VOL. XXXI, No. 10 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] NOVEMBER 29, 1928 Student Council and Many Undergraduates Favor Continuance of Daylight Saving Medical Office Issues Report Regarding Student Interest in Health Upkeep Medical College Beneficiary by Will of Payne Whitney to Amount of $2,283,000 Middle Western Teams Added to Varsity Basketball Schedule This Season Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. Subscription $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca. N. Y. Postmaster: Return postage guaranteed. Use form 3578 for undeliverable copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Here is Your Timetable to and from ITHACA These convenient Jjβhigh Valley trains link Ithaca with Pennsylvania Station, New York, and Reading Terminal, Philadelphia every day. Standard Time Lv New York Lv. Newark Lv. Philadelphia Ar. Ithaca Lv. Ithaca Ar. Philadelphia Ar. Newark Ar. New York 8.50 A.M. 9.24 A.M. 9.20 A.M. 449 P.M. 8.49 A.M. 5 O3 P.M. 5 I2 P.M. 545 P.M. II.50 A.M. 12.24 P.M. 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D.D., S:T.D., Head-Master Mercersburg, Pennsylvania CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XXXI, No. 10 ITHACA, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 2.9, 19x8 PRICE 12. CENTS Radio Fading Studied Professor Ernest Merritt '86 Presents Results of Investigations at Scientists' Meeting A new method of studying the phenomena of fading and erratic changes in the apparent direction of radio waves was presented to the National Academy of Sciences at Schenectady on November 20 in a paper read by Professor Ernest Merritt '86. This problem of fading is vital to airplane pilots. "While a change in apparent direction may not cause any annoyance when one is listening to a musical program or a political speech," the paper stated, "it may be a life and death matter for the pilot of an airplane," because of the effect it has on his radio compass. "There seems to be little doubt," the paper continued, "that radio signals may be transmitted from the sending to the receiving station along at least two different paths. The 'ground wave' follows the surface of the earth in much the same way that shorter waves are known to follow a wire. The 'sky wave' starts obliquely upward from the sending station and reaches the observer after being bent or reflected by the KennellyHeaviside layer of highly ionized air. "Both are subject to absorption due to the conductivity of the air, and the sky wave may have its plane of polarization rotated because of the earth's magnetic field. For example, while the sky wave may start out with its electric field in the vertical plane, it may be so twisted by the action of the earth's magnetic field that it arrives with its electric force horizontal. "Changes in the atmospheric conditions will affect the two waves differently, so that when they combine to produce a signal at the receiving station the result is very complicated and confusing, as is evidenced by the fading observed in broadcast reception and by the erratic changes in the apparent direction of the waves as indicated by the radio compass." Instead of studying fading and direction changes by the usual method of observing the combined effect of the ground and sky waves, Professor Merritt said that he had found it possible to investigate them separately by using, in effect, two radio compasses, one pointed toward the sending station and the other at right angles. The latter cannot pick up the ground wave, but will respond when the electric force of the sky wave is horizontal while the former receiver responds to the combined effect of the ground wave and the vertical components of the sky wave. Observations made by this method, he declared, confirm the view that fading may result from several widely different causes, such as the changing polarization of the sky wave in some cases, and interference in others. Professor Merritt has been conducting experiments in radio fading from the tower which was erected on Upper Alumni Field last spring. He has been able to record radio fading with the oscilloscope, an invention of Professor Frederick Bedell, M.S. '91. Professor Bedell read a paper at the Academy meeting on the results of his study of the flickerings of the ordinary electric light bulb as recorded by the oscilloscope. The instrument records graphically and measures the vibrations of electric currents TAU BETA PI ELECTIONS The following have been elected to Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity: ARCHITECTURE Charles C. Porter '29 of East Orange, N. J. CIVIL ENGINEERING Professor Charles E. O'Rourke '17. John B. Hopkins '29 of Troy. Harold B. Zuehlke '29 of Appleton, Wis. Joseph C. Pursglove '30 of Lakewood, Ohio. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Eben H. Carruthers '29 of Astoria, Ore. Harry J. Loberg '29 of Muskegon, Mich. John F. Perrigo '29 of Beloit, Wis. Charles E. Cleminshaw '30 of Cleveland, Ohio. George B. Emeny '30 of Salem, Ohio. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Karl F. Kellerman '29 of Washington, D. C. Paul N. Martin '29 of Brooklyn. MISS CORNELL HAS BIRTHDAY Miss Mary Cornell, only surviving child of Ezra Cornell, celebrated her eighty-first birthday on November 21 at her home in Ithaca. Miss Cornell has just completed her autobiography on which she has been engaged for the past year. It is said to contain much authoritative information regarding the early days of the University and new information about her father. Daylight Saving Discussed Student Council Favors Plan to Give Students Benefit of Daylight —Cornell Sun Approves Daylight Saving still holds a place of interest in the University community. It was brought into the limelight by the action of the Faculty on November 14, recommending the discontinuance of daylight saving time and appointing a committee to study ways and means of achieving the same result without recourse to changed clocks. The Board of Trustees, to which the action of the Faculty is referred, at its meeting on November 17 received the Faculty resolution, but failed to take action. On November 21, the Student Council passed the following resolution: "That the Student Council go on record as favoring the adoption of the present Daylight Saving Plan or the adoption of some similar plan that would give the students an equal amount of daylight after classes." An editorial in the November 22 issue of the Sun, headed "An Unfair Trial," read in part as follows: "The Sun is convinced that the Faculty did not give the Daylight Saving experiment a fair trial. Petty personal inconveniences, aggravated by an unwillingness to make adjustment, were allowed to carry too much weight in their decision, and their own benefits and those of the five thousand undergraduates for whom after all they are legislating, were not given their due attention. We do not think that the subject can honestly be considered closed until students have been shown conclusively that the disadvantages of Daylight Saving, in whatever form might be found best, outweigh the advanίages. "The Faculty action last week came as a sudden surprise, and apparently without any attempt to sound student opinion. Granting that Daylight Saving was instituted by Faculty action and consequently can be rescinded by Faculty action, nevertheless we were led to believe that it was instituted to satisfy an outstanding student need. . . . " Indications of a newspaper crusade were apparent when a second editorial was printed in the November 23 issue of the Sun. It read in part: "Daylight Saving is so natural an adjustment of man's day to fit the sun's day, and has been so universally accepted 110 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS in the towns and cities of the nation in recent years that the principle hardly demands justification. A few facts may serve as reminders, however. "On April i, approximately the date of the beginning of the Daylight Saving day, the sun rises at 5.44 a. m. and sets at 6.25 p. m., which is to say that one who starts the day at 7.30 o'clock in the morning is, even at this early date, one hour and three quarters behind the sun. By June 15 the sun is making its appearance at 4.21 a. m. and the 7.30 riser is three hours and nine minutes astern. Whereas there are fifteen hours and eighteen minutes of sunlight in the day, he is able to appreciate only slightly more than twelve hours. On October 1, when Daylight Saving usually comes to an end, the sun rises at 5.56 a. m., still one hour and thirty-four minutes ahead of the average citizen. "Assuming that man's natural habitat is on a sunlit earth, any attempt to adjust the working day to the sun day would seem but natural. We could afford to move our clocks ahead an hour and a half between April 1 and October 1 and yet never see the sun rise, but the laws adopted to date have limited the advance to an even hour. . . . "Those universities which are fortunate enough to be located in industrial cities profited along with the rest of the nation by the Daylight Saving plan, but those located in small towns or farm-supported cities, of which there are many, have been prevented from doing so. In this sense the educators and educated have been the last to accept a simple but enlightened project." ATHLETICS Meets for Fencers Four dual meets and one triangular meet have been scheduled for the fencing team before the team participates in the annual intercollegiate meet in New York March 28 and 29. The season opens February 9. The schedule: February 9, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 15, Columbia at Ithaca; 23, Hamilton and Yale at Ithaca. March 2, New York University at Ithaca; 9, Princeton at Princeton; 16, open date; 28, 29, Intercollegiates at the Hotel Astor, New York. Basketball Schedules The Cornell varsity basketball team will play twenty games during the coming season, ten of them in the Drill Hall at Ithaca. Two contests will be played before the Christmas trip, which this season includes visits to Niagara at Niagara Falls, Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan State at East Lansing, and Syracuse at Syracuse. The freshman quintet will play seven games, five of them at home. The schedules: VARSITY December 15, Niagara at Ithaca; 19, Alfred at Ithaca; 22, Rochester at Rochester. January 1, Niagara at Niagara Falls; 2, Michigan at Ann Arbor; 3, Michigan State at East Lansing; 5, Syracuse at Syracuse; 8, Syracuse at Ithaca; 12, Princeton at Princeton; 19, Yale at Ithaca. February 6, Hobart at Ithaca; 9, Pennsylvania at Ithaca; 12, St. Bonaventure at Ithaca; 16, Dartmouth at Hanover; 20, Columbia at Ithaca; 23, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 27, Dartmouth at Ithaca. March 2, Princeton at Ithaca; 9, Yale at New Haven; 11, Columbia at New York. FRESHMAN January 19, Cook Academy at Ithaca; 23, Manlius at Ithaca. February 13, Colgate at Ithaca; 16, Pennsylvania at Ithaca; 23, Hobart at Ithaca; 26, Cook Academy at Montour Falls. March 3, Syracuse at Syracuse. SPORT STUFF For a week the winter has camped ominously on the hill tops—Turkey, Connecticut, Bald, Irish and Signal Fire. Last night it crept down into the valleys and dug itself in. Radiators without alcohol burst open like lillies from the bud. People without chains walked home and left it there. The north wynd is redolent of eskimo dogs and moth balls. The sturdy yeomanry have abandoned coquetry and put on their full length woolen ones. The glad shouts of joy emanate exclusively from those under twenty-two. In the old days poets sang the robust joys of winter, but that was before the Cunard line, the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and the Tampa Board of Trade began hiring experts to produce their advertising copy for them. The great trouble with winter is the long evenings. These give the alumni of Yale, Cornell, Lehigh, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Syracuse, etc., so much extra time to sit and think. If the football season ended in June when the alumni could play golf until nine o'clock in the evening the annual December witch hunt would be robbed of half its terrors. R. B. GARGOYLE, honorary architectural society, has elected two members of the Faculty and six undergraduates to membership: Professors Ralph W. Curtis 'or and Douglas L. Finlayson, and Edwin H. Cordes '29, Brooklyn, William C. Cornehlsen '30, Brooklyn, Marcus M. Harris '20, Newark, N. J., Harold E. Marietta '30, Dayton, Ohio, Lee Schoen '30, Forest Hills, and Philip Will, Jr. '30, Rochester. Choir School Coming Westminster Singers Now at Dayton, Ohio, to Affiliate with Ithaca Conservatory The Ithaca Conservatory of Music will bring to Ithaca in the spring of 1929 as one of its affiliated schools the Westminster Choir School of Dayton, Ohio, with a faculty and student group of about 130. The choir school's founder and president, Dr. John Finley Williamson, will become dean of the Conservatory, of which George C. Williams '01 is president. A new school building, especially adapted to the needs of the choir school, will be built. It will include a large auditorium and a pipe organ. The Westminster Choir is generally recognized as one of the outstanding musical organizations in the United States. It was organized by Mr. Williamson at the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Dayton eight years ago. The Westminster Choir School was established two years ago. When the school comes to Ithaca the course will be lengthened to four years. It is interdenominational, its students being required to know the services of the various churches and religious sects. Its graduates are known as "ministers of music," fitted to organize and direct choirs in churches with the aim of improving the spiritual and musical quality of singing in religious services. Once a year, it is planned to hold a choral festival in Ithaca, bringing into the city the hundreds of singers under directors the school has placed in churches. Many of these directors, Dr. Williamson believes, can be placed in and about Ithaca. The choir makes an annual tour of the United States. Next year it will visit Europe. During the past season it appeared before more than 110,000 persons, and it has won the acclaim of leading musical critics. The Westminster Choir will give a concert in Ithaca on March 15, just before it sails for Europe. The Ithaca concert will conclude an American tour that will include New York, Baltimore, and Washington. The European tour will include England, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, and the Scandinavian countries. The invitation to the Westminster Choir School to locate in Ithaca was seconded by representatives of Cornell, the Ithaca Ministerial Association, and the Ithaca Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Williamson, in a published statement, gave these reasons for locating the school in Ithaca: "I am happy in the prospect of coming to Ithaca because of the tremendous advantage to be found there. First, because of the School of Expression, the Institute of Public School Music, the School of Physical Education, and the Band School, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 111 opportunities are given for the development of a course with Westminster School that is unequaled in the United States. It would take ten years, a herculean amount of work, and a tremendous amount of money to give to my present and future students in Westminster Choir School the advantages that they will have next year. " Second, the progressive traditions of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Affiliated Schools, with their unique dormitory and fraternity life, give to the student body that indefinable spirit and atmosphere that are so essential to musical and art development. ' 'Third, I have found there in the president, George C. Williams, in the deans, the heads of departments and the faculty, the artistry, the character and personalities that are essential to leadership in creative life. ' 'Fourth, Ithaca is a picturesque city of homes and schools, an ideal place to take my family and a place possessing wonderful cultural and inspirational advantages for the student." DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL officially represented Cornell at the one-hundredth anniversary of Ohio Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati, on November 22 and 23 and made the principal address at the celebration. PROFESSORS Herbert P, Cooper and James K Wilson of the College of Agriculture gave a paper before the American Society of Agronomy, which held its twenty-first annual meeting in Washington on November 21 and 22. FALSE REPORT CORRECTED A recent issue of Time referred to "the late Frederic Eugene Ives" in a story which reported the presentation of a medal by his son, Herbert Eugene Ives, to a scientific society in honor of his father. Mr. Ives, in a letter to an officer of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, says in part: "The impression that you inevitably gathered from this report, that my father, Mr. Frederic Ives, had died, is erroreous. My father is not only alive, but was present at the meeting at the time of the presentation of the medal to the society, and spoke to the guests at the society dinner." Frederic Ives was in charge of the photographic laboratory at Cornell from 1874 to 1878. HEADS FLYING SERVICE Captain John O. Donaldson '21, who left Cornell in 1917 to enlist in the aviation branch, Signal Corps, U. S. A., is now head of the Newark Air Service, operating out of the Newark Metropolitan Airport, Newark, N. J. He conducts there a school of flying. He holds the distinction of being the seventh ranking American World War ace, his record showing that he shot down eight enemy aircraft and one balloon while in the service on the western front in France. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and several foreign decorations. NO DEGREE, NO FORTUNE His failure to win a degree at Cornell University before he reached the age of twenty-five cost Samuel V. Gilbert '26 a legacy of $92,000 when the estate of an uncle was settled in court recently. His uncle died ten years ago, leaving stock worth $92,000 to his nephew with the proviso that the young man should graduate from Cornell before his twentyfifth birthday. That birthday arrived February 10, 1928, but scholastic difficulties ruined Gilbert's chances for a fortune. He entered Cornell in February, 1922, from the Trenton, N. J., High School, matriculating in civil engineering. He left in June, 1923, and reentered in February, 1924, leaving for good at the end of that term. YALE'S endowment funds on June 30 amounted to $58,024,459.36, a gain of $8,880,299,40 over the preceding year. The average investment return was 5.15 per cent. During the year the endowment fund campaign for $20,000,000 was completed with a total subscription of $20,993,918.56. HARVARD has received an anonymous gift of three million dollars to build and endow a "house" or group of dormitories, dining halls, and common rooms for two or three hundred students in Harvard College. This is the first step of a plan which may result in the breaking of up the College into smaller units. The proposed plan will apply only to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. SCOTT PUSHES THROUGH LINE Armstrong, Dartmouth right tackle, comes in to meet the ball. Photo by Morgan 112 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Health Upkeep Declines Ratings Show That Fewer Seniors than Freshmen Maintain Good Health Habits Health upkeep ratings of undergraduates of the Classes of 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931 reveal a decline in the health of a student as he progresses through four years of college and confirm the impression that each year the student is in college he progressively takes poorer and poorer care of himself. In the Proceedings of the American Student Health Association for December, 1927, there is the following quotation from "The College and Physical Fitness" by Dr. William R. P. Emerson of Boston: uSo the freshman arrives at college immune to lectures on health subjects, or any other teachings designed to improve his health standards, which grow worse from year to year. In one New England college we have recently found the score by points of faulty health habits out of a possible 2,000 to be as follows: Freshmen 462, Sophomores 483, Juniors, 526, and Seniors 572. The Seniors were n o points worse than the Freshmen, with a correspondingly lessened degree of health, ss indicated by an increase of fifteen per cent in underweight for height." This statement is borne out by statistics given by the Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at Cornell the year 1927-8. Dr. Dean F. Smiley Ί 6 says it is a well known fact that student life has for generations been notable for its neglect of the ordinary hygienic laws. Of 780 men in the Class of 1928, 240 or 30.8 per cent have a health upkeep rating of one-hundred per cent, according to the statistics kept at the Medical Office. Other figures for the-class are: 225 men, ninety-five per cent; 190 men, ninety per cent; eighty-five men, eighty-five per cent; thirty-two men, eighty per cent; four men, seventy-five per cent; one man, seventy per cent, and three men, sixty-five per cent. The figures for the Class of 1929 (961 men) are: 203 men, one-hundred per cent; 238 men, ninety-five percent; 157 men, ninety per cent; seventy men, eighty-five per cent; eighteen men, eighty per cent; four men, seventy-five per cent; one man, seventy per cent, and one man, sixty-five per cent. The Class of 1930 (843 men): 249 men, one-hundred per cent; 304 men, ninetyfive per cent; 180 men, ninety per cent; sixty-eight men, eighty-five per cent; twenty-three men, eighty per cent; sixteen men, seventy-five per cent; two men, seventy per cent, and one man, sixty-five per cent. The Class of 1931 (885 men): 310 men, one-hundred per cent; 323 men, ninetyfive per cent; 160 men, ninety per cent; sixty-six men, eighty-five per cent; twenty-three men, eighty per cent, and three men,. seventy-five per cent. The summary shows that 59.8 per cent of the Class of 1928 have a health upkeep rating of 95-100 per cent. The health upkeep rating of 95-100 per cent for the other three classes: 1929, 63.5 per cent; °> 65.7 per cent, andi93i, 71.6 per cent. HEADS AGRICULTURE OFFICES Dr. Eugene Auchter '12, who has been a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland, has been appointed principal horticulturist in the United States Department of Agriculture to take charge of the newly created office of Horticultural Crops and Diseases. He assumed his duties on November 16. At the University of Maryland he was head of the Department of Horticulture, in charge of teaching, research, and extension in horticultural work for the State. THE CLUBS Maryland At a recent meeting of the Cornell Club of Maryland, the following officers for the ensuing year were elected: N. Herbert Long 7i8, president; Ray Van Orman '08, vice-president; and Frank H. Carter Ί 6 , secretary-treasurer. The Club meets regularly for luncheon on Mondays at 12.30 at the Engineers' Club. Queens-Nassau At a meeting of the Queens-Nassau Cornell Club held on November 17 at the Y. M. C. A. at Jamaica, the following officers were elected for the year: Marie Reith '21, president; Pierre Mertz Ί 8 , vice-president; and Lucy M. Howard '16, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Auchter took his master's degree in CORNELL IS BENEFICIARY agriculture at Cornell in 1918 and his Ph.D. in 1923. He is the author of many technical papers on various phases of horticulture and is the joint author of 'Orchard and Small Fruit Culture." As principal horticulturist in the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington, Dr. Auchter assumes general supervision, not only of the vegetable gardening, pomological, and related lines in the present Office of Horticulture, but also of the physicological projects of the Office of Plant Geography and Physiology, as well as the work of the Pathological Laboratory and of the Office of Vegetable and Forage Diseases, and the entire Office of Fruit Diseases and the Office of Crop Physiology and Breeding. Grouping these related offices under one head is expected to facilitate cooperative research upon the many complicated problems of horticulture, not only among the specialists of the new organization, but with the specialists of the State agricultural experiment stations and of the horticultural industries. The total budget for the new organization is approximately $1,000,000. WAR BOOK NEARLY READY On the tenth anniversary of Armistice Day, November 11, Cornell completed its compilation of Cornellians in the World War. The names of 7200 men will appear in the War Book, which will shortly be published under the title, "Cornell University Record of Military Service, 19171919." The book will contain a complete description^ of the Tinkham Unit—the first American combatant unit officially to carry the Stars and Stripes into action on May 27, 1917. The names of the 238 Cornell men who lost their lives in the War will also be featured. Professor Martin W. Sampson of the Department of English is in charge of the publication. An accounting of the estate of the late Payne Whitney of New York, filed by the Transfer Tax Bureau in New York November 22, shows that the Cornell Medical College was bequeathed $2,283,057 in the will, but benefits to a greater extent than that. Mr. Whitney left $18,632,176 to the New York Hospital, which is cooperating with the Cornell Medical College in plans for a huge medical center in New York City, as previously reported in THE ALUMNI NEWS. This hospital bequest was divided into a permanent endowment of $12,421,451 and a special endowment for "the development and maintenance of neurological and psychiatric work in New York City. More than $45,000,000 was left to educational and charitable institutions, including Mr. Whitney's alma mater, Yale, and the New York Public Library. Whitney left a gross estate of $194,328,514, with a net valuation of $178,893,655. GIVES $25,000 SCHOLARSHIP The will of Otto M. Eidlitz '81, who died October 20, includes a bequest of $25,000 for the establishment of a scholarship in the College of Engineering. His estate was estimated at $5,000,000. The will also provides a $5,000 bequest to the Cornell Chapter of Delta Upsilon. PHI BETA KAPPA has elected the following officers for the year: president, Professor Robert M. Ogden '00; vice-president, Professor Frederick G. Marcham, Ph.D. '26; secretary, Marcel H. Kessel '21; assistant secretary, Herbert J. Muller '25; treasurer, Miss Gussie E. Gaskell, Grad.; registrar, Dr. Robert P. Sibley; additional members of the executive committee, with the above, Professors Paul R. Pope and Benton S. Monroe '96. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 113 Contact Catalysis," written by himself BOOKS with the assistance of the other members of the Committee. Professor Frank E. E. Germann of the University of Colorado A Useful Bibliography discusses "Chemical Reactions of the The Spanish World in English Fiction: a Bibliography. By Cony Sturgis, Ό4-5 Grad., Professor of Spanish in Oberlin College. Boston. The F. W. Faxon Company. 1927. 23.4 cm., pp. 80. Useful Reference Series 34. This is a much needed work. It includes not only historical fiction but also fiction having Spain, Spanish America, or the Spanish peoples as a background. Every book has been included which gives the reader a definite impression of Spanish type, character, life, or influence in world affairs. Names and dates of birth, death, and publication have been included as far as available material would allow. There are many descriptive notes. The arrangement is by countries. In the main part of the book the arrangement is by authors under the respective countries. At the end of the book, by way of index, there is an alphabetical arrangement of titles. To make this a real index, page numbers should have been added. It is a useful book and should have a wide sale. Third Order." Professor W. D. Bancroft reviews "A Comprehensive Survey of Starch Chemistry," volume i, by R. P. Walton, editor, "Das Gestez der chemischen Massenwirkung: seine thermodynamische Begruendung und Erweiterung" by Richard Lorenz, the seventh edition of "Einfuerhrung in die Chemie in leichtfasslicher Form" by Lassar-Cohn, and the fourth edition of "Physikalisch-chemische Uebungen" by W. A. Roth. In The Quarterly Journal of Speech for November Professor Robert M. Ogden Όo writes on "Gestalt, Behavior, and Speech." Wilbur E. Gilman '2^ of the University of Missouri discusses the question, "Can We Revive Public Interest in Intercollegiate Debates?" Raymond F. Howes '24 of Washington University, St. Louis, writes on "The Importance of Coleridge's Talk." Professor Herbert A. Wicheln's Ί 6 reviews "Westminster Voices: Studies in Parliamentary Speeches" by James Johnston, "Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations, Second Series" edited by Professor Clark S. Northup '93, "Milton on Education" edited by Professor Oliver M. Ainsworth '15. "The Vowel" by G. Books and Magazine Articles Oscar Russell is reviewed by Professor In The Philosophical Review for November "The Factors of Social Evolution" by Professor Theodore de L. de Laguna, Ph.D. '01, of Bryn Mawr, is reviewed by Professor Frank Thilly, '91-2 Grad. "Personality and Immortality in Post-Kantian Thought" by Ernest G. Braham is reviewed by Professor Elijah Jordan, A.M. '08, of Butler University. Professor G. Watts Cunningham, Ph.D. '08, reviews "The Oldest Biography of Spinoza" edited by A. Wolf and "Spinoza: Vier Reden" von Carl Gebhardt. Professor William C. Swabey, Ph.D. '19, of New York University, reviews "Einfuehrung in die Phaenomenologie" by Wilhelm Reyer. Professor Glenn R. Morrow, Ph.D. '21, of the University of Missouri, reviews Adam Smith's "Theorie der ethischen Gefuehle" translated and edited by Walter Eckstein. In The Virginia Quarterly Review for October Professor Bruce Williams's Elizabeth Avery '98 of Smith. Dorothy J. Kaucher, Ph.D. '28, of the University of Missouri, reviews "Das russische Theater" by Joseph Gregor and Rene FueloepMiller. Professor Hoyt H. Hudson, Ph.D. '23, of Princeton, reviews "The Technique of Controversy" by Boris B. Bogoslovsky, "Fifty Orations That Have Won Prizes in Special Competitions" compiled by Winston H. Ashley, the new edition of "Public Speaking: a Treatise on Delivery" by Edwin D. Shurter '92, and "A Lecture on Lectures" by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. John B. Emperor '26 of the University of Missouri reviews President Coolidge's last Memorial Day Address. Vivian E. Simrell '24 of Dartmouth reviews John L. McNab's speech nominating Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech nominating Alfred E. Smith. Professor Everett L. Hunt of Swarthmore reviews the acceptance speeches of Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith. "State Security and the League of In Harper's for November Dr. Charles Nations" is reviewed by Arthur Ruhl. A. Beard, '99-Ό0 Grad., writes on the In The New Republic for October 31 the subject, "Democracy Holds its Ground." third and fourth volumes of "The Intimate Henry F. Pringle Ί 9 discusses "Vice and Papers of Colonel House" edited by Charles the Volstead Act." Professor Charles B. Seymour are reviewed by Robert Morss Hale '20 of the University of Maryland Lovett. In the issue for September 5 is has a paper on "The Art of Gentleprinted Professor Alexander Meiklejohn's Boasting." address entitled " I n Memoriam: an The Proceedings of the Indiana Academy Address Delivered in Boston on the of Science for 1927 includes an article on Anniversary of the Execution of Sacco and "Velocity of Sound in Free Air" by Pro- Vanzetti." fessor Arthur Lee Foley, Ph.D. '97, of In The Journal of Physical Chemistry Indiana, and an article on "New Har- for November Robert E. Burk }22 presents mony" by Dr. David Starr Jordan Jfj2 the "Sixth Report of the Committee on and Amos W. Butler. OBITUARIES Charles M. Henrotin '97 Charles Martin Henrotin was drowned in the sinking of the steamer Vestris on November 12. He was on his way to British Guiana, where he represented J. A. Sisto and Company, Wall Street bankers. He was born on June 19, 1876, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henrotin. He spent four years at Cornell and was a member of Kappa Alpha. He was a mining engineer of international reputation and was for a long period manager of the Kimberley diamond mines in South Africa. Norris B. Henrotin '05 is his brother. Hayward H. Kendall '00 Hayward Hutchinson Kendall, vicepresident and treasurer of the Montour and Northwestern Coal Company in Cleveland, died at the Rockefeller Institute Hospital in New York of pneumonia, on November 19. He was born on March 17, 1876, the son of Major and Mrs. F. A. Kendall. He received the degree of B.S., and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx Head, and Aleph Samach, president of his sophomore class, and managing editor of The Widow in his junior and senior years. Mr. Kendall's holdings in the oil fields and his coal and shipping interests made him one of the wealthiest men in Cleveland. His avocation was writing and he was the author of many newspaper articles and of a series of character studies of American business men. His wife, Mrs. Agnes Tello Kendall, survives him. Edward D. Beals '03 Edward Duncan Beals died on October 24 at his home in Neenah, Wis., after a long illness. He was born in St. Paul, Minn., on February 25, 1882, the son of Samuel J. and Fanny Tucker Beals. He received the degree of M.E. in E.E., and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and of the varsity track team. For some years Beals was associated with the AllisChaimers Company in Milwaukee, and later joined the Hardwood Products Corporation in Neenah, of which he became president. During the War he was a lieutenant in the Ordnance Department. His wife, Mrs. Vina Shattuck Beals, and three daughters, Virginia, Susan, and Catherine Beals, survive him. IN A RECENT article THE ALUMNI NEWS was in error in referring to the election of William T. Reed '30 of Dunkirk as editor of the Freshman Handbook. Reed was elected assistant editor of The Barnes Hall Bulletin. Roger B. Nelson '30 of Jamestown was named editor of the Handbook. 114 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Published for the Alumni Corporation of Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication, numbered consecutively, ends the last week in June. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single copies twelve cents each. Should a subscriber desire to discontinue tiis 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 Circulation Manager R. W. SAILOR '07 GEO. WM. HORTON Associate Editors CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 ROMEYN BERRY '04 MORRIS G. BISHOP '13 H. G. STUTZ '07 M. L. COFFIN WILLIAM J. WATERS '27 Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation; R. W. Sailor, President; W. J. Norton, Vice-President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; H. G. Stutz, Secretary; Romeyn Berry and W. L. Todd, Directors. Office: 113 East Green Street, Ithaca, N.Y. Member of Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service, Inc. Printed by The Cayuga Press Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N.Y., NOVEMBER 29, 1928 SUBSTITUTES FOR D. S. T. HE late lamented experiment with JL daylight saving time has apparently accomplished its purpose. Few persons who are interested at all in physical uplift question the desirability of the extra hour of recreation at the end of the day. It has been quite apparent that the students use the hour for the purpose for which it was intended. That students need recreation is obvious from Dr. Smiley's figures showing the decline in the health curve between freshman and senior years. To the particular mechanism of setting back the clock from Easter to Thanksgiving there seems to be earnest opposition. The proposal, also, to start everything" at seven o'clock falls on sterile ground. Nevertheless it seems to be the opinion of every member of the faculty who expresses one that something should and can be done. Of course if this is representative faculty belief something will eventually be done about it. There are several expedients that seem practical enough if any of them can secure the majority vote of the Faculty. They do not involve tampering with the clock nor starting the day in the middle of the night. They have not yet been worked out in detail, so that the objectionable features are not yet apparent, any more than all the good ones are. The lunch hour might be shortened a bit and the classes started a fraction of an hour earlier; or the recitation hours could all be shortened slightly; or the lunch hour could be eliminated and the student could either work his lunch into his schedule wherever it fits, like a bank clerk, or carry a dinner pail, as in the pre-cafeteria days. Many such plans are being mulled over by interested individuals. Few of them have the disadvantage of daylight saving, which while giving an extra hour of daylight, set ahead also the dinner hour and bed time and thus lost much that it had hoped to gain. In short, the premise is probably sound that the professors are sold on the idea of the hour of recreation. We shall expect a solution eventually that is better than daylight saving in respect to practicability, convenience, and acceptability. We hope it can be adopted permanently, all year 'round, and that it will not require concentrated attention every time one looks at a clock. COMING EVENTS NOTE : Beginning Monday, December 4, University activities at Ithaca will be resumed on Eastern Standard Time. Wednesday, November 26 Thanksgiving Recess begins. Thursday, November 29 Football, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Franklin Field. 2.00 p. m. Standard Time. Soccer, Haverford at Haverford. Friday, November 30 Alumni Corporation Convention. Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C. Saturday, December 1 Alumni Corporation Convention. Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C. Monday, December 4 Thanksgiving Recess ends. Thursday, December 6 Lecture. Vilhjalmur Stefansson. "Abolishing the Arctic." Friday, December 7. Lecture. Edward H. Hessner. "Under- ground Rome." Saturday, December 8. University Concert. Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Bailey Hall. 8.15 p. m. Sunday, December 9 Sage Chapel Service. 11 a. m. The Rev. Dr. George Craig Stewart, rector of St. Luke's P. E. Church, Evanston, Illinois. Monday, December 10 Lecture. Barnum Brown, of the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History. "Pre- historic Man in America." Saturday, December 15 Basketball. Niagara at Ithaca. Drill Hall. 8.15 p. m. THE COLLEGE WORLD MISSOURI has 3,934 students, an in- crease of 18 over last year. There are 2,638 men and 1,296 women. There are 3,325 students in correspondence courses, 1,050 in extension courses, and more than 500 in the School of Mines. The Summer Session enrolled 1,861. This makes a total enrollment of about 10,700. VERMONT is instituting this year among members of the senior class in medicine the preceptorial system of providing actual experience in the field for students. The idea is to provide for the students an opportunity to practice under supervision among the institutions and established community physicians of the State with a view to improving their own training by practical work and demonstration. The class will be divided into several groups of four, three, two, and often one student. Each man will have a tour of duty of five State institutions where he will spend about fourteen out of the thirty-two weeks of his senior year. In addition to this more extensive training the student will have a preceptorial period of one month's service with a selected practising physician in the country. The institutions within which the preceptorial system will be put into effect are the State Industrial School at Vergennes, the Sanatorium and Preventorium at Pittsford, the Home for Feeble-Minded Children in Brandon, the State Hospital at Waterbury, and the Vermont State Laboratory of Hygiene. DRAMATIC CLUB ELECTIONS Twenty-eight undergraduates were elected on November 20 to active and associate membership in the Dramatic Club. The new active members are: Alfred Berger '29, Peekskill; Lemma B. Crabtree '29, Montgomery; George Fass '29, New York; Joseph E. Wiedenmayer, Jr., '29, Newark, N. J.; Mildred Eagan '30, Scardsale; George Kilgen '30, Long Beach; Chalmers Mole '30, Lenox, Mass.; Myrtle M. Pullen '30, Asbury Park, N. J.; Harold F. Drake '31, Buffalo; Lawrence R. Martin '31, Buffalo; and Samuel Wechsler '31, Passaic, N. J. The new associate members are Ida Blinkoff '29, Buffalo; Arthur C. Stallman '29, Mount Vernon; Harold B. Zuehlke '29, Appleton, Wis. Mary E. Schoonover '30, Monroe; Ruth Shuchowsky '30, Woodbourne; Margaret A. Schultz '30, Newburgh; Doris Brown '31, Binghamton; ReidH. Burrows '31, Jamestown; Dorothy E. Evans '31, Ithaca; David Kaplan '31, Elmira; Kathrine T. Lowe '31, Rye; Honora C. Martinetti '31, Orange, N. J.; Margaret Ogden '31, Ithaca; Frank S. Pink '31, Troy; Jeanne H. Simon '31, New York; Audrey Stiebel '31, Queens Village, Lester A. Eggleston '32, Buffalo. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 115 The Week on the Campus H ow goes the old song? And have they fixed the where, and when? Shall Daylight Saving die? Here's thirty thousand Cornell men Will know the reason why! THE Sun demands that Daylight Saving be preserved. The teams have petitioned for its retention. The fraternities have been circularized; 32 out of 34 vote for Daylight Saving; two vote against it. A further sounding of public opinion was made by your correspondent, who rises at six and plods through the snow under the steely stars to his first class, held at 7.10 a. m., your time. The class, blearyminded at that crepuscular hour, voted nine in favor of Daylight Saving, and ten opposed. One was in favor of some kind of daylight saving, but not the present kind. Five missed the plebiscite entirely. They will appear before long to explain that their alarm clocks failed to function properly. Something should be done about modern alarm clocks. AT ANY RATE, here is a square opposition of opinion between student body and Faculty. Our own opinion, fortified by our personal referendum in the early dawning, is that the student body does not take the matter so seriously to heart as the fraternity petitions would indicate. PASSING OVER the Stewart Avenue bridge over Cascadilla Gorge, one observes considerable activity in the depths. Thanks to the munificence of Colonel Henry W. Sackett '75, the gorge is being cleaned up, the banks are being appropriately planted, and walks built so that one may walk beside the torrent without alpenstock, rope, and rubber boots. This item of news will be to many of far greater importance than many a page of faits-divers. NOT OF THE GREAT Grid Squad, not of the Varsity Booters do we sing in this perverse column. Let us rather celebrate the fact that while the football giants occupy their vast stadia and their incalculable yardage of newspaper space, the fraternity soccer teams have been fighting their way toward a championship. Now, by a long process of elimination, the series has been brought to a close by the triumph of the Cosmopolitan Club over the Chinese Club, the runners-up. The score was 1-0. What price Nordic athletic supremacy now? JAMES M. GARDNER '31, of Buffalo, was killed on Sunda'y, November 18, in Binghamton. Apparently he was attempting to board an Erie freight train, and slipped and fell beneath the wheels. Shocked as we are by this so needless tragedy, we can express only our sorrow—and our helpless ness. THE WOMEN'S DEBATE team discussed the question "Is modern intensive adver- tising a detriment to society?" with two representatives of Hunter College last Monday. The affirmative side, upheld by Charlotte L. Ingalls '29, and Frances M. Leonard '30 of Cornell and Sadie Barris of Hunter, was voted the winner over Barbara C. Crosby '31, Dorothy Olson, and Dorothy Slansky. Miss Ingalls and Miss Olson were judged the best speakers of the evening. THE Sun announces with deep regret the resignation of Paul S. Livermore '97 from its board of directors. Mr. Livermore has given eleven years of disinterested service to the Sun as president of its board. Sherman Peer '06 replaces Mr. Livermore as president. The following undergraduates have been elected to the Sun: Julius F. Brauner '31, of Ithaca, to the editorial board, and Edmund Baxter '31, of Easton, Md., John E. Rogers '31, of Inlet, and Robert P. Stieglitz '31, of Chicago, to the business staff. RUTH ST. DENIS, Ted Shawn, and their Denishawn dancers, gave one of their evenings of the dance last Saturday in Bailey Hall, under the auspices of the Dramatic Club. COLONEL Charles W. Furlong '02 told a thrilling story of treasure-hunting in Bolivia in a public lecture on November 20. The tale is complete; a treasure of some $60,000,000 cache'd by monks in flight, a yellowed map, hostile natives, poisoning the searchers, and success almost within reach. The funny thing about it is that it all seems to be quite true. At any rate, Colonel Furlong is going to go back as soon as possible and get the treasure. DR. STANTON COIT, president of the Ethical Church, London, dealt boldly with the present situation of religion and morality in a lecture on November 22 on "A Foundation for Moral Leadership." George F. Kunz, gem expert for Tiffany and Company, spoke on November 19 on "Precious Stones of the Past, Present, and Future." Thomas Midgley, Jr., Ί i , addressed Sigma Xi on the same evening on "Some Comparisons of Research Methods in Pure Science and Industry." Dr. G. Griffin Lewis, State vice-president of the American Rose Society, gave an illustrated lecture on November 20 on "Practical Rose-Growing." Richard M. Matson '21, of the General Electric Company, spoke to the engineers on "Industrial Control." THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER on November 25 was the Rev. Dr. Harry L. Reed, president of the Auburn Theological Seminary. DR. IRVING T. BEACH '17, instructor in organic chemistry, was painfully injured for the second time this year in his work in the chemical laboratory. An experiment in which he was engaged resulted in an explosion which left him blinded for more than an hour. According to latest reports, he is now recovering rapidly. PERCY L. CLARK '20, instructor in economics, and likewise president of the Rational Life Publishing Company, has been indicted by the Federal grand jury of Syracuse on the charge of sending "obscene literature" through the mails. He has pleaded not guilty. By "obscene literature" the law means the works of the late Dr. Walter F. Robie, an eminent physician who attempted to tell the young man what he ought to know in a rational and scientific manner. Of course, on this subject opinions are bound to differ violently. A casual inspection of one of Dr. Robie's books leads us to conclude that they are obscene just as marriage, just as human life, is obscene. THE WEEK'S Great Thought from the Masters: "The student body is the roughage, the bran, needed to keep the Faculty alert and healthy. Give me an unruly student body, and I will give you a healthy, active Faculty and some of my old Victrola records." Frank Sullivan '14, in The New York World. M. G. B. LAW GROUP MEETS Frank H. Hiscock '75, judge of the New York Court of Appeals and chairman of the Board of Trustees, was reelected president of the Law Association at the annual meeting November .17. Professor Horace E. Whiteside was renamed secretary-treasurer. Colonel Henry W. Sackett '75, Judge Frank Irvine '80, and Professor Edwin H. Woodruff '88 were reelected members of the executive committee for terms of three years each. William C. Breed of New York, president of the New York State Bar Association, was the speaker at the meeting. He discussed the opportunities in the legal profession today and its ideals, rewards, and responsibilities. The importance of university training as an aid in developing character for those expecting to study law was stressed. Judge Hiscock spoke on the work of the Association,' which has obtained eighteen tuition scholarships for aiding deserving students in the Law School and which has established a revolving loan for emergency and temporary needs of law students. He also praised the work of the Law Faculty in undertaking the work of annotating the American Law Institute's "Restatement Contract to the New York Decisions." THE REGISTRATION statistics of eight women's colleges for this year follow: Bryn Mawr, 486; Connecticut, 547; Mount Holyoke, 1,029; Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, 327; Radcliffe, 1,112; Smith, 2,102; Vassar, 1,156; Wellesley, 1,596. 116 For Christmas I Give or Demand by Romeyn Berry Illustrated by Andre Smith Orders are being received now for delivery by De- cember 20. In Cloth $1.50 Postpaid In Paper $1.00 Postpaid Address "R.B." The Cayuga Press 113 R Green St. Ithaca New York CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS THE ALUMNI '84—Herbert L. Aldrich '84 and William H. Minton, a graduate of Harvard, have organized the Plaza Trust Company in New York, with a capital of $2,000,000 and a surplus of $1,000,000. They are now organizing a securities company in connection with the Trust Company, with a capitalization of $10,000,000. Mr. Minton will be president and Aldrich the chairman of the board. The Trust Company is on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-second Street. '09 BArch; '04 ME—Raphael E. Marquina has been decorated by the Peruvian Government with "The Order of the Sun" (La Orden del Sol del Peru), for his services as architect for a modern city hotel and hospital in Lima. Marquina lives at Apartado 164, Lima, Peru. He writes that Manuel C. Velarde '04 has returned to Lima after a long stay in London. '09 CE—Albert Diamant is resident engineer for the Frederick Snare Corporation on the construction of a breakwater and docks at Callao, Peru. Ί i CE—Rafael A. Gonzalez is chief engineer of the Isabela Irrigation Service, at Quebradillas, P. R. Ί i AB, Ί 3 CE—A son, Robert, was born on October 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ashton. Ί 2 ME—John P. Leinroth is general industrial fuel representative of the Public Service Electric and Gas Company in Newark, N. J. He lives at 22 Hillside Avenue, Caldwell, N. J. '12, '13 BSA—George W. Kuchler, Jr., is a fruit grower, poultryman, and G.L.F. service agent in La Grangeville, N. Y. He writes that his eldest boy has just started high school and is headed for the Class of '36 at Cornell. 112 BArch—Henry A. Fruauff is an architect in Buffalo. He was married last June. '12 CE—Max Grossman is manager of Grossman's Hotel in Atlantic City, N. J., and vice-president of the Mayflower Fire and Marine Insurance Company and of the Mayflower Fidelity and Casualty Company. '12—Erie E. Devlin recently joined the Investment Research Corporation as research engineer. His office is in the Penobscot Building in Detroit. He lives at 1415 Parker Avenue. '14 CE—Paul L. Heslop is a sponsor engineer for hydro-electric developments of the United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., which is a combination of and successor to D wight P. Robinson and Company, Inc., the U. G. I. Contracting Company, the Public Service Production Company, and the Day and Zimmerman Engineering and Constructing Company. Heslop lives at 45 n Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. '16 CE—A son, Howard Arthur, was born on July 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Vieweg. They live at 453 Cypress Street, Elmira, N. Y. Vieweg is commercial manager of the Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company. '17 BChem—Herbert R. Johnston is a chemist with Pratt and Lambert, Inc., manufacturers of varnish products and lacquers. His address is 81 Tacoma Avenue, Buffalo. '19 PhD—Mrs. William C. Swabey (Marie Taylor Collins) has been made an assistant professor of philosophy in New York University. '20, '22 ME—Theodore F. King, Jr., is secretary and manager of the Chattanooga Wholesale Storage Company. He lives at Riverview, Chattanooga. A daughter, Carol Jane, was born last March. '20 AB—Mrs. Millerd A. Larkin (Elizabeth A. Signor) writes that she is busy taking care of her two sons, aged four and a half and two. They live at 142 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburg, N. Y. '21 BChem—A. J. Ronald Helps is with Schieffelin and Company, wholesale and manufacturing pharmacists at 16 Cooper Square, New York. He lives at 315 Montross Avenue, Rutherford, N. J. A second son, Robert Eugene, was born on September 23. '21 CE—Samuel D, Brady, Jr., is superintendent of Osage Mines Numbers 1 and 2 of the Brady-Warner Coal Corporation. His address is 508 Grand Street, Morgantown, W. Va. He was married last July to Miss Margaret N. Vaughan of Columbia, Tenn. '22—A son, William Chambers, was born on August 29 to Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Brasie. Mrs. Brasie was Genevieve C. Chambers '22. They live at 3114 North Saginaw Street, Flint, Mich. '22 LLB—Barton Baker, who is a laywer at 1104-1105 Lincoln-Alliance Bank Building in Rochester, N. Y., received the degree of Ph.D. from the Chicago Law School last June. He lives at 93 Hazelwood Terrace. He was secretary of the National Hoover-for-President Club. '23 BS—Stephen J. Navin is now an instructor in economics in Dartmouth College. '23 AB, '24 AM, '28 PhD—Arthur L. Woehl has gone to Hunter College, New York, as assistant professor of public speaking. '23 EE—Malcolm S. Mcllroy is assistant division operating manager of the Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation. His address is' 267 Liberty Street, Newburgh, N. Y. His engagement has been announced to Miss Dorothy Wellington of Rochester, N. Y. She graduated in June from the University of Rochester. '23 EE—Eduardo D. Luque is assistant superintendent of operation of the Mexican Light and Power Company. His CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 117 When Memory Plays These are the days when memories crowd in thickest on the Cornell graduate. Never too old to enthuse over Alma Mater, he eagerly scans the news to see how the lads from Old Cayuga's shores are faring on the gridiron, how the student body has grown. "My son,*' he promises, "will follow me there." But will he? Have you so protected your life that, no matter what happens to you, the boy can have Cornell? Let The Prudential Man tell you how to do it! The Prudential Insurance Company of America Edward D. Duffield, President Home Office, Newark, New Jersey 118 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS address is Providencia 520, Colonia del Valle, Mexico City. His engagement was announced in September to Miss Louise Rebollar of Mexico City. '23 BS—Clarence J. Little is farming in Sussex, N. J. '23 CE—A son, Barry Richard, was born last June to Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Perlman. They live at 310 West 106th Street, New York. '23 BChem—Francis S. Pethick, who is with the chemical sales division of the Eastman Kodak Company, has been elected county commander of the American Legion. The Legion band of which he was commander won fourth prize at the national convention held in San Antonio recently. Pethick lives at 134 Frost Avenue, Rochester, N. Y. '23 AB—Frank R. Price has been transferred from the Newburgh plant of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., and is now director of the du Pont State service at 330 Fifth Avenue, New York. He was married in June, 1927, to Miss Sherrolldein E. Shellhoos of Newburgh, N. Y. They live at 93 Bon Air Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. '23 AB—Willis K. Wing has been editor of Radio Broadcast, published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., for the past three years. He recently moved from Forest Hills to 21 Franklin Court, West, Garden City, Long Island, New York. '23 BS—Wesley H. Childs is assistant chemist with the Beechnut Packing Company of Canajoharie. His address is Box 162, Palatine Bridge, N. Y. '23 BS—Stephen T. Stanton is teaching agriculture in the Mexico, N. Y., High School. '24 AB, '28 AM—Wilbur S. Howell is on leave of absence from the University and is spending the year studying in France. '24 ME—Frederick F. Stratford was recently married to Miss Mary A. Lackland. She is a member of the Marianne Kneisel String Quartet and formerly lived in Richmond, Va. Stratford is with the installation department of the Western Electric Company in New York. They are living at 230 West Eighty-second Street. '24, '25 BS—Bessie M. Tuttle has for the past year been designing dresses for "Sacson" at 525 Seventh Avenue, New York. She lives at 195 West Tenth Street. '24 AB, '2η MD—Florence E. Warner is resident physician at the Ideal Hospital in Endicott, N. Y. On January 1 she will go to Bellevue Hospital in New York for six months on the obstetrical service. '24 AB, '26 LLB—Mortimer A. Sullivan is practicing law with offices in the Prudential Building in Buffalo. He was married recently. '24 ME—Henry G. Warnick is in the traffic department of the Westchester Division of the New York Telephone Company. He lives at 160 South Second Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y. '24 BS—Florence W. Opie is secretary of the Montgomery County, Ohio, branch of the Y. W. C: A. She lives at the Y. W. C. A. in Dayton. '24 CE—Robert T. Sprague is with the Public Service Company of Colorado and temporarily located in Boulder. '24 ME—Nathan Kliot is now in the Heine Boiler Division of the International Combustion Engineering Corporation, at 200 Madison Avenue, New York. He lives at 1494 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. '24 AB; '23 BS—Walter D. Ludlum, Jr., who received his M.D. from Columbia in '27, is now an interne on the surgical service of the New York Post Graduate Hospital. Mrs. Ludlum was Helen M. Meays '23. They live at 1421 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn. A daughter, Phyllis Ann, was born last May. '24 AB—Miriam McAllister is teaching in the Merchantville, N. J., High School. She lives at 4017 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. '24 AB; '25-7 Grad.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Hazzard '24 and Mrs. Hazzard (Florence B. Woolsey '27) are living at 407 Eddy Street, Ithaca. Hazzard is a graduate student and instructor in zoology. A daughter, Olive Mary, was born last May. LANG'S PALACE GARAGE 117-133 East Green Street / Ithaca, New York The Place to Stop When in Ithaca Storage Washing Complete Service A. A. A. Towing Service Alemite Service General Repairs Electrical Repairs E. D. BUTTON '99 President Open Day and Night WM. H. MORRISON '90 Sec'y and Treas. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 119 '25—John H. Berean is with the Illinois Pipe Line Company, and has been stationed at Del Rio, Texas. '25 MD—Eske H. Windsberg, who has been practicing medicine in Worcester, Mass., is now specializing in surgery at the Graduate Hospital affiliated with the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. '25 EE—Alexander Whitney, who is with the J. G. Brill Company in Philadelphia, Pa., was married last June to Miss Edith V. Tawresey. His address is 6643 North Eight Street. '25 AB—Irving L. Ress expects to finish his medical course at the Northwestern University Medical School next March. He lives at 1422 North State Parkway, Chicago. '25 AB—Francis M. Sweet is teaching French at the South Park High School in Buffalo. He lives at 22 Roanoke Parkway. '25 EE—George T. Hepburn is in charge of education and employment for District No. 11 in the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, at 40 Worth Street, New York. He lives at 96 McCosh Road, Upper Montclair, N. J. '25 AB—Ernestine G. Marksbury is teaching in the Cortland, N. Y., High School. She lives at 1 North Church Street. '25 BS—The engagement has been announced of Helen F. Green '25 to William F. Ward of Livingston Manor, N. Y. She is teaching home economics in the High School there. '26 BS—Florence M. Burtis is doing girls' club work in high schools and factories for the Y. W. C. A. in Greenwich, Conn. She lives at 160 Milbank Avenue. '26 AB—Mark M. Cleaver, 2d, is a salesman of Pyralin and Lucite Toiletware for the du Pont Viscoloid Company. His address is 2442 West Eighteenth Street, Wilmington, Del. '26 CE—Mr. A. Castle Postley of New York has announced the engagement of his daughter, Alice H. Postley, to Mills N. Ripley. He is with the Fairchild Aviation Company. '26 ME—Afton L. Fraser was married on October 26 to Miss Louise Pryor Mustard, at the Church of Saint Boniface in Antwerp, Belgium. Fraser is with the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company at 13 Rue Boudwyns, Antwerp. '26 CE—Daniel C. Kline is in the erection department of the American Bridge Company. His present address is 122 North Weaddock Avenue, Saginaw, Mich. '26 CE—George A. Hess is doing estimating and designing on structural steel in the bridge department of the American Bridge Company at 30 Church Street, New York. He lives at 87 Glen Cove Avenue, Glen Cove, N. Y. T H E ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DETROIT, MICH. EDWIN ACKERLY A.B. '20, LL.B., Detroit, '22 Real Estate Investment Specialist 701 Penobscot Bldg. NEWARK, NEW JERSEY ERNEST L. QUACKENBUSH A. B. 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BARTLETT & SNOW CO., Cleveland Complete and Partial Equipments Involving the Operations of CONVEYING, ELEVATING, CRUSHING, SCREENING, MIXING, ROASTING, DRYING, WASHING, COOLING, STORING Telephone Warsaw 131 ERNEST B. COBB, A.B. Ί o Certified Public Accountant Telephone, Cortland 2976 50 Church Street New York E. H. FAILE & CO. Engineers Industrial buildings designed Heating, Ventilating, Electrical equipment Industrial power plants Construction management E. H. FAILE, M.E. '06 441 Lexington Ave. Tel. Murray Hill 7736 THE BALLOU PRESS CHAS. A. BALLOU, JR. '21 Printers to Lawyers 69 Beekman St. Tel. Beekman 8785 WASHINGTON, D. C. V!j/lje trcft \lJ/afι>:Uria 1819 G STREET, N.W. One block west State War and Navy Bldg. LUNCHEON AND DINNER RUTH L, CLEVES Ί 6 Wilson & Bristol ADVERTISING 2 8 5 MADISON AVE, NEW YORK Phones: LEXINGTON 0849-0850 MAGAZINES TRADE PAPERS NEWSPAPERS FARM PAPERS Arthur W. Wilson '15 Ernest M. Bristol, Yale '07 120 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS |OI4 CHAPEL ST. NEW HAVEN NEW YORK Mr. Jerry Coan exhibiting our importations at: PRTBACioukolterlftcvefoshaedbnleloouasrntegdrh FTWMFSrharieoiutddnuSrnarsaTyddetsaauMdyyeasoyn Dec. 356130,4 7, 8, 10 Mr. Harry Coan at MDMOLKISntomauiid.lnunlwiLaunaishsataonevhuasuaaiklpipClseeooeilltiiyss TMTFTWFSurhuraoeiieteuddnsSsrMadnddsayadeaatoysyyandyay Dec. 11310705641., 3 8 HHHHTHhoooooettttteeeeeClllll WSoSSPmettoianalrmltteitllacaeeomagrrdeoPreenPnerry HTHHHHHHhoooooooettttttteeeeeeelRllllll FMaPCSSSdopeftluiaiaenassyetltsltbldephoeearinolnrnceoehbgllalech IACKAWANNA ShortestRoute between NEW YORK and ΓϊΉACA Daily Service—Eastern Standard Time. Lackawaππa Railroad LACKAWANNA LIMITED LNABrvre.i.wIcNtkaherCawkchaYuro-crhk 1110500....34021300 APAA....MMMM.... WHITELIGHT LIMITED LBANvrre..iwcNIkatehrCwakhc.Yaurocrhk. τ.. 116090..5..3015086APP.PM..MM.M... . For tickets and reservations apply to J. L. Homer, Qen'l. East. Pass. Agent, xi2 W. 42nd St., Netυ York or J. Q. Bray, Div. Pass. Agent. 32 Clinton St., Newark, N. J. H. B. Cook, City Ticket Agent, 200 East State Streetjthaca, N. Y Ithaca Trust Company Resources Over) Five Million Dollars President Vice-Pres Treasurer Cashier Charles E. Treman Franklin C. Cornell Sherman Peer A. B. Wellar For Your Boy— f AfWorthwhile!Summer Vacation CAMP OTTER in the Highlands of Ontario for Boys Nine to Seventeen 20th Year There are only a few vacancies. R. C. HUBBARD 205 Ithaca Rd. Ithaca, N. Y. R. A. Heggie & Bro. Co. Fraternity Jewelers Ithaca New York "" ITHACA/ πέ Engravίng-ServicςP Library Building, 123 N.Tio£aStreet Quality Service. E. H. WANZER Incorpora ted The Grocers Aurora and State Streets KOHM & BRUNNE Tailors for Cornellians Everywhere 222 E. State St., Ithaca '27—Agnes A. Dahme, who recently graduated with the highest honors from the Williams School of Expression in Ithaca, is now teaching dramatics in a private school in Detroit, Mich. Her address is 1806 Parker Avenue. }2j EE—Frederick S. Fried is an engineer on a large steam electric plant being built by the Dixie Construction Company in Gorgas, Ala. '27 ME—Charles F. Wagner is in his second year at the Harvard School of Business Administration. His address is McCulloch E-34, Soldiers Field, Boston. '27 BS—Irving H. Taylor is a United States forest ranger, in charge of a Government timber sale in Utah. His permanent address is 37 Stone Avenue, Ossining, N. Y. '27 BS—Beatrice N. Pringle is teaching home-making in the High School in Newark, N. Y. She lives at 331 West Miller Street. Her engagement has been announced to E. Carlton Spear of Syracuse. '27 ME—George E. Munschauer is an engineer with the Niaraga Machine and Tool Works in Buffalo. He lives at 100 Depew Avenue. ^2η ME—Jesse M. Van Law is doing airport designing and construction work in Texas and Mexico with the Beretta-Stiles Company, at 1203 National Bank of Commerce Building, San Antonio, Texas. '28 BS—Lee R. Forker is with the Quaker State Oil Refining Company in Oil City, Pa. He lives at 620 West First Street. '28 BS—S. Reuben Shapley is acting assistant county agent of Niagara County, N. Y. His permanent address is South Otselic, N. Y. '28 BS—Cameron G. Garman is doing research in agricultural economics at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. His address is Box 306, Auburn, Ala. '28 CE—Granget L. Kammerer is assistant plant engineer for Northern Nassau for the New York Telephone Company. He lives at 69 Elderts Lane, Woodhaven, Long Island, N. Y. '28 CE—Roland W. Tweedie is a contractor in Walton, N. Y. '28 AB—Mary O. Updike is teaching English in the Watkins Glen, N. Y., High School. She lives at 210 Steuben Street. '28 AB—Mildred M. Williams is teaching Latin and French in the Laketon, Pa., High School. '28 EE—David J. C. Werner is a student engineer with the New York Telephone Company. He has two sons, David James, who is two, and Richard Earl, who was born last June. He has recently bought a house at 333 South Midler Avenue, Syracuse. '28 ME—James P. Stewart is an apprentice turbine engineer with the Elliott Company. His address is 202 North Second Street, Jeannette, Pa. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS This will introduce INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI HOTELS Albany, N. Y., Hampton Minneapolis, Minn., Nicollet Amherst, Mass., Lord Jeffery Montreal, Mount Royal Hotel Atlantic Cily, N. J., New Haven, Conn., Taft Colton Manor New Orleans, La., Monteleone Baltimore, Md., Southern New York, N. Y., Roosevelt Berkeley, Cal., Claremont NewYork,N.Y.,Waldorf-Astoria Bethlehem, Pa., Bethlehem New York, N. Y., Warwick Boothbay Harbor, Maine New York, N. Y., Westbury Sprucewold Lodge(summer only) Oakland, Cal., Oakland Boston, Mass., Bellevue Philadelphia, Pa., Chicago, 111., Allerton House Benjamin Franklin Chicago, HI., Blackstone Pittsburgh, Pa., Schenley Chicago, 111., Windermere Rochester, N. Y., Powers Cleveland, O., Allerton House Sacramento, Cal., Sacramento Columbus, O., Neil House San Diego, Cal., St. James Detroit, Mich., Book-Cadillac San Francisco, Cal., Palace Elizabeth. N.J., Winfield-Scott Scranton, Pa., Jermyn Fresno, Cal., Californian Seattle, Wash., Olympic Jacksonville, Fla., Spokane, Wash., Dessert George Washington Syracuse, N. Y., Syracuse Kansas City, Mo., Muehlebach Toronto, King Edward Lexington, Ky., Phoenix Urbana, 111., Urbana-IIlinois Lincoln, Neb., Lincoln Washington, D. C, New Willard Madison, Wis., Park Wiliiamsport, Pa., Lycoming If you travel to any extent you should have in your possession at all times an introduction card to the managers of Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels. .It is yours for the asking...It assures courteous attention to your wants and an extra bit of consideration that frequently means much. Your alumni association is participating in the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel Plan and has a voice in its efforts and policies. At each alumni hotel is an index of resident alumni for your convenience in looking up friends when traveling. Other desirable features are ineluded. If you wish an introduction card to the managers of Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels, write to your Alumni Secretary or use the coupon. INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI EXTENSION SERVICE, INC. 18 EAST 4isτ STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y- INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI EXTENSION SERVICE, INC., 18 East 41st Street, N Y. C. I Kindly send me an Introduction Card to the managers of Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels. Ί^ame _ College Year cAddress .— City „ State - Perhaps This Reduced Illustration Gives You Some Idea of the New Campus Map The above cut can give only a very faint idea of the beauty of the map. The map came out the last of September and is going well in Ithaca. If mailed rolled we pay the postage. The price is $1.50. Take a look at it with a magnifying glass. Remember the Cornell Bookplates You can have a sample set for the asking. There are eight in the set. Nearly everyone has a hundred books. The bookplates are $1.50 per hundred. The printing of your name $1.50 per hundred extra. cmpCORNELL BARNES HALL SOCIETY ITHACA, N. Y.