Evening journal., 1900-12-03
CORNELL BOYS
LEARN TRADES
Such Work Takes Place Of
Athletic Exercises
University This Year Has lS5 More
Students Than Ever Before.
College Plans

Ithaca. MY, Dec. 3.-As is we'll
known Cornell students in mechanical
engineering are given an acquaintance
with the mechanical trades, over and
above their heavy course Of mathe-
MATES and physical science. that they
may understand the materials as well
as the principles of the engineer. This
work. with these students takes the
place Of athletic exercises. outside the
classroom the "Sibley man" usually
employs his muscle swinging a black
smiths hammer rather than pulling a
Varsity oar. So enthusiastically do
the boys amuse themselves in this
work that the ingenuity of their in
structors is constantly taxed to find
, new problems for them to solve. Now
in response to a request from Professor
, IThurston, the Westinghouse compan-
( les. the General Electric, the Allis
: Company and other great builders or
steam and electric machinery are over
hauling their pattern-lofts. and look
, ling up unused samples of fine and diff
hcult work to contribute to the collec-
tion of graded exercises from real
, life which are employed in the prac-
tical work of the University foundry
Arthur Farwell, lecturer on music in
Cornell University, is an advocate OF
the theory that national American
music is TO be attained by uniting the
, wild melodies of our Indian music to
the prevailing German harmonies. Mr.
Farwell has made thorough study or
the Indian music of the Northwest, and
is now at work on a Cornell Over
ture" in which several of the faNorite
songs of the University are to be inter-
woven with Indian melodies in the
2 hope Of revealing the possibilities of a
strictly American music
4; President Schurman has announces
5 that the New York State College OF
p Forestry at Cornell University has
D been asked to send six trained men to
{ work in the forestry bureau Of tho
S Philippine Islands. He has also been
notified that Filipinos, graduates OF
] colleges in the islands. are to be sent
8 to Cornell in the near future for a
professional training in the same line
=. The New York State College Of Fores-
I, try has been in existence only two
years. and has, as yet, graduated only
one man. They viii be found, how
, ever as fast as possible.
The Royal Academy of Sweden ha.
] extended to Professor Thurston Of Cor
g nell University an invitation to sub
$ init an entry in the contest for thI
r Nobel prizes. No one is allowed Il
a compete who is not a recognized au
@ thority in his line Of work and o
y those who are. only those speciicall,
]; invited by the Royal Academy. Thii
o invitation. therefore, constitutes a dis
o tinct and well recognized scientif'
S honor.
I Cornell University has this year 21
4 more students in residence in Ithac;
: than in 1899. and in that year ther
were 1S5 more than ever before. Al
e Increase Of 400 students in two years Il
n a notable sign OF public approval of tn
j. institution. It is also. naturally, cal
"a culated to overcrOwd classrooms an
laboratories which before were ade
quate, and President Schurman state
I that the question of building bigger
\ or rather of finding funds with whicl
- to do so. is becoming acute at Cornell
The extent TO which students il
= American colleges pass from one insti
. tuition to another in which they eX
Ie pect better instruction or larger oppoI
le tunities is not easily realized. Tn
70 last report of President Schurma,
10 gives some figures on that immigra
a tion into Cornell University, so &
speak, from other colleges. During tn
past thirteen years the number OF stu
" dents who have left other, usual
r smaller institutions to finish in thi
d one university alone. is 11S1. niir;n
ef the same period of time 1.O46 graduate
Of colleges and universities have ais
come to Cornell. but for graduate in
stead of undergraduate work. Thos
transferring to Cornell for undergrad
uate studies came from 25S differer
lN colleges; those taking graduate wor
lN from 173.
Those who are interested in the edl
alton and opportunities of women wi
"a wish to make note of a sentence {
OF two in the last annual report Of Pres
ie- dent Schurman of Cornell Universit
y in which, speaking of the departmel
nv iof microscopy, histology and embryo
- logy, he says: owing to the numb
N of women studying in this departmer
sos DR.. Agnes Claypole was, on Profess
ass Cages recommendation, appointed
an assistaitship in the laboratory tv
"a years ago. 1t is a matter of interest
me learn now from Professor Gage tina
lso From the observation of the last ty
my years l think it safe to say that ca
out nest students accept instruction frC
ion a capable woman as readily as from
man."