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This was due to the fact that the previous day had been rainy, which accounts for my hav- ing any unexposed plates when I boarded the Trent to return to New York. As it was I managed to use six of the dozen during the four mile drive from the hotel "Frascati" to the dock, and the seventh for a last view of the islands from the stateroom porthole. We sailed at noon, and all the rest of the day I fumed inwardly to think that I still had five plates, for there was abso- lutely nothing in sight, once the islands sank below the horizon. Tuesday morning about six I was no THE BROW'X ALUMNI MONTHLY aroused by my room steward knocking on the stateroom door. "What is it. Spragg?" I asked drowsily. "Are you getting up, sir?" "Not yet a while." I answered. "I think you'd better go on deck, sir; they are trying to pick up an airship and six men." I was in the upper berth when he starteil. \\"hen he finished I was in the middle of the stateroom scrambling into SO!\IE of my clothes. I grabbed my camera, turned my suit-case upside down in a frantic quest for three elusive plate- holders, then rushed down the corridor. I"]) the stairs I went, three at a time, jamming in a plate-holder on the way. As I burst out on the promenade deck, there was the airship almost on top of us, looming huge in the dim light of the early morning. I yanked up the focusing hood, set the shutter, jerked out the slide and took my first picture. "You needn't hurry," someone said ; "they have been like this for the past hour." Then. "Where on earth have you been ? AA'e've been hunting for you ever since we came on deck. No one knew your stateroom number, and we couldn't get a steward's attention long enough to ask a question. The purser said he couldn't help us out, and we had about given up. \\'e want some pictures of this, and the light is too poor for our cameras." f J\Iy camera is of the reflect- ing type with a very fast lens.) "I'd have missed it all if Spragg hadn't called me. Aly room is a little aft of amidships and I hadn't heard a sound," I replied. All this time I had not taken my eyes off the airship, but as he finished I turned around. I did not have on any too much clothing myself, but I was way over- dressed. Flowing tresses were almost universal, and in many cases long coats failed to cover entirely the night robes beneath. But the men : I did take time to run a comb through my hair, but I need not have bothered. Most of them looked as if they had left the barber's chair in a hurry : more than one bath robe was in evidence, bare ankles were the rule, and I believe I saw one entire suit of paja- mas. One would have thought that the passengers had been called on deck for their lives. But no one considered such things at the time. There were six men in a balloon, over 400 miles from the nearest land, in a region rarely traversed, and our boat was their only hope. For nearly an hour more we followed the airship, vainly trying to get in such a position that the crew could slide down a rope to our vessel. At times the America would be almost touching the water, and I expected any moment to see the lifeboat drag and the men spilled out. Again she would rise luitil the ecjuilibra- tor swung almost clear of the water. Now one end would dip. then the balloon would ride as steady as the boat we were on. At times the airship would almost graze the Trent's rigging, then she would be what seemed a quarter of a mile away. All this time I had watched fascinated, occasionally turning to glance at the ser- ])entine wake of the Trent as she tried to follow the irregular, zigzag course of the airship. At first most of the passengers had stayed on the promenade deck, but after a while the more ventiu'esome went to the very bow of the boat to get a better view. The number kept increasing, and finally the usually very natty first oflficer, now barefooted, with trousers rolled up, ordered the passengers aft, where they belonged ; then promptly forgot his order in his excitement. Soon after this the America crossed our bows diagonally, the nearest she had been. One of her crew threw a line, only to have it fall short ; another, then a third. This a seaman grasped. Another seaman caught the stays of the equilibra- tor with a boat-hook. Two men hold back an airship ! The idea is ridiculous, of course, but no one thought so then. As the two craft separated again, the failure seemed grim tragedy. The nervous strain for all of us was increasing constantly, and this failure was too much for one of the passengers. "Lower your boat." he shouted. There was a roar from the bridge by the cap- tain. "I am giving orflers here." and the passenger subsided. At the time the two vessels were closest THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY III I was in the extreme bow. As the Amer- ica came closer and closer it seemed as if she must collide with the Trent. I made another exposure — which one of the crew spoiled by stepping in front of me — then sprinted back where I be- longed. As she passed us this time she sank lower than usual, and we could see her crew throwing out cans of oil to gain the proper rising power. Then she forged ahead of us again. I had gone back to the bow expecting any moment that they would cut loose the lifeboat. The first officer came running back at the call of the captain. "Tell them to stand by while we make one more try to pick them up," the latter ordered. "Aye, aye, sir," and the mate hustled forward as far as he could go. He raised his hands tu carry the sound, opened his mouth, but before he uttered more thar; one syllable they cut loose the boat. Looking into my focusing hood I saw the boat strike the water sidewise, then apparently turn bottom up. I snapped the shutter, then forgot that I had a camera. The boat slowly righted, banged once or twice against the equilibrator. then floated free and came straight for the bow of the Trent. I could see but five men. "Stop your engines !" I heard one of them shout ; then the boat disappeared. There was a gasp ; then, when no crash came, a rush for the rail and a hearty cheer as the boat scraped along the side of the Trent and drifted astern. By this time we had all counted six men and we knew that they were out of danger. They made practically no at- tempt to row the boat, but sat smoking, waiting for us to pick them up. The first attempt failed, and the officers got some emphatic — but entirely imdeserved - — criticisms. At the second attempt the men in the boat were able to help just enough with their two oars to get close enough to catch the line-line, and at this instant I took the fourth picture. I was where I could watch closely and they were "all in." Some of them trem- bled as they climbed slowly up the rope ladder, and all seemed glad of a helping hand over the rail. My last plate I saved for Mr. Wellman as he reached safety. Then for the first time since I came on deck I just watched. The last man up the ladder was Louie Loud, and as he was climbing aboard some one handed him a cup of cofi:ee. He stopped right were he was, one leg over the rail, and started in on that coffee wdth an expression of supreme content on his face. Seasickness was forgotten during the rescue. There was one woman who w^as the liveliest of all. To be sure, she paid more than one visit to the rail during the two hours, but she lost no time in getting back to see what was going on. The next day I told Mr. Wellman of the exposures I had made, and at his intimation that he w^ould prefer that the New York Times be given a chance if the results were good, I promised that his wishes should be respected. That promise was not as easily kept as I had expected. From the time w^e left quarantine until I was beyond the cus- toms I was besieged by reporters. One was so utterlv reckless that he offered me THREE DOLLARS a negative, and even wanted to clinch the bargain by a deposit. He admitted that he had no authority to make the bargain, but he was anxious to make it just the same. I finallv dodged them all. however, and, although we did not dock until after five I was so fortunate in getting through customs that I was at the Times office before six. 112 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE SPEAKER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE (CONTR Tlie honoring" of i5ro\vn men by various municipalities and states has oc- curred so frequently during the last few years that Brown men have come to look on the many instances of the election of Brown men to high office as events nat- urally to be expected. Rhode Island from its earliest history has felt the influence of the College on the Hill in matters political, and more recent]}' New Jersey and New York. Massacliusetts is the latest state to feel its influence in the per- son of Joseph \Valker of the class of "87, who in June finished his second term as speaker of the House of Representatives of that commonwealth, a position second only in importance to that of governor. Speaker ^^'alker Avas elected to the House of Representatives from the town of Brookline in 1903, and has been re- turned each year by his constituency. His progress to the front rank of legislators was rapid, and he soon became recognized as one of the leaders of the House. In 1909 he was elected speaker. His con- duct of the office during that year was so thorougMy efficient and businesslike that he was re-elected in 1910 without a dis- .senting ballot. His record during the year just completed is one of which his friends are justly proud, marked as it has been with evidences of progressiveness and sound business judgment. He was responsible for much constructive legisla- tion during the session, alone sufficient to stamp him as a Progressive Republican, able to do his own thinking and to carry out his capabilities in that direction to the utmost limit. Speaker Walker, or "Joe," as he is familiarly called by his colleagues, will return to the House in 191 1, and will be re-elected to the speakership without op- position. His future will be watched with keenest interest by Brown men throughout the country, particularly by those residing in ^lassachusetts. Among the latter it is freely predicted that their fellow-alumnus is destined to still higher honors, which would seem to indicate that Massachusetts, like her sister state of New York, may soon have a Brown-bred man as pilot of her ship of state. IBUTEU) Since this appreciation of Speaker Walker was written he has announced his candidacy for governor of ^lassachu- setts. The plan in vogue in the Repub- lican party of that state has been to give the speaker of the House of Representatives three terms in the office and then promote him to the office of lieutenant governor, from which, after three terms, he goes to the governorship for three terms. If Gov- ernor Draper had been re-elected last month he would have rounded out three terms and Lieutenant Governor Froth- ingham would have been nominated for governor in his place, provided the sys- tem worked all right. This would have made Mr. Walker the "logical" nominee for lieutenant governor. But now he has announced himself as a candidate for the nomination for governor, which appears to involve a contest for that office between him and ]\Ir. Frothingham (Harvard, '93). ^Ir. Walker was re-elected on the ninth of November to the House. He says : 'T have been elected to the legislature of 191 1. I am a candidate for speaker of the House of Representatives. I shall not accept another nomination or election to the House, but will run for governor of the commonwealth next fall. I shall make my appeal for nomination directly to the rank and file of the Republican party, and shall depend for active sup- port upon my friends and upon those who I^elieve in the principles and policies for which I stand. "I believe that the greatest evil in politics to-day is the excessive use of money. Unless the nomination of my party comes to me without the use of money, directly or indirectly, I do not wish it. I also wish to state that if I am again elected speaker of the House of Representatives I shall not allow my can- didacy for governor to influence my com- mittee appointments or my other acts as speaker, in the slightest degree." THE BROWX ALUMNI MONTHLY 113 BROWN'S SENIOR PROFESSOR First on the list of the faculty in the annual catalogue of the university, next to the name of President I<"aunce. come'; PROFESSOR JOHN H. APPLETON that of John Howard Appleton. A. ^L, Sc. D.. Newport-Rogers professor of chemistrw Professor Appleton has been continuously a member of the faculty for forty-seven years this month. Professor Appleton was graduated at the commencement in September, 1863; he pursued graduate studies in Brown I'niversity for two or three months im- mediately following that commence- ment ; but he was not registered as a graduate student ; in the catalogue issued in December, 1863, his name appeared in the faculty list as assistant instructor in analytical chemistry ; his name has ap- peared in the faculty list of every catalogue since. His service to the uni- versity commenced early in December, 1863, and it has continued ever since — and he has not been absent a single term during this period of forty-seven years. His beginning his service in the mid- dle of the term, instead of at its opening, happened thus : at the beginning of the term John Peirce was the assistant in- structor ; for proper reasons he withdrew before the term ended (subsequently he came back as professor ) ; Professor Ap- pleton was appointed in his place. It is believed that Professor Apple- ton's term of service exceeds that of any other member of the faculty, since the establishment of the university, as a con- tinuous, full and active record. DEDICATION OF THE JOHN HAY LIBRARY The exercises in connection with the dedication of the John Hay Library on Friday. Nov. 11, were exceptionally suc- cessful and dignified. The chancellor of the university, ]\Ir. Arnold B. Chace, gave, with ~Slrs. Chace, a luncheon to many guests at Churchill House on An- gell street at one-thirty in the afternoon ; and at two-thirty a procession of grad- uates and other invited guests formed on the middle campus in preparation for the exercises at Sayles Hall. This was one of the largest processions in the his- tory of the university, comprising about 800 persons. The chief marshal was Major Henry B. Rose. "81, with :\I. S. Fanning, '91, as his chief assistant. The procession marched southward down the middle campus from Univer- sity Hall and along the neighboring streets (George and Prospect), re-enter- ing the campus through the A'an Wickle gates and thence proceeding to Sayles Hall. There the presiding officer was President Faunce ; the other speakers were President-emeritus Angell of the University of ]Michigan and Hon. Elihu Root, L^nited States senator from New York, a portion of whose impressive addresses is printed elsewhere in this 114 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY issue of the ^lonthly. The hall was com- pletely tilled with an interested gather- ing. A feature of the occasion was the excellent singing of an anthem by the university choir of male voices, trained by Mr. Ware, the university organist. The other music consisted of an organ processional and recessional, a hymn by Mr. Hay, and "O Mot'ner, dear, Bru- nonia." At the conclusion of these exercises adjournment Avas taken to the library, where there were brief dedicatory ser- vices. Dr. T. D. Anderson offered prayer : President Faunce received the ke}s from Mr. Coolidge of Boston, the architect, and transferred them to the librarian, ]\Ir. Kotipman ; and Mr. Koop- man accepted them in a short address. In the evening there were a number of private dinners for the guests of the occasion. Senator Root being the guest of honor at the University Club. From nine to eleven the library was thronged at a brilliant reception. One of the pleasantest features of the whole day was the presence, at the several func- tions, of Mrs. John Hay, her daughter, ]\Irs. Payne Whitney, and her son, Clar- ence Hav. HISTORY OF THE JOHN HAY LIBRARY^ By President Faiince "Six years of labor are crowned to- day by the dedication of a marble build- ing which at the same time commemo- rates the past and creates the future. That labor includes the toil of masons and mechanics and carpenters and plas- terers and^ painters, it includes the en- deavors of the humble hodcarrier and the faithful night watchman. But it in- cludes also the work of the architect whose imagination conceived the build- ing a year before the first stone was laid, and the long solicitude of those who planned the enterprise or made generous gifts long before any architect was ap- proached. The public sees the monu- mental result— it little dreams of the toil- some process. "Four years ago, after a talk with our librarian regarding the crowded condi- tion of our university library, detriment- al and dangerous both to books and to those who used them, I determined to make some effort toward a new struct- ure. It was clear that we must not make any general appeal to the alumni, since their gifts must be reserved for endow- ment. We must secure the new build- ing through the gifts of the few who might be generously disposed toward the * This and the two following articles are excerpts from the addresses at the dedication of the John Hay Library, Nov. 11. university or its great cause, ^^'ithout mentioning my hopes to any member of the university I wrote to !\Ir. Andrew Carnegie, reminding him that in his many gifts to education through libraries he had made no gift to any institution in Rhode Island. After a careful and pro- tracted correspondence, dealing with the whole cjuestion of the proper function of a tmiversity library, his offer came, pledging $150,000 on condition that an- other $150,000 be secured from others for the same purpose. With that offer came the felicitous suggestion that since John Hay, ]\Ir. Carnegie's personal friend, was one of the most distinguished gradu- ates of Brown, the new structure should be called the John Hay Library — a sug- gestion whose fitness commanded instant assent and adoption. "Then followed the most spontaneous series of gifts ever known in this state. Within twenty-four hours after the plan was announced in the public press a Rhode Island manufacturer wrote me that he should count it an honor to sub- scribe $10,000. A member of the corpo- ration sent in his pledge for $5000 and secured $40,000 more by merely men- tioning the plans to certain men in New York, who had never visited the city of Providence, l)ut who revered the memory of John Hay. There was no begging; THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 115 from anyone or by anyiinc. In a few months and almost \vitln)nt effort the entire amount was subscribed, and the pathway was clear to a great achieve- ment. Th.e names of these givers should be always cherished in the annals of our university. They are as follows : "Andrew Carnegie, Everett Colby. Samuel P. Colt, James "Slay Duane, Wil- liam Gammell, R. H. I. Goddard, Wil- liam Goddard, Colgate Hoyt, James H. 1 Io}t, W. W. Keen, J. C. Kerens, Charles G. King, Robert Knight, Henrv ter and appointed a building committee consisting of W. \ . Kellen, S. O. Ed- wards, S". (). Metcalf. E. W. Mason, A. 1!. Chace and W. H. P. Faunce. This committee has been in practically con- tinuous session during two years. It be- gan with a twofold resolve. First, that the inside of the building should be planned before the outside, and that con- siderations of effective and economical administration should precede all other considerations whatever ; second, that there should be no unijrofessional com- Courlesy of the Providence Journal BROWN UNDERGRADUATES CHEER DR. ANGELL AND SENATOR ROOT President Faunce and Dr. Edward Judson were also caught by the camera F. Lippitt, Stephen O. Metcalf, Earl W. Ogilbay, Richard Olney, Marsden J. Perry, Henry Kirke Porter, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Clark Rouse, Mrs. Henry G. Russell, Jacob FI. Schift", Henry D. Sharpe, Mrs. T. P. Shepard, James Speyer, James E. Sullivan, J. H. Wade, George Peabody Wetmore, 'A Friend.' "The corporation now took up the mat- petition, but that the architect should be selected simply on the basis of results elsewhere achieved. In carrying out this policy the committee sent its various members, with our university librarian,, to visit all important libraries recently erected in the Eastern States. "It engaged as library expert Mr. Charles C. Soule of Boston, to consult with the librarian and committee at ii6 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY every step, and to put on paper a sketch of just what a thorough!}- modern uni- versity hbrary should inckide. in ideal, in apparatus, in plans of administration. It engaged as architects the firm of Shep- ley, Rutan & Coolidge, with the under- standing that when the plans for the in- terior were complete it would then be the task of the architects to clothe those plans in an architectural exterior. What- ever success we have attained is due to this initial determination not to consider any architectural scheme until the scope and future uses of the structure had been clearly settled. "After six months study of other libra- ries and of our own needs the committee reduced to writing its ideas of a suitable interior and placed that writing in the hands of Mr. Charles A. Coolidge. He at once determined that the style oV architecture must be that of the English Renaissance — the period in which Brown L^niversity was founded — and gave pro- longed study to buildings erected by Sir Christopher Wren and the builders of his time. \\'hen the plans had been finished a model of the proposed library was con- structed and presented to the corpora- tion for approval. But those plans have grown as the building has progressed. "Details have been added, proportions have been altered, ornamentation has been diminished or withdrawn, lines have been incised more deeply to bring out the play of light and shadow, and the building has visibly unfolded like some living plant constantly fed and tended 1\\- the gardener's hand. We wish to re- cord our deep indebtedness to Mr. Soule for the admirable interior arrangement and equipment, and to Mr. Coolidge for an exterior which in its rare combina- tion of strength and delicacy suggests and symbolizes the character of the statesman whom the building commemo- rates." MR. HAY AS AN UNDERGRADUATE By James B. Angcll, '49, LL.D. "We have assembled here to-day with two purposes in mind : First, to dedi- cate the new home of the library ; sec- ondly, to dedicate it as a monument to John Hay. "As early as 1784 we find the members of the family from whom the university afterward took its name beginning the handsome contributions to the library which have continued at frequent inter- vals to our day. In 1835 Manning Hall, the gift of Nicholas Brown, was opened for the library and the chapel. A lil^rary fund of $25,000 was raised at about the same time by alumni and other friends of the university. In 1844 Prof. Charles C. Jewett, Librarian and Professor of ]Modern Languages, was sent abroad to purchase books. While he was there Mr. John Carter Brown furnished him with funds for procuring standard works in French, German and Italian literatures. Mr. Jewett's purchases increased the library by over 7000 volumes, selected with the greatest care. In due time the ^Tanning: Hall Librarv room was out- grown and the building on the corner of Prospect and ^^'aterman streets was erected, which in its turn is outgrown. "The necessity for more spacious ac- commodations forced the authorities to ask for aid in the erection of a building suited to the present and future needs. By a happy inspiration they proposed to give it the name of the John Hay Library building. The suggestion struck a re- sponsive chord in the heart of Mr. Car- negie and in the hearts of many others. Therefore we are here rejoicing to-day. "The importance of the library to the tmiversity we cannot overestimate. It is the fountain of its intellectual power. Here you may all come, students and teachers, to kindle your tapers afresh by the inextinguishable lamps with which the great scholars and thinkers of all times have illuminated the world. Here in the quiet library halls the revered masters of science and philosophy and song condescended to sit wdth us as guides, inspirers and many friends. "And now as we dedicate to its high THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 117 uses this building which is to be here- after the home of this hbrary with so rich a history, it is fitting that we give to it the name of John Hay, who nour- ished here in his formative years that fruitful mind which in its full ripeness so blessed his generation. The distin- guished statesman who himself so adorned the chair which Mr. Hay filled for nearly seven years with such emi- nent success will pay the fitting tribute to him as a diplomatist. But as one who has stood in the relation of teacher and friend" to him in his college days, I may be permitted to speak with a certain familiarity of him, as he appeared to me then. The number of students was small enough, so that I could know per- sonally all the members of my classes and could see many of them at my home. Hay was one of those whom it w^as my delight to meet under my own roof. "His type of mind was one of great modesty and even then of marked bril- liancy. When presented to strangers, even when called on to recite in the class, his face habitually flushed with diffidence. I was reminded of his early modesty when on returning from Europe on shipboard with him, as he was com- ing to take the office of Secretary of State, he assured me that he was assum- ing the duties with many misgivings. But he was accepting the post because it was a position that one could not well decline. I had the pleasure of reading with him several of the great French and German dramatic masterpieces. I used to say that he was the best trans- lator I ever had in my classes. He not only apprehended with precision the meaning of the original, but he excelled all others in the felicity of finding the exact English equivalent of the original. That extraordinary mastery of the best vocabulary in our tongue which gives such a charm to all the writings of maturer life was easily discernible even then. College poetry cannot generally be regarded as prophetic of a great poetic career for its author. But some of Hay's verses in his college days both by their diction and their power of imagination seemed to us to promise distinction if he should choose to continue his poetic ef- forts. 'Tn short, those of us who knew him best looked for a distinctly literary career for him. We experienced a serious dis- appointment when we saw that events were turning him in a dififerent direction. Fortunately he has left us some work which shows what he might have done if his wdiole life had been given to purely literary production. Where can one turn to a more charming picture of the life and spirit of a nation than he gave us in his 'Castilian Days'? Where will you look for a style more rich and racy and sparkling? His great w'ork. 'The Life of Lincoln,' to which he devoted ten years in conjunction with his friend, Nicolay, while replete with knowledge at first hand, showed such patient research, such moderation and justice and restraint in the discussion of burning questions and in the portraiture of bitter antagonists, and so thorough acquaintance with the inmost life of Lincoln, that it is justly accepted by the w^orld as the authentic portraiture of the great president. It would not be easy to find in our historical literature passages finer in conception and nobler in simplicity than Hay's chap- ter on the death of Lincoln" MR. HAY AS A DIPLOMAT By EliJiu Root, LL.D., Senator from Neiv York "High credit is due to a country that can appreciate such a man as John Hay ; that has justly estimated his merit, has valued his service, and honors his mem- ory. A people capable of this have some- thing about them too fine to permit them to be given over to the worship of merely material things. It would be difficult to conceive of a sharper contrast than that between the character of Mr. Hay and the confident, thick-skinned, self-assertive, pushing, hustling character ordinarily as- ii8 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY sociated with success in the practical af- fairs of this hurly-burly world. The note in his daily life which mo>t challenged the attention of an oli>crver was that of extreme retinenient. sensitiveness and re- serve. He was unassuming, retiring, self-effacing, lie was thoroughly demo- cratic in his sympathies and convictions. He took men at their character value, without regard to place or power or wealth. He was indifferent to populari- tv, while he was keenly alive to the ai3- proval of all those whose judgment he respected and whose friendship he valued. His life was his own and he shared it only with those he loved. He never put it in evidence at the bar of public opinion or entered it in competi- tion for the prizes of public life. The proud modesty of his self-respect made it impossible for him to testify in his own behalf or to allege his own merits. He left others to judge what he was and what he accomplished, without even aid from him. while his generous and loyal nature was never weary of giving credit and praise and honor to his asso- ciates and contemporaries to the extreme limit of their deserts. "He was sensitive to beauty in all its forms — -iDeaut^' in nature, in art, in form of literary expression, in thought, in human character. The principles of Christian ethics controlled his judgments and his practice. A fine and correct taste determined the attractions and re- pulsions of his life, but he was not narrow or finical. He had the enthu- siasm of humanity. He had breadth of view and kindness of judgment. He had the saving grace of humor to a ver}- high degree, and his humor was ex- quisite, delicate and subtle. I lis esti- mates of men and their lives cut through all appearances to the realities, were in- dependent of clothes and houses and the accident of manners, and seized upon whatever was true and human, whether it was in the miner's hut or the farmer's ranch or the millionaire's palace. The scope of his human sympathy was uni- versal. He could write both the T'ikc County Ballads' and 'Castilian Days.' Quality appealed to him, whether in an earl or a longshoreman. He had a fine sense of proportion and of the fitness of things, lie had imagination, with- out which no man can be great in busi- ness or science or government any more than in literature or art. "His nature had its penalties. He shrank from rude, personal contact. As things fine and noble gave him pleas- ure, things brutal and sordid caused him pain. He could fight for a cause or a friend, but he shrank from fighting for himself. Everything personally competi- tive or assertive was distasteful. In his later years the prospect of a public ap- l)earance made him positively ill for days jjefore the time arrived. "Under ordinary conditions one would expect such a nature to withhold itself from the practical confiicts of life, to de- velop the critical facult}- at the expense of its dynamic force, and to play its part rather as an observer and commen- tator than as an actor in the aft'airs of the world. "There were, however, other elements in this character which forbade such a life. Mr. Hay was born and bred in what was then the rude frontier land of the ^liddle West. His youth was passed amid the working of the mighty forces that urged on across the prairies and valleys of the continent the most stu- pendous movement of population since the downfall of the Roman Empire, and that built up and dedicated to freedom this republic. The air he breathed was charged with the tense feelings of the Kansas-Nebraska conflict. The indigna- tion, the wrath, the exhortations, the ])ravers, the stern resolves, the blood- shed and sacrifice, the moral uplifting and sublimation of that great struggle between freedom and slavery were borne in upon this gentle, receptive and im- ])ressionable soul in its unfolding. He returned from his sojourn as a student in the grateful associations of this learned institution to the battlefield of Miltonic conflict in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. "From somewhere in the past, per- haps from Scotland of the Covenant. ])erhaps from the German Palatinate, harried and ravaged in religious wars, had come a strain of religious feeling and capacity for self-devotion that an- swered to the influences of this environ- THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 119 ment. The youth knew Lineohi and he- came his disciple. During four }ears in the White House the inspiration and con- trolHng power of that great nature guided the growth of the young assistant secretary. The relation hetween them was not the ordinary official relation he- tween a great officer and a young as- sistant. It was personal and affectionate. Often in later times, when Mr. Hay was premier in the cabinets of President McKinley and President Roosevelt, some incident of service in the White House would recall to his mind events of the earlier da}s among the same familiar scenes, and the telling of the stor}" with all the charm and graphic power we know so well would leave an impression upon his associates never to be forgotten. One such recital illustrates the relation between the two. Through the centre of the second story of the White House runs a long corridor from the extreme east to the extreme west. Mr. Lincoln slept in a room at the western end and the young assistant secretary slept in a little room at the southeastern corner. The President, oppressed and disturbed by the cares and perplexities and nerv- ous tension of the great war, was often sleepless, and often, when he had long sought sleep in vain, he would rise and go down to the bo}''s room and waken him in the dead of night, and, sitting on the edge of his bed, would read aloud to him from some favorite book until the current of thought was changed and sleep seemed possible. Sometimes it was the Bible; sometimes Shakespeare ; some- times Tom Hood. The spiritual insight of the great liberator divined in the soul of the boy the sympathy and responsive- ness which returned to the reader a calm and solace he could not find in the cold, dull page alone. "L^pon this foundation was built up the character that Mr. Hay brought to the great office of the Secretary of State. He brought also the results of wide and varied training in his maturer years. Five years as Secretary of Legation in Paris, in A'ienna and in Madrid, two years as Assistant Secretary of State, service as x-Xmbassador to Great Britain, had given" him the techniciue of the -pro- fession of diplomacy ; had taught him the language of dijjlomac}' in which words so often have a far dift'erent weight and meaning from the same words used in other professions, at the bar, in business and literature. He had learned the methods, the conventions, the etiquette, the prejudices, the delicate and difficult art of diplomatic polemnics. He had learned how to avoid the blundering obtuseness to the sentiments and real feelings of others which so often brings to naught the good intentions of well- meaning but uninstructed negotiators and an occasional illustration of which has suggested the reproach implied in the phrase, 'shirt-sleeves diplomacy.' "Five years as an editorial writer for the New York Tribune and a consider- able period as its responsible editor had broaclened his knowdedge and interest in the multitude of questions aft"ecting the internal interests of America, and had given him a familiarity with public men and public affairs. His life had been passed among men of thought and men of action. Letters, art, science, business, public life, the professions, had contrib- uted the friendships that enlisted his sympathies. He knew many places and their people ; many sides of life : many points of view. He came to the State Department just at the time when the conclusion of the war with Spain opened a new era in the relations between the United States and the other nations of the earth. The establishment of the new relations was important, exigent and critical. It concerned American prestige and ])rosperity, the country's place in the estimation of the world, its opportunity for influence for its own good and for the good of mankind. The conjuncture of the time and the man was most for- tunate. Mr. Hay impressed upon the diplomacy of the United States at this critical period a quality of courtesy, of consideration, of competency in dealing with di]ilomatic f|uestions, and a quality of simplicit}' and truthfulness worthy of the disci])le of Lincoln. The little ques- tions that trouble so many small men — petty tricks and deceptions and subter- fuges and small advantages — had no place in his scheme of conduct. Always the broad view, the kindly judgment, the considerate treatment, the true dignitv 120 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of nations, the true interests of his peo- ple and of civihzation. guided his ac- tion. . "He liiniself has said: 'There are many crosses and trials in the life of one who is endeavoring to serve the com- monwealth, but there are also two per- manent sources of comfort. One is the support and sympathy of honest and rea- sonable people. The other is the convic- tion dwelling forever, like a well of liv- ing water, in the hearts of all of us who have faith in the country, that all we do, in the fear of God and the love of the land, will somehow be overruled to the public good : and that even our errors and failures cannot greatly check the irresistible onward march of this mighty republic, the consummate evolution of countless'asfes. called bv divine voices to a destiny grander and brighter than we can conceive, and moving always, con- sciously or unconsciously, along lines of beneficent achievement whose constant aims and ultimate ends are peace and righteousness.' "I think he would not greatly desire that statues and columns be erected in his memory ; that he sought for no monu- ment other than the perpetual existence of the republic into whose structure he had Avrought his life. But we may be sure that this memorial, dedicated to the art of letters, in which he found his solace and refuge from the harsh storms of life, standing amid the scenes that were dear to his memories of youth, in- scribed with his name by the proud af- fection of his Alma ]\Iater. would be in- expressibly grateful to his heart." MR. KOOPMAN'S ADDRESS "Our forefathers of 200 years ago had. as you are aware, a fancy for iiaming the books they wrote keys to the subjects treated, the most familiar ex- ample to us of Rhode Island being Roger Williams's Key into the Language of America, a work that men still prize, not only for its rarity but even more for its scientific value. It is not necessary, however, to seek in its metaphorical meanings the appeal which the key makes to the imagination. This little object itself is potent to unlock more ave- nues of learning than any one man ever can follow, and more than were open to all men since the beginning of the world down even to Mr. Hay's own generation. "So. yir. President, it is with a great sense of responsibility and obligation that I accept this key as I do, first in the name of the thousand active members of the university, for whom its daily task shall be to unlock the world's treasures of past and contemporary knowledge and inspiration. I accept it also in the name of the 7000 former members of the uni- versity, for whom it shall nightly lock and safely guard the 140 different libraries known to as many generations of Brown students, from the little hand- ful of books hastily gathered up at the outbreak of the Revolution and huddled away in the drawer of a table in Wren- tham down to the latest volume, over which the graduate of last commence- ment burned the midnight oil. "For the library is the true chambered nautilus, forever enlarging its bounds, yet never relinquishing its old posses- sions. I accept this key also in the name of the unknown and unimagined future, whereof the youngest now living shall see but a fragment. What discoveries and revelations this key is destined to unlock no man can guess, though it may be salutary sometimes to make the trial; but of this we are sure, that, whatever riddles of the universe any future gen- eration may solve, it must leave to its successors yet greater marvels 'still un- read in the manuscripts of God.' " THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BROWN TEAM ENTERTAINED 121 ENTHUSL^STIC BOSTON DINNER IN HONOR OF THE FOOT- BALL PLAYERS It was a great and glorious occasion at Young's Hotel in Boston, on Tuesday evening, Nov. 29, when a dinner was given in honor of the Brown football team by some of the alumni of Boston and vicinity. There were 19 members of the team present, headed by Captain James R. McKay, this year's captain, and William E. Sprackling, the all but universal selec- tion for All-America cjuarterback, who had a few hours previously been elected captain of next year's Brown team. There were Coaches E. N. Robinson, "96, and J. D. Pryor, '08, Trainer Charles H. Huggins, Professor Fred W. Marvel, '94, supervisor of athletics ; Frederick W. Woodcock, '91, coach of the baseball team, and others who make Brown's teams what they are. There were baseball and football men of former days, such as I. O. Hunt, '99, A. W. Ingalls, '05, Norman Gunderson, '86, G. E. Warren, '89, Fred Tenney, '94, Dr. F. H. Sexton, '93, J. D. E. Jones, '93, T. F. I. McDonald, '91, Frederick Schwinn, '05, and such representatives of the present as W. C. Giles, '11, captain of the baseball team, and J. E. Hinckley, '11, manager of the track team. There were Charles W. Towne, '97, and A. G. Chaffee, '02. who took turns at leading the songs and cheers, one or the other being nearly always busy. There were at the head table or scat- tered about the hall a long line of speak- ers, wdio included, beside the athletic men, Frederick H. Williams, 'jy, the toastmaster and principal organizer of the meeting; Joseph Walker, '87, speaker of the Massachusetts House ; Andrew J. Jennings, '72, a trustee of the university ; Judge Frederick D. Ely, '59, the oldest graduate present; George F. Bean, '81, Professor Courtney Langdon, '91, repre- senting the Brown faculty, and Lewis A. Waterman, '94, who was almost elected governor of Rhode Island on the Demo- cratic ticket last month. At the head table also were Albert G. Fisher, "70, Rev. John M. English, '70, and Rev. Charles H. Spalding, '65. Of the Brown team those present were Cap- tain James R. McKay. William E. Sprackling. Edward A. Adams, Russell G. Ashbaugh. Arthur E. Bartlett. Ste- phen S. Bean. Robert \\'. Bigelow. Jr., Alfred E. Corp. George M. Crowther, Jeft'rey S. Goldberg. Jacob E. High. Oliver M. Kranz, Daniel IT. Kulp. Wiley H. Marble. Frederick L. Ylulcahy. Charles P. Sisson, Arthur E. Staff, Ed- ward E. Warner and Foster A . Young. There was also present, very much present, one large Brown spirit, which got exuberant and excited every time Yale was mentioned, and didn't seem to worry much at the name of Harvard. The speeches said little else but what a game it h^d been at New Haven, and how everybody had worked together for it and ought to be thanked, and what it might mean for Brown, and how the prospects were for a repetition of the game next year, and a victory over Har- vard as well. The company numbered nearly 200, including some "sub-freshmen" from the neighborhood, who were joyously urged to come to Brown. It was announced that three other dinners in honor of the team are to be held within the next few days. Mr. Jennings of the board of trus- tees proclaimed the virtues of athletics, urging his hearers to remember that it was to the prowess of the Greek athlete that the proficiency of the nation in in- tellectual lines was measurably due. Captain McKay thanked the eleven for its faithful work and prophesied another great year under Captain Sprackling. The new captain said that what is needed is a sufficient number of men to fill the gaps made by the graduation of the senior members of the team. ]\Ir. Bean, chairman of the Alumni Advisory Council, and father of the onlv freshman 122 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY member of the team as it played Yale, athletic students of the college. At the declared that no eleven in the history of close of his remarks he recited the fol- the college has ranked so hiirh in scholar- lowing verses: \x/A«. NEAfeLV -TAiCEN OFF Hi£> peer From the Boston Globe ship as this year's players do. Professor Langdon added the statement that the team averages higher than the non- THE BOSTON FOOTBALL DINNER "What care ye how others rank you? We Brown men are here to thank you For the glory ye have shed On Brunonia's honored fame. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 123 Stand tlicy ln'st or stand they fonrth. East, west, south or north. Lovers of true sport have said : 'Brown's team played the finest, strongest, smoothest, cleanest game." " Speaker Walker referred to the stinui- Itis to alumni spirit that the football vic- tories of the present year had afforded. Coach Robinson spoke briefly and mod- estly of the achievements of the year, but laid stress on the "team work" that had prevailed everywhere. Professor ]\Iar- vel declared that never in his experience had he seen faculty, managers, coaches, team and imdergraduates working so harmoniously. Other speakers were J. D. E. Jones, L O. Hunt, Judge Ely and Lewis A. Waterman. The latter was introduced as "the man who almost made a touch- down for the governorship in Rhode Islantl." Mr. W'aterman asked if he were never to get away from having the fact that he had been "licked" thrown in his face. "What do I care about being licked," he said, "as long as Brown licked Yale?" New songs under the leadership of Charles W. Towne and A. G. Chafliee were sitng with immense enthusiasm as follows : ( To the tunc of "Has An\bodv Here Seen Kelly?") ' Oh, Nicholas Brown once took a trip to old Xew Haven town To hold a fistic confab with a friend of great renown. This friend was Eli Yale, a man of great athletic deeds, .And e\ery time his muscles worked his foes took to the weeds. But, strange to say. Young Nick was quick and shifty on his pins, And when the awful carnage ceased, the um- pire yelled "Brown wins.'' CHORUS. Has anybody here seen Eli, E, E, double L, I? Has anybody here seen Eli, Eli with the plastered leg? Oh, we blacked his eye, while his face turned pale, And we picked those locks that are labelled "Yale." Has anybody here seen Eli, (spoken) "No," Eli with the Brown goose egg? And when the fallen chanipicm and his coaches got their l)reath, They looked around to see just what had threatened them with death ; And there upon the side-lines stood the gent who'd planned the blow, A lad who'd pulled off football bucks a dozen years ago. He knew the old-style football game, he also knew the new. And sent his Brown-bred boys to put the whitewash on the Blue. CHORUS. Has anvbody here seen Robby, R, b, double B, Y? Has anybody here seen Robby, Robby with his eyes to heaven. Oh, the heavens are Blue, but the gridiron's Brown, And that's the spot where Yale fell down ;. Has anybody here seen Robby, Robby with the unlicked 'Leven? ( To the tune of "Pnt on Voiir Old Gray Bonnet." ) Put on your old Brown bunting, let McKay do the punting. While Sprackling starts 'em on the run : Oh, we'll twist the tail of that bulldog Yale, Til! he "Ki-yi's" "Twenty-one." ( To the tune of "Rings on My Fingers.") For we'\e got Har\ard excited, Penn on the run. The Indians stampeded, and poor old Yale well done, (spoken) "Wow." But we want another, another victim's name, It's that bickering, dickering, flickering Dartmouth game — the same ! The menu card was arranged in foot- ball ]iarlance as follows : FORWARD PASSES. Oysters on the halfback, Capt. McKay style "Skin Tackle" Chicken. Consomme a la Yale Amherst "Aggie" Celery Olives "Red Skin" Radishes "Gridiron" Smelts, "Tufts" Sauce Potato Croquettes E^ilet of Beef Larded. "Bruno" Sauce "Vermont" Roast Stuffed Turkey Korp-Kratz-Kulp Fruit Salad Nuts a la Sprackling Sisson Pudding "Brent" Ice Cream Ashbaugh Sherbet "Shad" Adams Cake "Cy" Young Cheese High (grade) Coffee "Robbie and Don" Cigars The aft'air was arranged by the follow- ing committee : Fred H. \\'illiams, 'yy, chairman: Charles R. Adams. '80; George F. Bean. '81 ; Fred W. Wood- cock, '91. and Clarence H. Lingham, '97. 124 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY RANKING THE FOOTBALL TEAMS NEW YORK TRIBUNE'S EXPERT GIVES HARVARD FIRST PLACE AND PUTS BROWN SECOND By ''Herbert'' In reviewing the football season, which came to an end on Saturday with the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia, for the purpose of ranking, the critics are confronted with such a bewildering maze that no two are likely to agree be- yond placing Harvard at the top. The trail of comparative scores leads into a labyrinth that ends in nothing. There is absolutely no way to reconcile a set of scores that reads like this : Harvard 12, Brown o; Brown 21, Yale o; Yale o, Harvard o. Other combinations could be cited that would present a problem no easier to solve, or a puzzle no easier to unravel, so that comparative scores must be considered only iu the most indirect way except in final games, by those who undertake the thankless task of ranking the teams." Tf the elevens were placed on a percentage basis of games won and lost the result would be ludicrous. Bowdoin and Trinity, for instance, w-hich have lost only one game this season, would rank above Yale. It remains, then, for the elevens to be judged on the basis of their best form on a relatively late date in the season, and the ranking herewith sub- mitted conforms to opinions formed by seeing the leading teams in action in the more important games. In cases where the lines are far sepa- rated and w^here two elevens did not meet more than a single opponent in common, it is even harder to draw a conclusion. Pennsylvania defeated Brown 20 to o, and Brown defeated Yale 21 to o, and yet Yale must be ranked above Pennsyl- vania, for the reason that, in my opinion, Yale played better football against Princeton and Harvard than Pennsylva- nia did in defeating Cornell on Thursday by a score of 12 to 6. The w^hole ques- tion, therefore, simmers down to the judgment and somewhat arbitrary opin- ions of individuals, and in my judgment and in my opinion the leading teams should be placed as follows : 1 Harvard. 2 Brown. 3 Yale. 4 Pennsylvania. 5 Annapolis. 6 Princeton. 7 Dartmouth. 8 West Point. 9 Cornell. 10 Lafayette. 11 Carlisle. 12 Syracuse. 13 Trinity, l-t Amherst. 15 New York. 16 Bowdoin. 17 Ursinus. 18 Wesleyan. Ursinus, which defeated Pennsylvania in the opening game of the season, de- serves, perhaps, a better place. The team was a good one on that day, and later as well, losing only one game, and that to Lafayette. Williams, Colgate, Swarth- more. Union, Stevens, Rochester, Holy Cross, Vermont, Tufts, Rutgers, V^illa Nova, Colby and other of the smaller teams played well in spots, but hardly well enough throughout the season to get a ranking. Michigan earned the so-called championship of the West, wdth Min- nesota second, while \'anderbilt won the Southern championship. The University of Pittsburg was unbeaten and unscored on, while running up a grand total of 282 points. "Harvard's team was the strongest I ever played against," were the words of Johnny Kilpatrick, Yale's great end, fol- lowing the tie game at New Haven on Nov. 19, and wdiereas Harvard failed to defeat Yale, the eleven, in my opinion, was enough stronger to leave no question as to its right to a place at the top. The team played some poor football in its final, all important game which nullified to a large extent the most powerful and finished attack I have seen this season. Wigglesworth, too, failed to make the most of opportunities presented, so that the machine failed to develop its real power. It must be said in all fairness that Yale, because of conditions, could not show the full ofifensive strength of THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 125 the team, but the elevens must be judged on what was accomphshed, and Harvard had an equaUy strong defence, while the attack was more forceful, more varied, more effective and better sustained. The Crimson eleven went through the season without a defeat, and was developed in an even, systematic way, for which much credit must be given. It reached the ful- ness of its strength, perhaps, in the game against Dartmouth, or at least it failed to run so smoothly against the sturdy, plucky men from Yale, but, all things ■considered, it deserves what honor comes from being ranked in first place. It may be somewhat inconsistent to say that, in my opinion, the Brown eleven, as it played against Yale, would have beaten the Harvard eleven as it played against Yale. It seems that in such case Brown should be placed above Harvard in the ranking, but Brown had its chance against the Crimson eleven, and the de- feat, by a score of 12 to o, must be con- sidered, even if the score was not a fair measure of the strength of the two teams. In some respects Brown made an even better fight against Harvard than Yale did against Plarvard. In any case, the team from Providence showed greater offensive strength against the Crimson defence and actually threatened to score when an intercepted forward pass acted as a boomerang and a Har- vard man ran the length of the field for a touchdown. Brown is placed second to Harvard and over Yale for the simple reason that it is impossible to overlook that game on Xov. 5, when Brown fairly crushed the Blue eleven by a score of 21 to o. If the teams had met on Nov. 19 there would have been a different story to tell, as Yale's eleven which faced Har- vard was stronger perhaps by 40 per cent, than Yale's demoralized eleven which faced Brown. Even with this added strength, however, I am disposed to think that I w^ould cast in my lot with Brown, as I rarely if ever saw such a strong, smooth, versatile and finished team take the field a? on that dav at New Haven when Yale was so clearly out- played. In ranking Yale third I am simply fol- lowing out my idea of what Yale could accomplish in facing West Point and Pennsylvania on the day that Harvard was played to a tie. As said before, scores would lead to a far different con- clusion. Pennsylvania 20, Brown o, and Brown 21, Yale o, would indicate that Pennsylvania should be ranked above both, and yet the Quakers as I saw them in action against Cornell on Thanksgiv- ing Day did not measure up, as a team, in my opinion, to the elevens of Yale and Brown. There is room for an argument, of course, but it may be said in passing that I was graduated from Union, and consequently cannot be accused of preju- dice, even if my judgment is questioned. With one more full week of practice I believe that Yale would have had the greatest team in the country. As I have said before, I never saw a pluckier lot of men, but the ranking is based not on their pluck and gameness, but on what was accomplished in defeating Princeton and holding Harvard to a tie. The Penn- sylvania team lost all chance for a better ranking by its rather loose play against Cornell on Thursday. A good football judge, who has seen most of the games this year, said to me yesterday in talking of the ranking: 'Tut Harvard first. Brown second and the next eight noses apart. By the next- eight I mean Yale, Princeton. Pennsyl- vania. Annapolis, West Point, Lafayette, Dartmouth and Cornell." He was not far wrong; the first ten, in fact, on their best form are mightv close together. The New York Sun puts Harvard first, Penn second. Brown third and Yale fourth. The Providence Journal makes the order Harvard, Penn, Brown and Michigan. The Boston Post substitutes Yale for Michigan in fourth place. i\Iost writers put Sprackling and McKay on the ■•All-American" eleven. [26 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY LUNCHEON GR1LL8-1I "The longer I live." said the Professor, "the more I am impressed with the trials of life." "The trials of life indeed I" exclaimed the lienial Insurrectionist. "^ly dear sir. what has put you in so unusual a mood? You. the habitual optimist; why do you magnify the frets of life on this beautiful November day?" "Yes. it is a beautiful day," said the Professor, "but I cannot help thinking" of all the petty woes humanity has to bear ; the constant worry of the young profes- sional man over the family income ; the mother's worry about her ailing child : the disappointed ambition of the teacher ; the failures of all of us to achieve what we would. There is a perplexing mys- tery about sorrow. Why should we be called upon to suiter? W'hy have pain ar.d grief been put in the world?" "But Jiaz'c they been put in the world?" inquired the Governor. "Are they not the inevitable corollary of existence for which nobody is responsible?" "That is a deep and searching ques- tion." observed the Professor, with a twinkle of the eye despite his avowed pessimism. "That is a question that goes to the heart of things, Governor, but if we were to discuss it. we might venture too far afield. I was not thinking so much of the ultimate cause of ill as of the ill itself. How unfortunate it is that life is not maintained for us — I might say for. by and of us, if I were Abraham Lincoln — at its happiest levels. Granting for the sake of argument that nobody is responsible for the presence of evil in the world, why is it that we have failed so miserably to eradicate misery?" "But have we failed?" queried the Governor. "Yes," rejoined the Professor, "I think we have. We are living in tlie midst of the most complex civilization the human race has ever known. We have contrived a multitude of devices for our comfort and enjoyment. We have run the inventive gamut from phonographs to wireless telegraphy, we have compassed the alphabet wdth our aeroplanes and zylophones, we have captured one Pole and are ofif for the other, we have intro- duced our convenient taxis into our cities — to say nothing of our inconvenient taxes everywhere; and yet we are not hap])y. \\"e have not reached the core of the problem. We are as mitch the bond- servants of pain and sorrow as we ever were." "Philosophy, Professor, philosophy; that is all we need." urged the Genial In- surrectionist. "A philosopher can be cheerful, no matter what his environ- ment. Some people shudder at a single gravestone ; others see only peace and dignity and loveliness in a whole ceme- tery. It depends upon the point of view. Pain lends savor to joy; and if joy hath lost its savor, wdierewith shall it be savored? If I were going to prescribe a universe I should write: 'Five parts joy, one part pain' ; and that is not so far from the actual proportion in the lives of most of us." "I should not like," said the Professor, "to seem to establish my judgment in op- position to that of any of you estimable gentlemen, but if I might be allowed to express a discreet personal opinion, founded upon a long, though modest, ob- servation, I would put the proportion dilTerently. 'One-half joy, one-half pain,' I would say." "It seems to me," remarked the Com- muter, "that life is mostly neither joy nor pain, but a fairly comfortable experience half way between. Recall almost any re- cent day, and will you not find that, by and large, it was satisfactory? At least it was not unbearable." "If we could pick and choose our da\s," rejoined the Professor, "we might find them cheerful enough. But are there not some days when everything goes wTong? I remember a friend of mine who told me not long ago that the day before had been a constant succession of misfortunes and irritations for him." "Even so," said the Commuter, "you can go home at night and plunk your head under the bed-sheets and forget the whole Confounded L^niverse, serene in the conviction born of experience that the world will wear a happier aspect in the morning." "But will it?" askeil the Governor. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 127 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the Graduates of Brown University by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. Robert P. Brown, Treas., 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, '82, 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. HENRY ROBINSON PALMER, '90, Editor HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN, Associate Editor EARL N, MANCHESTER, '02, Alumni Editor and Business Manager Address all communications to the Brown Alumni Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. Subscription Price, $1.00 a Year. Single Copies, Ten Cents. There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post-offlce as second- class matter. DECEMBER 1910 The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot undertake to return manuscripts sent to it for publication, unless they are accompanied by sufficient postage OUR CHRISTMAS JISITORS It is with great satisfaction that we have received the announcement of the meetings of four learned societies to be held at Brown University during the Christmas recess. Our visitors are the American Anthropological Association, the American Folk-Lore Society, the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of x\merica. These are all national organizations and will bring to Providence scholars of the first rank in their several fields. Such meetings yield a three-fold benefit. Independently of the place of assemblage they give to the world a series of discussions that add to human knowl- edge. They strengthen the hands of the local representatives of their subjects in various ways ; most of all. perhaps, by showing them to their neighbors not as isolated scholars, but as honored mem- bers of a great and learned body. They also render an important service to culture in the community in which their deliberations are held, both hv the direct information imparted and Ijy the stim- ulus to knowledge which their sessions impart. A fourth source of benefit might well be recognized in the social and recreative features of the week. Altogether such meetings cannot fail to be a source of ])rofit and enjoyment to both visitors and hosts, and we count those of our readers happy who shall find themselves able to take the humble part of listeners at any of these distinguished sessions. THE CRANSTOX STREET BAP- TIST CHURCH ]]rown men of the past as well as the ])resent should, and doubtless will, feel an interest in the fortieth anniversary exercises of the Cranston Street Baptist Church of Providence. For many years this church has been exceedingly hos- pitable to the students of Brown. It has invited them — especially in their fresh- man year — to its services and receptions, and has given them far more than a per- functory and labored welcome. Lender Dr. Bixby's long administration it be- came a real home for many undergrad- uates ; since Dr. Henson came as pastor there has been no diminution of the church's interest in the college. It should be added that the church numbers many Brown men among its loyal workers. The Cranston Street Church has always seemed to us an ideal organiza- tion of its kind — cordial, harmonious, efficient. Its men's club is a fine and numerous body of ready and devoted members. No part of its convenient church property is left unused — all is iM'ought into elTective play. We extend our hearty congratulations to Dr. Hen- son and his congregation on this fortieth anniversary, and earnestly wish them many happy returns of the day. CROWDED PAGES Owing to the press of football and library news upon our space this month, much timely matter has been unavoid- ably omitted. Even with the six pages recently added to the magazine's capac- ity we have none too much room in which to reflect the more important and inter- esting activites of Brown. 128 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY TOPICS OF THE MONTH Phi Beta Kappa and Fraternities The subjoined coniniuni- cation is self-explana- tor}" : "In connection with the extracts from the dean's report pubHshed in the last Ahunni ]sIonthly the following statistics may be interesting: "During the ii years from 1900 to 1910, inclusive, there were 232 under- graduates elected to Phi Beta Kappa, of whom 163 or 70.3 per cent, were frater- nity men. From the senior classes from 1905 to 191 1, inclusive, there were 60 elected to Phi Beta Kappa during the junior year, of whom 45. or 75 per cent., were fraternity men. From the seven classes from 1904 to 1910, inclusive, there were 69 elected to Phi Beta Kappa during the senior year, of whom 47. or 08.2 per cent., were fraternity men." Women's College Notes The Slater ]\Iemorial Homestead on Benefit street, which has for some vears been owned by Brown University and used as a dormitory for the Women's College, has been purchased from the university and will be presented bv ]\Iiss E. C. jMcVickar and friends to the Episcopal diocese of Rhode Island, to be used as headquarters for the work of the diocese. The house will be a memorial to the late Bishop McVickar. The Slater house was the gift of Mrs. Horatio N. Slater to the university about ten years ago, but since the erection of the "new hall of residence the Women's College has vacated the building. The sale price is said to have been about $10,000. By vote of the corporation the new dormitory on Cushing street has been named ^liller Hall. Brown, 50; After defeating Yale 21 to Vermont, o o, the Brown team decided to see what could be done with Vermont. On Andrews Field, Nov. 12, the Green Mountain eleven was soundly beaten by a score of 50 to o. As the game progressed, Coach Robinson sent in substitute after substitute, but still the A^ermont line was ripped and turn like paper. Brown used a total of 21 men during the contest. The one great thing which the game showed was that Brown, with her regular line-up, had about the best offensive machine this year that she has had in the history of the game. More than any other play, the forward pass was used by both teams. Sometimes it was successful and sometimes it failed, but on the whole Brown profited the more by it. BROWX, .-)0 \'ERMOXT, Adams, Staff, G. Adams, 1. e r. e.. Pike Kratz, 1. t r. t., Buckmiller Kulp, 1. g r. g., Squires Sisson, c c, Walker Corp, Goldberg, r. g....l. g., Waterman, Cobb Smith, Bartlett. r.,t 1. t.. Dorr Ashbaugh, Mulcahy, r. e 1. e., Daly Young, ^Marble, 1. h. b., r. h. b., ]\IcIntosh, Smith }iIcKay, \\'arner, INIetcalf. r. h. h., 1. h. b., Sefton Sprackling, Crowther, q. b., q. b., Pierce, O'Brien Bean, Bingham, f. li....f. b., Whalen, O'Brien Score — Brown .50, Vermont 0. Touchdowns — McKay 2, Bingham 2, Crowther 2, Ash- baugh, Sprackling. Goals from touchdowns- Smith 6, McKay. Goal from field — Crowther. Referee — Murphy of Harvard. Umpire — Low of Dartmouth. Field judge — Schwinn of Brown. Time — Four l-t-minute periods. Brown, 49; Determined to run up a "Aggies," good-sized score against the eleven of the ]\Iassachu- setts Agricultural College at Andrews Field, Nov. 19, and thus emphasize the strength of the home team, Brown played aggressive ball from start to finish and increased its points won during the sea- son of 1910 to 184. The game was largely attended. Brown's excellent showing this year at- tracted more spectators than usually come out to one of the less important matches, while the fact that the simul- taneous Yale-Harvard match at New Haven w'as to be scored on a blackboard at one end of the field proved an extra inducement. Some 200 Boy Scouts in uniform, and with a big American flag, occupied seats in the north stand as guests of the Brown Athletic Associa- tion, and furnished the most spontaneous cheering of the day. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 129 Toward the end of the second period the Aggies threatened to score. They got the bah only a foot from the Brown goal line, but time was called shortly after the Brown team had successfully held the visitors at that dangerous point. The Amherst men put up a sharp fight throughout, but were outclassed and found it well-nigh impossible to stop the onslaught of the Brown backs, wdio tore through the line for gain after gain, while a few end runs were intermingled to good advantage. The speed of the hill men was too great for the Massachusetts players, and the ball was carried dow^n the field in a man- ner which caused the spectators to mar- vel. Splendid interference was afi:'orded the runner and the backfield, despite the several changes, worked like a machine. In all, 24 Brown men were used. Brown was not called upon to try any new plays and old-style football was used from start to finish, although the forward pass was used to good advantage at times. The Aggies gained first down five times during the contest, but resorted to the forward pass only twice. The sum- mary : BROWN, 49 AMHERST AGGIES, E. A. Adams, Jarvis, Ashbaugh, Staff, 1. e., r. e., Larsen Kratz, 1. t r. t.. Powers Goldberg, Knlp, 1. g r. g., Hubert Sisson, c c. Johnson Corp. Goldberg, Babington, r. g. . . .1. g., Griffin Smith, Bartlett, r. t 1. t., Hayden, Samson Ashbaugh, jNIulcahy, r. e...l. e.. Lane, O'Brien Sprackling, Crowther, q. b q. b.. Gore Young, ]Marble, 1. h. b., r. h. b., Goodnough, ]\Iorse, L. Smith McKay, Warner, r. h. b 1. h. b., Moreau High, Bingham, Bean, Snell, f. b. .f. b.. Brewer Score — Brown 49, Amherst Aggies 0. Touch- downs — High, IMcKay 4, Crowther 2, Marble. Goals from touchdowns — Smith 4, McKay 2. Goal from field — Sprackling. Referee — Alur- phy of Harvard. Umpire — Farmer of Dart- mouth. Field judge— Foley of Amherst. Head linesman — Curtis of Brown. Time — Four 14- minute periods. Brown, 15; Brown made four touch- Carlisle, 6 downs against the Carlisle Indians in the last game of the season at Andrews Field on the morning of Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 24, but only two of them counted, because of alleged holding and tripping. Ten thousand ])e()])le, more than were before assembled for a football game in Provi- dence, saw the match. The weather was mild and bright. Brown's chief difficulty was in stop- ping a delayed double pass play by which the Indian ends and tackles rushed through the opposite side of the line for gains. The Indians, in the third period, tried this formation many times and finally forced Brown the length of the field for a touchdown. With the excep- tion of this formation Browai had the visitors covered in all departments of the game. Quarterback Sprackling made a bril- liant showing, being followed closely by Captain McKay. On the second play of the game Sprackling swung down the full length of the field, using the straight arm magnificently on half a dozen Indians, across the goal line, but the ball was sent back to where it started from on the claim that Brown was holding. The decision was greeted with protests from both sides of the field. The run by Sprackling was 85 yards, through the centre of the field all the way. Again Sprackling dashed through the visiting team for 30 yards, this time the play being allowed. He also kicked a pretty field goal in the first period, the first score of the game. His second at- tempt, later in the game, failed. In the second period High tore through the field for 30 yards and what was thought to be a touchdowai ; but this time the referee said there was tripping by Browai and sent the ball back. Another series of audible protests greeted the de- cision. Brown pulled off several brilliant for- w-ard passes, the last one, by Ashbaugh, resulting in the last touchdown of the game. Two others failed to reach a player before striking ground. Captain ]\IcKay made several good gains through the line, being at the best of his form throughout. His play was fierce and accurate, and frequently, when called upon to make first downs, he did so readily through the tackles. Houser, the Indian captain, w'as the bulwark of his team and his w-eight al- lowed him to plough through tackles and guards for good gains. The Indian quar- 130 THE BROWX ALUMNI MONTHLY tor, Arcasa. and Lone Star made several Of Interest to 'fh^ new officers of the good eml runs along the side lines. Most of Us bowlino- association are : It did not take Sprackling long to ^\n\ President. Babington, out that the Carlisle line was toi^ strong 'ii ; vice-president, Sprague, '14; secre- to take any liberties with, and he early tary-treasurer. Neves, '11; manager, decided to use the kicking game. He Drowne. '11. The association decided to himself did most of the punting, and did enter the Rhode Island Inter-Club Duck it well. When the ball had. in the second Pin League again this year, period, been forced well tlown in the Indians' territorv, and after the defence The New England Modern Language of the latter had stiffened, Sprackling Association, Rhode Island Group, held its seized the psvchological moment and ^^^^ meeting m Sayles Hall room 5, Nov. made a beautiful forward pass to Ash- ^9- Professor Crowell reported on the baugh. which covered 20 of the remain- recent conference at Tufts College and ino-^J4 vards to the goal line. Again in there were short addresses in French and the last' quarter it was due largel.v to his ^^erman by M. Chinard and Mrs. C. Von generalship and tine forward passing that i^lenze. r.rcwn sxored another touchdown. Dec. 8 is the date set for the annual The Carlisle linemen opened up big gymnasium ball, hi^les. through which their backs plunged repeatedly for good gains, and the Brown "The Construction and [Maintenance of secondary defence had the time of its European Roads" was the subject of an life fighting to tighten up enough to hold illustrated lecture by Professor Arthur H. for downs when its goal line was seri- Blanchard in Manning Hall Nov. 15. ouslv threatened. Professor Blanchard spent the greater Sprackling used all sorts of trick plavs part of last year in a study of the roads and forward passes, and it was through of Europe. these that his team won. The Indians sel- -t-i 1 • 1 • 1 1 J. 1 4. ii r 1 1 ^ I he regular required gvmnasium work dom resorted to the forward pass, but . , '^ ^ , ^ ^'r . . ^1 1 .^-11 VI • .• for sophomores and freshmen and other thev used one trick plav. with variations. ^ , i ,1 ^ 1^1.. ' . ], — 1 ,/ ' X -1 1 i • students who have not completed two repeatedlv, and seldom failed to gam on . . 1 1 x- o • . r^ 4.{ • 1 4.1 u 11 1 - vears m gvmnasium work began Nov. 20. It. On this play the ball was snapped to -. ,, , *=-, ^ 1 . • 1 .. ,- , • TT 1 • , 1 1 All of these students are required to Captain Houser, who m turn made a de- • 1 ., 1 -.i ^1 1 ..• 1 .• 11 1 , ^ ,, provide themselves with the regulation ceptive and partiallv concealed pass to the ^ . .^ , -n 1 .- ,11 1 1 1+ ' T-i u 11 gymnasium suit, and no man will be tullback or a halt, ihen Houser would '='^1 1 1 i^ 1 • . • .1 1 r 1 1 • 4. .ui 1- 1-1 allowed on the floor who is not m the make a fake plunge into the line, while ., the man with the ball dashed through the P^oper "m±orm. opposite side or around end. Wilson. '13, won the billiard tourna- The summary: ment, Nov. 14. Hill was runner-up. BROWX. 1:. CARLISLE, (i ^liss E. C. McA'ickar has provided for -Ashbaugh. r. e 1. e., Jordan the permanent continuance of the prizes Smith, r.t 1. t., Lone Star in biblical literature, founded bv her Corp. Goldberg, r. g 1. g., Svveetcorn , .,1 .,11. ti- 1 a\-h- , N at^ Sis.4i. c ..... ..c. Garlow brother, the late Inshop \\dliam N. Mc- Kulp. 1. g r. g.. Burd A ickar of the Episcopal Diocese of Kratz. Bartlett. 1. t r. t.. Powell. Arragan Rhode Island. The subject for this .^ dams. Staff. 1. c r. e.. Kennerly year's essavs. as announced by Professor .Spracklmg. q. b q. li.. Houser, Arcasa ',^ , • '..-p, c 4-4.1 ^ 4- r t-,-„„i ;,, AT T- u 1 1 1 1 Tj 11- T-, howler, is 1 he Settlement 01 Israel in >.'cKay, r. h. b 1, h. h., Brackim, Dupui- >j\\iv^i, '■ Marble, Young. Crowther, 1. h. 1).. Canaan— Its History and Literature. „• . p. , , , , , v'"' ''•• ^^''?5'^'°'^^' The Cniversitv Librarv has received High. Bnigham. f. h...i. I).. Acwashe, Houser .. . , ,- ,t.,i- ' \ at- 1 c r. i-r-rir.Ti,i as a iiilt trom Mr. William A. Wing the Score — Brown 1.:). Carlisle 6. Touchdowns — ,riT- -i-rc McKay. Ashbaugh. Houser. Goals from touch- "Book of the Treasurer of the i ract So- down — Smith 2. Houser. Goals from field — cietv of Brown L'niversity." The entries Sprackling. Referee— Marshall. Harvard. Urn- ^^^^{ {ram 18^4 to 1845. The book was pire-Bergen. Princeton. Field judge-Lang- j , l)ro])ertv of^ Onslow Ilemen- ford. Trniitv. Linesman — Sinclair. Worcester '""-^ 00 Academy. Time — Four l.l-minute periods. 'Way, 1848. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 131 Alum 11 1804 Concerning the election of Marcus Morton, Brown, 1804, as governor of Massachusetts in 1839, "Observer" writes in the Boston Herald of Nov. 25: In your issue of Nov. 21 you say: "Marcus Alorton has a Bufifalo counterpart — Charles B. Smith, Democrat, has been elected to Congress by one vote." The Charles B. Smith mentioned was elected to Congress by a majority of one, so that by the expression, "l)y one vote," you mean by a majority of one, and what you say implies that Marcus Morton was elected governor of Massachusetts by a majority of one. Marcus Morton, however, was never elected governor of Massachusetts by a majority of one. The statement is often made that he was elected governor by that majority, but the statement is erroneous. When the statement is made that he was thus elected, the election referred to is that of 1839, but the following exhil)it of the number of gubernatorial votes cast for the several persons voted for at that election shows that ^Morton's majority was not one but two : Votes for Morton 51.034 Votes for Edward Everett 50,7:2.") Scattering votes 307 51,03:2 ^lorton's majority 2 1807 The house in Maiden, A lass., where Adoni- rani Judson was born has been secured Ijv the Foreign Mission Society, and will be held as a home for rest and recreation for mission- aries on vacation. The building is nearly 200 years old and is said to be strong and sub- stantial. It is to lie refitted and properly fur- nished as a historic memorial. 1855 The address of Theodore D. Warren, A. j\I., is now 398 Lincoln ave.. Orange, N. J., instead of care of Fourth National Bank, New York city. 1859 Dr. W. W. Keen of Philadelphia is recover- ing from a surgical operation at Rochester, Minn. 1861 Hon. and Mrs. William W. Douglas, who are traveling abroad, after a six weeks' stay in Lyons, have gone to the Riviera, and will stop at Marseilles and Avignon on their way to Nice. Adjutant General Frederic M. Sackett has announced that he will retire from office on Feb. 1, 1911. He has been in his present post in the Rhode Island Militia since 1895. Adju- tant General Sackett is a veteran of the Civil War. lie was one of four members of the senior class of Brown University who enlisted on the first day of the first call by President Lincoln for 75,000 men as a private in Com- pany D, First Regiment, R. I. M. After three months he was detailed to recruit two new light batteries in this city for service at the front. He was commissioned first lieutenant Oct. 5, 1861, by Governor Sprague and served with Battery C, Fir-t Rhode Island Light Artillery, under Captain William B. Weeden. He was stricken with typhoid fever in June, ]^'(2. in the Chickahominy swamps, and re- cei\td sick leave until September, 1862. He returned to his battery at the expiration of his lea\e and commanded the battery in January, 1863. He had leave of absence for 15 days from Feb. 14, 1863, and was with the battery in all its engagements up to the battle of Get- tysburg with the exception of one period when he was in the hospital. He was wounded May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, so seriously that he resigned from the service Oct. 6, 1863. 1870 The executive committee of St. Luke's Church, Ancon, Canal Zone, have published in pamphlet form the address delivered by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, secretary of the Isth- mian Canal Commission, on May 8, 1910. The occasion was the unveiling and dedication of the memorial windows erected in St. Luke's Church in memory of those who lost their lives during the construction of the Panama canal, and the date, May 8, was the sixth an- niversary of the American occupation of the Panama Canal Zone. 1873 A Paris dispatch of Nov. 5 says: "George Hitchcock, the American painter, went to Lon- don this week, whence, after a visit of ten days, he will proceed to New York. He has been invited by the Art Institute of Chicaso to hold an important exhibition there, taking over a number of his best-known larger can- vases which are still in his possession or which he has been able to liorrow from private col- lectors. Among these is 'Sainte Genevieve,' which attracted much attention in the Paris Salon two years ago. Another is his 'Hagar and Ishmael.' Mr. Hitchcock will later exhibit his pictures in New York. Mrs. Hitchcock, who signs her pictures with her maiden name, Cecil Jay, and is a pupil of Sir Hubert von Herkomer, accompanies her husband and will exhibit her miniatures. Mr. Hitchcock, who has spent twenty-five years in Holland, says that he has painted 300 pictures of Dutch flowers, 299 of which he has sold." Mr. Hitch- cock is less known to most of us as a figure painter than as a painter of flowers. His bril- liant work in Dutch gardens was shown in a representative exhibition in Providence a few years ago. 1^2 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1S74 and 1SS3 Rev. Alfred Williams Anthony. D. D., "S^. writes from on shipboard in the Mediterranean to the Boston Watchman, (Baptist) : "The two travellers who represent enlarged Baptist interests and constituencies should report themselves to their friends and supporters at home. Dr. Thomas S. Barbour, ("77), the foreign secretarj- of the American Baptist For- eign Mission Society, by commission of the Board of ^Managers of the society, — as all good Baptists should know, — is fulfilling a plan, of several years' standing, to visit the mission fields of Burma, India and Assam, in a simi- lar manner and with a similar object, with which he visited China, Japan and the Philip- pines two years ago, for the purpose of con- sulting with the missionaries on the field re- specting methods, means, plans and policies, in fact, all of those matters which will enable the missionaries and the home constituency the better to co-operate in the expansion, exten- sion and greater efficiency of missionary en- deavor. Professor A. W. Anthony of Bates College. Lewiston, Me., accompanies Dr. Bar- bour. This companionship springs out of the recent action of Baptists and Free Baptists, by which, in their representative bodies, they have voted to merge the administration of mission- ary and other denominational activities in the ■ Baptist organizations. The foreign mission field of the Free Baptists lies in the Balasore District of India, to the north of the mission field of Baptists in Southern India. Professor Anthony has been commissioned by Confer- ence Board of the Free Baptists, their chief executive body, to visit their field. He has also, through the great courtesy of the Board of ^Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, been made a member of that board, so that he goes in a dual capacity, doubly a Baptist, to see and report of Baptist work to two peoples, who are speedily and graciously becoming one. Perhaps no better means could have been employed to impress properly a whilom Free Baptist and an in- cipient Baptist, with the breadth and strength of the Baptist fellowship than this journey. At almost the outset this new-comer into the fold feels the old skin of his former ecclesias- tical provincialism sloughing off." 1886 The count of the votes in the eighteenth senate district was finished yesterday by the Board of Canvassers, says a Xew York paper of recent date, and it resulted in a gain of eight more v^otes for Henry W. Pollock, the Tammany candidate. It was announced by Chairman Dowling that the board would of- ficially declare that Pollock had been elected by a plurality of thirty-eight votes over Alex- ander Brough, ex-'86. 1888 Arthur P. Johnson was elected senator from East Providence on the Democratic ticket, Nov. 8. Dr. Alexander Marshall has been elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives from Cumberland. Rev. Charles H. Day, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, Watertown, Mass., to whom was tendered the chair of systematic theology in the recently organized theological department of Acadia College, has declined the position, and will remain with his church. Of "Fellowship Hymns," edited by Rev. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, the Boston Watchman says : "Many very excellent hymn books have been published in the last few years, but the multiplying of forms of Christian activity calls for new selections of hymns suited to the uses of the variotis lines of service. This new book, as the name implies, is intended specially for men's brotherhoods and the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Barbour's experience as a pastor as well as his cultivated tastes have given us a new hymn book of very exceptional excellence. The musical and the literary standards are high ; the classics of church music are fully represented, and the best of the modern g05^ pel and revival hymns are also included. The lover of good hymns and sacred songs will find his approval won as he turns the pages. The book is especially strong in hymns of conflict, service and victory, as might have been expected." Rev. Henry W. Pinkham of Denver was- the Socialist candidate for governor of Colo- rado at the recent election. We wrote him to ask how large a vote the party polled. Under date of Nov. 22 he replies : "Eight thousand is a conservative estimate of our vote. My own hope is that we shall reach 10,000." 1890 The Boone, Iowa, Xews-Republican, of which Stephen Grant Goldthwaite is the owner and editor, has issued an attractive supplement to its twenty-first anniversary edition, in which the advantages of that city as an industrial,, commercial and social centre are well set forth. 1891 Rev. John B. Barbour is pastor of the Cal- vary Baptist Church of Erie, Pa. The church is just erecting a new model building for Sun- day school and general church functions, and when completed the building will be the finest church edifice in Erie. 1893 Frederic P. Ladd is the author of "The Lady of Shenipsit : a Story of New England," a novel which has been favorably reviewed by many journals. Sturgis & Walton Co., New York, are. the publishers. 1896 William C. Bliss has been re-elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives from East Providence. Champlin Burrage has published through the University Press. Oxford, "A Tercentenary Memorial : New Facts Concerning John Robin- son, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers." THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 133 1898 David L. Fultz was umpire at the Yale- Princeton and Yale-Harvard games, and rteld^ judge at the Army-Xavy jma tch. Pliny A.T3o\d is now with L. Plalit & Co., manufacturers of gas and electric fixtures, 432-34 E. 23d St., New York city. Richard R. Hunter is assistant secretary of the Equitable Trust Co. of New York, with offices at 15 Nassau st. 1899 E. \V. ]McKeen is manager of the New York store of the Union Twist Drill Co., at 54 War- ren St. 1899, 1900, 1901 The firm of Noyes & Wellman, lawyers, Tremont building, Boston, includes J. Ralph Wellman, '99, Philip C. Jack, '00, and Charles H. Gilmore, '01. 1901 Rev. Floyd L. Carr has resigned the pas- torate of the North Uxbridge. Mass., Baptist Church to accept a call to the Roslindale Bap- tist Church, in Ward 23, Boston. The latter church has 435 members. At North Uxbridge, Mr. Carr has done a successful work. In less than five years he has received 97 persons into the church. During this time a new parson- age has been built, a men's club organized and a branch Sunday school at South Uxbridge established. He begins his new work at Ros- lindale the middle of December. Winfred H. Whiting of Worcester, ^lass., has been nominated a special justice in the Central District Court by Governor Draper. A one-act comedy, "The Class of '56," by T. H. Guild, was recently given a week's produc- tion in Boston under the direction of B. F. Keith. Mr. Guild has returned to his work at the University of Illinois, after a year of graduate study at Harvard. His address is 1010 Oregon St., Urbana, 111. E. G. Hapgood acted as referee in the Har- vard-Bowdoin game on Oct. 1. Irving L. Woodman has received a "year's leave of absence from Riverdale School, New York city, and is travelling in the West. At present he is visiting his brother. John F. Woodman, ex-'04, who has a ranch at St. Anthony, Idaho. 1902 Eugene B. Jackson is now at 60 State St., Room 603, Boston, Mass. Ralph C. Thompson has purchased the inter- est of Charles M. Robbins. the founder of the well-known jewelry concern, the C. ^I. Rob- bins Co., at Attleboro, J^Iass., and will be the principal owner and conduct the business of the company in the future. 1903 Isaac Fleming is doing graduate work at Harvard and at Andover Theological Semi- nary this year. His present address is 7 Har- vard St., Somerville, Mass. 1904 Lucius A. Salisbury, M. D., announces that he has moved his office to 151 West Seventy- second St.. New York city. The September, 1910, Bulletin of the Arch- aeological Institute of America says of Dr. Guy Colburn : "Dr. Colburn, fellow of the in- stitute, made a series of investigations at Civitalavinia, the site of the ancient Lanu- vium. He showed remarkable ability both in collecting his material in Rome and in winning his way with the native population on the site of his investigation. Some of his results will be ready for publication shortly." Walter E. Prince, instructor in English in the University of Maine, delivered an ad- dress on "What Should be Emphasized in the English Work in the High School," from the college point of view, at the session in Bangor of the Maine Teachers' Association, Oct. 28. Noble B.- Judah, Jr., has been elected to the Illinois Legislature from Chicago on the Re- publican ticket. 1905 J. H. ]\IcGough, Jr., is the Brown repre- sentative in Providence of the College World, a new monthly magazine financed and pub- lished in New York city by a company of college graduates and devoted to the interests of college men all over the country. 1906 Oscar W. Rackle, formerly of the Brown football and basketball teams, has been ap- pointed coach of the Indiana University bas- ketball five. After graduating at Brown, Mr. Rackle was an instructor in civil engineering here two years. Ray Brown is teaching this year at the Choate School, Wallingford, Conn. Harry H. Thurlow has been admitted to the bar in Virginia and is now living at Alexan- dria Court House, Va. Jason O. Cook is teaching history in the high school at Holyoke, Mass. His address is 195 Chestnut St., Holyoke. Dr. Maurice L. Dolt has been made assist- ant professor of organic and quantitative chemistry at the North Dakota Agricultural College at Fargo, N. D. Dr. Dolt received the degree of Ph.B. from Brown in 1906 and took his Ph.D. in 1908. The next year he spent in travel around the world, returning to the United States in September, 1909, to enter upon his work at Lehigh U^niversity as instructor in industrial chemistry and qualita- tive analysis. The past summer he spent in California, where he attended the general meeting of the chemical society in San Fran- cisco and read a paper at one of the sessions on organic chemistry. Dr. Howard W. Brayton has established himself for practice at Hartford, Conn. 1907 A. W. Wathen is teaching this year at the Stearns School, ^It. \'ernon, N. H. 134 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY lilOS Harold W. Lyall is an assistant in the de- partment of bacteriology in the Hoagland Laboratory. Brooklyn, X. Y., an endowed laboratory for medical research. His address is 132 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, X. Y. Wade C. West's address is now care of Bu- reau of Public Works, Manila, P. I. 1909 Charles L. Brightman is instructor in physics at Mt. Holyoke College, South Had- ley. Mass. Milton B. Hunt has an article in the Sep- tember number of the American Journal of Sociology on "The Housing of Xon-Family Groups of Men in Chicago.'" Kirley played a star game at left tackle on a picked team, known as the "Denver Alumni," against Denver University, on Oct. 1. The score of the game was, D. U. 11, Alumni 3. "The football season of 1910 at Union Col- lege has been an unusually interesting and successful one," says the Xew York Tribune. "The efficiency of the Brown system as exem- plified bv A. E. Regnier, Brown's AU-Ameri- can end of 1909, has been demonstrated. Regnier has proved himself a master of every phase of the game and has won the confidence and esteem of the faculty, students and alumni, and has turned out the best drilled and most aggressive team Union has had ni many years. In the game with Stevens the team played like a well-oiled machine, and not once did the Hoboken team come within Union's 30-yard line." 1910 Earle M. Horton and Joseph H. Cull are with the General Electric Co. at Lynn, ^lass. Their address is 138 South Common st. Clifton H. Walcott is a student at Xewton Theological Institution. Joseph E. Bliss, the star pitcher of last sea- son's nine, is engaged in engineering work for the Boston and Alaine Railroad. His address is 355 ^lassachusetts ave., Arlington, Mass. Alumnae 1899 S. Louise Simmons is teaching Latin and English in the high school at Revere, Mass. Her address is 10 ^lill st.. Revere. 1902 The new address of Marguerite ^IcL. Reid is 274 Brow St., East Providence, R. I. 1905 Cora Whittaker is teaching in the Taunton TMass.) High School. 1906 Henrietta Celia Brazeau, in a course of three readings in Froebel Hall, will give "Enoch Arden," Tennyson, on Dec. 7 ; "The Shuttle," Burnett, Jan. 31, and "Humanitarian Poets" on ]\Iarch 28. The readings will be given at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 1908 Katherine Everett is at Cornell University this year. Her address is 301 College ave., Ithaca, X. Y. 1909 Emma D. Lee is secretary to Miss Frances J. Olcott, chief of the children's department and director of the training school of the Car- negie Library, Pittsburg, Pa. ^Margaret J. Morgan is in charge of the Sprague House branch of the Providence Pub- lic Library on Armington ave. Mrs. John William James (i\Iay W. Hall) will spend the winter with her mother at Fruit Hill, R. I. Births Born, :\Iay 20, 1910, to James A. and Ger- trude (Lederer) Wolf, '02, a daughter, Mar- jorie E. Wolf. Born, June 7, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rallston Hunter, '98, of X'etherwood, X'. J., a daughter, Barbara Hassett Hunter. Born. Oct. 15, 1910, to John Barnes Tingley, '99, and Ruby Marion (Atwood) Tingley, '03, a daughter, Rowena Barnes Tingley. Born, Oct. 11, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Fleming, '03, a second son, Isaac Fleming, Jr. Born, Oct. 24, 1910, to Winnifred B. (King) Rugg, '99, and George B. C. Rugg, (Har- vard, '94), a second .son, John Church Rugg. I\Irs. Rugg's address is 44 Kensington road, Arlington, ]\Iass. Born, Xov. 10. 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. E. Jones, '93, a daughter. Born, at Grand Forks, N. Dak., June 13, 1910, to Vernon P. Squires, '89, and Ethel Wood Squires, a son, Vernon Calvert Squires. Born, at Erie, Pa., Oct. 30, 1910, to Rev. and Mrs. John B. Barbour, '91, a fourth child and daughter, Katherine Humphrey Barbour. Born, Xov. 7, 1910, to Asa Lloyd Briggs. '04, and Mildred Gimlich Briggs, a son, Lloyd Gimlich Briggs. Marriages On Aug. 31, 1910, Miss Charlotte M. Clark- son of Fall River, Mass., was married to Charles L. Brightman, '09. On Oct. 10, 1910, in San Francisco, Cal., Mrs. Annie W^ells Cook of Alleghany, Pa., was married to Dr. Samuel Le Nord Caldwell, '75. Mrs. Caldwell was a student at Vassar Col- lege when Dr. Caldwell's father was president of that institution. Dr. Caldwell is now^ chief food inspector of the city of Colorado Springs, Col. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 135 On Xov. 14, 1910, :\liss Elizabeth Leigh Richards, ex-'Ol, was married to Rev. Alfred D. K. Shurtleff at St. John's Church, Provi- dence. Only the members of the two families were present. ]\Ir. and Mrs. ShurtletY will live in East Boston, Alass., where Mr. Shurt- leff is pastor of the Church of Our Father. Their address will be 422 Meridian st. On Xov. 1(), 1910, Miss Bertha A. Buffinton, '05, was married to Charles A. Hull, '99, at the First Universalist Church, Providence, R. I. Miss Anna C. Buffinton, '00, sister of the bride, and Miss Sarah G. Ross, '05,' were bridesmaids, and J. Allen Buffinton, ex-'99, Robert K. Lyons, ex-'99, William H. Hull, '01, and Henry L. Smith, '96, were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Hull will live in New York city. On Nov. 12, 1910, at Grace Church. Provi- dence, Miss Alice Louise Comstock was mar- ried to Clarence Saunders Brigham, '99. Herbert Olin Brigham, ex-'99, brother of the bridegroom, was best man, and Messrs. Rich- ard W. Comstock, Jr., ex-'02, Professor Thurston ]\I. Phetteplace, '99, Dr. Nathaniel H. Gifford, '99, G. Edward Buxton, '02, and Newton Peck Hutchison, '05, were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Brigham will live at 78 Elm St., Worcester, where Mr. Brigham is librarian of the Antiquarian Society. Deaths Joseph Tr.\sk Plumer, 1859 Joseph Trask Plumer, A. !M.. of the class of 1859, died at Manchester, X. H., Nov. 10, 1910, aged 74 years, 2 months and 19 days. He had been ill for about three years. He was the son of John and Alary (Macpherson) Plumer and was born at Gof^stown, N. H., Aug. 22, 1836. His father was a highly esteemed dea- con of the Goffstown Baptist Church. Air. Plumer, after passing through the common school in Goffstown completed his preparation for college at the academy (now Colby Academy J at New London, N. H., being a classmate there of Dr. G. L. Porter of Bridgeport, Conn., also of the class of 1859. He had some thought of preparing for the Christian ministry, but as his eyes would not permit him to continue the life of a stu- dent after graduation, he engaged in the coal business in Boston, and there continued for about 20 years, after which he resided in Alanchester for some time. From 1888 he lived live years in Santa Barbara, Cal., after which he went to Europe for some months. Returning from Europe he resided in Man- chester for the remainder of his life. He retired from active business some 20 years^ ago. After his return from Europe he lec- tured frequently, and with much approval, on subjects suggested by his travels, using the stereopticon in illustration. He also wrote some papers on local history, some of which were printed. He was a religious man, and at one time was the superintendent of the Sunday school of the Manchester First Bap- tist Church. He was greatly interested in charities and was an ardent helper of thj City Alission and Fresh Air Fund. He did much to encourage the more neglected boys of Manchester to find the better way of life. He was a Freemason, being a member of Washington Lodge, A. F. and A. M. ; Mt. Horeb, R. A. Chapter, and of Adoniram Council, Royal and Select blasters. He was also a Trinity Knight Templar and a member of the consistory. Personally he was one of the most genial and lovable of men, and the soul of integrity. His death will be greatly lamented by a large circle of friends, to whom he was dear for his fine qualities of mind and heart. He married, in 1865, Lydia E. Tonkin, who died in 1870. In 1888 he married Molly C. V. Worcester, who died in 1890. A brother, William Henry Plumer of Manchester, and a sister, Mrs. J. F. Russ of Boston, survive him. FRATERNITIES AND SCHOLARSHIP AGAIN From the CJdcasio Evejiijior Post We fear that the Providence alumni of Brown University have kept themselves quite unspotted from the world. It is doubtful whether they even read the papers. For when Dean Aleiklejohn brought up recently that old charge that the members of college fraterni- ties fall behind in scholarship, the alumni, ac- cording to the reporters from the Providence papers, "were greatly surprised." They were not only surprised, but they were indignant. They blew the dust off the old class records and hunted up the Phi Beta Kappa men in their respective fraternities. If we may trust the statistics offered by the indignant alumni. Brown must have been composed in those good old days of one part faculty and the other part Phi Beta Kappa. All the Delta Upsilon "grads" were par- ticularly aggressive. One of them solemnly recited the fact that in '91, out of eight Delta U's, seven earned the Phi Beta Kappa key ; in '92 four out of six w^ere elected to that honor- ary body; in '93, four out of eight; in '94, five out of nine, and in '95, three out of six. A judge who was a member of Phi Delta Theta took a hand in the game, shedding valuable statistics that indicated a wonderful memory or remarkable ability at extemporizing. The I -.6 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Psi Upsilon men were vague but indignant and Chi Phi protested that "the statement was too broad." Only D. K. E. was silent. We don't know why. It may be that Delta Kappa Epsilon had little to offer in the way of honorary keys. But ■we prefer to think that the "Dekes" were sim- ply on their dignity. For it is time that some- body got on their dignity in this matter. There ought to be a rule preventing college deans ^very fall from prodding the old grayheads with this ancient tipstaff. But the practice will never down, we fear, until the alumni cease to "refute" and "indignantly deny" and until they meet the devilish dean with some- thing like this : Yes, sir ; the dean is right. College frater- nities are death to scholarship and manhood. Out of a delegation of ten in the class of umpty-ump, we have four bankrupts, one felon, one politician and four have completely disappeared. AS SEEN BY A DARTMOUTH PAPER Frojii the Manchester, N. H., Union Yale, as every one knows, has persistently and consistently declined to admit Dartmouth to her football schedule. Rumor has assert- ed, and stuck to it, that Harvard would wel- come anything like an opportunity to discon- tinue her football relations with Dartmouth without making herself ridiculous — her plea being identical with that of Yale : viz., that Dartmouth is too strong an opponent to meet just before the Harvard-Yale game. It was freely predicted, after last Saturday's game at Cambridge, that Harvard would seize upon her victory over Dartmouth as a warrant for omitting the Dartmouth game from her sched- ule in the future ; the alleged plan being to substitute Princeton for the college at Han- over. Xow, T*finceton appears eager to ar- range an annual game with Harvard, but ex- presses equal eagerness to retain the Dart- mouth game, which is regarded as all but im- possible if Harvard is to be taken on, as the schedule is quite heavy enough as it is. With Yale, Harvard and Princeton refusing to meet Dartmouth, the situation would be a peculiar one for the latter college ; for it is quite apparent that — with the possible excep- tion of Brown — none of the other Eastern colleges, at least, is in her football class. Brown's victory over Yale this year may add considerably to the football prestige of the Providence institution, and then, again, it may not. If Brown has an}- such experience as Dartmouth has had, she will find it necessary to trounce one or more of those "big four" teams several times before the football au- thorities who write for magazines will deign to notice her ; and if she is so unfortunate as to form the habit of defeating one of the big teams, she may expect to be dropped from that team's schedule the day she slips a cog and loses a game. This, at least, if present rumors and predictions are reliable, will have been Dartmouth's experience. This would seem to leave Dartmouth and Brown in a class by themselves. But Dart- mouth and Brown quarreled three or four years ago, and they very foolishly allowed that quarrel not only to disturb the pleasant rela- tions which had existed between the two in- stitutions, from the viewpoint of athletics, but to deprive the sport-loving public of one of the best annual football contests in the United States. Whatever Harvard and Princeton may see fit to do, and whether Brown suc- ceeds in defeating Yale again next year or not, it should be the accepted duty of the alumni of Brown and Dartmouth, respectively, to bring about the resumption of the annual football game between those two institutions. The contest would be second in interest only to the Harvard-Yale game, and in the minds of many New Englanders would sometimes eclipse even that. THE BOOK SHELF BRONSON'S "ENGLISH POEMS" With this volume, the first in the period covered, but the last to appear. Professor Bronson completes the series of four attractive volumes containing his selection of English poetry for class use. A most interesting fea- ture of the present volume is the renderings from the Anglo-Saxon which are the work of Mrs. Bronson. They are amazingly close to the original and are worthy to be set beside William ^lorris's prose translations from the Icelandic. An abundant glossary clears up the hard words in the volume. As in the other volumes of the series, the notes are models of completeness and condensation. We trust that Professor Bronson will follow this series with another of impressions or interpretation in the same field. Talent oblige! English Poems : selected and edited with illustrative and explanatory notes and bibliog- raphies, by Walter C. Bronson, Litt. D. Old English and Middle English Poems, 450 — 1.550. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1910. Price $1.50 net. Students" Edition, $1.00 net. 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