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No. 2 



Brown University's Accolade 




WITH the traditional pageantry of the years attend- 
ant upon it, the 166th Commencement of Brown 
University gave to 371 seniors their baccalaureate 
degrees and offered to hundreds of returning alumni the 
heartening that comes from old scenes revisited and old ties 
renewed. Seldom, if ever, has the line of graduates been 
longer as it mustered for the march down the hill, and it 
was a matter of general comment that the younger classes 
were more generously represented than at any time since 
the War. 

Eight men and two women, chosen for honor because of 
their achievements in various lines of endeavor, received 
honorary degrees, among them Newton D. Baker, former 
Secretary of War, who was shortly to rouse the alumni to 
enthusiasm with his assertion of the responsibilities that 
belong to the college-educated. Mr. Baker, the youngest 
alumnus by virtue of his LL.D., was the speaker at the 
alumni assembly in Faunce House, and his address was also 
heard by radio by the alumnae convened at Pembroke. 

President Barbour read the citations in the First Baptist 
Meeting House as hoods were placed on the shoulders of 
the following: 

Andrew Adams '95 of Honolulu, sugar expert of the 
Territorial Government, Master of Arts. 

Miss Ollie Annette Randall '12, New York, vice chair- 
man of the Women's CWA division. Master of Arts. 

Wassili Leps, Providence, conductor of the Providence 
Symphony Orchestra, Doctor of Music. 

Dr. Arthur Howe Bradford, Providence, pastor of the 
First Congregational Church, Doctor of Divinity. 

Clarence Saunders Brigham '99, Worcester, director of 
the American Antiquarian Society, Doctor of Letters. 



Charles Evans, Chicago, librarian and bibliographer. 
Doctor of Letters. 

Dr. George Ellett Coghill "96, Philadelphia, anatomist, 
author and teacher. Doctor of Science. 

Dr. George Sarton, Cambridge, Mass., author, lecturer 
and bibliographer. Doctor of Humane Letters. 

Dr. Ada Louise Comstock, Cambridge, Mass., president 
of Radcliffe College, Doctor of Legal Laws. 

After the graduating exercises, during which Harry C. 
Eatough, Charles F. Eberstadt, and Harold Seidman, class 
orators, prescribed for the world, Chief Marshal George 
Eddy Warren '89 of Boston led his procession back up the 
hill for luncheon and the assembly. Mr. Warren was the 
first marshal to receive appointment under the new plan for 
honoring a different alumnus with that post each June. 

In Sayles Hall Presiding Officer Wallace R. Lane '99 
praised the expanding influence of Brown University in the 
Middle West, due to administration efforts and to the 
loyalty of alumni in that section. He offered the small town 
as a field for the new graduates, championing its oppor- 
tunities. 

Governor Theodore Francis Green '87 posed the ques- 
tion, "What has the Brown graduate of 1934 to offer to 
society?" We need today, he said, "men who will not 
espouse a new formula because it is new nor stay wedded 
to an ancient one simply because it is old." 

EVEN while Mr. Baker was adjusting the microphones to 
suit him, the alumni seemed to realize they were about 
to hear a remarkable address. Propounding his political 
philosophy without resort to politics, he spoke of the high 
place education had in the early schemes of democracy in 
America. Today, however, he felt the educated man had not 
made his influence felt as forcefully as he should have. 

In his day, Mr. Baker said, he was the only youth in a 
town of 10,000 persons who went to college, and by thus 
cutting himself off from his friends he felt a sense of obliga- 
tion and noblesse oblige which demanded that he do some- 
thing for the state and for the rest of his community. 

"The man who graduates today and stops learning to- 
morrow is uneducated the day after," he declared. "It is a 
foot race between him and the progress of knowledge itself. 
The salvation of democratic institutions is to ally ourselves 
to some form of adult education and encourage among our 
fellow citizens a serious application of knowledge so that in 
our increasing problems, we will have a body of citizens who 
are proof against the inflammations of propaganda and who 
think not with their emotions but with their minds." 



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DR. Barbour, after welcoming the alumni, especially 
those from overseas, and their friends, including Gov- 
ernor Judd of Hawaii, told with feeling of the benevolences 
by which the University will benefit. Of the total of 
$985,997.08 given or bequeathed to Brown since last Com- 
mencement, $610,309.70 represented the sum received on 
account of the residue of the estates of Henry L. Aldrich '76 
and Charles T. Aldrich '77. 

Among other outstanding gifts, the bequest of $100,000 
from Webster Knight toward the cost of an extension to the 
John Hay Library' "and the bequest of the Webster Knight 
collection of United States postage stamps and $50,000 for 
its endowment were announced. 

Dr. Barbour also announced the bequest of $100,000 
from C. Prescott Knight for the establishment of scholar- 
ships for undergraduate men, a bequest of $10,000 from 
Mrs. Webster Knight to endow the maintenance of the 
Edith Knight memorial organ at Pembroke College, and a 
bequest of"$8,000 from Mrs. C. Prescott Knight to be used 
for the same purpose or for the establishment of a scholar- 
ship in music. 

Other notable gifts were one of $11,736.03 from the 
estate of Mrs. Anne Crosby Emery Allinson to establish a 
scholarship at Pembroke College in memory of her father, 
Lucilius A. Emery, and her mother, Anne Crosby Emery; 
a donation of $27,912.71 from the estate of Dr. William 
Williams Keen to establish the Corina Borden Keen Re- 
search Fellowship, and a contribution of $10,000 from the 
Carnegie Corporation for the support of the Community 
Art Project. 

President Barbour also announced the following other 
gifts: From Brown Alumni Fund, $15,400. From the 
Brown Club of Providence, a pledge of $500 for the Brown 
Club of Providence Prize Scholarship for 1934-35. From 
the Brown Club of Chicago, a pledge of $500 for the Brown 
Club of Chicago Prize Scholarship for 1934-35. From the 
Brown Club of New York, a pledge of $500 for the Brown 
Club of New York Prize Scholarship for 1934-35. From 
the Brown Club of Boston, a pledge of $500 for the Brown 
Club of Boston Prize Scholarship for 1934-3=1. From the 
Class of 1907 $250.00 to be added to the Class of 1907 
Fund. From the Class of 1909, $5,000 to establish the Class 
of 1909 Scholarship. From Mrs. Bertha L. Falk, $10,000 to 
establish the Lester L. Falk Scholarship. From "A Friend" 
$1,000 to be added to the Perry Edson Faunce Scholarship 
Fund. 

From the estate of Howard P. Cornell, $1,400 to be 
added to the Howard P. Cornell Fund. From the estate of 
John Murray Marshall, $1,200 to be added to the John 
Murray Marshall Fund. From the estate of Ella F. Skinner, 
$737.29 to establish the Ella F. Skinner Fund at Pembroke 
College. From Jesse L. Rosenberger, $500 as an addition to 
the Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize Fund. From Quincy 
Mansion School, $3,000 in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Horace 
Mann Willard, to be added to the Quincy Mansion Schol- 
arship Fund. From the estate of Edith Lee Horton, $2,500 
to be added to the Edith Lee Horton Scholarship Fund. 

From the Carnegie Corporation, $5,000 for the purchase 
of books for the library. From John D, Rockefeller, Jr., 
$500 for the McClellan Collection of Lincolniana. From 
William A. Needham, $500 to be used to aid worthy stu- 
dents at Brown University. From Mrs. Sophie R. Louttit, 
$500 for the William Easton Louttit Scholarship for the 
academic year 1933-34. From Charles W. Parmelee, $500 
for use of Department of Biology. From Rockefeller 



Foundation, $1,500 for special purposes. From The Emer-' 
gency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, 
$2,000 for special purposes. From the Department of 
Geology of Brown University, $600 for use of Department 
of Geology. 

From Mrs. William H. P. Faunce, $650 in payment of 
the cost of a section of fence to bear the numerals of 1919 — 
the class with which her son Perry Edson Faunce graduated, 
and in whose memory the gift is made. From the Class of 
1933, $300. From the Brown Alumnae Fund, $500 for the 
Brown Alumnae Scholarship, $350 for the Brown Alumnae 
Clubs Scholarship, and $200 for the Emma B. Stanton 
Scholarship at Pembroke College. From R. I. State Fed- 
eration of Women's Clubs, $250 for the Federated Clubs 
Scholarship at Pembroke College. From the Pembroke Col- 
lege Record, $500 for the Record Scholarship, 1934-35, at 
Pembroke College. From R. I. Women's Club, $250 for 
the R. I. Women's Club Scholarship at Pembroke College. 
From the Student Government Association, $951.35 for the 
Dean's Aid Fund at Pembroke College. 

AFTER the Sayles Hall meeting an informal reception, of 
the sort instituted last year, was tendered to the speak- 
ers, recipients of honorary degrees, and other guests under 
the elms in the Middle Campus. 

Commencement Day came to a close with several hun- 
dred alumni and friends of Brown attending the President's 
reception in Alumnae Hall. The members of the receiving 
line were President Barbour, Vice President and Mrs. Al- 
bert D. Mead, Vice President and Mrs. James P. Adams, 
and Dean Margaret Shove Morriss. Again Fred B. Perkins 
'19 was head usher, with the following aides: Roger T. 
Clapp '19, C. Arthur Braitsch '23, J. D. E. Jones, Jr., '23, 
Mark R. Flather '24, Denison W. Greene '24, and Kent F. 
Matteson '28. 

Special art exhibitions in the Rhode Island School of 
Design and the Providence Art Club were designed to in- 
vite the inspection of Brown alumni who were unable to 
gain entrance into the Meeting House during the Com- 
mencement exercises this year. The displays proved very 
popular, especially that in the Art Club, which was devoted 
to paintings and drawings of the University and the Uni- 
versity neighborhood. 

On the campus itself were other exhibitions, appropriate 
to the season and to alumni interest. They included a com- 
memorative display of books, manuscripts and pictures 
related to the late Dr. William Williams Keen '59 of 
Philadelphia, who was graduated 75 years ago from Brown; 
;i photostatic collection of Lincolniana; a collection of mate- 
rial related to General Robert E. Lee, loaned by Melville F. 
Riley, Jr., '34 of Higginson, Maryland; a special exhibition 
of student work at the Rhode Island School of Design; 
mural paintings by Professor Will S. Taylor of the Depart- 
ment of Art; reproductions in the student loan art collec- 
tion; and John Carter Brown Library items. 



An Eventual Bequest 

EVENTUALLY Brown University will share in the estate of 
y. Eugene Osgood of East Providence, according to his 
will admitted to probate there last month. His widow re- 
ceives the entire estate for use during her life. When Brown 
receives its bequest, sharing the estate with two hospitals, 
the University is to set up a trust fund, the income from 
which is to be used for scholarships to assist needy students. 



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THE CO\FERRlHC OF DEGREES. This exceptioymJ photograph bv Hodman S Watson shows the 
iTitenOT of the First Baptist Church at the moment when Dr. Evans brol{e precedent b>' making retort. 



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Fearful of "Coc\ney Initials" 
"In this grave presence to record my name, 
Something within me holds the hand and shrinks; 
Dull were the soul without some joy in fame. 
Yet here to claim remembrance were, methinks, 
Like him who in the desert's awful frame 
Notches his Cockney initials on the Sphinx." 

WITH these words was tradition broken at Brown's 
166th Commencement. When Charles Evans, the 
Chicago librarian and bibliographer, received his honorary 
degree of Doctor of Letters in the First Baptist Meeting 
House and donned the symbolical hood, he asked permission 
to say a few words to the congregation. Flanked by Presi' 
dent Barbour and Prof. George E. Bigge, who escorted the 
candidates to the platform. Dr. Evans said the six lines 
printed above, to the delight of the gathering, which ap- 
plauded warmly. 

Dr. Evans has been a distinguished figure in the field of 
the library, having organized public libraries in such cities 
as Boston, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Omaha, and Chicago. 
His monumental work, American Bibliography, established 
his fame in bibliography, and he is the unquestioned author- 
ity in that field. At 83 he is still an active scholar. Proud, 
too, is Dr. Evans of his son's golfing ability. Junior is best 
known as "Chick." 

The Class Day Festivities 

OPENING the program of the Commencement season. 
Class Day was the seniors' day, with their oratory and 
poesy "under the elms," their senior tea, and the traditional 
festivities of Class Night. Many alumni and other friends 
joined with them in the dances in Sayles Hall and in the 
open air of the lantern-hung campus, exchanged a compli- 
mentary cheer or two, heard the various concerts of the 
evening, and kept friendships in repair during the prome- 
nade. There were no "open house" dances at the fraterni- 
ties this year for the first time, and this old custom seems 
destined to be dropped. 

Brown Awards 56 Advanced Degrees 

BEFORE an audience that filled Sayles Hall, 56 scholars 
received advanced degrees at the Saturday Convoca- 
tion of the Graduate School. Dr. Barbour conferred the 
degrees upon candidates presented by Dean Roland G. D. 
Richardson. Rev. Walter E. Ledden of Providence was 
chaplain for the occasion. 

The speaker of the day was Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, 
president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who 
described the service of philanthropy to the cause of edu- 
cation, partly prompted by a "mystical belief" in its powers. 

"The aggregate amount contributed from all sources for 
the stimulation of scholarship and inquiry during the first 
and second decades of our century may never be equalled, 
perhaps never approached, during our life-times," he said. 
"Even the sharply reduced figures of the past year or so 
represent a degree of available financial support for the ad- 
vancement of learning which has never been approached 
during the previous history of mankind." 

Among the 56 recipients of degrees were students repre- 
senting 31 colleges and universities in 16 States,, Canada, 
and China. Seventeen degrees were Ph.D.'s, while 26 
A.M.'s were awarded and 13 Sc.M.'s. An academic pro- 
cession preceded the Convocation. 



The Reliance on Vision * 

SO long as vision exists, there is hope and faith and a 
chance to live," President Barbour told the members of 
the class of 1934 who marched down the hill to hear his 
baccalaureate sermon on Commencement Sunday. On the 
platform of the First Baptist Meeting House with him were 
Dr. Arthur W. Cleaves, pastor of the church, the vice 
presidents of the University, Dean Morriss, and Dean 
Arnold. 

"Our ideals are apt to cheapen with the years," the Presi- 
dent warned. "Perhaps," he said, "we flatter ourselves 
that we have grown broader with the years, when the fact 
may be that our ideals have become dwarfed and cheapened 
and stunted . . . On the other hand, the eyes may become 
so dim as to cease to see the ideal." The escape from such 
a materialistic attitude, he was certain, lay in vision. 

The University's 7s[eu; Treasurer 

HAROLD C. Field '94 was elected treasurer of Brown 
University at the annual meeting of the Corporation 
on the Tuesday of Commencement week-end to fill the post 
left vacant by the death of Col. Frank W. Matteson '92. 
Edwin A. Burlingame, acting treasurer since last fall, has 
resumed his former office of assistant treasurer. 

Mr. Field, who was elected a member of the Corporation 
prior to the other designation, has been a member of the 
University Committee on Investments for a year and a half 
and has represented Brown on the board of directors of the 
Aldrich Brothers Company. He has been foreign sales 
manager and director of the Nicholson File Company and 
is a director in a number of other large institutions, indus- 
trial and philanthropic. 

Committee reports were presented at the Corporation 
meeting as follows: University activities — President Bar- 
bour, Vice-President Mead, and Vice-President Adams; 
Investments — S. O. Metcalf '78; Libraries — Zechariah 
Chafee '80; Pembroke College — Edgar L. Betts; Brown 
Union — Henry C. Hart '01 ; Committee Vacancies — Judge 
Fred T. Field '00. 

Others attending the meeting included : Dr. Hermon C. 
Bumpus '84, Albert L. Scott '00, Governor Theodore 
Francis Green '87, Dr. Waldo G. Leland '00, William E. 
Lincoln '68, Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe '94, Everett 
Colby '97, Dr. William T. Peck '70, Edwin F. Greene '01, 
William Gammell '78, Edmund Wood '76, Norman S. 
Taber '13, Dr. Joseph C. Robbins '97, George G. Wilson 
'86, Harvey N. Davis, '01, Wallace R. Lane '99, Harold B. 
Tanner '09, William R. Burwell '15, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., 
'07, Hunter S. Marston '08, James M. Pendleton '85, 
Henry R. Palmer '90. L. Ralston Thomas, ClilTord S. An- 
derson '00, W. Randolph Burgess '12, Charles E. Hughes, 
Jr., '09, and Clinton C. White '00. 

On Guard Against the Confederates 

THOSE were stirring days when Brown students pitched 
camp at Narragansett Pier ready to repel a Confederate 
privateer which had been reported cruising off Point Judith. 
The privateer never appeared, but the students had a merry 
time of it, particularly since they missed the examination 
period. Such was the recollection of Orray Taft '66 of 
Flushing, N. Y., oldest of all alumni to return this June. 
Mr. Taft came back in 1933 for his first Commencement 
since graduation and enjoyed himself so much that he rC' 
peated his visit this June. 



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DR. FAUXCE 
HU room 
dedicated. 




The Faunce Memorial Room 

THE Faunce Memorial Room in Faunce House was dedi- 
cated at special exercises immediately following the 
baccalaureate service on Sunday. The speakers were Dr. 
Barbour, Walter F. Angell '80, a classmate of Dr. Faunce, 
and Willard S. Richardson '94. The voice of President 
Faunce was also heard from the phonograph record made 
several years before his death. 

The room, which has been used for a number of fitting 
purposes during the last year, has now been so furnished as 
to invite meditation there and to typify the spirit of the late 
President. The oil painting of him, lately in Sayles Hall, 
hung in the room, at least during the Commencement 
season. 



Phi Beta Kappas 105th 

HENRY Brayton GARDNER '84, Emeritus Professor of 
Economics, was elected president of the Rhode Island 
Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa at the 105th annual meeting of 
the society. Other officers were named as follows: Vice 
President — Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe '94; Secretary — 



Professor William T. Hastings '03; Treasurer — William 
W. Moss '94; Historian— Prof. Wilfred H. Munro '70; 
Auditor — George L. Miner '97; Committee on Alumni 
Membership — Victor A. Schv^artz '07; Dr. Alex M. Bur- 
gess '06; and Dr. Marshall N. Fulton '20; Committee on 
Arrangements — Prof. Gardner, J. D. E. Jones, Jr., '23 and 
Ronald B. Smith '23; Committee on New Chapters — Prof. 
Robert F. Chambers '09 and William H. Eddy '92; Com- 
mittee on Nomination of Ofiicers — Dr. Wilfred Pickles '18, 
Clarence H. Philbrick '13, and William H. Edwards '19. 

Robert W. Kenny '25 and Owen N. Hillman, candidates 
for the doctorate, were elected to membership-in-course. 

A tribute to the late Judge Samuel H. Ordway "80, writ- 
ten by Dr. William Vail Kellen '72, was read by Prof. 
Albert K. Potter '86. The tribute to Judge Ordway held 
that his career was a refutation of the impression that "the 
first scholar of his class usually fails in after life to maintain 
his leadership." 

Dr. Osterhout Found "R" 

LEMUEL F. Parton, whose column "Who's News Today" 
' is used in many newspapers, recently wrote the follow- 
ing sketch of a discovery which has aroused a great deal of 
interest : 

"If it is true really that Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout has found 
the physical basis of human consciousness, it would seem 
that the story ought to be jumped from the inside to the top 
of the front page. 

"Working much like J. Edgar Hoover, scouting outlaw 
cells in the social organism, he locates in the life cell some- 
thing which he calls 'R,' and which he tentatively offers as 
the basis of the 'chemical psyche' — delicate little audion 
tube stepping up the insensate universe to the world of mind 
and sensation. He seems to have taken flight from the 
jumping-ofF place of all poets and philosophers. 

"Be that as it may, he was born in Brooklyn, of patient 
Dutch ancestry, was graduated from Brown University 
(1893), and worked his way through instructorships in 
botany at the University of California and elsewhere to a 
full professorship at Harvard, joining the Rockefeller Insti' 
tute of Medical Research in 1926. He is 62." 



Commencement Honors Eheiuhere 

COMMENCEMENT honors came to many a son of Brown 
on other campuses than his own. Some received 
honorary degrees, while others performed bacca- 
laureate duties. 

In recognition of his work among students, Stevens 
Institute of Technology conferred the degree of Mechanical 
Engineer on Harry R. Westcott '08. Mr. Westcott, head 
of the firm of Westcott fe? Mapes in New Haven, received 
an engineering degree from Yale and is a member of the 
Board of Managers of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. He has devoted much of his time to student 
advancement, delivering lectures before student bodies in 
many sections of the country. Dr. Harvey N. Davis '01, 
President of Stevens Tech, presented the honorary degree. 

Dr. Edwin C. Broome '97, superintendent of schools of 
Philadelphia, received two honorary degrees last month — 
LL.D. from Juanita College, and Litt.D. from the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. Broome's list of degrees is growing. 
Since graduation he has received his A.M. and honorary 
Doctor of Education from Brown; a Ph.D. from Columbia, 
as well as the Columbia University Medal for distinguished 



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service in education: a Litt.D. from Rhode Island College 
of Education; and LL.D. from Ursinus College. 

Joseph L. Wheeler '06, librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free 
Library, Baltimore, Md., had the honorary degree of Doc 
tor of Letters conferred upon him by the University of 
Maryland at the Commencement exercises at College Park, 
June 2. Another honor given him recently was that of the 
Art and Literature Award of the Advertising Club of 
Baltimore. The Club each year makes awards to three 
individuals who have made the most significant contribu- 
tions to the progress of Baltimore during the preceding 
year. The citation for Wheeler spoke of his exceptional 
work as librarian and said that at the library in 1933 "every 
taste seemed to have been catered to, every desire seemed to 
have been met." 

Professor Herbert E. Walter of the Department of Biol- 
ogy had the honorary degree of Sc.D. conferred upon him at 
the 134th annual Commencement of Middlebury College, 
June 11. Dr. Walter is a native of Vermont. 

Dr. Henry B. Van Hoesen, librarian of the University 
and Professor of Bibliography, received the honorary de- 
gree of Doctor of Letters from his Alma Mater, Hobart 
College, at the 109th annual Commencement, June 1 1 . The 
degree was conferred "in recognition of distinguished serv- 
ice to all scholars and book lovers." 

Dr. Mary E. Woolley, Pembroke College '94, President 
of Mount Holyoke College, received an honorary L.H.D. 
when she returned to Wheaton College for a reunion. 



Bacca]aureate Counsellors 

REJOICING in one of the most significant phenomena of 
. the day," the deep and eager interest of students in 
anti-war activities, President Barbour of Brown delivered 
the baccalaureate sermon at the 102 nd commencement exer- 
cises of New York University. "Have we not learned the 
lesson of the World War?" he asked. "Are we at the mercy 
of the munitions makers of the world?" 

George Channing '11, who represents the Christian Sci- 
ence Committee on Publication for Northern California, 
gave the baccalaureate address before the Class of 1934 of 
the University of California at Berkeley, May 13. His sub- 
ject was "The Deciding Word." 

Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow, Director of Admissions, gave the 
graduation address at Carteret Academy, Orange, N. J., 
June 14. His subject was "The Educated Youth in 1934." 

Rev. M. Joseph Twomey, D.D., '00, pastor of the Baptist 
Temple, Philadelphia, gave the baccalaureate address at the 
68th Commencement of Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J., 
last month. 

Rev. Harry S. McCready '00, pastor of the Kingston 
Congregational Church, preached the baccalaureate sermon 
at Rhode Island State College, June 10, his subject being, 
"How to Fail." Failure is inevitable, he told the graduating 
class, but he said that it would bring experience, and cour- 
age to keep going if one faced the fact of failure without 
equivocation or subterfuge. 

William H. Edwards '19 gave the address at the Com- 
mencement of Providence Country Day School last month. 
One of his auditors was Governor Theodore Francis Green 
'87, who was present to see his nephew, Ellis Jackson Green, 
receive a diploma and the prize for the highest scholar- 
ship record in his class. 



Rev. Herbert E. McCombie, '21, pastor of the Elmwood 
Baptist Church, Providence, gave the address before the 
Senior Class and other members of the student body of East 
Greenwich Academy last month. The address marked the 
beginning of the 132nd Commencement program of the 
Academy, which in other years has sent many students to 
Brown. 

Judge Ira Lloyd Letts '13 gave the address at the graduat- 
ing exercises of the Providence Central High School, June 
18. The class was the largest ever to go out from a Rhode 
Island high school, 623 boys and girls receiving diplomas. 



The Youngest College President 

PROFESSOR Gordon K. Chalmers '25, former Rhodes 
Scholar and since 1929 member of the English Depart- 
ment of Mount Holyoke College, takes a modest bow 
as the youngest college president of the United States. 

That is, he was the youngest when he was elected presi- 
dent of Rockford College, Rockford, 111., last month. Born 
ni Waukesha, Wis., Feb. 7, 1904, he is therefore approach- 
ing his 31st birthday as he prepares to take the chair at 
Rockford, which is the oldest college for women in the 
Middle West and which has been without a president since 
the death of Dr. William A. Maddox last fall. 

Chalmers is the son of the late Dr. William E. Chalmers 
'93, for many years educational secretary of the American 
Baptist Publication Society. As an undergraduate at Brown 
he was a debater, president of the Brown Christian Associa- 
tion, winner of several prises for scholastic e.xcellence, mem- 
ber of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, the honorary de- 
bating society, Cammarian Club, and Phi Delta Theta. 

When he was graduated he thought that he might go into 
the ministry. After a year as secretary of the Student 
Y.M.C.A., University of Denver, he was chosen Rhodes 
Scholar from Rhode Island, and that choice determined his 
career. At Oxford, where he was a student at Wadham 
College, he majored in English and won his B.A. in 1928. 
He also won a wife, as Mrs. Chalmers, the former Roberta 
Teale Swartz of Harrisburg, Pa., was studying at Oxford 
when she met Chalmers. They were married Sept. 3, 1929. 
They have been teaching English together at Mount Hol- 
yoke, and Mrs. Chalmers will become Assistant Professor 
of English at Rockford. She is a poet in her own right. 

Chalmers took his doctor's degree at Harvard in June, 
1933, the subject of his thesis being "Sir Thomas Browne's 
Thought and Its Relation to Contemporary Ideas." 



Results of Alumni Balloting 

THE election of four new alumni trustees was announced 
at Commencement. They will serve for the term ending 
1 940, having been chosen by ballot of all holders of Brown 
degrees. The new trustees are: Henry G. Clark '07, Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Electric Protective Company, 
Providence; Dr. Charles C. Tillinghast '06, headmaster of 
Horace Mann School, New York; Dennis F. O'Brien '98, 
lawyer and former president of the New York Brown Club; 
and Frank E. Winsor '91, chief engineer of the Metropoli- 
tan Water Supply Commission of Massachusetts. 

At the same time it was announced that Byron S. Watson 
'97 had been elected to succeed Victor A. Schwartz '07 on 
the Athletic Council for a two-year term. 



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Brunonia Plays the Game 



lacrosse; Maury J. Caito of Providence, football and base- 
ball; and Ray Chace of Providence, hockey and tennis. 
Chace, incidentally, held three captaincies. 



From the Days of Giants 



A Good record in spring sports enabled the Brown Bear 
to star the year 193. VI 93 4 as one of the best in the 
decade. With competition by 23 teams considered 
in the reckoning, there were 99 victories, 91 defeats, and 
five tie games. Leading the list was the unbeaten Freshmen 
track team, followed by the Varsity tennis-men and both 
hockev sextets ^^-r^^ 

Here is thecomplete ledger, thanks to Joe Nutter '24, B'c^ckr ' ^°' '"^^^'^ g^'"'^ ^ ^■'"^""Tenney and Wood- 

Brown sports statistician and historian. -ru r ' i- ,- ,^ , ,, ■ , 

_ i ne tamihar cry of 40 years ago thnlled the crowd at the 

annual Memorial Day meeting between Harvard and 

"^" Brown this year, and Fred Tenney walked to the pitcher's 

1 box while Fred Woodcock donned the catcher's mit. And 

the famous battery of 1891 proceeded to enliven the day 

for the young fry who have followed them on Brown 

diamonds. 

The ceremonial return of the two notables was part of an 

idea that came to Prof. Frederick W. Marvel after his 

"Memories of 44 Years at Brown" had appeared in the 

Evening Bulletin. Both old-timers (Tenney was celebrating 

'^~' his 40th reunion, while Woodcock's class was 1891) are 

— left-handers, and it has often been said that they comprised 

1 the only first-class college southpaw battery in the game's 

histor>'. Both coached at Brown and had brilliant major 

Tied league records after their college days. 

Y ***** 



Football 

Soccer 

Hockey 

Basketball 

Wrestling 

Swimming 

Fencing 

Track 

Lacrosse 

Baseball 

Tennis 

Golf 

Total 



Football 

Soccer 

Basketball 

Wrestling 

Hockey 

Swimming 

Track 

Baseball 

Tennis 

Fencing 

Lacrosse 



VARSITY 




Won 


Lost 


3 


5 


3 


2 


8 


3 


7 


9 


1 


8 


3 


3 


3 


2 


3 


3 


4 


4 


11 


7 


9 


2 


6 


8 


61 


56 


FRESHMEN 

Won 


Lost 


1 


3 


1 


2 


6 


8 


3 


4 


4 


I 


6 


3 


8 





2 


5 


3 


2 


4 


3 





3 



Total 38 34 4 

The record of contests won, lost and tied for the past seven 



years: 

1927-28 
1928-29 
1929-30 
1930-31 
1931-32 
1932-33 
1933-34 



Total 


Won 


Lost 


179 


91 


80 


201 


84 


113 


213 


101 


103 


216 


100 


108 


195 


87 


100 


181 


85 


76 


195 


99 


91 



Tied 

8 
4 
9 
8 
8 
6 
5 



Referring again to the eight victories of the Freshmen 
track contingent. Nutter speaks of the following outstand- 
ing achievements of the athletic year on the Hill : 

"Varsity swimming team won the New England Inter- 
collegiate championships and the freshmen swimming relay 
team won and established a new record in the Intercollegiate 
meet at Rutgers; the varsity baseball's brilliant victories over 
Yale, twice; Harvard and Holy Cross; the varsity basket- 
ball's team's victory over Rhode Island State College in one 
of the season's major upsets; the victory over Springfield in 
soccer; the great record of the varsity tennis team and both 
hockey teams and the fine shovi-ing of the two fencing teams 
in their initial venture into intercollegiate competition." 

Fifty-eight wearers of the "B" were among those who 
received diplomas with this June's graduating class. Six of 
them had won six letters apiece: Laurence C. Brown of 
Lancaster, Mass., football and track; Joe E. Buonanno of 
Providence, football and track; Ed Tracy of Boston, hockey 
and baseball; James P. Patton of Hughesdale, football and 



Diamond Finale 

A Second triumph over Yale and a gallant attempt to re- 
peat an earlier victor>' over Holy Cross brought to a 
close a season that showed that baseball at Brown is on the 
up-grade after a drear>' stretch of several years. The team 
won 1 1 out of its 18 engagements. 

Bert Humphries ended his undergraduate career bril- 
liantly in holding Yale to four hits on June 13. They all 
came in the first three innings when errors aided in allowing 
a run an inning. But the Eli batters could do nothing there- 
after, 10 striking out. Brunonian batters came to the rescue 
in the third when Slader's homer was a feature of the five- 
run rally. In all the Brown men got 16 hits, Slader getting 
four of them, and Butler and Caito three apiece. The final 
score was: Brown ^), Yale 3. 

The Bear ended its year with a 4-3 defeat at the hands of 
Holy Cross when two late rallies fell just short. Even so, it 
was one of the best exhibitions of baseball Aldrich Field 
had seen in several seasons, it seemed to some spectators. 
Two smart double plays aided the Brown cause, but the 
stor>' is told in her inability to hit in the pinches, seven men 
being left on base to one Crusader. 

T* T" *I* •!* •!* 

Captain and Major Leaguers 

GREGORY A. Sl.^der of Sunnyside, N. Y., has been 
elected captain of the 1935 ball team. One of two 
Juniors on this year's nine, he has played right field for the 
most part, but has seen service as pitcher and second base- 
man as well in his two years on the Varsity. He is an An- 
dover graduate, holds a transport pilot's air license, and 
plays Varsity football. Home runs against Harvard and 
Yale were samples of his hard hitting. Nine of the 1 3 letter 
men from this year will be back for "Charley's" squad next 
year, Captain Fowler, Humphries, Tracy, and Caito grad- 
uating. 



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Hal Fowler, one of Brown's best catchers, has signed a 
contract with the Boston Braves, who outbid three other 
major league clubs for his services. Fowler, who came from 
Houlton, Me., was once hurt so badly in a schoolboy football 
game that his arm was paralysed, but he brought it back to 
strength four or five years ago. 

Bert Humphnes of Metuchen, N. J., Fowler's battery- 
mate, will also have a chance at the big leagues, having 
signed with the New York Yankees and preparing for a try- 
out summer with Norfolk. After a brilliant Sophomore 
year, he had trouble getting his arm in shape a year ago, but 
won eight of 1 1 starts this year, including two against Yale. 



At Norfolk he will be on the same pitching staff with his 
cousin, also named Bert Humphries. He plans eventually to 
enter the Presbyterian ministry. 



Bill Dear, Brown's Sophomore star, reached the quarter- 
finals of the National Intercollegiate golf tourney in Cleve- 
land late in June. He was the only eastern collegian to 
survive to the last eight. 

Ray Chace and Bob Eddy reached the third round of the 
National Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament. 



Chiefly Concerning the Campus 



Feeding the Greeks 

FR.^TERNITIES at Brov^'n, contrary to a previous doubt 
expressed by the Administration, will be permitted to 
operate dining rooms. Stricter supervision of them is 
assured, however, in the following notice given by Dean 
Samuel T. Arnold to the chapter presidents : 

"The administrative oflicers of the University have been 
giving a good deal of thought, during the past few weeks 
and months, to the matter of fraternity dining rooms. It 
seems to me only fair that you and the members of your 
chapter should know our plans for the year 1934-3?. I 
wish, therefore, to inform you officially that the University 
will permit your chapter to operate a dining room during 
the coming year if you wish to do so, providing the condi- 
tions of the dining room and of the kitchen are at all times 
satisfactory to the members of your own alumni group and 
to the members of the administration. We request that you 
ask all of your paid employees, who handle food, to present 
themselves, at the beginning of each semester, at the Food 
Handlers' Clinic of the Charles V. Chapin Hospital. (This 
regulation does not apply to students.)" 



Robert E. Lee Apologized 

A Letter written nearly a century ago by General 
Robert E. Lee and lost for years in Little Rock, 
Arkansas, has been found and a photostatic copy placed on 
exhibition for the first time at Brown University last month. 

The newly discovered letter by the Confederate General 
is now the property of Melville F. Riley, Jr., of Hagers- 
town, Maryland, a senior at Brown University. The letter 
was found by Riley's mother among the papers of his 
grandfather, the late Fay Hempstead of Little Rock, who 
was the third poet laureate of Freemasonry. Ancestors of 
the family fought for the South in the Civil War under 
General Lee. 

Written while Lee was 32 years old and stationed as a 
captain in St. Louis, July 19, 1839, the letter is addressed 
to Riley's great-great aunt. Miss Ninet Giatiot, then in her 
early 'teens. Approximately 3 50 words in length, the manu- 
script is an interesting and valuable item for the additional 
light it sheds upon Lee's informal correspondence. Lee was 
a close friend of the Giatiot family. 

From the text of the letter, it is apparent that Lee was 
withdrawing an earlier invitation asking Miss Ninet to 
accompany him by steamer on a visit to her relatives at 



St. Peters, near St. Louis. He explained that "the necessary 
attention to my business" would make the trip impossible. 

"This I the more regret as it not only deprives me of the 
pleasure of again seeing you and other friends," Lee con- 
tinued, "but may prevent you from an excursion that would 
prove both agreeable and entertaining. You must however 
console yourself by the reflection that you will escape being 
bored by my attendance ..." 

The remainder of the letter mentions that Lee would 
send her a riding hat and whip, "reputed to be of the latest 
fashion and most distingue style." Apparently Miss Ninet 
was popular among the fashionable young men of St. Louis, 
for Lee added that since she had not visited the city recently, 
he had been "nearly lynched for not bringing you by force." 



The War Against War 

AN anti-war program calling for immediate adherence 
to the covenant of the League of Nations, national- 
ization and international control of the manufacture and 
sale of armaments, and severance of commercial relations 
with belligerent nations, has been approved by a majority 
of more than 10,000 students voting in the nation-wide 
poll sponsored by the Brown Daily Herald, according to an 
announcement from Harold Seidman, managing editor. 
Students in 33 colleges and universities participated in the 
referendum. 

A copy of the results of the "program for peace," to- 
gether with a plea for immediate action, were forwarded to 
President Roosevelt, Vice-President Garner, Secretary 
Hull, Senators Nye and Borah, and Speaker Rainey. 

Seidman stated : "If the United States government does 
nothing more than it has to date to stave off the impending 
catastrophe, it cannot and should not expect the co-opera- 
tion of youth in any way that might arise from its negli- 
gence." 

The following 3 3 colleges and universities participated in 
the poll: Alma, Battle Creek, Bennington, Boone, Brown, 
Carleton, Coe, Colby, Colorado, Davis and Elkins, Gouch- 
er. Grove City, Hartwick, Haverford, Hollins, Illinois, 
James Milliken, KalamaOTo, Keuka, La Salle, Middlebury, 
Oregon, Penn State, Rhode Island State, Rochester, Seth 
Low, Southern California, Springfield, St. Bonaventure, 
Vermont, Wagner, Western Union, and Williams. 



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The Herald's Tsjew Editors 
Amos Landman of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been chosen 
editor-in-chief of the Broivn Daily Herald for 1934-1935, 
succeeding WiUiam B. Flack, while Alfred H. Joslin of 
Providence will be managing editor. Other elections in- 
clude: Irving S. Canner of Brookline, Mass., sports editor; 
Alvin I. Goldfarb of Flushing, N. Y., news editor; James 
O. Saunders, Yonkers, N. Y., competition manager; and 
William A. Bree, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., literary 
editor. 



The Soc\ and Bus\in Curtain 

Prof. Robert McB. Mitchell of the Department of 
Germanic Languages and Literatures was made an hon- 
orar>' member of Sock and Buskin at the annual banquet of 
the dramatic society. Governor Theodore Francis Green '87 
and Dr. W. Louis Chapman of the University Visiting 
Committee in Music were the speakers of the evening, the 
former recalling his undergraduate association with "Ham- 
mer and Tongs," predecessor to the present organization. 
***** 

Five alumni were included in the list of members elected 
to the Brown Chapter of Sigma Xi this year: Dr. Robert 
Reed Baldridge, Dr. Edward Fletcher Barrows, Dr. Herman 
Albert Law.son, Dr. Arthur H Ruggles, and Harold Scott 
Sizer. 

:{: * :{: :^ * 

In view of the increased interest in the Student Lending 
Library of Art, the Committee in charge of the Commu- 
nity Art Project has authorized the purchase of 50 addi- 
tional pictures to be available at the beginning of the next 
academic year. 

Brown men contended that collegians abhor college 
women, the while Pembroke debaters insisted that college 
men prefer college women. It was all part of a hilarious 
debate on the subject between the Brown and Pembroke 
varsities, and the young ladies won! 

Brown was host to the annual meeting of the Intercolle- 
giate Debating League this spring. The final standing of 
the league showed the Brunonians placed well toward the 
top, despite early season defeats. 



Yale Christian Association representatives were guests 
of the B. C. A. at a week-end conference held at the Brown 
Outing Reservation in Greenville. 



The Appleton Club 

THE John Howard Appleton Club's annual dinner, 
which has become one of the informal features of the 
Brown University Commencement program within the last 
few years, was held at the Wannamoisett Country Club. 

Among the 50 persons present, including members of the 
department's staff of instruction and persons interested in 
its work, were those about to receive degrees in chemistry. 
Thomas H. Roberts '1 3 of Edgewood was toastmaster. 

The speakers included Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, presi- 
dent of Brown; Dean Samuel T. Arnold and Prof. Charles 
A. Kraus. 



A Shortage of Engineers 

IS Engineering Overcrowded?" was the title of an ar- 
ticle in the May number of the Stevens Indicator by 
President Harvey N. Davis '01. Answering his question 
with an emphatic "No!" President Davis said that "for 
those who are up to it, an engineering training assuredly 
offers boundless opportunities, both for rewarding careers 
in the profession itself, and for constructive leadership in 
almost every other field of modern life." He believes that 
"by 1938, perhaps even by 1936, industry will be facing the 
worst shortage of technically trained men it has ever known, 
and this for all classes and levels of technical ability from 
coppersmiths, sheet metal v^'orkers, machinists and steam 
shovel operators to research men with doctors' degrees. 



Engineering Prize-Vi/inners 

HERBERT L. Anderson and Everett L. Angell, winners 
of the Sc.B. in engineering in 1933, were awarded 
first prize for their paper on their investigations in the con- 
struction and operation of mercury switches at the 1934 
student meeting of the North Eastern District of the Amer- 
ican Institute of Electrical Engineers in Worcester, Mass. 
Messrs. Anderson and Angell first gave the paper at the 
meeting in Schenectady, N. Y., in May, 1933. The judges 
decided that the paper was one of the best three out of 
thirteen. According to the rules the final decision as to 
merit is delayed for one year. So this year the first prize 
was given the Brown men, who have reason to be proud of 
their achievement. Messrs. Anderson and Angell special- 
ized in electrical courses on the Hill. 




HARVET N. DAV'JS OJ 
The PTcsidcrit of Stftjois predicts a shortage 



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Of Brown and Brown Men 



An Addnion to the Facidty 

DR. Robert Pierce Casey of the University of Gin' 
cinnati, one of the foremost scholars in his field, 
will come to Brown next fall to become chairman of 
the Department of Biblical Literature. He will succeed Pro- 
fessor Millar Burrows, who goes to Yale next year to be 
Winkler Professor of Biblical Theory after nine years' 
association with Brown. 

Widely known for his writings. Dr. Casey is a member 
of the Medieval Academy and the Society of Biblical Lit- 
erature. He has held important fellowships for study in this 
country and abroad. 

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Divinity 
School, he received a Sheldon Fellowship that permitted 
two years' study at Cambridge University, where he earned 
his Ph.D. as a Scholar of Jesus College. 

Dr. Casey was appointed Research Fellow in Greek 
Palaeography in the Department of Classics of the Univer- 
sity of Cincinnati in 1922. Since 1926 he has been Professor 
of the History and Philosophy of Religions in that institu- 
tion. During the academic years 1926-27 and 1927-28, 
Dr. Casey was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow for work 
in Greek and Oriental manuscripts. 

Dr. Casey is co-editor, with Professor Hans Leitsmann 
of the University of Berlin, in an edition of the works of 
Athanasius of Alexandria for the Patristic Commission of 
the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor, with 
Professor F. C. Burkitt of the University of Cambridge, in 
an edition of the anti-Manichean works of Titus of Bostra, 
also for the Patristic Commission of the Prussian Academy 
of Sciences. 

Dr. Casey recently published "Serapion of Thmuis 
'Against the Manichees,' " as Volume XII of the Harvard 
Theological Studies. He has published several articles here 
and in Germany and has two books in press : "Clement of 
Alexandria, Excerpta ex Theodoto," studies and documents. 
Volume I, and "Fine Athanusius dem Grossen Zugeschrie- 
bene De Verginitate." 



"B 



"Could Pass for a Film Star" 

ANKERS on the whole are pictured as presentable men, 
but few persons expect a banker with the appearance of 
a film star. Yet W. Randolph Burgess '12, Deputy Gov- 
ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, could 
probably get a job as a leading man any time if he cared for 
it," according to Talbot Lake, whose column "Profiles for 
Today," has a wide newspaper syndication. He continues: 

"He stands more than six feet tall, and has the kind of 
dark, curly hair the girls wish they had. His features are 
regular, with nothing wrong anywhere. Besides that, he is 
slim and always in the pink of condition. He greets one 
almost shyly, although with poise, and his manner is one of 
reserved strength. 

"Dr. Burgess has arrived at the top of things so unspec- 
tacularly that the general public is not well acquainted with 
him. . . . 

"Dr. Burgess holds conservative views on matters of 
economics, and would have the country work itself out of 
depression as naturally as possible. However, he does not 



criticize the NRA or the Roosevelt policies. He says he 
prefers to let things proceed without 'shots-in-the-arm' for 
business, but he'd hardly be the person to decry anything 
until it has shown itself useless." 

The A. C. A. P. in Motion 

DEFINITE progress in Rhode Island on behalf of the 
Alumni Co-operative Admissions Program is an- 
nounced by Charles J. Hill '16, chairman of the committee 
which set this plan in motion. A representative has been 
named for each high school and preparatory school in the 
State, and a luncheon meeting for the representatives was 
arranged, Dr. Bigelow, Director of Admissions, among the 
invited. Rhode Island's problem is different from that in 
regions farther from the campus, where the plan holds the 
greatest possibilities for help, Mr. Hill pointed out. 

Ancient and Honorahle's Captaui 

PAUL O. Curtis 'n was named Captain of the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston at a drum- 
head election held last month on Boston Common. There 
was a parade on the same day to commemorate the 296th 
birthday of the company, as well as church services, lunch- 
con and dinner. Curtis, a general agent of the New England 
Mutual Life Insurance Company and a prominent Mason, 
has been active in the Ancients since he joined the company 
in 1916. He was sergeant of artillery in 1917, first sergeant 
of infantry in 1919, second lieutenant in 1921, and first 
lieutenant in 1926. He is also a Captain, Quartermaster 
Corps, O.R.C. 

Beta's Presidential Editor 

DR. Francis W. Shepardson '83, national president of 
Beta Theta Pi, edited "The Beta Theta Pi Catalogue, 
1933," which recently was published. It lists nearly 39,000 
names of members since 1839, and is the tenth of the series. 
It is characterized as "a monumental piece of work repre- 
senting a labor of love on the part of its editor, President 
Francis W. Shepardson, and his associate in the task, Nor- 
man P. Hall, Denison '31." During the first four months of 
1934 Shepardson visited nine States to attend 23 different 
meetings in the interests of Beta Theta Pi. 



Meat from the Extra Rib 

MORE steaks or chops may be cut regularly from the 
average steer, lamb or hog of the future if Brown 
University biologists can discover why some animals are 
born with extra ribs. 

Advanced research into this problem is well under way 
at Brown under the direction of Dr. Paul B. Sawin, who is 
investigating hereditary transmission of an extra or thir- 
teenth rib in rabbits. This odd number of ribs, and occa- 
sionally more, is sometimes found in swine, cattle, and 
other animals. Humans have been known to have an 
extra rib. 

"With increased knowledge of the laws of heredity con- 
trolling such variations, it may be possible to breed cattle 



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regularly with additional ribs and vertebrae," Dr. Sawin 
said. 

"Any variation in the region of the ribs means extra 
steaks or chops, which are the most valuable cuts of meat. 
When the number of carcasses which pass through the 
nation's slaughterhouses annually is taken into considera' 
tion, regular breeding of extra-ribbed animals would be 
of considerable importance to the meat industry." 

Medicine's Pageantry 

FOUR Brown men took part in a Medical Pageant in Bos- 
ton dunng the present semester, all of them students at 
Tufts Medical School. There were two performances, one 
at the Repertory Theatre and the other before the Boston 
Medical Historical Society at the Boston Medical Library. 
The men were William Hood '31, William Murphy '31, 
Joseph Cannon '32 and Fred W. Ripley '32. 

The parts were written by the players. Last month a 
book, in which all parts are given as well as some interest- 
ing and original plates, was published under the title of 
"One Hour of Medical History," Volume IlL Cannon and 
Ripley did a great deal of research for their parts at the 
John Hay library. The pageant will be repeated in the fall 
at the meeting of the American Association of Surgeons in 
Boston. 

Tuna Versus Dic\ Mazet '24 

ADVENTURES aboard the Yacht Thalia, Galapagos-bound, 
have been well reported in the J^ew Tor\ Daily T^ews. 
Fred Fletcher, who is the correspondent aboard, told 
recently about the tuna-fishing. At first he thought it a 
"soft and unsportsmanlike" way of fishing because he saw 
a tuna boat crew take 20,000 pounds of fish from the sea 
in 30 minutes. 

"But I've changed my mind. There's a knack in pulling 
those big fellows from briney; even when the fishermen use 
three and four rods and lines to a single hook, as is their 
practice. 

"Dr. Robert Mazet, Jr., the Thalia's physician and a 
former Brown University football center, scoffed at this 
mob-play technique and declared he'd land a tuna single- 
handed in less time than it took four of us to do so by the 
single-hook method. The medico, a big, strapping fellow, 
caught an 80-pounder that was full of fight and nearly was 
dragged overboard before he landed his tuna." 

:]c He 4c 4: 4£ 

A Keyboard Subsidy 

DR. William L. Dealey, '13, co-inventor with Dr. 
August Dvorak of a simplified typewriter keyboard 
which is said to reduce awkward motions by 85 percent 
and to make learning to typewrite possible in one-third the 
usual time, is still working on the keyboard. To aid in the 
research the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 
of Teaching recently granted a subvention to the Uni- 
versity of Washington, Seattle, where Dealey is teaching. 

For Research in Greece 

Dick Howland '3 1 , now in Greece, where he is studying 
at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, has 
received the Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute in 
Greek Archaeology for continued study at the school next 
year. He has been there this year as Charles Eliot Norton 
Fellow of Harvard. 



Invented a Radio "Corset" 

INVENTOR of apparatus designed to compress and expand 
the width of radio bands, John A. Csepely '21 believes 
his device will improve the tone quality of reception, permit 
more broadcasting stations, and bring television nearer to 
realization. Living at Route 28 and Second Street, Middle- 
sex Borough, N. J., Csepely has been working in secret for 
a year and now has applied for patents. 

The Federal Radio Commission, Csepely points out, has 
restricted broadcast channels to "side bands" 5,000 cycles 
wide. There would be interference with other stations if 
greater freedom were permitted. The limitation, however, 
does cut down on tonal possibilities of music on the air. 
The Brown man's invention will take a band 10,000 cycles 
wide and compress it for broadcast into a 5,000-cycle band, 
while the receiving set can expand it again to the original 
frequency range of 10,000. 

Csepely feels his invention will be especially welcome in 
television, which requires a frequency band at least 100,000 
cycles wide to broadcast an acceptable image. He has suc- 
ceeded, he says, in compressing to a single broadcast channel 
a television program normally requiring 1 3 channels. 

In college Csepely was active in the old Radio Club, 
debating, and Sock and Buskin. After his graduation in 
1921 he took graduate work in physics at Columbia and 
was associated with the Bell System for 1 1 years, starting 
as a tester in the Western Electric Company and later 
becoming a member of the technical staff of the apparatus 
development and research departments. Sydney Wilmot '09 
passed along this item of news to the Alumni Monthly. 



His Law Degree After 44 Years 

FRANCIS H. Brownell '88, chairman of the board of the 
American Smelting & Refining Company, has at last 
received his LL.B. from Columbia University after having 
waited 44 years for it. He was a member of the Class of 
1 890 at Columbia Law School, and while he was a student 
the law course was changed from two to three years. Nearly 
all the members of his class left without getting their de- 
grees, although they had completed the work according to 
the requirements at the time of entrance. President Butler 
conferred the degrees "nunc pro tunc" (now for then) at 
Columbia's Commencement, June 5 . The class had a dinner 
the night before Commencement to celebrate the occasion. 



Understanding Early Americans 

George L. Miner '97 was chairman of the committee 
which arranged the formal opening of the South County 
Museum at Wickford, R. I., on June 2. The Museum, de- 
signed to "encourage the study and better understanding of 
early American life and industry" and to collect, preserve 
and exhibit the tools and the like used by the colonial work- 
ers, has five acres of land and two barns in Wickford well 
suited for its purpose. Albert E. Lownes '20 is president of 
the Museum. 

A Conference at Sea 

Dr. H. W. N. Bennett '97 took part in the Fifth Pan 
American Medical Conference held on shipboard during a 
trip to Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Porto 
Rico this spring. He was one of the speakers in the section 
on Dermatology. 



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Brunonians in the Headlines 



A French Honor for Professor Smith 

As the French Legion of Honor insignia was awarded 
to Professor Horatio Smith, chairman of the Depart' 
. ment of Romance Languages and Literature at 
Brown University, at the University of Delaware on May 
12, recognition was brought to a man whose distinctions in 
military and civil life have gone far in advancing cordial 
relationships between France and the United States. He was 
representing Brown at the Delaware Centennial. 

It is seldom that foreigners are awarded the cross of the 
Legion of Honor, an order established by Napoleon and 
recognised as one of the highest distinctions which can be 
bestowed by the French Government, the Brown publicity 
office says. Only those of high rank and who have contrib- 
uted materially to the progress of modern civilization are 
eligible. 

Professor Smith entered the service of the French Army 
in the Foyer du Soldat in 1918, and earned a distinguished 
record. After the Armistice he was American Educational 
Director of the Foyer service for the entire French Army. 
Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of all American 
personnel of the Foyer. His position was of key importance 
and responsibility. 

Since the war. Professor Smith has been instrumental in 
advancing educational relationships between French and 
American universities through his membership on the Com- 
mittee of the Institute of International Education, an organ- 
isation which arranges the placement of American students 
in French universities for special study. He was largely 
responsible for inaugurating the "Junior Year Abroad" 
plan at Brown University. 

Professor Smith is chief reader and chief examiner in 
French for the College Entrance Examination Board. He is 
a member of the Modern Language Association of America, 
the New England Modern Language Association, the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has taught at 
Yale, Amherst, and the University of California. 

A recognized authority on French literature and lan- 
guage, Professor Smith has written and lectured widely in 
his field. He is now general editor for a series of French 
classics now being published by Charles Scribners and Sons. 
He was a speaker at the meeting of the Advisory Council 
in 1933. 

Moody, Question- As\er 

A Ring of newshawks stood as they stand twice a week 
around President Roosevelt's desk, prodding him with 
questions, hoping for newsmaking answers. Correspondent 
Blair Moody '22 of the Detroit Tvjews asked whether the 
President had any comment to make about accusations 
against the Collector of Internal Revenue for Michigan. 
The President looked blank, asked for details. After hear- 
ing them he frowned, ground out his cigaret, said that if 
such things were true they would have to end immediately. 
Next day agents of the Treasury Department turned up in 
Detroit. TTiree days later Secretary Morgenthau emerged 
from the White House to announce that Collector of In- 
ternal Revenue Horatio Johnson Abbott of Detroit was out 
of Government service." 



Thus did Time introduce the subject of the charges in 
Detroit that political appointees of National Chairman 
Farley had been using tax-collecting credentials to solicit 
funds from vulnerable industries, "selling" postmasterships, 
and otherwise adding to a Michigan patronage scandal that 
quidnuncs had been expecting. Moody's crusading news- 
paper has kept him busy asking questions in Washington 
throughout the revelations. 






Off with the "Tiger Man" 

ARTHUR B. Cle.wes '27, who has been teaching geology 
at Lafayette the past academic year, sailed from New 
York June 23 for the interior of Brazil, where he and 
Alexander Siemel, the "tiger man" made famous by Julian 
Duguid in "Green Hell" and "Tiger Man," will head an 
expedition for adventure as well as for knowledge. 

They will hunt the jaguar, the South American tiger, and 
will also be on the watch for cougar, tapir, deer, wild hogs, 
wolves and snakes. Twenty years' experience in the wilds 
of South America enable Mr. Siemel to guarantee to his 
partner and other members of the expedition the thrill of 
exciting hunts plus a good amount of safety and success. 

Cleaves, who has aided in organizing the party, will be 
the geologist, continuing his study of geological strata which 
has taken him through Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, 
Quebec and East Greenland in recent years. When he and 
Mr. Siemel and their fellow adventurers sailed from New 
York on the Southern Cross they planned to leave the ship 
at Santos, Brazil, go overland by rail to Corumba on the 
Paraguay River, and thence head into the "tiger" country 
on the southeast edge of the Matto Grosso plateau. They 
will return to New York in September. 

Three More Academicians 

PROFESSOR S. Foster D.mvion of the Department of 
English, Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles of the Department of 
Psychology, and Dr. Lawrence C. Wroth, librarian of 
the John Carter Brown Library, have been elected Fellows 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the 
oldest learned societies in the nation. 

With these three new Fellows, Brown University now 
has 18 members of the faculty associated with the Academy, 
according to the university vice-presidents' office, including 
Dean Roland G. D. Richardson of the Graduate School, 
who is a member of the Council. Chief Justice Charles 
Evans Hughes '81 and Governor Theodore Francis Green 
'87 of Rhode Island, both members of the Brown Univer- 
sity Corporation, are among the Fellows of the Academy. 

Organized in 1780 in Boston largely through the efforts 
of John Adams, second President of the United States, the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences was formulated to 
"cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance 
the dignity, honor and happiness of a free, independent and 
virtuous people." Today it has approximately 1,000 dis' 
tinguished Fellows. 

Professor Damon, Dr. Ruggles and Dr. Wroth are rec 
ognized authorities in their respective fields. Professor 
Damon is particularly known for his research and writings 
on William Blake and Amy Lowell, and is curator of the 



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Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at Brown, 
the most complete collection of its kind. Dr. Ruggles is 
president of the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene, 
superintendent of Butler Hospital in Providence, and is 
now conducting research on college mental hygiene. Dr. 
Wroth has wide knowledge of early Americana through his 
work at the John Carter Brown Library, which houses an 
unsurpassed collection of Americana published prior to 
1800. 



Will Be Dean of Lafayette 

THEODORE A. DiSTLER, member of the Class of 1922 for 
a short time, will become dean of Lafayette College next 
September, having been elected to the place to succeed Dr. 
Arthur A. Hauck, who resigned to accept the presidency of 
the University of Maine. Distler took his bachelor and 
master's degrees at New York University, where he has 
been director of admissions and student personnel for five 
years. 



Secretary of the M. A. P. I. 

Paul C. DeWolf '05, Vice President of Brown & Sharpe 
Manufacturing Co., has been re-elected secretary of the 
Machinery and Allied Products Institute. He has been an 
active leader in this group, now a year old, and has taken a 
prominent part in deliberations at Washington and else- 
where concerning the industry's code and other problems. 



One of the "Anthony Advocates" 

TOM Corcoran '22, co-author of the Fletcher-Rayburn 
bill for reforming the country's security-trading and 
investment system, was the subject of a special write-up in 
the Providence Sunday Journal of May 6. The author of the 
article was John C. Henry '27, member of the Washington 
staff of the journal. Tom is legislative counsel of the Recon- 
struction Finance Board in Washington, and is a "member 
of that group of bright young lawyers who have become 
known as the young 'Anthony Advocates.' " 

:1c H: He :{: ^ 

At Floyd Bennett Field 

F. W. Zelcer '20 has become assistant manager of Floyd 
Bennett Field, New York City's airport. Hotel work is his 
vocation, and flying is his great hobby. He has a record of 
1 ,800 hours in the air, the T^ew Tor\ American says, "and 
will manage the affairs of Floyd Bennett Field in excellent 
manner." The job, the American adds, pays no salary. 

Medalist in Zoology 

DR. George E. Coghill '96, who received the honorary 
degree of Sc.D. from Brown at Commencement, was 
recently awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal for pre- 
eminence in zoology. The award of the medal, with an 
honorarium, was made at the 1934 dinner of the National 
Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C. Coghill was 
one of the first graduate students in the Department of 
Biology to earn the Ph.D. degree at Brown. 



Commencement Also Means Reunion 



MEMBERS of 41 Brunonian classes, 
spanning the years at intervals from 
1867 down, seijed 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 1934. 

In addition to the senior reunion of 
"Fifty Plus" venerables, the classes of 1884, 
1909, and 1924 held the center of the stage 
by virtue of respective 50th, 25th, and 10th 
anniversaries. Others, however, had also 
arranged programs ranging from long, elab- 
orate week-ends to simple meals. Classes 
represented in the reunion roster were: 
1867, 1870, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1879, 
1880, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1891, 
1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901, 
1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 
1909. 1910, 1911, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1923, 
1924, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1932, and 1933. 

While many alumni came from the West 
and from overseas, the distinction of jour- 
neying the longest distance seemed to rest 
with Johnny Mayhew '09, the famous ath- 
lete, who had a chance to play a return golf 
match with President Barbour. The first 
took place in China two years ago, and the 
President admitted defeat. 

1874— Rev. Dr. E. W. Babcock of Troy, 
N. Y., and Judge Abel P. Tanner of Mys- 
tic, Conn., returned for Commencement 
and took part in the procession down the 
Hill. Judge Tanner observed his 84th birth- 
day on July 7. 

1876 — Edmund Wood was host to the 
Class at his home in New Bedford, Mass., 



Saturday, June 16. Present were Richard 
H. Tingley, Port Chester, N. Y.. Dr. Henry 
A. Whitmarsh, Dr. Charles V. Chapin, Dr. 
Eugene P. King, and Edward Aborn 
Greene, Providence, and Mr. Wood. Dr. 
George C. Smith of Boston and Porter L. 
Wood of Seymour, Conn., were not able to 
attend. Doesn't six out of eight members 
gathering for the 58th reunion of a class set 
up something of a record? 

1879 — The Class celebrated its 55th an- 
niversary with Maj. William Ely acting as 
host. Judge Willard B. Tanner was elected 
president for the ne.xt two years. Of the 16 
surviving members on the roster, 12 were 
present for the reunion. They were: Ed- 
ward A, Adams, James H. Earle. Alfred U. 
Eddy, William Ely, R. Clinton Fuller, Dr. 
Arthur H. Harrington. Dr. Walter L. 
Munro, Judge Willard B. Tanner and Dr. 
Stephen A. Welch, John J. Greene, Edward 
S. Marsh, and Henry O. Tripp. 

1880 — A dozen members were guests of 
Zechariah Chafee again this year at his 
Taunton farm, among them: Charles R. 
Adams. Henry J. Boyce, John L. Crane, 
William Hale, Fred M. Hammett, William 
H. Lane, James G. Lincoln, George E. 
Perry, Benjamin F. Thurston, and Frank L. 
Tinkham. Guests were Prof. Harry Lyman 
Koopman. librarian emeritus, and Prof. 
Frank E. Seagrave. honorary '11. After the 
Sunday dinner on the farm the men jour- 
neyed to Providence to attend the dedica- 
tion of the memorial room in Faunce House 
and hear Walter F. AngelTs dedicatory 
speech. Both President Faunce and Mr, 
Angell were classmates with them. 



WISE MAX CAME 
FROM THE EAST 



Fifty-Plus — Seven members of the Fifty- 
Plus alumni met Saturday evening, 
June 16, at the Faculty Club and had din- 
ner, and sat and talked after dinner of their 
college days, of the old Brown and the new 
Brown, and of this changing world. Presi- 
dent Barbour came in after supper and 
stayed half an hour, listening with interest 
to the stories told by his hosts. Professor 
Mark Mohler 'II of Skidmore College, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., was also a guest. 
Capt. Martin S. Smith '67 of North Scit- 
uate was the dean of the alumni, and he 
told with fine zest of some of the incidents 
of his days at the front during the Civil 
War. Dr. William T. Peck '70, who was 
valedictorian of his Class and for 50 years 
principal of Classical High School, Provi- 
dence, admitted that he had sent a thou- 
sand men to Brown: and Dr. Wilfred H. 
Munro '70, Professor Emeritus, recounted 




John W. Mayhew '09, athletic stdr of hli college geuerdliou. travelled ftiTtfier than any other flhimnn,^ to 
attend his 25th reiuiion. The ptctnre. ihouMng his family and Mrs, Barbour, ivas ta\en tvJO years ago when 
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some of his experiences as a baseball player 
at Brown in the days before mitts and masks 
and lively baseballs. Rev. Gideon A. Bur- 
gess, D.D., '78, the presiding officer, held 
that the presidency had been thrown into 
his lap, and Col, Henry B. Rose "81, Chief 
Marshal of the Commencement procession 
for 17 years, and a marshal for 42 years, 
commented on baseball and processions, 
past and present. William H. Scott '75 and 
Paul C. Gifford '81 also spoke briefly. Scott 
was a member of the Faculty of Bryant- 
Stratton College for 5 2 years, while Gifford 
is still active as a horticulturist. There was 
regret at the absence of Dr. E. B. Smith '78, 
who had to forego his intention to attend. 



1884— The 50-year class, in which 80 
were graduated and whose living members 
now total 33, mustered 20 members for its 
golden anniversary at the Narragansett 
Hotel. Professor-emeritus Henry B. Gard- 
ner, Dean Otis E. Randall, and Dr. Her- 
mon Carey Bumpus were among those at 
the reunion. Others, among them Class 
President William A. Viall, included: 
Frank Howard Andrews, Albert Allison 
Baker, William Manuel Perez Bowen, Wil- 
liam J. Clones, John Daboll, Henry Hatha- 
way Hammond, Leonidas Raymond Hig- 
gins, James Lawrence Jenks, George Albert 
Loomis, Edward W. Shedd, Theodore F. 
Tillinghast, Edwin C. Gammage, Augustus 
L. Holmes, Dr. George Hayward Nichols, 
and Rev. Charles Russell Upton. 

At 84's own Class Day, George Coleman 
Gow as Class Poet presented a Spanish sub- 
ject in Spenserian verse. At '84's 50th Re- 
union, June 16, 1934, Dr. George Cole- 
man Dow, Professor Emeritus of Music at 
Vassar College, distinguished teacher, au- 
thor, composer, read his Spenserian "Greet- 
ing" as a reminder that '84 still belongs to 
the Victorian age of formal rhyme and 
rhythm. The Brown Alumni Monthly 
has received a copy of Dr. Gow's poem, but 
lack of space forbids its printing. 

1885— Dr. George S. Mathews and Dr. 
Harlan P. Abbott entertained members of 
the class at a dinner at the Sakonnet Golf 
Club after members of the class had gath- 
ered at the home of Dr. Abbott. Besides 
the hosts, those at the dinner were: Charles 
E. Bassett, Frank H. Brown, Ward B. 
Chase, Prescott H. Coleman, Joseph W. 
Freeman, Dr. Charles H. Hare, James M. 
Pendleton, Elmer E. Silver, Judge Arthur 
P. Sumner, Andrew M. Warren, Francis 
W. Greene. 

1886 — A Commencement breakfast at 
the University Club brought together the 
following '86 men: Norman M. Isham, 
Prof. E. B. Delabarre, Clarence H. Man- 
chester, Thomas G. Rees, Clarence E. Bury, 
Rev. John Matteson, Prof. George G, Wil- 
son, Prof. A. K. Potter, Stephen C. Harris, 
and Prof. A. C. Crowell. 

1889 — The Class celebrated its 45th an- 
niversary by attending the Holy Cross game 
and dining at the Squantum Club. Those 
present included Frederick H. Briggs, 
George E. Warren, Appleton P. Williams, 
Frank W. Carpenter, Louis St. Clair Colby, 
Frank A. Smith, D.D., Rev. Charles A. 
Denfeld, Rev. William G. Lathrop, Dr. 
Warren S. Simmons, Judge Arthur Gush- 
ing, George P. Grant, Jr., Edward H. Rath- 
bun, Frank H. Wildes, Judge Nathan M 
Wright, B. S. Blaisdell. 

1891 — The Class, at its reunion dinner 
at Agawam Hunt, East Providence, paid 
tribute to two of its group, who are retir- 



GHOSr HURRAHS 

Editor Brown Alumni Monthly, 
Providence, R. I. 

Dear Sir: — 

As the time is approaching when 
the old grads will be returning to 
their class reunions, it may be of in- 
terest to know what a distinguished 
graduate of Harvard thought of such 
gatherings. Here is an extract from 
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal: 

"I avoid the Stygian anniversaries 
at Cambridge — those hurrahs among 
the ghosts, those yellow, bald, tooth- 
less meetings in memory of red 
cheeks, black hair and departed 
health." 

Faithfully yours, 

Edward S. Marsh, 1879. 
Brandon, Vt. 

(Editor's Note: That Mr. Marsh 
does not share Emerson's views is 
shown by his pleasure in making the 
long trip from Vermont in order to 
attend his class's 5 5th reunion.) 



ing from the University faculty. Prof. Al- 
bert B. Johnson, Romance languages, and 
Prof. Albert deForest Palmer, physics. Pro- 
fessor Johnson has been a member of the 
faculty for 42 years and Prof. Palmer for 
41 years. They were guests of their class- 
mates at the dinner. 

Dr. James L. Wheaton of Pawtucket, 
president of the class, presided, and the 
presentations of the resolutions were made 
by Edward B. Birge. William H. Paine 
read a poem in honor of the guests, and a 
letter and poem from Abram Mendenhall 
of Chicago, who could not be present, was 
read. 

Class members present were: Edwin A. 
Barrows, Dr. Arthur L. Beals, Edward A. 
Birge, Dr. Augustus W. Calder, Arthur H. 
Colby, Martin S. Fanning, Frank L. Hinck- 
ley, George J. Holden, Frank D. Lisle, 
William Ff. Paine, Dr. James L. Wheaton, 
George Walker, Frank E. Winsor, T. F. L 
McDonnell. 

1893 — Members of the Class were guests 
of their president, Edward B. Aldrich, at 
their annual reunion at the Warwick Coun- 
try Club, Warwick Neck. Thirty members 
and guests attended. United States Com- 
missioner Archibald C. Matteson was toast- 
master, and various members of the class 
and guests gave brief addresses. 

Those present included Prof. Wilfred H. 
Munro '70, William J. Brown, J. D. E. 
Jones, Dr. F. J. Sexton, George W. Perkins, 
Fred Tenney '94, Dr. William H. Magill, 
Frederick W. Jones '96, Walter E. Smith, 
Thomas P. Corcoran, Edgar M. Johnson, 
Associate Justice John W. Sweeney of the 
State Supreme Court '91, Edward N. Rob- 
inson '96. Dean Otis E. Randall '84, John 
L. Casey, Orin P. Durkee, Herbert G. 
Beede, Robert Cushman, Martin S. Fan- 
ning '91, Robert M. Brown, Henry W. B. 
Arnold, Walter S. Reynolds, Edwin A. 
Burlingame, Frank E. Smith, Leonard D. 
Rowell, Frederick N. Beede '23, Arthur W. 
Rowell, Edward H. Weeks, Edward B. 
Aldrich and Archibald C. Matteson. 

J. D. E. Jones was host to the class at the 
annual Commencement breakfast at the 
Hope Club. Most of the above were pres- 



ent, and also Edward B. Dolan '93, J. D. E. 
Jones, Jr., '23, Harvey S. Reynolds '23, 
and Ronald B. Smith '23. 

1894 — Forty members enjoyed a lunch- 
eon and informal afternoon at the Kingston 
Inn, Kingston. A dinner at the Squantum 
Club was held in the evening. 

Daniel F. George of Providence, a mem- 
ber of the reunion committee, reported that 
Clayton S. Cooper of Miami Beach, Fla., 
and John Hope of Atlanta, Ga., had come 
farthest. 

Other graduates present included Charles 
S. Aldrich, Walter D. Brownell, Prof. 
Thomas Crosby, Jr., Harold C. Field, 
George W. Gardner, Clifford H. Griffin, 
Joseph W. Lewis, Joseph B. Mclntyre, 
Prof. Fred W. Marvel of the reunion com- 
mittee, and E. Bruce Merriman, chairman; 
Harold T. Merriman, William W. Moss, 
David B. Pike and Henry D. Sharpe, Wil- 
liam C. Bourne, Joseph B. O'Neil, James S. 
Moore, Herbert D. Casey, Fred W. Col- 
burn, Eugene E. Everett, William W. Har- 
vey, Johnson W. Hill, Frederick Tenney, 
George M. Crowell, William T. Dorrance, 
George S. Ellis, Adolph C. Ely, Jay S. Fox, 
Samuel M. Higgins, William C. Hill, F. E. 
Lakey, Benjamin E. Martin, Charles S. 
Nightingale, Willard S. Richardson, Louis 
Roux, Morton C. Stewart and Howard E. 
.Sumner. 

1896 -The class of 1896, "the best rep- 
resented of any Brown class on the Rhode 
Island bench," according to the Providence 
Journal, held an informal dinner and re- 
union at the Biltmore Hotel in Providence 
on Sunday night. The men attending were: 
Supreme Court Justices John S. Murdock 
and Elmer J. Rathbun, Superior Court Jus- 
tice, G- Frederick Frost, District Court 
Judges Everett L. Walling and Charles R. 
Easton, Mayor Frederick A. Jones, Prof. 
Allan B. Bicknell of Bridgewater, Va., Dr. 
Charles F. Deacon, Dr. Herbert B. Lang, 
Dr. George A. Matteson of San Antonio, 
Tex., Dr. Robert S. Phillips, James H. Rick- 
ard, Allison Stone, William A. McAuslan, 
Prof. George E. Coghill, and Prof. William 
H. Kenerson. 

1897— Byron S. Watson, M. Hollis Ar- 
nold and George L. Miner dined together at 
Agawam Hunt. 

1899 — Celebrating the class's 3 5th re- 
union, graduates of '99 gathered at The 
Breakers, Narragansett. 

One of the most welcomed graduates was 
Albert E. Sockalexis Dunn, a rancher from 
Eraser, Mont., who travelled East for the 
reunion, his first trip here in 35 years. 
Fresh from the stricken drought area in the 
West, Mr. Dunn was thrilled to see signs of 
rain at the Pier late Friday afternoon. 

Also welcomed was Charles Henry Smith 
of Boulder, Col., librarian at the University 
of Colorado. Others who signed the regis- 
ter were James G. Harris, chairman of the 
reunion committee; Wallace R. Lane of 
Chicago, class president; G. C. Hathaway, 
Luther W. Simonds, Lawrence H. Chace, 
Ralph C. Estes, John A. Clough, George W. 
Sutcliffe, Charles B. Dana, Charles L Gates, 
Raymer B. Weeden, Charles H. Dow, Alex- 
ander A. Grier, Dr. Charles O. Cooke, Dr. 
Harry W. Hopkins, Joseph J. McCaffrey, 
John M. Glen, Benjamin W. Grim, Dr. 
N. H. Gifford, W. P. Comstock, C. S. 
Brigham, Charles C. Remington, Russell 
W. Baker, Oliver P. Hussey, E. A. Stock- 
well, Antonio Mangano, Irving O. Hunt, 
William E. Farnham, Charles A. Hull, 
W. W. Wyckoff, Judge Charles A. Walsh, 



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F. A. Vose, Louis R. Holmes, Alonzo R. 
Williams, Francis S. Cole, Frank E. Rich- 
mond, W. J. Duffy, Jr., Howard H. Wilkin- 
son, Harold Cooke, Herbert Brigham, 
Owen F. Gallagher, H. R. Smart, L. W. 
Boardman, Revere W. Kent, Dr. Karl A. 
Percy, George S. Beal, Charles W. Low, 
Paul H. Burns. 

1900 — Attending the breakfast at the 
University Club were: Clinton C. White, 
Prof. Charles W. Brown, Charles G. Rich- 
ardson, Melvin C. Johnson, Dr. Robert C. 
Robinson, Dr. Herbert H. Armington, 
Charles P. Roundy, J. L. Hood, Norman A. 
Moss, Roscoe M. De.xter. Waldo G. Leland, 
L. M. Patton. Harold S. Capron, George 

E. Marble, and Benjamin O. Pillsbury. 
1901 — The breakfast at the University 

Club served as reunion for: Henry C. Hart, 
Dr. A. L. Midgeley, E. Tudor Gross, Wil- 
liam C. Johnson, Edward B. Lederer, Wil- 
liam H. Hull. Elmer S. Chace, Ernest G. 
Hapgood, Col. George A. Taylor, Roy L. 
Smith, Donald LeStage, Dr. Harry A. 
Chase. 

1902 — Eighteen had a reunion at Medi- 
cine Lodge, Carr Pond: A. E. Pinkham, 
Charles A. R. Ray, E. K. Aldrich, William 
Penn Bates, J. Palmer Barstow, G. Edward 
Buxton, J. C Bullock, Dr. H. G. Calder, 
Robert Gee, Dr. J. W. Leech, A. E. Munro, 
A. K. Potter, Robert O. Smith, Henry Salo- 
mon, F. W. Tillinghast, Warren Wilmarth 
and Roland Wilson. 

1903 — Ten members assembled at Pausa- 
caco Lodge, North Kingstown: Louis F. 
Baker. Richard W. Blanding, John Hutch- 
ins Cady, S. Howard Easton, Percy W. 
Gardner, Prof. Howard B. Grose, Prof, 
William T. Hastings, Fred A. Otis, Arthur 
L. Philbrick and Dr. WiUiam O. Rice. 

1904 — Members of the class of 1904 as- 
sembled for their 30th reunion at Green 
Inn, Narragansett, for sociability, sports, 
and a sail up the bay. 

The returning graduates included Ever- 
ard Appleton, E. K. Arnold, Dr. Bertram 
Buxton, A. B. Cole, Foster Davis, John 
Heckman, C. H. Hobson, George Humph- 
ries, who came from Cleveland, S. Foster 
Hunt, Dr. James McCann, A. W. Milliken, 
Elisha Mowry, H. N. Otis, Wilbur Rey- 
nolds, L. Earle Rowe, G. Lawton Fletcher, 
A. H. Stanton. B. P. Raymond, Samuel E. 
Lincoln, N. P. Hutchison, Rev. R. N. 
Jessup, Ralph Mason, Ralph Bevan, C. V. 
Dean, F. C. Jones, Asa L. Briggs, and C. A. 
Slade. 

1905— The Class of 1905 held its re- 
union in the To Kalon Club, Pawtucket, 
following an automobile trip to South Coun- 
ty in the afternoon to visit the Boy Scout 
camp. Those present included Paul C. De- 
Wolf, class president; Charles Z. Alexan- 
der, W. Howard Barney, acting chairman 
of the committee in charge: Ralph Kettner, 

F. G. Howard, Thomas McA. Webb, Wil- 
liam A. Spicer, John C. Mahoney, Herbert 
Wells, William G. Meader, Judge Leonidas 
Pouliot, Charles L. Robinson, John S. 
Palmer, F. E. Hawkins, Arthur C. May, 
E. S. Goodwin, Dr. Theodore Hascall. 

1906 — Those who attended the reunion 
at the Brown Outing Reservation were: 
Albert W. Claflin, Elmer Nickerson. Eliot 

G. Parkhurst, Emery M. Porter, Ayles- 
worth Brown, Dr. Prescott T. Hill, William 
A. Kennedy, Dr. Peter P. Chase, A. Brint- 
nall Tingley, Robert F. Field, Wesley F. 
Morse, Rev. W. Douglas Swaffield, Charles 
C. Tillinghast, William T. LeValley, Rob- 



ert R. Wetherell, Walter A. Briggs, Arthur 
C. King. 

1907 — Twelve members of the Class 
gathered at the Agawam Hunt for their 
reunion dinner. Those in the group were: 
George Hurley, president of the class; J. C. 
Knowles, Leonard S. Little, Alfred H. 
Gurney, M. L. Streeter, R. F. Brooks, Jr., 
Dr. Frank A. Cummings, V. A. Schwartz, 
Harold E. Miller, Claude R. Branch, Robert 
B. Jones and M. H. S. AfHeck. 

1908 — The Class held a reunion dinner 
at the Rhode Island Country Club with the 
following members attending: 

Former Governor Norman S. Case, Prof. 
James A. Hall, Norman L. Sammis, How- 
ard S. Young and William R. Walker, 
Hunter S. Marston, Paul L. Chipman, 
James L. Murray, J. Donald Pryor, Rev. 
Albert C. Thomas, John B. McKenzie, and 
Nathan Sternsher. 

1909— The Class of 1909's Twenty-fifth 
Reunion under the Chairmanship of Herb 
Sherwood was a great success. The Class 
turned out in full force at the Carlton Ho- 
tel, Narragansett Pier. The hotel, as was 
the case five years ago, proved acceptable in 
all respects. The weather-man furnished 
the finest brand in his stock and tennis, 
golf, horse-shoe pitching, and swimming 
was the order of the day. On Commence- 
ment the Class moved up to the campus 
and furnished the greatest number in the 
parade of any of the Reunion Classes. It 
was particularly enjoyable to see again 
some of our old friends in the Class who 
have not been able to get back in previous 
years. 

There were seventy-seven present at one 
time or another. These were Adams, Alger, 
G. W. Babcock, Barrett, Bosworth, Boyce, 
Brightman, H. P. Brown, Buffum, Bugbee, 
Bunker, Burbank, Burgess, Buss, Butter- 
worth, Cameron, A. M. Chace, Chafee, 
Chambers, Champlin, Chandler, N. G. 
Chase, Connell, Connolly, Dodge, Everett, 
Everson, Fowler, Frost, A. Gorman, Hardy, 
Harkne.ss, Harrigan, Henderson, High, 
Hollen, Hughes, Hunt, Huxford, D. Jack- 
son, H. K. Jackson, Kirley, Lapham, Leach, 
Littlefield. Mayer, Mayhew, Meader, Mil- 
ler, W. B. Mitchell, L. A. McCoy, O. R. 
McCoy, Nash, Nourse, T. L. Paul, Pitman, 
Poland. Richmond, Sherwood, E. R. Smith, 
H. F. Smith, Stone, Strickler, Sweetland, 
Sykes, Tanner, Turner, W'ard, NX'eil, Wells, 
Wheeler, Wightman, Wilmot, Whipple, 
Whitmarsh, Winsor, Zovickian. 

1910 — Sixteen members attended the an- 
nual reunion dinner at the Rhode Island 
Country Club. Tentative plans for the 25th 
reunion next year were made. 

Among those present were: Ralph M. 
Palmer, Clifton B. Ward, Attorney General 
John P. Hartigan, Albert D. Farwell, Ed- 
ward S. Spicer, Joseph H. Cull, Harold 
Phinney, Warren C. Johnson, Richard D. 
Allen, Andrew B. Comstock, Claude 
Wood, Lester A. Round, William B. Free- 
man, Clarence Richards, William S. Sweet 
and Elmer S. Horton. 

1911— The Class of 1911 held its re- 
union dinner at the Anawan Club in Reho- 
both, where 16 gathered. 

Those present were Charles P. Sisson, 
.secretary; J. E. Hinckley, E. B. Dane, B. G. 
Smith, Paul Appleton, A. E. Corp, P. C. 
Curtis, H. E. Easton, W. S. Brown, A. L. 
Breckenridge, Warren A. Sherman, Harry 
A. Ormes, James A. Wilson, Leroy G. Pill- 
ing, J. T. Witherow and O. P. Richardson. 



1914 — At Matunuck Beach House, Ma- 
tunuck, nearly one-third of the Class gath- 
ered for the week-end Chairman Fritz R. 
Hazard of the reunion committee reported 
the following class members present: David 
Adelman, Lieut. Comdr. A. E. Bartlett, 
U.S N., H. L. P. Beckwith, E. K. Brown, 
Arthur Gate, E. Pulver Cook, Joseph Cook, 

A. R. Dudley, J. E. Farnham, Alexander 
Gardiner, James Giblin, George S. Good- 
speed, Earl Harrington, Robert S. Holding, 
the class president: Jean Legris, Dr. R. M. 
Lord, E. G. MacDowell, Dr. E. A. Mc- 
Laughlin. Reginald Nash, Joseph Nathan- 
son. Francis Whitford Post, Melvin E. 
Sawin, Earl H. Walker, Robert Walker, 
Maurice A. Wolf, Morgan W. Rogers, C. 
Lester Woolley, R. Leonard Smith, Roger 
Williams, Edward Brackett, Howard 
Sprague, S. W. Wray, L. N. McKenzie, 
Earl M. Medbery, James McGovern, A. D. 
Durgin, and Stephen S. Bean. MacDowell 
came from London, England, for the occa- 
sion and Cook came from Denver, Col. 

1918 — Present at the Wannamoisett 
Country Club were the folowing: James F. 
Armstrong, Irving G. Smith, Wilbur L. 
Rice. Kenneth B. MacLeod, Walter Adler, 
secretary: Dr, Louis I. Kramer, Maurice 
Moskol, Rodolphe A. Gladue, Harold F. C. 
Wilcox, Frederick Billings Brooks, and 
James E. Paige. 

1919 — An extra-inning defeat of the 
class of 1924 featured the 15th reunion of 
the Class, which enjoyed the program de- 
vised by Chairman Webb W. Wilder for 
the sojourn at Cold Spring House, Wick- 
ford. Those who attended included: Edgar 
J. Lanpher, Webb W. Wilder, William E. 
Parmenter, Dr. J. H. Almy, Laurence R. 
Smith '20, Hugh Robertson, Thomas C. 
Watson, Jr., William H. Edwards, Roger 
T. Clapp, Ben W. Brown, Morris H. 
Brown, (ohn H, Remington, Fred B. 
Perkins, E. B. Ryder, Jr., F. W. Thomas, 
Warren R. Campbell, Edward S. Porter, 
P. E, Scott, Alton C. Chick, Eugene 
W. O'Brien, Atlanta, Ga.; Edward Howell, 
Jr., Ernest E. Nelson, James A. Peirce, 
Ralph Mullane, L. F. Hurley, Arthur J. 
Curry, Willis B. Downey, E. P. Ventrone, 
C. H. Huggins, Jr., Solomon Tannenhaum, 
Edwin M. Murphy, J. H. Weeks, J. C. 
Scott, Andrew Hillhouse, James S. East- 
ham, W. M. S. Eraser, Robert M. Parkin- 
son, Dr. G. H. Gildersleeve, H. F. Giblin. 

1923 — At the reunion at Marconi's Gar- 
dens were: William B. McCormick, presi- 
dent of the class: R. Einar Soderback, 
J. D. E. Jones, Jr., E. John Lownes, Jr., 
Nathaniel Chase, Harold Larson and Nor- 
man Paasche. 

1924 — Sharing the Cold Spring House, 
Wickford, with the class of 1919, the 10- 
year reunion was voted a big success. Dr. 
Bruce M. Bigelow, Director of Admissions, 
was the speaker at the class banquet. Mem- 
bers back for the reunion included: T. Je- 
rome Hayden, Jr., Joe Nutter, Robert M. 
Bent, E. W. Morris, Carleton Goff, Louis 

B. Goff, John F. Cotton, John Spellman, 
Miles C. Webb, W. A. Dyer, Charles E. 
Hopkins, W. H. Schofield, William 
Fletcher, Jr., Denison W. Greene, Mark 
Randolph Flather, Dr. E. W. Bishop, Carl- 
ton J. Aldrich, M. L. Berrian, Charles S. 
Barton, Charles G. Burgess, Robert A. 
Goodell, Raymond L. Miller, Robert H. 
Goff, Robert E. Soellner, Dr. Bruce M. 
Bigelow, Jack Lubrano, R. J. Lloyd, C. H. 
Bliss, Edward J. West, Robert G. Sturte- 
vant, Philip Lukin, Frank O. Hough, Mil- 
ton Goldberger, Lawrence R. Brooks, Rob- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ert F. Rodman, Earle C. Drake, Clarence 
C. Chaffee, Herbert D. Lamson, Raymond 

A. Bergstrom, Charles G. Doll, Ernest J. 
Woelfel, Herbert J. Somers, Clark A. Hey- 
don, A. M. MacDowell, S. E. Wilkins, Jr., 
J. H. Sims, J. H. Barrett, Raymond L. 
Miller, Robert J. Lloyd, John P. Doyle. 

1926 — The Class held its eighth annual 
reunion and banquet at the University Club 
with the following members attending: 
Ernest W. Blanchard, Frank C. Andrews, 
James M. Barry, Arnold B. Cook, Charles 

B. Dixon, Noel M. Field, Edwin O. Hal- 
pert, John C. McOsker, Edward I. Fried- 
man. Edward Goldberger, Matthew W. 
Goring and Jacob S. Temkin, class secre- 
tary, who was chairman of the arrange- 
ments committee. 

1929 — More than 70 members attended 
the "big fifth" at the Hotel Plimpton, 
Watch Hill. Guests included Brenton G. 
Smith "11, who showed movies of the 
Brown-Yale game of 1933. J[ohn P. Child 
was elected permanent reunion chairman, 
having served this year with Louis R. 
Zocca, John K. Davis, Howard F. East- 



wood, Walter G. Ensign, Louis Farber, 
and Edson R. Rand. A finance committee 
was elected as follows: Rand, chairman 
Archie Smith, Eastwood, George Thorp 
and William J. Parish. 

Others attending the reunion were: Han 
son, Bridgham, Montague, Stevens, Buck 
lin, Davisson, Jillson, Harris, Luft, Sizer, 
Barows, Ricci, Teachman, Barnard, P' 
kins, Gorham, Blake, Belknap, Marschner. 
Zaparanick, Johnson, Hendrickson, Cruise 
Bearce, Drew, Bishop, Deady, Pass, Moskol 
Cuddeback, Donnelly, O'Hare, Todd 
Liner, Gardner, Stannard, Giddings, Shank 
lin, Lyon, Dodge, Cantor, Sulzberger, Wil 
son, Mahoney, Fisher, Van Wickle, Si 
nauer. 

1930 — The last reunion of all was that 
of 1930, whose dinner at the University 
Club Commencement night was attended 
by L. Metcalfe Walling, William L. Bart- 
lett, C. Hazard Beckford, Woodworth L. 
Carpenter, Ellery Carpenter, Harry Paul 
Taylor, Philip S. Knauer, Jr., and Carroll H. 
Rickard. 

1932--The annual dinner and reunion 



of the Class took place Saturday evening, 
June 16, at the Dog Fanciers' Club, Provi- 
dence. The get-together was a thoroughly 
informal one, at which the men present 
made great inroads on a series of perfectly 
good steaks and a barrel of what is now 
legal brew. The roster showed the names of 
Glceson, Fielding, Spencer, Corp, Rae, 
Waters. Little, Ripley, Dolan, Hazen, Pat- 
ton, Phillips, Bellin, Clarke, Tillinghast 
and Hurley. Dolan, class treasurer, and 
Hurley, class secretary, arranged the re- 
union. Plans have been made for more '32 
material than ever before in the Brown 
Alumni Monthly for 1934-35. 

1933 — The baby reunion was held at 
Annaquatucket Golf Club, Wickford, Bon- 
net Shores, and Wickford House. Presi- 
dent Bill Gilbane presided over the follow- 
ing committee: Edward QuiUan, Joseph W. 
Hastings, James A. Doran, Jr., Donald C. 
Whittemore, Franklin A. Hurd. Herbert A. 
Luther, and Russell Dolan. Bill Semmes 
and Tom Gilbane were others prominent in 
the sports. 



^ 



For the Brown Man^s Bookshelf 



"Tlie Dean's Windoin " 

HERE is a book made for Brown men, 
if ever there was one. Dean Otis E. 
Randall "84, actively associated with 
the University since his entrance as a Fresh- 
man some 50-odd years ago, has written at 
length of the scene he came to know and 
understand so well. His judgments, solemn 
and gay, and his recollections on which 
those judgments are based are arrayed in 
"The Dean's Window." (The Stratford 
Press. Pp. 323. $2.50) 

While Dean Randall "names no names." 
he is right when he says "menjbers of the 
faculty, graduates and undergraduates will 
have no difficulty in recognizing themselves 
in the centers of the pictures." It is such 
pictures which enliven the book and speed 
its reading, but fully as important are the 
conclusions the Dean has drawn. Indeed, il 
it were merely to be the collection of anec- 
dotes without any pertinence, it i8 doubtful 
if Professor Randall would ever have both- 
ered to put them on paper, however inter- 
esting they are and whatever the urging of 
some of the alumni. It is the thoughtful 
rather than the narrative style which seems 
to him most valuable. 

Here, for instance, are some of^the host 
of rich topics which he considers: Who 
should go to college? Student marriage, 
suicide, and religious attitude. The transi- 
tion from home and preparatory school to 
the collegiate environment. The student in 
financial straits. Student health. Fraternity 
and extra-curricular activities. Class fights 
and celebrations. Encouraging the good stu- 
dent. Should alumni send their sons to their 
own Alma Mater? The future of the liberal 
arts college. 

That sketchy catalogue selects at random 
a few of the points, major and minor, on 
which the Dean passes judgment. His atti- 
tude, he feels, is that of^ "big brother," and 
his clean-cut thinking is tempered by that 
happy faculty of sympathy. 




This is no column for the eulogy of the 
former Dean, but it is the place to declare 
"The Dean's Window" required reading 
for Brunonians. And there are many others 
in this land, parents, prospective students, 
educators, and the educated, who will relish 
this fine book and profit by it. 

Perhaps it is particularly fitting that we 
should here devote a little attention to Dean 
Randall's chapter on the alumni. He dis- 
agreed with an elderly college president 
who advised his junior to pay as little atten- 
tion to the alumni as possible. Occasionally, 
to be sure, "there appears in the college 
community an alumnus who has become 
obsessed with the notion that he is a born 
leader and that he must give the university 
the benefit of his unusual qualifications for 



expert advice." But most alumni, he finds, 
are sympathetic with what the administra- 
tion is trying to do, if only the administra- 
tion take the trouble to tell them. The 
alumni are eager for information about 
their Alma Mater, and the college cannot 
afford to neglect its sons. Having come to 
know the alumni intimately. Dean Randall 
believes them capable of rendering invalu- 
able assistance. And they render it con- 
stantly, he adds. 

The modern student, he says, is "more 
venturesome and possibly more reckless 
than his predecessors, but at the same time 
more reasonable and more responsive to 
sensible advice and direction." 

Dean Randall was the author of "College 
Deans in a Changing World," which ap- 
peared in the May 26 issue of The Lilfrar-j 
Digest. 



Horatio Alger in Reverse 

JOHN Chamberlin of the Hew TorX 
Times was one of the many critics to 
give Nathanael West a puff for his second 
book. "A Cool Million, or the Dismantling 
of Lemuel Pitkin," (Covici, Friede, $2) is 
the sort of book, he says, at which one 
"must either laugh or go mad because of 
the insane reality behind it."" It is satire, a 
combined satire of the Horatio Alger hero 
and the Nazi"s Horst Wesse! myth, telling 
of a poor "Vermont farmhoy who has all the 
equipment of a Garfield, McKinley or Grant 
but can run only in reverse. When he saves 
the rich banker's daughter from the run- 
away horse in Central Park, he doesn't 
marry her; he loses an eye and the banker 
mistrusts him. After his martyrdom, in its 
successive stages, Lemuel becomes a great 
myth which inspires the "Leather Shirts" to 
great heights in the National Revolutionary 
movement. Richly imaginative and wisely 
written, "A Cool Million" is one of the 
most stimulating books of the year. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Have you read "Miss LonelihearU," 
West's first book? Malcolm Cowley, in a 
recent article in the J^ew Republic, pub- 
lished lists of "valuable books overlooked 
by the general public." He and F. Scott 
Fitsgerald set down "Miss Lonelihearts" as 
one of those books. Made into a movie 
called "Advice to the Lovelorn," the work 
had a far less favorable press. Nathanael 
West is the pen name of Nathan Wein- 

stein '24. 

* * * 

Teachers in the ^ew Politics 

THE important place of an intellectual 
aristocracy in democratic government is 
the thesis of Dr. Charles Carroll '98, Rhode 
Island educator, who maintains, moreover, 
that this aristocracy is larger than com- 
monly believed. Dr. Carroll wrote of "The 
Teacher in the New Politics" in a recent 
issue of the 3_uarterly Journal of the Rhode 
Island Institute of Instruction, which inci- 
dentally contained a reprint of "The Teach' 
er's Vow" by the late Professor Lyman 
Churchill Newell '90. Intellectual aristoc- 
racy is not a matter of inheritance. Dr. Car- 
roll wrote, and it is its duty to create an 
enlightened people. While he warns that 
partisan politics is conduct unbecoming a 
teacher. Dr. Carroll urges teachers to make 
themselves felt in movements to spread 
accurate information and revive an interest 
in public affairs. 



Afterguardsman Hoyt 

MR. C. Sherman Hoyt '01, prominent 
member of the Rainbow's afterguard, 
writes enlighteningly in the current Sports- 
man of just what the afterguard's duties 
are, particularly in the defense of the 
America's Cup. Showing how less and less 
reliance is rested in the professional sailing 
masters, he holds the afterguard of owners 
and friends, amateurs all, "really respon- 
sible for not only the tuning up and con- 
ditioning of the yacht but for her actual 
management both in training and in racing. 
Failure to win is primarily their funeral." 

The afterguard should consist of the 
captain, preferably the principal helmsman, 
executive officer supervising choice, care, 
and trimming of sails (Hoyt's particular 
job, by the way, during the trials), relief 
helmsman, and navigator. Mr. Hoyt also 
writes a special article on the international 
six-meter races, showing that a sportsman 
need not confine his activities to a million- 
dollar defender. 



Dust, the newest of campus literary 
magazines, is described in the first issues as 
"an experiment printed by the editors in an 
attempt to furnish an outlet for the crea- 
tive work of those connected with Brown, 
Pembroke, and the Rhode Island School of 
Design." The editors are Edward N. Rob- 
inson, Jr., and Tyler Micoleau, while the 
contributors include: William E. Wilson, 
Winfield Townley Scott, Julia Sanscelia, 
Adelaide Koch, and the editors. 



H. H. Uhlig '29 is co-author of two 
papers entitled "On Guaicol Solutions," 
which have been issued as reprints by the 
Joiirna! of General Physiology. Herb did 
the work while he was in the laboratories 
of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical 
Research. 



Teats and the T^ew Island 

W ILEUM Butler Yeats, young and 
hopeful at the start of his career in 
letters, welcomed the chance to sell an 
occasional article to the Providence Journal 
and the Boston Pilot. These early pot- 
boilers were forgotten in view of his later 
eminence, but one afternoon in Dublin the 
poet happened to ask Horace Reynolds, 
then a member of the English Department 
at Brown, if there still was such a paper as 
the Providence journal. He went on to tell 
briefly of his associations with the paper 
and its editor, Alfred Williams. 

Some of those old articles Professor Rey- 
nolds discovered in the files several years 
ago, and he has now completed his research. 
The results, edited under the title "Letters 
to the New Island," have been published by 
Harvard University Press with an introduc- 
tion by Professor Reynolds. The work, says 
one reviewer, "is an absorbing reflection of 
Yeats as a young man." 



Amy Lowell's Biographer 

PROFESSOR S. Foster Damon, on sabbatic 
leave from his academic duties, has nearly 
finished his biography of Amy Lowell. 
Working with the full co-operation of the 
Lowells and the poet's literary executor. 
Professor Damon believes his book will be 
authentic. It is not a treatment usually 
found in "official" biographies that he has 
given to his material, it is said. 



AJext to the Bible 

Rev. Dr. Charles M. Sheldon's book, 
"In His Steps, " has sold more copies 
than any other book printed in the United 
States except the Bible, according to a 
survey made recently under the direction of 
Edward Weeks of the Atlantic Monthly. 
The American reading public has bought 
8,000,000 copies of the Sheldon book, Mr. 
Weeks's figures showed. Dr. Sheldon's class 

was 1883. 

* * * 

John W. Lane '31 of the HerreshofF 
Mfg. Co., Bristol, R. I., builder of the new 
America's Cup defender Rainbow, had an 
article in the April number of the Technol- 
ogy Rcvieii.' on "Force Required to Propel 
Your Car." He explained how any car 
owner may find out how much force is 
actually required to propel his car at any 

given speed. 

* * * 

J. Madison Gathany '05 of the Depart- 
ment of the Social Studies, East Orange, 
N. J., High School, is the author of a series 
of articles in The Historical Outlook, deal- 
ing with the teaching of current events in 
which he has been a pioneer. The articles 
to date include "Major Objectives in the 
Teaching of Current Events"; "Current 
Events and Political Culture"; and "Cur- 
rent Events and the Teaching of European 

History." 

* * * 

E. A. Minard '21, of Ginn y Co., Boston, 
writes of his pleasure in finding that the 
biography of Longfellow in the Dictionary 
of National Biography is by W. C. Bronson. 
This particular work, one of the earliest 
contributions to the Dictionary, has re- 
ceived favorable notices in many reviews, 
including that in the Saturday Review of 
Literature. 



Southern Songs for England 

Mellinger E. Henry '99 and his wife 
have long since earned national rec- 
ognition for their work in recording, collect- 
ing, and editing the ballads and other folk 
music of the southern highlands. Now 
their fame is spreading further, and The 
Mitre Press of London announces for pub- 
lication in August Mr. Henry's "Songs 
Sung in the Southern Appalachians." 

Field Marshal of Essays 

HAROLD L. Tinker '21, member of the 
Department of English at Choate 
School, Wallingford, Conn., is the editor 
of "Essays Yesterday and Today," which 
the Macmillan Company has brought out in 
its series of New Pocket Classics. The 
anthology contains essays, old and new, 
and each essay has an introduction written 
by the editor. Tinker is a popular teacher 
at Choate. And the report is that he is 
still an excellent baseball player in spite of 
the fact that he has been out of college 13 
years. 

4t « * 

Binder of Sciences 

A New hook by Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, 
'08, "Earth, Radio and the Stars," was 
published last month by Whittlesey House, 
New York City. According to a review. 
Dr. Stetson, who is now research associate 
in geophysics at Harvard, suggests cosme- 
cology as a new name "to bind together the 
sciences governing our earth, its litho- 
sphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere with 
those dealing with instellar space such as 
astronomy and astrophysics. . . . Dr. Stetson 
declares that the science of the modern gen- 
eration will be largely synthetic in character 
in contrast to that of the past, which was 
analytical." 



Richard W. Rowan '16 is the author of 
the leading article, "International Spy: 
1934 Model," in Hearst's Co.smoholitan for 
July. 

* :i: * 

"A Billet Alone," Walter D. Shackle- 
ton's short story in the May Woman's 
Home Companion, is an unusual bit of 
fiction with a War background, and makes 
good reading. Shackleton, now a New York 
newspaperman, was a member of the class 
of 1928. 

* ^: * 

Bill Meuse '26, who has taken to writing 
as a hobby in his spare time, has found it a 
profitable one. He has had a number of 
stories and articles in such magazines as 
Field and Stream, Liberty, and Outdoor 
Life. 

* * * 

Mose Crossley '09, chief chemist at the 
Calco Chemical Company, is on the edi- 
torial advisory board of The Chemist, the 
publication of the American Institute of 
Chemists. In the January issue he had an 
important article entitled "The Economic 
Emancipation of the Chemist." 

* * * 

Elizabeth Stafford SokolnikofF "23 and 
her husband, Ivan S. SokolnikofF, are co- 
authors of "Higher Mathematics for Engi- 
neers and Physicists. " McGraw-Hill Com- 
pany is the publisher. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Continuing the "Trail" 

THt Trail of Life in the Middle 
Years" continues the unusual auto- 
biographical narrative of Dr. Rufus M. 
Jones, member of the University Corpora- 
tion. Continuing the story of religious de- 
velopment begun in "Finding the Trail of 
Life" (also published by Macmillan), the 
new book deals with the creative period 
between 30 and 50. 

Editor of The American Fnend during 
this time and professor of philosophy at 
Haverford College, Dr. Jones found many 
interesting crises in those years, both per- 
sonal and general. He writes impressively 
of Christ's place in modern life, having de- 
veloped that point of view from a more 
remote one in his youth. Stories and per- 
sonalia enliven many of the pages, but it is 
for its mystical strain that most readers will 
turn again and again to this new volume. 
Again and again he emphasizes the mystical 
as essential. 

Dr. Jones writes that he was reluctant to 
carry his series further than the two before 
this ("The Trail of Life in College" was the 
second), believing the naive part of his life 
the more interesting for its simplicity. The 
new work, opening with events of 1893, is 
about the trail that a man must make for 
himself, while before that he has been able 
to follow paths ready and clear. 



"Shark! Shark!" by Capt. William E. 
Young and Horace Mazet '26 (Gotham 
House) is arousing international interest. 
Ever since its publication it has sold steadily 
throughout the United States, and the pub- 
lishers report that repeated orders come in 
from England, France, Holland, Germany, 
Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and Panama. A 
copy of the limited edition was ordered as 
a gift for ex-President Cosgrave of Ireland. 
Payot of Paris have just contracted for its 
translation into French, for fall publication. 



'/'^Hio Poets," an anthology edited by 
Vy the house of Henry Harrison, New 
York, contains three poems by Col. G. A. 
Taylor '01, who has been represented in 
anthologies before this. Although the Col- 
onel, retired, now lives in Hadley, Mass., 
these poems were written while he was sta- 
tioned in Cincinnati. "Mount Adams" de- 
scribes the Good Friday climb of the peni- 
tents up the long line of steps leading to 
St. Alban's Church, while "Point Pleasant" 
and "Georgetown" refer respectively to the 
birthplace and boyhood home of General 
Grant. Colonel Taylor attended the G.A.R. 
convention's trip up the Ohio River as an 
honorary member of the staff of Col. U. S. 
Grant III. and a copy of "Point Pleasant" 
now hangs in the little house where the 
Civil War hero was born. 

* * * 

Professor W. T. Hastings of the English 
Department had an article in the January, 
1934, number of the Shakespeare Associa- 
tion Bulletin criticizing recent attempts at 
a hypothetical extension of Shakespeare 
biography from supposed allusions in the 
plays. The title was "Necessity, of Matter 
Beggared." 

* * * 

"A History of Gynecology" by Dr. 
James V. Ricci '12, New York surgeon, is 
announced for publication shortly. 



Dr. Harry W. Robbins' textbook, "Ad- 
vanced Exposition," has been adopted by 
18 colleges, the Biic^neil Alumni Monthly 
reports. It is the first book on the subject 
intended exclusively for advanced students. 
Dr. Robbins, whose class at Brown is 1908, 
is chairman of the language group and 
graduate division at Bucknell. 



Royalties and Texts 

FOND and not so fond memories of Latin 
grammar were stirred recently when 
F. P. A., writing in The Conning Tower of 
the 'M.ew Tor\ Herald-Tribune, asked for 
guesses (which you did not have to send in 
to him) on how much Professor Albert 
Harkness '42 made in royalties on his Latin 
books. The paragraph by F. P. A. is such a 
stimulating one that we quote it in full: 
"It came out in testimony at Washington 



that textbook publishers had spent $500,000 
to buy meals for prospective purchasers of 
textbooks. In how many years, or over 
what area, that sum had been spent, did 
not appear. Nor whether it meant all the 
publishers of all the textbooks for all the 
years. If so, it strikes us that it isn't much 
money. For there is a lot of money in text- 
books. Often we have heard of scandals, 
mostly political, that have come to light in 
the purchase of textbooks. And we should 
like to see a list, compiled by Mr. Edward 
Weeks of the Atlantic Mont/ily, of the 
fifty best selling textbooks of the last fifty 
years. And what the authors or compilers 
of them earned in royalties. How much do 
you suppose Prof. Wentworth got from the 
sale of his geometry textbooks? Or Prof. 
Harkness for his Latin books? Or Prof. 
A. S. Hill for his Rhetoric?" 



Their Scholarship Acknowledged 



FIFTEEN undergraduates, graduate stu- 
dents and recent graduates, and seven 
members of the Brown University fac- 
ulty, will be at other universities and col- 
leges during the summer or next year under 
special fellowships and scholarships, or 
through faculty appointments, according to 
records at Brown. 

These awards and appointments will 
take Brown University men and women 
into 14 States and foreign countries for 
study and research in chemistry, modern 
languages, physics, philosophy, the classics, 
psychology, sociology and biology. 

Prof. Raymond M. Fuoss, of the depart- 
ment of chemistry, has been awarded an 
International Research Fellowship tor study 
this summer in England and Germany. 
Prof. Charles A. Robinson, Jr., of the de- 
partment of Greek and Latin classics, will 
sail this month to be annual professor at 
the American School of Classical Studies in 
Athens next year. W. Willis Turner, an 
instructor in the department of economics, 
has been awarded a fellowship for study in 
the banking problems of southern New 
England at Brookings Institution in Wash- 
ington. John W. Blyth, an a.ssistant in the 
department of philosophy, will study in 
Germany next year under an American- 
German Student Exchange Fellowship, 

Miss Margaret Hoover, assistant in the 
department of biology, has left to be cura- 
tor of Drosophila in the department of 
genetics, Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring 
Harbor, L. I. Miss Sylvia Rouse, also an 
assistant in the department of biology, has 
been awarded a scholarship in biology at 
Bryn Mawr next year. William S. Wilson 
"31, an assistant in the department of 
physics and a candidate for the degree of 
Sc.M. in the Graduate School, has been 
appointed an assistant in the department of 
chemistry at Yale next year. 

Among the most important student 
awards are a National Research Fellowship 
in the biological sciences to Leon A. Pen- 
ington of Sparta, Mich., candidate for a 
Ph.D. degree in the Graduate School, for 
study at the University of Chicago; and the 



American School of Classical Studies Fel- 
lowship in archaeology to Richard H. How- 
land '31 for study at the Athenian Institu- 
tion. Joseph E. Hawkins, Jr., of Waco, Tex., 
candidate for an M.A. degree in the Grad- 
uate School, has been appointed Rhodes 
Scholar from Texas. The Miss Abbott's 
School Fellowship and the Arnold Archaeo- 
logical Fellowship have been awarded by 
the Graduate School to Miss Mary E. Kraus 
and Miss Adelaide M. Davidson, both of 
Providence. Miss Kraus will study at Oxford 
and Miss Davidson at Bryn Mawr. 

Other awards follow: 

Norman S. Cox, candidate for a Ph.D. 
degree in the Graduate School, appointed 
instructor in chemistry at Wabash College. 

Edwin J. Hart, candidate for a Ph.D. 
degree in the Graduate School, granted spe- 
cial opportunity for work in biological 
chemistry at the Carnegie Institution, Cold 
Spring Harbor. 

Douglas L. Kraus, candidate for an Sc.B. 
degree in chemistry, appointed an assistant 
in the department of chemi.stry at the Uni- 
versity of California. 

William C. Randels, candidate lor a 
Ph.D. degree in the Graduate School, 
awarded a Sterling Research Fellowship at 
Yale for advanced research in mathematics. 

Herbert J. Moss, who has been doing 
special work in the department ot history, 
awarded a scholarship for study at Harvard. 

Chester H. Page, candidate for an A.B. 
and M.A. degrees, awarded a combination 
fellowship and assistantship for graduate 
study in physics at Yale. 

Miss Irene V. Toabe, candidate for an 
A.B. degree at Pembroke College, awarded 
a scholarship for advanced study in socioJ- 
ogy at the University of Chicago. 

Franklin Taylor "32, appointed an assist- 
ant in the Department of Psychology at 
Princeton. 

Edmund B. Delabarre, Jr. '32, appointed 
an assistant in the Department of Psychol- 
ogy at Harvard. 

Frederick B. Agard '28, awarded a Proc- 
tor Fellowship in romance languages at 
Princeton. 



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Gentlemen of the Faculty 



CHANGES among the Brown University 
faculty for next year will include 
three emeritus appointments, 38 new 
appointments, two promotions, three retire- 
ments, 26 resignations and four leaves of 
absence, according to a list approved by the 
corporation at its annual June meeting. 

Prof. Henry Thatcher Fowler, who re- 
tires this year as professor of Biblical litera- 
ture and history: Prof. Albert DeF. Palmer, 
retiring as associate professor of physics, 
and Prof. Albert B. Johnson, who retires as 
associate professor of romance languages, 
will receive the title of emeritus professor 
of their respective subjects effective next 
fall. 

New appointments include Prof. Robert 
P. Casey of the Biblical literature depart- 
ment, and Norman A. Huffman as instruc- 
tor. Esther A. Dick will be assistant in 
botany; Kenneth M. Wheeler, Philip L. 
Carpenter and Eliiaheth A. Whitaker in 
biology; Robert W. Auten, Albert B. F. 
Duncan, Lawrence Tucker and Earl L. 
Warrick in chemistry. 

John M. Brogden, Harold R. Spiegel and 
Edmund J. Stone will serve as assistants in 
economics; Mayo D. Hersey, Abraham M. 
Impagliazso and Nicholas Voci, in engi- 
neering, and Wyndham O. J. Roberts and 
John A. Young, Jr., in geology. John H. 
Monroe will return to Brown as an instruc- 
tor in Greek and Latin classics; Otto Sjasz 
will be visiting lecturer in mathematics. 

In history, new assistants will be Ivor L. 
Spencer and Thompson D. Grant, and in 
music, Hattie C. Manley. Owen N. Hill- 
man will be an instructor and Frederick C. 
Dommeyer, Jr., will be an assistant in phil- 
osophy. Albert B. Focke is to become in- 
structor in physics, while Ray D. Albright, 
Allen E. Hastings, John C. TurnbuU and 
Arthur O. Williams, Jr., will be assistants. 
Ruth Marjorie Cruifcshank, William E. 
Kappauf, Jr., John L. Kennedy, Helen 
Howard and Nils Y. Wessell have been 
named assistants in psychology, and Wil- 
liam H. Sutton in romance languages. An- 
drew H. MacPhail will he director of edu- 
cational measurement, and Helen L. Urqu- 
hart, assistant director of educational meas- 
urement. 

George L. Church in the department of 
botany has been promoted to assistant pro- 
fessor, and Zenas R. Bliss in the division of 
engineering to associate professor. 



PROF. MiLL.AR Burrows is resigning from 
the biblical literature department, as is 
Vernon Rice, lecturer in biblical literature. 
Resignations in biology include the assist- 
ants: Roy P. Ash, Louis V. Blucaugh, 
Hugh I. Myers, Margaret E. Hoover, Syl- 
via B. Rouse; and from the department of 
botany. Alma May Waterman. Chemistry 
assistants resigning are: Henry E. Mahncke, 
John A. Geddes and David A. Rothrock, 
Jr. William W. Turner resigns as instruc- 
tor of economics, and Randle E. Dahl as 
assistant. 

In engineering resignations are: Waldo 
H. Fish, Jr., assistant; in English, Cyril 
Harris, assistant professor; in history, Elinor 



Louise Martin, assistant; in mathematics, 
Cletus O. Oakley, assistant professor; in 
philosophy, John W. Blyth, assistant; in 
physics, Howard L. Andrews, instructor; 
William S. Wilson, Frederick E. White 
and Horace E. Darling, assistants; in psy- 
chology, Lester F. Beck, instructor; Karl U. 
Smith and Clifford H. Pearce, assistants, 
and in romance languages, Philip M. Ham, 
assistant. 

Prof. Jacob D. Tamarkin of the depart- 
ment of mathematics will be on leave of ab- 
sence during the first half of the year; Prof. 
Will S. Taylor of the art department, and 
Prof. Sharon Brown of the English depart- 
ment, the second semester. Prof. Charles 
Alexander Robinson, Jr., will spend the en- 
tire year teaching in Athens. 



Faculty T^otes 

Dr. A. D. Mead, vice president of the 
University, has been made a trustee of 
Wellesley College, according to recent an- 
nouncement by Ellen Fit; Pendleton, Presi- 
dent of Wellesley. 

Professor Walter H. Snell "13 has been 
elected a vice president of the Alumni As- 
sociation, Phillips Academy, Andover. His 
son Walter was graduated from Andover 
last month. 

Dr. Harry Lyman Koopman, Professor 
Emeritus, is the new president of The Sky- 
scrapers, the amateur astronomical society 
of Rhode Island. 

Professor Millar Burrows of the Depart- 
ment of Biblical Literature, who has re- 
signed to return to Yale University, dis- 
cussed the value of modern archaeology in 
Bible study before the June meeting of the 
Rhode Island Association of Congrega- 
tional and Christian Ministers in Slaters- 
ville. 

Robert W. Kenny was voted Pembroke's 
favorite professor at the end of the year. 

For the past three years Professor C. 
Raymond Adams of the Department of 
Mathematics has been an examiner of honor 
students at Swarthmore College. At the 
end of each academic year the college calls 
in outside examiners. 

Professor Charles W. Brown of the De- 
partment of Geology has been nominated 
as a member of the American Geophysical 
Union, the American national committee of 
the International Geodetic and Geophysical 
Union. The object of the American Geo- 
physical Union is primarily "to promote 
the study of problems concerned with the 
figure and physics of the earth and to ini- 
tiate and coordinate researches which de- 
pend upon international and national co- 
operation." 

Professor Matthew C. Mitchell of the 
Department of Social and Political Science 
has been named a trustee of the Rhode 
Island School for the Deaf by Governor 
Theodore Francis Green '87. 

Professor Louis Landre, in California to 
join the staff of L'Ecole Frangaise at the 
summer sessions of Mills College, Oakland, 
Cal., was to be the speaker at the weekly 
luncheon of the Commonwealth Club of 
San Francisco. 



The Amendments Passed 

AMENDMENTS to the by-laws of the As- 
- sociated Alumni which were printed 
in the June issue of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly were approved at a meeting of 
alumni held after the big alumni meeting in 
Sayles Hall on Commencement Day. The 
amendments clarify certain sections relat- 
ing to the election of vice presidents of the 
various regions and to nominations for offi- 
cers of the association. They also simplify 
the article with regard to amendments. 
They were drawn by Sidney Clifford '15, 
member of the Executive Committee, ap- 
proved by the Committee, and by the Ad- 
visory Council at its annual meeting in 
February, and then published in the Alum- 
ni Monthly. 

Some Brown Club Elections 

THE Brown Club of Rochester, in an- 
nual meeting, has elected Charles Ewing 
"01 of Industry, N. Y., president to suc- 
ceed Dr. John R. Honiss "08 in 1934-35. 
Other officers arc: Rev. Royal N. Jessup '04 
of Pen Yan, vice president; Rev. Wilbur E. 
Saunders "16, secretary-treasurer; and Law- 
rence Gardner "11 and Dr. Honiss. mem- 
bers of the Executive Committee. 

The new officers of the Brown Club of 
Albany, Schenectady, and Troy are: Presi- 
dent, David A. Midgley "23; vice presi- 
dent, Theodore W. Gordon '06; secretary- 
treasurer, J. Gordon Baxter '31 of Troy. 

* * « 

The Amherst Outing 

VV/e had 25 present, counting infants, of 
W whom there were four or more. It 
was very comfortable on the summit of Mt. 
Holyoke in spite of the sizzling day, and 
everybody admitted having a fine time."' 

So runs the report of the annual outing 
and meeting of the Brown Club of Am- 
herst, Mass., and neighborhood, which was 
held on the top of Mt. Holyoke the after- 
noon and evening of June 2, 1934. B. B. 
Wood "05, librarian of Massachusetts State 
Collefe. was in charge of arrangements, 
and he did his work well. 

There was a news letter from the Alumni 
Secretary, much friendly discussion, as al- 
ways, of this and that, and the state of 
Brown and the world in general, and an 
election which resulted in the selection of 
Rev. T. Barton Akeley '23 as president 
and B. B. Wood, secretary. 

Present were Col. G. A. Taylor "01, 
U.S.A., retired, and Mrs. Taylor of Hadley; 
Henry B. Thacher "10, Mrs. Thacher, Mary 
Etta and Elizabeth Thacher; Dr. Herbert 
B. Lang '96 and Mrs. Lang of South Had- 
ley; Rev. T. Barton Akeley and his mother, 
Mrs. Beulah Barton Akeley; Carroll J. Ene- 
mark "22, Mrs. Enemark, Bobby and Jack 
Enemark; Richard Thacher; Andrew S. 
Thomson "98, Mrs. Thomson "99; John P. 
Palmer "16, and Mrs. Palmer, Stockbridge; 
Elmer F. Davenport "16, Mrs. Davenport, 
Thomas and Fanny Lou Davenport, West 
Stockbridge, and B. B. Wood. 

* * * 

Coaching Lessons 
Four Brunonians were enrolled at the 
Northeastern University football coaching 
school late in June: Paul Higgins '25, from 
Ouincy, Mass.; Jack Heffernan '28, from 
Poultney, Vt.; Hugh Robertson '19, reg- 
istered from Milton Academy; and Clar- 
ence C. Chaffee '24, registered from Wil- 
braham Academy. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



1868 

William E. Lincoln left his winter home 
in Sarasota, Fla., just in time to arrive on 
College Hill for Commencement and the 
meeting of the Brown Corporation. During 
the past season (and he admits it openly) 
he caught but one tarpon and that only a 
75-pounder. 

1878 

Rev. Dr. Gideon A. Burgess has been re- 
elected Governor of the Rhode Island 
Branch, National Sons and Daughters of 
the Pilgrims. 

1883 

Frederick E. Whittemore reports his cor- 
rect mail address to be 47 Fore River Ave- 
nue, North Weymouth, Mass. 

1884 
Rev. Edward P. TuUer is living with his 
daughter, director of the Abbie Loveland 
Tuller School, at 463 Angell Street, Provi- 
dence. 

1888 
Professor Arthur E. Watson of the 
Brown Faculty attended the Commence- 
ment exercises of Waltham, Mass., High 
School, June 7, as a member of the Golden 
Anniversary class. 

1891 
Frank L. Hinckley and Mrs. Hinckley 
have announced the engagement of their 
daughter, Miss Anita Candler Hinckley, to 
Charles Fox Hovey of Boston and Chestnut 
Hill, Mass. 

1892 
The Leonard H. Campbell Trophy, 
awarded annually at Central High School, 
Providence, to the student having the high- 
est scholastic record, went this year to Miss 
Dorothy B. Hand. 

1896 
Edwin A. Locke, Jr., son of Dr. Edwin 
A. Locke and Mrs. Locke, and Miss Doro- 
thy Q. Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harold B. Clark, were married in New Ca- 
naan, Conn., June 16, 1934. They are liv- 
ing in Paris, where Mr. Locke, Jr., is with 
the Chase National Bank. 

1897 

Byron S. Watson and Mrs. Watson have 
announced the engagement of their daugh- 
ter. Miss Hope Watson, to George C. Da- 
vis, attorney associated with the firm of 
Tillinghast £s? Collins, Providence. 

Dr. Gregory D. Walcott, head of the De- 
partment of Philosophy, Long Island Uni- 
versity, will teach in the summer session of 
the University this summer. During the 
academic year just closed he had an enroll- 
ment of approximately 400 students in his 
department. He had an article, "A Philo- 
sophical View of the American Common- 
wealth," in three successive issues of the 
Providence Journal, and on April 17 con- 
cluded a series of fourteen weekly radio 
talks on "Lives of Philosophers" over 
WNYC, in connection with the Long 
Island University of the Air. The series of 
"Source Books in the History of the Sci- 
ences," of which he is general editor, is 
progressing satisfactorily. 

Dr. Guy M. Whipple has changed his 
address from Danvers to Clifton, Mass. 



1898 

The Brookfields, neighboring Massachu- 
setts towns, were to have a home-coming on 
July 10 to celebrate the 5 2nd anniversary of 
a baseball game which marked the beginning 
of Connie Mack's career. Mack promised 
to take his Athletics over for an exhibition 
game, which George M. Cohan said he'd 
umpire. Prominent in the festivities was to 
be Dennis F. O'Brien, due to return as a 
native son. 

1900 

Nelson W. Aldrich, son of William T. 
Aldrich and Mrs. Aldrich and Miss Eleanor 
Tweed were married in South Natick, 
Mass., June 15, 1934. They are going to 
Paris, where Mr. Aldrich will study at 
L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, as his father did 
before him. 

1901 

Henry C. Hart was elected president of 
The Players, the well-known Providence 
dramatic society, at the annual meeting in 
Barker Playhouse last month. He succeeds 
Professor Thomas Crosby, Jr., '94. 

Dr. Eben C. Gould, for many years 
medical officer of the British Government 
on Ocean Island in the Central Pacific 
Ocean, has retired to the mainland, and his 
present address is 228 Gotham Road, Kew, 
Melbourne, Australia. He is planning to 
visit the United States and England soon. 

1902 

Miss Deborah Jackson, daughter of Eu- 
gene B. Jackson and Mrs. Jackson of Brook- 
line, Mass., was married to Harry Mcintosh 
McLeod of Chicago in the Leslie Lindsey 
Memorial Chapel, Boston, June 19. 

Kirke P. Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln and their 
nine months' old daughter, Mary Jane, are 
at their house in Pittsburgh, Pa., after hav- 
ing spent the winter and spring in Sarasota, 
Fla. 

1903 

Col. Harvey A. Baker's mother, Mrs. 
Lucy Anna (Sisson) Baker, died at Ivy, Va., 
June 13, 1934. Mrs. Baker was the widow 
of Benjamin Baker '75. Another son is 
Benjamin C. Baker '06. 

Miss Louise Stickney Briden, daughter 
of Chester H. Briden and Mrs. Briden, was 
married to Gordon E. Mahlert of East 
Orange, N. J., at the Briden home in Rum- 
ford, R. I., on June 5. Mrs. Mahlert was 
graduated from Mount Ida Junior College, 
Newton, Mass., and Mr. Mahlert from 
Harvard. 

1904 

John P. Herring is director of education 
at the New York State School for Boys, 
Warwick, N. Y. 

Rev. Irving J. Beckwith's new address, 
he reports, is Oxford, N. Y. 

E. L. Mclntyre and Mrs. Mclntyre and 
their older son, John K. Mclntyre, were 
visitors to Brown after Commencement, 
having motored from Milwaukee to show 
John some of the colleges of the East, in- 
cluding Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, 
Brown, Yale, and Princeton. 

Oscar L. Heltzen's daughter. Miss Shir- 
ley K. Heltzen, has become engaged to 
Perry E. Farnum of New York City, the 
Providence papers announced last month. 



Miss Heltzen received her A.M. in English 
from Brown in 1931. She is a graduate of 
Mount Holyoke. 

1906 

Robert L. Knight was elected a director 
of the Ayrshire Breeders' Association of 
the United States at the 59th annual meet- 
ing in Worcester, Mass., June 13. His term 
is for two years. 

1907 

Lee H. White, back at his old stamping 
ground, the National City Building, 17 
East 42nd Street, New York City, is secre- 
tary of the Code Authority of the Wire, 
Rod and Tube Die Industry, and secretary 
and treasurer of the Association of the 
Wire, Rod and Tube Die Manufacturers, 
Inc. This work, combined with his chosen 
work of public accounting, gives him plenty 
of excitement, and occupies all of his time. 
He is also a member of the committee on 
co-operation with the NRA which has been 
named by the New York State Society of 
Public Accountants. 

C. D. McEvoy came down to Providence 
from South Barre, Mass., one day last 
month and visited the campus to register 
his son, Frank, for the Class of 1939. Frank 
has another year at the Barre High School, 
where he is doing good work as a student. 
1908 

Rev. Woodbury S. Stowell is acting as a 
city missionary and social worker for the 
New York Baptist Mission Society. His 
office is at 152 Madison Avenue, and he is 
living at 56 Hamilton Terrace, New York 
City. 

Sidney S. Paine and Mrs. Paine came 
from Greensboro, N. C, to participate in 
Commencement activities on the Hill. Sid 
said that North Carolina was as delightful 
a place in which to live as anyone, even a 
New Englander, could wish, and that his 
golf game was improving with age. He 
would like very much to see Brown and the 
University of North Carolina meet in a 
football game in a year or two, or three, 
and he talked with Dr. Marvel and Coach 
McLaughry about it while he was here. 
1909 

Louie McCoy is teaching in the new Rox- 
bury Memorial High for Boys. He also is 
teaching at Boston College. 

Jarvis Alger may soon become a resident 
of Canada. He plans to move to Montreal 
in connection with his work as Secretary of 
the Aluminum Company, Ltd. 

Donald G. Clark, Purchasing Agent for 
the Brown (i Sharpe Mfg. Company, was 
elected President of the National Associa- 
tion of Purchasing Agents at their Annual 
Convention in Cleveland, June 21. Don is 
a past President of the R. I. Purchasing 
Agents' Association and moves on to this 
highest honor in the Association. 

Moses Crossley, on the way to the Class 
Reunion with Mrs. Crossley, met with an 
unfortunate automobile accident just out- 
side of New London. He was forced off 
the road by an approaching car and both 
he and his wife suffered severe and painful 
injuries including broken noses. They were 
taken to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in 
New London and Moses was obliged to 
miss the class reunion. Tink Chandler called 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



on him at the hospital to be of any assistance 
he could and to offer the sympathy of the 
Class. 

Dr. Harold M. Frost has given up active 
practice and is devoting himself entirely to 
his work as Medical Director of the New 
England Mutual Life Insurance Company. 
His address is 95 Milk Street, Boston. 

Pop Kirley is planning a trip to the Pa- 
cific Coast this summer and intends to in- 
clude in his trip a call upon his old lootball 
classmates, Westervelt and Dennie. 

Dr. Hovhannes Zovickian is practicing 
medicine in Watcrtown, Mass. His address 
IS 528 Mt. Auburn Street. 
1913 

Joe Burwell is working for the Recon- 
struction Finance Corporation, which has 
its offices in the Federal Reserve Bank 
Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 

1914 

Joe Cook, who came on from Denver for 
the 20th Reunion, spent several days with 
his father and other relatives in U.xbridgc, 
Mass., before beginning the long motor 
ride home. He came to Providence after 
Commencement, talked with President Bar- 
bour, Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow, had lunch 
with Al Gurney, and inspected the new 
Providence County Court House under the 
guidance of his fellow prosecutor and old 
college chum, John H. Nolan '15, Assist- 
ant Attorney General of Rhode Island. 

Chet Flies missed the 20th Reunion be- 
cause he had to go on the annual tour of 
duty with the iOJrd Field Artillery Regi- 
ment to Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. He is Cap- 
tain of the Headquarters Company. 

1915 

Harvey Denham has changed his mail 
address to 565 Washington Street, Palo 
Alto, Calif. 

Professor Samuel Rogers of the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin, winner of the 1934 At- 
lantic Monthly Novel Prize for his "Dusk 
at the Grove," and his family are at Matu- 
nuck, R. I., for the summer. 

Lieutenant Governor Robert E. Quinn 
was toastmaster at the student-alumni din- 
ner of Northeastern University, Providence 
y. M. C. A. Division, at the Narragansett 
Hotel, Providence, June 14. Bob taught 
public speaking at Northeastern last semes- 
ter. 

1916 

Clifford D. Heathcote has the sympathy 
of the Class in the loss of his mother, Mrs. 
Sarah T. Heathcote, who died in Provi- 
dence, June 20, 1934, after a short illness. 

1917 

Solon C. Kelley, Jr.'s correct house ad- 
dress is 106 Holmes Avenue, Glenbrook, 
N. Y. He's a commuter, his office being at 
590 Madison Avenue, New York City. 

Ralph Armstrong and his growing fam- 
ily have recently removed to 42 Mandalay 
Road, Springfield, Mass. Ralph is still right 
on the job as a member of the legal staff of 
the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 
Company. 

W. B. Farnsworth has been elected (or 
maybe it is re-elected) a vice president of 
The Players, the Providence dramatic so- 
ciety in which he has been interested ever 
since he got out of college. 

1918 
Professor Raymond L. Wilder is teach- 
ing mathematics at the Summer School, 
University of Michigan. He returned to 
Ann Arbor last month after having spent 



A Glory That Isn't Brown's 

IT grieved Mr. Gurney for several 
reasons. In the first place, he felt 
that he'd rather do anything than 
disillusion Alexander Woollcott, to 
whom illusions must be few and prec- 
ious. The fact remained, however, 
that someone had pulled the wool 
over Woollcott. 

In the second place, the glory of 
Brown was involved, and surely the 
alumni secretary should not be the 
first to deprive the University of any 
portion of her renown. And yet the 
alumni secretary was the first. It 
grieved Mr. Gurney. 

It all came about in this way: Mr. 
Woollcott, the premier authority on 
ripe, juicy American trademarks, la- 
bels, and names, has had often to rely 
on the honesty of others who have 
sent in morsels to add to his collec- 
tion. If a correspondent delights 
him by telling him about an Ootsy- 
tootsy Tea Shoppe or an Itty-Bitty- 
Bekkus-Puddy, Mr. Woolcott can 
only accept this contribution on its 
face value. But now Mr. Woollcott 
may be more careful. 

As he reported m "Shouts and 
Murmurs," in The AJeu' Tor\er, 
someone pleased him in June with 
news that a senior at Brown Univer- 
sity "rejoiced in the name of Over- 
bridge Horsey." Curious Brunonians 
asked if it could be so. Mr. Gurney, 
thorough-going keeper of alumni rec- 
ords, and Miss Himes, thorough- 
going assistant, searched, then shook 
their heads sadly. Brown has never 
known a Horsey, never. Someone 
was horsing Woollcott. 



six months in research work under Profes- 
sor Albert Einstein at the Institute for Ad- 
vanced Study at Princeton. Report is that 
he has written an account of his work at 
Princeton for publication in the October 
number of Annals of Mathematics. 

J. Harold Williams has become a member 
of the Board of Managers of The Players, 
the Providence dramatic society in the pro- 
ductions of which Jimmy has appeared from 
time to time, for the term ending in 1937. 

A. E. Griffin is sanitary engineer with the 
Wallace e? Tiernan Co., Inc., Newark, N. J. 
He is still living in Pompton Plains. At the 
54th annual convention of the American 
Water Works Association held June 4-8 in 
New York City he read a paper on "A 
Study of the Efficiency of the Ammonia- 
Chlorine Process." 

Rev. Earl H. Tomlin, pastor of Calvary 
Baptist Church, Providence, sailed on the 
Rex from New York June 23 for a visit to 
Palestine and then to Europe. He will spend 
this month in the Holy Land and will be in 
Berlin next month for the meetings of the 
World's Baptist Alliance. He plans to re- 
turn about the middle of September. Be- 
fore he went away his parishioners gave 
him a dinner and a purse of $500. 

1919 

Fred B. Perkins has been elected vice 
president of the Rhode Island Universalist 
Convention for 1934-35. 

Leland A. Wildes is an auditor with the 
Colonial Beacon Oil Company, Boston. He 



lives at 88 Oak Street, Greenwood, Mass. 
Watson Smith is working with an archae- 
ological expedition from the University of 
Chicago in Colorado this summer. During 
the past academic year he took courses in 
archaeology and other subjects at the Uni- 
versity of California at Los Angeles. In re- 
cent weeks he and Tom Black motored over 
a great deal of California, seeing friends 
from Los Angeles to San Francisco as well 
as some of the scenic spots of the State. 

1920 

Del Fuller, who has been teaching in 
Mount Morris, N. Y., the past year, re- 
ceived his A.M. in education from Colum- 
bia last month. 

Gaston Welton is on a trip around the 
world which will take him all the rest of 
this year and part of 193 5. 

Rev. Peter Marshall Curry, who received 
his A.M. from Brown in 1920, has become 
pastor of the newly-organiied Lakewood- 
Belmont Baptist Church, 63 25 Palo Pinto, 
Dallas, Texas. Since he left Brown he has 
been pastor of the Baptist Church in Bart- 
lett, Texas, and a member of the faculties of 
Decatur Baptist College and Oklahoma 
Baptist University. 

Dutee J. Hall has been elected president 
of the Harvard School of Business Admin- 
istration Club in New York City. 

1921 

Dr. Charles J. Fish is doing special work 
at the Oceanographic Institute, Woods 
Hole, Mass., this summer. In the fall he 
will become Assistant Professor of Zoology 
at Rhode Island State College. 

Russell P. Jones, of the law firm of Til- 
linghast 6? Collins, has been elected presi- 
dent of the Federal Hill House Association, 
which carries on numerous activities of a 
social and educational nature in the Federal 
Hill area of Providence. 

Ashley Greene has opened his new law 
offices in the Ashland Block, Suite 1613, 
155 North Clark street, Chicago, 111. 

Harold E. Magnuson has recently 
changed his address from Newtonville to 
47 Garden Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Lloyd C. Ely is a buyer's assistant with 
Marshall Field, department stores, and is 
living at the Hotel AUerton, 701 North 
Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111. 

1922 

John R. Stevens, who has been in the 
retail department stores business in Colum- 
bus, Ga., for the past two years, is back in 
Providence with his family and is living at 
161 Lenox avenue. A merger and a change 
in management made John decide that he 
would leave the South, which he liked, to 
try his fortune again in the No'th. 

Joseph W. Scharf of Scharf Bros., Inc., 
manufacturers and importers of fine can- 
dies and toffees, has removed his office to 
609-619 West 51st street. New York City. 
The Scharf factory now occupies a modern, 
daylight building at this location. 

R. W. Allen reports a change of address 
from Wickford, R. I., to 9 Summ.it avenue, 
Methuen, Mass. 

1923 

Fred E. Sweet, who has been in the De- 
partment of Romance Languages at Prince- 
ton and who has also been studying in 
Strasbourg in recent years, will become 
Assistant Professor of German in Beloit 
College, Beloit, Wis., next September. 

Ed Lincoln seems to be the good golfer 
he always was. Although he has played 
little tournament golf in late years and is 



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on the links at all only infrequently, he lecJ 
the field in the annual championship of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association. He turned in 
a 79 for the difficult Rhode Island Country 
Club course. 

Edward S. Skillings, who is in acturial 
work with New York City as his head- 
quarters, now has 104 Hicks street, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., as his mail address. 

George H. Young, member of the Class 
in Freshman year, has announced that he 
is a candidate for Commissioner of Bristol 
County, Massachusetts, and will make a 
contest at the Republican primaries in Sept- 
ember. Young left Brown to study law at 
Boston University and is an attorney in 
New Bedford. 

1925 

The honeymoon of Addie and Mrs. 
Poland in Bermuda in May was even more 
of an event because of their visits with Dr. 
Will Beebe on Nonsuch Island, and they 
also had the unusual opportunity of explor- 
ing the sea gardens in diving costume as 
guests of the director of the famous aquar- 
ium. The story of how the bride and 
groom foiled the kidnaping plot of a corps 
of ushers on the wedding night is one worth 
hearing, too. 

Brad Oxnard, successful as an amateur 
golfer, has gone into the sport in a business 
way, presiding over the Hillsgrove driving 
range. His play of a bridge hand was of in- 
terest to the great Culbertson who included 
it in his syndicated column. 

Harry L. Day now has the degree of 
M.D. to add to his Ph.B. from Brown and 
his B.D. from Andover-Newton Theolog- 
ical Seminary. He received it last month 
from Yale, and the title of his thesis was 
"The Utility of the Tuberculin Test in 
Adults." 

Bill Powers is headed for Hartford, 
Conn., where he will take over the manage- 
ment of the bakery of the First National 
Stores, a position similar to that he has held 
for the Providence district in recent years. 
1926 

Wes Wright, who has been in Shanghai, 
China, for the Union Carbon &? Carbide 
Corporation during the past three years 
came back on furlough last month and was 
visiting old friends in Providence and on 
the campus. 

Dick Place, in charge of the Woonsocket 
office of the Providence l^ews-Tribune, 
recently changed his residence to 263 Sum- 
mer street, Woonsocket. 



Edward S. Coons, Jr., has opened an 
ofHce at 141 Broadway, New York City, 
for the general practise of law. Ed says on 
his card that "special attention will be 
given to tax matters." 

George Cassidy, former Albany corres- 
pondent and "political sharp-shooter" for 
the Broo\lyn Times Union, has gone over 
to the T^ew Tork Post to do political writing 
there with a roving assignment, which sort 
of freedom is the ambition of most news- 
papermen. George has been doing New 
York State and City politics for seven years, 
and his work has appeared in a number of 
other papers outside the metropolitan area. 
He reports his twins, Patrick and Mar- 
tin, as thriving at the age of 15 months. 

John McCollum, sending in his contribu- 
tion to the Brown Alumni Fund, asks us 
please to note his change of address to 78 
Hawthorne Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Robert C. Knox and Mrs. Knox have the 
sympathy of the Class in the loss of their 
young daughter, Patricia Allen Knox, who 
died at the Knox summer home, Rumstick 
Point, Barrington, R. I., June 2, 1934. 

Al Parks and Mrs. Parks have removed 
from Providence to Saylesville, where Al is 
already cultivating a garden and figuring 
out the size of his potato crop for next fall. 

R. O. Gilmore received his A.M. in 
mathematics from Yale last month. His 
thesis was on "The Least Squares Problem 
and Some of its Generalizations." 

1927 

Paul O'Brien of the law firm of O'Brien, 
Driscoll and Raftery, New York City, sailed 
last month on the Georgic for a five weeks 
visit to Europe. 

Weston Stuart received the LL.B. degree 
from the New York Law School, June 1. 

Leon Wolcott has become vice president 
and secretary of the Equitable Service Cor- 
poration of New Jersey, the business of 
which is commercial credit. 

1928 

Dr. Jesse P. Eddy, 3rd, who has been an 
interne at Bellevue Hospital, New York, 
since he received his medical degree, has 
returned to Providence, where he and Mrs. 
Eddy and their daughter, Constance Burch, 
are living at 206 Elmgrove Avenue. 

John Cannon and Art Leonard are re- 
ported to be somewhere in the heart of Ar- 
kansas operating a lumber mill. (We fol- 
lowed up the report and found that the 
town is Berryville and that the name of 
their employer is the Southern Stone £# 
Timber Corporation.) 

Dr. Perry Sperber has become resident 
physician at Correction Hospital, Welfare 
Island, New York City. 

Ambrose McAIevy received the Ph.D. de- 
gree from Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology last month, his thesis dealing with 
the effects of vitamin D when applied in 
cases of rickets among children. 

Ritchie Stevens is a director of the Need- 
ham, Mass., Taxpayers' Association, which 
issued a bulletin in June that the Boston 
Herald cited editorially for its indictment 
of extravagance in the State Legislature — 
an extravagance, the bulletin said, that was 
a menace to local economy. The Herald 
printed the names of the directors, saying 
that the citizens of Needham should feel 
grateful to them. 

1929 

William Fain not only earned his degree 
of Doctor of Medicine at Tufts this year 



but received the citation magna cum laude 
as well. 

Boston University Medical School 
awarded its degree of Doctor of Medicine 
to A. F. Marzilli of Providence this June. 

Sam Bridgham is now a full-fledged 
M.D., too, having received the degree from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia, last month. 

Russell Jones is working for the Travel- 
ers' Insurance Company in Cleveland, O. 

Fred Bentley has opened a law office in 
Cleveland, O., while Steve Crilly has left 
that well known city to enter the law offices 
of a firm in Chicago. We hope to hear from 
Steve soon, getting report on his new sur- 
roundings and work. 

Jack Nimrao is back in Detroit, we hear, 
after having spent six months in Japan. 
Some of Jack's cronies wonder why he 
went, other than to write some pieces for 
his father's paper, Detroit Saturday Jsjight, 
but George Dyer '31 says that Jack brought 
back many interesting gadgets. 

Leonard Feiner received his LL.B. de- 
gree from Boston University last month. 

Fred Smythe is a member of the sales staff 
of Procter 6? Gamble Company, soaps and 
soap powders and such, with his headquar- 
ters at 205 East 42nd Street, New York 
City. Fred still claims Rochester, N. Y., as 
his home. 

Dr. Charles Zurawski was the recipi- 
ent of the Gaither Memorial Prize at 
the University of Maryland's Commence- 
ment this year, named because of his out- 
standing work in genito-urinary surgery. 
The award, which bears the name of Dr. 
A. Bradley Gaither, was bestowed at the 
alumni dinner of the Medical School. Dr. 
Zurawski, who did graduate work in bi- 
ology at Harvard after his graduation from 
Brown, is co-author of a biological paper, 
"Bipolar excretion in the cell of the acti- 
vated thyroid of the California newt," pre- 
sented before the American Association of 
Anatomists at Columbia University Medi- 
cal School in 1932. He was interne at St. 
Agnes Hospital in Baltimore last summer 
and has received appointment for the com- 
ing year at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital 
in Chicago. 

1930 

Bob Booth is a research chemist with the 
American Cyanamid fs" Chemical Company, 
Linden, N. J. 

Howie Smith and Mrs. Smith (they were 
married last fall, you know) are living at 
100 Yale Street, Stratford, Conn. 

Dave Dodge is a doctor now, having re- 
ceived his M.D. from the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, Columbia, last month. 

Louis Lippitt, with his degree of M.D. 
from Hahnemann Medical College, Phila- 
delphia, is an interne at the Homeopathic 
Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence. 
Louis's father was a practising physician in 
Providence for more than 30 years and was 
president of the Rhode Island Medical So- 
ciety for several terms. 

Dr. Henry B. Tillman is on duty this 
summer at Bellevue Hospital, New York 
City. He will begin an interneship at the 
Springfield, Mass., Hospital next January. 
He won his M.D. at Cornell University 
Medical Colle/e in June. 

Harold Ribner, with his M.D. from Tufts 
to add to his bachelor's degree from Brown, 
is an interne at the Bridgeport, Conn., Gen- 
eral Hospital. H. B. Marks and Lewis T. 
Bennett "28 also received their medical de- 
grees from Tufts at last Commencement. 



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1931 

Wallace DePuy and Milton Small re- 
ceived the LL.B. degree at Columbia last 
month. 

Kenneth L. Palmer was ordained to the 
Baptist ministry at Auburndale Baptist 
Church, Springfield, Mass., June 8, 1934. 
Ordination followed award of the B. D. de- 
gree by the Andover-Newton Theological 
Seminary, where Ken has been studying 
since he left Brown. 

Paul Monahan, in the Accounting De- 
partment, General Electric Company, has 
transferred his headquarters from Bridge- 
port, Conn., to the main offices at One 
River Road, Schenectady, N. Y. 

Rev. Raymond Stewart Hall — our own 
Ray — was ordained in the diaconate of the 
Episcopal Church by Rt. Rev. Henry K. 
Sherrill, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, at 
St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, Mass., June 
15. He will begin his career in the church 
as curate of Christ Church, Fitchburg, 
Mass. Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, D.D., 
rector of Grace Church, Providence, and a 
former rector of St. Stephen's, preached the 
ordination sermon. 

Elwood Hopkins and Leo Friedman have 
LL.B. degrees to produce on request, hav- 
ing won them at Yale last month. 

So Jack Gillies is the next man in the 
Class to admit that he is preparing to desert 
the ranks of the bachelors. There is report 
of his engagement in another column. Jack 
is with Pouch (i Co., investments. One 
Wall Street, New York City. 

Dan Jacobs was among those to receive a 
law degree at Harvard this June. 

1932 

Jerry Bronstein is connected with the 
.stock company at the Griswold Hotel, Grot- 
on. Conn., for the summer and had a part in 
the first bill, "Pursuit of Happiness," in 
which June Walker starred. The Sock and 
Buskin alumnus, who is using Gerald 
Brown as his stage name, is living at 900 
Ocean Avenue, New London, during the 
season. 

Dave Scott, whose marriage is reported 
elsewhere in this issue, sailed for England 
on business the first of the month and was 
joined by his bride a fortnight later. 

M. M. Perrett, Jr., received the degree of 
J.D. at the 176th Convocation of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, June 12. He will take 
the bar examinations in Illinois, we under- 
stand. 

Russ Carpenter, member of the Class in 
Freshman and Sophomore years, received 
the D.M.D. degree from Harvard last 
month. He is following in the footsteps of 
his father, who is a dentist in Providence. 

Ray Andrew and Mrs. Andrew are occu- 
pying their new house at 38 Kelley Avenue, 
Rumford, R. I. Ray is a chemist with the 
United States Oil Company in Providence. 

Chet Lawton is working for the Socony- 
Vacuum Oil Company in his home town of 
Newport. 

Sid Weinberg reports a shift of activities 
from the Arcadia Theatre, Portsmouth, 
N. H., to the Strand Theatre, Lawrence, 
Mass. 

Bob Lorentj asks us please to note his 
change of address to 32 Elmwood Avenue, 
East Orange, N. J. 

1933 
Earl C. Hochwald, who has been student 
pastor of the Hebron Baptist Church, Attle- 
boro, Mass., has resigned to accept the asso- 
ciate pastorate of Immanuel Baptist Church, 
Newton, Mass. 



Tom Webber received the Sc.M. degree 
from the University of Illinois last month. 

Bill Whittemore, with the United Elec- 
tric Railway, is living at 3 5 Hanover Street, 
Providence. 

George Nikola, former member of the 
Class, received the Doctor of Osteopathy 
degree from the Philadelphia College of 
Osteopathy last month. 

Fred Bassett is a member of the city staff 
of the Chicago American. One of Fred's 
friends tells us that last summer a Chicago 
newspaper printed this paragraph about the 
time Governor Theodore Francis Green '87 
visited the Century of Progress: "The 
Blank restaurant at Italia continues to serve 
a succession of distinguished patrons. Man- 
ager Curotto reports Governor Green of 
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Bassett, Jr., 6246 Kenmore Ave., who 
attended Bonn University with the Gov- 
ernor." 

A broken wrist kept Tom Gilbane from 
competing in the New England Amateurs 
and other track meets during the late 
spring. 



Vital Statistics 



ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Katherinc Harris, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. David Harris of New York, to 
Leon Goldberg '21, also of New York City. 

Miss Veronica A. McNulty, daughter of 
Mrs. Edward A. McNulty of Pawtucket, to 
Charles E. Mangan '22, also of Pawtucket. 

Miss Molly Field, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Haskell Field of Providence, to Jacob 
Seegal '30, also of Providence. 

Miss Noella Louise Martin, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Martin of Green- 
wich, Conn., to John C. Gillies "31 of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Miss Alice Margaret Dee, daughter of 
Mr, and Mrs. John A. Dee of Somerville, 
Mass., to Edward V. Osberg '3 1 of Phila- 
delphia. 

Miss Rhea Leavitt, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel Leavitt of Providence, to Os- 
car F. Schneider '31 of Newark, N. J. 

Miss Edith Mae Tittle, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles O. Tittle and a member 
of the Class of 1935, Pembroke, to Bertram 
E. Humphries '34 of Metuchen, N. J. 

Miss Harriet Hamilton, daughter of Rol- 
land J. Hamilton of Bronxville, N. Y., to 
David C. Moore, 3rd, "34, also of Bronx- 
ville. 



Faculty — Professor George Lyle Church 
of the Department of Botany and Miss 
Margaret Fobes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Willard Henry Fobes, were married in 
Cambridge, Mass., June 16, 1934. Mrs. 
Church has been head of the Music Depart- 
ment in the Mary C. Wheeler School. 

Faculty — Rev. Dudley Tyng, professor 
of Biblical Literature, and Miss Eleanor F. 
Hutchings of Springfield, Mass., were mar- 
ried in Fitchburg, Mass., on June 26. They 
will make their home at 125 Tiffany Street, 
Attleboro, Mass. 

Faculty — Professor William C. Young of 
the Department of Biology and Miss Ruth 
Annie Hobby '34, Pembroke, were mar- 
ried in Fairhaven, Mass., June 19, 1934. 
After a wedding trip to Honolulu, they will 
be at home at 123 Thayer Street, Provi- 
dence. 

1907 — Henry G. Clark and Miss Mar- 
jorie Peugnet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Ramsay Peugnet, were married in Bronx- 
ville, N. Y., June 22, 1934. Mr. and Mrs. 



Clark will be at home at Shanamar, Wake- 
field, R. I. 

1919 — Samuel Temkin and Miss Ruth 
Etta Ganz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis 
Gans, were married in Sharon, Mass., June 
7, 1934. Jacob S. Temkin '26 was best 
man, and the ushers included Charles Bolo- 
tow '19, Arthur H. Fciner '22, and Irving 
A. Beck "3 2. Mr. and Mrs. Temkin will 
live in Providence. 

1923 — Howard L. Falcs and Miss Bar- 
bara Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Ward E. Smith, were married in West War- 
wick, R. I., May 26, 1934. They arc at 
home in Greenville, R. L 

1924 — Professor Arlan R. Coolidge of 
the Department of Music and Miss Sylvia 
Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. 
Clark of Jackson Heights, N. Y., were mar- 
ried in New York City, June 21, 1934. 
Arthur W. Packard '25 was best man. Mr. 
and Mrs. Coolidge are at home at 380 Lloyd 
Avenue, Providence. 

1924 — Harold R. Moorhouse and Miss 
Cora Louise Wyant were married in Erie, 
Pa., June 2, 1934. They are living in 
Cleveland, O., where Mr. Moorhouse is 
with the Arthur McKee Engineering Com- 
pany. 

1925 — Frederick M. Palmer and Miss 
Elmerta Caroline Vose, daughter of Mrs. 
Harriet Vose of Cumberland, were married 
in Manville, R. I., June 4, 1934. They are 
living in Slatersville, R. I. 

1927 — Frederic J. McGrath and Miss 
Margaret I. Sutherland, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. William Sutherland, were married 
in Morris Plains, N. J., June 18, 1934. 
They are living in Franklyn Place, Morris 
Plains. 

1927— Milton H. Cobb and Miss Doris 
R. Martin of Lynn, Mass., were married in 
New York City, Feb. 18, 1934. 

1928 — Hugh C. Leininger and Miss 
Mary Marston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles I. Marston, were married in Shaker 
Heights, Cleveland, O., June 6, 1934. They 
are living at 15700 S. Park Boulevard, 
Shaker Heights. 

1930 — Ernest A. Cutler and Miss Ber- 
tha A. Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
John G. L. Anderson, were married in 
Woodhaven, N. Y., June 12, 1934. 

1931 — George S. Wattendorf and Miss 
Mary Elizabeth O'Meara, daughter of Dr. 



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John G. O'Meara and Dr. C. Elizabeth 
O'Meara, were married in Providence, June 
14, 1934. They will live in Sharon, Mass. 

193 2 — Marion A. Cancelliere and Miss 
Helen Louise Shaw, daughter of Mrs. 
Charles R. Shaw, were married in McKees- 
port. Pa., June 2, 1934. They will live in 
McKcesport. 

193 2 — David Hart Scott, son of A. L. 
Scott '00, and Miss Katherine Everhara 
Gorton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George 
E. Gorton of Newport, R. I., were married 
on June 25, 1934. Mrs. Scott was a grad- 
uate of Pembroke in 1931. 

193 2 — Raymond K. Andrew and Miss 
Jessie Wallace, daughter of Mrs. Jessie 
Wallace, were married in Pawtucket, June 
14, 1934. Milton I. Bennett "32 was best 
man. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew are living at 
38 Kelley Avenue, Rumford, R. I. 

1933 — William P. Hutchinson and Miss 
Nancy Sutton Spalding, daughter of Mrs. 
Willard Floyd Spalding, were married in 
Swampscott, Mass., June 10, 1934. S. Ab- 
bott Hutchinson '31 was his brother's best 



man. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are at home 
at 17 Robert Road, Chapel Pines, Marble- 
head, Mass. 

193 3 — Creighton B. Calfee and Miss 
Betty Cantrell Bay, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Mansfield C. Bay, were married in St. 
Louis, Mo., June 12, 1934. They will soon 
be at home at 7514 Byron Place, St. Louis. 

1934 — James E. Heap, Jr., and Miss 
Helen Hapgood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Cyrus H. Hapgood, were married in Nut- 
ley, N. J., June 16, 1934. They are living 
in Washington, D. C. 

1934 — Harold M. Sauers and Miss Doro- 
thy Stoughton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward L. Stoughton, were married in 
Longmeadow, Mass., June 2, 1934. They 
will be at home after Aug. 1 at 199 Bel- 
mont Avenue, Springfield, Mass. 

1934 — Thomas A. Chapman and Miss 
Clarice A. Pitta, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
John C. Pitta of New Bedford, Mass., were 
married in Attleboro, Mass., June 17, 1934. 
Judge Walter A. Briggs '06 performed the 
ceremony. 



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BIRTHS 

1909— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Stone 
of Indianapolis, their first child, a daughter, 
in April, 1934. 

1918--To Mr. and Mrs. H. F. C. Wilcox 
of Providence, a daughter, Sally William- 
son, June 16, 1934. 

1924~To Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Goff 
of Providence, a daughter, Jane Williams, 
May 30, 1934. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Eric P. Hanson 
of Providence, a daughter, Nancy Hope, 
May 30, 1934. 

1926— To Mr. and Mrs. William H. 
Swectland, Jr., of Providence, a son, Wil- 
liam Howard Sweetland, 3rd, June 8, 1934. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawrence 
McElroy of Pawtucket, a daughter, Joan 
Elizabeth, May 18, 1934. 

1927A— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. 
McMillan of Providence, a second son, 
Joseph Donald, May 5, 1934. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. 
Brown of New York City, a son, Peter 
Irwin, June 4, 1934. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. George Lysle of 
Pelham, N. Y., a daughter, Ruth Anne, 
May 7, 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. 
Leonard of Eden Park, R. I., a son, Charles 
Bradford Leonard, Jr., May 14, 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Safford 
of New York City, a son, Jeffrey Jaeger, 
May 14, 1934. 



Those We Mourn 



1872 

Dr. Henry Ward Parker, whose family 
was prominent in the industrial and civic 
life of New Bedford for many years, died 
in New Bedford, Mass., May 24, 1934. He 
had been sick for a long time. 

Born in New Bedford, Nov. 2, 1849, the 
son of Ward M. and Marcia F. (Lewis) 
Parker, he prepared for college under a 
private tutor, and after graduation from 
Brown entered Harvard Medical School, 
where he stayed for one year. Withdrawing 
to go into business, he established a drug 
store in New Bedford, sold out at the end 
of four years and removed to New York 
City, where he was associated with Smith's 
Homeopathic Pharmacy. On his return to 
New Bedford he opened another drug store. 
The death of his father, successful business 
man, caused him to give up his own business 
to manage the Parker estate. In 1885 he 
resumed the study of medicine at Harvard, 
took his degree in 1890, but there is no 
record that he ever practised. His brother, 
David L. Parker, was Mayor of New Bed- 
ford, postmaster, and member of the Gov- 
ernor's Council. A bachelor. Dr. Parker is 
survived by a sister, Mrs. Lydia P. Mitchell 
of Brookline, Mass., a niece. Miss Marion 
Parker, and several nephews. 
1873 

Rev. Edwin Pickett Farnham, D.D., pas- 
tor emeritus of the Community Church, 
Great Neck, N. Y., died June 4, 1934, in 
the New England Doctors' Hospital, Rox- 
bury, Mass., after an operation for a throat 
infection. He attended the Brown dinner 
in New York in March and received trib- 
ute as the oldest alumnus of the metropoli- 
tan area. 

"His life has now broadened like a river 
sweeping on toward the sea." the late Presi- 



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dent Faunce wrote of him in 1929, "and he 
has Rotten beyond all creeds and liturgies in 
his Community Church, to which all creeds 
are admitted and in which all forms of serv- 
ice are welcome." 

President Faunce, as an undergraduate, 
was organist at the old Friendship Baptist 
Church, Providence, while Dr. Farnham 
was the minister, and their friendship re- 
mained unbroken through the years. 

Dr. Farnham was born in Morris, Litch- 
field County, Conn., Jan. 21, 1849, the son 
of William H. and Huldah M. (Pickett) 
Farnham. He came to Brown from what is 
now Sufiield School, and after graduation 
taught at Harminton Academy in Con- 
necticut for a year before entering Roches- 
ter Theological Seminary. Ordained a Bap- 
tist minister in 1877, he held pastorates in 
Providence (the church is now Calvary 
Baptist), Yonkers, N. Y., Minneapolis and 
Richfield, Minn., and Salem, Mass. He 
resigned from the Salem Church in 1903 to 
become superintendent of the Church Ex- 
tension Society of Brooklyn and Queens, 
and in 1917 he went to the Community 
Church as pastor. He retired in 1928 with 
the title of pastor emeritus. 

Dr. Farnham was a charter member of 
the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit 
Board of the Northern Baptist Convention, 
a past president of the Massachusetts State 
Christian Endeavor Union, the Massachu- 
setts Baptist Missionary Society, the Baptist 
Ministers Conference of New York, and a 
former secretary of the Brooklyn City Mis- 
sionary Society. In 1903 he received the 
honorary degree of D.D. from Brown. He 
was the author of numerous addresses, ser- 
mons, and magazine articles, and was a 
member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Up- 
silon. He was married June 26, 1879, to 
Miss J. Adelaide Mather, who died in 1888, 
leaving a daughter who is now Mrs. Alice 
J. F. Bartlett. His second marriage took 
place July 16, 1889, to Miss Gertrude Rich- 
ardson, who survives, with three daughters, 
Mrs. Gertrude P. Howsen, and the Misses 
Elizabeth and Ruth Farnham. 

1873 

John Brown Grinnell, who died in Mys- 
tic, Conn., June 2, 1934, had for many 
years been one of the active and substantial 
citizens of the town in which he was born 
July 7, 1850, the son of Charles and Eliza 
A. (Brown) Grinnell. He prepared for 
college at the old Mystic Valley Institute 
and made excellent record as a student at 
Brown. After graduation he enrolled at 
Albany Law School, won his LL.B. in 1875, 
and returned to Mystic, where he com- 
menced the practice of law. Owing to cir- 
cumstances which, he used to say, he felt 
bound to follow, he gave up the law for 
business. His first business position was in 
an executive capacity with the Standard 
Machinery Company of Mystic. He was 
also an executive with the Eaton, Cole & 
Burnham Company, Bridgeport, Conn., 
and the Crane Company in the same city. 

Retiring about ten years ago he returned 
to Mystic and gave his whole time to civic 
and social work in the community. He was 
secretary and treasurer of the Mystic Visit- 
ing Nurse Association and of the Mystic 
Industrial Company; treasurer of the Mys- 
tic Village Improvement Society; treasurer 
and assessor of the Mystic Fire District; 
and treasurer of the Mystic Country Club. 
He was an honorary member of the Mystic 
Hook and Ladder Company. He also be- 



longed to Rhode Island Alpha, Phi Beta 
Kappa, having been elected while a Senior 
at Brown. He was married Oct. 26, 1881, 
to Miss Jennie E. Waldo of Wallingford, 
Vt. Two nephews, George Victor Grinnell 
and G. Edward Grinnell of Mystic, and a 
niece, Mrs. C. DeWar Simons, 3rd, of 
Staten Island, N. Y., survive him. 

"I've never been in the limelight," he 
wrote several years ago, "but I've always 
been interested in public questions and 
citizen welfare." 

1879 

Rev. Francis Hubbard Viets, who died at 
his home in Waltham, Mass., June 8, 1934, 
had the unusual experience of celebrating 
in his life three 50th anniversaries, those of 
his classes at Brown and Yale, and the an- 
niversary of his marriage. He had been 
active as a Congregational minister for 33 
years. 

He was born in East Granby, Conn., 
Sept. 16, 1854, the son of Benjamin E. 
and Anna (Hubbard) Viets, and he came 
to Brown from the Connecticut Literary 
Institution, now known as SufEeld School. 
From Brown he entered Yale Divinity 
School, from which he received the B.D. 
degree in 1882. Having been ordained as a 
Congregational minister in the same year, 
he began his career in the church at River- 
ton, Conn., where he remained five years. 
Successive pastorates were: East Wood- 
stock and North Woodstock, Conn., 1887- 
89; Buckingham, Conn., 1899-1903; and 
Boxborough, Mass., 1903-15. He lived in 
Providence for a short time before assum- 
ing his duties at Boxborough. His hobby 
was genealogy, and in 1902 he published 
the "Genealogy of the Viets Family with 
Biographical Sketches." He belonged to 
the First Congregational Church of Wal- 
tham, the Suffolk West Association of Con- 
gregational Ministers, the Golden Rule 
Brotherhood of the Congregational Church, 
and the Moulton class of the First Baptist 
Church, Waltham. He was married May 
23, 1883, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, 
who survives, with two daughters, the 
Misses Marion A. and Ruby E. Viets, and 
a son, Paul W. Viets of Plymouth, Mass. 
Henry O. Tripp represented the Class at 
the funeral. 

1886 

The Secretary records with regret the 
death of Rev. Charles Albert Parker in San 
Jose, Calif., May 3, 1934. A future issue of 
the Alumni Monthly will carry an ac- 
count of Parker's career. 

1898 

The Alumni Office has confirmed the re- 
port of the death of Walter Amer Guile, Jr., 
in New York City, Jan. 19, 1934. A sud- 
den heart attack was the cause. 

Guile was a native of Oswego Falls, 
N. Y., where he was born Sept. 1, 1875, 
the son of Walter A. and Eunice A. (Mosh- 
er) Guile. At Brown he was manager of 
the football eleven in 1897, and was other- 
wise prominent in extra-curricular affairs. 
In his business career since graduation he 
had been selling agent for the Earnscliffe 
Worsted Mills, secretary and treasurer of 
the Merchant Tailors' Co-operative Society, 
and a manufacturer of chemicals. In recent 
years he had been out of touch with his 
classmates and with the college. 

He was married Nov. 20, 1901, to Miss 
Lucy Ann Bates '98, Pembroke College, 
who survives, with his mother, Mrs. Eunice 



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of Trenton, N. J. His fraternity was Alpha 
Tau Omega. 

1899 

Russell Crosby Lowell, who started voca- 
tional work in the Providence schools, died 
in Providence, June 6, 1934. A native of 
Boston, where he was born May 19, 1877, 
the son of John R. and Ruth I. (Crosby) 
Lowell, he prepared at Providence English 
High School and after graduation from 
Brown became a student teacher at the 
Hope Street High School for a year. 

He was submaster of Amherst, Mass., 
High School, 1900-01; assistant teacher at 
Technical High School, Providence, 1901- 
04; teacher of mathematics and physics and 
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On return to civil life he was assistant 
superintendent of schools in Indianapolis, 
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til June, 1922. Since 1922 he had been con- 
sulting engineer, with special attention to 
personnel, and sales engineer. He was a 
former president of the Providence High 
School Men Teachers' Association and of 
the Providence Association of Mechanical 
Engineers. He was a member of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science and the American Personnel As- 
sociation. He was married June 30, 1903, 
to Miss Mabel G. Mackay, who survives, 
with a sister, Miss Linda May Lowell '04, 
Pembroke. 

1899 

Dr. Fred Albert Simmons, the only 
Brown undergraduate to see active service 
in Cuba in the Spanish-American War, 
died in Boston, May 27, 1934, after an ill- 
ness of two days. He was a specialist of 
the nose, ear and throat, and was well 
known throughout New England. 

Born in North Adams, Mass., Sept. 16, 
1877, the son of Albert H. and Mary A. 
(Campbell) Simmons, he came to Brown 
from the Adams High School, went to Cuba 
with Company M, Second Massachusetts 
Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of 
San Juan Hill. After graduation from 
Brown he went to the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, Columbia, won his M.D. in 
1903; and from 1903 to 1905 was interne 
at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and 
Staten Island General Hospital. 

He commenced practice in Brockton, 
Mass., where he was a member of the Medi- 
cal Advisory Board during the World War. 
Removing to Boston in 1920 he soon built 
up an extensive practice and became a lead- 
ing specialist in his field. He served as asso- 
ciate aural surgeon at the Massachusetts 
Eye and Ear Infirmary, associate laryngolo- 
gist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 
and instructor in aural diseases at Harvard 
Medical School. He was a Fellow of the 
American Board of Otolarynology, a mem- 
ber of the American Medical Association, 
the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New 
England Otological, Laryngological Soci- 
ety, the Commercial and University Clubs 
of Boston, the Harvard Club of Boston, 
Damocles Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and a 
3 2nd degree Mason. His fraternity was 
Beta Theta Pi. He wrote the history of 
Company M, Second Massachusetts Infan- 
try, in the Spanish-American War and nu- 
merous surgical monographs. He was mar- 
ried Sept. 6, 1905, to Miss Geneva A. Cobb 
of Providence, who survives, with a son, 
Dr. Fred A. Simmons, Jr., two brothers, 
and a sister. 

1900 

James Warren's sudden death in New 
York City, May 3 1, 1934, was a shock to all 
of his friends. Warren had been under 
medical care for some time, according to the 
newspapers. His wife and daughter. Miss 
Elisabeth Warren, were on their way home 
from Europe at the time of his death. 

Born in Providence, Oct. 28, 1877, the 
son of Charles H. and Annie R. (Nightin- 
gale) Warren, he came to Brown from 
Mowry y Goff's English and Classical 



School. Shortly after he received his de- 
gree he went to Sheffield, England, where 
he spent two years in the mills of William 
Jessop y Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of steel. 
In November, 1902, he returned to this 
country to become assistant manager of the 
Jessop Steel Company, Washington, Pa. 
From 1904 to 1908 he was general manager 
and assistant treasurer of the company. 
Then he resigned to join the staff of Storcr 
y Bishop, public accountants, Boston; and 
in 1910 he received the degree of Certified 
Public Accountant from the State of Mas- 
sachusetts. In 1912 he became general 
manager and treasurer of the Wheeler 
Foundry Company, Worcester, Mass. He 
was works manager of the Universal Roll- 
ing Mill Company, Bridgeville, Pa., 1916- 
18; works manager of the Superior Steel 
Corporation, Carnegie, Pa., 1918-22; man- 
ufacturing executive for the Lalance y 
Grosjean Mfg. Company, Woodhaven, 
N. Y., 1922-27; works manager of the 
Rome Manufacturing Company, 1927-29; 
and vice president and treasurer of the Na- 
tional Electrotype Company, New York 
City, since January, 1931. 

His widow, who was Miss Gertrude Ing- 
ham and whom he married Sept. 15, 1913, 
and his daughter are his only survivors. His 
fraternity was Psi Upsilon. 
1902 

A few hours after graduation exercises 
had been conducted at the school, George 
West Hathaway, principal of the Nathan 
Bishop Junior High School in Providence, 
died on June 21, 1934. His career of 30 
years' teaching in Rhode Island schools will 
be considered in the next issue of the 
Alumni Monthly. 

1903 

Dr. Clarence Van Reynegom Bumsted, 
authority on tuberculosis and one of the 
best known physicians in New Jersey, died 
at his home in Newark, May 27, 1934, after 
a long illness. 

He was born in Jersey City, N. J., April 
7, 1879, the son of Joseph H. and Frances 
(Van Reynegom) Bumsted. He entered 
Brown from Colgate Academy, was one of 
the leaders in undergraduate affairs during 
his years on the Hill, and gave good account 
of himself as a pre-medical student. In 1907 
he won his M.D. degree at the University 
of Pennsylvania, served as interne at Epis- 
copal Hospital, Philadelphia, and did spe- 
cial work at the Presbyterian, Lying-in, and 
Post Graduate Hospitals in New York City 
before commencing practice in Newark in 
1909. He was medical inspector of the 
Newark schools in 1910; and for the past 
20 years he had been attending physician 
at St. Barnabas Hospital and at the Babies 
Hospital; consulting physician at the Essex 
Mountain Sanitorium for Tuberculosis; and 
special attending physician at Lake Placid 
General Hospital, Lake Placid, N. Y., 
where he had his summer home. 

During the World War he was a mem- 
ber of Medical Advisory Board, No. 1, 
Newark. He was the author of articles on 
tuberculosis, the first of which appeared in 
the Journal of the Medical Society of New 
Jersey in 1913. He was a Fellow of the 
American College of Physicians and the 
New York Academy of Medicine, and a 
member of the New York and New Jersey 
State Medical Societies, the New Jersey 
Pediatric Society, the Pathological Society 
of New Jersey, the Historical Society of 
New Jersey, the Practitioners Club of 
Newark, the Essex Country Club, Phi 



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Alpha Sigma, a medical fraternity, and 
Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was married Jan. 
14, 1908, to Miss Mary Wentz, who sur- 
vives, with two daughters, the Misses Mar- 
jorie Sharpe and Katherine W. Bumsted, 
and a son, William J. Bumsted. 
1904 

Harry Vincent Ball, halfback on the 
Brown football eleven of 1900 when Libe 
Washburn, captain, and Tom Barry were 
regulars, died at the Massachusetts General 
Hospital, Boston, June 1, 1934, after an 
illness of several months. At the time of 
his death he was vice president and director 
of R. Hoe 6? Co., Inc., manufacturers of 
newspaper presses; and he had the reputa- 
tion of having closed a few years ago the 
largest order for newspaper presses ever 
given. 

When he came to Brown from the Eng- 
lish High School, Boston, he was the star 
schoolboy halfback of the Boston area. In 
a game with Boston Latin School he scored 
the entire 23 points made by his eleven. He 
also had other noteworthy feats to his 
credit, and one Boston commentator, in a 
recent review of schoolboy players, rated 
Ball as "an all-time marvel." He rowed on 
the crew at English High and was adjutant 
III the cadet regiment. 

He stayed only the Freshman year at 
Brown, the death of his father causing him 
to withdraw. He went to work for the 
United Shoe Machinery Company and like- 
wise studied at Lowell Institute. In 1906 he 
joined the Hoe company, spent about ten 
years in the Canadian office at Montreal, 
and then came back to the United States. 
He became vice president of the company 
in 1926 and a director last April. He trav- 
eled in many parts of this country and Can- 
ada, and also in Mexico, and he had a wide 
acquaintance among newspaper publishers 
and pressroom foremen. His widow, who 
was Miss Lillian Brown of Boston and 
whom he married in 1908, survives, togeth- 
er with three brothers and three .sisters. 
His fraternity was Beta Theta Pi. 
1905 

Thomas Albert Welch, shoe manufactur- 
er, and former Brown athlete, died at his 
home in Lynn, Mass., June 5, after having 
been sick for the past several months with 
a heart ailment. "He was a golf enthusiast, 
lover of baseball and other forms of ath- 
letics," said one of the Lynn newspapers, 
which also recalled his schoolboy days and 
his activities as a roller polo player with the 
White Mice, the champion team of its time. 

Tom Welch was born in Lynn, Oct. 28, 
1880, the son of Martin E. and Lillian L. 
Welch. His father was one of the pioneer 
shoe manufacturers of the city. Tom pre- 
pared at English High School, where he 
pitched on the baseball team, and at Brown 
was a member of the baseball team for two 
years, and on the Brown University Ath- 
letic Board and the Cammarian Club. After 
graduation he became a salesman with his 
father's firm of Welch 6? Landregan. Then 
he advanced to superintendent of the com- 
pany, which was one of the largest manu- 
facturers of women's shoes in New England. 
Following the dissolution of the firm, Tom 
and his brother, Edward C. Welch, and 
Reuben Mitchell organized the Welch, 
Mitchell Shoe Company, which operated in 
West Lynn and which continued in business 
until a few years ago when Tom Welch's 
health forced him to withdraw. 

Since retirement Tom had been living 
quietly in Lynn, with golf and billiards his 



chief recreations. He was a member of the 
Oxford Club, the Tedesco Club, and Theta 
Delta Chi. He was married June 8, 1910, 
to Miss Lydia Dunwoody of Joplin, Mo., 
who survives, with a son, Thomas D. 
Welch; a daughter. Miss Barbara Welch; 
his mother, brother, and a sister, Mrs. Ar- 
thur E. Mailey. 

1919 

Stricken with pneumonia while on a busi- 
ness trip, Wilbur Reginald Anderson died 
in St. Elisabeth Hospital, Brighton, Mass., 
March 9, 1934. He had been ill ten days. 
"He had a host of friends in this city," 
said the Meriden, Conn., Record. 

A native of Meriden, where he was born 
Jan. J, 1898, the son of John P. and Augus- 



ta (Hilberg) Anderson, he came to Brown 
from Meriden High School, and after grad- 
uation went to work as a member of the 
sales force of the Estabrook Pen Company. 
He left this company at the end of a year to 
go with the International Silver Company, 
Meriden, with which he remained until 
1927. Then he became treasurer and secre- 
tary of the Silver City Glass Company, 
which he organized and with which he con- 
tinued until his death. 

He was married April 11, 1925, to Miss 
Helen E. Johnson, who survives, with a 
daughter, Barbara J. Anderson, who is six 
and a half years old. His father, John P. 
.Anderson, is also living. Anderson was a 
member of Phi Gamma Delta. 



Pembroke Chronicle 



The Alumnae Day Pro^ra'm 

Tm- Alumnae Day activities, under the 
chairmanship of Mrs. Dorothy Beals 
Brown '18, were particularly success- 
lul. The business meeting of the Alumnae 
.Association was held at 2 P. M. in the 
Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall, with the 
President, Mrs. Alice Manchester Chase 
'05 presiding, and was preceded by class 
luncheons. 

Dean Morriss gave interesting informa- 
tion about the college and especially its 
program for publicity. Mrs. Nettie Goodale 
Murdock '95, presented her final report as 
Alumnae Representative on the Executive 
Committee ol Pembroke College and Mar- 
ion S. Cole 07 was nominated to succeed 
Mrs. Murdock. The Corporation of Brown 
University makes the final choice. Mrs. 
Mildred Bosworth Brown '13 was elected 
for a second term as First Vice-President, 
Mrs. Wilhelmina Bennett Cox '16 was 
elected Recording Secretary, and Miss Beat- 
rice F. Kohlberg '12 was elected Treasurer. 
Various interesting reports which were pre- 
sented included that of Helen F. Mulvey 
'3 3, holder of the Anne Crosby Emery 
Fellowship. 

The Garden Party followed the business 
meeting. In the receiving line were Dean 
Morriss, President Barbour, Governor 
Theodore Francis Green, Professor Henry 
T. Fowler, who retires this year, Mrs. A. 
de F. Palmer, and Mrs, Alice M. Chase. 

The rally and initiation of seniors was 
held on the terrace of Alumnae Hall, with 
Mrs. Mary Randall Gates '99 as mistress of 
ceremonies. 

Nearly three hundred alumnae attended 
the reunion supper. Dean Morriss pre- 
sented her cup to the class of 1916 for hav- 
ing the largest proportion of the class back 
for the supper. This class proved very effec- 
tive as song-birds as did also 1929 and 
1931. 

Miss Ollie A. Randall was the speaker on 
Commencement Day at the special alumnae 
exercises in Alumnae Hall. The auditorium 
was filled almost to capacity and the ad- 
dress which she gave was so admirable that 
many alumnae have requested that it be 
printed in full. 



The Dix System 

FIVI-: years ago the Alumnae Association 
adopted the Dix System of reunions. 
This means that over a period of 17 or 18 
years each class returns with every class 
which was contemporary with it. After a 
five-year trial it has been pronounced a de- 
cided success. In addition to the classes re- 
turning under the Dix system, we have kept 
the first, third, fifth, 25th and 40th re- 
unions. The classes which were back this 
year were 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1909, 
1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1929, 1931, and 
1933. 1904 and 1924 celebrated unoffi- 
cially their 30th and 10th reunions. 



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Citing Miss La Dame 

MISS Mary La Dame '06, Associate Di- 
rector of the United States Employ- 
ment Service of the United States Depart- 
ment of Labor in Washington, was cited by 
the Alumnae Association on Alumnae Day. 
Miss Ollie A. Randall was similarly hon- 
ored last year and Dr. WooUey two years 
ago. 

Miss La Dame is particularly well 
equipped for the position which she now 
holds, for her previous experience has in- 
cluded: Superintendent of a department 
store in Boston; Retail Manager, Confec- 
tionery Division of the ten Park & Tilford 
Stores in New York City; Fellow, Bureau 
of Applied Psychology, Carnegie Institute 
of Technology, Pittsburgh; Associate Di- 
rector, Clearing House for Public Employ- 
ment Offices, Mayor Mitchell's Committee 
on National Defense; Director of Clearance 
Division, United States Employment Serv- 
ice for New York State; Member Research 
StafT, Department of Industrial Studies, 
Russell Sage Foundation; Executive Direc- 
tor, American Woman's Association; Ex- 
ecutive Secretary, New York State Advis- 
ory Council on Employment Problems. 

Miss La Dame's research on the organ- 
ization and administration of public em- 
ployment offices has included field work in 
all the major states in the West, as well as 
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and 
Pennsylvania. She has also inspected the 
employment offices in Sweden, England, 
France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and por- 
tions of Canada. 

The citation, written by Bessie L. Adams 
'06, read: Mary La Dame, A.B. 1906; 
postgraduate student at Harvard and Co- 
lumbia Universities and the Carnegie In- 
stitute of Technology; a successful teacher, 
brave enough to forsake what then seemed 
to her an overcrowded and drab profession 
to mingle in the world of adults; rising in 
three years from eight dollars a week in a 
basement to the management of a depart- 
ment store in a large city; an authority on 
the organization of employment, not over- 
looking the handicapped; inspector of pub- 
lic employment offices in leading states at 
home and abroad; efficient executive in se- 
curing and administering the funds of an 
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in citing Mary La Dame as an impartial 
student of industrial conditions, with a sym- 
pathetic understanding of psychologic and 
economic factors; an author with a broad 
but not extreme outlook, stating clearly 
problems she knew at first hand and with 
rare power of analysis deducing conclusions 
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Alumna is Honored 

OLLIE Annette Randall '12, who has 
directed unemployment relief work for 
85,000 women in New York City and is 
vice-chairman of the Women's Division of 
the Civil Works Administration, as well as 
Executive Secretary of Ward Manor, was 
awarded an honorary Master's degree at 
the Commencement exercises at Brown. Be- 
fore conferring the degree President Bar- 
bour read the following citation: 

"Ollie Annette Randall, graduate of 
Pembroke College in the class of 1912, de- 
voting herself with rare sympathy and sa- 
gacious understanding to those with whom 
human conditions have not always dealt too 
kindly; since 1916 associated in a vital way 
with the administration of the New York 
Association for Improving the Condition of 
the Poor, during the World War serving in 
France with the American Red Cross and 
active participant in the ministry of that 
great agency in the service of the American 
Expeditionary Forces; now Executive Sec- 
retary of Ward Manor, where aged people 
without financial resource have found 
peaceful harbor after a life of stormy voy- 
aging, constantly giving of what in very 
truth is her life blood to save those in dire 
need of her work of love, in the words of 
the citation recently given to her by her 
own comrades in the Alumnae Association 
of Pembroke, 'one whose clear vision and 
rare ability have made the highest ideals of 
social service a reality that has brought re- 



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nette Randall, the honorary degree of Mas- 
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Pembroke At The Fair 

MRS. Chauncey a. Hobart, '24, Chair- 
man of the Pembroke College exhibit 
at the World's Fair, reports that plans are 
progressing well. The following days will be 
known as "Pembroke Days": June 4, June 
26, July 15, July 28, Aug. 21, Sept. 10, 
SetJt. 30, Oct. 22, and November 10. The 
exhibit is in the Hall of Social Sciences. 

Hope Dorman Hewitt '25, is to be Rehef 
Secretary one day a week. She will relieve 
the paid secretary of the Women's College 
Board, which is maintained by the various 
colleges. Alumnae and friends visiting the 
fair are urged to visit the exhibit and to 
introduce themselves to the alumnae in 
attendance at the exhibit. 



Fellowship Awards 

DR. Frances A. Foster '09, Professor 
of English at Vassar College, was the 
chapel speaker at the awarding of the Anne 
Crosby Emery Fellowship. Through a 
strange coincidence Frances and Dean Mor- 
riss were working for the Ph.D. degree at 
the same time at Bryn Mawr. Frances made 
an admirable address and Alice Manchester 
"05, President of the Alumnae Association, 
with her characteristic friendliness, greeted 
Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of Hester 
Mercer Hastings '03, to whom the fellow- 
ship was awarded, and presented her with 
a corsage. 

At the same exercises Mary Elizabeth 
Kraus '31, was awarded the Abbott Alum- 
nae Fellowship of approximately $1500 for 
study in Europe. Honor McCusker '30, has 
held the fellowship this year. Adelaide 
Davidson '33, for the second time has won 
the Arnold Archaeological Fellowship. She 
has been studying at Bryn Mawr. Her 
junior year was spent at the University of 
Glasgow. 



Alumnae of Brown 

BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 
Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association 



1894 Dr. Mary E. Woolley, President 
of Mt. Holyoke College, was awarded the 
degree of L.H.D. at Wheaton College. 

1899 — Agnes Clark and Mary Leonard 
are spending the summer at Pemaquid 
Point, Maine. 

1899 — Professor Maude Slye of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, has recently issued a 
book of poems under the title "Songs and 
Solaces" which has been well received by 
the press. 

1909 — Dr. May Hall James has been ap- 
pointed to the academic faculty of the four- 
year State Normal School at New Haven, 
Conn., and will remove to New Haven in 
September. She will present the courses in 
the History and Philosophy of Education 
and Psychology. 

1910 — Alma Brown Whipple (Mrs. 
Clarence M.) has moved to 603 Berkeley 
Avenue, Orange, N. J. 

1911— Dr. Eva W. Magoon, 1911, has 
been elected for the second time from 
Rhode Island as delegate to the annual con- 
vention of the American Osteopathic As- 
sociation at Wichita, Kansas, in July. 

1911 — Clara A. Stanhope has moved to 
12 Bull Street, Newport, R. L 

1913 — Lillian D. Shore has moved to 
642 N. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. 

1916 — Elsie Cushing Hurdis (Mrs. 
Charles E.) has moved to Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kansas. 

1921 — Fannie Campbell Magnuson 
(Mrs. H. E.) has moved to 47 Garden 
Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

1924 — Ruth Vinton Chalmers (Mrs. 
W. E.) is living at 3802 Tyler, Detroit, 
Michigan, 

1928 — Helen E. Butts was granted the 
Ph.D. degree by Duke University and is to 
teach at Wellesley College in the fall. 

1928 — Virginia Wright Ramos (Mrs. 
Luis) is living at Avenida Mexico 107, Apt. 
No. 3, Colonia Hipodromo, Mexico, D. F. 

1930 — Honor McCusker has completed 
two years of study at the University of 
London and expects to return to this coun- 
try in August. 



1931 — Jean M. Martin has completed 
her course at the Hartford Seminary Foun- 
dation and has a full-time position as As- 
sistant Younger Girls Secretary at the Hart- 
ford Y. W. C. A., 262 Ann Street. 

1931 — Hester Hastings received her 
Ph.D. degree in Romance Languages at 
Johns Hopkins University in June. 

193 2— Esther Green Wiener (Mrs. F. 
B.) is living at 1812 K Street, Washington, 
D. C. 

193 3 — Jenny Lind is doing social work 
in Olneyville. 



WEDDIHGS 

1913 — Minnie White Taylor of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, was married to Dr. Harlan Har- 
vey York of Philadelphia on June 23rd, 
1934, at Little Compton, R. I. Mrs. York 
received both her A.B. and A.M. degrees 
at Brown and for several years was a junior 
pathologist with the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Up until the time of 
her marriage she was librarian at the Cleve- 
land Museum of Natural History and a 
contributor to a number of scientific jour- 
nals. Dr. York was formerly professor of 
botany at Brown and is now professor of 
botany at the University of Pennsylvania 
and pathologist at the Morris Arboretum, 
as well as special investigator and consul' 
tant on forest pathology in the New York 
Conservation Department at Albany. Dr. 
and Mrs. York will live in Philadelphia 
after October 1st. 

1925 — Alice E. Bourne was married to 
John Royal Dennis Rawson in Providence 
on June 23rd, 1934. Since her graduation 
Mrs. Rawson has been a teacher in the 
East Providence High School. Mr. and 
Mrs. Rawson will make their home at 141 
Bourne Avenue, Rumford. 

1927 — Amy Hull was married to Oliver 
P. Hodge of Chattanooga, Tenn., at St. 
Stephen's Church, Providence, on June 
22nd. She was attended by her sisters, 
Dorothy Hull '14 and Constance Hull. Aft- 



er a wedding trip to Chattanooga, Mr. and 
Mrs. Hodge will make their home in Prov- 
idence. Mr. Hodge is a teacher at St. 
Dunstan's School. 

1928 — Margaret Rydberg was married to 
Irwin Taylor Sanders of Memphis, Tenn., 
on June 23rd, 1934, in Oaklawn, R. I. The 
ceremony was performed by Mr. Sanders' 
father. Dr. Robert Stuart Sanders, who is 
pastor of the Buntyn Presbyterian Church 
in Memphis. Mrs. Sanders received both 
her A.B. and A.M. degrees at Brown. Mr. 
Sanders graduated from Washington and 
Lee in 1929 and is a candidate for the 
Ph.D. degree at Cornell. Both Mr. and 
Mrs. Sanders taught for three years at the 
American College of Sofia, Bulgaria, and 
they will resume teaching there in the fall. 

1929 — Ruth E. Gans was married to 
Samuel Temkin '19 on June 17, 1934. 

1931 — Mary Elizabeth O'Meara was 
married to George Stanley Wattendorf '31 
of West Newton, Mass., on June 14th. 
Mrs. Wattendorf spent her Junior Year at 
the Sorbonne in Paris. Mr. Wattendorf 
has been doing graduate work at the Uni- 
versity of Southern California. Mr. and 
Mrs. Wattendorf will make their home in 
Sharon, Mass. 

1932 — Isabelle Braitsch was married to 
Robert Lionel Colmore, Princeton, son of 
Bishop Charles Blayney Colmore and Mrs. 
Colmore of San Juan, Puerto Rico, at All 
Saints' Memorial Church in Providence on 
June 26th, 1934. Bishop Colmore and Rev. 
John B. Lyte officiated at the ceremony. 
Dorothy E. Greene '34 was maid of honor. 
Dr. Henry P. Colmore was best man for his 
brother. Miss Blanche N. Davis played the 
wedding marches. Mr. and Mrs. Colmore 
will reside at Kent School, Kent, Conn. 

1933 — Clarice A. Pitta was married to 
Thomas A. Chapman '34 of New York 
City on June 16, 1934. Mrs. Chapman is 
the granddaughter of the late Viscount 
Vale da Costa, who was port consul for 
Portugal at Boston for many years and her 
uncle is Brazilian consul at Boston at the 
present time. Her father is a New Bedford 
surgeon. 

1934 — Katherine Suydam Smith was 
married to Herbert Bolster Johnson "32 in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., on June 25th, 1934. Mr. 
and Mrs. Johnson will be at home after 
October 1st at 90 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn. 

1934 — Ruth A. Hobby of Kauai, Hawaii, 
niece of Mabel L. Potter '97, was married 
at Widemarsh, Fairhaven, Mass., on June 
19th to Professor William C. Young of the 
Biology Department at Brown. After a 
honeymoon spent in Hawaii, Professor and 
Mrs. Young will make their home in Provi- 
dence. 

1934 — Dorothy Joslin Gay, daughter of 
Lulu Joslin Gay '05, was married to Rich- 
ard W. Gould, Harvard, on May 20, 1934, 
at Salem, N. H. 

* * * 

BIRTHS 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. 
Brown (Hope Small), a son, Peter Irwin 
Brown, on June 4, 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Roland G. Da- 
vis (Anna Minard), a second daughter, 
Pauline, in May. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Saf- 
ford (Hildegarde Jaeger), a son, Jeffrey 
Jaeger Safford, on May 14, 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Russell Thorn- 
ley Sharpe (Evelyn Jillson), a son, on June 
16, 1934. 



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