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JUNE 
1933 

Vol. XXXIV No. 1 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



FOUNDED IN 1900 



Published monthly, August and September excepted, by the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY, Inc., at Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
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Vol. XXXIV 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., JUNE, 1933 



No. 1 



A Comniencenient Rich in Its Promise 



WHEN the Sons of 
Brown return for 
the 165th Com- 
menccmcnt ol the Univer- 
sity, they will find pre- 
pared for them a program 
traditional in its general 
outline, sentiment and in- 
terest. In a number of 
respects, however, it is 
heightened by additions, 
changes in policy, and the 
unusual eminence ot the 
invited guests. 

More than ever the Uni- 
versity hopes this year to 
see a widespread alumni 
participation in the ample 
program of Commence- 
ment Week, which has 
been adapted in several 
ways to meet their wishes. 
Of the customary' extra- 
mural pleasantries of the 
reunion classes, the Alum- 
ni Secretary' has written 
elsewhere, and these cele- 
brations will probably 
avoid solemnity with the usual success. 

The President has appointed Maurice Howe Cook of the 
class of 1897 as Chief Marshal for the 193.i Commence- 
ment. This position, under the reorganized plans approved 
by the Corporation last year after detailed study, has be- 
come an honorary one to which appointment is made each 
year. With this June, Mr. Cook rounds out twenty years of 
service as a Marshal or Aide in the University Commence- 
ment processions. He expects a large enlistment of alumni 
when the band strikes up the familiar tune for the March 
down the Hill, always one of the high moments of Com- 
mencement Week for the alumni. The University has par- 
ticularly urged the alumni this year to carry on the fine tra- 
dition of this procession in its fullest possible manner. 

SELDOM in recent years have such eminent names appeared 
on the list of speakers for the various Commencement 
functions at Brown as this year. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, and Professor Harlow Shapley, the distinguished 



PROGRAM OF COMMENCEMENT WEEK 
(All holders of Brown degrees and former students oj the 
University are invited to attend the public exercises, so far as 
lunitatwns of space permit.) 

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 
3:00 p. in. Class Day E.xcrcises 

Under the Elms. Middle Campus 

4:00 p.m. Senior Tea Faunce House Courtyard 

8:00 p. m. Promenade Concert and Senior Class-Night 

Dances Middle Campus mid Sayles Hall 

SATURDAY. JUNE 17 
9:30 a. m. Bu.-iincss Meeting of Rhode Island Alpha of 

Phi Beta Kappa J Unii'ersitv Hall 

3:?0p. m. Graduate School Convocation Sayles Hall 

SUNDAY, JUNE 18 
4: JO p. m. Baccalaureate Exercises 

First Baptist Meeting House 

MONDAY, JUNE 19 
1 65th Annual Commencement 

9 :00 a. m. Procession forms Middle Campus 

10:00 a. m. Exercises in the First Baptist Meeting House 

12:00 to 1:00 p. m. Luncheon Faunce House 

1:30 p.m. Alumni Meeting Sayles Hall 

3:30 p. m. Informal reception Middle Campus 

9:00 to 1 1 :00 p. m. President's reception Alumnae Hall 

TUESDAY, JUNE 20 
9:30 a. ni Meeting of the Corporation Faculty Club 



astronomer, will be two to 
address the Alumni Meet- 
ing in Sayles Hall on Com- 
mencement Day, while Dr. 
Niels Bohr, the Nobel Prize 
winner and leader in the 
assault on the atom's se- 
crets, will speak at the 
Graduate School Convoca- 
tion on the previous Sat- 
urday. 

An innovation this year 
will see Pembroke College 
conducting its own meet- 
ing in Alumnae Hall while 
the alumni are in session in 
Sayles Hall. For this first 
Alumnae Meeting the 
speaker will be Eva Le Gal- 
lienne, the actress notable 
not only for her own per- 
formances but for her work 
as founder and director of 
the Civic Repertory Thea- 
tre in New York City. 
The daughter of Richard 
Le Gallienne, the poet, she 
made her stage debut in 
London in 1916 after being educated at the College Sevigne, 
Paris. Among her American successes have been parts in 
"Liliom," "The Swan," and "The Master Builder," while 
Civic Repertory achievements were "Cradle Song," "The 
Cherry Orchard," "Camille," "The Living Corpse," "Alli- 
son's House," "Hedda Gabbler," "Twelfth Night," and 
other productions of first rank. 

JUSTICE C.\RD020, Judge and later Chief Judge of the 
New York Court of Appeals until his elevation to 
Washington, has long been a leading member of his pro- 
fession, admired not only for his work on the bench but also 
for the sound studies in law and judicial process he has made 
and published. He has been the recipient of honorary 
degrees from Columbia, where he was an undergraduate in 
the college and law school, from Yale, N. Y. U., Michigan, 
Harvard, and St. John's College. 

After eight years at Mt. Wilson Observatory, Dr. Shap- 
ley went to Harvard in 1921, since which time he has con- 



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tinued as director of the Harvard Observatory. Brown 
astronomers have worked with him on a number of projects. 
Awarded honorary degrees from Missoun, his Alma Mater, 
Pittsburgh, and Oglethorpe, he has been lecturer at Oxford 
and Belgian universities and holds medals from the National 
Academy of Sciences, Brussels University, and the Society 
of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of astronomical and 
other scientific societies, including the Royal Astronomical 
Society of England and the Royal Physiographic Society of 
Sweden. He has been president of the American Section of 
the International Astronomical Union and president of the 
Variable Star Commission of the LInion since 1925. 

Other speakers at the Sayles Hall meeting will be the 
President of the University, and the Governor of the State 
of Rhode Island, Theodore Francis Green '87. Professor 
William T. Hastings '03 will preside. 

IN response to the expressed desire of a large number of 
alumni for a chance to meet and greet the speakers at 
the Alumni Meeting, the recipients of honorary degrees, 
and other distinguished guests of the University, the Com- 
mittee on Commencement has arranged an additional func- 
tion this year: an informal reception for the President and 
these guests, to which all alumni, alumnae, and other friends 
of Brown are invited. This informal reception will imme- 
diately follow the close of the Alumni Meeting in Sayles 
Hall. In the event of favorable weather, it is probable that 
this reception will be held on the south end of the middle 
campus. Otherwise, it will probably be held in the Art 
Gallery of Faunce House. The committee hopes that this 
will provide an additional feature of interest. 

The usual formal President's Reception will be held in 
Alumnae Hall from 9 to 1 1 in the evening. While special 
invitations will not be sent this year, a general invitation 
has been extended for this event, as for all the exercises of 
Commencement Week, up to the limits of space. This invi- 
tation has been printed on the program of Commencement 
Week sent to all alumni as a Bulletin of the University. 

Faunce House and the Faculty Club will be open for the 



use of alumni throughout Commencement Week, while the 
University Club at 219 Benefit Street will keep open house 
tor alumni on Commencement Day. All alumni, especially 
those from out of town, are urgently asked to register as 
soon as possible after reaching Providence. Facilities will be 
available for this purpose at the Alumni Office in Faunce 
House, where information with regard to class reunions and 
all other events will be complete and available. 

WHILE a few fraternities may again observe open house 
night with dances on Thursday, June 15, Commence- 
ment Week proper will begin with the festivities of Class 
Day on Friday. The exercises "under the elms" in the after- 
noon will include the traditional addresses and poetic works. 
The participants will be Robert R. Chase, First Marshal of 
the Senior Class, Class Orator Earle Charles Hochwald, 
Class Odist John Ha:;ard Wildman, Class Poet Clarkson 
Abel Collins, .^rd. Class Historian Joseph Smeigh Thomp- 
son, and President Barbour. Original music will accompany 
parts of this ceremony. 

The plans for Class Night were described in the Alumni 
Monthly for May. In addition to repeating the commit- 
tee's hope that all alumni, including those of reunion classes, 
will make the evening a part of the home-coming. Chairman 
Dean Coifin has announced a concert by the University 
Glee Club in addition to the regular promenade concert 
and dances. A considerable prize has been offered for the 
best performance in a class sing open to all comers, in an 
attempt to revive this once popular habit. The evening's 
color will be described and its music broadcast over a New 
England radio hook-up. Other special incidents are part of 
the plan to restore some of the social significance of Class 
Night to alumni and other friends of the University. Among 
the old customs to be revived is the assigning of fraternity 
locations on the campus that night. 

The President's Baccalaureate Sermon, the Phi Beta 
Kappa meeting. Corporation meeting, and Ivy Day and 
Alumnae Day exercises at Pembroke are to be held as usual. 



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An 

Old-Time 

Commencement 

at 

Brown 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Five -Year Plan — and Others 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



CLASS Reunion committees are taking final account of 
stock. Reunions seem to be as certain as taxes and 
talking Congressmen. They are as popular as ever in 
this year of uncertainty, the secret being, perhaps, (or 
maybe it isn't any secret) that many an alumnus knows that 
there is no better way to get away from it all than to come 
back to Brown and Rhode Island and live some of his college 
days over again before it is too late. 

The oldest living graduates are planning to be young 
again, and the young ones, and the middle-aged ones have 
sent out their reunion letters and notices, and committees 
and individuals are rounding up the tardy, and checking 
and re-checking on the doubtful members of their classes. 
From '76 to '32 it is a similar story, the only variation being 
in details of ways and means to bring back the largest pos- 
sible number. The big days are June 17 and 18. 

Most of the classes behind '83 will get together under the 
banner of "Fifty years plus." Col. Webster Knight will 
entertain the members of '76 at lunch Saturday, June 17, 
at his farm in Natick. On the same day the men of '79 will 
go to the Wannamoisett Countr>' Club for luncheon-dinner 
as guests of Henry O. Tripp. They will meet in front of 
Manning Hall. The Class of 1880 will gather at the Uni- 
versity Club at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, drive to 
Z. Chafee's farm at Taunton for dinner and an evening of 
conversation. 

THE 50-year Class 'S3 will observe the anniversary mod- 
estly as is the custom. There will be a dinner Saturday 
night at 6:30 at the Providence Biltmore, and the class hopes 
to have a delegation in the Commencement procession Mon- 
day morning. Among the well known members of the class 
are the Rev. A. W. Anthony, D.D., Ira Barrows, Rev. 
Charles M. Sheldon, D.D., who wrote "In His Steps"; Dr. 
Francis W. Shepardson, former Governor Edward C. 
Stokes of New Jersey, Dean William E. Simonds of Knox 
College, and Howard W. Preston, authority on Rhode 
Island History. Nathaniel Blaisdell, architect, hopes to 
come from San Francisco to attend the reunion. 

The 45 -year Class "88, of which President Barbour is a 
member, will meet for dinner Saturday night at 7:30 at the 
Hope Club. The Class of '93, under the guidance of Col. 
A. C. Matteson and kindred spirits, is planning a general 
get-together for Class Night, Friday, June 16, a motor car 
ride to Newport Saturday, a dinner Saturday night, and 
then dinner on Sunday at Edward B. Aldrich's house at 
Warwick Neck. 

The highlights of the 3 5th Reunion of 1898 will be Sat- 
urday afternoon at Dwight K. Bartlett's summer home at 
Sakonnet, and Sunday at Sunnylands, the home of Dennis 
F. O'Brien at Watch Hill. Members of the class living in 
Providence have planned hospitality for out-of-town class- 
mates, and Dwight K. Bartlett and his committee are work- 
ing to bring back a large number of men. Frederick W. 
Arnold, Jr., has contributed two of his famous drawings to 
the circular letters sent out by the committee. 

THE Saunders House, Saunderstown, will be the haunt 
of the Class of 1903 from June 16 to 19, and there will 
be golf, sailing, hikes, porch sitting and other sports. The 



class will come back to Providence Monday morning, June 
19, in time for Commencement. The Class of 1908 has 
reserved the Carlton Hotel, Narragansett Pier, from Friday 
to Sunday afternoon, and the committee has arranged a 
varied program. Rev. A. C. (Ttmimy) Thomas, D.D., is 
preparing a history of the class. 

The Class of 1913 will go to the Anawan Club in the 
wilds of Rehoboth for Saturday afternoon and evening. 
The members will meet at Faunce House at 3 o'clock Sat- 
urday. The Class of 1918, observing its 15th anniversary, 
will foregather at the Matunuck Beach House at Matunuck, 
where the waves are often wild, and will have the run of 
the place, with golf in easy reaching distance and surf bath- 
ing for the hardy. The Reunion starts at lunch time Sat- 
urday and continues officially until Sunday afternoon. 

Jamestown, scene of many a reunion in other days, will 
entertain the Class of 1923, which will have Gardner's Inn 
as its headquarters. The men of '23 will meet at the Uni- 
versity Club between 4 and 4:30 Friday afternoon and go 
to Jamestown by way of Saunderstown (the 5:30 ferry). 
Golf, tennis, swimming, fishing and other riparian sports — 
what more can one ask for the money? 

AND 1928, winning the palm for the cleverest reunion 
.letter of them all, insists that it has chosen the best 
hotel at Narragansett Pier, the Massasoit, for its five-year 
plan. The members will shove off from Faunce House at 
9 o'clock Saturday morning, and v.'ill return sometime later. 
The committee has thought up a program that sounds plaus- 
ible, and the hope is that the biggest reunion in the history 
of the class will be the result. 

Nearly all of the other classes will carry on the fine tradi- 
tion of reunion — '90 at dinner 6 o'clock Sunday evening at 
the University Club; '91 spending Sunday at the Warwick 
Country Club and going to the home of Dr. James L. 
Whcaton, class president, 164 Broadway, Pawtucket, Mon- 
day, for luncheon; '97 at Agawam Hunt for dinner Satur- 
day night; 1900 at the University Club 7 :45 Monday morn- 
ing for breakfast; "06 and '07 at the Brown Outing Reserva- 
tion for dinner Saturday evening; '09 at George Huxford's 
house, Allen's Harbor, for a clambake Saturday at 5 o'clock; 
'17 at Wannamoisett for golf and dinner Saturday after- 
noon; and '32 at Glocester Country Club at the same time. 
Then '86, '99, which celebrates its 35th next year, '04, '05, 
with Howard Barney as chairman, '14, '15, '21 and several 
more will join the group and cheer the name of Brown. 



A Reunion for "50 Plus" Men 

THE graduates of more than 50 years will meet Saturday, 
June 17, at 7 o'clock at the Faculty Club, 13 Brown 
Street. All graduates of classes before 1883 who do not 
have special class suppers are expected and urged to attend. 
Everyone knows members of seven classes and some of those 
who were in college with each one will be present. At a 
meeting in 1932, \Villiam T. Peck '70, Arthur H. Arming- 
ton '71 and William H. Scott '75 were appointed a com- 
mittee of arrangements for 1933. Special notices have been 
sent out by members to every class. 



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I 



A A(obe/ Prir.e Wmner Will Spea\ 

N so FAR as any one man can be said to be responsible for 
pro£:ress in the most vital field of modern physics, Bohr 
should be chosen for this great distinction." So would most 
physicists be likely to agree, according to a statement from 
the Vice President's office which supplements the previous 
announcement that Dr. Niels Bohr, the eminent Danish 
biologist, would be the speaker at the Convocation of the 
Brown University Graduate School in Sayles Hall on Sat- 
urday, June 17. In addition to his address on "Explanation 
in Natural Science" and the awarding of advanced degrees, 
honorary degrees will be conferred on some outstanding 
European scientists. 

Dr. Bohr, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1922, is the 
son of a well-known Danish biologist. He is professor of 
physics in the University of Copenhagen, where he had 
received his high education and taken his doctor's degree in 
1911. He is a Ridder of the Order of the Dannebrog in 
Denmark and holds a similarly high Norwegian honor. He 
holds honorary degrees from the following universities: 
Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Copenhagen 



(Royal Technical College) , Edinburgh, and Kiel. In addi- 
tion to being a member of a score of scientific societies 
throughout Europe and the United States, Dr. Bohr is the 
recipient of the Hughes prize medal of the Royal Society of 
London, the Barnard medal of Columbia University, the 
Matteucie medal of the University of Rome, the Franklin 
Institute (Philadelphia) medal, the Faraday medal of the 
Chemical Society of London, and the Planck medal of the 
German Physical Society. 

"As a result of his studies in Copenhagen and England 
(he spent two years at Cambridge and Manchester)," says 
the University announcement, "Professor Bohr developed 
his theory of atomic structure, the beginning of the rela- 
tively enormous progress which has been made in the last 
two decades in our understanding of the nature of matter. 
Under Bohr's inspiring leadership many important discov- 
eries, both experimental and theoretical, have been made in 
the Institute of Theoretical Physics during the decade or so 
of its existence. Some of the most significant of the very 
recent trends in Physics have been the direct result of Bohr's 
profound insight into the philosophical problems inextric- 
ably connected with atomic physics." 



"The New Corner of the Campus** 



BY ROBERT B. JONES '07 



BROWN is a city college with all the advantages of a 
country location." We've been saying that for years, 
yet I fear even some of those who have voiced it most fre- 
quently have tended to let the tongue slant cheekward and 
have guiltily whispered to themselves, "Propaganda!" 

The truth is sometimes impossible to recognize when we 
hear it, and I submit that often we fail to recognize it even 
when we tdl it. That old statement about the advantageous 
peculiarities of Brown's location is not Propaganda. It n 
Truth. 

I am not thinking so much of the few minutes it takes 
to get from the campus to any one of many good golf 
courses, to the scene of some of America's finest yachting 
on Narragansett hay and the not distant Atlantic, to canoe- 
ing rivers and bathing beaches. I have in mind the ease with 
which Brown men can reach the real, the almost untouched 
country, — the country of woods, lake, rolling hillside, 
rocky ledge- -the country of log cabin, stone chimney place, 
outdoor tramping, early morning plunge in tingling lake 
water, — the country of rest for mind and body or of unus- 
ually beneficial stimulation for both — the country where 
every prospect pleases and only the man who fails to leave 
a bigger woodpile than he found, is vile. 

The other day I went, with A. C. Snow (who is more or 
less the father of the 1907 Cabin at the Brown Outing 
Reservation) to that delightful "new corner of the Brown 
Campus." Naturally we paid a visit to the splendid big 
lodge, the first building erected on the reservation and 
donated by the Class of 1906 in memory of Florence John 
Harrington Price first president of that class and, I think, 
the first Brown man to lay down his life in the World 
War. 

I hardly need elaborate on the '06 cabin. It has been well 
described in earlier numbers of the Monthly. Just now, it 
seems to me, the .significant thing is that it no longer stands 




IN HIS MEMORY 
Florence J. H. Price "06 



alone. The 1907 Cabin has been added, — smaller in size, 
but smaller only because those in charge of the development 
of the reservation feel that from now on growth should take 
place through many four-to-six-bunk cabins, with perhaps 
an occasional "Adirondack shelter," rather than a few 
buildings of the larger "lodge" type. 

As one stands on the porch of the '06 Lodge or the '07 
Cabin and looks across one of the most interesting small 
lakes he has ever seen (a lake entirely surrounded by the 
hundred-odd acres of the Brown reservation) — as he takes 
m the infinite variety of wooded promontories, gentle slopes, 
cliftlike ledges and high knolls that make up its shore line, 
as he sees delightful sites for other cabins just crying for 
occupancy, he cannot fail to let his mind run forward to the 
time when other Brown Classes will do as '06 and '07 have 
done. It is not such a long run for the mind that is aided 
by the seeing eye and an appreciation of real values. 



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Chiefly Concerning the Campus 



Helping Students Face a Crisis 

STIRRED by the information that some of the students 
had been in acute need of assistance, a number of 
Brown Ckibs and classes contributed to an emergency 
fund which was placed at the disposal of Dean Samuel T. 
Arnold this spring. He has used the sums wisely and w-ishes 
to acknowledge his gratitude for the help thus made possible. 

At the meeting of the Advisory' Council on February' 
22nd and at other times, Dean Arnold brought to the atten- 
tion of the alumni the serious situation in which so many of 
the students found themselves. It has been particularly hard 
for the men to find the employment necessary for them to 
stay in college. In order to stretch their resources to cover 
their college and other bills, many boys, it was discovered, 
had actually reduced their expenditures for food to too low 
a basis for proper health. Some cases were known of where 
the undergraduates lived on only one meal a day. 

George L. Miner '97 and Henry S. Chafee '09, for the 
Association of Class Secretaries, appealed to the classes for 
help. At the same time Victor A. Schwart: "07, chairman 
of the Brown University Prize Scholarship Committee, 
urged Brown Clubs which had not been able to raise money 
enough for a prize scholarship this year to contribute as 
much as possible to the Dean's emergency fund. 

By May 1 6 the following clubs had lent their assistance : 
Rt)chester S.^O, Worcester"$27, Albany, Schenectady and 
Troy, N. Y., $20. Of the classes the following were the first 
to help: 1901, 1902, 1911, 1923, and 1928. At least one of 
the class gifts was for $100. 

"If they leave college these men would possibly be no 
better off; when they do stay they are completing their edu- 
cation for future usefulness in their communities." So 
argued Mr. Chafee and Mr. Miner in putting the case 
before the class secretaries. In acknowledging the class gifts 
in a letter to the Alumni Monthly they said: "Each mem- 
ber of these classes that have helped may, we trust, through 
the columns of the Monthly, become aware of the assist- 
ance that he has given to worthy students of the University 
by this means, and at the same time receive the thanks of 
the Dean and of the President for his help." 



Tlind PIdce at the Engmeering Olympics 

ON the first cKcasion that Brown undergraduate electri- 
cal engineers competed with men from other colleges 
and technical schools they came away with third prize. It 
was in Schenectady, N. Y., May 12, at the meeting of the 
Northeastern District of the American Institute of Electri- 
cal Engineers, and the winners were Herbert L. Anderson 
".^.1 and Everett L. Angell '33, the subject of whose joint 
paper was "A Study of Mercury Switches." Professor A. E. 
Watson said about it all : 

"Increasing importance and recognition is being given to 
the student branches of the Institute, and during the entire 
college year we have been encouraging our senior engineers 
to participate, and to compete for a prize offered for those 
presenting the best paper that represented research and 
experimentation. 

"As a result, there were three pairs of our men who 
exhibited their interest, and at the recent Rhode Island 



State College-Brown session presented them. From the three 
a combined vote of students and instructors selected the 
best one. Nine of the students went with us to Schenectady, 
and formed a part of the largest and most enthusiastic ses- 
sion yet held by the student branches, also attended by a 
large number of older engineers." 

Professor F. N. Tompkins, who arranged the Brown- 
Rhode Island State meeting at Kingston (Professor W. H. 
Kenerson made the address on "The Engineer on the Wit- 
ness Stand"), went to Schenectady with Professor Watson, 
and beside Messrs. Anderson and Angell, the Brown men 
were William Bojar, Francis H. Car>', George E. Freeman, 
N. G. Levesque, Herbert A. Luther, Kenneth E. Starrett, 
Milton E. \/eno, all Seniors. 



The Seniors' Spring Day Mascot 

C.^RIC-VTURING the Rhode Island Legislature's investiga- 
tion of pacifism at Brown, the senior Spring Day 
speaker this year presented as the class mascot a plaque on 
which a college infant with pen atilt rode Pegasus in combat 
with a well-armored soldier before the State House. The 
warrior was mounted on a tank, while a Communist "boo- 
geyman" loomed in the background clouds. 

The usual satirical speech, attendant upon the seniors" 
first appearance in cap and gown, was given this year by 
John M. Wilson. Besides kidding the "bloodthirsty war- 
riors'" who were aroused by the Brown Daily Herald's anti- 
war campaign, the speaker lampooned the Cammarian Club 
as an Administration mouthpiece, the activity of excess 
campus critics, and certain professorial habits in classroom. 

John Simpson was chairman of the Spring Day commit- 
tee, with Norman Pierce, Harold Johnson, Stuart Wood- 
ward, and Paul Maddock as other members. 



Awarded European Fellowship 

CH.^RLES Frederick Dommeyer, Jr., candidate for his 
masters degree at Brown this June, has been named as 
recipient of a $7^0 scholarship from the Rhode Island 
Branch of the English-Speaking Union which will permit a 
full year"s study at a university in the British Isles. A native 
of Florida, Dommeyer had his earlier education at the New 
York Military Academy and Union College, receiving an 
A.B. from the latter institution in 1932. During his year in 
the Brown Graduate School he has seen a number of articles 
published in various magazines. 

Philip Osborne Bell, another graduate student at Brown, 
had also been eligible for the E. S. U. fellowship, but he has 
accepted a call to Leland Stanford University. Archibald C. 
Matteson "93 is president of the E. S. U. in Rhode Island. 



A "Delaware Year" ni Gernw?iv 
Francis Tourtellot, Brown sophomore, has been awarded 
a scholarship by the Institute of International Education 
for study at the University of Munich, Germany, next year. 
He will spend his entire junior year abroad under the "Del- 
aware Plan," of which Brown has been the leading propo- 
nent among American universities. Most of the students 
have previously studied in France. 



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Sigma Xi Chayiges Its Organization 

ADOPTiNe; the custom of Rhode Island Alpha, Phi Beta 
. Kappa, the Brown Chapter of the Society of the Sigma 
Xi, at its annual meeting last month, elected one of its best 
known members. Dr. H. C. Bumpus '84, Secretary of the 
Corporation, president for a two-year term, and chose a 
permanent secretary in the person of Professor Philip H. 
Mitchell. W. R. Bcnford "26 will serve as treasurer until 
1935. 

Professor William Albert Noyes, Jr., elected vice presi- 
dent, will be the actual head of the Chapter on the campus 
and will direct its activities during the current year. The 
Chapter also reorganized its list of officers to include a 
Board of Governors, members of which have become widely 
known for their work in scientific fields. The new board, 
with expiration of terms of service, is: Dr. Carl Barus, 
physicist, IQ^f; Dr. Albert D. Mead, biologist, 1937; Dean 
R. G. D. Richardson, mathematician, 1939. 

The committee on arrangements will be Dr. Richard N. 
Meinert, Prof. Charles H. Smiley, Dr. Carl C. Branson. 
The Board of Electors, the ma.ximum term of service on 
which is five years, and the department represented is: 
Prof. Charles A. Stuart, biology; Prof. Frederick N. Tomp- 
kins, engineering; Dr. Alonzo W. Quinn, geology; Prof. 
Leonard Carmichael, psychology; Prof. C. R. Adams, math- 
ematics; Prof. Walter H. Snell, botany; Prof. Carl W. 
Miller, physics; and Prof. W. W. Russell, chemistry. 



The 190^ and 1907 Scholarships 

THE Class of 1905 Scholarship has again been given to 
Roland K. Brown '33 of Leominster, Mass. The award 
was made by President Clarence A. Barbour of the Uni- 
versity with the recommendation of the Class Committee of 
which Paul C. DeWolf is chairman. Brown is a good 
student and leading athlete. He played tackle on the eleven 
last fall. He is a member of the track squad this spring, with 
the discus and javelin as his specialties. He is active in 
undergraduate affairs. 

The Class of 1907 Scholarship for 1933 was awarded to 
Owen F. Walker of Canton, O., at special exercises held in 
Sayles Hall, May 18, in connection with Spring Day. Presi- 
dent Barbour introduced A. H. Gurney, who made the 
speech of presentation, Henry G. (Shan) Clark sat on the 
platform with Dr. Barbour and Al, and V. A. Schwartz 
was also present. President George Hurley was called out of 
the city the day before, much to his regret. Walker, the 
recipient, is a Rhodes Scholar-elect from New England. His 
scholastic record is one of the best ever made at Brown. He 
won his letter as a tackle in football in 1931, and played on 
the lacrosse team. He belongs to Cammarian Club, Sphinx 
Club, Phi Delta Theta, and will give an oration at Com- 
mencement. 

H' ¥ •!- 'I- •!• 

Pri)po.siTig a University Press 

THE Brown Daily Herald, the Liher Briinensis, the Brown 
Jug, and the Pemhro\e Record arc all represented on 
the newly formed Board of Student Publications. One of 
the projects under discussion by the editors and business 
managers who sit on this board is the possibility of establish- 
ing a University Press. 



A Series oj Debating Victories 

Tied with Bates for the honors of the Intercollegiate 
Debating League, Brown finished a successful season with 
only a defeat by Lafayette to mar its record. Bates, too, had 
one defeat in six debates, but having had one more judge's 
vote she was awarded the championship, as provided in the 
league's rules. Brown was represented in the annual con- 
vention, held at Smith College, by Harry Chernock, Nor- 
man Zalkmd, and Frederick W. Pobirs. 



The University Band and Musical Clubs gave a joint 
concert in Quincy, Mass., May 8, the first time that the two 
organizations had appeared together. 

The undergraduate Press Bureau has elected eight new 
members on the basis of a lengthy competition. 

The Dean's List for this semester includes the names of 
1 3 1 students, for whom academic regulations have been 
relaxed because of their generally excellent scholarship. 

Movies of the building of the Empire State Building in 
New York and a series showing the steps from coal to elec- 
tric power are among those shown for members of the engi- 
neering department recently. 



Brunonia Plays the Game 

WITH six of eight "varsity and ireshman teams boast- 
ing records on which victories predominate, 
Brown is nearing the end of one of its most suc- 
cessful spring seasons in recent years. Particularly strong 
have been the showing made by the freshman track and 
baseball aggregations, each of which has but one slight 
blemish on an otherwise perfect ledger. Of the two lagging 
teams, the baseball nine seemed due to emerge from a slump, 
while the golfers have done better than their record would 
seem to indicate. 

The summaries (through May 23rd) are as follows: 

Won Lost 
Baseball 3 6 

1936 baseball 7 1 

Tennis , , 5 3 

1936 tennis 3 2 

Lacrosse 5 3 

Track 2 1 

1936 track 4 1 

Golf (one tie) 3 8 

32 25 

Although Colgate outscored Brown track men on the 
cinder paths, strong field contenders gave the meet to the 
Bruins at Hamilton 69 ^/^ to 65^. Brown tocik the following 
ten first places: Rogers, 120 high hurdles; Spinney, 100- 
and 220-yard dashes; Stiles, 880-yard run; Gilbane, shot- 
put; Moore, high jump; Buonanno, tie in pole vault; Danesi, 
hammer; Roland Brown, discus; Lewis, broad jump. 

Hopes of a New England title went a-glimmering at 
Cambridge on May 19 and 20. The Bear had entered the 
meet one of the favorites, but she qualified only five men for 
eight places in the preliminaries and took only 15 points for 
fifth place. Tom Gilbane, surprisingly eliminated in the 
discus, came back in the shot to defend his championship of 
last year with a put of 49 feet I/2-inch. Joe Buonanno, who 
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the vault this time with an outsider, Webb of Maine. Inci- 
dentally, the Brunonian tied for first in every meet he en- 
tered this year. Larry Brown, unplaced this year in the 
vault, won the title in the javelin with a mark of 188 feet 
J/2-inch. Brovv'n's other point came from Stiles' fourth in the 
880. While Roland Brown had qualiiied in three events on 
Friday, he couldn't quite take a point Saturday, although he 
missed a fourth in the discus by a hair-line. Spinney, who 
qualified in each dash, was denied a place in a finish of the 
100 that had the judges guessing. A Brown entry in the 
freshman medley relay was second of five. The final dispo- 
sition of points was as follows: Boston College 29J/2, Bow- 
doin 20J/2, Holy Cross 17, Maine Hj/2, Brown 1 i. 

IK the freshman track team could have scored another 
quarter of a point against Worcester Academy, it would 
have gone through its hard schedule undefeated. The loss of 
normally expected points in the broad jump gave the meet 
to the prep school boys 6.1 J/^ to 62%, with a remarkable 
performance by Anton Kishon of Worcester outstanding. 
Gaining 2 1 points in seven different events, he set a new 
Brown Field record of 147 feet 11 inches in the discus. In 
the same event Pierson, Brown yearling, registered a new 
Brown record of I.18 feet 8 inches. 

Against the New Hampshire freshmen, the Bruin cubs 
took 11 first places and a 7'i to 5 1 victory at Durham. 
Pearce, Davis, Whiteside, McShane, Capt. Pierson, and 
Burgess were Brown winners, who, with other competitors, 
should be valuable recruits for Coach Powers' "varsity ne.xt 
year. 

The lacrosse ten ran its string of victories up to four 
before encountering Stevens Tech's strong team. Brown 
was outplayed in the second period and lost 8-2. Previously, 
however, the team had trounced Tufts 13-0, with Elton 
leading the attack with five goals. In a rugged battle with 
the Boston Lacrosse Club the Brunonians pulled out ahead 
in the last quarter to win 12-9. The Boston line-up of for- 
mer college stars included Gus Lundstedt, Brown alumnus. 
The freshmen have been without representation m lacrosse 
this spring. 

Y.^LE, which had just given the first defeat of the season 
to Providence College, 1932 college baseball champions, 
came to Aldrich Field May 20 expecting little opposition 
from a Brown team that had lost four straight games, but 
the latter played its best ball of the season to score a 6-1 
upset. The Brunonians, with their line-up unsettled and the 
pitching staff uneven in performance, had showed signs of 
coming out of its slump by threatening to give Rhode Island 
State its first whipping this year. That game was lost in the 
ninth, however, 6-3. The first of the two Providence College 
games went to the Friars 10-1. Against Yale, Hunt pitched 
well with good support from his fields and with Captain 
Kroeger, Caito and Fowler each getting three hits. The 
team had previously been hitting poorly, getting only three 
hits when Tufts beat it 5-1. 

According to campus rumors, the freshman nine has 
beaten the "varsity in a scrub game and certainly has shown 
power throughout an ambitious schedule. But for a strange 
blow-up against the Holy Cross freshmen, the yearlings 
might have run up its winnings to eight straight games and 
no losses. In that contest, however, the Cubs blew a 9-1 lead 
in the eighth inning, losing in the 10th inning 12-9. The 
team has beaten Providence College freshmen 6-3, and 




DEAN OF ATHLETIC DIRECTORS 
Prof. Fred W. Marvel "94, Whose Continuous Serv- 
ice Outranks That of Colleague.? Elsewhere 

Rhode Island State freshmen 10-2, in other recent starts. 
Captain Walker, Elrod, Butler, Appleyard, Brown, and 
Chillingworth are the heavy hitters, while its batterymen 
have spelled each other capably. 

LED by Captain Ray Chace and Harris, the tennis team 
has acquitted itself well, adding victories over Wesleyan 
and Clark to its list by the respective scores of 6-3 and 9-0. 
Dartmouth beat Brown 9-0, although Chace carried Husted 
to two deuce sets and five other matches were almost as 
close. 

A tie Vv'ith Amherst and a defeat of Providence College 
were the only happy endings of the recent golf matches. Bob 
Chase being the most frequent winner. He halved his match 
with Heath of Harvard, beat Hicks of Dartmouth and other 
stars, but the balance of the team was unable to follow in his 
steps. Yale and Williams trounced the golfers at Williams- 
town in a league week-end, while the scores at Worcester 
were: Harvard S]/2, Brown Yz; Holy Cross lYz, Brown IJ/2; 
Dartmouth 7, Brown 2. 



A Sporting Miscellany 

LESLIE P.\WS0N, winner of the Boston marathon, was 
an official at the Brown-Rhode Island State track 
meet. 

The Brown fencing team defeated Rhode Island State 



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9-0 to complete its first season undefeated. The freshmen, 
facing the Kingston first-year foilsmen the same day, 
lost 5-4. 

Ray Chace, tennis captain, has also been elected hockey 
captain for next year. 

William Y. Dear, Jr., former interscholastic goliing star, 
plans to compete this summer in tournament play in 
England. 

The Brown Yacht Cluh plans to enter intercollegiate sail- 



ing and outboard motor races this month and next. Cruises 
are also projected. 

Commodore Wilbert E. Longfellow, founder of the Red 
Cross life saving corps and director of its activities, took 
occasion to praise highly Coach Leo Barry's work in this 
field. Barry was one of the pioneers in it. Early in May the 
Commodore inspected the class of 'TO, the largest ever en- 
rolled at Brown. 



Brown Men in the Headlines 



Revievihering die Doctor's Service 

DR. Charles V. Ch.apin '76 and Mrs. Chapin were 
at breakfast one morning in May when Dr. Chapin 
had given him the following telegram from Washington: 
"Forty friends, epidemiologists of sorts, regret your absence 
from our meeting. Recall their delight in your contributions 
to their thought and imagination in former years. Thank 
you for teaching them accuracy in observation and logic in 
deductions and send their affectionate regards to you and 
Mrs. Chapin." The telegram was signed by Dr. Haven 
Emerson of Columbia and Dr. Donald O. Armstrong of the 
Surgeon General's Department, Washington. 



To Preside Over Veterans 

Wiley H. Marble '12, president of the National Society 
of the Third (Marne) Division, U. S. A., A. E. F., will 
be in the chair at the 14th annual convention to be held at 
the Hotel Victoria, New York, July 14 and H. 



Moving Day for Mr. Rockefeller 

AFTER 48 years the business headquarters of the Rocke- 
. feller family, including the personal offices of John D. 
Rockefeller, Jr., '97, will move from 26 Broadway, New 
York, to Rockefeller Center, alias Radio City. As the AJeic 
Tor}{ Herald Tribune said: "Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., will he 
able to walk to work from his home around the corner at 
10 West 54th street for the first time since he entered busi- 
ness after he was graduated from college in 1897." The 
new ofiices will be on the 56th floor of the main 70-story 
building. The change from the old to the new will be made 
in July. 

A Russian- American Educational Trip 

DR. D.^NiEL H. KuLP '13, Professor of Education at 
Teachers' College, Columbia, will be a director of the 
American Summer School to be conducted jointly by edu- 
cators from the Soviet Union and this country in Russia 
from July 1 to September 4. The school will be limited to 
40 students from the United States. The program includes 
political, cultural, and social courses, and the students, the 
newspapers say, will spend a week in Leningrad, five weeks 



in Moscow, and take trips to Paris, Berlin and Warsaw. 
The 'N.ew Yor\ Times said that announcement of the school 
indicated "direct co-operation in education between the 
United States and Russia for the first time since the Russian 
revolution in 1917." 

Assumes Federal Reserve Post 

John H. Willi.ams '12, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of 
J Economics at Harvard, was appointed last month assist- 
.mt Federal Reserve agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of 
New York. Thus he occupies the position formerly held by 
another classmate, W. Randolph Burgess, now Deputy 
Governor of the Bank. The position has not been filled since 
May, 1930. 




SEEING THE CRISIS THROUGH 

Frederick M. Sackett "90, U. S. Amhas.sador 
to Germany 



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An Irish Flag for t')4() 

Tor o' THE mornin" " will he the approved salute to a 
flag that will fly from a 40-toot pole at the Winthrop 
Street Baptist Chureh, Taunton, on Sunday, March 17, 
1940. 

For It will he the Irish flag and will appear in accordance 
with a promise made hy Rev. W. Douglas SwafEeld "06, 
pastor of the church, when he received the pole from the 
Taunton Rotary Cluh. The pole formerly stood at the old 
Taunton car barn. 

When the pole was presented at the churchyard, how- 
ever, a small Irish flag was attached to it. This led Mr. 
Swaffield to promise that the flag would fly from the pole 
the ne.xt time St. Patrick's Day falls on Sunday. According 
to the calendar, that will happen in 1940 and the day also 
will he Palm Sunday. 

From Radio City to Yale 
Raymond M. Hood '02 turned from practical architec- 
ture temporarily this spring to serve as associate professor in 
architectural design at the Yale School of Fine Arts. His 
appointment was for the current term, ending this month. 



The S. A. R.'s A[eu' Leader 

ARTHL'R M. Mc.Crillis "97 is now president-general of 
. the National Society, Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, in which he has been prominent for many years. The 
election took place at the annual meeting in Cincinnati, O., 
and the society went on record as being in favor of mainte- 
nance of immigration restrictions, and against reduction of 
the armed forces of the country and the importation of 
Russian goods allegedly made by forced labor. 

4: ^ ^ zifi ^ 

To Command Southern Templars 

REV. Dr. Joseph L. Peacock '00 was unanimously 
elected Deputy Grand Commander of the Grand Com- 
mandery, Knights Templar, of North Carolina at its 
annual conclave held in the city of Charlotte, May 10. 
Ever since Dr. Peacock moved from Rhode Island thirteen 
and a half years ago, he has shown a marked interest in all 
branches of Masonry. After serving eleven and a half years 
as president of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C, he accepted 
the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in the beautiful 
city of Tarboro, N. C, located half way between Raleigh 
and Norfolk, Va. 



The University's New Academicians 



THE Oflicc ot the Vice President announces that Pro- 
fessor Henry T. Fowler of the Department of Biblical 
Literature and History, Professor Curt J. Ducasse, 
chairman ot the Department of Philosophy, and Professor 
Hans Kurath of the Department of Germanic Languages 
,uid Literatures have been elected Fellows of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the same election an 
.ilumnus, Theodore Francis Green '87, Governor of Rhode 
Island, was similarly honored. The American Academy is 
the oldest Academy in the country; it was founded in 1780. 
The number of Fellows is limited to 600, about equally 
divided between the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 
the Natural and Physiological Sciences and the Moral and 
Political Sciences. 

Sixteen members of the Faculty of Brown University are 
Fellows of the American Academy, namely : Professor 
Clarence R. Adams, Professor Raymond Archibald, Pro- 
fessor Carl Barus, Professor Albert A. Bennett, Professor 
Leonard Carmichael, Professor Edmund B. Delabarre, Pro- 
fessor Curt J. Ducasse, Professor Henry T. Fowler, Profes- 
sor Charles A. Kraus, Professor Hans Kurath, Professor 
Robert B. Lindsay, Professor Albert D. Mead, Professor 
William A. Noyes, Jr., Professor R. G. D. Richardson, 
Professor Horatio E. Smith, and Professor Jacob D. Tamar- 
kin. It is interesting to note that Professor Fowler's great, 
great grandfather. General Henry Knox, was elected a mem- 
ber of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 180'!. 
Professor Fowler, who took his bachelor's and doctor's 
work at Yale, came to Brown LJniversity from Knox College 
in 1910. His writings include a number of books and many 
contributions to journals in the field of Biblical Literature 
i'nd Histor>'. His books include: "The Books of the Bible" 
(190.^); "The Prophets as Statesmen" (1904, translated 
into Portuguese in 1924) ; "Outline of Biblical History and 
Literature" (with F. K. Sanders, 1906); "The Origin and 
Gniwth of the Hebrew Religion" (1916; Chinese Transla- 
tion, I92i); "History of the Literature of Ancient Israel" 



(1912); "Great Leaders of Hebrew History" (1920); "The 
History and Literature of the New Testament" (1925). 
Professor Fowler represents Brown University on the Cor- 
poration of the American School of Oriental Research in 
Jerusalem. 

PROFESSOR Ducasse came to Brown University from the 
University of Washington in 1926. His academic record 
IS as follows: A.B. University of Washington, 1908; A.M. 
University of Washington, 1909; Ph.D. Har\'ard Univer- 
sity, 1912 ; Member of the Faculty, University of Washing- 
ton, 1912-1926; Summer School Faculty, University of 
California, 1925; Summer School Faculty, University of 
Michigan, 1927; Summer Sch(X)l Faculty, Cornell Univer- 
sity, 1929. Professor Ducasse has contributed many articles 
to scholarly journals in the field of Philosophy and Ethics. 
His "Philosophy of Art" was published in 1929. 

Dr. Kurath came to Brown m 1932 from Ohio State 
University. His academic record is as follows: A.B. Uni- 
versity of Texas, 1914; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1920; 
Member of Faculty, University of Texas, 1917-1919; Mem- 
ber of Faculty, Northwestern University, 1920-1927; Mem- 
ber of Faculty, Ohio State University, 1927-1932; Dr. Ku- 
rath was a member of the staff of Linguistic Institute during 
1929-1930. During the academic year 1930-31, Dr. Kurath 
was on leave of absence from Ohio State University. He 
sen.'ed as Chairman of the Committee in Charge and Direc- 
tor of Research of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States 
and Canada. When Dr. Kurath accepted an appointment 
at Brown LIniversity in 1932, the headquarters of the Lin- 
guistic Atlas were moved to Brown University and Dr. 
Kurath has been directing the program of research during 
the present year and will continue to do so during 1933-34. 
Dr. Kurath has contributed a number of articles related to 
linguistics and history' of languages to scholarly journals in 
his field. His "History of English Pronunciation" was pub- 
lished in 1932. 



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Brown Alumni Monthly 



Puhlished at Brown University by the Aswciatcd Alumui 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON. "li 

Managing Editor 

HENRY S. CHAFEE, -09 

Managing Director 
HENRY G. CLARK. '07 

For the Alumni Fund 



ARTHUR BRAITSCH. '23 

Business Manager 
ALFRED H. GURNEY. '07 

Secretary 

GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL. '10 
Pcmbro\e Correspondent 



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Vol. XXXIV 



JUNE. 1933 



No. 1 



Four Unusual Sahhatic Projects 

PROFESSORS S. Foster Damon of the Department of 
English, and William L. Fichter of the Department of 
Romance Languages and Literatures have been granted 
sabbatic leave for the academic year 193J-34. Professor 
Norns W. Rakestraw of the Department of Chemistry has 
been granted sabbatic leave for the second semester and 
Professor Leicester Bradner of the Department of Engli.sh 
has been granted leave of absence for the first semester. 

Professor Damon is an Associate Professor of English 
and Curator of the Harris Collection of American Poetry. 
Professor Damon came to Brown from Harvard University 
in 1927. His publications include: "Eight Harvard Poets" 
(1917); "A Book of Danish Verse" (1922); "WiUiam 
Blake" (a critical study, 1924) ; "Thomas Holley Chivers" 
(1930) ; "The Day after Christmas" (1930) ; and two vol- 
umes of his own verse: "Astrolabe" (1927) and "Tilted 
Moons" (1929). Since 1929 Professor Damon has been 
Curator of the Harris Collection of American Poetry. 

He is the oiScial biographer of Amy Lowell. He plans to 
complete the biography during the next academic year. In 
collaboration with Dr. Lewis Chase, Professor Damon has 
been engaged in the preparation of a three or four volume 
edition of the works of Thomas Holley Chivers, the Amer- 
ican poet. The first volume will be ready for publication in 
the fall. 

Professor Fichter is an Associate Professor of Spanish, 
having come to Brown from the University of Minnesota in 
1928. He plans to spend the major portion of his sabbatic 
leave in Spain and in England, where he will be engaged 
in the completion of his study of the life and works of Lope 
de Vega, Spain's greatest dramatist. 

In the pursuit of this study, Professor Fichter will work 
in the Biblioteca Nacional and the Biblioteca de San Isidro 
in Madrid; in the Biblioteca Menendes y Pelayo at San- 
tander; Libraries of Barcelona, Valencia and Seville; the 
British Museum in London; the Nationalbibliothek in 
Vienna; the Bibliothcque Nationale and the Mazarine Li- 
brary in Paris; the Parma Librar>' in Italy and in other 
European libraries. 

PROFESSOR Rakestraw, Associate Professor of Chem- 
istry, came to Brown in 1926 from Oberlin College. He 
has written a number of papers for journals in the fields of 
Chemistry and Biology. During the summers of 1931 and 
1932 Professor Rakestraw has been Research Associate at 



the Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole, where he 
has been engaged in research on chemical problems in the 
field of oceanography. 

During the period of his sabbatic leave, Professor Rake- 
straw will visit the oceanographic laboratories of the Uni- 
versity of Washington in Seattle; the Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography at La JoUa, California; the Hopkins Marine 
Station at Pacific Grove, California. He will then sail for 
Europe where he will visit the centers for oceanographic 
work in the Mediterranean including the Marine Labora- 
tory at Naples and the laboratory and museum at Monaco; 
the laboratories on the North Sea and on the Baltic, espe- 
cially at Kiel, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Helsingfors. He 
will spend the early part of the summer in Denmark and 
Norway visiting the headquarters of the International 
Council for the Exploration of the Sea in Copenhagen and 
the laboratories in Oslo and Bergen. The latter part of the 
summer will be spent at the Marine Biological Laboratory 
in Plymouth, England. 

Work in oceanography has recently been begun on the 
Atlantic Coast in this country with the establishment of the 
Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole. Through Pro- 
fessor Rakestraw's association with the Institution, Brown 
University has already had a part in the development of this 
work. 

Professor Bradner, who came to Brown m 1926 from 
Yale LIniversity, in 1927 published the "Life and Poems of 
Richard Edwards" as one of the series of Yale Studies in 
English. He has also contributed a number of articles to 
"Modern Philology," "Review of English Studies," and the 
"Modern Language Review." Professor Bradner plans to 
spend his leave of absence in England, where he will con- 
tinue work on his book on "History of Anglo-Latin Poetry 
since 1500." Most of his work will be done in the Bodleian 
Library at Oxford and at the British Museum in London. 



Reneiving the Carnegie Grant 

BROWN University has recently been advised by the 
Carnegie Corporation that an additional grant of 
$20,000 has been made by the Carnegie Corporation 
in support of the Department of Art at Brown University 
and the Community Art Project under the auspices of 
Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. 
This gives assurance that the program which has been so 
auspiciously begun during the present year, with the aid of 
funds provided by the Carnegie Corporation, will be con- 
tinued. 

The administration of the Community Art Project 
is in the hands of a Committee consisting of Dr. A. D. 
Mead, Vice-President; Professor J. P. Adams, Vice-Presi- 
dent; Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Secretary of the Corporation; 
Professors W. S. Taylor and G. E. Downing of the Depart- 
ment of Art; Mrs. Murray S. Danforth, President of the 
Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. L. Earle Rowe, Direc- 
tor of the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design; 
and Mr. Royal B. Farnum, Educational Director of the 
Rhode Island School of Design. 

The Community Art Project has already accomplished 
worth while results during the present year. Through this 
project Brown University and the Rhode Island School of 
Design hope to develop a more lively interest in art and art 
education in the community in which the two institutions 
reside. The jirimary purpose of the Community Art Pro- 



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ject is to encourage and co-ordinate the activities of organ- 
isations and institutions interested in art and art education. 
The project is broadly conceived. 

WHILE its major activities have been related to pictorial 
and plastic arts, its interests have also mcludcd music, 
dramatics, architecture, industrial art, and civic planning 
and improvement. Among the more important projects 
which have been sponsored during the present year are: 

The Institute of Art, a Symposium under the auspices 
of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of 
Design, held on November 11,12 and 1?. A large num- 
ber of men and women, prominent in the field of art and 
art education in the East, and a large number of persons 
with similar interests in the City of Providence attended 
this Institute. 

A series of exhibitions in Faunce House Art (Jailer)'. 
Several programs of music and the dance. 
A series of lectures on Art and the Classical Point ot 
View. 

The organi:;ation of a loan exhibition by Rhode Island 
Artists. This exhibition was held in the down town sec- 
tion of Providence and during the ten days of the exhi- 
bition it was visited by approximately 6,000 people. 

The preparation (still in process) of the first volume of 
a catalogue of art treasures in Rhode Island. 

The preparation of the text and lantern slides of the 
lite and works of Gilbert Stuart. 



The publication monthly of a Calendar of Art Events 
enumerating the events of artistic interest in the com- 
munity to which the public is invited. 

As a result of the grant in aid from the Carnegie Cor- 
poration the program of the Department of Art at the 
LIniversity has been enlarged and enriched for the benefit 
of undergraduates and there is evidence that a more lively 
interest in art has already been developed on the campus. 
A new course. Art Survey of European Culture is being 
offered by Professor George E. Downing. The exhibitions in 
the Faunce House Art Gallery have encouraged further 
interest on the part of undergraduates. And, recently, 
the Department of Art has made arrangements to loan 
prints to undergraduates for use in their rooms. 



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U.snig the W-'cirld .s I)itel(ige7ice 

R. EDG.^R Sheffield Briuhtm.'Vn '06, Borden P. Bowne 
Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, gave the 
annual public lecture of the Rhode Island Philosophical 
Society in Metcalf Auditorium at Brown, May 15. His sub- 
ject was "Civilization and Intelligence," and according to 
the Providence Journal he told his auditors that the state of 
civilization as it exists in the world today demonstrates that 
"we have plainly failed to use the intelligence we have in 
achieving possibilities." 



For the Brown Bookshelf 



Pages ori Wings 

MK Paul T. David, formerly an Instruc- 
tor in Economics, wrote the Chapter 
on Air Trdii.sjiort in the American Trans- 
portation Problem by Harold G. Moulton 
and associates recently published by the 
Brookings Institution. During the academic 
year 1931-3 2, Mr. David held a research 
fellowship at the Brookings Institution, 
Washington, D. C. 

From August 1, 1932, until January 1, 
1933, and from January 25, 1933, to March 
4, 1933, Mr. David was employed as an 
Assistant Economist for the Committee on 
Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the 
United States House of Representatives 
and was engaged in the preparation of re- 
ports on certain public utility holding com- 
panies under the direction of Dr. Walter M. 
W. Splawn. 



A Useful Bus 



; Te.v! 



BUSINESS English is no new, mysteriou.s 
language, in the opinion of Clarence 
H. Lingham, '97, who has been in the 
high school and college department of Ginn 
and Company, Boston, for many years. 
But. just as athletics or science has its spe- 
cialized vocabulary, so has business, and 
there arc styles which are more effective. 
Pretty pictures being no object, the business 
letter must he simple, accurate, clear, con- 
cise. Mr. Lingham has collaborated with 
Professor Roy Davis of Boston University 
and Professor William H, Stone of Ohio 
State University in an excellent new text in 



this field, designed for class use and obvi- 
ously practical. Ginn and Company have 
published it at $1.3 2. 

Dr. Edgar ShefKeld Brightman, '06, has a 
new book, "Moral Laws," which has been 
published by the Abingdon Press, New 
York. It is a discussion of ethics. 



Mark_ctmg and a Bac\ground 

HARPER AND BROTHERS have just pub- 
lished £co7Tomics of Mar\et\ng by 
Professor Hugh B. Killough of the Depart- 
ment of Economics. The preface states 
"This book is designed to provide a back- 
ground of general economics against which 
to examine the evolution of marketing in.sti- 
tutions; an analysis of marketing principles 
and practices: concise descriptions of mar- 
keting functions and agencies, and an 
illustrated survey of marketing research 
activities." 

A P/nJosoplicr Eyes Poetry 

A philosopher's approach to poetry was 
bound to result in an interesting dis- 
cussion. Such, in a very readable style, is 
the burden of the small volume sponsored 
by the Wheaton College Press, Norton, 
Mass., where George Boas, '13, originally 
delivered his thoughts on "Philosophy and 
Poetry" as the Annie Talbot Cole lecturer 
for 1932. Dr. Boas was then associate pro- 
fessor of philosophy at the Johns Hopkins 
University. 

"The field of aesthetics," says Professor 
Boas in his introduction, "is full of vague- 



ness and ambiguity, and someone has to 
begin limiting terms to one meaning if it is 
ever to be cleared." The "essential congen- 
iality" between philosophy and poetry are 
here illustrated particularly by considera- 
tion of Robert Bridges" "Testament of 
Beauty." The price of the book is 75 cents. 



Writing for Every Man 

PROFEs.soR Howard B. Grose, Jr., of the 
English Department is the author of a 
new manual. Everyday Writing, published 
by Scott, Foresman. "It is full of sugges- 
tions and information for the young writer," 
says a review. "It would be hard to think of 
a practical problem in students' composition 
that is not treated in it." 



Another Harle™ Story 

Six thousand short story manuscripts have 
been submitted to the editors of Story by 
American writers since their now much her- 
alded magazine has been imported to this 
country for national distribution from the 
offices of the Modern Library. "The diffi- 
culty in reading all these manuscripts," say 
the editors (Whit Burnett and Martha 
Foley), "was not that so many were bad 
but that so many were amazingly good." 

Featured in the second issue of Story is 
"Miss Cynthie," a moving and humorous 
story of a Harlem tap dancer, written by 
Dr. Rudolph Fisher, '19, the Negro physi- 
cian and novelist. The first American issue, 
the twelfth in the Vienna-Majorca-New 



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York career of the himonthly niaKa;inc, 
was rapidly exhausted after it was pub- 
lished, says its press agent. 



John T. Wintench, '12, Editor of Stars 
and Stripes, contributes a "hbcl"' to a collec- 
tion of cartoons from that paper by Abian 
A. Wallgren — "The A. E. F. in Cartoon," 
published by Dan Sowers ^ Co., $1.50. 
Wally retaliates with caricature of "Wint," 
who incidentally served as model for many 
of the originals, along with Alex Woollcott 
and others who helped publish the official 
daily newspaper of the A. E. F. 



Contributors to Our Mdgazme.s 

HARPER GooDSPEED, "09, Professor of 
Botany at the University of California, 
had an article in a recent number of the 
California Monthly entitled "Plant Hunt- 
ing in Asia." This article described an ex- 
pedition into Tibet and Western China to 
secure additional specimens, particularly of 
rhododendrons, for the Botanical Gardens 
of the University of California. Harper 
plans to be in Chicago in June to erect an 
exhibit of the University of California at 
the Hall of Science of the Century of Prog- 
ress Exhibition. 



Duncan Norton-Taylor, '27, who is be- 
coming one of the popular short story writ- 
ers contributing to the women's magazines, 
has a .story in the Wonian'.s Home Compan- 
ion for June. 



Dr. Eskc H, Windsberg, '21, was the 
author of an article, "Artificial Inguinal 
Hernia," published in the Annals of Sur- 
gery for May, 1933. The article was the 
thesis that Windsberg wrote for the degree 
of Ma.ster of Medical Science in Surgery, 
which he received from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1931. 



Horace S. Mazet, '26, contributed an 
article on "Aero Engine Development — a 
survey of 30 years of progress" to a recent 
issue of Auiution Engineering (London, 
England). Some 200 illustrations accompa- 
nied the five-page story, while an editorial 
commented on salient points in it. 



NOT long ago we saw a copy of the maga- 
zine CiDiT Engi7ieering and there on 
the title page was the name of Sidney Wil- 
mot, '09, Manager of Publications. Cer- 
tainly he deserves praise for the excellence 
of his publication, which is one of the gen- 
uinely interesting and well-edited technical 
magazines. 



Frederick E. Hawkins, '05, of the Gilbert 
Stuart Junior High School, Providence, had 
an article on "The Battle Against Cheating" 
in a recent number of The School Review. 
It is his conclusion, he says, "that most 
teachers are themselves so honest and un- 
suspecting that they let their pupils play all 
sorts of tricks before their eyes." 

In the last number of the Joiirndl oj 
Geology IS an article by Dr. A. W. Quinn 



on "The Normal Faults of the Lake Chani- 
plain Region." This problem is one which 
Di. Quinn worked out for his doctor's thesis 
at Harvard. In the same journal is an article 
by Dr. C. C. Branson, also of the Depart- 
ment of Geology, on the fossil sharks of 
Wyoming. 

Edgar Sheffield Brightman, '06, is the 
author of "Personalism and Economic Se- 
curity," an interesting article in the March 
number of The American Scholar, the quar- 
terly which Phi Beta Kappa is sponsoring. 

The American Mathematicdl Monthly for 
March contains a four-page tribute to the 
late A. B. Chace, chancellor of Brown Uni- 
versity, by Professor R. C. Archibald; a 
fine portrait accompanies the article. 

In the Letter Box 

14 W, Jefferson St., Media, Pa. 
May 13, 1933 
The Editor, 

Brown Aiumni Monthly. 
Dear sir: 

I have read that the Brown undergrad- 
uates of this day and age have voted by an 
overwhelming majority to refrain from all 
and sundry endeavors military-wise in the 
next war. They have their minds made up 
tiiat when the enemy comes pounding at 
the gates they will just look blase and light 
a Murad. 

Won't you be kind enough to convey to 
those apostles of non-resistance the apolo- 
gies, the regrets, the humility of one who 
enlisted on April 7, 1917? It is with the con- 
tritest of hearts that I acknowledge that 
blunder. I submit as extenuating circum- 
stance tile fact that in those days wisdom 
had not yet blossomed to the perfection of 
the present day. 

For my youthful folly may the Gods allow 
me to atone. 

Respectfully, 

G. D. HOUTMAN "16 



Room 50, City Building, 
Portland, Me. 

May 19, 1933 
Managing Editor, 
Broiiin Alumni Monthly 
Dear Sir: 

Have just read the excellent news sum- 
mary of the "War the Peace Drive Started" 
in the May Ahimni Mo7ithly. and note 
the implied editorial rebuke to the new type 
of student warriors by the insertion of the 
photograph of members of the S. A. T. C. 
at Brown during the World War, labelled 
"Didn't Take the Pledge ". 

This apparent effort to shame the pledge- 
signing group in this controversy was to my 
mind untimely and ill-advised. 

Supposing that secession talk became 
lampant in various states and that some- 
where in the South a meeting was held by 
a farmer group to pass resolutions against 
secession activities and in favor of seeking 
redress of grievances through regular gov- 
ernmental channels. If you were editor of a 
magazine of that locality and were yourself 
one of the secession proponents, would you 
think it relevant to insert at the head of the 
news-story reporting this meeting a picture 
ol Robert E. Lee with the caption, ""Wasn't 
Afraid to Secede"? 



The point IS that il the heroes of past 
wars haven't taught us anything as to how 
to make life and living better, they have 
fought, and many have died, in vain. 

The Civil War taught our individual 
states that it is better to thrash out sectional 
troubles in Washington, and that it is poor 
business and poor patriotism to fight for 
seceding when major squabbles develop. 
Similarly the World War taught nations 
that it is poor business and poor patriotism 
to rush into war no matter by what name 
palatably decorated — "holy", "defensive"", 
"war to end war"" — or what have you? This 
is the supposition, for nearly all nations 
have outlawed war. 

The students of "3 3 are far better in- 
formed on the interdependence of sovereign 
states and the futilities of attempting to ac- 
complish war objectives than were the stu- 
dents of "18. A.ll credit is due both those of 
"lb and of "33 who acted then and lately 
according to what they believe constitutes 
the truest kind of patriotism. 

The college officials are surely to be com- 
plimented on handling a ticklish situation 
so as to preserve campus freedom and quiet 
the alumni storm over this matter. What 
better issue could there be for undergrad- 
uates to debate and on which to exercise 
whatever talents they have developed in the 
sti-dy of political science, logic, etc? 

It takes time for new ideas to obtain 
nearly unanimous consent. I suppose it was 
a long time after the witch-burning episodes 
before it was generally accepted as proper 
that the old ladies be allowed to die in 
peace! 

If the Monthly is going to express it- 
self editorially on a subject like this, I think 
It would be to its credit to uphold the law of 
the land rather than to take the implied 
bootleg attitude that if it was legal for 
Brown boys with rifles to invade Europe in 
1918, it should be proper, even though il- 
legal, for them to do so now. 

Outside of this you"re all right. 

Sincerely yours, 

Robert F. Skillincs "11 



Gentlemen of the 
Faculty 

PROFESSOR William Adams Brown, Jr., 
of the Department of Economics sails for 
England on June 2 where he will devote 
approximately a month to conferences and 
investigations related to the research project 
on the International Gold Standard now be- 
ing carried on at Brown University by Pro- 
fessor Brown and Professor Carol J. Smit. 

Dean Samuel T. Arnold and Dean Otis 
E, Randall attended the meetings of the 
Dean"s Association at Boston on Friday and 
Saturday, May 12 and 13. 

Professor James P. Adams, Vice Presi- 
dent, has recently been elected a member of 
the Board of Directors of the Providence 
Young Mcn"s Christian Association and a 
member of the Board of Managers of the 
Providence District Nursing Association. 

Professor C. R. Adams of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics has been reappointed 
Examiner in the Honors courses in Mathe- 



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niatics at Swarthmore College for the June 
examinations. Professor Adams served in 
this capacity last year also. Professors R. G. 
D. Richardson and Albert A. Bennett have 
previously served in this capacity at Swarth- 
n.ore. 

Dr. Philip M. Brown, Assistant Profes- 
soi of Economics, has accepted an appoint- 
ment as Assistant Professor of Economics at 
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 
lor next year. 

Mr. Morris E. Garnsey, Instructor in 
Economics has been awarded a European 
Fellowship by the Educational Foundation 
(li the Commission for the Relief ot Belgium 
loi the academic year 1933-34. Mr. Garnsey 
plans to continue his studies in Brussels and 
Louvain. 

DR. R. M. Flioss, Instructor in Chem- 
istry has been awarded an Internation- 
al Research Fellow.ship by the National Re- 
search Council for the academic year 193 3- 
34. Dr. Fuoss plans to work with Dr. Debye 
at the University of Leipzig. 



Professor A. F. Hinrichs of the Depart- 
ment of Economics, on sabbatic leave dur- 
ing the present year, has been engaged in 
the study of planned economy and social 
control in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, 
Austria and Russia. 

Abbott Henry Eraser of the Latin 
Classics Department is cited by a Brown 
Daily Herald columist as a former teacher 
ol Katharine Hepburn, the film star. 

Professor L. E. Swain of the Department 
of Physical Education gave his talk, "Train- 
ing for Football or for Life", at recent meet- 
ings of the Young Peoples Society of the 
First Baptist Church and the Royal Ambas- 
sadors ol the Calvary Baptist Church, 
Providence. 

Professor N. W. Rakestraw, secretary of 
the Division of Chemical Education of the 
American Chemical Society, gave the ad- 
dress at the meeting to further chemical 
education held by tfie Eastern New York 
Section ot the A. C. S. at Skidmore College, 
Saratoga Springs, May 20. 



Professor A. M. Banta of the Department 
ol Biology IS a member of the Fellowship 
Board of the Division of Biology and Agri- 
culture of the National Research Council. 
He represents the zoological sciences. 

Professor Charles W. Brown, attending 
the meetings of the American Geophysical 
Union in Washington, April 27-29, pre- 
sented a paper before the meteorologists on 
"The Areal, Time and Type Distribution of 
Tornadoes," embodying his own conclu- 
sions and the statistical results gathered by 
W. O. J. Roberts in the last two years under 
the direction ot Protessor Brown. 

Professor Charles A. Kraus gave an ad- 
dress, "Thirty Years of Physical Chemis- 
try," at the meeting held in connection 
with the dedication of the George Eastman 
Research Laboratories, Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology, last month. Pro- 
fessor Kraus served during the last year as 
a member of the Jury of Award for the 
Willard Gibbs Medal for 1933. 



Activities of the Brown Clubs 



'S.ew Torl{ y^ames its Cabinet 

THi: Brown University Club in New 
York held its annual meeting Thurs- 
day. May 18, at its new clubhouse. 
Nearly a hundred attended the dinner at 
which President Alexander Graham 06 
presided. Reports were presented by the 
President, Treasurer Lee H. White 07, 
Jelfrey S. Granger, chairman of the mem- 
bership committee, and by Hoey Hennessy, 
chairman of the publicity committee. After 
the election ot the club's admissions com- 
mittee, officers for next year were chosen as 
lollows: 

Hunter S. Marston "08, President; Hoey 
Hennessy '12, Vice-President, Ralph M. 
Palmer '10, 2nd Vice-President; Colgate 
Hoyt '05, 3rd Vice-President; Philip Lukm 
'24, Secretary; and Lee H. White "07, 
Treasurer. The following were elected 
Governors: Alexander Graham 06, Jeffrey 
S. Granger '13, Charles E. Hughes, Jr. '09, 
Herbert B. Keen "07, and Alfred B. Mea- 
cham '96. 

Mr. Marston after an excellent accept- 
ance speech, asked for a minute's silence in 
memory of the late Dr. John Grier Hibben. 
former President of Princeton, who was 
killed in an automobile accident two days 
previously. Dennis F. O'Brien '98 in a 
short talk urged greater support for the 
A/uirmi Moiitlily and asked all members 
to sign for It at once. The rest of the eve- 
ning was turned over to Hugh W. Mac- 
Nair "17, chairman of the entertainment 
committee. After the meeting adjourned to 
the grand Lounge of the Club, MacNair 
introduced Arthur F. Driscoll '06 who, 
acting as the "Joe Humphries" of the eve- 
ning, in turn introduced Jack Dempsey, 
former world heavyweight boxing cham- 
pion. Dempsey refereed two boxing matches 
held in a specially constructed boxing ring. 
At the end of the bouts, Arthur Driscoll 
introduced John C. Hennessy '10, who in 
turn introduced his guest of the evening, 
Tom Thorp, football official and sports 
writer for the T^ew Tori( Evening Post. 
Thorp told many interesting anecdotes of 
his experiences as an official and writer. 



Between 250 and 300 attended the enter- 
tainment following the meeting, among 
whom were Princeton men who had been 
invited as guests ol the Brown Club. 



Bo.^ton Hears of Geneva and the Hill 

PROFESSOR John H. Williams '12 of the 
Department of Economics at Harvard, 
newly appointed assistant Federal Reserve 
agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of New 
York, gave a splendid talk on "The World 
Economic Conference " before the Brown 
Club ol Boston at the April luncheon at the 
Boston Chamber of Commerce. As many 
Brown men know, Professor Williams went 
to Geneva in January as one of two United 
States representatives on the commission to 
prepare the program of business for the com- 
ing World Economic Conference. At its 
luncheon on May 25 the Brown Club had 
as guest Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow, director of 
admissions, who spoke on "Picking the 
Winners for Brown." 



MerrimacJj Valley's Annua! Meeting 

THE Red Tavern in Methuen was the 
scene of the annual meeting and dinner 
ot the Merrimack Valley Brown Club, May 
13. The guests were Professor James P. 
Adams, vice president, Dean C . H. Cur- 
rier, Professor L. M. Goodrich and A. H. 
Gurncy, Alumni Secretary. Former Presi- 
dent Howard D. White "03 presided, and 
James S. Eastham "19 was in charge of all 
arrangements. 

The attendance was smaller than usual, 
owing to a number of causes, but there was 
no lack ot interest in what the speakers had 
to tell the alumni about Brown and things 
on the Hill. It was a special pleasure to have 
Professor Goodrich as a guest and to hear 
him speak briefly from the viewpoint of a 
member of the Faculty. Dean Currier gave 
a lively report of the work of the admissions 
office; Professor Adams discussed the hud- 
get, saying that the budget retrenchment 
put into effect this year has not adversely 



affected the educational processes of the 
University, and told of other matters of 
moment. After the Alumni Secretary had 
spoken about plans for greater alumni par- 
ticipation in Commencement, there were 
many questions. 

Mr. Eastham .spoke in tribute to the late 
John L. Kent "92, president of the Club, 
and the late Charles H. Forbes "90, acting 
head master ot Phillips Andover. At the 
business meeting these officers were elected 
for 1933-34; President, George A. Mellen 
"98; Secretary-Treasurer, James S. Eastham 
"19; Board of Directors, Walter E. Good- 
win "10, Tewksbury; Prof. Joseph N. Ash- 
ton "90, Andover; Nowell R. Kinney "19, 
Lawrence; and George W. Langdon, Jr., 
"13, Haverhill. 

* * * 

A Fine Vi/estern Maine Turnout 

WITH Dr. Thomas J. Burrage "98 and 
Mrs. Burrage as hosts at their new 
home, and with the Alumni Secretary as 
.speaker, the Brown Club of Western Maine 
held Its annual meeting in Portland, May 
11. The hospitality of the Burrages was de- 
lightful, and the meeting in the pleasant 
surroundings of the Burrage home was a 
genuinely enjoyable one. The Alumni Sec- 
retary talked, the alumni asked questions 
(and they do know how to ask questions 
down in Maine), and at the end of the meet- 
ing Dr. Burrage served refreshments. 

At the business session Robert S. Cur- 
ley '07 of Biddeford was chosen president 
to succeed Rev. Dr. Martin W. Twing "83. 
Rev. Henry F. Huse "96 of North Haven 
was elected vice president and Robert F. 
Skillings "11 and Dr. Burrage were re- 
elected secretary and treasurer, respec- 
tively. Robert C. Moore '18 of Bingham 
made the long journey from his town to 
Portland for the meeting, and Roger C. 
Conant "24 and George C. Wing, Jr., "00 
were present from Auburn. The new execu- 
tive committee ot the club will be Fred H. 
Gabbi "02, Clifford E.McGlauflin "98 and 
Francis D. 0"Connor "12. They responded 
to the roll call, as did George S. Ellis "94 
and Newton C. Reed '03. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 

BY A. H. GURNEY 



1862 

Rev. Addison Parker, oldest living grad- 
uate of the University, died in his 94th year 
in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, May 5, 1933. 
■'Jt so happens that about every year some 
one has to represent the oldest living grad- 
uate of our Alumni as a Last Survivor," he 
wrote the Alumni Secretary in March. "This 
year it seems to fall to me. It it he an honor, 
1 thank the recording angel tor the courtesy 
of its recognition." A friendly, thoughtful 
man, who enjoyed living until the end, who 
said in a letter in 1927 that he was "reading 
thinking, and tilling an easy chair at 88. " 
Born in Danbury, Conn., Nov. 12, 1839, 
the son of Rev. Addison and Eunice (Brig- 
ham) Parker, he came to Brown from what 
is now Sulfield School. In May, 1862, he 
enlisted as a private in Company B, Tenth 
Rhode Island Volunteers, and served in 
Virginia, being mustered out as a sergeant 
in September of the same year. After being 
graduated from Newton Theological Insti- 
tution in 1866 and ordained as a Baptist 
minister, he served churches in the following 
towns and cities: Natick, Mass., 1866-69; 
Charlestown (Bunker Hill), Mass., 1869- 
73- Elmira, N. Y., 1873-76; Palmyra, N. Y., 
1876-81; Morristown, N. J., 1881-92; 
Richmond, La Porte, and Delphi, Ind., from 
1892 until his retirement in 1908 because of 
ill health. He removed to Southern Cali- 
fornia some years ago after having lived 
for a long period with his son, Wilson B. 
Parker, who survives him, in Indianapolis. 
He was the author of "The History of the 
Parker Family" and a series of occasional 
essays and addresses. He was married Sept. 
18, 1866, to Mary Louise Boyden, who 
was his faithful wife and co-worker until 
her death. Parker received his A.M. from 
Brown in 1865. 



1868 

This Class is able to have a reunion with 
an assured attendance of fifty percent any 
time and anywhere it pleases. Only two 
members of '68 remain of the 3 1 who were 
graduated — Charles H. Smart of Providence 
and William E. Lincoln of Pittsburgh, and 
Sarasota, Fla. Lincoln comes North early 
this season and therefore misses his chance 
to win first prize for the heaviest fish at the 
annual Sarasota Tarpon Tournament. His 
biggest to date is 139^ pounds. His name 
heads the list of Brown Trustees, longest in 
service. He hopes to return to Brown this 
month and to go to Block Island for tuna 
in August. 

1876 

Dr. Eugene P. King has changed his 
address to 31 Davis St., Providence. 

Edward Otis Stanley, financier, active 
alumnus and prominent in civic work in 
East Orange, N. J., died in East Orange, 
April 27, 1933, after an illness of six weeks. 
Eorn in North Attleboro, Mass., July 25, 
1855, the son of Otis and Harriette (Whit- 
ney) Stanley, he prepared at English and 
Classical High School and Mowry &? Goff's 
School, Providence. A good student on the 



Hill, he received his A.B. with the Class, 
and his A.M. m course in 1879. From Col- 
lege Hill he went into newspaper work and 
for some years was editor ot the Bani^er 
and Tradesman, published in Boston, in 
1889 he removed to New V ork and became 
associated with the Pond's Extract Com- 
pany, ot which he later was made treasurer 
and then president. In 1897 he accepted an 
executive position with the Title Guarantee 
and Trust Company of New York and for 
many years was treasurer. He retired in 
1922 as vice president. He was a director of 
the Mutual Benefit Lite Insurance Com- 
pany and the Savings Investment and Trust 
Company of East Orange; a trustee of the 
East Orange Public Library and its presi- 
dent since 1912; treasurer of the House of 
the Good Shepherd; the Orange Orphan 
Society; and the Fund for the Relief of 
Widows and Children of Clergymen in 
New Jersey. A leader in the Episcopal Dio- 
cese of Newark, he had been senior warden 
of St. Agnes Episcopal Church since 1908. 
He was triend and adviser of the Associated 
Alumni in the days after the World War; 
he served as president of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club in New York; he had a sincere 
and abiding interest in Brown. He was 
n,arried Oct. 16, 1879, to Caroline Clinton 
Durfee of Fall River, Mass., who died in 
1928. A son died in infancy and a daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Marjone Stanley Carey, died in 
1931. The survivors are E. O. Stanley, Jr. 
of East Orange, and a sister, Mrs. Maria 
R. Patterson of North Attleboro. 



1877 

The yacht Wonaloa, owned by the late 
Charles T. Aldrich and his brother, Henry 
L. Aldrich, '76, which has been laid up at 
Wickford, R. I., was sold at auction last 
month for $2,300, the purchaser being a 
Providence insurance man. The yacht, 
built in 1909 at a cost of $150,000, was 
bought by the Aldnches some years ago and 
was a familiar craft in Narragansett Bay and 
adjacent waters. 

Raymond Greene Mowry, lawyer and 
one time Reading Clerk in the House of 
Representatives, Rhode Island General As- 
sembly, died at his home in Providence, 
May 9, 1933, after a long illness. Born in 
Smithfield, R. I., May 31, 1857, the son of 
Jencks and Abby (Greene) Mowry, he pre- 
pared for Brown at the Mount Pleasant 
Academy, Providence. After graduation he 
studied law in the office of Thomas C. 
Greene, '46, and became a member of the 
Rhode Island bar in November, 1880. In 
1891 he was chosen Recording Clerk of the 
Rhode Island House and was named again 
in 1893, serving until 1903, when he was 
promoted to Reading Clerk. He continued 
in this office for 19 years, resigning in 1922. 
He fulfilled his duties with ability and 
dignity. He was, in fact, "the most astute 
parliamentarian associated with the Gen- 
eral Assembly in the memory of present 
members." He also served as Second As- 
sistant City Solicitor of Providence, 1893- 
94, and as aide-de-camp, with the rank of 
Colonel, to the Governor of Rhode Island 



from 1892 to 1895. After his retirement 
in 1922 he was asked to come back as 
Reading Clerk of the State Senate, but he 
declined. He was married Nov. 15, 1905, 
to Ellen Bishop Cameron, who survives 
him, together with a sister, Mrs. G. Putnam 
Woodward of Danielson, Conn., and a 
nephew, Claude R. Branch, '07. Mowry 
was a member of the Hope Club. 

1879 

Wallace Peter Dick, one time college 
president and well known as an educator 
throughout Pennsylvania, died in West 
Chester, Pa., April 26, 1933. He had been 
in poor health for some time. Born in 
Lowell, Mass., Sept. 9, 1857, the son of 
John W. and Eveline M. (Spoor) Dick, 
he came to Brown from Woodstock Acad- 
emy, Woodstock, Conn., to prepare him- 
self for teaching. He received his A.B. 
with the Class and his A.M. in 1882. On 
graduation he became principal of the 
graded school in Wickford, where he re- 
mained one year. He taught in the high 
school, Peace Dale, 1880-84, and then be- 
came Professor of English at the State 
Normal School, California, Pa. From 1885 
to 1891 he was vice principal and Pro- 
fessor of Natural Sciences and Modern 
Languages — later he taught psychology 
and pedagogy — at the State Normal School, 
Lock Haven, Pa. He was Professor of 
Languages, State Normal School, West 
Chester, 1891-95; and president of Metzger 
College for Young Ladies, Carlisle, Pa., 
1895-98. He returned to the Normal 
School in West Chester in 1898 to teach 
Greek and Latin; and he continued at work 
until illness forced him to retire. A vigor- 
ous teacher, he raised the standard of his 
subjects at the Normal School and inspired 
many of his students to do their best work. 
For years he was a favorite speaker at 
tenchers' institutes and school graduations. 
He wrote or edited several text books, and 
published some of his lectures and addresses. 
He is survived by his widow, who was Miss 
Ida May McConnell and whom he married 
July 9, 1885, and a brother, Leonard L. 
Dick, "86n, of Sharon, Mass. Dick was a 
member of Phi Beta Kappa, having been 
elected in Junior year, and an elder in 
the Presbyterian Church. His only child, a 
son, died in infancy. 

1883 

Sharonton Hale Baker, former educator 
and business executive, died in Maiden, 
Mass., April 20, 1933, after a short illness. 
Heart trouble, with complications, was the 
cause of death. Baker was a native of 
Dover, N. H., where he was born March 28, 
1862, the son of Samuel W. and Lydia P. 
(Blake) Baker. He prepared at Dover 
High School and Phillips Exeter and 
entered Brown in September, 1880, to take 
his degree with the Class. On graduation 
he went into teaching, first as principal 
ol the Middle district school, Bristol, R. I., 
and then as principal of the high schools 
in the following town and cities: Farming- 
ton, N. H., 1884-86; Provincetown, Mass., 



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18S6-yi: Ipswich, Mass., 1891-95; WiMi- 
irantic. Conn., 1895-1900: and Andover, 
Mass., 1902-03. In 1905 he joined the 
financial department of the American 
Woolen Company, with collections as his 
chief duty. Attached to the Boston office, 
he continued there until his retirement two 
years ago coincident with removal of the 
of! ce to New York. His interest in educa- 
tion was always alive, and for some years 
he served as principal of the Maiden eve- 
ning schools. He was also prominent in 
Masonry in Maiden, having been a past 
master of Sterling Lodge and a member of 
other Masonic bodies, including Beauseant 
Commandery. He belonged to the Uni- 
versity Club and the Centre Methodist 
Church, in the work of which he had an 
energetic part. He was married Dec. 1, 
1884, to Miss Alice Gardner Luscomb of 
Bristol, N. H,, who survives him, together 
with two daughters, Mrs. A. A. Pitman 
and Miss Alice Hale Baker, well known 
home missionary worker, two sons. Ear! A. 
Baker and Harold C. Baker, a brother, and 
seven grandchildren. 

1887 
John Knox's new house address is 1420 
N. Mansfield Ave., Hollywood, Calif. 

1889 

Prescott F. Jernegan reports that he is 
retired and is living at 104 Palm Ave., 
Corte Madera, Calif. 

1890 

Dr. James Quayle Dealey, president of 
the Southwestern Social Science Associa- 
tion, speaking at the annual dinner in 
Dallas, Tex., in April, proposed "a co-op- 
erative social survey of the Southwest to be 
followed in turn by a comprehensive 
regional plan made under the auspices of 
the association." The Dallas 7\(euis reported 
him as saying: "This wonderful region of 
the Southwest is surely destined to be one 
of the great centers of American civiliza- 
tion: it is an empire in itself. It is extremely 
rich in natural wealth and has had a re- 
markable history in geologic ages. Why 
can not the members of this association, in 
connection with the universities in the 
States, collaborate in the synthetic study 
of the social trends in the Southwest and 
from this survey indicate a practicable plan, 
to be revised every five or ten years, for the 
systematic development of its resources and 
its population?" 

1892 

The Alumni Office has received notice 
of the death of Neil Andrews, M.D., in 
Oshkosh, Wis., March 7, 1933. There will 
be an account of his career in the next 
issue of the Alumni Monthly. 

1893 

Col. Archibald C. Matteson was the 
speaker at the May meeting of the Edge- 
wood Yacht Club, giving an account of his 
boyhood experiences on hoard the square- 
rigger Kennard. 

Edward B. Aldrich has been named to 
represent the city of Warwick on the Metro- 
politan Sewer Commission, which will study 
the feasibility of installing a sewer system 
to take care of Providence, Pawtucket, 
Central Falls, Warwick and Cranston. 

1894 
Daniel F. George has retired as co- 
partner of the firm of Miller 6? George, 
investment securities. Providence. The 
firm will continue business under the same 



name, with Albert H. Poland, "09, as the 
senior member. 

Henry D. Sharpe has been elected vice 
president of Community Chests and Coun- 
cils, Inc., a national organisation. 
1896 

Charles B. Mackinney has again become 
a member of the Providence Board of Park 
Commissioners. He served on the com- 
mission in previous years and was the ac- 
tive agent in the development of the city's 
golf course, one of the hest in the country 
from the playing standpoint. 
1897 

Ralph Bertram Harris died suddenly from 
a heart attack at his home in Salem, Mass., 
April 15, 1933. He was born in Salem, 
June 4, 1875, and had always lived there. 
His business was in Boston, where con- 
tinuously since his graduation in 1897 he 
had been associated with the firm of Moors 
and Cabot, members of the New York 
Stock Exchange. 

His interests other than those of his 
business were in Salem. Throughout his 
life he was a loyal and efficient member of 
the First Baptist Church, serving for many 
years as its clerk, on its Board of Directors, 
and as chairman of its Music Committee. 
For an extended period he was the treasurer 
of the Salem Athenaeum, a member of the 
Board of Governors of the Home for Aged 
Women, and a member of the Massachusetts 
State Chamber of Commerce. At one time 
he served in the city government as mem- 
ber of the Common Council and of the 
High School Athletic Association. For 
twenty-five years he gave devoted service 
to the Salem Family Welfare Society, first 
as a member of the Executive Committee, 
and then for over ten years as its president. 
Within a few days of his death he presided 
at the dinner celebrating the completion of 
the 193 3 drive. 

In college Harris was a member of the 
Delta Phi fraternity. Since graduation he 
maintained an active interest in Brown and 
Brown affairs. In 1918-1919 he was presi- 
dent of the Boston Alumni Association. 
Surviving him are his wife. Rose (Lee) 
Harris, three daughters, Dorothy Harris 
and Elinor Harris of Salem, and Mrs. Wells 
Fay of Pittsburgh and a son, Ralph B. 
Harris, Jr., of Salem. High minded and 
public-spirited, Ralph Harris was honored 
by all who ever knew him. 
1898 

Judge Henry D. C. Dubois was re-elected 
commander of the United Train of Artillery 
Veterans Association for the ninth con- 
secutive year at the annual meeting in 
Providence last month. The U. T. A. was 
organized April 12, 1775. 

The sympathy of the Class goes to Dr. 
George H. Sherwood, director of the 
American Museum of Natural History, 
whose mother, Mrs. Benjamin A. Sherwood, 
died at the Sherwood home in New York, 
May 15. Rev. Ralph A. Sherwood, '03, 
Salem, Mass., and Miss Grace M. Sher- 
wood, '06, Pembroke, of the Rhode Island 
State Library, are other children who sur- 
vive. Mrs. Sherwood, who was in her 88th 
vtar, was a frequent contributor to well 
known magazines and religious publications 
for children. 

George A. Mellen, managing editor of 
the Lawrence, Mass., Eagle and the 
Lawrence Evening Tribune, is the new 
president of the Merrimack Valley Brown 
Club, of which he is an original member. 



1901 

Judge Stewart B. McLeod, associate 
justice of the Brockton District Court, was 
the guest at a testimonial dinner given him 
by a hundred of his Brockton friends at 
Cohasset, Mass., in April, shortly before 
his marriage (which is reported elsewhere 
in the Alumni Monthly). He received a 
purse of money with which, as the news- 
papers said, "to purchase some lasting 
memento of the occasion." 

Frank A. Page was elected president of 
the Providence Junior Foundation, Inc., at 
the annual meeting last month. 

Rev. William Lathrop Clark, rector of 
St Paul's Church, Brookline, Mass., died 
in Brookline, Jan. 14, 1933. Rev. Charles 
W, Henry, rector of Christ Church, And- 
over, Mass., fellow student and friend of 
Clark at the Episcopal Theological Semi- 
nary has written this intimate sketch of 
Clark's career and personality for the 
Alumni Monthly: 

William Lathrop Clark was born in 
Rome, N. Y., April 2, 1878, the son of 
Frederick W. and Florence E. (Lathrop) 
Clark. At Brown his genial and winsome 
personality won the affection of his fel- 
lows. He was a member 6f Delta Phi and 
at graduation was elected to Phi Beta 
Kappa. He was fond of music and sang 
in the chapel choir and with the Brown 
Musical Clubs. From- Brown he went to 
the Episcopal Theological School in Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Here he was a leading spirit 
among the students. He taught in the 
Sunday school and sang in the choir of St. 
John's Chapel at the seminary. The mem- 
ory of his rich bass voice as well as of his 
splendid character is cherished by his class- 
mates. He was ordained deacon in the 
Episcopal Church in 1904 and priest in 
1905. 

His life in the ministry was spent as 
assistant in the Church of the Ascension, 
Boston, 1904-06, as vicar there, 1906-1917, 
and as rector of St. Paul's Church from 
1917 until the time of his death. In the 
Diocese he had served as a member of the 
Diocesan Council, the Cathedral Chapter, 
and as a delegate to the Provincial Synod. 
Bishop Shernll wrote of him: "William 
Clark was absolutely real. He never hesi- 
tated to say exactly what he thought. His 
preaching was direct and personal, reveal- 
ing the clarity of his own thought and the 
depth of his conviction. Sympathetic with 
all, he cared especially for the poor, and was 
an indefatigable parish caller. In addition, 
he had a great sense of humor, and was a 
delightful companion and friend. There 
are many of us who will miss beyond words 
the warmth of his affection, the keenness of 
his judgment and the loyalty of his friend- 
ship." On March 1, 1905, he married 
Caroline Louise Farrington of Providence. 
Mrs. Clark and three children, Dorothy, 
Lathrop F. and Caroline F. Clark, survive 
him. 

1902 

Kirke P. Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln have 
returned to 815 Amberson Ave., Pittsburgh, 
from the Sarasota, Fla., home at Lopaframa 
Point. They have been enjoying Florida 
sunshine and flowers and outdoor life since 
last October. 

Earl N. Manchester, librarian of Ohio 
State University, is the new president of 
the Ohio Library Association. His son, 
John Wood Manchester, plans to enter 
Brown with the Class of 1937. 



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Lewis S. Milner's mother, Mrs. Mary M. 
(Fidler) Milner, died at her home in Provi- 
dence, April 27. Another surviving son is 
Harry R. Milner, '97n, of Westerly. The 
sympathy of the Class is given Milner and 
hit brother. 

William P. Arnold, member of the Class 
in Freshman year, died suddenly in Man- 
hasset, N. Y., April 12, 193 J. "The men 
of 1902 remember him for his cheery dis- 
position and friendly nature," a classmate 
has written of him. Three members of the 
Class, Col. Samuel Moffat, Samuel Cohen, 
and Jeremiah Holmes attended the funeral. 
Arnold, born in Providence , Dec. 18, 1878, 
the son of Herbert F. and Mary (Lewis) 
Arnold, came to Brown from the Classical 
High School. After leaving college he 
worked for a time as a clerk and then took 
up the study of window decoration and 
advertising. During the course of this 
study he became associated with the Louis 
K. Liggett Co., and at the time of his death 
was display manager for the company. In 
this capacity he traveled considerably, and 
was well known and deservedly popular 
over the country, wherever the Liggett 
stores arc located. He wrote articles for the 
trade journals on commercial decorations 
and was an authority in the field. He was 
married July 16, 1931, to Miss Eluabeth 
Agnes Goldie, who survives him. 

1903 

Dr. Lester B. Shippee's father and 
mother, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Shippee of 
North Stonington. Conn., observed the 
?5th anniversary of their marriage at their 
home, April 24. 

Arthur L. Philhrick, treasurer of the 
Congdon 6? Carpenter Co., Providence, has 
recovered from an emergency operation for 
appendicitis at the Rhode Island Hospital, 
May 4. 

1904 

One of the most delightful letters to 
come across our desk in recent weeks was 
written by Houghton Metcalf from Los 
Angeles. "Yes," he said in answer to our 
question, "there was an earthquake out 
here: in fact, a real one in the Long Beach, 
Compton region, but I can't see why people 
got so excited in Los Angeles. I was there 
when several of the hard shakes occurred, 
and I went through a real shake in San 
Bernardino in 1923 or "24, but as long as 
things remain intact — what's the differ- 
ence?" After commenting on the beauties 
of Southern California, with particular 
reference to his own house and yard, he 
went on: "However, there is much to be 
said for New England, and I take great 
pride in being a Yankee, especially a grad- 
uate of the best damn college of them all." 
We wish space would let us quote more of 
Metcalf"s letter. 

1905 

Newton P. Hutchison and Maurice A. 
Wolf "14 have dissolved the partnership 
carried on under the name of Hutchison 6? 
Company, and Hutchison will continue the 
business of handling investment securities 
at 17 Exchange Street, Providence. 

John C. Mahoney was re-elected City 
Solicitor of Providence last month to serve 
for three years. The unanimous vote in 
favor of Mahoney showed that his excellent 
work in the office is recognized by both 
political parties. 

Ellery Wilson and his children have the 
sincere .sympathy of the cla.ss in the death 
of Mrs. Wilson, which occurred on May 10 



after a short illness. Mrs. Wilson, born 
Frances Evans Hunt, was a life-long resi- 
dent of Providence. Besides her husband, 
she leaves seven children, four boys and 
three girls. 

1906 

Preston S. Moulton, headmaster of the 
Birmingham School, Birmingham, Pa., has 
become a grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Pres- 
ton S. Moulton, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa., 
announced the birth of a son, Kent Moul- 
ton, on April 16. 

1907 

Dr. Asa S. Briggs has the sympathy of 
the class in the loss of his wife, Hope Angell 
(Bates) Briggs, who died in Providence, 
May 3. Mrs. Briggs was a graduate of 
Wellesley and had been active in parent- 
teacher work, in the Girl Scouts, and in the 
Handicraft Club. There are four surviving 
children, Janet, Sheldon, Elijaheth, and 
Franciss Briggs. 

Lee H. White has again been named 
treasurer of the Brown University Club in 
New York. 

Robert B. Jones, formerly of the Edward 
S. Jones Sons Company, printers, intro- 
duces himself in an attractive announce- 
ment as "assistant in advertising and sales 
promotion, newly located at 140 Orange 
Street, Providence." The services offered 
by Bob are advertising managerial, occa- 
sional advertising, and printing. 
1909 

Maj. Reginald B. Cocroft, U. S. A., now 
stationed in the historical section of the 
Army War College, Washington, will sail 
for Paris next month to go on duty as mili- 
tary attache at the American Embassy. 

Irving W. Patterson lectured at Rhode 
Island State College, Wednesday, April 19, 
on the subject of "Grading and Drainage 
of Low-cost Roads."" 

Everett A. Greene is carrying on a con- 
sulting, industrial engineering organization 
with headquarters at 1038 Centre Street, 
Newton Centre, Mass. 

Edward Everson has returned to Cow- 
esett to live. His post office address is 
Box 66, East Greenwich, R. I. 
1910 

Carl W. Atwood, district representative 
of the Norton Company in Connecticut, 
with his headquarters in Hartford, was a 
recent campus visitor. His son, Richard S. 
Atwood, now at Wilbraham Academy, will 
be ready for college next fall. 
1911 

J. O. Chesley, with the Aluminum Com- 
pany of America, reports a change of office 
address to 801 Gulf Building, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania. 

1912 

Leon E. Smith was elected president of 
the Rhode Island League of Craftsman's 
Clubs at the annual meeting held in the 
Masonic Temple, East Providence, last 
month. 

Kenly S. BelPs new house address is 66 
Greenwood Ave., East Orange, N. J. 

1914 
Lieut. Col. Maurice A. Wolf was re- 
elected president of the Reserve Officers" 
Association of Rhode Island at the annual 
meeting held last month in Providence. 
Governor Theodore Francis Green "87 was 
the principal speaker. Wolf, former partner 
m Hutchison (Newton P. Hutchison '01) 
a Company, is carrying on a general invest- 
ment business at 216 Hospital Trust Bldg. 



191? 

Cecil M. P. Cross, who has been Amer- 
ican Consul at Cape Town, South Africa, 
since 1925, is now American Consul at 
Barcelona, Spain. 

Rev. Harold Leslie Gibbs, assistant rector 
of St. Thomas" Episcopal Church, New 
York City, died in the Polyclinic Hospital, 
May 7, 193 3, after an illness of two weeks. 
"A minister of exceptional ability and 
charm,"' the Jiew YorJ^ Times said in its 
news columns. "Blessed with good looks and 
an attractive personality, a natural preacher 
and a tactful administrator, he seemed, in 
the opinion of the older clergymen associ- 
ated with him, to be on the threshold of a 
brilliant career." Born in Westfield, Mass., 
Feb. 4, 1893, the son of Lester E. and 
Janet (Wright) Gibbs, he prepared at 
Westfield High School and entered Trinity 
College, Hartford, where he remained for 
three years. He transferred to Brown in 
September, 1914, and took his degree with 
the Class. After a year of post-graduate 
work on the Hill in sociology, he received 
his A.M. in 1916. In 1916-17 he was Pro- 
fessor of Sociology, St. Stephen's College, 
Annandale. N. Y., and from 1917 to 1920, 
instructor in civics at the Wilmington, Del., 
High School. In September, 1920, he en- 
tered General Theological Seminary, and 
shortly after his graduation in June, 1923, 
was ordained deacon of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church by Bishop Thomas F. Davies 
of Western Massachusetts. Advanced to the 
priesthood by Bishop Manning before the 
end of that year, he became curate of Cal- 
vary Episcopal Church, and in 1924-25 
served as minister in charge of the church. 
For the next two years he was assistant to 
the Rev. H. Percy Silver at the Church of 
the Incarnation, and for the past six years 
had endeared himself to the parishioners of 
St. Thomas. Last summer he occupied the 
pulpit of St. Paul's Church in Rome, Italy. 
Surviving him are his parents, a brother and 
a sister, and to them the sympathy of the 
class is given in full measure. Gibbs was a 
member of Phi Delta Theta. 

1916 

Seward G. Byam was a speaker at the 
spring meeting of the Boston Group, Rub- 
ber Division, American Chemical Society, 
his subject being "Problems of the Rubber 
Proofing Industry." Byam, who is with the 
Rubber and Chemicals Division, E. I. du- 
Pont deNemours &? Co., discussed various 
materials, including DuPrene, the new syn- 
thetic rubber recently announced by his 
company. He has changed his house address 
to 912 West 23rd St., Wilmington, Del. 

Joseph J. Fraga, Jr., has the sympathy of 
the class in the loss of his wife, who was 
Palmyra R. Serpa '21, Pembroke, and who 
died in Providence,>April 25. 
1917 

Elliott Thurston, Washington correspon- 
dent of the Ph\lade\ph\a Record and other 
newspapers, had Prof. James A. Hall '08, 
his brother-in-law, as his guest at the annual 
spring dinner of the Gridiron Club in 
Washington, April 29. 

The first fish and game club for students 
in Rhode Island has got under way at the 
Roger Williams Junior High School, Prov- 
idence, and Ward Butler has had consider- 
able to do with its organization. He has 
spoken several times to the members on 
various phases of hunting, game laws and 
good sportsmanship, has shown them how 
to identify game birds, and has put his bird 



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dog through its paces for their benefit. 
Ward believes that it is a good thing to get 
the interest of youngsters in game problems. 

William H. Reese, home from Pans, will 
be on duty with the Chase National Bank 
in New York for another four months and 
then will return to Paris. He is living at the 
Hotel Chatham, Vanderbilt Ave., at 48th 
St., New York. 

1918 

John S. Chafee, assistant secretary of the 
Brown ii Sharpe Mfg. Co., has accepted 
appointment as First Lieutenant in the Field 
Artillery Reserve, U. S. A 

1919 

C. Lawrence Evans, senior statement ana- 
lyst with the Chase National Bank, New 
York City, has been travelling considerably 
in recent weeks, and not long ago he found 
time to visit Providence with Mrs. Evans 
and two of the children, Larry, Jr., and 
Nancy. Evans is living at 718 Madison 
Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. 

Alexander T. Hindmarsh is with Barrett 
y Company ( W. Stanley Barrett "21 ), 507 
Hospital Trust Bldg., Providence. 

Claude B, Davidson is president of the 
New England Baseball League again this 
year, the circuit having been revived with a 
strengthened line-up of cities where the 
owners of franchises believe that they can 
operate on a modest basis. 

1920 

Threatened by an extortionist, James 
Sinclair gave Providence police such help 
that the police were able to trap the man as 
he picked up a dummy package left as bait 
for him. The prisoner had a business 
arrangement with the Outlet Company of 
Providence, of which Sinclair is superin- 
tendent, and, according to the police, laid 
his plot to get money with which to pay 
pressing creditors. Sinclair was told that his 
child would be abducted unless he met de- 
mands for $5,000. 

Willard L. Beaulac, formerly second sec- 
retary of the American Legation at San 
Salvador, is doing duty at the State Depart- 
ment in Washington. Since he became a 



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vice consul in 1921, Beaulac has served at 
Tanipico, Puerto Castilla, Arica, and San 
Salvador. 

Morrill P, Josselyn tells us that his 
temporary address is 1118 East Elm St. 
Tucson, Ariz,, but that his business head- 
quarters IS still Room 702, 195 Broadway, 
New York. 

Dr. Joseph Smith, first Deputy Superin- 
tendent of Health of Providence, spoke on 
opportunities m public health service at the 
spring meeting of the Asclepius Club at the 
University. 

On the train from Boston to Portland, 
Me,, one day last month we had the pleas- 
ure of meeting Charlie Phillips and talking 
Brown, business, and such, with him 
Charlie was on his way home after a week's 
trip through Vermont and New Hampshire, 
and he admitted that on occasions one 
night stands greatly irked him, yet he could 
not complain seriously these days. He i^ 
district representative for P. 6? F. Corbin, 
locks and builders' hardware, and is still 
living at 5 Ricker Park, Apt. C-3, Portland 

A. C. (Johnny) Brooks was one of the 
successful candidates for Freeholder nom 
inations in Union County, New Jersey, last 
month. Johnny will go on the ticket tor the 
two-year term, and he hopes to get one of 
the nine places on the board at the election 
next fall. 

1921 

Brayton Eddy, who continues to endow 
insects with personality, has returned to 
Providence after a lecture tour that took 
him to New York, Philadelphia, Washing 
ton, Birmingham, Ala., Mississippi, and 
eventually to Texas. While speaking at a 
number of the Texas colleges, he made hi-, 
headquarters in Dallas, where he called on 
his old professor. Dr. James Q. Dealey '90, 
editor of the Dallas ?\(eu'5 and several farm 
journals. He reports that they call him 
"Doc" Dealey down there and think the 
world of him. Prof. Dealey had the State 
Entomologist introduce Brayton to his Dal- 
las audience. On the return trip, Brayton 
gave lectures in Omaha, Grand Rapids, Chi- 
cago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and New York, 

1922 

Milton H. Glover, still Moon to most of 
us, is securities analyst with the Hartford 
National Bank Q? Trust Company, Hart- 
ford, Conn. His mail address is 30 Lewis 
St., Hartlord, hut Moon adds a footnote, 
saying, "I don't live there: I live so far out 
in the country that we don't have mail." 

Frederick G. Brown is president this 
year of the Warwick, R. L, City Council. 

C. B. Howard, on the job as manager of 
the Department of Advertising and Agency 
Co-operation of the Citizens' Life Insurance 
Company in Hartford, Conn., in a recent 
letter said that business wasn't all that it 
might be. but added: "Why dwell on that? 
The prospects are ever so much better. 
Feeling fine, working like the deuce, no 
school teaching." 

1923 

Rev. James D. Bryden is minister of the 
Presbyterian Church, Waymart, Pa. 

We mi.ssed seeing Steve McClellan when 
he came back to the campus late in March 
to talk before the aviation section of the 
Providence Engineering Society on the pro- 
duction end of the aviation industry, but 
we were told that he did a fine job, and we 
want to make this belated recognition of it. 
Steve, as most of us know, is with the 
United Aircraft 6? Transport Corporation, 
New York, and is a flier in his own right. 



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Ed Petersen, writing the Alumni Office 
for details of our Tenth Reunion, gave his 
address as 150 East 39th St., New York 
City, hut didn't tell what he is doing. 

1924 

Prof. George Saute of the Department of 
Mathematics, Cleveland College in Western 
Reserve University, has changed his house 
address to 103 Walnut St., Chagrin Falls, 
Ohio. "The Alumni Monthly continues 
to bring much appreciated news in attrac- 
tive format," he wrote recently. 

Boh Golf, the Class Secretary, is now 
associated with the Automobile Mutual In- 
surance Company of America and the Fac- 
tory Mutual Liability Insurance Company 
at 10 Weybosset St., Providence. Why not 
write Bob as soon as you read this note, 
and tell him something about yourself, 
what you are doing, and why, and so on? 

John D. Carpenter is assistant secretary 
with the State Title ii Mortgage Company, 
340 Madison Ave., New York City. He has 
been with the company since February, 
1926. We recently heard with regret that 
Carpenter's wife, who was Dorothy Rich- 
ards, died Jan. 3 this year. 

1925 

Ben Roman, teacher and coach at the 
Brookline, Mass., High School, is getting 
his mail at 48 Barrows St., Dedham, Mass. 

Dr. C. S. Mirabile is a member of the 
staff of the Hartford, Conn., Hospital. 
Charlie received his M.D. degree from Mc- 
GiU University in May, 1930, married Dr. 
Ethel M. Maclean, June 2, 1930, and is 
living at 402 Farmington Ave., Hartford. 

H. A. Soper, Jr., with the Scoville Mfg. 
Company, Waterbury, Conn., reports that 
his home address is 3060 Windemere Ave., 
Dormont, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

George Andrews' new house address is 
82 Woodmont St., West Springfield, Mass. 

Jim Ehrlicher, secretary of the Brown 
University Club of Chicago, and Alumni 
Secretary of Lake Forest Academy, now has 
his office at 111 West Washington St., 
Chicago. Lake Forest Academy is celebrat- 
ing its diamond jubilee during Commence- 
ment week-end, June 16-17, and Jim has 
been unusually busy arranging details. In a 
recent letter he said that Martin Rice had 
been in town and that "Tony Bateman, 
Alex Maley "27 and I had a fine visit with 
him. Tony Bateman, as you probably know, 
is treasurer of Griswold-Walker-Bateman 
Co., a flourishing warehousing company in 



Chicago. He lives in Barrington, 111., and 
is to be married early in June to Miss Eliza- 
beth Hart, also of Barrington." 

Johnny Lord, with the DuPont Company 
at 18 Brighton Ave., Boston, is living at 
441 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, Mass. 

1926 

"Yes, we've moved; visit us now at The 
Farm," say Dan Grubbs of Thomas D. 
Sheerin 6? Co., Indianapolis, and William 
B. Florea, who is Dan's running mate out 
there among the corn. The address of The 
Farm is Route 2, Box 37, Westfield, Ind. 

Robert O. Gilmore has received a Yale 
University Fellowship in mathematics. In 
1931 he won a scholarship at Yale in the 
same subject. 

George Viault, junior commercial agent 
with the United States Department of 
Commerce, has been working lately, we 
hear, on a foreign tariff manual of auto- 
motive products. George still claims 48 Star 
St., Pawtucket. as his home. 

Dr. A. E. Peters, head of the X-ray De- 
partment, St. Mary's Hospital, Lewiston, 
Me., put on a fine exhibit in connection 
with the national observance of Hospital 
Day, May 12, and the Lewiston Sun gave 
him a write-up carrying a two-column head 
and his picture. 

Carl Reed and J. M. Mason are still on 
the payroll of the General Electric Com- 
pany, according to news we have received 
from Schenectady. Carl is auditor with the 
Walker Dishwasher Company, and Monty 
is in the Merchandise Department, Bridge- 
port, Conn. 

1927 

Gerald Bate is a held supervisor. Depart- 
ment of Relief Service, New Jersey State 
Emergency Relief Administration. He has 
his headquarters in his home city of New- 
ark, where he was a district secretary of the 
Newark Department of Public Welfare in 
1931-32. 

Alex Maley, home from an archaeologi- 
cal research trip into the interior of Turkey 
a few months ago, is looking for a teaching 
position, we hear, and is also doing a little 
research work at the University of Chicago. 

J. W. Merriam and Roger Case have left 
the employ of the New York Telephone 
Company, so Merriam told us while he was 
on a visit to the Alumni Office not long 
ago. Merriam is getting his mail tempo- 
rarily at 8 Hadwen Rd., Worcester, Mass. 

Maynard Alexander writes that his new 
business address is 718 Widener Building, 
Philadelphia. 



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Christopher (Cap) Gunderson, scout 
executive of the Boy Scouts of America, 
Cambridge, Mass., has his offices in the City 
Building, and is living at 1717 Cambridge 
Street. 

Kenneth Bailey, with the W. T. Grant 
Company, and his family have been on the 
move again, this time a short jump from 
Stcubenville to Youngstown, O., where the 
address is 201 Federal St. "Business is 
great — and so is Ohio," said Ken in a note 
last month. 

Bernard Segal, doing graduate work in 
biology at the University of Rochester, has 
been elected to membership in the Roches- 
ter Chapter, Society of the Sigma Xi. 

1928 

Dante D'AUesandro and Robert J. 
Trainor have formed a partnership for the 
general practice of law in the First National 
Building, 22 West First St., Mount Vernon, 
N. Y., under the firm name of Trainor y 
D'AUesandro. 

George Merchant is with Scudder, Stev- 
ens 6? Clark, investment counsel, with his 
headquarters at 10 Post Office Square, Bos- 
ton. "I have been with the organisation 
since November, 1929, and like it very 
much," George wrote recently. "I am not 
selling stocks and bonds! I am living at 
247 Walnut St., Brookline, although I can 
always be reached at my Providence 
address. I have not been to the altar yet, 
except to help others into married bliss." 

J. R. (Dick) Campbell is a partner in the 
C. y G. Sales Company, which is distribu- 
tor for the Wallace Flexible Blade Corpora- 
tion, makers of a blade for a lawn mower 
that, Dick says, is a marvel. The office of 
Dick's company is in Room 228, 49 West- 
minster St., Providence. 

Fred Knight is back at work again on the 
sports staff of the Providence Evening 
Bulletin and is covering golf as his chief 
specialty. Fred had to go to the hospital for 
three weeks because of a stomach ailment, 
thus missing the play-olTs of the Canadian- 
American Hockey League, the season of 
which he also covered for the BiiHctni. 

1929 

Eric Wendelin, with the Department of 
State, writes that his address until further 
notice is 2605 Connecticut Ave., N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 

Johnny Foster, salesman for the Simmons 
Company, has his business headquarters at 
4th and Channing ,Sts., N, E., Washington, 
DC. 

John Deady's new address in the old 
home city of Newark, N. J., is 164 EUery 
Ave. 

K. Woloschak, writing from Winchester, 
N. H., R. F. D. No. 1, a few weeks ago 
said that he had decided "to return to 
Nature after joining the ranks of the 
unemployed." 

19J1 

Roy W. Howard, headmaster of St. 
Dunstan's School, Providence, will be head 
of the tutoring school at Shelter Camp, 
Inc., Marlboro, Vt., this summer. Shelter 
Camp is directed by Prof. Cyril Harris of 
the English Department on the Hill, and 
the senior councilors are Roland Brown, 
W. S. Pratt and Brad Read, all members of 
the Class of 1933. The camp will open 
June 26. 



Mel Lunstedt has been playing with the 
Boston Lacrosse Team, which celebrated its 
20th anniversary during the past season. 
Mel was second defence on the team and 
had the reputation of being one of the star 
performers. 

Walter Niles is back in the North again 
after having spent the winter and most of 
the early spring cruising in southern waters 
on the yawl Wanderlust of New London, 
Conn. Walt gets his mail at 43 2 Pennsyl- 
vania Ave., Waverly, N. Y. 

Douglas Stewart, who will win another 
degree at M. L T. this month, has received 
the award of the Garrett Linderman Hoppe 
Fellowship in civil engineering at Lehigh 
and will go to Bethlehem next fall to en- 
gage in research work for two years. 

Link Fogarty and John Gillies, as well 
.is Harry Dunkerton '3 2, are all members 
of the staff of DeCoppet and Doremus, one 
of the old-established odd lot brokerage 
houses in New York, and Link, John and 
Harrv are learning the business. 

Don Knight, who is with the Anglo- 
American Direct Tea Trading Company, is 
in Taipeh, Formosa, where he plans to 
remain for the next seven or eight months. 

1932 

Hugh Butler has started a two-year train- 
ing course with the Simmons Mattress Co., 
Eluabeth, N. J. 

Bill Stewart is working in the Classified 
Advertising Department of the A(eu' York, 
Herald'Trihune. 

Jack Bouma, still on the job with the 
•Shell Oil Company, is living at 99 Meserole 
Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Harry Rasmussen has completed his first 
year at the Columbia Business School and is 
looking about for something to keep him 
busy during the summer, we hear. 

George Eldredge is a salesman with the 
National Life Insurance Company of Ver- 
mont at 502 Turks Head BIdg., Providence. 



Engagement 

Miss Dorothy Whipple Strachan, Pem- 
broke College '29, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William D. Strachan of Pawtucket, to 
Raymond G. Ch.iplin '30 of Nashua, N. H. 



1901 — Judge Stewart B. McLeod and 
Miss Ha;el Drillio, graduate of the God- 
dard Hospital School of Nursing, were 
married in Brockton, Mass., April 15, 1933. 
They are at home at 9 Prospect Avenue, 
Brockton. 

1928 — Edwin L. Howell and Miss Dor- 
othy Orrell Steerc, graduate of Wellesley 
"27 and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sayles B. 
Steere of Chepachet, R. I., were married 
May 12, 1933. They are at home at 7 View 
St., Providence. 

1931 — S. Abbott Hutchinson and Miss 
Hazel Estella Ives, graduate of Pembroke 
College "3 2 and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Raymond H. Ives, were married in Fair- 
field, Conn., May 13, 1933. The ushers in- 
cluded Paul F. Mackesey '3 2 and Lawrence 
McGinn '31. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are 
at home at 13 Humphrey St., Marblehead, 
Mass. 



193 In — Dudley R. Atherton, Jr., and 
Mae C. Johnson were married at the Little 
Church Around the Corner, New York 
City, August 19, 1932, and are now living 
at 737 Quincy Ave., Scranton, Pa. 



Births 
Faculty — To Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Quinn, 
a daughter, Judith, on March 20, 1933. 

1918— To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. 
Brooks of Pawtucket, a son, Frederick 
Billings Brooks, Jr., April 17, 1933. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold K. 
Brown of Providence, a son, Arnold K. 
Brown, Jr., May 3, 1933. 

1927n — To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson T. 
Wright of Woonsocket, a daughter, Elisa- 
beth Marie, April 22, 1933. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin S. 
Tully of Providence, a second son, David 
Hamilton, May 12, 1933. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown- 
sword of Providence, a son, Alan William, 
April 19, 1933. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. George E. 
Adams of West New Brighton, Staten 
Island, N. Y., a son, Robert Carey, April 
25, 1933. 

1928n— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. 
Preston of Seekonk, Mass., a daughter, 
Margaret, May 10. 1933. 



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The Pembroke Chronicle 



BY JANE SANFORD '3 5 

THE biggest thing in the month of May 
was the twenty-sixth annual May Day 
Festival, held the 20th of May on the 
campus. It followed the regular tradition 
but was just different enough to be most 
entertaining and delightful. The Masque 
given was the "Miracle of Osiris'" written 
by Ruth Vaughan and Lillian Hicoclc of the 
Sophomore Class. Sallie Dowty was chair- 
man of the Masque and under the able 
leadership of Mrs. Hopkins, dancing in- 
structor, and Mrs. Hall, dramatic coach, the 
presentation was one of the best that has 
been given. As the name suggests the entire 
thing was Egyptian, with beautiful settings 
in keeping. A characteristic touch was 
added by the programs which were in the 
form of Egyptian scrolls. We were glad to 
welcome so many Mothers and Alumnae 
that day. A special pictorial issue of Record 
was put out by Constance Saunders and 
Jane Sanford to commemorate the day. 

The Brownie Association conducted the 
May Queen part of the Festival. Rosa 
Reiser was final choice for May Queen and 
a very charming one she was. Ruth Whit- 
aker and Elizabeth Hastings were Heralds; 
the Seniors of course were the recipients of 
May Baskets from the Freshmen Class. All 
in all it was a very delightful Masque. 

With Junior Prom over the next impor- 
tant social event is Ivy Night following the 
Ivy Day program. Elizabeth Noble is head 
ol the evening's entertainment and while 
the committee will divulge no secrets, it is 
generally understood that the decorations 
will be a hit different but in keeping with 
the time of year and the spirit ot the dance. 
Ivy Day is, of course, very important to 
the Seniors and promises to be about the 
same this year as last. Spring Day, con- 
ducted by the Seniors on May 10, was in- 
deed amusing. Professor Shoemaker was 
the favorite professor and combined wit and 
seriousness to give a most delightful speech. 
Lucia Steere gave the class address due to 
Stella Hoffheimer being ill. The class gift 
was an inflated dollar, a most apropos and 
timely present. 

INTERCLASS teams in baseball, tennis, 
and archery have been busy, but as yet 
there are no final results to indicate where 
they each stand. The varsity tennis team 
has won so far two out of three matches 
which is the best they have ever done in any 
year. Belle Strauss, public park champion 
of Providence, is a decided aid to the team. 
Elizabeth Whitaker and Dorothea Golding 
playing doubles have won two of their 
matches, and Belle and Muriel Krevolin 
have won their doubles matches. This 
singles and 2 double combination have 
given Pembroke a majority of their vic- 
tories. Sue Epply, captain, and Doris Davi- 
son have also helped Pembroke. Lacrosse 
was introduced this spring for the first time 
here with Miss Bessie Iludd coaching it. 
About fifteen girls have been taking it and 
enjoy it very much so that there is a strong 
possibility it may be offered in the fall. 

It is now fitting I suppose to close with a 
word of goodbye. Without exaggeration, I 
can truthfully say that this has been a won- 



PROGRAM OF COMMENCEMENT 
WEEK 

Eve-nts at Pemhro\e College 
Friday, June 16 

10:30 a.m. Ivy Day Exercises, 

Alumnae Hall 
Addresses by Jean Estelle 
Bauer, president of the 
senior class; President Bar- 
bour, Dean Morriss, Bea- 
trice May George, Rachel 
Gray Baldwin, and Kath- 
erine Suydam Smith. 
Planting of the class ivy. 
Saturday, June 17 
1:30 p.m. Alumnae Class Meetings. 

Ahimnae Hall 
2:00p.m. Annual Meeting of the 
Alumnae Association, 

Alumnae Hall 
4:1? p.m. Alumnae Reception and 
Garden Party, 

AIum7rae Hall Campus 
?:15 p.m. Alumnae Procession and 
Rally, with Senior Ini- 
tiation. 
6:30 p.m. Alumnae Reunion Supper, 
followed by Komian play, 
Alumnae Hall 
Monday, June 19 
1 2 :00 to 1 :00 p.m. Luncheon for Alum- 
nae and Women Guests, 
Alumnae Hall 
1:30 p.m. Alumnae Meeting, 

Ahmniae Hall 
Address by Miss Eva Le 
Gallienne. Dean Morriss 
will preside. 
9:00 to 11:00 p.m. 

President's Reception, 

Alumnae Hall 



derful year here and I am sure that the 
undergraduate body of Pembroke College 
will stand behind me in this. We have all 
enjoyed ourselves in school and in play and 
I doubt not that we shall go away having 
gained that intangible something that the 
associations of college can offer. As for me, 
I have deeply appreciated the honor of 
being able to tell all you interested alumnae 
(and alumni — for they do read this, I hear) 
just what we are doing as the year rolls 
around. 



A[eu's of the Alumnae Clubs 

THE Providence Club had its annual 
meeting at Cedar Manor, the estate of 
Hannah Nicholson Benson's father in Ash- 
ton, on May 20th, with Alice Sweet Nichol- 
son '10 as hostess. Following a box luncheon 
in beautiful surroundings, the members 
elected officers for next year. Irma Gyllen- 
berg Cull '09 was chosen president; Ruth 
Bugbee Lubrano, corresponding secretary; 
Wilhelmina Bennett Cox '16 and Helen 
Borden Whipple '22 members at large. 
About 75 members were in attendance. The 
Club has raised its quota of $150 for the 
Erown Alumnae Clubs Scholarship Fund. 



The Southeastern Massachusetts Club 
was entertained by the Taunton group at 
the home of Carlotta Hemenway Witherell 
'13 at a delightful out-of-door supper under 
the apple trees beside the Taunton River. 
Miss Eva A. Mooar gave an interesting talk 
on the value of a college education and a 
lively discussion followed. She also told 
about her experiences as a teacher in Japan 
and showed a number of fascinating bits of 
wearing apparel and other curios which il- 
lustrate the life of the people. 



The Worcester County Club held a final 
luncheon meeting on May 27th. 



The Connecticut Valley Club held its 
annual meeting at the home of Linda 
Richardson Stoughton '97 in Thomaston, 
on May 27th. 

The New York Club was the first one to 
send in its quota, $75, to the Brown Alum- 
nae Clubs Scholarship Fund. Hilda M. Hoff- 
man '24, president of the club, was recently 
elected as a member of the membership 
committee of the Women's University Club. 



The Philadelphia Club was entertained at 
luncheon by Helen Newbury Ridington '20 
at her home in Lansdowne on May 27th. 



BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL 
Boosts for the Alumnae Fund 

ONE alumna has returned her entire 
scholarship from the College through 
her contribution of $200. Another has re- 
paid halt of hers. Both gifts will be applied 
toward the permanent endowment of the 
Emma Bradford Stanton Scholarship. About 
1,000 alumnae have contributed to the Fund 
since it was inaugurated in 1930. 601 
alumnae have given this year. 1931 is lead- 
ing all other classes. 



For tlie Paris Bound 

REID HALL is the international resi' 
dence for University Women and is 
located at 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris VI. Its 
purpose is to serve as a club for university 
women who are permanently or temporarily 
in Paris. It is the gift of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid 
to American University women and is 
located in the Latin quarter, near the Lux- 
embourg Gardens and not far from the Sor- 
bonnc. It accommodates sixty residents. Like 
other organizations of its kind, it is facing 
a crisis. In order to preserve this beautiful 
pioperty immediate assistance is needed. 
For the present, families and friends of 
members will be admitted to residence in the 
Hall. Membership is $10. We have been 
asked to secure five Brown alumnae as 
members. If you are going abroad this sum- 
mer you will surely want to make Reid Hall 
your headquarters. Kindly communicate 
with the Alumnae Office and a descriptive 
folder will be sent to you. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Deaths 
1913 — Hazel Underwood Overton died 
in Wollaston, Mass., on January 14, 1932, 
and we regret that the news of her passing 
did not reach the Alumnae Office or her 
classmates until this month. Mrs. Overton 
was the daughter of Charles Austin Under- 
wood and Ella (Bridge) Underwood, and 
was born in Boston, where she received her 
early education. She prepared for college at 
the West Roxbury and Framingham high 
schools. During her undergraduate days she 
took a lively interest in everything that was 
going on. Immediately upon graduation she 
entered the teaching profession and taught 
both in secondary schools and in colleges. 
Her last college appointment was at De 
Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. In 
1927 she married Mr. Joshua Overton and 
since that time had made her home in Spring 
Valley, N. Y. The sincere sympathy of the 
alumnae is extended to her family. 

1921 — Palmyra Serpa Fraga, wife of 
Joseph J. Fraga "16 died m Providence on 
April 25, 1933, after a long illness. Mrs. 
Fraga was the daughter of the late Anthony 
F. and Filomcna R. Serpa and was born in 
New Bedford. She prepared for college at 
Hope Street High School and entered 
Brown in 1917. Upon completing her 
course she taught for a year in Maryland 
and the following year at the West War- 
wick High School. In June, 1923, she was 
married to Mr. Fraga and most of their 
married life was spent in Central Cespedcs, 
Camaguey, Cuba. She underwent an opera- 
tion in Havana two years ago but failed to 
regain her health. She returned to Provi- 
dence and had been a great sufferer since 
January. In a letter to the Alumnae OfEce 
Mr. Fraga wrote; "I have lost a wonderful 
companion, who never shirked responsi- 
bility and who always made the best of the 
' inconveniences that sometimes come to 
those whose work takes them to foreign 
countries, as we have been taken for the past 

ten years." 

* « * 

Class J^otes 

1898 — Emma Hindley Pennoyer (Mrs. 
C. H.) is now at 1 59 Grove Street, Rutland, 
Vt. 

1906 — Mary La Dame has been assisting 
Frances Perkins, the new Secretary of Labor 
in Washington, and is now Acting Super- 
vising Director of the United States Em- 
ployment Service. 

1907 — Nellie Donovan, Katherine Mac- 
Kenzie and Molly McMahon '11 are going 
abroad for the summer. 

1913 — Madeleine Kane Durfce is presi- 
dent of the N. E. History Teachers' Associa- 
tion. 

1918 — Beatrice Rayment Tetlow is presi- 
dent of the Taunton Branch of the Ameri- 
can Association of University Women. 

1921 — Elizabeth Kiley is going to Ice- 
land and other northern points this summer 
and will also study at Oxford. 

1923— Helen Hoff Peterson (Mrs. Al- 
vah) is completing the work for her A.M. 
degree in history at Ohio State University 
in Columbus. In an interesting letter she 
writes: "I feel that it shows a real love of 
my undergraduate major that ten years 
later I should be getting around to this." 



1926 — Caroline Flanders stopped in at 
the Alumnae Office while having a short 
vacation in Rhode Island. She is living at 
58 West 8th St., New York City. 

1927 — Ethel Goodwin is a psychiatric 
social worker at the Naval Hospital in Ports- 
mouth, Virginia. 

1927 — Margaret Borden Lawton (Mrs. 
Ray) has moved from Albany to 74 Mit- 
chell Street, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 

1929 — Mildred Williamson has been 
elected chairman of the women's section of 
Phi Beta Kappa for next year. Ethel 
Humphrey is the new secretary-treasurer. 

1930 — Mae Bousquet is teaching in New 
Milford, Conn., and coaching the girls' 
basketball team. Mae saw Mary Taylor, 
who teaches in Salisbury High, when her 
team played Salisbury for the League cham- 
pionship. 

1930 — Dorothy Hill and Helena Hogan 
spent their April vacation with Verna Fol- 
lett Spaeth at her home in Middletown, 
Conn. They all enjoyed hearing President 
Barbour's fine address on Palm Sunday in 
the Church of Christ in Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. 

1930 — Helena Hogan is assitsting in the 
Psychology Department at Brown. She is 
giving a course in mental testing to both 
graduate and undergraduate students and 
is also finishing her training as a student 
teacher. 

1930 — Margaret Kane is doing social 
service work in Newport. 

1930 — Verna Follett Spaeth has moved 
to 36 Lawn Avenue, corner of Wesleyan 
Place, in Middletown, Conn. 

1930 — Audrey G. Watson is married 
and living in New York. Will somebody 
please supply her new name and address? 

1932 — Helen Bostater has a secretarial 
position with the R. A. S. Medicinal Labor- 
atories at 27 East 21st Street, New York 
City. She writes: "My college chemistry, 
the subject I least expected to use and my 
hardest course, too, is now standing me in 
good stead. We manufacture for the most 
part sulphur products." 

193 2 — Barbara Shawcross Foster (Mrs. 
Marion E.) stopped in and had luncheon 
with us while en route from California to 
Virginia, where she is to make her home. 
Her address is U. S. Naval Radio Station, 
Arlington, Virginia. 

1932 — Mary Guernsey is working in the 
Ultima Book Shop, corner of Angell and 
Thayer Streets. 

1932 — Edith Oldham is working for the 
Providence Journal in its Pawtucket OfEce. 

Engagement 

1929 — Dorothy W. Strachan to Ray- 
mend Chaplin '30. 

Weddings 

1925 — Rose Whelan was married to 
Charles Hill Wallace Sedgewick on Decem- 
ber 25, 1932. Mr. Sedgewick graduated 
from Dalhousie in 1925 and spent the years 
1928-3 2 at Brown teaching and doing grad- 
uate work in the mathematics department. 
He received his M.A. from Brown in 1930 
and is completing the work for his Ph.D. 



degree. He is at present a member of the 
mathematics department at Connecticut 
State College in Storrs, Conn. 

1927 — Beatrice T. Luther was married to 
Carleton Grace, M. I. T., on April 29, 1933, 
111 Wollaston, Mass. They expect to make 
their home in New York City. 

1928 — Dorothy Blais is married to Stan- 
ley P. Jasek and is living at 53 5 Hope 
Street, Pawtucket. 

1928 — Mary Burpee was married re- 
cently to John Strouse. Following a honey- 
moon in Japan, Mr. and Mrs. Strouse will 
make their home in Portland, Oregon. 

1929 — Savila Harvey was married to 
Winfield T. Scott '31 on May 22nd. They 
are making their home at 20 John St., Prov- 
idence. 

1930 — Anne Grisko was married to 
Donald S. Flynn '30 on February 25, 1933. 
They are living at 29 Nisbet Street, Provi- 
dence. 

Birtlis 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. Max Roensch 
(Beulah Leathers), a daughter, Winifred. 

1926— To Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cas- 
sidy (Mary Light Schaeffer), twins, in 
April. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. 
Huss (Dorothy Stafford), a son, Frederick 
Stafford Huss, on April 17, 1933. Mr. and 
Mrs. Huss have moved to 88 Garland Road, 
Newton. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Flem- 
ming (Aileen Terry), a daughter, Barbara 
Jone, in March. Billy is now three. 



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SURPLUS $2,500,000 

Main Office — 100 Westminster Street 
Branch — Corner Empire and Washington Sts. 



Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board 
Thomas L. Pierce, President 
Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier 
Charles M. Smith, III, Trust Officer 
Frank L. Sawyer, Assistant Cashier 
George A. Freeman, Assistant Cashier 
Charles h. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel 

Empire St. Branch, Frank L. Sawyer, Manager 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Manager 
Directors 
Charles H. Newell Wilson G. Wing 

William Gammell. Jr. John Nicholas Brown 
Moses J. Barber Thomas L. Pierce 

PaulC. DeWoIf Lauriston H. Hazard 

Frank E. Richmond William L. Sweet 

Richard S. Aldrich Frederick T. Moses 

Edward P. Jastram John Ormsbee Ames 

Earl G. Batty Willard I. Angell 

A. Livingston Kelley John B. Lewis 

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Just think of this, some of the tobacco in 
Chesterfield — the Turkish — comes from 4000 
miles away! And before it is shipped every 
single leaf is packed by hand. 

Of course I don't know much about making 
cigarettes, but I do know this — that Chesterfields 
are milder and have a very pleasing aroma and 
taste. They satisfy — and that's what counts! 

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Vol. XXXIV 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., JULY, 1933 



No. 2 



Brown University's 165th Commencement 



WITH the traditional pageantry of the years attend- 
ant upon it, the 165th Commencement of Brown 
University gave to 392 undergraduates their bac- 
calaureate degrees and offered to hundreds of returning 
alumni the heartening that came from old scenes revisited 
and old ties renewed. 

There had been fears that many might he kept away 
because of the times, but it was a matter of comment that 
the line of the graduates for the march down the hill was 
one of the longest in recent years. The excellence of the 
program was reward for all who were present. While con- 
ventional in its broader outlines, it embodied a few inno- 
vations. 

Seldom have two such admirable speakers as Justice Ben- 
jamin N. Cardozo of the Supreme Court of the United 
States and Dr. Harlow Shapley, the Harvard Astronomer, 
been provided for the alumni luncheon. They lived up to 
their reputations fully, the former enunciating a scholarly 
credo that denied any dictatorship to precedent, the latter 
humorously but effectively evoking a tremendous awe for 
the cosmic space which he was exploring. 'Tacts" were the 
theme of one, "Fancies" the other's. 

They and eight others had received honorary degrees 
in the historic setting of the First Baptist Meeting House : 

Norman Staunton Dike '85, Justice of the New York 
Supreme Court, Doctor of Laws. 

Frankhn Winslow Johnson, President of Colby College. 
Doctor of Laws. 

Harold Higgins Swift, Vice President of Swift and Com- 
pany, Chicago, Doctor of Laws. 

Dr. Daniel Clarence Holton, Professor of Religious and 
Church History in the Far East, Doctor of Divinity. 

Prof. Frederic Poole Gorham '93, deceased, late head of 
the Department of Biology at Brown, Doctor of Science 
(in absentia) . 

Miss Eva Le Gallienne, actress and director of the Civic 
Repertory Theatre, New York, Doctor of Letters. 

Charles Albert Selden '93, London correspondent of the 
AJeti' Tor\ Tnues, Master of Arts. 

Jefferson Shiel '82, head of the Department of Mathe- 
matics, Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, Master of Arts. 

THE order of the procession as it marched down the hill follows: 
Chief Marshal, Maurice Howe Cook '97; Chief of Staff, Mar- 
tin Smith Fanning '91; Aides to Chief Marshal, Archibald Claflin 
Matteson "98, John Davis Edmands Jones "93, Frederick William 
Marvel '94, Byron Sprague Watson "97, John Ashley Gammons 
"98, Edward Tudor Gross "01, Abbott Phillips "02, Henry Garfield 
Clark '07, Denison Warner Greene '24, Kent Fleming Matteson 



Fourth Division — Aide in charge, James Cunliffc Bullock '02; 
Classes of '32-'31 — Marshals, John Shea Flynn '32, Richard 
Augustine Hurley, Jr. '3 2. Class of '30 — Marshals, Kennison 
Tilden Bosquet '30, Donald Sherman Flynn '30. Classes of '29-'28 
— Marshals, Stephen Israel Hall "28, Nelson Bishop Jones, Jr. '28. 

Third Division — Aide in charge, Sidney Daniels Humphrey 
"97; Classes of '22-'13 — Marshals, Ira Lloyd Letts '13, Harold 
Fairfield Colt Wilcox '18; Classes of '12-'03 — Marshals. Rev. 
Albert Clark Thomas '08, Fred Allenye Otis '03. Classes of "02-"93 
— Marshals, Dwight Kellogg Bartlctt '98; Dr. William Henry 
Magill '93. Classes of '92-'60~Marshals, Morris William House 
'88, Howard Willis Preston '83. 

Second Division — Aide in charge, Colin Gordon MacLeod 'H. 
Providence Festival Band, Color Guard; Graduating Class — Men, 
Head Marshal, Robert Ramsay Chase; Marshals, Norman Hale 
Watson, Owen Franklin Walker, Arnold Tulp, Alexander Man- 
lius Burgess, Jr., Thomas Freeman Gilbane, William James Gilbane, 
Archibald Clatlin Matteson, Jr., William Van Antwerp Parker. 
Graduating Class — Women, Aide in charge, Marion Luther 
Bacon '13; Marshals, Jean Estelle Bauer, Mildred Louise Camp- 
bell, Elizabeth Amy Noble, Irene Eleanor Taylor. Faculty — Mar- 
shals, Prof. Robert Hudson George, Prof. Benjamin William 
Brown. 

First Division — Aide in charge. Royal Willis Leith '12, invited 
guests, Judges of Courts, Candidates for Honorary Degrees, Mayor 
and Governor; Marshals, Prof. Robert Foster Chambers, Prof. Wil- 
liam Thompson Hastings. Board of Trustees — Marshals, William 
Judson Brown '93, Edson Richard Rand '29; Board of Fellows — 
Marshals, John Henshaw '87, Charles Henry Merriman '92, Mace 
Bearer, Chancellor, President, County Sheriff. 

AFTER the return up the hill and luncheon in Faunce 
, House, the alumni crowded into Sayles Hall for their 
annual meeting. With more than a hundred unable to find 
places, the gathering seemed to take on enthusiasm from its 
si-e, and little occurred to dispel that feeling. The singing 
was never heartier, nor the speaking program provided with 
such balance. There was some feeling that the preliminaries 
took longer than was necessary, but the throng eagerly 
remained to the end, as the climax was built. 

Gifts and bequests to Brown University during the past 
year totalled $387,795.91, President Barbour told the 
alumni in Sayles Hall. The largest single bequest was one 
of $252,518.15, received from the estates of Henry L. and 
Charles T. Aldrich, whose gift of $500,000 was announced 
at Commencement exercises in 1926 and whose other 
donations to the university include the athletic field which 
bears their name. 

From the Rockefeller Foundation $10,250.09 was re- 
ceived during the year, in support of a project in economic 
research for which the Foundation granted $20,000. John 
D. Rockefeller, Jr., donated $5,000 as a final payment 
toward construction and endowment of Faunce House and 
$2,000 for the McLellan collection of Lincolniana. The Car- 
negie Corporation gave $5,000 for the purchase of books 



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and has granted $20,000 for use by the Department of Art 
and the Community Art Project. This latter amount is not 
included in the benefactions of the past year. 

OTHER BENEFACTIONS include the following items: 
Corporation, alumni and friends of the university, 
$.■^2,880 to reduce the deficit for the current year. 

Estate of Howard P. Cornell, $2.^O44.')0 to establish the 
Howard P. Cornell Fund for general purposes. 

Sale of securities and income of the Barker Fund, 
$9,826.85. 

Estate of Daniel A. Peirce, $7,632 to establish the Daniel 
A. Peirce Fund for general purposes. 

Estate of Charles B. Luther, $'),! 11.88 to establish the 
Charles B. Luther Fund for scholarships. 

Estate of William D. Armour, $3, '597.86 to establish the 
William D. Armour Fund for general purposes. 

Henry D. Sharpe, $.3,000 for the Sharpe Fellowship. 

Estate of Edith L. K. Horton, $2,500 to estaHish the 
Edith L. K. Horton Fund for scholarships. 

Alumni and friends of the university, $1,385 for emer- 
gency aid to students. 

J. J. Bodell, $1,000 for the Bodell fe? Co. Fellowship in 
economics. 

From a friend, $1,000 to he added to the Perry Edson 
Faunce Scholarship. 

Student Government Association of Pembroke College, 
$864.94 for emergency aid to students. 

Alumnae Fund of Pembroke College, $850 for scholar- 
ships. 

Estate of J. M. Marshall, $800 on account of bequest to 
establish the J. M. Marshall Fund for general purposes. 

Brown Alumni Fund, $15,000. 

Brown Club of Chicago, $500 for the award of the 
Brown Club of Chicago Prize Scholarship of 1933-34. 

Anonymous donor, $500 for general purposes. 

The sisters of Walter Francis Brown '73 have given, in 
memory of Arthur Lewis Brown '76, a painting by Mr. 
Brown. 

The Brown Club of Providence has pledged $500 for the 
award of the Brown Club of Providence Prize Scholarship 
of 1933-34. 

PROFESSOR William T. Hastings '03 unfortunately hav- 
ing been ill, it was appropriate that James S. Allen "98 
should have been called upon to preside over the Sayles 
Hall meeting. He performed his duty with grace and wit. 
Mr. Allen retired on that day as President of the Associated 
Alumni, having shown conscientious, vigorous, and intelli- 
gent leadership in that office. 

Again it was an alumnus who addressed the gathering as 
Governor of Rhode Island — Theodore Francis Green '87. 

In the meantime, Pembroke College was holding her own 
meeting in Alumnae Hall for the first time, with Eva Le 
Gallienne as the principal speaker. This experiment was 
deemed a great success by the 900 alumnae who attended. 

After the Sayles Hall meeting an informal reception to 
the speakers, recipients of honorary degrees, and other 
guests was held under the elms in the Middle Campus. This 
event, instituted this year, seemed to be popular. 

The formal reception was held in the evening, as usual, 
with Dr. and Mrs. Barbour greeting hundreds of alumni 
and their friends in Alumnae Hall. In the receiving line 
with the President and his wife were Vice President and 



Mrs. Mead, Vice President and Mrs. Adams, and Dean 
Morriss of Pembroke. The ushers were Fred B. Perkins '19, 
head usher, Roger T. Clapp, Mark Randolph Flather, Deni- 
son W. Greene, Lawrence Lanpher, Louis B. Palmer, and 
Harvey S. Reynolds. 



Results of Alunmi Balloting 

MR. L. Ralston Thomas, headmaster of Moses Brown 
School, has been inducted as a member of the Brown 
Lhiiversity Board of Trustees. He was elected by the alumni 
to fill the Quaker vacancy caused by the election of Dr. 
Rufus M. Jones to the Board of Fellows. 

Mr. Thomas, like Dr. Jones, is a graduate of Haverford 
College, and is the second non-alumnus of Brown to be 
chosen by the alumni as an alumni trustee. He holds a 
bachelor's degree from Haverford and the Master of Edu- 
cation degree from Harvard. He did special graduate work 
at Brown in 1920-22. 

Three other alumni trustees, also elected by general vote 
of the alumni, will take their places on the corporation at 
the annual meeting in October. They are Clifford S. 
Anderson '00, of Worcester, who served one term on the 
board from 1926 to 1932; Henry C. Hart '01, Providence 
attorney, named for the Episcopal vacancy caused by the 
expiration of the term of William Allen Dyer '86, of Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., and W. Randolph Burgess '12, of New York, 
chosen for the undenominational vacancy in place of 
Arthur W. Pinkham '02, of Lynn, Mass. Mr. Burgess is 
deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 
and is the author of several books, including "The Reserve 
Banks and the Money Markets." 

Mr. Anderson, who takes the place of Clinton C. White 
'00, of Providence, is general counsel and secretary of the 
Norton Company of Worcester. He is the son of the late 
Rev. Thomas D. Anderson, D.D., for many years secretary 
ol the Brown Corporation. 

Henry S. Chafee '09, of Providence, will serve for the 
next two years as president of the Associated Alumni, suc- 
ceeding James S. Allen '98, of Boston. Charles J. Hill '16, 
also of Providence, will be the treasurer of the association 
and of the Alumni Fund. William C. Giles '11, of Spring- 
field, law partner of Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massa- 
chusetts, returns to the Brown University Athletic Council 
for a two-year term, taking the place of George S. Burgess 
'12, of Boston. Mr. Giles is a former captain of the Brown 
baseball team. 



A 'hlotable Graduate School Ceremony 

WHILE 82 members of the Brown LIniversity Graduate 
School were receiving advanced degrees at the Com- 
mencement convocation in Sayles Hall, the ceremony was 
given added dignity by the conferring of honorary degrees 
of Doctor of Science upon two distinguished foreign scien- 
tists. One of them, the speaker of the day, was Dr. Niels 
Bohr, Danish physicist who won the Nobel prize for his 
work with the atom, while the other was Dr. Lipot Fejer, 
the celebrated Hungarian mathematician. 

Dr. Fejer, escorted to the platform by Professor Ray- 
mond C. Archibald, was cited as "the enricher of the lives of 
his colleagues in every land." He has been professor of 
mathematics at the University of Budapest for 22 years. 



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Dr. Bohr, "founder of the modern Atomic Theory," who 
has been signally honored by the great European universi- 
ties, received his first American degree from Brown. He 
was presented by Professor Carl Barus, dean emeritus of 
the Graduate School, receiving his hood from Dean R. G. 
D. Richardson. His talk on "Explanation in Natural 
Science" was a technical discussion. 

Members of the corporation and faculty and the candi- 
dates for degrees moved to Sayles Hall in academic pro- 
cession from near University Hall. Eleven degrees of Doc- 
tor of Philosophy were conferred, while 52 candidates 
received their A.M. and 19 their Sc.M. The audience 
crowded the hall to capacity. 

The day before the Convocation Dr. Bohr gave a special 
lecture in Metcalf Auditorium on "Measurements in 
Atomic Physics," being introduced by Prof. R. B. Lindsay 
of Brown, a former pupil of his in Copenhagen. The two 
foreign scientists were guests of honor at a dinner at the 
Wannamoisett Country Club, attended by Brown faculty 
members and scientists from other universities as well. 



Class Hight. Old Style 

RESTORING some of the attributes of the old time Class 
Nights for the benefit of the alumni, the class of 19?.i 
held its last social function as an undergraduate body the 
night of June 16. The relenting of the weather, the new 
bits on the program, and the traditional color of the lantern- 
hung campus attracted an unusually large gathering for the 
dances under the elms and in Sayles Hall. 

With the abandoning of the "open house" festivities, 
the fraternities once again took a large part in Class Night 
proper, each being provided with a special location and 
facilities for entertaining its guests on the south end of the 
Middle Campus. Reunion classes, taking part in the eve- 
ning's program, vied with each other in a singing competi- 
tion. For the winners, 1928, the committee had arranged 
for the immediate delivery of a barrel of beer, which four 
white horses drew onto the campus at midnight. 

The senior sing, a concert by the University Glee Club, 
the illumination of University Hall, and a promenade con- 
cert were other features. Dean Coffin, chairman of the 
Class Day Committee, received many congratulations on 
the success of his party. 

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A Baccalaureate Vv'arning on Freedom 

THE demand for freedom may be the most shallow and 
specious thing imaginable," Dr. Barbour told the gradu- 
ating class in his baccalaureate sermon this year. He cau- 
tioned the men not to think of liberty as rejection of all 
authority, nor to be impatient of restraint, although, he 
added, "perhaps the peak of the impatience was passed in 
the insane years which preceded our present national and 
world condition." 

Because of rain, the traditional procession to the First 
Baptist Meeting House was not held, and the graduating 
classes assembled in the building. Dr. Arthur W. Cleaves, 
pastor of the church, assisted Dr. Barbour with the service. 

"Liberty is a curse instead of a blessing," said the Presi- 
dent, "if it serves 'the crude egotism of the individual' 
and not the general welfare." He implied later that, unless 
a clear and effective solution of the liquor problem is found, 
the state of the nation without prohibition may be worse 
than it has been under an unpopular law. 



Phi Beta Kappa's Meeting 

S.^MUEL H. Ordway of New York, Brown University 
graduate of the class of 1880, was elected President 
of Rhode Island Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, at the 104th 
annual meeting of the honorar>' scholastic society in Uni- 
versity Hall. Henry B. Gardner, Professor Emeritus of Eco- 
nomics at Brown, was chosen Vice President. 

The other officers, whose names were presented by the 
Nominating Committee of which Thomas F. Black, Jr. T9 
Chairman, follow: 

Secretary' — Professor William T. Hastings, A.M. ; Treas- 
urer—William W. Moss, A.M., LL.B.; Historian — Pro- 
fessor Wilfred H. Munro, L.H.D.; Auditor— Harold C. 
Field, A.B.; Committee on Alumni and Honorary Mem- 
bership — Professor C. Emanuel Ekstrom, A.M.; Victor A. 
Schwartz, Ph.B.; Professor Ale.x M. Burgess, A.B., M.D.; 
Committee on Arrangements — the President, e.x-officio, 
Noel M. Field, A.B., LL.B.; Ronald B. Smith, A.B., LL.B.; 
Committee on New Chapters — Professor William T. Hast- 
ings, A.M., Professor Robert F. Chambers, Ph.D., William 
H. Eddy, A.M., Ph.D.; Committee on Nomination of Offi- 
cers—Frederick B, Wiener, Ph.B., LL.B.; Wilfred Pickles, 
A.B., M.D.; Clarence H. Philbrick, A.B. 

Lucius Gan.'in '28, of Lonsdale, and Israel J. Kapstein 
"26, of Providence, who received Ph.D. degrees at Brown 
this year, were elected members in course on the recommen- 
dation of the Committee on Alumni and Honorary' Mem- 
bership, which was presented by George L. Miner, the 
Chairman. 



The Oldest Alumnus in Line 

TO Orray Taft '66 goes the honor of being the oldest 
alumnus to return to the campus for the 165th annual 
Commencement. He is also the third oldest living graduate, 
having been born Feb. 6, 1845. Only Dr. George B. Peck 
'64 and Martin S. Smith '67 precede him in years. The 
latter was in line with Mr. Taft in June. 

Mr. Taft, who lives in Bnxiklyn, N. Y., is a great grand- 
son of Col. Ephraim Bowen, who was aide-de-camp on the 
staff of General George Washington in the War of the 
Revolution. His brother was the late Cyrus Taft, who 
entered Brown with the class of 1878. Mr. Taft, who used 
to live at the northwest corner of Brown and Waterman 
streets (there are doctor's offices in the house now), had 
been in various businesses before he retired some years ago. 

Dr. George B. Peck of WoodviUe, graduate in the class 
of 1864, has the distinction of being the oldest living alum- 
nus. He is a brother of Dr. William T. Peck '70, principal 
emeritus of Classical High School. 

Dr. Peck succeeds Rev. Addison Parker of the class of 
1862, who died in May. Dr. Peck, born in Providence, 
Aug. 12, 1843, the son of George Bacheler and Ann Power 
(Smith) Peck, was a Second Lieutenant, Second Rhode 
Island Volunteers in the Civil War, getting his commission 
in December, 1864. He was wounded at the battle of 
Sailor's Creek, Va., in April, 1865, and resigned his com- 
mission in June of that year. 

George A. Litchfield, non-graduate of the class of 186.1, 
is the oldest of all Brown men, having been born Aug. 21, 
1838. Following him is another former student, Horace F. 
Carpenter '64, of Edgewood, who was born Oct. 19, 1842. 

Mr. Litchfield is living in Los Angeles. He was at one 
time editor and publisher of the Boston Traveler. 



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Family Tradition at Brouin 

THE Bromages and the Burgesses, said the Providence 
Journal at Commencement time, go to Brown. It might 
have added the Bridghams, too. Howard M. Bromage of 
Thompsonville, Conn., is the fourth brother of his family 
to be graduated in the last 10 years, while a fifth is a mem- 
ber of the class of 1936. Except for one semester there 
has been a brother in college from 1917, representing a 
20'year succession. The others are William H. Bromage 
'23, Edward Bromage, Jr. '27, Wilbur Alfred Bromage '30, 
and Robert S. Bromage '36. 

Ale.'iander M. Burgess, Jr., represented the fifth succes' 
sive generation when he received his diploma, the others 
havnig been Thomas Burgess, I. SCO; Alexander Burgess, 
1838; Thomas Burgess, 1870; and Dr. Alexander M. Bur- 
gess, 1906. 

Fenner Bridgham, who was graduated this June, was of 
the fifth generation of his family to do so. Samuel Willard 
Bridgham, 1794, a member of the Corporation, started 
the succession, with his namesakes in 1832 and 1894 and 
Joseph in 1867 continuing it. 

Another remarkable record is that of the Taft family. 
Edward Padelford Taft '54 started the line, while his sons 
were graduated in '83, '88, '92, '94, '98, and '04. Edward 
P. Taft, Jr. '3 5 is of the third generation. 



Commencement Brevities 

THE newly constituted Committee on Commencement con- 
tributed greatly to the success of the program as a whole, 
through co-ordinating the various efforts directed at the week-end. 
It consisted of: Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, ex-officio; Professor 
James P. Adams, chairman: Deans Arnold, Morriss, and Richard- 
son; Professors Geer, Collier, and Hastings, Mrs. Richard B. 
Snow, and Clinton C. White, Henry S. Chafee, and Martin S. 
Fanning. The committee also had the assistance of Professors 
Strachan, Potter, and Hall, Mrs. Gertrude A. McConnell, and 
William H. Edwards, and Eliot G. Parkhurst. 



Bandsmen in the Providence Festival Band, which has played 
the Commencement March for 24 consecutive years, say that they 
play the entire march about 17 times during the descent of the 
Hill. In that figure are included nreasures repeated 32 times 
before the march is played through once, according to Joseph 
Lemaire, leader of the American Band, which has been in the line 
for 40 consecutive years. Mr. Lemaire says that in the old days 
three times through the march would get the whole procession 
down College Hill and to the church. 



In recognizing the career of Miss Eva Le Gallienne at the 16^th 
Commencement, Brown again demonstrated her high regard for 
achievements in the arts through the award of honorary degrees 
to distinguished representatives of these fields. Recent recipients 
include: Walter Hampden, Serge Koussevitzky, Walter Sargent, 
Henry Watson Kent, Oliver La Farge, and Walter J. Damrosch. 



19M Views the World 

THE world has gotten itself into a terrible mess," said 
Earl C. Hochwald, 193 3 orator, during the Class Day 
exercises forced indoors from Under the Elms to Sayles 
Hall this year by threatening weather. "There is a chal- 
lenge to every young man with the spirit of the adventurer. 
"We have already started out in our small way to face 
some of the problems which are crying for solution," he 
added, "and as a result the Legislature of this State has 
branded us as traitors to our country." He was referring 
to the world-wide college protest against wars of aggression, 
given much of its American impetus by the Brown Daily 
Herald. "Gentlemen," he said, "we cannot 'attempt the 
future's portal with the past's blood-rusted key.' " 

An innovation to the usual program was the reading of 
the class ode by John H. Wildman to original music by 
Alexander M. Burgess, Jr. The senior tea followed the 
program. 



On the 60th anniversary of his graduation from Brown, the 
University sponsored a memorial exhibition of paintings by the 
late Walter Francis Brown that attracted much favorable atten- 
tion during the Commencement week. 



Justice Cardoso is the ninth member of the Supreme Court to 
hold an honorary degree Irom Brown University. The others 
are John Jay, Joseph Story, Benjamin R. Curtis, Nathan Clifford, 
Horace Gray, Charles Evans Hughes, Edward D. White and 
William Howard Taft. 



Two Providence brothers, Edward H. Quillan and Francis S. 
Quillan, shared scholastic honors with Owen F. Walker of Canton, 
Ohio, 'varsity football player and Rhodes Scholar-elect, at the 193J 
Commencement. Each Quillan had all-A record during his last 
three semesters, while Walker, working his way through college, 
had an all-A record for six of eight semesters and an average of 
more than 90 per cent A grades for his entire undergraduate 
career. 



A Roll Call of the Reunion Classes 



MEMBERS of 42 Brunonian classes, 
spanning the years at intervals from 
1867 down, seized upon their Com- 
mencement opportunity to hold reunions, 
returning to the scenes of their academic 
days, journeying to seashore and country 
resorts for their celebrations, and marching 
down the Hill in honor of 1933. 

In addition to the senior reunion of 
"Fifty Plus" men, the classes of 1883, 1908, 
and 1923 held the center of the stage by 
virtue of respective 50th, 25th, and 10th 
anniversaries. Others, however, had ar- 
ranged programs ranging from long, elab- 
orate week-ends to simple meals. Classes 
represented on the reunion roster were: 
1867, 1868, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1876, 
1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1883, 188'>, 1886, 
1888, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1897, 1898, 



1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 
1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 
1917, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1931, and 
1932. The number of classes was an in- 
crease of six over June a year ago. 

While several alumni from Canada and 
the West believed they had set the long- 
distance record, they withdrew when Rev. 
Merrick L. Streeter of Burma reported for 
the 1907 reunion. 

EIGHTEEN "Senior Seniors," members of 
classes before 1883 which were not 
holding special reunions, assembled for din- 
ner at the Faculty Club on the night of 
June 17. Among them were Capt. Martin 
S. Smith "67, Charles H. Smart '68, William 
E. Lincoln "68, who came from Pittsburgh 
for the Commencement; William T. Peck 



"70, Prof. Wilfred H. Monro '70, Arthur 
H. Armington "71, Edward B. Hamlin '72, 
Dr. Forrest G. Eddy "74, Abel P. Tanner 
'74, Senator Henry F. Lippitt '78, Dr. Ed- 
gar B. Smith '78, Rev. Gideon A. Burgess, 
D.D. "78, Isaac O. Winslow "78, Harold B. 
Childs "78, Paul C. Gilford "81, Canon 
William Shcafe Chase "81, and Morgan 
Brooks "81. 

Eight of the ten surviving members of 
the class of 1876 took part in the annual 
reunion at the home of Colonel Webster 
Knight, those present being Dr. Charles V. 
Chapin, Dr. G. C. Smith, Dr. Eugene P. 
King, Dr. Henry A. Whitmarsh, Edmund 
Wood, Richard H. Tingley, and Edward 
Aborn Greene. 

Zechariah Chafee was host to ten other 
members of 1880: Walter F. Angell, Henry 



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J Boyce, Rev. William H. Lane, George E. 
Perry, Prof. H. L. Koopman, Frank L. 
Tinkham, Charles R. Adams, Rev. John L. 
Crane, Fred M. Hammett, and Benjamin 
F. Thurston. 

When 1883 held its 50th at the Provi- 
dence Biltmore Hotel. Prof. H. P. Man- 
ning was elected class president and H. W. 
Preston, secretary. Other celebrants were 

F. E. Whittemore. Prof. W. E. Simonds, 
Marion Denison, J. N. Eno, J. M. Hobbs, 
M. W. Twing, Nathaniel Blaisdell, Califor- 
nia architect, and W. W. Burnham. 

THE 25th Reunion of 1908 at the Carlton 
Hotel, Narragansett Pier, was a most 
successful one. Thirty men arrived Friday 
afternoon and evening, June 16, and the 
number grew to fifty ihe next day. The 
Class Gift committee announced that $1500 
had been collected for a 1908 fund, and 
plans were made to add to the fund each 
year until the 30th reunion. 

Those present included O. W. Budding- 
ton, H. E. Minnerly and E. R. Smith from 
Connecticut; W. L. McDonald from Maine; 
S. J. Beeber, R. P. Boas, P. L. Chipman, 
A. L. Denton, C. C. Hubbard. C. C. Low, 
J. B. Mackenzie, E. W. Peckham, R. S. 
Pinkham, Nathan Sternsher and A. C. 
Thomas from Massachusetts; H. P. Stacy 
from Michigan; W. C. Bitting from Mis- 
souri; C. J. Hunkins from New Jersey; 
A. J. Densmore and P. A. Shaw from New 
Hampshire; W. W. Browne, W. H. Burn- 
ham, Benson R. Frost, Henry Ginnell, J. R. 
Honiss, H. S. Marston, C. C. Plummet, 

G. D. Taylor and James Wilmot from New 
York; H. W. Robbins and G. H. Wyman 
from Pennsylvania; N. S. Case, C. A. Col- 
lins, Jr., C. L. Cordery, C. L. Grinnell, 
J. A. Hall, J. E. F. Henry, S. E. Jackson, 
H. A. Jager, A. J. Maryott, F. F. Mason, 
I. L. Murray. J. D. Pryor, W. H. Rivard, 
N. L. Sammis, H. K. Sturdy, W. R. Walker, 
J. B. Whittemore and H. L. Young from 
Rhode Island; W. S. Stowell from Vermont. 

A THREE-DAY descent upon Gardner's 
Inn, Jamestown, gave the class of 1923 
opportunity for a variety of entertainment 
and reminiscence. While the lack of formal 
program left the members to their own de- 
vices, there was no complaint of too much 
leisure. 

Members who were at Jamestown or on 
the campus during the week-end included: 
Ronald B. Smith, W. Chesley Worthington, 
Dr. John F. Murphy, Harvey S. Reynolds, 
Lawrence Lanpher, Arthur Braitsch, E. P. 
Morse, N. J. Paasche, Harold K. Larson, 

A. O. Lundin, E. J. Lownes, Jr., L. A. 
Legris, Don C. Thorndikc, Harold F. Bal- 
lou, H. E. Van Hocsen, W. K. Macfarlane, 
Jr., Edward B. Peterson, Wallace Lisbon, 
John B. Applegate, G. E. Gonzalez, Walter 
J. Fenner, Edward J. Gorman. Stephen A. 
McClellan, Willard Simons, Mian Gulian, 
Robert P. Adams, Carl E. Martin, J. W. 
Worthington, Fred N. Beede, M. T. Gas- 
kill, A. S. Tinkham, Robert G. Bleakney, 
Edwin C. Brady, Dr. Justin Andrews, 
Alfred L. Goddard, J. H. Hagan, Jr., 
George F. Thibodeau, Richard E. Smith, 
Robert E. Corrigan, Carl A. Green, Robert 

B. Coons, Clarence E. Bennett, Nathaniel 
B. Chase, Philip H. Cox, Raymond M. 
Henshaw, Edward A. Hummel, Theodore 
R. Jetfers, E. W. Lincoln, John E. O'Neil, 
and John C. Reed. 




THREE BROWX DEA.NS— Mejitlejohti, Randall and Arnold on the Campus 
for Commencement. Photo by courtesy of the Providence Journal. 



THE reunion with the largest attendance 
was that of 1928, which mustered 56 
at the Massasoit Hotel, Narragansett._ Ken- 
neth A. O'Brien, son of Dennis F. O'Brien 
'98, was elected president, succeeding 
William J. Cashman. 

Other class officers elected were; Vice 
presidents — Edward J. Lawrence, Provi- 
dence; F. Eugene Cheesman, Jr., Evanston, 
111.; and Stanley H. Smith of Providence, 
who also was chosen permanent chairman 
of the reunion committee; secretary-treas- 
urer — Nelson B. Jones; finance committee 
— Samuel H. Levy, Kent F. Matteson, Paul 
Hodge, B. S. Tully and N. B. Jones; perma- 
nent captain of baseball team — John F. 
Heffernan; permanent manager of team — 
Fred M. Knight. 

Others who attended the reunion were; 
Louis B. Palmer, R. C. Hollingworth, J. B. 
Lewis, Robert A. Evans, A. W. Calder, Jr., 
Everett M. Grout, E. P. Frazee, G. O. Bush, 
Jr., Charles Battle, M. C. Frost, W. H. 
Stephens, F. B. Agard, R. M. Scott, Robert 
M. Howard, H. C. Owen, Jr., A. G. Gar- 
diner, J. R. Campbell, E. L. Howell, L. P. 
Litchfield, Robert Bolan, Nelson J. Con- 
long, Don Briggs, L. E. Scherck, Thomas F. 
Peterson, Jr., Virgil Nerad, R. C. Gurney, 
Vernon Stoneman, H. Partridge. W. Harri- 
son Perry, E. E. McKenzie, Vernon H. 



The Alarming Banner 

WHEN the class of 1932 held its fir.st 
reunion this year, it engaged the 
facilities of the Glocester Country Club 
in Harmony for Saturday. Saturday af- 
ternoon word spread through the village 
that the club was selling beer, and sur- 
prise was general, for the Glocester is a 
family club, not given to that sort of 
thing. Still the villagers were sure beer 
was being advertised, pointing as proof 
to the banner that had been hung at the 
entrance. Intended as guide, it read 
"32." 



Chase, Merton Williams, Frederick R. 
Knipe, A. McAlevy, George E. Spofford, 
Jr., R. F. Pickels, H. F. Hitchon, and A. B. 
Capron. 

For '98's 3 5th reunion. Dwight K. Bart- 
lett and Dennis F. O'Brien were hosts at 
Sakonnet and Watch Hill respectively, with 
25 attending. Saunders House at Saunders- 
town was the headquarters for 1903, with 
President John Hutchins Cady recovered 
from his illness and on hand. Thirty-five 
of 1913 held their outing at the Anawan 
Club, Rehoboth, while 1918 went to Ma- 
tunuck for its 15th reunion. 

OTHER reunion activities included the 
following: 1885 — luncheon at War- 
wick Country Club Saturday; 1886 — break- 
fast at the University Club Monday; 1888 
— dinner at the Hope Club Saturday, with 
President Barbour with his classmates; 1890 
— dinner Monday night at the University 
Club, Henry R. Palmer presiding: 1891 — 
luncheon Monday as guests of President 
James L. Wheaton in Pawtucket; 1893 — 
luncheon at Herbert G. Beede's, James- 
town, Saturday, and dinner at Edward B. 
Aldrich's, Warwick Neck, Sunday: 1896 — 
dinner at the Biltmore Sunday; 1897 — din- 
ner at the Agawam Hunt Saturday; 1899 
— with E. A. Stockwell presiding, 24 dined 
at the University Club. 

1900 — breakfast at the University Club, 
Monday; 1902 — two days at Medicine 
Lodge, North Kingstown: 1904 — dinner 
Saturday at the Agawam Hunt: 1905, 1906 
and 1907 — Saturday at the Brown Outing 
Reservation, 1905 later adjourning to the 
To Kalon Club, Pawtucket, under Paul C. 
De'V.'olf, president; 1909 — clambake at 
George T. Huxford's, Allen's Harbor, Sat- 
urday; 1911 — breakfast Monday at the 
Hope Club: 1914 — Saturday afternoon at 
Pokanoket Park, Rehoboth; 1917 — dinner 
Saturday at the Wannamoisett Country 
Club; 1927 — dinner at the University Club 
Saturday, F. B. Wiener presiding: 1931 — 
dinner at Jim Smith's Inn, Saturday; 193 2 
— more than 50 at Glocester Country Club 
Saturday. 



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Brown Men in the Headlines 



Pic\ed for London bv Roosevelt 

ELLIOTT Thurston '17, one of the leading Washing' 
ton correspondents, was selected by President Roose- 
velt to serve as liaison officer between the American 
delegation to the world Economic Conference and the 
press. He sailed for London May Jl. 

"The personal appointment of Thurston by President 
Roosevelt," said one newspaper announcement, "is regarded 
as a tribute to his clear understanding of American aims at 
the conference, the respect and liking he has earned in 1 1 
years of covering national events in Washington, and his 
general ability to produce accurate and interesting news 
stories. The position is one of great importance, for he and 
Charles Michelson will represent the American delegation 
in practically all of its dealings with the press of the world. 
On their ability will rest the world's understanding of our 
mission and its acts." 

"The President selected Thurston," said another news 
story, "because of his wide experience as an interpreter of 
news and because in recent years Thurston has specialised 
more and more on war debts, tariffs, currency problems, 
and other matters Vv'hich will be discussed at the confer- 
ence." 

In 1919, TTiurston went to work for the J^ew Tor\ Sun 
and a few years later left newspaperdom for a while to 
serve as assistant to the president of the National Bank of 
Commerce in New York. 

The lure of newspaper work drew him back to the old 
Jiew Tor\ World in 1921. A year later he did a brilliant 
series of articles on the 1922 tariff laws which marked the 
beginning of the present tariff war. 

Shortly after that he was sent to Washington as first 
assistant to Michelson, who was then head of the 'World's 
Bureau. 

Thurston covered all the oil scandal investigations, much 
of the inquiry into the "Ohio gang," and many another 
important story of the last decade. After Michelson left the 
World, Thurston became its Washington Bureau chief. He 
went to the Philadeljnhid Record when the World died. 

He has written considerably for the better class maga- 
zines. One of the achievements of which he is proud is an 
article which appeared in Scrihner's in January, 1932, called 
"Hoover Cannot Be Elected." In it he predicted Hoover 
would be "the worst-beaten President in history." 

Col. Ro,se"s Retirement 

COL. Henry B. Rose '81, secretary of the Providence 
school committee for 43 years, has resigned, the resig- 
nation to take effect July 3 1 . Brown men of all ages and 
classes will recall him as Chief Marshal of the Commence- 
ment procession since 1917. In June, 1931, he celebrated 
his 42nd Commencement as either adjutant or Chief Mar- 
shal of the formal march down the Hill. 

During his long service with the school committee. Col- 
onel Rose missed but one meeting, the Providence Journal 
said, but the reporter failed to give the date of that meeting 
or the cause of absence. Francis J. Brady '16, chairman of 
the school committee, referred to this faithful record in his 
remarks after Colonel Rose's resignation was accepted. He 
also said: 

"In the various financial matters connected with the ad- 



ministration of our public schools Colonel Rose has borne 
the major responsibility . . . The people of Providence 
should feel deeply indebted to him for the integrity, fair- 
ness, and efficiency with which his office has been conducted 
for so many years." 

H: ^ H^ H^ H: 

Mo7ietarv Expert at the Conference 

WHEN England, France, and the United States were 
conferring at the World Economic Conference at 
London, a prominent figure in the discussions on monetary 
matters was Walter R. Gardner '20, son of Professor Henry 
B. Gardner '84. Like his father, the young man is a highly 
respected economist, serving on the Federal Reserve Board 
as research assistant. 

When the American delegates went to London he was 
attached to the technical subcommittee of the monetary 
commission. His name came to the fore during the confer- 
ences on the Pittman proposal to permit the use of silver in 
the metal cover of their central currency banks. 

Exemplar of the "Tennis" Code 

At.E.x.ANDER Meiklejohn '93 added another honorary 
degree to his already impressive list when he was cited 
for an LL.D. at the University of California last month. 
President Sproul characterized him as "ardent student of 
the wisdom of the past and stimulating teacher of youth; 
searching analyst of the ills of present-day education; bold 
rebel against the bonds of tradition; advocate and exemplar 
of the 'tennis' code on the court and in the market place 
and in all the affairs of men." 

:{: ^ ^ :}: ^ 

V^Hten Fires Harassed Maine ■ 

DR. Thom.as J. Burr.^ge '98, chairman of the Portland, 
Me., Chapter, American Red Cross, and his co-workers 
had their hands full last month. By the time they were giv- 
ing their best efforts to aid in relieving the distress of the 
several hundred victims of the fire that nearly destroyed 
Ellsworth, Me., the conflagration in Auburn, Me., fur- 
nished another major problem for them to tackle and reduce. 
The fire in Auburn left more than a thousand persons home- 
less, and dependent upon the Red Cross and other relief 
agencies for food, shelter and clothing. Dr. Burrage set up 
the Disaster Relief Committee of the Portland Chapter. His 
ability as organiser and director had a severe test in those 
five weeks. 

The Man Vv'ho Doctored Roosevelt 
Before President Franklin D. Roosevelt started on his 
recent cruise in the Amberjack II along the New England 
coast he was the guest of Dr. William McDonald '95 at the 
McDonald home on Buzzards Bay, near Marion, Mass. 
Dr. McDonald guided the President back to health after 
the attack of infantile paralysis in 1921. 

A Leader in Textile Affairs 
Albert L. Scott '00 is the new president of the National 
Association of Finishers of Textile Fabrics. "Because of 
his long experience in textile engineering," said a news- 
paper report, "Mr. Scott was chosen by the finishers to 
administer the details of the national industrial recovery act 
as they Vv'ill be applied to the finishing divisions." 



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Chicago Brown Club Invites You to the Fair 



I HE Chicago alumni extend to all Brown men a cordial 
invitation to attend the Century ot Progress Exposi- 



J, tion, open to November 1st. 

Arrangements have been completed whereby the Lake 
Shore Athletic Club and the Chicago Brown Club are 
co-operating for the duration of the Fair to accommodate 
Brown alumni and undergraduates in the former's luxuri- 
ous clubhouse. In addition, the Brown Club maintains an 
information bureau for Brown visitors in the Wrigley 
Building where complete Fair information as well as the 
names of all Chicago alumni are available. 

The Lake Shore Athletic Club stands in an ideal location 
overlooking Lake Michigan on Lake Shore Drive m the 
city's near North Side. The Club offers single rooms or 
suites and the use to guests of swimming pool and other 
athletic facilities. Resei^vations may be made in advance or 
Brown visitors may go directly to the Club upon arrival 
and introduce themselves. 

The information bureau will be in the office of Mr. Clem 
E. Wheeler, father of Roy E. Wheeler, '26, in the Wrigley 
Annex, 12th floor, 410 N. Michigan Ave. in care of the 
Hartford Fire Insurance Co. 

The Fair has been a source of constant surprise and won- 
der even to those in Chicago who have watched it develop 
from week to week during the past few years. The scope 
of the Exposition, the significance of its architecture, the 
beauty of its lighting, the minute details of its manage- 
ment, the value and animation of its exhibits surpass the 
expectations of the one million persons who have already 
attended. 

The Exposition represents an investment of ^lYz 
millions. 




HciU of Science 

It is a "show case" covering 424 acres and has 82 
miles of free exhibits valued at six millions. 

It IS estimated that three weeks are required to see 
all displays. 

All the states and 17 foreign nations are officially 
represented. 

30,000 employees are required on its staff. 
Chicago Brown Club Fair Committee: 

Roy E. Wheeler, 175 W. Jackson Blvd. 
Joseph L, Strauss, Jr., 626 Federal St. 
Abbott Brown, 307 N. Michigan Ave. 




The Electrical 

Group, 

Radio. 

Telephone . 

Telearaph, 

and 
Electricity 



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Brown Alumni Monthly 



Published at Brown University by the Associated Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON. "25 

Managing Editor 
HENRY S. CHAFEE. '09 

Miiiidgmg Director 
HENRY G. CLARK. '07 

For the Aiumni Fund 



ARTHUR BRAITSCH, ':i 
Busmt^ss Manager 

ALFRED H. GURNEY, '07 
Secretary 
GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL. '10 
PembroJte Correspondtnt 



Subscriptions. $2 a year. Single copies. 25 cents. There is no issue during 
August or September. 



Entered at the Providence Post Office as second class matter. 



Vol. XXXIV 



JULY, 1933 



No. 2 



Brunonia Plays the Game 

WHILE a spectacular spurt by the 'varsity baseball 
nine was outstanding in the late stages of the 
sports calendar, all Brown teams ended their 
spring seasons with such success that the aggregate record 
is the best in five years. Hopes for next year run even 
higher, if replacements from the class of 1936 maintain 
their promise as 'varsity candidates. 

In winning five of its last six games, the Varsity nine made 
a remarkable comeback against strong opposition. Having 
lost five straight games, the team turned on Yale, which had 
given the 19.i2 intercollegiate champions. Providence Col- 
lege, their first defeat of the season, and trounced them 
twice, 6-1 and 5 '3, a feat which has not been accomplished 
for several years. Hunt also pitched well against Harvard, 
allowing but two hits while the Brunonians were winning 
3-2 in the annual Memorial Day game at Providence. It 
took an eighth-inning rally to do it. 

Northeastern, which had bestowed the year's first defeat 
on Rhode Island State earlier in the week, bowed to Brown 
6-1. Sullivan held the Huskies to six hits. In atoning for 
a defeat earlier in the schedule, the Bears shut out Tufts 4-0 
Vv'ith Sweeney pitching well. The second Providence College 
game was lost 7-0, althotigh scorers gave the Friars no 
earned runs off of Hunt's pitching. Five runs were scored 
in a fourth-inning nightmare that should have ended with- 
out a counter. 

Humphries, ace of the hurlers last year, seemed unable to 
bring his arm back to shape after pitching the opening 
game in April, but the others, especially Hunt, rounded 
into form with the arrival of warm weather. Hal Fowler 
of Houlton, Me., regular catcher, will succeed Bud Kroeger 
of St. Albans, N. Y., as captain in 1934. 

Brockton High had one of the best schoolboy teams in 
Massachusetts, but the Brown Freshmen showed little mercy 
in slugging 21 hits for an 18-7 victory, the eighth and last 
on a schedule marred only by a freakish loss to Holy Cross 
1936 after leading 9-1 in the eighth inning. 

A SUCCESSFUL lacrosse campaign came to an end with a 
4-3 conquest of Springfield, victor over Yale, one of the 
three tens that beat Brown in her nine-game schedule. Cap- 
tain Roger Elton was named as a member of the All- 
American team which will play four games against a 
Canadian All Star outfit at the World's Fair in Chicago 
this month. Dan Fraad, point, also received All-American 



mention. Jim Patton of Hughesdale, R. I., one of the high 
scorers, will captain the squad next season. 

A 5-4 victory over Holy Cross proved to be the last 
match of the season for the tennis team, for rain drowned 
out the one with Springfield when the Bears were leading 
2-1. The ledger showed six games won and three lost, a 
good record when one considers the opposition. Ray Chace, 
No. 1 player and captain-elect of hockey, was re-elected to 
the tennis captaincy. He is the son of Elmer S. Chace '01 
of Providence. 

Moses Brown school had run up a winning streak of 
eight games on the tennis courts only to lose their first 
game to the Brown Freshmen 7-2. The Cubs won four and 
lost two this year. 

Showing improvement at the end of the season, the 
golfers downed M. I. T. 5-1. Brown had eight defeats in 
thirteen matches and finished at the bottom of the Inter- 
collegiate League, but a better record is in prospect for 
1934. Charles Conner of Rye, N. Y., captain-elect of 
soccer, will succeed Bob Chase of Tarrytown, N. Y., as 
golf leader. 

The spring record of 41 victories and 27 defeats gave 
the Brunonians a total of 85 victories and 76 defeats for 
the whole year, 476 competitors being listed on 24 'varsity 
and freshmen squads. This did not include the unofiicial 
fencing and polo teams. 

Brown-Dartmoiuh Football Again 

RESTOR.\TiON of the football round-robin between New 
England's "Big Four" will be complete when Dart- 
mouth returns to the Brown schedules for 1935 and 1936. 
Contracts call for a game on Brown Field Oct. 19, 1935, 
with the return invasion of Hanover on Oct. 17, 1936, it 
was announced last month. It will be the first gridiron 
meeting of the ancient rivals since 1929, except for the 
charity affair at New Haven. 

The series, which includes 1 2 Dartmouth victories, 1 1 
for Brown, and 1 tie, had its inception back in 1894 when 
W. G. Norton, a Dartmouth graduate, was coaching the 
Brunonians. Ed Robinson, later to coach many a fine team 
on the hill, had the distinction of scoring the first touch- 
down in the initial game, which the Bears won 20-4. It 
was not until the seventh meeting that Dartmouth was 
victor and started a cycle in the other direction. Each has 
won three of the last six contests. 

Undergraduate sentiment in favor of reviving this game 
played its part in the booking for 1935 and 1936, for stu- 
dent polls by the Brown Daily Herald and The Dartmouth 
showed that the active rivalry was desired on each campus. 
In returning to the Brown schedule, Dartmouth was com- 
pelled to drop Penn from hers. 

Brown Interscholastics Fiercely Contested 

FOR the fifth time in as many years Worcester Academy 
took first honors at the Brown Track Interscholastics, but 
this year she won by the closest of margins. Newark Prep 
was trailing by only half a point when Worcester's total of 
33!/2 was announced. Other contenders who figured in the 
scoring were: Roxbury, Nott Terrace of Schnectady, Mil- 
ton, Hope Street, White Plains, Asbury Park, Fairhaven, 
Providence Central, Ridgewood, La Salle, Moses Brown, 
Wilmington, Brookline, Pawtuckct, Warwick, Hunting- 
ton, and Cranston. 



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Professor Gorham "in Absentia^^ 



I SHALL certainly he present, Deo volente," wrote Pro- 
fessor Frederic Poole Gorham, head of the Department 
of Biolog>', when he was told that the University pro- 
posed to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science 
upon him at Commencement. 

But God was not wilhng. On June 4, as he worked in 
his garden in the country. Dr. Gorham was the victim of a 
heart attack that killed him suddenly. His passing was 
mourned by a wide company of Brown men, colleagues in 
the science of public health, and other friends. 

And so the degree which would have so delighted him 
was bestowed posthumously. The throng in the First Bap- 
tist Meeting House on Commencement morning was deeply 
moved as it heard the citation and then stood to think of him 
for a minute in silence. 

Dr. Barbour's citation was as follows: 

Doctor of Science Frederic Poole Gorh.^m : 

"Entitled to observe this year the fortieth anniversary 
of his graduation from Brown University; immediately 
upon graduation receiving an appointment to our De- 
partment of Biology, successively Instructor, Assistant 
Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Bacteriol- 
ogy, Chairman of the Department, with an eye utterly 
single to the great calling of the teacher, never satis- 
fied to rest in that already attained, even when uni- 
versally recognized as one of the most outstanding 
figures in research and instruction, probably teaching 
in person more students than any other in the long 
history of Brown, his graduates holding positions of 
eminent usefulness about the circle of the globe; giving 
himself to the safeguarding of the life and health of 
his fellow citizens of the State of Rhode Island as bac- 
teriologist and biologist, unselfish colleague and friend, 
carrying sunshine into every circle which he touched : 
By authority of the Board of Fellows, I confer the hon- 
orary degree of Doctor of Science in absentia upon 
Frederic Poole Gorham." 

IH.^VE had a part in the giving of so many doctors' 
degrees to others that it will certainly be a new experi- 
ence to reverse the process and be the recipient of one," 
wrote Professor Gorham to the President last January. 

"I can scarcely realize that next September I shall, I hope, 
begin my Biology 1 course for the fortieth consecutive year. 
In all that time I have missed but very few lectures on 
account of illness or for any other cause, nor have I ever 
taken a sabbatical year. Each year I look forward to the 
beginning of the course with just as much and perhaps more 
enthusiasm than I had that first year in 189?. 

"I have thoroughly enjoyed my years of teaching. I have 
tried to give my best to the long line of students that have 
been in my classes. I have felt well repaid by the occasional 
word of commendation that has come to me from some 
appreciative student. Now I am overv,'helmed by this ex- 
pression of appreciation by the university itself. I deem it 
a far greater honor to receive this degree from my own alma 
mater, where I have done my life work, than from other 
institutions." 

Brown men will always remember the clarity and interest 
of his biology lectures, but a wider public knew him as a 



crusader for public health. It was fitting that a milk control 
measure, for which he had been fighting, should have been 
passed by the Providence City Council on the day of his 
funeral. 

Professor Gorh.am's public career began in 1899, when 
the Providence health department recognized his work 
by naming him its bacteriologist, following a lead of other 
cities which had started to look into that field for public 
health safeguards. In 1913 the Rhode Island Shellfish Com- 
mission appointed him bacteriologist and biologist, continu- 
ing his services until his death. 

In 1914 he became virtual dictator of the inspection of 
milk for Providence. When the department of health un- 
dertook mosquito eradication. Prof. Gorham was again 
called on to bear the burden of the technical work. For 
years he headed the mosquito drive, enlisting many Brown 
students in his corps. 

In connection with his researches Prof. Gorham wrote 
frequently in scientific publications. He contributed papers 
on biology and bacteriology to the Journal of Medical 
Research, the Jourruil of Physiology and others. He was 
author of several technical volumes, including "Laboratory 
Guide to the Dissection of the Cat" and "Laboratory Course 
in Bacteriology." 

Nationally recognized in his field, he was a fellow of the 
American Public Health Association and of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of 
the Society of American Bacteriologists, the American Asso- 
ciation of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, the Rhode Island 
Medical Society, the Providence Medical Association, the 
Washington Academy of Sciences, the Providence Engi- 
neering Society and the Boston Bacteriological Club. Last 
year the Rhode Island Tuberculosis League elected him its 
president. 

DR. Me.ad, a former professor in the Brown biology 
department and associate of Prof. Gorham in that 
field, likewise praised his instruction and the scientific ability 
of his students. 

"I have been a colleague of Prof. Gorham for 40 years," 
Dr. Mead said. "I have known him since he was in college. 
Apart from his personal qualities and his charm, he was, I 
think, one of the great teachers of the generation. 

"He was also a remarkable research man. He was one of 
the founders of bacteriology in the country." 

The administration had lightened Prof. Gorham's pro- 
gram during the first semester of this school year when he 
complained of a heart illness, but restored the full program 
for the second semester when Prof. Gorham appeared fully 
recovered. 



resolution of the Brown faculty paid a fond, 
sorrowing tribute to Professor Gorham, saying in 



A 

part: 

"Through inheritance, up-bringing, and formal educa- 
tion, he was richly endowed with the sterling qualities of 
clear intelligence and a wholesome, generous attitude toward 
life. He possessed a buoyant and sustained enthusiasm 
toward the world of natural phenomena and also a sophisti- 
cated and sunny optimism in his numerous and varied rela- 



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tions with men which neither fatigue of excessive work nor 
the repeated disappointment in human responses could in 
the least diminish. His genius was the spirit of perpetual 
youth. 

"As a teacher both of elementary classes and of advanced 
research students, he stood out pre-eminently among the col- 
leagues of his generation. His exposition ot biological prin- 
ciples was both lucid and sound. He was several times voted 
by the Senior class the most popular teacher. He enrolled 
in his classes during nearly forty years of continuous teach- 
ing at Brown probably more students than has any other pro- 
fessor in the history of the college. The number of post' 
graduates achieving the doctorate under his direction also is 
probably unmatched in our University. In these disciples, 
who were endowed with native ability in different degrees, 
and who now occupy important posts in academic and 
health departments throughout the country, there is one 
widely recognized common characteristic, namely, inde- 
pendent scholarship and self-reliance. This is the effect of 
Professor Gorham's habitual cultivation of individual initia- 
tive in his students. 

"As a research worker in Bacteriology and its applica- 
tions he was a pioneer and a leader in America. The appli- 
cation of accumulating scientific knowledge to the problems 
of health in the City and State, which he advanced unre- 
mittingly through several decades in co-operation with Dr. 
Charles V. Chapin, is a record of service and achievement 
rarely equalled, a record which reflects lasting credit upon 
his memory and upon the University." 



Thieves Silenced the C/idpel Beil 

MISSING from its place after 100 years of service in 
summoning Brown students to chapel and classes and 
in ringing out the news of Brown victories, the clapper of 
the University Hall bell was returned just before Com- 
mencement. "Last fall," said the Brown Daily Herald, 
"the original clapper was stolen, but the authorities declined 
to give the culprits the satisfaction of a hue and cry. A 
substitute clapper was installed, only to meet the same fate 
m April." 

It was not the first time that the clapper had been stolen, 
for It disappeared periodically if undergraduate whims led 
in that direction. Usually, however, it was not long before 
It was discovered in one of the dormitory rooms. 

On the morning of May 26, the Herald reported. Dean 
Arnold discovered the original clapper on his desk when he 
went to his office. It had been surreptitiously returned dur' 
ing the night. Hand forged of iron, the clapper is 20 
inches long and weighs 10 pounds, according to the under- 
graduate reporter. The octagonal rod, an inch in diameter, 
has a bulge near the end. Here the sides have been worn 
down almost half an inch as the result of years of ringing. 

Stifield School's 'N.ew Trustee 

Frank R. Wheeler '97, principal of the American School 
for the Deaf, West Hartford, Conn., has become a member 
of the board of trustees of SuSield School, Suffield, Conn., 
from which he entered Brown. His term is for three years. 



Early Brown Poets and Playwrights 

BY PROFESSOR S. FOSTER DAMON 

(The following artide, rich in its incident and personalia, is an important contribution to tlie fu!!- 
bodied narrative of the Unwersity. Inasmuch as many details have just bee7i discovered through a 
series of researches carried on in the Harris Collection, they are giuen here their first record. The 
article is a free transcrifition of a tal\ by Profe.^sor Damon, the Curator of the Hams Collection, at 
the Faculty Luncheon on March 29, and repeated before the Rhode Island Library Association 
on June 23.) 



THE literary accomplishments that are to 
be found in the archives and the Harris 
Collection are not to he ignored. Age 
has a way of conferring interest at least, 
sometimes beauty, and if not beauty at least 
quaintness to all honest efforts. I shall there- 
fore limit myself to the earliest poets and 
playwrights; in fact, I shall begin with a 
person who was neither — with a composer; 
then discuss Brown's earliest playwright; 
and then skim through the poets up through 
the class of 1850. 

Andrew Law, of the class of 1775, was 
one of the very first American composers. 
He was only eleven years younger than 
Francis Hopkinson, our earliest native com- 
poser whose works are still extant — besides 
being a Signer, a friend of Washington's, a 
poet, satirist, inventor, painter, first Secre- 
tary of the Navy, and also Judge of the 
Admiralty from Pennsylvania. Hopkinson's 
song "My Days Have Been So Wondrous 
Free" was written in 1759, but was not pub- 
lished until after James Lyon's Urania, a 
collection of psalms published in 1761, and 
supposedly the first of our native music to 
reach that stage. That was only six years 



before Law published his first collection, a 
Select T^Juniber of Plain Tunes, in 1767. 

He was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, 
according to our catalogue; and John Tasker 
Howard, in his excellent Our American 
Music, gives the year as 1748. He also 
speaks of him as "a man of good education," 
which goes without saying; hut as Yale gave 
him an honorary A.M. in 1786 and Alle- 
gheny College an honorary LL.D. in 1820 
(the year before his death), his contempor- 
aries must have been aware of his value. 

As Law was born in 1748, he must have 
been 27 years old when he earned his A.B. 
here; and that he was proud of it appears 
from the 1775 edition of his Select T^umber 
(issued at Boston and bound up at the end 
of the Brady and Tate psalm-hook, Boston, 
1774), where these two letters appear after 
his name. A new tune appears in this new 
edition; it is called "Bunker Hill" and was 
the music for Nathaniel Niles's sapphic 
ode, "The American Hero," which became 
the battle-hymn of the Yankees. In the 
Harris copy of this hymnal, a rare broad- 
side of Niles's ode, dated October, 1775, is 
bound in. 



With the one possible exception of this 
song. Law apparently wrote nothing but 
sacred music. His most popular hymn-tune, 
I learn, was "Archdale"; but a hasty glance 
at Songs of Brown has failed to reveal it. 
In his day, church music was growing very 
polyphonic, and many a conservative wor- 
shipper expressed his wrath at hearing the 
choir bid all heads bow-wow-wow before 
the Lord. 

Law fought with much vigor for a sim- 
pler style, and thus became one of the first 
Americans to write about music. Howard 
quotes fiery hits from a critique of some un- 
fortunate's Classical Church Music: 

What is implied by the word classi- 
cal? . . . Can music, published in an 
altered and mutilated state, contrary 
to the true principles of the art be 
called classical? . . . Can the use of 
terms derived from foreign languages 
make it classical? ... Or can turning 
churches into theatres, and ministers 
into comedians make the music class- 
ical? 

Such a person could never be satisfied 
with things as they are. Among his innova- 



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tions, he started the style (borrowed from 
England) of writing quartettes with the 
melody in the soprano, instead of the tenor, 
as hitherto had been the custom. And then 
he invented a new system of musical nota- 
tion; of "buckwheat notes" as they are 
called in our card catalogue. This scheme 
was never adopted; still I think a university 
is privileged to boast of an alumnus who had 
sufficient originality to make such an inven- 
tion. 

Having mentioned one composer, I sup- 
pose I might mention another, Oliver Shaw, 
who, though not a Brown man, was a Prov- 
idence composer. I mention him because he 
paid tribute to the college on the hill with 
a Thanksgiving anthem entitled "Brown 
University," the first composition in his 
Melodia Sacra, published in Providence in 
1819. Shaw wrote secular as well as sacred 
music; his "Trip to Pawtucket" is amusing 
if only for the engraving of the stage coach 
above the title. 

The First Playwright 

Now let us turn to the first Brown play- 
wright. In spite of Bronson, there seems 
to have been quite a little theatrical activity 
at the college before it was strictly legal, at 
least for professionals. None has been traced 
before the Revolution: indeed, none was 
probable, as there were no plays (virtually 
no belles lettres at all) in the library. 

But in 1784, about 1400 books were 
bought in London; among them were the 
works of Dryden, Gibber, Addison, Con- 
greve, Otway, Young, Goldsmith, and 
Shakespeare. Gan one not imagine the effect 
on the entire undergraduate body (15 men 
were to graduate in 1786)? 

The Otway of that purchase remains, and 
the undergraduate annotations on the more 
ribald farces indicate a keen intellectual 
appreciation of the humanities. "The 
Gheats of Scapin" proved especially popu- 
lar; and above the title is written in very 
bold handwriting; "Acted in the Hall in 
Providence ... as the Farce to fYoung's] 
Revenge, April, 1785. With Great Ap- 
plause. Nicho Brown." 

Now presumably there were no plays 
acted in Providence between the outbreak 
of the Revolution and 1792, when Joseph 
Harper was allowed to give performances; 
vet here is unshakable evidence to the con- 
trary, attested by Nicholas Brown, who 
not only enacted the part of the lover, 
Octavian, but later was to bestow his name 
upon our University. What other perform- 
ances followed we cannot say; but we also 
know that the farce was repeated by the 
class of 1792, which graduated before the 
laws against the stage were repealed. A 
third performance took place in 1803, by 
members of the class of 1805. 

This evidence, concerning one play only, 
and that a farce, or afterpiece, indicates that 
undergraduates undoubtedly had estab- 
lished a stage tradition by the time that our 
first playwright appeared: Samuel Randall, 
of the class of 1804. 

BUT it was another tradition which pro- 
duced the first Brown play — the dispu- 
tations, especially those on the commence- 
ment programs. In 1786 appeared the first 
of them: "A dialogue upon the four ele- 
ments, between Messrs. Benjamin Bowen 
Garter, Joseph Nason, Jairus Hall, and 
Robert Annan". 

Thereafter, dialogues increased in popu- 
larity; the more so as presently there were 



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comic ones, anti-masques as it were. "A 
comic dialogue to ridicule false learning", 
was the first, and was delivered in 1788; 
after 1793 they appeared steadily. There is 
no reason to doubt that the candidates here, 
as at Harvard, donned appropriate cos- 
tumes: though I cannot believe that the Old 
Meeting House tolerated scenery. 

But we have in 1793 "An Humorous Dia- 
logue"; in 1794, "A dialogue designed to 
ridicule Quackery": in 1796, "Astronomy 
Burlesqued"; in 1797, "The World's In- 
fections"; in 1798, "The Bachelors", also 
"The Jacobin Reformed"; in 1800 "The 
Fall of Fashion". And so on. 

Still more intensively dramatic were the 
Sophomore - Junior Exhibitions, held in 
August, December, and April. The only 
facts there, however, of interest to us, arc 
these: That there were two dialogues de- 
livered in the Sophomore-Junior Exhibition 
on Wednesday, August 22, 1804: the one, 
without a title, followed the performances 
of the sophomores, and the other, at the 
end, was entitled "The Miser Outwitted." 
These were, I guess, "The Sophomore" and 
"The Miser", the two plays of Samuel 
Randall, who at Commencement Septem- 
ber 5 (two weeks later) with four others 
acted a part in an untitled Dialogue. It was 
probably "The Miser Outwitted" which had 
had its dress-rehearsal, as it were, before 
the Sophomores and Juniors. 

AFTER graduation, Randall studied law 
t for a year, probably also acting as 
usher in a Providence school; in 1805 he 
became preceptor of the Academy at War- 
ren, where the rest of his life was to be 
spent. There he soon became a prominent 
citizen, acting as orator on July 4, 1806; 
getting married in 1809, in which year he 
was also elected Town Glerk, a position he 
held until 1858: in 1811 he became Post- 
master; he was also Glerk of Probate; later 
he edited various newspapers, which need 
not concern us; nor shall I mention his 
family except to say that one lad became 
Bishop of Colorado. Samuel Randall died 
March 5, 1864. 



His first venture in printing, however, 
was not news but drama. For in 1812 he 
printed two plays at Warren: The Miser, a 
Comedy in Four Acts, ti'rittcn and designed 
to be performed in .schools and academies 
By Samuel Randall, A.M. Also The Sopho- 
more, a Dialogue in one Act printed with- 
out any indication of author. 

The Miser is unquestionably "The Miser 
Outwitted", developed to four full acts — 
developed, as I guess, from the dialogue in 
which he took part at his Commencement. 
There are 11 parts, two of which are wom- 
en. It is the story of an ambitious young man 
who wishes to continue his studies at col- 
lege, in spite of the avarice of his ignorant 
father. I am sorry to say that this ambitious 
young man goes to Harvard. [Prof. Damon 
is a Harvard alumnus.] 

The father is deliciously coarse and sel- 
fish; his servant Jake is an authentic comic 
Yankee; the hero is rather priggish — no 
doubt the Cantabrigian influence; and of 
course there is a fascinating young lady, 
besides a servant girl on whom Jake has 
cast his eye. Finally the father is tricked 
out of his avarice by Jake, who appears dis- 
guised as a conjurer, talks a great deal of 
Latin (I can't imagine where he learned it), 
scares the old man with threat of early death 
unless he transfers all his property to his 
son Charles — and once the deed is signed, 
flings off his disguise. Eventually all ends 
happily with a song. 

This play is excessively rare: I know only 
of one other copy — that at Harvard, which 
lacks the title page. But as for the Sopho- 
more, Harvard has the only copy known to 
exist. 

THAT Randall also wrote this play is in- 
dubitable, except by librarians. Surely 
there could not have been two persons 
writing plays in Warren, R. I., in 1812; 
and those plays both for academic produc- 
tion; and in the same style; and what is 
more on the same problem, and the same 
idea for solution. 

Again there is the son who wants to re- 
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his oh so vulgar parents; again they are 
tricked out of their selfish avarice by a per- 
son who misrepresents himself. This time 
it is a friend who advises the son to pretend 
he is mad; the son raves, talks Latin, beats 
his parents; and then the friend tells them 
that the only way to restore him to health 
is to let him get hack to college. 

But if this play is not by Randall, it is at 
least probably by a Brown man. The evi- 
dence is rather interesting. It seems that 
Ahner Alden, class of 1787, issued a school 
book in four volumes, the fourth of which 
was The Speaker, Boston, March, 1810. 
This contained, as you might guess, various 
extracts from the classics, for the purpose of 
declamation. 

All the standard authors of the 18th cen- 
tury are represented: but amongst them are 
a few unfamiliar names and a few unfamil- 
iar selections — and an attempt to identify 
them soon proved that Abner Alden was a 
loyal son of his Alma Mater, for all these 
rare bits were by Brown men. We shall 
come to this group later, when we consider 
the Brown poets. 

But amongst the dialogues is a large part 
of The Sophomore, with no name attached. 
So in the absence of any other identification, 
we must suppose that it was written by a 
Brown man: and its publication two years 
bter in Warren, R. I., makes it virtually 
positive that that Brown man was Samuel 
Randall. 



A Thesis That Grew Too Big 

WE shall now abandon composer and 
playwright for the poets, who were a 
much more numerous tribe. One of the first 
MA. thesis subjects I assigned here was 
"Brown Poets" — I supposed that perhaps a 
dozen would turn up; but Miss Helena 
Withrow was so industrious that she dug 
up 54 poets before she reached the class of 
1850: which was plenty; so I bade her call 
it off and call it a year's work. 

We had hoped to discover a tradition, a 
tendency, which we might call Brunonian; 
or at least to demonstrate that Brown men 
had followed the literary tendencies of the 
times — and perhaps of America — with 
keen interest. I am sorry to say that the 
Brown poets were not Brunonian or up- 
to-date. They were remarkably conserva- 
tive in these early years, imitating the fash- 
ions of half a century before, and being 
English in their inspiration. Romanticism 
was over before they caught the flavor; 
Transcendentalism occurred without at- 
tracting their notice: and so on. 

Yet the thesis indicated some remarkably 
interesting men, from the point of view of 
the scholar, at least: and I may interpose 
here the remark that the Brown poets of 
old (especially before the fraternities got 
into power and declared that poetry-writ- 
ing was sissy) the Brown poets of old had a 
great hold on the populace, which extended 
bevond the Atlantic. 

In Joyce's Ulysses, for example, I have 
traced the influence of five American poets. 
Whitman is mentioned three times; Poe is 
mentioned twice; then Longfellow once. 
John Hay is quoted once, George Shepard 
Burleigh, of 69 College St. is quoted once — 
and that is all. Neither Hay nor Burleigh 
are named; and it is a sign of a certain great- 
ness when poems out-travel the authors' 
names. Many people can sing "Old Grimes 
if Dead" who never heard of Judge Greene; 



and the same is true of Sam Walter Foss's 
"House by the Side of the Road". 

In the time left me I cannot possibly 
name all the poets Brown produced up to 
1850, but I will skim over the list and give 
you the outstanding facts about the out- 
standing names. 

The First Brown Poet 

THE first Brown poet traced hitherto was 
in the first class to graduate, the class of 
1769. He was William Williams, later 
famed as both preacher and teacher. I shall 
not go into his career more than to mention 
that when the British occupied Newport, he 
was entrusted with the care of the entire 
college library, which he successfully con- 
cealed in the drawers of a pine table. The 
situation has been reversed, for the library 
now contains the table. 

In none of his biographies will you find 
it mentioned that he was a poet; but such 
he was, at least in his campus days. For his 
notebook on the science "Longemitry" [sic] 
has two poems in it. Did he write them? 
Probably; at least, the spelling and the 
grammar are surely his. 

And nothing could be more original than 
his inspiration. The first of these poems, 
"A Curious Question," begins with his re- 
tiring to his garden, to relax his mind. He 
admires the trees and then the flowers; the 
flowers remind him of Women; and Woman 
instantly recalls Virtue. So far, so human; 
then he begins to plan the placing of a 
fountain and a house in certain relation- 
ships — and lo! he ends by posing a mathe- 
matical problem, which he solves in prose 
on the opposite page. 

After that, the second poem cannot fool 
us, although the student abandons his gar- 
den for a tavern, where he hears three men 
planning to build a church equidistant from 
their "seats." 

THE second Brown poet traced hitherto, 
and the only other poet before the Rev- 
olution, was Barnabas Binney, class of 
1774. His career (that of a distinguished 
surgeon during and after the Revolution) 
appears in several biographical cyclopedias, 
but as with the Rev. William Williams, all 
accounts neglect to state that he wrote 
verse. 

Only one specimen remains, to be sure; 
the blank verse valedictions at the end of 
his Commencement Address, which recom- 
mended religious liberty. Our library was 
not yet remarkable for anything beyond 
divinity, but it would seem that Binney 
knew his Milton, and possibly Addison's 
Cato. As Binney's oration was published, 
he was the first Brown poet to get his verses 
into print. 

The third Brown poet hitherto traced 
was Jacob Campbell, class of 1783, the year 
before President Manning ordered the 1400 
volumes which were the basis of our present 
library of English literature. 

Jacob Campbell was the first Brown man 
to issue a volume of verse: his Poetical 
Sl{etches. a pamphlet issued while he was 
an undergraduate. I have never been able 
to discover a copy of this pamphlet any- 
where: it is one of the worst gaps in the 
Harris Collection. 

I have seen, however, an early manuscript 
copy of the Poetical Sketches, which a book- 
dealer brought into the library for identi- 
fication. The ladies of the library identified 
it quickly enough, and assured him of its 
surpassing rarity and its great importance 



to us: whereupon he smiled a sapient smile 
and took it away with him again. However, 
poems of Campbell's are in school-books of 
the period (especially Abner Alden's 
Spea\er), so that we have a long poem 
"Liberty" in heroic couplets and "On 
Autumn", in a very strange kind of blank 
verse. 

IN Alden's Speaker we also find poems by 
Samuel Whelpley, 1790, Otis Thomp- 
son, 1798, and Thomas Power, 1808 — none 
of whom were uncovered by Miss With- 
row's diligent research; so one may con- 
clude that after all her discoveries there is 
even more to be dug up. I will pass over 
also Jonathan Maxcy, 1787; Peter Hawes, 
1790; Samuel Deane, 1790; the author of 
"Pitchwood Hill", a poem which won some 
esteem in his day; George Burrill, 1791; 
and Josiah Lyndon Arnold, 1791, whose 
Poems were published in Providence, 1797; 
and pause upon Paul Allen, 1793, born in 
Providence, and died in Baltimore in 1826. 

He was a prolific writer, a favored orator 
even as an undergraduate. The D. A. M. 
(he is the earliest Brown writer to gain 
admittance to that august cyclopedia) 
states: "He studied for the bar, hut no one 
Drobahly was ever more unfitted to practice 
law than was he, for he was full of sim- 
plicity, credulous as a child, and irresolute 
in the extreme: Nothing was so easy for him 
as writing: accordingly that became his only 
occupation." 

He became a iournalist, and contributed 
to various periodicals, won a national repu- 
tation; was imprisoned for a debt of $30.00; 
was rescued by his friends; projected a his- 
tory of the American Revolution which was 
chiefly written by his friends; and was 
loved by everybody, including those he 
exasperated most. 

He is the first personality among the 
Brown poets — but as for his poetry, I will 
merely quote his friend the novelist. John 
Neal, who certainly must have known 
Allen's work, as he read his epic T^oah in 
manuscript and reduced it to a mere one- 
fifth of its original bulk in order to get it 
published. 

"He is near-sighted; reads with his nose 
on the paper — and such reading! Lord — I 
can imagine nothing more dismal than the 
reading of his own poetry by Paul Allen. 
It is a continual whine — nasal and barbar- 
ous, beyond all conception." 

When Poetry Was Expected 

WITH the coming of the 1 9th century, 
poetry was expected of all brilliant 
undergraduates, so that poets become thick 
as blackberries. It is not until Henry Cogs- 
well Knight, class of 1812, however, that 
wc find a Romanticist among them. And 
Henry Cogswell Knight presents problems 
which the combined scholarship of Brown 
and Harvard have been unable to solve. 

Knight was born in Newburvport. With 
his brother Frederick and his half-brother 
Antonio, they went to Harvard. Not one 
graduated. Antonio went insane, and even- 
tually became one of the well-known eccen- 
trics of Newburyport. Frederick studied 
law, wrote poetrv, and eventually retired 
to a cottage in Rowley, Mass., where he 
lived in straitened circumstances'and played 
with manuscripts, only a few of which ever 
got into print. 

Henry, however, had more energy: he 
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interested in writing and indeed he became 
known to the little circle of Boston authors 
of that time; then, when he flunked out, he 
came to Brown, where he got his degree. His 
debonair descriptions of Providence and 
the university were published in the T^ew 
£ngidnd Galaxy, and are very readable, if 
somewhat mortifying — for the Harvard 
failure was himself mortified. 

However, Knight became the unofficial 
class poet; then he became a priest of the 
Episcopal Church; travelled south, and 
wrote some very charming prose on the 
subject; gave up the active pursuit of his 
profession; published various volumes; and 
finally retired to Rowley, where he lived 
with his brother, until his early death ot a 
fever. 

KNIGHT is the first Brown man we 
would unhesitatingly call a poet. His 
eyes were opened to nature; he loved the 
rural surroundings ot Rowley, Mass., where 
he was brought up; and that love he success- 
fully conveyed into his verse. 

The problems I spoke of are two. In his 
first volume, a pamphlet issued in 1809, en- 
titled The Cvprwd, every poem is very obvi- 
ously derivative, except for one "The Little 
Sweep". This bears a strong resemblance to 
William Blake"s two poems on chimney- 
sweeps in his Songs oj Innocence and Ex- 
perience. The problem is to find out how 
Knight could possibly have seen those 
poems, when not a copy had yet reached 
America. The Songs of Innocence and Ex- 
perience were issued in very limited and 
beautilul editions, and every effort has 
been made to trace down every known copy, 
none of which were in America by then. 
But if Knight had not seen this rare book, 
then his poem is the only original poem in 
his little volume. 

The other problem is still more perplex- 
ing. His volume The Bro\en Harp, Phila., 
1815, was issued before Coleridge's "Christ- 
abel" was published; yet the opening poem 
"Earl Kandorf and Rosabelle" is in the dis- 
tinctive Christabel mood and meter. Knight 
never went abroad; and years later, on a 
boat back from the south he says this is the 
first time he has ever travelled on the ocean. 
On the other hand, our greatest Coleridge 
expert. Prof. Lowes of Harvard, unhesitat- 
ingly recognises the influence, but is utterly 
at a loss to account for it. 

Job Durfee, class of 1813, was the author 
of an epic Whatcheer. a work in nine cantos 
which I have not read. Benjamin Whitman, 
class of 1815, published his Hero of the 
Norl/i, or the Battle of La\e Erie illustrated 
with very handsome engravings. 

These accomplished poets I select for 
mention, but pass over to comment on 
Thomas Mann, class of 1818, who never got 
his degree. Mann was so eccentric as to 
fight with verse and prose against the evils 
ol factories, which he called "gothic hells"; 
he also had objections to the embraces of 
white ladies and colored men — as evidenced 
by one of his frontispieces to A Picture of 
Woonsoc\et, or the Truth in its 7s[udity. 
As literature his works are not respectable; 
but for the courage to depict unacknowl- 
edged evils, which were to become still more 
evil, he deserves a place in our memories. 

Founder of the Collection 

AGAIN we leapfrog over various deserv- 
. ing, to come to Albert Gorton Greene, 
class of 1820; the first Brown man to write 



a poem which became nationally known, 
and the founder of our Harris Collection. 
The life of Judge Greene is part of the his- 
tory of Providence itself; there is no need 
to go into the facts of a biography that is 
already well known to you. 

But it is appropriate to repeat here that 
when he was a sophomore he wrote a poem 
"Old Grimes Is Dead", sung to the tune of 
"Auld Lang Syne", which was first printed 
in the Providence Gazette, Jan. 16, 1822; 




that song swept the country and added a 
new figure to the American mythology; it 
was imitated and parodied and extended 
and reprinted to an amasing extent (Walt 
Whitman, while he was still V> alter, wrote 
a "Young Grimes") — in fact it seems to 
have been known everywhere except on the 
campus where it was written; I have yet to 
find it in a book of Brown songs. 

It was Albert Gorton Greene also who 
had the original idea that American poetry 
might be worth collecting; at his death his 
collection of that material was already 
known as the largest of its kind; and after 
passing through the hands of two other 
collectors, who enlarged it constantly, it 
came to Brown University. 

TWO years later, in the class of 1822 was 
Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, who never got 
his degree — a poete maudit doomed to 
poverty and neglect, whose misfortune be- 
came part of his legend even during his life- 
time. Fairfield had the grandest of literary 
aspirations, and worked hard to make him- 
self a name. Even in his birth he was un- 
fortunate: he was born several months too 
soon. 

His father died soon after; his mother 
was of a family with a pronounced streak of 
insanity; his grandfather robbed him of his 
inheritance; and worst of all, his mother 



devoted herself to her son, and I think 
proved to be a spiritual leech that robbed 
him of any self-reliance. 

She got him into Brown by taking in 
washing; he left because of poverty after 
two years; he travelled first south to Georgia 
and S. Carolina, to teach school (but only 
succeeded in issuing pamphlets of poems) 
then north to Maine, with the same result. 
The two went to Europe, then returned; he 
married — another disaster; he tried to go 
on the stage, but died under the descending 
curtain, to the vast amusement of the audi- 
ence; took to journalism, was attacked and 
burned in effigy; and ceaselessly published 
poetry. 

Finally he produced his masterpiece, 
tor which his wife managed to collect sub- 
scriptions, going from door to door in Bos- 
ton, without any overshoes; and in 1832 it 
was published: The Last T^ight of Pompeii. 
Two years later, 1834, Bulwer-Lytton pub- 
lished his Last Days of Pompeii: and Fair- 
field charged him with plagiarism. Nobody 
cared: although it is obvious that Bulwer 
had read Fairfield's poem. 

The poet's health declined rapidly after 
this disappointment; his wife could live with 
him no longer. He died in poverty in New 
Orleans. Of his five or six children (Mrs. 
F was uncertain of the number) all died 
young or went insane. A thesis is being 
written on him at Yale. 

A CLOSE friend of his was George Den- 
ison Prentice, Brown 1823, whose 
poems were reprinted everywhere, espe- 
cially his "Mother's Grave"; but who is 
best remembered as a fiery journalist of 
Louisville, Ky. Prentice we should know 
more of; he was a public figure, even 
though his poetry is read no longer. It was 
very popular in its day; as was also the 
poetry of George Washington Patten, class 
of 1825, whose "Seminole's Reply" was 
once in all the readers, as a stock elocution- 
ary piece. Patten graduated from West 
Point in 1830, and finally retired with the 
rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 

In the class of 1828 was Mark Anthony 
De Wolfe Howe, who later became an epis- 
copal bishop, and the father of the Mark 
Anthony De Wolfe Howe of Boston, Mass., 
the official Boston and Harvard biographer. 
The senior was something of a poet before 
he entered the priesthood, but his works 
remain uncollected. 

The Brunonian started in 1829, and con- 
sequently various undergraduates began 
printing their verses. They came thick and 
fast then. One can do hardly more in these 
closing minutes than to cite the names of 
Henry Bowen Anthony, 1833, the great 
senator and third owner of the Harris Col- 
lection, which he left to Brown; Albert Gal- 
latin Remington, 1843, a strange transcen- 
dentalist who wrote free verse before Whit- 
man, some of which is positively futuristic: 
Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, 1844, a name 
which perhaps some of you recognize; and 
finally John Hay, 1858, the statesman. 

His Pi\e Comity Ballads, with Bret 
Harte's Heathen Chinee, made use of fresh 
native material, and thus stemmed the tide 
of Tennysonianism, which had been rap- 
idly obliterating every sign of national con- 
sciousness in our poetry. Thus the PiJ{e 
County Ballads deserve mention as the first 
Brunonian work to help make literary his- 
tory, and as such must bring this lecture to 
a close. 



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In the Letter Box 

Editor Brown Alumni Monthly. 
Dear Sir: 

Apropos of the recent anti-war propa- 
ganda among Brown undergraduates, per- 
mit me to quote from a letter written by 
Benjamin Franklin, under date of January 
27, 1783, to Mary (Stevenson) Hewson, 
a friend of many years: 

"At length we are in peace, God be 
praised, and long, very long, may it con- 
tinue. All wars are follies, very expensive 
and very mischievous ones. When will man- 
kind be convinced of this, and agree to 
settle their differences by arbitration? Were 
they to do it, even by the cast of a dye. it 
would be better than by fighting and de- 
stroying each other." 

Here is another quotation from the same 
letter, which should appeal to surviving 
members of the older classes: 

"Let me conclude by saying to you, what 
I have had too frequent occasion to say to 
my other remaining old friends, 'The fewer 
we become, the more let us love one 
another." " 

Faithfully yours, 

Edward S. Marsh "79. 



Brandon, Vt., June 11, 1933. 



Activities of the Brown Clubs 



With the Facuhy 

Professor Leonard Carmichael of the 
Department of Psychology gave the annual 
Phi Beta Kappa Oration in Goddard 
Chapel at Tufts College, May 24. The title 
was "The Psychology of Genius."" 

Professor Cyril Harris of the English 
Department is again director of Shelter 
Camp, Inc., at Marlboro, Vt. Roy W. 
Howard "3! is director of the Tutoring 
School connected with the camp, and Ro- 
land K. Brown, W. S. Pratt, and Bradford 
C. Read, all members of "33, are senior 
counselors. 

Sinclair W. Armstrong, instructor in the 
Department of History, is spending the 
summer in Berlin, at work upon a study of 
the foreign policy ot the German Social 
Democratic Party. 

Jarvis Means Morse of the Department 
of History and Arthur Butler Hitchcock of 
the Department of Music were promoted 
to assistant professorships this June. 

For a number of years Swarthmore Col- 
lege has been one of the leading institu- 
tions of the country in the development of 
its Honors Work. The examiners in such 
work at the end of the senior year are 
drawn from other colleges and universities. 
In mathematics Brown has contributed 
three examiners: Professor R. G. D. Rich- 
ardson (for two years). Professor A. A. 
Bennett (for two years), and Professor 
C. R. Adams, who is now completing his 
second year of service in this connection. 



Cleveland Md\es Big Plans 

THE Brown Club of Cleveland held a 
dinner meeting Friday evening, June 9, 
at the Hermit Club. In spite of the 
heat (and it was hot in Cleveland at that 
time) twenty-five members were present to 
eat and to talk about Brown and Brown 
affairs. There was a long letter of greeting 
from Nelson B. Jones, Jr. "28, who sent 
with the letter a number of fine campus 
pictures. There was, also, some very excel- 
lent singing of Brown songs (although it 
seems to your correspondent that some of 
the older alumni are getting short-winded 
and can"t take it — or else it might have 
been the 3.2 which went with the occa- 
sion). The meeting oificially closed the 
year 193 2-33. 

The Cleveland club is planning a series 
of monthly luncheons for next iall, and is 
considering the idea of a lootball luncheon, 
with a direct wire from the field where 
Brown is playing on that particular Satur- 
day. An active campaign for desirable sub- 
Ireshmen is in the making. Your correspon- 
dent gives assurance that these topics are 
not just pipe dreams — the Cleveland club 
is actually coming to life, and also has hopes 
of linking up with the Brown group in 
Akron. 

Detroit Installs a l^ew President 

Hi-NRY B. Selllck '1 1 was elected pres- 
ident ol the Brown Club of Detroit at 
the annual meeting and luncheon held May 
1 2. He succeeds H. T. Miller "99, whom the 
Alumni Office will gratetully remember for 
his hearty co-operation and his prompt 
correspondence in all alumni matters. Wil- 
fred C. Lcland, Jr. "30 is the new secretary- 
treasurer, taking the place of John W. San- 
ders "26n. During the luncheon a news let- 
ter from the Alumni Secretary was read. 
The club passed a vote of thanks to the 
Alumni Secretary for the letter and for 
other letters sent through the year. 



Amherst Ta\es to the Woods 

Wf; met at the Amherst Gun Club, near 
the Mt. Holyoke Notch, where we 
have the use of a rambling rustic camp, and 
a view clear up into Vermont. This gives 
the kids a chance to dash around, lets the 
ladies chat in cluster on the wide porch, 
and permits the men to sneak in a little 
chat in secluded groups — until the ladies 
spot them." 

So runs the delightful chronicle of the 
annual meeting of the Brown Club of 
Amherst, Mass., late in May. And the cor- 
respondent adds in a way that makes one"s 
mouth water: "Andy Thomson, Henry 
Thacher and Barton Akeley got the grand 
feed of chicken pie and fixin"s together, 
and Andy did the clerical work of getting 
the gang gathered. It was counted a very 
pleasant and successful meeting."" 

And there is no doubt that it was. The 
party numbered 23 when all were present, 
including four children and several rela- 
tives. This is the line-up: Andrew S. Thom- 
son "98 and Mrs. Thomson: Jason O. Cook 
"06, Mrs. Cook, and one youngster: Rev. 
T. B. Akeley "23, Mrs. Akeley, and two 



youngsters; H. B. Thacher "10, Mrs. 
Thacher, and two dittos: Dr. Herbert B. 
Lang '96, Mrs. Lang, and their son; R. D. 
Tucker "06, Mrs. Tucker, and Mrs. Tuck- 
er's sister: Theodore S. Brown "92 and Mrs. 
Brown; Col. G. A. Taylor "01; and B. B. 
Wood "05. 

Between talk and eating, a news letter 
from the Alumni Secretary was read "and 
much appreciated."" The president for 
1933-34 will be B. B. Wood of Massachu- 
setts State College, Amherst. 

Albany Hears Dr. Bigelou' 

WITH Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow "24, direc- 
tor of admissions, as guest of honor 
and principal speaker, the annual meeting 
of the Brown Club of Albany, Schenectady 
and Troy took place at the Mohawk Golf 
Club, Schenectady, May 24. Dr. Bigelow 
gave a resume of campus activities and of 
the present admissions policy. An informal 
discussion followed and a special attraction 
was the showing of moving pictures of the 
Brown-Yale football game last fall. 

At the business meeting, Walton C. For- 
stall "23, president of the club, made his 
report for the year: and there were also 
reports by the nominating committee and 
by Walter S. Stedman "27, secretary and 
treasurer, and delegate to the Advisory 
Council in February. The officers for 1933- 
34 follow: 

President, Arthur G. Host "98; vice pres- 
ident. Prof. R. Stanley Thomson '12; sec- 
retary-treasurer, Carl E. Martin "23. all of 
Troy; executive committee, (Albany) 
Harry S. Harding "05, David A. Midgley 
"23, Richard S. Walter "31; (Schenectady) 
T. W. Gordon '05, George H. Mitchell '25, 
Frederick C. Smith '27; (Troy) Rev. Ed- 
ward W. Babcock, D.D. "74, Crawford R. 
Green "02, John J. Redmond '3 2. 
>;: ^- * 

Fall Rii'er Md\es It a Sitccess 

AIDED and abetted by Augustus J. Wood 
. "95, Rev. A. C. (Tommy) Thomas '08, 
Art Durfee "22, and others, the annual 
meeting and dinner of the Brown Club of 
Fall River and neighborhood at the Que- 
quechan Club Friday evening, June 2, was 
one of the largest and most enjoyable on 
record. President Wood and his assistants 
took care of every detail perfectly, and 
everybody had a memorable time. 

The speakers were Dean Samuel T. 
Arnold, always a favorite in Fall River; 
Coach D. O. McLaughry: and A. H. Gur- 
ney. Alumni Secretary. President Wood 
surprised his fellow Brunonians by burst- 
ing into verse, and Tommy Thomas showed 
that he has not forgotten how to lead a 
crowd in Brown songs. At the business 
meeting which preceded the dinner. Dr. 
Ernest M. Morris "10 was chosen president 
to succeed Gus Wood, and other officers 
were named as follows: vice president, Carl 
A. Terry '15; secretary, Robert A. Bogle 
'20; treasurer, Arthur C. Durfee '22; exec- 
utive committee, J. T. C. McGuire '12, 
Nathan Sternshcr '08, and Augustus J. 
Wood "95. 

Dean Arnold told briefly and effectively 
the story of the campus and of undergrad- 
uate life as he has followed it in this year 



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of uncertainty; Coach McLaughry said that 
he was satisfied with spring practice and 
that he was hopeful of developing a strong 
eleven next fall; and the Alumni Secretary 
described the innovations of Commence- 
ment and urged all alumni to return for 
the hig day. He also commented on the 
war-against-war campaign. 

After the speaking. Coach McLaughry 
got out his apparatus and put on moving 
pictures of the Brown-Yale and Brown- 
Harvard games, with pertinent remarks 
about plays that he wanted the alumni to 
note in particular. 



T^ew Tor\ Ma^es Projiress 

THE Brown University Club in New 
York is making steady progress in its 
new home at Park Avenue and 39th Street. 
Although there are no formal meetings on 
the summer schedule, many members are 
using the club regularly. 

The selection committee, under the guid- 
ance of Thomas B. Appleget '17, has again 
given much time this year to interviewing 
applicants for admission from the metro- 
politan area. More than one hundred 



young men have been seen as this was writ- 
ten, and there will be more in the next 
month. 

At the first meeting of the Board of 
Governors with President Hunter S. Mars- 
ton '08 in the chair, the following commit- 
tee chairmen were appointed: Entertain- 
ment — Arthur F. Driscoll '06; Member- 
ship — Hugh \V. MacNair '17; Selection — 
Thomas B. Appleget '17; Publicity — Philip 
Lukin '24; Alumni Affairs — Dennis F. 
O'Brien '98; Finance — Walter R. Bullock 
'02; Freshmen — John C. Hennessy '10. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



1870 
Dr. William H. Farrington, house physi- 
cian at the old Astor House in New York 
City for nearly 40 years, died in Raubsville, 
Pa., May 18, 1933. He retired from medical 
work in 1911, thereafter giving much of 
his time to religious activities. He frc- 
tiuently preached at the Baptist churches in 
Easton, Raubsville and surrounding towns. 
Born in Carthage, N. Y .. Jan. 5, 1849, the 
son of Harvey and Juliet D. (Chase) Far- 
rington, he prepared at the Brooklyn Poly- 
technic Institute and was a student at 
Brown two years. He left in 1868 because 
of illness. He resumed his studies at Yale 
in the class of 1871 there, but remained 
only a year, as illness again interfered with 
his studies. In 1870 he entered Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, took his degree 
in 1873, and after serving a year as in- 
structor at Bellevue, commenced the prac- 
tice of medicine at the Astor House, where 
he was resident physician. He was once 
chief medical examiner for the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society of New York, and a 
former member of the New York County 
Medical Society and the American Medical 
Association. He also belonged to Calypso 
Lodge of Masons of Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
Alpha Sigma Chi at Yale. He was married 
in 1875 to Miss Elisabeth Wilhelm, who 
died in 1925. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. 
Ella Blood, Milburn, N. J., and several 
nephews and nieces. 

1871 
Rev. Alfred Evan Johnson, priest of the 
Episcopal Church for more than half a 
century, died in Baltimore, Md., May 5, 
193 3, while on his way home from Florida. 
He was a native of Providence, and a 
graduate of the General Theological Sem- 
inary, where he studied after getting his 
A. B. and his A. M. at Brown. Ordained 
deacon and then priest of the Episcopal 
Church by Bishop Horatio Potter in 1876, 
he served as rector of churches in Stone 
Ridge, N. Y., Springfield, Lowell, and 
New Bedford, Mass., and Salmon Falls, 
N. H. He was founder and builder of St. 
Martin's Church, New Bedford, and one 
of the founders and the Superior of the 
Brotherhood of the Way of the Cross. He 
was a missionary in Los Angeles, 1900-02, 
and assistant and then honorary assistant at 
All Saints' Memorial Church, Providence, 
from 1904 to his death. He was also in- 
structor in sacred studies and chaplain in 
the Cathedral School for Girls, Orlando, 
Fla., 1921-28. He was a member of Phi 



Beta Kappa. His wife, who was Miss Louise 
Mackey, died Dec. 3, 1890. There is a tab- 
let to her memory in St. Martin's Church, 
New Bedford, which today has a thousand 
communicants. 

1873 

William Wanton Dunnell, for many 
years a well known business man in Provi- 
dence, died in York. Pa.. May 18, 1933. 
Born in Pawtucket, Sept. 13, 1850, the son 
of Jacob and Amcy Dexter (Brownell) 
Dunnell, he came to Brown in the class of 
1872 from Milton Academy and Mowry cf 
Golf's English and Classical School. He left 
before Christmas to go abroad with his 
family. He re-entered in September, 1869, 
took his degree in 1873, and after gradua- 
tion spent about six months in travel in the 
United States and Mexico. Returning to 
Providence, he went into business as a cot- 
ton broker under the firm name of Dunnell 
6? Child. In 1881 he became associated with 
the Dunnell Manufacturing Company, the 
printery developed by his father. He was 
treasurer and manager when the business 
was sold in 1899 to the United States Fin- 
ishing Company. After a visit abroad he 
bought the Oriental Printery Works, Appo- 
naug, in 1901, and operated the plant for 
many years. After the World War he set- 
tled on an apple farm in Virginia, and ten 
years ago removed to York, where he had 
been in strict retirement in recent years. In 
his active days in Providence he was a 
director of several banks, two insurance 
companies and the Swan Point Cemetery. 
His fraternity was Psi Upsilon. He was 
married June 20, 1882, to Susan Williams 
Grinncll. His second marriage took place 
Feb. 10, 1891, to Caroline Thurston Butts 
of Boston. He is survived by a son, W. W. 
Dunnell. Jr., Boston, and a niece. Mrs. 
Amey Eaton Watson '07, Pembroke, of 
Haverford, Pa. 

1887 
Governor Theodore Francis Green, past 
president of the Morris Plan Bankers' Asso- 
ciation, spoke on "Inflation and National 
Banking Legislation" at the meeting of the 
Eastern Morris Plan Bankers in Rye, N. Y., 
June 1 2 and 13. 

1889 

Horace L. Day's new house address is 
155 Henry Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Day is 
engaged in the manufacture of chocolate 
and cocoa. 



1890 

Rev. H. E. Chapman has changed his 
residence from Roxbury to Oak Bluffs, 
Mass., where he gets his mail at P. O. Box 
293. 

As this issue of the Alumni Monthly 
was on its way to press, word came of the 
death in Philadelphia on June 22 of the 
Rev. Frederick Emerson Stockwell, general 
director of the department of colleges, theo- 
logical seminaries, and training schools of 
the Presbyterian Board of Christian Educa- 
tion in the United States. He was an au- 
thority on religious education, and one of 
the con.structive religious leaders of the 
country. To his family and to his brother, 
Edward A. Stockwell '99, the sympathy of 
the class is given in fullest measure. 

1892 

Dr. Neil Andrews, who died in Oshkosh, 
Wis., March 7, 1933, after a long illness, 
was one of the best known physicians in 
Wisconsin. Born in Paisley, Scotland. De- 
cember 31. 1866, the son of Neil and Mary 
(Wallace) Andrews, he came to the United 
States when four years old. After self prep- 
aration in evening schools and at home, he 
entered Brown, where he made a commend- 
able record as a student, winning election 
to Phi Beta Kappa. From Brown he went to 
Newton Theological Institution, became a 
Baptist minister in 1895, and served 
churches in Shelburne Falls and Lynn, 
Mass., before he gave up the ministry in 
1900 to study medicine. He received his 
M.D. degree from the Medical School, 
Northwestern University, in 1904, and 
after a year as surgeon at St. Mary's Hospi- 
tal, Chicago, removed to Oshkosh, where 
he practiced until his death. His personal- 
ity, friendliness, sympathy and optimism 
promoted confidence in his patients; he 
was an outstanding example of the highest 
type of general practitioner. During his 
later years he gave particular attention to 
diseases of the heart and was frequently 
called into consultation in heart matters 
throughout eastern Wisconsin. In the 
World War he was a Captain, Medical 
Corps, training at Camp Greenleaf and 
serving at Fort Oglethorpe and Base Hospi- 
tal No. 127. He made numerous trips to 
Europe, and regularly paid his respects to 
his friend and teacher. Sir James MacKen- 
jie of St. Andrews, Scotland. He was a 
member of the Winnebago County Medical 
Association, the Wisconsin Medical Asso- 
ciation, the American Medical Association, 
the American College of Physicians, the 



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Elks, the American Legion, the Kiwanis 
Club, the Candlelight Club, Chi Phi and 
Phi Beta Pi, a medical fraternity. His 
widow, who was Miss Myrtle Pearl Hyde 
and whom he married in the summer of 
1928, survives him, together with three 
sisters, Mrs. Kathrin S. Ladd, Miss Annie 
S. Andrews, and Miss Wilhelmina An- 
drews of Providence. 

1893 

Charles A. Selden, London correspon- 
dent of the l^ew Yor\ Times, who received 
the honorary degree of A.M. from the Uni- 
versity at Commencement, is spending this 
month at Nantucket. He brought his son 
John with him for Commencement, and 
John and Donald Meiklejohn seemed to get 
along well together. 

Edward H. Weeks is serving temporarily 
as vice president of the Providence Safety 
Council, in which he has been active since 
its formation. 

1895 

There is a splendid tablet to the memory 
of the late Justice Chester W. Barrows in 
the Westminster Unitarian Church, Prov- 
idence, of which Justice Barrows was a 
member and to which he gave a great deal 
of his time and thought and energy for 
many years. 

1896 

Dr. George A. Matteson and his family 
are at their summer home at Hammond 
Hill, South County, for the next three 
months, having come up from San Anto- 
nio, Tex., early in June. Miss Anne Matte- 
son was graduated from Vassar last month. 

Rev. Charles M. Angle is minister of the 
New Britain Baptist Church, New Britain, 
Pa. 

Dr. Theodore C. Merrill, whose office is 
at 17T, Rue de la Pompe, Paris, was re- 
cently appointed to the medical service on 
the staff of the American Hospital at Paris. 

Dr. George Hopkinson, physician and 
educator, died in Boston, May 26, 1933. 
Born in Rangoon, Burma, Oct. 20, 1874, 
the son of Rev. Henry M. and Sarah C. 
(Rigby) Hopkinson, he prepared at Ver- 
mont Academy and came to Brown with 
four of his classmates at the academy, Leon 
H. Denison, Harry C. Mabie, W. W. Rugg 
and Walter C. Sherman. After graduation 
he taught Latin and classical history at 
Classical High School, Providence: Wester- 
leigh Collegiate Institute, New York City, 
and the Leals School, Plainfield, N. J., for 
five years. Then in 1901 he entered Har- 
vard Medical School and after winning the 
M.D. degree in 1905 went to the New 
York Eye and Ear Hospital for a year of 
post-graduate work Returning to Boston, he 
practiced these until 1916, when he ac- 
cepted appointment as physician for the 
Goodyear Tire y Rubber Company, Akron, 
O., where he was in charge of all medical 
work through the World War. In 1921 he 
came back to Boston to resume practice. In 
1907 he founded the Berkeley Preparatory 
School in Boston and continued as its di- 
rector until his death. As his health forced 
him gradually to withdraw from medical 
and surgical work, he gave more and more 
time to the upbuilding of the school. He 
was a member of the American Medical 
Association, the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is sur- 
vived by a widow, who was Miss Helen 
Wright Andrews of Binghamton, N. Y.; a 
son, George Hopkinson, Jr., of the Har- 
vard class of '32; a daughter, Miss Emily 



Hopkinson: and a brother, Henry Hopkin- 
son, of West Acton, Mass. 

1897 

Rev. William M. Faux has removed from 
Springfield, Mo., to Downers Grove, 111., 
where he lives at Maple Avenue and 
Woodward Street. 

Gregory D. Walcott has just completed 
his fifth year as head of the Department of 
Philosophy at Long Island University. The 
average annual registration in the depart- 
ment has been about 500. There are four 
others on the departmental staff, although 
at present three are only on half-time. Dur- 
ing the year, Walcott has given three radio 
addresses in connection with the Long 
Island University of the Air, one each in 
January, May, and June. The topics were, 
respectively, "Values, or What is Worth 
While," "Ideals of Conduct up to Date," 
and "Philosophy up to the Minute." His 
Elementary Logic, published late in 1931, 
thus far has met with a favorable reception. 

1898 

William (Billy) Lauder, one of the 
greatest baseball players ever turned out at 
Brown University, who became a college 
coach and big league player and coach, died 
suddenly on May 20, 1933, at his home in 
Norwalk, Conn. Lauder, who was 59, 
suffered a heart attack. 

Graduated from Brown in the class of 
1898 with the degree of Ph.B., "Billy" 
Lauder took up the study of law at Harvard 
Law School, but gave up a law career to 
play professional baseball. He went to the 
Phillies as a third baseman in 1899, then 
went to the New York Giants, playing with 
them through 1902 and 1903. 

Lauder was famed as the man who de- 
veloped Eddie Collins, one of the best 
second basemen in baseball history. Lauder 
was baseball coach at Columbia while Col- 
lins was a student and he coached him for 
three years. Lauder signed him to a con- 
tract to play with the Philadelphia Ath- 
letics. It was with that team that Collins 
developed into one of the best of second 
basemen, remaining with the team for many 
years and playing in numerous World 
Series. 

In 1925, when Collins signed as man- 
ager of the Chicago White Sox. he selected 
Lauder from a host of applicants for the 
position of coach. Lauder coached there for 
one season. 

Lauder went to Yale University as coach 
in 1920 and 1921. His teams made good 
records. Leaving Yale. Lauder engaged in 
a sporting goods venture. He also coached 
baseball at Williams College at one time. 

He wrote a book. "How to Play Base- 
ball," as well as articles on the game for 
magazines and newspapers. He akso de- 
signed a new type of baseball uniform. 

Born in New York City on Feb. 23, 
1874, Lauder was a son of William F. 
and Elizabeth Lauder. He prepared for col- 
lege at Mount Holly Academy in New Jer- 
sey. In later years he was in the insurance 
business. 

He married Miss Theresa Lessing on 
May 8, 1910, and was divorced in January, 
1931. 

He remarried on Oct. 22, 1932. His son, 
William Lauder, Jr., was a student at 
Brown with the class of 193 5 for some 
time. 

John K. Fenner has been re-elected super- 
intendent of schools in Cranston for the 



year 1933-34. He has been in office since 
1917, and has been teacher and builder in 
the Cranston schools since 1901. 

John A. (Daff) Gammons is the first 
president of the Rhode Island Sportsmen, 
organized to "foster wholesome sport in all 
its forms, but particularly in the rising 
generation." Incidentally, Gammons is back 
on his golf game, and is making low scores 
regularly these days. 

Henry Dyer Burrage, son of Dr. Thomas 
J. Burrage and Mrs. Burrage, was married 
in Portland, Me,, May 25, 1933, to Miss 
Eleanor Leavitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred Leavitt of Portland. 

Ralph K. Hyde's new address in Boston 
IS Room 1016, 131 State Street. 
1899 

Capt. George W. David of the United 
States Coast Guard is at present attached 
to the Seattle, Wash., Division, with his 
headquarters at Room 550, Federal Office 
Building. Seattle. 

1900 

Justice Fred T. Field of the Massachu- 
setts Supreme Court is vice president for 
Massachusetts of the General Theological 
Library, 53 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. 

Dr. H. L. Youtz is now on the staff of 
the Polyclinic Hospital, Dcs Moines, la., 
and is living at 4223 Pleasant Street, Dcs 
Moines. 

Moncricffc Cameron reports his new 
house address to be 1752 Stout Street, 
Denver, Colo., and that he is still interested 
in mining. 

1901 

President Harvey N. Davis of Stevens 
Institute of Technology gave the Com- 
mencement address at Connecticut College 
for Women, New London, last month. 

The class now has three members on the 
Brown Board of Trustees: Harvey N. 
Davis, Hoboken, N. J.: Howard A. Coffin, 
Detroit, Mich.; and Henry C. Hart, Provi- 
dence. Coffin's son. Dean F. Coffin, gradu- 
ated with the class of 1932, was chairman 
of the Class Day committee and won the 
Susan Colver Rosenberg First Prize in 
Music. Hart, elected by the alumni to fill 
an Episcopal vacancy, will take his seat 
with the Trustees next October. 
1902 

Edward P. Corey is living near Holly- 
wood, Fla., where he is trying to recover 
his health. In a recent note he said that he 
had been obliged to give up business and 
go to Florida in the hope of improving his 
physical condition. "Am located in the 
country outside Hollywood for the pres- 
ent,"' he said, "and have no definite plans 
for the future." 

Col. G. Edward Buxton, president of the 
B. B. y R. Knight Company, was a mem- 
ber of the committee which met in Wash- 
ington last month to represent cotton man- 
ufacturers in governmental relations with 
respect to administering the industrial re- 
covery and farm relief acts. 

James B. Littlefield's mother, Mrs. Emma 
Warren (Bancroft) Littlefield, died in 
Providence, May 26, last. Another surviv- 
ing son is Ivory Littlefield '09. 

Leon A. Drury's son, Leon A. Drury, 
Jr., received his bachelor's degree from 
Brown at the 165th Commencement. 
1903 

Timothy J. (Tim) Sheehan and his wife 
and two children are living in the quiet 
community of Pembroke, Mass., we hear, 
where they are awaiting what is quaintly 
called "the return of prosperity." 



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Arthur L. Philbrick has a new silver 
punch bowl in the family strong box. He 
received the bowl at the annual meeting of 
the British Empire Club in Providence, 
May 24, in recognition of his services as 
secretary of the club for ten years. As soon 
as repeal is certain, Phil may be persuaded 
to mix up something substantial with which 
to christen the bowl. 

1904 

Dr. Ilsley Boone, who is now living in 
Oakland, N. J., is editor with the Outdoor 
Publishing Company, 45 West 45th Street, 
New York City. Boone is much interested 
in the nudist movement, according to 
reports. 

Charles D. Rawstorne, sales engineer, 
has transferred his business from Pitts- 
burgh to Bethlehem, Pa., where he and his 
family live at 1404 West Broad Street. 

Edmund K. Arnold, purchasing agent 
for the Dutee W. Flint Corporation, in- 
forms us that his preferred mail address is 
39 Parkis Avenue, Providence. 

Col. Noble B. Judah, on from Chicago 
to attend the June meeting of the Brown 
Corporation, brought pleasing report of 
Elmer T. Stevens, who has been working 
with might and main during the last two 
years to reorganize the Charles A. Stevens 
y Company department store and put it 
back on a paying basis once more. 

Samuel E. Lincoln is a vice president of 
Rhode Island Sportsmen, a new organiza- 
tion led by J. A. (Datf) Gammons "98 to 
promote interest in clean sports and to aid 
in their development in the Rhode Island 
public schools. 

Dr. B. H. Buxton has accepted appoint- 
ment as Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Re- 
serve Corps, U. S. A. 

1905 

Robert A. Marble of the Carnegie Steel 
Company is a member of the new technical 
advisory board ot the American Institute of 
Steel Construction. 

B. B. Wood, librarian of the Massachu- 
setts State College, was elected president 
of the Brown Club of Amherst at the 
annual meeting held in May. 



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1907 

Lloyd W. Josselyn, formerly vice libra- 
rian of the Buffalo Public Library, is now 
associated with the Purdue University 
Library, Lafayette, Ind. 

Rev. Merrick L. Streeter, home on fur- 
lough from Tavoy. Burma, where he has 
been a missionary ever since he left Newton 
Theological Seminary, was back on the 
campus for Commencement and also on 
hand for the class dinner at the Brown 
Outing Reservation. It's great to be home 
again, he said, and he is looking forward 
to meeting many of his old friends while 
he IS home. His address is 1301 Center 
Street, Newton Centre, Mass. 

William E. Bright came from Scranton, 
Pa., just before Commencement to get his 
son, William E. Bright, Jr., who finished 
his Freshman year last month with excellent 
marks in all of his studies. Bill, pire, 
brought his next son, George, with him, 
and also the news that he has been elected 
a member of the Scranton School Board. 
The Scranton Republican, commending the 
election, said editorially; "Mr. Bright is 
well known as a business man, his family 
for two generations being distinguished 
lor business and social prominence in the 
North End." 

Mrs. William K. White was an Alumni 
Office visitor one day last month, bringing 
good wishes from Bill himself in Carleton 
Place, Ont. Their son and heir, William K. 
White, Jr., hopes to enter Brown in 1934, 
while their daughter Rachel was graduated 
from Dean Academy last month. Mrs. 
White said that Bill was working hard and 
keeping cheerful, and that he asked to be 
remembered to everybody in the class. 

Arthur G. Bruce, district engineer for 
the United States Bureau of Public Roads, 
has shitted his base of operations from 
Washington to the Federal Building, Troy, 
N. Y., and is living at 154 Maple Avenue, 
Troy. 

1908 

Albert R. Evans is teaching education 
and social science at Cumberland College, 
Williamsburg, Ky. 

John G. Cantield is directing sales pro- 
motions, publicity, and campaigns to in- 
crease sales for the National Research 
Bureau, Chicago, 111. 

Henry W. Littlefield, who died in New 
York City, June 9, 1933, after a long ill- 
ness, was a member of the class for two 
years. He originally entered in 1903 as a 
special student, and then came back in 
1904 to take the complete course. Known 
to most of us in college as Harry, he was an 
active, friendly fellow, more interested in 
people and alTairs than in books. He was 
the son of George A. and Emma Warren 
(Bancroft) Littlefield and was a native of 
Newport, R. I., where he was born May 
22, 1884. After leaving college he went 
into business, finally settling in Buffalo, 
N. Y., as Western New York representative 
of the H. H. Roberts Company, structural 
steel, of Pittsburgh. He was organizer and 
president of the Bancrott-Jones Company, 
with offices in Buffalo and New York City; 
and he also was sales manager for the 
C. B. Roberts Company, another structural 
steel concern. Harry was married Sept. 2, 
1922, to Miss Margaret L. Cole of Buffalo, 
who survives him, as well as his brothers, 
James B. Littlefield '02 and Ivory Little- 
field "09, and two sisters, Mrs. Kinsley 
Blodgett and Mrs. Kenneth J. Tanner, all 
of Providence. He was a graduate of Hope 
Street High School and a member of Alpha 
Delta Phi. 



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1909 

At the annual Class Reunion during 
Commencement, men who attended either 
the clambake at George Huxford's or who 
Joined the class on the campus Commence- 
ment Day were; Nash, Wilmot, A. M. 
Chace, Ward, Chandler, Miller, Wightman, 
Henderson, Wheeler, Hughes, Sykes, Sher- 
wood, Huxford, Tanner, Dodge, Patterson, 
Littlefield, Richmond, Whitmarsh, HoUen, 
Willemin, Everett, Wells, Jackson, Cam- 
eron, Bugbee, Champlin, Beytes, and Cha- 
Ice. Charlie Hughes had Charles Evans 
Hughes, 3rd, with him, and Lawrence 
Chandler brought Lawrence F. Chandler 
to the festivities. 

Maj. Reginald B. Cocroft, who leaves 
this month to become military attache of 
the American Embassy at Paris, received 
the degree of M.A. from Georgetown Uni- 
versity last month. 

Fred Boyce, Professor of Physics at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, has been the 
chairman of a committee engaged in revis- 
ing the school curriculum. 

Thomas P. Ayer, librarian of the Rich- 
mond, Va., Public Library, has been 
elected an honorary member of the Uni- 
versity of Richmond Chapter, Phi Beta 
Kappa. 

John H. Wells of the Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Company is a director for 
1933-34 of the Financial Advertisers' Asso- 
ciation of New England. 

New addresses for members of the class 
include; E. W. Manter, 64 Whipple Road, 
Kittery, Me.; F. A. Wightman, P. O. Box 
64, Warren, R. I.; J. Howard Alger, 2500 
Koppers Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.; H. M. 
Pitman, 88 Summit Ave., Bronxville, N. Y. 

1910 

Everett P. Frohock served the last aca- 
demic year as principal of Litchfield Acad- 
emy, Litchfield, Me. 

Richard D. Allen, assistant superintend- 
ent of schools in Providence, with voca- 
tional guidance as his specialty, will give a 
course at the summer school of Boston Uni- 
versity, beginning this month, as well as 
two courses at the Harvard University 
summer school. Dick will also lecture at the 
Yale summer school, as we have previously 
noted. His first book is due for publication 
soon. 

1911 

Jim Larkin is district sales manager for 
the Century Electric Company, 50 Church 
Street, New York City. His new house 
address is 9417 Baldwin Avenue, Forest 
Hills, N. Y. 

Eddy Easton, assignor to Easton y Burn- 
ham Machine Co., Pawtucket, recently re- 
ceived a patent from the United States 
Patent Office for a warp beam winding 
machine. 

1912 

Dana G. Munro has completed his first 
year as Professor of Latin-American His- 
tory and Affairs at Princeton University, 
where his late father. Dr. Dana C. Munro 
"87 was Dodge Professor of Medieval His- 
tory for many years. He lives at 26 West- 
cott road, Princeton. 

Ernest I. Kilcup, credit manager for the 
Davol Rubber Company, Providence, was 
elected president of the National Asso- 
ciation of Credit Men at the annual con- 
vention in Milwaukee, Wis., last month. 

Rev. Dr. William L. Stidger of the Bos- 
ton University School of Theology preached 
the baccalaureate sermon at Worcester 
Academy, June 1 1. 



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John K. Starkweather, formerly execu- 
tive vice president of the Chase Harris 
Forbes Corporation, and a group of his 
associates in that organisation have formed 
Starkweather 6? Co., Ill Broadway, New 
York City, to transact a general securities 
business. The company also has offices 
in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta and 
Buffalo. Starkweather and two of his asso- 
ciates will be in charge of the New York 
offices, one of which is at the address 
given above and the other is at 292 Madi- 
son avenue. 

George M. Crowther, with the Fitchburg 
Paper Company at 121 State street, Boston, 
tells us that he is living at 30 Wade street, 
Brighton, Mass. 

William ]. Potter was elected clerk of 
the East Providence School Committee at a 
meeting held last month. 
1914 

Thomas L. Keily is with the Luebbe Hos- 
iery Mills, 93 Worth street, New York 
City. 

1915 

W. E. Beehan is with the General Out- 
door Advertising Company, 1 West 25th 
.street. New York City. 

1916 

George F. Johnston sets himself down as 
"oil producer," with his office at 606 Union 
National Bank Building and his home at 
3 22 Circle Drive, Wichita, Kan. 

Steward T. McNeill is with the Metro- 
politan Life Insurance Company and. is 
living at 103 Hunnewell avenue, Newton, 
Mass. 

James J. McGinn's father, Peter F. Mc- 
Ginn, one of the last of the old-time black- 
smiths, died at his home in Providence, 
May 17. Another son is Arthur F. McGinn 
'25. 

Ted Ballou of B. A. Ballon 6? Co., Inc., 
Providence, is president for the current 
year of the Metal Finding Manufacturers 
Association, made up of firms in Provi- 
dence, the Attleboros and other jewelry 
manufacturing centres. 
1917 

A. J. Marron is getting his mail nowa- 
days at 21 Ridge road. Media, Pa. Al is 
sales engineer for the Butler Manufactur- 
ing Co., Kansas City, Mo. 

Carlos Wright couldn't be present for 
the reunion at Commencement, but he 
did report that he has changed his residence 
lo 40 Scott street, Pawtucket. 

Leslie E. Stone received the degree of 
Ph.B. (with the class) at the Commence- 



ment exercises at the University last month. 
He is an installing engineer with the New 
England Telephone &? Telegraph Com- 
pany in Providence. 

1919 

Henry T. Samson has resigned as secre- 
tary of the Rhode Island State Unemploy- 
ment Relief Commission and as educational 
secretary of the Providence Community 
Fund, in both of which positions he has 
done noteworthy and valuable work. In 
his letter to Governor Theodore Francis 
Green "87, he said that he was giving up 
the State work because "conditions beyond 
my control have limited my usefulness to 
the State in the administration of unem- 
ployment relief." Governor Green in his 
reply praised Samson for "the splendid 
work done for the commission and so for 
the people of the State," and added: 

"Under the State Unemployment Relief 
Commission as at present constituted you 
have worked assiduously to carry out its 
policies. These policies have been to see 
that the relief was administered humanely, 
intelligently, economically and free from 
any political bias. 

"I feel that the record so far has been 
a good one. In fact, from my conferences 
in Washington and elsewhere, I am sure it is 
among the best in the country. Thank you 
for your help in making it so!" 

Samson has been in charge of campaign 
publicity for the Community Fund for the 
last seven years and has carried on educa- 
tional work throughout each year. He has 
won national attention by his plans and 
his publicity methods. 

Malcolm C. Brown is a certified public 
accountant, with his headquarters in the 
Schine Building, Gloversville, N. Y. He 
lives at 105 Dove street, Johnstown, N. Y. 

C. Lawrence Evans is now assistant 
manager of the Credit Department, Chase 
National Bank, New York City. Larry 
joined the Chase staff in 1930 and has been 
in the Credit Department since that time. 

A. T. Hindmarsh is with Barrett (W. 
Stanley Barrett '21n) 6? Company invest- 
ments, 507 Hospital Trust Building, Prov- 
idence. Al is as active as always in the 
work of the Brown Club of Providence. 
1920 

Robert S. Macfarlane is a judge of the 
Superior Court, State of Washington. His 
office is in the County-City Building, and 
his home at 4201 5 5th avenue, N. E., 
Seattle. 

Dr. Frank Zitserman is a general prac- 
titioner at 571 Academy street, New York 
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1921 

J. A. Csepely, research physicist with 
the Calco Chemical Company, writes that 
his new mail address is Box 150 A, R.F.D, 
No. 1, Bound Book, N.J. 

Rev. Herbert E. McComhie gave the 
address, "Youth in Times of Conflict," at 
the annual meeting and dinner of the 
Providence Christian Endeavor Union at 
the Elmwood Baptist Church, June 7. 

Doc Armstrong, who had been honey- 
mooning in Canada, stopped off in Provi- 
dence just before Commencement to com- 
pare the new athletic plant with Andrews 
Field and the Marston Field House. He 
even went up to the old Andrews Field 
section trying to locate some of the old 
landmarks. He and Mrs. Armstrong are 
to make their home in Elizabeth, N. J. 
1922 

Arthur Merewcther had furlough from 
his duties as an officer in the Army Air 
Corps and came back to Providence for a 
visit at the end of June. 

Austin M. Davies is now associated with 
the American Psychiatric Association, 450 
Seventh avenue, New York City. He is 
living at 196-16 Hollis avenue, HoUis, L. I. 

L. F. Hallett is still active as a stock 
broker at 85 Devonshire street, Boston, 
but he tells us that he is now living at 299 
South Main street, Mansfield, Mass. 
1923 

W. H. Bromage has gone back to news- 
paper work, being with the Journal of Com- 
merce. Chicago, for which he writes finan- 
cial and business stories. Bill's brother 
Howard received his degree from Brown 
last month, and another brother, Robert, 
is a member of the Class of 1936. 

Andy Macfarlane, as slim and as friendly 
as ever, found time while he was hack for 
his Tenth Reunion to look in at the Alumni 
Office to say hello and report that he 
couldn't complain as to business and such. 
He continues to be the head of the invest- 
ment management firm of Macfarlane, Mil- 
ler 6? Powell, Inc., and his new offices are 
at 48 Wall street. New York City. 

M. F. (Shorty) Swaney, in charge of 
the merchandise and research division of 
the Chicago Evening American, has be- 
come a commuter, and is occupying his new 
house at 2109 Chestnut avenue, Wilmette, 
III. 

William C. Munroc is jobber service 
representative of the Fruit Dispatch Com- 
pany, with his headquarters at Pier 7, North 
River, New York City. 

Carl Green reports a change of address 
from Providence to 44 Tallman avenue, 
Cranston, R. I. 

E. W. Lincoln's golf game seems to be 
right up to scratch this season. Playing on 
his home course, the Rhode Island Coun- 
try Club, at the annual outing of the Rhode 
Island Bar As.sociation last month, he won 
first prize for gross score, a leather travel- 
ing hag. He also won second prize in the 
putting contest. 

Harvey Reynolds and Mrs. Reynolds 
are now living at 37 Medway street. Prov- 
idence. 

William Dighton's resignation as assist- 
ant professor of English at Brown was 
announced at Commencement time. 

1924 
W. C. Shattuck, with the Wickwire 
Spencer Steel Company, has left New York 
City flat as a place of residence and is liv- 



ing at 22 Park avenue. Old Greenwich, 
Conn. 

R. C. Locke and his family (Mrs. Locke 
and the two daughters, Bettina and Mar- 
iana) were back in Providence last month 
on vacation, visiting relatives and renewing 
acquaintances. Their home now is in Tuc- 
scon, Ariz. 

The sympathy of the class goes out in 
full measure to Louis GofT and Mrs. GotI, 
whose five-year old son, Louis B. Goff, Jr , 
died in Providence, May 28, 1933. 

Milton Staples is with R. H. Macy i^ 
Co., department stores. New York City. 

M. M. (Molly) Meier, lawyer in Newark, 
has removed from Orange to 59 Ridgewood 
avenue. Glen Ridge, N. J. 

Ray Bergstrom, formerly with Harris, 
Forbes y Co., New York City, has come 
back to Rhode Island for a while at least, 
and is living at 105 Spring street. East 
Greenwich. 

Rev. T. Jerome Hayden, Jr.. of St. Au- 
gustine's Chapel, Trinity parish, New York 
City, is on a six weeks' tour of England 
and France, having left last month in time 
to be in London for the centenary celebra- 
tion of the Oxford Movement. 
1925 

Harvey Jones, with the Manufacturers" 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, has 
changed the scene of operations from New 
York to Toronto, where his oflice is at 1005 
Atlas Building, 3 50 Bay street. 

Richard H. Anthony received the degree 
of LL.B. from Georgetown University at 
the Commencement last month. Dick has 
been in Washington four years as secre- 
tary to U. S. Senator Felix Hehert of Rhode 
Island, and has studied law in his spare 
hours. He will be in Providence for six 
months working in the Senator's law office 
to qualify for the bar. 

John E. Conklin is a member of the 
teaching staff' of the Abraham Clark High 
School, Roselle, N. J. His present mail 
address is 405 Bloomfield avenue. Apt. 6, 
Caldwell, N. J. 

Writing from 388 Lookout avenue, Hac- 
kensack, N. J., the chap we used to know as 
Herman M. Pflugi says: "My name was 
legally changed to Herman P. Morse on or 
about Jan. 15, 1930. ... I have started 
again in the oil burner business. ... I am 
expecting to marry shortly." 

Hal Neubauer was on the campus during 
Commencement Week, renewing acquaint- 
ances and getting a good look at New 
England scenery before leaving for New 
York to lead a party of boys to the Jackson 
Hole and Grand Teton country of Wyom- 
ing for the summer. He is director of the 
group this year, and he likes the work 
immensely. Hal had a satisfactory season 
as coach of the Lawrenceville baseball nine, 
winning most of the games on the schedule 
and developing some likely material. Mrs. 
Neubauer and the three youngsters will 
spend the summer in South Swansea, Mass. 

Lucien Capone of Bristol, R. I., was ad- 
mitted to practice by the Supreme Court of 
Rhode Island on June 5, having passed his 
bar exams successfully. 

1926 

Al Rafusc keeps on moving further west- 
ward. Recently he shifted from St. Joseph, 
Mo., to Omaha, Neb., where he is manager 
of the W. T. Grant department store at 
114-116 S. 16th street. 

Ed Neese, for whose address we asked in 
the last issue of the Alumni Monthly. 
has turned up safe and sound. His address is 



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1927 

Bill Miller, still representing Bird 6? Son 
in Florida and Georgia, reports that he 
gets his mail at two places. 222 W. Sixth 
street, Jacksonville, Fla., and P. O. Box 1 22, 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Ellis Potter, with the Diamond T Motor 
Company, Chicago, is now settled in his 
new apartment at 601 S. East avenue. Oak 
Park, 111. 

Dave Mishel will be a member of the 
lootball coaching .staff at Boston University 
next fall. During the past year Dave has 
been director of intramural athletics at 
B. U. 

Milton Forde is assistant borough engi- 
neer of the town of Naugatuck, Conn. 

Carlton Stallard, secretary and assistant 
treasurer of the Jersey Mortgage y Title 
Guaranty Company, Elizabeth, has re- 
moved to 73 3 Crescent Parkway, West- 
field, N. J. 

Stan Adams, who has been in the paint 
business for the last four years, is manager 
of one of the departments of Denholm Mc- 
Kay Co., wall papers and paints, Worces- 
ter, Mass. 



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National Bank 

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CAPITAL $1,500,000 

SURPLUS $2,500,000 

Main Office — 100 Westminster Street 
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Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board 
Thomas L. Pierce, President 
Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier 
Charles M. Smith, III, Trust Officer 
Frank L. Sawyer, Assistant Cashier 
George A. Freeman, Assistant Cashier 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel 

Empire St. Branch, Frank L. Sawyer, Manager 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Manager 
Directors 
Charles H. Newell Wilson G. Wing 

William Gammell, Jr. John Nicholas Brown 
Moses J. Barber Thomas L. Pierce 

Paul C. DeWolf Lauriston H. Hazard 

Frank E. Richmond William L. Sweet 

Richard S. Aldrich Frederick T. Moses 

Edward P. Jastram John Ormsbee Ames 

Earl G. Batty Willard I. Angell 

A. Livingston Kelley John B. Lewis 

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Roger Case, no longer with the New 
York Telephone Company, writes that any 
of the boys can reach him by mail at 2965 
Marion avenue, Bronx, New York City. 

Don Pratt, director of field service for 
the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, is 
now located at 3 309 Ruckle street, Indian- 
apolis. 

Ed Pflugi, who is in business in Toronto, 
Ont., has legally changed his name to 
Morse, we hear — Edward P. Morse. He is 
living at 1638 Queen street. East, Apt. 64, 
Toronto. 

Willoughby M. Cady is carrying on his 
research work in physics at the California 
Institute of Technology, and is living at 
45 West Pine street, Pasadena. 
1928 
John Hamilton came all the way from 
Los Angeles for the Fifth Reunion, and it 
certainly was a treat to see him and talk 
with him. John is in business out there as 
a market counsellor with a former employer 
to whom he was assistant after getting out 
of the movies. John's work with his part- 
ner has taken him through a utilities com- 
pany and Pacific Frosted Foods Company, 
an interesting venture promoted by Stand- 
ard Oil of California and General Foods 
for merchandising frosted foods in the 
West. Now he is developing a clientele of 
his own, and he hopes to wear carnations 
in his button hole home day. He and Cow- 
boy Mann are upholding the dignity of 
the class in Los Angeles. 

Curly Edes, still very much on the job 
as a contracting engineer with the Grinnell 
Company, Inc., has his headquarters as 131 
State Street, Boston. 

R. F. Pickels, Jr., is in the printing bus- 
iness at 155 South Leonard street. Water- 
bury, Conn. 

Red Randall, who has resigned from the 
athletic department at the University of 
Virginia to become head coach of football, 
basketball and baseball at Haverford Col- 
lege next year, stopped off in Providence on 
his way home to Brockton, Mass., Class 
Day, and saw some of his old cronies on the 
campus. He is looking fine and fit, and a 
little heavier than he was when he was 
playing quarterback in his undergraduate 
days. He has a big job ahead of him at 
Haverford, but he is confident that he can 
handle the assignment. AI Haddleton is 
coaching track at Haverford. 

Nelson J. Conlong, Samuel H. Levy, and 
Paul R. Mclntyre, all of Providence, passed 
their Rhode Island Bar Examinations this 
spring and were admitted to practice by 
the Supreme Court on June 5. The Rhode 
Island examinations are considered among 
the most difficult and comprehensive given 
by any board of bar examiners in the 
United States. Chauncey E. Wheeler '09, 
secretary of the board, announced the 
names of the successful applicants. 
1929 
Harold S. Moskol, one of five Brown 
men who passed the Rhode Island bar exam- 
inations this spring, has been admitted to 
practice by the Supreme Court. 

Edward Brown received his doctor's de- 
gree from Tufts Dental College this June. 
Al Cornsweet will return to Brown next 
fall to work for a master's degree, if he 
holds to his present intention. Joe Nutter, 
authority for the news, took occasion to call 
the roll of the Iron Man team of 1926. 
Several of them are keeping their hand in at 
football : Towle and Hodge with the Brown 



'varsity, Considine in the Boston schools, 
Mishel as the new backfield coach at B. U., 
Randall as head coach at Haverford, and 
Broda at Western Reserve. Kevorkian is in 
business in Atlantic City, says Nutter, Dr. 
Orland Smith is completing his interneship 
at the Rhode Island Hospital, Louis Farber 
rs in business with his father in Pawtucket, 
and Eddie Lawrence is in business in 
Providence. 

Don Marschner is doing advertising 
work for the Shell Eastern Petroleum Prod- 
ucts, Inc., with his office at 122 East 42nd 
street. New York City. 

Martin Coughlin has gone hack to the 
old home town of Danbury, Conn., where 
he lives at 7 Robinson avenue and where, 
he admits, he is working regularly as a free 
lance writer. 

Phil White is principal of the Richville 
High School, Richville, N. Y. 

Ed Brown received the degree of Doctor 
of Dental Medicine at the Commencement 
of Tufts College last month. 

Ken Scott, graduated last month from 
the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, 
will commence practice in Providence. His 
wife, Mrs. Lillian Barton Scott, is already a 
practitioner in the city. While he was 
studying in Philadelphia Ken was president 
of his class for two years, member of the 
Student Council, and of the Atlas Club. 
1930 
Newland Jones, learning the business 
with W. T. Grant Company, was at the 
Grant store in Beverly, Mass., when we 
heard from him last month. He doesn't 
know where he will land next, but he likes 
the work. 

John Wells is in the commercial depart- 
ment of the New England Telephone & 
Telegraph Co., Salem, Mass., but con- 
tinues to claim 45 Peck street, Attleboro, 
Mass., as his home. 

Linton Koller, member of the class for 
two years, is chief clerk in the New York 
office of the Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 
51 East 42nd street. 

Norman McCabe is a field auditor with 
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 
covering Rhode Island territory. 

Les Sugarman received a degree in op- 
tometry from Columbia University last 
month. While at the School of Optometry 
he was elected to Omega Epsilon Phi, the 
national optometric society, and was secre- 
tary of the chapter this year. He will prac- 
tice in Meriden, Conn., his home city. 
1931 
Dan Rhee is a chemist with the Carr Mfg. 
Corporation, Bristol, R. I. 

Joe Clark, who has been down in Texas 
for the last six months, is back again in 
Glen Campbell, Pa., where he is in the 
office of the treasurer of the Laurel Oil and 
Gas Company in the First National Bank 
Building. 

Paul Thayer is assistant bacteriologist 
with the Rhode Island State Board of 
Health, State House, Providence. 

Kent Allen is with the Fall River Gas 
Company, we hear, and is living at 144 
Grove street, Quequechan, Mass. 

Dick Walter is factory manager of Blue 
Ribbon Food Products, made by A. A. 
Walter 6? Company, ! 3 south Lansing 
street, Albany, N. Y. 

Gene Gerry is assistant manager of the 
Hotel Rock-Mere, Marblehead, Mass. 

Walter Wentworth is in charge of sales 
in upper New York State territory for the 



F. S. Webster Company, Boston, typewriter 
supplies. Walt and Mrs. Wentworth are 
living at 1037 Euclid avenue, Syracuse. 

Bill Kinnaird is in advertising work in 
St. Louis, where he lives at 5140 Enright 
avenue. 

J. Edgerton Lee is night cable editor for 
the International News Service, 255 East 
45th street. New York City. 

Fred Harson has become a member of 
the sales staff of Gilbert L. Brooks & Co., 
investment securities, 505 Hospital Trust 
Building, Providence. 



Engagements 

Miss Winifred DeForest, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. F. Bowden DeForest of 
Chicago, 111., to Dean F. Coffin '3 3, of 
Detroit, Mich. 

Miss Shirley M. Knowles, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Knowles of 
Edgewood, R. I., to H. William Koster '3 2, 
of Providence. 

Miss Ruth Eraser Grimshaw. daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Grimshaw of 
Providence, to Kenneth E. Ulson "31, of 
Brockton, Mass. 

Miss Mary Brayton Durfee, daughter of 
Mrs. Randall N. Durfee of Fall River, 
Mass., to Charles D. Brown '31, of New 
York. 

Miss Esther Maurer, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. S. H. Maurer of Boyerstown, 
Pa., to Harold H. Young '23, of East 
Providence. 

Miss Alice Gindin, daughter of Abra- 
ham Gindin of Brockton, Mass., to Rollo 
G. Silver '31, of New York City and 
Cleveland. Miss Gindin is a graduate of 
Pembroke '32. 



Weddings 

1922 — Lawrence Whitcomb, member of 
the Faculty of Lehigh University, and Miss 
Ruth Lyman Copeland, daughter of Lowell 
Copeland, were married in Princeton, N. J., 
June 15, 1933. 

1923n — Francis O. Allen, Jr., and Miss 
Louise Weill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Alfred S. Weill, were married in Chestnut 
Hill, Pa, June 3, 1933. 

1926 — Charles S. Parsons and Miss Alice 
M. Wills of Ridgewood, N. J., were mar- 
ried in New York City, March 11, 1933. 
They are living at 19 Cherry Street, Fair- 
haven, Mass. 

1928 — Lucius Garvin, assistant in phil- 
osophy at the University in 1932-33, and 
Miss Evelyn E. Walmsley, daughter of 
Charles E. Walmsley, were married in 
Lonsdale, R. I., June 8, 1933. They are at 
home at 14 Kimball Avenue, Pawtucket. 

1928 — Dixwell Goff and Miss Virginia 
Wyckoff Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harry F. Miller, were married in Provi- 
dence, May 24, 193 3. Godfrey GofF '26 
was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Goff are living 
in Touisset, Mass. 

1930— Robley D. MacLean and Mrs. 
Eleanor Tate Wildes, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robinson Tate, were married in Man- 
chester, N. H., June 3, 1933. They are 
living in Portland, Me. 

1931— WinfieldT. Scott and Miss Savila 
Bothwell Harvey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
James B. Harvey of Darien, Conn., were 
married in Providence, May 22, 1933. 
They are at home at 20 John Street, Provi- 
dence. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Bnths 

1910n— To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Mor- 
gan of Warwick Neck, R. I., a daughter on 
May 19, 1933. 

1918n— To Mr. and Mrs. George C. 
Hull of Rumtord, R. I., a second daughter, 
Nancy, June 14, 1933. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. C. Manton 
Eddy of Hartford, Conn., a second son, 
William Lindsay, May 6, 1933. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eatough 
of Wilmington, Del., a son, Richard Henry, 
December 14, 193 2. 



1926n— To Dr. and Mrs. Russell S. 
Bray of Providence, a son, Russell Stanton 
Bray, Jr., May 14, 1933. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Bar- 
rows, Jr., of Providence, a son, Fred How- 
ard Barrows, 3rd, June 1, 1933. 

1928— To Dr. and Mrs. Jesse P. Eddy, 
3rd, of New York, a daughter, Constance 
Burch, May 19, 1933. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Shaal 
of Edgewood, R. I., a son, Robert Kendrick, 
June 11, 1933. 



The Pembroke Chronicle 



WITH alumnae of 12 classes in reunion 
and a fuller dignity added by inno- 
vations to the program, Pembroke 
College enjoyed a busy and colorlul Com- 
mencement Week. One of the outstanding 
events was the alumnae meeting in Alum- 
nae Hall, held while the alumni were hear- 
ing the Sayles Hall speeches, and graced by 
the presence and message of Eva Le Galli- 
enne, the distinguished actress and pro- 
ducer, who had received an honorary de- 
gree earlier in the day. 

Miss Le Gallienne, director of the Civic 
Repertory Theatre, advocated the estab- 
lishing of a Ministry of Fine Arts in the 
Government as a means of recognizing and 
fostering the arts in America. We should 
be able, as are those in other countries, to 
enjoy the best in art for a small sum. 

Dean Morriss explained that the purpose 
of the separate meeting was partly to give 
Pembroke an opportunity to honor the 
women honored by the University on Com- 
mencement Day. The experiment was 
deemed a great success. 

Commencement Week opened with the 
traditional exercises of Ivy Day, including 
' the carrying of the laurel chain and plant- 
ing of the class ivy. Jean A. Bauer, perma- 
nent class president, presented the principal 
speakers, who included Dr. Barbour, Dean 
Morriss, and Beatrice M. George, class ora- 
tor. Rachel Baldwin handed on the trowel 
to Katherine S. Smith of the class of 1934. 

THE graduate body continued its celebra- 
tion over the week-end. The annual 
meeting of the Alumnae Association fol- 
lowed the alumnae class meetings, marked 
by the installation of Alice Manchester 
Chase "05 as president on the completion 
of Milliccnt Leete Snow's term. 

Also unanimously elected to office were; 
Second vice president, Matty L. Beattie '09; 
corresponding secretary, Winilred Olen- 
dorf Marshall '19, nominating committee 
members were Emma H. Dahlgren '11, 
Doris Briggs Hathaway '14, Alice E. Des- 
mond '23, Elisabeth A. Rose '25, and Mar- 
jorie Battersby '31. 

Dorothy Beals Brown '18 was elected to 
the important post of chairman of Alumnae 
Day next year and Faith Rogers Corbett '25 
was the association choice as new member 
of the academic committee. 

Mrs. J. Earle Bacon '13 was made chair- 
man of the Alumnae Fund, and Miss Ethel 
Westcott '00 and Mrs. Walter M. Saun- 
ders '23, members of the committee for 
three and two years, respectively. 

Ruth Cooke Peterson was chairman of 
the program, assisted by the following class 



reunion chairmen; Mrs. John S. Murdock, 
Mrs. Raymond I. Blanchard, Mrs. Norman 
S. Taber, Mrs. Ernest S. Maymon, Miss 
Mary A. Gorman, Miss Marion Stone, Miss 
Marion Harley, Miss Julia Oldham, Miss 
Marjorie Peck and Miss Agnes Cosgrove. 

Two co-operative houses, similar to those 
maintained at some other colleges, will 
be established at Pembroke next year to aid 
students tinancially. Dean Morriss told the 
alumnae at the meeting of the Association. 
Mrs. William B. Eddy, chairman of the 
Alumnae Fund, reported an addition of 
$2,575.68 to the general fund last year 
through alumnae contributions. Special 
iunds included $3 50 given by alumnae 
clubs for Freshman scholarships; $225 for 
emergency aid to students; and $200 to the 
Emma Bradford Stanton Honor Scholar- 
ship to be given the first time next Septem- 
ber to a Senior. 

The general fund covered the expenses 
of the Alumnae Association, including the 
office of the Alumnae secretary, and in- 
cluded a $500 Freshman scholarship to be 
given in the fall. 

The class of 1913 yesterday gave $1,500, 
the interest of which will be used at the 
discretion of the fund committee. The 
classes of '94, '95 and '96 gave $105 as the 
nucleus of a fund for a portrait of E. Ben- 
jamin Andrews, president of Brown Uni- 
versity in the years those classes were under- 
graduates. The class of 1908 gave $200 in 
memory of Gertrude Mace Childs for the 
Emma Bradford Stanton Scholarship Fund. 
Mrs. Eddy further reported that in the 
three years the Alumnae Fund has been in 
existence, more than $12,500 has been do- 
nated by graduates, a record she termed 
remarkable in view of economic conditions. 

MRS. John S. Murdock, Alumnae rep- 
resentative on the college executive 
committee, pointed out in a detailed report 
that Pembroke College has ridden out the 
depression successfully and that applica- 
tions for entrance next fall are already al- 
most equal in number to those of last year. 

Mrs. Murdock raised the question 
w^ihether endowed colleges in the future 
will be able to anticipate large endowments 
from wealthy persons to the degree that 
obtained in the past. The problem will have 
to he met, she maintained, by more gen- 
eral alumnae support. 

Others reporting were Mrs. Howard C. 
Arnold, treasurer; Mrs. Gertrude A. Mc- 
Connell, alumnae secretary; and represen- 
tatives of alumnae clubs in Boston, New 



York, Cleveland, Pennsylvania, Connecti- 
cut, southeastern Massachusetts and the 
local club. 

After the meeting, class groups reassem- 
bled informally about Alumnae Hall before 
the annual rally in the auditorium. The 
reunited classes entered the hall in march- 
ing order, each designated by the year 
numeral and the members carrying canes, 
tied with tulle in the class colors. Each 
class reviewed its achievements since grad- 
uation. 

MISS Ollie a. Randall '12 was cited 
for her record of achievement. Miss 
Randall is assistant to the general director 
of the New York Association for Improv- 
ing the Condition of the Poor. During the 
war she was in charge in France of the 
headquarters office of the home service sec- 
tion of the American Red Cross, which she 
organised. Another citation went to Miss 
Mane La Dame '06, recently made head of 
the United States Employment Service. 

Reunions by 12 classes returning under 
the prevailing Dix plan, a garden party 
forced indoors because of the sudden 
shower in mid-afternoon, and an informal 
reception, topped by a reunion dinner and 
presentation of two Komian plays were 
other features of the week-end. 

Distinguished among the alumnae was 
Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount 
Holyoke College and the only woman dele- 
gate to the Geneva Disarmament Confer- 
ence. Dr. Woolley received the first diploma 
offered a woman by Brown University, as a 
member of the small class of 1894, of which 
she is now sole member. She joined the class 
of 1895 at a luncheon at Carr's before at- 
tending the Alumnae Association meeting. 



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