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Already in second place with 8,682 contributing alumni, the campaign began with a big alumni dinner in Manhattan from which, as in the Yale drive, speeches were broadcast over a network of 19 stations. The speakers: President Livingston Farrand; onetime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, retired U. S. Ambassador to Germany; Myron Charles Taylor (Cornell, 1894), Chairman of the Finance Committee of U. S. Steel Corp., who recently gave $1,500,000 for a new Cornell Law School. With 41,000 living alumni (5,000 more than Yale), Cornellians felt confident of "a rather unique intercollegiate championship...
...predecessor Jacob Gould Schurman was popular with German statesmen, who found him a kindred spirit, much as Norwegian bureaucrats feel they have almost a brother in Laurits Selmep Swenson, born at New Sweden, Minn., who has been U. S. Minister to Norway since...
Other Patriarchs. To be a patriarch, one need not retire into prophetical obscurity. Jacob Gould Schurman is the patron saint of Cornell. President from...
...year before President Schurman began directing the affairs of Cornell, another teacher who now is a Grand Old Man- David Starr Jordan-became president of Leland Stanford Jr. University ("Cornell of the West"). Cornell-bred, a onetime member of its faculty, Stanford's Jordan varied his executive duties with an interest in simplified spelling, Peace, and fish. His naturalistic labors brought him the appointment (1908-10) of international fisheries commissioner for the U. S. and Canada. In 1916 Stanford made him President Emeritus...
...resigned from the firm when President Hoover last year made him Solicitor General of the U. S. He promptly retired from that post when his father was named Chief Justice. *Walter F. ("Dutch") Carter, Mr. Hughes's brother-in-law, famed oldtime Yale baseball pitcher, partner in Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, was last week named a director of the Brooklyn Baseball Club ("Robins") by John A. Heydler, National League president...