CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Vol. IX. No. 38

Ithaca, N. Y., July 3, 1907

Price 10 Cent*

714 DEGREES CONFERRED.
Exercises of Commencement WeekPresident Schurman's Address to the Members of the Class of 1907.
The exeicises of the Thirty-nnth Comrrencerr ent were held in the Armory on Thursday morning, June 23. One of the largest classes in Correll s history was graduated. The exercis:s of Commencement week began on Sunday afternoon, June 1 6, when t e bacca aureate sermon was preached to the n e bers of the graduating c ass in Sage Chapel. The preacher was the Right Rev. Will am Lawrence, Bish p of Massachu:etts. To the music of the chirres, the seniors, who had formed in procession in front of Sage College, wearing caps and gowns, marched r t o the chapel. As the Lng line entered the south door, it was reviewed by Pre:idant Schurman, for er President Andrew D. "Vt hi e and t e deans. The sεπr.on was based upc n the life of Moses.
On Monday evening Th* Mrque presenfed in the Lyceum theater George Berrard SFa *s "You x ev r Can Tell.'* The annual Ssnio Bail took p'acε in t!~e Armcry on Tuesday evening and on Ween sday e enn , at the Lycej , was heH tie concei of the r usical c'ubs. The audienc^ at this concert filled the thea er Before the curtain went do *n yells were pi.ei for the 1907 merrbers of the clubs.
Cn Tuesday rornin^ 19'7's CΓss Day exercises were he'd, beg nn'ng i \ the Armory. The programme there was as follows: Pra er by t e Rev. Dr. Chares MeΓen T !er; class o a tion. Isaac Lande, Elrriri; class poem, written bv Mrs Clara Josyn Ca^wn, Denver, Co o., and read by M ss Anna E^sa Kirchner, Phi a Vphia class e*say. Miss Mabel Ford Yeorrans, Oxford, N. Y.; memorial oation Aϊ^ed PeVis Ho *es, jr , Uti a; president's address, William W'nthrop Taylor, Brooklyn. The cla s then forced in line and τaτhei! to the grove in the quadran^e, where they listened to tSe class history, by George

William Roesch, of Brooklyn, and the class prophecy, by AdDlph Cornelias Kiendl, of Brooklyn. The memorial pipe was presented by Edmund Henry Eitel, of Ind anapolis, to Leroy Rosengren Gocdrich. of Buίfao, who received it on b:half of the c a s of 1908. The exercises were concluded with the planting of the class ivy at he south end of Gold vin Smith hall, ihe ivy oration being delivered by Harold Joseph Roi ?, of Poughkeepsie. The weather on Class Day, as, ind ed, during all the other exercises of the week, was very pleasant.
At the Commencement exercises on Thursday morning degrees were conferred upon 642 persons, the number of first decrees granted being 598 aid of advanced degrees 44 Including the 72 graduates of the Medical College in New York city, the total number of the Univerity's graduating class this year was 714. About an hour before the exercises in the Armcry were to begin, the academic procession be^an to form h and about the quadrangle. Cap'ah Frank A. Bartcn was chief marshal. The Trm'ees and the members of the Faculty, many of t^em in bϋliant go n3, met in Gold in Srith hall. Most of th? pradua'iner class met in front of that buΓdin-*, the lawyers however, a^εemb!in<? in f ont of Bcardrran hall, t1 e civil e^g'neers in front of Lincoln and the rrechanical engineers in front of Sib]e->. The candidates for degrees, assembled in groups by colleges, forced t^e first division of the processicn. The secend divis'en formed in the foΓowing order: Instructors, assistant professors, professors, d ans and directors, emer'tus professors, the Board of Trustees, Λe chap'ain. the chairrran of the Board of Trustees, former President Andrew D. White and Pre ident Schurman. The route of rrarch was a*ong the new walk past Sa?e College. When the head of the procession reached the north door of the Arrrory the first drisnn op ned r?nks and allowed the second division to pass through into the Armory. As

soon as President Schurman had passed each group it closed ranks, and when the President passed in'o the Armory the first division entered in the order in which it marched.
After a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Tyler, the graduates filed b:fore President Schurrran and recei ed their diplomas. These diplomas were dummies and were to be exchanged af'.erward at the office of the R gistrar for the real "sheepskins." Before many of the class had returned to their seats it was discovered that these dummy rolls, when brought into sharp contact with the back of a bench e^i t:d a curious sound somewhat like the croaking of a large frog. This solemn chorus was heard at intervals throughout the exercises. Af'er the long procession of graduates had pas ed him, President Schurman delivered an address to the members of the class. He said in part:
I do not wonder that you linger lovingly and yearningly over these delightful scenes. The place is full of recollec ions of your own growing life, and of walks and talks with your friends. Nature, too, touches us with a feeding for herself. And the site and surroundings of the University in which you have spent these happy years possess a charm and beauty of which you will scarce find the li!:e anywhere else in the world. To have wandered over these hίΓs and clambered through the gorges, to have listened to the music of their streams and heard the roar of their waterfalls, to have seen the glorious colors with which sunset suffuses the western skies or the garments of loveliness with which the rich flora of spring and autumn invest all our landscape—to have known and felt all this beauty is to be in love with it forever. And no graduate can leave it without regret. As long as he lives he will be haunted by this lovely image of Alma Mater:
"The visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind, With a'l its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake."
For four years you have enjoyed this —*— ture of exquisite charm and beauty. For four years you have been a member of this academic brotherhood and rejoiced in the full measure of its fellowship and its friendships. Those things, as I have said, are a very important part of the life of the student. But they are not h'S primary object. The business which brought him to the University

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was study. And to those who have any taste for the intellectual life scarcely anything in the world can be more delightful.
As men get beyond youth and middle age nothing makes such an abiding impression upon them as the brevity of life. To the <eyes of youth, on the other hand, the future stretches out as an endless vista. «Still the mortality tables teach us that a oerson of twenty-one or twenty-two years of age has on the average only thirty-five years to live. Or, in more general terms, each of us, at any given age, has on the average an expectation of life which is measured by half the interval that separates our age from ninety The man of thirty may, on the average, count on living thirty years longer, the man of forty on twenty-five vears longer, the man or fifty on twenty years longer. This is a fixed certainty amid all the uncertainties of mortal existence. It follows, therefore, that though some o you will live longer than thirty-five years and some, alas, not so iong, on the average you can count on thirtyfive years, and only thirty-five, for the achievements of your earthly career. If you are to succeed you must pack vour success into thirty-five years. Does that seem a very long period of time? Believe me, when "rou come to look back upon it you will find it exceedingly brief. Some four hundred revolving moons, and your only chance of life this side of eternity is over!
Yet life should be measured by intensity as well as by duration. Some men have more life in a day than others in a vear. And the first lesson I would impress upon you at this hour, so full of tender recollection and of hopeful outlook, is the duty to work while it is called today. Industry and diligence may not be the highest virtues; but with only thirty-five years to live and a livelihood to earn and great things to achieve the practice of industry and diligence is fundamental and essential. Therefore whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.
Freedom means the possibility of failure and of sin. A fearful alternative confronts every graduate. And the choice of a vocation is the first of the great practical questions which each of you must decide for himself. Longfellow, the man of letters, and Agassiz, the man of science, were undergraduates when they chose their careers.
Listen to the words of Agassiz: "Here is my aim and the means by which I propose to carry it out. I wish it may be said of Louis Agassiz that he was the first naturalist of his time, a good citizen and a good son, beloved of those who knew him. I feel within myself the strength of the whole generation to work toward this end, and I will reach it if the means are not wanting.**
And Longfellow wrote from Bowdoin College to his father these words: "I most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature. Nature has given me a very strong predilection for literary pursuits." Longfellow became the greatest of American poets and Agassiz nearly, if not quite, "the first naturalist of his time.**
I thought the members of this class of 1907 would be stimulated and encouraged by the example of those iΊustrious boys who were born in 1807 and whose birth we and many others have celebrated with so much pride and gratitude in this the year of your own graduation.

Perhaps you feel disheartened by the thought that there is no future Agassiz or Longfellow in this audience. Who knows? r rom a pretty long experience I have come to entertain a deep conviction that we cannot think too highly of the possibilities of youth. I bow, therefore, with expectant admira ion to these young faces before me. God grant there may be here a great prophet, poet, or scientist of the future! Our country is waiting; for him to appear. It needs him and calls aloud for him. We are weary of the sordidness of wealth, and we know from the investigations of our legislatures and the dec'sions of our courts that mil ionaires and billionaires are poor substitutes for an Isaiah or a Socrates, a Shakespeare or a Goethe, a Newton or a Darwin. "You should breed poets here," said an eminent Japanese statesman as he walked with me through our beautiful and romantic ravines. And why, out of hundreds of graduates, should we not expect, in this centennial year of the birth of Longfellow and Agassiz, a poet or a scientist whose name will live with theirs?
What encouragement, it may be asked, have "ou for the rank and file of graduates, who will never win historic names, but who will occcupy positions, more or less ordinary, in business, in engineering, in law, or in other professions. Let no graduate of Cornell University ever despair, for Ezra Cornell trod a much harder path than any of us.
But I cannot conclude without reminding you that our Founder was also a publicspirited citizen of the Republic. And I cannot bid you farewell without urging you to follow his example. Today we are all conscious of a great political awakening and a large hope for the future of our Republic. And the platform of the new movement is the new, or rather the wor'd-old, principle of justice and fair play. It insists that all men shall be equal before the law. It claims equality of opportunity. It is at war with vested rights and favored classes. It protests against government as a partnership of the strong for the exploitation of the weak. It recognizes that evils, political as we 1 as individual, have their root and abiding sources in human nature. But it holds that the political ills from which We suffer may be remedied by laws impartially just and administration absolutely honest. It reveres the majesty of the law and pays homage to our courts of justice and the incorruptibility of their judges. But it is deeply persuaded that in the executive and legislative branches of our government, power and wealth have had undue influence, often unconscious and unintentional rather than deliberate, but an influence nevertheless which works substantial hardships to large classes of our peop'e. And it welcomes everv measure of redress, which, like recent legislation, tends to pro'ect the people against monopolistic corporations which have it in their power to practice oppression. Justice is' the fundamental characteristic of the state. The realization of justice may be said to be the end of all legislation and all administration. And justice is the platform of the new political movement I have described—justice in all things, to all parties, and in all circumstances. The time is coming when not only trusts but aτso the tariff and all other objects of legislation will be reexamined in the light of justice and fair-play to all classes of citizens.
The new politics demands new leaders.

Bosses are out of date. The need of today is not of mechanicians to run a machine, but of statesmen to voice the aspirations of a free and enlightened people and administrators to execute them with absolute hones y and devotion to public duty as soon as they have been enacted into law. It is an old saying that occasion breeds tπe men. ihis truth I find i lustrated before our own eyes. If the nublic service of our day calls for men of clarity of vision, of sanity of judgment, of integrity of purpose, men of ^*s type are not lacking. If you want names I know none more commanding than that of our former Cornell professor who is now attracting the eyes of the nation by his splendid administration as Governor of our Sta e. In all the years in which I have watched public affairs I have never known a time or a country in which the demands of the age and the expectations of the public challenged so potently all that is best and highest in the minds of young men who would serve the public.
Here let me utter one word of warning. While we keep our hearts responsive to the high moral ideals and sound political principles which are reinvigorating the political life of our time, let us also keep our heads cool and our minds hospitable to the lessons of history and experience. Especially let us not in our devotion to just reforms run into any excesses which will endanger those ideals of liberty and individual rights which have been the glory of the American people and the inspiration of American history.
I repeat what Herbert Spencer said some twenty years ago and what Aristotle said more than two thousand years ago, that if of the conception of justice one component part is equality another component part is inequality also. Because individualities differ men will differ in abilities, and not only in abilities, but also in desires and the means of gratifying them. And the development of individuality, subject to the equal rights of all other individualities, rather than the equality of material possessions, seems to me to be the object of human existence and, so far as evolutionary biology throws light upon the subject, the object of all existence what-
The Cornell Era for June contains two interesting articles on rowing in the early days of the University. In one John Ostrom, '77, describes the savage method of training then practiced, and in the other Director Albert λV. Smith, '78, relates random memories of rowing in '75 and '76.
At its recent commenceirent the University of Wisconsin conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Director Liberty H. Bailey, of the College of Agriculture.
In the Harvard-Yale races at New London last week, the Yale 'varsity eight won by a fracticn of a 1 ngth. Yale also won the four oar race. Harvard won the freshman event.

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ANNUAL ALUMNI MEETING.
Twenty-four Present—French and Treman Elected Alumni Trustees—New Officers—Plan for General Fund.
The Associate Alumni of the University held their thirty-sixth annual meeting in Barnes hall on Wednesday afternoon, June 19. As was to te expected, because the meeting took p ace outside the reunion period, the attendance was small, there being only twenty-four persons present. They were:
R. G. H. Speed, 71 S. P. Thomas, 72; Tohn Chamberlain, 73; I. P. Church, 73; G. W. Harris, 7 3 ; W. H. Smith, 7 3 ; J L. Stone, 74; G. S. Moler, 75; T. Stanton, 76; H. H. Wing, '81; E. T. Turner, '83; C. H. Hull, '86; V. A. Moore, '87; W. W. Rowlee, '88; G. S. Hopkins, '89; C. E. Treman, '89; S. H. Burnett, '92; F. E. B. Darling, '93; R. A. Pearson, '94; S. E. Banks, '95; W. N. Barnard, '97; C. W. D. Parsons, '97; L. L. Tatum, '97,and W. J. Taylor, Ό6.
At this meeting William Henry French, '73, of Chicago, and Charles Edward Treman, '89, of Ithaca, were formally declared elected alumni tr stees for a term of five years; rerlαtions embodying the p*ans of the Cornell Alumni General Committee were presented and, by vote, referred tD the Board of Directors; a motion to change the date of the annual rreeting was passed, and officers were e'ecte 1, the nev pre idεnt of the association being United States Senator J. B. Foraker, '69.
The meeting was cabled to order by the recording εecre'ary, Professor C. H. Hull, as the president, Leland O. Howard, '77, was in Europe and all the vice-presidents were absent. On motion Mr. Speed was elected chairman. The report of the canvassing board on the balloting for alumni trustees was read by Mr. Barn rd, there being two va?anc:es to be filed. The total number of ballets ount^d was 1,706. Mr. Freich received 1,668 votes and Mr. Treman 1,6iβ votes. On motion the report was accepted, a^d the chairman declared Messrs. French and Trexan du y elected.
A norrinafing committee, consisting of Messrs. Harris, Stanton, Tuner, Hopkins, Burnett, Darlrg and Parsons, was appointed, with instructions to report later in the meeting.
The Board of Directors, through Mr. Harris, presented resolutions upon

the death of E. W. Huίfcut, '84, and they were adopted, with a d'rection that a copy be suitably engrossed for presentation to Prcfsscr Huίfcut's family. The Boa d of Directors also recommended that there be adrp'ed a system of annual appeal to the general body of alumni for contributions to the general purposes of the Unieisity, especially for funds for an Alumni Hall and for the completion of the Alumni Field.
The report of the treasurer, Mr. Banks, was presented as follows:

Balance on hand June 20, 1906:

Life Membership

Fund

$480.00

Annual dues and

interest

7.84 $487.84

Received Life Membership dues
Received Annual
dues Accrued Interest to
Jan. 1, 1907

20.00 28.00 14.75 $550.59

Paid, stationery
Paid, printing Paid, postage

$ 2.40
37.75 1.56

41.71

$508.88
The Auditing Committee not be ng represented, leave was given it to fib its report, when made, with the stc etary. The report f om the treasur r of the Alumni Hall fund, R. H. Treman, '78, as read by the secretary, showed cash on hand amounting to $6,678.87.
The secretary, on motion, read ί e notes which he had taken of the ivformal business meeting of alumni held on Saturday, June 15.
From the Cornell Alumni General Committee, W. H. Siri h, '73, presented a report embo ?yin7 four groups of resolutions which had been adopted as recommendations in the Saturday meeting. These resolutions were as follows:
First: The Cornell Alumni General Committee recommends that the committee be enlarged and to that end presents the following resolutions:
Resolved, that the Cornell Alumni General Committee consist of one representative from each local alumni association, to be selected by sa?d association, said representatives to take office the first day of September following their select'on and to hold office for one year or until their successors are selected.
Resolved, that the officers or executive committee of each local associa'ion shall be empowered to appoint a representative to attend the meetings of the General Committee and of the Associate Alumni in case of a vacancy or in case the regularly selected dele-

gate is unable to be present. It shall be the duty of the secretary of each local association to send the name of the delegate from his association to the secretary of the Associate Alumni and to the secretary of the General Committee.
Second: The commi'tee further recommends the passage of the fol owing resolutions establishing a general alumni fund:
Whereas, it is desirable that a General Alumni Fund be established in order that more general and continued support may be given the University by the alumni.
Therefore, be it Resolved, that each class appoint a class solicitor whose duty it shall be to solicit annual contributions from the members of his class.
Resolved, that each class solicitor is hereby instructed to report the names and amounts of contributions received to the treasurer of the Associate Alumni on or before the first day of each year. He shall turn over to the treasurer of the Associate Alumni the contributions received from the class, together with an itemized statement of his receipts and expenditures, whereupon the treasurer shall reimburse him for the expense incurred in soliciting said contributions.
Resolved, that the names of the contributors to the Alumni Fund shall be pub'ished, without the amount subscribed, in the Proceedings of the Associate Alumni.
Resolvea, that it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Associate Alumni to see that each class appoints a class solicitor and to secure a report from said solicitor before the first day of October, January and March of each year.
Th'rd: The committee, in order that greater efficiency may be secured in the collection of dues and in 'he collection, handing and appropriation of the general alumni fund,, recommends the combination in one person of the office of recording secretary and treasurer, and to that end recommends the adoption of the following resolutions:
Resolved, that section 2 of the by-laws be amended by striking out the words "a corresponding secretary, (4) a recording secretary, (5) a treasurer," and inserting the words "secretary-treasurer, who sha 1 receive a reasonable salary besides d sbursements."
Resolved, that it shall be the du y of the Board of Directors to see that said secretarytreasurer is properly qualified and bonded at the expense of the Associate Alumni.
Resolved, that all univers'ty projecs supported by the alumni shall be provided for out of the General Alumni Fund.
Resolved, that the secretary-treasurer shall collect the annual dues of the Associate Alumni. The salary of the secre'ary-treasurer and the expenses of collec'ing the General Alumni Fund shall be paid out of these dues.
Fourth: Resolved, that the Board of Directors of the Associate Alumni ascertain whether or not any arrangement can be made wi h the owners of the ALUMNI NEWS whereby the annual dues of the Associate Alumni can be ccΛnb'ned with the subscription to the
ALUMNI NEWS and the NEWS be made the
official organ of the Associate Alumni.
It was moved by Mr Thomas t^at these resolutions be adopted. A discussion followed, in which a suggestion was made that the phraseology of some

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parts of them might be improved. For the purpose of such revision, Mr. W'ng moved, as a substitute for Mr.

'81C. orresponding Secretary: H . H. Wing,
Recording Secretary: C. H . Hull, '86. Treasurer: S. E. Banks, '95.

Thomas's rrotion, that they be referred Directors: G. W . Harris 7 3 ; M. Van

IRVINE MADE DEAN.
Appointed Head of the College of Law— Other Changes in Faculty.

to the Board of Directors to report next year. The substitute was carried and the resolutions were referred accordingly. Mr. Rowlee move i, and it

Cleef, 7 4 (term of three years); E. H . Woodruff, '88 (term of one year).
Auditing Commit'ee: R. H. Treman, 7 8 ; E. T . Turner, '83 C. D. Bostwick, '92.
Canvassing Board: C. L. Crandall, 7 2 ;

At its regular meeting in Ithacaon June 19 the University Board of Trustees made several promotions in the

was unanimously voted, that the pur- C. S. Northup, '93.

Faculty. Frank Irvine, '80, professor

pose of the Associate Alumni in so referring the resolutions was to express

CORNELL ALUMNI GENERAL COMMITTEE.
Alumnae E ected at Large: Miss Isabel Howland, '81, Sherwood, N. Y.; Miss Mary

cordial approval of the spirit of the Rogers Miller, '96, New York.

of practice and procedure in ύiz College of Law since 1901, wasappointed director of that college an Λ d:an

resolutions andto secure a more exact Alumni from the State of New York: Her- of its faculty to succeed the late Ernest

formulation for them. A resolution proposing that circulars

bert D. Schenck, '82, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles S. Jones, '84, Buffalo, N. Y.; William Hazlitt Smith, 7 3 , Ithaca, N. Y.; J.

W. Huffcut. Professor Irvine had been acting director aid dean since

of information about candidates for Herbert Agate, '03, Rochester, N.Y.; Frank Dean Huffcut obtained leae of ab-

alumni trustees should be sent out by the treasurer of the Univers ty with t :e

O. Affeld, '97, New York, N. Y . Alumni from Ou'side the State of New
York: Junius T . Auerbach, *90, Boston,

official ballot was presented by Mr. Mass.; Charles H. Blatchford, '95, Chicago,

sence last winter to act as lega adviser to Governor Hughes. Mr Irvine took his degree in law at the National

Pearscn at the request of J. C. Hoyt, '97, who was absent. A similar resolution was presented by Mr. Wing on behalf of W . H. Smith, 7 3 ,who had

11.; Harry C. Davis, '90, Denver, Col.; Samuel C. Root, '01,Detroit, Mich.; Hiram J. Messenger, '80, Hartford, Conn.; Charles L. Chandler, Όϊ, Los Angeles, Cal.; Robert L. Mickle, '92, Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward

University in Washington, D. C , in 1883, andafterward practiced at the bar in Nebraska, becoming judge of the fourth judicial district of that

left the meeting. On motion, both these resolutions were referred to the

L. Wilder, '02, Pittsburg, Pa.; George Tansey, *88, St. Louis, Mo.; Ernest Shepherd, '02, Washington, D. C.

J. S.

Board of Directors. Mr. Pearson

state.
Assistant Professor Hollis E. Dann, of the department of music, was ad-

moved the following resolutions, which were carried:
Resolved: It is the sense of this association that information regarding all candidates for alumni trustee should be sent to each alumnus

vanced to a full professorship. WillPending the appointment of a suc- iam N. Barnard, '97, assis antprocessor to Professor Hart as head of fessor of power engineering, wa* apthe department of Eng ish, President pointed professor of machire design. Schurman will next year exercise direct Jean Hebrard, acting profe sor of

at the time of or before ballots are mailed supervision over thedepartment. The architecture, in charge of desi n, was

from the treasurer's office. Resolved: The Directors are requested to
take action to put this in force.
On motion of Mr. Wing, the by-law providing that the Associate Alumni

details of administraticn will bs in the made professor. T . W . Hastings was

hands of a committee consisting of As- appointed professor of clrical

sistant Professors Strunk, Prescott and pathology in the i r e J r a l coll ge in

Northup.

New York city. J. M. Hart a n ! G.

shall meet annually on the day pre-

W . Jones, who have been adnitted to

c e d e Comirencement was amended

For presentation in Junior week and the benefits of the Carneg e pension

to read as follows: "This association on an out-of-town trip next year The fund, were made professors emeritusof

shall rreet at any tiire in the seven days Masque has accepted a play writt n English and mathematics respeclively.

preceding Commencement at such hour as the Board of Directors shall determine." It was voted, further, that if legislation arrendatory of the University charter be necessary to give the

by H. L. Dawson, '07, of Evanston, III, and H. J. Snyder, 08, of Auburn, N. Y. The p*ay. is enti l:d "Popocaterpϋlar" and is described as "an Aztec musical coiredy."

Retiring Professors Praised.
At a meeting on June 19, the University Faculty adopted resolu ions

Board of Directors the discretion

eulogistic of Professor George William

which this change in the bylaws seeks

A dispatch to theAssociated Pres Jones, of the department of mathe-

to confer upon them, such legislation from Berkeley, Cal.,says that on atics, and Professor Ja es Mo gan

should be had.

June 18 President Benjamin Ide Hart, head of the department of Eng-

G. E. Treman, '89, presented in Wheeler te^graphed from the East lish, who retire this year froti active

print thereport of himself andG.B. to the regents of the University of Cali- work as teachers. After reviewing

Turner, '73, the retiring alumni trus- fornia that he had dec ined the presi- Professor Jones's service of thirty

tees. dency of the Massachusetts Institute years, the Faculty's resolution says, in

The report of thenominating com- of Technology.

part:

mittee was received and tfe foΓowrg

The influence of Professor Jones has been

persons, nominated in that report far officers and standing committees for
1907-03, were duly elected:

Meetings of Cornell alumni were carried far beyond the bounds of the Uni-

held last Wednesday evening, the day of thePoughkeepsie regat'a, in Cleve-

versity both by his text-books and by the large number of successful teachers who have received at least part of their training in his

President: J. B. Foraker, '69.
Vice-Presidents: F. W . Halsey 7 3 ; C. D. Marx, 7 8 ; A . F. Matthews, '83; W . C. Fisher, '88: H . von Schrenck, f 9 3 ; G. T . Hastings, '98; R. S. Kent,'02.

land, Chicago, St. Paul and ofter class-room. Like many other sound mathe-

cities to hear reports fnra the races. Twenty-two metin St. Paul and the

maticians he has given much atten ion to the philosophy of the fundamental concepts, and to the pedagogical value of mathematical

Cleveland gathering nulnbered fifty.

studies in a scheme of liberal education. Be-

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ing a born teacher he has always adapted himself easily o the capacity of his pupils. A master of the Socratic method, he would probe to the bottom of the student's knowledge by .judicious questions, and then build on solid foundaticns. He has been wont to say that the mathematical class-room should not be merely a lecture-room, but a^o a laboratory, a place for drill in applied logic. Many of his students have said that they received their first notion of what sound reasoning means from the searching and kindly criticism of Professor Jones.
In mat ers of discipline Professor Jones has always shown a fine blending of firmness pnd kindness; and he has been helpful and friendl ' to all, both inside and outside of the class-room. It wi 1 never be known how many scores of persons have gone to him each year for advice and guidance, and have been helped by him, pecuniarily and otherwise, his ready aid to the needy extending even beyond his means. His helpfulness is of a tonic quality, and he has no countenance for the shirk or the law-breaker until they show fruits of repentance. He is regarded hrr a long line of Cornell men and women as an embodiment of the manly Christian virtues and by the people of Ithaca as a useful and public-spirited citizen.
Following is part of the resoVion adopted in respect to Professor Hart:

Professor Hart is an ab'e represen'ative of

the best type of modern American scholar-

ship. The son of a distinguished educator,

and fortunate in his many-sided training and

broad intellectual equipment, he has shown

himself no narrow specialist, but a scholar of

wide and Γberal a tainments. His thorough

and appreciative knowledge of many lan-

guages and literatures, together with his ripe

experience of the world, has enabled him to

illuminate the fie'd of English studies with

light from many sources. His work as an in-

vestiga'or has been accurate and painstaking,

and his contributions to learning have been

numerous and valuable, extendng over a long

period of time and covering a wide range of

s,»J-*"«^8 One of the earliest students of English in America to profit by the newer

and more scientific methods of continental

sc^rlarslrX h;s advice has .been frequently

sought and his example followed by his

ycun«er col eaques throughout this country.

His work upon the German universities, by

p : ^Γ n t n

O1|t

t^

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univer Φes of America. The high standards

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re*1'*-rs**:nn °f them, have won for him an

honored name, and brought credit to this

University.

As a teacher Professor Hart has held strenuously to the belief that the study of litera'ure is a mental discipline demanding of the student the full exercise of his intelectual powers. He has not neglected the aesthetic and emotional sides of literary appreciation, but has carefu ly avoided assigning to them an undue prominence. He has always manifested a keen interest in the intellectual development of his students and in their personal welfare, helping them by his counsel and influence not only during their undergradual days, but after they have entered upon their active careers.

'VARSITY WINS HOT RACE.
Beats Columbia by Three Feet—Freshman Race Won by Wisconsin and Four-Oar Event by Syracuse.
Results of the Races.
'Varsity Eights—Cornell first, 20 minutes 2 2-5 seconds; Columbia second, 20 minutes 4 seconds; Naval Academy third, 20 minutes 13 seconds; Pennsylvania fourth, 20 minutes 33 2-5 seconds; W sconsin fifth; Georgetown sixth. Syracuse did not finish.
Freshman Eights—Wisconsin first, 9 minutes 58 seconds; Syracuse second, 10 minutes 3 seconds; Pennsylvania th'rd, 10 minutes 4 seconds; Columbia fourth, 10 minutes 5 2-5 seconds; Cornell fifth, 10 minutes 7 seconds.
'Varsity Fours—Syracuse first, 10 minutes 37 1-5 seconds; Cornell second, 10 minutes 40 seconds; Pennsylvania third, 10 minutes 49 seconds; Columbia fourth, 10 minutes 59 3-5 seconds.
The Cornell Crews.
'Varsity Eight—Bow, J. H. Bromley, '08, Plattsburg; 2, E. I. Bayer, '09, Toledo, O.; 3, W . S. Newman, '07, Ithaca; 4, L. R. Gracy, '08, Jamaica; 5, L. W . Gavett, '08, Plainfield, N. J.; 6, C. J. Goodier, '07, Atlanta, Ga.; 7, W . S. Stowell, '07, Elmira; stroke, C. P. Cox, '08, Washington, D. C ; coxswain, W . G. Tay'or, '07, Middletown.
'Varsity Four—Bow, T. W. B. Welsh, Ό8, Montclair, N. J.; 2, R. E. Coulson, '09, Buffalo; 3, E. L. D. Seymour, '09, New York city; stroke, J. W . Holt, '08, Cleveland, O.
Freshman Eight—Bow, S. Williams, Salt Lake City; 2, W . A. Backus, Glencarly, Va.: 3, F. B. Kelley, Newark, N. Y.; 4, F. W . Morrow, Allenhurst, N. J.; 5, W . E. Koerner, Troy; 6, C. C. May, Sheridan, Wyo.; 7, A. S. Martin, Elizabeth, N. J.; stroke, H. H. Forbes, Westboro, Mass.; coxswain, E. M. Whitlock, Brooklyn.
Story of the Races.
The 'varsity eight showed that it had good stuff in it when it closed a hard and discouraging season of training with a victory in the intεrco1legiate regatta at Poughkeepsie last Wednesday. The crew had "found itself" only a few days before the race, when the last of many changes in the make up of the eight took p ace. The 'varsity four finished second, being beaten by Syracuse. The four had never had a chance to beco e a finished crew, having been torn to pieces repeatedly in the effort to get a good combination for the eight. In the freshman race, for the first time in many years, a CorneΊ crev fhrhed last. This race was won by the Wisconsin freshmen. Cornell's freshmen boat shipped a lot of water earl' in the contest. All three races, in fact, were marred by rough water, and the

'varsity eights did not start until twilight.
The big race of the day was cne of the closest and most excit'n^ ontests ever seen on the Hudscn CoLm ia led the crews over the grea'er par of the four-rrile course, but Cornell contested every yard of the way with her, and in the very ^st stroke passed her and won the race by three or fo r feet. At the start Coluxbia, Co ne 1, Pennsylvania and the Naval Academy took the lead. Wisconsin, Georgetown and Syracuse were beaten in the hrst mile. At the two-mile r ark Columbia led Come 1 by a fe,v feet. At H πing Point, near the two and one-half mΓe mark, Cornell had a slight lead, but only for a few strokes. Columbia re gained first place by a spurt ani kept ahead un il it began to look from the observation train as if she had the race won. She was half a length to the good with only a quarter cf a rrilε to go. The finish line was marked by a great shaft of light from the sra-hlight on the United States mo itor Arkansas. When the 1 a:1ers shot across the line Cornell was three fe: t ahead of Columbia. It was saii t a". the two boats were even only one stro e before the end, and that it was Cornell's final stroke which gave her the victory. Annapo'is finished two lengths behind Columbia and four lengths ahead of Pennsylvaria. Wisconsin was fifth and Georgetown sixth. Syrecuse's shell was swamped near the finish.
In the four-oar Columbia took t e lead, but soon lost it to Ccrne'', who was in turn passed by Syracue. Cornell kept recond place but Co"uTibia dropped back to the rear. Wisconsin led the fre hiran race from s'art to finish. Cornell he'd reconί place for half a mile, only to be parsed by the Columbia beat, which v as in turn passed by Pennsylvan'a and then by Syracuse. There was a hard fight for second place between Syracuse, Pennsylvania and Co'umbia, the th ee crews finishing n the order rameJ. Both Columbia's and Cornell's boats shipped a lot of wa'er.
The discrepancy in time and distance between the Cornell anΊ Col ambia 'varsity eigh s at the fin'sh was caused by an error in signalling.
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Ithaca, N. Y.Λ July 3, 1907.
TTe-e remain two more issues to complete the pre eit voluire of this paper. The first of these will be published en July 2 4 and the second on August 2 1 .
WELCOME TO 1907.
While the Class of 1907 is saying farewell to the Cornel which they have known for four years, we bid them welcoire to the larger Cornell world of which they a e now a part. They increase by more than seven hundred the number of our alumni—no small addition even to the former total of about ei^ht thousand. The re rent growth of the University is shown perhaps in no other way more graphically than in this, that a single c'ass should add nine per cent.—almost one tenth —to a body of graduates consisting of thirty-eight classes. The class contains many who have distinguished themselves as graduates by energy and loyalty; as alumni they will find no less

THE REUNION AGAIN.
After boiling down all the objections which were heard to the plan of this year's alumni reunion, we think we can put them all in a nutshell. What is wanted by the old and young grads who come back to Ithaca is something to do on the campus. They want to join in something which is a part of the University's life, if only as auditors or spectators. This year almost everything that was arranged for their entertainment while they were in Ithaca kept them away from the University's halls. There was complaint that the alumni were unable, except at much sacrifice of time, to see the Commencement exercises. It was probably not these exercises themselves that were missed so much as the sense of participation in something really Cornellian. The chief obstacle to a blending of Alumni week with Commencement week is, of course, the difficulty of finding lodgings for everybody in Ithaca. But the reunion programme is going to be revised, and in revising it the need of some dignified attraction on the campus should be considered.

THE ARTS COLLEGE.
Conclusion of Report of Alumni Trustees
—The University's Needs.
In our last number we published a
part of the report of Messrs. George B.
Turner, ' 7 3 , and Charles E. Treman,
'89, alurrni trustees, on the condition
of the University. Most cf the artice
dealt with the statistics which they
gave in their report to show the com-
paratively slow growth of the College
of Arts and Sciences, especially ii the
attendance of male students, and with
their recommendation that this cole^e
be placed under the charge of a direc-
tor. We print herewith the remain-
der of the report. After conside i g
several possible general causes of the
apparent stagnation in the College of
Arts and Sciences—among them Cor-
nell's reputation as a technical school
and "the bent of the age towards
things practical and utilitarian"—Λe
report continues:
While agreeing that these, and perhaps other general causes, are par ially responsible, we cannot concede that there are no local reasons, in view of the fact that we show in eighteen years so small an increase in male students as compared with similar colleges in other universities. Recognizing the situation in December, 1903, the following resolution was introduced at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees:
'* Whereas, the expansion of the department of Arts—language, literature, history, political science, philosophy—has lagged behind 'hat of the technical colleges, and
"Whereas, this slower deve^pment may be due to special and local causes as well as to general causes which are affecting disadvantageously other colleges of Arts all over the country, and
**Whereas, in contrast with the technical colleges of this University the department of Arts lacks organization, union and aggressive leadership.
"Therefore resolved, that as all the Arts deparfments are to be brought together under one roof in the Goldwin-Smith Hall, this Executive Committee requests the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences to consider and report upon the quest'on whether it would not be wise and expedient to differentiate that college into a College of Arts and a College of Science, of. which the first, and perhaps the second, shouM have an administra ive head charged (among other things) with the duty of keeping the college before the people and working for its enlargement and improvement as a whole."
It was almost immediately seen that it had been a mistake to have mixed up with this question the idea of a separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into two parts, and an interjection of this question we believe interfered with the broad consideration of the other. The faculty's reply was as fol ows:
"Resolved, that in the judgment of this faculty it would not be wise or expedient to

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diiierentiate the College of Arts and Sciences into a College of Arts and a College of Sciences.
"Resolved, that in the judgment of this faculty a. radical change of i s present form of organization, giving it an administrative head charged (among other things) with the duty of keeping the college before the people and working for its enlargement and improvement as a whole, would be inexpedient.
"Resolved, that the communication of the Executive Committee be referred to acommittee of nine members, to be appointed by the Prescient, to consider whether, within the above limits, it can recommend any changes in 'he organization or the legislation of the college or other means of promoting its efficiency."
And,
"The committee on Educational Policy consists of the Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and eight members elected by and from the faculty. The election shall take place by ballot and at the regular Maymeeting of each year. Persons elected shall hold office until their successors are chosen.
"The committee on Educational Policy shall consider and make recommendations to the faculty of arts and sciences upon any question of policy, affecting the entire college or more than one department, thereof, which may be referred to it by the facu ty. It may also recommend of its own motion, to the faculty, any policy thought likely to increase the efficiency of the college."
We believe one of the basic causes of the present condition is lack of unity, which is obtained in other colleges by an active head or director. The motive of th's first resolution was to ascertain whether, in the opinion of the faculty, an organization sim'lar to that in vogue in the other colleges in the Universitv wou'd not strengthen the college. We still believe it would.
Up to the present time the College of Ar's and Sciences is practically what is left of the old "general faculty," which formerly sett'ed for the whole University all questions which naturally go to a facul'y. From time to time one college after another has been organized and its faculty taken out of the "general faculty," and at present we have only the facultv of the College of Arts and Sciences left, wi'hout any head except a Dean with nominal powers, each professor head of his own department.
The argument that conditions are different in this co lege from those existing in other colleges is admitted, but that they are radically different from the cond tions in a college like Hamilton we do not admit. Yet, Hamilton College has found it both possible and wise to have an energetic head giving his best thought and time to the work of advancing his college both by bringing it before the world at large and by studying its individual composition with the idea of streng hening it.
It is manifestly impossible for the President of a great institution Lke ths to give his time to one college to the exclusion of others. Men hesitate to bother such a busy man except on the most important matters. The result is that many seemingly trivial matters are settled by individual departmental heads in diverse ways, and we believe it would be better if there were a Director with whom a 1 problems of detail could be discussed as they

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•arise from day to day, passing on to the President only what must necessarily so be disposed of. Objections have been made to this course on the theory that there would be "resulting loss of interest and of sense of responsibility on the part of the faculty.' Others have objected to being "under" somebody and think this would interfere with their freedom of action. These last seep to us Λveak, and, to a certain extent, selfish arguments. In no o'her college of the University when so organized has any result fo'lowed such as surely would have followed had there been any attempt on the part of the Director to be a dictator.. We can certainly depend upon our President to do equal'y well in the selection of a Director in this, his old college, and we trust that the faculty of the col ege will soon arrive at a different view point so that he may be called upon, in the not distant fu'ure, to make such selection. At present a number of conditions in the college lead to a general lack of unified action. It is not claimed that this solution would be a panacea for all the ills. Nevertheless, we do not expect the best College of Arts and Sciences possible under conditions here until the faculty put aside personal opinion and unite on some plan similar to the above, which will provide for a strong centrally organized college able to compete with equally strong colleges of this University or any sister university.
Time forbids a detailed discussion of this problem, but the situation confronting us is apparent and should have careful consideration.
One favorable element, as we look intothe future, is the fact that so large a proportion of this college is now housed in the new Goldwin-Smith Hall which makes for it a home of dignity which it has not heretofore
We recommend, for the consideration ofthe faculty of arts and sciences, the laying out of a course in commercial education, and we believe such a course, inc uding contract law, corporation law, economics, English, public speaking, etc., could be arranged without teaching new subjects or arranging new sections. Certainly, with the tendency to enter commercial pursuits which is so predominant today, many a young man would be attracted bv tne opportunity to gain what formerly was called a *general education" combined with some specialization in subjects which will be of great value in practical life. A similar course is offered successfuΓy in some western universities.
As to the needs of the University, theycan be summed up in the words—need for more money; money for endowment, money with wh'ch to build new buildings.
We need an auditorium which will seat at least five thousand persons, with a large platform and a large church organ, where Universitv functions, such as glee club concer s, college dramatics, Music Festival, class day exercises, commencement exercises, and similar gatherings could be held and which would seat the whole University community. It seems to us that this is just now perhaps the most needed building and its influence would be very far reaching in unifying the whole University.
We need endowment in order that the salaries of professors may be increased. The President has pointed this out in recent

speeches and he has made plain how much the increase in the cost of living has reduced the purchasing power of salaries which were none too high years ago.
The need of residential halls has already been brought to your attention. In his last report President Eliot says that an experience of two hundred and seventy years at Harvard proves that as an investment for university funds dormitories are not a success. This testimony justifies the Board of Trustees in this position which it has repeatedly taken. However, the Board has agreed to duplicate, from University funds, each dormitory given by private benefaction because it has been felt that the income from tτ»o dormitories would still keep the rate of income good for the investment in one from University funds. There are great advantages in university spirit to be gained from a system of residential halls andwe hope they may soon be possible.
Permit us to suggest to the alumni that in the future they make more use of their alumni representatives in the Board of Trustees and keep in closer touch with them. If the alumni, instead of accepting rumor or newspaper report regarding University matters as true would go or write directly to their trustee representatives for the facts many misrepresentations and hasty judgments would be avoided and the Board and the alumni would be at all times much more nearly in accord.
In closing, we can do no better than to quote from Judge Blood's report referring to President Schurman as foΊows: "Much of the wonderful success of our institution has been due to his indefatigable energy, to his appreciation of the claims and interests of higher education, and to rrs admirable grasp of the detai's of administration." W e only add the earnest wish that he may be spared for many years of useful service in guiding the destinies of Cornell University.
In regard to the recent visit of Presi-
dent Eliot to Cornell University he
says, in a letter to President Schurman
under date of June 5 :
" M y short visit to Cornell taught me
much, and has left some delightful
pictures in my memory."
Professor W . H. Glasson, ' 9 6 , of
Trinity College, Durham, N . C , has
been engaged as teacher of e^onorrics
in the Cornell, summer session, in place
of Professor Thomas Walker Page, of
the University of Virginia, who is kept
at home by illness in his family.
The Boardman senior law scholar-
ship for next year has been awarded
to Charles Gardner Bui is, of O'ean.
The prize is $ 1 0 0 and is awarded to
the junior whose work in the first two
years has been the most satisfactory.
The University last week mowed
a fine crop of clover on the Play-
ground.

UTAH ALUMNI ORGANIZE.
Sixteen Cornellians Meet in Salt Lake City and Form an Association.
Sixteen graduates and former students of Cornell University met at the University Club in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday evening, Juns 8, for the purpose of organizing a Cornell Alumni Association of the State of Utah.
A committee consisting of Profe sor George M. Marshall, ' 8 7 ; R. W . Salisbury, ' 0 5 ; Ray Van Colt, ' 9 5 , and William M. McCrea, ' 0 3 , as secretary, succeeded in round ng up a' out forty Cornellians in the State of Utah and arranged for an informal dinner on the date mentioned. Owin^ to the fact that this was the first meeting and that a very short notice was gi en to the boys, only sixteen were on hand, but hereafter it is expected that the Utah Association will have a membership of at least forty. It was inteided to have Prof. H . Morse Stephens present on this occasion, but he wrote that he was too busy to come at this time. H e promised, however, to attend some other ann al ireetng. After the dinner Professor George M. Marshall, ' 8 7 , was made toastmaster, and each one of the sixteen present was called upon and responded with reminiscences and a pro rise for the future success of the association in Utah. A permanent organiza ion was effected, with William M. McCrea, ' 0 0 , as permanent secretary, and an executive committee of fi\e to be hereafter designated. The secretary
was urged to ask that men ion be made in the ALUMNI N E W S of this new organization and to exend to all Cornellians in tfce state of Utah, or within striking distance of Sa't Lake City, an invitation to register their naires with the Secretary and afίΠate with the organization. Those present were:
Edgar A. Rogers, Ό5; Salt Lake city, Utah; Elίas H. Beckstrand, Όl ,Sa t Lake City, Utah; Benjamin T. Lloyd, '92, Salt Lake City, Utah; Guy Sterling, '87, Salt Lake City, Utah; Roy B. West, '06, Silver City, Utah; G. T. Morris, Ό4. Salt Lake City, Utah; Haines Gridley, '04, Ophir, Utah; J. C. Kennedy, 79, Rhyolite, Nev.; R. W. Salisbury, '05, Salt Lake City, Utah; George M. Marshall, '87, Salt Lake City, Utah; Will R. Emery, '95, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ray Van Colt, '95, Salt Lake City, Utah; Frank K. Nebeker, '95, Logan, Utah; Parley P. Christensen, '97, Salt Lake City, Utah; Dr. J. R. Earle, Όl, Faϊrview, Utah; an- Dr. William M. McCrea, '00, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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OBITUARY.
GEORGE R. RAMEL, ' 0 5 .
George Regis Ramel, a graduate of Sibley Co'lege in the c'ass of 1905 and a cadet in the United States Revenue Cuttεr Service, was drowned at sea on June 24 by fa'lhg overboard from the practice ship Chase. His death was reported on the ar ival of the vessel at Ycrktown, Va , two days later. Ramel feΊ from the quarter deck rail and failed to catch a life buoy and ropes which were thrown to him. The life boat was cleared away, but the man sank just before it reached him and the body did not ri:e to the surface again. Ra^el was appoint d to the service fro^i New York on Seoterrber 17, 1906, and was twentyfour years old.
A School of Education.
At its rreeting on June 19 the UniΎβrsity Board of Trustees establish d a school of education, for which generous provision has been made. Dr. Albert Ross Hill, now dean of the

Teachers' College at the University of Missouri and recently elected dean of the College of Arts and Sciences has been appo'nted director of the school. This school is to undertake the work of preparing teachers for all grades of work in our rural, elementary, high and normal schools in the liberal arts and sciences and also in agricul ure, hcrticulture and the industr al and fine arts.
Cornell University is thought to be peculiarly well fitted to uncbitake this work in consequence of the development here of all phases of acacbmic, technical and professional instruction, and the different colleges of the University will contribute their respective quotas to the new enterprise. The members of this new school of education will have open to them all the library and laboratory facilities of the whole university. The courses are especially intended for studinΐs in the upper classes and in the graduate department, but a special course will be arranged to meet the needs of eleren'ary and rural school teachers, whom it is desired to interest in ag icu'ture and horticulture as well as to acquaint with the best methods of teaching.

CORNELL ALUMNI NOTES.
73, B. S.—John C. Averill, of Norwich, Conn., has just declined a reappointment as clerk of the superior court of New London county, after serving in that office for twentysix -"*ars. He is the dean of the court clerks of Connecticut, being the oldest in point of continuous service. He will continue to act as clerk of the court of common pleas and criminal court of common pleas. At the annual meeting of the judges of the supreme and superior courts, held in Hartford a few days ago, Judge Baldwin was empowered to write a letter to Mr. Averil expressing the regret of the judges at his retirement and their appreciation of his long and faithful service.
'80, B. S.—At the recent commencement, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Washington University, St. Louis, Professor William Trelease, who has been professor of botany in its faculty since 1885, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
'88, B. S.—The University of Pennsylvania on June 19 conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine upon Dr. Leonard Pearson, dean of the veterinary department of that university.
'91, C. E.—Carl H. Niemeyer and Miss Mary Weber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester B. Weber, of Lewiston, Pa., were married on Tuesday, June 18. They will be at home after September 1 at Oakmont, Pa.
'92, A. B.—Frank J. Beardsley, principal of the high school in Tonawanda, N. Y.,

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'96, M. E.—Philip B.Hasbrouck is with the Cambria Steel Company at Johnstown, Pa.

'96, B. S. in Arch.—Construction News for June 15 contains an iaustrated biographical sketch of H. Webster Tomlinson, who is practicing architecture in Chicago. The article mentions several public buildings designed by Mr. Tomlinson, including the state insane asylum at Yankton, S. D.

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'97, M. E.—C. J. Heίlman's address is in care of the Phipps Sanatorium, Denver, Col.
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