F E B R U A RY 6, 1920. TTTTT n mill] 33 No. 18 <¥fte M A C RECORD Dr. Beal's Compilation of M. A. G. Graduates and Former Students in Other American Colleges and Universities. '81 Sends A Criticism and Suggests A Remedy. The "Heart of M. A. C." Michigan Humbled Before Aggie Basketeers. ^= 5VAS S* i3)fcJbCr cannot live on Her past ~ 52WS5 a* *a Wfraf 101// you do for Her jiihire T iOr^S S^ m ^e MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LansingMichigan ASSOCIATION - East SvM/SH (Si ftx E£ a A Publishers iii in ALUMNI = 5£ DIRECTORY EDWARD N. PAGELSEN "89" Patents, Patent Law, Trademarks 1107-10 Chamber of Commerce Bldg\, Detroit, Michigan. Formerlv Examiner U. S. P a t e nt Office. A. M. EMERY, '83. 223 Washing-ton Ave. N. H. C. P r a t t, '09, in Charge of Office Supply Department. Books, Fine Stationery, Engraved Call ing- Cards, Fountain Pens, Pictures, Frames, Filing Cabinets and General Office Supplies. SMITH POULTRY & EGG CO. Commission Merchants in Eggs Solicit consignments Poultry Veal Guy H. Smith, '11 Western Market, Detroit. DR. E. D. BROOKS, '76 Diseases of the EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT Glasses Fitted Suite, 704 Hanselman Building. Kalamazoo, Mich. Office hours 9 to 12, 1 to 5. THORN SMITH, "1895," In complete charge of the Laboratory of DIACK AND SMITH, 49 West Lamed St., Detroit, Mich. Chemical Analyses and Research Work. THE CORYELL NURSERY, R. J. Coryell, '84, Ralph I. Coryell, '14 Growers and Planters of Shade and F r u it Trees,. Shrubs, Evergreens, and "Vines. Landscape Beautiflcation Service. Birmingham, Mich. JOHN F. NELLIST, '96. Publisher of Michigan Touring Maps. 1955 Jefferson Avenue, S. E., Grand Rapids, Mich. THE EDWARDS LABORATORIES Lansing, Michigan. S. F. Edwards, '99. Anti-Hog-Cholera Serum and other Bio logical Products. Legume Bacteria cultures for seed inoculation. LANDSCAPES WITHOUT WAITING Plans by Graduate Landscape Architects F. A. Carlson, '16, 508 Mathews Bldg. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. GOODELL, ZELIN C. (Forestry, M. A. C, '11) Insurance and Bonds of Every Kind. salary, If you haven't insured your better see or write Goodell about a good proposition. Lansing Insurance Agency, Inc. 208-212 Capital National Bank Bldg. THE ABBOTT LABORATORIES Chicago Manufacturing Chemists We make a complete line of human and veterinary medicines and vac cines. Quality and accuracy guaranteed. N. S. Mayo, '88, Manager, Veterinary Department. AMERICAN EXTENSION UNIVERSITY Correspondence Courses 20,000 Students A. C. Burnham, B. S., LL. B. (M. A. C, '93), President, 433 Stimson Bldg., Los Angeles; Suite 507, 30 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Unusual opportunities for M. A. C. Men as Specialty Salesmen, THE M. A. C. RECORD, WALDO ROHNERT, '89 Wholesale Seed Grower, Gilroy, Calif. NORTHVILLE MILLING COMPANY Northville, Michigan D. P. YERKES, '89, Proprietor "Gold Lace," "Crystal Patent," Fancy Pastry," Wholesale and Retail, Flour, Feed and Grain. VIRGIL T. BOGUE, '11. Landscape Architect and Nurseryman. Your grounds planted with our extra grown shrubs and specimen trees and evergreens will give you immediate results. Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. CHARLES E. SUMNER, '79. Attorney at Law. Southern Title Bldg., San Diego, Cal. "MAPLEHOME SHORTHORNS" Herd sire, Wedding Goods 742959, A Scotch-topped Whitehall descendant; herd of 20 females, established 1899; young sires for sale, terms reason able; one white, one red, and one roan on hand now. J. H. READ ter rest, however, t he visitors soon --ained a commanding lead which they ^ e v er •j (jjikey led in the scoring w i th four Ifield baskets and m i g ht have counted %iore but for being p ut out of t he fearQe for fouling. Michigan got t he R u mp when Captain Richener caged K field basket in t he opening m i n u t es I of play- T l ie AS Si es came r i g ht back, lost. however, a nd t he count shifted back and forth, to 5, (Jauthier's m en leading. t he half ending 6 In the second half M. A. C. got go tiring. ing, Mather's m en apparently With the Aggies score doubling Mich igan's, Coach Mather sent in Rea who had been held in reserve for t he Ohio game S a t u r d ay night. "With h is en try the Wolverines speeded up and slightly cut down t he F a r m e r s' but were unable to t h r e a t en seriously. The Michigan five missed Henderson, the regular in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia. forward, who is still lead M. A. C. deserved to w in out, fight ing the local team to a finish in t he second half. T h e re were no oustand- ing stars on either team. T he Aggies t he better as a were a few points team t he m en matched individually. The g a me w as equally fairly rough and m a ny fouls were called, H a m m es and Gilkey being dis qualified. although Summary: Michigan (13) M. A. C. (23) Score ended L.F R.F C. L.G R.G Weiss Rychener Dunne Wilson x^eare . .. Gilkey Heasley F o s t er H a m m es K u r tz first half,. Aggies, 6; Michigan 5. F i n al score, Michigan 13, M. A. C. 23. Goals from field: Rich ener, 2; Dunne. 1; Gilkey, 4; Foster, 1; Heasley, 3; Kurtz, 1. F r ee t h r o w s: Weiss, 2 in 7; Richener, 3 in 5; Rea, 2 in 4; Gilkey, 3 in 6; Foster, 0, in 1; Kurtz, 0 in 1; Higbie, 2 in 3. BASEBALL SCHEDULE BEING AR RANGED. a long season Arrangements and schedule for t he most extended baseball t he Michigan Aggies h a ve ever h ad a re now n e a r i ng completion. Announce ment was m a de last night t h at all but the minor details of t r ip through t he east have been planned and t h at agreements for games have been reached with several big eastern schools. That longest ever taken by an Aggie n i ne w as de clared, a nd t he n a me of P e nn State as one of t he colleges w h i c h - w i ll be included in t he tour w as given. W i th the actual signing of papers expected within t he n e xt few days, definite in formation t he i t i n e r a ry of r e g a r d i ng the team m ay be expected soon. trip will be t he t he trip, Another t he route of which will lie through Illinois and Indiana, will be made d u r i ng t he week ending May 8. On one date t he Aggies will play Notre Dame at South Bend. Nine or In addition to these t wo tours, sev including one journeys, eral smaller to Ann Arbor on May 12, a re on t he slate for the team. On May 26 a game will be played at Oberlin. ten games a re for t he E a st L a n s i ng diamond. Michi gan, Notre Dame, Chicago, a nd Ober lin a re scheduled for games here, and these are b ut a few of t he i m p o r t a nt contests which will be fought out on t he Aggie field. listed THE CAMPAIGN DIRECTORS. "Dad," Raymond Michael Roland, from '15, regional director, g r a d u a t ed in 1915. t he agricultural d e p a r t m e nt Married to Jessie Maude Boston of Indianapolis April 11, 1918. Son, Ray mond, Jr., born March 26, 1919. He was a county agent at Paoli, Orange county, Ind., from September, 1915, to time h as April, 1918, and since been assistant state leader of county agents at t he University of Missouri. He was a member of t he class memo rial committee of 1915, and as a mem ber of t h at committee, was one of t he m en to advance the idea of a Union building. t h at IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS. These p a r a g r a p hs were an M. A. C. catalog of 1864: to Students are required a t t e nd t he college chapel every t a k en from prayers in m o r n i n g; also public worship on t he Sabbath, at t he same place. Students a re required in the college boarding hall, and to ob serve strictly all t he rules a nd regu lations in force in t he same. They a re n ot permitted to board to absent t he college grounds themselves from without permission. They a re expected to abstain from all immoral practices, and from every t h i ng which is inconsistent with t h e ir relations to t he institution. fidelity Strict decorum, earnest in their studies, prompt attendance upon lec all chapel exercises, recitations, t u r es and field operations uni required. None a re excused formly from n or from other duties, except from physi cal disability. t he daily m a n u al labor, a re student, students t a s te of Room-rent for each four dollars a y e ar paid quarterly in ad vance. Rooms a re furnished w i th with bed-steads and stoves; s t u d e n ts fur bed-steads a nd stoves; nish everything else. Mattresses and pillows m ay be rented of the college. The cost of furniture will vary w i th the t he students occupying them. Rooms can be comfortably fur four nished at a cost not exceeding or five dollars for each student. r e m u n e r a t i on receive for t he the a m o u nt paid depending on their ability and fi delity. The highest wages t he present year have been seven a nd one- half cents per hour. The lowest r a t es do not exceed three or four cents per h o ur r e n d er valuable service. Students labor they perform, t he s t u d e nt fails for to if A CRITICISM—THE KIND WE LIKE TO GET. Olean, N. Y., J a n u a ry 26, 1920. Secretary M. A. C. Ass'n, little Dear S i r: I am h a n d i ng you my Speak check to cover bill enclosed. ing personally, I do not feel t h at t he Record is w o r th very much since it carries b ut very t h at is of in to t he students of classes of terest years ago. Please understand I am not criticising the staff of t he Record for I realize it is not to blame. When, each copy comes, I scan t he personals hoping to find some item referring t o. one of my own class, or of one I k n ew I find very when I was there. little- it is so seldom 'any consolation for personal news item appears. Now, I realize t he alumni a re them for t h is and* largely 10 blame for selves I h a ve been I share my p a rt of it. t h i n k i ng some t he m a t t er over time a nd have decided to s t a rt a series of "Round Table" letters h a v i ng t h em go to t he m e m b e rs of t he class of '81. intervals when five or six At stated to letters a re added have t h at your editor m ay pick out whatever m ay be of personal i n t e r e st as general news items. ,, A. H. Voight of Los Angeles, Dr. it is proposed to t he Record them sent 6 Byron S. Palmer of P a l m y r a, N. Y., C. A. Duckstader of N. Syracuse, N. '81, will meet Y., and myself, all of inst. in Rochester, N. Y., on t he 29th "We shall discuss letter" scheme then, and I hope it will de velop something which will aid you to m a ke t he Record more interesting to I t i me ago. us students of a hope this suggestion m ay be t a k en up by other classes. t h is "chain long our meeting I shall report to you the result of in Rochester. Yours truly, Ambrose E. Smith, '81. Dr. Smith's criticism is a splendid the suggestion constructive. one a nd A word about h i m: long t he in t e r ms of the close of in r e t u r n i ng Dr. Smith came to M. A. C. in 1878, a poor boy without m e a n s. By teach school winters, ing which took him out of his classes at fall college before term and the late spring, m a k i ng special examinations necessary for restoration to his classes he succeeded in g r a d u a t i ng with equal credit with his classmates of '81. Aft teaching he entered Rush er further Medical college, g r a d u a t i ng in 1885, and not thereafter began prac tice in Olean, N. Y. F or a time he the eye and ear, b ut specialized on later took up general surgery, which followed with much he h as since financially and credit to himself, both as professionally, and is recognized one of t h at p a rt of t he state. leading surgeons long the in CAMPAIGN SLANTS. AN APPEAL TO '99. the M. "Secretary McMcKibbin of A. C. Association has been sending you dope on the project for a Union Memorial Building on the old campus, so you know as well as I do the pro gress of the idea. This letter is j u st to tell you how much our class w a n ts to get in on the plan. "I- h e a rd the class of the old class yell, "At ihe Alumni Luncheon last Com mencement t h e re were present Tres- sie Bristol Ranney, George Gould, T h o rn Swift, Mike Hunt, Waldo Ball, and myself. Not m a ny of us, b ut we gave and m a de noise enough t h at the rest of t he folks k n ew the class is still alive. the r e m a rk not long ago showed t h at I t h o u g ht of t h at certain much 'pep.' cold slushy m o r n i ng back in '97 when Thad Libbey, on t he way back to his r>. om after t a k i ng care of Prof. Wells' furnace discovered the F r e sh colors nailed to the top of the old flag pole then by the Armory and decided t h at was the psychological m o m e nt to pull t h em down before any one else saw them waving t r i u m p h a n t ly (?) in the wind. '99 never THE M. A. C. RECORD. way we piled out of our w a rm beds to get over and help him certainly to showed no lack of pep or loyalty class or college tradition. loyalty "There's" another call coming now, to to our class a nd to fight a nd we have a chance not only show our Alma Mater, but also to do honor those fellows who went across to our battles with the dirty H un in or der t h at we might continue our lives in peace and prosperity, "So let's everybody dig deep and give as liberally of our m e a ns as we did of energy and enthusiasm to help T h ad down if we do, surely no one will ever again be able to i n t i m a te t h at '99 lacks in loy alty to class or college. the flag pole, and "If you haven't already done so, j u st put your name on the dotted line now for before you t h is lay we a re all busy and a pt forget. We'll all have j u st as much at the end of a year besides the satisfaction of k n o w i ng t h at we did our rightful share in a big cause. letter aside, to "Sincerely yours. "S. F. Edwards, '99." "I am glad we boys are doing some t h i ng toward a memorial at M. A. C. I have placed my subscription with P. G. Holden. "All well with us b ut busier t h an when we were licking the Germans." "Hastily, "E. Davenport, '78." SCHOLARSHIPS AT UNIVERSITY. F or several years the University of Michigan has offered State College Fel lowships, the value of which in money r u ns from three hundred to four hun fellowships are dred dollars. These from given to students who graduate a regular college and who desire to enter for the University of Michigan post-graduate work in any of the de p a r t m e n ts except medicine or law. The scholarship is open to any one and is based upon the scholarship rec ord and general all around ability of the s t u d e nt during his under-graduate course. The committee of M. A. C. to act upon applications consists of Dean Shaw, Dean Bissell, Dean Edmonds a nd Professor French, latter be ing the secretary of the committee. the first T he university offers a and second choice, t h at is the student with the highest r a nk will be placed as first choice and the one with the next these appli r a nk as alternate. Both the university cations are filed with a u t h o r i t i es and if for any reason the first choice should not m a ke use of transferred the scholarship it will be to there is opportunity for two students to rep resent t he same t he alternate. Occasionally institution. "Can't you almost h e ar T h ad now, yelling "Ninety-nine, Ninety-nine," as and t he noughty noughts the started to pull h im down? And gathered Any student of M. A. C. desiring to secure one of these scholarships should m a ke application to Pro fessor W. H. French. in w r i t i ng M. A. C. G R A D U A T ES IN O A M E R I C AN C O L L E G E S. F r om Information Collected by D r. R, in Editorial Comment—Consistent with the interest which he always had ir> his students, Dr. W. J. Beal has for a long time been curious to know jUS4 how great a p a rt M. A. C. students scientific were promoting- t a k i ng in other colleges and univer work sities. Last summer he sent out inl institutions all quiries over the U. S., and we give below the It j3 information which he secured. interesting and see this large number of M. A. C. men and women who are important factors in the educational life of the country. California. to educational inspirational to Lmiv. of California, Berkeley: H. B. Van Norman, '97, "Dean of Univ. F a rm School and Vice-director of the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion." B. S. Brown, '03, teaching Vocational Agriculture and Junior College work at Pomona. Canada. Manitoba Ag. College, Winnipeg. Leslie" John Smith, '06, Professor of Agricultural Engineering. Colorado. State Ag. College, F o rt Collins. C. P. Gillette, '84, Director of Agricultural Experiment Station. H. T. French, '85, Director of Exten the sion Work. B. O. Longyear, State Forester. '03, Assistant to the C. F. Davis, '80, Prof, of Economics and Irrigation Law. Connecticut. Yale University, New Haven, Conn. J. W. Tourney, '89, Director of For est School. Indiana. Purdue Univ., Lafayette, Ind. C. G. Woodbury, '04, Director, Agri cultural Experiment Station. J. Troop, '78, Prof, in Entomology. - W. C. Latta, '77, F a r m e r s' Institute L. L. Jones, '12, Extension Poultry Expert. Expert. in in Oleri '15, 1st Illinois. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. '73, Pro fessor of Pomology, Chief of Plant Breeding. Charles Spencer Crandall, Eugene Davenport, the College of Agriculture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Di rector of the Extension Service, Pro fessor of Thremmatology. '78, Dean of Robert Enoch Hieronymus, w'91, Community Adviser. Herbert Windsor Mumford, fessor of Animal Husbandry, Chief Animal Husbandry. Chief E r n e st Van Alstine, in Charge of the Soils Lab. Emil Conrad Volz, '14, Instructor '07, Assistant '91, Pro in Olericulture, F i r st Assistant culture. Michael Ivanovitch Wolkoff, Assistant in Soil Fertility. G. A. Goodenough, '91, Professor the Engineering College. Lewis Institute, Chicago, Illinois. P. B. Woodworth, '86, Director Lewis Institute; now is army vocational di the north central states. rector for State Normal School, Charleston, 111. in T. L. Hankinson, '98, Zoology and Physiology. Kentucky. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Albert Jackson Olney, '13, Assistant Professor of Horticulture and Assist the Experiment ant Horticulturist Station. in William Joseph Carroll, '03, Associ ate Professor of Structural Eng. Miss Amanda Helen Harms, '18, As sistant Pathogenic Bacteriologist, De partment of Animal Husbandry, , E x periment Station. Edwin Stanton Good, of Animal of Animal Husbandry, Head of '03, Chairman Industry Group, Professor the B.'J3en Business" without T y T tt obligation @r'"-~ Print Here Name Business Address Business Position 12 THE M. A. C. RECORD. Generator room of one of the hydro electric plants which supply power to the CM. &St. P. Some Advantages of Railroad Electrification Saving the Nation's coal. Lower maintenance costs. Greater reliability and fewer delays. Ability to haul s m o o t h ly trains at higher heavier tjpeed. Operation of electric locomo tives unaffected by extreme cold. Ability trains . on descending grades by re turning power to the,trolley to brake The Power of Electricity in Transportation ELECTRICITY has leveled out the Continental Divide. The steam locomotive, marvelous a s it is after a century of development,can not meet all of the present demands for transportation Its electric rival has proved to be far superior. facilities. On the mountain divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway—the world's greatest elec trification—giant electric locomo tives today lift an ever increasing freight tonnage over the mile-high Rockies and also make traveling clean and comfortable. They utilize the abundant energy of distant waterfalls and then, by returning some of this power to t he trolley, safely brake the trains on descend ing grades. And their capabilities are not impaired by excessively cold weather when thesteam engine is frozen and helpless. is the power which Electricity drives trains of New York the City's subway and elevated sys tems. It operates the locks and tows the ships through the Panama It propels the Navy's lat Canal. est super-dreadnaught, the New Mexico. Electric mine locomotives slow-moving the have mule and the electric automobile has also come to do an important service. Such achievements were made possible by the extensive research and manufacturing activi ties of the G e n e r al E l e c t r ic Company replaced Electricity has become the uni versal motive power. It has con tributed efficiency and comfort to every form ottransportation service and in this evolution General Elec tric apparatus has played a large part—from mighty electric locomo tives to the tiny lamp for the auto mobile. General Office Schenectady; N.Y Sales Offices in all large cities