BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



* J9I8 - 1919 * 



liMLL. 

LIBRARY 



VOL. XIX 



MAY, 1919 



NO. 10 



BROWN 
ALUMNI 
MONTHLY 




TWO IMPORTANT DEPARTMENTS 
ONE OLD AND THE OTHER NEW 
AUTHORITATIVELY DESCRIBED 

Published monthly, August and September excepted, by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co 

at Brown University, Providence, R. I. Entered at the Poet Office at 

Providence, R. I., as second-class matter under the law of March 3, 1879 



TEN CENTS A COPY 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Industrial Trust Company 

Largest Bank in Rhode Island 
49 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. 



CAPITAL 
SURPLUS 



$3,000,000 
$3,000,000 



Branches in Pawtucket, Newport, Woonsocket, Bristol, Wickford, Pascoag:, 

Westerly and Warren 

BANKING DEPARTMENT — Interest paid on deposits. Issues Certifi- 
cates of Deposit at attractive rates. Loans and discounts. Collec- 
tions made on all points on favorable terms. 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT— Foreign Drafts and Letters 
of Credit available in all parts of the World. Cable Transfers 

TRUST DEPARTMENT — Authorized to accept Trusts. Is a legal de- 
positary for trust funds. Acts as Trustee, Executor, Administrator, 
Guardian and as Registrar and Transfer Agent of Corporations. 



Those desiring Convenient, Safe and 

Progressive Banking Facilities 

can find such at 

THE 



Mechanics National Bank 



Opp. Railroad Station and City Hall 



DIRECTORS 
Charles C. Harrington 
Henry Lippitt 
Herbert W. Rice 
Hugh F. MacColl 
H. Edward Thurston 
E. Tudor Gross 
G. Maurice Congdon 

OFFICERS 
Charles C. Harrington, President 
H. Edward Thurston, Cashier 
Edward A. Havens, Asst. Cashier 



Placfesftone Canal 
i^ational Panfe 



20 Market Square 



Capital Stock $500,000 

Surplus and 

Undivided Profits over $600,000 



ALBERT R. PLANT, President 

HERBERT F. HINCKLEY, Vice-Presidekt 

CHARLES P. BROWN, Cashier 



Directora 

Herbert F. Hinckley John B. BrancJi 



Edwin M. Dodd 
C. Moulton Stone 
Charles H. Merriman,Jr. 
Frank O. Field 



Albert R. Plant 
William A. Viall 
Fletcher S. Mason 
Henry S. Chafee 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




Westmin^er 
Bank 



73 Westminster Street 
Providence 



Arnoii) B. Chace, President 
Geo. a. Jepheuson, Vice-President 
William C. Anoei.l, Cashier 
Benjamin' B. Manchester, Ass't Cashier 

Accounts Solicited 

We offer to depositors every 
facility which their balances, 
business and resfwnsibility war- 
rant 



W^^ 



National 
Exchange Bank 

63 Westminster Street 
Providence, R. I. 

INCORPORATED 18«1 



Capital 
Surplus 



$500,000 
$750,000 



Interest paid on deposits 

Certificates of deposit issued 
Travelers' Cheques for sale 
New business invited 



The Merchants 
National Bank 



Providence, R. I. 
20 We^minster Street 



Capital, 
Surplus Earnings 



$1,000,000 
1,250,000 



ROBERT W. TAFT, President 
CHARLES H. NEWELL, Vice President 
MOSES J. BARBER, Vice-President 
FRANK A. GREENE, Cashier 
WILLARD L ANGELL, Asst. Cashier 
HARRY S. HATHAWAY, Asst. Cashier 



Directors 



Samuel R. Dorrance 
George M. Smith 
Horatio N. Campbell 
Robert W. Taft 
Charles H. Newell 



William B. McBee 
Everett L. Spencer 
Moses J. Barber 
Frank E. Richmond 
Edward P. Jastram 



Drugs 



Chemicals and Medicines 

Electric Batteries 
Invalid Roller Chairs 
Prescriptions a Specialty 



Interest allowed on Current Accounts 



GEO. L. CLAFLIN CO. 

6« to 64 South Main Street, 
Providence, R. I. 



BLANDING'S 
Prescription Department 

For over half a century has set a stand- 
ard for reliability that makes it the 
logical place at which to have your pre- 
scriptions compounded. Prices consist- 
ent with the high quality of drugs used. 



BL AN DING Cf BL AN DING 

58 Weybosset Street 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD 

Consulting Highway Engineer 
Broadway and 117th St., New York City 


ELMER E. SILVER, '85 

General Manager The Union Central Life Insurance Co 
of Cincinnati, Ohio 

79 Milk St., Boston Telephone 2113-Main 






SAMUEL H. WHITLEY, 

Counsellor at Law, 
89 STATE ST., BOSTON, MASS. 


Abbott, '80 Edwards, '»« 

ABBOTT & EDWARDS 

Attorneys at Law, 

1117-1123 Federal Reserve Bank Building 


ALVIN F. PEASE, 


415 Pine St.. St. Louis Mo. 


Winship Teachers' Agency, 
LoDg Distance Telephone 6 Beacon St., Boston 


Providence 


DANIEL HURLEY & CO. 

Engineers and Contractors 

Power Plants. New John Hancock Bldg. 
(Daniel Hurley, '08) Boston 


MENDELL W. CRANE, 

Attorney at Law, 

UNION TRUST 




^?*s 




Good Morning Cup 

rich brown, fragrant 
and mellow, free 
from bitterness, and 
with a delicate fla- 
vor all its own— that's 

Autocrat Coffee 



Sold everywhere: In Cities — In 
the Mountains — By the Seashore. 

BROWN ELL & FIELD CO. 
Providence, R. I. 

A valuable coupon in each can. 

Write for premium list. 





E^stablished 1863 



Elsbree-Valleau Co. 



Fine Hats 
and Furs 



101 We^hninster Street, Providence 



What Cheer 
Printing Company 

Printers and Publishers 

The Only POSTER PRINTING 
Plant in Providence 

46 Chestnut Street 
Telephone 1663 Union 



FIFTY— 

and tortured by regrets 

**"! XO you suppose," cried Napoleon, New York, General Coleman duPont, the 

I I as he stood with Gourgaud on well-known business executive; John Hays 

^ ^ St. Helena, "do you suppose Hammond, the eminent enj^ineer; Jeremiah 

when I wake at night I have jiot bad mo- ^- Jt"ks, the statistician and economist; and 

menu— when I think of zvhat I was and {f^^^^l French Johnson, Dean of the New 

1 . T 0" York University School of Commerce. 

what J amf ^ 

He was fifty ; and at fifty the race of men The remarkable percentage 

divides into two groups. There is the group of College Itietl 

of those who look back comfortably over the rp r ^ ^ ^. ..it....» 

, . ,, , , , -111 A wo tacts are noteworthy in the Institute s 

years, knowuig tliat each year has yielded ^^„„,.j i^t-u^a^t. i 4.1 e 

K ^ '' ■^ record. Inthenrst place the average age of 

its measure of progress. the men enrolled with it is slightly over thirty. 

And there is the other group — the men Not to boys is its appeal, but to mature men, 

who think: "If only I had it to do over who reach the age when they realize that their 

again, how much better I could do it." careers will be made or marred by the record 

They look back and say to themselves: of the few years just ahead. 

''There was the turning; if only I could The second striking fact is the very large 

have seen it in time." To such men the Proportion of college men enrolled. Over 

night brings its bad moments— when they 33% of them are college graduates, 

think of what they are and what they might ' You, who read this page, may have reached 

1 Kppn *^^ point in your career where you want to 

' make the next few years yield double progress. 

To increase the number of men who, at ^ u ^i 1. ^ n 

,.„, , ,• /. 1 -,1 ,1 • • Or 3'ou may be the sort ot college man to 

fifty can be satisfied with their careers, is ^^om younger men are frequently turning for 

the business of the Alexander Hamilton advice. 

In either case you owe it to yourself to know 
85 000 men enrnlled something more of the character and achieve- 
ments of this great educational for.ce. 
The Alexander Hamilton Institute was found- 
ed ten years ago, with the specific purpose of giv- A free book WOrtH Sending for 
ing men the all-round knowledge of Modem For the information of college men who 
Business that fits them for executive responsi- are interested in better business the 
j^jjlj^V Institute has set aside a certain num- 
ber of its 112-page book "Forging 
It does for men in business what the law school Ahead in Business." 
does for men in law; or the medical school for It is worth an evening's careful reading 
men in medicine. and it is free. The coupon will bring 

T. , , r^ ..a 1. • • r it; send for your copy today. 
It has only one Course ; it oners no training tor 

speciahzed positions of limited opportunity. ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE 

In a ten-year period 85,000 men have 159 Astor Place New Voric Citv 

enrolled in its Modern Business Course and — i-«^< — — — — — — ■— i — — "--^ 

Service. They are representative of every Send me "Forging Ahead in Business" P^REE ' 

stratum and phase of business. More than 

,„ „„„ . .T Name 

13,000 are corporation presidents. Print here 

Business and educational authority of the Business 
highest type are represented in the Institute's 
Advisory Council. 

This Council consists of Frank A. Vander- _ . 

lip. President of the National City Bank of Position 




BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




Chocolates!, $1 lb. 

A box of "Cladding's Quality" 
-^*- chocolates comprises an assort- 
ment of delicious candies — creamiest 
of fondants dipped in rich chocolate 
— crispy hard centers encrusted with 
coatings of luscious chocolate — dain- 
ty chocolates crested with nuts — and 
all at the good old popular price of $1 
a pound. 

In fact they are the kind of 
chocolates you could he proud to 
offer to the dearest of friends. 

QUICK SERVICE HERE TOO 




A 

HOTEL 

FOR 

BROWN MEN 

Sherman Square 
Hotel 

Broadway and 71st Street 

New York 
W. W. Wyckoff, Manager 

Take the Subway to T2nd 
Street at Grand Central 



[rench laundry 3oap 

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 Islftod 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



VOL. XIX 



PROVIDENCE, MAY, 1919 



NO. 10 



THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF NAUTICAL SCIENCE 

By Professor Frederick Slocum, 1895 




MAKING KNOTS AND SPLICES 
In the Rigging Loft, Top Floor of University Hall 



Brown's Naval Training Unit has 
been demobilized, but the Depart- 
ment of Naval Science still remains, 
with a slight change of title. It is now 
the Department of Nautical Science. 
Thus does Brown University adapt 
its curriculum to the changing con- 
ditions. 

One of the greatest of the recon- 
struction problems that the United 
States is now facing is the problem 
of its Merchant Marine, and Brown 
University, in its new Department of 
Nautical Science, will not only inter- 



pret and explain the nature of the 
problem, but will also try to aid in 
its solution. 

In the November number of the 
Alumni Monthly Professor Currier 
wrote of the formation of the Naval 
Training Unit and the program of 
work laid out for the 225 men enroll- 
ed in the line and engineering depart- 
ments. This article was followed, in 
the December number, by one on 
"Nautical Training at Brown — Pres- 
ent and Future," by Clarkson A. Col- 
lins, Jr. In order to make the record 



199 



200 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



of this phase of Brown's war time 
activity complete, this article will 
take up the history where Mr. Collins 
left it. 

The last paragraph of his article 
read as follows: 

"It is obvious that as a Rhode Island col- 
lege Brown has a nautical precedent to fol- 
low and nautical traditions to live up to. 
No college in the country is better situa- 
ted to be the seat of a nautical school. No 
college has made a better beginning in that 
direction. Unquestionably, the Naval 
Training Unit will be in existence for some- 
time to come, possibly for another two 
years. Before the Unit is disbanded the 
enviable reputation Brown is already gain- 
ing for its naval courses will have been 
greatly increased. That reputation and the 
work already done by the Faculty and the 
Corporation mnst be used as the key-stone 
to a permanent Nautical Department." 

Instead of continuing for "another 
two years," the life of the Naval 
Training Unit was suddenly cut short 
after an existence of less than three 
months. During that brief period, 
however, wonders were accomplished 
in spite of the influenza and the extra 
guard duty necessary to maintain the 
quarantine. In a remarkably short 
time the Unit had been completely 
equipped and had settled down to a 
stiff program of work. Most of this 
was along strictly vocational lines. 
There was very little opportunity for 
election. Those who intended to go 
into the engineering department of 
the Navy were required to pursue 
courses which, directly or indirectly, 
pertained to the handling of marine 
engines. For the other branch, the 
line or deck department, there were 
courses in navigation and seaman- 
ship, in addition to the daily foot and 
boat drills. 

In the laboratories in the east end 
of Wilson Hall the men were taught 
the methods of navigating a ship by 
chart and compass, lead, and log. In 
clear weather groups of twenty or 
more could be seen on the steps of the 
Arnold Laboratory observing the sun 
with sextants for the determination 
of latitude. In stormy weather the 
afternoon drill was replaced by work 



in the rigging loft on the top floor of 
University Hall. Here the men were 
taught to make knots and splices, 
how to rig tackles, and how to apply 
the theory of mechanics to the use of 
blocks and purchases. Meanwhile in 
the class rooms were being taught the 
mathematics of navigation, the meth- 
ods of dead reckoning at sea, the gen- 
eral principles of seamanship, naval 
regulations, etc. 

With the double incentive of patri- 
otic duty and the hope of a commis- 
sion, the students worked like tigers 
— until November 11. Then came 
the reaction due to the signing of the 
armistice and the cessation of hostil- 
ities. The work continued for a few 
weeks longer, but the life had gone 
out of it, and there was a general 
feeling of relief when the order came 
to demobilize the Unit in December. 
Thus ended the naval training at 
Brown — at least for the present. 

The most strenuous part of the 
Navy's work had been finished. It 
was no longer necessary to use every 
available destroyer and chaser to 
hunt the German submarines. It was 
no longer necessary to use every 
availble transport to rush troops 
across the Atlantic. It was still nec- 
essary to send food and supplies over 
and to use ships to bring our soldiers 
home, but the cargo ships and trans- 
ports were no longer sent in fleets, 
convoyed by naval vessels. 

The cry had been to build ships — 
and more and more ships — to help 
win the war. This applied both to 
naval and to merchant ships. With 
the cessation of hostilities the imme- 
diate need for rushing work on the 
naval vessels was, of course, removed, 
but how obout the merchant ships? 
At the time the armistice was signed 
the United States Government owned 
or controlled about 1500 ships, and 
there were nearly as many more on 
the stocks. Some of these have now 
been finished. Now what is to be 
done with this great fleet? Will the 
Government continue to own and to 
operate it? Or will the ships be sold 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



201 




OBSERVING THE SUN TO DETERMINE LATITUDE 
On the Steps of Arnold Laboratory 



to the highest bidders? Whatever 
happens, it is sincerely to be hoped 
that they will be kept under the Stars 
and Stripes. 

The United States needs all these 
ships and as many more as it can 
get. In addition to the ships requir- 
ed for transport and supply service, 
and for its growing coastwise trade, 
it must for years use ships to carry 
food and supplies to the devastated 
countries of Europe. Then, too, there 
is that new big problem of foreign 
trade; trade not only with South 
America, but with all the countries of 
the Eastern Hemisphere. To keep 
our industries prosperous, and thus 
to prevent labor troubles and social 
unrest, an abundance of raw mate- 
rial must be supplied and a market 
for the finished product must be 
found. Both are dependent upon one 
thing — ships. Not German ships, 
nor English ships, nor French ships, 
nor Japanese ships, but American 
ships. The need of building ships — 



and more and more ships — is as ur- 
gent to-day as it was when the sub- 
marines were sinking the ships of the 
Allies faster than new ones could be 
built. 

Ships alone, however, will not solve 
the problem. They must be efficient- 
ly manned and efficiently managed. 

Here is Brown's opportunity, and 
through its Department of Nautical 
Science it is offering courses in navi- 
gation and seamanship, ship opera- 
tion and management, and the histor- 
ical development of ships and ship- 
ping. While these courses will be 
especially valuable for those desiring 
to enter the Merchant Marine or the 
Navy, or for those looking forward 
to careers connected wth the Mer- 
chant Marine, such as steamship 
agent, foreign trade representative, 
admiralty lawyer, or assistant in the 
consular service, they are so planned 
that they will be suitable for anyone 
seeking a broad education. Yachts- 
men, too, will find that the courses in 



202 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



navigation and seamanship will add 
greatly to the pleasure of their sport 
and will place them in a position to 
render even more valuable service as 
a Naval Reserve than they have ren- 
dered in the past. 

During the war the United States 
Shipping Board maintained schools 
for the training of seamen and fish- 
ermen. These schools turned out 
thousands of navigators, but the Uni- 
ted States now needs a higher type 
of officers — something more than 
mere navigators. It needs men who 
can not only guide a ship back and 
forth across the ocean, but who can 
transact any kind of ship's business 
in any port, men of broad education, 
who can hold their own with the best 
of the master mariners of the Euro- 
pean countries. 

It is the development of this type 
of men that Brown University is now 
trying to encourage. In order to se- 
cure a well balanced education the 
men interested in ships and shipping, 
in addition to the courses off'ered by 
the Department of Nautical Science, 
should pursue in other departments 
such courses as mathematics, Eng- 
lish, modern languages, history, 
physics, economics and banking, po- 
litical and social science, commercial 
and physical geography, meteorology, 
astronomy, and biology. 

The United States Shipping Board 
will probably be able to co-operate 
with Brown and give the men oppor- 
tunity to get some of the necessary 
sea experience by sending them out 
during the summer vacations upon 
the training ships or other ships un- 
der the control of the Board. 

Here, then, is an opportunity for 
young men to share in the restoration 
of peaceful intercourse among the na- 
tions, to lay the foundation of a use- 
ful and profitable career, and to help 
put the Stars and Stripes back on the 
seven seas. 

The new department has its quar- 
ters in Maxcy Hall. The dormitory 
rooms in the south half of the third 
floor have been torn out and in their 
place are now a class room 18x34 



feet, a laboratory 18x23 feet, and two 
offices 18x11 and 8x13 feet. The 
rooms have east, south and west ex- 
posure, thus facilitating observations 
of the sun for latitude, longitude and 
compass work. The laboratory con- 
tains tables for the use of charts, and 
is well equipped with quadrants, sex- 
tants, chronometers, compasses, bin- 
nacle, pelorus, log, protractors, 
globes, etc., for illustrating all the 
processes used in the navigation of a 
ship. 

The following courses will be of- 
fered by the Department of Nautical 
Science next year : 

1, 2. Navigation — Compass and 
chart; piloting; plane sailing, middle 
latitude sailing, Mercator sailing; 
dead reckoning; the sextant; deter- 
mination of latitude and longitude by 
the sun, moon, planets and stars; az- 
imuth; line of position by the meth- 
ods of Sumner, St. Hilaire and Aqui- 
no; great circle sailing; theory and 
practice of compass adjustment. 

Professors Slocum and Brown 
Three hours credit, four hours of 
attendance. Through the year. Elect- 
ive for students who have credit for 
Plane Trigonometry. 

3, 4. Seamanship — Rules of the 
road; aids to navigation; hull, fit- 
tings and rig of various types of 
ships; ground tackle; propellers; 
steering gear and steering; blocks, 
tackle and purchases; handling and 
maneuvering; boats and boat equip- 
ment; stowage of cargo; duties of 
crew and officers; qualifications for 
licenses ; winds and storms ; tides and 
currents. 

Professors Slocum and Brown 
Three hours. Through the year. 
Elective for Sophomores, Juniors and 
Seniors. 

5, 6. Ship's Business — Tonnage; 
ship's papers; shipping articles; 
charter party; bill of lading; mani- 
fest; clearance and entrance; pilot- 
age ; the log book ; trade routes ; ports 
and terminals ; rates ; subsidies ; ma- 
rine insurance; rules and regulations 
pertaining to ships, crew and cargo. 
Professor Brown 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



203 



Three hours. Througfh the year. 
Elective for Juniors and Seniors. 

7. History and development of the 
American Merchant Marine from its 
beginning down to the present. 

Professor Slocum 

Three hours. Second Semester. 
Elective for Juniors and Seniors. 
This will be preceded in the First 



Semester by a course on Sea Power 
by Professor Dealey. 

9, 10. Advanced course in Navi- 
gation — Problems in navigation, com- 
pass adjustment and chart work. 

Professor Slocum 

Three hours. Through the year. 
Elective for students who have credit 
for 2. 



A YEAR OF THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT 



(Report for 1918-19 to the Visiting 
Committee, which requested its publi- 
cation in the Brown Alumni 
Monthly) 

Under Government Supervision. 
Before the close of the last academic 
year the department had prepared to 
add courses designed to meet the 
needs of prospective officers in the 
Army and in the Navy, and to modify 
existing courses. In September, when 
the colleges were taken over by the 
Government, the only essential 
change in our program was, there- 
fore, to impose as requirements what 
we had expected to offer as electives. 

The effect of the war was to throw 
great emphasis on the practical side 
of mathematics. Naturally, too, a 
large proportion of the work was of 
the most elementary college grade. 
For the Naval Unit nine divisions in 
the mathematics of navigation were 
formed. There were two divisions 
studying artillery firing data. The 
demand for trigonometry was so 
great that seventeen divisions in all 
were taught by the department. In- 
struction in geometry and calculus 
was given to five classes and more 
advanced work was not entirely neg- 
lected. 

Six-sevenths of the students in 
the University took courses in the 
Department of Mathematics, and a 
total of approximately one hundred 
and twenty hours of teaching per 
week was necessary. Professor Jones, 
of the Department of Philosophy, 
gave us six hours per week in navi- 
gation and Dr. Shapley, of the De- 
partment of Art, six hours per week 



in trigonometry. The University 
generously and wisely furnished us 
with a staff large enough to handle 
the courses in small divisions. There 
were many things to interfere with 
the academic work : the epidemic of 
influenza, the constantly changing 
groups of students, owing to Govern- 
ment orders, non-academic military 
and naval requirements. After the 
armistice was signed it was only the 
moral force of the Faculty that held 
the men at their tasks. 

Activities of Faculty in National 
Administration. Our department had 
more than its share in writing the 
mathematical curriculum prescribed 
for use in the colleges and camps. 
While lecturing at the University of 
Chicago in the summer quarter, Mr. 
Richardson made some investigations 
of the mathematical needs in the na- 
val service and taught navigation to 
a group of men enlisted in the ensign 
school. Mr. Currier visited various 
Y. M. C. A. huts at naval stations on 
the Atlantic coast, familiarized him- 
self with their problems aiKi methods 
of instruction, and gave lectures on 
astronomical subjects. They were 
both members of a committee of 
three appointed by the Mathematical 
Association of America which was 
requested by the Government to draw 
up a possible navigation program; 
this was afterwards adopted for all 
the colleges. Mr. Richardson had 
some share in writing the remainder 
of the mathematical program and 
was approached as to the possibility 
of his undertaking the directorship 
of mathematics with headquarters at 



204 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Washin^on. He considered, how- 
ever, that his work at Brown was of 
first importance, and declined to do 
more than assist as other duties per- 
mitted. 

Mr. Archibald was appointed by 
the National War Work Council of 
the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion as one of a committee of six to 
make a survey of the mathematical 
instruction given under the auspices 
of the Y. M. C. A. at the various na- 
val stations of the country. He spent 
ten days in visiting all the stations — 
Northeastern Division — from Rock- 
land, Me., to New London, Conn., and 
practically all of the suggestions 
made in his extensive report were 
adopted. 

Undergraduates in Artillery Ser- 
vice. Early in the war a large num- 
ber of Brown undergraduates enlist- 
ed in the Artillery branch of the ser- 
vice and were assigned for duty at 
various forts on Narragansett Bay. 
Many of these men were recommend- 
ed for the Officers Training School at 
Fort Monroe, where they made excel- 
lent records. As a result, the S. A. 
T. C. at Brown was frequently called 
upon to furnish candidates for Fort 
Monroe. The students were selected 
by our department on the basis of 
their mathematical records. In the 
preliminary examination in mathe- 
matics (through plane trigonometry) 
g'iven to men on their arrival at Fort 
Monroe the Brown men made a most 
gratifying record. Not one failed. 
In one case the lowest grade obtained 
by a group of five candidates from 
Brown was 99 per cent. In another 
case only one man out of twenty got 
below 80 per cent. 

In field artillery also the depart- 
ment was called upon to recommend 
men with a good mathematical rec- 
ord. The twenty-nine candidates se- 
lected for this branch of the service 
early in November never went to 
camp, but the officer who came to 
Providence to enroll them pronounced 
them the most likely candidates he 
had seen at any New England col- 
lege. 



Recent Graduates in the War. It 
is the intention of the department to 
put in some permanent form the war 
record of the recent graduates, men 
and women, who specialized in math- 
ematics at Brown. A hasty prelimi- 
nary survey gives some interesting 
data. Thirteen went to the European 
front, eleven with the land forces 
(chiefly artillery) and two with the 
Navy; five were employed in the 
camps, three in training men and two 
in executive work; two were inspect- 
ors in the air service ; five gave their 
energies to teaching mathematics to 
prospective officers in the colleges ; 
six were engaged in the statistical 
division in Washington. 

Changes in Staff Personnel. 

Dr. T. H. Brown has been made as- 
sistant professor in the new Depart- 
ment of Nautical Science, but has 
been giving us a little of his time. 

Mr. Burwell, who was Brown 
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford during the 
year 1916-17, and in the Government 
service, Washington, 1917-18, was 
added to our staff. He expects to re- 
turn to Oxford in the autumn. 

Mr. Cornell, who taught at Brown 
in 1903-04, was loaned to us for the 
year by the superintendent of the 
Providence schools. 

Mr. Adams, who graduated from 
Brown in 1918, gave up his graduate 
work in mathematice for the first 
term in order to help us in the teach- 
ing. He is now the Grand Army fel- 
low. 

Non-War Activities of the Staff. In 
January, Mr. Archibald assumed the 
duties of editor-in-chief of the Amer- 
ican Mathematical Monthly and Mr. 
Manning was made an associate edi- 
tor. Mr. Archibald is on the Council 
of both the American Mathematical 
Society and the Mathematical Associ- 
ation of America. Mr. Richardson is 
one of the vice presidents of the asso- 
ciation for the current year. Mr. 
Archibald was chairman of the pro- 
gram committee for the summer 
meeting of the association and was 
recently made chairman of a commit- 
tee of the society to consider the very 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



205 



important matter of what steps 
should be taken to organize or pro- 
mote the publication, in America or 
elsewhere, of an adequate and com- 
prehensive survey of recent mathe- 
matical literature of the world. 

Mr. Currier is again giving a se- 
ries of extension lectures on Astron- 
omy, and is continuing his monthly 
astronomical articles for the news- 
papers and his computations for the 
Providence Journal Almanac. Dur- 
ing the year about two hundred vis- 
itors have availed themselves of the 
usual open nights at the Ladd Ob- 
servatory. 

Various members of the depart- 
ment are serving on important fac- 
ulty committees, thus exerting a 
strong influence on the trend of edu- 
cation at Brown. 

Among the publications of the year 
are an extensive memoir published in 
the American Journal of Mathemat- 
ics by Mr. Richardson, and articles 
in the American Mathematical 
Monthly for September and March 
by Mr. Manning. 

For the department of the Monthly 
of which he had charge Mr. Archi- 
bald contributed eight articles on Un- 
dergraduate Mathematics Clubs. Two 
of these articles are to appear in am- 
plified form in Mr. Jay Hambidge's 
book "Dynamic Symmetry — The 
Greek Vase," soon to be published by 
the Yale University Press. He con- 
tributed also one article, five reviews, 
and monthly bibliographical surveys, 
to the Bulletin of the American Math- 
ematical Society. His book of nearly 
300 pages on "Training of Teachers 
of Mathematics" was published in Oc- 
tober by the Bureau of Education at 
Washington. 

The Mathematical Library. 

The additions to the library during 
the year have been constant and total 
about 200 volumes. They include 
many valuable and rare volumes. 
Apart from the purchase of works 
necessary for research and teaching 
activities of members of the depart- 
ment, we have paid particular atten- 
tion to the needs of teachers in the 



secondary schools, and of general 
readers unfamiliar with mathemati- 
cal technicalities. Our collection of 
mathematical dictionaries (of which 
the library now contains 12 of the 
50, or more, in existence) is being 
developed chiefly in preparation for 
the mathematical dictionary which it 
is hoped that America will soon pro- 
duce. Mr. Archibald is a member of 
the committee of the Mathematical 
Association which is dealing with this 
matter. 

There are now on our shelves the 
current numbers of about 50 periodi- 
cals and it is our aim to take every- 
thing, of mathematical interest, writ- 
ten in English, French, German, Ital- 
ian, Spanish, Danish or Swedish. 
German periodicals for 1918 have 
been coming regularly by virtue of 
an arrangement which the Amei'ican 
Library Association made with the 
United States Government. 

To the Nathaniel French Davis 
Fund for which the Visiting Commit- 
tee set $10,000 as an objective, $7,112 
has been subscribed and $4,252 is in 
the hands of the treasurer of the Uni- 
versity. The income from this source 
during the past year has amounted to 
about $160. As subscriptions total- 
ling $1,800 have been made condition- 
al upon the full amount of the fund 
being pledged, it is earnestly hoped 
that subscriptions for the balance of 
$2,888 may yet be received. Never 
was the need of the income from the 
completed fund more insistent, and 
coincident with this need the cost of 
books and periodicals has been very 
greatly increased. As mathematics 
was found so absolutely fundamental 
in all that pertained to the art of 
war, its central importance in the ed- 
ucation of the future is assured. 

Other Features of the Work. That 
the Mathematics Club plays an im- 
portant role in the undergraduate life 
is generally recognized. During the 
first term one meeting was held at the 
home of Chancellor Chace. Four 
other meetings ai*e in the year's 
schedule. The average attendance of 
members is over 50. 



206 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



For several years the Department 
of Mathematics has offered special 
courses for the development of teach- 
ers of mathematics in the high 
schools. By this means, and also 
through our intimate relations with 
the Mathematics Teachers' Associa- 



tion of Rhode Island (Professor Cur- 
rier being secretary-treasurer and 
member of the executive committee), 
we are striving in a small way to pro- 
mote the best interests of mathemat- 
ics teaching throughout the State. 



ADVISORY AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



The Advisory and Executive Com- 
mittee met in the President's office on 
Friday, March 13. The report of the 
superintendent of buildings was read 
and its recommendations adopted, in- 
cluding the purchase of a motor truck 
and a safe. 

A report was received from the 
committee on memorial to students 
and alumni who gave their lives in 
the war. 

A report was received from the 
committee on student service and it 
was voted to enlarge the powers of 
that committee in certain directions. 

The resignation of A. E. Dilling- 
ham, instructor in Chemistry, was re- 
ceived and accepted; R. A. Gladue 
was appointed assistant in Chemis- 
try for the remainder of the year. 

It was voted to engage John B. Ar- 
cher to teach community singing at 
chapel service and on the campus 
during the remainder of the year. 



It was voted to appoint a commit- 
tee consisting of Messrs. Kellen, 
Sharpe and Faunce to consider and 
report on the writing of the History 
of Brown University in the Great 
War. 

President Faunce reported the re- 
sult of his recent visits to alumni re- 
unions in various cities. 

A report from the committee on 
summer session, Messrs. Chace, 
Chafee and Faunce, was received and 
its general outlines approved. 

It was voted to increase the com- 
mittee on pensions by adding two 
more members. The committee thus 
was constituted as follows: Messrs. 
Sheffield, Wood, Chace, Metcalf, Gam- 
mell and Brown. 

The comptroller presented esti- 
mates of the probable income and ex- 
penditure for the year ending July 1, 
1919. 

The committee adjourned at five 
o'clock. 



TO A FRIEND IN THE HILL COUNTRY 

Do you remember, comrade, how we two 

Would praise in turn the truest and the best 

In Nature as we saw it ? Stand confessed ! 
Which had the right of it, or I, or you ? 
See how the distance melts from blue to blue. 

And every valley cup brims full with rest. 

Yet, like myself, in spite of every test 
I feel you to your first allegiance true. .^^j.. 

Bone to my bone, the hills were born in me ; 
Your father's fathers knew the wet brown sand ; 

So, though you watch the last peak bloom with light, 

And I the moon-track on the waves to-night, 
Throned in my heart the unchanging mountains stand, — 
Loud in your ears thunders the unresting sea. 

Anna Torrey, 1921, in the Sepiad 



CONGREGATIONAL CANDIDATES FOR TRUSTEE 



At the meeting- of the Advisory 
Board on March 4th the alumni nam- 
ed below were selected as candidates 
for the Congregational vacancy in the 
Board of Trustees and their legal 
eligibility has since been approved 
by the special committee of the Cor- 
poration. Ballots will be sent to all 
alumni of the University about May 
20th. 

Albert K. Potter, Secretary. 

GEORGE FREMONT BEAN, 

Lawyer, of Boston, Massachusetts. 
A. B., Brown, 1881 ; A. M., 1884 ; LL. 
B., Boston University, 1885. Mem- 
ber of Phi Beta Kappa. In law prac- 
tice at Boston since 1885. Residence, 
Woburn, Mass., where for many 
years on School Committee. Mayor 
in 1891. Member of Massachusetts 
Legislature, 1910. Former President 
of Boston Association of the Sons of 
Brown. Member of Advisory Board 
of the Alumni since its formation and 
its first chairman. Chairman of 
Trustees of Brown Loyalty Fund and 
of Boston Committee for raising 
Brown Endowment Fund. Member 
of General Committee in charge of 
War Emergency Fund. Son gradu- 
ated, 1914. 



LEWIS DEXTER, Manufacturer, 
of Manchester, New Hampshire. A. 
B., Brown, 1883. Member of Phi 
Beta Kappa. Agent of Canadian Col- 
ored Cotton Mills, Milltown, N. B. ; 
Warner Cotton Mills, Newburyport, 
Mass. ; and at present of Stark Mills, 
Manchester, N. H. Trustee Manches- 
ter Savings Bank. Active in church 
and Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion work and in civic movements. 

HENRY ROBINSON PALMER, 
Journalist, of Providence. A. B., 
Brown, 1890 ; A. M., on examination, 
1909 ; Litt. D., 1914. Member of the 
editorial department. Providence 
Journal, since 1890. Head of the de- 
partment and chief editorial writer 
since 1914. Editor of the Brown 
Alumni Monthly since its establish- 
ment in 1900. Member Board of 
Management of Brown Union two 
years, chairman one year. President 
Stonington (Conn.) Free Library; 
member of School Committee, 1915- 
16. Author of "The Country by the 
Sea", poems ; of two volumes of local 
history; of verse and prose contribu- 
tions to magazines, and of the Brown 
song, "0 Mother Dear, Brunonia". 



BASEBALL SEASON OPENS 



BROWN 8, TRINITY 
Brown had no difficulty in beating Trin- 
ity College at Andrews Field, April 9, in the 
opening game of the season. Brown made 
7 hits and 1 error; Trinity had 6 hits and 

4 errors. The score: 

Innings 12345678 

Brown 2 3 3 x— 8 

Runs— Porter 2, Coulter, Weeks, Hall 2, 
Knight, Moody— 8. Hits— Off Knight 3 in 

5 ■ -ings; off Brisk 3 in 3 innings. Stolen 
bases — Weeks, Nelson, Moody of Brown; 
Reynolds of Trinity. Three-base hit — Hall. 
Sacrific hit — Coulter. Double plays — Coul- 
ter to Porter to Weeks; Nelson to Weeks. 
Struck out — By Knight 4; by Brisk 1; by 
Shepard of Trinity 7. First base on balls — 
Off Knight 4; off Brisk 1; off Shepard 2. 
Hit by pitched ball — By Shepard — Weeks. 
Umpire — Finnell. Time Ih. 45m. 



BROWN 1, R. I. STATE 3 

A thirteen-inning game at Andrews 
Field, April 12, was won by Rhode Island 
State College. No runs were scored till the 
last inning In the first twelve innings, 
Knight, the Brown pitcher, allowed only 
two hits, though two more came in the 
13th. Brown made six hits off Hudson, the 
Kingston pitcher, who sti-uck out 16 men to 
Knight's nine. The summary: 
958172 6 43211 1 01—1 13 
Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 
R. I. S...0 00000000 3—3 
Brown.. 000000000 1—1 

Hits— Brown 6, R, I. State 4. Stolen 
bases — Nordquist and Whittaker of R. I. 
State. Sacrifice hits — Coulter and Hall of 
Brown, Hudson of R. I. State. Struck out 
— By Hudson 16; by Knight 9. First base 
on balls — Off Hudson 4 ; off Knight 6. Pass- 
ed ball — Erickson of Brown. Left on bases 



207 



208 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



— Rhode Island 7; Brown 8. Umpire — Fin- 
nell. Time — 2h. 35m. Attendance — 550. 

BROWN 1, AMHERST 

Only one Amherst man reached second 
base and only six reached first at Andrews 
Field, April 19. Knight, of Brown, held 
the visitors to three hits in seven innings, 
and Brisk, who pitched the last two innings, 
allowed no hits and struck out four men — 
three of them in the eighth inning. It was 
a great bunting game by Brown. The sum- 
mary: 

Innings .... 123456789 
Brown 04000120 x— 7 

Runs — Porter 2, Weeks, Knight, Nelson, 
Moody 2—7. Hits— Off Knight 3 in 7 in- 
nings ; off Brisk none in 2 ; off Clark of Am- 
herst 7. Stolen bases — Weeks, Moody, Por- 
ter, all of Brown. Sacrifice hits — Erickson, 
Coulter, Knight and Nelson, all of Brown. 
Double play — Nelson to Weeks to Nelson. 
Struck out— By Knight 3, by Brisk 4; by 
Clark 6. First base on balls — Off Knight 1 ; 
off Brisk 1; off Clark 2.' Left on bases — 
Brown A, Amherst 4. Errors — Brown 0, 
Amherst 5. Umpire — Rudderham. Time — 
Ih. 40m. Attendance— 800. 

BROWN 2, BOSTON 14 

The Boston "Braves" of the National 
League beat Brown at Andrews Field, 14-2, 
on April 22. Boston made 12 hits and 
Brown 7. Each made 4 errors. Eteson 
pitched for Brown. 

BASEBALL SCHEDULE 

Nineteen games are on the Brown base- 
ball schedule. Only five contests will be 
played on out-of-town diamonds, so that 
lovers of baseball in Providence will have 
ample opportunity to see the nine in ac- 
tion. 

The two Yale games come early in the 



season, on the 3rd and 14th of May. The 
game on the^ 3rd will take place during 
Junior Week. Dartmouth's first contest 
with Brown will be at Hanover the 17th 
of May while the two teams close their 
seasons in Providence on the 18th of June, 
Commencement Day. 

The games with Harvard come on Memo- 
rial Day in Providence and on the follow- 
ing Tuesday at Cambridge. 

Single games with Cornell and Syracuse 
on successive days in the early part of 
June will furnish two of the best attrac- 
tions at the Camp street grounds. Brown 
has not played Cornell since 1911. 

The schedule follows: 

Saturday, April 5, Trinity at Providence. 

Saturday, April 12, Rhode Island College 
at Providence. 

Saturday, April 19, Amherst at Provi- 
dence. 

Tuesday, April 22, Boston Braves at 
Providence. 

Saturday, April 26, New Hampshire 
State at Providence. 

Tuesday, April 29, Holy Cross at Provi- 
dence. 

Saturday, May 3, Yale at Providence. 

Wednesday, May 7, Rhode Island College 
at Kingston. 

Saturday, May 10, Columbia at Provi- 
dence. 

Wednesday, May 14, Yale at New Haven. 

Saturday, May 17, Dartmouth at Han- 
over. 

Saturday, May 24, Columbia at New 
York. 

Friday, May 30, Hai-vard at Providence. 

Saturday, May 31, Colby at Providence. 

Tuesday, June 3, Hai-vard at Cambridge. 

Friday, June 6, Cornell at Providence. 

Saturday, June 7, Syracuse at Provi- 
dence. 

Saturday, June 14, Holy Cross at Wor- 
cester. 

Wednesday, June 18, Dartmouth at Prov- 
idence. 



SIGMA CHI HOUSE 

Another fraternity house has been added 
to the growing list by the purchase of the 
estate at 96 Waterman street by the Sigma 
Chi Fraternity. It is the intention of the 
fraternity to occupy the house next fall as 
a chapter house. For a number of years 
the fraternity has been housed on the sec- 
ond and third floors of Middle Hope, using 
three rooms for social purposes and the re- 
mainder for sleeping and study rooms. 

The purchased property was owned by 
the heirs of the late Mrs. John P. Camp- 
bell, arrangements for the sale being made 
by the Sigma Chi alumni. The three-story 
dwelling is well suited for chapter house 
purposes, particularly by reason of its loca- 
tion, which is directly opposite the Arnold 
Biological Laboratory. 



INCREASED REGISTRATION 

The registration figures for the third 
term show an increase of 24 names over 
the second term. All the upper classes have 
gained, the Seniors by eight. The ouly de- 
crease to be noted is in the Freshman class, 
which has lost only four men, less than is 
customary after examinations. 

The following returns are a comparison 
of registration figures with those of last 
term : 

Class. 2nd Tei-m 3rd Term 

Seniors 73 81 

Juniors 114 121 

Sophomores 141 153 

Freshmen 220 216 

Specials 59 60 

Totals 607 631 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



209 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published for the Graduates of Brown Uni- 
versity by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

Robert P. Brown, Treas., Providence, R. I. 



ADVISORY BOARD 
William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia. 
Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburgh. 
Francis Lawton, '69, New York. 
Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence. 
William V. Kellen, '72, Boston. 
William E. Foster, '73, Providence. 
Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence. 
Joseph N. Ashton, '91, Andover. 
William R. Dorman, '92, New York. 
George A. Gaskill, '98, Worcester. 



Henry R. Palmer, Editor 
Clinto^ H. Currier, Business Manager 

Business Office, Brown University 
P. O. Box 72 

Subscription, $1.00 a year. Single Copies, 
10 cents. 

There is no issue dui-ing August and Sep- 
tember. 

Entered at the Providence post-office as 
second-class matter. 

The management of the magazine will 
not hold itself responsible for any failure 
of delivery where the subscriber has not 
promptly notified it of his change of ad- 
dress. The old as well as the new address 
should be given. 

MAY, 1919 

The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot un- 
dertake to return manuscripts sent to it 
for publication unless they are accompa- 
nied by sufficient postage. 

BROWN'S VICTORY COMMENCE- 
MENT 

If the renewal of friendships brok- 
en by the war, the visiting of familiar 
places, and the recognition of old and 
pleasant associations are items of in- 
erest to Brown men, Brown's Victory 
Commencement will call her sons 
back to her academic hearth as they 
never came before. It is confidently 
expected that the third Wednesday in 
June will find an assemblage of 
alumni surpassing even that of the 
memorable Sesquicentennial Celebra- 
tion. There is every reason that this 
should be so. 

For two years, America has fought 
the greatest war of her history. For 



two years, whether they wore the 
army drab, the navy blue or the hon- 
orable badge of civilian service, 
Brown men everywhere have felt the 
terrific pressure of constant anxiety. 
That pressure is now removed. With 
minds free from care men can once 
more walk the pleasant byways that 
lead from the past. 

There was a time, not long gone, 
when every meeting was saddened by 
the absence of its best and friendliest 
spirits. Brown men were almost 
afraid to call the roll. Now they are 
coming back from land and sea and 
air — Brown men in service, eager to 
meet their classmates and college 
friends, anxious to visit the old 
shrines. Some, of course, will never 
return. The University honors their 
memory. But many will return. The 
oldest as well as the youngest classes 
will wish to meet with these men, cel- 
ebrating with them America's Vic- 
ory and the part that Brown and her 
sons played in bringing that victory 
to pass. Some of these men will speak 
at the alumni meeting on Tuesday 
night. All will have tales to tell. 

Every class, for the first time in 
Brown's history, will meet in reunion 
this year. The Baccalaureate Ser- 
mon wll be on Sunday, June 15th; 
Class Day will be on Monday, June 
16th, Alumni Day on Tuesday, June 
17th, and Commencement on Wednes- 
day, June 18th. 



AN APPEAL FOR THRIFT 

The United States Treasury De- 
partment has requested President 
Faunce to make an appeal to Brown 
graduates through the Alumni 
Monthly in behalf of the National 
Thrift Campaign. Accordingly he 
writes : 

I beg to call the attention of all 
Brown alumni to the National Thrift 
Campaign, and the opportunity now 
before each of us to benefit himself 
and help his Government. 

We can scarcely realize the great 
change which has come to America 
through the fact that millions of 
people have invested in Government 



210 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Bonds and War Savings Stamps. In 
a very real sense these people are now 
partners with their Government, 
Their loyalty is not merely a matter 
of flag-waving and marching in pro- 
cession — it is a loyalty which has 
found substantial expression through 
investment. It binds millions in new 
bonds to one another and to America. 
The War Savings Stamps appeal 
particularly to those of limited 
means, who by the purchase of 
stamps can provide for the immediate 
necessities of the Government and for 
their own necessities which may come 
later. Altruism and egoism meet in 
such an investment. Let us push the 
idea in factories, stores, offices, 
schools and churches, until we make 
saving as easy as spending. 



FELLOWSHIPS FOR WOMEN 

Three fellowships have been given 
by other colleges to Brown University 
women this year. 

The number of the graduates of 
the Women's College in Brown who 
take fellowshps at other institutions 
is extraordinary. There is no other 
women's college of its size in the 
country, it is believed, that can show 
a similar record. We do not possess 
the broad acres and charming land- 
scape of many women's colleges, but 
the intellectual standards of the 
growing institution on Meeting street 
are unsurpassed — as is proved by this 
continual stream of fellowships given 
to its graduates. 



MATHEMATICS AT BROWN 

The importance of mathematics was 
never so thoroughly demonstrated at 
Brown as during the recent war, 
when six-sevenths of all the students 
in the University took mathematical 
courses. We commend to every one 
of our readers the article which we 
print elsewhere on the work of the 
Department of Mathematics during 
the year. 

And let us add that a special duty 
confronts us as Brown alumni — to 
complete the Nathaniel French Davis 



Fund. The sum in hand should be 
promptly increased to the intended 
$10,000 limit. The department is in 
constant need of the full interest 
from this fund, to provide itself with 
books and periodicals. The fund's in- 
come during the past year amounted 
to only $160. There have been many 
calls on Brown men's pocketbooks 
since we entered the war, but surely 
it is time to close up this account and 
give the Department of Mathematics 
the benefit of the $400 or more annual 
receipts that will be forthcoming 
when it is complete. 



FROM THE OLDEST GRADUATE 

The oldest living graduate of 
Brown, the Rev. John M. Hunt, sends 
the following message : 

"0, I hope and pray that Brown 
University may shine as a light in the 
world which cannot be hid." 

Mr. Hunt is a graduate in the class 
of 1842, and will be 96 years of age 
on October 17, 1919. He was for- 
merly a Baptist minister, but is now 
living at the I. 0. 0. F. Home, Spring- 
field, Ohio. There is real inspiration 
in his words. Surely we may take 
them for our permanent text. Brown 
University is a light set on a hill, and 
its rays extend farther across the 
world every year. 

May they never falter, never grow 
dim. 



BROWN TRAINING 

A Brown graduate writes from the 
Johns Hopkins University at Balti- 
more: 

"I am delightfully located here, and 
frequently meet the Brown graduates 
at the Medical School. Their reputa- 
tion is of the best, and they are a 
credit to the University which gave 
them their preliminary training." 

This, we believe, is more than a 
perfunctory compliment. We are of 
the opinion that there was never a 
time when a sounder and more sub- 
stantial education was given at 
Brown. If any graduate is inclined 
to doubt this, let him make a first- 
hand inquiry in the class rooms. 



WOMEN'S COLLEGE NOTES 



VARIOUS FELLOWSHIPS 

Fellowships held this year by our 
younger graduates are as follows : 

Grace Hawk, 1917. English. Bryn 
Mawr at Bryn Mawr. 

Drusilla Flather, 1917. Biology. 
Bryn Mawr at Bryn Mawr. 

Harriet Waterman, 1916. Biology. 
Smith at Smith. 

Marian Knowles, 1918. Tree Path- 
ology. Special Fellowship given by 
Miss Ward — at Brown University. 
(Organic Chemistry. Problem: Try- 
ing to find out what fungi occur in 
connection with the white pine blister 
parasite on white pine and goose- 
berry in stage that occurs on the cur- 
rant.) 

Janet Williamson, 1918. Biology. 
Mt. Holyoke at Mt. Holyoke. 

Eunice Chace, 1917. i Biology. 
Smith College. (Just appointed in- 
structor for next year at Smith Col- 
lege.) 

Our own two fellows : 

Hannah Roach, 1918. Annie Cros- 
by Emery Alumnae Fellowship. (See 
letter, Sepiad, December, 1918.) Also 
scholarship at Radcliffe College. 

Adele Wildes, 1916. Arnold Ar- 
chaeological Fellowship. Studying at 
Columbia University. Taking courses 
in Greek Archaeology (sculpture and 
architecture, Greek epigraphy, Greek 
Life, Roman Archaeology and Latin 
epigraphy.) Recommended by her 
three professors for reappointment, 
and has been reappointed for next 
year. 

ALUMNAE OVERSEAS 

Some of our alumnae went over- 
seas. The roll call is as follows : 

Mabel LeValley, 1900. France. 
Red Cross Canteen Work. 

Helen Hastings, 1913. France. 
Secretary to Nurses' Unit sent out by 
Boston Homeopathic Hospital. 

Marjorie Mallory, 1914. France. 
Y. M. C. A. Secretary. 

Grace Sherwood, 1906. France. 



Entertainer of soldiers on leave. Y. 
M. C. A. 

Elizabeth Morrison, 1910. Italy. 
Nurse, Civilian Relief American Red 
Cross Commission for Italy. 

Ollie Randall, 1912. France. 
American Red Cross Canteen. 

Mrs. Frederick Kinyon, 1909. 
France. Hospital and Relief Work. 

Henrietta C. Brazeau, 1906. 
France. Y. M. C. A. artist entertain- 
ing in the "base area" at Nimes, Nice, 
Monte Carlo and Marseilles. Expects 
later to be stationed at Coblenz with 
the Army of Occupation. 

FROM THE 1918 EMERY FELLOW 

Following is a copy of a letter from 
the Annie Crosby Emery Alumnae 
Fellow of 1918 : 
My dear Mrs. Allinson : 

I want to tell you how happy I am 
here at Radcliffe. I've been most for- 
tunate in getting classes under some 
of the best professors, and I love the 
work. I have Professor Turner in the 
History of the West, Professor Hart 
in American Government, Professor 
Haskins in Historical Bibliography 
and Criticism, Professor Wilson in 
International Law, and Mr, Laski in 
the History of Political Theories. 
They're all professors who have done 
a vast amount of creative work, and 
even Mr. Laski, who isn't yet a pro- 
fessor, has written a most brilliant 
book on sovereignty, and — which is 
very desirable from the student's 
point of view — they're men of vary- 
ing types of personality, who have 
the faculty of inspiring one to work 
one's hardest. I really enjoy the In- 
ternational Law best of all — I've 
never done anything much more fas- 
cinating, from the intellectual point 
of view, than solving the actual and 
hypothetical cases that we are work- 
ing on. And, of course, it helps im- 
mensely one's understanding of the 
legal problems involved in the war. 

I was so fortunate as to secure a 
room in one of the dormitories, an 



211 



212 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



undergraduate hall, where the gradu- 
ates from Everett House take their 
meals. It makes it especially pleasant 
for me to have the contact with both 
groups. And thus far I have been 
very happy in the friendships I'm be- 
ginning to form here. All in all, the 
year promises to be a very profitable 



one for me, and I shall most assuredly 
not rest content to let the profitable- 
ness of it go no farther. 

I hope yours, too, will be a happy 
year. Will you kindly remember me 
to Professor Allinson? 

Most sincerely yours, 

Hannah G. Roach 



CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM 



LADD OBSERVATORY NOTES 

Asa E. Goddard (Brown 1877) has re- 
cently presented the obsei-vatory with a set 
of 28 lantern slides from actual photo- 
graphs of the total solar eclipse of June 8, 
1918. The slides represent the best pho- 
tographs taken by the expedition sent out 
by Yerkes Obsei-vatory, Lick Obsei-vatory 
and Sproul Observatory. 

The income of the Ames Fund this year 
is being used in adding to the collection of 
astronomical transparencies at the observa- 
tory. These transparencies are actual pho- 
tographs on glass of celestial objects, and 
are mounted in a special framework so that 
they can be illuminated by means of power- 
ful electric lamps placed behind them. The 
latest additions include some photographs 
of Mars taken at Lowell Observatory. 

Over two hundred visitors were enter- 
tained at the obsei-vatory during 1918. 
During the past month parties from the 
Fall River High School, St. Xavier's Acad- 
emy of Providence, Lincoln School, Miss 
Wheeler's School and the Graniteville Im- 
provement Association have visited the ob- 
sei-vatory. 

Professor Currier lectured on Astronomy 
at the Sockanosset School on March 2, and 
before the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- 
tion of Providence on April 6. He is 
also giving a series of afternoon lectures 
on the Solar System. 

A CAMPUS HOUDINI 

Once more M. N. Rusby '21, proved that 
locks and chains have no power to hold 
him. The stunt this time was to escape 
from the hermetically sealed refrigerator 
connected with the Brown Union lunch 
room, with free meals for the rest of the 
year as the reward of success. The door of 
the ice box was securely bolted, locked, 
sealed, and as an extra precaution against 
his escape a huge beam was wedged across 
the frame of the door. He was secured be- 
fore a large throng of students. In less 
than twelve minutes he appeared in a near- 
ly exhausted conditon, with the bolts and 
fastenings in exactly the same condition as 
before he was confined. 

This leads the Herald to ask: "Is it not 
in order to suggest that Mr. Burlingame 



make our campus Houdini an offer of free 
tuition for the remainder of his collegiate 
course conditional upon his getting out of 
the college safe?" 

TRACK SCHEDULE 

One of the best track schedules in years 
at Brown has been arranged. Dual meets 
with Amherst, Columbia and Wesleyan 
have been agreed upon, and a team will be 
sent to both the N. E. L. A. A. and the I. 
C. A. A. A. A. games. 

The Amherst-Brown meet will be held 
during Junior Week. The last three times 
Brown met Amherst, in 1914, '15 and '16, 
Brown won. 

Brown and Columbia held games in 1916 
and 1917, Brown winning in New York 
but losing at Andrews Field the next year. 
Wesleyan and Brown have not met in track 
athletics since 1913, at which time the lat- 
ter scored a 68-58 victory. 

The schedule follows: 

Friday, May 2, Amherst dual meet in 
Providence (Junior Week). 

Saturday, May 10, Columbia dual meet in 
New York. 

Friday, May 16, Wesleyan dual meet in 
Middletown (Junior Week). 

Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24, N. 
E. I. A. A. 

Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31, I. 
C. A. A. A. A. 

JOINT CONCERT AT NEW YORK 

An "A. B. C." concert given by the com- 
bined musical clubs of Amherst, Brown, 
and Columbia, was held on Saturday even- 
ing, March 29, in the Hotel Plaza, New 
York, and was a great success from every 
point of view. All the numbers were ap- 
plauded heartily by the large and enthu- 
siastic audience. 

Most of the numbers were songs in which 
the three Glee Clubs took part together, 
but several selections were presented by 
the individual musical clubs. The Brown 
Mandolin Club offered a short program,' 
but the 'Varsity quartette did not appear. 
The Brown trio, composed of M. N. Fulton, 
'20, piano; R. R. Baldright, '21, violin, and 
H. L. Tinker, '21, voice, was well received 
by the audience, M. R. Rusby, '21, sue- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



213 



ceeded in perplexing the audience with sev- 
eral of his feature escape stunts. 

The later schedule follows: April 10, 
Crompton Church; April 15, State Insti- 
tute; April 22, Churchill House; May 3, Ju- 
nior Week. 

JUNIOR WEEK 

May 1-3 are the dates set for Junior 
Week. On May 1 there will be a the 
dansant in the Auditorium from 4 to 7. The 
Fraternities will have special booths and 
the veranda will be screened with pines. 
For the dramatic offering there will be two 
plays: "The Man Who Married a Dumb 
Wife," and "Suppressed Desires." On 
May 2 there will be a circus, with outdoor 
dancing to the music of a band. At 2 p. 
m. a Brown-Amherst track meet will begin. 
The Junior Prom will take place in Sayles 
Hall. May 3 will witness the Brown- Yale 
baseball game. At 6.30 there will be a 
class sing. A prize of $100 has been offer- 
ed for the best song. In the evening there 
will be a Musical Clubs concert, followed 
by dancing. 

FRATERNITY HOUSES 

A canvass made recently of all the fra- 
ternities on the hill shows that at least 
twelve of the twenty fraternities plan to 
be in houses off the campus next year and 
five others are not yet certain. Of those 
which are not now in houses, Delta Upsi- 
lon and Sigma Chi plan to move into houses 
on Waterman street just below Brown and 
Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Nu will take up 
residence not far from the campus. Delta 
Phi will in all probability keep North Sla- 
ter and Phi Sigma Kappa will remain in 
the south section. Sigma Phi Epsilon will 
be in one of the other dormitories. All the 
fraternities now in houses expect to remain 
where they are. 

FOR "A" NOT "THE" LEAGUE 

On April 5 a straw vote of the undergrad- 
uate men of the University was taken to de- 
termine their position on the League of Na- 
tions issue. The vote follows: 

Yes No 
In favor of some foiTn of a 

League of Nations 430 29 

In favor of present draft for 

such a league without a- 

mendments 24 358 

In favor of settling the 

question of such a league 

as a part of the peace 

treaty 173 267 

NEW SWIMMING RULE 

Students from all four classes will be 
affected by a rule in regard to the physical 
training requirement which has lately gone 
into effect. This rule, passed by the Fac- 
ulty last September but delayed on account 
of the S. A. T. C, says that all students 



entering in the fall are required to take in- 
struction in swimming immediately upon 
entrance and continue this three hours per 
week, until such time as the requirement 
has been fulfilled. During the regular re- 
quired gymnasium work in the winter, this 
course will be omitted, being resumed in 
the spring. 

TO REPRESENT BROWN 

President Faunce has appointed Rev. 
Bertram A. Warren, Brown, '01, of Walla 
Walla, Washington, as a delegate to rep- 
resent Brown University at the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of the inauguration of 
President Penrose of Whitman College, at 
Walla Walla. 

Professor Gerald Birney Smith, '91, of the 
University of Chicago, has been appointed 
to represent Brown University at the inau- 
guration of President James Lukens Mc- 
Conaughy as President of Knox College, 
Galesburg, 111. 

HERALD PARAGRAPHS 

The Brown Herald remarks editorially: 

Sniff and the world suspects you. Sneeze 
and you sit alone. 

Wanted: A small herd of cattle to graze 
on the university tennis courts. 

We hope that there WILL be a large au- 
dience at the lecture by Dr. Edmunds on 
"Thirty Thousand Miles in China" LAST 
Sunday evening, which is so prominently 
advertised on our bulletin boards. 

Brown was recently given honorable 
mention in an Art Review as being the home 
of many works of architecture. We should 
thank our stars that the writer did not see 
the Chem. Lab. 

It is reported that when the results of 
the recent examinations reached the out- 
side world the prices on Phi Beta Kappa 
keys rose with alarming rapidity. 

That school-house globe on the chapel 
platform coupled with the new "no-cut" 
system makes us feel homesick for the days 
of our youth and the little red school- 
house. 

NOTES OF THE MONTH 

D. H. Curtis, '20, won the Carpenter 
prize speaking contest, April 15, with R. 
L. Watson, '20, second, and A. L. Brisk, 
'20, third. 

W. R. Burwell, '15, talked on "Oxford 
and Rhodes Scholarships" at the Union, 
April 15. Burwell went to Oxford as a 
Rhodes scholar in 1916. 

George W. Gardiner, Aice president of 
the Union Trust Company, addressed the 
Economic Club, April 18. 

Count Bajnotti, donor of the Carrie Tow- 
er, died at San Remo, Italy, March 14. 

The Maine Club has been engaged in an 
active spring campaign to secux-e sub- 
Freshmen. A representative of Brown 



214 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



has been travelling over Maine in co-oper- 
ation with the Maine Club and has interest- 
ed a number of preparatory school under- 
graduates in Brown. The club at present 
has about twenty-five members. 

The Sunrise Baseball League consists of 
teams from 18 fraternities. 

Theta Delta Chi has won the interfra- 
ternity pool championship by beating Beta 
Theta Pi. 

Professor B. B. Boltwood, director of the 
Yale Chemical Laboratory, addressed Sig- 
ma Xi on "Radioactivity and Its Beainng 
on Chemical Theories," April 11. 

The first of the spring "College Nights" 
under the auspices of the Brown Union 
and the Brown Christian Association was 
held in the Rockefeller auditorium on the 
evening of April 1. David Davidson, '04, 
of this city gave a lecture on the process 
of moving picture production. 

J. N. Farquhar, a Y. M. C. A. worker in 



the Orient, outlined the needs of India in 
an address April 1 at the chapel exercises. 
He pointed out that 53,000,000 of the peo- 
ple of India live in poverty, ignorance and 
superstition. 

May 10 is the day set for the Freshman 
banquet. 

Brown and Bowdoin will debate on the 
immigration question at some time between 
May 10-16. There will be no triangular 
Brown-Dartmouth-Williams debate this 
year. 

The Herald announces the election of 
James Quayle Dealey, Jr., '20, of Provi- 
dence; Fred Emil Schooneweiss, '20, of 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Earl Randolph 
Stephens, '20, of Salyersvlle, Ky., as news 
editors for the remainder of the year. 

The final interfraternity dance was held 
in the Union Tuesday evening, April 8. 
Music was furnished by the Country Club 
Orchestra and Gibson catered. 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



CORPORATION 

A tablet has been placed by the Faculty 
of Worcester Academy in the Megaron at 
that institution in honor of D. W. Aber- 
crombie, for 36 years (1882-1918) its prin- 
cipal. On the tablet are these words: "In- 
spiring teacher, wise administrator, master 
builder in things material and spiritual, un- 
compromising idealist, who found the 
school weak and left it strong." 



FACULTY 

On Sunday evening, April 27, President 
Faunce spoke on "The Place of Education 
in Reconstruction" before the Connecticut 
State Conference of Charities and Correc- 
tion at New London. May 21st Dr. Faunce 
will speak at the meetings of the Noi'thern 
Baptist Convention in Denver, Colo. The 
Rocky Mountain Brown Alumni Associa- 
tion is planning to have an alumni dinner 
at the time of his visit. 

Dr. Faunce spoke, April 2, on "The Ker- 
nel and Husk of Christianity" before a new 
organization formed at college to discuss 
purely religious questions once a month. 

At the First Baptist Church, March 16, 
Professors Langdon and Jones spoke on the 
League of Nations, the former for and the 
latter against it. On March 23, Professor 
George G. Wilson, '86, of Harvard spoke 
at the same church in favor of the "cove- 
nant." 

Professor Sioussat addressed Gaspee 
chapter, D. A. R., March 19, on "The Spirit 



of the Revolution Applied to Present-Day 
Affairs." 

Professor Dealey talked on Ward's So- 
ciology March 20, to the Social Investiga- 
tion Club of the Federal Children's Bureau. 

Professor William H. Kenerson of the 
department of mechanical engineering at 
Brown is in charge of the work in that de- 
partment at the American Army Univer- 
sity at Beaune, France. He declares in a 
letter received recently by Professor James 
A. Hill of Brown that it will be possible to 
carry out a very elaborate program of ed- 
ucation for the troops due to the provis- 
ions made by the army. "I am sending in 
orders for equipment that make me gasp," 
he states. Profssor Kenerson also men- 
tions meeting Professor Theodore F. Col- 
lier of the History Department and Pro- 
fessor K. K. Smith of the Greek Depart- 
ment, both of whom are now in Y. M. C. A. 
work. This university where Professor 
Kenerson is now engaged opened on March 
1 and became at once the largest univer- 
sity in the English-speaking world. An 
idea of its size may be gained from the 
statement that a farm of 600 acres will be 
used as the main agricultural college, while 
the engineering work will be housed in sev- 
en buildings. Post schools with quotas of 
500 men have been established in the va- 
rious divisions to the number of almost 
1000, and numerous other schools have been 
established in various lines of vocation- 
al training. Fifteen thousand men are en- 
rolled in the main university for a three 
months' course and it is expected that this 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



215 



number will be substantially increased. 
The faculty is headed by Col. Ira I. Reeves, 
formerly President of Norwich University, 
and is composed in part of 2.50 American 
educators sent overseas during the last few 
months and 200 other teachers who were 
previously in Y. M. C. A. sei-vice. 

Professor Carl Bax'us has been asked by 
the American Physical Society to treat the 
subjects "A p:yi-oscopic integration for 
ground speed of aeroplanes" and "Electri- 
cal methods for ground speed of aero- 
planes" at the coming Washington meeting 
of the Society. 

Professor Hunkins was a delegate to the 
annual meeting of the Alliance Francaise at 
the Plaza Hotel in New York, April 5. 



ALUMNI 



I860 



A celebration of the 50th anniversary of 
the occasion when Thomas W. Bicknell 
became State Commissioner of Public 
Schools in Rhode Island will be held prob- 
ably in June, according to an announcement 
made by John L. Alger, '90, principal of the 
Rhode Island State Normal School. The 
announcement came after Mr. Bicknell had 
addressed the faculty and student body on 
"Conditions of Education in Rhode Island 
50 Years Ago." Commissioner Ranger 
stated that a committee of 100 would be 
appointed later to attend to the plans. So 
far as is known Mr. Bicknell is the only 
public officer of the kind who has lived to 
experience a golden anniversary. Mr. Bick- 
nell was in office for six years. In 1870 he 
was instrumental in forming the State 
Board of Education, also in founding the 
State Normal School in 1871. This year 
marks the 60th anniversary of his election 
to the State Assembly from Bamngton. 
1872 

Rev. Orson P. Bestor is living in retire- 
ment near Kalamazoo, Mich. His address 
is Rural Delivery No. 9. 
1873 

George Newhall Bullock died March 28, 
1919, at the home of his son-in-law, Pres- 
cott D. Reynolds, in East Providence. He 
was born in Providence, July 23, 1851, and 
was the son of Calvin Bullock and Diana 
Newhall Bullock. After graduation, he was 
connected with various mercantile estab- 
lishments, and at the time of his death was 
in the employ of the firm of A. M. Tourtel- 
lot. wholesale produce dealers, Providence. 
He was twice married, (1) to Sarah How- 
ard and (2) to Mrs. Hortense Beach Per- 
rin, the daughter of Horace N. Beach. In 
college he was a charter member of the Chi 
Phi Fraternity. 

1883 

Pi'of. Alfred W. Anthony, the executive 
secretary of the Home Missions Council, 



has recently issued an excellent pamphlet 
on "The Church in the Community." His 
address is 156 Fifth ave.. New York city. 
1886 

William Allan Dyer has been elected 
president of the Syi'acuse, N. Y., Chamber 
of Commei'ce. He is also a member of the 
Liberty Loan executive committee of Syr- 
acuse. 

1888 

Clarence G. Hamilton since last fall has 
been full professor of music at Wellesley. 
He also gives courses at the Boston Sum- 
mer School and is engaged on a school mu- 
sic course, of which four years are already 
prepared and three more to come. 
1890 

H. R. Palmer addressed the Open Forum 
of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 
Wilmington, Del., March 30, on "Democ- 
racy in the Making." On May 2 he talked 
to the Men's Club of the We-st Haven, 
Conn., Congregational Church on "The 
New Duties of Democracy." 
1891 

Dr. Edwin G. Dexter has been for some 
time chief of the Bureau of War Orphans 
of the American Red Cross, and as such 
has a record family of some 40,000 orphans. 
Recently a new task has been assigned 
him, namely that of organizing and direct- 
ing the American Red Cross expedition to 
Montenegro. A ship from Marseilles is to 
be at his disposal. He expects to take with 
him more than 750 tons of food and cloth- 
ing; 20 automobiles and trucks to aid in 
transportation; three hospital units equip- 
ped with nurses and doctors; and a suffi- 
cient clerical personnel to inin the expedi- 
tion. The unit will be stationed at Pogo- 
ritza, Montenegro, and will remain in the 
country at least six months. Dr. Dexter 
expected to spend Christmas in Paris with 
his son, Capt. Henry V. Dexter, '14. 

Charles M. Perry is a member of the 
Rhode Island General Assembly from the 
town of Coventry. The eldest of his three 
daughters is a member of the Freshman 
class of the Women's College at Brown; 
the second daughter is a student at the 
West Wai-wick High School. 
1894 
Col. H. Anthony Dyer was a speaker at 
the Lantern Club, an organization com- 
posed of magazine advertising men, in Bos- 
ton, April 1. 

President John Hope, after twenty-five 
yars of almost uninterrupted sei-vice at 
Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, was 
granted six months leave from his duties 
at the college. He at once offered his ser- 
vices to the Y. M. C. A. and sailed in Aug- 
ust for France as assistant to Mr. Carter, 
supervisor of the Y. M. C. A. work abroad. 
Since his arrival he has not only supei-vised 
the work among colored troops, but in view 



216 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



of 33 years of close contact with men and 
boys he has had all questions concerning 
colored soldiers referred to him. Before 
the amiistice was signed the Y. M. C. A. 
asked for an extension of his leave for the 
.duration of the war and six months there- 
after, which request was granted. His head- 
quarters are at 12 Rue d'Aguesseau, Paris. 

1896 
Elmer J. Rathbun, newly elected Associ- 
ate Justice of the Supreme Coui-t, was born 
in Coventry, April 16, 1870, and lived there 
until he was 14 years old, when his family 
moved to West Greenwich. He attended 
the schools of those two towns and then 
entei'ed East Greenwich Academy to pre- 
pare for college. He was graduated from 
the Academy in 1892, after having dropped 
out for one year in order to earn money 
to continue his education. In the fall of 
1892 he entered Brown, from which he 
was graduated in 1896, after having work- 
ed his way through. Two years later he 
was gi'aduated from Boston University 
Law School, with the degree of LL. B., and 
standing second in his class in point of 
scholarship. He completed the three-year 
law course there in two years, and won a 
$250 prize for scholarship. He was admit- 
ted to the Rhode Island bar in 1898 and 
was a practicing attorney for more than 10 
years. After sei'ving for several years on 
the school committee of his town, Mr. 
Rathbun was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives from West Greenwich, and 
served from May, 1897, until January, 1909. 
While in the Legislature he was a member 
of the House judiciary committee and of 
the corporations committee. He served as 
Clerk of the Fourth District Court in 1900, 
and was then elected judge of the same 
court, a post which he held until he was 
elected a Justice of the Superior Court on 
Jan. 22, 1909, from which place he was 
promoted in March to the Supreme bench. 

1897 
Rev. W. J. Ballou is in France, engaged 
in work as a Y. M. C. A. secretary. 

1899 
Arthur H. Blanchard, consulting high- 
way engineer, has been appointed chief of 
the Bureau of Public Works, Department 
of Citizenship, under the Army Overseas 
Educational Commission. Genei-al Pershing 
has requested the Y. M. C. A., through its 
Commission, to take charge of the devel- 
opment of instruction and courses for all 
educational work of the Army overseas. 
The staff of the Bureau of Public Works 
and Army instructors in 500 post-schools 
throughout France will give lectures and 
highways, bridges, water supply, sewage, 
waste disposal, public utilities and irriga- 
tion. Special emphasis will be placed on 
the economic value of good roads to the 
nation, state, county and town, and on effi- 
cient methods of highway, railway and wa- 
tei-way transportation. 



1901 

Charles E. Bryant of Coshocton, Ohio, 
is engaged in educational work with the 
American forces in France. His address 
is 12 Rue de Aguesseau, Paris, care of 
American Y. M. C. A. 

1902 

G. Edward Buxton, Jr., treasurer of the 
Providence Journal Company, was promo- 
ted on February 28 to the rank of lieuten- 
ant colonel of the 328th Infantry and de- 
tached on special duty at headquarters of 
the Eighty-second Division to wi-ite the di- 
vision's history. He has been for some time 
chief inspector of the division, which has 
been through the hottest of the fighting in 
France since early last year. Lieut. Col. 
Buxton, whose military career began with 
the Rhode Island National Guard and who 
sei-ved during the present war as major in 
the 328th Infantry, has been stationed in the 
vicinity of Castres, Gironde, near Bordeaux, 
France, and expected to leave for home 
with that regiment in April. During his 
sei-vice in the National Guard, Lieut. Col. 
Buxton held the successive commissions 
from second lieutenant, to which he was 
appointed, to captain of the Third Com- 
pany, Coast Artillery, to which he was el- 
ected in 1908. He served on the Mexican 
border and was commissioned as a major 
upon entering the present war. Lieut. Col. 
Buxton is a graduate of Brown in the class 
of 1902 and of Hai-vard Law School, 1906. 

1903 
George Waterhouse is chairman of the 
Council of Defense of Beaufort County, 
S. C. 

1906 
Born, on Februaiy 20, 1919, a daughter 
to Mr. and Mrs. T. Elliott Tolson, Eliza- 
beth Beresford Tolson. 

1908 
Judge Edward L. Leahy, ex-'08, of Bris- 
tol has been appointed to the State Tax 
Commission by Governor Beeckman to fill 
the vacancy caused by the resignation of 
Mayor Jeremiah P. Mahoney of Newport. 
Judge Leahy's selection for the Democratic 
place on the commission came after a pro- 
longed contest on the part of a number of 
aspirants. He was born in Bristol in 1884, 
attended the public schools there, and after 
graduating from Bristol high school, at- 
tended Brown and Georgetown University, 
graduating from the law school of the lat- 
ter institution. He was admitted to the 
bar in this state in 1906, and is a member 
of the law firm of Fitzgerald and Higgins. 
In 1909 he was elected judge of probate 
for the town of Bristol, a post which he 
still holds. He represented Bristol in the 
House in 1911 and 1912 and the following 
year was elected to the Bristol school com- 
mittee. Judge Leahy has been prominent- 
ly connected with the Knights of Colum- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



217 



bus, being grand knight of the Bristol 
council for several years and a former state 
advocate. Judge Leahy married Miss Fern 
Dixon, daughter of former State Senator 
Ezra Dixon of Bristol. 
1909 

Edwin B. Mayer, recently assistant to the 
director of the Bureau of Exports of the 
War Trade Board, and Captain Q. M. C., 
U. S. Ai-my, has received his honorable dis- 
charge and has resumed his law practice at 
1624 Otis Building, Chicago, 111. 

Born, at Canton, China, to Mr. and Mrs. 
John Wesley Mayhew, a daughter, Jane 
Westbrook Mayhew. Mayhew was an Ail- 
American quarterback while at Brown and 
made several sprint records. 
1910 

Paul B. Rowland, for several years a re- 
porter for the Providence Journal, is now 
on the Sunday Journal staff. 

Elmer S. Horton is advertising manager 
of the Providence Journal. 

Warren C. Johnson is Philadelphia repre- 
sentative of Ginn & Co., publishers, with 
oflfices at 1505 Arch street. 

A recent communication from Corp. 

Alexander W. Muir of the 23rd Engineers 

stated that he had been enjoying 7 days 

"permission" at Mentone and Monte Carlo. 

1911 

Charles M. King has severed his connec- 
tion with Marquand School, Brooklyn, as 
headmaster, to become employment mana- 
ger of Best & Co., 5th ave. and 35th st.. 
New York city. 

1912 

Born to Major W. Randolph Burgess, 
General Staff Corps, U. S. A., and May Ag- 
nes Bui'gess, a son, Leonard Randolph Bur- 
gess, on March 8, 1919, at Washington, 
D. C. 

"There is one death every thirty seconds 
fi'om consumption in China," said Lieuten- 
ant W. S. Deming, '12, in his illusti-ated lec- 
ture in the Union, on the evening of April 
4. This was but one of many appalling 
facts which he revealed in his talk on con- 
ditions in the Orient. Another startling 
fact brought out by the speaker was that 
Chinese girls work twelve hours during the 
day and return to their work at night. But 
these things, he declared, are not entirely 
without remedy. The Y. M. C. A. and the 
Y. W. C. A., besides missionaries from the 
various denominations, are doing the best 
they can to better conditions, and w^ith the 
small force available are accomplishing 
wonders. Perhaps the largest part of this 
reconstruction work is being done among 
the children. Physical culture schools and 
the Boy Scouts are two methods by which 
the uplift is being accomplished. New en- 
terprises and industries are constantly be- 
ing introduced into the East, and India 
especially is profiting in this manner. 



1913 

Willam L. Dealey since his dischai-ge 
from Camp Meade has become a reporter 
on the Providence Journal. 

Clifford A. Hahn has been actively con- 
nected with the International Shipbuilding 
Company at Hog Island since the early 
stages of the war. Mr. Hahn gradually 
rose from the position of engineer to as- 
sistant manager of the Division of Stores 
and Materials. The position of assistant 
manager of one of the four major divisions 
of the organizations involves the responsi- 
bility for the custody, tran.sportation, al- 
location, requisitioning and all other activ- 
ities in any way affecting hull steel, ma- 
chinery, piping, electrical and other equip- 
ment entering into the ships. There is no 
manager of the division, and Mr. Hahn 
reports directly to the president's office. 

1914 

Cards have been issued announcing the 
engagement of Sergeant Stephen S. Bean 
of Woburn, Mass., now of the Corps Intel- 
ligence Police, Base Section No. 2, United 
States Army to Mile. Marthe Genicot of 
Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium. Sergeant 
Bean is the only son of former Mayor 
George F. Bean of Woburn, Brown, '81, 
and is a graduate of the Woburn High 
School and Brown University, class of 1914. 
In college he was prominent in football. 
He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fra- 
ternity and of the Cammarian Clubs. He 
enlisted on June 1, 1917, as a private with 
Base Hospital, No. 6 (Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital Unit), and sailed for France 
-with that unit in July, 1917. About a year 
ago he was transferred to the Army Intel- 
ligence Department, and he is still in Bor- 
deaux, France, in that branch of the sei-\dce. 
Mile. Genicot was with her family at Mar- 
chienne at the time of the German invasion 
in August, 1914, and left her home when the 
Germans approached that city, which is lo- 
cated near Charleroi. Her family remained 
there, though the district was continually 
occupied by the enemy, until after the aiTn- 
istice. Mile. Genicot lived in Bordeaux and 
in Paris with relatives and friends until a 
few weeks following the armistice, when 
she rejoined her family. A part of this pe- 
riod she spent at school. Three of her 
brothers served in the Army of their coun- 
try and two of these lost their lives. Ser- 
geant Bean first met his fiancee in Bor- 
deaux in 1917. In the past year he has 
travelled extensively in connection with his 
military duties, and he recently spent a fur- 
lough with Mile. Genicot and her family in 
Marchienne, Charleroi and Brussels. His 
return to this country in May is indicated 
in a letter received a few days ago by his 
family at Woburn. No date has yet been 
set for the wedding. 

1914 adv. 

Rev. M. E. Bratcher, Ph. D., minister of 



218 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



the Union Baptist Church in this city, has 
resigned to become associate pastor of the 
Calvary Baptist Church, of which Rev. Dr. 
Edward Holyoke is pastor. His resigna- 
tion takes effect July 1, when he will take 
up his new duties, occupying the pulpit 
during the entire time Dr. Holyoke is in 
France. Mr. Bratcher was graduated from 
William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., in 
1913. Following his graduation he came to 
Brown for graduate work, receiving a de- 
gree of M. A. in 1914 and of Ph. D. in 1916. 
While at Brown he was active in religious 
work. Before becoming pastor of the Un- 
ion Baptist Church he was education di- 
rector at the First Baptist Church in this 
city. His successor has not been chosen as 
yet. 

1915 

Samuel G. A. Rogers, of the class of 
1915, and his brother, Arthur W. Rogers, 
on February 5th of this year were awarded 
the Croix de Guerre. The citation as 
translated reads: "For bravery in bring- 
ing in the wounded from the most advanced 
post under heavy bombardment and in very 
difficult circumstances without rest during 
the fighting in October." The brothers 
were with Ambulance Unit 628, which has 
been cited for bravery five times. 
1918 

William W. Chaplin, son of Stewart 
Chaplin, '82, mentioned in the Monthly as 
a member of the class of 1919, should have 
been credited to 1918. 

J. Brewer Marshall has been commission- 
ed an ensign in the Navy. 
1919 

The following is an extract from a letter 
recently received from J. C. Scott, '19, and 
printed in the Herald. Scott is an officer 
of the United States Marine Corps and is 
now stationed at St. Nazaire: "The night 
before I left Paris, March 6, I ran into 
George Cun-y, '19, on the Boulevard des 
Capucines. While talking to him I spotted 
L. M. Prouse, '18, and so we had a three- 
cornered reunion. Curry is a naval officer, 
Prouse is an army officer, and I being a 
marine officer, we surely represented the 
old college. Last week while on a trip to 
Savenay I made a trip through all of the 
wards there in search of marines, and while 
scouting around I ran into Hugh McNair, 
'17. Talked to him for quite a while and 
learned that Hugh Robertson, '19, had gone 
back to the States with a broken wrist sus- 
tained in football. The next day after 
meeting McNair, I met George Kowalski, 
'19, in a little town called La Beaule. He 
has been playing in the ambulance show, 
'Let's Go,' which has been so popular all 
over the A. E. F." 

L. R. Taber, formerly of the French and 
American aviation sei-vice, talked to the 
Students' Section of the Providence Engi- 
neering Society on "Flying of different 



types of fighting and bombing planes." Ta- 
ber has flown twelve designs of planes, 
both fighting and bombing. He was the 
only one of five in Handley-Page machines 
on a trip over the Alps and return to make 
the flight successfully. He also flew to Zee- 
brugge, the German submarine base. He 
illustrated his talk with many stereopticon 
views. 

"Practically all of the boys are coming 
back to college again, and, believe me, 
they will put some pep into the place," was 
the message Hugh Robertson, '19, gave to 
a Herald reporter the other day. The 103rd 
Artillery of the 26th Division, the Yankee 
Division, was almost a Brown unit. In it 
the University had about 60 men in all. As 
General Edwards said in chapel some time 
ago, the 26th Division was the first divis- 
ion to get to France, and was one of the 
first to see any actual fighting. It was 
in the thick of the scrap at Seicheprey and 
at Chateau-Thierry, at both of which 
places the division gave a most excellent 
account of itself and covered itself with 
glory. It won the praise of all French and 
British officers who came in any contact 
with it. The 1037'd Artillery, almost more 
than any other unit of the division, was in 
the midst of the battle. The 103rd Artil- 
lery contained Batteries A, B and C. When 
these batteries went to the Mexican border. 
Battery A was credited by army officials 
as being the crack State Guard battery, 
and it has lived up to its reputation in this 
war. The 103rd arrived on the transport 
Mongolia at Boston on April 10 and the 
troops were shipped straight to Camp Dev- 
ens. They will probably give a parade in 
Providence before the units are disbanded. 
While in France they displayed the Brown 
"pep" that they had in college. At Camp 
Coequidan in Brittany there was many a 
celebration. But the best one was the one 
held New Year's Eve of 1917-18, which 
they called Brown night. Sampson, '19, 
and "Ken" Johnson, '19, both won divis- 
ional citations for taking wounded from 
under a heavy shell fire. Hugh Robertson 
told some good stories of the doings over 
on the lines. For instance, some of the 
Brown men ran what they called the "Mil- 
lion Dollar O. P." in the trenches near 
Saint Mihiel. It was a wonderful bomb- 
proof dug-out with a good obsei-vation 
post. They lived here like kings, com- 
pared with the way the other men were 
living. Another story he told was about 
Bill Walsh, '20. There is in France a shell 
crater called Walsh's crater. Bill was 
walking across a field when a shell landed 
just where he was a few moment? before. 
In a few seconds Walsh came walking out 
of the smoke absolutely unharmed, so they 
named the shell hole after him. Private 
Henry Sampson, '19, was "le conducteur," 
which means in English "driver." Samp- 
son didn't like his job at all, and he always 
got a little bit riled when the boys called 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



219 



him '"conducteur." Abbott, '19, was in 
charge of a gun-section in which were Carl 
Wright, '19, and Carol Larrabee, '18. Lar- 
rabee was wounded. French was also hit 
at Chateau-Thierry, but was not seriously 
hurt. Keech, '18, was transferred from Bat- 
tei-y A to an infantry regiment. Ray Bag- 
ley, '18, pitched some times for the battex-y 
team. Bill McSweeney, '19, and Fred 
Brooks, '18, were attached to the 101st En- 
gineers, and the boys in the batteries saw 
a good deal of them, as they came in con- 
tact with them many times. Sergeant Hull, 
'18, was one of the best liked men in C 
Battery. He did so well in the Chateau- 
Thierry affair that he was sent to the offi- 
cers' school. He just missed his commis- 
sion by the signing of the amiistice. He is 
now writing the battery war book. Many 
of the officers were Brown men. Captain 
McLeod of Battery C was a great soldier 
and much loved man. Sam Damon was an 
instructor at Saumour and later was at- 
tached to Headquarters Company. Stan 
Ward was another officer. He also coached 
the football team. Many Brown men were 
sent to the officers' school. On the regi- 
mental football team was MacMlllan, '19, 
who played tackle. He played a fine game. 
Bill Walsh, '20, played end. Robertson him- 
self saw 18 months of service. He played 
end on the team, and recently broke his 
wrist in a hard game. When the boys come 
back there is going to be some great old 
"pep" uncorked. They will make things 
hum. Among other things they are plan- 
ning an A. E. F. Club. 

Thomas M. Conroy, '19, was recently 
decorated by the King of Greece with the 
"Order of the Redeemer," one of the high- 
est honors bestowed by that country. He 
enlisted at the outbreak of the war, won 
his commission and was given command 
of one of the submarine chasers sent to 
the Mediterranean. He took part in sev- 
eral engagements and was promoted to di- 
visional commander of a fleet of chasers. 
At the close of the fighting he was given 
charge of some of the ships of the surren- 
dered Austrian fleet, and was highly com- 
mended for his services. During the last 
few months he has had charge of a division 
of boats engaged in assisting the Red Cross 
in the distribution of food to the starving 
population and the relief of suffering 
among the refugees of Turkey, Bulgaria 
and Armenia. His last cablegram stated 
that he was bound for Constantinople, and 
expected to return home during the sum- 
mer. Conroy was a member of the 'Var- 
sity football team, president of his class, 
and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. 
He left college at the end of his Sopho- 
more year to join the Naval Resei-ve Force. 

"Fritz" Pollard, ex-'19, on March 22 set 
a new indoor world's record for 100-yd. low 
hurdles of 11 2-5 seconds, at Baltimore. 
Pollard left college last year to enter Y. M. 
C. A. work, and at the Baltimore meet ran 



from scratch for the Meadowbrook Club of 
Philadelphia. 

The Croix de Guen'e has been awarded 
to Frederick W. Lathrop, ex-'19, for ex- 
treme bravery under fire and "absolute dis- 
regard for life and safety." Lathrop join- 
ed the Brown Ambulance Unit and was sent 
to France in 1917. Upon the entrance of 
the United States in the war he was trans- 
fered to the A. E. F. At present Lathrop 
is still overseas. He is a son of Rev. Wil- 
liam G. Lathrop, '89, who is now minister 
of the Mt. Carmel, Conn., Congi-egational 
Church. 

1920 

•Kenneth H. Bitting was one of the men 
who was given a commission shortly before 
the Rhode Island Batteries left Pontvalain 
en route to Brest for America. All of these 
men were in different schools at the time 
of the signing of the aiTnistice and were 
immediately returned to their units. The 
commissions came as a pleasant surprise. 
Bitting went over with Battery A in the fall 
of 1917. He was soon made a sergeant- 
major and was so valuable to his com- 
mander that he could not be spared to go 
to an officers' school. Finally an oppoi-tu- 
nity was given him, and when only a week 
of his course remained the signing of the 
ai-mistice interfered. Upon his return to 
this country he plans to immediately enter 
the bond business in St. Louis with his 
brother, W. C. Bitting, Jr., '08. 

Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart of Rey- 
nolds avenue announcea the engagement of 
their daughter, Miss Margaret Louise Stew- 
art, to Wilfred Warner Brouillette, son of 
Rev. and Mrs. Oliva Brouillette of Salem, 
Mass. Mr. Brouillette is a member of the 
class of 1920, and of the Sigma Chi frater- 
nity. 



ALUMNAE 



1896 



Mrs. Flora Holt Metcalf is teaching Art 
at Miss Maderia's School. 

1906 
Mrs. Mary Brennan Ingster is a teacher 
of history at the Central High School, 
Washington, D. C. 

1910 

Angie Melden is associate director of the 
Bureau of Development, Territorial and In- 
sular Division, American Red Cross. 

Stella Clemence is research assistant 
(natural history and ethnology) for Dr. C. 
Hart Merriam, research associate, Smith- 
sonian Institution. 

1911 

Bertha Payson is a research clerk and 
stenographer. Military Intelligence Divis- 
ion, War Department. 



220 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Lida M. Bassett is director of junior 
membership and school activities, Potomac 
Division, American Red Cross (including 
Va., W. Va., Md. and D. C.) 

1912 

Mrs. Clarice Ryther is chief of the De- 
partment of Casualty Files, Bureau of 
Communication, National Red Cross Head- 
quarters, where all casualty information 
from overseas and all inquiries from this 
side are cai'ded and correlated. 

Dorothy C. Walter is a clerk in the Di- 
vision of Medical Records of the Surgeon 
General's office. She w^orks on the statis- 
tics of wounds, diseases and defects of sol- 
diers, making graphical representations . of 
the statistical tables for the reports of the 
Surgeon General; also vn-ites and criticizes 
manuscript and reads proof of reports. 

Margaret B. Church is a mycologist, Bu- 
I'eau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. She is studying the genera 
Aspergillus, Penicillium Trichoderma, etc., 
and developing practical methods of pro- 
ducing fermented Oriental food products 
in this country. 

1913 

Minnie W. Taylor is assistant in forest 
pathology. Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

1916 
Annie E. Rathbun is assistant in forest 
pathology. Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. She is assist- 
ing in experiments on the damping-oif of 
coniferous seedlings. 

1917 

Mabel E. Harrington is computer on the 
Oi'dnance Department Technical Staff, 
Ordnance Theory, Instruments and Metal- 
lurgy Section, ' Mathematics and Dynamics 
Unit. She is computing on ballistic tables 
and all kinds of range tables for various 
guns. 

Winifred Wetherbee is research clerk in 
the U. S. Internal Revenue Office, Income 
Tax Division. 

Mary E. Anderson is in the Examining 
Division of the Civil Sei-vice Commission. 
Her duties consist of rating and reviewing 
examination papers and assisting in hold- 
ing examinations. 

Lena Lopiansky is computer in 'the Ord- 
nance Department, Technical Staff, Ord- 
nance Theory, Instruments and Metallurgy 
Section, Mathematics and Dynamics Unit. 
She is computing on ballistic tables and all 
kinds of range tables for various guns. 

Miss Mary Drusilla Flather of Lowell, 
Mass., is winner this year of the Mary E. 
Garrett or second-year European fellow- 
ship at Bryn Mawr College. Miss Flather 
received the degree of bachelor of philos- 
ophy from Brown University in 1917. She 
was laboratory assistant in comparative 



anatomy at Brown from 1916 to 1917, and 
fellow of biology, Byi-n Mawr College, dur- 
ing the past year. She is the 36th holder 
of the Garrett European fellowship. Sev- 
enteen of the previous holders have taken 
the Ph. D. degree, 10 are teaching in col- 
leges, three teaching in schools, one is in 
college administration, two are secretaries, 
one a bond salesman, two are social work- 
ers, four are married and have no paid oc- 
cupation. 

1918 
C. Elizabeth Dealey is teaching at the 
High School, Conway, Mass., under Super- 
intendent A. S. Thomson, Brown, '98. 



Convenient to the theatre and shopping dis- 
tricts 

The sort of Hotel guests visit once and 
return to every time they come to Boston. 
In addition to Hotel Service there is the 
attraction of dancing to fine music 

From 6.30 until 12.30 

Boylston Street at Copley Square. 



Cfje Henox 

In the centre of Boston's Back Bay residen- 
tial district 

For many years historical as the stopping 
place for College Teams. The "Old Grad" 
claims it still and so do the undergraduates. 
It's their Hotel. 

Boylston Street at Exeter. 

Under Same Management 

L. C, PRIOR, Managing Director 

The 
Corlew Teachers' Agency 

RUFUS. E. CORLEW, Prop., Brown '98 

GRACE M. ABBOTT, Manager 

(Formerly with The Bridge Teachers' 
Agency) 



120 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON 
Telephone Beach 6606 



Integrity, Ability and 
Experience — Incorporated 

The words printed above express in small compass the 
whole idea of trust company service as exemplified by the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company. 

A corporate trustee or executor like this offers you several 
advantages over an individual undertaking to act in similar 
capacities. Among the outstanding advantages are these: 

Collective and Extensive Experience of a 
group of trustworthy men who are specialists and 
experts in their particular lines. 

Freedom from any Personal Bias or partiality 
in the management of property or the handling of trusts. 

Uninterrupted and Permanent Attention 
to the interests placed in its hands. 

Strict Supervision by Banking Authorities. 

And all these advantages are secured 
at no greater fee than that to which the 
individual trustee or executor is entitled. 

Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Company 

15 W^ESTMINSTER STREET, PROVIDENCE. 




OFFICERS 



HORATIO A. HUNT, 

Vice President 
PRESTON H. GARDNER, 
Vice Pres't and Trust Officer 
THOMAS H. WEST, Jr., 

Vice President 
WM. A. GAMWELL. 

Vice President 



Edward D. Pearce 
Herbert J. Wells 
Lyman B. Goff 
Howard O. Sturges 
Stephen O. Metcalf 
Walter R. Callender 
Edward Holbrook 



HERBERT J. WELLS, President 



HENRY L. SLADER. 

Vice President 
JOHN H. WELLS, 

Secretary 
G. A. HARRINGTON, 

Asst. Trust Officer 
ERNEST A. HARRIS, 

Asst. Trust Officer 
ROBERT T. DOWNS, 

Asst. Trust Officer 

DIRECTORS 

James E. Sullivan 
Benjamin M. Jackson 
Frank W. Matteson 
Robert H. I. Goddard 
Henry D. Sharpe 
Isaac B, Merriman 
Charles C. Gardiner 



JOHN E. WILLIAMS, 

Asst. Secretary 
HENRY B. HAGAN, 

Asst. Secretary 
GEORGE H. CAPRON, 

Asst. Secretary 
RALPH S. RICHARDS, 

Asst, Secretary 



Alfred K. Potter 
William L. Hodgman 
Frank H. Swan 
Rowland Hazard 
Royal C. Taft 
J. Arthur Atwood 
William C. Dart 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



DISTRIBUTORS OF 

VICTOR SPRINGFIELD 

and 

McGRAW 

PNEUMATIC TIRES 

REPUBLIC 
SOLID TRUCK TIRES 



In our Automobile Department we carry 
a Complete Line of Standard Accessories 
and Garage Supplies. 

THE 

CONGDON & r*r\ 
ARPENTER V^W. 

PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND 



Providence 
Coal Co. 

Anthracite and Bituminous 

COAL 

Wholesale and Retail 



Central Office, Corner Custom House 
and Weybosset Street. Yard, Cor- 
ner of Dorrance and Dyer Sts. 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Lehigh Coal 



(Old Company's) 



SAVE YOUR MONEY 
We Sell at White Ash Price 



Rhode Island 
Co-Operative 
Coal Company 

1»3 South Water Street. Proyidence, R. L 
'Phone Union i06i R. 



The Best 
TONIC 

Horsford's Acid Phosphate is especi- 
ally recommended for the restoration of 
energy and vitality, the relief of mental 
and nervous exhaustion, impaired digestion 
or appetite. 

HORSFORD'S 
Acid Phosphate 

(Non- Alcoholic) 

Is a scientific and carefully prepared 
preparation of the phosphates, and has 
been found a most valuable general Tonic. 

A teaspoonful added to a glass of cold 
water, with supar, makes a delicious 
and wholesome beverage. 



If your drugrgist can't supply you. srnd 
*5 cents to Rumford Chemical Work*, 
Providence, R. I., for trial size bottle, 
poatage paid. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Edward E. Arnold, Pres. Henry A. Hoffman, Treas. Wm. H. Hayward, Sec'7 



ESTABLISHED 1815 



Arnold, Hoffman & Co. Inc. 



Importers, Jobbers and Manufadurers of 



Indigo, Dye Stuffs, Chemicals 



Providence, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Charlotte, N. C. 



JOHN A. GAMMONS 

171 Westminster Street 






Insurance and 
Surety Bonds 

of all kinds 














F 


^reston & Rounds Cc 

No. 98 Westminster Street 
Providence, R. I. 


). 


Starkweather & Shepley 

Incorporated 
George L. Shepley, President 

INSURANCE 

Of Every Description 

Fidelity and Surety Bonds 




Booksellers 
Stationers 




17 Custom House Street 
Providence, R. I. 

New York Office, 55 John Street 

Chicago Office, 175 W. Jackson BouleT«rd 








Pari*. France, Office. «• Rue Chur«lk at 



Send me 
information 
re policy 
payable to 
Bcown 
Name 



"Suppose that fifty graduates of Brown 
should pass away in the course of 1918 ; that 
is not far from the annual average. Suppose 
that each of them left the modest sum of 
a thousand dollars to her. Fifty thousand 
dollars a year would be a great addition to 
her resources — and who would be burdened ?' ' 



The above quotation from an editorial in the 
Alumni Monthly expresses just what we have 
been trying to say to Brown alumni through 
our advertising. 

Every alumnus in good health might carry 
a Puritan policy for some amount, payable to 
Brown, and the future endowment of Brown 
would be cared for. 

Send in coupon for particulars. 

PURITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. 
Providence, R. I. 



Address 



Printed at the Palmer Press. Providence