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PUBLIC LIBRARY New York City ARTHUR CASSOT, PROPRIETOR Established in 1888 MAYERS Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco and a full line of SMOKERS' SUPPLIES ITHACA TRUST COMPANY ITHACA, NEW YORK ASSETS TWO MILLION DOLLARS Courteous Treatment Every Facility CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XVIIL, N O . 10 ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER 2, 1915 PRICE 10 CENTS E GAME at Philadelphia was the occasion for a great gathering of Cornellians. A graduate from Ithaca who has been attending games and regattas for thirty-five years said he never saw so many Cornell men in one place before. The oldest graduate he met there was a 72 man from Jamestown, N. Y. He met an '81 man who lives in St. Paul and who had come all the way from Winnipeg to see the game. Six men had traveled from Omaha and two had come from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to see the 1915 eleven in action. There may have been men there who had made longer journeys, but if there were this particular graduate did not happen to meet them. THE UNDERGRADUATES were strongly represented at the game, for a good many tarinloads of them had gone from Ithaca in spite of the shortening of the Thanksgiving recess to a single day. There were enough left in Ithaca to pack Bailey Hall to the doors and to the wings of the stage at twenty-five cents apiece to hear the returns. The money goes to the Inter college Rowing Association. Mr. Quarles was there to play the organ, aand Ernest Button '99 and Ralph Rodgers '04, led the singing. After Cornell's first touchdown they started "The Big Red Team" and Bang! almost the very next bulletin was a Pennsylvania touchdown. During the third period, when Pennsylvania was ahead, the strain was pretty severe on the crowd in the hall, but they tried to keep up their courage by cheering and singing. The messenger who came upon the stage with the news of Barrett's touchdown in the fourth period wore a smile so wide that the smile told the news, and all he could do in the uproar was to nod his head. TOUCHDOWN, the football team's bear mascot, was again very much in the public eye at Philadelphia. Before the game he was introduced to the Pennsylvania eleven's mascot, a wolf dog of the "husky" type, and caused some excitement by landing a sudden cuff on his rival's head. He was called off, and made his next appearance between the halves. Led out to one of the goals, he clambered part way up one of the up- rights, but refused to climb as high as the cross-bar despite continued urging. His failure to make the distance was greeted with a shout from the Pennsylvania stands and was evidently regarded as a bad omen for Cornell. The bear has grown so much this fall that he is getting to be an elephant on the hands of the football management, and an effort was made to sell him after the Pennsylvania game. The New York Zoo is said to have refused to purchase "the best known bear in America." He is in Ithaca now awaiting further developments. THE BAND, sent to Philadelphia by popular subscription, made a hit at the game by playing the new song "Cornell Victorious," written by S. H. Ayer '14. After the game the march around the field was led by the band and hundreds of hats were thrown over the posts. STUDENT ATTENDANCE at classes on Friday and Saturday is reported unofficially to have been good, and seems to have established the success of the one-day vacation for Thanksgiving. The number of undergraduates who made the trip to Philadelphia for the football game did not appear to be materially less than in other years, but a large number returned to Ithaca Thursday night. Both the Lehigh and the Lackawanna ran several trains leaving Phildaelphia for Ithaca after the game, the last one leaving at 12:30 and arriving in Ithaca in time for a ten o'clock on the hill. THEODORE E. BURTON, former United States Senator from Ohio, was on this week's University calendar for a lecture on the Goldwin Smith Foundation. His subject was "1915 and after." It was decided, with Mr. Burton's consent, to have this lecture given in Bailey Hall at noon on Wednesday and to make that hour one of the convocation hours. That is to say, all regular University exercises were to be suspended from 12 to 1 o'clock. AMONG THE LECTURES of this week were: "The Canadian Rockies and their flowers," by Mr. A. C. Hottes of the department of floriculture, before the Lazy Club; " M a e t e r l i n c k " by Professor Schmidt, before the Ethics Club; "The Throne of Satan," one of the public series in classical archaeology and art, by Professor E. P. Andrews; "Caesar and Cicero," by Professor Sill, in the course on the history of civilization, and the regular Schiff lectures on international economics by Professor Moritz J. Bonn of the University of Munich. PRESIDENT WHITE drove to Homer, his native town, last Saturday in his motor can and attended a reception which was given in his honor at the Homer Hospital. He then made a gift of money to the hospital for the purpose of furnishing a sun parlor as a memorial of his mother. A memorial tablet and portraits of Mr. White and his mother are to be placed in the parlor. Mr. White gave a short talk in which he recalled incidents of his boyhood in the village of Homer. Responses were made by the president of the village, the pastor of the church in which Mr. White was baptized, and others. A CELEBRATION of "electrical prosperity week" will be held by the Ithaca section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in co-operation with the department of home economics, in Franklin Hall to-morrow evening, December 3. There will be a demonstration of domestic electrical devices, and short talks on the use of electricity in the household. HEADLINES in the Sun last Monday morning marked the close of one grand division of the undergraduate calendar and the beginning of another. They were: "Board track work for winter to start today;" "Swimming practice will start tonight;" "Basketball squad will resume work tonight;" "First call for hockey candidates tomorrow." THE HOUSE was well filled at the joint concert of the Pennsylvania and Cornell musical clubs in Philadelphia on the night jDefore the game. The Cornell clubs will now begin rehearsals for the Christmas tour. A LECTURE on "the esthetic appeal of medieval architecture" will be given by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, of Yale University, in Goldwin Smith Hall next Saturday at noon. 114 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS THE UNIVERSITY'S QUARRY NEAR THE LIBRARY SLOPE From this iquarry is obtained thestone for thenew dormitories and the drill liall. Theview is from the corner of West and University Avenues toward the Library. The rock hasbeen cutdown tothe level of West Avenue. In places thecliff is more than twenty feet high. The cliff is likely tobe more picturesque than the former slope was. Photograph by John R. Spires, jr. Officer Reserve for theArmy million men at least 60,000 citizen officers "During thesecond year's trainingall Plan of the War Department to Utilize would be required and these cannotbe those qualifying for thereserve should the Land-Grant Colleges supplied by West Point, which turns out receive an allowance of $15a month for According to the Washington correspondence of the New York Evening Post, theSecretary of Waris evolving a plan to utilize the land-grant colleges to provide a reserve of citizen officers for the army. He is said to have estimated that these colleges arecapable ofturning out at least 2,500 men a year of the grade of first orsecond lieutenant in the army for an estimated expense of not about 115 officers annually, nor by the private military academies, which turn out approximately an equal number. The Post continues: "Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, has been co-operating with theWarDepartment in evolving a plan for the utilization ofthis 'natural resource.' According to a memorandum prepared under Mr. Vrooman's direction, the United States the nine months' school year, all passing the regulation test at the end of the school year to be assigned to military camp for three months' training on full pay of second lieutenant and with regulation equipment furnished by the War Department, commission as second lieutenant to be awarded attheclose of this camp training. This three months' camp training will follow the close ofthe school year, sothat students having fur- more than $3,500,000 a year. The Government should provide uniformsfor ther work to do will be free to return money is believed to be necessary to the entire enrolment of students taking for thefall term, andadditional military stimulate students totake the extended military work. Atthe beginning ofeach work may be carried on, if desired. It course of military training which has term volunteers for the officers' reserve is proposed to reserve a certain number been outlined by authorities of the War should be called for, and those volun- of commissions in the regular army for College. Military authorities at Wash- teering should be classed separately, graduates in this three months' .training ington are said tobelieve that this plan given aspecial drill, and at the end of the school, selection to be made on competi- will go far toward solving the problem first year the selection on a competitive tive basis andacceptance voluntary. of how to obtain a sufficient available basis should be made to fill theallot- "At present, students in the fifty landofficer reserve. Fora citizen army of a ment in the reserve for the coming year. grant colleges furnish their own unΐ- 115 forms. Experts here believe that tl Government should buy the outfits, which cost $15 apiece, and which, for 32,000 men, would cost about $480,000; target practice would cost $50,000, and the military training camp would cost, it is estimated, $2,700,000. "The immediate putting into effect of this plan would produce, at a conservative estimate, more than 22,000 reserve officers for the first line by 1924, the number gradually increasing year after year. "Up to the present time the Department practically has ignored the ability of the land grant colleges to furnish material for officers. Good authority has it that the Government has not even on file a list of the graduates of these colleges who have had military training and who might, therefore, be expected to serve in time of trouble." The correspondent quotes from a letter written to President Wilson by President James of Ihe University of Illinois, who asserted that the graduates of the land-grant colleges have a "standard of education fully equal to that of West Point and Annapolis graduates." President James suggested that the time of the. military training in these colleges be extended from three hours to six hours a week and from two years to four years for such students as might volunteer to take the extended training and that the federal government offer $250 a year to such students. He estimated that under some such system the land-grant colleges could furnish every year from two thousand to three thousand graduates worthy of appointment as brevet second lieutenants in the army. At present a commission as second lieutenant in the army is offered each year to one graduate from each of ten military colleges or universities. Ten institutions whose students have exhibited the greatest application and proficiency in military training and knowledge during the year are designated annually as "distinguished colleges." Cornell won that distinction in 1914 and 1915 and with it the privilege of nominating a graduate for a second lieutenant's commission. The men nominated in those years were R. E. J. Summers, C.E. '14, and R. W. Nix, jr., A.B. '15. There was no vacancy for Summers and the year within which he might have been appointed has expired. No vacancy has yet occurred to provide a commission for Nix. THE TRUSTEES* committee on general administration will meet next Saturday. January 3 will be "Barrett Day" in Cleveland. The association is planning a luncheon for Captain Barrett at which it will have the Cornell Musical Clubs and about a hundred students from the Cleveland high schools. ROCHESTER The annual meeting and smoker of the Cornell Club of Rochester will be held at the Hotel Rochester on Saturday night, December 4. Officers will be elected. Professor Dexter S. Kimball, of Sibley College, will be the principal speaker. EASTERN CANADA Members of the Cornell Association of Eastern Canada held their annual American Thanksgiving night meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal and celebrated the team's victory over Pennsylvania. Songs, yells and refreshments made up the program. Much excitement prevailed when the score was received by a direct wire from Philadelphia. Visitors from the American Women's Club of Canada, who were banqueting in the hotel at the same time, were received, and special yells were given for the ladies. After the meeting the members marched down to a banquet held by the American boys of McGill University. After some more cheering and a call by the McGill toastmaster, short speeches were made by A. Savage, B.S.A. (McGill) Ί l , D.V.M. (Cornell) '14; and W. G. Merowit, M.E. Ί l . One of the speakers said the spirit of the meeting was that of neither McGill nor Cornell but of "the land where the eagle screams." Several Cornell Canadians are now at the front. Among them are Gerald Hanson Ί 0 , F. G. Mallock Ί l , G. H. Gordon '05, Norwood Macleod Ί 0 , and O. H. Linton Όβ. BUFFALO Two hundred enthusiastic Cornell men met at the University Club in Buffalo on Saturday night, November 27, for a smoker and a celebration of the football team's successes. Judge Cuthbert W. Pound '87, of the Court of Appeals, spoke on "My knowledge of football," and Daniel A. Reed '98, of t t e coaching staff, told about the building of the Cornell team. Dr. Sharpe had been invited but was unable to accept the invitation. Motion pictures of the team in action were shown. This smoker will be an annual event at the University Club, taking place on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The University Club has adopted the custom of turning over certain evenings during the entertainment season to the alumni of the several colleges represented on its roll. Cornell night was the first of the series. PHILADELPHIA ALUMNAE The Cornell Alumnae Club of Philadelphia will hold a meeting on Saturday afternoon, December 4, at the home of Mrs. Isaac Landmann (Beatrice Eschner Ί0), 4841 Pulaski Avenue, Germantown. SIX ON THIS STAFF There are six Cornell men on the engineering staff of the underwriters' laboratories, which are under the direction of the national board of fire underwriters. The six are all located at the principal office of the laboratories, 207 East Ohio Street, Chicago. They are W. C. Robinson '91, chief engineer; W. G. Howell '90, ,H. B. Freeman Ί 0 , H. H. Allport Ί 2 , F. H. Lockwood Ί 3 , and W. H. Chapman Ί 3 . T H E REV. JAMES G. K. MCCLURE, president of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, will preach in Sage Chapel on December 5. 116 CO From the left of the picture to the right the players Behind the Miller, Anderson, Barrett, Shelton and Shiverick.. and Reed. Cornell's Best I with Victory Pennsylvania Game Won, 24 to 9, L. -. v . ^ χ b x ««α J.ciiυα, uiuc. . ιe Team Overcomes Its Opponent's Lead of Two Points—Expectation of an Easy Victory Disappointed by Penn's Strong Defence • γOR the first time in the history B^*\ of football at this University a Cornell team has finished its season with an unbroken record of victory. The 1915 eleven, led by Charles Barrett, won its ninth straight victory when it defeated the Pennsylvania team on Thanksgiving Day at Philadelphia by the score of 24 to 9. The final game, although it was a stirring contest, was hardly a true climax to the most successful season Cornell has ever had. The Penn eleven was so much stronger than in its earlier games that Cornell looked weak by contrast. The Cornell team disappointed most of its followers for the first three periods, but in the fourth period it discovered a latent superiority over the opposing eleven, and results were not slow in forthcoming. It would not be fair to either team to say that the Cornell team did not play up to its standard, because there is no doubt that the Quaker line was the best Cornell has met this year, with the possible exception of Harvard, and its unexpected strength kept the score down. The plunges outside tackle, the plays on which Cornell has relied all this season, were blocked more successfully by Pennsylvania than by any other team. One or two linemen slipped through on almost every one of these attempts, and crashed into the Cornell interferers with enough force to break up the play. None of Cornell's three touchdowns was scored on off-tackle plunges, and Captain Barrett deserves commendation for changing his tactics at the opportune times. The game was one of those protracted struggles in which two elevens battle evenly, with everything depending on the "break," as baseball writers say. A sudden advantage, well utilized, may turn a close game into an easy victory for one team or another. For three periods Cornell and Pennsylvania fought for the advantage. First Cornell led by a point, then Pennsylvania led by two points, and still the break did not come. Then, just about as the baseball crowd would- have stood up for the "lucky seventh," the opportunity came. At the beginning of the fourth period Cornell had rushed the ball eleven yards to Pennsylvania's 43-yard line. Here Barrett saw his chance. With the Pennsylvania secondary defense playing in close behind the line for some inexplicable reason, he called his own signal on a play at the center of the line. Cool disposed of his opponent and the Cornell captain shot through. Bell and Rockafeller made feeble attempts to stop him, but he sidestepped neatly, and ran to the goal line with nobody ahead of him. Cornell was ahead once more and the time was getting short. The Red and Blue quarterback, Bell, who had displayed excellent generalship, took a long chance. He called for the forward pass which had scored for his team in the second period, but the alertness of Barrett turned this weapon into a boomerang, and gave Cornell another opportunity to score. A long pass was caught by Barrett on Pennsylvania's 35-yard line^ and he carried the ball back to the 20-yard mark before he was brought to the ground. Here one of the virtues of the 1915 Cornell eleven, an ability to take advantage of golden opportunity, made it possible to clinch the game beyond all further doubt. Four line plays carried the ball to the 8-yard mark, and a well CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 117 executed end run by Shiverick scored uprights. Cornell was on the offensive the touchdown. Barrett's wonderful all through thethird period but the drop kick from the 45-yard line ended the scoring soon afterward. Pennsylvania defense was good enough to make first downs impossible when The first period was taken upby a within striking distance ofa touchdown, kicking attack which kept Pennsyl- and Barrett's two dropkicks failed to vania onthe defensive and soon gave score. The game looked all butlost Cornell anopportunity to score. Bar- until the beginning ofthe fourth period, rett's long punt directly after thekick- when Barrett saved the day, asdescribed off rolled out of bounds on the3-yard above. line, and Bell's returning kick did not carry to midfield. Cornell's attempts at rushing were stopped by the Quakers, and thepunting tactics lost ground be- cause of Bell's ability to kick- away from Collins, who was playing backfor Cornell. After two exchanges of punts Cornell began a running attack from her own 43-yard line. A first down by line bucking was followed by a successful forward pass, Barrett toEckley, which put the ball inside the Quakers' 30-yard line. Another first down took theball to the 18-yard line. Three attempts at the Pennsylvania line netted eight yards. Two more yards would have given Cor- nell a first down in the shadow of the posts. Shiverick hurled himself at a mass of Pennsylvania players with such force that they gave way. Thelines- men were called out to decide on the distance, and after considerable measur- ing the ball was given to Pennsylvania. CAPTAIN CHARLES BARRETT Bell immediately punted to his forty Photograph by The Corner Bookstores yard line, and the advance began again. Another forward pass, Barrett to Eckley, had changed goals, and Barrett swung and a nine yard run by Barrett, took around left end for a touchdown from the ball to the 16-yard line. At this the 14-yard line. point the first period ended. Two plays A fumble by Shiverick gave theball were enough to score after the teams to Pennsylvania inmidfield shortly after the next kickoίϊ. A beautiful forward Captain Barrett finished his football career in splendid fashion. He scored eighteen of Cornell's points, and his alertness on defense was remarkable. He intercepted three forward passes. Cool waseasily the best manin the line. When onthe defensive he got his hands on the man with the ball in at least half of the plays. He is the most active center seen on Franklin Field in some time, and his passing was faultless throughout the game. A more finished game than that played by Shelton atleft end can hardly be imagined. Hewas down under Barrett's long kicks with great speed, and his tackles were hard andsure. Until the fourth period Pennsylvania didnot gain a yard in running back punts. In the last period Loucks's two returns were due largely to the failure of theother end toget down with Shelton. Collins made several good gains, especially in returning kickoffs, but his light weight was a handicap against the heavy Penn line. Jameson, the only other senior on the eleven, was kept out ofthe gameby a slight injury. His place atleft tackle was filled byTilley, a substitute guard. {Continued on Page120) pass, Miller to Hopkins, won forty yards, taking the ball to Cornell's 20-yard line. Then came a piece of pure luck. A forward pass thrown by Williams was crossing Cornell's goal line when Shiv- erick gave it a knock. The ball fell into thearms of Bell just ashe fell on the 2-yard line. On the next play Wil- liams wiggled over the line by a few inches. Mathews's attempt at goal failed andCornell was still inthe lead. A mistake in generalship by Captain Barrett gave Pennsylvania an oppor- tunity for the field goal which kept them ahead until the fourth period. When Hawley failed at a field goal, Cornell recovered theball on her 18-yard line. With less than a minute toplay in the first Jialf, Barrett should have punted out ofdanger. Instead hethrew a long forward pass which Rockafeller inter- cepted andranback to the 14-yard COOL Photograph by The Corner Bookstores line. The Quakers lined upquickly and Hawley dropped the ball between the SHELTON Photograph by The Corner Bookstores 118 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS their work. Their stimulus isthe knowl- the class reunions at Ithaca on the lβth edge that the military training they get and 17th. ' A conflict between the re- here is of well nigh professional standard gatta and the reunion might be un- and is making them competent to serve welcome to a good many alumni. 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Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should bemade payable to Cornell Alumni News. Correspondence should be addressed— CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, Ithaca, N.Y. WOODFORD PATTERSON Editor R. A. B. GOODMAN Assistant Editor Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. and should there be a great need for volunteer officers,, it is th'ought that Cornell could be drawn on to furnish a reasonable number." Theconnection between the regular army and these departments of military instruction should be made closer than it is. To enroll at once as officers of an army reserve the college graduates who have attained a certain standard of military training would dignify the military work of the colleges and would tend to make itall the more efficient. And it would serve the country by tending to keep alive the interest of these graduates in their military attainments. Editor, Cornell Alumni News: The present agitation atCornell in the matter of absences before and after vacations leads me tobelieve that a statement of the rule in force at the University of Missouri dealing with this problem may beof interest. A student who absents himself from a class during either of the two days immediately preceding or succeeding a holiday, without satisfactory explanation, is deprived of from one to six hours of credit toward graduation. This rule is simple,universal, practically automatic, and beautifully effective. No ordinary explanations are accepted as satisfactory. Every THERE IS MUCH DISCUSSION just now about the wisdom of military training in the colleges and universities. It is significant that many of the arguments against it come from institutions which do nothave military training. Where students are required to take suchinstruction, as in the land-grant colleges, sentiment seems to be in favor of it. Cornell's experience hasbeen that the student takes great pains to be in his classes before and after holidays, if at no other time, so that comparatively few penalties are inflicted. It is difficult for one who has taught in both institutions to understand howthe chaotic condition in classes before and after holidays should have been tolerated so long at Cornell. Students absent before and after holi- ITHACA, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2,1915 more efficient thetraining is made the days are also subject tothe general rule more interest and pride the students governing absences as follows: A stu- HN article which wereprint from take in it. the New York Evening Post opens up an interesting prospect of greater service by the departments of military science in the land-grantcolleges. The War Department isreported in this article tobelooking tothese colleges for the creation and maintenance of a reserve of citizen officers for the army. Anallowance of money is to be made to encourage students to take an extended course of military training and men who complete the special course are CONGRATULATIONS to the coaches and the eleven on the completion of Cornell's best football season. Especial congratulations to Dr. Sharpe. The third successive victory at Philadelphia proves that he has banished the "Franklin Field hoodoo" if there ever wassuch a thing. Three years ago our football record was a painful subject. This week most of the Eastern critics areranking Cornell atthe top. to be enrolled as lieutenants of the re- THE DATE ofthe Poughkeepsie regatta serve. It is quite possible that the latter next summer may be Saturday, June 17, would be the stronger inducement ofthe a week earlier than usual, onaccount two foryoung men to give themselves to of tidal conditions. The only other this special training. The excellent work practicable day, it is said, would be that has been done in many of these July 1st. The Cornell Faculty has not military departments has had too little yet approved the choice of June 17, alrecognition from the federal government. • though the committee on student affairs The WarDepartment has recognized it was inclined to favor theearlier date, and hasdone what it could to dignify feeling that it would be better to let the students' service. Cornell Univer- the oarsmen take some of their examinasity pays a small salary to officers of the tions at Highland than to ask them to dent is deprived of one hour credit toward- graduation for each total of 17 absences during a semester, or of 26 absences during both semesters together. He loses two credit hours for a totalof 34 absences during both semesters, and an additional hour for each 17 absences beyond 34. A student registering late is reported absent from all class periods prior to hisregistration. The Faculty, in extraordinary cases, may exempt a student from the operation of this rule, which does not apply tostudents absent on university business including athletics. There is no such thing recognized as an "excused" absence for any reason. This rule, too, is effective. It has reduced cutting by at least two-thirds. For example/during the present semester, in one class of 72, meeting five ΐimes a week, there have been in nine weeks17 absences in a possible 3,024, confined to 13 students. ELIAS J. DURAND '93 Columbia, Mo., Nov. 20, 1915. cadet corps, but the salary is not enough to account for the interest and pride which theofficers of thecorps take in stay in harness till July 1st. Commence- Trik MASQUE resumed rehearsals for ment next June will come on the 21st its junior week play this week, under the and the regular program would bring direction of Frank Lea Short. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 119 OBITUARY Morris Ross '70 Morris -Ross, B.S. 70, died at his home in Indianapolis on October 8 after an illness of ten days. Until his last illness he was active an as editorial writer on the Indianapolis News. In company with John A. Rea of the Class of 1869 (who has contributed material for this notice), Mr. Ross arrived in Ithaca two weeks before Inaugural Day, in 1868. At Rea's suggestion he applied for admission to the sophomore class and succeeded in landing in the junior class. He graduated with the late Samuel D. Halliday of Ithaca, who was his most intimate college friend and whose son was named after him. He wrote the class prophecy of '69 for the Weekly Ithacan. It was his first attempt and proved to be the beginning of a successful newspaper career. Rea had been requested by Mr. Cunningham, editor of the Ithacan and later of the New York Evening Post, to write the prophecy and he passed it over to Ross, insisting that the world would never know in his life time who did it. The composition was not in the fine form of his mature work; neither was it a very good guess. Not long after graduation he settled in Indianapolis and for a generation he was a member of the : News staff. He was a native son of Indianapolis and, Mr. Rea writes, he heeded the advice of the Hoosier poet and said: "Right here at home, boys, I guess is the place for me and old happiness." Mr. Rea adds: "He was one of those editors, not too numerous, who always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where he though a flower would grow." Mr. Ross was one of the charter members of the Cornell chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. His wife survives him. Orville A. Derby '73 An Associated Press dispatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, reported the sudden death of Orville Adelbert Derby in that city on November 27. He was the chief of the geological survey of Brazil. Mr. Derby was born in Kelloggsville, N. Y., on July 23, 1851, the son of John C. and Malvina (Lindsay) Derby. He entered the natural history course at Cornell in 1869 and graduated with the degree of B.S. in 1873. During the next two years he was instructor in geology in the University, meanwhile, in 1874, taking a master's degree. In 1870 and 1871 Mr. Derby had gone to Brazil as a student assistant on geological exploring expeditions led by the late Professor Charles Frederick Hartt of Cornell. In 1875 the Brazilian government established a gological commission with Professor Hartt as its chief, and Mr. Derby was made one of three assistant geologists to the commission. The other two were John C. Branner 74, now president of Stanford University, and Herbert H. Smith 72, now of the Alabama geological survey, and author of "Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast." Professor Hartt died of yellow fever at Rio Janeiro in 1878. In 1879 Mr. Derby was appointed director of the geological section of the national museum at the Brazilian capital. From 1886 to 1904 he was chief of the geographical and geological survey of the state of S&o Paulo. Since 1907 he had been chief of the geological survey of Brazil. Mr. Derby was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was a member of the London Geological Society and many other learned societies, and was a contributor on geological subjects to scientific periodicals. He was unmarried. A. B. Cole '91 Alvarado Brown Cole, LL.B. '91, died on November 20 at his home in Denver, Colorado. After his graduation, Mr. Cole was admitted to the bar of Colorado. He never entered into the active practice of his profession, but gave his entire attention to his large ranch property a few miles west of Denver near the town of Arvada. He took a prominent part in politics and school matters and his death is mourned by the entire community. At Cornell Mr. Cole was a member of Phi Delta Phi. THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL COMMITTEES of the Board of Trustees and the Faculty have been appointed to determine the plan and scope of the proposed celebration of the University's semi-centennial in 1918. The Trustees' committee is composed of Messrs. R. H. Treman, Henry R. Ickelheimer, George C. Boldt, Willard D. Straight, Charles H. Blood, Henry W. Sackett, Cuthbert W. Pound, Herbert D. Mason, and Henry J. Patten, and the secretary is H. Wallace Peters. The members of the Faculty committee are Professors Charles H. Hull, A. W. Smith, W. W. Rowlee, H. H. Wing, W. M. Polk, E. H. Woodruff, V. A. Moore, H. N. Ogden, and C. A. Martin. The Trustees authorized the appointment of these committees at the November meeting of the Board. ALUMNI CALENDAR Saturday, December 4. Wilkes-Bαrre, Pα.—The second an- nual meeting of the Luzerne County Cornell Club will be held at The Dresden on Saturday, December 4, at 7:30 p. m. It will be an informal affair and all Cornellians in this vicinity are invited to attend. Tickets are five dollars each. Further particulars can be obtained from E. B. Wagner, 56 North Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre. Saturday, December 11. Denver.—The Rocky Mountain Cornell Association will hold its annual banquet on Saturday, December 11, at the University Club in Denver. ALUMNI MEETINGS A meeting of the directors of the Associate Alumni was held in Philadelphia on November 26 and 27, and a meeting of the executive committee of the Cornellian Council was held in New York on November 29. Accounts of both meetings will be published in the NEWS next week. TROY'S 1916 CALENDAR A valuable annual publication is the pictorial Cornell Calendar of Mr. John P. Troy, photographer to the University. The one for 1916 has just been published. It contains a great many of the best of Mr. Troy's recent photographs of Campus scenery and the picturesque University events of the year. The cover is an attractive reproduction in five colors of a corner of the Quadrangle which includes the Library Tower. The photographs throughout the book are well chosen for pictorial effect as well as for their illustration of Cornell life during the year. Mr. Troy has recognized the public interest in the football team this season by adding an extra page of pictures showing the team in action—a remarkable series of three photographs, taken a few seconds apart, of the play which gave Cornell a touchdown against Harvard. T H E ROOMING HOUSE at 528 Stewart Avenue, owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, was almost destroyed by fire about noon on November 30. The blaze started in the basement and had spread through the building before the firemen arrived. Twenty students lost most of their books and clothing. DR. H. W. VAN LOON, lecturer in the department of history, has begun a series of three public lectures on several phases of the history of the Dutch Republic. 120 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Cornell 24, Pennsylvania 9 Miller's kickoff was caught by Hen- {Continued from Page 117) THE GAME IN DETAIL ning on the Penn 35-yard line. He returned three yards. Miller of Penn made two yards, and then tossed a ten- First Period yard pass toRay, which put the ballin Captain Harris, of Pennsylvania, won midfield. Derr failed togain, and Penn the toss and elected to kick off and to was penalized three -yards for delaying defend the west goal. Harris returned to the sidelines,and the left end, Hopkins, the game. Williams made three yards around right end. Miller's forward pass assumed the acting captaincy. Rus- was grounded, and Bell punted out of sell kicked off to Mueller onCornell's 5-yard line.. The Cornell fullback re- bounds on Cornell's 17-yard line. Hopkins was injured and Hawley took his turned to the 20-yard line. Barrett place. Barrett booted a long high kick punted on first down, a beautiful kick which sailed over Bell's head and rolled which Bell caught on his 38-yard line. Both Shelton and Eckley hit him as he out of bounds on Pennsylvania's 3-yard caught the ball. Derr hit center for line. Bell, standing behind his goal seven yards, and Williams made first line, returned the kick, and Collins down bya four-yard gain at right tackle. caught theball on Pennsylvania's 45- Cool stopped Derr after" a two-yard yard line. He was downed inhis tracks gain, and then Hawley got loose around by Miller. Collins failed to gain at left end ona simple double pass, ends left tackle, and Barrett made three yards at right tackle. Barrett's forward pass around, and made another first down on Cornell's 40-yard line. Bell failed to was grounded, so, on fourth down, he gain, and Shiverick grounded a long placed a punt out of bounds onPennsylvania's 8-yard line. After Williams had made a three-yard gain, Bell punted COLLINS Photograph by The Corner Bookstores forward pass. Williams threw another long pass which Barrett intercepted on Cornell's 30-yard line. Shiverick made to Shiverick on Cornell's '45-yard line. over the line toTilley, who was downed two yards at center, and then Barrett Shiverick hit right tackle for seven on Penn's 25-yard line. Collins hit the punted to Pennsylvania's 25-yard line, yards, and Barrett added three, making line for a yard, butShiverick failed to Shelton downing Bell as he caught the first down on Penn's 45-yard line. Collins and Shiverick failed to gain, and a gain at left tackle. Barrett stepped outside right tackle foreight yards, and ball. Miller was thrown by Shelton for a loss on an attempted end run. Derr forward pass, Barrett toTilley, was un- the period ended. made four yards at center, but Williams successful. Barrett punted out of bounds on Penn's 18-yard line. Cool stopped Derr for no gain at center, and Bell punted out of bounds on Cornell's 43yard line. Shiverick hitcenter for four yards, Collins made five at right tackle, and Barrett added three more at left tackle, making first down onPennsylvania's 45-yard line. Barrett gained a yard around left end, and took the ball again for a three-yard gain at right tackle. A short forward pass, Barrett to Eckley, gained twelve yards, placing the ball on Penn's 29-yard line. Collins made five yards in two tackle bucks. Barrett made two atright tackle. Shiverick plunged through center for the needed first down on Penn's 18-yard line. Collins made three yards at right tackle, and Shiverick hit the other side for five more. Barrett failed to find a hole at right tackle, and made no gain. With two yards to go for a first down on Pennsylvania's 8-yard line, the ball was given to Shiverick. He hurled himself at right tackle but failed to make first down by a few inches, and Penn got the ball on downs. Bell punted at once, a low kick which rolled dead on the Penn 41-yard line. Shiverickand Mueller made a yard between them, and Barrett made a fifteen yard forward pass Second Period It was Cornell's ball on Penn's16yard mark, fourth down, one yard to go. Shiverick made it at center. On the next play Barrett circled left end for a touchdown. He kicked the goal. Score : Cornell, 7; Pennsylvania, 0. Russell kicked off to Collins on Cornell's 3-yard line. He returned to his 28-yard line. On a punt formation Barrett circled right end for twenty yards, but Shiverick fumbled on the ne\t play and Russell recovered the ball forPenn. Williams broke through the Cornell line for nine yards, butthe ball wascalled back and Pennsylvania was penalized fifteen yards for holding. This put the ball on Penn's 40-yard line. Miller was called back from endto throw aforward pass. He launched theball like a bullet straight over the scrimmage line for thirty yards intσ the waiting hands of Hopkins, who ranten yards before Barrett stopped him on Cornell's 20-yard line.~ Another forward pass, Williams toBell, was knocked downby Shiverick, but before theball hit the ground, Bell had clutched it, and it was Penn's ball on Cornell's 1-yard line. Williams went over on the first plunge. Mathews made a poor attempt at goal. Score : Cornell, 7; Pennsylvania, 6. failed at right tackle. Bell punted to Barrett on Cornell's 35-yard line. It was a high kick, and the Cornell captain fumbled it, Henning recovering for Penn. Bell hit right tackle forthree yards, but two forward passes were uncompleted. Hawley's attempt for a field goal went wide, and Cornell recovered the ball on her 18-yard mark. Barrett, instead of punting out of danger, tried a longforward pass. It fell into the hands of Rockafeller, whoran to Cornell's 14yard line, where Barrett downed him. Hawley tried again for a field goal, and was this time successful. Score: Pennsylvania, 9; Cornell, 7. Russell kicked off to Mueller,who returned the ball from the goal line to the 20-yard mark. Time was called and the half ended. Score, end of first half: Pennsylvania, 9; Cornell, 7. Third Period There was no change in the Cornell line-up as the teams came out after the intermission. Russell kicked off to Mueller on Cornell's 15-yard line. The fullback ran back fifteen yards. Barrett punted to Ross, who fumbled but recovered the ball in a scramble with Shelton on Penn's 25-yard line. On the first play Penn was penalizedfifteen yards for holding, and the ball was on CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 121 the 10-yard line. Ross attempted to run around right end, but Shelton spilled himfor a loss. Bell's kick was fumbled and recovered by Barrett on Penn's 45-yard line, and Pennsylvania was penalized fifteen yards for inter- ference with the receiver, giving Cornell the ball on the 30-yard line. Barrett made a yard at right tackle, and added two more in the same place. After Collins had failed to gain Barrett stepped back for a dropkick. Theball missed the south upright by several feet, and it was Penn's ball on her 20-yard line. Gillies stopped Rockefeller on an off- tackle play and Cool stopped him again at center. Bell punted to Collins, who returned five yards to the Cornell45- yard line. Collins and Shiverick each made five yards at right tackle, making first down onPenn's 45-yard line. Collins failed at right tackle, but Barrett A PLAY IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAME Captain Barrett making a run of twenty yards from kick formation in the second period, just before the fumble which preceded Penn's touchdown. Photograph by The Corner Bookstores skirted right end for eight yards. Col- lins made but a yard at left tackle, leav- Sidestepping Rockefeller and Bell, fourth down, Barrett stepped back to ing oneto go for first down. Barrett neither of whom gottheir hands on him, the 45-yard line for a dropkick. The made two yards at right tackle, for first he ran straight for the goal posts and ball sailed true for the posts, carrying down on Penn's 34-yard line. Three was never headed. He kicked the goal, just far enough to clear the crossbar. successive tackle plays failed to gain and Cornell was again in the lead. Score: Score: Cornell, 24; Pennsylvania, 9. more than a yard through the stiffening Cornell, 14; Pennsylvania, 9. Neill kicked off to Collins, who ran Quaker line, and Barrett stepped back Shiverick kicked off for Cornell. Will- the ball back thirty yards to Cornell's to the 40-yard line for a drop-kick. The iams returned the kick to Penn's 24- 38-yard line. Collins and Shiverick ball sped straight for theposts but fell yard line. On the first play Barrett failed to gain, and Barrett punted to short, hitting one of the uprights below intercepted a long forward pass thrown Loucks, who eluded Shelton and ran the crossbar. It wasPenn's ball on her by Miller. Heran it back from mid- brilliantly for forty yards to Cornell's 20-yard line. Derr made three yards field to Penn's 35-yard line. Collins 35-yard line. Tighe made a yard intwo at center and three more at left guard. made two yards at right tackle, and attempts, and then Loucks tried an Ross made three at right end. Cool Barrett made three more at center. onside kick. Barrett recovered the ball stopped him. Bell's punt was caught Shiverick failed to make first down, and and was forced out of bounds on his by Collins on his40-yard line, wherehe Barrett tried his third field goal. It 30-yard line. Collins made three yards was tackled. Mathews threw Collins failed, and Penn again got theball on in twotackle plays. Barrett punted to for a one-yard loss. Barrett made a her 20-yard mark. Miller tried another Loucks, whoreturned twenty yards to yard at right tackle, and then punted forward pass, but again the watchful midfield. Loucks made six yards at to Ross on Penn's 12-yard line, where Barrett intercepted it and ran it back right tackle. He then tried a forward he was downed in histracks by Shelton. fifteenyards to the 20-yard line. Collins pass which Barrett intercepted on the Miller made three yards on a fake punt. tore through left tackle for six yards, 35-yard line. Collins fumbled on the Derr fumbled and recovered, and Bell but failed on a second attempt. Bar- first play and Urquhart pounced on the punted, but the kick was blocked. It rett gained four yards at right tackle ball as it rolled outof bounds. Loucks bounced back toward thegoal line, but and made it first down on the 10-yard made three yards around left end, and Bell recovered it on his 8-yard line. line. Shiverick made three yards at then threw a long pass which Murdock Ross made two yards at left tackle, and left guard, and onthe next play he ran muffed on Cornell's 5-yard line. Bar- then Derr broke through theline for a around left endfor a touchdown, elud- rett recovered Loucks's onside kick and twenty-yard gain. Shelton spoiled an ing several tacklers. Barrett punted the game ended with the ball in Cornell's end run by Ross, and Bell punted to out to Collins, whomade a fair catch, possession onher own 20-yard line. Collins on Cornell's 45-yard line. He and Barrett kicked the goal. Score: returned two yards. The quarter ended. Cornell, 21; Pennsylvania, 9. The summary: Cornell Pennsylvania Fourth Period With the beginning of the last period the Cornell team got together. Shiverick made three yards at left tackle, and Collins added five atright tackle. Shiverick made first down through center, putting theball on Pennsylvania's 43-yard line. On the next play Barrett electrified the stands by plunging straight into the center of the line and out the other side. For the first and last time during the game Cornell substitutes were sent in— Jewett forGillies, and Zander forEckley. Neill kicked off to Shiverick, who made a beautiful run back through most of the Penn tacklers before he was brought down on Pennsylvania's 41-yard line. Mueller and Collins could not gain. Shiverick plunged through right tackle for five yards. With five yards togo on Shelton Tiίley Miller Cool Anderson Gillies Eckley Barrett Collins Shiverick Mueller .' left end left tackle .' left guard center right guard right tackle right end quarterback left halfback right halfback fullback Hopkins Mathews .Ήenning Wray Neill Russell Miller Bell Rockafeller Derr Williams Touchdowns—Barrett 2, Shiverick, Williams. Goals from touchdowns—Barrett 3. Goals from field—Barrett, Hawley. Substitutions: for Cornell—Jewett for Gillies, Zander for Eckley; for Pennsylvania—Hawley for Hopkins, Ross forWill- 122 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS iams, Harris for Russell, Murdock for Wray, Urquhart for Miller, Williams for Ross, Loucks for Williams, Tighe for Loucks, Loucks for Bell, Price for Neill. Referee—Langford of Trinity. Umpire—Fulz of Brown. Field Judges-Marshall of Harvard. Linesman—Okeson of Lehigh. Time of periods—fifteen minutes. The Schedule Cornell, 13; Gettysburg, 0. Cornell. 34; Oberlin, 7. Cornell, 46; Williams, 6. Cornell,41; Bucknell, 0. Cornell, 10; Cornell, 45; Cornell, 34; Harvard, 0. Virginia Polytechnic, 0. Michigan, 7. Cornell, 40; Washington and Lee, 21. Cornell, 24; Pennsylvanis, 9. VY reason of its artistic merit and what it represents, The Cornell Art Calendarfor 1916 will be a delightful surprise to any Cornell alumnus. This unusual collection of photographs—events andscenery—was made and published by J. P.Troy, Photographer tothe University. The calendar measures 10 by 14J^ inches and has onthe cover a five-plate color print measuring 7 by 9 inches. It is nowready for delivery and will bemailed toany address on re- Association Football ceipt of one dollar and eight cents. A large engraving of Cornell Defeats Harvard but Loses to Columbia andPrinceton the football team will be enclosed free upon request. The team last week defeated Harvard at Cambridge on Wednesday andlost J. P. TROY, Morse Hall, Ithaca. to Columbia atNew York on Saturday. HubbelΓs goaΓ against Harvard won a close game by a score of 1to 0, and the same player was the only man toscore against Columbia. The fast Columbia eleven swamped Cornell, scoring five ALUMNI NOTESBinghamton.—Every Tuesday at 12:15 goals. The team closed its season on No- vember 29 by playing theextra game with Princeton. The score was4 to 0 in favor of Princeton. Cornell has now played out the schedule, including the game with Princeton which was replayed because of theineligibility of several Princeton players who contributed to the Tiger victory and is now in sixth place in the intercollegiate league, standing ahead ofonly one team, Harvard. Haverford, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Yale, and Princeton are leading. o'clock in the grill room of the Chamber of Commerce, on the twelfth floor ofthe Press Building. Boston.—Every Thursday, 12:30 to 1:30 o'clock, at the Quincy House. Buffalo.—Every Tuesday, 12:30 to 2 o'clock, at the Hotel Iroquois, Parlor G. Chicago.—Every Thursday, 12:30 o'clock, at the Hotel Morrison, Floor B. Service table d'hδte, 30 cents and 50 74, B.Agr.—Professor William R. Lazenby, of the department of forestry of Ohio State University, read a historical sketch of the Ohio Academy of Science at the quarter-centennial meeting of the academy oh November 27. '91, A.B.—Major E. L.Phillips, U.S. A., is now with theNinth Cavalry at Douglas, Arizona. cents. '95, Ph.D.—Lafayette College con- Cleveland.—Every Thursday at 12 ferred the honorary degree of doctorof o'clock in theBeefsteak Room (down- laws upon Dr. A. Ross Hill, president stairs), Hollenden Hotel. of the University of Missouri, at the Dayton.—Every other Saturday, 12:30 inauguration of Dr. J. H. McCracken o'clock, at Rike-Kumler's. as president of Lafayette. Cross-Country.1—The freshman cross- D e t r o i t.—Every Thursday, 12:15 '95—Charles S. Young is now the country team defeated the Pennsylvania o'clock, at the Hotel Statler. managing editor of the San Francisco freshmen at Philadelphia on Thanks- Indianapolis.—Last Friday of each Examiner. giving Day by thescore of 22 to 33. month during the fall, winter, and spring, '99, M.E.—John W. O'Leary has The first five men of each team counted at 12:15 o'clock, atthe University Club. been nominated for president ofthe Chi- in the scoring. The order offinishfol- New York.—Every Wednesday at cago Association of Commerce, being lows: 1, McHale, Pennsylvania; 2, T. the Machinery Club, 50Church Street. at thehead of the ticket reported by C. McDermott, Cornell; 3, W. H. Blew, Philadelphia.—Luncheon every day, the association's committees on nomina- Cornell; 4, S. Haines, jr., Cornell; 5, 12 to 2p. m., at the rooms ofthe Cornell tions. The election will take placeon H, A. White, Cornell; 6, Price, Penn- Club of Philadelphia, 1519 Sansom St. December 8. O'Leary has been a vice- sylvania; 7, Broughton, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh.—Every Friday between president ofthe association. 8, R. K. Howe, Cornell; 9, Bousall, Pennsylvania; 10, Collar, Pennsylvania. Captain Elected.—William Randolph Gargiulo '17, of Brooklyn, has been elected captain of the association football team. 12:15 and1:30 p. m.,at McCreery's, corner ofWood Street and Sixth Avenue. Syracuse.—Every Thursday, between 11:30 and 12:30 o'clock, at Endres', 209 South Warren Street. FOUR PLAYS will bepresented by members ofthe Dramatic Club before Christ- ΌO, B.Arch.—F. Ellis Jackson, of Providence, R.I., has a daughter, Anne Blanchard Jackson, born June 14, 1915. '01, B.Arch.—Willard D. Straight is the vice-president of the American International Corporation, which has obtained a charter at Albany authorizing A PICTURESQUE EVENT will take place mas. The plays are "The Will," byJ. it to engage in foreign trade and to issue next Saturday afternoon when the M. Barrie; "Barbara," by Jerome K. capital stock to the amount of fifty Walking Club will hold its annual "hike" Jerome; "The Shadow of the Glen," by million dollars. to Turkey Hill. The club offers several J. M. Synge, and "Waterloo," by Conan '05, M.E.—Floyd C. Snyder, 111 Pine prizes tothe fastest walkers. Doyle. Street, Massillon, Ohio, has a son, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 123 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dor- men of the Winchester Repeating Arms Harris, Forbes & Co rance, of Houston, Texas, on November Company. Hisaddress is 116 Mans17. They will be athome after January field Street, New Haven, Conn. 56 William St., New York HARRSS TRUST AND 8AV1NG8 BANK CHICAGO N. W. HARRIS & CO., INCORPORATED Bonds for Investment Charles Jarvis Snyder, born August 28, 1915, 1st inDallas, Texas, where Hall is with ΊO, B.Arch.; '12, C.E.—John Walter the Stone & Webster Engineering Cor- Smith hasentered the employment of poration. Norton & Bird, engineers, 111 West Ό9, M.E.—W. C. Simpson's address Monroe Street, Chicago. He is em- is changed to 434 East Seventh Street, ployed temporarily in Cincinnati. Plainfield, N. J. He is factory manager of The Vitaphone Company, makers of talking machines. '09, M.E.—A son, Granville E. Whittlesey, jr., hasbeen born to Mr. and '11, M.E.—The engagement of Thomas R. Cox to Miss Marian D. Buckley of Brooklyn is announced. No date has been setforthe wedding. Mrs. G. E. Whittlesey at their home in Ί l , A.B.; '14,C.E.—L. A. Roden- Pittsfield, Mass. Whittlesey is with the hiser is with the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- Pittsfield Electric Company and lives road. His address is Lock Box 449, at 242 Appleton Avenue. Walkerton, Ind. Όβ, A.B.—Helen Coffin is legislative ΊO, M.E.—Rodney O. Walbridge is Ί l , M.E.—William J. Lewis, jr., reference librarian of theConnecticut secretary of the Pitts Motor Car Re- sailed November 18 on the steamship state library at Hartford. Her address pair & Sales Corporation, 532-40 At- Amazonia for Naples on business for is 47 1-2 Tremont Street. lantic Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. the Shipley Construction and Supply '08, B.S.A.—Clarence Lounsberry, of ΊO, M.E.—Harold O. Stanton an- Company of Brooklyn. the bureau of soils, Washington, D. C , nounces the birth of his second son, Ί l , M.E.—William H. Anderson is has awinter assignment in Hinds County, Harris Ide Stanton, on October 3. assistant engineer with the Los Angeles Mississippi. Stanton has left the Erie, Pa., office of board of public utilities andlives at '08, M.E.—James Donald Hall was the General Electric Company and is 742 Garland Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. married to Miss Virginia Dorrance, now employed in the cartridge depart- While hewas visiting the exposition at San Francisco last summer he decided to remain in California and so he re- Lackawanπa Railroad THE LACKAWANNA RAILROAD operate steel electric lighted sleeping cars between New York and Ithaca daily, leaving New York 8:30 P. M., arriving Ithaca 7 A.M., and leaving 10:00 P. M., arriving New York 7 A. M. :-: :-: signed his place with the public service commission of the first district of New York. '12, B.Chem.—Arthur M. Hart has returned to his home in Baldwinsville and been welcomed with a half-column illustrated write-up in the Syracuse RAILROAD AND PULLMAN TICKETS Post-Standard. 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'12, M.E.—Charles W. Harper is chief engineer and general manager of the Yancey Light & Power Company, and is at Burnsville, N. C , where the company is making a small hydro-electric development. '12, A.B.—Jackson B. Clark is with the law firm ofTaylor & Delbridge, Detroit, Mich. His address is Addison Hotel. '13, A.B.—Adolph F. Zang is in the bond department of the German-American Trust Company, Denver, Col. '13, M.E.—C. A. Cremer, 49 Ten Broeck Street, Albany, N.Y., is with the Consolidated Car Heating Company. '13, M.E.—Kenneth D. Means is with the American TarProducts Company at Bessemer, Alabama. DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF MONOGRAMS, CRESTS AND ADDRESS DIES Ί3, C.E.—Jesse C. Johnston's address is 7130 Harvard Avenue, Chicago. He is with the Rock Island Railroad. 124 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Ί4, M.E.—Frank F. Abbott is with the Western Electric Company and lives at 2622 South Sixtieth Avenue, Cicero, 111. Ί4, B.Arch.—George Ramsey is super- '15, B.Arch.—Herman W. Nolker's John Chatillon & Sons address is Box 297, Denton, Texas. He is with the Gilsonite Construction Com- Manufacturers of pany of St. Louis, Mo., employed on a job atDenton. SPRING SCALES intendent of the Aetna Explosives Plant at Noblestown, Pa. '14, C.E.—Christian Schwartz lives at 69 Seward Avenue, Detroit, Mich. He is with the George A. Fuller Company and has been employed since last March on the construction of a 23-story office building. '15, M.E.—A. L. Milton is an inspector in theshrapnel department of the for weighing, assorting, counting, multi- Wheeling Mold & Foundry Company, plying, estimating, measuring, Elm Grove, W. Va. testing and for various '15, A.B.—Arthur Dole, jr., lives at 4915 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago. He other purposes is with the H. M. Hooker Company, wholesale glass, paints, etc. 85-93 CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK CITY '14, C.E.—Walter E. Nussbaum was '15, M.E.—Cyril T. Chapman's ad- married to Miss Cora L. Schafer at the dress is 36 Washington Street, Phillips- home of her father, Mr. J. E. Schafer, burg, N. J. He is with the Ingersoll- Weissport, Pa., on October 19. Nuss- Rand Company. baum's address is The Heights, Lehigh- '15, M.E.—Sibley men of the class of ton, Pa. Heis with the New Jersey 1915 who are employed by the Newport Zinc Company, Palmerton, Pa. News Shipbuilding & .Dry Dock Com- '14, M.E.—William Albert Gibson pany at Newport News, Va.,are A. A. was married to Miss Genevieve Bulli- Booth andW. T. Newell, 121Thirty- vant at Port Jervis, N. Y., on Novem- first Street; P. F. Halsey, 221 Thirty- ber 13. They will make their home at third Street, and J. A. Maclay, Y. M. 416 Eddy Street, Ithaca. C. A. The college men of the yard got KLINE'S PHARMACY L (Incorporated) I Successor to Todd's Pharmacy N THE REXALL STORE E 114 North Aurora St. Cloth for Fall and Winter in a great variety of handsome patterns '14, C.E.—Arthur C. Ehrlich lives at 15 West 107th Street, New York. He is a construction engineer with Francisco &Jacobus, 200 Fifth Avenue, and is now employed at the plant of the International Arms & Fuze Company at Bloomfield, N. J. Hewas married to Dr. Sophie Peck at Brooklyn on June 13. together one night this fall and had a smoker prior to forming a university club. On this occasion Cornell was well represented. '15, C.E.—William H. Evans has changed his address from Nashville, Tenn., toHong Kong, China, in care of the Standard Oil Company ofNew York. Carr &Stoddard TAILORS Mr. Stoddard was formerly cutter with Mr. George Griffin '15, M.E.—R. M. Van Valkenburgh is working in thebureau of inspection and accident prevention of the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., andwill probably be with the '15, M.E.—Leonard Ochtman, jr.,is with the Van Blerck Motor Company and lives at 59 South Macomb Street, Monroe, Mich. '15, C.E.—Howard B. Wright is at JEWELERS Philadelphia branch at 407-409 Walnut Street all winter. 454 Lee Street, Clarksburg, W.Va. He is with the Association ofAmerican Port- R. A. Heggie & Bro. Co. '15, M.E.—Arthur Hiltebrant is with land Cement Manufacturers. 136 E. State Street the Cramp Shipbuilding Company and lives at 1421 Arch Street, Philadelphia. '15, M.E.—M. L. Schulte is with the GEORGE S. TARBELL Combustion Engineering Corporation, Attorney andNotary Public 11 Broadway, New York. LAW BUSINESS IN ITHACA '15, B.S.—J. Stanley Cobb lives at5 Promptly anjl carefully attended to. Allen Street, Amherst, Mass. He is an Trust Company Building, Ithaca, N. Y. Ithaca. N.Y. We have a full stock of Diamonds, Jewelry, Art Metal Goods, etc., and make things to order. instructor in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. '15, M.E.—Hamilton B. Downe's address is 112 Anderson Place, Buffalo, The Robinson Studio Incorporated Ithaca Cold Storage J. W. HOOK N. Y. Heis with the American Radiator Company. '15, M.E.—G.W. Dorrance's addressis 9 Courtland Place, Houston, Texas. He EAST STATE STREET Photographer for Senior Class 1916 Fruit, Produce, Butter and Eggs 113-115 S. Tioga Street is inthe engineering department of The Texas Company. FOREST CITY LAUNDRY '15, M.E.—John McK. Ballou lives at 26 East Third Street, Bayonne, N. J. He is with the Babcock & Wilcox Com- E. M. MERRILL 209 NORTH AURORA STREET BAGS FREE MENDING FREE CALL EITHER PHONE pany. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS LEGAL DIRECTORY The lawyers' directory is intended to serve the convenience of Cornell professional men in various parts of the country. Insertion of a card in this column carries with it a subscription to the paper. Rates on application to the Business Manager. WASHINGTON, D. C. THEODORE K. BRYANT '97, '98 Master Patent Law '08 Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively 310-313 Victor Building NEW YORK CITY. CHARLES A. TAUSSIG A.B. '02, LL.B. Harvard '05 222 Broadway Telephone 1905 Cortland. General Practice PHILADELPHIA, PA. 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