The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-29

S1ouS matters. President Schurman'S
conception of the Office of a college
president was strikingly illustrated by
this address. Not mere business man,
he thinks, but one VINO can lead the
ethical and philosophical thought of
university, should be AT it's head
The Cornell chapter of the Chi Psi
fraternity, by the purchase of the fa-
nous Fiske-McGraw mansion, I'M
doubleday holds the finest fraternity
chapter-house in the country The
| building still stands incompleted work
having stopped at noon on the day of
Mrs. Fiske's death. There had long
been talk of the university purchasing
| the mansion for an art gallery, but
that is now out of the question. 1t
was included in the requests to the
university by Mrs. Fiske, made under
| the broken will.
During the last year, 1880 volumes
nave been added to the university Ii
brary at Cornell. Of these 1924 vol
umes were gifts. The largest gift was
by eX-President White, who added
more than 1000 volumes to the White
Historical library. Hardly less import
ant was the gift of Willard Fiske, of
more than 1000 volumes to be added
to the Dante collection which he pre-
sented last year. The university library
now contains 1881 volumes and 29,2OO
pamphlets, total of more than 200, 900
books. Of these books there is record
of the use of 93,507 during the last
year against 33,S40 in 1892 To al
low of this use, the library has been
kept open 300 days and 1855 evenings.
Professor A. E. Fuertes. director of
the college of civil engineering at Cor
nell university, has just completed a
census of the alumni of his depart
ment. 1t is summed UP as follows:
Presidents of industrial corporations,
8; of railways. s; chief engineers, man
ayers and superintendent of railways,
8; of bridge companies, 10; of water
works, 2; of other municipal works, 4;
of corporations, 8; of manufacturing
establishments, 4; consulting engineers
(courts). 5; contractors, 8; city engi-
neers, II; engineers in practice, So;
group total, 119; professors in univcr-
sities-full professors, %; associate and
assistant professors, 6; instructors, 9;
group total, 81; assistant chiefs of rail-
roads, B; of bridges, 8; of manufacto-
ries, 2; of waterworks. 1; other NUM-
cipal works, 8; treasurers of industrial
corporations, 6; group total, %; assist
ant engineers in railways, II; of bridge
works, 10; of waterWorks, Z; of other
municipal works, l.; of industrial cor
porations, 5; engaged in United States
coast survey 21; group total, 70;
draughtsmen in railways, 1; in bridge
works. TO-; in manufactures, 1; in mu-
nicipaI works, 2; group total IA; pur-
suing allied professions-Mining engi-
neers. 10; mechanical engineers, 8; in
charge of electric roads, Z; with for
eign governments, 4; shipbuilding, 1;
meteoroligist, l; patent lawyers, z; EN-
gagged in transportation, 3; fellows,
scholars and resident graduates at uni
versitieS, 6; group total, 81. Mlscella-
neous business-Judge of circuit court
| l. hoy Iii, .. rclo re, r1H irin
l; clergymen, 2; farmers, 2; fruit-grow-
ers. 8; politicians, 2; insurance, L;
group total, 90. Not heard from, IL;
not located, 6; deceased, 2S; grand to-
| tai, 1856. Those in miscellaneous bust
ness were driven from their profession
by the panic of the seventies, for the
most part. Those not located are all
of the last class graduated, and their
number is smaller than at the time of
collecting these data The men not
heard from are nearly all in foreign
| countries.
Professor Cleaves has introduced into
the industrial art department at Cor
nell the methods used by the trade of
plaster casting by gelatine moulds.
He overcame the reluctance of the
manufacturers to divulge what they
considered trade secrets, and as result
of the information he succeeded in
getting the laboratory at Cornell is
now turning out some fine casts.
The psychological laboratory at Cor
| nell university has been transferred
| this fall to more commodlouS quarters.
| Instead of the six small rooms occupied
last year, it now has nine large rooms
These rooms are the optical room, the
acoustic room, the haptic room, dark
room, work-room, lecture-room. dl-
rector's study, office, and chronometry
~
piled with ordinary working apparatus,
/ but the rapid increase in classes since
| Professor kitchener took charge has
prevented putting by any money for
rare and large instruments. There are
now students working in each OF these
rooms at all times of the day. Origi-
nal research is expected of all but the
most elementary students, and every
year from four to eight papers giving
| the results of these Investigations are
! published, mostly in the American
Journal of Psychology.
The athletic spirit Of Cornell stu
dents is not damped by last summers
defeats on the water. The football
team has this year worked under I'M
usual difficulties, owing to lack of
heavy men, and slight but temporary
disabling injuries to the players. Yet
| the situation has been more than met.
Beginning the season with defeats
Cornell has steadily improved until
she kept Princeton from scoring till
the last eight seconds of the game, and
defeated the strong Brown university
team which had tied Yale. 1t is nov
expected that Cornell will make a good
showing against Pennsylvania on
Thanksgiving Day, although the latter
is called the strongest team in America
this year. Not less gratifying to Cor
nell lovers of athletics was the vic
| tory of the cross-country team over
Pennsylvania although Orion, of the
latter's team. broke the record for this
event.