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504 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Gerald Shields Ίo, Frederick M. Slater '94, Harold Reeve Sleeper '15, George A. Smith '89, Robert Jones Spencer Ό8, Roy L. Stone '07, Ernest Melvin Strong '02, Roy Taylor' 10, William Arnold Taylor' 15, Prof. Frank Thilly, H. W. Thome Ί6, John Smith Tichenor '95, Albert Carroll Trego '13, Robert W. G. Vail '14, Hermann C. Victor '13, C. R. Vincent Ό8, Rice W. White OS, Edward Perry Wilson Ίi, George Morris Wolf son Ίi, Stanley Wright '12, Phillips Wyman '17. George J. Young '23. Chicago Women The newly-elected officers of the Cornell Women's Club of Chicago are: president, Ruth Stone Ίo, 243 N. Mason Street; vicepresident, Melita Skillen Ίo, 1445 Greenleaf Avenue; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Amos Hodgkiss '20, 2053 Kenilworth Avenue. Delaware A revival of interest on the part of the Cornell University Association of Delaware has resulted in two well attended meetings this spring and early summer. Thirty men attended the meeting on June 30, when the club was entertained by Major William R. Baldwin on his estate at Elk Mills, Maryland. Major Baldwin is a University of Pennsylvania man with a strong Cornell leaning. In the spring two successful meetings were held at the houses of members, Frank G. Tallman '70 and Joseph S. Wilson '09. It is the plan of the present officers to continue similar gatherings throughout the fall and winter, and there is talk of a meeting in combination with the Princeton men of Delaware. The present temporary officers are Alfred D. Warner, Jr., Όo, president; Allan W. Carpenter Ί6, vice-president; Joseph H/ Shaw '12, secretary and treasurer. The activities committee comprises Vice-President Carpenter as chairman, assisted by Willard R. Heald Ί8, William B. Megear, Jr., '20, Robert L. Holliday '05, Herbert C. Schneider '17, Paul D. Matthews Ί8, Edwin H. Thomas Ί8, and Frank H. Thomas, Jr., '21. Publicity is in charge of Frank H. McCormick Ίo. Hartford Recent elections of officers of the Cornell Club of Hartford, Connecticut, have made Bryant H. Blood '89 president, and Russell B. Hurburt Ίo, secretary. Both officers are connected with the Pratt and Whitney Company. Beginning in September, the regular monthly luncheons of the club will be resumed, on the second Wednesday of each month at the University Club. Paris An informal meeting of the Cornell Alumni Association of Paris was held at luncheon in the garden of the Union Interalliee on July 4. The weather, although dull, was mild and permitted an outdoor sendee of luncheon for which few opportunities have thus far presented themselves this season. The following were present: A. D. Weil '86, Edgar Carolan '92, Norman Hutchinson '97, Walter W. Nowak '05, Lawrence Arnold Ό6, German Larrabure '09, Marcel S. Levy '09, and W. Roy Manny '13. Hutchinson joined them through the notice published in the papers. He -has for some time been a resident of Paris after having been in the diplomatic service. Henry J. Patten '84 sent his regrets. He is making a trip through Poland and does not expect to return to Paris until September. Those present pronounced this informal get-together to be most enjoyable and expressed the hope that they might be held at frequent intervals throughout next LITERARY REVIEW The School of Life The Hidden Road. By Elsie Singmaster '02. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1923. 203 cm., pp. vi, 333. Price, $2. The Hidden Road is, we believe, the best novel that Elsie Singmaster has yet written. It has a simple plot. A young teacher and musician has a series of love adventures and disappointments. But they are exactly the thing she needs to give her the right attitude toward the game of life. The narrative moves on smoothly, with the right mixtue of dialogue (in which curiously enough, the heroine takes very little part) to a fitting climax. In the school of bitter experience Phoebe Stannard learns the deeper satisfactions of life and the fact that for some, love must be left out of the list. This is one of the greater novels of the year. A Noble Philosophy The Seven Stars. By Liberty Hyde Bailey. New York. Macmillan. 1923. 19 cm., pp. viii, 165. Price, $1.50. This volume, the fifth of the Background Books, is, in the homely Yankee phrase, worth a good deal more than it costs. A young man, Quest or, stands at the threshhold of active life. What shall he pin his faith to? In what shall he invest money and effort? Cui ~bonoΊ Shall he go in for money-making? Pleasure? Reform? Shall he attempt the impossible, or carefully confine himself to what he knows he can do? In a series of sentimental (and philosophical) journeys, in which, Pippa fashion, he impersonates a Martian, or a Rip Van Winkle, or an Alastor, he ponders over the ways and weaknesses of the world and arrives at length at the wisest possible decision. Ah, if only we could in the days of our youth see the world as Questor sees it and avoid the mistakes he detects! For here is the highest wisdom to which mortal has yet reached—that the summun bonum is to live one's own idea of the beautiful life. Aim at the artistic expression of life. Here is the serene thought of the sage couched in a moving and impressive style. No book that we have read in a long time is more worth while. The Story of the Earth High School Geography. By Ray H. Whitbeck Όi, Professor of Geography in the University of Wisconsin. New York. Macmillan. 1922. 21.5 cm., pp. x, 577. 383 maps and illustrations. Price, $2. Geography in the high school? Why repeat? Why such a waste of time? On the other hand, may it not be the other things less worth while which have crowded out this absolutely fundamental study? There is certainly a place in the high school for any study which tells us about man and his relation to the forces of nature. Professor WTiitbeck has written a good book. It has all of the needful apparatus of a school text; with its admirable illustrations it can also be read with interest and profit by any one who wants to secure the basic information with which geography deals. It is enlightening and inspiring. It deserves a very wide sale. The Simple Life Mίnglestrearns. By Jane Abbott '03. Philadelphia. Lippincott. 1923. 20 cm., pp. 320. Frontispiece in color by H. Weston Taylor. Price, $1.75. This is one of Mrs. Abbott's most successful stories. It deals with two college girls who sharply rebel against conventions and who learn their lessons in the not unkindly school of experience. There are thus two romances. The plot is skillfully managed and leads to a highly dramatic climax. Withal it is a clean, wholesome, and inspiring story. The minor characters are well handled; but on p. 319 Cornelius Cummings and Thomas Gray, brothers-inlaw, are telescoped. Books and Magazine Articles Dr. Hendrik Willem Van Loon '05 is living in Cambridge, England, and is rewriting the i,250,000-word Bible in a small volume of 120,000 words. "One couldn't have a quieter place than Cambridge," he says, "to write a book. 7 ' And the London correspondent of the New York World comments as follows: "No, one couldn't. English universities aren't noisy, and some people who live in the hush manage to write pretty well. But one wonders if Dr. Van Loon won't change his ideas about the quiet over here when the British public in general realizes he has been trying to rewrite the Bible. "This is a churchy country, with a powerful hierarchy, social and ecclesiastic, which means to keep it so. Most churches here teach that the Bible is divinely inspired. What will they say about the foreigner—two kinds of a foreigner, too, Dutch and American—who rewrites the story of the Crucifixion like this: " 'When the last nail had been driven in, the soldiers sat down to gamble. In a wide circle the people stood and looked. Some of them were merely curious; others
were former pupils. They had ventured back into the town to be with their Master in the last moment. There were a few women. " Ίt was growing dark rapidly. " On the cross Jesus was softly murmuring words which few could understand. A kindly Roman soldier had given Him a narcotic to deaden the pain of His lacerated hands and feet. " 'By a last and supreme effort He regained consciousness and uttered a prayer. He asked that His enemies be forgiven for what they had done to Him. " 'Then He whispered, It is all over. " 'And He died' " " It is very good reporting, but we shall look to see what the next issues of the more orthodox nonconformist church reviews have to say about a foreigner who comes to England to 'better' the work of the Apostles. "Dr. van Loon even has a word of excuse for Pontius Pilate. He says if the Roman Governor had let Jesus off it would have meant dismissal for him without pension. Here the history writer will get the attention of all British colonial administrators and their families." "Bank Credit and Agriculture Under the National and Federal Reserve Banking Systems" by Professor Ivan Wright, '17-20 Grad., of the University of Illinois, has lately been published by the McGraw- Hill Book Company, in a volume of 340 pages. It is favorably reviewed in The Rotarίan for August. Professor Alfred E. Zimmern contributes to the September Century an interesting article on "The Politics of Martha." He says that to Martha belong the material problems of statesmen and government; such problems as the distribution of the world's mineral resources; problems relating to public health and the relation of tariffs to international trade. He takes up these problems in detail. In a later issue he will take up "The Problems of Mary." W. Ellis Schutt '05, A.B. '23, now of New York University, has joined the staff of Ainslee's Magazine, with which he was formerly connected. In addition to his work as a teacher of composition he is again writing fiction. Dr. Ernest M. Poate Ό6 has been lately writing a good deal of magazine fiction, especially in the line of mystery and detective stories. A longer story of his, "The Trouble at Pinelands," was published by the Chelsea House, New York, and has sold very well; and another, "Behind Locked Doors," will be published in September by the same firm. Colonel Charles W. Furlong '02 has been getting some fine press notices of his "Let Έr Buck." The Colorado Springs Gazette, for example, says, "No book on the West or at least none of recent years, is comparable to this admirable volume. The Easterner will find it thrilling; the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 505 ATHLETICS Football Practice Notices will soon go out to candidates for the football team that practice will start at Schoellkopf Field Monday, September 10, three weeks before the first game. Coach Dobie, who spent part of the summer teaching football at the University of Illinois School for Coaches is already making plans for the fall campaign. He will be assisted this year by Ray Hunt, who has been associated with Dobie ever since the latter came to Cornell, and by Leonard C. Hanson '23, left tackle on the Varsity team for the past two seasons. Regulars on last year's eleven who are scheduled to be candidates for the team this year include Captain George R. Pfann, quarterback, Floyd D. Ramsey, right half back, Charles E. Cassidy, fullback, Frank L. Sundstrom, right tackle, and Frank L. Henderson right end. Regulars of last year not in college this year are Edgar L. Kaw, left half back, E. V. Gouinlock and E. S. Buckley, ends, Bartlett Richards, center, and W. R. Rollo and F. A. Flynn, guards. Announce Football Schedule The football schedule is announced as follows: September 29. St. Bonaventure at Ithaca. October 6. Susquehanna at Ithaca. October 13. Williams at Ithaca. October 20. Colgate at Ithaca. November 3. Dartmouth at Hanover. November 10. Columbia at New York. November 17. Johns Hopkins at Ithaca. November 29. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Westerner will appreciate it for its truthful representation. It is history and a tribute." Professor Madison Bentley, Ph.D. '98, of the University of Illinois, is the editor of The Psychological Index, the twentyninth annual volume of which, filling 275 pages and covering the year 1922, has just been issued from the press of the Cornell Publications Printing Company. Professor Jacob G. Lipman, A.M. Όo, Ph.D. '03, of Rutgers, contributed to the April number of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry an article on "Recent Investigations on the Oxidation of Sulfur by Microorganisms.'' The leading article in the July Journal of the American Bar Association is "Constitutional Aspects of American Administrative Law" by Judge Cuthbert W. Pound '87. This was a lecture given by Judge Pound in the course on "The Growth of American Administrative Law" before the St. Louis Bar Association on April 2. In The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia for July Professor Charles B. Burke, Ph.D. Όi, of the University of Tennessee, writes on the scholarship of his colleague, the late Professor James Douglas Bruce. Professor Bruce was well known in Cornell* circles, having spent at least one summer in Ithaca in literary work. '89 TO HOLD 35-YEAR REUNION The Class of '89, under the Dix schedule, has no reunion listed for 1924, its thirtyfifth year. The alumni representative and the reunion chairman believe that the thirty-fifth should be kept up; that classes out that long are willing and able to keep it up; and that '89 will want to hold a reunion next year. They request, therefore, that all '89ers make plans now to attend their thirty-five-year-reunion June 13, 14, and 15, 1924. Formal notices will be sent out during the fall. NEW ALUMNI ASSISTANT Mary K. Hoyt '20 has been appointed assistant to the Alumni Representative, succeeding the place which Clara Howard '14 ~ filled from the date of the establishment of the alumni office in the summer of 1920 until her recent marriage. Miss Hoyt comes to Ithaca with two years' experience with the Union Trust Company of Rochester. She had been with that company but a few months when she was appointed manager of the women's department, the position she held at the time of her resignation this summer. During the past year she has served as secretary of the Cornell Women's Club of Rochester. She is a member of Delta Gamma and was graduated with the degree of A. B. NEW YORK CLUB'S NEIGHBORS The sixteen-story building at the corner of Madison Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street, New York, which will house the Cornell Club of New York, will be ready for occupancy September i. Besides the Cornell Club, sixteen national fraternities will have quarters there. They are Alpha Tau Omega, Chi Phi, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Phi, Delta Upsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi, Theta Xi, Delta Tau Delta, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The insignia of these fraternities are engraved on stone shields forming the frieze around the building, which will be operated by the Allerton Housing Corporation as a bachelor apartment hotel. PROFESSOR ERNEST R. KROEGER of St. Louis has given weekly piano recitals in Barnes Hall and Professor James T. Quarles has given weekly organ recitals in Sage Chapel and Bailey Hall, throughout the Summer Session. IRVING L. SCOTT '23, of Provo, Utah, was awarded the Cornell traveling scholarship which gives him the opportunity for a year's study of architecture in Europe.
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