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Tells of University Developments
Dean Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. shows
ANNUAL REPORT of the President of the scientists is living, studying, creating, and that "the College of Arts and Sciences
University to the Board of Trustees for making decisions in a philosophical environ- is obviously doing a substantial amount
ment—in the presence of the full complement
the year 1949-50 contains not only the of arts and sciences. of instruction for the other parts of the
president's narrative summary of the The structure of our School has revealed University; "and yet," he observes, "it
year but also detailed reports from the since its foundation these two aspects of train- can be seriously doubted if the students
heads of the several Colleges, Schools, ing. The special committees, composed of of the other divisions so served are get-
specialists, are responsible for the special
and administrative divisions. training. The General Committee and the ting anything that can be considered a
Acting President Cornells W. de Kie- Graduate Faculty are responsible for the gen- good basic general education as a result.
wiet repeats to the Board substantially eral training, and they meet their responsi- The whole question of the need for and
his Report to the Alumni which was bility primarily, though not exclusively, the most effective way of providing the
through a plan of residence requirements.
mailed to all in September. In the re- There is no other assurance in an advanced liberal education foundation for all stu-
ports of the several divisions are many degree that the recipient is trained away from dents of the University should be thor-
details and recommendations concern- that overspecialization which is denounced in oughly studied." He reports that the
ing the University. the Report of President Truman's Commis- number of students in the College has in-
sion and many other official publications than
creased about 300 in the last two years,
is represented by the requirement that the
Must Guard Graduate Study candidate reside in intimate contact with with an actual decrease in staff, and
Dean Charles W. Jones, PhD '32, of students and faculty who jointly represent cites last-minute additions to the student
the Graduate School says, in part: and profess the totality of knowledge, in its quota in Arts to take up shortages in
interdependence and unity.
Engineering enrollment.
Increased desire for graduate work is the
trend of the times; but there are several rea-
sons for the more than normal interest in this The acquirement by the University of in- Need University Appraisal
Gscrhaodoulsa taen dSc fhaocoull.t ieFsi rhsta, st shoem aedwdhitaito nin corfe anseewd satnrdu ctfiroenqaule fnatclyil itileasc krienmgo tae frreosmid etnhte CFaamcuplutys "This experience," Dean Cottrell
the number of major fields of graduate in- whose primary duties are formal instruction, says, "has impressed upon us the neces-
struction, and a new kind of interest is de- in an environment where the particular end sity for more adequate and realistic Uni-
veloping in certain old fields. Second, the must be attained without consideration of the sity-wide appraisal of what the total en-
fvaeclouplteyd hthaevier pzreianlcoiupslleys omfa sinoutanidn esdc haonladrs hdiep-, ian thearrzealradt.i oInfs hwipes dwoi tnho ot tehxeer rcsicsiee nvciegsi,l acnrceea teins rollment of the University should be.
despite an increasing burden of committee our educational relationships with such vital Merely increasing enrollment is only a
and other quasi-instructional duties. Third, and contributive divisions of the University temporary measure for a short-run
the University has maintained the prewar as the Medical School, the New York State balancing of the budget. We need a
praretisos uoref fatocu wltyh ictoh satu dneunmtsb, edr esopfi teu nai vkeirnsdit ioefs Anegllr icAuelrtuornaalu tiEcxalp eLriamboenrat toSryta, tiaonnd, ththee l iCkeo—r- careful study to determine the optimal
have had to succumb. And fourth, the efforts not to mention centers less closely bound to balance between income from endow-
of the faculty, which have been successful thus the University—we shall be granting degrees ment and tuition and the implications of
far, to adhere to a pattern of personalized resi- which presumptively identify one type of this for the size of student body in the
dent instruction despite a contrary national training, whereas some holders of those degrees
trend are receiving favorable recognition. will have received a very different type— various parts of the University and for
probably no less rigorous, but designed with requisite staff and equipment to handle
different purposes and commonly leading to the loads thus determined."
Though re-enforcement of three of the four different results. Reporting on development in "The
elements named above may have to wait upon This is not a matter of all or nothing. The Humanities and the Fine Arts," Dean
another day, decisions throughout the coun- practical and theoretical are as inextricably
try and in the University necessitate consider- interwoven as are the special and general. Cottrell says :
ation of resident instruction now. If I preface The facilities made available by all branches A renewal of vitality, rapid in some parts
my remarks with a statement of accepted of the University should and do fit into the of this general division of subject matter,
principles of education, I do so because recent educational program of the University. But slower-paced in others, is now apparent. If
decisions have been made without specific violence can be done to individuals and this trend continues, we may expect a sub-
recognition of these principles. through them to our society if these princi- stantial increase in the influence of the
About half our students are registered as ples of sound graduate training do not deter- humanities and fine arts on the educational
candidates for the degree of Doctor of Phi- mine official decisions. With such decisions orientation of both Faculty and students.
losophy. The single aim of a doctoral program now having to be made daily, I have taken Broad visioned leadership and a willingness
is training a scholar or scientist. A candidate this opportunity to record afresh what I to experiment on the part of the faculties
cannot become a scholar or scientist without believe to be demonstrated and approved concerned will yield gratifying results.
intensive and independent mastery of a spe- educational policy. It is desirable and neces- One instance of what I have in mind is
cial science; and no candidate should attain sary constantly to challenge and test such that of the American Studies program where
the status of the doctorate without this principles; but it would be unfortunate if members of the staff in the humanities and
demonstration. Courses and credits, by their they were negated in action without due con- the social sciences are pooling their resources
nature, can never demonstrate such intensity sideration. Granting a specialist the title "pro- in a plan to offer an integrated educational
and independence. Conversely, the candidate fessor" does not make him one; he becomes experience. This is not and should not be the
cannot become a reliable scholar and scientist one only when he learns that his responsibility only model of effort at revitalization; there
as long as his view is so limited to a special is to be professor in fact. Registering a student are numerous other types of integrative con-
science that he cannot see its part in totality. in candidacy so that he may study in such centration of subject matters which will occur
The garment of philosophy, or science, is odd hours as are free from vocational to anyone who shifts from a conventional per-
woven of one thread. Training means a demands does not make him a student, no spective of traditional departmental group-
change in habits of thought and action, and matter how many years he continues; only ings. That such shifts in perspectives are tak-
the first principle in educating scholars and when he has devoted his whole mind to the ing place and will do so with increasing fre-
quency in the future is now evident, as least in important papers relating to the history of the Savage Bristow Adams, professor emeri-
some quarters of the College. University, including Trustee minutes, addi- tus, who received an ovation at an-
The potential interest and impact of a fresh tional papers of President Schurman, and the
nouncement that it was his seventy-fifth
approach in the humanities is suggested by Library correspondence of the early years of
the fact that enrollment in the general courses the University have been sorted, organized, birthday.
in the Division of Literature is already taxing and described. The staff of Regional History Not the least entertaining was the
the staff offering these courses. It should be is able to devote only a relatively small printed program containing sketches
noted that nearly all departments in the Di- amount of time to the collecting and arrang-
and pictures of the performers, a history
vision of Literature are contributing some of ing of University archival material. A thor-
their ablest staff to the teaching of these oughgoing attack on this problem must await of the Club in verse by B. A. "The Mid-
courses. the availability of the necessary staff and faci- night Revels We All Revere," (a la
Gratifying evidence of a vigorous produc- lities. It is regrettable that this undertaking Longfellow), and an amusing account
tivity will be found in nearly every depart- has been delayed so long and must even now
by Brother Savage Raymond F. Howes
mental report. Illustrations may be selected be postponed, as valuable and interesting
almost at random: records of the University's development are '24 of how the 1950 Savage Club Show
1. The very creditable record of scholarly being lost and destroyed from year to year. "was born on the night Joe Louis failed
work, the widely recognized compositions, to regain his heavyweight title."
Alumni who wish detailed informa-
and the rich program of superior performance
recorded in the report of the very modestly tion about the University may obtain the
staffed and financed Music Department. Report of the President on request from
Bequest Aids Freshmen
2. The productivity of the English Depart- Cornell University Official Publication,
ment, both in creative literature and critical
Administration Building, Ithaca.
scholarship. SIXTY-TWO STUDENTS have been select-
3. The award of Guggenheim Fellowships
ed as the first recipients of Burrell
to two members of the Department of Philos-
ophy and a member of the Department of Musicians Open Series Scholarships in Engineering. They come
German Literature. from nine States and the District of Co-
4. The stimulating experimentalism and lumbia.
productivity and nationally recognized leader- Swiss ARTISTS, Jacqueline Blancard,
Worth up to $200, the Scholarships
ship of our Division of Modern Languages, pianist, and Andre de Ribaupierre,
notwithstanding a 25 per cent reduction in violinist, thrilled a capacity audience in are awarded for the Freshman year in
their operating budget for the past year. any of the five undergraduate divisions
the Willard Straight Theater, Novem-
of the College of Engineering. They
Library Makes Progress ber 7, opening the University chamber
were established last year with a be-
music concerts for this year. The musi-
Director Stephen A. McCarthy of the quest of $170,000 left by Mrs. Katherine
cians shared their own evident enjoy-
University Library reports more books Ward Burrell in memory of her hus-
ment with the audience and played with
circulated for home use than in any pre- band, Edward P. Burrell '98, for many
understanding the Mozart Sonata in B-
vious year and the accession of more new years director of engineering for Warner
flat major, Beethoven's Sonata in F ma-
volumes than ever before. Service of the & Swasey Co. in Cleveland, Ohio.
jor, the Debussy Sonata for numerous
Reference Department has been in- The first Burrell Scholars are Thomas
curtain calls, a Sonata by Cesar Franck,
creased and made more efficient, with H. Arnott, Baldwin John A. Blesh, Bur-
and as an encore, a scherzo from Faure's
all 1717 students in Freshman English lingame, CaL; Seymour M. Blinder,
Sonata No. 4 in A-major.
courses given instruction and tours of New York City; Alan E. Brickett,
the Library in sections of about twenty. A new black backdrop and well-con- Marblehead, Mass. John H. Browning,
The Library Handbook which appeared trolled lighting for the Willard Straight Norwich, Conn.; John H. Buettner,
two years ago is being revised and a stage add now to the enjoyment of the Rowayton, Conn.; Stanley R. Burlage,
Handbook of the Libraries for Gradu- chamber music recitals. Bedford, Ohio; Edmund M. Butler,
ate Students and Faculty was published Crescent City, Fla. David L. Cham-
last year. Two specific alternative pro- "Supmac No Segavas" plin, Binghamton; Victor E. Clarke,
posals for providing adequate library Coral Gables, Fla.; Milton Cherkasky,
facilities were made to the Board of SAVAGE CLUB again sold out Bailey Hall, South Orange, N.J.; Robert I. Goghill,
Trustees by a committee of thirty mem- November 10 and 11, for its Fall Week Snyder; William C. Cowing, Spring-
bers of the Faculty, administration, End Show, "Supmac No Segavas." The field, Mass.; Gerald F. Delaney, Johns-
Trustees, and alumni appointed for the two audiences of houseparty celebrants, town, Pa. Frank A. Delle Cave, Bridge-
purpose. Faculty, and townspeople had no diffi- port, Conn.; Robert J. DeRycke, Clay;
Among gifts noted are funds from culty transposing the scrambled title to Roy Dollard, New York City; Eugene
Trustee Herbert F. Johnson, Jr. '22 for enjoy the Savages on Campus at their B. Dolmatch, New York City; Richard
purchasing the library of Colonel Frank simulated meeting on stage. T. Dorrance, Camden; Howard I.
R. Hull of Fortaleza, Brazil. The collec- The fast-paced show was organized Emery, Jr., Massapequa; Jack Felt, New
tion of about 4000 items is especially and directed by Joseph A. Short, pro- York City; Loren M. Fletcher, Fayette-
noteworthy for its titles dealing with the duction manager of Station WHCU, ville; Lewis J. Galbreath, Monsey;
discovery, exploration, and history of and presided over by Alumni Field Sec- Philip B. Gausbey, Cleveland, Ohio;
Brazil and the eastern coast of South retary R. Selden Brewer '40, president Donald Glickman, Brooklyn; Anthony
America. To the Regional History Cel- of the Savage Club. Notable among the P. Giruc, Bayshore; Allen C. Hale,
lection came the papers of George Wash- acts were the hill-billy ballads of John Dover, N. J. William L. Harcourt, Syra-
ington Schuyler, a Charter Trustee of B. Keenan '52 and William L. Hodges cuse; Hans G. Herzberger, Rochester;
the University, who died in Ithaca in '52, District Attorney Frederick B. Bry- Hayward S. Houghton, Concord, Mass.
1888. They were the gift of George S. ant with his "medicine show," the Edward V. Howell, White Plains; Fred
Schaeffer, Grad '97-'98, and Mrs. John always-popular Savage Club Quartet, Jensen, Brooklyn; George L. Johnson,
Dunlop. During the year, the Regional especially as instrumentalists, and Pro- Newburgh; Neal F. Jordan, Buffalo;
History Collection added more than fessor Arthur Larson, Law, whose James J. Klein, Buffalo; Richard E.
750,000 items. Part of it is Cornelliana, Britisher's description of football took Knoblock, Syracuse; Lawrence Kravitz,
which Director McCarthy reports has especially well with the members of the Bronx; Marshall Lapp, Buffalo; Dale
also expanded. He continues: Cornell and Colgate teams who were K. Larson, Highland Park, Mich.; Val-
Important parts of it have been brought guests at the Saturday night perform- dis Lejnieks, Kinderhook; Jarvis Leng,
into order and organized for convenient use. ance. Staten Island; Stuart N. Levy, Bridge-
Progress has been made in bringing together port, Conn. Jack H. Martin, Lancaster,
Seated with President Brewer that
and arranging various uncatalogued and scat- Pa.; James A. Mallison, Patchogue;
tered groups of papers of Ezra Cornell. Other evening on a raised dias was Brother
188 Cornell Alumni News
Richard H. Moldashel, Ronkonkoma; New University-wide Center
William W. Mountsier, Nutley, N.J.;
James W. Muir, Washington, D.C.; To Support Housing Research
Robert A. Myers, Plainfield, N.J.; An-
thony J. Nesti, Staten Island; Peter
Polansky, Dolgeville; Carl M. Polino, HOUSING RESEARCH CENTER with a eight Colleges and Schools will serve as
Newark, N.J.; Robert N. Quade, West broad program for directing research to consultants on such topics as design,
Orange, NJ. Alan F. Reichenbach, all phases of housing has been organized materials, equipment, structural meth-
Waterbury, Conn.; Robert C. Rogus, at the University. Its studies will range ods, environment, family living, econo-
Bayside; John O. Schroy, Rochester; from investigations and tests of housing mics and finance, government, law, and
Robert R. Sinacore, Brooklyn; Richard methods and materials to the influence health. The agency will cooperate close-
J. Skene, Milford, Conn.; David M. of human behavior on shelter require- ly with the Cornell Social Science Re-
Terry, North Merrick; Theodore J. ments. search Center formed recently to co-
Toben, Drexel Hill, Pa. Robert F. Van- Administrative director of the Cornell ordinate and encourage research on
derslice, Marietta, Pa. Ralph J. Vichill, Housing Research Center is Professor human problems in the several divisions
Maple Heights, Ohio; Ronald G. Wolf- Glenn H. Beyer, who heads the Depart- of the University. The Center will be
shagen, Cleveland, Ohio. ment of Housing and Design in the Col- supported principally by research grants
lege of Home Economics. Professor from industry, foundations, and the
Thomas W. Mackesey, acting Dean of Government. Its findings will be made
Botanist Messenger Lecturer Architecture, is associate director and an known as widely as possible through
executive committee represents the par- bulletins and other publications.
SECOND SERIES of Messenger Lectures ticipating divisions of the University. In addition to Professors Beyer and
this term was given last month by Dr. Before he joined the Faculty in 1947, Mackesey, members of the executive
Jens Clausen of the Carnegie Institution Professor Beyer did Government re- committee are Professors Harry J. Lo-
in Washington, D.C., who described in search on housing for eleven years, and berg '29, Director of the Sibley School
six lectures in Olin Hall "Stages in the he was a consultant on the planned of Mechanical Engineering; Leonard P.
Evolution of Plant Species." Illustrating community at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Adams, director of research in the
his talk with slides, he discussed a local The Center will aid and guide a pro- School of Industrial and Labor Rela-
population as the basic evolutionary gram of basic research in housing, both tions; Carl E. F. Guterman, PhD '30, di-
unit, November 6; the evolution of eco- urban and rural, coordinating the work rector of research in Agriculture and
logical races, November 8; the genetic among divisions of the University carry- Home Economics; Charles O. Mackey
systems of ecological races and morpho- ing on specific projects. It will facilitate '26, head of the Department of Heat-
logical subspecies, November 9 the evo- graduate study in housing and act as a Power Engineering; Catherine J. Per-
lution of interspecific barriers, Novem- clearing house for housing information sonius, PhD '37, coordinator of research
ber 13; the evolution of groups of between different Colleges and Depart- in Home Economics; Edward A. Such-
species, November 15; and the physio- ments on the Campus and between the man '36, associate director of the Social
logic-genetic species concept and the University and sources of information Science Research Center; Arthur E.
dynamics of the evolution of species and outside the University. Nilsson, Finance, School of Business and
genera, November 16. The Messenger The program will be developed Public Administration; and University
Lectures were endowed in 1923 with a around a nucleus of housing research Vice-president for Research Theodore
bequest of $90,000 to the University projects already underway, such as P. Wright.
from Hiram J. Messenger '80. studies of heating in the College of En-
gineering and others concerning rural
housing in the Colleges of Agriculture Maryland Promotes Alumni
Federation Appoints
and Home Economics. Specialists from
CORNELLIANS have been appointed to
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Federa- two top positions at the University of
tion of Cornell Women's Clubs met at Maryland at College Park. The new
the Cornell Women's Club of New York, dean of agriculture is Gordon M. Cairns
October 7, to make plans for the season. '36 and James M. Gwin, PhD '49, has
February 3 was set as the date for the become director of the agricultural ex-
mid-winter meeting with Club presi- tension service.
dents at the Hotel Barbizon. Mrs. Wil- Dean Cairns received the BS in 1936,
liam J. Wigsten (Gladys Barkley) '23 the MS in 1936, the PhD in 1940 at Cor-
was appointed chairman of the mem- nell; then went to the University of
bership committee; Betty S. Phillips '44, Maine as head of the department of
of the nominating committee Margaret dairying. In 1945, he left Maine to be-
C. Tobin '35, of the biographical rec- come head of the dairy department at
ords committee and Mrs. John B. War- Maryland. In addition to serving as dean
nock (Helen Holme) '29, of the Federa- of agriculture, he will continue to head
tion Scholarship finance committee. the department for the remainder of the
New directors appointed by the of- academic year. He is a member of Sigma
ficers of the Federation are M. Edna Xi, Alpha Zeta, and the American Dairy
Chamberlin '24 of the Cornell Wom- Science Association, and has been chair-
en's Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania; man of the production section of the
Mrs. Robert B. Crane (Almena Dean) ADSA and of the board of awards of
'30, Cornell Women's Club of Central that Association.
New Jersey; Mrs. Warnock, Cornell A graduate of the University of Con-
Women's Club of Western Connecticut; necticut, Director Gwin has been in
Miss Tobin, Cornell Women's Club of charge of poultry extension at Maryland.
Washington, D.C.; Miss Phillips, Cor- Professor Glenn A. Beyer—Directs new Cor- From 1934-37, he was in charge of Fed-
nell Women's Club of Pittsburgh, Pa. nell University Housing Research Center eral egg and poultry procurement for
December 1, 1950 189
poultry and dairy items, later became Castle, and other stars; some taken at can get velocities of some 900 miles an
procurement officer for the First French Renwick Park and at University and hour now, appreciably more than it was
Army and the Seventh American Army, Ithaca buildings; and some in which originally designed for. This was done
and at the end of hostilities in the Euro- undoubtedly student "extras" appear. by installing a shaped liner in the tube
pean Theater was appointed deputy Professor Walter H. Stainton '19, ex- to make it somewhat smaller, but it is
chief of agriculture for the American ecutive director of the University Thea- still enormous, big enough to take large-
Military Government in Germany. He tre, explains that the "still" collection sized models of whole planes. There exist
won three combat stars, the Bronze Star, is a valuable aid to the teaching of elsewhere plenty of smaller wind tun-
Army Commendation Medal, and the theatre and film courses and will be of nels capable of supersonic speeds (the
French Groix de Guerre. He returned increasing interest to the historian and Laboratory has a couple itself and they
to the University of Maryland after he sociologist as reflecting "the fads, fan- are very useful and less costly to run),
was released from active service in 1946, cier, and foibles of the day." Additions but the tiny models they can accommo-
and spent the year 1948-49 in the Gradu- to the collection, he says, will be most date are so small that a slight defect in
ate School. welcome, both pictures of local and gen- manufacture is magnified out of all pro-
Extension editor at University of eral interest. "Undoubtedly, many portion. The fan motors for the big tun-
Maryland is Arthur E. Durfee '40. alumni who were here during the active nel develop 10-12,000 horse power. In-
production period have some interesting cidentally, a large new attachment is
pictures. Originals are preferred, of being constructed at right angles to and
Add College Presidents
course, but rare and unusual pictures extending into the main tube to furnish
can be copied and returned to the owner the drive for a propeller dynamometer.
NAMES of two more Cornellians who are if desired." Prints may be sent to Pro- This is to test new high-speed turbo-
college presidents have come to atten- fessor Stainton at 239 Goldwin Smith props and will greatly increase the use-
tion. This brings the number of alumni Hall, Ithaca. fulness of the tunnel.
known to be college or university presi- I was taken around by J. C. Evans,
dents to twenty-four. executive aide to Director C. C. Furnas.
Louis L. Madsen, PhD '34, was inau- INTELLIGENCE It served him as a sort of warm-up for a
gurated as president of Utah State Agri- group tour of twenty Ithaca professors
cultural College in Logan, November 3. due to come up a few days later. I talked
Roger Bailey '19, professor of English with one of the latter after he came back
at the University of Utah, was Cornell's and found him as impressed as I was. It
official delegate at the inauguration and was a brilliant idea to ferry this repre-
Director Leonard A. Maynard, PhD '15, This seems to be my year for gratify- sentative assortment of professors from
of the School of Nutrition, under whose ing latent curiosities. Latest of the se- a score of departments to Buffalo in a
direction President Madsen studied Ani- quence, the Cornell Aero- Robinson Airlines plane and give them
mal Nutrition in the Graduate School, Visit to nautical Laboratory in an idea of what our westernmost section
spoke at a symposium before the inaugu- Aeronautical Buffalo, I visited October of Cornell Campus is doing for the bene-
ration ceremonies. Laboratory 27 between a luncheon fit of the nation, the aviation industry,
Madsen received the BS at Utah State with the Cornell Club of and the greater glory of the University.
Agricultural College in 1930, graduat- Buffalo and a dinner with the Buffalo
ing at the head of his class. He returned Club of Cornell Women. I had gone past
there as head of animal husbandry in it once, out across from the Buffalo Air- I have no doubt that the fact was
1945 after two years as associate in ani- port, but its interior was only hearsay; judiciously inserted into the conversa-
mal nutrition and six years as nutrition- very titillating, too, with all I had heard tion that the Laboratory is
ist with the Bureau of Animal Nutrition spoken of almost in whispers shortly Conducts drain on University
not a
of the US Department of Agriculture in after the war about guided missiles, tele- Contract funds. It is a separate,
Beltsville, Md. He is a member of Sigma metering, and remote control of air- Research though wholly owned, cor-
Xi, Alpha Zeta, and Phi Kappa Phi. planes. poration and is entirely sup-
Tomas Mapua Ίl is president and The piece de resistance was, of course, ported by contracts for research for the
founder of Mapua Institute of Technol- the huge wind tunnel. It's tremendous. account of the Government or private
ogy in Manila, Philippine Islands. He I walked around inside it and saw the companies. When it was given to us in
received the BArch at Cornell in 1911 vanes and baffles and gadgets to mini- 1945 by Curtiss-Wright, Dean Hollister
and practiced architecture and was with mize turbulence so that the wind may be and a Classmate of mine, Alumni Trus-
the Bureau of Public Works in Manila uniform at any spot where it touches the tee J. Carlton Ward '14, canvassed the
before he founded the Institute some models. You might expect the thing to Eastern airplane industry and got cash
years ago. be circular, both in cross section and in contributions of $675,000 for working
the course that the air takes as it circu- capital. The University had to make
lates and recirculates. Actually, the some loans to it in the early stages, but
Collects Movie "Stills" whole unit looks like a lozenge, the rela- they have all been repaid and the cor-
tively square corners helping somehow poration has its own line of bank credit
UNIVERSITY THEATRE has added to its in wind uniformity. Mostly the tube is available if needed. Its net income from
collection of motion-picture "stills" round, to withstand the high pressures fees is earmarked for its internal research
about 3000 photographs of the period and decompression, but the test chamber program. I stress this financial self-suf-
1910 to 1940, which were collected by itself is octagonal. ficiency because I have heard fears ex-
the late Frank H. Chase, Syracuse A surprise to me was the decompres- pressed in Ithaca lest money that might
drama critic and writer, who was pre- sion angle. Many of the tests are con- go to Faculty salaries might be siphoned
paring a history of motion pictures. ducted at one-fourth atmospheric pres- off to Buffalo. It does business of $3,500,-
About thirty of the pictures were taken sure, logically enough since much flying 000 a year and has some 575 full-time
in Ithaca when motion pictures were is done in the stratosphere. This brings employees. Contracts are mostly on a
made here, of persons, scenes from the a reduction in cost as well, since less cost-plus-fixed-fee basis.
films, and production shots. Among power is needed to generate the same Actually, I didn't get the full treat-
these are pictures of the late Louis Wol- speed as at the plus pressure (up to three ment due to lack of time. To give you a
heim '18, and of Pearl White, Irene atmospheres) at which it can work. They feel of the place, I'll just put down the
190 Cornell Alumni News
itinerary as prepared for the Ithaca To conclude, let's come down out of ner on a sharp turn or when he is tack-
tourists: Flight Department; Develop- the stratosphere and light on a football led, instead of a knee or ankle giving
ment Engineering Department; Engi- gridiron, with its own casual- way. They are being tried this fall by
neering Physics Department; Library; Study y ij f bruises, breaks, and Calvo, Fleischmann, Jaeckel, and Jen-
t sts o
Wind Tunnel (Propeller Dynamometer) Football strains. I have written before sen, as well as by Clayton of Dartmouth
Supersonic Wind Tunnels; Wave En- Safety about the great work done at and by players of Notre Dame and of
gine Rain Erosion Flame Propagation the Medical College in crash other teams that have asked for them.
Materials Laboratory; Altitude Cham- injury research as regards airplane cock- It's wonderful what research can lead
ber and High Bay Area; Hydraulics pits and instrument boards. Buffalo is in to! Three years ago, Dr. Hugh DeHaven
Laboratory; Wood and Plastics Labora- on that through Edward R. Dye. Some '18 captured the imagination of New
tory Model Shop Spectrograph Aero- time ago, Director Robert J. Kane '34 York by bouncing eggs from the eleventh
dynamics Department; Chemistry La- and Trainer Frank Kavanagh of the floor of a Medical College building off
boratory; Metals Laboratory; Wind Athletics Department got Dye to think- a three-inch pad of a new type of sponge
Tunnel Power Area; Electrical Labora- ing about football equipment, particu- rubber. Then Buffalo tested the impact
tory (Trajectory Computer). I was par- larly helmets, with the idea of their giv- of a plastic headform against various ob-
ticularly interested in the wave engine ing better protection to the boy wearing jects at crash speeds. Next we get this
experiments (which looked like a Gat- them and doing less harm to the boy on new shoe-cleat. Now if they would only
ling gun), the rain erosion set-up to test the receiving end of the impacts. Investi- come up with a rubber heel that wouldn't
materials for such places as the leading gation is proceeding along the lines of slip on an icy Ithaca hill!
edges of wings or propellers, studies on shaping, of improved padding material,
the fatigue of metals and the use of pos- and external fiber that won't bruise so
sible substitute materials, and some com- much and won't break down under mois- Bequest from Gurley
pletely new work on the resonance of ture. The McGregor Goldsmith sport-
helicopter blades. Of course, there were ing goods firm of Cincinnati was inter- FUND to further the study of paleontol-
plenty of restricted areas I was ushered ested enough to sponsor it. ogy by prizes, scholarships, technical
by and of whose work I have no idea. You'll be surprised at the first fruits publications, and otherwise has been
Also there were armed guards at the just anounced. It's a new cleat for foot- established at the University through a
main gate. ball shoes, in the form of a two-and-a- bequest of about $75,000 from William
* * * half-inch round aluminum disc, concave F. E. Gurley '77, who died in 1943.
My visit certainly gave form and sub- in the middle to shed mud. Unlike the Known as the William F. E. Gurley
stance to my previously-held conviction old conical cleat, it allows the shoe and Fund in Paleontology, it will be used in
that Cornell-in-Buffalo is a the foot inside it to pivot with the run- the Department of Geology, where Gur-
Aids great source of strength to the
Aircraft nation in serving as a rallying
Industry point and research center for
the Eastern aircraft industry.
In this respect, it is the Caltech of the
East, a perfectly logical position to as-
sume in view of Cornell's long-standing
reputation in engineering and science
and the further fact that so many of the
companies served are controlled or of-
ficered by alumni. An advisory board
consisting of the presidents of these firms
meets twice a year and a technical com-
mittee composed of their chief engineers
gets together quarterly: very stimulating
affairs. The Laboratory serves as a
bridge between research and industry
and speeds up development of inven-
tions into practical use. In this connec-
tion, the previous experience and con-
nections of Dr. T. P. Wright, former
vice-president of Curtiss-Wright, mem-
ber of the Aircraft Production Board,
Director of the Aircraft Resources Con- Faciίlty Visitors Fly to Buffalo Aeronautical Laboratory—Director Clifford C. Furnas
trol Office, and Civil Aeronautics Ad- and members of the staff of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo conducted
ministrator, now Vice-president-for-re- a tour of the Laboratory for guests from the Faculty at Ithaca who were flown to Buffalo
search of the University, is invaluable. and back by Robinson Airlines. In the group, about to embark, are, left to right: Pro-
Dr. Wright is president and chairman fessors Gordon P. Fisher, Civil Engineering; Cyrl W. Terry '26, Agricultural Engineer-
of the board of the Laboratory. Nor ing; Harry D. Conway, Mechanical Engineering; James Campbell, Industrial & Labor
should I omit mention of our Graduate Relations; Robert L. Von Berg, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering; Director Fred
School of Aeronautical Engineering. I H. Rhodes, PhD '14, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering; Joseph O. Jeffrey '25,
might hark back, too, to the establish- Mechanical Engineering; Alexander B. Credle '30, Electrical Engineering; Benjamin
ment under Cornell auspices and direc- M. Siegel, Engineering Physics; Director Harry J. Loberg '29, Mechanical Engineering;
tion of the Daniel and Florence Guggen- Simon H. Bauer, Chemistry; Donald R. Griffin, Zoology; Director Carl E. F. Guter-
heim Aviation Safety Center, described man, PhD '30, Agriculture Research; University Vice-president Theodore P. Wright,
in the October 15 ALUMNI NEWS. This president of the Laboratory; Edward A. Suchman '36, Sociology & Anthropology;
brings the Medical College into the pic- Harry Pollard, Mathematics; Charles O. Mackey '26, John R. Moynihan '26, and
ture as well. Frederick S. Erdman, PhD '41, Mechanical Engineering. Mohn
December 1, 1950 191
ley studied under Professor Charles F. publican opponent, Senator Forrest C. and this publication is illustrated with
Hartt in the Optional course, from Donnell, by 93,000 votes in a record pictures of both productions.
1873-75. off-year ballotting. "The Cardiff Giant" by Professor
Gurley was State Geologist of Illinois Goodwin J. Knight '22, ending a two- Drummond and Robert E. Gard, AM
from 1893-97. He became associate cu- year term as Lieutenant Governor of '38, which was published recently by
rator of paleontological collections at the California, was re-elected with both Re- Cornell University Press, has had a suc-
University of Chicago in 1900 and, al- publican and Democratic endorsement. cessful run of six performances under
though totally blind during the last G. Mennen Williams, who seemed North's direction at Iowa State. Other
twenty years of his life, held the post un- likely to be re-elected Governor of plays by Drummond and his students are
til his death. He was a founder of the Michigan on the Democrat ticket, is the getting recognition. Albany State Teach-
Geological Society of America. son of Mrs. Henry P. Williams who ers' College is producing "The Hope
He invariably attended Class Re- shared with her brother, William G. Chest" by Drummond and "Three
unions with Mrs. Gurley. Her gift of Mennen '08, in giving Mennen Hall to Cheers for Woody" by R. J. Munroe
$50,000 in 1948, a year before her death, the University. Scott, Grad '49. "Pierrot-in-the-Round"
by Donald Streibig, a student in the last
established the Mr. and Mrs. William F.
Summer Session, was presented at King's
E. Gurley Book Endowment Fund in the
College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. "Polski"
University Library. During his life, Gur-
by William D. Hammack, Grad '49, won
ley made many gifts to the Library, in- BOOKS
first place in the Sherwood Little Thea-
cluding a $1000 Book Fund, the income
tre 1950 playwriting contest, and "Cry
from which is used to purchase books on By Cornellians
Witch" by Marion L. Miller, Sp, placed
the drama.
also and won first prize in a contest of
Plays magazine. Other plays from the
Cornellians Win Elections Personal Conflict volume, The Lake Guns of Seneca and
Cayuga, are being produced by little
theatre groups.
WINNING in the November 7 elections, THE OTHER FATHER. By Laura Z. Hob-
fifteen Cornellians will be members of son '21. Simon & Schuster, New York
the New York State Legislature for the City. 1950. 307 pages, $3. Work of Art
coming session, fourteen of them in the
The author of the gripping story on
Assembly. One alumnus was elected to anti-semitism, Gentlemen's Agreement, AESOP'S FABLES. Retold, illustrated with
the US Senate and four were re-elected has chosen another powerful theme for woodcuts, and printed by Elfriede Abbe
to the House of Representatives. her latest and third novel: the hidden '40. Published by the author, Ithaca.
New York State Senator John D. Ben- relationship between a father and his 1950. 70 pages, $10.
nett '33 of Rockville Centre was re- daughter.
Except for the binding, the 500 copies
elected for his fourth term.
Andrew Dynes is forty-eight, bored of this book were put together entirely
Re-elected for his ninth term in the with his wife Mary and his job as a tax by hand by Miss Abbe, from the carving
State Assembly was Wheeler Milmoe consultant, father of three children, and of the woodcuts and the setting of the
'17 of Canastota. Lawrence W. Van in love with Ruth, a girl twenty years type to the actual printing. The 122
Cleef '20 of Seneca Falls will begin his his junior. But he cannot bring himself fables are well retold and the forty-five
eighth term; John F. Wadlin '24 of to hurt his family or to give up Ruth. illustrations are works of art. The mauve
Highland, his sixth; Joseph W. Ward When he finds out that his twenty-two- cover sets off nicely the black and white
'13 of Caledonia, his fifth; and David year-old daughter Peg is in love with an text printed on fine white paper, 8V& x
S. Hill, Jr. '26 of Glen Cove, his fourth. older man, the conflicts within him rise 12V2 inches. The artist is a scientific il-
Re-elected for second terms were Henry to a violent struggle as he goes about lustrator for the Department of Botany
D. Coville '93 of Central Square, Joseph discovering the other father within him, and well known in Ithaca for her sculp-
R. Younglove '16 of Johnstown, Searles the significance of his love for this ture.
G. Schultz '20 of Skaneateles, Vernon younger woman, and the hidden rela-
W. Blogett '22 of Rushville, J. Eugene tionship between himself and his daugh-
Goddard '23 of Rochester, former ter Peg. Club Celebrates Anniversary
Alumni Field Secretary Ray S. Ashbery
'25 of Trumansburg, and Samuel Rabin
Drummond Play Appears TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY banquet
'26 of Jamaica. Thompson M. Ecoon of the Cornell Women's Club of Syra-
Ίl of Geneva and Hyman E. Mintz '29 cuse, in the Hotel Syracuse October 16,
of South Fallsburg will sit in the State TRAFFIC SIGNALS: A Modern Morality was attended by 100 members and
Assembly for the first time. Willard C. in Two Movements. By Professor Alex- guests. Acting President of the Univer-
Drumm of Niverville, re-elected to the ander M. Drummond, Grad Ί2-Ί5, sity Cornells W. de Kiewiet was the prin-
Assembly for his second term, is the hus- Speech and Drama. Cayuga Press, cipal speaker.
band of Eva Peplinski '23. Ithaca. 1950. 61 pages, $1.
A history of the Club, prepared by
Re-elected Representatives were Con- Professor Drummond wrote this play Mary A. Wheeler '21, was read by Mrs.
gressmen Daniel A. Reed '98 of Dun-
for the Dramatic Club and it was first Warner S. Hammond (Hazel Ellen-
kirk, for his seventeenth consecutive
presented by the Club as a one-act play wood) '34, vice-president of the Club
term, and Clarence E. Kilburn '16 of
in 1926 and in its entirety ten years later. this year. Greetings from the first presi-
Malone and Edwin A. Hall, Jr. '31 of
A "mass production," it has flashing dent of the Club, Mrs. Walter H. Knis-
Binghamton for their seventh terms.
lights, clanging bells, verse-speaking
Congressman Charles A. Eaton '25 of tern (Katherine Selden) '05, who now
choruses, surging crowds, and many
Plainfield, N.J., was also re-elected. lives in Petersburg, Va., were also read.
speaking parts to point the foibles and
Six of the charter members were pres-
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. '24 of St. follies and tragedies and nobility of the
ent: Mrs. Eugene B. Howell (Laura
Louis, Mo., the only Democrat among human race. It was also presented at the
the alumni legislators, was elected to Iowa State College Theatre, under di- Dickey) '92, Mrs. I. S. Carroll (Jessie
the US Senate, winning over his Re- rection of Joseph H. North, PhD '49, Austin) Όl, Mrs. Roy H. Van Tyne
(Isabelle Hoag) '18, Mrs. Maude Bur-
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