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I., Jink, 1918 No. 1 BROWN'S SECOND WAR COMMENCEMENT The war cast its shadow over Brown's Commencement season this year. The orations were full of it, the attendance suffered by it. The old gaiety of other years was absent. The fraternity spreads were not given on Class Day. But it was an enjoyable week, and it took on a new stateliness and dignity by reason of its martial background. Saturday The ceremonies of the week opened with the usual alumnae meeting at the Women's College on Saturday, May 25. Snnday On Sunday afternoon President Faunce preached the baccalaureate to a large congregation, which included a greatly diminished Senior class. Out of nearly 200 men only about 50 were left to march down the hill to the meeting house. Speaking from the text in Luke, "Be- hold, I give unto you power * * * over all the power of the enemy," Dr. Faunce said : "We are fighting against the power of a misapplied science. If ever we have dreamed that society must be saved by scientific discovery and invention our dream is now shattered. Science is a non-moral power which ignores our dis- tinctions of right and wrong. It may wear the livery of heaven or that of hell, and is equally effective as the servant of the Red Cross physician and as tool- maker for the assassin. "The cruelties practiced in warfare by the American Indians were many, but they were not scientific. The ruthlessness of Assyria and Babylonia was terrible, but it was mere excess of passion and thoughtless anger. Now we are con- tending with a cruelty that is thought- ful and deliberate, a frightfulness planned and printed in war manuals, with atrocities coolly wrought out in laboratories and with the murder of the wounded by strictly scientific methods. Those facts should be remembered by those who say that after the war is over our schools and colleges will become simply technical schools. Science gives us marvellous and indispensable tools to work with; but it gives no hint as to how or why we shall use them. "We are contending against a per- verted philosophy of life. For 50 years Germany has prostituted her schools to the service of militarism, and used them to invent and inculcate a philosophical defence of what she bad determined to do. "That defence is the extraordinary doctrine that since the State creates law, it cannot possibly violate law. Since it is the source of right, whatever it finds necessary to its expansion must be right, and whatever opposes its will-to-power is necessarily wrong. Thus loyalty to the military State becomes the sum of all virtues, and resistance to the State the sin against the Holy Ghost. Thus no law of God or man can be superior to the law which a military autocracy has laid down as its own programme of ac- tion. "Of course this turns all ethics upside down — black becomes white and white is called black. Once grant that an abso- lute monarchy is the source of all law, and the advancement of the State the supreme obligation, and the whole moral law is inverted. Then all means to en- 213 214 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY hance the State — the filling of a friendly land with spies, the attempt to incite against us a neighboring Government, the firing on hospital ships, the slaying of children and the obscene mutilation of the dead — all these things become de- fensible. At once honor is found in dis- honor and mercy is expressed through cruelty. The world has seen all these evils perpetrated before, but never be- fore consistently defended." Dr. Faunce declared that we must root out the arrogant and pestiferous German philosophy of life. He said that we have, in opposition to it, "the power of millions of free men who vol- untarily dedicate their lives to the task of preserving freedom for humanity." He pictured the devotion of Amer- ican manhood and womanhood to the new duties of the times. He enlarged upon the unity we must have in the United States. The church, he said, "is finding its unity and so its soul." "Sectarianism is a luxury we may af- ford in time of peace, but it becomes a tragic waste of energy in time of war. When the boys come home 'our unhappy divisions' are going to seem more un- happy than ever, and our ecclesiastical fences will seem both petty and futile. The unification of our national life is proceeding by leaps and bounds. There will be no room here for divisive sects in religion or mere partisanship in po- litical life." Monday It seems strange to the old graduate to go back to college on Class Day and find the former morning and afternoon exercises compressed into the "Under the Elms" programme at 3:45 o'clock. In the old days there were the class ora- tion and poem in Sayles Hall in the morning ; and a group of addresses, in- cluding the address to undergraduates, on the front campus, in the afternoon. The exercises at Sayles are now no more, and for some years the middle campus has been the scene of the out-of-door ceremonies. Monday afternoon was bright and warm and the college grounds never looked better. Ther^ were several hun- dred people at the exercises, but far less than usual. On the outskirts of the as- sembly there were perhaps twenty or thirty little children in charge of their nurses. They lent a strange and piquant touch to the college programme, though one lusty infant created some disturb- ance by appearing to take Dr. Faunce seriously when, in his forceful talk, he enlarged on the wholesome function of obstacles in life. Any man who could not make headway against difficulties, he said, was a man of putty, a man with a shoestring for a backbone. And meanwhile the President himself, speak- ing in competition with the lusty infant aforesaid, and keeping manfully at it until the nurse belatedly rolled the child away, was giving a very good object- lesson in how to succeed in spite of handicaps. William Miller Fay of Franklinville, N. Y., president of the Senior class, made the address of welcome. Walter Adler of this city spoke on "Brown Ideals in Americanism." "Service" was the topic of the address by Wilfred Pickles of Providence. The class poem was delivered by Chester Miller Downing of this city. Reginald Gordon Harris of Manchester, N. H., made the address to undergraduates, af- ter which President Faunce spoke. At 5:15 o'clock the Senior sing took place on the steps of the John Carter Brown Library. Among the songs sung was that favorite of other days, Govv's "Chapel Steps," as lovely as ever; and ' 'Alma Mater, ' ' which closed the ' 'sing. ' ' In the evening there was more festivity. A great number of Japanese lanterns illuminated the campus for the prome- nade concert given by Fairman's Band. There were no fraternity dances or spreads. Instead all the fraternities combined and conducted three dances. Pettine's and Fay's orchestras furnished the music. A six-piece orchestra played BROWN COMMENCEMENT, 1918 Top row — Commencement procession leaving campus. Senator Lodge (LL. D.) Left Centre— Major W, W. Keen, '59 and Dr. Nichols, '72, (Litt. D.) Right Centre — Professor Munro and Admiral Edwards (in charge Brown naval courses) Bottom row — Hon. Elon R. Brown. '78. LL. D. Procession entering church 215 216 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY in Manning Hall and a similar one in the Brown Union. The members of the Senior class re- maining in college gathered in front of the BroNvn Union at 11 :30 o'clock. Col. H. Anthony Dyer, '94, made a patriotic address. There was a salute to the flag and a display of the American and ser- vice flags. The Seniors played their customary baseball game at daybreak. Two members of the Class Day com- mittee are now in the service, F. C. Fay (chairman), and V. A. Bowman. C. I. Munroe (treasurer), R. G. Harris and W. E. Sisson are the members left. Tuesday The annual meeting of the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa oc- curred on Tuesday at 9:30 a. m. in the Administration Building. The officers were reelected as follows: President, Charles C. Mumford ; Vice President, Walter C. Bronson ; Secretary Jamas Q. Dealer ; Treasurer, William W. Moss ; Historian, Wilfred H. Munro; Auditor, Claude R. Branch. The following com- mittees were chosen : Administration and Honorary Membership, William T. Hastings, Albert B. West, Alexander M. Burgess and J. Q. Dealey, ex-officio ; Arrangements, President Mumford, Ed- ward P. Jastram, Clifford H. Griffin ; New Chapters, Secretary Dealey, Nath- aniel F. Davis, George L. Miner; Nom- inating Committee, Chester W. Barrows, Frank T. Easton, Frank H. Brown. The following graduates of Brown were elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa because of their accomplishments since leaving college: Archibald C. Matteson, A. B., LL. B., '98; Frank A. Updike, A. M., '93; James H. Higgins, A. B., A. M., LL. B., '98. Walter Adler of the class of 1918 was also elected to membership in the chapter. Treasurer Moss's report showed that the chapter has a balance of $40.80. Twenty mem- bers of the chapter were reported to have died since the last annual meeting. At the Women's College, Tuesday morning, under a bright sky, the usual ivy planting ceremony occurred. Miss Marion Robins Pfeiffer, 1918, handed over the trowel to Miss Hazel Dadmun Hartwell, '19. Miss Isabel Taylor, president of the Senior class, spoke, and was followed by Dr. Faunce and Dean King. After these exercises, the usual festivities of Ivy Day were foregone, and the class spent the day at Red Cross work. Colonel Dyer addressed them in behalf of the Red Cross, 40 workers under the direction of Mrs. Arthur L. Brown gave them brief instructions, and they put on Red Cross caps and be- gan their labor. "Isn't it wonderful!" exclaimed Miss Doyle. "These girls will never forget it if they live to be a hundred." At noon there was a picnic luncheon on the campus, and in the evening a picnic supper, with singing. The meeting of the Associated Alumni in memory of ex-President Andrews drew an attendance that filled the auditorium at the Brown L^nion on Tuesday even- ing, in spite of a sudden rain storm. William C. Greene, '75, presided and the speakers were Dr. Andrews's clasi- mate, Professor John M. English or Newton ; Professor Bronson, "87 ; Presi- dent Meiklejohn, "93, of Amherst and Warren E. Greene, '98. Professor Bronson proposed that shortly after the war there should be an Andrews memo- rial recitation building erected on the campus. The Associated Alumni officers for the ensuing year, as elected at this meet- ing, are : President, Paul C. DeWoIf, '05; Vice Presi- dents, Fred T. Field. '00. and George A. 'Gas- kill, '98; Secretary, Albert K. Potter, '86; Treas- urer, E. Tudor Gross, '01. Executive Committee, Archibald C. Matteson, '93; Harold C. Field, '94.; William C. Greene, '75; Ira Barrows, '83, and P. Howard Blanding, '03; Advisory Board. George F. Bean, '81, Ed- ward O. Stanley, '7fi; Fred H. Williams, '77; Edward H. Weeks. '93; John Palmer Barstow, '02. and Alfred B. Meacham, '96. President Faunce said the university faced a deficit of $50,000, but the loy- alty fund is helping to meet it. Fifty BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 217 per cent, of the alumni are contributors to the fund. He said that even if the collepfe enrollment should drop far he- low its {)resent numbers, because of the war, Brown will keep open, "pulling not against but with the Government." IVcxlnesday Wednesday was weatherwise favorable, like the preceding da3's of Commence- ment week. The alumni procession was, as had been expected, smaller than us- ual. The meeting house was filled, but the disproportion of women was unusual. There were orations by Clarence R. Adams of Yjden Park on "The Mathe- matical Concept of Infinity" and by George J. Heidt of New York city on "Christianity and Democracy." A third oration was to have been delivered . by Charles G. Edwards of Providence on "Industrial Democracy," but he could not leave his military duties at Camp Devens. A feature of the exercises was the an- nouncement by Dr. Faunce that the Board of Fellows had annulled the de- gree of doctor of laws bestowed in 1910 on Count Johann Heinrich von Bern- storfF, German Ambassador. The reason for the annulment was that he had been guilty, while Germany and the United were at peace, of "conduct dishonorable alike in a gentleman and a diplomat." His name is stricken from the list of honorary alumni and will be omitted from further publications of the L^ni- versity. Degrees were awarded as follows : Nine honorary, one to a woman, ; Bach- elor of Arts, 64, of which 30 went to women ; Bachelor of Philosophy, -5.'3, of which 21 went to women; Bachelor of Science, 13, two in civil engineering, two in electrical engineering and nine in mechanical engineering ; Master of Arts, ST, of which eight went to women ; Mas- ter of Science, two, of which one was to a woman ; Doctor of Philosophy, 11, of which three went to women. The final honors were awarded to 34 students, 12 of them being women. The total num- ber of degrees awarded, including hon- orary degrees, was 181. The following honorary degrees were awarded : MASTKR OK AllTS William Angell Viall of Providence, secretary of the Brown aud Sharpe Man- ufacturing Company. Mary Small Gardner of Washington, director of the Bureau of Public Health Nursing of the American Red Cross. Inman Edward Page, '77, president of Western Qollege, Macon, Mo. DOC'J'OK OK DIVIXITV Rev. Joseph Taylor, '98, principal of the AVest China Union University at Chengtu. Rev. Edward Holyoke, pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church, Providence. DOCTOK OK LETTKRS Charles Lemuel Nichols, '72, M. D., of Worcester, Mass. DOCTOR OK LAWS Henry Cabot Lodge, United States Senator from Massachusetts. William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College. Elon Rouse Brown, '78, of W^ater- town, New York, majority leader of the New York State Senate. At the Sayles Hall execirses on Wed- nesday afternoon Richard B. Comstock, '76, presided, and the speakers were President Faunce. Governor Beeckman, Senator Lodge and President Neilson. The hall was filled, many persons stand- ing at the rear. A strong patriotic note was discernable in all the addresses and the enthusiasm was marked. "If we don't win the war," said Senator Lodge in concluding his stirring talk, "life will not be worth the having." Dr. Faunce announced a gift of S2500 from the class of 1893 and a fund col- lected by the Brown Ambulance Unit at Allentown, Pa., to be given to the L"ni- versity for a suitable memorial, in the form of books, in honor of the late Ches- 218 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ter T. Calder, '10. A member of the class of 1878, it was announced, will provide all uniforms for the naval train- ing course at Brown next fall. After the exercises adjournment was taken to the Dartmouth baseball game at Andrews Field. Thursday At the meeting of the Corporation on Thursday the choice of the alumni for Trustees was ratified by the election of Herbert Howard Rice, '92, (Baptist), of Detroit and William Paine Sheffield, "77, (Episcopalian), of Newport. Ed- mund Wood, '76, (Quaker), of New Bed- ford and Alfred C. Bedford, (Baptist), of Brooklyn were also elected. Mr. Rice is treasurer of the General Motors Co. Mr. Sheffield is a lawj^er and ex-Congressman, and has sent two sons to Brown. Mr. Wood is in the lumber business and president of the Old Dartmouth Historical society. Mr. Bedford is head of the Standard Oil Company. BROWN AND THE WAR ROLL OF HONOR (Corrected to May 13, 1918) *'Diilce et decorum est pro patria morV' DEAD Florenck J. H. Price, 1906. Chester T. Calder, 1911. Frank E. Starrett, 1916. George G. Lvckey, 1920. J. Hemphill, 1920. WOUNDED W. M. Sullivan, 1913. R. E. Jordan, 1917. Carkoll Benton Larrabee, 1919. H. G. Gilbert, 1919. K. H Bitting, 1920. R. E. Palmer, Sp. RAYMOND E. JORDAN WOUNDED On May 2 came the news that Private Raymond E. Jordan, '17, of Paw- tucket had been severely wounded on April 20 (the date of the American vic- tory at Seicheprev). He enlisted in May, 1917, in Battery A, R. L N. G., and was later transferred to Battery B, One Hundred and Third Field Artillery. He was born in Pawtucket 23 years ago and attended the public schools there. He was graduated a year ago from Brown and was preparing for law school. He belonged to the Delta Tau Delta Fra- ternity. WAR WORK AT BROWN The Executive Secretary of the Uni- versity is sending out the following self- explanatory letter to all class officers. It contains matter of interest to the entire graduate body : This letter is sent you for two rea- sons : we want you to know the extent to which Brown is dedicated to the service of the nation ; and we want you, as an officer of your class, to carry that story to other men. No one who has not had the oppor- tunity of watching the change at Brown during the last year can realize how completely the University, both as a collection of patriotic Americans and as a representative American institution, has turned all its resources to the only task which is worth while in America to-day, — the winning of the war. Brown is enlisted, — at the front and behind the front. You know, of course, that Brown's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, under the direction of General Abbot, the Ad- jutant General of Rhode Island, and Captain Borden, late of France and the Nova Scotia Highlanders, in which 300 students have been enrolled this year, is a Government corps, graduating trained soldiers for the nation's service. A quota of students, recommended from this corps, have recently been sent to Camp Devens, where they will soon be made commissioned officers. Did you know that a similar course BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 219 has been arranged in naval training work? This course will begin in Sep- tember and will prepare men for ensigns' commissions in the navy. The regular work of the University has been speeded up by an elimination of vacations and wasted time; a summer school, offering opportunities for special instruction in chemistry, biology and engineering, will continue the work of the college throughout the summer. One hundred and fifty enlisted men have also been assigned to the Univer- sity for instruction in our laboratories and machine-shops. One hundred and fifty more will come in July. These men, under strict military discipline, are quartered on our campus, using the Lyman Gymnasium for a barracks and Rockefeller Hall for a mess hall. We have described some of the more conspicuous phases of Brown's war work. We wish that we might tell you of the splendid work in which our Faculty is engaged, — work in patriotic education, work in the instruction of part of Amer- ica's potential leadership, work in re- search and scientific achievement. This letter could not close, however, without some word of appreciation for the splendid loyalty which has marked the work of so many class officers this WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, '15 Brown Graduate and Rhodes scholar at Oxford, wounded at the front in France year. Brown is realizing more than ever before her dependence upon her alumni. She is grateful for their ready lovaltv. SIGMA XI ELECTIONS The Brown Chapter of Sigma Xi has announced the following elections to membership : From the graduate students — H, F. Bain, Knoxville, Tenn. ; A. E. Barnard, Providence ; J. R. Estey, Providence ; Miss M. W. Cooke, Providence ; Miss M. P. Harley, Pawtucket ; Miss H. B. Whiting, Summit, N. J. From the Senior class — C. R. Adams, Eden Park, R. I. ; Z. K. Bliss, Edge- wood, R. I. ; A. E. Dillingham, Saxton's River, Vt. ; W. Pickles, Providence; H. V. S. Tingley, Bristol, R. I. ; F. N. Tomkins, Pawtucket. R. I. ; J. W. Wil- son, Manchester, N. H. Of this number Bain and Barnard have already left college for military ser- vice and are at Camp Dix, W^rights- town, N. J. Membership in the society is based on actual achievement in research work in pure or applied science in the case of graduates, and on promise of future achievement in the case of Seniors. Stu- dents who have taken at least fifty-two semester hours of pure or applied science are eligible in their Senior year to mem- bership if '"they have given promise of marked ability in those lines of work which it is the object of the society to promote." 220 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the Graduates of Brown University 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. GeorKC A. Gaskill, '98, Worceater. Henry Robinson Palmer, 1890, Editor Henry Garfield Clark, 1907, Business Manager Business ofBce, 52 South Water street P. O. Box 72. Tel. Union 6440 J. Subscription, $1.00 a Year, Single Copies, 10 cents. There is no issue during August and September. 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 thange of address. The old as well as the new address should be given. JUNE, 1918 The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot under- take to return manuscripts sent to it for publica- tion, unless they are accompanied by sufficient postage. THE YEAR IN ATHLETICS AT BROWN The athletic year at Brown has been one of varying success in the matter of scores, with the results on the whole fa- vorable to us. But beyond the question of scores, outside all considerations of momentary triumphs or defeats, rise cer- tain larger results, in which every grad- uate and friend of the university can take just satisfaction and pride. As at every other American institu- tion of the higher education, the war has made radical inroads on all our sports. Most of the "stars" in every line of com- petitive effort have answered the call of the country and are in the Army camps or trenches, or on ships of the Navy. With such material as remained Dr. Mar- vel, the Supervisor of Athletics, and his associates have done a very great deal. Track work especially has suffered this year from the war. Brown lost most of her last year's men through enlistment, but others were developed and it looked, early in the season, as if we were to have one of the best teams in our history. Then the war took its toll again ; Pol- lard and Captain Isaacs, sure point win- ners in both hurdle races, the broad jump and the 440-yard dash, went to camp, and so did "Ink" Williams, with a record of 10 seconds for the 100-yard dash, and Nichols, a sure point winner in all three weight events. We lost also practically all our distance runners. With every fresh discouragement. Coach Hahn redoubled his efforts. All winter a board track was in use. By running an Inter-Company track sched- ule throughout the winter months he developed many new men, several of whom actually scored in the New Eng- land intercollegiate meet at Cambridge in May. The fact that there were four compa- nies of the] Brown Battalion in college offered a convenient basis for competi- tion. This was taken advantage of not only for track and field sports, but for basketball, wrestling, swimming and baseball. Every Saturday afternoon dur- ing the season there was an Inter-Com- pany track meet, and so much interest was aroused by this service that the com- panies challenged for mid-week meets , also. Coach Hahn deserves much credit for initiating this competition and for its successful results. He arranged a method of scoring which made it possi- ble for nearly every one to score some points. Co. A won the title of track champions and every member of this company except eight — that is all but eight out of about 75 — actually scored. In spite of the war more men had an opportunity to take part in competitions than ever before. Naturally a wonder- ful spirit was aroused and next year this ought to be even more pronounced. In baseball the year opened with only BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 221 two "B" men on the team. Neither of these was a regular last 3'ear. One, W. A. McGuire, '19, catcher and captain, was a substitute catcher last year; the other Coulter, '20, 2d baseman, was last year a utility man. No second team was organized, because of the lack of material. Instead an Inter-Company series was instituted. The university nine was unable to obtain as much practice as usual on ac- count of military work. There was no training table in baseball or in any other sport. All expenses were cut down to the minimum. Even last year's uni- forms were secured from the players, dry cleansed and used by this year's team. After a schedule necessarily more meagre than in former years had been arranged for the nine, it had to be fur- ther weakened by the cancellation of the games listed with Rhode Island and Trinity, both of which discontinued baseball. The vacant dates were filled with Service teams. Three games were arranged with Dartmouth, which changed her schedule very materially to accommodate Brown. Dartmouth made the three Brown games her only "letter" games this season — that is the 'varsity "D" was given to players who took part in these matches. The good feeling between the colleges has been noticeable. At Hanover the undergraduates marched on the field with a band and at all the three games cheers for both colleges were exchanged. A game with Williams at Providence was played for the first time in some years. Another good feature of the schedule was the home match with Syr- acuse. Practically onh' one game a week was played, the mid-week contest being eliminated. The war has been and is going to be a means of putting college athletics more nearly in their proper place. We have found out we can get along by doing away with some luxuries and cutting down expenditures. Intercollegiate gym- nastic competitions, wrestling and tennis have been discontinued — other- wise Brown has maintained her old ac- tivities in competitive sport. The gratitude of the alumni body should go out to Dr. Marvel for his un- remitting labors in behalf of Brown ath- letics. His heart as well as his head is in the work, and his long years of expe- rience are an invaluable asset to us. When a Government inspector was at Brown a few weeks ago to look over the University Battalion, he asked to see a setting-up drill. Dr. Marvel accord- ingly had one of the companies go through the drill at the gymnasium, with the result that the Government rep- resentative later sent to the college a written statement that the work was the best he had seen anywhere in his tour of duty. In fact he employed, to de- scribe it, the one significant word "perfection." COMPLETE THE FILES W. C. WyckofF, '95, president of the New York Brown Club, reports that there are still several numbers of the Brunonian missing from the files of the University Club in New York, which contains one of the most nearly complete collections of Brown publications in ex- istence. This approximate completeness is largely due to the initiative of Mr. WyckofF himself, who now asks alumni to supply the following numbers : ^ ol. 44<. December, 1909; January and June, 1910. Vol. 45. October, 1910. Vols. 46 and 47. October. 1911. to June, 1913, inclusive, all missing except Nos. 4 and 5 of \ ol. 46, January and February, 1912, and Nos. 5 and 7 of V^ol. 47, February and May, 1913. Vol. 48. May and June, 1914. William J. Clones, '84, Librarian of Newton Theological Seminary, has sent several volumes which complete the rec- ords from 1880 to 1882 and which fur- OFFICERS OF THE BROWN RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS Reading from left to right: 2d Lieutenant T. C. Watson, Jr.. 1919; 2d Lieutenant H. F. C. Wilcox, 1918; Ist Lieutenant R. A. Lawder, 1919; Captain J. W. Haley, 1919; Captain Z. R. Bliss, 1918; Captain J. C. Dunning; General C. W. Abbot, Jr.; Captain J. R. Estey; Captain F. B. Perkins, 1919; 1st Lieutenant R. G. Harris, 1918; 1st Lieutenant W. C. Leonard, 1918; 1st Lieutenant C. J. Farnsworth, 1919; 2d Lieutenant P. F. Brown, 1919 ther fill the files of 1912 and 1913. If any Brown men possess copies of the numbers which are still missing they are asked to follow Mr. Cloues' example and send them to W. C. Wyckoff, 54.() Fifth ave., New York City. Every Brown man should be interested in this exceptional collection of Brown periodicals. We are grateful to Mr. Wyckoff for his work in its behalf and hope that the files may soon be without a break. THE CAMMARIAN CLUB Nine Brown tJuniors were "tapped" in chapel on May 7 as members of the Camniarian Club for next year. The elections were made by the members of the three upper classes, 15 men having been nominated from the Junior class. The men "tapped" are Willam Henry Beattie, Thomas Francis Black, Jr., James Saville Eastham, William Henry Edwards, Ralph Henry Mullane, Edward Sefton Porter, Samuel Watson Smith, Thomas Carr Watson. Jr., and Joshua Herbert Weeks. Dean Randall, who was in charge of the chapel exercises, congratulated the new members of the club. He told them that every honor carries with it respon- sibilities and that they must strive to deserve the esteem of the college. He mentioned the fact that only two mem- bers of this year's club — Charles Gurney Edwards and William Miller Fay — were present to take part in the exercises, but spoke of the pride he felt in the war work which is being done by the absent members. ELON R. BROWN, '78 Who Has Been Called the "Brains of the Legislature"* at Albany E. M. King in the New York Evening Post Elon R. Brown, majority leader in the New York State Senate since 1913, "the Senator from the Thirty-fifth," the dis- trict of the city of Watertown, was born to the Senatorial toga in both mental and physical stature, A commanding figure with wisdom's white hair, or per- haps lack of hair, the leader of the upper house stands like a general at the head of his forces, ever deferred to, ever con- sulted, even though he be not girded with the sword and festooned with the gold lace of dress parade. I have seen the majority leader seemingly rise from the bowels of the Capitol somewhere be- neath the Senate floor, where he had sunk in abstracted contemplation, sud- denly assume command of a parliament- ary strategical situation on the verge of rout, and "carry on" to a legislative success. This is the keynote to the real Elon R. Brown. To be ready for any emergency in the Senate, he has at his finger-tips thorough understanding and thorough grasp of legislation and parliamentary procedure. He is undoubtedly the only lawmaker in the State Legislature who knows nearly every piece of legislation introduced at a session. And if he per- sonally is not prepared to debate it on its merits, it is because he has looked over the proposition and delegated it to one of his lieutenants, who takes it in charge. Notwithstanding what the former New York State sufi'ragists have said about Senator Brown, he handles and deals in big things in a big way. Unfortunately, the mental picture of the Senate leader which of late has been most widely spread is the one which suffrage workers and propagandists unceasingly have passed by word of mouth from one end of the State to the other — that of an arch reactionary. He does not like the epithet. Nor would any man whom such a title would misrepresent. It connotes narrow-mindedness and stagnation, which cannot truthfully apply to the leader. The Senator is a conservative ; he be- lieves that to-day there is need in the world for men who persevere to keep the scales of progress nicely balanced. He is not sure that many of the new move- ments have been born in season. He was against suffrage, country-wide pro- hibition, direct primaries, and war-time continuance of stringent labor laws as needs of the hour. For his stand on many matters he depends not on the su- perficiality and inflated oratory used by some proponents, but upon what he con- siders conclusive deductions from the history of human progress. The woman or the man who goes to Albany with the popular idea that Elon R. Brown is the political bear who will growl and claw at anything which savors of progress just because — will come away with the fact that the Senator is one of the few who judge propositions on their merits. One of the strongest things about Elon R. Brown is the strength of his convictions. He stood before an assem- bly of suffragists from all over the State, educators and farmers, a few weeks ago, and, declared his firm belief in the efficacy of the township school system. His position was hard. The farmers bitterly opposing the township measure were the self-same agricultural voters whom the Senator openly has en- deavored to get in line in his fight against Governor Whitman. The suf- fragists had been taunting him with be- ing "reactionary"; it was not pleasant to join hands with them in the fight for this legislation, but he bowed and said : 224 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 25^5 "Jt inav seem queer to the suffragists to find me agreeing with them, but we are married to-day on this great matter of education for the rural children." When the township legislation came to a vote in the upper house. Senator Brown stood up against members of his own party and fought for the enactment of an im- proved township law on the merits of the proposition, instead of giving in to the farmers, who desired what he thought to be an ill-considered repeal. This is but one instance in forty. To- gether with this firm stand, the majority leader, the Temporary President of the Senate, as his official title goes, is a pol- itician, a "machine politician," accord- ing to parlance. He manoeuvres for po- sition ; he holds his party by a tight rein — not a piece of legislation goes through without his opinion ; he plays the political game but he plays it ac- cording to his own preaching when he said in the Senate "I abhor hypocrisy." His game is obvious, and bears all the marks of a lawyer's careful deliberation. The Senator's office is the one room at the Capitol that is always open and usu- ally full of books that "Garry," his man Friday, has brought over from the State Library for the leader's perusal. From the time the session begins un- til the last legislative gun is fired, the furrows under the Senator's eyes come and go, shallow and deep, as the all- night and all-Sunday vigils overlap when he and his "Garry" dig awa}' at some legislative research anent the day's work. The Senator is known to gird his neck with a dark-blue tie })ar e.trel- lencc on January 1, and give the tie no rest until he leaves his room on the hind side of the Capitol — farthest from the Governor's side — and departs for Wa- tertown. He is everlastingly studying pending legislation for which others have little taste or inclination. A necktie is a thing apart, figuratively; not literally — "Garry" would see to that. If legislative committees have compli- cated reports to write, Sen'ator Brown usually is persuaded to undertake the work. It leaked out that several of the important reports on legislation at the present session came from the Senator's gratuitous pen. He is a hard worker. One of his undying contentions in his fight against Whitman is that the Gov- ernor does not do a day's work, but shifts, discommoding other people and hindering those dependent upon his ac- tivity. He wants a man to get under- neath a job. He has no use for the slap- sticker. If a man has no logical, studious conclusions, the result of real labor, then the Senator thinks his space is more val- uable than his presence. A fair verdict for the Senator was ren- dered by a prominent man familiar with his long political record in the State, who said with finality : "Elon R. Brown is the brains of the Legislature, a bit too conservative per- haps — a good fault in a powerful leader — but a monument of hard work and sincerity ; worth three of Governor Whit- man any day." WOMEN'S COLLEGE IN BROWN UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM CLASS WORK The annual demonstration of gymna- sium class work was given recently, un- der the direction of the instructor. Miss M. Elizabeth Bates. All four classes took part in marching, free-standing exercises, apparatus work, folk dancing md gymnastic games. By a vote of the students, gymnasium work has been continued during the spring to make up for the weeks during the winter when the gymnasium was closed. As a result, the work done this year has been e(]ual to that done under ordinary conditions and there has been a fine spirit of enthusiasm. 226 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS AS GUESTS According to an annual custom, the College opened its doors in April to the high school girls of the state. More than one hundred girls and teachers came at the invitation of the R. L Branch of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. They attended a game of basketball in the gymnasium, visited all the college build- ings and were addressed by Miss E. Helena Gregory, in charge of the meet- ing, and by Miss Jessie Budlong, who spoke on the value of a college education. Among the high schools represented were: Woonsocket, Bristol, Warren, Pawtucket, Cranston and the city high schools. PHI BETA KAPPA The newly-elected undergraduate mem- bers of the Rhode Island Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society were initiated at a meeting of the Women's section on May 4. Professor James Q. Dealey in- itiated the new members and they were given the charge by Miss Clara E. Com- stock, president. Mrs. Francis G. Al- linson addressed the Society upon phases of life at the University of California. Miss Martha W. Watt succeeds Miss Comstock as president and Miss Anne W. Carpenter is the new member of the committee of arrangements. MAY DAY CELEBRATION The undergraduates presented a very varied and successful program at their celebration of May Day. All the stu- dents gathered at 4 p. m. and, led by heralds, marched about the campus ; the Seniors in cap and gown, the others in white with colored sweaters or costumed for the folk dances to follow. The May Queen was escorted to her throne, a May-pole was set up and the revels be- gan. There were May-pole dances and folk dances, there was the presentation to the Seniors by the Freshmen of May baskets, there was a very realistic sail- or's hornpipe and there was the Sopho- more Masque, wherein the Sophomores presented to the college their class flower. The chosen flower had been kept a profound secret until the moment when the Sophomores appeared on the lawn in their yellow and white costumes, with fillets of daisies about their heads. White petals then grouped themselves about a yellow centre, in the very middle stand- ing Helen K. Wallace, bearing on her shoulder a jar of daisies. Cecilia M. Morin danced the dance of the daisies and the class sang their flower song and then formed a tableau about Miss Wal- lace and Miss Morin. After games and singing and a picnic supper on the campus, there followed, as the final entertainment of May Day, a play, "Miss Civilization," given in Pembroke Hall by the Freshman mem- bers of the Komian Society, ATHLETIC RESULTS 1918 BASEBALL RECORD Scores April 19. Boston College at Boston, 0-11 April 20. Material Section, 2nd Na- val Reserves, at Provi- dence, 8- 6 April 27. 302nd Infantry, Camp Devens, at Prov., 6- 3 May 4. Dartmouth at Providence, 6- 4 May 10. Seton Hall at South Or- ange, 0-14 May 1 1 . Columbia at New York ( 10 innings), 2- 3 May 13. Dartmouth at Hanover (5 innings), 1- 5 May 18. Williams at Providence (8 innings), 13- 3 May 25. Syracuse at Providence, B- May 29. Dartmouth at Providence (Commencement Day), 2-11 May 30. 76th Division, Camp Dev- ens, at Providence, 2-16 1918 TRACK RECORD Track Meet, Brown vs. Columbia, at Andrews Field, May 11. 100 yd dash. 1st Mullane (B). 2nd BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 227 Wettels (C), 3rd Cuddeback (B). Time 10:L 120 yd. hurdles. 1st Bliss (B), 2nd Shaw (C), ,Srd Hunter, (B). Time 18 seconds. 1 mile. 1st Shepard (C), 2nd Huel- senbeck (C), 3rd Crouch (B). Time 4:- 42 3-5. 440 yd. run. 1st Shaw (C), 2nd Staub (C), 3rd Ashley (C). Time 51 4-5 s. 2 mile. 1st Turner (C), 2nd Larson (C), 3rd Knox (C). Time 10:12 4-5. 220 yd. hurdle. 1st Besser (B), 2nd Herty(C), 3rdHunter(B). Time 27 1-5. 220 yd. dash. 1st Mullane (B), 2nd Cuddeback (B), 3rd Taylor (C). Time 23 2-5. 880 yd. run. 1st Shepard (C), 2nd Shaw (C), 3rd Huelsenbeck (C). Time 2:1 1-5. Shot put. 1st Sinclair (B), 40 ft. 3 in. 2nd Schulte (C), 37 ft. 1 1-2 in. 3rd Sisson (B), 37 ft. 1 in. Pole vault. 1st Woodin (B), 10 ft. 3 in. 2nd Ames (B), Thoren (B), tied. High jump. 1st Schulte (C), 5 ft. 6 in. 2nd Bliss (B), Reinacher (B), Rog- ers (B), tied. Discus. 1st Schulte (C), 108 ft. 9 in. 2nd Hindmarsh (B), 108 ft. 7 3-4 in. 3rd Sinclair (B), 101 ft. 10 in. Broad jump. 1st Schulte (C), 20 ft. 6 1-2 in. 2nd Black (B), 19 ft. 9 in. 3rd Staub (C), 10 ft. 5 1-2 in. Total, Columbia 64, Brown 53. New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet held at Cambridge, May 18, 1918. Places won by Brown men were as follows : 100 yd. (lash. 2nd Mullane, R. H., Special. 220 vd. dash. 1st Mullane, R. H. Low'Hurdles. 2nd Besser, R. W. '20. Shot Put. 2nd Sinclair, J. '20. Discus. 4th Hindmarsh, A. T. '19. High Jump. 4th Bliss, Z. R. '18. Broad Jump. 2nd Peters, H. J. '19. 4th Reinacher, G. L. '21. Pole Vault. 2nd Thoren, A. S. •19. Woodin, K. M. '21, tied. (Thoren won 2nd prize on vault-off. ) Tech won the meet with 76 points. Brown was second with 25. American Intercollegiate Athletic As- sociation meet held at Philadelphia on June 1. Shot Put. Sinclair of Brown won 3rd place, (3 points), 39 ft. 9 1-2 in. Cor- nell won 47 points, with Pittsburgh sec- ond, (30 points), Dartmouth third, (26 points), and the following in order: Princeton 19, Pennsylvania 18, Tech. 13, Columbia 12, Johns Hopkins 5, La- fayette 5, Penn. State 5, Amherst 3 1-2, Yale 3, Rutgers 2 1-2, Harvard 2 Swarthmore 1. UNIVERSITY INTERESTS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The May meeting of the Advisory and Executive Committee was held in the President's office on Friday afternoon. May 10th, at 2:30. The report of the Comptroller and Superintendent was presented, showing that 150 mechanics would be sent to Brown University by the Government for intensive training on the 16th of May, a second contingent of the same size to follow two months later. President Faunce reported pro- gress in the plans for the Naval Train- ing Unit and was empowered to take ac- tion to secure the appointment of a Commandant. The resignation of Pro- fessor W. G. Everett as Director of the School of Education was received and accepted, and Professor S. S. Colvin was appointed Director of the School. Much time was spent in discussing the budget for the following year. A report M'as received from the Library Committee that three rooms in the John Hay Li- 228 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY brary had been assigned to the Women's Auxiliary of the Red Cross, possession to be taken as soon as possible. The com- mittee on summer courses of study re- ported that such courses had been or- ganized in the departments of engineer- ing, chemistry and biology, each course to occupy twelve weeks aod to begin soon after the first of Jnne. A letter was received from the Providence Ath- eneum, expressing appreciation of the hospitality of the University in provid- ing room for the Atheneum in the John Hay Library during the coal famine. An appropriation of $75 was made to- ward the expense of the Employment Bureau of the Brown Christian Associ- ation, After discussion of LTniversity policies, the meeting adjourned. SUMMER COURSES AT BROWN A series of summer courses in biology, chemistry and engineering will open at Brown on Wednesday, June 5, and con- tinue for a period of 12 weeks. The same credits as those given for these courses during the academic year will be allowed and at least six hours a week of recita- tions or an equivalent amount of labora- tory work will be required. These courses are primarily for present mem- bers of the university, but will be open to others who are approved by the de- partments concerned. Except in engi- neering no students will be permitted to register in courses counting for more than 12 semester hours of credit without written permission of the committee on registration. Tuition will be at the rate of $15 for each three semester hours of credit, except that no student is to be charged more than $75. Laboratory fees are in addition to tuition. Students will be required to make a payment of $25 at the comptroller's office before registering. The balance must be paid on or before June 25. The following courses will be offered : In the department of biology — Biology 16, a semester course in general bacteri- ology, and biology 17, 18, a course in advanced bacteriology. In the depart- ment of chemistry- — Chemistry 3, 4, a course in qualitative and quantitative analysis ; chemistry 5, 6, a course in ad- vanced quantitative analysis ; chemistry 7, 8, a course in organic chemistry, and chemistry 12 a semester course in or- ganic dyes. In the department of engi- neering — Mechanics 1, 2, a course in the mechanics of solids ; mechanics 3, 4, a course in the mechanics of fluids and ap- plied hydraulics ; mechanical engineering 9, 10, a course in kinematics and the elements of machine design, and mechan- ical engineering 19, 20, a course in the materials of engineering. BROWN CLUB IN NEW YORK At the annual meeting of the Brown University Club in New York the fol- lowing officers and committeemen were elected for the ensuing year : Walter C. Wyckoff^ '95, President. Alfred B. Meacham, '96, Vice-President. Joseph K. Burwell, 13, Secretary. Al- exander Graham, '06, Treasurer. Board of Governors. Ira Barrows, '83; George Burdick, '02; Clarkson A. Collins, '76; David L. Fultz, '98; C. H. Guild, '99; E. S. Gushee, '98; Henry G. Hardy, '80; J. B. F. Herres- hoff, '70; R. R. Hunter, '98; Herbert B. Keen, '07; John J. O'Connor, '08; E. O. Stanley, '76. Membership Committee. Henry G. Hardy, '80, Chairman ; William R. Dor- man, '92; Charles B. Fernald, '01 ; Wil- liam C. Crolius, '15. House Committee. John J. O'Con- nor, '08, Chairman ; H. Clark Barber, '99; Herbert B. Keen, '07; S. M. Ban- field, '13. Music Committee. Charles A. Lun- dell, "06, Chairman. Sub-Freshman Committee. Fred W. Murphy, '99, Chairman. Library Committee. J. C. Jessup, '93, Chairman. War- Work Committee. Herbert B. Keen, '07, Chairman ; David L. Fultz, '98; Joseph K. Burwell, '13. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 229 After the business meeting those pres- ent were entertained by an extremely in- teresting talk by Private William B. Kysh, one of the original members of the famous "Princess Pat" regiment. MR. APPLEGET'S TOUR T. B. Appleget, the executive secre- tary of the University, has spent a large portion of his time during the spring in visiting various secondary schools in the interests of Brown. In each case he spoke at the regular assembly of the school, sometimes directly on Brown University, and sometimes upon other collegiate topics of a more general na- ture. In many instances stereopticon lectures were given. He then remained at the school during the remainder of the day, conferring with students who were interested in the University. Over 150 students were met in this fashion. An especial attempt was made this year to canvass as thoroughly as possi- ble the secondary schools in New Jersey : the Pingree School and the Batten High School at Elizabeth, N. J., the South Side High School and the Barringer High School at Newark, the Paterson High School, the Lakewood High School, the Red Bank High School, Blair Acad- emy at Blairstown, Peddie Institute at Hightstown, the Englewood High School, the Newman School at Hacken- sack, the Montclair High School, the Rah way High School, the South Orange High School, the Trenton High School, and the Asbury Park High School. The following schools in other states were also visited: the High School at Marl- boro, Mass., the High School at Flush- ing, L. I., the High School at White Plains, N. Y., the Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill, N. Y., and the Irving School at Tarry town, N. Y. It is believed that as a result of these visits the territory visited will send an unusual number of men to Brown next September. PROFESSOR BRIGHTMAN'S BOOK There are five Brown men on the W^es- leyan L^niversity Faculty. One of them, Edgar S. Brightman, professor of ethics and religion, has just published ''The Sources of the Hexateuch,"' through the Abingdon Press. Professor Fowler has written a review of the book for the Monthly and we shall publish it next month. THE BOOK SHELF CHEMICAL FRENXH We take pleasure in calling attention to a volume just issued by one of our alumni. The author. Dr. Dolt, was graduated Ph.B. in 1906; with Sc.M. in 1907; with Ph.D. in 1908. The book is intended to afford assist- ance to university students by familiar- izing them with the French technical terms and forms used in chemistry. It is divided into two parts. The first part consists of twenty-four exercises, commencing with very easy ones and progressively advancing to those of greater difficulty. These exer- cises cover a large number of forms of expression as well as special words used in chemistry. But they do much more than this : they furnish the pupil at the same time with much valuable informa- tion. This is evident when we observe some of the topics selected. Among others are these : some account of sev- eral elementary substances and of their principal compounds ; certain selected methods of analysis ; many of the modes of procedure peculiar to organic chemis- try ; general laws of gaseous bodies ; methods for the determination of mole- cular weights ; electrolysis ; specimens covering terms used in the apparatus of manufacturing operations. The second part presents a series of interesting papers by such important in- 230 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY vestigators as Berthelot, Grignard, Frie- del, Sabatier, Raoult, Pasteur, E. Bec- querel, Madame Curie and others — thereby helping to display some of the work accomplished by French dicoveries. The book is supplied with a set of ta- bles of irregular verbs, and also a num- ber of extensive vocabularies. Thus it is apparent that a careful study of the text will not only help to prepare the pupil for that facility in the reading of technical French demanded by most, if not all, of our universities of candidates for advanced degrees, but further it will aid in grounding the pu- pil in many of the important facts and theories of the science. We congratulate Professor Dolt upon the appearance of this book and we hope that it may have a wide circulation. We cannot deny ourselves the privi- lege of adding a line unrelated to the technical matter of the volume. No one can read the dedication without having the heart touched by its terms : "TO MY MOTHER, for the sacrifices she made in giving me my early educa- tion in the French Schools, this volume is gratefully dedicated'". J. H. A. Chemical French, by Maurice L. Dolt, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry in the North Dakota Agricultural College. Easton. Pa.: Chemical Publishing Co. 1918. pp. 398. BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR Alumni 1852 Nathan E. Goldthwait. father of Stephen G. Goldthwaite, '90. died at his home in Boone, Iowa. February 3. 1918, in his 91st year. He was born in Mendon. Mass., December 29. 1827. At the age of eight years he moved with his par- ents to Uxbridge, where he attended the com- mon schools until the age of seventeen. For two years he attended the Worcester and Uxbridge academies of his native state. He entered Brown in September, 18't8, and graduated in June, 1852. He was at once appointed a teacher in the Wor- cester Academy, where he remained two years. In the years 1854 and 1855 he was principal (the last principal) of the Uxbridge high school. Early in 1856 the western fever took him to Wis- consin, where he became president of the Wis- consin Female College at Fox Lake, now trans- ferred to Milwaukee. Before going west he was appointed president of Wayland University of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. This position he de- clined and took the position at Fox Lake subse- quently. In November. 1868, he went to Boone, Iowa, as first superintendent and organizer of the graded schools of the city. Soon after ar- riving in Boone he bought several hundred acres of land at from three to five dollars per acre. While engaged in his profession he improved a part and sold a part of the land. Although re- taining his residence in Boone, he was elected professor of mathematics in Des Moines College, but in the year 1886, on January 1, he, with Clinton Tomlinson as partner and business man- ager, bought the Boone Republican, then a weekly paper of good reputation in the county and state. For many years he was engaged in the newspaper business and in managing his real estate. In 1899 he sold the half interest he held with C. O. Carter in the Daily News to his son Stephen G., who afterwards established the Boone News-Republican by combining the two daihes in 1906. On the 25th of April, 1845, Mr. Goldthwait united with the Baptist church of North L'xbridge. On August 25, 1852, he was united in marriage with Mary A. Thayer, also of Uxbridge. On January 12, 1914, the wife of more than sixty-one years departed this life. Mr. Goldthwait was a man of versatile activities and undertook 'many successful ventures. He was a surveyor and civil engineer and much work was accomplished by him in Boone county. At one time he conducted a brick manufactur- ing plant near the city and there are various other projects in and near Boone that bear the stamp of his workmanship. After retiring from educational work he did not forget his college or the schools, at which he was a frequent visitor. At one time he issued an address book of all the graduates of the Boone high school. On two successive occasions he held the chair of mathe- matics in Des Moines College, first as the regu- lar instructor in 1872-5, and later as a supply. One of his ventures in Wisconsin was the estab- lishment of a lumber yard in La Crosse. He was attracted to Iowa, however, after a few years' residence in Wisconsin. He was a man of strong friendships and unswerving integrity. He possessed a strong will to keep him going, which caused him to prolong physical exercise to the great age of ninety years and after. The winter months depressed him and one of his last expressed wishes was that he might again see the summer. He had a large acquaintance on account of the number of pupils that came under his teaching in the various educational in- stitutions in which he held a chair of instruction. He kept up his correspondence with many friends in various parts of the country and was always prompt to answer letters. His immediate surviving relatives are the son and daughter-in- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 231 law, one jfranddaughter, Mary, and three broth- ers in Uxbridge. 1H6I Henry Keith Southwick, Brown iHfil; A. B. 1H69; LL.B.. Albany Law School 186J; died at his residence, 550 W. l.jTth st.. New York City, early on the morning of September H, 1917. The funeral services were held at the Chapel of the Intercession, Trinitj' Parish. New York City, and burial was at Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass. Mr. Southwick was born at Madison, Indiana, October 11, 1838. He was the teldest of the seven children of Isaac Harrison South- wick and his wife Clarissa Ann Keith. Both parents were natives of Grafton, Mass., and af- ter the birth of a second child they returned East, where Isaac H. Southwick was active and prominent in railroad and steamship transporta- tion for many years and held many positions of trust. He was descended from Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, who came from England in 1630, settled in Salem, and were later perse- cuted for embracing the Quaker faith. Henry Keith Southwick prepared for college at Provi- dence, where his parents made their home, en- tered Brown in the fall of 1857, and left shortly before the close of the college year in 18(il. He attended the Albany Law School, took the de- gree of LL.B., and was admitted to the bar. He had been a member of the Providence Horse Guards, and all through his law course he had followed the course of the armies in the field with something more than interest. The Union reverses of I8(r? making the call to arms too strong to be overruled by other considerations, he abandoned the law and received a commission as 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Rhode Island In- fantry, August 29, 1862. He joined his regi- ment in September, during the long and bloody battle of Antietam. In November he was stricken with a severe attack of typho-malarial fever and his life was despaired of by the physicians. A strong constitution, inherited from seven g-ener- ations of long-lived Quakers, enabled him to re- cover, and after twenty days furlough he re- turned to his regiment against the advice of his doctor, who feared a relapse which would have been fatal. This zeal to be back at the front was thoroughly characteristic of a man who never spared himself when anj' duty called. He participated in the battles of the winter and spring of 1863, commanded his company at Get- tysburg, was commissioned 1st lieutenant Aug- ust IS. 1863. and continued in command of his company until Februar}^ 1864, when he was commissioned captain in the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored). Like all those ap- pointed to the command of colored troops, the officers of this regiment were picked men and the examination Mas rigid. Captain Southwick was judge advocate of General Courts Martial from May 6 to June 16, 1864. Recognized as a zealous and highly- efficient officer, he was de- tached from the regiment on July 6, 1864. and assigned to duty as acting assistant inspector general. Department of the Gulf, and continued on that service until October 2. 1865. when he rejoined his regiment, which was about to be mustered out. During the latter part of his service he was chief insiiector general of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Fuller accounts of his military service may be found in the Rhode Island Adjutant General's Report and in Lieutenant Chenery's history of the "Four- teenth Rhode Island." Mr. Southwick had in- tended to take up the practice of law, but in January, 1866, in partnership with his brother- in-law, he entered business as a wholesale tea merchant in New York City, under the firm name of Joshua Buffum & Co. After a period of success the hard years of the seventies led fi- nally to a settlement and the close of the busi- ness. Mr. Southwick then became associated with banking and mining interests, and in a short time retrieved his fortunes. Later finan- cial reverses were borne with steady courage and combated with never-failing optimism. Since 1900 (though still interested in California properties) he had been associated with Dom- inick and Dominick. bankers and brokers of 115 Broadway, New York. He was active far be- yond his years, being daily at his desk there, and much of the time on his feet until less than two months before his death. Mr. Southwick was a man who ever put duty before inclination. He hated pretence, ostentation and hypocrisy. Widely read, he had a broad outlook, followed world events with an understanding and often prophetic vision, and had made his natural sci- entific bent -serve him in his engineering and other studies. Long a student of geography, in its broader and more all embracing sense, he was for nearly forty years a life fellow of the American Geographical Society, and of later years a member of the National Geographic So- ciety also. He possessed a certain military for- mality and politeness of manner, humor, a clear and well modulated voice and a very heart}" laugh. He lived rather to minister than to be ministered unto, thought always of the welfare of others rather than of himself, and was truly genuine and unostentatious. One of his busi- ness associates writing of him says: '"He was one of Nature's noblemen. I never met a kinder, gentler or more lovable character." He has left a void in the lives of those nearest to him which nothing in time can fill: a fragrant memory which is an inspiration to courage and goodness. Mr. Southwick was married on March 1. 1864. to Sarah Jane Fiske of Grafton, Mass.. who died on December 1st of the same year. The blow was bravely borne. After being more than ten J ears a widower he was married to Louise Har- den, daughter of the late B. L. Harden of New York, on April 29, 1875. Four children were born of this union, the eldest. Henry K. Jr.. dying in infancy. Mr. Southwick is survived by his wife and his three remaining children. Eliza- beth, married to R. Winthrop Pratt, of Cleve- land. Ohio; Walston B. Southwick. and Miss Louise H. Southwick. both of New York, and by three grandchildren. He is also survived by two brothers and two sisters. Royal Keith South- wick, Joseph H. Southwick. Brown 1868; Mrs. Joshua Buffum, and Miss Annie K. Southwick. His youngest brother was the late Judge Isaac H. Southwick, Jr.. Brown 1877. of Provitlence. 1S6S Eugene Waterman Mason, a member of the 232 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY University Board of Trustees, died in Provi- dence, May 31, 1918, aged 69. A detailed ac- count of his life will be printed in the next issue of the Monthly. 1871 Colonel Robert P. Brown delivered an address on Colonel Israel Angell at the dedication of a memorial in honor of the Revolutionary patriot at the North Burying Ground in Providence on May 4. 1873 William ElHott Thompson died in St. Paul, Minn., May 13. 1918. Professor Thompson was born in Bristol. R. I., May II, 1846. and was the son of Edward Isaac Thompson and Mrs. Mary Hull (Swan) Thompson. His paternal grand- father. Peleg S. Thompson, was the ward and nephew of Joseph Stanton, Jr.. who served as United States Senator from Rhode Island. 1790- 1793, being, (with his colleague), Rhode Island's earliest choice for membership in that body. Af- ter his graduation from the Bristol High School, in 1862. Mr. Thompson, with a view to devoting himself to teaching, early in life, spent one year at the Rhode Island Normal School, graduating there in 1863. After several years of teaching, however, he decided to secure a more compre- hensive training and studied at the Wesleyan Academy. Wilbraham, Mass., and later at Phil- lips Exeter Academy, where he was a pupil of that thorough-going teacher, Dr. Gideon L. Soule. from 1868 to 1869. When, therefore, he entered Brown University, in September, 1869. he was considerably in advance of his classmates not only in actual years, but in experience of life and maturity of thought. His college honors were noteworthy. He received, in 1869, the en- trance prizes in Latin and Greek; the "Dunn Rhetorical Prize," in 1872; the "Howell Pre- mium," 1872; the "Carpenter Premium," 1873; the Latin oration, at "Junior Exhibition;" and the valedictory address at Commencement in 1873. In June, 1872, he was elected to member- ship in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He served as president of the class of 1873, during its Freshman year. Immediately upon graduation, in 1873, Mr. Thompson took a position as teacher in the classical department of the Genesee Wes- leyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y., remaining there until 1889. In the latter year he removed to St. Paul, Minn., to become professor of Latin in Hamline University, (to which institution there came in 1907, another Brown graduate, Gregory D. Walcott. 1897, now occupying an "exchange professorship" in China). Professor Thompson found his life-work at St. Paul, re- maining there until the day of his death, al- though during these last few months the de- parture of the students for war service had seriously interrupted the work of this college. In 1903, his chair was endowed as the "Norton professorship of the Latin language and litera- ture." He was an occasional contributor to the classical journals and a member of several asso- ciations within the classical field. Besides the degrees received at Brown LTniversity. (A. B., in 1873, and A. M., in 1876), Professor Thompson received in 1887 the honorary degree of A. M., from Syracuse University. He was married. June 23, 1875, to Marsena Evelyn Peirce of Lima, N. Y., who survives him, with no chil- dren. His funeral took place at Bristol, R. I., at the house of his sister. Miss Anna Thompson, on May 17, 1918. 1879 The address of Rev. Francis Hubbard Viets is now 122 Dale st., Waltham, Mass. 1880 Donald L. Morrill has formed a law partner- ship with Angus Roy Shannon and Joseph F. Triska. with offices in the Title & Trust Building, 69 West Washington st.. Chicago, 111. Oliver Perry Clarke died April 20, at the Rhode Island Hospital, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. 1881 William Frederick Denfeld. who entered the class in the Junior year, died October 4, 1917. 1882 Herbert E. Thayer is employed as executive secretary of the Committee on Public Safety, Springfield, Mass. This committee is a munici- pal organization, supported imder statute and ordinance by the municipality for war emergency work, and has an office in the administration building of the city. Miss Mary Louise Weaver, elder daughter of Charles S. Weaver. '82, of Thompson, Conn., was married to Lieutenant Louis Marshall Ream of Thompson, (and at present a member of the Avi- ation service, stationed at Washington.) at the First Congregational Church in Thompson on Saturday, June first. 1886 Professor George Grafton Wilson, '86, and Mrs. Wilson announce the engagement of their elder daughter. Miss Miriam Taylor Wilson, to Paul Harrison Arthur, a commissioned officer in the 53d Infantry, U. S. A. 1889 Augustus O. Bourn, Jr., ex-*89, recently ad- dressed the Rhode Island Medical Society on the life of Dr. Ramon Guiteras, a native of Bristol, R. I., who died on Dec. 13, 1917. The address, a discriminating tribute from a loyal friend, has been printed in pamphlet form. 1896 Dr. Stewart A. Macomber, physical director and professor of physiology and hygiene at Un- ion College, has accepted an appointment as physical director in the overseas service of the Y. M. C. A. 1897 Marcius H. Merchant has been the surgeon of Rhode Island Coast Artillery stationed at Fort Wetherell. with rank of major. He is now sur- geon of the 6th Regiment. The Manchester (N. H.) Union says editori- ally: "This is to notify Dave White of the Coos County Democrat that Manchester has hand- somely over-subscrtbed her Liberty loan quota and, like Alexander of old. is looking for other fields to conquer. We know this will please David, for he does love to see Manchester shoul- der her end of the log." BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 233 Warren Bigelow attended the second Platts- burfif training eainp and received a coinnaission as first lieutenant of infantry. National Army. He has been stationed at Camp Meade, Md., with the Machine Gnn Hattalion. Elmer S. Chacc has been re-elected City So- licitor of Providence for a three-year term end- ing on the first Monday in May, 19tM, by the City Council. 1903 Lieutenant Colonel Percy W. Gardner of the First Light Infantry Regiment has been ap- pointed a military aide to Governor Beeckman of Rhode Island. He is a member of the law firm of Wilson. Gardner ^^ Churchill and has been prominent in Republican affairs. He was at one time President of the Atlantic National Bank. Edwin M. Holmes is in the Field Depot Ac- counting. Unit. Supply Division, Ordnance Dept. 1904. Dr. Edward S. Smith is now assistant professor of mathematics and acting commandant of the Military Science Department, University of Cin- cinnati. 1905 Russia's problems of the present and future were discussed in a lecture by J. Madison Gath- any before the King's Daughters in the First Universalist Church of Providence, May 7. He spoke especially of the character and principles of Trotsky, the Bolsheviki and the future of Russia. He said that Trotsky's leadership rested on his power as a speaker and his ability to write short, stirring articles comprehensible • to the masses; that he is not pro-German and that his intention was to have his political be- liefs revolutionize both Germany and Austria. But Germany proved to be absolutely Trotsky- proof, he declared. He believes that all mod- ern States must collapse and that this war's function is to bring about this collapse. He be- lieves in no kind of war except the war of classes. Russia needs to rid herself of her pres- ent conception of internationalism. She needs a strong national government, a democratic pub- lic educational system, a system of national de- fence and compulsory military training. A well trained national army is the best insurance and the only sensible plan under present world con- ditions. Russia will be regenerated. Her people ' will sow the seeds of democracy in other auto- cratically and despotically governed countries and thus hasten the final triumph of democracy. R. P. Hovey's address is 77.? 14th ave., Gar- field. Utah. He writes a letter to the Monthly, in which he says: "W^e are working more copper than ever these daj sat the Utah Copper Co. and 1 am 'moving to the front' so as to help shorten the time till we put old Kaiser Bill out of com- mission. Have recently been appointed cost engineer in the Construction Department of the Utah Copper Co. at Arthur Plant, Garfield, Utah. We are spending about .S6. 000, 000 in improvements. I want to extend my best wishes to all Brown men, and especially to those who are in the Service." William Granville Meader, Jr., was born March 12, 191H, 1906 Horace E. Chandler was ordained to the Chris- tian ministry at the 2nd Presbyterian Church, Scranton, Pa., on March 27 , I9IK. He has been studying at Princeton Theological Seminary dur- ing the past two years and is now returning to China, where he will take up evangelistic work. His address is Weihsien. Shantung Province, China; and he assures us that any letters he may receive from classmates will be answered with pleasure, 1907 Since the publication of the list of 1907 men in military service the secretary has received the following additional information: Dana T. Gallup is captain of Company C, 102d Machine Gun Battalion, with the American Ex- peditionary Forces in France. Captain Gallup joined the National Guard in 1910 as a private in Company E of the 8th Massachusetts Infantry and has been with the National Guard since that time. Dr. Herbert B. Shearer is a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. His service dates from September 7, 1917. His address is 506" Hamilton st., Norristown, Pa. Charles R. Stark, Jr., received a commission early in January as first lieutenant in the In- spection Division of the Ordnance Department. His address is (ith and B sts., Washington, D.C. Albert F,. White is a major in the National Army. He is assigned to the Ordnance Depart- ment, Inspection Division, W^ashington, D. C. Alfred H. Gurney of the Providence Sunday Journal staff was on board the steamship Orissa when it was torpedoed off the British coast, April 28. Gurney, together with ,56 other Y. M. C. A. secretaries who were en route for the front, was rescued. 1911 On Arbor Day, May 10, at Providence, the students and teachers of Hope Street High School dedicated a maple tree in memory of Chester T. Calder, who died of pneumonia at Allentown, Pa., in February, while a member of the ambulance corps. 1916 George S. Bearse, ex-1916, step-son of Norman Gunderson, Brown 1886, was married to Miss Dorothy Packard, of Quincy on Feb. 12, 1918. Daniel S. Tollman, Brown ex-1916, being his groomsman. Mr. Bearse. who has been a mem- ber of C. A. C. N. B. 28th Co., Fort Adams, since Dec. 20, 1917, has been transferred to the officers' training camp, at Fortress Monroe, Va. Mrs. Bearse will accompany him. 1918 Harold Page Wright, ex-' 18, son of Judge Nathan M. Wright, 1S89, was married to Miss Edith L. Ford of Boston at Swampscott, Mass., May '22. Mr. W^right is studying aviation at Princeton. 234 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Alumnae 1895 Bertha Nichols Bissell attended the biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at Hot Springs, Ark. Elizabeth Peckhara Kinder has been elected president of the Women's Club of Bala. Pa. 1899 Died: on May 11, 1918, in Fairhaven. Mass., Alice Tallman PauU. 1897 and 1902 The new president of the John Howland Par- ent-Teacher Association is Josephine Deane Rose. Myrtis Milliken Clayton, 1902, is director. 1901 The new address of Alice Deveraux Eddy is 10 Herschel st., Manton, R. I. Luella Fifield Darling was chairman of the committee and had charge of the work in Paw- tucket, during the recent campaign for Belgian relief conducted by the Pawtucket and Central Falls Chapter of the American Red Cross. One of the members of the advertising com- mittee for the musical extravaganza given for the benefit of the Providence Floating Hospital is Abby Fiske. 1902 In the cast of " 'Op-o'-Me-Thumb, " produced by the Players recently, appeared two Brown alumnae: Maud Farnum and Leila Tucker. 1905 Letitia Cahoon's address is 54 Snow st., Woon- socket, R. 1. 1907 At a recent meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association of Lincoln School Marion S. Cole, head of the English department, outlined "The Aims and Methods of Teaching English." 1909 Under the auspices of the women's committee of the Council of National Defense, Margaret Stillwell spoke in Putnam recentlj' on "The German Plot and the New Map of Europe." Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tourtellot, (Irene Laraway) a daughter, Jean Elizabeth, on Jan. 27. Their address is 189 Rochambeau ave.. Providence. 1912 Bessie G. Roche has been appointed district secretary of the navy yard office of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. 322 Jay st.. Brooklyn. 1913 Jessie Barr is in Granville, Ohio. Miss Bessie G. Roche, formerl}' one of the vis- itors of the Providence Society for Organizing Charity, has been appointed district secretary of the navy yard office of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, Brooklyn. For the past four years Miss Roche has been one of the visitors for the Organization Society of Hartford, from which post she goes to her new work. Her home is in Thorndike, Mass. 19U Married: Rowena Sherman to Joseph Parsons Allen of Pawtucket on April 25. Doris Briggs attended as maid of honor and Helen Briggs as bridesmaid. 1915 Married: Irene Mathewson to Richard Francis Richardson, U. S. N. R. S., May 10. 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