ORNELL ALUMNI NEW In the News thisWeek Entering Students Report Record Number of Cornell Relatives .. . First Student Here from Ancient Ithaca . . . Crew Committee Opens Campaign to Modernize Boathouse . . . New York Club Invites All to Dinner for Lynah December 5 . . . Cross Country Third in Intercollegiates-Soccer After Second Championship NOVEMBER 28, 1935 VOLUME 38 NUMBER 10 • • • • • The Christmas Gift • that is 35 Gifts PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY OF CORNELL ALUMNI METROPOLITAN DISTRICT THE BALLOU PRESS Printers to Lawyers CHAS. A. BALLOU, JR., '21 69 Beβkman St. Tel. Beekman 8785 JL HESE are the days when that old bogey Christmas List rears his head, and the despairing cry "What can I give So-and-so?'* echoes through the land. Don't let it get you down! Do the smart thing: give the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. It's the perfect gift from Cornellian to Cornellian. A gift that is thirty-five gifts—thirty-five times during the coming year will its grateful recipient thank you. 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IO ITHACA, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 2.8, I935 PRICE 15 CENTS PRESIDENT IN ROCHESTER The Cornell Clubs of Rochester, of both men and women, will entertain President Farrand on December 4. The meeting will be a luncheon at theUniversity Club, at ix:i5 o'clock, to which all alumni are invited. KIMBALL IN DAYTON Dean Dexter S. Kimball of the College of Engineering spoke at a luncheon of the Cornell Club of Dayton, Ohio, on November 19. The group met at the Engineers' Club. Frederick W. Sampson '14 presided. Dean Kimball spoke that evening at a regional meeting of the National Association of Cost Accountants. His subject was " T h e Future of Industrial Combinations.'' SYRACUSANS BREAKFAST The Board of Governors of the Cornell Club of Syracuse was entertained at breakfast on Sunday morning, November 17, at the home of the secretary of the Club, Robert C. Hosmer '00. Present were: William M. Gale '2.2., J. Mark Chamberlain '15, Stephen P. Toad vine '19, H. Follett Hodgkins '15., Joseph P. Rogers Ί 8 , C.Travis Brown '15, Richard Aronson '2.6,Frederick B. Scott, Jr. Ί 8 , Thad L. Collum *io, and William J. ThorneΊ i . TO IMPROVE BOATHOUSE This week the crew committee ofthe intercollegiate advisory council announce plans to raise a fund of six thousand dollars to be used to modernize and improve theaccommodations for rowing at the Varsity boathouse on the Inlet. All alumni of record who have rowed on Cornell crews are receiving a letter signed by William H. Forbes '06, alumni representative on the committee, and a fourpage folder in which the proposed improvements are described. These include increased locker space, a drying room, ζpilet rooms, and the renovation of the showers onthe second floor; a new workshop, office, and racks for oars onthe first floor; repainting the building in the familiar red and white; and the construction of a new launch house to replace the present dilapidated structure. The central part of the present boathouse was built during the summer of 1890 from plans prepared by Professor Charles F. Osborne of the Architecture Department and with "funds raised by the Class of '90 the previous spring as its Senior Class memorial. Forbes's letter points out that this year's Varsity crew has"six of the eight men who came within an eyelash of winning at Poughkeepsie" last June, and that theproposed renovations at the boathouse will provide training facilities long needed. Itis announced that Red Key, Junior honor society, has already contributed $2.50 toward thefund, and that The Cornellian Council has officially approved the undertaking. The folder prepared by the committee also contains "Ghosts Around the Boathouse, '' reprinted on this week's editorial page. Besides Forbes, the other members of the committee areProfessor Charles L. Durham '99, Faculty representative; William G. VanArsdale '36, Commodore, and John R. Young '36, manager of crew; and James Lynah '05, Director of Athletics, ex-officio. THREE JOIN DARTMOUTH The Cornell Club of Western Pennsylvania had a joint party with the Dartmouth alumni on November 16. The group met at The University Club in Pittsburgh, where a gridgraph had been installed. Eugene Batchelar '04 presided. About thirty Cornellians were present. The Cornell Club of Washington reports a joint luncheon with the Dartmouth Club on November 16, at which Dartmouth was thehost. The group met at the Harrington Hotel in Washington, D. C< with about 150alumni present. The Cornell Club of Albany met jointly with the Dartmouth Club of that city for dinner on November 14, just before the game at Hanover. Speakers were C. Reeve Vanneman '03, president of the Cornell Alumni Corporation,and Harry Hillman, Dartmouth track coach. EXPLAINS NEW TAXES Jacob Mertens, Jr. '19 is authority for a novel summary, which appears inthe November-December Cornellian Council Bulletin being mailed this week, of the bearing of the Federal Revenue Act of 1935 on gifts made to the University. In the form of answers to specific questions which a prospective donor might ask, Mertens shows how the new income, gift, and inheritance tax laws may be turned to the benefit of the donor andthe University. Tables show the application in both Federal and State taxes for residents of New York, andsimilar information is available for residents of other states upon application to Archie M. Palmer Ί 8 , executive secretary of The Cornellian Council. Mertens is a member of the committee on bequests of The Cornellian Council, and of the New York City firm of Olcott, Paul & Havens. He is a member of the tax committee of theNew York County Lawyers' Association and co-author of The Lawof Federal Income Taxation, recently published. BALTIMORE GRID LUNCHEON The Cornell Club of Maryland held its annual Cornell-Pennsylvania football luncheon on November x6 at the Chesapeake Club, Baltimore Trust Building, Baltimore. SAN FRANCISCO MEETING Glenn B. Woodruff '10, director of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, talked atthe regular monthly luncheon of the Cornell Club of Northern California, held at the Hotel Plaza in San Francisco on November 13. Walter B. Gerould 'xi president of the Club, presided. Nathaniel J. Goldsmith '14 and Charles E. Finney '12. were appointed a nominating committee to present names for officers for the coming year. TO RAISE G.O.P. FUND Among the sixteen prominent industrialists and lawyers who comprise the finance committee, recently announced, to raise a Republican campaign fund for 1936, are Charles B. Goodspeed '08 of Chicago, 111., assistant treasurer of the Republican National Committee, and Joseph N. Pew, Jr. Ί 8 of Philadelphia, Pa., vice-president of the Sun Oil Company. Chairman of the finance committee is William B. Bell, president of American Cyanamid Company. Mrs. Bell was Susan K. Alsop '95. MENTAL SHEEP WRECKS Experiments with sheep conducted at the experimental field station of the Department of Physiology in Ithaca are reported as having a bearing onthe rapidly increasing prevalence of human mental disorders. Drs. Howard S. Liddell,PhD 'Z3, and Oscar D. Anderson, PhD '2.9,report in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry that four sheep being trained in a new habit (to lift one leg at the sound of a bell) learned rapidly when they were trained slowly and allowed to escape from the problem when they became too perplexed. If, on the other hanfl, their placid attention was too closely and continuously confined to the operation, the sheep became nervous wrecks, incapable of learning and requiring at least a year's complete rest to recover. The importance of the experiments to the psychiatrist, Dr. Liddell says, is that, without thecomplexities of speech, two simple procedures for establishing habits were directly compared. One put the nervous system under dangerous strain and the other did not. " I t may be," he concludes," that the sheep were placed in the same predicament in which a nervous child is involved when he is required to obey toomany commands, oneafter an- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS other, especially if they seem to the child to be contradictory." Dr. Liddell is professor of Physiology in the Medical College in Ithaca. Dr. Anderson is now associate in Anatomy in the Medical College in New York, carrying onbehavior research with dogs under Dr. Charles R. Stockard, at the Cornell Morphology Farm at Mohegan Lake. Aided by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Liddell and two other research associates, Dr. George F. Sutherland, formerly on the staff of Vancouver General Hospital, and Richard Parmenter '17, are now carrying on the study of reflex behavior of animals in relation to neuroses; and are experimenting with possible agents, such as drugs and hormones, which alleviate or aggravate the derangement of behavior experimentally produced. CLEVELAND WOMEN The Cornell Women's Club of Cleveland met onNovember 16 at thehome of Mrs. Armin R. Boethalt (Lucile Marshall), A.M. '15. Katherine H. Orter PhD '30, assistant professor of English at Flora Stone Mather College, Western Reserve University, discussed some aspects of recent American fiction. TWO O N SQUASH TEAM We are informed by J. Dugald White Ί o that two Cornellians are members of the American squash racquets team which sailed November xo to compete in England. Donald J. Nightingale Ί 8 and Richard V. Wakeman '2.8will compete in a series of team matches in Brighton, Liverpool, and London, and are also expected to enter the British individual championship matches in London. FROM ANCIENT ITHACA Cόuvaras '38 At University A modern Ulysses, the first native of the Ionian island of Ithaca to come to Cornell, is Costa George Couvaras '38, registered this fall in theCollege of Arts and Sciences. Ever since he was a small boy inthe modern city of Ithaki, the legendary royal seat of Ulysses, Couvaras says he has known of Cornell and of Ithaca in the New World, and hoped some day to go there. When four years agohe saw in the local Greek newspaper of the Ithakans an article about the University and pictures of the Campus, he determined, if possible, to come here to study. The article was written by Professor Plato Drakoulis, former member of the Greek parliament and fellow-townsman of Couvaras, then at Oxford. Professor Drakoulis visited Ithaca and the University in 192.5, the guest of Robert H. Treman '78 and Mrs. Treman. His article in the Greek newspaper described the University and Ithaca, and suggested that a scholarship to Cornell might appropriately be financed by some wealthy resident of the island for which Ithaca is named. Couvaras studied for five years at Anatolia College in Salonica, an American junior college to which hehad won a scholarship. Born in Ithaki, Greece, in 1911, he went to Athens at the age of twelve, when his parents died, and worked in a hotel there for five years. At Salonica he became proficient as a photographer, and his news pictures taken during the revolution in Greece were reproduced in many countries. Through the help of Henry Lansdale, FIRST STUDENT FROM HOME OF ULYSSES Costa George Couvaras '38, native of Ithaki, Greece, with Professor Emeritus Eugene P. Andrews '95,Archeology. Between them is therock brought back to Cornell in 1930 from Couvaras's birthplace by Carl L. Weagant '2.9, captain of the Carlsark, after a year's voyage of 13,000 miles. Photoby Fenner. formerly of Rochester and now head of the YMCA in Greece, who is a friend of Provost Albert R. Mann '04, the boy's qualifications to enter Cornell were brought to the 'attention of University authorities, and last summer a tuition scholarship was arranged. He is especially interested ingovernment and politics. Asked if he had known of the voyage of the ketch, Carlsark, to Ithaki, Greece, in 192.9, Couvaras said he knew of the monument brought from Ithaca, New York, by four Cornellians anderected on Mount Athos, but had never seen it. He was much interested, of course, to see the rock which the four brought back from his native land, now displayed in the museum of casts in Goldwin Smith Hall and shown in the accompanying photograph of Couvaras and Professor Eugene P. Andrews '95. Alumni will recall that the forty-sixfoot Carlsark, owned and commanded by the late Carl L. Weagant '19,left Ithaca June 30, 19x9, reached theancient island of Ithaki, December 18, and returned to her home waters of Cayuga Lake in June, 1930. Captain Weagant presented the rock to the University during the reunion program that year. Crew ofthe Carlsark were Dudley N. Schoales ^ 9 , Joseph M. Rummler 'x9, and Henry M. Devereaux '33. MUSICIANS AT WORK Jacob S. Fassett, 3d. '36, undergraduate manager of the Musical Clubs, looks forward to a season for his organization of ninety-six members that he says will compare admirably with " t h estandards established for the first time by the thirty-five men who composed theold Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs of 1890." Thus young Jake follows inthe footsteps of his versatile father, Jake Ί i , who as an undergraduate devoted his extra-curricular talents not only to Masque, Savage Club, Book and Bowl, Manuscript Club, and the Era, but also served on at least one banquet, smoker, or stunt committee in each of his four years. Eric Dudley, Fassett says, has a fine group of new singers, and Paul M. Mattice '36, their student director, reports that the group has already begun to acquire tone andbalance. The Instrumental Club, directed by George L. Coleman '95,is being rapidly shaped into " a well-proportioned and well-trained outfit." This year, the members' original compositions and arrangements are being encouraged, and will be tested for the approval of the Club. Samuel L. Shanaman, Jr. '36 of Phoenixville, Pa. has been elected the student leader. The manager reports the receipt of numerous letters from alumni interested in the Musical Clubs, and their enthusiastic support of the idea of a concert tour some time this season. NOVEMBER ±8, I 9 3 5 RELATIVES OF CORNELLIANS INCREASE 209 More Children, 17 Grandchildren of Alumni Enter University Cornellians continue to send their children to Cornell in ever-increasing numbers. As has been the practice for some years, the Alumni Office has again compiled from the information given at registration the Cornell relationships of the new students who entered the University this fall. The tabulations show that 2.09 of the more than 1600 students who entered the University this year are children of Cornellians. This is eight more than last year's record number of xoi. Ten of these are the third generation of Cornellians. Their pictures appear below. Of the ten, two reported that both parents had attended the University, and eight, one parent. Seven other new students reported that while neither parent was a Cornellian, one or more grandparents were. Besides these Cornell relationships in direct descent, the Alumni Office finds 503 reports from entering students of a total of 759 additional Cornellians who are brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, great-uncles, and cousins. Most of those entering are, of course, Freshmen this year. In the following lists, only those designated with class numerals came as members of other classes. Asterisks denote persons deceased. The lists are probably incomplete, since they depend for the most part upon the information given by the students themselves and some who are related to Cornellians always neglect to say so. Additions and corrections are welcome. They should be sent to Foster M. Coffin Ί z , Alumni Representative, Morrill Hall, Ithaca. Seventeen Grandchildren In addition to the ten third generation Cornellians who appear in the photograph adjoining, seven entering students reported grandparents but not parents who were Cornellians. These are: GRANDPARENT GRANDCHILD Brown, James T. '76* James S. King, Jr. Elstun, Volney '81 William H. Elstun Feree, Eugene H. '91 Eugene F. Patterson Johnson, Harry G. '88 Richard G. Smith Richards, George B. '87 George R. Seidlitz Wheeler, George W. Ί o * Sarah R. Steinman Albert F. Steinman Among the names of Cornellian grand- parents, that of George W. Wheeler Ί o appears twice: as the grandfather of Henry W. Lauman '39 and of Sarah R. and Albert F. Steinman 3 9 . Dr. Wheeler entered the Veterinary College in 1907 at the age of forty-five, and received the degree of DVM in 1910. He died July 7, 1933. One of his daughters is the wife of Professor George N. Lauman '97, Agri- cultural Economics, and the mother of Henry W. Lauman '39. Another is the mother of Sarah and Albert Steinman. A third daughter is Mary W. Wheeler Ί z . Double Cornell Parentage Twenty new students reported that both parents are Cornellians. Two of these, Alma L. Naylor and Lois C. Peters, are also of the third Cornell generation and are therefore accounted for in that list. The other eighteen: PARENTS CHILD Arthur A. Allen '08 Elsa Guerdrum Ί z Constance E. Earle W. Benjamin Ί i Eva I. Hollister '15 Roger O. Edwin G. Boring Ό8 Lucy M. Day, Grad Frank H. Harry G. Bull '08 Helen Dudley Ί i Anne C. Robert F. Chamberlain '08 Mabelle M. Sandwick Ί 6 Robert S. Charles M. Chuckrow Ί i Mollie Goldenberg '13 Robert R. Cyrus R. Crosby '05 Nellie Heck, Sp. Eugene E. Royal Gilkey '08 Eunice W. Jackson '09 Eunice W. Joseph E. Godfrey Ί 4 Hazel W. Brown '13 Joseph E., Jr. Alpheus M. Goodman 'zi Clara W. Browning '12. Clara E. Melancthon Hamilton '05 Catherine Mills '14 Katherine M. '37 Arthur H. Kohn '06 Lili Z. Levy '05 William H. Charles F. Landmesser '06 Jane B. Cheney '06 Charles M. Kenneth C. Livermore '08 Madelene S. Avery '13 Carter John T. Moir, Jr. Ί 8 Gertrude M. Fisher Ί 6 John T., Ill James H. Sternbergh '13 Katherine E. Cornell '13 James H. Leonard C. Urquhart '09 Jane D. McKelway '13 Edmond R. Meredith C. Wilson '14 Mary E. Denniston Ί z Meredith C , Jr* Other Cornell Children Besides the following list of 181 enter- ing students who reported that one parent was a Cornellian, eight also re- ported one or more Cornell grandparents, so they are included in the list of third generation Cornellians. The others: PARENT CHILD Adler, Emil '09 Winifred R. Anderson, Frank G. '06 Frank G. '38 Anderson, Wilfred, Sp. Ruth M. PRESIDENT FARRAND WITH THIS YEAR'S N E W THIRD-GENERATION CORNELLIANS Ten new students this fall are directly descended from two generations of alumni. Seated in front are: Lois C. Peters, daughter of Arthur C. Peters '15 and Jessie King Peters Ί 6 and granddaughter of Heber C. Peters '92.; Marcia A. Wilber, daughter of David T. Wilber Ί o and granddaughter of Ernest E. Russell '84* and Marcia Spurr Russell '84; Dr. Farrand; Helen L. Perkins, daughter of Harold C. Perkins '15 and granddaughter of Albert H. Perkins '93 and Luella Fulford Perkins '94; and Alma L. Naylor '38, daughter of Howard W. Naylor '13 and Dorothy Russell Naylor '13 and granddaughter of Ernest E. Russell '84* and Marcia Spurr Russell '84. Standing: Philip M. Price, Jr., son of Philip M. Price '07* and grandson of Charles S. Price '7Z*; Benjamin M. Herr, Jr., son of Benjamin M. Herr '06 and grandson of Alba F. Brown '77*; Hadley W. Griffith, son of Heber E. Griffith Ί i and grandson of John D. Griffith '73*; Henry W. Lauman, son of Professor George N. Lauman '97 and grandson of George W. Wheeler Ί o * ; James T. Howes, son of Alfred P. Howes '07 and grandson of James T. Howes '88*; and Joseph B. Chamberlain, son of J. Mark Chamberlain Ί 6 and grandson of Joseph R. Chamberlain '88 and Wilber J. Bates '71*. Photo by Fenner. i 5 6 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS PARENT CHILD Andrews, John D. '14 Ashman, Robert I. '13 Mary R. Robert I. Baker, Frank J. '05 Walter G. Baldwin, Dane L. '09 Charles L. Ballard, William C. Ί o Ruth E. Barnum, Jerome D. '12. Jerome D., Jr. Barrus, Mortier F. Ί i Mortier F., Jr. '37 Merton S. Batchelar, Eugene C. '02 Eugene C , Jr. Bennett, Ralph S. Ί o Edwin F. Bennett, Fred L. '05 Virginia H. Bergmann, Louis Ί o Marjorie H. Bevin, Victor D. Ί o Bruce '39 Black, Roy T. '09 Roy T., Jr. '38 Blackburn, Charles H. '15 Douglas B. Block, Arthur J. '06 Joseph Boak, Thomas I. S. '14 Thomas I. S., Jr. Boochever, Louis C. Ί x Robert Booth, Arthur W. '93 Mynderse V. Bostwick, Harrison F. C , Sp. James F. Buchholz, Arthur B., Grad. Pricilla Bullen, Stearns S. '09 Stearns S., Jr. Cabassa, Jacobo L. Ί 2 Carey, Henry A. Ί x Carpenter, Carroll '12. Carrier, Charles M. Ί 6 Carroll, Charles A. Ί o Clark, Clifford E. Ό8 Clark, Charles P. '15 Cobb, Howard '95 Cohen, Samuel '08 Cornell, Willis R. '13 Cothran, Floyd '12. Crew, Alfred '08 Currie, Robert H. Ί 4 Roberto E. Patricia Edward L. George F. Charles A. Barbara A. Charles P., Jr. Virginia '38 Eleanor D. William R. Genevieve E. Robert J. Robert R. Dean, Clarence W. '09 James E. DeLamater, William J. Όi* William G. Dixon, Richard M. '13 Florence D. Doughty, Herman W. '96 Helen E. Duckworth, Willard D. '05 Willard G. Dunning, Henry S. '05 Elaine M. Dye, Joseph A., Grad. Joseph G. Edgerton, Chauncey T. Όi Nelson Ehrlich, Simon D. '07 Ruth '37 Eliasberg, Bernard H. '06 Joshua A. Enos, Copley '97 Barbara A. '36 Foote, Edward T. '06 Ford, Henry W. Ί i Friend, Robert E. '08 Robert T. Henry W., Jr. Charles O. John M. Geis, Richard A. '08 Richard A., Jr. Gilkeson, Fairbairn '14 Robert F. Gottesman, Sidney B. '08 Herbert N. Joseph G. '36 Gridley, Frederick B. Ί i Grandison Griίϊis, Stanton Ί o Theodora Hagen, Charles W. Ί o Charles W., Jr. Hardenburg, Earle V. Ί x Marjorie E. '38 Harger, Wilson G. '05 Carl Harries, William E. '08 Edward E. Hartman, George M. '12. Frances E. Harvey, Lew E. '14 Ruth E. Heath, Riley H. '12. Doris Hecht, Eugene I. Ί i Edward Jacqueline M. Heit, Mrs. Kate Sheffield '08 WilliamS. Henry, Lucas S. '09 Gertrude M. Hildreth E. Raymond '98 Edward R., Jr. Hilmer, Otto Ernest '07 Herbert F. Horton, Erwin C. Ί o Mason E. '38 Huckle, Clarence '13 Donald R. Hunter, Joseph W. Ί 6 John N. Hutchinson, Alfred H. '09 William Y. Jaros, Mrs. Ernest S. '02. Carolyn E. '37 JefFers, Mrs. Floyd L. '2.0 Harlan S. Jeffrey, Charles L. '93* Gilbert Johnson, Oliver R. Grad. Oliver H.,Grad. Keeler, Louis V. Ί i Betty P. Kellogg, Charles F. '97 Charles F.,Jr. '38 Kelly, John F. '07 John F. Kelsey, Thomas '95 Carleton R. Kent, Stanley B. Ί i Louis R. Kerr, Abram T. '95 Cynthia J. King, T. Harrison '07* Robert E. Kinscherf, Richard G. '13 Richard G. Kirk, William A. '07 Lee R. Kittredge, Joseph P. '02. Donald F. Kuchler, George W., Jr. '12 Alfred C. Lafferty, Herbert R. Ί i Perry F. Levy, Benjamin F. '95 Benjamin F., Jr. Life, Mrs. William E. '03 Rachel F. Livermore, Josiah R. '13 Herbert R. Lord, Charles H. Ί i Charles M. McClelland, Frank E. '09 Frank E., Jr. Macdonald, Donald B. '13 John R. McChesney, Harvey '15 Harvey, Jr. Mclnerney, Thomas J. Ί o Margaret E. McKeever, William '98 William W. McTighe, Mrs. Patrick J. '07 Helen E. Mann, Harvey B. '06 Robert Marshall, William Ί i Thomas G. Martin, Howard U. '12. Russell D. Mennen, William G. '08 George S. Messing, Frank W. Ί o Anne R. Milks, Howard J. '04 Richard V. Miller, George S. Ί 8 George S., Jr. Mills, Chester L. '03 Emerson J. Moody, Nelson K. '99 Nelson K., Jr. Morgan, Charles G. '15 Rex Mount, Louis B. '02. Charlotte P. '38 Munschauer, Edwin A. '12. Edwin A., Jr. Myers, J. Waldo '13 Louise R. Nearing, Herbert '15 Henry H. Netter, William '13 Richard Newman, Kenneth C. Ί o Annette V. Niven, Charles F.Ό8 Charles F. Jr., Grad. North, Harold D. '07 William H. Norton, Darwin P. Ί 8 William O. Noyes, Jansen Ί o Jansen, Jr. O'Rourke, Charles E. '17 Patricia A. Page, Blinn S. '13 William S. Pendergrass, Robert A. '00* James T. Phillips, Edgar W. Ί i Edgar W. Pinckney, Harry M., Sp. Milton W. Pistor, George E. J. Όi Arley, Grad. Pollak, Julian A. '07 David Pope, S. Austin '14 William A. Potter, Wilburn H. Ί 8 Carleton W. Putnam, Henry S. '07 Marian Quinn, Maurice A. Ί 6 Alice L. Rice, Jerome B., Jr., Sp. Jerome B., Ill Robertson, Ransom S. Ί o Theodore Robinson, James R. Ί o Janet M. Rockwood, Frederick T. '00 Frederick T., Jr. John M. '37 Roe, Mayo E. '04 Robert B. Roesch, George W. '07 Philip K. '37 Rogalsky, George F. '07 Elizabeth L. Rogers, J. Robert '06 Rogers, Charles E. '96* Rogers, Henry A. '05 Roig, Chester A. Ί o Ross, Orris F. 'G>8 Rossiter, Winton G. Ί i Row, Glen Ί 6 Edith C. Martha N. Mary Chester A., Jr. Howard E. Clinton L., Ill Gerlad G. Sainburg, Philip C. Ί z Frank P. Scheidenhelm, Frederick W/05 Jean E/37 Sheffer, John W. '07 John W., Jr. Shewmake, Mrs. Cornelia S. Ί i Elizabeth W. '38 Slocum, A. Lester '13 Arthur L. Smith, Harry C. '07 J. Seward Snyder, Howard W. '14 Betty B. Stevens, Edward L. '99 Lyndon H. Stevens, Guy G. Ί i Priscilla E. '38 Switzer, Herbert B. Ί i Ruth J. Tallman, Carl C. '07 John C. Thomson, Archibald W. '08 Archibald W., Jr. Thomson, Edward H. '09 Norman E. Titus, Robert B. Ί 5 Colson R. Tubbs, Warren '04 Elliott Tufts, Mrs. Nellie Barker Όz Margaret O. Turner, Benjamin C. '06 Carolyn E. Tuthill, Harry H., Henry H. Van Orman, Ray '08 James R. William B. '37 Watt, Homer A. '06 Florence J. '38 Webb, Mrs. Susan M. Bontecou '14 Burton H. Weldgen, Nicholas J. '05 Richard H. Wheeler, John C. '04 Richard M. White, Wilfred W. '06 Ben E., Grad. Whiteman, Floyd E. '00 Lurton G. '38 Whitlock, Walter H. '97 Donald R. Whiton, Mrs. Avice Watt '04 Isabel A. Whittlesey, Granville E. '09 Samuel I. Yaxiz, T. George '17 Alexander G. Young, E. Lawrence '13* Lawrence P. Zouck, George H. Ί i Edward A. George H., Jr. DRAMATIC CLUB PLEASES "Fashion: Or Life in New York," first produced in 1845, w a s a happy choice for the Dramatic Club's contribution to the tenth anniversary celebration of Willard Straight Hall. The largest audience of the season enjoyed it thoroughly Saturday night, as did the cast, apparently. Most of the players used their rather stilted lines with full effect but without undue burlesque. Even the quaint device of various characters crouching at the front of the stage to deliver explanatory asides to the audience was not exaggerated unduly, and the other characters on the stage were not disconcerted by these frequent interruptions. The two villains of the piece, Snobson, played by H. Davis Witten '35, and the bogus Count Jolimaitre, played by Andrew C. Hartnett '38, got scattered hisses from the audience, it is true, but no more than they deserved for their perfidy. Adam Trueman, the bluff, honest farmer from Cattaraugus County, is well portrayed by Barrett L. Gallagher '35; and Zeke, the colored manservant is ap- NOVEMBER i 8 , I935 propriately ridiculous as characterized by Charles Mendick '37. Mary W. Lauman '37 made the most of her part as Mrs. Tiffany, whose delusions as to the fashionable society of New York give point to the plot, and Sharma Scutt '36 was effective as Seraphina, her daughter. Gertrude, the saintly governess, was most convincing in the person of Jeannue S. Paquette '37, who, without overdoing the part, took full advantage of all its implications. The costumes made by the Club's production staff, faithfully and colorfully reproduce those of ninety years ago, and the settings are authentic and interesting, even including the old-fashioned high footlights then in vogue. "Fashion" is directed by William J. Galligan '34 and Professor Alex M. Drummond. It will be repeated December 6 and 7. Give "Treasure Island'' Earlier in the week, on Thursday afternoon in Bailey Hall the Club presented a colorful performance of "Treasure Island," dramatized by Ruth P. Kimball, as a special production for the school children of Ithaca and Tompkins County. That its designated audience enjoyed it mightily is attested by their almost constant applause, which, with the poor accoustics of the auditorium, made it almost impossible to hear more than an occasional line from the stage. It was, however, a colorful production, the pirate costumes and the bold settings designed by J. Colby Lewis '33 being most effective. Not the least of the enjoyment of the youthful audience was in the shifting of the scenery for the three acts and five scenes without lowering the curtain. The players occasionally were able to overcome the handicaps they faced by shouting their lines with gusto. John W. Scott '37 looked effective as one-legged Long John Silver; Jim Hawkins, in the person of Richard V. Marchant '38, was convincing even in pantomine; and Captain Flint's piratical crew seemed to satisfy the most blood-thirsty. CLEVELAND CLUB ELECTS The Cornell Club of Cleveland, at its meeting on November 14, re-elected Charles C. Colman '12. president, Irwin L. Freiberger '15, secretary, and Charles A. Stevens '00, treasurer. George F. Burrows Όo is the new vice-president. Richmond L. Rathbone '98 and Thomas A. Moellman '2.8 were elected to the board of directors. Directors will hereafter be elected at an .annual meeting in the spring and it is planned to elect an honorary president to serve for one year. Dr. Lester Furnas, professor of dentistry at Western Reserve University, was the speaker at the luncheon on November 2.1. His subject was "The Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth." ALL INVITED TO NEW YORK DINNER Alumni to Honor James Lynah '05 At the dinner to be given in New York City December 5, in honor of James Lynah '05, Director of Athletics and Physical Education, it is expected that the present situation in athletics at the University will be fully discussed; alumni will have opportunity to learn at first hand the plans and accomplishments of the new administration. Charles H. Blair '97, chairman of the committee, says: " I cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of this occasion, not only to the New York alumni, but to the new athletic regime in Ithaca so ably headed by Jim Lynah. Jim Lynah made a great sacrifice in accepting the position of Director of Athletics at Cornell, and undertook the job only because of his high sense of duty and loyalty to the Alma Mater. . . . I hope that all Cornell men will attend this dinner. . ." A reception, at 7 p.m., will precede the dinner, in the grand ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel. J. DuPratt White '90', vice-chairman of the University Board of Trustees, is expected to be present, and all the members of the Athletics Policy Board: Professor Herman Diederichs '97, Charles D. Bostwick '92., Robert E. Treman '09, and George R. Pfann '2.4;as well as Romeyn Berry '04, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. In addition, the undergraduate captains and managers who are members of the intercollegiate athletic advisory council have been invited to be present. Lynah, White, and Berry will speak at the dinner, which will be presided over by John T. McGovern Όo as toastmaster. The committee says that class tables are being arranged, and that it will reserve tables of ten if requested when tickets are purchased. They may be had in advance from the Cornell Club of New York, 342. Madison Avenue, and will be on sale at the door, at $3.50 each. The dinner is informal. Members of the committee are: Dr. Henry P. De Forest '84, Hon. Clarence J. Shearn '90, George W. Bacon '91, Bert Houghton '92., William F. Atkinson '95, Francis O. Affeld Jr. '97, Wilton Bentley '98, Christopher W. Wilson Όo, Harland B. Tibbetts '04, George C. Boldt, Jr. '05, Dr. Henry S. Dunning '05, William L. Ransom '05, Randolph W. Weed '09, Walter S. Wing '07, Victor D. Herriman Ό8, Dr. Walter H. McNeill, Jr. Ί o , Jansen Noyes Ί o , Clarence H. Davidson Ί i , Tom Ludlam Ί i , Winton G. Rossiter Ί i , Walter R. Kuhn Ί i , Edward C. M. Stahl '13, G. Gilson Terriberry Ί 5 , Harold E. Irish Ί 6 , Willard F. Place Ί 8 , Adrian F. Shannon Ί 8 , Peter Vischer '19, Wallace B. Quail '19, Stanley W. Smith '2.0, Dr. Preston A. Wade '2.2., Dr. Wade Duley '13, Walter A. Davis '2.4, William Wendt '2.6, James W. Brooks '2.6, Robert B. Brown '2.7, John P. Syme '2.6, William L. Cressman '2.7, L. Sumner Fuertes '2.7, Edward G. Johnson '2.8, Dudley N. Schoales '2.9, Robert L. Bliss '30, Landry Harwood, Jr. '30, Carl V. Schuchard '30, C. Eugene Brush '31, William A. Vanneman '31, Richard A. Evans, Jr. '31, Fred P. Frantz '32., William R. Robertson '34, Philip R. Ickelheimer '35, and Charles B. Newman '35. JAMES LYNAH '05 TO BE HONORED AT N E W YORK DINNER DECEMBER 5 The new University Director of Athletics and Physical Education with Captain Harrison S. Wilson '36 of the football team. i 5 8 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS FOUNDED1 8 9 9 Published for Cornellians by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August: thirty-five issues annually. Subscriptions: $4.00 a year in U. S. and posses- sions; Canada, $4.35; Foreign, S4.J0. Single copies fifteen cents. Subscriptions arepayable in advance and are renewed until cancelled. Editor R. W. SAILOR '07 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Assistant Editor G. H.CONNAUGHTON 'XZ Associate Editors: L. C. BOOCHEVER '12. F. M. COFFIN Ί Z Office Manager RUTH RUSSELL '31 Printed byThe Cayuga Press ITHACA, N E W YORK "OH, THE KEEN DELIGHT. . ." New victories for Cornell crews are presaged in the plans underway this week for improving the facilities for rowing. The folder and letter being mailed from Cleveland by William H. Forbes Ό6,moreover, are concrete evi- dence of the interest and support which the new administration of the Univer- sity's athletics, under James Lynah '05, is attracting. Further evidence is the alumni dinner in his honor being ar- ranged by theCornell Club of New York for next Thursday. In the plans for modernizing the old boathouse on the Inlet the thousand or more alumni who have rowed in Cornell shells arebeing given first opportunity to share. The first contribution toward the sum required, however, was made by Red Key, composed of undergraduates. Many alumni who were not oarsmen will also wish to have a part in this concrete support of one of the University's oldest traditions. For its general interest, there- fore, the ALUMNI NEWS reprints from the crew committee's pamphlet: Ghosts Around the Boathouse By "OLD-TIMER" Cornell is young in terms of universities but its rowing is old. It is old enough to have history and traditions and ghosts. Thereare ghosts of Cornell oarsmen andof Cornell crews at Saratoga and at Henley. There are ghosts on the Schuylkill, on theCharles, andon the Thames. There are many ghosts at Poughkeepsie. But for the most part the ghosts of Cornell rowing inhabit the Inlet and the margins of the lake and they congregate at the boathouse. There was a time at the very beginning of things inthe early seventies when the Cornell oarsmen rowed from ashed at thecorner of the lake (between the Park House and the Wind and Wave, but nearer theformer). That was in the days when the idea of training centered upon a diet of meat and practically no water at all. When thesaner thought of John Ostrom began to prevail and demonstrate its basic wisdom at Saratoga, the crew.s rowed from a shed located near the point where Cascadilla Creek mingles its fluids with those of the Inlet (Johnson's Boathouse to the modern oarsmanj. The glorious crews of 1875 and 1876, whose fame still lingers around the hills of Saratoga, enjoyed neither lockers nor shower baths. Indeed, there were times when the possession of a boat and six oars to propel it with was the height of their ambition. Nevertheless, they led at the finish line thecombined eights of Williams, Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Wesleyan, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Hamilton, Harvard, and Union. It wasn't until after Mr. Courtney had moved to Ithaca and had been in control of Cornell rowing for more than two years that theidea of an adequate boathouse formed in the Cornell mind. When the Class of '90 presented to the Cornell Navy what is now the central portion of the Cornell Varsity boathouse it was the first time that ourshells ever hadanything like adequate housing and, mind you, at that time our shells had dominated American college rowing for a quarter of a century. There were those, even then, who shook their heads at all this new luxury and felt that our rowing was losing the spur of deprivation. The writer well remembers his first trip through the present boathouse, under the guidance of Mr. Courtney, in the summer of 1919. Mr. Courtney at that time wasn't particularly worried about the boathouse itself, but he was concerned about the supply of spruce for oars. According to his meticulous calculations of the moment, we had only enough spruce to last seven years and we had better do something about it pretty quick. He was also worried about the launch house because he feared it would heave a sigh and fall down any minute. Some of our best spruce billets were being used then to prop up the launch house and we needed that spruce for oars. As long as we were winning most of our races, I don't think we minded much about our boathouse. I think Cornell oarsmen rather liked watching the visiting oarsmen stick up their collective noses at our lack of creature comforts. Ithink they rather liked demonstrating the following daythat it wasboats and oarsmen that won races andnot luxurious surroundings. I think they enjoyed this just as the oarsmen of the middle seventies enjoyed their wins atSaratoga allthe more becauseof the deprivations they had suffered in order to be there. However, the ghosts have changed their minds inthis last decade and are beginning to realize that we used to win in spite of deprivations and not because of them. They have begun to realize that the increased numbers of our rowing men demand increased facilities. Spartan simplicity is allright in its place but Spartan simplicity should notbe carried tothe point where the health of the oarsmen is jeopardized by a return to an inadequately heated boathouse after the icy voyages of March, and where the contents of the eighth, ninth, and tenth boats have to stand around and shiver in their wet clothes until the senior oarsmen have had their baths and departed. When rowing has existed and flourished long enough in any university to produce ancient traditions andmany ghosts, it has built up an intangible something which places a responsibility on every old oarsman andon every one connected with the sport in any capacity. It means that the people charged with responsibility are not merely managing an activity. These people have become, rather, the trustees of the tradition, and they are answerable to the ghosts of the past for the present and the future. TRAFFIC JAMMED, automobiles skid- ded, motorists cursed, and hills menaced with cruel faces of ice when a storm, sweeping in from the coast, left Ithaca not only with four inches of snow but also with the coldest November 18 since 1880. Save for November 8, 1933, when 4.7 inches fell, the recent snow wasthe deepest for any November since 1899, Weather Bureau officials reported. COMING EVENTS Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed separately as wehave space. Notices of other Cornell events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. Contributions to this column must bereceived on or before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. NOVEMBER 19 At New York: Annual Dinner of alumni members of Mummy Club and the MajuraNalanda Club, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6:30 DECEMBER 3 At Ithaca: University Concert, Jose Iturbi, Bailey Hall, 8:15 DECEMBER 4 At Rochester: President Farrand speaks at joint luncheon, men's and women's Cornell Clubs, University Club, 13:2.0 DECEMBER 5 At New York: Reception and dinner to James Lynah '05 and members of the Athletic Policy Board, Grand Ballroom, Hotel BiItmore, 7 DECEMBER 13 At Ithaca: Basketball, Toronto DECEMBER ZO At Ithaca: Basketball, Harvard DECEMBER Z I At Rochester: Basketball, Rochester DECEMBER Z I - J A N U A R Y 6, 1936 At Ithaca: Christmas recess JANUARY 4 At Hamilton: Basketball, Colgate JANUARY 8 At Ithaca: Basketball, Syracuse JANUARY 10 At Buffalo: Swimming, State Teache rs College JANUARY I I At Ithaca: Basketball, Princeton At Rochester: Swimming, Rochester JANUARY 14 At Ithaca: University Concert, Kolisch String Quartet, University Theatre, 8:15 JANUARY 18 At Ithaca: Wrestling, Queen's University At Hanover: Basketball, Dartmouth At Hamilton: Swimming, Colgate JANUARY Z5 At Ithaca: Basketball, Yale FEBRUARY 5 At Ithaca: Basketball, Alfred FEBRUARY 6 At Ithaca: Wrestling, Syracuse FEBRUARY 8 At Ithaea: Basketball, Pennsylvania Fencing, Syracuse and Colgate FEBRUARY 15 At Ithaca: Wrestling, Colgate At New Haven: Basketball, Yale At Clinton: Fencing, Hamilton FEBRUARY 17 At Ithaca: Basketball, Dartmouth FEBRUARY 18 At Ithaca: University Concert, The Cleveland Orchestra, Bailey Hall, 8:15 FEBRUARY ZZ At Ithaca: Track meet, Yale Wrestling, Lehigh At Philadelphia: Basketball, Pennsylvania At New York: Swimming, Manhattan FEBRUARY Z8 At New York: Wrestling, Columbia NOVEMBER z 8 , I 9 3 5 BRIEF NEWS OF CAMPUS AND TOWN WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL, inside and out, is pictured in a group of photographic studies of unusual beauty, displayed in the library of the building. They are the work of Norman Herr '37 of Bayonne, N. J., whose news photographs occasionally appear in the ALUMNI NEWS. REALISM tempered the romance of "Treasure Island" November 18 when Jack Bernstein '37 of Utica crashed through a skylight of Bailey Hall and, as rehearsing members of the Dramatic Club looked up in helpless dismay, clung for his life to a steel frame high over the auditorium. Bernstein, however, soon pulled himself back to safety. He was unhurt. ATMOS, honor society in Mechanical Engineering, elected five Seniors and ten Juniors to its membership last week. NOBEL PRIZEWINNER in 1914 for diffracting X-rays with crystals, Professor M. von Laue, University of Berlin physicist, lectured in Rockefeller Hall November 14 on recent developments in his particular field of research. FOUR CHECKS were turned over to the previous owners of submarginal farm property in Tompkins County November 19 when New York State consummated its first real estate purchases under provisions of the Federal Government's land utilization program. The purchases totalled four hundred acres in the Danby and Connecticut Hill areas. According to L. O. Bond,' project manager, 2.4,000 acres of the 43,000 already optioned in Tompkins, Schuyler, and Tioga Counties, have already been approved. TO SOME needy Cornell woman student a $ioo loan fund will be offered by the American Association of University Women at the beginning of the second term. Mrs. R. W. Williams, secretary to the Dean of the Graduate School, will receive applications to January 1, 1936. "LINKING CUSTOMER Buying Motives with Sales Training" was the subject Fred W. Cuffe '19 of the General Electric Company discussed November 15 in West Sibley. The talk was primarily for Administrative Engineers studying industrial marketing, but was open to the public. THREE SCORE teachers of science from three states and the District of Columbia, including several Cornellians, came to the Campus for a two-day professional conference November 15 and 16. Invited by Professor E. Laurence Palmer Ί i , Rural Education, they inspected research under the guidance of Professor Rollins A. Emerson, Plant Breeding; Professor Lewis Knudsen, PhD Ί i , Botany; Professor Donald S. Welch, PhD '2.5, Plant Pathology; and Paul P. Kellogg 'Z9, Ornithology. Dean Dexter S. Kimball, Engineering, was chief speaker at the conference dinner. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL in Ithaca was approved without reservation recently by the American College of Surgeons which last year had granted it only provisional approval. The College's latest rating restores Memorial Hospital to a status which it held for many years and which was lost only because of administrative difficulties long since ironed out. President of the Hospital board is Professor Howard B. Meek, head of the Department of Hotel Administration. ELEVEN have been elected to Red Key, Junior honor society whose membership is based on extracurricular achievement. They are: Robert J. Agnew, Norwich, Conn.; Laurence A. Christensen, North Quincy, Mass.; George M. Cohen, Chicopee Falls, Mass.; Adolph Coors, III, Golden, Colo.; Edward F. Dibble, Redlands, Calif.; Vernon L. Ingersoll, Rockville Center; John F. Kennaghan, Larchmont; Harry T. Kemp, Pottstown, Pa.; Charles H. Lechthaler, Baltimore, Md.; Charles Y. Neff, Buffalo; and Herman Van Fleet, Jr., Scarsdale. GOVERNMENT OFFER of $91,636 toward the construction of school building additions has been formally accepted by the Ithaca Board of Education. This sum will be added to $111,000 derived from bond sales approved by city voters, November 5. THE NATION'S BLIND will soon read the message of Louise Dawley, instructor in Poultry Husbandry. As authorized by the Library of Congress, her bulletin, Poultry Keeping for Junior Poultrymen,'' will be reproduced in Braille and circulated throughout the country. A CORNELL DYNASTY "Twins!" said the doctor "And one of 'em's a boy!" So it happened that a mere infant, born October 7 to a University Senior, crowns a dynasty—a nominal dynasty. For the son of the Senior is Thomas Midgley IV. His father, of course, is Thomas Midgley III, and his forty-six-year-old grandfather, still more of course, is Thomas Midgley, Jr., member of the Class of Ί i , and vicepresident and general manager of the Ethyl Gas Corporation. The latter lives in Worthington, Ohio. Numbers Three and Four live in Ithaca. The other twin? Oh, her name's Patricia. WHILE SHIVERING spectators, breasting the first of the winter's cold, surveyed Ithaca's newest and most impressive structure, the cornerstone of the Grange League Federation's office building on South Hill was lowered into place November 16. Among those participating in the formalities were E. Victor Underwood '13, president of the GLF Holding Corporation; H. Edward Babcock, University Trustee and manager of the GLF Exchange; Professor George F. Warren '03 of the College of Agriculture, and Dean Dexter S. Kimball, of the College of Engineering. MORE THAN two hundred students attended the annual smoker for Junior members of the ROTC which was held by the Officers' Club in Willard Straight Hall November 2.1. With Major J. C. Addington providing a running account of the scenes, motion pictures of ROTC summer camps were shown. Other speakers were Captains M. H. Davis and J. L. Chamberlain, and John E. Wurst '36 of Buffalo, who is president of the Club. Entertainment was furnished by members of the Savage Club. FIFTEEN WOMEN students were pledged recently to Arete, a social club to promote friendship and to discuss current topics. Of these one was a Senior, five were Juniors, and nine were Sophomores . CASTS FOR its three plays scheduled in Roberts Hall December 10 were selected last week by Kermis, dramatic group of Agriculture and Home Economics. The plays will be Last Man It, Indian Summer, and Silence, Please. '' MECHANISMS of some Simple Organic Reactions" was the subject of an address delivered November 12.in Baker Laboratory by Dr. Paul D. Bartlett to members of the Cornell section of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Bartlett, a member of the Harvard chemistry faculty, is a specialist on stereo-isomerism, a field in which he has done some important research at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. ACCORDING to announcement just made by her grandparents, Grace L. Gale '37 of Elmira, was married July 2.9 at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., to Francklyn W. Paris, of New York City. Paris is a law student at Union. DR. MAX PINNER, formerly of the desert sanatorium in Tucson, Ariz, has been appointed principal diagnostic pathologist for New York State tuberculosis hospitals, with headquarters at the new Biggs Memorial Hospital near Ithaca. i 6 o CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS BOOKS By Cornellians THE WANG LUNG SAGA House of Earth (containing the Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided). By Pearl L. Buck, AM Ί<>, New York City. Reynal & Hitchcock. 1935.1138 pages. $3-75- Just when the American Academy of Arts andLetters awarded Pearl S. Byuck, the Howells Medal for her The Good Earth a few days ago,a thick volume containing this work and two others of a trilogy called House of Earth came by the strangest of circumstances to the desk of this reviewer. So again he read The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided, and in these chronicles of Wang Lung, who lifted himself out of his peasantry, he recaptured one of the richest literary experiences of recent years. The American Academy is unquestionably vindicated for its long deliberation. The Good Earth, far the best novel of the trilogy, bears rereading. Its biblical style, its authenticity, its easy fluidity, make the novel a classic which stands every chance of enduring the test of future critics. The other two works, carrying the Wang Lung saga into another generation, with family disintegration atthe end, do not sustain thepace of the first tale. Despite this, however, they tooare written with excellent craftsmanship and with the same felicitous style of the earlier story. A PROGRAM FOR BUSINESS The Partnership Way Out. By Ambrose Ryder '13. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1935. xxx X 189 pages. $i.5o. Mr. Ryder's book is part of a considerable volume of books and essays written by business men, engineers, and others who are not professional economists,but who have read widely and have had much practical experience. Mr. Ryder's book, in common with others in this category, is resentful of some of the present methods by which business is conducted, butis not hopeful that the evils can be counteracted by legislation alone. He does not offer radical solutions such as communism, but he does believe that the present system canbe saved only by a more intelligent application of fundamental economic laws and a wider use ofcooperative effort. "The underlying feature of this program is that reciprocity will have tobe substituted for retaliation; that a nation of hard-boiled people has no choice but to subscribe to thedoctrine of' liveand let live', if any worth while prosperity is to be attained. This means that each group will have to abandon all thought of economic superiority at the expense of other groups. Instead, each group will seek its advancement through a trade agreement with all other groups, granting in return to each a similar right to economic and social advancement." Mr. Ryder first notes that our resources are such as tomake a good living possible for all and that only poor planning prevents this happy state. He is no "New Dealer" in the sense that the "abundant life" canbe obtained by the destruction of goods. He believes in abundant production and intelligent distribution, regulating the interrelation of the several groups, not on the basis of cut-throat competition, but on the basis of a national unselfishness and the ability to see theother man's point of view. Most of us will agree with himthat "What this country needs more than it needs a good 'five-cent cigar' is an economic logic that can befreely debated by people of all political beliefs." In other words, a statement of principles that will help to clear theeconomic fog in which we appear to be lost. He makes a statement of eighty-seven of such principles or conclusions, and whether we agree with him or not, and I agree with many of them, they are thought provoking and the book will well repay reading. It is non-technical and clear in style and logically arranged. DEXTER S. KIMBALL NECROLOGY DR. LOUIS EMANUEL LEVI '84, April 2.3, 1935, suddenly, near his home in Milwaukee, Wis., where he had lived for thirty-five years. Until hisretirement five years ago, he was chief chemist ofthe Pfister-Vogel Company. He entered the Course in Science and Letters in 1880 and remained two years. CHARLES RUDOLPH WENDT '96, Novem- ber 1, 1935, in New York City, where he had practiced law for approximately forty years. Since 19x0 he had been associated with the firm of Townsend & Kindleberger at 31 Nassau Street, his practice largely dealing with estatesand real property. He entered the two-year Medical preparatory course in 1894,and left the same year, later attending the Columbia University law school. He was unmarried. ARTHUR SHOPLAND EDWARDS 'X6, May 6, 1935. He attended theSchool of Civil Engineering for two years and left to join the New York State Department of Public Works, where he became a junior civil engineer. Recently he had been mainly superintending bridge construction for the highway division, including the bridge over the Oneida River at Brewerton and the one at Myers, just north of Ithaca. Hewas theson of Walter W. Edwards '93. Sigma Phi Epsilon. About ATHLETICS SOCCER CHAMPS AGAIN? A considerable crowd shivered on the sidelines onAlumni Field Saturday afternoon and saw a Cornell soccer team win the thirteenth consecutive game, defeating Colgate, 3-0. At Princeton, meanwhile, the hitherto unbeaten Pennsylvania team was being defeated, to make the Varsity sure of at least a tie to top the Middle Atlantic League for the second year. With four League games won, none lost and none tied, the Varsity now has eight points to seven for Princeton and six for Pennsylvania. A victory over the Quakers Thanksgiving Day morning at Philadelphia would thus put Cornell ahead with ten points and League championship, which it had last year. Again on Saturday, as he has done in every game this season, Walter L. Chewning '36 kicked the first goal. His have been the only counters in the three previous games won 1-0, against Hamilton, Princeton, and Haverford. That the Varsity has been scored on but once, by Lehigh, shows the effective defensive work of the goalie, Adolph Coors, 3d. '37, son of Adolph Coors, Jr. '07. A younger brother, Joseph Coors '39, is captain of the Freshman soccer team. Other tallies on Saturday were made by Roger E. Mulford '36 and Sidney Nathanson '36, the play being kept for the most part in Colgate territory. HARRIER TEAMS THIRD Surpassing expectations, both the Varsity andthe Freshman cross country teams finished third in the annual ICAAAA meet at Van Cortland Park, New York City, November 18. The Varsity team score of 147was below only those of Michigan State and Manhattan among the nineteen teams entered. First Cornellian to finish the five-mile course was Herbert H. Cornell '38 at seventh, followed closely by Captain Edmund V. Mezzitt '37 at eighth. From the field of 131 starters, William V. Bassett '37 finished twenty-sixth; Norman C. Healy '37, fifty-third; William R. Crary '36, fifty-sixth; John A. Meaden, Jr. '37, fifty-ninth; and Ward H. Robbins '37, ninety-eighth. In the three-mile Freshman race, the first Cornellian to finish was George Ranney, in eleventh place, followed by the newly-elected captain of the team, Mortier F. Barrus, Jr., fifteenth; JohnG. Downing, twenty-third; Stearns S. Bullen Jr., twenty-sixth; William C. Chandler, thirtieth; Joseph E. Godfrey, Jr., fortyeighth and Robert M. GifFord, fiftysixth. The team score was 93, behind Manhattan and Syracuse. At the annual Cross Country Club NOVEMBER z8, 1935 dinner at Varna, November n, Coach Moakley presented the Lung Mow Cup, for greatest improvement during the season, to Bassett. Trophies were presented also to the winners of the Varsity blind handicap race, of the Freshman cup series, and of the intercollege and interfraternity cross country meets. Mezzitt, captain-elect for 1936, presided and Professor John R. Bangs '2.1 and Arthur F. Martin '31, former member of the Varsity cross country and track teams, spoke. SPORTS SCHEDULES Winter schedules for five sports and the spring rowing schedule were announced last week. That for the swimming team, which provides for all meets away from Ithaca, as in the past, may be revised to include some in the enlarged pool at the Old Armory, which is expected to be ready after the Christmas recess. The schedules: WRESTLING Jan. 18—Queen's University at Ithaca Feb. 6—Syracuse at Ithaca 15—Colgate at Ithaca 2.2.—Lehigh at Ithaca 2.$—Columbia at New York City 2.9—Army at West Point Mar. 7—Penn State at State College 13-14—Intercollegiates at Princeton BASKETBALL Dec. 13—Toronto at Ithaca 2.0—Harvard at Ithaca* 2.1—Rochester at Rochester Jan. 4—Colgate at Hamilton 8—Syracuse at Ithaca 11—Princeton at Ithaca* 18—Dartmouth at Hanover* X5—Yale at Ithaca* Feb. 5—Alfred at Ithaca 8—Pennsylvania at Ithaca* 15—Yale at New Haven* 17—Dartmouth at Ithaca* 2.2.—Pennsylvania at Philadelphia* X9—Columbia at New York* Mar. 7—Harvard at Cambridge* 11—Princeton at Princeton* 14—Columbia at Ithaca* •Eastern Intercollegiate League games FENCING Feb. 8—Syracuse & Colgate at Ithaca 15—Hamilton at Clinton 2.9—Penn State at Ithaca Mar. 14—Columbia at New York City 2.1—Naval Academy at Annapolis 2.7-2.8—Intercollegiates at New York May CREW 1.—Naval Academy at Annapolis: Varsity, JV, and Freshmen 16—Carnegie Cup Regatta at Lake Carnegie: Yale, Cornell, and Princeton, 3 crews each 2.3—Spring Day Regatta at Ithaca: Harvard Varsity andJ-V, three boats each from Syracuse and Cornell INDOOR TRACK Feb. 2.2.—Yale at Ithaca 2-9—Quadrangular Meet with Harvard Dartmouth and Yale at Boston Mar. 7—Indoor Intercollegiates at N.Y.C. 2.1—Triangular Meet with Syracuse and Colgate at Ithaca SWIMMING Jan. 10—Buffalo State Teachers at Buffalo 11—Univ. of Rochester at Rochester 18—Colgate at Hamilton Feb. xi—Manhattan College at New York 2.8—Syracuse at Syracuse 2.9—Rensselaer Poly. Inst. at Troy Mar. 6—Franklin & Marshall at Lancaster 7—Penn State at State College FROSH RIDERS WIN Opening the indoor ROTC polo season, a team of crack Freshman, although giving the Varsity a handicap of five goals, defeated them 16-2.1 in the Riding Hall Saturday night. Riding for the Freshmen were Clarence C. Combs of Lakewood, N. J. and Warner L. Jones, Jr. of Louisville, Ky., both formerly at Pennsylvania Military College. Combs is rated eighth in the United States, with a six-goal handicap, and Jones is rated at one. The third Freshman was David Pollak, son of Julian A. Pollak '07 of Cincinnati, Ohio, another experienced player. They had their way throughout the game with the Varsity team, composed of Captain John C. Lawrence '36 and his brother, Thomas, '38, of Smithtown Branch, and Stephen J. Roberts '38 of Hamburg. Concerning THE FACULTY EXTENSION TEACHER of the College of Agriculture for nearly a third of a century, Professor Herbert A. Hopper '03 holds the record for continuous service at Cornell among members of Epsilon Sigma Phi, national fraternity of those in Extension ten years or more. Several other members of the Cornell chapter have served thirty years. At its meeting November 9 the chapter heard Dean Emeritus Albert W. Smith '78 read from his recent book, Ezra Cornell: A Character Study. GOVERNOR WILLIAM I. MYERS '14 of the Farm Credit Administration declared to members of the Bond Men's Club of Chicago, November 5, that reentry of private capital in the agricultural financing field has already begun and should be encouraged: "Ample room exists for the competition of private capital with Governmental funds in financing the requirements of American agriculture," he said. Two NEW MEMBERS of the Agriculture staff this fall are Clesson N. Turner '31, who becomes assistant extension professor of Rural Engineering; and Charles E. Palm, PhD '35, who as instructor in Entomology will assist Professor Cyrus R. Crosby '03. Palm received his AB degree at University of Arkansas in 1931, and has been in the Graduate School. SOUNDING the opening note of Ithaca's current Community Chest drive, President Farrand, addressing Rotarians, Kiwanians, and members of other local service clubs, emphasized that increasing care of the underprivileged is '' one of the greatest assets of civilization." The speaker added that the cooperative spirit revealed in the Chest campaign is "absolute assurance of the soundness of the future." "BETTER MEN would serve the nation in the White House if they did not have to give thought to re-election." This was the dictum of Professor Clark S. Northup '93, English, when he addressed members of Phi Beta Kappa November 9 at Union College in Schenectady. Professor Northup thereupon advocated for the President of the United States a six- or seven-year term which, upon completion, would make the Chief Executive ineligible for re-election. He would also extend this plan to Congressmen. As president of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, the speaker also condemned those German students who, instead of cherishing knowledge for its own sake, subvert it to the Nazi State. IN HIS MESSAGE to the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs, November 13, Dean Dexter S. Kimball, Engineering, emphasized that the law of diminishing returns, though disregarded by America's "great mass production magnates," will, nevertheless, help solve problems created by large-scale industry. Because of this law, factors retarding the rate of technological progress in this country are already operating, Dean Kimball added. PROFESSOR NATHANIEL SCHMIDT, Sem- itic Languages and Literatures and Oriental History, Emeritus, opened a series of Sunday evening addresses at Willard Straight Hall, November 14, by discussing the Ethiopian situation. The series, sponsored by the Willard Straight board of managers, will include talks by several popular Campus speakers on subjects in which they are specialists, followed by open forum discussions. NINE MEMBERS of the Faculty repre- sented the University at the forty-ninth annual convention of the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities in Washington, D. C , November 18-10. They were Provost Albert R. Mann '04; Dean Carl E. Ladd '11 of Agriculture and Home Economics; Lloyd R. Simons Ί i , Extension Director; Dr. Cornelius Betten, PhD '06, Director of Resident Instruction, Agriculture and Home Economics, and Dean of the University Faculty; Dean Dexter S. Kimball, Engineering; Flora Rose, Director, College of Home Economics; Ruby Green Smith, PhD '14, State Leader of Home Demonstration Agents; Dr. Ulysses P. Hedrick, Director of the Experiment Station at Geneva; and Professors Ralph H. Wheeler '09, Assistant University Treasurer; Carl E. F. Guterman, PhD '30, Plant Pathology; and Mary F. Henry, Ί3-Ί5 Grad, Home Economics. Provost Mann is on the Association's committee for projects and correlation of research and Dean Ladd is on a committee for publication of research. Dean Betten discussed adjustments in resident teaching. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS PROFESSOR MYRON A. LEE'09, head of the Department of Industrial Engineering, whois on sabbatic leave this term, conducts two classes in motion study for employes of the Endicott (N. Y.) plant of the International Business Machines Corporation. Most of his students are foremen and assistant foremen. DR. CHARLES R. STOCKARD of the Medi- cal College in New York told members of the National Academy of Science, assembled in Charlottesville, Va., November 18, that overgrowth is not " s o much thework of the popularly known 4 growth hormone' as it is disturbance of balance in growth regulation." This principle Dr. Stockard established in cross-breeding which gave a police dog the wrinkled face of an English bulldog and also gave to a St. Bernard the loose jowls of a bloodhound. FEARING that the next Congress will pay the soldiers' bonus by issuing $z,5oo,000,000 in non-convertible paper money, Professor Harold L. Reed, PhD '14, Economics and Finance, was one of eighty members of the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy who recently signed a document warning the public against the suspected measure and branding it " t h e most dangerous device which a country can use to finance any enterprise, regardless of the nature of the purpose." DR. R. A. GORTNER, Baker nonresident lecturer in Chemistry, told members of the American Chemical Society assembled in Schenectady recently that science has now discovered an accurate method for determining the effect of various organic compounds such as alcohol and narcotics upon the brain and other nervous tissue of the human body. He further declared that his researches convinced him that t h e ' ' reactions of the brain and nervous tissue are probably electrical in nature." MAN, THE MIGHTY hunter, temporarily dethroned by a woman! The man was Jesse A. DeFrance, PhD '32., formerly instructor in Ornamental Horticulture. The woman was hiswife. Scarcely twenty minutes after they had plunged into New York's North Woods, Mrs. DeFrance brought down a 150-pound buck. Hours passed. Then came DeFrance's vindication. It was a 2.00-pounder which his sharp marksmanship reduced to frying pan venison. PROVOST ALBERT R. MANN '04 has been appointed by Governor Lehman chairman of the New York State Planning Council, a permanent body set up to carry out the recommendations for land use made by last year's temporary Planning Board, of which Provost Mannwas also chairman. Professor Gilmore D. Clarke '13, Planning, is also oneofthe five members of the permanent Council. Concerning THE ALUMNI '80—"I still get out andplay nine to eighteen holes of golf every dayand think I can trim some of the younger brothers, as I usually play in the middle eighties." That is what Henry K. Williams, doughty and eighty, wrote his fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, recently. Williams is publisher and president of the Dunkirk Printing Company, Dunkirk, where he lives at 704 Central Avenue. '83 PhB—Charles Ross Browning, retired, lives in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. '85 BCE—Charles E. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis of Ithaca are wintering in St. Petersburg, Fla., whence they will leave in the spring for California. '90 BS—William M. Irish of the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia, Pa., was one of several oil officials to be elected to the at-large group of the American Petroleum Institute at its annual convention in Los Angeles, Calif., November 12.. '94 ME—Nelson Macy is president of the Navy League of the United States. He is also president of Corlies Macy and Company, 441 Pearl Street, New York City. Macy lives on Glenville Road, Greenwich, Conn. '95 ME; 'cα AB—Robert L. Gordon is a member ofthe bridge team of the Metropolitan Club, New York City, which recently defeated the Manhattan Club's team on which James O'Malley '02. is a player. '98 BS—Dr. Edwin B. Jenks, chairman of the race committee of the Lake George Club, announced November 2. that the Governor Lehman trophy, a perpetual award for motor boat racing on Lake George at Bolton Landing, will be competed for next summer. Όo AB; '98 LLB; '17 LLB; '05;'13 LLB; '97 LLB—Six Cornellians, onNovember 10, were assigned conspicuous roles in the framing of New York State's far-flung anti-crime program. Philip E. Lonergan '00 is one of a committee to prepare anti-crime legislation and other reforms; George F. Bodine '98, Marvin R. Dye'17,Warnick J. Kernan '05, and Cleon B. Murray '05 are members of a committee appointed to revise the code of criminal procedure; and Philip A. Rorty '97 belongs to a third committee which will supplement theothers by rewriting the penal code. These appointees, all announced in Albany by John G. Saxe, president of the New York State Bar Association, will cooperate with Governor Lehman's recently named anticrime committee, a larger, more encompassing unit. '04 AB—Mrs. Walter H. Whiton (Avice M. Watt) of Neshanic Station, N. J. hastwodaughters now enrolled at the University. They are Janet Whiton '36 and Isabel Whiton '39. '05 AB—George C. Boldt, Jr., of333 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City, has a granddaughter, born November 11 in Washington, D. C. '08—Paul J. Baumgarten is an interior decorator with the firm of William Baumgarten and Company, Inc., 947 Madison Avenue, New York City. '08 ME—Samuel B. Eckert lives, with his daughter, on Tunbridge Road, Haverford, Pa. Ί o MD—Dr. Walter H. McNeill, Jr., urologist on the attending staff of the Mount Vernon Hospital, was elected president of the New York Central Lines Surgeons at the twelfth annual convention of that body in Columbus, Ohio, the week of October 2.8. Dr. McNeill is also president of the Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association, Inc., whose headquarters are in Room F-110, 1300 York Avenue, New York City. Ί o AB; '90 BL; '2.1 LLB—Jansen Noyes is treasurer of the National Horse Show Association which sponsored a brilliant show November 11 in New York City's Madison Square Garden. Besides Noyes, Cornellians occupying boxes were J. Du Pratt White, University Trustee, and Louis Kaiser of New York City. Ί i ME—William Haag is travelling engineer for the American Arch Company of New York, a firm specializing in steam locomotive combustion. Haag's address is 2.062. Marshall Avenue, St.Paul, Minn. '12. BS—Edward L. Bernays, public relations counsel, of New York City, participated in a symposium on "Neutrality" which was sponsored November 12. in theHotel As tor by theNew York City League of Women Voters. '12.—Ralph H. Isham, war-time aidede-camp to Field Marshal Earl Haig, commander-in-chief of British forces in France, and friend of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, was one of several speakers delegated to discuss " I s the Ethiopian Question a World Issue?" at the first of a series of weekly open forum talks which began November 17 in the Hotel Astor, New York City. Isham, as owner of t h e ' ' Boswell Papers,'' also discussed these manuscripts at a meeting of the Bronxville Women's Club, November 11. '13—More than one hundred members and guests of the Lake Placid Club assembled there during the last Armistice Day weekend to greet Samuel H. Packer, new president of the Lake Placid Company, and Mrs. Packer. '13 AB—Mrs. Bert W. Hendrickson (Blanche W. Moyer), as chairman of the Department of American Home, led a N O V E M B E R 2_8, 1 9 3 5 163 discussion on home economics during the forty-first annual convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in Syracuse, November 11. '13 AB—Philip R. Goldstein is director of campaigns and field secretary for the National Jewish Welfare Board, New York City. Goldstein, who received two graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania after leaving Cornell, is a member of the American Academy of Political Science and also of the National Conference of Social Work. His address in New York City is 102. West Eightyfifth Street. '13 CE—Paul Macy is assistant sales manager for The Barrett Company, 40 Rector Street, New York City. He lives at ix Walworth Avenue, Scarsdale. '13 AB—Berkeley H. Snow is executive secretary of the Northwest Electric Light and Power Association. His office is Room 707 Spaldίng Building, Portland, Ore. He has three sons. The address of his home, just beyond the city limits, is Route 5 Box 1488, Portland, Ore. '15 AM; '14 AB; '13 CE; '2.4 PhD— Elam J. Anderson, president of Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore., sojourned last summer with Mrs. Anderson (Colena Michael) '14 and their fifteen-year-old daughter in China where Anderson formerly taught at the University of Shanghai. While abroad they visited in the homes of Kung S. Lee '13 and Thomas T-C Ling. Lee, the Andersons report, is a successful broker in gold and silver exchange and also operates a radio station for the broadcasting of Christian messages. Ling, whom Anderson taught in Shanghai before the Chinese matriculated at Cornell for his Doctorate, is industrial director for one of China's foremost captains of industry. Ί 6 BS, '17 MS—'The first thing to do is to get rid of the wild-cherries". That was the advice issued recently by Albert Hartzell, entomologist, to a nation at war with the tent caterpillar. Quoted at length in the magazine section of the New York Herald Tribune, Hartzell said that the tent caterpillar lays most of its eggs in the branches of the wild-cherry trees and that the destruction of such trees would automatically eliminate a large part of the next caterpillar generation. Hartzell is on the staff of the Boyce Thompson Institute'for Plant Research in Yonkers. Ί β BS—Francis T. Hunter, who formerly sported the colors of Cornell in intercollegiate tennis tournaments, was one of several authorities in that sport who recently declared for the press of New York City that collegians should be the logical Davis cup contenders. This declaration was made despite records showing that the United States has never drawn heavily for international tennis competition from intercollegiate ranks. '17 AB—Hermann G. Place, vicepresident of the Chase National Bank, was one of two witnesses scheduled to testify November ix before the Congressional committee investigating real estate bondholders* reorganizations in New York City. '17 AB—Jacob G. Schurman, Jr., chief magistrate of New York City, spoke on "Delinquency and the Magistrates' Courts" at a conference on delinquency held by the Bronx Woman's Club, November 19. '17 BS—John W. Blackman is treasurer of the Locust Point Yacht Club of Locust Point, the Bronx, New York City. '17—Aaron Lasser recently was legal counsel for three stockholders of the American Hide and Leather Company seeking an injunction restraining that concern from continuing its plan of financial reorganization. Ί 8 , 'xo AB; *xi BS—P. Paul Miller is vice-president and director of sales of the General Ice Cream Corporation. He is also a director of the National Dairy Products Corporation. He and Mrs. Miller (Sara Speer) '2.1 have two sons and a daughter. They live at 1841 Central Parkway, Schenectady. Ί 8 BS—Mrs. Elizabeth Alward Kilbourne, with her mother, Mrs. Leetta E. Alward, has just published an elaborately illustrated "Romance Map of New Jersey," which numbers among its purchasers many residents of the State, including Governor Harold G. Hoffman. She addressed members of the visual education department at the New Jersey State Teachers Convention in Atlantic City, N. J., November 9, on "Romance Maps as Visual Aids." Mrs. Kilbourne's address is τ.i^ Phelps Road, Ridgewood, N.J. Ί 8—Bruce N. Millard of the Inlet Valley (Ithaca) was re-elected president of New York State Milk Distributors, Inc., at a meeting of that group in Rochester, November 13, when it began its annual two-day conference. '19, 'xo WA—Charles Baskerville, Jr. was chosen, along with Neysa McMein, Howard Chandler Christy, Peter Arno, Tony Sarg, and other famous artists and illustrators, to execute the Oriental decorations for the annual Beaux Arts Ball, to be held December 6 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The artists' work takes the form of twentyone eight-foot panels, a series of Hindu dancing girls, drawn from life. Previews of the panels were held at the Park Lane in New York City, November 2.0 and zi. '2.0 BChem; yτ.t—Allen B. Reed is research chemist for the LaMotte Chemical Products Company, Baltimore, Md. He and Mrs. Reed (Elsie P. Murphy) 'xx have two daughters and two sons. They live at Aberdeen, Md. 'xo, ' i i BS; *2.i BS—Leslie M. Shepard and Mrs. Shepard have just moved into their new home, on Colonial Way, Short Hills, N. J. '2.1 ME—Robert H. Bennet may be addressed at 2.4 East Fifty-fourth Street, New York City. \τ ME—Burton C. Mallory's business address is 30 East Forty-Second Street, New York City. 'xi ME—Francis P. Hodgkinson of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, Inc. was coauthor of a paper, " N e w Studies of Ship Motion," presented at the forty-third annual meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in New York City recently. '2.1—Roger W. Hooker, sales manager for the Hooker Electrochemical Company, 60 East Forty-second Street, New York City, married Grace C. Garden last July. They live at 158 East Sixty-first Street, New York City. '7.Ί. AB, *3o PhD; '31; ('53 ? ? ?)—"Our son, James Martin Elson, born November 2.5, 1932., matriculated last summer at Cornell, in the Nursery School of the College of Home Economics," write John J. Elson \i. and Mrs. Elson (Elizabeth J. Slights) *3i. Elson is instructor in English at George Washington University, Washington, D. C. They live at 3516 Evans Street, Brentwood, Md. 'xi AB—Joseph K. Dewar is vicepresident of the John Dewar Company and also manager of the Dewar Wallpaper Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. His home is at 62.2. Means Avenue, Bellevue, Pa. By the scant margin of nine votes he was defeated this fall for the office of squire (Pennsylvania equivalent for justice of the peace). '2.3—Charles I. Glicksberg, in the November issue of The Colophon, reports the discovery of an example of Walt Whitman's prose in an old history of Harpers Magazine. Glicksberg is the author of Walt Whitman and the Civil War, and has frequently contributed to scholarly periodicals in the United States and in foreign countries. '2.3 AB, '2.8 AM—Edward K. Campbell has formally resigned his office as alderman of Ithaca's fifth ward. As we reported recently, he has a scholarship at Columbia and teaches at the Institution for the Education of the Blind, in New York City. '2.3 AM—Dexter M. Keezer occupies the entire "Education" section of Time for November 11, on the occasion of his first annual report as president of Reed College, Portland, Ore. In his report, according to Time, President Keezer said Reed would like more applicants but would not use unfair methods to get them. From his experience as executive director of NRA Consumers' Advisory Board he remarks that "within the limits of my observation, the competitive 164 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL HOSTS Good Places to Know NEW YORK AND VICINITY "Cornell Hosts" AT THE WALDORF John Shea '27 Henry B.Williams..'30 Frederick D. Ray...'33 Herbert E. Frazer...'34 THE WALDORF ASTORIA ParkAve • 49thto50th-NewYork WASHINGTON, D. C. 1715 G Street, N. W. H block west State Warand Navy Bldg BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON & DINNER RUTH CLEVES JUSTUS Ί 6 E STABROOK & CO. Members of the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges Sound Investments Investment Counsel and Supervision Roger H. 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From 1919 to 1933 he was associate editor of the Baltimore Sun. '2.3—Ralph B. Hamilton, sales engineer for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 195 Broadway, New York City, has a son, born last February. Hamilton lives at xγ Earle Place, New Rochelle. '13 MD—Dr. Margaret W. Barnard (Margaret W. Shepard), director of the bureau of district health administration, New York City, was one of the speakers at a recent luncheon of the medical social service section of the Welfare Council of New York City. '24—Elliott W. Gumaer is associated in the practice of law with the firm of Mann, Strang, Bodine, and Wright, 800 Powers Building, Rochester. '14 AB—Walter Rebmann is general manager of Weishod and Hess, brewers. His address is Frankford Avenue and East Hager Street, Philadelphia, Pa. '2.4, 'x5 EE; '2.4 BS—William A. Carran, Jr. is president of the Valley Oil Company and Solar Products Company. He and Mrs. Carran (Marguerite L. Pigott) live at 3x68 Balvoir Boulevard, Bachwood, Warrensville, Ohio. '14 ME—Robert J. Sloan, Jr. is an engineer for the Sealright Company, Fulton. His address there is ziz South Fourth Street. '2.5 AM—Pearl S. Buck received from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the Howells Medal for fiction, November 14. Themedal, awarded only twice previously, was given to the author for her The Good Earth, an intimate study of Chinese life, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. 'x5—Robert C. Ludlum is district sales manager for the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company, in Keijo, Chosen. His address there is P. O. Box3, Seidaimow. '15 EE—Edwin Sternberg, air conditioning engineer for the Armo Cooling and Ventilating Company, New York City, was to marry on Thanksgiving Day, Loraine H. Mace of Pittsburgh, Pa. Sternberg's address is 58 East Ninetysecond Street, New York City. 'Z5, 'z6 BArch—J. Cabell Johnson of ZZ43 Allen Street, Allentown, Pa., is a salesman. '15 CE—Eugene S. Ovenshine, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., is now located at 2.8 East Thirty-first Street, New York City. '2.6 BS—Arthur B. Doig is principal of Central School, Worcester. He has two children, a boy and a girl. '2.6 LLB—Oscar R. Wilensky of 157 Boulevard, Passaic, N. J., recently elected to the New Jersey House of Representatives, is a member of the Passaic law firm of Greenberg and Wilensky. He also belongs to the ethics committee of the Passaic Bar Association. His sister is Gladys Wilensky '35. '2.6 EE—Paul A. Gallagher is employed in the patent department of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at the latter's South Philadelphia plant, Essington, Pa. A Westinghouse employe since his graduation, Gallagher also won the LLB degree from theFordham Law School in 1933. He lives at 109 Penn Street, Ridley Park, Pa. fz6 LLB—Henry S. Fraser, author of various articles in French and American periodicals, practices law with Brown, Fraser and Black, 617-619 City Bank Building, Syracuse. A bachelor, he lives at 1113First North Street, Syracuse. '2.7 AB—Eleanor S. Crabtree has begun her sixth year as librarian in the Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden. She received the BS degree in library service last summer from the School of Library Service at Columbia University. '17 BS; '2.7—Donald Swenson and Ralph Munns represented the Pittsburgh Hotelmen's Association inits golf tournament with the Ohio Association in Akron, Ohio, last summer. '17—Roland J. Eaton is resident manager of the Hotel Barclay-Plaza, Miami Beach,Fla. '17, '2.9 AB, '31 EE—Dr. Arthur B. Berresford is serving his internship in the Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, Conn. '2.8 EE,'35 PhD—J. Albert Wood, Jr. is an instructor in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His address is Oxford Courts, 3 Arlington Street, Cambridge, Mass. '2.8—Frank Hynes is employed by Western Union. He lives at 33 West Fifty-first Street, NewYork City. 'z8—Robert Anderson, manager of the Penn Lincoln Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., also operates a farm near his hotel. '2.8 AB—Mrs. Samuel H. Yohn (Kathryn Altemeier) is chairman of the fellowship committee for the Somerville (N. J.) Branch of the American Association of University Women. In Somerville she lives at 162. West Main Street. '19, '30 AB—M. Whitney Greene is employed in the supervisory department of Standard Statistics Company as a junior account executive. His engagement to Mildred Lescarbonra was recently announced. Greene received the MBA degree in 1934 from the Harvard Business School. He lives at 10 Maurice Avenue, Ossining. 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CORNELL CLUB LUNCHEONS Many of the Cornell Clubs hold luncheons at regular intervals. A list is given below for the benefits travelers who may be in some of these cities on dates of meetings. Unless otherwise listed, the meetings are for men: Name of Club Meeting Place Time AKRON (Women) 1st Saturday Homes of Members Secretary: Mrs. Ralph B. Day '16, 245 Pioneer Street, Akron. 1:00 p.m. ALBANY Monthly University Club Secretary: Robert I. Dodge, Jr. '29, 5 South Pine Avenue, Albany. 12:30 p.m. BALTIMORE Monday Engineers' Club Secretary: N. Herbert Long '18, 3329 Winterbourne Road, Baltimore, Md. 12:30 p.m. BOSTON Monday Hotel Essex 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Anthony O. Shallna '16, 366 W. Broadway, Boston, Mass. BOSTON (Women) 3rd Wed. and 3rd Fridays College Club, 40 Commonwealth Av. 3:30 p.m. Secretary: Mrs. R. T. Jackson '97, 85 River St., Boston. BUFFALO Friday Buffalo Athletic Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Herbert R. Johnston '17. Pratt & Lambert, Inc., Buffalo. BUFFALO (Women) Monthly College Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Miss Alice C. Buerger '25, 3900 Main Street, Eggertsville. CINCINNATI Last Thursday Shevlins, Sixth St. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Herbert Snyder '16, Cincinnati Day School, Cincinnati, O. CHICAGO Thursday Mandels 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Buel McNeil '27, 1019-140 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. CLEVELAND Thursday Mid-Day Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Irwin L. Freiberger '25, 813 Public Square Bldg., Cleveland. CLEVELAND (Women) Homes of Members Evenings Secretary: Miss Raymona E. Hull, AM '32,1872 Lampson Road, Colonial Heights, Cleveland, O. COLUMBUS Last Thursday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: George R. Schoedinger, Jr. '31, 78 Auburn Street, Columbus, Ohio. DENVER Friday Daniel Fisher's Tea Room 12:15 p.m. Secretary: James B. Kelly '05, 1660 Stout Street, Denver. DETROIT Thursday Intercollegiate Club, Penobscot Bldg. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Warren D. Devine '26, c/o Legal Record, 1742 Buhl Bldg., Detroit, Michigan FLORIDA, SOUTHEASTERN 2d Tuesday University Club, Miami 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Archibald R. Morrison '32, Congress Bldg., Miami, Fla. HARRISBURG, PENNA. 3rd Wednesday Hotel Harrisburger 12:00 noon Secretary: John M. Crandall '25, Hotel Harrisburger Los ANGELES Thursday University Club, 614 S. Hope St. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: W. Hubert Tappan '12, 322 Pacific Mutual Bldg., Los Angeles. Los ANGELES (Women) Last Saturday Tea Rooms Luncheons Secretary: Mrs. Katherine S. Haskell '23, 3507 E. Beechwood Ave., Lynwood MILWAUKEE Friday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Arthur C. Kletzsch, Jr. '25, 2511 Farwell Ave., Milwaukee. NEWARK 2nd Friday Down Town Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Milton H. Cooper '28, 744 Broad Street, Newark. NEW YORK Daily Cornell Club, 245 Madison Avenue Secretary: Bertel W. Antell '28, 55 Parade PI., Brooklyn PHILADELPHIA Daily Cornell Club, 1219 Spruce Street Secretary: Robert B. Patch '22, 134 North Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa. PHILADELPHIA (Women) 1st Saturday Homes of Members Luncheon Secretary: Mrs. F. Arthur Tucker '31, 3950 Vaux Street, Philadelphia. PITTSBURGH Friday Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: John L. Slack '26, University Club, University Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH (Women) Monthly Homes of Members Afternoon Secretary: Miss Jane H. Gibbs '33, 1127 De Victor Place, Pittsburgh. PROVIDENCE 1st Tuesday Middletown Cafe, Providence 12:00 noon Secretary: H. Hunt Bradley '26, 15 Westminster St., Providence, R. I. QUEENS COUNTY (Women) 3rd Monday Secretary: Mrs. Gustave Noback, Grad., 17 Groton St., Forest Hills, N. Y. ROCHESTER Wednesday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: J. Webb L. Sheehy '29, 603 Terminal Building, Rochester, New York ROCHESTER (Women) Monthly (usually Wednesday) Homes of Members Evening Secretary: Mrs. Barton Baker (Bernice M. Dennis) '25, 100 Brookwood Road, Rochester. ST. LOUIS Last Friday American Hotel 12:00 noon Secretary: V. V. Netch '31, 5506 Maple Ave., St. Louis, Mo. SAN FRANCISCO 2nd Wednesday Hotel Plaza 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Brandon Watson '26, Women's City Club, 2315 Durand Avenue, Berkeley, Cal. SAN FRANCISCO (Women) 2nd Saturday Homes of Members Luncheon or Tea Secretary: Joyce B. Porter '30, Box 1793, Stanford University, Berkeley, Cal. SYRACUSE Wednesday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Robert C. Hosmer '02, 316 South Warren Street, Syracuse. SYRACUSE (Women) 2nd Monday Homes of Members 6:30 p.m. Secretary: Miss Leah M. Bladen '24, 139 Wood Avenue, Syracuse. TRENTON Monday Chas. HertzeΓs Restaurant, Bridge & S. Broad Sts. Secretary: George R. Shanklin '22, 932 Parkside Avenue, Trenton. UTICA Tuesday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Harold J. Shackelton '28, 255 Genesee Street, Utica. UTICA (Women) 3rd Monday Homes of Members Dinner Secretary: G. Evelyn Shoemaker '33, 1635 Miller Street, Utica. WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Frederick W. Kelley, Jr., '29, 905 Washington Bldg., Washington.