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500 CORNELL ALU M N I N E W S
tion to sit down comfortably and smoke
after 18 holes of golf with you should
have done that. We have been great
chums, especially since the barrier of
childhood was thrown down when you
were about fifteen—each year we have
been closer together, until now it is man
to man. Of course, I do not fill the place
that one of your own age does, but perhaps
something more, for I can help you
over some rough places since I am a bit
older, and have in no way lost touch with
youth's vision, enthusiasms, and ambitions.
The joy of accomplishing real things is
just as keen as when I was your age.
Obviously I shall grow old physically, but
there need never come a time when I cannot
appreciate the experiences which you
will be having and, I hope, remain your
chum always.
So much by way of introduction, always
inevitable as you know from my technical
articles, but perhaps not so long.
First of all, let me say that I feel a son
is entitled to his father's positive views,
not that these are to be thrust upon him,
for each man has to decide his own life
principles and work out his own practice.
What I have to say is said as man to man
and to give you the best I can on some
problems.
Of course you have heard the hackneyed
advice, "Beware of wine and women."
That always seems to invite research;
therefore, I do not thrust that thesis upon
you. You know your mother's and my
high standards. You have been singularly
clean-minded here at home and at preparatory
school. You have had, happily,
a large group both of boy and girl friends
here, and that is as it should be. You will
undoubtedly find social opportunity for
making further friendships. It has always
seemed to me that association with good
women is one of the most valuable things
in life. I can count to-day many women
as well as men friends. Whether you find
girl friends during your course or not,
the surest safeguard against putting a
blot on your life is in the circle of friends
you gain among your fellow students.
I hope you will have a genuine attitude
of friendship for all men you meet, not
that spirit occasionally present in the unspoken
thought, "I wonder if I am friendly
with this fellow, whether it will spoil my
chances for making —."
Ripen the friendships that are worth
while, those that reveal mutual regard and
mutual ideals that are high. Real friendships
are not mere convenient alliances,
but are made by real and unselfish devotion.
Be your own self and you will find
happy social ties among your classmates.
Doubtless you will play cards at college;
a good many men find this a source of
diversion. As to gambling, I should
greatly prefer that you do not play for
stakes. It usually serves merely to
strengthen the tendency to take needless
risks and long chances as contrasted with
sound responsible decisions backed up by
thorough, conscientious work so necessary
to real accomplishment. It tends to
undermine a man's sense of economic
values, to degrade sport with commercialism,
to foster cheating, arid with many
men it insidiously undermines their moral
standards.
In decision with reference to this and
other use of your time you might well
keep in mind the real purpose for which
you are at Yale and exercise a discriminating
judgment of values. You cannot of
course realize the length of this period of
middle age in which I now find myself. I
do, and I can assure you, son, it is a long
time and that the most complete and
thorough preparation for it will enable
you to be of the highest service in life
and give you greater happiness. I would
not be true to myself if I did not, therefore,
urge you to strive for academic honor.
Too many undergraduates to-day, as in
my day, are content with superficial
knowledge and a passing grade. Four
years' training in mental laziness is poor
preparation for life which requires the
keenest mental powers.
Your mother and I both ask and expect
you to apply yourself to your courses, but
that need not limit you in attainment in
other lines, so long ^as you maintain the
proper balance. We desire you, so long as
you are in college, to be fully a part of it.
I would, therefore, urge you also to strive
for physical supremacy as well as intellectual.
If you fail to make a team, the
endeavor, until you are dropped from the
squad, is well worth while; and if you do
succeed—well, I can still give the Yale
cheer lustily!
Last of all, there is something other than
scholarship, than athletics, than mere
friendships and happy, carefree existence
in college. Some one has said that the
only full and final object of all endeavor
upon earth is the development of the
human soul. That seems more true to me
every day. One cannot afford to brush
lightly aside all thoughts of religion and
live a life of expediency from day to day.
The development of the highest character
is not by the formulation of a mere "gentleman's
code" of conduct, but by belief
in and a living, vivid exemplification of
the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
A declared position in respect to religion is
of the highest importance and it will give
your mother and me grent joy if you find it
in your heart to make your position known.
Religion is not in the same realm as the
facts of natural science, but is largely a
matter of faith, and whether we concede it
or not, faith enters into every part of our
life. Your service to your fellow students,
to Yale, and to your country will be highest
if you have striven for spiritual development
and have shared the Christian concern
for human suffering so wide-spread
in these recent years. If you forget all
else I have written, remember that I hold
sound character above every thing else,
for without its development the equipment
of your college course is useless.
I would not write at such length if I did
not realize how close together we really
are and whatever the successes or the
failures that may come to you, do not
forget the unbounded faith I have in you
always.
Love,
DAD.
VISITING PROFESSORS
In addition to members of the regular
staff of instruction the following visiting
professors have participated in the work
of instruction in the Summer Session:
Alfred A. Abrams '91, chief of the Division
of Visual Instruction, State Education Department,
Albany; Jose" B. Alemany, instructor
in Spanish, Syracuse; James F.
Baldwin, professor of history, Vassar;
Arthur E. R. Boak, professor of ancient
history, University of Michigan; Samuel
T. Bratten, associate professor of geology
and geography, University of Missouri;
Louise Courtois, instructor in French,
University of Oklahoma; G. Watts Cunningham,
Ph.D. Ό8, professor of philosophy,
University of Texas; Henry G. Doyle,
professor of Romance languages, George
Washington University; Edgar S. Furniss,
assistant professor of political economy,
Yale; Karl W. Gehrkens, professor of
school music, Oberlin Conservatory of
Music; Jean M. Gelas, instructor in
physical education, Hamilton; Hubert
J. C. Grierson, professor of rhetoric and
English literature, Edinburgh; Vincent
L. Guilloton, associate, professor of French,
Syracuse; Frederick S. Henry, head of the
department of modern languages, Tome
School; Emily Hickman Όi, professor of
history, Wells; Fred G. Hoffherr, instructor
in French, Columbia; Clyde F.
Jeffords, Ph.D. '04, chairman of the department
of Latin, Newton High School,
Queens, New York; Ernest R. Kroeger,
director of the Kroeger School of Music,
St. Louis; Rene Lama, professor of
French, Lycee of Beauvais, France;
Victor E. Monnett '22, associate professor
of geology, University of Oklahoma; Ulysses
G. Weatherly, Ph.D. '94, professor of
economics and sociology, Indiana; Frank
E. Williams, assistant professor of geography
and industry, Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania; Arthur D.
Wright, assistant professor of education,
Dartmouth; Karl A. Zellar, A.M. Ίo,
Principal of the Niles, Ohio, High School.
Summer School of Agriculture: Charles
Beaman, State Normal School, Brockport,
N. Y.; John L. Buys, University of Akron;
Katherine Cook, specialist in rural education,
Bureau of Education, Washington,
D. C. Clarence G. Cooper, superintendent
of schools, Baltimore County, Md. Agnes
Houston Craig, supervisor of home economics,
Springfield, Mass.; John D. Detweiler,
professor of biology, Western University,
London, Ont.; Richard T. Ely,
professor of land economics, University of
Wisconsin; A. R. Gilliland, professor of
educational psychology, Lafayette; Agnes
Hanna, formerly of the University of Chicago;
William F. Lusk, professor of agriculture,
Mississippi Agricultural College;
Jacob S. Orleans, Institute of Educational
Research, Columbia.
HOWARD-TURNBULL
Miss Clara Howard '14, who was
formerly assistant alumni representative
of the University, was quietly married at
the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. David F. Hoy, in Ithaca, on June
29, to Thomas Turnbull, III, Ί8. The
attendants were the sister of the bride,
Frances Howard '26, and the brother of
the groom, Gordon Turnbull. Mr. and
Mrs. Turnbull are at home at in Jones
Street, Woodlawn, Pennsylvania.
PUBLICITY activities of the Finger Lakes
Association have served to bring to the attention
of the public the slogan, "Ithaca,
the Home of C >πr ," University."
THE UNIVERSITY has this summer purchased
an additional forty-five acres of
land at the northwest corner of the former
game farm, in the town of Dryden, which
it is understood, will be added to the farms.