Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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,,,.-W 1 I 3 CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NEW YORK PRESIDENT5 OFFICE To the Class of l954 The years you have spent at Cornell have seen profound economic, social and political changes taking place throughout the civilized world and they are changes which present problems still a long way from solution. lt is to you and those of your generation that we must look to find the way through The task is baffling and difficult but there is no reason for discouragement. You are taking up the responsibilities of citizenship in what is undoubted- ly the most significant period of modern times and the opportunity to serve your country was never greater. That you will play your part and lead your lives with high ideals of usefulness, wherever your homes may be, is the confident hope and expectation of your Alma Mater. ill, G MW MW mm hm D. MM Wm uh mm I me LM wt mm Mu Mm MM Mm MM M md M Mu Wm H Climax hm Mu Y I Wm To Dr' tht sig mu Mm H mt Mgt 1 I Yersif- MD 1923:

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'11 'Rh' -Mg. . . . president Iivinqston iurrnml Cornell's President is the youngest of' three brothers, all graduates ol' Princeton and all well known in the world of education. Tl1ey were born at Newark, N. J., the sons ol' Samuel A. and Louise Wilson 'l arrand. The eldest, Dr. Wilson Farrand, is hcadmaster ol' the Newark Academy and life trustee and clerk ol' the Board ol' Princeton University. Dr. Max Farrand is Director ol' Research at the llenry E. Iluntington Library, San Marion, California. Livingston Farrand was born on .lune 14, 1867. He was graduated from Princeton in 1888 and studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, receiving the degree ot' MD. in 1891. Princeton made him a Master of Arts about the same time. He then went abroad for two years' study at Cambridge and Berlin. He was appointed instructor in psychology at Columbia in 1893 and was afterward promoted to an adjunct professorship. While he was at Columbia, Dr. Farrand made a study of' American anthropology and eventually made that science his specialty. In 1897 he went with Professor Franz Boas ol' Columbia and Ilarlan il. Smith ol' the American Museum ol' Natural History on the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. The party traveled widely among the Indian tribes of British Columbia. The Museum published the re- sults ol' tl1e expedition, Dr. Farrand contributing monographs on HBasketry Designs ol' the Salish Indians and Traditions of the Quinault and the Chileotin Indiansf' He was appointed Professor of' Anthropology at Columbia in 1903. In 1904- he published a study ot' the Indian population and the physical geography ol' North America in a volume entitled HBasis of American History. He held his prolessorship at Columbia until 191311, when he resigned it to take the Presidency of the University of Colorado. Dr. Farrand has been Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Study and Preven- tion ol' Tuberculosis since 1905 and Treasurer ol' the American Public Health Association since 1912. Soon after the Armistice he was elected Chairman of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross. He resigned the Colorado Presidency and lived in Washington until 1921. In that year he was chosen to become President ol' Cornell. .President Farrand is a member of the American Association ot' Psychologists, Anthropologists, Climatologists, Statistieians and Naturalists, the American Folk-Lore Society, and other bodies. He was editor of the flnzcricarz Journal of Public Health from 1912 to 191-ll. In 1901 he was married to Miss Margaret K. Carleton of New York. Under Dr. Farrandis capable administration Cornell University has made notable progress from the standpoint ol' the improvement of' the physical plant, but more especially in the teaching staff. To Dr. Farrand is given much of the credit for the merger of the New York Hospital and the Cornell Medical College into a medical center whose development is of world-wide interest.. The pooling ol' the sixty million dollars of assets of the New York Hospital and the Cornell Medical College is re- garded as the beginning of a hundred-million-dollar project wl1icl1 will eventually become one ol' Cornell's most notable achievements and one ol' immeasurable benefit to humanity. Ile is recognized as one of the ablest university presidents in America. As a public speaker he has few equals. His hobby is fishing. From Quebec to Florida, from the trout streams ofthe North- west to the deep waters ol' the Pacific, he has innumerable trophies of his trusty lishing kit. Dr. Farrand holds the following honorary degrees: LL.D. Colorado College, 1911143 LL.D. Uni- versity of Denver, 1914113 LL.D. University of Michigan, 19173 LL.D. University of Colorado, 1919' LL.D. Union University, 19223 LL.D. Princeton, 1922, L.H.D. Hobart College, 1922, LL.D. Yale, 19233 Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 19211-3 LL.D. Pennsylvania, 19253 LL.D. Dartmouth, 19253 LL.D. Toronto, 1927. 7