Cornell Alumni News - eCommons@Cornell - Cornell University

inherent dangers in a society where the
postponement of immediate gratification has
been equated with the deprivation of personal
freedom.
It is my belief that university officials
bear most responsibility in this matter. At
Cornell, the motto, "Freedom with Responsibility"
appears to have changed to "indulgence
without responsibility." The setting of
limits is an inherent ingredient of any group
living situation, whether it be country, family,
or university. University officials have
been behaving much like parents in many
of our wealthier suburbs. They have lost
their collective ability to say "no," and by
so doing they have reflected their own inadequacies
and impotence. The adolescent
therefore finds himself in the unique position
of setting his own limits with the result
that drugs, narcotics, alcoholism and
abortion have become the rallying points
and status symbols of the "new breed."
It is the responsibility of university officials
to set limits for adolescent behavior,
and though it be a disconcerting thought to
some, college students are adolescents.
If university officials also relinquish their
responsibility to students, then university
administration has lost its reason (for existence).
The time has come for Cornell officials
to ascertain what their responsibilities are.
In the spirit of President Perkins' recent
statements, it is a time for evaluation and
new direction. That direction should include,
as it has in the past, a concern for
individual and public responsibility.
PASSAIC, N.J.
- HARVEY M. HAMMER, '56 MD.
Joe De Libero
EDITOR: Attached herewith is a fine letter
from Dick Mathewson who was a varsity
football player in 1953 and 1954 and also
a hurdler on our track team during the
same years. I thought you might like to publish
it in your next letters column.
ITHACA - ROBERT J. KANE '34
MR. KANE: I received my copy of the April
ALUMNI NEWS today and was dumbfounded
to read of Joe De Libero's death.
When one spends two hours a day for
four years in the presence of people like
Joe, Tom, Dick, Doc and Eddie you can't
help but have a special feeling for this group
and the passing of one. I know my sentiment
must be felt by others as they read the
news.
Joe kept us laughing when it wasn't so
easy to laugh and I hope that a suggestion
for a few kind words in the ALUMNI NEWS
by you or someone in your organization is
not out of line.
For those of us with happy memories it
would make it all worthwhile.
DAYTON, o. - RICHARD S. MATHEWSON '55
Hockey on Beebe
EDITOR: TWO recent events prompt me to
write you about Cornell hockey. First, I was
privileged last December on a visit to Ithaca
to see the splendid Cornell team in action
against Western Ontario. Second, in the
April issue of the ALUMNI NEWS, in reviewing
the finish of the hockey season, it
was noted that Clarkson defeated Cornell
"One of the greatest
achievements of
our time in the
history of science."
— PROFESSOR MAX H. FISCH,
University of Illinois
MARCELLO
MALPIGHI
AND THE EVOLUTION
OF EMBRYOLOGY
By HOWARD B. ADELMANN
Professor of Histology and Embryology, Cornell University
THIS monumental study, the product of twenty
years of research, focuses on the life and
work of Marcello Malpighi, the seventeenthcentury
Italian scientist whose extraordinary
achievements make him one of the cardinal figures
in the history of biology. The core of the
book is the first English translation of Malpighi's
two revolutionary dissertations on the development
of the chick. Supplementing the translation
are twenty-eight excursuses which trace major
developments in embryological research up to the
time modern concepts began to emerge. The excursuses
include long excerpts — in the original
language and in English translation — from the
classic works of such figures as Pierre Gassendi,
Albrecht von Haller, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and
Carl Ernst von Baer. The book also contains the
first full-scale biography of Malpighi in English
and the first in any language since 1847.
As a chief resource in the study of the history of
science, and as a work of exceptional value to
biologists, Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution
of Embryology will serve as an essential reference
in libraries around the world. It will, moreover,
be a treasured addition to the finest personal collections.
• 2,475 pages
• five volumes, boxed
• 9V2" x 13" page size
• printed on the finest paper
• more than one and a half
million words
• 11 color plates of Malpighi's
scientific illustrations
• 4 full-page portraits of
Malpighi
• fold-out map of seventeenthcentury
Bologna
• facsimile of autographed
manuscript page
• 137-page analytical index
• δl^page bibliography of
literature cited (more than
2,000 titles)
• 4 appendixes
$200.00 the set
Cornell University Press ITHACA, NEW YORK
June 1966