Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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6 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS there was a Dramatic Club play, a Musical Clubs concert, a Senior Ball and a number of house dances, a baseball game, and a State Street to visit either that day or the next. The Musical Clubs concert was the most successful in many years, Bailey Hall was filled with a large and an ap- preciative audience. The program in- cluded a large group of songs given by the Glee Club with its soloists, several numbers given by the Instrumental Club, some numbers by the Savage Club quartet, and an Amateur Radio Hour under the direction of returning alumnus Jay Fassett, Jr. '11, an underweight Alex- ander Wolcott who with his two stooges introduced a varied assortment of the dramatic and musical talent of the Campus. Fassett's son, Jacob S., 3d. '35 is manager of the Musical Clubs. The radio hour included the Glee Club, E. Lawrence Burrows '34 in a solo, Julia Hardin '35 and George C. Brown '35 in a duet, Lovely to Look At from Roberta, a song by Dorothy Sarnoff '35, first in English and then in Russian, and a number or two on the versatile banjo of Alfred F. Sulla '19, A specialty was a Sweet Potato Quartet, present- ing ghastly renditions of There's a Tavern in the Town and another song, unidentified except by title. This vied in its humorous propensities with the Instrumental Club's rendition of Strauss's Pizzicato Polka, led by an inspired R. Kenneth Ketcham '19. The week-end was hotter than a Tompkins County election, and attend- ance at the Senior Ball suffered somewhat as a result. Earl Hines and fourteen others from Cl1icago's Harlem furnished the music, and were popularly received. The only other public dance of the week-end was at Willard Straight Saturday after- noon, where Bob Johnson played to a capacity crowd. Gowns Appear Sunday Commencement activities oHicially be- gan Sunday with the baccalaureate serv- ice, held in BaileyHall. Dr. Seelye Bixler, Bussey professor of theology at Harvard University, preached the sermon, he dis- cussed the overemphasis on words in modern thought, and urged the use of reason rather than of words. He talked of the need for this reason in the field of social relations if a collectivism America docs not wish is to be avoided. That evening, Class Day exercises were held on the portico of Goldwin Smith. introduced by G. Paull Torrence '35 of Evanston, Ill., Paul H. Reinhardt '35 of Oakland, Cal. gave the Class history, Eleanor Middleton '35 of Long Island City, the Class poem, Oleg Petroff '35 of Montclair, N the Class oration. William D. Dugan '35 of Hamburg, Senior custodian of thc Pipe, presented it to john H. Mayer '36 of Kansas City, Mo. at the end of the prograin. George M. Tuttle '35 of Niagara Falls lcd his class-mates in the singing of Cornell songs during the program, which lasted about an hour. In the beautiful setting of Balch Court, members of the women's Senior Class held its senior sing before a large crowd at nine o'clock Sunday evening, in a program which featured the lachrymose Senior Dirge and other Campus songs. Medical Degrees Earlier On june 6 in the main auditorium of the Medical College in New York Presi- dent Farrand administered the Oath of Hippocrates and conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine upon sixty-four. In his address to the graduating class, the President spoke of the way in which the medical profession is apt to close its eyes to the wider social and civil obliga- tions that necessarily rest upon the shoulders of each member of the profes- sion. He urged that you, the young members of the profession, maintain a liberal and open-minded point of view so that you will be able to see and ap- preciate any needed change .... While many of the traditions, the sound tradi- tions, are decidedly worth while, the medical profession, and the legal pro- fession, have the tendency to think that whatever was is right, and that change and development are wrong. Dr. William S. Ladd, Associate Dean of the College, announced the award of five series of prizes. Of the John Metcalfe Polk Memorial Prizes, awarded to the DEGREES GRANTED 1934-35 Firrt fum rfcpt. Feb. Dfsffff 1931 I934 1931 Tm! AB .......... 311 13 35 379 BChem ........ 18 oo 1 30 BS CAgrD ..... 160 I3 19 101 BS .... 91 6 II 109 BS QHotelD.. .. 34 1 0 35 DVM ........ 55 0 1 56 BArch ........ I4 o 6 10 BLArch ..... 1 O 0 1 BFA ...... . . 3 0 0 3 CE ...... . . . 31 5 I1 47 ME ...., . . . 50 1 5 56 EE ........... 31 0 1 33 Che1nE ....... 1 o o 1 BS in AE .,... 40' 1 1 43 Total ....... 861 SI 101 1015 Advanced Degree: AM .......... 16 8 8 MAEd. . ...... Lf 9 0 fo MS. .......... 18 7 MSEd ..,..... if 3 0 4? MSAgr .... . 7 1 1 9 MFor. . . . . 0 1 0 1 MSEn g ....... 7 0 0 7 MCE ..,...... 7 3 1 11 MEE ..,... . 1 0 o 1 MArch ,...... 1 0 0 1 PhD ......... 75 41 I9 136 Total ,....., 150 93 36 179 Other Dcgrrcr LLB ......... 35 0 0 35 MD ..... . . , 64 o 0 64 Grand Total..1111 144 138 1393 three students who have the highest general standing for four years in com- memoration of Dr. john M. Polk '99, son of the first Dean, the first, of 5150, went to Dr. Thomas Lowry, second, of SIOO, to Dr. George B. Sanders '31, and third, of 370, to Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir. . The William M. Polk Prizes, amount- ing to 3115, 375, and 550, went to Drs. Sanders, Lowry, and Walter, F. Bugden, in that order. They were established by Mrs. Polk in memory ofsDr. Polk, who was Dean and Professor of Gynecology from the foundation of the Medical College in 1898 until his death in 1918, and are awarded for special distinction in gynecology. ' The Gustav Seeligman Prizes in Ob- stetrics, provided by an anonymous donor, are awarded for the best records in that department., First prize of S56 went to Dr. William H. Hanna, Jr., second of S18 to Dr. Charles E. Jacobson. Dr. Lowry also won the Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize for efficiency in general medicine. It amounts to S41 and was endowed by the mother of Alfred M. Michaelis '15, who died during his interneship, in April, 1916. The first of the prizes .given by Dr. Frederick Whiting for the best work in otology, amounting to 350, was awarded to Dr. Charles G. Stetson '31, second, of 515, to Dt. Bugden. Twenty-four members of the Class re- ceived commissions in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army from Lieut. Col. Taylor E. Darby, of whom Dr. William A. Sibrans won the Surgeon General's prize, The Manual of Surgical Anatomy, for attaining the highest average in the course in Military Science and Tactics. Besides Drs. Sanders and Stetson, eleven others of the graduating class received their baccalaureate degrees from the University: Maxwell R. Berry, Jr. '31, John H. Burke, Jr. '31, George G. Flenner '31, Saul R. Kelson '19, William T. Medi '31, Boris Petroff '31, Richard Reeser, Jr. '31, William R. Richards, Jr. '30, Herbert J. Riekert '31, Jefferson Weed, Sp. '30, and Albert CAbramD M. Yunich '31. . Lawyers Hear King Dr. Stanley King, president of Amherst and distinguished member of the Massa- chusetts Bar, told thirty-four graduating third-year men of the Law School at Commencement exercises May 30 that the freedom of the American university is menaced by the idea of the purpose of education prevalent in many foreign countries and gaining popularity in this country: that the university and all education should be framed for the bene- fit of the State. President Farrand, after presenting the diplomas, also spoke of the special threat in our democracy today to freedom and liberty in teaching and

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JUNE zo, 1935 5 IMPRESSIVE COMMENCEMENT E DS YEAR President Awards 1012 Degrees as Impressive Climax to 'Senior Week President Farrand told the black- gowned graduates who filled the or- chestra section of Bailey Hall and part of the dress circle at the University's sixty-seventh Commencement, june 17, that the benefits of individual oppor- tunity should be continued, and that its exercise at the expense of the common good could be checked by public moral- ity. He declared that no one could wish to leave unchanged the order that has brought social and economic abuses, but that necessary changes should be checked -by investigation of those things that have been found worthwhile. The University, the President de- clared, is highly concerned with what its graduates do as citizens, it is looking to them for leadership in the problems of the present time. A threat of rain had driven Commence- ment exercises from Schoellkopf, the thousand graduates had assembled at the Drill Hall and marched from there to Bailey Hall through lines of parents and friends. Major Charles S. Ferrin of the ROTC served as marshal in the absence of Colonel john J. Fulmer, Commandant, student marshals were Walter D. Switzer of Williamsport, Pa. and Frank Irving of Los Angeles, Cal. The students, Trustees, and Faculty members filed into Bailey Hall to the processional, Marche Pontificale Qde la TombelleD , they remained standing to sing America and to hear the invoca- tion given by the Rev. William F. Hastings, of Ithaca's First Congrega- tional Church. Major Ferrin presented 130 Seniors to President Farrand, who awarded them, on authority of the President of the United States, commissions as Second Lieutenants in the United States Army Reserve Corps. They were recommended for commissions by President Farrand and Colonel Fulmer. Forty-nine were commissioned in Field Artillery, 1.6 in Infantry, I3 each in Ordnance and Signal Corps, and 7.6 in the Veterinary Corps. Candidates for degrees were then in- troduced by the deans of the various colleges, and were awarded them by President Farrand. Following President Farrand's address, benediction was pronounced by Mr. Hastings, and the group stood as the Alma Mater was softly played upon the Bailey Hall organ. The postlude was the finale of Widor's Sixth Organ Symphony. What with parents, starry-eyed and eminently marriageable young ladies, the reuning Classes of 'Io and '15, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Uni- versity's graduating class had a busy and a pleasant time of it indeed this Senior Week. By Friday the Miss Ash- tons and the Miss Nevvmans had every- body satisfactorily ready to graduate, 1935 CLASS DAY EXERCISES AND SENIOR SINGING SUNDAY EVENING Pham by FK 'L r .On the platform: G. Paull Torrence, Jr. of Evanston, Ill., presiding, Paul H. Reinhardt of Oakland, Cal., Class historian, Eleanor Middleton of Long Island City, Class poet, Oleg P. Petroff of Montclair, N. J., Class orator, William.D. Dugan of Hamburg, Senior 'custodian of the class pipe, and John H. Mayer of Kansas City, Mo., Junior custodian of the pipe.

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JUNE 7.0, 7 cited it as an example of the weak- ening in the moral fibre of our citizen- ship. Dean Burdick spoke a word of greeting and farewell to this first class to receive its entire Law course in Myron Taylor Hall. Norman MacDonald of Fall River, Mass. was awarded the Carey Exhibi- tion Prize for the best comprehensive examination. David Altman '33 and Robert L. Griffith '19 of Rochester, and Forbes D. Shaw '17 of Brooklyn, coach of the freshman baseball team, were also graduated with honors. The total number of degrees granted by the University during the academic year was 1393, thirteen more than last year. Of these, 1o15 were first degrees, 179 were advanced degrees other than LLB and MD, of which 35 of the former had been awarded, May 30, at the Law School Commencement and 64 of the latter, June 6, at the Commencement ex- ercises of the Medical College in New York. Thirty-six more first degrees in all were given this year than last, six fewer Law degrees, ten more Medical degrees, and twenty-five fewer other advanced degrees. The table opposite shows the numbers of each degree awarded June 17, last September, and at the close of the first term in February. COUNCIL ELECTS OFFICERS CCo1ztinzzerZ from page 49 vice-president of the Council. The directors unanimously re-elected Becker president of the Council and J. DuPratt White '90, first vice-president. Allan C. Balch '89 of Los Angeles, Cal., John W. O'Leary '99 of Chicago, Ill., and Walter C. Teagle 'oo of New York City were elected vice-presidents, with members of the executive committee Robert T. Mickle '91, James K. Fraser '97, Paul A. Schoellkopf '06, Robert E. Treman '09, Waldemar H. Fries '1o, William J. Thorne 'II, Harold E. Irish '16, Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr. '17, and Walter W. Buckley '16 . Archie M. Palmer '18 and Sara Bailey Sailor '09 continue as executive secretary and assistant secretary, respectively. Members-at-large of the board of directors, elected under the provisions of the revised by-laws, are: To serve two years: William C. Agnew '31, Tristan Antell '13, Katharine R. Buckley '01, Charles C. Colman '11, George D. Crofts '01, Archibald S. Downey '96, Harold T. Edwards ,10, Frank E. Gannett '98, William P. Gruner '07, Elon H. Hooker '94, Mary K. Hoyt '1o, Jervis Langdon '97, Paul E. Lash '06, Harrison D. McFaddin '94, Laurence G. Meads '14, R. Verne Mitchell '07, Henry M. Robinson '90, Edward S. Sanderson '94, G. Norman Scott '17, Harry G. Stutz '07, Frank J. Tone '91, John W. Towle '94, Andrew J. Whinery 'IO. 'To serve three years: Arthur J. Baldwin '91, Waldron P. Belknap '95, Edward L. Bernays '11, Edward D. Bryde 'o4, Mrs. Thomas G. Ferguson Clrene Davisl '11, William F. E. Gurley '77, George F. Hewitt, Jr. '1o, James Lynah '05, Dr. Walter H. McNeill, Jr. '10, George J. Mersereau '99, Thomas Midgley, Jr. 'II, Emmett J. Murphy '11, Daniel A. Reed '98, Winton G. Rossiter '11, R. H. Shreve '01, Edward G. Sperry '15, Ruth I. Stone '1o, Robert J. Thorne '97, Charles H. Thurber '86, John W. Todd 'o6, Alfred D. Warner 'oo, Philip J. Wickser '08. To serve four years: Francis O. Arfeld, Jr. '97, Elizabeth M. Brennan '18, Ernest M. Bull '98, Walter S. Car enter '10, Carlton P. Cooke '11, Samuel B. Ecilert '08, Mrs. Robert J. Eidlitz CSadie S. BoultonD '85, Victor Emanuel '19, Walter S. Finlay 'o4, James K. Fraser '97, Caesar A. Grasselli, II '14, William L. Kleitz '15, Edwin Marshall '94, William G. Mennen '08, Willard F. Place '18, Gustav J. Requardt '09, Hudson P. Rose '84, Jacob G. Schurman,Jr. '17, Myron C. Taylor '94, Walter C. Teagle 'oo, Alphonse D. Weil '84, J. Du- Pratt White '9o. About ATHLETI CS NINE TIES FOR FOURTH Switzer Leads League Batters The baseball team ended its season June IS at Hanover, N. H., losing to Dartmouth to put it into a tie with Princeton for fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, with its right- fielder, Walter D. Switzer '35, playing his first year of Varsity baseball and leading the League with a .486 batting average, and with a record behind it of undependable but at times brilliant baseball. In the Dartmouth game, which Cornell lost 5-o, Switzer failed to play, having received a groin injury in Friday's game, but in the two games at Ithaca Thursday and Friday he knocked out four hits. The Thursday game with Pennsylvania Cornell lost, 11-10, in a heart-breaking battle. At the middle of the sixth Cornell was ahead, 3-1, at the end of the inning it was 9-3 in the hole and Dan Lind- heimer '36 was in the showers. Pross took hold, the Red started hitting things WIN RIFLE AWARD Cadet Captain Jonathan P. Blount '36 of Ithaca, captain of the ROTC rifle team, receives from Lieutenant George R. Shoals of Rochester the Hearst plaque, representative of victory in Cornell's Corps Area. The rifle team was second in national competition, its second team was third in the Corps Area and later in the day received a bronze plaque. The scene is the Drill Hall, May 15. right and left, by the middle of the ninth Cornell had evened the score at Io-all. But in the last of the inning one Ed Shanahan, Quaker center-fielder, ended the game by connecting with Phil Pross's first pitched ball to knock out a homer. ' Johnny Mayer covered himself with as much glory in the Friday game with Pennsylvania as did Shanahan Thursday: with two out in the last half of the last inning, and with Captain Bill Dugan at third and Ernie Downer at second, he pounded out a single to left field and ended the game there and then. Shanahan had given the Pennsylvania team a lead in the first part of the inning, with an- other home run. Ted Olson, pitching-ace of the league- leading Dartmouth Indians, held Cornell to four hits and no runs in the Saturday game in New Hampshire. Switzer, in- jured, was unable to play, Kreimer, with two hits, and Dugan and Krukowski were the only Cornellians to connect. The Season's Record Cornell 1, Maryland IO -Cornell 1, Maryland 5 Cornell 10, Princeton 8 ' Cornell 1, Princeton 1 ' Cornell 1, Dartmouth 11 Cornell 3, Colgate 5 Cornell 17, Columbia 11' Cornell 3, Columbia 1 Cornell 6, Colgate IO Cornell 3, Syracuse 9 Cornell II, Syracuse 7 Cornell 4, Yale 33 Cornell ro, Rochester o Cornell IO, Harvard IIT Cornell 4, Harvard IIT Cornell 1, Yale 9 Cornell 1o, Pennsylvania 111' Cornell 6, Pennsylvania 5 ' Cornell o, Dartmouth 5 League games-Won 5, Lost 7 Total games-Won 7, Lost IL -.gl- DRAMATIC CLUB PLEASES The Dramatic Club, with two produc- tions of Nicolas Evreinoff's The Chief Thing Friday and Saturday evenings of Senior Week, brought its twenty-sixth season to a successful close. The Chief Thing, an extraordinary play to come out of the Russian theater, was labelled by Evreinoff as The Theater in Life- a Comedy for Some-a Drama for Others, it sets for its very large cast a difficult task. Merrill N. Knapp '35, son of Halsey B. Knapp '11 of Farmingdale, performed the leading role, that of Paraclete, with dis- tinction, another member of the cast of thirty who did excellently was Seymour Gross '35 of Belle Harbor, president of the Club. Charles Brunelle '36 of Brooklyn, Margaret Schramm '35 of Flushing, Marilyn Nute '35 of Manchester, N. H., were others who did well in their none- too-easy roles. The play was produced under the direction of Professor Alex M. Drummond, assisted by Violet Brown '35 of Brooklyn. Colby Lewis '34 was technical director.