4io C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S .
CONTENTS. President White's Speech at the NewYork Alumni Dinner.
Cornell University: Past, Present and Future—The Old and the New Education—Cornell's Needs Today.
Sketches of Cornell's Two Lieutenant-Governors.
Frederick H. Jackson, ex-'73, of Rhode Island and Francis D. Winston, ex-'77, of North Carolina.
Letter to Cornell Alumni from H. J.Messenger, '80.
Their Obligations to the University—The Need of a Better Organized and More Efficient General Alumni Association.
Birthday Greetings to the News-Reunion Announcements.
Tributes from President Schurman, Goldwin Smith and Andrew D. White—Current News ofthe University and of Alumni.
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DR. WHITE'S NEW YORK ADDRESS. order the Arabs to draw himup out of the cavern. Arrived
in the open air, he motioned them all aside, went some dis-

'Cornell University, Past, Present and Future."

tance, sat down in the desert, and gradually resumed his composure until he was at last able to speak and give orders

Delivered at the Alumni Dinner in New York, February 25, 1905.

for the removal of these treasures to themuseum at Cairo. As, during the past year, I have taken my morning walks
upon the Campus at Ithaca to the music of the chimes in the

[On the evening of Saturday, February 25 last, as already related in these columns, the Cornell men of NewYork city gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria in oneof themost successful Cornell dinners ever held anywhere. The guest of honor was former President Andrew Dickson White, who delivered the address of the evening. The full text of this address we have withheld until this souvenir issue of the ALUMNI NEWS, in order to give it a wider circulation than would otherwise be possible. We believe that it will repay careful perusal by every Cornell man.]

tower; as I have watched the great procession of students, from our own country and from so many others, coming to their daily duties as I have stood in the midst of the great array of buildings and seen other and yet nobler edifices rising among them as I have sat at various gatherings of the Cornell alumni in many parts of the country who are doing manly work in every good profession, and, above all, as I have sat here this evening, thinking who you are, what you represent, what the possibilities, nay,what the certainties are

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:

as regards your influence for good upon the civilization of

Some fifteen years since it was my good fortune to pass this nation, I have more than once been overpowered by the

a social evening with the eminent Egyptologist, Emile Brugsch comparison between the first days of the vτniversity and those

Bey, at Cairo, andto hear from his lips an account of his dis- in which we now live, between then and now; and, as I have

covery of the bodies of the ancient kings of Egypt—in many seen this consummation far bevond mymost enthusiastic hopes

respects themost wonderful find in the whole history of arch- and my fondest dreams, I, too, have asked myself at times

eology.

whether it might not be an hallucination, the "baseless fabric

He recited to me the train of circumstances which ledto of a vision." And if tonight while addressing you I lose the

it, and finally, how he was conducted to what was apparently power of consecutive thought or coherent speech I trust that

a dry well in the desert and let down into a rough-hewn you will grant mepardon.

vault filled with wonderfully beautiful sarcophagi. As he

THE FOUNDING OΫ CORNER UNIVERSITY.

observed these closely he read upon them thenames of a long

On the first of March, 1865—forty years ago almost to a

line of the most famous personages of ancient Egypt—kings, day—as the chairman of the committee on education, I re-

queens, princes, generals, conquerors, builders—whose re- ported to the Senate of this state a bill embodying thecharter

mains, it had been supposed for ages, had long since been of Cornell University. Ezra Cornell stood by my side. What

mingled with the sands of the desert. Above all, there was, opposition, misrepresentation and obloquy that act brought

in the midst of precious adornments andjewels, the well pre- us then.! Who shall gainsay it now? What elaborate argu-

served body of Rameses the Great—the mightiest monarch ments there were to prove that all technical education was a

and foremost warrior in the whole history of the Egyptian mere passing fad, that the doctrine of freedom of choice be-

Empire—and about him the great men who fought and tween various courses of study was a delusion and a snare,

wrought in the days of Moses.

that the election of a large proportion of the trustees by the

A discovery so important the modern world had never alumni must be a farce, that an institution notunder thecon-

dared hope for, and the first thought of the discoverer was trol of some single sect must be atheistic, that Ezra Cornell

that it could not be true, that he was no longer alive, that was a "land grabber", a "land jobber", a "land thief", and

death had come suddenly to him, and that he was in some that his associates in theproposed enterprise were no better.

state of hallucination after death. Buthe was unable to estab-

And then the beginnings of our actual work three years

lish this hypothesis he convinced himself that he was still later! The little body of teachers which is now much more

alive. He then thought of another solution, and this was that it was all a dream; but this theory, too, he soon rejected. A.t this he fell into a sort of stupor. As he looked upon the

numerous than the whole body of students was then; the little company of students then numbering about four hundred, now numbering over three thousand the little library then

faces of these ancient personages, theimportance of this reve- contained in one small room, now spread through a vast firelation in its bearings upon archeology, upon history, and, in- proof edifice and numbering close upon three hundred thou-

deed, upon the religious ideas of the whole world, overpow- sand bound volumes the chemical laboratory, then contained ered him. He could do nothing, say nothing; he was only in a small cellar, now extending through great ranges of

,able to make his way to the foot of the well and by signs buildings the physical laboratory, then contained in a single

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dormitory room, shortly to be housed in one of the largest the oldpresident's house upon the college grounds, in which

and best fitted edifices in this or any other country; the whole had been recently installed the new scientific department. To

technical department, then contained in a temporary shed, my amazement I saw a student take up a tube, pour into it

now extending through a series -of great buildings spread various fluids andthen look at them in combination and I

over a large territory, the various colleges and departments stood amazed at what seemed an exhibition of humaίi folly,

which hadthen no existence, but which now are organized and I wondered that any human being with an alleged im-

in noble edifices.

mortal soul should give his time to pursuits so futile.

Then, as provision for daily University life, lodging-rooms

Take student life in those days. All students being alike

without doors, lecture rooms inaccessible save by the cow- obliged to be forced through one simple single course of in-

path of the Cornell farm—over streams andgorges without struction, for which few among them greatly cared, therewas

bridges—with a climb of five hundred feet from the town to very little ardor in study; andathletics at that time having the single temple of learning, seated on a gravel bank and been very little developed, the oneoutlet for ingenuity and

surrounded by rail fences! How this comes back to me to- activity was in devising every possible means of making

night ! How it must come back to some of you! And yet it trouble to thefaculty and producing confusion in the univer-

was a good time. Never were there a more earnest, more sity town. As a matter of fact, with all the vast increase in

manly lot of students. How the hardships were transfigured the number of American students there is not, in these days,

bv them! As we reflect upon it, it is an amazing retrospect. a tithe of the disorder which existed in those. This improve-

Nor is theprogress in our other leading universities less ment must, in myview, be attributed almost entirely to two

marvelous. At the period when Cornell University was things : first, to the liberty of choice between various courses

founded thehigher education throughout thecountry was at and secondly, to thedevelopment of athletics.

its lowest ebb. Great men were indeed engaged in giving in-

Many of you, my dear old students and friends, have heard

struction at that time—admirable scholars, noble characters, nip. at divers times and in sundry places, denounce various

but they were fettered by the university system of that period. evils of our day; but I wish to tell you that these present

It had become outworn, utterly inadequate to the needs of the evils, serious as they may be, are, in my opinion, vastly less

country. It had neither the advantages of the professorial lecture system as it existed in thecontinental universities of

serious than at that former period, and that one can contemplate the future with vastly more hope in these times than in

Europe nor of the mind to mind instruction under the tutorial those. At that period the future seemed dark indeed. There

system as it existed at Oxford and Cambridge. By far the was thevast problem of slavery to which no one could see

greatest part of American university instruction in those days any solution. Sectional hatred was developed as, perhaps,

was given by professors or tutors who sat in a box and heard never before in any other nation. Various men, andamong

students recite from memory the words of a text-book. them oneof the most thoughtful that ourcountry has ever

Classical instruction, of which so days, was often given by American

much was said in those scholars who in the lec-

produced—Horace Bushnell—seemed considerable portion of our country,

to demonstrate that a North as well as South,

ture rooms of a gr-at German university would have drawn was relapsing into barbarism. There seemed then no training

vast audiences, h'.t who under the American system then in ouruniversities to meet such a condition of things. Now

prevailing, merely heard, as a rule, without note or comment onr universities are sendinp forth every year large numbers

or explanation or encouragement, a body of students simply of men splendidly trained to lead in every phase of the daily

construe a few lines and then go through a few minutes of work of the nation, whether in agriculture, architecture, the

"gerund grinding."

mechanic arts, civil engineering, electrical engineering,

INSTRUCTION FARFROM ADEQUATE).

mechanical engineering, mining engineering, as well as in the

Lectures on the most important subjects, which are now pulpit, the forum, the press, as never before.

so fully provided for,were then few and far between. Take,

MEN TO SOLVE NATIONAL PROBLEMS.

for example, Yale, my beloved Alma Mater, which now pre-

There are indeed vast problems looming up before us

sents courses so many and varied. In those days there was there seems at times danger of conflicts between classes, such

but a single course of historical lectures, and that given only as have produced infinite distress in various other nations..

through one term. The other instruction in history was But, looking back upon the past and contemplating the pres-

given by hearing students repeat chronological tables of ent, I am still an incorrigible optimist. I see vast bodies of

ancient history from memory or recite thewords of a textbook in modern history. Political economy was taught,not as now by groups of active-minded men in lectures and by the promotion of original research, but by recitations during a single term from Dr. Wayland's little book on that subject. As to literature, there was not during my four years a single course of lectures upon any subject in literature, ancient or modern. Harvard was doubtless in some respects better, but still almost infinitely below what sheis today.
Of the great universities of the West, and among them such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, California, Leland Stanford, most had not then been founded, and those which had been established were hardly up to the

graduates going forth from thevarious institutions of learning: whoare to supplant the old slovenly, haphazard demagogical way of dealing with themost important questions in our national and state legislatures, by the application of scientific thought in every field of human endeavor. Far as oπr present legislation is from perfection, great as is the sway of unreason in various fields, I see in this development of our American universities, in the change from an outworn system of instruction to present methods, in the improvement of our public schools, in the founding of libraries which bring the treasures of human knowledge home to every man, woman and child, the prospect of a better andnobler thought in our villages, our cities, our states and in the nation at large.

grade of the high schools of these days. Students were then numbered by tens andhundreds, where nowthey are numbered by thousands. Provision for many of the most important subjects was then unknown; the arrangements made to illustrate the various sciences and to elicit close thought and good work from the students were small indeed. Yale prided herself onher department of physics; and it was at that time undoubtedly the best equipped in the United States. Still, its whole equipment consisted in a small cabinet of experimental apparatus and of an adjoining lecture room. Take chemistry; there wasa single lecture room to which students went as an amusement to see brilliant experiments. Laboratory instruction was hardly begun. I remember, in mySenior year, looking out one day from my window in North college toward

To produce these results we have seen a growth of munificence in behalf of every provision for the uplifting of society, with gifts far surpassing in numbers and amount anything ever known in this or anyother country. We can today say that there has been an adjustment of thewhole higher education of the country to the actual needs of the United States such as wasnever dreamed of before. Ladies and gentlemen, neither you nor your children nor your children's children will seethe time when there will be no more well founded demands for the extension and improvement of thehigher instruction in this country. Should such a time ever come it will simply indicate that thenation has arrived at its period of decline.
To say nothing of possible or probable contingencies as to

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the opening up of new and fertile provinces of thoughtand effort, think of the problems—material, economical, diplomatic, ethical—now besetting us, and of the increasing demands caused bysuch problems.
In an address given some eighteen months ago at Yale University, I dwelt at considerable length on some of these. L,et me barely touch upon a few of them now. The keynote of that address was given at itsclose, substantially as follows. In earlier times and amid simpler problems, plain, strong men could lead us, and there will always be a great place and cry-

ture, and a special culture fitting men to speedily help clients or patients or parishioners, have not given a culture which fits a young graduate to stand on the platform and show his fellow-citizens that he has a grasp of principles underlying practical issues and a thoroughness of knowledge bearing upon them which most other men have not.
TINT COMPARATIVE ADMINISTRATION.
And now to my second proposal. Besides the improve-
ment of law, there is needed an improvement of institutions;

ing need for such; butjust as in material progress the old, and forthis purpose I would establish in our more important

strong engineers by rule of thumb can no longer say the last word, so in allthis new political and social welter and swirl of conflicting and confusing ideas, issues, doctrines, tides,

universities, professorships, lectureships and fellowships of comparative administration.

tendencies, we arenow to need more and more men taught

Look at the problem in its simplest form. Here are eighty

and trained to apply to ourproblems, national and interna- million, and within the lifetime of many before me there will

tional, the wisest thought andmost skilful practice evolved be one hundred and fifty million, of themost active minded

in history or discovered among our contemporaries. Much and energetic people in the world. The number of their com-

has already been done, but more remains.

binations for every purpose seems infinite. There are not

In view of this fact, I would establish, at as many ofour great universities as possible, professorships, lectureships and fellowships in comparative law and legislation. Various

merely state, county, city and village organizations, but institutions dealing with pauperism, inebriety, lunacy, feebleness of mind, incipient crime, chronic crime, andbeside these an innumerable number of minor corporations, combinations and

countries have made a beginning in this already. The most arrangements bearing upon the public welfare. What some

notable example, perhaps, was when Laboulaye was called to of them are our newspapers tell us from time to time to our

such a professorship in the College of France at Paris. As shame. Some other organizations are,no doubt, happy in

one who attended his courses of instruction, I can testify that their methods and admirable in their results, but the room for nothing would work more strongly and healthfully upon the improvement still remains large.

minds of thinking young men than hispresentation of prac-

An experience of my own is perhaps in point. Several

tical courses of political action based on his studies of the years since I proposed anexperiment on these lines at Cornell

best that hadbeen done in other countries andin his own University, and there was called for a succession of years, as

country at various epochs. Looking at the problem as it a lecturer to Senior classes, Mr. Frank A. Sanborn, a gentle-

stands today, it would seem that nowhere would professors and students in this field besupplied with such abundant material for thought and work, or encouraged by such certainty of fruitful results, as in our own country. Tosay nothingof the legislation of somany other constitutional countries which is open to study by an American professor, he has in our own land not only ournational legislature, but some fortylive state legislatures, constantly working at the practical solu-

man eminent for his theoretical andpractical grasp of one great class of subjects to which I have referred, namely,the proper organization andconduct of institutions dealing with crime—incipient and chronic—pauperism, inebriety, lunacy, feebleness of mind, and the like. The course of lectures which he offered /was taken by a considerable number of students. They became deeply interested. Under his lead they did what might be called research work, their researchesbeing made at every sort of public institution for therelief or

tion of every sort of problem in government. Here, in the betterment of their fellow-men. Beginning with the nearest

efforts of all these legislative bodies, he can study, near at county jail and almshouse, they made visits to a large number

hand, as in no other country, allsorts of attempts to solve the of the principal asylums, prisons, penitentiaries, reforma-

problems of government, from the most crude to the most tories of the State of New York, took notes, heard what their

subtle, and from the most wise to the most farcical. The en- professor had to say on each, asked questions and took part

dowment of professorships, lectureships and fellowships at in discussions. Several of these men since that time have

various university centers, to which there would be attached been, in the legislatures of New York and other states, among

the duty of studying the best solutions arrived at in all these the foremost in promoting a wiser management of public in-

legislatures, foreign and domestic, could not fail to have a stitutions like those they studied during _ their _ university

most happy influence. At present the instruction in all our course. One of them, indeed, has greatly distinguished him-

law schools is in answer to the question what our law is.The instruction I propose should answer the question, what our law ought to be.

self by his success in devising andsecuring the passage of laws for the improvement of the civil service and for the better administration of cities in themost populous state of our Union.

The first result of such professorships, lectureships and fellowships would naturally be to interest, in allparts of the Union, great numbers of young men, earnest, vigorous and, in the best sense, ambitious. The next probable result would

Three full professorships at Cornell touch this and ^adjacent fields, those now admirably held by Professors Fetter, Jenks andWillcox. Butwe need still more professorships, assistant professorships, lectureships and fellowships for research and instruction in special fields—for example, in the

be that many of these men would influence their fellow citi- comparative administration of cities throughout our own and

zens helpfully on various important questions. Another ex- other countries.

ceedingly likely result would be the increasing entrance of

IN INTERNATIONAL LAW.

such men into positions, executive and legislative. Yet another would bea steady and intelligent improvement in the laws throughout the country: and in addition to this there would come in the legislation of our various states an in-

I now come to my third proposal. This hasreference to an improvement which has already begun andwhich shows admirable fruits. I refer to the.establishment, ona large and

creasing tendency toward homogeneity—a consummation most broad scale, in the leading universities throughout theUnion,

devoutly to be wished.

of professorships, lectureships and fellowships in international

It may be said against one of these expectations of mine law. Good beginnings have been made at Cornell and at

that the entrance of young men thus trained into public life various other universities but the provision for such work

does not appear to bebyany means sure that we constantly see men of high education passed in the race for public position by men of little or none. In answer to this we must concede that native force will always be a strong factor in

needs to be far more widespread.
Look for a moment at the present conditions in our own country. She is extending her relations throughout the world as never before; her diplomatic corps is every year getting

contests for public position; butwemust bear in mind that a better hold upon the world's affairs, and herconsularser-

hitherto our universities, while they have given general cul-

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vice has already become next to the largest—if not the largest already, but in the great majority of these they exist only im-

—in existence. Inboth these services we need a larger pro- perfectly if at all.

portion of men trained in those principles of international

And now as to the condition of our own University on the

law which give a fitness to grasp and advocate the principles material side. Beside additional professorships, lectureships,

on which American dealings with the nations should be con- assistant professorships and fellowships, there are various

ducted. The training of a large body of young men in all things which are needed; for increasing work and develop-

parts of our country, whiφ I propose, would result in a ment of the various colleges anddepartments composing it

force sure to be felt through the pulpit, the press, in the state are constantly making new demands. Newbuildings are

legislatures and in the diplomatic and consular services, inbe- especially demanded for the College of Civil Engineering and

half of national soberness and international honest}'.

Architecture. Dormitories are also needed, and they could

Now to my fourth proposal. It is that there be estab- be made to serve admirably a twofold purpose—first, in the

lished at the leading universities of our country professor- housing of our ever-increasing numbers of students, and at

ships, lectureships and fellowships for the history of civiliza- the same time in providing from their rents for salaries of

tion, and that there be knit into them obligatory instruction such professors, lecturers and fellows as I have already in-

in political ethics. Inthe middle years of the last century we dicated.

had in this country a man who made his mark in this field

CORNELL NEEDS ANAUDITORIUM.

and won the high approval of men as far apart as Woolsey, the Hellenist-Puritan president of Yale, and • Buckle, the agnostic historian of civilization in Great Britain. It was my privilege to know him well. This man was Francis Lieber. He made his lecture room at Columbia College a center of

But I must confess toyou that of all the needs inthe form of buildings which I feel most strongly, thegreatest is that of an auditorium large enough to accommodate the whole body of ourstudents. There is now no room sufficient for

noble influence upon American 'thought. But he lived and that purpose. It would add vastly to the efficiency of our in-

wrought too early, and theCivil War called him from aca- struction and to the uplifting of student life and character if

demic service to public duties. , Still his influence was pre- there were some noble and fitting edifice on our Campus large

cious, and there aremany now living who can testify to the value of what they then gained ;from him, both morally and intellectually. But in the growth of American universities the time has now come when such professorships can do work vast and beneficial. Their purpose would be to show what the essential progress of mankind in civilization has been,

enough to enable thepresident, various professors and lecturers of ourown professional body or from other institutions or from the public at large to address at least once a week the whole body of students. A vast increase of our influence for good would be insured by our possession of such

and to deduce from this what environment should be pro- a building. Already Harvard, Yale, the University of Michi-

moted/and what powers should: be cultivated for the evolu- gan, theUniversity of Chicago andsome other amongour

tion of the civilization which wς hope for. As to the incor- leading institutions have such halls and they have served and

poration into the main professorships of a .department of political ethics it would, I trust, serve to show in the history of civilization the working of "a Power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness." An abiding sense of this, deeply inwoven, forms a tough warp and a serviceable woof for all really great statesmanship. Such a course of instruction could not fail to enlarge beneficially the minds of those who follow it, and to heighten in them a sense of their civic dutyand responsibility, and to make them, in whatever community their lives are cast, the advocates of those institutionsand policies which tend to the real greatness of the nation.

are serving a most useful purpose. Placed on our Campus, at the center of the state, it would
be- most useful also as a place for the assembling of great bodies of all sorts bearing upon the education, thecharities arid other leading interests of the state. Inmy opinion there • is nothing which at this moment would be more acceptable to the University andmore useful than the gift required for such a building, and if there were added, as recently at Yale, provision for a great organ which should beautify and inspire nobly our whole student life, the gift would be, I might say, almost overpoweringly noble, beautiful and effective.

IN AMERICAN' HISTORY.

It is not as a mere convenience in university administra-

And now, as the fifth and final feature in this group of studies I would suggest professorships, lectureships and fellowships for the history of the United States. In various universities such endowments have already been provided; but I would have more of them, until lectures on the growth of

tion that I urge the erection of such a building. It is far more than that. What I long to see is a place where the highest truths can best be brought to bear upon tίie whole body of students. Pardon me for referring to anexample from my Own life. It was in the Alumni hall at Yale that there came to me the greatest message that I ever received. It was when

our national life shall be offered at every university. It seenis Francis Wayland spoke to our young alumni in 1856. He

to me certain that this would promote a deep feeling of en- said: "A great crisis is approaching; and, in my opinion, the

lightened patriotism that it would stimulate a desire in many great Northwest will decide the struggle. My counsel to

to join in high public activities for noble ends that the trains you young men is to cast in your lot with that part of the

of thought thus setin motion would inure tothe advancement of what is best in legislation and policy; that the ideas thus struck outwould gradually filter down into thethinking of the people at large.

country and aid inpreparing it for the approaching contest." It was aninspired prophecy—I felt it and obeyed it. I did
what I could, in my lecture room and among the people at large, to carry out Wayland's idea; and so today, when I address you, probably for the last time, in favor of a provision

But even where American history has now a full professor for that instruction which cannot fail to make our University

I would addmore, thus enabling the department to present one of the great forces in the future development of our coun-

various sides of our history, and especially our political his- try, I urge upon you this means of making that instruction

tory, our financial history and our literary history; and I effective.

would also addassistant professorships, lectureships, fellowships, for research in various especially important divisions

ALUMNI HALL CONNECTED WITH AUDITORIUM.

of this great field.

And now a word especially to the alumni of Cornell as

I might mention still other fields of great importance, but an organization. It is my full belief that Cornellians, whether

I forbear.

those whohave studied a limited time or those who have

The question which now meets us is as to the outlay re- fully graduated in some departments of the University, are

quired for these foundations. There is nothing in this which need discourage us. We have seen such splendid gifts made by Americans within the last few years that we need not despair when a purpose of high national utility is concerned, no matter at what outlay. Some of the departments, at a few

not exceeded in loyalty to their Alma Mater by those who represent any other institution in our country. For some years past there hasbeen talk among them of the establishment of an Alumni hall. Various plans have been proposed,

of our institutions of learning, have been well provided for

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Two Cornell Lieutenant-Governors. member of theKappa Alpha fraternity. But owing toeon-

tinued poor health hewas compelled to relinquish his studies

Story of Their Rise to High Position in Different States and in November of 1871. For eight years he was a teacher and

Under Widely Varying Conditions.

military instructor in his father's school, and during this

time was commissioned by Governor John A. Dixand ap-

By a curious coincidence, two Cornell men were elected to pointed an aide upon the staff of the Seventh brigade. Sub-

the office of lieutenant-governor last fall in two states so widely separated as Rhode Island and North Carolina. Both took the oath of office in January, and are now active in their respective state administrations. They are Frederick H. Jackson, ex-'73, lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island, and Francis D. Winston, tx.-'77, lieutenant-governor of North Carolina.
Their careers are extremely mterestmg asshowing by what divergent paths two men have risen to the second highest office inthe gift of their commonwealths. Mr. Winston has Deen prominent in public affairs in his state forthe past fifteen or twenty years, is an acknowledged leader in the Democratic party andhas a wide reputation as a lecturer and public speaker. He attained to his present office as a result of long experience in executive and legislative affairs. Mr. Jackson, on the other hand, is essentially a s u c c e s s f u l business man, without training or experience inpolitics. Until his recent election as lieutenantgovernor on the Republican ticket, he had never held office and nad never taken an active part in the political affairs of his state. His nomination to his present -high position came as a complete surprise during his absence from home.

sequently he became chief of staff and assistant adjutant general.
From 1879 to 1885 Mr. Jackson was variously occupied as secretary and treasurer of the American Live Stock and Meat Transportation company, and in special work for the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, including a year and a half at Sedalia, Mo., whither he went to recuperate from
overwork. In 1885 he accepted anappointment to his fori mer position with the Mutual I Life Insurance company as special agent, and occupied this until July 1, 1891, when 1 he was made manager ofthe company at Providence, R. I. This office hestill held at the time of his election as lieutenant-governor.
Mr. Jackson was recently elected, for the fourth consecutive term, president of the Providence Chamber of Commerce, the only instance of the kind in the thirty-seven years of the organization's history. The nomination for this fourth term was tendered him by a committee of five former presidents of the Chamber of Commerce. According to the by-laws ofthe organization, no person may serve as president for more than two consecutive years, except by Unanimous consent. Few men in the past had

Differing as they do, how-

served even three terms con-

ever, in character andtrain-

secutively, but so great was

ing, the two men agree in be-

the confidence and respect in

ing loyal Cornellians. Mr.

which Mr. Jackson was held

Jackson was sufficiently proud

by the business men of Prov-

of his Alma Mater to send his

idence that he was reelected

son to Cornell forhis college

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR FREDERICK H. JACKSON, Ex-'73

for his fourth term.

education. The son is Frederic Ellis Jackson, manager ofthe

Regarding his election to the presidency of the Chamber

Cornell crew in 1901. When the Cornell Musical clubs visited of Commerce, the Providence Board of Trade Journal said in

Raleigh on their recent Southern trip, Lieutenant-Governor a recent issue:

Winston extended to them the hospitality of the city, and at

"President Jackson's reelection is not only an evidence of

the opening of the concert presented them to the audience in hearty appreciation of services rendered the Chamber of Com-

a gracious little speech of welcome.

merce during the past three years, but an expression of confi-

Frederick Harvey Jackson is a native of Kirkland, in dence in his ability to serve that organization for another

Oneida county, New York state. He received his prepara- year, as he has in thepast, in a manner that reflects great

tory education in his father's school, the Jackson Military credit upon the organization in itsprogress toward the build-

Institute, at Danbury, Conn. In 1869 the school was removed ing up of a greater Providence.

to Tarrytown, N.Y., and later in the same year Mr. Jackson

"Under his leadership the Chamber of Commerce has prac-

entered Cornell University in the class of 1873, becoming a tically doubled its membership; an active interest hasbeen

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awakened in the improvement of the harbor facilities of Provi- dresses, both at the University of North Carolina and through-

dence andPawtucket; matters pertaining to the transporta- out his native state. He was orator at the laying of the cor-

tion facilities beneficial to the city's interest have been con- ner-stone of the Alumni building at the University of North

stantly agitated; a Weather Bureau station has been secured Carolina Commencement in 1898, andin thefollowing year

for Providence; steps have been taken to secure a new home was class orator at the twentieth anniversary of his class of

for the Chamber of Commerce, onewhich will reflect the '79. In 1901he was Washington's birthday orator at that uni-

solidity of our manufacturing, commercial and financial inter- versity andalumni orator at the Commencement last June.

ests and through his strong personality a great manufactur- In 1903 he delivered an address at the meeting of the North

ing community has been ably represented at the National Carolina Bar association. Nor is his reputation as a public

Board of Trade meetings in Washington, the Peace confer- speaker confined to hisnative state, for in October, 1904, in

ence at Boston, and at many other important conventions company with the Hon. Charles B. Ascock, governor of North

which hehas attended during his three years' term.

Carolina, he toured thestate of Maine, delivering addresses

"While President Jackson is to be congratulated onhis re- on educational topics under the auspices of the State Board

election to an exceptional

of Education.

term of office, the Chamber of Commerce isperhaps more to be congratulated on his acceptance of a position which during the coming year will undoubtedly demand muchof his time and energy inthedevelopment of plans pertaining to the commercial interests of Providence."

I Lieutenant-Governor WinI ston has been since 1887 a ' trustee of the University of
North Carolina. He is an active Mason andholds the office of deputy grand master of the state. He was married May 30, 1889, to Miss Rosa Mary Kennedy of Portsmouth, Va. His brother,

Francis Donnell Winston was born at Windsor, N. C, October 2, 1857. He entered Cornell in the fall of 1873,

George Taylor Winston, was graduated from Cornell University in 1874, was instructor in mathematics here during

and remained one year, studying for the degree of B. Litt. He did not return to theUniversity in the fol-

the following year, and has since become prominent as a classical scholar and teacher. Personally, Lieutenant-Gov-

lowing year, but later entered the University of North Carolina, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1879.

ernor Winston is one of the most affable and charmingof men. When the Cornell Musical clubs visited Ral-

His public career beganal-

eigh for the final concert of

most immediately. In 1881

their Christmas trip, he wel-

he became clerk of the Su-

comed them with allthe cor-

perior Court of his native

diality of a Southern gentle-

county, and in 1889 he was

man and a loyal Cornellian.

elected member of the Gen-

Not content with a mere for-

eral Assembly in the senate.

mal introduction of the vis-

In 1899 and 1901 he served

itors to their audience at the

as member of the General

Raleign Academy of Music,

Assembly in the house and

Mr. Winston invited them to

in 1901-2 as judge of the Su-

the Capital club afterwards

perior Court. The next step

and made a delightful little

in his advancement to high

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR FRANCIS D. WINSTON, '77.

speech of welcome, extending

honors was his election last November to the office of lieu- to them the hospitality of the city. In a recent letter to the

tenant-governor fora term of four years.

ALUMNI NEWS, Lieutenant-Governor Winston says that he

That Mr. Winston was an active andinfluential member enjoyed heartily the visit of the Musical clubs in Raleigh,

of the state legislative body is shown by the fact that as and that their concert has been the subject of much favorable

member of the house in 1899 he was the author of North comment.

Carolina's present suffrage amendment. He occupies a high

These are the careers of two Cornell men of widely differ-

position in the counsels of his party, having been a member ent t mperament and calling, who have risen to high places

of the Democratic state executive committee from 1892to in the public service indifferent parts of the country and under

1900, a Bryan elector for the second district of North Caro- very different circumstances. Whether or nottheir Cornell

lina in 1896 and president of the State Association of Demo- training has had anything to do with their success—and we

cratic Clubs in 1900.

like to think it has—the story of their lives is full of interest

He is in frequent demand for political and educational ad- and of suggestion to Cornellians of more recent .years.

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

Letter of H.J. Messenger. Commencement. I have nothing but treasurer, or to commute all future dues words of encouragement for these re- by a single payment of ten dollars.

The Obligations of Cornell Alumni to unions, but the one important graduate If some such plan as this is adopted

their University.

meeting of theyear should be the annual care should be taken to send a receipt

meeting of the General Alumni associa- in every case where the dues are paid,

EDITOR CORNER ALUMNI NEWS :

tion, and the Commencement weekpro- because every man who gives ten cents

SIR:—In the wonderful development gram should be so arranged as to aid in for a good cause feels at least that he

of American universities during the past bringing about this result. The recent is entitled to an acknowledgment.

thirty-five years Cornell has been a leader, thanks to the foresight, loyalty and generosity of such men as Ezra Cornell, Andrew D. White and Henry W. Sage.

change in the program for Alumni day is a decided improvement, but does not yet meet the real requirements. The alumni meetings should not be immediately followed by any other gathering

It would also be a very easy matter for the presidents of our local associations in the large cities of the country to call attention to the matter at theannual banquets and urge upon all those

Whether or not Cornell is to be a of importance otherwise, in case some present to remit to the treasurer without

leader for the next thirty-five years important matter comes up and the delay. Possibly the ALUMNI NEWS can

depends upon the alumni. Thetime has meeting is prolonged, just at the time see its way clear to take a hand inthe

come when the University has the right when there should be plenty of time matter and endeavor to stir up some

to look to the alumni for active, organ- and careful deliberation, every one will rivalry among the classes to see which

ized support of a decidedly practical and be in a hurry to get away. The annual will contribute the largest amount in

substantial character. Considering their meetings of the alumni in the past have proportion to the number of their liv-

age, in no other university of the land usually been perfunctory, of very little ing graduates.

has so large a percentage of its graduates achieved practical success as the direct result of a combination of their university training and the stuff they are made of. For a large part of this success the alumni are under direct obligations to their Alma Mater, and it is high time to recognize these obligations, not merely by words but by deeds.

interest and very little importance. By instituting proper methods they canbe made decidedly interesting, such that all graduates will make it a point to attend and of great value to the University.
To bring about the above result it is essential that the association be put in good financial condition. Nearly every proposition brought before the associa-

I honestly believe that by thesystematic and earnest pushing of this matter along the lines suggested above it would not be difficult to collect forthe General association $1,000 a year in place of the $43 collected in 1904. This would only mean that one man in six pays his dues.
If the association can be placed in

If any alumnus is disposed to disre- tion means some expense to carry it good financial condition by some such

gard the higher advantages of his uni- out, and most of the important propo- plan as has been outlined, it will soon

versity education and wishes to look at sitions have been turned down because come to occupy a position of impor-

the question from the standpoint of dol- there was not money enough in the tance and influence in University affairs

lars and cents, let him calculate the treasury to cover this expense.

such that larger and more comprehen-

amount of $1,000 at 5 per cent, com- We have about six thousand living sive plans can be carried out in the in-

pound interest from the day he grad- graduates the association's annual dues terest of the University. Quite a num-

uated up to date and he will then have are one dollar. The only time in my ber of Cornellians have already reached

a minimum estimate of his present per- life I ever felt ashamed of my Alma a stage of worldly prosperity such that

sonal indebtedness to the University. Mater was when I read in the AI/UMNI they are abundantly able to give the

This does not make any charge forthe NEWS that out of these six thousand University from $50,000 to $100,000

Cornell spirit which he has been drink- during the last year only forty-three had apiece for the erection of much needed

ing in ever since he first landed in Ithaca. paid their annual dues. This unfor- dormitories. Where individuals are

There is no better way to pay these tunate state of affairs is the natural re- not able to do as much as this the

obligations than by building up a strong, sult of the lack of organized effort. The members of a class could unite and by

active General Alumni association on a probabilities are that not half of the energetic, systematic work manage to

solid financial basis, governed by busi- alumni are aware of the fact that there do something handsome for Cornell,and

ness methods. Up to the present time, are any annual dues.

where some of the classes are not strong

aside from the movement for the new There are certain printed documents enough by themselves they could com-

athletic field, and with the exception of which the University sends out every bine their efforts in sets of five.

a few individuals, the alumni have done year to all the living graduates. It In any efforts of this kind the local

very little for Cornell. There are signs, would be a very simple and inexpensive alumni associations ought to be of

however, of an awakening to a con- matter to send along in the same en- great aid. These local associations,

sciousness of the obligations imposed. velope with these documents a little which now number about thirty, ought

The next step should be the transforma- printed slip stating that the annual dues to be something more than mere local

tion of this consciousness of obligations of the Alumni association are now7 pay- clubs organized merely for the sake of

into action, and the best way to bring able, that the association is making a holding an annual banquet and good

this about is through the General Alumni special effort to place itself on a solid fellowship. They ought to be so many

association.

financial basis and that the alumni are branches of the General association, hav-

The last few years special efforts have earnestly requested to send their annual ing the interests of the General associa-

been made in favor of class reunions at payments promptly and regularly tothe tion, and thereby the interests of the

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University, constantly in mind. If it would not be duplicating the
work of the class secretaries, it might be well for each local alumni association to elect annually an alumni representative, and these representatives could hold meetings to consider various plans for strengthening the association and making it of more value to the University. In particular they might see that questions to be brought before the general alumni meeting are carefully considered beforehand and are presented to the meeting in proper form.
It occurs to me that it is at least worth while to consider the question of having a general convention at Ithaca, say some time in May of each year, to be attended by the trustees, the deans of the various departments, the class secretaries and the representatives of the local organizations. At such a convention there could be a general interchange of opinions, a full and free discussion 'of the University's interests and needs and any action taken which might seem necessary. While this is offered only as a suggestion for consideration, I believe something along these lines would be of the greatest value to the University and all its interests.
There is another way in which the alumni can very easily be a great help to the University. Many of the graduates are connected with publishing houses, newspapers, national, state or city government offices, libraries, educational institutions or large corporations. They probably have the means of giving, or inducing those with whom they are associated to give, quite a number of books to the University library. If each graduate should give one book a year to the library that would mean a yearly increase of six thousand volumes, all from the alumni. The University will be glad to receive any publications which are of little value to us as individuals, and will be glad to pay express charges on any books sent to the library. If you are in doubt as to whether such contributions are wanted, you can easily settle the question by writing to Librarian Harris, stating what books you are willing to send to the library at the University's expense. Mr. Theodore Stanton has set a most excellent example in this respect, which it would be well for other Cornellians to follow.
Our graduates who have become prominent in the field of science and our

The ALUMNI NEWS serves as an organ of communication between the University at Ithaca and the former members of the University, old students and graduates, who are now scattered throughout all parts of the United States, and, indeed, of the world. It conveys to them intelligence of what is now going on at the University among the students and in the faculties and Board of Trustees. It covers everything from the material appearance of the Campus and the buildings to the organization and modification of courses of study and conditions of admission, as well as the athletic, social and general intellectual life of the students.
On the other hand, the NEWS is a medium of communication between the former members of the University themselves, as well as between all of them and the University. In the personal columns it furnishes information in regard to the location and activities of graduates and old students. And among the most valuable contributions to its pages are the letters from the alumni and old students, who record their impressions of University life in their day and subrnit their appreciations or criticisms of the changes that have taken place since.
This is a function of the NEWS which I should be glad to see developed further. It would be a great help to us who are engaged in working for the University at Ithaca to have the advice, suggestions and criticisms of former students, and it would be very strange if these former students, in the light both of their past University training- and their present experience in the practical world, could not furnish us valuable aid in solving the educational and other problems with which the University authorities are constantly grappling. In this way the NEWS becomes an instrument of mutual sympathy, intelligence, cooperation and assistance between all our members here and elsewhere. And I like to think of all our graduates and old students as a general advisory board, counseling for the best interests of the University.

many successful engineering men could also greatly help the University by securing valuable additions to our museum collections.
In this letter I have endeavored to emphasize four points: first, the alumni are personally indebted to their Alma Mater; second, the best way to pay this obligation is by working through the General Alumni association; third, the first step should be the placing of the General Alumni association on a firm financial basis; fourth, organized, systematic business methods should be made the basis of our efforts.
The earnest efforts of President Schurman in behalf of the University and the encouragement and hearty welcome which he always extends to the alumni ought to stimulate us to do our best. Our president is doing a good work at Cornell, but one man cannot do everything. Let us give him our loyal and enthusiastic support.
H. J. MESSENGER, '80.

Harvard Suggests Joint Concert.
As T H E NEWS goes to press it is learned that there is a strong possibility of a joint concert by the Cornell and Harvard Musical clubs at Cambridge on May 26, the eve of the Cornell-Harvard race. Manager George C. Boldt, jr., of the Cornell clubs, is in receipt of a letter from Sydney K. Becker, Όβ, the Harvard manager, inviting Cornell to join with the Cambridge musicians in such an entertainment.
If is probable that the offer will be accepted by Cornell. The concert will lend interest to the regatta on the Charles on the following day, and if it proves as successful as the CornellPrinceton concert last November it will serve to strengthen the friendly feeling between the two universities.

42O CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

Photo by Troy. THE NEW PLAYGROUND.
View looking north toward the University barns, showing the grading already done on the playground.

Field Committee Meets.

tion of driveways and approaches to the Cash paid to trustees Octo-

athletic grounds. Thewhole situation ber, 1903

10,000 00

was gone over in detail and careful con- Cash paid to trustees Octo-.

Considers Detailed Plans—Appoints Sub- sideration was given to the various ber, 1904

10,000 00

committee—Financial Report.

schemes which Mr. Van Pelt proposed Cash paid for expenses

4,90260

for the arrangement of the architectural

A meeting of the trustee advisory features. Certain modifications were Total

$24,902 60

committee, having in charge the struction of the new Alumni Field, held in Ithaca Saturday, March 25.

con- suggested which will be incorporated in was new drawings to be submitted to the The executive committee.

Cash on hand Number of subscribers Average subscription

3,430 7& 1,569 $3259

committee considered plans submitted This new working committeecom-

by John V. Van Pelt, formerly pro- prises Judge Frank Irvine, chairman,

fessor in charge of the Cornell College representing the Athletic Council and

of Architecture, who had been commis- the alumni; R. H. Treman andC. H.

sioned to prepare plans for the field Blood, representing the Board of Trus-

from the landscape architect's point of tees Graduate Manager John L Senior,

view. No definite action was taken in the matter, but an executive committee

representing theathletic interests; Professor C. V. P. Young1 of the physical

was appointed to work up in detailthe training department of the University,

plans for the future development of the and Coach Glenn S.Warner of the foot-

new field and submit them to the full committee for its approval.

ball andbaseball teams, which will be most directly interested in the arrange-

Those

present

at the meeting

on

the

ment of thenew mittee will hold

fields. This a meeting

sub-comwithin a

25th were Henry W. Sackett, Robert H. Treman and Charles H. Blood of the

short time and will probably arrive at a definite decision in regard to thearchi-

Board of Trustees, and Professor tectural plans.

Frank Irvine, president of the Athletic Council. The only absentee was Chairman George W. Bacon, who was unavoidably detained at hishome in New York.

FINANCIAL REPORT.
Chairman Bacon of the alumni committee reported by letter the following financial statement, dated March 11:

The committee considered not only Total amount collected from

Subscriptions notpaid are collectable

as follows :

Approximate.

Total subscriptions due 1904

(not paid)

$2,806 70

Total subscriptions due 1905

(not paid)

8,131 64

Total subscriptions due 1906

(not paid)

6,11135

Total subscriptions due 1907

(not paid)

3,359 17

Total subscriptions due 1908

(not paid)

1,660 50

This report shows an increase of 126

subscribers over the figures in Novem-

ber and 498 over those in August, rep-

resenting: an increase of $3,271.78 col-

lected since* November. There is now a

balance of $3,430.78 on hand for work-

ing purposes. The committee's obliga-

tion to the trustees next October is

$7,500.

the location and development of the subscribers

$28,333 38

Fl£LD NOT READY THIS Y£AR.

Varsity fields for baseball, football and track and of the tennis courts, butalso the location of the athletes' clubhouse and training quarters and the construc-

Total amount to be collected

The contractors whoare doing the

from subscribers

22,804 92 excavating donot expect to begin work

much before May 1, so that little will

Total amount of subscriptions.$5i,i38 30

(Continued on page 432.)

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From Our Former Editors.

To THE EDITOR OE THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

Greetings on the Occasion of the Sixth Birthday of the Alumni News.

SIR :—Sending a greeting to Cornell graduates, which you invite me to do, seems like sending a greeting to myself. Though not a graduate, I

To THE; EDITOR 01? T H E ALUMNI NEWS.
SIR :—In extending to you my heartiest congratulations upon the comple-
tion by the ALUMNI NEWS of six prosperous and useful 3'ears, I may be permitted to indulge in one or tworeminiscences. I recall especially the opposi-

am an Aboriginal, having missed theopening only by a few days. Two of the best and happiest years of my life were spent in helping to start the University. No one has more heartily rejoiced in its rapid rise tothe place which it now occupies among universities of the continent and the world.
With best wishes for the success of the ALUMNI NEWS, Yours very truly,

tion of some of ourfriends to an addition to the list of Cornell journals.

Toronto, March 31, 1905.

They argued that the Era was the nat-

ural alumni paper; but the difficulty

was that the alumni could never be the personnel of its subscribers, a great To THE EDITOR OF THE ALUMNI NEWS.

made to see it in that light. Timehas preponderance of young alumni will re-

SIR :—I believe the ALUMNI NEWS is

shown, I believe, the wisdom of the quire the editors, for a few years, to today precisely the kind of paper the

founders of the NEWS, most activeand conform the paper more or less to the alumni of the University want—a news-

energetic among whom was its faithful standard of an undergraduate publica- paper, skillfully handling news, and not

business manager, Herbert B. Lee, '99. tion. While I believe that the under- a literary magazine. Its mission is to

It is true that the Cornell Magazinehas graduate interests ought to be covered, transmit to Cornell men everywhere ac-

ceased to exist; and this, as a former nevertheless the paper should be dis- curate news reports of events that trans-

magazine editor, I, of course, regret. tinctly an alumni organ. This it cannot pire at the University, with the purpose

But what is more important (since the be to the full extent desired until it re- of thereby fanning to a more brilliant

Era now adequately represents the two ceives the support of the earlier grad- glow their interest in their Alma Mater.

literary periodicals of a decade ago), uates. Their interests can be attended As a newspaper, its ideals are, I suppose,

the alumni now have an organ which to only proportionately to their repre- accuracy, completeness and dispatch in

they had come to need and their support sentation on the subscription list. The the handling of news. These ideals itis

of which shows that it is doing a great paper is good enough to justify efforts realizing to a very high degree.

work. There is nothing like printers' ink to stir up enthusiasm among university alumni as well as other people.

on the part of the present older subscribers to enlist recruits from their own ranks.

The NEWS has a responsible work to do in the Cornell world and it is measuring up to its task. To it six or eight

In conclusion let me express the hope that your subscription list and material equipment will continue to improve with age.
Cordially yours,
CLARK S. NORTHUP, '93,
Editor Volume L, 1899.

Faithfully yours,
F. D. COLSON, '97,
Editor 1899-1902.
To THE EDITOR OETHE ALUMNI NEWS.
SIR :—The marked success which the ALUMNI NEWS has achieved is a source of great pleasure and satisfaction to all

thousand men today look for honestreports of the manner in which the affairs of their Cornell are being handled by those to whom they have been entrusted. And the influence of the NEWS with its great audience will be directly proportional to theaccuracy of its reports, to their freedom from coloring and to the

To THE EDITOR OΫTHE ALUMNI NEWS. of us who have been connected with the absolute independence of its editorial

SIR :—The ALUMNI NEWS has shown paper. Constant improvement hasbeen page.

a steady improvement since its first is- made until now Cornell graduates can Tremendous strides have been made

sue six years ago. The incorporation boast of the best publication of its kind by the NEWS in the six years of its ex-

of the Alumni News Publishing com- in the country, not even excepting the istence, until today it stands almost in

pany in 1902 has resulted in placing both older papers. The amount of hard toil a class by itself. The best wish I can

the editorial and the business side of the and perseverance that has been required have for the paper in the future is that

paper on a firm footing. It has now to put the ALUMNI NEWS in its present it shall fulfill its mission as completely

passed the experimental stage; there is splendid form and condition is appre- in time tocome as it is today fulfilling it.

a place for it, and a need for it, and I ciated by those of us who have watched With congratulations and good wishes,

look for its continuance as long as the its development. Every graduate of the I am,

University itself endures.

University is proud of the paper, and in

Very truly yours,

The paper as at present conducted prophesying for it increasing prosperity

GEORGE D. CROFTS.

deserves a much larger support from the alumni than it now enjoys, particularly from theolder alumni. I understand that the new subscribers are drawn largely from very recent graduating classes. This is unfortunate, for as the character of the paper must be determined to a considerable degree by

I express the wish of thousands.

On this the sixth anniversary of the paper it is indeed fitting that we should all extend to you and your board a cor-

W. H. Forbes, one of Cornell's strongest candidates for the Varsity crew on the port side, who left the University to accept a position in Pittsburg, has re-

dial greeting and sincere congratulations. Fraternally yours,
FRANK E. GANNETT, '98,
Editor 1902-3.

turned, and consequently is again available for Varsity material. Mr.Forbes rowed at No. 5 in last year's crew until a few days before the race, when he was forced to leave the boat.

422 CORNELL ALUMNI N E W S .
ALUMNI DAY IS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905.

Reunion Announcements.
The Reunion Movement.
Prior to the year 1903, while a few classes had held regular reunions, due to the enthusiasm of one or two members of these classes, no systematic effort had been made in Cornell University to organize for the purpose of having regular reunions of all classes. As a result, the alumni as a whole were not in close touch with the University and its affairs. In the year 1903 President Schurman, representing the Board of Trustees, appointed a committee of one from that board to establish class organizations and to devise and carry into effect some plan whereby reunions of the various classes would be held regularly in the future and interest awakened to such an extent as to insure a large attendance of alumni at every Commencement.
The classes whose five year reunions were held in 1903 and 1904 were organized under a general plan calling for a permanent secretary, a reunion committee and a class fund to meet the expenses of such reunions. In other classes, with the exception of but seven, permanent secretaries have been chosen, and before June, 1905, it is hoped that every class which has graduated from Cornell University will have at least such a permanent secretary. That this plan has resulted in much more enthusiasm in the class reunions is evidenced by the fact that at the. Commencement in 1904 at least ten per cent, of the entire alumni body were in Ithaca on Alumni day. This number represents an increase of twenty-five per cent, over any previous year's attendance.
As a further step in the development of class reunion interest, a meeting of the different class secretaries was held in Ithaca in January of this year and preliminary plans for a permanent organization of the different class secretaries were worked out, under which it is hoped that a record of each member of the various classes will be kept and various facts concerning the members wil be tabulated from time to time. If a class secretary is inefficient, the organization will replace him by one who will be more active, so that the work and incidentally the University interest will not suffer therefrom.

In addition, it is hoped to secure a list of the students in each class who were in attendance at the University for a certain period, even if they did not graduate, thus keeping up their interest in the University and its affairs as well as the interest of the alumni.
That this movement is of the greatest importance to Cornell and its welfare no one can question, as naturally the University's benefactors, its friends and its supporters in the future will come largely from its former students and alumni. It is earnestly hoped, therefore, that the enthusiastic support of every former student of Cornell, whether graduate or not, will be enlisted in support of this movement.
C. E. TRSMAN, '89,
Representing the Trustees.
1870.
EDITOR CORN£IΛ ALUMNI NEWS.
SIR:—In 1900 I wrote a personal letter to the members of the class of '70 and urged them to attend the thirtieth reunion of their class. At the time appointed I appeared, but literally I was the only person present. I called the roll of the other members and the dead responded quite as promptly as the living. I felt like "One who treads alone some banquet
hall deserted." The class at graduation numbered twenty-three. Among those now known to me to be dead are Edwin Douglass, who entered the business world; A. R. Greene, an attorney; G. H. Lothrop, who died recently in Detroit, where he had a great reputation as a patent lawyer; John Lysle Maxwell, who was president of the class during the Senior year; S. S. Avery, who died a few years after his graduation and whose daughter afterwards graduated from Cornell; Charles J. Powers, a business man, and J. S. Butler, who devoted his whole life to newspaper work. Among those known by me to be living are B. V. B. Dixon, a professor in Tulane University in New Orleans T. W. Spence, a prominent lawyer of Milwaukee; C. A. Storke, a lawyer and an ex-member of the California legislature; Julius Chambers, a leading journalist and author; E. D. Jackson, a lawyer of Minneapolis; H. V. L. Jones, attorney at Dundee, N. Y., Festus Walters and

G. M. Luther, both of whom are prominent business men; T. B. Comstock, a professor in some Western college, and Morris Ross, now and for many years past the the brilliant editor of the Indianapolis Daily News.
Johnson Brigham, one of the founders of the Cornell Era and the winner of the Goldwin Smith prize for the best essay on the English revolution, at present the librarian of the state library at Des Moines, la., and well known throughout the West as an editor, author and publisher, was a member of the class until the close of his Junior year, and as such he should join in the thirty-fifth reunion, which will occur on Wednesday, the 21st of June next.
It will be noted, but not with surprise to those who were in the University at that time, that the class did not turn out a single minister.
This class never had a reunion as such. Every one of them must be near and some of them probably beyond the sixtieth mile post. I will not this year write a single personal letter, but I hope that the memories suggested by the above names will lead a considerable number to come back to Cornell next Commencement and have, before they all pass away, at least one reunion at the home of their Alma Mater.
S. D. HAUJDAY,
Secretary.
1875.
It is hoped that this year's reunion will be the largest in the history of the class. The number returning to class reunions is growing rapidly, and plans are being made this spring which will render the Commencement of 1905 a memorable one in this respect. Those who have been in the habit of attending the reunions of the class hardly need urging. They will not miss the thirtieth anniversary if it is possible to come. There are some members of the class who have not been on the Campus in many years and a few who have not seen Ithaca since the day of their graduation thirty years ago. It is hoped and expected that every member of the class of '75 who can possibly do so will report at this year's reunion.
EDW. L,. NICHOLS,
Secretary.

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Photo by Troy.

VIEW OF THE CAMPUS AND LAKE.

1880.

'8o" friend and tell us what he is doing. tieth reunion in June. Those of the We already know of some of these class whohave been back to some ofthe

To THE: CLASS OF

men who are full of enthusiasm forthe prior reunions need no urging. They

The letter in the NEWS of February class and for the University. Let us will come if they possibly can do so.

8 brought the committee a number of all go to work and do our share toward

very encouraging replies. Everything making this reunion a great success.

points to a large attendance at our re-

Cordially yours,

Those members who have never been back since they left college we urge particularly to return at the coming Com-

union in Commencement week. We

W M . A. FINCH,

mencement.

ask that everyone take a personal inter-

Secretary.

ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK,

est in getting out the class. Write your

EDWARD H. BOSTWICK,

old chum, the " '80" members of your

1885.

Secretaries.

fraternity, or others who were most

closely associated with you in the Uni- To THE CLASS OF 1885: versity and urge them to come. Every- Year by year the class reunions at

1890.

one has some friend with whom hisin- Cornell are becoming a more important Tθ THE ClvASS OF 1890:

fluence and example will count for feature at Commencement. At the time Our fifteen year reunion will take

much, and our success will be assured of the class reunions Cornellians feel place at Ithaca June 20, 21 and 22.

if all such influence is duly exerted.

at home while visiting Alma Mater, for Every '90 man was loyal to his class

All of us will want to meet in Ithaca it is an occasion when they may be sure while at Cornell. Nowlet us prove our

on this occasion as many as possible of seeing familiar faces and having de- loyalty by making this reunion a repre-

of those who entered with us butdid lightful visits with friends.

sentative one of our class. Let us drop

not take a degree. Some of these were

It is to be hoped that all those who our business cares for this brief time

the closest friends for years of men were ever members of the class of 1885, and once more rally at the home ofour

who graduated. You can help us find whether graduates or not, will make an Alma Mater.

them. Give us the address of your "ex- effort to meet with theclass at its twen- The records of the class of '90 are

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very incomplete. This is especially true of the members who did not graduate. You would confer a great favor on the secretary if you would at once mail to him, not only your own address, but the name and address of every '90 man whom you may know. While your class officers and committee will do all they can to make this reunion a success, yet with each of you individually rests the responsibility for the success of the reunion. We therefore not only urge you individually to come back to Ithaca this June, but we also urge you to do all in your power to get every '90 man with whom you associate or correspond to come as well.
Watch the AI/UMNI NEWS for later announcements.
CHAS J. MΠ^ER,
Secretary. Newfane, Niagara County, N. Y.
1895.
To THE MEMBERS OF '95:
By this we greet all persons who have ever been members of the class of 'g$, whether graduates or not. We shall hold our decennial reunion in Ithaca on June 20, 2.1 and 22. The interest already shown and the promises already made assure us of the largest reunion yet held at Cornell. The committee is actively engaged in making plans for entertainment, and we can assure you that the time will be kept full. We have made arrangements so that all the men can live in the new Sheldon dormitory, and, if we did nothing else, this would assure us of a good time. A hundred or more '95 men housed under one roof need have no fear of time hanging heavily on their hands. But, in addition, we shall attend the Varsity-Alumni ball game in a body; we shall have a dinner, and we shall have many other special features.
The better half of the class has not been forgotten, and their committee, of which Mrs. Nellie Reed Burnett is chairman, is arranging for accommodations and entertainment.
Bring your husband along if you think he will be lonesome.
Bring your wife along if she wants to see good old Ithaca.
Bring your children and initiate them into Cornell life.
Bring yourself, anyhow. And now a few words as to how you can help.

First, write your most intimate friends that you intend to be there, and urge them to join you in Ithaca not later than June 20.
Second, if you know of any member of the class who has not received a statistic blank, send the name and address to me at once.
If you have any suggestions to make, write them to me. We are hunting hard for new ideas.
Above all, make your plans to spend June 20, 21 and 22 in Ithaca.
WΠXIAM F. ATKINSON,
President '95. 26 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y..
1900.
To THE CLASS OP 1900:
Two years ago we got the idea of a three year reunion well started on its way as a permanent institution. Nineteen one kept the ball rolling last June, greatly improving on the methods of the teacher, and putting 1902 into a fair way this year of excelling all previous records.
This year 1900 perforce follows in the trodden path of the regular five year reunions, but having never been content to trail idly in the rear rank of any procession, we must needs enjoy a reunion worthy of the class and of a character to raise the standard of such affairs to a point never before attained.
Every member of 1900, graduate or "ex," is expected to report in Ithaca June 21, or tell us the reason why.
Send your addresses to Charlie Stevens, care Buffalo Express, Buffalo, N. Y., and if you have any ideas, original or otherwise, that are burning for expression, let me have them.
Meanwhile, as soon as we get your addresses we will have more to tell you.
GEO H. YOUNG,
Chairman. 814 Hepburn street, Williamsport, Pa.
At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the University Board of Trustees, Wheeler S. Bishop and G. R. White were appointed assistants in chemistry to fill the vacancies caused by the resignations of M. B. Smith and J. W. Schade respectively. Leave of abscence was granted to Professor E. W. Olmstead for the first term of 19051906 and to Professor Charles De Garmo for the second term.

To 1902: Yes, you must have heard about our
triennial reunion! New York is enthusiastic, Philadelphia has waked up, and the San Francisco crowd have started to walk.
Can you afford to miss a real reunion? Heine Schoellkopf will dodge a last examination and reach Ithaca in time; Maurice Whinery will be there if he has to rob the bank Doug Brown will steal to second on four balls at the Alumni game; Morse Stephens will have a few words to say, and you will want to be there to see it all.
Our class has an awful reputation to wipe out, so what will you care if the pink lemonade has a big stick in it?
Back to Ithaca, every one of you. We will be the youngsters at this reunion. It's up to us to amuse the '7° and '75 men : fancy costumes — details later — and all that sort of thing. Incidentally we will amuse ourselves.
Back to Ithaca!
W I U J A M J. NORTON,,
Secretary 405 Courtland street, Baltimore.
At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees, R. C. Snowdon was appointed instructor in chemistry to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Instructor H. R. Carveth, who will withdraw from the University on April 15 to accept a position with the Acheson Graphite company of Niagara Falls. Mr. Snowdon will have charge of the work in introductory organic chemistry, now given by W. C. Geer, and Mr. Geer will be transferred to the department of physical chemistry, which Mr. Carveth leaves. Professor H. N. Ogden of the College of Civil Engineering was granted a leave of absence by the trustees for the second term of 1905-1906. C. G. Merrill of Ithaca was appointed an assistant in drawing in the College of Architecture.

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Γhoto by Troy.

VIEW OF THE CAMPUS LOOKING SOUTH.

Story of Dr. White's Life-

well defined line of purpose. I have sought to fight the eood fight; I have

sought to keep the faith,—faith in a

Publication of His Autobiography an Power in theuniverse good enough to

Event of Note in the Literary World. make truth-seeking> wise, and strong

enough to make truth-telling effective,—

The publication of the Autobiography of Andrew D. White, just issued by the Century company, is an event ofthe greatest interest not only to students of international affairs andto the literary

faith in the rise of man rather than in the fall of man,—faith in the gradual evolution and ultimate prevalence of right and reason amonp men."
ihe autobiography is a record, not alone of a life which has been a powerful

world at large, but more particularly factor for good in American growth and

to the thousands of men and women progress, but of thepeople and events

who have attended the institution of which have shaped American history

which the author was the first president and is today the most loyal and distinguished friend. In an apologia pro vita mea Dr. White writes: " I mayhon-

and thought in the last half-century. The work is published in two volumes and is divided into eight parts. Inthese successively are treated the following: Environment and Education, Political

estly plead before my old friends and Life, As University Professor, As Uni-

students who shall read this book that versity President, In the Diplomatic

my life has been mainly devoted to Service, Sundry Journeys and Experi-

worthy work that I can look back upon the leading things in it with satisfac-

ences, Miscellaneous Recollections and Religious Development.

tion; that whether as regards religion, politics, education or the public service in general, it will be found not a matter of unrelated shreds and patches, but to have been developed in obedience to a

Of special concern to Cornellians is the section of the work entitled "As University President." In this chapter Dr. White has embodied a complete history of the inception, founding and growth of the University, andnarrates

in a most vivid and entertaining way the story of its early struggles for existence and theultimate triumph of his most cherished purpose—which he, held in common with J^zra Cornell—the foundation of "aninstitution whereany person can find instruction in any study." The chapters in part four are entitled as follows: Evolution of the "Cornell Idea," Ezra Cornell, Organization of the University, The First Years of Cornell University, Difficulties and Dangers at Cornell, Further Development of University Courses, Coeducation and an Unsectarian Pulpit, Rocks, Storms and Perils and Concluding Years.
Since the retirement of Dr. White from the ambassadorial service at Berlin he hasbeen devoting himself to the preparation of this autobiography at his residence onthe Universty Campus, and Cornellians will begratified to learn that it is his intention to spend the major portion of his years of retirement in Ithaca.
A number of the best French plays of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will shortly be published by Ginn & Co. under the editorship of Dean T. F. Crane of the University faculty.

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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. do not advance a new-born infant very obtain. Whether we secure many new

far toward maturity. But six years in subscribers or not, we are certain that SUBSCRIPTION, — $2.00 PER YEAR... the life of a newspaper or magazine may the number of grads. who have never

Single copies, ten cents each. Foreign postage, 40 cents per year. Subscriptions payable in advance.

mean a considerable development, so even heard of the paper will bereduced that at the end of that period it may be considerably.

Should a subscriber desire to discontinue mature and firmly established. This is

his subscription, notice to that effect should be sent before its expiration. Otherwise it

true in some measure of theALUMNI

To those readers who see the NEWS

is assumed that a continuance of the scription is desired.

sub-

NEWS.

The six years have been full of

this week for the first time wemay ex-

Checks, drafts and orders should be made important events and significant experi- plain that it is normally a sixteen-page

payable to the Cornell Alumni News.

ences; and although they have been paper, illustrated with portraits and gen-

All correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y.

singularly free from the vicissitudes which mark this period in the career of

eral views, and filled with news and comment of the same general character

Office: 111 N. Tioga St.

some periodicals, they have taught many as in this number. We are trying very

ADVISORY BOARD.

JOHN D. WARNER, '72

New York

JOHN C. BRANNER, '82

Palo Alto, Cal.

CHARLES H. HULL, '86

Ithaca

FREDERICK V. COVILLE, '87. . . .Washington

GEORGE J. TANSEY, '88

St. Louis

HARRY L. TAYLOR, '88

Buffalo

PFUCY HAGERMAN, '90. . . .Colorado Springs

Γ/AViD F. HOY, '91

Ithaca

J OUIE B. WARE, '92

Worcester, Mass.

HERBERT E. LEE, '99

Buffalo

GEORGE WINKLER, ex-Ό2

Pittsburg

EDITOR.

HARLAND B. TIBBETTS, '04.

a valuable lesson.

hard to adapt it just as closely as possi-

Changes in theeditorial board have ble to the needs and interests ofCornaturally brought corresponding changes nellians of whatever age or walk in in policy and methods, and, on the life.

whole, we believe that the progress has

Nor is our field confined exclusively

been steadily upward. Since the pres- to thealumni body, for a steadily in-

ent management assumed control of the creasing proportion of the undergrad-

paper the policy has been to reduce the uates are subscribing to the NEWS. The

size of the editorial board and concen- reason for this is not farto seek: in ad-

trate the work and responsibility in two dition to its special features in the way

ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

or three men who should devote to it of articles, editorials and alumni com-

HERBERT C. BROWN, '05. BUSINESS MANAGER. JOHN L. SENIOR, '01.

a larger proportion of their time and munications, it is valuable to the underenergy. As the paper was not ina posi- graduates because it is theonly Cornell tion financially to command the exclu- publication that may be preserved is a

Entered as second class matter at Ithaca P. O. sive attention of old and experienced permanent and valuable record of cur-

ITHACA, N. Y., APRII, 5, 1905.

alumni editors, it has passed intothe rent University history. hands of younger men. With them hard In former years the Cornell Era was

application must needs take the place of partly a newspaper, publishing a sum-

OUR SIXTH BIRTHDAY.

tried ability and enthusiasm, the place mary of current University events. With

of experience. Whether the net result the advent of the ALUMNI NEWS,how-

The CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS is six
years old today. It is celebrating the occasion by appearing in an enlarged

has been a gain or loss remains to be ever, the Era changed its character to a

seen.

purely literary periodical, leaving the

other important function altogether to

edition with a special cover design and

From a material point of view the the NEWS. The Cornell Sun, it.is true,

pictorial features. It is also making a NEWS is fairly prosperous. During the covers the current news, and covers it

few thousand new acquaintances among past year or two a more systematic ef- thoroughly and admirably, especially

alumni who are not on its regular mail- fort has been made to bring the paper since it was enlarged to eight pages but

ing list, and it hopes sincerely that many to the attention of the great body of the volumes of the Sun are not indexed,

if not most of these new acquaintances alumni, and as a result the subscription and so are almost useless for reference

will develop into intimate friends. It list has been doubled. It has not been purposes. In fact, thechange in size,

has made the advances, andwith the possible, however, to reach every one so acceptable in other ways, makesthe

alumni themselves will rest theoutcome. of the twenty thousand orso Cornellians Sun even less fitted for preservation as

The NEWS announced the approach- at one stroke; andundoubtedly hun- a record of events.

ing birthday privately to a few friends and received many congratulations, some of which are published in this number. Several of these are almost too complimentary toberepeated inthis way; but we have decided not to leave them out merely on that ground, even at the risk of being accused of selfglorification. Our friends will know how much to discount these statements, and as forour new acquaintances—well, letters of introduction and of recommendation areexpected to run to that sort of thing.

dreds of men whoare reading these lines never even heard of our existence until this moment.
An alumnus to whom we had occasion to write recently regarding a news item remarked in his reply: "MayIsuggest that your paper do some soliciting of subscriptions? I have never been approached to subscribe—in fact did not know there was such a paper. I am sure many old graduates would be glad to subscribe if asked."
This present issue is being mailed to all the members of the various reunion

The ALUMNI NEWS includes as one
of its essential features—and no doubt will always continue to do so—a concise and careful summary of the happenings of the week in University circles. This is prepared with a special view to future reference. At the end of each year anelaborate and thorough index is issued, to be incorporated in the bound volume. Inits present form, which will henceforth remain substantially unchanged, the NEWS is exceedingly handy and convenient for reference purposes. Indeed, that was one

Six years are not a very long period classes and to all other alumni or for- main reason for the adoption last

in the life of a human being, and they mer students whose addresses we could autumn of the present form.

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427

We sincerely believe that every un- by a board composed of the following: members ofthe Medical College in New

dergraduate in Cornell University will Editor, Clark S. Northup, '93 managing York.

be making a splendid investment if he editor, Herbert B. Lee, '99—to whom "Secondly, to keep the alumni ac-

subscribes to the NEWS when he arrives was due inlarge measure the credit for curately informed concerning the atti-

in Ithaca, and receives it regularly the establishment of thepaper; assist- tude of the University body, students

throughout his course. Then when he ants, W. A.Ross, '98; R. S. Haynes, '99; and faculty, toward the various ques-

comes toleave the oldCampus, so full C. C.Whinery, '99, and F.A. Cleve- tions of University policy. Athletics

of pleasant associations, he will take land, '99.

will of course receive its due share of

with him a concise record ofthe things

Perhaps we may profitably quote a attention, and questions ofgeneral Uni-

that happened here during his under- paragraph or two from the original versity economy will not be neglected.

graduate days—of his Freshman ban- greeting :

"Thirdly—and this is perhaps the

quet, when he and his classmates fought "We ask a kind reception for this most important of all—to keep the

so bravely against an organized hostof young adventurer intheranks of Cor- alumni informed as fully and as ac-

adversaries; of his first Prom., around nell journalism. The field into which curately as possible about the where-

which cluster so many fond memories; we have entered is a fertile one; and abouts anddoings of Cornell men and

of the great Junior smoker, when that it needs attention we arefirmly women and thus not only to foster the

"Harry" or "Tar" or "Alec" came and convinced. Never once since the move- interest in classmates and Alma Mater,

told thestudents what Cornell spirit ment was set onfoot has there been but also to increase the enthusiasm and

meant to a grad. hundreds of miles any doubt as tothe advisability, the use- loyalty of every Cornellian for the col-

away from the academic halls of the fulness and the ultimate success of a lege on the hill. * * *

big Princeton game, when Cornell met paper established primarily tomeet the "Extra copies of this issue have been

and repulsed the Tiger invasion,and, needs of Cornell alumni. Never once mailed to alumni, Seniors and others

finally, of the races onthe Hudson, have itspromoters had occasion to re- who were unaware ofthe advent of the

when the Redand White crews once gret the steps already taken. The re- ALUMNI NEWS, in the hope that they

again swept the river, to the everlasting sponse from the alumni has been ready, may find init and inthe prospectus of

honor- and glory of themselves andthe sincere andof one mind, that 'Cornell future issues enough of interest and

'Old Man" and the whole University.

needs such a paper/

promise to warrant them in lending

"The objects of the ALUMNI NEWS their support to the movement."

A BIT OF HISTORY.

will be threefold: First, to reflect faithfully, andespecially for alumni, the The remarkable thing about the above

present life atthe University— both in extract is that almost every word of it On April 5, 1899—six years ago, to a Ithaca and New York; among both fac- might with propriety and truth have day—appeared the initial number ofthe ulty and students. In this wehave been been printed inthis anniversary number

CORNEUV ALUMNI NEWS. It was edited promised thehearty cooperation of the with reference to Volume VII. of the

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AIΛJMNI NfDws instead of Volume I. this paper during the three years from same traits, together with unusual vividThe threefold purpose of the paper has 1899 to 1902,is almost too well known ness andforce, characterized his work

not changed in the slightest degree; to Cornellians everywhere to needany as editor of the ALUMNI NEWS. It was year after year the successive editors comment. As coxswain and captain of during his regime, and largely as a re-

have been following—consciously or un- the Cornell Varsity crews, and as their sult of his energy and ability, that the

consciously—in the trail blazed out by assistant coach for the past few years, paper made its greatest advance along

the founders. Its purpose, then, has and as instructor in the College of Law, the line of material prosperity.

been consistent and unvarying through- his services to the University, both in

out the six years; andthat thepaper athletics andin scholarship, have been has succeeded in some measure in ful- as notable as they are familiar.

Team Does Well in South.

filling this purpose is indicated by the Frank E. Gannett, A. B., '98, editor of steady growth of its subscription list the AUJMNI NEWS in 1902-3, is an ex-
and the unfailing support of its many perienced newspaper man, having served

Wins Majority of Games and Shows up Well at the Bat.

old and true friends.

with credit on thestaff of various dailies The Varsity baseball team began the

Up to the current year the paper had had four different editors-in-chief, while

since his return Islands, whither

from the Philippine he went in 1898 as

season of 1905 auspiciously in the first contest of the Southern trip by defeating Vanderbilt University in a fast game

the remainder of theboard hadchanged President Schurman's secretary. At by a score of 10-6 on March 28 at Nash-

even more frequently. Elsewhere in this present he is general manager of the ville.

number we print greetings from the former editors, and perhaps a word

Ithaca Daily News. George D. Crofts,

A. B. '01

IX.

The batting of theCornell men was

B.,

the feature of the first game and augurs well for the future success of the team.

about their present vocations may not '03, who conducted this paper during Umstad pitched for the Ithacans and al-

be out of place.

the year 1903-4, is now engaged in the lowed only nine well scattered hits.

Clark S. Northup, '98, who launched

A. B., '93; Ph. D., the N w s on its

practice of law in the city of During hisundergraduate years

Buffalo. he won

Cornell secured 14 hits, andbut three errors were scored against them. The batteries were Umstad and Welch for

career, was at that time instructor in the '94Memorial prize in debate, was a Cornell and Morris and Travis for Van-

English in the University, a position member of the Cornell Sun board and a derbilt. Thescore by innings was as

which he continued to fill with distin- correspondent of several out-of-town
guished ability until the spring of 1903, newspapers, and was later the Ithaca when he was promoted to an assistant representative of the Associated Press.

follows:
Cornell Vanderbilt

R.H.E.
6 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 o — 1 0 14 3
...2 2 o o 1 0 1 0 o — 6 9 6

professorship in the same department. His news dispatches were notable for

The second game resulted in a score

He is also secretary of his class of .'93. Frederick D. Colson, B. I,., '97; I X .
B., '98, who controlled thedestinies of

their accuracy andtruthfulness at a time when such qualities were not conspicuous among local correspondents, and the

of 3-0 in favor of Cornell. Martin was in the box for Cornell andpitched a splendid game, allowing his opponents but one hit andgiving no bases on balls.

The infield work of Rice and Heilman

was particularly brilliant. Coach War-

Addresses and Miscellanies

ner was well pleased with the showing of the new men, Bigelow, Heilman and

Martin. Following is the score by inn-

ings :

of the late

Cornell

R.H.E.
0 10 0 0 0 2 0 o — 3 8 1

James Fraser GlucK
(Cornell 74)
" The work is printed in a new face, old-style type, on Dill & Collins' Regal Antique paper, with uncut edges and gilt top. The frontispiece, by Dreka, of Philadelphia, has been pronounced one of his most creditable productions. The edition is strictly limited. No reprint will be made asthe type has already been distributed."

V a n d e r b i l t . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o —0 1 2
A trip out to Lebanon was taken on March 30, and there theteam met its first defeat. The morning game was played against the Castle Heights team, which wonby a score of 16-10. The Ithacans were slow and tired after making the trip and put up a miserable exhibition. Both outfield and infield made a number of inexcusable errors. McCarty pitched for Cornell and allowed his opponents 11hits. Hispitching was not effective when hits meant runs. The Castle Heights battery was exceptionally strong, and had it not been for some good slugging by the Cornell men in the fifth inning the score would have been even more discouraging. The score by innings was as follows:
R.H.E.

Cornell

1 0 0 2 5 0 2 0 0—10 11 8

"An Addition of Value to the

A limited number of copies may

Private Library.''—Buffalo Express. be secured at $2*50 each, from the

ALUMNI N E W S until May Jst

Castle H ' t s . , 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 4 x — 1 6 11 4
In the afternoon the Cornell team took a decided brace and played good, consistent ball in thegame against the Cumberland University nine. But one error was charged up against the North-
(Continued on page 432.)

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[By courtesy of Mr.Jervis I,angdon, '97,we publish this letter, deeming it, as he says, "an unanswerable argument" why
every Cornell man should be a subscriber to the ALUMNI NEWS.]

JERVIS LANGDON E L M I R A, N . Y_
CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, Ithaca, New York.
GENTLEMEN:--

December 12, 1904.

It isa pleasure toattempt to express to you the great pride I take as a Cornell man in the "Alumni News'". It is the same pridewe feel inthose other excelling products of outside student activity --the crew, the Musical clubs, the cross country team and the groups of big-browed, eye-glassed chaps who continually win us laurels in chess and debate.

The "News" was a great boon to the University's graduates the first week it ever appeared, and all honor is due the little band of men who launched iton its career. Steadily has the paper improved since that time until today, in its latest dress, at the hands of its present editors, itstands, Iam sure, among the best of college publications.

The writer has (alas) been solong out of college that he does not always now turn instantly to the athletic news, but lingers with much pleasure onthe columns concerning the growth and increasing usefulness of Cornell's endowment of every kind. Your recent number which told so much of the visit of Professor Goldwin Smith and all that was said and done inconnection with his visit should have been readby every alumnus, and cannot have failed to thrill all who saw it. It is in keeping us posted in all that ishappening at"Greater Cornell" that your work isparticularly satisfactory at this time. Thereis no longer any excuse for the alumnus, behenear or far from Ithaca, who does not know more or less about all the changes and improvements at Cornell. He can keep posted for $2.00 ayear.

I do not know what your circulation is, but large as it may be, it should be larger, for every Cornell man of spirit should subscribe as a mere matter ofspirit, and when you add to that reason the pleasure and profit the publication itself can give, you have, itseems to me, an unanswerable argument toput before those whose names are not yet on your mailing list

If Ican be of any service tothe "Alumni News" pray command me. Very sincerely yours sf

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(Contiued from page415.) and I trust that you will allow me, in as few words as possible, to present myown. I would have, closely connected with the Auditorium, a University hall in thesense in'which that word is used at Knglish Oxford andCambridge, at Harvard, at Yale, at the University of Chicago, and at sundry otherinstitutions in theUnited States. I would have it a large and stately room, adorned with the portraits andbusts of those who shall hereafter be recognized as having done worthy work in the University andin the world at large. I would

the kindness you have always shown me, and especially for your greeting to methis evening. I soeak to you from my heart when I sav that no other welcome could have sotouched me, noother could have been so highly prized by me. I have had various duties during my life but that to Cornell University has always been foremost in my thoughts. First and foremost I have been, if anything, a teacher and,of all recognitions and rewards to a teacher, the kindly feeling of former friends ranks first. I thank you all from the depths of my heart andwish to each andall of you prosperity and

have storied windows and decorations of such a sort that happiness.

they would uplift the daily life of the students assembling

there. I would have every dayduring every term of the year

tables set where a large body of students could obtain healthy food well prepared. I would have this halϊ a place which should be owned by the alumni, a place to which they should

To THE EDITOR OF THE ALUMNI NEWS.
SIR :—I can think of nomessage to the alumni from

invite at Commencement andon other appropriate occasions

myself which would be more appropriate just at present

the trustees, the faculty and guests of the University. It should be built in close connection with the Auditorium. It should not be a lounging place it should be far different from that; it should be, as I have indicated, a stately hall, uplifting

than the address given at the New York Alumni dinner on February 25. I have taken pains to put into it the things which it seems to me most important for the

the daily life of the great body of students and giving dignity

alumni to consider with regard to thebuilding up of the

to the greater anniversaries of theinstitution. I would have it placed near theAuditorium so that at all great gatherings and celebrations of theUniversity the audiences could easily pass from oneof these buildings to the other. I canthink

University in which they have so great and so real an interest.
I need hardly say that I appreciate highly the value

of no dream of mine which I would more like to see realized

of the ALUMNI NEWS as a means of keeping the whole

before mydeparture from this world than that of such a combination of Auditorium and Alumni hall.
I believe that they would promote a sort of life which would more than anything else minister to the health, the simple comfort and the higher aspirations of our students.

body of graduates in proper relations with their Alma Mater. It is thebest possible medium for that purpose in fact, the only one which can give to the whole alumni body the information which they naturally most

This being the case, I feel that such provision would minister nobly to a better future of the state and of the nation.
My dear friends, for none of these objects do I make an appeal for instant action. I know well that, owing to the comparatively recent foundation of Cornell, we have very

desire to have andwhich it is for the interest of the University that they should possess. It is also, of course, an exceedingly valuable means of allowing any alumnus to express any views which he may entertain

few alumni of wealth butI simply ask you to think of these things.
Years ago,when an admirable mathematical library was offered theUniversity at a bargain, Mr. Cornell, in his dry, quaint way, said to me: "Now, somewhere there is a man

as to University policy, andto make such as his experience warrants.
I remain, Very sincerely yours,

suggestions

walking about who would be glad to give us this library."

And there was—we found him. Possibly some of you may

be successful in a similar quest regarding some of theseob-

jects I have presented to you tonight.

And now, in conclusion, let me thank you, oneand all, for

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Brief University News.

Professor James E Creighton, Ph. D., has just been published by K. P. Allen,

'92, professor of logic and metaphysics B. L.,'92; LL. B., '94. Mr. Allen is a

in theUniversity, acted as one of the practising attorney at 849 Powers build-

At the last meeting of the Athletic council the Varsity "C" was awarded to George T. Cook for football, and upon

judges of the Princeton-Harvard de- ing, Rochester. The book consists of bate, which was held at Princeton, two divisions, one a geographical diMarch 28, and won by the home team. rectory of all Cornell men who are prac-

the recommendation ofthe class of 1906 The other judges were the Rev. Anson tising law in any state in the Union, so

numerals were granted to ΐhirteen men. P. Stokes, secretary of Yale University, far as they could be ascertained by the

and the Rev. William R. Richards of compiler; the other an alphabetical list

Dr. William N. Polk, dean of the Cornell Medical College inNew York city, has been appointed chairman of a com-

New York city. The views of the Campus published

of the same names. The little book had proved so useful in the past that a new and revised edition was called for.

mittee for theinvestigation of the re- on the cover andthe inside pages of

cent outbreak of meningitis, which has this issue of the NEWS are from new

A score of students under the direc-

created so much consternation in the photographs, copyrighted by J. P. Troy, tion of Professor H. H. Wing of the

metropolis.

University photographer, and now pub- College ofAgriculture recently returned

lished for the first time. These and from a trip to Auburn and Syracuse.

The plans forthe new buildings of the some twenty-five other new and striking During the stay in Auburn the D. M.

College of Agriculture, recently de- views of the Campus and vicinity will Osborne harvesting machine works was

scribed in these columns, have been ac- be included in a book ofphotographs to visited, and at Syracuse the chilled plow

cepted by the executive committee of be published by Mr. Troy about the works andother manufacturing estab-

the trustees after undergoing the final middle of May.

lishments of agricultural implements. A

revision at the hands of the state archi-

trip was also taken tothe Stevens stock

tect at Albany. The bids for the construction of the buildings have been ad-

The Cornell Sun has been incorporated under the laws ofthe state of New

farm and several other large farms near Syracuse.

vertised for, and will be opened April York with a capital of $10,000. The di-

10. They call forstructures to the value rectors areElias H.Kelley, '05 Lewis

Work has been begun on the beautify-

of $290,000.

E. Palmer, '05; Robert P. Butler, '05; ing of the Stewart avenue side of the

Henry P. Du Bois, '06; Nicholas H. University Campus in the section ex-

The- contract for the outfitting of the Noyes, '06; George S.Tarbell, '91, and tending from University avenue to the

Cornell baseball team has been awarded Henry G. Carpenter, ex-'o,2. It is the old Cornell mansion. The slope has

to the James W. Brine company ofCam- intention of the directors to hand down been littered with quarry and other

bridge, Mass. The sum required to fur- the paper to the new boards as in pre- refuse for several years. Now the un-

nish a Varsity team with uniforms and vious years, the new members replacing sightly matter and undergrowth and tree

other necessary equipment is large, and the old as directors of the corporation. stumps will be removed. It is the plan

the management generally invites bids

of the University authorities ultimately

from various firms before purchasing

The fourth edition of the Cornell to place the dormitories onthis section

the outfits.

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432 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S .

Field Committee Meets.

Tunkhannock, Pa.; S. H. Blackmer,

(Continued from page420.) be accomplished before the close of the
B. F. McCormickcollege year. Theplayground willcon-
tinue to be thechief center of activity, as it is planned tofinish the grading of this in time to seed it during the summer andhave it ready foruse by the students when college opens in the fall.

Beiinington, Vt. C. H. Bowen, Eagle Grove, la. W.L Brav, Burnside, 111. J. G. Brobeck, Sag Harbor; L M. G. Browne, Utica C. S. Burns, Almena, Kan. P.G. Burton, Albanv.
C. J. Cady, Rice's; M. B. Carpenter, Holyoke, Mass. H.P. Center, Ottawa, Kan.; W. B. Clark, Stanford University, California; O. C. Clifford; R. G.

TAILOR.Already, asappears from the cut, a plot Collins, jr., Milwaukee, Wis. J. Comes-

of ground 400by500 feet is almost en- ky, Norwalk, O. J. B.Corcoran, Col-

tirely graded, 22,000 cubic feet having ton; G. A. Cornish, Gillette, N.J. J.

been removed andbut 6,000 yards re- D. Cruikshanks, Ovid; G. A. Dagwell,

maining.

jr., Lansingburg; C. E. Davis, Council

Bluffs, la. Lee Davis, Brunswick,

222 EAST STATE ST.

Team Does Well inSouth.

Miss.; J. H.DeWitt, Port Jervis; F. H.

(Continued from page428.) erners, while the men slugged theball unmercifully, securing a total of 20 hits. Deshon was inthe box for Cornell and allowed but four scattered hits. The score by innings wasas follows :

Dimmick, Savona; J. H.Dysinger. Mifflintown, Pa.
C. Eickemeyer, Yonkers L. S.Elmer,
C & VBaltimore; A. L,. Emery, Palo Alto,
Cal. F.L. Frost, Tiffin, O. E. E. Gorton, Tonawanda A.R. Graham, Clyde Geo. N. Graham, Syracuse W. W.

R.H.K. Grieve, Perry; C.F. Hall, Elmira W.

spring: Sliocs and Ox-

Cornell

1 5 6 3 4 0 3 0 x—22 20 1 F. Hammond, jr., Greenport; P.C. Har-

C u m b e r l a n d 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 — 2 4 8 ris, Galena, 111.; S. G. Harris, BaldBy a change of arrangements Cornell winsville; M. C. Hatcher, Chicago; II.

f o r d s have individual style to the man whowants the newest in PAoot-

played the New York National league J. Heath, Rodman C. Heinrich,Milteam on Friday in Nashville and held waukee, Wis. S. D. Higley, Windsor,

wear. Prices $3.5O to$6.OO

the Giants down to thescore of 6-3 in O. C. B. Howe, Holyoke, Mass. F.

favor of New York. The Cornell out- Joerissen, jr., Ilion; C. Kinsley; G. A.
COLLINS & VORHIS,field played without error, andhad it Kraus, Clarence.

not been for two costly errors by Rice J, F.Lacy, Lincoln. Del.; J. Lewman;

and Heilman the score might have been S. D.Locke, jr., Hoosick Falls; G. A.204 E. STATE ST., ITHACA, N. Y

different. On the previous daythe New Lytle, Decatur, 111. M. A. Macomber,

Yorkers had defeated the Nashville pro- Perry; Miss A. B. Marsh; H.B. Masfessionals by a score of 8-4. Umstad ten, Chester; A. G. Miles; J. A.Moses, was inthe box for Cornell. The score New York; C.L. Mover, Rome; J. D.

A POINT WELL MADE

by innings was asfollows :

Murray; C. H. Nichols, Syracuse; L

R.H.E. A. Osborne, Newark, N. J. T. D. Ring- j

Cornell

0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 — 3 8 5 wood, Ilion; C.C.Robbins, Buffalo; W. j

can always be depended upon in an emergency. The point that we wish

N e w Y o r k . . . 1 o 1 1 1 o 1 1 o — 6 9 1 D. Rose, Hornellsville.

to make right here is tha^-

The final game of thetrip was played on Saturday with the Nashville Southern league team and resulted in a victory for Nashville by a score of 4-3. The make up of the Cornell team as it played during the series of games

C. R. Scherer, 176South Pearl street, ! Albany; V.C.Shaffer, Huntinton, Ind. \ S. S.Shields, Girard, O. B.N. Sperry, New York; A.Springer, jr., Rome; C. H. Stoddard, Manila, P. I. H. B. Sweet, Utica; Miss T. M. Todd, Albion;

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ALUMNI NEWS, of the whereabouts and
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435

Credit for Athletic Work.
Sibley Takes Lead in Eneoupaging Students to Elect Gym. Courses.
Professor C. V. P.Young has gained an important point in his effort to build up physical culture work at the University, and the prospects are that the movement will progress steadily from

Freshmen, or it may include any branch of athletics in which the student desires to engage and for which Professor

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H. GOLDENBERG,

now on. TheSibley faculty recently passed a resolution whereby Sibley stu-

Hang-ing* Athletes' Pictures.

dents will be encouraged totake partin athletics by allowing credit toward grad-

The Frank

committee consisting Irvine, '80; Professor

of Judge C. V. P.

j209=211 DRYDEN ROAD,

ITHACA, N. Y.

uation for gymnasium work. This is Young, '99; F. D. Colson, 97, and Har-

the more gratifying because, so far as old J. Richardson, '05, appointed some known, it is the first instance inthis time ago for thepurpose of adopting country of a technical school allowing definite rules regarding the hanging of credit for gymnastics. Such action is portraits of well* known Cornell athletes j

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generally confined to the academic de- in the gymnasium, has formulated a

CLARENCE E. HEAD,

partments ofthe colleges and universi- plan after giving the matter careful 1O9 N. AURORA ST., ITHACA, N.Y.

ties.

consideration. It isas follows :

A POINT TO INSIST ON.

Now that Sibley has made the important concession, it is very likely thatthe

1. The matter of hanging portraits in the gymnasium shall be under the

There areendless numbers of traveling people who goregularly from New York to

other colleges of the University which make any provision atall for elective studies will grant a similar allowance.

control of acommittee consisting of the president of the Athletic council, the

Chicago and vice versa several times a month, who have never gone over any other road but the Lake Shore &Michigan

professor of physical culture, the presi- Southern, because this road is "good

The importance of such a step to the dent of the Senior class and the editor- enough" for them. It's good enough for

athletic interests of the University is readily apparent, and this action of the engineering faculty may be regarded as

in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun. 2. No portrait shall be hung in
gymnasium except the following:

anybody, the fastest, safest, most con-

the

venient and most comfortable America. Once you travel over

road in the Lake

Shore and you will not want to experiment

ushering in anew era inphysical training at Cornell. Director Albert W. Smith made the following announcementregarding the Sibley resolution:

a. Portraits ofthe Varsity eight in their shell, and of the captains of the

with anyother road. People who know the comforts and discomforts of traveling, and what they have a right to expect, al-

Varsity football, baseball and track ways insist ontheir tickets reading by way

teams.

of theLake Shore. So shouldyou.

In the new Sibley College course

there are certain electives which must be taken outside of thetechnical courses.

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Recently the faculty approved a resolution making it possible totake, with

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the student may, with the approval of the Sibley faculty, take any other tech-

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A big word in every sense, but fitting when applied to our

These electives maybe taken at any time during the regular four-year course.
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It is especially desired, however, that

Sibley students elect courses in phy-

sical training. This may mean the reg-

ular gymnasium work as now given to

436 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

b. If any other man shall have after the close of the academic year or two four-oars and in pair-oared barges.

achieved unusual and notable distinc- until the person whose portrait it is has The Freshmen will not be taken to the

tion in any branch of sport, his portrait may be hung; but as few men

ceased to be a student in the University. 4. The committee may in its discre-

table until after the races onMay27. The men are still rowing on the inlet
and will not PΌ out on the lake until

can attain the distinction proper for tion forbid the hanging of any portrait their form is perfected on thesmooth

recognition in this class, and as it or remove any which may be hung.

water. The combinations are, of course,

may happen that incertain years there may be several such, a maximum of

5. All portraits shall be of uniform size and shall be uniformly framed and

very much unsettled as yet, with the exception of thetwoVarsity combinations, which are beginning to assume

four is fixed, which shall not in any lettered. The size, style of framing and somewhat definite form, though some

year be exceeded and which shall be lettering, and the form of inscription changes will be made in these later.

reached only in exceptional cases. 3. No portrait shall be hung until

shall be determined upon by thecommittee.

They are as follows: Bow, Boesch; 2, Barton; 3,Newman;
4, Dods; 5, G. W. Foote; 6, Fernow;

6. The committee shall have power to 7, W. F. Lee; stroke, E.T.Foote; cox-

We wish to Call Your Attention

amend these rules and tomake any others appropriate to the enforcement thereof.

swain, Taylor. Bow, Sturdevant 2, Powers 3,
Chapman; 4, Goodier; 5, Johnson; 6, Barnhardt; 7, Stowell; stroke, Adams;

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437

Cornell Obituaries.

March 26, at 4 o'clock. Mr. Gould was tory school. Thefuneral was held in recently obliged toresign from the po- Seneca Falls and members of the Sigma

HERMAN M'CIVURE) HADLEY, '7&.

sition of secretary of the class of 1900 Phi fraternity officiated as pall-bearers.

The death of Herman McCltire Hadley, '76, not previously announced in these columns, occurred at hjshomein Topeka, Kan., October I, 1904. He had been a practising architect in that city for the past twenty-five years. He is survived by his wife, Etta J. Hadley.

because of his health, which hadbeen gradually failing for several months.
During his University course he was prominent in every form of student activity. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Quill and Dagger, Sigma Phi, and president of the Cornell Christian

Mr. Gould was one of the most popular members of his class, and his death will belearned of with thedeepest regret by the men of 1900. Indeed his unswerving loyalty to his Alma Mater will make his memory dear to allCornellians of whatever class.

association. He was also at onetime

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M. HUDSON, Ό 6 .

The death of Henry L. Woodward, Among the other activities with which

The death of Neal M. Hudson, '06, a

LL B., '91, occurred in Cleveland March he was identified were Class Day com- student in the College of Civil Engi-

27, atthe Hollenden hotel. Mr. Wood- mittee, class orator, member of the neering, occurred at his home in Weeds-

ward was a younger brother of John Masque during his entire course, editor port, March 19. Mr. Hudson was nine-

Woodward of Jomestown, N. Y., and of the 1900Cornellian and a member teen years old at the time of death. He

brother-in-law of Nevada N. Stranahan, of the Junior smoker and Sophomore graduated from theWeedsport High

collector of the port of New York. He cotillion committees.

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had been in partnership with Robert

After leaving theUniversity he mar- his district. He was the son of Fred

P. Cummings of 31 Liberty street, New ried Miss MaySedgwick of Syracuse, Hudson, a Central engineer residing in

York city. The deceased wasona tour whose brother, Charles B. Sedgwick, Newark. Heis survived by two broth-

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law book publishing concern.

sity track team, but died at the end Ray Hudson of Syracuse University.

of his Junior year. Mr.Gould is

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Cornell Alumni Notes.

and tour through the continent, return- Luke's church, Chicago, and will assume

ing to America in August. Professor his duties soon after Easter.

Ex-'72—Dr. A. C. Almy is principal of the High school at Orange. N. J.,and teacher of psychology at the Orange Kindergarten Training school.
'79, A. B.—S. J. Gibson is superintendent of the Norwich public schools,

Bissell went to Iowa State College, three years after graduation from the University, as assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He held thisposition for one year and then took charge of the department, a position which he has held continuously since that time.

'94, LL. B. '95, LL. M.—Carl D. Stephan was associate counsel for the defense in the trial of Alonzo J. Whiteman in Buffalo, which was brought to a close March 24 with a verdict of •acquittal for theaccused. The trial attracted much attention in Buffalo.

Norwich, N. Y. '80, B. S.—C. E. Atwood, M. D., '83,
Bellevue, after having been connected with the psychopathic branch of the New York hospital as a resident physician and with the neurological clinic of Columbia as assistant attending physician for many years, and—according to

He is a member of the A. S. M.E, A. I. E. E., A. S. N.E. and of the American Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Professor W. H. Meeker, M. E, Cornell, '91, will have charge of the department during the absence of Professor Bissell.
'89, M. S.—I. M. Bridgman is with

'94, Ph.D.—-David Irons is associate professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
'94, A. B.—W. H. Lighty is superintendent of the Self-Culture Hall association of St. Louis, Mo. His address is T832 Carr street.

a recent letter from him to the ALUMNI Barber Bros. &Co., bankers, Polo, 111.

Ex-'95—Charles S. Young, head of

NEWS—having been called upon to treat a number of crazy, halt andlame Cornellians, has resigned hisposition. After a year's study in Vienna and a hpspital term in London, he will engage in private practice in New York as a specialist of nervous and mental diseases. He expects to attend the '80 reunion at Ithaca in June.
Ex-'8i.—George Shiras, 3d, a member of the committee onpublic lands in the national House of Representatives, introduced two important bills atthe recent session of the fifty-eighth Congress. The first was an act providing for the protection of migratory birds in the United States. Mr. Shiras believes that the migratory birds are not sufficiently protected by state or local legislation and that in the absence of uniform and stringent laws birds of this class should be placed under the care of the United States government. The bill provides that theDepartment of Agriculture shall be empowered to adopt suitable regulations for their protection. The second bill provides for the establishment of a commission to consider andrecommend legislation for the establishment of an executive department of the government to be known as the Department of Sanitary

'89, M. E.—John W. Upp is engineer in charge of the drafting department of the General Electric company, Schenectady, N. Y.
'90, B. L.—The case of the People against the Boston Gas Trust, which has attracted such interest in New England of late, was conducted by Junius T. Auerbach, and because of his energy and ability in the prosecution of the case he has wonmuch praise. At the time of the capitalization of the trust Mr. Auerbach delivered an address that was published in full by many ofthe Boston papers. In speaking- of the closing hearing of the case, the Boston American said: "Sitting in judgment between the people of Massachusetts and the Gas trust, the committee on public lighting of the legislature heard today the closing words in the closing fight against the Boston Consolidated Gas grab. The theme of the argument was powerfully expressed by Attorney Auerbach, who has fought the battle since its beginning in behalf of 7°>000 citizens who signed the American's petition, when he said, 'Absolutely no word of defense for this bill has been uttered by anyone save counsel for the gas companies.' "

the advertising department of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, maintained in a recent lecture before the students in railroad engineering at the University of Chicago that newspaper advertising is more profitable than any other form of advertising. This fact, says the Chicago Chronicle, in commenting editorially on the address, indicates that newspaper advertising has been growing steadily in favor for several years. This is not unnatural, for it won early recognition as truth among those in a vocation attracting, as railroading confessedly does, a large share of the best ability of the age. Concurrently with railway managers, the managers of all kinds of theatricals and other amusements, another vocation demanding the most alert intelligence, recognized this same truth,and the huge crop of posters and lithographs they had maintained disappeared.
'96, ivi. M. E.—Homer J. Hotchkiss is professor of physics in the department of electrical engineering of the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.
'96, Ph. D.—In the Review ofReviews for April, Dr. Edward Dana Durand, one of the expert examiners employed by the Bureau of Corpora-

Science. Experience of recent years

'90, B. S. in Arch.—Edward T. Fal- tions in the beef investigations, de-

has shown, according to the bill, that lows resides at 985 Bergen street, scribes the method by which that in-

with the rapid growth and concentra- Brooklyn. A sonwas born to Mr. and quiry was conducted. He says that

tion in population, together with the Mrs. Fallows on March 17. This is the price statistics first compiled from

constant intermingling of citizens, the their fourth child.

the books of the packers brought into

states acting separately are unable to

'90, B. L —J. M. Gorman is a prac- sharp relief the fact that merecom-

enforce suitable and uniform legislation for the protection of public health, especially in the matter of the investigation, control and suppression of infectious

tising attorney and is addressed at 56 Pine street, New York citv.
'90, B. S.; '95, Sc D.—Tracy Earl Clark, who until recently was instructor

parison of prices of cattle and beef, however careful and complete, gives little basis for judgment as to the reasonableness of either. Mr. Durand de-

in zoology in the Boys' High school in scribes in full the mode of procedure

'83, A. B—Professor Herbert C. Elmer of the University contributes an

Brooklyn, is now a practising physician, residing in Macon street, Brooklyn.

adopted by the bureau in this investigation.

article to thecurrent issue of theClassical Review, entitled "Some Faults in Our Latin Dictionaries."
'88, M. E—Professor George W. Bissell, dean of the engineering department of the Iowa State College, has been granted a leave of absence, and on March 21 sailed on the Cunard liner Ultonia for Italy. He will spend a short time in Florence, where his father, mother and sisters are living. His

'91, A. B.—Philip Ogden is associate professor of French literature at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
'91, M. E.—Horace Van Everen is a member of the firm of Phillips, Van Kveren & Fish, counsellors at law, Exchange building, 53 State street, Boston, Mass.
'92, B. L —The Rev. Gilbert W. Laidlaw, formerly rector of St. George's

'96, Ph. B.; '97, LL. B.—Oliver D. Burden will marry Miss de Tamble of Chicago on June 26. Mr. Burden is the senior member of the prosperous law firm δf Burden & Shanahan of Syracuse. Mr. Burden was president of his Senior class in the University, and was for two years business manager of the Cornell Sun. He was a member of Delta Chi and Quill and Dagger.

father is a sculptor of international church at Newport, R. I., has accepted

'97, Ph. B.—Isadore Gilbert Mudge

fame. Hewill then journey northward a call to the assistant rectorship of St. is librarian at Bryn Mawr College.

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'98, B. S.—George C. Martin is an tion of the new concern, says: "The

instructor in paleontology in Johns company is incorporated under the laws

Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

of Illinois, with a capital of $10,000, and

'98, A. B.—Marv G. Young is teaching history and civics in the Ithaca High school. Her address is 127 Eddy street, Ithaca, N.Y.
'98, B. S.—George T. Hastings is teaching in the Wenonah Military academy, his address being 551 East Church street, Elmira, N.Y.
'99, M.E.—F. Hughes Mover, who since leaving the University has been engaged in engineering work along blast furnace and rolling mill lines, is now connected with the Carnegie Steel com-

its officers include President John R. Bensley, Vice-President Benjamin Briscoe and Treasurer Luke I. Wilson. Mr. Bensley took work in engineering in the University, but left previous to the completion of his course. His father is a well known Chicagoan and was at one time president of the Chicago Board of Trade."
'01, M. E.—Russell B. Putnam, second lieutenant U. S. marine corps, is addressed U. S. flagship Kearsarge, in care of the postmaster, New York city.

pany as one of its engineers.

'02, C. E.—Shirley C. Hulse, who last

'99, A. B.—Oscar F. Smith is superintendent of the Savanna public schools, Savanna, 111.
'00, A. B.—Albert M. Garretson is in Paris studying at the Julian School of Painting. His address is atthe American Art association, 74 Rue Notre Dame

summer was engaged as engineer in charge of the construction of the Taughannock Falls power plant, near Ithaca, is now assistant engineer with the Nipe Bay company at Mayari, Cuba.
'02, A. B.—Harold L Leupp is inthe State Library school atAlbany, N. Y.

des Champs, Paris. Mr. Garretson '02, A. B.—Agnes M. Ford is precep-

writes that he is "sure tohave visitors tress and teacher of Latin and German

as soon as the ALUMNI NEWS arrives." in the Fort Plain High school, and her

'00, B. S.—T. F. Hankinson is assistant inbiology at the East Illinois State

address is 66 Mohawk street, Fort Plain, N. Y.

Normal school, Charleston, 111.

'03, A. M.—Annie S. Clark is prin-

Ex-Όo—John R. Bensley has been elected president of the recently organ-

cipal of the school at Hampton, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

ized Western Automobile company in '03, A. B.—F. H. Thro is teaching

Chicago. The Chicago Commercial history, English and French in Bedding

Chronicle, in speaking of the organiza- College, Abingdon, 111.

'03, A. B.—Agnes G. Sweeton is

teaching the sciences in the New

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and

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'03, A. B.—Chester L. Mills is inthe office of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Scranton, Pa.
'03, C. E.—George E. Malone is in the office of the superintendent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, and his address is 2 8 ^ N. Mill street, New Castle, Pa.
'03, Ph. p.—George W. T. Whitney is a reader in philosophy in Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
'03, A. B.—Miss E.F. Humphreys is a teacher in the high school at Wellsville, O. She is located at 938 Main street, Wellsville.
'04, A. B.—Lucy G. Smith is preceptress and teacher of history in the Camden High school, New York. Her home address is 257 West Third street, Oswego, N. Y.
'04, A.B.—Johnston Stanley is in the bond house of C. D. Shepard &Co., room 304, 31 Nassau street, New York c.'tv.
'04, Ph. D.—Alfred D. Schoch's address is 719 W. Harrison street, Chicago, 111.
'04, A. B.—L. S. Pratt is teaching the sciences in Anderson's Military academy, Irvington, Cal.

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'04, C.E.—R. M.Riegel is transitman phia. His marriage to Miss Bernice on the Mississippi River survey and is Davis at Sloansville, N. Y.,was celeaddressed at Box204, Memphis, Term. brated August 3, 1904.

Ex-Ό.4—J. D. Ristine who left the Ex-'θ4—Allen Mosher, 2d, who left

University in 1902 is now paint rep- the University in March of '01 is lo-

resentative of the Lowe Bros,com- cated at16Chedell place, Auburn, N. Y.

pany of Dayton, Ohio. He is addres- He is secretary of the Auburn Hame

sed at470, theRookery, Chicago, 111. company. Hewas married to Miss

'04, A. B.—P. K. Robertson is a Frances Jane Zobrist ofAuburn in June student inthe Cornell Law school. He of 1902.

is addressed at 108Ferris place, Ithaca, N. Y.

'04, D.V. S.—Ocampo Vicente is now in the agricultural department of

'04, M. E.—James Wilson is addressed the Argentine government and is also

at 22 Arnold avenue, Amsterdam, N. municipal inspector at Buenos Ayres.

Y., where he is engaged in professional work.
'04, B. Agr.—A. C.Morgan and W. W. Yothers, '04, A. B., are engaged in the cotton boll weevil investigations with headquarters at Dallas, Texas.

'04, A. B.—James W. Schade who recently was assistant in chemistry at Cornell is nowwith the Baker Chemical company at Easton, Pa.
'04, M. E.—William Herbert Price, formerly a member of the Siblev Jour-

Ex-'θ4—Warren Montgomery who left nal board, is nowaninstructor in ex-

the University in January of 1903 is perimental engineering in Armour In-

manager for theRussel Creek Coaland stitute, Chicago, 111. He was operated

Coke company at Virginia City,Va. upon for appendicitis March 23, and his

'04, C. E.—G. T. Morris is located at 215 East Fourth street. Salt Lake city

condition is reported as favorable by the physician in charge.

and is an asistant engineer with Frank C. Kelsey.

'04, M. E.—Norman S. Lawrence, end on the 1903 football team, is now

'04, A. B.—F. K. Richtmyer is an in- on the engineering εtaff of R. W. Hunt

structor in physics at the Drexel In- & Co. engineers, TheRookery, Chicago,

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'04, A. B.—C. T. Dawes is studying '04, A. B.—Ada C. Fritts is teaching

law in the surrogate's office at Johns- Latin and history in the High school,

town, N. Y. His address is 406 S. Gloversville, N. Y., and her address is

Melcher street.

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'04, A. B.—John C. Robertshaw is

teaching Latin and Greek in the Elmira Free academy. His address is 584

Cornell Men in Ithaea Affairs.

Maple avenue, Elmira, N. Y. '04, A. B.—Mabel R. Crowl is teach-
ing language andliterature at Anniston College, Anniston, Ala.

It is interesting to note thelarge number of Cornell men, residents of Ithaca, who are now actively engaged in the

'04, LL B.—Robert Dempster, whose debut onthe stage was noted some time

administration of the city and county affairs. Many of the most important

ago in the ALUMNI NE WS, has left the public offices are held bythem.

Wardε and Kidder company and is now Charles H.Blood, Ph.B ,'88, LL. B.,

with the Belasco stock company of Los '90, is county judge of Tompkins county,

Angeles, Cal. The LosAngeles Herald havinpf been elected last fall to succeed

says: "Dempster will make his debut Bradford A. Almy, now mayor of the

in this city as Hyde Ogden in O n the city of Ithaca. Monroe M. Sweetland,

Quiet.' While he is an actor of but a LL. M., '90, formerly acting recorder,

year's experience, hehas acquired a re- was elected permanent recorder at the

markable name in his profession during recent local election. Fordyce A.Cobb,

that time. After he left college he was LL. B., '93, has been appointed city at-

given a small part with Wagenhals and torney by Mayor Almy.

Kemper in 'Salambo.' After the third S. Edwin Banks, LL.B., '95,is special

performance his ability was recognized county judge. Willard M. Kent, LL. B.,

and he was promoted to the role of '98, former city recorder, was elected

Anchises in that play. Both Mr. Ward district attorney to succeed Judge

and Miss Kidder took great interest in Blood. Dr. H. B.Besemer. Ph. B., '89,

the young man and gave him every who has attained considerable eminence

benefit of their experience. It was while as a surgeon, is serving his second term

playing in this role in LosAngeles that as a member of the Ithaca Board of

he attracted the attention of Mr. Be-Health. Henry G. Carpenter, ex-'92, is

lasco, and this prominent coast manager extended inducements which caused the young man to remain inthis city. During his stay here he has1 been living with relatives in Pasadena and has"become a favorite there socially."

treasurer and tax collector of the city of Ithaca, and Professor H. H. Wing, B. Agr., '81, M. S. in Agr., '91, is a member of the Board of Aldermen, succeeding F. M. Rites, B. M. E., '81; M. E., '96.

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