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"Kof" ' UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS The Histouical Catalogue of Browx LTxiversity, 1764 — 1914 This Catalogue gives the names of all persons who have lieen connected with Brown University, with brief biographical data, and the present addresses of living gradu- ates. 789 pages, cloth. .?1.25, delivered. Copies of the Historical Catalogue, 1764 — 1904, may still be obtained. Price §1.00, delivered. Address the Keeper of Graduate Records, Brown University. Make checks payable to Brown University. The History of Browx Uxiversity, 1764 — 1914 By Walter Cochrane Bronson, Litt. D. , Professor of English Literature. Published in connection with the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University. 548 pages, cloth, $2.00, delivered. Printed by D. B. Updike, at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Mass. Address the Committee on the Academic Celebration and make checks payable to Brown University. JUST ISSUED The Sesqui-Centennial OF Brown University, 1764 — 1914. A Commemoration. Edited by William Vail Kellen, Ph. D., LL. D. A graphic account of the Celebra- tion with all the addresses in full. 307 pages, cloth, $2.50, delivered. Printed by D. B. Updike, at the Merrymount Press, Boston, Mass. Address the Committee on the Academic Celebration and make checks payable to Brown University. Providence, R. I., January 1, 1916 To Brown Men Everywhere : For some time past the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY has been running a " Classified Business Directory," containing the names of indi- viduals and firms with a Brown connection in various parts of the country. We now propose to develop this department and make it more truly than ever before a comprehensixe directory of Brunonian business and professional men. We do not propose to make it a series of advertisements, but purely a business and professional register of Brown men. We believe that it will be helpful to our growing Brown constituency, and also to those whose names appear in the list. The space will be, as heretofore, one-half inch deep and one column wide, and the price $5 a year. It is desired that the new and enlarged directory begin in our next issue, and we should esteem it a great favor if you would let us have j^our accept- ance of the suggestion by return mail. It is needless to say that your participation in this plan will materially help us to strengthen the Monthb' on the financial side, and, we trust, will justify itself in our consequent ability to undertake desired improvements. We may add that other college alumni publications maintain similar directories : for example, the Princeton Alumni Weekl}^, which includes lawyers, architects, insurance and investment brokers, and other business and professional men in its lists. Wishing you the compliments of the New Year's season, we remain, in the bonds of Brunonian friendship, Yours very sincerely BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY = 1916 Howard M. Chapin Business Manager Brown Alumni Magazine Co. Brown University, Providence, R. I.: Enclosed find, below, copy for my card in the Classified Business Directory in the Monthly, to begin with the next issue and run at the price of $5 a year. (Signed) , Class of Address : BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Vol.. XVI Provipence, R. I., J.wi'.^iiT, 1916 No. 6 A WORK OF ART INSPIRED BY DR. WARD "Telesis" is a model in bronze by Albert Henry Atkins, sculptor. The figure is sketch size, about a twenty-four inch figure, and is now on exhibition at the Gor- ham Company (iallery. New York City. It owes its existence to the teachings of the late Dr. I.ester F. Ward, of the Brown Faculty. The allegory was inspired by Doctor Ward's philosophy of the direction of forces and is symbolized by the representation of human direction of power; an elemental manifestation of the telic faculty. Later on the figure will be in the artisfs studio at 9 Copley Hall, Clarendon st., Boston. It is hoped that eventually the work may be executed in heroi? size and there should be sufficient appreciation in the world of Dr. Ward's services to mankind to ensure this desirable result. BROWN MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR By Rev. Henry S. Burrage., D. D., 1861 The Brown Alumni Monthly for April, 1915, called attention to a typewritten manuscript of nearly one hundred pages presented to the library of the University by Mr. Bertram Smith of Berkeley, Cal., of the class of 1910. The manuscript contains references to Brown men men- tioned in the Official Records of the Un- ion and Confederate Armies, — that mon- umental work in one hundred and twen- ty-five volumes, published by the gov- ernment. It certainh' was a happy thought of the compiler of this manu- script to make an extended search which his plan (aided even by the invaluable index volume with which the series closes) must have required; and he is en- titled to the hearty thanks of the gradu- ates and friends of the Universit}' for his painstaking researches. While much of the material found in this search adds very little to what we already knew, as the compiler says, its great value is in bringing to light quite a large number of the names of Brown men who saw ser- vice in the Civil War on the Union or Confederate side. As thus compiled the list contains 197 names. Of these, 17 had no other con- nection with the University than as the recipients of honorary degrees. General Burnside was one of the 17 ; but certainly such recognition of honorable service would not entitle us to place him among Brown men in the Civil War. Of the 180 other persons whose names are found in Mr. Smith's list, there are SO who had no military service in the Civil War, and so have no place among those who had such service. One of the 30 was Francis Wayland, ex-president of the University, who is mentioned in the Official Record as an incorporator of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ; but of course this would not bring him into line with Brown men in the Civil War. Then, in this list taken from the offi- cial Records there are the names of 83 graduates and non-graduates of Brown, who are also mentioned in Brown Uni- versity in the Civil War, published soon after the close of the war, so that these 83 names are not a contribution to any list of Brown men, who were in the ser- vice, on one side or the other, in those battle years. This leaves 67 names of graduates and non-graduates (12-55) of Brown mentioned in the Official Records (if all are proved to be Brown men), who are not mentioned in Brown l^niversity in the Civil AN^ar. Among these 67 are quite a number of graduates and non- graduates of Brown, who were in the Confederate service. It is possible that some of the 67, as just intimated, may not be identified as graduates or non- graduates of the University. For exam- ple, James William Patterson, a non- graduate of the class of 1843, is men- tioned in the general catalogue as from Richmond, Va. Mr. Smith finds in the Official Records mention of a James W. Patterson of the 12th Georgia, who was killed May 8, 1863, in the battle of Mc- Dowell, Highland Co., Va. ; and he also finds a private, J. W. Patterson, Co. C, 22d Mississippi Infantry, who, July 9, 1864, was mentioned for meritorious con- duct. Was either of these the non-grad- uate student mentioned in the catalogue.'^ The following are the 12 graduates in the list of 67 : George W. Cross, '35 ; Levi H. Holden, '35 ; Charles R. Train, '37; Francis Leland, '38; Isaac G. Wil- son, '38; George H. Browne, '40; Ed- ward L. Pierce, '50; James B. Jordan, '51; Frederick Mott, '51; Henry N. Snyder, '55; Augustus P. Clarke, '61; John J. Ward, '61. The following are the non-graduates : Edward T. Parkin- son, '33, Capt. ; John T. Pitman, '34, Lt. Col. ; Otis Fisher, '35, Lieut. ; Tris- tam Burges, '38, Col. ; Rufus Coffin, '39, 142 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 143 Lieut. ; James R. Stone, '39, Capt. ; Na- than King, '-iO, Major; Origen S. Jew- ett, '41, Major; James W. Patterson, '43 ; Francis C. Johnson, '43, Capt. ; James Harris, '47, Surgeon ; Thomas H. Johnson, '48, Lt. Col. ; John H. Tucker, '48, Capt.; Robert Hall, '50; Charles P. Price, '50; Luther F. Humeston, '51 ; Melancthon Storrs, '52, Surgeon ; George A. Crocker, *53, Capt. ; Edward P. Lawton, '53, Capt. ; John A. Duvillard, *54, Lieut. ; James N. Olney, '54, Lt. Col. ; Nathaniel P. Richmond, '54, Lt. Col. ; Joseph P. Winchester, '54, Lieut. ; Horace H. Brand, '55, Col. ; Arthur J. Magenis, '55, Lt. Col. ; Addison W. Preston, '55, Col. ; Benj. F. Winchester, '55, Capt.; Caleb Bates, '56, Major; George W. Lemon, '56 ; Charles H. Lo- throp, \56, Surgeon ; Amos P. Wells, ^56, Major; HenrvT. Bissell, '57, Lieut. ; William M. Blake, "57; Caleb H. Carl- ton, '57, Col. ; Charles L. Comfort, '57, Lieut. ; Samuel J. Fletcher, '57, Capt. ; Josiah P. Stone, '57, Capt. ; Levi A. Tower, '57, Capt. ; John G. Haskell, *58, Capt. ; Robert J. Henderson, *58, Col. ; Edward Bredell, '59, Capt. ; Benj. T. Hutchins, '59, Lt. Col.; Egbert o'l- cott, '59, Lt. Col. ; Joseph Perkins, '59, Capt. ; Henry Phelps, '59, Nathan A. Reed, "59, Lieut. ; Aaron Smith, '59, Lieut. ; Jonathan E. Tefft, '60, Asst. Surgeon; Edward C. Franklin, '61, Sur- geon; Russell A. Olin, '62; Sherburne B. Eaton, "63, Capt. ; James E. Hall, '63, Lieut. ; George W. Potter, '63 ; Louis P. Griffin, '64, Capt. ; William B. Parker, '65, Lt. Col. To these names I add a list of my own, made up in part from information re- ceived by myself, but largely from that contained in the last gereral catalogue. That of graduates is as follows : Thomas M. Potter, "34, V. S. N. ; Obiel W. Briggs, "40; Elisha F. Watson, '40; William M. Hale, '41 ; Augustus Mason, '41 ; Cornelius Kollock, '41 ; William B. Morris, '-1-6 ; James P. Boyce, "47, Alljert H. Campbell, '47; Amos F. Spalding, '47; Alexander J. Robert, "49; Antoine J. Mauran, '51 ; James E. Brown, '52; Darius R. Ford, "52 ; Darwin E. Max- son, '52; Joseph C. Wightman, '52; Charles H. Boyd, '54; Alexander W. Couper, '54; Enos Munger, '54; James H, Parsons, '54; Jared J. Williams, '54; John W. Bigelow, '55; Alex- ander T. Britton, '57; I^ouis A. Falligant, '57; Moses Lyman, '58, Francis ?vlansfield, '58; Ethan Allen, 'uO; Henry L. Hammond, '64; Wil- liam C. Rhodes, '64; Joseph W. Rees, '65; George B. Blodgette, '66; Charles E. Harvey, '67; William H. Hawkes, '67; John C. Hopkins, '69; Alonzo Williams, '70; Daniel W. Hoyt, '71; Orson P. Bestor,'72; John D. Smith, "72; Daniel Rhodes, '72; George E. Leeson,'74; also the following non- graduates; Foster Hartwell, "36; Elisha P. King, '44 ; Timothy Newell, '47 ; Fran- cis W. Bird, "51 ; George C. deMarini, '54 ; John K. Brown, '55 ; James Buck- ingham, '55; Orestes Warren, '55 ; Hor- ace E. Brooks, '56; William Fittz, '56; Charles H. Howe, '56 ; Clarence S. Bate, '58; John G. Haskell, '58; William Eddy, '59; Benj. T. Hutchins, '59; Ed- win W. Mitchell, '59 ; Joseph L. Meigs, '60; Albert Dunlap, '60; William L. Jones, '60; Charles G. King, "60; John H. Brown, "61 ; Clingham Craig, '61 ; Charles Mendenhall, '61 ; George C. Crutcher, '61 ; Andrew T. Miller, '62: Andrew P. Vinson, 62 ; David E. N. Carleton, '63; Monroe Goode, "63; Ephraim H. Jencks, '64; James Ding- well, '65; Welcome A. Smith, '65; Robert D. Sears, '66. These 73 names, with the 67 in Mr. Smith's list, if there are no errors, will add 139 names to the 294 names in Brown L^niversity in the Civil War,, making a total of 433. Of the 139 19 were killed or died in the service; and this number, added to the 21 mentioned in the earlier record of Brown men in the Civil A\'ar, makes the num- ber of those who died in the service 40. Vale has made up its Civil War roll during the present year. We shall do well to make our Brown roll complete. THE NEW FRATERNITY RLSHING SYSTEM The new fraternity "rushing" system at Brown, tried for the first time this season, has worked out fairly well in the opinion of Dean Randall, whose state- ment on the subject follows: "Those who expected that the new plan of rushing and pledging would eliminate all the evils which have grown up in connection with fraternity life in the past twenty-five years have of course been disappointed. No one who was at all familiar with the situation dreamed of any such success as that. Our only hope was to make a beginning, to lay the foundation on which we might eventually build a scheme that would work to our satisfaction. That we believe has been done. "Under the old system, rushing and pledging began sometimes before the Freshman reached the campus and inter- fered seriously with his college work at a very critical period. The courses of the Freshman year are such that unless the student gets a good start at the opening of the semester he is in great danger of failure. During the first five weeks of the present semester there was under the new scheme practically no rushing at all and the Freshmen had an opportunity to get a good start in their college work. "The excessive rushing which followed this period, which involved cost of time and money on the part of the upper classmen, is entirely unnecessary, and can be eliminated entirely if desired. The fraternities are perfectly able and willing to do this if it is found best. "In the old system pledging was done long before the fraternities had had time to look the Freshman material over and long before the Freshmen had had time to examine the several fraternities. > o Freshman can claim this year that he was hastily led into a decision, afterwards to be regretted. "The tendency under the new system for Freshmen to get together after they had received their bids and go in groups to the fraternities to which the larger number had been invited can also be en- tirely eliminated another year. It is unfortunate that some fraternities did not succeed in winning more men, but the game is not over, for there are many good men still left in the Freshman class and fraternities are free to bid them at any time. The fact that some frater- nities have bid a large number of men does not mean that all these men are to be admitted to membership, for according to faculty regulation, which is part of the new plan, no man can be initiated until he has passed twelve semester hours or in four of his five subjects." A BOSTON COMMENT The Boston Evening Transcript on Dec. 1 printed an editorial on what it judged, from a correspondent's account, to be the working of the new Brown sys- tem : "After a man has had ten years' bus- iness experience, three spent in the study of character and vocational training, nine in politics and if possible four as Amer- ican Ambassador to the Court of St. James, he may then be considered a fully qualified candidate to manage the 'rush- ing' of Freshmen for the fraternities of any American college. But not until then. Such news as comes from Brown University of the way its new system of inviting Freshmen into fraternities has resulted in a mix-up none the less laugh- able because really serious only empha- sizes once more the man}' human compli- cations which attach to this task, and how hard it is to know what changes in any 'rushing' system will be successful and what will be disastrous. Of course, the situation in any college where frater- nities thrive assumes an exaggerated tensity from the fact that the undergrad- uates view it with exaggerated excite- ment. But if any man will come for- ward with a standard plan which will make it possible for fraternities to can- 144 B1U)WN ALUMNI MONTHLY 145 vass the Freshman class without too much interrupting its members' collegiate work and without bringing too much influence to bear in forcing their choice, and for Freshmen to canvass the frater- nities and discover their proper comrades among the many groups of 'next friends' who besiege them, he will have done an inestimable service in an age when fra- ternities have come to be recognized and useful integral parts in the structure of most of our American colleges." THE AMHERST WAY A few days later Wallace M. Leonard, Jr., wrote in response from Amherst as follows : "Your editorial of Dec. 1 naming the super-man requirements of a 'fully (qualified candidate to manage the 'rush- ing of any Freshmen for the fraternities of any American college' has occasioned some surprise at Amherst. We have here thirteen 'managers' of as many fra- ternities. Not one is a failure although none has been favored with the advan- tages you name. None has appeared at the Court of St. James nor, so far as we know, at any other court, yet fraternity affairs move without jar or friction as well in 'rushing season' as through the year. "We note your statement, almost a challenge, 'that if any man will come forward with a standard plan which will make it possible for the fraternities to canvass the Freshman class without too much interrupting its members' collegi- ate work ... he will have done an in- estimable service.' We claim no reward for so easy task, but name with entire confidence the Amherst plan. "Its essentials are, first: The co-op- eration of the college, which furnishes early in the summer complete lists, to the proper authority in each fraternity, of the entering class. It is the duty now of the head of the fraternities to look up the men. He calls on as many as possi- ble and gets statements, either written or verbal, from alumni, who are ac- quainted with the boys themselves. This work is important, but is carried on suc- cessfully with the aid of interested alumni of the fraternity. ' 'Second : Interfraternity co-operation to enable men to meet the members of every fraternity when they come to col- lege. This is done in the following way : Every member returns to college on the Saturday preceding the opening of col- lege. The college advises all Freshmen to be in town on the Monday following. By a system of appointments the men meet the different 'crowds' and by Thurs- day, when academic work begins, all del- egations are filled. "The plan sounds difficult to those who have not worked under it. It de- pends for its success upon a workable code of interfraternity rules, printed and to be had for the asking. They are rig- idly upheld while there is a powerful in- terfraternity conference to which viola- tions may be submitted. The rules are explicit and cover all the phases of 'rush- ing.' There have been but two viola- tions. "To critics we answer that the plan has worked wonderfully well for a great num- ber of years. Under it each fraternity acquires a body of undergraduates whose loyalty is never questioned. Each fra- ternity exists in friendly rivalry with every other and good -feeling is apparent to even the most casual observer. Fra- ternity influence is felt to advantage and to such an extent that President Meikle- john declared in Boston last year: 'I tremble for the president who would govern Amherst without its fraterni- ties.' " A NEW VIEW OF LINCOLN FIELD ■ '■■ a i M» f i i yi"^ia.''