E. E. Day 'O5 To Head Cornell

WILL RELINQUISH ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION POSTTO BECOME UNIVERSITY'S FIFTH PRESIDENT

ONE OF the major educational posts in the country was filled with a Dartmouth alumnus on November 8 when it was announced that Dr. Edmund Ezra Day '05 had been elected by the trustees of Cornell University to succeed President Livingston Farrand who retires next June. Dr. Day, whose election followed the unanimous recommendation of a joint committee of faculty and trustees, is at present director of the social science programs of the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board.

A career of nearly thirty years in higher education began for Dr. Day in 1907 when he became instructor in economics at Dartmouth. Since then he also taught at Harvard and Michigan, organized and became the first dean of the Michigan School of Business Administration, and served as dean of the University of Michigan, with the preparation of the budget one of his chief duties. He left Michigan in 1927 to spend a year with the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in New York City and in the following year became director for the social sciences in the Rockefeller Foundation. Since 1933 he has also been director for the social sciences and general education in the General Education Board.

KNOWN AS "RUFUS"

To his classmates and a host of other Dartmouth men Dr. Day is familiarly known as "Rufus," a name he got in his freshman year by winning one of the coveted Rufus Choate Scholarships. According to the President-elect of Cornell, the Dartmouth chapter of Theta Delta Chi with which he was affiliated was made up largely of athletes who thought it "the biggest joke that ever came over the horizon" that one of their brothers should win scholastic distinction. They promptly dubbed him "Rufus" and to this day contemporary Dartmouth men address him and write to him by that name.

While a Dartmouth undergraduate' he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was a member of the varsity debating team, and won the competition for the managership of the track team. Since those first years in college Dr. Day has kept in close touch with Hanover and for many summers has vacationed there with his family. He is married to the former Emily Sophia Emerson of Hanover, daughter of one of Dartmouth's most beloved characters, Charles F. Emerson, who was Dean of the College for 45 years and was affectionately known to several generations of Dartmouth students as "Chuck." They have four children: Emerson Day '34, Who was valedictorian and Barrett-Cup

winner in his class and who is now president of the Student Council of the Harvard Medical School where he is in his third year; Caroline Louise, a junior at Smith, which is also her mother's college; Martha Elizabeth, who is studying in Hanover; and David Allen, a student in the Junior High School of Bronxville, N. Y. For the past six years Dr. Day has been a member of the Board of Education in Bronxville, where he lives at present, and since 1933 has been president of the Board. By reason of this interest in local education

he is a member of the State School Boards Association and at the annual meeting held in Syracuse recently was elected vicepresident.

During his busy academic career Dr. Day has devoted much time and energy to public service. He was statistician for the division of planning and statistics of the United States Shipping Board for seven months during the World War in 1918-19, and director of the same division in 1919. He was also statistician of the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics of the War Industries Board for four months during 1918. The United States Government has frequently called upon his expert advice as an economist, and sent him abroad as one of its two representatives on the Preparatory Commission of Experts for the World Monetary and Economic Conference in 1932-33. He is a former president of the American Statistical Association, a member of the American Economics Association and the Royal Economic Society of Great Britain, and the author of Statistical Analysis and The Growth ofManufactures, the latter written in collaboration with W. Thomas.

As director for the social sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Day is one of the five executives who administer the extensive program of that organization. His division has devoted itself to three major fields of study: Social Security, International Relations, and Public Administration. During a period of great social unrest and change he has directed a number of world-wide studies on such problems as unemployment relief, medical care, industrial relations, agricultural economics, foreign relations, and governmental agencies. Funds allotted by Dr. Day's division of the Rockefeller Foundation have also aided in the work of the Brookings Institution, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, the National Institute of Public Affairs, the public administration centers at Harvard and Syracuse, and a number of foreign organizations interested in international relations.

DIRECTS EDUCATION FUND

During the past three years Dr. Day has also had charge of the ten-million-dollar program of the General Education Board, another Rockefeller fund. Looking toward the improvement of secondary-school education in the United States, the program to date has involved general support to such agencies as the American Council on Education, the Progressive Education Association, the National Education Association, and the current inquiry into the character and cost of public education in New York State under the State Board of Regents.

Born in Manchester, N. H., Dr. Day will be 53 on December 7. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts from Dartmouth, received his Doctorate of Philosophy from Harvard, and in 1931 received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Vermont. His teaching career covered a period of 21 years before he went to the Rockefeller Foundation. After three years as instructor at Dartmouth, 1907 to 1910, he spent 13 years at Harvard successively as instructor, assistant professor, and professor of economics, and in 1923 began a period of five years at Michigan first as Professor of Economics and then as Dean of the University.

Dr. Day will be the fifth president of Cornell. Dr. Farrand, whom he succeeds, has been head of the University since October, 1921, and will retire on June 30, 1937. No date has yet been set for Dr. Day's inauguration, the Board of Trustees having appointed a special committee to arrange for that ceremony.

DR. EDMUND EZRA DAY '05 President-Elect of Cornell