Vol. XXV, No. 10 [PEICE TWELVE CENTS] NOVEMBER 30, 1922 Varsity Team Wins Annual Pennsylvania Game 9-0 Some Additions to a Current Controversy on The Value of Alumni Baseball Schedule Changes Route of Annual Southern Trip Cross Country Team Places Fifth in New York Intercollegiates Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August at .1.23 West State Street, Ithaca, New York. Subscription $4.00 per year. Entered as second class matter May 2, 1900, under the act of March 3, 1879, at the postoffice at Ithaca, New York. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS The Cornell Societyof Engineers maintains a Committee of Employment for Cornell graduates. Employers are invited to consult this Committee without charge when in need of Civil or Mechanical Engineers, Draftsmen, Estimaters, Sales Engineers, Construction Forces, etc. 19 West 44th Street,New York City Room 817—Phone Vanderbilt 2865 C. M. CHUCKROW, Chairman Ithaca Trust Company Assets Over Three Million Dollars President Charles E. Treman Vice-Pres Franklin C. Cornell Vice-Pres. and Sec, W. H. Storms Treasurer.., Sherman Peer H E M P H I L L , N O Y E S &* Co. 37 Wall Street, New York Investment Secur.'ttes PhilaBdreildpgPheiipattosrbtAurlbgaShnyyraLcouBsseoAstnoSgneclreasBnatoltnimore Jansen Noyes ΊΌ Charles E. Gardner Stanton Griffis ΊO Harold C.Strong Clifford Hemphill Member New York Stock Exchange Cascadilla School GRADUATES GO TO CORNELL College Preparatory School A High-Grade Boarding School for Boys Summer School July to September, especially for Col- lege and University Entrance Examinations Special Tutoring School Private Instruction in Any Subject Throughout theYear Trustees F. C. Cornell Ernest Blaker C. D.Bostwick Our 1922-23 Catalog will appeal to thai schoolboy you are tryingto interest in Cornell A postal will bring it. The Cascadilla Schools Ithaca, N. Y. Trustee Executor "For the purpose of accommodating the citizens of the state" Chartered 1822 Farmers' Loan and Trust Company New York No. 16-22 WilliamStreet Branch: 475 Fifth Ave. at 41st Street Letters of Credit ForeignExchange Cable Transfers Adminstrator Guardian Member Federal Reserve Bank and New York Clearing House HABIT WE have formed the habit of expecting Jack Moakley to turn outa winning team in every event they compete in, and grouch if they lose and wonder what isthe matter. Stop and analyse it; how about your game? Do you winevery time? Jack has a big surplus laid aside totake care of lean years. So he does not have to have some one go on hisnote or issue stock;the institution isperfectly solvent; don't worry: let Jack do this. I do wish you would get the habit when you heed shirts to think of Bement—either made to measure or ready to wear. It only costs a postal. I do the rest. L. C.Bement The Toggery Shop Of course Cornell will win the game at "Philly" This is written five days before— Stop Over at Ithaca is permitted by the Lehigh Valley Railroad on practicallyall tickets. Cornellians travelling between NewYork orPhiladelphia and Chicago can, by reason of the Lehigh Valley's service, take advantage of this without loss of additional business time, as shown by the following schedule: (Daily) (Daily) Westward Eastward 8:10 P. M. Lv New York (PENN. STA.) Ar. 8:26 A. M. (a) 84::4307 PA..MM.. LAvr. ... PhiladelphiaIt(hRaceaading Term'l) (b) LAvr.. 171::4490PA..MM. . 4:53 P. M. Lv Ithaca Ar. 12:37Noon 8:25 A. M. Ar Chicago (M.C.R.R) Lv. 3:00 P. M. Sleepers New York to Ithaca Ithaca to Chicago Sleepers j Chicago to Ithaca Ithaca to New York (a) Sleeper may beoccupied at Ithaca until 8:00 A. M. (b) Sleeper ready foroccupancy at 9:00 P. M. PENNSYLVANIA STATION—the Lehigh Valley's New York Passenger Terminal—is in the heart of the city, convenient to everywhere. Be sure your next ticket reads via Lehigh Valley. Your stop over arrangement can be made with the conductor. LeMgh VaΠey Railroad • The Route of The Black Diamond • CORNELL ALUMNI VOL. XXV, No. 10 ITHACA, N. Y M NOVEMBER 30, 1922 NEWS PRICE 12 CENTS AN INTERFRATERNITY Council was organized at a meeting of representatives from fifty houses in Barnes Hall on November 23. The pμrpose of the Council as stated in its constitution is tofoster mutual understanding and cooperation between the fraternities and to provide an organized advisory and executive body for the consideration of questions pertaining to the fraternities and their position at Cornell. Each fraternity appoints one member to represent it on the Council for a year. By general consent the Council is not to consider questions of rushing without the unanimous vote of all members. Two matters now before it are the revival of Senior Week to its former social prestige, and an investigation of local taxicab rates. COMPILATIONS from the Directory recently issued show that of the 5626students whose names appear therein, 1871 are in Arts, 1626 in Engineering, and1165 in Agriculture. Law has least, with 97. Agriculture has the most professors, and Arts the largest number of instructors. Every State in the Union is represented in the University, and 38 other nations. Of the States, New York leads with 3,452; China leads the other countries with 66 students. BESIDES THE TEN Indians in thewinter course of the College of Agriculture, fifteen regions outside of the United States are represented, asfollows: Spain, Holland, Bohemia, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Chile, Norway, England, Greece, Porto Rico, Germany, and Jamaica. COLUMBUS ALUMNI of Cornell are re- ported to be active in supporting a proposed University Club inthe Ohio city. The club will be the first in America to be self-supporting, having no dues, but endowed from initiation fees. FORTY-TWO fraternities have entered teams in the Interfraternity Basketball League for the coming season. It is expected that there will be at least eight teams representing houses, dormitories or sections in the Independent Basketball League. THE MANUSCRIPT CLUB has completed the libretto of an original musical comedy to be presented by the Masque of 1923. The plot has to do with complications that arise from a mixture of the Ithaca known to Odysseus and Penelope with that known to the present generation on the shores of Cayuga. EATING PLACES for the students use a considerable amount of food, even though the University does not yet "have adequate dining halls. The men may go to the old Mess Hall left from war days, to the cafeteria of the Home Economics Building, or to various restaurants, or to the Coffee House for light meals. The womenmay eat in the cafeteria, or in Risley or Sage dining rooms, or in the Cascadilla dining room. Of the eating places conducted by theUniversity, Risley Hall uses 1250 quarts of milk a week; all together use more than one hundred pounds of butter every day, and about six barrels of potatoes. THE WOMEN'S DRAMATIC CLUB pre- sented a laudable performance of Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion," at the Lyceum on November 18. The cast included Helen Briggs '24, of Washington, D. C , as Androcles; Gertrude iSibley, Grad., of Springfield, Mass, as theLion; Grace W. West '23, of Brooklyn, as Lavinia; Gertrude Mathewson '23, of Arrochar, N. Y., as theEmperor; Elizabeth Lerch '23, of Allentown, Pa., as the Captain; Wilma S. Jerman '25 as Megaera; Elizabeth Rauschenbush '25, of Rochester, as Ferrovius; Doris Sims '23, of Sodus, N. Y., as Spintho; Helen Uhl '24, of Rutherford, N. J., as Metullus; and Katherine Montgomery '24, of New York, as Lentulus. NOT ENOUGH MONEY was donated, as a result of taking collections in the grandstands during local football games this fall, to send both the Band andthescrubs to the Pennsylvania game. The bandsmen insisted that thescrubs be given priority, and after setting aside the expenses of twenty scrubs to Philadelphia there lacked $325 of being enough to send the Band. THE DRIVE for $6,000 to meet necessary expenses of theC. U. C. A. hasnetted to date just short of $4,000. All of the members of ten fraternities have subscribed to the fund. Thedrive has been extended beyond theperiod originally set for it in the hope of securing the necessary amount. A MASS MEETING of Sibley students was held in Sibley Dome on November 24, to interest underclassmen in extra curricular activities. Various branches of intercollege athletics were boomed by men particularly qualified tospeak. The Sibley Journal and the Sibley alumni organization were also brought to theattentionof the meeting with a request for support. THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for December 3 will be the Rev. Dr. Hugh Black, Presbyterian, professor of practical theology in Union Theological Seminary, New York. PROFESSOR EUGENE P. ANDREWS '95 repeated on Monday his second lecture, on "Assuan, the Great Dam, and Sub- merged Philae," in hisseries on "A Thousand Miles Up the Nile," originally delivered on November 23. On Tuesday Professor Wilford M. Wilson, of the Department of Meteorology, spoke before the Agassiz Club on "Exploring the Atmosphere with Kites and Balloons." Next Sunday at the Current Events Forum Leonard Cronkhite of Boston is to speak on "The University Graduate in the Business World." The BOXING CLUB has hit upon a novel program for extension of interest in its activities throughout the University. A boxing competition is opened to the entire student body. Entrants are to register name and weight. From this list Coach Fallon pairs off men of equal weight, who shall fight two rounds of two minutes each. Thus it is expected that material otherwise unknown will be discovered. THE DRAMATIC CLUB fostered the pre- sentation at the Lyceum on November 24 of Stuart Walker's "Book of Job," by the original company. The performance was witnessed with full appreciation by a capacity audience. THE EIGHT TERM residence requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts was abolished at a Faculty meeting held November 7, thus making the sole requirement for graduation to be credits for 120 hours of work, with certain qualifications as to grades and groups. THE SNOW and cold wave of the last few days seem likely to put anend to crew activities after an unusually long period of weather suitable for work in the water. Coach Hoyle has developed two good freshman boats, to which hehasgiven the most of his attention this fall. Two VACANT LOTS on Linn Street, through which clear views of Cascadilla Gorge to the east may be had by those coming up Mill Street, have been purchased by Robert H. Treman '78and given to the. University, in order thatthe scenic view may not be obstructed by private buildings onthesite. PRESIDENT'S NIGHT at the Barnes Hall Coffee House was repeated on November 20, when Dr. Farrand sat at hisdedicated table to hold informal discussions with undergraduates on topics of general interest. A MASS MEETING of the R. O. T. C. was held in Bailey Hall on November 2j, for the purpose of inculcating in the members a greater interest in theactivities of that body. President Farrand made theprincipal address, on "The Importance of R. O.T. C.Training in Our Universities.'' 126 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Are Alumni Useful Except in Providing Endowments? By Special Permission from Scribner's Magazine Copyright, 1922 A CONTROVERSY has recently appeared in Scribner's over the value to a university of its alumni. Wilfred B. Shaw, alumni secretary at Michigan, gives in the June number (pp.667-654) under the title, "A New Power in University Affairs," an historical sketch of the development of the relations between alumni land their universities in this country, with illuminating comparisons with the situations in other countries. There is much of value to the alumnus in Shaw's article. The development from a mere desire to keep up old ties down to the present sincere and somewhat widespread interest in the educational methods and policies of one's university seems to be typical only of American universities, as yet. The history of themovement is well told. It could beread with profit by every alumnus. The article goes onto indicate the probable development of alumni interest in the future, on the basis of its previous tendency toward the serious work ofthe universities. We give his sketch of the future in the following extract. A New Power in University Affairs The writer has attempted merely to suggest that we have here a new element in our university world, an organized and aggressive element, that must henceforth be considered as an integral part ofthe general development of our system of higher education. Without it we should not have arrived at the place where we find ourselves to-day, but in accepting its support so generously extended we must recognize theconditions that go with it. This implies in the future an even closer participation, on the part of the alumni, in college and university affairs. Our graduates are not only acquiring aCi new power, a power which they hardly realize themselves, butthey areassuming a great responsibility. Theproblem of how they can best usethis power is, as yet, hardly settled satisfactorily. There are those who insist, and with reason, that this force may not always prove beneficent. Theviews of the graduate maynot march with the highest ideals of the academic fraternity. The assumption is easy on thepart of the average graduate, that any movement is for the good ofthe university, if the alumni body is behind it. The charm of the ivy-covered quadrangles of the older English universities never fails to strike a responsive note in the heart of the American visitor. They are the visible embodiment of our ideal of the academic life; yet they breathe a conservatism only recently touched by the modern spirit. Thereverence for the traditional and time-honored thing has not been, perhaps, thedefect many critics of Oxford and Cambridge have believed it to be, butundoubtedly theheavy hand of conservative alumni long kept them in the old ways, from which nothing short of such a cataclysm as the World War was able to waken them to modern progress. In America, too, we sometimes see the same spirit; the buildings, studies, and traditions that were good enough for our fathers often seem good enough forus. But not seldom we have the other spirit, progress, up-to-date ideas, business methods, efficiency, call it what you may, that imposes false standards in purely academic affairs. New ideas are launched, upon alumni initiative, sometimes to the great benefit of theinstitution, and sometimes to the seri us impairment of its effectiveness as a centre of culture and in highest educational ideals. Andwhen the effort sponsored by the alumni fails, it is not the alumni body, but the university, that suffers. That is a sobering thought, that once understood should limit theactive participation of the alumnus in university affairs. After all, university education is a highly specialized business, and the average graduate must insist that his organization is so ordered that it shall insure the selection of men of the highest qualifications to represent him. Likewise the university must take thought for the future. The student of to-day by a wave of thepresidential hand becomes thealumnus of to-morrow. Does the university consciously prepare himfor his new relationship? Very rarely, we fear. And yetit should not bedifficult to infuse into a certain portion, at least, of the recipients of the annual grist of diplomas something of that broader, finer "university" spirit which views theinstitution as a living and sentient force within the souls of its students and alumni. Drop but once this high standard, make too many concessions to theimmediate andobvious —athletics, prestige, "popular" subjects, and "practical" courses—and the birthright is gone. The ideals which sustained the fathers will be lost forever to the children, when it becomes their turn to sit as graduates in the university councils. But that isforthe future. For the most part, as we view it to-day, the alumni support of our universities has been not only progressive but intelligent. It has brought new currents into many auniversity backwater. In return we know that the campus, with its idealism, and devotion to truth, wherever it may be found, has not been without its wholesome stimulus to those who, having passed its portals, have returned once more for renewed inspiration. Another View of Alumni Control In the department "The Point of View" in the October issue of Scribner's (pp. 504505), the editor replies to Mr. Shaw's article, particularly to the part we have quoted, under the title "Another View of Alumni Control." This we give in full. In a recent issue of Scribner's Magazine there appeared an article upon the growing power of the alumni in shaping the policies of American universities. The article was written by one who apparently thought this to be a good thing. He was the general secretary of an alumni organization, the concrete expression of the sad fact that unless you keep prodding the alumni they forget. It is soeasy to forget, especially since prohibition, for therewas real truth in a remark I once overheard at an alumni dinner: "It takes about two drinks to make aman feel like an alumnus.'' The writer of the article hassome conception of the danger of excessive alumni participation inuniversity affairs, butitis the general attitude he reveals that calls for protest from an unorganized alumnus. Take only one instance: he is speaking of the list of the addresses of the graduates, which is kept by the office. "It arrives," he remarks, "almost invariably at a certain place where, owing to theexpense, the institution finds it desirable and necessary to assume this important work." When it begins to cost too much, dump it on the university! And the university may add the sumto its deficit. It is an open secret that inmany of the "alumni drives" for endowment the university hashad to "scrap" theorganization of the alumni office and proceed onitsown behalf in order to have matters properly conducted. But the same office will probably spend a good deal of money in support of a magazine in which appear editorials that reflect incorrect opinions concerning university policy. Such attacks usually centre ontheboards of trustees, and a teacher in an Eastern university recently called to my attention a new service they hadrendered. He explained that the criticism had been so ill founded that the members of the university faculty had actually rushed to thedefense ofthe trustees, an occurrence probably unknown previously in the history of American education! College students have been frequently subjected to classification but the only significant onedivides them into those who take their pipes outof their mouths when they speak to members of thefaculty and those who do not. Alumni can be classified into two groups: those whosupport the university and those who do not. "Support" has several meanings. It doesnot mean hurrahing at athletic meets or wearing hatbands once a year at reunions. It CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 127 does not mean interfering, with snap judgment, in the management of university affairs which areusually being conducted by trained men who areonthe job every day and all day (and night), and who will be the first to suffer if they make mistakes. Every courageous university officer knows that if he performs thenecessary weekly or monthly housecleaning in athletics, he will be thesubject for alumni attacks in the newspapers which are hospitable to alumni interviews apparently in direct ratio totheir absurdity. It is this quality of irresponsibility that makes alumni control so impossible. An alumnus by one blast in a newspaper can upset orimpede a constructive programme that university officers have labored upon for years, and then he can go blithely upon his business. I sawrecently a letter from an alumnus of my own college to the president. The writer stated that he had gone through college on a scholarship, and that he had now reached a point when hecould repay that debt, and he enclosed a check for one year's tuition, promising to send a similar amount periodically till he had paid allhe owed in actual cash. He added: " I cannot pay what I owe the university, for I oweher everything." I met him some time afterward when a matter of university policy was being violently debated and asked him his opinion. "Oh," he said, " I should like so andso, but I'm for whatever the men on the ground want. They know what they're about." Do not his attitude and his actions sum up the whole function ofan alumnus? The university is the only American institution which tolerates the suggestion that valuable advice can begiven as to its conduct by those who have been out of touch with its workings for twenty years, and in many cases spent their time while within its walls in avoiding those workings, subjectively and objectively. Let them as individuals send in all the suggestions they wish; if they cannot send money, let them send encouragement to the men whose labors are making the degree they bear more and more of an asset every year. Let them remember that the university is judged publicly by the achievementand the character of the man it turns out, quite as much as by the publications or discoveries of itsfaculties. Of course a graduate will keep up his class organizationfor his own pleasure, for it gives him back for a few moments the precious sense of youth. As an individual he is usually charming and hisold teachers like to meet him and flatter themselves that they have done something for him. But when he becomes "an organized andaggressive element of our system of higher education," he becomes a nuisance. When he discusses a change of curriculum, or methods of teaching, he is delightful in his naivete; when he attempts to introduce efficiency m e t h o d s f r o m t h e m o d e r n business into university organization, he simply proves again howinefficient the average SPORT STUFF This is written before—and will appear after—the football game with the University of Pennsylvania. There are some prophecies that canbe stated with all the certainty of fact. If we win there will be some unprofitable debate about the relative merits of various teams which didnot meet. If we lose, a highly articulate few will be demanding a grand jury investigation to fix theresponsibility for the crime. Too many loyal clansmen have become so deeply interested in intercollegiate sport—particularly football—that they are in danger of losing their sense of proportion and their ability, after a paroxysm, tolaugh at their own intensity. It's splendid a thing for thousands of undergraduates andold grads to get together inthe same lot once ortwice a year and to work themselves into such a pitch of excitement that they spontaneously destroy five thousand seven-dollar hats. It's a good thing thoroughly tophysic the emotions once in a while. But it's wiseto call the debauch off andto get back to sanity by midnight of the sameday. When this appears, the boys who played in the game will beback at their jobs trying to empty their minds of football as rapidly as possible. If they win, there will be a deep sense of satisfaction and relief, together with a good deal of commendable silence. If they lose, there will be congratulations for the good team that beat them—no recriminations, no excuses, no criticisms. When everyone else follows the general lead of the boys who play in the game, there will be less unhappiness connected with intercollegiate sport. R. B. business is when compared tothe average college; and when he turns his hand to athletics, he is too often a sinister influence. Have Ibeen too harsh? I am an alumnus myself. I know that my college gaveme something imperishable, and because of her influence the world can never be the same place to me that it was before Ientered herdoors. Butthat fact gives me no rights over her whatever; it places upon me only a deep obligation. Heaven forbid that I should ever become part of "an organized and agressive element" to try to determine her conduct. That I am perfectly willing to leave to the men who taught me and who will teach my sons. ENGINEERS ELECT HARDING At the fall meeting of the Cornell Society of Engineers in New York on November 6, the following officers were elected for the year: President, Carroll R. Harding, Ί o C.E.; first vice-president, Samuel B. Whinery, '99 M.E.; second vice-president, Ezra B. Whitman, Όi C.E.; recording secretary, Robert W. Gastmeyer, Ί i C.E. After the election of officers and the reading of reports by officers andcommittee chairmen, the meeting wasturned over to President-elect Harding. The first speaker was Ezra B. Whitman Όi, Alumni Trustee, who spoke onthe relation of the society to the University. The next speaker was Frederick A. Waldron, of Boston, on "Public Recognition of the Engineer in Building Construction." Hecontended that theengineer does not receive proper recognition of his work, inview of the fact that inthe construction of the modern building approximately eighty per cent of the cost is represented in the work of the engineer and twenty per cent in thework of the architect. John H. Lawrence '09 was the last speaker, on thesubject of "the Hell Gate Power House Design." Lawrence pointed out the difficulties in designing a power house for congested New York City. Illustrated with lantern slides, the talk was at once interesting and technical. PHI KAPPA PHI At the annual election of Faculty and undergraduates to Phi Kappa Phi held on November 17 the following were elected to membership: From the Faculty William Nicols Barnard, Heinrich Ries, William Linn Westermann, Henry Hice Whetzel. College of Arts and Sciences Carl Irving Baker, Herrick Centre, Pa. Elizabeth Potter Booth, Utica, N.Y. Mildred Margaret Bork, Buffalo, N. Y. Stephen Albert Emery, Brooklyn. Laura Loretta Geer, Marathon, N. Y. Madeline Margaret Hickey, Ithaca. Louise Alfreda Hill, West Webster, N. Y. Ida Itskowitz, New York. Murray Foster Johnson, Woodside, N. Y. Alexander Xenophon Karp, Farmingdale, N. Y. George Swartz Klump, Williaxnsport, Pa. Ida Gertrude Mellefont, Belmont, N.Y. Charles Everett Rhodes, Groton, N. Y. Mabel Frances Steele, Waverly, N. Y. *Waclaw Andrew Wesolowski, Yonkers, N. Y. Grace Walrond West, Brooklyn. Ruby Adelaide Wheaton, Ithaca Mary Goodenough Willcox, Ithaca. College of Agriculture Hoyt Samuel Ackles, Marietta, N. Y. Edith Dorothy Brennan, Melrose, Mass. Alice Alma Christine Carlson, Ithaca. Herman Price Everts, Auburn, N.Y. Irene Lydia Hower, Danielsville,Pa. Olive Rilla Jones, Westfield, N. Y. Henry Ernst Luhrs, Woodhaven, N. Y. Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn. William Guy Meal, Lockport, N. Y. Eva May Peplinski, Mohawk, N. Y. Philip Carman Wakeley, Orange, N. J. 128 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Harvey Adelbert Weaver, Findley Lake, N. Y. College of Architecture Frederic Faris, Wheeling, W. Va. Mary Beatrice George, Ithaca. College of Engineering Civil Engineering: Harlin Page Bosworth, Jr., Buffalo. Benjamin Henry Palmer, Jr., Norwich, Conn. Earle Nims Scott, Detroit, Mich. Electrical Engineering: David Edward Brainard, Syracuse, N. Y. Eduardo Diaz Luque, Mexico City, Mexico. Mechanical Engineering: Edward Vreeland Baker, Willsboro, N. Y. Edgar Clement Goodale, Riverhead, N. Y. William Bres Gregory, New Orleans. George Whitman Holbrook, Millbrook, N. Y. Stephen Moore Jenks, Woodbury, N. Y. Bartlett Richards, Ellsworth, Nebr. Carleton Veda Topliffe, Port Bryon, N. Y. College of Law Elbert Parr Tuttle, Ithaca. Veterinary College Aubrey Arthur Wooden, Waterloo, N. Y. ATHLETICS Team Starts for Philadelphia The football squad left Tuesday night for Philadelphia to play Pennsylvania Thanksgiving Day in the final game of the season. About thirty-six players werein the varsity party, whose exact destination was withheld, to avoid visitors at the train- ing camp Wednesday. The line-up was scheduled to be nearly the same as in the other important games, W. R. Rollo, however, being back atright guard after three weeks and E. F. Buckley playing left end in the place of F. L. Henderson, who pulled a tendon in the Dartmouth game. History, tradition, and the fighting "come back" r c this year's Pennsylvania team, indicated chat as usual the Quakers would give Cornell a battle worthy of their best and that the game would prove the most difficult of the season. Penn- sylvania's record this year follows: Pennsylvania 14—Franklin and M 27—Univ. ofSouth 12—Maryland 14—Swarthmore 13—Navy 7—Alabama 6—Pittsburgh 7—Penn State o o o 6 7 9 7 6 100 35 Cross Country Team Places Fifth The cross country team finished in fifth place in the annual intercollegiate championship race over the six-mile course at Van Cortlandt Park, New York, Monday. Somewhat unexpectedly, Syracuse won first honors indecisive fashion with a score of 75 points. Yale was second with 108 and the others finished as follows: M. I. T.113, Columbia 118, Cornell 119, Maine 145, Dartmouth 158, Princeton 169, Harvard 182, Penn State 211, Pennsylvania 227, C. C. N. Y. 359,and N. Y.U. 368. G. C. Williams wasthe first Cornell man to cross the tape. Hefinishedin fourteenth position. The other Cornellians to score and the order in which they finished were H. V. Bonsai, 22, H. G. Smith, 26, J. Vandervoort, Jr., 31, and E. A. Gordon, 35- Penn State's team won the freshman championship race over a three-mile course with Princeton second, Yale third, Syracuse fourth, and Cornell fifth. Individual honors in the varsity race went to Captain Walter Higgins of Columbia, who won by about 45 yards over Walter Hendrie of M. I. T. Higgins's time was 32 min. 218/10 sec. Homer Smith of Syracuse was third, Harold E. Dykemann of Carnegie Tech fourth, E. O. McLane of Penn fifth, and M. K. Douglass of Yale sixth. The loss of the championship was not unexpected, as Cornell this year lacked first rate distance runners who could stay up in front with the leaders. CHEMICAL LABORATORY SHOWS PROGRESS Photograph byJohn P. Troy With the roof on and most of the windows in, outside construction work has practically halted for the winter, but workmen are still busy inside. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 129 The Baseball Schedule A baseball schedule of twenty-three games has been announced by the Athletic Association. Instead of spending a good share of the Southern trip in Washington, playing games in or near the capital, the nine next spring will go to Lexington, Va., where three games will be played, two with Washington and Lee and one with Virginia Military Institute. On that trip two games will also be played with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. The main schedule includes two games with Yale, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, a game with Princeton at Ithaca, and a game with Harvard at Cambridge. The schedule: April 5, Washington and Lee at Lexington; April 6, Washington and Lee at Lexington; April 7, V.M.I, at Lexington; April 9, University of Virginia at Charlottesville, April 10, University of Virginia at Charlottesville. April 18, Niagara at Ithaca; April 21, Columbia at Ithaca; April 25, Syracuse at Syracuse; April 28, Princeton at Ithaca; May 2, Lafayette at Ithaca; May 4, Brown at Providence; May 5, Harvard at Cambridge; May 11, Columbia at New York; May 12, Yale at New Haven; May 16, Colgate at Ithaca; May 19, Dartmouth at Ithaca; May 23, Hamilton at Ithaca; May 26, Yale at Ithaca; May30, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; June 2, Syracuse at Ithaca; June 15, Alumni at Ithaca; June 16, Pennsylvania at Ithaca; June 18, Dartmouth at Hanover. THE POLO TEAM composed of R.O.T.C. officers defeated a team representing the 7th Field.Artillery, at Madison Barracks, by a score of 13-4, on November 19. Cornell 9, Penn 0 Cornell closed another successful football season Thanksgiving Day by defeating Pennsylvania onFranklin Field by a score of 9 to o. Thus for twosuccessive years Cornellhas won every game on its schedule. The game was played before 55,000 spectators, about twice the size of the average Penn game crowd in the past, and larger by 15,000 than the crowd that witnessed the triumph over Dartmouth. Penn was outclassed, but her inspired defense three times stopped Cornell eleven inside the ten yard line. In the first period however Hanson kicked a goal from placement from the Penn's 33-yard line, and in thethird period Cornell with a magnificent demonstration of concentrated power, rushed the ball from Penn's 45-yard line straight down the field for a touchdown, using old fashioned rushing game, crashing smashing tackle plays and line plunges. Ramsey and Pfann lead the attack. Penn rallied again right under her goal posts, but Ramsey made it first down on the three yard line. Pfann made one more and then Cassidy plunged through center for a touchdown. In the fourth period Penn attemped a far flung aerial attack, which made several spectacular gains, but never put Cornell in danger. PHILADELPHIA WOMEN ELECT The Cornell Women's Club of Philadelphia held a luncheon and business meeting on November 2 at the Lincoln Hotel. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: president, Martha E. Dick Ί i ; vice-president, Mrs. Penn G. Hastings '03; secretary, Luella I. Lackmann '19; treasurer, Edna E. Cassel '17. Mrs. George W. Tailby '95 of Ithaca told of recent happenings on the Hill, speaking especially of the extensive building projects nowbeing carried out bythe University. The next meeting will be held the evening of December 8 at thehome of Edith Loux Ί o , 4128 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia. All Cornell women in Philadelphia are cordially invited. NEW YORK DINNER FOR 1912. As a preliminary to the Cornell dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in NewYork two days later, the men of the Class 1912 of who live within fifty miles of the city will tune up with a dinner of their ownon December 6. The party will gather at the Office Restaurant, 1537 Third Avenue, near 86th Street. Max Grambow '12 is the present proprietor of an establishment that has been in the Grambow family for generations. Any 1912 manis invited to attend. It isn't necessary to notify any of the following committee which is organizing the dinner: Carl V. Burger, James I. Clarke, Charles A. Dewey, Stanton C. Finch, Arthur J. Jacobs, and Daniel D. Merrill. 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Entered as Second Class Matter atIthaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y , NOVEMBER 30, 1922 SCRIBNER'S POINTS OF VIEW A debate over the proper place of alumni in the university world has recently appeared in Scribner's. It is a discussion of fundamentals. We are permitted to print extracts from it elsewhere in this issue. The author of the first 'article, Wilfred B. Shaw, who hasbeen alumni secretary at Michigan for fifteen years, gives an excellent review of the development of alumni interest and activity. If he had not ventured a prediction, however conservative, of the alumnus's place in the future, none could have taken issue with him. The editor of Scribner's does, however, take issue, and his attack makes up in ginger what it lacks in up todate information. His editorial is important principally in that it represents the characteristic view of a vigorous minority that has reached the same point from widely divergent courses. On the one hand isthe group that reads the newspaper accounts of alumni banquets and smokers, has little more information, and cares for none. On the other, thoughtful, earnest persons with an honest conviction, reached after a philosophical and historical study of the case, that alumni participation in university affairs, beyond the point of contributing to endowments, will be,if of any importance at all, a sinister influence. Neither group can bedismissed without decent attention. It is beneficial for us to consider what value, if any besides monetary, we alumni have toa university. If we are wholly mistaken, we shouldsettle down into the Mid-Victorian attitude without further waste of time. The editor, speaking for this minority that we have described, virtually tells alumni to go ahead with their little parties, their athletics, and their interest in student life, butwhen they have contributed their money to the endowment to be satisfied that they have done all they will ever be capable of in running the university or college. He supportshis belief with the remark made byan alumnus at a banquet that it takes about two drinks to make a man feel like an alumnus. The editor of Scribner's could have gone much further without crossing the boundaries that divide fact from fiction. Out of several million alumni of post-highschool educational plants in thecountry there must be a good many hundred thousands to whom alma mater and drinking parties are to some extent associated. There are fully as many who would make more fuss over an ail-American halfback than they do over a professor in action. Of these there probably are thousands whose participation in alumni affairs is limited towatching ordiscussing athletics through a golden brown alcoholic haze. The editor might have been less conservative over this kind of alumni point of view without hurting anyone's feelings. He would have done a service to education, and possibly to some of the offenders themselves. What of it?Suppose some alumni do like either drink or athletics, or both. Must we assume that even a person who admits that he likes drink, is always drunk; or that a man who sits in the stands ata game never goes indoors, sits at his desk, or thinks? Are editors and professors the only persons in the world who can do two different kinds of things at different times? Are there only three kinds of people inthe world: professors, editors, and the men on the street? We doubt if editors can ever successfully divide the world into two or three kinds of people, in any division that is worth the space, and expect the sheep and the goats tostay always on their own side of the fence. Let usassume, however, that some such classification has been successfully made. The man-on-the-street group can be subdivided into engineers, architects, lawyers, and other professional, commercial,and technical men. Active alumni obviously are distributed in much the same way. Interest in college alumni matters is literally quite independent of vocation. If alumni associations ever attempt to "control" the educational policies of their colleges, it is quite unlikely that they will assume a dictatorship. The "aggressive" alumni, that seem to bother the editor so much, will domuch as they have donein the past—they will accept the invitations extended to them by presidents, deans, and professors to tell them what the profession that they have been taught demands of the coming generation of graduates. Alumni associations, being composed largely of capable, intelligent citizens, will probably continue to appoint, for example, lawyer committees to confer with the lawschool. They are not at all likely to appoint committees of women to select football coaches, nor plumbers to consult with the professor of sociology, as one infers after reading theeditor's picture of them. Inasmuch as many of the larger or older universities number, on the roll of active interested alumni, perhaps half a dozen college presidents, and many deans and professors in other universities than their own, it is obvious that adequate alumni committees for any department or college, (even of liberal arts, where exceptional conditions obtain), are available whenever one of them desires to utilize its alumni assets. Shaw's article was an interesting one. It deserved a criticism based on facts, rather than on the common newspaper conception of alumni—with itsstuff about "rah rah boys" and its report exclusively of the work of theentertainment committee. The difference between alumni at work and alumni at play is the same as that for any group of human beings. Mr. Shaw, through years of service to the Association of Alumni Secretaries, since becoming Michigan's alumni secretary, is perhaps the best informed person in thecountry on general alumni affairs. When he prophesies a more aggressive alumni body that will participate in educational matters, it is quite likely that his forecast will materialize. It isnot likely that the aggressiveness will be at all offensive. The discussion is in a sense academic. Many of the same men who now deplore the increasing importance of alumni in university affairs, other than financing, a few months ago welcomed this increased interest. They went even farther and invited it, in sounding phrases calculated to direct attention toward their crying need —for money of course, but fully as much for counsel and sympathetic understanding. That meeting of minds undoubtedly resulted, in some instances, in frank criticism, in others in congratulatory approval of the work of the department. The harm, of course, was irreparable. The allies became invaders, and are apparently there to stay. The old order will never return. The next job is to harness this new power and make full use of it. DEAN GEORGE G. BOGERT Ό6 of the Law College spoke before the New York City Association of the Bar November 9. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 131 JUDGE FRANK H. HISCOCK, '75 Chairman of the Board of Trustees. WALTER P. COOKE, '91 Former President ofthe Cornellian Council and a University Trustee. PRESIDENT LIVINGSTON FARRAND CORNELLIANS all know these men, but they don't know what they will have to say in the special articles appearing in the Cornellian Council Bulletin this year. These articles deal with Cornell's unsolved problems and are of vital interest to all Cornellians. Watch for the current issue containing Dr. Farrand's interesting article on Cornell's greatest problem. J. DuPRATT WHIfE, '90 President of the Cornellian Council and Chairman of the Trustees' Committee on Buildings and Grounds. CHARLES D. BOSTWICK, '92 Comptroller of the University. ROMEYN BERRY, '04 Graduate Manager of Athletics. DEXTER S. KIMBALL, Dean of the College of Engineering. HAROLD D. NORTH, '07 Called Cornell's livest-wire alum- 132 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS FACULTY NOTES PROFESSOR JAMES M. BOYLE of the College of Agriculture is oneof fourteen professors of economics who are said to have filed affidavits declaring that the enforcement of the Federal act regulating trading in grain futures would be harmful to the farmer. PROFESSOR ARTHUR A. ALLEN Ό8 has prepared an illustrated lecture on the bird life of Indiana which is being used \>γ the Department of Conservation of that State. PRESIDENT FARRAND hasbeen appointed a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York to succeed Dr. James R. Day, former chancellor of Syracuse University. The Regents' Board is concerned with the entire educational system of the State of New York. DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL has been named as director of Ithaca's current Community Chest Drive for the University. Robert H. Treman '78 is general director for Ithaca and Professor Bristow Adams is in charge of publicity and advertising. PROFESSOR MILLARD V. ATWOOD Ί O went to Jacksonville, Florida, to act as judge in the State newspaper contest at the State Fair in that city on November 24. PROFESSORS HERBERT C. ELMER ^ 3 , Charles L. Durham '99, and Horace L. Jones '09 will represent Cornell at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association to be held atNew Haven during the Christmas recess, under the auspices of Yale University. PROFESSOR FLOYD K. RICHTMYER '04, in an address given before the Optical Society of America in Washington on October 26, advanced the theory that flowers attract insects by means of light rays invisible tothe human eye. PROFESSORS MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER '09 and Flora Rose spoke before the New Century Club of Utica on November 14, on the relation of home economics to a liberal education. PROFESSOR EDWIN W. KEMMERER, Ph.D. '03, now of Princeton, predicted that prices in general will decrease but not to pre-war levels, speaking before the monthly meeting of the" Rochester Credit Men's Association on November16. PROFESSOR ELMER S. SAVAGE, Ph.D. Ί i , who is spending his sabbatical leave at the University of Wisconsin, led discussions of feeding at the annualconvention of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association held at Madison the last week of October. He is giving at Wisconsin a course infeeds and feeding, similar tothat given here. VISIT THE UNION R. H. Simpson, executive secretary of the British Division of the American University Union, writes to point out that Cornell contributes to the Union and to invite undergraduates and alumni traveling in Europe to make use of its services. He says: "The American University Union, British Division, at 50, Russell Square, around the corner from the British Museum, is the headquarters in England of visiting American college men and women, who are invited to register immediately upon their arrival in London. Lists of lodgings, guide books, directories, public announcements andthe catalogues of British and American Universities may be freely consulted here. The Director andhis assistants are prepared also to put visiting students inpersonal touch with university and college officers and teachers anywhere in the United Kingdom and to secure admission to libraries including that of the British Museum and the Bodleian Library at Oxford." FARRAND FAVORS ACTION President Farrand characteristically expressed himself as in favor of a continuously constructive policy for the American Red Cross in the debate on the function of the organization at its last convention in Washington, according to reports. The following is from the editorial page of The Survey for November 1: "But the debate was notreally postulated on uncertainty as to the facts, nor on any widespread disagreement within the organization. True, one or two members of the Central Committee urged a return to the concept of the Red Cross which hadbeen held before thewar and which still seemed to them fundamentally sound. They would have the Red Cross simply a great reserve corps, springing into activity at every disaster, but confining itself at other times strictly to those functions which offered preparation for disaster relief. Butthe chapter delegates regarded the Red Cross as committed to a continuous local health and welfare service, and applauded enthusiastically when Livingston Farrand, now president of Cornell University, declared that the essence of vitality is activity, and claimed for the Red Cross a share in the prevention and remedy of those "continuing disasters which menace American health." A FRIENDSHIP FUND DRIVE was started among thewomen of theUniversity at a mass meeting held in Sibley Dome on November 21, to raise funds forthe alleviation of the grave conditions under which students in Russia and Central Europe prosecute their studies. Funds donated are tobeadministered through the nationwide Student Relief Committee. Carol Lester '24 of Seneca Falls, New York, has been named chairman of the drive. OBITUARY Mrs. Marcella J. Green Mrs. Marcella J. Green died on November 21 at the home of herdaughter, Mrs. Ruby Green Smith, Ph.D. '14, the wife of the former Acting President of the University. Burial was in her old home in Knightstown, Ind. Besides Mrs. Smith, she leaves a son, Ralph W. Green '12, and another daughter, L. Perle Green. S. August Kalberg '09 S. August Kalberg died on November 6 in Worcester, Mass. Kalberg was born on September 20, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Kalberg. He prepared for college at the New Britain, Conn., High School, entering Cornell in 1905 in the course in civil engineering. He left in 1907, butreturned the following year, receiving the degree of C. E.in 1910. For a year after his graduation he was with the Berlin Construction Company of Berlin, Conn.; then he became associated with Stone and Webster, and was located in Keokuk, Iowa. For several years he had been with F. T. Ley and Company in Springfield, Mass. He was a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church, New Britain Lodge, B. O.P.E., and the Masonic Order. Eleanor T. Long Ί 5 Miss Eleanor Tatum Long died suddenly on November 13 at her home in Chicago. Miss Long was born April 2, 1880, and was the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Tatum Long of Ithaca. She prepared at Miss Armstrong's School, and attended the University of Cincinnati, entering Cornell in 1913, and receiving the degree of A.B. in February, 1915. Edmund J. Hutchinson'18 Edmund James Hutchinson died suddenly on November 24 at his home on Cayuga Heights, Ithaca. Hutchinson was born on November 11, 1895, the son of Mr.and Mrs. Peter T. Hutchinson of Ithaca. He attended the Ithaca High School, and entered the University in 1914in the course in arts. He remained three years, and was a member of the Glee Club and the Varsity Basketball Team. Then he attendedthe Springfield Training College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Physical Education in 1921. Last June he received the degree of B. S. at Tufts College, where hehad spent a year. Hehad been instructor in physical education at Harvard for a year, and for the past two years was instructor in physical education at Cornell. He was married on May 2, 1922, to Frances Louise Griswold '22, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Griswold of Lahore, India. Besides his widow he leaves his parents and a sister, Mrs Bessie Jewett of. Rochester, N. Y. Holmes B. Smale '25 Holmes Bailey Smale, of Washington CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 133 D. C , a sophomore in the School of Mechanical Engineering, was killed in an automobile accident near Foster, Pa.,on November 9. Smale, with three companions whowere residents of Washington, left Ithaca on November 8, intending to spend the week-end at their homes. The roads were wet, and their car suddenly left the highway, plunging over a fortyfoot embankment. Theothers were uninjured. Smale was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Smale, and received preparatory education inWashington. While in college he was a member of the Pistol Team and the Freshman Rifle Team. DETROIT SEES CORNELL MOVIES The Cornell men of Detroit and environs (officially, the Cornell University Association of Michigan) metat the University Club on November 23 to enjoy two reels of moving pictures sent on from Ithaca, to shoot dominoes and a baseball game played with dice, and to alter their constitution a bit. It was one of the best meetings yet held in Detroit, with many men in evidence who cannot attend the weekly luncheons. The constitution was changed to provide for a board of directors. To make more feasible the coordination of the work of succeeding years, provision was made for the inclusion onthe board of the past president. LITERARY REVIEW Early Icelandic Books Icelandic Books of the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700. By Halldor Hermannsson. Ithaca. Cornell University Library. 1922. 25.7 cm., pp. [8] xiv, 121. Plate and facsims. Islandica xiv. Price, $2. The volume now added to the series of Islandica is in every wayworthy to stand with its predecessors. There is the same accuracy of statement, the same fullness of knowledge, the same neatness and pleasing arrangement of materials. In volume ix of the series, published in 1916, Professor Hermannsson studied the Icelandic books of the sixteenth century. He now describes those of the seventeenth century, recording 255 items, of which134 were published at Hόlar, 62 at Skalholt, 27 at Copenhagen, 17at Upsala, and 5 at Hamburg. These consisted chiefly of religious works, but included a few school books, editions of sagas, and calendars. No legal works appear, although such books were second in importance only to religious works. There is also scarcely a trace of secular poetry. The poems of Stefan Olafsson were for the most part printed later. Notable among the religious works are Martin Moller's "Soliloquy Concerning the Passion of Jesus Christ/' of which four editions are re- corded (also a verse rendering) and "Manual Concerning Preparation for Death," of which there are three editions; and Johann Gerhard's "Sacred Meditations," of which there are five editions, and of which Sigurthur Jόnsson's poetic rendering went through four editions in this century. These books had a wide influence on the religious views of Iceland. There is only one edition of Snorri's Edda, that printed at Copenhagen in 1665. The chief press, as noted above, was that at Hόlar, managed during the first quarter of the century by Bishop Guthbrandur Thorlaksson and from 1628 to 1654 by Bishop Thorlάkur Skύlason. Chief among the books of his time was the Bible which took seven years to print (1637-44). From 1654 to 1685 the press was conducted by Bishop Gisli Thorlaksson,who published some forty-five books. From 1685 to 1703 theHόlar press was located at Skalholt, andthe story of its travels forms an interesting episode inthe history of Icelandic printing, well narrated by Hermannsson in his introduction. Books and Magazine Articles Stephen G. Rich, A. M. '15, writes in Education for November on "The Need for Techniques of School Discipline." In The DetroitFree Press for October22 Mrs. Banning's "Spellbinders" is reviewed with a portrait of the author, as is also Roland Hugins's "Grover Cleveland." Lang's Palace Garage Situated in the center of Ithaca. Commodious and fully equipped. Open day and night. Absolutely fireproof. A full stock of tires, tubes, and everything in the line of sundries. Agents for CADILLAC HUPMOBILE PAIGE REO OVERLAND WILLYS KNIGHT OAKLAND J. B. Lang Engine and Garage Co. 117-119 EAST GREEN ST. ITHACA, N. Y. William H. Morrison '90 Ernest D. Button '99 134 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS In the November 22 Era Mary G. Willcox '23 has a story entitled "Iron Bars," based on some letters byCatherine ALUMNI NOTES Breshkovsky, the "Little Grandmother" of the Russian Revolution. In The Sibley Journal of Engineering for October Dean Dexter S. Kimball writes on "The Content of a Liberal Education." It isan abstract ofhis commencement address at theCalifornia Institute of Technology at Pasadena in June. '97 BL—Justin A. Seubert has severed his connection with Justin Seubert, Inc., and may now be addressed at Skaneateles, N. Y. '98 LLB—Daniel A. Reed was reelected Congressman from the 43d district of New York at the recent election. Charles B. Benson '17writes on"Intelli- '01, '02 MD—A daughter was born on gence Tests in the Engineering College." October 28 to Dr. and Mrs. Royden M. Professor Ora S. Morgan, Ph.D.'09, Vose of Ithaca. of Columbia, is one of the authors of an '03; '16 BArch—Towner K. Webster, article on "The Study of Agriculture at father of Towner K. Webster, Jr., '03 and Columbia" in The Columbia Alumni Maurice H. Webster Ί 6 , died inthe City News for November17. Hospital, Evanston, 111., on October 11, The State College News (NewYork State College for Teachers, Albany) for November 16 publishes an extended report of an address delivered on November 8 before the Political Science Club of the college by Professor Joseph V. Deporte, Ph.D. Ί 6 , on "Russia in Europe." The frontispiece of The Cornell Countryman for November consists of scenes by Albert W. Force '21 to illustrate lineson "The Thankful Heart" by Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey. Flora M. Thurston, of the extension staff, writes on "Better Nutrition for Children." Professor Bristow Adams discusses, "Methods of Teaching following an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Webster was born in Ithaca, in 1849, and had been a leader in manufacturing and civic circles inChicago and Evanston for the past fifty years. Besides these two sons, he leaves his widow, two daughters, Josephine Haviland, the wife of Walter A. Strong, business manager of The Chicago Daily News, and Henrietta Seymour, the wife of Arthur W. Bass, and two other sons, Henry Kitchell Webster, well known novelist, and Ronald Fabius Webster. '03 ME—Clarence L. Gillespie is president of the Texas Carnegie Steel Association, Galveston, Texas. Agricultural Journalism." '05—George R. McDermott, Jr., is In The Cornell Civil Engineer for November Arthur W. Engel '09 writes on "Stresses in a Roof Truss." There are assistant chief engineer with the Illinois Steel Company of Chicago, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. obituary notices on Charles W. Wasson Ί o AB—Professor Millard V. Atwood, '72, Frank E. Bissell '79, and Harold B. publisher of The Groton Journal and Stevens '02. Courier and The Weekly Ithacan, has re- In The Hibbert Journal for October cently p u r c h a s e d TheDryden-Freeville Professor James Moffatt, lecturer on moral philosophy and Christian ethics Ί o CE—A daughter, Barbara Louise, here in 1905-6, writes on "Dickensand was born on April 12 to Mr. and Mrs. John Meredith." S. Longwell of Powell, Wyoming. Long- In The New York Times for November 18 Dr.Louis L. Seaman '72 writes on "Unfit Chauffeurs." In the issue for well is manager of the Shoshone Irrigation Project of the United States Reclamation Service. November 25 Stephen G. Rich, A. M. Ί o CE—Thomas W. Barnes is associated '15, writes on "The Collector." in business with W. F.Hebard under the The Open Court for October includes a firm name of W. F. Hebard and Company; trenchant article entitled "The New they are distributors for Baker industrial Literature of Approach" by C. Roland tractors and trucks and the "shop-mule" Hugins Ί i ; in it hereviews Esme Wing- as well as several other lines of material, field-Stratford's "Facing Reality," Alfred handling equipment. His business adKorzybski's "The Manhood of Humanity," dress is 319 North Michigan Avenue, James H. Robinson's "Mind in the Mak- Chicago. ing," and Walter Lippman's "Public Ί i CE—Samuel A. Graham, who re- Opinion." cently returned with his wife from Sydney, The following theses have lately been published: "A Study, by the Crop Survey Method, of Factors Influencing the Yield of Potatoes" by Earl V. Hardenburg '12, Ph.D. '19, as Cornell University Extension Memoir No. 57;"Studies onInsects Affecting the Fruit of the Apple with Particular Reference to the Characteristics of the Resulting Scabs" by Harry Australia, where he hadspent the past three years as manager of the Tanners' Trading Company of Australia, Ltd., has severed his connection with that company to become associated with the Certainteed Products Corporation, with office in the Woolworth Building, New York. His address is in care of Mr. William Allan, 136 West Seventy-ninth Street, New York. H. Knight '14, Ph.D. '20, as Bulletin 410 Ί i AB, Ί 3 LLB—At the meeting of of the Agricultural Experiment Station. the Tompkins County Board of Super- visors held onNovember 16, E. Morgan St. John, Supervisor from the Third Ward, was reelected chairman of the Board. St. John is practicing law in Ithaca, and will move his office on- December 1 from the Savings Bank Building to 220 North Tioga Street. Ί i LLB—A daughter was born on October 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Mintz, i n Brandon Place, Ithaca. '12 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Horace B. Nye announce the birth of their daughter, Jean Margaret, on October 17. Their residence address is changed to 11 West Street, Oneonta, N. Y. '13 BS, '14 MLD—Mrs. Ira George Marvin of Kingston, Pa., announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Gertrude Ahlborn Marvin '13, to Mr. A. Allen Woodruff on October 28. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff will beat home after December 15 at 5368 Magnolia Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. '13 CE—Harvey T. Munn is with the National Board of Fire Underwriters, 76 William Street, New York. '13 BS—Leslie S. Ace has purchased a 275-acre dairy farm two miles north of Richmond, Va., where the price received by the producer for milk is the highest in the United States. He has sixty cows and thirty-one heifers, one third of which are pure-breds, seven mules, a tractor, and a complete equipment of buildings and machinery. '14 BS—Carl L. Masters '14was married on June 19to Miss Cecile Bradford Reed of Brooklyn, and they are living at 36 Area R, Nitro, W.Va.Masters is vicepresident and general manager of the Southern Dyestuffs Company, 25 West Forty-third Street, New York. '14 LLB—David Cohen is with Hedges, Ely and Frankel, attorneys, 165 Broadway, New York. Ί4-5 Grad; '19 AB—The marriage of David B. Greenberg, Ί4-5 Grad, of New York and Miss Marian Gerber '19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Gerber of Phildaelphia, took place onMarch 22. Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg spent their wedding trip abroad, and arenow living at 385 Central Park West, New York. '15 CE—Charles F. Starr is chief engineer with the Genesee Bridge Company, Rochester, N. Y. He lives at 147Penhurst Street. ' 15 AB—Clement L. Speiden is secretary and assistant treasurer of Innis, Speiden and Company, Inc., chemical manufacturers and importers, 46 Cliff Street, New York. He is to be married in May to Miss Louise Hyde Valentine (Vassar '20), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Valentine of Chappaqua, N.Y. '15 ME—Ruldolph L. Cullum is with the Turner Construction Company, 1713 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ' 15—Clayton W. Beebe is paymaster in the Buffalo branch of the Standard Oil CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 135 Company of New York. He lives at 456 Fillmore Avenue, East Aurora, N. Y. '15 AB—A son, Spafford Harris, was born on November 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Clapp of Tampa, Florida. '15 BS— John P. Watson is with the Hudson Coal Company, 434 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pa. Ί 6 BS—Miss Helen Spalding is landscape architect for The House Beautiful, 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass; she lives at 95 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. Ί 6 BChem—George S. Babcock has left the National Aniline and Chemical Company of Marcus Hook, Pa., and is now chemical engineer with the Atlantic Dyestuffs Company of Portsmouth, N. H. '16 AB, '22 PhD—Herbert A. Wichelns is an instructor in public speaking in Washington Square College, NewYork University. Ί 6 AM—Miss Christine Hammer holds a scholarship in English at Bryn Mawr, her alma mater, and is living in Denbigh Hall, Bryn Mawr. She is particularly interested inIrish and Latin texts, according to an item in The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin for November, and hopes to do research work in this special field. '16 BS—Lewis R. Hart Ί 6 and Miss Eloise Ruth Hollister, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Hollister of Cortland, N. Y. were married on September 12 and are living in Presque Isle, Maine. '16—Miss Betty Eggleston Seelye Ί 6 , daughter of Mrs. Elwyn Seelye and the late Elwyn Seelye, formerly of Ithaca, was married on November 11 to H. W. Branson, a graduate of the University of Michigan. They will make their homein Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where Mr. Branson is employed by the A. C.Dutton Lumber Corporation. Mrs. Branson is also a graduate of theUniversity of Michigan, and has been engaged as a newspaper correspondent. '17, '20 BS—Miss Esther C. DeGraff is teacher of home economics in the Central High School, Erie, Pa. Heraddress is changed to 923 Chestnut Street, Erie. '17 BS; '21—A daughter, Elizabeth Kennedy, was born on September 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Lyster M. Hetheringtonof Foochow, China. Mrs. Hetherington was formerly Miss Marian F. Kennedy '21, of Ithaca. '17 BS, Ί 8 MSA; Ί 8 AB— Mr.and Mrs. George Haines (Helena J. Jenanyan Ί8) of Hyattsville, Md., announce the birth of their son,Charles Edward, on June 24. Ί 8 , '19 BS; '19 BS—Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hillas (Dorothy W. Purdy Ί8), of Morristown, N. J., announce the birth of their son, Kenneth McLean, on November 14. Ί 8 , '20 BS; '19 AB—Miss Grace M. Granville '19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Granville ofIthaca, and Edmund McGranaghan Ί 8 , of Olean, N.Y., were married on September 21 in St. Bernard's Church, NewYork. They are making their home in Olean. Ί 8 , '20 BS—Donald D. Ballard is combustion engineer with the Standard Oil Company, at Baltimore, Md. He lives at 1620 Mount Royal Avenue. '19, '20 BS; '22 AB—The marriage of Miss Mary Pullman Porter '22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Porter of New Rochelle, and George Eugene Durham '19, took place onNovember 30 in St. John's M. E. Church, New Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Durham will live in St.Louis. '19 BS—John H. LaWare is with the Dry Milk Company, Hagerstown, Md. '19, '20 BChem—Edmond N. Carples is a methods engineer in the methods department of the Western Electric Company, Inc., New York. Hisnewresidence address is 974 St. Nicholas Ave., New York. '19 BS—Miss Dorothy L. Chapman is teaching domestic science in the Mayflower School, New Rochelle, N. Y. She lives at 123 Lockwood Avenue. '19 AB—Miss Ruth W. Bradley has been accepted by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and has been sent to Colombia, South America, where she will teach in the Girls' Boarding School at Barranquilla. Her address is Apartado 100, Barranquilla. '19 AB—Miss Jeanette Heertje '19 was married on June 8 to John C. Moriarty; Troy's Cornell Art Calendar 1923 Brings the Message of Christmas and the Spirit of Cornell The twelve pages of new feature pictures, representative of the twelve months, are beautifully engraved induotone, and they depict life at Cornell during the year. They include several panoramic views. The cover picture, a new view on the quadrangle, is unusually effective. As the orders todate forthis calendar are far inexcess of any previously published, you may be assured of itsartistic merit. The calendar may besent toany address as a Christmas gift with the giver's card enclosed- Price, including postage,$1.59 / . P. TROY Sibley College ITHACA, N. Y. 136 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS their present address is South Elm Street, Waterbury, Conn. '20 AB—Bernard H. Lefkowitz has entered the School of Dentistry of the University of Pennsylvania, andhe lives at 4041 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. '20, '21 BS; '20 AB,AM—Mr. and Mrs. D. Victor Lumsden (Florence M. Dill '20) are now living at 3220 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C. '21 ME—Leon Buehler, Jr., is in the estimating department of The Frick Company, Waynesboro, Pa. '21 AB;'21, '22 AB; '22 AB; '22 AB; '22 AB—Albert J. Ward '21, E. Kenneth Horton '21, William L. Watson ^22,James C. Carver '22, and Preston A. Wade ^22 are living at 132J East Thirty-fifth Street, New York. '21 AB—Miss Gertrude C. Hazzard is teacher of mathematics and science in the Mahopac High School, Lake Mahopac, N. Y. She is living with her parents, the Rev. andMrs. H. Hazzard, in Brewster, N. Y., nine miles from Mahopac. '22 ME—Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Gladys Oswalt, of San Diego, Calif., and Walter Richard Prosch '22, of Newark, N. J. Prosch is now in the Cleveland sales office of the Niles-Bement-Pond Company, and he lives at 1454 East Ninety-second Street. '22 MS—Fred Schmidt Hoefer '22 and Miss Clara F. Hile were married inIthaca on October 19, and are living at 115 Giles Street. Hoefer received his B. S. degree at Clemsen College; heis aninstructor in the School of Electrical Engineering. '22 AB—George H. Thornton is with t h e Thornton-Fuller Automobile Company, Dodge dealers in Philadelphia and vicinity. His home is inWayne, Pa. '22 BS—Nathaniel A. Talmage has been working on his brother's potato and cauliflower farm at Riverhead, N.Y., and he expects to enter the Eastman Business College in December to take a threemonths' course. '22 BS—Elmer B. Wixom is chemistfor the Beacon Milling Company, Cayuga, N. Y. '22 EE—Leo J. Dicianne is with the Wagner Electric Company, 5929 Bartmer Avenue, St.Louis, Mo. '22 AB—Miss Ruth W. Northrup recently accepted a position in the accounting department of the Crouse-Hinds Company, and she is rooming atthe Y.W.C.A., 339 East Onondaga Street, Syracuse, N. Y. '22 AB—Melvin G. Preston is attending the Cornell Medical College in New York. ^22 CE—Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Mildred M. Schory (Ohio State University '23) and G. Milton Benson '22, of Baltimore, Md. Benson is engaged in design and drafting work in the Department of Bridge Engi- neering, Central Office, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore, and his residence address is changed to Mayfield Terrace, Halethorpe, Md. '22 ME—William B. McMillan returned from Europe on September 20and is now associated in business with his father in the firm of W. McMillan and Son, building stone, 10 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, 111. '22 ME—Myron E. Steczynski is an instructor in machine design in the University. He lives at 210College Avenue. '22 EE—Seymour L. Baum is in the distribution department of the New York Edison Company; during the summer he was with thePhiladelphia Electric Company. His home is at89 Chauncey Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. '22 ME—Murray G. Waters ismechanical appraiser with the American Appraisal Company, Milwaukee, Wis. He is a first lieutenant in the Air Service Reserve Corps and "spent a very enjoyable and beneficial forty-five days on active duty with the Air Service atLangley Field, Va., this summer. Urge all reserve officers from the Hill to get called out each summer— they'll like it." His mail address is 1601 Park Place, Baltimore, Md. '22 BChem—Joseph I. Culver is assistant chemist with the Trico Chemical Company of Buffalo, manufacturers of sulphur dyes. In thenear future he will represent the company among the textile mills of the country. '21 ME—William D. Ellis is assistant superintendent of the Valley Waste Mills; he lives at 801 Forest Avenue, LaGrange, Ga. '21 BS—F. Allen Wickes is teaching agriculture in the Spencerport, N. Y., High School. He managed a farm in Victor, N. Y., until last January, returning to the University for the second term and summer session. '21 AB—Elwyn B. White is a reporter on The Seattle Times, and he lives at 1222 Seventeenth Avenue, North, Seattle, Wash. '21 BS—Miss Fleta W. Huff is supervisor of homemaking inthe public schools of Medina, N. Y. Her mailing address is 818 West Center Street, Medina. '21 LLB—Alfred J. Peer is associated with the law firm of Heine, Bostwick and Bradner, Kinney Building, Newark, N. J. His residence address is 79 South Clinton Street, East Orange, N. J. '21—Milford D. de Forest is in charge of the department of poultry in Oakland City College, Oakland City, Ind. '22 BArch—Henry O. Chapman, Jr. is an architectural draftsman with John' Russell Pope, architect, 17 West Fortysixth Street, New York. His residence address is Woodmere, Long Island. '22—Joseph H. Washburn is with the Automatic Electric Company. With headquarters in Chicago, he is installing automatic telephone exchanges in that vicinity. Hisaddress is Installation Department, Automatic Electric Company, 1001 West Van Buren Street, Chicago. '22 ME—Samuel M. Newton is with the Ingersoll-Rand Company, stationed at Cameron steam pump works of the company, n Broadway, New York. He writes that in the Ingersoll-Rand plant at Easton, Pa., there are several '22men, including H. Torrey Foster, Harry D. Horton, Victor J. Snyder, and Philip C. Clark. f22 EE—Howard L. Harrington is assistant to the welding engineer of the United States Light and Heat Corporation of Niagara Falls, N. Y. He lives with his mother at 1036 Niagara Avenue. '22 BFA—Robert Collyer Washburn is spending a year abroad, studying painting. He may be addressed in care of the Guaranty Trust Company, Paris. '22 AB—Mr. and Mrs. James E. Watt of Ithaca have announced the engagement of their niece, Miss E. Adelaide Goff '22, to Richard Wainwright Wyse (Trinity College '19), of Garden City, Long Island. NEW MAILING ADDRESSES '98—Wilton Bentley, 40 Euclid Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. '02—Joseph B. Weaver, The Parkway Hotel, Chicago, 111. '09—Miss Ethel Davis, 244East Main Street, Dansville, Ind.—Lockwood Hill, 5273 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo. Ίi—Miss Harriet N. Bircholdt, Apartment 2-H, 2500 University Avenue, New York. '13—Harry E. Southard, Box 857, Enid, Okla. '14—John H. Mcllvaine, 60 Scott Street, Chicago, 111. Ί6—Dr. Daniel C. Darrow, New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.— Albert Hoefer, Lake and Warren Avenues, Sycaway, Troy, N.Y.—Birge W. Kinne, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York. '17—A. Vernon Jannotta, 50 West Shiller Street, Chicago, 111. '18—Richard P. Matthiessen, 780 Lincoln Road, Winnetka, 111.—William W. G. Moπ, Papaikou, Hawaii, T. H.—Miss Bertha Wilder, 93 Waban Hill Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass. '20—Llewellyn P. Evans, 2407 Davenport Street, Omaha, Nebr.—Edward L. Solomon, 5611 Wilkins Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.—Walter H. Stubenrauch, 1028 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa. '21—Egbert W. Carrier, 304 Garfield Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y.—Miss Martha E. Martin, 41 East William Street, Corning, N. Y. '22—Arthur M. Bladen, 241 North Parkside Avenue, Austin Station, Chicago, 111.—Miss Helen Kinney, 1809 Beverly Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Carl V. Linn, Islip, Long Island. CORNELLALUMNI NEWS graving-Serviced Library Building, 123 N. Tίo$a Street E. H. WANZER The Grocer Successor to Wanzer & Howell Quality—Service R. A. Heggie & Bro. Co. Fraternity Jewelers Ithaca New York THE SENATE Solves the Problem for Alumni A Good Restaurant MARTIN T.GIBBONS Proprietor VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR Maple Syrup and Maple Cream. Sold for Smith College Endowment Fund by Mrs. M. B. 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BRYANT '97 '98 Master Patent Law '08 Patents and Trade Marks exclusively 310-313 Victor Building CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS A Christmas Item toKeep in Mind T l / Ή I T M A N ' S candy is one of the best * ^ known makes. The "Sampler" hardly needs introducing to discriminating candy buyers. The "Shield" chocolates arethe same quality as the"Sampler" but area different assortment. It is very well liked by students. The price is $1.25 per pound postage paid. Sold in 1, 2, 3 and 5pound boxes. Concerning Cornell" One of the gift books of the season is the leather bound "CONCERNING CORNELL" written by O. D. von Engeln. A very interesting story about a thing in which you are much interested. CORNELL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY MORRILL HALL, ITHACA, N. Y.