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3 gastronomic dinners;
8 breakfasts, 4 lunches;
all service charges
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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
from the Bureau of Radiological Health
and I enclose a flyer explaining how one
may be obtained [mailing address:
Training Resources Center (HFX-70),
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Md.
20857].
In the same issue and under my own
Class of 1926 I notice the greeting from
Frances Eagan who sends her love to all
the class. She has always given her love
to the class and has done much for us
over the years. On a trip through Ithaca
about three years ago—my first in some
fifty years—I spoke to her briefly over
the phone and I am sorry to hear now
that she is having eye trouble. With all
of the rest of us I wish her speedy recovery.
Lauriston S. Taylor '26
Bethesdα, Md.
Footnotes: Winαns '07
and Wichelns Ί6
A recent issue of the Southern Speech
Communication Journal contained a
symposium on liberalizing influences,
featuring four great teachers. Two of the
four were Cornell professors: James A.
Winans, LLB '07 and Herbert A.
Wichelns '16.
In his paper on Wichelns, Carroll C.
Arnold of Penn State, who was his colleague
at Cornell for fifteen years, pays
primary attention to his method of
teaching, which was not to serve as a
source of knowledge but to join individual
students and groups of students in
searches for knowledge.
Arnold concludes that Wichelns,
"with vast knowledge, scrupulous care
for the personal integrity of the others,
and unquenchable curiosity," bettered
the Socratic model of teaching. That appraisal
will seem extravagant even to
those who admired Wichelns the most.
Loren Reid of the University of Missouri
also offers a personal statement
about Professor Winans, who taught at
Cornell for twenty-one years, beginning
in 1899. Reid was his colleague both at
Dartmouth and at Missouri. To most of
us, Winans always described himself as
primarily a teacher. But Reid shows that
he worked very hard for many years to
secure from the Cornell faculty permission
to offer graduate work in public
speaking, quoting his statement that
"we shall feel better and do better . . .
and teach better, when we have more
scholarship."
That leads to what to me has always
been the great puzzle about the Winans
career. Why, when he finally had permission
to offer graduate work, did he
move to Dartmouth in 1920? By so doing,
he left it to Alexander Drummond
and Everett Hunt to inaugurate the Seminar
in Classical Rhetoric, setting off an
explosion of research in universities
throughout the country which has illuminated
the theory and practice of rhetoric
from the time of the early Greek sophists
to the present day.
This is the story as Reid tells it: "Cornell
salaries were indecently low; as one
source put it, professors took part of
their pay in the right to view the Cornell
landscaping and architecture. Winans,
however, very much wanted to stay. The
Dartmouth people, most persistent, finally
asked him to set his price. He therefore
made them an offer so grandiose
that he was sure they would be discouraged.
" 'You must pay me a certain salary,
he said; my informants estimate it at
$6,000 to $8,000. 'If any member of
your faculty is ever given a higher salary,
you must raise mine to that figure.' To
his astonishment, Dartmouth met the
terms; so Winans was honor bound to
move."
Most of us didn't know this story, but
all of us affiliated with the Cornell
School of Rhetoric called Winans
"Chief" as long as he lived.
—Ray Howes '24
Etcetera
C. Michael Curtis '56, mentioned in an
article in this issue on Prof. Walter La-
Feber, history, is a former long-time
contributor to the Alumni News. In particular,
he contributed many articles on
faculty members during the first half of
the 1960s, while a graduate student on
the Hill. Since then he has writen for us
on a number of subjects.
We guessed when we wrote in February
that the person who signed the name
of E.B. White '21 on his senior photograph
was "an alumni office record
clerk." The university's alumni operation
was so young then that it is unlikely
the handwriting commonly found on
yearbook photos in the 1920s belonged
to a university clerk. More likely it was
put there by a Cornellian staff member
in the course of production of the yearbook.
We were too eager to make it clear
it was not White's own signature. But if
not, whose?
Our assistant editor spoke in January