New-York tribune., 1911-02-24
CORNELL ! YELL, | YELL!
cauyoa's Waters Theme of Song
and Story at Dinner.
GOVERNOR DIX A SPEAKER
rour Hundred Alumni of Upstate
Institution at Annual
Celebration.

49, ,riHe over three hundred nlheS iI""'
- 20 fair CayuEa's waters. but ~ Is a
-.ointv that four hundred men gaiheren
.,..- " the grand ballroom Of the Wal
80 ,stor.a last night. saw the blue lake
- -lairlv When they puSho their chairs
So.p fron, TIE tables and gazed up into the
- ubirlng toward the ceiling.
=. ,,as the thirty-hrst annual dinner OF
49,. cor,sli club Of New York city. ana
,,o, U,bo had gone 10 college at Ithaca "a
o. bsck Is the early sos we're about a.
o-.,,ei,.stic as those Of 10. who began 10
,.rcor things up early and marched IN the
,,.,.,,,s erake dance In and out around the
,sblee while the band smashed out a Weird
rrd,sr something The carnelian and white
60 ,.ara eyervwhere and there were red
..-.,.,,,,s on the tables. Everybody was In
49,, -Il,- good humor and kept on with
..,,.-,.,, voll-I-ven" until big hours ran
,,,, and -he small ones began.
-, DIX A Cornell man of the class
-. go ,,oo now lives in Albany. was one
- ,bo sneakers. and Professor Ralph G. II.
ra,tersU. who holds tho chair OF modern
r-,,ronean history. had a good time intro
duclng the Governor. Professor 'atterd' u
,css the postmaster. and not proud OF II.
I've been 10 a good many banquets' ne
ssid. but I never heard any one say Ihat
q -ullv toastmaster.' When you begin 70
toastmast you never know what 70 say IN
the beginning middle or end. It's very
hard thing 70 talk after dinner-the time
when you'd rather sleep than do most any
hing else and at the same time rather 90
most ANYTHING than sleep. But now I've got
- Introduce these men, and that's nara
recsuse its difficult 70 think OF anythlhe
nice 70 saw about them I will start WIN
o5- Governor. who was elected through the
frantic efforts Of Theodore Roosevelt -
when the Laughter had ceased Professor
Cstteran continued:
understand. don't blame Teddy.
consider II one Of tho best things ne h@S
oono. The only thing I have against the
Governor is that there are only two Demo-
,~s,s on the Cornell faculty, and he has
a,noi7ted neither Of Us 10 Office, have
looLa5 into Governor DiX's record at col
f.-o and find that he was good student
s,4 never raised any rows down in the
,i1,sge 4 man ike that must succeed
80 5o things-and. even II he doesn't do
80. he certainly looks as II he could.
Governors Coue9e heSOiN'
--,. Governor certainly convinced the
co-,oll grads" that he was glad he was
- ~ them. He said. in fact. that he
b,d no-icod that all the Governors during
lie last few wears had been Cornell men
90, Professor Catterall IS mistaken
s1or+ nv record in college he said laugn-
i,~i,. and I have great sympathy for Of
sar5ers now and then. had sympathy
for one Young man and ! pardoned him
-r,o Governor didn't mention any names
t,,. a,o~y,o5v looked at Professor Jere-
risb William Jenks, the economic expert
whose son was recently pardoned by the
Governor after little affair at a theatre
IN Ithaca. Professor jerks laughed WIN
the rest OF them.
Governor Dix pleased the crowd when he
satd that when he looked around to mo
mon 10 fll places he naturally turned 70
Cornell.
Those two professors may yet md
-ia,-as ,,. no said. Il have appointed one Of
..e .~vs+ees Charles f. fireman, superin-
,sn5ent OF Public Works. We have an
s.ononoical administration. and I hope an
ponast one. and in trying TO solve the proO-
Ions We naturally turn to men trained along
r-a-tical lines. And We look 70 young men
because 10 those men seeking responsloiIty
should be given the bearing OF H.
New York should be made the Hone'
srr,cultural state Of the Union went Oh
the Governor. 1T is a pleasure 10 me 10
know that there are twelve hundred asrl-
cultural students in Cornell. That's hne'
II economic questions are TO he solved we
must turn 20 the land TO solve them. ne
time has passed when physical labor VIII
,o,-e ali on the farm. I pledge my CO.
ope-atfon 10 Cornell in her work ana j am
going 10 make a visit there so that can