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Fifty-and Twenty-Five-Year ReunionClasses Start Preparations for

Next June's Homecoming

Alumni Representative TravelsThrough Southern States to

Help Alumni Clubs

Chicago Men and Women Turn Outto Greet President Farrand

At His First Stop

George M. Dutcher '97 ContributesObservations On Recent Trip

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JUNIOR WEEK itself is certainlymore of an occasion of relief androguish abandon because it follows so

close on the heels of depression. Thosewho pull through the tribulations of block-week have a right to feel that they maycavort in celebration of that achievement;those who succumb to the nightmareknown as The Final are bound to haveone more fling before they are droppedoff the edge of the Campus. ' Hence thegayeties.

THE DRILL HALL, for the first time, isto be used as the scene of the Junior Prom,and the decorations are to be more in theform of lights than in draperies. A sound-ing-board arrangement for the orchestra issupposed to take care of the acoustics, andto provide for the dancing in front of it.One over-wise youth pretends to be wor-ried about the task of the chaperones if itinvolves the policing of the darkened areabehind the sounding-board.

THE HONOR SYSTEM is passing throughits most severe trial since its inauguration.The first enthusiasm of its supporters iswaning, or at least is not as ardently ac-tive as at the inception of the plan; thecheaters,—some of whom are always withus—are chafing under the restraint thatthe system has undoubtedly imposed, andthey are bent on devising methods to cir-cumvent it; the main body of the studentsare impassive and somewhat inert as com-pared with their attitude when the systemwas more commonly a subject for discus-sion. New signs have been devised for theclass-rooms, and a plan of tapping on thedesk when cheating is suspected, has beenput into effect. The one salient fact aboutthe system is that more violations of stu-dent honor have been reported by theFaculty than by fellow-students.

THE FACULTY, on the whole, has had lessto say about honesty in examinations thanbefore the system was adopted, and thestudents thereby have been deprived of acertain amount of wise guidance from menwho are intensely interested in the successof the idea. These Faculty members havefelt, whether rightly or wrongly, that thestudents have practically put up a "hands-off" sign in adopting the student-honorplan. But there are growing evidencesthat students and Faculty are getting to-gether on this, and it looks as if the prob-lems of the system are likely to bring lead-ing men of the Faculty and leaders amongthe students together in close accord tofind solutions to these problems.

SKATING BY RADIO music is the latestnovelty to be installed on Beebe Lake bythe Athletic Association. A receiving setwith a loud-speaker attachment has been

erected in the clubhouse for the entertain-ment of guests there and another near theshore of the Lake for the benefit of theskaters. A special effort is to be made tohave the sets working in tip-top shape forJunior Week when dancing on skates toradio music is expected to be a feature.

CAPTAIN JAMES H. LUTHER '23 of thebasketball team, with a total of forty-fourpoints, stands second in scoring in the In-tercollegiate League. Loeb of Princetonleads the League with a total of 49 points.It is not improbable that Luther will cutdown the five-point lead when the Leaguegames start again on February 10.

ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES have been at acomplete standstill during Block Week, theathletes doing only so much work as isnecessary to keep them in physical trim.All squads, including the baseball men,will start work in earnest immediatelyafter Junior Week.

THE TOWN OF ULYSSES has been madedefendant in an action brought by StephenKlenatic of Oyster Bay, New York, to re-cover $75,000 damages for the death of hisdaughter, Elizabeth Klenatic, a student inthe Summer School who was killed as theresult of an automobile accident on theGlen wood Boulevard on July 13, 1922.The complaint alleges that the road col-lapsed under the weight of the car, andthat the township was negligent in notmaintaining the highway in a safe condi-tion.

THE LANG GARAGE has let contracts forthe construction of a new fire-proof storagegarage and for the remodeling of theirpresent storage, garage at the corner ofGreen and South Tioga Streets, in orderto provide the extra space which the rapidincrease of their business demands.

THE SHORT LINE'S difficulties, noticedbriefly in recent issues of the ALUMNINEWS, are still in the process of what ishoped to be efficient solution. Lack ofsufficient patronage to pay expenses hasforced the abandonment of four trainsdaily between Ithaca and Auburn. Thetrunk lines of the State have been forcedto refuse, because of conditions subsequentto the freight embargo and to the unusualsnow-fall, freight from short line branches,so that the freight haul of the Ithaca-Auburn Line has been reduced almost tonothing. The new president of the Linecannot say when full passenger service willbe resumed.

ALL JANUARY records of the localweather bureau, save only that of 1904,were broken last month with an aggregatesnow-fall of 31.9 inches. A tractor andfrom eight to twelve horses have been

needed by the Athletic Association to keepthe skating preserve on Beebe Lake clearof snow from day to day, at an average costof $400 per week for the purpose. The ex-penditure has been amply justified,whether one judges by the excellence ofthe skating surface maintained underdifficulties, or by the constantly increasinginterest among the students in wintersports.

JOHNNY COULON, I 10-pound ex-bantam-weight champion, who earned interna-tional notoriety in Paris last year by hismysterious yet successful defense of hischallenge to all comers to lift him from thefloor, appeared at a local theatre last weekand hurled a like challenge to Cornellwrestlers of any weight to lift his feet fromthe floor.

CONSOLIDATION of the State Agricul-tural Experiment Station at Geneva withthe College of Agriculture at Cornell is theobject of a bill to be introduced in theState Legislature in the near future. Thebill is not opposed by the administrativebody of either institution. The object ofthe consolidation is to coordinate the re-search work of the two so that duplicationof effort may be eliminated.

THE COMMON COUNCIL of Ithaca, at itslast week's meeting, authorized the Boardof Public Works to proceed at once withthe construction of a new sewer outlet atthe confluence of Cascadilla Creek and theInlet, and also a bypass from the presentseptic tank to the outlet. The present out-let is worn-out, and has been the source ofunsanitary conditions in that section. Thecost of necessary improvements has beenestimated at $8,000.

THE JOHNNY PARSON CLUB in its briefspace of existence has become one of themost popular better class restaurants inthe city. The management advertises asits specialties a club dinner at $1.50, after-noon tea at 50 cents, luncheon every dayhub Sunday at 75 cents, and a specialSunday breakfast at 75 cents.

THE DEEP SNOW has caused muchmortality among the flocks of game birdswhich have been zealously and effectivelycultivated in Tompkins County of lateyears. The local Fish and Game Clubhave issued a public request to farmers tofeed the birds, and have offered reimburse-ment for the cost of such feed.

THE CORNELL Lutheran campaign inRochester, for providing funds for the erec-tion of a Lutheran Chapel here to servecity and University, netted a total of morethan $16,000, nearly $1,000 in excess ofthe quota. Ithaca's subscription, as an-nounced in last week's issue, was $10,000.

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Coffin Travels South

Alumni Representative To Stimulate ClubsThroughout Southern and Gulf States

With the definite aim of forming clubs—or of strengthening clubs already in exist-ence—in the southern states where thereare hundreds of alumni, Foster M. Coffin'12, alumni representative, will leave Ithacaon February n for a tour that will con-sume most of the remainder of the month.He will stop in Washington and the statesof Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Ken-tucky. Most of these states seldom havevisitors direct from the University. Inonly four of the cities to be visited arethere Cornell alumni organizations.

The first stop will be in Baltimore onFebruary 12, for the regular weekly lunch-eon of the Cornell Alumni Association ofMaryland. That afternoon Coffin willmove on to Washington to meet with theofficers of the Cornell Club of Washingtonand to dine with the board of governors ofthe Cornell Society of Washington. Thesociety will hold an informal dance thatevening.

The Cornell Alumni Association ofHampton Roads embraces Cornellians ofNewport News, Norfolk, and the sur-rounding territory. This organization wascreated only last spring. On February 13,there will be a meeting at one or both ofthese cities. Meetings will be held Febru-ary 14, 15, and 16 in Raleigh, North Caro-lina, Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham,Alabama. In none of these cities arethere Cornell organizations.

Two days will be spent in New Orleans.With over seventy alumni, the CrescentCity has more Cornellians than many ofthe northern centers which boast flourish-ing clubs. February 19 and 20 will bespent in Texas. More than half of thetwo hundred alumni in the state reside inHouston, Dallas, and Fort Worth. TheHouston alumni will meet on Monday,and the alumni of the other two cities willmeet in Dallas on Tuesday.

The new Cornell Club of Tulsa, Okla-homa, will be visited on February 21.Forty Cornellians live in the city, andmore than one hundred in the wholeState. From Tulsa Coffin will follow theroute of the Christmas trip of the MusicalClubs. On February 22, 23, and 24 he willmeet with the Cornellians of Little Rock,Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; andLouisville, Kentucky, returning to Ithacaon the 26th or 27th.

Alumni of these sections who may notbe reached by the local notices can get de-tails of the meetings from the followingcommitteemen: Hampton Roads, H. Ken-neth Peebles Ί6, 84 Thirty-second Street,Newport News; Raleigh, Rowland W.Leiby '15, North' Carolina Department ofAgriculture; Atlanta, Frederick H. Ray-field '15, Hemphill Avenue and Southern

R. R.; Birmingham, Ernest F. HettickΊ o , Jefferson Bank Building; New Or-leans, Edward E. Soule '88, 603 St.Charles St.; Houston, George L. Noble'18, the Texas Company; Dallas, OwenCarter '13, 407 Praetorian Building;Tulsa, Jo H. Cable '18, Mayo Building;Little Rock, Joseph H. Cochran Ί 5 , careH. K. Cochran Company; Memphis,Bryan M. Eagle '19, 431 Bank of Com-merce Building; Louisville, Adolph Reut-linger '13, 1480 Cherokee Road.

Two Classes Start

Preparations for Fifty and Twenty-Five-Year Reunions Begun by '73 and '98

SPORT STUFF

Midyear examinations are about over.Silently one by one faces appear—whiteand drawn—that haven't been seen inpublic places for months. The boys arepopping out of the cloister once again fora bit of air.

As far as I can make out from observa-tion and casual conversation it takes aboutas much work to stay in the place at thepresent time as it used to take twentyyears ago to make Phi Beta Kappa. Re-ports follow collateral readings and pre-lims follow reports. Quizzes and examina-tions come along each week and every daythere are lessons to dig out. The days areover wherein one could knock a course coldby attending lectures, taking notes, study-ing the notes, and hitting the exam.

All this, of course, marks a tremendousimprovement. It means that we shallturn out now trained intellects and dis-ciplined minds instead of a lot of halfbaked loafers with a smattering of super-ficial information. Now that the profes-sors wear spurs they are getting speed outof these colts that we never approached inthe days gone by when we were urged onby an occasional "giddap."

Every day in every way we are gettingmore scholarlv and more scholarly.

Just the same, I'm tickled to death thatI went to college when I 'did. We didn'tstudy enough to hurt, but we did havetime to read some books that weren'tprescribed and to go on an occasional coonhunt—to write verses when the hunchcame and to argue about religion and bat-ting averages.

The new scheme of things is fine—forsomebody else. Not me. R. B.

CONTEST McMULLEN WILLThe will of John McMullen, of Norwalk,

Connecticut, in which he left the residueof an estate estimated at $2,000,000 toCornell University, is being contested inthe Bridgeport, Connecticut, SuperiorCourt. Two nephews, Frank and JamesMcMullen, of Oakland, California, are theplaintiffs, claiming that their uncle was ofunsound mind and that he was unduly in-fluenced by his iiiece? Laura A. Hughes, ofNorwalk. The action to break the will isdirected against the executors. MynderseVan Cleef '74 is in charge of the Univer-sity's representation in the case.

The fifty- and twenty-five-year classesare among the first in the field with activecampaigns for their class reunions inIthaca next June.

Over the signatures of William H.French as president and Edwin Gilletteas secretary, '73 sends to its members aletter calculated to bring back at leastone hundred per cent of the oldest reuningclass. Some of it has an application suffic-iently general to warrant quotation for thebenefit of the other twenty classes sched-uled for reunions:

"We are not as many as we were in1873; but we are a strong, vigorous, en-thusiastic class, and loyal as we have al-ways been. No Cornell audience everhears the '73 yell without giving it voci-ferous applause. None of those who knewthe class as undergraduates or who haveheard of its achievements and activitiessince, but render it homage. At the quin-quennial reunions we have always beenstrong in numbers, and as joyous as theyoungest sons of Cornell. There areabout 100 of us now. Won't it be a sourceof pride if 100 per cent of us can get toIthaca this year? Even if, yielding to thefashion of our class, we appear in bifocals(in addition to the more universal haber-dashery), or with an occasional cane, orcrutch, of ear-trumpet; even if we haveany physical disability, when we get tothose hills, tramp over that glorified rec-tangle on East Hill, hear the tinklingwaters, the tintinnabulation of the bellsand see the thousands who are our succes-sors, we shall throw off the burdens offifty years and travel back to 1869-1873with as jaunty steps as ever before. Andthose scenes and memories and comrade-ships will stay with, recreate us, rejuven-ate us."

'98 started the campaign for its twenty-five year reunion when the New Yorkgroup held an informal meeting on January31 at the Engineers' Club. What shouldbe done to reach all the class and then tomake the return to Ithaca well worth whilewas discussed in general terms. It wasagreed that the New York contingent,which easily exceeds fifty in number,should meet once a month until June;that class members in other centers shouldserve similarly to energize local groups;that Class Secretary Jesse Fuller send assoon as possible a preliminary circular let-ter to all the Class, and that meanwhilethe New York members send personal let-ters to members not easily reached other-wise.

The gathering dealt largely in reminis-cence. Colorful pictures of exploits and ex-periences of undergraduate days repeatedlyinterrupted the orderly consummation ofthe plans, but the net result was the kind-ling of a strong reunion spirit as shown by

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a unamimous adoption of the idea of themonthly meetings and by acceptance of in-dividual letter writing assignments as theClass list was called by Fuller. The nextmeeting will probably be held on Thurs-day evening, March 8, at the Cornell Clubin New York, and every '98 man who canattend is expected.

Among those present at the first meet-ing, besides Fuller, were John E. Rutzler,Cloyd Chapman, Edgar Johnston, DanielKnowlton, Charles M. Manly, WilliamMcA. Smith, Nate Sperling, the Carpen-ters, Clarence E. and Louis S., Percy W.Simpson, Frederick W. Midgley and Wil-liam W. Macon.

CLUB ACTIVITIES

ENGLISH FOR SERVICEAt a recent meeting of the National

Council of Teachers of English at Chat-tanooga, Dr. Charles Robert Gaston '96,the retiring president, spoke on "WhyTeach English?"

"For years/' said Gaston, "Englishteachers have been wavering in their aims.A recent study made by Professor Pendle-ton, of Tennessee, shows that thousands ofaims have been put forward in the last tenyears in the teaching of English. Ananalysis of answers to a questionnaireshows that some such slogan as 'Englishfor Service' should be adopted by all Eng-lish teachers.

"Some of the prominent professionaland business men and some of the leadersin English teaching in all parts of thecountry have given answers that expressthis idea of service in the democracy as themaster purpose, while other leaders havestuck to the old formulae of accuracy andeffectiveness in oral and written expressionand development of ability to read in-telligently and appreciatively.

"The head of the English departmentin an influential college for teachers writesthat the big aim is that pupils may getfrom literature its presentation and in-terpretation of life and right sentimentsand sense of values and should get fromcomposition the ability to be intelligentlyarticulate and the ability to play a goodpart in the world both economically andsocially.

These are only a few of the manyopinions he has gathered, Dr. Gastonsaid. After examining them all, both inthe form of personal letters sent to himand the form of printed statements incourse of study, the speaker held that"back of all English teaching should bethe idea of developing, through English,ability on the part of students, at what-ever stage they leave school, to be readyto take their places a"s useful, articulatemembers of the great American democ-racy."

By a number of pertinent examples heshowed how this can be done through thedifferent elements that make up the Eng-lish courses of schools and colleges.

Alumni Club LuncheonsCornell luncheons are held regularly in

the cities listed below. All Cornellians areurged to attend even though they may notbe residents of the cities.

Baltimore—Mondays, Engineers' Club,12.30 p. m.

Binghamton—First and third Tuesdays,Chamber of Commerce, 12.15 p. m.

Boston—Monday, City Club, 12.30p. m.

Buffalo—Friday, Iroquois Hotel, 12.30p. m.

Buffalo Women—First Saturday, Col-lege Club.

Chicago—Thursday, Hamilton Club,12.30 p. m.

Chicago Women—First Saturdaj^, Col-lege Club, 12.30 p. m.

Cleveland—Thursday, Statler Hotel,Lattice Room, 12 noon.

Detroit—Thursday, Hotel Cadillac,Ivory Room, 12.15 p. m.

Hartford—Second Monday, UniversityClub.

Ithaca Women—Wednesday, CoffeeHouse, Barnes Hall, 12.30 p. m.

Newark, N. J.—First and third Fridays,Downtown Club, Kinney Building, 12.30p. m.

New York—Daily, Cornell Club, 30 W.44th Street.

Pittsburgh—Friday, William PennHotel, Hawaiian Room, 12 noon.

Portland, Oregon—First and third Fri-days, University Club.

Rochester—Wednesday, Powers Hotel,12.15 P m.

Syracuse—Thursday, Onondaga Hotel.Tulsa—First Tuesday, University Club.Chicago Greets the President

President Farrand finished the PacificCoast section of his trip last Sunday, whenhe left Denver for Salt Lake City. Ac-counts of the Cornell dinners in Indiana-polis, on January 30, and in Denver, onFebruary 2, had not reached Ithaca atpress time.

The meetings in Chicago on January 30were voted outstanding successes, both thedinner of the men and the afternoon meet-ing of the Cornell Women's Club.

Over two hundred Cornell men, repre-senting classes from '75 to '22, gave a warmwelcome to the President. The toast-master was Professor Charles L. Durham'99, also of Ithaca. Dean James ParkerHall '94, of the University of Chicago LawSchool, was prevented from speaking byillness.

Music was furnished by the Chicago-Cornell orchestra and stunts were given byWilliam H. McCaully '08, John H. Me-Ilvaine '14, and "Lou" Tilden, Princeton'22, who with his accordion has been votedthe hit of the last three Princeton TriangleClub shows. Charles F. Millspaugh '75,nephew of Ezra Cornell, gave a brief and

interesting talk on his memories of Cor-nell's founder.

There could be no Cornell banquet inChicago without the alumni song byErskine Wilder '05, and Erskine's voicesounded better than ever. The 1922Spring Day movies were also enthusiastic-ally received. Harold D. (Bub) North '07,nominally of Cleveland but who appar-ently has not missed an alumni banquet inany city since 1918, if we may judge fromrecent accounts of alumni activities, was alarge factor in the enthusiasm of the even-ing.

The Cornell Women's Club of Chicagoentertained President Farrand at an after-noon tea on January 31 at "Le PetitGourmet," a French tea-room on upperMichigan Boulevard.

The guests sat at a long table near anopen fireplace in which a cheerful log fireburned. A pair of tall candelabra lightedthe room.

An hour was passed in hearing first-hand news from the Hill and some of theplans for the future of Cornell. More wo-men were present than at any previousmeeting this season.

The rest of the President's itineraryincludes Salt Lake City, February 5-6;Los Angeles, February 7-8; San Francisco,February 9-11 Portland, February 12-13;Seattle, February 14-15; Spokane, Febru-ary 16. On the return trip President Far-rand will stop at Ames, Iowa, for a convo-cation of faculty and students of the IowaState College, to be held on February 20.He will return to Ithaca on February 21.

Durham Shoots the BullProfessor Charles L. Durham '99 com-

pleted a rapid-fire tour of the Middle West,when in four successive days he spoke atalumni meetings in Milwaukee, Chicago,Cleveland, and Buffalo. The four meet-ings were held on January 30 and 31 andFebruary 1 and 2.

Professor Durham was the principalspeaker at the annual banquet in Mil-waukee on January 30. On the samenight President Farrand was speaking inIndianapolis at the banquet of the CornellAlumni Association of Indiana. The Presi-dent and the Professor joined forces inChicago on the following day, at the ban-quet of the Cornell men of that city.

The ''Bargain Day" luncheon of theCornell Club of Cleveland, held on Feb-ruary 1 at the Hotel Statler, proved to bethe most successful of the season. Notonly did the hundred members in attend-ance get a dollar lunch for 99 cents, butthey also had the privilege of hearing Pro-fessor Durham render one of his most stir-ring speeches. The club voted that as anafter dinner speaker "Bull" gets betterevery day.

John (C. Johnny) Barker '12 composedthe words to a new song in honor of theguest. It was most admirably delivered bya quartet consisting William H. (Bill)Forbes '06, Barker, Henry M. (Hank)Beatty '22, and the famous soprano

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Charles H. (Charlie) Clark '92. Wordswithout the music follow:"There is bull that makes you happy,

There is bull that makes you sad,There is bull that helped our graduation,In courses where our marks were bad,There is bull that has a tender meaning,There is bull that everyone can see,But the bull that comes from old Prof.

Durham,Is the bull that sounds good to. me."

The weekly luncheon in Buffalo on Feb-ruary 2 was one of the best attended ofthe year. The meeting was held as usualat the Hotel Iroquois. In addition «toProfessor Durham the guests included twoCornell judges of the Class of '98, WillardM. Kent of Ithaca, and George F. Bodineof Waterloo.

Detroit Street CarsRoss Schramm, assistant general man-

ager of the Detroit Street Railway, talkedinformally on "Your Street RailwaySystem" to the Cornell'men of Detroit attheir weekly luncheon on February 1.

New St. Louis SecretaryTo succeed Arthur J. Widmer '04, who

has resigned as secretary of the CornellClub of St. Louis, President Perry PostTaylor '89 has appointed C. Marquis '23as acting secretary.

Rochester Talks ParksAt the regular weekly luncheon of the

Cornell Club of Rochester on January 31Dr. Charles D. Williamson talked on co-operation with the National Park Serviceof the Federal Department of the Interior.

Buffalo Studies NavigationAt the weekly luncheon of the Cornell

men in Buffalo on January 19, LieutenantKennedy, chief of the traffic cops, led adiscussion of traffic conditions and regula-tions in Buffalo and elsewhere. He toldthe Cornellians how many red tickets ontheir cars it took to get a blue one, andwhich way to go when the red, green, andyellow lights all go on at once.

New York Women MeetThe annual luncheon of the Cornell

Women's Club of New York will be heldat 1.30 p. m. Saturday, February 17, atthe Hotel Pennsylvania. Dr. Georgia L.White, dean of women, will be the guestof honor. All Cornell women are cordiallyinvited to attend. Tickets may be ob-tained from Mrs. A. C. Robertson, 315Central Park West, New York.

Kimball in ScrantonThe presence of Dean Kimball in Scran-

ton on February 1 and 2, when he spoke atan engineers' banquet and at a Cornellluncheon, provided the necessary stimulusfor a reawakening of the Cornell AlumniAssociation of Northeastern Pennsylvania.Thirty alumni entertained him at theScranton Club at the first Cornell meetingheld in the city for many months.

Dean Kimball spoke intimately of con-ditions at the University, of improvementsmade and in contemplation, of registra-tion figures, of the necessity of strong

alumni organizations. Robert B. Mc-Clave Ί o introduced the speaker. Therewere two other talks by local alumni,George G. Brooks '94, president of theScranton association, and Seth W. Shoe-maker '08, secretary of the class of '08.

OBITUARY

George F. Brown, Jr., '94George Frederick Brown, Jr., died at

his home in Montclair, N. J., on June 4,1922, after a long illness.

He was born in Brooklyn and lived thereuntil eleven years ago, when he went toMontclair. He entered the College ofCivil Engineering in 1890, but left at theend of his junior year. He became asso-ciated with the Progress Publishing Com-pany, of Caldwell, N. J., in 1911 and wasinstrumental in establishing The CaldwellProgress; at the time of his death he wastreasurer of the companj^. He was an in-cessant worker, and bearing his illnesspatiently, he remained active in the affairsof the company until August, 1921, whenhe was advised to rest. From that timeuntil his death he was confined to his bed.

He was married in 1911 to Miss EllaPlatt of Montclair, who survives him. Heleaves also his parents, Mr. and Mrs.George F. Brown, of Richmond Hill, N. Y.,four sisters, and a brother.

Mr. Brown was particularly interestedin boys and young men, and spent muchof his time in administration and upliftwork among them. He was a devotedhusband, son, brother, and friend, held inhighest regard by all who knew him.

Louis A. Clinton '99-02, Grad.Louis Adelbert Clinton, director of ex-

tension work at the New Jersey Agricul-tural Experiment Station at Rutgers Col-lege, died of pneumonia on January 21 atthe home of his daughter, Mrs. WilliamWood, in Detroit.

Clinton was born at Grand Rapids,Mich., on February 13, 1868, a son of Mr.and Mrs. F. H. Clinton. He attended theMichigan Agricultural College, receivingthe degree of B.S. in 1889, and came toCornell as a graduate student in 1889, re-maining three years. During that time hewas assistant agriculturist at the CornellExperiment Station.

For several years he was director of theStorrs Agricultural Station, at Storrs,Conn., and professor of agronomy in theConnecticut Agricultural College. He hadalso been assistant professor of agricultureat Clemson College, S. C, and had heldimportant posts with the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture.

Surviving him are his widow and threedaughters.

Frank W. Cady, Jr., '15Frank Williams Cady, Jr., died in Grace

Hospital, Detroit, on January 25. He hadbeen exercising in the gymnasium a shortime before, and in some unusual exerciset

strained himself sufficiently to cause an in-ternal hemorrhage. He was taken to thehospital and an operation was performed,from which he did not recover.

Cady was born on January 26, 1893, theson of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Cady ofGates, N. Y. He prepared at the MoheganLake High School, and entered the Uni-versity in 1911 in the course in arts, re-ceiving the degree of B.S. in 1915. Hewas a member of Chi Phi, Scabbard andBlade, the Savage Club, Sesomah, theMandolin Club, and served on variouscommittees, among which were the Fresh-man Banquet Committee, the MilitaryHop Committee, and the Spring Hop Com-mittee. In his sophomore year he was alieutenant in the Cadet Corps, and duringhis junior and senior years he held therank of captain.

For a short time after his graduation heoperated the Acadia Farms at Gates,N. Y.; then he entered the Air Service,and was sent to Ithaca as an instructor inthe School of Military Aeronautics. Afterreceiving his discharge he went to Detroit,where he became associated with DodgeBrothers.• He leaves his parents and his widow.

The body was taken to Rochester for burial.

William Therkelson '16William Therkelson died at the New

Jersey State Hospital, Trenton, N. J., onNovember 26, following an operation.

Therkelson was born on August 30,1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. PeterTherkelson of Perth Amboy, N. J. Afterattending the Perth Amboy High School,he entered the College of Agriculture in1912, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1917.

He suffered a nervous breakdown someyears ago, which recurred on several occa-sions, and it was necessary to send him tothe hospital for treatment. His conditionimproved somewhat, but he had a bad in-testinal condition, for which an operationwas performed on November 23. Peri-tonitis developed, and he died three dayslater.

A REPORT ON AGRICULTURE

We continue our summaries of Deans'reports (see THE ALUMNI NEWS for No-

vember 23, January 11, 25, February 1).Dean Mann reports that in the College

of Agriculture last year there were 1,109regular students, 72 specials, 329 wintercourse students, 250 graduate students,and 930 Summer School students, a total(excluding names counted twice) of 2,604students.

The College, he says, needs large andimmediate relief in buildings and facilitiesfor work. The State program of retrench-ment has seriously handicaped the workof the College. It is impossible for the in-stitution to do its necessary work properlyin buildings which had been outgrownmore than ten years ago. Some relief isafforded by the new Dairy Building, thecost of which Cconstruction, heating, sani-tary and electrical work) is $397,021.


"In appropriations for the operation ofthe College for the next fiscal year, slightgain was made over the current year. Thechief advantage—and a notable one—came in the form in which appropriationswere made, allowing somewhat greaterfreedom in adjustment of salaries of teach-ers and certain other classes of employees.Abandonment of the older rigidly segre-gated appropriation act in favor of one al-lowing some discretion to the administra-tive officers of the State's departmentsand agencies, affords great relief at a vitalpoint in effective administration."

Dean Mann pays deserved tribute tothe work of former Directors Roberts andBailey. Professor Roberts at eighty-nineis still deeply interested in the great prob-lems of agriculture. Dr. Bailey is con-stantly adding to his extensive herbarium(which already numbers 55,000 sheets)and has begun to publish his privatelyprinted "Gentes Herbarium."

Many lines of departmental activity arecarefully described, and one inevitablygets the impression that practically everydepartment in the College is engaged inwork that is of use not only to the studentshere, but also ultimately to the entireState as well.

Concerning the aims of the College theDean says: "More difficult than decidingupon the range and grade of professionsfor which training is to be offered, is theproblem of making truly effective thetraining even for the vocations nearest thecenter of our interest. Are we really fit-ting our students adequately for the nextstage of their experience? Do we ourselvesknow as well as can be known what thedemands of life upon our students are tobe? We need to determine, with greaterprecision, what constitutes the best train-ing for farming and for the lines allied to itserved by the College.

"With these and related questions inmind, under authorization of the Facultya committee has been appointed to make athorough inquiry into the aims and organ-ization of the College of Agriculture. Bya study of state and federal legislation andregulation, of university organization, ofpractice in other institutions, and partic-ularly of the experience of our former stu-dents, an attempt will be made to formu-late the objectives of the college course.Further, the professions falling within thefield determined upon must be analyzedwith a view to determining what realpreparation for them involves. Finally,the curriculum and the subject mattertaught can be restudied in the light of thefacts thus revealed. This is a study thatwill probably take more than a year forcompletion; in a sense, j t should never beconsidered finished. The knowledge to begained from it, however, is fundamentalto wise curriculum building and the mostefficient educational organization."

The research work of the College con-tinues to occupy a prominent place. "Theability of the College to serve the public, to

FACULTY NOTES

PROFESSOR CLARK S. NORTHTJP '93

spent two days last week at Culver Mili-tary Academy, where he inspected thework of the English department and ad-dressed the students in chapel.

HENRY HAYDEN (Pop) LANNIGAN, from

1892 to 1904 instructor in gymnastics here,has been for some years doing similar workat the University of Virginia.

AGRICULTURE has an immense advan-tage over other subjects taught in univer-sities because of the Farmers' Weeks heldalmost simultaneously all over the countryat the various state colleges and univer-sities. At Ohio State last week there wasalmost a reunion of Cornell professors whohad a part in the program there. Profes-sor Rollins A. Emerson '99 was a SigmaXi speaker and also addressed generalaudiences; Professor Mortier F. Barrus' 11 was a principal speaker in the field ofplant diseases; Professor Bristow Adamsspoke at the newspaper conferences and atone of the main forums, two of which areheld each day. At Michigan AgriculturalCollege, Professor George F. Warren '03was one of the chief speakers. And lastweek it was recorded in these pages thatone of the Cornell men went as far as Utahand Montana. The main point is, thatthis great exchange of agricultural ideas,involving aggregate attendances of not lessthan 100,000 persons, all thinking aboutthe same things at the same time, is boundprofoundly to affect American agriculture,and all those who depend on agriculture,—which means about everybody.

PROFESSOR HELEN MONSCH has gone to

Iowa City to study, in the hospital con-nected with the child welfare research,station there, problems in the feeding ofchildren. She will return to Cornell intime to teach in the Cornell SummerSchool. Assistant Professor Mary F.Henry will handle Professor Monsch'sfoods work in the School of Home Eco-nomics until she returns.

maintain strong courses of instruction, tosustain the teachings in the fields of exten-sion, and to meet the ever-increasing de-mands of farmers and farm women for aidin their technical problems of daily prac-tice, is immediately dependent on the op-portunity and capacity of the College forresearch, both pure and applied. Chargedby the State 'to improve the agriculturalmethods of the State; to develop the agri-cultural resources of the State in the pro-duction of crops of all kinds, in the rearingand breeding of live stock, in the manufac-ture of dairy and other products, in deter-mining better methods of handling andmarketing such products, and in otherways; and to increase intelligence andelevate the standards of living in the rural

districts, the College is empowered to dis-seminate 'agricultural knowledge through-out the State by means of experiments anddemonstrations on farms and gardens, in-vestigations of the economic and socialstatus of agriculture, and in other ways,'and 'to make researches in the physical,chemical, biological and other problemsof agriculture, and the application of suchinvestigations to the agriculture of NewYork.7 Furthermore, by Federal Statute,the College is charged with the conduct ofOriginal researches or experiments bearingdirectly on the agricultural industry/broadly defined in the terms of the acts.The full working-out of these legal obli-gations and authorizations has been thesustained purpose of the College, and ex-cellent progress has been made within thelimitations of funds provided by the Stateand Federal Governments for the pur-pose."

The list of papers published and ready,with brief summaries, fills over sixteenpages of the longer report submitted to theState Legislature.

Extension work has gone forward withvigor. A very impressive showing is madehγ the monograph by Vice-Dean Burritt on"The Rise and the Significance of Agricul-tural Extension," which, filling 97 pages,forms the second part of the Dean's re-port. In the first epoch of College activityin this work (1894-1904), an attempt wasmade to inquire into the causes of the ex-isting rural depression and to suggesteducational means for its improvement.The means suggested and used were localexperiments, bulletins, itinerant lecturesand schools, instruction in nature study inthe rural schools, correspondence, andreading courses. In the second period(1904-14) several special means of exten-sion were developed (Experimenters'League, farm trains, Farmers' Week) andlocal organization and financing were be-gun. A greater public recognition of theimportance of agriculture and of educa-tional extension was evident. Some effectsbegan to appear in changed agriculturalpractices. The third period (1914 to thepresent) was a period of great expansion,in which local organization, made possibleby greatly increased financial resources,was the chief characteristic. Cooperativeorganization for buying and selling beganamong farmers. The outstanding achieve-ments were the completion of the organ-ization of the county-agricultural-agentsystem and the establishment of home de-monstration agents in more than a third ofthe counties, together with the organizationof the Farm and Home Bureaus with their70,000 members. The great need now isfor the consolidation of the gains made andfor rounding out and securing more com-plete utilization of the service. Thecounty-agent system must be extended toall the rural communities. The ExtensionService will then be serving the wholeState in developing a sound and satisfyingagriculture.


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THE BARNSTORMERSIn a series of one-night stands, hard as

any musical trip, with a like need to makedaily a good appearance and to show tobest advantage, the President and theAlumni Representative are making diffi-cult trips of the pleasantest sort. Theformer is on his way back from California,having spoken in nearly every large city itwas possible to reach; the latter is leavingfor a swing around the south eastern andgulf states, hitting the high spots of theold south as far west as Texas.

• Neither section has received a visit froma University officer for years; never on ascomprehensive a trip as either of these;and usually only incidentally to a trip forsome other purpose, except, perhaps,those trips in the interest of the Endow-ment.

One doesn't make much fuss over beingdesignated as one of the six national uni-versities. The greater agitation is on thepart of those that have not been designatedand resist the allegation of provincialism.Yet, since we are a national university,with alumni scattered throughout theland, what is more fitting than that thechief officer and the official representativeof the alumni should swing around thecircuit and bring direct news from home tothe faithful? The solidarity of the alumniis as much a test of nationalness as theirgeographical distribution or that of theundergraduates.

The forty days spent by the Presidentlast year in getting acquainted with thealumni, and approximately that manyspent similarly this year, the trips of pro-fessors, the Alumni Representative, andthe Graduate Manager of Athletics, arenot in vain. Already the alumni begin toshow signs of a national feeling justifyingthe appellation "national" to their uni-versity; the alumni office is in fact as wellas in theory the link between alumni andthe University; and our new President is areal person to thousands to whom he wouldotherwise be but a myth.

LITERARY REVIEW

A New Study of WordsEnglish Words and Their Background.

By George Harley McKnight '92, Profes-sor of English in Ohio State University.New York. Appleton. 1923. 21 cm., pp.xii, 449. Price, $2.50.

The world of words—labels, tools ofthought—is one of the most fascinating thestudent can enter. We have come, more-over, to admit the usefulness of visits tothis world. Noting men's reactions towords, we learn constantly about the work-ings of the human mind. The conflict be-tween authority and individual freedom,the contrast between the radical and theconservative, the meaning of taste, theromance of life—all these things are aswell recalled, perhaps, in the history ofwords as elsewhere.

Dr. McKnight has not written a historyof the English language. He does nothandle the Indo-European relatives ofEnglish, or syntax, or inflections. Hisbook is of the sort so ably represented byGreenough and Kittredge's ''Words andTheir Ways in English Speech," which hasdelighted readers for more than twentyyears, and with which the newer book isworthy to stand. He brings much newmaterial into the discussion, for he hasbeen a faithful reader of the dictionary aswell as an accurate listener to the speechboth of the street and of the forum.

As a fair specimen of the sort of thingone finds in the book, we may take thechapter on "Words and Culture History."In it the author points out how a largenumber of words give indications of thestate of culture at the time they were born.Garret, for example, recalls the days whenthe upper stories of buildings had to beequipped for defence (cf. garrison). Stoop(cf. step) is of much interest in connectionwith the architecture of our old Dutchhouses. The dates of introduction of fork(as a table implement first cited from 1463)and spoon (in the modern sense apparentlydating from about 1340) are indications ofprogress in the refinement of manners. Aninteresting group is made up of the namesof different kinds of cloth, which bear mutewitness to the variety of sources from whichour cloths have come to us (for example,damask, from Damascus, about 1430, ging-

ham, "striped," from the Malayan, about1615, muslin, from Mosul, recently againin the public eye, about 1609).

Interesting from a psychological point ofview is the chapteϊ on "Folk Etymology."Does sparrow-grass represent a folk ex-planation of asparagus, or is the latter aLatinized form of sparrow-grass? Inblunderbuss the idea of awkwardness in theuse of this firearm has resulted from thechange from donderbuss, "thunder gun."Buckwheat has no connection with buck,but is the same as beech. Woodchuck hasno connection with wood, but is a render-ing of the Cree Indian wuchak.

Slips and misprints are remarkably few.Ypsilanti (p. 367) is not Indian but Greek.The statement that "The anglicization ofMontreal extends only to the first two syl-lables," except for the accentuation, maybe questioned; the last syllable is usuallypronounced so that it rhymes with awl.Hayes and Hawes (p. 384) are rather geni-tives than plurals of Hay and Haw (cf.Bates, Ives, Pitts). The remark about gold(p. 306) seems to imply that it has no con-nection with yellow, a connection which wehad supposed was scarcely to be ques-tioned.

A well written and fascinating volume,good for any reader to dip into.

Some Thoughts on WoodsImpressions of European Forestry. By

Ralph S. Hosmer, Head Professor of For-estry, Cornell. Ithaca, N. Y. Publishedby the Author. 1922. 20 cm., pp. 80.Price, $1, postpaid.

Professor Ralph S. Hosmer, who spenthis recent sabbatic leave seeing forests andfolks in Europe, has had his series of arti-cles, originally contributed to The LumberWorld Review, reprinted in booklet form.

In their new dress they form a sequaci-ous record of the peregrinations of a scient-ist who has his eyes open to facts of in-terest to his science,—forestry. But hiseyes were not closed to other sights, bear-ing on economics and sociology, or, inplain terms, on human beings. Through-out these carefully prepared papers, theevident record of an enjoyable trip through-out northwestern Europe, runs an under-current of the consciousness that forestsserve humanity, and that Europeanforests and foresters have many lessons forAmericans to learn.

Professor Hosmer describes places andpersons picturesquely, and one feels, too,that the pictures are accurate. He re-ceived definite impressions because he wasimpressionable, and went abroad with thedeterminination to see and learn.

While the booklet makes no pretense tobeing a textbook, it is far better than someof the volumes that purport to present thelessons to be learned from European forestsfor the benefit of American students offorestry. The descriptions of Scandina-vian forests are particularly satisfying, andhave the additional charm of novelty, ascompared with accounts of the more fre-


quently described forests of England,France, and Germany.

One feels that Hosmer wrote with a freshspontaneitjr, as a journalist who looked atthe writing as a not-too-serious, and per-haps ephemeral, piece of work. But eitherfrom painstaking search for facts at thetime, or from a subsequent careful revi-sion, the publication is a rare blending ofscience minus pedantry with charm minusirrelevancy.

Except for the original instalments inThe Lumber World Review, Professor Hos-mer's papers, revised and augmented in thepresent booklet, are available only in thisform and in a limited edition. The re-prints may be obtained from the author,209 Wait Avenue, Ithaca.

Books and Magazine ArticlesIn The American Historical Review for

January "An Introduction to the Historyof History" by James T. Shotwell is re-viewed by Professor William S. Ferguson,A.M. '97, Ph.D. '99, of Harvard. The new"Larned History for Ready Reference,"of which Dr. Donald E. Smith '01 is editor-in-chief and Dr. Daniel C. Knowlton '98an associate editor, has begun to appear,and the first volume is reviewed by ArthurI. Andrews. Professor Theodore F. Col-lier, Ph.D. '06, of Brown, reviews "L'His-toire de la Regence Pendant la Minorite deLouis XV," in three volumes, by Dom H.Leclercq. "Mystics and Heretics in Italyat the End of the Middle Ages" by EmileGebhart, translated by Professor EdwardM. Hulme, A.M. '02, of Stanford, is re-viewed by Professor George L. Hamilton.Professor Preserved Smith reviews "LaLiberte Chretienne: Etude sur le Principede la Pietό chez Luther" by Robert Will.

In The Journal of Forestry for NovemberProfessor Ralph C .Bryant's "Lumber:Its Manufacture and Distribution" is re-viewed by E. F.

In The Physical Review for DecemberProfessor Arthur L. Foley, Ph.D. '97, ofIndiana University, presents "A Photo-graphic Study of Sound Pulses BetweenCurved Walls and Sound Amplificationby Horns. Professor George W. Stewart,Ph.D. '00, of the University of Iowa, dis-cusses "Acoustic Wave Filters." LelandJ. Boardman, instructor in physics,prints "A Study of the Exciting Power forFluorescene of the Diίϊerenct Parts of theUltra-Violet Spectrum."

In The Indiana University AlumniQuarterly for January William C. Lang-don '92 describes "The Indiana Univer-sity Memorial Masque." Reuben E.Nyswander summarizes and reviews Pro-fessor Arthur L. Foley's paper on "TheCollege Student's Knowledge of HighSchool Physics" in School Science andMathematics" for October. Hamilton B.Moore '97 (A.M. Indiana Όi), of theLouisville Girls' High School, reviewsProfessor Henry H. Carter's paper on"Ruskin and the Waverley Novels" inthe April-June Sewanee Review.

Impressions of Many Lands

G. M. Dutcher '97 Tells of Experiences inTrip Around the World

On the morning of September 6, 1922,Mrs. Dutcher and I arrived in New YorkCity on the Assyria from Glasgow, thuswinning the tourist's blue ribbon—thecompletion of a tour around the world, onwhich we had been absent for fifteenmonths. Four hundred years before to theday, Sebastian del Cano and his seventeencompanions sailed Magellan's Victoriainto the harbor of San Lucar, Spain, com-pleting the first journey ever made aroundthe world. In comparison our little ad-venture was quite insignificant; but to usit had loomed in contemplation as a greatundertaking fraught with all manner ofpossibilities, for even to-day the risks in-volved in such a journey are by no meansnegligible. We were indeed fortunate tocomplete the trip without serious accidentor illness, for the dangers which we passedthrough were not a few nor far removed.

Like Magellan we set out with hopes inour hearts rather than clear and definiteplans for our course in mind. We be-longed to no tourist party and had nomission; we were just a college professorand his wife on sabbatical leave, travelingfrom place to place, from time to time. Wehad planned no itinerary of places or evencountries to visit, and had no schedule tobe kept, except as sailing dates from cer-tain ports had to be arranged some weeksin advance, for nearly three of the fifteenmonths were spent on shipboard. Neitherdid we set out with any definite purpose tobe attained by our journey; we did not goto make a book or even to garner lecturematerials. Our determination was to keepour eyes, ears, and minds open and to beprepared to utilize whatever opportunitiesmight open to us for seeing and under-standing other lands and peoples, theirconditions and problems. Few peoplehave gone armed with so few letters of in-troduction, and few even of those we tookwere used. We had no special influence tocommand entree for us. On the otherhand we were fortunate to find goodfriends, old and new, at almost everystage of our journey to whose kindness andhospitality we owe a large debt of grati-tude.

Having set out the world for to see, itmay be asked, what did we see? Perhapsfirst should be mentioned natural scenery.In all the world there is no scene so grand,so beautiful as the Himalayas viewed fromDarjeeling. This judgment I have foundconfirmed by all with whom I have com-pared observations. Almost equal un-animity favors the Grand Canyon of theColorado as worthy of second place. Thestupendous glories of these scenes were al-most matched by the sunset splendor overManila Bay and in the Straits of Malacca,or the starry miracle of the heavens wit-nessed in the desert of the Sinai peninsula,

or the shimmering mirage over the Coele-Syria valley between the snow-cappedsummits of Hermon and the Lebanons.The colors of the tropical sea viewed fromthe Pali at Honolulu; the luxuriance ofthe tropical verdure of Singapore, Penang,or Ceylon; the delicate charm of Japan asseen around Nikko, along the Inland Sea,or near Nagasaki; the somber blacknessof Athos as we passed in the night; or theloveliness of the bays of Salamis, Nauplia,and Naples and of Lago Maggiore; or theever-changing play of cloud and mist, ofsunlight and starlight upon the unchangingbulk of the Dent du Midi in the Valais:such are some of the pictures indeliblyprinted on the mind.

Great cities and famous buildings havetheir full space in memory's gallery. Themystery and charm of Paris and Romewere even stronger than when I first madetheir acquaintance more than a score ofyears ago. Few cities can vie with them inthe combination of present glories and his-toric past, but with them must certainlybe classed Constantinople and Peking.One thinks, too, of Athens and Cairo, ofDelhi and Kyoto, but with all their mar-vels they somehow miss the preeminenceof the world's most enduring and splendidcapitals. Unrivaled among buildings, be-yond per adventure, is the Taj Mahal atAgra in purity and beauty of form and ma-terial. There are other structures of simi-lar form or of similar material but onlythis one combines the two in majesticgrace and delicate harmony. This build-ing is a tomb—perhaps the Mausoleum atHalicarnassus was as fine, but our knowl-edge of it does not confirm such a judg-ment. To select any structure worthy ofplace in a second class one must searchfar, and then finds two of widely differentstyle and character, the cathedral at Milanand the Temple of Heaven in Peking.These, too, possess the qualities which holdone to their contemplation and draw oneback to them—qualities manifested by fewarchitectural achievements. The colossalsize and hoary antiquity of the pyramids,the ruined grace of the Parthenon, the pro-digious elaborateness of the great templeat Madura, and the sleek luxuriance of thetemples at Nikko embody the glories of as

many civilizations.*.

Historic memories hallow some locali-ties. All that is epic in one's nature thrillsas he sails into the Hellespont, with snow-clad Mount Ida, the plain of Troy, and thetomb of Achilles on the one hand, and onthe other the wreck-strewn shore and thegrave-covered slopes of Gallipoli. Nodeeper pathos can stir the soul than whenone treads the blood-drenched soil of thesolemn heights above Verdun and medi-tates on the significance of "They shall notpass!" One may imagine as he strollsamid the marble memorials in West-minster Abbey and St. Paul's that he hascaught the meaning of the British Empire,but there is something that can be under-stood only by wandering through the ruins


of the Lucknow residency and standingbeside the simple tomb of Henry Lawrence,on which there is ever a fresh-laid wreath,or sitting in the little chapel of the BritishLegation at Peking and then walkingalong the bullet-pitted wall bearing the in-scription "Lest we forget." Centuriesfade away as one stands beside the Sphinxand looks up the Nile to the step-pyramidof Sakkarah above the ancient Memphisand wonders whether of the two is theoldest existing monument made by humanhands; or as one in the Cairo Museumgazes into the face of Rameses II and of thePharaoh before whom Moses stood. Whatmemories does one conjure up as he standson the great wall of China; or strolls along"the street called Straight" in Damascus;or looks out across the plain of Marathonor stands on the Palatine Hill overlookingthe forum?

We made our pilgrimage to the world'sholy places: St. Peter's at Rome, SantaSophia at Constantinople, the Churches ofthe Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem and ofthe Nativity at Bethlehem, the ruins of thetemples of Apollo at Delphi and of themysteries at Eleusis, the massive remainsof the more ancient shrines of Luxor andKarnak, Buddh Gaya and Sarnath withtheir memories of Buddha, Benares withits Golden Temple, the temple and tombof Confucius at Chufoo, and China's holymountain—Tai-shan, where worship hasbeen conducted uninterruptedly for overfour thousand years.

There were opportunities to talk withmen who have helped to make history. InLos Angeles we paid our respects to Wes-ley an's oldest living alumnus, ex-SenatorCole, who went overland to California in1849 and later served in Congress underLincoln. In Tokio we were guests atluncheon of Viscount Shibusawa, who wasa member of a mission sent by the lastshogun to Paris in the days of NapoleonIII, while another of the guests had repre-sented Japan at the Paris Conference andwas soon to do so at Washington as well.In Manila we talked with both Americansand Filipinos who have been active in theaffairs of the islands in the past quarter-century. In Korea we conversed with menwhose official careers stretched over theperiod from the nation's emergence fromseclusion till its loss of independence.

All around the world history was in themaking. In Yokohama we saw the CrownPrince, the first prince of the imperial suc-cession to visit foreign lands, return fromhis voyage to Europe, which was a mostmemorable day in his nation's annals. InDelhi we saw the Prince of Wales wel-comed by the viceroy, officials, nativeprinces, and the multitudes of India. InPeking we attended a reception given bythe President of China in the ForbiddenCity, and at Canton we discussed affairswith a member of Dr. Sun Yat Sen'sgovernment. In Cairo we saw Lord Al-lenby and King Fuad and witnessed theproclamation of the nation's independence.

In Jerusalem and Damascus we observedthe different workings of the English andthe French mandates at critical moments.When we were in Smyrna Greek troopswere landing to participate in the disas-trous campaign, and in Athens we witnes-sed the temporary defeat of the GounarisCabinet. In Rome we saw the greatFascisti demonstration at the burial ofEnrico Toti, the popular hero of the greatwar, followed by a communistic effort at ageneral strike. In Germany we got someinsight into the conditions under theFrench occupation of the Rhineland. Aswe sailed down the Rhine "Old Glory" wasfloating proudly over Ehrenbreitstein.

In many lands, with peoples of all ranksand views, we discussed the democratic,nationalist, and peace movements. Theeconomic and social changes in Asia,Africa, and Europe afforded ample mate-rial for observation and discussion. Thequestion of organized labor in Japan, thedevelopment of the factory system and theproblem of child labor in China, theswadeshi or home manufactures agitationin India, the collapse of the mark in Ger-many, the problem of unemployment inEngland, and then on our return to theUnited States the railroad and coal strikesillustrate the vast ferment of readjust-ment following the war; but they do morethan that, they reveal a world-wide ad-vance of the masses to a higher economicand social level and to larger politicalprivileges than they have ever known.

As a teacher, the educational situationwas everywhere a subject of special in-terest to me. Opportunities to lecture inschools, colleges, and universities, state,mission, and private, in Japan, Korea,China, and India brought me into directrelations with teachers and students underevery variety of condition and enabled meto get first-hand knowledge. The prog-ress is remarkable, the opportunities un-limited, and the responsibility of theUnited States and other Western lands toassist the work can not be shirked exceptat our own peril.

As guests in the homes of English andAmerican missionaries, teachers, and busi-ness men we saw the various aspects of thecontact of East and West. Visits to thesplendid new Rockefeller buildings of thePeking Union Medical College and to thehospitals in other cities gave gratifyingevidence that the West was entering theEast on the errands of mercy as well as ofprofit.

Since our return the first question in-variably asked has been which country weliked best. For that there is no answer.The deepest impression made by our ob-servations and experiences was that of theclose kinship of mankind, of the solidarityof the race, of how much we are all alikeand striving for the same great aims. The"unrest" in many lands is not mad vio-lence but the same deep-rooted desire forfreedom and democracy which has carriedthe American people through its struggle

for independence and the other stages ofits progress—which we must rememberwere achieved not without violence. Inall lands those who are struggling for bet-ter things- for themselves are looking tothe American people for both example andsympathy, for guidance and help. TheAmerican who stays at home has littleidea of what his nation and its historymean for other peoples of the world. Like-wise the Christian who knows only his ownand can have but slight conception of thesignificance of the missionary achievementor of the importance of its steady prosecu-tion. One who has viewed the situation atfirst-hand can hardly escape deep convic-tion of the value of the work done and ofthe desirability of the energetic extensionof the enterprise for which that splendidCornellian, John R. Mott, has furnishedthe watchword, "The evangelization of theworld in this generation."

Of the questions asked us the second inorder of frequency has been about howmuch the trip cost. Such curiosity is nat-ural even though it may be somewhat im-pertinent. Our experience was that thetrip can readily be made for a reasonablesum, though larger expenditure wouldhave added to comfort and possibly af-forded further privileges. The reallypertinent question is whether it paid. Wefelt that it did every day as we tried toutilize the varied opportunities; since ourreturn to our normal routine of life, it hasbeen paying rich dividends in intellectualsatisfaction as well as in the illumination ofour daily work from the new stores ofknowledge accumulated. A few haveasked the true test question, whether wewould like to go again. To this the answeris an unqualified affirmative.

GEORGE MATTHEW DUTCHER '97Wesley an University.

MORE DEANS' REPORTSDean Niles of the Medical College re-

ports that "the effect of limiting the num-ber of students and thereby exercising theselect ion of the applicants continues to bereflected by the higher standard of workaccomplished by the classes admitted un-der this provision. There is no doubt thatthe average ability and previous trainingof these students is superior to any hereto-fore admitted. They are capable ofbenefiting by a graduate-school type of in-struction and our methods of teaching arein consequence undergoing revision. Thenumber of conditioned and dropped stu-dents is less than before, thus reducingwaste of equipment and effort, which is animportant item now that medical educa-tion is so costly and the demand for it sogreat. No wholly satisfactory method ofselecting applicants has been evolved andwe must continue to depend upon the judg-ment of the administration officers inchoosing wisely. At first regarded as ex-periment, there now can be no doubt con-cerning the wisdom of limiting the numberof students to our working capacity and


then selecting the best available candi-dates."

Such developments as the cafeteria andclub for medical students operated by theY. M. C. A. in cooperation with the facul-ties of the medical schools of New YorkUniversity and Cornell have ίielped to im-prove the spirit of the student body; butproper housing for students and staff re-mains a serious problem. A permanentorganization of alumni is needed to bringthem into closer touch with the college.The pay clinic has succeeded beyond ex-pectations, and the attendance for Juneaveraged 471 daily. " I t has become clearthat the Clinic can render a valuable ser-vice to the public and medical professionwithout doing injury to any competentphysician."

An affiliation has been effected with theBerwind Maternity Clinic which promisesimportant results in a field of teachingwhich is generally unsatisfactory. Themedical direction of the Clinic has beenplaced under the control of the University.The arrangement thus promotes the wel-fare of women and of medical education ina way which promises to become highlyeffective.

The seniors were this year invited by thefaculty of the College of Physicians andSurgeons to participate in a symposium ontuberculosis. This will be repeated andCornell will probably organize a similardiscussion of cancer to which the P. & S.seniors will be invited. The plan will bemutually beneficial. "The relations exist-ing between the College and the varioushospitals with which we are associated con-tinue to be cordial and mutually beneficial.The governing bodies and officers of theNew York, Bellevue, Nursery and Child'sand Woman's Hospitals affords hearty co-operation invariably, and our clinical facil-ities are all that can be desired as long asthe College continues to be physicallyseparated from the hospitals. In previousreports I have referred to the one vitaldefect in our organization, the lack of in-timate physical and educational relationswith one or more hospitals, without whichthe college can never function with thehighest efficiency.

"The ideal arrangement would be for theCollege to serve as an educational centerabout which a large general hospital andseveral special hospitals would be grouped,all upon a common site and with a commonpurpose. The acquisition of sufficient landand the removal of the various institutionswill require large sums of money, whichcan be secured, I believe, when all con-cerned come to realize that the aims of themedical colleges and the hospitals are reallyidentical and can best be achieved by co-ordinated effort. The College stands readyto participate to the extent of its resourcesand in the broadest manner."

The present building has become quiteinadequate. The College must decide if itis to remain in the same location and if soprepare to add additional stories to thepresent building.

Finally, additional assistant professor-ships are needed in several of the labora-tory departments; without these the headsare burdened with executive detail andteaching which seriously interfere withtheir scientific development.

Secretary Kerr of the Ithaca Divisionreports a satisfactory year. In the firstyear's work there were 29 students, ofwhom 16 were Cornell seniors, 16 men andsix women. The amount of dissectingmaterial has been nearly exhausted, andnew sources of supply must be sought. Inhistology and embryology 158 studentsmade 260 registrations. The courses inphysiology and biochemistry were takenby about 600 students from Arts andSciences and Agriculture. A nine-acretract for an experiment station for the De-partment of Physiology has been providedand this will make possible many impor-tant investigations that could not be un-dertaken elsewhere. The most urgentneeds of the college are assistant profes-sorships of histology and embryology andof physiology.

ALUMNI NOTES

'74 BS—Professor Herman L. Fair-child, of the University of Rochester, at arecent meeting of the A. A. A. S., waselected a member of the Council, his termto expire in 1926.

'74 BArch—Something over a year ago,Benedict W. Law became associated withthe Caney Creek Community Centerlocated in Knott County, Ky., of which hewrites as follows: "The Center was found-ed six years ago by Mrs. Alice S. G. Lloydin the mountain region of eastern Ken-tucky. The purpose of the Center is 'tohelp mountain communities secure ade-quate public utilities through organiza-tion of the people themselves; to cooperatewith public officials toward more efficientcivic development; to raise the standardof public school education, public health,roads, and living conditions.' The Centermaintains a training school where fromsixty to seventy mountain youths areeducated for leadership and good citizen-ship; it has aided in the establishment often affiliated schools in the coal miningtowns of the Big Sandy valley, most ofthese being in charge of college graduates;it has supervised directly, in connectionwith the county boards of education,about one hundred public schools in thisand a neighboring county, supplying Amer-ican flags and basketballs, and introducingathletics; it has demonstrated Caneymethods, including the citizenship club, invarious other counties. For the purposeof acquainting the people of the Northwith conditions in the southern highlandregion, a trip was made last spring throughseveral states, the principal speakers beingfour Caney boys. So successful was thetrip in arousing interest in the work that ithas been decided to repeat it in March or

April of this year." Law holds the officeof treasurer, and his mail address is Pip-papass, Ky.

'77 AB—Dr. M. Carey Thomas has beenelected president emeritus of Bryn MawrCollege.

'82 AB—Dr. Herman M. Biggs has beenreelected president of the American SocialHygiene Association.

'84 PhB—Henry J. Patten is traveling,and in December he was in Mombasa,East Africa. Mail will reach him if ad-dressed in care of the London City andMidland Bank, 5 Threadneedle Street,London, England.

'92 PhB—According to Professor Mi-chael V. O'Shea, of the Education depart-ment of the University of Wisconsin, thefirst business to be brought by the StateBoard of Education before the Legislatureat the present session should be that ofestablishing community rural schools inplace of the present one-room school-houses.

'93 AB—Edward C. Townsend was re-cently installed as Chancellor Commanderof Capitol Lodge No. 15, Knights ofPythias. His third rank in this order wastaken in Paradise Park, on Mount Ranier,on August 11, 1919, at an elevation ofnearly six thousand feet. He lives inOlympia, Wash., and is an engineer withthe Department of Public Lands.

'94 BS—President Raymond A. Pear-son, of Iowa State College, at the recentmeeting of the A. A. A. S., was elected avice-president and chairman of Section O,agriculture, succeeding Dr. Jacob G. Lip-man '00, of Rutgers.

'95—Announcement was recently madeof the engagement of Miss Gladys Meyerof Berkeley, Calif., and Charles SommersYoung '95, of Oakland, Calif. Young ispublisher of The Post-Enquirer, of Oak-land. The wedding will take place thismonth.

'97 PhD—At the meeting of the In-diana Academy of Science on December7-8 Professor Arthur L. Foley, of IndianaUniversity, read three papers, on "Photo-graphic Study of Architectural Acoustics,""Some Untenable Acoustic Theories," and"Improved Designs of Sound Condensers."

'98 BS—Miss Ella A. Holmes is a teacherof biology and general science in theJamaica High School. She lives at 4 JohnStreet. She is a member of the CornellWomen's Club and the New York Biologi-cal Society.

Όo PhB—Leroy L. Perrine is an ac-countant with the Internal Revenue Bu-reau at 870 Market Street, San Francisco,but for the last two years he has been inill health at San Diego. He is living at2048 Third Street. He is a Mason and ismarried.

Όo—At the annual meeting of the PsiUpsilon club of Boston, held on Janu-ary 18, Arthur P. Bryant was elected adirector for a term of two years.


Όi PhB—Ralph E. Hemstreet, formerlyfirst assistant district attorney and chief ofthe Bureau of Appeals in the office of theDistrict Attorney of Kings County, has re-sumed the general practice of law at 177Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Όi AB—Joseph Porter Harris, vice-president of the Union Trust Company ofCleveland, was one of the principal speak-ers at the dinner of the Buffalo Associationof Credit Men and the Buffalo Chapter ofthe American Institute of Banking, held atthe Hotel Statler in Buffalo on January11. His subject was "Foreign Trade andAmerican Business."

'05 ME—Dan L. Bellinger is managingdirector of the D. J. Murray Manufactur-ing Company, makers of heavy machineryfor paper mills and sawmills. His homeaddress is 808 Grant Street, Wausau, Wis.

'08 CE—Having completed the con-struction work at Josephine, Pa., whichhis firm had contracted to do for the Buf-falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad,Leon M. Brockway has returned to NewYork, where he lives at 1400 UniversityAvenue. He is interested in the firm ofCon way and Reid.

'08 ME—Frank W. Hoyt has moved fromPhiladelphia to 1122 Myrtle Street, Scran-ton, Pa. He is associated with Nat. D.Stevens in the sale of power plant equip-ment, and is located in the Bennett Build-ing, Wilkes-Barre.

Ί o AB—Dean William F. Russell, ofthe College of Education of the Univer-sity of Iowa, is the editor of "Lippincott'sEducational Guides," in a recent issue ofwhich is Professor Sterling A. Leonard's"Essential Principles of Teaching Readingand Literature."

Ί i CE—William M. Aitchisori haschanged his address from Allentown, Pa.,to Parsons, Kansas. He is with the Phoe-nix Utility Company.

'12 BArch—A daughter, Dorothy, wasborn on January 6 to Mr. and Mrs.Charles C. Colman, 12919 Cedar Road,Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

'12 AB; '13 AB—Mr. and Mrs. FloydR. Newman (Ruby P. Ames '13) are nowliving at Olmstead Falls, Ohio.

'13—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nason have an-nounced the marriage of their sister, MissMargaret M. Ross, to William R. M.Very Ί 3 on January 20 at Trinity Church,St. Augustine, Florida. Very has recentlybeen appointed general manager of theSavannah Creosoting Company; theirmail address is Box 1414, Savannah, Ga.

'13 PhD—Professor Earl H. Kennardhas been elected an associate editor of ThePhysical Review for a term of three years.

'14 MD—Dr. Smiley Blanton, professorof speech hygiene at the University ofWisconsin, now abroad on leave of ab-sence, writes from London that economicconditions there are critical and thatthousands are without employment. * 'Thesadness, misery, and suffering oppresses

one," he writes. "I t makes one feel gladthat our country, for the most part, is freeof such extreme cases. You must admirethe English paying their debt to us withsuch unemployment at home. The taxesare 25 per cent on incomes over $1200, anda higher rate for higher incomes."

'15 AB; '16 ME—A son, DonaldHoward, was born on September 27 to Mr.and Mrs. Foster Black (May Howard '15),1492 East Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn,N. Y.

'15 LLB—Lorenzo H. Utter is nowlocated in Friendship, N. Y., as a memberof the law firm of Mapes and Utter.

Ί 6 BS—Miss Lucy A. Bassett went toAlbany on February 1 as executive secre-tary of the Travelers Aid of that city.This is to be a demonstration year spon-sored by the Woman's Club of Albany.Her office will be in the Union Station, andher mail address will be in care of Briare,472 Hudson Avenue, Albany.

Ί 6 AB—William A. Prescott is still withthe Holstein-Freisian World, but has beenplaced in charge of the branch office atLiverpool, N. Y. He is living in Liverpool,but mail should be addressed to the Syra-cuse office, 312 City Bank Building. Thisis an all-Cornell organization consisting ofFrank T. Price Ίo, Maurice S. PrescottΊ 6 , John R. Shepherd, Ί9-20 Grad., andWilliam A. Prescott '16.

'16 AB—J. Phelps Harding has beentransferred from Detroit, to Minneapolis,Minn., by the Procter and Gamble Com-pany, with which he is connected. He isnow credit manager for the company in theMinneapolis district, and his address isVine Hall, 1424 LaSalle Avenue, Minnea-polis.

Ί 6 CE—Harold T. Sutcliffe is now inthe main office of the Pacific Gas and Elec-tric Company in San Francisco, and helives at Apartment 21, 1370 CaliforniaStreet. He was formerly in the Modestooffice.

'17 BChem—Paul Knapp is factorymanager of the recently organized DurezCompany, Inc., manufacturers of a com-position product from sawdust. His mailaddress is Box 535, North Tonawanda,N. Y.

'17 BS—Walter B. Balch is assistantprofessor of floriculture at the KansasState College of Agriculture, Manhattan,Kansas. He is a frequent contributor toThe Southern Florist and to other publica-tions in the same field.

'19 LLB—William P. Coltman has justreturned to the States on a five-months'furlough after spending three years inChina in the service of the Standard OilCompany of New York. The return tripwas made by way of the Suez Canal andEurope, visiting Hongkong, Straits Set-tlements, Colombo, Suez, Paris, and Lon-don en route, with a side trip to Nice andMonte Carlo. He expects to return to theOrient, leaving San Francisco on March 8on the President Pierce, and will be located

in Shanghai. His temporary mailing ad-dress will be in care of the Standard OilCompany of New York, 26 Broadway,New York.

'19 BS—Miss Florence E. Coupe '19was married on September 23 to RaymondEdgar Meagher, and they are makingtheir home at 61 Bloomingdale Avenue,Saranac Lake, N. Y. Meagher is in theice and coal business with his father, andis a member of the firm of Miller andMeagher, builders and contractors. Mrs.Meagher is teaching sewing one night aweek at the Girls' Club of Saranac Lake.

'19 BS—Miss Helen C. Langdon '19 wasmarried in March, 1922, to Robert E.Hughes of Utica, N. Y. their present ad-dress is Baker Avenue, Utica.

'19, J22 BArch; '23—A daughter, Mar-garet Louise, was born on January 6 toMr. and Mrs. Louis R. Chapman (Mar-garet L. Batchelor '23).

'20, '22 ME—Victor J. Williams is nowin charge of the testing department of theMoore Steam Turbine Corporation, andhis address is changed from Bolivar, N. Y.,to 393 North Main Street, Wellsville, N. Y.

'20-21 Grad—Miss Marion G. Pulley iswith the State Marketing Bureau, Jeffer-son City, Mo.

'20 ME, '22 MME—Mr. and Mrs.Stanley Mott-Smith announce the birth oftheir son, Stanley Paty, on October 18.Mott-Smith is an engineer with the B. F.Dillingham Company, Honolulu.

'21 BChem—Albert W. Laubengayer isinstructor in chemistry at Oregon Agricul-tural College; he lives at 633 NorthTwelfth Street, Corvallis, Oregon.

'21 BS—Miss Jennie G. Etzkowitz '21was married on December 30 to M. M.Murad, of Kansas City, Mo. The wed-ding took place at the New York residenceof Miss Etzkowitz, and the ceremony wasconducted by Dr. M. Silverman of TempleIsrael. Mr. and Mrs. Murad are living at524 James Street, Syracuse, N. Y.

'21 ME—Edward Wilson is sales engi-neer for the Wilson-Snyder Manufactur-ing Company of Pittsburgh, makers ofpumping machinery, steam engines, andturbines. His address is 318 NevilleStreet, Pittsburgh.

'21 ME—Raynard Christianson is nowin Youngstown, Ohio, where he is em-ployed by the Youngstown Sheet and TubeCompany. He lives at the Y. M. C. A.,Room 507.

'21, '22 BChem—Felix R. Tyroler is re-search chemist with the William DemuthCompany, Richmond Hill, Long Island.He lives at 15 Kossuth Place, Brooklyn.

'21 AB—Miss Cecil Mary By craft ofChicago and David,Cooley Ford '21, ofCleveland, were married early in Januaryat the South Shore Country Club in Chi-cago. They will make their home inCleveland.

'22 ME—Joseph D. Van Valkenburghis with the Photometric Products Corpora-

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'22 AB—Miss Miriam Cohen is doingspecial research in the bacteriologicallaboratory of the New York City Board ofHealth in Willard Parker Hospital. Shelives at 308 West Ninety-fourth Street,New York.

'22 AB—Louis Grossfeld has given uphis graduate work at the University, but

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'22 ME—Sidney W. Braun left the NewYork Telephone Company on January 15,to accept a position as industrial engineerwith the Bidart Machinery Company ofNew York, manufacturers of rotogravureprinting presses.

'22 BS—Donald E. Marshall has chang-ed his residence address to 144 NineteenthStreet, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, N. Y.He is a golf engineer, with offices at 166West Twenty-third Street, New York.

'22 AB—Miss Bernice W. Mundt isspending the winter touring southernCalifornia; mail should be addressed to525 East Broadway, Long Beach, Calif.

'22 CE—Howard E. Whitney has re-signed his position with the University asinstructor in civil engineering to accept aposition as civil engineer with the Sus-quehanna Power Company. His workwill be in the field office of the company atConowingo, Md., in connection with a pro-posed hydro-electric project on the Sus-quehanna River near that point.

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