The sun., 1909-01-24
POLITICS AT CORNELL FEAST
JUSTICE FORD SUSPECTED or
PICKING SHEARN FOR MAYOR.
President schurman Announces an Ad.
ditionaI CIT From Col. Payne for re-
search-Pay OF Instructors Raised
Dean 10 Retire After a. Years.

| President Scnurnan Announces IN hu
dItionsI GIFT From Col. Payne for ne
search-Pay OF Instructors Rsiset
Dean 10 Retire After ~ Years
The multitude OF Phi Beta Kappa keys
and Sigma Xi. pins and all the other
emblems that hung from the watch IoDs
OF most OF the 275 diners at the waldorf
last night would have told even stranger
that a Cornell dinner was on. Not that
the atmosphere was any more erudite or
scholarly or solemn just on that account
but simply because those that had EN-
wore 'em and they say bigger percentag &c
have em at Ithaca than anywhere else.
But what you we're In college didn't
make any more difference 10 the you gest
freshman graduate. to whom these things
are still very precious, than 1t did TO
Charles Puliin. who united with Senator
Foraker in forming the class OF 90. and
who has been out Of college 90 long that
he's forgotten what the Greek letters
on his frat pin stand for.
Everybody was there just as Cornell
graduate, feeling downright sorry and
sympathetic for anybody that got his
B A. outside OF Utica.
There wasn't much OF any jape work
this year-just q dinner and few
speeches and some cheers and the old
songs. sung by q table Of full throatsd
younger graduates led by Ed Burns.
'o3. who managed the football team when
he was In college
Some Of those who Joined in were
Judge G. H. Blood. J. s. Cushman, G. W.
Rel genspan. the Eidlitzes. o. NJ. r. j..
and E.; Deputy Police Commissioner
Hanson. Ira Place, W. W. Kicker, Clar.
ence Shearn. II. II. Westinghouse. John
De Witt Warner and Judge William
Young. At the guest table there sat
Andrew ID. White on the right Of Roger
Lewis. the toastmaster. and President
Schurmsn on his left. The others up there
were Dean Crane. DR.. Robert T. Morris.
Of the international Bureau OF American
Republics; Supreme Court Justice John
Ford. w. G. Kerr, George Cromwell and
Lieut.. Gov. Horace White.
Justice Ford spoke on Cornell men In
politics. He said in part:
In the rampageous pursuit OF the
omnivorous and likewise amphibious
ers has kept the country agape during
recent years. the superbuman Ntmrod
found every trail which he has followed |
in his quest for the lair Of that horrid |
monster blazed before him by Clarence |
j. Shearn. Cornell. 90. II Is true that !
Shearn did not uproot so many gigantic |
trees. tip over 80 many mountains nor |,
90 broad an expanse OF under !
brush as he who came after. but he got |
closer TO the real den OF the hunted game
After this be said. speaking Of the |
There Is present here tonight (Shesrn |
was therel a distinguished man who |
believe will be called by the people Of |
the city to serve them and will be elected |
to the Office OF Mayor next November
John Barrett paid a tribute to Elihu |
Roots services as Secretary OF State. /
Others who spoke were President Sohur-
man, Dean Crane. eT-President White
and Lieut.. Gov. White.
Justice Ford refused to tell the re-
oorters whom he meant. but Mr.. Shearn
got the benefit Of the doubt. the alterna-
i've being John De Witt Warner. He drove
nome the familiar claim that Cornell was