Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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CAETI-IB 41114152 lAP0!fFfCJ rmrf in ugly head Politics rears its ugly head upon the campus, for this is a presidential year, and soon there are flourishing clubs for both major parties. The Sun holds a straw vote, which predicts with amazing accuracy Mr. I-loover's ultimate margin of victory. Then, with dramatic suddenness, the academic theme is announced again in full voice, and finals are upon us. The cellos breathe a heartfelt sigh for the 44 members of 1932 who are to be lost for a time, then comes a wild burst of fest-music, the first Junior week is at hand. Money flows like water for a day or so, then water flows like molasses, and the Alpha Delta Phi house burns to the ground while 5000 odd gaze and marvel. But this is a mere forecast of the warmth which is to return to the land, as the glory of an Ithaca P Spring bursts upon the waiting student. The Spring 'T Q5 Day weather looks promising for the first time in O yearsg all and sundry are invited to Go To Hell at ds Schoellkopf, and some, alas, accept that invitation in other places as well. The sun stays out long enough X to let the Varsity take a magnihcent game from Yale, Zfl, but rain begins to fall just after the class represent- 'QQ atives have won their race from the freshmen of Yale gl and Princeton. ji The opening movement is almost complete, nowg T I 'W K px there is one burst of triumph for a Saturday upon which ,N K, gg ,K i X1 Cornell rings up victories over Princeton in track, Yale F in baseball, Penn State in Lacrosse, and Syracuse in all three races of a dual regatta. There is also a repetition ' ' of the academic motif, and then the end, on a note of warmth and expectation. H. Scherzo The sophomore year is perhaps the liveliest. This . J one begins happily with the announcement that Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Balch are the donors of the 51,650,000 residential halls for women. This idea of worldly glory is shouted out by the brasses, of course, and blended with martial themes, announcing a football f' . Q X 'Q N ,I , 2, i 9 a J if 1 V I I A- A X - X q u 5 Q Er - ,X Y-'QT .Spr.'1rg DJ' I I -- ffl' P f . fiff W ! . V' fif 62? fiif V I 51443

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CORNELLIAN9rBa x W ,. Q, Nga K QQ WWW ,S germ.r .... are bard to jimi justly be called a mighty maze, but not without a plan. Perhaps that plan is analogous to music rather than to literature, let us consider the college course as a great symphony in the conventional four movements. l. Allegro-un poco agitato The iirst year opens with a hurried rustling among the strings, competitors scurrying about and falling, leech-like, upon the newcomers, their legitimate prey. The english horn blats forth the motif of the fraternity man in full cry upon the heels of the prospective pledge, and this theme is soon taken up by all the wind instruments in chorus. Then comes an ominous rumble from the kettle drums, and the double bass announces the principal theme of the movement, scholarship. But this strain is almost lost in the rich contrapuntal background that swells from the halls of Cornell. Little ripplings are heard, the appoggiaturas of incident which one remembers even when the central themes are forgotten or overlooked. The football team presents a fine line and no backs to speak of. Games are lost to Princeton, Dartmouth, and Penn, while scoreless ties are played with Columbia and St. Bonaventure. There is a little martial glory in this movement, and a distinct alumni growl from among the tympani. ll J Qi 5. T- Hprafpertive pledge I Cl fl ' X 41 'XX 'fl p R TI 'HX 'KX I H1433

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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