Some indication of the esteem in which Professor Winans, the newly appointed head of the Department of Public Speaking, was held by his former colleagues at Cornell is afforded by an account which has reached us of a farewell banquet which was tendered him in Ithaca last spring. In leaving Cornell Professor Winans completed, a service of twenty-one years, during which time he greatly built up the department of public speaking at the university and gained for himself the affectionate regard of the students and faculty as well as a professional reputation that is nation-wide.