THE CUBA REVIEW 



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ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL: Colonel Roosevelt had always been generally looked 

 up to by Cubans as a great friend of the Republic. Therefore, when it became 

 known that the Roosevelt Memorial Association was collecting funds for the purpose 

 of erecting a lasting monument to his memory, a branch was formed here of promi- 

 nent men and subscriptions were solicited for this purpose. No public announcement 

 has yet been made as to the amount collected, but it is undoubtedly a large one. In 

 addition to this there have been many drives made by different committees in con- 

 nection with this work, and it is hoped that when their efforts are finished Cuba will 

 be well represented in the way of subscriptions. 



CUBAN PROFESSOJ^SHIP AT CORNELL 

 UNIVERSITY 



A new link is being added to the ever 

 increasing bonds which unite Cuba and 

 the United States. Hundreds of busi- 

 ness links have been welded until at pres- 

 ent 90 per cent, of Cuba's exports come 

 to this country. American tourists are 

 at this moment making merry in the ho- 

 tels which Havana has built to receive 

 them. They look to Cuba for luxuries 

 and necessaries, and now Cuba's leading 

 men come forward with an appreciation 

 of American institutions. Announcement 

 has been made that a fund of $12.j,U0U 

 will be donated to found "the Cuban Pro- 

 fessorship" at Cornell University. 



The gift will be made to the Cornell 

 Endowment Fund Committee in charge 

 of raising .$10,000,000 for increasing the 

 salaries of the institution's instrviction 

 staff. It is reported that President Men- 

 ocal, who graduated from Cornell in the 

 class of ISSS, has been the leader in the 

 movement to raise the money. 



During the last half century, and es- 

 pecially since the war with Spain, the 

 sons of leading Cviban families have in- 

 variably been sent to American institu- 

 tions of higher education before taking 

 up their careers as heads of business or 

 governmental affairs in their own coun- 

 try. At present there are more than 

 twenty undergraduates from Cuba at Cor- 

 nell alone, and as many more are attend- 

 ing the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Harvard and Columbia. Cornell 

 has eighty-six graduates in the Island, 

 sixty of them being of Cuban parentage. 



Havana is the home of fifty of these men 

 who are making use of American pat- 

 terns in government and industry. 



In announcing that the Cuban profes- 

 sorship will be established at Cornell, the 

 committee headed by President Menocal 

 calls attention to the fact that the first 

 President of the Republic, Estrada Pal- 

 ma, was a Cornellian and that graduates 

 from the university have been in a lai'ge 

 degree responsible during the last score 

 of 5'ears for the rapid development of 

 Cuba's resources. Each section of the 

 Island is represented in the donations to 

 the new chair at Cornell, the committee 

 including Eduardo Gaston, M. V. Cuervo, 

 Chester Torrance, T. C. Ulbrecht and 

 President Menocal of Havana ; Urguiza Y. 

 Bea of Matanzas, J. G. Agullar of San- 

 tiago and Louis Geltner of the Isle of 

 Pines. 



Only a short time ago t?ie American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers com- 

 pleted the organization of a new unit in 

 Havana, where Calvin Rice, secretary of 

 the national society and a graduate of 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 grouped the members of all American en- 

 gineering societies in Culia into one cen- 

 tral body. 



AFRICAN EXPEDITION 

 Dr. Juan Guiteras, chief sanitation of- 

 ficer of Cuba, will join General Gorgas at 

 Lima, Peru, in an expedition to Africa to 

 study yellow fever there, under the aus- 

 pices of the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. 

 Guiteras will leave Cuba early in May. 



