VOL. XXVI, No. 16 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] JANUARY 17, 1924 Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04 and Roger H. Williams '95 First to be Nominated for Alumni Trusteeships Alumni Field to be Administered and Developed by Athletic Association at the Request of Trustees New York Club Breaks Own Record » on Founder's Day for Largest Gathering out of Ithaca Basketball Team Wins First Inter- collegiate League Game From Dartmouth by 17 to 12 Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August at 123 West State Street, Ithaca, New York. Subscription $4.00 per year. Entered as second class matter May 2, 1900, under the act of March 3, 1879, at the postoffice at Ithaca, New York. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS PROVIDENCE HARTFORD ESTABROOK & CO. Sound Investments New York Boston 24 Broad 15 State ROGER H.WILLIAMS, '95, New York Resident Partner SPRINGFIELD NEW BEDFORD Ithaca Trust Company Resources Over Five Million Dollars President Charles E. Treman Vice-Pres Franklin C. 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Y., JANUARY 17, 1924 NEWS PRICE 12 CENTS FΠJNDER'S Day was officially celebrated at Cornell by a University convocation for which all classes were dismissed between the hours of 12 and 1, and at which President Farrand spoke on the ideals of the University in Bailey Hall, to an audience which only a little more than half filled the building. The Cornell Clubs of Ithaca held separate gatherings in the evening, one for the men at Cascadilla Hall and the other for the women at Risley. VETERINARIANS gathered at Cornell during the past week for the sixteenth annual meeting of the NewYork State Veterinary Association. A large part of the discussions dealt with the diseases of dairy cows. HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON '05 was a recent visitor at Cornell to talk over plans for a new book with Emeritus Professor George L. Burr '81. The title of the work is "The Story of America." While in Ithaca, VanLoon said that the Bok Peace Plan is anexcellent piece of publicity, but that the second $50,000 for putting it into effect is perfectly safe in Mr. Bok's hands. ITHACA has hadan unusual number of fire alarms during the past week, with three in one day, anda total of seven in three days. A few were supposedly due to some one who turned them in "for fun," but many were real fires, including a slight blaze in the High School building, a dwelling badly damaged, and a blaze in the marshes on the east side of Courtney Inlet. THE '94 MEMORIAL DEBATE contest was won by George G. Connelly, Arts, '24, of Elmira, speaking against the resolution that Congress should pass the TownerSterling Bill which provides for the national control of education and the creation of a Federal department of education. INCREASING numbers of English starlings are being seen onthe Campus. THE FLONZALEY QUARTET appeared in Sage Chapel on Thursday, January 10, and gave its usual delightful rendering of chamber music. The audience did not seem to be quite so large as those which greeted this organization and the London String Quartet of last year. DELTA THETA PHI, legal fraternity, met at dinner at the Telluride House last week with members of thelocal bar, to hear a talk on law enforcement by Former Supreme Court Justice Charles A. Hitchcock. THE ITHACA TRACTION CORPORATION plans a reorganization, inwhich one of the parts of the program includes the purchase by the University of a four-apartment building on Fall Creek Drive and the property andpower rights on Fall Creek Gorge for the sum of $52,000 in cash, and an exchange of bonds under the new organization for those it now holds. A SUDDEN warm spell broke up the promise of continued winter sports, and forced the cancelation of a hockey game with the University of Buffalo scheduled for last Saturday. PUNCH BOARDS maintained by most of the candy shops which cater to Cornell students must be removed, according to the Ithaca chief of police, who points out that they are in violation of the State law against gambling devices. These boards are perforated with gimlet holes in which are placed winning numbers entitling the holder to candy orcigars. The boardsare prepared by having sheets of paper pasted over them , to be punched through with the end of a lead pencil. THE SALE of minor sports tickets shows a decrease this year, to about fifteen hundred as compared with about twenty-five hundred last year. CORNELL CHESS players lost in the annual intercollegiate tourney held recently in New York, finishing in last place of the four contestants who placed inthe following order: College of the City of New York, New York University, Pennsylvania, and Cornell. Instead of disbanding after these contests, as formerly, the Cornell Chess Club proposes to continue playing on Friday nights throughout the year, and will meet Pennsylvania ina dual contest at Ithaca in Junior Week. A NEW REGISTRATION plan to bring about improvements in methods now in force provides that matriculated students may register by proxy. Anygroup of ten or more matriculated students may deposit their registration slips jointly with the Registrar at specified times in his office. HOCKEY will be played by an interfraternity league of twenty-four houses, and it is also hoped that an intercollege series of games may be arranged. HORTICULTURISTS at Cornell had a large part in the New York State Horticultural Society exhibit at Rochester this week. The College of Agriculture made an exhibit and Dean Albert R. Mann '04 and Director Roscoe W. Thatcher delivered addresses. THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for January 20 will be theRev. Dr. Shailer Mathews, dean of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. LECTURES for the week include "How Central Europe Can Be Healed" by Professor Oscar Jaszi,.formerly of the Univer- sity of Transylvania and the University of Budapest, on January 14; and address by President Farrand before the Agassiz Club on "The Indians of British Columbia" on January 15; "Frederic Mistral" by Professor Emile Ripert of the University of Aix-Marseille, official lecturer of the Federation of the Alliances Francaises, illustrated and in French, on January 16; and "The Athenian Before the Great Mystery" by Professor Eugene P.Andrews '95, the seventh in his series of public lectures inthe Museum of Casts, on January 17. THE CORNELL Dramatic Club will give on January 18 three plays: ι 'The Valiant'' by Holworthy Hall; "TheVery Naked Boy" by Stuart Walker; and "Miss Maria" by Miss Margaret Deland, a dramatized Old Chester tale. Theplays are tobe repeated, as usual, on the following evening. THE JOHNNY PARSON CLUB on Beebe Lake reopens. its restaurant on Januray 19, to serve luncheon, tea, dinner, and Sunday breakfasts. The dining room will accommodate private parties but cannot be entirely reserved for them, the announcement says. ROBERT STURDEVANT '26 of New York is one of signers, with three other undergraduates from Harvard, Yale and the City College of New York, of an appeal recently issued to college men and women of thecountry to support Senator Hiram Johnson for the Presidency. According to the New York Evening Post, the appeal asserts that the California Senator is striving for theideals which Theodore Roosevelt stood for in his fight on"the bosses," and says that the personalities of him and President Coolidge count for nothing in the campaign for the 1924nomination; the question atissue is "whether one of the great parties is to be wholly reactionary and corrupt." DEXTER S. KIMBALL, dean of engineering, recently visited Washington toattend the annual meeting of the Federated American Engineering Societies as a representative of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. While in Washington he spoke at the Founder's Day dinner of the Cornell alumni at Washington. He also addressed engineering students at Johns Hopkins. TUBERCULOSIS is being beaten, according to Dr. Farrand, who says that it will soon be conquered completely. He made the statement recently in Boston, at the same time pointing out that the average length oflife ofthe man or woman ofto-day is ten years greater than it was at the time of their grandparents. 186 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S To Develop Playground Trustees Turn Administration of Alumni Field Over to Athletic Association for Care and Improvement By request of the Trustees, the Athletic Association has taken over the management of the play grounds, the fifty-acre tract generally known as Alumni Field. Heretofore this area has been under direct charge of the University, like any other part of the Campus, but the Department of Buildings and Grounds has responsibility for so large and varied a domain that the playing fields have had perforce to receive a somewhat secondary consideration. Not much money could be spent on them, as taking care of athletic fields was not the chief interest of the University's field staff. In recent years the condition of these fields has deteriorated. The Athletic Association contemplates no immediate large development; but having the equipment and men with special experience in the job of maintenance and repair of athletic fields it hopes to be able gradually to bring the whole playgrounds back into first class condition. Incidentally the jurisdiction of the Athletic Association has broadened considerably in recent years, far beyond the administration of competitive sports. The winter sports on Beebe Lake, skating, tobogganing, etc. are administered by it; now it will supervise the student outdoor play grounds. Graduate Manager Berry has this to saj' on the policy toward the playgrounds: "The Athletic Association is not in a position to spend any large sum of money on the play grounds. For this reason it cannot initiate at this time any large program of reconstruction. It hopes, however, to arrest deterioration by a certain amount of fencing calculated to prevent destructive traffic over the area, particularly when the ground is soft, and gradually to bring the grounds back into better playing condition by the exercise of care in the matter of reseeding, fertilization, rolling, and the like. As time goes on it hopes to be able each year to reconstruct portions of the area, building a first-class baseball diamond one year, a good soccer field the next, and so on until in the course of time the entire area has been properly surfaced and turfed. "Nothing in the program entails any substantial change with respect to the uses and purposes of the field. Intramural and casual games will always take precedence. "The first task will be to arrange in consultation with all organizations interested a definite assignment of this area to different sports and organizations; then will follow the task of putting the different areas into better condition for games by filling in holes, seeding, and watering. The job is a big one and because of the absence of sufficient resources it must.be accomplished a little at a time. It will take a good many years to bring the whole area into suitable form for the playing of games under the present conditions. Too much must not be expected. It is hoped, however, that in the course of time substantial improvement can be shown. Patience must be exercised and a spirit of friendly cooperation shown." SPORT STUFF A vocation which makes the success of one's efforts contingent upon the coopera- tion of nature is.bound to have its tragedies and to produce irritability. That's what makes the farm bloc block. Here we were sitting pretty with skating and hockey in full swing and the ice almost thick enough to fill the toboggan. Comes a warm day, torrential rains, and a flood which rips all the ice out of Beebe and scatters a large and expensive hockey rink along the gorge over the flats and half way to Glenwood. The cash register rusts while strong men engaged to sweep snow and run the ice planer sit on the bank, watch the yellow flood, and draw princely salaries from the Athletic Association. Nothing daunted, we emerge from the wreck animated by the same spirit which enabled San Francisco to rise greater and more beautiful from its great disaster. We are ordering more rinks and reopening the restaurant at the Johnny Parson Club with red fire. Nobody ever went broke by risking his all on there being plenty of cold weather in Ithaca. R. B. ENGINEERS GIVE PORTRAITS Portraits of former Deans Albert W. Smith '78 of Mechanical Engineering and Eugene E. Haskell '79 of Civil Engineering were presented to the University January 12, at the Cornell Club of New York. The portraits are the gift of the Cornell Society of Engineers, from funds raised from subscriptions made by hundreds of engineering alumni. Samuel B. Whinery '99 made the presentation as president of the Society, and the portraits were accepted on behalf of the University by President Farrand. At a reception held in conjunction with the presentation, among those present in addition to President Farrand and Whinery were Dean and Mrs. Haskell, who made the trip from Buffalo, and Mrs. Smith, who represented "Uncle Pete," who is now in California. The paintings are the work of Professor Olaf M. Brauner of the College of Architecture. They are excellent likenesses of the two well-known Cornellians, and striking examples of the best in modern portraiture. Professor Brauner was present at the presentation. An exhibit of his paintings is now being held at the Club. THE BOK PEACE PLAN, after a week of balloting in Ithaca, has brought out 138 votes, of which one is in the negative. New York Breaks Records Founder's Day Dinner and Opening of New Clubhouse Largest Gathering Outside of Ithaca If any alumni have had any doubt of the general interest in the development of Cornell affairs in and about New York, that doubt was dispelled on the evening of January 11. The combination of the celebration of Founder's Day, the official housewarming of the new clubhouse of the Cornell Club of New York, and the annual dinner of the New York men, offered sufficient attraction to break all existing records for attendance at any Cornell meeting ever held outside of Ithaca. An actual count of the diners at the Hotel Biltmore was 925, as against the former best figures of yiβt, also registered in New York, when President Farrand was greeted at the Waldorf two years ago. At the conclusion of the dinner, at least nine hundred of the alumni adjourned to the new club at Madison Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street, where the appropriate warming of the new house lasted far into the night. In the judgment of the old timers who have lived with Cornell alumni affairs in New York during the last thirty or forty years, January 11 marked an epoch in Cornell's history. Neal Dow Becker '05, president of the Club, and the man who during the last three years has made the greatest single contribution to the Cornell Club, opened the meeting with a message from President Farrand in Ithaca, of regret that the formal celebration of Founder's Day at the University should prevent his presence in New York, and of heartiest congratulations on the attainment of the plans for a permanent home for Cornell alumni in New York. The President expressed his conviction that the club would be not only a personal satisfaction to innumerable Cornellians but would be a great factor in binding them closer together in common enthusiasm for their Alma Mater. At the mention of his name the diners rose spontaneously with a "long yell for Farrand." President Becker read congratulatory telegrams from the Cornell Clubs of Ithaca, New England, Washington, Atlanta, Philadelphia, I)etroit, Buffalo, and Rochester. He then turned the meeting over to the toastmaster, J. DuPratt White '90, vicechairman of the Board of Trustees. Robert H. Treman )rjS, of Ithaca, was the first speaker. He reviewed the history of the University, pointing out that the "advent of Cornell University had marked an epoch in the development of education in the United States." He traced its growth from the one stone building of 1868, from the 989,000 acres of land which, with Ezra Cornell's initial gift of $525,000, had formed the financial basis of the institution, from the first Faculty of seventeen professors and six assistant professors, with a student body of 412, through the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 187 "period of depression of the early eighties," down to the University of the present day. The alumni expressed enthusiastic approval of the speaker's statement that in many years of membership onthe Board of Trustees he had never found a group of men with a more conscientious devotion to duty nor with a greater desire to help. He pointed out that with twenty-seven Cornellians on the Board the financing, management, and control of the University might safety be left tothem. In closing Mr. Treman asked that alumni consider with themselves what they have done for Cornell, and what they could do in financial and other support, to maintain its high plane and produce the type of men so much needed in this country today. Romeyn Berry '04, not announced on the program, expressed his delight at "getting into the play momentarily to interfere for these all-American orators." He said that if it had been a difficult job for him inthe last twenty years to decide which of the three estates, of Faculty, undergraduates, and alumni, were the funniest, the question of which of the three was most human, admirable, and lovable was even more difficult to determine. After showing just why he admired the Faculty and the undergraduates, Berry said that "even though the chief indoor sport of the alumni seems to consist of panning the administration of their alma mater, they'll fight at the drop of the hat any son-of-a-gun on the outside who says one tenth as much inderogation. They'll leave their own jobs to take on any hard assignment for Cornell that Ithaca asks them to do/' He closed with these words: "No>one knowing that devoted Faculty, those glowing undergraduates, and this loyal alumni body can retain any serious doubt of the splendid present and the glorious future ofCornell University—and of America." The final speaker was Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Ph.D. '97, and until last June president ofAmherst College. President Meiklejohn recited. some of the needs of thecolleges. Hesaid that America has notyetbegun thework of educating her people, that she is "still putting up the outer shell." The speaker said he saw elements of danger in certain types of what is called loyalty. He said "The most dangerous menace in our educational system isthe man who will stand by a college merely because it ishis own; that kind of loyalty is apretty poor thing." In closing, Dr. Meiklejohn reminded his audience that "fundamentally there are only two parts to a college, teachers and pupils. All others are external. Trustees, presidents, alumni, donors, andthe public in general are all outsiders so far as the real work is concerned." Founder's Day celebrations by alumni in other cities all over the country, accounts of which arecrowded out of this issue, will be described next week. Among the cities where Founder's Day meetings were held by Cornellians are Washington, D. C , Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Rochester, Yonkers, and Ithaca. Nominate Two for Trustees Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04 and Roger H. Williams '95 First Two Candidates to be Named by Alumni The first two nominations for alumni Trusteeships to be duly filed with the University Treasurer are for Dr. Mary M. Crawford (Mrs. Edward Schuster) '04 and Roger H. Williams '95. Two vacanciesin the Board of Trustees will be filled at the annual meeting of the Alumni Corporation in Ithaca next June, and nominations may be filed upto midnight of April 1. The ballots, accompanied bythe official biographies of the nominees, will be sent out immediately after the closing of nominations. Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04 Dr. Crawford is the nominee of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs. Her nominating petition filed on January 1.1, was the first to be received this year. An adequate number of signatures of degree holders was on this nominating petition butit is understood that many other petitions in her favor are to follow from various parts ofthe country. Mary Merritt Crawford was born in New York City February 18, 1884. She prepared for college at the Nyack High School and entered Cornell on a state scholarship with the Class of 1904. During her undergraduate days she was active in student affairs. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. In 1907 Dr.Crawford took her M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College and in the same year she won a place in competitive examination at the Williamsburgh Hospital in Brooklyn, where she served as interne for ayear and a half, being the first woman ambulance surgeon of that city. Later Dr. Crawford practiced medicine in Brooklyn until the outbreak ofthe war. In October, 1.914, she went toFrance and served a year inthe American Ambulance service at Neuilly. Here she cared for French and British soldiers, working a part of the time under Dr. Joseph Blake. Upon her return in October, 1915, Dr. Crawford was married to Edward Schuster, a lawyer of New York City. They have one daughter, seven years old. After the United States entered the war Dr. Crawford served as a physician inthe Red Cross medical station of New York City for soldiers and sailors and their families. She also served on the executive committee of the American Women's Hospitals for two years, first as secretary and then aschairman. This isa national organization of women physicians, which raised about $500,000 for work abroad. Hospitals and units were established and maintained in France, Serbia, and the Near East. Since 1917 Dr. Crawford has given up the private practice ofmedicine. She has continued clinic work inthe Booth Memorial Hospital, where she is an attending physician. In September, 1918, Dr. Crawford was appointed medical director of the Federal Reserve Bank ofNew York which position shestill holds. Assisted by a staff of physicians and nurses, Dr. Crawford has general supervision of the health of the bank's personnel, which numbers about twenty-five hundred men and women. As anundergraduate and asanalumna Dr. Crawford has always been active in Cornell affairs. She is class secretary of the women of '04, has held several offices in the Cornell Women's Club of New York, and is atpresent first vice-president ofthe Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs and regional director of the Cornell Alumni Corporation for the Metropolitan District. Roger H. Williams '95 The nominating petition of Roger H. Williams was filed on January 14. His initial petition likewise contained merely an adequate number of signatures. He is a candidate for relection, having served one term of five years which isnow expiring. Roger H.Williams is a son of the late Professor Henry Shaler Williams, at one time head of the Department of Geology at Cornell, and a grandson of Josiah Butler Williams, one of the original Cornell trustees. Mr. Williams was born at Ithaca on July 27, 1874. Hegraduated from the Ithaca High School in 1891 and received the degree ofPh.D. from Cornell as a member ofthe class of '95. Later he received the degree M.A. from Yale for graduate work in economics and finance, and thedegree of LL.B. and J.D. from New York University. His business career was begun in Ithaca in the office of his uncle, the late George R. Williams, then president of the First National Bank of Ithaca and chairman of the finance committee of Cornel University Board of Trustees. After two years in Ithaca he took up banking work in New York City, first with N. H.Harris & Co. (now Harris, Forbes & Co.) and then with N. W. Halsey & Co., where helater had charge of the firm's legal and corporation work. In 1914 he opened offices of hisown, making a specialty of handling estates and trusts. He subsequently became head of the law firm of Williams, Glover & Washburn, with offices at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. The National Bank of Commerce in New York appointed Williams a VicePresident on July 1, 1919, from which position he resigned October 1, 1922 to become a partner in the investment banking house of Estabrook & Co., with head- 188 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS quarters in their NewYork office at 24 Broad Street. In course of his business activities ATHLETICS Williams has been anexecutive or director in several corporations including the Crane Win First League Game Valve Company, Bridgeport, Conn., the In the first Intercollegiate League Union Gas Company, Spokane; the basketball game played in Ithaca.Cor- Brazilian Iron & Steel Company the nell defeated Dartmouth in the Drill Hall Union Reserve Insurance Company; the last Saturday night by ascore of 17 to 12. Montgomery Traction Company; the The game was farfrom ahigh class exhibi- Klinger Company; and the Manchurian tion of basketball, but it made up in thrills Development Company. In the Man- what itlacked in skill. Until the last five churian Development Company he suc- minutes of play the lead see-sawed back ceeded the late Willard D. Straight '01, as and forth; at no time, up tothat point was chairman of the board of directors. either team ever more than three points During therecent war Williams was an officer in the Ninth Coast Artillery Corps, a member of the Finance and Executive Committees of the Nationa1 War Work ahead. Then a stirring rally by the Cornell five, and some really high class play, sent the home team out ahead by five points, clinching victory. Council, Chairman of the local legal The first half wasslow, or perhaps it advisory draft board and of the "Y" R. seemed slow because only five points were 0. T. C. Committee. scored by each team, anunusually low total. While in the University Williams was Rather wild throwing of the ball, and a member ofKappa Alpha and was elected ragged passing, in which both teams were to PhiBeta Kappa. Hewas a Woodford participants, contributed to this result. orator, a member of the Era board, the In the second half thepace quickened. Musical Clubs, the Masque, and the A basket and a foul goal by Sailor sent Savage Club. He was on the Senior Dartmouth out ahead, butCapron's foul Prom Committee and the lacrosse squad goal and Raymond's basket evened the and waspresident ofthe Christian Associa- count again. Dake dribbled half the tion. length of the floor, tossing a one hand Williams is alife member of the Cornell Club of New York. He wasformerly a vice president of the club, amember ofthe Board of Governors and has been active in committee work. He was the representative of the class of 1895on the Cornellian throw into the basket and followed with a foul goal, putting Cornell ahead again. A basket by Friedmann and two fouls by Shaneman turned the tide in Dartmouth's favor, andthings looked dubious forCornell. Council and a member ofthe New York The team rose to the occasion, however, Executive Committee of the Cornell En- Dake making a pretty basket after another dowment Fund. Hisfirst five year term fast trip down the floor and Capron follow- as amember of the Board of Trustees will ing a minute later with another. Two be completed on June 1, 1924. As a mem- foul goals by Byron a little before the ber of theBoard he has served on various whistle blew ended the scoring. Dake and committees including the committee which Capron were prominent for Cornell, selected Dr. Farrand as president of the Dooley and Sailor for Dartmouth. In University. general the play was not impressive, but Cornell showed occasional flashes of poten- In 1901 Williams married Miss Frances tial strength. The home team seemedto Page Coleman, a member of the Page have difficulty in getting men loose under family of Virginia. They have four sons, the basket, and, on the whole, the passing one of whom, C.S.Williams, is Cornell was none too good. '26. Their home is in the Washington Square district of New York. The line up and summary: Williams is a Vice President and Trustee of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. and a member ofthe executive committee. Foralmost twenty-five years he has been an elder in the Old First Presb3^terian Church on lower Fifth Avenue. He is a member of the American and New York Bar Associations, the Academyof Political Science, the American Economic Association, the executive committee of the Civil Service Reform Association, the American Asiatic Association, and the New York Yacht, Century, Bankers, and University Clubs of New York City. Cornell (17) Dartmouth (12) Wedell Dooley Left Forward Capron Friedmann Right Forward Dake . . .-. Edwards Center Byron Sailor Left Guard Raymond Goas Right Guard Goals from field: Cornell; Capron (2), Dake (2),Raymond. Dartmouth, Fried- mann^ (2), Dooley, Sailor. Foul goals:— Cornell: Byron (3), Capron, Dake (3); Dartmouth: Shaneman (2), Sailor, Dool- NATHANIEL SCHMIDT,professor of Semit- ey. ic languages and literature, recently told Substitutions:—Cornell, Post for Ray- the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture mond. Dartmouth, Tulley for Goas, that "there is nothing so foolish as to say Shaneman for Dooley. that there isto bewar between the races." Referee: TomThorpe, Columbia. Um- pire: Kinney, Yale. Time of halves— twenty minutes. Earlier in the week Cornell defeated Syracuse in the Drill Hall by ascore of 19 to 15 in a ragged game. Itwas Cornell's second victory ofthe year over the Orange. The teams were even, when it came to throwing baskets from the floor, but Cornell excelled infoul shooting. Capron was high scorer. To Meet Michigan Here The indoor track meet with Michigan, originally scheduled for Ithaca, then shifted to Ann Arbor at the request of Michigan, will be run offin Ithaca after all. Cornell went to Michigan last winter, so in the natural order of events the Maize and Blue squad was due to runhere this year. Michigan is building a gymnasium and field house, known as the Yost Field House, and asked Cornell to shift the meet to Ann Arbor for the formal opening of that building. However ithas developed that theYost house will not be finished in time, so the meet comes back to Ithaca. It will take place March 29, and gives Cornell two indoor meets athome, Yale already being scheduled to come here March 22. Set Regatta Date The Intercollegiate Regatta will be rowed at Poughkeepsie this year on June 17, a very early date. The varsity race remains at three miles. These decisions were made at a meeting ofthe Board of Stewards of theassociation in New York, at which Cornell was represented by its steward, Charles E. Treman '89,and by Graduate Manager Berry. The early date was chosen because the next date after June 17 on which water conditions would be suitable would be July 2 and that washeld tobe too late. The only condition imposed on the selection of Poughkeepsie asthe site forthe regatta was that the city of Poughkeepsie and theWest Shore Railroad should cooperate as they have inthe past; in other words that proper facilities for oarsmen be provided and an observation train secured. The four members of the Association, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, and Cornell, were allrepresented at themeeting. It is presumed as a matter of course that allwill be represented by crews in all of the events. Invitations will goout to Princeton, theNavy, the University of Washington, the University of California, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to enter crews. Itis hoped that either Washington or California, the matter depending on which crew winsthe Pacific Coast regatta, will enter and that the Navy will also comein. Morton G. Bogue, Columbia's steward and chairman of the board, resigned. Maxwell Stevenson, head of Columbia's rowing committee, whohad been chosen by Columbia as Mr.Bogue's successor as steward was elected chairman of the board. Suggestion that the varsity race be CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 189 lengthened to four miles, the original distance, was brought up by Columbia, but Pennsylvania and Cornell stood out for three miles and the matter was never pressed to a formal vote. SCIENTIST OFFICIALS At the recent meeting of the American association for the Advancement of Science at Cincinnati, Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, father^of Mrs. Quinta Cattell Kessel, Grad., and Ware Cattell, Sp. Arts '23, and editor of Science and Schooland Society, was elected president for the ensuing year. Dr. Ernest F. Nichols '93, of the Nela Research Laboratories in Cleveland, was elected vice-president and chairman of the physics section, and Professor Louis C. Karpinski '01, of the University of Michigan, was elected vice-president and chairman of the section on the historical and philological sciences. Professor Henry L. Rietz, Ph. D. '03, of the University of Iowa, was elected president of the American Mathematical Association. Willis R. Gregg '03, of the U. S. Weather Bureau, was elected treasurer of the American Meteorological Association. Professor Lester W. Sharp, of the Department of Botany, was elected vice-president of the Society of Naturalists. At the silver anniversary meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists held in New Haven in Christmas Week, Dr. James M. Sherman, head of the Dairy Department, was elected secretary and treasurer. CORNELL HELPS REPARATIONS Cornell is represented by two Americans on the new reparations committees which are meeting in Paris in an attempt to balance the German budget and stabilize the currency, and has an interest in a third, according to one writer. Henry M. Robinson '90, president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles, was the third member of the American Citizens' Committee to be announced from Washington. After graduating from the University he practiced law in Youngstown, Ohio, and in New York, and later moved to California, where he has become active in financial affairs. He was a member of the Supreme Economic Council at the Peace Conference in Ί919 and also represented the United States at the first International Labor Conference. In 1920 the French Government named him Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He is president of the Cornell Clufr of Southern California and attended the Buffalo Alumni Convention as delegate from that State. Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, Ph.D. '03, of Princeton, who was a professor of economics here from 1909 to 1912, has been named adviser to the American Committee. He was financial adviser to the United States Philippine Commission in 1903 and for two years was chief of the Division of Currency in the Islands. In 1917 he was financial adviser to the Government of Mexico and in 1919 to the Government of Guatemala. The third member of the reparations Committees in whom Cornell has an interest is Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Company and of the Radio Corporation of America. While he did not attend Cornell, it was only because of the fact, according to Raymond G. Carroll of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, that he was only fifteen when he was ready for college and consequently could not try for a Cornell scholarship in Otsego County as he had planned. He attended St. Lawrence University and later graduated from the Boston University Law School in 1896 at the age of twenty-two. THE BAKER LABORATORY OF CHEMISTRY Photo by Troy The main lecture room, located just above the lobby and museum, of which we published a photograph last week, is approached by two main staircases froth the main floor. Because it was found by actual tests that approximately fifty feet is the greatest distance at which apparatus on a lecture table can readily be distinguished, this room was so planned that none of its 475 seats is further than 53 feet from the lecture table. Electrically driven shutters darken windows and skylights, blackboards can be lighted when the room is darkened for slides or moving pictures, electric elevators connect preparation rooms at the side with the museum, and a large ammeter and voltmeter are mounted on the wall just back of the lecture table. Lecture table and projection rooms are connected by numerous push buttons, lights, and a telephone. 190 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Published forthe alumni of Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication (numbered consecutively) ends the last week in June. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single copies twelve cents each. Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to Cornell Alumni News. Correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. Editor-in-Chief and) Business Manager J * * c »π'7wκ ww b AAITLT rOι lR> υ Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Circulation Manager GEQ. WM, HORTON Assistant Manager, L. B. JUNE Ί 9 Associate Editors CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS ROMEYN BERRY '04 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 H G. STUTZ '07 FLORENCE J. BAKER BARRETT L. CRANDALL '13 News Committee of the Associate Alumni W. W. Macon '98,Chairman N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated; John L. Senior, President. R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. Member of Alumni Magazines, Associated Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY 17, 1924 ESTABLISHING A PRECEDENT T T 7TΓH the establishment of a trusteeV V ship on the part of the Athletic Association over the property used for playgrounds, the University has completed the process ofplacing in the hands of a separate corporation all the areas devoted to physical recreation. Facilities for winter sports, intramural athletics, and finally casual athletics are in the hands of the Athletic Association. The Association has shown itself expert in the handling of the physical plant and capable in encouraging its use. The University itself, with aless highly developed interest in the matter, has, we think wisely, chosen the easiest way to handle recreational activities, with no loss of control, no increase in expense, and no loss of prestige. With this precedent established and the plan in successful operation we may look forward to a speedier fulfillment of several other projects that have long been desired or needed. The fundamental objection to some of them is that of thb University to embarking in business enterprises not essential to instruction. A TO^eίslΦy press; for example, is a business enterprise in which there is income from operation and not merely expense. A few of the items of income and outgo on the University's books are essentially items that could be entrusted to an outside corporation operating a university press for it. The various grants now made by the University for publishing the results ofresearch plus an annual subsidy of a few thousand dollars for additional needed output, could effect the organization of a publishing corporation, usually entitled a University Press. The organization could, in its early years, publish only the works that its income from subsidies would pay for. In a short time, however, the income from sales would augment the subsidies, with the resultant possible increase in output. Eventually the income would carry the expense, subsidies from the University treasury would no longer be needed, and the publishing enterprise would be self supporting. It could await an endowment with the assurance that it was accomplishing something of real value that would attract the attention of prospective donors. One important objection to embarking in the publishing business would be removed if the business were handled by an outside corporation organized on lines similar to those of the Athletic Association. Several other enterprises offer attractive possibilities for cooperation of this sort. Musical and dramatic agencies of all sorts would be on a stabler foundation if all the music and dramatics of the University, except their teaching, were fostered by a stabilizing organization that would handle the business now operated by the University, by several minor corporations, and by anumber of loose associations. Possibly the student publications also could be benefited bya centralized control, with training along proper lines, and a certain official recognition other than penal. The University officers, particularly those of instruction, are justified in feeling that their business is teaching and research and that the University should not embark on commercial enterprises to the detriment of its prime objects. The employment or encouragement of independent but con,trolable organizations to handle such business as the University needs to have done but doesn't want to do for itself seems justifiable, desirable, and expeditious. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION At the meeting of the American Historical Association held at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on December 27-9, the following papers were presentedby Cornellians: "A By-Product of the Law," Mrs. Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, of the Massachusetts Bar, widow of the late Professor Ralph C. H. Catterall of the Department of History; "Communism During The French Revolution, 1789-93," Professor Louis R. Gottschalk '19, of the University ofLouisville, Ky.; and αThe Crime of Witchcraft," Professor George L. Burr '81. Professor Arthur C. Howland '93, of the University of Pennsylvania, presided at the group meeting on the History of Law and Professor Wallace Notestein at the group meeting for English History. OBITUARY Walter J. Stewart '72 Word has just reached Ithaca of the death on December 25, 1917, at Walnut Creek, Calif., of Walter Jones Stewart. He was born at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., and after obtaining his early education there, came to Cornell in 1868 as a student in the scientific course. He remained but one year and since then no further word from him had been received. Charles A. Smedberg '72 Charles Augustus Smedberg died at his home in Saugerties, N. Y., on October 9, 1923. He was born in Saugerties and received his early training there. In 1868, he entered Cornell as a student in the agricultural course but remained only one year. Since then, nothing had been heard from him and it is believed that he returned to his home to engage in business. Stimpson J. Brown '75 Commodore Stimpson Joseph Brown died suddenly on December 20 in Nice, France, where he was spending some time with his wife. He was born on September 17, 1854, at Penn Yan, N. Y., the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Randolph Brown. He entered Cornell in 1871 as a student of civil engineering and after one year left to enter the United States Naval Academy, from which he graduated at the head of his class in 1876. From 1879 to 1881 he was in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and beginning in October, 1883, was a professor of mathematics at the Naval Academy. From 1898 to 1901 he was astronomical director ofthe United States Naval Observatory. In 1900 he was made a director of the Nautical Almanac and in 1907 became head of the department of mathematics and mechanics at the Academy. In the period of 1885 to 1887 he observed for the Catalogue of Stars of the Berliner Jahrbuch at Annapolis and from 1887 to 1890 at the observatory at the University of .Wisconsin. He was the author ofseveral scientific memoirs inastronomical journals which were founded upon original observations and researches, and also the author of a textbook on algebra, analytical geometry, trigonometry and calculus for the use of midshipmen. Since 1912 he had been a member of the special Naval Board on Ordnance. He is survived by his wife and three daughters, Mrs. E. C. Kalbfus, Mrs. C. B. Mirick, and Mrs. M. E. Shearer. I t is expected that his body will be returned to this country early in February and that interment will be made in the Arlington National Cemetery at Washington, D. C. Albert J. Wing '80 Captain Albert John Wing died suddenly at his home in Albany, N. Y., on Christmas Day while at his dinner. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 191 He was born in Albany and after attending the Albany Academy entered Cornell in 1876 as a student in science and letters, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1880. He was a member of Chi Phi and of the varsity baseball team. Until about five years ago he had been actively engaged with his brother in the wholesale grocery firm of Wing Brothers and Hartt of Albany. At that timehe retired. He had always taken an active interest in the Albany Academy cadet battalion and was aformer captain of the Tenth Battalion. He is survived byhis wife and two daughters, Mrs. Raymond H. Smithof Pelham, N. Y., and Miss Helen Wing of Albany. Hugh C. Himrod '94 Belated news has been received ofthe death on May 22,1920, at Greystone Park, N. J., of Hugh Carpenter Himrod of chronic myocarditis. He came to Cornell from Brooklyn, N. Y., as a student of architecture in 1890and graduated in 1894 with the degree of B.S. in Arch. Walter Howard '95 Walter Howard died at his home in Geneva, N. Y., on May 25, 1923, as the result of astroke of apoplexy. He was born in Washington, N. C , in May 3, 1873, and after attending Lehigh University for one year, came to Cornell in 1892 as a student ofmechanical engineering. He remained but one year. For the last twenty-five years he had been a resident of Geneva and for four years was amember of the board of public works, during which time he brought about many improvements in the city.In the business world he was interested in a foundry, an optical company, of which he was the manager, and oil fields. At one time he was mentioned as a candidate for Member of Congress, but ill health caused him to decline the honor. He is survived by his wife and three sisters, Mrs. John Backenbaugh of Hagerstown, Md., and the Misses Lucy and Mary Howard of Geneva, besides three brothers, William M. Howard of Hagerstown, Md., John M. H. Howard, Lehigh '87, of Latrobe, Pa., and George Howard of Los Angeles, Calif. James M. Wilson '97 It has just been learned that James Mustill Wilson died on August 14, 1922. He was born in Albion, N. Y., on December 27, 1874, and entered Cornell in 1893 as a student of civil engineering. He remained for two years. Since then no word had been received about him. Ralph C. Rodgers '05 Ralph Chapman Rodgers died suddenly at his home in New York on January 11 from an attack of acute indigestion, following a serious illness ofptomaine poisoning last month. He was born in Binghamton, N. Y., on July 13, 1882,and after attending Mercers- burg Academy, entered Cornell in 1901 as a student of. mechanical engineering. He received the degree ofM. E. in1905 and then became an instructor in the Physics Department. In 1908 he received the degree of A.M. and in 1919 received his Ph.D. degree. While aresident of Ithaca, he became a member of the Rotary Club as well as the Masonic order. In 1921 he resigned his position at the University to become executive secretary of the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York, the position which he held at his death. Rodgers was a member of Delta Upsilon, the Glee Club Quartette, the Masque, and the Savage Club. He won a reputation asa singer and for some time was soloist in an Ithaca church. When he went to New York he became the tenor soloist in the Church of St. Edward. In 1913 he was married to Miss Ruth Blackman of Ithaca, who at that time was a well-known soprano soloist and who has since attained considerable fame in New York and other cities. Besides his wife, he issurvived by his mother, Mrs. John Anderson of Bingham,tonandtwo brothers, Bert Rodgers of New York and Charles Rodgers of Chicago. LITERARY REVIEW Aristotle on Poetry The Poetics of Aristotle'. Its Meaning and Influence. By Lane Cooper. Boston. Marshall Jones Co. 1923. 19.7 cm., pp. x, 157. Our Debt to Greece and Rome No. 6. Professor Lane Cooper's devotion to the study of Aristotle is well known. In our issue of June 28 we reviewed his ''Aristotelian Theory of Comedy." One of his pupils in 1919 collected "The Utterances of Some English Poets on the Poetics of Aristotle" and another is now writing a doctoral thesis on the influence of Aristotle on English literature. Itwas to be expected, then, that Cooper should write on this subject in this series, which we described in our review of Dr. RohVs book in the issue of October 11. Professor Cooper has done a careful, well written, scholarly, and judicious piece ofwork, which will bring credit tohim as well as tothe series of which it forms a part. One might indeed do worse than pursue the study of Aristotle. After twenty-two centuries he stands out as one of the great minds of Grecian antiquity, notas a creator inthe Greek sense of the word poet, but as a student of the orderly and regular processes of the natural world, including the human mind, and as aproducer of what has been called creative criticism. Contrarily to what has sometimes been supposed of him, he did not merely look into his heart and write down the eternal canons of epos and tragedy; he. came late into the world and he was a wide reader. It is scarcely to be assumed, on the other hand, that he had read every epic and every tragedy extant inhis day; for there were more than athousand tragedies alone, ofwhich fewer than two score remain, while there was also a vast body of epic poetry, of which little besides Homer is left, and a deal of comedy. What Aristotle did, then, was to record how tragedy was written by the successful producers of tragedy. Only by implication did he point out that tragedy was to be written after this manner. He was not responsible for the modern doctrine of the unity of place, and as for unity of time, he only records his impression that the dramatists of his time tried to confine the action within the limits of one revolution of the sun. For Aristotle, poetry was the imaginative reproduction or imitation of life, was primarily for the purpose of delight, that is, satisfaction of man's craving for beauty. Tragedy was an imitation of a serious action of magnitude, complete in itself, in embellished language (rhythmical, metrical, intoned, or sung) presented directly, not narrated, through pity and fear effecting a purification of these emotions. The plot was the main thing; but character, thought, and diction were also important and music and an impressive spectacle were not to be ignored. The last seven chapters deal with the place and influence of the "Poetics" in medieval and modern literature. To the student of-human thought it is most interesting to see how Aristotle fared in competition, as it were, with the Hor^tian and with the Christian tradition, and how the breadth and sanity ofhis views won for him increasing recognition as he cameto be better understood through more fruitful study. As our author rightly remarks, "the growing attention to the Toetics' is a hopeful sign in an age of excessive individualism; the treatise will alwaj^s serve as an antidote toanarchy in criticism." Books and Magazine Articles In The Sibley Journal of Engineering for December Henry Schroeder, ofthe General Electric Company, describes "The Development of Electric Lighting." F. S. B. Heward describes "The HowdenLjungstrom Air Pre-Heater." J. Birdsall Calkins '16, plant engineer of the Columbia Rope Company of Auburn, writes on "The Plant Engineer." Professor Vladimir Karapetoff presents "Some Desirable Human Characteristics in Members of an Organization" and solves "A Problem on Eccentric Slider-Crank M e c h a n i s m . " There is a review of "Protective Geometry" by Professor Peter Field, Ph. D. '02, of the University of Michigan, which has just been issued by the D. Van Nostrand Company of New York. The book contains 98 pages and sells for $2. In The American Journal of Psychology for January Albert Clayton Reid writes on "The Effect ofVaried Instruction on the Perception ofLifted Weights." Professor 192 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Edwin G. Boring Ό8, of Harvard, discusses the question, "Is There a Generalized Psychometric Function?" P r o f e s s o r Frank Angell, of Stanford, in 1891-2 assistant professor of psychology here, contributes "Notes onthe Horizon Illusion." Professor Margaret F. Washburn, Ph.D. '94, of Vassar, and two of her students atVassar contribute "A Further Study of Revived Emotions." Doris Dewey '21 and Professor Karl M. Dallenbach, Ph.D. '13, write on "Size vs. Intensity as a Determinant of Attention." Martha Elliott '21, Jean West, and Professor Louis B. Hoisington, Ph.D. '20, discuss "The Spatial Limen forthe Four Principal Film Colors." J. Frobes's "Lehrbuch der experimentellen Psychologie," Band i., 2d and 3d editions, is reviewed by Professor Harry P. Weld. Charles Platt's "The Psychology of Social Life" is reviewed by Professor River da H. Jordan. Gilbert J. Rich '15, of the University of Pittsburgh, has a note on "The Functions of the Sympathetic System in Current Psychological Texts." Professor Dallenbach describes what he takes to be some "Recurrent Images." Dr. Homer G. Bishop '17 describes "A Simple Apparatus for the Determination of the RL or DL of Color by the Method of Constant Stimuli." Professor Edward B. Titchener has abrief note on "The Term Attensity." A COMPLIMENT FROM BOSTON The writer of "The Ruralist and His Problems" in The Christian Science Monitor for November 24 has this to say about the Agriculture College news service: "If this column seems tobebetter informed about Cornell than about other universities that have colleges of agriculture, it is because the Cornell office of publications and publicity is sothorough in its job ofacquainting the papers of New York State, and all publicists who are interested, with the college activities. I t is not the only State college that sends out regular weekly news letters; but no college has a more adequate service than Cornell, where, if the Ruralist's memory is accurate, this type of college publicity was first attempted. They have all along believed in the value of keeping New York State people fully informed about the doings of the college their money supports. But they have done more than that. "Holding that it is within the scopeof an agricultural college to seek to strengthen and vitalize rural institutions, Cornell has sought, in every way possible, to serve the newspapers of the country communities, not only with news oftheir own work, but with features on rural life, suggestions for interesting 'stories' about farming, and regular contributions of agricultural and household hints for country readers. Many tural College at Cornell, Bristow Adams; who bears the title ofeditor, has probably trained more and better editors for agricultural publications and country newspapers than any other teacher of journalism." CORNELL AT CARNEGIE TECH Four graduates of Cornell are now members of the faculty of the Carnegie Institute ofTechnology at Pittsburgh, Pa. Boyd C. Dennison, M.E. '04, M.M.E. '08, is associate professor in the department of electrical engineering. H. Kenneth Kirk-Patrick A.B. '14, and Valentine B. Windt, A.B. '21, are instructors in the Department of English. Edwin G. Olds, A.B. Ί 8 , is an instructor in the Department of Mathematics. NEW YORK CHARITIES Prizes amounting to$1,750 are offered by Better Times, of which George J. Hecht' 17 is editor, for the best plan for the further co-ordination of charitable and social work in the City ofNew York. In making this offer Better Times is prompted by the belief that, while cooperation is general among the larger charitable and social welfare organizations of the city, there is still opportunityfor much more effective coordination of effort among the two thousand existing benevo- In The Lehigh Alumni Bulletin for De- a weekly editor in the Empire State leaves lent agencies in the city. It is aware of the cember is printed a part of President space for the sheet of epigrammatic growing desire among social agencies to Richards's address on "Intercollegiate 'agrigraphs' that Bristow Adams, agricul- come together for better service, and is Athletics" delivered at the University of tural editor at Cornell, sends him, as he cognizant of theincreasing pressure of Nebraska, on October 20. would for the work of a trusted staff corre- public opinion for a more closely knit In Science for December 21 Dr. David Starr Jordan '72 writes on "John Thomas Gulick, Missionary and Darwinian." In The Independent for December 22 Professor Preserved Smith's "Erasmus" is reviewed by Professor A. J. Barnouw of Columbia. Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, sister of Robert L. Stanton '80 and Theodore Stanton '74 and mother ofMrs. Nora Blatch Barney '05, answers in the negative the question "Can Sex Equality Be Legislated?" spondent. And the parallel sheet, called Ήomespun Yarn/ is equally welcome in the women's pages. "It was from this week's batch of news stories from the Cornell office of publications, that the Ruralist learned about the bee's long distance quest, and the novel anti-freezing mixture for radiators. In the same envelope came several other news articles, a feature for weekly papers called Ά Game a Week' (this week's installment was a detailed description of the game of 'Gypsy'), and an announcement that the organization for the administration of charitable funds. The prize offer is made therefore in an effort to crystalize the thinking that is going on among those interested both professionally and unprofessionally in social welfare work in the city. It is believed that it will not only produce a practical and helpful plan, but will have the equally important effect of stimulating public interest and thought on the social needs of the city and onthe variety and extent of the efforts, public and private, to meet them. In The South Atlantic Quarterlyfor October Professor Joseph Q. Adams's "Life of William Shakespeare" is favorably reviewed by Professor Allan H. Gilbert '09, of Trinity College, Durham. The second number of The Chicago Cornellian keeps up the high standardof that interesting little sheet. Carlton P. Rex '13, who is at once registrar of the club and editor of the paper, is supplying an important link in the chain which keeps together the many hundreds of Cornell men in Chicago. This number contains a particularly graceful tribute to Coach Moakley. In the Syracuse Alumni News for December Professor William L. Bray '93 writes on "The College ofliberal Arts" of agricultural college is prepared tohandle requests for special programs for holiday celebrations. Their suggested programs Three prizes will be awarded: thefirstof $1,000, the second of $400, and the third of $250. include historical plays, pageants, songs, The plans submitted must provide for menus and decorations, s u i t a b l e for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Washington and (1) more effective cooperation among the social agencies, public and private; (2) Lincoln's Birthdays, St. Valentine's Day, co-ordinated planning for social needs; Easter, the Fourth of July, and so on (3) increasing public understanding of around the calendar. these needs, of the agencies dealing with "Cornell has fostered worthy and enter- them, and of the results being achieved. prising rural journalism by theannual The plan submitted should describe newspaper conferences at Ithaca, and the definitely the practical steps tobetaken newspaper contest for best 'make-up/ in carrying out the program suggested, best stories, best editorial page, for the which may be on a city-wide or a borough strictly country weekly. The publicity basis. office has done much too, to propagate The contest is open to any individual, Cornell's pioneer service in developing organization, or group of individuals. interest in typical rural drama and its pre- No limit is set as to the number of words sentation by amateur casts to country in the plans submitted but preferably Syracuse, of which he is acting dean. audiences. Besides directing the work of they should not exceed five thousand There isaportrait ofProfessor Bray. publicity and publications ofthe Agricul- words. A summary of not exceeding five CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 193 GEORGE F. BAKER, DONOR OF NEW LABORATORY Photos by MacMillan These photographs, enlarged by John P. Troy from moving picture films taken by B. R.MacMillan, of the Medical College n Ithaca, show the official party just outside the new Baker Laboratory of Chemistry as they were going into the building on December 22. These "movies" were made for the Alumni Representative and will soon be available athis office for loaning to Cornell meetings throughout the country. hundred words must accompany each plan. Contestants may, if they wish, submit more than one plan. Manuscripts must be typewritten on only one side of the paper. They must not be accompanied by letters which might disclose the identity of the author. The plans must not bear the name of the author or contain anything by which the author might be identified. Each manuscript must have attached to it a plain sealed envelope containing the author's name and address. All manuscripts must be received at the office of Better Times, 100 Gold Street, New York, by April 1, 1924. INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan is raising a fund of a million dollars for a School of Religion. Two hundred thousand will be required for land, three hundred thousand for the first building, and five hundred thousand forendowment. There will be a faculty ofabout five, and courses will be given in Great Living Religions of the East, History of Judaism and Christianity; The Literature of the Old Testament, The Literature of the New Testament, The Psychology of Religion, History of the Hebrew Commonwealth, The Life of Jesus and of Paul, The Principles of Religious Education, and Social Ethics and Organization. Allsectarianism and denominational controversy will be avoided. THE BOARD of Trustees of Stanford is to be assisted in itsadministration of the affairs of the university by the Stanford National Board, tobemade up of thirty members, elected by thetrustees on a geographical basis for a three-year term. It will be representative of all parts ofthe country; not more than eleven members may be elected from the State of California. It will meet once or twice a year with the Board of Trustees and will be kept constantly informed of the action taken by the board. Its members will serve as authorative centers of information to the public and the alumni THE UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania has received from the executors of the late Henry C. Lea, who died in 1909, what is said to be the finest library of medieval history in existence. It contains some twenty thousand volumes, with many rare manuscripts and incunabula. With it went funds amounting to nearly $100,000 for the erection of an annex to house itand provide funds for necessary additions and replacements. THE MUSEUM of the University of Pennsylvania, through Mr. H.U.Hall, is conducting studies of the remains of prehistoric man insouthern France, supposing to be the site ofthe oldest civilization in western Europe. Alumni Directors Meet Corporation Board Holds First Official Session in New York Club—Set Convention for November 14-15 The first meeting ofthe Board of Directors of the Cornell Alumni Corporation since the convention in Buffalo, held on Saturday, January 12, was attended by every director who was not illor unavoidably detained byother engagements. The directors met at the Cornell Club in New York, the first' formal meeting of any alumni body in the new quarters. The meeting opened at ten o'clock in the morning and adjourned at three. The Board set the dates for the alumni convention in New York next fall, established the budget and the amount of the per capita tax, of the constituent clubs, appropriated asubstantial sum toward the expenses of the convention in Buffalo last fall, and discussed the proposal to publish a record of the service ofCornellians in the war. But of most importance was a general exchange of ideas on the possibilities for constructive work for the University by her alumni, with particular reference to the part to be played by the Corporation. It was the consensus ofopinion that there was no alumni work ofgreater importance than the creation oflocal alumni clubs and the further development of clubs already organized. President Farrand, Neal Dow Becker '05, president of the Cornell Club of New York, R. Harold Shreve '02, and Harold Flack '12, with the directors were the guests of Walter P. Cooke '91, president of the Corporation, at luncheon, during which the meeting was continued. The alumni convention will be held in connection with the Dartmouth football game in New York, on Friday and Saturday, November 14and 15. Further details were discussed, to be announced later. The per capita taxonthe clubs will be twenty-five cents for each member, the same as it has been in recent years. Last fall forty-four of the clubs paid that tax and were thus eligible to participate in the proceedings of the convention. The budget for the current year, $1100, includes $750 toward the expenses of the convention. In addition to the guests referred to, directors present were Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04, of the Metropolitan District; Dr. Walter H. McNeill Ί o , ofthe Eastern New York District; Walter P. Cooke '91, o\ the Western New York District; Archie C. Burnett '90, of the New England District; Andrew J. Whinery Ί o , of the Middle Atlantic District Joseph K Pew, Jr., '08, of the Keystone District; Dr. Frederick V. Coville '87. of the Southern District with William W. Macon '98, treasurer, Foster M. Coffin '12, secretary. 194 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NOTES '74—Dr. William F. Hillebrand, a former president of the American C h e m i c a l Society, was entertained at a meeting of the Chemical Society of Washington, D. C , at theCosmos Club on December 15, in honor of his seventieth birthday. }yj—On January 10,Professor William F. E.Gurley, curator of the mv seum at the University of Chicago, broadcast two of his original poems from Station WMAQ under the auspices of TheChicago Daily News. He resides at 6151 University Avenue, and would be glad to hear from Cornellians who may have tuned in on his poems. '90 BSAreh—On January 1, Alexander B. Trowbridge opened new offices in the Bowery Savings Bank Building, n o East Forty-second Street, New York, as an architectural adviser, giving consultation service only. He specializes in the analysis of properties and building sites, economic study of projects, selection of architects, preparation of plans, andconstruction of buildings and vaults for banks. '92 PhB—The Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas, is to have a School of Citizenship, the director of which will be Professor Edwin DuBois Shurter, who recently resigned the chair of public speaking in the University of Texas, a chair which he hadheld for many years. Mrs. Ora Nixon Arnold of Dallas has given the university $120,000 to endow a chair of American statesmanship and has named Dr. Shurter asincumbent of this chair and head of the School of Citizenship. In making the announcement of this gift President C. C. Selecman of the Southern Methodist University says: "The University isexceedingly fortunate in securing the services of Dr. Shurter. A former teacher at Stanford and Cornell Universities, and for many years professor of public speaking at theUniversity of Texas, an author of national reputation, he is peculiarly well qualified by training and experience to serve as director of this new school. The University Interscholastic League, which Dr. Shurter organized and of which he was State chairman for twelve years, is generally recognized as one of the best citizenship training organizations in Texas, and indeed in America. He resigned from his position at the State University for the purpose of developing a citizenship training program for all the schools and colleges of America." '92 LLB—Sidney Jay Kelly is enengaged in the general practice of law in Syracuse, N. Y., where he has beenlocated for the past twenty years. His address is 923-925 University Block. '94 AB—The University of Chicago Magazine for December says: "The portrait of Dean James Parker Hall, painted by Leopold Seyffert, which was presented by the Law School Association at its annual dinner last June to the University, was awarded the Potter Gold Medal, with a prize of $1,000, at the Thirty-sixth Annual Exihbition of American Paintings and Sculpture, now in progress at theArt Institute, Chicago. This prize is awarded each year for either painting or sculpture executed within the preceding two years by an American citizen. As soon as the exhibition is over, the portrait will hang in the library of the Law School." '97 AB, '03 PhD—Professor George M. Dutcher, of Wesleyan, is lecturing twice a week at Harvard on early English history, taking the place of a member of the Harvard faculty who is absent on leave. '98 BSA—Professor William A. Stocking, Jr., was reelected president of the New York State Dairymen's Association at their annual meeting in Syracuse, N. Y., on January 8. Heis now engaged in research work inthe Dairy Department. '99 CE—Malcolm A. Rueis now with the American Steel Company of Cuba. His address is Apartado 654, Havana, Cuba. '00 BS—John Ihlder was recently elected president of the Washington, D. C, Council of Social Agencies. '02 AB—At theannual meeting of the Missouri State Teachers' Association held in St. Louis during the first week in December, Albert H. Huntington, assistant principal of theYeatman High School in that city, ledthe discussion on the subject of general mathematics. '03 ME—Chester T. Reed, who is with the Reed and Prince Manufacturing Company inWorcester, Mass., writes that he is planning a meeting of Cornellians in that vicinity sometime the latter part of this month. '03 ME—Stuart Hazlewood is vicepresident in charge of sales of the Midvale Company, which is operating the Nicetown plant, formerly a part of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company. Before the War, this property was known asthe Midvale Steel Company. His address is in care of the company, Nicetown, Philadelphia, Pa. '05 AB-—Andrew W. Newberry left New York on August 8 for a trip around the world to include three months in British East Africa where he is at present and where he is engaged in the hazardous sport of big game hunting. When he is attending tobusiness, heis a mining engineer with offices at 2 Rector Street, New York. Norman B. Livermore '95, accompanied him on the trip. '05 ME—Rudolph L. Weber is an electrical engineer for the Kansas City Railways Company, with offices at 1500 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. He is in charge of power engineering and power sales inconnection with their 50,000 K. W. system. '06 ME—John R. Cautley writes that he has become associated with Vincent Bendix in the Perrot Brake Corporation at South Bend, Ind.,manufacturers of four-wheel braking systems. Cautley is in charge of operations as vice-president and general manager. '07 CE—Paul B. Lumm has been elected president of the Washington Automotive Trade Association. He is manager of the Autocar Sales and Service Company in Washington. '08, '09 ME—Arthur H. Leavitt is district representative for Dodge Brothers of Detroit, with offices at 1208 Gotham National Bank Building, New York. He was formerly located at Kansas City. Ό9-Ί0 G—George T. Coleman is now United States Consul at Ponta Arenas, Chile. '09 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Creed W. Fulton of Seneca Falls, N. Y.,announce the arrival of their third daughter, Carol Reid, on Christmas Day. '12 LLB—Henry Koch was recently appointed counsel to Sheriff-elect Mason 0. Smedley of Queens County, N. Y. Koch has a large and increasing lawpractice at 417 Steinway Avenue, Long Island City. '12 AB—Jacob S. Fassett, Jr., writes that he hasa delightful but small part in Walter Hampden's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac." Onthe stage he uses the name of Jay, and invites all Cornellians to witness the production. He offers a prize to anyone who can recognize himin his part. '13, Ί 6 AB—Mr. andMrs. William J. Corrigan (Marjorie Wilson '13)announce the birth last Thanksgiving Day of a son, William Howard. They are living at their new residence, 157 E u c l i d Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio. '13 AB, 14 AM—Lewis H. Boulter is teaching English in the Academy at Woodmere, Long Island. He visited Ithaca with his wife during the holidays. '14 CE—Edmond IT. Ragland is manager of the Granite Curb Company with headquarters at 228 West Fisher Street, Salisbury, N. C. '15 LLB—Donald B. Munsick, whowas formerly associated with Lum, Tamblyn and Colyer, announces that he has opened an office for the general practice of law at 813 Prudential Building, Newark, N. J. '15 AB—Joseph Silbert is a wholesale and manufacturing optician and is located at 47 West Huron Street, Buffalo, N. Y. He expects to receive the degree of LL.B. from the University of Buffalo in June. '15 AB—J. Richey Horner, Jr., is a salesman for the Manchester, N.H., agency of the National Cash Register Company and is located at 117 Clarke Street. He and hiswife moved there last March andthey announce thebirth of a son, J. Richey Horner, 3d, September 20. '16 BChem—George S. Babcock ison the chemical staff of the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N. Y.,and is living at 278 Alexander Street. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 195 To all forwards who are playing center Published in the interest ofElectrical Development by an Institution that will be helped by what' ever helps the Industry. " Π P H E little fellow hasn't got the reach. Why -•- don't they put himat forward where he belongs?" Youhave heard comment like that about some mis-positioned player. Just look out they don't talk that way about you — not in athletics but inyour field of work after college. The world is full ofdoctors who should have been lawyers, and lawyers whoshould have been writers—men who can't do their best work because they haven't gotthe reach. You still can avoid their haphazard choice of a career. Some earnest thinking on the subject, "What do I really want to do in life?*' will help you decide right. That's a real problem. Get allthe advice you can—from the faculty, from alumni, from men in business. If you find you have made a false start, change now andsave yourself a lot of grief—for once you graduate into a profession, the chances are you'll stay in it. Wherever people look to electricity for the comforts and conveniences of life today, the Western Electric Company offers a service as broad as the functions of electricity itself. Number 35 of a series 196 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Ί 6 BChem—Charles M. Carrier is superintendent ofthe Bureau ofEconomy of the Great Northern Paper Company at Millinochet, Me. '17 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. George B. (Pork) Howell announce the birth ofa son and daughter on January 7. Howell is associated with the firm of J. C. Stowell and Company, wholesale grocers in Ithaca, and recently erected anew house on Cayuga Heights Road. '17—Raymond A. Knowles is practicing law in Niagara Falls, N. Y., with offices in the Gluck B u i l d i n g . He and Mrs. Knowles announce the birth of a son on November 1. They reside at LaSalle, New York. '17 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Hooker of Niagara Falls, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Huntington, to Ralph Harris Blanchard '17 of the same city. '17 BS—L. Vere Windnagle is teaching physics in the Washington High School, Portland, Oregon. He is also directorof athletics, and is actively coaching in track. The school football team has just won its fourth consecutive championship, having lost only two games in the four years. As chairman of athletics of the Multanomah Amateur Athletic Club Windnagle manages to keep in touch with track work throughout the Northwest. He lives at 5314 Forty-fifth Street, Portland. Ί 8 ME—Chen Kuis in the Railway Department, Ministry of Communications, Peking, China. He studied factory management for two years after graduation, with the Western Electric Company, and returning to China in December, 1919, joined the China Electric Company as production engineer. In May, 1920, he resigned from that company to be secretary to the director of the Chuhow-Chinchow Railway. Later he was transferred to the Ministry of Communications as chief of the division of foreign affairs in the railway department. He is also a member of the committee on the formulation of workshop accounts and a special delegate to inspect the store accounts of five governmental railways. '18 BS—Louis D. Samuels, who is a public accountant, has changed his offices to 152 West Forty-second Street, New York. He resides at 10 Willard Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y. Ί 8 ME—Dr. and Mrs. Carl G. LeoWolf, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., recently announced the engagement of their daughter, Helene, to William Harry Blew Ί 8 of Park Place in that city. Ί8, '20 DVM; Ί 8 BS—Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Duncan (J. Anna Phillips Ί8) announce the arrival of their first son, Charles Stuart, onSeptember 26. They are living at 42 Walnut Street, Binghamton, N. Y. Ί 8 AB, '21 MD—Robert Bush Me- Graw of New York was married on January 2 to Miss Catherine R. Ross of White Plains, N. Y.,in the First Presbyterian Church of Boston. Dr. McGraw has a position in the Bloomingdale Hospital in White Plains. Ί 8 , ?20 BS—George C. Sweet, Jr., is associated with the legal firm of Wilcox and Van Allen at 684Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Ϋ. He was married on August 25 to Miss Frances H. Farnham (Elimra College Ί8) and they reside at 828 Potomac Avenue. Ί 8 , '20 BArch—Charles A. Holcomb is living at 6 John Street, Reading, Mass., and is employed by the firm of Walter B. Snow at 60 High Street in Boston. '19 LLB—Alfred M. Saperston and his brother, Howard T. Saperston '21 (LL.B., Syracuse '21), are members of the law firm of Saperston, McNaughton and Saperston, located in the Mutual Life Building, Buffalo, N. Y. - '19—John W. de Forest is an agency assistant in the life, accident, and group departments of the Travelers Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn. '19 CE—George S. Hiscock is now a graduate student at Cornell, holding the McGraw Fellowship. '19 AB—Mahlon H. Beakes, who is connected with the Beakes Dairy Company in New York, was married on October 6 to Miss Beatrice E. Sillo. They reside at 801 Riverside Drive. '20, '21 ME—Edward L. Solomon is an engineer with the Max Solomon Company at 1424 Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. '20, '21 AB—Fred V. N. Bradley is purchasing agent for the Bradley Transportation Company at Rogers, Mich. The firm owns and operates four of the largest selfunloading freighters on the Great Lakes. '20 BS—Cornelia Adele Munsell ofNew Hartford, N. Y., was married on December 27 to James E. Montgomery of Richmond, Va., a graduate of Indiana and George Washington Universities, who is engaged in extension work for LaSalle University. For the last three years, Mrs. Montgomery has taught domestic science in Washington, D. C , where she was a member of the Endion Club. Her husband was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha atIndiana and the Wandering Greeks at George Washington. They are living at 2620 West Grace Street, Richmond. '20 AB—Raymond T. Anderson, who is associated with the Shreveport Lumber Company, at Shreveport, La., writes in to ask if it is true that Gilmour Dobie has lost only three games in the last eighteen years. The answer is Yes. Anderson can be reached at P. O. Box 28. '20 '23 PhD—Ernest W. Nelson isassistant professor ofhistory in the University of South Dakota,, Vermilion, S. D. '22 ME—Frank Nitzberg is continuing his engineering apprentice work-at .the Barberton plant of the Babcock and Wilcox Company at Barberton, Ohio. He is living at the City Club. '22 AB—Marion Von Beck is the head of the French Department in the Carbondale, Pa., High School. She lives at 16 Terrace Street. '22 AB—Bertha H. Funnell is director of personnel in the factory ofR. H. Macy & Company at Huntington, Long Island. '22 AB—Esther M. Platt was married on December 29 toW. Terry Osborne in the First Presbyterian Church at Port Jefferson, L. I. Her husband is a graduate of Springfield Y. M. C . A. College and received his master's degree at Clark University last June. They are to reside at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where Mr. Osborne is instructing in Arcadia University. The bride was attended by Elizabeth Ward '22, Margaret Ward Hickey '22, and Marcia Schenck '21. Among the ushers were Milton Koehler '21 and James Hickey '22. '22 LLB—Herbert H. Ray is a member of the law firm of McManus, Buckley and Ray, Binghamton, N. Y. J22 BChem—Felix E. Reifschneider is an instructor at Cornell and isworking for a doctor's degree. He received the degree of M. A. from Columbia in 1923. '23 BS—Miss Maria Seguin announced her engagement to Professor John Bentley, Jr., of the Forestry Department, on December 20. '23—Mrs. Estelle C. Noon is a teacher of junior and senior English inthe Lambertville, N. J., High School. She lives at 47 Delaware Avenue. '23 ME—Raymond O. Ford is in the engineering department of the Western Electric Company at 463West Street, New York, and is living at 85 Hillyer Street, Orange, N.J. '23 BS—Alice A. C. Carlson left her home in Ithaca on January 1 to be an assistant to the head of the Department of Botany at the University of California. She intends to teach and also do research work. '23 AB—Katharine Husted is teaching English in the Frostburg, Maryland, High School. '23 AB-*-Evelyn A. Ihrig is doing graduate work at Columbia. '23 BS—Marjorie M. Hannifan is teaching in the High School at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. '23 ME—Donald M. Knipe is in t-he Gautier Rolling Mills at the Cambria Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company. He lives at the Y. M. C. A. in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. '23 BS—Norman H. Eason recently accepted the position as county agent of Tioga County, N. Y. He was been working in Montgomery County as assistant county agent. 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