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VOL. XXVI, No. 15 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] JANUARY 10, 1924

Librarian Willard Austen '91 Writesof Need of Room for Books-

Describes Leowy Collection

Number of Freshmen Related to Cor-nellians Continues to Increase-

Nearly One-third This Year

Basketball Team Gets Good Startby Winning Three of Four

Holiday Games

George R. Pfann To Assist as Foot-ball Coach—Add Major Leaguer

as Baseball Assistant

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POSSIBLY because of the slightlylonger Christmas recess, the exodusof students seemed larger this year

than for the holidays of most recent years.Certainly the business of baggage vanswith returning trunks was reminiscent ofthe beginning of the fall term.

RETURNING STUDENTS found Ithaca inthe grip of the coldest weather of thewinter, and Beebe solidly frozen for wintersports. Hockey practice has begun.

A NEW COMMITTEE has been formed forthe purchase and operation of the Ithaca-Auburn Short Line. Its members areresidents of Tompkins and Cayuga Coun-ties, through which the Short Line passes.The price is set at $100,000.

EAST SENECA STREET, in the 100 block,

is all dressed up with boulevard lights likethose of State Street, making a brightbeginning for the new year.

ENGRAVINGS made by the Ithaca En-graving Company have attracted favorableattention in printers' magazines such asThe Inland, Printer, and Printing Art. Areproduction of this company's plate of thenewly acquired bronze "Discobolus" in theMuseum of Casts of the Arts Collegeformed the frontispiece of The InlandPrinter for December.

THREE WOMEN closely connected withCornell are on the committee of arrange-ments for the luncheon of the Women'sNational Republican Club to be held atthe Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York,January 12. They are Mrs. Otto Kinkel-dey, wife of the head of the Music Depart-ment, Mrs. Samuel D. Orth, widow of Pro-fessor Orth of the Economics Department,and Mrs. Andrew D. White.

CORNELLIANS throughout the East wereable to hear the concerts of the CornellMusical Clubs by radio, because arrange-ments were made at each of the cities inwhich they appeared to transmit theprograms, encores and all, through the air.The concert at Rochester was heard inSan Francisco.

ROBERT H. TREMAN '78 has been namedby Governor Smith as one of a board offour members to develop further theState's park property at Saratoga Springs.

FRANK L. MORSE, head of the Morseindustries at Ithaca, was recently reelectedpresident of the Ithaca Country Club,where Gilmour Dobie and others promi-nent in Cornell affairs find recreation.

WILLIAM H. MANNING, carpenter in the

poultry building of the College of Agricul-ture, fell three stories down the elevatorshaft of that building on January 2, sus-taining painful injuries. This is the second

accident of the same sort in the same ele-vator shaft in the past eight years.

RILEY H. HEATH '12, of Ithaca, has

been named a member of the executivecommittee of the New York State BarAssociation, and Judge Willard M. Kent'98, also of Ithaca, member of the com-mittee on grievances.

BARR BROTHERS, of which Joseph S.Barr Ί 8, is a member, have acquired twoadjoining buildings on State Street, andwill enlarge their hardware store front.The Calkins leather goods store which hasoccupied one of the purchased buildingswill move to a new location directly acrossState Street,

BOOTLEGGERS and other vendors ofillegal booze paid fines aggregating $3,900into the Tompkins County treasury duringthe past year.

CORNELL was represented at the nationalconvention of Cosmopolitan Clubs held atthe University of Indiana at Bloomington.President Coolidge wired his greetings.The representatives from Cornell wereMichael A. Khoury '22 of Eastman,Georgia, and Pallempate G. Krishna '24of Secunderabad, India. Nairne F. Ward'21 of Lockport, New York, a graduatestudent now president of the CornellCosmopolitan Club, acted as secretary tothe convention.

THE FIRST FIRE of the new year in New

York wrecked a chair factory on EastTwenty-fifth Street and for a timethreatened to spread to the Cornell Med-ical College, and to other buildings in EastTwenty-sixth Street in the rear of anddirectly opposite Bellevue Hospital.

PREMONITIONS of the Junior Prom arefound in the fact that the various fratern-ity houses have drawn for the orchestrasavailable for each afternoon and eveningof Junior Week. The music for the Promwill be furnished by the Mason-Dixonaggregation, which has always been popu-lar at Cornell.

No EXAMINATIONS are to be held by anydepartment of the University in the weekpreceding Block Week, according to amemorandum recently sent to the mem-bers of the Faculty by Dean William A.Hammond. On December 2, 1904, theFaculty passed a resolution against suchexaminations, and on October 10, 1923,reaffirmed this action. The new reminderhas been issued by the Faculty itselfbecause the rule had been violated. Nowrenewed attention is brought to all mem-bers of the instructing staff in a memoran-dum which urges "the punctilious observ-ance of the Faculty's regulation."

EGBERT BOW, better known to manygenerations of Cornellians as "Bert," aveteran waiter at the Ithaca Hotel, diedrecently at his home in Ithaca as the resultof a stroke of apoplexy following the grip.He had been a waiter at the hotel fortwenty-five years, and had amassed con-siderable property, owning several houses.

LOOKING BACKWARD over the past year,The Cornell Sun avowedly follows the leadof the metropolitan press, and reviews1923 at Cornell. It starts with the state-ment that "the University has been mark-ing time" and then goes on to note thefollowing changes in physical equipment:the new Laboratory of Chemistry, threeadditions to the group of dormitories, theUniversity heating plant—the largest ofits kind in the world, the new DairyBuilding, and the addition to the Veterin-ary College. In instruction it notes theaddition of honor courses in economics andEnglish, growth in the College of Law,strengthening of teaching personnel, andthe establishment of the Cornelll Graphic.

GILMOUR DOBIE was reelected a trusteeof the Football Coaches' Association at itsannual meeting in Atlanta. RomeynBerry '04 also attended meetings at Atlan-ta of the Athletic Directors' Association,and the National Collegiate AthleticAssociation.

GRADUATE MANAGER ROMEYN BERRY

'04 and Charles E. Treman '89 attendeda meeting of the stewards of the Intercol-legiate Rowing Association in New Yorkthis week. The chief topic of discussionwas the determining of the time and placeof the intercollegiate regatta of 1924.

THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for January13 will be the Rev. Dr. Maxwell Savage,minister of the First Unitarian Church ofWorcester, Mass.

LECTURES for the week include three byProfessor von Schulze Gaevernitz of theUniversity of Freiburg on "Why WeMissed the Peace Advocated by Wilson,""The Economic Consequences of the Ver-sailles Treaty: the Actual Situation ofGermany," and "The Reconstruction ofEurope" on January 7-9; "Praxiteles,"the sixth in the series by Professor EugeneP. Andrews '95 in the Museum of Castson January 10; and President Farrand'sFounder's Day address on January 11.

PRESIDENT FARRAND is member of an

adivsory council on Indian welfare whichmet recently at Washington to discussphases of government guardianship overits native American wards. Among othermembers of the council are Mary RobertsRinehart, William Jennings Bryan, Wil-liam Allen White, and Edward Bok,

174 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Library Must Expand

Addition of Benno Loewy Collection Em-phasizes Need for More Room

for University's Books

"We learn to read in the various lan-guages, in various sciences; we learn thealphabet and letters of all manner ofbooks; but the place where we are to getknowledge, even theoretical knowledge,is in the books themselves. It dependsupon what we read after all manner ofprofessors have done their best for us. Thetrue university of these days is a collectionof books." Thus says Carlyle in his "Heroas a Man of Letters," and thus he placesemphasis on the part the library mustplay in any university equipment, notonly as a repository of the world's knowl-edge, but as the laboratory where men andwomen learn how to use the sources ofknowledge, where they acquire the habitthat is to last throughout life in the use ofbooks.

It follows then that the library is the onegreat division of a university that cannotbe allowed to fall behind. Standing as itdoes, one of the great divisions, coordinate*with the colleges, it supplies the basic ma-terials for all colleges, and all colleges sufferalike if in any way the library fails in itswork of supply.

The Sage Library at Cornell was builtin 1891 to house a half million volumes.The University library to-day numbersnearly three-quarters of a million volumes,ranking fourth among the universitylibraries of the United States. Theseadditional volumes have been accommo-dated in department collections housed inother college buildings, most of which arelacking in the fire-proof features so essen-tial to the protection of books.

Although two additional floors andmany odd corners of the main Libraryhave been filled with book stacks duringthe past ten years, all available shelvingspace is now filled and in some places booksare stacked on tables. Thus the first lawof a library—order—is violated; and with-out order, service is impossible. The read-ing room, large, as libraries were in 1891, isno longer adequate for the needs of readersdoing general introductory investigations,and the seminary rooms for advancedwork are too few and too small to allowproper division of workers in the manyfields of advanced work. Again, the workrooms, so necesssary for the receipt andpreparation of books for use, are entirelytoo small. Every available corner isoccupied with the working staff, and spacefor additional needed workers cannot befound.

This situation becomes more acute atthis time when the University has justreceived the Benno Loewy Library, con-sisting of some sixty thousand volumes,enough to fill nearly two additional stackfloors.

This collection comprises some thirteen

cases of rare and valuable editions ofEnglish, French, German, and Americanauthors, many of them beautifully boundby the foremost French binders. Thereare some sixteen cases of Shakespeareana,among which are found a copy of theFourth Folio and a rare copy of the TheTwo Noble Kinsmen by Fletcher andShakespeare, valued at $1500. Followingthese is a large collection of play bills,theatre programs, pictures of actors andactresses, and many extra-illustratedvolumes of theatrical memoirs and histor-ies, besides a large collection of booksdealing with the drama throughout theworld.

Of the modern authors Mr. Loewy col-lected the best editions, including limitedand autographed editions in large numbers.Finally, in .general literature, history,economics, etc., there are thousands ofvolumes of standard works in well-pre-served bindings.

In addition to these the collection includestwo special groups of books. One dealswith law and includes many rare copies ofrecords of famous trials, besides the usualreports; and the other deals with Free-masonry in all its branches.

These books are packed in some threehundred cases for shipment to Ithaca,where they must be stored until space canbe provided. The Library has so littleroom that even storage must be found fora part of the collection outside.

The work of receiving and preparing foruse the current materials needed for re-search and teaching must go on underdifficulties as long as there is space toshelve the books as received, but the limitin this respect will soon be reached, whilethe materials in such collections as theBenno Loewy Library and others that maycome to the University must await theextension of the present building or anentirely new one.

WILLARD AUSTEN '91.

More Cornellians' Children

INSTALL GIANT GENERATOROn December 18 the Niagara Falls

Power Company placed in operation thelargest hydro-electric generator in theworld. The unit, which weighs over 1,750tons, develops 70,000 horsepower and isone of three now being installed.

President Farrand was the guest of PaulA. Schoellkopf '06, president of the Com-pany, at the ceremonies, which wereattended by many nationally knownfigures in the field of hydraulic and elec-trical engineering, government officials,bankers, newspaper men and officials ofthe Company.

Other Cornell men besides Schoellkopfwho are connected with the company areMorris Cohn, Jr., }Sy, Jacob F. Schoell-kopf, Jr., '04, Walter H. Schoellkpof '06,John L. Harper '97, Frederick L. Lovelace'80, Willett W. Read '88, George R. Shep-ard '96, Charles C. Egbert '96, George W.Hewitt Ί6, Howard L. Harrington '22,and LeRoy M. Davis '23.

Tabulation Shows Increase This Year inNumber of Freshmen from

University Stock

The annual tabulation made by theAlumni Representative to determine howlarge a proportion of the entering studentsare related to alumni shows a substantialincrease each year. Out of 1428 freshmenwho matriculated this fall, 415 have Cor-nell antecedents. The entering class ayear ago had 377, the record up to thattime.

There are 97 freshmen, 69 sons and 28daughters, who are the children of Cor-nellians. A year ago there were 83, with55 the year before. A comparison of thefigures for other relatives with those oflast year shows 142 brothers this fall com-pared with 115 a year ago, 70 sisters com-pared with 52, 105 nephews compared with83, and 270 cousins as against 224. Therepresentation of nieces shows a declinewith 21 last year and 15 this fall.

Eight freshmen have mothers andfathers both of whom were in Cornellbefore them. Of the remaining parents,81 are fathers and seven are mothers. Onefather, George B. LaMont '98, has twosons in the first year class.

Three grandfathers are represented.Louise Emery '27 is the daughter of AlbertH. Emery, Jr., '98 and Julia McCluneEmery '02, and the granddaughter of thelate Wilbur F. McClune '72. John M.Francis, Jr., '27 is the son of John M. '02,and grandson of the late Charles S. Francis'74, former ambassador to Austria-Hun-gary. Arthur M. Moore '27 is the grandsonof George W. Platt '72, who is now livingat Red Hook, New York.

The names of the eight sets of Cornellparents, and of their freshman children,follow:Parents Son or DaughterBlaker, Ernest, Ph.D. '01, and

Adelaide C. '19 MarionColson, Frederick D. '97, and

Edna M. Όo Jane E.Emery, Albert H., Jr., '98, and

Julia McC. '02 LouiseHerrick, Glenn W. '96, and

Nannie Y. '97 Stephen M.Nettletαn, Jas. B. '86, and

Kitty W. '88 Dorothy M.Stocking, William A. '98, and

Harriet B. '98 Robert B.Trefts, John C. '02, and

Hazel R. '04 George M., 3d.Warren, George F. '05, and

Mary W. '05 Stanley W.Following are the names of the other

sixty-nine sons and twenty-eight daugh-ters, with those of their respective parents:Parent Son or DaughterAmbler, William ΌoAnderson, Gilbert H. '91Baker, William P. '91Baker, William C. '98Barton, Col. Frank A. '91

WistarFranklin K.

EleanorRobert W.

Katherine O.

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Benton, Frank R. '90Berresford, Arthur W. '93Berrigan, William J. '88Blake, Carroll '95

Frank R., Jr.Arthur B.

William W.

TeranceBowlby, Mrs. John H. (Helen Boileau) '89

MargaretBrane, Mrs. De Forest E. (Olive Olney) Όi

Maxwell De F.Brill, Thomas, Jr., '93 Sp. John A.Brooks, R. Talcott '00 James A.Button, Harry F. '06 Romaine F.Carmalt, Edward A. '84 Horace A.Case, G. Harry '02 Eugene C.Cavanaugh, George W. '93 Alice M.Chapman, Dr. Newton D. '90 Afbert LyonClark, Charles H. '92 Ruth F.Collman, Onnie J. '84 Perry J.Conklin, Daniel B. '00 James W.Craft, Warren M. '93 Warren M., Jr.Craigie, Mrs. E. P. (Florence B. Collins) '92

Stanton C.Dean, Daniel '02 Sp. Francis N.Dunning, William S. '99 Henry S.Etnyre, Samuel L. '88 Samuel R.Field, Henry J. '96 Wendell E.Fish, Pierre A. '90 KatherineFrancis, John M. '02 John M., Jr.Freeborn, Faun W. '97 Faun W., Jr.Fuertes, Louis A. '97 SumnerFuller, Bradley '97 Kenneth W.Gardinier, William J. '93 Russell M.Godfrey, John H.. '95 Mary G.Goodman, Robert B. '94 Pernetta E.Groves, Albert B. '88 John M.Hamilton, William V. '84 WilsonHatfield, Albert R. '97 Albert R., Jr.Hausner, Frank H. Όo Ruth L.Healy, Louis W. '90 Louis H.Henkle, Dr. Emanuel A. '99 Robert T.Humphrey, Dr. Oswald D. '94 Helen R.Hungerford, Mrs. Maude P. '03 Ida M.Huntington, Albert H. '02 DonaldJacobus, Mrs. Samuel I. (Edith Bar-

num) '98 Barbara F.Joyce, William J. '98 William J., Jr.LaMont, George B. '98 Thomas E.

George D.Langdon, Jervis '97 Jervis, Jr.Lay, William R. '85 Lawrence C.Levy, Abrham A. '03 Sidney W.Lewis, George H. '97 George H., Jr.Longnecker, Benjamin F. '03 Frank G.Love, Harry H. '09 Harry B.Lueder, Archie B. '99 ReginaldMcConnell, Ira W. '97 John W.Martinez, Claudio J. Όi Juan J.Maytham, Frank Όo Frank Jr.Mills, Chester L. '03 EllenMilmoe, Mrs. Margaret M. (Margaret

Mooney) '86 Mary A.Miner, Max H. '99 Dorothy A.Morrison, William H. '90 James C.Hall, Miller '75 Mrs. F. H. MorseMorton, Darwin A. '95 David S.Mundy, Floyd W. '98 Floyd W., Jr.Needham, James G. '98 Annabel MarjoryOwens, Mrs. Helen B. Ί o Clara B.Palmer, Geo. B. Όo Francis C.Peterman, Albert E. Όo Albert E., Jr.Potts, Clyde 01 JaneW.Pringle, Benjamin '95 Caroline G.Ramage, Joseph C. '90 Samuel C.

Rauber, Frederick S. Όo Thomas F.Rubert, Kennedy F. '90 Kennedy F.Russell, Charles M. '95 William La RocheSawdon, Will M. Ό8 Agnes F.Stern, Isaac '97 Thomas R.Story, William Jr., '96 William M.Tag, Frederick C. Όi Frederick C, Jr.Tate, Arthur C. '98 Malcolm C.Van Law, Carlos W. '96 Jesse MeadVan Sickle, John '85 John, Jr.Vastbinder, Burrell '02 Christine LydiaWalter, Richard O. Όi Richard F.Ware, Ralph G. '99 Grace LouiseWhitney, Frederick M. '91

Frederick M., Jr.Wing, Frederick K. '90 Charles H.Wyckoff, Clarence F. '98 Betty TalmageYoung, Charles D. Ό2 John R.

CLUB ACTIVITIES

New York WomenThe regular bi-monthly meeting of the

Cornell Women's Club of New York willbe held on Saturday, January 12, 1924, at2.30 at the New York League of Girls'Clubs, 15 East 60th Street.

Miss Genevieve Deming, of the adver-tising department of Saks and Company,will talk informally about her work be-hind the scenes of a big department store.Tea will be served. All Cornell women inthe metropolitan district are invited tobe present.

The annual luncheon of the Club will beheld on Saturday, February 16.

Society of EngineersAt the annual fall meeting of the Cornell

Society of Engineers, officers for the yearwere elected as follows: president, SamuelB. Whinery '99; first vice-president, JohnD. Anderson Ί o ; second vice-president,Professor Herman Diederichs '97; recording secretary, Whitney C. Colby Ί 8 ;corresponding secretary and treasurer,Robert W. Gastmyer Ί i .

Niagara FallsOn December 18 alumni of Niagara

Falls, LaSalle, Lewiston, and Youngs-town held a dinner at the Niagara Club inNiagara Falls at which President Farrandwas guest of honor. Sixty-odd alumni werepresent from classes ranging from '90 to'23. Four alumni of classes of the eighties,Frederick L. Lovelace '80, Morris Cohn,Jr. '87, Willett W. Read '88, and EdwardT. Williams '90 Sp., were introduced asseniors by George M. Tuttle '93, the toast-master, and escorted to places at thespeakers' table, at which also sat Paul A.Schoellkopf Ό6, a member of the Cornel-lian Council.

President Farrand's address, which dealtwith the Cornell of the past, present, andfuture, was received with intense interestby the alumni, many of whom had notbeen back to Ithaca in some years. Hisoutline of what Cornell expected to be-come in the educational field in thiscountry, his views regarding the necessity

for proposing further and more rigidrestrictions for admittance to the Univer-sity, and his ideas with respect to thedesirability for broadening the generaleducation of students who seek to enterthe professions, were high lights in anaddress of extreme interest to all present.

After the President had left to return toBuffalo, an organization meeting was held,a constitution adopted, and officers electedfor the Cornell Club of Niagara Falls, NewYork.

Officers for the first year are: president,Howard O. Babcock '14; vice-president,Lyman C. Judson Ί o ; secretary, Alexan-der L. Porter '20; treasurer, Richard CaryΌ8; athletic director, Walter G. Hae-berle '15; members of the Board ofGovernors, Paul A. Schoellkopf '06,George M. Tuttle '93, Frank J. Tone '91,Robert J. Moore Όi, Raymond H. VanNest Ό5, Eugene A. Kinsey Όi, GeorgeM. Wicker Ίo .

New YorkWith more than 1500 members, of whom

672 have been elected since March 1, 1923,the Cornell Club of New York starts its1924 campaign for more new memberswith its annual dinner and the formalopening of the new clubhouse, on January11. The goal for the coming year is setat five hundred more members. Forty-four were elected to membership in Decem-ber.

The Club has published an illustratedbooklet and is compiling an up-to-date listof members.

ProvidenceTwenty Cornellians of Providence,

Rhode Island, met at the University Clubof that city on Friday, December 28, forthe annual holiday dinner. The party in-cluded three undergraduates and two sub-freshmen who expect to enter the Univer-sity next fall.

William Howard Paine '93 was toast-master. Archie C. Burnett '90 of Bostonspoke in his capacity of director of the NewEngland district of the Cornell AlumniCorporation. Other speakers includedWilliam A. Viall, formerly an instructorat Cornell, and F. Ellis (Pete) JacksonΌo. Dr. William M. Muncy '04 spokefrom the point of view of an oculist on therequirements of automobile driving. Mil-ton G. Dexter '24, substitute end of thefootball team this fall, told something ofthe work of the squad and of Coach Dobie'smethods. Fifty lantern slides sent on fromIthaca completed the program.

At the close of the meeting the executivecommittee was reelected for the comingyear: Mr. Paine, Walter I. Tuttle '02,and Percy B. Ingham '06.

ClevelandThe Cleveland men broke records for

luncheon attendance at the annualChristmas celebration, at the HotelStatler on December 20. The manage-ment was hard put to it to squeeze the lastfew of the 122 Cornellians into the dining


room. There was no set program. In thewords of the reporter of the event, "theolder men tried to show the youngerfellows a good time, and succeeded."

The entertainment included severalduets by the Ό6 specialists, William H.(Bill) Forbes and Wilfred L. (Doc)Umstad;saxophone performances by George W.Teare '23; a 'cello selection by F. F.Stafford, a Yale alumnus; and assortedmusical entertainment by Messrs. Clarkand Herriman of the Hermit Club ofCleveland. Prominent guests were thetwo ends of the Cornell football team,Captain-elect Frank L. Henderson '24,of Detroit, and Harold F. Kneen '24, ofCleveland.

Each member of the Cleveland CornellClub was asked to bring at least one under-graduate to the regular holiday luncheonof the Club at the Hotel Statler on Decem-ber 27. Twenty members of the Club im-personated characters from the comicsections of the daily newspapers in a"georgeous pageant" and other entertain-ment, by "Hermit Club talent" was prom-ised.

East PittsburghTwrenty-five Cornellians with the West-

inghouse Electric and ManufacturingCompany at East Pittsburgh, who cannotget to the regular Cornell luncheons down-town, have decided to hold their own twicea month. The first of these was on Janu-ary 4, and the next will be on January 17.John K. Stotz '16, "Motor Engineering,"W. E. and M. Co., is in charge of thesegatherings.

RochesterThe last luncheon meeting before

Christmas, on December 19, was Ladies'Day at the Cornell Club of Rochester. Themembers brought their wives or otherladies and the Cornell Women's Club ofRochester attended as guests of the Club.The speaker was Edward W. Hungerford,director of publicity at the University ofRochester. The ninety men and womengreatly enjoyed his talk on "The GreaterRochester."

Dr. Eugene H. Howτard, superintendentof the Rochester Hospital, spoke before theClub on December 26 under the title of"A Half Century Run." Dr. Howard hasbeen in practice nearly fifty years.

The Rochester men planned to welcomethe Cornell basketball team with aluncheon on January 2. The team wasscheduled for two games in the Kodak City,on New Year's Day with the Universityof Rochester, and with Colgate on thefollowing day.

Western PennsylvaniaNumber 1 of Volume VII of Cunawpa,

the official organ of the Cornell UniversityAssociation of Western Pennsylvania, isfilled with interesting news of Cornell plansin that section of the country. It an-nounces the informal Founder's Day din-ner to be held at the Schenley Hotel atseven o'clock on the evening of January11 the luncheon of Cornell men connected

with the educational department of theWestinghouse Electric and ManufacturingCompany, with John K. Stotz Ί 6 makingthe arrangements assisted by Arthur C.(Curly) Amsler '09; and closes with aparagraph giving the address of the treas-urer. Sidney K. Eastwood '13 is editor ofCunawpa, assisted by E. Willis Whited'12, secretary of the club.

At the luncheon of the club on January4, Dr. Stewart M. Hutchinson, minister ofthe East Liberty Presbyterian Church,spoke on "Vocations and Avocations."

ATHLETICS

Boston Honors MoakleyThe degree of "Doctor of Athletics" was

conferred upon Jack Moakley at a lunch-eon given in his honor by the CornellClub of New England at the Hotel Essex,in Boston last week. Harvard alumniand men prominent in Boston life alsoparticipated in Boston's welcome to oneof her native sons. The fact that Jackhad only recently observed his sixtiethbirthday made the party doubly signifi-cant. It was both a welcome home and acelebration.

The "degree" was bestowτed by WilliamF. Garcelon, formerly graduate managerof athletics at Harvard, who has knownJack since 1893. In conferring the degreeMr. Garcelon said "John F. Moakley,doctor of athletics—Exponent of goodsportmanship—Thoroughly sound in hisviews on the training of athletes—An in-structor who has taught college men to dothe seemingly impossible, thereby instillinga spirit of incalculable value in their tasksin later life—A man of whom all his oppo-nents speak with respect and his pupils andassociates with affection."

J. Weston Allen, formerly attorneygeneral of Massachusetts and a recentcandidate for governor, and Walter S.Barnes sporting editor of the BostonGlobe, also paid tribute to Jack. HoustonBurr, president of the Cornell club pre-sided.

Win Three of FourHaving won three of the four games

played during the Christmas holidays, thebasketball team prepared this week toopen the Intercollegiate League season withDartmouth in the Drill Hall on Saturday.On the holiday trip the Cornell five defeat-ed Colgate, the University of Buffalo, andas previously announced, Syracuse. Theteam lost to the University of Rochesterin a close contest.

Rochester and Colgate were played atRochester, January 1 and 2. Although theCornell five lead Rochester by a score of 12to 10 at the end of the first half in the firstgame, the home team spurted in the sec-ond period and came out victor by a scoreof 24 to 19. In this period Rochester keptthe ball most of the time and by a fine rallyat half time took a commanding lead.Capron and Wedell led the Cornell scorers.

Playing with more spirit and skill Cor-nell defeated Colgate the next night by ascore of 24 to 11. Strong defensive playby the Cornell guards kept the Maroon incheck most of the time and the Cornellianswere not compelled to exert themselves.The score at the end of the first half stood12 to 6 in Cornell's favor. Capron andWedell again led in scoring.

The Buffalo game on January 3 wasclose and interesting, Cornell finally win-ning by a score of 30 to 26. The Cor-nell forwards, Wedell and Capron, againdistinguished themselves.

Pfann To Coach HereCoach Gilmour Dobie will have three

assistant coaches to help develop the 1924football team, according to an announce-ment by the Athletic Association.

George R. Pfann, captain of the 1923eleven and unanimous choice of all criticsfor the so called All-Eastern and All-American football teams, will be one ofDobie's assistants next fall, thus disposingof rather widely circulated reports that hewould enter the Military Academy. Pfannby general consent is rated as one of theoutstanding figures in Cornell footballhistory.

Leonard C. Hanson has been re-engagedas assistant coach and the Associationannounces that it confidently expects thatRay Hunt will also return. Hunt has beenpersonal assistant and chief of staff toDobie for the last four years.

The increasing number of candidates andthe increased necessity for building a foot-ball team out of green material are theprincipal reasons for the increase in coach-ing personnel.

New Baseball CoachCandidates for pitcher on this year's

baseball team will receive special coachingduring the months of February and March.The Athletic Association, on recommenda-tion of Coach John Carney, has appointedMichael LaLonge, one time M a j o rLeaguer, as pitchers' coach and he will takeup his work here when the varsity squadis called out for indoor practice at thebeginning of the second term.

LaLonge has had seventeen years'experience in professional baseball. Heplayed with the Philadelphia team of theAmerican League and lately has been withthe San 'Francisco club in the PacificCoast League. As the success of a collegebaseball team largely depends on thequality of its pitching the service of apitchers' coach should be helpful.

YALE ATHLETIC STANDINGSAt Yale statistics have lately been

collected regarding the standing of athletesespecially during the playing season. Thefigures for 143 men from both the Collegeand Sheffield, representing 355 scholasticyears and the same number of sportseasons, and representing football, base-ball, crew, track, hockey, swimming, andbasketball, show a yearly average and aseason average of over 74 per cent.


Eighteen first-team members and substi-tutes of the 1923 football team fromSheffield had an average of slightly above80. Thirty-two Sheffield athletes in allfour major and several minor sports in1923 had an average of somewhat higherthan 75. The conclusion of the investi-gators is that the marks of men partic-ipating in intercollegiate athletics do notsuffer during the playing season. In onlytwo sports was there a falling off, namelyin football and hockey, and this was adecline of only one per cent; on the otherhand, the average standing of those en-gaged in competitive sports w&s better,during the playing season as well as therest of the year, than the average stand-ing of the undergraduate body as a whole.

Γ SPORT STUFF

MICHIGAN has already written to OhioState to reserve a block of twenty thou-sand tickets for the Michigan-Ohio Stategame in the Columbus stadium in the fallof 1924.

VASSAR is to have a school for heralumnae. It will have neither dean norfaculty, but will foster creative work andstudy. It is to be opened, according topresent plans, in the spring, and will behoused in the building erected for it bythe daughters of the later Dexter M.Ferry, of Detroit, at a cost of $400,000.

The boys are back from vacation full ofturkey and good resolutions. Both willwear off.

The basketball team did rather well,losing to Rochester, but defeating Syra-cuse, Colgate, and Buffalo. We had beenappraising this year's team considerablybelow the outfit of last year; but it seemsbarely possible that we may have to modifyour original estimate.

The Musical Clubs had a good trip withconcerts in Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, DesMoines, Wichita, Cincinnati, and Roches-ter. If the box office statements provehalf as gratifying as the press clippings, allwill be well.

The winter sports are in full swing.There is nothing like skating every nightat Beebe to increase one's chest expansionand list of casual acquaintances.

Examinations are three weeks off. Thosedark, mysterious figures you see stealingaround the Hill in the night are varsitycoaches urging on to renewed scholasticeffort left-handed pitchers, weak-mindedweight throwers, triple threat backs, andport side oarsmen.

"What does a coach do with his sparetime?" Listen, Mister! Hehasn'tany. R.B.

OFFER BELGIAN FELLOWSHIPSThe Educational Foundation of the

Commission for Relief in Belgium an-nounces six C.R.B. graduate fellowshipsfor study -in Belgium during the nextacademic year. Each fellowship carries astipend of 15,000 francs plus tuition fees,payable in Belgium, and traveling ex-penses going and returning.

A choice of twenty-two subjects is givenand fellows may choose the universitj'- ortechnical school they wish to attend. Theywill be required to report in Brussels byOctober 1, 1924, and to reside in Belgiumfor at least eight months.

The requirements for these fellowshipsare American citizenship; thorough knowl-edge of French; graduation from a re-cognized college or professional school inthis country, and if a member of a faculty,of grade below that of associate professor;definite plans for the proposed study; andgood health. Preference is given, it isannounced, to applicants who are betweenthe age of twenty-five and thirty-three,who are unmarried, and who intend totake up teaching or research as a profes-sion.

Application blanks, which must be re-turned by February 15, 1924, are beingsent out by the Fellowship Committee,C.R.B. Educational Foundation, Inc., 42Broadway, New York.

THE BAKER LABORATORY OF CHEMISTRY Photo by TroyThe main lobby, just inside the west entrance to the building, opens into the department museum through the grilled doors. The museum is centrallylocated to all lecture rooms, so that illustrative material is readily available. At the center in back are the stairs leading to the main lecture room, locateddirectly above, of which we expect to publish a photograph next week.


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THE LIBRAY IN DANGERΛ CARTOONIST could represent Cor-

JLX. nell University with fewer than adozen strokes of the pen so that any Cor-nellian would recognize it. Four or six ofthem would be allotted to the Library andthe rest to Cayuga Lake. This sketchwould at once symbolize to each of us theUniversity itself, not merely its physicalaspect or its scenery.

The University Library is as much thecentral figure of the academic life as it isof the bird's-eye view. If, as has oftenbeen said, (particularly in connection withprominent inventors, and manufacturers'tests for the educated man "the real testis the subject's facility in investigatingrather than his stock of ready to use facts,"then the library at once jumps into animportance second only to that of the in-structing staff.

The Cornell University Library formerlyranked high, relatively, in the number ofits volumes. It is still one of the largeuniversity libraries; but any one of adozen other universities is able to pur-chase more new books each year than isCornell. In the course of a few years ourLibrary will gradually become of less andless importance with neither funds toacquire, nor room to care for, additionalbooks beyond those of the utmost impor-tance.

The nucleus, the present library, is fineenough. It bears the imprint of master

minds like Fiske, White, Burr, and Harris,who labored to increase its greatness andits usefulness.

The Library has a dangerous problemon its hands. Shut off from making ade-quate purchases through lack of funds, itmust largely depend for growth on gifts.With wholly inadequate quarters it cannotproperly care for what it now has. It islikely to take on more of the nature of awarehouse and less of that of a library. Afew more gifts of comprehensive privatecollections, and it may be necessary toprohibit the use of the Library as a placein which to read books. The alternative,the refusal to accept further gifts, is hardlymore palatable, and becomes whollyabsurd when carried to its logical and in-evitable conclusion, the refusal to acquireany additional volumes beyond, let us say,the year 1926.

The University Librarian has, elsewherein this issue, outlined the dilemma of theLibrary, made acute by the acquisition ofthe Benno Loewy collection. It is obviousthat funds will have to be provided forcontinuing acquisitions and for additionsto the building for immediate use, and thata comprehensive plan for expansion mustbe worked out. The University seems tobe able to do little of importance about itat present. The Library will have to waituntil some of the University's good friendsrescue it, either by adding units as neededor by supplying funds to put it permanent-ly in position to render the service it isintended to give.

FACULTY NOTES

PRODUCES NEW BEANThe work of Professor Rollin A. Emerson

'99 of the College of Agriculture in pro-ducing a disease-resistant variety of stringbean was the subject of a special articlesigned by Andrue Berding in one of theCincinnati newspapers during the holidaymeetings of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science in that city.Professor Emerson is chairman of theBotany Division of the Association.

Ten years ago he came upon a varietyof field bean that would resist the des-tructive pod-spot, but which was unfit foreating, and set out to combine its goodqualities with the edible qualities of gardenvarieties that were attacked by the disease.

"And now," says this writer, "after adecade of almost ceaseless labor, Mr. Emer-son has produced a new variety of stringbean. With a smile of triumph, he saidat the Gibson Hotel, Thursday, that thenew bean is destined to produce a highertype of this vegetable; more string beanswill be grown and eaten, and the health ofthose who eat them will be better."

Seeds of the new variety are being sentout to certain growers who in turn willdistribute them to others, until the plantsare grown in sufficient quantity to produceseed commercially. Professor Emerson hasalso assisted in the production of a newtype of oats that increases the yield overthe old more than one -fourth.

GEORGE F. WARREN '05, head of the

department of agricultural economics andfarm management, has been elected vice-president of a new organization known asthe Economic Foundation, whose purposeis "to further investigation in the field ofeconomic, social, and industrial science."

BRISTOW ADAMS, formerly of the Feder-al Forest Service and now editor for theCollege of Agrivulture, has just beenelected a director for the two-year termof the American Horticultural Society.

PROFESSOR FLOYD K. RICHTMYER '04 of

the Department of Physics was electednational president of Sigma Xi at itsrecent annual meeting in Cincinnati.

THEODORE H. EATON, professor of ruraleducation, addressed the seventeenth an-nual convention of the National Societyfor Vocational Education held at Buffalorecently.

MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER, head of

the home economics department, is one ofthe speakers at Farmers' Week of theUniversity of Minnesota, from January 7to 12.

EUGENE P. ANDREWS '95, professor of

Greek archeology recently lectured atAuburn, under the auspices of the Ar-cheological Institute of America, on a tripfrom Damascus to Smyrna.

NATHANIEL SCHMIDT, professor of Se-

mitic languages and literatures and Orien-tal history, attended the meetings of sever-al societies concerned with Biblical litera-ture and Oriental research held at ColumbiaUniversity during the holidays, and spokeat some of the sessions.

BRUCE L. MELVIN, professor of ruralsocial organization, spoke on the presenttrend of population from the point of viewof rural population at the annual sessionsof the Americal Sociological Society heldin Washington, D. C, during the holidays.

PROFESSOR ALBERT B. FAUST, recently

returned from Germany, told a representa-tive of the Brooklyn Standard- Union that"a group of leading financiers, by visitingGermany and finding a method of stabiliz-ing the mark, could do more than any othergroup to reduce the chaotic conditions inthis country." Professor Faust added thatthe Germans are generally friendly toAmericans but are extremely hostile tothe French and that even a withdrawalfrom the Ruhr would not help improvethe conditions.

RASMUS S. SABY, assistant professor ofpolitical science, advocated the abolitionof grand juries in cities at the annual meet-ing of the American Political ScienceAssociation held in Columbus, Ohio, dur-ing the Christmas holidays, saying that"in ninety per cent of all cases heard bygrand juries, the jury itself can do little


good, but may do much harm," andfurther commenting that " A m e r i c a ndemocracy as a whole is not combattingcrime successfully" and that "two-thirdsof those who commit crimes in the largercities are not arrested, and that about thesame proportion of those arrested are notconvicted." He gives as the cause of thislaxity in law enforcement the highlytechnical court procedure which offersmany loopholes of escape from the law'spenalties. j

DEAN ROBERT M. OGDEN Ό I , of the

College of Arts and Sciences, lectured onDecember 6 before the Department ofEducation at Smith College on "TheInterpretation of Individual Differences."

ARTHUR A. ALLEN, assistant professorof ornithology, is making a study of amysterious disease which is causing heavymortality among the ruffed grouse in theSouthern Tier counties of New York.

WILDER D. BANCROFT, professor of

chemistry, spoke on "The Fastness ofDyes to Light" at the annual meeting ofthe Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufac-turers' Association of the United Statesheld recently at the Hotel Commodore,New York.

HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON '05,

former lecturer in history at Cornell andauthor of "The Story of Mankind" and"The Story of the Bible," says he is muchbored by the controversy waging betweenthe Modernists and Fundamentalists inreligion, and that the Sermon on theMount is something that all of themought to be able to unite on.

VERANUS A. MOORE, dean of the Veter-inary College, and Roscoe W. Thatcher,director of research of the College of Agri-culture and head of the State ExperimentStation at Geneva, are among the chiefspeakers at the State Breeders' Associationin Syracuse this week.

PRESIDENT FARRAND heads the list ofspeakers at the ninth annual meeting of theAlabama Conference of Social Work to beheld in Tuscaloosa, March 9-11.

WALTER F. WILL COX, professor of eco-

nomics and statistics, was elected a mem-ber of the executive committee of theAmerican Sociological Society at its an-nual meeting held in Washington, D. C,during the holidays.

BRISTOW ADAMS, editor for the Collegeof Agriculture, was chosen representativeof the American Association of CollegeNews Bureaus to act with the organiza-tions affiliated with the American Peaceaward.

E. LAURENCE PALMER Ί I , professor of

rural education, is an adviser on outdoorwork and play for the Boy Scouts.

FOURTEEN LETTER MEN will return toPrinceton as candidates for the 1924 foot-ball eleven, with varsity contestants forevery position except tackle.

PHI KAPPA PHIAt a meeting held on December 13 the

following persons were elected to PhiKappa Phi:

FacultyOlaf M. Brauner, Paul M. Lincoln,

George F. Warren, Jr., Harry P. Weld.College of Agriculture

Arthur H. Brokaw, Interlaken, N. Y.Mrs. Erma Brown Christy, Muncie, Ind.David S. Cook, South Bryon, N. Y.Katherine Montgomery, New York.Mervin C. Mossop, Mowbray, C.P.S.,

Africa.Walter W. Richman, Haddon Heights,

N. J.Irving H. Rodwell, Albion, N. Y.Frances A. Scudder, Randolph, N. Y.Florence M. Zapf, Ithaca.

College of ArchitectureWilliam B. Gebhart, Hart, Mich.Horace F. Colby, Pontiac, Mich.

College of Arts and SciencesPearl E. Anderson, Jamestown, N. Y.Collis M. Bardin, Avon, N. Y.Sarah A. Beard, Cobleskill, N. Y.Mary H. Bosworth, Ithaca.Ruby G. Brown, Bluff Point, N. Y.Anthony J. Delario, Elmira, N. Y.Irwina R. Dorr, Ithaca.Sidney A. Goldstein, Brooklyn, N. Y.Edith V. Harris, Ithaca.Charles W. Hetzler, Rochester, N. Y.James Hutton, Walton, N. Y.Roy C. Lytle, Pittsburgh, Pa.Carlota Mendez, Ithaca.Vera L. Peacock, Ithaca.Milton Rosenkrantz, West Hoboken,

N. J.Pedro M. Sy-Quia, Manila, P. I.Elinor L. Troy, Ithaca.Dorothea M. Westcott, Newburgh, N.Y.

School of Civil EngineeringDorothy W. Allison, Brookline, Pa.Charles L. Felske, Indianapolis, Ind.Frederic K. Love joy, Manhasset, N. Y.

School of Electrical EngineeringGeorge S. Bibbins, Watertown, N. Y.Leo Quackenbush, Warwick, N. Y.Harold Winograd, Rochester, N. Y.

School of Mechanical EngineeringWilliam F. Bernart, Jr., Montclair,

N. J.Albert J. Blackwood, Buffalo, N. Y.Stephen F. Cleary, Ithaca.Harvey E. Coneby, Jr., Baltimore.William G. Mollenberg, Buffalo.Leonard C. Price, Ithaca.Donald A. Rogers, Fulton, N. Y.Louis A. Winkelman, Baltimore.

College of LawAbraham E. Gold, Pittsburgh, N. Y.

important chairs in medicine in the countryand such an appointment is a singularhonor for a man of Dr. Barr's age.

Barr was born at Ithaca in 1889, receivedhis A.B. degree from the University in 1911and his M.D. in 1914. After serving hisinterneship in Bellevue Hospital he wasappointed Research Fellow of the RussellSage Institute of Pathology, a position hehas held up to the present time. Duringthe war he served as medical officer in theAmerican Expeditionary Forces, takingcharge of several hospitals for gas patientsin the Argonne. After the war he returnedto Bellevue Hospital as an adjunct assist-ant visiting physician and later was pro-moted to the position of assistant visitingphysician. He is married and has twochildren.

His particular field in medical research,in which he has made several importantcontributions, has been the relation of tem-perature in fever and the chemical changesin the blood during exercises in health anddisease. His duties in St. Louis do notbegin until October 1; he will spend thetime intervening studying for Washingtonthe methods used in medical education inthe clinics of this country and Europe.

BOSTON SMOKER BOOSTS CLUBThat Cornell, along with Amherst, had

nearly reached its quota of membership inthe proposed new University Club in Bos-ton, and that because three other univer-sities had "gone over the top" and becauseabout six hundred of the thousand collegemen present signified their intention ofjoining the new Club, it was now assured,was the announcement made at the annualintercollegiate smoker at the Copley-PlazaHotel, Boston, on December 17. Thethree who have reached their quota ofmembers are Minnesota, Michigan, andthe University of California. The an-nouncement was made early in the meetingthat about $100,000 and one thousandmembers were already pledged to the newbuilding project, which was described inTHE ALUMNI NEWS of December 6.

After the discussion of the new clubbuilding the alumni of more than fiftycolleges and universities who were presentenjoyed a program contributed by variousalumni groups and made up of music,stunts, and several rounds of boxing in aring set up especially in the Copley-Plazaballroom. The last number on the pro-gram was a pianologue of original songs bySilas H. (Hibby) Ayer, Jr., '14.

GIVEN IMPORTANT POSTDr. David P. Barr Ί i , assistant pro-

fessor of medicine in the Medical Collegein New York, and assistant visiting physi-cian of Bellevue Hospital, has recentlybeen appointed Busch Professor of Medi-cine at Washington University, St. Louis.

Dean Walter L. Niles '00 of the MedicalCollege says that this is one of the most

TREE PLANTINGThe State Conservation Commission

says that the tree-planting in New Yorkthis year has broken all records, with morethan eight million trees set out. The Ex-tension Service of the College of Agricul-ture can justly claim some credit for thisshowing, for the enthusiasm, and evensome of the plans and work of the countyagricultural agents, backed by the effortsof Professor Harris Collingwood and of


Professor Burritt, director of the Exten-sion Service, were largely responsible formaking such good use of the planting stockraised by the Commission.

A report compiled by the Commissionshows Essex County in the lead with 1,695,-300 and Lewis County second with 777,-500. Franklin and Warren Counties eachplanted more than half a million trees,Herkimer and St. Lawrence more than aquarter of a million each, and Cattaraugus,Greene, Oneida, and Westchester nearlya quarter of a million each. TompkinsCounty planted 52,500.

Deducting trees planted by the Statein other counties, Lewis added more acresof new forests than any other county.

MENACE TO WILD FOWLThe Chicago Daily Tribune for Novem-

ber 28 contains the following communica-tion from a nature-lover whose wordsshould have wide circulation:

May I call to the attention of yourreaders a plan recently proposed by Mr.E. A. Mcllhenny, known as the LouisianaGulf Coast Club.

Some ten years ago Mrs. Russell Sagepurchased at Mr. Mcllhenny's instanceabout sixty thousand acres of coastalmarsh land and established it as a perma-nent preserve where the myriad wild fowlcould feed and pass the winter unmolested.Later, to the eastward, Mr. Rockefellerturned approximately the same amountof similar territory to this purpose. Forseveral years now these two great pre-serves have offered sanctuary to vastnumbers of wild ducks and geese.

Mr. Mcllhenny owns the eighty thou-sand acres of exactly similar land lyingdirectly between these two establishedsanctuaries, and is now proposing to de-vote this entire tract to the uses of the"Louisiana Gulf Coast Club/' which is ashooting club with a prospective member-ship of four thousand and an initiation feeof $1,000. Should this plan be allowed tomature, and if only two thousand membersshould subscribe and use the club, it wouldmean the daily legal killing of 70,000 ducks"and geese. If the total membership offour thousand were to hunt daily, theycould and probably would kill 12,600,000ducks and geese a season.

This would inevitably bring about oneof two results: either it would mean thekilling of most of the ducks and geesethat have come to regard this region assafe sanctuary, or it would drive themall away in the course of a season or two.Either one is a result in which no right-minded sportsman wishes to aid. Everymeans should be taken to defeat the aimsof the promoter and to prevent thespoliation of these two most successfulexperiments in wild life conservation.Incidentally, the ducks and geese thatwould be shot are the very ones that ap-pear in the succeeding spring and furnishlocal shooting in the early fall in the upperMississippi and Great Lakes Region.

Louis AGASSIZ FUERTES

LITERARY REVIEW

Wanted—A New EducationGrey Towers', a Campus Novel. Chicago.

The Covici-McGee Company. 1923. 21cm., pp. x, 287. Price $2.

This, if we mistake not, is a young lady'sfirst novel. It gives promise. It is faultyin that many of the minor characters areindistinct and that the conversation leavesone with the somewhat dazed impressionof having hit only a few of the high spots.The author takes too much for granted onthe part of the reader. But Joan and Bethand Landor are well drawn, and there is agood deal that is fine about the styleand the descriptive passages.

It is not this, however, with which weare primarily concerned here. "GreyTowers" is a novel of protest. It mattersnot whether the original is the Universityof Chicago or some other place. It is atype of education that the author is tryingto show up in all its hideousness and utterfutility, and she succeeds.

The author believes that education in auniversity cannot be impersonal any morethan it can in a kindergarten that person-ality and sympathy and enthusiasm andloyalty count even here. The heroine,Joan Burroughs, is a teacher of composi-tion at Grey Towers, her Alma Mater.She does about everything that certain ofher colleagues disapprove of—except thatshe never flirts and she has some very old-fashioned and fine notions about rightrelations with men. She is a friend of herpupils. She gets them interested in hersubject and in their work. She tries toshield them from the workings of the infer-nal machinery of grades and mid-termreports of low standings. She is human inher marking of papers. She refuses to bea slave to the correct curve of passes andfailures, which hath a very devil in it. Shecannot see the good of the research that iscarried on as related to preparation forteaching. For her, teaching is giving one-self for the enlightenment and stimulationof one's pupils. And she feels well repaidfor her efforts—not because she is madepopular thereby but because she is awareof having met and satisfied a need.

There is a good deal of tragedy aboutour secondary and higher education thatcomes from the crowding of schools andcolleges and the attempt to teach pupilsimpersonally and en masse. It cannot bedone. What is done, is, in too many cases,not teaching at all. And here lies the pityof the thing. Too many of our teachers,with crowded classrooms, become slavesof a system and of administration. Forthe ideal university Joan would keep "allthe buildings—except Administration. ButI would turn out three-fourths of thefaculty and all of the officers. I'd retainonly such scholars as were stimulatingteachers. I would retire the professorsafter a certain age—say fifty-five—and

allow them salaries to live on while theyconducted their 'research.' " She wouldhave plenty of young instructors accessibleto the students, with round-tables, inform-al quizzes, and so on. As she put it, "any-thing would help that made the teachersreally care." Even though here may besomething of the exaggeration of youth,with its too passionate protest, certainlythe unknown author of "Grey Towers"has put her finger on the spot of one ail-ment of our modern?education.

Books and Magazine ArticlesIn School and Society for December 15

M. C. Otto, of the University of Wisconsin,under the title of "How vs. Somehow inEducation," publishes a reply to ProfessorLane Cooper's "Two Views of Education."

In The Cornell Civil Engineer for Decem-ber is completed the serial on "The Designof the La Balme Concrete Arch Bridge"by Dr. Jaromir Polivka. Jacob J. Del-bourgo '24 writes on "The Progress ofConstruction of the Interborough RapidTransit Company's Jerome Avenue In-spection Shed."

A Cornell supplement to The WileyBulletin for December gives photographsof several Cornellians who are authors oreditors of books published by John Wiley& Sons, New York. The Bulletin says of

this supplement: ''Cornell University has,almost since its foundation, been recog-nized as a leader in American education,especially in the fields of engineering andagriculture.'' The supplement gives sever-al pictures of Cornell buildings and groundsand of the following professors and alumni:Dexter S. Kimball, Albert W. Smith '78,Vladimir Karapetoff, Herman Diederichs'97, Fred A. Barnes '97, Henry S. Jacoby,Irving P. Church '73, Cyrus R. Crosby'05, Rolland M. Stewart, E. Dwight San-derson '98, Byron B. Robb Ί i , Forest M.Blodgett Ί o , William I. Myers '14, Carl

E. Ladd '12, Frederick G. Behrends Ί 6 ,John Bentley, Jr., Arthur B. Recknagel,Harold E. Botsford Ί 8 , James E. Rice '90,Earl W. Benjamin Ί 1 , Edgar H. Wood '92,Henry N. Ogden '89, Emile M. Chamot'91, Heinrich Ries, Calvin D. Albert '02,Frank O. Ellenwood, George B. Upton'04, William N. Barnard '97, and ClarenceF. Hirshfeld '05.

In The Classical Weekly for December3 "Olympic Victor Monuments and GreekAthletic Art" by Professor Walter W.Hyde '93, of the University of Pennsyl-vania, is reviewed by Professor David M.Robinson, of Johns Hopkins.

In The Educational Review for DecemberProfessor Louis R. Gottschalk '19, of theUniversity of Louisville, reviews "ModernHistory" by Carlton J. H. Hayes andParker Thomas Moon.

Science for December 14 prints a letterfrom Dr. David Starr Jordan '72 relatingto the Japanese earthquake and the totalloss of the library of the Imperial Univer-sity of Tokyo, which contained bewteenfive and seven hundred thousand volumes.


Professor Kenzo Takahashi is now visit-ing the universities of America and Eu-rope in the interest of the library, solicit-ing gifts of duplicates.

In the Journal of the New York Botan-ical Garden for November Dr. WilliamA. Murrill Όo writes on "The BotanicalFeatures of Mountain Lake, Virginia."

In Rhodora for November ProfessorsArthur J. Eames and Karl M. Wiegand'94 discuss "Variations in Trillium Cer-nuum," and Professor Wiegand also hasa short article on "Triosteum Perfoliatumand Related Species."

In The Bryologist for September Pro-fessor Albert LeRoy Andrews of theDepartment of German describes "A NewBryuum from Alberta."

In Modern Language Notes for JanuaryProfessor George I. Dale Ί o of Washing-ton University, St. Louis, describes "AnUnpublished Version of the Historia deAbindarr&ez y Jarifa."

In The Yale Review for January, underthe title of "Leaders of Lost Causes,"Professor Wilbur C. Abbott, '92-5 Grad.,of Harvard, reviews some half dozenvolumes, including the Memoirs of theex-Kaiser.

"Experiments in Psychology" by Pro-fessor William S. Foster '08, of the Univer-sity of Minnesota, is announced by HenryHolt and Company of New York. It con-tains 309 pages and will sell for $2.

The California Monthly for December isdevoted to the College of Agriculture ofthe University of California. ProfessorHerbert J. Webber, formerly of Cornell,now director of the California Citrus Ex-periment Station and acting dean of theCollege of Agriculture of the University ofCalifornia, describes "The Citrus Experi-ment Station." The Station controls atract of 475 acres of land at Riverside,California.

Extension Service News for Novemberincludes reviews of "Dairy Farming Pro-jects" by Professor Carl E. Ladd '12 andof "Kriemhild Herd" by Frank N. Decker

The Columbia Alumni News in its issuefor December 14 published sketches withportraits of Dr. William F. Russell Ίo,and Professor William L. Westermann,who have recently begun their work atColumbia as professors of education andancient history repsectively.

Historical and Philological Sciences."Seventy-five Years of Scientific ProgressRepresented by the Life of the Associa-tion," Professor Herman L. Fairchild '74,University of Rochester; "Oratory andRhetoric in the Roman Imperial Period,"Dr. Harry Caplan Ί 6 ; "Rhetoric andPoetry," Professor Hoyt H. Hudson, Ph.D. '23, of Swarthmore; "A WorkableBibliography for the Beginner in SpeechCorrection, " Professor Smiley Blanton>I4, University of Wisconsin.

OBITUARY

Edgar V. Wilson '72After a long illness and failing health

extending over a period of five years,Edgar Vinton Wilson died at his home inAthol, Mass., on December 10.

He was born in Winchendon, Mass.,seventy-six years ago and was the son ofFrederick A. and Cordelia Mack Wilson.He attended the district schools of Sulli-van, N. H., whither his parents hadmoved, and then attended Marlow Acad-emy, from which he graduated. He enteredCornell in 1868, and graduated in 1872with the degree of B. S.

During his undergraduate career, he wasa first lieutenant in the Military Depart-ment and also played shortstop on hisclass baseball team. He always took agreat interest in his class and at its fiftiethreunion, in 1922, was appointed classhistorian. At the time of his death he wasengaged in completing the class history.

After graduation, Mr. Wilson studiedin a law office in Keene, N. H., and in 1875opened an office in Orange. He remainedthere for six months, then moved to Athol,where he had resided ever since.

For many years he had been one of theleading Masons of Athol and held manyoffices in the order. He was also an activemember of the Knights of Pythias and theWorcester County Bar Association. Dur-ing his residence in Athol his ability as alawyer was recognized and he rose to theposition of associate justice of the FirstDistrict Court of Northern Worcester, aplace he held at his death.

Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife,Emma M. Wilson, a brother, WilliamWilson, of Kenee, N. H., and two sisters,Mrs. Elvira Blood, of Keene, N. H., andMrs. Hattie Fuller, of Athol.

The ALUMNI NEWS is indebted to his

pen for a number of important obituariesof his classmates.

William M. J. Rice '74News of the death of William Morton

Jackson Rice on October 13, 1922 has justreached here.

He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., onFebruary 18, 1854, the son of Edwin T.and Sylvia Jackson Rice. After obtaininghis early education in that city, he enteredthe College of Architecture in 1870 andgraduated in 1874 with the degree of B.Arch. He was a member of the TomHughes Boat Club, the ArchitecturalAssociation, and the Hawkins and FinchBlock Quartette.

After graduating, he studied paintingfrom 1881 to 1884 in Paris under CarolusDuran. He then returned to New York,where he made a reputation as a portraitpainter.

Arthur W. Hard '03Word has been recieved here of the

death on July 4, 1916 of Arthur WardenHard in Arizona.

He was born in Ilion, N. Y., the son ofthe Rev. and Mrs. Edwin F. Hard. Aftergraduating from the Ilion High School, heentered Cornell in 1899 as a student ofcivil engineering, but did not take a degree.He was a member of Delta Phi, Rod andBob, and the Glee Club in his sophomoreand junior years.

The last news received about him, priorto the announcement of his death, wasthat he was with Stone and Webster atTampa, Fla.

Shirley W. Foster '07 Sp.Shirley Watson Foster died on October

23> J923> it has been learned through theGeneral Chemical Company.

He was born in Nance, N. C, on April8, 1884, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P.Foster. After graduating from the NorthCarolina Agricultural and MechanicalCollege with the degree of B.Agr. in 1906,he entered Cornell as a special student inagriculture and remained one year.

Shortly afterward, he entered the Bu-reau of Entomology at Washington, D. C,where he remained until 1912, when heresigned to enter the insecticide businessas manager and entomologist for the Gen-eral Chemical Company of California atSan Francisco. In 1919, he moved toBerkeley, Calif.

Hugh Correll '07Hugh Correll died on June 2, 1923 in

Marietta, Ohio, as the result of a fracturedskull received when he fell from a truck onwhich he was riding.

He was born in Canton, Ohio, on Decentber 12, 1883, the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L.Correll. After graduating from the Can-ton High School he attended the Univer-sity School in Cleveland, Ohio, and thenentered Cornell as a student of mechanicalengineering in 1903. After two years here,he left to attend Massachusetts Tech fora year and a half.

After leaving Boston, he went to Taco-ma, Wash., with the Chicago, Milwaukeeand Puget Sound Railroad on the con-struction of its line along the waterfrontin Tacoma. From there he went to Jop-lin, Mo., where he was in charge of mininginterests for several years. About threeyears ago he entered the mining machinerybusiness with a steel derrick firm, andabout a year ago went into business forhimself under the name of the Aero SignCompany after patenting two types ofrevolving signs.

In addition to his parents and one sister,Miss Lura Correll of Canton, he is survivedby his wife, Mrs. Esther Blake Correll andfive children, Sam, Hugh, Ted, Joan, andDon.

AT HARVARD, according to figures pre-pared by the Committee on the Choice ofElectives, 201 more members of the threeupper classes in the College are now candi-dates for degrees with distinction thanwas the case last April,, when 281 studentswere so enrolled. The percentage ofconcentrators has thus risen from 14 to 24.


ALUMNI NOTES

'77—On Christmas Eve last, the ChicagoDaily News broadcast a special Christ-mas program from its station, WMAQ, afeature of which was the reading by Profes-sor William F. E. Gurley, of his poem,"The Christmas Pilgrimage." ProfessorGurley is emeritus professor of paleontol-ogy in the University of Chicago.

'93, '03 ME; '95 CE—Albert L. Colsten'95 is principal and Charles B. Howe '93 iscoordinator of the Brooklyn, N. Y., Tech-nical High School, the general aim ofwhich is to give thorough preliminarytraining to those who expect to find afuture place in the industrial world. Theidea of having such a school as part of theNew York City Department of Educationwas conceived by Colsten, who is creditednot only with organizing and equippingthe school, but with having secured theadoption of his idea for its establishment.

'93 ME—Charles James Barr, who hasbeen located for some time at Mobile, Ala.,recently removed to Lindsay, Ontario,Canada.

'93 BS—Mr. and Mrs. August Merz ofEast Orange, N. J., announced on Decem-ber 21, the engagement of their twindaughters at a supper and dance given attheir home. Miss Viola Merz is engagedto John K. Watson of Rockaway, N. J.,and Miss Ottilie Merz is engaged to Dr.Alfred Meurlin of Brooklyn, N. Y. Merzis a member of the firm of Heller and Merzof Newark, N. J.

'96 LLB—LeRoy N. French, who hasbeen an attorney in Reno, Nev., for sometime, is now living at 3776 Pioneer Place,San Diego, Calif.

'98 LLB—Gail Laughlin was admittedto the bar of the State of Maine in Decem-ber on credentials from the Supreme Courtof California. She will practice law withher brother in Portland after having at-tained State and national prominence invarious circles. Since leaving college shehas been an editorial writer for The NewYork Commercial, practicing attorney inNew York, agent of'the U. S. IndustrialCommission, member of the ColoradoState Board of Pardons, a prominent mem-ber of the Progressive Party in Colorado,president of the National Business andProfessional Women's Clubs for two years,and director of the California Branch ofthe National League for Women's Service.

Όo ME—Charles C. West, who is pres-ident and general manager of the Manito-woc Shipbuilding Corporation at Manito-woc, Wis., recently returned from a severalweeks' stay in Europe on a mission for theUnited States Shipping Board. He is alsopresident of the Manitowoc PortlandCement Company, which is now erectinga plant which will cost two million dollars.

Όo—Walter Nuffort attended the annualmeeting of the American Economic Associ-

ation held in Washington, D. C , onDecember 27-9. He is a consulting econ-omist, specializing in marketing, withoffices in the Metropolitan Building,Orange, N. J.

'02 LLB; '12LLB—C. Tracey Stagg andRiley H. Heath opened law offices inIthaca on December 31 under the firmname of Stagg-Heath. Stagg was former-ly a member of the Law School Faculty,then counsel to Governor Nathan L. Mil-ler, and finally deputy Conservation Com-missioner of the State. Heath has beenpracticing law in Ithaca since his gradua-tion, as a member of the firm of whichFordyce A. Cobb '93 and Howard Cobb'95 are the senior members.

'07 ME—B. Mason Hill, who has beenin the electrical contracting business inPetersburg, Va., was recently appointedsales engineer for Virginia and part ofNorth Carolina by the Allis-ChalmersCompany.

Ί o AB, '14 AM—Professor LawrenceM. McDermott was married on December26 to Mrs. Kathryn Burke Monroe inCortland, N. Y. McDermott was in theconsular service in the Philippines for fouryears and vice-consul in Germany for twoyears before accepting his present positionof dean of the College of Commerce andAdministration, University of Akron,Ohio. After a motor trip, the couple willbe at home at 388 Carroll Street, Akron.

Ί o ME—Blaine B. Ramey is smallmotor engineer at the East SpringfieldWorks of the Westinghouse Electric andManufacturing C o m p a n y , Springfield,Mass. He resides at 44 Rittenhouse Ter-race. Ramey writes that Charles M.Cross '04, is a small motor engineer,Robert P. King '12 is works engineer, andJames D. Booth Ί 4 is radio engineer atthe same plant.

Ί o AB—Bertha K. Patterson is teachingEnglish and Spanish in the High School atMansfield, Ohio.

'12 BS—About April 1, Frank H. Lacywill give up his duties as Farm Bureaumanager in Dutchess County, N. Y. toenter business. Lacy has held the positionfor over ten years, having been appointedon July 1, 1913.

'12 BS—F. A. Cushing Smith recentlyaddressed the Progress Club of SouthBend, 111., on better homes. He waschosen to speak as the result of the prom-inence he has attained from being the onlyAmerican competitor in an internationalcompetition for the replanning of Dublin,Ireland, for which he received honorablemention as well as the honor medal. Hespoke of the needs of the home and its inti-mate relation to the city.

'12 ME—William G. Broadfoot, former-ly president of the Broadfoot Iron Worksat Wilmington, N. C, has moved toAtlanta, Ga., where he is now president ofthe Roswell Mills, Inc., manufacturers ofcotton sheetings and yarns. His new home

address is 168 The Prado, Ausley ParkAtlanta, Ga.

'12 AB, '15 MD; '13 AB—Dr. RowlandP. Blythe and Ralph Knapp are nowactively engaged for the Near East Reliefin giving aid to the children of Anatoliaand Armenia. They say t h a t ' 'there couldhardly be anything more gratifying thanthe response of these starving, emaciatedchildren to the care given them by theAmericans." John R. Mott '88 is a mem-ber of the board of trustees of the NearEast Relief.

'12 BArch; '13 BArch—George B. Cum-mings and.Fred L. Starbuck have organ-ized a firm to be known as Cummings andStarbuck, with offices at 520 SecurityMutual Building, Binghamton, N. Y.Starbuck was formerly located at Yonkersand since graduation has been active in thepractice of architecture with Andrew J.Thomas, Paul Chalfin, Trowbridge andAckerman, York and Sawyer, and W.Welles Bosworth. During the War, heattended the first officers' training campat Plattsburgh and received a commissionas captain of field artillery. He was inservice for two years, most of the timein France.

'14 AB—Hugh McCurdy Spencer,chemist for the Seidel ManufacturingCompany of Jersey City, as the result ofhis research in colloidal substances, hasdiscovered an agent which has been named"coagul." Its property is to coagulateimpurities in water, and thus to overcomepollution.

'14 ME—William H. Davidson wasrecently made sales manager of the FultonCompany, and will soon locate in St.Louis, Mo., the headquarters of the com-pany.

'15 BS—Charles M. (Stub) Warren is apartner in the Nusbickel-Warren Nurser-ies at Glendora, Calif.

'15 ME—Donald T. Stanton is nowacting as district representative for DodgeBrothers with supervision over NorthCarolina, South Carolina, and part ofVirginia. He can be reached at the Amer-ican Exchange National Bank Building,Greensboro, N. C.

'15 ME—George W. Dorrance and hiswife announce the birth of a daughter,Marjorie Ann, on December 18. Theiraddress is P. O. Box 334, Houston, Texas.

'15 BArch—Gerald Lynton Kaufmanhas opened new offices for the practice ofarchitecture in the Pershing Square Build-ing, New York.

'15 AB—Carl R. Fellers, who is anassistant professor in the College of Fisher-ies, University of Washington, writes thatthe four-year course there leading to a B.S. in Food Preservation, is the first of itskind to be given in the United States. Headds that he and his wife (JosephineSanders, A.B., University of Washington)have two children, Francis and Mary Jo.

'15 BArch—Alexander C. Eschweiler,


Jr., writes that he is a member of the firmof Eschweiler and Eschweiler, architects,which was formed on September i, 1923.The firm includes also Alexander C.Eschweiler '90, Carl F. Eschweiler Ί 8 , andTheodore L. Eschweiler '19. They arepracticing at 210 Mason Street, Milwau-kee, Wis. He adds that a fourth son wasborn to him and his wife on September 22and asks whether this constitutes a recordof potential Cornellίans for the class of

'16-17 G—Robert H. Klamt recentlysubmitted a thesis to the Faculty of Cor-nell for his master's degree. He was agraduate student when the War broke outand left to enter the Army. Lately he hasbeen a county farm adviser with head-quarters at Yuba City, Calif.

'16 AB—The marriage of George S.Amory to Miss Marion R. Carhart willtake place on Janurary 12 at the home ofthe bride's grandmother, Mrs. Henry D.Brookman, 5 East Seventieth Street, NewYork.

Ί 6 BS; Ί 8 AB—Ralph E. Griswold andwife (Dorothy Griffith Ί8) are residing atthe St. Regis Apartments, Euclid Avenueand East Eighty-second Street, Cleveland,Ohio. They recently entered their daugh-ter, Romola, in a contest in that city todetermine the champion globe-trottingyoungster. Romola was born in Rome onApril 21, 1921 while Griswold was a fellowand senior landscape architect at the Amer-ican Academy in Rome. She has visitedevery important city in Italy, the greaterpart of France, Switzerland and England,and has finally come to America with herparents to reside.

'17 BS—The engagement of John W.Wetz, Jr., to Miss Viola M. Miller hasbeen announced in Brooklyn, N. Y. Thewedding will take place on April 26 at AllSouls Universalist Church in that city.

'17 ME—Warren Griffin King wasrecently made treasurer of the StearnsConveyor Company of Cleveland, Ohio,designers and builders of all kinds ofelevating and conveying machinery. Theaddress of the firm is East 200th Streetand St. Clair Avenue.

Ί 8 BS, '22 LLB; '23 BS—George H.Russell of Ithaca and Gretel H. Schenck'23 of Rochester, N. Y., daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Ludwig Schenck, were marriedon December 26 in the First UnitarianChurch of Rochester. Russell is associatedwith Jared T. Newman '75 and Charles H.Newman Ί 3 in the practice of law inIthaca. He and his bride will reside at 123Roberts Place.

'19 BS; ?i8 BS—Mr and Mrs. CharlesG. Seelbach (Marcia Grimes Ί8) announcethe arrival of Charles William Seelbach onDecember 13. They reside at 1163 Kens-ington Ave, Buffalo, N. Y.

'19—Raymond K. Howe is a bond sales-man with Lage and Company at 160Broadway, New York. He was marriedon October 27, 1923, to Miss Nan Rose.

Donald H. Owen '24 was best man at theceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Howe reside inTuckahoe, N. Y.

'19 WA, J2i ME—Weston M. Jenks istreasurer of the Sprague Electrical SupplyCompany, distributors of electrical sup-plies and radio apparatus at 39 SpringStreet, Waterbury, Conn. His mail ad-dress is 90 Tower Road.

'20, '22 BS—Charles R. (Chick) Cooleyis still working at his profession of land-

scape architect in Cleveland, Ohio. He isplanning to take a trip to Europe soon.

;2O, '21 WA—Warren Swift Weiant, Jr.,was married on December 23 to MissEleanor Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.E. Arnett Smith of Columbus, Ohio.After February 1, they will be at home atNewark, Ohio.

?2O AB, '23 LLB—Claudia M. Barnespassed the New York State bar examina-tions in October and expects to be admitt-

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After college, he will bestarting out on his own hook.Paddling his own canoe andall that. And if he's even assmart as I am, he will be

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'20 CE—A. Van Duzer Wallace, Jr., isemployed by the Foundation Company atRamsay, Mich.

'20 AB—Russell H. Her is a senior in theMedical College in New York and residesat 383 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn.

'20 CE—Randolph C. West is withDoullut and Williams Company, engineersand general contractors of New Orleans,with headquarters in the Carter Building,Houston, Texas.

'20 BS; '19 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Kurt E.Mayer (Elna E. Johnson '19) announcethe birth of a daughter, Elna Anida, onSeptember 22, at their home in Bridge-port, Conn. Mayer has resigned hisposition as assistant sales manager of theA. W. Burritt Company and accepted aposition in the sales department of Halsey,Stuart and Company, Inc., investmentbankers. At present he is taking a train-ing course in their New York office andat the conclusion of the work will be con-nected with the Philadelphia office.

'21—Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Butler ofTroy, N. Y., have announced the engage-ment of their daughter, Gertrude Elinor,to Herbert G. Blankfort (Princeton '19).Miss Butler left Cornell to attend RussellSage College, from which she graduatedin 1922.

'21 BS—Anna L. McConaughy recentlygave up hospital social work and is doingfamily welfare work for the BrooklynBureau of Charities. Her address is NewDorp, Staten Island, N. Y.

'21, '22 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P.Boynton of Chicago have announced theengagement of their daughter, Elizabeth, toGeorge H. Thornton of Wayne, Pa., formercaptain of the Cornell hockey team. MissBoynton is a graduate of Miss Porter'sSchool at Farmington, Conn., and madeher debut last fall after an extensive tourof Europe.

'21 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Liver-more of Ithaca have announced the engage-ment of their daughter, Eleanor, to WilliamC. Combs of Rochester, N. Y., formermanager of the Cornell baseball team.Miss Livermore attended Miss Dow'sSchool at Briarclifϊ Manor and later theFrench School for Girls in New York.

'21, '22 BS; '23 BS—John R. Flemingand Margaret A. Cushman '23, daughterof Blin S. Cushman '93 and Mrs. Cushman'96, of Ithaca, were married on December22 at the home of the bride by the father ofthe bridegroom, the Rev. Andrew Fleming,of Brooklyn, N. Y., assisted by the Rev.Cyril Harris. Ruth Rice '23 was the maidof honor and Russell Lord '20 was thebest man. After the ceremony, the coupleleft on a wedding trip and are now at homeat 127 East Norwich Avenue, Columbus,Ohio. Fleming is an assistant professor ofjournalism at Ohio State University.

'21, '22 ME—George S. Dunham is

mechanical engineer with the Producerand Refiners Corporation at Parco, Wyo.He started as assistant construction engi-neer on the plant which is being erected ina bare spot in the "sage brush, eight milesfrom Rawlins. When completed it willbe the third largest in the State. A townis being built in conjunction with theplant. He writes: "I t is great to be apioneer, but one has a hard time keepingcoyotes and jack-rabbits at a safe distance.They grow as big as calves out here—thatis, the jack-rabbits do."

'22 CE; '22 AB—Mr. and Mrs. CharlesW. Gulick (Olive M. Temple) are livingat 509 Orange Grove Avenue, Alhambra,Calif.

'22 BS—Donald A. Howe is managinga poultry farm at Akron, N. Y.

'22—Howard D. Thompson is now withthe Texas Company at 17 Battery Place,New York.

'23 AB—The engagement of Grace C.Bullen to Cardwell E. Belding has beenannounced by her parents, Dr. and Mrs.V. E. Bullen of Paterson, N. J. Her ad-dress is 144 Hamilton Avenue, Paterson.

'23 AB—Donald M. Halley is now a stu-dent in Christ's College, Cambridge, Eng-land. He writes that William King White'23 and his wife have left for an extendedtour of the Continent after spending oneterm at the University of Cambridge.

'23 BS—Thomas A. Brown is at theGreen Island Plant of the Ford MotorCompany near Troy, N. Y., and resides at703 Grand Street, Troy.

'24—Sidney Gruneck is doing surveyingin and about the Everglades in Floridaand along the east coast of the State. Hisaddress is Box 1170, Fort Lauderdale.

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Ί6—Frederic A. Jessen, Summit Street,East Orange, N. J.

718—Marvin B. Robinson, 2 OgdenStreet, Walton, N. Y.

'19—Jeanette M. Fox, 277 Broadway,New York.—Damon G. Douglass, 2342McDowell Street, Augusta, Ga.

'21—Richard B. Steinmetz, 150 LyonsAvenue, Newark, N. J.

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SYRACUSE has this year 6,337 students,classified as follows: Agriculture, 82; Ap-plied Science, 322; Business Administra-tion, 1,119; Fine Arts, 753; Forestry, 334;Graduate School, 118; Home Economics,275; Liberal Arts, 1,322; Library School,65; Medicine, 1791, Nursing, 104; PublicSpeech, 108; Teachers' College, Exten-sion Teaching, ijico; Summer Session, 903.

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