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8 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS POUNDBD 1899 Published for the Cornell Alumni Corpora- tion by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly during the college year and monthly in July, August and September: thirty-five issues annually. .S'uhrrription.r.' 54.00 a year in U. .S'. and porter- xionfg Canada, J'4.55,' Foreign, ,,4.j0. Single copier fifteen centr. Suhruiptionr are pa-yahle in advance and are renewed annually until cancelled. Editor and Publisher R. W. SAILOR '07 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Associates: L. C. Boocrnzvnn '11 F. M. COFFIN '11 Printed by The Cayuga Press ITHACA, NEW YORK REUNION TRENDS Much thought is being given to re- union trends by class dividuals and in their tion. It is apparent aspects of the events gradual change. Today the reunion tendency to see more and the surrounding secretaries, as in- organized associa- that the general are undergoing a parties exhibit a of the University country, to grow occasionally thoughtful and sentimental, to make more noise at the rally and less at the dormitory, and to attend practi- cally in a body the official events of the schedule. Some of this change is a reflection of the happy addition to the alumnal schedule of Cornell Day in May, and of the Alumni Institute the week following reunions. The credits and debits of the Dix plan are in for a lively discussion. The problem of four small classes is different from that of four large classes in a Dix group. Some day four classes will be in conjunction where the crowd will be so large that practical consideration of food, lodging, and entertainment will establish some sort of limit to expansion of the idea. A reunion for such a pitifully short time docs not give a real opportunity for contacts numbering hundreds, and a thousand contemporaries assembling for two days would be nothing short of tantalizing. Beyond the obvious purpose of bring- ing together old friends, the object of a reunion is to bring back to their univer- sity as many alumni as possible so that they may renew by contact their affection and appreciation for the place and the persons that compose it. The solution probably lies in the lengthening of the period to utilize Thursday and Sunday, and the encourag- ing ol the perpetual reuner by allording him equal opportunity along with the Dix and the quinquennial groups. Per- manent but simplified costumes, a separ- ate schedule of events to augiiient the class ailairs. and the annual assurance of :i welcome may build out of the oil Classes a new and attractive addition to tlie reunion period. The mtirq alumni that enjoy frequent contacts with Cor- nell, the more Cornell can rely on her alumni when she needs them. PROFESSOR HERRICK RETIRES GLENN W. Hniuucre '96 Approximately seventy friends and associates of the Entomology Department crowded Willard Straight's largest priv- ate dining room May 13 to honor Pro- fessor Glenn W. Herrick '96, who retires from active teaching this June after more than twenty-five years of service. Speakers at the dinner included Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, emeritus, former dean of the College of Agriculture, Pro- fessor Simon H. Gage '77, Histology and Embryology, emeritus, Dean Cornelius Betten of the University Faculty, and Professor Percival J. Parrott, Grad. 'o6, vice-director of the State Experiment Station at Geneva. Professor James G. Needham, PhD '98, Was toastmaster, and read many letters and telegrams from friends unable to be present. Professor Herrick is retiring from teaching this year to devote more time to research and writing. He spoke briefly of the mixed emotions of the occasion. Since I909 he has taught the courses in Economic Entomology in the College of Agriculture. He returned to Ithaca then as assistant professor, from having been professor of biology and director of the State Experiment Station of Mississippi and later of Texas. In 1911 he was ap- pointed professor of economic entom- ology and entomologist tothe Experi- ment Station here. Recently he has de- voted himself especially to the study of insect pests of shade trees, and the Uni- versity Press is to publish in August his book, Shade Trees and Their Insect Enemies. He has written many bulletins and numerous other books, among them, A Textbook of Zoology, Insects of Economic Importance, Manual of ln- iurious Insects, Insects lnjurious to the Household and Annoying to Man, and collaborated with John H. Comstock '74 and Anna Botsford Comstock '79 on their Manual for the Study of Insects. For several years before it was turned over to the University, Professor Herrick was secretary of the Comstock Publishing Com pa ii y, coM1NG EVENTS Time and place of regular Cluh luncheon: are printed .reparateb as we have space. N oricer of other Cornell eoentr, hath in Ithaca and ahroad, appear helow. Contrihution: to thi: column mutt he received on or hefore Thursday to appear the next Thursday. JUNE 14-18 At Ithaca: Summer convention, American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers JULY 4-6 At Ithaca: Symposium on ionic physics JULY 8 At Ithaca: Summer Session opens JULY 15-1o At Ithaca: American Institute of Cooperation AUGUST 16 At Ithaca: Summer Session closes Professor Herrick is a member and former president of the American Associ- ation of Economic Entomologists, a member of the A.A.A.S., Fellow of the Entomological Society of America, of the Biological Society of Washington, D.C., and of Societe Linneenne de Lyon. He is a member of Quill and Dagger, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Gamma Rho. Professor and Mrs. Herrick CNannie,Y. Burkej '97, are the parents of Marvin T. Herrick '11, Stephen Mi Herrick '17, and Anna G. Herrick '31. JERSEY ENTERTAINS SCHOLAR Upwards of forty-five members of the Lackawanna Cornell Club of New Jersey saw and heard from the holder of the Club's first scholarship, Russell W. Boettiger '35 of Mountain Lakes, N. J., at their annual spring meeting, held at Canoe Brook Country Club at Summit, June 7. Graduating at the top of his class in Administrative Engineering, having worked his way through the University with the help of the Club scholarship, Boettiger spoke on the 'value of such a scholarship to the undergraduate. Professor Herman Diederichs '97 spoke at length on the new athletics set-up and on the plan for regional alumni scholar- ships. Harold A. CTigeD Jewett '19 en- tertained at the piano, Campus movies were shown, and a buffet supper was served. Other guests besides Professor Diederichs, Boettiger, and Jewett, were Clarence J. Pope ,IO, president of the Cornell Club of Northern New Jersey, and Kenneth R. Pelton '16 of the West- held Club. Officers elected for 1935-6 are Hugh C. Edmiston '15, president, Paul W. Drake '10, vice-president, and Edward G. Williams '15, secretary-treasurer. DR. ABRAM T. KERR '96 and Mrs. Kerr were in Philadelphia June IO, attending the graduation at George School, Pa., of their daughter, Cynthia. DR. JAMES E. KNOTT, PhD '16, Veget- able Crops Extension, has published a re- vision of his book, Vegetable Growing.

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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.

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JUNE ZO, 9 BRIEF NEWS OF CAMPUS A D TOW THE EAGLES were in town Senior Week-hundreds of them-to attend their annual State convention. Ithaca decorated itself with red-white-and-blue bunting, cleared State Street for the Grand Parade, and the Class of '10 and the Class of '15 loved it. THE BUNTING-or its equivalent- goes up again June 30, when 700 farm boys and girls from all parts of the State arrive in Ithaca to take part in the fourteenth annual 4-H conference spon- sored by the College of Agriculture. The Christiance-Dudley Pharmacy, purveyor of ice cream, will then have its innings after this four days of gazing wistfully across the street at the Ithaca Hotel. TOWN TRUCKS are to be bedecked and bedizened to bring school children to Stewart Park, July 4th, Speeches, fireworks, ball games, parades, dedica- tions, and more speeches, are to follow- all piously planned to remind farmers hereabouts of the advantages of trading inglthaca. OTHER THINGS are happening in the County: it has just finished the first audiometer test ever given all of a county's children. Twenty of them, the test disclosed, need the wax to be dug from their ears, 64 have tonsils or ade- noids, 117 should be taught lip-reading. MAYOR LOUIS P. SMITH has de- cided that he Chooses Not to Run for reelection, joseph B. Myers, present chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and staunch Republican, has thrown his hat into the ring. WE, WHO have been taking great in- terest in Stewart Park's menagerie, CIVIL ENGINEER PASSES The Cornell Civil Engineer for May- ,Iune contains a discussion of Model Studies on Ohio River Bear Traps by David H. Tully '18, First Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, USA, and the names and addresses of all members of the Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University. This is the last issue of the Civil Engineer before its merger with the Sibleyjournal into The Cornell Engineer. The editor, Williamj. Weakland, Jr. '36, who will also head the board of the new Cornell Engineer, modestly details the paper's four accomplishments of the year: C15 the acquisition of a director for the School of Civil Engineering, CLD drastic revision of the School's honor system, CQ an administrative course in Civil Engineering, and QQ merger with the Sibley Journal. He did not claim credit for the McMullen regional scholarships! were pleased as Punch, June 10, to hear of the birth of three cygnets, heirs to some two of the Park's five swans. THE TOWN BOARD of Ithaca has given Forest Home permission to spend S35,o00 on a new water district there, with service mains and things. PROFESSOR EDWARD A. WHITE and the Ornamental Horticulture Depart- ment were hosts, June 6, to one hun- dred Home Bureau women and their guests who made a tour of University flower gardens. MORTON W. BRIGGS '37 of Mill- brook has been awarded S300 by the Institute of International Education for study during his Junior year at the Sorbonne, Paris. GRADUATES of Cascadilla School were entertained at a dinner held at the Cortland Country Club, June 13. Head- master Clarence M. Doyle 'oz and faculty member Edward K. Campbell ,13 were two of the speakers. NO MORE will the undergraduate hailing from Spencer, N. Y., go home vacations via East Ithaca and the E. C. 8a N. The Lehigh, operator of the branch, has received permission from the Inter- state Commerce Commission to abandon some twenty-rwo miles of the road be- tween Spencer and Ithaca. SUNDAY AFTERNOON drivers up Ellis Hollow way are pausing these days to see the CCC's new camp, being built to house that particular branch of President Roosevelt's Work Army de- tailed to the University's arboretum pro- ject. The buildings haven't been' painted yet, but look substantial and pleasant. HOTEL COURSES FILLING Of the nine summer courses in Hotel Administration which open june 1.4 for hotel employees, one is already filled and others are rapidly approaching capac- ity enrollment, according to Professor Howard B. Meek, head of the Depart- ment. The courses vary in length from one to three weeks. That now booked full is in quantity food preparation. Others include elementary accounting, hotel accounting, food and beverage control, interpretation of hotel financial statements, hotel housekeeping, hotel promotion Cto be given by W. Reuel Needham '1.5D, personnel methods, and hotel stewarding. Numbers are limited to those which can be given personal in- struction. Many hotels send selected members of their staffs to take one or more unit courses each summer. SENIOR WOMEN met at their class banquet,June II, honoring Miss Edith W. Ouzts, AM '30, retiring hostess of Willard Straight Hall, and meeting together as undergraduates for almost the last time. Speakers included Dean Floyd K. Richt- myer '04 of the Graduate School, Mary Donlon '10, president of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, Miss R. Louise Fitch, dean of women, and Violet J. Brown '35 of Brooklyn, vice-president of the Dramatic Club and Class historian. Virginia M. Lauder '35 of Binghamton was toastmistress. ALPHA DELTA PHI is again the possessor of a pin it gave many years ago to Mrs. Ezra Cornell, wife of the Founder. Mrs. Franklin Cornell returned it to the Chapter recently as an item for its archives. THE CORNELL LIBRARY Cdowntownl marked the 150th anniversary of John James Audubon's birth by exhibiting the 310,000.1 elephant folios of the American painter-naturalist which formed a part of the original gift to the Library by Ezra Cornell. LEONARD LEIBLING, editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier, was in town the week-end of June 6, to attend the W. Grant Egbert memorial services at Ithaca College. Mr. Leibling is all for the American composers, he told the Journal they were fully the equal of their foreign colleagues. UNIVERSITY STATION WESG is Go- ing Places, it joins the Columbia net- work about July 1. Customary local programs will be continued, there is to be no extension of broadcasting time. The CBS will be tapped only during Lulls. BEQUEST OF EIDLITZ '85 The University and four alumni are beneficiaries under the will of Robert J. Eidlitz '85, who died May 17, 1935. One- half of Mr. Eidlitz's interest in the Marc Eidlitz Construction Company of which he was president goes to its employees, Mrs. Eidlitz CSadie Boult0nD '85 receives household and personal effects, a life interest in the residuary estate with the right to use 315,000 of the principal annually, and the use of the Eidlitz home at Dobbs Ferry. The University shares with six other organizations and societies the balance of the estate after Mrs. Eidlitz's death and after deductions of twenty percent each to the New York Hospital and the Presbyterian Hospital. Specihc bequests, which totalled S151,000, go, among others, to Charles L. Eidlitz, and Ernest F. Eidlitz '90, his brothers, and to Robert M. Falkenau '05, rt nephew.