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The award is to be made by the staff of the department of chemistry. It has just been announced that the offer of the prize was received by the Board of Trustees at the recent meeting and that the board expressed the thanks of the University to the donors for their generous gift. Professor Caldwell became a member of the Faculty in 1867 and organized the department of chemistry. His death occurred in 1907. PROMOTIONS of instructors to the rank of assistant professor have been made as follows: In chemistry, Gustave Ernest Frederick Lundell, A.B. ('03), Ph.D., and Charles William Bennett, B.S., A.M.; in power engineering in Sibley College, Robertson Matthews, M.E. (Ό7). In the College of Agriculture, Halsey B. Knapp, instructor, was appointed assistant professor of extension work; Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, B.S. ('85), lecturer, was appointed assistant professor of naturestudy; Byron Burnett Robb, instructor, was appointed assistant professor of rural engineering; Edward Sewall Guthrie, M.S.A. (ΊO), instructor, was made professor of dairy industry; and Alice G. McCloskey, A.B. ('08), associate, was appointed assistant professor of rural education. The following instructors have been appointed: Gerald Jensen, in English; W. S. Foster, in psychology; E. H. Kennard, T. B. Brown, and R. W. King, in physics; and H. H. Waters and R. Bown, in machine design, Sibley College. THE GOOD NEWS was printed in the Sun a week or so ago that a fine new swimming hole had been discovered in Fall Creek, a few hundred yards above Beebe Lake. The Sun said the new bathing resort was becoming more and more popular every day and that it would be a good thing for the department of physical training to build a dressing shack, station a man there every warm day through May and June and give gymnasium credit. They might have been swimming there yet if the Sun hadn't told about it. The new swimming hole happened to be just above the intake of the University's water supply. About once in four years notice has to be given that swimming is not permitted there. Of course the water is thoroughly filtered before it gets into the campus mains, but just the same the other swimminghole under the footbridge back of Sibley will continue to be patronized. IN THE WINTER and early spring there was a good deal of travel across the quadrangle by students going from the east side to chemistry lectures in Morse Hall and back again, and a path had been worn. But it was not one of the official paths. The superintendent of grounds gave the path his official recognition and set men to work to make a real cinder walk out of it. It is a path which has been needed, because of the large amount of travel between the agricultural college and the department of chemistry and because those departments are so far apart that students do not have any too much time to reach their lectures. The superintendent of grounds long ago gave up the attempt to have geometric paths in the quadrangle. Paths are made now where the absence of grass shows they are needed. THE FIRST YEAR of the new industrial service movement at Cornell was concluded by a meeting in the downtown Y. M. C. A. to which all the foreigners receiving instruction were invited, and which about a hundred of them attended. Three of them, who had known some English before the classes began, made speeches in which they expressed their appreciation of the work the students are doing. MacRae Parker '14, president of the C. U. C. A., who has fostered the movement, was encouraged by the way the men received the efforts made in their behalf. Parker has appointed the follow- ing committee to take charge of the work and extend it next year: P. G. Haviland '14, Brooklyn, chairman; C. P. Bartgis '14, Baltimore, Md.; J. F. Passmore '14, Philadelphia, Pa.; M. W. Stone 14, New Brighton; J. B. Tucker Ί4, Provo, Utah; J. W. Braffette '15, La Grange, 111.; E. H. Riley 15, Wilmington, Del; R. L. Shoemaker '15, Chevy Chase, Md. THE BOARD of editors and managers of the Cornell Civil Engineer for 1913-1914 is as follows: Editor-in-chief, A. S. Regula '14, New York; managing editor, E. J. Mershon '14, Brockport; business manager, W. M. Reck '14, Brooklyn; advertising manager, J. S. Bailey '14, Montgomery, Ala.; alumni editor, A. C. Ehrlich '14, Brooklyn; college editor, L. M. Brooks '14, Sparks, Md.; assistant business managers, A. S. Patrick '15, Utica, and T. M. Stuart '15, Baltimore, Md.; associate editors, the following sophomores: C. C. Cooman, Webster; J. E. Pennywitt, Pittsburgh; J. R. Rosenfeld, New York, and G. A. Sarstedt, Cleveland. THE LAST NATIONAL NIGHT of the year at the Cosmopolitan Club was devoted to Argentina, and the guest of honor was the Argentine ambassador, Dr. R. S. Naon. He said he felt at home at Cornell because many Argentine leaders, industrial and otherwise, had been educated here. Dr. Naon was entertained by Dr. White during the day. The program included an illustrated talk on the country, music, and native dances in costume, all by representatives of the southern republic. LECTURES were given during the week by John L. Elliott '92, associate leader of the Ethical Culture Society of New York, on "the driving power of social discontent," before the Ethics Club; by Professor M. V. O'Shea '92, of the University of Wisconsin, on education; and by President Howard S. Bliss, of the Syria Protestant College at Beirut, on the present condition of the Turkish Empire. LUNCHEON is served to more than 250 persons daily in the new cafeteria of the department of home economics. The average for the first month was 261. The luncheon problem for many students has been solved. 378 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S The Social Club War Ten Fraternities and the Junior Society Against the Clubs Some of the "social clubs" which were black-listed by the two senior societies are defying the edict of excommunication and are trying to hold their members and continue their organizations. The odds are against them, both by reason of the high standing of the senior societies and because the great majority of the undergraduates either do not care what becomes of the clubs or are openly opposed to them. Action against the clubs was taken during the week by ten fraternities, which adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, that no present or future member of this fraternity accept or hold membership in any one of the social clubs enumerated in the senior societies' agreement, or in any club that may be judged by the senior societies to be a successor to, or similar in purpose to, one of the present social clubs." The above resolution has been adopted by Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Psi Upsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. Aleph Samach, the junior honorary society, has taken a stand against the clubs by adopting the following resolution: "Resolved, That any man who is a member of any club defined as undesirable by the Senior Societies after May 15, 1913, shall be ineligible to membership in the Junior Society." It is reported that several fraternities besides those named above have taken the first step toward the adoption of similar legislation and that the only thing which prevents the announcement in their cases is that such a rule must lie on the table for a certain time before it can be made effective. Immediately after the senior societies' edict was published, talk began to be heard about a third society that was to be organized as a rival to Sphinx Head and Quill and Dagger. This new society was to be open to club members. Some club men were around the hill asking certain juniors to sign up as charter members of the proposed senior organization. The latest advices are that they have not met with much success and that a third senior society is unlikely. The nine clubs on the black-list are Majura (Nalanda), Beth ΓAmed (Mummy), Kappa Beta Phi, Gemel Kharm, Photograph by J. P. Troy BOARDMAN HALL AND THE LIBRARY Ycnan, Bench and Board, Mermaid, Krug und Tafel, and Cimex (Undine). By no means all of these clubs are making common cause against those who would abolish them. Some of them had scarcely been heard of for several years, except for a page in the Cornellian, when the decree went out against them. Krug und Tafel, for example, was formed a few years ago by the men who took part in the Deutscher Verein play, and no steps had been taken this year to continue it. It seems to have been condemned with the rest simply because it was "dead wood." The senior club Mermaid and— to a lesser degree—the junior club Bench and Board have been moribund for several years. Some upperclass members of Cimex and also of Kappa Beta Phi are opposed to the continuance of those clubs. Gemel Kharm is reported to have proposed that it be allowed to reorganize as a "literary club." Ycnan, an odd-year club, had made its elections from the sophomore class, as had Cimex and Majura, and the sophomores in those clubs were swayed this way and that by conflicting advice. It seemed to them like desertion under fire to leave the clubs at this time, and on the other hand they feared, or upperclassmen in their fraternities feared, that they τγould "queer themselves" with the senior societies if they did not resign their club membership. Not unnaturally the question caused division in some fraternities. In some of the houses the resolution against the clubs was voted down. The strongest fight by any of the clubs CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 379 apparently has been made by Majura and Beth ΓAmed, the former "hat clubs." Beth ΓAmed has been in the thick of the fight because its present active members are juniors, and one of the senior societies, Quill and Dagger, announced that it would not elect any junior who belonged to any of the clubs. The other society, Sphinx Head, did not make its prohibition extend to the junior class, or to its election this year, but only to its elections in future years. It was understood that a good many members of Beth ΓAmed would refuse to quit the club even if by refusing they forfeited a prospect of membership in a senior society. Unusual interest was taken in the senior society elections this week, for the result was expected to throw a good deal of light on the comparative strength of the societies and the "social clubs." The "bidding" of members from the class of 1914 took place on Tuesday morning. The Senior Societies Elections from the Class of 1914 The senior societies have announced the election of the following members from the class of 1914: Sphinx Head Alba Stenson Ainsworth, Gilbertsville; basketball manager; Beta Theta Pi. Thomas Isaac Slack Boak, Jamestown; captain, wrestling team. Taylor James Chamberlain, Salt Lake City; manager, musical clubs; Delta Chi. Otho Myron Clark, Rochester; captain, hockey team; Sigma Nu. Philip Joseph Coffey, jr., Long Island City; track team; sophomore president. Thomas Bouldin Crews, St. Louis; manager, track team; Beta Theta Pi. Lawrence Eddy, Canaan, Conn.; varsity crew; Zodiac. Richard Greenwood,Philadelphia; navy manager; Phi Delta Theta. Gilbert Coutant Halsted, jr., Brooklyn; captain, basketball team; track team; Phi Kappa Psi. Harold Camerden Halsted, Brooklyn; basketball and baseball teams; Phi Kappa Psi. Harold Slada Kinsley, Buffalo; track team; Theta Xi. Sturgis Samuel Lawler, Minneapolis; football manager; Psi Upsilon. Charles Hays Matson, Ogden, Utah; manager, the Masque; Delta Chi. John James Munns, Pittsburgh; captain, football team; track team; Delta Tau Delta. Austin Gillette Parker, Helena, Mont.; editor-in-chief, the Widow; Phi Delta Theta. Heber Wallace Peters, Yonkers; manager, hockey team; Phi Delta Theta. John Beaman Putnam, Fredonia; editor-in-chief, the Era; editor, the Sun; Phi Gamma Delta. Arthur Moore Shelton, Dunkirk; track team; Theta Delta Chi. Brower Cox Spransy, Washington, D. C.; varsity crew; Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Arthur Louis Stockstrom, St. Louis; business manager, the Widow; Delta Tau Delta. Lynn Byron Timmerman, Lima, Ohio; managing editor, the Sun; junior president; Theta Delta Chi George Morrison Williamson, Brooklyn; football team; Alpha Chi Rho. Quill and Dagger Alfred Edward Bannister, Duluth, Minn.; track team; Kappa Alpha. Alexander Hayes, Springfield, Ont.; business manager, the Sun; Delta Phi. Emerson Hinchliff, Rockford, 111.; editor-in-chief, the Sun; Kappa Sigma. Maurice Rey McMicken, Seattle,Wash. president, The Cornell Annuals; Sigma Chi. MacRae Parker, Washington, D. C.; president, C. U. C. A.; Telluride. Harry Ernest Schirick, Kingston; baseball team. Norman Stewart Stone, Wausau, Wis.; manager, freshman baseball; Delta Phi. Elections to Sigma Xi The society of Sigma Xi has announced the election of sixty-six members—five from the Faculty, three alumni, fortyseven graduate students, and elevenmembers of the senior class. The list follows: Faculty.—Arthur J. Eames, instructor in botany; James Nathan Frost, instructor in veterinary surgery; Kenneth Bertrand Turner, assistant professor of hydraulics; Harry Porter Welde, assistant professor of psychology; Stephen Remington Wing, instructor in Sibley. Graduate Students.—Edward Riley Allen, scholar in chemistry; Anders Knutson Angstrom, fellow in physics; Jacob A. Badertscher, instructor in histology and embryology; Elmer Eugene Barker, assistant in plant breeding; Forest Milo Blodgett, fellow in plant pathology; Edwin Garrigues Boring, assistant in psychology; Jean Broadhurst; Henry John Broderson, assistant in chemistry; Charles Owen Brown, assistant in chemistry; Oliver Elsworth Buckley, instructor in physics; Karl M. Dallenbach; Francis Murray Dawson fellow in civil engineering; John Randolph DuPriest, instructor in Sibley; Ellsworth David Elston, assistant in physical geography; Gail J. Fink, assistant in chemistry; Jerome Arthur Fried, instructor in Sibley; Kasson Stanford Gibson, assistant in physics; Charles Truman Gregory, instructor in plant pathology; Lex Ray Hesler, instructor in plant pathology; Bascom Britt Higgins, assistant in botany; Arthur Romaine Hitch, assistant in chemistry; Charles William Honess, scholar in geology* Joseph Stanley Hook, instructor in economic geology; Charles Wallace Hunt, fellow in Sibley; Thomas Barksdale Hutcheson; Ivan Claude Jagger, fellow in plant pathology; Robert Andrew Jehle, fellow in plant pathology; Nathan Clarke Johnson, fellow in Sibley; Earle Hesse Kennard, assistant in physics; Myron A. Lee, instructor in Sibley; Mary Burdick Lyon, assistant in biology; Alexander McTaggert; Thomas Henry Addison Neelin; Alice Ayr Noyes, scholar in entomology; George Adin Osner, fellow in plant pathology; Jose Paez; Ephraim Laurence Palmer, assistant in botany; Emile Louise Platt; William Howard Rankin, instructor in plant pathology; Herbert Byron Reynolds; Fred Hoffman Rhodes, assistant in chemistry; Frank Elmore Rice, instructor in agricultural chemistry; Harold Eaton Riegger, fellow in chemistry; Joseph Rosenbaum, assistant in plant breeding; Christian Alban Ruckmich, instructor in psychology; Constantine Demetry Sherbakoff, fellow in plant pathology; Ransome Evarts Somers, instructor in economic geology. Seniors.—Charles Paul Alexander, Ralph A. Brown, Albert Francis Coutant, Nathan Washington Daugherty, Peter Andrew vander Meulen, John Merrill Olin, Axel Olsson, Roger Williams Parkhurst, Granville Akers Perkins, Walter McMillan Ralph, Henry Ten Hagen. Alumni.—Henry Thomas Cory, Lewis Radcliff, Charles Everett Torrance. ETA KAPPA Nu, the honorary electrical engineering society, has announced the election of the following members of the junior class: Philip James Kent, Clinton, Mo.; Harold Slada* Kinsley, Buffalo; James Gilbert Miller, Yoncalla, Ore.; Charles Harbaugh Watt Smith, LosAngeles, Cal.; Harold Julian Thompson, Eau Claire, Wis. Arthur Frederick Cleveland Toussaint, New York; Henry Nazer Wade, Los Angeles, Cal. 380 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Exhibition of Paintings Ark.; Major, first battalion, F. E. Bur- Several Carivases by Famous Artists ton '13, Denver, Col; Captain, A Com- Shown in Goldwin Smith Hall pany, E. C. M. Stahl 13, New York City; The Cornell Art' Association opened an exhibition of paintings in Goldwin Smith Hall Monday, with a collection in which some of the best American artists are represented. The exhibition will last three weeks. Artists who exhibited at Cornell last year have again contributed—including George Bellows, whose "Men of the Docks" was exhibited last year; Paul Dougherty, winner of the Inness gold medal; Childe Hassam, Sergeant Kendall, Jonas Lie, Arthur B. Davis, Robert Henri, Henry Hubbell, and Charles Hawthorne. Among those exhibiting here for the first time are J. Alden Weir, Daniel Gar- First Lieutenant, B Company (acting captain), Ralph Gingrich '14, Denver, Col.; Captain, C Company, L. R. Longfield '13, Oxford, Md.; Major, Second Battalion, F. H. Burton 13, Denver, Col; Captain, D Company, K. G. Kaffenberger '13, Buffalo; Captain, E Company, H. M. Sherwin Ί3, Hyde Park, Vt.; Captain, F Company, Frank Short '13, Penn Yan; Major, Third Battalion, C. W. Decker '13, Washington, D. C.; Lieutenant, G Company (acting captain), A. G. Poundsford '13, Cincinnati, O.; Captain, H Company, I. J. Elkind '13, Yonkers; Captain, I Company, J. A. V. Corpus '13, San Antonio, Zambales, P. I. ber, and Gardner Symons, winners of the first, second, and third prizes respectively Interscholastic Track Meet at the Corcoran exhibition; Frederick Frieseke, winner of the Temple gold medal; Richard Miller, Henrik Lund, Charles H. Davis, Birge Harrison, Dimitri Romanoffski, Henry Reuterdahl, Emil Carlsen, and John Carlson. All these have sent one and many of them more than one picture. The Art Association is supported by dues of one dollar a year. Mercersburg Academy Again Wins the Meet by a Wide Margin In the Interscholastic track meet on Percy Field Saturday, Mercersburg Academy again captured the beautiful winners' trophy presented by the Cornell University Club of New York, and Lafayette High School, of Buffalo, succeeded in taking second place and the unique cup provided by the alumni of North China. Inspection of the Cadet Corps Moving Pictures Taken of the Final Drill of the Year Twenty-four schools had entries in the meet, and over a hundred boys took part. Except for one event, the meet was productive of nothing out of the ordinary. In Captain S. J. Bayard Schindel, U.S.A., the 220-yard dash, however, Robinson of who inspected the cadet corps last Friday, Mercersburg Academy covered the dis- said that the results obtained at Cornell tance in amateur world's record time. in military drill were remarkably good 21 1-5 seconds. He won by ten yards. considering the facilities; Lieutenant On account of a strong wind at his back, Bull, the commandant, was pleased; and in both preliminary and final heats when the officers themselves felt it to be the he made this time, it cannot be allowed most nearly perfect exhibition ever made as a record. Cornell's record for the fur- by the corps on inspection day. The long is 21 2-5, made by F. M. Sears '04. Universal Film Company took pictures The best race was the mile, when Pray of the drill. of Lafayette near the finish spurted in An officers' banquet was held in the even- ahead of Kaufman of Bethlehem Prep., ing, where many compliments were show- who had held the lead throughout the ered on the corps. Captain Schindel an- courses, winning by five yards. nounced that a new plan of grading mili- The schools scored as follows: Mer- tary schools was being considered. Hith-. cersburg Academy, 51 1-2; Lafayette erto the best ten schools in the country, High School, Buffalo, 22; Nichols School, including college and preparatory, have Buffalo, 12; Bethlehem Preparatory been allowed to put one man in the army School, Bethlehem, Pa., 113-5; Bing- with only a physical examination. It is hamton Central High School, 7 3-5; Wy- proposed to allow the best ten colleges to oming Seminary, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 6 1-2; secure the army commission, and the best Rayen School, Youngstown, O., 6; Se- ten preparatory schools to recommend wickley High School, Sewickley, Pa., 5; one man each for West Point. Schenectady High School, 5; Roselle There are 750 men in the cadet corps High School, Roselle, N. J., 5; Arlington this year. The principal officers are: High School, Arlington, Mass., 3; Au- Colonel, J. D. Corrington '13, Hot Springs burn Academic High School, 2 3-5; El- mira Free Academy, 1 3-5; Ithaca High School, 13-5; Hamburg High School, 1; Hackensack High School, 1. Other schools entered were Chamberlain Military Institute, Randolph; Dickinson High School, Jersey City, N. J.; Geneva High School; Haverford Preparatory School, Haverford, Pa. Lisbon High School, Lisbon, O.; Middletown High School; Olean High School; Pingry High School, Elizabeth, N. J., and Toledo Central High School. Among the officials were H. L. Trube '08, as referee, and T. S. Berna '12, one of the finish judges. The various trophies were won as follows: 100-yard dash, trophy given by the Cornell Club of Philadelphia, won by Mercersburg Academy; high hurdles, Cornell University Association of Chicago, by Mercersburg Academy; mile run, Cornell University Alumni Association of Milwaukee, by Lafayette High School, Buffalo; 440-yard dash, Cornell Club of Northern New Jersey, by Lafayette High School, Buffalo; two mile run, Cornell Club of North China, by Roselle (N. J.) High School; low hurdles, Cornell University Club of Western New York, by Mercersburg Academy; 220-yard dash, Cornell Club of Western Pennsylvania, by Mercersburg Academy; half mile run, Cornell University Club of New England, by Binghamton Central High School; shot put, Ithaca alumni, by Mercersburg Academy; high jump, Cornell Alumni Association of Michigan, tie between Wyoming Seminary and Mercersburg Academy; pole vault, Northeastern Ohio Cornell Association, by Nichols High School; hammer throw, Cornell Club of Rochester, by Mercersburg Academy; broad jump, Cornell Club of Washington, D. C., by Lafayette High School. POUGHKEEPSIE REGATTA Distribution of Tickets Cornellians who wish to get seats in the observation train at the Poughkeepsie Regatta should apply to G. E. Kent, graduate manager, Cornell University Athletic Association, Ithaca, N. Y. The price of seats is $2.50 each. As the athletic association receives no revenue from the regatta, applicants should send 14 cents to* cover postage and registration, and also a large self-addressed envelope. Orders for seats will be filled in the order in which they are received. THE MASQUE has retained Mrs. H. F. Dixie as coach for next year. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 381 MARIO GARCIA MENOCAL, C.E., '88, is to be inaugurated President of the Republic of Cuba next Tuesday. From American college student to ruler of an island nation sounds like an interesting career, and that is what Menocal has had. He began as an engineer; joined the Cuban revolutionary army and was a majorgeneral before he was thirty; was chief of police of Havana after the war, and inspector-general of public works, and for several years has been the manager of the 165,000-acre plantation of the Chaparra Sugar Company. The Menocals have been a family of rank in Havana for more than a century. The President-elect's uncle, Aniceto Men- ocal, was a civil engineer in the United States Navy and was the chief engineer of all the government surveys foe establishing the practicability of Atlantic-Pacific canal routes. One of his cousins became distinguished as a surgeon, another as a painter. Mario Menocal came to this country and began the study of civil engineering at Cornell when he was sixteen years old. Foreign students in American universities often find the "student life" difficult to enter, but Menocal spoke English well and made friends easily. He was a member of the D. K. E. fraternity and in his upperclass years he was elected to Bench and Board and to Mermaid. Hewas a good student and a good engineer. When he graduated he went to work for the Nicaragua Canal Company. Two years afterward he returned to Cuba and for the next five years was employed there as an engineer, part of the time by the government. Then came the revolt of 1895. No sooner did Jose Marti land at Cabonico with Maximo Gomez and begin hostilities in the eastern end of the island than Menocal joined the rebel army and offered his services. He was made a lieutenant on General Gomez's staff. As the revolution went on his promotion in rank was rapid. There are stories of deeds of personal bravery told to account for these promotions. There is no reason to doubt the truth of the stories, but the probability is that Menocal was promoted chiefly because his character and training fitted him for high command. In September, 1895, the Cuban Assembly elected him assistant secretary of war, but he preferred to stay where the fighting was. "It was during the campaign in May of 1896 that I first met Mario Menocal, then a colonel, near the Cauto River," wrote an American newspaper correspondent. "It seems good," he said, "to meet some one who has come direct from New York. It's a great old town. What plays are on at the theatres now ?" "This," remarked the correspondent, "within hearing of rifle volleys which the Spanish garrison of Jiguani were firing at the Cubans!" In 1898, when the Cuban revolution was merged in the Spanish-American war, Menocal was a major-generalin the Cuban army of liberation, commanding the provinces of Matanzas and Havana. The American army officers had an opportunity to note that he was an efficient officer. He was selected by GovernorGeneral Brooke to organize a police department for the city of Havana and the rural districts. Then he was appointed inspector-general of public works, and organized a lighthouse board for Cuba. During the last eleven years General Menocal has been the manager of the Chaparra Sugar Company. That sounds commonplace, but in this case it was not. He had to handle thousands of men, to create a town in the wilderness, to build a harbor and a railroad. His creation is called "the Chaparra Republic" because it is so thoroughly organized a community. It has five thousand or more inhabitants, seven schools, a hospital, a theatre, churches, a department store, and a hotel. The estate has its own police, and the general manager's word is supreme. 382 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S SUBSCRIPTION—$3.00 PER YEAR Published by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company. John L. Senior, President; Woodford Patterson, Secretary and Treasurer. Office 110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the first Wednesday of the college year in October and weekly publication (numbered consecutively) continues through Commencement Week. Issue No. 40, the final one of the year is published the last Wednesday in August and contains a complete index of the entire volume. Single copies ten cents each. Foreign postage 40 cents per year. Subscriptions payable in advance. Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Cornell Alumni News. Correspondence should be addressed— CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, Ithaca, N. Y. Inquiry refused to recommend the appropriation that Syracuse University asked for. But a bill was gotten through the legislature, with the appropriation for maintenance reduced to $50,000. Judging by the sums which Syracuse University seeks to obtain from the State Treasury, as compared with the actual cost of maintaining a school of forestry, and by the provision for instruction in "accessory lines," what Syracuse University really wants, and will get if it has its way at Albany, is a college of agriculture, supported by the state and competing with the state's own college of agriculture for appropriations. For the state to maintain two colleges of agriculture or two colleges of forestry is contrary to the plan of concentration already adopted by the state, and is not good policy. There are plenty of examples in other states of the poor economy of duplicating state educational plants and of the bad effects of scattering appropriations instead of concentrating them. Why begin that extravagance in New York ? WOODFORD PATTERSON Editor. EDWARD F. GRAHAM Assistant Editor. ROYAL K. BAKER Business Manager. ROBERT W. WHITE Assistant Business Manager Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press Entered as Second-Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, NEW YORK, MAY 14, 1913 THE CONSTITUTION of the state forbids the appropriation of state funds to denominational institutions. Syracuse University has sought to avoid that difficulty by having a state board of control created for its forestry college. The fact remains that Syracuse University is controlled by a certain religious denomination and is constitutionally ineligible to receive state money. If the constitution of the state is broken down in this case, then the way is open for any and all denominations to compete with the public school system of the state for appropriations at Albany. Two BILLS have been passed by the legislature and are now before Governor Sulzer making appropriations for the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. One of them is an item in the general appropriation bill, to devote $50,000 to maintenance and instruction in forestry "and accessory lines," and the other is a special bill to appropriate $250,000 for a new building at Syracuse University. How MUCH ought it to cost to maintain a school of forestry ? The best college of forestry in the country, the one at Yale, is supported by an annual appropriation of $30,000. The present forestry department at Cornell costs the state about $12,000. Syracuse University this year asked the state for $384,000 for its forestry school, including, for maintenance only, $103,260. The Governor's Committee of of a state college of forestry at Syracuse two years ago was a blunder on the part of the state. For provision had already been made for the teaching of forestry in the state's own college of agriculture at Ithaca,—provision for organizing instruction in forestry as it should be organized, namely, as a part of an efficient and already equipped college of agriculture. It is needless for the state to continue the forestry college at Syracuse. To confer a degree in forestry on several hundred or several thousand young men is not going to improve the forestry situation in this state. The demand for professional foresters is limited by the nature of things. The forestry problem in New York State is primarily a problem of farm wood lots. The state in its constitution prohibits the practice of forestry on its own wild lands. All the instruction in forestry that is needed in New York can be given, and given better, at Ithaca, where the state already has adequate equipment. The evil of the present situation lies in this, that the more the state encourages competition, the harder will it be for the people's own College of Agriculture to get the support it needs and is entitled to. The College should not be compelled to fight with rivals for its sustenance. 1908 REUNION All notices for the 1908 Five-year Reunion, which will be held in Ithaca on June 13 and 14, were mailed on April 30, and any member of the class who did not receive a notice should communicate at once with the Life Secretary. Nearly 600 notices were sent out, each with a return postal, and with a special request that the postals be sent back promptly, but so far only 143 have been returned. Of these 40 have so far stated that they would or would probably be back for reunion. The complete list of the "wills," "probably wills", and "expect tos" is as follows, those who expressed any doubt on their cards having an interrogation mark after their names: Eroy Anderson, Tabby Baldwin, Roland Baxter (?), Jay Boardman, Bert Brower, GeorgeBrown, Herbert Chase(?), Fayette Cook (?), Frank Deane, Jack Dods (?), H. H. Downes, Rob Friend (?), Henry P. Gage (?),E. A. Geis, Eddie Gibson, Beannie Gracy, Bill Harries, Vic Herriman, John V. Jacoby (?), Alvin Josephy (?), Rick Lally (?), B. J. Lemon, Freddie Mosher, Roy Paulus (?), Al Preyer (?), Archie Rockwell, Clarence Seipp (?), Seth Shoemaker, Joseph Slutzker (?), Freddie Townsend (?), Bob Turner, Herman Uihlein, Steve Vanderveer, Ray VanOrman, O. D. von Engeln, Tommy Welsh, A. U. Wetherbee, Ham White, Big Ben White, George Wortman. If your name is not in this list make haste to get it in the next one. We had about 65 back at the three-year reunion and ought to do better than that at the five-year. Make it a point to see or call up every man in your town and round them all up for the Reunion. The more the merrier. SETH W. SHOEMAKER, 827 Electric St., Scranton, Pa. PROFESSOR HEINRICH RIES will represent the University at the Geological Congress in Ottawa next August. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 383 ALUMNI CALENDAR Secretaries of alumni associations and other persons are requested to send to THE NEWS, for publication in this column, advance information of the dates of events in which alumni may be interested. Wednesday, May 14. Ann Arbor, Mich.—Baseball. Michigan vs. Cornell. Saturday, May 17. Philadelphia.—Track. Pennsylvania vs. Cornell, Saturday, May 24. Ithaca.—Spring Day. Baseball, Yale vs. Cornell. Regatta, Harvard vs. Cornell, Varsity and Freshman Eights; Stone School vs. Cascadilla School; Final of Cornell Intercollege Rowing Championship Races. FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH Kid Kugler writes that at a seance held a few nights ago in the studios of the famous Camden trance medium, Winsore French, a most startling revelation was made. The seer alleges that on Friday, the thirteenth of June, this year, the fair city of Ithaca will receive a fearsome visitation. The town, with its palatial hotels and cafέs, the University buildings and even the fraternity houses will be overrun by a strange army of beings of human form but having the appearance of men walking upsidedown. What will happen further to the town does not appear, as just at this point some one dropped a quarter into the gas meter and the medium woke up. Kugler remarks on the coincidence that the ten-year reunion of his class, 1903, occurs on the same date and suggests that every '03 man be on hand to see the Upside-down invasion. He says that if business keeps good and lobster is put on the free list he will be able to have another party soon and will give us the details. THE ASSOCIATE ALUMNI Notice of Proposed Amendment Notice is hereby given of a proposed amendment to the By-laws of the Associate Alumni of Cornell University, namely, That Section 12 of the By-laws be amended by striking out the last sentence of the section, namely, the words: "The president, secretary and treasurer must be elected from the Board of Directors/' T. C. POWER, Helena, Mont., Pres. I. P. BAKER, Vice-President G. H. R USS, Jr., Ό3, Cashier. BISMARCK BANK BISMARCK. N. D. Issues certificates of deposit, drawing 5 per cent interest per annum. Interest payable semi-annually. Depository for the State of North Dakota, County of Burleigh and City of Bismarck. Correspondence invited. Herbert G. Ogden E. E., '97 Attorney and Counsellor at Law PATENTS AND PATENT CAUSES 2 RECTOR STREET, NEW YORK SHIRT MAKER £fjc Come g>d)ool for AN ENDOWED PREPARATORY SCHOOL Illustrated Book on Request Thomas Stockham Baker,Ph.D.vPort Deposit,Md. 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Pennsylvania, 6; Cornell, 5. Cornell, 7; Niagara, 2. Tufts, 2; Cornell, 0. Cornell, 4; Holy Cross, 3. Columbia, 6; Cornell, 1. Dartmouth, 1; Cornell, 0. Lafayette, 5; Cornell 4. Cornell, 8; Colgate, 5. Cornell, 6; Penn State, 3. Columbia, 14; Cornell, 5. Princeton, 7; Cornell, 1. May 14, Michigan at Ann Arbor. May 17, Princeton at Ithaca. May 21, Michigan at Ithaca. May 24, Yale at Ithaca. May 28, Cornell Freshmen at Ithaca. May 31, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. June 12, Williams at Williamstown. June 13, Vermont at Burlington. June 14, Yale at New Haven. June 16, Dartmouth at Hanover. June 17, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. Many Hits Obtained by Opponents on the Eastern Trip Hopes were aroused by the baseball team's victory over Pennsylvania State College that the team was going to make a better showing, but the hopes have been deferred again, for the nine was badly defeated by both Columbia and Princeton on. a week-end trip. In those two games the Cornell pitching staff seemed to be the principal point of weakness, for the batting by the opposing teams was heavy. In neither game did Cornell have the worse of the fielding. The change which Dr. Sharpe made in the infield just before the Penn State game appears to be permanent. The change was announced in the NEWS of last week. H. H. Knight, a junior, was put at shortstop in place of Taber, and Donovan's place at second base was taken by H. J. Adair, a sophomore. The story of Knight's selection is interesting. He had been playing all the season as the captain of the Agricultural College team, in the intercollege series. His playing was so good that members of the team called Dr. Sharpe's attention to him, and the coach asked him to join the varsity squad. As he is an undergraduate assistant in the department of entomology he did not feel that he could spare the time, but he was finally prevailed upon to come out. Adair was the captain of the freshman team last year. Penn State, 3; Cornell, 6 In the Penn State game on Percy Field the Cornell team showed a flash of real batting ability, thanks mostly to Knight, the new member of the team. Knight's batting was perfect. In three times at the plate he made a triple which brought in a run, a single which brought in two runs, and drew a base on balls. In the field he accepted seven chances without an error. Adair, the other new player, got a hit when one was needed and fielded accepta- bly. Acheson worked well as the pitcher, especially in fielding, for seven chances came his way and he-accepted them all without error. The visitors started the scoring in the second inning, McKibben reaching home on a wild pitch after getting a pass to first. Hittner and Voght were both caught at the plate in that inning. In the third inn- ing, for Cornell, Knight started a proces- sion around the bases that resulted in three runs. His pass to first was followed by hits by Acheson and Grossman. Errors in the field helped. In the fourth Knight scored Trainer with a three-bagger, and in the sixth he brought Clute and Adair home with a single. Penn State bunched three hits in the eighth and got two more runs. The score: CORNELL Halsted, rf Grossman, c f Keller, 3 b Clute, Ib Butler, c Trainer, If Adair, 2 b Knight, s s Acheson, p AB R H PO A E 4 10 100 401300 400130 4 1 1 10 1 0 30 1320 3 10100 311221 212340 311340 Totals PENN STATE Miller, cf Crawford, r f . . Henderson, If. Mason, Ib.... Hittner, 2 b Keeler, 3 b McKibben, s s Voght, c Liebert, p 30 6 7 2 7 1 6 1 AB R H PO A E . . .4 0 0 2 0 0 ... 4 0 1 0 0 1 ... 4 1 1 1 1 0 ... 4 0 0 12 0 1 403130 311110 210110 400610 402041 Totals 33 3 8 24 11 3 Penn State Cornell 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 20—3 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0x—6 Two base hit—Grossman. Three base hit— Knight. Sacrifice hits—Butler, Keeler. Stolen bases—Halsted, Trainer, Adair, Knight, Keeler. First base on balls—Off Liebert, 2; off Acheson, 4. Struck out—By Liebert, 4; by Acheson, 2. Wild pitch—Acheson. Hit by pitchedball—McKibben. Umpire—Donohue of Elmira. Columbia, 14; Cornell, 5 Sixteen hits off Acheson and Edlund by Columbia were more of a handicap than the Cornell team could overcome in the game at New York last Friday. Grossman got two hits and Clute three, and the rest of Cornell's nine were contributed by Trainer, Adair, Edlund and Schirick. Home runs were scored by Kiendl and Watt. Trainer and Edlund each got a triple. O'Neale pitched a steady game for Columbia, and it was not till the last innings that Cornell solved him to any extent. In fielding, the teams were about even, each being charged with three errors. The score by innings: Cornell 100002011—5 Columbia 0 0 3 5 3 0 0 3 x—14 Princeton, 7; Cornell, 1 Poor hitting again was the principal cause of Cornell's defeat by Princeton at Princeton on Saturday. Battery errors contributed to the result. O'Connor pitched good ball for the most part, but was wild at times. Cornell's one run came in the second, when Clute doubled and Butler followed with a three-base drive. In all the rest of the game, however, Cornell got only two hits. The score: CORNELL AB R H PO A E Halsted, rf 200000 Taber, rf 200000 Grossman, cf 40 1000 Keller, 3b 4 00 111 Clute, Ib 1 1 1 11 0 1 Butler, c 40 19 11 Trainer, If 40 10 10 Adair, 2 b 400130 Knight, s s 200100 O'Connor, p 300 130 Totals PRINCETON Laird, If Worthington, s s Pendleton, cf Reed, 3 b Rhoads, I b Yeiser, rf Gill, 2 b Wall, c Copeland, p 33 1 4 24 9 3 AB R H PO A E 53 1000 211400 3 11401 300212 302801 200000 411520 302410 4 10020 Totals 29 7 8 27 12 4 Score by innings: Cornell 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 00—1 Princeton 1 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 x—7 Three base hit—Worthington,Butler. Two base hit—Clute. Sacrifice hits—Worthington, Yeiser, Stolen bases—Laird 2, Worthington, Pendleton, Rhoads, Gill, Knight. Struck out—By Copeland 4; by O'Connor 7. First base on balls—Off Cope- land 1, off O'Connor 4. Left on bases—Princeton 7, Cornell 7. First base on errors—Princeton 2, Cornell 3. Double plays—Gill and Worthington, O'Connor and Clute, Clute (unassisted). Wild pitches—O'Connor 2, Copeland 1. Passed balls— Butler 2, Wall 1. Balk—O'Connor. Hit by pitcher —Yeiser, by O'Connor. Umpires—Sternberg and Freeman. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 385 Track Further Indications of a Very Closely Contested Intercollegiate Meet The competition which the track team encountered in its dual meet with Har- vard at Cambridge last Saturday was of a sterner kind than Michigan had given them a week earlier. It wasexpected that the meet would be close, and the result was not discouraging to Cornell, although Harvard won by a score of 63 to 54. Har- vard won first place in seven events and Cornell in six. Cornell had the better of it in the runs and dashes, while Harvard excelled in hurdle races and field events. It was not a very good day for a track meet, the weather being cold and a high wind blowing into the stadium preventing anything like a record breaking perform- ance on the track. Captain J. P. Jones ran in the two mile and one mile races, and not in the half RELLER WINNING THE HUNDRED YARD DASH IN THE MICHIGAN M32T, WITH mile. The reason for this was that the Photograph by J. P. Troy INGERSOLL SECOND mile and half mile races were close together on the program. In Jones's case, as in the an exciting race. Cozzens got the pole at set in the Michigan meet. The fact that others, there was no possibility of making the start, but lost out at the bend to Bar- he came out for practice late this spring any new records. Jones won the mile ron. But the Harvard man in turn weak- and could make so much improvement in without much apparent difficulty, shak- ened in the final stretch, and was passed a single week indicates that he may do ing off McClure and Warren of Harvard and beaten by the Cornell man, who broke better yet by the time the intercollegiate in the last lap and finishing with a lead of the tape three yards in the lead. Rock of meet is held. twenty yards. His time was considerably Harvard was five yards back of Barron. Twenty of Harvard's points were scored slower than in the Michigan meet. Spieden, the sophomore whom Coach Moakley has been training for the two mile event, won that race, Captain Jones coming in second. Spieden's time was slow, 19 minutes 54 seconds, but the race was an interesting event. Boyd and Copeland, the Crimson runners who figured in the winning of the cross-country championship at Ithaca last fall, were in the race for Harvard. The four men jogged along pretty well together until the last lap, when the Cornellians drew away in the lead. Coming into the last stretch Spieden broke away from his captain and sprinted into a lead of six yards at the tape. Jones was eighty yards ahead of Boyd, who was five yards in front of Copeland. On the back stretch the runners had to face a strong head wind. Reller, the sophomore sprinter, won both the dashes for Cornell and equaled his time of 10 seconds in the hundred made in the Michigan meet. Ingersoll, The best Cornell could get in the 880yard run was third place. Koch of Harvard was first, with his team-mate Huling second, and Snyder of Cornell third. It was a close race between the two Harvard men, who finished about ten yards ahead of Snyder. Chapman, of Cornell, who had taken second place to Jones in this event at the Michigan meet, was a poor fourth. Cornell did not make much of a showing in the hurdle races, a single point being won by Philippi. Both the hurdle races were won by Jackson of Harvard. In the pole vault the Cornell men did not do as well as they had done in the Michigan meet, and Camp of Harvard won the event with a vault of only 11 feet 6 inches. Harvard took all the points in the running broad jump and made almost as good a showing in the high jump, when Hanrahan of Cornell tied for second place at 5 feet 8 inches. In the weights Cornell's showing was somewhat more encouraging, for Kanzler by two men, Cable in the hammer throw and broad jump, and Jackson in the two hurdle races. W. H. Bennett '13, the runner who has tied the Cornell record for the 440-yard dash, did not take part in the Harvard meet. He has been bothered by a weak tendon, and will probably not be seen in competition before the intercollegiates. Next Saturday the team goes to Philadelphia for its dual meet with Pennsylvania, and a better idea of its possibilities can be had at that time than it has been possible to obtain yet. Although Pennsylvania was beaten by Dartmouth in their dual meet at Hanover last Saturday, the odds were all against Pennsylvania. They took comparatively few men to Hanover, and the weather conditions prevented them from doing their best. A comparison of the performances in these two meets and the Yale-Princeton meet on the same day shows a remarkable evenness of strength among four of the teams— another Cornell sophomore, was again second to Reller in the hundred, and second place in the 220 was won for Cornell by Cozzens. won the shot put with a mark of 44 feet, and McCutcheon and Coffey took the other places in that event, while in the hammer throw, although Cable of Harvard Harvard, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, and Cornell. It looks as if the intercollegiate meet this year would be a very interesting competition. Cozzens came to the front also in the was the winner, Bannister and McCutch- Following is the summary of the Har- 440-yard dash, whichhe won in 51 seconds. eon were second and third. Bannister vard-Cornell meet: Barren of Harvard was second. This was added over four feet to the mark he had 100 Yard Dash—Won by O. A. Reller, Cornell; 386 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S H. H. Ingersoll, Cornell, second; W. B. Adams, Harvard, third. Time, 10 seconds. 220 Yard Dash—Won by O. A. Keller, Cornell; A. B. Cozzens, Cornell, second; R. Tower, Harvard third. Time, 21 4-5 seconds. 440 Yard Run—Won by A. B. Cozzens, Cornell; W. A. Barron, Harvard, second; J. C. Rock, Harvard, third. Time, 51 seconds. 880 Yard Run—Won by T. W. Coch, Harvard; R. G. Huling, Harvard, second; H. H. Snyder, Cornell, third. Time, 2 minutes 3 2-5 seconds. One Mile Run—Won by J. P. Jones, Cornell; H. G. McLure, Harvard, second; H. M. Warren, Harvard, third. Time, 4 minutes 32 seconds. Two Mile Run—Won by C. L. Spieden, Cornell; J. P. Jones, Cornell, second; R. St. B. Boyd, Harvard, third. Time, 9 minutes 54 seconds. 120 Yard Hurdles—Won by A. L. Jackson, Harvard; T. O. Freeman, Harvard, second; J. B. Cummings, Harvard, third. Time, 19 1-5 seconds. 220 Yard Hurdles—Won by A. L. Jackson, Harvard; J. B. Cummings, Harvard, second; C. A. Philippi, Cornell, third. Time, 24 2-5 seconds. Throwing Sixteen Pound Hammer—Won by T. Cable, Harvard, 147 feet 5 1-2 inches; A. E. Bannister, Cornell, second, 142 feet 3 1-2 inches; K. C. McCutcheon, Cornell, third, 140 feet 2 1-2 inches. Putting 16 Pound Shot—Won by H. G. Kanzler, Cornell, 44 feet; K. C. McCutcheon, Cornell, second, 42 feet 6 inches; P. J. Coffey, Cornell, third, 41 feet 5 1-2 inches. Running High Jump—Won by A. W. Moίfat, Harvard, 5 feet 10 inches; J. B. Camp, Harvard, and E. M. Hanrahan, Cornell, tied for second, 5 feet 8 inches. Running Broad Jump—Won by T. Cable, Harvard, 21 feet 2 1-2 inches; J. A. Garvey, Harvard, second, 21 feet 1 7-8 inches; D. A. Park, Harvard, third, 21 feet 1 1-4 inches. Pole Vault—Won by J. B. Camp, Harvard, 11 feet 6 inches; M. L. Greeley, Harvard, and H. C. Halsted, A. L. Milton and H. H. Van Kennen,Cornell, tied for second, 11 feet. Rifle shooting.—The rifle team of the University of West Virginia won the intercollegiate championship of the United States last week by defeating Harvard. The score was 988 to 975—a new intercollegiate record. The two contestants in this match were champions among the colleges of the West and the East respectively. Cornell finished sixth in the eastern division. Tennis.—The team scored a solid victory over Columbia Saturday on the home courts. The visitors failed to win a match. The best contested series was played in the doubles between Benton and Peters for Cornell, and Coffin and Adler for Columbia, when the scores were 3-6, 11-9, 6-3. The Cornell players were Captain Cummins, Peters, Bowers, and Benton. Basketball.—Yale has been readmitted to the intercollegiate league. ALUMNI DAYS are Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14. Rowing University of Washington May Row at Poughkeepsie The University of Washington will in all probability represent western rowing at Poughkeepsie this June in place of Stanford. A request for an invitation to participate has been sent by the Washington management to the Board of Stewards, and it is likely to be granted, in case the eligibility rules are found to correspond to those in the East. The Washington eight a few weeks ago beat crews from Stanford and the University of California, thus winning the championship of the Pacific coast. The canal work on the Inlet is proving more troublesome to the crews than was expected, although the contractors are trying to make no more trouble than is unavoidable. Rough water, too, has interfered with practice in the last week. The first varsity eight is still composed of the same men as when water practice began. The Harvard crews will arrive in Ithaca about Thursday of next week and will probably stay at Glenwood. Lacrosse Defeat by Harvard Prevents a Cornell Championship The lacrosse team was defeated by Harvard on Percy Field on Monday of this week by a score of 5 to 1. Harvard was much the more aggressive and had a very skillful goal tender. This victory practically gives Harvard the championship. Brooke, Perm's New Coach Famous Fullback of the Nineties Who Will Command at Franklin Field The Old Penn Weekly Reviewhas the following to say about George H. Brooke,who has been chosen to act as head coach of the University of Pennsylvania football team: ' 'Brooke is not a stranger in the coaching staff at Penn, and he has taught most of the Red and Blue kickers in the last ten years. He is responsible for the great punter of 1908, Danny Hutchinson; Mercer, Thayer, Marshall and Minds are products of his coaching. "The selection of Brooke will give football a great boom at Pennsylvania. He is very popular among the undergraduates. It is probable that his selection will have the effect of bringing out a record crowd for football next fall, as he is looked upon with great confidence by the students." ALUMNI NOTES '85, B.S.—Reviewing Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock's ''Handbook of Nature Study" for Science, Professor Vernon L. Kellogg of Stanford University says: "Wherever else the nature-study enthusiasm may have subsided, it has not at Cornell nor in New York. The principal reason for this steadfastness is the presence and work at Cornell of Mrs. Cornstock. She has had loyal support from Professor Bailey, and effective helpers in a half-dozen assistants and associates, but she it is who has been, and is, the burning center of the Cornell nature-study illumination. To make the rays reach farther Mrs. Comstock has for twenty years issued the well-known informing leaflets of the Home Nature-Study Course, which have gone to thousands of teachers and homes in New York* To make the Cornell light shine farther still Mrs. Comstock now issues this monumental handbook." '90, B.S. in Arch.—F. L. Robinson has moved his offices from 164 Fifth Avenue to 331 Madison Avenue, New York. '95, M.E.—Among the appointments announced in the new school of technology of Johns Hopkins University is that of Carl C. Thomas, professor of steam engineering in the University of Wisconsin, to be professor of mechanical engineering. '99, B.Arch.—Frank Eurich is practicing architecture at 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. '02, B.Arch.—Herman Dercum and George W. Beer (Dercum & Beer) have moved their office to 4500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. '04, A.B.—Archie R. Taintor is traveling for the Taintor Manufacturing Company, of New York, makers of steel tools. His address is 584 Jefferson Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J. '04, M.E.—Clarence S. Adams is now in the engineering office of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company's reduction works at Douglas, Arizona. Ό5, M.E.; '08, M.M.E.—George D. Conlee, for four years superintendent of the Binghamton Gas Works of Binghamton, N. Y., on May 1st assumed the duties of superintendent of the Chuctanunda Gas Light Company of Amsterdam, N. Y. His address in Amsterdam is 33 Market Street. '05—The address of F. Ashby Wallace was given incorectly in the NEWS of April 30. Since March 1st he has been with CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 387 the Tatnall-Brown Company, Wilmington, Del, marine engineers, in the capacity of secretary and treasurer. '10, B.Arch.—Frank F. Hanbidge is studying surgery in Philadelphia. He lives at!4 21 Arch Street. Ό6, C.E.—R. H. Knowlton has changed '11, M.E.—Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Mess- his address from Chicago to Hammond, ner, of Rochester, N. Y., announce the Ind. He is with the Northern Indiana engagement of their daughter, Lillian, to Gas & Electric Company. Ralph Edgar Chapman, of Brooklyn, N.Y. '07, LL.B.—William N. Hallock is head Ίl, M.E.—S. H. Sutton is traveling of the credit department of the Waldorf- through Canada for the Goulds Manufac- Astoria Hotel, New York City, and con- turing Company of Seneca Falls, N. Y., fidential secretary to Mr. George C. Boldt. Ό9, M.E.—Grandon D. Gates has severed his connection with the Goulds Manufacturing Company of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and after June 1st will be with the A. Y. McDonald ManufacturingCompany of Dubuque, Iowa, as chief engineer. visiting the branches of the compnay. Ίl, M.E.—J. E. Smith is mechanical and electrical engineer for the Compania de Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. '11, B.Arch.—Norton H. Kirkpatrick is studying medicine at Union. His address '09, C.E.—George C. Pierce has gone to Florida to be secretary to a commission which is making an investigation and will report on a project for draining the Ever- is Sigma Phi Place, Schenectady. '11, B.Arch.—Elmer W. Martin is working for Jenney, Mundie & Jensey, 1401 New York Life Building, Chicago. glades. His address is in care of J. G. '12, B.Arch.—Floyd E. Brewster's ad- White & Co., 43 Exchange Place, New dress is in care of Keith & Whitehouse, York. Hutton Building, Spokane, Wash. '09, LL.B.—William B. White, formerly with Edward Cornell '89, of Davies, Auerbach & Cornell, New York City, has moved to Birmingham, Ala., and will continue the practice of law with the firm of '12, B.Chem.—J. D. Schwartzman is employed by the New York State Highway Department in the testing of asphalts, cements and street paving. He lives at 299 Clinton Street, Brooklyn. Tillman, Bradley & Morrow, 1400-1422 '12, B.S.—A farm bureau has been es- Empire Building. tablished in Allegany County, N. Y., and '09, M.E.—Creed W. Fulton is now the directors have made a contract with works engineer in charge of maintenance, equipment and improvements for the Goulds Manufacturing Company, Seneca G. M. Butler, of New Haven, Oswego County, to become the agent of the bureau. His headquarters will be in Wells- Falls, N. Y. Fulton was recently married to Miss Cora Becker of Seneca Falls and is now living at 67 Cayuga Street. ville. Butler has been teaching agriculture at the Little Valley High School during the last year. Brooks Clarke, ΌO W. A. Shackleton There are a few Deep Dyed in the Wool Cornell men who have not taken advantage of our offer. Anticipating a REDUCTION IN THE TARIFF on woolens we have decided to make all of our $55.00 and $45.00 suitings at the uniform price of $35.00 the suit or three for $100.00. (Nothing Reserved.) Show your loyalty by coming in and paying your respects. 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