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Volume XHI 



June. 1912, to May, 1913 



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VOL. XIII 



MARCH, 1913 



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Another Brunonian Chief Justice With Portrait 197 

George Gissing : His Life and Art Edward Fuller 197 

The College Neighborhood from Turk's Head 

Full-page Photograph 201 



The Efficiency Nostrum at 


Harvard 


New York Natiou 


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President Faunce in Egypt 






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Transportation Changes in 


Providence 


John R. Hess 


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Washington at Play— Luncheon Grill XXV 


Robert P. Brown 


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What Brown has done for 


Colby 


Harry L. Koopman 


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To William E. Foster 




Courtney Langdon 


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Government Laboratory 






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Editorial 






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The Letter Box 






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Topics of the Month 






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Brunonians Far and Near 






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The College Humorists 






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Providence, R. I., March, 1913 



No. 8 



ANOTHER BRUNONIAN CHIEF JUSTICE 



The resignation of 
Chief Justice Dubois 
of the Rhode Island 
Supreme Court in 
January was followed 
by the promotion of 
Justice Clarke How- 
ward Johnson, of the 
class of 1877, in his 
stead. For a very 
considerable proper, 
tion of all the period 
since the Court was 
established Brown 
men have occupied 
the post of Chief 
Justice ; indeed at the 
present time three 
Brown graduates, all 
members of the class 
of 1 86 1, survive who 
held the place, Judges 
Matteson, Stiness and 
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Chief Justice Johnson 
'yy ; Christopher F. 
Parkhurst, '76; Wil- 
liam H. Sweetland 
'78; Walter B. Vin- 
cent and Darius Baker 
a graduate of Wes- 
leyan University. 

The Presiding Jus- 
tice of the Superior 
Court, also, is a Brown 
man, Willard B. Tan- 
ner, '79, and among 
the other members of 
the court are George 
T. Brown, '73 ; Elmer 
J. Rathbun, '96, and 
Chester W. Barrows, 
'95, the latter having 
been elected in Jan- 
uary last. 



GEORGE GISSING: HIS LIFE AND ART 

A PAPER READ BEFORE THE PHILOLOGICAL CLUB OF BROWN 

FEBRUARY 27, 1913 

By Edward Fuller, Harvard '82 

George Gissing is assuredly of those leading. This knowledge oomes from two 

who need the services of a biographer. The main sources — a book of his own, and a 

world knew little of him while he lived, book which a friend has just published, 

and possibly the knowledge it is getting Neither is a confessed biography. But the 

of him now he is dead is more or less mis- one throws light on the ofher. "The Pri- 



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vate Papers of Henry Ryecroft" was 
written not long before Gissing's death. 
It is in no sense an ordered account of his 
life and one who knew nothing of the facts 
would miss many of the autobiographical 
touches. But it does reveal, half uncon- 
sciously, the mind and heart of the writer, 
and thus it is a valuable human document. 
If we read it in connection with the other 
book, "The Private Life of Henry IMait- 
land," we shall get no little light upon a 
very strange career. Mr. Morley Roberts 
has been severely blamed, indeed, for tell- 
ing too much. But Gissing was not the 
kind of man to whom the truth is a disser- 
vice. ]\Ir. Roberts is to be criticised, if at 
all, for his futile attempt at disguise. 

However, out of all the needless tangle 
of facts it is possible to obtain an illumin- 
ing glimpse of a man whose life might 
fairly be described as one of his own novels. 
And it is with his life rather than his nov- 
els that I purpose to deal. Those who have 
read these novels do not need to be told 
about them, and those w'ho have not would 
derive little advantage from a cold and dry 
analysis. What I wish to do is to arouse 
an interest in the man sufficient to send 
the latter to his novels. In their way they 
are as remarkable as anj^ written within 
the last fifty years. Gissing's artistic stat- 
ure is not that of TroUope, Mrs. Oliph- 
ant. Hardy or Black; it could hardly be 
said of him that he saw life steadily and 
saw it whole; but he did paint a certain 
section of English society as no one else 
has ever painted it. I do not say that the 
picture is correct in every particular — or 
even in some important particulars; it is 
coloured too much, indeed, by personal ex- 
perience. Yet to say this is to do him some 
injustice; for, in spite of what many would 
regard as his excessive realism, he was, 
like most realists, a romanticist at heart. 
There were, in fact, two men in Gissing — 
the man who was and the man who might 
have been. 

Gissing's father seems to have been an 
educated man, a c'hemist in the Yorkshire 
town disguised in Mr. Roberts's narrative 
as Mirefields ; of his mother we know 
nothing, except the fact that she was alive 
at the time of his death. There was not 
much money in the family, and Gissing 
could not have gone to Manchester Uni- 
versity had he not obtained a scholarship. 



He had an extraordinary aptitude for 
learning. Even as a boy of sixteen he 
swept everything before him. 

It was a most extraordinary hallucina- 
tion — I can think of no better word for 
it — that betrayed the bright promise of 
Gissing's youth. Like other men of im- 
agination, he was a strange compound of 
weakness and strength. Mr. Roberts says 
that, although he had no real passion for 
women, beyond the instinctive yearning of 
man for a mate, he was at times so 
possessed by loneliness that he sought com- 
panionship for which, ordinarily, he would 
have had no taste. He had no friends in 
Manchester outside of college; no sister 
or girl friend of his own station; and so 
he fell in with and was attracted by a 
young girl of the streets. Probably a man 
of stouter fibre would have got no great 
harm, beyond the loss of the innocence of 
youth, from such an association. But 
Gissing was no mere sensualist. That he 
vv^as seriously in love with the girl may be 
doubted. He cared for her enouglT^ 'how- 
ever, to have a chivalrous impulse to pro- 
tect her. How his imagination transformed 
her into one worth protecting we need not 
inquire. But it did so transform her. He 
endeavoured to persuade her to leave the 
streets; he gave her money to keep her 
away from other men; he bought her a 
sewing machine that she mig'ht make an 
honest living. His affection for her, Mr. 
Roberts says, was apparently sincere. "And 
out of that affection there grew up, very 
naturally, a horror in his sensitive mind 
for the life this poor child was leading." 
It was bad enough that he should finally 
marry her; it was worse that, driven by 
her importunities, he should take money 
from the coats left in the college common 
room. He was detected and sent to gaol ; 
and after his release two or three of his 
father's friends helped to send him to the 
United States. Here for more than a year 
he endured some of the direst experiences 
of poverty — experiences of which we may 
read in "New Grub Street." About the 
only thing of consequence which 'he did 
was to write some stories for the Chicago 
Tribune ; but this was precarious labour. 
He presently returned to England, married 
the girl of the streets, and transferred the 
scene of his bitter struggle to London. 
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vAe. Mr. Roberts sees in it nothing but an 
illustration of a great career blighted by an 
unpardonable error. Gissing, had he re- 
mained at the university and followed 
what seemed to be his natural bent would 
have become a great sdholar. His delight- 
ful book of travels, "By the Ionian Sea," 
Mr. Roberts thinks, shows that. He was 
not by nature a writer of novels and 
romances. This is an oibiter dictum to which 
dissent is possible. That Gissing might 
have been happier had he fulfilled the ex- 
pectations of his youth is likely enough. 
His work in fiction was done under dis- 
tressing conditions, and it is open to anyone 
to contend that under happy conditions it 
would have been better done. But that 
is precisely one of the questions no man 
can answer. It is a common thing to 
wish that a writer who achieves less than 
we anticipate w^ere not so prolific: on the 
theory, I suppose, that one novel in two 
years would be twice as good as two 
novels in one year. But genius does not 
work with this mathematical exactness. I 
do not pity Gissing for writing novels or 
for working hard at the task; or even for 
being poor. These things would have 
mattered little had his circumstances been 
otherwise normal. But he made a par- 
ticularly hard bed, on which he had to lie 
all his days, not only by the first marriage, 
to which I have referred, but by a second 
marriage, of which I shall speak later. 
And here again we come to the question 
could he by any chance have written as he 
did if he ihad not suffered as he did? He 
might have had a broader, perhaps a 
juster, outlook. But might he not have 
missed the peculiar poignancy which dif- 
ferentiates his novels from those of any 
other writer? It is not difficult to find in 
his pages suggestions of this or that 
writer — to take two extremes, from 
Dickens to Turgenev. But the flavour is 
quite his own. If I were to compare him 
witih anyone, I would compare him with 
the novelist whom in a sense he least re- 
sembles — Trollope. He has the same 
close, almost dry, fidelity to detail, the 
same minute observation, the same aver- 
sion to anything in the least theatrical. 
The tragedy comes, but it comes without 
dreadful notes of preparation. It is, of 
course, a different world from Trollope's 
which he presents to us, and he lacks 



Trollope's tolerance and humour. Still I 
think the comparison is not wholly boot- 
less. If one can imagine the earlier 
novelist in Gissing's circumstances, one 
can also imagine that he would have writ- 
ten novels not altogether unlike Gissing's. 
I may be mistaken in making Gissing's 
whole career hinge upon his wretched first 
marriage. Yet unless we can understand 
the motives which impelled him to such 
degradation we might as well give up try- 
ing to understand either his career or his 
character. Mr. Roberts regards his conduct 
at this crisis in his life as inexplicable, and 
so to the ordinary man of the world— 
I might even say to almost any man — 
it would be. After the woman was dead 
Gissing found that she had kept his photo- 
graph "and a very little engraving of the 
Madonna di San Sisto" during all her 
years of infamy. Does not this suggest 
some explanation of an otherwise inexplic- 
able obsession ? It was no brutal passion 
which drove Gissing into such a w'oman's 
arms. I have preferred to call it a chival- 
rous impulse, because to call it anything 
else is to emphasize an appalling contrast. 
There is nothing in Gissing's life, so far 
as we know it, or his work to justify the 
assumption that his fatal misstep was 
brought about by physical or moral degen- 
eracy. It revealed a weakness in him — 
but was it an entirely- abnormal weakness? 
He did not love this girl when he mar- 
ried her, and she soon alienated and dis- 
gusted him absolutely. His attempt to 
"make an honest woman of her" — to use 
the expressive old phrase — was inevitably 
a failure. In the end he had to leave her 
to the care of others, and even then she 
made his life one long misery until she 
died. And all this time Gissing was 
writing his novels, and getting little 
enough for them, and denying himself 
every comfort, often going hungry, in or- 
der to carry the insufferable burden he 
had taken on his shoulders. It was a 
wrecked and broken life, surely, and from 
the human point of view we may fairly 
deplore it. But does not the terrible price 
he paid add to our debt to him as a 
writer? In other words, could we have 
had the novels under any other condi- 
tions? This may seem like a cold-blood- 
ed way of putting it ; but when a writer 
is dead and the suffering is over, criticism 



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has to appraise it as an asset in his fame. 

If, however, we are to regard Gissing 
as a weak man, or one with a screw loose 
in his moral organization, we shall find 
better support for our theory in his second 
marriage than in his first. The first was 
so bad that one ma}- try to excuse it; the 
second was so futile that it was inexcus- 
able. There was no reason why, after 
the death of the miserable creature to 
whom he had dedicated his youth, he 
should not have married a woman capable 
of making him happy; such a woman, in 
fact, he was eventually to meet. He 
seems to have met at this time more than 
one who interested him at least moderate- 
ly. But he felt that he had "declassed" 
himself — so Mr. Roberts says — and thus 
shut himself out from intimate commun- 
ion with his natural equals. This was a 
morbid feeling, no doubt ; it confirms the 
impression that somewhere there was a 
fatal flaw in his character; yet in view of 
all he had gone through it was not un- 
natural. It offers no excuse, however, 
for the manner of his second marriage. 
This woman was not a girl of the streets, 
though he scraped acquaintance with her 
there. "I could stand the loneliness no 
longer," he said, "so I rushed out and 
spoke to the very first woman I came 
across." After he married this girl he 
took her to a house in Devon, amid the 
charming scenery which he describes in 
"Henry Ryecroft," and for a time he 
hoped for happiness. But soon there were 
daily quarrels; she took to throwing the 
crockery about in her fits of rage; when a 
child came he went in constant fear that she 
AVDuld injure it in one of her outbreaks; 
and if there were visitors she abused him 
to t*hem. Things reached such a pitch 
that he could ask no one to see him. 
Then he gave up the house in Devon and 
returned to London. What happiness he 
won before his too early death came was 
stolen. His second wife lived, and he 



could not or would not divorce her; but 
he came to feel what Mr. Roberts calls "a 
true and sincere affection" for a French- 
woman of good family ; and after some 
searchings of heart the two decided to dis- 
pense with convention and live together. 

Of his inner life in the few years left to 
him there is no record — at least, no pub- 
lished record. The experiences through 
which he had passed must have left inef- 
faceable scars. It may be true that the 
hig'hest happiness comes out of the greatest 
suffering, but most of us shrink from 
demonstrating it. That Gissing drifted 
away from most of his old friendships is 
tolerably clear. Perhaps Therese, as Mr. 
Roberts calls her, made up to him for 
everything. Let us hope so. He died in 
the south of France, on the 28th of De- 
cember, 1903. Two friends, Mr. Rob- 
erts and Mr. H. G. Wells — absurdly dis- 
guised as Rivers in Mr. Roberts's book — 
were with him just before the end. 

I have said that Gissing was a roman- 
ticist at heart. Is it not possible that Mr. 
Roberts is completely mistaken in saying 
that he might have been a great scholar 
but for the unhappy entanglements of his 
youth? With all his love of literature, 
all his reverence for antiquity, all his love 
of reading, I cannot find in him much of 
the scholar's temperament. How futile it 
is, then, to wish that his life had been 
other than it was — ^to regret that his des- 
tiny led him away from the path which 
seemed to stretch out unbroken before 
him! What he accomplished was in fact 
worth accomplishing; what he might have 
accomplished who can tell ? The artist 
is not justified by his life, but by his art. 
We need not w-aste overmuch pity on the 
man who wrote novels which are human 
documents of inestimable value, and 
which reveal to us one phase of human ex- 
istence as hardly any other novelist has 
revealed it. 



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"THE EFFICIENCY NOSTRUM AT HARVARD" 



From the New York Nation 



There has been a great deal of groping 
in the dark over the problem of raising 
the quality of our universities and colleges. 
But light has appeared at last. There will 
no longer be any futile casting about for 
improvements here and changes there, no 
more mere scratching of the surface. Some- 
body at Harvard has gone straight to the 
heart of the matter. Indeed, he has 
solved the whole problem in point of prin- 
ciple, though of course the details of the 
beneficent revolution he has started re- 
main to be worked out. What has been 
needed all along has been some simple 
and yet profound guiding principle, and 
this is what the new move at Harvard 
supplies. See that you get your money's 
worth out of each professor — this is the 
philosopher's stone, which, firmly and 
steadily applied, is going to transmute 
into gold all the baser metal of our univer- 
sity faculties. 

Seldom has a great reform been ushered 
in so noiselessly. "Harvard professors and 
instructors," so goes a newspaper account, 
"are thoughtfully rubbing troubled brows 
to-day while they ponder over an intricate 
network of blank spaces whereon Assist- 
ant Controller Taylor has requested them 
to record the exact disposition which they 
make of all time spent in the interests of 
the university." The Assistant Controller 
states that he desires these data for the 
purpose of using them "as a basis for pro- 
rating salaries to the various classified 
functions" ; but, after supplying a formid- 
able array of blanks to be filled with this 
end in view, he winds up with a request 
for information concerning "Contributory 
Activities," the giving of whidh is optional. 
These include the number of hours spent 
on "research work' carried on personally 
by the instructor," and certain other things 
which, like this, "are of a quasi-private 
nature." The Assistant Controller 

recognizes that the variations in such data 
due to the personal equation "would make 
impracticable the direct use of these figures 
for the purpose of distributing salaries," 
but nevertheless he is apparently of the 
opinion that they would be a comfortable 
thing to have, and so he asks for them. 
And quite right, too; for the optional of 



to-day may be the compulsory of to-mor- 
row, and it is well to "get a line" on these 
professor people, even if you can't pin them 
down to exact facts and figures. 

In sober truth, this news from Harvard 
is a very serious matter. It touches the 
very vitals of the professor's calling. It 
ought to bring out from the Harvard 
faculty, and especially from the men of 
light and leading in that faculty, an im- 
pressive protest; and the most impressive 
form the protest could take would be that 
of a dignified but firm refusal to comply 
with the demand made upon them. For 
what is at stake at Harvard is nothing less 
than the whole character and status of the 
American professorate. To be a un ver- 
sity professor has hitherto meant, in this 
country as in all the world, to give to the 
university yourself — your personality, your 
talent, your capacity to interest, to in- 
struct, to inspire. Many professors have, 
to be sure, fallen wofully short of fulfill- 
ing this ideal ; many have been deficient in 
ability, many in character. But the one 
great thing that has made the calling at- 
tractive to the best who are in it has been 
that this was the plane on which it was 
understood to rest. It offers none of the 
glittering material rewards of other vo- 
cations; it seldem holds forth the allure- 
ment of fame. In this country, its dig- 
nity has been far below that which be- 
longs to it in Europe, thanks to an exalta- 
tion of the idea of management and ad- 
ministration elsewhere unknown; but the 
recognition of the personal nature of the 
professor's work, of a distinctively personal 
measurement of his value, has never been 
abandoned. It is Agassiz, or Child, or 
Martin, or Gibbs, or Norton, or Gilder- 
sleeve — not so many hours of their labor — 
that Harvard, or Yale, or Johns Hopkins 
has had the good fortune to possess ; and 
every faithful and competent professor has 
a right to feel that the same is true of him 
in his degree. But how long would that 
feeling survive under a system which re- 
quired each professor to make report of 
every hour that he spent upon his work, 
and have his pay doled out to him accord- 
ingly? 

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the introduction of this efficiency nostrum 
of being reactionaries — upholders of the 
doctrine that whatever is is right. But it 
is still easier to reply to the accusation. 
Not because our universities and colleges 
are all that they ought to be, but because 
the proposed remedy is a crude and bar- 
barous one, do we reject that remedy. We 
ought to have more competent teachers, we 
ought to have more inspiring leaders of re- 
search ; but we shall not get them by 
means of time checks or card catalogues. 
The American professor is already far 
more subject to managerial control than 
his fellow in Germany and France; but it 
is in America, and not in Germany or 
France, that the cry of incompetent pro- 
fessors and inefficient instruction is con- 
tinuallv heard. What is needed, above all 



things else, is to make the professorship at- 
tractive to superior men — men of original- 
ity, men of power, men of enthusiasm. 
When you have got all your time-card and 
efficiency-measure mechanism going, you 
may be able to compel every professor to 
come up to a certain standard; but you 
cannot compel the men whom you ought to 
have as professors to enter the calling. 
You may get the same amount of "results" 
out of the faculties for less money, or a 
greater amount for the same money, so 
far as "results" can be measured by your 
mechanical methods; but what you have 
lost you will never be able to measure. 
And what shall it profit the university to 
have gained countless student-hours and 
experiment-units and to have lost what is 
highest and best in it? 



PRESIDENT FAUNCE IN EGYPT 



The Brown Daily Herald has received 
a letter from President Faunce written 
from Cairo, in which he relates some of his 
experiences in Egypt. Dr. Faunce writes : 

Cairo, Dec. 5, 1912 

Editor Brotvn Daily Herald : 

Never shall I forget that send-oli that 
Brown students gave me on the first of 
November. To see hundreds of men 
marching in the drizzling rain, and to 
have, as my last glimpse of Providence, 
the sight of the w^hole crowd singing 
"Alma Mater" — that warmed the cockles 
of my heart as did nothing that ever came 
to me before in my life. I can still hear 
that singing even amid the discordant 
oriental noises of this city of the "Arabian 
Nights." 

In front of my hotel there is passing at. 
this moment the usual astonishing proces- 
sion. Gaily dressed ladies. Bedouins 
from the desert, motor-cars, Arabian 
horses, donkeys, camels, fakirs, English 
officials, soldiers, snake-charmers, a wail- 
ing funeral procession, a dozen prisoners 
all handcuffed to a long chain — these are 
a few of the elements in the ever-changing 
panorama. 

Three da3'S ago in a native village I 
visited a "kuttab" or Mohammedan school 
for little children. Each boy sat cross- 
legged on a straw mat, and was swaying 



rapidly back and forth (the swaying is to 
keep from going to sleep), while he recites 
his lesson at the top of his voice. When 
fifty boys are thus reciting fifty different 
passages from the Koran at the same time, 
the noise is deafening. But silent study is 
unknown among the children of Egypt. 
Each boy held before him a sheet of tin, 
which was simply part of a Standard Oil 
tin can, on which he had written the les- 
son with a reed pen and purple ink. 

Yesterday I visited the famous Moham- 
medan University, in which are enrolled 
about 8000 students from all parts of Eu- 
rope and Asia. There are no lecture- 
rooms. In a huge court-yard each pro- 
fessor sits at the base of some pillar up- 
holding the roof, 500 years old. Around 
the professor are sitting the students, from 
12 to 50 years of age, some of them re- 
maining there for many years. The staple 
of instruction is the interpretation of the 
Koran — a fossilizing influence all through 
the Orient. Until Egyptians receive an- 
other kind of education — the English gov- 
ernment is already doing something — they 
cannot rise out of poverty and be worthy 
of self-government. 

With best wishes to all Brown men for 
1913, I am 

Sincerely vours, 

W. H. P. Faunce 



TRANSPORTATION CHANGES IN 
PROVIDENCE 

SOME OF WHICH WILL AFFECT BROWN UNIVERSITY 

By John R. Hess 

Member of the Empire Street Commission 



In the notable development of the 
transportation system of the city of 
Providence, now in progress, Brown 
University and its alumni are di- 
rectly interested. New facilities for the 



The substitute for the counterweight, 
which makes it practicable to move cars up 
and down the 14 per cent, grade of College 
Hill, is a tunnel extending from North 
Main to Thayer street. The westerly 




Photograph by the Authoi 

A FINE EXAMPLE OF TEFFT'S GENIUS 

Central Baptist Church on Weybosset Street. Designed by Thomas A. Tefft, '51. Now to be 

demolished to make way for a wider crosstown thoroughfare. On the right is seen 

the pillared porch of the Beneficent (Roundtop) Congregational Church 



traffic between the East Side and the busi- 
ness centre are being provided : in the sum- 
mer of 1914 electric cars will pass through 
the hill instead of over it, and the front 
campus, therefore, will no longer be 
directly accessible. The tracks on College 
Hill are to be removed upon the comple- 
tion of the tunnel. 



portal is on the site of the Jefferds build- 
ing at the corner of Waterman and North 
Main, opposite the First Baptist Church, 
and the easterly arch is at a point between 
Brown and Thayer near the Churchill 
House. The location follows Fones alley 
from Benefit at the University Club to 
Thaver, and the tunnel route thus takes 



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cars from College and Prospect streets, 
from Waterman west of Brown and from 
Angell west of Brown. The abandonment 
of the streets on the hill occupied since 
1890 by the Providence Cable Tramway 
Company and its successors, the Union 
Railroad Company, the United Traction 
and Electric Company and the Rhode 
Island Company, is the change which 
particularly affects Brown, and whether 



The brownstone front Arnold Block, 
erected in 1853, is to be demolished in or- 
der that Waterman street may be extend- 
ed to the rear of the new postoffice on Ex- 
change Place. The tunnel tracks are laid 
in this new thoroughfare, which opens up 
a good view of the First Baptist Church 
from the west and gives the long-needed 
direct approach to the East Side. 

The length of the tunnel, from portal to 




Photograph by the Author 



ARNOLD BLOCK 

Waterman Street extension passes directly across its site 

Photograph shows yard of the college meeting house 



or not the new layout will be as 
acceptable as the old remains to be demon- 
strated. One improvement, however, is 
assured — the service will be quick and re- 
liable; there will be no delays as with the 
cumbersome and over-taxed counterweight, 
and in time people will become accustomed 
to the walk from Thayer and Waterman 
or Brown and Waterman to the group of 
college buildings. 

The boring of the bill is accompanied 
by a great change on North Main street. 



portal, is 1790 feet. It is the second tunnel 
through the hill built by the New York, 
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com- 
pany, the first, which dates back five years, 
extending from Benefit street to the See- 
konk river, being used by the Fall River, 
Warren and Bristol electric trains. The 
shorter street railway tunnel enters the hill 
under the Rhode Island School of Design, 
which is to be supported by concrete "walls, 
and steel girders and columns. It crosses 
the New Haven bore at Brown street and 



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Fones alley and its bottom is 20 feet above 
the arch of the older tunnel, which was 
planned in 1894 by Edwin P. Dawley of 
the class of 1874 and completed four- 
teen years later under his supervision as 
Engineer of Construction. East of the 
School of Design the weight of the earth 
is carried by a concrete arch two feet thick. 
The grade is 4.8 per cent. ; the height of 
the tunnel is 11 Yz feet and liberal allow- 
ance is made for the passing of the largest 
cars on the double tracks. The heading is 
pushea along at the rate of 10 feet a day 
through the soft graphitic schist of the car- 
boniferous age, very little blasting being 
required. The material excavated is 
hauled through the New Haven tunnel 
and used for filling on the Y approach to 
the railroad bridge over which the east 
shore electric trains are run every 15 min- 
utes The tunnel workmen on March 
1 were 700 feet from the west portal ; 
early in the summer daylight will be seen 
at the Thayer street end and next January 
the tracks will be laid. Cars will be run 
through the tunnel not later than Julv. 
19 U. 

The property taken includes the Jefferds 
block, the site of \Vhich may be utilized for 
a railroad office building, and a part of sev- 
eral back yards west of Thayer street, this 
land being reserved for approaches to 
Fones alley, which is over the tunnel. The 
estimated cost of the bore is $700,000, 
which is assumed by the street railway 
company, and the Arnold Block, removed 
b;- the city, is worth $200,000. The tunnel, 
therefore, calls for an expenditure of about 
a million dollars. 

The engineer of the tunnel construction, 
Mr. Heaton R. Robertson, is one of the 
youngest men holding a place of so much 
responsibility. He is a Yale graduate, 
1904, and after practical experience in 
gold, silver and copper mines in Mexico, 
Colorado. Nevada and Idaho, he was ap- 
pointed instructor in mining at Yale. Then 
he joined the engineering department of 
the New York, New Haven and Hartford. 
After service on the big dam of the Housa- 
tonic Power Company he w^as assigned to 
the Harlem branch, w^here electrification 
was in progress, and then w^as placed in 
charge of the field work between Stamford 
and New Haven. He was transferred to 



Providence when the cit}- and the Rhode 
Island Company agreed to extend Water- 
man street through the Arnold Block and 
build a tunnel for the cars now run over 
College Hill. 

The contractor, Mr. Joseph McCabe, is 
one of the most successful tunnel builders 
of the country. He bored through the 
Rocky Mountains for the railroads to the 
Pacific, and his achievements in New Eng- 
land are the New Haven tunnel through 
the East Side hill and the Terryville, 
Conn., tunnel, also owned by the New 
Haven. 

In connection with the tunnel work the 
city is widening several of the narrow anci 
crooked streets inherited from former gen- 
erations. The most important of these is 
Empire street, which is to be an 80-fo(;t 
crosstown thoroughfare from the junctions 
of Broadway, Aborn and Atwells avenue 
to the intersection of Weybosset, Broad 
and Chestnut. Empire street wipes out the 
Chinese quarter, the Empire Theatre and 
the Central Baptist Church (1858) on 
Weybosset street, one of the best works of 
Thomas F. Tefft, a graduate of Brown in 
the class of 1851, and one of the celebrated 
architects of his time. Other streets to be 
laid out on new lines are North Main 
from Smith to Benefit, (Constitution 
Hill) ; Fountain from Dorrance to Em- 
pire; Smith from the State House to 
Chalkstone avenue ; Randall from North 
^lain to Randall Square, where the an- 
cient Bulldog Tavern stands; Franklii. 
from Westminster to Broad, Plainfield 
from Olneyville Square to Odd Fellows 
Hall, and Elmw^ood avenue from a point 
near Roger Williams Park to the city line. 

Commissions are now appraising dam- 
ages and the demolition of buildings in 
various parts of the city will be started 
during 1913 or 1914. 

These changes necessitated by the lack 
of foresight of the people of Providence 
one or two hundred yrars ago will cost 
from two to three rr.illions of dollars, and 
the fact that so large an increase of the 
municipal debt was authorized without a 
word of protest is convincing proof of 
prosperity and a spirit of progress in this 
community of a quarter of a million 
people. 



WASHINGTON AT PLAY 

LUNCHEON GRILL— XXV 



The figure of Washington stands to-day 
in the world's Pantheon, of such godlike 
proportions, draped in such heroic attri- 
butes that it is a relief to turn from this 
rather oppressive mythological embodiment 
and watch him at play. It was in this 
mood that Rhode Island seems to have met 
him whether treading the stately measures 
of the minuet with the profusion of beau- 
ties that Newport and Providence could 
furnish, or sipping her punch pungent with 
cordials and rum from Jamaica or Santa 
Cruz or from our own stills. We dwell so 
much on the hard places of his life, the 
difficulties, the wiles, the treacheries 
through which he passed that it seems good 
to know that here in Rhode Island his life 
was replete with joy, excitement and 
adulation.. Soon after the British evacuated 
Boston, Washington dispatched a part of 
his forces to New York under General 
Heath and later started with the remain- 
der for the same destination. He sent the 
main body of his troop under Generals 
Greene and Sullivan by the upper or post 
road to embark at New London and with 
them sent Mrs. Washington under the 
care of his aides de camp while he came to 
Providence, it was said to meet Commodore 
Hopkins. On April 5th, 1776, he was 
escorted into the town by Governor Cooke, 
the "Cadets," the "Light Infantry," two 
regiments of Continentals and a crowd of 
the inhabitants. It was decided that the 
proper place for him to stay was with 
Stephen Hopkins, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence, but Mr. Hop- 
kins was attending congress at Philadelphia 
and all the family were away but the 
daughter Ruth. However, the demure 
Quakeress said she would take care of him, 
but when the better-off of the town sent 
to her numerous offers of the loan of sil- 
verware, china, &c., in order that she 
might put on style, she refused them all 
with a snap, saying what was good enough 
for her father would have to be good 
enough for General Washington. The 
Hopkins home was then located on the 
north east corner of South Main street and 
Bank lane. It now stands up the hill about 
150 feet; and Bank lane is now named 
Hopkins street. 

The next day Generals Washington and 
Gates with the other officers were enter- 



tained at Hacker's Hall on the east side of 
South Main street between Planet and 
Power streets, and afterwards left for New 
London. There is no record of any meet- 
ing here with Commodore Hopkins. 

Washington next visited Rhode Island 
in 1781, arriving at Newport at 2 o'clock 
P. M., March 6th, coming by way of 
Hartford. This visit was to urge the de- 
parture of the French fleet for the 
Chesapeake, to cooperate with La Fayette 
and Greene. He was impatient at the de- 
tention of the fleet at Newport which had 
caused some misgivings and De la Lu- 
zerne wrote from Philadelphia to Rocham- 
beau that the feeling was strong among the 
Americans that the French were intending 
to stay in Rhode Island and had not really 
come to help the Americans, but to increase 
their own possessions. He urged Rocham- 
beau to show very clearly that they consid- 
ered themselves under Washington's com- 
mand. As a result of this admonition 
Washington was received with all the hon- 
ors of a prince of the blood or a marshal of 
France. No honor was omitted, no act 
of deference was left undone. Having ar- 
ranged for the quick sailing of the French 
forces, he came to Providence on the 13th 
of March by way of Bristol and Warren, 
being entertained in the latter place by Shu- 
bael Burr. Upon arrival in Providence a 
salute of 13 guns was fired by the Conti- 
nental Park Artillery, and the East India- 
men in the harbor discharged their cannon. 
He was met by a throng of people and chil- 
dren bearing torches. They so crowded 
around him as to impede his progress. Stop- 
ping a few moments to please them, he was 
so touched by the eager veneration shown 
him by young and old that he took Count 
Dumas by the hand and said, "We may be 
beaten by the English ; it is the chance of 
war ; but behold an army they can never 
conquer." 

The distinguished guest was escorted to 
the home of Jabez Bo wen on Market 
square, which afterwards became the 
Manufacturer's Hotel, and was located 
where now stands the What Cheer build- 
ing. The next day he inspected the town, 
and in the evening, together with General 
Howe, Count Dumas and the other officers, 
he attended a great ball at the State House 
to meet the brave and fair of Providence. 



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On the second morning he departed for his 
headquarters at New Windsor, N. Y. 

Providence received this visit largely on 
account of the fifteen cannon which she 
had and which were wanted for the de- 
fence of the lower bay and perhaps also be- 
cause it was desired to hasten forward the 
recruits which Lieutenant Colonel Olney 
was to furnish. It is stated that Washing- 
ton spent a week in 1783 at "The Mount," 
the De'Wolf home in Bristol, and also that 
on sundry occasions he made a detour to 
visit Colonel Varnum, his beloved comrade 
in arms, at his elegant home in East Green- 
wich. In 1789 Washington made a tour 
of New England but he seems to have kept 
clear of Rhode Island as foreign territory 
since she had as yet failed to join the 
Union. 

Washington's third official visit to 
Rhode Island was one of pecular signifi- 
cance. He had been inaugurated on August 
30th, 1789, President of the twelve United 
States. There was a missing sister from 
the original thirteen colonies, but on May 
29th, 1790, the Rhode Island Convention, 
"realizing in their own minds the practical 
inconvenience as well as the evils that 
must follow her exclusion from the 
Union," adopted and ratified the Federal 
Constitution and cast her lot with her sis- 
ter States "for the great future which may 
be open for them all. Governor Fenner at 
once announced to President Washington 
that Rhode Island had joined the Union. 
There was much rejoicing over the recov- 
ery of the lost sheep and two days after 
Congress adjourned Washington embarked 
for Newport with a brilliant retinue. He 
arrived there on Tuesday, August 17th, 
1790, and put up at the Brenton House, 
kept by Mrs. Almy. Written salutations 
awaited him from the clergy of seven de- 
nominations and from King David's lodge 
of IVIasons. He was feted and feasted in a 
brilliant style and the next day embarked 
on the packet "Hancock," Captain Brown, 
for Providence, where he arrived after a 
seven hours' sail. A cannon on Federal 
Hill announced his arrival in the harbor 
and when the landing was made all the 
church bells were let loose, the national 
salute was fired from shore and the ships 
in the habor responded. The procession 
formed escorting their guests in the follow- 
ing order : 

Washington between Governor Cooke 
and Senator Theodore Foster of Rhode Is- 



land, Thomas Jefferson, United States 
Secretary of State, Governor Clinton of 
New York, Mr. Blair of the United 
States Supreme Court, Mr. Smith of 
South Carolina, Washington's staff Col- 
onel Humphrey, Major Jackson and 
Mr. Nelson and prominent citizens 
of Providence. They proceeded to Dag- 
gett's Tavern, afterwards known as 
the Golden Ball Inn, and still stand- 
ing as the Mansion House, on Bene- 
fit street;. Although Washington rarely 
went out nights, nevertheless after supper 
he yielded to the solicitation of the students 
of Brown University and walked up to 
see the glorious spectacle of old University 
Hall illuminated with tallow dips. The 
address of welcome to Providence was 
drawn up and signed by Henry Ward, 
Enos Hitchcock, Welcome Arnold, David 
Howell and Benjamin Bourne. On the 
next day Washington and his illustrious 
party together with leading citizens escort- 
ed by the students marched through the 
principal streets and were received at the 
university by President Manning, who led 
them to the top of University Hall to view 
the beautiful and extensive prospect. The 
visitors then called at the colonial resi- 
dences of John Inness Clark, John Brown, 
Governor Fenner and Governor Bowen, 
where wine and punch emphasized the 
hospitality. Then they went to dinner at 
the Town House, from whence most of the 
diners escorted them to the w^harf, where 
the guests embarked for New York. 

This was apparently the final visit of 
George Washington to the shores of Rhode 
Island. It may be of interest to quote a 
rather unafifected personal description of 
Washington taken from Freebetter's New 
England Almanac, published in New Lon- 
don in 1782: 

"General Washington at 47 is a tall, well 
made man rather large-boned and has a toler- 
ably genteel address. His features are manly 
and bold, his eyes of a bluish cast and very 
lively; his hair a deep brown, his face rather 
long and marked with the small-pox, his com- 
plexion sun-burned and without much color 
and his countenance sensible composed and 
thoughtful there is a remarkable air of dignity 
about him with a striking degree of graceful- 
ness. He has an excellent understanding with 
much quickness is strictly just vigilant and 
generous, gentle in his manner, in Tempera- 
ment rather reserved, in his morals irreproach- 
able, he was never known to exceed the 
Bound's of the most rigid Temperance." 

Robert P. Broivn 



WHAT BROWN HAS DONE FOR COLBY 



REMARKS AT THE COLBY DINNER, FEBRUARY 21, 1913 



Since I have been called upon, both as 
a graduate of Colby and as a representa- 
tive of Brown, I can remind you with 
more propriety than I could in either capac- 
ity alone of the remarkable service which 
it has been the privilege of Brown to ren- 
der to Colby. Rarely, I believe, has one 
institution been able to do so much for an- 
other. Colby may indeed be called a child 
of Brown, since Colby was founded, now 
nearly a hundred years ago, because the 
feeling arose that Brown, under the presi- 
dency of Dr. Messer, who was suspected 
of Unitarianism, could no longer be de- 
pended upon to keep up the supply of 
Baptist ministers needed in New England. 
What college in the country besides 
Brown has furnished to another college 
six out of fourteen presidents besides eight 
professors? Yet this has been the service 
of Brown to Colby. The first president 
of Colby was Jeremiah Chaplin, Brown, 
1799; its first professor was Avery Briggs, 
Brown, 1816, who may be described as a 
professor at large, for he taught languages, 
mathematics and natural philosophy. 
Though he had resigned his trying position 
hft\-six years before, he was still living 
when Asher Hinds was graduated in 1883. 
The second president of Colby was Rufus 
Babcock, Brown, 1821 ; its fourth presi- 
dent, Eliphaz Fay, was a member of the 
same class. James Tift Champlin, Brown, 
1834, was president of Colby during the 
sixteen years, 1857-73, the longest Colby 
presidency up to date, and the one that 
covered the most critical period in its his- 
tory. My classmates remember seeing 
him once on the campus during our college 
years. Two presidents were furnished to 
Colbv bv another Brown class, that of 
1887*, Whitman and White. 



*The class of Professor Walter C. Bronson, 
a grandson of President Chaplin. 



Turning to the professors, we find that 
the successor of Avery Briggs in the chair 
of mathematics and natural philosophy 
was, at one year's interval, George Wash- 
ington Keely, Brown, 1824, who was liv- 
ing in Waterville, a distinguished figure 
during '80's first two years in college. He 
was succeeded in 1853 by Kendall Brooks, 
Brown, 1841. Justin Rolf Loomis, 
Brown, 1835, was professor of chemistry 
and natural history at Colby for fourteen 
years, 1838-52. The chair of physics and 
astronomy at Colby was filled, for the 
twelve years, 1886-98, by William Augus- 
tus Rogers, Brown, 1857, and his suc- 
cessor in 1904-5 was Arvid Reuterdahl, 
Brown, 1897. The next name is one 
that I cannot mention without grateful 
emotion, that of Laban Edwards Warren, 
Brown, 1866, who did so much for the in- 
tellectual and esthetic life of Colby during 
his eighteen years' service as professor of 
mathematics. The last name on my list 
is that of one in active service, George 
Freeman Parmenter, professor of chemis- 
try in Colby for the last ten years, to 
whom Brown gave the degree of Ph. D. in 
1903. I should be unjust to the class of 
1870 at Brown if I did not also mention 
the important services rendered by Newell 
Tracv Dutton as financial secretary of 
Colby, 1896-1900. 

The rivers of New England all flow 
southward, but the collegiate current, like 
that of Salt River, seems to ^ow up-stream. 
For, while Colby has received so much 
from Brown, it has sent in return only a 
single delegate to make this acknowledg- 
ment. But there is plenty of time yet. 
Intellectual debts are never outlawed, and 
Colby's obligation to Brown will some day 
be cancelled, who knows but in a single 
splendid payment? 

Harry Ly?/2nn Koopman, Colby, '80 



TO WILLIAM E. FOSTER 



ON HIS 35TH ANNIVERSARY AS LIBRARIAN OF THE 
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY 

By Courtney Langdon 



Choicest edition of thy choicest books, 
And tireless friend of any one who looks 
To thee for help in any field of thought, 
Teacher of teachers, and learner from the 

taught. 
Lend me thy Horace for a moment, pray, 
That I, in lighter vein, may also say 
Sunt quos; and add that there are some, 

who fain 
Would win them honor in an aeroplane 
Or racing car, and thrill, without redress. 
The yellow readers of a Sunday's press; 
And also some, who crave the flattering 

vote 
Of such as on spellbinding logic dote. 
Some, too, there are, who corner with de- 
light 
Their country's wealth, and damn its peo- 
ple's right, 
And others also who, since toil at home 
Can double a fortune hardly dreamed by 

Rome, 
Could never be induced to cross the sea. 
Had not Marconi set stock-gambling free. 
Nay, some, with sour grapes, who, railing 

hard 
'Gainst foreign gardens, praise their own 
back yard. 



Yet daily shun its charms, to seek the cheer 
Of high-balls deemed more safe than 

German beer. 
Many, who read of war with loud regrets, 
Condone the deeds of Turks and Suffra- 
gettes, 
While others, fleeing from domestic ease, 
Seek some South County barn, wherein to 

freeze. 
Or putter to keep warm, until ithey snooze, 
And dream conflicting dreams of tea and 

booze. 
With these a few, of finer thirst, who 

long 
For sunlit draughts of Tuscan wine and 

song ; 
And one, ah one there is, who would, I 

think. 
Prefer to pour for others than to drink 
Himself. His well stored mind shares all 

it knows, 
His kindly heart is at the best of those 
Who are, alas, too many to be here 
With us, who come to praise a long career 
Of useful learning, and to all commend 
A Horace lover, and a genial friend. 

February 4, 1913. 



GOVERNMENT LABORATORY^ 



A branch of the office of investigations 
in forest pathology, Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry, of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, has been established in 
Maxcy Hall. J. Franklin Collins, for- 
merly assistant professor of botany at 
Brown, will have charge of the depart- 
ment, which will consist of four patho- 
logists and a clerk. The office will take 
the room formerly used as a laboratory by 
the botanical students. In return for the 
quarters furnished to the government by 
the university, students will have an op- 
portunity to use the special apparatus 
which will be installed in the new labora- 
torv. and the resident pathologist will give 



a certain number of lectures and demon- 
strations each year for the advanced 
classes in botany. Part of the laboratory 
equipment is already here, and the rest is 
on the way from Europe. 

Professor Collins left Brown in 1911 to 
enter the government service, and a great 
deal of his work has been done in this 
vicinity. The first topic for investigation 
by the new department will be certain 
phases of the chestnut bark diseases. This 
laboratory was designed especially for New 
England, but is the only one which the 
government contemplates establishing east 
of Washington. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published for the Graduates of Brown University 
by the Brown Alumni Maeazine 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. 

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THE SESOUI-CENTENNIAL OF 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 

A year from next October the one-hun- 
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the found- 
ing of Brown University will be celebrated 
in this city. Although the plans for the 
celebration are not yet perfected, it is alto- 
gether probable that it will consist of two 
parts — an academic observance and some 
public exercises or ceremonial which will 
interest the city and state as a whole, as 
Avell as the college circle. 

The academic programme calls for the 
engagement of distinguished scholars, both 
from this country and from Europe, to de- 
liver lectures at the university, and also 
the publication of a 'history of the univer- 
sity (w'hich Professor Bronson is now 
writing), a memorial volume of the cele- 
bration, and a new edition of the Historical 
Catalogue. 

The University Corporation has appro- 
priated $5000 for the celebration, but the 
academic programme alone calls for much 
more. The estimates require $13,500, of 
which, it is thought, $3000 will come 
'back from the sales of the historv and 



memorial volume. Estimates of the cost 
of the pageant vary, but the largest one 
anticipates a possible deficit of $35,000. If 
the $5000 appropriated by the Corporation 
is applied to the academic celebration, 
there remains $8500 to be pledged for the 
remaining cost of this portion of the pro- 
gramme, which, together with the $35,000 
possible deficit on the proposed pageant, 
brings the total guarantee fund which it is 
necessary to raise to $43,500. 

At the present time it may be stated 
that this money is either pledged, in sight 
or easily available. There has been a re- 
markable willingness among the friends of 
the university to subscribe to the guarantee 
fund. Nor have the pledges come from 
those only who have an interest in Brown. 
Men whose ancestors lived in Rhode Is- 
land, or who themselves have been asso- 
ciated w^ith the State, have liberally con- 
tributed on that score alone. 

The pageant, as now proposed, is to 
include episodes from the history of 
Rhode Island — not merely those of col- 
lege significance. The coming of Roger 
Williams and his friends in their canoe 
from Massadiusetts will of course be 
portrayed, and other incidents that suggest 
themselves for reproduction are tihe voyage 
of Verrazano to the southern part of the 
State, the later cruise of Adrian Block, 
the signing of the Rhode Island Declara- 
tion of Independence, the burning of the 
Gaspee, etc. Possibly also the semi-myth- 
ical visit of the Norsemen may be included. 

There is a strong possibility that the 
pageant will be given in Roger Williams 
Park if arrangements can be made with the 
city authorities. The park contains a beau- 
tiful alternation of land and lake, and seats 
could be so built as to give many thousands 
of spectators an excellent view. Presum- 
ably the pageant would be presented each 
day for a week, and it is proposed to turn 
over the profits, if any, to the hospitals of 
the State. In York, England, a handsome 
sum was realized, and it was all given to 
the York hospitals. 

It has also been suggested that the 
pageant might be given on the college cam- 
pus. There are advantages and disad- 
vantages in such a plan. The committee 
would be glad to hear from the alumni of 
Brown on this question. What is the best 
place for the pageant? 



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The conducting of pageants has become 
a fine art. In Europe there is no better 
master of it than Mr. Louis N. Parker, 
chief of the pageant at York and author of a 
number of plajs, "Pomander Walk," "Dis- 
raeli," and "Joseph and his Brethren," now 
running in New York. Mr. Parker has 
visited this country within a short time and 
discussed with members of the Brown com- 
mittee many of the details of our celebra- 
tion. It is probable that his principal as- 
sistant at York, Major Jackson of Bury 
St. Edmunds, England, could be engaged 
as pageant master in Providence. 

The committee appointed by the Uni- 
versity Corporation to have charge of the 
entire celebration, to control all funds and 
their disposition, to raise a guarantee fund 
and to authorize every expenditure of 
money, wherever needed, is composed of 
Rowland G. Hazard, chairman, E. O. 
Stanley, Henry D. Sharpe, Stephen O. 
Edwards and Frank W. Matteson, with 
President Faunce ex-oflficio. The commit- 
tee on academic celebration, to select and 
invite lecturers and delegates from other 
learned bodies, to have charge of the His- 
tory of Brown University bv Professor 



Bronson and the Historical Catalogue, to 
compose and issue invitations, to select the 
list of those to be invited, and to provide 
for their entertainment, consists of Pro- 
fessor William Macdonald, chairman, Dr. 
Henry M. King, Professors Henry B. 
Gardner, W. G. Everett, Albert K. 
Potter and Albert D. Mead, Dr. G. Alder 
Blumer and Dr. Faunce ex-officio. The 
committee on pageant, appointed to engage 
a pageant master, to appoint all subor- 
dinate committees for the pageant work; 
to select a site ; to arrange to have a book 
of the pageant written ; to engage a pag- 
eant house — in general to have charge of 
the execution of all the numberless details 
of the undertaking, is Edwin S. Burlin- 
game, chairman, Rathbone Gardner, Jesse 
H. Metcalf, Frank L. Hinckley, Henry A. 
Barker, H. Nelson Campbell, and Dr. 
Faunce, ex-officio. 

These committees have had frequent 
meetings, have performed much prelim- 
inary work, and within a short time hope 
to be able to report further progress to the 
alumni of Brown. Everything looks prom- 
ising for a memorable celebration of the 
sesquicentennial of the university. 



THE LETTER BOX 



MORE ABOUT BROWN FOOTBALL 

Editor Broun Alumni Monthly: 

I saw in your January issue the question 
by a 1902 grad, "What's the matter with 
Brown football ?" which I suppose should 
be answered by a Brown man who knows 
the inside; but possibly the questioner 
would like to know how the "whys" look 
to an outsider. 

Brown has set a high standard of foot- 
ball, for when a college with less than 800 
students to draw from aims to beat Har- 
vard, Yale and Penn., each with more 
than 3000 to draw from, she should fully 
realize what she has asked her coaches and 
students to do. 

There should be food for thought in the 
following article from the Yale Daily 
News: 

"The Yale Daily News has compiled some 
interesting statistics in regard to where the 



prominent athletes in 'prep" schools will go to 
college. The Daily News has taken 14 of the 
leading 'prep' schools of the country and can- 
vassed them to ascertain the colleges which the 
athletes now in these schools intend to enter. 

"The schools of which this canvass has been 
made are as follows: Andover, Exeter, Groton 
Hill, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Middlesex, 
Pawling, Pomfret, St. George's, St. Mark's, St. 
Paul's, Taft, and Westminster. Out of these 14 
schools Yale will next fall get eighteen of the 
captains of the athletic teams, while Harvard 
will get seven and Princeton four. 

"A year ago the News made a similar can- 
vass of 20 schools, out of which Yale got 
twenty captains, Harvard thirteen, Princeton 
eight, Williams three, and Dartmouth two, Le- 
high, Columbia and Annapolis each had one. 

"The canvass this year has developed an in- 
teresting fact, that in the fourteen schools can- 
vassed the athletes next fall will be divided 
up among just four colleges — Yale, Harvard, 
Princeton and Dartmouth. 

"Out of the fourteen football captains six ex- 
pect to come to Yale, three will go to Princeton, 
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Yale will get eight, Harvard four, and Prince- 
ton one. 

"Out of the fourteen schools there are six 
which do not have track teams. Of the eight 
that do have track teams, four of the captains 
are coming to Yale, while Harvard and Dart- 
mouth will each get one. There are three cap- 
tains who are undecided in regard to the col- 
lege they will enter, and two do not intend to 
go to college." 

With the big colleges following material 
90 sharply, Brown cannot expect to get 
many of the well-known preparatory 
school football stars, but with her prestige 
of turning out graduates of high standing 
in the professional and business world, and 
with the opportunities which Brown can 
give the young man who loves to play 
football, and to the students who do not 
play the game, but take pride in following 
t'heir football team, it should be a big in- 
centive to select Brown. 

Brown should bear in mind what the 
big colleges are doing for their football, 
with their half-million-dollar stadiums and 
paying $5,000 to $10,000 per year salary 
to their head coaches, with a big additional 
expense for assistant coaches, and they 
should also bear in mind that the big col- 
leges have their football material out on 
the field daily at a given hour. 

At Brown the past season, w^ith a large 
squad (for Brown), there was a scarcity 
of first-class 'varsity material, and as, 
under present rules, all teams are danger- 
ous, this forced Brown to play her best 
team in practically every game, and it is 
asking too much of eleven men to play in 
every game of Brown's schedule, for it is 
impossible for eleven men to keep keyed 
up to the highest pitch through the whole 
season. 

Brown with her handicaps in football 
has in the past three seasons beaten Penn. 
twice and Yale once, and this past season 
scored more points against Harvard than 
ever before, and more points than were 
scored by all other opponents. Brown in 
the past three years has had seven football 
players named by Walter Camp on his 
All-American teams, and Brown, if she 
gets busy, should have no good reason to 
fear any of the big teams, for if the game 
is worth the name, let Brown make her 
football a live wire; go to shaking the 
bushes and then stand readv to catch the 



birds. If it pa_\s to advertise, let every- 
body know that in football Brown puts 
the Pep in Pepper. 

Harvard has given Brown a high-stand- 
ard football date, and if Brown hopes to 
hold that date she must put up a game 
worthy of the time and place, which means 
that Bro'wn college. Brown coaches, 
Brown team and Brown supporters must 
with football sense from this moment go 
after them. 

I wonder has the 1902 grad done all he 
could for Brown football? Has he been 
the means of heading a football star to 
Brown ? Has he got a line on one or two 
to enter Brown next fall? It is a safe 
bet that both he and I ihope that at the 
end of 1913 he can ask, "What's the mat- 
ter with the other fellow?" So let us all 
get together and push. 

Just a Lover of the Gafne 



A YALE VIEW OF BROWN 

Editor Brown Alu?nni Monthly : 

My fellow Yale man and friend, Mr. 
Oviatt, the editor of the Yale Alumni 
Weekly, has been good enough to send me 
a copy of the January number of the 
Brown Alumni Monthly, that I might see 
what you had done to my little essay, "Pi." 

I feel that I ought to send you a line to 
let you know of my gratification that you 
found it enough worth while to copy. 
Perhaps sometime it shall be my good for- 
tune to meet you and to thank you in per- 
son. 

Candor leads me to add that there is 
just one thing I do not like about Brown. 
I refer to the pernicious habit the athletes 
of that university have of causing Yale 
men many moments of anxiety during cer- 
tain intercollegiate contests. I wish that 
that 21 to THING would not insinuate 
itself so often into my reflections, but I 
always find solace in the thought that we 
were beaten by a better team, far better, 
and when Yale meets the other fellow, it 
is a tribute to that other fellow that a bet- 
ter team trounces a Yale team. 

My compliments to you, if 3?ou please. 
Sincerely, 
Frank M. Barber {Yale, '92) 

Boston, Jan. 16 



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THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



A SESQUI-CENTENNIAL SUGGESTION 

Editor Broun Alumni Monthly: 

Specimen copy of the Monthl}' is just 
at hand and I beg to hand you $1.00 for 
a year's subscription. Although I am 
not very actively engaged in the news- 
paper business just now (having sold the 
Chatham Courier last April, of w'hich I 
had been the proprietor since 1883), yet I 
find the old saying, "once a newspaper 
man always a newspaper man," to be quite 
true, and it is because of my interest in 
the craft and in old Brown, as well, that 
I venture to make a suggestion for the 
consideration of the committee in charge of 
the programme for the 150th anniversary 
to be celebrated next vear. It is this: 



That an effort be made to get together all 
newspaper men who are graduates of 
Brown from the four corners of the earth 
and have a "Brown Newspaper Men's Re- 
union," to "compare note-books," enjoy a 
literary programme of speeches and papers 
and have a good time generally. I think 
if the Providence newspaper men would 
form themselves into a committee for this 
purpose, to work in co-operation with the 
committee of arrangements of the college 
that there could be no doubt of the success 
of the plan. 

Fraternallv vours, 
J. W. Darrow, Brozvn, '80 
Chatham, N. Y., Februarv 17 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



BROWN BANQUET APRIL 26 

The date of the annual Brown banquet 
for preparatory school men has been set 
for Saturday evening, April 26. Follow- 
ing the custom of the past few years, the 
committee has determined on the date of 
the Brown-Princeton baseball game at An- 
drews Field for the sub-freshman affair. 

The committee has announced a partial 
list of the speakers for the dinner. Pro- 
fessor John Francis Greene will act 
as toastmaster and Dr. W. G. Everett 
will give the welcomiing speech to the 
visiting men. Arthur P. Sumner of 
the Rhode Island House of Repre- 
sentatives will be one of the speakers 
and Ira L. Letts, president of the sen- 
ior class, will represent the undergraduates 
on the programme. The banquet will be 
held as in former years in Sayles Hall. 
The banquet committee is made up as fol- 
lows: N. B. Hull, '13, chairman; E. C. 
Wattles, '13, treasurer; C. L. Bagnall, 
'U, R. L. McLean, '15, W. G. Clarke, 
'16. 

ROBINSON AND PATTEN CHOSEN 

Manager R. D. Robinson of the Brown 
track team was appointed on the executive 
committee of the New England Intercol- 
legiate Athletic Association, and S. J. 
Patten, assistant manager of the track 
team, was elected secretary of the associa- 



tion at the meeting held on February 22. 
The other officers elected were: President 
— R. K. Stone of Dartmouth ; vice-presi- 
dent— J. IVI. White of M. I. T.; treas- 
urer — E. E. Pierce of the Worcester Pol\'- 
technic Institute ; executive committee — 
R. K. Stone, Dartmouth ; A. R. Cole, 
Bowdoin ; J. P. ^laynard, Wesleyan ; J. 
S. Moore, Amherst; E. E. Pierce, W. P. 
I., and R. D. Robinson, Brown ; advis- 
ory committee — F. H. Briggs, M. I. T. ; 
D. B. Rich, Dartmouth, and G. P. 
Wadsworth, Williams. 

COLLEGE NIGHTS AT THE UNION 

A programme of alumni and faculty 
college nights for the remainder of the 
present semester at the Brown Union has 
been announced. The first of the series 
was a smoker on Thursday evening, Feb. 
27, at w'hich Professor Courtney Lang- 
don discussed some of the ailments of 
Brown as he sees them. The idea of ex- 
tending the college nights, which have 
heretofore been undergradute affairs, to 
include the alumni and faculty, grew out 
of an effort to increase the efficiency of 
the Brown Union in relation to the grad- 
uates, and was directly the result of an 
alumni smoker held during the fall at 
which the possibilities of such a series of 
entertainments for the graduates was dis- 
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that time to represent the alumni and 
faculty, and this committee, with the 
house committee of the Brown Union, 
have arranged the programme given below. 
Tlie personnel of these committees is as 
follows: Faculty and Alumni — C. C, 
Mumford, I. O. Hunt, J. D. Pryor, Pro- 
fessor Courtney Langdon and Professor 
W. T. Hastings; Union House Commit- 
tee— E. A. C. Murphy, C. L. Bagnall, 
W. R. Burwell, W. M. Sullivan, R. G. 
Hurlin and A. F. Newell. The remaining 
numbers on the list of college nights are as 
follows: March 20, farce, "Chums," by 
the Sock and Buskin Society, under the 
direction of Paul B. Howland, '10, 
(ladies' night) ; April 24, reading of Ar- 
nold Bennett's "Milestones," by Professor 
Thomas Crosby, Jr.; May 15, musicale, 
under the direction of Gene Ware, 
(ladies' night) ; May 29, informal alumni 
dance. 

READINGS FROM THE DRAMAS 

A series of readings from the Greek, 
Latin and English drama is taking place 
in Manning Hall on Monday evenings at 
8 o'clock from February 17 to March 31. 

"Translations from the Greek by Profes- 
sor Allinson: February 17, Agamemnon of 
Aeschylus; February 24, Oedipus the 
King of Sophocles; March 3, The Clouds 
of Aristophanes. Translations from the 
Latin by Professor Greene: March 10, 
Captivi of Plautus; March 17, Phormio 
of Terence. Readings from Shakespeare 
by Professor Crosby: March 24, Hamlet; 
]\ Larch 31, Much Ado About Nothing. 

STAR ATHLETES COMING 

Brown University is to have two star 
high school athletes from Washington, D. 
C, next fall in the persons of "Buck" 
Howard and "Billy" Martin, according 10 
the daily papers. They have established a 
record in the national capital for excep- 
tional work in scholastic athletics. 

Howard has been a star performer at 
Western High School in baseball and foot- 
ball, while Martin has been one of the 
best performers in both sports at George- 
town University Preparatory School. 

A Washington paper, in commenting 
on the plans of the two boys to enter 
Brown, has this to say: 

"Both Howard and ALartin have made 



big reputations for themselves in scholastic 
ranks in this city. Both have been tiie 
most capable performers in baseball and 
football in their respective schools, and 
they have also played very well with the 
fastest amateur nines the District afEords. 
"Neither of the two men should have 
much trouble in making good on any col- 
lege baseball team. Both are very capa- 
ble infielders and hit about as well as in- 
fielders generally do, and better than the 
majority of those holding down places on 
college teams. Whether or not the two 
boys will be able to make good in football 
is questionable. The class of football 
played by Brown is far above anything 
seen around here, with the possible ex- 
ception of that at Georgetown, and 
neither Howard nor Martin is very 
heavy, the former, especially, being light 
for the university game." 

UNCOVERING TO THEIR "BETTERS" 

It has long been a Brown custom to 
"tip the hat" to faculty members. The 
Yale Alumni Weekly says: 

"Perhaps the custom of 'tipping the hat* 
to president and professors is not as new 
to the Harvard undergraduate body as it 
is to the Boston Post, but at least we are 
told that 'the custom has been growing 
gradually for several years and is now in 
full bloom.' If so, it arrived rather late 
at Harvard. Younger Yale has had it 
since the memory of its oldest living grad- 
uate. Indeed, it is an inheritance from 
those days when even the eminence of 
sophomore dignity did not raise a young 
man above uncovering to his 'betters.' Its 
origin is lost in the mists of antiquity along 
with the beginnings of bowing to the presi- 
dent, the building of the Fence and the 
first carving of the wooden spoon. It 
might be well, judging from its practical 
workings, if the custom of lifting the hat 
to president or honored professor were 
younger and more earnest. It is to be 
feared that its impressiveness, as practiced, 
is not a little worn on the edges — as, for 
that matter, must be the edges of the presi- 
dent's hats if he returns all the salutations 
tendered to him. However, not a little 
credit is due to the undergraduate who 
faithfully removes, on all required occa- 
sions, the fearful, wonderful and with 
difficulty adjusted headgear of the mode. 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



Faculty 

Mr. Micoleau, instructor in the romance de- 
partment, formerly of the 83d Regiment of In- 
fantry, French army, gave a lantern lecture 
before the Providence Art Club, Jan. 31, 1913, 
on "Two Years of Compulsory Service in the 
French Army." 

Professor Dealey spoke before the Provi- 
dence Radical Club Feb. 19, 1913, on 'The 
needs of Rhode Island." 

Professors Allinson, Greene and Crosby will 
give readings from the Greek, Latin and Eng- 
lish drama in Manning Hall on Monday even- 
ings from Feb. 17 to March 31. Translations 
from three Greek dramas, "Agamemnon" bv 
Aeschylus, "Oepidus the King" by Sophocles, 
and "The Clouds" by Aristotle will be read by 
Professor Allinson on the first three evenings. 
At the next two meetings Professor J. F. 
Greene will read translations from the Latin 
of "Captivi" of Platus and "Phormio" of 
Terence. Professor Crosby will conclude the 
series by reading "Hamlet" and "Much Ado 
About Nothing." 

Acting President Walter G. Everett repre- 
sented the university at the annual banquets 
of the Philadelphia and Washington Alumni 
Associations Feb. 19 and 20. At Philadelphia 
Dr. Everett was the guest of Dr. W. W. Keen 
of the Board of Fellows of the university. Mr. 
Justice Hughes entertained Dr. Everett in 
Washington. 

President Faunce celebrated his birthday, 
Jan. 15, by a fourth visit to the Taj Mahal at 
Agra, which he pronounces "the only human 
structure that never fails to satisfy." Later 
he traveled in Burma and Java, and visited 
Singapore on his way to Hong Kong, where 
he expects to arrive about the middle of 
March. 

The address of Professor Everett, entitled 
"Brown's Gift to Amherst," delivered at the 
inauguration of President Meiklejohn, is 
printed in the January number of the Amherst 
Graduates' QuarterK'. 

Professor Wilfred H. Munro, '70, Theodore 
Francis Green, '87, and Rathbone Gardner, '77, 
have been appointed the Rhode Island mem- 
bers of a permanent committee to arrange for 
a New England-wide celebration in 1920 of 
the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims. 

Professor William Macdonald delivered a 
lecture before the Rhode Island Historical So- 
ciety, Feb. 11, 1913, on "Witchcraft in Salem 
Village." 



Alumni 

1849 
Alexander John Robert is living at 2324 
East Hartson St., Spokane, Wash. He was born 
in Robertville, Beaufort District, S. C. He re- 



ceived the degree of LL. B from Yale in 1851, 
became a lawyer at Marietta, Ga., and served 
in the Confederate army. After the war he be- 
came an academy principal and college presi- 
dent, and later was a manufacturer in Texas. 
He married in 1863, May Virginia Simms, by 
whom he had five children. He had six 
brothers who were students at Brown, of whom 
two were graduates, besides a nephew, James 
Alexander Robert, ex-'58. 

1859n 
Gen. Joseph Griswold Perkins died Jan. 27, 
1913, at his residence in Old Lyme, Ct. Born 
in 1838, General Perkins was the son of 
Thomas Shaw Perkins of New London and 
Mary Ann Griswold of Black Hall. Much of 
his youth was spent in New London, and it was 
there that he prepared for college. After a 
year, 1855-56, at Brown, he went to Hartford 
and there studied law and was admitted to the 
bar. But before he had settled in practice came 
the outbreak of the Civil War. He went to the 
front with a company of the old First Rifles. 
Having served through this term of enlistment, 
he returned to Hartford and was temporarily 
attached to the staff of Governor Buckingham. 
Upon the organization of the First Connecticut 
heavy artillery he was offered the command 
of one of the batteries, and served through the 
various campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 
and in the defenses of Washington. When, in 
1863, negroes were enlisted in the Union army 
and white officers were needed for the colored 
regiments, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel 
of the Nineteenth United States colored troops, 
and it was while in command of this regiment 
that he won the brevet rank of brigadier gen- 
eral, for his gallantry at the affair of the Crater 
before Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. After the 
war General Perkins went with his regiment 
to the Mexican border and was for some time 
stationed in Brownsville, Tex. Mustered out 
in 1867, he returned to Connecticut and settled 
in Old Lyme. He served one term in the state 
senate and at different times held many of the 
town offices in Old Lyme. He married there in 
1869, a daughter of Richard Sill Griswold, 
Louisa Griswold, who, with his three children, 
Mrs. Wolcott G. Lane of New York, Mrs. 
George Griswold and Griswold Shaw Perkins 
of Old Lyme, survive him. 

1860n 
Judge George N. Bliss gave a lecture be- 
fore the Rhode Island Historical Society Jan. 
28, 1913, on "That part of the state now 
known as East Providence." 

1864 
William Henry Underbill is living at 991 
Massachusetts av., Cambridge, Mass. He 
served in the Civil War, studied for the 
ministry, but entered business, from which 
he is now retired. He has lived in Cam- 
bridge since 1870. He married in 1868 and 



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has two daughters and five grandchildren. 
He is seventy-five years old and enjoys good 
health. 

1866 

The address of Herbert Cotter BiiUard, M. 
D., is Isle of Pines, W. I. 

The address of Rev. Preston Gurney is 473 
H St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Rev. Leroy S. Griffin has resigned the pas- 
torate of the Baptist church in North Easton, 
Mass., to accept the call of the Baptist church 
in Westwood, Mass. 

1867 
Rev. Henry Crocker of Chester, Vt, has 
written a "History of the Baptists in Ver- 
mont," which is in course of publication by 
the Vermont Baptist Historical Society. 

1869 

A notice of the life of Major Carver How- 
land will be found in the last number un- 
der the class of 1873, of which he was a mem- 
ber. A mistake made in the daily press, assign- 
ing him to the class of 1869, was inad- 
vertently copied in our January number. 

Pascal Allen Horton died in Stratham, N. 
H., Jan. 18, 1913. He was born in Providence, 
Feb. 2, 1848, the son of Sanford Jackson and 
Anna Elizabeth (Allen) Horton. He was pre- 
pared for college in the Episcopal Academy of 
Connecticut, Cheshire, Ct. He was a shipping 
clerk at Saugus and Lynn, Mass. He married, 
Dec. 25, 1879, Josephine Gilbert Philbrick. 
They had six children. 

1870 
Dr. Marcus Morton Johnson is surgeon-in- 
chief of the Woodland Sanatorium, 122 Wood- 
land St., Hartford, Ct. He is the author of 
various papers on surgical subjects. 

1872 

Dr. Charles L. Nichols of Worcester spoke 
on the work of Isaiah Thomas, the early Amer- 
ican printer, before the Society of Printers in 
Boston, Jan. 29, 1913. 

Professor John H. Mason of the Rochester 
Theological Seminary has tendered his resigna- 
tion, to take effect at the close of the present 
year. He has been Huntley Professor of the 
English Bible since 1904. 

1873 

Rev. Edwin Pickett Farnham, superintendent 
of the Baptist Church Extension Society of 
Brooklyn and Queens, has isued a bulletin on 
"City expansion and church extension," includ- 
ing a plan of campaign for three years. 

William E. Foster was the guest on Feb. 4, 
at a dinner at the Providence University Club 
in observation of the thirty-fifth anniversary 
of the opening of the Providence Public Li- 
brary. The librarian of the university, who 
presided, read a translation of Horace's thirty- 
first ode made for the occasion. Horatlan 
verses were given by Professor Courtney Lang- 
don. Letters were also read containing appre- 



ciation of Mr. Foster's work, from Mr. Herbert 
Putnam of the Library of Congress, Acting 
President Everett of Brown University, Messrs. 
William C. Lane of the Harvard Library, 
John Cotton Dane of the Newark, N. J., Public 
Library, General Rush C. Hawkins, Messrs. 
Joseph Le Roy Harrison, and Daniel Berkeley 
Updike of Boston. The others present were 
Professor Henry B. Gardner, '84, Hon. Arthur 
L. Brown, '76,' Dr. G. Alder Blumer, Mr. 
Daniel Beckwith, '70, Rev. Augustus M. Lord, 
Professor John Howard Appleton, '63, Mr. 
John G. Aldrich, Professor George W. Bene- 
dict, Messrs. John P. Farnsworth, Herbert O. 
Brigham, ex-'99, Frederic N. Luther, '84, and 
Howard Millar Chapin, '08, Messrs. George 
Parker Winship, Seeber Edwards, '91, and Ed- 
ward Fuller and Professor Francis G. AUIn- 



1874 
Rev. Edward W. Babcock has been rector of 
the Church of the Holy Cross, Troy, N. Y., 
for seventeen years. The anniversary was ob- 
served in February by a reception, in the Mary 
Warren Free Institute hall, given to Mr. Bab- 
cock by his parishioners and the Episcopal 
clergy of the city. The church is the chapel of 
the institute. 

1877 

Rathbone Gardner is associated with Pro- 
fessor Wilfred H. Munro, '70, and Theodore 
Francis Green, '87, in the Rhode Island mem- 
bership of a permanent committee to arrange 
for a New England-wide celebration in 1920 
of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pil- 
grims. 

Rev. John R. Gow, D. D., has resigned the 
pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Brattle- 
boro, Vt., after a service of over four years, 
his resignation to take effect April 1. 

1878 
Hon. Elon R. Brown of Watertown, N. Y., 
is the Republican leader of the State Senate 
at Albany. 

1882 
The American Book Company has issued a 
volume entitled, "Hygiene for the Worker," 
of which Dr. William H. Tolman, director of 
the American Museum of Safety, New York 
city, is joint-author. 

1883 
Isaac B. Burgess is general secretary of the 
New Jersey Sunday School Association, with 
his office at 835 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

1886n 
Rev^ Arthur S. Phelps preached Dec. 29 in 
the Baptist church at Delhi, India. 

1887 

Rev. O. E. Ryther is associate secretary of 
the Connecticut Temperance Union, with ad- 
dress at 426 Asylum av., Hartford. 

Theodore Francis Green is associated with 



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Wilfred H. Munro, '70, and Rathbone Gardner, 
'77, in the Rhode Island membership of a per- 
manent committee to arrange for a New Eng- 
land-wide celebration in 1920 of the tercenten- 
ary of the landing of the Pilgrims. 

1888a 
Rev. A. K. de Blois gave an address at the 
celebration of the Baptist missionary centen- 
nial at Salem, Mass., Jan. 31, 1913. 

1890 

Rev. Arthur Warren Smith gave the histori- 
cal address at the celebration of the Baptist 
missionary centennial at Salem, Mass., Jan. 31, 
1913. 

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Collins Frost, who 
%vere some time in the Riviera after leaving 
Turin, spent Christmas at Viareggio and New 
Year's at Lucca, later going to Giorseto and 
Corneto on the way to Rome, where they spent 
three weeks. They are now in Fornia and will 
go to Capua and Laserta, then to Naples and 
Capri, returning later to Naples for a long 
stay. 

1893n 
Dr. Frank J. Sexton has signed a contract 
to coach the Harvard baseball team for a sec- 
ond three years. 

1894 

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William W. Moss, 
Jan. 21, 1913, a daughter, Margaret Lynn Moss. 

Henry M. Barry of Providence, for four years 
executive secretary to Mayor Fletcher, Ihas 
been appointed secretary to Senator-elect Le- 
Baron B. Colt. Mr. Barry was born in Sax- 
ton's River, Vt. His preliminary education was 
obtained at Vermont Academy. In 1895 he re- 
ceived the degree of A. M. from Brown. The 
next 14 years of his life were devoted to 
newspaper work, in which he remained until 
his appointment by Mayor Fletcher in 1908. He 
has been secretary of the State Harbor Im- 
provement Commission since it was organized, 
but now has resigned that position. The new 
secretary has already begun his duties, 
having made a trip to Washington on business 
for the senator-elect. 

1895 

Rev. Peter C. Wright, for eleven years pas- 
tor of the Central Baptist Church, Norwich, 
Ct, has been unanimously called to the Geth- 
semane Baptist Church in Philadelphia. 

Paul M. White, an old University pitcher, 
formerly associated with John Wells Morss, 
Esq., has removed his office to 60 State St., 
Boston, rooms 327 and 328, where he will con- 
tinue the practice of the law. 

Married, Christmas Day, 1912, at the resi- 
dence of Rev. Peter C. Wright, Norwich, Ct., 
Capt. William G. Tarbox, ex-'95, and Dr. 
Lucille A. James. Capt. and Mrs. Tarbox will 
reside at 33 Grove St., Norwich. Captain Tar- 
box is principal of the Norwich town gram- 
mar school and captain of the Fifth Com- 
pany, C. A. C, C. N. G. Dr. James has been 



a practising physician in Norwich for a num- 
ber of years and has been prominent in the 
work of the Woman's Christian Temperance 
Union. 

Chester W. Barrows was elected a justice 
of the Rhode Island Superior Court by the 
General Assembly, Jan. 7, 1913. Arthur P. 
Sumner, '85, in nominating Mr. Barrows, said in 
part: "I wish to place in nomination for the po- 
sition of associate justice of the Superior 
Court, a gentleman who well meets the require- 
ments of that office — a native of the city of 
Woonsocket, a man in the prime of life, well 
educated in our public schools and at our uni- 
versity', a graduate of Harvard Law School, and 
a practitioner of law in the city of Providence 
of 14 years standing. Mr. Chester W. Barrows 
has been Referee in Bankruptcy for 12 years. 
In that position he had been called upon to 
give careful and discriminating consideration to 
the many important questions of law and of fact 
that have been raised in bankruptcy litigation. 
His experience in that position has been of 
a substantial judicial character, and one that 
has splendidly prepared and equipped him for 
elevation to the bench. His standing in the 
profession and his qualifications for the posi- 
tion are clearly demonstrated by the almost 
unanimous opinion of his fellow members of the 
bar. The Rhode Island Bar Association may 
fairly claim to represent the best sentiment and 
ideals of the bar of this state, and that associa- 
tion has declared by a vote of 99 out of a 
total of 134, that Mr. Barrows is its choice for 
this position." 

1896 

Mrs. Albert J. Pitkin of New York city has 
announced the engagement of her daughter, 
Miss Elizabeth Bancroft Pitkin, to Henry Law- 
rence Smith of Schenectady, N. Y. 

Champlin Burrage is Librarian of Manches- 
ter College, Oxford. He has recently pub- 
lished through the Oxford University Press, 
"John Penry, the so-called martyr of Con- 
gregationalism, as revealed in the original 
record of his trial and in documents related 
thereto." 

Lewis M. Carr, teller of the National Bank 
of Alton, 111., writes that the visit of Presi- 
dent Meiklejohn to St. Louis in January was 
an occasion greatly enjoyed by the Brown 
men in that vicinity. 

1899 

Charles C. Remington, a Providence lawyer, 
has been appointed secretary of the Rhode Is- 
land State Harbor Improvement Commission. 

C. Henry Smith, Librarian of the Univer- 
sity of Colorado, has published a "List of 
Serials in the University of Colorado Library." 
The library is increasing at the rate of twenty- 
five volumes a day. 

Clarence S. Brigham, at a meeting of the So- 
ciety of Printers in Boston, Jan. 29, 1913, de- 
scribed some of the books of special interest t& 
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qiiarian Society at Worcester, of which he is 
Librarian. 

Walter \V. Massie, ex-'99, has been ap- 
pointed engineer to the Rhode Island Commis- 
sioners of Shell Fisheries. 

1901 

Capt. G. A. Taylor, U. S. A., sailed from San 
Francisco, January 6, 1913, on the U. S. A. T. 
Sheridan, with the 68th Co., C. A. C, from 
Fort Baker, Cal. He is now in command of 
the new artillery post of Fort Kamehameha, 
at Pearl Harbor, about nine miles west of 
Hololulu, on the island of Oahu. 

The first anniversary, Jan. 5, 1913, of the 
pastorate of John M. Linden with the First 
Baptist Church of Pueblo, Colo., shows the fol- 
lowing results for the year of work: — Received 
by letter 57, by baptism 91, by experience 12 
and by restoration 4. Total 164. 

1902 

Dr. Crawford R. Green was one of the 
speakers at the sixty-first annual banquet of 
the New York State Homeopathic Medical So- 
ciety at the Ten Eyck, Albany, Feb. 11. 

Ralph C. Thompson is treasurer of the newly 
incorporated Balfour Company of Attleboro, 
Mass., manufacturing jewelers. Mr. Thompson 
is still treasurer of the Robbins Co. at Attle- 
boro. 

1904 
Married, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1913, Miss Birdie 
Freedman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L 
Freedman of New York, and Mr. Berrick 
Schloss of Providence, at Delmonico's in New 
York. The ceremony was performed by Dr. 
Nathan Stern of Temple Beth-El of Provi- 
dence. After a wedding journey, Mr. and Mrs. 
Schloss will take up their residence at 140 Ade- 
laide av., Providence, where they will be at 
home after March 15. 

1905a 
Rev. Walter W. Deckard, A. M., pastor 
of the Arlington Free Baptist Church, has re- 
signed in order to become director of religious 
education in the First Baptist Church, Provi- 
dence. 

1906 

Mr. Frederick E. Banfield, Jr., has been made 
Assistant Superintendent of the Saco-Lowell 
Shops at Newton Center, Mass. 

Howard M. Tracy was recently appointed 
to the Curtis High School, New York city, as 
a teacher of commercial branches. 

1907 

Born, Jan. 2, 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray- 
mond F. Tift of Somerville, Mass., a son, 
Raymond F. Tift, Jr. 

The engagement is announced of Miss Flor- 
ence A. Kennon, daughter of Mr. Frederick 
V. Kennon of Edgewood, and Mr. Alfred H. 
Gurney, ex-'07. 

The address of William W. Reynolds is 
Hatley Park, Victoria, B. C. 



1908 

The marriage is announced of Harold W. 
Lyall and Gertrude M. Ellis, '08. Mr. Lyall 
is bacteriologist for Hoagland Laboratory and 
Long Island College Hospital. Their address 
is 62 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

The engagement has just been announced of 
Miss Geraldine Mabee, daughter of Mrs. Wil- 
liam O. Mabee of 212 West Eighty-second 
street, New York city, and Mr. John C. Mc- 
Donald, formerly of Vermont and now of New 
York. 

1909 

The address of Paul E. Everett is: Care of 
the Y. M. C. A., Newton, Mass. 

The engagement is announced of Miss Mary 
Louise Roche, Rhode Island Normal School, '08, 
and Louis P. Willemin. 

Born, Feb. 14, 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. Everett 
W. Manter, ex-'09, a daughter, Edith Haskans 
Manter. 

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Arnold have 
announced the engagement of their daughter, 
Miss Constance Arnold, to Mr. William Potter 
Buffum, Jr., of Newport. 

Irving W. Patterson has been appointed chief 
engineer of the Rhode Island State Board of 
Public Roads. He was formerly employed by 
the Board of Public Roads 1905-10 as drafts- 
man and inspector of bituminous construction 
work of the board. For the past two years he 
has been in charge of bituminous road work in 
New England and Canada for the Texas Com- 
pany. As chief engineer of the board here, he 
will have full supervision of the construction 
and repair work of the entire state highway 
system and will act in the capacity of consult- 
ing engineer. 

1910 

Born, January 19, 1913, at 700 Park av.. Au- 
burn, R. I., to Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Cam- 
eron, a daughter, Margaret Lucile Cameron. 
Mr. Cameron is principal of public schools of 
Windsor Locks, Ct. 

Albert J. O'Connor, ex-'lO, has left the em- 
ploy of the Westinghouse Electric and Machine 
Co. at East Pittsburg, and is now engaged in 
erection work for the Electric Machinery Co. 
of Minneapolis. 

Gaius H. Barrett has recently announced his 
engagement to Ruth H. Johnson, Mt. Holvoke, 
'09^ 

1911n 

Geo. R. Hill, ex-11, who is with the Pacific 
Motor Car Co. of Los Angeles, drove a "120" 
Fiat in a 200 mile road race at San Diego 
Jan. 1, 1913, and won first place in a field of 
fifteen starters. 

William L. Wright, ex-'ll, is one of the en- 
gineers of the new Boylston st. subway, Boston. 

1911 
Robert C. Murphy will complete his scientific 



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exploration of the island of South Georgia this 
month, as he must get north before the ice- 
bergs close in on the island. He is expected 
to reach Providence late in June. He reports 
success in collecting specimens. 

1912 

L. V. Crocker has severed his connection with 
the BuUard Co., map publishers, and has 
formed the National Survey Co., with offi- 
ces in the Fidelity building, Portland, Me. He 
will be operating until June in North and 
South Carolina. 

The Baptist Men's League of Arlington, N. 
J., has now two Brown men on its executive 
staff. At its recent annual election, Irving R. 
Smith, '12, was elected to the presidency, and 
Will C. Ingalls, Jr., '09, was re-elected to the 
secretaryship of the league. Its annual banquet, 
held in Janaury, was in charge of a committee 
of which Mr. Smith was chairman, and Mr. 
Ingalls was secretary and treasurer. 

Howard P. Jones, '12, is employed by Swift 
and Company at Kansas City, Mo. His address 
is Hotel Penn, 906 Penn av. 

Harry S. Wright, ex-'12, is employed by the 
Massachusetts State Board of Health as a civil 
engineer. 

Edward G. Fletcher, ex-'12, is a student at 
the Harvard Law School. 

Ernest M. Daland is instructor in biology 
and chemistry in Lyndon Institute and Agri- 
cultural School, Lyndon Centre, Vt. 

Judge Charles C. Mumford, '81, and Mrs. 
Mumford announce the engagement of their 
daughter, Miss Marion Mumford, to Mr. Karl 
Humphrey. 

Hudson Coe Burr is an engineer in the em- 
ploy of the Sedgwick Machine Works, 128 Lib- 
erty St., New York city. He is living at 115 
West 96th St. 

Zue Sun Bien was appointed, Feb. 1, assist- 
ant secretary of state of the new Chinese re- 
public, one of the most important posts in the 
service. Mr. Bien was born in Yangchau, 
near Shanghai, in 1885, of one of the oldest 
families in that part of the empire. His father 
was a high government official and desired 
his son to follow in his footsteps. According- 
ly, as soon as the boy was old enough, he was 
placed under private tutors, and later attend- 
ed schools in Shanghai and Pekin. At eighteen, 
his schooling completed as his father thought, 
Zue married. He then asked his father's per- 
mission to come to America to study, but the 
request was flatly refused. Nothing daunted, 
he went to work, and for two years saved 
money to pay his expenses here. A son had 
meanwhile been born to him. His father at 
last yielded and the son began his American 
schooling at the Ithaca, N. Y., high school, 
where he remained for a year, gaining a 
knowledge of English. He then looked about 
for a college that would be helpful in carry- 
ing out his desires to enter the governmental 
service. He selected Brown because there were 
very few Chinese students here, for he was 



anxious to absorb as much of American ideas- 
and customs as possible. Bien made friends 
easily in college and before he had been here 
a year was known and liked by all the stu- 
dents and stood high in the esteem of the fac- 
ulty. Quiet and unassuming, he was remark- 
ably studious and made rapid progress. He 
took many courses in political and social 
science, economics and history, to fit him for 
the work he wanted to do. Soon after he 
came to Providence his second son was born 
and named Edward. It was Bien's desire to 
remain in America for one or two years more 
after he left Brown, but the death of his 
father during the son's senior year changed 
his plans and necessitated his return to China 
as soon as he had received his diploma. 
Exactly what Mr. Bien's duties as assistant 
secretary of state will be his letters to this 
country do not say. He states, however, that 
under the new republic the president has much 
less power than in this country, while the 
members of the cabinet, like the members of 
the English ministry, are the real powers. 
Practically the whole cabinet and corps of high 
assistants is made up of Chinese who have 
studied in America or Europe, but Mr. Bien 
is the youngest man to hold one of the im- 
portant places. He has under his charge seven 
other young Chinese, all of whom are gradu- 
ates of American colleges and universities. 
One of his duties is serving as a member of 
the national committee of finance, into the 
hands of which body has been given the prob- 
lem of reorganizing and modernizing the 
whole monetary system of China. 

1913 
Marmaduke Cope Buffum, a Senior, died 
Feb. 9, 1913, at the Rhode Island Hospital, 
after an operation for appendicitis. He was 
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Potter Buf- 
fum of Newport. He was 22 years old. He 
graduated from Rogers high school, Newport, 
in 1909 and entered Brown that year. He is 
survived by his parents, a sister, Mrs. Charles 
Parker Walbridge of Philadelphia, and a 
brother, William P. Buffum, Jr., of Boston. 



THE BROW^N CLUB IN NEW YORK 

Feb. 19, 1913 
The annual meeting of the Brown Club in 
New York was held in the club rooms Febru- 
ary 19, about forty members being present. 
The reports of the various committees were 
read and approved. The treasurer's report 
showed a healthy growth of the club finan- 
ciallv, with a substantial balance in the treas- 
ury. C. H. Guild, Jr., '99, for the House Com- 
mittee, announced that the policy of the club 
for the coming year would be to hold one 
smoker with an address by a Brown alumnus 
every month, and devote the other club nights 
to "get-together" smokers, for games, music, 
and informal discussions. "A membership of 
300" will be the aim of the Membership Com- 
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of every Brown man belonging to the club, this 
number can be reached. The present regis- 
tration is nearly 250. Walter C. Wyckoff, '95, 
for the Advisory Board of Alumni, recorded 
himself as favoring a "real" baseball game 
with some large college on Commencement 
Day, in place of the annual Alumni game. 

The most important discussion centred 
around the question of the work of the Brown 
Club in New York among the subfreshmen of 
the city. Secretary Keen urged upon the club 
members the necessity of an active, extensive 
campaign to induce men to enter Brown. The 
matter of distributing photographs of Brown 
University buildings in preparatory^ schools of 
New York city was considered. 

The Nominating Committee presented the 
following list of officers, who were elected for 
the ensuing year: 

President: Clarkson A. Collins, '76; vice- 
president: Ira Barrows, '83; treasurer: Hermon 
N. Coulter, '05; secretary: Herbert B. Keen, 
'07. 

Board of Governors: Dr. J. B. Francis Herre- 
shoff, '70; Arthur Lincoln, '70; Edward O. 
Stanley, '76; Samuel H. Ordwaj-, '80; Henry 
G. Hardy, '80; William R. Dorman, '92; Al- 
fred B. Meacham, '96. 

House Committee : Clarence H. Guild, Jr., '99 ; 
Alfred B. Meacham, '96; Richard R. Hunter, 
"98; Walter C. WvckofI, '95; Arthur F. Dris- 
coll, '06; Louis F. Baker, '03; Dr. Edward S. 
Gushee, '98. 

Membership Committee: Newton G. Chase, 
'08; J. C. McDonald, '08; Charles A. Lundell, 
'06; E. N. Bliss, '11; Louis F. Baker, '03. 

Advisory Board of Alumni: Walter C. 
Wyckoff, '95; David L. Fultz, '98. 

Music Committee: Charles A. Lundell, '06; 
Byron Smith, '01; H. Clark Barber, '99; 
George A. Rounds, '08. 

Press Committee: Hermon N. Coulter, '05; 
Henry G. Carpenter, '06; Robert C. Nason, 
'08; Herbert B. Keen, "07; Clarkson A. Col- 
lins, Jr., '08. 

Subfreshmen Committee: Fred Murphy, '97; 
M. E. Henry, '99; William Gray, '04; E. K. 
Fretwell, '05; Theodore E. Tolson, '06; Victor 
Arthur Schwartz, '07; William A. Spinney, 
'07; Ralph Wilbur McPhee, '07; Donald Mc- 
Lean, '07. 

Pool Committee: J. C. O'Connor, '08; James 
Larkin, '11. 

Bureau of Business Information: Edward O. 
Stanley, '76; William R. Dorman, '92; Julian 
C. Chkse, '99. 

Library Committee: Benjamin Pabodie, '61; 
Alexander Graham, '06. 

Picture Committee: Henry G. Hardv, '80; 
Dr. C. K. Stillman, '00 ; Hermon N. Coulter, '05. 

A vote of thanks was extended by the entire 
club to retiring President Edward O. Stanley 
for his faithful and efficient work in the in- 
terests of the club. 

H. G. Carpenter 



at the rooms of the Commonwealth Club 
and the adjoining State Mutual restaurant on 
Thursday evening, February 6. President John 
A. Clough presided at the annual business meet- 
ing and at the dinner which followed. The 
following officers were elected for the ensuing 
year: President, George A. Gaskill, '98; vice- 
president, Howard E. Sumner, '94; secretary 
and treasurer, Clarence S. Brigham, '99; ex- 
ecutive committee, Fred D. Aldrich, '95, 
Joseph Jackson, '68, T. H. DeCoudre, '97, 
Hobart A. Whitman, '95, and Franklin B. 
Whitemore, '04. 

The guests and speakers were Professor 
Courtney Langdon, '91 ; Henry Robinson 
Palmer, '90, editor of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly; Charles W. Delano, Wesleyan, '94, 
and J. F. Russell, Brown, '02. 



WORCESTER DINNER 

A pleasant reunion of the Sons of Brown 
of \A'orcester County (Mass.) was held 



DINNER AT BOSTON 

At the American House, February 7, some 
250 Brown men gathered for what proved to 
be one of the best reunions in the long list of 
such affairs in Boston. 

President Faunce, now travelling in Asia, 
sent special greeting to the association, which 
was read by Acting President Walter Good- 
now Everett. Rev. Dr. Orrin P. Gifford, presi- 
dent of the association, kept the evening alive 
with the genial wit of an accomplished toast- 
master. Among the speakers and guests pres- 
ent were Dean George Hodges of the Episcopal 
Theological School at Cambridge; President 
John Martin Thomas of Middlebury College, 
Vt. ; Professor Asa C. Crowell, Dean Otis E. 
Randall, Professor Nathaniel Davis, Professor 
John M. English, Professor Wilfred H. Munro, 
'70, and Professor John H. Appleton, '63. The 
oldest alumni present were W. T. Batt, '55, and 
H. Holbrook, '59. The singing was led by 
George L. Parker, '96, and Charles W. Towne, 
'97. 

Acting President Everett, speaking on the 
aims of college teaching, said: "The function 
of the college is not primarily to teach men 
how to get a living, but how to live — not to 
cram them with facts or theories, but to train 
them to think — not to give them cleverness and 
confidence, but to impart insight and conviction. 
Woe be to us if we trust to mechanism instead 
of to men in education." 

Professor John Francis Greene showed stere- 
opticon pictures and portraits from the past of 
the university, and brief addresses were de- 
livered by Dean Hodges, President John Mar- 
tin Thomas and Clifton S. Anderson, assistant 
solicitor of Worcester. 

At the preliminary business meeting these of- 
ficers were elected for the ensuing year: Presi- 
dent, Clarance H. Lingham, '97, vice-presidents, 
Samuel C. Eastman, '57; Charles H. Spalding, 
'65; Edmund Wood, '76; Elmer E. Silver, '85; 
Richard Wright, '87 ; treasurer, William T. 
Pearson, '06; secretary, Ralph B. Harris, '97; 
executive committee, Wesley E. Monk, chair- 
man, '96; Professor G. G. Wilson, '86; F. W. 
Jones, '96; R. S. Bryden, 1900; W. B. Atwell, 
"03; Ilsley Boone, '04. 



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BROWN MEN IN CHICAGO 

Five Brown men were present at the dinner 
given at the Cit\- Club, Feb. 4, 1913, by the Col- 
lege Alumni Committee of the Young Men's 
Christian Association of Chicago, for the pur- 
pose of presenting to the younger alumni the 
opportunities for social, civic, philanthropic, 
and religious work in that city. The delega- 
tion shared a table with the Sons of Michigan. 
Though forming but a small percentage of the 
two hundred present, the Brown bunch by an 
occasional song and lusty Brunonia's placed 
their college on the map among the best of the 
score or more of institutions represented in the 
gathering. The Brown member of the commit- 
tee was John W. Scott, ex-'90. 



NEW YORK ALUMNI DINNER 

New York Brunonians to the number of 150 
gathered at the Hotel McAlpin, New York city, 
on February 6 for the 35th annual dinner 
of the New York organization. The affair was 
the first one to grace the new ball room of "the 
largest hotel in the world" and Brown banners 
fittingly adorned the w-alls, while one of gi- 
gantic size made a background for the speak- 
ers' table. The club introduced an innovation 
this year in the form of a silver loving cup 
which was given to the class sending to Treasurer 
Coulter the largest number of acceptances pre- 
vious to the night of the dinner. This was won 
by the class of '08, who entered proudly in 
lock step to the large table set aside in the 
middle of the hall bearing a small giraffe, the 
class mascot. After the cheering had sub- 
sided Edward O. Stanley, '76, president of the 
New York club, presiding officer, awarded the 
cup, which is to be retained by the class having 
the best record for five consecutive years. 

In speaking to the men President Stanley 
spoke feelingly of the growing prosperity of the 
Brown Club in New York, calling attention to 
its increased membership, its enlarged bank ac- 
count, and the constant good which the club 
has come to be in helping Brown men new to 
the city. 

Dr. Everett, '85, acting president of the Uni- 
versity, read an extremely interesting letter re- 
ceived from President Faunce in which Dr. 
Faunce told of his experiences abroad. Dv. 
Everett related how the duties of his new of- 
fice aroused mingled feelings of the executive 
and the administrative. He bore also newsy 
tidings from "the hill" which the alumnus loves 
so well to hear. 

The Hon. Norman S. Dike, '85, proved an 
exceptional toastmaster. His college experience 
evoked constant ripples of merriment. Speaking 
seriously, however, in introducing the Hon. 
William A. Prendergast, comptroller of New 
York city. Judge Dike stated that the public 
can guess only a few of the great problems 
which face city officials every day of their office 
tenure. He attacked fiercely the so-called "yel- 
low journals" which interfere with the exercise 
of an official's duty by giving the lower classes 
a false impression as to existing situations. 



Comptroller Prendergast dealt chiefly with 
the problems of new subways now vexing the 
city. Speaking along the line of "yellow jour- 
nalism" he criticised sharply W. R. Hearst, who, 
with his controlling newspapers, has proved a 
stumbling block to the speedy settlement of the 
subway question. Many phases of the city's 
political life were covered by him in an inter- 
esting and eloquent way. 

Professor Thomas Crosby, Jr., '94, in a toast 
entitled "A graduate course in loyalty," made 
an earnest appeal for the aid of the New York 
Brown men to send not merely more men to 
the college, but men of higher social prestige. 
Men who would participate actively in college 
life and aid the University in a higher sense. 

A few hints as to what we might expect m 
the way of a pageant at Providence next year 
were mentioned Rowland O. Hazard, '07, 
who described vividly successful pageants car- 
ried out in England and in our own country. 
Mr. Hazard's words sank deep in the hearts 
of every man present. 

Unbridled applause accompanied the readings 
of a cablegram from President Faunce and a 
letter from ex-President Andrews. 



WASHINGTON ALUMNI DINNER 

The Brown Alumni Club of Maryland and 
the District of Columbia held its annual re- 
union at the Continental Hotel in Washington, 
D. C, on February 20, 1913. At the business 
meeting the following recently arrived alumni 
were elected to membership: Hon. H. F. Lip- 
pitt, '78; A. D. Call, '96; C. A. Nolan, '11; A. 
F. Westcott, '03. 

The officers elected for the ensuing year are: 
President, Hon. H. K. Porter, '60; vice-presi- 
dent, A. D. Call, '96; secretary-treasurer, W. 
C. Carpenter, '06 ; executive committee, W. A. 
Slade, '98; M. W. Lyon, '97; E. F. Weikert, '06. 

Mr. A. M. Quick, '^7, was reappointed repre- 
sentative of the club on the advisory board of 
the Associated Alumni. 

The business meeting was followed by a din- 
ner served in the palm room of the Continental 
Hotel, where nineteen sat down together and 
spent several enjoyable hours in renewing ac- 
quaintances and listening to interesting ad- 
dresses. Professor Wilbur, dean of Columbian 
College, George Washington University, acted 
as toastmaster and introduced as the first 
speaker Dr. Walter Goodnow Everett, acting 
president of the University. He spoke on the 
ideals of college life, touching particularly 
upon one idea mentioned by Dr. Meiklejohn 
last year, — the necessity of seizing upon and 
fixing the Interest of freshmen in intellectual 
pursuits and the rearrangement of college 
schedules to throw more difficult and serious 
studies into the freshman year. 

Dr. Everett was followed by Justice Hughes 
of the United States Supreme Court, who made 
a strong appeal for the development in col- 
lege men of a spirit of justice and sane patriot- 
ism. 

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Island, spoke of the rise in the moral stand- 
ards of the business world and of the bench, 
as illustrated b\- the insurance investigations 
in New York and the recent trial of Judge 
Archbald. 

Professor Jameson, head of the department 
of historical research of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion, spoke of the part played by "specialized 
intelligence" in the public service, more espe- 
cially the executive branches of the federal 
government, during the past ten or eleven 
years, and expressed a belief that the head of 
the incoming administration also appreciated 
the necessity and desirability for the continued 
emploxment of such specialists. 

Dr. W. G. Leland of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion in an entertaining address assumed the 
role of representative of the alumni ten years 
out of college, and after a series of witty 
reminiscences made the point that men two or 
three years out of college may, upon returning 
to the University, exert a more vital influence 
upon the ideals of the present-day student, 
especially through fraternity channels, than 
the more prominent alumnus who, many years 
awa\- from college days, is not so likely to 
come into personal contact with the student 
of to-day. 

Those present were: George A. Anthonv, 
'96, R. L. Brown, '03, E. C. Burnett, '90, A. D. 
Call, '96, W. C. Carpenter, '06, Professor H. 
E. Day, '93, Hon. Charles E. Hughes, '81, W. 
G. 'Leland '00, Hon. Henrv F. Lippitt, '78, Dr. 
M. W. Lyon, Jr., '97, C. 'A. Nolan, '11, Pro- 
fessor F. E. Partington, '79, W. A. Slade, '98, 
L. E. Truesdell, '07, E. F. Weikert, '06, A. F. 
Westcott, '03, Professor W. A. Wilbur '88, and 
Professor J. Franklin Jameson, Amherst. 



Alumnae 

1899 

The address of Mrs. Evelyn (Johnson) 
Bullen is 38 Lxhimaru, Morioka, Japan. 

1901 

The address of Sarah N. Hallett is 16 West- 
land av., Boston, Mass. 

1902 

Bertha May Fairweather (Mrs. Charles M. 
Smith) is living at 815 North Main St., Paw- 
tucket. 

Bertha N. Smith is teaching in the high 
school, Pascoag, R. I. 

1903 

The address of Mrs. Bessie (Hood) Bellows 
is 120 Chestnut St., Rochester, N. Y. 

The address of Mrs. Ethel (Rich) Savage is 
Lancaster, N. H. 

1906 
Bessie L. Adams has accepted a position in 
the high school at Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



1907 
The address of Mrs. Hannah (Heaton) 
Joerg is 31 Sherman av., Yonkers, N. Y. 

1908 
The marriage is announced of Nelly M. 
Evans and Walter E. Lounsbury of Port 
Chester, N. Y. 

1909 
Born, Nov. 6, 1912, at Dayton, Ohio, to Mr. 
and Mrs. Charlton Dascom Putnam (Ethel F. 
Riley), a son, Charlton Dascom Putnam, Jr. 

1910 

Miss Caroline M. Morton of Providence, 
who took her master's degree at Brown in 
1911, and studied last year in classical lit- 
erature, and is a Fellow this year in classical 
archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, has been 
awarded the Arnold archaeological fellowship 
for the next year and will spend the year 
abroad, particularly in Greece. The fellow- 
ship is one of the best given at the university, 
as it carries with it the income of a fund of 
$10,000 to be devoted to study abroad. 

Mr. and Mrs. F. Robert Langdale, Jr., 
(Hazel L. Raybold), of Orange, Ct, are re- 
ceiving congratulations on the birth of a son,^ 
Frank Robert Langdale, 3rd. 



BROWN ALUMNAE DINNER 

On Feb. 15, about three hundred and 
seventy-five Brown women, witb a few mem- 
bers of the Corporation and Faculty, assem- 
bled in Sayles Gymnasium to enjoy the fifth 
biennial dinner of the Brown Alumnae. Mrs. 
Ruth Roundy Allen, 1897, was a gracious and 
witty toast-mistress, and the seven speakers 
whom she introduced were at their best, as was 
proved by frequent and enthusiastic applause. 
Acting President Everett spoke of "The Col- 
lege and the University," dwelling particularly 
upon the debt of the Women's College to the 
history and traditions of the University, and 
its great advantage in having a Faculty com- 
posed so largely of men. Miss Doyle announced 
her speech to be a sermon, and preached 
briefly but earnestly about "What Ought to 
be Expected of the College Woman," empha- 
sizing her new privileges and the duties laid 
upon her in consequence: "For unto whomso- 
ever much is given, of him shall be much re- 
quired." Professor Greene referred humor- 
ously to the early days of the college and most 
respectfully to his first women students, whom 
he now finds it difficult to address correctly, 
because, like Roman generals of old, they have 
taken the names of their conquests; more seri- 
ously, he pointed out the high place of women 
in the Roman state, where they were always 
regarded as "cives Romanae." Miss Mary R. 
Stark, 1900, was the Alumna speaker of the 
evening: her subject was "The Alumna and 
the Community," and she exhorted college 
women to "get out and push" whenever they 
find opportunity for service. Miss Elizabeth 
W. Whitman, 1913, who attended the student 



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government convention at Wells College re- 
cently, gave a very gratifying account of the 
helpful example set by the Brown undergrad- 
uate women for those of other colleges in the 
solution of the social problems of student life. 
Professor Langdon touched upon many things, 
in characteristic vein, and ended by inviting 
all old pupils to front seats in his class-rooms. 
Dean King's theme was the indispensability 
of the Women's College: she is firmly con- 
vinced that no other existing college could fill 
its place, and that without it a very large pro- 
portion of its students would have to do with- 
out a college training. 

A very pleasant feature of the evening's ex- 



ercises was the presentation of a silver tea- 
service to Miss Emma B. Stanton, 1896, for 
fifteen years registrar of the Women's College. 
Miss Weeden, President of the Alumnae As- 
sociation, expressed to Miss Stanton the ap- 
preciation of all the students, past and present, 
for the patience and helpful friendliness which 
have never failed them; and Dean King spoke 
with feeling of her own relations with Miss 
Stanton. 

The singing of old and new songs was a 
useful outlet for college enthusiasm during the 
course of the speeches. Miss Arline Field, 1911, 
was an efficient leader. 

E. M. S. Branson, '04 



THE COLLEGE HUMORISTS 



Stan — Mabel is going to be a graduate- 
manager. 

Ford — Get out. Only men run for that job. 

Stan — Well, she's going to marry a promi- 
nent alumnus next month. — Chaparral. 

Fresh, (learning to play pool) — But how do 
you tell the balls apart? 

Soph. — You'll soon get to know them by their 
shape. — Punch Bowl. 

A coy little damsel from Smith, 
Was a nymph of a latter-day myth. 

She'd shun all caresses 

And, lisping her "s's" 
Say, "Thir! Thuffragetth theldom kith!" 

Jack-O'-Lantern 

"I thought your father looked very hand- 
some with his grey hairs." 

"Yes, dear old chap, I gave him those." — Fun. 

" 'T was taussig, and the bushnell hart 

Did byron hurlburt in the rand. 
All barrett was the wendell (Bart.) 
And the charles t. cope-land. — Harvard 
Lampoon. 

Anyone can leave footprints on the sand of 
time, but it takes "sand" to do it. — Yale Record. 

Newsboy — Great mystery; fift}' victims. 
Paper, mister? 

Passerby — Here, boy, I'll take one. 

Passerby (after reading a moment) — Say, 
boy, there's nothing of the kind in this paper. 
Where is it? 

Newsboy — That's the mystery, guv'nor. 
You're the fifty-first victim. — Missouri Oven. 

Germ. Prof. — This nonsense has got to stop. 
Now, what's funny? 

Usual Bright Stude — Komisch. — Jester. 



Stage Manager — Why don't you go on? 
Chinese Actor — Can't. I've forgotten my 
cue. — Yale Record. 

"Here's where I receive some registered 
male," said the college widow, as she heard 
the Freshman's step on the porch. — Chapparral. 

Her — What's that rasping sound in the peri- 
odical room? 

Him — Oh, that's where they are filing the 
magazines. — Minne-Ha-Ha. 

"I treated a girl to the Brown game." 

"How's that?" 

"Bought her roasted quail." — Yale Record. 

Sufficient unto the hour is the examination 
thereof. — Harvard Lampoon. 

Fresh. — What would Neptune do for a swim 
if there were no water? 

Senior — I give it up. 

Fresh, (retreating) — So would Neptune. — 
Punch Bowl. 

Senior Adviser — When I first came to college 
I didn't start to make a fool of myself right at 
the beginning of my Freshman year. 

'16 — Well, when did you begin? — Harvard 
Lampoon. 

Stude — Why do we say "man" when we 
mean both men and women? 

Prof. — Er — a — you see, man is a more gener- 
al term. Man embraces woman. — Sphinx. 

As a rule the plainer a theorem in geometry 
is to a woman the plainer is the woman. — Tat- 
tler. 



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HORATIO A. HUNT, Vice-President 
WILLIAM A. GAMWELL, Vice-President 

and Secretary 
JOHN E. WILLIAMS, Asst. Secretary 
HENRY B. HAGAN, Asst. Secretary 



PRESTON H. GARDNER, Vice-President 

and Trust Officer 
CYRUS E. LAPHAM, Asst. Secretary 
HENRY L. SLADER, Asst. Secretary 
G. A. HARRINGTON, Asst. Trust Officer 



Robert H. I. Goddard 
Robert I. Gammell 
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purpose a well appointed laboratory and in- 
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