L I B RAFLY OF THE U N I VLRS ITY or ILLI NOI5 J38 lula M.ZZ w E. NORTON BOO KBINDER 661 WES TMINSTER ST PROV . R 1 VOL. XXII NOVEMBER, 1921 NO. 4 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ON THE HILL The Editor 81 THE MACHINE-MADE CITY Alexander Meiklejohn 83 LANGDON'S "PARADISO" Harry Lyman Koopman 86 BROWN AND THE PRESS Henry T. Samson 87 KEEPING IN TOUCH 90 AROUND THE CIRCUIT 90 UNIVERSITY INTERESTS 92 UNDERGRADUATE NEWS Chapin S. Newhard 94 BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 98 Published monthly, August and September excepted, by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. at Brown University, Providence, R. I. Entered at the Post Office at Prov- idence, R. I., as second-class matter under the law of March 3, 1879 TEN CENTS A COPY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY A HIGHER STANDARD OF BANK SERVICE The service of the Industrial Trust Company cannot be measured by ordinary standards- Its organization is statewide, its resources so great that it ranks high among the banks of America. 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Nobody knows, of course, how large the next Freshman class will be, but it is fair to assume that the student total will be larger in 1922 than it is now. For the sake of argument, let us say that we should adopt a policy of restriction. How shall we restrict? Shall we materially stiffen our in- tellectual requirements? If we do it is by no means certain that we will be satisfied with the results. There will be a good many young men left on the outside whom we would be glad to have at Brown, men who if admitted would do credit to them- selves and honor Alma Mater. Shall we give the preference to the sons of Brown alumni — and if to the sons, to the grandsons, the brothers and the nephews? Shall we admit a certain number on the existing basis until an agreed-upon maximum is reached and then allow such others to enter as shall pass a particularly meritorious examination ? Shall we establish a geographical basis, allowing a given quota to each State — after the fashion of the emergency immigration bill, which allots a quota to each country? This might spread our undergraduate con- stituency more evenly over the coun- try. Or shall we, quite to the con- trary, proclaim ourselves a neighbor- hood college and admit freely all comers from Providence and Rhode Island and place restrictions in the way of all others ? A N argument advanced in favor of '^^ numerical restriction is that of expense. But there is something to be said on the other side. With more than 1600 students at the present time, the university, though crowded of course, is doing pretty well. What has been the net result of their un- precedented influx? We have had to secure a number of new instructors, of course, chiefly for the Freshmen, but this outlay has been more than offset by the increase in tuition re- ceipts. When all the scholarship aid has been subtracted from these re- ceipts is there not a good deal left of the $250 per capita paid in by 576 young men and women? A simple process of multiplication shows that the gross income from the class of 1925 this year will be $144,000. Per- haps the increase over the gross amount received last year from the Freshman class of 1924 will be $50,- 000. And yet there is a familiar tradi- tion that college students do not pay as much as their tuition costs. It has been that way at Brown for many years, we suppose. We should like to see a detailed 81 82 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY statement showing what the actual financial effect of our enlarged num- bers this fall has been and is likely to be. Is our record-breaking new class a monetary liability or asset? There are, in the upper classes, a good many courses attended by very small numbers of men. Most ot these, we presume, could be doubled in attendance without material in- crease of expense. The teacher is there, and so is the classroom — with rows of empty seats. TT goes without saying, however, -*■ that if we are not to restrict our numbers we shall eventually need some new facilities. Among these are a chapel, a dormitory, a gymna- sium and a recitation hall. But a hall of languages has already been promised to the university, which will automatically free some of the classrooms now in use, and we are also to have a fine new chemical lab- oratory, which will make it possible to utilize the present one for general recitation purposes. As for a new dormitory, is it not true that this class of structure can be built as a self-paying proposition? We should like to see figures from other colleges covering this point. This leaves us with the need of a new chapel and a new gymnasium staring us in the face. We believe these will be provided without ex- pense to the university in due time. As for the chapel, it might be prac- ticable to make a countrywide appeal for a memorial to Roger Williams on the campus of the "Oxford of the lib- erties of Man" — or to Adoniram Jud- son, in whose honor Congregational- ists and Baptists might fittingly unite their offerings. np HE announcement that Columbia University is to spend three million dollars on a stadium comes as a climax to the reports of new ath- letic facilities at colleges throughout the country and emphasizes the old question: When are we to have a stadium at Brown? The chief objection to a stadium is the expense. Used only a few times in the course of a year, the in- terest on the invested capital goes on, nevertheless, day and night. But why not make it a source of revenue? Anyone who has been at the Har- vard stadium will recall the vast spaces beneath the seats. These could be utilized as well as not. Suppose we erect a stadium in Providence which will be, in effect, an apartment house or block of shops — or a combi- nation of these. Architecturally the stadium would then be a domestic or commercial structure, or both, pay- ing steady rents to the university or to the private corporation owning it, and furnishing a roof from which football or baseball games could be viewed. There is a serious housing problem in Providence and will be for years to come. What could be more practicable, then, than a group of modest five or six room apartments with an occasional intervening shop, perhaps, so designed as to adapt the roof for athletic sight-seeing? "Oh," says the objector, "that is fanciful ; it has never been done." To all such we would merely respond: "Did you ever hear of Columbus and the eggV THE MACHINE-MADE CITY By Alexander Meiklejohn, '93 President of Amherst College IV/TR. Toastmaster, Mr. Governor, ^^ Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentle- men:* I am asked to speak to you tonight on the future of this city. I know only one thing certain about its fu- ture, namely, that no one can tell what it will be. This is, in an extreme degree, a machine city. I do not refer, Mr. Mayor to the nature of its politics, but to the source of its power, the nature of its social forces. This city has been made by machines. Here Jencks set up his forge, here Slater began the manufacture of cotton. And since their day this group of people has led the way in the build- ing and using of machines for the making of goods which men desire. We are a machine city. It is our strength, our glory, — and our prob- lem. If one could tell the future of such a city as this, one could answer manj^ urgent questions concerning the mod- ern world at large. Modern civiliza- tion, especially in an Anglo-Saxon section of it, has likewise been made by machines. We have become an industrial people. What is to be the future of an industrial civilization is a problem which vexes and tortures the spirit of any man who honestly and intelligently studies it. I should like tonight, on this occasion of our celebration of two hundred and fifty years of great achievement, to ask you to look with me at some of the * An address delivered by the former Dean of Brown University at a dinner in Paw- tucket in connection with the 250th anni- versary celebration of the city, October 14, 1921. implications which this achievement carries with it. Machines have brought to men many results, some of them aimed at, some of them quite unintended and unnoticed. May I give a very partial and hurried list of them ? First, machines have increased the numbers of our population and, at the same time, the supply of material wealth for the use of the population. The machine magnifies human work, makes it more efficient, multiplies it, in its effect, by ten, by a hundred, by a thousand, it may be. It needs more people for its work; it can support more people by its products. As a result of the machine mode of life, we have more people in our com- munities, more wealth at their serv- ice. But again, the machines have claimed the people themselves as parts of the machinery. They have made human life more mechanical. The machine which extends the pow- er of the human body at the same time makes that body a part of itself. Men and women are taken into mills and shops and offices to be used, more than they were before, as tools, as instruments, as parts of a machine technique. The human life which uses machines is, in turn, used by them. Again, machines have broken down the continuity and stability of towns and cities. They have changed the town from a settled group of indi- viduals and families into a place through which people flow in con- stantly changing streams. The ma- chines of transportation carry people off to other places in search of 83 84 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY wealth and opportunity, while, on the other hand, the machines in the mills are ceaselessly dragging other peo- ples in from the ends of the earth to take their places in the mills. Our communities are no longer places of settled abode. They are changing, flowing streams made up of elements novel and strange and foreign each to the other, and ever replaced by others strange to them. And still again, the machine has cut the family into parts, has broken down its continuity. Parents and children separate and go their differ- ent ways, do different work, think different thoughts, choose different friends, — they scatter and separate, live unrelated lives far more than families have done before. And through all this one other change has run in varying forms. While individual men have wandered and scattered, the net which holds them all has drawn more tightly in. The world is bound together in cer- tain external, mechanical ways. We saw this in the recent war. That was no war of groups or tribes or even nations. It was the world at war, two huge, enormous forces fighting for mastery of our industrial power with every ounce of strength the world and its machines could give being used to turn the scale. It was a war so great that all men had and all they were seemed to depend upon the issue, so great that many of us lived in ghastly fear that human life as we have it would smash and go to pieces. Machines brought on the struggle; and when it came they made it monstrous in its power. But now what of the future? In these and other ways machines have changed our life under our very hands. What will they make of us in days to come? . . No man can tell what they will do to us. But we can tell what we will do to them. We will not let them use us as their tools. We will use them as tools of ours. Mr. Mayor, I have a suggestion to make to you. It is that this city which has taken the lead in the de- velopment of the machine industry of this country shall now take the lead in making sure that that indus- try contributes properly to the life of the people whom it pretends to serve. We must understand our machines if we are to use them, must find out what they are for, whether or not they serve the purposes for which we made them, whether they are bring- ing about evil results which we had not intended. We must understand these machines and their conse- quences if we would use them prop- erly. I would ask, Mr. Mayor, that you select a commission of twenty-five or thirty of your best men to study hu- man living in an industrial town. There are these essential questions about human life, — (1) what ought it to be, what is its proper form, (2) what things further, what things prevent its being as it ought to be, (3) what measures can we take to make it right, to smash aside the things that make it wrong. Those questions this city should study. What of the people in the mills, the shops, the offices, the banks, the homes, the schools? What of men and women and children? Are they as fine and right and happy as human beings ought to be ? If not, why not ? And what can be done to make them better? Mr. Mayor, if our industrial civil- ization does not begin to understand itself and its machines, it must of course go down in ruins. The forces which it makes and finds are far too great to be let loose to run amuck without our human guidance. We must take them in hand by under- standing them, by knowing ourselves and them, by making them our serv- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 85 ants. If you, my friends, in this strong city will seek for wisdom to match your strength, you will be taking the lead in what the modern world must do if it would keep itself a proper abode for men, for women, for children. I ask you, Mr. Mayor, to take the lead in seeing that study- ing such as this is done. There are one or two explanations which I should like to add to this proposal. I am not advocating any theory as to men and their machines. I am not pleading for Socialism or Radicalism, for Conservatism or Americanism. I am pleading for honest study by honest men, of human living. Study is not for scholars only, not for col- leges and universities alone. Study is an attempt at intelligence in deal- ing with human life. Study is the activity of a man who has something to do and who wishes to do it well. When studying is needed, they who neglect it are not simply failing to be scholars; they are failing to be men; they fail where a man should be ashamed to fail without a desper- ate struggle. And again, though it be somewhat ungracious, may I remind you that Rhode Island, Industrial Rhode Is- land, seems to have special reason for self-examination. If one may take as they appear statistics from the Surgeon General in Washington, Rhode Island more than any other State failed in supply of proper men when men were needed for the army. For each one thousand men, the army found among you here a greater number of "defects," a greater num- ber of defective men, a greater num- ber of men unfitted for its service than any other State supplied. The facts suggest at least occasion for our study. But finally, a word that bears more closely on my theme. You ask me of Pawtucket's future. What of its children them? They are its future. What do you make of them? I said just now I had no program of reform. But at this point I have a program. We are not taking proper care of children in this industrial life of ours. Wealth pours itself into our hands and we are spending it in every way except in that which really counts — the making of children's lives as strong and fine and right as they might be. What we may do for them determines what our future is to be. If I were here among you as of old and serving again upon the School Board, I would ask the people of the city to multiply the school appropria- tion by ten ; and then if that were not enough, to multiply again for taking proper care of children. But, Mr. Mayor, I do not wish to interfere or dogmatise. I am not here to blame or criticise. Rather I glory in the strength and cleverness that have built up this place of in- dustry. But now I ask for wisdom too. I beg of you that here as else- where men make sure they have their living under their control. I ask that you, the men who make machines and make them run, shall try to know what they are running for, shall make them serve their proper ends, shall make them serve the children, the women, the men, whose instru- ments they are. Make human living right in this old town. To make it right you must attempt to understand it. Pawtucket's future would be a glorious one if it could lead the way in such an enterprise as that. LANGDON'S "PARADISO" By Harry Lyman Koopman (CONGRATULATIONS to Profes- ^^ sor Langdon, to Brown, to Amer- ican scholarship and to Amer- ican letters are due upon the timely appearance of his translation of the concluding volume of Dante's Divine Comedy on the 600th anniversary of the poet's death. In respect to its timeliness, it is worth recalling that Longfellow's translation, which he intended to have ready for the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1865, was in reality not given to the public until over a year later. English translations of the Divine Comedy, as a whole or in part, are numbered by scores. A new translation, there- fore, to be justified, must make some fresh contribution to our apprecia- tion of the poem. This Professor Langdon's three volumes emphatic- ally do, even to the extent of reveal- ing a new world of meaning in a poem so long and widely read and studied. First let us remind our readers that the translation is preceded on facing pages by the original, the text of which Professor Langdon has pre- pared in the light of the best modern scholarship. The translation of the Paradiso, as of the preceding vol- umes, is in English iambic pentam- eter blank verse, which, as the me- dium of expression chosen by Shake- speare and Milton and moulded by their handling, is justly accepted as the normal English heroic measure. But the possible range of manner within this meter is immense, as a The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: the Italian text with a translation in Eng- lish blank verse and a commentary by Courtney Langdon. Volume III, Paradiso. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1921. clxxxii, 395 pages. Price, $5.00. reference merely to Carey's, Long- fellow's, and Langdon's translations will show. Langdon's has not the form-ality of the first nor the frequent stiffness of the second; we should rather call it in the best sense of the term, journalistic; that is, its aim is primarily directness and the ut- most clarity. In translating, Pro- fessor Langdon has had two loyalties, to his author, to transfer his meaning exactly, giving neither more nor less ; and to his reader, to make that meaning at least as clear as it is in the Italian. Many times, we are con- fident, he has made it clearer. To do this he confesses that he has made beauty of expression secondary; but so in a host of instances did Dante. Before condemning Langdon's trans- lation at any point as unpoetical, let the reader first do him the justice to turn to the original and see whether the defect be not there. This plea is particularly necessary in the Para- diso, in which are found the supreme heights of Dante's poetic utterance, but they are separated by arid wastes of scholastic philosophy that not even the exuberance of the Ital- ian language can clothe with beauty. After all, interpretation even more than translation has been Professor Langdon's aim in his Dante labors, and in the three volumes before us this purpose has found its most sym- pathetic medium in his Interpretative Analysis. This might better have been printed as a running com- mentary, but its character is accur- ately expressed by its title. It fol- lows the thread of action and discus- sion in the poem, and it makes clear Dante's meaning, especially in terms of modern life. This last represents Professor Langdon's enthusiasm that I 86 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 87 has buoyed him up during all his years of labor to present Dante in English. Dante's message to the world of today: that is what Pro- fessor Langdon has striven to deliver in his class-room, in his translation and in the freer field of his interpre- tations, and to this he will dedicate his fourth volume, which will be less a commentary than a consecutive treatise, and in which, having now fulfilled his obligation to the letter of Dante's teaching, he will renew his allegiance to its spirit. When that long desired volume is before us, but not till then, may we write the happy words: Finis coronat opus. BROWN AND THE PRESS By Henry T. Samson, '19 Alumni Manager T F we except the heated discussions •^ on the subject of business schools and their alleged invasion of the sa- cred precinct known as College Hill, no other topic of Brown import has raised as much havoc with good tem- pers and passive dispositions as this time-honored "publicity" business. Echoes of the latest flare-up still ring in our ears. Perhaps a frank discussion on the "publicity" question may do some good. It cannot be accused of doing much harm, for among several thou- sand loyal graduates scattered from Maine to San Francisco there should be a number of men who have some definite constructive opinions on this timely subject. The editor of the Alumni Monthly has graciously con- sented to publish whatever construc- tive views are submitted to him, in the hope that, when all is said, some- thing may be done to improve condi- tions. No one would be careless enough even to suppose that the "publicity" problem is a simple one, that it can be adjusted satisfactorily in a week or a month or that it can be solved by simply talking about it. Before we go any further, permit me to lodge a vigorous protest against the use of the term "pub- licity." No matter what the popular conception of the word may be, news- paper editors from the Golden Gate to Cape Cod have a sincere and last- ing dislike for the sound of the word. To them it means one thing — free advertisement. A man who comes to a newspaper office in search of "pub- licity" generally gets a poor reception and very little space in the news col- umns of the paper. The reason for this is that 75 per cent, of the "pub- licity hounds" are offering something to the paper which cannot be con- strued as news in any sense of the word. It is generally stale stuff which the majority of readers have not the slightest desire to read. I do not believe that Brown either wants or needs "publicity" in the modern newspaper sense of the word. What the College on the Hill wants is the publication of its legitimate news stories in newspapers which are printed in cities and towns where Brown alumni and undergraduates make their homes. This is not "pub- licity," but legitimate news, and, with a feeling that nothing but legitimate news will be furnished the news- papers, the alumni of Brown are con- fident that the editors of those papers 88 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY will give them the space which such news deserves. When we get the fact clearly be- fore us that no newspaper editor is going to publish stories simply be- cause they happen to come from Brown University, we will be in a frame of mind to consider the prob- lem of Brown's relations with the newspapers. Bearing in mind the important fact that newspapers are looking for news, let us next ask ourselves the question: "What has Brown got to offer the papers in the way of inter- esting news?" I do not agree with those who state that a large college centre like Brown has nothing at all to offer. Observation and imagina- tion are two faculties which, if they are used, will soon prove the falsity of such a statement. Football games, baseball games, basketball matches, track prospects and meets, schedules of the various teams, wrestling meets, changes in the line-up of teams, elections of cap- tains and managers, injuries sus- tained by valuable players, changes in the coaching staff, changes in the coaching policy, swimming prospects, schedule and policy, physical training programmes for the instruction of students in new games or exercises, record achievements made on the field, track or court, elections of class officers, academic honors (to a lim- ited extent) , changes of policy by the administration in teaching methods or the addition of new courses, hu- man interest stories on campus celeb- rities, musical club trips and pros- pects, new stunts arranged by the col- lege publications, the speeches and policies of the President, the Dean and members of the Corporation, so- cial events at the college, changes in the fraternity rushing agreements, changes of policy in the admission of students, the success of the university commons or restaurant, — ^and a hun- dred other proofs of college activity and progress seem to be legitimate subjects for news articles which may be published in a limited number of newspapers. The publication of these articles may be construed as "publicity," if you will, but the ed- itors will use such material as news, because it is interesting to their readers. The next question to consider is what papers will be interested in news from Brown. Here again, the answer depends to some extent upon the quality of the news as well as upon the number of readers who may be interested. The San Francisco Chronicle, for instance, will not be intrested in the election of Senior class officers, unless the president of the Senior class is a San Francisco boy or one of the other officers comes from that part of the country. On the other hand a trip taken by a Brown football team or musical club through the northern section of New York State will interest the papers of that section, especially those lo- cated in the cities where the team or the club will appear. Another point to be remembered is that of featuring subjects of local in- terest in small towns where Brown undergraduates are known by the people. In any proper handling of the Brown news situation, the most im- portant thing to do is to write the news in such a way that the news- papers will be able to use it without much editing or cutting. To gain the confidence of news editors by turning in clean copy is one of the first duties of any one handling copy going out from College Hill. Thus far our consideration has turned around the general subject of news dissenination. We now turn to one of the most important fields for news from the Hill — the big met- ropolitan dailies in New York, Bos- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 89 ton, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chi- cago and elsewhere. Here we are faced with a different phase of the problem. Boston and New York newspapers have accredited repre- sentatives in Rhode Island. Through these men the editors of the out-of- town papers order their stories of games and other athletics. If the Rhode Island man hears of a good story, he queries the New York or Boston editor on the wire and re- ceives a reply if the news is wanted. Conversations with editors in Bos- ton and New York make me feel with certainty that these editors will take very little news except what comes to them through regular channels from their accredited representatives. Therefore on news which goes to New York and Boston, the Brown news directors will find it necessary to work in closest cooperation with these accredited representatives. With the Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh papers which, as far as I know, do not receive much news from Providence by representatives (ex- cept through the Associated Press), it will be necessary to maintain contact by news letters sent out from the Brown office direct. Advance in- formation on schedules and events of coming interest may be sent out by letter. Cooperation with the news agency offices in Boston is also necessary, so that important news may be sent out on the wire by the Associated Press and other agencies, when the news warrants such atten- tion. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, West Point, Annapolis and several other large colleges will undoubtedly re- ceive more attention from the news- paper editors than Brown will. But there is no legitimate reason why a college which meets such teams as are on the Brown schedules, a univer- sity which is constantly doing some- thing worth while in one way or an- other, should not have more space than has been received by Brown during the past few years. In order to remedy the situation, the University has appointed a trained newspaper man to send out stories on university activities. This man is already at work. In coopera- tion with members of the Brown Daily Herald staff, the athletic di- rector, executive secretary and alum- ni manager, he is sending out news as fast as it can be written, to as many newspapers as possible. The success of his work depends to some extent upon the cooperation he re- ceives from the University and the accredited representatives of New York and Boston papers who are in Providence. How far his stories of Brown activities will reach in the newspaper world depends upon the news contained in those stories and whether interest in Brown may be alive in the cities where that news is sent. In other words, something has been done to solve the problem. Brown will never get into the papers as much as some of us expect in our most loyal moments. If we did. Har- vard, Yale and Princeton would be pushed off the printed page, as they are pushed off the gridiron and the diamond, sometimes. But while the University does its best to distribute legitimate news to papers that should be interested, and while the alumni do their best to make certain that those papers do get interested, there is more reason for us all to rejoice than for a few of us to complain. And then, in our most sober moments of reflection, we must admit that complaints are very often the fore- runners of dynamic changes — and progress. The AssociATKn Alumni of Brown University Edword H. Wccka. 1893, Ptaldenl William C. Gf«nc.l875. Vice PreaidenI Chnrln R. Adaini. l880,Vice Prcaident Ir. Barrows. 1883. Vice Pr