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Professor Wilson, has issued an invi- tation for nominations for vacancies in the board of trustees. Three Baptist vacancies exist at the present time. They have been occasioned by the election of Rev. Henry S. Burrage, D. D., to the board of fellows at the annual meeting of the corporation last September, by the death of James G. Batterson, A. M., in Sep- temiier, and by the death of Stephen Greene, Ph. B., in November. Nominations should be made before the twenty-fourth instant. ^ The New Early in April the wooden Fence fence bordering the campus along Prospect street was re- moved, preparatory to the erection of a substantial and ornamental fence of stone and iron. Thus far twenty-one sections of the fence have been spoken for. Some of these, however, may take the form of a gateway. At this writing seventeen sec- tions have been contracted for. I'he class of Seventy-Si.x, the class to which Mr. VanWickle, the donor of the new gateway and administration building, belonged, is to erect two sections of the fence, one on each side of the memorial gift of their classmate. The following classes will also be represented by sections of the new fence : Eighteen Hundred and Twelve, Thirty-Si.x, Forty-Six, Forty-Nine, Fifty- Eight, Si.xty-Four, Sixty-Six, Seventy-Two, Seventy-Seven, Eighty, Eighty-One, Eighty- Two, Eighty-Six, Eighty-Nine, Ninety-One, Ninet3'-Two, Ninety-Three, Ninety-Four, and Nineteen Hundred and One. Several of these sections are to be erected as memorials. Workmen are at present engaged in put- ting in the foundations for the posts, and some sections will be erected before com- mencement. Professor Delabarre Professor Edmund Granted a Year's B. Delabarre has Leave of Absence "^f " S""'*^^ '"^^^'^ of absence for the academic year 1902-03. This will be Dr. Delabarre's first free period for extended study since his appointment .is professor of psychology in i8gi. Brown For some time many of the under- Dinner graduates have had in mind the idea of having a college dinner at which alumni, undergraduates and stu- dents intending to enter Brown might meet. A committee, consisting of three seniors, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen, has been appointed by their respective classes to make arrangements for a banquet to be given in Sayles Hall, Saturday evening, May loth. H. Anthony Dyer, '94, will be the toast- master and President Faunce, Professors Langdon and Meiklejohn, former Professor Hammond Lamont, Hon. Rathbone Gard- ner, '77, and Howard .\. Coffin, '01, are to speak. The banquet promises to be an event of unusual interest. It will un- doubtedly be full of college spirit and en- thusiasm. The dinner will be served at 7.30. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance of alumni. The price of a plate is $1.50. Tickets are to be obtained from Thomas Burgess, 6 Slater Hall, Brow'n University. The committee having the banquet in their charge consists of Thomas Burgess (chairman), I. Southworth, A. D. Dudley, 1902 ; H. A. Mackinney (treasurer), H. B. Grose, Jr., 1903 ; R. G. Martin, C. F. Savage, 1904; and H. F. Hatch, W. A. Spicer, 1905. Alumni Reunion The fifteenth annual at Fall River reunion of the Sons of Brown of Fall River was held February 28th at the t^ueque- chan Club, thirty-nine being seated at the tables which were beautifully decorated with flowers. After attention to the menu, the president of the club, Edward S. Adams, '79, invited all to join in singing Alma Mater and then introduced President Faunce who was received with rousing cheers. The president spoke of the pro- posed new buildings, the future of the col- lege and the changes in required languages and invited suggestions and criticisms from the alumni. Professor Manatt spoke of the desira- bility of continuing Greek and gave an. interesting talk. Rev. W. W. .Adams, President of the V\'illiams Club of Fall River, was a guest and heartily endorsed the remarks of Professor Manatt. Hon. George Grime, '86, the first mayor of Fall River who has been a Brown man, spoke The Brown Alumni Monthly 191 of the desirability of the cooperation of college men in municipal affairs. Rev. Albert G. Upham, D. D., '74, who has just been settled over the First Baptist Church of Fall River, was a guest and made an address. Among other speakers were Hon. John S. Brayton, '51, Joseph D. Milne, "77, and Rev. Elliott F. Studley, '93. The speeches were interspersed with many college songs and notwithstanding a severe storm the usual Brown enthusiasm made a very successful evening. The officers of the Sons of Brown of Fall River for 1901-1902 are as follows: — President — Edward S. .\dams, '79 ; vice- president — Everett B. Durfee, '84; secre- tary — John P. Gage, '92 ; treasurer — John R. Ferguson, '94 ; executive committee — Dr. Charles W. Connell, '81, Charles J. McCreery, "86 and George H. Sweet, '95. "Other Days The editorial board of at Brown" the proposed book of Brown stories and tradi- tions has been receiving contributions for the book. It wishes to request that manu- scripts be sent to Professor Walter C. Bron- son, Brown University, (the chairman of the board of editors), before July i, 1902. Annual Address Professor Hugo ^lun- before the Phil- sterberg of Harvard osophical Club L-niversity, delivered the annual address be- fore the Philosophical Club in Sayles Hall, Monday evening, April 14th. In opening he stated that the main thing he wished to impress upon his hearers was the necessity of a;sthetic training in the schools. He then proceeded to contrast very effectively the attitudes of science and art. It is the duty of science to describe and arrange the elements of life and to show their connection with each other and with life as a whole. The great goal of science is to show that the world is a connected whole. While the mission of science is to teach connection, the mission of art, on the other hand, is isolation. Objects must be sepa- rated from every possible connection to be considered from an aesthetic point of view. To derive satisfaction from a thing of beauty we should consider it by itself, just as it is. In looking upon a piece of statuary we consider only what we have before us, and not what the effect might have been had the work been differently done. So in reading a great drama we should study the play itself, with little reference to sources or to the possibilities of the story had it been continued beyond the fall of the curtain. We cannot, however, think of a man or a beauty of nature entirely alone and out of their connections. They must be transformed, and this transformation is the work of art. In dealing with natural objects, neither extreme realism nor ex- treme idealism is justified in art. Art must differ from the objects which it portrays only as its isolates them from their con- nection. The idea of continuity is contra- dictory to the meaning of art. The unity of meaning of a work of art involves com- plete harmony of content and form, and its harmony is the truth. Professor Miinsterberg closed his lec- ture with an eloquent appeal for festhetic education. He emphasized the fact that satisfaction, repose and happiness are the great ends of the entire struggle of life, and that the only method of attaining these in any great degree is to open the minds and eyes of the people to the beautiful. ■Ji Representatives President Faunce re- from Brown presented Brown at the inauguration of Profes- sor Nicholas Murray Butler as president of Columbia University, April 19th. Professor W. Whitman Bailey has been appointed as delegate to represent the uni- versity at the centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point next month. Dr. Bailey's father was pro- fessor of chemistry and mineralogy at West Point from 1S36 to 1857. Opening of New Van Wickle Hall, the Administration new administration build- Building "^S- '^ f^^' approaching completion and will be ready for the inspection of the alumni dur- ing the commencement season. A recep- tion is to be held in the building on Tues- day afternoon of commencement week. This will come early in the afternoon so as not to interfere with the attendance at the annual meeting of the Associated Alumni at four o'clock. 192 The Brown Alumni Monthly Chronicle of the Campus Junior Week Through the efficient work of the "junior week" committee, junior week this year was a great success. All the festivities were carried through as planned. Monday afternoon, April 21st, the junior class society, Pi Kappa, gave its second annual farce and a tea in the Lyman Gymnasium. This was a notable society affair and afforded great amusement and pleasure. On Monday evening, the mu- sical clubs gave a most acceptable concert. The playing of the banjo and mandolin clubs was of very high order, and the singing of the glee club was excellent. Mr. White, the leader of the glee club, is to be congratulated upon the excellent results of his capable leadership. Follow- ing the concert a very enjoyable informal dance was held in the gymnasium. Tuesday, the 22nd, was no less success- ful than Monday. In the afternoon the dramatic club gave its first annual play, " Our Boys." The actors showed the careful training they had put in for the performance. No one part was much more prominent than another, so all the men had a chance to shine. Before the play began a one-act farce entitled " What Came of It," written by Krause, '01, and Grose, "03, was given. The debate Tues- day evening completed the success of the day. In a spirited contest the three Brown debaters overcame the men from Syracuse. The men from Syracuse were more orator- ical in their presentation of their argu- ments than our 'men. Nevertheless, the clear, forcible, persistent arguments put up by Horton,'o2, Haslam,'o2, and Bakeman, '03, were too much for their opponents and the victory was awarded to Brown. The subject for the debate was " National Con- trol of Trusts." The only event of the entire week which was unsuccessful in its outcome, was the baseball game on Wednesday afternoon, the 23rd. Brown lost to Wil- liams through lack of ability to hit Law- rence, and a combination of hits on the part of Williams and errors on the part of Brown. The game was an interesting one to watch with the exception of the first inning. The festivities of the week were brought to a fitting close by a junior promenade on Wednesday evening. About ten o'clock dancing began in Sayles Hall, and lasted until two. The music, fur- nished by Reeves' Orchestra, the tasty decorations, and an excellent dance-order, all combined to make the " Prom " this year the best that has ever been held at Brown. Annual Report of Young Men's Christian Association The General Secretary of the College Young Men's Christian Association has just issued a neatly printed report of the work of the organization for the year, March, 1901, to March, 1902. Under the report of the religious meet- ings department appears the list of " Life- work " topics which have been unusually interesting and have attracted an average attendance of fifty students. These meet- ings have been addressed by representative men such as President Faunce. Bishop McVickar, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. Rath- bone Gardner, President Nathan E. Wood of Newton, and Dr. Whitmarsh. The membership is reported as being the largest in the histoiy of the associa- tion. The total number, which is 344, is distributed as follows : Facult)', t,^ : gradu- ates, 12 ; seniors. 57 : juniors, 44 : sopho- mores, 93; freshmen, 100, and contri- buting members, 5. Three Bible study classes have been maintained with a total enrollment of seventy-six, and a mission study class has also been conducted. The missionary committee report a contribution of nearly S200 to the work of that department, and the city missions commutee have conducted a large number of meetings in the city. The employment bureau, a compara- tively new committee of the association, presents a notable report. Over one hun- dred students have been given either temporary or permanent employment through this bureau, receiving a total of S3, 200 in remuneration. The Brown Alumni Monthly 193 The new building is also discussed at length, and the report informs us that $7,468.50 have been pledged by 552 students. This sum, together with sums held in trust by the association as the result of a previous canvass about ten years ago, give a total of about §9,500. The Liber Brunensis The Liber Brunensis made its appear- ance early this year. It was issued in the early part of .-Vpril. The book is much like its immediate predecessor. It is said that the ■' grinds " are of more than usual severity. The design of the cover is un- usually fine. The title is in old English gilt letters on a brown background and below the title appears the university seal stamped in brown, gilt and white on a rib- bon of white which bears the numerals " 1902." The drawings throughout the book are of a high grade. The publication is a credit to its editors. The Six O'clock League A series of early morning baseball games on Lincoln Field, between representatives of different dormitories and different fra- ternities was begun April 2nd. The games afford an excellent opportunity to men who have not been admitted to " varsity " prac- tice for gaining experience in the game. The Sepiad The students of the Women's College have decided to issue the Si'/'iaii four times a year instead of nine. The four numbers will contain fully as much material as is now published in a year's file, and probably each copy will be three times the size of the present number. New Members of Phi Kappa Psi The following have been initiated into Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity recently established in the college : William Lewis Roberts, '03, Robert Forster, '05, Willard Bavbev Atwell. 04' Edward Staples Smith, '05, and Walter Percy Meredith, '05. Readings at Pembroke Hall Madame Selma Goldzier of New York gave the following readings in Pembroke Hall : March 20th, Sudermann's "Nodga,"' in German ; March 27th, selections from German masterpieces ; April 3rd, Tenny- son's " Knoch Arden," in English, with the musical accompaniment composed by Richard Strauss. Rooms for Fraternity Spreads The rooms for fraternity spreads on class day have been chosen with the fol- lowing results : Delta Kappa Epsilon, Gymnasium ; Delta Upsilon, 5 University Hall ; Delta Tau Delta, Sears Reading Room ; Alpha Tau Omega, Wilson Hall, second floor ; Phi Kappa Psi, 2 Wilson Hall, first floor ; Phi Kappa, Manning Hall; Beta Theta Pi, 6 University Hall; Kappa Sigma, 23 University Hall. The Musical Clubs During the month of April several con- certs were given by various combinations of men from the musical clubs. On April 2nd the glee quartette and reader appeared at Somerset, Mass. On April 4th the quar- tette had an engagement at Pawtucket. On April 8th and 9th a trip was taken into Massachusetts by the following eight men : Schloss, Ward, Otis, Barstow, Paige, White, Cady and Lawton. They gave concerts at Mattapoisett and Marion. April 15th the '' Southern Club " of twelve men appeared at the Fourth Baptist Church of Providence, and on April 17th at Franklin Falls. N. H. A grand combined concert took place April 2 I St in Sayles Hall. New Tennis Court The Tennis Club has recently appropri- ated Sioo for the purpose of making two new courts on Manning Street near the old ones. Work will be begun on these new ones immediately and they will be ready for use in a short time. The older courts have been repaired and put in shape and may be used at any time now. With these improvements and more ample accommoda- tions, tennis will be much more generally enjoyed than formerly. Colby Academy Club On Monday evening, April 9th, the Colby Academy Club held its annual meet- ing and elected the following officers : President, Murray H. Cann, '03 ; secretary, Arthur E. Brown, '03 ; treasurer, James H. Duncan, '04. A number of the members of the club attended the meeting of the Colby Academy Alumni Association held at the Quincy House, Boston, on the suc- ceeding Thursday evening. Basketball News At a meeting of the basketball team March 31st Paul C. DeWolf, '05, was elected captain for the next year, and Fred Schwinn, '05, manager. Both men come from the Newark High School where they were prominent in baseball and football. 194 The Brown Alumni Monthly THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the graduates of Brown University Brown Alumni Magazine Co. ROBERT P. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R. I. Subscription price, Si oo a year. Single copies, Ten Cents. Address all communica Address 3 , Brown University, Providence, R. I. There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post office as second-cla ADVISORY BOARD William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry K. Poktek, '60, Pittsburg, Pa. Fean'cis Lawton, '6q, New York, N. Y. Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence. V. Ke ■ UPTor C. M .EN, '72, Boston, Mass. '75, Providence. EE, 'So, Providence. iS, 'S2, Somerville, Mass. ',S7, New York, N. Y. MAN, 'qz, New York, N. VTTESdN, 'q3, Provideoce. HENRY R. PALIVJER, '90. Editor JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor THERON CLARK, '95, Business Manager May, 1902 DEBATING AT BROWN The continued interest and success in debating at Brown deserves the attention and merits the appreciation of the alumni. The victory over the Syracuse team at the debate on April twenty-third was the fifth consecutive victory won by the Brown "varsity" teams. Few colleges can present such a record. For the past two years Brown has been uniformly successful, hav- ing won each year in debates with Dart- mouth and with Boston University. This year debates have been arranged for be- tween Brown and Syracuse, and Brown and Dartmouth. The Dartmouth debate is scheduled for May twentieth. In deliver- ing the decision of the committee of judges at the recent debate with Syracuse, Bro- fessor T. N. Carver of Harvard l^niver- sity, the chairman of the judges, stated that the debate that evening was the finest he had ever listened to. How this would have delighted the late President Robin- son, who, throughout his term of the presi- dency, was prone to deplore the absence of this intellectual form of collegiate activity! In order to successfully maintain this form of collegiate activity the undergradu- ates need the assistance and support of the alumni. It is not so much their finan- cial support which is needed, for the debat- ing teams are not nearly as e.xpensive as the athletic teams, as it is their cooperation. The e-xcellent record of the "varsity" de- bating teams at Brown is due to a consid- erable extent to the assistance which some of the faculty and the alumni have ren- dered. Several of the faculty have given their time lavishly to coaching the teams, and the unusual success of the debating teams is due in no small measure to their efforts. The alumni have also been of great assistance. Last year on two occa- sions some of the younger alumni formed themselves into a second team, prepared a debate against the "varsity" team and af- terwards offered valuable criticisms and sug- gestions on matters of argument and pres- entation. Of course this service of the alumni to the undergraduates demands the expenditure of considerable time and effort. But it is a genuine service which they may render to the intellectual life of the university. Debating is not as popular a form of college activity as football or baseball, and it needs, and should receive, the hearty and genuine support of the alumni. On Saturday evening. May 17th, the team which is to debate with Dartmouth will hold a practice debate in Manning Hall. It will be the last practice debate and it is hoped that a team of alumni will be present and assist. PEMBROKE'S OPPORTUNITY Pembroke Hall, the Women's College of the university, has a great opportunity for growth in the next few years, provided its financial resources are sufficiently increased. The Brown Alumni Monthly 195 'l"he women's colleges of New England are all growing, Pembroke among them, and more women will seek the higher education in the future than have sought it in the past. Yet, there is no such institution in the southern part of New England except Pem- broke, unless Wesleyan comes in the list' and there, by recent legislation, the propor- tion of women to men has been severely restricted. Only a certain small percentage of the whole number of students at Wes- leyan hereafter can be women. Co-educa- tion is frowned upon at Middletown, while Pembroke and Radcliffe, whose students have a separate college life, are forging ahead in numbers and influence. Pembroke should draw many students from southeastern Massachusetts, from Rhode Island, and from Connecticut. These constitute her special field and she should cultivate it before any other women's college is established within its borders. Now is the time for Pembroke to acquire a strong graduate and undergraduate hold in the region south of a line drawn east and west through Providence from the Atlantic to the Hudson. Barnard, at New York, has just added half a million dollars to her endowment ; Pembroke should have an equal amount. With the equipment that would then be possible, the college would establish its supremacy beyond question in its natural geographical field. END OF VOLUME TWO It does not seem a very long while since the Brijwn Alumni Monthly began its existence. It was an eight page pamphlet, without pictures, with scanty advertising and with very few subscribers. For several months it suffered the lack of a lucrative advertising patronage. This, fortunately, is now being built up under the progressive management of Mr. Brown, who has taken a generous interest in the magazine from the beginning. We should be glad to double our advertising pages, but we are grateful for what they yield us and for the loyalty to the Monthly that their acquisi- tion and assemblage represents. While our subscription list ought to be longer if we are to do the best possible work for Brown, it has grown steadily until it now contains 1200 names of paying readers. Almost all our subscribers are graduates of Brown, scattered through most of the states of the union and in several foreign countries. The sun never sets on the Alumni Monthly now, for it goes to the four corners of the earth. By the close of another volume, we hope, we shall have 2000 graduates of Brown among our sub- scribers. We feel that we might have as many as that now if we could reach the great body of alumni in a personal inter- view. One dollar a year is not a large price for a Brown man to pay for the sake of keeping in touch with the college. It has been an up-hill task to reach the alumni. But the list of subscribers has grown slowly and surely, and most of those who have joined in our efforts have be- come staunch friends of the magazine. Several of the alumni have been very thoughtful and have subscribed for five or more copies, giving instructions to send the extra copies to classmates who are not subscribers. This is a two-fold act of kindness, inasmuch as it helps and en- courages the workers for the magazine and at the same time confers a pleasure on some of the alumni who otherwise might not see the magazine. This year we have printed forty more pages than we printed during the first year. We have come into closer contact with the alumni and have marked a continually more cordial support. From the first, the greeting extended to us has been respectful and sympathetic, but we note a greater readiness now among alumni to take the initiative in helping us and the stirring of what we believe to be a new and more de- voted college spirit. To nourish this is the Monthly's sole reason for being. Its thought and hope centre in Brown. 196 The Brown Alumni Monthh The Department of Drawing DRAWING was introduced into the curriculum of Brown University in 1850 when William A. Norton, A. M., was appointed professor of natural philosophy and civil engineering and offered a course described in the catalogue of that date as " geometri- cal and perspective drawing and drawing of plans, elevations and sections of pro- posed structures.'' The introduction of drawing into the curriculum in 1S50 was connected with two important changes in the character of Brown University as an educational institution. In that year the elective system was in- troduced, and a course leading to the degree of bachelor of philosophy (intended to be a scien- tific degree ) was estab- lished. In 1852 the work in drawing passed into the hands of Rev. Henry Day, A. M., who suc- ceeded Professor Norton as professor of natural philosophy and civil engineering. Professor Day conducted the courses two years and then withdrew from the faculty. In 1855 the work in drawing passed into the hands of Samuel S. Greene, A. M., whose title was changed to tiiat of professor of mathe- matics and civil engi- hkdi. kssok sa neering. From 1863 to 1S67 the course in drawing was omitted. In 1868 Professor Clarke, who was ap- pointed instructor of mathematics and civil engineering in 1863, resurrected the old course in drawing, introduced new ones and made radical changes in the character of the work. These courses are described in the catalogue of 1868 as follows: n) use of mathematical instruments, line drawing, pen shading and the graphical construction of plane problems ; (2) pen and freehand drawing and shading ; (3) platting of surveys: (4) drawing in con- nection with the theory of stresses. In 1874 Professor Davis was made instructor of mathematics, and assisted Professor Clarke in the drawing room. At this point additional courses in drawing, connected with descriptive geometry and shades and shadows and perspective were introduced. In 1886 all courses in drawing were transferred to the charge of Professor Randall, who had been appointed instructor of mathematics and civil engineering in 1885. A rearrangement and extension of the work was begun and in i8go a separate department of drawing was established with Professor Randall as its head. The demand for in- struction in engineering subjects increased and became so urgent that in i8gi it became neces- sary to augment the teaching force. In that year Mr. E. H. Brownell was appointed instructor of civil engineering and assumed charge of those courses in drawing be- longing to his depart- ment. In the following year Professor Burnham was appointed instructor of mechanical drawing and engineering to take charge of machine draw- ing and courses in en- gineering about to be introduced. In 1894 MUKL s. GREENK Professor Hill succeeded Mr. Brownell as instructor in civil engineer- ing. At the present time there are twenty-four courses in drawing, e.Kclusive of those offered by the department of civil engineer- ing, and inclusive of those offered by the department of mechanical engineering. These courses are arranged over a period of four years and are pursued by 150 students, 83 of whom are candidates for engineering degrees. Up to 1882 instruction in drawing was given in University Hall in a room corres- ponding with the present Sears Reading The Brown Alumni Monthly 197 PROFESSOR BENJAMIN F. CLARKE (.Photograph taken tii jSjqi Room. From 1882 to 1884 the rooms on the top floor of Sayles Hall, now occupied by the German Seminary Library, were used as drawing rooms. When University Hall was renovated in 18S3-4, through the very earnest appeal of Professors Clarke and Davis, the central portion of the top floor of the building was fitted up for draft- ing purposes and has been occupied by the department since that date. Two years ago the department outgrew its quarters and most of the work connected with mechanical engineering and all the work connected with civil engineering was trans- ferred to rooms fitted up for this purpose in the additions made to the building formerly known as the Chemical Labor- atory, but now known as Rogers Hall. The drafting room in University Hall, seen in the accompanying picture, is well lighted by skylights and by electricity and contains 63 drawing desks and 143 lockers. (Connected with this large room are two smaller rooms : one a laboratory well equipped for blue-print, photographic and lantern slide work, the other a library and reading room in which may be found cata- logues, periodicals, atid books belonging to the department and such books of the main library as relate to drawing and kindred subjects. Drawing is often looked upon as a course in manual training and, of course, in many institutions it is taught as such, but from the time the subject was introduced at Brown, so far as can be learned, instruction has always been placed upon a mathemati- cal basis, and all courses have been so arranged and conducted as to have the same disciplinary value as other college courses. However this may have been in the earlier years, it has certainly been so for the last twenty years. Of the twenty-four courses now offered by the department, the most elementary presupposes a knowledge of Solid Geometry, while the more advanced courses require a knowledge of .Analytics, Calculus and Mechanics. While these courses are arranged pri- marily for those who are candidates for engineering degrees, nearly all of them may be elected by candidates for other degrees, provided such candidates are qualified to pursue them. The department has always encouraged such election belie\ing that a special kind of training, not to be obtained elsewhere, is derived from such studies. The study of the various forms of projective geometry, or the methods of representing and inter- preting objects of dimensions through the medium of projection, demands a power of PROFESSOR N.\THANIEL F. DAVIS (.Photograph taken in 1SS4) 198 The Brown Alumni Monthly imagination and a breadth of thought which can not fail of good results. The aim of the department is not simply to teach men how to draw, but to show them how to use approved methods of graphic representation in the solution of problems connected with design and construction. The mere manual ability to draw plays no greater part in the department of draw- ing than the manual abil- ity to make and combine the ten digits plays in the department of mathe- matics. Of the practical value of a knowledge of drawing, in the various branches of study and investigation, it is hardly necessary to speak. The constant call for sketches and accurate drawings, not only in the many forms of engineering and architectural work, but also in the various forms of laboratory work connected with physics, biology, botany, etc., is too well known to require mention here. PROFESSOR K A Recently a plan of cooperation between PJrown University and the Rhode Island School of Design has been agreed upon by which the students in the university will be offered greater opportunities for the study of artistic draw- ing. The course in free- hand drawing, now given at the university, will be discontinued at the close of the present academic year, and a series of courses in this subject, which will be open to the students of the university, will hereafter be given at the school of design. In exchange for this the uni- versity is to offer to such students of the school of design as are qualified the privilege of pursuing certain courses in me- chanical drawing given at the university. This arrangement and cooperation will remove the necessity of duplication of work in the two institutions, and will en- able each institution to extend its courses of instruction. IIRAWING ROO.Vt, TOP FLOOR OK UNIVERSITY HALL The Brown Alumni Monthly 199 A New Manning Letter QUITE unexpectedly a letter written by James Manning, the first pres- ident of the college, was recently found by kinspeople of Dr. Har- lan Page Abbott, '85, as they were over- hauling and assorting some old papers which belonged to Dr. Abbott's grand- father. It is not definitely known how this letter from Dr. Manning to Rev. Mr. Wood came into the possession of Dr. Abbott's grandfather. Its presence among his papers was probably due to an intimacy between Mr. Wood and some of Dr. Abbott's ances- tors three or four generations back, who, like Mr. Wood, were Baptist clergymen in New England. The letter reads as follows : March 23, 1787. Providence Sir, Sometime since I rec^ a line from Rev? Hez!^ Smith, in which he informed me that you had a favorable Prospect of a Settlement in the interior parts of Hampshire. I hope you may succeed, & find a blessing accompany your Labours. I hope you may now have it in your power to discharge the obligation I hold against you. If I recollect you encouraged me to expect the money last Fall, or at furthest the fore part of Winter. My disappointment in money matters from the State, the College and the Students, has greatly deranged my affairs ; and renders my situation trying indeed. Necessity impels me to set out the first of next may for N. York & Philadelphia, when I shall exceedingly want the money you owe me. Hope you may not fail to procure, & hand it to me before that. I durst say I need not remind you that it is a debt of honour; and that my object was to serve you, in becoming responsible for you to the College. Never were the Students, before, so much in arrear for College bills. Without a speedy alteration on this head, the College must unavoidably break up, of which I have alarming apprehensions. The officers of instruction cannot get money enough to pay their board. Religion is at a low ebb in Provi- dence, and around in this quarter in general. The number of Students in College is equal to what it was when you left us, upward of fifty. The paper money and its accessorys have almost ruined this State, as it has depreciated more than 700 P^ C| and yet remains a tender for bona Jide debts. This is temporal wickedness in high places. God only knows what will be the Issue, but I apprehend the ruin and depopulation of the state must be the consequence. With Sentiments of Esteem M"^ Amos Wood I am etc JAMES MANNING. The late Dr. Guild was especially inter- ested and active throughout the forty-five years in which he was the librarian of the universit)-, in collecting the correspondence of James Manning. He began his search and inquiry- for Dr. Manning's letters in 1847, when he became librarian. At the time of the centennial celebration of the founding of the college, in 1864, Dr. Guild issued a volume entitled " Brown Univer- sity and James Manning." Almost thirty- years later, in 1893, when he resigned the librarianship and was created librarian emer- itus, he published a second edition of this work, using all the letters of Dr. Manning in its composition, including those which he had secured in the years which had elapsed since the first edition was issued. The Brown Alumni Monthly Dr. William W. Keen, '59 WORD was received b)- cable on the seventh of last month an- nouncing the election of Dr. William W. Keen, '59, as an honorary member of the Thirtj'-first Con- gress of the German Chirurgical Associa- tion. Dr. Keen is making a journey around the world and is now in Germany. He started on his tour last June. He has visited Japan, China, India and Egypt. While in India he was thrown from a horse and fractured his collar bone. On his arrival at the Egyptian c a pit al, with hib right arm in a sling and the other hardly in a fit condition to use, Dr. Keen learned that a per- sonal friend, a woman from Phil adelphia, was in the gov- ernment hos- pital suffering from appendi- citis and that the physicians at the institution had come to the conclusion that her case was beyond relief and had abandoned hope of her re- covery. Dr. Keen, however, lost no time and with his crippled arm performed a successful operation. This operation at- tracted considerable attention in Egypt and Dr. Keen received an invitation to accept the presidency of the first Egyptian Medi- cal Congress. In a letter home from Beirut, Syria, he said : — '' I should love to have accepted the offer both for the honor of Jefferson Col- lege and the American medical profession, but it is not to meet until December ig and as I have planned to come home in June it would make necessary my returning across seas again in six months — something I could not possibly afford to do. So I was obliged to decline the honor." yiR. WILLIAM W. KEEN These are not unprecedented honors for Dr. Keen. He has received many such distinctions both abroad and at home. It was only a short time ago that he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, an honor which has been conferred on but three other Americans. Dr. Keen is in the front rank of American surgeons. His excep- tional skill in operating upon the brain and his numerous writings on brain surgery have caused him to be regarded as an authority in this most delicate branch of surgery. His writings comprise a long list of monographs, treatises and text-books. A large proportion of these relate to the department of surgical science in which he has become especially distinguished. Dr. Keen's home is in Philadelphia, where he is professor of surgery in Jefferson Medi- cal College. While a student at Brown Dr. Keen was well known by the faculty and the students for his brilliant scholarship. The promise of his undergraduate days has been ful- filled. The anticipations aroused by his distinguished college course have been fully justified by his later achievements. In 1 89 1 his Alma Mater conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon him. Dr. Keen has served on the governing board of the university since 1873, as trustee from 1873 to 1895, as fellow from 1895 to the present time. He is a loyal and enthusi- astic alumnus, whose interest and support are never wanting. The active part he took in securing the erection of the gym- nasium at Brown, and the introduction of physical training is well-known to those who were undergraduates ten or twelve years ago. He was the chairman of the building committee on the gymnasium and on the occasion of its dedication, in December, 1891, presented the keys of the building to President Andrews. Dr. Keen has lectured before the students in the department of comparative anatomy many times and has founded a fund for the purchase of books on biology. In 1893 he delivered the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The Brown Alumni Monthly Rev. William Sheafe Chase, '8i REV. WILLIAM SHEAFE CHASE, '8 1, of Woonsocket, R. I., has an- nounced his acceptance of the invitation to become honorary preacher with title of Canon at the Cathe- dral of the Incarnation and Chaplain of St. Paul's School, Garden City, Long- Island, N. Y. The position is one of unus- ual character and influence. Its incumbent has an exceptional sphere of usefulness both as preacher and as educator. As preacher it is his duty to preach at the cathedral about once a month and to en- gage in work in Brooklyn and New York city. As chaplain he conducts morning and evening devotions, preaches to the boys on Sundays, and has charge of the moral and religious instruction in the school, teaching Christian evidences, moral philosophy and history about an hour and a half each school day. Mr. Chase's acceptance of the position at the cathedral and school in Garden City, will increase to four the number of Brown m e n connected with these institu- tion s . The bishop of Long Island, the head of the cathedral and school, is Rt. Rev. Frederick Burgess. D. D., '73 ; the head master of St. Paul's School is Frederick L. Gamage, D. C. L., '82 ; and the master in Greek and French is Frederic E. Whitaker, Ph. D., '88. The school is one of the best endowed and most success- ful in the country. It has a membership of more than one hundred and fifty boys. WILLIAM SHEAP'E CHASE The position in Garden City will afford Mr. Chase opportunities for study and work which he could not expect to obtain as a rector in Woonsocket. He will begin his new duties next September. By his resignation of the rectorship of St. James' Episcopal Church of Woonsocket Mr. Chase will conclude his first and only settlement. He came to Woonsocket soon after his ordination in 1885, and has been instrumental in building up a large and vigorous church. During the first year of his rectorate he succeeded in raising the debt of §3,000 which the church owed at the time of his coming. In 1S89 a parish house was built, which, though a plain wooden structure, is the largest in the dio- cese, and is fully equipped for all kinds of parish work. As a result of the erection and equipment of this building a fund of §3,000 was left by the will of Paul Green as an endowment to carry on the work usually done in a parish house. In 1892 a parochial mission was started in a district of the city called Fairmount. This has developed into a flourishing so- ciety-. Last year it had an average congrega- tion of a hundred persons. Its boy choir, consisting of twenty-two voices, is under tiie direction of Hariy M. Ballou, Brown, ■77. In 1895 ^ brick chapel of the Gothic stvle was erected as a home of the mission. In the same year as the establishment of the mission the parish built for Mr. Chase and his wife one of the most beautiful and commodious rectories in the diocese. The sixteen years of Mr. Chase's rector- ship of St. James' Church have been marked not only by an increase of its equipment and an enlargement of its influence in the com- munity, but also by a remarkable growth of the church itself. When Mr. Chase came to \\'oonsocket he became the rector of a church which reported 229 communicants. He leaves the church with 640 communi- cants. Mr. Chase has been actively inter- ested in the social reform, and has been a leader in many movements for the im- provement of the social and moral condi- tions of the community. The Brown Alumni Monthly Professor Dana C. Munro, '87 DANA CARLETON MUNRO, 'Sy, has been appointed professor of European history in the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. For the last nine years Professor Munro has been con- nected with the department of history in the University of Pennsylvania, devoting himself especially to the study of mediagval history. At the present time he has a text- book on this subject in press. Since 1S94 he has been the editor of " Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History," published by the Ifni- versity of Pennsylvania. The University of Wisconsin to which he is going is one of the largest western universities. It has a total enrollment of 2,777 students, of whom 113 are registered as graduate stu- dents, and 1,063 ^s undergraduate students in the academic department. He will be the head of the department of European history. Professor Munro has been engaged in teaching ever since the time of his gradua- tion at Brown. For two years he was in- structor in history in De Veaux College, Suspension Bridge, N. Y. In 1889 he went to Germany for a year of study at the Universities of Freiburg and Strassburg. Upon his return to this country he was appointed to a mastership in Haverford College Grammar School. In 1893 he was appointed instructor in history in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and in 1895 was promoted to the assistant professorship which he still holds. He is a brother of Wilfred H. Munro, '70, professor of Kuro- pean history at Brown, and of Walter L. Mun- ro, M. D., '79, of Providence. Another broth- e r , W i n throp M., entered Brown with the class of 1884, but died in his junior year. In 1S91 Pro- fessor Mu nro married Miss Alice ]5eecher of Battle Creek, Michigan. His DANA c. MUNRO home during his college course was in Bristol, R. I. His college abode was room 23, Ho])e Col- lege, the room previously occupied by his three brothers in their undergraduate days. A New History of Rhode Island A HISTORY of the State of Rhode Island containing articles by a number of Brown graduates and edited by an honorary alumnus of the university, has just been published. The work, divided into three volumes, con- sists largely of monographs on various subjects relative to the history of Rhode Island. It is issued in very attractive form and is well illustrated with maps, fac- State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Centun- : A History. Edited hv Edward Field. A. B. Tlie Mason Publishing Company, Boston .ind Syra- similes of old plates and paintings and photographs of ancient landmarks. There has been no attempt to present in one work a history of the growth and de- velopment of the State since 1S59, when a history of Rhode Island by Hon. Samuel G. Arnold was published. As this work by Mr. Arnold concludes with the year 1790, the need of a new and up-to-date history of Rhode Island is very obvious. The largest contributor to the work is Clarence S. Brigham, '99, librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society. His The Brown Alumni Monthly 203 contributions consist of twenty-four chap- ters on the political history of the state from its settlement to the present time. Dr. Charles V. Chapin, "76, has contributed a ciiapter on the medical history of the state : Rev. Daniel Goodwin has presented an account of its religious history. The ■work also includes a monograph on the political development of the towns, by Professor George G. Wilson, an account of the struggle for judicial supremacy by Edward C. Stiness, '90, and a history of public and private finance by Howard K. Stokes, '85. This is an important addition to the lit- erature on the history of Rhode Island. It will be useful as a book of reference in many lines of research, as it has, for the most part, been compiled from original sources. The bibliography of Rhode Island history, placed at the end of volume three, is very complete and adds to the value of the work. Baseball News Ox February 3rd, about fifty men responded to Captain Paine's call for work in the baseball cage. Under the supervision ■of Head-Coach Gammons. '98, the men practised daily in batting and fielding grounders. Battery work began early in February with si.x pitchers and four catch- ers. Coach Gammons has had a hard task to perfect an outfield as brilliant as that of last year. With Clark, Kimball, and Wheeler, gone, all three positions in the outfield have had to be filled. Barry, McKinney, Welch, and Clifford, have developed into fast men. Barry who was on the I goo and 1901 teams, has the e.xpe- rience and confidence in himself to make a valuable man at centre. McKinney of the '99 team seems to be at home at left field. Welch and Clifford are showing e.xcellent form in right field. In the infield the task of the coach and captain has not been so hard. Captain Paine is the same old reliable man at first base, and inspires his men with respect and confidence. Gray's work at second is above criticism. Woodsum,' 05, has been doing satisfactory work at shortstop. Expe- rience is what he needs most. Foulder, another freshman, is steady and reliable at third. U'ith such good ball players as Belding, Metcalf, and Otis, pressing these men hard, the infielders are becoming very fast and accurate. The pitching department has received training under the eye of Mathewson of the New York National Team, and shows the result of careful, consistent work. Hatch, '05, is the most promising candi- date. A cool head, an almost perfect knowledge of the game, and a fine arm, make him a pitcher for the best of oppon- ents to fear. Leland's form has improved greatly over that of last year, and his ex- perience of last year has made him a most valuable man. Farnum. another freshman, 'though unsteady and wild at times, gives promise of becoming a good pitcher. Perhaps the hardest task for Coach Gammons has been the developing of a catcher to fill the place of Whittemore. Phillips, sub-catcher of last year's team, and Abbott, '03, have been doing the work so far. The Record April April April April April April April Mav May 5. I-. 16, 19. 26, 3°- I, 3' Biown, ; N. Y. National League, " 3 ; Providence League, 6. " 5; " " 6. '• ; Holy Cross, 4. " 2 ; Williams, 4. " 3 ; Amherst, 2. " 2 ; Vale, 5. 3 ; Wesleyan, 4. " I ; Princeton. 2. May 6, 6; Dartmouth, 4. The Schedule May Mav 10- -Harv -Yale ard at Cambridge, at Providence. Mav May 14- -U. of Penn. at Philadelphia. -Princeton at Princeton. Mav 17- -Darti mouth at Providence. May -I- -Andover at Providence. May 24 — Yale at Providence. May 28 — Illinois at Providence. May 30 — Cornell at Providence. May 31 — Holy Cross at Worcester. June 4 — Harvard at Providence. June 7 — Holy Cross at Providence. June II — Tufts at Providence. June 13 — U. of Penn. at Providence. June iS — Graduates at Providence. 204 The Brown Alumni Monthly American College Campuses THIRD ARTICLE NEXT month the campus of Wil- liams College will be the scene of a notable gathering. On the twenty-fourth of the month the graduates of the college and delegates from WILLIAMS CAMPUS other institutions of learn ing will assemble at \\'il liamstown to attend the inauguration of Rev. Hen ry Hopkins, D. D., t Kansas City, Mo., as preM dent of the college. To the enjoyment of participating in this im portant academic event will be added the chaiiii of natural beauty, foi Williams College, situated in the Berkshire Hills <>i western Massachusetts, is in a section of New England noted for its beauty. The accompanying pic- tures bring into promi- nence the road which runs through the Williams campus and constitutes one of its charac- teristic features. The lower picture is taken from the triangular grass plot seen in the upper picture at the left of the road in the distance. The gymnasium, the building with a tower, is visible in both views, in the upper picture on the right, in the lower on the left. In these views of the Williams campus only a small number of the college buildings are visible. In the upper pic- ture Hopkins Memorial Hall may be seen at the extreme left. Thisbui'd- ing, a memorial to the re- nowned Mark Hopkins, president of the college tirjm 1S36 to I.'*; 2, and father of the president- lect, contains the college 'itices, the faculty room , I nd some recitation rooms, lieyond Hopkins Hall is (Joodrich Hall, a building used for concerts and large lectures. Beyond this, in the distance, is Griffin Hall. Though Williams Col- lege is situated in the State WILLIA.MS CAMPUS, LOOKIxN'G WEST of Massachusetts, it receives its largest number of students from New York State. It is nearer the Hudson River than the Connecticut. The Brown Alumni Monthly 205 IHK DARTMOUTH COLLECE CAMPUS During the past few years Brown and Dartmouth have frequently engaged in inter- collegiate contests, and a comparatively large number of our graduates and under- graduates have become familiar with the college grounds at Hanover. The Dart- mouth campus is at present undergoing a considerable change. Since the above picture was taken the third house from the church has been removed. On this site Webster Hall is to be erected. The corner stone was laid during the Webster (Jenten- nial last September. The foundations have already been put in and the structure will be erected during the coming summer. The other houses at the right of the church are soon to be removed in order to extend the campus to the Butterfield Museum, the large building in the rear of the houses. Reed Hall, Thornton Hall and (31d Dart- mouth Hall, the latter having a tower which is visible in the picture, are the buildings in the right hand side of the picture. These are some of Dartmouth's time-honored buildings. Old Dartmouth Hall is especially interesting as it was de- signed after Nassau Hall at Princeton, the pattern of our own University Hall. The college chapel may be seen just a little to the right of the terminus of the walk across the centre of the campus. The view of the athletic field shows the quarter-mile cinder track with the diamond in the centre. At the right of the athletic field is the football field, not seen in this picture. The Dartmouth athletic field is one of the best in New England. It was presented to the college by the alumni in 1896 and is called the Alumni Oval. The building at the left of the grand stand is the college heating station. The serrated top of the fence along the road leading to Lebanon is visible at the base of the picture of the Alumni oval. ALU.MNI OVAL, DARTMOUTH S ATHLETIC FIELD 2o6 The Brown Alumni Monthly Brunonians Far and Near 1S48 News of the death of Jonathan Mabbett has but recently been received at the university. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March S, 1901. 1S50 Rev. Edward P. Gray died in New York City, March 6, 1902. He was born in Boston in 1S22. After his graduation from Brown in 1S50, he studied theology, and in 1S52 was ordained deacon by Bishop Henshaw. In 1S53 he was ordained to the piiesthood by Bishop Williams. His first charge was Emmanuel Church, Manville, R. I. In 1S54 he went west and served in several parishes. In 1S68 he accepted a professorship in St. Augus- tine's College, Bernicia, Cal. Ten years later he returned to the east, settling in Baltimore, Md. George Edgar Williams, Esq., died at his home in Taunton, Mass., November 29th. He was ad- mitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1853, and to practice in the United States circuit court in 186S. From 1872 to 1875, he was city solicitor of Taunton. He was a man of retiring disposition and preferred reading and study to political activity and promi- nence. .S52 Professor Edward Hicks Magill and Mrs. Sarah E. Gardner were married at her home in New York City, Thursday afternoon, April 34th. On the day after their marriage they sailed for Naples, intend- ing to pass several months in travel in Europe. 1S60 Brigadier-General Livingston Satteriee died at his home in New York city, April 3rd. General Satteriee attended college only two years and was made an alumnus of the university in connection with the class of i860 by special vote of the corpo- rarion in 189S. While in college he was very enthusiastic over military drill and w-ith C. L. Kneass, '58, C. P. ^Villiams, '58 and H. S. Burrage, '61, and others organized a military company, Kneass was the captain and Satteriee the first- lieutenant of the company. He subsequently re- ceived a staff appointment from Governor Sprague. In 1S59 he joined the third company of the Seventh Regiment, N. Y. S. M. A year later he became a member of the Twelfth Regiment, of which he was appointed lieutenant-colonel on June 3, 1S62. He was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry September, 1S62. In September, 1865, Governor Fenton com- missioned him brigadier-general. Before entering college and subsequent to his military career, he was engaged in the work of civil engineering. He gave up practice in this profession a few years ago. He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and was at one time its president for the United States and Canada. 1S61 Chief Justice John H. Stiness of the Rhode Island Supreme Court was one of the three judges at the Princeton-Harvard debate in Cambridge, Wednesday evening, March 26th. 1S64 Professor W. Whitman Bailey lectured at Peace Dale, R. I., Wednesday evening, March 26th, on " The Procession of the Flowers." Dr. George F. Jelly of Boston was one of three e.xpeits appointed last month to e.xamine into the sanity of Miss Jane Toppan, the Barnstable nurse accused of poisoning a number of her patients. ^ The e.xamination resulted in a declaration of her' insanity and irresponsibility. 1 868 Professor William C. Poland lectured on "the development of Greek art " before the Middles e.\ Women's Club of Lowell, Mass., March 31st. 1S70 Samuel Powel died at his home in Newport- April I, 1902, after less than a week's illness with pneumonia. He was a man of wide reading and rare cultiva- tion, with such talents in the direction of art and mechanics as would, if developed under stress of competition, have insured him a distinguished career. As it was, after years of foreign travel and others of residence in Philadelphia, his tastes and affiliations led to a somewhat secluded life in New- port, Rhode Island, where of late years he had resided. Mr. Powel came of the Hare-Powel family, distinguished in the annals of this country. For generations his ancestors were among the leading citizens of Philadelphia. At one time they owned and lived upon a splendid estate in West Phila- delphia, embracing the district now known as Powelton. He was born in the old Powelton mansion in Philadelphia. His great uncle, Robert Hare, filled the chair of chemistry and physics in the University of Pennsylvania,from 1819 to 1S47, and his father, Samuel Powel was for some years a trustee. Mr. Powel always took a lively interest in the university, especially in its athletics. He always was an enthusiastic believer in the value of e.xercise and athletics in the development of mental and moral as well as of physical attributes. He was devoted to field sports and was a fine shot. In his youth in the salmon rivers of Canada, he acquired great skill with the rod and paddle. He and his three younger brothers rowed as an undefeated crew in the races held upon the Schuylkill in 1879 and iSSo, and during the Spring of 1SS7 he trained the Pennsylvania crew that rowed against Yale at New London. Mr. Powel laid out the old athletic field of the university and superintended the prep- aration of the track and grounds. He spent many hours daily for many weeks in this unselfish labor, and was rewarded only bv the warm appreciation and gratitude of all the men interested in Pennsyl- vania athletics. In 1887 the University of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon him. Atone time he was appointed by trustees of the university, alumni and faculty to represent them at an import- ant intercollegiate conference. TS73 Rev. Edwin P. Farnham of Salem, Mass., lec- tured before the Danvers Historical Society on '• Froebel and the nature and philosophy of his kindergarten svsteni of instruction," .-\pri! 14th. The Brown Alumni Monthly Mr. Fainham is a strong advocate of the introduc- tion of the kindergarten method, and has accom- plished much for this order of education in Salem and vicinity. 1S74 Rev. Thomas S. Barbour, I). D., foreign secre- tary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, who has been journeying from country to country and from station to station in the foreign fields for some months, is e.xpected to arrive in Boston about May 12. Dr. Barbour's letters to the Bap- tist Missionary Magazine during his absence have been of great value and interest. iSSo David F. Slade of Fall River has announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomin- ation for Congress. His candidacy is receiving substantial suppoit. 1S81 Rev. Wilber Taylor Rice has been compelled by ill health to turn aside permanently from the minis- try. He has removed from Stephentown, N. V., to North Grafton, Mass.. where he has bought a small farm for himself. Arthur Bateman Corthell, who has been resident engineer of the Boston Terminal Company since the completion of the south station, has been honored by the offer of the position of engineer of construction of the proposed tunnel loop of the New York Central Railroad, between Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets. New York City. This involves the erection of a great station between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, and is an undertaking calling for the display of the highest engineering talent. Mr. Corthell was born in South Abington (now Whitman). Mass., early in the si.\ties. He was a special student at Brown from 1S77 to iSSi. In 189S by special vote of the Corporation he was made a member of the class of iSSi with the degree of bachelor of arts. He entered upon his engineering career in 1S77 as draftsman for the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, R. I., and later was employed in the city engineer's ottice at Providence. He then became assistant engineer on consti'uction for the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad, and afterward supervisor on maintenance of way. He was afterward division engineer. In 1886 he made surveys and locations for the Rockland Lake Railroad. In 1887 he built 300 miles of railroad in Kansas and Colorado for the Missouri Pacific, and later he was first assistant engineer on construction of the Siou.x City bridge over the Missouri river. This bridge had a pneu- matic foundation to the depth of ninety-two feet. In 1S89 he became assistant engineer on the Thames river bridge and approaches at New Lon- don. Conn., and from March, 1S92, to January, 1S97, he was first assistant engineer, designing and directing the construction of the Providence pas- senger station and approaches. Mr. Corthell, during 1S97, 189S and 1S99, was principal assistant engineer in construction of the south station in Boston, and, since February, 1900, he has been resident engineer for the Boston Ter- minal Company, having charge of the engineering and maintenance of all structures and apparatus and the operation of the mechanical equipment, which includes gas, steam, electric, compressed air, ice making, refrigerating, heating and ventilating plants. 1 884 Joseph H. Johnson's address is care of Clerk of House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. 1887 Ur. George W. Field delivered an address on " Some Problems of Life that may be Solved in the Schoolroom " before the Sarah E. Doyle Club of Providence, Saturday afternoon, April 5th. He spoke of the value of nature study and the need of using good methods and employing competent teachers in this department of school work. Dr. Field is instructor in economic biology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1890 Rev. Charles W. Lisk has recently moved from Sunbury, Ohio to Detroit, Michigan. He is now on the editorial staff of the Chrislian Herald and shotild be addressed care of the Chyisiian Heialdy East Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich. The Higher Linv for February and March con- tains an article by Dr. Lyman C. Newell on " The Teacher's Problem." The article has since been reprinted as a pamphlet for distribution among teachers. School Science for March contains an abstract of Dr. Newell's paper on '■ The Prepar- ation aud Training of the Teacher of Chemistry." which was read at the annual meeting of the Ne%v York State Science Teachers Association recently held in Syracuse. 1 89 1 Frank D. Lisle of the Providence Banking Com- pany was recently elected president of the Provi- dence chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks. The institute was established about a year ago, under the guidance and with the support of the American Bankers' Association, in response to an urgent request on the part of bank employes for aid in securing higher education along banking lines. The object of the association is to give bank employes the opportunity to fit themselves to hll higher positions, which they find it difficult to do under present conditions. It is proposed to do this work by individual study, lectures, debates, papers and discussions. G. R. D. MacGregor, 2nd lieutenant U. S. A., is stationed at Fort Bliss, Te.xas, with Company D, of the iSth Infantry. 1S92 Theodore S. Brown has become associated with Marvin & Co., the well-known manufacturers of of safes, 468-472 West Broadway. New York. 1893 George W. Perkins has become associated with the Boston Herald. Formerly he was with the Boston Adiertiser. The engagement of Professor Alexander Meikle- john and Miss Nannine A. La Villa of New York city has been announced. Miss LaVilla was a student at Cornell University at the time Dr. Meiklejohn was taking graduate work there. 1S94 Frederick W. Marvel, for five years director of l^hysical culture in the Wesleyan L'niversity, but duiing the past year in business in Providence, has been reelected physical director, with a chair in the faculty. 208 The Brown Alumni Monthly Rev. Petev C. Wright became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Norn-ich, Conn., the first of last month. Walter G. Cady has been appointed professor of physics at Wesleyan University, Middletown. Conn. Mr. Cady taught freshman mathematics at Bro%vn for two years after his graduation. He then registered as a student in physics under Professor Warburg at the University of BerUn. In 1900 he obtained the doctor's degree from the University of Berlin, presenting a thesis on the Cathode Rays. Upon his return to America he was appointed to a position in the magnetic di^^sion of the United States coast survey and given charge of the chief magnetic observatory in Cheltenham, Md. He will retain his position on the coast survey when he goes to Wesleyan in order to take part in certain of its special investigations. Dr. Cady has pub- lished one paper in the Aniia/e'i der Physik and two in the American Jounujl of Science. 1S96 George E. Coghill has gone abroad for a few- months' study before assuming the professorship of biology in the Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore., to which he has recently been elected. He passed the e.xamination for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Brown on the 9th of last month and sailed for Europe on the 12th. He will study at the University of Wlirzburg. Rev. Clarence M. Gallup, who was recently called to be the assistant pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Albany, N. Y., is acting at present as its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Wallace Buttrick having resigned to accept the position of executive officer and secretary of the recently formed General Educa- tion Board. Charles S. Stedman was elected secretary and treasurer of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Alumni Association of Eastern New York, at its annual meeting held in Albany last month. 1S96 and 1902 The engagement of Ernest A'. Page. '96, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and Miss Ellen S. Water- man, '02, has been announced. 1S97 The engagement of Robert S. Emerson and Miss Marian Butterworth of Pro\ddence has been announ- ced. Mr. Emerson is connected with the National India Rubber Co. of Bristol. His home is in Pawtucket. Charles McCarthy has received the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wis- consin. The degree was conferred for work in the departments of history, economics and political science. The subject of his thesis was " The Anti- Mason Partv." 189S L. J. Kavanaugh, who was formerly employed on the Worcesler Telegram, is now with the Philadel- phia Press. 1899 William E. Farnham has accepted the position of assistant electrical engineer with the American Bell Telephone Co., Boston. Mr. Farnham pur- sued courses in electrical engineering at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology for two years after graduating at Brown. He was graduated in the electrical engineering course at the Institute last June, and has since been an assistant engineer in the New York Telephone Co., New Y'ork City. The engagement of Antonio Mangano and Miss Edith Burbank. a cousin of Robert W. Burbank, Esq., Brown '7S, and a graduate of Smith College in last year's class, has been announced. Miss Burbank is teaching in a girls' school in Washing- ton, D. C. Mr. Mangano is studying theology and doing religious work in New York city. George B. Utley. librarian of the Maryland Diocesan Library in Baltimore, has recently written for the Churchman a series of articles on rare books in the collection. The series began with the issue of February 16. 1900 Albert J. Frohock is in the office of The L. A- Lockwood Co., 54 Leonard street. New York, N. Y- H. R . Cross, who has been a student in the department of fine arts in Har\ard University since his graduation, intends to go abroad this .summer for a year of advanced study. Alonzo Roger Williams and Miss Mary Butler were married in Providence April 14th. 1901 Mabel 1. Bowe, is teaching school at Asburv Park. N. J. L. L. Eaton has accepted a position with the Butler, Sheldon Co. He will be connected with the Boston office, 131 Kingston street. The engagement of Edwin F. Greene and Miss Charlotte Nichols of Newton, Mass., has been an- nounced. W. K. Low has entered the real estate business in Providence. He is with Henry W. Cooke & Co. Irving L. Woodman has accepted a position on the staff of instruction at the Friends school. Mr. Woodman is abroad at present. He will return in August. 1902 Morris A. Bolton, a member of the class of 1902 in its freshman and sophomore years, died at the home of his brother in Whitinsville, Mass., April 24th, after a long illness. Leaving Brown in 1900, he studied at Crozer Theological Seminary for some time, but had to relinquish his studies on ac- count of failing health. Later he spent some time in Colorado. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The funeral was held at New Lon- don, Conn., April 26th, and was attended by R. W. Richmond, '02, representing the Beta Theta Pi fra- ternity and Jeremiah Holmes. '02, representing the Young Men's Christian Association. Colby Academy Reunion The eighth biennial reception and dinner of the Association of Colby Academy of New London, N. H., was held at the Quincy House, Boston, Thursday evening, April 10. 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