New-York tribune., 1899-11-18
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
SUNNI EK FIELD WORK IN GEoLoGY-sTU
DENT ACTION ON FRATERNITY
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INVITATIONS

ithaca, n. y, Nov. IA new office that OF as
sistant TO the warden OF Sage College has been
established this year. The first to hold the place
IS Miss NJ. Louise Mackbeth Of Gr,envlle. s. c.
Her special work will be to act as the head Of
Sage College
BY vote OF the Executive Committee of the Board
or trustees the terms OF the department of geology
have been changed from fall winter and spring TO
fall, spring and summer. This change will enable
professor Harris to put INTO operation impor-
tant course of summer field work The following
plans for this have been made for next
summer: A rendezvous will be selected the Erie
Canal where about eight weeks will be spent in
careful study OF geological formations. according
to the typographical maps OF the united States
Geological Survey; collections OF fossils will be
made and typical rock outcrops will be photo
graphed. The remaining four weeks OF the term
will be spent in an excursion through the Lake
Champlain and Upper Hudson districts. with side
trips to Trenton Falls, Oriskany Falls and the
Heidelberg Mountains. in Albany County. For
the successful completion OF the work the uni
versity will allow eleven hours credit for the work
at the rendezvous and four hours credit for the
work on the excursion.
A Sage College Committee OF the Board OF Trus-
tees has made an appropriation for redecorating
and refurnishing the students reading room In
Sage College. and the work has already begun
The same committee has authorized the building
OF a Sage College boathouse on Beebe Lake above
Triphammer Falls For this purpose the women OF
the university have already raised about $1,000.
Theodore Stanton. 10 OF Paris. has presented
to the university library over one thousand vol
umes Of the 'Tauchntz Collection Of British ana
American Authors" 1t Ia understood TO be Mr'
Stantons intention to give the university COM
plete set of the Tauchnitz collection, which en-
braces about thrty-hve hundred volumes MI
Stanton has also sent over about ninety volumes
OF French literature, among which ere the latest
publications concerning the Dreyfus case. .,
Another recent accession TO the university IL
hrary Is a set OF the Babylonian Tamud, written
In Hebrew text in thirty-two volumes
At the last faculty meeting communications
from the fraternities OF the university were re-
ceived to the effect that In the future no pracces
will be tolerated in Invitations which would De
likely to injure the candidates bodily or mentally
Suitable resolutions regarding these communlca-
tiors were passed by the faculty but these resou-
tons are for the present withheld from puolica-
tion until after the action Of the Seneca county
Grand Jury is made public The faculty commit
tee appointed at the request OF the Kappa Alpha
Society TO investigate the circumst stances or the
death of Edward Fairfax Berkeley 80, was nls-
charged at its request. since the inVestlsa-
tion has been taken up by the county of1claIs,
Charles r. CASTOR, '96 has resigned the eultoI
shin Of The Cornell Magazine" and Arthur l."
Andrews 93 has been elected 10 fla the vacancy
on Tuesday Frederick ID. KhDurn, state Superlh.
tendent OF Banking. lectured before the departme
Of political and social science on The state BANK
inc Department. - r-,ro-ei,v NJ
IJAge Belgium. recently arrived In ithaca COM
ing for graduate work in Sibley college.