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Address all correspondence to Detroit BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY INTERCLASS BASKETBALL In one of the best-played and hardest fought Brown interclass basketball games seen in recent years on the floor of Ly- man Gymnasium the quintet represent- ing the Sophomore class added another victory to its record by defeating the unbeaten Freshman team -i>6-27 Jan. 22 in the interclass basketl)all series, thereby climbing one peg nearer the final cham- pionship. In the other game of the af- ternoon the Juniors had no trouble in What Cheer Printing Company Printers and Publishers The Only POSTER PRINTING Plant in Providence 98 Pine Street, corner Eddv Telephone 1663 Union downing the Seniors by the score of 27- 20. DEBATE QUESTION CHANGED The subject for the triangular debate between Brown, Williams and Dartmouth has been changed, the original (juestion being considered too involved. The date of the argument has also been postponed from March 9th to March ,'30th. The (|uestion now is, resolved, "That the Cities of New England of Over 100,000 Population Should Adopt Some Plan of City Manager Government.'" WOMENS COLLEGE AWARD The Emma Jose])hine Ayer Arnold Archaeological Fellowship and the col- lateral premium offered by Miss Lyra Brown Nickerson, to be used in post- graduate work in higher mathematics, has been awarded to Miss Marion Marsh Torrey, 1916, of Providence, and Miss Marion Elizabeth Stark, 1916, of Nor- wich Conn. UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS The Historical Catai.ogie of Bkowx Uxiversity, 1764 — 1914 This Catalogue gives the names of all persons who have been connected with Brown University, with brief biographical data, and the present addresses of living gradu- ates. 789 pages, cloth, ?1.2o, 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. 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(Slaftbtng's A HOTEL FOR BROWN MEN Sherman Square Hotel Broadway and 71st Street New York W. W. WvcKOFF, Maxager Take the Subway to T2nd Street at Grand Central prench laundry ^oap Has Been the Standard for Forty Years Soapine washes everything neat and clean. It washes clothes without injury to the fabric. For house cleaning and washing dishes it is unsurpassed. For Jewelers' use it has no equal. Providence Kendall Mfg, Co, Rhode Island BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Why you should take the Brown Alumni Monthly The price to alumni is only one dollar per annum — less than the cost. It keeps you informed of what is happening at Brown and also what is going to happen. It tells you what your classmates and friends are doing ; and chronicles the births, deaths and marriages among them. It gives you full reports on current sports and statistics of past athletic events. It publishes many interesting articles by alumni and wants one from you. It reaches about 2400 of the alumni, a larger proportion probably than any other college magazine. It helps the University and the President in many ways — if you don*t believe it, ask the President. A dollar is not much ; put it into a copy of the Monthly; it will make you happy for a year. We want your interest and your money — we can*t get along without it. Please enclose a one-dollar bill with your full address to the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, R. I. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY PRoviDENrK, R. I., Fkbritaky, 1916 Vol.. XM No. 7 ANOTHER PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT WAYLAND FRANXIS WAYLAND AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE A new portrait of P'rancis \\'a\ land, President of Brown University from 1827 to 185o, was recently found in a seldom visited attic of one of the oldest build- ings of Union College at Schenectady, N. \'. With the portrait of Dr. Way- land, under the accumulation of dust of more than a dozen years, lav a painting of William Henry Seward, the Secretary of State under Lincoln. 170 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Both Wayland and Seward were grad- uated from Union College and Wayland was tutor there from 1817 to 1821. As nearly as can be determined, the portrait of Wayland was painted during his tu- torship at T^nion. Seward was a stu- dent at Union during this time and was a member of some of the classes con- ducted by the young tutor. He received the degree of A. B. in 1820, and it is thought that the painting of him was done about the same time as that of Wayland. The two portraits hung for many years in the rooms of the Philomathean Society, a debating club that had a prominent place at Union up to the be- ginning of the present century. About 1903 these rooms were given up to allow additional dormitory space and it is thought that the workmen, not knowing what to do with the paintings, deposited them in the attic for safe-keeping. At any rate it was not until Dr. Richmond, President of Union College, and Charles N. Waldron, Secretary of the Graduate Council, explored the attic a few months ago that it was remembered that the por- traits were in existence. Francis Wayland was graduated from l^nion College in 1813, when 17 years of age. For the next three years he studied medicine, but he gave up preparation for that profession to enter Andover Theo- logical Seminary in 1816. Before grad- uation at Andover he returned to Union as tutor and continued in that capacit}' for four years. In 1821 he became the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston and in 18*?7, at the age of 31, he was made President of Brown L^niversity. As far as is known the only other por- ti'ait of Wayland painted while he was still a young man is owned by the Bos- ton church of which he was pastor for six 3^ears. This was painted in 1826, when Wayland was 30 years old and was re- produced in the Alumni Monthly a few years ago. The portrait at LTnion por- trays a somewhat younger man and was done probably at least five years before the Boston painting. The Wayland portrait now hangs in the Union College chapel among a col- lection of other paintings ofL^nion's for- mer faculty members, and that of Sew- ard has found a place in the office of the President. BASEBALL PROSPECTS Before this issue of the Alumni Monthly reaches its readers the baseball candidates will be well along with their midwinter practice, and will, indeed, be looking forward to an early change of their quarters from the gymnasium to the open air. The first practice of the season took place on January 10, when nine battery candidates responded to Captain John- ston's call. Trainer Huggins was in charge at the cage, and has since been as- sisted by Crowell and Snell, the former Brown pitcher and catcher. It looks as if the battery might prove the weak spot in Brown's baseball pros- pects for 1916. Coach Pattee believes, however, that the early start of practice will help to get the men into shape. The catchers who reported on January ] were Feinberg, who caught half a dozen games for the team last season, Maguire, the former Hope catcher, who also got into a few games last year, Jack- son, a Freshman, who was the Providence Journal's selection for All-Star catcher of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League last season, and J. J. Hall, a Freshman. The pitchers who reported were Rich- ards, who has been on the Brown squad heretofore ; Healey, a Senior and a first- class performer, who has never been elig- ible until this season ; Flanders, the for- mer Technical pitcher, who was on the squad in his Freshman year but did not play last year because of an appendicitis operation ; Michelson, a Senior, and Den- ison, who has been on the squad before. LARGER SALARIES FOR BROWN TEACHERS The attention of IJrown graduates ev- erywhere as well, of course, as of a large circle of outside readers, has been at- tracted to a remarkable article regarding the administration of the University's million-dollar endowment fund of 1912 — the third million-dollar fund that has been raised since President Faunce as- sumed the headship of the University. This article appears in the issue of "The Nation," of New York, for Janu- ary 13th, under the name of Mr. Oswald Garrison \ illard. Its purport is to show that the principal intention expressed previous to the raising of the million- dollar fund in question was to provide an increase of salaries for Brown profes- sors, whereas a comparatively small amount of the fund has been so em- ployed. Without going into the details of the article or attempting at this time to an- swer it in each and every point, we may give the following facts, which we have obtained from authoritative sources. There is no doubt that an earnest ap- peal was made to the graduates and friends of Brown to subscribe to the fund for the sake of increasing the salaries of members of the Faculty. This proposal has long been a popular one in the minds of Brown graduates, as has been shown by the audible approval which has greeted it at alumni dinners for years past. Let us see just what has been ac- complished in this direction since the million-dollar fund was raised. It should be remembered, to begin with, that the million-dollar fund has not hitherto been completely available and productive. The terms under which pledges were made varied as to time limit, and even after payments were in hand a considerable interval necessarily elapsed before there was any interest re- turn. It was determined l)v those in charge of the fund, with the warm approval of the Faculty, to make certain, first of all, 171 that professors retiring on account of age or length of service, and their wid- ows also, siiould be safeguarded for the rest of their lives. To this end the sum of $225,000 was segregated from the Si, 000, 000, to be held forever separate as a pension fund. This fund can never be made a part of the general endow- ment resources of the University. Al- though it was thought by some of those who were consulted that $225,000 was too much for a capital pension fund, con- sidering the small number of teachers en- titled, or soon to be entitled, to pensions, nevertheless the experience of other in- stitutions was held to demand that a sum considerably in excess of present or early needs should be set aside. At the pres- ent time, six former members of the Fac- ulty, or their widows, are receiving regu- lar payments from this fund. The next step considered most desira- ble was to protect the University from the loss of younger members of the teaching force who, by reason of the small amount of their salaries, were most likely to be drafted by other institutions. This evil has been a familiar one at Brown for many years. Accordingly, the salaries of practically one-half the entire Faculty have been increased in the last two years, and in 1915, for the first time in many years, the University lost practically nothing of its teaching strength from this cause. Up to date little has been done, so far as public announcement goes, for the full professors, the added payments having been made to associate professors, assist- ant professors and instructors. But al- ready two or three full professors have received increases, to bring their salaries up to the maximum, and last June the Corporation appointed a special commit- tee to devise and suggest ways and means for increasing the salaries of professors, especially the maximum salary. There are twenty-five full orofessors at Brown, and we are unofficiallv but confidently 172 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of the opinion that there will be an in- crease of salary all along the line in the early future, as a result of the plans which the special committee of the Cor- poration has worked out. The maximum salary at Brown has been nominally 13,250, but as a mat- ter of fact the figures have in some cases gone beyond this amount, as those mem- bers of the Faculty who give courses at the Women's College receive 15400 to $800 a year for the service. This is of course extra pay for extra work. We believe it safe to say that before very long there will be a general increase in the compensation of Brown's older teachers as a result of the securing of the million-dollar fund, together with aid from other sources, including the Brown Loyalty Fund, to which four mem- bers of the Corporation have made annual subscriptions of $2,000 each for the express purpose of increasing the salaries of professors. These four large subscriptions might well be supplemented by a large number of smaller ones for the same purpose. It is only a statement of fact to say that the "Nation's" article has resulted in a closing up of lines at Brown and a larger bond of sympathy among those in a position to know the truth. While it is recognized by everybody that con- ditions are not yet ideal and that, in many instances, teachers are receiving less than their deserts, there is, we think, a general feeling that those in authority are working honestly and constructively together for a just and practicable solu- tion of the vexing problem. BROWN AT WASHINGTON The Brown University Alumni Associ- ation of Maryland and the District of Columbia entertained at lunch on Dec. 31 at the University Club in honor of Brown professors and graduates who were in Washington attending the meetings of the second Pan-American Scientific Congress. There gathered around the table 17 guests and 16 of the resident alumni. Those present were: Charles E. Hughes, '81, Justice Supreme Court of the United States ; H. K. Porter, '60 ; Prof. George Grafton Wilson, '86, Har- vard University, Professor of Interna- tional Law ; Prof. John C. Dunning, Prof. Theodore F. Collier, Prof. James Q. Dealey, of the Faculty of Brown Uni- versity; Prof, Arthur I. Andrews, '01, of Tufts College ; Prof. Carl Russell Fish, '97, of Wisconsin University; Dr. J. F. Jameson of the Carnegie Institution ; Prof. Lester B. Shippee, '03, of the Uni- versity of Washington ; Prof. C. B. Les- ter, University of Wisconsin ; Prof. FVank A. Updyke,''93, of Dartmouth Col- lege; Prof. Herman S. Ames, of the University of Pennsjdvania ; Prof. Mar- shall S. Brown, '92, of the University of New York; Herbert O. Brigham, '99, State Librarian, Providence; Sheldon J. Howe, '08, Cambridge, Mass. ; Prof. H. E.Day,'93,of Gallaudet College ; Prof. D. C. ?vIunro, "87, of Princeton L^niversity ; Dr. Haven Metcalf, '96, of the Depart- ment of Agriculture ; Charles B. Fernald, '01, of New York city; Ely C. Palmer, '08, late \'ice Consul at Paris; W. C. Carpenter, '06; T. C. Merrill, '96; Dr. M. W. Lyon, Jr., '97, of George Wash- ington University; E. W. Weikert, '06; Henry M. Barry, '94; Edmund C. Bur- nett, '90, of the Carnegie Institution ; VV. F. Avery, '04: Arthur D. Call, '96, Secretary of the American Peace Soci- ety ; Herbert F. Clark, '99; Leon E. Truesdell, '07; Charles McCarthy, '97, of Madison, Wis. ; Reginald L. Brown, '03. Brief, informal speeches were made, the first speaker being Charles McCarthy of Madison, Wis., who told of his work to help in the education of the children of immigrants, and urged upon all col- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 173 leoe men the necessity for carrying the education granted to them to the chil- dren of those who were unable to secure an education. Professor Uealey reiterated the words of Mr. McCarthy on this point and em- phasized them by reference to his own alien birth, and his experiences in the de- partments of political and social science, and the practical application of the prin- ciples of those sciences. Professor Wilson, formerly a member of the Brown TTniversity Faculty, dis- cussed tlie effects of the present war upon international law, and prophesied a stronger system, commanding a greater respect and observance, when the war is over. He based this optimistic view upon the assertion that never in history has there been such an earnest effort on the part of litigant countries to convince neutral nations that the belligerents were obeying international law, W. C Carpenter^ '^6', Secretary A LETTER FROM OXFORD The following letter is self-explanatory : The Rhodes Scholarship Trust Seymour House Waterloo Place. S. W. 21st December, 1915 Dear Dr. Faunce: Your letter of November the 30th tell- ing me of the election of Mr. Burwell has reached me in due course. You have sent us a very high average of scholars fron) the first, and I am glad to know that you think Mr. Burwell will main- tain the reputation that his predecessors have gained for your State. I hope by the time he comes over next year Oxford will have got back into something like a normal condition. Four- fifths of the students have taken service for the war. The record of the Univer- sities throughout the Empire has been rather remarkable. There are fifty-four of them altogether, great and small, and they have already contributed more than 40,000 men. \ ery nearly all our schol- ars from the Colonies are serving. AVe are postponing their Scholarships till the war is over. AVe have given leave to a good many of your young Americans who wish to do Red Cross or Relief work. ( )ne of them, a big fine fellow, came in here to see me the other day on his way to Egypt. I was rather amused at the mixed influences which were sending him out there. He was evidently anxious to be where he might be useful in relieving suffering, but I also discovered a second reason in the way that the ladies of Ox- ford looked at him as he went along the streets. "If they would only say some- thing," he remarked, "it would not be so bad, as one could then explain, but they only look at one and say nothing." It will not be a bad experience for your young fellows to find out the kind of stuff that is slumbering beneath the easy- going P^nglish youth at Oxford. The War prevented me from coming out this 3'ear but I hope for a longer visit in 1916. I was glancing through your College Calendar the otlier day and was greatly interested in refreshing my memory about the interesting way in which it has developed from small beginnings. With every good wish for the Univer- sity as well as for yourself in the New Year in which we are about to enter, Believe me, Yours sincerely, George R. Parkin President W . II. P. Faunce, D. D. Brown University, Rhode Island. A TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL WALTER FOSS, '82 The following verses are an interesting tribute to one of Brown's better-known poets, the late Sam Walter Foss of Somerville, Mass., of the class of 1882, whose facility in rhythm and faculty for rhyme furnished an exceptional vehicle for his sound human philosophy. The poet, time tells us, as with all good men, When called at life's evening to la}- down the pen That has championed the causes which truth must defend, Cannot do love's bidding steadfast to the end Without making enemies : cynics his lay Will criticise falsely, but justice would say: "Compared with riches, their wealth is but dross." So, here's to the genius of Sam Walter Foss ! I was "devil" years back in a newspaper plant. Where I revelled in lore, though my wages were scant, As oft o'er the edge of the large bin I crept. Wherein the discarded exchanges were kept ; And, among all the gems that I clipped in that place, I seemed to find nothing that suited my case, In joy and in sorrow, mid triumph or loss. Like the every-day poems of Sam Walter Foss. To-da}', 'neath the greensward he quietly sleeps — But he's left us his all, and we have it "for keeps." That brotherly spirit, that God-fearing soul. Will reach out and up, as the centuries roll. He craved no superfluous title or throne. Content with the lot meant for all; and would own No sovereign except the Supreme, as his "boss." Friends- — this was the nature of Sam Walter Foss ! While Winters inspire us to skate and to coast. And the fireside — though door-hinges creak, and with frost Each nailhead and windowpane glitters and gleams — The harvest all in, like a paradise seems, — While Springtime the redbreast with melody fills. And, gaily adorning our New England hills. The arbutus blooms mid the fern and the moss, Mankind will pay homage to Sam Walter Foss ! Henry Reed Commt in the Boston Evening Record 174 DEATH OF STEPHEN O. EDWARDS, '79 Stephen Ostrom Edwards, '79, a Trus- tee of tlie T'niversity since 1899, died at his home in Providence, Jan. i.' "Under subject heads is traced the history of all the important provisions of the American State constitutions, and in a similar way the provisions of existing constitutions are shown. The reasons for such provisions and the tendency of constitution making are noted. "The similarities and the disparities of the va- rious constitutions are interestingly disclosed. "It is at once apparent that the book will be useful to students of government, which terra, in this time when proposed changes in constitutions almost constantly are pending, should include all citizens." — Dallas Morning News. Growth of American State constitutions from 1776 to the end of 1914. By James Quayle Dealey. Ph. D. Boston, Ginn & Co. viii, 308 pages. Price .*1.4.0 BICKNELL'S STORY OF JOHN CLARKE ' "His grand motive a just liberty to all men's spirits in spiritual matters." Roger Williams on Dr. John Clarke. Story of Dr. John Clarke, the founder of the first free commonwealth of the world on the basis of "full liberty in religious concernments." By Thomas W. Bicknell, A. M., LL. D., author of "Historical Sketches;" "History of Barrington, R. I.;" "History of the Rhode Island Normal School;" "History and genealogy of the Bicknell family in England and America;" "Sowams." etc., etc. First edition. Published by the author Providence, R. I.' With this old-fashioned title-page Thomas W. Bick- nell, '60, comes before the public in defense of his hero as against the time-honored claims of Roger Williams to be the founder of the world's first commonwealth on the basis of religious lib- erty. In more than "200 quarto pages, inter- spersed with ten illustrative plates, Mr. Bicknell sets forth his contentions. We do not feel our- selves qualified to pass judgment on the details of his argument; but we hardly expect it to dethrone from the world's homage the great founder of Providence. We prefer to give our readers a list of the topics discussed in the va- rious chapters, and so to indicate the scope of the book: Rhode Island, the Birthplace of Soul Liberty; The Puritan in the Making; Religious Liberty— Conscience Liberty; Boston, the Preparatory School of a Free Commonwealth in Rhode Island; Anne Hutchinson's School of Civil and Religious Liberty; Dr. John Clarke from 1()09-1()51; The Founding of Portsmouth; A Democratic State in the Making; The Found- ing of Newport; The Founding of the Colony of Rhode Island on Aquidneck; Rhode Island on Aquidneck, a Commonwealth; Concerning Roger Williams and Providence; The Royal Charter, the final Guaranty of Civil and Religious Free- dom in America; Concerning Dr. John Clarke of Aquidneck; Letter of Moses Brown. The book is written with all the fervor of conviction and all the vigor characteristic of the author's words by pen or voice. COOPER'S "AMERICAN IDEALS" This is the eighth volume to the credit of Clayton S. Cooper, '94-. He is an author whose books an ever-widening circle of readers are learning to await as fresh sources of interest and inspiration. They will not be disappointed in this latest volume; rather, they will find it set- ting a new standard of expectation for its suc- cessors. The book is an attempt to mirror the present-day aspirations of American men and women. The chapter headings indicate the range of the treatment: What is an American; Utilitarian Idealists; The Square Deal, Both Ways; American versus English Ideals; Amer- ican versus Oriental Idealism; Education the American Passion; Ideals in Religion; Attitude toward the The Shadow of Success (second-best ideals); An American Symposium; America Coming of Age. It is impossible in our space to do justice to the brilliancy, the forthrightness, and the compelling interest of this book. The chapter that will receive most comment is un- doubtedly the American Symposium. Mr. Coo- per asked one hundred Americans "What in your opinion are the leading ideals of the men with whom you associate?" He quotes exten- sively from the answers received and tabulates the results. It is encouraging to know that the ideal most frequently mentioned was "To be of service to one's fellows." Next to this, but far below it was, "To make money for selfish enjoy ^ mentor personal power." Only just below this, however, stands the very diiferent ideal, "The search for truth and justice, intellectual achieve^ ment, to contribute to human knowledge." Mr. Cooper added another question which was an- swered by the same hundred men: "What do you consider to be the chief points of weakness in our contemporary American life?" These an- swers also are tabulated, the list being headed by "Materialism, dominance of worry, worship of bigness, deference to national success." 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