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1935 

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Vol. XXXV 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., JANUARY, 1935 



No. 6 



The A. C. A. P.: "The Stage Is Set" 



THE postman put in the hands of every alumnus of the 
University last month a copy of the revised edition 
of Student Life at Brown. "After reading this book' 
let," asked President Clarence A, Barbour in an accom- 
panying letter, "will you place it in the hands of a good 
prospective applicant for admission, preferably one who 
will enter college next September?" 

In this manner was each alumnus of Brown enlisted as an 
agent for the Alumni Co'operative Admissions Program. 
He had, we hope, read of the A.C.A.P. in these pages pre- 
viously and realized that it is not just another Washing- 
tonian set of initials. Through its scope and promise it 
might well become one of the most important things that 
had happened to Brown in recent years. 

The idea, you will recall, was to help furnish the Uni- 
versity with as many qualified applicants as possible knock- 
ing at the gates of Brown hopeful of admission. Admission 
being a matter of selection (less than 400 boys were chosen 
from more than a thousand bona fide applicants last fall) , 
the alumni proposed to provide more prospects from which 
to select an entering class. Quantity was to build for quality 
by making the selective process more selective, leading to 
a better student body, a better alumni body, a better Brown. 

IT is perhaps well that the alumni, being recruited for this 
program (and, incidentally, responding with enthusi- 
asm) should learn a little more about it. The interest of the 
individual alumnus has been captured: About 200 cards 
came back immediately in response to Dr. Barbour's request, 
and they continue to come. Henry S. Chafee "09, President 
of the Associated Alumni, told the Executive Committee a 
fortnight ago he believed "real progress" was ahead. Secre- 
tray O'Neil of the New York Brown Club reported phone 
calls and messages from alumni, who were generally accept- 
ing the fact that their co-operation was "a definite obliga- 
tion." And already some 20 Brown Clubs throughout the 
country have set up machinery to organize and guide the 
individual activity of the alumni. 

But, Vi'hile the response has been gratifying, Charles J. 
Hill "16, chairman of the A.C.A.P. committee, points out 
that the project is hardly under way. "The stage is set in 
some places, and being set in others." 

With such interest aroused and the alumni on the verge 
of such activity, it is appropriate that the Co-operative 
Admissions Program be given a little more definition. Impor- 
tant matters of policy are involved. These are given clear 
statement in a memorandum from the Administration Build- 
ing on College Hill. The alumni are urged to read it under- 
standingly and be guided by it. Dated December 13, it 
follows in full : 



Memorandum on Admissions Program 

THE University welcomes the assistance of alumni and 
of alumni clubs in the administration of its selective 
admissions program. No group of persons associated with 
the University should be more deeply interested in the qual- 
ity of successive entering classes than are the alumni. It is 
with the present undergraduates and with others who will 
follow them that alumni will eventually share their heritage 
of pride in their Alma Mater and their interest in her work 
and welfare. 

It IS obvious that the effectiveness of any selective admis- 
sions program is dependent upon the number and quality of 
the applicants for admission. And the number and quality 
of applicants for admission is dependent in part upon the 
dissemination of information concerning the University 
among prospective college students, their teachers, their 
parents, and their friends. 

But for the dissemination of this information the Univer- 
sity cannot depend solely upon its publications, upon general 
publicity, or upon the activities of the official personnel of 
the University. It is in this connection that the alumni of 
the University can render invaluable service to the Univer- 
sity. They reside in all parts of the country. They have 
social, business, professional, or fraternal relationships in 
the communities in which they live. If they keep themselves 
informed concerning the University they can be of tremen- 
dous assistance to the officers of administration, particularly 
to those charged with the responsibility for the selection of 
the entering classes. There is no other agency which can 
take the place of loyal alumni who know the University, 
respect its history and traditions, understand its policy, and 
appreciate every opportunity to share with others a whole- 
some pride in its achievements. 

It is for this reason that the University has welcomed the 
inauguration of the Alumni Co-operative Admissions Pro- 
gram under the auspices of the Associated Alumni. Its first 
objective is to increase, so far as possible, the number of 
applicants for admission who possess the personal and scho- 
lastic qualifications for membership in the University. The 
Associated Alumni have requested a more definitive state- 
ment of admissions policy for the use of alumni and alumni 
clubs who participate actively in the development of this 
program, and a general outline of the procedures which may 
be employed by alumni in their co-operative efforts. The offi- 
cers of administration are glad to comply with this request. 

Admissions Policy 

1 . For the effective administration of its selective admis- 
sions program the University desires a large number of 
applicants for admission who possess : 



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(a) the personal qualities of good character, desirable 
personality, intelligent interest, and ambition, which will 
make them desirable members of the academic community 
and of the communities in which they live after graduation; 

(b) the scholastic ability to make effective use of the 
eduational opportunities which the University is in a posi- 
tion to oifer; 

(c) such capacities for potential leadership as to give 
assurance that the University, through them, may make its 
full contribution to the life of the society of which it is a 
part. 

2. For the maintenance of its traditional character as an 
educational institution which is national in its interests and 
liberal in spirit, the University desires applicants for admis- 
sion from all parts of the country and with different social 
and economic backgrounds. 

3. For the maintenance of its financial resources the 
University desires a large number of applicants for admis- 
sion who can meet their college expenses without financial 
aid from the University. At the same time the University 
welcomes worthy students whose financial resources are 
limited and, so far as its resources will permit, will continue 
to assist such students by grants of scholarship aid, student 
loans, and student employment. 

Procedure for Alumni Co-operation 

DURING the past four or five years the University has 
been engaged in a very definite attempt to develop 
closer relationships with secondary schools in all parts of 
the country. These contacts and relationships are of vital 
importance to the University and all activities related to this 
program should be so conducted as to support and not 
jeopardise these relationships. All efforts which are made by 
alumni to disseminate information concerning the Univer- 
sity or to interest prospective applicants for admission 
should he consistent with the dignity of the University as 
an educational institution and as a member of the select 
group of New England colleges with which alumni would 
choose to have Brown compared. It is particularly important 
that the University and the alumni who participate in this 
program should have a mutual understanding with respect 
to the desirable procedure for the accomplishment of these 
ends. It is for this reason that the administration makes the 
following suggestions : 

(a) The primary consideration is that the undergraduate 
college should be represented for precisely what it is — an 
old New England college which is rich in historical tradi- 
tions and liberal in spirit; with a location, an atmosphere, 
and an educational policy which offers large opportunities 
for educational experience; with a highly qualified faculty 
personnel ; with a policy of selective admissions and a limited 
enrollment; with adequate facilities for study and recrea- 
tion; with a well developed program of athletic and other 
extra-curricular activities. All of these are designed for the 
educational development of men who will be "qualified to 
discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation." 

(b) Alumni can make their most eifective contributions, 
and will avoid embarrassing misunderstandings, if they 
concern themselves exclusively with the dissemination of 
information and with the development of interest in Brown 
among students and parents and teachers with whom they 
have natural contacts. These contacts may be based upon a 
common interest in a particular school; existing acquaint- 
anceship with students, parents, or teachers; social, business 
or professional contacts; etc. A natural contact justifies an 



approach of this kind and greatly enlarges the prospects of 
Its success. 

(c) Alumni can indicate their interest in the possibility 
of a student's membership in the University but should 
make clear, of course, that admission is dependent upon 
favorable action upon his application by the officials of the 
University. 

(d) Alumni should be particularly careful in discussing 
possibilities of financial aid, either in the form of scholar- 
ships or loans from the University or in the form of oppor- 
tunities for student employment in Providence. Disappoint- 
ments and embarrassments may result from misconceptions 
on the part of students with respect to the financial aid 
which is available. Scholarships and other forms of financial 
aid from the University are exclusively within the control 
of the Committee on Financial Aid. Alumni should point 
out that the matter of financial aid to students must be left 
to the official arrangements between the Committee and the 
students themselves. 

The University welcomes any assistance which Alumni 
and alumni clubs can give which is in accord with the spirit 
of this memorandum and consistent with the ideals and pur- 
poses of the University, the memorandum says in conclusion. 

BY Christmas the chairman of the program committee had 
already received the names of local committeemen 
appointed to guide the project in regions which are the 
sphere of influence of 1 1 Brown Clubs. They are represent- 
ative of the best talent in those clubs, he believes. Five other 
regions where procedure must of necessity be somewhat 
different from the general have also organized. 

In each locality the chairman of the committee will be 
equipped with material which will give him accurate and 
up-to-date information on entrance requirements, the cur- 
riculum, the peculiar advantages of Brown University, its 
history and traditions — in short, a reference source where 
the individual alumnus may turn in order to satisfy the 
curiosity of the schoolboy he has interested or seeks to 
interest in Brown. In other ways, too, of course, these 
Brown Club committees will be the motivating force of the 
regional activity under the program. 

A list of such committees, as of December 24, is as 
follows: 

Akron, Ohio: H. T. Waller "01, S. A. Steere '07, Otto C. 
Pahline '13. 

Albany, Scheriectady and Troy, J\[. T.: Walter S. Sted- 
man '27, Chairman, Albany. 

Alta California: George C. Channing "11, Chairman, 
San Francisco; Lt. Col. LeRoy Bartlett '02, Berkeley; 
S. Lyman Mitchell '12, Kent Field; Harvey G. Denham "15, 
Palo Alto; David G. Goddard '24, Berkeley. 

Baltimore, Maryland: Justin M. Andrews '23, Chairman, 
Prof. Raymond P.'Hawes "12, Joseph L. Wheeler '06. 

Chicago, III: Earle V. Johnson '24, Chairman, Frederick 
P. Bassett, Tr. '33, James G. Ehrlicher '25, Otto Kerner, Jr. 
'30, John J. Monk '24, George O. Podd '20. 

Cleveland, Ohio: Harold L. Madison "01, Chairman, 
Cleveland; William J. Parish '29, Shaker Heights; Russell 
V. Jones '29, Cleveland Heights; Ralph F. Briggs '31, Lake- 
wood; Dr. R. E. Barnes "27, Cleveland; Paul L. Stannard 
"29, Cleveland Heights. 

Connecticut Valley: William C. Hill "94, Springfield 
Elmer F. Davenport "16, West Stockbridge; Elliot H. Bos- 
worth "16, Chicopee; A. B. Coop "16, Springfield; Richard 
D. Tucker "06, South Hadley. 



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Hartford, Conn.: Arthur B. Fowler '30, Chairman, Hart- 
ford; Bertram Youman '30, Hartford; Robert D. AUison 
'30, West Hartford; Harold A. Liner '29, Hartford; Paul 
M. Palten '33, Hartford; F. Kimhall Daggett '30, West 
Hartford. 

Los AngeJes, California: Houghton Metcalf '04, Chair- 
man, Arthur A. Macurda '9'), F. B. Purves '23, George R. 
Nichol '23, Edward A. Adams '12. 

Merrimac\ Valley: James S. Eastham "19, Andover; 
Kenneth S. Minard '26, Andover; Ned L. Brody '31, Haver- 
hill; Rufus E. Corlew "25, Lowell; Alfred L, Goddard '23, 
Lowell. 

T^etf Bedford: Wardwell C. Leonard '18, Chairman, 
Tiverton; Theodore B. Baylies '95, New Bedford; John J, 
Bauer '25, New Bedford; Arthur W. Wathen '07, New 
Bedford; Eddy P. Howard '99, New Bedford; Winston S. 
Dodge '29, New Bedford; Philip T. Gidley '34, Fairhaven; 
John O. Talbot '26, Marion; Milton E. Earle '23, Westport 
Point. 

Isiew Haven, Conn.: Harold R. Swaffield '10, Fairfield, 
Conn.; Milton B. Hunt '09, Southport; Earle H. Blanchard 
'13, Waterbury; Frank B. Tuckerman '17, New Haven; 
Percy Kingsley '28, Shelton. 

Philadelf^hia: Donald C. Rubel "23, Chairman, Philadel- 
phia; Dr. M. Joseph Twomey '00, Philadelphia; Seth K. 
Mitchell '15, Conshohocken; Harry G. Remington '27, 
Philadelphia. 

Western Mai7ie: Fred H. Gabbi '02, Chairman, Portland; 
Dr. Thomas J. Burrage '98, Portland; George C. Wing, Jr. 
'00, Auburn; Robert C. Moore '18, Bingham; F. E. Ban- 
field, Jr. '06, Saco. 

Scranton and Wtl^es-Barre, Pa.: Franklin B. Gelder '26, 
Chairman, Scranton. 

IN Rhode Island it has been found necessary to set up a 
different type of organization, and there the Brown Club 
of Providence has built up a special committee. On this it is 
hoped to have one alumnus to represent each of the leading 
secondary schools in the State, either a graduate of that 
school or another Brown man familiar with the school and 
its conditions. Fifteen such alumni had been named early 
last month. 

In a similar way the Brown Clubs in and near New 
York are lining up their particular situations. Like Rhode 
Island, they have a small steering committee of three, head- 
ing up the energies of the other more active alumni, who 
are interested in certain schools. The club of Northern New 
Jersey will doubtless co-operate with the New York Brown 
Club in that metropolitan area, while the Brown Engineers 
are approaching the project in a way that best serves their 
specialized field and best utilizes their specialized talents. 

Even the alumni who are scattered and outside the range 
of the Brown Clubs will be employed, working under the 
vice president of their alumni Region. Their interest will be 
solicited by mail from the alumni office in Faunce House, 
which, incidentally, will serve as the center of contact for 
the program and a source of information and counsel with 
regard to it. 

Charles J. Hill "16 is chairman of the committee charged 
to press the Alumni Co-operative Admissions Program. 
Serving with him as committeemen are Ralph A. Armstrong 
"17 of Springfield, Royal W. Leith "12 of Boston, Joseph A. 
O'Neil '31 "of New York, and Brenton G. Smith '11, 
W. Chesley Worthington '23, W. Easton Louttit "25, 




A CAMPUS GATEWAT The A. C. A. P. will aid us use b> betlc 



Stanley H. Smith, Jr. "28 and Paul Mclntyre "28, all of 
Providence. 

Brown has been getting fine men — individually and col- 
lectively, her undergraduates and alumni prove the fact — 
hut the Alumni Co-operative Admissions Program holds 
hearty promise of contributing to a better Brown. The indi- 
vidual alumnus is to be entrusted with the fulfillment of that 
promise, not interfering with administration programs or 
ideals but volunteering as an instrument for making those 
policies even more effective. 

First, the alumnus will help by putting his copy of 
Student Life at Brown where it will do most good. Then, 
he will hold himself in readiness for the call that will come 
from his local committee. There is enough in the program to 
catch the imagination of each alumnus, to enlist his aid, and 
to give him satisfaction. 



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The Case of the Two Orphans 



BY THEODORE L. SWEET '22 

ON February 20-21-22-23 the Sock 5? Buskin Alumni 
will present a revival of the well known and once 
popular melodrama, "The Two Orphans" by 
D'Ennery. This is the first time that any particular dramatic 
entertainment has been offered by the Society on Visitors' 
Day, and a very enjoyable and thrilling evening is in 
prospect for those attending in Faunce House Theater. 

The play is considered one of the greatest melodramas of 
its time, and has had a famous history. It was first produced 
about 1876 at the Union Square Theater, New York, and 
had continued performance throughout the country. The 
last act of the play was in progress when the Brooklyn 
Theater was burned, in which many lives were lost. At that 
time it acquired the reputation of a "fire play" and strangely 
enough three other theaters were burned while it was being 
enacted in subsequent years. All Sock ^ Buskin patrons are 
assured, however, that there will be no danger in attending 
the performance in the fireproof theater in Faunce House. 
The play has served as a vehicle for many noted actresses 
and actors. Perhaps the most famous name connected with 
the play is that of Kate Klaxton, who created the role of 
Louise, the blind girl, and played the part for many seasons. 
In connection with its productions over many years one 
recalls the names of Grace George, Madame Janausheck, 
May Robson, Mrs. Sarah Cowell Lemoyne, Wilton Lac- 
kaye, Charles Thorne, Robert Warwick, and many others. 
In the Alumni production the proposed cast will feature 
members of the faculty, local alumni, undergraduates, and 
invited guests. The leading roles have been assigned as fol- 
lows: Prof. Thomas Crosby as Count DeLiniere; Prof. Ben 
W. Brown as Jacques Frochard; Lamson Eddy '16 as Mar- 
quis DePreseles; T. L. Sweet '22 as Chevalier De'Vaudrey; 
R. C. Fuller, Jr. '19 as Pierre Frochard; W. B. Farnsworth 
'17 as The Doctor; Alden Dooley '.3 6 as Picard; Mrs. T. L. 
Sweet as Louise; Miss Lydia Broomhead as Henrietta; Miss 
Dorothy Hackney as LaFrochard; Mrs. Sarah M. Barker as 
Countess DeLiniere; Mrs. Roy Bailey as Sister Genevieve; 
Mrs. Edson Rand as Marianne. Nineteen other parts will 
be assigned later to undergraduates and guests. 

The production is under the direction of Leslie T. Chase 
'28 with the following staff: Producing Director, Ben W. 
Brown '19; Stage Manager, Kenneth Harlowe '25; Light- 
ing, Francis Armington '28; Properties, Walter Brown- 
sword '28; Costumes, Mrs. L. T. Chase; Publicity, Mrs. 
R. C. Fuller, Jr. and T. L. Sweet '22; Business Manager, 
R. C. Fuller, Jr. '19; Assistant Stage Managers, Robert Hol- 
lingworth '28, Edward Austin '26, and Albert Higgins '29. 
The play is in seven scenes and special scenery is being 
designed and painted by Leslie Jones '26, who has had con- 
siderable experience in this work on both the amateur and 
professional stage. An excellent production is promised and 
all those within striking distance of Providence are urged 
to attend. 

Recent Sock and Buskin productions which have been 
popular with their audiences have been the ambitious per- 
formance of "Journey's End" and a bill of three one-acters 
designed to reveal the farce "From Pierrot to Patelin," a 
stylized study. Each presentation was "good theater" and 
full of interest from many angles. 



PRODUCING 

DIRECTOR 

Ben tt'. iirou.71 IS 




W/idt and How Shall They Study? 

A COMPREHENSIVE study of the curriculum and 
academic requirements for admission at Brown Uni- 
versity has been under v.'ay for several months and 
will be carried on during the current year. This study is 
concerned with "all aspects of the educational process, 
including the requirements for degrees, the nature and 
scope of academic concentration, methods of teaching, and 
educational advice and direction." 

While the study is still in its laboratory stages, the 
Vice President's office points out that it is "one of the peri- 
odic reviews of the educational program which is designed 
to keep the university alert to the requirements of the 
changing social order, while conserving those elements of 
educational tradition which have long given meaning and 
content to life." 

The Committee on the Curriculum, while continuing 
their study, will weigh the comprehensive suggestions set 
forth in the report of the special Survey Committee, v.'hich 
studied Brown's educational resources in 1930. 

"Whatever may once have been the opinion, we now 
know that no set of requirements, no arrangement of sub- 
jects, however satisfyingly logical, can of itself inspire a 
student to the effort that leads to intellectual growth," the 
vice presidents declare, quoting from the Survey Committee 
report. "This effort follows only when the mainspring of 
the student's interest is touched; when a goal is shown him 
that seems to him worth while." 

"With the abandonment of the idea that higher education 
consists of acquisition of any definite body of knowledge — 
an idea increasingly untenable by reason of the enormous 
expansion of the intellectual material that civilization now 
uses — has come the conviction that the principal task of 
colleges and universities is to lead students to independent 



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mental accomplishment and to give zest to mental pursuits." 
In stating that "definite recommendations are maturing" 
towards further revision of the curriculum, Vice Presidents 
Mead and Adams call attention to Brown's most recent 
progressive move — dropping the Ph.B. degree this fall. 

Historically, Brown University was the first in the coun- 
try to award the bachelor of philosophy degree. President 
Francis Wayland introduced it in 18^0 for graduates whose 
programs of study did not include the classics. Now that 
the Ph.B. degree has been dropped by vote of the faculty 
and the Board of Fellows, only one degree, the A.B., will 
be awarded graduates in liberal arts, whether or not their 
programs of study include the classics. 



The John Hay Solves One Problem 

EXTENSIVE renovation of the reading room in the John 
Hay Library at Brown University was started during 
the Christmas holidays in order to increase the seating 
capacity by 25 per cent. This move has been made necessary 
by the increased student use of the library's facilities, which 
has shown a gain of more than 50 per cent within the past 
three years, according to Dr. Henr>' B. Van Hoesen, Uni- 
versity Librarian. With the approach of mid-year examina- 
tions, the library is anticipating a record demand for seating 
space. 

Renovation plans call for removing a wall between the 
main reading room and a large adjoining room, so that the 
entire area will be available for student work. The loan 
desk and catalogue files will be shifted to make room for 
15 extra tables. 

Brown in the future is expecting to build a major addi- 
tion to the John Hay Library. The most recent large gift to 
the library fund was received a year ago under terms of the 
will of the late Col. Webster Knight of Providence, who 
left $100,000 and his collection of United States postage 
stamps, valued at $500,000, which is to be housed in the 
library. 

One of the year's innovations permitted studious under- 
graduates to snatch a drag from their cigarettes between 
chapters at John Hay Library this year without having to 
leave the building. There's a smoking room on the first 
floor — the first in the history of the library. 




CAPTAIN- 
ELECT: 

Donald M. Emery. 
Center who will lead 
Brown's comebacf( on 

the gruliroi in J935 



Brunonia Plays the Game 

BEFORE the Christmas holidays suspended competition. 
Brown winter sports teams had had their first tests and 
enjoyed their first successes, but most were inconclu- 
sive insofar as offering any clue to the season's record. The 
basketball five, busiest of any team thus far, had won three 
of five games, while the Freshman five, and the wrestlers 
(varsity and Freshmen) had each won its single engage- 
ment before the holidays. The hockey players had a balanced 
record of a victory and a defeat. 

On the court the line-up has been strengthened by the 
availability of Kennedy at center, a high scorer in the first 
five games, and Van Aken at forward, a transfer from 
Kansas a year ago. Captain Floren, Samdperil, and Karaban 
were the other starters in the first appearance, against an 
alumni quintet. In a game also notable for experimental use 
of balls of different colors, the undergraduates rallied in the 
last half to win 54-31, Alumni enlisted for the night in- 
cluded: Neidlinger, Malkowski, Good, Farber, and Schein. 

Northeastern was the winner in the first intercollegiate 
contest, 34-23, Brown having scored only seven points up 
to the final ten minutes. Burhank, Noonan, Armstrong, 
Biggs, and Morcum also made their appearance in the Bruin 
line-up. Continuing to play on the road, the Brunonians 
whipped Clark handily, then lost to Tufts, 43-37, after 
leading them part of the way, and turned on Boston Univer- 
sity with a winning rally that ended in a 3 3-30 score. The 
Freshmen defeated the B, U, Freshmen handily, 30-20. 

Future games included those with R. I. State (2), Tufts 
(return game) , New Hampshire, Connecticut, Holy Cross, 
Wesleyan, Colgate, Trinity, M. I. T., Yale, Harvard and 
Providence, most of them at home. The Freshmen were to 
face yearling teams from Tufts, R. I, State (twice). New 
Hampshire, Connecticut, M. I. T., Harvard, and Providence 
College, as well as Dean Academy and St, George's. 

SWIMMERS, without a scheduled meet until January, 
a ttractcd attention by going off to Florida for the holi- 
days with their coach. Driving down, they hoped to take 
part in some open meets in the South. In their regular sched- 
ule they will face an alumni team, Yale, Colgate, Springfield, 
Syracuse, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Boston University be- 
fore entering the New England intcrcollegiates, the I.C.S. A. 
meet, and the National collegiates. The Freshmen have 
meets listed with Andover, Boston College High, Worces- 
ter Academy, Brookline, Harvard Freshmen, and Boston 
University Freshmen, as well as the New England intcr- 
collegiates. 

The wrestlers were impressive in defeating Norwich 
without the loss of a single point, but will face sterner com- 
petition from M. I. T, Harvard, Yale, Springfield, Army, 
and Tufts, and in the New England intcrcollegiates. How- 
ever, with a veteran squad. Coach Cole hopes for a better 
record than in the last fev/ winters. The Freshmen, coached 
by Ralph Anderton '30, opened against East Providence 
High, also coached by Anderton, and defeated the school- 
boys except in a couple of weights. The first year schedule 
calls for bouts with M. I. T., Harvard, Yale, Springfield, 
and Tufts Freshmen and with a team from the Providence 
city schools. They will also compete in the New England 
intcrcollegiates at Cambridge. 



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ONE of the most rugged schedules in the histoty of 
Brown hockey awaits the ice squad, for opponents 
include Massachusetts State, Northeastern, New Hamp- 
shire, Harvard, Colby, Boston University, Army, Yale, 
Boston College, and Colgate, some of them being met twice. 
The varsity took an early lead to defeat M. L T. 4-2, but 
bowed to B. C. by the same score when penalties counted 
heavily against her. Coach Taylor has a big squad, including 
many veterans from last year's good team, but it is stepping 
into front-line competition. Except for two games with the 
B. U. Frosh, the Freshmen sextet meets local high school 
teams. 

Track and fencing are other sports on the indoor list. In 
the former sport there will be a dual meet with North- 
eastern, a varsity meet with Worcester Poly, and a Fresh- 
man meet with Worcester Academy, all at Providence. 
Fred Avis '35, who has built up fencing at Brown as coach 
and varsity member, will lead his team against the Provi- 
dence Fencing Club, Harvard, Boston College, the Univer- 
sity of Baltimore, Norwich, and M. L T., and will have 
most of his fine material from last year, together with some 
graduates from the expert Freshman team. This year's 
Freshmen encounter the Providence High Schools, the Nick- 
erson House, Harvard Freshmen, Andover, Dummer Acad- 
emy, and M. I. T. Freshmen. 



Surnmation in Soccer 

WHEN they figured the final standing in the N. E. Inter- 
collegiate League, the Brown soccer team was third 
among the ten, having totalled six points in four games with 
league members. Amherst was the winner, followed by 
Harvard. Murray of Brown, who scored eight goals, was 
the leading scorer of the league and will be the 1935 captain. 
Captain Tolman, All-American goalie, was again a star. It 
was the best year in the history of Brown soccer, and the 
players had a presentation for Coach Fletcher at Christmas 
time. 




ALL-AMERICAN 
GOAL!£: 

Captatn Herbert Tolman, 
2iid. (ni important factor 
m the J 934 soccer sea- 
son, the best in Brown's 
history. 



V\/inners in Touch Football 

The following men from Alpha Delta Phi, the winner of 
both the fraternity and college championship in touch foot- 
ball, participated on their team last fall: G. H. Ames '36, 
H. M. Bedell '37, D. W. Bradley '37, A. U. Collins '36, 
E. G. Crosby, 2nd '3^ J. G. France '36, L. B. Giles '36, 
R. C. Hart '36, C. E. Hughes, 3rd '37, F. H. Kass, Jr. '35, 
E. J. Lyman '35, R. D. B. Merry weather '35. 

The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Club won the Independent 
Club championship in touch football. 

They Still Thrive on Football 

THE Touchdown Club in New York City, made up of 
college graduates who used to play football and still 
like to talk about it, has had a fine year, according to one of 
our Brown correspondents. It is said that the Brown mem- 
bership is second only to Yale in numbers. John W. Heis- 
man '91, former coach and rules authority, was the motivat- 
ing force behind the club, and David L. Fults '98 and Fred 
W. Murphy '99 have ably assisted him. During the football 
season luncheons were held every Thursday. The annual 
dinner the first week in December brought the 1934 season 
to a close. 

Brown men who gathered at the club meetings included 
Messrs. Fultz and Murphy, S. P. Met:;ger and H. P. Metz- 
ger '25, W. Lincoln Fogarty '31, Ernest G. Hapgood, Jr. 
'31, Robert R. Chase '33, Lee M. Marshall '31, Dr. Daniel 
H. Kulp '13, W. E. Sprackhng '12, John W. Fawcett '22, 
Jeffrey S. Granger '13, and George S. Goodspeed '14. 

Brunonians were among the signatories of the club's 
protest to Huey Long for circusing L. S. U. football for his 
personal political advantage. 

The Iron Men in the Headlines Again 

How about the Brown Iron Men, who had a remarkable 
season without a single substitution several years ago? 
There was a band of modern durables that should help 
silence old-time tug-of-war stars who profess to believe that 
the boys of today are softies." 

And Harry Mehre, football coach at Georgia, went on in 
like vein in phrasing an informal reply to Pudge HefFel- 
finger, Yale all-American of the nineties. The Yale guard 
had let loose a blast alleging that modern football players, 
especially linesmen, were softies, and the coaches in session 
at their annual meeting in New York were prompted to 
comment. "Modern players can take it," said Mehre. 

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Cave Boston Its Horse Show 

COL. Dana T. Gallup '07 was again general chairman 
of Boston's premier horse show, the 110th Cavalry 
Show, at Commonwealth Armory, Dec. 6, 7, 8. Gallup has 
retired from active command of the 110th, but retains his 
office of president of the Cavalry Club. He and his colleagues 
went into action two years ago after the old Boston horse 
show was abandoned, put on an excellent show, and also 
made some money. 

Breeds for Scientists 

Dr. V. T. Dimitroff '20 is director of the Laboratory 
Animal Colonies, which breeds and distributes white mice, 
white rats, rabbits and cavies for scientific purposes, at 
58 Alvarado Avenue, Worcester, Mass. 



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Brunonians in the Headlines 



Ex^lainnig Us to t/ie British 

ARTHUR F. Newell '12, who came home from London 
late in the summer to see that his son, Arthur, Jr., 
got safely into Brown, was preparing to return to 
his work in England as this was written. Newell is the first 
James Bryce Fellow, and as such goes up and down England 
to speak on Anglo- American relations. He addresses all 
kinds of gatherings, tries to answer all kinds of questions, 
and does his best to spread "pertinent and true information" 
about the United States and its people among the English 
citizenry. 

The Fellowship was inaugurated last February with the 
highest of official blessings. A "large and distinguished 
gathering" in Central Hall, Westminster, heard Lord Des- 
borough. Lord Eustace Percy, M. P., the American Charge 
d'Affaires, the Viscountess Brs^cc, the Warden of All Souls, 
and Professor Newell describe the hopes of the project. A 
message from President Roosevelt referred to a "delightful 
visit" from Professor Newell, while Ramsay MacDonald, 
the Prime Minister, also sent a word of benediction. Said 
he: "We are told that your first Fellow and Lecturer, Pro- 
fessor Newell, adapts himself to every kind of audience. He 
adapted himself to me last November, and I wish him the 
greatest cordiality, much further hard work, and an in- 
creasing band of colleagues." 

Associated with the work of the Fellowship is the English- 
Speaking Union, whose magazine, The Landviar\, de- 
scribed Professor NewelFs appointment as actuated "by the 
desire to continue and expand the work which he had been 
carrying on for the past two years in the West of England 
in conjunction with the University of Bristol and other 
organisations. During that period he spoke at over 300 
meetings on such subjects as America's part in the world 
depression; American labor and race problems; war debts, 
tariffs, and American finance; American education; and 
America's foreign relations, especially with the British 
Commonwealth." 

Tsjatiorial City's 7<[ew Comptroller 

RowL.'\ND R. Hughes '16, who has served continuously 
with the National City Bank of New York since grad- 
uation in 1916, was elected comptroller of the hank at a 
meeting held last fall. He has been assistant comptroller for 
two years. 

The story of his rise is the old one of persistence and 
competence. After he received his degree from Brown in 
June, 1916, he went to the New York offices of the bank, 
and in the next two years learned a great deal about bank- 
ing, domestic and foreign, in New York and London. Then 
he became sub-accountant in the Shanghai branch of the 
International Banking Corporation, a party of the National 
City Bank. For nine years he served faithfully in branches 
in China, India and Japan. 

"In 1927," to continue with a statement by the hank, "he 
was accountant at Osaka, and was in line for appointment 
as manager, but desiring to educate his children in the 
United States, he returned to the head office that year. The 
following year he was made foreign inspector, resident in 



Europe, where he remained until just prior to the affilia- 
tion of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company with the 
National City in the spring of 1929. At that time Thomas 
R. Geohegan, assistant comptroller, became vice president 
of the trust company and Mr. Hughes was recalled to the 
home office to become assistant comptroller." 

Won His A.B. in Two Tears 

LEWIS Anthony Dexter, son of Robert C. De.xter '12, 
, won space in the newspapers and a rating as a prodigy 
last month by winning his A.B. degree at the University of 
Chicago after only two years of study. He is 19 years old. 
He majored at Chicago in political science, making some of 
his professors blink when they learned of his wide reading 
in the field. The Associated Press said : 

"Dexter, regarded by university authorities as a prodigy, 
was enabled to shorten his college life under the University 
of Chicago plan which permits a student to advance as 
rapidly as his capabilities warrant. The Massachusetts boy 
matriculated in 1933 and passed nine comprehensive exam- 
inations in his first year — the equivalent of three years' 
work. 

"He ascribed his achievement to his ability to budget 
his time. Dexter also engaged in extra-curricular activities 
during his two years in the university." 



He'd Rather Have Operated 

He'd far rather operate than speak. Dr. Henry A. Whit- 
marsh '76, dean of Providence homeopaths, told 150 
of his friends who gathered at a dinner in his honor at the 
Nurses' Home of the Homeopathic Hospital. The occasion 
was his 80th birthday. Dr. Whitmarsh blew out 80 red 
candles and one white one on a birthday cake, heard a poem 
praise him, and saw unveiled the Caroline Thurber portrait 
of him, Dr. Robert S. Phillips '96 making the attendant 
remarks. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, president of Brown, 
eulogised Dr. Whitmarsh, Dr. Charles V. Chapin and Dr. 
Eugene P. King, fellow members of 1876. For their share 
in establishing the Homeopathic Hospital, speakers also 
lauded the late Col. Webster Knight and Richard B. Com- 
stock, also '76 men. Henry G. Clark '07 was toastmaster. 



President and Other Rhode Island Barristers 

CH.AUNCEY E. Wheeler '09 was elected president of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association at the 37th annual meet- 
ing held in December at the Providence Art Club. He suc- 
ceeds James C. Collins '92. 

Twelve out of 43 candidates passed the Rhode Island 
bar examinations, according to announcement made last 
month by Mr. Wheeler, then secretary of the board of bar 
examiners; and of the twelve successful ones, six were 
Brown graduates. They are: Jacob Goodman '26; Daniel 
Lapolla '27; Maurice Abrams '30; and Daniel Jacobs, Philip 
Lieberman and William M. Mackenzie, all '31. They were 
sworn in before the Supreme Court on Dec. 10. 

The requirements for admission to the Rhode Island bar 
now rate among the highest in the United States. 



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Surprismg Mr. Roc\efeUer 

MR. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. '97 has recently 
received one of the surprises of his hfe," said an 
editorial in the Pruvidence Journal of Dec. 10. 
'"Indeed he has confessed as much." Then the editorial went 
on to tell how a group of small, scattered churches on 
Mount Desert Island, where Rockefeller has his summer 
home, united to form a large parish and asked their neigh- 
bor for aid. They did not ask in vain, but it was a great 
surprise to Rockefeller that the churches did not draw the 
last hundred dollars of his pledge. He confessed in a letter: 
"Seldom does it happen that I am not called upon for the 
full amount of any pledge made." He also sent congratula- 
tions on the successful management of the churches' 
committee. 

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An English Tribute for Dr. Chapin 

ANOTHER high honor came to Dr. Charles V. Chapin '76 
, late in November, at which time he was elected an 
Honorary Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of 
Health of England. Public Health, the official publication 
of the society, said in an editorial: "The name of Chapin is 
known to every Fellow of the society, and to everyone 
engaged in the health service of this country. He is and 
always has been regarded as a leader in sanitary science and 
preventive medicine, and his pronouncements have always 
been received with respect and generally regarded as indica- 
tions as to the line that might safely he taken at once and 
that inevitably would be taken eventually." 

^ iii ii: ii: :i: 

The Gun that Shoots Cement 

ANEW type of cement gun is being used to spray 
cement on the dome of the Hayden Planetarium at the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 
and the workman using it attracts attention from the curi- 
ous. According to the Tsjeiy Yor\ Herald Tribune: "Wayne 



M. Faunce '21, assistant director of the Planetarium Au- 
thority, explained that the dome is self-supporting and aside 
from the steel webbing in the concrete it contains no struc- 
tural steel. The cement is being placed over a layer of rock 
cork. The cement is placed with a gun, he said, because it 
would be difficult to build a form over the dome and because 
it provides a stronger layer of concrete. It will take two 
weeks to cover the dome." 

*(* T* "I* ^ "!• 

To Provide for "Human Obsolescence" 

MOSES Crossley '09 was one of three notable speakers at 
the forum conducted in New York last month by the 
American Institute on the subject, "Science in Relation to 
Social Growth and Economic Improvement." Dr. Karl T. 
Compton, president of M. I. T., and Dr. Walter Rauten- 
strauch. Professor of Industrial Engineering, Columbia, 
were the other speakers. Crossley, according to the Herald 
Tribune, said that "industry must provide for human obso- 
lescence as machine obsolescence is now provided for." He 
also held that "the tasks of science could not be considered 
finished so long as men were obliged to sell, like a commo- 
dity, their capacity for service." 

Bac\ to the Congressional Library 

WiLLL^M Adams Slade '98, director of the Folger 
Shakespeare Library in Washington since its foun- 
dation, resigned as of November first, and has returned to 
the Library of Congress, where he was reference librarian 
for many years. "My new post will entail the kind of work 
I like and am best fitted to do, and presents a splendid 
opportunity," he told the newspaper reporters. Slade left 
the Library of Congress in 1930 to take over the work of 
the Folger Library. At that time he was chief bibliographer. 
Part of his new duties will be to attend personally to "the 
more difficult inquiries, and systematize and co-ordinate the 
reference work of the entire library." 



For the Brown Man^s Bookshelf 



Aiding American Biography 

BROWN men figure rather prominently 
as contributors to the most recent vol- 
ume of the Dictionary of American 
Biography, which is number 14 and which 
contains biographies beginning with Ogle- 
thorpe and ending with Platner. 

The contributors include Edmund C. 
Burnett and the late Professor Lyman C. 
Newell of the Class of 1890; Professor 
Wayland J. Chase '87; William Chauncy 
Langdon '92; Dr. Harris E. Starr "97; Dr. 
George B. Utley '99; Professor Z. Chafee, 
Jr., '07; Professor Lester B. Shippee '03; 
Dr. Allan Westcott "03; Professor William 
Randall Waterman '15; Dr. Rufus M. 
Jones of the Corporation; Dr. G. Alder 
Blumer "05, honorary; Professor Paul Weiss 
'05; Professor Raymond C. Archibald of 
the Faculty; and Dr. Lawrence C. Wroth 
'3 2, honorary, librarian of the John Carter 
Brown Library. 

Dr. Starr is associate editor of the Dic- 
tionary. Dr. Westcott, who is Professor of 
English at the United States Naval Acad- 



emy, Annapolis, has contributed a series of 
biographies of naval otHcers. Dr. Wroth has 
written the biography of William Parks, 
printer and newspaper publisher, as well as 
pioneer paper manufacturer. 
* * * 

Harth and Universe 

DR Harlan T. Stetson's latest book, 
"Earth, Radio and the Stars" has been 
published by Whittlesey House, New York 
City. "It is a delightful and thorough sum- 
mary, well illustrated, of all the known rela- 
tions between the earth and the exterior 
universe," said Gerald Wendt in Boo\s, 
New York Herald Tribune, of Sunday, Oct. 
28._ 

"The basic facts are astronomical, but 
there is much that the telescope cannot 
reveal. The complete story includes a study 
of the tides in the ocean and in the viscous 
rocks of the earth's core, the variation in 
the intensity of sunlight over long periods, 
wobbling of the earth's axis, sun spots and 
their effect on magnetism, radio and the 
weather ... Dr. Stetson (Brown, 1908) 



coins the word cosmecology for a new 
science devoted to the relation of the earth 
to the cosmic scheme which of necessity 
makes use of the facts and the instruments 
of astronomy, physics, chemistry, meteor- 
ology and even biology. . . . Cosmecology 
should appeal to the deep human instinct 
for mysticism and for poetry and may pro- 
duce new legends and epics based on its 
vast new visions." 



The Review He Prizes 

CRITICS conferred more than the usual 
budget of praise to "The Dean's Win- 
dow," the now celebrated work wherein 
Otis E. Randall '84, former Dean of the 
University, reminisced and commented on 
his 50 years' association with Brown. And 
it was pleasant to have outsiders concur in 
the high regard Brown men have for the 
book. One of the most prized of all reviews, 
however, according to Dean Randall, is 
that which refers to his book as '"The 
Dean's Widow." 



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Against "Pi^-Trough" Ideas 

DR. A. Franklin Ross '99, head of the 
Department of Social Studies, Stuyvc- 
sant High School, New York City, is co- 
author of "Economic Citizenship," which 
D. C. Heath £9" Company have published. 
The book is a text on the business of living. 
Dr. William McAndrew, reviewing it in 
School and Society, said: "It need startle 
no one that Doctors Lapp and Ross have 
made a book for the ninth grade. You will 
find on reading any of its pages that they 
are making important public matters clear 
to children aged under 14 years. . . . The 
tone of it is ideal. It scorns to magnify the 
individual's appetite for personal advan- 
tage. The decent end of life is not what 
you get but what you do for the general 
welfare. . . . We have had enough of pig- 
trough philosophy. The community, state 
and nation are paying for your schooling 
that you may be better able to contribute to 
the public good. Interest is sustained hy 
the authors through striking use of illustra- 
tion of common life." 



Harold Seidman '34, a frequent con- 
tributor to The y^ation, was the author of 
an expose of what he called the "guaranteed 
mortgage racket," in a recent issue of that 
magazine. 



In the Letter Box 



New York, Nov. 30. 
To the Editor: 

As an alumnus whose interest in the 
University extends beyond the football 
team, I wish to protest against the action 
of the Brown Athletic Council in refusing 
a request of the American Broadcasting 
System to broadcast the Brown-Colgate 
game in Providence Thanksgiving Day 
morning. 

Why an opportunity for countless 
alumni and friends of the University, as 
far West as Chicago and as far South as 



Washington, to hear a description of the 
traditional contest was rejected is beyond 
my powers of comprehension. Certainly it 
could not have been the attendance angle, 
because the time of the game prohibits any 
but local residents from being spectators, 
and because the Broadcasting Company 
offered to refrain from advertising the 
broadcast in the Providence area. Nor can 
I believe permission was withheld owing to 
the prospect of almost certain defeat. 

This most recent action of the Athletic 
Council in refusing to sanction the broad- 
cast increases the perplexity I have had 
regarding its utility ever since serving as a 
member of the "rubber stamp" Undergrad- 
uate Athletic Council while in college. 

With Professor F. W. Marvel having 
done a commendable job in developing the 
physical equipment and in promoting 
Brown's intercollegiate relationships and 
with Joe Nutter doing as well as can be 
expected with routine publicity material. 
It is about time the Council itself perked up. 
Yours very truly, 

R. V. Cronan '31. 



The Fraternities Pledged Fewer 



Operating under a set of rules that in- 
cluded a number of innovations, Brown 
fraternities rushed and pledged their 
Freshmen last month. The pledges num- 
bered 182, a decrease of eight per cent 
from last year and the smallest total in 
years. 

Of particular interest were the experi- 
mental regulations which governed pledg- 
ing procedure: (1) No fraternity could 
pledge in excess of 15 first-year men. (2) 
Prior to noon on December 10, each fra- 
ternity submitted to the Dean's office a list 
of the names of first-year men to whom it 
wished to extend final bids for member- 
ship, with the names arranged in the order 
of their desirability. (3) At 12:30 P. M. 
the first-year men assembled in Sayles Hall 
to state in writing first, second and third 
choices of fraternity. (4) At 6 in the eve- 
ning the Freshmen met in Sayles Hall to 
receive their fraternity bids. (If they failed 
to file their preferences at 12:30, they were 
denied bids in the evening.) 

The rushing season opened with three 
open house dates beginning with Novem- 
ber 25, and Freshmen were limited to a 
half-hour for each call. Some 3,000 invita- 
tions had been extended for the first open 
house. Rushing reached its peak in the final 
week-end with open house lasting from 
2 P. M. to midnight on Sunday. Saturday 
had seen a number of week-end rush 
parties, dances, and impromptu gatherings, 
some of them out of town and others in 
private homes in Providence. A Herald 
reporter made much of a confusion result- 
ing when one fraternity held a dance in 
Attleboro for its rushees, only to find that 
the district convention of another fraternity 
was in progress in the same hotel. 

As usual there was a discrepancy in the 
sizes of the various delegations, and only 
two houses pledged the maximum of 15, 
three others pledging 14. The former were 
Delta Upsilon and Psi Upsilon, the latter 
Alpha Delta Phi, Pi Lambda Phi, and 
Theta Delta Chi. John S. Cuthbert, presi- 



dent of the Interfratcrnity Governing 
Board, believed that the system of pref- 
erence cards and the limiting delegations 
worked out well, but predicted the usual 
number of changes in next year's regulations. 

Pledges 
The delegations were pledged as follows: 

Alpha Delta Phi— 14 

Davis B. Allen, Chicago: Harold H. Ben- 
nett, Jr., Scarsdale, N. Y.; Thomas B. 
Bullock, Waban, Mass.; Frederick M. Gil- 
breth. Montclair, N. J.; Donald B. Haw- 
kins, Passaic, N. J.; George C. Henderson, 
Rumford; John H. Kreitler, Maplewood, 
N. J.; Victor J. Petrone, Shaker Heights, O.; 
Herman C. Pitts, Jr., Providence; Paul J. 
Riesen, Milwaukee, Wis.: Robert E. Riegler, 
Fairview Village, O.; Charles H. Thompson, 
Jr., Goshen, N. Y.; Charles A. Walsh, Jr., 
Providence, and Charles S. Wilson, 2nd, 
Bangor, Me. 

Alpha Tau Omega — 6 

Franklin W. Bartlctt, Mansfield, Mass.: 
Joseph J. Grillo, Gloucester, Mass.; Donald 
P. Steele, Gloucester, Mass.: Cornelius 
Tiers, 3rd, New York; Benjamin J. Hunter, 
Scranton, Pa., and John J. H. MuUer, 3rd, 
Woodmont, Conn. 

Beta Theta Pi — 11 

Henry R. Acker, New Rochelle, N. Y.: 
Robert H. Blewitt, Waterbury, Conn.; 
David K. Burkhart, Drexel Hill, Pa.; 
Leonard R. Carpenter, Flushing, N. Y.; 
Clifford E. Herrick, Jr., Edgewood: Ray- 
mond E. Lougce, Franklin, Mass.; John O. 
Martin, Southbridge, Mass.: Carl G. Nes- 
bitt, Jr., Forest Hills, N. Y.: David J. Purdie, 
Jr., Verona, N. J.; Derek Tubman, New 
Rochelle, N. Y.: Curtis B. Watson, Haver- 
ford, Pa. 

Delta Kappa Epsilon — 8 

Frederick S. Brennan, Bay City, Mich.; 
Frank L. Burgess, Gowanda, N. Y.; James 



Couzens, Yonkers, N. Y.; John B. Harvey, 
Boston; Neil Keily, Hollis, N. Y.; Thomas 
E. McCann, Midland, Mich.; Brenton G. 
Mcader, Edgewood; Charles F. Mort, Win- 
chester, Va. 

Delta Phi — 7 

Donald L. Christie, Manchester, Vt.; 
Arnold S. Ohlrogge, Glen Ridge, N. J.; 
Malcolm C. Spalding, Cranston: Chauncey 
M. Stone, Jr., Cranston: Richard W. Tre- 
loar, Shelton, Conn.; Norman E. White, 
Eden Park: Elton P. Wunsch, Providence. 

Delta Tau Delta — 12 

William W. Browne, Jr., Yonkers, 
N. Y.: Herbert F. Dalton, Wcstfield, Mass.; 
Dean B. Edmundson, Newport; King A. 
Grinnell, Fall River; Thomas R. Huckins, 
West Springfield, Mass.; James F. Keegan, 
Providence; Edwin R. LaCrosse, Waban, 
Mass.: Neil Lambert, Chicago: Donald W. 
MacMillan, Providence; Lincoln E. Smith, 
Chestnut Hill, Pa.; Henry W. Stevenson, 
Jr., West Haven, Conn.; Robert M. 
Thomas, Fall River. 

Delta Upsilon — 15 

Donald E. Batty, Valley Falls; Robert L. 
Brush, Englewood, N. J,; Benjamin A. 
Chase, 2nd, Portsmouth: William H. Dean, 
New York City; William E. Fay, Jr., Joliet, 
111.: Frederick A. Forbes, Stamford, Conn.; 
William J. Garvy, Jr., Chicago; Henry R. 
Johnson, Utica, N. Y.; Harry L. Judd, Jr., 
Oak Park, 111.: Wallace F. Keith, Brockton, 
Ma.ss.; James P. Krogh, Jr., Hartford, Conn.: 
William W. MacDougal, Jr., Wollaston, 
Mass.: Edgar M. Major, Brookline, Mass.; 
Arthur F. Newell, Jr., New London, N. H., 
and LeRoy L. Zang, Alliance, O. 

Kappa Sigma — 8 

Milton C. Clark, Whitman, Mass.; 
William A. Gough, Jr., Bridgeport, Conn.; 
Charles F. Kellogg, Jr., Waverley, N. Y.; 
Howard H. King, Uniontown, Pa.; Clare U. 
Phillips, Jr., Cranston; Martin G. Rolland, 



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Dorchester, Mass.; George H. Springer, 
Bristol, and Lloyd F. Taylor, Bridgeport, 
Conn. 

Lambda Chi Alpha — 10 

Malcolm H. Dearden, Fall River; Irving 
G. Gibbs, Cataumet, Mass.; Perry S. 
Graffam, Jr., Belmont, Mass.; Charles L. 
Harrop, Central Falls; Robert L. Lincoln, 
North Attleboro, Mass.; William O'Don- 
nell, Jr., Bridgewater, Mass.; Richard L. 
Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.; James A. Swallow, 
Verona, N. Y.; Benjamin B. Titus, Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y.; Thad K. Tobey, Hyannis, 
Mass. 

Phi Delta Theta — 7 

George C. Bright, Scranton, Pa.: Leon 
H. Denison, Jr.. Kansas City, Mo.; Charles 
T. Gaffney, Jr., Scranton, Pa.; Alden C. 
Henscl, Appleton, Wis.; John W. Moore, 
Meadville, Pa.; Shelton C. Noyes, Rum- 
ford, Me., and Frank A. Shaw, Manchester, 
N. H. 

Phi Gamma Deha — 1 1 

Charles E. Colbert, Dorchester, Mass.; 
Alfred W. Dickinson, Newtonville, Mass.; 
Edward J. Galway, Manchester, N. H.; 
Gustaf W. Hoist, Worcester, Mass.; James 
B. McGuire, Fall River; Philip H. Mc- 
Laughlin, Bridgeport, Conn.; Dudley On- 
derdonk, Jr., Montclair, N. J.; William S. 
Pritchard, Jr., Mount Vernon, N. Y.; John 
A. Roe, Winthrop, Mass.; Earle E. Tilton, 
Jr., Newton Centre, Mass., and Paul W. 
Welch, Wellesley, Mass. 

Phi Kappa Psi— 10 

Philip L. Atwood, North Haven, Conn.; 
Roy W. Barker, Westfield, N. J.; John F. 
Cashman, Jr., Providence; Charles E. Far- 
row, Jr., Arlington, Mass.; Roger B. Francis, 
Taunton, Mass.; Robert C. Jones, Detroit, 
Mich.; Howard D. Jordan, Kenilworth, 
111.; Donald V. La Vine, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
John M. McSweeney, Roxbury, Mass., and 
Robert L. Richard, Lconia, N. J. 

Phi Sigma Kappa — 2 

Donald J. Eccleston, Greenville, and 
Robert W. Flagg, New Haven, Conn. 

Pi Lambda Phi — 14 

Victor Bernstein, Providence; Joseph I. 
Cooper, Newton, Mass.; Peter Corn, New 
York; Meyer Feinstein, Lynn, Mass.; 
Joseph Goldman, New York; Meyer Green- 
berg, Haverhill, Mass.; Irving L. Himmel, 
Lynn, Mass.; Winston L. Kirschberg, New 
York; William E. Lebowitch, Brighton, 
Mass.; Leo Loeb, Jr., Upper Montclair, 
N. J.; Stanley B. Sovatkin, Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Alan R. Swart;, Brookline, Mass.; 
Edward L. Sweedler, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
Lewis Wessel, New York. 

Psi Upsilon — 15 

Charles L. Babcock, 3rd, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
Joseph W. Bailey, Jr., New Bedford, Mass.; 
Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr., New York; James 
M. Byers, 3rd, Buffalo, N. Y.; Waldo K. 
Clarke, New London, Conn.: Robert J. 
Connell, Scranton, Pa.; Philip H. Glatfelter, 
3rd, Spring Grove, Pa.; Jack W. Hawley, 
Salisbury, Conn.; Beverley A. Lundy, Jr., 
Larchmont, N. Y.; Homer E. Lunken, 
Hartsdale, N. Y.; Alexander Schmidt, New 
York; Guy W. Vaughan, Jr., Ridgewood, 
N. J.; William J. Vilsack, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 
Arlan R. Walker, Howard, and Paul E. 
Wilson, Wilmington, Del. 

Sigma Chi — 1 

McPherson E, Browning, Detroit, Mich. 



Sigma Nu — 3 

Edmund F. Neves, Fall River; Arthur F. 
Sullivan, Jr., Fall River; Cristy M. Thomp- 
son, Amityville, N. Y. 

Tau Delta Epsilon — 8 

Donald B. Capron, North Providence; 
Thomas H. Curran, Providence; Edmund 
A. East, Belmont, Mass.; Ahti A. Erkkinen, 
Stow, Mass.; Dan M. Ferguson, Auburn- 
dale, Mass.; Donald M. Fraser, Jr., New- 
port; Edward C. Heintz, Jr., Plainville, 
Mass., and Dudley R. Sullivan, Providence. 

Theta Delta Chi — 14 

Edgar C. Bessels, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
William F. Durgin, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
E. Warren Fisher, Weehawken, N. J 



Floyd C. Hinckley, Pittsfield, Mass.; Albert 
Hutton, Jr., Garden City, N. Y.; Thomas 
C. Jones, Barrington; John Montgomery, 
Jr., Woonsocket; John A. Priest, Jr., Mon- 
tello, Mass.; William Rice, Providence; 
Gordon D. Robbins, Norwell, Mass.; 
Charles B. Round, Providence; Frank A 
Snell, Providence, and Arthur A. Staff, 
Brockton, Mass. 

Zcta Psi — 6 

Robert T. Bartlett, Douglaston Park, 
N. Y.; David A. Burchinal, Washington, 
Pa.; James P. Butler, Jr., Belmont, Mass.; 
Frank B. Foster, Saugus, Mass.; Halsted 
James, Jr.. Brooklyn, N. Y., and William 
R. Knoll, West Haven, Conn. 



Activities of the Brown Clubs 



Merrimack; Valley 

ONE of the best fall meetings in the his- 
tory of the Merrimack Valley Brown 
Club had as its special feature at 
Wildwood, Andover, Mass., Saturday eve- 
ning, Dec. 15, a talk by Professor Theodore 
Collier on "How Things Are Shaping Up 
in Europe." On the program with Professor 
Collier were Dr. A. D. Mead, vice president 
of the University, and the Alumni Secretary. 

Professor Collier's discussion of what is 
going on in Europe today was penetrating 
and enlightening. He gave the facts; he let 
his hearers form their own conclusions. As 
soon as he ended, the questions came fast, 
and for another half hour the members of 
the Club took interested part in the pro- 
ceedings. Professor Collier aided his talk 
by maps, economical, geographical and 
political. 

Dr. Mead made his bow for the Univer- 
sity, told of the changes during the past 
year in the Faculty, and described the work 
of various departments, the Community 
Art Project, and the efforts being made to 
draw to Brown the desired kind of under- 
graduates. The Alumni Secretary put his 
emphasis on the aim of the Associated 
Alumni to co-ordinate the work of the 
Brown Clubs for the greater benefit to 
Brown and the Clubs. 

George A. Mellen '98 was re-elected 
president for the short term. In accepting 
the office again he said that he felt that the 
Club should be a working rather than a 
social organization and that it might well 
begin a program to make the Club more 
effective in its locality as a Brown group. 
James S. Eastham '19 is once more secretary- 
treasurer; and the executive committee, in- 
cluding the officers, is Joseph N. Ashton 
'90, Andover; Nowell R. Kinney '19, Law- 
rence; Ernest T. Clough "20, Lowell; Dr. 
Charles F. Warren '09, Amesbury. 

Members and guests at the dinner were 
Dr. Howard D. Smith '03, Alfred L. God- 
dard '23, Lewis H. Conant '03, Rufus E. 
Corlew '25, Minor T. Patton '3 2, F. M. 
Boyce '09 and F. M. Benton of Phillips 
Andover, Thomas R. Hadfield '24, Alden 
R. Walls '31, Nathan C. Hamblin, Henry 
C. Sanborn, Burton S. Flagg '96, Charles 
B. Hodges, Halhrook Dodge, Irving South- 
worth '02, Samuel H. Bailey, Jr. '02, Paul 
R. Clay, H. H. Petzold, George A. Mellen 
'98, Dr. Charles F. Warren '09, Nowell R. 



Kinney '19, R. H. Whitehead '20, Ernest 
T. Clough '20, H. L. Hambleton '21, 
Joseph N. Ashton '90, George W. Leonard, 
and James S. Eastham '19. 



T^ew Haven 

THE noble experiment (with apologies 
to Mr. Hoover) of having the annual 
meeting of the Brown Club of New 
Haven in Bridgeport, Conn., Tuesday eve- 
ning, Dec. II, came out all right. The 
attendance was good: Dean Samuel T. 
Arnold made a hit with his informal talk 
about Brown and Brown happenings and 
problems; and Harold A. Swaffield '10 and 
others contributed to the evening's interest. 

The meeting took place at the University 
Club: and in the absence of Walter V. 
Brown '27, the chairman, V. A. Hedberg 
'22 reported that the nominating committee 
agreed upon the following officers for 1934- 
1935: 

President, A. L. Breckenridge '11: First 
Vice President, Webster P. O'Neill '28; 
Second Vice President, A. K. Litchfield '22; 
Secretary, C. F. Andrews '26; Treasurer, 
Louis F. Horvath '25. 

President Breckenridge's re-election is 
appreciated, as he has been a thorough- 
going, progressive leader of the Club in the 
past year. 

After a talk by Mr. Swaffield, who is 
principal of Roger Ludlowe High School, 
Fairfield, on sub-freshman work, and 
appointment of a sub-freshman committee 
(the names are printed elsewhere in this 
issue), B. Malcolm Harris, classmate of 
Dean Arnold, introduced the Dean — and 
the Dean gave an informative, interesting 
talk. 

He spoke of scholarships, saying paren- 
thetically that Brown considers scholarships 
for scholarship and not for athletic ability, 
of new arrangements with regard to dormi- 
tory rooms, of dormitory telephones and 
such, of the committee recently named to 
study the question of student housing, of 
the dropping of the Ph.B. degree, and of 
other things which alumni want to hear 
first hand. 

Present were Lawrence G. Flick "18, 
Wendell P. Rice, 2nd '27, A. K. Litchfield 
'22, Alexander Gardiner '14, T. G. Ander- 
son '31, Robert H. Canfield '1 1, R. H. Van 
Horn '17, E. P. Blanchard "12, V. A. Hed- 
berg '22, H. H. Buchoh '25, A. L. Breck- 



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enridge '11, Milton B. Hunt '09, B. Malcolm 
Harris "13, Harold V. Merson '31, Webster 
P. O'Neill '28, Harold A. Swaffield '10, 
George S. Goodspeed '14, C. F. Andrews 
'26, Robert B. Dugan '33, Roger D. Harvey 
'24, Percy Kingsley '28, Elmer 0. Eric- 
son '25. 

* * * 

Brown Engineers 

FIFTY-NINE members and guests of the 
Brown Engineering Association met for 
the 2Ist annual engineers" dinner at the 
Brown University Club in New York, 
Dec. 6, with President Barbour as principal 
speaker. Between courses when there was a 
lull in the proceedings Secretary Charles C. 
Burgess '24 read letters from Professor 
James P. Adams, and A. H. Gurney '07, 
Alumni Secretary. 

After dinner President Wayne M. Faunce 
'21 took charge, complimented the dinner 
committee, William C. Oakes "10, Leonard 
K. Murphy "20, Harry A. Hohman "25, on 
its splendid work and thanked the officers 
of the Association and all members who 
were on committees for their hearty support 
and assistance. The officers for 1935 are: 

President, Ralph M. Palmer '10, New York; 
Vice-President, William R. Benford '27, 
Providence; Secretary-Treasurer, Charles 
G. Burgess '24, New York: Directors, 
James E. Skane '16, Reginald M. Pease '21, 
David J. Purdie '! 1, Wayne M. Faunce '21. 

Sydney Wilmot '09 outlined briefly the 
life and accompli.shments of "our good 
friend and counsellor," Professor John E. 
Hill, and at the end of his remarks intro- 
duced a resolution on Professor Hill which 
was unanimously adopted. 

President Barbour covered a wide range 
of subjects in his talk. He, too, spoke highly 
of Professor Hill, described the Community 
Art Project, and gave facts and figures 
about the finances of the University. Pro- 
fessor A. E. Watson and Professor James 
A. Hall followed Dr. Barbour. The engi- 
neers greatly appreciated the presence of 
Professor Watson, knowing that he made 
the trip especially for the occasion. 

Other speakers were Eugene W. O'Brien 
"19, who has just been elected a vice presi- 
dent of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers; Paul L. Paulsen "3 5, represent- 
ing the student engineers: and Ralph M. 
Palmer, the new president, who pledged his 
support and that of the Association to the 
University and Dr. Barbour. 

Washington 

THE new officers of the Brown Club of 
Washington, headed by President Har- 
old B. Mistr "27, will take office at a 
meeting to be held this month. Mistr suc- 
ceeds James V. Bennett "18, who returns to 
the office of vice president. 

Robert F. Bentley "3 3 is the secretary, 
and other officers are: Executive Commit- 
tee— Dr. Harris E. Starr "97, E. R. Cleave- 
land "14, A. C. Eastburn "12: Chairman, 
Entertainment Committee — Frederick B. 
Wiener "27. 

The Club holds regular Tuesday lunch- 
eon at the Hotel Carlton at 12:30, and 
there is always welcome for any Brown man 
visiting Washington. 

At the induction meeting this month the 
Club will discuss the question of appointing 
a committee to co-operate with the trustees 
of the Alumni Fund to help meet the Uni- 
versity budget of the next year and also of 
naming a committee to work with President 



H. S. Chafee of the Associated Alumni to 
interest school boys in Washington in 
Brown. 

The smoker which followed the annual 
meeting on November 19 was an enjoyable 
affair, even though the mishaps of the foot- 
ball team did have to be discussed. Presi- 
dent Mistr was host. Among the members 
present were Major William C. Chase "16, 
Dr. Arthur Deerin Call "96, Dr. Harris E. 
Starr "97, Edmund C. Burnett "90, Daniel 
C. Chace "00, F. C. Breckenridge "15, E. R. 
Cleaveland '14, fames V. Bennett '18, Dr. 
George W. Field '87, A. E. Gottshall '15, 
J. C. Weedon, Jr. '27, F. B. Wiener '27, 
M. S. Kantrowitz '22, F. Kenneth Arm- 
strong '23, A. A. Picchione '26, William R. 
Boger '26, Joseph R. Perley "31, R. B. 
Bentley "33. 

sf: * * 

Rochester 

THE Brown Club of Rochester is meeting 
regularly the first Wednesday of each 
month. Charles E. Ewing "01 of Industry, 
N. Y., is president, and Wilbour E. Saun- 
ders "16, who is executive secretary of the 
Federation of Churches of Rochester and 
Monroe County, is secretary. Saunders" 
office is at 1010 Temple Building. 

The Club has the promise of a visit by 
President Barbour of the University during 
the winter, and on that occasion the Club 
will have dinner at the Colgate-Rochester 
Divinity School. The Executive Committee 
is making effort to bring out every possible 
Brown man in the Rochester neighborhood 
to the monthly luncheons. 



Brunonians at Tale 

TWENTY-FOUR Brown graduates are en- 
rolled in Yale professional schools, 
according to a report recently made for the 
Brown Alumni Monthly by Chester H. 
Page "34. 

In the Yale Law School are Charles P. 
Ives, 2nd (chief editorial writer of the 
A[eu' Haven Journal-Courier) of the Class 
of 1925: T. Dexter Clarke, John N. Cooper 
and Mclvin M. Dichter, all "3 2: H. A. Schul- 
son "3 3: and David T. Fairchild and Wins- 
low A. Robbins "34. The Yale Medical 
School has registered Milton I. Rose "23; 
E. James Mulligan and Berthold Starr '32; 
Robert R. Chace, Alfred E. King and Ed- 
mond B. Sinclair '3 3: and Conrad C. Clem- 
ent and Nestor W. Wawro '34. In the 
Graduate School are John R. Hansbrough 
'25; Rev. Frank Tishkinas '27: Laurence 
E. Gemcinhardt '29; Theodore G. Ander- 
son and William S. Wilson '31; Eliot F. 
Beach and William C. J. Whittemore '33; 
and Chester H. Page '34. Earle M. Harvey 
'3 3 is a student at Yale Divinity School. 



And at Harvard Business 

FOURTEEN Brown graduates are attending 
Harvard University Graduate School of 
Business Administration, according to a 
list given the Alumni Monthly by Assist- 
ant Dean Boyce F. Martin. By their Brown 
classes they are: 

1931— D. Stuart Clarke; 193 3— Peter J. 
Albiani, William G. Fienemann, David H. 
Johnson, John B. Murphy, Dwight D. 
Dewey: 1934 — George A. Baker, Jr., 
Maurice L. Clemence, John P. Corlett, 
Bertram J. Dane, Arthur P. Felton, 2nd, 
Gorham Henshaw, Jr., John W. Quigley, 
Francis S. Wilson. 



Faculty Publication 

Among the most important publications 
by Brown faculty members this fall 
■ were surveys of the public school sys- 
tems of Bristol and Fall River, which have 
been carried out under the direction of Pro- 
fessor C. Emanuel Ekstrom, chairman of the 
Department of Education. Professor James 
B. Hedges of the Department of History 
has published a new book, "The Federal 
Railway Subsidy Policy of Canada," issued 
by the Harvard University Press. 

Listed according to departments, other 
publications have been as follows: 

Biblical literature — "The Excerpts Ex 
Thendotc of Clement of Alexandria," edited 
with translation, introduction and notes by 
Professor Robert P. Casey: "An Armenian 
Manuscript at Union Seminary," also by 
Professor Casey, published in the Journal 
of Theological Studies. 

Biology — "Absence of Light and the Re- 
productive Cycle in the Guinea Pig," by 
Professor William C. Young, H. I. Myers, 
Edward W. Dempsey, and D. B. Jennison 
in the American Journal of Physiology: 
"Hydrogen Ion Activity and Changes in 
Galleria Mellonella During Metamorphosis 
as Determined by a Glass Electrode with 
Micro- Vessel," by Professor Ivon R.Taylor, 
Professor Philip H. Mitchell, James H. 
Birnie and Julian L. Solinger, published in 
Physiological Zoology. 

Chemistry — "The Influence of Tempera- 
ture on the Conductance of Electrolytes in 
Anisole," by Professor Charles A. Kraus, 
with G. S. Bien and Dr. Raymond M. 
Fuoss; "Freezing Points of Solutions in 
Bensene," "Distribution of Ions in Electro- 
lytic Solutions," and "The Temperature 
Coefficient of Conductance, " by Dr. Fuoss, 
and "On Electrolytes in Media of Low 
Dielectric Content," by Dr. Fuoss with Dr. 
Kraus, published in the Journal of Chemical 
Physics: "ter Meulen Method for Direct 
Determination of Oxygen in Organic Com- 
pounds Containing Nitrogen," by Professor 
W. Walker Russell with M. E. Marks. 

Economics — "Belgian Banking Reforms 
Ahead," by Morris E. Garnsey, published 
in Barron's AJationa! Financial Weekly. 

Engineering — "Journal Bearing Experi- 
ments," by Mayo D. Hersey. 

English — "Communications — Tarquin's 
Ravishing Slides," and "Astrea and Cala- 
don: An Untouched Portrait of Aphra 
Behn," by Professor William T. Hastings, 
pages 544-559 in a new volume published 
by the Modern Language Association of 
America. 

Library — "A Report on the Montreal 
Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of 
America," by Dr. Henry B. Van Hoesen. 

Romance Languages — "Obras Completas 
de don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas," by 
Professor Robert H. Williams, published in 
Hispanic Review. 

Botany — "Notes on Boletes," by Profes- 
sor Walter H. Snell, a reprint from 
Mycologia. 



Threatening the Christmas Tree 

G.MNING momentum quietly but steadily, 
the white fir blight which attacks the 
balsam or Christmas fir is spreading so rap- 
idly that it now "constitutes a major threat 
against the continent's Christmas tree sup- 
ply," according to Malcolm A. McKenzie, 
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who is now lecturer in the Department of 
Botany in Brown University. His statement, 
sent out by the Brown PuWicity Office, 
received much newspaper space at the holi- 
day time. 

"The number of infected trees has in- 
creased approximately 30 percent since last 
year," Mr. McKensie said on his return 
from recent extensive field trips throughout 
the East. "There are now more than 1,000 
contaminated firs in parts of Massachu- 
setts, upper New York State, and the lumber 
regions of Maine. 

"We have fairly conclusive evidence 
that infection of the Christmas fir is found 
for the most part in Canada, but further 
spread in the United States is only a matter 
of time," Mr. McKeniie said. "There have 
never been steps taken soon enough to check 
effectively the spread of tree diseases. This 
is also true with the Dutch elm disease." 



The First Keen Fellow 

DR. Frederick Crescitelli '30 is the 
first to receive the new Corinna Bor- 
den Keen Research Fellowship at 
Brown University, where he is doing ad- 
vanced research in insect biology. The 
award is one of the most important Brown 
grants. 

The fellowship is drawn from the income 
of a $28,000 fund, a recent gift to Brown 
under the will of the late Dr. William 
Williams Keen of the class of 1859, and is 
named in memory of Dr. Keen's wife. 
According to the physician's will, fellow- 
ship winners are to be holders of Brown 
degrees chosen annually on the basis of 
"demonstrated ability and promise of future 
usefulness" and are to carry on research 
which "shall relate so far as possible to 
fundamental problems especially in the 
realm of pure science." 

In co-operation with Professor Ivon R. 
Taylor of the Department of Biology, Dr. 
Crescitelli expects to continue his research 
under his fellowship in developing a con- 
tinuous and automatic method of measur- 
ing the heat produced by small organisms. 
This is an important fundamental problem, 
it was said at the biology department. 

Mr. Crescitelli received his Sc.M. degree 
in 1932 and his Ph.D. degree this Fall after 
investigating little known fields of insect 
biology. 

During the summer of 1930 Mr. Cresci- 
telli studied general physiology at Cold 
Spring Biological Laboratory on Long 
Island, and the following summer he 
studied animal surgery there under Dr. 
Edgar Allen '15, "Yale biologist. For two 
summers Mr. Crescitelli was a laboratory 
assistant in general physiology at Cold 
Spring, and during 1930-31 and 1931-32 
he was assistant to Professor Philip H. 
Mitchell, chairman of the Brown Depart- 
ment of Biology. He has held university 
junior fellowships for the past two years. 

H: * * 
Brown in the World V\/ar 

TO any alumnus or friend of Brown re- 
questing it, the University will be glad 
to send a copy of "Brown University in the 
War," the report of the World War Rec- 
ords Committee. The supply is not unlim- 
ited, but the University has more than it 
needs for its regular archives stock and is 
prepared to dispose of the balance. In writ- 
ing for this important historical item, one 
may address the Vice President's Office. 




FROSTBITERS Dinghies o/ one type suggested for the undergraduate yachtir\g program. 



Topics of Alutnni Interest 



Executive Committee Minutes 

FIRST action toward stimulating a yacht- 
ing program for Brown undergraduates 
was taken at the December meeting of 
the Executive Committee of the Associated 
Alumni held at the University Club in 
Providence. It followed previous discussion 
of the subject introduced by Sidney Clifford 
'15. Inquiry seemed to have revealed that 
it would not necessitate great expense to 
begin by co-operating with the Brown Yacht 
Club in developing "frost-bite" dinghy rac- 
ing and eventually other modest phases of 
yachting. Similar moves seem to be afoot 
at Harvard and Dartmouth, which might 
provide a basis even for intercollegiate com- 
petition on a small scale. 

The vote was phrased as follows: "That 
the Executive Committee recommend that 
the Administration promote a yachting and 
boating program for undergraduates so as 
to capitalize as far as possible the natural 
advantages of Narragansett Bay as an area 
of undergraduate activities. The Executive 
Committee assures the Administration of 
the co-operation of the Associated Alumni 
in carrying out such a program." 

The meeting was the first since the elec- 
tion of Roy W. Leith "12 of Boston and 
J. A. O'Neil '31 of New York, and they 
were present. They have been added to the 
A.C.A.P. Committee. 

Brenton G. Smith '11, working with his 
committee on Brown Club Programs, is 
assembling information submitted in re- 
sponse to a recent questionnaire of 22 clubs 
and will report at the February meeting of 
the Advisory Council. He has added Fred 
A. Otis '03, Claude R. Branch '07 of 
Boston, and Mr. O'Neil of New York to 
his committee. 



A committee on the building of under- 
graduate morale had conferred with faculty 
members on this subject. The latter, while 
pointing out the current campus tendency 
to give little emphasis to class and class 
spirit, discussed with the alumni an outline 
of efforts worth making in order to induct 
a student more fully into a knowledge of 
what the University does and stands for. 
Better alumni will be the result of such a 
program, the sub-committee thought. 

THE Brown Club of Cleveland is prepar- 
ing to establish a Brown Club Prize 
Scholarship in addition to the four now 
offered in other cities (Chicago, New York, 
Boston, and Providence), Henry C. Hart 
'01, chairman of the committee for such 
scholarships, reported. As a matter of pol- 
icy, he said his committee felt that each 
club should confine its scholarship to its 
own locality, seeing value in local pride. A 
major objective now, he felt, was to put the 
financing of scholarships now provided for 
upon some permanent basis. 

Zechariah Chafee, Sr. '80 and Charles J. 
Hill '16 were named to co-operate with a 
committee from the Providence Brown Club 
in an inquiry into the schedule of classes. 
They hope to see to what extent the increase 
in afternoon classes may handicap a student 
who must work to earn his way through 
college or who wishes to participate in 
activities, athletic or non-athletic. 

Mr. Clifford and Chesley Worthington 
'23 were instructed to report before the 
Advisory Council meeting on possibilities, 
respectively, of establishing the full-time 
office of Director of Non-Athletic Activi- 
ties and of issuing a set of Brown com- 
memorative plates. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



1869 

Dr. George H. Felton, retired from active 
practice, is living at 42 Jackson Street, 
Berea, Ky. 

1870 

Charles E. Sheppard reports that he is 

still active as lawyer and genealogist 

(genealogy has been his avocation for many 

years) at 91 Broad Street, Bridgeton, N. J. 

1881 

George B. Brigham and Mrs. Brigham of 
Framingham Centre, Mass., recently ob- 
served their 50th wedding anniversary. 
Mrs. Brigham is a direct descendant of 
Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island 
and Providence Plantations. Mr. and Mrs. 
Brigham's son, Roger Williams Brigham 
"21, is now living in Pasadena, Calif. 
1884 

In a historical display now on view at the 
Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library, Paw- 
tucket, are two telephones of the "VO's, 
devised, as the Providence Journal said, "in 
an odd moment by James L. Jenks who, as 
all Pawtucket knows, is no engineer but an 
attorncy-at-law." The telephones were made 
when Jenks was a school boy inspired by a 
demonstration in Providence of the new 
Bell telephone. 

Rev. Edward P. TuUer has changed his 
address to 119 George Street, Providence. 

Dean Otis E. Randall presided at the 
49th annual meeting of the New England 
Association of Colleges and Secondary 
Schools in Boston, Dec. 6 and 7. He had 
the pleasure to introduce as speakers Dr. 
George F. Zook, director of the American 
Council on Education, President Barbour, 
President Tyler Dennett of Williams, Presi- 
dent Di.xon Ryan Fox of Union College and 
others. 

1889 

Bertram S. BlaisdcU has the sympathy of 
the Class in the loss of his wife, Mrs. Mabel 
Edmands Blaisdell, who died in Providence, 
Nov. 29, 1934. 

1892 

William R. Dorman, member of the 
Brown Corporation since 1912, was elected 
to the Advisory and E.xecutive Committee, 
the working body of the Corporation, at 
the meeting held in President Barbour's 
ofEce Dec. 14. His term will be for three 
years. 

Charles H. Merriman and Mrs. Merri- 
man have announced the engagements of 
their daughters. Miss Esther Merriman to 
Philip B. Simonds, Jr., and Miss Elisabeth 
Merriman to Dunton Howe. Mr. Simonds 
was graduated from Yale and Mr. Howe 
from Williams. 

James C. Collins of the firm of Tillinghast 
6? Collins, Providence, retired last month as 
president of the Rhode Island Bar Associa- 
tion. Chauncey E. Wheeler "09 succeeds 
him. 

1894 

Henry D. Sharpe was one of the ninety 
business and industrial leaders who gath- 
ered at White Sulphur Springs, Va., last 
month to work out a co-operative program 
"upon which all business elements and the 
Administration in Washington may agree."" 
Another member of the group was Lee 
Marshall of New York City, president of 
Continental Baking Corporation and father 
of Lee M. Marshall '31. 



Mr. Sharpe retired as president of the 
New England Council at the 10th annual 
conference held in Boston, Nov. 22. In 
his last speech as president he said that 
"the deep cleavage between governmental 
policy and business opinion, not to speak of 
apprehension, cannot be repaired over 
night,"' and he was of the opinion that 
"there may well be an end to government 
and business standing aloof, making faces 
at one another, and calling names." He 
pointed out that business could and would 
"cordially co-operate" with an administra- 
tion that "is more disposed to apply the 
test of practicability than it was a year ago"" 
and he urged that in every business associa- 
tion in New England this winter there be 
alert committees, "earnestly striving to ar- 
rive at sound conclusions concerning the 
proposals that certainly will be presented 
for further Government action." 
1895 

Charles B. Mackinney of the Metropoli- 
tan Park Commission is a member of the 
new Rhode Island Planning Board, the 
object of which is to make more effective 
the efforts to develop and promote the 
State's assets and resources. 
1896 

Rev. John M. Hunt is pastor of the First 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Blackwood, 
New Jersey. 

Justice Elmer J. Rathbun of the Rhode 
Island Supreme Court is chairman of the 
Judicial Council which recently made its 
annual report to Governor Theodore Fran- 
cis Green "87. The Council expressed its 
doubt of the value of a proposal to have 
verdicts given by a majority instead of by 
unanimous decision of juries and recom- 
mended that the State courts follow Federal 
Court practice in requiring a complainant 
or petitioner seeking a restraining order to 
give bond. Judge Charles A. Walsh '99 of 
the Rhode Island Superior Court and Har- 
old B. Tanner '09 are also members of the 
Council. 

The Secretary records with regret the 
death of Samuel Belden Churchill in Stock- 
bridge, Mass., Dec. 19, 1934. Churchill had 
been superintendent of schools in Stock- 
bridge for 23 years. 

1898 

James S. Allen is serving a three-year 
term as member of the Winchester, Mass., 
School Committee. His son, William S. 
Allen, is in his first year at the Harvard 
School of Business Administration. In a 
recent letter, commenting on the AP story 
about his issuing a writ of attachment (as 
clerk of the United States District Court in 
Boston) against Franklin D, Roosevelt, Jr., 
he said: "The item in the papers was as 
much news to me as to you. How shallow is 
fame! We sell court writs in blank — lawyers 
always have some in stock. I never heard of 
the case in question till the papers pub- 
lished the facts." 

Dr. Charles Carroll, State Director of 
Vocational Education, was named perma- 
nent chairman of the new State Apprentice- 
ship Agency for Rhode Island at a meeting 
held in Providence last month. The agency, 
appointed by Secretary Frances Perkins, 
'"will regulate the wage scale to be paid to 
apprentices in various industries." 



1900 

Daniel C. Chace, editor of the Washing- 
ton Star, reports his new house address to 
be 3 5 25 Davenport Street, Apt. 200, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

The New Jersey Baptist Convention will 
hold its 193 5 meeting with the First Baptist 
Church of New Brunswick, of which Rev. 
Dr. J. Bruce Gilman has been pastor since 
1921. The Convention, according to the 
records, was held with the First Church in 
183 5, a hundred years ago next fall. 

1901 

The Worcester Telegram in its feature 
series, "In the News," carried a picture and 
sketch of Judge Winfred H. Whiting in its 
issue of Dec. 17. "Judge Whiting," it said, 
"who has announced a move to clear the 
Superior Court civil docket of automobile 
cases, has been on the Superior Court bench 
since 1922. His announcement offers a solu- 
tion to a problem which has confronted the 
judiciary for a number of years. . . . Judge 
Whiting has a summer residence in Oak- 
dale. His summer home and its gardens hold 
his principal interest beyond his judicial 
duties." 

1902 

Members of the Class will be glad to hear 
that Samuel Cohen is recovering from an 
extended illness. Report is that gatherings 
at the Brown University Club in New York 
haven"t seemed the same with Cohen's 
stories missing. 

Major Henry W. Stiness, U. S. A., who 
was drov/ned Aug. 23, 1934, in Hawaii, 
was buried with full military honors in 
Arlington National Memorial Cemetery 
late in November. 

1903 

Harrison B. Hill and Mrs. Hill have 
announced the marriage of their daughter. 
Miss Laura Frances Hill, to Charles Madi- 
son Fay of Edgewood, R. I. 

H. A. (Larry) Mackinney was a guest 
during the fall of Colonel G. A. (Bird) 
Taylor "01 at the Taylor farm in Old Had- 
ley, Mass. The two had not hunted to- 
gether since the latter part of the last 
century, and they enjoyed the partridge and 
pheasant shooting in the Pelham Hills, 
behind Amherst. They also jumped a deer, 
but the law was still on. They showed some 
of their sedentary juniors a thing or two 
about mobility in the open and sport in the 
hunt. 

1904 

Dr. Charles W. Hunt, principal of One- 
onta, N. Y., State Normal School, gave the 
epilogue, "The Century Ahead," at the 
70th Convocation of the University of the 
State of New York held late in October in 
Chancellor's Hall of the State Education 
Building, Albany. 

Oscar L. Heltsen, Rhode Island Insur- 
ance Commissioner, discussed "Resident 
Agents' Laws" before the annual meeting 
of the National Convention of Insurance 
Commissioners in St. Petersburg, Fla., De- 
cember 4-6. 

1905 

Charles H. Douglass, whose marriage is 
reported in another column, has changed 
his mail address to 33 Walnut Street, Med- 
ford, Mass., but he is still with the General 
Electric Company, Lynn, Mass., and his 
boys will continue to go to school in 
Swampscott until next June. 

William J. Lamkie spoke at Sloane House, 
New York City, last month on "Federated 
Unions and Company Unions." 



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The 30th Reunion Committee is at work 
with Newton P. Hutchison in command. 
Latest report is that the Committee has a 
problem on its hands to pet out the largest 
possible number at the least possible ex- 
pense to everybody. One of the ideas is to 
go ahead on a minimum overhead charge 
with plenty of extras for all who cry lor 

them. 

1907 

Miss Joanna Spinney, daughter of the 
late William A. Spinney, and Edward f. 
York of New York City, were married in 
Litchfield, Conn., Dec. 26, 1934. M". York, 
who lived with her mother in Litchfield, 
was a Sophomore at Pembroke College at 
the time of her marriage. 

Leon F. Payne's son, Leon M. Payne 36, 
was elected marshal of the Junior Class on 
the Hill at the election held late in Novem- 
ber The office of marshal corresponds to 
the old office of class president. Young 
Payne won his letter in football as a line- 
man. He is also one of the high-stand stu- 
dents at Brown and is in line for Phi Beta 

^When the Turks Head Club of Provi- 
dence revived its annual Beefsteak Dinner 
last month after an interval of 15 or more 
years, R. B. Jones provided the entertain- 
ment'with a skit which, our correspondent 
at the ringside reports, hit off in style 
poUtics and politicians in Rhode Island of 
the present. A. C. Snow was one of Bob s 
fellow actors in the piece. 

George Burnham is back at his duties at 
Pampanga Sugar Mills, Central Del Car- 
men, Del Carmen, Pampanga Province, 
Philippine Islands, after having spent his 
summer vacation in Switzerland. In a letter 
to Henry G. (Shan) Clark he said that he 
chose Switzerland in order to have the 
greatest possible amount of cool weather 
while he was taking it easy. He hopes to 
enjoy his next vacation in the United States. 

1908 

Percy A. Shaw, superintendent of the 
Manchester, N. H., Water Department, was 
back on the campus last month, visiting his 
son, Frank A. Shaw of the Freshman Class, 
and renewing acquaintances in the Division 
of Engineering and elsewhere. 

Tom Miller's new mail address is 3 5-64 
81st Street, Apt. 2J, Ravenna, Jackson 
Heights, N.Y. ^ ^ „ 

Robert C. Nason's father. Dr. O. C. B. 
Nason '82, died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 
7, 1934. Nason is selling supplies to green- 
houses, with his headquarters at 5 Bernard 



Street, Great Neck, N. Y., and he writes 
that "despite the repression, I am still eat- 
ing regularly. I seldom see Brown men (for 
no reason at all except natural drifting 
apart, as we lead different lives in different 
places). I attended the annual New York 
Brown dinner three years ago and enjoyed 
it immensely." 

George Carroll was present at the dinner 
given to Governor Theodore Francis Green 
'87 by the Brown University Club in New 
York, and report is that he is now working 
in New York City. 

1909 
Clarence R. Johnson is in Tucson, Ariz., 
where he is living at_715 East 3rd Street 
"until further notice." 

George H. Henderson, chief engineer of 
the State Board of Public Roads, is a mem- 
ber of the planning board recently named 
by Governor Theodore Francis Green '87 
to "co-ordinate efforts to develop Rhode 
Island's property values and natural 
resources." 

Eddie Mayer, who had come East from 
Chicago to try a law case in New York 
City, made a flying visit to the campus just 
before the Christmas recess. He had a 
nephew (a prospective Brown man) with 
him, and many pictures of campus scenes 
and campus figures which he took at 25th 
Reunion last June. We hope that his photo- 
graph of Johnny Mayhew and Hugh Cam- 
eron will be preserved. 
1910 
Ralph M. Palmer, new president of the 
Brown Engineering Association, is also a 
uice president of the Brown University Club 
in New York, where he is active in all Club 
afTairs. 

Ralph B. Farnum's mother, Mrs. Loretta 
J. (Roper) Farnum, a former teacher m 
the Providence public schools and one of 
the first graduates of the old Rhode Island 
State Normal School, died in Los Angeles, 
Calif., Dec. 5, 1934. Farnum is a teacher at 
the Excelsior Union High School, Norwalk, 

Calif- , „, 

Warren C. Johnson s son, Warren, again 
won his letter as a member of the Cranston, 
R. I., High School football team last fall. 
He's an end, and a good college prospect, 
according to observers. 
1911 

Harry R. Westcott, president of West- 
cott 6? Mapes, Inc., consulting engineers of 
New Haven, Conn., was a speaker at the 
open meeting of the Providence Section, 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
Nov. 30. His subject was, "The Engineer in 
an Economic Age." 

Rev. Herbert B. Francis's wife, Lydia 
(Andrews) Francis, died suddenly in Fall 
River, Mass., Dec. 12. Mrs. Francis also 
received her degree in 1911, being a mem- 
ber of that class at Pembroke College. A 
daughter, Dorothy A. Francis, is the only 
child. Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D.D. '08 
and Rev. W. D. Swaffield '06 officiated at 
the funeral. Francis has the sympathy of the 
Class in his loss. 

1912 

E. A. Adams was a speaker at the dedica- 
tion of the new house of Gamma Nu Chap- 
ter, Beta Theta Pi, at the University of 
California at Los Angeles late in the fall. 
Adams is director of District 23 of the 
national fraternity which includes the chap- 
ters at California, Stanford, and University 
of California at Los Angeles. 

Dr. Hermon Gary Bumpus, Jr., has 

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opened an office for the practice of medi- 
cine at 110 North Madison Avenue, Pasa- 
dena, Calif. His house is at 1160 South 
Orange Avenue, Pasadena. 
1913 
Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Temple 
Rodeph Sholem, New York City, per- 
suaded Sean 0'Casey,_the Irish playwright, 
to emerge from his "usual modest seclu- 
sion" one Sunday last month to address the 
congregation of the Temple on "Within the 
Gates," his play now current in New York. 
O'Casey appeared in "brown tweeds and 
his customary brown turtle-neck sweater," 
the H^w York Herald Tribune said, de- 
fended his play against attacks made upon 
it, and discussed resemblances between the 
Jews and the Irish. 

Harry C. Brown, member of the Faculty 
of Lowell Textile School, reports his mail 
address to be 34 Franklin Street, Marble- 
head, Mass. 

1914 
Peter F. Dugan has been appointed man- 
ager of the new Petroleum Sales Division 
of the B. F. Goodrich Company which will 
promote the sale of Goodrich products 
through the major oil companies in Connec- 
ticut, western Massachusetts and southern 
Vermont. His headquarters will be at 195 
High Street, Hartford, Conn. 

Dr. Edward A. McLaughlin was elected 
president of the Society of the Friendly 
Sons of St. Patrick at the meeting held in 
Providence last month. 
1915 
Adams T. Rice is back at his house at 
243 Howard Avenue, Grymes Hill, Staten 
Island, N. Y., after spending the summer 
with a circus, according to the Staten Island 
Advance, "and is looking forward to a busy 
winter in New York City, probably with the 
Theatre Guild." Of his circus experiences 
the Advance story said : 

"This past summer brought Mr. Rice one 
of his more interesting experiences. He dis- 
posed of the largest part of the Players' 
equipment to the Duggan Brothers' Circus, 
and in July started on tour with that circus, 
again as business manager. The circus 
toured through the Middle West and South- 
west until it reached Dallas, Tex. In Dallas, 
in the middle of last month (October) the 
owner and general manager suddenly left 
the show, leaving no trace of their where- 
abouts. The circus equipment, Mr. Rice 
said, was worth $10,000, and there was no 
explanation for the owner's sudden depart- 
ure since the show was not in debt. 

"Town officials hastily conferred about 
the unusual problem, and the show was 
formally declared bankrupt and turned 
over to a Presbyterian minister as receiver. 
A Dallas business man purchased the entire 
equipment, and Mr. Rice decided to come 
home to Staten Island." 

Harold M. Jackson, member of the sales 
staff of the Woerner Advertising and Manu- 
facturing Company, Belleville, N. J., is now 
living on Hillspoint Road, Westport, Conn. 
Charles M. Clegg, as we recently re- 
ported, is with the General Outdoor Adver- 
tising Company in Washington and is 
living with his family (there are two boys 
and a girl) at 5012 4th Street, N. W., in 
that city. 

Clarence J. Grinnell, educational adviser 
with the CCC, has been on duty with Com- 
pany 361, Camp S-62, Milroy, Pa. 
1916 
Stanley L. Yonce, who represents the 
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Chicago, was one of the Chicago banking 
group which attended the annual Invest- 
ment Bankers" Convention at White Sul- 
phur Springs, Va., late last fall. 
1917 

Frank A. Farnham, 2nd, is back in Win- 
netka, 111., one of the snappy North Shore 
suburbs of Chicago, as our midwest scout 
says, after having been East with his wife 
and 2-years old son for a tour that included 
Providence, New York, and New Jersey, 
where Frank visited his brother, Joseph H. 
Farnham '14. 

Harvey Sheahan is with the Buffalo 
Brick Corporation, Orchard Park, N. Y. In 
a recent letter he said: "You had better 
change my address from Wickford, R. I., 
to Orchard Park, as I will probably be out 
here for some time to come. Harry Samson 
'19, executive secretary of the Emergency 
Relief Bureau of Buffalo, and I have had 
several pleasant visits during the fall." 
1918 

Ernest C. Hathaway is with the Twin 
State Gas 6? Electric Company and is living 
at 10? Lincoln Avenue, Rutland, Vt. 
1919 

James S. Eastham and his growing family 
have removed from Methuen to their new 
house at 29 Morton Street, Andover, Mass. 
Eastham will continue to commute to Bos- 
ton, where he is attorney for Eastern Gas 
and Fuel Associates at 250 Stuart Street. 

Arthur J. Levy has been re-elected presi- 
dent of the lewish Welfare Society of 
Rhode Island for his seventh term. 

Eugene W. O'Brien, editor of the South- 
ern Power Journa], Atlanta, Ga., was back 
on the campus early in December, renewing 
acquaintances at the Division of Engineer- 
ing. He came from Atlanta to speak before 
the Providence Section, American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers on "The Engineer 
in an Economic Age." 
1920 

Edmund F. Beagan's father, John P. 
Beagan, well known Providence lawyer, 
died suddenly in Providence, Nov. 24, 
1934. Mr. Beagan, Sr., was also the father 
of John G. Beagan '21, engineer, and Joseph 
E. Beagan '22, who, with Edmund, was 
associated with his father in the practice 
of law. 

1921 

Brayton Eddy, naturalist, was the author 
of a full page article in the special section 
of the Proiiidcncc Sunday Journa! of Dec. 9 
under the attracting title of "You Can 
Become a Nature Lover in Your Own 
Parlor." In the article he told of the aqua- 
rium hobby which, he said, "is cheap and 
exciting." Eddy is in demand throughout 
the country as a lecturer on nature subjects. 

George Macready is continuing this sea- 
son in Katharine Cornell's company and is 
playing the part of Paris in "Romeo and 
Juliet," now on view in New York. 
1922 

C. B. Howard, manager of the Depart- 
ment of Advertising and Agency Co-opera- 
tion of the Citizens Insurance Company, 
Hartford, Conn., was the author of a one- 
act play, "Ring XXB," produced by the 
Combined Clubs of the Hartford Fire Insur- 
ance Company and the Hartford Accident 
and Indemnity Company in Hartford, Dec. 
12. The Hartford Courant said that the 
story "tells of how the wife of a jeweler 
wanted very much to wear a ring belonging 
to the firm, how her husband did not want 
her to, how the ring was sold to a mysterious 
stranger who selected it as a gift for 'the 



charming lady" whom he admired and how 
finally the wife was found wearing the ring 
after all." It has been many years since any 
member of C. B.'s company produced any 
original work. Incidentally, C. B. is the first 
teacher of contract bridge in Hartford to 
receive the new National Master Teachers" 
Certificate. 

Mayor John F. Quinn of Pawtucket, re- 
elected in November for a second term, 
spoke last month before the Kiwanis Club 
of Pawtucket on the history of horse racing 
— a timely subject in view of the fact that 
the new Narragansett track, one of the finest 
in the United States, is situated in his city. 

Francis J. Jordan's new address is 210 
Rumsey Road, Yonkers, N. Y. Jordan is 
with the Poirier 6? McLane Corporation, 
33 West 4:nd Street, New York City. 
1923 

Edward N. Larrabee is entering upon his 
11th year as owner and manager of Nedlar 
Farm, where he breeds poultry, at Peter- 
boro, N. H. He began work on the farm 
in October, 1924, and has carried on since 
that time with success. He writes for the 
poultry journals, and otherwise enjoys him- 
self. There are three young Larrabees in 
the family, Marie, Ralph (for the Class of 
1948 or 1949), and Janet. 

Vincent York's play, "Brittle Heaven," 
did not last long on Broadway, as some of 
the reviewers prophesied. The opinion was 
that the drama in it was too slight. As a 
play about Emily Dickinson it necessarily 




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had to be slim, and there was the rub. "But 
'Brittle Heaven' is nevertheless to be wel- 
comed," said Arthur Ruhl in the Jsieiu Tor/< 
Herald Tribune. "One might safely say that 
we can't get too much of such pieces, know- 
ing very well that we won't — pieces, that is 
to say, in which there is good taste, intelli- 
gence, a whiff of days gone by, and 
enough about the heroine to encourage a 
little private investigation into her com- 
paratively unknown works."' 

Francis L. Jones, Professor of Latin and 
Ancient History at State Teachers' College, 
Worcester, Mass., got his name and picture 
on the front page of the Vv'orcester Tele- 



gram one day last fall in connection with 
his lecture on a terra cotta cone, 4,000 years 
old, which recently came into the possession 
of State Teachers" College. The cone goes 
back to 2150 B. C, just before the time of 
Abraham. It was found at Ur of the Chal- 
dees, the place from which Abraham is 
supposed to have set out for Palestine. The 
inscription on the cone is the title of a 
Babylonian King, Linit-Ishtar. It has been 
translated in part by Professor Pfeiffer of 
Harvard. Jones told his auditors that the 
exact use of the cone was not known, but 
it might have been used for a seal. 

John L. Gaerste is with the bond house 
of Lazard Freres 6? Co., Inc., 15 Nassau 
Street, New York City. He commutes daily 
from Whippany, N. J. 

Dr. A. E. Whitehouse is a practising 
physician at 231 Main Street, Chatham, 
N. J. He recently wrote us that the sudden 
death of Peg Elmendorf was a great shock 
to him. He also said that Mrs. Elmendorf 
is now living in St. Petersburg, Fla. 

T. G. (Pete) Simmons continues to en- 
joy life as manager of Wells Ranch, Mathe- 
son, Colo., where he raises fine sheep and 
wool alfalfa fed lambs. He wrote just before 
Christmas that he had been shocked and 
grieved to read in the December number of 
the Alumni Monthly about the death of 
Peg Elmendorf, with whom he lived for a 
year after graduation in St. Petersburg, 
Fla., where he and Peg and Lloyd Gallup 
felt they could make their first million in 
real estate. Pete added: "If all Brown men 
will co-operate by eating lots of lamb. Bill 
Simmons will be playing football for Bruno 
in about 16 years. He has a good start for 
fullback material. Barbara, his sister, is 
already something of an equestrian, but 
still in the Shetland pony stage." 
1924 

Gerald W. Bennett, back in Colorado 
Springs, Colo., practising law, was recently 
elected president of the Colorado Springs 
Chamber of Commerce. 

Dr. Ernest Weston Gray, Associate Pro- 
fessor of English at the College of William 
and Mary and Virginia Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Norfolk, Va., Division, recently spoke 
before the Beth-EI Temple Club of Norfolk 
on "Edgar Allen Poe"s Reputation."" Gray 
has been a member of the Faculty of 
William and Mary since 1931. 

Murray Lease is practising law with 
Bigham, Englar, Jones S" Houston at 99 
John Street, New York City. 

Davy Jones, confirming the fact that he 
is with the Wallace Press, which prints 
telephone books and such, wrote last month 
that Student Life at Brown was "the best 
sales promotion work" he had ever received 
from Brown. He also said: "Both my young- 
sters learned to dive and swim last summer, 
although it nearly killed their dad teaching 
them how to get away without 'belly-whop- 
ping.' I had to see a chiropractor; I only 
hit on the bottom with my head." Davy 
sent his best wishes through the Alumni 
Monthly to Frank Hough "and a few of 
my other friends I have lost track of com- 
pletely because I am such a poor corre- 
spondent." 

Quentin, alias Red, Reynolds, associate 
editor of Colher's, was cornered by an 
interviewer from the Portland, Ore., Journa! 
last fall when Reynolds was visiting the 
San Juan group of islands off the coast to 
get material for an article. He told the 
interviewer that "the short story field is 
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should "find a good market." He also con- 
fessed that he came West to do some satiri- 
cal articles on Hollywood, but gave up the 
idea when he saw how hard the Hollywood 
boys and girls were working. 

Ralph C. Smith is a member of the New 
York Stock Exchange, having bought a 
seat thereon last November, and now has 
his office at 11 5 Broadway, New York City. 
1925 
Laurence F. McDermott is representa- 
tive of the rental department of the Mar- 
shall Field Estate, Chicago, and is currently 
engaged in filling the mammoth Field Build- 
ing on LaSalle Street to capacity. 
1926 
Percy F. Smith is doing graduate work in 
Latin at Harvard this year. His address is 
13 Shaler Lane, Cambridge, Mass. 

Dr. Leonard B. Thompson has taken 
over the practice of another doctor in 
Gardner, Mass., and intends to do the bulk 
of his work in that town. But he will main- 
tain his practice in Templeton, Mass., 
where he has been located for nearly three 
years, or since he ended his intcrneship at 
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston. 

Earl Lofquist is a member of the sports 
staff of the Providence Journal with hockey 
as his special assignment this winter. 

Albert L. Parks is now associated with 
Crahan Engraving Company, 240 Aborn 
Street. Providence. 

Dr. Milton T. MacDonald is engaged in 
the general practice of medicine in New 
Bedford, Mass. For several years he has 
been visiting physician to SoI-e-Mar Ortho- 
pedic Hospital for Children, Dartmouth, 
Mass. 

1927 
Gardner C. Hudson has moved from 
Fitchburg, Mass., where he was with the 
Fitchburg Taxpayers' Association, Inc., to 
Louisville, Ky., where he has become execu- 
tive secretary of the Kentucky Railroad 
Association, recently organised to carry on 
work for the protection and promotion of 
Kentucky railroad interests. Hudson's work 
will be largely of a public relations nature. 
He is looking forward to its development 
with eagerness, but he admits that he is 
sorry "to be going so far from New Eng- 
land." His office is on the tenth floor of the 
Louisville 6? Nashville Railroad IJuilding, 
Ninth Street and Broadway, Louisville. 

John C. Henry, formerly with the Wash- 
ington Bureau of the Providence Journa], 
is now on the reportorial stafl"" of the Wash- 
ington Star. We report his marriage in 
another column. Henry succeeded Dick 
Carpenter "28 when he went to Washington 
for the Joi^rnal in 1933. 

J. H. Ricker is now a solicitor in the 
eastern advertising office of the Chicago 
Tribune at 220 East 42nd Street, New York 
City. His home is in Bronxville. 

Michael J. Mozzochi is resident engineer 
for the Connecticut State Highway Depart- 
ment on the Merritt Highway, the State's 
new boulevard now under construction. He 
and his family (there's a new member 
whose arrival is reported in another col- 
umn) are living on Trumbull Avenue, 
Trumbull — or "right on the job," as 
Mozzochi says. 

Leon O. Wolcott has been admitted to 

the New York bar. He received his LL.B. 

from the New York Law School in 193 2. 

1928 

Franklin S. Huddy, teacher at Nathan 

Bishop Junior High School, Providence, 



showed pictures of meteor trails during the 
Leonid shower last fall at the December 
meeting of The Skyscrapers, the Rhode 
Island amateur astronomical society. 

Frank J. Wilson is district manager for 
the F. W. Dodge Corporation, with his 
office at 821 Hanna Building, Cleveland. 
He and Mrs. Wilson (they were married in 
October) are settled in their new house at 
2988 East 13 2nd Street, Shaker Heights, O. 

Dr. Seebert |. Goldowsky has begun his 
duties as resident in surgery at the Mt. 
Sinai Hospital, New York City. Since grad- 
uation from Harvard Medical School in 
1932, Goldowsky has served an interneship 
in surgery at Beth Israel Hospital and a 
short term in neuro-surgery at Boston City 
Hospital. He expects to be at Mt. Sinai 
until next December. 

Edgar M. Grout still gets his mail at 
East Walpole, Mass. In a recent note he 
wanted to know about Don Ball '27 and 
Frank Singiser and added that he enjoyed 
reading "all the news in the Brown 
An'MNi Monthly." 

Has anybody seen or heard from Forrest 
Kenerson lately? We've been told that 
Forrie spent two years in China, where he 
was mixed up in guerilla warfare most of 
the time (but not of his own volition), and 
that he worked as a union man at Rocke- 
feller Centre for a year and a half after he 
came home. Report is that he may go back 
to China (perhaps he has already gone) on 
his own hook as an exporter. 

Irving Harris has moved the offices of 
The Harris Company, Inc., textile convert- 
ers, from 39 Worth Street to 80 Worth 
Street, New York City. "Our new quar- 
ters," he said in a recent letter, "are approx- 
imately twice the size of our present office 
space, with just about the same space for 
stock." 

1929 

Harold M. Cole is a lawyer with Iselin, 
Riggs and Ferris, 120 Broadway, New York 
City. His house is at 66 Milton Road, Rye, 
where he is a director of the Board of 
Trade. He is also a director of the Bank of 
Montclair, Montclair, N. J., his old home 
town. 

Clyde C. Barrows, we hear, has lately 
been made head of the Public Utilities Divi- 
sion of Remington Rand, Inc.. in New 
England. His headquarters continue to be 
in Boston, and the pleasing news is that the 
Barrows twins (boys, remember, who will 
be one year old Ian. 18) are "doing fine." 

James J. Mahoney, Jr., is a supervisor 
with the New York Telephone Company at 
210 West 18th Street, New York City. He 
still claims Jamaica as his home city. 

One of our correspondents reports that 
Samuel B. Larkin was married in New York 
City Nov. 28 to Miss Rose Catoggio and 
that Robert G. Inman '24 was Sam's best 
man. Sam has been working in New York 
for the past year or so. Maybe he will be a 
better correspondent now that he has a 
wife to check up on him. 

1930 

Gilbert C. Rich is sales supervisor for the 
New England Bakery Company in Cam- 
bridge, and is living at 29 Crest Road, 
Sharon, Mass. 

William B. Bartlett, Jr., has become rep- 
resentative and salesman for Babson Re- 
ports, Inc., in Rhode Island. 

Herbert W. Codlin is a teacher at the 
Plainfield High School, Central Village, 



Conn., but he modestly wants it known that 
Moosup is still his home town and that he 
gets his mail at 114 Daggett St., Moosup. 

Frank B. Newton, member of the Class 
during Freshman and Sophomore years, is 
a member of the sales staff of the Windram 
Mfg. Company, rubber goods, Wollaston, 
Mass., where he and his family live at 33 
Exeter Street. There are two children, 
Frank B. Newton, 3rd, who will be four 
years old next June, and Annette, who will 
celebrate her 6th birthday next August. 

Charles F. H. Menges is working in New 
York City, according to report, and is liv- 
ing at Sloane House, 356 West 34th Street. 
Leo Jacobson is a member of the first 
year class at the Pennsylvania State College 
of Optometry, Philadelphia. 

Lieut. Philip B. Stiness, U. S. A., and 
Mrs. Stiness and their young son have re- 
turned from three years service in Manila 
and have been visiting relatives before 
going to Fort Adams, Newport, R. I., 
where Stiness will be stationed unless he is 
assigned instead to the outpost at New 
Bedford. 

1931 
George W. (Bill) Watson, active in 
Sock and Buskin and the Brown Musical 
Clubs while he was in college, is in dra- 
matics, we hear, at Nela Park, near Cleve- 
land. Nela Park is the experimental plant 
of the General Electric Company. 

Clark Ferguson and his old college chum, 
Stanley Jones, are in business at the present 
time in Cleveland, just around the corner 
from each other. Clark is assistant manager 
of Kresge's ?-and-10-cent store and Stan is 
assistant manager of Woolworth's. 

Kent Allen, in a note last month, con- 
firmed the report that he is with the Eaton 
Paper Corporation, Pittsfield, Mass., and 
added the information that at present he is 
in the merchandising department. He's 
hanging his hat temporarily at the Y.M.C. A. 
Joe O'Neil, executive secretary of the 
Brown University Club in New York, was 
recently elected to fill a vacancy on the 
Executive Committee of the Associated 
Alumni, the active working group of the 
association. The Committee meets once a 
month in Providence, thus giving Joe a 
chance to get home regularly. 

Bob Cronan's present avocation is serv- 
ing as secretary of the Alumni Association 
of the Collegiate School, New York City, 
from which he came to Brown. Bob is edit- 
ing the Collegiate Alumni Bulletin which, 
according to its masthead, is "published 
every now and then." He was chosen presi- 
dent pro tem of the association last spring, 
but gave up that post in the fall to accept 
the more congenial one (to him) of secre- 
tary and editor. 

William Endlar has announced the open- 
ing of his law office at 161 Devonshire 
Street, Room 7 15- 16, Boston. He received 
his LL.B. from Harvard in June, 1934. 

William Ronald Gill reports that he has 
changed his address to 37-16 83rd Street, 
Apt. 5G, Jackson Heights, N. Y. Gill is an 
auditor with the Equitable Life Assurance 
Society in New York City. 

Ben Greenfield is with the Old Colony 
Knitting Mills, Inc., manufacturers of 
knitted sportswear, Hingham, Mass. We 
report his engagement (and congratulate 
him) in another column. 

1932 
Ken Butler is still on the job with Shaw- 
print, Inc., Lowell, Mass. He's been selling 



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address is 139 Stevens Street, Lowell. Ken 
writes that Joe Daniels is in the dry ice 
business with the E. 6? F. King Co., Boston. 

Russ Corp has been Providence sales 
representative of the McFadden Publica- 
tions for the past year. Recently he received 
promotion and now has three men working 
under him. Russ is living at 193 Colfax 
Street, Providence. 

Jack Dolan is teaching in Providence, 
having received appointment last fall after 
a year as student teacher. He won his A.M. 
in education last June. Rip Hurley thinks 
Jack's tendencies are becoming socialistic, 
as Jack notified Rip recently that "all future 
reunions of the Class of 1932 will be at the 
expense of the Class — that is, free." As the 
Class Treasurer, Jack qualifies as an opti- 



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mist. Incidentally, his mail address is 91 
Bark Street, Providence. 

Stew Essex is secretary to the superin- 
tendent of schools in East Greenwich, R. I. 
Among his various duties is director of the 
athletic program of the Junior High School. 
Thanks to his regular job and all its side 
issues. Stew says, he "manages to keep the 
wolf from having pups on the doorstep." 

George (Tuite) Eldredge has left life 
insurance work to hook up with HOLC, 
Providence, in the accounting department. 
Tuite is living at 103 Williams Street, just 
around the corner from the Brown campus. 
Mort Ellis is a student at the Rhode 
Island School of Design in the Department 
of Drawing and Painting. 

Skip Evcleth has become an aeronautical 
engineer. From April, 1933, to November, 
1934, Skip was experimental test engineer 
with the Pratt 6? Whitney Aircraft Cor- 
poration "on a double tow twin Wasp 
engine project." Recently he was appointed 
sales engineer. He's living at 3 50 Laurel 
Street, Hartford, Conn. 

Charlie Des jardins is studying at the 
Albany Law School, and he writes that "if 
you are in Albany you can find me at 270 
Washington Avenue." 

Warren Archibald reports that he is 
located at 16 Wales Street, North Abing- 
ton, Mass., and that he would appreciate it 
if anyone, hearing of a good job open, 
would let him know about it at once. 

Sherburn Edgerly is in his third year at 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia University, and is living at home, 
418 East 136th Street, New York City. 

James E. (General) Spellman has become 
an assistant scout executive of Worcester 
Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. He 
will be in charge of troop service in towns 
suburban to Worcester and will direct the 
annual jamboree in April. The General has 
been in scout work since his high school 
days. 

Ralph (Judge) Estes, whose engagement 
to Miss Marion E. Fife we announced some 
time ago, is hard at it at Boston University 
Law School. Paul Mackesey, Jack Flynn 
and Jack O'Shaughnessy are in Law School 
with the Judge, who gets his mail at 61 
Pinckney St., Boston. Incidentally, Ralph 
has been honored by being put on the all- 
university Student Council. 

Jack Cooper, noting the fact that he is 
at Yale Law School, adds that he is rooming 
with Deck Clarke and Mel Dichter at 22 
Lake Place, New Haven. 

Dave Davidson is a busy boy these days. 
He's working at Brown for his Ph.D. in 
biochemistry: he's acting as assistant in 
chemistry (the work, Dave says, is "chiefly 
mixing perplexing solutions for biochem 
and physiology students"); and he's selling 
an oil filter in his spare time. Dave expects 
to win his doctor's degree in 1936. 

1933 

Ed Rogers is a manufacturing chemist 
with the Bayer Company, 589 E. Illinois 
Street, Chicago. 

Ollie Neidlinger is studying law at Bos- 
ton University Law School and playing 
basketball whenever he has opportunity. 

Arthur Justin is Washington correspond- 
ent assigned to Congress for the Daily T^ews 
Record of New York City. His address is 
125 B Street, S. E., Washington. 

Bernard Cohen is a member of the office 
force of the Cohen Mfg. Company, Provi- 
dence, manufacturing jewelers. 



Bill and Tom Gilbane, backin Providence 
after having spent the fall months coaching 
football at Westminster College, New Wil- 
mington, Pa. (Coach McLaughry's college), 
were told that they could return to West- 
minster next season if they so desired. The 
Westminster Athletic Council was well 
pleased with the work of the Gilbanes even 
though the Westminster eleven won three 
games, tied one, and lost six. Three of the 
defeats were by teams far above Westmin- 
ster's class. The schedule for 193 5 calls for 
seven or possibly eight games with teams of 
Westminster's size, thereby making the 
coaching problem simpler for Bill and Tom 
if they decide to return to New Wilmington. 
Bill Parker is working for the General 
Plate Company, Attleboro, Mass., and is 
living temporarily, we are told, at 124 
Pleasant Street, Attleboro. 

Ed Schoen, Jr., is working for Julius 
Grossman, shoes, 36th Street and Fifth 
Avenue, New York City, and attending 
law school at night. He's living at 681 
Clinton Avenue, Newark, N. J. 
1934 
Harry Couden, back in the home city of 
Seattle, Wash., has written that he is a sort 
of "glorified office hoy in a salmon packing 
and canning concern." He is maintaining 
his interest in debating through contacts 
with his old high school as a high school 
debate judge operating under the auspices 
of the University of Washington. 

Bill Lewis is working for the Penn Power 
a Light Company in Allentown, Pa. 

Ed Hickcy, we hear, has a Government 
job in Washington and is putting in his 
spare hours as a student at Georgetown Law 
School. 

Harold Seidman is doing graduate work 
in political science at Brown. 

Coburn Buxton has come back to New 
England from Danville, Va., and is a mem- 
ber of the sales stafl^ of Eastern Advertising 
Company, 209 Washington Street, Boston. 
Frank Wilier is working in one of the 
banks in Miami, Fla. During the Christmas 
holiday he entertained Coach Leo Barry 
and members of the Brown swimming 
squad who went to Miami by motor and 
got in some fine outdoor practice. 

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ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Florence Ada Mooney, daughter of 
Mrs. Edna Taber Mooney of Providence, to 
Arthur F. Short, Jr. "29 of Edgewood, R. I. 

Miss Dons Beverley Cohen, daughter of 
Mrs. Sarah Cohen of Roxbury, Mass., to 
Ben Greenfield '31 of Hingham, Mass. 

Miss Jeannette Hood, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. James H. Hood of Watertown, 
Mass., to Stanley Clifl^ord Paige '32 of 
Providence. 

Miss Ruth P. Daniels, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Adolphus Daniels of Providence, 
to Robert M. Hall '34 of Providence and 
New York City. 

Miss Doris Redfield, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William I. Redfield of West Bridge- 
water, Mass., to Frank G. Chadwick, Jr. '34, 
also of West Bridgewatcr. 
* * * 

WEDDIHGS 

1905 — Charles H. Douglass and Miss 
Helen W. Moorhouse were married in Med- 
ford, Mass., Nov. 14, 1934. They are at 
home at 3 3 Walnut Street, Medford. 

1926 — J. Mark Jacobson and Miss 
Blanche M. Woolf, daughter of Mrs. Henry 
Woolf, were married in New York City 



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Nov. 29, 1934. They are living at 201 West 
1 1th Street, New York. 

1927 — John C. Henry and Miss Barbara 
Louise Bentley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Wesley S. Ames, were married in Wash- 
ington, D. C, Nov. 10, 1934. They are at 
home at 1900 F Street, N. W., Washington, 

1928 — G. Richmond Carpenter and Miss 
Evelyn Susan Umberhocker, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Umberhocker of 
Chambersburg, Pa., were married in Wash- 
ington, D. C, Nov. 29, 1934. They are at 
home at 1 Richard Street, Cranston, R. I. 

1929 — Richard R. Young and Miss Vir- 
ginia Elijabeth Cook, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Willard B. Cook, were married in New 
Rochelle, N. Y., Dec. H, 1934. 

1930 — Otto Kerncr, Jr., and Mrs. Helen 
Cermak Kenlay, daughter of Mrs. Anton 
Cermak and the late Mayor Cermak, were 
married in Chicago. Oct. 20, 1934. They 
are at home at 2348 So. Millard Ave., 
Chicago. 

1931 — Howard I. Angell, son of Walter 
H. Angell "06 and Mrs. Angell. and Miss 
Doris Gertrude Farr, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Guy V. Farr, were married in Provi- 
dence, Nov. 24, 1934. Everett L. Angell "33 
was best man for his brother. Mr. and Mrs. 
Angell are living at 4? Mawney Street, 
Providence. 

1933 — Saul A. Shuman and Miss Sara 
L. Saxe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David 
Saxe, were married in Newton, Mass., June 
21, 1934. They are living at 29 Old Colony 
Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 

1934 — William R. Johnson, son of 
William C. Johnson "01 and Mrs. Johnson, 
and Miss Hope Eastwood, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles W. Eastwood, were mar- 
ried in Providence, Dec. 1, 1934. Robert L. 
Jones "34 was best man, and the ushers in- 
cluded Howard F. Eastwood "29 and James 
A. Doran. Jr. "33. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson 
are now at home at Bourne Court, 48th and 
Pine Streets, Philadelphia. 
* * * 

BIRTHS 

1920— To Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. 
Lownes of Providence, a daughter, Sylvia, 
Nov. 26, 1934. 

1922— To Mr. and Mrs. Stuart H. 
Tucker of Providence, a son, Irving Harris, 
June 28, 1934. 

1922 — To Mayor and Mrs. John F. 
Quinn of Pawtucket, a second son on Dec. 
6, 1934. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Freeman T. 
Putney of Wellesley Hills, Mass., a sec- 
ond son, Jesse Melendy, Oct. 10, 1934. 
Mrs. Putney is the daughter of Jesse G. 
Melendy "01. 

1926— To Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Cooke 
of Providence, a daughter, Carol, Dec. 6, 
1934. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Intle- 
house of Berkeley, Calif., a son, Ernest Ely, 
Dec. 7, 1934. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Gardner C. 
Hudson of Fitchburg, Mass., and Louisville, 
Ky., a daughter, Linda Jean, Oct. 22, 1934. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. 
Mozzochi, of Trumbull. Conn., a son, 
Michael J. Mozzochi, Jr., Dec. 3, 1934. 

1928— To Dr. and Mrs. William T. 
Knight, Jr., of Bogota, N. J., a daughter, 
Cynthia Sue. April 16, 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. William A. Car- 
ney of Pawtucket, a daughter, Joan Ruth, 
Dec. 13, 1934. 

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. 
Ulson of Providence, a daughter, Shirley 
Ann, Dec. 7, 1934. 



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1864 

DR. George B.acheler Peck, who died 
in Providence, Nov. 21, 1934, was 
then the oldest graduate of Brown 
University. As the Proi'idence journal said 
in a fine editorial: "He was one of the long 
line of Rhode Island "characters," strong of 
mind and will and opinion, defending his 
views valiantly, indeed welcoming contro- 



versy for the joy of it. In every cause that 
he espoused he was both loyal and militant. 
"These qualities marked him as a Rhode 
Islander, as a Baptist, as a Homeopathist, 
as a Republican, as a Mason, and as a 
member of the G. A. R. He had in his veins 
a .strain of the famous Bacheler blood, which 
showed itself in the genius of Hawthorne 
and Daniel Webster." 




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Dr. Peck was born in Providence, Aug. 
12, 1843, the son of George B. and Ann 
Power (Smith) Peck. He prepared at the 
Providence High School, won his A.B. at 
Brown in 1864, and his A.M. in 1867, and 
in January, 1864, received a diploma upon 
completing a course in engineering on the 
Hill. He was, therefore, one of Brown's 
first students in engineering. In December, 
1864, he became Second Lieutenant, Rhode 
Island Volunteers, served in the trenches 
before Petersburg and was wounded at the 
battle of Sailors' Creek in April, 1865. 
After the wound healed, he rejoined his 
regiment and won honorable discharge in 
July, 1865. 

After four years in the office of Peck and 
Salisbury, coal and wood dealers in Provi- 
dence, he began the study of medicine, 
first at Hahnemann Medical College, Phila- 
delphia, and then at Yale Medical School, 
from which he was graduated with an M.D. 
in 1871. He remained for a year in New 
Haven, doing special work in chemistry, 
and from 1872 to 1874 taught classes in 
analytical chemistry at the Newport Naval 
Torpedo Station, where Capt. George 
Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, was in 
command. 

A year of teaching at University of Ver- 
mont followed, and in 1875 Dr. Peck 
settled in Providence to commence the gen- 
eral practice of medicine. He was the first 
physician to serve in the outpatient depart- 
ment of the Providence Homeopathic Dis- 
pensary and the first homeopath named to 
visit the city's poor. He was also the first 
homeopath appointed alienist in the Sixth 
District Court, Providence. He held every 
office in the Rhode Island Homeopathic 
Society; took out the charter for the first 
Homeopathic Hospital of Rhode Island: 
and he liked to recall that the greatest pro- 
fessional honor given him was that of hon- 
orary president of the American Institute 
of Homeopathy in 1912. 

In G. A. R. circles he was intensely active. 
He was a founder of Prescott Post, G. A. R., 
and one of its last surviving members. He 
held many offices in the organization. He 
was also active in the Loyal Legion, and 
was a 3 2nd degree Mason. He served for 
1 5 consecutive years as a member of the 
Providence School Committee; he was presi- 
dent, 1892 to 1896, of the Soldiers' and 
Sailors' Historical Society; he was a leading 
layman in the Baptist Church in Rhode 
Island. He was a life director of the Rhode 



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the "History of the Seventh Regiment, 
Rhode Island Volunteers"; he wrote pam- 
phlets for the Soldiers' and Sailors" Histori- 
cal Society, and contributed more than a 
hundred articles to the medical press. 

"He was proud in his memories of a 
great past. But he was never a man of the 
past. Until his latest days he was absorbed 
in the living present." 

Dr. Peck was never married. Surviving 
are his brother. Dr. William T. Peck '70, 
and his sister, Annie S. Peck, the mountain 
climber. All three have been included in 
'Who\ Who — truly "an uncommon record 
for one family." 



1877 

DR. Howard Forde Hansell, formerly 
well known for his work in ophthal- 
mology, died in Philadelphia, Nov. 5, 1934, 
the Alumni Office has been informed. The 
record of his later years is incomplete, as he 
never replied to the requests of the Alumni 
Office for information about himself. 

Dr. Hansell was born in Philadelphia, 
Oct. 25., 1855, the son of Barnett and 
Rebecca (Wetherill) Hansell. He prepared 
under a private tutor and at Brown was 
the companion and roommate of the late 
Rathbone Gardner. He was well liked as an 
undergraduate, although he did not partici- 
pate in any class or college affairs to give 
him prominence. He received his A.B. 
degree in 1877 and his A.M. in 1880. 

Returning to Philadelphia after gradua- 
tion, he registered at Jefferson Medical 
College, from which he received his M.D. 
in 1879. He commenced practice in Phila- 
delphia and was instructor and then Pro- 
fessor of Ophthalmology at Jefferson Medi- 
cal College. He was also chief clinical 
assistant of the outpatient department of 
the college. Adjunct Professor of Diseases 
of the Eye, Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospi- 
tal, and ophthalmologist at the Philadelphia 
Hospital. He collaborated with J. H. Ml 
in writing "Clinical Ophthalmology" in 
1892, and with Wendell Reber \n writing 
"Muscular Anomalies of the Eye" in 1899. 
He and William Sweet wrote a "Text Book 
on Diseases of the Eye" in 1903. He 
likewise contributed articles to medical 
journals. 

Dr. Hansell was married Jan. 3, 1887, to 
Emilic Reed Vogdes, and one son was born 
of the union. His uncle. Rev. William Forde 
Hansell, D.D., was a graduate from Brown 
in 1845. Dr. Hansell was a member of Psi 
Upsilon. 



1878 

DR Nathaniel Hibbard died in Daniel- 
son, Conn., Nov. 28, 1934. He had 
been a practising physician in Danielson 
and Providence since 1882. 

He was born in Moulmein, Burma, June 
13, 18'>5, the son of the Rev. Charles Hib- 
bard '50. missionary in Burma for many 
years, and Susan Ann (Robinson) Hibbard. 
His father came back to the United States 
in 1866 and young Hibbard prepared for 
college at Worcester Academy. After re- 
ceiving his A.B. from Brown in 1878 he 
entered Harvard Medical School, from 
which he was graduated in 1882. 



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He commenced practice in Danielson, 
where he took constructive part in civic 
affairs. He was a member of the school 
board and acting visitor to the high school, 
director of the Public Library, and also a 
member of the board of directors of the 
town savings bank. 

In 1898 he removed to Providence to 
open an oiBce on Broad Street. He returned 
to Danielson, however, in 1912, and con- 
tinued practice there until his retirement a 
year ago. During the past ten years he and 
Mrs. Hibbard had found much pleasure 
and interest in leisurely and extensive for- 
eign travels. 

Dr. Hibbard was married in 1884 to Miss 
Jennie Robinson, who survives, with a son, 
Lieut. Charles Hibbard, U. S. N., Construc- 
tion Corps, who entered Brown in the 
Class of 1907 and withdrew to accept 
appointment to the United States Naval 
Academy, and a daughter. Miss Emily E. 
Hibbard "19, Pembroke College. He was a 
member of the Connecticut State and 
Windham County Medical Societies. 

1881 

EDWARD Sav.\ge Crocker, one time well 
known as an amateur baseball player 
and a pitcher on the Brown nine in his 
Freshman year, died suddenly in Pasadena, 
CaHf., Dec. 16, 1934. He went to the West 
Coast early in November, as was his cus- 
tom, hut was in poor health at the time. His 
condition became acute after he reached 
Pasadena. 

Born in Lawrence, Mass., May 16, 1856, 
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Emmons 
Crocker, he prepared at Worcester Acad- 
emy where he is said to have been among 
the first to pitch a curved ball. At Brown 
he was also a pitcher on the nine, but left 
at the end of Freshman year in 1878 to go 
into the paper business in Fitchburg, Mass., 
with Crocker, Burbank 6? Company. His 
father was a partner in the company. He 
worked in the different mills until Novem- 
ber, 1891, when he was admitted to the 
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he spent his summers. 

As a young man he played baseball with 
the Fitchburgs and the Rollstones, leading 
nines in their localities, and at Oak Bluffs, 
Martha's Vineyard, in summer vacations. 
One of his fellow players in Fitchburg was 
the late Asa E. Stratton "73. He kept up 
his interest in the game for many years. 

He was married Oct. 12, 1882, to Miss 
Mary Adelaide Putnam, who survives, with 
a sister, Mrs. Cyrus M. Van Slyck of Provi- 
dence, two brothers, George H. Crocker of 
Cambridge and Emmons Crocker of Fitch- 
burg, and several nephews and nieces. His 
fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

1882 

DR. Osmond Cleander Baker Nason 
died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 7, 
1934, after a heart attack which had con- 
fined him to the house for two months. 

Dr. Nason was horn in Taunton, Mass., 
Sept. 14, 1858, the son of Charles and 
Sarah Nason. He entered Brown from the 
Providence High School, received his A.B. 
in course and his A.M. in 188T. He won 
two medical degrees, the first at Boston Uni- 
versity in 1891 and the second at Harvard 
Medical School in 1901. He had practised 
medicine in Reading, Medway, East Fox- 
boro, Sharon, and Cambridge, Mass. 

He was married in 1882 to Medora T. 
Barber, who died in October, 1923, leaving 
two sons, Arthur O. Nason of Franklin, 
Mass., and Robert C. Nason '08 of Great 
Neck, N. Y. Dr. Nason's second marriage 
took place in April, 1931, to Miss Blanche 
Urban, who survives, with a son, Benjamin 
Nason. 

Dr. Nason was a member of Beta Theta 
Pi. 

1896 

EDWIN Pi'TNAM Brown, principal of 
Wayland Academy, one of the well 
known preparatory schools for boys and 
girls in the Middle West, died in Beaver 
Dam. Wis., Nov. 26, 1934, after a heart 
attack. He had been head of Wayland Acad- 
emy since 1901 and had sent some of his 
best boys to Brown. 

Born in Beaver Dam, Nov. 18, 1869, the 
son of John Payne and Laura (Putnam) 
Brown, he prepared at Wayland Academy 
and entered Brown because of his admira- 
tion for President E. Benjamin Andrews, 
who had been a visitor to Wayland. After 
two years on the Hill, he transferred to the 
University of Chicago, from which he re- 
ceived his A.B. degree in 1896. 

"Mr. Brown always held a warm spot in 
his heart for Brown University and looked 
back on his life there with more joy than 
he did on any other university connection," 
a co-worker has written. "I know, too, that 
Brown has a real reason to be proud of 
this son." 

After a year as principal of Farmer City, 
111., High School, he went to Morgan Park 
Academy, then the preparatory school for 
the University of Chicago, and served a 
year there as instructor. He returned to 
Wayland Academy in 1897 and in 1901 
became principal. He built from the bottom, 
making Wayland Academy a school for 
students of ability and character and empha- 
sising the traits that he admired in President 
Andrews — sincerity, thoroughness in work 
and play, directness of speech and action, 
and a humane outlook on the world. 

"We are consoled somewhat for our 
loss," wrote a member of the Faculty of 



Wayland, "when we realise the extraordi- 
nary piece of work Mr. Brown has done in 
the educational field and the crucial impres- 
sion his life and work has made on the 
thousands of his students." 

Mr. Brown was married Aug. 31, 1897, 
to Miss Mabel Vaughan, who survives, with 
two sons. Hartley V. Brown and Robert V. 
Brown. His fraternity was Chi Phi, now 
Sigma Chi. 

1926 

Stephen Mason Lincoln died at the 
Homeopathic Hospital, Providence, Nov. 
23, 1934, after a long illness. During the 
past five years he had been a member of the 
Faculty of the University of Michigan in 
the Department of Romance Languages. 
His subject was French. 

Born in Providence, Aug. 8, 1905, the 
son of Dr. Wmthrop C. and M. Rose 
(Geissler) Lincoln, he prepared at Classical 
High School and as an undergraduate at 
Brown developed his interest in the study 
of French. After teaching French and Latin 
for a year at Governor Dummer Academy, 
Byfield, Mass., he returned to Brown to do 
graduate work in French. In June, 1929, he 
won his A.M.; and in September of that 
year he went to the University of Michigan, 
where he was instructor, teaching Fellow, 
and then Assistant Professor of French. 

He found time during his teaching duties 
to work on his thesis for the Ph.D. degree, 
and in the summer of 1932 visited France 
to study, travel, and gather data first hand 
for the subject in which he hoped to win 
his doctorate. 

Surviving are his parents and two broth- 
ers, John N. Lincoln of Providence, and 
Winthrop G. Lincoln of Jamaica, N. Y. 



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Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Canhier 
Charles M. Smith, III, Trust Officer 
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