New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Cornell Elects
Dr. l.. FarrarltI
Presidency
Former Columbia Anthro-
pologist and Onetime
Head of q. of Colorado
Succeeds DIR. Schurman
Fought White Plague
Scientist Helped France i'm
Fight Against Disease:
Guided Red Gross Work
Special Dispatch to The Trihuns

ITHACA, N. Y, June 27.-Dr. Living.
ston Farrand, chairman of the central
committee of the American Red Cross
formerly professor of anthropology at
Columbia and at one time president Of
the University of Colorado. has been
elected president of Cornell University
according to an official announcement
made here to-day. He has accented the
office. No date has been set for the in
auguration.
DIR. Farrand succeeds DR.. Jacob Gould
SchIrman, who resigned wear ago
after twenty eight years in the presi-
dency and whose appointment as Minis
ter TO China was confirmed early this
month. During the last year Professor
albert w. Smith, former dean of Siblev
College of Mechanical Engineering at
Corneli' has been acting president.
Youngest of Three Brothers
CornelPs new president is the young
est Of three brothers, all graduated from
Princeton and all we'll known in the
Eorld of education. They were born at
newark, N. j., the sons of Samuel A.
and Louise Wilson Farrand. The eld-
est, DR.. Wilson Farrand, is head master
OF the Newark Academy and life trustee
and clerk of the board of Princeton
University. DR.. Max Farrand is profes-
sor of history at Yale.
Livingston Farrand was born on June
"a, 1867. He was graduated from
Frlnceton in 1888 and studied medicine
at the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, receiving the degree of NJ. d. in
1871. Princeton made him a master of
arts about the same time. Then he
went abroad for two years of study at
Cambridge and Berlin He was an
pointed instructor in psychology at CO.
lumbla in 1893 and was afterward pro-
NOTED to an adjunct professorship.
Whlie ne was at Columbia DR.. Fer
rand carried on a study of American
aslntnropology and eventually he made
1nae sclence his specially. In 1897 he
W. Went, with Prof. Franz Boas, of Colum-
ola, and Harlan |. Smith, of the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History. on
the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.
he party travelled widely among the
indian tribes of British Columbia. He
was appointed professor of anthropoI-
ogy. at Columbia in 1903. In 1914 he
resigned to take the presidency OF the
University of Colorado.
Fight on White Plague
DR.. Farrand had been executive sec
retary of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention Of Tuber-
culosis since 1905 and treasurer of the
American Public Health Association
since. 1912. The International Health
Board selected him in 1917 to go to
france and direct it's fight against
tuberculosis there, and he had charge
OF that campaign during the last two
years of the war. Soon after the
armlstice he was elected chairman of
the central committee of the American
Red Cross. He resigned the Colorado o
presidency and has since lived in
Washington.
President Ferrand is a member of
the American associations of psychol-
ogists, anthropologists, climatologists,
statlstlcians and naturalists, the Amer
lean FOLKLORE Society and other
learned bodies. He married Miss Mar
garet 4. Carleton, of New York City,
in 1901.