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ALUMNI MONTHLY 



FOUNDED IN 1900 





DECEMBER 
1934 

Vol. XXXV No. 5 



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Vol. XXXV 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., DECEMBER, 1934 



No. 5 



The *^ Purpose of a University'^ 



THE purpose of the university today is "not to admin- 
ister in industry or government or social welfare, hut 
rather to discover underlying laws and to appraise the 
results of experiments," Dean Roland G. D. Richardson of 
the Brown University Graduate School says in his latest 
annual report to President Clarence A. Barbour. 

Dean Richardson, in discussing "The Function of a Uni- 
versity in the National Life," declares that it will be an 
exceptional case when a member of a university's faculty 
takes an active part in national affairs, when his vocation 
calls for full time and energ>' in teaching and research. 

"In these tremendously difficult times, governments and 
public welfare groups will he turning more and more to the 
universities for sympathetic study of their problems, for 
appraisal of the results achieved, and for suggestions to 
guide further experiments," he says. 

"The only agency today which can stand aside and view 
dispassionately the changing scene is the university. Its task 
is to give itself unreservedly to the investigation of the laws 
of man and his environment — scientific, political, social and 
cultural — and to report his findings without fear or favor. 

"Of all human institutions, it is the most ideally situated 
to take an appraisal of the various experiments which man in 
his struggle toward a better civilization is engaged in under- 
taking. The university' has no traditions to uphold except 
that of devotion and rigor in the search for truth and of im- 
partiality in reporting the results of that search. 

"The university must make it clear to the world that 
there can he no shortcuts to peace and prosperity, no circum- 
vention of the laws of the universe, and no substitute for 
straight thinking." 

DE.\N RiCH.ARDSON describes the ideal university as a 
great society of scholars devoted to the preservation, 
interpretation and advancement of knowledge, and with 
the prime purpose of focussing on ideas. He stresses the 
need of university interest in ultimate major rather than 
immediate minor problems. 

"In the increasingly complex organization of society the 
service of the university must grow ever broader and 
deeper," he states. "The advance in our knowledge of the 
material world, which is responsible for much of our pres- 
ent physical well being, will be increasingly dependent on 
that research in pure science whose natural home is in the 
universit>^ 

"If public school education is to realize its potentialities, 
it would appear that some call to idealism must issue from 
the university." 

Dean Richardson continues his report by declaring that 
"in the confusion reigning in the moral and aesthetic world, 
it is not too much to hope that some ideas which will unify 
and uplift will emerge from the university. 



"It would be rash to try to outline a program for the 
university in the field of morals," he adds. "However, intelli- 
gence being the chief attribute which distinguishes the 
moral from the unmoral, it stands to reason that the highest 
morality is dependent on the use of the highest intellectual 
powers and that the university cannot escape the implica- 
tions of this dcTctrine. 

"Many of our leaders would not have chosen university 
work as a vocation had they not felt that the stringent disci- 
pline of intellectual energies builds up a moral force which 
radiates contagious idealism." 

The report is concluded by Dean Richardson's statement 
that "while the teaching of moral precepts is not a function 
of the graduate school, it may happen that the example of 
the search for truth will inspire the student to high think- 
ing. A student here and there, in his association with a great 
scholar, will glimpse possibilities of a new heaven and a 
new earth." 



The Housing Inquiry 

THE Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corpora- 
tion has authorized the appointment of a special com- 
mittee to conduct a study of all matters related to the 
housing of students at Brown University — in the dormi- 
tories, in fraternities and off the campus. This study is being 
undertaken in the hope that ways and means may be found 
for the improvement of the facilities which are now 
available. 

The Committee consists of : James P. Adams, Samuel T. 
Arnold, J. Palmer Barstow '02, Edwin A. Burlingame, 
Robert H. George, Ivory Littlefield '09, Harold B. Tanner 
'09, Clinton C. White '00. President Clarence A. Barbour 
and Vice-President A. D. Mead will serve on the Commit- 
tee, ex-officio. Vice-President James P. Adams will serve as 
Chairman of the Committee. 



Returned with Interest 

A MEMBER of the Class of 1900 has just presented to the 
University $500 to be used for the award of a single 
scholarship to a member of the entering class in the Fall of 
1935 who possesses such qualifications as the Committee on 
Financial Aid may determine. This gift represents an 
amount somewhat in excess of the scholarship aid which was 
received by this alumnus while he was an undergraduate at 
Brown University and he asks that it be recognized as a 
repayment of the aid which he received and be devoted to 
scholarship aid for a worthy undergraduate in the year 
1935-36. 



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Of Brown and Brown Men 



Tsjow) the Returns Are In 

BROWN graduates as a rule have been Republican in 
national, state and city politics. In the recent elections 
some of them who were on the Republican ticket 
managed to survive the Democratic landslide. Their Demo- 
cratic brethren, on the other hand, have reason to point 
with pride (like all good politicians) to their huge pluralities. 

Governor Theodore Francis Green '87 was re-elected in 
Rhode Island on the Democratic ticket by a plurality larger 
than the one he received in 1932. Chosen again on the 
ticket with him were Lieutenant Governor Robert E. Quinn 
'15, Secretary of State Louis N. Cappelli '16, and Attorney 
General John P. Hartigan '09. 

In Congress the Brown allegiance is divided. Charles D. 
Millard '97 was returned again from the 25th New York 
District on the Republican ticket, while John J. O'Connor 
'08 was re-elected on the Democratic side from the 16th 
New York. O'Connor is one of the Democratic leaders in 
the House. 

It's Senator-elect Elmer S. King now. King (1920) hav- 
ing been chosen on the Republican ticket to represent 
Morris County in the New Jersey State Senate. 

Three Republicans and one Democrat with Brown back- 
grounds were elected to the Rhode Island Senate. Fred C. 
Broomhead '05, Barrington, Alfred G. Chaffee '02, Scit- 
uate, and Russell H. Handy '05, Lincoln, are the Repub- 
licans and George S. Bullock '96, Warren, is the Democrat. 
Handy has already made the front page by saying that he 
will vote with the Democrats whenever he feels that he is 
doing the right thing. As the Senate will be 22 Republicans 
and 20 Democrats, Handy's announcement has stirred up 
much talk among the political ringsiders. 

In the Rhode Island House the Republican Brunonians 
are Wilbur A. Scott '97, Providence, and Henry E. Fowler 
'09, Barrington. The single Democrat who has a Brown 
degree is A. A. Adamo '26. 

Ivory Littlefield '09 and Alfred B. Lemon '13 survived 
the deluge to win re-election to the Providence Common 
Council. Democratic Alderman Daniel E. Geary '06 ran 
ahead of his ticket and was re-elected by a 3,599 vote 
plurality. Among the Brown men who were contesting for 
places in the Board of Aldermen or the Council were 
Donald Clark '09, Edwin Eayrs '16, Archie Smith '29, 
M. Joseph Cummings '18, Howard Presel '28, Robert W. 
Parkinson '18, and Daniel Robinson '19. 

The Brown Alumni Monthly will be pleased to hear 
from other successful candidates for national, state and 
local offices. 

A Gentleman Unlucky in Court 

DR. George A. Glenn of Denver, Colorado, was just 
careless in his choice of a witness and unlucky, too, in 
his choice of a judge. He was bringing suit because he'd 
been accused of forging his state medical registration cer- 
tificate. He produced N. K. Dearing as a witness in District 
Court. 

"I studied medicine at Brown University in Providence," 
said Dearing blandly. 

"So?" said Judge James C. Starkweather. "What class 
were you in?" 



"I don't know what class," the witness replied, "but I 
lived at 14 Cherry Street." 

"I don't think there is such a street in Providence," said 
the judge, who added indignantly, "The idea of a man tell- 
ing this court he doesn't know what class he was in at 
Brown! I remember my class there. It was 1880, and I 
know Brown has had no medical school in your time. This 
witness is unreliable. Case dismissed." 

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Brown's Oldest Graduate 

DR. George Bacheler Peck '64, oldest graduate of the 
University, died at the Homeopathic Hospital of 
Rhode Island, Nov. 20, 1934, in his 92nd year. Born in 
Providence, Aug. 12, 1843, he was a veteran of the Civil 
War, well known as physician. Baptist layman, and active 
as author of medical articles. He also wrote much on his- 
torical and miscellaneous subjects. He was a brother of 
Dr. William T. Peck '70, and Annie S. Peck, the mountain 
climber. A biography of him will appear in the next issue 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 

Martin S. Smith '67 of Scituate is now the oldest graduate 
in point of years, while Orray Taft '66 of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
holds the honor in point of class. 

Another Brunonian College Prexy 

BYRON S. HOLLINSHEAD '28 was formally inducted as 
president of Scranton Keystone Junior College and 
Academy at La Plume, Pa., Monday, Nov. 5. The addresses 
were made by Dr. Edwin W. Kemmerer of Princeton, 
graduate of the old Keystone Academy, and Dr. W. M. 
Dennison, Deputy Superintendent of Education in Penn- 
sylvania, also a Keystone graduate. William E. Bright '07 
and Dr. Harry W. Robbins '08 of Bucknell, a former col- 
league of President Hollinshead, represented Brown at the 
induction. 

The Writ on Young Roosevelt 

JAMES S. Allen '98, clerk of the United States District 
Court in Boston, got his name on the front pages of 
many newspapers Tuesday, Nov. 20, when he issued a writ 
of attachment for $25,000 against Franklin D. Roosevelt, 
Jr., son of the President and a Sophomore at Harvard. The 
writ was obtained in connection with a motor car accident 
in which a woman was said to have been struck by young 
Roosevelt's car. 

Mr. Allen is a past president of the Associated Alumni. 



Brown Education "Expensive" 

A PAMPHLET recently issued by the Department of the 
Interior at Washington lists Brown as one of the more 
expensive institutions of higher learning, the typical under- 
graduate at Brown spending $1,200 in the nine-month 
period at the school. 

Dartmouth is listed as the nation's most expensive school, 
requiring $1,700 a year, while average Princetonians spend 
$1,093 yearly and Harvardmen $1,150. Yale and Williams 
are listed at $1,300. 



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Are There Any Books in Your Attic? 

A Suggestion from the Librarian of the John Hay Library 



NOT RARE BOOKS ONLY," says a recent circular from 
Han.'ard College Library, "but all books will help. . . . 
b-^me books fill in gaps in present collections; some provide 
duplicates of standard works; still others can be sold or 
exchanged for needed volumes. No hook or pamphlet is too 
humble to serve a purpose." 

At Brown University, the books "which our friends 
could best spare" in President Manning's day now form a 
valuable part of our historical collections, and the books 
which our friends can best spare today can be useful to the 
library today, in spite of its growth from a couple of hun- 
dred to nearly half a million volumes. 

A few examples will illustrate the variety of useful pur- 
poses served by gifts of old books to the University Library 
and will partially explain the appeal which Brown, like 
Harvard and other universities, is making that its friends 
explore both their study shelves and their attics for books 
that may in any way assist the John Hay Library in main- 
taining and improving its high rank among American 
libraries. 

(1) An old volume, magazine or newspaper, containing 
a bit of doggerel by an obscure or unskilled American poet, 
may have little value in the private library and none what- 
ever in the book-market, but finds a distinct place and per- 
forms a good research function when it becomes part of a 
comprehensive collection of 100,000 items like the Harris 
Collection of American Poetry and Plays. 

(2) A disused and, for ordinary purposes, obsolete 
school book takes on a new life when it is grouped with a 
Text-book Collection in which one may study the history of 
methods and theories of teaching a given subject. 

(5) A single old sermon of the early 19th centur>' or of 
the Civil War period has an interest even broader than its 
own field, since, when added to a collection of 10,000 sim- 
ilar pamphlets in our Metcalf Collection, it materially in- 
creases a group of source material for research in the history 
and civilization of its time. 

(4) In many other fields, there are many books which the 
limited budget of the Library' has not been able to pur- 
chase — because their subject was a little off the beaten track 
of the college curriculum when they were published, or 
because they were concerned with specialized minutiae of a 
subject in the days before the research work of the Uni- 
versity turned in that particular direction, or because their 
treatment and style were designed for popular reading 
rather than classroom or research use, or simply because 
some other books were more urgently needed at a given 
time. 

(5) Old, out-of-print books are difficult to locate when 
we need them, even if they are not expensive, and new 
books published without copyright or not in the trade often 
escape or elude us. 

(6) There are many expensive and rare books for which 
cheaper and less satisfactory books have had to be substi- 
tuted — illustrated books on art and archaeological subjects, 
publications of research and bibliophile societies, books of 
literature illustrated by famous artists, limited editions, etc. 



All this does not mean, of course, that gifts of money and 
special endowments are any less acceptable than ever. As a 
matter of fact, the need of them becomes greater as the 
development of university work makes more conspicuous 
the lacunae, great and small, in different branches of scien- 
tific, literar)' and historical studies. And, although this note 
is primarily intended to call attention on the usefulness of 
gifts of books, we venture at the same time to invite requests 
from friends and alumni for the illustrated folder showing 
the attractiveness and effectiveness ol endowed book funds 
as permanent memorials, however modest. Moreover, since 
alumni will find it enjoyable and interesting — regardless of 
the definite suggestion it makes — the folder is available, so 
long as the stock lasts, to all who may wish to request it. 
With the request might come a three-cent stamp for mailing 
the folder, but there is no other commitment. 

H. B. V.AN HOESEN 







BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brunonia Plays the Game 



The Brown Outing Club 

A NEWLY-FORMED group at Brown this fall which is 
finding favor is the Brown Outing Club. Without 
fanfare or organized shouting, the Club came into 
being spontaneously as a result of the getting together of a 
smaU body of Sophomores at the beginning of this semester. 

For some tmie it has been felt that there should exist for 
undergraduates some method of realising the inclinations 
for out-of-door living, and this has been set as the purpose 
of the Club for all and any of the men at Brown who are 
interested in camping, hiking, trail blazing, fishing and 
cabin building. 

These activities have been followed by the members in 
the three trips which will have been completed by the time 
this article is printed. One week-end in October was spent 
at the Brown Outing Reservation in Greenville, where, 
among other activities, a site was located for an outing 
cabin, to be built by the members for their own use later on. 
The Saturday before Thanksgiving another trip was made 
to Blue Hill, near Milton, Mass., where an enjoyable after- 
noon of hiking and reconnoitering was spent. 

During the Thanksgiving recess a two-day trip to Cho- 
corua in the White Mountains was arranged. This trip 
was expected to be the high light of the fall season. For the 
winter, skiing and skating are being discussed, with over- 
night stays whenever it is possible. 

The Brown Outing Club, organized mainly through the 
efforts of Allyn L. Brown, Jr., '37 and Hugh H. Conklin 
'37, has the approval of the Faculty in its work and the 
place it is filling on the campus. Dues have been decided 
upon, officers have been elected, and it is hoped that by the 
time the present Sophomores are Seniors this infant organ- 
ization will be as strong and as popular as the outing clubs 
at other New England colleges, even the fine one at 
Dartmouth. R. C. S. 

Opening the Stadium to Others 

BECAUSE the Providence Cycledrome had been con- 
demned by city safety inspectors on the eve of the 
first football game between Rhode Island State College and 
Providence College there, Brown University athletic offi- 




cials offered the use of Brown Field without rental fee. The 
two neighbors accepted gladly. Providence winning the 
game on November 24. 

The stadium was also used by outsiders on the Saturday 
after Thanksgiving when Hope Street High School and 
Central High of Providence met in a championship school- 
boy football game. The use of the field had been offered to 
the Community Fund authorities of Providence for a char- 
ity contest, and the two schools were selected as the 
attractions. 



Told of the Ineligible Star 

PRAISING Brown as a college which rates academic stand- 
ards above athletic prowess, Lowell Thomas told his 
radio audience recently the story of the ineligible 
bntz Pollard, Jr. Thomas declared that "learning and 
scholarship come first in Rhode Island, even at the expense 
of a football tragedy." Thomas said the speedy Chicago 
sophomore makes the varsity look foolish by crashing 
through "the lineup of regulars like a star in a high school 
game," and also observed that Brown "is going to the foot- 
ball wars minus one of the greatest quarterbacks in gridiron 
history, who watches from the stands." 

Thomas began : "Here's a college that certainly does stick 
to its academic standards, even though it hurts. We've all 
heard gossip of how football players kick, run, tackle, and 
throw forward passes, whether they know their lessons or 
not, with a sly wink if they fail to keep up to the study 
grades required of them." 

Describing the exploits of the Fritz Pollard of Rose Bowl 
renown, Thomas said that the present Negro celebrity may 
be even greater than his father was. He declared "the son 
of the All- American star of 1915 is so good that it's a joke 
at Brown, or rather a tragedy." 

Thomas concluded his remarks on the subject with the 
prediction that the "sob story is going to continue until 
Fritz Pollard, Jr., boning away at his skull practice, pushes 
his scholastic grades up to the required point — and then 
watch the black ghost gallop." 



Successes on the Soccer Field 

As a finale to perhaps the most successful soccer season 
/V_in Brown history, the Bear nipped the previously unde- 
feated Springfield College hooters in a New England Inter- 
collegiate Soccer League game that ended the schedule for 
each team. The Springfield eleven had not been beaten in 
12 games until goals by Murray and Burbank gave the 
margin of 2-1 for Brown. Again Captain Tolman starred 
in goal, while Paul Howard, Baumann, TuUer, and Henry 
also played well. 

Tufts was outclassed by Brown in another game, while 
Dartmouth, another League opponent, was shaded 5-4. 

In the meantime the Freshman soccer outfit was setting a 
fast pace for the varsity. The Cubs went through a difficult 
schedule without a defeat or even a goal scored against 
them. Among their opponents were St. George's, Tabor, 
Dean, Pawtucket High, Cranston High and the Harvard 
Freshmen. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Football's Fighting Finish 

FOR a team that gained not a major victory, Brown ended 
its season high in the estimation of its supporters, and 
all the East lent its praises for a gallant stand against 
one of the country's king elevens on Thanksgiving Day. If 
ever a team redeemed itself without winning. Brown did. 
She went into that Colgate game having gained only three 
minor victories and having scored only a single touchdown 
against five major opponents who had run wild against her. 
But the Brunonians fought it out at the finish like cham- 
pions, and Brown was proud of them. 



Columbia 39, Brown 

THERE was astounding play at the start of the Columbia 
game in New York, for the Brunonians carried the 
fight to the Blue goal-line twice, but the home team shortly 
took command, running up a total of six touchdowns for a 
39-0 victory. In the opening period, Brown marched im- 
pressively to the Columbia one-yard line, a distance of 
50-odd yards, only to lose the ball on downs. Punching back 
soon after to the 10-yard line, the Bear again failed to score 
when Karaban's try for a placement goal caromed off the 
uprights and fell back in the end zone. 

While Brown nearly held her own in rushing, with 132 
yards gained against 1 76, Columbia completed 1 1 out of 14 
forwards for a yardage of 159 as Brown missed each of its 
four attempts. The Bear had seven first downs against 14. 



lasted through the opening half, and then the stands were in 
a frenzy as Capasso blocked a Colgate kick and Karaban 
scored his second touchdown of the game to put the Bru- 
nonians in the lead for the first time in a 1934 major game. 

When Colgate had justified its title of magician in a 
95-yard advance to tie the score. Brown again had the ball 
on the Raiders" 21 -yard line on a kick blocked by Payne. 
A pass caught by an ineligible man turned the ball over to 
Colgate on the initial play of the last quarter, and it proved 
the decisive break. A 5 2 -yard march soon gained the odd 
touchdown for the favorite. 

Brown's second score was the first time two touchdowns 
had been made against Colgate by any team since 1931. 
Two disputes arose over the first touchdown of Colgate's, 
and many Brown supporters and sports writers believed it 
should have been ruled no play for an offside. Statistics, 
giving a decided edge to the Maroon, reveal little of the 
gallantry of the Brown players, but partisans felt her 
deserving of a tie. 

Fourteen Seniors have played their last football for 
Brunonia : Captain Karaban, Capasso, Chapin, Taft, Ball, 
and Batchelder, who were in the starting line-up; and 
Spinney, Henry C. Hart, Jr., Fraad, and Lear, who also 
saw long service. Groce, Broomhead, Rea, and Mignone 
will also be graduated in June. Of the prospects for next 
year one is interested in Pease, light little fullback who 
played his first major game against Colgate and caused 
everyone to wonder where he had been hidden previously. 

In the season's summary one finds 64 points for Brown 
against 169 for the opponents. Of the 64 points. Captain 
Karaban accounted for 48. 



Holy Cross 20, Brown 7 

EVEN in defeat, 20-7, at the hands of Holy Cross, Brown 
supporters had a large measure of satisfaction for the 
showing of their team. Unfortunately, the Purple had 
crossed the goal-line twice before Brown found itself, but 
the Bear outplayed his guests in the latter half of the game 
and showed football heart that had been lacking earlier in 
the season. 

A 90-yard advance and another of 87 yards sewed up the 
game before it was a dozen minutes old, but Brown came 
back when a fumble gave it a chance on the 19-yard line. 
A handsome behind-the-line pass, Elrod to O'Reilly, 
accounted for 15 yards, and Karaban did the diving for the 
touchdown, Brown's first major game score of the year. 
Cross retaliated by converting a Brunonian bobble into her 
third score, but thereafter play was all Brown's. Once 
Brown marched 75 yards to the Purple three-yard line and 
again from her 24 to the Purple 10, only to falter. Brown 
earned 16 first downs to 11 for Holy Cross, and gained 
277 yards (83 of them on eight completed forwards) to 
282 for Holy Cross. 



Colgate 20, Brown 13 

RESIGNED to seeing Brown in a door-mat role, Thanks- 
. giving Day football fans saw her give a remarkable 
Colgate team the scare of its life before losing on a last- 
period touchdown 20-13. It was the battle of a 100 to 1 
shot, trying gallantly to come through, and brought glory 
to Brown such as a team seldom receives without victory. 
Rebounding from the shock of an opening period Colgate 
touchdown, the Bruins tied the score with a 5 2 -yard march 
that started v.hen Lear intercepted a pass. That deadlock 



The Freshman Football Ledger 

EFFECTIVE on the offense but unable to acquit itself as 
well defensively, the Brown Freshman eleven ended its 
season with two victories and five defeats. Almost all the 
games were high-scoring affairs, and the high spot was a 
single-point win over Andover. Rhode Island State College 
Freshmen were the other victims. 

Prior to those two games the eleven had lost to Brockton, 
and four straight contests at the tail of the schedule ended 
with the Cubs on the short side of the score. Worcester 
Academy won 31-13, New Hampshire Freshmen 18-6, the 
Harvard Junior Varsity 28-12, and the B. U. Freshmen 
21-13. Bernstein and Greenberg accounted for virtually all 
the Brown scoring. 

Against the Crimson Jayvees Bernstein scored in the 
first and last period, taking a shovel pass from Greenberg 
for a 60-yard gain in one instance. One Harvard touchdown 
grew out of a Brown threat when a Cambridge back inter- 
cepted a forward on his 15 -yard line and ran the length of 
the field. The Cubs took a lead against the heavy B. U. 
Freshmen, working a passing attack well, but the Boston 
boys counted in each of the last three periods. 



Hew Steps for Old U. H. 

Grooved by hundreds of Brunonian feet over the years, 
the brownstone steps of University Hall are being replaced 
by new ones. Worn as they are, these steps are not the 
original ones, but there is a sentimental attachment to them. 
The replacing steps will be of the same sort of sandstone. 



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Chiefly Concerning the Campus 



The Third Mural of the Series 

MEN, women and children of 2,500 B. C, busy with 
primitive occupations in an ancient forest, are taking 
on Hfe in the mural studios of Brown University, where 
Professor Will S. Taylor, chairman of the Department of 
Art, is completing his large mural painting, "The Neolithic 
Age." 

The imposing canvas, 18 by 13 feet, is the third in 
Professor Taylor's series depicting the material progress of 
mankind through the ages, and is for the East wall of 
Morgan Memorial Hall in the Museum of Natural History, 
New York. Two other murals by Professor Taylor, "The 
Bronze Age" and "The Early Iron Age," are already in 
place at the museum. 

Student interest in Professor Taylor's new painting is 
increasing at Brown as the mural nears completion, which 
will be before the first of January. Professor Taylor has 
been obliged to set aside certain studio hours for visitors, 
many of whom are not taking art courses. It is said that 
Brown is one of the few liberal arts universities where 
undergraduates may actually see a mural painter at work. 

"From a student standpoint it is particularly fortunate 
that 'The Neolithic Age" is being painted on the campus of 
Brown University," Professor Taylor says. "In no other 
way would it be possible to explain and demonstrate so 
clearly the solution of problems in perspective, scale, design, 
pattern, composition and color arising in mural painting." 

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Their Opinion of Fraternities 

RECORDING their opinions on fraternities in a poll con- 
ducted by the Brown Daily Herald, 147 of 361 upper- 
classmen voting believe that fraternities are losing their 
influence in student activities. Sixty fraternity men were 
among the 147. Fifty-eight non- fraternity men and 136 
fraternity men believed the contrary. 

On the question, "Do you think freshmen are eager to be 
pledged?" ISO fraternity men and 99 non-fraternity men 
voted yes, with 14 Greeks and 38 others voting no. Only IS 
of 196 fraternity men regretted having joined a Greek- 
letter society, while only 34 of 161 non-fraternity men 
regretted that they were non-fraternity. The fraternity 
men, 148 to 41, said they had gotten adequate return for 
the money membership had cost. Fraternity men said, 143 
to 53, that fraternity membership was necessary for a well- 
rounded social life at Brown; non-fraternity men said it 
was not, 118 to 41. The last question on the ballot was: 
"Do you favor the house plan as practiced at Harvard and 
Yale over the fraternity plan?" Fraternity men voted: yes 
59, no 126; non-fraternity men voted: yes, 102, no 39. 

Fraternity Scholastic Standings 

FRATERNITY scholastic averages slipped off slightly in 
1933-1934 while the non-fraternity men improved their 
standing, according to the annual figures made public last 
month by Dean Samuel T. Arnold. Lambda Chi Alpha, 1 1th 
in line the previous year, led the Greek letter societies last 
year. Beta Theta Pi was second, having been seventh a 
year ago. 



While the all-college average was dropping from 2.286 
to 2.260, the fraternity men were rated at 2.216 in 1932- 
1933 and at 2.207 in 1933-1934. The non-fraternity men's 
averages improved from 2.478 to 2.491. Comparisons, how- 
ever, are not possible in the case of the fraternity figures, 
for a new basis of calculation was invoked this time to make 
procedure uniform with that in other colleges, as recom- 
mended by the National Interfraternity Conference. 
Pledges, whether eligible or not for initiation, are not in- 
cluded in the official average of a chapter. 

The official listing for 1933-1934 was as follows: Lambda 
Chi Alpha, 2.604; Beta Theta Pi, 2.592; Non-fraternity 
average, 2.491; Pi Lambda Phi, 2.443; Sigma Phi Sigma, 
2.412; Phi Sigma Kappa, 2.351; Delta Phi, 2.343; Theta 
Delta Chi, 2.315; Delta Upsilon, 2.291; Phi Kappa Psi, 
2.286; Kappa Sigma, 2.279; Alpha Delta Phi, 2.275 ; Alpha 
Tau Omega, 2.272; All-college average, 2.260; Fraternity 
average, 2.207; Sigma Chi, 2.203; Phi Delta Theta, 2.202; 
Sigma Nu, 2.187; Delta Tau Delta, 2.139; Zeta Psi, 2.117; 
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1.969; Psi Upsilon, 1.859; Phi Gamma 
Delta, 1.725. 



Graduate Degrees and Awards 

THREE alumni of Brown and four graduates of Pembroke 
were among the 10 advanced degrees awarded students 
in the Graduate School this Fall. These awards, added to 
those of last June, make a total of 66 advanced degrees for 
the year to students from 3 1 colleges in 1 6 states and two 
foreign countries. 

Frederick Crescitelli '30 received his Ph.D. for work in 
biology, while Wendell E. James '17 received an M.Sc. in 
the same department. William Resko '32 did work in edu- 
cation for an M.A. The four Pembroke M.A.'s were: 
Mary C. Card '34, Beatrice M. George '3 3, Alice C. Kelly 
'26, and Dorothy Slocum '30. 

Dr, Crescitelli will continue his researches in biology as 
an Honorary Fellow, while the Graduate School has also 
announced other Honorary Fellows as follows : Miss Mar- 
guarete Chapallaz, of the University of London, England, 
under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to that 
university, will work with the Linguistic Atlas. Dr. John 
D. M. Griffin of the University of Toronto, Canada, is a 
Rockefeller Fellow assigned to Butler Hospital and Brown 
University. 

Dr. George C. Webber of Vancouver is the recipient of 
a National Research Fellowship for study in mathematics 
at Brown, while Nathaniel M. Caffee of the University of 
Virginia is a General Education Board Fellow who will 
study in linguistics. An S. W. Marston Scholarship has been 
awarded to Herbert O. Masters, William Jewell College '34; 
an E. L. Marston Fellowship goes to Alex McF. Mood, 
Texas '34; while J. R. Hill, Baylor '34, and Tom G. Barnes, 
Simmons University '33, are to receive E. L. Marston 
Scholarships. 

Brown alumni who receive University Graduate Tuition 
Scholarships are: Donald S. Latham '34, John M. Sayward 
'34, Philip T. Maker '32, Simon J. Copans '33. John B. Rae 
'32 is awarded a University Junior Fellowship. 



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"From General to Particular" 

(Seventy-six poems from periodicals of 
Great Britain and the United States have 
been selected by Thomas Moult for his cur- 
rent anthology, The Best Poems of 1934. 
(Harcourt, Brace and Company.) The vol- 
ume included for the second successive 
year a poem by Winfield T. Scott '31, the 
following one being from a recent issue of 
Smo\e:) 

THIS is a long way that we 
Have come to face finality. 

Since man pushed the slime aside 
And stood up slowly, feeble-eyed. 
All men have died; we have not died. 

We went concealed against the sun. 
Renewed and guarded and passed on 
Eon by eon. 

The first dawn 
Flows in us: even the still, wan 
Chaos which light splashed upon: 

But this memory only and 

The half-remembered outstretched Hand. 

Now out of the long secret zone 

Of blood and bone 

We have escaped, have seen and known 

Grass and dirt and tree and stone; 

And looked on flesh and loved and Iain 
Deliriously in flesh again. 

From that warm dark you and I 
Stand beneath the cold sky 
Knowing at last that we shall die. 

After the ageless content. 

This beautiful, bitter, brief moment; 

From anonymous night, the brow 
Lifted to all the lights now; 

The sleepers waked for martyrdom. 
What once we were we shall become. 




THE THIRD 7\EARS COMPLETIOH 

ProfcsiOT Will Taylor ct worh^ on a muTdl in the University Studio 

(See text on page opposite) 



In the Letter Box 



Students. Rich and Poor 

FROM a recent letter of an alumnus, the 
Alumni Monthly takes the liberty of 
quoting one of a number of thoughts arising 
out of a discussion of the relative merits of 
some of the New England colleges. It 
might be in poor taste to print these com- 
parisons, which were "impartial and un- 
biased" and in Brown's favor. Neverthe- 
less the writer believes Brown offers as good 
an undergraduate curriculum as any univer- 
sity he knows. 

In certain of these colleges one finds, he 
believes, most of the boys from wealthy 
families. "But these lads are lazy and un- 
profitable companions. The real leaders of 
tomorrow are the poorer lads who work 
hard, and in doing so develop many of their 
latent abilities. The average number of 
this kind of student is, I think, greater at 
Brown." 



Football, 1934 
To the Editor, 
Brown Alumni Monthly: 

LtT it be known I am not an expert 
on football, only one of the thousands 
' of Brown men and others who receive 
thrills and pleasure from watching the 
games Brown plays with other colleges and, 
in my own case at least, more especially 
those games which go into the records as 
victories for Bruno. I also take some meas- 
ure of pride and satisfaction when Brown 
loses after putting up a good fight although 
it wasn't good enough, possibly losing the 
game in the first quarter and then outplay- 
ing the opposition for the balance of the 
game. These moral or statistical victories, of 
which Brown has accumulated a consider- 
able collection including several this year, 
are not given the slightest consideration in 
the records. My own decided preference is 
to let the other fellow make the explanations 
for his team being on the short end of the 
final score, which attitude I maintain is 
perfectly logical for a partisan observer. 

On the other hand, I am sure we people 
in the grandstands have the internal equip- 
ment both above the ears and under the 



vest, to "take it" along with the boys on the 
teams and their coaches, when we have a 
season such as 1934. The difference between 
a successful season like 1932 and the pres- 
ent season (this being written before the 
Colgate game), is often very slight in the 
essentials. Another good player or two or 
maybe a little more study by the good play- 
ers, a few favorable breaks during the games 
or the luck of playing teams when they are 
not in top form, are all very potent factors 
in winning football games. The efforts of 
the teams and the coaches to win are not 
slackened, but we can imagine how much 
harder it is to carry on during this year 
than in 193 2 when the team won the first 
seven games of the eight-game schedule. I 
appeal to all followers of Brown football to 
be reasonable and fair, in their appraisal of 
this hard fighting and unsuccessful team of 
1934, to Captain Karaban and to Head 
Coach McLaughry and his assistants. 

Now take a look at the record, in the 
words of the wearer of the brown derby, 
and try to cheer ourselves up by a study of 
the last ten years of Brown football. We 
seem to have been mixing it up with many 
of the best college teams in New England 
and the East every year, taking on five or 



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six major games in a schedule of eight or 
ten games each year. Of the 93 games 
played during the seasons of 1925-1934 
inclusive and omitting this year's Colgate 
game not yet played, TO games were with 
Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Co- 
lumbia, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Holy Cross 
and Colgate. 

These college football teams form a pretty 
rich diet for Bruno to assimilate as we all 
know, but she managed to win 17, tied 4 
and lost 29 of these games. It is significant 
that 10 of the 29 games lost were played in 
1933 and 1934. In the same period 26 
games were played with smaller New Eng- 
land college teams of Rhode Island State, 
New Hampshire, Boston University, Spring- 
field, Tufts, Colby, Bates, Norwich and 
Worcester Polytechnic, of which 24 were 
won and 2 were lost. Seven games were 
played with Lehigh, Albright, Lebanon 
Valley, Temple, Dayton and Ohio Wes- 
leyan, of which 5 were won, 2 lost. The 
grand total is 56 won, 4 tied and 3 3 lost 
for the ten years. 

Some choice morsels from these records 
from our viewpoint, are stopping both 
Harvard and Yale in 1926 and again in 
193 2, the unbeaten "Iron Men" of 1926, 
the 1928 team which whipped Colgate and 
lost only to Yale, and three straight games 
won from Princeton in 1929-30-31, all 
played at Princeton. Colgate has been one 
of Brown's tough spots during this ten 
year period, as Brown has won only once, 
tied three games and lost five, with Novem- 
ber 29, 1934, yet to come. Yale has also 
cracked down hard on Brown, winning 
seven and losing two of the nine games 
played in this period, but the Bulldog is a 
hard animal to subdue as our old friend 
Dartmouth will afErm. Of the six games 
played with John Harvard, Brown won 
two and lost four. We have the edge on 
Princeton, three to one, and also on Holy 
Cross, four to three. 



IT seems to me Brown has been playing 
extremely tough football schedules for 
the normal yield of high grade players that 
can be expected to develop from approx- 
imately 1200 students, some of which may 
have other aims and ambitions than to be 
star football players. I grant what we all 
know, namely that it is possible to have a 
.squad of top notch players in even a 
smaller college than Brown. To my mind. 
Brown is not interested in developing a 
football team by subsidising desirable play- 
ers from preparatory schools who can meet 
the entrance requirements or by lowering 
the scholastic standards required to partici- 
pate in Brown athletics. 

As I see the situation, we are biting off 
more than we can chew, in our football 
schedules, and we must either enlarge and 
sharpen our teeth or take smaller bites 
which are within the capacity of the teeth 
we have. Would it not be wise to cut down 
the number of major games from six, as in- 
cluded in the 1933 and 1934 schedules, to 
four or possibly three as soon as this change 
of policy can be accomplished? The task of 
making up the schedules is difficult and 
takes plenty of time and forethought, I 
realize, and probably it would take several 
years to put this suggested change of policy 
into effect. The matter of finances is also 
of vital importance with the present expen- 
sive athletic setup at Brown, although I sur- 



mise a losing team cuts into the gate re- 
ceipts very quickly. 

My purpose in presenting the above sug- 
gestion about the football schedules is to 
provoke a discussion of the matter by those 
interested in Brown football with the hope 
that some good may result in the form of a 
normal use and enjoyment of the fine 
game of football at Brown University. 
N. L. SAMMIS, 

Brown 1908. 
November 23, 1934. 



Fraternities Under Fire 

October 30, 1934 
To the Editor, 
Brown Alumni Monthly: 

THE current fraternity situation at Yale 
has given rise to a certain amount of 
editorial comment with reference to the 
place fraternities should have in collegiate 
communities, and it seems therefore fitting 
and proper that the fraternity "problem" at 
Brown should be considered and evaluated. 
At the risk of indulging in generalisations 
the writer is of the opinion that fraternities 
at Brown are not only "good" for the Uni- 
versity but are in fact at present essential 
to its continued success as an institution 
which is in direct competition with larger 
Eastern universities. 

Fraternities at Brown have been for a 
quarter of a century the social and political 
units of the college community and the 
existence of such units seem to be the nat- 
ural and inevitable consequence of the gre- 
garious instincts of college students. The 
clubs at Harvard and Princeton fill the same 
place in the lives of undergraduates as do 
the fraternities at Brown and foster and 
obtain similar intense loyalty. At Brown, 
however, the fraternities are also a practical 
necessity in that they solve the housing 
problem for about one-quarter of the stu- 
dent body for whom no other adequate 
accommodations are provided by the col- 
lege. In some cases they also provide board 
for their group of a standard demanded by 
the particular group and thereby furnish 
jobs as waiters and kitchen help to impecu- 
nious students who otherwise would be 
forced to find positions elsewhere away 
from their fellow students or at least apart 
from those with whom they are most con- 
genial. The outstandingly heterogeneous 
student body at Brown renders it important 
that the college encourage fraternity group- 
ings so that a student of certain social con- 
sciousness may find congenial associations 
and thus be happy in a college where many 
of the student body do not share his tastes 
and privileges which have been determined 
by his background. 

The writer is aware of a feeling among 
fraternities that the present administration 
is unsympathetic toward their activities and 
purposes and that it is gradually encroach- 
ing upon their cherished independence. The 
writer does not share this feeling. He be- 
lieves that the administration recognises 
the value of the fraternities to the college 
but that it is unable or unwilling to deal 
with each fraternity individually and on its 
own merits and therefore is inclined to tar 
the entire group with the brush which 
should be applied to only one or two offend- 
ing fraternities. An example of this tend- 
ency is the thinly veiled threat made by the 
administration in 193 3 to forbid dining 



rooms in fraternity houses because one or 
more of them were considered unsanitary. 
It would seem obvious that fraternities are 
no more alike than are people (they may be 
rich or poor, moral or immoral, studious or 
indolent, sanitary or unsanitary, snobbish 
or democratic, etc., ad in/iiiitujn) and that 
the administration should deal with them 
individually according to their merits. 

The writer is one of those who believes 
that the national character of Brown fra- 
ternities is of little moment. His observation 
leads him to consider that national affilia- 
tions are of importance only when a chapter 
becomes very unsatisfactory and in this 
event the national organisation is invariably 
ready and willing to co-operate with the 
college authorities. 

In answer to the charge of "snobbish- 
ness" against fraternities, one may say that 
this charge will be made against any organ- 
isation that is in any way exclusive. Even if 
such a charge is true, the existence of so- 
called snobbishness may do more good than 
harm. Most of us can recall undergraduates 
who have come to Brown for one year, with 
the expressed intention of transferring to 
Yale or Harvard, and, having joined alleg- 
edly snobbish fraternities, have become so 
interested in them that they have, because 
of them, remained at Brown and graduated, 
becoming outstanding, loyal, contributing 
alumni, who would not have been on our 
alumni rolls except for such a fraternity. 

The above is written merely as an expres- 
sion of opinion with reference to the too 
often misunderstood and maligned frater- 
nities, the writer hoping thus to stimulate 
further discussion of the "problem." Let us, 
however, remember that these organisations 
are managed for the most part by compara- 
tively inexperienced young men aged eight- 
een to twenty-two and that we must not 
expect their management even to approach 
perfection. 

Respectfully yours, 

"PERENNIAL GREEK" 




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Gentlemen of the Faculty 



THE following note concerning Profes- 
sor Hinrichs (together with his pic- 
ture) appears on page 12 of the Liter- 
ary Digest for November 24, 1934: 

"Professor A. Ford Hinrichs of Brown 
University, recently installed as Chief Econ- 
omist of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is 
pointed to in Washington as one who got 
his job solely on merit, and without regard 
to political considerations. Secretary of 
Labor Perkins made the choice herself, it is 
said, without consulting dispensers of pat- 
ronage. Professor Hinrichs is small, thin, 
dark, youthful. He likes quiet clothes, has 
a calm, subdued, but pleasant manner, and 
is popular with employees of the Depart- 
ment of Labor." 

Professor Hinrichs is on leave of absence 
from Brown for the present academic year. 

Professor George E. Bigge of the Depart- 
ment of Economics was in Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania, on November 15 and 17, at- 
tending the meetings of the Interstate Con- 
ference on Labor Compacts. Professor 
Bigge is Chairman of the Governor's Com- 
mission on Interstate Compacts Affecting 
Industry and Labor in Rhode Island. 

Professor William H. Kenerson of the 
Division of Engineering represented the 
University at the One Hundred and Seven- 
tieth Anniversary of the Warren Baptist 
Church in Warren on Sunday, November 
18, and made an historical address related 
to the early days of the University in War- 
ren. 

Professor Walter H. Snell has just been 
appointed Chairman of the Dutch Elm Dis- 
ease Committee in Rhode Island. 

Dr. Henry B. Van Hoesen, Librarian of 
the University, attended the Regional Meet- 
ing of University Cataloguers in Boston on 
November 14 and addressed the meeting on 
"Prospective in Cataloguing." 

Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow, Director of Ad- 
missions, has just returned from his vaca- 
tion on a cruise among the Leeward Islands 
in the West Indies, spent partly in research 
for his thesis on American Colonial trade 
with that section. 

During the past month Dean Samuel T. 
Arnold has attended meetings of the Col- 
lege Entrance Examination Board in New 
York, the Educational Records Bureau and 
American Council of Education in New 
York, and the Eastern Association of Col- 
lege Personnel Officers in Northampton. 

Professor Lawrence C. Wroth, Librarian 
of the John Carter Brown Library, was the 
featured speaker at a two-day Institution of 
the Arts of Early Maryland last month 
sponsored by Goucher College, Baltimore. 
"Printing in Colonial Maryland" was his 
topic on the first day. 

Professor Leonard Carmichael of the 
Department of Psychology addressed the 
first biennial meeting of the Society for Re- 
search in Child Development at Washing- 
ton, D. C. Sponsored and conducted by the 
National Research Council, the meeting 
brought together specialists from all over 
the country. The Brown professor's topic 
was "The Bearing of Studies of Fetal Ac- 
tivity Upon an Understanding of Neonatal 
Behavior." 



Professor Charles Wilson Brown of the 
Department of Geology gave a radio talk, 
"Minerals and America's Future," over the 
Yankee network on Nov. 23. The talk was 
one of a series arranged by the Boston 
Geological Society and other scientific 
groups. Professor Brown was the guest of 
The Chtb, Springfield, Mass., Dec. 7, and 
spoke on "Journey to the Centre of the 
Earth." 

Professor R. E. Gilman of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics spoke on "Magic 
Squares" before the Mathematical Club of 
Connecticut State College at Storrs, Nov. 7. 

PROFESSOR Lindsay T. Damon of the 
English Department was the Brown dele- 
gate to the annual meeting of the American 
Association of University Professors in 
Chicago, Nov. 26 and 27. Professor Leon- 
ard Carmichael of the Department of Psy- 
chology is president of the Brown Chapter 
of the Association. 

Professor Ben W. Brown of the English 
Department was the speaker at the last 
quarterly meeting of the Rhode Island 
State Nurses' Association. His topic was 
"Opening the New York Season in the 
Theatres." 

Professor J. D. Tamarkin of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics lectured at Haverford 
Colleee Nov. 10 on "Summability." His 
audience included students and members of 
the Faculty of Haverford, and colleagues 
from Bryn Mawr, University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and Swarthmore. On his way home 
Professor Tamarkin was a guest for a day 
at Princeton. 

Assistant Dean C. H. Currier has re- 
turned to his desk in the Administration 
Building after a vacation spent in Florida 
and with friends in Washington, D. C. 



Professor R. C. Archibald of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics attended the meeting 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
ences in Boston, Nov. 14. He is a member 
of the library committee of the Academy. 

Professor Hans Kurath of the Depart- 
ment of Germanic Languages and Litera- 
tures spoke before the ladies of the Faculty 
at the Faculty Club Nov. 16 on "The Lin- 
guistic Atlas." He discussed dialects in New 
England and illustrated numerous observa- 
tions with phonograph records he has made. 

Professor J. M. Morse of the Department 
of History presented, with comments, "The 
Eve of the Revolution," a moving picture 
from the "Chronicles of America" series, 
at the first Ladies" Night of the current sea- 
son at the Faculty Club, Nov. 24. The 
"Chronicles of America" series was given 
to the University by Mrs. George St. John 
Sheffield. 

Professor Theodore Collier, chairman of 
the Department of History, has been giving 
a series of four lectures on current events 
at the Y.M.C.A., Attleboro, Mass., under 
the auspices of the Massachusetts State Fed- 
eration of Women's Clubs. 

Professor Thomas Crosby was the reader 
when the Providence Symphony Orchestra 
and its chorus performed Dr. Wassili Leps' 
(honorary 1934) composition "Andon" for 
the first time in Providence, Nov. 20. Ber- 
rick Schloss '04 was one of the soloists. 



Poetry's Honorable Mention 

BY vote of the editorial staff of "Poetry, 
A 'Magazine of Verse," Professor S. 
Foster Damon of Brown University has 
been awarded honorable mention in the 
publication's annual announcement of out- 
standing poems submitted during the year. 
Professor Damon's contributions were 
Three Lyrics, which the magazine published 
in March, part of a long Puritan epic on 
which Professor Damon has been working 
for several years. 



Activities of the Brown Clubs 



Broicji £ngi7ieers 

HERBERT M. Knight, engineer with the 
Maryland Casualty Company, was 
the guest speaker at the meeting of 
the Brown Engineering Association in the 
El Patio room of the Hotel Wentworth, 
New "i'ork City, Oct. 30. He gave a com- 
prehensive talk on surety and bonding, the 
earliest references to which, he said, are 
found in several books of the Bible. After 
explaining the functions of surety with 
particular reference to the engineer, Mr. 
Knight developed his subject with thorough- 
ness, called upon his keen and active mem- 
ory to illustrate many of his points from 
personal experience, and held the strict 
attention of his auditors. 

Dean Samuel T. Arnold was also present 
at the meeting. President Wayne M. Faunce 
'21 outlined the activities of the Association 
during the current year, and Sydney Wil- 
mot "09 gave a synopsis of the annual Prov- 
idence meeting, Nov. 3. 



Eighty-five members and guests were on 
hand for the Providence meeting at the 
Brown Outing Reservation in Greenville — 
a record number. President Faunce was in 
the chair, and Professor W. H. Kenerson 
'96, chairman of the committee on arrange- 
ments, mentioned in his talk the serious ill- 
ness of Professor John E. Hill. Alton C. 
Chick '19, recalling Professor Hill's fond- 
ness of flowers, suggested that flowers be 
sent Professor Hill with the greetings of the 
Association. This was voted. 

Joseph H. Stannard "15, the perennial 
toastmaster (and always in form), read let- 
ters from President Barbour, Dr. A. D. 
Mead and Professor J. P. Adams; and Dean 
Arnold, bringing the official welcome of the 
University, told about fraternity rushing, 
telephone service in the dormitories, finan- 
cial aid to students, and other topics of 
interest in his friendly way. 

Then the meeting was given over to Pro- 
fessor Zenas R. Bliss, navigator of Rainbow 
during the America"s Cup races of 1934, 



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who made a most entertaining and instruc- 
tive presentation of his duties and observa- 
tions as navigator, the construction of Rain- 
bow and Endeavour, essential points of dif- 
ference in the yachts, and methods of hand- 
ling. There were personal sidelights, too, 
which the audience enjoyed. But there was 
nary a word about protests, even though 
some of the questioners tried hard to draw 
Professor Bliss out on this explosive sub- 
ject. 

* * * 

Tv^etf Tor\ 

THE November dinner of the Brown 
University Club in New York at the 
clubhouse, Park Avenue at 39th Street, 
Thursday evening, Nov. 15, was a success. 
Governor Theodore Francis Green '87 of 
Rhode Island, recently re-elected by a larger 
plurality than in 1932, was the guest of 
honor and former Supreme Court Justice 
Norman S. Dike '85, who is celebrating his 
50th year as a member of the New York 
alumni body, presided. 

Nearly 150 alumni were present to hear 
Governor Green's excellent talk on Brown 
affairs. 

With Judge Dike and Governor Green 
at the head table were: L. St. Clair Colby 
'89, Hoey Hennessy '12, Colgate Hoyt '05, 
Dennis F. O'Brien '98, Edwin F. Greene 
'01, Herbert B. Keen '07, Ira Barrows '83, 
I. Hudson Gilhuly '87, and W. Russell Bur- 
well '15. At the special table for the Recep- 
tion Committee were: Ralph M. Palmer 
'10, Chairman, Eugene C. Myrick '90, 
Richard R. Hunter '98, George R. Cough- 
Ian, '97, Philip Lukin '24, Willard^ S. 
Richardson '94, William R. Dorman '92, 
Alexander Graham '06, Judge Charles B. 
Dana '99, Jeffrey S. Granger '13, William 
Chauncy Langdon '92, and Walter E. 
Johnson '89. 

Abner I. Gilbert '26 was the winner of 
the Brown Club squash racquets tourna- 
ment, defeating W. Thomas Hoyt '28 in 
the finals. The team's season opened Nov. 
21, seven matches with other metropolitan 
clubs being on the schedule. The team will 
be composed of the five best players of the 
following group: A. I. Gilbert '26, W. T. 
Hoyt '28, Richard Small '32, J. M. Curtis 
'30, G. R. Coughlan, Jr. '31, David H. 
Scott '32, G. S. Goodspeed '14, and George 
Lysle '28. 

* * sH 

Alta California 

A SPECIAL dinner meeting of the Brown 
Club of Alta California at the St. 
Germain Restaurant in San Francisco, Oct. 
26, brought together seventeen members of 
the Club to greet Dr. Alexander Meikle- 
john '93, the guest of honor. 

Following an autobiographical statement 
on the part of every one present, Nathaniel 
Blaisdell, President of the Club, introduced 
the speakers of the evening, George C. 
Channing '11 and Dr. Meiklejohn. Both 
stressed the character of the spiritual and 
intellectual background which Brown has so 
uniformly contributed to its outstanding 
alumni. In his characteristically charming 
and still convincing fashion. Dr. Meikle- 
john pleaded for tolerance and a human 
approach in the solution of current politi- 
cal and economic problems. After his 
formal address, he discussed the organisa- 
tion and progress of the program of adult 
education which he is directing in San 



Francisco. The following alumni were 
present: 

Nathaniel Blaisdell '85; George C. 
Channing '11; Ralph W. Chandler '04; M. 
K. Bennett '19; T. D. Woodbury '03; Prof. 
C. S. Mudge '11; Elmer J. Bunting '08; 
Harvey G. Denham "15; John W. Odin '27; 
David G. Goddard '24; Ernest E. Intle- 
house '26; Philip F. Brown '19; S. Watson 
Smith '19; S. Lyman Mitchell '12; Clare S. 
Johnston '11; Rev. Stacy R. Warburton '98; 
Prof. T. H. Goodspeed '09. 

"Alta California" was the designation 
given to northern California by the early 
Spanish settlers, and the club of Alta Cali- 
fornia is thus open to membership on the 
part of all alumni or former students of 



Brown who live in California north of 
Bakersfield. Through the untiring efforts of 
Mr. Blaisdell a representative organization 
is being built up. It is hoped that the interest 
and cooperation of a still larger number of 
northern California alumni can be enlisted 
so that the annual meeting next February 
will be an outstanding success. 

George C. Channing '1 1 will be chairman 
of the sub-freshman committee of the Club. 
Serving with him are Lt. Col. LeRoy Bart- 
lett '02, Oakland, S. Lyman Mitchell '12, 
Kentfield, Harvey G. Denham '15, and 
David G. Goddard '24, San Francisco. 
T. H. Goodspeed 
(University of California) 

Secretary 



Topics of Alumni Interest 



Building Loyalty Early 

A DISCUSSION on the building of under- 
graduate loyalties provided fruitful 
dinner conversation at the November 
meeting of the Executive Committee. It was 
recalled that a year ago Vice President 
Adams had described aspects of a definite 
University program in this regard. At that 
time, too, the President of the Associated 
Alumni had written to Professor Adams, 
expressing the belief that "the subject is 
now sufficiently well thought out and that 
it should be reduced to writing as a formal 
program . . . and some one placed in charge 
with definite responsibility for details and 
for performance on schedule." 

Sitting with the Committee was Professor 
Zenas R. Bliss, Faculty member of the 
Board of Directors, who spoke of the great 
need to disclose to Freshmen the difference 
between school and college education and to 
awaken in them a zest for work. He favored 
assigning to Freshman classes those pro- 
fessors with the most outstanding teaching 
ability. 

He described the work of the Division of 
Engineering to develop esprit de corps 
among the student engineers through per- 
sonal contacts with their professors, use of 
the Brown Outing Reservation, and the 
active efforts by the staff to make the first 
and second-year courses appealing. He said 
that Sophomore engineers no longer remap 
the Brown campus annually but now come 
back to college two weeks before opening 
day and do all their surveying work at the 
Outing Reservation in Greenville. The work 
and the camp life together prove an enjoy- 
able and unifying experience. Professor 
Bliss also praised the efforts of the Depart- 
ment of Chemistry to keep close contact 
with its students. 

* * * 

To Encourage Sailing 

STIMULATION of undergraduate sailing 
may shortly become a project of the As- 
sociated Alumni if favorable action is taken 
on a suggestion made by Sidney Clifford 
'15 at the last meeting of the Executive 
Committee. "With natural resources in Nar- 
ragansett Bay inviting just such a program, 
considerable interest has been shown by 
undergraduates in boating without much 
outside encouragement. They have organ- 



ized a Brown Yacht Club, and individual 
members have raced in star-boats and frost- 
biters. 

The Executive Committee agreed that 
here was a field for activity in which Brown 
would be unique if yachting could be de- 
veloped on a generous scale. Just as Dart- 
mouth has capitalized on its setting for Out- 
ing Club activities, so might Brown make 
increasing use of the opportunities afforded 
by Narragansett Bay and make the Uni- 
versity "a more attractive and colorful 
place." The idea is still in embryo, and the 
Committee was not sure in just what direc- 
tion its encouragement might be most 
practical. 

Other business at the November meeting 
of the Executive Committee included the 
election of John Monk '24 of Chicago to the 
Board of Directors of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly. Lawrence Lanpher '23, Chair- 
man of the Class Reunions Committee, was 
asked to include the Association of Class 
Secretaries in the meeting of his committee 
to be held early in December. 

Charles J. Hill '16, reporting for the 
Alumni Co-operative Admissions Program, 
said that five favorable replies had already 
been received to the letter sent to Brown 
Clubs asking them to name committees to 
work with him on the Co-operative Pro- 
gram. When he urged that his committee be 
increased, the President of the Associated 
Alumni was authorized to make additional 
appointments and to fill vacancies. 

The Executive Committee voted to rec- 
ommend to Professor J. P. Adams, vice 
president in charge of academic publicity, 
that moving pictures be made for the use 
of Brown Clubs and other Brown agencies 
showing Brown campus scenes, figures, and 
activities of the present time. 

Cleveland alumni have made the sugges- 
tion that a regional program be concen- 
trated in one of the Region's clubs for two 
years, with that club responsible for carry- 
ing out that program. It is probable that the 
proposal will be submitted to the Advisory 
Council of the Associated Alumni in 
February. The Cleveland suggestion was 
brought to the Executive Committee by Mr. 
Clifford, who recently visited the Brown 
Club in the Ohio city. He found Cleveland 
alumni enthusiastic and alive to what is go- 
ing on at Brown, with "a clear sense of 
direction in their activities." 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



1883 



A little late, yet it is fitting to record that 
Dr. Francis \V. Shepardson, national presi- 
dent of Beta Theta Pi, and Mrs. Shepard- 
son observed their golden wedding anniver- 
sary at Mackinac Island, Mich., Sept. 3, 
1934. The day was the opening one of the 
9?th general convention of Beta Theta Pi. 

1887 

Twenty-nine years a teacher and princi- 
pal in the Newport, R. I., public schools. 
Dr. Clarence A. Carr retired Nov. 1, the 
day of his 70th birthday. 

"Dr. Carr has served his city faithfully 
and well," said the T^ewport Daily TsJeii'S 
editorially. "He takes with him the best 
wishes of all who know him and know of 
him. Hundreds of Newport people have 
reason to look back with pleasure to the 
time they spent as his pupils. They are bet- 
ter citizens because of his teaching." 

The editorial referred to the changes that 
have taken place in schools and in educa- 
tional methods since Dr. Carr began his 
teaching career in 1887 and added that Dr. 
Carr has been "progressive and has kept up 
with the times." It also told of his interest 
in children whose progress in studies was 
slow and said that "with these backward 
pupils he was patient and persevering." 

On the day of his retirement, which was 
the result of the provisions of the school 
law. Dr. Carr received an "unexpected but 
impressive tribute from members of the 
School Committee, the city government and 
his church." His visitors, including Mayor 
Mortimer A. Sullivan and Rev. Stanley C. 
Hughes, rector of Trinity Church, took him 
by surprise, and in the presence of the 
assembly of Mumford School, praised him 
for his work as teacher, churchman and citi- 
;en, and wished him many pleasant things 
in retirement. Later the teachers gave him a 
birthday party, and a birthday cake to cut. 

Dr. Carr, taking his A.B. in 1887 and his 
A.M. in 1890, taught at Coddington School, 
Newport, from 1887 to 1892. He resigned 
to study dentistry at Harvard, won his 
D.M.D. in 1895, and practised until 1911. 
Then he returned to teaching and in 1912 
became principal of Mumford School. He is 
president of the Brown Club of Newport, 
secretary of the Class of 1895, Harvard 
Dental School, and secretary of his class at 
Brown. 

1888 

Capt. Ernest H. Brownell, C.E.C., U.S.N., 
retired, has changed his address from See- 
konk, Mass., to 20 Sea View Avenue, New- 
port, R. I. 

1893 

Miss Mary Vincent Weeks, daughter of 
Edward H. Weeks and Mrs. Weeks, was 
married on Nov. 28 to Stuart Riley of 
North Attleboro, Mass. 

1894 
A. E. Thomas's popular play, "Just Sup- 
pose," was one of the first that Mary Pick- 
ford chose for her radio broadcasts during 
the fall. "Just Suppose," as most of us 
know, is a sentimental drama of the love of 
a European heir-to-the-throne for an Amer- 
ican girl. A success in New York, it has 
been a favorite with stock companies for 
years. 



1895 

Stafford C. Edwards was a visitor to the 
Brown campus last month for the first time 
in years, and was greatly interested in the 
changes that had taken place. He is now a 
resident of Colton, Calif. His avocation is 
collecting and polishing geological curios, 
such as geodes and the like, and his section 
of California and Arizona, too, where he 
lived for a while after leaving the East, are 
fertile fields of search. While he was on the 
campus he spent most of the time with Pro- 
fe-ssor C. W. Brown "00 of the Department 
of Geology. 

1896 

Mayor Frederick A. Jones of Cranston, 
who retires from office at the end of this 
month, has been sers'ing as honorary chair- 
man of the Cranston Community Fund. 

Dr. Haven Metcalf, head of the Division 
of Plant Pathology, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, has been a recent New 
England visitor, coming from Washington 
to help organize a New England committee 
to fight the Dutch Elm disease and make 
plans for a campaign. The disease has 
already become serious in parts of New 
York and New Jersey. 
1897 

Dr. John H. Cox, Professor Emeritus of 
Philology, West Virginia University, of 
whose retirement we told last month, is 
visiting relatives in St. Louis, Mo., and the 
South. He left Morgantown after voting on 
Nov. 6 for St. Louis, and he plans to be 
away from home until next spring. "Should 
you happen to see any of the '97 men, 
please give them my kindest regards," he 
writes. 

Byron S. Watson has become president 
and director of the Rhode Island Insurance 
Company, president and director of the 
Merchants Insurance Company, and presi- 
dent and director of the Cheapside Land 
Company, all of Providence. He succeeds 
Emil G. Pieper, resigned. His father, the 
late Arthur H. Watson, was an original di- 
rector of the Rhode Island Insurance Com- 
pany, which began operations in 1905. 
1898 

Judge Henry D. C. Dubois was chairman 
of the committee which arranged the pro- 
gram for the opening day of the 75th an- 
niversary of Calvary Commandery, No. 13, 
Knights Templar, in Providence last month. 

1899 

Guilford C. Hathaway and Mrs. Hath- 
away of Fall River, Mass., have announced 
the engagement of their daughter. Miss 
Ellen Hathaway, to Elton W. Follett of 
Des Moines, la. Miss Hathaway is a grad- 
uate of Emerson College and Mr. Follett 
went to Grinnell College in Iowa. 

The always welcome note has come from 
H. H. Mallory, saying that he has left Mal- 
loryfarm. West Springfield, Pa., for the 
warmer and more alluring climate for which 
Mount Dora, Fla., is more or less known. 

1900 
Dr. Joseph L. Peacock has returned to 
his duties as pastor of the First Baptist 
Church, Tarboro, N. C, after having made 
a tour of eleven countries during the sum- 
mer and early fall. While in Jerusalem he 
had lunch with United States Consul Ely E. 



Palmer "08 at the consulate. He says that 
the United States "may be proud of the 
personality and efficiency of a man like 
Consul Palmer. He has won the hearts of 
all who work under him and of those who 
have business dealings with him. Mr. 
Palmer is very happy in his new post."" 

1901 

Herbert C. Low's daughter. Miss Vir- 
ginia Burtt Low, graduate of Wellesley '34, 
and James T. Chirurg of Newton Centre, 
Mass., who received degrees from M. I. T. 
in 1927 and 1929, were married in Brock- 
ton, Mass., Oct. 22, 1934. Among the 
bridesmaids were Miss Polly Packard, 
daughter of Sumner T. Packard "95 and 
Miss Marion Leonard, sister of Warren P. 
Leonard "30. The ushers included Davis P. 
Low "33, brother of the bride, and Cory 
Snow "31. Among the guests were C. Ches- 
ter Eaton and Dr. Harrison A. Chase "01, 
James S. Allen '98, former president of the 
Associated Alumni, and William S. Brines 
"34. There was, indeed, a real Brunonian 
aspect to the occasion. 

William C. H. Brand was reappointed 
Town Solicitor of East Providence at the 
first meeting of the new Town Council last 
month. 

Frank A. Page, member of the Provi- 
dence School Committee for three years, 
resigned last month to accept appointment 
as director of business affairs of the Provi- 
dence School Department. The resignation 
is to take effect as soon as a successor is 
elected — which will be Jan. 15, or there- 
after. Page"s new duties, according to Alex- 
ander J. Stoddard, Superintendent of 
Schools, will be largely concerned with 
School Department purchases, but that oth- 
er work will also be assigned. Fellow mem- 
bers of the School Committee have found 
Page "sincere, painstaking, capable and 
absolutely interested in the welfare of the 
public schools system." 

Col. G. A. Taylor, U.S.A., retired, writ- 
ing under the pen name of G. A. Jewett- 
Taylor, is the author of the lyric Spanish 
song, "Dolorosa," for which E. A. Kings- 
ley has composed the music. At its premiere 
at the convention of the New England Ki- 
wanis in Springfield, Mass., the song re- 
ceived favorable press notices. A copy has 
been sent to the Brown Musical Clubs of 
which Professor A. B. Hitchcock is coach. 
Lawrence Tibbett has also acknowledged 
receipt of a copy from the author and the 
composer. The song was first sung by the 
Hampshire Male Chorus, made up largely 
of church soloists, of which both Messrs. 
Taylor and Kingsley are members. 

1902 

Dr. James W. Leech and Mrs. Leech of 
Providence have announced the engage- 
ment of their daughter. Miss Eleanor Leech, 
to Stephen G. Williamson, Jr., of Lock 
Haven, Pa. 

E. K. Aldrich, Jr., judged the Schipperkes 
at the Philadelphia Dog Show, Nov. 16 and 
17. He was also judge of the same breed at 
the Storm King Show, Cornwall, N. Y., in 
September. He continues to breed Schip- 
perkes and Salukis (a rare breed at the 
present time) at his Diamond Hills Ken- 
nels, Cumberland, R. I. 

Charles B. Coppen was defeated for State 
Senator from Providence on the Republican 
ticket at the election in November. His 



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talks over the radio were among the best 
delivered of the campaign in Rhode Island, 
a fact not altogether surprising as one re- 
calls that in the earliest days of radio broad- 
casting Coppen was well known in Rhode 
Island and neighboring Massachusetts for 
his sports broadcasts at Aldrich Field and 
Brown Field. 

Arthur E. Munro, whose avocation in 
recent years has been raising turkeys in 
South County, R. I., for his Brown friends 
and acquaintances, had to disappoint all his 
customers at Thanksgiving because his set- 
tings last spring just didn't hatch. 

1904 

Elisha C. Mowry's daughter. Miss Peggy 
Mowry, was an exhibitor in the Wellesley 
College art show of summer work. She 
studied in the class of John Frazier of 
Providence during the summer, and also 
traveled in the West, painting and sketch- 
ing. She is majoring in art at Wellesley, 
and is a member of the Wellesley College 
Symphony Orchestra and the Wellesley 
Choir. 

Ralph W. Chandler, resident secretary 
of the Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Com- 
pany, recently removed his office to the 
Russ Building, San Francisco. He lives at 
1242 Portola Drive in that city. 

1905 

The groundwork for the 30th Reunion 
of the Class next June is being laid. New- 
ton Hutchison and John Palmer of the Re- 
union Committee have already made en- 
gagements for feeding and entertaining us 
and will have a program to announce in 
due season. Is there any better time than 
the present to begin thinking about coming 
hack next June? 

Dr. Niles Westcott, who helped organize 
the Society of Stukely Westcott Descend- 
ants, was an active figure at the 1934 Re- 
union at the Oak Lawn, R. I., farm of the 
family, now his property and held in the 
family in direct lineage since colonial days. 
Dr. We.stcott is treasurer of the national 
society. He will soon begin another year as 
assistant superintendent of Butler Hospital, 
Providence. 

Arthur N. Potter's present address is 
9411 86th Road, Woodhaven, N. Y. Re- 
port is that Potter is in poor health and has 
had to give up his school work temporarily. 

W. R. Hickman, in the lumber business 
under his own name at 642 Hanna Build- 
ing. Cleveland, O., said in a letter last 
month that he was going on a duck shoot- 
ing trip down the Carolina coast this 
month. He asked about B. B. (Chip) 
Wood, and added that he was "firmly of 
the belief that Brown is still the best col- 
lege for undergraduate training that there 
is in the country." Hickman's hobby is 
raising English springer spaniels and Eng- 
lish setters. 

E, Everett Harkness's daughter. Miss 
Hope Janet Harkness, is a Freshman at 
Pembroke College. Harkness is associated 
with the Hartford, Conn., office of the New 
England Mutual Life Insurance Company 
in the Hartford National Bank 6? Trust 
Building, 36 Pearl Street. 

1906 
Miss Margaret Lippitt Knight, daughter 
of Robert L. Knight and Mrs. Knight, was 
introduced to society at the Knight home 
in Providence, Nov. 30. There will be a 
dance for Miss Knight at the Agawam Hunt 
Club, Dec. 26. 



Alexander Graham's business, Advance 
Pattern Company, Inc., appears to be mak- 
ing progress. A recent note in the T^ew 
Tor}{ Heralci-Tnbune said that the company 
had leased another floor of the building 
which it occupies on 29th Street, New York 
City. 

1907 

R. F. (Pat) Brooks's son, Windsor, is 
carrying out his boyhood ambition to be a 
hotel man (the why of which ambition Pat 
himself cannot quite explain) by taking the 
course in hotel management at Cornell Uni- 
versity. Young Mr. Brooks, in a recent 
letter home, said that he liked the course. 
And he added: "I'm right behind the eight 
ball when I get into my apron and chef's 
hat!" 

John L. Curran, making his first bid for 
public office, was defeated last month as 
Republican candidate for State Senator 
from North Providence. He carried on a 
lively campaign; and if good speeches meant 
votes he would have led his Democratic 
opponent by a wide margin. 

One of the most enjoyable letters to come 
to our desk in a long time arrived last 
month from Fred S. Auty, whose home is 
still in Upperville, Va. Until October, Fred 
said, he had been active in a company 
making cleaning compounds and deterg- 
ents, with its plant in Baltimore. "Now," 
he added, "I am out on the highways and 
byways looking for a connection." He had 
Norman Case '08 down to his house in 
October for the amateur horse races. "The 
occasion was one of Upperville's two big 
days of the year — the Llangollen Races on 
the estate of Jock Whitney. Norman seemed 
to enjoy seeing 'how the other half lives'." 
Fred goes to Washington occasionally, but 
hasn't seen George Davis or Leon Truesdell 
for some time. He asked after Bill Rey- 
nolds, and Pat Brooks, and sent his best to 
"all the old timers." 

1908 

John J. O'Connor, re-elected to the 
United States House of Representatives on 
the Democratic ticket from the 16th New 
York District, is one of the veterans of the 
House, of which he became a member in 
1923, and is in line once more for the 
Speakership. 

Herbert K. Sturdy and Mrs. Sturdy have 
closed their house in North Attleboro, 
Mass., and left the rigors of a New England 
winter behind for a long stay in Florida. 

Ely E. Palmer's son, George E. Palmer, 
blossomed forth as an author with an illus- 
trated article in the feature section of the 
Providence Sunday Journal. Nov. 4, about 
his visit to a camp of the Bedouins in Pales- 
tine. In camp he was guest of Midgal 
Pasha, head of the Beni Sahkar tribe, and 
in his story he told of the food that he had, 
the joy ride he took, and the entertainment 
his host furnished him. The Palmers are 
living in Jerusalem, where Ely is American 
Consul General. 

Assistant Attorney General John J. 
Cooney''s mother died in Providence, Nov. 
1, 1934, after a short illness. Another son 
is Dr. Edward A. Cooney '22 of Newton 
Centre, Mass. 

1909 

William Davis Miller, student of Rhode 
Island history and of colonial customs and 
manners, recently engaged in a friendly and 
interesting controversy with Maud Howe 
Elliott of Newport, daughter of Samuel 
Gridley Howe of the Brown Class of 1821 



and a publicist and author of note, over 
the question of fox hunting in colonial 
Rhode Island. Mrs. Elliott is of the opinion ' 
that the squires of the Narragansett Coun- 
try and the Island of Rhode Island hunted \ 
with hound and horn after the manner of j 
their English cousins, but Miller reluctantly 
contends that this is a myth unsupported by 
evidence. 

'09 had a small reunion at the Andover- 
Exeter football game Nov. 10, under the | 
auspices of Fred Boyce, Professor of Physics j 
at Phillips-Andover. Chet Nourse, Chet 
Hardy and H. S. Chafee all met with Fred, \ 
as each of the three has a boy at Andover. ! 
Clarence Whipple also has a son there. i 

1911 
Robert Cushman Murphy and Mrs. Mur- 
phy of Bronxville, N. Y., announced last j 
month the engagement of their daughter, I 
Miss Alison Barstow Murphy, to Dr. Frank 
P. Mathews of New York, graduate of ; 
Princeton and Harvard Medical School. j 
Miss Murphy is a Senior at Vassar. She is ■ 
the author of "Every Which Way in Ire- 
land," which was published in 1930. ' 

1912 

Rev. Wilbur S. Deming, community mis- 
sionary at Ahmednagar, India, who is now 
on leave in the United States, has been mak- 
ing a tour of the Middle West for the 
American Board of Congregational Foreign 
Missions. At a Congregational conference 
at Geneva Lake, Wis., he met Edgar G. 
Buzzell, who had not seen Deming for 22 
years. 

"The upshot was that Deming came 
home with us for the night," Buzzell re- 
ported, "and two weeks later dropped off 
again (at Delavan, Wis.) on his way back 
from a trip farther north in the State. 
While here we went over to visit Yerkes 
Observatory. At the weekly luncheon of 
Rotary, Deming talked on conditions in 
India, making a big hit with his first-hand 
views and fine delivery." 

Ed Buzzell himself is still raising high- 
grade eggs and poultry at Glen Eyrie Farm, 
Delavan, Wis., and getting a great deal of 
work and fun, too, in his various town jobs. 
He's supervisor of the town of Delavan, 
clerk of the district school board, president 
of the Walworth County Agricultural So- 
ciety, secretary and treasurer of the Dela- 
van Lake Improvement Association and, 
last but far from least, assistant chief of the 
Delavan Lake Fire Department. Inciden- 
tally, the D.L.F.D. is the only one of its 
kind in the country. It has five land units 
and a fire boat, and it protects miles of 
valuable territory about the lake, a favored 
summer resort of Chicagoans. It carries on 
by means of volunteer subscriptions and 
modest annual dues. 

Leon E. Smith is again serving as presi- 
dent of the East Providence Town Council. 

Rev. Dr. William L. Stidger of the Bos- 
ton University School of Theology was one 
of the principal speakers at the national 
convention of the W.C.T.U. in Cleveland, 
O., last month. He called war and liquor 
the two great evils of the world, according 
to the Associated Press, and said that "an- 
other constitutional amendment (prohibit- 
ing liquor) will come and it will come quick- 
er than the last one. And when it comes it 
will come to stay forever." 

Stanley P. Marsh has changed the ad- 
dress of his insurance office to 17 Court 
Street, Room 604, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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1913 

Professor F. H. Guild, chairman of the 
Department of Political Science at the Uni- 
versity of Kansas, is on a year's leave of ab- 
sence in Topeka, where he is acting as di- 
rector of the new State Legislative Refer- 
ence Council. Guild's job is to organise 
the work of the Council and to have the 
machinery ready to operate when the Legis- 
lature sits again. 

Kenneth S. Rice, member of the Faculty 
at the University of Maine since 1927 and 
head of the Department of Biology at 
Maine in 1933-34, is at the Medical Col- 
lege, University of Tennessee, Memphis, 
this year, doing research. 

Judge Ira Lloyd Letts of the United 
States District Court of Rhode Island was 
the subject of the first sketch of the "Now 
and Then in Rhode Island " series of which 
Garrett D. Byrnes '26 is writing for the 
Providence Evening Bitlletin. Pictures 
showed Judge Letts "as he appears today 
in his robe of offices and as a young man, 
when he was No. 1 debater for Brown Uni- 
versity." There was also a reproduction of 
the Letts business card (Eggs For Hatch- 
ing — Please Handle Carefully) which was 
used when the Judge was raising fancy 
poultry in Moravia, N. Y., for two years 
before he came to Brown. 

1914 

Robert S. Holding, Jr., is a director of 
the New England Council from Rhode 
Island for 1934-35. 

Kenneth Forward is back on duty in the 
English Department at the University of 
Nebraska, Lincoln, after having been on 
leave of absence for a year studying Eng- 
lish at Harvard. 

John T. Metcalf is an insurance broker 
with W. A. Alexander ii Company, 134 
South LaSalle Street, Chicago. John T. 
Metcalf, Jr., will be ready for college soon. 

Morgan W. Rogers is with Charles H. 
Philbrick, Inc., real estate and insurance, 
at 146 Westminster Street, Providence. He 
and his family are living in Wakefield, 
R.I. 

Lewis Barrington is an investigator with 
the Farm Credit Administration and is liv- 
ing at 2900 Connecticut Avenue, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Howard A. Brown is a member of the 
sales staff of Pacific Metals Company, Ltd., 
and is a resident of Hollywood, Calif., 
where he lives at 18421/2 N. Mariposa 
Avenue. 

James L. Cummings is teaching history 
at the Patchogue, N. Y., High School. 
1915 

Harold W. Tucker, running on the Re- 
publican ticket, was elected to the Town 
Council of Barrington, R. I., last month. 
Tucker's business, the Wallace 6? Tucker 
Lumber Company, is in Providence, but 
his home is at Nayatt Point in Barrington. 

Harvey G. Denham's new house address 
is 565 Washington Avenue, Palo Alto, 
Calif. Harvey is still with the Standard Oil 
Company of California, with his office at 
225 Bush Street, San Francisco. 

Charles M. Clegg is with the General 
Outdoor Advertising Company in Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Richard B. Wilson, still practising law in 
the old home city of Youngstown, reports 
his correct mail address to be 355 Alameda 
Avenue, Youngstown. 

Morgan B. Haven, member of the Class 



for two years, is agent for the Standard Oil 
Company of New York at New London, 
Conn., where he and Mrs. Haven and their 
daughter, Patricia, live at 42 Briggs Street. 

1916 
Everett G. Perkins is with Davenport 6? 
Company, consultant investment brokers, 
10 Post Office Square, Boston. He con- 
tinues to commute from his home city of 
Newburyport. 




PROF. ROBERT P. C.ASET 

T^ew C/iiiirmdTi o\ the Depdrtment o^ 

Biblical LiCfrdlure 



Louis E. Bauer is superintendent of the 
Niagara Alkali ^ Electro Bleaching Gas 
Company at Niagara Falls, N. Y. There 
are four youngsters in the Bauer family — 
Robert L., Margaret Louise, James M., and 
George W. Bauer, and we hope that in due 
time all three boys will head toward Brown. 

Harry H. Burton, vice president and di- 
rector of Slater Mills, Inc., is also a director 
of the First National Bank of Webster, 
Mass., where he lives at 38 Klebart Avenue. 

Henry B. Osborn is teaching French in 
the Bellows Falls, Vt., High School, and is 
at present, he tells us, working for a Mas- 
ter's degree at Columbia. 

Clayton L. Phillips is mechanical engi- 
neer with the Silex Company, Hartford, 
Conn., but he continues to live at 16 Car- 
mel Street, Hamden, Conn. 

George H. Wood, Jr., is a chemist with 
the Apponaug Company, which he joined 
this fall after having been with the United 
States Finishing Company since 1921. He 
and Mrs. Wood are living at 'Valentine 
Circle (Box 414) Apponaug, R. I. 

Irving T. Gumb is a member of the firm 
of Mace 6? Gumb, public relations counsel- 
lors, at 84 William Street, New York. He 
and Mrs. Gumb and their two sons, Irving, 
Jr., and Dana, live at 5 Bolton Gardens, 
Bronxville, N. Y. 

1917 
Robert N. Foote and his family have left 
Providence to make their home at 275 Pur- 



chase Street, Rye, N. Y. Foote is engaged 
in municipal finance work at 30 Broad 
Street, New York City. 

1918 

John M. Dowe, running for Congress on 
the Democratic ticket in the 2nd Connecti- 
cut District, made a great contest, but lost 
to his Republican opponent. Dr. William L. 
Higgins, by less than a thousand votes. 
Dr. Higgins was one of two Republican 
Congressmen elected in the State which, 
like all its neighbors, has gone violently 
Democratic in the last few years. 

Col. Dwight T. Colley was marshal of 
the Second Division of the Armistice Day 
parade held in Providence November 11. 
Veterans of the 26th (Yankee) Division 
marched under his command. 

Clifton I. Munroe and his family have 
recently changed their address to 36 Sta- 
dium Road, Providence. 

Lieut. Col. Peter Leo Cannon is the new 
commander of Die Wacht Am Rhein Post, 
No. 54, American Legion, of Providence. 

William H. Higgins, formerly with the 
Central Aguirre Sugar Company, Central 
Aguirre, Puerto Rico, has transferred his 
activities to Havana, Cuba, where he is an 
auditor with the International General Elec- 
tric Company. 

1919 

Dean Arthur G. Sellen of Washburn 
College, Topeka, Kan., was one of the 
speakers on this fall's program of the Em- 
poria, Kan., Y.M.C.A. dealing with campus 
rroblems. His subject was "The Faculty and 
Student." Sellen is an advisor of the Wash- 
burn Y.M.C.A., and active in the Kansas 
State Teachers' Association. 

1920 

George Podd recently became vice pres- 
ident of Howarth 6? Howarth, Chicago, 
public accountants whose specialty is hotel 
accounting. 

Edward W. Smith of the Smith Granite 
Company, Westerly, R. I., is a member of 
the code authority for the monumental 
granite industry. Ed represents the control 
committee of Division 4, embracing south- 
ern Rhode Island and Connecticut. 

1921 

Allan Colby and Mrs. Colby are now at 
home at 121 Race Avenue, Lancaster, Pa. 
Al is in the engineering department of the 
Armstrong Cork Company in charge of en- 
gineering for the metal cap department. 
"The work," he told us in a recent letter, 
"is varied and almost entirely of an experi- 
mental nature and therefore very interest- 
ing. Dick Almy '23 is here in the research 
laboratory and I see quite a bit of him." 

Clute Ely is manager of the sports de- 
partment of Marshall Field 6? Co., Chicago. 

In a recent advertisement in Books, The 
J^ew Tor/( Times, J. G. Edmonds set forth 
these facts about his work and himself: 
"Literary Agent. First novels, stories 
wanted. No advance charges. 5639 Rippey 
St., Pittsburgh, Pa. (or 108 West 85th St., 
N. Y.) Jim has been magazine founder and 
editor, newspaperman and traveler, and 
literary agent in the last ten years. 

Dr. William J. Nairn, running on an in- 
dependent ticket, was defeated for State 
Senator from the Third District, Provi- 
dence, in the election last night. Bill 
stressed the fact that he was independent in 
thought and in action, being tied to no 
party. He advocated a large increase in 
State aid for public schools. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brown Alumni Monthly 

Published at Brown University by the 
Associated Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 
Managing Editor 

ARTHUR BRAITSCH 'ZS 
Business Manager 

HENRY S. CHAFEE '09 
Managing DiTecIOT 

ALFRED H. GURNEY '07 

Secretary 

GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL -10 
PcmbToJfe Correspondent 

Subscriptions, $2 a year. Single copies. 25 cents. 
There is no i ssue during August or September. 

Entered at the Providence Post Office 
as second'class matter. 



Vol XXXV DECEMBER, 19,14 



No. 5 



Dr. James E. Breslin's father, James Bres- 
lin, died in Providence, Nov. 16, 1934. 
Mr. Breslin, Sr., was a Knights of Columbus 
Secretary in France during the World War, 
serving with the 26th Division until he was 
injured. His sons, Dr. Robert H. Breslin 
and our Jim, were with the A.E.F. in France 
at the same time, Dr. Breslin being with the 
103rd Infantry, 26th Division, and Jim an 
artillery instructor with the rank of First 
Lieutenant. 

Dr. Charles J. Fish came to Providence 
one night last month to give an illustrated 
lecture at The Plantations Club on under- 
sea life. Charlie is teaching this year at 
Rhode Island State College and is doing 
research into the State fisheries. 

1922 

Art Merewether and his handy airplane 
landed in Gotham, N. H., one day last 
month, and the Berlin, N. H., Reporter had 
this paragraph about their arrival: "Lt. Ar- 
thur Merriweather of the United States Air 
Service flew from Boston, Mass., to Gorham 
last Sunday and spent the day with his 
friend and former roommate at Brown Uni- 
versity, Mr. Royden S. Leavitt (1925). He 
arrived at noon during a blissard and had 
a hard time finding the landing field, owing 
to the poor visibility. He had to circle over 
the town twice before landing in the Gor- 
ham Airport. He reported the field in fair 
condition but in need of a little attention. 

"Lt. Merriweather was Capt. of the 
Brown Varsity baseball team at the time 
Mr. Leavitt played outfield. He is now sta- 
tioned at the East Boston Airport and is 
taking a special course in aeronautics at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." 

A welcome letter from Chapin Newhard 
in November reported him and his firm 
(Newhard, Cook & Co., members of the 
New York Stock Exchange) "healthy both 
in mind and body. While we are not mak- 
ing any money, we are not losing any." 
Chape also gave notice that as soon as he 
received the new class list he would start his 
campaign for contributions to the Alumni 
Fund. He concluded: "And speaking of 
the Brown Alumni Monthly, I think 
the boys who are handling it are doing a 
perfectly splendid job — with the exception 
of including Pembroke in it!" 

Bert Shurtleff is keeping hard at his fic- 
tion writing in between his hours of work 
at East Providence High School. One of his 
short stories, "The Spit;barren Face," a 
grisly one with the vampire motive, ap- 



peared in a recent issue of the Providence 
Erening BuiJetin. 

1923 

"Brittle Heaven," a play about Emily 
Dickinson by Vincent York and Frederick 
J. Pohl, made its bow to New York City the 
evening of Nov. 14, and the critics were 
unkind to it. Miss Dorothy Gish played 
the part of the poet and gave "one of those 
mettlesome performances that recommend 
her strongly to the admiration of theatre- 
goers." 

Brooks Atkinson, the Times reviewer, 
said: "Although a good many of the lines 
that Vincent York and Frederick J. Pohl 
have written for her (Miss Gish) are ob- 
viously authentic Dickinsonia, they are dif- 
ficult to speak and hard to believe in as 
spontaneous dialogue. . . . 'Brittle Heaven' 
never penetrates beyond period manners 
into the pent-up soul or a rare and original 
being." 

Percy Hammond, writing in the Herald- 
Tribune, seemed a trifle bored about having 
to write of another play dealing with Miss 
Dickinson. ("Alison's House" of several 
seasons ago also had Miss Dickinson as the 
heroine.) He thought it might be of value 
as "a speculative document," but that as a 
play it did not register. He concluded; 
"If you are a collector of the oddments and 
remainders of lit'rature, 'Brittle Heaven" 
may give you satisfaction . . . (but as a 
drama) it is too frail and flimsy for long 
life in the theatre of Times Square." 

Jerry Fisher is teaching mathematics and 
English at George J. West Junior High 
School, Providence. 

Robert A. Appleton is in the new busi- 
ness department of the Central Hanover 
Bank 6? Trust Company, 185 Madison Ave- 
nue, New York City. 

The Alumni Office has confirmed the 
death of Lawrence C. (Peg) Elmendorf in 
Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 3, 1934. A heart 
attack was the cause. He was on a train at 
the time of the attack and was taken to the 
Jersey City Medical Center. In recent years 
he had been a member of the sales staff of 
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company. He nev- 
er lost his interest in golf which he learned 
to play when he was nine years old, using 
clubs that his father made for him. Peg's 
fraternity was Phi Gamma Delta. 
1924 

Dave Jones is working for the Wallace 
Press in his home city of Chicago. 

Dick Wheeler, we hear, is in charge of a 
casting bureau in Kansas City, Mo. Jack 
Monk reports that Dick was in Chicago not 
long ago making contacts with radio sta- 
tions and local orchestras for talent. 

Fred Harvey is merchandise manager of 
the basement of Mabley £# Carew Company, 
department store, Cincinnati, O. He's liv- 
ing at 23 20 Bedford Avenue, East Walnut 
Hills. 

1925 

C. C. (Duffy) Myers, who is with the 
Sharpies Specialty Company, centrifugal 
engineers, Philadelphia, said in a letter re- 
ceived last month that his company had 
been having a good year in business and 
hoped for a substantial carry-over into 
193 5. Duffy said that he saw John Spell- 
man '24 wrestle in Camden twice and that 
he had lately heard from Ev Fellman down 
in Memphis. He asked about Fred Sweet 
and wished to be remembered to all his old 
cronies. 

E. A. Oakes's new house address is 214 
Riverside Drive, Apt. 74, New York City. 

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Joseph Santosuosso, Jr., is a law clerk at 
43 Tremont Street, Boston, and is living at 
201 Lake Street, Brighton, Mass. 

Philip M. Williams is a buyer for Hecht 
& Company, department store, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

John M. DriscoU, plant equipment en- 
gineer of the Brooklyn Edison Company, 
read a paper on "Ten Years of Stoker De- 
velopment at Hudson Avenue," at the an- 
nual meeting of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers in New York City, 
Dec. 6. 

1926 

Leslie A. Jones has finished his book 
about scene painting and hopes to have it 
published. He was scenic artist for the 
Vineyard Playei's at East Chop, Martha's 
Vineyard, Mass., last summer. In an issue 
of The Island Playgoer, which we came 
across not long ago, he had half a column 
given to his work for the Players and to his 
career as a scenic artist since he left Brown. 
"Although he has received offers to join 
the staffs of some of the famous Broadway 
studios," the article said, "he prefers to 
work in stock productions, and with small 
theatres when possible, for it is here that 
one's ideas can be carried out unhindered. 
Mr. Jones believes that the perfect stage 
setting is the one that is not noticed after 
the rise of the curtain. ... It must serve as 
an appropriate background only for the 
action of the play and not detract attention 
by showiness." 

W. J. J. Meldahl is doing duty for FERA 
as works director at the Walworth Com- 
pany, Elkhorn, Wis. 

Everett B. Gardner is secretary of the 
National Arena Association and is aiding 
plans for the winter to stimulate the in- 
door activities of the group, especially ama- 
teur hockey. The Association has affiliates 
in England and France, as well as in Can- 
ada. Gardner is with the Rhode Island 
Auditorium, Providence. 

Charlie Dixon, supervisor for the Shell 
Oil Company in the Providence district, 
was scout for the Brown football eleven 
during the season just ended. 

Abner Gilbert, one of the squash rackets 
stars of the Brown University Club in New 
York, got as far as the semi-finals in the 
annual tournament of the Eastern Squash 
Rackets Association in New York last 
month. A high school boy named Stanley 
Galowin, who was unorthodox enough to 
use both hands in his play, beat Gilbert. 
1927 

Charlie Goulding, back in New York 
City for his second year of graduate work 
at Columbia, is supplementing his studies 
with part-time teaching. 

The society correspondent of the Proi;i- 
dence Sunday journal for Attleboro penned 
this paragraph in a recent issue: "Mr. and 
Mrs. S. J. McCormick had as guests at their 
County Street home during the week Mrs. 
William McCormick and Miss Elva Mc- 
Cormick of South Manchester, Conn., Mr. 
Stanley McCormick of Hartford and Mr. 
J. Lee of San Francisco." 

Arthur B. Cleaves, instructor in geology 
at Lafayette, was the subject of a feature 
write-up in one of the fall issues of The 
Lafayette, the student weekly newspaper. 
The reporter told of Art's trip during the 
summer to the Brasilian jungle in search of 
jaguars, deer, puma, as well as geological 
specimens, and noted the fact that Brian 
O'Neill of the Class of '34 at Lafayette was 
also in the party. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



W. J. Jack Nelson is living at Blind 
Brook Lodge, Rye, N. Y. He continues in 
aircraft insurance work with United States 
Aviation Underwriters at 80 John Street, 
New York City. 

Ernest S. Brown is headmaster of Bel- 
mont High School, Belmont, N. H. 

Dr. Howard E. Thompson is practising 
dentistry at 33 Speedwell Avenue, Morris 
Plains, N. J. He won his D.D.S. at Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1929. He was 
married June 10, 1934, to Miss Elisabeth 
Potter Clark, and he and Mrs. Thompson 
are now settled at 20 Fairchild Avenue, 
Morris Plains. 

1928 

Ed Frazee, in association with Philip G. 
Woodward, is carrying on an investment 
business under the name of E. P. Frazee 6? 
Co. at 1 1 Wall Street, New York City. 

One of the New York newspapers in its 
radio column a short time ago carried this 
paragraph: "Announcer Frank Singiser, it 
developed in an interview the other day on 
NBC with Nellie Revell, is the owner of a 
gas-filling station at Amityville, L. I. Ac- 
cording to a Revell-ation the walls of the 
office are papered with all kinds of college 
degrees and insignia, Singiser being a grad- 
uate of Brown University." 

Stanley H. Smith, Jr., has become a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Huddy 6? Moulton 
(E. Butler Moulton "07), 1801 Industrial 
Trust building. Providence. 

Louis B. Palmer is a member of the ex- 
ecutive committee of the Rhode Island 
Squash Rackets Association, representing 
the University Club of Providence. 

L. H. (Larry) Norton is a member of the 
sales staff of Remer, Mitchell 6? Reitzel, in- 
vestment securities, 208 South La Salle 
Street, Chicago. 

Alex Buchmann has moved again from 
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Calif., where 
he is national distributor of Paul Balfour 
champagne (there's a thought!) with his 
office at 3 576 Wilshire Boulevard. His mail 
address is 639 S. Commonwealth Avenue, 
Los Angeles. 

Dixwell Goff is an apprentice machinist 
with the Brown (i Sharpe Mfg. Company. 
His mail address is now 1 1 Hawthorne Ave- 
nue, East Providence. 

Nelson B. Jones, Jr., was one of the ac- 
tive workers in the recent Community Fund 
campaign in Providence. He made prelim- 
inary speeches and rounded up many of the 
contributors on the campus. Private advices 
are that his golf game improved to a slight 
extent during the past season. 

G. Richmond Carpenter of the city staff 
of the Proi'idence Evening BuUetin was en- 
tertained by fellow newspapermen at a 
bachelor dinner Nov. 21. Garrett D. Byrnes 
'26 and Richard H. Anthony '25 were in 
the party and shared in the gift made to 
Dick, whose marriage to Miss Evelyn Susan 
Umberhocker was announced to take place 
in Washington, D. C, Thanksgiving Day 
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Dick was for 
some time a member of the Washington 
staff of the Providence journal. 

1929 
Fred Chace undoubtedly holds the record 
at the present time for being the member of 
the Class farthest from College Hill. Latest 
news is that Fred is a mining geologist in 
the Bendigo gold field of Australia and that 
his address is Bendigo Mines, Ltd., Box 105, 
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. 



Douglas H. Borden and his family have 
changed their residence from East Provi- 
dence to 291 Cherry Street, Fall River, 
Mass. 

Ed Sulzberger's new house address is 21 
West 96th Street, Apt. 1 2D, New York 
City. 

Archie Smith has resumed his law prac- 
tice in Providence after having taken some 
time out to run for Councilman, First Ward, 
on the Democratic ticket at the last elec- 
tion. He failed to win a seat, but he had the 
satisfaction of leading his ticket in the 
Ward. 

1930 

Ed Sittler continues to promote the ice 
cream business and to keep in good health 
down in Uniontown among the Pennsyl- 
vania hills, "Perhaps I'll come back in 
February," he wrote last month. "I'm long- 
ing for the sight of Brown's elms (I'll not 
mention the football team). There's some- 
thing fine about Providence that stays with 
you." 

W. B. Bartlett, Jr., is with the Babson 
Statistical Organization and is living at 183 
Beacon Street, Boston. 

E. H. Wertheimer is with the Continental 
Baking Company at 8th and Clinton 
Streets, Hoboken, N. J. 

Raymond M. Safford sets himself down 
as commercial representative of the New 
York Telephone Company at 25 Hyatt 
Street, St. George, Staten Island, N. Y. 

A reliable report from Chicago not long 
ago said that Otto Kerner, Jr., had left the 
bachelor ranks flat, having married Miss 
Helen Cermak, daughter of the late Mayor 
Cermak of Chicago. We hope to have the 
date of the marriage and the address of the 
new Kerner household in the next issue of 
the Brown Alumni Monthly. Otto's 
father is Attorney General of Illinois, and 
Otto himself is practising law. 
1931 

Link Fogarty, Joe Schein and Vahe John- 
son played professional football during the 
fall, Fogarty with a New Jersey team, and 
Schein and Johnson with the Providence 
Steam Rollers, managed by Andy Rotelli 
'32. Schein was also assistant coach at Hope 
Street High School. 

Al Gell is somewhere in the neighborhood 
of Boulder Dam, where he is in charge of 
work which his firm, Babcock ^ Wilcox, 
is doing at the dam, Al has about 150 men 
under him, one of whom, we hear, is Lewis 
McCullough, who wanted to get out in the 
wide open spaces and has succumbed to his 
inclination. 

Paul Monahan wrote one of the leading 
articles, "Cochrane Leads Detroit to Pen- 
nant," in the October number of T/ie Cross 
and Crescent, the magazine of Lambda Chi 
Alpha. Gordon Stanley Cochrane, alias 
Mickey, was a member of the Lambda Chi 
Alpha chapter at Boston University. 

Gibbs Macdaniel and Keith K. Richard- 
son have announced the formation of Mac- 
daniel, Richardson 6? Co., to deal in invest- 
ment securities at 1828 Alamo National 
Building, San Antonio, Texas. 

Vaughan Bailey, we are told, is still doing 
lumbermen a good turn by staying in the 
lumber business in his home city of Union- 
town, Pa., looking for the day when a build- 
ing boom will really get under way. 

Richard P. Eldridge is teaching Greek 
and Latin at Williams College. 

Kent Allen, according to report, is with 
the Eaton Manufacturing Company, paper 
makers, Pittsfield, Mass. 



Rollo G. Silver, said a note in the 'Hew 
Torl{ Times Book Review of Nov. 18, "is 
preparing an edition of the correspondence 
of Walt Whitman and will be glad to hear 
from any of our readers who possess letters 
or postcards written by the poet." 

Boardman (Benny) Leonard has quit 
rusticating in New Jersey and has come 
back to New York City, where he is at 150 
East 73rd Street for the winter. 

Willard V. Thompson is with the Ram- 
sey Petroleum Corporation on the 30th 
floor of the Ramsey Tower, Oklahoma City, 
Okla. 

1932 

Lawrence Battistini, who is teaching in 
Middletown, Conn., has completed a year's 
research into the subject of responsibility 
for the World War, one of his pet subjects. 
He believes Count Berchtold, Austrian Min- 
ister of Foreign Affairs, more culpable than 
any other single person. He says that on 
several occasions before the beginning of 
the war in 1914 Germany and Italy stopped 
Berchtold from plunging Europe into war- 
fare. 

Jim White is learning the fundamentals 
of banking with the Northern Trust Com- 
pany, Chicago. 

Dal Dall'Ava is working for the Bergen 
County Road Department in Hackensack, 
N. J. His house address continues to be 860 
River Drive, Garfield, N. J. 

John B. Rae is continuing his studies in 
the Department of History at Brown with 
his eyes on a Ph.D. He received his Master's 
degree in June. 

M. M. Perrett, who received his J.D. de- 
gree from the University of Chicago Law 
School in June, is practising law at 1414 
East 59th Street, Chicago, 111. 
1933 

Courtney Langdon is teaching this year 
at Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H. He is 
director of the Junior School and is assisting 
in supervision of Cary House. In 1933-34 
he taught at Fenn School, Concord, Mass. 

Mack Hughes is with the Bankers Trust 
Company at 14 Wall Street, New York 
City. He commutes daily from his home at 
224 Brookside Avenue, Mt. Vernon. 

Bill Mansfield, Jr., is national advertis- 
ing manager of the McKeesport (Pa.) Daily 
Hews, of which his father is editor. 

Dick Holman. working on the Pacific 
Coast for the Diamond Match Company, 
has shifted his headquarters from San Fran- 
cisco to Portland, Ore., but we understand 
that he prefers to have his mail sent to 605 
Spring Street, Seattle, Wash. 

Ed Hart reports that he is owner and 
manager of the Hart Bottle Goods Company 
at 5 50 Summer Street, Lynn, Mass. He and 
Mrs. Hart and Edward G. Hart, Jr., two 
years old, are living on Main Street, Lynn- 
field, Mass. 

Archie Matteson, Jr., and Mrs. Matteson 
have changed their address to 374 Chestnut 
Hill Avenue, Boston. Archie was recently 
transferred from the New York to the Bos- 
ton unit of the National Credit OiRce, with 
which he is an investigator. 

Dick Buzzell, who left Brown at the end 
of Sophomore year and who took his A.B. 
at Harvard last June, is now at Columbia 
School of Journalism. He has had practical 
experience as a reporter on the Manchester 
(N. H.) Union. 

S. Read Chatterton is now in his second 
year at the Hartford Theological Seminary, 
Hartford, Conn. We report his engagement 
in another column. 



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1934 

Dick Morse is in the actuarial research 
division of the Connecticut General Life 
Insurance Company, Hartford. 

Bob (R. M.) Hall, giving up plans to 
enter the Episcopal ministry, is enrolled at 
Columbia School of journalism as candidate 
for an A.M. there. His previous newspaper 
experience has been on the advertising side. 

John D. Hill, Jr., is a first-year student 
at General Theological Seminary, New 
York City, where he will prepare for the 
Episcopal ministry. 

Dan Earle has been named field executive 
for the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of 
America. He will work under Scout Execu- 
tive J. Harold Williams '18, giving partic- 
ular attention to the Newport, R. I., area. 

Bob Smith is a chemist with the National 
Aniline 6? Chemical Company in Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

Denver Evans, whose marriage is re- 
ported elsewhere in this issue, is studying 
architecture at the University of Southern 
California. 

4c ^ ^ 

ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Genevieve Reynolds Stotler, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stotler of 
Jackson Heights, N. Y., to William Avery 
Perkins "24 of Providence. 

Miss Nano Cotter Goddard, daughter of 
Mrs. George Hill Goddard of St. Louis, 
Mo., to Wentworth W. Mann '28 of Los 
Angeles, Calif. . 

Miss Edythe Louise Arbus, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Arbus of New York 
City, to Herbert Semel '29, also of New 
York City. 

Miss Margaret Ross Grimes, daughter of 
the Rev. and Mrs. Harry G. Grimes of 
Newburyport, Mass., to Scott Read Chat- 
terton '33 of Orange, Mass. 

Miss Priscilla W. Lewis, daughter of Mrs. 
Warren Lewis of Providence, to Donald 
Gardner '33, also of Providence. 

Miss Edith Jaeger, daughter of Mr. and 

Mrs. Albert Jaeger of East Greenwich, to 

Lester Ingle, Sc.M. '34, of Howard, Kan., 

and Providence. 

^ ^ ^ 

WEDDIKGS 

1926 — Ormond B. Cook and Miss Fran- 
ces Van Horn Sturtevant, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. William I. Sturtevant, were mar- 
ried in Pawtucket, Nov. 8, 1934. They are 
at home at 100 Taft Avenue, Providence. 

1929 — Mitchell A. Orens and Miss 
Roselle Roener, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel J. Roener, were married in New 
York City, Oct. 12, 1934. 

1930 — L. Metcalfe Walling, son of Judge 
Everett L. Walling '96 and Mrs. Walling, 
and Miss Frances Slosson Holliday, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Alexander R. Holliday, were 
married in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 10, 
1934. They are living at 1 5 Arnold Street, 
Providence. 

1930 — Warren C. Henny and Miss 
Eileen Katharine Porzer, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Herbert R. Porjer, were married 
in Bloomfield, N. J., Nov. 5, 1934. They 
are living in Lake Hopatcong, N. J. 

1930 — Paul E. Ochs and Miss Dorothy 
Delano Luce, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. 
Frank L. Luce of Rockland, Me., were mar- 
ried in New York City, Nov. 10, 1934. 
They are living in New York City. 

1931— William G. Schofield and Miss 
Blanche Mary Hughes were married in 



Pawcatuck, Conn., Nov. 21, 1934. They 
will make their home at 78 Morgan Street, 
New Bedford, Mass. 

1932 — Henry F. Dunkerton and Miss 
Mary Louise DeWindt, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. J. P. H. DeWindt, were married 
in Bayside, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1934. They are 
now at home at 41-08 Parsons Boulevard, 
Flushing, N. Y. 

1933 — Francis H. Gary and Miss Evelyn 
Burroughs were married in Fall River, 
Mass., last month. They expect to leave this 
month for St. Petersburg, Fla., where they 
hope to remain for the winter. 

1933 — Orville P. Stillman and Miss 
Marion Louise Blechman, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Simon Blechman of Coatesville, 
Pa., were married in Plainfield, Conn., Dec. 
31, 1933, it was announced last month. 
They are living at 71 Stanwood Street, 
Providence. 

1933 — David S. R. McCall and Miss 
Florence Proctor Haley, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Edwin Haley, were married in 
Providence, Nov. 21, 1934. They will make 
their home in Providence. 

1934 — Denver E. Evans and Miss Nancy 
Porter, daughter of Dr. Emery M. Porter 
'06, were married in Phoenix, Aris., Nov. 
17, 1934. They are living at 1141 Brown- 
ing Street, Los Angeles. 

1934 — Robert L. Pottle and Miss Elvira 
Taft Hazelton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William F. Hazelton, were married in 
Providence, Nov. 3, 1934. Henry E. Stan- 
ton '34 was best man. They will live in 
Providence. 

1934 — David C. Moore, 3rd, and Miss 
Harriet Hamilton, daughter of Rolland 
Jerome Hamilton, were married in Bronx- 
ville, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1934. Robert R. Chase 
'33, J. Merrill Wright, Jr., '34 and Gordon 
McMilIen '3? were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. 
Moore are now at home in Bronxville. 

1934 — George C. Hogg and Miss Jessie 



Chace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
G. Chace, were married in Providence, 
Nov. 21, 1934. Donald P. Spencer '34 was 
best man. They will make their home in 
Birmingham, Ala. 

* * * 

BIRTHS 

1917 — To Mr. and Mrs. Dale Wylie of 
Lakewood, O., a son, Sheldon, Oct. 14, 
1934. 

1921 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Kirk 
of Woonsocket, a son, Donald Francis, 
Nov. 13, 1934. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Saul S. Gross- 
man of Providence, a second daughter, Ina 
Zelda, Oct. 20, 1934. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. George H. 
Gates of Cuyahoga Falls, O., a daughter, 
Anne Elizabeth, Nov. 2, 1934. 

1923— To Mr. and Mrs. John E. O'Neil 
of Providence a daughter, Rosemary, Oct. 
31, 1934. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. Ber- 
rian of Dumont, N. J., a son, John Lock- 
wood, Nov. 18, 1934. 

1924— To Mr. and Mrs. Mark Randolph 
Flather of Providence, a son, Charles Ran- 
dolph, Oct. 25, 1934. 

192?— To Mr. and Mrs. A. Butler Wil- 
liams of Providence, a second son on Oct. 
22, 1934. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Christopher 
Gunderson of Cambridge, Mass., a son, 
Tucker, Nov. 5, 1934. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson T. 
Wright of Woonsocket, a second daughter, 
Janice, Oct. 17, 1934. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Irving D. Had- 
ley of Lynn, Mass., a daughter, Joan Knight 
Gibbs, Oct. 30, 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. 
Clemence of Washington, D. C, a son, 
Theodore GrinncU, Nov. 1, 1934, at Brock- 
way, N. B. 



Those We Mourn 



Professor John E. Hill 

ASIDE from the mark he made as a 
teacher, he has left at Brown Uni- 
■ versity the lasting memory of a fine, 
sympathetic personality, made especially 
attractive by its piquant blend of intellectu- 
ality and humor." 

So it has been well written of Professor 
John E. Hill who died in Providence Nov. 
2, after having been ill during the summer. 
Professor Hill was the oldest active member 
of the Brown Faculty and would have re- 
tired as Professor Emeritus next June. 

One of the last acts of his life was to dic- 
tate a note to Professor W. H. Kenerson to 
say that he had never received a gift which 
touched him more deeply than the flowers 
sent him on behalf of the Brown Engineer- 
ing Association and that he thanked the 
Brown Engineers — "my colleagues" — for 
their kindness and friendly thought. 

"Johnny" Hill grew up with Brown. He 
came to College Hill under "Benny" An- 
drews in 1894 after having won his degree 
at Rutgers and having taught civil engineer- 
ing at Cornell. He became Assistant Profes- 
sor in 1895 and Professor in 1898. Rutgers 



conferred upon him in 1905 the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Science. 

"He was one of the most active members 
of the University Faculty," the Providence 
Journal said in an editorial, "being for 
many years chairman of the committee on 
student organizations, which, before the 
creation of the Athletic Council, was in 
control of athletics. For many years also he 
was acting registrar during the summer. For 
the last five years he was chairman of the 
committee on academic standing and a 
member of the committees on educational 
advice and direction, and student loans. He 
thus had extensive contacts with the student 
life of the University. 

"His many and varied society member- 
ships reflected a wide range of interests. 
These included the Brown Faculty Club, of 
which he had been treasurer and president, 
the Rhode Island Horticultural Society, 
over which he had also presided, and the 
American Iris Society, in addition to the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and various engineering 
societies. 

"His interest in horticultural focused 
itself in irises, of which he had grown 500 



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varieties and won prizes for new strains. 
His garden was a favorite resort of flower- 
lovers as well as of iris-fanciers." 

For thirty years, indeed, he studied many 
phases of gardening, from the principles in- 
volved in planning a garden to the ones 
which govern artistic arrangement of cut 
flowers. 

Professor Hill was a member of Phi 
Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Delta Phi. He 
was the author of a textbook, "'Shades and 
Shadows and Perspective," and he wrote 
articles for the scientific magazines. In an 
article in the Brown Alumni Monthly of 
January, 1929, he brought out clearly the 
diff^erence between coaching and teaching, 
saying: "Coaching is the absorptive method 
of instruction, teaching is the reasoning or 
thinking method of instruction. The aim of 
teaching is not to produce absorptive media 
but thinkers. A saturated sponge when 
pressed does not necessarily eject a clear 
liquid." 

He was married Dec. 19, 1894, to Miss 
Jessie Louis Gould of Newark, N. J. There 
were four children, the Misses Berenice, 
Audrey C. and Elsbeth Hill, with whom 
Professor Hill lived, and Miss Jessica Hill, 
now Mrs. Eugene A. Bond of Baltimore, 
Md. 



1893 

SETH How.\RD Chace. educator, civil 
worker and one of the well known 
school superintendents of New England, 
died at his home in Beverly, Mass., Oct. 24, 
1934, after a long illness. He was a past 
president of the New England School Su- 
perintendents' Association and had been 
superintendent of schools of Beverly for 21 
years. 

Born in East Freetown, Mass., Aug. 27, 
1871, the son of Scth Howard and H. 
Jennie (Cleaveland) Chace, he prepared for 
college at Bristol Academy, Taunton, Mass. 
After graduation from Brown with the de- 
gree of A.B., he became instructor in the 
University Grammar School, Providence. 
At the same time he continued his studies 
in education at Brown and in 1896 received 
his A.M. upon examination. During the 
school year 1895-96 he was sub-master 
of Attleboro High School. He served as 
principal of the Harwich, Mass., High 
School, 1896-98, and as superintendent of 
the Harwich School District from April, 
1898, to July, 1901. While at Harwich 
he studied at the State Normal School, 
Hyannis, and won his diploma in 1902. 

In 1901 he went to the Ayer-West Boyls- 
ton District of Massachusetts as superin- 
tendent. From 1906 to 1913 he was super- 
intendent of the Tewksbury-Dracut Dis- 
trict. Since 1913 he had been in charge of 
the Beverly schools and active in Beverly 
affairs, being a director of the Y.M.C.A., 
member of the Rotary Club and Chamber 
of Commerce and a leader in the Washing- 
ton Street Congregational Church. Before 
becoming president of the New England 
School Superintendents' Association he 
served as secretary for ten years. He was 
president of the Barnstable County Teach- 
ers" Association in 1901 and of the North- 
West Middlesex Teachers' Association in 
1903. He was also secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts School Superintendents" Associ- 
ation. His fraternity was Phi Delta Thcta, 

Chace was married in 1897 to Miss Alice 
Broadbent Macdonald, who survives, with 



two daughters, Mrs. Howard Eldredge of 
Shelburne Falls, Mass., and Mrs. Roland 
Tyler of Watertown, Conn. 

1894 

BENJAMIN Elbridge Martin, grammar 
school principal and a school man for 
most of the years since graduation, died at 
his home in Worcester, Mass., Nov. 13, 
1934. He had been teacher and principal in 
Worcester for 19 years. 

Born in North Swansea, Mass., Jan. 28, 
1871, the son of John E. and Mary E. 
(Read) Martin, he prepared at Barrington 
High School and the University Grammar 
School. At Brown he held the college record 
for the half-mile run, was active in fencing 
and taught at the University Grammar 
School, as well as tutored fellow under- 
graduates. After graduation he became an 
instructor at the University Grammar 
School, but resigned in June, 1895, to go 
into the real estate business in Swansea. 

He returned to school work in 1904 as 
principal of Fairlawn School, Lincoln, R. I. 
He was principal of Centre School, East 
Hampton, Conn,, 1905-06, and principal of 
the high school and superintendent of 
schools of Old Saybrook, Conn., 1906-09. 
He taught mathematics at B. M. C. Durfee 
High School, Fall River, 1909-10; was su- 
perintendent of schools of Chelmsford, 
Mass., 1910-15; principal of the Belmont 
Street Grammar School, Worcester, 1915- 
19: and principal of the Mason, Sever and 
Winslow Street Grammar Schools since 
1919. 

As a resident of Swansea he was a mem- 
ber of the board of trustees of the public 
library; town moderator; and a delegate to 
the Massachusetts State Republican Con- 
vention in 1904. He had been president of 
the Brown Club of Worcester County and 
the Worcester Principals" Club. He was 
chairman of the trustees and deacon of the 
Pilgrim Congregational Church, and a mem- 
ber of the Worcester Economics Club, the 
Worcester Teachers" Association, the Mas- 
sachusetts Elementary Principals' Associa- 
tion, and the Masons. He was married Aug. 
30, 1905, to Miss Bertha Frances Chace, 
who survives, with a son, Benjamin E. Mar- 
tin, Jr., and a daughter, Anna Chace Mar- 
tin "28, Pembroke. 

* * * 

1899 

ALBEE LovEjOY Ladd. engineer and for- 
, mer college professor, died in Minne- 
apolis, Minn., Oct. 1, 1934. He left Brown 
at the end of his Freshman year, went to 
work as an assistant civil engineer with the 
Great Northern Railway, and in 1904 en- 
tered the University of Michigan, from 
which he was graduated in 1908 with the 
degrees of B.S. in Civil Engineering and 
B.S. in Electrical Engineering. 

His son, Lieut. Gregory Albee Ladd, 
U.S.N., died in Hawaii in July, 1933. 

Ladd was born in Minneapolis, Jan. 23, 
1877, the son of Joseph W. and Emma G. 
(Lovejoy) Ladd. He prepared at the Min- 
neapolis High School, and after finishing 
the year 1895-96 on the Hill, returned to 
the Northwest to engage in construction, 
location and maintenance work with the 
Great Northern. After winning his degrees 
at Michigan he took charge of the con- 
struction of a steel-concrete bridge at St. 
Joseph, Mich., for the cities of Benton Har- 
bor and St. Joseph. He resigned at the end 



of a year to go back to the Great Northern; 
and in 1912 he left the Great Northern to 
become an instructor in mathematics ( 1912- 
13) and engineering mechanics (1913-14) 
at the University of Michigan. 

From 1914 to 1917 he was Assistant 
Professor of Engineering at Armour Insti- 
tute of Technology, Chicago, and from 
1917 to October, 1919, was in the United 
States Army as Captain and then Major 
of Engineers. He served at the Engineers" 
Depot, Hoboken, N. J., in the Personnel 
Office, Chief of Engineers, Washington, 
and as Depot Engineer Officer at Brest and 
La Pallice, France. 

Since 1919 he had been associated with 
the Osceola Mill and Elevator Company, 
Minneapolis: the Minnesota Highway De- 
partment; and the Winston Bros. Company. 
He was chief engineer for the Winston firm, 
and for several years prior to the depres- 
sion was in Colombia, S. A., building high- 
ways. He was married Nov. 19, 1902, to 
Mary Louise Gregory "01 (Pembroke), 
daughter of former Governor William 
Gregory of Rhode Island. Surviving are 
Mrs. Ladd and a daughter, Mrs. James K. 
Hill, and a grandson, Gregory A. Hill. 

Ladd was a member of Theta Delta Chi 
and the Society of the Sigma Xi. 



1901 

BYRON Lee Smith, survey and appraisal 
engineer, died at his home in Ramsey, 
N. J., Aug. 20, 1934, of coronary throm- 
bosis. His heart had been weakened some 
ten years previous by two serious attacks of 
pneumonia. He had just started his vaca- 
tion and was working about his place when 
the exertion overstrained him and he died 
in spite of prompt medical attention. Burial 
was in Newhurgh, N. Y. 

Byron Lee Smith was born June 4, 1876, 
at Bainbridge, Chenango County, N. Y., 
the son of James D. and Lucina M. Smith. 
He prepared for college at Oxford, N. Y., 
Union Academy, and entered Brown with 
the Class of 1901 in 1897. Graduated with 
his class with the degree of C.E., he entered 
the service of the Illinois Central Railroad 
as an engineer, remaining until 1904, when 
he became Assistant Engineer of the Gulf, 
Mobile and Northern Railroad. He held 
this position four years or until 1908. In 
1909 he became connected with the Survey 
Department of the Lawyers Title Guarantee 
Corporation in New York City, with which 
he remained until his death. He was con- 
nected with the White Plains, N. Y., office 
of its successor for the last two years. 

He was married April 7, 1915, to Eliza 
Clark Owen, of Newburgh, who, with a 
daughter, Mary Olney Smith, survives him. 
His fraternity was Delta Upsilon. 

Mr. Smith was a most likable man, both 
in college and throughout his life. Being 
rather quiet, and loving his home, perched 
on a wooded hilltop in the environs of 
Ramsey, he was perhaps less well known 
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bers of his class, but made warm friends 
of those who came to know him well. 

His chief avocation was music. He sang 
for some years in the McDowell Chorus of 
New York and was organist of the Archer 
Memorial Church at Allendale, N. J. He 
has transmitted his musical predilections to 
his daughter, who is now working for an 
A.B. in music at Oberlin College, Oberlin, 
O. His best friends say that he never spoke 
ill of another. — J. G. M. 

1919 

CLYDE Lester Driscoll, veteran of the 
World War and a successful teacher 
of French in private schools since gradua- 
tion, died suddenly in University City, Mo., 
Nov. 1, 1934. Since 1926 he had taught 
French at the St. Louis Country Day 
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and acted as coach of the second baseball 
team for several years. 

"A very able teacher of French," Robert 
H. B. Thompson, headmaster of St. Louis 
Country Day School, characteri:ed him in 
a letter to the Alumni Secretary. "He was 
profoundly interested in his subject and in 
the technique of teaching. He was also a 
most satisfactory member of the staff from 
the standpoint of his loyalty to the school 
and his careful performance of all his 
duties. 

"He made a study of the patios of the 
French Canadians, and was able to imitate 
it with remarkable precision. His sudden 
death is deeply mourned by all of us." 

Driscoll was horn in Livermore Falls, 
Me., Sept. 24, 1896, the son of Arthur W. 
and Maude L. (Chenery) Driscoll. He 
came to Brown from Livermore Falls High 
School and in June, 1917, enlisted in Bat- 
tery C, 103rd Field Artillery, went to 
France with the Battery (a unit of the 26th 
Division) and took part in all the engage- 
ments of the Division from the Chemin-des- 
Dames to the Meuse-Argonne. After the 
armistice he entered the University of Poi- 
tiers, came home in the summer of 1919 
with an honorable discharge from the 
Army, and won his A.B. at Brown in 1920 
(as of 1919). He taught French at the 
University of Michigan, the Mitchell Mili- 
tary School, the Guynn School of Concen- 
tration, Columbus, O., the Winchester, 
Mass., Day School and the St. Louis Coun- 
try Day School. 

During several summers he took parties 
of boys to Europe, taught English at a 



school in Tours, France, and acted as a 
tutor of French. He was married June 30, 
1926, to Miss Ruth Frazier, who survives, 
with his parents, a brother, Merwyn Driscoll 
of Palmer. N. Y., a sister, Mrs. Maurice C. 
Varney of Augusta, Me., and other rela- 
tives. He was a member of the Jefferson 
Club of St. Louis and of Alpha Tau Omega. 



1916, Honorary 

REV. Allyn King Foster, D.D., Bap- 
tist clergyman, educator and author, 
died in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 10, 1934. As 
student Secretary of the Board of Education 
of the Northern Baptist Convention he was 
at one time well known on the Brown cam- 
pus. His last visit, during which he spent 
several days on the campus, was in October, 
1927. From 1894 to 1918 he served pas- 
torates in the South, New England, and 
Brooklyn, N. Y., conducted the Foster 
School for Boys in Litchfield, Conn., and 
became an inspiring figure in the move- 
ment to educate the spirit as well as the 
mind of youth. Since 1920 he had been 
with the Northern Baptist Convention. The 
late President Faunce cited him as "minister 
of the Christian message, leader of historic 
churches, whose sympathy with all sorts and 
conditions of men has made the ancient 
gospel a present power." 

Dr. Foster also received the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Uni- 
versity of Vermont last June. He was a 
graduate of Baltimore City College and 
held an A.M. from Yale. 



Alumnae of Brown 

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



The Alumnae Council 

THE Alumnae Council meetings were 
held early this year — November 2nd 
and 3rd — so that the members could see 
the College while it is in session and visit 
some of the classes. It proved to be such a 
decided success that we shall probably 
adopt the plan as an annual custom. The 
opportunity to hear the members of the 
faculty in their own classrooms and to see 
the college girls in their activities more than 
offset the disadvantage of not having the 
dormitories at the disposal of the alumnae, 
as they would be in February. 

Classes were visited on Friday morning 
from nine to twelve. English, psychology 
and history were the favorite subjects. Fol- 
lowing luncheon in the Dean's dining room 
and the early American room, came a tour 
of the campus, which included the newly 
decorated East Hall, the Pembroke library, 
"where chapel used to be," but which has 
now been made most attractive for reading 
and study, and then the members made a 
tour of the men's campus, visiting the art 
gallery in Faunce House and the John Car- 
ter Brown Library. At three a special dance 
group, under the direction of Mrs. Hopkins, 
gave a delightful program in the Gymna- 
sium. This was immediately followed by an 
informal tea in the crystal room of Alumnae 
Hall at which the alumnae met the under- 
praduates who have won the alumnae 
scholarships. Constance Saunders '3 5, edi- 



tor of the Pemhro\e Record, spoke on the 
work of the undergraduate weekly news- 
paper, and Mary Fullerton '3 5, president of 
Freshman Council, explained the work of 
this year-old organization. An unusually 
fine musical program was presented during 
the tea by a trio consisting of Mary Eliza- 
beth Hinckley '37, her sister Lydia, and 
Catherine Chippendale '38. The girls were 
dressed alike in light blue lace and were as 
attractive as their program. They very 
kindly gave their services, although they 
are real professionals, whom we most 
highly recommend. 

The formal dinner given by Dean Morriss 
was followed by two most interesting speak- 
ers. Professor James H. Shoemaker who 
has just returned from Japan, and who dis- 
cussed the present Japanese situation, and 
Mrs. Dorothy Patton Lockwood '23, who 
has returned from five years in residence at 
the American College in Madura, South 
India. 

A discussion group for club representa- 
tives, led by Dorothy Oborne '24, repre- 
senting the New York Club, was held in 
the Alumnae Lounge on Saturday morn- 
ing at nine. This was immediately followed 
by the business session of the Council, 
which was held in the crystal room with the 
President, Alice Manchester Chase '05, 
presiding, Ruth Preston Saundersi '23, 
chairman of this year's Brown Alumnae 
Fund Committee, gave a clear-cut, business- 



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like and at the same time spontaneous re- 
port of the aims and policies of the Com- 
mittee and Gertrude Allen McConnell '10, 
Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Asso- 
ciation, gave a report of the District meet- 
ing of the American Alumni Council and 
also spoke of some innovations in our own 
Alumnae OfTice. 

The main business of the Council was the 
report of the Scholarship Committee and 
the plan which they presented for regional 
scholarships. Madeleine Kane Durfee '13, 
as spokesman for the Committee, told of 
the work which the Committee had done in 
assisting the administration in the choice of 
candidates for the alumnae scholarships. 
This work made them realize, as they never 
had done before, the need for more alum- 
nae scholarships. The regional scholarship 
plan as presented is so important and will 
be so far-reaching in its effects, if adopted 
by the Alumnae Association in June, that it 
is particularly desirable for every alumna 
to understand it. An outline of the plan is 
being printed. 

Since the subject of character building 
is occupying the minds of many college 
presidents at the present time, it was in- 
cluded in the Council program. Miss Mooar 
gave a splendid presentation of what is 
being done at Pembroke College in this 
respect and Dean Morriss and the mem- 
bers of the Council joined in the dis- 
cussion. 

The Council concluded with a luncheon 
in the cafeteria at which the speakers were 
Esme Maclntyre '3 5, who spent her junior 
year at the University of Glasgow, and Miss 
Kuo Ping Chou '3 5 from China. 

* * * 

Broum Alumnae Fund Folder 

THE folder which was sent out by the 
Brown Alumnae Fund Committee has 
brought much favorable comment. We like 
the spirit of this: "Your folder is most at- 
tractive. I can't bear to cut the coupon off, 
so here's my check without it." Another 
writes: "I am sending my check in memory 
of my father and mother, who made many 
sacrifices in order that I might have a col- 
lege education." A western alumna says: "I 
am enclosing my contribution for 1934-35. 
May I add how much I appreciate having 
the picture of the bestowing upon our Ollie 
Randall of an honorary, though richly 
earned degree, in the midst of the architec- 
tural beauty — to me, unsurpassed — of the 
First Baptist Church." 

* * * 

Pemhrol{e in the T^ews 

NATALIE Harrington '31 has been made 
Assistant in Publicity for the College, 
with an office in Alumnae Hall. She will 
help to make the College better known 
throughout the country, and especially in 
the cities from which the students come. 
Since we have alumnae in forty-four states 
and sixteen foreign countries, we hope they 
will do their part in advertising the College. 

A Chamber Music Series 

A SERIES of Chamber Music Concerts 
sponsored by Pembroke College and 
the University Department of Music opened 
on December 3rd when the Compinsky Trio 
received an enthusiastic hearing in Alumnae 
Hall. Their program was devoted to major 
works by Beethoven and Franck and shorter 
compositions by Brahms, Cassado, and 
Arensky. 



The other two concerts in the series will 
bring The Pro Arte Quartet of Brussels to 
Alumnae Hall on February 14 and the 
Gordon Quartet, headed by Jacques Gor- 
don, former concert master of the Chicago 
Symphony, on March 14. The three groups 
are outstanding in the field of chamber 
music. 

* * * 

The Check Was Returned 

A CHECK for $75 went back to the City 
of Providence when the City Treas- 
urer undertook to pay Brown University 
for the use of Sayles Gymnasium as an 
election place on November 6. "We do not 
feel," said Comptroller E. A. Burlingame, 
"that we should accept payment from the 



city for the use of our property in a strictly 
civic matter, when we are able to permit 
this use without a serious interference with 
our educational program." "This is a very 
tangible way of demonstrating the public 
spirit of the University officials," said City 
Auditor William F. Brown in an appre- 
ciative note. 

* * * 

The Christmas Party 
The annual Christmas party, to which 
all alumnae are invited, is to be held in 
Alumnae Hall on Saturday, December 29th, 
at 2:30 P. M. Isabel Andrews '34 will pro- 
duce a sketch and there will be motion 
pictures of the college in action. A large 
attendance is expected. 




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Alumnae Clubs 

THE Brown Alumnae Club of Worcester 
had a novel but most interesting meet- 
ing on November 3rd when they and 
their friends were the guests of the Botany 
and Biology Departments at Clark Univer- 
sity. They were first taken through the vari- 
ous laboratories and the herbarium. They 
were then shown moving pictures which had 
been taken at hourly intervals, showing the 
opening of flowers in Yosemite National 
Park. This was followed by movies with 
"photomicroprojections of living forms" ob- 
tained from the aquaria in the biology lab- 
oratory and a demonstration of the circula- 
tory system in the tail of an etherized tad- 
pole. Refreshments were served at the close 
of their instructive afternoon. Secretary: 
Grace A. Home '30, 156 Main Street, Mill- 
bury, Mass. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of New York 
had its first fall meeting at the home of 
Muriel Kommel '33, 1070 Park Avenue. 
Miss Kommel gave an interesting account 
of her summer spent at the First University 
in Moscow. Dr. Frances A. Foster '09, Pro- 
fessor of English at Vassar College, spoke 
before the Club at its November meeting 
and Dean Morriss was the guest of the 
Club at dinner on December 7th. Secretary: 
Dorothy Oborne '24, 109 East 67th Street. 
The Brown Alumnae Club of Southern 
California had an October garden party at 
the lovely Burbank home of Esther Ander- 
son Orlander '14, in the Green Verdugo 
Hills. Fourteen alumnae sat down to lunch- 
eon in the garden, shaded by huge sun- 
umbrellas. After a short business meeting 
Rachel Coolidge Price "II, President of the 
Club, gave a fascinating description of a 
wagon trip in 1906 to Yosemite Valley. The 
two months' trip was taken before the days 
of autos and stereotyped maps. The January 
meeting is to be held at the home of Edna 
Solinger Lyons '15, 1348 North Martel 
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Class Notes 

1905 — Josephine Armstrong recently en- 
tertained the members of her class at an 
all-day outing in Central Village, Conn. 

1907 — Blanche Crapo is living at the 
Hotel Iroquois, 49 West 44th Street, 
New York City. 

1910 — Gwendolyn Blodgett Carpenter is 
state president of the Vermont Parent- 
Teacher Association, with 222 branches 
and about 10,000 members. Her speaking 
schedule is a heavy one. She has also been 
asked to serve in an advisory capacity to 
the Education Division of the National 
Congress of Parents and Teachers. 

1917 — Elizabeth de W. Root has moved 
to 208 North Oxford Street, Hartford, 
Conn. 

1918 — Stella Laf ranee is teaching in 
Westport, Conn. 

1919 — Miriam Prentice Hickey (Mrs. 
E. J.) has moved to 3 5 Greene Terrace, East 
Hartford, Conn. 

1921 — Elizabeth Kiley travelled in South 
America and South Africa during the 
summer. 

1921 — Helen Cooper and Ruth Marvel 
'23 visited Labrador last summer. 

1924 — Carol Bogman studied at Casa 
Italiana at Middlehury College last summer. 

1926 — Elizabeth Fiske Nichols presented 
a portrait of her great grandfather. Rev. 
John Fiske, D.D., to Amherst College at 
Commencement on June 18th. Dr. Fiske 
was a trustee of Amherst for thirty years 
after the college first started. The portrait 
was given by her father, W. Perry Fiske. 

1926 — Eunice Sharp received her A.M. 
in biology from Smith in June. 

1927 — Helen Crafts Patton and family 
are living at Worcester Academy. Mr. Pat- 
ton, a graduate of M. L T., is a member of 
the faculty. 

1927 — Marjorie Sallie is teaching at the 
Northampton School for Girls and is doing 
graduate work at Smith. 

1928 — Althea Page is working for her 
Ph.D. in geology at Radcliffe. She is living 
at 410 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. 
1929 — Ruth Johnston Gemeinhardt ( Mrs. 
Harry E.) is living at 330 Washington 
Street, Middletown, Conn. 

1929 — Juanita Tallman has a position in 
the R. I. Hospital Laboratory. 

1930 — Verna Follett Spaeth is president 
of the League of Women Voters in Middle- 
town, Conn. 

1931 — Eleanor Demarest is teaching 
English m the Junior High School in Engle- 
wood, N. J. 

1931 — Mary Elizabeth Kraus is studying 
at the University of Pennsylvania. 

1931 — Lydia Mason holds a resident fel- 
lowship at Bryn Mawr again this year. 

1931 — Eunice Nickerson is doing social 
work in New Haven. 

1931 — Alice Stewart is a buyer at 
Macy's. 

1932 — Alice Harson received the M.E. 
degree from Boston Teachers College last 
June. 

1933 — Frances Barry is taking a course 
at Bryant ^ Stratton's and living at 384 
Benefit Street, Providence. 

1933 — Sue Epply spent October in 
Europe. 

193 3 — Helen Mulvey is teaching in Cen- 
tral Junior High. She received her A.M. 
from Columbia. 



1933 — Grace Verdich is a student 
teacher in Cranston High School. 

1934 — Isabel Andrews has a position in 
the advertising department of Cherry 6? 
Webb's. 

1934 — Annis Bayley has a secretarial 
pcsition with General Motors. 

1934 — Doris Davison and Barbara Stra- 
chan are taking a training course at 
Claddings. 



ENGAGEMENTS 

1929 — Doris B. Seagrave to Milton War- 
ren, Mass. State College "29. 

1931— Mary A. Arnold to Joseph O. 
Sherman '31 of Auburn, N. Y. 

1932 — Ruth R. Roper to Curtis Morton 
Carr. Mr. Carr is affiliated with the Whit- 
insville National Bank. 

1933 — Elizabeth Tillinghast to Everett 
Lloyd Angell '3 3. 

1934 — Elizabeth Ingram to Charles 
Horton. 

* * * 

WEDDIliGS 

1926 — Elizabeth L. Fiske was married 
to Morton Clifl^ord Nichols on July 12, 
1934, in Sharon, Mass. They are living at 
5 Warren Avenue, Brockton, Mass. 

1927 — Alice M. Giles was married to 
Clarence F. von Glahn, a graduate of Rut- 
gers, on June 30, 1934. Dr. Christopher 
von Glahn, father of the groom, performed 
the ceremony in the Archer Memorial 
Methodist Church in Allendale, N. J. Mr. 
von Glahn is connected with the Chase 
National Bank. Mr. and Mrs. von Glahn 
are living at 3728 86th Street, Jackson 
Heights, L. I. 

1928 — Charlotte Foye was married to 
Ernest S. Schmidt, a graduate of Boston 
University, on October 24, 1934, in Athol, 
Mass. I i 

1928 — Ida A. Noble was married to 
Robert F. Marschner '28 on July 14, 1934, 
in Edgewood, R. I. They are living at 315 
W. Beacon Avenue, State College, Penn. 

1928 — Eleanor F. Sarle was married to 
Ralph Lee Briggs on October 11, 1934, in 
St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Warwick 
Neck. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs are living at 64 
Eaton Street, Providence. 

1929 — Jessie R. Gold was married to 
Harry Ossen, a graduate of Georgetown 
University, on October 7, 1934. They are 
living at the Conley Inn, Torrington, Conn. 
Mr. Ossen is City Prosecuting Attorney. 

1933 — Bella Skolnick was married to 
Robert W. Krovitz, R. I. State '3 2, on 
June 7th. They are living at 62 Hamlet 
Street, Woonsocket. 

1934 — Lillian H. Salmin was married to 
Joseph Janas, Boston University, on June 
16, 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Janas are living at 
96 Illinois Street, Central Falls. 



BIRTHS 

1913 — To Mr. and Mrs. Prescott A. 
Whitman (Marilla Bogle), a daughter, Ma- 
nila Burlingamc, on October 28, 1934. 

1918 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gurney Ed- 
wards (Elizabeth Dcaley), a third son, 
George Dealey, on July 11, 1934. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Merle D. Cham- 
berlain (Lois Munroe), a second son, Rob- 
ert Grant, on September 17, 1934. 

1926— To Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Goff 



(Florence Williams), a daughter, Jane 
Williams, on May 30, 1934. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. 
Priestly (Gertrude Potter), a daughter. 
Edith Anne, in October. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Verney 
(Virginia Piggott), a daughter, Dianne, on 
August 26. 1934. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. 
Towne (Loretta Dillon), a daughter, Mary 
Elizabeth, on June 11, 1934. 

1930— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Flynn 
(Ann Grisko), a son, Richard Olney, on 
August 5, 1934. 

1932— To Mr. and Mrs. John S. Rigby 
(Mary Gladding), a son, Peter Jackson, in 
June, 1934. 



Pembroke Chronicle 

BY JANE SANFORD "3 5 

ALL kinds of social functions have been 
taking place. The Freshmen were en- 
' tertained by the Seniors at a Hal- 
lowe'en party, by the Sophomores at a 
barn dance, and lastly by the Juniors at a 
theater party. The Freshmen elected Betty 
Howick of Providence as president of their 
class. There have also been teas by Student 
Government, Debating Society, Record, 
and a small one by Press Club to acquaint 
the first-year girls with the various extra- 
curricular activities of interest in special 
fields. Brownies gave the first formal dance 
of the year, under the direction of Dorothy 
Hunt, and it was a huge success as these 
affairs always are. 

The field hockey team was rather unsuc- 
cessful this year, losing all their varsity 
games to Wheaton, Radcliffe, and Jackson 
by small scores, but there are a number of 
girls out for the team, and class play was 
exceptionally good. The Seniors again won 
the interclass tournament — they also won 
last vear when Juniors. 

Special mention should be made of Mrs. 
Hopkins" dance group, which has been re- 
organized on a varsity basis, eligibility be- 
ing determined by a girl's fitness to dance 
and subject to vote by the remainder of the 
group. Special costumes have been acquired 
and they plan a recital in the near future. 

For the first time Pembroke had a riding 
show of its own at the Royal Riding Acad- 
emy at Seekonk, and indications show that 
soon a Riding Club will be established. 

HERE AND THERE: Komians are giving 
"Maedchen in Uniform" for their 
December production. International Rela- 
tions Club is expanding meeting by meet- 
ing. Musical Clubs are sponsoring a series 
of teas on Sunday afternoons featuring 
different groups of entertainments. At the 
first one Mildred Pansy and the Glee Club 
performed. Chapel programs become more 
and more interesting, Mrs. B. K. Hart 
spoke to us one morning, Mr. Tittle, father 
of one of the Seniors, Edith Tittle, spoke 
on finger printing. He is connected with 
the New York courts in that line and we 
have been watching where we put our 
hands ever since; Devere Allen was here 
one day to lecture; and again Arthur Newell 
of the Bryce Foundation — so we are all get- 
ting a little extra shine — those of us who 
come to chapel, that is! 
Merry Christmas! 



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