Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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cali? TE'IEi 13. 4 -9 9 1.'Ql Ei :Z facturers begin at once to agitate for two D Q l N l new fraternities. The football team amazes Xt with a show of power, downs Princeton, then sinks off to a minor key by starting too late against Columbia. Dartmouth is lucky to win the greatest game in Ithaca since 1926, and then there is a triumphant re- turn to the major strain as Penn falls, before seventy thousand on Franklin Field. Arrogant faculty rules give way, and the hour of the morning chiminggis altered slight- ly, but a hint of oppression along another line is given when the proctor's office begins an in- formal registration of the student cars. Hell breaks loose in The San office and other places over the letters from Stentor, but the possibil- ities of the football fugue are soon exhausted, and the campus relaxes again. The honor system is dragged bodily into the spotlight, and the general decision seems to be that we don't want any. Nothing is done about it however, save the usual nullifica- Hi'1ff f0Uf5if'ff11'ffffff'f3 tion. Announcement is received of sweeping athletic reforms at Penn, this motif is accom- panied by blasts of brazen enthusiasm, and by violent vibrations of the Bronx reed. Frank E. Gannett, '98 describes horrible conditions in Ithaca before prohibition, and three thou- sand student mouths water. The usual St. Patrick's Day fiesta winds its way about the campus. Spring is particularly lovely, there are great and glorious things in the air, but the swelling chorus breaks, and storm music tells the tale of a washed-out Spring Day. The movement ends slowly, and perhaps a bit vvistfully. Too many are mulling over what might have been. They perhaps go to Poughkeepsie, then they can do some more mulling about the same subject. fl. ,fl A bmltb to dmr old Penn aa ff' fd! fff fav: fiff fm gr nr rv I fl46H

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CORNELLIANQSP Z X if - ct, U43 A l if . , Wi Q 7 I r . j 1 ll ' ' 5 L 5 sk! 4 ' ' Q - t 1 -. tv a A31 ' 'dercrihei horrihl e cozzoiilianfn team that can throw the ball into the air and catch it at varying distances down the field. This little idea is expanded and repeated artfully, with results disastrous to Columbia and Princeton, and alarming, at least, to Dartmouth and Penn. Accompanying this is the celebrated 'athletic purity' motif, borrowed from Carnegie Fonndnfion, Opnf 23. The wild activity of competitions colors this movement, and the scholastic theme of the Allegro is mere background now. The past gets its share of attention as the Fifty Year special issue of The .Sinn appears. A curious wailing note interrupts the gay progress of the movement, this is the Campus Chest theme, a dissonance which continues interminably to sound its mournful tone. Wheezes and grunts from the woodwinds symbolize the winning of Cornell's eleventh intercol- legiate wrestling championship. The Snn kicks open a hornets' nest with its inquiry into the rooming-house situation. A thundering chord of rage rings out as the rumor gets about that cars are to be verboten for Cornellians, but hasty denials clear the atmosphere, and the lively movement regains its gaiety. Prohibition gets some unusual attention in the latter stages of the Schema, as the flighty flute breathes dry sermons in answer to the wet gurgles of the bibu- lous bassoon. The Crew Song, gloriously orchestrated, winds up this movement with a sweep over Syracuse and Harvard on Spring Day, and the nearest thing to a sweep that the town of Poughkeepsie has seen in Lo, these many years. III. Minuetto pomposo lf the sophomore year is the most active, certainly the junior year is the most dramatic. Then it is that students reap the rewards of industry, indolence, or both. The movement has a grave and formal swing to it, for at this time the Cornellian takes himself most seriously, and feels his true importance, in another year he will have risen above self. Events swing by smoothly as tne Unversity en- rollment establishes a new record, and jewelry manu- ' ' The honor ryifenf' CI 'N X I 'fl -',gs , i 'g,x 'fl a ' , it , at fl -1 , I lIl45ll

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CORNELLIANisBv IV. Andante Maestoso when X YELQ Q-f dm ! O -i 'Z Ye Truly majestic is the opening of the final movement, a warlike theme is sounded imme- diately, for there has been a football game even before registration, and the Varsity is off to the wars in promising style. Dartmouth alone is able to hand one on the Red Team, and everyone is happy about the final victory at Philadelphia. The year goes with a speed that is almost incompatible with its majestyg when- ever the average senior meditates upon the inevitable end, he is apt to choke up and make an ass of himself. 44? CJ Wh 4, fie GFX GD Q -0 has Duo , Karla A curious perversion of the battle music is heard when the Varsity is kidnapped to the Yankee Stadium and tossed into a charity tour- nament of football, mud, and rain. That passes, however, and brighter things are in sight. The music of the year is heightened by a splendid concert series, the Boston Orchestra and Paderewski are outstanding. , , , , Milne rzvemgu Jcnior mm'iz'ateJ Of necessity, at this moment of writing, the symphony must be considered unfinished, yet most of us can sense the nature of the last movement. For most it is a swelling chord of satis- faction, tempered with tender melancholy that there must be an end. Some will hear again the reminiscent strain of 'might have been,' but that is inevitable. The final bars of the symphony can not be a let down in any way, the last term must be the finest. We must rise above history, and what actually happens, we must attain the higher level of what ought to happen. And on some later day we can laugh and be glad that once we snatched at a falling star. Honra we Jnatcbm' zz! az . . . .rtLzr 'fl 'fl ' 41 fhx 'fl , H q INN . 1 4 x' N- . I lll47ll