation to continue until its disastrous results are accomplished. There is no greater need in the State College of Agriculture than an immediate and adequate advance in salaries and there is perhaps no action of greater importance which the State can take for the permanent welfare of its agriculture, which is one of its greatest industries and resources and one of its responsibilities." During 1926-7 there were 273 men and 18 women on the staff. On a full-time basis this would be equivalent to about 220 persons; of the total number 48 per cent are teaching, 28 per cent are doing extension work, and 24 per cent are engaged in research. Since 1868 8,475 persons have studied as regular or full time special students in the College. In 1926-7 there were 708 regular, 31 special, and 272 graduate students. Since 1908 919 advanced degrees have been granted in agriculture and the sciences now represented in the College curriculum. The amount of research accomplished by the staff under the conditions is remarkable. The list of summarized books and articles fills eighteen pages. The amount of extension work done was likewise noteworthy. The workers (including those in home economics) spent 7,375 days in the field and established teaching contacts with 442,025 persons. The inventory of publications includes 71 items, 3,570 pages, and a total issue of 997,600 copies. POSITION OPEN An excellent position will be open about May i in the office of the CornellianCouncil at Ithaca, for a Cornell woman who has been out of the University from four to ten years and who has had several years of business experience. The position will involve various kinds of work and will thus require a person of unusual versatility. Executive ability, personality, experience in handling a large volume of correspondence, some experience in publicity, ability to direct the handling of files and card records, and the work of other people, are the qualifications for the position. The work will be permanent in its nature; it will present opportunity for the future; and last but not least alluring will be the chance to work and live amid the inspiring surroundings of the Campus. Any Cornell alumnae who are interested in this position are requested to communicate with the Cornellian Council,. 32 Morrill Hall, Ithaca, giving in detail their business experience and qualifications. ATHLETICS Win Yale Track Meet Four dual meet records were bettered and one new collegiate mark was set when Cornell's champion track team defeated Yale in the fifth annual indoor meet in the Drill Hall on March 10, 58 1-2 to 54 1-2. It was Cornell's third victory in the series. Norwood G. Wright, intercollegiate champion, led a trio of Red and λVhite weight throwers to a clean sweep of the event by tossing the 35-pound weight 55 feet 7-8 inch, bettering the intercollegiate mark of 53 feet n 1-8 inch which he set in New York March 3. It was his last throw in intercollegiate competition, as the event will not be contested in the Michigan-Cornell meet on March 24. Worden and Cohen took second and third places. Cornell came into the Drill Hall in the evening with a lead of 16 points, for in the running broad jump, held with the weight throw in the baseball cage, Cornell upset all predictions by taking the first two places. Foster T. Rhodes set a new dual meet mark of 22 feet 10 5-8 inches to win, with McConnell second. Clean sweeps in the first two events to be concluded on the evening program, the shot put and the mile run, gave the Red and White athletes a lead of 34 points. The victory in the mile run was spectacular, Horace H. Benson, McKaig, and Eldridge coming to the tape in a blanket finish in the fast time of 4.33 1-5. Berger and DeBuys, the Yale entries, set the pace with the three Red and White milers strung out in the rear. Berger, at the half-mile mark, went out in front. As the gun barked to start the last lap, Benson took the lead, and with McKaig and Eldridge at his heels, uncorked a sprint. Berger finished fourth almost fifteen yards in the rear. John F. Anderson, leading the shot putters in their sweep of all points in that event, set a new dual meet and Drill Hall record with a heave of 46 feet 3 inches. Levy finished second and Wickham third. Yale started to cut down the lead. Engle leo^ his teammate, Smith, to the tape in the 44O-yard dash in a sterling performance that clipped 2-5 second from the dual meet mark. Kieselhorst and Hunter of Yale added eight more points by taking the first two places in the 75yard dash. Cornell came back with a first place victory, when Elmo Caruthers, Jr., sped over the high hurdles to set a new dual meet and Drill Hall record of 0.09 1-5, beating out Sheldon and Game of Yale. The two-mile run went to Jacob of Yale, whose reserve more than matched the bid of Levering of Cornell for a victory. The time was slow. Hogan of Yale took the 88o-yard run with ease, standing off Orthmann's challenge in the last stretch. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 295 Yale, while the running events were claiming attention, scored eight points in the pole vault, with Carr equaling the meet and Drill Hall record of 13 feet 6 inches. He failed at 14 feet. Sturdy of Yale took second and Pitman of Cornell gathered a point for the Red and White with a third place vault of 12 feet 6 inches. Two Yale and two Cornell high jumpers tied for first place in the high jump, each team getting 41-2 points. Two events, the low hurdles and the mile relay remained, and the Elis were conceded the relay. The first two places in the hurdles would have given Yale a tie, but Caruthers clinched the meet for Cornell by finishing second to Kieselhorst of Yale in the event, nosing out Wood of Yale. Yale's runners closed the gap by leading Cornell's quarter-milers all the way in the mile relay. Captain Spelman pulled a tendon in a trial heat of the dash and was unable to compete in the final or in the low hurdles, his specialty. Yale took the relay and six other first places, with Cornell gathering five firsts. The high jump was divided. The summaries: 75-yard dash: won by Kieselhorst, Yale; Hunter, Yale, second; Aurbach, Cornell, third. Time, 0.07 4-5. 440-yard dash: won by Engle, Yale; Smith, Yale, second; Bryon, Cornell, third. Time, 0.52 (new dual meet record). 88o-yard run: won by Hogan, Yale; Orthmann, Cornell, second; Dulaff, Cornell, third. Time, 2.04 3-5. Mile run: won by Benson, Cornell; McKaig, Cornell, second; Eldridge, Cornell, third. Time, 4.33 1-5. Two-mile run: won by Jacob, Yale; Levering, Cornell, second; Beaman, Cornell, third. Time, 9.59 2-5. 75-yard high hurdles: won by Caruthers, Cornell; Sheldon, Yale, second; Game, Yale, third. Time, 0.09 1-5 (new dual meet and Drill Hall record). 75-yard low hurdles: won by Kieselhorst, Yale; Caruthers, Cornell, second; Wood, Yale, third. Time, 0.08 1-5 (equals dual meet and Drill Hall record). Mile relay: won by Yale (Smith, Clayson, Ferguson, Engle); Cornell (Beyer, Treman, Youug, Rhodes), second. Time, 3.31064--p5o.und shot put: won b, y AA nd,erson, Cornell, 46 feet 3 inches; Levy, Cornell, second, 45 feet 3 inches; Wickham, Cornell, third, 42 feet 7 inches. High jump: tie for first place among Kaul and Wolf, Yale, and Keet and Wilkes, Cornell. Height, 5 feet 8 inches. Pole vault: won by Carr, Yale, 13 feet 6 inches; Sturdy, Yale, second, 13 feet; Pitman, Cornell, third, 12 feet 6 inches. (Equals dual meet and Drill Hall record). 35-pound weight throw: won by Wright, Cornell, 55 feet 7-8 inch; Worden, Cornell, second, 48 feet 1-8 inches; Cohen,Cornell, third, 45 feet 51-8 inches. (New collegiate and dual meet record.) Broad jump: won by Rhodes, Cornell, 22 feet 10 5-8 inches; McConnell, Cornell, second, 22 feet 3 5-8 inches; Oldt, Yale, third, 2i feet 7 3-4 inches. (New dual meet record.) Lose to Green Again Dartmouth scored its second victory over Cornell on the basketball court March 10 when the Green quintet won third place in the Intercollegiate League standing by beating the Red and White five, 41-29. Cornell finished in fourth place with five games won and five lost. Princeton's 29-12 over Pennsylvania deadlocked the two teams in first place. Columbia defeated Yale, 30-29. The standing: Princeton Pennsylvania Dartmouth Cornell Yale Columbia W L PC 7 3 .700 7 3 .700 6 4 .600 5 5 .500 3 7 .300 2 8 .200 Dartmouth's victory came in the second half when Cornell failed to match the drive of the Green quintet. The Red and White held Dartmouth to a two-point lead in the first half, 19-17, but could not stop the fast-traveling Swarthout, Green forward, who scored 16 points. Hall, forward, was the high scorer for the Red and White with eight points. Masten and Lewis each got six. The line-up: Dartmouth (41) G Swarthout, If Spaeth, If Vossler, rf Gordon, rf Langdeίl, c Hein, c Ellis, Ig Keep, Ig Austin, rg Schmidt, r g 6 i i o i o o 2 3 FP 4 16 i3 i3 oo 46 oo oo o4 i7 102 Totals 15 Cornell (29) Hall, I f Layton, rf Lewis, c Schlossbach, Ig Stein, rg Masten, rg G o o i i 2 ii 41 FP 328 22 66 35 o2 26 Totals. 15 29 Wrestlers Slate Clean Cornell wrestlers ended their dual meet season at State College, Pa., March 10 by defeating the Penn State matmen, 17-8. There were two falls, Eisenmann of Penn State throwing Captain Stanley in the 145-pound class, and Stafford of Cornell throwing Cranmer in the 17 5-pound division. Four of the matches went into extra periods, and two of them were called draws by the referee. The two Johnsons of the Cornell team, Howard S. and Carl E., figured in the draws. The Cornell twins, John T. and William T. Holsman, won their matches on decision. The summaries: ιi5-pound class: Josef son, Cornell, defeated Steele, Penn State, on decision. Time advantage, 5.28 in two extra periods. 125-pound class: J. T. Holsman, Cornell, defeated Wilson, Penn State, on decision. Time advantage, 6.30 in two extra periods. 135-pound class: W. T. Holsman, Cornell, defeated Hubler, Penn State, on decision. Time advantage, 2.20. 145-pound class: Eisenmann, Penn State, threw Stanley, Cornell, with crotch and half nelson. Time 9.58. 158-pound class: H. S. Johnson, Cornell, and Packard, Penn State, drew in two extra periods. 175-pound class: Stafford, Cornell, threw Cranmer, Penn State, with inside crotch and head hold. Time, 6.57. Heavyweight class: B. Johnson, Cornell, and Hollobaugh, Penn State, drew in two extra periods. Referee, Martineau, Syracuse. Fencers in Close Match The Cornell fencers lost an exhibition match with a picked team from the Fencers' Club of New York in the Drill Hall March 10, 8-6. The New Yorkers lost only one of the six foils matches. Cornell won three of the four έpee bouts and the teams divided honors in the saber division. Swimmers Beaten A victory in the relay enabled Union College swimmers to defeat Cornell at Schenectady March 10, 34-28. Larco starred for Cornell by taking first in the loo-yard dash and second in the 5o-yard dash. Quick of Cornell won the 44O-yard swim, and Meyer won the 2OO-yard breast stroke swim. SPORT STUFF This place is once again pleasantly agitated over track athletics. Little boys argue over hurdling form. Most professors have a dope sheet concealed somewhere in the brief case along with their lecture notes and the April number of Snappy Stories. The triangular meet with Harvard and Dartmouth was lost by one position in the relay race. The indoor championship was won by a half point. The dual meet with Yale turned on the difference between second and third place in the low hurdle. All these hair-line decisions on three successive Saturdays have caused even an austere institution, of learning to break out all over with manifestations ofhuman nature. This twenty-third indoor meet with Michigan on March 24 threatens to divert us from Plato's theories of government, alternating currents, and all those verbs which so thrillingly take the dative. It's just as well once in a while. What price culture when the band blares in the Drill Hall and the quarter milers take the turns on two wheels while Doctors of Philosophy burst into tears and destroy their faulty dope sheets? You'd better come. And if you come you'd better mention the matter pretty soon. At the Yale meet the box-office opened for business with a stock of thirtysix tickets. R. B. 296 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S OBITUARIES Francis A. March, Jr. Professor Francis Andrew March, Jr., of Lafayette, died suddenly at the Faculty Club in Easton on February 28. He was born at Easton on March 3, 1863, and was graduated from Lafayette in 1881. In 1883-4 ne swa an instructor in early English here; then he went to Chicago for two years as professor of early English, after which he returned to Lafayette as adjunct professor of modern languages, becoming in 1891 professor of English literature. He succeeded his father as head of the English department at Lafayette. He was the author of "A History of the World War" and (with R. J. Beamish) "America in the World War" also of "A History of Athletics at Lafayette.' ' He was an authority on etymology, having contributed studies in this field to the Thesaurus, Century, and Standard Dictionaries. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. William G. Goodwin '89 Word has just been received of the death on October 21, 1921, in Rome, N. Y., of William Grant Goodwin. He was born in Lairdville, N. Y., on March 24, 1864. He attended Cornell from 1885 to 1890, and from 1894 to 1897, receiving the degrees of B.L., M.S., A.B., and A.M. He was at one time a teacher of history in the Curtis High School on Staten Island, N. Y. Henry V. Wille '92 Henry Valentin Wille died on November 29 of cerebral hemorrhage. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on April 16, 1870, the son of Theodore W. and Christiana Braun Wille. He received the degree of M.E. (EE). He had been with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia since 1892, and had been vice-president since 1922. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Iron and Steel Institute of London. Sam N. Craig '06 Sam Nesbit Craig was burned to death on February 26, when an air mail plane in which he was riding crashed near Marquette, Nebraska. He was born in Alleghany City, Pa., on October 16, 1884, the son of John S. and May Nesbit Craig. He received the degree of M.E. He was a member of Chi Psi. He was president of the Treadwell Construction and Midland Barge Companies of Midland, Pa. He lived in Beaver, Pa. He had for a long time been interested in aviation, at one time owning a plane. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Walker Craig, two sons, a daughter, and his father. Alexander C. Meikle '15 Alexander Craig Meikle died last June at his home in Miami Beach, Fla., of angina pectoris. He was born on November 4, 1893, ^ne son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Meikle. He received the degree of C.E. He was a member of Sigma Phi Sigma. He was superintendent in structural engineering with the George A. Fuller Construction Company, and had directed the building of the Roney Plaza and the King Cole Hotels at Miami Beach. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Neilson Meikle, to whom he was married in 1919, and a daughter, Alice Craig. Harry J. Flood, Jr., '16 Harry John Flood, Jr., died on December 29 at his home in Chicago, ofpneumonia. He was born in Elmira, N. Y., on February 9, 1887. He spent a year at Cornell taking agriculture. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, and played on the freshman football team. Then he entered the University of Chicago, where he became a well known football star. Flood was an official of Montgomery Ward and Company, and was formerly a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gretchen Adams Flood, his father, and a brother. Marian Clark Sparks '18 Word has recently been received of the death a year ago of Marian Clark Sparks. She was born December 5, 1888. She took graduate work during the year 191718. In June 1918 she married Leo Charles Sparks, who survives her. She lived in Piedmont, California. Harold B.Cohen'19 Harold B. Cohen died suddenly in New York on November 19, after suffering for a long time with a neuro-muscular affliction. He was born in Rockville Centre, N. Y., on August i, 1898, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cohen. He was at Cornell three years. Until his illness, he was in the textile business. He is survived by his parents. Theodore C. Strong '24 Theodore Carroll Strong died suddenly of heart disease on February 20. He was born in Mount Airy, Md., on September 26, 1901, the son of Charles Herman and Barbara Rell Strong. He received the degree of A.B. in 1924 and of LL.B. in 1926. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He was on the Graphic Board and was business manager of The Cornell Law Quarterly. He had been practicing law in Detroit. He is survived by his parents and a brother. Model Assembly at Cornell Students of Twenty Colleges to Participate in Event Patterned on League of Nations Meeting A model assembly of the League of Nations, in which students of twenty colleges representing forty-nine countries will participate, will be held in Willard Straight Hall on May 4 and 5. The event will be similar to those conducted by the League Assembly at the opening League sessions at Geneva. The purpose of the model assembly is to promote friendly relations among students of various nationalities attending American universities and to afford a practical demonstration of the aims of the League. The model assembly last year was held at Syracuse University. Invitations have been sent to Alfred, Bryn Mawr, Buffalo, Colgate, Columbia, Elmira, Hamilton, Hobart, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Princeton, Rochester, St. Lawrence, the New York State College for Teachers, Swarthmore, Syracuse, Union, Vassar, and Wells. Students of these institutions will represent Abyssinia, Albania, Austria, Australia, Belgium, England, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany,Greece,Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, South Africa, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Vevezuela. A Cornell committee has been organized to arrange for the model assembly. It includes Warren L. Worden '29 of Enid, Okla., chairman; Rev. Hugh A. Moran of Ithaca, secretary; Miss lone Barrett '28 of New York, treasurer; Professor George E. G. Catlin, Ph.D. '24, Professor J. L. Woodward, Professor Herbert A.Wichelns Ί6, Ernest A. Kubler, Ph.D. '26, Foster M. Coffin '12, Miss M. E. Cox, T. P. Carpenter, Rev. James A. G. Moore, Catherine B. MacLeod '28 of Buffalo, Edna V. Silliman '28 of Hempstead, Helen D*. Worden '28 of Binghamton, Emily W. Briggs '29 of Ithaca, George T. Turner, Jr., '29 of River Forest, 111., Ivan A. Zatayevitch '29 of Moscow, Russia, William C. Banta '30 of Ridgewood, N. J., Tetsuo Miyakawa '30 of Sawtelle, Calif., David H. Tokimasa, Grad., Heeia, Oahu, Hawaii, Mung Y. Yap '29 of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Cristobal M. Martinez '31 of Ithaca. HAKVABD has raised her tuition fee for the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to $400. The new rate will go into effect at the beginning of the next academic year. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 297 BOOKS The Evolution of Culture Cultural Evolution: a Study of Social Origins and Development. By Charles A. Ellwoσd '96, Professor of Sociology in the University of Missouri. New York. The Century Company. 1927. 22.7 cm., pp. xii, 267. The Century Social Science Series. Price, $2.50. This book has been prepared partly as a textbook in sociology; at the same time, as the writer says in his introductory note, "it is frankly written in the hope that it may also interest the educated public; for nothing is more important in the present age than that we should come to understand where we are in the development of civilization." That the author's hope will be realized can scarcely be questioned after a perusal of the book; for it is intensely interesting from start to finish. The fact that it is, as the publishers say, "an effort to discover . . . why things are as they are in our world at the present moment" is indicative of the vital importance of the book to the general reader. The first five chapters deal with the nature and causes of cultural evolution. The first element in culture, Dr. Ellwood points out, is language. "It is the diffusion of mental patterns by language through the group, thereby making them social patterns, which forms culture. This was the new development in social evolution which made possible cultural evolution." Subsequent chapters treat of the development of the use of tools, from their simple beginnings of wood and stone to the iron and steel of the present time; of the food process; of agriculture. Here he remarks, "It is not too much to say that the domestication of the horse had an effect upon the primitive culture of the Old World very similar to the effect which the invention of the automobile has had upon our present culture." Chapter IX deals with the development of war. "War is a transitional phenomenon chiefly developed in barbarism and semi-civilization. It cannot continue to exist under general conditions of social enlightenment." In the development of the fine arts the law of rhythm is evident, as in all cultural development. Although one part of culture is often developed at the expense of another part, when the general cultural level is low, the level of fine arts is low. The chapter on the family is most interesting in view of the unstable conditions of the present time; also, and for a similar reason, that on law and government. "Government," says the author, "seems about to enter upon a new stage in which it is neither custom nor mere authority, but intelligence. Such a stage of political development implies of course a corresponding development of personality in the masses. Its prerequisities must be universal education in social and political affairs and a socialized personality in the great mass of individuals." The remaining chapters deal with the development of morality, religion, education, and science; and the book concludes with a cultural retrospect and prospect. There is a well made index, and to each chapter is -appended a valuable list of titles for further reading. The book should have wide use. Books and Magazine Articles In Old Oregon for February Professor S. Stephenson Smith reviews Homeyn Berry's "Sport Stuff," which he pronounces "Priceless," and Luigi Lucatelli's "Teodoro the Sage," translated by Morris Bishop '13. In The Columbia Alumni News for March 2 is a portrait of President Farrand, Columbia P. and S. '91, with a sketch from which we quote with great pleasure the concluding paragraph: "He has been described as 'the type of man that one might expect to find behind a glass-topped desk in a Wall Street skyscraper directing the destinies of some great corporation/ but one who 'happens to be more interested in directing the destinies of young men and young women.' As an educator, Dr. Farrand has stood for defeating the spirit of intolerance, for increasing the standard of college entrance, and for providing an education which will not produce machine minds in its recipients. His abilities and activities display a broad interest and an unfailing tact." Dr. Joseph Uttal '22 contributed to the Journal of the American Medical Association for January 28, 1927, an article on "Chronic Lead Poisoning from Snuff." INTERCOLLEGIATE INDOOR TENNIS IN THE DRILL HALL Photo by Morgan John Van Ryn and Kenneth Appel, Princeton, (in the foreground) win the doubles title in the intercollegiate tournament, defeating B. H. Whitlock and Malcolm Hill, Harvard. 298 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Published for the Alumni Corporation of Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication, numbered consecutively, ends the last week in June. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single copies twelve cents each. Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to Cornell Alumni News. Correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. Member of Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service, Inc. Printed by The Cayuga Press Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y., MARCH 15, 1928 IF CLASS DAY PASSES CLASS DAY is a traditional event of the graduating class. It now falls within the reunion days each year. It was formerly an important part of half a week given up to the final disintegration of a class that had fought, bled, and run together for four years. Class Day is now under scrutiny, along with Junior Week. It may eventually go its way along with the Masque and the Mud Rush. It is not to be belligerently assumed that the giving up of a traditional event is an indication of weakness on the part of those who consign it to oblivion. New situations call for new traditions; new events replace old ones in the calendar of a living institution. The class, as a fundamental division in Cornell, does not occupy quite its former social prestige. Classes have no class officers. They get along somehow each as a quarter of the student body, the whole governed by a Student Council representative of them all. The sophomore class representatives have as much to say, in proportion to their numbers, which are less than a quarter of the Council, as do the senior members regarding Class Day or the juniors regarding Junior Week. The unit is thus the student body. Its divisions are thought of by some as classes, by some as colleges. The old lines of cleavage are not sharp. If Class Day falls, as it may, we hope the Student Council will carefully consider what is to take its place. We hope they will consider the opportunity of working in a day, or a session, where the senior class will fraternize with the returning alumni, perhaps to sit in rumination on the meaning of the term alumnus, the opportunities offered—by skillful speakers, carefully chosen—for greater usefulness in wider fields to the University that has meant so much for four years to them. Much the same purpose will be served as by Class Day. The point of view will not, however, be reminiscent and introspective, but expectant and constructive. FOOTBALL 55 YEARS AGO At the Michigan Union, after the recent Centennial Send-off Dinner at Ann Arbor, Willis Lyon Watkins, Michigan '75, told the following story about the first Michigan-Cornell football game to be arranged. We quote from The Michigan Alumnus for February 11: Back in 1873, there was a University of Michigan Football Association formed when Mr. Watkins and his associates were sophomores. The president of this association was Calvin Thomas, '74, one of Michigan's most honored alumni and possessor of an honorary degree from his Alma Mater. There were some games played with upperclass teams but there was no intercollegiate competition. Then came what is confidently believed to be the first effort ever made on the part of an Eastern university to arrange a football game in the West. The attempt took the form of overtures from the University of Cornell at Ithaca to the University football association that a game between teams representing the two universities be staged on some neutral field. After much correspondence it was finally agreed that the game would be played in Cleveland and everything seemed to be ready. But here Fate took a hand and one of the members of the Cornell squad was killed at Ithaca and the trip was abandoned. But this unfortunate ending of the whole thing did not prevent Mr. Watkins from spinning a good story and the letters he showed, one of which is here reproduced, and the set of rules he displayed all unfolded a new chapter in Michigan athletic history. Ithaca, Oct. 22, 1873 Mr. Watkins: I telegraphed you yesterday so as to relieve your anxiety, and thought you would be pleased to know more fully how matters stand here. Only one thing stood in the way of the game on Saturday, and that was the arrangement with the Erie R. R. The very day I received your challenge I wrote to one of their leading officials to know if we could get a car, or if not, could we get excursion tickets at a figure low enough to enable us to carry out the scheme. Not until yesterday did we receive any satisfactory answer and then we thought it too late to make complete arrangements to have the thing well advertised and to collect the money. As it is the fellows are doing well and without any doubt we shall have the pleasure of meeting you next Friday or Saturday (Oct. 3ist or Nov. ist). We can get a car by having so many go at a satisfactory price, so we shall have to get fifteen or more than our players to go and pay all or a part of their expenses. I do not think there is any doubt but that we can do all this week and send our representative to Cleveland Monday. We think it would be better to play the game Friday afternoon and if it be storming we can put it off until the next day. Do you think we can take in gate money enough to pay our expenses? I will send you with this letter some copies of our rules which you can become familiar with; and thus many claims of foul may be obviated. We use a common ball put together in six pieces not a rubber ball with canvas over, and separate from it, nor a pig-skin ball. They are the hest kind to wear. Have you any idea how large the grounds will be? Please answer these few questions and oblige, Yours expectantly, R. P. FOSTER, Cornell '74. FOOTBALL RULES From The Cornell Era of November 24, 1871: 1. The sides shall be at least twenty-five feet apart, and the ball shall be started within the limits of one of the sides. 2. The ball shall be considered in play upon leaving the limit of the side from which it started. 3. The ball shall continue in play until one of the goals is reached, until it leaves the limits of the ground or until a foul for any cause shall be claimed. 4. The goals and limits of the ground shall be determined before the commencement of any game. 5. The ball in no case shall be picked from the ground while in play. 6. A ''free-kick" or '"fair-kick" shall be allowed only when the ball is taken on the fly, and shall not include the right of running with the ball. Instead of taking a "free-kick" the player may, if he chooses, strike the ball with his fist. 7. No claim of "Foul" shall be made except by one of the umpires and such claim shall constitute a decision unless disputed by the other umpire in which case a decision shall be immediately given by the referee. 8. Any player having a "free-kick" shall be entitled to fifteen by ten feet of clear space taken in an opposite direction to the one in which he intends to kick the ball; if no one is near enough to prevent him, he may kick the ball from the spot where he catches it. 9. The hands shall not be used in pushing, or hauling, or holding any player. 10. Repeated willful violation of the above rules shall render any member liable to expulsion or suspension from the association by a two-thirds vote of the active members. 11. Both the umpires and the referee shall have the power to suspend any member making a second violation of these rules during any game. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 299 The Week on the Campus SPORT-LOVERS, as they are called, had a happy time Saturday. The bile and spleen which commonly possess the sport-lover were dissipated by the sounding victories won. Perhaps the sport-lover had better be termed a victorylover. THE TRACK TEAM had proved in the I.C.A.A.A.A. (or is it I.C.A.A.A.A.A.?) meet that it had a handful of champions. By winning the Yale meet it proved that it is a complete and well-balanced team. Perhaps Jack Moakley was more pleased at winning the Yale meet than by the Intercollegiate victory. PERHAPS MORE remarkable was the showing of the fencing team against the Olympic group. One might get the measure of their prowess by imagining the Cornell tennis team coming close to tying the Davis Cup stars. AND THE WOMEN'S rifle team, with a score of 489 out of a possible 500, defeated the University of Maine and the University of Dakota. (Probably North Dakota or South Dakota.) MARCH HAS BEEN so far cold, cruel, and bitter. Five inches of snow are on the ground, more than at any previous stage of the winter. Great forty-foot icicles cling to the south wall of Fall Creek Gorge. The crews, having had a taste of open water in February, sweat sulkily at their machines. A lot of people talk about the weather in an injured manner. Well, they can't say they weren't warned. See this department's exclusive prediction, in our issue of December 8. We stated at that time, after examination of the breastbone of the goose of Mr. M. C. Dunlap of Ellis Hollow, that January would be open and mild, February partly stormy, and March stormy. A BRISK LITTLE sex-war has been going on. The Class Day Committee had proposed, in accordance with the practice of the past few years, to omit the women from the Class Day exercises and the Class Day booklet, while imposing the Class Day tax regardless of sex. This looked like taxation without representation, the sort of thing that brought on the American Revolution. The senior women protested to the Student Council, which, in spite of its name, is an all-male organization. The Student Council upheld the Class Day Committee. The matter then became public, and gave rise to a number of Letters to the Editor, ranging from sarcastic to violent. The Sun warmly espouses the women's cause; a petition is being circulated among the senior men asking for equal rights for women. A meeting of the Student Council has been called for Tuesday, March 13, when delegates from the Women's Self Government Association will present the case of the senior women. THE RESULT of this meeting will be very interesting. Student public opinion seems to be on the women's side. Most of today's undergraduates recognize that Cornell is a co-educationalinstitution. Indeed, it is a surprise to learn that there are still advocates of the archaic, untenable, and hopeless policy of non-recognition. THE Sun is opening a novel competition. It calls for juniors with ideas and an urge for expression to present themselves, to compete for the post of editorial writer. This seems to be a very good plan. The Sun has a very long and wide column to fill with editorials every day. The Editorin-Chief has plenty to do besides writing editorials, and he is often chosen rather for his executive virtues than for his classical style. The result has been that the editorial column has received more harsh and just criticism than all the rest of the paper. This will be an interesting experiment to observe, as we shall be enabled to do every morning. AMONG THE LECTURERS last week were Lorado Taft, the sculptor, presenting "his charming friends of the fifteenth century," Professor William S. Nelson of Howard University, who addressed the Women's Forum and the Saturday Lunch Club on "The Negro Race and its Achievements," and Edward L. Bernays '12, who spoke on "The Public Relations of the Hotel." Mr. Bernays spoke in passing of the "Welcome Stranger Movement" in the New York hotels which once drove your sensitive correspondent to sleeping in a subway local. THE JUNIOR SMOKER will this year be dedicated to the memory of Lieut. Theodore H. Twesten, according to a decision by the committee. It will be a more formal affair than in past years. It will be held on March 27 in Willard Straight Hall, instead of Bailey Hall, as in the past, and will be preceded by a dinner. This change of scene would seem to indicate that a good many juniors have been staying away from the Junior Smoker. CAPTAIN STONEWALL JACKSON, Infantry, who has been detailed here since June, 1924, and who has made a large number of friends in that time, has been ordered to Fort Benning, Ga., upon completion of th" school year here. WE NOTICE that Professor Howard S. Liddell of the Physiology Department exhibited in New York a Russian film illustrating Pavolv's experiments in the conditioned reflex. The dramatic comparisons of the learning process in children and animals aroused much interest. A BILL to establish courses in the theory and fundamentals of nursery work and landscape gardening has been introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Charles J. Kewitt. The sum of $15,270 is appropriated. It sometimes seems a little curious that such relatively minor matters as additions to the State College's curriculum must pass through the Legislative routine and occupy the time and attention of our lawmakers. It is the inward conviction of this department that higher education is the proper business of the State; as long as the State takes care of the feeble-minded it should also provide for the exceptional-minded, and should assure itself of a supply of thoroughly trained technicians, leaders, and scholars. But when one observes that special legislation is needed to establish a course in nursery work one thinks that maybe it would be a lot less trouble to get along under the present arrangement. THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made on Saturday that students in Hotel Management will be required to take a special course in psychology. The psychologist "will devote a large part of his time to personnel work with the men, teaching character traits and developing personality." An extraordinary amount of snorting was overheard in professional offices on Saturday. M. G. B. COMING EVENTS Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17 Wrestling, Intercollegiates at Princeton. Saturday, March 17 Fencing, Syracuse at Syracuse. Tuesday, March 20 University concert, Giovanni Martinelli, tenor. Bailey Hall, 8.15 p. m. Thursday, March 22 Banquet, honoring Francis T. Hunter Ί6. Cornell Club of New York. Saturday, March 24 Indoor track, Michigan. The Drill Hall, 8 p. m. Fencing, Intercollegiates, semi-finals, at West Point. Tuesday, March 27 Junior Smoker. Willard Straight Hall. Saturday, March 31 Spring recess begins. THE Sage Chapel Preacher on March ii was Rev. Frank Gavin, Ph.D., Th.D., professor of ecclesiastical history in the General Theological Seminary, New York. Dr. Gavin, before he studied for the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, completed a regular course of study and training in a Jewish theological seminary for the purpose of laying a good foundation for his subsequent work. He is fully trained and qualified for the office of rabbi. THE DRAMATIC CLUB concluded its presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "The Admirable Bashville" with performances in the University Theatre on March 9 and 10. "O'Flaherty, V. C.," a short sketch by the same author, was presented as a curtain-raiser. The Club is preparing a presentation of "The Merry Wives of Windsor." 300 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Cornell University Summer Session in LAW First Term, June 25 to August 1 CONTRACT, Professor Thompson, Cornell University. PROPERTY, Professor Wilson, Cornell University. SURETYSHIP, Professor Llewel- lyn, Columbia University. MORTGAGES, Professor Llewel- lyn. PARTNERSHIP, Professor Crane, University of Pittsburgh. TRUSTS, Professor Maggs, Uni- versity of Southern California. INSURANCE, Assistant Professor Farnham, Cornell University. Second Term, Aug. 2 to Sept. 7 CONTRACT, Professor Whiteside, Cornell University. AGENCY, Assistant Professor Mer- rill, University of Nebraska. TAXATION, Professor Magill, Columbia University. SALES, Professor Goble, Univer- sity of Illinois. WILLS, Professor Schnebly, Uni- versity of Missouri. DAMAGES, Professor Lavery, University of Cincinnati. BANKRUPTCY, Professor Hil- key, Emory University. Students may begin the study of law in the summer session. For catalog, address the Cornell Law School Ithaca, N. Y. PROVIDENCE HABTFORD ESTABROOK & Co. Sound Investments New York 24 Broad Boston 15 State ROGER H. WILLIAMS '95 New York Resident Partner SPRINGFIELD NEW BEDFORD Hemphill, Noyes έ& Co. 37 Wall Street, New York Investment Securities Philadelphia Albany Boston Pittsburgh Rochester Buffalo Baltimore Syracuse Jansen Noyes '10 Clifford Hemphill Stanton Griffis ΊO Harold Strong Walter S. Marvin Kenneth K. Ward J. Stanley Davis L. M. Blancke '15 Members of the New York Stock Exchange THE ALUMNI Όi ME—Archibald B. Morrison on February i was placed in charge of the buying end of the municipal bond department of the Guardian-Detroit Company in Detroit. '04—The engagement has been announced of Ralph H. Inslee to Miss Sara Hunter Van Blarcom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Van Blarcom of Newark, N. J. '04 AB, Ό6 L,LB—Ralph K. Robertson is trial attorney for the International Railway Company, in Buffalo. Ό6 AB—Joseph E. Goodrich was married in November to Miss Martina Chase of Leominster, Mass. He is associated with the Lockwood and Breen Company in New York. Ίo ME—Alexander Wilson is chief engineer for the Philadelphia Electric Company, now in charge of the construction of the large hydro-electric plant at Conowingo, Md. The initial installation will develop 378,000 horse power. Most of the power will be transmitted to Philadelphia. Ίι,'i2LLB—Henry J. Kίmball is attorney and assistant secretary of the Northern New York Trust Company, and treasurer of the Toohey Silk Mills, Inc. He lives at 420 Holcomb Street, Watertown, N. Y. He has a boy aged nine and a daughter aged seven. He has been designated as a delegate from his Congressional district to the Republican National Convention this summer. '12 AB; '23 BS—A son, Robert, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Foster M. Coffin on February 29. Mrs. Coffin was Carolyn P. Slater '23. 1Ίι-i2 Grad—At the meeting of the Pacific Coast Division of the American Philosophical Association held at the University of California on November 25-26, Professor David W. Prall of the University of California read a paper on "The Relations of Aesthetic Judgment to Knowledge in General." Ί3CE—The State Department at Washington has announced the promotion of William C. Beitz, since 1924 viceconsul at Hamburg, from the unclassified to the officer rank in the United States Foreign Service. '13 ME—William A. More is president of the G. E. More Company, dealers in men's furnishings in Buffalo. He lives at 82 Penhurst Park. '14 ME—John C. Nulsen was married on December 6 to Miss Miriam Collins. They are living in St. Louis. '14 ME—William E. Lundgren is president of Lundgren and Mause, Inc., insurance brokers at no William Street, New York. He lives at 45 Park Avenue. Ί5CE—Gerald Healy was married in November to Miss Mae M. Morey of Flint, Mich., where Healy is engaged in the real estate business. Ί6 BChem—George S. Babcock is a chemical engineer in the roll coating department of the Eastman Kodak Company. He lives at 86 South Union Street, Rochester. Ί8 AB—Neil H. Dorrance on February n was elected president of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Camden, N. Y. Ί8—Clyde A. Warne has recently been appointed general manager of the Florida West Coast Ice Company, with headquarters in St. Petersburg. '19, '21 WA—Barclay K. Read is assistant sales manager in the dyestuff office of the Du Pont Company in New York. He lives at 8 Thomas Street. '19 AB—Helen A. Carmalt received the degree of A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania on February 18, her special subject being sociology. '19 ME—Ralph F. Jones has joined the Russell Manufacturing Company in Middletown, Conn., manufacturers of Rusco solid-woven cotton belting, as mechanical engineer. '19, '23 BS—Hubert H. Snively has been appointed manager of the PalmolivePeet Company in Belgium, with headquarters in Brussels. He had been manager of the company's branch in Syracuse, N. Y. '19 BS, '21 MF—Frederic B. Merrill has been appointed assistant State forester in Georgia. '19 BS; '25 BS—William R. Needham '25 and Cecilia Coad '19 were married on December 24. Needham is the son of Professor James G. Needham, '98 Ph.D. '20 AB—Russell O. Hooker has been appointed an assistant actuary in the New York office of the State Insurance Department. His work will be chiefly in connection with the actuarial problems arising in the examination of pension systems and life insurance companies. '20—Mrs. and Mrs. Mark William Hill have announced the marriage of their daughter, Minerva Louise, to Francis H. Eyre, on February 25, in Salamanca, New York. '20—William C. Feldsine was married on February 8 to Miss Bernice Henaberry, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Henaberry of Chicago. He is connected with the American Bond and Mortgage Company in Chicago. '20, '21 BArch—Donald McCormick is an architect in Tulsa, Okla. He has been specializing in residences, private schools, and hospitals. He has been supervising the construction of two large churches for Chas. W. Bolton and Son of Philadelphia. His offices are in the Atlas Life Building. He lives at the University Club. CORNELLALUMNINEWS 301 Pleasures Dictated by Reason These are Health, Peace and Competence and they are within the grasp of all men. Sane living will earn Health and Peace, and sound life insurance protection makes Competence certain, particularly in the later years of life when it is most needed. Ask The Prudential man about the Endowment at age 60 or 65 policies, whereby for a relatively small sum you may build up a competency for your Old Age. The Prudential Insurance Company of America Edward D. Duffield, President Home Office, Newark, New Jersey 302 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S From:— Hibby Ayer Tot- Cleveland Alumni Subject:— Shirts Armed with steel tape, samples and order blanks, I will arrive in your city a few days before The Smoker, March 3ist. Warning!!! Any Cornellian who has a shirt and who does not want me to call, write me here at Ithaca before March 2.4th. Otherwise I will expect to take your measure—and believe me, I can. MAKER OFjSHIRTS|THATFIΓ 2.06 N. TIOGA ST. ITHACA NEW YORK Dear Hibby: lί/£haavveen't)[ashirt. J/PSle°ansfet[) call. Name Address- City .State _ '20 AM, '27 PhD—Lois E. Montgomery has returned to Wilson College, where she had been for a number of years an instructor, as assistant professor of English. '20—Leonard M. Masius was married on December 15 to Miss FlorenceLevy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Levy of Peru, Ind. '20—William P. Stevens was married in October to Miss Marian Hazel Rose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Rose of Hudson, N. Y. They are living in Greenville, N. Y. Stevens is a member of the firm of M. P. Stevens and Sons. '20 AB—Edith L. McClay '20 was married on February n to Dr. Cecil V. King, an assistant professor of chemistry in New York University. '21 AB—Robert Steel, baritone of the Chicago and Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, was married in February to Miss Beryl Van Horn of Bola, Pa. Miss Van Horn starred on the stage as "Miss Nobody from Nowhere." '21 ME—George W. Weis is an engineer with the New York Telephone Company, at 140 West Street, New York. He lives at 9034 I48th Street, Jamaica, Long Island. He was married in 1926. '21—Gertrude S. Fenner '21 was married in November to Ralph C. Ludington. They are living in Holley, N. Y. '21—Mr. and Mrs. James B. Fisher of Brooklyn have announced the engagement of their daughter, Gladys Louise, to Benjamin S. Graham. He is assistant secretary of the Brooklyn National Life Insurance Company. '22, '24 ME—Augustus F. Baldauf is an engineer with the DuPont Rayon Company. His address is 275 Parker Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. '22 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Curtis of Devon, Pa., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to William C. Archbold '22, son of William K. Archbold '89 of Syracuse. '22 BChem—The Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Rodman Shippen of Boston have announced the marriage of their daughter, Zoe, to Eugene L. Jewett, on December 2i. He is studying at the Harvard Medical School. '22-3 Grad—Alexander Thomson, Bowdoin '21 and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, is now an assistant professor of history at Wesleyan. He has completed his work for the Ph.D. here with the exception of finishing his thesis. '23 AB, '26 MD—Irving S. Wright was married in October to Miss Grace Mansfield Demarest of Bloomfield, N. J., a graduate of Connecticut College. They are living at 88 Monroe Place, Bloomfield. '23 BS—George A. West was married on January 14 to Miss Helen Schutt of Penfield, N. Y. They are living at the Normandie Court Apartments in Rochester. '23 ME—Ralph J. Parker was married in October to Miss Marion Phillips Wilson of Morristown, N. J. They are living in Morristown. '23 ME—Joseph M. Lendway was married in November to Miss Mary L. Heffron of Kansas City. They are living in Cleveland. '23—D. Edgar Kalischer was married on January 9 to Miss Louise Adele Frank of Los Angeles. They are living at 10 East Eighty-fifth Street, New York. '23 BChem—Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Hyer of Rahway, N. J., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Virginia, to Henry C. Howell. '23—Lane S. Hart, 3d, has been appointed manager of the Bell Telephone Cpmpany in Reading, Pa. '24, '25 LLB—Herman Wolkinson is practicing law in Brooklyn, N. Y. He has a new office at 26 Court Street. He lives at 98 Bristol Street. '24AB;'22 AB— John O. Todd has been representative in Minneapolis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. On March first he went East for a visit to New York and the West Indies. His address is 2405 Bryant Avenue South, Minneapolis. He writes that Emmet J. Murphy '22 is assistant to the vice-president in charge of group insurance with the Equitable Life. '24; '25—Frank H. Miller is proprietor of Frank H. Miller, who handle first mortgage loans in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. His office is in the Ashland National Bank Building, Ashland, Ky. He was married in September, 1924, to Miss Ruth Smith, a graduate of Ohio State University. They have a year-old daughter, Marilyn. They live at 2610 Central Parkway. Miller is vice-commodore of the Ashland Yacht Club, a vestryman of Calvary Episcopal Church, and a member of the Rotary Club. He writes that Eugene T. Webber is selling mining machinery for the Jeffery Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, and that he is married to Miss Katherine Rhodes of Welsh, W. Va. '24 ME; '24 ME—Allan H. Rogers is still with the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, as assistant superintendent of construction on a job near Hot Springs, Ark. His address is Mountain Pine, Ark. He writes that James C. Robinson '24 has been with the company for about a year, and is *now manager of the new stepladder plant at DeQueen, Ark. '24—Grace K. Williamson was married on December 5 in Detroit, to Douglas Pierce Maxwell of New York. They are living in New York at 19 Fifth Avenue. Katharine H. Blauvelt '23 and Carol A. Lester '24 were bridesmaids at the wedding, and Harold M. Hastings Ίo gave the bride away. '25 PhD—The engagement of Dr. Harold Hulme, Western Reserve '20, assistant professor of history in New York Univer- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 303 Camp Otter DORSET, ONTARIO 19™ SEASON A summer camp for boys nine to sixteen years of age. Season opensJuly 6th and closes August 31st, 1928. LIFE. With splendid facilities for water and land sports and games of all kinds the daily round of camp life insures a summer of healthful recreation and real enjoyment. f~ΓiRIPS. A feature of the summer to every boy •^ is the two trips which he takes to nearby lakes or Algonquin Park. The duration of the trip depends on the age of the boy. "EDUCATIONAL. Instruction is given to all ^ in swimming, life-saving, athletics, and nature study. Special tutoring in academicwork may be arranged. TJOOD. Carefully selected and properly cooked food is served at all times. The camp farm assures fresh milk, butter, vegetables and meat. FOR THE 19x8 CATALOG, WRITE TO ROBERT C. 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