VOL. XXXI, No. 28 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] APRIL 18, 1929 Athletic Survey Committee Holds Two Day Session—No Conclusions Yet Ohio State Defeats Cornell at Baseball—Maryland Wins Lacrosse Game State Colleges Receive Special Appropriations for Experimental Work Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. Subscription $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. T. Postmaster: Return postage guaranteed, Use form 3578 for undeliverablβ copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS to and from Ithaca through scenic splendor "Frank Lehigh" Trav. Pass. Agt. %*J A.Kittier A comfortable chair in a glass enclosed observation car Div pass. Agt. through open country; a smooth riding road bed, excel- 3ϊthaca NY lent meals, and The Black Diamond service is yours. lehighValley Railroad Cϋie Route of The Black Diamond Summer School Our summer session will begin on July tenth and end with Regents examinations on August twentieth. 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HUBBARD 205 Ithaca Rd. Ithaca, N. Y. R. A. Heggie & Bro. Co. Fraternity Jewelers Ithaca New York Quality Service E. H. WANZER The Grocer Aurora and State Streets CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. xxxi, No. 2.S ITHACA, NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 192.9 PRICE 12. CENTS Cornell's Founding Approval of Ezra Cornell's Plan Was Given by Harper's Weekly in April, 1865 Editorial comment on the proposal of Ezra Cornell to found Cornell University, first printed in Harper's Weekly for April 22, 1865, has been unearthed by Jeannette B. Cook '13 of Watervliet. An excerpt from the article in Harper's is reprinted below: THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY The tumultuous excitement of these closing days of the War has prevented attention to an act which, in the more tranquil times of the future, will be estimated with all the honor it deserves. Mr. Ezra Cornell, senator from the Twenty-fourth District, in this State, proposes to give fivehundred thousand dollars immediately to found a university, worthy the name, at Ithaca. Mr. White, Senator from the Onondaga District, one of our most excellent scholars and most efficient public men, has introduced a bill into the Senate establishing the University, and appropriating to it the income of the sale of public lands granted to this State by Congress by the act of July, 1862. The importance of Mr. Cornell's gift to all the higher interests of the State is so apparent that the Board of Regents appointed a committee to visit the People's College at Havana, to which the proceeds of the grant had been previously appropriated, for the purpose of ascertaining whether that college did now conform or was likely within the limited time of five years to conform to, the conditions of the grant. The committee visited the People's College, made a careful investigation of its condition through the testimony of its officers and neighboring friends, and reported that it did not now conform to the requirements of the law. They further submitted the testimony from which it could readily be inferred whether it was likely to conform to them within the time. No candid man can read the testimony without seeing that there is no reason whatever to believe it can do so. The People's College is apparently a small institution with no other prospects than such as may arise from the fund under the Act of 1862. It consists of a college building and a hundred acres of land; furniture to the amount of a thousand dollars, and a library of two thousand volumes made up of Congressional documents, Pacific Railroad reports, and documents of the State of New York. .It has no philosophical or chemical apparatus, nor shops, tools, machinery, nor fine buildings, farming implements or stock, although the expressed intention of the U. S. grant was the fostering of practical mechanics and agriculture. Instruction in the collegiate department has not begun, and there are about a hundred and fifty students in the preparatory school. Whoever has the interests of the most generous education at heart cannot doubt that the union of the grant of the United States with the gift of Mr. Cornell will secure a foundation for a university worthy of the State; and that the advantage of one comprehensive, amply equipped institution is greater than that of a dozen smaller and staggering schools. In such a movement concentration is power. The character of a truly noble university attracts the most eminent men to its chairs, and they in turn attract the multitude of students. Who can estimate the value of Agassiz, for instance, to the University at Cambridge? Yet only an institution so liberally endowed could secure the services of a savant so eminent against the imperial competition of Europe. In every way the increase of resources increases the opportunity and the usefulness of a college, and we can see no public reason whatever in the interest of education, why the grant under the law of Congress should not be transferred to the Cornell University. RHODES SCHOLARELECTIONS The 1929 election of Rhodes scholars will be held on December 7, and Cornell students must file their applications with the secretary of the State Committee of Selection before October 19, according to President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, American secretary to the Rhodes Trustees. A scholarship entitles the holder to two years' study at Oxford. If, at the end of the second year, the scholar presents an approved plan for an additional year of study, the trustees will extend the scholarship for a third year. Scholars elected December 7 will go to Oxford in October, 1930. Information and application blanks may be obtained from the secretary of the University or from President Aydelotte's office at Swartmore College. Cornell men who have held Rhodes scholarships are Warren E. Schutt '05, Russell H. Peters '20, Alexander B. Trowbridge, Jr., '20, Robert E. Burk '22, William D. P. Carey '23, George R. Pfann '24, and Eugene W. Goodwillie '27. Edwin R. Casady, Jr., Grad., will go to Oxford in October, 1929. Injured Improve Members of Baseball Squad Hurt in Accident Recovering Steadily— Haddock Returns Recovery of members of the baseball squad injured in the autobus crash near Quantico, Va., on April 4 seems assured. John D. Russell '29 of Ben Avon, Pa., manager of the team, will be confined to the Quantico Naval Hospital for at least two months. He suffered a compound fracture of the leg and minor injuries. John Haddock, battery coach, returned to Ithaca April 8, and has resumed his coaching duties, although his fractured shoulder is still heavily bandaged. He returned from the Quantico Hospital, where he was taken after the crash. The return of Frank Sheehan, veteran trainer, who was taken to the Washington Emergency Hospital after the crash, is expected soon. Sheehan suffered a broken arm. The first fear that he had received a fractured skull was removed by a complete examination. The rest of the squad returned to Ithaca April 7, many of the men suffering minor cuts and bruises. Practice sessions, however, were not called off, and the team went to Columbus, Ohio, for its game on April 13 with Ohio State University. Further details of the accident were learned on the team's return to Ithaca. The autobus, owned by a Washington transportation company, was scheduled to arrive at Quantico about six o'clock to take the squad to Washington, where on the following day the team was to meet Georgetown University. The bus was late in arriving, and the driver put on speed to make up for lost time, and to get the squad over the thirty-four-mile trip to Washington. It had rained that day, and the roads were slippery. The* bus, going off the road, crashed into a tree. It was badly damaged, but the opinion was expressed by members of the squad that the sturdy construction of the machine saved many from more serious injury. The bus was a new brand, only recently installed in service. GARGOYLE, honorary society of the College of Architecture, has elected to membership John M. Billings '30, North Manchester, Ind.; George C. Bebb '31, Newark; Richard C. Guthridge '30, Springfield, Mass.; Lawrence B. Perkins '30, Evanston, 111.; and Thaddeus B. Hurd '27, Clyde, Ohio. 334 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S ATHLETICS Ohio State Wins The baseball team opened the regular season at Columbus, Ohio, April 13 by losing, 4 to i, to Ohio State. Boies, who won two victories during the Southern trip, suffered his first defeat on the mound. He allowed seven hits, the same number given by his opponent, Kermode, but Ohio State succeeded in bunching its hits in the early innings. Cornell scored its lone tally in the first inning when Hebert singled, went 'to sec- ond on an infield out, reached third on a balk, and scored on an error by Riehl, Ohio State shortstop. Ohio State got two runs in the first. Hess singled, Widdiefield sacrificed, and Riedhl was hit by a pitched ball. Both runners scored on Genger's single. Felser scored Ohio State's third run in the second inning on his own single and two sacrifices, the second being a long fly. Two more sacrifices in the eighth inning scored Kermode who started the frame by getting a single. The line-ups: Cornell (1) AB R H PO A Hebert, 3b 4i 2i 3 Kohn, ib 4oo 5o Cushman, cf, 3oi 4 i Steiff, ss 4oi 4i Crosby, I f . . / 40121 Donnelly, 2b 3o i 2o Gichner, c 4oo3 i Handleman, rf 4o i 3o Boies, p 3ooo3 Totals .33 i 7 24 10 Ohio State (4) AB R H PO A Stull, 3b 3oo24 Hess, cf 3i 2io Riehl, s s 21044 Widdiefield, ib 3 o 10 o Genger, 2b 3o io Fesler, If 3 i 2o McConnell, rf 3oo3o Smith, c 3o 4 i Kermode, p 3 i o5 Totals 26 4 7 27 14 Score by innings: Cornell 100 ooo ooo—i Ohio State 210 ooo oix—4 Summary: Errors: Riehl, Steiff, Handle- man. Runs batted in: Genger 2. Three base hit: Cushman. Sacrifice hits: Hess, Riehl, Widdiefield. Bases on balls: off Kermode 2. Struck out: by Kermode 4, by Boies 3. Double play: Smith to Riehl to Smith. Wild pitch: Kermode. Balk: Kermode. Passed balls: Smith 2. Um- pires: Bectol and Bailey. Time of game: i 55 Maryland Wins at Lacrosse The University of Maryland lacrosse team defeated Cornell in the opening game of the season on Upper Alumni Field on April 13, 11to i. The visitors scored three goals in the first half before Fairfax, Cor- nell first attack, slipped in the only Red and White tally of the game. The Cornell defense was no match for the visitor's attack in the second half, and Maryland scored eight goals, six of them by Evans and Holloway. A muddy field hampered both teams. The line-ups: Maryland Cornell Kelly G . Tuck Dodson P. Allio Crothers CP. .Greenberg Heagy FD. . .Schoales Wilson SD. .Tieman Loane TD Gowdy Beck C Bonsaΐl Holloway TA Fay Roberts SA Champion Smink FA Fairfax Evans IH Moon Snyder OH '. .Mattieson Goals: Maryland, Holloway 4, Evans 4, Smink, Snyder, Roberts; Cornell, Fairfax. Substitutions: Maryland, Worcholi for Beck, Healy for Loane, Epstein for Kelly; Cornell, Callahan for Bonsall, Taylor for Fay, Truesdell for Mattieson, Abel for Tuck, Hunt for Greenberg. Referee: McCarthy, Syracuse. Field judge: Simmons, Syracuse. Time of halves: 30 minutes. Crew Boatings The crews are hard at work, preparing for the opening regatta on May n with Harvard on the Charles River, Cambridge. The present boatings are: Varsity: Stillman, bow; Abbott, No. 2; Mann, No. 2; Heidelberger, No. 4; Scott, No. 5; Clark, No. 6; O'Shea, No. 7; Shoemaker, stroke; Joyce, coxswain. Junior varsity: Ireland, bow; Behrman, No. 2; Shallcross, No. 3; Butler, No. 4; Smith, No. 5; Bate, No. 6; Todd, No. 7; Vanneman, stroke; Burke, coxswain. Freshman: Wilson, bow; Rodier, No. 2; Hartman, No. 3; Martin, No. 4; McManus, No. 5; Jarvis, No. 6; Falk, No. 7; Niles, stroke; Mullestein, coxswain. A new shell, named the John Hoyle, in honor of its builder and former coach, is now being used by the varsity. It is said to be from fifteen to twenty pounds lighter than any other shell used by a Cornell crew Tennis Team Wins The tennis team opened the outdoor season with a shutout victory over the Ohio State tennis team at Columbus, Ohio, on April 13, 9 to o. The summaries: SINGLES Custer, Cornell, defeated Okerbloom, 6-3, 7-5J Hene, Cornell, defeated Brown, 6-ι, 6-2; Miles, Cornell, defeated Dierdoff, 6-4, 6-4; Bush, Cornell, defeated Davids, 6-ι, 6-2; De^wiler, Cornell, defeated Fox, 2-6, 11-9, 6-2; Millard, Cornell, defeated Ziegler, 6-4, 8-6. DOUBLES Hene and Custer defeated Okerbloom and Brown, 6-3, 6-1; Miles and Bush defeated Dierdorff and Davis, 6-3, 6-1; Millard and Detwiler defeated Young and Young, 6-2, 6-2. THE 1929 ENDOWMENT FUND campaign opened April 20 at a dinner of team workers in Willard Straight Hall. President Farrand was the principal speaker. Jack F. Macomber '29 of Kendallville, Ind., is men's chairman and Lizette F. Hand '29 of Riverhead women's chairman. THE SUMMER SESSION The thirty-eighth Summer Session is to be held this year July 6-August 16. The regular Faculty numbers 127. The following visiting professors will participate: Frank G. Bates '91, Indiana University, government; Jerome H. Bentley, secretary of education, New York Y. M. C. A education; Wendell S. Brooks, Wheaton College, education; Olin Teeter Brown, Colgate, geology; J. Neale Carman, Kansas, French; Minnie Pearl Carr, Cortland Normal School, education; Carl G. Chamberlain, Charlotte High School, Rochester, physical education; Cleveland King Chase, Hamilton, Latin; Raymond G. Clapp, Nebraska, physical education; Collier Cobb, North Carolina, geology; Arthur H. Compston, Chicago, physics; Jean M. Gelas, Hamilton, physical education; George A. Hedger, Cincinnati, history; Marvin T. Herrick '22, Illinois, public speaking; Frank H. Hodder, Kansas, history; Hoyt H. Hudson, Ph.D. '23, Princeton, English; Horace Kidger, Newton, Mass., High School, social science; Ernest R. Kroeger, Kroeger School of Music, St. Louis, music; P. S. Kupalov, Institue of Experimental Medicine, Leningrad, physiology; Robert A. Law, Texas, English; Frank Burr Marsh, Texas, history; Royal Evert Montgomery, Texas, economics; Howard A. Myerhoff, Smith, geology; John H. Nelson, Ph.D. '23, Kansas, English; Harry W. Leitz, Detroit, Mich., music; Walter H. Stainton '20, Dartmouth, public speaking; Marcellus H. Stow, Washington and Lee, geology; Alvan A. Tenney, Columbia, economics; James A. Winans '07, Dartmouth, public speaking; Karl Abell Zeller, Columbus, Ohio, High School, physics. In law the visiting professors willl be George P. Costigan, Jr., California, Austin T. Wright, Pennsylvania, Edwin D. Dickinson, Michigan, Cheadle, Oklahoma, John V. McCormick, North Carolina, James N. Frierson, South Carolina, and Robinson, Boston. In agriculture the visitors will be Minnie Pearl Carr, Cortland Normal School, rural education; Albert M. Field, Minnesota, rural education; Arthur K. Getman, State Department of Education, rural education; Hazel Hicks, formerly of the Western State Teachers' College, Kalamazoo, Mich., rural education; Milton S. Nelson, State Teachers' College, Albany, rural education; James Beckley Palmer, Potsdam Normal School, rural education; Edward W. Spry, superintendent of schools, Le Roy, N. Y., rural education; William J. Weaver, State Department of Education, rural education. The 1929 Announcement of Courses will be sent to anyone interested on application to the office of the Director, 252 Goldwin Smith Hall. The charge for tuition in the regular session is $50. In the Law School it is $100 for the full term of eleven weeks or $50 for either half-term. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 335 Athletic Survey Meeting Alumni Corporation Committee Hold Two-Day Session Here—More Meetings Scheduled No definite conclusions on the athletic situation, now under investigation by the special committee of the Alumni Corporation, have been reached, according to a statement made by Conant Van Blarcom Ό8 of Cleveland, president of the Corporation, on April 13, at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of the committee at Willard Straight Hall. The material gathered by various subcommittees is being carefully and judiciously sifted, according to the statement, but at least two or three more meetings will be required before recommendations can be made. Thirteen members of the committee attended the meeting. The committee was named as the result of a resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Corporation in Washington last year. It started its work, through sub-committees, early this year. Karl W. Gass '12 of Pittsburgh, Pa., heads the sub-committee investigating the coaching situation. C. Rodman Stull '07 of Philadelphia, Pa., past president of the Corporation, is head of the committee investigating policies of the* Athletic Association. Thomas I. S. Boak '14 of Seneca Falls heads the committee analyzing the athletic material available, and Dr. Floyd S. Winslow Ό6 of Rochester, vice-president of the Corporation, is chairman of the committee appraising the Faculty attitude toward athletics. Other chairmen are Tell S. Berna '12 of Orange, Mass., in charge of the committee surveying forms of intercollegiate sport other than football, and Robert E. Treman '09 of Ithaca, in charge of the committee analyzing the undergraduate attitude toward athletics. REUNION CHAIRMEN The following list comprises the classes which will hold reunions in June and the reunion chairmen. The reunion chairman is also the class secretary unless otherwise indicated. '69, Charles F. Hendryx, 5 Roslyn Apts., Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio. '74, John L. Stone, 302 Wait Avenue, Ithaca. '75, Henry W. Sackett, 154 Nassau Street, New York. '76, Charles Beebe, Union Talc Co., 147 Nassau Street, New York. '77, William O. Kerr, 232 South Geneva Street, Ithaca. '79, Clayton Ryder, Carmel, N. Y. '84, Henry P. De Forest, 15 Central Park West, New York. '89, Henry N. Ogden, 614 University Avenue, Ithaca. '93, Secretary: Clark S. Northup, 407 Elmwood Avenue, Ithaca. '93, Chairman: George W. Cavanaugh, Willard Way, Ithaca. '94, Secretary: Elmer E. Bogart, 75 Lorraine Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. '95, Secretary: Erie W. Whitfield, Charter Printing Service, 280 Madison Avenue, New York. '95, Chairman: W. F. Atkinson, Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co., 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. '96, Secretary: George S. Tompkins, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. '96, Chairman: John Lynch, Room 715, 195 Broadway, New York. '96, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Clark S. Northup, 407 Elmwood Avenue, Ithaca. '99, Secretary: Charles C. Whinery, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, 111. '99, Chairman: Maxwell M. Upson, 140 Cedar Street, New York. '04, Secretary (Women): Dr. Mary M.-Crawford, 333 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York. '04, Secretary: Dean Albert R. Mann, 410 Dryden Road, Ithaca. '09, Secretary (Women): Mrs. R. Warren Sailor, 210 White Park Road. Ithaca. '09, Secretary: Robert E. Treman, Treman, King & Co., Ithaca. '12, Secretary: Ross W. Kellogg, 20 East Bayard Street, Seneca Falls, N. Y. '12, Secretary (Women):Miss Nina Smith, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. '13, Secretary: George H. Rockwell, 748 Main Street, Cambridge, Mass. '13, Chairman: Tristan Antell, 55 Parade Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. '13, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Leonard C. Urquhart, 711 East Seneca Street, Ithaca. '14, Secretary: H. Wallace Peters, Packard Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. '14, Chairman: Thomas I. S. Boak, Goulds Pump Inc., Seneca Falls, N. Y. '14, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Howard S. Teall, Geneseo, N. Y. '15, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Richard Haff, i59Radford Street, Yonkers, N. Y. '15, Secretary: Robert W. White, Carbide &Carbon Chemicals Corp., 30 East Forty-second Street, New York. '19, Secretary: Charles G. Seelbach, 1163 Kensington Avenue, Buffalo, '19, Chairman; W. Morgan Kendall, 59 Parkside Avenue, Buffalo. '24, Secretary: Carl F. Wedell, 505 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo. '24, Secretary (Women):Miss Mary E. Yinger, 22 Stiles Street, Elizabeth, N. J. '27, Secretary; Robert B. Brown, 19 Fairview Street, Yonkers, N. Y. '27, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Bernard A. Savage, 7501 Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn, N. Y. '27, Chariman: Jervis Langdon, Jr., 2 Central Avenue, Ithaca. THE GROUP OF THE COMMITTEE OF 17 WHO WERE IN ITHACA LAST WEEK Left to right: T. S. Berna '12, F. M. Coffin '12, A. J. Whinery Ίo, E. J. Murphy '22, A. P. Bryant '99, C. A. Taussig '02, C. VanBlarcom Ό8, C. W. Wilson Όo, R. E. Treman '09, F. S. Winslow Ό6, J. A. Pollak '07, K. W. Gass '12, and T. I. S. Boak '14. 336 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S BOOKS The Root of All Evil Money of Her Own. By Margaret Culkin Banning. New York. Harper. 1928. 19.3 cm., pp. vi, 329. Price, $2. The^theme of this story is the mischief which money can do in human affairs when the desire for it gets out of proportion. Carol Ranger, whose passion for money is explained by an early childhood spent in poverty, is a beautiful and interesting girl, capable of fineness and depth of feeling, thwarted only by this weakness which, under peculiar circumstances, all but brings disaster. Upon the death of her mother she was adopted by a wealthy uncle, whose obsession was a fear of losing the wealth he had accumulated by shrewdness and hard work. He dies suddenly leaving a will by the terms of which his nieceinherits his fortune "on condition that she shall retain control of her own property and not give it, in whole or in any part, to her spouse, whoever he may be. . ." Philip Helm, the man Carol marries, is a fine chap, capable and lovable, perfectly able to support his family according to standards adapted to the salary he earns; further than that he is without personal fortune. ~ΊjThe situation becomes a tangle of motives, maladjustments, and misunderstandings. The solution results in a story of compelling interest. The setting, that of the younger set in the best families of a provincial city, makes a vivid background, with the usual cocktails, high-power cars, and frantic quest for amusement. In artistic contrast is the secondary theme of the Swede, Benson, a poor man at the opening of the story and a year later a millionaire, whose wealth cannot charm the young stenographer whose mother runs a boarding house and whose clear eyes and loyal heart alone seem to be able to "see life steadily and see it whole." Books and Magazine Articles In New York State Education for January William R. Price '98 and Evangeline V. Thatcher Ί6 are among a group of writers on "Why Teach Modern Languages in a New York State High School?" In the issue for February Margaret M. Reidy OS joins with others in discussing the question "Why Teach Biology in a New York State High School?" In Bird-Lore for January-February Professor Arthur A. Allen Ό8 writes on the chickadee and the red-tailed hawk. In The Quarterly Journal of Speech for February Ulric Moore writes on "Drama as Wagner Saw It: the Universal Art." Wayland M. Parrish '22 of the University of Pittsburgh discusses "Whately and His Rhetoric." Lionel Crocker reviews "The Psychology of Language" by Professor Walter B. Pillsbury, Ph.D. '96, of the University of Michigan, and C. L. Meader. Vivian E. Simrell '24 of Dartmouth reviews Norman AngelΓs "The Public Mind: Its Disorders and Its Exploitation" and John De^ey's "The Public and Its Problems." Professor Everett L. Hunt of Swarthmore reviews "Readings in Public Opinion" edited by Professor W. Brooke Graves '21 of Temple University and "Propaganda" by Edward L. Bernays '12. Professor Hoyt H. Hudson, Ph.D. '23, of Princeton, reviews "The Principles of Effective Speaking" by William P. Sandford and Willard H. Yeager. Professor James A. Winans, LL.B. '07, of Dartmouth, reviews "A Bibliography of the Phi Beta Kappa Society" by Professor Clark S. Northup '93. Professor Hudson also reviews Robert Bridges, "The Influence of the Audience on Shakespeare's Drama," "The Art of Playwriting," being lectures on the Mask and Wig Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania, "The Oxford Recitations" with a Preface by John Masefield, and "Power Control" by H. S. Raushenbush and Harry W. Laidler. Vivian E. Simrell discusses "The Oratory of the 1928 Presidential Campaign." Professor Russell H. Wagner, A.M. '23, Ph.D. '28, prints an abstract of his Ph.D. thesis on "Thomas Wilson's Arte of Rhetoric" and Professor Arthur L. Woehl '23, A.M. '24, Ph.D. '28, prints an abstract of his thesis on "Burke's Reading." Professor Raymond F. Howes '24 of Washington University reviews "How to Talk" by John M. Clapp and Edward A. Kane. In American Speech for February Karl F. Kellerman Όo writes on "Hulled and Dehulled." In Science for February 22 Dr. Leland O. Howard '77 reviews B. P. Uvarov, "Locusts and Grasshoppers: a Handbook for Their Study and Control." Professor Ann H. Morgan Ό6of Mt. Holyoke writes on "The Illumination of Anatomical Preparations." In The Yale Review for spring Dr. Charles A. Beard, '99-Όo Grad., writes on "The Political Heritage of the Twentieth Century." Professor Wilbur C. Abbott, '92-5 Grad., of Harvard, writes on "Macaulay and the New History." "The Life of Peter Stuyvesant" by Hendrik van Loon '05 is reviewed by Ralph Volney Harrow. Professor Graham Lusk reviews Russell H. Chittenden's "The History of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University." In The Journal of Social Forces for March "The American Party Battle" by Dr. Charles A. Beard, '99-'oo Grad., is reviewed by Luther L. Bernard, now of Tulane. In The Scientific American for February Albert G. Ingalls '15 writes on "The Sinking Tower of Pisa." In the issue for April he answers the question, "Ultra-Violet Transmitting Glass—Has It Made Good?" OBITUARIES Robert L. Warner '92 Robert Lyon Warner, senior partner of the firm of Warner, Tucker, and Company, investment bankers in Boston, died at his home there on March 25. He was born in Kansas City, Mo., on May 19, 1869, the son of James G. and Flora Warner. He received the degree of M.E. in E.E., was a member of Beta Theta Pi, and was prominent in undergraduate affairs. Mr. Warner was well known in banking circles in Boston, and was an officer and director in many electric light, power, and street railway companies. His wife, who was Anne R. Pearson '92, and a son, Edward P. Warner, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of aviation, survive him. Wandell B. Secor '99 Wandell B. Secor, for twenty-nine years a member of the faculty of the State Normal School in Trenton, N. J., died in Trenton, on March 13, of pneumonia. He was born in Savannah, N. Y., on January 17, 1873, the son of Oliver G. and Sarah Taylor Secor. He received the degree of B.S. Thomas R. Finucane '03 Thomas Raymond Finucane, vicepresident of the Thomas W. Finucane Corporation, real estate operators in Rochester, N. Y., was one of the four passengers on the transport plane which was lost flying from Norfolk, Va., to the Curtis Flying Field on Long Island on March 22. He was born on July 17, 1881. He took one year of agriculture and one year of law. He played on the football team and was a member of Psi Upsilon, Aleph Samach, and Mummy Club. Charlotte B. Stout '28 Charlotte Burroughs .Stout died on June 12 in Olcott, N. Y., of acute pericarditis. She was born in Olcott, N. Y., on December 23, 1903, the daughter of Cicero F. and Nettie Burroughs Stout. She took two years of home economics, then attended the Wilson Teachers Training School, from which she graduated in 1927 with highest honors. The following year she taught in a district school in Hyde Park. Her chief interest was in literature, and she had written a number of poems. Harold C. Kirkpatrick '16 Harold Clement Kirkpatrick died suddenly of pneumonia on March i. He was born in New York on July 18, 1894, the son of Arthur H. and Emily Clement Kirkpatrick. He took one year of chemistry, and was a member of Psi Upsilon. Since leaving college he had been associated with the firm of Arthur H. Kirkpatrick in New York, importers of precious stones. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 337 Produce O'Neill Play The Emperor Jones Added to Achievements of Cornell Players—Assist Dance Festival The Cornell Dramatic Club has added to its list of major productions Eugene O'NeiU's drama of negro phsychology, "The Emperor Jones." This was first produced by George Cram Cook at the Provincetown Theatre in New York. "The Emperor Jones" is the play that brought O'Neill to the attention of the theatre-going public. His reputation as perhaps the greatest playwright America has produced still rests on "The Emperor Jones," "The Great God Brown," and "Lazarus Laughed." It is doubtful if O'Neill has ever surpassed in sustained dramatic power the picture of Brutus Jones, emperor of some nameless island in the West Indies gradually stripped of his thin coating of whiteman's civilization during one terrible night of flight through the jungle. With its eight scenes, the first in the palace of the emperor, the other seven at different places in the great forest through which Jones is fleeing to the sea, and the various hallucinations which visit the fear-crazed negro, "The Emperor Jones" presents unusual problems in staging. The settings were designed after plans by Professor Alexander M. Drummond, director of the Club and executed by the stage force in charge of Lawrence Voss '29 and William McCabe '29. The forest scenes, for which a plaster sky dome was installed for Cook's production at the Provincetown Theatre, were effectively managed by the use of trees and gauze drops. A single setting was used for the forest scenes, the changes in place and time being suggested by lighting different portions of the set. "The Emperor Jones" and a harlequinade curtain raiser, "A Merry Death" were given four performances, two before and two after spring recess. On March 22 and 23 the Department of Physical Education for Women and the Dramatic Club produced jointly the annual dance festival. This year it was the story of Echo and Narcissus presented in dance pantomime. The dances and music were supervised by Dorothy Bateman '29 of the Department of Physical Education, and the pantomime was arranged and the production planned by Professor Drummond. The forest settings were conventionalized to harmoize with dance pantomime. Two groups of one-act plays are scheduled for production April 19 and 20, and May 3 and 4. The plays include an original Cornell play "Yeah? Variety" by George Fass '29, "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, "Station YYYY" by Booth Tarkington, "The Albany Depot" by William Dean Howells, "Mary's Lamb" by Hubert Osborne, and "The Villain in the Piece" by PercivaΓ Wilde. Last year the Club maintained its reputation as the most active Little Theatre producing group in the country, staging six full-length plays, a revue, and thirty-one one-act plays in a total of fifty-one performances. Fourteen thousand and thirty-nine people paid to see the Club's productions in 1927-8 and the boxoffice receipts were $11,516. The Club's receipts however, do not pay its running expenses. Royalties, scenery, and costumes for production on the scale the Club has now reached leave the organization unable to pay its direction staff. For further expansion in production and facilities for experimentation the Club is in need of endowment. PROFESSOR GEORGE F. WARREN, Jr., '03, of the College of Agriculture, and Professor Sumner F. Slichter, of the Department of Economics, gave papers at the New York State-Wide Economic Congress held at the Hotel Astor in New York April 15-17. DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL of the College of Engineering attended the convention of the New York State Vocational Association at the Hotel McAlpin, New York, April 3, 4, and 5. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER M. DRUMMOND of the Department of Public Speaking was one of the speakers at the annual Eastern Public Speaking Conference, held at Princeton, New Jersey, on April 5 and 6. THE DEATH OF EMPEROR JONES AS PRODUCED BY THE CORNELL DRAMATIC CLUB 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 ad- vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. 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Member of r Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service, Inc. Printed by The Cayuga Press Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL 18, 1929 THE ATHLETIC SURVEY CONTROVERSIAL beyond any alumni discussion within our recollection, the present athletic situation is being studied very minutely by an alumni committee that seems adequate for the purpose. Unquestionably there are alumni everywhere who will deplore the fact that the survey committee on Saturday did not hit upon a panacea for all athletic ills that could be out into effect immediately. The task of this committee, as we view it, is not so simple. To sift the true from the untrue, and more particularly, to get the grain of truth in the plethora of chaff, is no mean job to be handled casually over a week-end. We are inclined to congratulate the committee on two counts even at this early stage. First, while the committee comprises seventeen members, apparently all seventeen are working on the problem. Second, they have not yet reached a solution. Both points augur well for the future of Cornell's athletics. We do not expect to enter into a discussion of the problems of the committee. We believe them capable of handling the problem with the help they have already had from the alumni and the public press. Nothing we could say would raise the boiling point, and this has certainly been reached. If we have erred in this matter, we have done so with open eyes. It is difficult to discuss the business of other persons without impertinence and without having available for rejoinders space far beyond our poor powers of expansion. The family washing might better be done in private. In discussing the account of the meeting of this committee we do, however, wish to make one comment. The machine that once rolled 'em flat on cinder path, river, gridiron, or what have you, is missing in many of its cylinders. We venture to predict that the committee will find that it is not sufficient to change a few spark plugs, use a different brand of oil or gas, or any such simple remedies. To restore the machine to its pristine power will probably require adjustments and repairs in many directions. We trust that, on the whole, the adjustments will be minor ones, and that we shall have to give up neither the machine itself nor the desire to polish off our good friends, the opponents. COMING EVENTS Friday, April 19 Beaux Arts Ball. Willard Straight Hall. Saturday, April 20 BasebaΓ, Columbia at Ithaca. Lacrosse, Harvard at Cambridge. Sunday, April 21 Sage Chapel Service. The Rev. Henry H. Tweedy, Yale Divinity School, n a.m. Monday, April 22 Concert. The Cleveland Orchestra. Bailey Hall. 8.15 p. m. Tuesday, April 23 Concert. The Cleveland Orchestra. Bailey Hall. 8.15 p. m. (Program of German Music.) Saturday, April 27 Flower Show. Willard Straight Hall. (Continued through Sunday.) Baseball. Princeton at Ithaca. Freshman Baseball, Colgate at Hamil- ton. Lacrosse, Syracuse at Ithaca. Freshman Lacrosse, Syracuse at Ithaca. Tennis, Colgate at Ithaca. Track—Penn Relays at Philadelphia. Sunday, April 28 Sage Chapel Service. The Rev. Henry H. Tweedy, n. a. m. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY now has a total registration of 35,956. In the University College of Arts and Pure Science there are 937; in Washington Square College, 6,842; in all the degree-conferring units there are 10,608 full-time students and 27,881 students altogether; in the non-degree-conferring sections there are 11,209 students. The total number of women is 13,406, of whom 9,059 are in the degree-conferring sections. The total enrollment is more than three times that of 1918-19 (11,479). Aid State Colleges Special Appropriations by New York to Assist Development of Many Activities Farm bills recently signed by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York State will benefit the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics by making funds available for carrying on experimental work in these colleges. One bill appropriates $13,000 for the Geneva Experiment Station for research in certain insect pests. Another grants $5,000 to the College of Home Economics for research on the living costs on farms. An appropriation of $150,532 is made for new activities at the College of Agriculture, including investigations on the muck soil of the State, the production, storage and diseases of potatoes, problems involved in regional agricultural adjustment, the operation of city markets, cooperative marketing, aspects of rural government, and extension and development of the work in animal husbandry, including a new calf barn, extensive alterations in existing barns, largermaintenance funds, and additions to the staff. The bill also carries $10,000 for printing and a new editorial assistant. In addition to these special appropriations, the regular appropriation bills carried $29,000, a fund for immediate needs, $21,000 for general items in the College of Agriculture, $7,950 for Home Economics, and $26,260 for the Geneva Station. Another bill appropriates $30,000 for buildings to be constructed at Elmira to house a permanent egg-laying contest, part of a nationwide scheme for poultry improvement. The contest will be supervised by specialists of the College. THE BOARD of editors of The Widow will be headed next year by Arthur P. Hibbard '30, Elizabeth, N. J., as editor-in-chief. Other members are William B. Edwards '30, Chatham, N. J., managing editor; Francis H. Marston '30, Claremont,N. H., art editor; George L. Bidwell '30. Ithaca, business manager; Lowell G. Powers '30, Hazelton, Pa., circulation manager; William H. Searing '31, Newburg, assistant business manager; Richard C. Guthridge '30, White Plains, assistant circulation manager; and William F. Rountree '31, Houston, Texas, second assistant business manager. GROUND for the new Brothers College building at Drew Seminary, Madison, N. J., was broken on March 18 in the presence of the two donors, Leonard D. Baldwin '92 and Arthur J. Baldwin '92. The building is to cost $500,000. The Baldwin brothers, who provided the Baldwin Memorial Stairway on University Avenue, Ithaca, have also given $1,000,000 for an endowment for the new college. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 339 The Week on the Campus I NTESTINAL warfare broke out on the Campus last week, to the grief of those thinkers who had considered collegiatism in Cornell extinct, and to the pleasure of those oldsters who hold that class warfare is a sign of academic health, and who recall tenderly the grim battles of old time and the gorges running with blood. The occasion was the Sophomore Smoker, last Friday, in Willard Straight Hall. The strategy was roughly that of Captain Parker at the Battle of Lexington, 152 years ago next Friday. The sophomores, advancing in single file toward their objective, were obliged to pass a large contingent of freshmen in ambush by the entrance. The freshmen had borrowed a fire hose from the City, to the City's surprise; this was attached to a hydrant near by, and accounted for many casualties. This heavy artillery was supplemented by a corps of grenadiers, armed with stink bombs, eggs, and foodstuffs, largely vegetables. The Chemical Warfare Division supplied a number of tear bombs, which vindicated the study of chemistry as a practical science. The infantry advanced under an efficient barrage, and engaged in hand-to-hand conflict, in the course of which a number of sophomores were completely stripped. THE ungrateful role of the neutral was played by a corps of C men and Student Council members, who succeeded in preventing injury to the building itself. For this foresight the community is sincerely thankful, for the mural paintings and other decorations of Willard Straight Hall must not be imperiled by youthful ebullience. THE FRESHMEN are to hold their banquet next Saturday evening. Formal dress will not be much worn. BUT TO COME BACK to the Sophomore Smoker. When the ranks were somewhat reformed within the building, the party was addressed by Tell S. Berna '12, former intercollegiate two-mile champion, and by Andrew J. Whinery Ίo, both of whom are members of the Committee of Seventeen appointed to examine the state of athletics. Mr. Berna carried on the discussion of the relations of students and alumni, to which reference has already been made in these pantoscopic columns. "The first business of the Cornell man is to become a cultured gentleman. We do not want coal-heaver athletes. We want men with a keen interest in life, in which graduation is only a forward step." He defended the necessity of obtaining high marks, since the world of business requires such a fight to make good today. ''Intercollegiate victories.are so hard to get they sometimes seem not worth while. But nothing develops a man's character as well as athletics in addition to class room work. The man who does better than his previous best to win a track meet has done something." THE Sun too has something to say about us alumni. To be sure, what it says is just the reverse of what it said a coupleof weeks ago; but remember that on the morning that the letter of Herbert D. Mason Όowas printed the entire board retired. Anyway, the Sun concludes; "Intelligent alumni investigation ... is highly desirable in brushing up on possible administrative injustices to which the average student is too rushed to give due attention." THE FIRST professional drama to play in Ithaca since 1924 (not counting a certain stock company, which, to be sure, did its best and certainly not counting "Abie's Irish Rose") was put on at the Strand last Tuesday. It was a road company of "Rio Rita." Somewhat to our astonishment, it was just as good as the New York production, and in some features better. Apparently the managers have discovered what we could have told them long ago: that the collapse of the Road is chiefly due to the fact that the road companies were rotten, and that the Road may be revived by the simple process of giving the Road its money's worth. Every one of the 1600 seats at the Strand was taken; the management should be well rewarded for its daring. Thank you, Mr. Saperstein. THE DRAMATIC CLUB repeated its successful bill of a few weeks past: Robert Harper '30 in "The Emperor Jones," and Evreinov's "A Merry Death." THE FOURTH ANNUALBarnyard Ball was held in the Old Armory on Friday, April 12. GORDON WATKINS of the Ithaca Piano School gave a memorable piano recital in Willard Straight Hall on Sunday afternoon, April 14. INTERNATIONAL WEEK on the lecture platform. America won with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President of the United States, who spoke to the Liberal Club on April 10 on "Why We Need a Labor Party in the United States," and to the Rotary Club on "Why Freedom Matters" (Do you hear me, Mr. Mencken?); Professor Emerson H. Swift of the Department of Fine Arts of Columbia on April 10 on "The Great Church of St. Sophia"; and Walter L. Gregory of Chicago, who addressed the HotelAdministration students. Germany was second, with Professor A. Sommerfeld of the Univversity of Munich, on April 10 and n talking "About Wave Mechanics" and "The Electron Theory of Metals," and Dr. Theodor Rehbock of Karlsruhe, who lectured on hydraulic experimentation. France, Austria, and India tied for third, with Dr. Frantz Funck-Brentano, historian, on April 12, discussing in French the life of the Revolution and the Empire as depicted by David and Prud'hon, Professor Paul L. Dengler of Vienna on April ii on "The Spirit of New Education in Austria," and Mme. Sarojini Naidu on April 9 on "Interpretations of the Modern Indian Renaissance." THE THIRD ANNUAL conference for Grange lecturers went on at the Collegeof Agriculture last week. ALPHA EPSILON PHI has won a cup for having the highest scholastic average of the sororities, tallying 79.4468 per cent. When you reflect that this means practically a B average for a whole sorority, and that the other sororities were not far behind, you can draw some conclusions about the intellectual apathy of youth. THE WOMEN'S Fencing Team met the New York Fencers Club in Prudence Risley Hall last Saturday. A LACK AW ANNA student special broke all records to New York just before vacation. It left Ithaca at 4.35 p. m. and arrived in Hoboken at 9.52^, making the trip (to save you the trouble) in 5 hours and ιyj^ minutes. SPRING DAY this year is May 18. The motif has been announced as Commodore Byrd's Trip to the South Pole. The theme will be appropriate, if the weather be hot or cold. One thing about it, it leaves little scope for the one usual, and somewhat wearisome, recourse of undergraduate humors: male nudity. M. G. B. THE FACULTY PROFESSOR CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 spoke on April 4 before the Georgia Association of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni at Atlanta on "Faith in Education." On April 5 he spoke before the students of Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, on "Some Tendencies in American Life" and installed the new chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Emory University, speaking at the open meeting on "Scholarships and Progress." On April 7 he was the guest of the University of Tennessee Association of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni at Knoxville and spoke at the dinner on "The Support of Scholarship." PROFESSOR Joseph Q. Adams Ό6 of the Department of English lectured on March 25 at Elmira College on "Elizabethan Settings." PROFESSOR FRANK THILLY '91-2 Grad., of the Department of Philosophy spoke on March 26 in Cincinnati before the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association. PROFESSOR FLOYD K. RICHTMYER '04 of the Department of Physics, has been selected consulting editor of the International Series in Physics to be produced by the McGraw-Hill Book Company. 340 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S DR. MATZKE IS DEAD Dr. Edith Hedges Matzke, former medical adviser to women and acting adviser to women at the University from 1916 to 1919, died in San Francisco on April 7. She was a nationally known authority on public health and a member of the faculty of Stanford University. She also served on the faculties of Pennsylvania and Missouri. She was sixty-one years old. THE CLUBS Michigan More than forty Cornell alumni from Detroit attended the track meet with Michigan held at Ann Arbor on March 23, among them Charles Beaman Ό8, president of the Cornell Club of Michigan, Benjamin H. Micou Ί6, Herbert Snyder Ί6, George B. Walbridge Όo,Frank Nitzberg '22, Virgil Oldberg '02 and his son, Oscar O. Oldberg '27, John F. Anderson '29, and Harold Cole Ί6. Members of the Cornell Club of Michigan who reside in Detroit are taking an active interest in the new Intercollegiate Alumni Club, which is an outgrowth of the Intercollegiate Association, which has been active for fifteen years. A clubhouse, containing rooms for members, swimming pool, and gymnasium, will be built in the downtown business section of Detroit. Lloyd G. Grinnell Ί6 is chairman of the executive committee, and others taking an active part in the organization are Charles L. Beaman Ό8, Henry E. Epley '03, Ralph F. Shreve Ό6, and Burton J. Lemon Ό8. Other members are Myron B. Bloy '20, Jackson B. Clark '12, Thomas B. Colby '23, Harold Cole Ί6, William D. Crim '17, Charles R. Davis Ό8, James L. ElwoodΌ6, Roy C. Folger Ό8, Walter J. Graves '99, Arthur S. Griswold '22, Harold M. Hastings Ίo, Archibald B. Morrison Όi, Oscar O. Oldberg '27, Blinn S. Page '13, Randolph J. Roshirt '14, J. Allan Smith, Jr., '23, Morgan B. Smith '05, Robert W. Standart, Jr., '09, George B. Walbridge Όo, Theodore L. Welles, Jr., '13, Don T. Woods '23, and Verne Skillman Ό8. Nalanda On March 23 the second of the Ίi chapter of Nalanda luncheons was held in the same place on lower Third Avenue. One might add that this place still contains many relics of the "Singerbund Age" and was true to form in that sense this 1929. The members present were Ed Wheelan, Doc Bole, Tommy Thomson, Stan Mott, Chic Divine, Sandy Brown, Sport Ward, and Tom Ludlum, all of Ί i. Other Nalandas and guests present were Walt Wing '07, Tom Page '07, Cy Weed '09, Les Barnum '09, Paul Williams Ίo, and Bill Van Kirk'13. THE ALUMNI '92, '93 BL—Mrs. Edmund F. Brown (Mary Relihan '93), who is the wife of Edmund F. Brown '90, is secretary of the Speakers' Bureau, the Community Council and Community Fund of St. Louis and St. Louis County, Mo., and is chairman of the Educational Committee of the Visiting Nurse Association of St. Louis. During National Negro Health Week the Speakers' Bureau scheduled health films and speaker in the colored schools and churches and municipal health clinics. Mrs. Brown lives at 5700 Clemens Avenue. '92 AB—George C. Purdy is president of Greenlee Bros, and Company, with whom he has been since graduation. The company manufactures woodworking machinery, machine tools, and mechanics' tools. Purdy's address is 1816 National Avenue, Rockford, 111. '97 PhB—Mrs. Elizabeth Williams of Evanston, 111., has announced the engagement of her daughter, Gwendolyn, to Charles H. Bartlett '97. He is serving his third term as mayor of Evanston. '98 LLB—Oliver R. Beckwith has been elected counsel for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, and the Automobile Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. He was counsel of the Aetna Life and the Aetna Casualty and Insurance Company from 1917 to 1922, when he became general counsel for the London and Lancashire Indemnity. He was made executive vicepresident of that company in 1923, and three years later president. He renewed his connection with the Aetna last June, and since then has acted in a legal capacity. Ό6 CE—Seth W. Webb is assistant engineer of the Cleveland Union Terminals Company. His address is 4150 East ιo6th Street. OS ME—George N. Brown is manager of the Philadelphia office of the Ohio Brass Company, at 1404 Packard Building. A son, George Doran, was born on March 26. Ό8 AB—Carlie Mallett, formerly registrar and personnel director of Elmira College, is now research secretary of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, Calif. '09 ME—William C. Simpson is manager of the Liquid Carbonic Corporation in New Orleans, La. The General Carbonic Company was merged with it in February. Simpson's address is care of the Corporation at P.O. Box 228, New Orleans. '09 AB—Winfield S. Keenholts is still manager of the Karachi branch of the Standard Oil Company of New York, operating in northwestern India. His address is care of the company at Post Box 19, Karachi, India. He will be home on leave in the fall of 1930. Ίo ME—Claude Hartford resigned last summer as manager of commercial re- lations of the New York Steam Corporation to become first vice-president in charge of sales of the American Elevator and Machine Corporation at 115 Cedar Street, New York. He lives at 71 Oakland Road, Maplewood, N. J. '13—Governor Moore of New Jersey has reappointed Ward Kremer '13 for a five-year term as judge of the First District Court of Monmouth County, N. J. Kremer's address is Electric Building, Asbury Park, N. J. '15 LLB—Ernest Mosmann is manager of J. IVIosmann and Sons, who are in the embroidery and lace business. His address is 647 Twenty-third Street, North Bergen, N. J. '15 ME—Donald T. Stanton is assistant sales manager of the Chrysler Export Corporation, at 341 Massachusetts Avenue, Detroit, organized in January to handle the exporting of Dodge cars and trucks, Chrysler, De Soto, and Plymouth cars, and Fargo trucks. '17 ME—H. Wallace Caldwell is president of the H. Wallace Caldwell Realty Company in Chicago. Last May he was elected president of the Board of Education for the City of Chicago. His address is 446 Oakdale Avenue. Ί8, '19 AB—Walter L. Quinlan is superintendent of recreation in Tampa, Fla. A daughter, Barbara Katherine, was born on December 22. Quinlan writes that his son, Richard Steven, who is now two and a half, joined the Cornell Athletic Association when less than a month old. Ί8; Ί8 AB—J. Bert Wilson is district manager of .the Remington Rand Business Service, at 48 West State, Trenton, N. J. He writes that his wife, who was Louise Dean ' 18,is now recovering from a serious illness and operation. They have two children, Dean, aged nine, and Ruth Elizabeth, who is ten. Their address is 24 La Salle Avenue, Trenton. Ί8—A. Paul Allman has recently increased his affiliations with the office of George B. Gay, realtor, who has taken offices in the Allman Building at 1701 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Allman lives at 128 South Seventeenth Street. '19—Samuel I. Kaufman is president of the Aetna Fireproof Arch Company, at 50 East Forty-second Street, New York, contractors for reinforced concrete floor arches on multiple story fireproof buildings. He lives at 803 West iSoth Street. '20 CE—Walter A. H. Grantz expects to be in Buenos Aires for the next two years, working on a subway construction. His address is care of Dwight P. Robinson y Cia., Estacion Federico Lacroze, Buenos Aires, Argentina. '20 BS—J. Mildred Keet is a dietitian at the Northeastern Hospital, at Allegheny Avenue and Tulip Street, Philadelphia. '20 AB; '24 MD—A daughter, Marjorie Ann, was born on March 26 to Lief G. Jensen '23 and Mrs. Jensen (Alice CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 341 Suddenly, out of a spring sky . . An Advertisement of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company ALL was well on the telephone front on April 27, 1928. Suddenly, out of a spring sky, rain began to fall over central Pennsylvania. As night came on this turned into a furious storm of sleet, snow and wind. Inside of 48 hours, 3700 telephone poles were down. Seven thousand miles of wire tangled wreckage. Thirty-nine exchanges isolated. Eleven thousand telephones silent. Repair crews were instantly mobilized and sent to the scene. From Philadelphia 47 crews came. Other parts of Pennsylvania sent 13. New Jersey, 6. New York, 4. Ohio, 6. Maryland and West Virginia, 12. In record time, looo men were stringing insulated wire and temporary cables along the highways, on fences and on the ground. Within 72 hours the isolated exchanges were connected and the 11,000 telephones back in service. Then, while the temporary construction carried on, neighboring Bell System warehouses poured out all needed equipment, new poles were set, new crossarms placed and new wire and cable run. In any crisis there are no state lines in the Bell System. In all emergencies of flood or storm, as well as in the daily tasks of extending and maintaining the nation-wide network, is seen the wisdom of One Policy, One System, Universal Service. Better and better telephone service at the lowest cost is the goal of the Bell System. Present improvements constantly going into effect are but the foundation for the greater service of the future. 'THE TELEPHONE BOOKS ARE THE DIRECTORY OF THE NATION" 342 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S THE CORNELL ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DETROIT, MICH. EDWIN ACKERLY A.B. '20, LL.B., Detroit, '22 Real Estate Investment Specialist 701 Penobscot Bldg. KENOSHA, WIS. MACWHYTE COMPANY Manufacturers of Wire and Wire Rope Streamline and Round Tie Rods for Airplanes Jessel S. Whyte, M.E. '13, Vice President R. B. Whyte, M.E. '13, Gen. Supt. BALTIMORE, MD. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH Water Supply, Sewerage, Structural Valuations of Public Utilities,"Reports, Plans, and General Consulting Practice. Ezra B. Whitman, C.E. Όi G. J. Requardt, C.E '09 B L. Smith, C.E. '14 18 E. Lexington St. ITHACA, N. Y. GEORGE S. TARBELL Ph.B. '91—LL.B. '94 Ithaca Trust Building Attorney and Counselor at Law Ithaca Real Estate Rented, Sold, and Managed P. W. WOOD & SON P. O. Wood Ό8 Insurance 316-318 Savings Bank Bldg. NEW YORK CITY MARTIN H. OFFINGER, E.E. '99 Treasurer and Manager Van Wagoner-Linn Construction Co. 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Ό8 Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively 309-314 Victor Buiilding 1819 G Street, N.W. One block west State War and Navy Bldg. LUNCHEON AND DINNER RUTH L. CLEVES Ί6 THE BALLOU PRESS CHAS. A. BALLOU, JR. '21 Printers to Lawyers 69 Beekman St. Tel. Beekman 8785 POWER PLANTS—COMBUSTION—FUELS H. W. BROOKS, M.E. Ί i Member A.S.M.E., Fellow, A.I.E.E. (Formerly of U.S. Bureau of Mines) One Madison Ave. Central National Bank Bldg. New York, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. ζr' Bristol ADVERTISING 285 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK Phones: LEXINGTON 0849-0850 MAGAZINES TRADE PAPERS Arthur W. Wilson '15 NEWSPAPERS FARM PAPERS Ernest M. Bristol, Yale '07 Callahan '20). They have another daughter, Mary Jane, who is two. Their address is 1603 Castleton Avenue, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y. Jensen received his A.B. degree from Columbia in 1919. '20 CE—Wilbur O. Manchester has been elected an associate member of the Western Society of Engineers. His address is 6236 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago. '22 BS—Helen D. Dates is a chemist and bacteriologist with the Newark Milk Company in Groton, N. Y. '22 AB—Joseph Uttal completed his internship as house physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital in January, and is now associated in general practice with Richard H. Hoffman Ό8, at 71 East Eightieth Street, New York. Uttal is also admitting physician to the Solomon and Betty Loeb Convalescent Home at Elmsford, N. Y. '23 AB—Walter L. Milliken of Indianapolis has announced the engagement of his daughter, Mary Louise, to William F. Landers '23. Landers lives at 1832 North Pennsylvania Avenue, Indianapolis. —22-'3 Gr.,—Michael A. Khoury has sold the plant of which he was president and is now manager of the Armour Creameries in Dublin, Ga. '26 AB—Frederick H. Schroeder received his M.B.A. from Harvard last June and is now in the new issue and investment counsel department for Lee, Higginson and Company in Boston. He lives at 1648 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. '24 LLB—Victor O. Wehle resigned from the legal department of the City of St. Petersburg, Fla., last summer, and is now a member of the law firm of Bradley and Wehle at 1014West Coast Title Building, St. Petersburg, in association with A. S. Bradley, a graduate in 1910 of Michigan. '25 AB; '25 LLB—Robert F. Dart graduated from the Harvard Law School last June and is now associated in the practice of law with Silas S. Clark, Esq., in the Bar Building, White Plains, N. Y. He writes that Otto C. Jaeger '25 is in the same office. Dart lives at 250 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains. '25 AB—Irving L. Ress completedhis medical course at the Northwestern University Medical School on March 19. He will interne at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago until July i. when he will begin his permanent interneship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland. His address is Michael Reese Hospital, Twenty-ninth Street and Ellis Avenue, Chicago. '25 EE—Thomas L. Ballard was married on August 29 to Miss Mildred M. Nadler of Homer, N. Y., a graduate of the Cortiand Normal School. They are living at 35 South Park Drive, West Orange, N. J. '26—A son, David Lee, was born on March 18 to Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred L. Brooke. Brooke's address is care of The Blanchard Storage Company, Inc., Broad Street at Oak, Rochester, N. Y. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 343 '26 BArch—Clayton B. Frye is an architect with the firm of Bley and Lyman in Buffalo. His address is 187 Woodside Avenue. '26 AB—Dr. and Mrs. Leo Hermann of Brooklyn have announced the engagement of their daughter, Theresa Hermann '26, to Dr. Aaron H. Trynin. He received his A.B. from the College of the City of New York and his M.D. from the University of Maryland, and is now on the orthopedic staff of the United Israel-Zion Hospital. '27 BS—A daughter, Patricia Davison, was born on March 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Conerton, Jr. Mrs. Conerton was Mildred E. Davison '27. Mr. Conerton is a graduate of Drexel. '27 AB; '27 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Howell M. Armstrong have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lucile C. C. Armstrong '27, to Raymond C. Morse '27. '27—Laurence E. Stotz is doing timber reconnaissance work near Kachikahi Lake, Quebec. His address is care of the Canadian International Paper Company, Victoria Building, Ottawa, Ont. '27 AB—A daughter, Caroline Belden, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Balderston, Jr., on March 21. Mr. and Mrs. Balderston live at 314 Eddy Stret, Ithaca. '27, '28 LLB; '23, '26 AB, '26 LLB— Emerson Carey, Jr., is an attorney with the firm of Williams, Martindell, Carey and Carey, at 409 Exchange National Building, Hutchinson, Kansas. William D. P. Carey '23 is the other Carey in the firm. '27 BChem—William Noonburg is a research chemist with the du Pont Company. He has been transferred from the Philadelphia to the Newark, N. J., plant. He lives at 595 Madison Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J. '28 BS—Almon D. Quick is working for a surveyor on real estate development in White Plains, N. Y. His address is 54 Bank Street. '28 BChem—Frank H. Roninger has completed the students chemist course and is now in the microscopic laboratory of the Goodrich Tire Company. His address is 190 Rhodes Avenue, Akron, Ohio. '28 BChem—Herbert C. Becker is a chemist with the Texas Oil Company in Bayonne, N. J. He lives at 142 Caryl Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. '28 AB—Francis C. Bethell is in the trust department of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, at 55 Cedar Street, New York, which soon will become the Chemical Bank and Trust Company. BethelΓs address is Box 36, Upper Montclair, N. J. '28 BS—A. Elizabeth Booth is supervisor of home economics and is teaching clothing at the Conneautville, Pa., Vocational High School. Interior view, Chicago Theological Seminary) Chicago. Riddle & Riddle, Architects. H. B. Barnard, Builder. Fine Enough for All Interior Work FOR interior as well as for exterior use, architects use Indiana Limestone. 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Ithaca Trust Company Resources Over Five Million Dollars Write for the Catalogue SHELDON COURT Modern, fireproof. A private dormitory for men students at Cornell A. R. Congdon, Mgr. Ithaca New York President Vice-Pres Treasurer Cashier Charles E. Treman Franklin C. Cornell Sherman Peer A. B. Wellar KOHM & BRUNNE Tailors for Cornellians Everywhere 222 E. State St., Ithaca "ITHACA" ENGRffVΊNG G* Libraηy Building 123 N. Tio£a Street Hemphill, Noyes £&Co. 35 Wall St.—15 Broad St. New York Investment Securities Philadelphia Albany Boston Baltimore Pittsburgh Rochester Buffalo Syracuse Jansen Noyes ΊO Stanton Griff is '10 Walter S. Marvin J. Stanley Davis Clifford Hemphill Harold Strong Kenneth K. Ward L. M. Blancke Ί5 Walter T. Collins Members of the New York Stock Exchange MERCERSBURG ACADEMY Offers a thorough physical, mental and moral training for college or business. Under Christian masters from the great universities. Located in the Cumberland Valley. New gymnasium. Equipment modern. 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Holbrook, Harding Court Forest Hills, Long Island, N. Y. '27—Ethan K. Stevens, Lawyers' Club, Ann Arbor, Mich.—Garrett Kirk, 2805 Creston Avenue, Bronx, New York.— Ezra Cornell, 2 Sound View Terrace, Greenwich, Conn.—William H. Cassebaum, 132 Highland Cross, Rutherford, N. J.—Eugene P. McCaffrey, 315 Lansdowne Road, Llanerch, Pa. '28—Austin H. Cruch, 1421 Lincoln Avenue, Moore, Pa.—Miriam V. Crego, StanfordviUe, N. Y.—Herbert W. Smart, 215 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS NOT A GIFT, BUT AN INVESTMENT THE Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation, incorporated December 31, 19x6, successfully operates the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS and the Cayuga Press. The latter is a printing establishment that does a general printing business now aggregating $ιzo,ooo a year. This includes many scholarly books for nationally recognized publishing houses. An excellent specimen of its technique is the volume of "Sport Stuff" recently purchased by many alumni. THE ALUMNI NEWS WAS ESTABLISHED thirty years ago, the Cayuga Press sixteen years ago. The business has a real opportunity for profitable service. THE CORPORATION OWNS fine equipment. It has just acquired title to its building which is appraised at $80,000, The corporation has paid its preferred stock dividends promptly each quarter from earnings. THERE ARE SOME 150 ALUMNI STOCKHOLDERS, including distinguished and successful men and women from all classes from 1875 to I92-7> ^anc πon-Cornellian friends of Cornell. THERE REMAINS ABOUT $15,000 of the original issue of $1x5,000. We should like as many interested alumni as possible to become stockholders in this corporation. The improvement of the ALUMNI NEWS alone would be worth the purchase of a few shares of this stock to many of its readers. THE FACTS CONCERNING THIS STOCK are as follows: Authorized, 1150 shares of 7% Cumulative, Voting, Preferred Stock, Par $100. For sale at Par. Redeemable in whole or in part at the option of the company, on thirty days' written notice, on any dividend date, at $105 and accrued dividends. Each share of preferred stock carries with it a bonus of one share of No-Par, Voting, Common Stock, being one of an issue of 6500 such shares. Dividends are payable Jan. i, Apr. i, July i, and Oct. i. SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR STOCK BY ALUMNI may be made with 10% cash payment, balance on any reasonable schedule, partial payments bearing interest at 7%. Address inquiries to the president of the corporation. Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation P. O. Box 105 Ithaca, New York Are Your Books Identified ? All of us loan books. It is easily possible after finishing a book to put it on our own shelves before it is convenient to return it. It is embarrassing but it happens. Have bookplates with your name printed on them. What could be better for a Cornellian than the bookplates showing campus scenes? Garden Books My wife says that I make a garden with a book in one hand. There are worse ways. The only trouble is that the book does not show where the bug is whichis waiting for my seed. Ask for our agriculture booklist. The Old Model Remington Portable Typewriter $4500 Not all Remington agencies have these old models. We had a few because the new model arrived nearly a year ahead of time. In a couple of months our stock will be gone. Are you interested? What Service Should We Render to the Alumni? We are mailing many items now and these, in many cases, were suggested to us. The latest item is bookplates. Some time in the future our Board of Directors may develop a better plan of cooperation with the Alumni. What would you suggest? CORNELL BARNES HALL SOCIETY ITHACA, N.Y.