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Back When...
(Reprinted from the ALUMNI
of earlier days)
NEWS
Twenty Years Ago
March, 1928—"We heard a little
while ago that a new movie house
would be built this spring on East
Seneca Street. Now comes the news
of a $500 ;
000 playhouse, to seat 1800
and to be erected on the site of the
Finger Lakes Garage at 119 West
State Street. The theater will be used
for movies, vaudeville, and road
shows. The announcement has been
received here with jubilation, as the
local movie monopoly is not popular.
It seems to be commonly held that six
dull movies simultaneously are preferable
to four dull movies, as at present.
One hears also complaints that under
the present regime, feature pictures
are wantonly cut. To this jaundiced
observer, the more they are cut, the
better." — M. G. B.
"This basketball at its best is a
great game; fast, exciting, and intense.
At its too frequent worst, it's a
whistle duet performed by two stout
gentlemen in white pants and pleasing
only to the performers.
"The Eastern basketball situation
is serious. Yet Γd go slow and be perfectly
fair with the officials. I'd compromise
with them on a 50-50 basis.
I'd let them keep their white pants,
but I'd make them turn in all musical
instruments and let the boys do all
the playing."—R. B. in "Sport Stuff"
Chicago Women Meet
TWENTY-TWO alumnae attended
a Founders Day dinner of
Cornell Women's Club of Chicago,
111., at the Cordon Club February 12.
Elizabeth J. Lynahan '30, home service
director of the People's Gas Co.,
where she is known as Martha Holmes,
spoke of her work and answered questions
about cooking and home-making.
She was introduced by the president,
Mrs. Alvin H. Eichholz (Rhoda
Linville) '32.
To Study Cosmic Rays
NUCLEAR STUDIES Laboratory
has joined with the University of
Denver, MIT, Chicago, and NYU to
develop the highest high-altitude laboratory
in the world, for intensified
studies of cosmic rays. The 14,000-
foot site, atop Mt. Evans in Colorado,
for fifteen years has been used to observe
cosmic rays, which come from
beyond the earth's atmosphere and
there have millions of times more
energy than those produced artificially.
Modern laboratories and liv-
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ing quarters will be built at the top,
and a way-station at Echo Lake,
10,000 feet above sea-level and accessible
the year around, is already
nearing completion. It will be used for
experiments which do not require the
highest altitude, for acclimating the
workers, and for storing supplies and
repairing equipment. The new laboratory
facilities will also be used for
high-altitude research in zoology,
medicine, and meteorology.
Next summer, a party of graduate
students and staff members led by
Professor Kenneth I. Greisen, PhD
'43, Nuclear Studies, will work at
Mt. Evans.
Sullivan Steps Up
R
LEO SULLIVAN (above), who
. has travelled with Cornell teams
and arranged railroad transportation
for them and for thousands of other
Cornellians for thirty-seven years, has
been promoted to division passenger
agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
in Ithaca. "Sully" succeeded the late
Frank "Lehigh" Wingert as travelling
passenger agent in 1930, after Wingert's
death, and he has been in the
Ithaca ticket offices since 1911, first at
the Lehigh station and later uptown,
except for three years, 1916-19, when
he ran a grocery store on Stewart Avenue.
Born in Ithaca, he grew up in
railroading, starting as a section hand
in 1908 with his father, the late James
P. Sullivan. The next year, he went
into the master mechanic's crew in the
Cortland roundhouse of the old E.C.-
&N. branch which ran through East
Ithaca, and in 1910 sold his first
ticket, in Cortland.
Sullivan's notice of his promotion
was signed by Charles R. Barber, who
has succeeded Norman W. Pringle, retired,
as passenger traffic manager of
the Lehigh in New York City. Both
of these men are former Ithaca division
passenger agents well known to
Cornellians. Sullivan succeeds James
R. Buckley, who becomes division passenger
agent in Buffalo, and the former
incumbent there, George Spahn,
who also headed the Ithaca office, is
now general passenger agent in New
York. President of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Co. is Cedric A. Major '12,
and Bartholomew J. Viviano '33 is
assistant general counsel for the line.
Veterinary Entrance Up
T7ETERINARY College, beginning
^ in 1949, will require two years of
college preparation for entrance, instead
of the one year now required.
Preparatory study must be in an approved
college or university and in
courses other than those given in the
College, including at least one year
each of English, physics, and zoology
or biology, and a year and a half of
chemistry, the three latter subjects
with laboratory practice. A course in
English composition or speech, or
both, is recommended, and organic
chemistry, now included in the firstyear
Veterinary course, must be taken
before entrance.
Dean William A. Hagan, MS '17,
reports that of the 752 applicants for
the Veterinary College in 1947, fortynine
were accepted. Eighteen of those
admitted ^had had one year of college,
sixteen two years, seven three years,
and eight held college degrees. Twenty-nine
of the forty-nine entered
Veterinary from other Colleges at
Cornell and twenty had studied at
other institutions.
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Deans Discuss Food
30UT 500 Cornellians and guests
attended the annual luncheon of
the Cornell Women's Club of New
York, February 28 at the Waldorf-
Astoria.
Mrs. Bernard A. Savage (Carmen
Schneider) '27 as toastmistress introduced
the speakers whose theme was
"Food and European Recovery."
Dean William I. Myers '14 of the College
of Agriculture emphasized the
neefi of Europeans for high-calory
foods if they are to do the work necessary
for economic recovery. "We need
to help Europe," he urged, "not only
for humanitarian reasons, but also to
help build a stable and productive
future population which cannot be
expected from malnourished mothers
and children."
Director Leonard A. Maynard, PhD
'15, of the School of Nutrition, referred
to the cumulative effect of the
deprivations that Europeans have suffered
in recent years, and said that
their "food supplies are still below pre-
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