Show Adams Describes Cornell Cornel in Letter Lett r Dear Ret Ketchum chum J Th This 8 1 I. I a jut just a a. note Dote to tell ten you ou some of ot the Impressions on one gets seta of ot Cornell University upon first KO- KO o- o lug InS th r and to toll teU you au some som of ot tho the experiences I havo have had thoro there and at other places AI Al but t summer I was wae with R. R A. A HarL The Tho work worle ho he assigned to tomo tonO mo nO wa wu th the collection of ot drainage run off data This made mad It necessary noces- noces s sary ry to vh visit lt all aU of ot th the tho successful systems In the state and to the flow Clow of ot water comIn coming com corn In ing prom from the drains as aa well wen as to ill c-ill ot other r data uch euch as an tho the area Jr J rain Jno l lu of ot the drainage system tern tem subsoil data dat etc The Tha summer summer summet sum sum- mer met brought mo me much er- er In m dr drainage engineering With the approach ch of or fall faU came th the q question as to how to get to Cornell University You Tou probably knew w that I havo have been upon spending spending- this winter there Our Oar trip wan WaR vor very vory pleasant The le of ot the trip were few v and far between and th the pleasures were ml mighty clo close o together Vo Wo left Salt Lake Lako tt Ilbo the tho Fourth of ot ber bar and took 14 days day to reach while White O on tho the road we visited Omaha Chicago Cleveland Buffalo Niagara Fa Falls II s. s Rochester and a a. good many other places We followed the Lincoln Highway Highway High High- way from Salt Lako to a small town In western Ohio Thero There wo we branched oft off to the north going to a a. town to called Sandusky which Is on tho shore of oC Lake Lak Erie Eric and la is about abou a n. half hate days day's drive vest west of Cleveland Cleoland From Sandusky y tho the road wo we took follows s tho the shore of Lake Lako Erie ErS to Buffalo It Is a beautiful drive form Sandusky to Buffalo Fo For a n. greater part o of th the th way the road Is within two or throe three hundred 1 feet let 0 of or the tho lake and often I It goes rJ right ht along th the tho shore All of ot the road as you rou found out last summer Is paved through Illinois Illi XIII- note nois quite a a. large amount Is Js paved through Indiana After leaving In Indiana In- In diana going practically all of ot tho ilo I yo ro road Is s eIther cither paved or has a ii rn surface or of some kind Nearly all of the troubles of ot our trip were over ovel after passing through Iowa no spent half a day at Niagara Falls It was Saturday afternoon and then from Crom there thero came directly to Saturday afternoon all of or the power plants nt t Niagara nr are ara closed to visitors At that time I did not havo have a great opportunity to visit the hydro electric development de there thele but I did havo 11 this unity to do so 30 Inter Cornell Is an old fashioned sort of at a place My first tint Impression was one of disappointment for tor It did not seem scent as largo Jargo as I had expected It to be This was modified however when I had an n opportunity to s see Reo o ju Just t. t what thero there Is here The Tho buildIngs buildings build build- ings do not make mako much of oC an lm irn at first but one ono com comes s to I realize that the they are really vory very I lars largo and are arc ver very satisfactory for their purposes Most Mot of ot tho the built build ings lags are aro old and an are badly out of ot date dato as ae tar far as architecture and accommodations accommodations ac ac- ac- ac are arc ro concerned but those In char charge o of ot the classes and laboratories which must be con oon- ducted In them are arc making a valiant effort to make mak them a an a satisfactory as 5 possible by temporary remodel- remodel Ings inge Ss adding of new equipment and fittings etc This has kept up the vor Very vory high standard whIch has ai al ways been set by Cornell The newer new new- er or buildings are models of ot convenIence conven conven- though In them too there thore ha hag ha been no lavish h expenditure o or of money The new chemistry build build- In ing which Is now under construction and Is 18 early completed in is probably the largest and best building on tho the campus and is said to bo be as aa good a building fur for tho the purpose as there Is anywhere The attitude taken here bore toward graduato students student IB is very satisfactory tory lory to those taking taking- advanced work My experience h has been that we are ale given ever every consideration one ono would ask for tor The professors are ver very kind and willing willingto to help and those In charge of or laboratories and apparatus ap ap- ap- ap In general are quite liberal with their charges These kIndne kind kind- ne nesses es are not extended to many mapy others than graduate graduato student Tho The In instructor hero here seem to consider the thA undergrad and particularly particular the tho lower class dais m men n as not deserving of an any at all 11 Students are arc fined tined fits IVA f rn n i. i 1 w fc o p 4 5 1 I day I y CI absence Immediately after atel and Im Immediately tm- tm mediate mediately y before such holidays a ari as the t Christmas holidays spring holl hell ri days etc This a is to insure their thol com coming In back promptly Many teach teach-j era eJ's who never call the roll any other oth oth- er time during tho the year call It a da nay day or so ep 59 b bc boro foro Coro and nd a day or so after these e holidays e J I h hope Pe that th things at at the I U never Sot got In such a state of ot affairs I. I I 15 Under graduates are not allowed In tho the stack rooms of ot the library This is Js Is perhaps Justified for tor there are many rare and valuable books In the stacks which it would not bo be pos pos- ethic Ible to replace If they were to ho bo lost However It Is a a. great help to any am one who J IK Is really studying a subject to go Into the book stacks and look over all of oC the books and find Just what he wants A smaller library and one which has In It books which are arc ro not no so valuable but which are more readily would be better hetter I think the than n I v. v I complete library which is c ble bic Graduate students students' are arc permitted permit permit- ted to enter the stacks At Cornell school Is divided Into two semesters Last semester my work was mostly class work worl In the civil engineering college Hydraulic engineering In the Iho C. C E. E college is divided Into two departments One Is the department of or hy h- by the other tho the department of or engineering hydraulics The latter letter lat let ter Is In charge e of ot Professor F. F J J. Seery Sery and Includes such subjects as water power engineering en water 81 supply PI ly hydrology hydraulic design etc ote The other department that of ot C hydraulics Is Js In charge of ot Professor E. E W W. This department teaches such subjects sub sub- as hydraulics advanced hy h- by testing of ot pumps pump and motors mo mo- tors hydraulic measurements etc It H otters offers all of ot the work given In the hydraulics laboratory Graduate students are required to pursue two lines of ot study a major and a a. minor My ry minor Is geology my m major The clauses classes In hydraulics I took last term the tho term closed about the first of ot Feb were under Professor Seery He Is la giving tho the fellows who etu study under him no a rather thor thorough ugh trainIng train train- ing In there subjects Tic no requires a great grut deal of ot work In tho the torm of problems Tho The problems are not or ordinary or- or dinar on ones s rather ho he line this problem lem lam business down to a I fino point My minor work geology which is III considered to be bo of less leAs Importance than tho malor work has been bean very Vory O This work has been under un un- un- un der the tho direction of ot Professor Riis Dr flies Rles Is the author of ot tho the text In economic geology which was used last year In Dr Packs Pack's cla class clan s. s Dr Rles Rice is one of the tho loading leading authorities au au- on non metallic economic y rind and n the author I of ot a n. aher 11 num number um her ber of ot book tho the on one m mt men n- n being a a. very ery capable capable capa capa- ble map man ho Is one whom every evory one likes and who 4 b s respected by all of or the students who study under him This Thill the tho second of ot the chicol year I m am m doing my hy- hy d fn tn the department of ot experimental hydraulics and under tho ho direction of or Dr Part of f tho the time Ume I spend spond In tho the hydraulics laboratory conducting some somo research experiments and part of the time I spend pend In studying original upon pon hydraulic subjects This takes taken up p nearly all aU of my time There arc re three students including my- my set elf who are majoring 4 hy- hy We have havo h vo a seminar with Dr r. r once a week at which time imo we discuss dl various hydraulic subjects One of ot tho the follows fellows Is 15 from Idaho and tho the other Is la from Nc- Nc braska Hydraulics teems scorns to be bo bea boa a much more Important br branch In civil engineering In the West than It L is In the east as represented by bythe bythe the he showing here at Cornell All In all Cornell has Its place but butI I am sure suro that I would iv not trado trade my instruction nt at tho the U and the many opportunities which were ex- ex tended to me mc there particularly by yourself for an undergraduate course ourse at nt Cornell Tho The course courso of ot Instruction hero here Is very cry rigorous but I am sure suro that they dp not got et nearly as much out of ot It as ns they would If It there were a no little bit of ot Intelligent direction mixed with this One of ot m my ray Interesting experiences was a trip to Niagara Fall Falls II This trip rip was made some somo time after school chool began but bill before the real cold weather set et In It was was was' my second visit to the falls Four of oC us graduate students In the tho C. C E. E school chool left ono one morning by automobile automobile auto auto- mobile for tor Buffalo We arrived there here after dark that night and stayed stayed stay- stay ed d until next morning Wo We aro e early drove around Buffalo and then hen drove out to the tho falls taUs arriving thero hero by 0 o'clock In the morning We first visited the main plant of the tho NI Niagara nta Falls Power com corn pany This Is the largest power plant lant In the world at the present time Ime It is the one In which tho the large number of horizontal machines of oC about bout k Ic w. w each are installed 1 and to which has boon recently added the throw three machines of oC 1 U. U w. w To this thie amo same plant there hero Is hi at t the tho present limo timo h being added an nn addition which s 's s to house two wo or three e more mol i machines of ot 70 k lc w w. w each eteh These machines are areo areto to o b L be tho the crt In the world At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time me of nf our visit the excavation work for foundations for 11 th these 8 machines machines machines ma ma- chines was In progress Tt Is 11 n to furnish this plant that the large power tunnel under tho tim city of ot Nut Nut- para gara Ira Falls is constructed W We saw fila the construction work on the intake and I outlet of or this tunnel l. Ic Leaving Leaving- till this plant wo we drove ov over r the ho bridge onto the Canadian side of the tho ho river rl Both iloth oth sides of at tho the river above o tho the falls are arc parked The Tho American Amp side Ride including Goat Is- Is hand and which divides the tho falls CaUs Is a 1 N N. N T. T state tC reservation To bring this on r tale to an en end We went back backo to o th the American side e antI and there thore met by ay chance a 1 member of ot the contracting con- con firm which line has the buildIng build build- Ing nir of ot tho the new power tunnel for tor the Niagara Falls PO Power r company In charge charre This gentleman Mr fr r. r Co Cod Cod- l offered us the privilege 1 o ot of going h tho the power tunnel I It we would stay over r until the tho next ela day A As this wa was Saturday nl night ht about dark we felt that I It would be Impo Impossible to take any anymore anymore more moro time from our school work ve e would not get set back to school un until tim til Wednesday so lO did not take advantage ad ad- vantage of ot his offer otter I am nm now working ver very hard har n nt at school and wishing for summer am and tho the end of school to come This will wll mean tho the start of oC the return trip I Ion Ifon It If Iton on the return we pass pl through h Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago I wit wll stop and see Pierce He lie HeI Hela lieis la is no doubt Interested In his hie 1 work ork and ant is having a 0 very profitable time lime Please PIE remember m me to Professor Baldwin Tell TeH him that I still re remember remember remember re- re member our trip to BIngham las last spring as one of ot the very vory enjoyable eV events nt of ot m my school experience Speaking of oC last year reminds mo me o omy of oC my 01 old professorship day days Please Pleas accent I my heat best wishes for your work Tell tho the fellows that hero Is Isono Is' Is ono no graduate gradual of ot Utah who believes believeR that Utah offers otters more opportunities to Its undergraduates than any place he has hns seen yet This same graduate I believes that It always will as lon lonas long longas as students are given tho the same kind help thorough Instruction on and minded broad-minded consideration as was given ghen him Vcr Very Vory truly yours your CALDWELL ADAMS |