VOL. XXIV, No. 4 Professor Alexander Gray, Head of
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VOL. XXIV, No. 4 Professor Alexander Gray, Head of
VOL. XXIV, No. 4 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] OCTOBER 20, Professor Alexander Gray, Head of Electrical Engineering, Dies in Ithaca Football Team Makes Highest Score Since 1898 Against Western Reserve President M. Carey Thomas Asks Recognition of Women at Mount Holyoke Buffalo Alumni Plan to Cooperate With Other Universities During Year Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August at 123 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. 1921 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Ithaca Trust Company Assets Over Three Million Dollars President Charles E. Treman Vice-Pres Emmons L. Williams Vice-Pres Franklin C. Cornell Vice-Pres. and Sec, W. H. Storms Treasurer Sherman Peer ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY WASHINGTON, D. C. THEODORE K. BRYANT '97, '98 Master Patent Law '08 Patents and Trade Marks exclusively 310-313 Victor Building BOSTON, MASS. WARREN G. 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They will be presented to the Athletic Association to be framed and hung in Schoellkopf Memorial. 1 ROBERT D. KNAPP '19 and Frank McBride, '21, last year's 158-pound intercollegiate wrestling champion, are helping Coach O'Connell train aspirants for this year's squad. THE CORNELL Chess Club has elected the following officers: president, Samuel H. Greenbaum '22, of Weehawken, N. J.; secretary, Nathan Gotthoffer y22, of New York; treasurer, Alexander Kevitz '23, of Brooklyn. ROMEYN BERRY '04, graduate manager of athletics, attended a meeting of the American Olympic Committee in New York on October 15, where it was said the system of American representation in Olympic meets was to be reorganized. Mr. Berry and Pickens Johnson '22, of Houston, Texas, manager of track, also attended a meeting of the LC.A.A.A.A. to make final arrangements for the crosscountry meet to be held November 14 at Van Cortlandt Park. ILLITERACY is practically unknown in Tompkins County; the Bureau of the Census reporting only 1.2 percent, which is said to be low as compared with other counties. ACCORDING to Rennold Wolf's column in The Morning Telegraph, Sam Bernard's eighteen-year-old son has just entered Cornell with a State scholarship. FREE SCHOLARSHIPS at Cornell and fourteen other Eastern universities are offered by The Hebrew Record to readers of the paper who assist in increasing its circulation. THE FIRST All-Cornell dance for the year was held last Saturday evening in the Old Armory under the direction of an undergraduate committee of fifteen members selected by the Student Council, the Independent Association, and the Women's Self-Government A s s o c i a t i o n . These dances are open to all undergraduates, including freshmen, and proved exceedingly popular last year. DEAN JAMES PARKER HALL '94, of the Chicago Law School, is announced as the speaker for the first University convocation of the year. The date has not yet been set. THE NUMBERS of every winner in the track events at the Olympic games at Antwerp are on display in the window of THE UNIVERSITY BAND made its initial appearance for the season at Saturday's game with Western Reserve. Good music well played kept the crowd good-natured between halves and before and after the game. George L. Coleman '95 is again conductor, Harold 0. Merz '22, of Newark, N. J., is manager and leader, and H. D. Wright, a sophomore, of Lima, Ohio, made an approvedly wooden drum major. ANDREW G. BALDWIN '22, a member of last year's heavy varsity crew, has been elected representative of the oarsmen on the Major Sports Council. SIXTY seniors and twenty juniors are making personal calls on every freshman to help him get started in Cornell, as members of the Freshman Advisory Committee. ENROLLMENT in the Medical College in New York, which began its year on September 27, totals 211. Of these, 45 are first-year students, 58 are second, 65 are third, and 43 are fourth. A NEW MINISTER, the Rev. William H. Powers, has come to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ithaca, from the James Street Church of Syracuse. The Rev. John Richards, the former minister, has gone to the First Church of Elmira. A MASS MEETING to express student sen- timent on disarmament will be held on the night of December 2, simultaneously with similar meetings in other institutions, if agitation started by the Sun materializes. INDEPENDENT athletic leagues in basketball, lacrosse, tennis, baseball, and other sports were projected by the Independent Council at its first meeting of the year. The teams in these leagues will be organized within imaginary zones of residence and prizes will be given to winning teams. John J. Cole '23, of Buffalo, is chairman of athletics for the Association. DELEGATES from ten Eastern States are attending a nutrition conference this week at the School of Home Economics of the College of Agriculture. THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER for Octo- ber 23 will be the Rev. Dr. C. Wallace PRICE 12 CENTS Petty, of the Mount Morris Baptist Church, New York. LECTURES for the week include "The Menorah" by Chancellor Henry Hurwitz, of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association, before the Menorah Society; "Le Folklore des Provinces Frangaises" by Dr. Arnold van Gennep, official lecturer of the Federation of the Alliance Frane.aise; "Disarmament" by Professor Nathaniel Schmidt before the Ethics Club; "The Germanic Barbarians" by Professor George L. Burr in the course on the history of civilization; and "National Parks" by Professor Bristow Adams in the course on conservation of natural resources. THE CONTRACT for general construction work on the new Dairy Building for the College of Agriculture has been awarded to the J. D. Taylor Construction Company, of Syracuse. The William H. Taylor Company, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was awarded the contract for heating, George H. Drake, Incorporated, for plumbing and sanitary work, and the Fred T. Ley Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, for electrical work. Constructon has already started. DR. FREDERICK MARTIN, who as direc- tor of speech improvement in the New York public schools has conducted clinics for the correction of speech defects at the Medical College in New York, has arrived in Ithaca as head of the new Martin Institute for Speech Correction at 311 North Tioga Street. The Institute is a part of the Conservatory of Music. ALUMNI FIELD is again the scene of polo practice, interest in which seems to grow. Cornell has been invited to enter the intercollegiate tournament to be held in New York, where Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Norwich will compete. Lieutenant William A. Barton, son of Colonel Frank A. Barton, is one of the officers in charge of the team. A CORNELL football game on Schoellkopf Field adorns a page headed "College Football on the Lehigh Valley" in anew timetable just issued by the railroad. The page lists the 1921 football schedules of all the colleges and universities along the route of the Lehigh. AMONG THE FRESHMEN this year are two fifteen-year-olds. They are Miss Ysobel Muller, of Ulysses, in the College of Agriculture, and Paul Hillegas, of Ithaca, in the College of Engineering. Young Hillegas is the son of Howard C. Hillegas, late editorial writer for The New York Herald and author of several books, 38 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Professor Gray Dies Head of Electrical Engineering School at Cornell Had Long Been 111 With Rheumatism Professor Alexander Gray, director of the School of Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering, died at his home, 23 East Avenue, on October 13, after a long and painful illness from rheumatism. two sons, Alexander, Jr., and James, and a daughter, Margaret. He leaves also his mother, four brothers, two of whom live in Milwaukee, and a sister. Professor Gray had made many friends at Cornell. Dean Kimball is quoted as saying of him: "From the very beginning of his professorship here Professor Gray had made a warm place for himself with both students and Faculty. He was an exceptionally strong teacher, and his relations with his colleagues and with his students was exceptionally fine. It will be difficult to fill his place." STUDENTS IN NEW YORK The entering class at the Medical College in New York this year includes six students who were juniors at Ithaca last year and will receive their A.B. degrees next June; five from C.C.N.Y.; four from Columbia; two each from N.Y.U., Barnard, Amherst, Brown, Rochester, and Wellesley; and one from Colgate, Pennsylvania College for Women, Wooster, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Brooklyn Polytechnic, University of Washington, Manhattan College, Stetson, Massachusetts Agricultural College, St. Lawrence, University of Maine, Union, Vassar, Fordham, Johns Hopkins, Wesley an, and Williams. In the second-year class are twenty-one students who took their first year in Ithaca. Professor Gray was born in Edinburgh on March 9, 1882, the son of James and Christina Seton Gray. At the age of fifteen he went to work as a machinist. From 1900 to 1904 he worked as a draftsman and erection engineer, attending night classes at the Heriot Watt College, from which he received in 1904 a diploma in engineering; in the same year the University of Edinburgh gave him the degree of B.Sc. in Engineering, and two years later, having gone to Canada, he received the degree of B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from McGill. From 1905 to 1910 he worked as an electrical designer with the Bullock Electric Company and the AllisChalmers Company. Then for five years he was assistant professor of electrical engineering at McGill, leaving that institution to come to Cornell in 1915 as professor of electrical engineering. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the Town and Gown Club, and the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca. He was the author of Section 8 of the Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, of "Electrical Machine Design'7 (1913), and of "Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering" (1914). Mr. Gray married, on October 11, 1906, Miss Margaret Annandale Low, of Edinburgh, who survives him, together with REGULAR CLUB MEETINGS Boston—Every Monday at 12:30, Hotel Essex, opposite South Station. Buffalo—Every Friday at 12:30, Hotel Iroquois. Chicago—Every Thursday at 12:30, Hamilton Club, 20 South Dearborn Street. Cleveland—Every Thursday noon, Hotel Statler. Detroit—Every Thursday at 12:30, Cadillac Hotel. Milwaukee—Every Friday at 12:15, the University club. New York—Every Wednesday at 12:30, Machinery Club, 50 Church Street. New York—Daily, Cornell Club of New York, 30 West 44th Street. Rochester—Every Wednesday noon, Powers Hotel. St. Louis—Every Wednesday at 12:15, Planters Hotel. Washington, D. C.—Every Thursday at 12:30, University Club. WALLACE BRYANT, formerly a portrait painter but now one of the leading bowmen in this country, was in Ithaca last week to give demonstrations in archery to women students. LACROSSE practice has started, with a nucleus from last year's team consisting of Captain Paul G. Wellenkamp '23, of Hammondsport; Henry B. Bosworth '22, of Buffalo; Walter P. Knauss '22, of Poughkeepsie; and Stanley G. Wight '22, of New York. Problems in Teaching Miss Thomas Calls Men Dogs in the Manger and Demands Freedom of Teaching President M. Carey Thomas '78 was the principal speaker at the Founder's Day celebration at Mt. Holyoke College on October 7, and chose as her subject "Present-Day Problems in Teaching." She began with a survey of developments in the status of women since 1912; she found a marked advance, but said that men were still too jealously guarding for themselves the prizes and privileges and chief positions in all occupations. The French Academy refused to elect Mme. Curie to membership only because she was a woman. The American Academy of Arts and Letters ought either to reform or call itself The American Men's Academy. "What are we women to think of our own American Academy, founded only a few years ago, in this era of women's emancipation, in this twentieth century coeducational United States in imitation of the French Academy, by men we know and thought we could trust, perpetuating this hoary age-long injustice to women, and, although urgently entreated to do so by the American Association of University Women, refusing to elect to its membership even a few eminent women? Men artists of negligible fame are American Academicians, but not Cecilia Beaux; minor men novelists, but not Edith Wharton; men philanthropists and humanitarian writers of comparative insignificance, but not Jane Addams; men educationalists who have accomplished much less than she for the advancement of teaching and not the distinguished president of Mount Holyoke College." Miss Thomas insisted that new methods in teaching must be found, since the pupils are no longer what they used to be. "Our old methods of teaching fail to get under their skins. Most of our apparatus of teaching—lectures, recitations, text books—really belongs in the scrap heap. Nor only our text books but we teachers and executives are no longer vital in the eyes of our students. The profound interests to which they vibrate, their currents of passionate thought, sweep by in secret channels unknown to us. "Well's Outline of History' furnishes an illustration of what I mean. It is history of a wholly new kind and makes a world-wide appeal to the younger generation. Its inaccuracies, if there are any that are avoidable in so vast an undertaking, do not matter at all in comparison to its gripping qualities. Yet how few historians are making use of it. One courageous professor told me that he was using it, and to his astonishment his habitually indifferent men students lapped it up like new milk. All our text- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 39 Photograph by J. P. Troy ONE OF THE TOUCHDOWNS This time Lechler carried the ball over after a line plunge. Western Reserve players are readily distinguishable by their striped jerseys, which were changed for blue ones in the second half. books must be rewritten from this new point of view. "But this new and almost universal appreciation of the power of education has brought upon us what I regard as the most terrible menace to American schools and colleges and to liberal thought that has come in my lifetime. The Federal and State Governments, Boards of Educacation, Americanization societies, American Legions and organizations of every kind are demanding that children and college students should be taught patriotism, concrete citizenship, a n d i o o percent Americanism. This means that school teachers and college professors, as yet only in public schools and State universities, but unless the movement is determinedly opposed sooner or later everywhere, are being required to teach not how to make things as they should be, but that things as they are, are right; that the United States Constitution, as written 134 years ago, is perfect; that our highly unsatisfactory Government must not be criticized; that the United States flag, which, as we all know, flies over many cruel injustices which we hope to set right, must be reverenced as a sacred symbol of unchanging social order, of political death in life. "The Lusk Law in New York State is a hideous example of what may happen any day in any State. It is impossible to teach in our schools definite political or religious doctrine without arousing conflicting parties, one faction of which will surely rise up and rend the other. All the conservative forces now in control of the world are seizing upon this propagandist teaching in order to capture the younger generation and so save their ancient privileges. What this perversion of education did for Germany it may easily do for the United States. We need now progressive leadership of the most liberal kind to save the world from revolution. It can come only from the younger generation now in school and college. In our generation there is no such light or leading. One hundred percent Americanism such as this will strangle free thought in its cradle. Cut and dried opinions on practical matters are almost sure to be wrong. Agreement on contemporary questions is impossible. "In my lifetime I have seen four separate times passionate differences of opinion raging around four commanding personalities—Gladstone, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and Wilson. I was in England when Gladstone, who was then Prime Minister at the end of a long and triumphant career of statesmanship, proposed Irish home rule, in which every one now believes. The storm of popular abuse which overwhelmed him on all sides astounded me. It was the same with Cleveland, who was a really great President. The feeling against Roosevelt, to whom the United States owes an eternal debt of gratitude which is now happily recognized, was so bitter that his name was never mentioned without horrible abuse at the dinner tables at which I sat, and any defense of him destroyed the amenity of the dinner. "And Wilson, who had the leadership and vision to put into eloquent and moving words the yearning of all nations toward a world state of international peace and justice, which he strove against frightful odds to embody in a League of Na- tions, was attacked with incredible brutality not only by conservative but by liberal opinion because he had to compromise with diplomats and prime ministers who could not be expected all at once to become archangels. In going round the world in 1920 I saw streets once named Wilson being revengefully renamed. "Death to Wilson" was written on the walls in Italy. On my return to the United States I found none so poor to do him reverence. Yet I prophesy that, like Washington, Lincoln, Cleveland, and Roosevelt, Wilson will rise above the welter of conflicting opinion and take the place that belongs to him on the pedestal of human greatness. "If our young people are to be instructed what to think on such controversial subjects of contemporary politics, teachers and professors must teach the majority opinion held by boards of trustees and boards of education and the communities in which they teach. There is no other way out. Otherwise their official heads will inevitably roll into the basket. Our professors will then become timorous souls with no light and leading. Now is the time above all others to affirm as never before the freedom of teaching and freedom of opinion, to refuse utterly to teach cut and dried opinions, to claim as our highest right, liberty to train our students to think for themselves and to work out for themselves after they leave school and college their own practical applications. Unless the youth of the world now in school and college can develop leadership there will be none in the next generation. Without vision our civilization will surely perish." 40 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS MEN'S AND WOMEN'S COLLEGES Dr. Henry N. McCracken, president of Vassar, thinks the men's colleges have much to learn from the women. In an interview printed in The Boston Globe for September 25, he says: "The outstanding feature in a comparison of the development between the two classes of institutions is the difference in the atmosphere which one encounters in each. It is the difference between exhilaration and depression. I have never met a boy in the last year of his school career who wasn't crazy to leave college. I've seldom met a girl who didn't burst into tears at the mention of the subject." Vassar, says Dr. McCracken, was the first college to limit the number of students; Oberlin came next; and now, seventeen years later comes Princeton. Then the women's colleges have taken the lead in cooperation in the solution of educational problems. Their representatives now meet regularly for this purpose. Again, the women's colleges are taking the lead in abolishing the fraternity system. "In the old days the English colleges provided the student with a home. The continental colleges never did. But the practical American boy provided that home for himself, until now it has practically usurped the functions of the college itself. "The fraternity system has justified itself historically in filling the responsibility which the universities failed to meet. The fraternities provided a home for a group of congenial students, and the system did the best it could to provide an environment where the better side of college life might develop. This duty the university shirked. "It is not the fajult of the fraternity that as years have gone on and the system has developed it has brought into university life the evil of money standards and social cleavage, for this was inevitable in the fraternity system. "But the universities, to be truly democratic toda*y, must purge themselves of these great dangers. I do not pretend to see how this can be done. The solution will probably come only through the universities taking title to fraternity property and utilizing fraternity houses as dormitories. "See how it has worked out at Vassar. We have no clubs except those on the campus. The student body is organized in five groups—political, social, athletic, religious and dramatic, each with its own set of officers. "No student at Vassar has her own automobile or horse. "And I might say here that the automobile is the curse of the student life at places like Yale, Harvard and Princeton. It extends the campus one hundred fifty miles and makes the dean responsible for what might go on at a roadhouse sixty miles away." Likewise, the women's colleges have taken the lead in the total abolition of hazing; in the instituting of self-government, a matter in which the men have failed, as is indicated by the appointment at Yale of a dean of men; in the establishment of cordial relations between students and faculty; in the elimination of . the professional coach and of professionalism all along the line; and in the degree to which they have utilized the fine arts. "Vassar has solved the social problem in American college life. The men's colleges have not. They have not controlled the student body. They have not solved the central problem of what they are for. It is a bigger problem than ours, because they are dealing with a factor less responsive to environment and influence. We have shown the way, but that problem still is theirs." The Harvard Alumni Bulletin is the first to respond to this challenge. " I t is interesting," says the Bulletin writer, "to see what this educator emphasizes as the important factors in the strength of an educational institution. Not the quality of the teaching staff, of course, for he does not mention this element in the make-up of a college, although there are some people who would think it worth taking into account. Nor yet does Dr. McCracken seem to feel that such things as resources, endowment, standards of scholarship, facilities in the way of buildings, and so on, are worthy of even a word in his discussion of collegiate achievements. Nevertheless, and despite his entire disregard of them, those are some of the things which the men's colleges persist in looking upon as vital factors in doing the work which educational institutions are supposed to do. "What is the chief purpose of a college? Is the fulfilment of this purpose to be judged by means of illustrations drawn from the odds and ends of undergraduate life, or by the excellence of the teachers who teach and the proficiency of the students who learn? It may be quite true, as Dr. McCracken asserts, that women's colleges have no grand stands or professional athletic coaches. What of it? Men's colleges have no sewing circles, no organized chaperonage, and no daisy chains on class day. Of course the paraphernalia of undergraduate life and activities differ as between men's and women's colleges, but what has all this to do with the relative standing of the respective institutions as regards true educational leadership? "President McCracken tells us that he has never known a male undergraduate who, in his senior year, was not 'crazy to leave college/ If the average masculine senior sheds no tears at graduation it is chiefly because he is more concerned with what is ahead than with what is behind. It is not because he is lacking in loyalty to the institution or unappreeiative of what it has done for him. "A college is, or ought to be, a place where teachers teach and students study. The effectiveness with which these two groups do their work is the ultimate test of success and achievement. Everything else is incidental and accessory; everything else is to be judged only in relation to the main purpose. To say that in the fulfilment of this main purpose the men's colleges, taking them as a class, have been unprogressive or lacking in leadership would be untrue. No such proposition could be supported by the facts of American education during the past fifty years." CORNELL AT McGILL At the celebration of the centenary of McGill University, from October 12 to 15, Cornell was represented by Professor Edward L. Nichols '75, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and Dr. Veranus A. Moore '87, Dean of the New York State Veterinary College. OPERA IN CHICAGO Spearman Lewis, director of publicity for Mary Garden and the Chicago Opera Association, spoke on "Opera from the Inside" before the regular weekly luncheon of the Chicago alumni on October 13. Fifty men were present. The Chicago alumni are in their new quarters in the Hamilton Club where a newly furnished room accommodating one hundred is to be reserved every Thursday. When Cornell plays Dartmouth in Ithaca on October 29, Chicago alumni of the two contestants will meet for a joint luncheon at the club, with a direct wire to report the progress of the game. NEW ENGLAND "RUB" In spite of threatening weather for such an out-door occasion, the second annual "Rub" of the Cornell Club of New England was attended by some forty odd members of the Club, as well as by visitors from Ithaca and from Cleveland. The party was held at South Natick. The principal guest was Richard H. Edwards, who told the gathering of the work and plans ,of the Christian Association, of which Jie is the general secretary. The out-door sports consisted of an organized ball game between the "odd" classes and the "evens," and an impromptu football game of the "safe and sane" variety. The baseball game was interrupted by a rain squall which the teams braved until the crashing fall of a great elm behind the catcher's box sent players and spectators scurrying to the cosier shelter of the Old Natick Inn and the joys of the feast. When the game ended the score was overwhelmingly in favor of the "evens" team. The batteries were Fulton '09 and Sittingers '15 for the "odds," and Hill Ί 6 and Bryant '00 for the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS THE UNIVERSITY BAND 41 Photograph by J. P. Troy Attired in white trousers and caps and red sweaters and led by George L. Coleman '95, the organization was well received at first appearance of the year on Schoellkopf Field last Saturday. BUFFALO'S PLANS The Buffalo alumni, or to be technically more exact, the Cornell Alumni Association of Western New York, have returned from summer solitude, and are again holding their weekly luncheons at the Hotel Iroquois, in Parlors G and H, on Fridays at 12.30. The official season for the year 1921-2 was inaugurated on October 7, Senator Parton Swift '98, the president of the club, presiding. Plans for the ensuing year include joint luncheons with various college luncheon clubs, Dartmouth, Williams, Harvard, and Yale among them; a union meeting of all colleges and universities at luncheon; and various special dates which it is hoped will bring out the more modest Carnelian flowers, both of modern and semi-ancient vintage. Jim Rutherford Ί o , member of the board of directors and athletic director, has left for green fields and pastures new in Cleveland, Ohio, and Fred Potter '16 has been elected in his place. ABOUT a hundred secondary schools have been invited to enter the annual interscholastic cross-country run to be held in Ithaca on November 12. The course this year is to be a steeplechase nearly three miles long, with obstacles and a water jump. The bronze Marathon trophy given by the Class of '08 is the individual prize, and a silver shield will be awarded to the team having the lowest score made by the first five contestants. Gold, silver, and bronze medals will be given for first, second, and third places. SPORT STUFF Fraternity rushing ends this week to the accompaniment of loud groans of relief from everybody. This protracted, minutely regulated rushing system with its codes, umpires, clerks and timers may be necessary under the more complicated undergraduate life of the present day, but it is difficult for an old timer to grasp its beauties. It seems to keep all the undergraduates and particularly the freshmen unsettled and diverted during the first month of college when they ought to be getting settled down to work. The best you can say of fraternity rushing is that it is an unavoidable evil and to a casual spectator it looks as if that system was best that got it over quickest. The old systemless system certainly had the advantage of brevity. The game with Colgate marks the end of the first phase of the football season. Up to this point we've been following an orderly program of instruction and team development with games a secondary consideration. From now on the work becomes more and more -preparation for particular games. Winning games depends somewhat on the ability of the other fellow. That is why prophecy is such an idle thing. But it is obvious that we go into the vital part of the campaign with a team somewhat stronger, faster and more able than that which represented the university last year. R. B. THE MEDICS' CLUB Through the organization of the Students' Club, the first steps have been taken toward making the Medical College in New York "a more livable place," as our correspondent puts it. The house at 127 Lexington Avenue which was the home of the old Students' Club has been sold, and with the help of the Intercollegiate Y.M.C.A. a building at the southwest corner of Twenty-Seventh Street and First Avenue, just across from the Medical College, has been purchased. An old storehouse, the new home of the Club has had a thorough renovating and overhauling, and now contains a cafeteria and a lounging-room, with a piano. It is planned to build a small gymnasium in one part of the building and to rent the unused portion of it for the present, but it is hoped that eventually the whole building may be used for dormitories. The use of the building is to be restricted to members of the Club, in which membership is open to students and Faculty of the Cornell and Bellevue Medical Colleges and to the resident staff of Bellevue Hospital. The membership fee is two dollars a year, and the club is for the use of both men and women. Our correspondent says: " I t is hoped that the idea will be brought before some one philanthropically inclined, with a resulting gift to be used for the erection of a new building." A NEW COURT has been laid out on the floor of the Drill Hall in addition to the two formerly used for basketball practice. 42 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Published for the Associate Alumni of Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated. Published weekly during the college year and monthly during the summer; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication (numbered consecutively) continues through Commencement Week. 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Dods '08 Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President. R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER 20, 1921 He had the throne but not the crown. As acting president he would have been unwise to start anything he could not finish. Educational policies must await the new President. Yet there is at least one department of first rank that President Smith has kept together for future service to Cornell. Whatever else he might have done had he been president, his fri/ends will rest their case on what he has already done for the reconstruction of student morale. And so, as we welcome President Farrand to the leadership, we bid Godspeed to President Smith. Whether he elects to be consulting engineer, poet, tourist, or what-not, the best wishes of the Cornell world will ever follow him. OBITUARY Alexander B. Orth '90 Alexander Beatty Orth, who was a special student in the University from 1886 to 1888, died on November 30, 1920. He had been in business in Pittsburgh, Pa., for a number of years. Edward C. Fish '00 Edward Charles Fish died in Rochester, N. Y., on October 16, 1919. He had been in ill health for several years. He was born on September 17, 1876, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Fish of Salamanca, N. Y. He prepared at the Union School in Salamanca, and was graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1900. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. For some years prior to his death he was engaged in the manufacturing business with his father in Rochester. He was married on April 20, 1918, to Miss Flora Wilkinson of Salamanca, who survives him. "For him," says a writer in The Michigan Alumnus, "economics was more than a study of data and statistics; he saw it as the very bone and sinews of our national life, and it was this broad philosophical view that he imparted with extraordinary success to the thousands of students who have been his admirers. In his presentation of his subject he was tolerant, kindly, and withal intensely human in his relations with his students, a quality which added not a little to his success as a teacher." From 1887 to 1911 he was a statistician for the Interstate Commerce Commission. When he entered the service he was the only one; when he left, there were 250. "He was one of the first to call attention to the importance of intangible values in appraising public utilities and was largely responsible for the system of accounting now in operation on American railroads." From 1906 to 1911 he was in charge of the division of statistics and accounts of the Interstate Commerce Commission; he was the director of the division of transportation of the Eleventh Census; and in 1913-16 he acted as adviser to a commission of the Chinese Republic on the standardization of railway accounts. He was an associate editor of The International Journal of Ethics, and was a member of the International Statistical Association, the American Economic Association (of which he was president in 1895-7), and other societies. He was the author of several valuable works on political science, especially taxation, finance, and railway accounting. His "Science of Finance" (1888) was translated into Japanese. Professor Adams was married in 1890 to Miss Bertha H. Wright, of Port Huron, Mich., who survives him with three sons. THE PERFORMANCE OF SMITH '78 The one regrettable feature of the inauguration of President Farrand is the retirement of President Smith. Pinchhitting at a time when the war had played Henry Carter Adams hob with student morale, when no one ATHLETICS Professor Henry Carter Adams, for wanted to do his day's work, when more than forty years a member of the victory no longer recognized our banners Varsity Takes Easy Game teaching staff of the University of Michas a perch, Uncle Peter smiled it all back igan, died on August 11. He was one of into normalcy through his simple faith The football team toyed with Western the most distinguished of American in human nature, rightly approached, as Reserve at Schoellkopf Field Saturday economists. its own panacea. afternoon, piling up a score of n o to o, Probably in no period of a year and a Professor Adams was born in Davenrepresenting sixteen touchdowns and half in Cornell history has there been the port, Iowa, on December 31, 1851, and fourteen goals. This is the largest total number of foolish little big things to be was the son of Ephraim and Elizabeth run up on a Cornell field since 1898, when purged from the students' systems before S. A. Douglass Adams. After graduating a luckless University of Rochester team the true perspective could be perceived. from Iowa College in 1874, and spending was overwhelmed by 128 to o. The light And most of these problems have been a year at Andover Theological Seminary, Cleveland team was utterly helpless besolved, quietly and without publicity, or he was a fellow in political economy at fore the relentless running and rushing are in the way of being solved. Johns Hopkins in 1876-8, receiving his attack of the Cornell eleven. In retroNo horseshoe has helped Smith '78 to Ph.D. degree in 1878. The following year spect the game seems like a jumble of settle problems. A victory over Penn, he spent in study in Heidelberg, Berlin, red-jersey ed players in a continuous romp an undisputed track or rowing championand Paris. From 1880 to 1883 he was . across the white chalk lines. ship, a huge gift for a gymnasium, a Union, non-resident lecturer, and from 1883 to The game of course was no test of the or dormitories, almost anything to blow 1887, associate professor, in the DepartCornell team. Indeed the eleven goes about might have turned the trick. But ment of Political Science at Cornell. Durinto the more important games, the first it had to be done by the sheer meeting of ing these years he was also a lecturer on of which with Colgate is set for next minds. And the fact is that everyone the same subject at the University of Saturday, without meeting in any of the is settling down to "business as usual." Michigan, and in 1887 he became professor three games played so far a foe worthy of of political economy and finance at the its steel. Rochester furnished five minutes It is unfair to weigh President Smith's latter institution. administration by the usual standards. of surprise play by the aerial route; but 43 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS neither St. Bonaventure, nor Rochester, nor least of all Western Reserve had anything to offer in the way of powerful, skillful, or intelligent resistance. As far as the test of actual battle is concerned the Cornell eleven remains an unknown quantity. The team scored three touchdowns in the first period, five in the second, three in the third, and five in the fourth, 55 points in each half. The first two periods were played by the first eleven; by the third period a new back field had* been sent in. At the opening of the fourth a whole new Cornell team was on the field, but regardless of changes of personnel, the score kept piling up. By the end of the second period the game was no longer a contest; in the third, interest could not help but lag, but in the fourth the stands came to life when the score had passed the 80 mark and in the last ten minutes there was real interest in the game again, the question being: would the team hit the hundred mark or not? It did, with four minutes more to play, and then scored one final touchdown for good measure. That was one of the two interesting things about this game. The other is the fact that on the Saturday before Western Reserve was defeated by Annapolis by the score of 53 to o. Cornell more than doubled the Navy's score, an interesting achievement, though not necessarily significant. One other comment, perhaps, is not out of point. With no real opposition, having things all their own way, it was perhaps surprising that the Cornell team kept at it so well, that it maintained its driving pace, that the momentum of its attack didn't fall off. Against the background of such a score it is difficult to determine what progress the team had made between this game and that with Rochester. One felt, however, that the steady development of the last four weeks had been maintained. The line was impenetrable always, though still not decisive and sharp in its charging; backfield interference formed a bit smarter than a week before. The whole team got into the play quite frequently; sometimes the runner had four and five men to guard him. Defensively the team stopped about everything, but it was worth noting that usually the opposing backs got to the line of scrimmage before they were downed. The sight of Cornell men breaking through and nailing a man in his tracks before he could get started has not been a common one so far. Cornell broke up Reserve's aerial game pretty effectively. A pass, Cathcart to Krump, which made twenty-five yards, was about the only successful play of the visitors, and it gave them their one first down. Three or four Reserve passes were intercepted, one by Olney in the last two minutes for a touchdown, the fullback running twenty-five yards for the score, and another in the third period by Lechler, who ran seventy yards to the oneyard line before being downed. Generally, however, Cathcart was so hurried that he could not get them away properly. Cornell tried a few new plays with some success and executed one neat forward pass from running formation. Practically all of the offensive, however, was of the straight football variety. Spectacular runs by Kaw, Pfann, Gould, Rooney, and Ramsey and smashing line plunges by Lechler and Ramsey were the order all of the afternoon. Gould, a recruit from the sprinters of the track squad, proved again that he was the fastest man on the Cornell squad, so speedy in fact that he overran his interference frequently. The playing of Olney in the last period attracted attention. He made four touchdowns. Several fumbles in the first period would have proved costly against a more formidable opponent, and there were isolated instances of failure to follow the ball. Generally speaking, however, the team is bearing out its early season promise of developing into a stronger, more versatile, and more intelligent eleven than last year's. The lineup and summary: Cornell Western R. Cassidy L.E Fulton Hanson L.T Davis Brayman L.G Jones Brayton C Balough Jones R.G Wohl Dodge R.T Gordon Munns R.E Kurtz Rooney Q.B Klump Kaw L.H.B Ertle Ramsey R.H.B Davis Lechler F.B Cathcart Cornell 21 34 21 34—no Western Reserve. . o o o o— o Touchdowns: Ramsey 2, Lechler 4, Kaw, Pfann 2, Olney 4, Gould 2, Rooney. Goals from touchdowns: Hanson 10, Carey 4. Substitutions: Cornell: Pfann for Rooney, Gould for Kaw, Olney for Lechler, Gouinlock for Munns, Rooney for Pfann, Buckley for Cassidy, Carey for Ramsey, Davidson for Hanson, Sundstrom for Dodge, Kay for Brayman, Richards for Brayton, Ebersole for Jones, Parker for Davidson; Western Reserve, Krewson for Jones, Ruedy for Wohl, Geraci for Klump. Officials: Referee: O. C. Cutts, Bates. Umpire: L. 0. Birberger, W. and J. Linesman: E. J. Ryan. Time of periods, fifteen minutes. Freshmen Are Defeated The freshman team was defeated by Kiskiminetas School last Saturday by the score of 19 to o in the first game of the schedule. The Pennsylvanians were more skilful, their criss-cross and forward passing game causing the freshman team, which had been together but a few weeks, a great deal of trouble. DANIEL H. WANZER, one of Ithaca's earliest business men, who founded the grocery store which bears his name, died in Ithaca on October 2 at the age of eighty-four. LITERARY REVIEW A Study of Prices Prices of Farm Products in the United States, by George F. Warren '03. United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 999. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1921. 8vo, pp. 72. We are all vitally interested in the price of farm products—the farmers as sellers, the rest of the community as buyers. Moreover, we have lately been learning lessons in solidarity—that when one part of the community suffers the rest suffer. When a house burns, the neighbors may rejoice, thinking they are going to sell the householder the makings of a new house; but if the owner has no money left to buy, he may even become a charge on the community, and in any case the community wealth is diminished by the value of the burned building. So with the farmer. Price conditions following the war have been very bad for him. Professor Warren has studied these conditions in the light of the experience of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, and has arrived at interesting conclusions. The ultimate test of the farmer's prosperity is the purchase power of what he has to sell. If the purchasing power of money in 1909-14 be taken as 100, the whosesale prices of 1920 had gone to 250; so far as these prices were concerned, then, the dollar was worth forty cents. Because of this and various other conditions the purchasing power of farm products in June, 1921 was as follows: cotton, 51; corn, 61; oats, 60; barley, 53; wheat, 93; rye, 101; buckwheat, 101; flaxseed, 55; beans, 81; hay, 68; potatoes, 64; peanuts, 48; beef cattle, 69; sheep, 66; wool, 58; hogs, 67; horses, 45. The average purchasing power of 31 products was 70. Thus the farmer is unable to buy factory products, and this affects business and industry. If the country cannot buy, the city cannot sell. The farmer's plight has greatly increased the general industrial depression. Can anything be done to better conditions, or must we simply wait for the clouds to roll by? Professor Warren urges the adjustment of wages, freight rates, retail prices to some general level as soon as possible; too high prices should come down, and too low prices should come up. Encouragement of exports is necessary, involving a liberal policy of financing exports so that Europe can afford to buy. The farmer is to be encouraged to become more nearly self-sustaining. Credit should be extended to farmers to enable them to continue to farm in an orderly but conservative manner; and farm credits should to a greater extent be financed as investments rather than as temporary bank credits. The supply of livestock should be increased. Until Russia again becomes an exporting 44 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF THE NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING The cornerstone of Cornell's latest structure is being laid and the name of its donor announced while this issue goes to press. nation, the outlook for exportation of wheat and rye is more favorable than for other products. Reserves of grain and hay should be built up so that the unexpectedly large crops may be used to supplement the short crops which are now almost equally injurious to industry. Finally, courage and perseverance are necessary to meet difficult conditions and carry the farmer through to normal times. Books and Magazine Articles In The Cornell Law Quarterly for May, lately received, is printed the lecture on "Freedom of Contract" delivered by Professor Samuel Williston of Harvard on May 7 on the Frank Irvine Foundation. Professor Nathan Isaacs discusses "The Revival of the Justum Pretium." Justice Leonard C. Crouch '89, of the Supreme Court, writes on "Annulment of Marriage for Fraud in New York." Professor J. H. Rogers reviews "The Financial Organization of Society" by Harold G. Moulton. Professor Rasmus S. Saby reviews "Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence" by Sir Paul Vinogradoff and the third English edition of Story on Equity by A. E. Randall. Professor Julian P. Bretz reviews Professor Zechariah Chafee's "Freedom of Speech." Professor Charles K. Burdick reviews "Federal Criminal Law and Procedure" by Elijah N. Zoline; "The Preparation of Contracts and Conveyances" by .Henry Winthrop Ballantine; and "Safeguards of Liberty" by W. B. Swaney. There are forty-two pages of Notes and Comment on selected cases by seniors in the College of Law. In Science for October 14 R. M. Strong, of the Loyola University School of Medicine, Chicago, writing on "The Causes of Whiteness in Hair and Feathers," chal- lenges the statement made by Professor Bancroft and others that white hair and feathers owe their color to the entrance of air into their structure. To Mycologia for July-September Professor Joseph C. Arthur, D.Sc. '86, of Purdue, contributes "Memoranda and Index of Cultures of Uredineae (Rusts), 1899-1917." Dr. William Murrill Όo writes brief obituary notices of John Macoun and Edward T. Harper. The Bulletin of the New York Botanic Garden for September includes the annual report of Dr. William A. Murrill, supervisor of public instruction. Between April 17 and October 31 of last year fortyfive illustrated public lectures were given at the Garden. In The Physical Review for September Herbert Kahler, Ί9-21 Grad., writes on "Crystalline Structures of Sputterless and Evaporated Metallic Films." Lewis R. Koller publishes the third instalment of his "Physical Properties of Thin Metallic Films." Frederick L. Ackerman '01 writes in the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, under the title "The Court Settles It," on the recent court decision that ten per cent of the present value of the property constitutes reasonable rent. To The American Economic Review for September Margaret L. Stecher contributes a discussion of "Family Budgets and Wages." Dr. John Bauer, formerly of Cornell, explains "Recent Amendments of the New York Public Service Commissions Law." Professor Abbott P. Usher, formerly of Cornell, now of Boston University, reviews Herbert Heaton's "The Yorkshire Woolen and Worsted Industries." "Housing and the Housing Pro- blem" by Carol Aronovici '05 is reviewed by James Ford. Professor James E. Boyle has lately published, through the J. B. Lippincott Company, a new text-book on "Agricultural Economics." "The Engineers and the Price System" by Thorstein Veblen, '91-2 Grad., is announced by B. W. Huebsch. In The American Journal of Sociology for September Professor Charles A. Ellwood '96, of the University of Missouri, reviews "American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought, 1865-1917" by Charles E. Merriam. Professor Dwight Sanderson reviews Peter A. Speek's "A Stake in the Land." Two important articles in The American Historical Review for July, recently issued, are by Cornellians. Professor Carl Becker writes entertainingly on "Mr. Wells and the New History." Professor John R. Knipfing Ί o , of the University of Brussels, discusses "German Historians and Macedonian Imperialism." Professor Alfred H. Sweet, Ph.D.' 17,' of the University of Colorado, reviews Cuthbert Butler's "Benedictine Monasticism: Studies in the Benedictine Life and Rule" and L. W. Smith's "The Early History of the Monastery of Cluny." Frederick C. Church '09 reviews E. Rodocanachi's "La Reforme en Italie" and Piero ChimineΠTs "Bibliografia della Storia della Riformia Religiosa in Italia." Professor Wilbur C. Abbott, '92-5 Grad., of Harvard, reviews George M. Theal's "History of South Africa from 1873 to 1884: Twelve Eventful Years." Professor Walter C. Bronson, A.M. '90, reviews the third and fourth volumes of "The Cambridge History of CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS American Literature." Professor Arthur C. Howland '93, of the University of Pennsylvania, reviews " Saint Gregoire VII" by Augustin Fiche in "Les Saints" (Paris, Lecofϊre). An edition of Sallust with an English translation by Professor John C. Rolfe, A.M. '84, has just been published in the Loeb Classical Library. AT OTHER INAUGURATIONS Cornell is to be represented this fall at the inaugurations of three college presidents. Professor William A. Hammond, Dean of the University Faculty, will be Cornell's delegate at the inauguration of Dr. Frank Aydelotte as president of Swarthmore College on October 22. Herbert D. Mason '00, a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees, will represent the Universitty at the inauguration of Dr. James Burnett Eskridge as president of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanic College on November 1. Dean James Parker Hall '94, of the University of Chicago Law School, will represent Cornell at the inauguration of Dr. Herbert M. Moore as president of Lake Forest College. Dr. Moore was student pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca from 1915 to 1919. FACULTY NOTES PROFESSOR CHARLES R. STOCK ARD, of the Medical College in New York, will deliver on October 22 the first Harvey Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine, his subject being "The Significance of Modifications in Body Structure." AT NEW YORK University a School for the Study of Oriental Commerce and Politics has lately been formed, of which Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks, formerly of Cornell, is to be the head. DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL is to be chosen president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at its annual meeting in December, according to the New York World. His predecessor in the office, Dean Mortimer E. Cooley of the University of Michigan, has been chosen to fill the place vacated by Herbert Hoover: president of the Engineering Council of the Federated American Engineering Societies. PROFESSOR EMTLE M. CHAMOT '91 gave an illustrated lecture on "The Microscope and How the Chemist Can Use I t " before the New York section of the American Chemical Society on October 7. PROFESSOR LAURENCE PUMPELLY was married in Paris on August 22 to Mademoiselle Jeanne Pataud, daughter of Madame Edouard Pataud, of Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Pumpelly have returned to Ithaca, and are living at 604 East Buffalo Street. ALUMNI NOTES '83 BCE—A recent issue of The Spur, New York, contains the following: "Edward J. Pearson, President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, a portrait of whom appears on another page, is, like most of our great railroad executives, thorough in everything he undertakes. A practical railroad man in every word he utters, in every step he takes, and a graduate from Cornell University with the degree of Civil Engineer, he is familiar with every department of railroad work. As an evidence of his thoroughness, at one time he walked the greater part of the distance from New York to Springfield for the purpose of examining New Haven track and maintenance methods—a straightaway hike of one hundred and thirty-four miles. But it required many more miles of hike for Mr. Pearson to accomplish his purpose. He shatters all union labor rules by being on his job from fifteen to eighteen hours a day." '90-1 Grad—Professor Samuel B. Harding, formerly of I n d i a n a University, has joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota as professor of history. '92 AB—Miss Harriet O'Shea, daughter of Professor Michael V. O'Shea, of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed lecturer in education at Bryn Mawr, in place of Professor Mildred Castro, who is now in Europe. Miss O'Shea has lately been doing advanced work in psychology and education at Teachers College. In 1918-9 she held the fellowship of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and in 1919-20 a fellowship at the Teachers College. '97 PhB—Dr. Paul S. Pierce goes this year to Oberlin as professor of economics. For the past years he has been on leave from the State University of Iowa, working in the Central Division of the Red Cross. '93 MS, '97 DSc—A severe illness, from which he is only just recovering, will prevent Dr. Ernest F. Nichols from immediately assuming the duties of the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now in New Hampshire. '00 CE—Irving C. Brower is city manager of Pontiac, Mich. His address is 34 Liberty Street, Pontiac. Όo PhD—Professor Guy M. Whipple was one of the special lecturers at the University of Michigan Summer School. On July 22 he spoke on "How the Psychologist Tests Intelligence," using lantern illustrations. Ό1-2 G—Louis A. Harding is with the J. W. Cowper Company, Fidelity Building, Buffalo, N. Y. '03 AB—Charles L. Cool has a position 45 with the Cameron Coal Company, Marion, 111. '04—Grad—Cony Sturgis, who for the past few years has been teaching and studying at Princeton, has been appointed assistant professor of Romance languages at Oberlin, and will be especially charged with the teaching of Spanish. '05 AB—Arthur D. Camp has left the American Eveready Works to become factory manager of the Williamsport Building Products Company, of Williamsport, Pa. His mail address is P. O. Box 503, Williamsport. '07 CE—Clarence H. Swick advises us that we have been misinformed concerning his position. He is with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, but he is a geodetic computer, and not chief of the Survey as we stated in the issue of October 6. '07—Archie D. Walker is secretary of the Red River Lumber Company, Minneapolis, Minn., with which he has been associated since leaving college. Since the company suspended the manufacture of lumber in Minnesota, its activities in Minneapolis have been centered largely in the management and sale of its vast real estate holdings. Walker is also prominent in banking circles in Minneapolis, being chairman of the board of directors of the Lincoln Trust and Savings Bank and vice president of the Lincoln National Bank. '07 ME—A son, Julian Albert Pollak, Jr., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. (Babe) Pollak of Cincinnati on September 15 at the Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. '08 MSA—Professor William J. Souder is head of the department of school gardening and agriculture at the Radford Normal School, East Radford, Va. '09 AB—Professor Earll L. Lord has become a member of the faculty of the College of Agriculture, University of Florida. Ί o AB, '14 PhD—E. Eugene Barker has returned from Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, and has accepted a position as associate professor of botany at the University of Georgia. His address is Le Conte Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Ίo, Ί i ME—Samuel T. Harris is with the American Fork and Hoe Company, Ashtabula, Ohio. He lives at 180 Prospect Street, Ί o AB—Thomas T. Cook is with the C. R. Cook Paint Company, Kansas City, Mo. Ί o ME, Ί 2 MME—Henry L. Freeman is with the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car Company, Birmingham, Ala. He lives at 787 Parkway, Fairfield, Ala. Ί i ME—Julian P. Hickok has resigned his position as assistant chief draftsman in the stoker division of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, South Philadelphia Works, 46 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS to accept a position as teacher of mechanical drawing in the Northeast High School, Philadelphia. He is secretary of the State Committee of the Single Tax Party of Pennsylvania, and he lives at 4946 North Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. '12—Adolph Menjou plays an important role in the photoplay "Courage." He also played in "The Faith Healer," on which Mrs. Harriet Tilden Moody '76 was collaborator. '13—William J. Haselton is with the Wisconsin Highway Commission, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. '13 MD—Miss Charlotte A. Meier and Dr. A. Graham Biddle '13 were married on September 19 in the Church of the Incarnation in New York. They will live at the Hotel Gotham for the winter. Biddle is a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, and throat. He is a member of the consulting staff of the Post-Graduate Hospital, and is associated with the work of the New York Diagnostic Dispensary and the Bloomingdale Dispensary. '13 BS—Wilfred deS. Wilson is with the Standard Chemical Company, Cookshire, Quebec, Canada. Ί 3 AB—Julian D. Corrington, lately curator in zoology, has resigned to become associate professor of biology at the University of South Carolina, and is in charge of zoological work there. Mrs. Corrington, who was formerly Miss Florence L. Hagin of Ithaca, is a member of the class of 1919. They have rented their home in Ithaca, and are living at 1813 Hampton Avenue, Columbia, S. C. '13 PhD—Dr. Benjamin F. Stelter is professor of English in Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. '14 ME—James G. Miller is an engineer with the Southern California Edison Company. He lives at 981 Arapahoe Street, Los Angeles, Calif. '15 AB—Miss Marion E. Potts has given up her position as teacher in the Kensington High School, Philadelphia, to go to Japan as a missionary. She left Philadelphia on September 25 for San Francisco, sailing from there for the Orient on October 5. Miss Potts will work under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Lutheran Church, and will teach in Kumamoto on the Island of Kiusiu, Japan, where the board is opening a school for Japanese women. '15 AB—The marriage of Miss Edith Berdan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Temple Taylor Berdan of Elizabeth, N. J., and Leo Mulford Blancke '15 of Essex Falls, N. J., took place on June 11 at the home of the bride's parents. They are making their home for the present at 118 Fifth Avenue, East, Elizabeth, N. J. Ί 6 AB—John E. Flitcroft received the degree of M. A. last June at New York University, and has since been instructor T H E W I D O W is Still the belle Of the town And would be glad To write you Twelve times For ONLY three dollars To CORNELL WIDOW, Ithaca, N. Y. Name Address City Cross out one: [Start with next issue] [Start with first issue of college year] OBEY THAT IMPULSE in English at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. He lives at 10 First Street. Ί6—Louis R. Farr is with the American Shipbuilding Company, Cleveland, Ohio. He lives at 2832 East Derbyshire Road. ' 16 AB—Gwendolen English Ί 6 was married on August 30 to the Rev. John Keble Burleson, D.D., in St. Paul's Church, Rochester, N. Y. Ina W. Hall ' 18 was maid of honor. The ceremony was performed by the Rt. Rev. Hugh L. Burleson, bishop of South Dakota, a brother of the groom. Dr. Burleson was until June 1 assistant rector of St. Paul's, Rochester, and is now rector of St. PauΓs, Vermilion, S. D. The State University is located at that place, and most of his work will be with the students. Dr. Burleson's father was for thirty-three years an Episcopal missionary in the Middle West, and all five sons entered the Episcopal ministry. Ί6-18 G—Lois O. Gibbons is associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College. '17 BS—Elbert E. Conklin, Jr., has changed his address from Buffalo, N. Y., to 2403 East Ninth Street, Cleveland, Ohio. He is still with the United States Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates. In Cleveland, he is in charge of the Food Products Inspection Service. Ί7—A daughter, Marion Dorothy, was born on September 28 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nuttal Jones of Frederica, Del. '17 CE—Edward A. Chandler, Jr., is with the Bartlett-Hayward Company of Baltimore, Md. He lives at 615 Melville Avenue, Baltimore. '17—Frederick P. Rose is in the Atlanta? Ga., office of Rand, McNally and Company. He lives at 33 Dixie Avenue, Atlanta. Ί 8 , '20 BChem—Miss Marie Louise Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Smith, was married to James Wellington Bassett Ί 8 of Cincinnati on September 2 at the home of her parents in Rochester, N. Y. The bride is a graduate of Elmira College. They will make their home in Cincinnati. Ί8—Kwai C. Lau is with the Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd., Hong Kong, China. Ί 8 '20 WA—Melvin A. Conant has become associated with the investment securities department of Lage Brothers and Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange, 160 Broadway New York. '19, '20 DVM—Miss Mary Edith Acomb and Edward R. Cushing Ί 9 were married on September 3 at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Acomb, in South Dansville, N. Y. Cushing is an instructor in the University; he and his bride will live in Ithaca. '19 AB—Grace M. Granville is with the Western Electric Company, 463 West Street, New York. 47 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS '19 CE—Oscar J. Sewell is located at Christopher, 111., as resident engineer on the construction of eight reinforced concrete bridges and one large steel bridge of two spans of one hundred and fifty feet each for the Illinois State Highway Commission. His mail address is Box 666, Christopher, 111. '19 AB, '20 AM—Louis R. Gottschalk recently received the degree of Ph.D. at the University, and will be instructor in modern European history at the University of Illinois, during the current year. He and Mrs. Gottschalk (Laura Reicjienthal '22) are living at 502 West Oregon Street, Urbana, 111. TRAIN SERVICE VIA Lehigh Valley Railroad '20 AB; '20 AB; '20 CE—I. Kathryn Blowers, Carl H. Tibbitts, and Paul M. Van Camp have been accepted by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and will sail for China some time this month. '20 AB—Samuel J. Solomon '20 and Miss Dorothea Jones Bamberger were married on September 14 at the Hotel Astor in New York. They spent their honeymoon in Bermuda, and will make their home in Washington, D. C , where Solomon is connected with M. Phillipsborn and Company. Their address is 1630 Webster Street, Northwest. '20—Frank B. Cross, Jr., is with the Columbia Life Insurance Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. He lives at 551 Blair Avenue, Avondale, Cincinnati. ; 2O MD—Margaret H. Nelson has completed a year's interneship in the Woman's Hospital in Philadelphia, and has gone to Des Moines, Iowa, where she intends to establish her medical practice. '20 ME—Since August 1 Chester A. R. Kurtz has been assistant engineer with the Tampa Electric Company, Tampa, Fla. '20 BS—H. Evelyn Hendryx is teaching cooking in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades of the Broadway School, Newburgh, N. Y. Her address is 276 Liberty Street, Newburgh. 7 2i LLB—Miss Rosalie Ulrich took the bar examinations in Brooklyn in July; she expects to go abroad soon to study languages and law. '21—John H. Bird is with the W. Atlee Burpee Company, 480 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia. He lives at 5151 Wissahickon Avenue. '21 BChem—Hiram B. Young is attending the Philadelphia Textile School, and his address is in care of W. S. Belding, Bryn Mawr, Pa. '21 BChem—John A. Schade is with the Wilbur White Chemical Company, Owego, N. 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