New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
REASONS FOR DISCoNTINUING DEBATING
WITH PENNsYLvANIA-wooD ALCOHOL
PLANT PROPOSED


PLANT PROPOSED.
Ithaca, n T. Jan. b.-In view of the fact that
certain possibly misleading statements have re-
Gently appeared to the reasons why Pennsyi-
vania and Cornell have discontinued their inter
collegiate debates the statement of the following
facts which the writer has been pains to verify.
may help to set the matter In It's true light. The
only authorized full statement the matter hither-
to published appeared in '"The Cornell Alumni
News of December IA Pennsylvania and Cornell
have debated now for six years. There has never
been debate agreement between the two fnstitu-
tons binding for than two years. -Four years
ago the original agreement was, after
changes had been agreed upon. renewed. and two
years ago further changes Incorporated in
the then renewed agreement. 1t has been
tomary to arrange for renewing the agreement in
the fall, and accordingly on October 90 Professor
Lee opened correspondence with Dean William d.
Lewis to that end, at that time proposing eligi-
bity rule under which student should be eligi-
BILE to appear in any debate who had not spent one
full year in the university he represented; this
with the end in view of making the debates tests
of strength between the two entire universities and
not merely contests between brilliant who
might happen to be connected with the insti-
tutions. This rule would be exactly similar to the
athletic eligibility rule obtaining in a number
Of colleges, Cornell among them. After a months
correspondence, on November q Dean Lewis stated
Pennsylvania position in the following words: LAS
1t is, it is impossible for accept the agree
ment as altered l ask you consider this decision
ment, had been received that Cornell began CORE
spondence with Columbia, and 1t not until De-
cember s that Columbia accepted. OF this accept
ance the Pennsylvania authorities promptly
notified, as courtesy demanded. Cornell regrets the
dscontinuance of the debates with Pennsylvania,
feels that the eligibility rule proposed
for an absolutely fair contest that it be in
sisted upon. 1t forms part of the new agreement
with Columbia
Registration for the winter term work took place
on Wednesday, and the work of the term began
Thursday.
1t is understood that at the winter meeting of
the Board of Trustees proposition will be laid be-
fore the Board for the erection of a wood alcohol
plant on the Cornell forest tract in the Adiron-
dacks, for which a proposition has been submitted
by New-York capitalist
At the last meeting of the American NaturaIists'
Association in New-Haven, Professor Wizard w.
Rowlee. IS. was elected a member of the Executive
committee for the coming year. At the meeting of
the American Mathematical Society in New-York
Professor Lucien A. Wait was elected member
OF the council. Papers were presented by Drs.
instructing staff; W. 3. Fite, fellow In mathe-
mates. and DR.. Blake honorary fellow in mathe-
mates The department of physics repre-
sented by a paper by Professor e. L.. Nichols at
the meeting Of the NewYork State Science Teach
ers Association in Syracuse and paper by Pro-
lessor Ernest Merritt at the recent meeting the
american Physical Society. At the NewHaven
Eugene P. Andrews, 95. curator of the Museum OF
Casts, read paper The Inscription on the
East Architrave Of the Parthenon."
The second lecture in the series on the Philip
pines. Japan SIAM China etc. delivered on
Friday evening by the Rev. William Elliot Grifis
of Ithaca, on Japan" Dr. Grifis spent several
years In educational work in Japan, and has writ
ten extensively on Japanese subjects.