Day for Farrand

Grown grey and distinguished in the service of Education are the three Brothers Farrand who graduated from Princeton when it was called the College of New Jersey. Brother Wilson Farrand, 74, one of the founders of the College Entrance Examination Board, was headmaster of Newark Academy from 1901 until he be came emeritus last year. Brother Max, 67, prime authority on the Constitution, is now research director of Los Angeles' rich Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery. More famed than either is gentle, witty Brother Livingston, 69, who in his 15 years as president of Cornell University has enriched that old school spiritually and materially. To Brother Livingston, an M. D., Cornell owes its new $60,000,000 Manhattan Medical Centre, many a renowned scholar drawn to Cornell's campus by Lake Cayuga outside Ithaca, N. Y. This week Livingston became the second Farrand to retire.

Meeting in Ithaca, Cornell's trustees with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation, married Emily Sophia Emerson, daughter of Dartmouth's dean, and has been an educator ever since. Serious and white-haired at 52, he takes time off from his Rockefeller duties to serve on the school board of his home town, Bronxville, N. Y., play golf with a corporation executive's score of 100.

When Educator Day's election to Cornell's presidency was announced, a newshawk asked whether in the course of dispensing $27,921,557 in Rockefeller money to U. S. colleges and research agencies, he had ever given any to State-run Cornell. He had not.

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