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BRISTOL BRANCH— 525 Hope Street, Bristol, R. I. HOARD OF MANAGERS. Ezra Dixon, Eber Hill, , Charles H. Church, James A. Miller, H. H. Shepard, Samuel P. Colt, W. C. T. Wardwell, George H. Peck, Herbert F. Bennett, John B. Herreshofif, Nathaniel G. Herreshoff, Cyrus P. Brown, Benjamin Church, J. Howard Manchester, Wm. H. Thompson, P. Skinner, Jr., W. Fred Williams, Charles H. Manchester. Ezra Dixon, Chairman of Board. C. H. Manchester, Manager. Vol. I THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Providence, R. L, February, 1901 No. 7 et dinner is set James Hotel and ^ HIS is the season of ^^nr^^ the annual Brown I alumni dinners. The B Boston and Newport ^^ reunions and dinners, described elsewhere in this issue, have both been held at this writ- ing. The Woonsock- for Feb. 1 1, at the St. the occasion will be rendered more than usually interesting by Prof. Delabarre's delivery of his illus- trated lecture on Labrador. Everett Colby, Esq. ,'97, secre- tary of the New York alumni association, writes us that its an- nual dinner will be served at the Univer- sity Club, 5th avenue and 54th street, Tues- day evening, Feb. 19, at seven o'clock. He adds: — "The dinner will be preceded by a business meeting. The following gentle- men have been invit- ed to speak to the club : Hon. Elon R. Brown, Mr. Ham- mond Lamont, Mr. W. V. Kellen, presi- dent of the Boston a- lumni association, and Rev. Wayland Hoyt, president of the Phil- adelphia alumni as- sociation. We should be very glad to have any out-of-town alum- ni who are in the city at that time with us at the dinner." Dates have not yet been set for the dinners of all the other alumni associa- tions, but that of the Colorado association will probably occur during the last week in February or the first week in REUBEN T. DURRETT, LL. D.,'49 President of the Associated Alumni March, while the Chicago alumni may meet in the latter part of March, and the Maryland and District of Columbia alumni about the 21st of April (at Wash- ington). Readers of the Monthly will be glad to find upon this page the portrait of Reuben T Durrett, LL. D., of the class of '49, president of the Associated Alum- ni. Mr. Durrett's home is in Louisville, Ky. Of his classmates the survivors are President Angell of the University of Michigan, Rev. Horatio Gray of Bos- ton, Alexander J. Robert of Denison, Tex., Thomas D. Rob- inson of New York city, James Tilling- hast, Esq., of this city and William E. Tol- man of Pawtucket. The Monthly is glad to have among its subscribers repre- sentatives of the older classes. The other day the name of Rev. Sereno Howe, A. M., of Hingham Centre, Mass., of the class of '39. was added to the list. He is at present the magazine's senior subscriber. Mr. Asa Messer Gammell of Providence, of the class of '41, has been a subscriber from the beginning and many of the other early classes are represent- ed. The magazine's chief support must of course come from the larger and more recently graduated classes, but it is always gratified when an alumnus of long standing lends it his efforts and approval. Nearly every class is now represented on the sub- scription books. 98 The Brown Alumni Monthly _ , , William MacDon- Dr. Jameson's ^j^ pj^ ^ j^^. Successor Chosen ^^^ ^^ j^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ political science in Bovvdoin College, has accepted the appointment as professor of history to succeed Dr. Jameson. Dr. MacDonald has been a member of the faculty of Bowdoin College since 1893. He is widely known as an historical scholar and is the author of several his- torical works. His "Select Documents illustrative of the History of the United States, 1776-1861," is at present used in Brown University as a text book. Dr. MacDonald was born in Provi- dence, where his father was in charge of a Methodist Episcopal church. He graduated at Harvard University in 1892 and taught in the Worcester Poly- technic Institute and the University of Kansas before going to Bowdoin. Associate Professor L P ^u, ^7 ,„, . ^ Bucher, Ph. D., of Chemistry associate pro- Appointed ^^^^^^ ^j. ^^^^.^_ try in the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has been appointed associate professor of chemistry in the university. Professor Bucher was graduated from Lehigh University in 1891, and obtained his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity in 1894. He was an instructor in chemistry in Tufts College from 1894 to 1897, and has occupied his present position in the agricultural col- lege at Kingston since 1897. H^ ^^iH join the Brown faculty in the autumn. „ r Walter Ballou Jacobs will Professor ., • ■ 1 u- t J , resign the pnncipalship of jacoDs ^^g p^^pg g^j.^g^ p^jg^ School in Providence next June and devote himself exclusively to the devel- opment of the department of the science and art of education in Brown Univer- sity. He will visit some of the leading American universities in which the theory of teaching receives attention and go abroad to inspect the practice of teaching in the schools of Germany and France. Professor Jacobs was grad- uated from Brown with the class of 1882 and has taught in the Providence high schools since 1883. He was ap- pointed to his present position in the Hope Street High School in 1897. P>om 1893 to 1895 he was instructor in pedagogy in Brown. Since 1895 he has been associate professor in the same department. Two New Scholarships Two new scholarships, each yielding ;$I50 an- nually, have been estab- lished in Brown University by George A. Bacon of Chicago. Mr. Bacon is a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1867 and a member of the well-known publishing house of Allyn & Bacon. These two scholarships are a memorial to Mr. Bacon's father, George Hale Bacon, and will be known as the George Hale Bacon Memorial Scholar- ships. They will be assigned annually to members of the junior and senior classes, upon the condition that the recipient shall hold himself morally bound within ten years after graduation to pay over to the university the amount of the original scholarship, the said sum to be used by the university on the same terms and conditions as the orig- inal scholarship. Building Renamed During the past autumn (1900) considerable addi- ■n Wall tions have been made to ° the building long known as the chemical laboratory ; but since these additional parts are not principally for the use of the chemical department, but rather for engineering purposes, the government of the university has recent- ly decided to give a new name to the entire structure. After considering the matter, it was decided to adopt the name Rogers Hall, in memory of the late Wil- liam Sanford Rogers, a benefactor of Brown University. Mr. Rogers was born in Newport, R. I., in 1785, and died in Boston, May 5, 1872, in the 87th year of his age. For a considerable period in the earlier por- tion of his life he held the office of pay- master in the navy of the United States. On his retirement from the navy he took up his residence in Boston. Before his death he had made provisions for endow- ing a high school in Newport, now in operation and called the Rogers High School. He also founded in Brown University the Rogers High School The Brown Alumni Monthly 99 Scholarship and the Newport Scholar- ship, and he gave certain other sums. One of the provisions of his will is as follows : " I give Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from which my father graduated in 1782, and my uncle, Rev. Doctor Rogers, graduated in the first graduating class of the in- stitution, $50,000, from the interest of which shall be supported a Professor- ship to be called the Newport Rogers Professorship of Chemistry. I presume there may be now a Professorship of Chemistry in the institution, but this is a favorite pursuit of mine, besides I wish the birth-place of my father, uncle, and self may appear on the records of the university." In the historical catalogue of Brown University, the name of Mr. Rogers' father does not appear in the list of alumni graduating in 1782, but the uncle referred to is well known as Rev. Wil- liam Rogers, D. D., a prominent Baptist clergyman, a chaplain in the continental army, and later a chaplain in the Phila- delphia Militia Legion. This Dr. Wil- liam Rogers was the first student and for nine months and seventeen days the only student of the college. At the time of his college course the institution was conducted at Warren, R. I., and we may in imagination see the active part of Brown University represented by President Manning and young Rogers facing one another in the little town of Warren, somewhat as to-day Manning Hall and Rogers Hall stand opposite one another on the university campus in Providence. A portrait of William Rogers hangs in Sayles Memorial Hall. The Address Book The seventh issue of the Address Book contains the names of 2,673 living graduates of the university. This issue of the book has some new features. It has an alphabetical index of all the liv- ing graduates, a list of the officers of the Associated Alumni and the local alumni associations, and a list of pub- lications of interest to the alumni. In the body of the book a change has been introduced by vote of the corpora- tion. Those graduates who did not receive their first degree at the time of the graduation of the class of which they were members, but upon whom the corporation by special vote has sub- sequently conferred the first degree in connection with their class, are desig- nated as graduates "by special vote," and are grouped after the regularly constituted members of their class. Gift of Books to Women's College Mr. Asa Messer Gammell, Brown '41, has recently given a collection of books to the Women's College. The collection in- cludes twelve volumes of natural his- tory by Richard Lydekker, ten volumes of the Stratford -on - Avon edition of Shakespere, twenty-five volumes of the Waverley novels and a large number of general books. y The series of mid-winter ves- o . per services in Sayles Hall at five o'clock, Wednesday afternoons, has proved of great interest. The attendance has averaged nearly a thousand and close attention has been paid to the eminent visiting preachers. The special music for the meetings of Jan. 9 and 23 was rendered by the chapel choir under the direction of Prof. Ashton ; that for the meeting of Jan. 16 was by the choir of the First Baptist Church ; and the choir of the Central Congregational Church sang on the 30th of January. Debating at Brown The present season is a very important one in reference to debating interests at Brown ; the last season saw us placed well toward the fore by our decisive victories over Boston Univer- sity Law School and Dartmouth. We feel that our success was due to the method of training followed by our teams and to the unwearied devotion to the work of "coaching" on the part of several members of the faculty. There has been instituted this year an annual debate between the sopho- more and freshmen classes, which, while providing a most excellent opportunity for display of class spirit, serves to bring out new men and makes possible the early training so necessary for "varsity" form. The contest of Jan. lOO The Brown Alumni Monthly 19 was most successful, being carried through with spirit and resulting in a very close decision for the sophomores. Although the call for men for the "varsity" trials met, at first, with a very mild response, as a result of a public appeal to the students by the debating union and the debaters of a year ago, a much larger number sig- nified the intention of entering a second preliminary trial, Feb. 2. At present the conditions are these : The university has provided material bearing upon the questions to be dis- cussed, the faculty is ready to assist the teams. Prof. Lamont has promised to come on from New York to round out the work, while a number of the alumni need but the opportunity to carry into effect the plan of alumni coaching pro- posed at the University Club, May 19, 1900. With such a combination of favorable circumstances, the Brown University debating teams should be victorious a second time over their opponents in Boston and Hanover and should be able to secure a wider extension of their field of effort. H. J. Hall, '00. Death of Mr. Wood, ?" January 7 Instructor in English ^J' ^ arence D. * Wood, mstruct- or in English, died by his own hand at his brother's home in Brooklyn. He had been suffering from melancholia for several weeks and had just been relieved of his university duties, his friends hop- ing that with rest and change he might soon recover his health and spirits. Mr. Wood was a graduate of Amherst College in the class of 1893, took the master's degree at Harvard University in 1896, and then spent a year abroad, engaged in study in Germany and France. In 1898 he was appointed instructor at Brown, where he gave very faithful and efificient instruction in rhetoric and literature. The esteem in which Mr. Wood was held at the university is shown by the following minute, adopted by the fac- ulty : "The faculty of Brown University hereby record their sorrow at the untimely death of one of their number, Mr. Clarence D. Wood, instructor in Eng- lish. During the two and a half years of his ser- vice at the university, Mr. Wood had in a high degree the respect and esteem of faculty and stu- dents by reason of his scholarship, his ability as a teacher, his unvarying kindness and courtesy, and his upright and lovable character. By those who knew him intimately he was more than esteemed; he was loved. His high promise makes doubly sad his early death. The faculty desire not only to send to the mother and other relatives of the deceased this record of their respect for his memory, but also to express their deep sympathy in this time of great affliction." Mr. Fayer- John A p pi eton weather's Death ^ ^ ^ ^ ^, ^ f, ^ ^^^ Brown, 26, the old- est living graduate of the college, died at his home in Westboro, Mass., Jan. 27, 1 90 1, in the 93d year of his age. He was the son of Major John Fayer- weather, a prosperous citizen of West- boro, and Sarah (Wheelock) Fayer- weather, daughter of Colonel Moses Wheelock, a prominent Revolutionary patriot. Mr. Fayerweather married Miss Sarah Augusta Tyler, the daughter of Dr. John E. Tyler of Boston. He was in business at Westboro from 1833 to 1858, when he removed his mercan- tile headquarters to Boston. He was for many years a director in the Wor- cester Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and from 1887 to the time of his death served as its president. He was presi- dent of the Westboro National Bank from its organization in 1864 until two years ago and also president of the Worcester County Historical Society. In 1866 he represented W'estboro in the legislature and during his long and busy career held many other places of trust. Mr. Fayerweather's funeral was held Jan. 30 at the Congregational church. Rev. Marie A. Breed conducted the ser- vice, and President P'aunce spoke in eulogy of the honored citizen and Bru- nonian. It will be recalled that a por- trait of Mr. Fayerweather was printed in the last number of this magazine. Gen. Lippitt the ^7 ^^^ ^^f^^ ^V^'"" Oldest Graduate ^.ayerweather. Gen hrancis J. Lip pit t of Washington, D. C.,the sole surviving member of the class of 1830, becomes Brown's oldest living graduate. He serv- ed as a captain from New York State in the Mexican war and as a colonel from California in the war between the States, being promoted by brevet to the rank of brigadier general. Gen. Lippitt was born in Providence and is an attor- ney-at-law. The Brown Alumni Monthly lOI THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the graduates of Brown University BY THE Brown Alumni Magazine Co., ROBERT P. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R. I. Subscription price, $i.oo a year. Single copies, Ten Cents. Address all communications to the Brown Alimni Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post office as second-class matter. ADVISORY BOARD William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia. Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburg. Francis Lawton, '69, New York. Robert P. Brown, 'ti. Providence. William V. Kellen, '-jt., Boston. WiNSLOw Upton, '75, Providence. Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence. Walter B. Jacobs, '82, Providence. Gardner Colby, '87, New York. Archibald C. Matteson, '93, Providence. HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor. JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor. THERON CLARK, '95, Business Manager. February, 1901 GRATIFYING CO-OPERATION A member of a recent graduating class writes the Monthly that he has not found much news about his classmates in the magazine of late and so " takes the liberty " of sending a number of notes. The Monthly wishes to assure him and every other graduate that the taking of such a liberty is gratifying in the highest degree. "THE BIG FOUR" The financial institutions of Provi- dence and the state of Rhode Island are undergoing a change following the tendency of the times towards combined and unified interests. Providence, with its fifty banks, has long been a financial centre and important loan market. The system of paying interest on daily balances and the necessity of meeting higher rents to secure central banking locations, together with decreased rates of interest on loans and smaller returns from invested funds, have tended towards making banks of small capital and de- posits unprofitable, so that they are gradually merging themselves into large trust companies. The four great trust companies of Providence, three of which have each a page in the advertising columns of the Brown Alumni Monthly, have an aggregate capital and surplus of $5,571,- 000, and deposits of $43,748,000, making a total of $49,319,000. They are extended over the state with branches in the various cities and towns and seem destined to transact the greater part of the volume of banking business. The scope of their business is vastly more varied and extended than the ordinary bank. They are the most convenient savings bank for the man with a few dollars and allow interest to depositors of hundreds of thousands of dollars on call. They give letters of credit duly honored all over the world and take care of securities and valuables in safe deposit vaults. They act as executors and trustees of estates and as guardians of the property of minors. They are the registrars of the stock of large corpora- tions and handle the funds of large institutions, practically keeping the books for the treasurer. It is not at all improbable that their intimate ac- quaintance with the financial standing of individuals may lead them eventually to furnish bonds and surety. They are reaching out to include within their activity every form of monetary tran- saction and with the facilities offered to the public and the great aggregation of wealth in their hands it is fair to expect that in the future they will outrival any of their achievements in the past. I02 The Brown Alumni Monthly Hon. William L. Marcy, '08 O FEW men is given the op- portunity of being a pioneer — to fewer still the oppor- tunity of being a pioneer along many lines. Such, however, in his relation to his Alma Mater, was Will- iam L. Marcy of the class of 1808 — editor, writer, soldier, lawyer, jurist, statesman, and diplomat. Graduating from Brown with honors, and determin- ing, after a short period of teaching, to engage in the practice of law, he settled in Troy, N. Y., but before he had passed many years in the pursuit of his profes- sion the war with Great Britian appealed to his patriotism, and as a lieutenant of light infantry he offered his services to the governor of New York State. At St. Regis, on the line between Canada and Nova Scotia, he captured in 18 12 the first British flag and the first British prisoners of the war on land ; a pioneer in military operations within four years of his graduation. Having served till the close of the war and gained the promotion of cap- tain, Marcy again began civil life. His military career and his natural political tendencies soon gave him prominence, and this prominence was largely increased by newspaper articles defending the attitude of President Madison and Governor Tompkins to- ward the war. His writings, signed "Vindex," attracted considerable atten- tion in the political world and were a foundation for his subsequent political career. From being appointed as re- corder of the city of Troy he rose to be adjutant-general of New York State under Governor Tompkins through their mutual friendship and through his sup- port of Martin Van Buren, the leader of the Democratic party in the state. Later, after appointment by the suc- ceeding governor to be state comptroller and after election by the people to the same position, he became identified with the so-called "Albany Regency," an or- ganization which was a controlling fac- tor in the state politics of his party. Still further did his ability carry him in 1829, when he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the state of New York, where he served for three years with marked distinction and abil- ity, being the first graduate of Brown to hold a judicial position of this character in New York State. Among the por- traits of the distinguished justices of the supreme court in the New York State Court of Appeals room in the capitol at Albany, none occupy a more honored or conspicuous place than the one of William L. Marcy, who by his ability, acumen and dignity added much to the record of this body of jurists in which he held a prominent place. Judge Marcy was the justice chosen to preside at the trial of one of the most noted cases in the state of New York — that of the alleged murderers or abductors of William Morgan, the Free Mason who mysteriously disappeared after the an- nouncement was made of his intended publication of the secrets of the order. His close friendship with Van Buren and the latter's ambition to become president of the United States led Marcy to resign from the bench in 1831 and to accept an election to the United States Senate where he was persuaded he could be of great service to Van Buren and to his political party. Marcy came into prominence early in his career as a member of the Senate, when in 1832 he uttered the famous phrase : "To the victor belongs the spoils." The occasion of this statement was when Mr. Clay in debate had opposed and criticized the methods and practices of the system of party politics in New York. The cele- brated portion of his reply is as follows : " It may be, sir, that the politicians of New York are not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice. When they are contending for victory they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated they expect to\retire from office: if they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantage of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy." Marcy's career as United States Senator did not continue for a long The Brown Alumni Monthly 103 time. Being proposed in New York State as the nominee to succeed Gover- nor Throop, his candidacy was enthu- siastically received throughout the slate, and being elected in 1832, he resigned his seat in Congress, entering office as governor January 1st, 1833. All pre- vious governors of the state had been New Yorkers by birth, but Marcy — born in Southbridge, Mass., — was in this re- spect, and in relation to Brown, a pioneer. William L. Marcy as gover- SECRETARV OF STATE MARCY From the old portrail in the Albany city hall nor has been honored by the state with a memorial similar to that accorded him as supreme court justice. In the com- mon council chambers of the city of Albany, in which are collected the por- traits of New York's famous leaders, is displayed a life-sized painting of Gover- nor Marcy next the main entrance to the hall. Three times was this pioneer of Brown elected by the people of the state to the highest office in their gift. His defeat upon his fourth candidacy by William H. Seward did not result in his retirement from public life, for almost immediately President Van Buren, to whose success in the presidential campaign of 1836 Marcy had given material assistance, appointed him a commissioner on claims against Mexico. In this capacity he served three years. Upon the election of James K. Polk as president in 1844, to which Marcy gave the influence and aid of New York State, the position of secretary of war was offered to him and accepted — a pio- neer again, as he was the first Brown graduate to act as secretary of war in any administration and, more, the first graduate to have offered to him and to accept a position in the cabinet of any United States president. As secretary of war he found the complications of the Mexican war many and perplexing, and to Marcy is given the chief credit of the success of the United States. He has been called the "master-spirit" of the war. He it was who prepared the plans of the campaign, who assisted in their execution, who secured the necessary means and who prosecuted the war vig- orously to a successful end. The Oregon boundary question, the tariff of 1846 and the slavery question in the states all demanded during this administration careful and well-balanced judgment, and this Marcy, as a member of the cabi- net, abundantly contributed. At the expiration of President Polk's term of office, Marcy retired to private life at Albany. Though his career had already been filled with honor and power, he was destined for still further usefulness to his country, and to bestow still greater honor upon his Alma Mater. Invited in 1853 by President Franklin Pierce to become the head of his cabinet, Marcy became the pioneer of Brown's secretaries of state — fol- lowed by Richard Olney, '56, and John Hay, '58, men who have proved by their successful achievements his worthy suc- cessors. It was in this position of honor and importance that Marcy used his great ability to its fullest extent, deal- ing with questions of moment in the United States and with matters of still greater consequence in international affairs, preparing the way for the solu- tion of those problems which have been and daily are being solved by his suc- cessors as secretaries of state and as Brown graduates. The most promi- nent question of international import- ance, probably, was in relation to the citizenship and allegiance of the Aus- trian, Martin Koszta, whose escape after a Hungarian revolution, arrest in Turkey, declaration of intention to be- come an American citizen, seizure while traveling in Smyrna by the Austrian consul by whom he was thrown into the sea, and so-called rescue by the sailors of an Austrian man-of-war who I04 The Brown Alumni Monthly dared not land, together with the de- mand for his release by Captain Duncan N. Ingraham of the "St. Louis" and the mediation of the French consul, are all facts familiar to students of interna- tional law now, but at the time of their occurrence involved many questions never before treated between nations. Marcy's skillful handling of this ques- tion in all its phases developed new laws, new responsibilities, new conditions of naturalization and new relations between nations recognizing international comity. The settlement of troublesome tolls exacted by Denmark — the so-called sound dues — from all ships using the waters between the Baltic and North Seas was another international affair on which Marcy's keen mind was exerted, resulting in the treaty between the two nations in respect to United States shipping. Other questions successfully determined, including Central American affairs, the Gadsden purchase, the Kansas-Nebraska act, and the Kansas troubles, all of great importance to the country, reflected great credit upon this able secretary, whose state papers are still regarded as authority upon all mat- ters therein involved. Death, coming to Mr. Marcy in 1857, put a sudden end to his long activity, but the influence of " a chief leader of the people and one of the ruling lights in our moral hemisphere," as he has been called, has remained. Charles S. Stedman, 'g6. Albany, N. Y. The Alumni Letter-Box To the Alumni and Undergraduates of Brown University : Since graduating from my Alma Mater in 1892 I have noted with real pleasure, pride and interest, the remark- able growth and expansion of Brown University in many directions. When I entered Brown in the fall of 1888 it had 25 professors and instructors and 252 students, while today we see the number of professors and instructors more than trebled and the student body increased by four-fold. The college it- self has become better known than ever before through its most efficient faculty, the alumni and the undergraduates, the latter of whom have it in their power to bring still greater fame to the univer- sity. Whatever criticism is hereafter given is written with the utmost feeling of friendliness on the part of the writer, but with real anxiety, disposition and longing to have the college improve in certain branches of its athletics, I trust that no one prominent in such will take offence at this article, for we are responsible to a certain degree for the standing and reputation of Brown University, and we should give an account of our stewardship. What is the matter with certain branches of athletics at Brown, which have been almost at a standstill for the past few years } The athletic teams, the literary bureaus, the musical organ- izations of the college, must keep pace with the growth of the university. It must be, too, a steady, healthy growth. I take just as much interest in the mu- sical, literary, or scientific life and ad- vancement of Brown as in her standing on the diamond or football field. I can remember that nearly ten years ago Brown had excellent glee, banjo and mandolin clubs, which in themselves spread the fame of the college and proved far-reaching in results. In my day, '"Alec" Chapin was a player of stringed instruments, and of such ex- ceptional ability that Harvard audiences were wont to gaze in wonder at his performances. Little things like this are often long remembered. Fortu- nately, nearly ten years ago the musical organizations were all well trained, of excellent degree and in thorough unison and accord. For a period of two or three years Brown University had the reputation of maintaining the best glee and banjo clubs of any college in the country. Was this not a reputation to be proud of, and why cannot this repu- tation be duplicated in some other form of college organization .' It can be re- peated with the co-operation of under- graduates and alumni, providing that unison and concord exist and with a The Brown Alumni Monthly 105 willingness and zeal to do for old Brown. Should we be satisfied or have occasion to exult in beating University of Chi- cago at football 1 1-6, when University of Wisconsin the following week piled up 29 points to Chicago's 5, and when nearly every football eleven coming in contact with Chicago found an easy opponent ? Lafayette with an enroll- ment of only 400 students turned out one of the Big Four elevens last autumn. In the spring of 1892, the track ath- letic team of Brown University went up to Springfield and at the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association games captured third position, having surpassed all her previous performances by a great margin. While the writer happened to be manager of the asso- ciation that year, he gladly gives the larger share of credit for this most creditable showing to the efforts of Richmond, '92, the efficient and inspir- ing captain of the team, the indefatig- able labors of Mr. Parker, the gymnas- ium instructor, the enthusiasm and faithfulness of the athletes themselves, and the sound advice and generous financial assistance of Professor Davis, who was a member of the advisory board on athletics, and through whose instrumentality the management was enabled to engage John Graham of Bos- ton as athletic trainer. Since that year, 1892, Brown has never attained better than second position, although her stu- dent body has doubled. Little Bow- doin last year, I think, captured the championship, or at least she has had it one year, with but half the students that Brown has, and a spring climate from two to three weeks later than Rhode Island, while Dartmouth, which already has several notches on the championship, is obliged to contend with snow and frost till nearly May. It is not enough for the football team to play a close game with Harvard when the latter plays seven substitutes, nor to be beaten by Pennsylvania 12-0, when Harvard overwhelmingly defeats Penn. the same season. It is not enough to win or lose this or that baseball game by a single tally, considering the weakness or strength of the opposing team. To lose a base- ball game to a weaker team and follow the defeat by a brilliant victory over a rival team does not retrieve the defeat necessarily, but simply palliates it. Con- tention should be just as keen and strong against a minor team as a worth- ily considered rival. An article such as I am writing would come, perhaps, with better grace from a more prominent and influential alumnus than myself, especially perhaps from an athlete of the olden day. For my part, I cannot lay claim to any distinction upon the athletic field during my career at college. However, I always have taken a keen and appreciative pride and interest in anything pertaining to the glory and enhancement of Brown, and this article is written having such pride and interest in view ; not that I care for publicity but I am anxious to see Brown at the top in everything possible. As I remarked to Professor Wilson last week at the Brown dinner in Boston, I was ready to duplicate my last subscrip- tion towards the second million-dollar endowment fund to Brown, and I hope to see similar responses from all others who are able. As a subscriber for the Brown Alumni Monthly, it impresses me as a very able and readable maga- zine and should go to every alumnus in college. In giving statistics in this arti- cle I have trusted to memory entirely, and I may be in error as to one or two statements, but in the main I think I am not far from correct, at least in myideas. Just a little more space and I am done : As to aquatics, why cannot boating be renewed and a crew be trained to contend with other college eights.'' There was a time back in the '70's when the crews turned out by Brown were feared and respected for their prowess, and there is no reason why the old university with her facilities for practice could not again become famous on the water. Of course a crew would be a great expense for the college to support, and apparently the only ath- letic associations that make money at Brown are the baseball and football associations. This raises the question, why cannot all athletic associations be merged into one, with regard to the dis- bursement of funds, the football and baseball associations contributing in as far as they are able towards the support of a crew .-* Richard Olney, 2d, 'Q2. Boston, P'eb. 4, 190L io6 The Brown Alumni Monthly Recent Books by Brown Authors HAVE examined with great interest a copy of " Experi- mental Chemistry "(publish- ed by D. C. Heath & Co., Boston), by Lyman C. New- ell, Ph. D., and am more than favorably impressed with its scope, and more turn '^^^'^" pleased with its merit. *ffl The purpose of the work, " the teaching of chemistry by modern methods," is well carried out, and the use of the book can- not fail to produce good results. The experiments are carefully selected, and, what is more, they perfectly illustrate the purpose intended, a merit too often lacking in books of this class. While all the experiments are worthy of care- ful attention, a few, at least, are of suf- ficient interest to warrant special notice. For example, the simple, but sufficiently accurate method, for estimating the weight of a liter of oxygen and other gases, page 31, is instructive and cannot fail to impress the pupil. Experiments similar to No. 22 showing quantitative relations in chemical reactions, experi- ment 45 showing the composition of air, experiment 44 and a few succeeding ones illustrating the gravimetric composition of water, and experiments similar to those on pages 132 and 133 are of especial value to the beginner as well as of great assistance to the instructor. In addition to chapters devoted almost wholly to experimental data, the book contains chapters as 4, 9 and 13, which are of unusual interest. The discussion of atoms, molecules, and related subjects, in chapter 4 is in my opinion the best brief, concise and accurate treatment of these subjects to be found in elementary work intended for laboratory purposes. The chapters devoted to flame, oxidation and reduction, blow pipe and its uses, are very clearly written and cannot fail to be appreciated by the student. The feature of problems, a very important factor in the proper teaching of chemis- try, is treated to a considerable degree, and adds great value to the publication. Dr. Newell is to be congratulated on his selection and treatment of this too often neglected part of laboratory instruction. The problems are so clearly stated and explained as to allow of the intelligent solutions by pupils of all grades. The class room exercises distributed at fre- quent intervals throughout the book are also features of interest and worth to both pupil and instructor, suggesting, at least, that the science of chemistry ex- tends beyond the scope of an elementary text book. It is needless, however, to enlarge further on the merits of this really valuable book. Suffice it to say that I am of the opinion that in the pre- paration of his " Experimental Chemis- try " Dr. Newell has made a success, and provided a book which is the equal, at least, and in some respects the superior, to any of the books intended for laboratory instruction. It is a book which will well repay careful perusal and study, and although intended primarily for secondary schools, is at the same time, suitable for use in higher schools of learning. Eihoi)i E. Calder. J- A first-year book in French, entitled " Foundations of French " by Fred Davis Aldrich, Brown, '95, and Irving Lysander Foster, Brown, '93, has just been issued by Ginn and Co., Boston. It is intended for beginners in prepara- tory schools and colleges, and presents the important and characteristic ele- ments of French grammar in clear and concise fashion. The authors, them- selves teachers, have not only given proper emphasis to the important mat- ters of French grammar, but they have also provided sufficient drill on those common French constructions which the students find particularly difficult to master. The exercises in French con- versation at the end of each lesson and the various reviews throughout the book are excellent. The conversational exer- cises are such as may easily be expanded and extended by a competent teacher. The make-up of the book is neat and attractive, its typography being especial- ly good. The use of heavy type for bringing out the grammatical forms and constructions illustrated in the ex- The Brown Alumni Monthly 107 amples will be found very helpful by the student. A mistake in the conversational exer- cise on page 98 will doubtless be cor- rected in another edition. J. N. A. Non-Euclidean Geometry, by Henry P. Manning, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Pure Mathematics in Brown Univer- sity. Non-Euclidean geometry is a subject over which there is much discussion at the present time. This book is an at- tempt to give a direct account of it, fol- lowing the spirit and methods of our best modern text-books. The first chapter gives the propositions common to Euclidean and Non-pAiclidean geome- tries; the second and third chapters take up the two Non-Eluclidean geome- tries ; and the final chapter makes use of the analytical methods. A knowl- edge of geometry and trigonometry and a little knowledge of analytical geome- try and calculus is indispensable to a reader of this excellent work. It is published by Ginn & Company, Boston. Brown Dinners at Boston and Newport HERE was plenty of Brown T spirit at the alumni dinner in Boston, Tuesday evening, Jan. 29. It was the 28th annual " banquet " of the Brown men of Boston and vicinity, and over one hun- dred graduates of the col- lege enjoyed it. The dinner was served at Young's Hotel and before it began there was a lively reunion in the parlors upstairs. Alumni with locks of white gathered in jolly fellowship with beardless youths and told stories and rehearsed undergraduate experiences till the dinner hour arrived ; a brief intermission in the flow of jollity, how- ever, being occasioned by the more serious business of electing officers of the association for the ensuing year. These officers are as follows : President, Dr. George F. Jelly, '64 ; Vice-President, Hon. Fred H. Williams, '"JT, Secretary, Charles R. Adams, '80; Treasurer, George F. Bean, '81; Execu- tive Committee, Sam Walter Foss, '82 ; Joseph Walker, '87 ; Howard P. Quick, '87; Ernest A. Hicks, '91; Herbert B. Lang, '96. The marshal of the evening sum- moned the party to the dining room by classes. He called '55 to '65, '65 to '75. '75 to '85, and then — "all others." As in this vague latter category were in- cluded more than half the entire com- pany, a good deal of merriment was caused by his summary disposal of his younger brethren. At the head table sat William V. Kellen, '72, the toastmaster and retir- ing president of the association. On his right was Dr. P'aunce, on his left Chief Justice John H. Stiness, Brown, '61, of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Several members of the faculty were present, as the representative of which body Professor H. B. Gardner, '84, was called upon to speak. Mr. Kellen's introduction of the sev- eral speakers was pleasant and jovial. Dr. Faunce talked encouragingly about the college and said it has an atmos- phere of its own and is no pale reflector of other universities. Judge Stiness's speech was interspersed with appro- priate anecdotes and kept the company in the best of moods. Dr. Charles H. Alden, '56, assistant surgeon general, U. S. A., retired, brought greetings from the alumni association of the Dis- trict of Columbia and Maryland, and Franklin E. Brooks, '83, of Colorado Springs, talked cheerfully of the in- creasing influence of Brown in the Rocky Mountain region. Robert P. Brown, "71, treasurer of the Brown Alumni Magazine Co., told the company something of the work of the Monthly and asked for the support of Brown graduates everywhere. The singing, under the leadership of John Murray Marshall, '81, assisted by Charles R. Adams, '80, and a coterie of io8 The Brown Alumni Monthly kindred spirits in one corner of the room, was a feature of the evening. Brown song books had been distributed to all the diners and it was with painstaking emphasis that this pleasing stanza of the ditty about Nicholas Brown was sung : "And then into the world we've come, Fol de rol de rol rol rol; We've made good friends and studied some, Fol de rol de rol rol rol." The fine old words of "Alma Mater" followed President Faunce's address, and during the evening the good spirits of the company found an outlet in " Here's to good old Brown," " Land- lord, fill your flowing bowl," " "Twas Friday morn when we set sail," " Son of a Gambolier," "The Bulldog," " Nellie was a Lady," "Michael Roy," " Lauriger Horatius" and various other songs of convivial or sentimental im- port. The cheering was persistent, the speaking good and the reunion one of the best in the long series held by the Boston sons of Brown. THE NEWPORT MEETING The annual meeting and dinner of the Newport alumni association was held at Muenchinger's, Feb. 5. There were about a dozen of the local alumni present and as many guests, including President Faunce of Brown and Mayor Garrettson. Officers were chosen as follows : President, Alfred G. Langley, '76; Vice- Presidents, William P. Buffum, '79 ; Henry Morgan Stone, '92 ; Secretary and Treasurer, William Burdick, '93 ; Executive Committee, Benjamin F. Thurston, '80, Clarence A. Carr, '87, A. Powell Hamlin, '97. LILEOilIATri Brown followed its defeat of Pennsyl- vania at hockey in the intercollegiate league, Jan. 18, with a victory over Yale at New York, Feb. 7. The J Vor/d says: "The crowd was in excellent humor, and was kept yelling and laughing from start to finish. P>en the Elis smiled at first, but after that one point was scored, and their dribbles and shots were check- ed and diverted a few times they became decidedly sad. Bates made the goal after a brilliant but unsuccessful try by Payne in the first half. The honors of the game, however, belong to Chase. No better goal-keeper has been seen in New York this winter." The Brown Alumni Monthlv 109 The Month in Review January 3. Second term opened. 4. Gymnasium practice began. 5. Musical clubs returned from a suc- cessful southern trip. 7. Clarence D. Wood, instructor in English, died in Brooklyn, N. Y. 8. Brown bowlers won from the Colonial team, 2301 to 2272. 8. Biblical Research Club was ad- dressed at Manning Hall by Prof. W. N- Clarke, D. D., of Colgate University. 8. Bishop McVickar addressed the Bishop Seabury Association at 5 U. H. 9. Second concert by the Kneisel Quartet was given at Pembroke Hall. 9. First of the midwinter vesper ser- vices attracted to Sayles Hall an audi- ence that completely filled it. Sermon appropriate to the new century by Prof. Clarke of Colgate. Music by chapel choir. II. Z. R. Brockway, formerly at the head of the Elmira, N. Y., Reformatory, delivered an address at Manning Hall on " Criminals and Criminology." 14. Meeting of the Worcester Aca- demy Club of Brown University was held. 15. Brown bowlers were beaten by the Business Men's Athletic Association team, 2120 to 2318. 16. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D., of New York, addressed an audience that filled Sayles Hall to overflowing. Sub- ject of address, " The Nature of Sin." "Sin," said Dr. Abbott, "is not ignor- ance, immaturity or temptation, but law- lessness." 17. Prof. William MacDonald of Bow- doin College accepted the appointment of professor of history in Brown, to suc- ceed Dr. Jameson. 18. Brown hockey team beat the University of Pennsylvania team, 7 to o, at Philadelphia. 19. Brown hockey team was beaten by the Quaker City team, 2 to 5, at Philadelphia. 19. Freshman-sophomore debate was held in Sayles Hall. "Resolved, that the senators of the United States should be elected by direct vote." The sopho- mores took the affirmative and won the debate. 19. Meeting of the Harkness Classi- cal Society was held at the Slater Home- stead on Benefit street. The meeting was addressed by Prof. Carter of Prince- ton. His subject was " Roman religion in the time of the republic." 22. Second regular fortnightly meet- ing of the Bishop Seabury Association was held. Address by Rev. Edmond J. Lee. 22. Mr. Thomas Crosby, '94, instruc- tor in English, read " Much Ado About Nothing " at Pembroke Hall. A large audience was present. 22. Annual gymnasium ball was given. Music by Reeves's Orchestra. 23. John Emery Bucher, Ph. D., was appointed associate professor of chemis- try. 23. Third vesper service at Sayles Hall was conducted by Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer of Boston. 23. Brown hockey team was beaten by the Harvard team, i to o, at Roger Williams Park. Attendance about 200. 24. College flag on University Hall was displayed at half-mast in honor of the Queen. 29. Illustrated lecture was given by Prof. Delabarre at Pembroke Hall on " Labrador." 30. Fourth vesper service was held in Sayles Hall. Rev. Floyd Tomkins, D. D., of Philadelphia, the preacher. no The Brown Alumni Monthly Brunonians Far and Near '26. A meeting was held in Boston Jan. 6, in memory of the late Hon. Cyrus Hamlin and the late Prof. Ed- wards Amasa Park, Brown '26. Rev. Dr. Plumb, Brown '55, pastor of the Walnut Avenue Church, Boston, Rev. Dr. Joseph Cook, and Rev. Dr. Alvah Hovey, ex-president of Newton Theo- logical Institution, and senior member of the board of fellows in Brown Uni- versity, spoke on the life and work of Dr. Park. Dr. Park was a member of the board of fellows from 1863 to 1897. His father, Dr. Calvin Park, was a pro- fessor in the university from 1804 to 1825. '59. Dr. William W. Keen is the writer of an important article on " Surgery in the Nineteenth Century " in the Netv York Sun of Feb. 3. This article is the seventh in a series on pro- gress in the nineteenth century. The writers are in each instance the recog- nized living authorities in their respec- tive fields. The articles appear in the Sunday editions. The first one was published Dec. 23 ; the last one will appear March 31. '63. Prof. John Howard Appleton lectured before the Providence Art Club on " Sugar and its Refining," Nov. 23, 1900. '64. John Tetlow has an article on " Elective Studies in High Schools " in the January Educational Review. '69. Rev. Dr. Daniel M. Fisk is lec- turer upon sociology in Washburn Col- lege, Kansas, this year. He still main- tains his Congregational pastorate in Topeka, Kans. Ex-'69. Albert R. Greene, town soli- citor and superintendent of schools of the town of Warwick, R. I., died at his home in Cowesett, Jan. 28. He was a student at Brown in 1865-66, but later entered Cornell University, where he was graduated in 1870. '70. Albert G. Fisher has severed his connection with the Everett O. P'isk Teachers' Agency, and has established the Fisher Teachers' Agency with an office at 25 Brom field street, Boston. '74- Rev. Louis A. Pope has resigned as pastor of the Green Street Baptist Church in Newburyport, Mass., after a pastorate of eleven years. Mr. Pope is at present in California for his health. 'jj. Rev. Charles Finch, M. D., for several years a medical missionary in China, has returned to the United States. In the course of an address delivered at the Second Baptist Church, East Provi- dence, Jan. 6, he stated that he received notice from the viceroy of his section to leave, but not thinking that there would be any serious trouble paid no attention to the notice. He next received a tele- gram to leave at once, and thought it advisable to send Mrs. Finch and the two children to a station farther down the river. This he did while he himself remained until a fleet of houseboats came down the stream bearing all the missionaries who were located above him. He joined this party and returned to the United States. He will practice medicine in Providence. 'yy. J. R. Potter is principal of the Paterson Normal Training School, Pater- son, N. J. '80. President Faunce performed the ceremony at the marriage of Miss Alta Rockefeller to Mr. E. Parmelee Prentice at New York, Jan. 17. '81. Morgan Brooks is professor of electrical engineering in the University of Nebraska, of which Dr. Andrews has recently become chancellor. '81. Cornelius Welles Pendleton was elected Speaker of the Assembly of California, Jan. 7. '82. Dr. William H. Tolman contri- butes to the December Century an article on " What more than Wages .''" '84. B. W. Lightburn, Esq , of Kan- sas City was in Providence recently and visited the college. He went to Kansas City shortly after graduation and prac- ticed law there for some years, but lat- terly has devoted much of his attention to real estate and corporation business. He is also interested in gold-mining properties in Colorado. The Brown Alumni Monthly 1 1 1 '85. James C.Monaghan is teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. '85. Joseph W. Freeman (Rep.) was elected Mayor of Central Falls, R.I., Dec. 31. '85. Prof. Walter G. Everett lectured on " Aristotle's conception of a gentle- man, a study in comparative morals," at Vassar College, Jan. 11. '85. Andrew McC. Warren is now in Paris. He is studying Hebrew and Sanskrit at the P.coledes Hautes P^tudes and Arabic at the Ecole de Langues Orientales. '8j. Irving C. Hicks is Philadelphia manager for the National Publishing Co. of Boston, makers of geographical supplies. '88. Prof. William A. Wilbur of the Columbian University, Washington, D. C, contributes an article on " The Profession of Teaching " to the current number of the Conservative Review. '88 and '97. The William A. Harris Steam Engine Co. of Providence has been reorganized, with Frederick A. W. Harris, '88, as president and William A. Harris, Jr., '97, as vice-president and superintendent. '89. Rev. William G. Lathrop is a resident licentiate at Yale. '89. Walter B. Vincent and Herbert A, Rice of Providence have dissolved the partnership existing under the firm name of Vincent & Rice, and the latter has opened a new law ofifice in the Bani- gan building in Providence. '90. Prof. James (J. Dealey under- went an operation for appendicitis, Jan. II. He is getting along very well and will soon be able to resume his work at the university. '90. George H. Webb was re-elected secretary of the Providence Board of Trade, Jan. 9. '90. Rev. Frank Appleton, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, read a paper on " The Problem of the Sunday Evening Service" at the month- ly meeting of the Junior Clericus of the Diocese of Rhode Island, at the Park Casino, Providence, Jan. 21. '90. What was formerly known as the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Hos- pital in Providence will henceforth be called the Beacon Hill Hospital. By this change, which has been made pos- sible by the generosity of Frank A. Sayles of Pawtucket, (Brown, '90,) the old corporation is freed from all indebt- edness, and the hospital will be con- tinued as a pay retreat for the sick. '90. E. A. Perry of Maiden, Mass., is at the head of the Perry Pictures Co., Boston and New York, well known throughout the country for its fine art reproductions. The company's exhibit at the Paris Exposition received a gold medal. '91. Ernest A. Hicks is supervisor for the National Publishing Co., Boston, having charge of the several hundred salesmen of the company. '92. Representative F. T. Easton of Providence introduced in the Rhode Island Legislature, Jan. 25, an appro- priate resolution on the death of Queen Victoria. It was passed unanimously by both branches. '95. Clifford Whipple, formerly an instructor in rhetoric, has again become a member of the staff of the rhetorical department in the university, taking up the work of the late Mr. Wood. '96. Carleton Hale is managing a coffee and rubber plantation at Hacien- da de Tulla, Vera Cruz, Mexico. '96. S. A. Gibson, who was a practic- ing attorney at Phoenix, Ariz., until re- cently, is now with Huddy & Easton, attorneys. Providence. '96. E. N. Robinson will coach Exeter in baseball this year, succeedmg ex-Capt. McCornack of Dartmouth. '96. Rev. R. W. Drawbridge has re- signed his pastorate in Middleton, N.H., and is now settled over the Congrega- tional Church in Medway, Mass. '96. A. B. Meacham is secretary of the faculty at the Postgraduate Medical School, New York city. '97. Lieut. Earl C. Pierce is in the Philippines with the 26th Regiment, U. S. V. At last accounts he was in command of Co. A on outpost duty near Polotan, Panay. I 12 The Brown Alumni Monhtly Ex-'97. Archibald McClure died re- cently in New Jersey. '97. Chester W. Allen is in the lum- ber business in East Boston. '97. W. J. Ballou is a teacher at Toogaloo University, Mississippi. '97. Rev. C. E. White has become the pastor of a church in Wilder, Vt. '98. F. G. Crane obtained the degree of LL.B. from the University of Michi- gan last June. '98. Miss Ida Evelyn Waite died at the home of her parents in Providence, Jan. 7. '98. T. W. Dammes and J. M. Wil- liams are students in Union Theological Seminary. '98. William H. Cady is the chemist in the Philadelphia branch of the Far- benfabriken of Elberfeld Co. '98. Pliny A. Boyd is in the ofhce of the Black & Boyd Gas Fixture Co. in New York city. '98. G. ¥. Jenks is editor of the Holyoke P^vening Telegram. '98. C. E. McGlauflin is studying law at the Harvard Law School. '98. G. A. Mellen is editor of the Lawrence, Mass., Morning Eagle. '98. G. E. Walker was married re- cently to Miss Mabel C. Coombs of Somerworth, N. H. '98. The wedding of Miss Emily Louise Clark and Borden D. Whiting, '98, took place at Hamilton, Canada, January 9. '98. Captain Frank E. Hopkins of the 26th Regiment, U. S. V., is in the Philippines, seeing active service. Ex-'99. Lieut. Niel Campbell of the regular army is in command of a Cuban post. '99. Charles K. Francis is adjunct professor of chemistry and in charge of dyeing and textile chemistry in the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. The faculty of the school consists of 24 members and there were 459 students in attendance last year. '99. The engagement is announced of Miss Cora Carpenter of Melrose Highlands, Mass., to J. Ralph Well- man, '99. '99. William M. Cotton, Jr., of Provi- dence, is in charge of the construction of a portion of a branch of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad running to Lake Cormorant in northern Missis- sippi. His address is Kirksby, Panola County, Miss. '99. Frederick H. Tillinghast, for- merly of Providence, is married and living at St. Paul, Minn. He is engaged in reconstruction work on the Chicago and Northwestern railway. '00. H. S. Pratt has returned to col- lege. '00. Leonard M. Patton was married to Miss Helen Throop at Palmyra, N. Y., in December. Mr. Patton is principal of the high school in Medfield, Mass. '00. The Brunonian prints this news of members of last year's graduating class : Allan R. Thatcher, last year's editor- in-chief of the Brozvn Daily Herald^ is now engaged in the printing business in Boston, with his father's firm, H. L. Thatcher & Co. John S. Brown is teaching in the New York public schools. Austin H. Plttz holds the position of principal of the grammar school in Keene, N. H. John S. Colwell is in business with Abram Mendenhall, '91, at Providence. Joseph W. Downs is in business in Maine. John L. Hoods is in business in Pawtucket. Myron D. Lapham is studying law in Providence. George L. Hunt is studying law in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Ernest H. Gilbert has entered the Harvard Dental School. Daniel O. Webster is studying at the Boston University Medical College. Ray L. Whitney has entered the Harvard Medical College. Harold B. 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