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Please enclose a one-dollar bill with your full address to the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, R. I. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Vol.. XIV PiioviDKNii.:, R. I., Jink, 1913 No. 1 ABASEBALL SATIIRDAY'AT ANDREWS FIELD This i",iftiire sht)ws a small part of the crowd of 7000 spectators at the Brown- Yale ftanie of May third. To the left the bleachers extended neai'ly to the Marston Field House and were crowded. In the sweep at the right there was a great throng invisible in this restricted view. The underjiraduate section is dis- tinguished in the picture by the white shirts of the students. The day being- warm, coats were generally removed. The Yale team is shown at the left of the picture. The game is just beginning and Captain Snell, the Brown catcher, is crouched behind the bat. Yale won after Brown had led nearly all the way. 1 CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES NOMINATIONS MADE BY ALUMNI ADMSOKV BOARD FOR QUAKER AND EPISCOPAL VACANCIES By Albert K. Potter Secretary of the Associated Ahinini In accordance with the regulations, the Advisory Board of the Associated Alumni has selected the gentlemen named below as candidates for nomination to till the vacancies in the Board of Trustees caused by the death of Hon. Albert Keith Smiley, LL. D., Quaker, and James May Duane, A. M., Episcopalian. These selections are the result of care- ful deliberation and are presented with confidence that any one of these candi- dates if elected will be a \ aluable member of the Board of Trustees, able to attend meetings regularly and take an active part in its business. It is hoped that the accompanying biographical sketch will enable each alumnus to make an intelli- gent choice. An earnest appeal is made to ever}' alumnus to share in the ballot. FOR THE QUAKER VACANCY Abel Chalki.ev Coij.ixs, Attorney at Law, of Great Barrington, Mass. A. B., Brown, 1878; A. M.^ Brown, 1881. Ad- mitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1884. Member law firm of Collins & Giddings. Served on School Connnittee, Trustee Savings Bank, President Li})rary Trus- tees. Trustee Moses Brown School, Providence. Author of "Bench and Bar"' in History of Berkshire County, ivlember Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1902; served on Committee on the Ju- diciar}'. An alumnus of tested loyalty from a region not now represented on the Board. Charles Perky, Banker, of Westerly, R. I. President Washington Trust Com- pany, President Memorial and Library Association of Westerly, Trustee North- field schools. Not an alumnus but an 2 active and highly respected business man of Rhode Island, who has sent a son to the University and is cordially interested in its welfare. EmnxD Wood, Merchant, of New Bedford, Mass. A. B., Brown, 1876. An influential and public s[)irited citizen ; has been nieml)er City Council, School Committee, Water Commission, Park Commission, Board of Pu])lic Works. Now chairman Ti-ustees of the Swain Free School of Design ; President of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Vice- president Sons of Brown of Boston ; Pres- ident Brown Club of New Bedford. Un- til this year, an active member of the Advisoi-y Board of the Alunnii. FOR THE EPISCOPAL VACANCY JoHX Browx Francis Herreshoff, Chemical Engineer, of New York. Stu- dent of Brown University, 1867-69; Ph. B., by special vote Brown, 1905; A. M., 1890; Sc. I)., 1909. Instructor in Chemistry, Brown, 1869-1872. \ice- President and Treasurer Nichols Copper Co. Awai-ded Perkin Medal (first time in America). Member of many scientific societies. Served on committee to reor- ganize technical courses of Columbia Universitv. Active member visiting com- mittee. Department of Chemistry, Brown. President New York Alunnii, 1910. An eminent scientist of international repu- tation. Sajiuel Hanson Ordwav, Lawyer, of New York. A. B., Brown, 1880; LL. B., A. M., Harvard, 1883. Admitted to New York Bar, 1884. Member law firm of Spencer, Ordway, & AVierum. As- sistant District Attorney New York BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 3 ('()uiit\-, 1901. Meniher Comniissioii to re\ise tax laws of New York State, 1906. Member Go\enu)r Huohes's Wall Street ImestifJatin^- Coinniissioii, 1909. I'resi- dent Associated Alumni of Brown Uni- versity, 1910-11. Membei- Nisitiii^- Com- mittee, Department of Latin. Has l)een President of and always actively intei-- ested in the lirown University Club of New York and in the progress of the University. Chaki.ks Lemtkl Nichols, Phvsician, of Worcester, Mass. A. B., Brown", 1872; A. xM., Brown 1875; M. D., Harvard, 1875. Insti'uctor in C'hemisti'v, lirown, 1 872-1 87;3. Lecturer on Medical His- t()i"v, Boston Uni\ersitv School of Medi- cine, 1887-1900. Coiisultinj.- lioard of Westboro Lisane Asylum, 1894. Presi- dent Bi-own Alunnii of Worcestei- County, 1 909. In active practice in A\'orcester since 1876. Strongly supported by Worcester alunuii as an ideal represen- tative. Also, presented on petition by moi-e than the reijuii'ed nund)er of alunnii : AV^LFiiKi) IIauolu MrxRO, Educator, Author and Kditor of Pi-ovidence. A. B., Brown. 1870; L. H. U., Ilobart, 1910. President l)e \eaux College 1881-89. Professor of History in Brown for twenty years. Since 1911 Professor Emeritus. Mend)er of School Committee of the City of Providence and President Rhode Island Historical Society at the present time. Ballots may most conxenientlv be for- warded to the Secretary of the Alunnii in the enveloi)e sent out. Foi- those who pi-efei- to cast their ballot on Commence- ment Day, pollino-places will be provided, both on the campus and on the lawn b}' the Meetino- House from 8.30 to 12.30 o'clock. SPECIAL NOTICK TO THK ASSOCIATED ALUMNI The experiment, tried for the first time last year, of holding- the annual meeting- of the Associated Alumni in connection with a dinner in the Gymna- sium on the Tuesday evening;- preceding Commencement was a gratifA'ing success. Fifty-one were present at the dinner and many came in later for the business meet- ino-. It is expected that this will be a permanent feature of the Commencement })rogram. The dinner will be served at six-thirty o'clock. The price will be $1.00. At ei<;ht-fifteen in the same place will come the annual meeting of the Associated Alumni with brief infor- mal addresses and other interesting- fea- tures. The meeting will adjourn in time to permit attendance at fraternity re- unio}is. Seats foi- classmates may be re- served together. If you wish a place reser\ed for vou, please make application promptlv. GOOD MUSICAL CLUBS Brown's musical organizations have been especially good this year. Follow- ing a concert at the Churchill House in Providence, the Brown Daily Ilerakl said editorially: ^ "The performance was of the highest type, far surpassing the cjual- ity of the concerts of the past sexeral years, and very satisfactorily conn)ai-able to that of the Har\ ard Clubs given here some two weeks ago, or indeed of any college musical clubs, "The grand success of the clubs this year bespeaks much praise for all who have had part in developing them. It is an exann>le of the achievement possible by a little hard work and interest, added to efficient management, and as such sets a mark which we hope will be main- tained by future clubs. The impression has l)een general that no college of the size of Brown can compete with the lar- ger universities in this field, but we have undeniably dispro\en this assumption this season, and it now remains for us to continue in the premier rank which we have jj'ained. LONGTIME FACULTY MEMBERS ."J mmmt \^'i^m III Ilk '?v ''<^ II lii^^- vi From left to riglit. H. B. Gardner. J. Q. Dealey. A. de F. Palmer. W. B. Jacobs, F. P. Gorham. H. L. Koopman A TWENTY-FIVK-YEAR PROFESSOR It seems early to be accusing Professor Gardner of having- taught at Brown a (juarter of a century ; hut the records bear out this charge. In 1888, when Dr. Andrews, who had been teaching history and political economy at Brown, was called to Cornell, his subjects were di- vided between Dr. Jameson, who was made professor of history, and Mr. Gard- ner, who became instructor in political economy. Henry Brayton Gardner was l)orn in Providence IMarch 26, 1863, the son of Henry AVood and Mary (Rathbone) Gardner. He was fitted for college in Mowry and Goff's English and Classical School. On graduating from Brown in 1884, he studied four "years at Johns Hopkins, from which he received the de- gree of Ph. D. in 1890. In this year he was made associate professor of polit- ical econoni}' at Brown; in 1898 he was 4 made full professor. He was vice-presi- dent of the American Economic Associa- tion 1897-98, and has been on the ex- ecutive commtttee of that body since 190-3. He is the author of "Suggestions in regard to the statistics of municipal finance in the census of 1900,"' which was published in the volume on the "Federal Census" prepared by members of the American Economic Association. He has also contributed various articles to economic joiu'nals. Since 1904 he has been engaged in preparing foi- the Car- negie Institution a Financial History of the Ignited States. He married, June 9, 1890, Mabel Richmond. They have two daughters and two sons. FIVE TWENTY-YEAR PROFESSORS The year 1913 found the University in full tide of the expansion which it ex- perienced under President Andrews. The BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY iiuniher of students liad increased fVoni J- twenty years of service in tlie I "nivei-sity, — Pro- fessors Dealer. Palmer, Jacobs, (lorham and Koopman. Outwardly the I'nixer- sity was tiien veiy little ciianoed from what it had ])een for many years. 'J'he old wooden fence surrounded the campus, and Lincohi Field was the ball-ground where the- regular games were played. Wilson Hall and the Lyman Gynniasium had been built only two years, and Maxcy Hall was still two years in the future. Professor Lincoln had died in 1891, Professor Albert Harkness had re- tired in the year following, and this year saw the retirement of Dr. Reuben A. Guild, the historian of the Uni^ersity, who had been its librarian for forty-five years. The first class that entered under President Andrews had just been gradu- ated, a class that saw more changes dur- ing its four years than any other class before or since. Such was the Brown of 189'3, into whose ser^ice the five men en- tered whose careers we shall briefly out- line. James Quayle Dealer was born in ^Manchester, England, Aug. 13, 1861, the son of George and Mary Ann (Nel- lins) Dealey. He was prepared for col- lege at Cook Academy, Montour Falls, N. Y., and was graduated from Brown in 1890. He was professor of languages and history in Denton Normal College, Denton, Tex., 1890-91; and taught Latin in the Vermont Academy, Saxton's River, Vt., 1891-93. In the "last named year* he received the degree of A. M. upon examination from Brown, and for one year served as instructor in English at the University and for another year as instructor in Latin. In 1895 he re- ceived the degree of Ph. D. from Brown and was made assistant professor of so- cial and political science; he was made associate professor in 1898, and in 1895 full professor. He was lecturer on soci- ology at Newt(m Theological Institution in 1904. He was president of the Rhode Island Federation of Churches 1903-04. He is a member of the American Polit- ical Science Association, the Academy of Political Science, the American Sociolo- gical Society, in which he was recently elected a member of the national socio- logical connnittee, the Institut Intei-na- tional de Sociologie, and the American Historical Association. He is the au- thor of "The Spanish source of the Mex- ican constitution of 1824,'' 1900 ; "Text- book of sociology,*"' in collaboration with Dr. Lester F. Ward, 1905; "Our state constitutions," 1907; "The develop- ment of the State,"' 1910; "The family in its sociological aspect.'" 1912; be- sides many contributions to magazines and newspapers. He married, Aug. T, 1890, Clara Learned. They have two sons and two daughters. The older son is a member of the class of 1913 at Brown and will also take the degree of A. M. this year; the older daughter is a member of the class of 1914 at the Women's College. Albert de Forest Palmer was born in Tewksbury, Mass., July 26, 1869, the son of Rev. Albert de Forest and Mary Jane (Spear) Palmer. He was prepared for college in the high school at Middle- bury, Vt. After graduating from Brown in 1891, he studied at Johns Hopkins for two years, and then returned to Brown to continue his graduate studies and serve as instructor in physics. In 1896 he was made associate professor, having received the degree of Ph. D. from Brown the year before. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, a member of the Amer- ican Physical Society and the Societe Francaise de Physitjue, and was a mem- ber of the Congi"es International de Physique, Paris, 1900. He is the au- thor of "Theory of measurements," 1912, and has contributed various arti- cles on physics to technical periodicals. He married, July 5, 1899, Chai-lotte Jane Morrill. Thev have two sons. 6 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY AValter Ballou Jacobs was liorn in Providence Mav 5, 1861, the son of James Carroll and Marv Velina (Lanison) Jacobs. He was fitted for college at the Pro^ idence High School. He was grad- uated from Brown in 1882, and received the degree of A. M. in 1885. He was a student in Union TheologicalSeminary 1882-83. He was a teacher in the clas- sical department of the Providence High School, 1883-98, and in the latter year was made principal of the newly created Hope Street High School, a position which he held until 1901. In addition to his school work, he was instructor in pedagogy at Brown 1893-95, and asso- ciate professor 1895-1901. Fn the latter vear he was made ])rofess()i- of the theory and practice of education. He was pres- ident of the Barnard Club and of the Rhode Island Institute Of Instruction in 189-1 ; and has been president of the New England College Teachers of P'ducation, vice president and counsellor of the American Institute of Instruction, and a director of the National P'.ducation Asso- ciation. He is secretary of the Brown University Teachers" Association and secretary of the Connnittee on Extension Teaching at the LTniversity. He is also a member of the National Association of Teachers of Education. He is the au- thor of many articles in educational pe- riodicals, and has made many addresses on educaticmal topics. He married, June 27, 1888, Josephine Jones Chace. They ha\e one daughter. Fredei'ic Poole Gorham was born in Providence April 19, 1871, the son of Samuel and Abby Harding (Fish) Gor- ham. He was prepared for college in the classical department of the ProAi- dence High School. He was graduated from Brown in 1893, and received the degree of A. M. the next year. He has completed the requirements for the de- gree of Ph. D. in bacteriolog\- at the Harvard Medical School. Immediately upon graduation he was appointed an in- structor in biology at the University. In 1899 he was made assistant professor, and in 1900 associate professor. He has been the bacteriologist of the Providence health department since 1899. He was president of the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1911. He is a mendjer of the American Society of Naturalists, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, the American Public Health Association, the Boston Societv of Medical Sciences, the Washington Academy of Sciences, and the Entomo- logical Societv of America, an honorary member of the Rhode Island Medical So- ciety, and a fellow of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of a "I^aboratorv guide to the dissection of the cat,"" in con- juncticm with R. W. Tower, 1895; -'Laboratoi'v couise in bacteriology,"" 1897-1901 ; "Gas-bubble disease of "fish and its cause, "" 1900; besides contribu- tions to biological and medical journals. He married, June 2-i, 1897, Ennna Mary I^apham of Pro\idence. They have three daughters and a son. Harry Lyman Koopman was born in Freeport, Me., July 1, 1860, the son of Charles Frederick and Mary Ih'ewer (Mitchell) Koopman. He was })i-epared for college at the Freeport High School. He was graduated from Colby in 1880, and recei\ed the degree of A. M. from the same college in 1883. He received the degree of A. M. from Har\ard in 1893, and that of Lift. D. from Coll)y in 1908. After a year of teacliing, he entered library work as assistant in the Astor Library, New York city, in 1881. He served as assistant cataloguer in the Cornell, Columbia and Rutgei's college li- braries, 1883-86. He was cataloguer of the University of Vermont 1886-92. He was a graduate student at Harvard 1892- 93. In the latter year he was made li- brarian of Brown ; he was made also pro- fessor of bibliography in 1908. He has been president of the Massachusetts Li- brary Club and of the Rhode Island Li- brarv Association, and a member of the council of the American Library Associ- ation, and is a fellow of the American BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Library Institute and a nienil)er of the advisory council of the Simplified Spell- ing Board. He is a member of the Lon- don Authors" Club, the Boston Society of Printers, the Rhode Island Historical Society, and the Barnard Club. He is the author of "Catalogue of the Library of George P. IVIarsh,'' 1892; "Histor- ical Catalogue of Brown University," 1895; "The mastery of books" " 1896; also of five vohuiies of verse. He has been associate editor of the Brown Ahnnni Monthly since 1906. He has ccmtributed various articles to the Li- l)rary Journal and other bibliograph- ical periodicals, and an extended series of articles on diffei-ent phases of book- making to The Printing Art. He has published various translations in Ido, and is a member of the conunittee of the Union for an International Language. He married, June 27, 1889, Ilelene Lu- ise Mayser of Ulm, Germany. They have a daughter and a son ; the latter is a member of the class of 191B at Brown. THE BROWX CLUB IN NEW YORK The Brown Club's Dinner to Teachers, held in the club restaurant on Friday evening. April 18, was an innovation that bids fair to become an in- stitution. Eleven Brown graduates now teach- ing in and around New York city and fourteen members of the Sub-Freshman Committee were present to talk over ways and means of increas- ing the registration of the Freshman class at Brown. The invited guests were asked to an- swer the following questions: How large a per- centage of the graduates of your school enter col- lege? What college do they enter, and why? How can these men best be persuaded to enter Brown? What can the Brown Club do toward this end? The discussion was lively and prolonged. Dr. F. L. Gamage, "8-2. head of the Pawling School, confessed that his own son went to Yale ■"in spite of Dad." "If Fred Murphy would come to Pawling for a few days next fall, put on his football togs, and coach the boys with his characteristic vigor, it would do more toward creating a Brown spirit in the sc-hool than all the argument I could use."" Dr. Gamage took is- sue with Registrar Guild on the (juestion of cer- tificate privilege, declaring himself strongly in favor of admission to college only by examina- tion. Following Dr. Gamage, reports were made by Rit-hard Case, "78, superintendent of schools. Point Pleasant. N. J.; M. E. Henry. '99. and F. H. Tibbits. "02, Dickinson High School. Jersey City; Arthur Wakefield. "00, Ho- boken High School; J. S. Brown. "OO. P. S. UT. New York city; Irving L. Woodman. '01. High School of Commerce. New York city; H. W. Rockwell, "08. White Plains High School; Jacob A. Mattuck. '0-1. Stuyvesant High School. N. Y. city; Philip Xanes. "05. Bushwick High School, Brooklyn; Henry G. Carpenter. '()(). Collegiate School! New York City; E. K. Fretwell. '06. Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; B. F. Latham. '09. Adelphi Academy. Brooklyn. Several let- ters were read from teachers unable to be pres- ent. Suggestions included the sending of Brown literature to all schools; encouraging visits from the musical clubs, dramatic clubs, and school song books; and frequent invitations to attend the social gatherings at the Brown Club. The Sub-Freshman Committee is already at work on the suggestions, endeavoring to put Brown '"on the map" in this territory. SUB-FRESHMAN NIGHT Twenty-five high school students from Dick- inson High. Jersey City; Hoboken High; Brook- lyn Poly Prep.; Morris High and other prepara- tory schools of New York and New Jersey were the guests of the Bro«n club May 14- to listen to the illustrated talk on the Olympic Games by Norman S. Taber, '13. The prep, school boys, who included many prominent athletes, were heartily welcomed. Light refreshments folloMed the lecture. A NEW YORK SCHOLARSHIP The Brown Club is asking members and non- members to contribute one dollar annually for four consecutive years to a fund which shall be known as the New York Brown Club scholarship. The aim of this scholarship A\illbe to enable some worthy young man in New York and vicinity to enter Brown in September. 1913. and the power of awarding it will rest with the Board of Gov- ernors of the Club. The Club decided to raise the scholarship and to ask Brown men to contribute to the undertak- ing to enable some worthy young man to enter Brown; to bring each of us into closer relation- ship with the undergraduate life of the Univer- sity; and to make our Club stand for something definite and worth while beyond its own interests and amusements. FROM PROVIDENCE TO THE PHILIPPINES NOTES OF A TRIP BY A RECENT GRADUATE OF BROWN By WUl'uim A. We'uhiuin (Mr. Weidman wrote the letters from which the following extracts are taken to a friend in Providence to whom he has ^iven permission for their pubHcation. He is at present working with the United States Bureau of Education at Ma- nila. His address is (U Isaac Peral. Rrmita. Manila. P. I.— Editor.) S. S. Siberia, June 6, 1912. Far from every sign of land, nothino- to be seen but a serene sky and a tossing sea, nothing to be heard save the swish and roar of the waves ! Our position, as shown bv to-dav*s bulletin, is Lat. 32 : 18 N; Long. 171: 56 E. The longi- tude is east ; this means that we have passed from the Occident to the Orient — the line of separation is the meridian at 180°. We crossed this just north of the Midway Islands, and in the operation we lost a whole day — .lune -Ith we skipped entirely. Just now I'm out gunning for the man who advised me to carry along a lot of lemons to ward off the dread ravages of seasickness. I haven't had an oppor- tunity to ascertain what good qualities these lemons possess, for I've been dis- gustingly well during the entire trip. I'm hungry enough at every meal to wade through the entire number of courses offered on the menu, and I'm getting to be as fat as — well, as fat as any self-respecting Dutchman ought to be. The trip from Frisco to Honolulu was very beautiful, rendered so not only by the fine weather, but also by the sociability of our fellow passengers. There was a large party of girls aboard, who attend school in the States, ^nd almost e\ery evening the hard working Filipino Man- dolin Orchestra was compelled to turn out and play dance-music. Honolulu is a wonderfuj little cit} . The first impression one' gets as one passes up the harbor is of a number of hills — some extinct craters — with gay colored houses nestling in the \alleys. It is not a large town, but will [)robably, by virtue of its position geogra[)hicallv, assume a larger importance in commerce. But what delighted me most of all was the natural beauty of the city. The Regia Poinciana, with its mass of scarlet blossoms, is seen in every yard. Every- where are green vines and flowers, of a rich yellow, scarlet or deep purple color. Gardens are laid out with the greatest attention to beautiful detail and artistic finish. The garden of Queen Liliokalani was especially pretty : in the midst of tropical trees and plants, and banks of variegated flowers, played sparkling foun- tains, transforming the whole into a veritable paradise, so quiet and serene it seemed truly "a soul in grass and flowers". S. S. Siberia, June Vo, 1912. "Veni, Vidi, Vici" could' never be used to express my experience, in Japan, for from the very first I had no chance to win out against the wiles of the treacherous ginrikisha men, and cheat- ing, haggling shop-keepers. I am writ- ing this in rather a pessimistic mood, and with right, for never was I so disap- pointed in a country as in this "land of eternal sunshine and flowers". As we passed up the harbor of Yoko- hama, a rugged hilly country could be seen on every side, for the most part sandy and barren save for a few trees and shrubbery. Not all the country is like this of course. Japan in the interior boasts of extensive fields of rice and grain. But I am told only two-thirds of the country is worth cultivating. The whole nation seems miserably poor. This is caused by the heavy taxes levied bv the government. Thirtv-five BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 9 per centum of a native's salary ^oes to the Mikado, and besides this direct tax, there are taxes on many of the necessities of Hfe. The industries are in a primitive state ; the blacksmith sits cross-le'i.'^ed on the ground and hannners his anvil ; the carpenter uses heavy, clumsy tools — the saw especially is hui»e and unwieldy ; most of the hauliuiJ' and transferring of baggage is done by men who act in the capacity of horses. In the three cities I visited — Yokohama, Kobe ;uid Nagasaki — I found only about ten large factories ; in the first corn was still ground by means of a treadmill operated by ten men, who chanted as they stepped. Com- merce and fishing alone seem well de- velo})ed, and most of the wealth of the country pours in through its ports. The strength of Japan as a nation is greatly exaggerated in the Ignited States. I have no doubt that its army and na\y are very good, but in a war they would have ahsolutely no finances to draw upon. If Japan's ports were blockaded, the country could be brought to terms in a month — it has no resources to draw from. The idea of Japan's invading our country is absurd. The cities hei'e usually cover a large area, but are straggling in appearance. The buildings are necessarily built low on account of eai'tlujuakes, and many small houses are erected, leaving a min- imum of room for streets. I had a great deal of fun riding in the ginrikishas, little two-wheeled buggies drawn by a Jap, whose legs ai'e the largest and strongest part of him. These men can run for hours, up hill and down, and all they get a day is 1 yen, 50 sen, ($.75 Ignited States coin). In the even- ing they carry Japanese lanterns, and it is a pretty sight to see the lights twink- ling in and out of the dark streets. The trip from Kobe to Nagasaki was \'ery pretty and is really one of the won- ders of Jai)an. We steamed through the "inland seas", deep passages surrounded on two sides by precipitous hills. The hill slopes were terraced, and were co\ - ered with the most beautiful dark green fruit trees. Here and there among the hills were little handets ; fishing villages Mere built all along the shore. Every- where in evidence were fishing boats, cjueer little crafts, pi-opelled by one man by means of a sculling oar in the rear, or by clumsy rails, like those on a Chi- nese junk. It was great fun to watch the boats bob up and down as the swell raised by our ship struck them. None of them tipped oxer, hang the luck ! At night the sea presented a brilliant pic- ture. On each side of our boat in front rose two waves shining and glowing in the dai'kness. The phosphorescence was so rich that it seemed orange, and it glowed and shimmered on the smooth black background of the sea. We pas- sengers stood at the rail for hours watch- ing the phenomenon. ^Ve are now on our way to Shanghai. I ho})e to be able to write a better ac- count of China than of Japan. But don't think that I believe Japan is alto- gether a country to be despised. I saw very little of it and we can't form an estimate of a nation from a four days' visit in three cities. Tokio and the North may have more to offer than I saw. Young Men's Christian Association, Manila, Sept. 17, 191^. The passage from Nagasaki to Shang- hai was rather boisterous, and nobodv^ was sorry when the yellow waters of the Yangtsze were seen. We dropped an- chor in this river about 6 A. M., June 17th, and were transferred in a small launch to Shanghai, which lies twelve miles up the Huang Pu River. Along the banks of this river are numerous warehouses and manufacturing plants (the Standard Oil Company building is one of the largest). Shanghai was the finest city that we had seen in the East. There are several large hotels there, and numerous very high and massive build- ings — business houses of various kinds. Shanghai is \ery cosmopolitan. There 10 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY is a French quarter, where all the streets and signs are French, and evei-y one jahbers Francais ; thei'e is likewise a Ger- man section, where the people don't jabber at all, but converse in this beauti- ful language; an English quarter, a Hindu, and a Chinese are also to be found. Each section has its own post office, even the Chinese. This last quar- ter is verv interesting and dirty. The streets are narrow and — ^\'ell, }'ou can guess, when 1 say I was glad I could sit in my ginrikisha and didn't have to walk in them. Long streamers or flags hang o\'er the streets, before shop win- dows. There Avere also some wondei'ful smells there, which I can never foi-get. We stayed in Shanghai only six hours. My general impression of the city is favorable. You will say this was because I w^ent there with the intention of being pleased. Perhaps ; but one cannot help being struck by the fact that it is a great commercial centre and industrial city. The people, tall and strong as they are, contrast favorably with the diminutix e Japs. They all seem to feel that the city and China as a whole have a great future. I think so too and Fll back it against your Japan any day. At Hong Kong, where we arrived June 20, the plague was in progress and I never went ashore. From the deck of the shi[) I could see that the city was built in the form of a semicircle (it is on a little island) around a huge bay, whose waters ai-e absolutely coAered with ships of all nations. Very high hills ai-ise al- most from the edge of the bay and now and then I could see a car clind)ing up the steep grades. It was intolei'ably hot. and we quickly transferred to the ''Zatiro" — the ''Sibeiia" did not go to Manila — and sailed the same aftei-noon. So much for China. On the little -lOOO-ton "Zafiro" every one was seasick excei)t about four of us. The voyage across the China Sea was vei'v rough ; we struck a typhoon, or rather the tail end of one, and the water poured over the deck with every wave. We landed, June 2'3, in Manila. Seriously, I think the University of the I'hilippines can be conn^ared, not to its disadvantage, to our universities. You must remembei", howeA er. that it was not formally recognized by the GoNernment until January, 1911, when an act was passed authorizing the Governor General to establish a university in Manila or "at the point he might deem most con- venient," the [)urpose of said university to be "to provide advanced instruction in literature, |)hilosophv, the sciences and arts and to gi\e professional and techni- cal education." (Co-eds are admitted. ) But befoi'e tliis time steps had already been taken along this line, in that a medical college had been established, the students being given an opportunity also of working in the large hospital here. In accordance with the aforesaid act, scA eral colleges were established, instruc- tors were gathered from the professions represented in the PhiH[ipines, and many were called from the United States. Great progress was made. There was trouble in getting buildings and men, making the curriculum, etc. Not to go into details, however, I'll say that at the present time there are in the university seven colleges: Liberal Arts, (215 pupils 1911-12); College of Medicine and Sur- gery, (56); Agricidture, (situated in Los Banos) (186); Veterinary Science, (14); Engineering, (11); Law, (154) ; School of Fine Arts, (801). There is a total of almost 1500 students. The professors and instructors number about 150, as nearly as I can discover. "^I'liey are all — with one excej^tion — well fitted for their work ; many have foui" oi' five titles tacked to the back of the name. Oui' catalogue contains 203 pages of good "doi)e." Now haven't you a better opinion of our university.'' All things considered it has made wonderful progress since its fouiid- ing. The students are mostly Filipinos. There are a few Chinos. There are as yet no white students, because these are sent to the States for instruction ; besides there is a prejudice on the social side IJUOWN ALFMNI MONTHLY 11 aj>aiiist the natix t's. 'V\\c students — mine at least, and thev are not I'xeeptions — are brii>lit, ea(>er to learn and industri- ous. They still have difficultv with the lan' alonn' the work of two of mv [>o()rest hovs. It is indeed xcrv bad, and perhaps I ouyht to show you some good themes first. liut I'll send this along now and in a few weeks, when long- themes are due, ril send a good exposi- tion to you. Don't think all the students are as bad as those w ho w rote the en- closed. (C'opioil Faithfiilly) "tHK OliUUX OF THE WOMAX." "After God had created the first man, Adam, he said to him : thou be the mas- ter of all other creatui'es, and thou shalt make thyself the possessor of all the joys on eai"th. Adam, inisatisfied by this pi-omise, replied. Lord, I would like to ha\ e a pai'tnei" with whom I should share these pleasures you give to me, and God answered, thou shall have it. Immedi- ately after this Adam fell asleep, and while he was sleeping God took from his side a flesh and put it on a table. Then a wild dog rushed in and cai'ried away the Hesh. God was \ery angry of the dog. So he took a bolo and ran after him. WHien God struck him with the bolo he liit and c-ut only his tail, and the dog ran on into the foi-est, leaving behind the tail, (rod picked it up and blessed it and so the first woman was made." A student, asked to w i-ite a theme on the \alue of punctuation goes about it as follows: (Quotes from Hrow n . . . . ) "Mow well manifests us IJi-own the \alue of punctuation in this definition ! The value of i)unctuation, said I.'' I don't mistake. Who makes that the reader may understand and read well a written or printed matter but the punctuation.^ AVho makes to distinguish the different pauses and infections in reading but the punctuation ! How can wc; divide the phrases, clauses, and sentences so that the begimiing, the end and the ligatures of all extent may be noted but by and with the punctuation.^ It is the groups of swans and herons on the lake ; the flowers of the walls of a hall ; the stars of the veil of the Night ; the boundaries and monuments of a land." And here is one more example : "My respectal)le teacher: "Do me this favor to allow me this my comi){)sition write in English and Si)anish. "And give me i)ardon by my this same com [Position that seem very poor. 'Aery respectfully "Your Scholar." PRESIDENT FAUNCE IN CHINA Fnnn (t Sh(tng'hai P((pci\ the China Press In the Palace Hotel last evening {Mar(;h'31) President Faunce of IJi-own University set himself, at a reception given in his honor by the American Woman's Club and the American Uni- \ersity Club, to answer four ([uestions of \ ital impoi'tance, not only to America, l)ut to every progressi\e country not for- getting China. The gathering included many distin- guished residents in the Far Last and President Faunce was introduced to those present by Dr. A^'ilder. The first (jues- tion to which the well-known education- alist addressed himself w as : "How do we produce xocational trade without destroying our old ideals of lib- eral culture.''" President Faunce said there were those who would give a man the three R's, others would teach him the trade he was about to end)race. He, the speaker, be- 12 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY lieved in technical schools, in the indus- trial, commercial and manual training- schools which they produced so w idel}' in America, but he believed also in certain things which were indispensable in life — habits, methods and ideals. He spoke of the Chinese who went to America for education and found that many went to be trained in hijobly spec- ialized courses. "It may be well," he said, "but China is going to need something more than highh' specialized skill. She will need men to see the whole horizon, need some- thing more than foremen at the head of a machine shop ; she must ha\ e men of understanding, men who know political economy, government administration ; men of breadth. He ho})ed China would send men with a capacity for gi"o\\ th, to take from America what John Hav got out of his life, what W. H. Taft," what T. Roose- velt and what Woodrow ^^'ils()]l got out of theirs — a foundation foi' a magnificent career. The second point was : — "How to teach English to the rising- generation without making them hate English literature?" He pointed out that forcing- the study of English literature as key to the ad- mittance to a university was a mistake; a mistake not connnitted in England ; and he (juoted an Oxford professor who said : "Good English is like good manners; it is acquired not by drill but simply by association with those who have it." "There is no other way in which vou really come to love literature," said Mr. Eaunce, "except by association with those who really do love it." The third point was : "How can we teach morality witln)ut the inculcation of philosophy or theolog- ical doctrine or dogma?" "I must find the solution in personal- ity," he answered, and then went on to speak of the values of teachers, who he hinted were underpaid in America, and dwelt upon the value of the teacher's personality as the answer to the question. The last point was : "How can we secure the natural lead- ers of oiu- generation to be the teachers of our boys and girls?" He answered: "We have got to pay as much for teaching as we pay foi' cooking, or dressmaking. A\"e have got to seize the best men of the universities." He finally spoke of China, the pi-ogress she was making and the enormous re- sponsibility of Western {)eoples in that development. "There are magnificent possibilities in the Orient under the guidance of Amei*- ican leaders," concluded the speaker. A COLLEGE PRESIDENT ATMOSPHERE History is always being made in the executive offices, and now President Wil- son is the central figure, making- chapters in it, says a writer in the Boston Record. He goes about it in a very businesslike manner. He is practicalh' all over his main office. He prefers not to sit in the presidential chair when consulting with visitors whose errands ought to be brief. He usually stands leaning or half-sitting on his large table. Visitors are thus made to feel that they are not "visit- ing." And the President knows ad- miralily how to end interviews. The ar- rangement is that except on special oc- casions while one set of \ isitors is inter- \ iewing the President another set is near at hand ready for the same purpose. The President listens intently but when he thinks he has had enough he begins those tokens bringing the interview to an end and yet nobody can in the least take of- fense. The President also is very quick in his speech. "Tumulty, Tumulty?" he will say in staccato as he int^uires for his sec- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 13 retarv. He also is punctual in all things and wants those who have appointments with him to he as punetual. Interviews and rece})tions hegin on the dot. So the new President is getting' thi'oui>li an im- mense mass of work in record time. The (lav does not slop over. Tliere is also in the executive offices somewhat of a col- lege air. Mayl)e the presidents of col- leges make a recognizable type as do law- yers, physicians and the like. Presideid Wilson gives an impression of a person- ality at the White House that is very distinct. Nothing like it has ever been seen theiv l)ef()i'e. Anyone, however, wJio has met President Hadley of Vale and Lowell of Hai'xai'd and l)i'. Lliot, president emeritus of Harvard, at once recognizes the atmosphere. And Presi- dent \\'ilson not only in mannei" })ut in apjiearance reminds one \erv much of Dr. Eliot. THE BROWN VARSITY BATTERY I — EDWIN 1,AVKS. "Ki Pitcher CAPTAIN WALTER HENRY SNELL, "13 Catc-her THE BEAR'S DEN The promoters of the "Bear's Den" sent out lately the following circular : The plans are complete ; the start made; the.finish rests with you. Is '"The Bear's Den" to be a i-eality, or is it to be a mere dream? The answer is yours to make. Perhaps vou don't know what we are talking about. That is the very reason we are talking. We are talking because there should be no matters touching- Brown which are not known to all Brown men in Providence, whether they be fac- ulty members, trustees, alunnii or under- graduates. For sevei'al months it has been borne in upon some of us that Bi-own men in ProN idence have less collective interest in the college and get less collective enjoy- ment out of the college and their associ- ations with it than any group of Brown men in the country. It is almost unbe- lievable that the home of Brown has no Brown alunmi association. But we are not forming a Brown alumni association. The thing as we saw it demanded, not an association of alunnii, but a place where all Brown men, young and old, could associate together. To that end we have planned for the place vou see illustrated. That place is to be on South Main street, just at the foot of the hill. It is to be a rendezvous for Brown men with nothing better to do. It is to be a place where there is always a congenial companion ; a place with a piano and a song ; a place where the fire burns bright on the hearth ; a place where is a bite to eat and a bit to drink — in a word it is to be a miniature inn and a democratic club, if you make it possible. The undersigned alunnii have joined the club, or inn, or whatever you choose to call it. The undergraduates are en- thusiastic, the faculty willing. We need 500 members no make it a go from the start. That's the reason the whole thing is up to you. Are you going to join.!^ Is it worth $5.00 a 3"ear to you to have a place where you know you can always meet Brown men and learn what is going on in your college world.'' Is it worth $5.00 a year to you to help generate the spirit that we feel the college needs .'' Is it worth $5.00 a year to you to have a place in which and the men with whom to talk things over before and after the game.'' Is it woi'th $5.00 a year to you to begin to be a real Brown man.^ Immediate ac- tion is necessary if we are to give the big house warming we hope to give at Com- mencement time. You are on some member's list. Don't make that mem- ber look you up personally. Send in the enclosed card at once to Irving O. Hunt, Grosvenor Building, Providence. Get on the band wagon on the thing Brown needs as badly as she needed a million dollars. AVe've liragged a lot about Brown spirit. NOW SHOW IT. (Here follow the names of 115 Brown men. At last accounts the list had in- creased to nearly 300. The place chosen is the entire third floor at 21 South Main street, and it is expected that the Bear's Den will be open on and after June 14.^ COMMENCEMENT NOTES The baccalaureate sermon will be preached on Sunday. June 15. Monday will be Class Day. The hterary exercises will be held " "under the elms" at S.3() p. m. Tuesday will be Ivy Day at the Women's College. Wednesday will be Commencement Day. The speakers at the church will be: Harold Alden Grout. East Bridgewater, Mass.; Louis Israel Newman, Prov- idence; John Kent Starkweather, Denver, Col.; William Matthew Sullivan, Fall River, Mass. At the exercises in Sayles Hall, in addition to the President of the University and the Governor U of the State, the speakers will be Hon. Edward Douglass White. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Alexander Meiklejohn. President of Amherst College. Pro- fessor John Howard Appleton. "63 will preside. The usual preparations are in progress for the fraternity teas and other social functions of Class Day. Among the principal events of the week will be the Tuesday evening alumni dinner at the Gym., referred to in detail elsewhere. Alumni should make a special eifort to be pres- ent. Already 100 acceptances are in hand. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 15 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Publislied for tin- Graduates of Brown University by thf Brown Alumni Magazine Co. RoBKHT P. BuowN, Trkas.. Pro\ iik-ncc-. H. 1. ADVISORY BOAKD William VV. Keen, '59. Pliiladelpliia. Henry K. Porter. "60. Pittsburgh. Francis Lawton. '69, New York. Robert P. Brown. "71. Providence. William V. Kellen. "Ti, Boston. William Iv Foster. '7.i. Providence. Zechariali Chafee. 's(l. Providence. Gardner Colby, 'HI. New York. Joseph N. Ashton, '91, Salem. William R. Dorman, '9i, New York. George A. Gaskill, '98, Worcester. Hknkv Robinson Pai.mku. '90. Editor. Haukv Ia'man Kooi'MAN. Associatt' Editor. Howard M. Chavin, "(W. Business Manager. Address all communications to the Brown Alumni Monthly. Brown I'niversity. Providence, R. 1 Subscription, .*1,0() a Year, Sins'le Copies, Ki cents. There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post-office as second-class matter. JUNE, 1913 The Bi-o\\ n Alumni Monthly cannot imder- take to return manuscripts sent to it for publica- tion, unless they are ac-<-ompanied by sufficient postage. 'TIS THIRTEEN YEARS SINCE It is difficult to realize that with this number the Brown Alunnii Monthly en- ters upon its fourteenth volume. In June, 1900, the first number of the mag- azine was issued — it consisted of eight pages and a cover ; now the regular num- ber comprises forty pages, including the cover and eight pages of advertising. In spite of the increased size and cost of production, the price of subscription has has been kept at one dollar, the original figures. The managers have preferred from the start to appeal to the largest possible audience, and with that end in view have retained the old price. We trusl it may be adhered to indefinitely. To meet the demands of our subscrip- tion list, it is now necessary to print 2800 copies a month, of which a few are kept to preserve our files and to be bound into cloth volumes. Any reader of the Monthly who desires to own a complete file of the magazine from the beginning or to present such a file to a school or li- brary should communicate with Mr. Chapin, our business manager. We have a few full sets on hand. It is probably safe to say that nowhere else could be found in a similar compass anything like so varied and full a history of Brown University and record of its graduates in the interval fi-om 1900 to 1913. The l)ictures alone that the magazine has published in these thirteen years form a remarkable collection. On recurring to the files we are ourselves often surprised at the scope and interest of these many hundreds of illu.strations. Naturally thev vary in worth, but as a whole thev com- prise a collection that the future historian and student of the University will find invaluable. It may not be generally known that the l^ni versify Library jiossesses a card index of the Monthly from 1900 to the present day. We have ourselves fre- (luently taken ad\antage of this index and suggest to any graduate or friend of Brown who wishes to recall some event or personal matter of the last thirteen years connected with the college that there is no better way than to consult it. The number of its titles must be high in the thousands. We think we are as conscious as our readers are of the defects of the maga- zine ; perhaps we are sometimes unneces- sarily conscious of them. The editor knows that from the time he sends, in any given month, the copy to the printer until the printed and bound magazine rests in his hand he sees the material in one or another shape so i-epeatedl}- and is compelled to scan it so closely that it loses for him much of its original interest and value. He remembers once on a time that when he left Pro\idence for a vacation his friend Ashton, then the as- sociate editor, issued the number instead ; and when that number came to the ed- itor's hands it appeared to be of excep- tional scope and ^ariety. Now it may be that Ashton made it unusually good ; he certainly worked hard on it. But the editor likes to think it was just about an 16 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ordinarv nnnibev, and that its peculiar interest for him arose from the fact that he had little to do with the making- of it. In much the same way a woman likes to dine out now and then l)ecause she has had nothing to do with the preparation of the meal. In this connection (though Professor Poland once told the editcn- that that phrase had been worked to death) let us quote a letter from an alunmus whom the editor does not personally know. It is so kindlv that it helps to restore the ed- itorial equipoise. The writer says, re- ferring* to the desirablity of placing the magazine in preparatory schools : "I have reviewed many of my back files of the Ahuiini Monthly and have come to the conclusion that it j>resents no 'weak spots" which need be hidden from the schoolboy. In fact I believe it is Brown's best advertisement, potentially, at the present time and if extensively circulated will bring us many students. ... If you will let me know what schools an- alreaily receivin"- co))- ies I can proceed accordingly. I need data; ha\ e promised it to the New York alunmi. . . We have been endea\oring to find out m hat tiie other colleges have bei'n doing. \\\- \r,\\v been studying their metiiods and as a result while we do not entirely apj)rove the keen competition of the present situation, we realize that we have got to hustle or fall behind. Consequently we are beginning to hustle." We ought to add that we have enjoyed our thirteen years of association with the alumni. It has helped to keep our in- terest in the college keen and constant, has made us many new friendships and has strengthened many old ones. We ha\e seen the college and its graduates come nearer together, attain to a better understanding of each other and become of a larger nuitual usefulness. What the next thirteen years may bring forth, the gods only know. IJut we trust the Alumni Monthly will be serving an e\en greater constituency in 1926. It could not serve a more loyal one. COLLEGE IN PERSPECTIVE The painter, as he lays on his colors, is continually stepping back to study their effect from a distance. Othei'wise, in spite of his efforts, he could not tell what the final result would be. He really puts himself, while his work is in pro- gress, in the position of the public, which is to see his woi'k from a distance, and among which he will find his critics and must find, if at all, his friends. Just such a perspective is afforded to the teachers and students of a college by the summer vacation. The teacher now sees his work perforce as a part of a composite whole, and no longer as an independent unit, which alone he is tempted to regard it during the stress of the term. If he is in danger of thinking his subject, his department, the only one, he has but to put himself outside the college walls, in the midst of the busy, indifferent public, with its amazing remoteness from aca- demic interests, to see college activities in their true perspective, and so to re- turn to his work with a renewed sense of it as a (lai't of an educational whole. He is likely also to bring witii him a renewed sense of its importance derived from a fresh contact with the need of academic ideals in the world at large. Though the student be no more thoughtful than his years would imply, he too can hardly escape receiving a les- son when he goes back for the summer into the world which he thought he was leaving for a while to go to college, but which he now finds touched with strange- ness as if the college world were after all his home. Distance shows him either for the first time or increasingly what that secpiestered, busy, hai^py life on the hill means to him. He had not seen it all while he was in it. If he has the right basis of character, he will recog- nize more justly his own place in that eager activity, both intellectual and so- cial, and the true values of the manifold interests on the campus that clamor for his time and energies. Einding himself tem{)orarily back in the world of toil, he is reminded that his years in the world of preparation are few and fleeting, that ere long he must join this array of strug- gling humanity, and he can hardly return BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 17 to colleo'e without a (letci'inination to make a worthier use of the time that re- mains to him under academic shelter. The Alumni Monthly is addi-essed pri- marily to a public which has for four years known the collei^e near at hand, but now sees it in perspective. Li this remoteness, which the years inevitably increase, there is little dang-er to love and its attendant loyalty, except thi-out^h the jO'reater dani^er to completeness of un- derstanding'. In a real sense the college which each alunmus knows ceased with his graduation. The next year broui;ht it a tinye of difference, which succeedino- years have only deepened. Therefoi'e jiidj^ments based on that thoroufih knowl- edge which the j;raduate feels that he has rei-ardino- his own college mav be sound for the past, but unsafe for the transformed present. The duty of the o-raduate. therefore, is the ()p|)osite of that which falls to the active member of the college. He should seek occasion to shorten his perspective, to gain a fresh view of the college from near at hand, if [possible from within. Let him come back to Connnencement. come back at other times if he can, but certainly in the week of the third A\'ednesday in June. That week is now just upon us. Then let lirunonia's fireside become the golden milestone for all her widely scat- tered famih- ! TOPICS OF THE MONTH THK NKW HISTORICAL CATA1X)GUE The pi-inting of the new Histoi'ical Catalogue has already begun. Oidy one notice will be sent to each graduate foi" data, and it is necessary that rei)lies be made very promptly in order that the in- formation may be recei\ed in time for publication and the printed record thus be brought up to date. Louise P. Bates, Keeper of Graduate Records. •'COLLEGE NIGHT"' DANCE. A successful dance was held in the Brown Union on the evening of May fii'st as the weekly college night event. The dance was conducted by the mend^ers of the Senior and So})hom()re classes in con- junction with the Union management. There was a good attendance and dancing- was enjoyed from 8.30 until nearly 12 o'clock with a shoi't intei'mission for i"e- freshments. The lower floors of the l^nion Iniild- ing were attractively arranged for the occasion. Palms were placed in the tro- phy room, at the front of which the chairs of the patronessess were placed. Mrs. Otis K. Randall, Mrs. John T. Walker, Mrs. OrmsbeeT. Farnham, Mi-s. Louis K. Robinson, Mrs. Albert K. Pot- ter and Mrs. Courtney Langdon acted as })atronesses. BRO\N'N BANQUET The amiual l?i-own l)an([uet, or dinner in honor of the sulj-Freshnian visitors to the college, took place on Saturday eve- ning, April 26, and as Brown had roundly Ijeaten Princeton on the dia- mond in the afternoon the event was par- ticularly cheerful. There wei-e some 300 diners and Professor Green was toast- master. The speakers, as given in the May Monthly, were all on hand, and the evening was thoroughly enjoyable to the large assemblage. JUNIOR WEEK Junior week was auspiciously observed May 21 -24. The attendance was good and the circus. Pi Kappa farce, Sock and Buskin play, concert, Junior Promenade and other events on the programme were successfulh' carried out. 11 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY A TALK BY THE CHANCELLOR In AVilson Hall recently, Chancellor Arnold B. Chace of the I^niversitv gave an informal talk to members of the fac- ulty and advanced students of the Math- ematical Department on hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic writing, with es- pecial reference to the oldest known mathematical hand-book, the so-called Rhind Papvrus, which dates from about 1700 B. C." Chancellor and Mrs. Chace have trans- lated about a third of this papyrus from a fac-simile copy of the original, which is in the British Museum. The hand- book deals with arithmetical and geomet- rical problems of everyday life. The talk was most interesting, and the mem- bers of the Mathematical Department feel themselves to be still further in the debt of the Chancelloi-, who has long- been an extremely generous benefactor of the library of the Mathematical Semiii- BROWNING PRIZE George Boas, *13, has won the first prize offered by the Boston Browning So- ciety for the two best papers presented on the subject, "Browning's Use of His Sources for Pom{)ilia and Caponsacchi, in The Ring and the Book." This conipetition was open to the men of Brown and the women of Jackson Col- lege, the women's college of Tufts. Miss E. Hazel Macy was the winner of the second prize. The papers were read by the writers at the twenty-ninth session of the Boston Bi'owning Society at the Hotel \ endome in Boston. BROWN 8, PRINCETON 1 With Kayrs in the box. Brown had no difficulty in defeating the strong Prince- ton team at Andrews Field on Saturday, April 26, Eayrs allowed the New Jer- sey players only five hits, while Brown made ten off" Wood, the ci'ack Princeton pitcher. Kayrs struck out fourteen men, while Wood fanned only five. There was a large attendance — -1000 — the dav being perfect and many sub-Freshmen present. The annual "Brown banquet"' took place in the evening. The score : Brown 2 (I 2 (» I -2 1 - S Prinrc'ton O 1 O- 1 Stolen bases. Crowtlier, Loud. Andrews. Reillv. Dukette. Pendleton. Two base hit. Rhoads. Three base hits. Reilly 2; Reed. Sae- rific-e iiits. Loud. Andrews. Doubii' plays. Loud. Andrews. Worthington. Gill and Rhoads. Struck out. Bv Eayrs 14; by Wood 5. Bases on balls. OfF Eayrs. 2; off Wood 8. Wild pitches. Wood. 2; Eayrs 2. Hit by pitchers. By Wood, (Crow- ther.) Eirst base on errors. Brown. 3; Princeton. 2. Left on bases. Brown. 11; Princeton 7. Errors, by Brown 2; by Princeton 3. Time of }ianie. Two hours. LTnipire. Mr. Egan. BROWN .'. YALE 4 Yale gave Brown her first defeat of the season on Andrews Field May 3 by a score of 4 to 2. Eayrs and Gile made it a pitchers' battle from the start, with the Yale man having the better of the argument. Eayrs was reached for nine hits, while Gile held Brown to i\xe fairly well scattered singles. Yale scored two runs in the eighth, after a bad throw b}' Crowther to Andrews. In the ninth Yale batsmen got to Eayrs for three singles and put ovei- two more tallies. The score: Yale 2 2-4 Brown o 1 (i 1 0- 2 Stolen bases. l,oud. Andrews. Snell, Schofield. Three-base hit. Riddell. Sacrifice hits. Crowther. Andrews. Punipelly. Double play, Tcwhill and Snell. Struck out. By Eavrs. 6; bv Gile 7. Bases on balls. Off Eayrs 3," off Gile, "3. Wild pitch. CtIIc. First base on errors. BroMu ]. Left on bases. Brown 7; Yale 8. Time of game. One hour and fifty-six minutes. Chnpires. Messrs. Egan and Byrne. Attendance. 7.000. LATER GAMES At Princeton, May 7, Brown defeated Princeton a second time ])y the score of 3 to 1, scoring all its runs in the last in- ning. Princeton's only score came in the seventh. Eayrs and Snell were the Brown liattei-y ; A\'()ods and ^^■ all were the battery for Princeton. Eayrs struck out four and only three hits were made off him. Brown made 10 hits off Wood. At New York on May 10 Brown had little difficulty in beating Manhattan by a score of 5 to 2 with Henr\ in the box. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 19 Rhode Island State was defeated at Andrews Field, May 14, 5 to 1, with Cram pitchiii<>' for Brown. Amherst was the next \ictim, at Am- herst on May 17, when ele\en innings were required for a lirown \ictory with Eayrs pitching. Yale won her 16th straight \ ictory of the season by beating lirown again at New Haven, May 21. Eayi-s pitched against Gile, as before. Brown scored four runs in the fii'st inning, A'et Yale won 6 to 4. A crowd of 6500, the larg- est of the year at Yale Field, saw the game. Brown made five hits, Yale nine. Eayrs struck out six, (lile nine. As the Monthly goes to press. May 29, Brown has won 14 games and lost two. Yale has also lost two — to Penn- sylvania and Williams. BASEBALL SCHEDULE The University baseball schedule is an attractive one, with a total of 23 games, of which 17 are listed foi- Providence. Sat., April 3, Tufts Medford 3- Wed. , " 9, Manhattan, . . Proviilence 8- -7 Tues. , •• 15. Prov. League, . 7- Wed. , •■ 16. Wesleyan, rain Sat.. '• 19, Colgate, . . " 14- •2 Wed. , " ^23, New Hampshire. " 12- 2 Sat.. •' 26. Princeton. " 8- 1 Wed. . " 30. Vermont. . 10- 8 Sat.. May 3. Yale 2- 4 Wed. T . Prineeton. . . Princeton 3- 1 Sat.. ■■ 10. Manhattan, . New York 5- 2 Wed. . •• U. R. I. State. . . Providence 5- 1 Sat.. •• 17, Amherst, . . Amherst 12- 8 Wed. , " !21, Yale, . . . , , New Haven l- 6 Sat., " 24, Amherst, . . Providence rain Wed. , " 28, Holy Cross, . . '• 6- 2 Fri.. •• 30, Harvard. . " 9- 4 Sat.. •• 31. Coibv 8- 2 Wed. .June 4. Tufts Sat... 7. Harvard. . . . . Cambridge Fri., '• 13. Pennsylvania. . Providence Sat.. •• U. Holy Cross, . . Worcester Wed. . •• 18. Alumni. " B. C. A. DISCUSSIONS The religious activity of Brown stu- dents at present is centred ui)on the series of weekly discussions being con- ducted by the Bi-own Christian Associa- tion. These discussions are upon pres- ent day problems in religion, ethics, col- lege life and social relationships, and are led by mend)ers of the Browni facult}', a graduate student, a senior and a Provi- dence minister. The discussions are in informal groups, and attendance is purely voluntary. The list of topics, with the leaders of tlie six groups lately started, are as follows: "College Problems," by Norman S. Taber, '13; "The Relation of Biological Science and Religious Truth," by Professoi- Philip II. Mitch- ell of the liiologv Depai'tment ; "The Api)lication of Jesus" I'eaching to Mod- ern Society," by Dr. Earle B. Cross of the Biblical Literature Department ; "Re- ligious Prol)lems of College ]\Ien,'' by Professor J. M. Motley of the Economics Department; "The Life of Jesus,'" by Rev. G. Glenn Atkins, D. D. of Provi- dence; "Problems of a College Man,"" hy Mark Mohler, Graduate Student. HISTORICAL SOCIETY Fully one-half of all the existing ma- terial, in print and in manusci'ipt, which endjodies the history of Rhode Island is preserx ed by the Rhode Island Historical Society. No other state possesses in a single library so complete a collection of its historical annals, relating to every phase of the state's development, from its beginnings to all the activities of the present day. This material is housed in a building which is far from fire-proof, and the risks to which it is exposed have been a con- stant anxiety to those responsible for the acti\ e work of the Society. Se\eral at- tempts have been made to reduce this danger, })ut all have l^een makeshifts and unsatisfactory. The most practical and economical plan is to shut off one wing of the build- ing bv a fire-wall with a single door, re- l)uild the roof, and i)ut in steel flo(.)rs and book-stacks. This will pro\ ide a safe place in which to keep all the Rhode Island books, manuscri[)ts, and newspa- pers, besides increasing the present ca- 20 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY pacitv of the building nearly one-third. Plans and estimates have been secured bv the Committee on Grounds and Build- ings, consisting of Hon. C'hai'les Dern Kinil)all, Dr. Eugene P. King, and Mr. Henrv T. Grant. These have been sub- mitted to insurance authorities, and meet with their approval. The necessary changes will cost $15,000. The Society has .$53,800 invested funds, nearly all of which was gi\en as an endowment and cannot be drawn upon for building purposes. The money to pay for these changes must come from special gifts. VARIOUS MATTERS Norman S. Tabei" of the Senior class at Brown, who took part in the Olympic games, was the speaker at the monthly reception given by St. George's Men's Club in the parish house at Central Falls, April 28. There was a large gathering of the members in attendance. With the aid of the stereopticon Mr. Taber showed a number of pictures taken during the trip to the scene of the games and also a number of photographs taken while the games were in progress. ■ Ex-Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island, a member of the Board of Trustees of the l^niversity, is at {^resent living at Paris. Mrs. Si)rague, who was in Providence early last month, reports the Governor in \ery good health and says he will probaljly make a trip to America soon. Tho Yale Freshmen beat the Brown Freshmen 7-4 at Andrews Field, April 25. The visitors made a rally in the ninth inning which netted them three runs. The Brown Freshman nine i^eat the Harvard 2nd at Cambridge, May 3, by a score of 6 to -3, The Brown battery was Sullivan, pitch, and Dick catch, Brown made eleven hits to four by Har- vard. E. W. Hincks, '15, the champion gymnast of the University, has been re- elected captain of the gymnastic team. and E. H. Walker, "14, has been chosen manager. W. H. Mellor, ex- '99, is coach for the Freshman nine Brown won second place at the New England track and field meet. Dart- mouth was first. The Senior Ball this year drew over 150 couples to Sayles Hall. The silver loving cup which is pre- sented by Henry G. Clark '07, to the Freshman who completes gvnniasium work on time and who makes the highest total points in the test consisting of nine events, was won last term by P. P. Hill, '16, who netted a total of 573 points. Sock and Buskin has given its 1913 play, "Facing the Music," on recent dates at Butler Hospital, Westerlv and Warren, R. I., White Plains, N"! Y., Mansfield, Mass., and Peace Dale, R. L, as well as at the Colonial Theatre, on the regular Junior Week date. The play has gone smoothly and proved popular. Brown beat Wesleyan in a track meet at Andrews Field, May 10, 68 to 58. Syracuse had previously administered a bad defeat to Brown. Elections to the Phi Beta Kappa are : From 1913 — Abbott, Arnold, Boas, Crum, Gould, High, Koopman, Kulp, Philbrick, Roberts, Reynolds. From 1914 — Everett, Foote, Forward. Mc- Govern, Nash, Preston, Reynolds. The Sophomores won the Hicks de- bate. May 13. The team consisted of Workman, Needham and Baruch. The individual prizes went to Needham, '15, first ; and Morrill, '14, and McGovern, '14, second. The trophy room at the Bi'own Union has been rearranged. The footballs that lined the walls have for the most part been displaced by the balls won in the last two years, and the baseballs are to be repainted, rearranged and added to. The l^niversitv has received as a gift from Fi-ank E. Bliss, '68, of London, a remarkable collection of over 2500 Amer- ican street ballads, many of them relat- ing to the period of the Civil War. THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR WARD Lester Fnink \\';ircl, professor of soeiolofiv in Brown I'niversity for the last seven yi-ars. died in Wasliinjiton Ajiril IK. 191;}. He suffered from ;in attaek cf "rip during' the winter, but had held his eiasses until the Easter recess, when he went to Washinji-on as the guest of his sister. He was there taken with the heart trouble whieh caused his death. He was born in Joliet. 111.. June IH. 1H4-1. the son of Justus and Silence ( Kol])li) Ward. His early education was obtained in Joliet and in Iowa, his fatlu-r being a pioneer and changing his residence frequently. His last two years of training were in the academy at Towanda, Pa. While he was there the Civil War broke out. and. in ]8(r2. he entered the army, staying until the close of the war. He threw himself with his whole soul into the si'rvice and was always at the front during battle. At Chancellorsville he DR. WARD IN THE CIVIL WAR received a wound in tin- thigh from which he suffered more or less to the day of his death. He remained in Washington after the "Grand Review" and in lS(i,5 was apjjointed chief of the Division of Navigation and Inunigration in the LTnited States Treasury Department, and soon afterward received the additional appointment of assistant librarian of the Bureau of Statistics. Despite his official work he enrolled in Colum- bian University, receiving the degree of A. B. from that institution in 18(i9. He continued his studies in the law department and received the degrees of LL. B.. in 1871 and A. M. in 1873. also the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1897. L'ntil 18S1 he continued his studii-s. specializing in botany. \\'hiie doing this he spent the sum- mer of 187.5 in the Wahsatc-h Mountains. luaking a collection of plants and woods for the Centen- nial Exposition. During this time he married Miss Rosamond Pierce Simons, daughter of Darius and Mary (Caswi'll) .Simons of northern New York. They had no children. In 18Sl he was Tuaile assistant geologist of the LTnited States Geological Survey, a post" which he hi'ld for two years, when he became geologist, and. in 189,?. paleontologist. He held this last post until 19(1(5. when he resigned it to accept the professorship of Sociology at Brown L^niversity. He also held minor jjositions during the same time, being professor of Botany at Columbian University 1884.-8(> and curator of Botany and Fossil Plants in the United States National Mu- seum. He was a fellow of the American Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science, of the An- thropological. Biologic-al and Geological Societies of Washington, of the American Philosoj)hical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, tlu' Americ-an Economic Associa- tion, the International Geological Congress, and the International Institute of Sociology. This last society is composed of 100 members, only seven of whom are from America. Professor Ward was not only a member, but in 1903 presi- dent. After he came to Brown Dr. Ward endeared himself to all of the undergraduates with whom he came in contact. He frequently took long walks and talked with students, and he was al- ways ready and willing to do everything he could to help a student in difficulty. The room in Cas- well Hall where he lived for the past four years was a frequent gathering place for students in- terested in sociology. The Liber of 1912 was dedicated to him in these words: "To Professor Lester Frank Ward, LL. D.. whose ability and attainments rank him with the great men of our day. and whose personal inter- est in and kindness to his jjupils will ever keep him dear to their memory, this ,5tth volume of the Liber Brunensit is nuwt affectionati-ly dedi- cated. "' As a writer. Prof. Ward was very prolitic. hav- ing published over 500 books, pamphlets. ;ind es- says. At the present time his minor papers are being- reprinted in twelve \olunies. imder the ti- tle of "Glimpses of the Cosmos." The first vol- ume was i^laced in his hand the day bi'fore he died. He has been a contributor to botanical journals and the publications of the Laiited States Geological Survey, and was one of the collabo- rators of the Centiu-y Dictionary. Among his books are: "Dynamic Sociology." two volumes. 1883, Mhich made him famous; "The Pyschic Factors of Civilization." 189-i; "Outlines of Soci- ology," 1898; "Textbook of Soc-iology," in col- laboration with Professor James Q. Dealey, 1905; "Pure Sociology." 1903, regarded as his Ki't''itest work; and "Applied Soc-iology." 1906. Some of these books wiM-e translated into for- eign tongues, three of them into Russian, but the first of these, "Dynamic Sociology," was sup- pressed by the consors and the Polish translation of the same book was also suppressed. 21 THE BOOK SHELF A DISTINGUISHED PROVIDENCE PUBLICATION Three years ago General Hawkins published his monumental Catalogue of tiie books by the first printers contained in the memorial building- dedicated to the memory of his wife. This cata- logue was prepared by one of the greatest of liv- ing bibliographers. Mr. Alfred W. Pollard of the British Museum. He has now issued a compan- ion, though smaller, volume, which does for the remarkable collection of paintings in the Memo- rial what the earlier volume did for the books. Mr. Baker, who came over from the National Gallery to catalogue the paintings, has no su- perior in his field, and in his introduc-tions to the work of the different artists, and in his ilesc-rip- tions of the paintings, he ii;is rendered a service to students of painting everywhere as well as to those within the walls of the Memorial itself. It gives us pleasure to record the appearance of this piece of sound art lore, and at the same time to remind the alumni of Brown of the great art treasures which have recently been made ac- cessible to residents of Providence and visitors to the city. No graduate who returns at com- mencement should fail to visit the marvellous collection of early printed books and paintings in the granite building just south of the campus on Brown street. Paintings in oil and water colours by early and modern painters, collected by Rush C. Hawkins, catalogued by C. H. Collins Baker, and depos- ited in the Annmary Brown Memorial at Provi- dence, Rhode Island. Printed for the owner by the Medici Society, Ltd. London, 1913. xi, S3 pages. A NEW BOOK BY PROFESSOR MACDONALD Into this volume of 30,000 words Professor MacDonald has compressed the political history of the LInited States for the years 1813 to 186o". He presents in clear outlines the growth of the constitution, the development of political parties, and the progress of the slavery controversy. The book is readable in spite of its condensation, and is well fitted to serve the purposes of a conspectus. From Jefferson to Lincoln, by William Mac- Donald. New York, Henry Holt and Company. (Home University Library.) 356 pages. Price 30 cents. FROM THE BIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT Three tiny but interesting publications have recently emanated from the Biological Depart- ment. Two are by Professor Walter; one is en- titled "What is Eugenics?" It is a folder and its contents form a copy of the panels exhibited at the Providence Child Welfare Exhibit last Jan- uary. The next is entitled "Ornithological Who's Who for Rhode Island." It is a booklet of fourteen pages and gives a list of birds identi- fied in the State, according to Howe and Sturte- vant's "The Birds of Rhode Island,"" with tlie orders arranged according to Gadow's classifica- tion. The third is by Professor Gorham, and bears the title: "Sujjerior Rhode Island Oysters."" It was ilistributeil by the Rliode Island Oyster Growers Association at the Providc-nce Domestic Science and Pure Food Exhibition in February, BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR Faculty Professor Munro, at the April meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, read a paper on "The most Successful Privateer, an Episode of the War of 181-2."" He repeated the paper in May before the Genealogical and Biographical Society of New York city. A practical course in diseasi-s common to trees and to those of Rhode Island in particular is be- ing given for this semester by former Professor J. Franklin Collins, now resident forest pathol- ogist of the United States Bureau of Plant In- dustry. In addition to lectures, the course in- cludes a series of trips into the woods, where the tree diseases may be studied at first hand. The aims of the f ourse are plac-ed under four heads: First, fungi and how they produce diseases; sec*- ond, crown gall; third c-hestnut tree bark dis- 22 eases; fourth, methods of studying diseases of fir trees. The Providenc-e Journal devoted over a page of its Sunday issue for April 20 to an illustrated ac- coimt of Professor Gorham"s campaign against mosquitoes in Providence. President Faimce spent the month of April in China. Hi- left there for Japan and sailed for home from Yokohoma May 17. He will reach here in time for Commencement. Professor Harkness spoke before the men"s class of the First Baptist church. Providence, Sunday, May 4., on "The Religion of the An- cient Romans.'" Professor Harkness discussed their primitive belief; the influence of the East; the superstitious beliefs of the lower classes and the ethical systems of the educated order at the time of Christ, and the contrast between the pa- gan systems and Christianity. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 23 Alumni Harvey Day Walker, who was the last surviving' iiiember of the elass of 184-3, died at his home at Shieksiiinny. Pa.. August 27. 191-2. He was born at Prineeton. Mass.. April -30, 1817. the son of Rev. John and Euniee M. Walker. He pre- pared for eoliege at the Worcester High School. He was jirincipal of Millbury Academy. .Mass.. Madison Academy. Pa., the preparatory depart- ment of Huc'knell University and otlu-r institu- tions in Pennsylvania. He married April -J. 184.^. b'.lecta Brown Bates. He is survived by four children. He wrote M'alker's Elements of Graiu- mar. Bookkeeping by Single Entry, and a series of arithmetics, 184-5 Rev. James Carter Seagrave died in Hinsdale. Mass.. April -i-i. IHIS. after a short illness. His mind was clear to the last. He had just entered ills ninetv-third year, having been born at Ux- bridge. Mass.. April 14-. 18-21. He was the son of John and Mary (Scott) Seagrave. He was prejjared for college at the Uxbridge Classical Scliool. He was graduateil at the Andover The- ological Seminar\ in 1849. and was ordained in 18.il. He was pastor of the Fifth Congregational chin-ch. Provitlence. from December. 18,51. to the end of 18,),S. His other pastorates were in Roc-h- ester. N. H., 18.S4-.5o; Bridgewater, Mass.. 18,57- (;.5; Wentworth. X. H.. 18(i,5-7(); Marshfield. .Mass.. 1870-74-; Haverhill. Mass.. 1874-78; Otis. Mass.. 1878-84; Peru. Mass.. 1884-90. His resi- dence was at Hinsdale. Mass., from 1884 until the end of his life. He served on the school boards of Rochester. Bridgewater. Haverhill and Hinsdale. He married. March 4, 1830, Martha l^lizabeth Clark of Pro\ idence. He married again. Oct. S. 18.59. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Clark, by whom he had two c-hildren. Mary Caroline and Walter Bryant. 1854 Stephen A. Jencks. ex-"o4, dietl in Bai-rington. R. I.. A})ril 17. ;iged 79 years. 18,5h- .\ dispatch from Washington under date of April 25 says: The United States, as owner of the Panama canal, has the right to tix such terms ;is it pleases and the neutrality of the waterway applies to its uses only and not the United States. This was the view expressed to-day by Ric-hard Olney, former secretary of state, whose speec-h was read before a meeting of the American So- ciety ot- International Law. Mr. Olney did not attend. Mr. Olney added that "where the meaning: can be taken to favor the United States, it is the clear right of the United States to urge that it be held that the words ".Ml X;itions" do not include the United States. If the question is submittetl to ;irbitration it should not be sub- mitted to the Hague but to a special tribunal. The Hague would be partial, as admittedly all European powers are interested in the outc-omc."" Lewis Nixon of New York agreed with Mr. Olney that the ownership of the canal gave the United States the right to make such rules ;is it saw fit and that such ownership excluded this country from the {)ro\isions of existing^ treaties reg;arding- '"all nations."' 1857 Hon. Samuel C. Eastman of Concord, \. H.. was one of those who addressed the Econonuc- Club of Brockton, Mass., April -28, on efficiency n tlu- administration of justice. 1858 Dr. Joseph Henry Gilmore. emeritus profes.sor of rhetoric and English at the LTniversity of Rochester, was given a dinner on the evening of April -29. by the Men's Club of the Park .Vvenue Bajjtist church. Rochester, \. Y., in celebration of his 79th anniversary. Dr. Gilmore is the au- thor of several well-known text books and several hymns, the best known of which is '"He Leadeth Me."" On account of his keen wit and his close sympathy with the students. Dr. Gilmore was among the two or three most popular professors that ever taught at the LTniversity of Rochester. Dr. Rush Rhees, President of the University, bore testimony to this fact in his addre.ss at the anniversary dinner. At the conclusion of the speeches Dr. Gilmore was presented with a large bouquet of roses by the women of the church. 1859 Dr. Adoniram B. Judson has issued '•Medical libraries. IX . 19I.S."" a pami)hlet of eight pages in which thi' chief medical liliraries of the world are listed, each with its mail .address, the name of its librarian and the number of its bound vol- umes. 1862 Rev. Henry F. Colby, D. D., who for thirty- five years was pastor of the First Baptist chm-eh in Dayton. O.. has been for more than six months a patient in the sanitarium at Battle Creek. Mich. During a portion of this time he was very ill. He has passed through two surgical opera- tions, the second on April l(i. He is now mak- ing good progress toward rec-overy. During the recent great flood at Dayton, in his absence, there were ten feet of water on the first floor of his home, but his family escaped safe and well. 18(« General William Ames of Providence has sailed on the Olympic from New York for Europe and the Indies. 18()4 Henry Hall Judson. ex-*()4. was baptized by his younger brother. Rev. Dr. Edward Judson, '65. recently at the Memorial church. Borough of Manhattan, New York. He enlistetl in a New York regiment when a junior in Williams college, where he had gone after a year. 18()0-t)l, in Brown, and was permanently disabled in the engag-e- mcnts before Petersburg, ^'irg■inia. He resided for se\'eral years in Illinois, in other years he has divided the time between Cape Cod and Florida. He had ne\ er before joined any church. These tMo. Avith an elder brother, Adoniram Brown Judson, *59, a physician, are the only surviving I'hildren of the missionary, Adoniram Judson, 1807. 1865 Hon. Charles Warren Lippitt at the recent an- nual uu-eting of the Provideni-e Marine Corps of 24 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ArtilU'i-y presented m historie sketch of the corps (liiriii>i- tlie 11'.' years of its existence. 1866 Chancellor A. B. Chace gave a lecture in Wil- son Hall. April IS. on Egyptian mathematics as represented by the Papyrus Rhind. The annual Report of the Worcester County l^aw Library for H)12-IS has for its frontispiece an engraved copy of an oil portrait of Judge Francis A. Gaskili presented to the library in 1910. Charles C. Kneisley died in Guthrie, Okl.. af- ter a long illness which terminated in acute Brighfs disease April 11. 191S. He was born at Dayton. C)hio. January SO. 18,53. the son of George W. and Martha (Compton) Kneisley. He attended the schools of the town, and was a stu- dent at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute J86r-T0. He then entered Brown. In ISS.S Mr. Kneislev married Harriet INIcKav. daughter of Nathaniel McKay of PJiiladelphia. They had two sons. G. W. and Nathaniel McKay. For several years Mr. Kni'isley was a merchant and manufacturer in Dayton, and in 1884- he moved to Dakota. In 1897 he entered the government ser- vice and at this time was the oldest employe in the land department of Oklohoma. He was bur- ied in Dayton. Ohio. 187,j The Olivet Baptist church. Hartfonl. Conn.. Rev. W. P. Chipman pastor, is to have a new building- costing nearly .S^JO.OOO. Rev. William A. Farren has begun the fifteenth year of his pastorate with the Baptist church of North Attlcboro. Mass. 1H76 Rev. Millard F. Johnson of the Bethany church. Boston, has accepted the call of the Third Baptist church. Middleboro (Rock), and of the Independent Congregational chapel, to be the village pastor. There are no other churches in the community, and Mr. Johnson will be pastor of all the people. 1878 Rev. William Porter Bartlett has resigned his pistorate at Enfield, N. Y. Mrs. Bartlett has re- covered to a considerable degree from the paral- ysis which came upon her last year, but tlie state of her health requires tlie retirement of Mr. Bartlett from the pastorate, and they will make their home with their son on his farm in Spring- field, N. H. Mr. Bartlett is a graduate of Colby Academy and Newton Theological Institution. His address is Canaan. N. H.. route ,S. box 1-0. Walter Sumner Hayward. M. D.. eye and ear specialist at Rochester. N. Y.. has been a fruit grower at Interlaken, N. Y.. since 1909. and makes his home there. 1881 The name of Rev. Franklin Garrett McKeevcr. D. D.. pastor of the Second Baptist Church. NewjKM't. R. I., shoidtl have appeared in the list of Brown men in Who's Who. in the Alunmi Monthly for April. 1883 Rev. Charles M. Sheldon resigned from the ac- tive pastorate of the Central Congregational chin-ch of Topeka. Kans.. June 1, 191-2. Since then he has been minister-at-large of tlie same cliurch. Two women ha\-e been appointed mem- bers of the To])eka jjolice force in accorilance witii a suggestion made by Mr. Sheklon. The address of Abram Barker is 29+ Benefit St., Providence. The address of Rev. James A. Brown is 701 Commerce st.. Emporia. Kans. Walter W. Burnham, ex-"88. has been elected chairman of the Board of Tax Assessors for the city of Providence for the ensuing year. He has been a member of the board since 189.5. 188+ Frank E. Sweet is director and attorney of the Bridgewater. Mass.. Co-operative Bank and also attorney for the town. John Daboll is recording secretary of the Gen- eral Convention of the New Jerusalem Church in the United States of America (Swedenborgian). His address is 13+ Bowdoin st., Boston, Mass. George tUIery Gardner, for many years post- master at Wickfortl. died May 7. 1913, at the age of .51 after an illness which had kept him in bed for only a little over a week. Mr. Gardner was the son of George H. and Nancy (Greene) Gardner. He was educated in the Friends School and was graduated from Brown in 1884. Following his graduation he taught in the high school in Woonsocket and also in a high school in New Jersey. He was appointed postmaster of Wickford 15 years ago. At the time of his death he was chairman of the school committee of North Kingstown, a position he had held for several years. He was a member of Beacon Lodge. I. O. O. F.. of Wickford. Mr. Gardner had been ill for over a year, but had not been in a critical condition until shortly before his death. He is survived by his father, who lives in Phila- delphia, and by a sister. Miss Abbie P. Gardner of Wickford. 1886 Rev. Arthur Leonard Wadsworth of South Pas- adena. Cal.. contributed to the Watchman for April 17 an account of the recent Arizona Bap- tist Convention. Professor George G. Wilson of Harvard spoke. April ^9. before the Providence Chapter of the American Institute of Banking on "Readjust- ments of European International Relations." 1890 At the Centennial of the First Baptist Sunday sc-hool at Ciiarlestown. Mass., the oldest school in the State. April "27, Rev. Arthur Warren Smitli. librarian of the New England Baptist Li- brary, prtached on "The Bible Sc'hool of One Hunilred Years Ago." 1891 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hall Wilkinson announce the engagement of their sister. Miss Mary Stan- ton Kenyon. to Thomas F. I. McDonnell. 1892 Dr. Edward S. Kiley. who has l)cen acting- head of tile Pawtuckt't Medical Association for the past year, was recently chosen president of that body. 1{R()\VN ALUMNI MONTHLY 25 1S9S The class of IKDS proposi's to celebrate with a rifi'iit good will its twi-iiticth anniversary at Coni- nieiicenient. Members of the class who are resi- dents of Prt)\ ideiiee oi- \ icinity met recently ;it the Liiiversity Club for a reunion and supper and arranfi'eil a celebration of thi' anniversary. Reports were received from the secretary of the class, A. C. Matteson. indicating- that a probable majority of the non-residi-nt members, who are widely sc-attered through many States, will be on hand to join in the reunion. Strenuous endea- vors are being made to locate some t)f the others whose acklresses are missing, in the hope of hav- ing a rei-ord-breaking attendance. A committee on entertainment was a])])ointed to carry out the arrangements for an automobile tour through the IJncoln woods and other parts of of the Metro- politan Park system. The meeting was presidetl over b> Professor F. P. Gorham and among the members of the class who were present were Ed- ward S. Weeks. Thomas P. Corcoran. William J. Brown, Lueian Sharpe, John J. l''itzgerald. Ar- chibald C. Matteson, J. D. K. Jones, Walter S. Reynolds. Dr. William H. Magill. Wendell A. Mowry of Central Falls. W. E. Smith and others. The class of I8!)S was one of the largest g-radu- ated. Among' its members are Alexander Meikle- john. President of Amherst College; Charles A. Selden of the \ew York Evening Post, Dr. Frank J. Sexton, the well known college trainer and baseball expert and H. B. Xeedham and Fred P. Ladd, both well-know n w riters. 1894. Colonel H. Anthony Dyer, with Mrs. Dyer and Miss Nancy Dyer, sailed on the Rotterdam to spend the summer abi'oad. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper asks "whether the colleg-es of America are to-day sending into the world trained leaders or subservient followers; whether graduates enter their special careers with a real message and mission, or whether, however optimisticallj' they may begin their work, their high purposes are buried or not be- neath the rush of practical and material affairs. Are these students, after graduation, assuming- real leadership? Are they contributing- vision, judgment, and guidance in great national enter- prises sufficiently definite and valuable to com- pensate the country for the sacrifices in time, money and life that are made for the support and continuance of our educational institutions?" Professor A. L. Eno was awarded last June by the University of Pennsylvania the degree of doctor of philosophy. He holds degrees from Brown, the University of ^"ermont and Harvard . University as well as one from the University of Pennsylvania. The degree was given upon the completion of a book of S()() pages on "The His- tory of the Drama from 164,? to 16fi().'" a period commonly known as the period of the closed theatre in London under Cromwell's rule. The book offers a contribution to the history of the English drama in presenting- for the first time in a single monograph an account of the dramatic activity within the period of the Commonwealth. In assembling much scattered information, and in presenting some new material, this thesis proves that the drama was by no means so dead as is commonly supj)osed during the Puritan su])- pressioii of the stage. 189,5 Rev. Franklin 1). Elmer is pastor of the P'irst Baptist Church of Poughkei-psie, N. V.. and scout connnissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. The address of Edward A. Maynard is P. (). Box 184. Englewood. Colo., or ()()l--.>-:5 Ideal Building. Denver. Colo. 189f) Arthur D. Call, as executive director of the American Peace Society, presided at several sessions of the National Peace Congress in St. Louis early in May. 1897 The English Journal for April contained an ar- ticle on "What is the best prejjaration for the college teacher of English?" by Professor John Harrington Cox of West Virginia University. The address of Howard M. Van Gelder is H9 Wall St.. New York city, where he is an elec- trical engineer. He was promoted March 1. to be managing- engineer of Westinghouse. Church, Kerr & Co. 1898 Charles D. P. Eaton has been admitted to the Rhode Island bar. The First Baptist church. Marlboro. Mass.. Rev. Harlan J. Ballentine pastor, celebrated its forty-fifth anniversary on April IT. The paster preaches to the largest congregations in the city. In June he will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating- class of the high school. A son. Elwin Talbot Gammons, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gammons on April 18. 1913. A recent issue of the Worcester Academy Alumni Bulletin prints a portrait of George A, Gaskill as a frontispiece and also a biography (by Fred D. Aldrich. "95) in which occurs the follow- ing: "After leaving Brown he attended the Har- vard Law School for two years. In 1901 he was admitted to the Worcester bar, and was associ- ated in the office of Hon. Herbert Parker until 1908. Since that time he has been the junior member of the firm of Smith & Gaskill. and holds ;» prominent place among the younger attorneys of the city. In 1904 he succeeded the Hon. Her- bert Parker as the solicitor of the Academy, and the following year he was elected to the Board of Trustees, being with Elbert W. Shirk. *98. the first of the alumni to be chosen to the Board in accordance with the practice that has siijce that time generally prevailed. On the resignation of Mr. William H. Dexter as treasurer of the Board in 1909. Mr. Gaskill was elected his successor, which position he now holds in connection with that of solicitor. He is a director of the State Mutual Life Assurance Co.. trustee of the Peo- ples Savings Bank, director of the Boys' Club, of the Associated Charities, and the Children's Friend Society. On Jime 1. 190,5, he married Miss Caroline D. Nichols, the daughter of Dr. Charles L. Nic-hols of Worcester, who too is a Brown man. The Gaskill name is to be perpet- uated, and that too. we trust, in Worcester Acad- emy annals, by two sons, Charles Francis, born Nov. 15, 1906, and George A., Jr., born Feb. 9 1900." 26 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1899 George B. Utley. who is secretary of the American Library Association, oave the princi- pal address at the dedication of the new public library building- at Princeton, Illinois. April ^2,5. He also addressed the Oklahoma Library Associ- ation, at their annual meeting at Muskogee. Ok- lahoma, May 14. on the subject, "The library as a business investment." A. Edward Kelsey sends the following interes- ing letter from Ram Allah, Jerusalem, under date of April 10. 1913. "We had a very aus- picious voyage and our four days in Greece will long remain a delightful memory. Our latter rains here will soon be over, and then for six months rubbers and rain-coats can be consigned to oblivion. In many respects April is our most beautiful month, for the chilling cold of the win- ter is past and the intense heat of the summer not yet come. The vines and tig-trees are cloth- ing themselves with green, and the beautiful greys, browns and reds of our hills and valleys are made more beautiful by the green of the wheat and barley fields. The children and teach- ers of our two boarding- schools, about one hun- dred in all. have gone to their homes for a three weeks" vacation, and our home seems very cjuiet. We had scores of American tourists here lately, and while it is always pleasant to see people from America, still it does interfere more or less with our work. On the :;?lst of April occurs the Sam- aritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim. It is about six hours ride by carriage. Marion Kelsey and I are planning to attend, and then go on to Sa- maria to see the excavations there. I never tire of trips in this country, which has been the arena of so much that has vitally affected the world's iiistory. Even to-day it is the land of pilgrim- age, and people come hither from all parts of the world. Christians. Jews and Mohamnu-dans. Je- rusalem is one of the most cosmopolitan of cities. Our work here is entrancingly interesting. The schools have a country-wide reputation and our children come from many towns and villages. One has but to look into the bright hoi)eful faces of our boys and girls to be convinced of the large dividends that accrue from this kind of work. Most of the children are from Greek Church Syrians, but we have a few Mohammedans. Last week one of our boys lost a two-dollar gold piece. It was found by a Moslem boy in the sc-hool and immediately returned. Considering the very low standard of honesty in this land, both among- Moslems and so-called Christians, the incident was very pleasing to us. Since we arrived the much desired and long delayed permit to build our boys' school has come, and we hope in a few weeks to get the work under way. Things are very quiet in this part of the country and it is hard to realize that war has been wag'ing in an- other part of the empire. We wish the outcome might aifect us for good, but there is little pros- pect of such a desired end." 1900 Koscoe Morton Dexter, judge of the Municipal Court at Central Falls, has been elected c-lerk of the Eleventh District Court of Rhode Island. He was born in Central Falls. Xov. 'A. IH77. and has always lived there. He was graduated from the Central Falls high schoool in 1896, and after graduating- from Brown attended the Harvard Law School for two years. He then entered the ofhce of James L. Jenks, where he studied law for a year before he was admitted to practice in Rhode Island in May. 190S. He was admitted to the United States Courts in 190.i, and in Jan., 1911 , he was elected judge of the Municipal Court at Central Falls. Nathan Sackett is in the })ost card business at 449 Westminster st.. Providence. Born in Roslindale. Mass., April 19. 1913. to Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Moss, a son. 1901 Edwin Farnham Greene, president of the Na- tional Association of Cotton Manufacturers, dis- cussed in his annual address delivered in Boston, April 23. the question of wages, espcciallv those of mill operatives. The partnership existing under the firm name of Crossley & Clark has been dissolved, and Roy E. Clark is conducting a general insurance busi- ness in Bridgeport. Conn., with oflRces at 111.5 Main st. The pastor of the First Baptist church of Pu- eblo. Colo., the Rev. John M. Linden, is finding it a difficult matter to have his resignation as pas'^ tor accepted by the congregation wliic-h he has now served for nearly two years. The resigna- tion has been twice brought "up and voted down. Evidently the members of the church are unwill- ing to surrender their pastor, so many of them feeling that his work is not yet done." Mr. Lin- den, says a local paper, says that it is gratifying to him to have the confidence of the jieople and that he appreciates their efforts to retain him as pastor, but that if the church will not release' him by the ordinary method, he will be com- pelled to vacate the pastorate. Mr. Linden has involved himself in other propositions of work which will compel him to leave the city July 13, 1913. as the resignation states. He i's making every preparation to leave Pueblo at that time with his family. 190,' Born. April -2-2. 1913. to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dean Dudley of Syracuse. N. Y., a daughter, Cynthia. The engagement is announced of Samuel Cohen of Pawtucket and Miss Charlotte Robinson of the same city. Born at Sanborn Hall. Franklin, N. H.. Jan. 16, 1913. to Rev. and Mrs. Wesley A. Paige, a daughter, Millicent Edna. 1903 Alfred H. Lake has been admitted to the Rhode Island bar. Harlan T. Stetson, who is a member of the faculty of Dartmouth Collegi'. is to have charge of the ilepartments of Physics and Astronomy at the summer session of MidiUebury College. Raymond W. D. Jones. ex-'08." is office mana- ger of the Fish Rubber Co.. -i.'lo Farnum st. Omaha. Neb. 1904 Born. April ,'3. 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Langworthy, a daughter, Franc-es Parker Lang- \\orthv. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 27 Alfred E. Isaac has acc-i-ptc-il the pastorate of tile Dorelu-ster TiMii])le eliureli. Boston. He was born in (iilroy. Cal.. July --'9. 1H7(). and edueated in C"alifoi-nia College. Newton Tlieolofiieal Insti- tution and Brown. In the interval bt-tween the two courses he served several years in the ca- pacity of private secretary to Rev. Thoinas S. Barbour, D. D.. of the Baptist Foreign Mission Society, the last year being- spent with Dr. Bar- bour in circling- the globe, visiting- all the Mission stations, thus olitaining- a wide knowledge of Missions throughout the world. He w;is ordained at the r'irst Ba])tist churc-li. Providi-nce. June Ji. UHKi. and becanie pastor of the Tenth Avenue church. Columbus. O.. in June. 1904. During- the nine years ot his pastorate at the Tenth Av- enut' churcii Mr. Isaac- has done a notable work. 190.5 Harvey J. Swann is one of the head masters of the successful Grail School at Southport. Ct. Colgate Hoyt. Jr.. and his britle were two of the special guests of E. C. Benedict, former com- modori- of the New York Yacht Club, on a 12.000 mile cruise, starting from Xew York April --':5. Mr. Benedict, now in his HOth year, made the trip to give the two l>rides. Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs. Richard Ryland Sinclair, a honeymoon. The cruise was made in the 300-foot yacht that used to belong- to John Hays Hammond, re- named the Oneida by Mr. Benedict. She was to go up the Amazon farther than any yacht, save one. has ever been. She was to touch at Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. before starting her Amazon trip, go at least 1000 miles up the great South American river, and not return to New York until the last of June. 1907 Born. April 15, 1913. to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie F. Mowry. (ex-"07.) 16 Hendrick st.. Providence, a son. Leslie Fowler Mowry. Jr. Frank A. Cummings, ex-"07. who received the degree of M. D. from Tufts Medical School in 1911, is a practicing physician in Providence with office at 34-3 Broad st. 1909 April -26. 1913. Miss Alice May Burr, daughter of Mr. anti Mrs. Thomas Neil Burr, was man-ied to Sydney Wilmot. The bride was attendt'd by her sister. Miss Jessie Helen Burr. "13. The best man was James Wilmot. *0S, of New York, brother of the bride-groom. After a short reception Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot U'ft on their wed- ding- journey, after which they will live in New York city, where Mr. Wilmot is practicing his profession of engineering. Ernest R. Hazen. principal of the Manton Av- enue school. Providence, has been promoted to the princijjalship of tlie Thayer street grammar school. Hugh F. Cameron. Herbert M. Sherwood and Harold R. Curtis have been admitted to the Rhode Island bar. James G. Connolly has opened an office for the general practice of law at -^Oo Oak Hall Building. Pawtucki't. 1910 Rev. F. H. Buffum. ex-"10. has been chosen pastor of the newly formed Manton Baptist i-hurch. This c-hurch Mas formerly a mission conducted by the Central Baptist church of Providence on Greenville avenue. Manton. but w;is organized in April. President S. C. Mitchell, 1,L. D. 1910. of the L-niversity of South Carolina has ln-en elected to the presidency of the Medic-al College of Virginia in Richmond. Va. He was j)rofessor of English in Richmond College. 189o-190H. He accepts the call to Richmond. 1911 Mark Mohler spoke on "'The Intellectual Life of the College Man" in the Union. April 26. in the Christian Association series. L. M. Semenoff. who is now a member of the class of 1913 at the Yale Law School, has won the .t-a(» jJiize debate contest of the Yale Way- land Club. The debate was on the subject, ■■Resoh c-d. That Immigration Should be I'^urther Restricted bv the Imposition of an Illiteracv Test.'" Robert Gamble Caswell has been awarded the Grand Army FelloMship for 1913. Since gradu- ation he has devoted his entire time to c-hemistry and physics. The inc-ome of the fund amounts to .^oOo". 1912 The National Survey Co., Portland. Me., of which L. V. Crocker is the head, has issued a large Indexed map of North and South Carolina. We learn that the first edition has ;dready been exhausted. The address of Frederic-k W. Seagrave is 139 East 44th st.. New York city. Alumnae 1909 Born April 20, 1913. in Newark. N. J., to Mr. and Mrs. Magrane (Isabelle Scott) a daughter, Marv. 1910 Born. April 14. 1913, to Albert E. and .Vnnie Burnside Thornley of Pawtucket. a daughter. 1911 Gertrude Hildreth Canii)bell. who spent last year at Bryn Mawr as a holder of a graduate scholarship, has won the resident fellowship of So25 for the coming- year. 1913 Mary Elizabeth Barnicle has won a graduate' scholarship at Bryn Mawr and w ill sj)end next year there in graduate work. BROW^N MEN AT KINGSTON There was a little reimion of the Brown men on the faculty of the Rhode Island College on April 1(). after Mr. Koopman had addressed the stu- dents in chajjcl on the Art of Reading. Dr. Les- ter W. Boardman. "99. professor of English liter- ature, was till- host, and the others who met at his house were John Barlow. A. M.. "96. profes- sor of zoology. Philip B. Hadley, "03. biologist at the Experiment Station, and Francis H. Smith, "Oj, assistant professor of chemistry. 28 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY NEWPORT ALUMNI MEETING At the annual meeting of the Newport Brown Ahimni Association at the Muenehinger-King- Hotel. Newport. April "21. Acting President Walter G. Everett and Professor Nathaniel F. Davis of Brown were the principal speakers. The result of the election was as follows: Pres- ident. Clarence A. Carr; Vice Presidents. Dr. John A. Young. Rev. Franklin G. McKeever; Secretary-Treasurer. Alfred S. Langiey; Execu- tive Committee. Fred M. Hammett. William R. Harvey and Clinton B. Ward. SONS OF BROWN IN ST. LOUIS The annual meeting of the Sons of Brown in St. Louis was held April 17. at the "'Bear's Den" in St. Louis, and the following officers were elected: President. D. S. H. Smith. '62; Vice President. Augustus L. Abbott. "80; Treas- ures. John Blair Edwards. '96; Secretary. Albert C. Thomas. 'OH. There are twenty-five men in the St. Louis ;is- sociation and a weekly hmcln is a regular thing, the club meeting every Tlnirsday at one o'clock. Tlu' oldest graduate. Dr. Smith, seems to be as enthusiastic as tlu' youngest. 1 he chib has all the Brown jiajjcrs at its disposal, and is on the lookout constantly for candidates for the Fresh- man class. Brown men going tlirougii St Louis will ahvays find a bunch of Brown men in the "Bear's Den" under the American Hotel every Thursday at one o'clock, and will find the members ready to drop everything and entertain them if they hap- pen to be in St. Louis any other time of the week than Thursday noon. REUNION AT PORTLAND Graduates and former students of Brown repre- senting classes from IS.Jt to 1912. met April 7 at the third annual dinner of the Sons of Brown of Western Maine, held at the Congress Square Hotel in Portland. It was an evening of real en- joyment. At the head table were: Rev. Alfred W. An- thony. D. D.. 'S3, of Lewiston. the president of the association; Professor Everett. Major Charles H. Boyd. '54; Rev. Joseph K. Wilson. D. D.. '73. and George D. Church. '99. The election of officers resulted in the choice of George D. Church. ■!I9. master of the Abbott School at Farmington. as president, and before the evening's enjoyment came to a close he was jjresented by the retiring president. The full list of officers for the year is as fol- lows: President — George D. Church. "99. Farming- ton. Vice Presidents — Major Charles H. Boyd. '.54, Portland; Rev. Thomas Bin-gess. "02. Saco. Secretary — Newton C. Reed. '03, Portland. Treasurer — Dr. Thomas J. Burrage. '98. Port- land. lixecutive connnittee — Rev. M. Joseph Two- mey, '00. Portland; E. K. Arnold. "04. Portland; Fred I. Gabbi, "00. Portland; Henry Cleaves Sul- livan, 'GO, Portland. Those present were: Acting President Walter G. Everett. "8.5; Alfred VV. Anthony. '88. Lcm- iston;J. K. Wilson. '7.S. Portland; " Arthur B. Brownell. "92. Portland; George S. Ellis. "94, Portland; Edmund K. Arnold. "04, Portland; Carleton D. Morse. "13. Providence; Fran- cis D. 0"Connor. '12. Portland; Rev. Thomas Burgess. "02. Saco; Frederick I. Gabbi. "02, Portland; Dr. Thomas J. Bm-rage. "98. Portland; George C. Wing. Jr.. "(to. Auburn; Rev. M. Jo- seph Twomev. "00. Portland; Clifford E. Mc- Glaufiin. "98. Portland; George Dudley Church. "99. Farmington; Charles H^ Boyd. "",54. Port- land; Newton C. Reed. "03. Portland. ALBANY REUNION The annual meeting of the Brown Alumni As- sociation of Albany and vicinity was held at Al- bany on April 16 at the Hampton Hotel and was followed by a beefsteak supper at which Dr. Walter G. Everett was the guest of the associa- tion. Charles S. Aldrich. the president of the association, acted as toastm.-.ster. The commit- tee in charge of th.e nu-eting ccmjirised Alexan- der H. Abbott. "03. Crawford R. Green. "02. Dr. S. A. McComber."9fi. Dr. Everett delivered an address upon the Ideals of the Liberal College, and A. H. Abbott. '03. presented his report as a delegate of the association at the annual meeting of the Alumni Advisory Board. Willi;im Mc- Donald, an honorary member, and Charles S. vStedman. trustee-elect of the University, spoke briefly. The meeting was informal in character and was a great success. The following officers were elected for the en- suing year: President. Alexander H. Abbott. "03; Vice-President. Morton C. Stewart. '94; Secretary and Treasurer. F. C. Hulse. "03, 423 Brandywine ave., Schenectady. N. Y. Execu- tive Committee: S. A. McCcmber, "96; Arthur G. Host. "98; Charles S. Stedman. '96. After the election of officers Dr. Everett ex- pressed his willingness to answer questions re- lating to the College. In response to questions he discussed the following: Summer baseball, vesper services, chapel exercises, experiments in liberal education, undergraduate courses in busi- ness and economic training, present training and intellectual power of students as compared with twenty years ago. tind the tendency toward so- cial, economic and philosophical training. The following were jiri'sent: Acting President Everett; Richard R. :Martin. "89; Charles S. Al- drich. "94; George L. Rifenburg. "94; Morton C. Stewart. "94; Stewart A. McComber. "96; Robert Young. "96; Charles S. Stedman. "96; Albert O. Foster. "94; Arthur G. Host. "98; Clarence B. Lester. "00; Crawford R. Green. "02; Preston H. Porcheron. "02; Alexander H. Abbott. "03; Her- bert A. Weeks. "03; G. A. Humphries. "04; F. C. Hulse. "05; Howland S. Stedman. '05; R. C. Walker. '05; T. W. Gordon. '06; C. L. Hay- wood. '06; H. L. Wheeler. '10; J. F. DriscoH, '11; William McDonald. (Hon.) A rising vote of thanks was extended to Dr. Everett for his visit to the association and by a similar vote a message of good wishes was di- rected to be sent to President Faunce in what- ever part of the world he happened to be. RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL TRUST CO. PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND CAPITAL SURPLUS (earned) $2,500,000 $2,500,000 Transacts a General Banking and Trust Business ALLOWS INTEREST on acvounts subject to check at sight. Executors. Adminis- trators. Guardians or Receivers deposit- ing funds witli tliis Company are by law exempted from ail personal liability. ACCEPTS TRUSTS, created by will o"r other- wise, and is by law authorizeil to act as Executor. Administrator. Guardian or Re- ceiver. RENTS SAFES in its vaults at -li^lO.OO per year and upwards; also receives Bonds, Jewelry, Silverware and other valuables for Sake Kkkpixo. LOANS MONEY on Real Estate or other approved Collateral. ISSUES LETTERS of CREDIT and IN- TERNATIONAL CHEQUES, available everywhere. DRAWS DRAFTS on London. Paris. Berlin. Vienna and other European cities. FOREIGN MONEY BOUGHT and SOLD. Depositary and Custodian of Funds of Brown University OFFICERS HERBERT J. HORATIO A. HUNT, Vice-President WILLIAM A. GAMWELL. Vice-President and Secretary JOHN E. WILLIAMS. Assistant Secretary HENRY B. HAGAN. Assistant Secretary HUGH RANKIN, Assistant Secretary WELLS. President PRESTON H. GARDNER. Vice-President and Trust Officer CYRUS E. LAPHAM, Assistant Secretary HENRY L. SLADER. Assistant Secretary GILBERT A. HARRINGTON. Assistant Trust Officer Robert H. I. Goddard Robert I. Gammell Edward D. Pearce Herbert J. Wells Lyman B. Goff Rowland G. Hazard Nelson W. Aldrich DIRECTORS Samuel R. Dorrance Howard O. Sturges Stephen O. Metcalf Walter R. Callender Edward Holbrook James E. Sullivan Benjamin M. Jackson Henry D. Sharpe John R. Freeman Charles S. Mellen Robert W. Taft Webster Knight Stephen O. Edwards Frank W. Matteson R. H. Ives Goddard, Jr. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Watch this Space for a Coming Advertisement Jalmer 3^vt^^ Book and Pamphlet Printing "I was just spoiling- for a chance to g'ct on the stage,"" said the egg as it glided glibly down the curtain. Cornell Widow. He told the shy maid of his love. The color left her c-heeks. But on the shoulder of his coat. It showed for several weeks. Cornell Widow. '2nd Assistant Stewardess. "'Starboard watch, ahoy ! * " Boatswain's Mate. "Why does the 3d assist- ant stoker bolt his food so?" "2nd Assistant Engineer. "Because tliat's tlie only way he can keep it down."* Harvard Lam- poon. What Cheer Printing Company Printers and Publishers The Only POSTER PRINTING Plant in Providence 9H Pine Street, corner Eddy Telephone 1663 Union BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1 Classified Business Directory NOTE: — A Brown Man should be listed in this Directory. It assures j-ou of the patronaffe of Brown Men. Send in your business eard to HOWARD M. CHAPIN, Business Manaf^er. Priee $!,5.(M) per annum Providence, R. I. ^mi Providence Boston MENDELL W. CRANE, Attorney at Law, 87 WEYBOSSET ST. WATERMAN, CURRAN & HUNT, Attorneys at Law, 402 BANIGAN BLDG. THOMAS A. JENCKES, Attorney at Law, 32 WESTMINSTER ST. CLIFFORD S. TOWER, Attornej" at Law, 410 INDUSTRIAL TRUST BLDG. St. Louis ABBOTT & EDWARDS Attorneys at Law, 1117-1123 New Bank of Commerce Building SAMUEL H. WHITLEY, Counsellor at Law, 89 STATE ST., BOSTON, MASS. ALVIN F. PEASE, Winship Teachers* Agency, Long Distance Telephone 6 BEACON ST. DANIEL HURLEY & CO. Engineers and Contractors Power Plants. New John Hancock Bldg. (Daniel Hurley, '03) New York DORMAN & DANA, Attorneys at Law, 48 WALL ST. ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD Consulting Highway Engineer Broadway and 117th St., New York City FRED W. WOODCOCK Twenty Years' Experience in Life Insurance Correspondence Invited 176 Federal Street, Boston Established 1863 Elsbree-Valleau Co. Fine Hats and Furs 101 We^minster Street, Providence BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE BEST COAL For Every Purpose For Steaming Purposes : NEW RIVER POCAHONTAS For General Smithing or Forging : GEORGE'S CREEK For Family Purposes : LACKAWANNA SCRANTON LEHIGH JERMYN PITTSTON FRANKLIN BRIQUETTES 35 Weybosset Street, Providence, R. I. Telephone Union 705, Branch Exchange Connecting all Departments Rhode Island Co-Operative Coal Company Yard and Pockets 275-277 South Water Street Treasurer's Office 97 Hope Street This Company offers to the house holder and business man an opportunity to buy coal at the lowest price. An investment in its stock makes the investor a sharer in the profits of the business without liability as a stockholder. Coal of Good Quality, good weight and hand-screened is delivered to every purchaser. For further particulars inquire of J. J. COUTANCHE, Treas. Tel. 30U6-J Angell 97 Hope Street, Providence. R. I. The Best TONIC Horsford's Acid Phosphate is especi- ally recommended for the restoration of energy and vitality, the relief of mental and nervous exhaustion, impaired digestion or appetite. HORSFORD'S Acid Phosphate ( Non- Alcoholic ) Is a scientific and carefully prepared preparation of the phosphates, and has been found a most valuable general Tonic. A teaspoonful added to a glass of cold water, with sugar, makes a delicious and wholesome beverage. If your druggist can't supply you, send i5 cents to Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I., for trial size bottle, postage paid. PROVIDENCE COAE CO. ANTHRACITE and BITUMINOUS =-COAL— WHOLBSALS:: :AND B.ETAI1, Central Office, Comer Custom House and V^eybosset iStreeta Yard, Comer of Dorrance and Dyer Sts. PROVIDENCE. R. 1. JOHN A. GAMMONS 171 Westminster Street Insurance of all kinds Bre &AIanne Infumnce Q/iipany PKOYWENCEMI Preston & Rounds Co. Starkweather Jt Shepley No. 98 Westminster Street Providence, R. I. Booksellers Stationers Cieorjje L. Shepley, President INSURANCE Of F.very Description Fidelity and Surety Bonds 17 Custom House Street Providence, R. I. \<'\\ Viirk OlVirr. Ml •<.' Willi.iMi Slr.rt Chir.i-o Otlic.-, l.-.!i I,:i S.illc St. |{.i-lnn Ollicf. t l.il»tl> Sciiiarc I'liris, 1-r.iiui-. Olliir. .'II Itui- Cluuich.tl Bro\vn Men Are interested in life insurance because intelligent men. No Life Insurance Company in existence is so completely filled with " Brown Spirit " as the Puritan Life Insurance Company. Among its Executive Officers are four Graduates of Brown. In its Directorate are many Alumni. The Head of its Agency Department is an Alumnus and the working force numbers many who have received their degrees from " the college on the hill." Stockholders and Policy- holders alike include many Graduates. Naturally such an institution would provide the acme of service to " Brown Men " and is the Company with which they should connect themselves. Yet this, in itself, is not sufficient reason for alliance with the Puritan. In the first place, the Puritan, chartered under the laws of this State, is conducted by men known in this State. Again, it presents a list of policies which in their provisions are second to none and it safeguards these policies with a percentage of assets far in excess of the legal requirements and sells them at a low cost. The Company is Strong. Its proximity to the University makes it possible to extend to Brown men exceptional service. It begs to remind the professors that in its endowment policies it provides the means for " self-pensioning " at a minimum cost. It suggests to the student body that the capable man with a determination to succeed may find in the Puritan an opportunity for making a start in business when his degree has been secured. The Agency Force is always open to the right men. And the right men succeed, making a good income while engaged in a most praiseworthy work. Puritan Life Insurance Company Providence, R. L " A Life Company of High Standards " Puritan Life Insurance Co. Providence, R. I.: Kindly send me informa- tion re^ardino; insurance in the Puritan. Name Address 1 p^i^! M m W' >«