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Vol. XI 



Providence, R. I., October, 1910 



No. 3 



THE JOHN HAY LIBRARY AT THE OPENING 
OF THE YEAR 




THE JOHN HAY LIBRARY 
To be dedicated November 1 I 



If Shakespeare, in writing Hamlet's 
soliloquy, had mentioned "building's de- 
lay" instead of "the law's delay," his 
famous line might have suffered in 
meter, but would have lost nothing in 
force. Up to last commencement it 
seemed certain that the opening of the 
next academic year would find the Uni- 
versity Library installed in its new home, 
but that date finds the builders still in 
possession of the citadel of the building, 
the stack. Most of the other rooms. 



however, are available, and the students 
begin their library year in the new read- 
ing room instead of the old. There they 
find the reference books, the reserved 
books and the current periodicals. The 
old building is closed to readers, and the 
circulation of books has been reduced to 
a minimum. But this interregnum is not 
expected to last more than a few weeks. 
Constructive eschatology may be the 
title of a theological work, for all we 
know, but such a treatise is sorely needed 



54 



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in the building trades, if it will only teach 
contractors how to do up speedily the 
"last things" connected with their work. 
It is various features of this character 
that alone are now lacking to the com- 
pletion of the John Hay Library. For 
instance, the window shades are yet to be 
put in. and the great reflectors for the 
lighting of the reading room have not 
been installed. Lentil artificial lighting is 
provided for this room, the building will 
be closed at five o'clock instead of eleven. 
Aside from the i)rivilege of borrowing 
books, which will be necessarily suspend- 



ment as seminary rooms. Since that 
time the space has been divided into one 
large seminary room and three sizable 
office rooms, and the books have been 
replaced on the shelves where they are 
destined to remain for many decades, 
perhaps for centuries. The Wheaton 
and Rider collections have both been 
moved to their spacious apartments on 
the top floor, where for the first time 
they can make their due impression upon 
the visitor's eye. The Wheaton Collec- 
tion, devoted to international law, looks 
eastward across the campus towards 




READING ROOM 



ed for a few weeks, and which is not 
greatly used at the opening of the aca- 
demic year, the students will miss very 
little in the new reading room, while they 
will find a great gain in light and com- 
fort and general convenience. 

In other parts of the building, which 
will not be regularly open to the stu- 
dents, some progress has been made 
towards the establishment of the books 
in their new places. The Lamont Col- 
lection was shown at commencement in 
the quarters on the ground floor which 
are now occupied by the English depart- 



Europe and The Hague. The Rider Col- 
lection, with ecjual fitness, looking west- 
ward out of its lofty windows, com- 
mands a bird's-eye view of Providence 
and a relief-map view of a large part of 
Rhode Island. At the northern end of 
this floor are three rooms devoted to rare 
books and books on the fine arts. Here 
the reader, lifting his eyes from the page, 
looks out upon three of the art monu- 
ments of the city, the First Baptist Meet- 
ing House, the State House and the 
Christian Science dome, and has a dis- 
tant view of the beautiful La Farge 



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55 



tower on Mt. IMeasant. The librarian's 
two rooms on the main floor, which were 
occupied about ten days before the open- 
ing of the term, may recall the Latin 
phrase, parva scd apta. but they are 
much better placed than his room in the 




CONGRESSIONAL ROOM 

old building, being accessible, but not in- 
viting intrusion. Several of the pro- 
cesses hitherto carried on in his room 
have found more appropriate quarters in 
other administration rooms, and he has 
therefore -been able to surround himself 




MANTEL IN HARRIS POETRY ROOM 

with objects that suggest the love of 
books more than their unpacking and 
other material processes. In his outer 
room, which will be occupied by his 
clerk, first aid to the uninformed will be 
given in cases where the applicant strays 
thither instead of to the loan desk in 
the reading room. From this outer of- 
fice stairs lead down to the spacious and 



well-lighted alumni room, where the sec- 
retary of the Associated Alumni has his 
desk, and where the class albums and 
other memorials of the alumni are now 
for the first time made accessible. This 
room will be the headquarters for return- 




PROFESSOR H. L. KOOPMAN, Librarian 

ing graduates. Beyond this room is that 
devoted to the archives of the university, 
which have never before been so con- 
veniently accessible. There still remain 
certain other rooms to be occupied, the 




RIDER COLLECTION ROOM 

Horace Mann's Chair in Foreground 



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most important of which is that of the 
Harris Collection of American Poetry, 
which, though smaller than the reading- 
room, vies with it in beauty. It is much 
to have made a working occupation of 
the John Hay Library; the complete oc- 




LIBRARIAWS OFFICE 



cupation may be expected to be well ad- 
vanced by the time that the next num- 
ber of the Monthly appears ; but the 
building will hardly be to rights in the 




MAIN STAIRWAY 

housekeeper's sense before the end of the 
college year. 

Various views of the exterior and the 
interior of the building are herewith pre- 
sented. The diagram shows, what was 



not obvious until the scaffolding was re- 
moved from the reading room, that its 
floor space is almost equal to that of 
Sayles Hall. The fact that it accommo- 
dates only 190 instead of 850 sitters illus- 
trates the greater amount of space that 
must be provided for readers as com- 
pared with hearers. 

For several weeks in August and Sep- 
tember passers-by watched a weary file 
of laborers, carrying hand-barrows laden 
with books, toiling up the steps of the 
new library on their way from the old. 
This process will be continued on a 
larger scale as soon as the stack is com- 
pleted, and will go on until all the 130,000 
or more volumes to be moved have found 
their resting places on the steel shelves 
which are now making ready for them. 
It will be interesting to compare these 
figures with those that held good at for- 




WHEATON COLLECTION ROOM 

mer removals. When the library was 
transferred from University Hall to 
Manning Hall in 1835, seventy-one years 
after the founding of the college, it con- 
tained less than 10,000 volumes, or de- 
cidedly less than the number of books 
added during the last year ! When re- 
moved, in 1878, from Manning Hall to 
what was then known as the John Carter 
Brown Library building, it numbered 
48,000. If we include the contents of 
the twenty department libraries — institu- 
tions non-existent at Brown a generation 
ago — we shall find that the university 
library has more than trebled in that 
short period. We have no way of judg- 
ing of the future but by the past, said 
Patrick Henry, and judging the future 
growth of the Brown University Library 
by the past, — but fortunately we have 
now no longer to contemplate removal, 
but only enlargement. 

Harry Lyvian Koopnian 



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57 



A TRIBUTE TO JOHN HAY 



Lady St. Helier (Mary Jeune), in her 
recent volume, "Memories of Fifty 
Years," devotes a chapter to her x\meri- 
can friends, in which she pays the follow- 
ing tribute to John Hay : 

"Of Mr. Hay it is difficult to speak too 
affectionately. As to the feelings with 
which we regarded him, they are best 
expressed by saying that we could never 
look upon him in any other light than 
as someone belonging to ourselves. 

"As he paid many visits to England 
before he came here as Ambassador, we 
often saw him. His kindliness and 
charm of manner, his great sense of 
humor, and his delightful conversation, 
made him one of the most agreeable com- 
panions in the world. He appreciated to 
the utmost the affection and deep regard 
which all his English friends entertained 
for him, and he used to write us most 
charming letters, giving news of our 
American friends, and receiving from us 
in return what information we could 
send him of his many acquaintances on 
this side of the Atlantic. No one's ap- 
pointment to the embassy was ever more 
welcome than his, and though his official 
duties and the heavy work they entailed 
prevented his seeing as much as he used 
to of his old friends and of the society 
he most enjoyed, I think he realized how 
much he was appreciated and liked by 
the crowds of his new acquaintances. 

"There was no event in our lives for 
many long years before he died which 
did not seem to be of as great interest to 
him as to ourselves, and in sunshine and 
in shadow his intensely warm sympathy 
and his affectionate appreciation of our 
friendship gave it the greatest possible 
charm. No one believed more strongly 
than he — and he devoted his whole life 
to his ideal — that England and xA^merica 
were one in race, in thoughts and in 
ideas. What was good for America he 
believed was good for England, and his 
entire strength, when he was in a posi- 
tion to influence the greatest minds of 
both countries, was devoted to reconcil- 
ing their interests. All the strain and 



difficulties which from time to time arose 
in the relations of the two countries at 
one particular moment fell upon him, and 
yet he never wavered from his convic- 
tion, and the letter which I give here 
shows how entirely that desire dominated 
the whole of his life : 

" 'Department of State, 
Washington, December 31, 1900. 
" 'Dear Lady Jeune : — 

" T received to-day a Christmas greet- 
ing from you and Sir Francis, for which 
my wife and I are most grateful. I 
cannot let the century end without send- 
ing you my most cordial good wishes. 

" 'I have arrived at the stage of my 
journey when holidays find me low in 
my mind and leave me more so. It is 
dismal to think I may never again see 
England and those dear friends whose 
kindness has been so much to me. I 
have tried to break loose from my pres- 
ent thraldom, but the President says, 
"Why should you go? We can't all re- 
sign." And so I take up my burden 
again. 

" 'I have had two hideous years of 
work and anxiety, but I have been provi- 
dentially saved from many croppers. 
Just now luck is running against me — 
but we cannot expect all the year to be 
May. Whatever you may see in the 
newspapers — even though . . . should 
imagine a vain thing — you must not 
think me either insane or ingrate. I do 
the best I can — in an environment not 
always ideal. 

" 'My wife and daughters join me in 
best wishes for the years to come, and I 
am always. 

Faithfully yours, 

John Hay' 

"It was a great achievement for any 
man at the time when Mr. Hay was here 
to gain, as he did, the confidence and 
aft'ection of those in England. No 
American Ambassador was ever more 
popular than he, and when he left this 
country — alas ! never to return — we all 
felt saying good-bye to him very deeply." 



58 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

MEMORIES OF A BRUNONIAN CONFEDERATE 



Brown men will be interested in a 
newspaper interview with a graduate of 
the class of 1849 which has been sent 
out from Spokane, \\'ashington. ■Nlr. 
Robert of that city is one of the few 
Brunonians who hare made their per- 
manent home in the northwestern corner 
of the L'nited States. The interview 
says : 

Interesting sidelights on the Civil War, 
including the tale of how Gen. "Phil" 
Sheridan, the Union hero of the battle 
of Cedar Creek, w^as nearly captured on 
the night before that memorable fight, 
are given by Alexander John Robert, a 
graduate of Brow^n University in the 
class of 1849, now a prosperous truck 
farmer in this city. 

"Little Phil" w'as in Winchester on 
the night before the battle, and when the 
"herald in haste to the chieftain's door 
told him the battle was on once more," 
he rode into the fray from "Winchester, 
twenty miles away." 

]Mr. Robert declares that if the Gen- 
eral had been at his headquarters near 
Cedar Creek, instead of at Winchester, 
he W'Ould have been captured by a Con- 
federate scouting force of which he was 
a member, and would have passed the 
next day on his way to a Southern prison 
instead of rallying his retreating troopers 
at Cedar Creek and turning the tide of 
defeat into victory. 

" 'No canteen and not a word above a 
whisper,' were the orders as we started 
over the mountain and filed into the 
Shenandoah Valley," said Mr. Robert, in 
telling of the near-capture of the Gen- 
eral. "Not even the Southern pickets 
heard the departure. The brushing of 
the branches, the occasional sound of a 
horse's hoof striking against a stone 
alone disturbing the midnight stillness. 

"There stood the General's headquar- 
ters, with only a sentry between our 
men and one of the greatest leaders on 
the Union side. At least we thought so. 
In three minutes the house was sur- 
rounded. No one could escape it alive. 
The signal was given, the sentry sur- 
rendered w'ithout a murmur, the door 
was forced in an instant and the com- 



pany poured into an empty house. Sheri- 
dan was in Winchester." 

Mr. Robert's college record, as written 
by himself in the University Club at Spo- 
kane, is as follows : "Robert, Alexander 
J. Two years in Denison University^ 
Granville, O. ; A. B. and A. M., Brown, 
1849; LL. B., 1851." 

He was admitted to the bar in Georgia,^ 
his native state, in 1851, and practiced 
at jNIarietta, Ga., for 10 years. During 
the Civil War he was in the Confederate 
Army as regimental adjutant. He was 
principal of the Masonic Literary Insti- 
tute at Ringgold, Ga., from 1871 to 1876, 
and principal of Sam Houston Institute 
at Jasper, Tenn., from 1876 to 1878. He 
was president of Corsicana Female Col- 
lege at Corsicana, Tex., for the ensuing 
four years, and of Andrew College,. 
Huntsville, Tex., during the next year. 
He next began business as a manufac- 
turer in Hillsboro, Tex., and remained 
there until a few years ago, when he 
came to Spokane to engage in truck 
farming and poultry culture. 

Though 81 years of age. Air. Robert 
is in excellent health and works daily 
in his garden at 2324 East Hartson ave- 
nue. His home is typical of the south- 
land, and its owner is as hospitable as 
were his forebears. He speaks slowly 
and musically, with that w^onderful 
liquid Southern enunciation which is a 
delight to those privileged to hear his 
stories of the old college days and the 
trying times during the w^ar. 

"College life in the early '40s was in- 
teresting," Mr. Robert said after he and 
Mrs. Robert had welcomed the inter- 
viewer. "We did not travel around play- 
ing baseball in those days. We stayed 
at home and w^orked. Of course, w^e 
played ball some, too, but it was among 
ourselves. We had sport those days, but 
we did not make a business of it. 

"The boys went to college to be' edu- 
cated, and not to become 'star' athletes, 
and it was exceptional for one's yearly 
expenses to exceed $500. There W'Cre 
fraternities, but they did not hold the 
important place in undergraduate days 
they do at present. 



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59 



"I was invited to become a member of 
the 'Psi-Ups,' as we called them, but I 
said to 'Jim' Bailey, who asked me to 
join : 'Jim, tell me true, if you wefe out 
of the society, would you go in again?' 
And he replied: 'Robert, I can't say that 
I would.' That decided me, and I never 
joined a secret society to this day." 

Some of Mr. Robert's reminiscences 
of the early '60s throw light on the stir- 
ring events during the war. In the battle 
of Chancellorsville, where General Jack- 
son was wounded, Mr. Robert was hit in 
the leg by a bullet. The story of how 
the Southern general was wounded in 
the arm by his own -men was graphically 
narrated by Mr. Robert, who said that, 
while the general died, he recovered, 
which only goes to show how differently 
men are affected by similar wounds. One 
man may be killed from the shock of a 
scratch on the arm, while another will 
recover with a bullet wound through the 
body. It all depends upon the conditions 
and the temperament of the individual. 



The veteran then told of the charge 
in which he was wounded. The shot did 
not knock him over. He was on foot. 
For an hour or so the wound gave him 
no pain, and, unstrapping his sword, he 
used it as a cane and started for the rear. 
Rheumatism set in afterwafd, and he 
was sent home on sick leave. 

*Tt wasn't so hard, though," he ex- 
plained with a smile, "for I met my wife 
there. She is a real Georgia girl and 
a graduate of a Georgia seminary. Be- 
fore I was able to be about the war was 
over, and we were married. We've been 
happy ever since. 

"Some of our best friends are North- 
erners," Mr. Robert went on, after say- 
ing that, while he has not renounced 
the opinions that led to the irrepressible 
conflict, he is free from any animosity^ 
adding: "Particularly out here there is 
no place for old-time quarrels. Let them 
all be buried in this great and glorious 
Northwest." 




WILLIAM GODDARD MEMORIAL GATES 
Gift of Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin to Brown University in memory of her father, the late Chancellor. Designed and 

made by Michellucci in Italy 



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BROWN FOOTBALL PROSPECTS 



Bj' J. Donald Pijor, Assistant Coach 



Brown is on the eve of, perhaps, the 
greatest football season in her history. 
Not before in many years has she faced 
so many hard games as her men will be 
forced to play in this year. Hard as is 
the schedule, it is a pleasure to all Brown 
alumni to see that two of the biggest 
games will be played in the home field. 

The Pennsylvania game on Oct. 15 
it is expected will be one of the greatest 
matches ever seen in Providence and 
the management, by erecting new stands 
accommodating about four thousand peo- 
ple, have provided excellent facilities for 
taking care of a great crowd of alumni 
and friends which it is hoped will attend 
the contest. The other big Providence 
game is the Carlisle Indians on Thanks- 
giving day and, judging from past years, 
it seems safe to prophesy that the game 
of the Indians, under the new rules, will 
be so trickily exciting as to be worth 
going miles to see. In addition to these 
two big home games. Brown has the 
usual contests with Yale and Harvard 
away from home. 

To meet this hard season on the grid- 
iron, Brown has not the best material in 
her history. There are enough men not 
eligible to turn out a team which would 
be capable of going through this sched- 
ule without defeat, but faculty restric- 
tions in regard to eligibility are at pres- 
ent so strict that at least ten good men 
are lost to the coaches on account of 
their scholarship. 

Let it not be thought from this that 
Brown has no chance of turning out a 
winning team, for the coaches feel that 
they have enough men on hand to build 
up, by the middle of the season, a team 
which will be a great credit to the uni- 
versity. 

The line is wdiere the chief difficulty 
arises. Both Kerrissey and Kratz of 



last year's 'Varsity are out of the game 
on account of their studies and the gaps 
left by their inability to play will be the 
hardest places to fill. 

In the back field the situation is much 
better, in fact, the carriers of the ball 
are as good, if not better, than any 
group of men that Brown has had in 
several years. Captain McKay at right 
half-back has but few peers in the coun- 
try, either as a line bucker and end run- 
ner or a punter. His running mate at 
the other half has not as yet been finally 
chosen, but both Marble, who was ineli- 
gible last year, and Young, last year's left 
half-back, are fighting for the place, and 
either is an excellent team mate for the 
fast Brown captain. 

At full-back. High, of last year's team 
is again in college and though in poor 
condition at the present time on account 
of illness, will, it is expected, develop 
into a much better man than he was last 
year. Adams, who was substitute half- 
back last year, is also a candidate for 
full-back and will probably be used most 
of the time in the first few games of the 
season. Snell, who was 'Varsity catcher 
last year, is also out for football and will 
probably be used in the full-back posi- 
tion. He has not played the game for 
several seasons and is therefore a bit 
rusty in his position, but with constant 
coaching he gives promise of developing 
into a good man. Several other good 
backs, including John Payton of Moses 
Brown School, Providence, Charles Tay- 
lor of Cushing Academy, W. N. Fisher 
of Riverview Academy, Poughkeepsie, 
New York, all freshmen, are good back 
field men, but ineligible on account of 
studies. 

The coaches began to develop the 
team early last spring and worked on 
the candidates then in college. AMien 



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they returned this fall, on Sept. 19, 
to again take up the work, they found 
that many of the men whom they had 
drilled in the spring were ineligible ; 
thus much of the early practice was 
wasted. The team on this account, and 
because many of the men did not report 
for early practice, will be slow in devel- 
oping, although it is hoped that it will be 
rounded into good shape by the Pennsyl- 
vania game. The new rules have caused 
many radical changes in the game and 
the former enthusiasts, returning to see 
their Alma Mater play, will be surprised 
at the tactics which are now most in 
favor, including the forward pass and 
fake plays, instead of the old concerted 
attack on the middle of the line. 

Although the line suffered greatly by 
the graduation of Captain Regnier and 
tackle, Carl Racquet, and the ineligibility 
of Kratz and Kerrissey, it is hoped that 
these positions may be satisfactorily 
filled. In Regnier's place at end there 
are many candidates and at present the 
choice seems to be R. L. Ashbaugh of 
Youngstown, Ohio, who played in sev- 
eral contests at left end last year. Ash- 
baugh is a heavy man and good player 
at the smashing defense, but a trifle slow 
in handling liimself in the open play 
which will be in vogue under the new 
rules. At present, however, he seems to 
be the logical man for the position. At 
the other end, S. T. Jarvis is now the 
leading candidate. He is a man weigh- 
ing about 150 pounds, but with his ex- 
ceptionally clever tackling and terrific 
speed, he should prove an end somewhat 
of the type of Frank Dennie. Other 
men trying for the end positions are. 
Royal Leith, I. Langdon of Newbury- 
port, Mass. ; L. T. Bohl of Cranston, R. 
I. ; Stephen T. Bean of Woburn, Mass., 
and E. R. Campbell of Putney, Vt. 

At tackle. Brown will be represented 
by B. G. Smith of New York city, who 
has played on the 'Varsity at guard for 
two years, and E. A. Bartlett, a fresh- 
man from Worcester. Smith is a big, 
rangy man, weighing 195 pounds, and it 
was deemed advisable, in the face of 
Racquet's graduation and Kratz's ineli- 
gibility, to shift him from the more cen- 
tral position to the wing of the line. 
Thus far at the early practice he has 
shown great promise at the tackle berth 
and it will not be surprising if he should 



develop into one of the best tackles play- 
ing this year. 

Bartlett as his running mate is one of 
the strongest and best field men who has 
appeared on the Brown football field in 
years. He is a trifle green at the game, 
but the coaches, E. N. Robinson and J. 
D. Pryor, are giving him special attention 
at the fine points of the game, so that he 
may be may be able to use his great in- 
herent strength to the best advantage. 
He has been out for practice but a few 
days, but has already developed rapidly 
and seems imbued with that never-say- 
die, fighting spirit which often spells 
victory. 

C. H. Torrey, of North Arlington, 
Mass., is being tried out as a substitute 
tackle. He weighs only 178 pounds, 
but is about the only available man for 
the position, unless R. W. Bingham of 
East Haddam, Conn., passes off several 
examinations which at present make him 
ineligible. In guard positions A. E. 
Corp of Providence, who was substitute 
on last year's team, seems certain to hold 
down one of the berths in the early 
game. He is hardly of sufiicient weight 
to make an ideal guard, but, with his ex- 
perience, he seems better than any of the 
other candidates at the present time, 
with perhaps the single exception of D. 
H. Kulp of Pottstown, Penn., and he was 
also a substitute of last year's eleven. 
Kulp, too, is light, weighing only 171 
pounds, but he is stockily built, a born 
football player and has that indomitable 
spirit which makes him a valuable acqui- 
sition to any team. It is probable that 
these two men will be the first choice for 
the guards' position, with perhaps Fred- 
erick Hazard of Milton Academy, a 
freshman who weighs 225 pounds, and 
Babington, a junior in college, as sub- 
stitutes. At centre, Charles Sisson of 
Providence, who has held that position 
for the past three years, will again bear 
the brunt of the work. 

With the above men in condition and 
well trained, it is thought Brown will 
develop a team which, although not a 
collection of stars, will be a constant, 
always trying and creditable athletic ad- 
junct to the college. 

Since this article was written (Sept. 30) con- 
ditions have somewhat changed regarding the 
eligibility of players and other minor points. 
A number of men previously barred have since 
been added to the team. 



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FOR GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND 



The Democratic party of Rhode Is- 
land has nominated for governor Lewis 
A. Waterman, Brown. "94, of -Provi- 
dence. A writer in the Snnday Journal 
has heen interviewing j\Ir. Waterman 
and writes in an interesting way about 
him. He says : 

"When Lewis Anthony Waterman has 
anything to say, he merely goes and says 
it. AMiich, for campaign oratory, is 
quite dififerent. Suppose, for instance. 
he wants to convey to the assembled 
voters the impression that he believes m 
a public service commission. Instead of 
turning on the tremuloso stop and allow- 
ing in words of seven syllables that the 
rights of the populace are being 
tr-r-r-rampled on by the predatory de- 
vices of the moneyed hordes which 
swoop from their protected citadels upon 
the defenseless heads of the hapless 
masses, or words to that effect, Mr. 
Waterman simply rises to a considerable 
height in his tracks, steps to the front of 
the platform, gazes at his audience a re- 
flective morhent and remarks : 

" T believe in a public service commis- 
sion.' " 

Just like that. And there you have it. 
Presently, to be sure, he goes on and 
tells why he believes in a public service 
commission and the things that such a 
commission should do, but at no point 
in the proceedings does the bird of free- 
dom clamber down from the end of the 
flagstaff" in the corner, seize the red, white 
and blue bunting in its talons and soar 
proudly through the adjacent scenery. 

"The Democratic standard-bearer 
makes a specialty of knowing in advance 
precisely what he intends to say, and then 
saying it in the most direct language that 
the late Noah Webster has provided. 
He never pretended to be strong on 
flourishes, but when it comes to ideas — 
well, you would need to get up tolerably 
early in the forenoon and keep pretty 
-steadily at it through the day to steal a 
lap on him in the matter of ideas, es- 
pecially ideas that concern the cjuestion 
of government. 



"Wdien he was 7 years old he began to 
carry papers, and for 12 consecutive 
years, until he entered college at the age 
of 19, he delivered Evening Bulletins 
along a route that covered the Training 
Ground section and a part of Arlington. 
He kept the route of 200 or more sub- 
scribers during his four years at Brown, 
hiring boys to do the work of delivery, 
thus aiding in paying his way through the 
institution on the hill. 

"He also collected fares as a conductor 
on the street railway during all the sum- 
mer vacations and some of the shorter 
ones, being almost the first Brown stu- 
dent to hit upon this method of earning 
money to pay for an education. Horse 
cars w^ere still in use when he began, and 
he saw service both on these and the 
trolleys. 

"A day's work then meant from 5 130 
o'clock in the morning to 6 145 in the eve- 
ning, with 20 minutes for breakfast and 
50 minutes for lunch, while occasionally 
he took a 'long day car,' working from 
6 in the morning till midnight. 

"That the experience thus laboriously 
gained has helped him in preparing dam- 
age cases against the railroad since he 
became known as a plaintiff's lawyer Mr. 
W^aterman is C[uite willing to admit. It 
takes a fairly watchful witness to palm 
off' on the court anything not strictly cor- 
rect about the operation of trolley cars 
when Mr. Waterman is doing the cross- 
examining. 

"Besides these experiences he has 
worked as a grocer's boy, selling goods 
behind the counter and delivering them 
from house to house. Several times he 
was a census enumerator, and in the 
early days of his legal practice he was a 
public school teacher in the evening 
schools. He taught grammar grades at 
the Harrison and Bridgham street 
schools, and in the evening high school 
he has expounded such subjects as Latin, 
mathematics, French, commercial law 
and history. 

"Mr. Waterman headed for the legal 
profession as soon as he took his diploma 
at Brown in 1894, and was admitted to 



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the bar two years later. For a man who 
was going to run for governor lie has 
taken comparatively small part in poli- 
tics. Twice he ran for the General As- 
sembly and was defeated; twice he ran 
and was elected ; a year later he was a 
candidate for the City Council from the 
stoutly Republican second ward, which 
means that he didn't even expect to win. 

"And that comprises his political ac- 
tivity till now. 

"While a member of the Assembly Mr. 
Waterman promptly took rank as one 
of the keenest, most far-sighted members 
of the minority. One of the reasons why 
it is so difficult to surprise him is prob- 



ably because he has discounted most of 
the conceivable possibilities in advance. 
That he has decided views on questions 
of government was manifest there, and 
is again revealed in his recent public 
utterances. 

"There are other views which, though 
not vital issues in the campaign, are 
illuminating. One of these concerns 
political independence. Mr. Waterman, 
it is well known, was a Republican when 
he first began to vote. He became a 
Democrat eight or nine years ago, but 
with the reservation that he would never 
put party lines above the principles for 
which parties stood." 



THE NATURE OF CHARM 



A LARGE QUESTION AMPLY DISCUSSED BUT ULTIMATELY 
UNSETTLED AT A COLLEGE TABLE 



Amid the glories of summer the cities 
are full of abandoned husbands, left to 
work and prey and pick up such frag- 
ments of recreation as their predatory 
instincts may chance to bring within 
reach of their starved but highly cultured 
appetite. Meanwhile they find content in 
the consciousness that their families are 
recuperating amid the peaks which pro- 
tect the valleys of rest and health or 
along the margin of the ozone seas. One 
of the great delights of some of these 
forlorn and wandering units left to the 
mercy of the city's heat is to attend the 
daily lunch of the P. C. G.s at a univer- 
sity club. These initials do not stand for 
pale college grinds, as you may suppose, 
nor for Penelope's Collegiate Graduates, 
as your feminine contingent may tartly 
suggest. They stand for something very 
much higher in the harmonics of culture, 
and you may have another guess at their 
deep significance, but no further help 
can be vouchsafed lest a wink from the 
other eye betray in you a spirit of rail- 
lery or ridicule. The art of conversation 
is not lost among a group of educated 
men who. without malice or mockerv, 
franklv lav before one another what little 



they know and a great deal which they 
surmise and reasonably expect. 

They discover an interest which brings 
them expectantly and as often as prac- 
ticable to the arena of wit and wisdom, 
not to a contest of genius, but to a gentle 
emulation to reach some standard of 
decent thinking and enjoyment. Of dif- 
fering vocations and religions, all sub- 
jects are open for discussion from the 
sublime to the ridiculous ; of the busiest 
habits, all linger to get a more intelligent 
view of the subject in hand. The Pro- 
fessor comes to expose the wide extent 
of his reading and by constant interpola- 
tions of anecdote or historical incident to 
accelerate the speed of the conversation 
when it lags. 

The Doctor comes with stories from 
his professional experience of monstrosi- 
ties or anomalies or of depressing de- 
pravity, softened down perhaps with col- 
lege yarns, and so gets his lunch regu- 
larly for a few months, to the increase 
of his own physical well-being. 

The Governor comes to throw in 
occasionally penetrating questions which 
he never answers, but which dartlike are 
sent to probe the intelligence of his con- 



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freres and stir up a discussion among the 
P. C. G.s which usually lasts the re- 
mainder of the session. 

The business man comes to demand 
the subordination of all things to reason 
and to truth and to fill his mental pockets 
with such pebbles as the waves of dis- 
cussion throw up on the beach of his 
comprehension. 

The architects and lawyers come to 
enjoy the fray and to adjust errors 
according to the plumb or the statute. 

The discussions are allowed to de- 
velop naturally, as may be seen from the 
following characteristic fragment : One 
day a humble member of the circle 
demanded to know what was the under- 
lying meaning of the word "charm." The 
Professor took the lead at once and pro- 
foundly stated that it was something 
benignly sweet that affected us in a 
peculiarly pleasant manner. The orator 
said that a beautiful woman best carried 
into eft'ect the real meaning of the word. 
The business man differed, of course. 
He said the real meaning of the word 
was somewhat sinister ; that it signified 
a magic, occult power, a hypnotic con- 
trol ; for instance, there were snake 
charmers, and then, too, snakes are said 
to charm birds, the quivering tongue and 
glittering eye of the serpent holding the 
bird charmed while he slowly creeps 
within reach of his prey. We see similar- 
ly men charmed by vice which they nat- 
urally fear and abhor. "Yes," said the 
Professor, "it certainly had originally 
that meaning." "It is derived from car- 
men, a song, an incantation with magic 
or occult power. This idea of 'charm,' " 



joins in the business man, "is well illus- 
trated by Heine's Lorelei. The eft'ect of 
the most beautiful maiden and her won- 
derful o'ermastering melody charmed the 
poor sailor so that he and his ship went 
down to destruction. Have you never 
sat close up to Niagara where the green 
flood bends over the edge of the precipice 
and been charmed into a desire to join 
with that falling torrent? Have you 
never had the experience of being 
charmed in business affairs when a per- 
son with peculiar attraction of voice, or 
tact in touching your chords of egotism 
or ambition or avarice, has stirred your 
imagination and lulled the usual guard- 
ians of reason to sleep, so that you do 
things incomprehensible later on when 
you are uncharmed? You hear a song 
sung by a fair lady that charms you. She 
may sing another song which has no such 
effect, or you may hear another lady even 
as fair sing the same song, but it has no 
charms. So it seems that the charm is 
the result of combined effects on the 
brain which loose the ordinary safe- 
guards and produce a wonderful hyp- 
notic effect. To guard against such 
effects charms have been worn from time 
immemorial, amulets and trinkets. Have 
you never carried a horsechestnut in 
your trousers pockets to charm away 
rheumatism, or put up a horseshoe over 
the door to charm away disaster? I tell 
you, charm is an unnatural — " but here 
the Governor has inserted another ques- 
tion and the tide of discussion leaves the 
business man to finish his views in an 
after monologue. The charm is broken 
and the charmer ceases for the day. 

B. 



NEW FOOTBALL RULES 



The changes in the rules which are to 
govern the conduct of the game of foot- 
ball during the season of 1910 are revolu- 
tionary in character and calculated to 
reduce the danger of fatal accidents 
existing under the old rules. 

To begin with, the time of play is 
divided into four periods of fifteen min- 
utes' duration, instead of the traditional 
two halves of thirty-five minutes each. 



The usual intermission of fifteen minutes 
is maintained between the second and 
third period, but an intermission of three 
minutes only is allowed between the first 
and second and third and fourth periods. 
During this short intermission no player 
will be allowed to leave the field, nor will 
any one be permitted to come on the field 
save only the individual who looks after 
the physical condition of the players. 



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At the beginning of the second and 
fourth periods the teams change goals, 
but the down, the relative spot of the 
down, the possession of the ball and the 
distance to be gained remain as they were 
at the conclusion of the preceding period 
of play. 

Another radical change is that govern- 
ing the flying tackle. This has been en- 
tirely eliminated by a new ruling which 
provides that a player must have one foot 
at least on the ground when tackling an 
opponent. The new legislation govern- 
ing the forward pass, which a number 
of the experts were inclined to abolish 
altogether, will materially alter the play 
and aspect of the game. 

This year's rules provide that a player 
is only c|ualified to receive a forward 
pass who is at least one yard back of his 
own line of scrimmage or occupies the 
position on the end of said line. No man 
may make a forward pass or kick the ball 
unless he is five yards back of the line 
•of scrimmage. 

The territory forward of the line of 
scrimmage, and consequently in the 
enemy's camp, is adjudged neutral for 
a distance of twenty yards pending the 
•completion of a forward pass or kick. A 



forward pass is not legal if the ball 
crosses a line twenty yards in advance 
of the spot where it was put in play be- 
fore touching the ground or a player. 

In the case of a kick the players on 
the defence within the twenty-yard zone 
must not interfere with ends or other 
players in any way until these opponents 
have advanced twenty yards beyond the 
line of scrimmage. 

Interlocked interference — that is, play- 
ers of the side having the ball taking hold 
of each other, or using their hands or 
arms to grasp their teammates in any 
way — is forbidden, and it is also for- 
bidden for any man on the side having 
possession of the ball to push or pull in 
any way the man running with the ball. 

Another innovation is to be noted in 
regard to substitution of players during 
a game. A rule has been passed which 
provides that a player who has been re- 
moved for any cause, except disqualifica- 
tion or suspension, may be returned to 
the game once at the beginning of any 
subsequent period. 

The longitudinal lines formerly mark- 
ing the field are done away with, as the 
quarterback may now cross the line of 
scrimmage at any point. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



THE POEMS OF HENRY CROCKER. '67 
In a charming volume printed by Snow & 
Parnham of Providence are presented the 
poetic fruitage of a life which has been in 
other ways also of service and inspiration to 
many. The poems are mostly of moderate 
length and are devoted mainly to religion, 
nature and childhood. Some of the poems in 
the first division are destined, we believe, to 
find their way into the hymn-books and devo- 
tional collections, if, indeed, they have not 
already done so. The poems as a whole are 
marked by a lively fancy and a sense of 
unison with nature that lends a spiritual value 
even to the treatment of humble or trivial 
themes. There are many poems that our 
readers would be grateful to us for quoting in 
support of these judgments, but we will con- 
tent ourselves with two, the first of which has 
a touch of all its author's best qualities. 

The Turn of the Tide 
The tide of the j-ear is out, 

The fields and the boughs ar^ bare ; 
And the fleets of bright birds, with their 
freights of song. 
Have drifted, we know not where. 



The tide of the year will turn, 

The meadows will ripple ere long; 

And the boughs will be flecked with a fragrant 
foam ; 
The orchards o'erflow with song. 

When the tides of your life are low, 
And joys on fleet wings have fled. 

Then, remember, the beach is not always 
bare; 
And summer is never dead. 

Our second quotation, in which more is 
meant than meets the eye, illustrates Mr. 
Crocker's genial humor, which plays over 
many of his pages : 

Poor Little Dandelion 

The first time I saw him 

His hair was yellow. 
The next time we met 

It was thin and white. 
The last time, alas ! 

A bald-headed -fellow ! 
A queer world; isn't it? 

But then, it's all right. 



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THE 
BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published for the Graduates of Brown University 
by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

Robert P. Brown, Tkeas., Providence, R. I. 

ADVISORY BOARD 
William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Francis Lawton, '69, New York, N. Y. 
Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence 
William V. Kellen, '72, Boston, Mass. 
William E. Foster, '73. Providence 
Winslow Upton, '75, Providence 
Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence 
Sam Walter Foss, 'S2, Somerville, Mass. 
Gardner Colby, '87, New York, N. Y. 
Joseph N. Ashton, '91, Salem, Mass. 
William R. Dorman, '92, New York, N. Y. 
George A. Gaskill, '98, Worcester, Mass. 

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and Business Manager 

Address all communications to the Brown 

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"UXDER PROPER CONDITIONS" 
One of the small minority which is 
ranged at the present moment in oppo- 
sition to the aboHtion of sectarian re- 
quirements from the charter of the uni- 
versity objects to the form of the lan- 
guage used in the recent alumni ballot. 
Those who voted on this ballot for the 
proposed change, he points out, did so 
with a certain proviso. They signified 
their approval of the change, but only 
■'under proper conditions." This is 
true ; but what of it? None of us would 
advocate the amendment of the charter 
under improper conditions. The ques- 
tion merely is as to what conditions are 
proper and what are improper. 

Judging from the attitude of some at 
least of the restive minority, there can be 
in their opinion no "proper conditions." 
That is, no circumstances can conceiva- 
bly arise which would justify the aboli- 
tion of the existing compulsory Baptist 



preponderance in the government of the 
university. But to the overwhelming 
majority of those who have any intimate 
interest in Brown it is evident that all 
"]iroper conditions" would be complied 
with if the college should now shake off 
the restrictive bonds that are hampering 
its progress. In the first place, there has 
been no unseemly haste. The movement 
has been contemplated for years ; indeed, 
one of the oldest graduates of Brown 
says that he has personally desired it for 
three score years and ten. A graduate 
of the late sixties adds that he attempted 
to have the question considered shortly 
after his graduation, but was not suc- 
cessful in bringing the discussion to a 
serious head. In more recent years 
there has been a more noticeable dissat- 
isfaction with the existing order. It 
found expression at alumni meetings 
nearly or quite eight years ago. It spread 
independently of the much talked about 
Carnegie Foundation. The recent ballot 
disclosed an interesting number of opin- 
ions to the effect that the voters were 
heartily in favor of the change, but did 
not relish the imputation that the univer- 
sity was seeking the iron-master's lar- 
gess. The opponents of the change have 
now dropped this charge, however. 

In the second place, the voice of the 
alumni has been heard, and in no uncer- 
tain tones. By a significant vote of 
nearly ten to one they have declared 
themselves in favor of the change. This 
disposes once and forever of the allega- 
tion that the movement was supported 
by a small and inconsequential coterie. 
More than ninety per cent, of the grad- 
uates of the university, so far as heard 
from, wish the charter's sectarian re- 
quirements to be removed. 

In the third place, the Baptist grad- 
uates themselves, including many minis- 
ters, are overwhelmingly in favor of the 
change. This disposes of the charge 
that an attempt is being made to take 
away from the Baptists something that 
they are unwilling to give. The voice of 
the Baptists is in favor of the change, 
and no amount of argument can conceal 
this fact. They voted, 502 to 183, in the 
affirmative, on this question ; and it is 
believed that one-third of those voters 
who did not specify their denominational 



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affiliations, but voted in the affirmative, 
were also Baptists, so that the real Bap- 
tist vote was between 600 and 700 in 
favor of the change. 

It is true that a number of Baptist 
ministerial associations have passed reso- 
lutions deprecating the proposed amend- 
ment, but these associations are not large 
compared with the alumni body and 
their numbers are made up in consider- 
able portion of men who are not grad- 
uates of Brown. A persistence in what 
appears to be an organized movement 
for the passage of such resolutions seems 
certain to result in a counter campaign 
for the passage of contrary resolutions 
by alumni associations in the early fu- 
ture. 



INCREASE OF OUT-DOOR PLAY 

One of President Faunce's acknowl- 
edged ambitions is to substitute general 
student play for limited student sport, to 
secure to all a wholesome amount of out- 
door exercise in the place of a system 
under which a few are overtrained for 
virtually professional sport, while all the 
rest remain mere onlookers. So much 
improvement has been manifested along 
this line in recent years that we venture 
to congratulate President Faunce on the 
success of his efforts. 

A few years ago very little use was 
made of Lincoln Field ; there is now 
hardly any hour of the day in which it is 
vacant. Brown students are slowly be- 
ginning to realize that "scrub" games are 
good fun and good exercise, and should 
be regarded as "good form." We now 
have interfraternity games and inter- 
periodical games — if we may be allowed 
the word ; and though these are played a 
little apologetically and often at hours 
when few can see them, we predict that 
the farcical element will soon pass away, 
and that before many years we shall see 
Lincoln Field occupied every day with 
honest, enjoyable amateur sport. It is 
not necessary for a game to be played 
faultlessly in order to afford enjoyment 
to both players and spectators. It might 
be well if the great majority of students 
were so busy with their own out-door 
games as to afford few spectators for 
any minor game. Obviously this would 



call for a much larger provision for play- 
ground space than Brown possesses at 
present, something comparable to that 
provided at Oxford and Cambridge, 
where every afternoon at least half the 
students and professors will be found 
engaged in cricket or some other open-air 
game. 

All our American colleges have much 
to learn and attain in the diffusion of out- 
door activities. It is gratifying to reflect 
that Brown has already made so promis- 
ing a beginning. 



SALVE AT QUE VALE 
It is with mingled feelings of regret 
and pride that the Alumni Monthly con- 
templates the acceptance by Professor 
George G. Wilson of the newly created 
professorship of international law in 
Harvard University. Taking the degree 
of A. B. at Brown in 1886 and that of 
Ph. D. in 1889, he was elected in 1891, 
after a brief period of secondary teaching 
and a year of study abroad, to the asso- 
ciate professorship of political and social 
science at Brown. He was made full 
professor in 1894, and during the whole 
time he has been the head of the depart- 
ment. 

It has been his good fortune, in which 
the university has shared, to win distinc- 
tion not only in his class-room, but also 
in affairs of national and even interna- 
tional scope. Fie has served the city of 
Providence by writing a history of its 
town and city government and by his 
work on its school committee since 1901. 
He has been a lecturer on international 
law at the Naval War College at Newport 
since 1900, and he was one of the two 
delegates plenipotentiary sent by the 
United States to the London Naval Con- 
ference of 1909. During the present year 
he received the coveted distinction of 
being elected an Associe de ITnstitut de 
Droit International. He has written 
treatises on various international ques- 
tions, and is joint author with G. F. 
Tucker, '73, of a work on international 
law which is accepted as a standard in 
England and France. Moreover, he is 
still in the prime of his powers, and his 
best work may fairly be considered to be 
still before him. 



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As a representative of the alumni the 
]\Ionthly can but rejoice at the new and 
flattering distinction which has come to 
Dr. Wilson, but it regrets all the more 
keenly that it involves a sundering of his 
relations with the university. These rela- 
tions, indeed, have meant much more than 
the work of the class-room. He served 
for years as secretary of the Associated 
Alumni. As secretary of the committee 
which raised the fund of 1900 he rend- 
ered a service which can hardly be over- 
estimated ; and it is a satisfaction to know 
that he will serve as a member of the 
committee now beginning its work. He 



will also remain as a special adviser in 
building up our Wheaton collection of 
books on international law, and during 
the coming year will lecture on interna- 
tional law at Brown. But his life work 
will henceforth be done elsewhere, and 
only its reflection will fall to the lot of his 
Alma ]\Iater. 

We tender to Harvard our congratula- 
tions upon securing him for its faculty, 
and to Professor Wilson our wishes for 
his success in his new position, and for 
the happiness born of that success, are 
offered with a confidence warranted by 
the distinction of his career at Brown. 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



-. . An Ithaca correspondent of 

.^°"f '" the New York Sun recalls 

lUS 1 • • £ 

these mgenious verses 01 a 
generation ago: 

Scene — Vergil's Tomb. 
Persons — Guide, Schoolboy, and Shade 
of Vergil. 

Guide — This sure is Vergil's tomb. 
Schoolboy — 

Oh, do let's see ! 
I always thought he'd be the death of me. 
Vergil engraved? Such things can scarce 

be hinted, 
But how I wish he never had been 

printed ! 
Let's wake him up. Vergil ! Vergilius 
Maro! 
Shade of Vergil — 
Whether thou com'st from Eton or from 

Harrow, 
Nouns in ius make vocative in i; 
Shout not "Vergilius," please say "Ver- 

gili." 
But why dost trouble me? 
Schoolboy — 

That's very cool ! 
As if you never troubled me at school ! 

.^ , A Chicago magazine, the 

Roosevelt ^^^^^^ ^^_j3 . .^j^^ 

and Andrews ^^^^^^^^-^^ ^f former Pres- 
ident Roosevelt — we like that title better 
than the belligerent 'Colonel' — is cer- 
tainly unparalleled. There is nothing 
like it — unless it be the vociferous ap- 



plause that follows any mention of the 
name of E. Benjamin Andrews to Brown 
graduates or students. But this latter 
has assumed the nature of a pose, and 
the attitude of the country toward Mr. 
Roosevelt is not that of a pose." 

. -, , . In the Worcester Spy of 
A Confusion , -. „ • • 

r D -J . Nov. 12, 1789, is given 
of Presidents ' > 1 • 

an account ot the mis- 
take which deprived Mr. Amidon's Inn 
in Mendon of the honor of enter- 
taining President Washington at the 
close of his eastern tour made in that 
year: "Toward the close of one day 
last week a messenger was sent forward 
to inform the keeper of the inn where 
his Highness intended to lodge that night 
that the President was near by and 
wished to be accommodated with lodg- 
ing and a little necessary refreshment, 
&c. The innkeeper was absent. The 
landlady, supposing the messenger meant 
by the President the President of Rhode 
Island College, for it was in the neigh- 
borhood of that State, and that of course 
he had his lady with him, and being her- 
self unwell, she told the messenger she 
tould not entertain the President, and 
that he must go on to the next tavern, in 
consequence of which the messenger, 
though it was late, had to send word 
back to his Highness that he had pro- 
ceeded on to the next inn to provide that 
entertainment which he could not get at 



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the first. The landlady soon found out 
her mistake and most piteously lamented 
that she could not have known thafe it 
was the illustrious Washington that in- 
tended honoring her house. 'Bless me !' 
exclaimed she, 'the sight of him would 
have cured me of my illness, and the best 
in my house and in the town should have 
been at his service.' " 



Ernest T. Paine, '01, to teach in the 
Greek Department. 

F. W. Beal, Colgate, '02, will teach 
mathematics. He has taught at Pennsyl- 
vania State and Princeton. In the same 
department John J. Long, Yale, '07, will 
teach. 

John H. Bachman. Kansas, 1909, will 
teach in the German Department. 



, „ . At the present time there 

Senator Stokes ^^ "° graduate of Brown 
m the United States ben- 
ate, but Hon. E. C. Stokes, '83, ex-Gov- 
ernor of New Jersey, won the Republi- 
can senatorial primaries in that state last 
month, defeating Representative Fowler 
and ex-Governor Murphy by a close vote 
in a poll of about 115,000. It is thought 
that when the legislature meets, the con- 
test will be between Mr Stokes and 
Senator Kean, if there is a Republican 
majority. Mr. Kean did not enter the 
primary, nor did Mr. David Baird, an- 
other senatorial aspirant. It will be re- 
membered that when Senator John F. 
Dryden was elected some years ago, Mr. 
Stokes came within three votes of win- 
ning the honor. 

In Rhode Island the Democratic state 
convention has pledged the legislature, 
in the event of a Democratic majority 
being chosen, to elect Hon. Arthur L. 
Brown, '76, of the United States District 
Court, to the United States Senate. 



Faculty 
Changes 



Professor Robert H. Baker, 
Ph.D., Amherst, 1904, will 
be acting professor of as- 
this year under Professor 



tronomy 
L^pton. 

Professor James M. Motley, Ph.D., 
will act as assistant professor of social 
and political science in place of Professor 
Dealey, who is on leave of absence. He 
was graduated from William Jewell Col- 
lege in 1901, and has taught at Johns 
Hopkins, Wells College and Stanford. 

Dr. Frank G. Bates, librarian of the 
Rhode Island Historical Society, will give 
a course in political science. 

Professor AUinson's absence as direc- 
tor of the American School at Athens 
has led to the appointment of Professor 



More Votes Since the last number of 
on Charter the Alumni Monthly was 
Amendment panted, four votes on the 
charter change have been received, two 
in the afifirmative and two in the negative. 
They were all from foreign countries — 
two from China, one from Japan and one 
from India. One is from a Presbyterian 
and three are from Baptists. China votes 
unanimously in favor of the elimination 
of sectarian requirements ; Japan and 
India are on the other side. All four of 
the voters are engaged in missionary 
work in the Far East. The total vote 
on the charter change now stands : In 
favor, 2059 'y against, 240. The Baptist 
vote is: In favor, 503; against, 183. 



_. r Prehmmary and nicom- 

Figures of \ . r r • . 

„ . ^ ^. plete figures of registra- 
Registration ^ * . „ ° 

tion are as follows : 

1910 1909 

Graduate students Ill (Est.) Ill 

Undergraduate men 630 681 

Seniors 122 123 

Juniors 146 145 

Sophomores 156 185 

Freshmen 178 187 

Specials 28 41 

Women's College 200 183 

Seniors 43 31 

Juniors 34 39 

Sophomores 49 34 

Freshmen 56 50 

Specials 18 29 

Total 941 975 

Deduct for names 
counted twice 8 



967 



Brown Delegates The Tenth National 
to Phi Beta Council of the United 

Kappa Council Chapters of Phi Beta 
Kappa was held in New York city Sept. 
13, 14, 1910. The Rhode Island Alpha at 
Brown was represented by Professor 



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Nathaniel F. Davis and Robert P. Brown 
as delegates. There were also three other 
Brown graduates representing other 
chapters. Miss \\'oolley, president of 
]\Iount Holyoke ; Professor Brown of 
New York University, and Professor 
Shepardson of the University of Chicago. 

The question of eligibility to election 
to Phi Beta Kappa was discussed and 
a committee appointed to define the 
proper requirements. While many of 
the large universities, especially the state 
institutions in the West, tended towards 
a wider educational scope and a more 
inclusive acceptance of their degrees, the 
majority, led by the older colleges, 
seemed strongly in favor of restricting 
membership to holders of the A. B. and 
Ph.D. and the B. S. obtained in a liberal 
course, but not the B. S. of a purely en- 
gineering course, nor any strictly profes- 
sional degree. 

Of the 71 chapters some 63 were rep- 
resented at the morning meeting, and 
several new chapters were given char- 
ters. On Tuesday evening the associa- 
tion of New York Phi Beta Kappa 
alumni gave a reception and supper to 
the delegates and friends at the Savoy 
Hotel. About 250 were present. 

On Wednesday the meetings were held 
at Columbia University, which gave a 
complimentary dinner to the delegates. 
The sense of the meeting was not to 
give charters to any institution where the 
liberal courses were on the retrograde. 

^ Brown opened the football 

Brown 31, ^ , « , 

. , season, Oct. i, on Andrews 

Norwich o T-- ij VI ^^ i ^ 

Field with a 31-to-o vic- 
tory over Norwich University of Ver- 
mont. Brown started the game with a 
vim, making a fierce attack. In the first 
period Brown lost the ball on downs on 
its opponents' one-yard line and failed 
to score. 

In the second period Brown rushed the 
ball to Norwich's 15-yard line, where 
Sprackling kicked a goal from the field. 
Tackle play soon brought the ball to 
Norwich's five-yard line and Warner 
went over for a touchdown. Sprackling 
kicked the goal. 

In the third period Brown once had 
the ball on the Norwich lo-yard line, 
but failed to score, being penalized for 



holding. McKay scored a touchdown in 
this period. Brown's forward pass 
eft'orts in the final period proved futile. 
Sprackling and Staff by line plunges soon 
advanced the ball to the Norwich 10- 
yard line, and McKay went through right 
tackle for another touchdown. Two 
other touchdowns were made by Sprack- 
ling and G. Adams, and Sprackling 
kicked a goal. 

Bremher, the Vermonters' left end, 
was injured, his left elbow being dis- 
located, and Cannon, the centre, was also 
laid out. The summary: 

Brown Norwich 

Staff, 1. e r. e., Wood 

Smith, 1. t r. t., Underhill 

Kiilp, Hazard, 1. g r. g., Starr 

Sisson, c c, Cannon, Burr, Hoe 

Corp, Babington, r. g 1. g., Alvord 

Bartlett, r. t 1. t.. Carpenter 

Leith, r. e 1. e., Collins, Brahmers 

Sprackling, Crowther, q. b q. b., Colburn 

Young, Mulcahy, 1. h. b r. h. b., Burwell 

Warnock, Snell, McKay, r. h. b., 

1. h. b., ^lurray 
Adams, High, f. b f. b., Kelley 

Score — Brown 31. Touchdowns — Sprack- 
ling, Warnock, Adams, McKay 2. Goals from 
touchdowns — Adams 3, Sprackling. Goal from 
field — Sprackling. Umpire — Burleigh of Ex- 
eter. Referee — Low of Dartmouth. Lines- 
man — Schwinn of Brown. Time — Four 8m. 
periods. 

P Brown won a narrow 5 to o 

R I St t victory over Rhode Island 

State College Oct. 5 at An- 
drews Field. Doll of Rhode Island al- 
most turned defeat into victory for his 
team by a 50-yard dash through the 
Brown team. 

This threatening play came late in the 
third period and was pulled off when the 
ball was close to the side lines. The 
fast State College back ducked inside of 
Langdon and sped through the Brown 
back field, clearing all except Sprackling, 
who brought him down on the 23-yard 
line. 

Rhode Island could not make any im- 
pression on the Brown line after this 
run and the period ended with the ball 
in Brown's possession, just where Doll 
placed it. Although the score was small, 
the Brown team was, except for the few 
seconds during Doll's run, consistently 
the better. Rhode Island made only two 
first downs, one of them being the long 
run. 



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Browx Rhode Island 

Ashbaugh, Leith, r. e 1. e., Davis 

Bartlett, Torrcy, r. t 1. t., Minor 

Corp, r. g I. g., Mounce 

Sisson, c c, Harris (Capt.) 

Kulp, 1. g r. g., Ahrens 

Smith, 1. t r. t., Warner 

Langdon, Bean, 1. e r. e., Angilly 

McKay (Capt.), Bean, r. h 1. h, Doll 

Marble, Crowther, 1. h r. h., Webb 

High, Adams, f. b f. b., Briden, Sherwin 

Sprackling, q. b q. b., Sullivan 

Touchdown — McKay. Referee — Carl Mar- 
shall, Harvard. Umpire — Burleigh, Exeter. 
Field Judge — I. O. Hunt, Brown. Head 
Linesman — Schwinn, Brown. Time— Four 8- 
minute periods. 



Brown o, 
Colgate o 

Oct. 8. 



Colgate surprised Brown by 
playing a .tie, no-score 
game at Andrews Field, 
The Brown team was badly 
crippled in advance. Brown had a 
shade the better of the argument in its 
attack on the stalwart visitors and had 
the ball much of the time in the enemy's 
territory, but an interchange of punts 
kept up a constant shifting over the mid- 
field line, and only twice were the 
Brown men within scoring distance. 

Sprackling's attempts to drop kick for 
a field goal, once from the 30-yard line 
and again from the 25, failed entirely in 
each case, and it was before the last of 
these attempts that Browm's chances for 
a score seemed best. 

On an attempted forward pass by Col- 
gate, McKay recovered the ball and 
dashed 30 yards to the visitors' 29-yard 
line. Sprackling made a wide circle of 
right end for nine yards and McKay on 
a line plunge made it first down. High 
hit centre for two. and the Brown stands 
were up and calling for a touchdown 
when a five-yard penalty for offside put 
a wet blanket on their hopes. 

McKay couldn't ^ain at left end, and 
without taking further chances on ground 
gaining, Sprackling signalled for the 
drop kick which failed. 

Long and spectacular runs were pulled 
off at intervals by the Brown backs, and 
the forward pass was used twice with 
success, but at old-time line pounding 
and end runs the team found itself un- 
able to penetrate the brawny defence of 
Colgate, and very seldom were succes- 
sive first downs made. 



The shortness of the periods which 
made the time equivalent to 20-minute 
halves, worked against Brown's chances, 
as at the end of both the second ancl 
fourth periods the Brunonians seemed to 
have worked up enough steam to have 
carried them to the line, had time al- 
lowed. The score : 

Brown Colgate 

Bean, Tewkesbury, I. e r. e.. Loeber 

Smith, 1. t r. t., Blanchard 

Kulp, 1. g r. g., Lennon 

Sisson, c c, Dockstader 

Corp, Goldberg, r. g 1. g., Jones 

Kratz, r. t 1. t., Thurber 

Ashbaugh, r. e 1. e., Hudson 

Sprackling, Crowther, q. b q. b., Connolly 

Alarble, 1. h r. h., Peterson 

McKay. Warner, r. h..l. h., Richards, Ramsev 
High, E. Adams, f. b f. b.. Stipp 

Score — Brown 0, Colgate 0. Referee — 
^lurphy of Harvard. Umpire — Low of Dart- 
mouth. Field Judge — Noble of Amherst. 
Head Linesman — Curtis of Brown. Time — • 
Ten-minute periods. 



Football 
Schedule 

Oct. 1. 



Manager Winslow has an- 
nounced the following 
football schedule for 1910: 

Norwich University at Providence. 
5. Rhode Island State College at 

Providence. 
8. Colgate University at Providence. 
15. U. of Pennsylvania at Providence. 
22. Harvard at Cambridge. 
29. Tufts College at Providence. 
Nov. .5. Yale at New Haven. 

12. Vermont at Providence. 

19. Amherst Aggies at Providence. 

24. Carlisle Indians at Providence. 



A football writer in the 
Boston Globe says of a 
^^^ former Brown player : "I 

was regretting the possible loss of 'Bill' 
Edwards as a picturesciue football offi- 
cial, but E. J. Hapgood, the referee of 
the Harvard-Bowdoin game, consoles me 
somewhat. The old Brown man is so 
serious and so alert that unconsciously 
he injects a little humor into the game. 
The way he chased Leslie down the field 
for 70 yards or more and at the same 
time kept glancing behind, first over one 
shoulder and then over the other, caused 
no end of merriment among the specta- 
tors. Mr. Hapgood is a high-stepper of 
established fame after that perform- 
ance." 



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New Exten- ^^'^'^ extension courses at 
sion Courses Brown University will be- 
at Brown gin on ^Monday. Oct. 31, the 
list of lectures just having been an- 
nounced. 

The field covered by the proposed 
courses is wider than ever before offered 
by the university and arranged to appeal 
to a new constituency. 

There are nine courses offered, and 
each course will consist of 10 lectures to 
be given by one or more members of the 
Brown faculty The courses are : 
"American Literature." Professor Bron- 
son ; "jMoral ^'alues," Professor Everett : 
"The Civil War," Professor MacDonald ; 
"Heat and Heat Engines," Professor 
Kenerson; "Early English Novel," Pro- 
fessor Huntington ; "German," Professor 
Van Klenze ; "French," M. Gilbert Chi- 
nard ; "Evolution of Modern Music," 
Professor ]\Iacdougall ; "Conservation of 
Life and Health," Professors Mead, 
Gorham, Walter and Dr. Mitchell. 

Several of these courses have never 
before been offered in the extension lec- 
tures at the university, while Professor 
Everett's course in ethics is a unique 
treatment of the field which he has never 
given airywhere before. Professor ]\Iac- 
dougall's lectures in music are also an 
important contribution to the work, and 
are intended to be in co-operation with 
musical societies in Providence. 

President Faunce says in regard to the 
courses : 

"The extension courses that have been 
offered by Brown University during the 
past few years have brought us into touch 
with a new and most interesting con- 
stituency. The function of a university 
located in a city is not simply to select 
promising youth of various families and 
educate them, but it is to permeate the 
whole life of the city with whatever of 
knowledge and inspiration the university 
can command The university stands for 
public service, and in every community 
there are many people of mature years 
who can profit by one or two courses of 
study outside their regular daily task. 

"Several clergymen of Providence and 
vicinity, have been to see me in the last 
few days with reference to pursuing 
courses in philosophy and social science. 
Every winter we have had about 200 



teachers from the public schools enrolled 
in these extension courses, while other 
persons enrolled have carried up the num- 
ber to 250 or 350. 

"Of course one difficulty is that after 
supplying a certain demand in a com- 
munity the courses tend to dwindle. This 
is the history of all university extension. 
To avoid this we are opening up new 
courses this year on subjects never before 
treated. For example, we have a course 
in 'Ethics, or Moral Values' for the first 
time, a course on 'Heat and Heat En- 
gines' for the first time, and an entirely 
new course in the 'Conservation of Life 
and Health.' 

"Few persons have the pertinacity 
requisite to pursue a course of reading by 
themselves through the winter. They 
need the stimulation and guidance of an 
experienced scholar. To register in such 
a course is to make practically sure that 
the winter will not drift away without 
some real advance in some department of 
the world's knowledge. As these lec- 
tures are given either at 4:45 in the 
afternoon or 8 in the evening, they are 
easily accessible to all. We hope for a 
large registration this year." 

The lectures are open to all who pay 
the small registration fee, and applica- 
tions should be sent to Professor Walter 
Ballou Jacobs, Administration building, 
Brown University. Special arrangements 
can be made whereby the courses wall 
count for university credit. 

Vassar Sides The Yassar girls at the last 
with the commencement had a song 

Governor about Governor Hughes 

and his direct primary plan. It was a 
junior song, and this is the way it went: 

"Away, away with the party boss 

And wish him the worst of fates, 
With his one little, two Httle, three little, four 

Httle, five little paid delegates. 
"Hurray, hurray for our Governor Hughes ! 

And cheer for him, now and again, 
With his nice little, good little, sweet little, 
true Httle honest committeemen." 



Of Interest to 
Most of Us 



F. W. Woodcock, '91, has 
been appointed baseball 
coach for next year. He 

coached the team last season. 

A member of the faculty of a New 

England university tells of a freshman 



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who was asked by one of the professors 
whether he had proved a certain proposi- 
tion in Euclid. "Well, sir," responded 
the freshman, " 'proved ' is a strong 
word. But I will say that I have rend- 
ered it highly probable." — Harper's Ma- 
gazine. 

W. V. Winslow, 'ii, manager of the 
football team, has been chosen chairman 
of the celebration committee. 

President Faunce, Professor Davis 
and Dean King of the Women's Collesfe 



represented Brown at the inauguration of 
President Burton of Smith College. 

The committee appointed to have in 
charge the dedication of the John Hay 
Library, November ii^ consists of Presi- 
dent Faunce, Professor Appleton, Pro- 
fessor Gardner, Theodore F. Green, '87, 
and Flenry R. Palmer, '90. 

The name of President Wheeler 
(Brown, '75) of the University of Cali- 
fornia is prominently mentioned in con- 
nection with the vacant office of provost 
of the University of Pennsylvania. 



THE LETTER BOX 



" DESERTING THE CHARTER " 

Editor Brozvn Alumni Monthly: 

I will be glad if you can find room in 
the Monthly for the following, sent also 
to members of the corporation. 
Yours very truly, 
Adoniram B. Judson, iSjp 

New York, Sept. 14 

The founders of the university held 
certain views of the relation of the indi- 
vidual to the church, a topic of interest 
at all times. Emerson expressed his 
philosophical view in these words : "Yet 
not for all his faith can see, would I that 
cowled churchman be," and Macaulay 
suggested cynically that the divine origin 
of Christianity is proved because it has 
survived the misapprehensions of the 
clergy. It has also been said, falsely, 
that the denominations hesitate to unite 
through fear that the bishoprics may not 
go round, and Henry Ward Beecher sur- 
mised that in the millenium the number 
of denominations will equal that of 
Christians. 

These straws indicate in a manner the 
excursions of public sentiment and spec- 
ulation. They suggest interesting ques- 
tions as follows: Is the individual justi- 
fied in declining human control in relig- 
ious matters? Is not democracy as de- 
sirable in religious as it is in temporal 
affairs? The strongest organization of 
Christians answers, No. Their alumni 
unanimously favor a new charter. The 
Baptist founders and their successors 
answer, Yes, relying for human guidance 
on the democratic rule of the majority 
in the local church, where the plain peo- 
ple temper the zeal of research and ac- 



cept in their own time what is proved to 
be wholesome in each new theology. 
There is a tradition that Jefferson de- 
rived certain of the democratic provis- 
ions of our government from his obser- 
vation of the proceedings of a Virginian 
Baptist church. 

The advocates of principles underlying 
vital interests apprehend a temporary 
check in the rejection of the views and 
wishes of the far-seeing founders. May 
their fears be disappointed ! To desert 
our charter would dim the lustre of a 
distinction inherited by no other seat of 
learning. 

(Dr. Judson does not wish us to "de- 
sert" the charter; almost all of us, on the 
contrary, feel that the charter has "de- 
serted" us. There is an old story about 
an Indian brave who resented the insinu- 
ation that he was "lost." "Indian not 
lost," he said; "wigwam lost." — Editor.) 



A PROGRESSIVE'S REQUEST 

Editor Bro-K'u Alumni Monthly: 

Some of the Baptist ministers of 
Providence, I see, have passed resolu- 
tions requesting the corporation of the 
university to take action in deprecation 
of the agitation for an undenominational 
charter. 

Will they please supplement this at 
their next meeting by a set of resolutions 
requesting the congress of the United 
States to take action in deprecation of 
the agitation for progressive political 
policies? Also, will they please remem- 
ber Mrs. Partington and the Atlantic 
Ocean? Anti-Standpatter 

Providence, Sept. 24 



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BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



Rocky Mountain Meeting 

The Rocky Mountain Brown Alumni Asso- 
ciation held its midsummer dinner on the eve- 
ning of July 30, at the Chateau Lafayette, 
Denver, Col. The purpose of the dinner 
was to meet several undergraduates who are 
spending their vacation in Denvei", and for the 
graduates to get in touch with the modern 
phases of the "life together." The college 
songs, old and new, were sung. Graduates of 
a few years back cannot fail to be impressed 
with the fact that Brown is much richer in 
5ongs than she was in their day. However, 
three or four of the old "pennyroyals" seem 
to have stood the test of time. At any rate, 
that is the way it seems to those of us whose 
"golden autumn with winter is blending." 
""Jim" DeWolf s record still stands. 

Those present included : James C. Stark- 
weather, '80 ; Rev. James McLoughlin, '90 ; 
Luke J. Kavanaugh, '08 ; C. Henry Smith, '99 ; 
G. A. Taylor, '01 ; James L. Gartland, '03 ; A. 
J. Kirley, '09; A. H. Wallace, '12; L. M. 
Bishop. '13 ; John K. Starkweather, '13, and J. 
H. Weiner, '13. 

A message of good cheer was sent to the 
Rev. \V. J. Noble, '97, a recent arrival in Den- 
ver, who was prevented from being present by 
illness. 

Among the undergraduates at Brown during 
the academic year 1909-1910 were five Colo- 
rado men. The subject of discussion at this 
dinner was "ways and means" of increasing 
the number for 1910-1911. 



Alumni 

1852 
Xathan E. Goldthwait of Boone, Iowa. 
writes under date of Aug. 25 : "This is the 
.58th anniversary of our marriage, and we are 
both in fair health." 

1861 
Rev. E. O. Stevens, D. D., has published 
through the American Baptist Mission Press 
at Rangoon a "Historical Sketch of the Pegu 
Burmese Baptist Association." It is written 
in Peguan. 

1861 and 1877 

Amasa ^I. Eaton and Thomas A. Jenckes 
were two of the three official commissioners 
from Rhode Island to the twentieth annual 
conference of the Commissioners on Uniform 
State Laws recently concluded at Chattanooga, 
Tenn. 

1870 

Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has returned 
from his foreign tour and is staying tem- 
porarily at Wilbraham, Mass. His permanent 
address is Lincoln, Neb. 



1871 and 1883 
Among the speakers at the three days' con- 
ference at Sagamore Beach, Aug. 30, 31 and 
Sept. 1, were Rev. O. P. Gifford on "The 
Protestant View of Moral and Religious Edu- 
cation" and Professor Alfred W. Anthony of 
Bates College on "School and College Law- 
lessness." 

1875 
At the recent annual conclave of the Su- 
preme Council, northern jurisdiction. Ancient 
and Accepted Scottish Rites, at Detroit, Mich., 
John Franklin Clark was elected to honor- 
ary membership in the 33d degree. 

1878 

Ex-Senator Elon R. Brown has announced 
himself a candidate to succeed Congressman 
Charles L. Knapp of New York. 

Rev. William P. Bartlett has been called 
from Richville to Parishville, N. Y., a much 
larger field, in the St. Lawrence Association. 

Rev. Charles J. Staples has issued a his- 
torical discourse on the one hundredth anni- 
versary of the First Congregational Society 
(Unitarian) of Burlington, Vt., of which he 
is pastor. 

1879 

The only class that ever celebrated its "ter- 
centennnial" had a very enjoyable reunion the 
evening before commencement, at the resi- 
dence of Dr. Stephen A. Welch. Just an 
even dozen of the old boys got together for 
a grand good time. It is proposed to meet 
informally every year until another century 
mark is passed. Those present were Carpen- 
ter, Atkinson, Easterbrook, Welch, Adams, J. 
J. Greene, Chace, Fuller, Tripp, Harrington, 
Marsh and Munro. 

1880 
At the last commencement, in June, of New- 
ton Theological Institution, Rev. William H. 
Lane received the degree of B. D. for pro- 
ficiency in the Hebrew language and literature 
of the Old Testament. He is now rounding 
out 15 years of service in his present charge. 

1880 and 1886 
At the annual meeting of the Rhode Island 
Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 
Sept. 21, Norman M. Isham, '86, was elected 
secretary and Prescott O. Clarke, '80, a mem- 
ber of the executive committee. 

1881 

Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York 
was elected in June a fellow of Brown Uni- 
versity, to take the place of Francis A. Gaskill 
of Worcester, deceased. He has been a trus- 
tee since 1903. 

Judge Charles C. Mumford and son, Nicho- 
las Van Slyck ]\Iumford, '12, have returned 



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from a trip to Europe, during which they 
A'isitcd several countries and witnessed the 
Passioji Play at Oberammergau. 

The lectures given at Yale University by 
•Governor Hughes on "The Attitude of the 
Individual," "Administrative Efficiency"' and 
"Political Parties" have been combined in one 
volume under the title of "Conditions of 
Progress in Democratic Government." Its 
object is "to quicken in young men the sense 
■of civic responsibility," and it bears the stir- 
ring message of the practical idealist. 

1883 

J. Irvin Chaffee has been appointed a mem- 
ter of the local school board, District 25, New 
York city, for a term of five years, beginning 
Jan. 1, 1910. The appointment was made by 
ihe president of the borough of the Bronx, 
and upon the organization of the board Mr. 
Chaffee was made chairman. 

Alfred Williams Anthony, D. D., professor 
in Bates College, Lewiston, Ale., has been 
made a member of the board of managers of 
the Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Dr. An- 
thony has been a prominent Free Baptist and 
was active in bringing about the recent union 
of the Free Baptists with the Baptists. 

Dr. James H. Davenport of Providence has 
returned from a trip to the North Cape. 

Returns from the joint primaries in New 
Jersey indicate that former Governor Edward 
C. Stokes won out over former Governor 
Franklin Murphy in the contest for the Re- 
publican indorsement for United States Sen- 
ator. 

1884 
Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, director of the 
American Museum of Natural History, has 
l)een granted a six months' leave of absence. 

1885 
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Hill have returned 
from an extended European tour. 

1890 
Colonel George H. Webb, secretary Provi- 
dence Board of Trade, has a discussion of 
"The Business Man's Relations to Civic De- 
velopment" in "The American City" for Au- 
gust, 1910. The article is illustrated by a 
photograph of Colonel Webb. 

1892 
Rev. Augustus P. Reccord of Springfield, 
r^Iass., has been appointed upon the commit- 
tee for the revision of the city charter. The 
committee consists of the mayor and two 
aldermen, the president of the Common Coun- 
cil and two councilmen and four citizens at 
large. 

189,3 
J. D. E. Jones, who was tennis champion 
of Brown for two years, has had an unusual- 
ly prosperous season in his favorite sport. 
Starting in somewhat late, he made his first 
appearance in the White ^Mountains cham- 
pionship. There he was beaten by a man 



whom he far outranks in the official ratings 
— a rare occurrence with Mr. Jones. Stanley 
Henshaw, Brown, '96, has been playing 
doubles with him throughout most of the sea- 
son. In the White Mountains they reached 
the final, but were defeated for the champion- 
ship. At Southampton, the most important 
tournament of the year except Newport, Mr. 
Jones did, perhaps, the best work of the sea- 
son. He defeated Wallace E. Johnson, the for- 
mer intercollegiate champion and the third best 
player in the country last year, according to 
the ranking committee. The score was 6-4, 
3-6, 6-1. In the next round ^Maurice E. Mc- 
Loughlin, the noted California expert, who 
won the tournament, defeated him with con- 
siderable ease. At Newport Mr. Jones 
reached the fifth round after defeating F. J. 
Sulloway of Boston for the second time dur- 
ing the season. He was finally put out by 
Maurice E. INIcLoughlin, with whom he played 
a much closer match than at Southampton, 
the score being 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Mr. Jones en- 
tered the open tournament at Marion, Mass. 
There he defeated Dwight F. Davis, of Davis 
cup fame, who for three years with Holcolm 
Ward was champion of the United States in 
doubles and who has won the tournament for 
the last two years. In the finals, however, 
I\Ir. Jones was defeated for the first time -by 
F. J. Sulloway. 

Later Mr. Jones and Mr. Henshaw took part 
in doubles in the Narragansett Pier tourna- 
ment, which they won without much difficulty. 
In the early part of September Mr. Jones 
successfully defended his title of champion 
of Worcester county, Llass. A week later he 
and Mr. Henshaw played in doubles in the 
Rhode Island state tournament, winning it 
and challenging E. T. Gross, '01, and R. N. 
Dana, who had been state champions for the 
last three years. The challengers won, 7-5, 
1-6, 6-3, 6-1. Mr. Jones brought his season 
to a triumphant close by defeating R. N. 
Dana in the challenge match in singles in 
three straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. This is the 
fifth time he has won the championship of 
Rhode Island. 

1894. 
An article entitled "The Woman's Club 
Woman" by IMary E. Woolley appeared in 
"Good Housekeeping" for ]\Iay, 1910. 

1894 and 1899 
L. A. Waterman and Irving O. Hunt are 
two of the three incorporators of the Tubular 
Woven Fabric Company of Providence. 

1895 

Professor J. E. Boodin of the University of 
Kansas has an article in the Journal of 
Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 
for Sept. 15 on "Truth and Its Object." 

"Turtle Eggs for Agassiz" (reprinted 
largely in a recent Alumni Monthly), and 
"The Clam Farm — A Case of Conservation," 
are the titles of tw^o articles in recent num- 
bers of the Atlantic Monthly by Dallas Lore 
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Miss Clara E. Comstock is serving on a 
committee of the Association of Collegiate 
Alumnae to consider "Occupations for Women 
Other Than Teaching," and Mrs. John j\Iur- 
dock on a committee concerned with "Educa- 
tional Legislation." 

1S96 ADV. 

At the last meeting of the Naples Table As- 
sociation for Promoting Laboratory Research 
by Women, iMrs. Albert D. Mead (Ada G. 
\Ving) was elected secretary for a third term 
of three years. 

Rev. G. B. Merritt, Ph.D., pastor of the 
First Baptist Church of Hiawatha, Ks., has 
been invited to take the principalship of Hia- 
watha Academy at that place. It is thought 
that he will accept the invitation, and carry on 
the double work of the pastorate and teaching. 
Dr. ^Merritt went to Hiawatha from Ban- 
gor, Me. 

1896 

H. H. Rockwell is associated with the Wins- 
low ]klanufacturing Co. of Worcester, Mass. 

Governor Pothier has appointed Miss Char- 
lotte L. Tillinghast as a member of the Board 
of Control of the State Home and School to 
serve for three years. 

1897 and 1900 
Among the announcements at Yale Univer- 
sity at commencement time was the following : 
University scholarships to Rev. Harris E. 
Starr, Ph.B., Brown, '97, M. A., Harvard, 
'99, and J. F. Stinard, B. A., Brown, '00. Mr. 
Starr was graduated from the Yale Divinity 
School this year. He has held Congregational 
pastorates at East Providence, R. L, and 
Storrs, Conn., and is now in charge of the 
church at Mount Carmel, Conn., a suburb of 
New Haven. 

1897 

Professor L. F. PauU recently took part in 
the reception to Colonel Roosevelt, held in 
Denver, as a member of the Spanish War Vet- 
erans, which was holding its annual conven- 
tion in the city at the time. 

Captain Jairus A. Moore, U. S. A., expects 
to sail about Oct. 5 for the Philippine Islands, 
where he has been ordered for duty in the 
Subsistence Department. 

1898 
At a meeting of the trustees of Saint Mar- 
garet's School of Waterbury, Conn., it was 
voted : "That the trustees desire formally to 
recognize the successful management of Saint 
^Margaret's School during the past year under 
the principalship of Miss Emily Gardner 
IMunro, and to express to Miss Munro their 
appreciation of her methods and example, 
which have resulted in bringing together a 
large school family working for one high pur- 
pose. The loyalty of her assistants and the 
devotion of her pupils testify to her high 
qualities as an organizer and friend. The edu- 
cational standard she has established is 
worthy of commendation, and the financial 



condition of the school gives much gratifica- 
tion, insuring a good future for the institu- 
tion, which the trustees hope may long have 
the guiding voice of Miss Munro." It was 
voted that this resolution be spread upon the 
records of the secretary and a copy be sent 
to Miss Munro. Saint Margaret's is one of 
the oldest and best-known Episcopal schools 
in this part of the country. 

1899 

Freeman Putney, Jr., has a story, entitled 
"Mrs. Landy's Castaway,"' in the October "Mc- 
Clure's Magazine." 

Charles K. Francis received the Ph.D. de- 
gree at the last commencement of the Univer- 
sity of Missouri, where he has been doing re- 
search work for the past two years. Early in 
July he took charge of the division of chem- 
istry of the Oklahoma Experiment Station, at 
the Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater. 
Several articles have recently been published 
in the scientific journals by Dr. Francis, 
among them being a paper on glycogen in the 
May issue of the Journal of Industrial and 
Engineering Chemistry, and another, "Phos- 
phorus in Beef," which appeared in the June 
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 

Dr. Carlos G. Hilliard has removed from 
Providence to southern California, and has 
opened an office at 122 Cajon St., Redlands, 
Cal. 

On Aug. 30 Herbert O. Brigham, state 
librarian, took the oath of office as state rec- 
ord commissioner. By a recently enacted law 
the state librarian is made ex-officio state 
record commissioner. 

Professor and Mrs. Arthur H. Blanchard 
who have been spending the year abroad, have 
returned to Providence. Professor Blanch- 
ard, who was one of the Rhode Island dele- 
gates to the Second International Road Con- 
gress, which was held in Brussels in August, 
presented a report on "The Use of Bitumin- 
ous Materials in the Construction and Main- 
tenance of Roads." 

1900 

John S. Brown, Jr., has received the degree 
of master of arts from Columbia University. 
He is a teacher in one of the public schools of 
New York and has been prominent in the 
colored men's branch of the Y. M. C. A. there. 

Charles H. Porter has been made comp- 
troller of the W. H. McElwain Co. of Bos- 
ton. His residence address is Riverbank 
court, Cambridge, Mass. 

Lydia G. Chace is visiting dietitian for the 
Providence District Nursing Association. 

Horace M. Hovey has gone to Litchfield, 
Conn., to take up his new duties as superin- 
tendent of schools. 

1901 

During the recent reception tendered to 
Colonel Roosevelt in Denver, Col., Lieut. G. 
A. Taylor, U. S. A., was a mounted aide on 
the stafif of General Sherman Bell, the "Rough 
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pie Creek fame, who was grand marshal of 
the parade. During the past summer Lieut. 
Taylor has published the following articles : 
"Major General Joseph Hooker and His 
Proper Place in History," in the Journal of 
the Military Service Institution of the United 
States; "The Tactical Employment of the 
Three Arms under Modern Conditions," by 
Captain Luigi Giannitrapani, Italian Artillery, 
translated from the original Italian in Revista 
D'Artiglieria e Genio, and published in the 
Journal of the United States Artillery; and 
"Kansas Pete'' (verse), in Shields' Magazine. 

On Aug. 11 the First Baptist Church of 
Everett, Wash., extended a call to the Rev. 
John ]\I. Linden to become its pastor. Mr. 
Linden will give up his evangelistic work as 
first assistant to "Billy" Sunday, the well- 
known evangelist, and will enter upon his 
newr duties in September. His address will 
be 3217 Colby ave., Everett, Wash. 

Jessie Wheeler, who was last year principal 
of the high school at Hinesbury, Vt., will 
teach this winter in the Patchogue High 
School, Long Island. 

1902 

]\I. E. Ailing is teaching at Drury College, 
Springfield, Mo. 

State Architect Franklin B. Ware of New 
York has appointed Preston H. Porcheron 
to the position of superintendent of construc- 
tion. He will be the assistant to D. M. Col- 
lier, who represents the state architect on the 
education building at Albany and the new 
capitol power house, when this work has been 
placed under contract during the fall. Mr. 
Porcheron was born in Brockton, INIass., and 
is a graduate in civil engineering, class of 
1902. He has been employed as assistant en- 
gineer at Providence, and was engaged in 
civil engineering at Rome, N. Y., under 
Knight & Hopkins, and also held the position 
of city engineer of that city. Since 1905 he 
has been in the employ of the United States 
government as superintendent of construction 
at the West Point Military Academy. ]\Ir. 
Porcheron married Miss Irene Adams of 
Rome. 

1902 and 1905 
]\Iiss Mary L. Hays and Miss Marion 
IVIidgeley are charter members of the Brockton 
College Club. 

1903 

Spalding's 1910 Football Guide contains a 
short article by IManager James L. Gartland 
of Denver University, entitled "Football in the 
Rocky Mountain Region." Mr. Gartland was 
recently one of the officials in charge of an 
endurance test for automobiles, held in 
Colorado. 

William R. Lawton, who has been abroad 
the past year for the study of European archi- 
tecture, spent the winter in Rome and Flor- 
ence, and has more recently been travelling 
through the chateau and cathedral district of 
France and England. 



1904 
George Sanford Holmes has a poem on 
"Canoeing" in a recent issue of the Denver 
Times. 

Arthur L. Young, for the past three years 
principal of the Uxbridge, Mass., high school, 
has been elected principal of the Jordan High 
School at Lewiston, Me. 

1905 
Glenn W^ Woodin is an attorney and coun- 
sellor at law at 319 Central ave., Dunkirk, 
N. Y. 

1906 

Edgar S. Brightman will study this year at 
the University of Berlin, electing courses in 
theology and philosophy. His address is 
Lutherstrasse 13, Berlin, W. 62, Germany. 

Harry Knowles spent the summer in south- 
ern Europe. 

Maurice L. Dolt, instructor in industrial 
chemistry at Lehigh University, has been ap- 
pointed assistant professor at the University 
of North Dakota. 

Charles S. Hufif has accepted the principal- 
ship of the high school at Asbury Park, N. J. 

Charles B. Bennett will teach chemistry at 
the University of Vermont for the year 
'lO-'ll. 

1907 

Rev. Levi S. Hoffman, who graduated from 
the Hartford Theological Seminary last May, 
was married, on June 29, to Miss Adelaide L. 
Alattox of Fall River, Mass. Rev. Hoffman 
was ordained as regular pastor of the 
Schwenkfelder church at Worcester, IMont- 
gomery county. Pa., during July, and he 
and i\Irs. Hoffman are now living at this ad- 
dress. 

H. B. Shearer, who has been employed by 
the Pittsburg Aluminum Co. for the past two 
years, has reentered the University of Penn- 
sylvania Medical School, where he expects to 
complete his medical studies. 

Miss Louise B. INIorgan has been awarded a 
special fellowship at Bryn Mawr. She has 
been studying already two years at that col- 
lege. 

]\Iiss ]\Iarion S. Cole addressed the D. A. R. 
of Bristol, June 13, 1910, on "Colonial 
Sketches." 

Arthur W. French will teach this year in 
New Bedford, Mass. His address w^ill be 68 
Arnold st. 

Ernest Shaw Reynolds, who was instructor 
in botany at the University of Tennessee last 
year, will remain there as assistant professor 
of botany this year, having been recently 
elected to that position. 

Phanuel Bishop Covell, pastor-elect of the 
First Baptist Church, Nantucket, Mass., has 
been ordained on recommendation of a coun- 
cil of the Barnstable Association. 

Edwin R. Gordon graduated from Hartford 
Theological Seminary in the class of 1910 and 



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has become minister to the Congregational 
church in North Craftsbury, Vt. 

Miss Eunice Smith will continue her 
studies at Bryn Mawr this coming winter. 

1907 HON. 

Dr. Howard B. Grose, Dr. William C. Bit- 
ling, Hon., '10, and Dr. Wayland Hoyt, 'GO, have 
been elected as Baptist trustees of the United 
Society of Christian Endeavor for a term of 
four years. 

1907 and 1908 

^lessrs. Gerald ]\I. Richmond. Herbert L. 
Dorrance, '07, and Walter H. Burnham, '08, 
announce that they have formed a co-partner- 
ship under the name of Richmond. Dorrance 
& Company, with offices at 527 Banigan build- 
ing, Providence, to buy and sell investment 
securities and transact a general brokerage 
business. 

1908 

Earle Winfield Peckham will again be prin- 
cipal of the high school at St. Albans, Vt., this 
year. 

Homer B. Hunt is working in the turbine 
stock department of the General Electric Com- 
pany at Lynn, Mass. His address is 73 
Baker st. 

^lilton B. Hunt's present address is 800 
South Halsted St., Hull House, Chicago, 111. 

Sydney S. Winslow was commissioned sec- 
ond lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps, 
U. S. A., in July, and is now stationed at Fort 
Monroe, Va., for a nine months' course of in- 
struction. 

P. A. Worsley will teach in California this 
year. 

George F. Riley will teach this year at the 
New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. 

James Wilmot sailed on Aug. 23 on the 
steamer Colon for Panama, where he is to ac- 
cept a position with the government. 

1909 

Don Richardson is now located at Laramie, 
Wyo. 

Miss Frances A. Foster has been awarded a 
renewal of the scholarship in English at Bryn 
Mawr which she held last year. 

Charles E. Hughes, Jr., has been elected 
an editor of the Harvard Law Review. 
1910 

H. S. Bucklin is teaching in Ironwood, Mich. 

M. F. Conant is with the American Textile 
Co. and the American Yarn Co. of Paw- 
tucket. 

R. T. Davis is studying law at Washington 
University, St. Louis, Mo. 

The address of W. E. Gannon is Sharon, 
Pa., where he is connected with the American 
Steel Foundries in the railroad supply busi- 
ness. 

W. B. Freeman is with the United National 
Bank of Providence. 

1910 is well represented in the Harvard 



graduate schools. In the medical school are 
K. F. Albee, J. H. Morrissey, Jr., and A. L. 
Brett. In the law school are M. Barus, J. P. 
Hartigan, W. E. Goodwin, M. M. Meridith, J. 
B. Keenan, A. H. Peterson and S. D. Pad- 
dock. A. J. Young is studying mechanical en- 
gineering in the Graduate School of Applied 
Science. 

R. E. Fenner is with B. T. & C. A. Potter, 
real estate agents, with offices in the Banigan 
building, Providence. 

Warren C. Norton has been appointed as- 
sistant in botany at the North Carolina College 
of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts. 

James C. Simpson is engaged in educational 
work among the sailors at the Brooklyn 
branch of the Navy Young Men's Christian 
xAssociation. 

Elizabeth ]\Iorrison is librarian at the 
Wanskuck branch of the Providence Public 
Library. 

Gwendolyn Blodgett is to study in Paris 
at the Sorbonne the coming year. She went 
abroad with her father. Judge Blodgett, 1880, 
last July. 



Births 

Born, :\Iay 14, 1910, to Jerry D. and Helen 
Whitmarsh Drew, '03, a son, Robert Whit- 
marsh Drew. 

Born, Aug. 27, 1910, to Ralph B. Harris, '97, 
and ]\Irs. Harris, a daughter. 

Born, July 16, 1910, at Watertown, N. Y., to 
]\Ir. and Mrs. Mason Martin Swan, '96, a sec- 
ond son and third child, Daniel Mason Swan. 

Born, July 5, 1910, at Shelburne Falls, Mass., 
to Rev. Rolla E. Hunt. '99, and Mrs. Hunt, a 
daughter, Ellen Brush Hunt. 

Born, March 31, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. John 
Howard Adams, '99, a second daughter, 
Frances. 

Born. March 25, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Har- 
mon H. Gnuse, '99, a daughter, Harriet Spen- 
cer. 

Born, Aug. 23, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Clar- 
ence R. Budlong of Pawtucket, a daughter, 
Dorothy Woolley Budlong. 

Born, July 20, 1910, to May Winsor (Hall) 
James, '09, and J. William James, '06, a son, 
\\"illiam Hall James. 



Engagements 

The engagement of Miss Alice Counsell 
(Albany State College, '07), of Utica, N. Y., 
to Rev. George D. Allison, '05, is announced. 



Marriages 

Nathan A. Tufts, 1900, and IMiss Corinne 
Nickerson were married at Leominster Mass., 
June 25, 1910. Many Brown men attended and 
the ushers included Fred W. Tillinghast of 
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a cousin of the bridegroom. Air. and Mrs. 
Tufts are now living in Waltham, Mass., 
where Mr. Tufts has been engaged in the 
practice of law for six years. 

On June 15, 1910, at Denver, Col., ]\Iiss 
Susie E. Thum was married to Edward S. 
Smith, '04. Warren A. Clough, '04, was best 
man. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be at home at 
the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. 

On July 20, Ralph Henry Wilmarth, '10, was 
married to Miss Dorothy Helen Chisholm at 
the Methodist church in Nashua, N. H. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wilmarth will live at 20 Division 
St., North Attleboro, Mass. 

On June 29, 1910, at Salt Lake City, Utah, 
Miss Lucy Arminda Nichols was married to 
Ray Palmer Hovey, '05. Mr. and Mrs. Hovey 
will live at 13 Barrows ave.. Salt Lake City. 

]\Iarried in London, Aug. 15, 1910, Miss 
Bertha Schenk of Cologne, Germany, to Mr. 
Sherman Alden i\llen, '03, of Hightstown, 
N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Allen will live at Harris- 
burg, Pa., where Mr. Allen will have charge 
of the modern language department in the 
Harrisburg Academy. 

On Aug. 10, 1910, Miss Clara Rebecca 
Schmidt was married to Mr. David Justin 
Allen, '08. Mr. and Mrs. Allen will live in 
Seattle, Wash., where Mr. Allen is teaching. 

On Sept. 1, 1910, Rev. Earle Bennett Cross, 
Ph.D., '05, was married to IMiss Beatrice 
Irving Bodwell at Buttonwoods, R. I. Dr. 
and Mrs. Cross will live at Dover, N. H., 
where Dr. Cross is pastor of the Baptist 
church. 

On Sept. 1, 1910, at Christ Church Cathe- 
dral, Montreal, Canada, Miss Clara M. Love- 
joy was married to Richard R. Martin, '89. 

On Sept. 17, 1910, at Dorchester, Mass., 
Miss Gertrude Russell Sherman was married 
to Dr. Williston Wright Barker, '02. Dr. and 
Mrs. Barker will be at home after Nov. 1 at 
4 Lyndhurst St., Dorchester Centre, Mass. 

On Aug. 30, 1910, at Providence, Miss 
Mabel Cornelia Moulton, ex-'03, was married 
to Rev. Dr. J. W'ilbur Chapman, the well- 
known evangelist. 

On Sept. 21, 1910, at Providence, Miss Bes- 
sie Etta Palmer was married to John Allen 
Buffinton, ex-'99. Charles A. Hull, '99, was 
best man and Dr. Marcius H. INIerchant, '97, 
Robert S. Emerson, '97, and Robert K. Lyon, 
ex-"99, were among the ushers. Miss Anna 
C. Buffinton, '00, was one of the bridesmaids. 



Deaths 

Rev. Edwin Dieell, 1847 
Rev. Edwin Dibell, one of the four surviv- 
ing members of the class of 1847, died at his 
home in Kingsville, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1910, aged 
90 years. Mr. Dibell was born in Kingsville, 
Ohio, June 1, 1820, and was the son of Obfed 
and Patience (Baldwin) Dibell. He fitted for 
college at the academy at Kingsville, and in 



the spring of 1843 entered Colgate University, 
then Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y. In 
1845 he entered the junior class at Brown 
University and was graduated with the degree 
of A. B. in 1847. After graduation he studied 
at Newton Theological Institution, 1847-48, 
and supplied the Baptist church of Waterbury, 
Conn., during the summer of 1848. From 
1849 to 1851 he supplied the Baptist churches 
of Gardiner, Me., and Pittston, Me., and was 
ordained by the church at Gardiner on April 
30, 1851. He was pastor of the Baptist church 
at Bath, Me., 1851-52; Cherryfield, Me., 1852- 
54; New Ipswich, N. H., 1834-60. While at 
Ipswich he served as superintendent of schools 
for six years. Since 1863 he had made his 
home at Kingsville, Ohio, living on a farm and 
supplying churches in Sheffield, Kingsville and 
Grigg's Corner. For several years he was a 
member of the school board of Kingsville. He 
married. May 29, 1852, Miss Fanny Emeline 
]\lills of Belgrade, Me. Five children were 
born to the couple, but all died in childhood. 

Charles Ray Bravton, ex-1863 
Charles R. Brayton died at the Jane Brown 
Hospital in Providence on Sept. 23, 1910, aged 
70 years. For the past 35 years he had been 
the principal leader of the Republican party 
in Rhode Island. Mr. Brayton was the de- 
scendant of a family prominent in the history 
of the state, his grandfather, Hon. Charles 
Brayton, being a Justice of the Supreme 
Court; his father, William Daniel Brayton, 
serving as a member of Congress from Rhode 
Island, 1859-61 ; and his uncle, George Arnold 
Brayton, became Chief Justice of the Rhode 
Island Supreme Court in 1868. Mr. Brayton 
was born at Apponaug, R. I., Aug. 16, 1840, 
and was the eldest son of Hon. William D. 
and Anna Ward (Clarke) Brayton. He pre- 
pared for college at the East Greenwich 
Academy and later attended the Fruit Hill 
Classical Institute in North Providence. He 
entered Brown University with the class of 
1863, but at the close of his second year left 
college to volunteer for the civil war. He re- 
cruited a company for the third regiment, 
Rhode Island Volunteers, and was appointed 
a lieutenant of this regiment. After serving 
in many capacities during the war he was 
finally mustered out of service in 1865 with 
the title of Brevet Brigadier General of Vol- 
unteers. After the war he served as Deputy 
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second 
Rhode Island District for a time, but in the 
latter part of 1865 he was appointed Post- 
master of Port Royal, S. C, and served until 
1867. In 1869 he returned to Providence as 
Acting Collector of Internal Revenue. In 
1870 he was appointed Deputy Town Clerk 
and Trial Justice of Warwick, and in the 
same year received the appointment of Pen- 
sion Agent for Rhode Island from General 
Grant, and served in this capacity until 1874, 
when he was made Postmaster of Providence. 
In 1880 he resigned the office and since that 
time had devoted himself entirely to politics 
and to the practice of law. He was admitted 



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to the bar in isyi. He had been a member 
of the State Central Committee since 1S76 
and a member of the National Republican 
Committee since 1S96. General Brayton was 
prominent in ^lasonic circles and was a Past 
Commander and Past Department Commander 
of Prescott Post, Xo. 1, G. A. R. He was a 
member of the Brunonian chapter. Alpha 
Delta Phi, and a member of the Alpha Delta 
Phi Club in . New York ; the Society of 
■Colonial \\'ars ; Companion of the Loyal Le- 
gion and many other societies and clubs. He 
married, March 13, 1865, Miss Antoinette 
Percival Belden, who with one son, William 
S. Brayton of ]\Iontclair, N. J., survives him. 

Frank Avery Coates, 1872 
Dr. Frank Avery Coates died at his home in 
Mystic, Conn., Sept. 11, 1910, after an illness 
of several months. He was well known in the 
medical profession in eastern Connecticut, and 
had a large practice, succeeding his father, 
^vho was a well-known physician. Dr. Coates 
was born in ]\Iystic July 15, 1851, and was the 
son of E. Frank and Ellen Frances (Avery) 
Coates. He obtained his early education in 
the schools of Mystic and entered Brown with 
the class of 1872, graduating in that year with 
the degree of A. B. He continued his studies 
.at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
Xew York city and obtained his M. D. in 1875. 
He returned at once to Mystic and began the 
practice of medicine with his father, and upon 
the death of the latter succeeded to his prac- 
tice. He married, Feb. 25, 1879, Miss Julia C. 
L. Beebe, who survives him. 

Charles Thomas Eaton, 1885 
Charles Thomas Eaton, a well-known 
teacher of Stonington, Conn., died at his home 
Aug. 5, 1910, aged 48 years. iMr. Eaton had 
been connected with educational work in Ston- 
ington since 1896 and was held in high regard 
by the people of his community. Mr. Eaton 
was born in Mercer, Me., Jan. 17, 1862, and 
was the son of Thomas C. and Phoebe J. 
(Libby) Eaton. His early education was ob- 
tained in the public schools of Needham, 
:\Iass. He entered Brown University with the 



class of 1885, graduating with the degree of 
A. B. in June of that year and taking his A. M. 
four years later. From 1885 to 1889 he was 
instructor in mathematics in the high school 
at King's Mountain, N. C, leaving there to 
accept the principalship of the high school at 
Chesapeake City, Md., where he remained 
until 1891. In 1891 he left the South and re- 
moved to Massachusetts, serving as principal 
of the high school at East Douglas, Mass., 
from 1891 to 1893, and at Belchertown, Mass., 
from 1893 to 1895. In 1896 he was called to 
Stonington as principal of schools of the 
Ninth School District, and remained in charge 
up to the close of the school year in June of 
this year. He had just been chosen by the 
town school committee as principal of the new 
Stonington High School, an institution estab- 
lished by the union of the four high schools 
at Stonington Borough, Mystic, Old ]\Iystic 
and Pawcatuck. He married in August, 1893, 
Miss Erminie J. Payne, who survives him with 
one son, Harold Thomas Eaton. 

James Monroe Paine, ex-1886 
James Monroe Paine, at one time a mem- 
ber of the class of 1886, died last month at a 
sanatorium at Dansville, N. Y., after a short 
illness. Mr. Paine was born at Killingly, 
Conn., July 21, 1863, and was the son of 
James Angell and INIariette (Mathews) Paine. 
He was a graduate of the Classical School of 
Providence and was for a year and a half a 
member of the class of 1886 of Brown Uni- 
versity, leaving in 1884 to enter business as a 
merchant in East Killingly, Conn. He was a 
member of the Connecticut legislature during 
the session of 1897 and was instrumental at 
that time in securing the passage of an act 
authorizing the present town court. Since 
1897 he had served as superintendent of 
schools in Killingly and was a director of the 
Windham County National Bank and of the 
County Savings Bank. For some years he 
had practised law in Danielson, Conn. He 
married, Nov. 5, 1902, Miss Agnes C. Halli- 
day, who survives him, with two children and 
a brother, Almond M. Paine of East Kil- 
lingly. 




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