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VOL. XIX PROVIDENCE, JANUARY, 1919 NO. 6 

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by John R. Hess, Dec. 21, 1918 

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BROWN MEN WHO HAVE DIED IN THE NATION'S SERVICE 



Every attempt has been made to 
verify the reports which are present- 
ed herewith Any corrections or ad- 
ditions should he sent at once to the 
Brown War Records Bureau, Broivn 
University. 

1898 
William H. Buffum, 1st Lt., Assistant 
Surgeon, U. S. N. Died in Naval 
Hospital, Liverpool, Eng., Oct. 13, 
1918. 

1901 
William E. Parker, 2nd Lt., Assist. 
Quartermaster, U. S. Marine 
Corps. Died in Naval Hospital, 
Washington, D. C, March 22, 1918. 
1906 
Sergt. Florence J. H. Price, 42d Bat- 
talion, Princess Pat Regiment, Ca- 
nadian Overseas. Killed in action 
near Ypres in front line trenches, 
May 30, 1918. 
F. R. Belding, Corporal, 107th Infan- 
try, Co. K. Killed in action Sep- 
tember 19th, 1918, near La Cate- 
let. 

1910 
Robert E. McGough, Pvt., Co. L, 13th 
Regt., U. S. Marine Corps. Died 
on shipboard of Influenza, Sept. 
25, 1918. 

1911 
Chester T. Calder, Pvt., U. S. A. Am- 
bulance Service. Died of Pneumo- 
nia at Allentown, Pa., Feb. 4, 1918. 
Morris J. Wessel, Division of Homes 
Registration, U. S. Housing Corp., 
Dept. of Labor, Washington. Died 
of Influenza, October 10, 1918, at 
Washington, D. C. 

1913 

F. E. Cooper, Capt., Ordnance Dept., 
Watertown Arsenal, Mass. Died 
of Influenza, September 24, 1918. 

Richard D. Robinson, 1st Lt., Co. M, 
47th Infantry. Killed by an ex- 
ploding shell while passing through 
evacuated village, Sept. 12, 1918. 



Clifford J. Stevens, Corp., Co. F, U. 
S. Infantry. Died of accident on 
March 9, 1918. 

1914 

Irving T. Boardman, 9th Co., 3d. Bat- 
talion, 162d Depot Brigade. Died 
of Influenza, Camp Upton, Sept. 
27, 1918. 

1915 

Russell L. Bateman, Battery F, 147th 
Field Artillery. Died in France, 
June 28, 1918. 

Joseph B. Bowen, 2d Lt., Air Service, 
U. S. A. Killed in action, Sept. 7, 
1918. 

William Eicke, 103d Field Artillery, 
26th Div. Killed in action, October 
24, 1918. 

R. H. McLaughlin, Capt., 314th Field 
Artillery. Died from wounds re- 
ceived October 14, 1918. 

Frederick W. A. Miller. Died of dis- 
ease; reported Oct. 22, 1918. 
1916 

George B. Cumberland, Pvt., Machine 
Gun Battalion, 101st Infantry. 
Killed in bombardment of Chateau 
Thierry, July 15, 1918. 

E. Russell Fretz, 2nd Lt., 11th Ma- 
chine Gun Battalion, 7th Infantry. 
Died of wounds, November, 1918. 

Frank E. Starrett, Aviation. Killed 
by accident at Aviation School, 
France, on January 2, 1918. 

Egbert T. Tetley, 2d Lt., Co. C, 147th 
Infantry. Killed in action August, 
1918. 

1917 

J. M. Austin, Signal Corps. Died ov- 
erseas of Pneumonia, Sept. 30, 
1918. 

John G. Rice, Field Artillery. Killed 
in action, France, November, 1918. 
1918 

Carlton M. Bliss, Aviation. Killed 
in accident, November, 1918. 

Paul Cartwright, Lt., Aviation. Died 
of Pneumonia, France, Oct.7, 1918. 

G. Wheaton C. Vaughan, 1st Lt., In- 



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fantry. Died of wounds, France, 

November 11, 1918. 
1920 
George W. Berriman, Lt., Infantry. 

Killed in action, France, July 15, 

1918. 
Edward C. Burnham, Machine Gun. 

Killed in accident, Camp Hancock, 

Ga., Dec. 14, 1918. 



John S. Hardman. Died Sept. 21, 
1918, of Influenza, Newport Naval 
Reserve. 

James Hemphill, Field Artillery. 
Killed by accident in France, April, 
1918. 

George G. Luckey, Medical Corps. 
Died of Pneumonia, Jefferson Bar- 
racks, St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 11, 1918. 



OUR COUNTRY AT HER BEST 

C. Lexois Hind in the London Daily Chronicle 



(Mr. Hind, the tvell knotvn British 
art writer, attended a Brown dinner 
in company ivith Dr. Charles Hitch- 
cock, '70, of Neiu York,. and the fol- 
lotving are his imqrressions of the oc- 
casion.) 

The Englishman is happier in the 
New England states than elsewhere 
in America ; in New England he feels 
that he is nearer home. 

This New England doctor, 70 years 
of age, over 6ft. high, straight as 
a pole, who traces his ancestry back 
to Roger Williams, who has never 
been to Europe, stands to me for New 
England. He knows America well, 
her virtues and her defects, her mod- 
esties and her boomings, her silences 
and her screams, her virility and her 
crudity, her suspicion of England and 
her admiration, her courtesy and 
kindness to the individual, her flecks 
of antipathy for the corporate Brit- 
isher; the splendour of her promise, 
her resurgent hope, and her bound- 
less future. 

One night I saw this New England 
doctor at his best, so I shall always 
see him. In that moment he captiva- 
ted me. I had been his guest at the 
anniversary dinner of one of Ameri- 
ca's oldest universities, and, on the 
way home, I had been telling him how 
much I had been impressed by the 
character and tone of the speeches. 
When we parted he raised his hat, 
was silent a moment, then he said — 
No, I will wait till the end to tell 
you. . . . 



Some American Speeches 

At such a dinner they make an im- 
portant feature of the speeches. The 
war of righteousness was never ab- 
sent from any utterance, and each 
speech breathed the finest culture and 
the highest aspirations of America. 
It was as if the great spiritual lead- 
ers among the American writers and 
statesmen of my youth were present 
in spiritual guise, directing and sus- 
taining their 20th century children. 
I thought of the Hall of Fame in the 
cloister of New York University, on 
a high bluff, overlooking rivers and 
greater New York, and I recalled the 
names in the Hall of Fame. Beneath 
each is an extract. This follov»^s the 
name of "Abraham Lincoln, 1809- 
1865:" "With malice towards none, 
with charity for all, with firmness in 
the right, as God gives us to see the 
right, let us strive on to finish the 
work we are in." 

On that level the speeches marched. 
They had their sad and solemn notes, 
for America had begun to feel the 
war, and the daily casualty list of 
"Pershing's Crusaders," as they are 
called, was growing larger and lar- 
ger. The flower of the country, the 
University boys, go into khaki as our 
boys went into khaki. The men at the 
younger tables ' were few. The 
younger tables? The elder tables? 
What does this mean? At these an- 
niversary dinners the men are group- 
ed at separate tables, and rising from 
each cloth is a placard bearing the 
year when that group graduated. The 



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oldest goes back to the fifties. At the 
High Table sit the President, guests 
of honour, and alumni who have risen 
to distinction. One had fought in the 
Civil War: he is now in khaki. 
Another (he made the speech of the 
evening) was the head of the Y. M. 
C. A. branch at one of the camps. He, 
too, was in khaki; he was unique 
among the speakers. He was half- 
saint, half low-comedian. Sometimes 
he spoke as if inspired, sometimes he 
was frankly a buffoon (the war 
throws up such types). Vehemently 
he told us how American citizens are 
being made at his camp. He described 
the appearance of the rabble of draft- 
ed men speaking most of the 50 lan- 
guages that are spoken in New York 
— undersized, ill-nourished, some of 
them asking by signs and the written 
word what such terms as "Form 
fours" and "Right about turn" 
meant. 

Learning to he Wise 

"Gentlemen," he said, "we of the 
Y. M. C. A. are wise. We have learnt 
to be wise: we have learnt that you 
can't feed the soul until you have re- 
stored the body. We give them reg- 
ular food, regular exercise, and long 
hours of sleep, then when they are 
normal, as all God's children should 
be normal, we open our night schools. 
The schools are crowded, they are 
more popular than movies. They ask 
pathetic questions. I have told these 



AVE ATQUE VALE 

Under the caption, "Prater, Ave 
atque Vale," John H. McGough 
(Brown '05) of this city dedicated 
the following "to an only brother, a 
United States Marine," Robert E. 
McGough, '10, who, it was later 
learned, died of pneumonia on the 
voyage to France : 

My prayer: that God will see you safe 
Across Atlantic's broad expanse, 

And be your Guide and Comforter 

What time you march through shell-torn 
France ; 

May He preserve you free from harm 
From cannon, bayonet and gun — 



eager foreigners, new born into the 
ideal for which the country is fight- 
ing, what is the meaning of "sacri- 
fice," of "noblesse oblige," and under 
our tuition, week by week, I see them 
growing into one-hundred-per-cent. 
Americans. It's amazing. If it was 
not for the killing and the suffering, 
this war would be the greatest thing 
that has ever happened to our land. J 
Even with the killing and the suffer- \ 
ing the gain is enormous. We have 
become a nation. The simmering 
melting-pot, so slow in the past, has, 
through the spiritual issues wrought 
out by the war, burst into living 
flames of purification and unity. We, 
we of New England, we of America 
we of the Aliens who have come int 
line, knowing we are in the right,' 
will, with God's help, see this thing 
through to the finish." 

And as he ended I seemed to hea 
again the great grave words of th^ 
greatest of Americans : "With malic 
towards none, with charity for all 
with firmness in the right, as Go 
gives us to see the right, let us striv 
on to finish the work we are in." 



We talked of these things, the Ne\ 
England Doctor and I, on the waj 
home, and when we parted, as I have 
told you,he raised his hat, remainec 
bare-headed for a little while, anc 
then said, "I am glad that you hav€ 
seen my country at her best." 



Yet grant to you a manly part 
In conquering the hellish Hun. 

Let not lost dreams or vanished wraith 

Of glory in sweet years now past 
Diminish any old-time faith 

In Him; but to the last 
Fight on with courage and with calm 

Through fire and flame, o'er bloody see 
Remembering cowards feel alarm — 

But heroes' souls are claimed by God. 

Remember Seeger; Kilmer, too. 

And all the lion-hearted band 
Who bravely gave their sweet young live^ 

For Right — and France, the lily land. 
And if God wills that you find rest 

In some far field where poppies grow, 
He'll know that you have done your best 

And keep you near His throne's whit^ 
glow. 



BROWN AND THE WAR FUND 



Brown University has come 
through the Great War with honor 
but not without wounds. 

Her sons have served on every 
front, — in the actual battle line of sea 
and land and sky; in those activities 
where preparation for battle was 
paramount; in those organizations 
which have carried on a wonderful 
welfare work for the fighting man ; 
as members of those civilian bodies 
whose chief aim was to aid in the fi- 
nancing of the war and all its inci- 
dental activities. 

And the college itself has served 
in other ways than through its sons ; 
— but like its sons it has been faced 
with the necessity for sacrifice in or- 
der to make its service complete. 

As a result of the tranformation of 
the college into a training school for 
future officers of the Army and Navy, 
as a result of fitting the work of the 
college to the requirements of the re- 
construction period, there is piling up 
from day to day the necessity for a 
war time emergency budget which, at 
the end of the current college year, 
will approximate $150,000. ' (As a 
matter of fact, present indications 
point to an amount appreciably in ex- 
cess of that sum). 

With the coming of the armistice 
and the consequent changing of the 
plans of our Government with rela- 
tion to the various Army and Navy 
training units among the colleges. 
Brown's situation takes on an even 
more serious aspect than before. 

From the very outset of the new 
regime the College has been operat- 
ing at a loss. That this would be the 
case was known to the men who have 
labored so hard and so effectively to 
fit our college to become a factor in 
winning the war and for the follow- 
ing period of reconstruction. But to 
them, as to all of us, the college's duty 
was clear, and they put it in the way 
of performing that duty. 

In the first place Brown could not 
house and feed enough men, under 
the conditions necessarily imposed by 
the Government, to take care of her 



'overhead" and so make expenses fit 
the income available from her own 
resources and government allowan- 
ces. 

So, starting with something less 
than the irreducible minimum, her 
condition grew more difficult to sup- 
port as men were withdrawn from 
the campus to enter active service. 
As each man was withdrawn the in- 
come from the Government attached 
to that man ceased, while practically 
every expense (even the expense in- 
cidental to feeding him) continued. 
Nearly two hundred men were early 
withdrawn by the Army under these 
conditions. 

Later followed the signing of the 
armistice, and with the discharging 
of men from the S. A. T. C. another 
considerable number either left or 
will soon leave the campus. These 
are men who were in attendance for 
special training rather than for the 
regular course. The College will be 
left, as 1919 comes around, with little 
more than 350 men students in atten- 
dance. 

All through the current year the 
college has operated, and will have to 
continue to operate, with an extreme- 
ly heavy overhead. For example, — 
the Government required that each 
class-room division should not exceed 
fifteen men. Brown's average in 
peace times has been thirty men. An 
immediate call for a 100 per cent in- 
crease in the teaching staff! This 
call has been partly met by cheerful, 
voluntary action by the regular facul- 
ty, who have assumed the extreme of 
added teaching burdens. 

But this voluntary supply could 
not meet more than 50 per cent., per- 
haps, of the demand. New men had 
to be taken on, and cost of instruction 
per man increased materially. 

New equipment had to be bought, 
— expensive equipment, — some of 
which will be of permanent use, some 
of w^hich will not. Regular supplies 
had, since 1917-1918, gone soaring to 
the maximum war time point of price. 
All along the line the college was op- 



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erating at the "high peak" of expense 
and at the "low peak" of income. 

That is the story in brief, — the 
story of a college that went to war, 
a college that came back from the 
battle line with honorable wounds ; 
wounds in the form of a debt con- 
tracted with open eyes, with a full un- 
derstanding of the consequences, — 
but contracted with high purpose and 
in a noble cause. 



It is our purpose, as sons and 
friends of the College on the Hill, to 
see that this debt is wiped off the 
slate, and that our college is thereby 
enabled to march instead of marking 
time, to go on to a greater future in- 
stead of lagging behind for years and 
decades, dragged backward (perhaps 
downward) by a ball and chain of 
debt. 



A BROWN OBSERVER AT THE SOLAR ECLIPSE 

By Leah B. Allen, '07 



Notwithstanding the absorbing interest 
of the war, the opportunities to observe a 
total solar eclipse in the United States on 
June 8, 1918, were not neglected. That 
was the first total eclipse of the sun visible 
in North America since 1900. The moon's 
shadow crossed the country diagonally 
from Washington to Florida, but as the 
eclipse came late in the afternoon in the 
Eastern States, places for observation 
were chosen in the West. Inasmuch as the 
sun's corona, an appendage of tenuous, 
unknown constituents, can only be ob- 
served during the brief moments when the 
sun is totally eclipsed and the coronal 
plumes and streamers are very different at 
different times, astronomers make great 
efforts to use the precious seconds of ev- 
ery available eclipse. This year Ameri- 
cans had the full responsibility, which at 
another time would have been shared by 
European visitors. 

I shared in the observations of the Lick 
Observatory expedition at Goldendale, 
Washington. Goldendale is a pleasant lit- 
tle town on the plateau north of the Co- 
lumbia river. It was in the central line of 
the shadow's path and atmospheric con- 
ditions had been predicted to be favora- 
ble. The equipment consisted of several 
cameras, ranging in focal length from one 
to forty feet. They were used to take di- 
rect photographs of the corona and to test 
the character of its light in a variety of 
ways. With a group of four cameras, the 
sky near the sun was photographed to 
search for the predicted "Einstein effect". 
That is, if light is subject to the attraction 
of gravitation, the apparent positions of 
the stars must be altered when their light 
passes close to the sun. Not all the results 
of the observation have yet been deter- 
mined. 

In the days preceding the eclipse, fre- 
quent rehearsals of the observations train- 
ed each person to do his part smoothly and 
confidently. The length of exposures were 
timed by the seconds which one person 



counted within the hearing of all. My part 
was to expose eight plates with a short 
focus camera to photograph' the faint out- 
er regions of the corona. In the midst of 
the prepai'ations for the eclipse, we were 
thrilled by the cable message to the Di- 
rector, Dr. Campbell, announcing the aer- 
ial victories of his son. Lieutenant Doug- 
las Campbell, the first American trained 
ace. 

Shortly after totality, nearly the whole 
sky was covered with clouds; yet each 
person was in his place listening for the 
signal to begin the exposure. Then, as if 
by a miracle, the clouds opened wide, 
showing the thin bright line of the sun 
and a clear sky changing to a darker and 
darker bhie. A flock of birds, seeing the 
rapidly coming shadow, flew frantically 
back and forth, not knowing whither to go 
to escape the terrifying darkness. It is 
impossible to convey the impression made 
on the human observer by the sv.aft ap- 
proach of darkness and the sudden appear- 
ance of the pearly light of the corona be- 
hind the black disk of the moon. The co- 
rona was shaped somewhat like an arrow 
head, pointed toward the East, forked to- 
ward the West. Little rosy protuberances 
appeared around the circumference of the 
moon. Those were really enormous clouds 
of glowing hydrogen in the sun's atmos- 
phere and the photographs show fine lines 
of the corona arranged in the form of, 
Gothic arches about each protuberance. 
To the unaided eye, the corona was visible 
to a distance of twice the solar diameter, 
and photographs show extensions as far 
as three times the sun's diameter; that is, 
between two and three million miles from 
the surface of the sun. The beauty of the 
corona was enhanced by the presence of 
Jupiter, a short distance east in line with 
the longest coronal streamer. Not only 
were the many spectators in Goldendale 
filled with awe and admiration, but expe- 
rienced astronomers who had seen the co- 
rona several times were moved to tears 
by the beauty of the spectacle. 



THE NEW CARNEGIE PENSION PLAN 



By Robert P. Broicn, 



In the world's advance towards so- 
cial betterment perhaps the most im- 
portant step of recent years has been 
the effort to care for the aged, infirm 
or disabled in the various trades and 
professions by a system of pensions. 
In 1906 Mr. Carnegie stated that he 
regarded the salaries of the profes- 
sors in our colleges as inadequate 
compared with those of other profes- 
sions and gave a fund of ten million 
dollars to provide for suitable pen- 
sions for them when their age of re- 
tirement arrived ; he later added five 
millions, and the Carnegie Founda- 
tion for the Advancement of Teach- 
ing undertook the management of the 
fund with powers of administration 
limited only by the general object of 
the trust. After ten years of experi- 
ence the Carnegie Foundation real- 
ized that its past plan of operation 
.was neither feasible nor fair. It had 
accepted some 74 higher educational 
institutions out of a total of about 
400 in the United States, Canada and 
Newfoundland, and granted to these 
and some individuals of the non-as- 
sociated colleges, pensions for some 
$750,000 annually, which was very 
near its income, so that it was obliged 
to call a halt. 

The plan was unfair, as the whole 
income of the fund was paid out to 
the professors in less than 20 per 
cent, of the colleges, leaving about 80 
per cent, of the higher educational 
teachers unprotected, whereas their 
claims seemed equally valid under the 
terms of the gift. 

It was deemed advisable to change 
the whole system and a commission 
was appointed in 1916 to evolve a 
plan satisfactory to all concerned. 
This commission consisted of six 
trustees of the Carnegie Foundation, 
two appointees of the American As- 
sociation of University Professors, 
and one each from the Association 
of American Universities, the Na- 
tional Association of State Universi- 



ties and the Association of American 
Colleges. 

The commission carefully studied 
the pension systems in various coun- 
tries, especially those which had been 
in operation a long time and thus 
able to furnish reliable conclusions. 
The report of this commission, which 
was adopted by the Foundation in 
1917, showed that a free pension sys- 
tem is neither practicable, fair nor 
permanent, and the commission ac- 
cordingly has evolved an entirely 
new plan. Brushing aside all tech- 
nicalities and intricacies, the plan is 
very simple and intelligible and offers 
\o all the teachers in the colleges, uni- 
versities and technical schools in the 
United States, Canada and New- 
foundland, complete protection for 
themselves and their families against 
the shafts of outrageous fortune. 

In order to enable the Carnegie 
Foundation to carry out its new plan 
and also to satisfy the reasonable ex- 
pectations of the pensioners to whom 
it had already given allowances, the 
Carnegie Corporation, to which Mr. 
Carnegie gave 125 million dollars for 
the ''advancement and diffusion of 
knowledge and understanding," has 
come to its assistance by the gift of 
one million dollars for the capital of 
the Teachers' Insurance and. Annuity 
Company, and also eleven millions, 
which together with the Foundation's 
one million accumulation, will enable 
the Foundation to meet the liabilities 
already incurred under its old plan, 
and also renders feasible the con- 
summation of the new plan as report- 
ed by the commission and accepted 
by the Foundation in 1918. The new 
plan is just, permanent and within 
the means of every teacher, and 
should be accepted by our college 
teachers readily and without delay, 
as it gives to each individual teacher 
complete protection by a hard and 
fast contract. 

It is stated that of the young men 



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entering the teachers' profession at 
30 years of age only one-half will live 
to enjoy a retirement pension, and 
therefore the younger men are carry- 
ing more than their share of the older 
men's pensions. 

It was found that all free pension 
systems will inevitably become so 
burdensome that they eventually will 
fall of their own weight, and those 
relying upon them be disappointed, 
and therefore the only sound, perma- 
nent and comprehensive system was 
contributory, where the individual 
and the employer each contribute an- 
nually to a fund which with interest 
shall establish a pension at a certain 
age and give full protection to the 
holder and his family at all times and 
at a small cost. It was also assured 
that a teacher who expected his fam-. 
ily to be protected after his retire- 
ment, should see that they were pro- 
tected in case of his premature death 
during active service. 

The Teachers' Insurance and An- 
nuity Company has been incorpora- 
ted under the laws of the State of 
New York. At the start the stock is 
held by the Carnegie Company, but as 
soon as the participation is adequate 
this stock will be turned over to an 
organization in which the teachers 
will be fully represented. It will in 
fact be a mutual company with no 
tontine features ; that is, no advan- 
tage will accrue to anyone by the 
death of any of its members. 

The new plan is a tripartite agree- 
ment. First, the teacher pays the 
premium on his life insurance up to 
$10,000 at a net cost of the mutual 
risk, say about $60 per annum on 
$5,000; he also pays each year 5 per 
cent, of his salary towards his annual 
premium. These payments may be 
monthly, quarterly or semi-annually. 
Second, the teacher's college pays 5 
per cent, of the amount of his salary 
annually towards his annuity, which 
means an increase of his compensa- 
tion to that amount. Third, the 
Carnegie Foundation agrees to pay 
all the overhead and administration 



expenses of the company and guar- 
antees 41/2 per cent, interest on the 
annuity accumulations. It also fur- 
nishes absolutely free one million dol- 
lars for the capital and surplus of the 
company, and pays the salaries and 
all other expenses. Moreover in case 
a teacher after five years of partici- 
pation in the annuity benefit becomes 
disabled, it agrees to pay him two- 
thirds of his at that time salary for 
life or until his retiring period, 
and to carry his life insurance, with- 
out further payments of premiums by 
him. Each teacher has an individual 
contract based on age, condition and 
sex, and the annuity accumulations 
,are a personal asset, which when he 
retires will be returned in such way 
as he may elect in his contract. It 
must be emphasized that this plan is 
not elaborated by the Carnegie Foun- 
dation alone, but by a commission of 
six of its trustees and five represent- 
atives of the teachers, and has been 
approved by all parties interested. 

Mr. Carnegie expressed his idea 
when he made the initial gift in these 
words: "I have reached the conclu- 
sion that the least rewarded of all 
professions is that of the teachers in 
our higher educational institutions." 
It will be noted from previously given 
figures that this Fund amounts now 
to twenty-eight million dollars, all 
coming from Mr. Carnegie and all de- 
voted to the welfare of teachers and 
their families. It is one of the great- 
est and most praiseworthy benefac- 
tions of all times. As it is adminis- 
tered today it is detached from all 
personal influence and free from se- 
lection or favoritism. Its benefits are 
open to all teachers in our colleges, 
universities and technical schools. 
Any spirit of criticism which may 
have formerly existed should be 
eliminated and all institutions and 
teachers can now join with the man- 
agers of the Fund to forward the 
prospects of themselves and their fel- 
low-teachers, for the success of the 
new plan depends largely on a gen- 
eral acceptance of its benefits. 



LETTERS FROM THE FRONT 



A lot of us were sent from the 
42nd to the 41st Division to train 
replacements for other divisions. It 
is the Service of Supplies as distinct 
from the Zone of Advance. I was 
put in the Replacement Office and 
am connected now with the supply 
of men, being mostly around trains 
checking up and overseeing depart- 
ing groups of all sizes at all hours. 

Of course it was like leaving home 
to leave the regiment. I have the 
constant aching to get back to a 
combat division, my ambition being 
to get with a National Army regi- 
ment that needs experienced men. 
Three and a half months never fur- 
ther than two miles from the front 
line is lots of experience, including 
53 days at the front. 

Right after leaving the regiment 
I went to school and had a little of 
Plattsburg over again, though they 
weren't able to teach our crowd 
much of anything, but they did 
work us hard. I left the company 
in the line and they were in the line 
again when I got back up. That 
last shift was very hot and quite 
busy. Had four hours of real gas 
one morning from 2 to 6. There is 
lots more that is interesting about 
life at the front than back here that 
could be told, but there is consider- 
able that one is willing to forget, 
such as the gas, the prisoners (some 
17 and some 45), the shells 15 yards 
from you and the cooties. 

Edivard T. Willson, '18, 
Lieutenant Replacement Office, 41st 
Division, American Expedition- 
ary Forces. 

(Lieut. Willson went to France 
with the "Rainbow Division," 168th 
Infantry, in No\^ember of 1917, and 
was transferred to the Replacement 
Office in the summer of 1918.) 



With just a few minutes to spare, 
I want to send a word of tribute to 
old Brown and to the men who are 



regularly attending the classes at 
that true American institution on 
College Hill. During the last few 
months that I have spent in hut and 
barrack, the two years I spent on 
Brunonia's campus have meant 
more and more to me. Now and 
then, when the Brown men of the 
Rhode Island Battalion gather for a 
spirited songfest, as individuals 
each one makes stronger his resolu- 
tion to return to the student life of 
the University after laying aside the 
uniform of the U. S. A. 

These are grim days for us all. 
What makes life a joy, what makes 
it worth living, is the thought that 
we may have an opportunity to 
engage in that great work of the 
World Reconstruction Period. It 
is in that work that the Brown men 
on the Hill to-day will undoubtedly 
play an important part. All of us 
"over here" hope to be with them in 
that wonderful task. What a day 
it will be when the Englishman, the 
Frenchman, the German, the Italian 
and the American have resumed so- 
cial and economic relations ; when 
these days of bitter hate, brought on 
by over four years of bloody strife, 
will be well forgotten ; the Christian 
ideals of international feeling shall 
pervade the minds of those who are 
enemies to-day. That is the day for 
which all university men, all other 
men, must prepare. God grant them 
the desire, the mind, and the ability 
to assume those new responsibili- 
ties. 

We are all in the best of health, 
all hoping for a speedy end to this 
war. Don't have any fear! In the 
pinch. Brown men will display their 
mettle. They are ever true to the 
everlasting ideals so firmly inculca- 
ted in their minds by association 
with all that Brown stands for. 
Best of luck to you all, from a loyal 
son of Brown. 

Kenneth D. Johnson, '19, 
with Battery C, 103 Field Artillery 



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THE COLLEGE LIBRARY IN WAR TIME 



By Harry Lyman Koopman, Librarian 



Cedant togae armis. The campus is 
now Campus Martius ac Neptunius. 
Most of the college gates are closed dur- 
ing the epidemic, and the rest are 
guarded, each by a khaki-clad soldier 
with a rifle on his shoulder. Even the 
platform before the door of the John 
Hay Library is guarded from 7:15 a. m. 
to 9:15 p. m. No one may enter or 
leave the building without a pass, and this 
rule applies to the President, the Faculty, 
and the members of the Library staff as 
strictly as to the rawest recruit. One who 
has the privelege of entering the John 
Hay Library will not notice much differ- 
ence elsewhere, but in the reading room 
he will be struck either by its fullness 
or its emptiness. During the first two 
hours of the day every seat in the great 
room is filled. From 9:15 to 12 115 about 
30 seats are left vacant at the east end 
of the room for "civilian" readers. From 
12:15 to 5 p. m. the reading room comes 
near to realizing nature's abhorrence, a 
vacuum. During the two evening hours 
the room is again filled with a uniformed 
throng, to whose members, as the time 
drags by, another kind of "hay" becomes 
obviously more and more attractive. On 
the ringing of the college bell at quarter 
past the hour there is a recess of ten 
minutes. At twenty-five minutes past a 
smart sergeant calls the room to order 
and work begins again. What are the 
boys doing? The Government, in send- 
ing them to Brown and paying not only 
all their expenses but also wages, and 



EXTENSION COURSES 

Brown University will offer ex- 
tension courses this year as usual, in 
spite of war conditions. The new 
courses began in the week of Novem- 
ber 11th; each class meeting once a 
week. Those courses which count 
toward the newly established degree 
of bachelor of education will occupy 
a two-hour period. In other courses 
the lecture will be one hour in 
length. The folowing subjects are 
offered : 

English Composition, Prof. Benedict. 



giving them training that will place them 
in line for officers' commissions, demands 
that they shall have two hours of super- 
vised study for each hour of recitation. 
Hinc tllae lachrymae! This study re- 
quirement is interpreted very conscien- 
tiously at Brown. Besides the sergeant, 
who is in the room to preserve order, 
there is also, at the request of the local 
military and naval command, a member 
of the Faculty who lends the occasion 
dignity and whatever else he can that 
seems appropriate. This attendance in- 
volves a real sacrifice of time and com- 
fort for the Faculty, but it is loyally 
rendered, the list varying all the way 
from emeritus professors to instructors. 
So for most of its hours the University 
Library transforms itself into a study 
room. Even so, the presence of the books 
and magazines on the shelves of the read- 
ing room, and an academic quality in the 
atmosphere, we would fain believe, con- 
tribute something beyond and above the 
mere task-work of preparing for recita- 
tion. As for the rest, the Library is 
buying more books than ever to keep our 
scholars abreast of the vast new problems 
as well as the old ; it is paying its staff 
better salaries than ever before; and its 
committee intends that when the war is 
over, the Library shall be as thoroughly 
prepared as foresight can make it to sup- 
ply the needs of professors and students 
for information on the still more complex 
problems that will crowd in the train of 
peace. 



English Literature, Prof. Brqnson. 

Psychology — Testing Efficiency, Prof. 
Colvin. 

Modern Social Studies, Prof. Dealey. 

The Middle East, Prof. Fowler. 

Elementary Spanish, Prof. Johnson. 

Books of the World War, Prof. Koop- 
man. 

Food for the Nation at War, Prof. 
Mitchell. 

The Animal Kingdom, Prof. Walter. 

Accounting: Theory and Practice, Mr. 
G. F. Hamilton. 

Economic Problems in the World War, 
Dr. H. Hansen. 

French Conversation, M. E. R. Massey. 

Sunday School Organization and In- 
struction, Dr. E. Bratcher. 



THE BROWN BED IN FRANCE 



That the Brown University bed in 

France is serving its intended purpose is 

shown in the following correspondence. 

At least two wounded French soldiers 

have occupied and appreciated it. 

American Red Cross Military Hospital 

No. I, 

American Expeditionary Forces, 

France. 

4th January, 1918. 
Mr. Ira Barrows, 

15 Maiden Lane. 

New York City, U. S. A. 
Dear Sir : 

I am writing you to give you some 
news of the occupant of the bed so gen- 
erously endowed by Brown Universit}- at 
the American Red Cross Military Hos- 
pital No. I. It is at present occupied by 

a corporal, Clement B , 28 years old, 

in the I37eme d'Infanterie, who was 
badly wounded last October by an eclat 
d'obus at the Fort de la Malmaison. His 
left foot was fractured and he had also 
a piece of shell in his left knee. Two 
operations were necessary at the front be- 
fore he was brought to this hospital, 
where he has made great progress. He is 
most grateful for all the treatment he has 
received and is particularly so to his kind 
benefactor in America. Before the war 
he was a farmer in the Commune de 
X'^enanceau (Vendee), where he lived 
with his w'ife and small daughter. 

Trusting it will interest you to receive 

some news of the wounded soldier who 

is actually benefiting by the kindness and 

generosity of "Brown University," I am. 

Very truly yours. 



Francis J. Otis, 

Special Secretary. 

American Red Cross Military Hospital 

No. I 

American Expeditionary Forces, 

France. 

2ist June, 1918. 
Mr. Ira Barrows, 

IS Maiden Lane, 

New York City, U. S. A. 
Dear Sir : 

May I enclose herewith a few words 
of thanks from the present occupant of 
the bed so generously endowed by you 
in this hospital in the name of Brown 
University, trusting that you will be in- 
terested to hear from this grateful 
wounded soldier. 

Very truly yours, 

Francis J. Otis, 
Special Secretary. 
(Translation.) 
Sir: 

I feel genuine pleasure in writing you 
these few lines. I am a French soldier 
and have fought since 1914,1 was recent- 
ly wounded during a tight which took 
place June 3, 191 8. Following my re- 
moval from the front I have come to 
convalesce in an American hospital, 
where I am in room 262, bed No. 7. The 
bed in which I have passed comfortable 
hours is the one which belongs to you 
and which you support. 

How honored I am to find myself 
there ! I wish moreover to add my sin- 
cere thanks for your encouraging aid in 
achieving that brilliant victory. 

Un Soldat Francais. 



MR. TINGLEY'S WILL 



By the will of Samuel H. Tingley of 
Providence, Brown University receives 
$10,000. Other bequests are $100,000 to 
the city for its park system ; Rhode 
Island Hospital, $10,000; First Congre- 
gational Society, $1000; American Uni- 
tarian Society of Boston, $50,000 for 
general purposes ; Hampton Normal and 
Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., 
$2000; Tuskegee Normal and Industrial 
Institute of Tuskeegee, Alabama, $2000. 



The residue of the estate is left to the 
Providence Public Library. The will 
states that if the residue amounts to more 
than $50,000 the testator asks that it be 
utilized by the library corporation as fol- 
lows : "I should be glad to have the 
trustees of said library apply the larger 
part thereof to the purchase of land in 
some good locality and the erection 
thereon of suitable buildings to provide 
comfortable and healthful homes with 



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modern conveniences and good sanitary 
arrangements for the use of such worthy 
people who desire to hire small but com- 
fortable tenements or apartments of 
moderate size at a moderate rental, the 
incomes of such tenements and estates, 



after payment of all expenses and repairs 
necessary to maintain the same at all 
times in good order and condition, to be 
applied to the uses of the said Providence 
Public Library." 



CLASS AGENTS DISCUSS WAR FUND 



Loyal Brown men, representing classes 
from 1855 to 1918, met for dinner at the 
University Club in Providence on Monday 
evening, December 9, to lay plans for the 
raising of Brown's Emergency War Fund 
of $150,000. The meeting was marked by 
enthusiasm and earnestness. The Commit- 
tee had invited 58 representatives of the 
various classes. Of this number 55 accept- 
ed and were present at the initial meeting. 

President Faunce was present and with 
him, at the speakers' table, sat Dean Ran- 
dall and Professors Kenerson and Mead, 
representing the Faculty, Rear Admiral Ed- 
wards of the Naval Unit, General Abbot 
and Captain Borden of the Army Unit, 
Richard B. Comstock, the toastmaster of 
the evening, W. C. Wyckoff, chairman of 
the War Emergency Fund, and former Sen- 
ator Henry F. Lippitt, a class agent of 
the Fund. The class agents were seated in 
social groups about the dining-room. Be- 
tween courses, an informal quartette enter- 
tained with Brown songs and some of the 
stirring songs of the camps. 

With the dinner as a prelude, the toast- 
matser, paying a glowing tribute to Brown 
and her leadership, introduced the first 
speaker of the evening, President Faunce. 
Dr. Faunce told of the great changes which 
had taken place at Brown during the war, 
of the significance and importance of 
Brown's service, and of the problems which 
faced her as she passed the transition be- 
tween war and reconstruction. 

"Brown has gone into this war all over. 
She kept nothing back. The whole college 
said to the Government: 'How can we serve 
you? — our buildings, our teachers, our e- 
quipment, everything we have is at your 
service.' Not only did she send her stu- 
dents to the war — she went to war herself." 
He told of the contract with the Govern- 
ment, and the changes in the curriculum 
which this made necessary, the additions 
which had to be made to the teaching force 
and the resultant new expenses; then the 
sending of increment after increment of the 
student soldiers to training camps, and at 
last the demobilization of the army and 
naval units and the consequent disruption 
of a system which had been established at 
such great cost. 



He concluded by saying "Brown will lose 
more than 200 students at the end of this 
month, reducing the total to less than 400, 
the smallest number we have had since I 
was a student. You are men facing great 
problems in your business, but you are not 
facing any greater financial problems than 
your Alma Mater. Brown doesn't apologize 
to anybody, doesn't get down on her knees 
to anybody. She has gone head over heels 
into this war, but this was not done rashly, 
for the New England temperament would 
not permit that. Brown has tried to do her 
duty and I believe you will do yours." 

A telegram was read from Charles E. 
Hughes, expressing his sympathy with the 
movement at Brown and his regret at his 
inability to be present. Captain Borden, 
the next speaker, spoke of the military 
work at the University and praised the tem- 
per and spirit of Brown's student army. 
The significance of Brown's "aggressive 
adaptation" was described by Professor 
Mead. Professor Kenerson told of the war 
work which had been carried on by the En- 
gineering Department and pointed out the 
possibilities in the college for continued ef- 
fective national service. Ex-Senator Lip- 
pitt declared that Brown "is not the largest 
nor the wealthiest college in the country, 
but every decade has found it bigger and 
better. Brown University crowns the hill 
and dominates tho' city, physically and in- 
tellectually." 

The last speaker was Walter C. Wyckoff, 
chairman of the Fund Committee. Mr. 
Wyckoff reviewed the organization of the 
movement and explained the methods which, 
would be followed in the campaign. He 
expressed his enthusiastic conviction that 
the fund would be oversubscribed if the 
alumni could be convinced of the necessity 
of their generous support. 

Those who were present came away with 
a new admiration for their Alma Mater, a 
new respect for the solid loyalty of all 
Brown men, and a firm conviction that the 
War Emergency Fund would meet with 
sure success. The first meeting of the 
class agents of the Brown War Emergency 
Fund was a tribute alike to the energy and 
wisdom of the committee and the whole- 
hearted spirit of the alumni. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



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

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



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



Henry R. Palmer, Editor 
Nathaniel F. Davis, Business Manager 

Business Office, 159 Brown street 
P. O. Box 72 

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

There is no issue during August and Sep- 
tember. 

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

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

JANUARY, 1919 

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



HONORARY DEGREES 

Now that our soldiers and sailors 
are coming home, what is to be the 
attitude of the American colleges to 
them in the matter of honorary de- 
grees ? Are those who have won spe- 
cial military fame to be recognized 
by the grant of these academic dis- 
tinctions also? 

The question is one that the Alumni 
Monthly does not propose to answer. 
We merely ask it. We imagine that 
those whose business it is to grant 
honorary degrees have already taken 
it into consideration. 

The whole problem of fitting hono- 
rary degrees to achievement appears, 



however, to be involved, and is fairly 
open to discussion. Our existing de- 
grees often fail to meet existing 
needs. Here, for instance, is a man 
who has won national reputation as 
the head of a great commercial or 
transportation company. He is a cap- 
tain of industry in the best and truest 
sense. What shall the college do to 
honor him? He is not a master of 
arts in the old-fashioned meaning of 
the phrase, nor a doctor of science or 
literature or philosophy, nor of laws. 
Yet there is no other degree to bestow 
upon him. It has sometimes been 
said that there ought to be such a de- 
gree as doctor of achievement, but 
even that phrase is awkward and un- 
satisfactory. And now that we have 
a new group of distinguished alumni 
with whom to deal — heroes from the 
battlefield, what existing mastership 
or doctorate is adequate to express 
their service or our appreciation of 
it ? It seems as if a new grade of offi- 
cial honor ought to be established to 
meet this new academic emergency. 
There is also the question of hon- 
oring non-graduates. We have in 
mind a Brown man who left college 
before the expiration of his course 
and who has made a notable name for 
himself in journalism. Beside us as 
we write is a copy of a great metro- 
politan newspaper with a first-page 
dispatch from Paris- describing the 
President's magnificent reception in 
that city. The newspaper prints the 
dispatch in large type, double-leaded. 
It puts the correspondent's name con- 
spicuously at the top. The dispatch 
is well and gracefully written. It is 
a good piece of literature. And it 
represents only an ordinary day's 
work in the life of the writer. That 
is, while the occasion which it de- 
scribes is of course unique, it reaches 
no level of craftsmanship much above 
the author's daily average. We hold 
no brief for this particular corre- 
spondent, but, on looking into the 
Historical Catalogue, we are glad to 
find that, eleven years after his class 
was graduated, his degree was grant- 
ed him by special vote. What should 



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be the attitude of Brown University 
in general toward men of this sort 
who having for one or another rea- 
son left college before their diplomas 
were awarded have "made good" and 
are a credit to themselves and to us? 

And here is another aspect of the 
problem. It is oftentimes the irony 
of fate that of two men equally en- 
dowed, equally worthy of our recog- 
nition, one, by what seems the mere 
chance of fortune, attains to public 
praise while the other remains ob- 
scure and unrecognized. How shall 
the American college distinguish be- 
tween them ? Shall it accept the pop- 
ular verdict? Shall it offer its hono- 
rary degrees to the men who have ac- 
tually been elected to office, who have 
already reached some obvious goal of 
success, or shall it *'go behind the re- 
turns" and seek out the deserving 
ones who are doing good work in in- 
conspicuous places? Here again the 
Alumni Monthly does not propose to 
answer its own question. There is 
something to be said on both sides. 
If a man fails of public recognition, 
is there something lacking in his 
equipment? On the other hand, may 
not his obscurity be entirely honora- 
ble — due in part to his unwillingness 
to go about the world blowing his 
own trumpet? 

We — the editor — sometimes amuse 
ourselves contriving lists of men 
whom we would be glad to see hon- 
ored with collegiate degrees. We like 
to invent gracious phrases summing 
up their titles to recognition, follow- 
ing afar off the rhetorical precision 
and discrimination to which Presi- 
dent Faunce has so long accustomed 
us. On the whole we find ourselves 
inclining to honor those (at these pri- 
vate and mental Commencements of 
ours) who have made promising be- 
ginnings rather than those whose tal- 
ents and attainments have been uni- 
versally proclaimed. It is sometimes 
said that a man's Alma Mater is 
among the last to admit his rank 
among the immortals. We have no 
special case in mind, and certainly 
are not thinking of Brown at the mo- 



ment. But it appears to us that ev- 
ery American college ought to be 
quick to welcome Young Achieve- 
ment. This carries with it a certain 
danger. A man's early promise may 
not be fulfilled. He may never broad- 
en into more consummate greatness. 
But at least he has started on the 
high road to success. He has been 
worthy, up to a given point, of colleg- 
iate approval. And why should we 
wait until he is full of honors and 
years, when he may care little for his 
university's stamp of endorsement? 

A good many years ago, when the 
Alumni Monthly was young and 
brash, it committed a grave error 
of speech. It actually said some- 
thing of this kind: "Why not give 
an honorary degree to Isaac Nelson 
Ford?" We offer our belated apolo- 
gies to the President and Fellows. 
We even yet tingle as we remember 
the shock this impropriety of sugges- 
tion occasioned and the repercussion 
upon us. Mr. Ford, however, re- 
ceived his degree at the succeeding 
Commencement — very likely it had 
long before been decided upon; and 
one of Brown's most accomplished 
litterateurs, whose daily contribu- 
tions to the New York Tribune from 
London were wells of English unde- 
filed, was fittingly honored. 

There are no doubt at the present 
time graduates of all our American 
colleges who have not been publicly 
laurelled by their Cherishing Moth- 
ers and who at moments feel that 
they have been ungraciously neg- 
lected. We do not know by what 
methods the authorized grantors of 
degrees reach their conclusions, but 
we are of the opinion that in many 
instances there ought to be a more 
careful and systematic survey of the 
field and that suggestions from the 
alumni body should be welcomed 
when it is evident that these sugges- 
tions are not based on mere friend- 
ship or disingenuous log-rolling. 



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its activities on the basis of a definite 
system. 

When the circumstances of a gov- 
ernment agent do not dovetail per- 
fectly with this system sacrifice by 
the agent becomes necessary. 

Brown has sacrificed, to aid the na- 
tion. 

Brown's sacrifice should be taken 
by every Brown man as his sacrifice. 

Subscription to the War Emer- 
gency Fund is a splendid form of ac- 
ceptance of this fact. 



BACK COPIES WANTED 

We thank our friends who sent in 
several of the October, 1917, numbers 
of the Alumni Monthly for binding, 



as we requested. We now find that 
we are short on a few other issues 
and would be gratified to get four 
copies of the number for June, 1916 ; 
three of the January, 1917, issue and 
three of the issue of February, 1917. 

BERRIMAN'S GIFT TO BROWN 

Lieutenant Berriman,. Brown '20, 
dead on the field of honor, bequeathed 
$1000 to the Alma Mater he had 
known but for a year. 

Brown men who live in a safe and 
happier world because of the price 
paid by men like Berriman will not 
be slow to give the dollars Brown 
rmtst have to come out of the world 
war uncrippled. 



MATHEMATICS AND THE WAR 

By Professor C. H. Currier 



The Committee ^ on Education and 
Special Training established by the War 
Department has produced radical changes 
in college curricula through its regula- 
tions as interpreted by regional directors 
and enforced by a staff of inspectors. 
Thus some departments have been almost 
entirely "deleted by the censor." 

Mathematics has, however, been recog- 
nized by the Army and the Navy as a 
subject with which every officer candidate 
should be familiar. The Regional Di- 
rector for New England has in fact ruled 
that any course in Mathematics can be 
counted as an "allied subject" in the Gov- 
ernment plan. 

In addition to conducting eight classes 
in Navigation for the N. T. U., the de- 
partment has at present nineteen sec- 
tions to whom trigonometry is being 
taught. Later these students will learn 
the elements of analytical geometry and 
calculus. There are also several classes 
taking more advanced work in calculus. 
Courses for specialists in mathematics 
have been reduced in number, but not 
entirely eliminated. 

Among new courses this year is one 
on Artillery Firing Data, designed to help 



in meeting the demand for a large num- 
ber of artillery officers. This course is 
in charge of Professor C. H. Currier and 
is based on the official text-books in use 
at artillery training camps. The enroll- 
ment in the course for the first term is 
about fifty students. The army authori- 
ties at Fort Adams have promised cordial 
co-operation. 

The additional work assumed by the 
Department of Mathematics and the tem- 
porary transfer of Professor T. H. 
Brown to the Department of Naval Sci- 
ence has led to the appointment to the 
staff of four new men. They are A. B. 
Frizell (Ph. D., University of Kansas), 
formerly instructor at Harvard and other 
colleges; W. R. Burwell (Brown '15), 
Rhodes scholar at Oxford and more re- 
cently engaged in statistical work in 
Washington ; Theodore A. Cornell 
(Brown 1903), who comes from the 
Technical High School, Providence ; and 
C. R. Adams (Brown 191 8). Further 
assistance is rendered by A. H. Jones, 
Associate Professor of Logic, and John 
Shapley, instructor in Art, who are each 
giving six hours per week to the instruc- 
tion in Mathematics. 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



FACULTY 

Professor Frederick Slocum, of the 
class of 1895, who from 1900 to 1909 was 
assistant professor of astronomy at 
Brown, has returned to the University 
as professor of naval science. Professor 
Slocum has been instructor and assistant 
professor at the Yerkes Observatory, 
University of Chicago, and professor of 
astronomy at Wesleyan University. Last 
year he spent teaching under the Ship- 
ping Board at New London, Conn. . 

Herbert F. Davison, '05, formerly a 
teacher in the Pawtucket High School 
since 1908, has come to Brown as assist- 
ant professor of chemistry. 

Sidney Wilmot, '09, has been appointed 
assistant professor of applied mechanics. 

William R. Burwell, '15, has been 
appointed instructor in mathematics. Mr. 
Burwell spent one year as Rhodes scholar 
at Oxford, and since then has been in 
Washington in the Division of Statistics. 

Professor Theodore F. Collier is absent 
as a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France, and 
Professor Elmer C. Griffiths of William 
Jewell College is taking his place as act- 
ing professor of history. 

Clarence R. Johnson, '09, has been 
appointed instructor in social science. 
After graduation, Mr. Johnson spent 
three years teaching at Robert College, 
Constantinople, two years as Y. M. C. A. 
secretary in France, and one year as pro- 
fessor of French at Colby College. 

Among other appointments are: I. G. 
Smith, '18, instructor in engineering; 
F. N. Tompkins, '18, assistant in electri- 
cal engineering ; Albert E. Dillingham, 
'18, instructor in chemistry; Mrs. Ruth 
Linda Allen, instructor in English ; and 
Miss Edith V. Edwards, '16, secretary of 
the School of Education. 

President Faunce is a member of the Na- 
tional Committee of the United States for 
the restoration of the University of Lou- 
vain. 

Professor Raymond C. Archibald of 
Brown University has recently been elect- 
ed Editor-in-Chief of the American Math- 
ematical Monthly, which is the official jour- 
nal of the Mathematical Association of 
America. Professor Archibald has been 
one of the Board of Editors for the past 



two years, as well as a member of the 
Council of the Association. He is also a 
member of the Council of the Amercan 
Mathematical Society and one of the edi- 
tors of its official organ — the Bulletin of 
the American Mathematical Society The 
Mathematical Monthly is devoted to mat- 
ters of interest to teachers of Mathematics 
in colleges, and has the largest circulation 
of all mathematical periodicals in the coun- 
try. Professor Archibald is the author 
of Bulletin 1917, No. 27, of the U. S. Bu- 
reau of Education: The Training of Teach- 
ers of Mathematics. Washington, 1918. 
This forms a volume of 289 pages and sets 
forth the methods in vogue in 18 counties, 
■ Dr. H. H. York spoke on "Recent Obser- 
vations on the White Pine Blister Rust" at 
the meeting of the Massachusets Forestry 
Association, Dec. 12. 

The marriage of Professor Walter Good- 
now Everett, '85, and Miss Clara Elizabeth 
Comstock, '95, took place at the home of 
the bride, 550 Broad st., on Dec. 11. 

The Faculty have adopted the following 
resolutions: "The Faculty of Brown Uni- 
versity have learned with sorrow of the 
death of Egbert Foster Tetley, the first 
member of the teaching staff of the Univer- 
sity to give his life in the sei-vice of the 
United States during the present war. En- 
tering Brown University in 1913, Mr. Tet- 
ley received the degree of bachelor of phi- 
losophy in 1916; during the following year 
he was assistant in the Department of Arts. 
He entered the Plattsburg training camp 
in May, 1917, and won a commission as sec- 
ond lieutenant. He sailed for France with 
his regiment, the Forty-Seventh Infantry 
of the Regular Army, in May, 1918. He 
was killed in action on the tenth of August, 
near Fismes, while participating in an at- 
tack against machine-gun nests. Of stain- 
less character and attractive personality, 
Lieutenant Tetley commended himself to 
his colleagues by his steadiness and fidelity, 
his modest bearing and evenness of tem- 
perament. He was among the first to hear 
his country's summons, and offered himself 
with quiet yet intense devotion. In him 
shone clear the spirit of the young man- 
hood of America, hating war, but willing to 
make the supreme sacrifice in war for the 
sake of a just and lasting peace. To his 
memory the Faculty offer this simple trib- 
ute." 



ALUMNI 



1861 



John Williams Rogers died, Sept. 18, 
1918, at Mansfield, Mass., of heart trouble. 
He was 78 years old, having been born on 
Dec. 20, 1839, in the house in which he had 
since lived, the home of his parents, John 



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and Eliza Ann (Williams) Rogers. He was 
educated in the local schools, Pierce Acad- 
emy, Middlcboro, and Brown University. 
He entered the employ of his father, who 
founded the straw industry in Mansfield, 
and inherited his father's business interests. 
Under the name of Comey & Co. he was 
first associated with John F. and Preston 
Comey and I). E. Harding. After severing 
his relation with this firm, in about nine 
years he became associated with J. F. Co- 
mey under the same firm name. Comey & 
Co. became famous throughout the country 
in the straw industry. They had offices in 
New York and for many years did a large 
and thriving business ; and the firm still ex- 
isted at the time of Mr. Rogers's death. For 
years Comey & Co. were the industrial 
backbone of Mansfield. In his earlier life 
Mr. Rogers was a baseball enthusiast. He 
was captain of the Anawan nine, which 
once accepted a challenge to play the Tri- 
mountains on Boston Common. Some of the 
boys were without shoes and the city lads 
dubbed the team "Barefoot Rangers," but 
the Mansfield players won. Mr. Rogers 
was a lieutenant of Co. H, 7th Massachu- 
setts Regiment, in the Civil War. He was 
promoted to the captaincy while at home 
on a furlough but did not accept the pro- 
motion. He was a great hunter and fisher 
all his life, a true lover of out-of-doors life. 
After retiring from business he spent much 
time in the woods and fields, frequently ac- 
companied by his wife, who Ijefore her mar- 
riage was Miss Martha Jane Martin. Only 
a few days before his death they went on a 
fishing trip to Norton Reservoir, Mr. Rog- 
ers rowing with his accustomed skill. He 
was much interested in the Congregational 
church, although not a member. His char- 
ity was in secret and was much more exten- 
sive than was generally known. Mr Rogers 
is sui-vived by his wife and a sister, Mrs. D. 
E. Harding. In college he was president 
of his class, president of Delta Kappa Epsi- 
lon in 1861, and a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa. He left college in his senior year 
to enlist in the war, and received his degree 
while absent. After retiring from business 
Mr. Rogers was elected to the Massachu- 
setts Legislature. J. W. Comey, '98, of the 
Comey Real Estate Corporation, New 
York, wi'ites the Monthly: "He was a part- 
ner of my father for over forty years. . . 
His father, John Rogers, was one of the 
founders of the Massachusetts straw hat 
manufacture. The firm or concern there- 
fore had practically a continuous existence 
of about eighty years." 

1872 
Noble B. Judah died in Chicago, Decem- 
ber 10, 1918. His son, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Noble B. Judah, Jr., '04, is sei-x'ing in the 
American Army in France. 

1873 
Daniel Rhodes of San Diego, Cal., died 



of heart failure, Nov. 3, 1918, aged 7fi. He 
was graduated with the degree of A. B. and 
later received his A. M. He was in the 
United States military sei-vice 1864-6-5, 
reaching the rank of second lieutenant. 
He was a student at Rochester Theological 
Seminary, 1874-75, profe.s.sor of Latin at 
Central University and teacher of the high 
school at Pella, Iowa; a Sunday school 
missionary in Colorado, a civil engineer at 
Denver, and a special examiner in the Bu- 
reau of Pensions at Washington for many 
years. In college he was a member of 
Delta Upsilon. 

1875 

Henry E. Goddard died in .June, 1918, at 
Brockton, Mass., his native place and al- 
ways his home. He had been first minister 
and then doctor, and was successful in 
both profes.sions. He organized the God- 
dard Hospital in Brockton and devoted the 
best years of his life to hospital work. 
Goddard entered college in the Sophomore 
year, coming to Brown from Cornell, and 
was an enthusiastic college and class man 
always. His classmates will recall the tall, 
sedate figure, the keen and analytic mind, 
and the kindly spirit which marked him as 
a boy and continued through a long and 
unusually busy and useful Ife. 
1877 

Rev.' Patrick Whitney died, Dec. 12, 1918, 
in Toronto, Ontario, after a long illness. 
His nephew. Rev. Fr. William P. Tally, of 
St. Matthew's Church, Auburn, officiated at 
his funeral services in Toronto, and a sol- 
emn high mass of requiem was celebrated 
in SS. Peter's and Paul's Cathedral, Prov- 
idence, on Dec. 19. Rev. Fr. W^hitney was 
born in Ireland and came to Proxddence 
with his parents, the late Michael and Mar- 
garet Whitney, when a small boy. He en- 
tered Brown in 1873, graduating with the 
degree of A. B. in 1877. He was later 
awarded the degree of A. M. After gi-adu- 
ating from Brown he went to Rome and 
Genoa, whei-e he continued his studies, be- 
ing ordained to the priesthood in 1881, in 
Rome. Soon after he was assigned to the 
Archdiocese of Toronto, where he had 
since remained. While in Providence, he 
was for a time President of the old Brown- 
son Lyceum and also taught in LaSalle 
Academy. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. 
Phillip Tally of Providence. 
1881 

Charles E. Hughes is counsel for the 
Commercial Cable Co. in its injunction suit 
to prevent Postmaster General Burleson 
from assuming control of its marine cable 
system. 

1883 

Not long ago a correspondent at Camp 
Devens wrote: "There is probably no man 
in this section of the country who receives 
as frequent visual evidence of the war ac- 
tivity of the concern with which he is iden- 
tified as Lewis Dexter, a native of Provi- 



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dence and graduate of Brown University. 
Mr. Dexter is agent of the Stark Mills at 
Manchester, N. H., which since long before 
the United States entered the war have 
been engaged in the manufacture of khaki 
uniform and tent cotton fabric to the ex- 
clusion of all other material. Mr. Dexter 
takes a deep interest in the New Hamp- 
shire and particularly the Manchester con- 
tingent here as well as in the progress and 
military efficiency of the soldiers from his 
native State and city. He is one of the di- 
i-ectors of the Manchester Y. M. C. A. and 
as such keeps in touch with the work of the 
association in this cantonment." 

1884 
Hermon Carey Bumpus, president of 
Tufts College since September, 1914, has 
resigned and his resignation has been ac- 
cepted by the trustees of the college. Dr. 
Bumpus will not necessarily leave the col- 
lege at once, but it is his wish that a suc- 
cessor be elected as soon as possible, and 
certainly before the opening of the new ac- 
ademic year next September. When he is 
relieved of his duties he plans to devote 
his time to rest and study, and possibly to 
travel, in all of which directions his inter- 
ests lie, particularly in view of the fact that 
during the past four years — as trying years 
as the college has ever faced — Dr. Bumpus 
has had almost no vacation. The adminis- 
tration of Dr. Bumpus at Tufts has been 
marked by intensive rather than extensive 
growth of the college. No new departments 
have been added, no new buildings of con- 
sequence erected, and no great money-rais- 
ing campaigns inaugurated, but it is signif- 
icant that despite the financial troubles in 
which most colleges have found themselves 
during this war period, Tufts has been able 
to close each year without a deficit. It has 
been the president's aim, as expressed in 
both his speeches and his writings, to make 
the college of greater sei-vice to the com- 
munity and to its constituency. A scien- 
tist himself. Dr. Bumpus has interested 
himself in the development of new war 
courses in chemistry and biology in an ef- 
fort to have these departments contribute 
more largely to the national war cause. He 
has stood sponsor for a sharp revision of 
entrance requirements, so that the student 
of the good high school is no longer forced 
to narrow specialization in order to enter 
college. In his time, too, the medical school 
has been put partly on a graduate basis and 
the dental school course lengthened from 
three to four years. An able executive, 
President Bumpus has been as popular with 
his faculty as with his students and alum- 
ni. President Bumpus went to Tufts from 
the University of Wisconsin, where he had 
been business manager. He is a son of 
Lourin A. Bumpus, who was well known 
as city missionary of Boston, and received 
his early training in the Boston public 
schools. He prepared for college at the 



Dorchester High School. Entering Brown 
University, his tendency was toward sci- 
ences, but he won an acquaintance, often 
intimate, with officers in other branches, 
and he did not neglect "the humanities." 
Having finished his graduate work at 
Brown, he was elected professor of biology 
at Olivet College, Michigan, which position 
he resigned in order to continue his scien- 
tific work. At the founding of Clark Uni- 
versity he was made fellow, and received 
the first doctor's degree conferred by that 
institution. In the meantime the old An- 
nisquam laboratory had been moved to 
Woods Hole. Dr. Bumpus was appointed 
assistant director, and came into intimate 
relation with those who were interested in 
extending the influence of this educational 
and scientific institution now grown to be 
the leading laboratory of its kind in the 
world. In 1890 President E. Benjamin An- 
drews called Dr. Bumpus to Brown, and a 
new department was organized. Although 
nominally a department of comparative 
anatomy, intimate relations were estab- 
lished with the Rhode Island Hospital, with 
the laboratories at Woods Hole, and with 
the municipal and State governments. Thus 
the department covered a wide range of 
science, making it possible to inaugurate a 
medical preparatory course. Having had 
training in research and in administrative 
methods, with a broad and often intimate 
acquaintance with investigators through- 
out the country, Dr. Bumpus was in 1902 
made director of the American Museum of 
Natural History, a position which led to 
his appointment on the faculty of pure sci- 
ence at Columbia University. He also be- 
came connected with other organizations, 
such as the New York Academy of Sci- 
ences, the Peary Arctic Club, the National 
Audubon Society, etc. During his stay in 
New Yorkj the scientific staff of the mu- 
seum was doubled, the annual attendance 
reached a million, and the endowment was 
increased threefold. In 1911 Dr. Bumpus 
was elected business manager of the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, which position he 
held until he went to Tufts in 1914. In 
recognition of his scientific and educational 
work, President Bumpus has been made a 
member of many scientific societies. He 
has been a member of the Board of Fel- 
lows of Brown University and a truscee of 
the Marine Biological Laboratory, of the 
Biological Laboratory of Harpswell, Me., 
and was for several years a trustee of the 
Brooklyn Laboratory at Cold Spring Har- 
bor and of the Rhode Island Hospital. He 
has been president of the American Mor- 
phological society, the American Society of 
Biologists, the Rhode Island Audobon So- 
ciety, the Fourth International Fishery 
Congress and the American Association of 
Museums. He has received the honorary 
degree of doctor of science from Brown 
University and from Tufts, and the degree 
of doctor of laws from Clark University. 



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1888 

Clarence G. Hamilton, lecturer and asso- 
ciate professor of music at Wellesley Col- 
lege, publishes through the Oliver Ditson 
Company: "Piano Teaching:: Its Principles 
and Problems;" "Outlines of Music His- 
tory;" and "Sound and Its Relation to Mu- 
sic." Critics speak in high terms of these 
three books. 

1890 

Rev. Frederick E. Stockwell is minister 
of the First Presbyterian Church of Tren- 
ton, N. J. 

1893 

A wide circle of friends east and west 
were very greatly shocked to learn of the 
sudden death of ' Professor Frank A. Up- 
dyke, of Dartmouth College, on Friday, 
September 20th. Although troubled by 
heart ailments for the past year, his work 
had gone forward normally and the sum- 
mer vacation had been delightfully spent 
in war gardening and in visiting friends 
at various New England points. The ap- 
proach of college work excited pleasant 
anticipations. On the morning of the 
twentieth he remarked that he would be 
glad to take up college duties again be- 
cause he was feeling so well and so much 
like work. During the forenoon of the 
day he worked in the college library pre- 
paratory to meeting classes the following 
morning, and returned at the noon hour 
for luncheon. While preparing to sit 
down at the table he fell, and was gone 
when friends reached his side. Professor 
Updyke was born in Pennsylvania in 1866. 
At the age of twelve he was left an orphan 
and made his home thereafter with an un- 
cle and aunt for whom he cherished a fond 
appreciation through life. Through the 
friendship of Mrs. F. E. R. Linfield, whose 
husband, George E. Linfield, was principal 
of Wayland Academy at Beaver Dam, 
Wisconsin, Mr. Updyke went to Wayland 
as a student. After graduation and post- 
graduate study in that institution, he 
taught Greek there for a year or so, and 
then entered Brown University, from 
which he graduated in 1893. Having com- 
pleted his course at Brown he taught 
Greek and Latin for several years in the 
Atlanta Baptist Seminary in Atlanta, Ga., 
finally returning to Wayland Academy to 
teach Latin. Meanwhile he pursued 
courses at Brown in absentia and received 
the degree of A. M. In 1904 he returned 
to Brown University for post-graduate 
study. After spending two years there he 
went abroad to study for one year. Upon 
his return, in 1907, he received the degree 
of Doctor of Philosophy and became an 
instructor at Dartmouth College. His 
rise at Dartmouth was rapid and he was 
made a full professor two years ago. Fol- 
lowing his return from Europe he was 



invited to give a course of lectures at 
.Johns Hopkins University, which lectures 
were afterward published in book form 
under the title "The Diplomacy of the 
War of 1812." Professor Updyke's repu- 
tation as a teacher and writer in the 
sphere of political science and interna- 
tional law was continually increasing. 
Clear-thinking, comprehensive grasp, pa- 
tient eff"ort made him a recognized au- 
thority in those subjects. Professor Up- 
dyke was a splendid teacher. He possessed 
thorough knowledge. He knew how to 
express his thought. He co-operated with 
his students in such a manner as to estab- 
lish their interest in the subject, and knew 
how to demand effort on their part which 
resulted in attainment. Meanwhile he 
won the personal friendship of his stu- 
dents so that they sought the companion- 
ship of his home, in which they were made 
most welcome by both Professor and 
Mrs. Updyke. So constant were the ap- 
proaches of his students for advice on life 
problems that he was led to set aside sev- 
eral hours each week during which he 
welcomed visits and in which all sorts of 
confidences and plans were discussed. Dr. 
Updyke was a loyal Dartmouth supporter. 
He entered very conscientiously into all 
phases of college and community life. 
Through his work on Faculty committees 
he contributed largely to the life of the 
institution. He was a force gladly recog- 
nized in the religious, fraternal, social and 
athletic life of the college. Above all, he 
was great in character. He was a real 
Christian in the broadest sense of the 
term. The writer was associated with him 
in the intimacies of a very close friendship 
for more than twenty-five years and knew 
him as such relationship permitted. His 
thoughts were always pure and noble. He 
was unselfish. He possessed a strong 
faith in God and in his fellowmen. His 
plans were always those of service for 
others. He understood worship and en- 
tered therein devoutly. All who came in 
contact with him felt an inspiration to 
better things. The Christian Church,higher 
education, the state, the circle of good 
men, have all suffered great loss in the 
passing of this capable, faithful, noble 
teacher and friend. While his body rests 
beneath the protecting shade of a large ca- 
thedral pine near the college campus, stu- 
dents and friends every^vhere will work 
with a loftier spirit and a wider outreach 
because he lived. 

Peter C. Wright 

Hartford, Conn., October 10. 

Col. Archibald C. Matteson was marshal 
of the Britain's Day parade in Providence, 
Dec. 7. 

Rev. Edwin Bailey Dolan has resigned 
the pastorate of the First Baptist Church 
of Holyoke, Mass., to become the general 
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Massachusetts Baptist Convention. He en- 
tered on his new duties Oct. 1. 
1894 

Major George Warren Gardiner has been 
transferred to Camp Greenleaf, Ga., where 
he is chief of the Surgical Service of Evac- 
uation Hospital 48. Mrs. Gardiner (a for- 
mer special student at Brown) has been 
staying at Chattanooga, Tenn., in order to 
be near him. 

1898 

Miss Gladys Locke and Charles H. 
George, 2nd, were married recently by the 
Rev. Edward Holyoke of Calvary Baptist 
Church of Providence, the home of the 
bridegroom's father, James Augustus 
George, 98 Bowen street. Mr. and Mrs. 
George will live at 218 Medway street. 
Providence. The Providence News says: 
"As a society note, the above is all that is 
necessary, and if Charley George had his 
way the story would end there with a one- 
line head. To the general every-day sort 
of person in Providence, the article means 
little and probably should be relegated to 
the Woman's Page. To insurance men and 
brokers about the city, it means a lot. To 
the Brown grads and former members of 
athletic teams on the hill it is a mountain 
of information. It means that Charley 
George, the genial fellow who led the cheer- 
ing for every Brown team since 1896 up to 
a few years ago, is after a little cheering 
himself. Every Brown man everywhere 
will stop a minute when he reads this and 
give a cheer for the cheerer. Charley's 
bride is the daughter of the Rev. Edward 
E. Locke of Bass River, Nova Scotia, but 
she has been a resident of Providence for 
the last eight years. Mr George is con- 
nected with E. L. Wilson & Co., insurance 
brokers in the Industrial Trust Company 
building. The wedding was a quiet family 
affair, Charley being a modest sort of fel- 
low. The couple were unattended." 
1899 

Freeman Putney, Jr. has a short story 
in the All Story Weekly for December 7th, 
entitled Widow Griscom's Return. 

At the New Jersey State High School 
Conference, held on Nov. 22-23, at the 
State University of New Jersey, New 
Brunswick, Mellinger E. Henry of Dickin- 
son High School made the opening address 
of the discussion: "Urgent Reforms in the 
Teaching and Administration of English," 
Mr. Henry was appointed a member of the 
executive committee of the Association of 
English Teachers. 

Arthur H. Blanchard has been elected 
President of the American Road Builders' 
Association and also President of the Na- 
tional Highway Traffic Association. 

Warren Bigelow is now Major, A. G. D., 
160th Depot Brigade, Camp Custei-, Mich. 

The death of Edward S. Hanson at Taun- 
ton, Mass., is reported. 



Russell Crosley Lowell, an instructor and 
department head in science and mathemat- 
ics in Technical and English High Schools 
in this city for the past 17 years, has been 
appointed Director of Vocational Educa- 
tion in the schools of Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. 
Lowell graduated from Brown with the de- 
gree of mechanical engineer, and, after 
preparation for teaching, went to the Tech- 
nical High School in 1901, where he became 
head of the mathematics and science de- 
partments. Later he held the same positions 
at English High School. He has served as 
president of the Providence .Engineering 
Society and chairman of that organiza- 
tion's committee oh vocational education. 

1902 
Dr. Charles A. Reese and Mile. Gabrielle 
de Sere de Lanauze were married at Cha- 
teau de Cadillac, near Bordeaux, on October 
29th. Dr. Reese has been engaged in medi- 
cal service in France since March, 1917. 

1903 adv. 
V. S. Babasinian has been granted leave 
of absence by Lehigh University, to be en- 
gaged in research on gases used in chemi- 
cal warfare. His work is in The Research 
Division of The American University Ex- 
periment Station at Washington, D. C, and 
his address in that city is 4131 Harrison st. 

1904 

B. H. Buxton has been cited for bravery 
at Chateau Thierry and made captain in ^ 
the 103d Machine Gun Battalion. 

Charles W. Hunt is at present living at 
531 W 124 St., New York City. He is vice 
principal of the Horace Mann School and 
instructor in Education in Teachers' Col- 
lege. Both these institutions are a part of 
Columbia University. A daughter, Marga- 
ret, was born June 9, 1918. 

1905 
Mr. and Mrs. William Arnold Spicer of 
Providence announce the birth of a son, 
William Arnold Spicer, Jr., on Dec. 14. 

1906 
Professor Herbert E. Cory of the En- 
glish Department, University of California, 
has been granted sabbatical leave of ab- 
sence to serve on the War Labor Policies 
Board, Department of Labor, Washington, 
D. C. While Professor Cory's vocation is 
the teachng of English, he has had as his 
avocation for a number of years the inten- 
sive study of labor problems. He will live 
during the winter and spring in Baltimore, 
going to and fro to Washington, and his 
address, while in the East, will be in care of 
Dr. Trigart Burrow, "The Tuscany," 40th 
St. and Stony Run Lane, Baltimore, Md. 

1908 

At last reports S. S. Winslow was a cap- 
tain in the Coast Artillery, Regular Army,, 
and adjutant of the Coast Artillery garrison! 



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at Fort Mills, Corregidor, Philippine Isl- 
ands. . . 

Wade C. West holds a commission as 
captain of engineers in the Officers' Re- 
serve Corps and at last accounts was chief 
engineer of the Bureau of Public Works 
of the Philippine Islands. His address was 
602 Tennessee st., Manila, P. I. 
1909 

Edwin B. Mayer, Captain Q. M. C, Hous- 
ing and Health Division, War Dept., Wash- 
ington, was assistant to the director of the 
Bureau of Exports of the War Trade Board 
for nine months after we entered the war, 
but lately resigned to accept his present po- 
sition. His address is 310 Willard courts, 
Washington, D. C. 

John W. Mayhew was for some time first 
lieutenant of the Philippines Constabulary. 

William P. Dodge is a captain in the Ord- 
nance Department at Washington. 
1910 

On September 30, 1918, George Luther 
Pierce died at his home, 3181 Pawtucket 
ave.. East Providence. His death was due 
to pneumonia, following an attack of influ- 
enza. He was a member of the Second 
Baptist Church of East Providence, of the 
St. Andrew's Lodge of Masons, and of the 
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. He was em- 
ployed in the traffic engineering depart- 
ment of the Providence Telephone Com- 
pany. He leaves a wife, Ruth Brooks, and 
a two-year-old son, George Raymond. 

John H. Forrist, teacher of English in 
Technical High School, died at his home, 
19 Stanwood st., Dec. 1, from pneumonia, 
following an attack of influenza. He was 
in his 31st year and had been ill only a 
week. Funeral sei-vices were held at the 
home of his wife's mother, Mrs. William 
R. Babcock, 145 Lexington ave., Dec. 5, 
Rev. J. H. Robinette, assistant rector of 
Grace Church, officiating. Burial was at 
Foxboro, Mass. Mr. Forrist was graduated 
from Technical High School in 1906 and 
remained at Brown a year to get an A. M. 
degree. During the years from 1909 to 
1912 he had been instructor at Technical 
High School, and after a year at Pawtuck- 
et High School returned to Technical. 

Second Lieutenant Edward S. Spicer, 
Quartermaster Corps, is at present detailed 
at the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. 
C, in connection with the experimental 
woolen research laboratories. 
1912 
E. O. Adams is in the Field Artillery 
Central Officers' Training School at Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky. 

1914 
Reginald Poland, son of Professor W^. C. 
Poland, '68, has received his commission as 
first lieutenant. 

1915 
For the past two years Harold L. Wilson 
has been living in Paris, Texas, travelling 
most of the time in the States of Oklaho- 



ma, Louisiana and Texas. During this time 
he has been, he says, completely out of 
touch with Brown, and he adds: "I can as- 
sure you that upon my removal north it was 
a treat to find the Alumni Monthly coming 
in regularly. I don't recall having sent 
you my check in some time so am enclosing 
it in order to insure a continuation of a 
pleasant hour each month with the Alumni 
Monthly." His address is now 114 Madison 
ave., Youngstown, O. 

Harold T. Eaton was married in April to 
Miss Ruth Young of Providence. He is in 
naval work with an office at 280 Broadway, 
New York, and has been in charge of men- 
tal tests for officers at Columbia Univer- 
sity. 

S. K. Mitchell is in the 304th Supply Train 
at Camp Meade, Md. 

H. N. Nicholas is in the lOlst Regiment, 
Co. A, of the Engineering Corps, France. 

W. H. Preston is in the 321st Field Artillery 
at Camp Gordon, Ga. 

H. L. Quimby is in Co. B, 33rd Engineers, 
at Camp Devens, Mass. 

R. E. Quinn is reported overseas. Data 
incomplete. 

F. J. Rogers is in the U. S. N. R. F. at the 
Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I. 

J. S. Roney is master senior engineer of the 
412th Engineers' Detachment, Camp Sher- 
man, O. 

1916 

George F. Johnson has received his com- 
mission as lieutenant after a year's service 
in France, where he was at last accounts. 
He was captain of the Browm baseball team, 
1915 and 1916. 

Wilbour E. Saunders was ordained to 
the ministry in Em.manuel Baptist Church, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 25. He has applied 
for a chaplaincy in the army, and pending 
his appointment is acting as assistant pas- 
tor and director of religious education of 
the church in which he was ordained. The 
ordination sermon was preached by Rev. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D. Following 
his graduation from Brown, Mr. Saunders 
took a post-graduate course at Columbia 
University, where he was awarded the 
mat:ter of arts degree last June. While at 
Brown he was captain of the debating 
tf^am anc won his "B" as a member of the 
relay team. 

1917 

Word was received in October that Hugh 
W. MacNair of Houghton, Mich., had been 
severely wounded in action in France. Mac- 
Nair was a member of the American Am- 
bulance Sei-vice and he wears the Croix de 
Guerre, silver star, for bravery and gallan- 
try in battle, awarded last spring. He was 
at last accounts in a hospital at Pierrefonds, 
France, and had cabled his father, who is 
President of the Michigan Callege of 
Mines, that he was resting comfortably. 
MacNair entered the Ambulance Service 



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immediately after graduation, serving first 
with the French Army, and later with the 
American troops when they arrived in num- 
bers. He is a member of the Zeta Psi Fra- 
ternity. 



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1912 



Major E. H. Catlin, U. S. A., Retired, 
writes from Hill, N. H., under date of Nov. 
23: "I regret to inform you of the death of 
my daughter Marion who was married May 
29 to Rev. J. A. Stanfield of Yorktown 
Heights, N. Y., at which place she died Oct. 
7, 1918, of influenza and pneumonia. 



NOTES OF THE MONTH 

Ten churches of Providence have united 
in presenting to Brown University a series 
of vesper services. They are held in the 
First Baptist Meeting House once a month, 
on Sunday afternoon at 5.00 p. m. At the 
first service, held on Sunday, November 
24th, the speaker was Dr. W. S. Rainsford 
of New York. The churches joining in 
these services are the Central Baptist, First 
Baptist, Beneficent Congregational, Central 
Congregational, First Congregational (Uni- 
tarian), Union Congregational, All Saints', 
Grace, St. John's and Mathewson Street 
Methodist. 

The annual meeting of the University 
Corporation was held Nov. 13. Routine 
business was transacted. 

The monthly luncheon of Brown Univer- 
sity alumni in Washington, D. C, was held 
on Thursday, November 21st. Twenty- 
two Brown graduates were present. Ar- 
thur D. Call, '96, presided and a telegram 
was read from President Faunce. 

A seventy-five foot signal mast, the gift 
of Mrs. Oliver Iselin, has been presented 
to the Naval Unit of Brown Univei'sity. 
The mast arrangement, with all special at- 
tachments, was designed by Nathaniel B. 
Herreshoflf, the leading yacht designer of 
the world. 

The students of Brown University sub- 
scribed to the recent United War Work 
Fund $8300. At the Women's College over 
$1500 was raised. It is hoped to bring the 
entire student subscription up to $10,000. 



AS TO A PEACE LEAGUE 

A Brown graduate sends home a letter 
from which we are permitted to quote as 
follows: 

"The French are beginning to realize 
that peace has been declared, but they have 
breathed an atmosphere of war so long 
that life seems abnormal to them now. 
They ar§ all fearful of what will come of 
the peace conference. They all say that 
it is only a question of time before the 



Germans will sweep down on them again, 
for that is a habit that the Germans have 
had since the beginning of history. I have 
talked with a number of Frenchmen about 
the future in Europe, and what they say 
makes me realize that we in America were 
wholly ignorant, as a nation, of the forces 
that are at work within countries. No 
Frenchman with whom I have talked, and, 
for that matter, no American, has any con- 
fidence in the idea of a league of nations 
to enforce peace, as a practical proposi- 
tion. The total failure of the concert of 
Europe of not so many years ago, and the 
great number of attempts that have been 
made through international agreements to 
end war, — attempts that have been nothing 
more than attempts, and also the warlike 
nature of the German people, — all these 
things lead the French to believe that they 
must lay aside their fine arts of peace and 
do what they can to save the lives of their 
women and children and drive out a strong 
invader every once in a while. 

"We are all asking, 'When do we go 
back to the United States,' but there is no 
answer yet. If we are out of France in six 
months' time we will be lucky, for there 
will be thousands here at that time. Each 
man wants to be the first one home." 



TO A SEA GULL 

Born 'neath the bank on the wild seashore, 

Thy lullaby the ocean's roar. 

Thy cradle was a wind-rocked nest. 

Thy christ'ning spray off the billow's crest. 

Soon gone away for life to roam. 
The sea and the sky alike thy home. 
Thy gentle heart by no care opprest. 
Thy manna strewn o'er the ocean's breast. 

Fain would my spirit mount with thee 
To share thy white- winged liberty, 
Aloof from worry and man's complaint, 
Circling the heavens without restraint. 

Robert P. Brown 
Edgartown, 1918 



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