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Messenger Lectures ROFESSOR Otto Kinkeldey P (above), Musicology, Emeritus, opened this year's Messenger Lectures with six addresses on "Music and the Universe." His first lecture in Olin Hall, November 8, drew a capacity audience to which he was introduced by Professor Donald J. Grout, Music. Calling Professor Kinkeldey "the dean of American musicologists," Professor Grout added that his appointment as professor of Musicology in 1930 had established the first chair in that field in the United States and that the imposing title of the present lectures would have been rank impertinence in anyone else, but was merely appropriate for him. Professor Kinkeldey took the AB at CCNY in 1988, the AM at NYU in 1900, and the PhD at the University of Berlin in 1909. For the next four years, he held the chair of Royal Prussian Professor of Musicology at the University of Breslau. During the first World War, he was an officer in the TJS Army and then joined the staff of the New York Public Library. From 1923-27 he was professor of Music at Cornell, and returned in 1930 as professor of Musicology and University Librarian. He retired in 1946. Professor Kinkeldey's Messenger Lectures included Greek and Latin quotations with discussion of several classical philosophers, photographic slides, records of musical compositions and a solo rendition of a medieval Latin song by the professor, himself. Opening his first lecture, on "Harmony of the Spheres/ 7 he mentioned the ALUMNI NEWS cover caption of November 1, to illustrate that the philosophical concept originated by the ancients is still alive, though usually as a mere figure of speech. His later lectures were titled "Music and Nature", "Music and Man" (which occupied two talks, the first 190 relating music to science, philosophy, and history; the second taking up language, literature, and poetry), "Music and the Other Arts", "Music as an Ancillary Art," and 'Music and Society," concluding November 18. The Messenger Lectures "on the evolution of civilization," were established in 1923 by the late Ήiram J. Messenger '80. They are published by the University Press. G Murphy Talks to Club ENERAL Alumni Secretary Emmet J. Murphy '22 addressed fifty members of the Cornell Club of the Lehigh Valley and their guests at an October 28 meeting at the Bethlehem Club, Bethlehem, Pa. He spoke of Cornell today, admissions, Freshmen, and athletics. Speaker also was Robert A. Hall, for three years quarterback of the Yale football team and later assistant football coach. He spoke on athletics and showed pictures of this year's games. G. Lamont Bidwell, Jr. '29, secretary of the Club, presided. To Discuss AmericanWay OUPPORTED by a grant of $10,000 ^ from the Carnegie Corp. of New York, the University has announced for next term a series of public lectures and discussions on "America's Freedom and Responsibility in the Contemporary Crisis." Invited speakers and members of the Faculty will discuss such topics as "the strenghtening of American political institutions, the relation between social responsibilities and economic freedoms, and the responsibility of the University itself in the maintenance of freedom." It is expected that the program may be continued, perhaps next year, with an elective course on the American tradition. The plan, according to President Edmund E. Day, "is the outgrowth of long study by the Faculty, administration, and Trustees of the part that the University should play in bolstering the American tradition to face its current challenges. Our purpose will be to dramatize vital current issues and to develop a greater awareness of our responsibility as Americans in the great decisions which we as a people will make. The problems have accquired a magnitude which demands that our traditional methods be strengthened and reformed, just as our basic beliefs must be reformulated if they are to continue vigorous and worthy of our support." In charge of planning the symposium is a Faculty committee of Professors Edward W. Fox and Clinton L. Rossiter '39, Government, and Earl Brooks, Industrial & Labor Relations. ASCAP Dictionary Λ SCAP Biographical Dictionary, a -^~* recently-published reference book on American composers, lists several musical Cornellians. Among these are Frederick A. Johnson '94 (listed in the Dictionary under his pen name Frederick Ayres), who wrote Western music until his death in 1926; Max David '32, who has written songs for both Broadway and Hollywood productions; and Kermit Goell '36, who went from Agriculture to the real estate business and dairy farming. In addition to writing popular songs, he taught flying to AAF cadets and was a wartime flight test engineer on experimental gliders. Seek Trustee Candidates S TANDING committee on Alumni Trustee nominations of the Cornell Alumni Association has organized for this year by electing Max F. Schmitt '24, chairman, and Birge W. Kinne '16, vice-chairman. A letter was mailed November 1 to officers and directors of all alumni organizations asking for suggestions of suitable candidates for Alumni Trustees of the University. The terms of Alumni Trustees Alice Blinn '17 and John S. Parke, Jr. '23 will expire next June 30 and nominations of candidates for the five-year term beginning July 1, 1949, must be filed with the University Treasurer by April 1, 1949. The committee on Alumni Trustee nominations was first organized in 1942 to analyze the particular personnel needs of the Board of Trustees each year and to seek out and persuade to stand for election persons who are outstandingly qualified to serve those needs as Alumni Trustees. Such persons are investigated by the committee and are then nominated as provided in the University Charter, by ten or more degree holders filing their nominations with the Treasurer of the University. Nominations of any persons may be made by ten or more degree holders. Members of the committee are chosen one each by and from the various organizations that make up the Cornell Alumni Association, together with one Alumni Trustee for those on the Board. Besides Schmitt for the Association of Class Secretaries and Kinne for the Agriculture Alumni Association, present members of the committee are George R. Pfann '24 for the Alumni Trustees; Newton C. Burnett '24 for the district directors of the Alumni Association; H. W. Peters '14, the Cornell Alumni Fund Council; Mrs. John W. Arnold (Dorothy Mc- Sparran) '18, Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs; William F. Stuckle Cornell Alumni News
' 17, Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs Earle W. Bolton, Jr. '26, Architecture Alumni Association; William M. Reck '14, Society of Engineers; Mrs. James A. McConnell (Lois Zimmerman) '20, Home Economics Alumnae Association; Henry B. Williams '30, Society of Hotelmen; Frank B. Ingersoll '17, Law Association; Dr. Wade Duley '23, Medical College Alumni Association; and Dr. George H. Hopson '28 for the Veterinary Alumni Association. Names and information of suggested candidates for Alumni Trustees are requested early in December by the chairman, Max F. Schmitt, J. Walter Thompson Co., 420 Lexington Avenue New York City 17. Professor Wilder '35 Dies P ROFESSOR William Henderson Wilder '35, Electrical Engineering, died in New York City, November 3, 1948, following an attack of apoplexy suffered at the Cornell-Columbia football game, October 30. Born in Rochester in 1914, Professor Wilder entered Administrative Engineering in 1931 from West High School, Rochester; was a member of the track and football squads, and sang bass in the Glee Club as a Freshman. Leaving the University on a leave of absence in 1934, he worked for ten years, the last seven with Paragon- Resolute Corp. in Rochester as a mechanical and electrical design engineer. Returning to the University in 1944, he took the BEE in June, 1946, was appointed instructor in Electrical Engineering that fall, and became assistant professor last July., He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. He is survived by Mrs. Wilder and his father, Arthur L. Wilder '06 of Rochester. Cornell Engineer TN The Cornell Engineer for No- -*• vember, Olive W. Dennis '20, research engineer for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the first woman member of the American Railway Engineering Association, describes and pictures " Modernization of Railroad Passenger Facilities," for which she is responsible on the B & 0. "The Cornell Radio Astronomy Project" is described by its director, William E. Gordon, research associate. Thomas J. Kelly '51 of Merrick, holder of a Grumman Scholarship, describes the building of the Bearcat, Navy fighter plane, at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. on Long Island. Creed W. Fulton '09, on the President's Page for the Cornell Society of Engineers, outlines a program of objectives for the Society this year. December /, 1948 Now, in My Time! By THIS department shows signs of slumping off into a philosophy of hopeless, fatalistic optimism. That will not be popular. Most alumni like to be assured that their University reached its peak of efficiency when they did; that something irreplacable went out of it with their departure. We're sorry to let you down, but you're wrong. We suspect you've improved, too, in the qualities that determine your character. It's just your circulation, digestion, and glands that have lost a little of their undergraduate form. Even deportment at football games has improved. We give you the Colgate contest, which was played under weather conditions calculated to make the most critical professor palliate occasional lapses from complete sobriety on the part of visiting alumni. That game, played throughout in a heavy downpour, produced but one known case of over-indulgence. And that single lapse would have remained undiscovered, no doubt, but for the report of a conscientious night-watchman, who, making his appointed rounds at 2 a.m., had been startled by screams, protests, and entreaties which he finally located as coming from the gentlemen's comfort-station serving Sections EG and EH under the Cornell Crescent. A gentleman had been locked in there, according to the report. It was the night watchman's theory, concurred in by the gentleman, that the latter had stepped out between the halves and had gone to sleep there. Nor had he been aroused by Mr. Floyd Darling making his final inspection and locking up at 7 p.m. It was not until after midnight that the gentleman's potations had worn off, and the chill of his wet clothes had sunk in, sufficiently to wake him up and start him calling upon his Alma Mater for assistance while attempting to kick the hell out of a concrete comfort-stationinindignant protest. The night-watchman and the gentleman had ample opportunity to develop the facts of the case in a leisurely chat, because the comfort- , stations, like the football ticket department, still remain under the jurisdiction of the Athletic Associa- tion and the universal pass-key carried by the night-watchman fitted neither the situation nor the lock. It took a full hour for Mr. Floyd Darling, summoned by telephone, to get up there and let the gentleman out. But how, you ask, does the incident of the old grad in the comfortstation, interesting as it is, tend to bolster our thesis that Cornell is being administered with ever-increasing efficiency? Ah, have you forgotten that twenty years ago the 59.48 acres of the University's domain dedicated to manly sports and including both Hoy Field and the gentlemen's comfort-stations were under the exclusive charge of the Athletic Association; that Morrill Hall studiously avoided all financial or other responsibility for anything that might go on over there, even to the extent of instructing its nightwatchmen and Campus cops to avoid the area in question in their nightly rounds? In that day, the entire load of housekeeping, policing, and handling the crowds on game days fell on Dr. Norman Patullo, Mr. Winslow, Old South, and this same Mr. Floyd Darling, who got no help at all save a lot of undesίred and highly irritating advice from the late Mr. Frank Sheehan. There was no night-watchman beyond Mr. Mc- Ferren, who was so completely occupied with being janitor of Schoellkopf Hall, and also doing the athletic laundry in the basement, that he had no time to circulate around outside. We've said enough, perhaps, to suggest that if a gentleman had gotten himself locked in the comfort-station serving Sections EG and EH after the Colgate game in my time, he'd have stayed right there, undiscovered, until the Athletic staff got around to cleaning up for the Dartmouth contest; say about Wednesday afternoon. We look after visiting alumni so much better, now that your Alma Mater keeps her eye on everything, including Hoy Field. It would now be practically impossible for any alumnus, sufficiently important to have seats in EG, to lock himself up any place on Saturday where he wouldn't be found and let out in time for church. 191
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