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Please enclose a one-dollar bill with your full address to the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BT?OWN UNIVERSTTY PROVIDENCE, R. I. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Providence, R. I., Aiuii,, 1915 Vol. XV No. 9 GATES AND CLOCK TOWER (FROM "STUDENT LIFE AT BROWN"') BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY SAYLES HALL AND LYMAN GYMNASIUM Marcus Aurelius Statue in Rear of Sayles From "Student Life at Brown" STUDENT LIFE AT BROWN One of the most interesting and help- ful publications that has ever been issued at the University is entitled "Student Life at Brown". It is chiefly the work of Professor William T. Hastings of the Committee on Publicity. It is a handsome pamphlet of thirty- odd pages, printed in a deep shade of brown ink on attractive paper and is just the sort of thing to put in the hands of any boy or young man whom it is desired to interest in Brown. The opening paragraph of the pam- phlet is as follows : "Standing in Market Square, Providence, within a few hundred feet of the busiest corner in Southern New England, one may look up College street at the elms on the front campus of Brown University. Let him stand within the shadow of these elms, and he might easily imagine the city miles away. This sense of actual seclusion, which Brown enjoys as does no other college in the world similarly situated, is almost wholly due to the steep slope of College Street, — "College Hill", as every Brunonian, past and present, knows it, — from whose base he catches his first glimpse of the white belfry of University Hall, and down which he finally marches to receive his diploma at the First Baptist Meeting House." The pamphlet lays stress upon the picturesque side of undergraduate life, leaving the more serious matters as a rule to the annual catalogue, though it gives some figures of college expense. It thus describes the opening of the under- graduate's career at Brown : "The rear door of U. H. is the front door of the middle campus, and the middle campus is the heart of Brown. It is here, when the bell in U. H. awakes from the silence of a long summer, that seven hundred Brown men gather to greet each other, before the beginning of the first chapel service and the formal opening of a new academic year. This first chapel service the Freshman probably never forgets. Seniors. Ju- niors, and Sophomores have taken seats haphaz- ard toward the front of the hall, and the Fresh- men have massed in a body at the rear, while the swell of the organ above their heads drowns out the shuffling of many feet. The whole company rises, as, led by the President, the Facultj^ pro- cession enters the building, and passes up the aisle to the seats at the base of the platform, the somber black of the academic caps and gowns relieved by the bright yellow, blue, and scarlet velvet of the hoods. The notes of the prelude give way to those of the Doxology, and the choir leads in singing the familiar words that are never quite so impressive as on this morning." The illustrations of this useful publi- cation are particularly good. The fron- tispiece which shows the Van Wickle BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 227 SENIOR CLASS ON COMMENCEMENT DAY Marching Down the Hill From "Student Life at Brown"" Gates and the Clock Tower, is one of the finest photographs of Brown that we liave chanced to see. Another full-page picture gives the imposing entrance of the John Hay Library, while a third presents the classic proportions of the John Carter Brown Librar}' from George street. There are pictures of athletic contests, a panoramic view of the middle campus, a fetching portrait of Bruno, the Brown bear; a glimpse of the Com- mencement Procession proceeding down College Hill, and other scenes which as a whole afford the stranger an excellent idea of Brown's undergraduate life. One more quotation from the pam- phlet may not be out of place. De- scribing the features of a typical celebra- tion after a Brown victory it says : "When a Brown team is victorious in a critical contest, willing Freshmen are soon spreading the news abroad over the campus by means of the chapel bell, and by eight o'clock in the evening the pent-up enthusiasm of the occasion is ready to be turned loose. Headed by a band, tiie pro- cession marches down The Hill in night shirt and pajamas. Its path is marked by the glow of red fire, and as it continues up the main street of Providence the flare of Roman candles is reflected from a thousand windows along the line of march. Sometimes there is a halt for speeches. If the game was played out of town a bus awaits the victorious team at the station, and to it the re- turning athletes are escorted between cheering lines of celebrants. "The march back to the college is a repetition of the march to the station, except that the fire- works have probably given out and throats are hoarse with cheering. A bonfire on Lincoln Field is already flaming forth a welcome to the returning host. A giant ring is formed around it, and the dance is on until the heap is reduced to glowing embers. Then come speeches from everyone who will talk — captain, coach, athletic director, alumni and professors of acknowledged wit, and 'Prexy' himself if a scouting party of Freshmen has been able to locate him among the throng of spectators. The singing of *Alma Mater' concludes the celebration, and it takes but a few minutes for the campus to regain the silence that becomes it. Only the smouldering embers are left to tell the story of a Brown team that fought well and won." This pamphlet may be obtained in any reasonable quantities by addressing the Registrar of the University or Pro- fessor W. T. Hastings, 36 University Hall. There is no cost attached and we can unreservedly reconmiend it to grad- uates of Brown as a valuable means of interesting American youth in Alma Ma- ter. MORE ANNIVERSARY PROFESSORS Followino- are sketches in a series of Brown jirofessors who this year coni])lete years of service represented by multiples of five, from fortv-five to twentv William Carey Poland, Lift. J). ( F()ii>/-Jire i/enrs) William Carey Poland was boni in Goffstown, N. H., (in the part now called Grasinere), Jan. !^5, 1846, the son of PROFESSOR WILLIAM C. POLAND Rev. James ^Villey Poland, a Baptist clergyman, and Sarah Jane ( Ayer)Po]and. He attended the district school of his native town until 1860, when his family moved to Melrose, Mass., where he was fitted for college in the Public High School. He entered Brown in 1864 and was graduated in 1868 with the degree of A. B. He received the degree of A. M in course in 1871 and, in 1904, the hon- orary degree of Litt. D. He is a mem- ber of Alpha Delta Phi and in his Junior year was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he was for a year and a half principal of Worcester Academy. In 1870 he was called back to Brown for a year as instructor in Greek. He was instructor in Latin and Greek, 1871-5; assistant professor of J atin and Greek, 1876-89 ; associate professor of Greek, 1889 92; and, since the last date, has been professor of the History of Art. He was also curator of the Museum of Class- ical ArchfieoJogy. 1889-93, and has been director of the Museum of Fine Arts since 1893. He was the annual director of" the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1891-2, and, since 1891, has bten a member of the Managing Committee of the school. He was lecturer on the His- tory of Art in Boston University, 1901 and 1902, and has had a like engagement at the Rhode Island School of De- sign since 1902; he was secretary and treasurer of the Commission of Colleges in New England on Admission Examina- tions from its foundation in 1886 to 1905, having also been, 1885-6, the secretary of the committee that organized the Com- mission. He was corresponding secretary, vice-president, and, 1887-9, president of the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kap- pa. He was president of the Rhode Island School of Design, 1896 to 1907, and, by election of the Corporation of Brown University, has been a member of 228 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 229 the Corporation of the school since 1 893. He was for some years before 1891 pres- ident of the Providence Public Park Association. He was treasurer of the University School, Providence. He was a director of the Providence Athena'uni twelve years and a member of its Library Committee four years. He was for years a member of the American Philolo<)ical Association. He is a liie member of the Archa'ological Institute of America, and president of the Rhode Island Society of that Institute. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Providence, and, since 1900, has been a deacon. He spent the year 1875-6 in study at the L^niversity of Berlin and Leipzig and in European travel. Soon after he en- tered upon his duties as assistant profes- sor he was asked by Mrs. John Carter Brown to give lessons in Latin to her two sons, John Nicholas and Harold. In 1878, at Mrs. Brown's request, he ob- tained a year's leave of absence from the University, and, after a summer spent in the Museum at Berlin and in the Louvre at Paris, he joined her family at Florence. He spent the winter at Cannes, teaching her sons Latin and Greek. His leave of absence was extended two Aears by the C^niversity to enable him to continue the college preparation of his pupils, who both entered the University, John Nich- olas in 1881, and Harold in 1882. Professor Poland married, March 25, 1882, Clara Frances, daughter of Pro- fessor Albert Harkness. They have three sons: William, Albert Harkness, "09, and Reginald. "14. He is the author of Syllabus of Ten Lectures on Archaeology, 189'i, i)i-epared for the Rhode Island University Exten- sion course; Notes and Questions on the History of Art in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1900; Notes and Questions on the History of Art during the Renais- sance, 1901 ; Sixteen Annual Reports of the Commission of Colleges; Notes on Art in the 19th Century; Lecture Out- lines on the History of Roman and Medi- aeval Art. 1 900; Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter, 1907; besides many articles contributed to newspapers, and educational periodicals, and to the American Journal of Archteology. He succeeded Professor Lincoln as the com- piler of the Brown University Necrology which appeared for man}- years in the Providence Journal on Commencement morning, his work forming one of the most important services that any one has rendered in collecting and publishing the records of Brown graduates, Asa Clinton Crowell, Ph. D. (Tirenty-five yearn) Asa Clinton Crowell was born in Paw- tucket, May 20, 1862, the son of Asa and Eliza Ann (Huntress) Crowell. He i'UOFl.SSOi; A. C. C'KOWKLI. was fitted for college at the University Grammar School, Providence, and en- tered Brown in 1882, graduating in 1886 with the degree of A. B. He received the degree of A. M. in course, and, in BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1894, that of Ph. D. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was principal of the High School of Milton Mills, N. H., in 1886. He taught French, Ger- man, and Latin in Dummer Academy, South Byfield, Mass., 1887-90. He was appointed instructor of French at Brown in 1890; of French and German, 1891 ; of German, 1892. In 1894 he was made assistant professor of the Germanic Languages and Literatures, and, in 1901, associate professor. He is a member of the Modern Lan- guage Association of America, the Amer- ican Dialect Society and the Viking Society for Northern Research, London, and an associate member of the Ameri- can-Scandinavian Foundation. He is a member of the New England Modern Language Association, and was a vice- president, 1906-14. He is a meniber of the Rhode Island Society of Mayflower Descendants and was Governor, 1905-07. He married, Aug. 9, 1904, Carrie Ethel Provan, A. M., Brown '04. They have one son, Robert Hower. He is the author of Lessons in Old Icelandic, 1911, and of various articles in reviews. He revised the Dutch trans- lations for Narratives of New Nether- lands, 1909, and translated from the Danish Mortensen's Handbook of Norse Mythology, 1913. Arthur Eugene Watson, Ph. D. (Twenty years) Arthur Eugene Watson was born in Providence, March 4, 1866, the son of Henry Holden and Josephine Sabrina (RofFee) Watson, but for most of his boyhood lived in Massachusetts. He was fitted for college in the High School at Waltham, Mass. From Brown he re- ceived the degree of A. B. in 1888, and of Ph. D. in 1905. Immediately after graduation he entered the employ of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, of Lynn, Mass., as a draftsman, serving in this capacity for one year. He was then made assistant foreman of the depart- ment, and held this position with that Company and its successor, the General Electric Company, at Lynn and Sche- nectady, for six years. During 1891 and 1893 he was a University Extension lecturer at Brown, under the arrange- ment then provided for out-of-town lec- tures. In 1895 he was called to the University to be instructor in Phvsics and to organize courses of instruction in Electrical Engineering. In 1899 he was PROFESSOR A. E. WATSON advanced to the grade of assistant pro- fessor of Physics ; in 1914 the designation was changed from Phj^sics to Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, the Phi Beta Kap- pa and Sigma Xi societies, and of the American Institute of Electrical Engin- eers. He married, in 1890, Cora B. Stewart, daughter of Chaplain W. H. Stewart, U. S. N. They have two children, Nor- man Stewart and Alan Wendell. Shortly after going to Lynn he became BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 281 a c'ontrihutor to electrical periodicals, many of his articles beinp; also published in pamphlet or hook form. The first, "How to Build a Dynamo", describing' a small experimental machine, sold very widely. He followed this in successive years with descriptions of larger dynamo machines of various types, the result being the estalilishment of a sort of stan- dard of construction or of excellence known and followed by readers and build- ers not only in the Ignited States but to an unexpected degree in some foreign countries. As a fruit of considerable ex- perience with storage batteries, he has written a book on that subject, which ^has passed through several editions. Professor Watson has kept up his con- nection with several monthly technical publications of a popular nature by reg- ularly conducting correspondence columns and by special illustrated articles. He contributed a series of twenty-four chap- ters to the International Press Syndicate, (,'liicago, thirty articles to the Electric- ian, Boston, and, during the past year, twelve articles dealing with the construc- tion of small alternating current motors to Modern Electrics and Mechanics, New York. This last series is about to ap- pear in book form. At Brown his work has lain in devel- oping the courses of instruction in elec- trical engineering and in creating the laboratory. Wilson Hall was originally without other electrical e(|uipment than had been obtained in 1892 for lighting the then newly erected Lyman Gymna- sium, but this served as a nucleus. By gift, purchase, or construction on the spot, a laboratory has been obtained that, in spite of its unfavorable location in the basement of Wilson Hall, has progres- sively served as the practice ground for nearly fifty Bachelors of Science in Elec- trical Engineering. BROWN MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR Tne University Library has received from Bertram Smith, '10, of Berkeley, C'al., a very interesting type-written doc- ument of nearly a hundred pages giving the records of Brown men in the Civil War as compiled by him from the "Of- ficial Records of the LTnion and Confed- erate Armies." He gives a brief state- ment of the nature of the work and a numerical summary, both of which we reproduce as the best way of bringing to the attention rf all interested this lal)or of love on the part of a Brown alunnius long subsequent in date to the men whose records he has collected. INl'KODrCTlOX From the nature of the material found in the "Oflicial Records of the Union and <\)nfederate Armies" any biological data gathered from this sou ice is of ne- cessity very incomplete and fragmentary. But as far as I know no attempt has heretofore been made to make use of this original source to add to our knowl- edge of the Brown men who served in the Civil War. While much of the ma- terial found adds very little to what we alreadv know of those men to whom it relates, yet some of the material found is such as cannot be obtained from any other source. The records of many of the Brown men, especially the non graduates, as found in the "Historical Catalogue," are woefully incomplete, and this very incompleteness is a hindrance to further research. Again, the habit of giving onlv the initials of a man's given name, especially that of giving the middle in- itial, is a very serious handicap in tracing a particular name among a list contain- ing thousands of names where the same surname often occurs a dozen times. On this account the wrong records have doubtless been attached to several names, and other names doubtless been missed entirely owing to the very meagre infor- mation available. S82 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The great proportion of the "War of the RebelHon Records" relates naturally to the officers of the two armies, and it is only occasionally that the name of a private receives mention. This limits most of the material found to those Brown men who were officers, and the number of those may well be looked upon as bringing added honor to the name of Brown. It is to be hoped that others, more fa- miliar with the men mentioned, will add to the data here given, so that so many records in the "Historical Catalogue" will be no longer mere names. RECAPITULATION Number of Brown men mentioned in Burrage's "Brown University in the Civil War" as having enlisted in the Union Army or Navy — 294. Graduates and Non Graduates men- tioned in the "War of the Rebellion Records" whose names do not occcur in "Burrage" — Union — Graduates, 7 — Non Graduates, 35 Confederate — Graduates, — Non Graduates, 14 4 60 Graduates and Non Graduates men- tioned .in the "Historical Catalogue" whose names do not occur in "Burrage" or in the "War of the Rebellion Rec- ords" — Union — Graduates, — Non Graduates, (Confederate — Graduates, — Non Graduates, 40 25 6 7 78 Total number of Graduate and Non Graduate Brown Men who served in the Civil War- Union, 401 Confederate, 31 432 Adding the eleven Honorary Gradu- uates who served in the Civil War we get a total of 443. COMING EVENTS May 1. May 1. May 4. May 5. Prize $150 May 7. May 11. to Seniors. May 14. Brown-Amherst Dual Athletic Meet at Amherst. Essays due for Bishop McVickar prizes. Musicale, (Ladies' Night), Brown Union. Examination for award of Foster Premium in Greek. Open to Seniors. Brown-Dartmouth tennis at Providence. Gaston Prize Medal Competition for Excellence in Oratory. Open Open to Seniors of Essays due for prize of Gaspee Chapter, D. A . R Women's College. Prize $40. May 14. Essays due at Women's College for Chace Prize, (subject, "Woman Suffrage Movement"). Prize $25. May 14. Essays due for Edythe Peck Adams Prize at Women's College for best short story by an undergraduate. Prize $10. May 18. Hicks Prize Competition for Excellence in Debate. By representatives of Junior and Senior classes. First prize $30, two second prizes $20 each. May 19. Examination for award of Lucius Lyon Premium in Latin. Open to Seniors. First prize $120, second $70, third $50. May 19. Essays due for prize of Society of Colonial Dames in American History. Open to Graduate students, Seniors and Juniors (both men and women). Prize $50. THE ARNOLD BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY Latest View of Brown's Newest Building. Lyman Gymnasiuna in Foreground ANNUAL MEETING OF ADVISORY BOARD By Albert K. Potter, Secretary The two sess ons of the eighth annual meeting of the Advisory Board were held on the evening of March 2nd and the morning of March 3rd, with twenty-seven members present, including delegates from thirteen local associations. This was the largest attendance in the history of the organization. It was the general opinion that no previous meeting has been marked with better sustained interest in the business of the Board or more confi- dence in its usefulness. The first session began with the dinner at the T'niversity Club. It was followed immediately by the address of welcome from President Faunce, who was most ex- plicit in his recognition of the services already rendered by the Board to the University, and in his confidence in the judgment shown in its deliberations. He made the interesting announcement of the selection of Mr. Rowland Hazard McLaughlin of the present Senior class as Secretary to the University, to begin his duties in July, and suggested the possi- bility of the employment of a part of his time in alumni work. The Board then proceeded to the selec- tion of candidates for an Episcopalian vacancy in the Board of Trustees. It was realized that the new arrangement with the Corporation greatly increases the responsibility of the Advisory Board and makes the alumni ballot for the first time an important privilege. In conse- quence nominations were considered with utmost care. The final vote cannot be made public until, in accordance with the conditions of the arrangement, the legal eligibility of the candidates selected has been passed upon by a Committee of the Corporation. Only a little less important was the selection of Trustees of the Loyalty Fund to supersede the Committee of Organiza- tion which has thus far had charge of the 333 234 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Fund. In the discussion of the many nominations it became apparent that there would be marked advantage in a larger Board of Trustees and it was voted to recommend to the Associated Alumni that the number of Trustees be increased from three to seven, and that the Secre- tary of the Associated Alumni be ex officio one of this number. The Trustees finally elected with hearty unanimity were: George F. Bean, "81, lawyer, of Boston, for three years; Edward O. Stan- ley, '76, Vice-President of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of New York, for two years; Byron S. Watson, '97, merchant, of Providence, for one year. At the session of Wednesday morning, the first business was the report of the Committee on Enlarging the Membership of the Board. Undoubtedh' a consider- able part of the efficiency of the Board has been due to the stability of its mem- bership ; but it is felt that the value of the organization in the eyes of the alum- ni will be increased by a wider distribu- tion of responsibility for representation. Several plans were suggested but found in discussion to present difficulties that seemed insuperable and the final vote sim- ply increased the number of delegates at large from three to seven, leaving it for the Associated Alumni to select these del- egates in such wise as to afford represen- tation to different localities and to groups of classes. At the suggestion of President Faunce the possibility of arranging for an annual Alumni Visiting Day was briefly discuss- ed. A committee consisting of Messrs. Collins of New York, Hazard of Man- chester and Greene of Providence was appointed to secure further information and report either to the Associated Alumni or to the next meeting of the Board. The report of the committee on "What Brown Stands For" was accepted and Messrs. Mumford of Providence and Field of Boston were added to the committee, which will present a supplementary report next year. The onh' part of the report that was discussed dealt with the respon- sibility of the College for the guidance of students in other ways than those afford- ed by the classroom. There were inter- esting accounts of what other institutions are doing and of what Brown is trying to accomplish on these lines. In comiection with this discussion it was unanimously voted that the Secretary be instructed to write a letter to Dean Randall expressing cordial appreciation of his earnest efforts. It w^as also voted that the Board ex- press to President Faunce its hearty approval of the appointment of Mr. McLaughlin as Secretary to the Univer- sity and recommend to the Trustees of the Loyalty Fund that suitable arrange- ments be made for his employment in alumni work for some portion of his time. The Board adjourned in time for the luncheon in the Administration Building. THE ADVISORY BOARD, W15 Officers of the Ansoclated Alumni President, Edward O. Stanley, "7(i. Vice Presidents, Charles C. Mumford, '81, Clarence H. Lingham, '97. Secretary, Albert K. Potter, "8(5. Treasurer, *Robert W. Taft, '9]. Executive Committee, William C. Greene, "7.5, Byron S. Watson, "97, Walter L. Munro, "79, Archibald C. Matteson. "93. *Horace P. Dorman, "9fi. Delegates At Large, George F. Bean, "81, Walter C. Wyckoff, '95. Providence, George F. Weston, '78, William A. Spicer, Jr., "05. Boston, Fred H. Williams, '77, Fred T. Field, '00. Newport, Alfred A. Langley, "76. Woonsocket, Frederick E. Whittaker,"88. Fall River, Ralph W. Jackson, '89. Worcester. Ray W. Greene, "83. Appleton P. Williams, "89. Springfield, William C. Hill, "94. New Bedford, Edmund Wood, '76. Stonington, *Henry R. Palmer, "90. Bristol. Augustus O. Bourn, "55. Manchester. Rev. George R. Hazard, "94. New York, Clarkson S. Collins, '76. *David L. Fultz. "98. Philadelphia, Rev. Peter C. Wright, '95. Albany, Frank C. Hulse, '05. Class Secretaries, Robert P. Brown. '71, *Zecha- riah Chafee, '80. *Unable to be present. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 235 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the Graduates of Brown University by the Brown AUiinni Magazine Co. Robert P. Brown, Treas., Providence, li. I. ADVISORY BOARD William \V. Keen, '59. Pliilailelpliia. Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsbur^rli. Francis Lawton. '69, New York. Robert P. Brown, '71. Proviclence. AVilliam V. Kellen, '~i. Boston. ^Villianl V.. 1-oster, '~A. Providence. Zechariali Cliafee, '80, Proviclence. Gardner Colby, '87, New York. Joseph N. Asliton, '91, Salem. William R. Dorman. '9i, New York. George A. Gaskill, '98, Worcester. Henry Robin.son Pat.mer. '90. Editor. Hahrv Lvman Kooi'MAN, Associate Editor. Howard M. Chapin, "08, Business Manager. Business Office, 68 Waterman St. Tel. Angell H59-W. Address all communications to the Brown Alumni Montlily, Brown University, Providence, R. I Subscription, $1.00 a Year, Sing-le Copies, 10 cents. There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post-office as second-class matter. APRIL, 1915 The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot under- take to return manuscripts sent to it for publica- tion, unless they are accompanied by sufficient postage. GETTING THE BOY TO COLLEGE If we ma}' trust the discu.ssion.s that we hear or see in print, the chief problems of higher education are concerned with what to do with the boy after we have gotten him into college, — his curriculum, his morals, his activities, athletic or other, his social life. These are indeed funda- mental after the student is here ; but, though the statement may seem a para- dox, the greatest service of the college to the boy has already been rendered when it has enrolled him as a student. An an- cient Spanish scholar is reported to have said : "An author should always make his own index ; anybody can write the book". So we may say : the main thing is to launch the boy on a career of higher education ; what he studies after that or who teaches him makes little difference. The absurdity in these statements carries its own corrective; it is only an over-em- phasis of the basic educational fact, often left out of account, that the great service of the college to the public is rendered by drawing talent out of the community and sending it back marked for recognition. What Brown did in the case of John Hay was to reach forth to the banks of the Mississippi and draw a youth of the highest promise out of .surroundings in which he had no chance to develop, and then, after a brief training, to give him back to his state, and thence to the na- tion and the world. Any man who has attained to middle life and has been able to bear some part in the higher life of his country must realize that he is only one chosen out of many, that among his early playmates were those who might have better repaid training than he has done, but they were left in obscurity uncon- scious of their possibilities. If it is true, as the sociologists have asserted, that only one- tenth of the avail- able talent of a community is ever called into exercise, it is easy to see the import- ance of the service that the college ren- ders merely in acting as a magnet in drawing ability out of the undistinguished mass. Once in college, once given the opportunity to know what may be achiev- ed in the world and to measure his powers with those of his fellows, the youth of talent may be trusted to make his way. It is this initiation that is so hard to bring about ; it is this first step that counts more than all the rest. Here is op- ened, it seems to us, a field of effort from which the college in the past has appeared to shrink as if its cultivation implied self-advertising. It seemed to say : "We are glad to take all who will come and can do our work, but we cannot ad- vertise any more than a respectable phy- sician can'". Though the college author- ities may all be professional men, the analogy is a false one. It is the business of Education as much as of the Gospel to make itself known. There should be not a youth within its range who does not know of the college and have some idea what it stands for. More than this. 236 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY the college should not be content with merely being known. It should, so far as it has or can get the power, make it impossible for any youth of promise to slip out of the village school, much more out of the high school, into the shop, the mill, or the store. The college has a charge to keep. It has a cure of minds, if not of souls, and its public is as defin- ite as the parish of most churches. But the American college, particularly the Eastern college, must make up its mind, we think, to do far more pastoral work than it has ever done before. Its mis- sion is to seek, not the feeble, but the strong and promising, and these, by friendly urgence and generous aid, it must compel to come in. THE DAVIS MATHEMATICAL FUND Many of our readers, having in mind Professor Archibald's strong appeal, in our December number, for the develop- ment of the Mathematical Department Library, have only been waiting for a def- inite movement to be organized in order that they might make a response in sub- stantial form. At the Visitors' meeting in March such a movement was definitely planned. A fund of ten thousand dollars or more — fifteen thousand would be bet- ter — is to be raised to provide an income for the purchase of books in Mathematics, and the fund is to be named in honor of Professor Davis. Over three hundred years ago Lord Bacon pointed out that "works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant about three objects : the places of learn- ing, the books of learning, and the per- sons of the learned". As regards the advancement of mathematical learning at Brown, the place — the department room — is provided; the members of the de- partment form one of the finest mathe- matical faculties in America; but the books, by no means lacking, are not equal to the demands of our investigators. The proposed movement therefore is of the most commendable sort, for it proposes to confer a reward of merit, to strength- en a department that has shown by its unaided growth its right to grow and its claim upon support. Moreover it is a department that belongs to the future. Whatever changes may be made in our curriculum in the course of the century before us, there can be no doubt that Mathematics will remain one of its car- dinal divisions, for Mathematics, while itself belonging to the field of pure thought, enters more and more into the development of the natural sciences. The memorial character of the propos- ed fund is one of its most attractive features. Professor Davis has for over forty 3'ears given himself to the Univer- sity with a devotion that few have equall- ed. If his students alone will contribute to the fund, each according to his means — and we can hardh^ imagine any one de- clining — the amount will be assured. One friend of the department has already subscribed a thousand dollars. Let us have the whole fund raised by next Com- mencement, so that when Professor Davis retires at that time, he may receive this splendid recognition of his long and de- voted service to his Alma Mater. PROFESSOR MANATTS LAST LETTER The last letter Professor Manatt ever wrote was addressed to President Faunce and was as follows : Dear Dr. Faunce: Referring to your recent suggestion, it occurs to me that Wednesda}', 17th Feb- ruary, might be a good date for a little Chapel talk. That day rounds out my three score and ten and the occasion might supply the text for a serious word to the boys who will soon know me no more — as, indeed, precious few of them do now. If then I succeed in shaking off the present cold meantime, you can count on me then or at such other time as may be most convenient. Very sincerely yours, J. Irving' Manatt 22d January, 1915. WOMEN'S COLLEGE IN BROWN UNIVERSITY Emma Bradford Stanton, 1896, Correspondent THE GROWING CAMPUS The Sepiad says : With the acquisition of added property in this academic year, it is interesting to note the growth in buildings and grounds of the Women's College since it was founded in 1891, un- der the administration of President An- drews. The accompanying diagram will and following it the three lots on Gushing street (E F G), where Miller Hall and its grounds now are. In 1910 Miller Hall was erected as a residence hall for the students, and the Slater Memorial Homestead on Benefit street, occupied since 1900, was abandoned. In 1912, extension on Meeting street Urown Str««t help to make the explanation clear. The institution was accepted as a part of Brown University in 189T, and Pembroke Hall, the first building, was erected in that year by the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women. The land which forms the campus front- ing on Cushing street (ABC) became college property through four gifts, and in 1906 Sayles Gymnasium was built. The next year lawns were graded and walks laid out. The Miller house on Bowen street (U) was the next addition, began with the purchase of the vacant lot (H) adjoining the East Side Garage, the next lot (I), and the stable which stood behind the houses on lots I and J. Half of the lower floor of the dwelling- house on the middle lot (I) was fitted up for classrooms and has been used for that purpose since 1913-14. It is graced with the title of East Building, and is gathering associations rapidly. The sta- ble was removed last fall, and the land where it stood has been leveled and grad- ed. The Bates house on Olive street 837 238 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY (not shown in the diagram) was left to the college in 1913 by the will of Isaac C. Bates. In 1913 another lot on Cash- ing street (K) was purchased, adjoining the college property on Bowen street. Here an excellent tennis court has been laid out and is used very constantly by the students in tennis season. The land and house directly east of Pembroke Hall on Meeting street (J) were bought in the spring of 1914, thus making the college property on Meeting street continuous from Pembroke Hall to the garage. This house, the Bates House and the Miller House are being rented at present. The latest addition is the Wallace House and lot on Gushing street (L), bought in the fall of 1914. For some time before the erection of Miller Hall this house was, as a private enterprise, a boarding-house for students. It is planned to use it now for a co-operative house for students of the Women's College. Now the Women's College property is continuous and compact on Meeting street and both sides of Cushing street, and the Miller house- lot on Bowen street has been brought to adjoin the other col- lege land. CO-OPERATIVE HOUSE • The work of fitting the Wallace House on Cushing Street for a co-operative house for students is to be begun at once. Miss Julia E. Turner of Boston will have supervision of the changes to be made there. It is expected that about twenty students can be accommodated in the house, which will be opened next fall. As nearly half of the students who are boarding in the city are now obliged to live away from the college, this second dormitory will give an opportunity for more of these to live on the campus, v^o-operative houses are a success both at Smith and Wellesley. Students, by shar- ing in the running of such a house, have an opportunity to learn scientific house- keeping and at both the colleges mention- ed it is considered an honor to be chosen to live in one of the co-operative houses. WHERE ALUMNAE LIVE A geographical survey of the alunmae has just been made by the President of the Alumnae Association. The results are as follows : Rhode Island 287 Illinois 6 Massachusetts 12(i Indiana 3 West hi Kansas 1 Central i:, Kentucky t) East 61 Louisiana 2 South 39 Michigan 3 Connecticut 32 Maryland 2 S. W. 1 Minnesota 3 W. and Cent. 22 Missouri 4. East 9 Montana 1 Maine 7 North Carolina .3 New Hampshire 12 Ohio 4 Vermont 11 Oregon 5 New York .53 South Carolina 1 N. Y. City >7 South Dakota 1 Near N. Y. 10 Tennessee 1 East. N. Y. 9 Virginia 2 North. N. Y. 1 Washington 5 W.half" " () West Virginia 1 New Jersey 13 Wisconsin 3 Pennsylvania 14 Canada 4. Philadelphia 9 Nova Scotia I East. Pa. 2 Alberta i 2 West. Pa. 3 Quebec 1 Arizona 1 England 1 California 10 France 1 District of Columbia 3 India 1 Idaho 1 Japan 1 RIFLE CLITB Before the proposed Rifie Club n)ay use the range at the State Armory per- mission must be obtained from the Arm- ory Commission. As soon as this is secured, the Rifle Club will be or- and the 60 or more can- who signed, will be asked Professor Dunning has ap- proved of the proposed club, and Pres- ident Faunce has signed an application to ganized didates, to meet. the proper ofiicials for use of the range. When plans are completed, the gov- ernment will furnish one rifle to each five men, and 120 rounds of ammunition. The club will have to furnish a bond for the keeping of the rifles. There is a national board for the promotion of rifle shooting, which annually offers prizes. An intercollegiate competition is held an- nually, which the Brown team. may, enter, THE NEW PRESIDENT OF ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY After a search of nearly three years for a president to succeed Dr. Augustus H. Strong as the head of Rochester The- ological Seminary, the trustees at the end of January elected Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, *88. Dr. Barbovu- took up his duties April 1st, serving not only as President, but also as Wyckoff Professor of Honiiletics. Dr. Barbour has been for six } ears associate or executive secretary of the Religious Work Department of the In- ternational Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, with head- KKV. CLARENCE A. BARBOUR quarters in New York City. Previous to this service he was pastor of the 1 ake Avenue Baptist Church of Rochester, to which he was called several months be- fore his graduation from the Seminary, his pastorate extending from 1891 to 1909. Ill 1896 he was elected a trustee of the Seminary and in 1918 president of the board. He was president of the New York State Society of Christian Endeavor in 1896, and was vice-presi- dent of the Rochester Good Government Club, 1894.-1902. He received the de- gree of D. D. from the University of Rochester in 1901 and from Brown in 1909. In 1897 he received a call from the Memorial Baptist Church in Phila- delphia to succeed Dr. T. Edwin Brown, and, in 1903, a call from Tremont Tem- ple to succeed Dr. George C. Lorimer, but he declined both in\ itations. Dr. Barbour was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1867, and was graduated from the Hartford High School as an honor student in 1884. He married, in 1891, Florence A. Newell of Providence. Thev have four children. He is a brother of Rev. Thomas Seymovn* Barbour, '74, and Rev. John Baptist Barbour, '91. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Besides various contributions to peri- odicals, he has published the following l)<)oks : I'ellowship Hymns, 1910; The Bible in the World of To-day, 1911; Principles and Methods of Religious Work for Men and Boys, 1912; Making Religion Efticient, 1912. The Watchman-Examiner says of his appointment : "There is wide-spread satisfaction over hiis choice. Dr. Barbour is an able executive, a fine speaker, and he will make a teacher of unusual ability. For six months subsequent to the death of Dr. T. Harwood Pattison he taught honiiletics in the Rochester Seminary. Among his students at that time were Professors Moehlmann and Robbins, who are now in the faculty. For many years he has been president of the board of trustees of the Seminary, and a member of the executive conunittee and of the committee on instruction. No man is 239 MO BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY more familiar with the work of the Sem- inary and its needs than is Dr. Barbour. His wide acquaintance with the young men of the country and his popularity as a young man's speaker and a college preacher will add to his efficiency as the head of the institution. The Watchman- Examiner greatly rejoices over his elec- tion, and we offer to him and to the Seminary our sincere congratulations." ADVISORY AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Advisory and Executive Commit- tee of the Corporation held its monthly meeting in the office of President Faunce on Friday, February 12th, at three P. M. The report of the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings was read and ap- proved. It was announced that Dr. Thomas D. Anderson would complete this year twenty-five years of service as secre- tary of the Corporation and a committee was appointed to draw up a suitable reso- lution in recognition of his long service. Professor W. B. Jacobs was appointed Director of University Extension, the additional title recognizing the work he has been doing for several years. Mr. Percy Marks was appointed Assistant in English in place of Mr. A. E. Allen re- signed. The resignation of James H. Connolly as lecturer in mechanical engin- eering was announced and President Faunce was empowered, in conjunction with Professor Kenerson, to engage special lecturers in that subject for the remainder of the year. A special committee composed of Messrs. Kellen, Mason and Green was ap- pointed to consult with a similar commit- tee from the Faculty and arrange for a dinner in recognition of Professor Man- att's approaching retirement. (This was on the day before Professor Manatt's death). In view of the vacancy created by Professor Manatt's approaching retire- ment it was voted to appoint Kendall Kerfoot Smith, Ph. D., Assistant Profes- sor of Greek, his term of service to begin September 1, 1915. It was voted to create a new executive office, that of Secretary to the Universit}', and Rowland Hazard McLaughlin of the present Senior class was appointed to that position, his term to begin after his graduation in June. After discussion of man}' matters pertaining to University life, the meeting adjourned. The March meeting was held on Fri- day afternoon, March 12th. The report of the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings was received and placed on file. The President reported that Professor Nathaniel F. Davis, acting on the advice of his ph3'sicians, had requested retire- ment under the Brown pension system at the end of the present academic year. Such retirement was granted with deep regret. It was announced that Professor L. T. Damon had so far recovered his health that he would return to his duties in September. Leave of absence under the Sabbatic year arrangement was granted to W. C. Bronson for the year 1915-16. Various small appropriations were made to meet current emergencies. Miss J. H. Barr, cataloguer in the libra- ry, having resigned. Miss Edith R. Blan- chard was appointed in her place. It was voted that the salary of Professor J. Irving Manatt for the remainder of the academic year should be paid to Mrs. Manatt. The President reported that Professor Allinson had generously offered to take Professor Manatt's classes for the remainder of the year. The committee discussed the changes necessary in Rhode Island Hall in order to fit it for academic uses after the re- moval of the department of biology. After discussion of various matters the committee adjourned at 5 :30 P. M. NEW INSTRUMENT AT LADD OBSERVATORY By Clinton H. Currier The Department of Astronomy has re- cently received a special spectroscope for the study of solar prominences, the gift of Mr. Samuel H. Tinglev of Providence. This instrument is of the Wolfer type, designed by Professor AVolfer of Zurich, Switzerland. It was made to Mr. Ting- ley's special order in the workshop of Otto Toepfer and Son in Potsdam, Germany. It is believed to be the only spectroscope of this type in this country, although there are several in use in Europe. The solar prominences are masses of glowing gas which extend out from the central ball of the sun like scarlet flames, sometimes to a distance of several hun- dred thousand miles Without a spec- troscope thev can be seen only at times of a total eclipse of the sun, for our at- mosphere refracts and reflects the light of the sun, making the sky brighter than the prominences even if we use a screen to cut off the direct sunlight. The train of three compound prisms in the Wolfer spectroscope reduces the glare of the sky by spreading the light out over a greater area. Thus the prominences become visible against a darker back- ground. The spectroscope when in use is at- tached to the eye-end of the telescope. The slit of the instrument is then placed tangent to the sun's limb and by rotating the spectroscope through 360 degrees, the whole limb may be examined for prominences. The whole telescope is carried along by clockwork so as to keep pace with the motion of the sun across the sky, thus enabling the observer to study and sketch the structural details of prominences at his leisure. There are also attachments for measuring the heights of prominences and for determining their exact location on the solar disk. Mr. Tingley's splendid gift is thus a valuable addition to the resources of the observatory. It will enable us to make the study of Astronomy more real to all our students and will also give advanced students and members of the department opportunity for research work on solar pi'ominences. NEW BEDFORD ALUMNI With Dean Otis E. Randall and Pro- fessor Albert K. Potter of Brown Univer- sity as the guests of honor, Edmund Wood, president of the Brown Club of New^ Bedford, entertained the club at his home on Ash street Feb. 19. President Faunce had hoped to be present but a temporary indisposition prevented his at- tendance. A short business session preceded the speaking of the evening and at this the following officers were elected for the en- suing year: President, Charles O. Dexter; Vice President, Frederic Taber; Secretary and Treasurer, Edward W. Holmes. Executive Committee, the officers and Allen W. Milliken and Frank H. Childs. Edmund Wood was re-appointed as delegate from the club to the Alumni Ad- visory Council, upon which he had served as chairman during the year. Dean Randall, speaking as the official representative of the university, told in- terestingly of many phases of college work of the present day, of the changes in the curricula and of the university oversight of undergraduate activities. Professor Potter gave interesting rem- iniscences of Brown dinners and gatherings of alumni which he had attended, and told of the loyalty fund now being raised. At the conclusion of the speaking, an informal luncheon was served, and the members of the club had an opportunity «41 242 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY to ask questions of the university repre- sentatives. Brown songs with Frank H. Childs, '06, at the piano and the singing led by Pro- fessor Potter brought the evening to a close. Those who attended included Dean Otis E. Randall, Professor Albert K. Potter, Edmund Wood, Allen F. Wood, Frank H. GifFord, Charles O. Dexter, Dr. George Marsden, Fred W. Greene, Jr., William O. Devoll, Jr., Leslie H. Suth- erland, Sydney S. Paine, Dr. Holder C. Kirby, Frank H. Childs, Stephen A. Lowe, and Edward W. Holmes. BROWN UNIVERSITY CLUB IN NEW YORK The following officers have been elected by the Brown University Club in New York : President, William R. Dorman, '92, 48 Wall street, Hanover 5174. Vice Pre.sident, Walter C. Wyckoff, '95, 546 Fifth avenue, Bryant 1263. Secretary, Frederick R. Gleason, '11, 503 Fifth avenue, Murray Hill 6595. Treasurer, Hermon N. Coulter, *05, 165 Broadway, Cortlandt 8920. Board of Governors, J. B. Francis HerreshofF, '70, (Club Policy Comm.) Chairman, 620 West End avenue, River- side 434 ; Clarkson A. Collins, '76, (Mem- bership Comm.) Chairman, 20 Vesey street, Cortlandt 3739 ; Edward O. Stan- ley, '76, (Finance Comm.) Chairman, 176 Broadway, Cortlandt 8800 ; Henry G. Hardy, '80, (House Comm. ) Chairman, 218 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, Pros- pect 1619 R; Samuel H. OrdWay, '80, (House Comm.), 27 William street. Broad 6255; Walter C. WyckofF, '95, (House Comm.), 542 Fifth avenue, Bry- ant 1263; Alfred B. Meacham, '96, (Finance Comm. ), 59 Wall street, Han- over 5140; Richard R. Hunter, '98, (Finance Comm.), 37 Wall street, Han- over 5100; Edward S. Gushee, '98 (Club Policy Comm.), 204 West 86th street, Schuyler 5200; Clarence H. Guild, Jr., '.99, (Membership Comm.), 1784 Broad- way, Columbus 9200; James M. Kent, '99, (Membership Comm.), 440 West End avenue, Schuyler 6487 ; Frederick W. Murphy, '99, (Club Policy Comm. ), 41 Wall street, Hanover 6274. Advisory Board to the Alumni, Clark- son A. Collins, '76, 20 ^ esey street, Cortlandt 3739; David L. Fultz', '98, 41 Wall street, Hanover 6274. Monhershii) Committee, Charles A. Lun- dell, *06, Chairman, 514 West 148th street, James Larkin, '11. House Committee, Alexander Graham, '06, Chairman, 222 West 39th street, Greeley 5570. Liln-ary Committee, Benjamin F. Pabo- die, '60, Chairman, 36 Spring street, Montclair, N. J. ; J. C. Jessup, '93. Publicity Committee, Clarkson A. Col- lins, Jr., '08, Chairman, 561 Tremont avenue, Westfield, N. J. Music Committee, Elbert K. Fretwell, '05, Chairman. Pool Committee, James Larkin, '11. Sub-Freshman Committee, Frederick W. Murphy, '99, Chairman ; Mellinger E. Henry, '99; Elbert K. Fretwell, '05; Alexander Graham, '06 ; Theodore E. Tolson, "06; Henry G. Clark, "07; Vic- tor Arthur Schwartz, *07 ; William A. Spinney, '07. It will be noted that each memljer of the Board of Governors is assigned to a sub-committee, the idea being to define clearly the duties of the board. THE NEW YORK DINNER The annual dimiei- of the lirowii Ahiin- ni Association of New York was held on the evenini«' of FebruaiT 4th at the Park Avenue Hotel. Unfortunately the Alum- ni Monthly has never received from the association a report of this dinner. Chief- ly because of this reason no account was printed in last month's issue. We wish that every alumni association would find it convenient to send us promptly a full report of its annual gathering. The chief guest of the evening was President Faunce. The toastmaster was Clarkson A. Collins, "76. President Faunce was delayed by a slight indispos- ition which, however, quickly passed and he made one of his eloquent and forceful addresses to the assembly. "Alumni coaching," not only applied to athletics but to ever}' branch of student activities, was his keynote. He suggested creating a new position of sec- retary to the alumni, corporation, or president, to serve as a connecting link i)etween the alumni out in the world and the university. "This man,"* added Dr. Faunce, "would stand midway between the busi- ness and the college world. He would tend to keep the alumni scattered through- out the world in closer touch with the doings of Brown University, create a new- er interest and deeper feeling in the hearts of the students as they leave brown. The new position could be one of tremendous influence and of the great- est importance in the university organiza- tion. One of the duties would be to create an alumni loyalt}' fund. I have been out three times looking for a million dollars each time and I don't care to go out the fourth time. 'The alunmi can also assist in shaping the ideals of the undergraduates. What we want is men to come back and tell of the glories of Brown and its advantages to the undergraduates. This will be do- ing a real service for the university. Our undergraduates need coaching in altruism and religion and good hearty athlet c coaching in all the finest sides of the un- dergraduates" life." Other speakers of the evening were Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, "84, who has re- centh' taken up his new duties as Presi- dent of Tufts College ; George Harris, President-emeritus of Amherst College ; and Rev. Dr. George Hooper Ferris, "91, of Philadelphia. There were a number of facetious features on the programme, including a guttural speech by Graham, "06, who took the part of Bruno, the Brown bear. THE NEW UNIVERSITY SECRETARY Rowland Hazard McLaughlin, Brown IDlo, President of the Senior class, has been appointed Secretary to the Univer- sity, and will enter upon his duties next summer. The Advisory Board of the Associated Ahnnni has asked that Mr. McLaughlin shall devote a part of his time to work among the alumni, and shall take charge of the newly organized Loyalty Fund. Lender this arrangement the University will assume the Secretary"s salary and the alumni will pay a part of the expense. As Secretary to the University, he will have an oflice in the Administration building and will report directly to Pres- ident Faunce. As representative of the alumni, he will not only have charge of the Loyalty Fund, but will corre- spond directly with all alunmi who wish to make inquiries or suggestions or to obtain closer touch with T'ni versify af- fairs. It is confidently expected that as an alumnus he will prove efficient in devel- oping and organizing alumni sentiment. Mr. McLaughlin is the son of Profes- 243 244 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY sor A. C. McLaughlin of the Univer- sity of Chicago, and a grandson of Pres- ident James B. Angell, Brown '49, of the University of Michigan. He has taken high rank as a scholar in college, has been prominent in many undergrad- uate activities and excels in several kinds of athletic sports. As President of the Senior class and a member of the Cam- marian Club during the present year, he has been in constant consultation with the administration of the University, and has been one of the leaders in shap- ing and expressing student life at Brown. TOPICS OF THE MONTH PROFESSOR RALEIGH'S LECTURES The 150th anniversary of the founding of Brown University is still being cele- brated. In pursuance of the plan to have noted lecturers deliver addresses at the college in connection with the anniver- sary. Professor Sir Walter Raleigh of Ox- ford University, England, gave the first of four lectures on Chaucer in Sayles Hall on the evening of March 22 before the largest audience which has attended any of the winter's series. Every available seat in the hall was occupied by an audience which listened intently to Pro- fessor Raleigh's address on Chaucer's life and literary tendencies. More than an exposition or critical study of Chaucer, the lecture was intend- ed to serve as a preface to the other three which Professor Raleigh will deliver. A few estimates of the poet whose name is coupled with that of Shakespeare were read; but, in the main, the lecture was concerned with the scanty known facts relative to Chaucer's life. Professor Ra- leigh also interpolated several readings from Chaucer's tales. Members of the English Department of Brown, wearing their academic robes, acted as ushers at the lecture and Profes- sor Bronson, head of the department, sat on the platform with Professor Raleigh. President Faunce introduced the lecturer to the audience as one whose name is prized wherever the English language is honored and studied. Following the lecture a reception was tendered to Professor Raleigh in the John Carter Brown Library, where the mem- bers of the corporation, faculty, and in- vited guests welcomed him to Providence and the University. Professor Raleigh has since been the recipient of many other social attentions in the city. PROFESSOR TAUSSIG AT BROWN "The attitude toward work bred by labor union polic}- and environment brings ill consequences," said Professor Taussig of Harvard University in an ad- dress at Brown University, Feb. 8, on "The Instinct of Contrivance." Can anything be imagined that will render the day's labor more repugnant than holding one's self in, so as to refrain from doing one's best.^" "The more familiar schemes for remod- elling the wages system — cooperation by workmen, profit-sharing and welfare ar- rangements — promise little relief from these difficulties. There seem to be con- siderable possibilities in what is called scientific management. But the familiar schemes tend to treat the worker like a machine, not to develop the spontaneity of the living man. The average employ- er is a narrow-minded person. The suspicions and prejudices of the workmen contribute in turn to a mechanical rela- tion between masters and men." BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1915 (All games in Providence, except when other- wise designated.) April 7, Rhode Island State; April 10, Providence International League; April 14, Maine; April 17, Princeton; April 21, New Hampshire State; April 24, Yale; April 28, Wesleyan ; April 30, Virginia; May 1, Holy Cross; May 5, BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 245 Amherst at Amherst ; May 7, Dartmouth ; . May 8, Tufts at Medford; May 10, Dart- mouth at Hanover; May 12, Vermont; May 15, Amherst; May 19, Yale at New Haven ; May 22, Tufts"; May 26, 1^-ince- ton ; May 29, Harvard at Cambridge ; May 31, Harvard; June 5, Chinese Uni- versity; June 9, Springfield Y. M. C. A. College; June 12, Holy Cross at Wor- cester; and June 16, open. A second team has been organized for the first time in place of the Freshman team, and a twelve-game schedule has been arranged. This includes games with some of the chief New England pre- paratory schools and the Harvard second f team, and is as follows: April 14, Prov- idence Classical High School; April 21, Providence Technical High School ; April 23, Dean Academy at Franklin ; April 28, St. George's at Newport; May 1, Moses Brown School ; iVIay 5, Worcester Academy at Worcester ; May 8, open ; May 12, Providence English High School ; May 15, Gushing Academy at Gushing; May 1 9, Dean Academy ; May 22, Har- vard Second at Cambridge; May 26, Moses Brown School. BASEBALL PRACTICE The infield of the baseball regulars have been working in such good form that the combination of Andrews on first, Murray on second, Johnston at short, and Bab- ington at third seems unlikely to be bet- tered. The second-string infield offers an abun- dance of good material in Graham, Gar- side, Murphy, and Waterman. For the outfield on the 'Varsity, Dike and Orms- by, last year's veterans, are fairh' certain of positions, though the remaining place will probably be closely contested by Hall, Campbell, and Jemail. In a game between two improvised teams on March 13, Growell on the mound and Haddleton behind the bat formed a promising battery combination. Opposed to them were Maguire at the plate and Healy as pitcher. After practice on that day Captain Johnson announced that the squad had been cut from 36 to 24 men. The fol- lowing will make up the 'Varsity squad until the second team is formed : Pitchers, Growell, Gram, Richards, Healy, Fland- ers, Dennison ; catchers, Haddleton, Ma- guire, Cleveland, Feinberg, Donovan ; infielders, Andrews, Murray, Johnston, Babington, Murphy, Waterman, Garside, and Graham ; outfielders, Ormsby, Dike, Hall, Campbell and Jemail. VALUE OF A COLLEGE COURSE A one-hour course dealing with "the aim, scope, and value of a college course" will hereafter be required of all Fresh- men at Brown University. About one- fourth of the lectures will deal with the general relation of the student to the University ; the others with the academic curriculum. Some addresses will proba- bly be given by men not members of the Faculty. "It has become increasingly evident," said the Faculty Committee reporting the new plan, "that there is a general lack of information and a considerable posi- tive misunderstanding on the part of students of the entering class respecting administrative, social and academic mat- ters, and that this defect contributes to the failure of many students to appreci- ate and profit by the college course. The need in this respect appears to be so urgent as to warrant a distinct and seri- ous effbrt to meet it. The lectures of the first group will cover sucli subjects as, relations with ad- ministrative offices (sources of informa- tion, attitude toward studies, explanation of scholarship system, honesty in written work, honors, prizes, honorary societies, student finances, college institutions, re- lations with Faculty, freshman advisers), general scope of college training, facili- ties for study at the University and in the city, student activities, student conduct, health, and the use of the library. By vote of the Faculty Spanish and Italian have been placed on an equality with French and German as entrance 246 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY subjects, and will hereafter appear on the list of subjects regularly accepted for ad- mission to college without the require- ment of additional work in languages in the University. EXTENSION WORK The work of Brown University in Fall River has become more extensive this year. Professor Jacobs, the Director of University Extension at Brown, has been asked to extend the system of pupil teachers which has been so successful in Providence" into a few of the schools of Fall River, and three advanced students are now teaching under competent super- vision in Fall River schools. Professor Jacobs is also giving an extension course on the "Process and Progress of Learn- ing", in the hall of the Technical High School of Fall River on Tuesday after- noons at 4 :45 o'clock. In this course forty-four teachers are enrolled and much interest is manifested. In Providence the unusual financial conditions have operated against large enrollment in extension courses. Never- theless two hundred and eighty students are now enrolled in ten different courses, twenty of these students seeking to pass examinations at the end of the course and so obtain credit toward a degree. The professors giving these courses at the present time are Messrs. Watson, Mac- Donald, Langdon, Johnson, Follett, Crowell, Colvin, Collier, Bristol. HERALD ELECTIONS The Brown Herald recentl}^ announced the election of news editors and asso- ciate editors. The news editors are cho- sen from the Juniors on the board, who have been in competition since last spring editing and writing for the paper. They are Paul Crouse Lyall, Lawrence, Mass. ; William Henry Hurlin, Antrim, N. H. ; and Earl Franklin Wood, Dan- ielson. Conn. The men chosen to associate editor- ships are Sophomores, who have been writing news for the paper since the opening of college last fall. They are Norman Lincoln Fishel, Roxbury, Mass. ; and Benjamin Horace Yerxa, New Lon- don, N. H. TRIANGULAR DEBATE In the annual debate of the Triangular College League, March 26, the results were as follows : Brown won from both Dartmouth and Williams. The third contest was won by Dartmouth. NOTES OF THE MONTH On March 13 the Brown wrestlers lost to the Lehigh team at South Bethlehem by a score of 27-5. Both Capt. Wells and Blue were unable to wrestle and as a I'esult the team was badly crippled. The score represents three falls and three de- cisions for Lehigh, with but one fall for Brown. On March 6 the Brown gymnasts were defeated by Yale 38 to 16 in Lyman Gymnasium in the first meet ever held between the two colleges. Brown evened up with Dartmouth for the latter's victory in the relay race at Providence in February, by leading the Green in a gymnastic meet at the Lyman Gymnasium, March 19, 35 1-3 to 18 2-3. BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR Faculty Professor MacDonald delivered a lecture before the Rhode Island Historical Society, March 16. entitled: "Some Observations on Religious Lib- erty in Rhode Island". Professor Bristol has been making a study of the economic waste due to lawlessness in Rhode Island. Some of his results were given in the Providence Sunday Journal for March 14. He rates the total annual loss in the State at not less than $4,000,000. He pronounces the present system of dealing with crime a complete failure, making rather than reforming criminals. In conclusion he says: "Prevention of crime must work along five lines and seek to remedy defec- tive heredity, defective education, bad social conditions, defective industrial organization, and defective judicial and penal methods. This BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 247 calls for far-reachiiifj reform and demands the c-areful consideration of students of social prob- lems and of practical workers in social reform and daily life." It is definitely announced that Professor Davis will retire at next Commencement. In our May number we will present to our readers a sketch of his career. Mr. Guild, the Registrar, left Providence Feb. ^5. for a short vacation, joining his brother in Florida. As the work of the Registrar's office is continuous through the year, he was hardly able to get any vacation last summer. Professor Hill was appointed acting Registrar, to serve during Mr. Guild's absence, a part of Professor Hill's teaching being taken over by his assoc-iates. Professor Brooks has just received the honor of election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Lorenzo Sears, formerly of the F.nglish Department, delivered a lecture before the Rhode / Island Historical Society. March 2. on "'Major Joseph Hawley, Leader in the Great and General Court". Professor Bristol has won the David A. Wells Prize in Economics ottered by the Economic De- partment of Harvard University. Theamountis $500. Professor Bristol's subject was "The development of the doctrine of adaptation as a theory of social progress". At a meeting of the Cercle Francais held Feb. '2i. in the Union. Professor Johnson gave a talk on "Quelques Experiences en Europe au Com- mencement de la Guerre". He was in Switzer- land when war was declared. He described the difficulties he experienced in returning to this country, and also told of the general attitude of the European people towards the war. Alumni 1843 Mrs. Euphemia Davis Jewett. widow of Dr. Lyman Jewett, one of the pioneers in the Telugu mission of South India, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lester Davis, in Somerville. Mass., March 11, at the age of ninety. She was born in Frankfort. N. Y.. January 1-2. 1H-2J-. and on September 3, 1848i, was married to Dr. Lyman Jewett, who the year before had been appointed a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Within a month thej- sailed from Boston on a slow sailing vessel, reaching Madras in Feb., 1849. They proceeded at once to the struggling little station of Nellore to assist Dr. Day. the founder of the mission in his work. Here they labored faithfully for many years, and when in 1853 the abandonment of the mission was contemplated, the appropriations for the little school were cut off. Mrs. Jewett taught the girls to make fancy articles to be sold to the English ladies. In connection with this proposed aban- donment occurred one of the most dramatic events in the history of the I'oreign Mission Society. At the annual meeting of the Society, then known as the missionary Union, held in Albany. X. Y., in May. 18.53. the conditions and prospects of the Telugu Mission were under consideration. The mission stations were marked on a map by stars, and one speaker pointing to the single station of Nellore. spoke of it as the "lone star". Dr. S. 1". Smitii. the author of "America", was present, and his poetic mind caught up the words "Lone Star". Before he slept that night he had woven them intothe poem, "Shine On. Lone Star". The verses were read the next day at the meeting, and made such a profound impression that all ddubts were banished, and a resolution was passed pro- viding for the continuation and suitable re-en- forcement of the mission, A few months later another inspiring event in connection with this mission occin-red on the field, when on the morn- ing of January 1, 1851. Mrs. Jewett. her husband and three native converts, made their way to the little rise of ground above Ongole. now famous as "Prayer Meeting Hill", and there held that prayer meeting the results of which were so mar- velously shown in the coming of Dr. John E. Clough. In IH5r, on account of the Sepoy re- bellion. Dr. and Mrs. Jewett were obliged to leave their station for three months, and in IS61 re- turned to America for rest and recovery of health. In 1M77 they were transferred to Madras, where they opened a new station in 1878. and there spent the remainder of their missionary life. Here, while her husband did his notable work of translating the Bible into Telegu. Mrs. Jewett gained an entrance into the homes and hearts of the secluded caste women and developed her zenana work. Soon Dr. Jewett's health began to fail and Mrs. Jewett broke down entirely, so that in 188(5 they were obliged to give up their work. Dr. Jewett died in 1897. One daughter, Harriet, with her y;hout his career. He had been a treasurer and trustee of the Fourth Baptist Church. He moved to Klmjjrove avenue about four years a Professor Marshall S. Brown gave. Marcli 8. one of the six lectures offered bj' New York I'ni- versity on aspects of the European war. his sub- ject being: '"International law and problems of the present war"'. Richard OIney, ind. having lately been electetl a member of the United States House of Representatives, the graduate members of the Delta Phi I'raternity gave him a "congratulatory ilinner" at the L'niversity Club. Feb. l.j. Pro- fessor Munro acted as toastmaster. 1H9:J Wendell A. .Mowry, Superintendent of .Schools of Putnam. Conn., has been chosen Superintend- ent of Schools of NN'oonsocket. to fill the j)lace made vacant by the death of I" rank F. Mcl"ee,"75. He was selected from Si applicants for the posi- tion. The School Committee asked the City Council to raise the salary of the Superintendent from .«?-.'()()(> to .i?'.j(i(). Mr. Mowry was born in North Smithfield, Nov. ->',. IH71. He married, Aug. 1.5, IH9.5, Mabel A. Thayer of Woonsocket.' 'i'hey have two children. Helen A. Mowry. a Freshman at Brown, and Dorothy, a Senior at Putnam high school. He attended the public schools of Woonsocket. graduating from the high school in 1SS9. In college he was a member of Chi Phi. He was made principal of the Central Falls High School in 1H97 and served as Superin- tendent of Schools there. 1K9H-I91-2. He was assistant treasurer and secretary of the American Textile Company of Pawtucket. 191-2-1+, and be- came Superintendent of .Schools at Putnam last July. 1894. In an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor for March 8, 191,5, on the subject of "The Ne- gro and Higher Fducation", there is the following reference to a Brown alumnus: "Already negroes have done much to loosen the yoke of racial prej- udice for the existence of which the black and white both are in j)art responsible. We have learned to readjust ourattitude. Those who have followed contemporary negro education would not debar President Joiin Hopcof .\tlanta Baptist College, a Brown I'niversity graduate and a col- lege founder of more than ordinary calibre, from the ranks of the highly learned," IS!)() Rev. J. F. Smith, professor of Pali in the Ran- goon Baptist College, is joint author with Rev. 1). C. Gilmore of "The Fnd of the Law; or, Christ and Buddhism". {)ublislied by the Associ- ation Press. Calcutta. The aim of the book is to show how some of the highest ideals of Buddhism may be realized through Christianity. Dr. T. C. Merrill of the Bureau of Chemistry. Washington, delivered in New York city, Feb. I(), a lecture on !iis work in relation to patent medicine legislation, under the joint auspices of the Public Filucation Committee of the Medical Society of New York .ind the American Medical .Association. 1897 Contrary to the advice of his physician. Rev. Benjamin T. Livingston occupied his pulpit at the Columbia Street Baptist Church. Bangor, Me., Sunday morning. March 7, but was unable to be in his place in the evening. He plans to take a brief vacation, and will leave home as soon .IS he is able to do so. .Vrthui- H. Bl.'inch.'ird, t-onsidting highway en- gineer and professor in c-harge of the graduate course in Highway Engineering at Cohunbia, de- livered, Feb. 11. an address on "The Highway Engineer in Public Life" at the annual meeting of the iMigineers Society of Noi-theastern Penn- sylvania. Dr. L. T. Jackman has oj)ened an office for the treatment of diseases of the ear. nose and throat in Room 9(1-.'. Singer Building. 149 Broadway. New York city. ,\t the annual meeting last month of the Board 250 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of Managers of the Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., Charles D. Atkins, Direc- tor of the Brooklyn Instituteof Arts and Sciences, was elected a member and permanent secretary of the Board. Mr. Atkins has also been elected a member ot the Executive Committee of the Brooklyn League and chairman of the League's Educational Committee. 1900 The Watchman-Examiner, of New York, thus reports on the work of Rev. M. Joseph Twomey, of Newark, N. J.: "The work at the Peddie Me- morial Church is going far beyond the hopes of a year ago. When Mr. Twomey began his work it was realized that a hard task lay before him, but with faith and courage he undertook the task. The small morning congregation has grown to a strong body, and the handful at the evening ser- vice has grown to the largest congregation in Newark with an unusually large proportion of men. Best of all, a new atmosphere of spiritual power pervades the meetings. The preaching is winsome, optimistic, strong and true. The after- meetings have grown so that there is not seating room for the crowd in the audience room. The Sunday school is having the largest attendance in many years." 1901 Charles B. Fernald, after some years at Paris in the practice of international law, has returned to New York, where he is now with O'Brien, Boardman & Piatt, at No. 2 Rector street: main- taining a Paris office with Donald Harper at 3"2 ave. de I'opera. His home address is 207 Lor- raine ave.. Upper Montclair, N. J. Principal E. G. Hapgood of the Girls' Latin School, Boston, was elected a trustee of Colby Academy, at the recent meeting of the Board of Trustees, Feb. 24. 1902 Professor Philip D. Sherman of Oberlin gave a stereopticon lecture on "Shakespeare's London" before the Toledo High School, March 12. A. Truman Patterson was recently elected Town Solicitor of East Providence. Professor Philip D. Sherman of Oberlin recently contributed to the Cleveland Leader and fourteen other syndicated papers an article on "How an Ohio college is opening China to the world". It refers to the work of the Oberlin Memorial Acad- emy at Shansi, North China, and the nine schools under its charge, besides churches and other activities. 1903 Fred J. Cox has been reappointed jury commis- sioner from Middlesex county, N, J. He is secretary and treasurer of Boynton Brothers and Co., Perth Amboy. Merle T. Barker of Taunton, Mass., is Merlin of the Knights of King Arthur, and arranged a play entitled, "King Arthur Entertaineth Guests", for the recent state conclave of the Knights in Taunton. He was elected a coun- cillor of the state organization. J. E. Bullard is now sales ajid new-business manager for the Municipal Lighting Company, the organization that has charge of all the gas lighting done by the gas companies in the city of New York, in the Borough of Bronx. Harlem and Manhattan, and part of Long Island City. Dur ing the past year he has done considerable writing. On Dec. 1, 19U, the Gas Age. New York City, published a book by him entitled "Instructions to Gas Appliance Salesmen". The book is illus- trated and contains some 30,000 words. The leading article in the American Gas Light Journal for Nov. 30. 1914, on Gas Rates was written by him, also the leading article in the Jan. 27, 1915, issue of the Giis Record, on the subject: "Com- mercial Work for Gas Company Engineers". During the month of December, while taking a little vacation, he wrote a number of articles for the Society for Electrical Development. Among those already" published are the following: Sweat- er Mill Lighting, in the February, 1915. Sweater News. Electricity in the Laundry, in the Feb- ruary, 1915, National Launtlry Journal. Efficient Lighting in a Boiler Factory, in the January Boiler Maker. The Usefidness of Electricity in the Printing Industry, in the February American Printer. 1904 Ralph A. Brown, ex-'04, is engaged in the hardwood flooring business in New York city. He resides in Bayside, N. Y. 1905 Married, March 3, George Burroughs Bullock and Elizabeth Freeman, daughter of Morris Free- man, of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock will be at home after May 1 at 115 Church st.. Water- town. Mass. 1907 Born, February 15, in Bridgeport, Conn., to Mr. and Mrs. William K. White a daughter, Rachel. 1908 James Wilmot is enrolled as a Graduate Student in Highway Engineering at Columbia University. 1909 Lawrence L. Larrabee has opened an office for the practice of law at 33(5-339 Title Insurance Bldg. , Los Angeles. Cal. Born, January 21. to Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Willemin, a son, Louis P. Willemin, Jr. Edwin B. Mayer, who has been associated with the law firm of D'Aucun and Pflaum, has entered into partnership with Ben J. Altheimer with offices at Suite 401-4, Otis Building, 10 South La Salle St.. Chicago. 1910 . Born, February 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Earle Francis Caton, twin daughters, Louise Frances and Mary Elizabeth. Born. February 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Day Allen, a son. Gordon Cottrell. Married in Brooklyn, February 9, Dr. Lester A. Round and Miss Mildred Martha Gay. daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gay of Brooklyn. Dr. Round received the degree of Ph. 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