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Andrews— Verses; 

Dr. Andrews on the Decline of Culture 

Rhode Island 

The Old College Man— Verses 

Buildings on Lincoln Field 

Undergraduate Life at Oxford 

Horace Walpole, Printer and Gallant 

End of the Football Season 

An Ethical Windfall— Christmas Grill XXII 

Chronicle of the Campus 

Editorial 

Topics of the Month 

Brunonians Far and Near 

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W. H. Pahodie 115 

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No. 5 



ANDREWS 




Full many a lifted crag and prairie green, 
And many a wood and river, intervene 
Between our hearts and his who here to day 
Speaks to us from this counterfeiting clay. 
Yet still by Memory's chart we trace the coast 
Of Youth and Dreams, whereon our happy host 
Gathered about him as he taught and smiled, 
Browed like a sage and hearted like a child. 
'Tis long, long since, but when in formal speech 
Or undeliberate utterance we reach 
The name of Andrews, how the old flame burns. 
And the old day, ready at beck, returns ! 



DR. ANDREWS ON THE DECLINE OF 

CULTURE 



The opening article in the International 
Journal of Ethics for October is one by E. 
Benjamin Andrews on "The decline of 
culture," and is written in that vigorous 
thinker's best vein. Culture, as Dr. An- 
drews regards it, is "the appreciation, not 
contemplative alone, but active and effi- 
cient, of the non-economic values." He 
finds in present-day America a decline of 
this precious quality. He attributes this 
regrettable condition to four potent in- 
fluences: "one, the country's astounding 
growth in wealth; a second, the spread of 
communistic socialism; a third, bad theory 
and practice in education; and a fourth, 
depressing views of the world, life and 
man." In our sudden increase of wealth 
Dr. Andrews sees "a mighty despiritualiz- 
ing factor over and above men's natural 
love of gain." He finds in current com- 
munistic socialism an effort to level down- 
ward, which would reduce society to a 
dull uniformity without room for "the 



genius, the artist, the dreamer, the mug- 
wump, the rebel." In education he com- 
plains that "bad and low ideals couple 
themselves with false and ignoble theo- 
ries." He deprecates "the rage for ex- 
clusively modern studies," holding that 
one cannot know the world of to-day "un- 
less one has some acquaintance with the 
antique." He charges that education 
lacks inspiration and "resolute grapple be- 
tween teacher's and learner's mind." Lastly 
he sees grave spiritual harm in the results 
of a mechanical interpretation of the doc- 
trine of evolution. He believes that some 
of these anti-cultural conditions will grow 
worse before they improve, but he has faith 
to believe that they will be only temporary. 
Dr. Everett occupied the time of the 
chapel service on Nov. 14 with a summary 
of Dr. Andrews's article, urging the stu- 
dents to make the application and draw the 
moral, each in his own case. 




Full-face View of iKe Andrews Bust 
By W. IV. Manatl 



RHODE ISLAND 

A SURVEY OF HER TITLES TO DISTINCTION AND HONOR 

By W. H. Pabodie, 1855 



Size is not always a sign of greatness. 
Napoleon was a small man, but he 
"lightened and thundered and shook all 
Europe." Russia is a large state, but what 
does she count in the world's progress? 
Greece lacks nearly 10,000 square miles 
of being as large as Ohio, but blot her 
from the map of the w^orld's history and 
you might as well blot out the stars from 
heaven. 

Let us take the smallest state in the 
Union as an example of true greatness, 
and tell me when I am through what other 
state you can match with it. She was 
fortunate in her founder, Roger Williams, 
a graduate of Cambridge, familiar with 
Latin, Greek and Hebrew, who read 
Dutch with Milton, was conversant with 
other European languages, and who soon 
made himself master of the Indian dialects. 
Persecution drove him from Massachu- 
setts and compelled him to pass the winter 
in the huts of the Indians, but it had the 
same mellowing effect upon him that ban- 
ishment to Holland had on the Pilgrims. 
It so filled them with love to God and 
charity to men that on all this earth Rhode 
Island and Plymouth were the only states 
that never persecuted a Quaker or hung 
a witch, a proud distinction for any state. 
Four assertions of Williams were brought 
against him as charges by Massachusetts, 
but it was the fourth one which especially 
stirred resentment. It reads as follows: 
"That the civil magistrate's power ex- 
tends only to the bodies and goods and 
outward state of man." It was in this 
spirit that Rhode Island was founded. 
The agreement of the settlers of Provi- 
dence with one another was short but 
to the point. It reads, "We, whose 
names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit 
in the town of Providence, do promise 
to subject ourselves in active or pas- 
sive obedience to all such orders or 
agreements as shall be made for public 
good for the body, in an orderly way, by 
the major assent of the present inhabitants. 



masters of families, incorporated together 
into a town fellowship, and such others as 
they shall admit unto them, only in civil 
things." 

That was all, and you will notice that 
the pith of all the agreement lies in the 
last four words, "only in civil things." 
"Never before," as Green remarks, "was 
the separation of church from state so 
clearly made, and never has an agreement 
been so carefully lived up to." It was the 
first state in all the world without a ref- 
erence to religion or religious test, and it 
became the refuge of the distressed and 
persecuted of all beliefs. 

Toward the close of the 17th century, 
Cotton Mather wrote, "Rhode Island is a 
colluvies of Antinomians, Familists, Ana- 
Baptists, Anti-Sabbatarians, Arminians, 
Socinians, Quakers, Ranters, everything in 
the world but Roman Catholics and True 
Christians." 

But a new light dawned upon him, for, 
25 years after, he wrote, "Calvinists with 
Lutherans, Presbyterians with Episco- 
palians, Pedobaptists with Anabaptists, 
beholding one another to fear God and 
work righteousness, do with delight sit 
down together at the same table of the 
Lord." 

It was in Rhode Island also that the 
question of women's rights first arose on 
this hemisphere and was solved. It was 
the case of Mrs. Joshua Verin. Now she 
did not want a hammer with which to 
break any plate-glass windows, and if she 
had wanted it there w^ere none to break. 
Neither did she wish to throw carbolic 
acid in a judge's face for refusing to re- 
ceive her vote. She merely wanted to go 
to church to hear Williams preach, and 
her husband Joshua decided that she was 
going to church too much and forbade her 
to go. It is probable that when he was 
getting ready to go to church Sunday 
morning he found a button off his shirt or 
his socks not darned, and so he took it out 
on Mrs. Verin. But she was not a be- 



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liever in passive obedience, and so she ap- 
pealed to the constituted authorities. The 
question with them was, shall a woman 
always obey her husband or shall her con- 
science triumph over obedience ? After long 
debate and many prayers, they decided for 
conscience and decreed that "Joshua Verin 
for restraining the liberty of conscience 
should be withheld from the liberty of 
voting until he should declare the con- 
trary." Well might the historian say, "In 
Providence also the Devil was not idle." 

It was in 1652 that the first legislation 
concerning slavery on this continent was 
enacted in Rhode Island. The law read 
that "no black man or white, being forced 
by covenant, bond, or otherwise, shall be 
held to service longer than 10 years, and 
the man that will not let them go free, or 
shall sell them any else where to that end 
that they may be enslaved to others for a 
longer time, he or they shall forfeit to the 
colony forty pounds." 

It was in 1764 that another step in 
freedom was taken by Rhode Island in 
founding Brown University. Baptists 
were barred from nearly all educational 
institutions by their belief. Harvard and 
Yale on either side were closed against 
them. They had to found a college in 
self-defense, and they founded one where 
religious belief was no bar to obtaining an 
education, and it was the first one on this 
continent. And likewise, in establishing 
it, they decreed in their charter that out of 
the thirty-six trustees, five of them should 
always be Quakers, four Congregational- 
ists and five Episcopalians, these being the 
other principal denominations of the 
colony at that time. 

Some years ago my wife and myself 
were inspecting the new John Carter 
Brown Library. It is one of the most 
complete collections of Americana in the 
world. Few books published up to the 
end of the 18th century in any language 
that have any reference to America are 
lacking in it, and ample means have been 
provided for its enlargement. No scholar 
can write upon America without consult- 
ing it. As we passed along, my attention 
was attracted to a parchment which read 
somewhat as follows: "The First Baptist 
Church of Providence desires to enlarge 
its original building plans in order to hold 
Commencements therein and therefore it 
has instituted a lotterv and desires a liberal 



subscription thereto." Truly times change, 
and we change with them. The Articles of 
Incorporation of the church therefore are 
unique, and read as follows: "Built to 
worship God and to hold Commencements 
in," and there the Commencements are 
still held. 

It was in 1769 that the first overt act 
of the Revolution was committed at New- 
port. The British sloop Liberty had not 
only interfered with smugglers, but with 
all lawful commerce. Nor must it be 
thought that the commerce was small. 
Newport at that time, and until it was 
ruined by the war, was more important 
commercially than New York. Its for- 
eign commerce required nearly 200 ships, 
its coasting trade between 300 and 
400 vessels. The Liberty was attacked, 
her mast cut down, and she was scuttled 
and sunk, while her boats were burned. 

It was on the 9th of June, 1772, that 
the first British blood of the coming Revo- 
lution was shed in Rhode Island. The 
Gaspee, which had vexed the commerce of 
England for months, had run aground. 
That night eight five-oared boats swept 
three miles down from Providence toward 
the doomed vessel, killed the commander, 
and burnt the vessel. Rhode Island had at 
length thrown down the gauntlet of war. 
And although the name of the man who did 
the shooting was known everywhere, not 
one particle of evidence could be found on 
which to bring an accusation against him. 
The Rhode Islanders were as close- 
mouthed as their own clams. 

It was on the 1st of June, 1775, that 
the first naval engagement of the Revo- 
lution took place in Narragansett 
Bay between a colonial sloop com- 
manded by Capt. Abraham Whipple 
and a tender of the British frig- 
ate Rose, in which the tender was driven 
onto the Conanicut shore and captured. 
It was on the 5th of November, 1775, 
that Esek Hopkins of Rhode Island was 
appointed the first commander of the navy 
ordered by the First Continental Congress, 
a navy not to be despised, for Rhode Is- 
land alone sent out 16 privateers to the 
fight. But she was not satisfied with this. 
It was on the 4th of May, 1776, two 
months before the other colonies, and 

"While they were hovering on the brink 
And feared to launch away," 



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117 



that Rhode Island by a unanimous vote in 
the Senate and 54 out of 60 in the House 
declared herself free and independent and 
ordered that the name of George the Third 
should be stricken from her statute book 
and that thereafter all oaths should be 
taken alone to the State of Rhode Island 
and Providence Plantations. She became 
the first free state on the American con- 
tinent. 

It was in the dark hours of the Revolu- 
tion, when recruits were scarce, that at the 
suggestion of Brigadier General Varnum a 
new kind of battalion was raised. Some 
free men of color had fought at Bunker 
Hill, but now the Rhode Island Legisla- 
ture passed a law that any slave on passing 
muster should become free and entitled to 
all the wages and encouragement given by 
Congress to any soldier. This was the 
only battalion raised from slaves during 
the Revolution, anticipating Butler's con- 
traband idea by over eighty years. And 
who in all that long war ranked next to 
Washington as general? Who chased the 
British from every post in the South but 
Charleston? Who induced Cornwallis to 
follow him until he had him safely caged 
in Yorktown? Who said, "1 fight, I get 
beaten, and then I fight again?" Who but 
Rhode Island's favorite son, the fighting 
Quaker, General Green ? And when the 
final act in the drama came, when York- 
town was besieged and taken, who led the 
storming party over the walls but the 
Rhode Island troops with Captain Stephen 
Olney at their head? 

We have already seen that Rhode Island 
was the first to condemn slavery. Penn- 
sylvania beat her in the final act of abol- 
ishing it, having passed such a resolution in 
1780, but in 1784 both Connecticut and 
Rhode Island abolished it, six years before 
Rhode Island entered the Union. 

But again there came another war and 
Ohio needed first aid. Who, when the 
British were in control of Lake Erie, went 
there, built and launched a fleet and then 
irom Put-in-Bav was able to send the 



despatch, "We have met the enemy and 
they are ours, two ships, two brigs, one 
schooner and one sloop?" Who but Com- 
modore Perry of Rhode Island ? And who 
were the majority of his officers? Rhode 
Islanders. And who in later days opened 
Japan to the world ? Another Commodore 
Perry from Rhode Island. And what state 
might well be called the Battery State? 
The one that furnished more batteries than 
any other state to the Civil War in propor- 
tion to her population — Rhode Island. In 
one more thing she has always stood first. 
In the first census, that of 1790, she was 
the most densely populated state in the 
Union. In every census since, twelve in 
number, she has maintained that place, so 
that while others of the older states are 
diminishing in their number of representa- 
tives in Congress, she has increased her 
representation. And not only is she the 
most densely populated state, but her 
urban population shows the highest per- 
centage of any state, being 91.6 per cent of 
her whole population. 

And has she been distinguished in the 
arts of peace? It was in the darkest daj^s 
after the Revolution, in 1787, that the first 
spinning jenney was made at Providence, 
and it was on Dec. 21, 1790, that the 
first cotton mill was 'built in Pawtucket. 
And has she maintained that lead in manu- 
factures? The census of 1900 showed that 
the value of her manufactured products 
was larger per capita than that of any other 
state in the Union, amounting to $490 
a-piece for every inhabitant of the state. 

In one other respect Rhode Island is 
pre-eminent, her state seal. Hated by her 
sister states on account of her religious 
freedom and barred out from their con- 
federacy, she was compelled to stand alone. 
She had no such haughty seal as Massa- 
chusetts, a coiled rattlesnake with the 
motto, "Don't tread on me," but a lonely 
rock amidst the stormy waves, and on that 
rock there rests an anchor, inscribed with 
the single word, "Hope." 



THE OLD COLLEGE MAN 

By Clark McAdams 



(Editor Brown Alumni Monthly: 

One of the editors of the Post Dispatch, 
published in this city, is a personal friend 
of mine. I discussed with him very freely 
one day football prospects at Brown, with 



the enclosed result, which appeared in the 
Post Dispatch on the following day. You 
may be glad to print it. 

Very truly yours, 

A. L. Abbott, "80) 



The old college man keeps a very close tab 

On the football elevens his college turns out, 
And nothing delights him so much as to gab 

On the why and the wherefore it all came about. 
He knows why they lost, and he knows why they won — 

He follows the games from Beersheba to Dan, 
And he always can tell you what should have been done — 

The old college man. 

The old college man is a very good sport. 

And never a team has marched out on the field 
But he has in spirit been there to exhort 

The broad-shouldered warriors never to yield. 
He will bet like a fiend on the team of his school. 

And cheer from afar for the flag of his clan. 
And he loses quite cheerfully, too, as a rule — 

The old college man. 

The old college man may be staid as you will. 

And his zest for this life may be terribly tame. 
But his pulse hits it up with a wonderful thrill 

When his old college team comes across with a game, 
He's a very droll fellow of infinite mirth, 

A gentleman built on a very fine plan. 
And his like doesn't walk on the top of the earth — 

The old college man. 



BUILDINGS ON LINCOLN FIELD 



The Brown Daily Herald says : "We are 
authorized by President Everett to give 
the exact text of the vote passed by the 
Advisory and Executive Committee of the 
Corporation on the petition which the stu- 
dents recently addressed to that body: 

" 'The Advisory and Executive Commit- 
tee of the Corporation of Brown Univer- 
sity has received, and has requested the 
Acting President of the University to as- 
sure the student body that it will give due 
and earnest consideration to, its petition 
that Lincoln Field remain open as a nearby 
place for general athletic exercise, and begs 
to state further to the student body that the 
committee sympathizes with the object of 
the petition, and would hesitate to use 



this piece of college ground for the loca- 
tion of a building or for any purpose other 
that that to which it is at present devoted, 
until, in the very language of the petition, 
"the lack of other available sites makes 
necessary such location." ' 

"From the above it appears that the an- 
nouncement, made in good faith by the 
Herald in its issue of Saturday last, was 
premature and unauthorized, and in a 
measure misleading. We are confident, 
however, that the students, having pre- 
sented their cause, may rest assured that it 
will receive due consideration, and that 
Lincoln Field will not be taken as a site 
for new buildings unless the exigencies of 
the situation require it." 



UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT OXFORD 



By Howard A. Taher, Brown '10 

RHODES SCHOLAR FROM RHODE ISLAND 



If one is fortunate enough to approach 
Oxford for the first time by way of Head- 
ington Hill, he can hardly fail to be 
impressed by the beauty of this ancient 
university town. "Beautiful as youth and 
venerable as age, she lies in a purple cup of 
the low hills, and the water-meads of Isis 
and the gentle slopes beyond are besprent 
with her grey steeple towers and spires 
whose silent finger points to heaven. And 
all around her the country is a harmony in 
green — the deep, cool greens of the lush 
grass, the green of famous woods, the soft 
juicy landscapes of the Thames Valley." 
Oxford owes much of her beauty to the 
humidity of the atmosphere and to the soft 
gray stone of which the colleges are built, — 
a stone which ages with remarkable rapid- 
ity, flaking ofi and becoming discolored, so 
that when overgrown with ivy it assumes 
a charming appearance of antiquity. 

Oxford is at once the name of a place 
and of an idea. To the ordinary sight- 
seer she never becomes more than the name 
of a place, and often one who has spent 
several years under her influence has diffi- 
culty in understanding the idea, the spirit 
of Oxford. I have several times been told 
by previous Rhodes scholars that at the end 
of your first year you feel as though you 
would like to leave Oxford behind as soon 
as possible, while at the end of the third 
year you are indeed loath to depart, and 
you go away cherishing the hope that a re- 
turn visit may not be at a very distant date. 
The charm of Oxford grows on you, and 
the longer you stay the less you feel that 
you understand the composite spirit of the 
place, and cannot exclaim with satisfaction, 
as the half-a-day tourist is wont to do, that 
you have "done" Oxford. 

Like Cambridge, Oxford is practically 
unique among the universities of the world 
in that it is made up of a number of in- 
dividual colleges, each more or less com- 
plete in itself and bearing to the university 
much the same relation that a state bears 
to the central government. There are some 



twenty-one colleges situated here and there 
on the various streets near the centre of 
this city of about 50,000 inhabitants. Many 
of the colleges are adjoining, while on the 
other hand some are more than three-quar- 
ters of a mile apart. 

When the three thousand or more under- 
graduates have "come up" for term time to 
invest these "ancient ruins" — as one Ameri- 
can tourist ungraciously called the college 
building — with a fresh energetic life, Ox- 
ford becomes a city of the present, a city 
which at the same time speaks to you of 
tradition, of history, of great men and of 
great causes. That is one of the charms 
of Oxford life, the intermingling of the 
old and the new, the superposition of the 
youthful spirit of a very cosmopolitan un- 
dergraduate body upon the rich foundations 
of the university's past. 

If we inquire into this past, we find 
tradition has it that the first college was 
founded in 872 A. D. by Alfred the Great. 
It is difficult, however, to prove this claim, 
and it seems more probable that the first 
students began to come to Oxford in the 
eleventh century. The teaching was 
largely of a religious nature and given for 
the most part by monks. The university 
at that early stage had no buildings of its 
own, the students and their masters living 
wherever they could find lodgings in the 
town. In about the thirteenth century 
various bishops and nobles contributed an 
amount of money for the support of sev- 
eral scholars in various halls. These halls, 
enriched by later gifts, became the basis of 
the present colleges. The students in this 
mediaeval period were very poor, many of 
them "working their way" through college 
by begging. This came to be such a preva- 
lent habit that the university was obliged 
to issue licenses for begging to such as were 
deserving. The rooms occupied by the stu- 
dents were small, dingy, overcrowded and 
exceedingly uncomfortable; a stove and a 
fire were entirely out of the question, and 
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could afford even candles. Eight o'clock 
lectures are usually considered a hardship, 
but the mediaeval student had to attend 
lectures which began at sunrise and lasted 
from two to three hours. The one meal of 
the day came at ten or eleven and consisted 
of soup thickened with oatmeal, baked meat 
and bread, and occasionally fish, all these 
being served in the dining hall "on wooden 
trenches and washed down by a tankard of 
college beer." The students could converse 
only in Latin during the meal, and for 
their further edification a chapter of some 
improving work in Latin was read to them, 
followed by the founders' prayer and a 
Latin grace. Games in general were pro- 
hibited, and students were especially for- 
bidden to play marbles on the college steps, 
and "the hard exercise of chess was pro- 
hibited as a noxious, inordinate and unhon- 
est game." The statutes provided in the 
greatest detail for the punishment of un- 
dergraduate offences by means of fines, 
excommunication, imprisonment or banish- 
ment, as the case might deserve. 

The feeling between the students and 
the townsmen, now called "townees," often 
became very bitter, and in 1298 a riot oc- 
curred in which twenty-five were killed. 
Again in 1355 the townsmen, tired of the 
aggressions of the students, gathered to- 
gether a lot of their fellows and sacked 
about fifteen college halls. The students 
immediately got out their bows and arrows, 
and after two days of fighting there were 
close to fifty dead and wounded. After 
this the university was authorized to have 
its own courts in which to try student cases. 

At the present day the university has a 
very thorough system of supervision. There 
are five officers officially called proctors, 
and unofficially known as "progs," who act 
as universitv policemen. Each prog is ac- 
companied by several "bull-dogs," who are 
sundry husky fellows, very fleet of foot, 
recruited from the townsmen. If you are 
on the street after 8:30 in the evening 
without your cap and gown, if you smoke 
in public while in academical dress, or if 
you are in a cafe or saloon after nine 
o'clock in the evening, you rim the risk of 
being arrested bv the proctor. You may 
run, but the "bullers" will then take after 
you, and your chance of escape is a slim 
one. The next morning j^ou are haled 
before the proctor's court and fined any- 



where from five shillings to three or four 
sovereigns, according to the offence, and in 
extreme cases you may be rusticated, which 
in student parlance is being "sent down." 
The progs are omnipresent, and conse- 
quently disorder in the streets is seldom 
seen. This system has existed for several 
centuries, but the authorities find it too 
efficient, and I might add too lucrative, to 
shelve as obsolete. 

When the undergraduates come into 
residence in the Michaelmas term, the first 
official act is to matriculate. All new men 
in caps and gowns and white ties are 
brought before the vice-chancellor in one 
of the great halls, and each one signs his 
name in a huge book and is given a copy 
of the "Statuta et Decreta Universitatis 
Oxoniensis," a modest book of 678 pages. 
The vice-chancellor then delivers a long 
oath in Latin, which you afterwards learn 
is to the effect that you will obey the rules 
as set forth in the "Statuta," and more 
particularly you make oath that you will 
not carry crossbows, arquebuses or any 
other weapons on the streets, nor will you 
engage in fights with the townsmen. Hav- 
ing become a member of the University of 
Oxford, you next, proceed to be matricu- 
lated into your particular college in much 
the same way. 

Each college has its own rules, regula- 
tions and organizations, and maintains its 
own athletic teams and its own debating 
and social clubs, although the number or 
undergraduates may not be over eighty. 
When one looks over the list of fees pay- 
able, not only to the college, but to the 
university as well, he can understand why 
Oxford is often termed the most expensive 
university in the world. The blanket tax 
at Brown costs $8 a year, while every 
undergraduate at St. John's has to pay an 
annual athletic tax of $30, besides an en- 
trance fee of $5 his freshman year, and 
this includes no admission to games. Then, 
too, membership in the Union costs nearly 
$20 a year. 

The stvle of living In the college build- 
ings Is not conducive to economy, as it 
resembles In manv of Its features, but not 
In all of Its comforts, life In a hotel or in 
bachelor apartments. Electricity has been 
Installed In most of the colleges, although 
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himself in a suite of rooms consisting of a 
fitting room or study, commonly called a 
"sitter," and a bedroom or "bedder," and 
has two man servants to wait upon him, 
called "scouts." The head scout considers 
himself, and rightfully, too, a rather im- 
portant person, and it is about this great 
class of servants to which he belongs that 
the domestic life of the whole university 
revolves. 

With the scout begins the day. In the 
■early hours you may hear him building a 
fire in your grate or putting your study to 
rights. At 7 :30 he enters your adjoining 
bedder Avith scarcely any introductory 
knock, pours out the water for your bath 
into a round tin tub of rather limited pro- 
portions, and then makes the same little 
speech: "Good morning, sir. It is 7:30, 
sir. Your bath is ready, sir. Will j^ou be 
in to breakfast, sir?" You may endeavor 
to tell him what you think you would like, 
in case you are breakfasting in your own 
room, or you may leave it to his good judg- 
ment to do the ordering from the kitchen, 
and he hurries away to perform a similar 
service for the rest of the undergraduates 
on the "stair." 

Chapel comes at eight o'clock, and five 
attendances are required each week, or, if 
you are not a member of the Church of 
England, an equivalent number of roll- 
calls, or "rollers," are necessary. A roller 
merely consists in reporting at eight o'clock 
to the monitor who takes the chapel attend- 
ance. When you return to your room you 
will probably find your table laid with your 
own linen, china and silver and your break- 
fast keeping hot before the fire on a rack 
made by skillfvdly crossing tongs, shovel 
and poker. This scheme is never more 
appreciated than on a morning when you 
have failed to do. a roller, but find your 
breakfast steaming on your more tardy 
advent. But it is always more than proh- 
able that you are not eating alone, for soli- 
tary retirement at meals is not in great 
popularity, and usually you will have either 
accepted an invitation from some other man 
or are giving a breakfast party yourself. 
The scout goes across the quadrangle to 
the college kitchen and brings the food to 
your room. A typical Oxford breakfast 
consists of "porridge," or unsalted oatmeal, 
fish, filleted plaice, or fried sole or had- 
dock, bacon and eggs, toast and marmalade 



with tea or coffee, presumably tea. Break- 
fast over, an hour or so may be spent in 
front of the cheerful open fire, smoking 
pipe or cigarette, and conversing on all 
manner of topics, unless some one is obliged 
to apologize for attending an early lecture. 

The rest of the morning is given up to 
study, lectures, laboratory work and in- 
dividual coaching with your tutor. At- 
tendance at lectures is for the most part 
not compulsory, nor are there any special 
examinations given at the end of each term 
based on the subject matter of the lectures, 
but the undergraduate usually finds it in- 
valuable to go to the ones recommended by 
his tutor, for they will help him in his 
study. The tutor fills a very irnportant 
place in the educational system at Oxford, 
and he it is who directs your "reading," 
as studying is invariably called, explains 
the difficulties, gives you personal instruc- 
tion and sees that you are doing the amount 
of work your college expects of you. Under 
the Oxford svstem where less than half of 
the year is spent at the university, the Eng- 
lishman plans to do a large part of his 
reading during the vacations. With this 
arrangerpent the Rhodes scholars are at a 
considerable disadvantage, for ..the induce- 
ments to travel in Great Britain and on 
the continent are too great to be denied, 
and it takes a careful planning of time to 
fit in the necessary amount of work. 

The afternoon at Oxford from two un- 
til four-thirty is given over to athletic ex- 
ercise. Hardly a half-dozen undergrad- 
uates in a college wmII be found at work 
betw^een these hours. Rooms and quad- 
rangles are deserted, while the men are o£E 
rowing on the Isis, running on the track 
or playing football, field hockey, lacrosse, 
tennis or cricket, the two last-named sports 
being indulged in only during the summer 
term from April to June. At Oxford men 
do not practice at games, they play them, 
and it is only in the rowing that you find 
a definite system of coaching. With prac- 
tically everyone taking some form of exer- 
cise or other, it is not surprising that there 
are few spectators at the college games, and 
organized cheering is entirely unknow^n. 

At four-thirty everybody has "tea," and 
the reverence with which this ancestral cus- 
tom is supported in England is a cause for 
never ceasing wonder to any foreigner. If 
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taken two hours of strenuous exercise m 
the chilly Oxford air, he finds tea not only 
a very pleasant social institution, but almost 
a necessity, with dinner not until seven 
o'clock. Toast or muffins, sandwiches, 
fancy biscuits and cake are to eat, and the 
events of the wider world are to talk about, 
for Englishmen are already "imperial 
thinkers," and even 'varsity students are 
surprisingly well informed on subjects 
which are interesting the hoary heads in 
Parliament, a few miles away. 

Dinner is always served in the Hall at 
seven o'clock and is the only meal at which 
all the students come together. The Hall 
is usually an ancient edifice with high- 
vaulted roof, walls covered with portraits 
of great men, ancient and modern, a huge 
fireplace and long oaken tables running the 
length of the room. The students sit on 
benches with no backs, being grouped ac- 
cording to classes. The grace is read by 
a scholar, that is, a student who has won 
a scholarship on coming up to the univer- 
sity, and consists of the Lord's Prayer in 
Latin. At the head table on a raised plat- 
form sit the president and vice-president 
and the "dons," who are the tutors and 
professors of the college. If a man comes 
to dinner more than fifteen minutes late or 
talks "shop" while at the table, he may 
be "sconced," that is, fined a tankard of 
beer with which to treat the men at his 
table. The idea that a college should fur- 
nish beer and similar beverages to the stu- 
dents strikes an American at first as rather 
incomprehensible, but it is a fact here at 
Oxford that only from the college kitchen 
can the undergraduate buy anything to 
drink without danger of being "progged." 
While the Englishmen's table manners are 
above reproach, informality characterizes 
the Oxford dinner in hall, and not infre- 
quently morsels of bread are to be seen 
flying about the heads of the diners, while 
much good-natured chaffing is carried on. 

After dinner you mav choose to spend 
the evening in any one of a variety of ways. 
You may visit a friend, go. to the theatre, 
do some quiet studying in your own room. 



or if it be Thursday night you may attend 
the debate at the Union. If you do go 
out of college, you must be sure to return 
before midnight, or the direst consequences 
ensue. If you "knock in" between nine 
and ten o'clock the fine is one penny, be- 
tween ten and eleven, threepence, be- 
tween eleven and twelve, sixpence. After 
twelve the fine is two shillings and six- 
pence, and your name is reported to the 
president, before whom you must appear 
to explain your whereabouts. The college 
gate proper is a huge, iron-studded, solid 
oak door, large enough to admit a troop of 
horsemen. This large door contains a 
smaller one, which is locked after 9:05 
p. m., when curfew rings 101 times from 
the famous Tom Tower of Christ 
Church. In coming into college you 
knock against this door, and the porter 
brings a ponderous key to unlock it. Thus 
coming into college after nine is called 
"knocking in." One might well ask if 
there were not a rear door that could be 
used in case of emergency, but there is 
none, nor any window which affords a 
chance for entrance. Designed originally 
no doubt for protective purposes, the 
buildings are arranged in quadrangles and 
all outside windows are heavily barred. 
Where a stretch of wall is necessary, it is 
topped with a cylindrical arrangement of 
long spikes, which have a nasty way of 
creaking loudly as they revolve. 

Quite as often as not in the evening you 
will be invited to some friend's room for 
"coffee." Besides the beverage there will 
be fruit, and in some cliques wine in con- 
clusion. Here again you find the easy 
chair and its accompaniments, with a wel- 
come for an extended stay. Against this 
whole system of reciprocal favors there 
may be strong arguments as there are 
against the American fraternity idea, but 
both of them fill a place in undergraduate 
life which some of us are bound to call an 
important one, "where men sitting cheek 
by jowl learn to appreciate the right value 
of the word friend." 



HORACE WALPOLE : PRINTER AND 

GALLANT 

By Margaret B. StillwelU of the John Carter B?-oii'Ji Library, Brown, 1909 



Mr. George A. Gaskill of Worcester, 
Brown, '98, in honor of the visit of the 
Walpole Society to the universit}^, lent his 
collection of Walpole books for exhibition 
at the John Carter Brown Library. As a 
supplement to these, about a dozen other 
pieces from the Strawberry- Hill Press 
were loaned from the personal collection of 
the librarian, Mr. Winship, who, as a re- 
cently elected member, was entertaining 
the Walpole Society. 

Mr. Gaskill's Walpole collection was 
brought together by his father, the late 
Judge Francis A. Gaskill, Brown '66, a 
book-lover whose library contained various 
collections which, although made for the 
most part during the last five years of his 
life, are of the rare sort acquired only 
through careful and thoughtful selection. 
The section devoted to Walpole consists of 
books and loose pieces from the Strawberry 
Hill Press, many of which are ranked 
among its scarcest issues. 

As its name would suggest, the Walpole 
Society is made up of connoisseurs and 
collectors. It consists of twenty-five men 
only, each of whom is a recognized author- 
ity in his particular field, whether it be the 
collection and studying of rare books or 
paintings, of antique furniture or of colo- 
nial silver. These "friends of Mr. Wal- 
pole" meet once or twice each year to aid 
one another, and collectors in general, by 
the study of various art treasures and the 
discussion of difficult questions of identifi- 
cation and definition. In the words of one 
of the members, "The Walpoles seem to 
wish to have the pleasures of companion- 
ship in the pursuit, the acquisition, the en- 
joyment, the naming and the verification of 
things which may well be considered de- 
cently ancient, or charming, or beautiful, 
— or all three." 

"Lord Orford is very ready to oblige 
any curious Persons with the Sight of his 
House and Collection." Thus wrote Hor- 
ace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, aris- 
tocrat, connoisseur and collector; conspic- 



uous in the literary-, social and artistic life 
of his generation ; proud owner of a private 
press and master of the gentle art of 
printing "limited editions." Accustomed 
to paying the penalties of book collecting — 
for to him, as to others of his kind, the lure 
of a "first edition" or of a "unique copy" 
quite overbalanced its intrinsic worth or 
the money it took to buy it — Walpole re- 
taliated by issuing from his Strawberry 
Hill Press, not for gain, merely for 
amusement, books which to-day are among 
the treasures coveted by book-collectors. 

During the latter part of the eighteenth 
century the fashionable set of England 
was doing its best to imitate the manners 
of the French Court, and in this circle 
Horace Walpole, youngest son of the great 
Prime Minister, was destined to become 
the leading spirit. Shortly after Walpole 
quit Cambridge, he made his first trip to 
the Continent. The spontaneity and vi- 
vacity of the French nobility fascinated 
him. The memory of this impression in- 
fluenced him throughout his life, in spite of 
the fact that in 1765, when he again 
visited Paris, he found them "another peo- 
ple," among whom "laughing was quite 
out of fashion," and only a few had "wit." 

Meanwhile, he had bought, near Twick- 
enham, Middlesex, "a little plaything 
house," which, bit by bit, as the income 
from his various sinecures became due, he 
converted into a miniature Gothic castle, 
in which he deposited, for his own amuse- 
ment and that of his friends, his rapidly 
growing collections of paintings, medals, 
manuscripts, rare books, and what not — a 
virtuoso's spoils from home and from 
abroad. Here he entertained the polite 
society of England and its foreign guests, 
and here he carried on, also for the amuse- 
ment of his friends, the vast correspond- 
ence upon which rests his reputation as a 
man of letters. 

Ten years later, in 1757, he set up a pri- 
vate press at Strawberry Hill, a name by 
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countn- seat had orginally been called. 
William Robinson, first printer at the 
"Officina Arbuteana," after a term of two 
years, proved to be "a foolish Irishman, 
who took himself for a genius," and left. 
"A succession of bad printers" followed, 
until, in 1765, Thomas Kirgate became 
apprentice, t3'pe-setter, and master-printer, 
all in one, a post which he held until the 
proprietor's death in 1797, a period of over 
thirty years. Before Kirgate's advent, 
while Walpole was still being "plagued" 
by unsatisfactory printers, it is said that 
John Baskerville, recounting the various 
hardships he had undergone as printer to 
the University of Cambridge, approached 
Walpole as "Member of Parliament and 
the Patron and Encourager of Arts, and 
particularly that of Printing." It is not 
known that Walpole thought of estab- 
lishing Baskerville as his printer at Straw- 
berry Hill, but it is interesting to specu- 
late upon what would have been the re- 
sults had the fastidious publisher of odd 
volumes and the foremost English printer 
of the eighteenth century joined forces. 

The first issue from the Strawberry 
Hill Press was a volume of "Odes by Mr. 
Gray," printed in 1757. Apropos of this, 
a single leaf was printed bearing twenty- 
four lines anonymously written by David 
Garrick "To Mr. Gray, on his Odes," of 
which Austin Dobson, Walpole's biog- 
rapher, states that "only six copies are said 
to have been printed." In the recent ex- 
hibition of Strawberry Hill issues, two 
copies, belonging to Mr. Gaskill and Mr. 
Winship, were on view at the John Carter 
Brown Library. 

Following these, Paul Hentzner's "Jour- 
ney into England" was printed in an edi- 
tion of two hundred and twenty copies, 
and Walpole's own work, "A Catalogue 
of the Royal and Noble Authors of Eng- 
land," in an edition of three hundred. 
From that time on, the Press continued to 
issue at intervals such books as pleased the 
author's fancy — sometimes serious, fre- 
quently in lighter vein. Mr. Edward 
Percival Merritt, in a paper on "Horace 
Walpole, Printer," read before the Club of 
Odd Volumes in 1907, tells an interesting 
story about the "Catalogue of Roval 
Authors." "In 1787," he writes, Walpole 
"printed a postscript of eighteen pages to 
the Royal and Noble Authors, and, since 



the edition was of forty copies only, en- 
countered fresh difficulties," with hostile 
critics, of whom Walpole wrote, "I have 
been abused and called illiberal for not 
letting all the possessors of my Noble 
Authors have that scrap." 

A letter to Sir Spencer Walpole, April 
9, 1790, tells an equally interesting story 
about George Vertue's "Anecdotes of 
Painting in England," which were edited 
and printed by Walpole in 1762. "Count 
Potocki brought me a message from the 
present King of Poland, with whom I had 
been acquainted when he was in England, 
desiring my Anecdotes of Painting. It 
distressed me, as they were out of print; 
& I had only my own set. In short, I 
was reduced to buying a second-Hand set 
(yet in good condition) & tho' the original 
set sold for less than thirty shillings, I was 
forced to pay thirteen guineas from their 
scarcity." It is difficult, however, to sym- 
pathize deeply, particularly in view of the 
fact that Walpole adds, "In return I re- 
ceived a letter of thanks in his Majesty's 
hand" — a letter which no doubt took a 
prominent place in his collection of auto- 
graphs. 

In recognition of these and other more 
or less scholarly works printed at Straw- 
berry Hill, Mr. Gilpin, author of "Essays 
on Prints," dedicated the third edition of 
that book to Walpole. To permit himself 
to be considered a literary person of stu- 
dious habits was not in accord with the 
pose of one who aspired to "all the negli- 
gence of a gentleman." Mr. Gilpin, 
writes Walpole, "talks of my researches, 
which makes me smile; I know, as Gray 
would have said, how little I have re- 
searched and what slender pretensions are 
mine to so pompous a term." Yet his 
biographer maintains he must have carried 
on something more than a "flirtation with 
antiquities." Likewn'se, an evident interest 
in politics was a bit out of his part, al- 
though Macaulay tells us he "sometimes 
contrived, without showing himself, to dis- 
turb the course of ministerial negotiations 
and to spread confusion through the politi- 
cal circles." Snapping his fingers at all 
serious pursuits, this deliberate dilettante 
filled his letters with pleasantries and gos- 
sip for the entertainment of his friends, 
printed complimentary verses at his private 
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fashion as if they were entitled to the same 
precedence in literature which would have 
been allowed them in a drawing-room." 
Johnson, Garrick, Goldsmith, Hume were 
not to be compared in wit or genius to 
Kitty Clive, Lord Chesterfield, Soame 
Jenyns, Madame du Deffand, the Misses 
Berry or Hannah More — in Walpole's 
estimation. 

To Anna Chamber, Lady Temple, 
whose "Poems" were printed at his press 
in 1764, Walpole wrote, 'T do real justice 
to these poems; they should be compared 
with the first thoughts and sketches of 
other great poets. Mr. Addison, with in- 
finite labour, accomplished a few fine 
poems: but what does your Ladyship think 
were his rough drafts?" — a sentiment 
which inspired his Muse to write: 

"Long has been lost enchanting Sappho's Lyre, 
Its graceful warblings, and its tender fire. 
No more the guardians of th' Aonian well 
To wanton hands wou'd trust their sacred skill. 
When wand'ring careless o'er the tuneful hill, 
When wand'ring thoughtless to th' inspiring 

rill, 
Chance guided TEMPLE to the secret shade. 
Where the shy sisters had the music laid. 
Its form unusual caught her curious eye; 
She touch'd it, and it murmur'd melody." 

In 1774, the Strawberry Hill Press is- 
sued one hundred copies of "A Description 
of the Villa of Horace Walpole." The 
fame of his collections of antiquities and 
curiosities was far-reaching. Visitors be- 
came frequent, and Walpole arranged a 
sj'Stem of admission tickets "to oblige any 
curious Persons with the Sight of his 
House and Collection. Any Person send- 
ing a Day or two before, may have a 
Ticket for Four Persons for a Day cer- 
tain. The House will never be shown 
after Dinner; nor at all but from the First 
of May to the First of October. Persons 
desiring a Ticket, may apply either to 
Strawberry Hill, or to Lord Orford's in 
Berkeley Square, London. If any Person 
does not make use of the Ticket, Lord 
Orford hopes he shall have Notice; other- 
wise he is prevented from obliging others 
on that Day, and thence is put to great In- 
convenience." The copy of the regula- 
tions for admission to Strawberry Hill, 
which is in the British Museum, begins, 
"Mr. Walpole is very ready to oblige 
anv curious Persons." Mr. Gaskill's copy, 



which begins, "Lord Orford is very 
ready," and states the conditions more 
briefly, must be of a later date, since Wal- 
pole became Earl of Orford only upon his- 
nephew's death in 1791. 

"Curious Persons" evidently became 
numerous, and Walpole was forced to 
build a little cottage in the Flow^er Gar- 
den, in which he sought refuge when his 
Villa and Press were being inspected. Not 
all the visitors at the Villa, however, seem 
to have come under that class, for it was 
Walpole's delight — if the occasion war- 
ranted it — to surprise guests who had 
watched the process of printing with some 
verses in their honor, wet from the press. 
For Lady Blandford, whom Walpole, ap- 
parently, was unable to greet upon her ar- 
rival at Strawberry Hill, he printed: "The 
Master of Otranto, being in Durance, and 
not able to receive the Fairy Blandina in 
the Manner he wishes, has nevertheless or- 
dered his Seneschal to deliver up the Keys 
of the Castle to her Hautesse; and all his 
Vassals will with pleasure obey her sover- 
eign Commands." 

In the summer of 1788, Agnes and 
Mary Berry — destined to become close 
friends to Walpole in spite of nearly fifty 
years difference between his age and that 
of his youthful devotees — paid their first 
visit to the printing house. One leaf was 
on the press: 

To MARY'S Lips has ancient Rome 

Her purest Language taught; 
And from the modern City home 

AGNES its pencil brought. 

Rome's ancient Horace sweetly chants 

Such Maids with lyric Fire; 
Albion's old Horace sings nor paints . . . 

He only can admire. 

Still wou'd his Press their Fame record, 

So amiable the Pair is! 
But ah ! how vain to think his Word 

Can add a Straw to BERRYS ! 

Although the Strawberry Hill Press 
was not closed until shortly after the 
owner's death in 1797, three stanzas 
printed in 1790, according to Mr. Haven's 
"Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill 
Press," "seem to have been the last even of 
the small pieces printed under the direction 
of W^alpole:" 



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^•The PRESS at STRAWBERRY-HILL 

TO 

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 

THE 
DUKE OF CLARENCE 



SIR, 



When you condescend to grace 
An ancient Printer's Dwelling, 

He such a Moment must embrace 
Your Virtues to be spelling: 



Your Naval Talents, Spirit, Zeal, 

Sliall other Types record; 
He but one Sentiment can feel, 

. . . And Gratitude's the Word. 

Condemn not, Sir, the Truth he speaks, 

Tho' homely his Address; 
A Prince of BRUNSWIC never checks 

The Freedom of the Press." 




THE PRESS AT STRAWBERRY HILL 



END OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON 



The end of the Brown football season 
came ingloriousl_v in a tempest of snow on 
the morning of Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 
28, at Andrews Field, when the Carlisle 
Indians overwhelmed the home team by 
the score of 32 to 0. Captain Thorpe of 
the Indians, who was proclaimed at the 
Olympic games in Stockholm the world's 
greatest athlete, was the principal factor 
in his team's success. It seems fair to say 
that he is beyond question the premier 
football player of the American season of 
1912. 

Following are the line-ups: 

CARLISLE BROWN 

Large, L e r. e., Ashbaugh 

Guyon, 1. t r. t, Kratz 

Hill, 1. g r. g., Gottstein 

Garlow, c .c, Staff 

Busch, r. g 1. g., Goldberg 

Calac, r. t 1. t.. Murphy 

Williams, r. e 1. e., Andrews 

Arcasa, q. b q. b., Crowther 

Thorpe, 1. h. b r. h. b., Bean 

Goesback, r. h. b 1. h. b., Tenney 

Bergie, f. b f. b., Henry 

Score — Carlisle 32, Brown 0. Touchdowns — 
Thorpe 3, Goesback, Wheelock. Goals from 
touchdowns — Thorpe 2. Officials: Referee — 
Thompson of Georgetown. Umpire — Burleigh 



of Exeter. Linesman — Okeson of Lehigh. Time 
— 15-minute periods. Attendance — 8000. 

Substitutions: Brown — Langdon for Andrews, 
Wade for Murphy, Kulp for Staff, Murphy for 
\^^ade, MacLean for Crowther, Crowther for 
MacLean, Bartlett for Kratz, Kratz for Bart- 
lett, Staff for Kulp, Kulp for Goldberg, Gold- 
berg for Gottstein, Metcalf for Bean, Hazlett 
for Henrv. Carlisle — Wheelock for Goesback, 
Powell for Hill. 

The record of the Brown team for the 
season follows: 

Wednesday, Oct. 2— Colby at Prov. , 3-0. 

Saturday, October 5 — R. I. College at Provi- 
dence, 14-0. 

Saturday, Oct. 12 — Wesleyan at Prov., 6-7. 

Saturday, Oct. 19 — Pennsylvania at Provi- 
dence, 30-7. 

Saturday, Oct 26— Harvard at Cambridge, 
10-30. 

Saturday, Nov. 2 — Vermont at Prov., 12-7. 

Saturday, Nov. 9 — Yale at New Haven, 0-10. 

Saturday, Nov. 16— Lafayette at Prov., 21-7. 

Saturday, Nov. 23— Norwich at Prov., 21-7. 

Thursday, Nov. 28— Carlisle at Prov., 0-32. 

Games won by Brown 6 ; lost 4. Points won 
by Brown 117 ; lost 107. 

Some discussion of the prospects for the 
football season of 1913 will be found in 
the editorial department of this issue of 
the Monthly. 



AN ETHICAL WINDFALL 

CHRISTMAS GRILL— XXII 



John Allenton sat with his after-dinner 
cigar, looking through the gracefully wav- 
ing rings of smoke towards the approach- 
ing Christmas da\', and keenly regretting 
that it would find him still among those 
upon whom was enforced a rigid economy 
and a careful circumspection with regard 
to all outgos. 

It depressed him to have those generous 
impulses held in leash that had been for 
years struggling to break loose and to bring 
to his loyal wife and his precious children 
some Arabian Night gifts that woidd open 
their eyes and fill their hearts with joy. 

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick and 
depressed John Allenton. He had given 
his clients his best service and jiiade such 
charges as his conscience allowed, but the 
exigencies of the year had kept pace with 
his income and he had avoided passing the 
stores whose wn'ndows glittered with gift- 
time offerings. That prized increment 
which means so much for the enlargement 
of the mind and the heart seemed persist- 
ently to evade him, and fate seemed to have 
hitched him in the traces for good. His 
wife Alice under the evening lamp was 
reading the evening paper he had brought 
home, searching for bargains to lighten the 
family load. After searching through the 
advertisements of the grocery and dry 
good stores, she started into another 
section of the paper and soon cried out, 
"John! John! Have you read this? Just 
listen to these ripples from the golden flow 
of our American Pactolus. 

"This article states that certain lawyers 
received for their services the following 
astonishing fees: 

" 'Abel A. Torney, Imperial-Colonial car 
system, $200,000 a year. 

" 'Montague Smith, Sterling Gas and Asphalt 
Corporation, $40,000 a j'ear. 

" 'William Hardfast receives nine hundred 
dollars a day for going to court. 

" 'R. E. Markable, being called upon to de- 
fend charter of street-car company, charged 
$5,000. Received $25,000. Returned $20,000. 

" 'M. Itey Tricky, earns $150,000 a year, rep- 
resenting the National Liberal Petroleum Com- 
pany. 

""'Jeremiah Gripwell gets $100,000 from the 



Associated Ingredients Company, just to be on 
hand. 

" 'Happy G. Lucky has annual retainer of 
$50,000 from the Cambria-Kalamazoo Amalga- 
mated Foundries Company. 

" 'A. Lucky Mann, representing interested in- 
stitutions, received $175,000 for a single case 
in court. 

" 'For organizing the Allied Brewery Prod- 
ucts Corporations, Thomas Craft}' received 
$500,000.' 

"If these statements are true, isn't it 
about time, John Allenton, that you got on 
to the band chariot and divided up the 
spoils? Are these Tunklehorns to capture 
the earth and leave you out? You have 
as much ability as many of them, and prob- 
ably more than some, but vi'hat you want 
to grasp is that coy enchantress. Oppor- 
tunity. She will not come to you ; you 
must eagerly follow up her trail, watch her 
goings and comings, and He in wait to cap- 
ture her when she is within your reach. 
Wake up, John, and hunt a little with 
these corporation Solons!" 

John Allenton looked at his wife with 
amazement. He had never heard such an 
outburst from her before. This unwonted 
attack, together with her recital from the 
paper of a list of such enormous fees, 
stirred his soul to defence and vindication. 

"I see," he said, "you are carried away 
by the stupendous amounts of this prize 
money, as women as a rule are not prone 
to analyze the methods of obtaining money 
and overlook everything else except the 
desirability of its possession and what it 
means to themselves and their children. 
But it is hard for a humble lawyer like me 
to see how these men, brilliant as they may 
be, could have personally earned these 
amounts ; of course, the newspaper account 
may be untrue, but if the statements are 
facts how can they be justified? 

"Don't you think there must be some 
protection in these great payments against 
the rights of individuals or of the people 
or of the substance of the law? I know 
that the most eminent talent is retained by 
great corporations seeking monopoly. Most 
of such fees are paid for the promotion of 
combinations looking towards the control 



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of certain lines of production or the re- 
straint of free distribution of certain prod- 
ucts. Many such payments are for up- 
holding franchises improperly granted and 
used not for the good of the community, 
but for the upbuilding of private tortunes 
at the expense of the municipalities which 
have given away their birthright. I do not 
propose to debase my talent by defending 
'combines' or corporations which are based 
on defiance of the spirit of the law and the 
common weal." 

"Wait a moment, John," said his wife. 
"Don't you think you are a bit jealous of 
these high-paid lawyers?" 

"Not a bit of it," said Mr. Allenton. 
"I never accept a case unless I believe I 
am protecting innocence or defending jus- 
tice, and I never take anything but a fair 
fee for the services performed. I am tired 
of the grab and graft in my profession, i 
would like to see it looked up to as the 
noblest occupation in the land, but it will 
never be so regarded by the people until it 
eliminates from the bar the predatory ele- 
ments which, regardless of fairness, de- 
cency and honor, grab for money like 
hungry wolves for a dead coyote. I tell 
you, Alice, I feel strongly in this matter. 
There is no cause so bad, no crime so foul, 
no vice so debasing, no moral infection so 
corroding but lawyers spring up to defend 
it for a Judas' thirty pieces of silver. If 
the great body of law3'ers with their wit, 
intelligence and vast experience had onlv 
honor and justice before their eyes and 
used their time and talents only for the 
upbuilding of the public good and the 
stamping out of imposture, injustice and 
all nefarious practices, crime and vice and 
graft would be driven from the haunts of 
men and shrink away to the wild places of 
the earth where they belong to consort with 
the prowling beasts of the thickets. I may 
be a dreamer of the millennium, but it is 
as sure to come as there is a God in 
heaven." 

"It seems to me," said his wife, "that 
you are rather censorious towards your 
profession." 

"I can't help it," he responded. "I don't 
want to go to bed any night with the 
shadow of an injustice cast upon my mind. 
Why, the other day Mr. Woolton, the 
president of a great manufacturing com- 
pany, came to my office. He said some 



parties had bought the property right in 
front of him and had put up a building 
which shut out his light, and in the opera- 
tion of his business would be a nuisance. 
He wanted me by threats and injunctions 
and equity proceedings to make it so costly 
and annoying that they would either get 
out or sell out. I asked him if they were 
bad men, inclined to injure him. He said 
no. I asked him if they were doing a busi- 
ness different from other concerns on the 
same street. He said no. Then I said, 
'Out of spite you want me to ruin these 
honest men who are carrying on an honest 
business.' He said, T simply want you to 
drive them out and away from my neigh- 
borhood.' I said, 'Mr. Woolton, you want 
me to bully these men and injure them 
maliciously. Not so long as my name is 
John Allenton will I do it, and I regret 
3'ou have put yourself in such a light with 
me. 

"But, John," said his wife, "you offended 
a good client and probably threw away a 
fee of $500 in that case. Can you afford 
it?" 

"Yes," said John, "that is the one thing 
I can afford in this world. I can and will 
afford to be square with my fellow-men." 

Just then the bell rang. 

"There!" said Mrs. Allenton; "there 
comes sister Mary after the presents for 
the children. I am ashamed to give them 
to her, they are so shabby." 

Soon she returned to the library and 
said, "John, that is Mr. Woolton. He 
wants to see you." 

John, somewhat ruffled, went into the 
front room to meet the manufacturer. 
"Mr. Allenton," said Mr. Woolton, "in 
regard to that matter about which I spoke 
to you, I have considered it further, and 
perhaps under the influence of the Chris- 
mas spirit abounding everywhere I have 
seen my position differently, and have come 
to regard myself in the contemptibje light 
in which evidently I appeared to you. I 
shall go no further in the matter, but 
thought that your advice was worth about 
what I should have thrown away in this 
suit, and have come to hand you a check 
for $500 to close the case. Good night." 

He was gone before Mr. Allenton could 
say even a word of thanks. The law^-er 
sat a while, lost in thought, and then re- 
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showed the check. His wife's eyes 
glistened with tears as she said : 

"How the Christ sentiment does 
soften the human heart and transform 
men's views ! But, John, this is not an 
earned fee; what would you call it?" 

"Well," said he, "I should call it a 
moral retainer." 

"But you haven't rendered service for its 
equivalent," she persisted, "and from your 
standpoint I should call it moral graft and 
not to be accepted." 



"Well," said Mr. Allenton, "'if lyou 
view it in that light I will turn it back at 
once to Mr, Woolton with thanks." 

"Oh, no! no! John, don't do it," she ex- 
claimed. "If there is any turning to be 
done you'll turn it over to me and the 
children, and with it we will make every- 
body around us happy this Christmas. We 
won't quibble any more, but just call it a — 
a — an ethical windfall." 

Robert P. Broivn 



CHRONICLE OF THE CAMPUS 



A series of interfraternity football games 
has been played at the university this fall. 

The Herald announces the election of 
Charles Louis Bagnall, '14, of North 
Attleboro, Mass., and James Vincent Gib- 
lin, '14, of Fall River, Mass., as associate 
editors. 

The Providence Biblical Institute has 
been giving its annual series of lectures on 
Monday afternoons at Manning Hall. 

An intercollegiate conference is to be 
held at Brown early in December under 
the auspices of the student department of 
the state Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 
The time set is Friday to Sunday, Dec. 6 
to 8. The purpose of the conference is the 
promotion of religion, education and depu- 
tation work of student Christian associa- 
tions. 

The date for the public discussion in the 
competition for the class of 1880 prizes, 
which are annually awarded to the under- 
graduates of Brown who show the most 
ability in presenting arguments on some 
current question of importance to Brown 
Universitv, has been set for Wednesday, 
Dec. 11.' 

Buehler won the college championship 
in billiards last month by defeating Crow- 
ther in the finals, 100-65. 



In the pool tournament rapid progress 
has been made, and the matches were, at 
last accounts, down to the semi-finals. 
Wetmore was to play Clegg in the upper 
half, and Babington was matched against 
Phelps in the lower. 

There will be no vesper preachin'g ser- 
vices at Brown this winter, the attendance 
in recent years having proved unsatisfac- 
tory. A series of musical services, re- 
ligious in character, will be held, however. 

The committees of the senior class 
which will have charge of the class dance, 
the spring day celebration and class din- 
ners and smokers have been appointed as 
follows: Senior Ball Committee — R. G. 
Ashbaugh, J. T. Walker, Jr., H. R. Red- 
ington, F. E. Cooper, R. C. Cohvell, H. 
C. Banks, D. Langdon, L. C. Taylor and 
C. C. Parker; Spring Day Committee — 
W. M. Sullivan (chairman), C. D. Morse 
and C. F. Joslin ; Social Committee — J. 
K. Starkweather (chairman), J. T. Wil- 
son, K. D. Gardiner, J. R. Bair and W. E. 
Bailey. 

The freshman debating team has been 
chosen as follows: Wilbur E. Saunders 
(captain) of Providence, Sidney Clifford 
of Providence, Edward T. Willson, Jr., 
of Farmington, N. H., C. Emmanuel 
Epstrom of Providence. This team will 
meet the sophomore debaters in the an- 
nual interclass debate before the December 
recess. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

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

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

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

HENRY ROBINSON PALMER, 'go, Editor 
HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN, Associate Editor 
HOWARD M. CHAPIN, 'o8, Business Manager 

Address all communications to the Brown 
Alumni Monthly, Brown University, 
Providence, R. I. 
Subscription, $1.00 a Year. Single Copies, 10 cts. 
There is no issue during August and September. 
Entered at the Providence post-office as second- 
class matter. 

DECEMBER, 1912 

The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot under- 
take to return manuscripts sent to it for 
publication, unless they are accompanied by 
sufficient postage. 



ACTING PRESIDENT EVERETT 

The appointment of Dr. Everett as act- 
ing president gives great satisfaction to all 
the members of the facult}', as he is a per- 
sonal friend of every member, and is hon- 
ored not only for his powers of thought 
and exposition, but also for his practical 
and business ability. He is an effective 
speaker, perhaps all the more because he 
has escaped the reputation of being an 
orator. Certainly no one ever heard him 
lecture on Schopenhauer, or Nietzsche, or 
Values, for instance, without feeling in 
the presence of a scholarly and logical 
mind. In his doctrine of values he has 
made a real contribution to the theory of 
ethics, and one that is destined to have a 
genuine and practical influence. While 
no one looks for innovations during the 
seven months in which Dr. Everett will 
be at the helm of the university, for he 
would hardly have time in which to carry 
out important changes even if he felt dis- 
posed to make any, his colleagues are look- 
ing for an administration at once strong, 
sj^mpathetic and dignified, one that will be 
a worthy connecting link between the past 



years of Dr. Faunce's presidency and 
those that are vet to come. 



FOOTBALL NEXT YEAR 

The university football squad will lose 
by graduation next June the following 
members: Captain Ashbaugh, Crowther, 
Kratz, Langdon, Kulp, !Metcalf, Gold- 
berg and Murphy. That this constitutes 
a serious loss need hardly be said. There 
will remain, however, a good nucleus for 
next year's team. 

Among the players who will be left are 
Henry, Bean, Sims, Gardner, Hazard and 
Bartlett, '14; McLaughlin, Mitchell 
Gottstein and Tenney, '15; and Hazlett, 
Wade, MacLean, Maxwell, Andrews, 
Donohue and Clark, '16. It is definitely 
expected that some good material will be 
found in the class of '17, though detailed 
information concerning it cannot be sup- 
plied at the present time. 

Among the more prominent candidates 
for next year are Henry, fullback ; Bart- 
lett, Andrews and MacLaughlin, ends; 
MacLean, quarterback, ^Mitchell, centre; 
Gardner (ex-Syracuse) and Tenney, half- 
backs. The situation is far from desper- 
ate therefore. Generally speaking, the out- 
look may be said to be about the same as it 
was a year ago. 

A correspondent asks the ^Monthly how 
it happened that with twice as many candi- 
dates for the line this season as there used 
to be in his day (some ten or a dozen years 
ago), the results have not been better than 
they were. A fair answer to this question 
is that quantity does not always denote 
qualit}-. The team as a whole this 3'ear 
has been hard-working and conscientious, 
but variable. Flashing into first-class 
form in one game, it has slumped into 
mediocrity in the next. 

The correspondent closes his communi- 
cation with this questionable sentiment, 
"However, (with apologies to somebody 
or other), may Brown always be in the 
right, but Brown right or wrong." This 
is loyal but not strictly ethical. We fear 
we cannot subscribe to it, though we feel 
in hearty svmpathy with what the corre- 
spondent probably means to imply. 

If he had said, "May Brown always 
wm'u, but here's to Brown, winning or los- 
ing," we would unreservedly agree with 
him. 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



SWIMMING MEETS 

The swimming management has an- 
nounced a schedule of meets which is only 
partially completed. Meets are pending 
with Cornell, Columbia and M. I. T., 
and it is expected that one will be held on 
Dec. 14. Although no definite arrange- 
ments have been made, March 22 has been 
kept open, so that an interclass contest can 
take place on this date . 

The schedule as arranged at present is 
as follows : 

March 1 — Amherst at Brown. 
March 8 — Williams at Brown. 
March 15 — Brown, Amherst and Wil- 
liams at Amherst. 
March 22 — Open. 
March 29 — Harvard at Brown. 

ELECTRICITY ON CAMPUS 

The Providence City Council commit- 
tee on lights, at a meeting Nov. 18, took 
up the matter of a change in the lights 
now in use on the university campus, 
which are paid for by the city. As the 
campus is used more or less as a public 
highway, the city has in the past main- 
tained several lights there. They are all 
gas lights, however, and the present 
scheme to do away with all gas lighting 
by the city makes necessary a change from 
gas to electricity in the case of the campus 
lights. 

BROWN WINS FROM M A. C. 

The Brown cross-country team made a 
clean sweep of their initial meet of the 
season M^ith the Massachusetts Agricul- 
tural College on Nov. 9. Brown took 
the first five places at the finish, and 
as only the first five men of each team 
scored, its victory was complete before a 
single "Aggie" runner crossed the line. 
The Amherst men took 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th 
and 12th places, making the final score 15 
to 45 in favor of the home team. 

Captain Taber won easily, having a 
lead of about 40 yards on Cook, '14, who 
finished second, about 50 yards ahead of 
Roberts, '13, the third man. Coop, '16, 
and Litchfield, '16, finished close after 
Roberts. Taber covered the 4 1-2 miles 
in 22 min. 23 sec, very good time, con- 



sidering the stiff course and the fact that 
at no time was he forced to extend him- 
self to win. 

BROWN SECOND IN RUN 

Dartmouth's cross-country team won 
the New England Intercollegiate run 
with Brown second on the Tech. course, 
Nov. 16. Dartmouth scored 35 points, 
Brown 50 and M. I. T. 85. The others 
finished as follows Amherst, fourth, 123; 
Williams, fifth, 131; Holy Cross, sixth, 
163; Worcester Polytechnic, seventh, 166; 
and Tufts, eighth. 

Captain N. S. Taber of Brown finished 
first in 25 minutes 31 1-10 seconds for the 
course of 4 6-10 miles. After him came 
three Dartmouth men. H. T. Ball, 
Dartmouth, was second in 25 minutes 
31 6-10 seconds and P. S. Harmon, Dart- 
mouth, third in 25 minutes 47 8-10 sec- 
onds. 

BROWN FOURTH AT ITHACA 

Ten colleges entered five men each in 
the cross-country run of six miles over hill 
and dale at Cornell University, Ithaca, 
New York, on Saturday, Nov. 23. Brown 
was handicapped by the absence of Water- 
man, '15, who was suffering from an in- 
jury, and Litchfield, '16, who was barred 
under the Freshman rule ; but Captain 
Norman S. Taber of Brown finished sec- 
ond, and the team took fourth place, a 
creditable showing, and one that promises 
much for the future of track athletics at 
the university. 

The team scores follow: 

Harvard, 32; Cornell, 48; Dartmouth, 87; 
Brown, 117; Pennsylvania, 154; M. I. T., 156; 
Syracuse, 174; Princeton, 199; Yale, 207; C. C. 
N. Y., 312. 

John Paul Jones of Cornell went ahead 
at the half mile, increased his lead gradu- 
ally to twenty yards, and at the mile to 
fifty, and from then on gained right along. 
As he crossed the finish line, Taber of 
Brown and Copeland of Harvard had just 
rounded the turn at Sibley College, about 
200 yards behind. Copeland made a game 
fight, but Taber's sprint at the finish beat 
him. 

Thousands lined the course during the 



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race, which was held under ideal weather 
•conditions and was well managed. 

The bunch was well together for a half 
mile or so, but then Jones and the leaders 
pulled ahead. The first twenty men ^o 
score, as indicated in the summary, were 
well ahead all through the race. The 
names and time follow. 

Jones, Cornell, 32:39 1-5; Taber, Brown, 
33:04 1-5; Copeland, Harvard, 33:06 3-5; 
Boyd, Harvard, 33:26; Ball, Dartmouth, 33:35; 
Brodt, Cornell, 33:37; Lavyless, Harvard, 
33:42; Carter, Harvard, 33:53; Longfield, Cor- 
nell, 34:03; McClure, Harvard, 34:04; Har- 
mon, Dartmouth, 34:08; Blackman, Harvard, 
34:10; Rogers, Brown, 34:21; Langer, Penn- 
sylvania, 34:30; Finch, Cornell, 34:34; Mar- 
ceau, Dartmouth, 34:36; Cadiz, Cornell, 34:37; 
Dane, Syracuse, 34:37; Cook, Brown, 34:38; 
Day, Dartmouth, 34:51. 

FRESHMAN OFFICERS 

The result of the freshman elections 
was as follows: 

President— J. M. Wade of Trenton, 
Tenn. 

First Vice-President— S. T. MacNeill 
of Newton Centre, Mass. 

Second Vice-President — H. Joslin of 
Media, Pa. 

Secretary — H. B. Webb of Gouveneur, 
N. Y. 

Treasurer — W. H. Ormsby of Dor- 
chester, Mass. 

Wade was a star football man at Mor- 
gan Park Academy, Chicago, and has 
proved his ability to play the game on the 
'Varsity. 

GYM BALL 

The Gym Ball will take place this year 
in Sayles Hall on Dec. 18, where the danc- 
ing will continue from 9 p. m. to 2 a. m. 
The tickets for the ball w^ill be $3.00 
apiece, or $5.00 for a couple. The com- 
mittee in charge of the ball this year con- 
sists of J. T. Walker, Jr., chairman; A. 
W. Howe, Jr., treasurer and secretary; J. 
H. Farnham, G. S. Goodspeed, E. M. 
Medbury, R. H. McLaughlin, H. W. 
Munro, W. J. Phillips, H. R. Redington, 
M. E. Sawin, J. L Shepard and F. H. 
Wilke. 

BROWN o, YALE lo 

Yale was able to score only one touch- 
down against Brown in the annual game 
at New Haven Nov. 9. A goal from the 
field, however, gave the Blue one addi- 



tional score. Brown could not cross the 
Yale goal line. The game is well summar- 
ized in the following extracts from leading 
papers of the next day: 

New York Tribune: "It was not until 
the second half that Yale was able to 
break down the stubborn and dogged de- 
fence of Brown and win the game by a 
score of 10 to 0. The game was a great 
one from the Brown point of view, but a 
great disappointment to Yale. On the 
third play Brown fumbled to Yale on its 
30-yard line, only to prove that its defen- 
sive strength was equal to the occasion, for 
Yale lost the ball on downs after reaching 
Brown's 10-yard line. Henry made the 
first of a number of poor punts under try- 
ing conditions. In the second quarter the 
game was in Brown's hands, so far as the 
attack was concerned, and four times did 
the Brown men attempt to score by goals 
from the field after Yale had checked their 
attack. The second half was Yale's all 
through, though Brown proved its willing- 
ness and strength by holding the Yale at- 
tack for downs on its 10-yard line." 

New York Times: "Yale did not show 
very much football, and it was evident that 
they did not want to. Brown outplayed 
the Elis during the first half, young 
Crowther, the mainspring of the Brown 
attack, being the most prominent figure in 
the melee of struggling athletes. He was 
here, there and everyw^here, and was so 
small that the Yale tacklers missed him 
time and again when they hurled them- 
selves at his fleeting figure. All during 
the first two periods, whenever Henry, 
Tenney and Bartlett, the Brown backs, 
failed to get the required distance, the wee 
quarterback hid himself behind a shift In- 
terference and was lost to view, but only 
to bob up again after he had shot his small 
frame through some hole in the Yale 
line." 

New York Sun: "A distinct disappoint- 
ment was felt by the thousands of Yale 
enthusiasts in the grandstands when the 
Yale football team was able to defeat 
Brown by only 10 points and for the 
greater part of the contest ,was outplayed. 
Brown had four good shots at goal from 
the field and missed them all. Three of 
the tries were made by Ashbaugh and the 
other one by Crowther. Once Brown 
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line, and just before the only touchdown 
of the game it looked as if Brown had held 
Yale again." 

New York Herald: "Brown presented 
a rare but not new formation of the backs. 
Three of these arrayed themselves at the 
points of a V, the apex being away from 
the line and the jaws opening to either 
side of the quarterback, who stood slightly 
in front of the formation. With this for- 
mation, Brown elected at the beginning of 
the game to attack, and attack repeatedly, 
Yale's line from tackle to tackle. The re- 
sults of this attack were only slight gains, 
regularly terminating in a punt. Not- 
withstanding, Brown outrushed Yale in 
the first half. Toward the close Brown 
■called into action a simple but cleverly 
•executed forward pass system by which the 
ball was soon carried to a point 25 yards 
from Yale's goal line. But the Blue line 
was not to be pierced, and Brown tried and 
barely missed a goal from placement. 
Again, again and again Brown brought 
the play back to Yale's 25-yard line, the 
chain of plays upon each onslaught ter- 
minating in a place kick for the Blue's 
goal. One kick was wide and two were 
blocked." 

New York American : "After forcing 
the play throughout the first half and miss- 
ing six chances to score. Brown weakened 
in the second half." 

The line-up : 

YALE BROWN 

Gallauer, 1. e 1. e., Langdon 

Talbott, 1. t 1. t., Murphy 

Arnold, 1. g 1. g., Kulp 

Ketcham, c c, Mitchell 

Pendleton, r. g r. g., Gottstein 

Warren, r. t r. t., Kratz 

Avery, r. e r. e., Ashbaugh 

Cornell, q. b q. b., Crowther 

Philbin, 1. h. b 1. h. b., Tenney 

Spaulding, r. h. b r. h. b., Bartlett 

Flynn, f. b f. b., Henry 

Score — Yale 10, Brown 0. Touchdown — Flynn. 
Goal from touchdown — Flynn. Goal from field 
— Pumpelly. Umpire — Croland, Dartmouth. 
Referee — Okeson, Lehigh. Head linesman — Gil- 
lender, Pennsylvania. Time — 15-minute periods. 
Substitutes: Yale — Sheldon for Gallauer, Mar- 
Icle for Spaulding, Spaulding for Markle, Pum- 
pelly for Flynn, Wiser for Philbin, Wheeler 
for Cornell, Dyer for Wheeler, Reid for Pen- 
dleton, Warren for Talbott; Brown — Wade for 
Murphy, Murphy for Wade, Bean for Bartlett, 
Andrews for Langdon. Attendance — 15,000. 

The Yale Alumni Weekly of Nov. 15 
5aid : During the first half of the game 



Yale was outplayed, and if Brown had 
had a drop kicker the final result would 
probably have been reversed. As it was, 
Brown gained more ground in the game 
than Yale did. In the rushing game, 
Yale gained 183 yards in 24 rushes; 
Brown 122 yards in 20 rushes. Yale had 
one successful forward pass which netted 
17 yards, making Yale's total gains 200 
yards. Brown made seven successful for- 
ward passes which gained 102 yards, mak- 
ing her total gains 224 yards. This 
summarizes the general weakness of the 
team against an inferior Brown eleven." 

BRO^VN 21, LAFAYETTE 7 

In the Lafayette game, Nov. 16, at 
Andrews Field, Brown did not play the 
high-class football that has characterized 
many of her earlier contests. The team 
did not get together in the opening periods 
and at no time did they afford their run- 
ners a semblance of interference. 

The game was w^on on the playing of 
individual men. Foremost among these 
was Crowther, quarterback. Time and 
again he broke away and, single-handed, 
picked his way among the Lafayette war- 
riors for long gains. In the final period 
he shot a forward pass to Captain Ash- 
baugh 40 yards away, with the accuracy 
of a well-sighted rifle. 

Ashbaugh was also a bright and shining 
light. Kulp was a tower of strength in 
the line. Tenney and Henry were the 
substantial ground-getters through the La- 
fayette line. Andrews played the strong- 
est defensive game of any man on the 
Brown team. 

Lafayette opened the game with a 
jump, receiving the ball on the kick-off and 
plunging through the Brown line for a 
first down, and continued their irresistible 
offense until a touchdown was scored by 
Large, after a splendid 16-yard end run by 
Lerch. 

In the second period Brown bucked up 
and held Lafayette, and finally broke 
through into the scoring column them- 
selves. Each of the subsequent periods 
was productive of a touchdown and goal 
for the Providence team, and even when a 
Lafayette team faced them which would 
scarcely be picked as a scrub aggregation 
on March Field, they had to fight for 
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Hennessy was the mainstay of the La- 
fayette backfield. Gross was able to gain 
intermittently, and was head and shoulders 
above his teammates in the secondary de- 
fense. 

The line-up : 

BROWN LAFAYETTE 

Langdon, 1. e 1. e., Stone 

Murphy, 1. t 1. t., Rover 

Kulp, 1. g 1. g., Woodward 

Mitchell, c c, Tischler 

Gottstein, r. g r. g.. Holmes 

Kratz, r. t r. t., Bryer 

Ashbaugh, r. e r. e., Pardee 

Crowther, q. b q. b., Hammond 

Tenney, 1. h. b I. h. b., Steele 

Bean, r. h. b r. h. b., Large 

Henry, f. b f. b., Hennessy 

Substitutions: For Brown — Andrews and Mc- 
Laughlin for Langdon, Goldberg for Murphy, 
Metcalf for Tenney, Bartlett for Bean, Haslett 
for Henry; for Lafayette — Huestis for Royer, 
Gulick and Deturk for Woodward, Diamond 
for Hammond, Lerch for Steele, Kelly for 
Lerch, Kelly and Dannehower for Large. 
Touchdowns — Bartlett, Tenney, Crowther, 
Large. Goals from touchdowns — Ashbaugh (3), 
Bryer. Referee — Crolius of Dartmouth. Um- 
pire — Okeson of Lehigh. Head linesman — 
Davis of Wesleyan. Time of periods — 13 min- 
utes each. 

BROWN 21, NORWICH 7 

In the game of Nov. 23 at Andrews 
Field, Brown scored first in the opening 
period after an exchange of punts and a 
penalty on Norwich for holding had given 
Brown the ball on her opponents' thirty- 
eight-yard line. A series of line plunges 
by Tenney and Bean took the ball over in 
straight plays. 

During the second an:! third periods the 
Norwich players put up a plucky Fight, and 
it was not until the fourth period that 
Brown was able to score again, Bean and 
Tenney again carrying the ball. The 
third score followed quickly after the sec- 
ond. Brown had advanced the ball to 
Norwich's eleven-yard line, when a Nor- 
wich man intercepted a forward^ pass. A 
penalty sent Norwich back to her one-yard 
line, and Underbill punted out to the 
twent3^-yard line. Before a Brown plajer 
could touch the ball, Norwich plavers wrp. 
all around it. Ashbaugh darted in from 
the outside, picked up the ball, and was 
down on the three-yard line. Metcalf 
went over for the touchdown. A. little 
later Brown carried the ball over for a 
fourth touchdown, but Bartlett dropped 
the ball after he got across with it. 



Norwich's score came toward the close 
of the period. In an open formation, the 
team worked a triple pass, Burwell get- 
ting away for a forty-five-yard run. It 
was the prettiest bit of open plav seen on 
the field this year. Two mjre tries with 
the triple pass failed to gain, but a forward 
pass from the same formation went oii: 
finely, and O'Dowd made a beautiful 
fifty-yard run through a broken field for 
the touchdown. The line-up : 

BROWN NORWICH 

Langdon, Andrews, 1. e....l. e., O'Dowd, Rich 

Murphy, 1. t 1. t., Kimball 

Goldberg, 1. g 1. g., Craig, Jones 

Staff, c c, Burch, Smith 

Gottstein, r. g r. g.. Marsh 

Kratz, F. Wade, r. t r. t., Alvoid 

Ashbaugh, r. e r. e., Lee, Tomassi 

Crowther, McLean, q. b., 

q. b., Thompson, Brewster, Murray 

Tenney, Metcalf, 1. h. b 1. h. b., Burwell 

Bean, Bartlett, r. h. b r. h. b., Belyea 

Henry, Hazlett, f. b f. b., Underbill 

Touchdovvns — Bean (2), Metcalf, O'Dowd. 
Goals from touchdowns — Ashbaugh (3), Un- 
derbill. Referee — Pendleton of Bowdoin. Um- 
pire — Davis of .Wesleyan. Head linesman — 
F'rench of Bowdoin. 

SHAKESPEARE ON FOOTBALL 

"Down! Down!" — Henrv V. 

"Well placed."— Henry V. 

"An excellent pass." — The Tempest. 

"A touch, a touch, I do confess." — 
Hamlet. 

"I do commend you to their backs." — 
Macbeth. 

"More rushes! More rushes." — Henry 
IV. 

"Pell mell, down with them!" — Love's 
Labour's Lost. 

"This shouldering of each other." — 
Henry VI. 

"Being down, I have the placing." — 
Cymbeline. 

"Let him not pass but kill him rather." 
—Othello. 

" 'Tis sport to maul a runner." — An- 
tony and Cleopatra. 

"I'll catch it ere it come to ground." — 
Macbeth. 

"We must have bloody noses and 
cracked crowns." — Henry IV. 

"Worthy sir, thou bleedest ; thy exer- 
cise hath been too violent." — Coriolanus. 

"It's the first time that ever I heard 
breaking of ribs was sport." — As You 
Like It. — Boston Transcript. 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



Faculty 



Professor Richardson read a paper on "High 
school mathematics from a college standpoint" 
at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island In- 
stitute of Instruction Nov. 1. 

Professor Upton is announced to give five 
lectures in the general course offered at the 
Rhode Island Normal School. Professor Col- 
vin will give two lectures in the same course. 
The opening lecture in the library course offered 
at the school was given by Mr. Koopman Nov. 
12. 

Professor Crosby is giving a course of seven 
readings, Oct. 22-Jan. 21, for the benefit of the 
Providence Day Nursery Association. 

At the twenty-seventh annual session of the 
New England Association of Colleges and Pre- 
paratory Schools, held at Yale University Nov. 
1, Professor Fowler of the department of Bibli- 
cal Literature and History spoke on the subject, 
"The college degree ought to be given for work 
done in college plus work done in preparatory 
school." Following a dinner in Association 
Hall that evening. President Meiklejohn of 
Amherst gave an address. 

Dean Randall and Professor Dealey were the 
representatives of the university at the annual 
meeting of the Association of New England Col- 
leges, held at Bowdoin College Nov. 12. 

Professor Dealey will give at Bell Street 
Chapel during the winter a course of six lec- 
tures on subjects in the field of social science. 

The Macmillan Co. is putting through the 
press a volume by Professor Walter. 

At the annual meeting of the Providence 
Society for Organizing Charity, Dr. Faunce, 
who has been its president for thirteen years, 
found it necessary to retire on account of iiis 
trip abroad during the current year. The fol- 
lowing resolutions were passed: "Resolved, 
That in view of the retirement of Dr. Faunce 
as president of the Providence Society for Or- 
ganizing Charity, the board of directors wishes 
to put on record their deep appreciation of his 
long and faithful service. To his wide vision 
of the field, his patient and careful oversight 
of detail and his courageous optimism has been 
due in a large measure the marked progress of 
the society during the thirteen years of his 
presidencv." Dr. Faunce is succeeded by Henry 
D. Sharpe, '94. 



Alumni 

1861 
Dr. Henry S. Burrage, who last summer 
went to England for what he hoped would be 
a protracted stay, was obliged to return on ac- 
count of ill-health. His friends will be glad 
to know that he is on the way to a rapid and 
complete recovery, and that he was able 
virtually to finish the historical researches 
which formed one of his principal objects in 



going abroad. His address for the winter is 
21 Berkeley st, Cambridge, Mass. 

1862 
A luncheon was given in Worcester, Mass., 
Nov. 6, by his daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Lin- 
coln, Bates, '93, to ex-Professor Thomas L. 
Angell, in honor of his seventy-fifth birthday. 
Among those present were Rev. E. S. Knapp 
of Worcester and Dr. William H. Bowen, '57, 
of Providence. 

1873 

Charles C. Kneisly of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 
has issued a pamphlet giving the Masonic sta- 
tistics of the continental United States for 1911. 

William E. Foster, librarian of the Provi- 
dence Public Library, read a paper at the 
November meeting of the Rhode Island Library 
Association on "Possibilities of aid to the 
smaller by the larger libraries." 

1874 
Abel P. Tanner, Democrat, has been elected 
to the Connecticut General Assembly from 
New London. 

1882 
Charles H. Wheeler began last August his 
duties as pastor of the Federated Church at 
Somerset, Mass., which was formed from the 
union of the Baptist and Congregational 
churches. In a page notice of this interesting 
experiment, given in the Providence Journal of 
Nov. 10, it is stated that with half the equip- 
ment the results are twice as great as before. 

1883 

Dr. James H. Davenport was elected Nov. 
5 a member of the Common Council of Provi- 
dence on the Democratic ticket. He has been 
for twenty-five years on the staff of the Rhode 
Island Hospital. 

Ex-Governor Edward C. Stokes is vice- 
chairman of the Republican State Committee 
of New Jersey. 

Isaac B. Burgess, who for the last few weeks 
has been assisting in the work at the First Bap- 
tist Church, will leave Providence the latter 
part of December to become the general secre- 
tary of the New Jersey Sunday School Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Burgess became director ot ic- 
ligious instruction at the church in October, 
1908, but was obliged to resign in the spring 
of 1911 because of ill health. 

1884 
Professor A. D. Cole, head of the department 
of physics of the Ohio State University, repre- 
sented that institution at the seventy-fifth anni- 
versary of the foundation of Mr. Holyoke Col- 
lege Oct. 8 and 9, and at the inauguration of 



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President Meiklejohn of Amherst College 
Oct. 16. 

The First Baptist Church, Melrose, Mass., on 
the evening of Nov. 14, tendered a reception 
to the pastor, Rev. Augustus Erving Scoville, 
on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordina- 
tion. Congratulatory addresses were made by 
Rev. Robert Woods Van Kirk, West Newton, 
and Rev. Edward Pratt Tuller, D. D., of the 
Brighton Avenue Baptist Church, AUston, 
classmates of Mr. Scoville; and Rev. Thomas 
Simms, D. D., pastor of the Congregational 
•Church, Melrose. Mr. Scoville was ordained 
in Dover Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., where 
he served four years, removing thence to 
Akron, Ohio, where he remained eight years. 
He is completing his thirteenth year in Mel- 
rose. Numerous additions to the membership 
and the erection of a beautiful, modern church 
edifice have marked his pastorate. 

1885 
Arthur P. Sumner was elected Nov. 5 a 
Republican member of the Rhode Island House 
of Representatives for the second Providence 
district. He is spoken of as the possible deputy 
speaker. 

Judge Norman S. Dike, Nov. 22, pronounced 
suspended sentence involving perpetual banish- 
ment from the state of New York upon a 
woman who pleaded guilty to arson in the sec- 
ond degree. Said Judge Dike privately in re- 
gard to this novel form of punishment: "It 
was out of consideration for the prisoner, as 
well as the community, that I expelled her. 
The suspended sentence is the greatest power 
for doing good that a judge has, and I exer- 
cised it." 

1887 

Theodore F. Green, the Democratic candi- 
date for governor of Rhode Island, was de- 
feated Nov. 5 by a small plurality. 

Joseph Walker polled 143,538 votes as the 
Republican candidate for governor of Massa- 
chusetts on Nov. 5, but Governor Foss had 
192,178. 

1890 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. A. Heiser of 
Providence left on Oct. 12 for Baltimore to 
take up their residence on the country estate 
which they have purchased near there. 

1891 

The University Club of White Plains, N. Y., 
an organization of about one hundred mem- 
bers, including graduates from some thiry-five 
universities and colleges, has elected Frank E. 
Winsor president for the year 1912-1913. 

Rev. Leo Boone Thomas, ex-'91, of Swamp- 
scott, Mass., has been called to the pastorate of 
the North Baptist Church of Port Chester, 
N. Y. 

1892 
William Chauncy Langdon gave an address 
at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island In- 
stitute of Instruction Nov. 1 on "The modern 



pageant as a form of education." Mr. Langdon 
has an illustrated article in The Survey for 
Nov. 23 on "The Philadelphia historical 
pageant." 

1893 
W. Dawson Johnston, librarian of Columbia 
Universit\', is joint author of a volume just is- 
sued by the United States Bureau of Educa- 
tion, entitled: "Special Collections in Libraries 
in the United States." 

1894 
Henry D. Sharpe has been elected president 
of the board of directors of the Providence So- 
ciety for Organizing Charity, to succeed Dr. 
Faunce, who resigned on account of his trip 
abroad. 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Steere are receiving 
congratulations on the birth of a daughter, 
Ruth Graves Steere, Nov. 12, 1912. 

Mr. Lewis A. Waterman and Mrs. Katharine 
(Utter) Waterman, g. '94-'98, are receiving 
congratulations on the birth of a son, Nicholas 
Utter Waterman, Nov. 7, 1912. 

1895 
Bostonia, the quarterly publication of Boston 
University, devotes two pages to a review of 
Professor Dallas Lore Sharp's "Winter," which 
has recentiv been issued by the Houghton, 
Mifflin Co. ' 

Rev. Will Edward Gardner declined re-elec- 
tion as department secretary of the Episcopal 
Missionary Council, and has been made gen- 
eral secretary of the board of education of the 
Episcopal Church. 

1896 

Dr. Williston Walker, professor of church 
history at Yale, begins an extended review of 
Champlin Burrage's "Early English Dis- 
senters" in the American Historical Review 
with the following tribute to the value of Mr. 
Burrage's historical work: "No American 
scholar has done so much in recent years to 
illuminate the beginnings of the religious 
movements which intimately influenced New 
England as has Mr. Champlin Burrage. His 
discoveries and investigations concerning Rob- 
ert Browne have remade the portrait of that 
early Congregationaiist. John Robinson is 
better understood, thanks to his work. The 
origin and development of the church covenant 
idea has been made more evident by his re- 
searches. It is, therefore, with anticipation of 
fresh material of value that one takes up the 
two volumes issued in the handsome form 
adopted by the Cambridge University Press, 
nor is the expectation disappointed." 

Arthur Deerin Call contributed to the Psy- 
chological Clinic for May an account of "Dr. 
Dawson's inductive study of school children." 

William C. Bliss was one of the commission 
of three appointed by the governor of Rhode 
Island to visit Washington to submit facts con- 
cerning the suspension of work on the Grand 
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1897 
Rev. B. T. Livingston has accepted a call to 
the Columbia Street Baptist Church of Bangor, 
Me., and will assume his new duties in Janu- 
ary. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 
1869, and came to this country when twelve 
years of age. He was graduated at Newton 
in 1900. He has been a pastor in Providence 
for twelve years, five years at Jefferson Street 
Baptist Church, and seven at the Union Baptist 
Church. 

One of the largest private houses in New 
York is the structure being built for John D. 
Rockefeller, Jr., at No. 10 West Fifty-fourth 
St., and now almost completed. It is expected 
Mr. Rockefeller will move into his new home 
by Christmas, \\nien a New York millionaire 
builds a new house its lavishness, beauty or 
costliness is usually the main feature. Mr. 
Rockefeller's home is unique in having for its 
dominant characteristics size and simplicity. 
Its cost will be about $200,000. 

Little, Brown & Co. have published "Folk 
Tales of East and West," by Professor John 
Harrington Cox. 

J. Parker Coombs, ex-'97, has left grand 
opera, and is living on a little farm in Free- 
port, Me. As a souvenir of the Hippodrome, 
where he performed for several years, he has a 
small pet jackass. This donkey he used when he 
was playing with Raymond Hitchcock in the 
"Yankee Consul," and now it is one of his 
chief treasures on the farm. Mr. Coombs has 
taken quite an active interest in politics, and 
his mule was a prominent figure in the recent 
Democratic celebration at Freeport. 

1898 

Charles Atwood Marsh is teacher of mathe- 
matics in the high school at Maiden, Mass., 
which has over a thousand pupils. 

Guilford C. Hathaway of Fall River was 
elected Nov. 5 register of probate and insol- 
vency for the county of Bristol. 

Born, July 12, 1912, to Robert Kerr Lyons, 
ex-'99, and Minnie L. Bartlett Lyons, '01, a 
son, Bartlett Howell Lyons. 

1899 

Arthur H. Blanchard, professor of highway 
engineering at Columbia University, has been 
appointed a reporter for the United States at 
the third International Road Congress to be 
held in London in June, 1913, on the third 
question, "Construction of macadamized roads 
bound with tarry, bituminous, or asphaltic ma- 
terials." On Nov. 25 he delivered an address 
entitled, "The Art and Science of Highway En- 
gineering," at the celebration of founders' day 
at the Clarkson School of Technology. 

Born, Oct. 26, 1912, at the Sherman Square 
Hotel, New York city, to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. 
Wvckoff, a daughter, Elizabeth Herv^ev Wvck- 
off". 

1899 and 1904 

H. E. Kimball, ex-'04, has succeeded W. W. 
Massie, ex-'99, as commodore of the Rhode Is- 
land Yacht Club. 



1900 
The place of honor in the American Histori- 
cal Review for October is given to a 28-page 
article by Waldo G. Leland on "The National 
Archives: a Programme." The Nation for 
Nov. 7 devotes an entire page to a commenda- 
tory notice of Mr. Leland's article, pronouncing 
it authoritative, and supporting the writer's 
contention for the establishment of national 
archives with a commission, an expert archivist 
in charge, and a fire-proof, properly designed 
building of its own. The Nation asserts "that 
there is no subject connected with the machin- 
ery of our government which demands a 
prompter attention at the hands of congress." 
When the commission is created it will for- 
tunately not have to look far for an ideal ar- 
chivist. 

Nathan A. Tufts was re-elected to the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives for a 
fourth term Nov. 5. 

Born, Sept. 17, 1912, in Providence, to Dr. 
Herbert H. Armington and Mrs. Theodora G. 

B. Armington, ex-'Ol, a son, Richard Wickes 
Armington. 

1901 
Born, Sept. 23, 1912, at Washington, D. C, 
to Harry Lee Watson and Maude Pierce Wat- 
son, a son, Harry Lee Watson, Jr. 

Halley T. Waller is general secretary of the 
Y. M. C. A. of Akron, O., having begun his 
duties there Sept. 17. Incidentally, his removal 
to that city doubled the number of its Brown 
graduates, Jonathan Taylor, '97, having been 
previously the only Brown man residing there. 

1902 

Dr. Crawford R. Green of Troy, N. Y., in an 
article upon "Reforming Parents," in the 
Craftsman, suggests _ the constantly increasing 
menace of over-participation in social life on 
the part of men and women who are parents. 
"The increase of luxurious living among fam- 
ilies of moderate means as well as among the 
rich, evidenced by the growing popularity of 
hotel and club life among both men and women 
and the ever increasive call of the automobile, 
the golf links and the yacht — all these consti- 
tute a great and serious factor in our social 
life whereby the child is made to suffer. No 
tutor, however competent, can perform the 
duties of a father, and no nurse maid can ful- 
fill the true vocation of the mother. The vital 
problem of childhood is not so much what 
societv' may do toward the alleviation of unsat- 
isfactorv conditions of children as a class, but 
rather what the individual parent may learn 
of the truths of child life and put to practical 
use, working independently in the home." 

James B. Littlefield has been unanimously 
elected captain of the Third Company, C. A. 

C, Rhode Island National Guard, succeeding 
Capt. G. Edward Buxton, Jr., who recently re- 
signed. 

1903 
Col. and Mrs. Harvey A. Baker are recelv- 



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ing congratulations on the birth of a son 
Nov. 5. 

Born, at Forest Grove, Ore., Oct. 25, 1912, 
to Lester Burrell Shippee and Edna Isabel 
(Warner) Shippee, '00, a daughter, Elizabeth 
Greene Shippee. 

Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hurley, ex-'03, are re- 
ceiving congratulations on the birth of a daugh- 
ter. 

Henry B. Drowne, instructor in highway en- 
gineering at Columbia University, has been 
appointed the reporter for the United States 
at the third International Road Congress to 
be held in London in June. 1913, on the second 
question, "Types of surfacing to be adopted on 
bridges, viaducts, etc." 

1904 
The present address of Charles Frederic 
Savage and Ethel Rich Savage, '03, is Lancas- 
ter, N. H. Mr. Savage is county secretary of 
the Northern New Hampshire County Y. M. 
C. A. 

1905 

Married, Sept. 28, 1912, at East Wallingford, 
Vt, Dr. Fred H. Freeman and Miss Jessie 
Wheeler, '01. They will make their home in 
Surry, Me. 

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Wells (Ethel Ship- 
man) are receiving congratulations on the 
birth of a son, Nov. 8. 

A cablegram received Sept. 29 from Judson 
Adams Crane, teacher of law in Pei-Yang Uni- 
versity, Tientsin, China, announced the birth 
of a daughter, Dorothy Oakes Crane. 

E. K. Fretwell, A. M., 1905, is again playing 
the leading role at the New York Hippodrome 
in its new production, "Under Many Flags." 
As "Captain Strong" he sings several baritone 
solos, evoking favorable comment by well- 
known critics. Mr. Fretwell is also head of 
the English department of the Polytechnical 
Preparatory Institute of Brooklyn. 

1906 

Gene Ware, the university organist, gave, 
Nov. 7, the first of the series of organ recitals 
to be given under the auspices of the Rhode 
Island Federation of Music Clubs in Sayles 
Hall. Mr. Ware's programme consisted en- 
tirely of the work of English composers, the 
first part old English compositions and the 
second part modern. 

Gardner T. Hart, ex-'06, is connected with 
the New York Sun in its city department. 

Alexander Graham, formerly with Every- 
body's Magazine, has taken a position with the 
Pictorial Review as sales and subscription pro- 
motion expert. His office is at 226 West 39th 
St., New York city. 

Theodore W. Gordon and Miss Mabel C. 
Ashworth, both of 1906, were married, Oct. 30, 
at 1350 Elmwood av., Providence, the home of 
the bride. The ceremony was performed by 
the groom's father. Rev. C. E. Gordon of 
Derby, Vt. The groom's brother. Rev. E. R. 



Gordon, '07, acted as best man. The ushers 
were Howard Rice, ex-'06, H. W. Hastings, '04, 
F. H. Smith, '05, and E. B. Moulton, '07. After 
their wedding trip the bride and groom will 
make their home at 314 Glenwood blvd., 
Schenectady, N. Y., where Mr. Gordon has a 
position with the General Electric Company. 
Mr. Gordon is a member of the Chi Phi fra- 
ternity and Mrs. Gordon of the Alpha Beta. 

Rev. and Mrs. Walter Douglas Swaffield of 
Danielson, Conn., are receiving congratulations 
on the birth of a daughter, Nov. 17. Mrs. 
Swaffield was Miss Helen Hartwell of Provi- 
dence. 

1908 

Dr. Clifton R. Gardner, ex-'08, has been 
missing since Sept. 16 from the Post Graduate 
Hospital, New York city, in which he was a 
member of the staff. His body was found, 
Nov. 8, in Lakeville, Mass., on the shore of 
Long pond. The medical examiner pronounced 
the case one of suicide. 

Born, Sept. 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. 
Hempel, a son, Carl Herman Hempel. Mr. 
Hempel is now serving a fourth year as prin- 
cipal of the Sagamore Grammar School, and 
is also superintendent of the Methodist Sunday 
school, scout master of the Sandwich Boy 
Scouts and secretary of the Barnstable County 
Y. M. C. A. 

Carl H. Carson is teaching English, and 
Greek and Roman history at the Polytechnical 
Preparatory Institute of Brooklyn. 

W. C. West has been stationed for about a 
year at Lingayan, Pangasinan, P. I., as district 
engineer of the Bureau of Public Works, 
Manila, in charge of the Pangasinan district, 
one of the three first class districts in the 
islands. The work consists chiefly of the con- 
struction of metalled highways and reinforced 
concrete bridges. 

J. C. McDonald has left the H. B. Smith Co., 
and since Oct. 1 has been with the Pfaudler 
Company, manufacturers of glass enamel lined 
tanks for brewing and dairy and fruit products 
equipment. His business address is 165 Broad- 
way, New York city. 

1909 

George T. Huxford and Miss Ada Ashby 
Parker were married in Providence, Oct. 10. 
Their address is 26 Carolina av., Providence. 

Charles E. Hughes, Jr., is engaged in the 
practice of the law at 24 Broad st. New York 
city. 

Hubert R. Ede has recently joined the city 
staff of the Newark Star, Newark, N. J. 

Albert Harkness, having graduated from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now 
associated with Arthur and Franklin B. Ware, 
architects, 1170 Broadway, New York city. 

Robert F. Chambers is engaged in research 
chemistry in the laboratory of the General 
Electric Co. at Pittsfield, Mass., His address 
is 139 South St., Pittsfield. 

Born, Oct. 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest R. 
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Hagar became principal of the Manton Avenue 
School, Providence, Nov. 1. 

191P 

William H. Kent is connected with the mer- 
-chandise department of William Filene's Son's 
Company of Boston, Mass. 

Carl R. Raquet has taken a position with the 
B. F. Sturtevant Co., manufacturers of fans and 
blowers, as manager of the popular apparatus 
department for Philadelphia. 

Joseph H. Cull is connected with the New 
York office of the General Electric Co., his 
address being 188 Hall st, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Married, Sept. 11, 1912, at the home of the 
bride's parents, Whitinsville, Mass., Harry B. 
■O'Neil and Miss Marion de Sales Roche. Mr. 
and Mrs. O'Neil will live at 61 Court st., 
Keene, N. H. Mr. O'Neil is a civil engineer 
and surveyor in Keene. 

1911 

Married, Nov. 14, in St. James' Episcopal 
Church, New York city, David S. Baker, ex- 
'11, and Miss Dorothy Harvey, daughter of Mr. 
Ashton Harvey of New York. Mr. and Mrs. 
Baker will make their home in New York. 

Married, Aug. 2, 1912, R. H. M. Canfield and 
Miss Bessie M. Zeller-Russell. Their home ad- 
dress is 662 Park av., Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. 
Canfield is with the Erie railroad bridge de- 
partment, SO Church St., New York city. 

Frank Evans Seagrave, A. M., '11, the Provi- 
dence astronomer, has been appointed to take 
charge of the large telescope of the Harvard 
Observatory, through which all important ob- 
servations at the station are mad.e. His special 
study will be variable stars at their minimum 
brightness. Mr. Seagrave was born in Provi- 
dence in 1860. He studied at the Harvard 
College Observatory, 1875-77. He has attended 
three total eclipse expeditions and has done 
much special astronomical work. He gained 
an international reputation by his observations 
in connection with Halley's comet. Two years 
before the comet was due to put In an appear- 
ance he computed its ephemeris. His figures 
were published In the Astronomical Review and 
taken by Flammarion, the noted French as- 
tronomer, as the most accurate computea. 
When the comet appeared Its position in the 
heavens was almost identical with the position 
figured out beforehand by Mr. Seagrave, and 
it appeared within a fraction of a minute of 
the time he had predicted. He also worked 
out the course the comet would take in its 
sweep of the heavens, and this also proved ex- 
ceptionally accurate. 

1912 
Richard B. Wilson has entered the Columbia 
Law School. 



formal farewell dinner in the club dining 
room. President Stanley voiced the sentiments 
of the club in wishing Dr. Faunce "bon voyage" 
on his long tour. 

The annual ladies' day, held on election day, 
Nov. -5, was a huge success. The patronesses 
were Mrs. E. O. Stanley, Mrs. William R. Dor- 
man, Miss Dorman, Mrs. H. B. Keen. Those 
who poured tea were Mrs. Edward A. Gushee, 
Mrs. R. R. Hunter, Mrs. C. B. Dana, Mrs. J. 
M. Kent. Ices were served by Miss Murphy, 
Miss Mcllvain, Miss P. A. Cawley, Miss King, 
Miss Woodruff. From 4 until 6 o'clock the 
club rooms were thronged with the members, 
their wives and friends. Brown songs and 
selections by the new tel-electrlc piano-player 
recently purchased by the club furnished the 
entertainment. Upwards of fifty people, mem- 
bers and guests, sat down to dinner In the club 
dining room after the reception, and later 
awaited the election returns. 

A large delegation of New York alumni at- 
tended the Brown-Yale game in New Haven 
on Nov. 9, and those who were not so fortunate 
were treated to a vivid description of some 
features of the game by Secretary Keen at the 
next smoker of the club. 

On Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, S. A. Mof- 
fat, '02, a charter member of the Brown Club 
in New York, and now national field scout 
commissioner of the Boy Scouts, gave a talk on 
"The Boy Scout Movement." Mr. Moffat showed 
how the movement started in America as a 
result of Sir Baden-Powell's success with the 
boys of England. The organization is non- 
milltarv, non-sectarian. The Boy Scouts are 
gradually getting the confidence of the labor 
unions, hitherto strongly opposed to them; 
troops are being formed in all churches, under 
all creeds. There Is hardly a town or village 
throughout the United States which has not its 
companv of Boy Scouts, and the organization 
of the Boy Scouts In the 'insular possessions of 
the United States, notably in Porto Rico, is 
proving a potent factor in training the boys to 
lovaltv to the American flag and American in- 
stitutions and ideals. About thirty men greeted 
Mr. Moffat and were deeply Interested In his 
description of the work. 

H. G. Cart^enter, 
For Press Comm'iHee 



BROWN MEN IN PHILADELPHIA 

The Brown Alumni Association of Philadel- 
phia requests that names and addresses of^ any 
men who have been connected with the univer- 
sity and who have recentlv become residents 
of Philadelphia or vicinity be sent to its secre- 
tarv. Plerson T. Fort, 1114 Chestnut St., Phila- 
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Nov. 14, 1912 
On Friday evening, Nov. 1, the club enter- 
tained President W. H. P. Faunce at an in- 



Alumnae 

1898 
Norma Garvin died by drowning in the New 
river, Lonsdale, Nov. 20. The medical exam- 



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iner pronounced the case one of suicide during 
temporary insanity. 

1901 

Margaret N. Goodwin ancj, Judith Hopkins, 
'06, spent the summer in Holland, Germany 
and Switzerland. 

The address of Florence Rafter McCusker 
is 382 Broad St., Providence. 

1906 
Edith A. Barr is teaching English at the 
William Penn High School, Philadelphia. Her 
address is 1804 Tioga st., Philadelphia, Pa. 

1908 

Mary W. Arnold is teaching at the Bronson 
School, Providence. 

Caroline B. Phillips is living at her home, 
345 Potter av.. Providence. 

1910 
Leila Tucker is teaching at the Bronson 
School, Providence. 



A. Marie Blain is studying music in Boston. 
Her address is 75 Gainsboro St., Boston, Mass. 

1911 

Emma Dahlgren is teaching in the Technical 
High School, Providence. 

Helen Bell is teaching French at Traif 
Academy, Kittery, Me. 

Irene C. Perry is in the library of the Rhode 
Island Historical Society. 

Jennie F. Robinson is substituting in the 
Brockton schools. 

Irene Nelson is living at her home, 47 Park 
St., New Bedford, Mass. 

Alice D. Holman is resident in charge at the 
Dorchester House, Dorchester, Mass. 



1912 
Elsie Anderson is teaching at Brewster, Mass. 



THE BOOK SHELF 



DALLAS LORE SHARP'S "WINTER" 

The publishers have added to Professor 
Sharp's Nature Series a volume on Winter to 
follow that on The Fall of the Year, which 
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of Professor Sharp's books, this is full of 
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men who have not lost the heart and eye of 
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Professor Bronson has added to his four 
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America from William Morrell to Emily Dick- 
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bibliography and convenient indices close the 
volume. 



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edited, with illustrative and explanatory notes 
and a bibliography, by Walter C. Bronson, 
Litt D. The University of Chicago Press, Chi- 
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DEALEY'S "THE FAMILY" 

In this convenient volume Professor Dealey 
presents the historical setting and the practical 
current problems relating to the family con- 
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the American family. Chapters are devoted to 
a study of the influence of democracy and city 
conditions on American family life, and due 
account is taken of the great and promising 
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The book cannot but exert a beneficial Influ- 
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of some special subject, will sigh for the good 
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The family in its sociological aspects. By 
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