BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



* I9I8 - 1919 * 



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BROWN 
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VOL. XIX 
NO. 3 




OCTOBER 

1918 



WAR CHANGES COLLEGE LIFE 
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Vol. XIX 



PkO\ IDKXCK, R. I., OCTOHEK, 1918 



No. 3 



THE WAR-TIME COLLEGE 



Brown has begun the new collegiate 
year made-over by the war. The Gov- 
ernment is in practical control of it and 
of some 400 other institutions of the 
higher learning. 

Young men eighteen years of age and 
older, who registered under the new 
Man- Power Law on September 12 and 
who were either already in college or 
had planned to go this fall, were urged 
by the War Department to enter just as 
if the legislation had not been passed, and 
accordingly there are nearly or quite 500 
undergraduate men at Brown at the pres- 
ent time. 

When the Government wants these 
young men for active service in the field 
they will be called. Meanwhile, Govern- 
ment officials want them to get all the 
schooling possible before the date of their 
call for active service. How long they 
will be permitted to remain is problem- 
atical, but the Government is anxious 
that they lose no time unnecessarily from 
their studies. 

Graduates of high schools, who are 
prepared to enter college, have been per- 
mitted to apply to any college or univer- 
sity which has signified its willingness to 
become a part of the new^ co-operative 
educational system. They have been 
asked to pay their own expenses until the 
new^ system becomes effective (about 
October i), but all students who pass the 
physical and other required examinations 
will be inducted into military service and 
their tuition and subsistence paid, and 
they will receive the pay of privates in 
the army, $30 a month. 

Equipment already is available for ap- 
proximately 100,000 young men, who will 
become members of the Students' Army 
Training Corps. Equipment for an addi- 
tional 50,000 will be provided later. 

The first three months of the course, 
from October i until the end of Decem- 
ber, will be largely in the nature of a 



try-out for men already in college or 
about to enter. 

As men are transferred from the in- 
itial training courses, promising material 
already in camps will be selected to take 
their places in colleges and universities. 
Every young man who is prepared for 
further schooling, either collegiate or 
vocational, will ultimately find his way 
into school at the expense of the War 
Department. 

The probability is that young men now 
in the engineer, medical and other tech- 
nical reserve corps will be permitted to 
continue their studies. At least for the 
present they will not be disturbed. Some 
phases of this problem remain to be 
worked out. 

When the student-soldiers have re- 
ceived the specified period of intensive 
training, they will be selected as noted 
above and assigned to military duty in 
one of the following ways : 

I — Transferred to a central officers' 
training camp. 

2 — Transferred to a non-commissioned 
officers' training school. 

3 — Assigned to the school where they 
are enrolled for further intensive work 
in a specified line for a limited time. 

4 — Assigned to the vocational training 
section of the corps for technical training 
of militar}' value. 

5 — Transferred to a cantonment for 
duty with troops as a private. 

At the time of the Monthly's going to 
press, there was still a good deal of un- 
certainty regarding the details of the 
new war-time arrangements at Brown, 
but by another month these should be 
pretty thoroughly settled. The univer- 
sity authorities have reported to Wash- 
ington that there are at present accom- 
modations on the campus for 600 men, 
and it is expected that this number will 
be enrolled by the first of January. It 



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may be, indeed, that accommodations 
will eventually be found for 700 ; the 
chapter houses, for instance, could pro- 
vide quarters for a large number. 

The entire first floor of the Brown 
Union has been turned over for the uses 
of a dining hall, with accommodations 
for 600 men. When the Union was estab- 
lished, the dining accommodations were 
in the basement, but a few years ago they 
were transferred to the large reading 
room at the east end of the main floor. 
Now the trophy room and lounging room 
are added to the east room for dining 
purposes. 

The Government will withdraw from 
the university certain groups of students 
at three-month intervals, though it is 
understood that those who show pecu- 
liar proficiency in such studies as mathe- 
matics, chemistry and engineering may 
be permitted to continue on to gradua- 
tion. The best of those withdrawn will 
go to officers' training camps. Others 
of lesser demonstrated ability will be 
sent elsewhere. 

Thus on or about the first of January, 
April and June there will be a consid- 
erable numerical withdrawal from the 
campus, but the idea is to keep the num- 
ber of male students at Brown at 600. 
To this end new detachments will be 
sent by the Government every three 
months. They will be graduates of high 
schools or other preparatory institutions, 
and if they are not qualified for en- 
trance under the regular university re- 
quirements, they will be enrolled as 
special students. 

At the present writing it looks as if 
the new Freshman class would be about 
as large as usual. 

Students will take required studies al- 
most exclusively. They will be allowed, 
however, one non-war study, such as 



There is a notable absence of building 
in the city. Three notable structures 
nearing completion are the city's fire 
alarm station north of the Union rail- 
road station, the Rhode Island Hospital 
Trust Company building, and the build- 
ing of the Providence Telephone Com- 
pany. The latter, at the comer of Wash- 



Greek or Latin. History, for the first 
time on record at Brown, will be a re- 
quired Freshman study. The Govern- 
ment directs, moreover, that there shall 
be a course on the aims of the war. 

The university finds itself face to face 
with the necessity of making large ex- 
penditures beyond its usual practice. In 
some departments its teaching staff must 
be doubled to meet the Government's 
wants. New equipment also must be 
provided. The money it will receive 
from Washington for the maintenance 
and instruction of members of the Stu- 
dents' Army Training Corps will, there- 
fore, not suffice. The Government will 
pay for the board and rooming of the 
Corps and also thei'r tuition fees at the 
usual rate of $175 a year. But the uni- 
versity m.ust look to its friends for a 
substantial additional sum to meet the 
new needs of the time. The amount to 
be asked by the Committee on War 
Fund, lately appointed for the emer- 
gency, has not yet been made public, but 
we have no shadow of doubt that 
Brown's necessities will be amply and 
promptly met. The committee so far 
as announced consists of Walter C. 
Wyckoff, chairman ; Edward F. Greene 
and Paul C. DeWolf. Other members 
will be announced later. 

So far as can be seen at this time, the 
fraternities will still be able to maintain 
their active organization and take in new 
members. The athletic outlook is doubt- 
ful, but Coach Robinson expects a uni- 
versity football team. The athletic em- 
phasis will naturally be laid on military 
gymnastics under Dr. Marvel. 

At the Women's College ihere will be 
some new courses to meet new condi- 
tions, but in the main the old curriculum 
will be maintained. 



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and George F. O'Shaunessy, Democrat. 



BROWN'S ALTERED COURSES 



{The changes herein descrilied hare since proved of invaluable advantage in adapting the university to 
(lie war-time needs of the I'nited States Government) 



Brown University, at least for the 
duration of the war, will be an all-the- 
year institution hereafter, with a substan- 
tially altered curriculum. 

The change embodies the conviction of 
the faculty that the old order of instruc- 
tion should be greatly altered to make the 
university more useful to the country in 
this time of unprecedented national 
stress. Last year an "opportunist" policy 
prevailed at Brown. There was a gen- 
eral realization that classroom and work- 
shop courses should be adapted to war 
conditions, and this adaptation was be- 
gun in a tentative and desultory way, but 
the general desire for a farther reaching 
and more systematic readjustment led, at 
the last faculty meeting of the academic 
year in May, to the appointment of a 
committee of twelve, not merely to sug- 
gest a definite new system, but with 
actual power to put such a system into 
effect for the duration of the war, sub- 
ject to the approval of the Board of 
Fellows. 

The committee reported its findings 
and recommendations in July to the Fel- 
lows, who promptly approved them, and 
the new order became operative at the 
opening of the college in September. 

The committee w^as made up of the 
committee on curriculum of which Pro- 
fessor A. D. Mead is chairman, and the 
committee on military training, with Pro- 
fessor J. Q. Dealey at its head. The 
committee in its report declares that it 
started its w'ork without any hampering 
regard for tradition, though it made full 
use of the existing academic mechanism. 
Each department of the university was 
consulted and pledged its cooperation. 
The committee determined, as one radi- 
cal departure from old methods, to make 
Brown an all-the-year-round college, with 
three terms of sixteen weeks each, in 
order to render it possible for a student 
to complete his college course in three 
years, and in most instances before he 
reaches the draft age. 

The committee also determined that 



the Freshman year should be "a period 
in which the student will take a course 
largely prescribed, but planned to insure 
an early acquaintance with correct meth- 
ods of doing college work, to open the 
eyes of the students to new interests, and 
to help him decide upon his course of 
study in the subsequent college years," 
a period "in which the capabilities, inter- 
ests and limitations of the student will 
be considered with a view to his adapta- 
bility for prospective work in college and 
afterwards." 

Provision is made for the student to 
choose, toward the end of his Freshman 
year, any one of the six courses leading 
to the degree of A. B. or Ph. B., which 
course he will follow, except by special 
permission, during the remainder of his 
time in college. The courses will be 
ranged by groups on the principle of 
"concentration" which has worked satis- 
factorily in the present schedule of 
studies for the Ph. B. degree. The con- 
centration plan will be so arranged that 
the groups of studies wall be related to 
the prospective career of the student 
after college rather than to university 
departments. The purpose of this is, in 
the language of the committee, "to insure 
some degree of mastery in a definite 
group of subjects," w-hich purpose is held 
to be "not incompatible with broad edu- 
cation." 

Military and naval courses and physi- 
cal training will be emphasized and en- 
couraged. Brown is one of the few 
American universities to establish a 
department of naval instruction, and it 
has already a department of military 
instruction fully organized. It has been 
represented by a delegation of under- 
graduates at the joint Yale-Brown sum- 
mer naval school in Madison, Conn., and 
by another delegation at Plattsburg. 

In carrying out the various features of 
the new system, the committee has put 
itself on record in favor of a "policy of 
aggressive adaptation" as opposed to one 
of "passive retrenchment." It believes 



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that the university must increase rather 
than decrease its service to the commu- 
nity and the republic in the present crisis. 
It says : 

"The university should not merely 
exist through the w^ar, but should be 
jnaintained at the utmost pitch of effi- 
ciency. Capable and industrious students 
can serve their country best by complet- 
ing their college courses and the faculty 
by continuing to teach. New teachers 
and assistants should be obtained where 
necessary to maintain the proper stand- 
ard of instruction. 

"Our university should itself recognize 
the high patriotic value of training men 
and women for competent leadership in 
definite directions, and for the mainte- 
nance of intelligent public opinion. The 
additional funds necessary should be 
secured. A request should be sent out 
carrying our clear conviction that Brown 
is in the game and playing her part ; and 
that she with other American colleges, is 
not a pensioner but a great and unique 
source of strength." 

The new plan applies to all under- 
graduate men who are candidates for the 
A. B. and Ph. B. degrees, the courses 
leading to the engineering degrees having 
been revised only a short time ago and 
being at present on a basis found entirely 
harmonious with the rearrangement of 
the others. 

Such changes as are to take place at 
the Women's College will be announced 
shortly. 

Efforts will be made in all the univer- 
sity departments to meet the needs of 
students with special reference to the 
war. Thus, in the department of geology' 
stress will be laid on map drawing and 
the study of climatic conditions. In the 
study of European history, a consider- 
able portion of the year will be devoted 
to the interpretation of the present world 
struggle and the diplomacy connected 
•with it. In economics the United States 
Government's railroad and labor policies 



will be stressed. In the department of 
mathematics, for the first time so far as 
known at any institution of learning, 
there will be a course in general mathe- 
matics which will aim to give the student 
a new conception of mathematics as an 
orderly whole and enable him to apply to 
the practical problems of everyday life 
whatever branch of the subject is most 
adaptable to the case in hand. The 
student will be taught to read graphs, 
solve problems in engineering and statis- 
tical work, and the like. 

In the department of social science 
em])hasis will be put on the various war- 
lime philanthropies, such as the Red 
Cross and the Y. M. C. A., rehabilitation 
work and work in camp. Courses in 
argumentation and logic will be directed 
to war problems. The department of 
biology will discuss matters of camp 
sanitation and hygiene. The engineering 
department will give courses in military 
and naval engineering and in wireless 
telegraphy. 

There will be French and German war 
courses, with study of military terms and 
the literature covering the present situa- 
tion, including official documents. 

The endeavor of the committee has 
been, first, "to strengthen the relation of 
classroom instruction to life," and, sec- 
ond, to provide, by the regrouping of 
courses, "that the student shall have a 
liberal measure of training along some 
one line together with a broad and gen- 
eral cultural background." The concen- 
tration groups are not planned to take a 
man's entire time, but only from a third 
to a half of it. 

The new grouping, it is pointed out, 
conforms largely to the student's future 
occupation. Already many Brown alumni 
have assumed positions of large impor- 
tance by reason of the special training 
received in college, and the fruits of the 
new system, it is expected, will be seen in 
a larger contribution of efficient gradu- 
ates to meet the larger public need. 



A FIFTIETH BASEBALL ANNIVERSARY 

n,j Wilfred Harold Mimro, L. H. D., '70 

Professor of Eiir()[)eaii History. Eineritii> 




MEMBERS OF THE 1870 BASEBALL NINE 
From left to right: Charles H. Bowker, J. B. F. Herreshoff, Wilfred H. Munro, Charles Hitchcock 



On the 17th of June four of the five 
living members of the Champion Base- 
ball Nine of the Class of 1870 met to 
dine with their captain at his home in 
Providence. It was an occasion unique 
in the history of Brown University and 
in the annals of baseball. They met to 
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their 
greatest victory. 

On the evening of June 17, 1868. the 
very foundations of College Hill w^ere 
rocking; the Sophomore Nine had just 
defeated the Champion Nine of New 
England, and student entiiusiasm knew 
no bounds. The Lowell Nine of Boston, 
planning a victorious tour through south- 
ern New England, had arranged a last 
conquest in the shape of the Brown Uni- 
versity Nine. Owning to an unforeseen 
circumstance its plans miscarried. That 
unforeseen circumstance was the Nine 
of '70. 



In those early baseball days much 
attention was paid to the development of 
the class teams. Intercollegiate football 
was unknown and the baseball season 
began in the fall. The Class of 1870 
numbered sixty-five in its Sophomore 
year and easily dominated the college, 
there being but one hundred and eighty- 
six men all told in the institution. Hav- 
ing defeated almost everything that came 
its way in the fall, the Nine secured a 
hall ''down town" in which they practised 
during the winter. As soon as the frost 
left the ground they began work on the 
campus. '"Those were good old days."' 
The Middle Campus was the ball field, 
the home plate being on a line with the 
doors of Manning Hall and the Chemical 
Laboratory. An admiring crowd of en- 
thusiasts watched the daily practice. I 
question whether better team work has 
ever been developed in the University. 



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There were no substitutes and each in- 
dividual was thoroughly coached for his 
position. The Nine became an unusually 
perfect machine. It was eager for con- 
tests, but, alas, antagonists were lacking. 
Our fame had gone out through all the 
land and our challenges to other institu- 
tions were respectfully declined. The 
Harvard Sophomores plaintively refused 
to be butchered to make a Brown holi- 
day, frankly confessing that they could 
put up no team to stand against us. As 
the Lowell game drew near we saw our 
opportunity. Seven of the Nine, includ- 
ing the Pitcher and Catcher, were mem- 
bers of the "Varsity." Our Captain 
therefore suggested to the "Varsity" 
Captain (in those days etiquette de- 
manded that the "V. C." should be 
a Senior) that he and the other man 
might well develop functional ailments 
and allow the Sophomore Nine to 
uphold the honor of Brown. The Lowell 
Captain, a friend of our Pitcher and 
Catcher, having also Bristol ances- 
tors to his credit, as his name, James De 
Wolf Lovett. implies, good naturedly 
consented to the arrangement. Little did 
he realize what he was doing. The inser- 
tion of the two unaccustomed men would 
have spoiled our perfect team work. The 
college generally applauded the change, 
although it was not entirely hopeful as 
to its outcome. 

Enclosed grounds had not been 
dreamed of in Providence and our 
matches were played on the Dexter 
Training Ground. On its smooth sur- 
face the balls travelled far, and home 
runs were not infrequent. We went 
thither by horse cars. How we came 
back depended somewhat upon the re- 
sult of the match. The pitching in the 
"sixties" and "seventies" was real pitch- 
ing, not throwing as in the present time. 
In the case of men like Lovett and Her- 
reshofif (the latter's seventeen-inch biceps 
was the marvel and boast of the college), 
it was as swift as the thrown ball. This 
is proved by the fact that their catchers 
used to throw out as many men trying 
to steal second as are caught nowadays. 
But it was awfully hard on the catcher's 
hands. The pitcher's box was six feet 
nearer the home plate than it is now, and 



gloves and masks and breastplates were 
unknown. To-day the panoplied catcher 
knows just where the loalls are coming. 
Then not one swift pitcher in ten had 
reasonable control of his deliveries, and 
the Lord only knew where his balls 
would go. (I recall one game where the 
bases were filled and the catcher, "under 
the bat," was indulging in beatific visions 
of a triple play. Alas ! the next ball flew 
at least ten feet over his head and three 
runs were scored before he could get the 
ball back into play.) The old time games 
lasted for hours ; if the pitcher was doing 
his best, balls were not called upon him. 
The rule that made each ball either a ball 
or strike shortened the contests fully one- 
half and eliminated unskillful pitchers. 

Our game was the first in Providence 
to be reported by innings. The Lowells 
were whitewashed in their first attempt 
at bat. The first Brown man up made 
a good clean hit to centre. Perhaps the 
hit was made at the psychological mo- 
ment. Anyway, it heartened the Nine 
and we made four runs in that inning. 
At the end of the eighth the score stood : 
Lowells 19, Brown 18. It fell to the 
writer's happy lot to score the winning 
run. He well remembers the strong 
handclasp with which Professor Lincoln, 
bareheaded — his hat had been flung 
somewhere into space — greeted him. 
Pandemonium broke loose. Strong men 
everywhere fell on each other's shoulders 
and wept, etc., etc. The final score was 
22 to 19 in favor of Brown ; for no game 
ended until three men were out. Then 
followed a triumphal procession towards 
College Hill. At its head was the Cap- 
tain, carried upon the shoulders of two 
of the tallest Juniors. (One of these, 
Dixon, afterwards became United States 
Senator ; the other, Shankland, has been 
for more than a generation one of the 
leading members of the California bar.) 
It was an easy load they carried, for their 
burden felt light as air. His ride was 
the longest ever made in such fashion by 
a Brown athlete, for it lasted until the 
procession reached Wright's soda foun- 
tain, where the Boston Store now stands. 
There all halted for needed refreshment. 
No wonder the college went wild that 
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of seventy (and '70) leap when they re- 
call the memories of that victory. It was 
good, clean ball we played in those days ; 
sport for sport's sake. No one dreamed 
of a non-college bred professional coach. 
Every man did his best and played as a 
gentleman should. A player would have 
l)cen (lro])i)cd at once from the Nine for 
using the dishonorable tricks not infre- 
quently employed on professional dia- 
monds. 

And what of the after life of the mem- 
bers of the Nine? Henry T. Taylor 
(3d) died of typhoid fever (then an 
annual college scourge) before the close 
of his Junior year. He was one of the 
best scholars in the class. There were 
eight survivors when we celebrated our 
forty-fifth anniversary and they had 
"made good" in a remarkable way. 
Three had honorary degrees ; all were 
men of influence in the communities 
where they dwelt. Five are still living. 
Matteson (L) died in 1915; he had been 
a chemist in Chicago, an assayer among 
the mines of Colorado. Frank B. Grant 
(S), a manufacturer, died in Providence 
less than a year ago. Richard S. Colwell, 
D. D. (M), Professor of Greek for more 
than forty years in Denison University, 
died in March last. He had refused to 
accept the Presidency of Denison. As 
he w^as always "Dick" to us in our stu- 
dent days, so he was "Dick" to the stu- 
dents in Granville. There was only one 
"Dick" to Denison men, and what an 
ocean of love in that word ! Yes, not 
only love, but respect and admiration and 
adoration ! There has never been on that 
Faculty a man who was more universally 
respected, whose hold on the student 
body was stronger and more enduring 
than his. 

Of the five still left Reverend Elisha 
F. Fales (ist) of Philadelphia was not 
able to be present at the dinner. Since 
1900 he has been in charge of the Home 
Department of the Pennsylvania Sunday 
School Association. Charles H. Bowker 
(2d) of Worcester has been for years 
one of the strong men in the ofBce of 
the American Steel Wire Company. Dr. 
Charles Hitchcock (R) of New^ York is 
a physician with a large practice in that 
metropolis and at Narragansett Pier, 



which for more than a generation he has 
made his summer home. John Brown 
Francis HerreshofT (P), a Bristol boy, 
and with the writer the battery of the 
Bristol Baseball Nine when the Univer- 
sity was not in session, is a chemist of 
international reputation. He was hon- 
ored by his Alma Mater with the degree 
of doctor of science, and holds the Per- 
kins Medal awarded by the American 
Chemical Society for original work in 
industrial chemistry. 

The letter which follows is from the 
Captain of the Lowell Nine, Mr. James 
De Wolf Lovett of Boston: 

200 Devonshire St., 
Boston, June 14, 1918. 
My Dear Wilfred : 

Being unable, as I have explained to 
you, to be present with' the rest of the 
Boys, to help celebrate the day on which 
we soaked the Champion Lowells, fifty 
years ago, I desire, through you, to ex- 
tend to them all, separately and col- 
lectively, by very cordial greetings and 
congratulations, the latter not solely 
because of the victory, but chiefly because 
of the fact that so many of the Old 
Guard of the '68 Brown Baseball Team 
have survived the perils and dangers of 
those far distant battles of youth ; have 
"made good" so well and so brilliantly 
in their various chosen life works, and, 
incidentally, been enabled to enjoy ten 
good, square meals at your expense, with 
no wounds other than possibly (or rather 
probably) a few glorious telescoped 
finger joints, of which most of us, I sus- 
pect, are rather proud than otherwise. 

Here's hoping you and they may enjoy 
many more of these good, reminiscent 
reunions and, at each, again see your- 
selves as you were in the prime of your 
youth and strength. 

Although I am not able to be with you 
on this fiftieth anniversar}-, perhaps I can 
arrange matters so that on the next one — 
but time enough to go into details when 
we get to within, say, fifteen years of it, 
I am fairly safe, however, in saying I 
hope it will turn out a fine day. 

In retrospection, I often think of our 
game on the Dexter Training Ground 
and chuckle at the way the Lowells were 
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our tour, including Yale, we were feeling 
pretty cocky when we tackled the Brown 
Bear. 

Boston friends were on hand with the 
Big Noise ; much gunpowder had been 
salted down for the evening's jubilation 
and the red fire was waiting the eager 
match. Just before the game a terse, 
playful telegram was received from head- 
quarters reading, ''Give 'em hell" — to 
which (after the funeral services) some 
one replied, "Decided to keep it," against 
which touching instance of brotherly 
love and self-sacrifice, which up to that 
time were things unheard of in baseball, 
nothing could be said. 

I hope you occasionally still feel, as I 
do, with 74 years to my credit, a thrill 
of pleasure as the memor}' comes back 
of the soul satisfying way (providing no 
bones were dislocated) in which the im- 
maculately white ball used to nestle into 
your hands in the "warming up" process 
before a match game. The only other 
thing that beat it was when the trusty 
bat, with mighty swing, met the ball 
squarely on the nose (but which, alas, so 
often met nothing but one ear) with that 
short, sharp crack like a rifle shot for a 
clean, safe hit. 

I tell you, son, "them was the happy 
days," days when the heaviest burdens 
our young, willing shoulders were called 
upon to bear were the fear of striking 
out, muffing a fly in that '"tremendously 
important" match impending or of being 
kept in after school, perhaps the worst 
of all. 

The blessed blindness of youth to the 
many unknown hazards lying in wait for 
us on the long road ahead ! 

We old "Forty Niners." so to speak, 
certainly had the cream of the National 
game— no money, it is true, but our fill 
(well, perhaps never quite that) of just 
clean sport for sport's sake. 

An old Harvard Boy, once on the 
'Varsity ball team, wrote me a few years 
ago,. speaking of the old Harvard-Lowell 
games, "Although we both insisted on 
all of our legitimate rights, we kept the 
field practically with our arms across 
each other's shoulders." Surely a far 
cry from the spirit shown in the game to- 
day. 



I think that, with but one exception, 
every member of your 1868 team was 
living at the time of your last gathering, 
a most remarkable record, and I am sorry 
that the last five years have reduced the 
number of survivors to five. The Lowell 
nine of that year still musters six living 
members. 

Tell Frank Herreshoff that I was sorry 
not to see him in Bristol the last of May. 
I should like (or sometimes think I 
should) to make a bluff at batting a few 
of his well remembered "smokers" just 
for Auld Lang Syne, but after hearing, 
the other day, from his brother Nat that 
his arm is still just as hard and big as 
ever (to which some one added, "And 
he's just as bashful as ever about show- 
ing if), I should stipulate that he pitched 
from second base, reserving the further 
privilege of backing him down to center 
field if I thought necessary. 

I have a somewhat hazy remembrance 
of Elisha Fales at ist, owing to but 
two or three short and painful visits I 
paid him. Charlie Bowker at 2d, how- 
ever, somehow not getting on my visiting 
list that day, I saw only from afar, 
worse luck. I fear I did not trouble 
Charlie Hitchcock at right to any great 
extent, however sinister my intentions 
may have been. As for you two sinners, 
Munro and Herreshoff', why something 
terrible and sudden did not happen to 
you is one of those things no fellow can 
find out, and it only shows how futile, is 
suppressed language. 

Well, old man, I did not intend to 
inflict all this upon your patience, but 
you know (or ivill when you get old 
ciioitgh ) how garrulous a really old fel- 
low gets when rambling about among the 
fragrant flowers of his youth, so, as Kip- 
ling says, "respect the aged," overlook 
it and if you have a group picture taken 
and give it to the newspapers, send me 
a copy. 

Again thanking you for your very kind 
and complimentary invitation to be one 
of you on this unique occasion and with 
best wishes for you and your guests, 

1 am yours very sincerely, 

"Jiuimie" Lovett. 



FOR THE NAVAL UNIT 



Recanse of tlie unex])ecte(l and large 
ex])ansion of both the Mercantile Marine 
and the Navy of the United States, there 
is at present a marked shortage of cer- 
tain navigational instruments and appli- 
ances. I'articularly for instructional 
])urj>oses is it difficult to obtain such arti- 
cles. The curriculum of the Naval Unit 
at Brown University will include both 
])ractical and theoretical navigation and 
it is therefore essential that there should 
be provided for efficient instruction in 
such direction a considerable number of 
nautical instruments. One of the best 
means of arousing the interest of those 
})ursuing the naval course at Brown 
would be through the medium of obtain- 
ing the nucleus of a future Nautical Mu- 
seum. Such appliances would be of great 
value, particularly if there could be ob- 
tained some instruments that were used 
one hundred years ago, for the historical 
associations connected with such articles 
would ])romote the purpose contemplated. 
There will also be required instruments 
that have been developed in the interven- 
ing period. The University would, there- 
fore, be appreciative of the receipt of 
old-fashioned octants or pig-yokes, chip- 
logs, fourteen and twenty-eight second 
sand glasses, modern compasses, patent 
logs, sextants, etc. All such articles re- 
ceived by the Naval Unit will be suitably 
marked with the donor's name and will 
be used for instructional purposes. There 
is but little doubt that there are stored 
away in some of the old sea-chests con- 
tained in many Rhode Island homes, or 
that there may even be found in the lofts 
of quite a number of the houses in this 
State, somewhat impaired nautical instru- 
ments that are practically of little value 
to their owners, but which could be re- 
paired and made very valuable for edu- 
cational purposes. It is often the case 
that by showing the progress of develop- 



ment of instruments of jjrecision their 
use and purjKjse can be clearly mani- 
fested, and therefore at this time there 
can be rendered a distinct service to 
Brown University and even to the Navy 
Department, by a careful search for such 
appliances. 

As the history of Rhode Island is very 
closely associated with the history of the 
American Navy, it is hoped that, in addi- 
tion to the instruments of historical 
value, there may be secured a complete 
equipment of compasses, chronometers, 
and of the other somewhat expensive 
instruments required for instruction 
along navigation lines. Particularly is it 
desired that such articles may be received 
through the generosity of some of the 
numerous families whose ancestors were 
associated with important naval events. 
The special attention of the people of this 
State is invited to the fact that a well- 
rounded and complete equipment of nau- 
tical instruments which would show the 
progress of development of such appli- 
ances would be a very contributing factor 
in promoting the efficiency of the Unit. 
No instruments can be of too old-fash- 
ioned pattern or too much impaired 
by use to serve some special educa- 
cational purpose, for with the mechanical 
equipment possessed by the University, 
every impaired article received could un- 
doubtedly be restored to a condition 
w^here it w^ould serve some special pur- 
pose. The success of the Naval Unit at 
Brown will, to a very marked extent, 
dei^end upon the interest taken in its 
work not only by the alumni of the Uni- 
versity, but by the people of Rhode 
Island. Those who have old nautical in- 
struments in their possession should 
realize that, under existing conditions, it 
is not possible to procure such articles by 
purchase. 



By the will of Capt. George Bucklin 
the Rhode Island Boy Scouts receive an 
endowment of approximately $300,000. 
Half of this may be used to provide the 

organization with a building. 



The price of ^gas in Providence has 
been increased from $1.00 to $1.30 a 
thousand feet. The city has protested 
to the State Supreme Court against the 
increase. 



THE Y. M. C. A. ON THE ITALIAN FRONT 



By Guy B. Colburn, 1904 
Mr. Colburn is a Member of the Y. M. C. A. StaflF in Italy 



The work of the Y. M. C, A. among 
the various allied armies always has the 
same general aim. It seeks to strengthen 
the morale of the soldier by affording 
him a chance for personal development. 
It cultivates socialibihty, broadens the 
individual's outlook and tries to keep 
him in touch with the things of life that 
are most worth while. But the activi- 
ties of the workers vary greatly in the 
different armies, according to the oppor- 
tunity offered and the men available. In 
the American camps there is provided at 
cost a great variety of good things to 
eat and of articles necessary for com- 
fort. Here a highly developed system of 
concerts and picture shows is possible, 
outdoor athletics is perfected, and the 
religious services are largely attended. 
Often four or six secretaries are as- 
signed to a single hut, and many women 
are sharing the work. In the French 
army each "Foyer" is conducted by two 
directors, a Frenchman and an Ameri- 
can, who are assisted by details from 
the ranks. The building, usually a 
wooden barrack about a hundred feet 
long, is used principally for reading, 
writing and music ; the canteen is rela- 
tively unimportant ; entertainments by 
local talent found in the camp are of a 
lively character and highly successful. 

Italian troops are provided with club 
houses by their own military organiza- 
tions ; usually some large village is com- 
mandeered for the purpose. The army 
operates its own huts, accepting for 
specified points the material offered by 
the Y. M. C. A. and the direction by the 
American secretaries of the program of 
activities for these huts and for the ad- 
joining athletic fields. It has not been 
easy to find a large number of men quali- 
fied for the Italian field, and so far there 
are not enough American directors to 
care adequately for the work. One man 
is put in charge of a district of six or 



seven huts for which he furnishes 
materials and arranges programs. 

Here, as in all armies of today, the 
moving pictures are a favorite means of 
recreation. The Italians, always lovers 
of the open air, are eager to use the ath- 
letic material ; any pleasant evening in 
the field adjoining a hut one may see not 
only the old Italian games of bocce and 
tamhuerelli, but soccer football, which is 
well known in the country, and new 
American importations like volley ball, 
handball and the beginnings of baseball. 
Physical directors, at the invitation of 
the army authorities, are giving demon- 
strations in the different regiments of 
various games and relay races in which 
every man of a large group does his 
share of the exercise. This work is also 
carried into the hospitals and homes for 
convalescent soldiers. 

Writing paper is sometimes very hard 
to get, and the only thing that makes it 
possible for the soldier to send messages 
to the folks at home is the distribution 
of paper and envelopes by American 
secretaries, both in the huts and at many 
points among the batteries and in the 
trenches. The musical instruments pro- 
vided in the huts are appreciated and 
well played. Regiments come and go, 
but wherever there are Italian soldiers 
there is musical talent. In the larger 
huts farther away from the front — some 
almost palatial — splendid orchestras are 
organized and vocal artists create wild 
enthusiasm. While French soldiers, in 
getting up an entertainment, tend to put 
on farces and comic songs, the Italians, 
though not excluding folk songs in dia- 
lect, show a preference for good instru- 
mental performances and the singing of 
arias from well known operas. As the 
work in Italy is often located in school 
houses or town theatres, by improving 
these buildings and embellishing them 
with decorations emblematic of the 



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friendshii) between Italy and the United 
States, it is able to leave a permanent 
memorial of its presence among the peo- 
ple. Throughout the army a great many 
soldiers are found who have been in 
America and are eager to talk with the 
secretaries about life in various Ameri- 
can cities and about our participation in 



the war. The announcement of the com- 
ing of American soldiers to the Italian 
front was hailed with great enthusiasm 
on all sides, and wherever the Sammies 
arrive along the Piave or in the Tren- 
tino tiiey will get a right hand of cordial 
welcome. 



A LETTER FROM FRANCE 



President Faunce has received the fol- 
lowing letter from a Brown man in 
France. It is too personal to be pub- 
lished other than anonymously, too fine 
to remain unpublished : 

"Your Easter letter to all Brown men 
in the Service has just reached me, — 
here in the Norman country of France. 
I simply cannot tell you how it bright- 
ened me and cheered me up, and indeed 
strengthened me. 

"I had just come back to 'rest' from a 
period at the front. It had been my first 
experience with the real bitterness of war 
and I was tired and weary and soiled 
and, somehow, lonely. Your letter was 
like a slap of encouragement on the 
back, — full of cheer and hope. Sir, that 
letter you sent out to those of us who 
came from the old College on the Hill 
was splendid ! It went right to my heart. 
Brown had seemed so far off, almost a 
dream. I had met no Brown men, had 
thought she had forgotten ; but then I 
saw I was mistaken. I reread your letter 
several times, and in the Norman twi- 
light, as I sat in my billet and listened 
to the chimes from the church in the 
valley, I could see again, after many a 
long, weary month, old U. H. in the 
twilight, the trees we love so well, the 
gates, and dream once more the dreams 



of youth and the old, wonderful days at 
Brown. 

"Your letter touched me as it helped 
me. Some day perhaps I may be able 
to tell you how it feels to pick your way 
up to the front over a shelled region, 
what it is like to go through mustard 
gas, and how we avoid trench mortar 
shells and exposed positions. I can tell 
you how I have lain on my back in the 
shelter of the trenches, glasses to my 
eyes, and watched the combats in the air 
between aeroplanes, — a most magnificent 
but cruel sight. I can tell you of the 
beautiful towns and cities and wonderful 
countr}^ laid bare and desolate, blasted by 
the Huns. 

But, first of all, I can tell you of the 
splendid spirit of the French, the sturdi- 
ness of the English and the enthusiasm 
and courage and determination of our 
own people — the Americans. I was asso- 
ciated for a while with a Scotch High- 
land Regiment : one grows to love as well 
as admire them. 

"This will be my first absence from 
Commencement. You cannot realize how 
much I shall miss it. This will probably 
reach you at about the time the faithful 
shall have gathered and made their way 
toward the Old Baptist Meeting House. 
Say a prayer for us and stricken France. 
But, remember, — we are going to win and 
soon." 



EARLY HEBREW HISTORY 



Dr. Edgar S. Brightman, A. B. '06. 
A. M. '08, has just published a volume 
which reflects credit both upon his Alma 
Mater, where he began the study of 
Hebrew, and upon Wesleyan University, 
of whose Faculty he is now a member. 



It is an interesting fact to note in this 
connection that five Brown alumni are 
now teaching at the sister institution in 
Connecticut. 

Various scholars in this country and 
Europe have published the narratives of 



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early Hebrew history with a view to 
presenting their composite structure, but 
it is doubtful whether any of these publi- 
cations offer the results of literary 
analysis in such usable form for the class 
room or the general reader as Professor 
Brightman's volume. The book has 
grown out of the need felt by its author 
in his own teaching and is sure to prove 
a valuable source-book for college and 
theological seminary classes engaged in 
the historical study of the Old Testa- 
ment. It will be in such use at Brown 
during the next semester. 

A concise and intelligible general in- 
troduction makes clear the remarkable 
consensus of scholarship attained by the 
corrective and cumulative efforts of the 
investigators of many lands since the 
French physician, Astruc, published, in 
1753, his fruitful "Conjectures sur les 
memoires originaiix dont il paroit que 
Moyse s'est servi pour composer le livre 
de la Gencse." Each of the three -prin- 
cipal documents obtained by the literary 
analysis of the first six books of the 
Bible is printed separately as a connected 
narrative, preceded by a special historical 
and literary introduction that clearly 



presents its origin, aim, and distinctive 
characteristics. Critical notes at the bot- 
tom of each page of Biblical text indi- 
cate any important differences of opin- 
ion among scholars and call attention to 
significant details in the documents. 

All our study today of the social, po- 
litical, literary, or religious development 
of ancient Israel must take into account 
the great stages of progress revealed in 
the successive documents of which the 
books from Genesis to Joshua were com- 
posed. Any volume that presents these 
documents in the best form for the use of 
students is a real boon. 

Professor Brightman shows every- 
where the closest acquaintance with the 
great mass of critical discussion and also 
exhibits that ability to weigh justly and 
to form clear, sane judgments without 
which erudition is of small value. 

The work closes with a well selected 
bibliography and full index of Biblical 
passages. The publishers have performed 
their task adequately, producing a sub- 
stantial, well printed volume, comfortable 
to handle, and in good form for ready 
reference. 

Henry T. Foivler. 



THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS 

{In Honor of the Service Flag.) 



With eager hearts and anxious eyes 

The magi in far distant years 
Would scan the placid evening skies, 

Torn 'twixt fond hopes and foolish 
fears, 
To read strange secrets in the stars. 

And catch sweet "music of the 
spheres". 
Ah! not so foolish-fond are we 

Who gaze upon our stars today, 
And by a wiser wizardry 

Interpret what they have to say 
Of courage high and purpose pure 

And Fate's mysterious Yea and Nay. 
They tell of glorious things to be, 

As far and wide their music rings, — 
The triumph of Democracy, 

The doom of Kaisers and of Kings, 



The story of a world -made free 

And glad with all that Freedom brings. 
They sound alas ! some notes of woe 

For brave hearts stricken far away ; 
But not one craven deed they show. 

Not one weak faltering in the fray. — 
Yes, with such portents all aglow 

The stars gleam in our flag today. 
And as we scan them, we shall be 

Lifted above dull commonplace. 
Inspired with finer loyalty. 

Endued with greater strength and 
grace. 
O stars of noblest augury, 

How great the glories that you trace ! 
— Vernon P. Squires, '89, in the Grand 
Forks, N. Dak., Herald. 



AGGRESSIVE ADAPTATION 



The Advisory and Executive Com- 
mittee of Brown University has voted to 
open a vigorous oam])aign for funds to 
support the ])o]icy of agg^ressive ada])ta- 
tion to war needs which has been adopted 
l)v the University. This i)ohcy involves 
])rovisions for enabhng students promptly 
to concentrate their academic work to- 
ward the definite vocational needs of the 
nation while they are pursuing the mili- 
tary courses advocated by the govern- 
ment, and also a closer co-ordination of 
admission requirements to the courses of 
study in public schools. The Trustee 
Committee enthusiastically endorsed this 
progressive policy in the following reso- 
lutions : 

"Whkkeas, The University, mindful 
of its opportunity to render great and 



)>eculiar .service to the country has, 
through its constituted authorities, delib- 
erately decided to devote every efifort and 
resource to the purpose of adapting itself 
aggressively to the Nation's service in 
the war and in the readjustment to fol- 
low the conclusion of peace ; and 

"Whereas, To this end its work has 
been reorganized with the necessary con- 
se(|uence of greatly increased expendi- 
ture, now, therefore, it is 

"P'otcd, That a committee of three men 
be a])])ointed — to be called the 'War 
Fund Committee' — who shall have power 
to add to their number and to appoint 
sub-committees, whose duty it shall be 
* * * to secure by subscription the 
funds needed to meet such increased 
cost." 



A BROWN HOOD IN CHINA 



Rev. Joseph Taylor. '98, to w^hom the 
degree of D. D; was given by Brown this 
year, writes to President Faunce from 
the West China Union University at 
Chengtu Sze, under date of June 8. the 
following self-explanatory letter which 
we are permitted to reprint : 

"Your kind letter, in which you an- 
nounce the intention of the Board of 
Fellows to confer the honorary degree 
of Doctor of Divinity upon me at the 
Commencement of the University, on 
Wednesday, the twenty-ninth of May, 
reached me on the sixth of June. The 
letter came through in good time, in spite 
of the unsettled state of China and es- 
]>ecially of this province. Although it 
arrived a few days after your Com- 
mencement, it was none the less heartily 
welcome and brought Mrs. Taylor and 
myself unbounded pleasure. 

"May I thank you and, through you, 
the Board of Fellows of the University 
for this great honor conferred on me. 
It is indeed a great surprise to receive 
this recognition at the hands of my Alma 
Mater. When I received the bachelor's 
degree twenty years ago, I felt that I had 
reached one of the happiest days of my 
life ; but this further evidence of the con- 
fidence of the Universitv in me and the 



work I am endeavoring to do gives both 
happiness and joy. Brow-n University 
taught me to think independently and to 
love and serve democracy ; and it has 
been my aim, here in W^est China, to 
spread those principles for which Brown 
has so long stood and to which she dedi- 
cates her strength and resources. Here 
at the college, and in the university, I 
am trying to make those principles live 
and bear fruit. 

"Your own kind words to me are an 
inspiration and came just when the work 
of the term was resting heavily on me. 
They put new courage into me ; for I 
know- that both you and Brow^n Univer- 
sity believe in the kind of work we are 
endeavoring to do for China. 

"^[ay I ask you to speak to the proper 
authorities and ask them to send the hood 
to Mr. E. S. Butler, Box 41, Boston. 
Mass. ? He will see that it is sent to 
Chengtu by some of our missionaries 
who are coming out in the autumn. Here 
at the university we are trying to estab- 
lish academic customs, and one of them 
is a procession on Commencement Day 
similar to the one we have at Brown. It 
will add to the pleasure you have given 
me to see a Brown hood in the line."' 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published for the Graduates of Brown Univer- 
sity 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^ 



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Nathaniel F. Davis, Business Manager 



Business office, 159 Brown street 
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There is no issue during August and Septem- 
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The management of the magazine zuill not 
hold itself responsible for any failure of 
delivery where the subscriber has not promptly 
notified it of his change of address. The old 
as well as the new address should be given. 

OCTOBER, 1918 



The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot under- 
take to return manuscripts sent to it for publi- 
cation unless they are accompanied by suf- 
ficient postage. 



THE ALUMNI MONTHLY. 

We wish to say a few words about 
the Alumni Monthly. 

It is now in its nineteenth year, not 
untouched indeed by the rigors of war, 
but resolved to push on in its fore- 
ordained work, serving its ever-increasing 
constituency to the best of its ability and 
the extent of its resources. 

The cost of everything that goes into 
its production — such as labor, ink and 
paper — continues to go up, but its price 
remains, and we hope it will remain, the 
same, one dollar a year. 

Two years ago it suffered a hardship 
in the serious illness of its Treasurer, its 
financial guide and mainstay, but we are 
glad to chronicle his substantial improve- 
ment in health and his undiminished de- 



votion to the magazine. What Colonel 
Brown has done for the Alutnni 
Monthly during the last eighteen years — 
and so for Brown University — deserves 
the lasting gratitude of all of us. He has 
given it freely of his time and experi- 
ence, and without a cent of compensa- 
tion. As the French say, au contraire. 

We have put economies into eft'ect in 
preference to increasing the price of the 
Monthly. We have regretfully reduced 
the number of our pages and released 
our Associate Editor. And more recently 
our Business Manager, Mr. Henry G. 
Clark, has entered the Naval Service, 
thus putting one more handicap upon us. 

There are many elements of encour- 
agement in the situation, however. Ar- 
rangements have been made, in spite of 
the current labor shortage, for the ex- 
peditious distribution of the magazine. 
In succession to Mr. Clark we are able 
to announce with a good deal of satis- 
faction the appointment of Professor 
Nathaniel F. Davis, 'yo, as Business 
Manager. We may add that, beginning 
in December, the reading pages of the 
Monthly will be printed from new type — 
the handsome Century Expanded face of 
the Intertype Corporation, chosen ex- 
pressly for the magazine because of its 
beauty and clearness. Five years' use of 
our hand-set type had materially affected 
its appearance. Henceforth we shall 
have a new machine-set face every 
month. 

We believe we are now definitely on 
the up-grade, and all we ask of our sub- 
scribers is that they co-operate with us 
by responding promptly to the bills which 
Professor Davis will periodically send 
them. We are upborne by our dollar 
subscriptions like a Tropical Lake dwell- 
ing on its innumerable poles. 



President Faunce recently received a 
check for $ioo from a Brown graduate 
to be applied to the assistance of students 
in their illness. The donor says : "When 
I was at Brown I was forced to spend 
some time at the Rhode Island hospital. 
I much appreciate the things Brown did 
for me, but perhaps more than all else 
this help which came when I deeply 
needed it. In the near future I trust to 
be able to send another check." 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



Faculty 

Professor John C. Dunning has been repre- 
senting the University in the new training 
camp at the Presidio, San Francisco. 

Professor Congdon spoke on German pro- 
paganda before the East Providence Business 
Men's Association, September 16. 



Alumni 

1858 

The Hartford Courant says editorially: "A 
dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., tells of the 
death of Dr. Joseph H. Gilmore, for more 
than forty years professor of English in 
Rochester University and author of the hymn, 
'He Leadeth Me.' He had published works 
in prose, but so far as the written word goes, 
his fame will depend on this hymn. There 
may be a difference of opinion as to the value 
of it, but there can be none regarding the 
fact that it has worked its way into polite 
society. Dr. Gilmore wrote it in 1859, but 
everyday folks met it at about the time they 
went to the Centennial Exposition, as it made 
its appearance in the first collection of 'Gospel 
Hymns' made up by Moody and Sankey. This 
was in the days of the so-called 'cottage 
organ,' and one shrinks from imagining the 
number of these instruments upon which the 
tune was played to which this hymn was 
sung. It did not pass with the organs and the 
'Gospel Hymns,' but in 1892 it appeared in 
the hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and, what was more surprising, it 
took its old tune along; at least it appears 
both in the Hutchins and the Tucker editions. 
Whether it is retained, or will be, in the new 
Episcopal hymnal, not yet in use, as we under- 
stand it, the Courant has no knowledge. The 
hymn is not infrequently used and Dr. Gilmore 
in his later years must have felt well satisfied 
with the success of his verse." 
1862 

Colonel Christopher Rhodes died on August 
10, 1918, at his home, 290 Benefit street, at 
the age of 78 years. He was born in Provi- 
dence on September 15, 1840, the son of 
Christopher Smith and Olive Bicknell (Mau- 
ran) Rhodes, and was a grandson of General 
Christopher Rhodes, a prominent Rhode Island 
manufacturer. Colonel Rhodes attended the 
Providence schools, going from the high school 
to Brown in 1858. He left Brown before 
graduation to travel in Europe. He went and 
returned on the ill-fated clipper ship Maritina, 
which was making its maiden trip. The Mari- 
tina was wrecked near Boston Light on the 
way home during a terrible storm, November 
3, 1861. The disaster caused the loss of 36 
lives. Colonel Rhodes enlisted in Company D, 
Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, May 25, 1862, 



and served a three months enlistment. In 
May, 1863, he was appointed Deputy Provost 
Marshal of the United States for the Second 
District of Rhode Island, an office which he 
held until the close of the war. He was 
Deputy Secretary of State from 1869 to 1871, 
and again from 1873 to 1882, and a member 
of the stafif of Governor Scth Padelford from 
1869 to 1873. He served as Deputy Secretary 
of the Republican State Central Committee 
from 1884 to 1888. In 1888 he was electoral 
messenger, taking to Washington Rhode 
Island's electoral vote for Benjamin Harrison. 
Colonel Rhodes became affiliated with Rod- 
man Post. No. 12. G. A. R.. in 1888. He 
served as Adjutant from 1888 to 1896, and that 
year became Junior Vice Commander of the 
post. The next year he became Senior Vice 
Commander, and in 1898 Commander. In 1899 
he was Adjutant and in 1902 Quartermaster. 
Colonel Rhodes was a member of the First 
Light Infantry Veterans' Association and 
various other organizations. He became a 
member of the Hope Club in 1874. He joined 
the Rhode Island Society, Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, as a charter member in 1890 
and in 1893 became its Secretary. He also 
was a member of the Rhode Island Volunteer 
Veterans' Association and was elected its 
President in 1910. Other organizations with 
which he was affiliated are the Rhode Island 
Historical Society, Providence Athenaeum, 
.Rhode Island School of Design, Navy League 
of the United States, U. S. Geographical So- 
ciety, Lincoln Farm Association and Na- 
tional Security League. He was a man of 
warm friendships and will be especially missed 
by a little circle of intimates. 

1864 
A recent issue of the Gardner, Mass., News 
says : "With a modesty that characterizes 
the sound conservatism, which may safely 
be said to constitute the cornerstone of every 
successful banking institution, Gardner Sav- 
ings Bank observed its 50th anniversary to- 
day. Just 50 years ago today, in a second 
story corner room, in the Old Bank block 
building, on Pearl street, John D. Edgell, as 
first treasurer of the bank, stood expectantly 
behind a desk to w-elcome the first savings 
depositor. Coincidentally, Mr. Edgell was 
cashier of the First National Bank and the 
quarters of the First National, in that second 
story corner room, served as a cradle for the 
infant Savings Bank, which in 50 years' time 
has grown and expanded to its present state 
of flourishing maturity. As cashier of the 
First National Mr. Edgell employed himself 
with routine duties in that capacity, and as 
treasurer of the newly organized Savings 
Bank, just open for business, looked up every 
time the door opened trying to determine, be- 
fore the newcomer declared himself, whether 
he would be called upon as cashier of the Nat- 



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ional or treasurer of the Sa\ings Bank. And 
so that first day passed with the affairs of the 
First National continuing as usual and a 
few depositors registered for the savings 
bank. From this small beginning the 
Gardner Savings Bank has grown to its pres- 
ent proportions with John D. Edgell, the 
dean of Gardner bankers, as president and 
still on the job. The first statement issued 
by the Savings Bank of business done for 
the first six months shows 139 depositors, 
and three withdrawals. Total deposits 
amounted to $20.8.58.90. During the first 
year $11,275 was loaned out on real estate 
and $.5,000 on personal loans. The expense 
for the first year was $193 15. Today on its 
50th anniversary, the bank paid its 100th 
dividend and during the past half century 
has paid out $3,362,424 in interest to its de- 
positors. The present number of depositors 
is 12,461, the bank assets are more than $5,- 
000,000 with deposits aggregating $4,587,000 
and the present, surplus is $430,000." 
1860 

Jefi'erson Borden died in Fall River, Mass.. 
-August 20, 1918. His death followed an ill- 
ness of six months. He was born June 2. 
.1844, the son of Jefferson and Susan Easton 
Borden. He attended the public schools in 
Fall River, and was graduated from Brown 
University in 1866. With his brother, Spencer 
Borden, he took a special course in chemistry 
and later entered the employ of the American 
Printing Company, of which his father was 
then treasurer. He was later treasurer of the 
Mount Hope Mill, now the Conanicut, which 
was controlled by, the American Printing Com- 
pany. From there he went to the Aquidneck 
Mills in Rhode Island as superintendent. The 
introduction of electricity into business was at 
this time a big event, and he associated himself 
with it. Later he embarked in the yachting 
business in the Yacht Brokerage and Design- 
ing Company of Boston, and became very well 
known in this line. He was the first to design 
the composition boat of metal and wood which 
was named the Composite. Another which he 
designed was the R. D. The best known of 
his models was the Varda, a famous racing 
craft. The mill supply business attracted 
him in later years and he became engaged in 
this with his son, J. Westall Borden, under the 
firm name of Jefferson Borden & Son. Four 
years ago he retired from the business on 
account of failing health. He was always 
interested in fire department matters. His 
wife was Miss Ellen Westall, daughter of 
Rev. John Westall, who died four years ago. 
Besides his brother, he leaves two sons, Jef- 
ferson Borden, Jr., superintendent of the Fall 
River Bleachery, and J. Westall Borden of 
Jefferson Borden & Son, and one daughter, 
Elizabeth E., wife of Walter I. Nichols. 
1873 

The address of Daniel Rhodes is now 2801 
Albatross street, San Diego, Cal. 

Rev. Henry A. Blake has resigned his pas- 



torate at the Congregational Church of Col- 
chester, Conn., to accept a call to the First 
Congregational Church of Winsted, Conn. 

1876 

Rev. G. DeWitt Dowling visited Providence 
in August. He is rector of St. John's Epis- 
copal Church at Wellsville, N. Y., and, he 
writes a classmate, "four daughters grace my 
household — the eldest is 18 and the youngest 
will be 10 on her next birthday." 

1877 

The Standard, a Baptist paper of Chicago, 
prints the following tribute to the late Dr. 
John R. Gow by Lathan A. Crandall : Be- 
cause the Baptist denomination is not over- 
stocked with men of the quality of Doctor 
Gow, and moved by the paucity of references 
to his passing which have appeared in our 
denominational papers, the writer craves the 
privilege of adding to what he has already 
written for The Standard concerning this good 
man. The story of his life is quickly told : 
Born in Waterville, Me., sixty-five years ago; 
graduated from Brown and Newton ; pastor 
in Fairhaven, Conn.. Chicago, Somerville, 
Mass., Brattleboro, Vt., and Minneapolis. But 
the storj^ of his life can never be told. He 
radiated influences that will reach down the 
years. He set in motion forces that will not 
die out. He gave to the world all those 
immeasurable values which reside in a life 
that, in large measure, reproduces the life of 
Jesus. It is said that when Mrs. Browning 
asked Charles Kingsley for the secret of his 
life, and how it was that he had learned to 
be so gentle and so true, he answered, "I had 
a friend." Think of it and you will see how 
wisely he spoke. All that is best in us of 
integrity and loyalty and purity and high ideals 
is due to the contagion of goodness ; we have 
contracted moral habits of thought and action 
from contact with other lives. And that is 
why Doctor Gow will be missed so sorely. 
He was a friend who lived into us who knew 
him something of his own graciousness of 
spirit. We would have been ashamed to be 
mean or coarse or vindictive in his presence. 
He never posed as an infallible moral bone- 
setter. He was the last man to claim perfec- 
tion for himself and never assumed superior 
piety. But he was a sermon — better than any 
of us ever preached — on the greatness of good- 
ness. Like Chaucer's good priest, 
"Christ's lore and his apostles twelve he 

preached, 
But first he followed it himself." 

We honored him and loved him for what 
he was even more than for anything that he 
did. And his deeds were fine and of great 
significance. As a pastor he knew how to 
hearten the discouraged and comfort those of 
a broken heart. He was a good shepherd, 
unwearied in his watch-care over the flock. 
He was a teaching preacher. Patiently and 
constantly he studied human life and the truth 
needed by the human soul for its sustenance, 
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meditation and prayer eiiahle the preacher to 
provide. And how his brotlicr pastors loved 
him! Here in Minneapohs, where he had 
Hved for only five short years, ministers of 
all denominations speak of him in terms of 
hit^hest appreciation. Quiet, scholarly by in- 
stinct and training, he was no recluse. No 
man enjoyed human companionship more than 
he. Courteous, kindly, lover of witty sayings, 
he entered into our ministerial associations 
heartily and cnjo\-ed them to the full. Inspir- 
ing friend, wise and helpful pastor, fearless 
and thoughtful preacher! 
1880 
Dr. Edgar Chapman Gates, for 32 year.s 
a practicing physician of this, city, died sud- 
denly September 10, 1918, at his home, 1.577 
Westminster street. He had been in poor 
health for about a year, suffering from disease 
of the heart, and last fall was confined to 
liis home from a severe attack. He recovered 
and had attended his practice up to the night 
before his death, when he made a professional 
call about midnight. He was born in Provi- 
dence, September 18, 1858, and was the son of 
the late Ellam H. and Elizabeth Chapman 
Gates. He received his earlier education in 
the public schools and was graduated from the 
University grammar school and entered Brown 
University. Leaving college he studied medi- 
cine with Dr. Barrow and Dr. Wilcox, and 
received his degree of doctor of medicine from 
the University Medical College of New York 
in 1881. Dr. Gates began practice with the 
late Dr. Edwin Sanford of Attleboro and 
afterwards ' opened an office in that tow.n, 
where he remained until 188(), w-hen he came 
to Providence and opened an office. He w-as 
a past officer of the Knights of Pythias and 
a member of the Rhode Island Homeopathic 
Society and American Institute of Homeo- 
pathy. He married in 1881 Alice I. Kennedy, 
who survives him. He is also survived by a 
brother, Hobart L. Gates of this city. 

1884 

Robert Henry Ferguson. A. M.. M. D., Sc. 
D.. is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Mod- 
ern Biological Therapy."' It contains 40 pages, 
and is a discussion of "the relation of the use 
of serums, vaccines and other biological prod- 
ucts to modern therapeutics." It is published 
by the Medical Department of E. R. Squibb & 
Sons, New York, from whom a copy may be 
obtained on application. 
,188.5 

Norman S. Dike, now judge of Kings 
County in New York City, has been nominated 
by the Republican party for justice of the 
Supreme Court of the State of New York. 

Walter Hayward of Wickford suffered the 
loss, in July, of his eldest son, Walter March- 
mont Hayward, of the Ordnance Department 
of the Army, who was accidently killed by 
gas in a plant at Midland, Mich., the first 
man in the medical service to lose his life in 
this way in the United States. 



18S7 

Theodore Francis Green has declined to 
l)ermit the use of his name in connection 
with the nomination for Governor by the 
Democratic party of Rhode Island. 

Rev. Richard Wright of Cambridge has this 
to say in the War Work Bulletin of the 
Hartford Seminary Foundation regarding the 
minister who stays at home: ".\Iy work is 
heli)ing to do that without which the work of 
the boys in France could not long go on ; it 
is in part gearing up the community machine ; 
putting our shoulder to the wheel at every 
rise of the hill : applying the a.xle grease care- 
fully, tirst scrutinizing this to see that it is 
grease and not grit ;' backing the administra- 
tion for all we are worth ; and whacking the 
local end of it privately when it needs the 
slipper; encouraging the discouraged; reliev- 
ing the needy: administering an iron tonic to 
the faint-hearted ; holding up ideals for all 
without which victory cannot be ours ; teach- 
ing a patriotism that serves our countrj' as 
willingly as the soldier dies for it ; preaching 
the salvation of pur Lord Jesus and the right- 
eousness of the living God that makes the 
fulfillment of governmental contracts as, or 
more honorable' than, the acceptance of them. 
These few things well done or attempted, and 
the boosting of Red Triangle and ReTl Cross 
War Drives ; the upholding of Food Con- 
servation ; the encouraging of the enrollment 
of Public Service Labor Reserves, together 
with an energetic push to National Prohibi- 
tion : an extra squeeze on the brake of the 
National War Chariot's patriotic (?) desecra- 
tion of the Lord's Day ; added to the prepara- 
tion of sermons, the calling upon the sick and 
the dying, the running of a church and paro- 
chial visitation, and a few other odd jobs, have 
tended to keep my hands out of that which 
Satan provides for the idle, and to add the 
spice of joy to the biggest, least understood, 
and most easily ignored task under heaven — 
the minister's.' 

1890 

H. R. Palmer addressed the Rotary Club 
of New London, Conn., Aug. 15, on "The 
World Made New." 

Mrs. Mary Webb, wife of the draft di- 
rector in Rhode Island. Captain George H. 
Webb, died in Providence in July. Her hus- 
band and a son survive her. 
1892 

F. M. Smith is a captain in the Quarter- 
master's Corps, France. 

The University of Illinois has published 
"Langdon's Lincoln Pageant," a war-time 
tribute to which W. C. Langdon contributes 
the first portion, which is a pageant in verse 
and prose and includes an address by Lincoln 
skillfully made up from his own words. 
Langdon in this work has added another hon- 
orable title to the record of his achievement 
in this effective class of dramatic writing. 

James C. Collins of the firm of Tillinghast 



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('79) & Collins, attorneys at law in Provi- 
dence, has gone overseas for Y. M. C. A. 
vi^ork. 

1893 

C. E. Ida is a captain in the Medical Offi- 
cers' Reserve Corps at Camp Kearney, Cal. 

C. A. Selden is a correspondent for the 
New York Times at 6 Boul. Poissonniere, 
Paris. 

1894 
• C. S. Cooper is editor of the National 
Marine Magazine. 

G. W. Gardner is a major, M. R. C, in 
charge of a base hospital at Camp Sevier, 
S. C. 

1895 

Dr. Dallas Lore Sharp, professor of Eng- 
lish in Boston University, is the author of a 
pamphlet: "Does it Pay n Man to Work His 
way Through College?" He answers his own 
question thus: "Certainly, and it will pay a 
young woman equally well. You do not go 
to college primarily to fit yourself to teach, 
preach, run a social settlement house or a 
typewriter, or any money-making thing in 
particular. You often find while in college 
what things you intend to do in particular; 
but you go to college for life in general — to 
learn how to think, study, reason, understand 
and appreciate, how to tell the real from the 
sham, the true from the false, how to enjoy 
a book, how to behave, how to believe, how 
to be useful — how to be the best possible hu- 
man being for your own sake first, then for 
others. And you will not be frustrated in any 
of this by the effort, and the experience of 
keeping yourself — of working your way 
through." Professor Sharp continues his at- 
tractive essays in the Atlantic Monthly. The 
latest ones were printed in October, 1917, 
and July. 1918. 

F. D. Elmer is a special national field com- 
missioner of the Boy Scouts of America. 

1896 

J. C. Davis is a 1st lieutenant of the 103rd 
F. A.. France. He has been recommended for 
the distinguished service cross for bravery at 
Seicheprey, April 20 and 21, 1918. 

Malcolm G. Chace, ex-'96 and son of Chan- 
cellor Chace, '66, is fuel administrator for 
Rhode Island. 

1897 

J. A. Moore is a major in the Quarter- 
master's Corps, France. 

Dr. Gregory D. Walcott. who has spent the 
past year in China, visited Manila on his way 
from Shanghai to San Francisco. 

1898 

H. J. Ballantine is a 1st lieutenant, chaplain, 
with the 4th Pioneer Infantry at Camp Wads- 
worth. 

F. E. Hopkins is a colonel of field artillery 
at Camp Custer, Mich. 



E. W. Olney is in the Ordnance Reserve 
Corps at Washington. 

1899 

Warren Bigelow is a captain of the 160th 
Depot Brigade at Camp Custer, Mich. 

G. B. Utley is executive secretary of the 
War Service of the American Library Asso- 
ciation at Washington. 

A son, Charles Albert Dunn, was born on 
June 9, 1918, to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Dunn. 

Gordon Hale, surgeon, U. S. Navy, is ser- 
ving with the 8th Regiment, U. S. M. C. 
1900 

A. B. Cole is a captain of the 14th Railway 
Engineers, France. 

H. R. Cross is with the American Red Cross 
in Italy. 

C. K. Stillman is a 1st lieutenant, medical, 
in the Connecticut State Guard. 

Rev. Arthur O. Pritchard is acting minister 
of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of 
Pomona, Calif., one of the largest churches 
of the denomination in the southern part of 
the State. 

Waldo G. Leland has a 22-page article in 
the London Quarterly Review for July on 
"America's First Year of War." 

Harold B. Maryott gave his illustrated lec- 
ture on Descriptive Astronomy imder the 
auspices of the Y. M. C. A. at Headquarters, 
Great Lakes, 111., August 27, Paul Jones 
Camp, Great Lakes, - 111., September 9, and 
Camp Custer, near Battle Creek, Michigan, 
September 10, 11 and 12. 

1902 

W. B. Currier is a lieutenant-colonel of the 
]44th Field Artillery. 

S. D. Knowles is with the 103rd Field 
Artillery, France. 

1904 

J. R. Barry is a lieutenant, U. S. N., on the 
U. S. S. Pampanga. 

G. B. Colburn is a Y. M. C .A. director, 12 
rue d'Agnesseau, France. 

R. G. Martin is a captain in the Intelligence 
Department, Washington. 

George E. Kelleher has been appointed 
division superintend'^nt of the Bureau of 
Investigation of the Department of Justice, 
with headquarters at Boston. As division 
superintendent he will have charge of in- 
vestigations for the d,epartment in the States 
of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Ver- 
mont. Mr. Kelleher is a graduate of Brown 
University and Georgetown Law School. 
Hfe has been a special agent of the Depart- 
ment of Justice for 10 years, assigned par- 
ticularly to the anti-trust cases. Since the 
early part of March he has been acting spec- 
ial agent in charge of the Boston office of 
the Bureau of Investigation of the depart- 
ment, during which period he has directed, 
among others, the investigations in the 
cases of Dr. Karl Muck and Dr. Karl Bert- 
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tlic designation of Special Assistant United 
States Attorney for the Disrict of Massa- 
chusetts, under United States District Attor- 
ney Boynton, for war work. 

Noble B. judah, Jr., who was captain of 
Battery C, One Hundred and Forty-ninth 
field artillery, later being promoted to major, 
has been made lieutenant colonel on the gen- 
eral staff of the American army in France. 
Lieutenant Colonel Judah went to France as 
a major, and more recently served as intelli- 
gence officer in the Forty-second (Rainbow) 
division. 

Royal N. Jessup, pastor of the First Bap- 
tist Church of Rome, N. Y., since 1911, was 
married to Miss Jane S. Bielby, Syracuse 
1910, on April 8, 1916. They have one son, 
Paul Shelley Jessup, born on April 16, 1917. 

1&05 

C. H. Hull, cx-'05, Yale '05, is a captain of 
the 68th Field Artillery and is now overseas. 

G. F. Keene is a lieutenant, J. G., U. S. N., 
on the U. S. S. Emeline, S. P. 175. 

F. N. Mandeville has been promoted to be 
a major in the Aledical Reserve Corps. 

A. H. Gurney, '07, writes from Paris : 
"Undoubtedly you have already heard of the 
heroic sacrifice of Carl Dewing Lytle, who has 
been reported missing since the beginning of 
the second German drive on Paris. He en- 
listed as a Y. M. C. A. worker with the Foyers 
du Soldat last winter. At that time he was 
principal of the grammar school at North 
Brookfield, Mass. As soon as he arrived in 
this country he was assigned to work with the 
French troops then stationed at Leury. He 
knew a little French and he had the necessary 
confidence to use it. Confidence, as you are 
aware, goes a long way toward helping one 
with a strange language in a strange land. 
At Leury, I have learned from the men who 
were working with him, Lytle straightway won 
the respect of the French by his cheerfulness, 
his tact and his sympathy. He worked hard. 
He was not altogether happy at times, so one 
of his new-made friends tells me, and there 
was one occasion when he questioned seriously 
his leaving home to help do what he could 
among the men who as fighters in this war 
have won undying names for themselves. But 
he held his head up, as we say, and carried 
on until his work at Leury earned him promo- 
tion to a larger and more important foyer at 
Maizy, in the Aisne region. Here he quickly 
became popular. His divisional secretary. Mr. 
C. W. Lawrence of Boston, says that Lytle 
was not only well liked by the officers and 
by the soldiers, but w-as also a great favorite 
•with the children of the village. Whenever 
he had time he taught the youngsters English, 
sang with them, played their games and 
showed them new ones. This was his way of 
getting recreation. And then the Germans 
came. In masses they swooped down upon 
the village, preceding their arrival with a bom- 
bardment of gas shells. Lytle's first thought 
was of the children. He forgot himself. As 



the first shells began arriving he went up and 
down the streets, getting the youngsters to- 
gether and helping send them out of the vil- 
lage to safety. He was still at work when 
the German vanguard appeared. Lytle was 
among the last to leave. He was well out, and 
on the road to the French lines, when he found 
that several of his children had been left be- 
hind. Without hesitation he turned and went 
back. He was last seen close to the village. 
The Germans were coming in on the other 
side, several houses were on fire and shells 
were exploding ahead of the advancing enemy. 
There is hope that he is alive. The V. M. 
C. A. is working every line to find out whether 
or not he is in German hands. Up to this 
time of writing all effort has been fruitless. 
Mr. Lawrence still believes that Lytle will be 
heard from, but he admits that his belief is 
based on optimism alone. 'Lytle was one of 
the best representatives of America to come 
to France,' he told me. 'He had a fine sym- 
pathy for the French. He was able to see 
things from the French viewpoint, and he 
had a knack of doing the little things in 
a wey that the poilus appreciated. 1 be- 
lieve that he was wholly fearless and abso- 
lutely unselfish. He might have got away. 
But the children were his friends; he was 
willing to give his life to save them. He was 
indeed a credit to his country, to the Y. M. 
C. A., to his college. My most earnest hope 
is that I may soon hear of him from some- 
where in Germany.' " 

The address of R. C. Walker is changed to 
Northfield, Minn., from Minneapolis. 

1906 

H. T. Beckwith is a captain of the 312th 
Engineers at Camp Pike, Ark. 

James Hamilton, Jr., has been promoted to 
be a captain of Hospital Unit 47 at Camp 
Fremont, Cat. 

W. P. Lennoa is in the diplomatic service in 
France. 

1907 

A. H. Gurney is an associate secretary of 
the Y. M. C. A. in France, 41 rue de Province, 
Paris. 

G. R. Hill is a 1st lieutenant in the air 
service in France. 

R. AL Merritt is a Y. M. C. A. director in 
France, 12 rue d'Agnesseau, Paris. 
1907, 1908 and 1909 

On August 17, at Honolulu, Territory of 
Hawaii, the U. S. Transport Sheridan had as 
passengers Lieutenant H. W. Corp, Brown 
'07, and family, and Captain W. C. West, 
Brown '08, and family. Both Corp and West 
had received commissions in the Engineer 
Corps and were ordered to report at Camp 
Lee, Virginia, for training for overseas ser- 
vice. Corp has been connected with the rail- 
road in the Philippines as a construction en- 
gineer, and W'est had been acting chief con- 
struction engineer for the Bureau of Insu- 
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ing been in the Philippines since graduation. 
In Honolulu, Captain West met his class- 
mate, F. A. Edgecomb, formerly of the 
Lighthouse Service in the Territory of 
Hawaii and now seeking an opportunity for 
war service. A. M. Cristy, Brown '09, was 
also met in Honolulu, where Mr. Cristy is 
now first deputy city and county attorney for 
the city and county of Honolulu. The four 
Brown men and their families were enter- 
tained by Captain West in a reunion of col- 
lege friendships at the Seaside Hotel. After 
a delightful luncheon, the party enjoyed the 
surf bathing, the visitors from the Philip^ 
pines trying out surf board riding at the 
Waikiki Beach. Edgecomb left on the trans- 
port with Corp and West for the States, 
hoping to get into some sort of war service. 
Any Brown men and their families passing 
through Honolulu shouldn't forget to look 
up Cristy. 

1908 

D. S. Barry is a captain of U. S. Marines at 
Quantico, Va. 

R. R. Gleason is an ensign, U. S. N., in the 
submarine service. 

C. H. Griffith is a captain at Camp Meade, 
Md. 

S. J. Howe is in the Intelligence Section, 
Headquarters Co., of the 301st Infantry at 
Camp Devens, Mass.. 

E. W. Peckham is in the C. A. C. at Fort 
Washington, Md. 

Ely E. Palmer, American Consul at Madrid, 
Spain, has been elected Treasurer of the 
Iberian Chapter of the American Red Cross, 
which has been formed there for Spain and 
Portugal. Mrs. Palmer has been made vice- 
chairman of the auxiliary, the appointments 
being made by the Ambassador. This in- 
formation is contained in a letter received by 
Mrs. T. W. Waterman from her son, Mr. 
Palmer. The letter also states that a book, 
"From Mexico to India," of which Mrs. 
Palmer is the author, has been donated to the 
Red Cross auxiliary to aid in providing 
revenue for its support. 

1909 

J. W. Mayhew is a captain of infantry. 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Shaw of Webster, 
Mass., announce the birth of a daughter, 
Marian Louise, June 22, 1918. 

Donald L. Stone, who has been chief 
press censor for the A. E. F., in Paris for the 
past year, has received a commission as cap- 
tain in the National Army. His address is 
10 Rue St. Anne, Paris, care of Press Di- 
vision, A. E. F. 

1910 

D. S. Babcock is a captain of Battery C, 
2nd Battalion, FraKce. 

A. B. Bennett is a captain of the 11th C. A. 
C. at Fort San Jacinto, Texas. 

N. E. Holt is a captain of ordnance. Chem- 
ical Plant 4, at Washington. 



L. N. McKenzie is in the Aviation Section, 
Signal Corps, at Madison Barracks, N. Y. 

E. M. Morris is a 1st lieutenant in the Medi- 
cal R. C. at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

S. D. Paddock is a chief petty officer, U. S. 
N. R. F., at Newport, R. I. 

A. N. Peterson is in the 41st Co., 154th 
Depot Brigade, at Camp Meade, Md. 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Taber of Lake- 
ville. Conn., announce the birth of a second 
daughter, Virginia, on June 21, 3918. 

Stephen D. Paddock, U. S. N. R. F., ' 
Brown 1910, and Harvard Law 1913, was 
promoted, July 1, 1918, to chief petty officer. 
He is stationed at Providence as aid for in- 
formation. He enlisted April 20, 1918, and 
went on active duty as yeoman, 3d class, May 
27, 1918. 

1911 

L. L. Cranshaw is a captain in the Quarter- 
master's Corps at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. 

W. I. Hastie is a Y. M. C. A. secretary in 
France, 12 rue d'Agnesseau, Paris. 

J. C. Larkin is a chief electrician, U. S. N., 
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, N. Y. 

E. J. Rankin is a sergeant in ordnance, 
France, A. P. O. 717. 

J. W. Seaton is a captain in the 303rd Field 
Artillery, Camp Devens, Mass. 

S. M. Skelding is in the 437th Engineering 
Detachment, Washington. 

Rev. Herbert B. Francis, pastor of the 
Arlington, R. I., Baptist Church for five and 
one-half years, has resigned to become pastor 
of the Federated Baptist and Congregational 
Churches of Hudson, Mass. The two churches 
•were federated because every Protestant 
clergyman in the city is now engaged in some 
form of war service. 

First Lieutenant M. Howarth writes : "My 
address is Co. K, 342d Infantry, Camp Grant, 
111. 'We don't know where we're going, but 
we're on our way.' Keep the Alumni Monthly 
following after me." On July 12, 1918, Lieu- 
tenant Howarth was married to Miss Amey 
S. Bucklin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 
S. Bucklin of 1303 Glenlake ave., Chicago, and 
a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, 1915. 
1912 

H. C. Burr is a 2nd lieutenant in the Signal 
Corps. 

L. V. Crocker is in the 22nd Co. of Infantry, 
6th Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade, Camp 
Devens, Mass. 

W. S. Deming is in the National Army at 
Camp Upton, N. Y. 

O. R. Ferry is a 1st Lieutenant, receiving his 
commission at San Juan, Porto Rico. 

J. D. Guillemette is in the Radio School at 
College Park, Md. 

R. P. Hawes is in Psychological Co. 1 at 
Camp Greenleaf, Ga. 

V. D. Howard is a sergeant in the 2nd Co., 
101st Supply Train, France. 

R. G. Hurlin is in the Statistical Branch of 
the General Staff, Washington. 

G. W. Langdon, Jr., 1st lieutenant of the 



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65 



102nd Field Artillery, France, was ordered 
home as an instructor in May, 1918. 

W. C. Nelson is a 1st lieutenant of the 
Sanitary Corps at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 

M. H. Pingree is an ensign, U. S. N. R. F. 

J. W. A. Smith, at last reports, was in the 
R. O. T. C. at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

J. T. W. Interich, formerly of the "Spring- 
eld Republican," is now on the editorial staff 
of the "Stars and Stripes" in France. 

Hebert Knight Dennis, Ph. B., Brown 
1912, A. M., Princeton 1914. and A. M., Har- 
vard 1915, received the degree of doctor of 
philosophy in economics at Harvard Uni- 
versity on June 20. 1918. He has been for 
two years assistant in sociology at the Uni- 
v/trsity of Illinois, and has accepted for 
1918-1919 a position as lecturer in social 
ethics at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. 
The title of his thesis was "The French 
Canadians: A Study in Group Traits, with 
Special Reference to the French Canadians 
of New England." 

1913 

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Fisk Nichols an- 
nounce the marriage of their daughter, 
Elizabjcth Louise Nichols, Brown A. M., 
1916, to Charles Harlan Abbott, 1913, on 
Tuesday, July 2, 1918, at Belchertown, Mass. 

F. E. Cooper is a captain of ordnance, 
Watertown Arsenal, Mass. 

W. L. Dealey is in Psychological Co. 1 at 
Camp Greenleaf, Ga. 

K. S. Hall is a lieutenant of the 158th Aero 
Squadron, France. He was one of the sur- 
vivors of the Tuscania. 

R. M. Harris is an assistant secretary, Y. M. 
C. A., at the Naval Torpedo Station, New- 
port. 

L. C. High is at the U. S. Naval Air Station, 
Pensacola, Fla. 

A. W. Howe, Jr., is an Ensign, U. S. N. 
R. F. 

O. M. Kratz is a Y. M. C. A. secretary. 

William L. Dealey is a sergeant on the 
Psychological Examining Board at Camp 
Meade. Md. 

First Lieutenant Raymond Carpenter Col- 
well, S. C, U. S. A., and Miss Mattie Holmes 
Barrows, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ozro C. 
Barrows, were married at St. Bartholomew's 
Chapel. New York City, on August 20, 1918. 
Lieutenant Colwell has been stationed at Camp 
Grant, 111., several months and is now over- 
seas. Mrs. Colwell is well known as an illus- 
trator. 

1914 

Hermione L. Dealey, who received the de- 
gree of doctor of philosophy last May, has 
accepted an appointment as assistant pro- 
fessor of educational psychology at the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota for the coming year. 
She was efficiency expert this summer for the 
unit of the Woman Land Army stationed at 
Wellesley College. 



Elliott T. Bugbce has been commissioned 
second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. 

Rebcr Johnson is with the American Red 
Cross in France, 4 rue de I'EIysee, Paris. 

F. L. Loucks is in the Ordnance School at 
Camp Hancock, Ga. 

B. H. Marshall is with the 313th Engineers 
at Camp Dodge, Iowa. 

M. C. Mason is in the 151st Depot Brigade, 
Camp Devens, Mass. 

H. R. Nash is in the School of Military 
Aeronautics at Cornell. 

News was received at Uxbridge, Mass., on 
Aug. 7 of the death of Lieutenant Henry 
Philip Reynolds in action in France. He was 
2nd Lieutenant in Co. G, 103rd Infantry, 
which was in the thick of the fighting in the 
Marne salient. He was the younger son of 
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Reynolds, a native of 
Uxbridge, and 27 years old. He graduated 
at the Uxbridge high school in 1910 and from 
Brown with the degree of Ph. B. four years 
later. Shortly after leaving college he en- 
tered the employment of Swift and Co., work- 
ing at Chicago, Kansas City and Denver. He 
enlisted in the infantry at Denver, took a 
course in the officers' training school at Camp 
Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., and won his 
commission there. He went to France late 
in the spring of 1918. He was popular in 
Uxbridge and prominent in high school ath- 
letics. In college he played basketball on the 
Freshman team and was also a member of the 
football team. His parents and one brother 
survive him. 

1915 

William A. Ncedham has received a com- 
mission as lieutenant (junior grade) in the 
Naval Reserve and been assigned to the Ord- 
nance Inspection Service. 

Married, at Norwich, Conn., on August 20, 
1918, Cecil M. P. Cross, '15, to Miss Ruth M. 
Henderson, '15. 

C. H. Angell is a 2nd lieutenant of Field 
Artillery at Camp Jackson, S. C. 

A. E. Barnard is a sergeant in the ordnance. 
W. E. Beehan is a line ensign, U. S. N. 

R. F., on the U. S. S. Minnesota of the 
Atlantic Fleet. 

Ralph Blanchard is a 1st lieutenant, 16th 
C. A. C, Fort Monroe, Va. 

R. L. Burnell is a captain, 79th Field Artil- 
lery. Fort Sill, Okla. 

Frederick Burns is a 2nd lieutenant, o02nd 
Infantry. Camp Devens, Mass. 

W. W. Chandler is in the National Army at 
Camp Devens. Mass. 

B. E. Chapman is a 1st lieutenant in the 
Medical Corps. 

M. J. Crowell is a 1st lieutenant. Sanitary 
Corps, 26th Engineers, France. 

P. A. Feiner is in the School of Military 
Aeronautics, Cornell. 

W. A. Gannon is at the R. O. T. C, Fort 
Monroe. Va. 

L. L. Hall is in the 4-lst Co.. 154th Depot 
Brigade, Camp Meade, Md. 



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A. A. Sutcliff is a supply officer at Newport. 
R. I. 

E. L. Thornton is a wagoner in Battery E, 
55th Artillery, at Fort Standish, Mass. 

Grenville Whitney is at the Advance Ord- 
nance Depot No. 1, U. S. P. O. 712, France. 

L. M. Wright is a paymaster in the U. S. 
N. R. F. at Provincetown, Mass. 

1916 

F. R. Abbott is in the 12th Co., 6th Regi- 
ment, U. S. Naval Training Station, Newport. 

F. J. Brady is in the Ordnance Supply 
School at Camp Jackson, S. C. 

S. G. Byam is in the Equipment Division of 
the Signal Corps at Pittsburg, Pa. 

A. B. Coop is an engineer of tests in the 
Ordnance Department at Pittsburg, Pa. 

J. M. Couse is in Co. K of the 107th Infan- 
try at Camp Wadsworth, S. C. 

George B. Cumberland, a member of the 
Machine Gun Company of the 101st Infantry, 
has been killed in action in France. 

I. T. Gumb is assistant chaplain, with the 
rank of voeman, in the U. S. N R F at 
Pelham Bay Park, N. Y. 

P. C. Lyall is in aviation at Dallas, Tex. 

M. V. Murphy is in Co. A of the 4th Regi- 
ment at Camp Perry, 111. 

A. R. Nichols is in Motor Car Section 301, 
Camp Hill Block 1-20, of the Quartermaster's 
Corps at Newport News, Va. 

E. T. Tetley, 2nd lieutenant, 47th Infantry, 
has been killed in action in France. 

W. R. Wirtner is in Aero Squadron No. 1 
at Camp Worth, Tex. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sumner Hayward of 
Auburndale, Mass., announce the birth on Aug. 
8 of a daughter, Marjory Hayward. Mrs. 
Hayward was before her marriage Miss Mar- 
jory Homer of Providence. 

1917 
Hugh W. MacNair, a member of the Ameri- 
can Ambulance Service, has received the 
French Croix de Guerre, silver star, from the 
General of his division. The honor was given 
for "volunteering for dangerous missions and 
distinguishing himself for coolness on the 
nights of May 15 and 16." Mr. MacNair land- 
ed in France in June, 1917, with several other 
Brown men in an American ambulance unit. 
The unit was first under French command, 
but was later taken over by the American 
army. At Brown Mr. MacNair belonged to 
the Zeta Psi fraternity. His home is in 
Houghton, Mich. 

Rowse B. Wilcox has taken a special mili- 
tary course in France and been commissioned 
second lieutenant. 

1918 
Elizabeth Dealey spent the summer in social 
work at Pittsfield, Mass. 

1920 
John W. Haley has been commissioned as 
second lieutenant and assigned to work at a 
replacement camp. 



Alumnae 

1900 
Miss Lucy E. Cyr is a teacher in the public 
schools of Burlington, Vt. She has recently 
purchased the Galusha Owen property at 
Plymouth Park, Martha's Vineyard, and made 
improvements on it for a summer home. 

1906 
Grace AI. Sherwood, reference librarian of 
the Rhode Island State Library, has gone to 
France for Y. M. C. A. work. 

1910 

Elizabeth M. Boardman is teaching at East 
Greenwich. 



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