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We see it in the frank avowal at Princeton and Harvard that we must in some respects return to the residential system of Oxford and Cambridge. We see this return in ath- letics, where we have grown weary of allowing a few highly trained men to take our exercise for us under a vexa- tious network of "rules," and are long- ing for the old amateur days when sport was really fun and all healthy students could share in it. We see this return in the changing requirements for entrance to college, where we are beginning to ask not how many hated books a boy has read, but what sort of a boy he is, in power to think and to execute. The recent movement to change some provisions in the charter of Brown Uni- versity is, rightly understood, part of the same return. It can be justified only on the ground that we are really seeking more fully to carry out the will of the founders when interpreted under modern 164 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY conditions. We are not at liberty to cre- ate a new and ideal charter. We are guardians of a trust. Our sole and sworn duty is to carry out the purpose of the founders to the end of time. What then is the reason which has led our committee to recommend some change in the letter of our fundamental instru- ment ? It is certainly not lack of regard and honor for that venerable document, which is one landmark in the history of American education and American liber- ty. When that charter was adopted in 1764 it surpassed all other charters of PRESIDENT W. H. P. FAUNCE, LL. D. America in the boldness and catholicity of its utterance regarding religious lib- erty. One immortal sentence might be written in letters of gold on our Van Wickle gates: "Into this liberal and cath- olic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests ; but on the contrary all the members hereof shall forever en- joy full, free uninterrupted and absolute liberty of conscience." No other college in America was willing to say that in 1764, and many institutions would not care to make such a declaration even to- day. The reason is not chiefly to secure pensions for retired professors. We should indeed be glad to have our teach- ers eligible to all pensions that are of- fered their colleagues in some other in- stitutions, not so much for their own sakes as for the sake of their families. The widow of a college professor may now receive from the Carnegie Founda- tion $1500 a year, which is the same thing as if the professor had succeeded in saving $40,000 during his lifetime. Yet Dr. Schurman, one of the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation, has recently pointed out to the colleges of this coun- try certain unexpected possibilities inhe- rent in the working of the Foundation. Mr. Carnegie has recently changed his entire plan, by including the State uni- versities in its scope, and the plan may again be seriously modified. We may well avoid undignified haste while the situation clears. If we make any change in our charter it must be on educational and n oral grounds. The real reason which lies behind the movement is the conviction that it is ab- solutely impossible under modern condi- tions to live up to the minute and de- tailed provisions of a document of 1764. To live by evasion in academic realms is to injure education at its source. Yet the difficulty of being strictly candid under an antiquated document increases, and will increase every year. By our charter — to take a single ex- ample — we must forever have five Friends or Quakers on the board of trus- tees. It is out of the question for us to find in the future among the alumni or friends of Brown men who would natu- rally fill those five places when they shall become vacant. Shall we evade the char- ter by choosing men who are Quakers by ancestry or courtesy only? We have our choice between evasion and change. No other charter in the country is so mi- nute in its apportionment of trustees among four denominations and its ex- clusion of all other Christian bodies. We have lived up to the charter as far as we could, and then have done the next best thing. But the situation constantly in- creases in difficulty. Constantly we are passing over the men we most want on THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 165 our board of trustees, unable to elect them because the existing vacancies call for men of a different denominational complexion. We are often compelled to wait ten or fifteen years before we can elect the man we most desire to elect, and then we find him enlisted elsewhere. It is the very liberality of the charter which constitutes our ' embarrassment. By its explicit insistence that all the four denominations then prominent in New England should be represented it ex- cludes other denominations, the existence and development of which the university itself has fostered. The charter now ex- cludes a portion of our constituency which the charter itself has created. If the charter had been narrowly denomi- national, such would be our alumni — narrow and content. It is the breadth of the charter which has created the de- mand for a change in formal provisions in order to preserve alive the spirit or the founders. Those who urge the change believe they are urging what the founders would approve and demand were they living today. On one thing every member of the corporation is clear- — Brown must for- ever remain in vital sympathy with or- ganized Christianity. I myself have no in- terest in any kind of education which does not have Christian morals and Christian faith at the heart of it. Reli- gion is the core and crown of true edu- cation. And reHgion to us does not mean mere vague aspiration after goodness — • religion to us is Christianity. Never with our consent will Brown be relig- iously neutral, looking with equal favor on Buddhism, Confucianism and Chris- tianity. We are loyal to Christianity as we are loyal to American government — this is our heritage and sacred trust. The committee on charter revision has done an enormous amount of work. It has studied every change made in any important college charter in the Eastern States. It has sought the best legal ad- vice in this country. Every month of study has brought us increasing realiza- tion of the gravity of the task. The man who imagines that all the legal problems involved can be settled by a few scratches of the pen has not looked into the matter deeply. Snap judgments do not fittingly go with 140 years of his- tory. Centuries to come will hold us re- sponsible for the decisions of this fate- ful year. The committee will not act until certain legal questions have been settled. They have announced their unanimous desire for a change after a careful consultation of all the interests, educational and religious, which are im- mediately or remotely involved. But how shall those interests be con- served? Positive proposals for change are now to be considered. There are a dozen different methods of removing an- tiquated provisions without removal from sympathy with religion. The com- mittee must select some method as the result of its long study. In any case the friends of the college can know that all that patient and candid consideration can accomplish will be obtained, and the old college will go on its way with the con- tinued loyalty of old friends and the steady acquisition of new ones. A PLEA FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE CLASSICS RKMARKS AT THE BROWN DINNER IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 1, 1910 By J. Irving Manait, LL. D. If there be one live issue today, I take it to be the Conservation of our Nat- ural Resources ; and on that score I may claim to speak as a veteran. PROFESSOR MANATT As soon as I had come to years of in- discretion I took over the care of certain springs which gave me great joy and cost me greater tribulation. Great joy, since the poets of all times and climes haunted those springs and couldn't live without them ; greater tribulation, for scarcely had I taken office as conservator when the landgrabbers got busy. There were fine firs about my Pierian spring which the ship subsidy hunters fancied for masts ; noble oaks on Helicon they coveted for keels ; and the bay trees that shaded Castaly were just too lovely for any public spirited woodman to resist. To make a long story short, the well known Credit Juggernautomobilier was promptly launched by a young pro- moter who had just come into the man- agement of an old concern across the river ; and the trouble began. All my pleasant trees were butchered to make a Harvard holiday — by rigging elective airships, outfitting grandstands and building shops for blacksmiths and busi- ness administrators; and, by way of seething the kid in its mother's milk, they diverted my springs to run the saw- mills that converted my sacred groves into dirty lumber camps. I knew a thrifty Scotchman in Greece who was caught carting off the tomb of Leonidas to build a pig-sty, — a mere peccadillo compared with this wholesale sacrilege. At all events, they did a new thing un- der the sun ; they made the highway a wilderness and the rivers a desert. The lean years grew leaner as the arid waste widened and the rare oasis vanished in mirage. But we held on to the promise — that the years of the wicked should be shortened. In fact, our forty years in the wilderness were up last summer when the old concern reorganized and the new management promptly tumbled a lot of the preferred stock into the tophet of its original issue. Possibly, with hands off and decent care, the old springs may slowly replenish, the old roots shoot up afresh, and a hundred years may half undo the mischief the past forty years have done. To drop the parable, let us face the problem of conservation in its academic bearings. Every educated man is, willy nilly, a trustee of the world's accumu- lated culture. If this treasure of the THE BROWN ALUAINI MONTHLY 167 race be bartered for a mess of pottage, every man in this company must share the responsibihty ; and I pray you not to shirk it. Here, as elsewhere, we want directors who direct ; watchmen who lowell puts it) "Athletics has l)eaten scholarship out of sight." Presi- dent Kliot began his long administration by claiming for the Harvard degree "nothing less than four years devoted to liberal culture" ; he closed it as the advo- cate of a three years' course which might include such broad and liberal studies as coal mining, ore dressing, foundry prac- tice and blacksmithing! Specialization making sharp men and dissipation mak- ing shallow ones had run full course not at Harvard only, but in the college world at laree ; and it was high time for Mr. Lowell's new policy — "to develop the best all-round men in the United States." He has begun well by scotching the hy- dra that beset the springs — the myriad- headed monstrosity dubbed free election which really spells free damnation. But it remains to be seen whether even a Harvard president can graft a backbone into a iellvfish ; whether anything short of knife and cautery can save the game. Right here at the turn of the road is the real -educator's opportunity and obli- gation. We want a revaluation of stud- ies in a larger view of the end of all study, which is the making of all-round men. And we need not be surprised if it be found that these man-making stu- dies are. in the main, just the good old humanities, with their source and centre in Greek. 1)ut radiating out (as all Greek thins:s do) into manifold developments of sweetness and lisfht and power. The last man you would take for a laudator temporis acfi is our own Andrews ; and he declares that "no modern communitv can. as a community, dispense with Greek studies except as it elects to be barbaric." That is a judgment w^orth weighintr; -'^ud history sustains it. We cannot with impunity drop Greek out of our national culture. That has been done more than once in history and al- ways with disastrous consequences. Captive Greece led captive her rude conqueror; and Rome's Golden Age cul- minated in the rich Greek culture of her philosopher-king, Marcus Aurelius, who now in noble bronze mounts guard above our Lincoln Field. But Rome's Hellen- ism was only skin deep; she could not react on the Barbarian as Greece had re- acted on her, and Greek learning was banished to the Eastern Empire. So completely banished that Lionardo Bru- ni — would we might claim him as the first Brunonian — in forsaking the law to follow the first Greek professor of the Renaissance can declare that "through seven hundred years no one in all Italy has been master of Greek letters ; and yet we admit that all science is derived from them." That glorious return to the Greeks made Italy again the light of the world for two centuries, only to be lost in another eclipse of barbarism and superstition when the old learning sought a new asylum beyond the Alps. Reuch- lin and Erasmus carried the torch into Germany and so prepared the way of the Reformation, as their successors through that purely humanistic school, the gymnasium, ultimately laid the foun- dations of German nationality and made the Germans the scholar nation of the world. Grocyn and Linacre bore the torch to Britain, there to shine tin- dimmed down to our own time when Emerson could describe Oxford as "a Greek factory making scholars as Wilton w^eaves carpets and Sheffield grinds steel." Now. thanks to cisatlantic pres- sure, your Rhodes scholar may get up what little Greek he requires on the voy- age over. Thus the barbarian eclipse threatens the land of Roger Ascham. w^ho held that "to follow the Gothes rather than the Greeks. . . .were even to eat ackorncs with swyne when we may freely eat wheate bread among men." And what of our little torch that the fathers carried over sea to kindle the sacred fire on savage shores? Shall its clear light be quenched in the glare of our garish day? Very well; let us be as rich and barbaric as the Incas. Toss the torch to the Filipino — if haply it may re- i68 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY turn to us, as it did to Italy, after seven hundred years of darkness. Already the foreign critic is remarking that we have no poets among us. In all conscience, why should we have any— we who have levelled the hills and felled the woods and dried up the streams that were their vital breath until the College of Holmes and Lowell and Longfellow can hardly produce you a copy of verses for a young lady's album ! Sons of Brown, the pendulum must swing back. We have gone as far in the material drift as any nation may go and live. Even our education is com- mercialized : where we used to aim at character and culture we now aim at ef- ficiencv and knack. Every study is asked to justify itself in terms of bread and butter : every school must be vocational — an apprenticeship to the art. or rather to some one of the ten thousand arts, of making a living; and this glorious old Bav State, which once hitched her wagon to a star, now aspires to trundle a wheelbarrow. Mark you, I do not object to industrial training as an ele- ment in education ; I object to it as the dominant note in education. Let the breadwinner be provided for, by all means : but never forget that up from the ranks come the masters of our des- tiny. It was not workshop or labora- tory, but the Bible and Pluta-ch, that lighted an uncouth backwoodsman to immortality and set the name of Lincoln among the stars. It was no premature vocational training that made a plain Welsh preacher's son the mightiest moral force Brown has yet given to this peo- ple. More power to his arm as he hews out a new emancipation for our boss- ridden Democracy ! God save us from the denatured edu- cation that forgets the end in the means, the man in the machine. The crving need of our time is not more skill of hand, but more uplift of heart; and that, above all, in the breadwinner's ranks. While no man can live by bread alone, it is the poor and lowly who most sorely need the upward look and the sustain- ing inspiration. Give them the high companionship of singer, sage and saint; give them as far as may be access to the best that has been thought and spoken in the world. Here is a poor little scrawl from an unknown cripple in a distant state who asks my advice about translations of "Greek, Latin and other great authors," as he pathetically puts it, "to throw light on the path of trouble of one who would be a scholar." Heaven send our colleges now and then a spirit like that! I fancy Wood row Wilson would go a day's journey to see him; and what can I do for him ? Stocks and bonds have I none, but I can put him up Five Inches of Books to be read Five Minutes a Day for Five Years, and warranted to make a man healthy and wealthy and wise. I have got as far as an inch of Homer and half an inch of Plato and am reserving the last quarter of an inch for Dr. Faunce's vest pocket edition of Marcus Aurelius. The crippled toiler has a divine right of communion with singer, sage, and saint ; but he can realize it only as we conserve the sacred groves and springs — only as we breathe in and breathe out that Hellenic spirit which makes culture not a fashion but a passion. Look out for the breadwinner; but to do that ef- fectively you must give the man-making studies right of wav in high school, academy and college. As long as one soul seeks the light, keep the old lamp burning; and when your own child asks you for bread do not put him ofif with a sto'ne. You remember the Fool's jilie at poor discrowned King Lear: "Thou hadst lit- tle wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away." Though Regan and Goneril, the world and the flesh, charm never so satanically, God give us wit enough in our bald crowns to hold fast to our Golden Crown. That is the conservation I plead for ; and without it I fear we shall presently be eating acorns with the Goth when we might freely eat wheat bread with the Greek, THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 169 MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ADVISORY COUNCIL OF 1910 Standing— I. B. Burgess, E. A. Thurston, Prof. A. K. Potter, C. H. Lingham, John B. Diman, R. P. Brown, H. R. Palmer, A. M. Quick, H. A. Stearns, C. C. Mumford, Z. Chafee, J. A. Clough. Sealed— Chairman G. F. Bean, E. O. Stanley, Dr. R. W. Greene, Edmund Wood, A. G. Langley, F. E. Whitaker. THIRD ANNUAL SESSION OF THE ALUMNI ADVISORY COUNCIL By Professor A. K. Potter The Advisory Council of the Alumni held its third annual meeting on March first and second. The rapid development of interest in this organization and of confidence in its increasing usefulness is a gratifying indication of a new feeling of responsibility and power among the alumni. The session of 1908 was for various reasons experimental and unsat- isfactory, and little or nothing was ac- complished. LSst year there was some definite achievement, although the total attendance was less than fifteen and only five local associations were represented. This year twelve associations sent dele- gates and, including the members-at-large elected by the Associated Alumni, the representatives of the Class Secretaries' Association, and the Executive Commit- tee, there was an attendance of twenty- five. No less significant than the num- bers is the fact that so manv busy men of position and influence thought it worth while to make long trips at large per- sonal sacrifice in order to share in the deliberations of the council. I70 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY It should be understood that this or- ganization in no way usurps the author- ity of the general alumni association. Its functions are wholly or chiefly advisory. Its special service is in a more careful discussion of important matters than is possible at the hurried annual meeting of the alumni on the day before commence- ment. No item in the programme of the coun- cil was of more importance than the selection of candidates for nomination to the board of trustees. .\ftcr a long discussion it was decided, without a dis- senting" vote, to ])resent the names of Rev. Clarence A. Barbotir, "88, of Xew York, and Mr. Edwin F. Greene, "oi, o*" Boston. The sub-committees appointed last year presented extended and carefully prepared reports that will be of much service to the ofificers of administration. The committee on advertising strongly disapproved of the undignified methods made use of by some institutions. The committee on fraternity houses presented a series of recommendations based chiefly on information as to the practice of other colleges. The report was sent to the dean and will l)e pul)- lished later. The council jnit itself on record as heartily approving the prenmmaiy report of the corporation committee on charter revision and endorsed the plan for an alumni ballot on the prf)posed changes. It also prepared a letter to accompany the ballot. On the general (|ucstion of trustee nominations and the alumni vote there was earnest debate and nmch difl:"erence of opinion. The expected modifications of the charter will make so great a change in the conditions that a radical revision of the present plan may best be postponed. Perhajxs some slight modi- fications are immediately desirable. The matter w^as left with a committee consist- ing of Air. Mumtord, Mr. Burgess and Professor Potter, with authority to ask the approval of the corporation for what- ever they think desirable. MEMBERS PRESENT. At large — George F. Bean, '8i, Boston; Charles C. Mumford, '8r, Providence. Dele- gates from local associations: Boston — -Fred 'H. Williams, '"jj, Clarence H. Lingham, '97; Newport — Alfred G. Langley. '76: Woonsocket — Frederic E. Whitaker, '88 : Fall River — Ed- ward A. Thurston, 'q3 ; Worcester — Ray W. Greene, '83, John A. Clough, '99 ; Springfield — Scott Adams, '95 ; New Bedford — Edmund Wood, '76; Stonington — Henry R. Palmer, '90; Bristol — Augustus O. Bourn, '55 ; New York — Edward' O. Stanley, '76; Philadelphia — Rev. Frank A. Smith, '89; Washington — • Alfred W, Quick. '87; Manchester — Hiram A. Stearns, '97. Representing the class secreta- ries:. Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence; Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence; ex-officio, .Mbert K. Potter, '86, secretary of Associated Alumni. From the executive committee of the alumni: John B. Diman, '85; Isaac B. Burgess, '83. THE COLLEGE IN 1870 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 171 TOPICS OF THE MONTH If there is any Brown man who does not know "Britt" he must have graduated long ago. Brittian Jeal has been in the service of the university for 25 years. He was watchman and janitor for many years, and since the opening of the Brown Union has been superinten- dent of Rockefeller Hall. At a crowded "smoker" in the Union, Feb- ruary 24, President Faunce, in behalf of alumni and undergraduate friends of "Britt," presented him with a purse of gold and gold watch in Ironor of his long and faithful service. "Do as you wish, with the first," said the jM-esident, in liis ]iresentation remarks, "l)ut we make one stipulation as to the sccoiul — that you wear it, and wear it where we can see it every day." "I'ritt's" re- sponse, like Dr. Faunce's speech, was greeted with great enthusiasm. The watch is a solid gold open-face Howard with 17 jewels, and guarantee, and cost $50. The purse contained $163.45. There were 224 contributors, including five fraternities. The watch is inscribed as follows: "1884-1909; Presented to Brittian Jeal by Brown men in appreciation of his loyalty to them and his faithful service to their college for 25 years." Brittian Jeal is a British army vet- eran. He served six years with the colors, including three years in India. He was in the Afghan campaign of 1879 and 1880, was honorably dis- charged and received a medal for gal- lantry and courage. He is past presi- dent of the General Gordon lodge of the Sons of St. George. The Brown Herald says editorially : "The recognition at last night's Union smoker of Brittian Jeal's twenty-five years of service to the university and friendship to its students was an incident which gave keen pleasure to every Brown man present. 'Britt,' has grown up with the college, seen its build- ings increase from a few to many, the number of its undergraduates treble, its position in the educational world take on greater and greater importance. He has become almost a land- mark of the campus— as necessary to it as the sturdy old elms— and during all this time, as President Faunce said, he has 'stuck to his job.' " 'Britt" came to Brown after six years in the English army, during which he took part in an arduous campaign, and in which service he learned to adapt himself to changing con- ditions, and to obey. We never tire of the BRITT stories he loves to tell of the days in India and Afghanistan, and we can never hear enough of the memories he holds of men and incidents that he has known during his many years of service to the university. He has seen twenty-five classes graduate from Brown, and we are sure that he has friends — many friends — in every one of them." "Britt" asks the Alumni Monthly to ex- tend his heartfelt thanks to the donors of tlie watch and purse. t^^ i^^ ((?• The Connecticut valley alumni of Brown had their annual reunion at the Nayasset Club in Springfield, Mass., Feb. 14. During the evening the alumni asso- Springfield Reunion 1/2 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ciation took steps to raise a fund oi :pio,ooQ, the interest ot which is to be used to pay a student's ex- penses through Brown, ihe associa- tion elected Arthur D. Call of Hart- lord, Conn., president lor 1910. ihe reunion banquet was a happy attair, replete with remimscenses of college days and merry with songs, as the old grads renewed good fellow- ship and enthusiastically considered what they might do to further most the interests of their Alma Mater. Professor Bronson made a stirring- appeal to the alumni to impart to the undergraduates at Brown a stimulus which will shake them out of the apathy toward things intellectual un- der which they now labor. Professor Bronson lamented that there is not the intellectual zest among the undergrad- uates which marked former years, and declared the alumni must help to change these conditions. "Athletics," said Professor Bronson, "are not the sole cause for this intellec- tual apathy, for there are athletes who are not interested enough in their own sports to keep up in their studies in order to be eligible for the teams. Many are, therefore, barred from tak- ing part in athletic contests." Professor Bronson told of conditions under which the library at Brown is struggling, saying that but $120 a year is available for buying new books for the English department. Dr. Philip S. Moxom of Springfield arose to the occasion with an immediate call for $100 to be given for the purchase of books for the English department. The money was raised in a few minutes. (^* ^* ^* Brown Club A new alumni organi- in Provi- zation, to be known as "The Brown Club, was organized Feb. 10, in this city by about twenty-five graduates of the university. The object of this association is to further all the interests of Brown in every way possible, and to keep in close touch with the activities of the undergraduates. This association grew out of an alumni gathering in December, when a committee was appointed to investi- gate the athletics of the university and to propose by-laws which would govern the club. Byron S. Watson was chairman of the committee. In the investigation of the athletic condi- tions, the committee found that the undergraduates and faculty are work- ing together in perfect harmony. The buildings and grounds of the Athletic Association are not ample for the needs of the students. It was advocated that some plan should be realized whereby the student body as a whole could have ample room for some form of outdoor exercise. "The Brown Club" is formed after the fashion of the alumni clubs of Yale and Chicago. The members are not only those who live in this vicinity but will include graduates living in other states. The executive committee will con- sist of five members, each holding ofiice for a year. The officers of the club are as follows : President, Robert W. Taft, '91 ; vice- president, F. W. Matteson, '92 ; secre- tary and treasurer, Abbott Phillips, '02 ; executive committee, Byron S. Watson, '97, chairman ; John S. Mur- dock, '96, Irving O. Hunt, '99, Edward H. Weeks, '93, and Michael J. Lynch, '04. Basketball Record e^* ^» (^* The Brown basketball record for the season is as follows : Jan. 8 R. I. College at Providence, 32-13.^ 12 Worcester Polytechnic at Provi- dence, 30-19. 15 M. I. T. at Providence, 14-16. 19 Tufts at Providence, 14-19. 22 Wesleyan at Aliddletown, 14-29. 26 Tufts at Medford, 15-22. 29 Yale at Providence, 34-21. Feb. 2 Wesleyan at Providence, 16-23. 5 Andover at Providence, 41-19. 9 Williams at Williamstown, 14-45. 16 M. I. T. at Boston. 32-14- 22 West Point at West Point, 8-26. 23 Pratt Institute at Brooklyn, 17-35. 26 Williams at Providence, 8-39. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 173 Brown Year at Montclair Montclair, It was "Brown's year'' at the eighteenth annual din- ner of the college men of N. J., Feb. II, and the alumni of the university provided en- tertainment that was said to be fully up to the standard set last year by Cornell. All the speakers at the din- ner were Brown men, except Mr. John V'ipond Davies, chief engineer of the Hudson and Manhattan Railway Com- pany, and Mr. Louis Jackson, indus- trial commissioner of the Erie Rail- road. Senator Everett Colby, '97, was the toastmaster. There was no lack of en- thusiasm and the college spirit was much in evidence. Mr. Colby proved an admirable toastmaster. The speak- ers included Professor Alexander Meiklejohn, dean of Brown, to whom on the programme was ascribed the sentiment, "But to go to school in a summer morn, oh, it drives all joy away;" Mr. Davies, "The Public Be Pleased ;" David A. Fultz, '98, former l^aseball player and member of the New York American League team, "You Base Football Player ;" Jackson, "I have done the State Some Service, and They Know't," and Borden G. Whiting, '98, Railroad Commissioner of New Jersey, "Quid violentius aure tyranni?" t^* (^* ^* The Sons of Brown of W^oonsocket and vicinity had their annual meeting and banquet Feb. 8, at the St. James Hotel. The meeting was attended by about 60 members and guests. The president of ^the association, Arthur M. Comee, acted as toastmaster. Professor Walter C. Bronson, head of the department of English literature at Brown, gave an interesting talk on "Life at Old Oxford." Professor Bronson spent several months there last year. Professor Ansel Brooks, associate professor of mechanics at Brown, gave a stereopticon lecture, "Thirty Minutes in the Air," showing the different types of flying machines and explaining in an interesting man- ner the progress made thus far in solv- Woonsocket Alumni Dine ing aerial navigation. Sam Walter hoss, '82, librarian of the Somerville public library, spoke in reminiscent strain and read from his own writings. At the business meeting the following officers were elected: President, Dr. Frank W. Senior; vice-president, Rev. Charles A. Denfeld; secretary, Dr. hVederick E. Whitaker; treasurer, L. Herl)ert Ballou; executive committee, W illiam A. Robinson, George W. Rick- ard, Howard S. Young. The gather- ing closed with the singing of "Alma Mater" by the entire party. ^ Boston Alumnae The Brown alumnae of Boston and vicinity have recently become associ- ated for the purpose of promoting per- sonal acquaintance among the gradu- ates of the Women's College and to bring them into communication with the activities of Alma Mater. At the initial meeting in December the follow- ing officers were elected: President, Mrs. A. S. Thomson ; vice-president, Mrs. L. W. Williams; secretary and treasurer. Miss Helen Albro; chairman of social committee, Miss Mary Stark; chairman of place of meeting commit- tee, Mrs. C. L Gates. The members number about thirty; a constitution has been adopted, and plans have been made for monthly meetings during the winter. On the 13th of March the as- sociation will have the pleasure of lis- tening to Dean King at a luncheon given in her honor. Alanager W. H. Kent of the university baseball team has announced the following schedule for the approaching season : Apr. 3 Rowdoin at Providence. R. I. State at Providence. Trinity at Providence. Amherst Agricultural at Providence. Penn. State at Providence. Vermont at Providence. Princeton at Providence. Lafa_vette at Providence. Princeton at Princeton. May 4 Exeter Academy at Providence. Gushing Academy at Providence. Baseball Schedule 3 6 9 15 16 20 23 27 30 4 6 174 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 7 Tufis at Providence. 10 Columbia at New York. 11 West Point at West Point. 14 Holy Cross at Providence. 18 Yale at New Plaven. _'i Colgate at Providence. _'5 i'ennsylvania at Philadelphia. 26 Harvard at Providence. 30 Yale at Providence. June I Wesleyan at Providence. 4 Stevens Institute at Providence. 8 Pennsylvania at Providence. II Amherst at Amherst. 15 Amherst at Providence. 17 Harvard at Cambridge. 18 Holy Cross at Worcester. Beginners' A well-equipped labora- Sbo";atory ^ory for beginners in chemistry was opened for the use of the students in the chemical department last month. For the past few years the depart- ment has worked with insulficient facil- ities and a new laboratory was particu- larly necessary owing to the large in- crease of students registered in chem- istry. There are more students taking chemistry, which is voluntary, than in any other course with the exception of the required courses in English and mathematics. In the new laboratory there are seven tables^ at which a class of 42 students can work at the same time. At each table there are about four faucets and two large sinks. The ceil- ing of the room is very high studded and the entire room is well lighted. The room also contains 210 lockers. The room will be used only by be- ginners, thus giving more space for the classes in the advanced courses and also allowing the separation of the dif- ferent classes. It has the most im- proved water and gas arrangements. ^* t^* t^* Brown Night in Boston At a meeting of the Bos- ton Baptist Social Union, Feb. 7, fifteen members of the Brown University Glee Club aided in the entertainment of "College Night." The guests of the evening were: Professor William MacDonald, Professor Shailer Mathews of the Uni- Various Activities versity of Chicago; Rev. George E. Horr, '76; Rev. W. H. Spencer, '66; Rev. O. P. Gifford, '74; Rev. T. S. Barbour, "74; Rev. J. M. English, 'jo; D. W. Abercrombie; Ray G. Huling, '69; G. F. Bean, '81; F. W. Woodcock, '91; R. E. Corlew, '98; N. W. Edson, and E. H. Faunce. E. N. Robinson, 96, is to be the football coach of the university next fall. He was coach at Brown from 1903 to 1907. Ihe Brunonian has elected the fol- lowing men to the board: M. J. Wessel, 'ii, of Port N orris, N. J.; Arthur F. Newell, '12, of West Roxbury, Mass.; Fred C. Perry, '12, of Brockton, Mass.; and W. H. Robertson, '12, of Provi- dence. R. C. Murphy, '11, lectured lately be- fore the Audobon Society of Rhode Isl- and, on the subject of "Herons and Egrets." Mr. Murphy, who is con- ducting special work in the department of biology, was formerly on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. An essay by George Parker Winship, librarian of the John Carter Brown Li- brary, on William Caxton, the first English printer, has been recently pub- lished in London. The New York reunion Feb. 3 at the Hotel Astor was a successful occasion. Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, director of the American Museum of Natural History, was toastmaster. With hijii at the guest table were Dr. Faunce, the Rev. George H. Ferris, '91, of Philadelphia, Walter H. Page, editor of World's Work, and Everett Colby, '97. Dr. Faunce said in the course of his after-dinner remarks : "I never get tired of reading Lincoln's speeches. There was a man who knew how to strip the husk off things and get to the kernel. And the man today who approaches most closely to Lincoln in that sure grasp of the fundamentals is the present governor of this state, Charles E. Hughes." New York Reunion THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 175 Philadelphia The fortieth annual meet- MeeT' "^^ °^ ^^^^ Philadelphia alumni of Brown, held at the University Club on the even- ing of Jan. 24, brought out a discussion of the proposed amendment of the char- ter of the university to provide for the elimination of all sectarian requirements. The sentiment expressed was very strongly in favor of the proposal and the following vote was passed with only one dissenting voice : "Resolved : That the Brown Univer- sity Club of Philadelphia heartily ap- proves the proposed changes in the char- ter of the university, and earnestly hopes that the corporation will carry them into effect." Another topic of discussion was the proposed increase in the endowment fund of the university. While the project was approved, definite plans will not be adopted until later. The election of officers resulted in re- taining all of the former officials, as follows : President, Richard M. Atwater ; first vice-president, Prof. Edwin Stan- ley Thompson ; second vice-president, the Rev. Frank A. Smith ; secretary, Dr. W. H. Bennett ; assistant secretary, Peirson T. Fort ; treasurer, J. Benton Porter. Addresses were made by Dr. W. W. Keen, Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, president of Brown University, Prof. Stanley and Dr. Richard M. Atwater. t^* t^* ^* Denver Dinner On Saturday evening, Jan. 8, the annual reunion and dinner of the Brown alum- ni of the Rocky mountain region took place at the Chateau Lafayette in Den- ver, Col. Brown songs and Brown cheers, and reminiscences of the older "grads," made the evening an enjoyable one. A tele- gram from President Faunce and the faculty and a letter from Professor N. F. Davis were read. Addresses were de- livered by Franklin E. Brooks of Colo- rado Springs, Professor Leslie Paull of the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, the Rev. Henry W. Pinkham and others. The following were chosen officers for the year: President, James C. Stark- weather; vice-president, Luke J. Kava- naugh ; secretary, Charles P. Bennett ; treasurer, C. Henry Smith. Those present included • Charles P. Bennett, '79; James C. Starkweather, '80; Franklin E. Brooks, '83; Williain Harris, '83; James F. Denison, '88; the Rev. Henry W. Pinkham, '88; the Rev. Harry E. Purinton, '94; Professor Les- lie Paull, '97; Luke J. Kavanaugh, '98; C. Henry Smith, '99; Lieutenant George A. Taylor, '01 ; James L. Gartland, '03 ; George S. Holmes, '04; Donald McLean, '07; C. A. Worsley, '08; A. M. Chace, '09, and Don. V. Richardson, '08. A telegram was sent as follows to Providence : "We wish to thank President Faunce and the faculty for their kind telegram. We send you our heartiest greetings and our best wishes for the success and perpetuity of Brown University. Several Brown songs were attractively printed for distribution among the din- ers and the following menu was served : Hors d'Oeuvre Assortis, Freshman Gombo de Volaille en Tasse, a la Refectory Darne de Halibut Meuniere, Field's Point Zinfandel Squantum Pommes Hollandaise. a la Budlong Filet Mignon Bordelaise, 'Varsity (Petits Pois au Beurre) Dindonneau Cranberry Sauce, a la Rhode Island (Laitue de Serre) Glace Melba, Brown and White Jumbo Fromage Cafe Special, Brunonia Brown Union Cigars e^* ^* i^% There were about 200 present at the annual Bos- ton dinner, Feb. i. The gist of two of the speeches is presented elsewhere in the Monthly. We advise every Brown man to read them. They are full of meat. Boston Dinner t^* c^* %^^ 50,000 for Women's College An appropriation of $50,- 000 was granted to the Women's College at the an- nual meeting of the Rock- efeller Fund of the General Education Board. The gift is conditional on the college raising an additional $200,000, and this proviso has been accepted by the college authorities. 176 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY rublisbed for the (xnuUiates of Krown University by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. Robert P. Brown, Treas., Providence, R. 1 ADVISORY BOARD William W. Kekn, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. Hknkv K. Portek, 60, Pittsburgh. Pa. Fkancis L.vwton, 69, New York. N. Y. RoBKur P. Bhown, '71, Providence William V. Kellkn. 72, Boston, Mass. WiLLiA.M E. FosTKK, '73, Providence WiN.SLOW L'l'TOX, '75, Providence Zachakiah Chafee, '8(», Providence Sam Walter Foss, '82, Somerville, Mass. Garhnek Colbv, '87, New York, X. Y. JosEVH N. AsHTON, '91, Salem, ilass. William R. Dorman, '92, New York, N. Y. George A. Gaskill, '98, Worcester, Mass. HKNRY ROHIXSOX PALMER, '90, Editor H\RRY LYMAN KOOPMAN, Associate Editor EAhL N. MAN( HESTEK, '02, Alumni Editor and Business Manager Address all communications to the Brown Alumjji Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. Subscription Price, .si.on a Year. Single Copies, Ten Cents There is no issue during August and September Entered at the Providence post-office as second-class matter MARCH, 1910 The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot vndertake to return manuscripts sent to it for publication, unless they are accompanied by sufficient postage LIBRARY END O WMENTS A recent number of "Old Penn," the weekly publication of the University of Pennsylvania, is devoted to the interests sylvania is from ten to sixteen thou- sand volumes a year ; our own rate is about half the larger number. Their regular income is about the same as ours, or not far from .$4,000. In their case the surplus needed to carry on the library has been obtained by annual ap- peals to friends of the university ; in our own, by annual appropriations made by the corporation. At Pennsylvania the regular income has been only about one-tenth of the whole ; at Brown it has been about one-fourth. In the John Hay Library our total annual expenses on the most modest scale cannot be less than $20,000, and should not fall below $25,000. This obviously means an en- dowment of half a million dollars and such is the sum that our corporation has voted to raise. A't Pennsylvania, according to the plan proposed, it is expected to raise one-fourth of the sum in gifts of $5,000. and it is believed that in five years the balance can be secured through the Alumni. As concerns the raising of our own fund it is to be hoped that no such long period will elapse before our fund is in hand and yielding its income; for until this result has been attained, our of the university library. There is given a history of the growth of the library beautiful new library building will be and a statement of its financial condi- ^ drain on the resources of the univer- tion, from which the deduction i s made that the income of a million dol- lars is necessary for the proper mainte- nance of the library ; an appeal for the raising of this sum is made, and a working plan is presented. In 1891, when this present $200,000 building was dedicated, the total number of volumes in the library was about sity and a bar to improvement and ad- vance in other directions. May this dan- ger speedily be removed ! THINKING IN MILLIONS Says The Michigan Alumnus : "At present, Michigan's total income when capitalized conservatively represents an endowment of about $25,000,000. This is over and above the value of the build 40,000, or only about one-half the num- ings and equipment, which was esti ber then in our own university library, mated at almost $3,300,000 in the inven Today the number in their main library alone is over 244,000 volumes, or about 100,000 more than in our own main li- brary. The rate of increase at Penn- tory of last year." It is plain that the universities of the twentieth century nmst think in millions as those of the nineteenth century thouglit in hundreds of thousands. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE LETTER BOX t77 A GLOOMY VIEW OF SCHOOL TIES Editor Brown Alumni Alonthly : — • Apropos of college banquets and re- unions, here is a translation from Les Annales of some remarks on that sub- ject l)v Jules Claretis of the Academic I'^rancaise. "The faces of our school comrades, as well as those of our first loves, are mirrors in which one watches himself grow old. And then, too, how uncomfortable one feels to find himself speaking familiarly with this stranger at his side with whom one has nothing in common, not even in memory, for he has forgotten every one of those whom you recall to him. How true, too, is that reflexion of Labiche in "I'Affaire de la rue Lourcine" : C'est etonnante comme on a pen de chose a se dire quand il y a vingt ans qu' on ne s'est yu." He presents us a still gloomier view of these occasions in the following an- ecdote: "A number of years ago I was asked by the president of the association of the alumni of Lycee Condorcet — at that time Lycee Bonaparte — to ask Sainte-Beuve, one of our alumni, if he would be willing to preside at the annual banquet." Sainte-Beuve excused himself at first for reasons of health. .. ."And besides, said he to me, do I know the former stu', dents, my comrades? Do they know me? Do they care for me? I have never had a single favor from those comrades. They forgot me up to the day when I became celebrated. Just before my election to the Academy they did not even consider me talented. They have bowed only before the title, academician. That brotherhood is forced. Reserve for another the hon- or which you were awarding me." I believe that few of our more illus- trious Brown alumni have had occasion to feel that way, and that still fewer would not have been magnanimous eiKUigh to overlook any fancied slights by their comrades, but still, there is food for reflection in Sainte — Beuve's denial of the real brotherliness of school ties. S. A. Allen. Hightstown, N. J., Feb. 8. WE THINK WE'LL DO IT Editor Brown Alumni Monthly: — 1 liave a proposition to make to the Monthly, which may or may not appeal to you. At every dinner of the various alumni association it is desirable to furnish each member with a Brown song sheet, which in every case is quite an ex- pense, as it involves quite a lot of type- setting for a few copies to be printed. Why wouldn't it be a good idea for the Alonthly to publish and keep in stock a supply of such song sheets attractively printed, which the various associations could purchase from you as needed at much less expense to each, and at some profit to the Monthly. This could be advertised in the columns of the maga- zine, and I am sure all would be glad to avail themselves of the opportunity. S. A. McCoMBER, '96. Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. i. BOOK REVIEWS DR. KING'S " SIR HENRY VANE, JR. By Professor and Mrs. AUinson In this volume Dr. King gives in an enlarged form the lecture which he de- livered last winter before the Backus Historical Society and the Rhode Island Historical Society. We can hardly im- agine a better summary of the great Pur- itan's life to put into the hands of gen- erous youth than this sympathetic ac- count of the man of whom Wendell Phillips said, after mentioning Franklin, \\^ashington, and the other American champions of liberty: "Vane dwells an arrow's flight above them all." There are those who believe that, had Vane's counsels been followed, the English com- monwealth would have been flourishing 178 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY today, to the incalculable gain of human- ity during the last two hundred and fifty years. In the Rhode Island which he loved and whose fortunes he helped to promote, and everywhere in America, X'aue should be honored beside his inti- mate friend and fellow-laborer in the cause of soul-liberty, Roger Williams. No one who is interested in what Dr. King calls "the upward struggle of hu- manity" should miss the clarion call of the noble life which he has here so vivid- ly and attractively set forth. Sir Henry Vane, Jr., Governor of Massa- chusetts and Friend of Roger Williams and Rhode Island, by Henry Melville King. Prov- idence, Preston S: Rounds Company, 1909. 207 pages. GREEK LANDS AND LETTERS The wish of Keats when he cried: "O, for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene !" would have been satisfied by the gift of this volume. In fact, we can hardly im- agine a gift that would have delighted Keats more, and, could it have been his, he would have repaid it with another sonnet of travel "in the realms of gold," and richer ^han the one that he gave us, for Homer alone inspired that, while in this all the land of Greece and the whole world of its history and literature would have been laid at his feet. But if the book does not enable the rest of us to write sonnets, it cannot fail to lift us into those regions of exaltation in which the poets break forth into song; so the reference to Keats is not irrelevant. Lowell deprecated the "catalogue style;" but its effectiveness obviously depends upon the objects catalogued. At least we will offer our readers a list of the ti- tles of the chapters in the book before us and challenge them to read the list without being stirred as Sir Philip Sid- ney was in the reading of the old English ballad of "Chevy Chase" as by the sound of a trumpet. These are the headings: — The Wide- spread Land of Hellas; Piraeus, the Harbour Town; Athens: from Solon to Salamis; The Acropolis of Athens; Athens: from Salamis to Menander; Old Greece in New Athens ; Attica ; Eleusis ; Aegina; Megara and Corinth: the Gulf of Corinth; Delphi; From Delphi to Thebes; Thebes and Boeotia; Boeotia, continued ; Thermopylae ; Argolis, Arca- dia ; Olympia ; Messenia ; Sparta. Happy the writers with such subjects to conjure with. But our authors have not leaned back upon their theme ; on the contrary, they have put into their volume an amount of learning that would be oppressive if it had not been so skilfully handled. They have dis- proved Byron's famous line : ■' 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more," by showing us the land not as dead geography, but as clothed with the liv- ing garment of its literature in its im- mortal bloom and fruitage. Other sources of knowledge regarding the life of the Greeks are not forgotten, but the writers recognize the unquestionable truth, as it seems to us, that the spade, in spite of the marvels that it has re- vealed, is after all only the humble as- sistant of the pen in furnishing the knowledge that is of tlic most worth re- garding Greece. Perhaps the most fas- cinating quality of the volume, and with this word we must reluctantly lay it aside, is that under its spell the reader feels that the Greeks and their literature are not ancient, but rather the first of the moderns, and that he is for the time be- ing at home among them. Greek Lands and Letters, by F. G. and A. C. E. Allinson, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Plates and maps. Price $2.50. PUBLIC PAPERS OF GOVERNOR HUGHES The university library has received the two volumes of the Public Papers of Charles E. Hughes, Governor, 1907, 1908. A list of the contents of the first volume, which will apply with very lit- tle change to the second, will give an idea of the scope of these official documents. I, Inaugration. 2, Proclainations. 3, Messages to the Legislature. 4, Vetoes. 5, Memoranda on legislative bills ap- proved. 6, Emergency messages. 7, Ap- pointments. 8, Designations. 9, Special term of court. 10, Removal proceedings and complaints. 11, Pardons and com- mutations. 12, Miscellaneous. 13, Appen- dix. Index. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 179 HON. F. B. HALL, '67 Chief Justice Connecticut Supreme Court FACULTY NOTES M. Gilbert Chinard, instructor in tiie Kn- niancc language department, has been giving a series of lectures on French Literature. Professor Charles W. Brown of the depart- ment of geology delivered an address on "Earthquakes and Volcanoes" at the Provi- dence Y. M. C. A. on Feb. 23. The lecture was illustrated with stereopticon views. Professor Walter C. Bronson represented the university at the annual banquet of the Connecticut Valley Alumni Association, Feb. 14- An article by President L'aunce. entitled "The Religious Function of Public Worship," hns the place of honor in the January number of the American Journal 1 f Theology. Professor Loiseaux of Cnlumbia University lectured recently before the Alliance Francais on "Les Espagnols chez eux." ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALUMNI Professor Nathaniel F. Davis was elected an honorary member of the Rocky Mountain Brown Alumni Association at its recent meeting. Professor Davis was present at a former annual dinner of the association, and h's election was an expression of the appre- ciation of the members of his interest in the association. Seventeen Brown men at tluir rerent dinner nledeed a fund, known as "Loan Fund Num- ber Three," of $100. for the purpose of assist- ing a Western student at Brown. Good for these loval Brunonians ! HON. JOSEPH WALKER, '87 Speaiier of Massaciiusetts House NX'lio Advocates Reform Alumni 1859 Solon F. Whitney has issued his forty-sec- ond annual report as librarian of the Public Library of Watertown, ALass. 1863 Rev. Charles C. Craigin is now located at Lincoln, Cal., where he is pastor of the Con- gregational church. 1864 Dr. George H. Kenyon of Providence has resigned as surgeon-general of the Rhode' Isl- and A'lilitia. 1868 Adelbert S. Denison is spending his first winter North for eight years at Milford, N. H. A syllabus on the History of the English X(ivel by his daughter, Miss Evelyn M. Deni- son (Wellesley) is used as a textbook in nvMiy New York schools. 1869 Henry T. Grant of Providence has been elected president of the Rhode Island Chess .\ssociation. T872 Rev. W. W. Landrum, D. D., pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky.. was one of two citizens of the state appointed by the government to attend the convention called in Atlanta. Ga., to receive the million dollars given by Mr. Rockefeller for the erad- i8o THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ication of the hookworm disease, and to pro- vide for the administration of the fund. E. P. Dawley, ex- 1874, has been engaged by the grade crossing commission of Pawtucket to co-operate with City Engineer Carpenter in the preparation of plans for the abolition of grade crossings between Woodlawn and Bos- ton Switch 1879 Charles P. Bennett is in the real estate busi- ness in Colorado Springs, Colo. 1880 The law offices of James C. Starkweather are in the Majestic building. Denver, Colo. Walter F. Angell of Providence was chosen by Governor Pothier of Rhode Island chair- man of the state redistricting commission, but was obliged to decline, owmg to the pressure of private business. 1881 Governor Hughes has been chosen president of the New York State Board of the .\meri- ran Red Cross. Governor Hughes delivered the annual ad- dress at the university day exercises at the University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, and re- ceived the degree of LL. D. 1887 Rev. Charles L. White is now associate cor- responding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. His residence is 420 8th avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. G-orge R. Pinkham has been transferred from the principalship of the South street pub- lic school, Newark, N. J., to a similar posi- tion at the Ann street school in the same city. 1888 Rev. Henry W. Pinkham is pastor of the Bethanv Baptist Church, Denver, Colo. William Harris is a consulting engineer, with offices in the E. & C. building, Denver, Colo. 1890 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Collins _ Frost are spendine the winter and early spring at Cha- teau d'Oex. the chief winter sport resort of French Switzerland. 1892 Edmund Munger, who holds a position as assistant director and head of the piano de- partment at Illinois College Conservatory. Jqrksonville. 111., was the soloist with the St. T,o-iis Symphony Orchestra on Friday. Jn". 2Tst. plaving the Grieg A minor Concerto with great success. He was brought out four times b" enthusiastic applause, and finally resnonded h" nlaying. as encore, the Rubinstein G minor B^Tarole. Rev. .Mbert E. Hvlan of Vineyard Haven. Mass., has accepted a call to the Baptist churcli in Medlield, Mass., and begins his pas- torate iAIarch 1. i8l)4 Rev. Harry E. Purinton is pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Denver, Colo. His address is 1372 Franklin street, Denver, Colo. Rev. F. C. R. Jackson, B. D., was recently called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Healdburg in Sonoma County, Cal., and accepted, beginning his work there in De- cember, '09. Healdburg is located in the midst of what is considered by many " the richest valley in the state, viz., that of the Russian liver, and this Baptist church is one of tlir oldest in the state. Henry D. Sharpe of Providence entertained Commander Peary at the Hope Club on the oc- casion of the latter's lecture here, Feb. 9. E. J. Steere has for the last four years been engaged as construction engineer on the erec- tion of several buildings at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. William H. Millington, after successfully serving the oublic schools of VV'^nchester and Norfolk, Conn., as superintendent of the su- pervision di.^trict, accepted, in line of promo- tion, a similar position at Foxboro, Mass., en- tering upon his duties last September. 1897 Professor Gregory D. Walcott, Pli. D., head of the department of philosophy and psychol- ogy at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., has ;in article in the January number of the American Journal of Theology entitled "Theo- logical Reconstruction ; a Practicable Pro- gramme." Professor Walcott established the deoartment at Hamline only two years ago. and reports that too students are registered in this department this year. As the work is entirely elective the number of students regis- tered indicates that a need felt by the students is met. In connection with the work of the department a philosophical club has been or- ganized with meetings once a month for the discussion of philosophical, ethical and psycho- losrical problems that appeal especially to the students. Dr. G M. Whipple of Cornell University is one of the four active editors of a new edu- cational magazine, the Journal of Educafioiial PsvcJwlogv. the fir.st issue of which apneared in Tanuarv. Professor Whipnic h^s inst nnb- li^hed n book entitled "Ouestions in School Hvariene" in the series of Cornell Study Bul- letins for Teachers, and announces th^ nubli- cation in the snring of another more elaborate volume to deal with "Physical and Mental Tests." 1898 D. S. Fultz is coaching the Columbia I^ni- versity baseball team. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1898 and 1899 Dr. II. W. Hopkins of Warren, R. 1., lias ])vcu recuperating from a very critical opera- tion at Fort Sill, Okla. For the past two months he has been visiting his brother, Capt. F'rank E. Hopkins, who is Adjutant of the First l'"ield Artillery, and is stationed at that post. Dr. Hopkins has now returned home. 1899 C. Henry Smith recently read a paper be- fore the Library Section of the Coloradc Teachers' Association on the subject of "The United Slates Government Documents for Students." 1900 Charles G. Richardson has an article in the I'jigineering Edition of "Machinery" for Feb- ruary, entitled "A Method of Locating the Decimal Point in Slide Rule Calculations." Rev. Herbert E. B. Case and wife, Ada Rogers Case, '02, expect to return to the Lhii- ted States this spring on a furlough, and will probably arrive in Rhode Island the last of May. Their address for the present is 53 Gar- den street, Pawtucket, R. I. Ray O. Hughes is in charge of the History department in the high school at Westchester, Pa. Clarence E. Norris is an instructor in Ger- man at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Rev. and Mrs. J. Wallace Chesbro, recent- ly of South Paris, Me., were given a reception by the churches and townspeople of Randolph, Vt., nn Friday evening, Jan. 21. Mr. Chesbro has assumed the pastorate of the Federated Churches of Randolph. 1901 iM-ank C. Thompson of the Forestry Service has lieen transferred from Denver to San I'rancisco. His address is care of the h'orestry Service', l'"irst National Bank building, San Francisco, Cal. Arllnn- H. Whittemore, (better known, per- haps, as "Buck" Whittemore), coached the University of South Dakota football team the lia'^t season. He is in the law business in Ver- million, S. D., where the university is located. 1901 William R. Harvey of Newport, law partner of Hon. William P. Sheffield, '77, has been ap])ointed a member of the state rcdistricting commission. A recent number of the Journal of the Uni- ted States Artillery contained "The Military Operations during the Siege of Port Arthur, from a Coast Defense Point of View," trans- lated from the French in Revue de I'Armee nehe, bv First Lieut. G. A. Taylor, C. A. C. U. S. A. 1902 Irving Southworth has been elected to the Democratic executive committee of Etowah County, Alabama. Lieut. Charles A. Tetrault of the Medical Reserve Corps, Philippines Division, now sta- tioned at Cam]) Coniiell, Samar, P. I., has been granted a four months' leave of absence. Abbott Phillips has been admitted to mem- bership in the linn of Messrs. Green, Hinck- ley and Allen, attorneys, Rhode Island Hos- l)ital I rust building. Providence. 1903 Fred A. Otis, formerly with Gardner, Pirce & Thornley, announces that he has opened an office for the general practice of law at room 633 Banigan l)uilding, Providence. The Denver University football team, which is managed by James S. Gartland, has again won the championship of the Rocky Mountain region. Mr. Gartland is also associate editor of Motor-Field. A Newark, N. J., paper says : "H. W. Rock- well of Oneonta, N. Y., who has been ap- pointed superintendent of the Glen Ridge pub- lic schools, to succeed Dr. Eugene W. Bou- ton, will assume his duties July i. He will bring to his new post an excellent educational record, and it is said that his resignation was accepted with much regret by the Oneonta Board of Education. He is superintendent of schools in that city. Mr. Rockwell will re- linquish his proposed European trip this sum- mer in order that he may give his successor needed assistance and familiarize himself with the conditions at Glen Ridge before the open- ing of the school year. He was graduated from Brown in 1903, and taught in a private school for one year. He was principal of Gilbertsville High Schoo] for one year, and was made principal of the Oneonta High School in September, 1905. When the superin- tendent of .schools of Oneonta resigned a year later Mr. Rockwell was appointed. During his administraticin the number of students in the high school had increased from 100 to 275, and several special (lei)artments have been es- tablished. 1904 George San ford Holmes is imaking a suc- cess of newspaper work on the staff of the Denver Times. Lucius A. Salisbury, M. D., has left the Bos- ton City Hospital and h^s opened an oflice at T04 West 74th street, New York city. T905 Earlc Bennett Cross, Ph. D., is about to publish an article on "Traces of the I\Iatro- nymic F^amily in the Hebrew Social Organiza- tion." It will appear in a forthcoming num- ber of the "Biblical World," published by the University of Chicago. Dr. Cross received his degree of doctor of philosophy in the de- partment of Biblical literature and history at Brown last June. Arthur A. Howard finished his service at the Rhode Island Hospital. Dec. 31, and is now at the Children's Hospital, Boston. IS: THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Joseph Colter is director of athletics at the University of Georgia. His address is 336 Hill street, Athens, Ga. Frank E. Marble is in business at Lynn, -Mass.. with offices al rormi 5, Bergengren building:. Central square. William C. Drohan is with the New York Title Guarantee and Trust Co., in its Jamai- ca office. 1906 Arthur Driscoll is practising law in New- York in the office of 1). F. O'Brien, '98. Paul Matteson delivered an address before the Providence Franklin Society, Feb. 15, on "A Year in Labrador and Newfoundland." Walter Clayton Carpenter received the de- gree of LL. B., from Ciein-,!.;e Washington Uni- versity on Feb. 22, 1910. Jason O. Cook is at Harvard Livv School this year. 1907 Donald McLean is on the engineering staff of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Company. His address is care of their main offices, Den- ver, Colo. Ex-1907 Hermann F. Zimowski is teaching science and coaching athletics at the Tennessee Mil- itary Institute, Sweetwater, Tenn. On Feb. 18, Henry E. Hallborg addressed the Brown chapter of the society of the Sig- ma Xi on the subject "Wireless Telegraphy." Mr. Hallborg is associated with Prof. Fes- senden as experimental engineer at the wire- less station at Brant Rock, Mass., and spoke on the Fessenden system. William N. Ross, teacher at the English High School, gave an interesting talk on the generation and uses of electricity before about 50 Edgewood boys at the Edgewood Free Li- brary, Feb. 15. A. Chester Snow is with Richardson & Clark at 25 Exchange street, Providence. Dr. Clarence W. Way has been elected a member of the board of directors of the new- Iv organized University Club of Williamsport, Pa. Leo M. Bannon and his brother, John F. Bannon. '99. hold the positions of assistant sunerintendent and superintendent of the I^nion Bleaching and Finishing Co. of Green- ville. S. C. The production of the company has more than doubled in the last eighteen months, and orders have recently been placed for machinery which will double the present capacity of the plant. 1908 Edward C. Hempel is principal of the gram- mnr school at Sagamore, Mass. Thomas Miller has been transferred to the New York offices of Russell & Erwin Manu- facturing Co., 105 West 40th street. His resi- dence is T4S Hicks street. Brooklyn, N. Y. C. A. Worsley is teaching science in the high school at Rocky Ford, Colo. 1909 A. Manton Chase is doing engineering work in Colorado. 1 hcodorc L. Paul may be addressed care of the Puldic Library, Denver, Colo. William Bichwit is in the employ of the La'mport Manufacturers Supplv Co., New York citv. ' ' Alumnae 1900 Miss Pearl B. Grant enjoyed a trip abroad from July to November. Her itinerary in- cluded places of interest in England, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy. 1902 The home address of Mrs. Leon A. Drury (Daza Page Mowry) is 15 Maverick street, P"itchburg, ]\Iass. Miss Alice M. Gushing has a position with the Providence-Washington Insurance Co. 1904 Miss .Mice M. Crosby has passed the New York bar examinations and is the first woman lawyer of Fishkill, N. Y., and the second woman member of the bar in Dutchess county. Owing to the sudden death of her mother on February i, 19TO, Miss Crosby's plans for the future are not formed. 1907 The present address of Miss Louise A. Schofield is 341 West 23d street, New York city. 1909 ]\Tiss Elizabeth L. Mayo is teaching science in the Robinson Seminary, Exeter, N. H. Miss Emma D. Lee is an assistant in the rh'ldren's denartment of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburg-h, Pa. Her address is 153 North Crai^- street. Births Born. .\u