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ALUMNI MONTHLY 




ON THE HILL i 

Commencement Week — $500,000 Athletic Fund Successful — Vote Early 
for Trustees — Walter H. Kimball as Naturalist 

DR. FAUNCE'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY 3 

Addresses by Governor Flynn, Mayor Gainer, Dr. English, Professor Ev- 
erett and President Faunce 

PRESIDENT FAUNCE: A TRIBUTE . . . C.E.Hughes 6 

A NATURE LOVER'S DIARY W.H. Kimball 8 

WITH THE CLUBS A. H. Gurney 11 

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Vol. XXV 



PROVIDENCE, JUNE, 1924 



No. 1 



On The Hill 



\\7 HEN the class of 1923, at the re- 
quest and with the co-operation of 
the Brown Club of Providence, the Alumni 
Manager and other interested Brown men, 
revived the custom of confining Class Day 
activities to the campus, it started some- 
thing that the class of 1924 will continue 
thoroughly though with certain changes in 
detail, which, the committee believes, will 
appeal to all Brunonians and friends of 
Brown. 

Gerald W. Bennett '24, chairman, and 
the members of the Class Day committee 
have put in a great deal of honest work to 
make Class Day on Monday, June 16, the 
traditional one. They have profited by the 
experience of last year's class, which 
brought the day back to the campus after 
a period of years. Their programme reads 
well; we are confident that it will work 
out well, especially if the weather man will 
act as a true Brown sympathizer should 
and is liberal with his best brand of June 
sunshine. 

The Class Day exercises will begin at 
3 o'clock with a band concert. At 4 o'clock 
the Seniors and their guests will gather 
under the elms on the middle campus to 
hear an address by President Joe Nutter, 
the farewell oration by Charles S. Stedman 
of Albany, N. Y., the class poem by Ernest 
F. Schmults of New York, the class ode by 
Mahlon M. Meier of Glen Ridge, N. J., 
the class prophecy by Edward R. Place of 
East Randolph, Vt., and a short talk by 
President Faunce. An informal tea will 
follow at 5.30 in the Brown Union. 

In the evening at 8 o'clock the college 
grounds will be illuminated. There will 
be a band concert, the Senior dance in 
Sayles and the Brown Union and at 10 
o'clock the Senior sing on the chapel steps. 
The Seniors will gather at midnight for 



their march down the Hill; and once the 
Roman candles and the red lights fade and 
the tumult and the cheering dies, all lights 
on the campus will be put out and the day 
will be called officially a day. 

Alumni Day will be Tuesday. It will 
begin with a meeting of the Rhode Island 
Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa, shift tempora- 
rily to the Women's College, where the Ivy 
Day exercises will take place, and then re- 
turn to the campus for the annual meeting 
of the Associated Alumni at 8 o'clock in 
the evening in Rockefeller Hall. 

The one hundred and fifty-sixth annual 
Commencement will open Wednesday, 
June 18, with the procession from the front 
campus to the First Baptist Meeting House, 
where the graduating exercises will be held. 
The Senior speakers will be George H. 
Hunt of Richmond Hill, N. Y., Herbert 
D. Lamson of Exeter, N. H., George Saute 
of Centreville, R. I., and Samuel E. Wil- 
kins, Jr., of Providence. President Faunce 
will confer the honorary degrees, and then 
the procession will return to the campus for 
luncheon. 

At the exercises in Sayles Hall, the 
speakers will be President Faunce, Gov- 
ernor William S. Flynn, Masana Hani- 
hara, Japanese Ambassador to the United 
States, and Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor 
of the Boston Herald. Elmer T. Stevens 
'04 of Chicago will act as presiding officer. 
The baseball game, with Dartmouth, will 
be played at 4 o'clock, with incidental fun- 
making and parades by several of the re- 
union classes. President Faunce will hold 
his annual reception at the Faculty Club. 
13 Brown street, from 9 to 11 o'clock in 
the evening. To this reception all alumni 
are invited. The meeting of the Corpo- 
ration on Thursday morning, June 19, will 
close the week. 



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Readers of the Alumni Monthly will 
please note that the Faculty Club will be 
open for the use of alumni during Com- 
mencement Week and that the University 
Club will keep open house on Commence- 
ment Day. 

The Women's College will observe 
Alumnae Day on Saturday, June 14, with 
a luncheon, a meeting of the Alumnae As- 
sociation, an address by Dean Morriss, a 
reading by Professor Thomas Crosby, Jr., 
a campus party, a reception to Dean Mor- 
riss, class suppers and a dance in Sayles 
Gymnasium. 



C UCCESS has crowned the splendid ef- 
forts of the committees in charge of the 
drive for the new half-million-dollar 
Brown University athletic plant. At the 
dinner given in honor of President Faunce 
on May sixteenth it was announced that 
the amount pledged was $465,000, only 
$35,000 less than the total asked for. It 
is further understood that the remainder 
is in sight. There may be no final an- 
nouncement previous to Commencement 
Day but there can be no doubt that the 
campaign has proved an entire triumph for 
the skillful and energetic Brunonians and 
friends of Brown who gave so generously 
of their time, thought and work to it. 

The list of individual contributors will 
shortly be made public. In the meantime 
one gift has been announced — that of $100,- 
OOO from Messrs. Henry L. Aldrich '76 
and his brother Charles T. Aldrich '77. 
These liberal donors, loyal sons of Brown, 
have been much interested in athletics ever 
since their college days. While undergrad- 
uates they were on college teams and it is 
particularly fitting that their gift should be 
recognized, as has been done, by the desig- 
nation of the Cole avenue tract of fifteen 
acres as Aldrich Field. On this field 
there will be a number of football fields 
and several baseball diamonds also, includ- 
ing the 'varsity diamond and grandstand. 
The task of clearing this area of its jungle 



of trees and undergrowth is now far ad- 
vanced. 

With the completion of the Brown Stad- 
ium, west of Elmgrove avenue, a year 
from next fall, the most remarkable foot- 
ball schedule in the history of the Univer- 
sity will be staged. The Monthly printed 
the list of games last month. For conven- 
ience it may be repeated here: 

Sept. 26, pending; Oct. 3, Colby; Oct. 
10, University of Pennsylvania; Oct. 17, 
Bates; Oct. 24, Yale; Oct. 31, Dartmouth; 
Nov. 7, pending; Nov. 14, Harvard; Nov. 
21, University of New Hampshire; Nov. 
28, Colgate. 

All games will be in the Brown Stad- 
ium. 

* * * 

A SPECIAL request is made of all 
those who are eligible to participate 
in the choice of Trustees to cast their votes 
early. Votes must be in the Alumni Office 
by June 16 in order to insure their being 
counted. We print the names of the sev- 
eral candidates elsewhere. Naturally we 
have no preferences; all the nominees are 
capable and loyal Brown men. As soon as 
you get your official ballot, place an X op- 
posite the name of Hughes, Porter or Rice, 
candidates for the first vacancy, and 
another X opposite the name of Bayliss or 
Hoyt, candidates for the second vacancy. 
Then mail it promptly and accept, without 
further notice, the appreciation of those on 
whom devolves the onerous duty of count- 
ing the ballots. 

* * * 

tfLSEWHERE in this number of the 
"^ Alumni Monthly we print some inter- 
esting extracts from the diary of the late 
Walter Hammond Kimball '94. They 
were selected by his friend, Edwin A. Bur- 
lingame, comptroller of the University, 
and we only wish we had room for more. 
They show a close observation of nature 
and a great love of it. 

Kimball was a loyal son of Brown. At 
his death, which came at an all too early 



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age, he left Brown his collection of books, 
which has been described as "a gentleman's 
library of some three thousand volumes, 
consisting mainly of English literature and 
general history." It includes some choice 
Kelmscott items, also items from most of 
the other famous presses of the past one 
hundred years, with many first editions and 
fine bindings. We have heard its replace- 



ment value put as high as $40,000. 
In addition Kimball left his residuary es- 
tate to the University, and this will prob- 
ably net $150,000. His classmates, meeting 
for their thirtieth anniversary reunion this 
month, will miss him from their presence, 
but find some measure of consolation in the 
memory of his sincere and lovable person- 
ality. 



Dr. Faunce's 25th Anniversary 



f~\ N THE evening of May sixteenth a 
^^^ gathering of four hundred Brown 
men together with a few other guests as- 
sembled in the ball room of the Providence 
Biltmore Hotel to do honor to President 
Faunce on the occasion of his twenty-fifth 
anniversary as head of the University. Un- 
fortunately we lack space to give the sev- 
eral excellent addresses in full ; however, 
we print elsewhere in this number of the 
Monthly the notable address of Secretary 
Hughes. It is full of the spirit of the oc- 
casion and sums up concisely and eloquently 
Dr. Faunce's first quarter-century in the 
executive office. Whether the first twenty- 
five years are the hardest in the life of a 
college president we do not undertake to 
say, but certainly at their close the presi- 
dent of Brown finds himself with a more 
loyal and sympathetic Brunonian following 
than ever before. His achievements for 
the University in these years from 1899 to 
1924 are nothing short of remarkable. 

The toastmaster at the dinner was Ar- 
chibald C. Matteson '93, president of the 
Associated Alumni, who showed himself a 
model presiding officer. His introductions 
of the several speakers were brief and to 
the point. He did not misinterpret his 
function — as most toastmasters unfortu- 
nately do ; he had something pertinent to 
say about each speaker, said it in his crisp, 
staccato fashion, and sat down. 

The first speaker was Governor William 
S. Flynn of Rhode Island. The toastmas- 



ter, in introducing him, remarked that the 
first Brunonian Governor of Rhode Island 
was James Fenner and the latest, though 
not the last, James H. Higgins. Governor 
Flynn said in part : 

"Dr. Faunce, we are happy and proud 
to celebrate your 25th anniversary as Pres- 
ident of that splendid institution whose 
fame, spread by scores of illustrious 
alumni, is circumscribed only by the boun- 
daries of this round earth. You instill into 
the hearts of undergraduates of Brown 
University and reawaken in its alumni that 
spirit which has made you a great Presi- 
dent and Brown a great university." 

In introducing Mayor Gainer, the toast- 
master called attention to the fact that the 
first mayor of Providence, Samuel W. 
Bridgham, was a graduate of Brown. 

The Mayor said : 

"In the name of the city of Providence 
I bring to-night her heartiest felicitations 
and her sincerest congratulations, together 
with my own personal tribute of respect 
and admiration, to the man who for the 
past quarter of a century has presided so 
wisely and efficiently over the destinies of 
Brown University. 

"Our distinguished guest has not inter- 
preted the duties of his position in any nar- 
row fashion. He has not confined his ac- 
tivities or his usefulness within the limits 
of the collegiate world. His slogan has 
always been 'that the community and the 
college must be brought into a close and in- 



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timate relationship,' and surely no man has 
done more to make this slogan an accom- 
plished fact. 

"Every movement for community uplift, 
every civic enterprise, every charitable en- 
deavor has had his co-operation and support, 
and in many of these movements we have 
looked to him to take the lead and to utter 
the word of inspiration which would begin 
our campaign. His mastery of the English 
language, his concise method of going to 
the heart of every subject, his keen sympa- 
thy and understanding of the aspirations of 
humanity however situated and wherever 
expressed, his general willingness to give 
himself to the service of his fellows, whether 
in the solution of the acute problem of war 
or of the equally important problem of 
peace, have made him an invaluable asset to 
the city of Providence, an asset of which 
we are all intensely proud." 

Rev. Dr. John M. English '70 of New- 
ton Theological Institution said : 

"The corporation cordially congratulates 
President Faunce on the physical expansion 
of the L T niversity during his administra- 
tion. If you seek his monument, look about 
you. 

"President Faunce's success has been due 
in no small measure to the spirit of reason- 
ableness that has characterized his adminis- 
tration. He has invited counsel ; he has 
been willing to take and to follow sound 
advice and to change his own judgments 
and surrender his own policies if convinced 
that it was wise to do so. 

"President Faunce's idealism has been a 
prominent source of his successful admin- 
istration. He possesses the imaginative gift 
and has seen visions. He has had his eye 
open to possible advances in education — in 
its scope, its theory, its spirit and its meth- 
ods. 

"Sanity has characterized the progress 
that the University has made. President 
Faunce is not a visionary. He has kept his 
feet firmly on the ground while his head 
has been among the stars. His practical 
judgment has come to the rescue to make 
progress sane and safe. 



"An outstanding element of the success 
of President Faunce's administration is his 
effectiveness in public speech. He is both 
rhetorician and orator. He is master of a 
clear, forcible and finished style and his 
tongue is golden. His is the public speak 
er's temperament." 

Professor Walter G. Everett '85, who 
in the academic year of 1912-13 was acting 
President of the University while Presi- 
dent Faunce was absent on sabbatic leave, 
spoke in part as follows : 

"If all the members of our faculty to- 
night could speak of their association with 
Dr. Faunce, their words -would constitute 
a volume of rare tribute. 

"I ought, perhaps, to remind you that 
the presidency of a college or a university 
is one of the easiest, most carefree and 
tranquil positions a man could hold. If 
you do not believe this, ask my good friend, 
Dr. Meiklejohn, who is with us this even- 
ing. Public, faculty, corporation, student 
body and alumni are in such perfect har- 
mony that the President has only to wave 
his official baton to achieve a perfect sym- 
phony. 

Dr. Faunce has not only tolerated but 
has welcomed differences among the faculty 
— differences in gift, differences in opinion. 
Time and time again, against his own judg- 
ment, Dr. Faunce has gracefully bowed to 
the will of the majority. We have always 
been able to talk out our differences before 
him. 

Dr. Faunce said in part : 

"I hope you will not think me ungrateful 
when I say that I can take no satisfaction 
in surveying the mole hills I have climbed 
when I gaze upon the great and lofty sum- 
mits remaining to be surmounted. 

"If we shrink from compliment, he 
would be more or less than human who did 
not prize friendship. It is the sweetest 
thing in life. To get it and to retain it 
through the years, which is much harder, 
is to have the sweetest thing that could 
come to man, and that has come to me. 

To me an institution is a biological un- 
folding, is a sacred living organism whose 



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roots are buried deep in the past and whose 
branches spread out, always in unpredict- 
able fashion, into the sky above. To cher- 
ish and nourish such a growth, now with 
the tears of anxiety and now with those of 
joy, is to have a part in life. 

"If I have not had a definite and fixed 
programme, I have always had my ideals 
and will have them as long as I live. One 
of these ideals is the keeping alive of lib- 
eral education. 

"We must ground our students in the 
larger basic studies and leave the more 
practical touches to be put on by others. 
The best engineers in this country have 
said to me again and again, 'Give your stu- 
dents a sound foundation in the fundamen- 
tals, and we will give them more practical 
applications in six weeks than you could 
give them in six years.' The first thing is 
to push out the horizon beyond the hat 
brim, to enable a man to survey more than 
his own dooryard. 

"I believe in the quadrilateral that makes 
the university — corporation, faculty, stu- 
dents and alumni. I believe in the faculty. 
It is said that teachers are idealistic and 
dreamers. Thank God if there are some 
idealists left in this world of ours. 

"I believe in our students. They do 
most preposterous things. I live on a vol- 
cano. But I notice that peasants who live 
on the slopes of Aetna and Vesuvius come 
back and settle down contentedly after each 
fresh eruption. And so do I. 

"I believe in the corporation of the Uni- 
versity. Never once has any member of 
it asked me to violate my conscience. 

"That the Secretary of State should 
crown the friendship that began in 1877 by 
dropping his great burdens in Washington 
and coming here to-night has touched me 
more deeply than any event in the past 25 
years. 

"I believe in the alumni. The alumni 
are now engaged in a project which will 
place the physical foundation of an intel- 
lectual education on a sounder basis than 
ever before. 

"I have believed that men of all par- 



ties, sects, creeds, races may co-operate in 
the great task of educating American youth. 
I have believed that our differences all dis- 
appear when we come together for this 
great task and responsibility. Twenty-five 
years ago the college and the city were at 
swords' points. To-day they are in perfect 
harmony. There is no spirit of town and 
gown. 

"I believe in keeping the open mind, in 
facing facts in every quarter of the globe. 
I believe with James Russell Lowell that 
the world is fireproof and that it is safe to 
strike matches. 

"Hence I have welcomed at Brown Uni- 
versity men of every faith and every creed 
and ever shall. Many times I have heard 
men say from platforms at Brown things 
which I could never believe, and I have 
bid them go on. In the State founded by 
Roger Williams, the university will always 
stand for giving a platform to every man 
of whatever faith or creed who speaks with 
proper courtesy and consideration for his 
fellow man. 

"Again with all my heart I thank you. 
Some of you have come far to-night — one 
whom I know has come from 1 500 miles. 

"Can it be a hall can become a place of 
dedication? Can it be a dinner can be- 
come a sacrament? I think we shall go 
from this room, not thinking of persons 
but of principles, not thinking of this or 
that event but of the cause which is the 
cause of America, of civilization, of the 
kingdom of justice on earth. I think we 
shall go forth dedicating ourselves to the 
task ahead of us. 

"I wrote out my resignation a short time 
ago and tried to present it to the corpora- 
tion. But a certain combination of finesse 
and filibuster prevented me from presenting 
it. It is written, and it is there any time 
they call for it. 

"Some day men will come after us who 
will do what we could never do, who will 
realize what now are far-away dreams and 
who will accomplish the things we have 
lived and died for." 

Music during the dinner was furnished 
by the Brown Symphony Orchestra under 



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the leadership of Arlan R. Coolidge, and 
by the 'varsity quartet composed of Dudley 



Carleton Scott, Herbert D. Lamson, Ed- 
ward A. Hosp and John Cotton. 



President Faunce: A Tribute 

By Charles E. Hughes '81 at the 25th Anniversary Dinner, May 16, 1924 



[ T IS quite true that love of Brown and 
respect and esteem for the President of 
Brown have played their part in bringing 
me here. But i would be lacking in candor 
if I did not say that it is a privilege to come 
into a friendly gathering, that it is a pleas- 
ure to exchange an atmosphere of competi- 
tive censoriousness for one wherein one pays 
his tribute of admiration and esteem to him 
whom he loves. 

Dr. English has reminded us that for 
the third time in its 160 years Brown Uni- 
versity has the privilege of congratulating 
its President upon a quarter-century of ser- 
vice. It is no disparagement of the eminent 
abilities and dynamic power of- other Presi- 
dents to say that the three administrations 
to which I have referred are those which, 
not only by reason of length of term but 
because of the nature and quality of service, 
accomplished most for the University. 

James Manning, our first President, 
served for nearly 26 years. The time of his 
actual administration was considerably less 
than that, for during the Revolutionary 
War the college was disrupted. That was 
the period of feeble beginnings, of the slen- 
derest resources, but it was the essential 
start, and had it not been for the splendid 
leadership and indomitable energy of Man- 
ning the enterprise would have perished. He 
put it on a sure foundation. 

Francis Wayland, the fourth President 
of the University, held that office for over 
28 years, the middle period in our history. 
He was a king among men and a prophet 
among college presidents, proclaiming the 
coming of the new day in American educa- 
tion. Brown will ever bear the Wayland 
stamp. 

And now we celebrate the third presi- 
dency of 25 years, that of Faunce, the pe- 



riod of the University's most extraordinary 
development. If anyone 25 years ago had 
prophesied what would be achieved in that 
period, in securing funds for the Univer- 
sity, in new buildings, in the provision of 
facilities and all that pertains to the expan- 
sion of equipment, he would have been 
thought a fantastic dreamer. It is a record 
of accomplishment apparently so easy, so 
gradual and with so little excitement that 
it has seemed to us, under whose eyes it has 
taken place, as inevitable as the processes of 
nature. We cannot think of Brown with- 
out the Administration building, Rockefel- 
ler Hall, the Engineering building, Caswell 
Hall, the John Hay Library, the John Car- 
ter Brown Library, the Arnold Laboratory 
and the Chemical building, to mention 
these outstanding additions during the 
present administration. 

Along with this development we have 
had the cultural gains without which ma- 
terial equipment are but a mockery. 
Courses of instruction have been strength- 
ened and expanded, the quality of the fac- 
ulty maintained, the power and influence 
of the University as an educational centre 
notably increased. But these things have 
not come to pass fortuitously. We owe 
them to the strength and skill which have 
produced a leadership without friction, and 
to the tact and resourcefulness which have 
made this the most remarkable of all the 
administrations that Brown has known. 

We selected as our executive a minister 
of the gospel, but one possessing a shrewd- 
ness and capacity for business which has 
made his practical wisdom as far famed as 
his spirituality. We chose an orator, but 
one whose persuasiveness in the rooms of 
the executive committee and at the meet- 
ings of the faculty rivalled his eloquence 



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upon the platform. We selected a student, 
but one who knew not only books, but the 
ways of men. He has maintained the best 
tradition of the scholarly college Presidents 
of former days, but still has been able to 
meet with consummate ability the exigencies 
of the 20th century. The amazing success 
of the University in the past 25 years is 
not a miracle, but is the result of the un- 
wearying and well-directed efforts of a re- 
markable personality, of one whom we are 
glad to greet as being still in the enjoyment 
of the vigor and outlook of triumphant 
youth. 

Mr. President, you have received the 
tribute of the State, of the officers and fac- 
ulty of the University. It is my privilege 
to bring you the tribute of the sons and 
daughters of Brown, and to voice their deep 
gratitude for what you have wrought to 
justify our faith, to enlarge the service and 
enhance the renown of our cherishing 
mother. We graduates can do but little. 
Some of us sit on boards and have some part 
in carrying forward your work. All have 
the potency of criticism. Most of us are 
watching from afar with the loving interest 
that increases with the years. But our so- 
licitude would be in vain if there were not 
in the highest authority the driving force 
of exceptional ability and intelligent plan- 
ning. The sons and daughters of Brown 
respect you, admire you and love you. 

But I should like to give expression to 
the sentiment of a wider community which 
rejoices in the effectiveness of this educa- 
tional power-house. We cannot see far 
into the future, but we know that whatever 
confidence we hold, whatever hope we cher- 
ish, lies in the training of the mind and 
the molding of the character of our youth 
through our educational institutions. Ed- 
ucation, and still more education, points the 
only solution of the problem of democracy. 

We rejoice that Brown University has 
been an exemplar of the freedom of learn- 
ing; that established at a time when secta- 
rian restrictions were most common and se- 
vere, it erected the standard of freedom 
from religious tests. It knows no creed, 



no ambition but the service of truth. Its 
founders had the calm confidence of those 
who were willing to trust the pursuit of 
truth. They established from the religious 
denominations of the time a system of 
control which would insure in the educa- 
tional world the freedom of conscience 
which those most active in the enterprise 
demanded in the religious sphere. Brown 
University has not suffered from this cher- 
ished freedom either with respect to the 
soundness of its culture or the spiritual in- 
fluences which have always dominated its 
life. 

Some years ago it was thought that we 
were coming to a time when the college 
President would be a mere man of business 
— of budgets, of purchases, of solicitations. 
That danger, I believe, has passed. In the 
appalling increase in material things, in the 
pressure of a thousand demands created by 
the complexity of our material life, we are 
recognizing more and more the essentiality 
of the leadership of mind and spirit. We 
realize that in our universities we must not 
only have classrooms and laboratories, li- 
braries and athletic fields, numerous teach- 
ers and instructors of repute, but to make 
all worth while there must stand out those 
who in their daily conduct, in their pre- 
eminent ability, in the strength and simplic- 
ity of their character, constitute the best 
exemplars of American life beckoning 
youth to privileges and satisfactions that no 
mere material success can offer. 

Lives of successful men of affairs too 
often finish in regret for the neglect of the 
opportunities of service, in discontent be- 
cause of the neglected resources of the spirit 
which alone can give enrichment when the 
victories of the material life have been won. 
The college President, not by taking 
part in the strife of political controversies, 
not by cheapening himself in the area of 
trivial disputes, but by standing forth as the 
representative of the ripe wisdom and the 
balanced judgment of his time has a role to 
play of the greatest beneficence. 

In our President, whom we honor to- 
night, we recognize the pre-eminence of 



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character, of lofty thought, of consecrated 
purpose, of unselfish devotion to the best 
things of life. The passing of the years 
has brought to him no abatement of his ar- 
dor because of disillusion, no narrowness, 
no intellectual inertia through the fatigue 
of many duties, none of the indifference of 
cynicism through long observation of the 
failings of human nature. He is still the 
preacher, the inspirer, the courageous de- 
fender of the faith which does not seek 
conviction at the price of mental rectitude. 
May I, in conclusion, pay the tribute of 
personal friendship. We speak of the as- 
sociations of college life as the most de- 
lightful, but the college associations that 



count the most are not those of the 
thoughtless escapade, of the merry adven- 
ture, pleasant as are the reminiscences of 
unterrified youth. The best of all is the 
association with those of our own time, 
who already in the years of their student 
life bore upon them the divine stamp of 
leadership, those who gave us no cause for 
anxiety and left us no room for regret. In 
my own time, Faunce stood out as one of 
the young men of demonstrated ability, of 
the highest character, who represented to 
us in college days and has always stood 
before us as the example of what a Chris- 
tian scholar and gentleman should be. 



A Nature Lover's Diary 



Ninety-four is celebrating its thirtieth 
Commencement. Among its former mem- 
bers who have gone over the Great Divide 
is Walter Hammond Kimball. "In death 
he remembered his Alma Mater'' and his 
beneficence will be a permanent blessing to 
the University. 

The real "Kim" was known but to a 
favored few, and it seems fitting to print 
bits from his diary as an informal intro- 
duction of the man to other Brown men. 

Probably the diary has little value for 
the student, but it at least reflects the in- 
terests and observations of a lover of the 
great outdoors. He might well have said: 

"I have so loved the glory of the day 

From singing dawn to sunset's wondrous 
glow, 

It seems so?ne light must linger in my eyes 

When life is done." 

E. A. B. 

March nth, iQ2i. To-day was a clear 
and warm spring day. Went to Wau- 
chaug. Frogs that I call "rattlers" most 
vociferous in frog pond, but I could hear 
no peepers. These, that is the "rattlers," 
as far as my experience goes, are always 
the first frog sounds in this locality; lead- 
ing the peeping frogs (hylas) by at least 
a day or two, and sometimes nearly a week, 



especially if the weather is at all cold. The 
hylas seem at the first to require a some- 
what higher degree of temperature to bring 
them forth from their winter torpor. 

March 13th, iQ2i. All the way down 
little tinklings of song sparrow melody 
drifted into the car like little percussions 
upon delicate glass vessels — most typical 
of March, silver bell-like tinklings from 
almost every bush and copse and shrubbed 
wall along the route. Now and then saw 
a robin fly across and crows were sunning 
themselves and cawing contentedly in many 
a russet and yellow field. Saw no star- 
lings, which was surprising, and no blue- 
birds along the road. Heard the latter, 
however, in the depth of the woods up 
through the wood trails. This is the first 
bluebird note I have heard this spring, al- 
though I saw one one warm Sunday last 
January on McSparren Hill. 

March 17th, IQ2I. Thermometer 40 
degrees at 8 a. m. Bright sun but a cold 
raw wind from the southwest. Went to 
Wauchaug. My private road was settled, 
with no signs of frost, although somewhat 
soggy. Rather a day for negations in re- 
gard to bird life. Of course there was the 
usual sprinkling of song sparrows, blue- 
birds, robins and myrtle warblers along the 



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way but they were not at all plentiful and 
kept pretty well out of sight. Went over 
to the frog pool and sat for twenty min- 
utes motionless, watching and waiting for 
the croakers. Had my big glass that I 
might identify them but not one sound or 
sign during the whole time that there was 
such a thing as a frog in the pool. Sunday 
the water was fairly alive with them. 

An apple tree trunk in the old orchard 
is the most marvelous example of bark pit- 
ting (I suppose by downy woodpeckers) 
that I ever saw; from the ground upward 
for at least 12 feet the trunk is circled by 
pits, just through the bark to the hard 
wood, each pit being on an average a quar- 
ter of an inch from the next one and each 
girdle of pits not being more than an inch 
from the one below; sometimes not more 
than one-half an inch between. The cir- 
culation of sap between bark and wood in 
a case like this must necessarily be very 
much interrupted. Very few pits on the 
other trees. Why was this single apple 
trunk selected ? . . . 

March 26th, 1Q21. Wind southeast, 
thermometer 47 degrees with signs of a 
warm, showery day. Robins are now in full 
song early in the morning. The elms them- 
selves no longer present the delicate sil- 
houette of twigs against the sky. But the 
swelling buds have covered the twigs so that 
now the form of the tree lies against the 
sky in a flat luminous mist. 

March 2jth, iQ2i. Easter. "The first 
Sunday after the full moon that comes after 
the vernal equinox!" Full moon on March 
23rd. Thermometer 50 degrees. A misty 
drizzly morning. Went to Wauchaug. 
I think robins to-day were more plentiful 
than I ever remember to have seen them. 

Saw a few bluebirds apparently ma- 
ted and with that unmistakable hurry and 
bustle of home-hunting. At the Red Goose 
the first notes to greet me were those of the 
phebe. . . Heard the rattle of a king- 
fisher several times and also the "whick, 
whick, whick" of a flicker, an unfailing 
sound of spring. From the oak woods 



came the "yank yank" of a white-breasted 
nut hatch and a medium-sized flock of star- 
lings were near the road just beyond Ken- 
yon's. Saw them about the same location 
last week. Have not seen a sign of a star- 
ling at the Red Goose yet. Hope I may 
not as they impress me as coarse, vulgar 
birds, not at all to be admitted to the se- 
lect society of our delicate, fastidious New 
England kind, such as the bluebird. . . 
Arbutus buds have pushed forward won- 
derfully and where a week ago they were 
apparently few and there was but poor out- 
look for blossoms now every clump is proud 
with a swelling cluster of buds almost 
ready to burst into flower and sprinkle the 
forest floor with their white star petals. 
Saw just two blossoms, but a week will 
bring them forth in full glory. Saw one 
leopard frog over in the frog pool but there 
was no rattling. Peepers (hyla picker- 
ingii) were calling from the swampy 
ground around the pool. Several leaped 
from under my feet and it was not difficult 
to catch them in my hands. Some were a 
very dark Vandyke — almost black and 
hardly distinguishable from the black earth 
of the swamp, while one little fellow that 
sat for some time contentedly in my hand 
was of the faintest shade of light ashy 
brown with a hint of pink underlying. He 
swlled out his bulbous throat but gave no 
sound. 

April 2nd, IQ2I. Thermometer 40 de- 
grees. Wind northeast ; brilliant sun. Ice 
in the gutters from last night. 

April 3rd, iQ2j. Thermometer 50 de- 
grees ; bright sunny day. Went to Wau- 
chaug. White-bellied swallows for the 
first time. Forsythia in full blow. Spar- 
row hawk on telegraph wire. Camping 
party on Hoxsie farm started fire on the 
hill that, driven by a strong northwest 
wind, swept down and onto my farm, burn- 
ing and totally destroying ice house, boat 
house, boat, old barn and Hoxsie home- 
stead. Thought surely garage and Red 
Goose would go, as flames completely sur- 
rounded both, but both of them stood seem- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ingly by a miracle. In truth the flames 
passed so quickly, feeding on the dry grass, 
that they passed before the well-painted 
wood work could catch. Many birds flying 
hither and thither seemed completely rat- 
tled by the calamity. Got away myself 
with auto by tearing down back line wall 
of farm and forcing machine through about 
a mile and a half of woods and underbrush 
to the Post road. Fire followed a good 
part of my trail and was only extinguished 
by many fire companies and volunteer fight- 
ers after burning to the King Tom farm 
and sweeping nearly a thousand acres of 
valuable woodland. 

April 5th, iQ2i. Thermometer 64 de- 
grees; bright sunshine and the day devel- 
oped into the warmest April 5th on record, 
maximum temperature 82 degrees. Went 
to Wauchaug. The beautiful country for 
several square miles a blackened waste. 
Very dry and one cannot walk without be- 
ing covered with dirt and blackness. A 
curious thing is the astonishing number of 
birds that the lack of natural cover reveals. 
Perhaps my imagination sees an unnatural 
appearance of worry and astonishment in 
their flyings about. White-bellied swal- 
lows plentiful ; also many bluebirds singing 
and apparently mating and nest hunting, 
more than I have seen at any one time. 
Robins in large numbers flying about and 
feeding in the blackened meadows. The 
beauty of my Red Goose prospect is gone 
for some years at least, and the years now 
alas! are growing fewer. 

April 10th, iQ2i. The whole country- 
side was melodious with bird song. The 
chorus was so continuous and mingled that 
it was difficult to distinguish individual 
performers. Notes of a few meadow larks, 
two pairs of bluebirds — at least — were 
around the house all day, but I could not 
place them as having a nest in any of the 
boxes. A pair of phoebes had just started 
a nest on the cross beam over or in front 
of the back door and of course were terribly 
put out at our presence and use of the re- 
frigerator closet. They will of course be 



driven away. They sat on the bare twigs 
of a bush just by the steps and scolded us 
vociferously, every now and then making 
a dart in our direction and snapping their 
bills, but getting the better of their rash- 
ness before coming too near. 

The rain has done the burned country a 
wonderful amount of benefit, washing the 
trees and driving the blackness into the 
ground. Green grass shoots are coming so 
fast that already the general blackness is 
showing a vernal tinge. Robins were ev- 
erywhere singing, calling and chattering 
only out of pure vivacity as it seemed. 
Never saw so many. Perry Hoxsie says 
robins and swallows are now our most 
abundant birds, now that the robin pie 
habit has passed. 

Arbutus in the wood paths not burned 
and in full blow. Will be all over in a 
few days. Maples a blush of rouge along 
the borders of wet lands or swampy spots. 
Flickers, blue jays and white-bellied swal- 
lows. Heard the toads trilling for the 
first time this season. How Caroline would 
love to be told that her mysterious spring 
trill comes from the toad. And I could not 
find proof until I delved in Thoreau's 
diary. What must have been a white-bel- 
lied swallow perched on top of juniper 
bush. Unidentifiable bird song everywhere. 
From one of the paper bird boxes (Win- 
throp Packard's) I started a flying squirrel. 
He ran a couple of feet or more on the oak 
trunk above his box and hung watching me 
with big round frightened eyes. A blunt, 
unattractive head and a flat, thin tail. A 
light brownish ash color with the flying 
membrane lying against the side of the 
body when at rest, making a line against 
the fur that resembled a wound somewhat. 
In fact, the fur was so fine and of so indis- 
tinguishable a color that it almost looked 
like ashy colored flesh. Pushed a stick at him 
and he wheeled around head downwards 
as if going to attack me. Another push and 
he launched himself beautifully, opening 
wide his natural parachute and sailing on 
an angle- of perhaps 20 degrees; arrived as 



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lightly as a (not a feather or a snowflake, 
for their drop is not continuous, but as 
lightly and as noiselessly as a) bat or a fly- 
ing owl at the base of another oak; for a 
guess I should say the flight had been about 



twenty feet. Alighted head up. A pretty 
sight and one I had not before seen. Wind 
shifted to northeast by night and it was 
cold going home. 



With the Clubs 



Every member of the Associated Alumni 
is hereby invited to return to the campus 
during Commencement Week and renew 
his youth. The executive committee is 
planning an entertainment to follow the 
brief annual meeting to be held Tuesday 
evening, June 17, at 8 o'clock in Rocke- 
feller Hall. 

It is also arranging to have the Alumni 
Office, John Hay Library, open Class Day 
evening and continuously from 9 o'clock 
Tuesday morning until 5 o'clock Wednes- 
day afternoon. At the office there will be 
a registration bureau and every alumnus is 
asked to visit and put his name in the book. 
There will likewise be an information desk 
where one may learn of the whereabouts of 
class reunions, of individuals and of what- 
ever else it is humanly possible to tell about. 

Moreover, any alumnus who wants a 
room reserved for him at a Providence ho- 
tel may have the immediate service of the 
Alumni Office by merely putting his request 
in writing and sending it to the Alumni 
Manager, John Hay Library, as early as he 
can possibly do so. Now is the time to get 
under way! 



NEW YORK 

As copy for this issue of the Monthly 
was due, the Brown Club of New York 
was getting ready for its annual meeting. 
So the news of what was done at the meet- 
ing must go over until the July issue. 

The last month has been a quiet one, 
with Brown men looking in from all parts 
of the country and with only a few changes 
in the old guard at the Club. Thomas L. 
Keily '14 has returned from Philadelphia 



to the New York office of the J. C. Stra- 
han Co., and is once more a member of the 
guard in good standing. John J. Riley '16 
has been with us for several weeks and we 
hope he will stay permanently. Another 
welcome addition is Robert B. Coons '23, 
who is learning the hotel business with T. 
Elliott Tolson '06 at the Hotel Bristol. 

Recent visitors at the Club include E. 
A. Maynard '95, Palmerton, Pa., T. B. 
Baylies '95, New Bedford, Mass., William 
A. Jones '96, George S. Goodspeed '14, 
J. R. Carlson '15 of Boston, Francis V. 
Davis '26, Sioux City, la., F. A. Little 
and George Hunter '93, Des Moines, la., 
C. S. Anderson 1900, Worcester, Mass., 
C. Henry Smith '99, Boulder, Colo., Sam- 
uel J. Dreyer '23, Canton, O., F. E. Mar- 
ble '05, Lynn, Mass., Clark Forstall '22, 
Amsterdam, N. Y., B. Malcolm Harris '13, 
Albany, N. Y., and Frederick W. Thomas 
'10. Sidney Clifford '15 and Myles Stand- 
ish '20 of Providence. 

BOSTON 

The final smoker of the year of the 
Brown Club of Boston achieved a laughing 
success (as the dramatic reviewers like to 
phrase it) at the Hotel Victoria, Friday 
evening, May 2.. A distinguished visitor, 
introduced as Sir James Alexander, said 
to be a special correspondent of the Glas- 
gow Chronicle, thrilled the crowd with the 
story of his exploits in distant lands. Re- 
port has it that even George Burgess, who 
was in on the secret, got all excited over 
Sir James's adventures. As Sir James fin- 
ished and the applause burst loose, so to 
say, he whipped off his disguise and stood 
revealed as — well, Tom Appleget swears 



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that his name is John Daniels, that he lives 
in Newton, Mass., and that his stunt is 
one of the best he (Tom) has ever seen 
in his journeys up and down the land. It 
is also necessary to add that Mr. Appleget 
himself spoke, telling the Boston Bruno- 
nians the freshest news from the campus 
and of the football amphitheatre campaign 
in which he took a vigorous part. 

ALBANY 

One of its most enthusiastic meetings in 
years — that's the way to characterize best 
the gathering of the Brown Club of Al- 
bany, Troy, Schenectady and the suburban 
districts held April 26 at the Troy Club, 
Troy. Dean Randall was the guest of the 
club and the principal speaker. The new 
secretary of the club, Henry C. Aylsworth 
'20, wrote the Alumni Manager: 

"Dean Randall proved to be a delectable 
treat, and much interest was shown in his 
explanation of the new developments at 
college and the progress Alma Mater is 
making. We had a fine attendance — more 
than 30 alumni responded — and there were 
several guests, including some prospective 
Brown men. 

"At the annual meeting which was held 
in conjunction with the dinner it was the 
expression of the club that it desired to 
approve heartily and sponsor some ar- 
rangement to combine the dues of the club 
with those of the Associated Alumni." 
(The Alumni Manager has already sug- 
gested a plan to Mr. Aylesworth.) 

Dr. Arthur L. Eno of Troy, who rep- 
resented the club at the Advisory Board 
meeting last March, was elected President 
for 1924, with Charles S. Stedman '96 of 
Albany, Vice President; Henry C. Ayls- 
worth '20, Secretary and Treasurer, and 
Charles S. Aldrich '94, Dr. Crawford R. 
Green '02 and Henry L. Smith '96 mem- 
bers of the executive committee. 

Incidentally, Dean Randall had the pleas- 
ure of a specially arranged trip through the 
plant of the General Electric Co. at Sche- 
nectady and was the guest at a luncheon at 
the Mohawk Club of Henry L. Smith. 



Others present were R. E. Doherty, E. B. 
Merriam and G. H. Pfeif of the company 
and Professor E. J. Berg of Union College. 
Educational matters with reference to 
training for the electrical industry were 
discussed. 

EASTERN CONNECTICUT 

One of the most satisfying experiences 
that the Alumni Manager has had in his 
two years on College Hill was to be pres- 
ent at the annual dinner of the Brown 
Club of Eastern Connecticut, held at the 
Wauregan House, Norwich, May 3. The 
club, which includes in its territory Nor- 
wich, New London, Westerly and sur- 
rounding towns, has been quiescent for 
nearly two years. But anyone who was at 
the dinner would never have imagined it. 

Thirty-two loyal Brown men responded 
to the notices sent out by the energetic sec- 
retary, F. Russell Smith '16. There were 
also in attendance several prospective Bru- 
nonians, including two sons of H. L. Dunn 
'91. Judge Allyn L. Brown '05 was chair- 
man and the speakers were James M. Pen- 
dleton '85, one of the Alumni Trustees, 
who worked hard to make the dinner a 
success, Rev. Dr. Peter C. Wright '95, a 
Norwich resident for some years, and the 
Alumni Manager. 

Mr. Pendleton went fully into the story 
leading up to the amphitheatre campaign 
and described the campaign itself and the 
part the Brown men in his region were to 
play in it. His was an account that every 
Brown man listened to with genuine inter- 
est because it was colorful, complete — and 
authentic. Dr. Wright had some pertinent 
things to say about Brown and Brown 
ideals for the benefit of the Brunonians-to- 
be and added a tribute to President Faunce 
that was fine and moving. The Alumni 
Manager told his hearers about activities 
at the University and pleaded (as he al- 
ways does) for a more earnest support of 
the Associated Alumni. 

Dr. Wallace L. Gallup, now of the fac- 
ulty of the Connecticut College for Wo- 
men at New London, supplied the music 



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for the Brown songs that were sung and 
did it so well that the club straightway 
elected him secretary for the next year. 

At the business session Judge Brown, the 
retiring President, appointed Mr. Pendle- 
ton, Capt. William G. Tarbox '95 and 
Judge Abel P. Tanner '74 a committee on 
nominations. It reported the following list, 
which was elected unanimously: President 
— E. S. Tuttle 1900, New London; Vice 
President — John Ferguson, Jr., '06, West- 
erly; Secretary — Dr. Gallup; Treasurer — 

F. Russell Smith, Norwich ; Executive 
Committee — Arthur L. Perry 1900, West- 
erly; Rev. Alexander H. Abbott '03, Nor- 
wich; Thomas G. Hazard '82, Narragan- 
sett Pier. 

The Brown men on deck were Rev. A. 
H. Abbott '03, R. W. Allen '22, W. H. 
Bacon 1900, Henry D. Bailey '99, Judge 
Brown, Lucius Brown '66, Adams P. Car- 
roll '71, John B. Dick '22, H. L. Dunn 
'91, Dr. Gallup, Alfred L. Fitzgerald '24, 
Lloyd Gallup '20, Ray W. Greene, Jr., 
'20, Daniel F. Larkin '12, C. W. Leathers 
'24, John McCraw '21, William B. Mit- 
chell '09, Clarence E. Norris 1900, John 
C. Noyes '18, Arthur L. Perry 1900, Ed- 
win V. Ross '07, Edward W. Smith '20, 
Franklin C. Smith '16, F. Russell Smith 
'16, John B. Stanton '94, Loue E. Stock- 
well '19, Judge Abel P. Tanner '24, Cap- 
tain William G. Tarbox '95, E. S. Tuttle 
1900, Albert M. VanWagenen, Jr., '26, 
and Clarence E. Winsor '22. A. P. Car- 
roll also registered (in absentia, so to say) 

G. W. Carroll, Jr., '08, who is abroad. 

MERRIMACK VALLEY 

Lawrence, Lowell, Haverhill and the 
surrounding towns were all represented at 
the annual dinner of the Merrimack Valley 
Brown Club held at the picturesque 



Red Tavern, Methuen, Mass., on May 1. 
Dean Randall and James H. Barrett '24, 
football and baseball player, were the 
guests from College Hill, and both were 
called upon to speak by James S. Eastham 
'19, who acted as toastmaster. 

The Merrimack Valley Club is one of 
the newest in the Associated Alumni, yet 
it is one of the most active and progressive 
in aiding Brown in its territory. Preced- 
ing the dinner, there was a brief business 
session with President William H. Cady 
'98 in the chair. At its conclusion Mr. 
Cady turned the meeting over to Mr. East- 
ham (Jimmy, that is) who outlined the 
football amphitheatre project. He then in- 
troduced Dean Randall, who talked of lim- 
iting the number of students, of looking 
into the qualifications, moral as well as 
well as scholastic, of would-be Freshmen, 
of the fraternities and of athletics. Dean 
Randall, so we are told, "had high praise 
for the athletes and especially for the uni- 
versity coaching system, which demands 
not 60 or 70 per cent, but 100 per cent, 
efficiency." He added that the faculty was 
taking a lesson from the coaches and de- 
manding higher standards in the class 
rooms. 

Jim Barrett touched upon athletics at 
the University intimately and with genuine 
interest to his auditors. The other speaker 
was Rev. Donald H. Gerrish of the Cen- 
tral Methodist Church of Methuen, who 
dealt with the value of traditions and the 
importance of maintaining the old tradi- 
tions and ideals in the world to-day. 

The committee to be commended for the 
success of the dinner was Nowell R. Kin- 
ney '19, chairman, Mr. Cady, Howard D. 
Smith '03, Elmer P. Wright '21 and Rich- 
ard Almy '23. 



The Musical Clubs closed their 1924 
season with a concert and dance that drew 
a crowd of 500 persons at the Churchill 



House. More than a dozen singing and 
instrumental numbers were well given and 
several times encores were demanded. 



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Proposed Stadium, a part of Brown University's new $500,« 
avenue, it will seat 32,000 spectators and will have mor< 



For Trustees 



r T , HE alumni of Brown are called upon 
to cast their ballots for candidates for 
two Baptist vacancies on the Board of 
Trustees. For the first vacancy the can- 
didates are: 

Ray Osgood Hughes, 1900, Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania — A. B., Brown; 
teacher in private schools, including Key- 
stone Academy, Factoryville, Pa., and 
Westbrook Seminary, Portland, Me.; 
teacher of history and physics, high school, 
West Chester, Pa.; Fifth Avenue High 
School, Pittsburgh; from 1913 to date, de- 
partment of social studies, Peabody High 
school, Pittsburgh. Author of "Commun- 
ity Civics," "Problems of American De- 
mocracy" and other textbooks and articles 
on the social studies. 

J. Benton Porter, 1890, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania — A. B., Brown ; banking and 
lumber business for several years after 
graduation ; for past 29 years with General 
Electric Company, specializing in electricity 
in manufacture of cement and of ceramics 
and in ship propulsion ; member of Frank- 
lin Institute, American Society of Mechan- 



ical Engineers, American Society of Elec- 
trical Engineers, Society Naval Architects 
and Marine Engineers, American Ceramic 
Society, American Academy of Social and 
Political Science; trustee, First Baptist 
Church, Philadelphia. 

Herbert Howard Rice, 1892, Detroit, 
Michigan — A. B., Brown ; with Pope Mfg. 
Company in Boston, Hartford, Providence 
and Indianapolis, 1892-1908; Vice-Presi- 
dent and Manager, The Waverley Com- 
pany, manufacturing electric automobiles, 
Indianapolis, Ind., 1908-1913; President, 
1 91 4; Treasurer, General Motors Corpo- 
ration, Detroit, Mich., 1916; Vice Presi- 
dent, 1 91 8; President, Cadillac Motor Car 
Company, 1921 to date. Has served one 
term of six years as Alumni Trustee and 
is now candidate for re-election. His son, 
Martin B. Rice, is a member of the class 
of 1925. 

For the second vacancy the candidates 
are: 

Edward Lewis Bayliss, 1902, Win- 
chester, Illinois — Ph. B., Brown; B. D., 
Rochester Theological Seminary, 1905; 



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Iw/wj' of Providence Journal and Providence Magazine 

■ bletic Plant. Situated near Sessions street and Elmgrove 
hne seats than any ciher Stadium in the United States 



pastor Baptist churches in Ludlow, Vt., 
six years; New Haven, Conn., three years; 
Arcade, N. Y., six years; Normal, 111., 
three years; present pastorate, Winchester, 
111. Interested in social work; author of 
articles in denominational papers. 

C. Sherman Hoyt, 1901, New York 
city — A. B., Brown; graduate Naval Ar- 
chitectural School, Glasgow, Scotland, 
1904; from 1904 to 1 91 7 engaged in va- 
rious capacities as naval architect; with 
Panama Railroad Company two years; sec- 
retary and treasurer of a marine life-saving 
manufacturing company two years; with 
Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation as 



marine superintendent in charge of ship- 
building five years; served in World War 
as Naval Constructor in the Construction 
Corps, U. S. N.; now member firm of 
Henry J. Gielow, Inc., New York, spe- 
cializing in yacht design and brokerage. 

The agreement, governing the election 
of Alumni Trustees, between the Corpora- 
tion of the University and the alumni stip- 
ulates that "an election is void unless bal- 
lots are cast by at least one-third of those 
entitled to vote." 

To be valid, a ballot must be signed and 
class or date of degree given. 



Baseball 



BROWN 1, YALE o 

Brown defeated Yale at New Haven, 
May 7, in a brilliant game, I too, the win- 
ning run coming in the ninth with two 
men out and as a result of a single by Hig- 
gins of Brown, pinch hitting for Catcher 
Welch. In that frame, Hoffman of Brown 
worked Scott for a base on balls and went 
to second on Murphy's bunt. Ruckstull 



drew a base on balls and Duggan fanned. 
Higgins, with two strikes on him, shot the 
ball into right field and Hoffman trotted 
over the plate. 

Yale tried desperately for the tying run 
in her half with the top of the batting order 
up, but Lindley dampened her hopes by 
flying out to Murphy. O'Hearn bunted 
and Higgins's wide throw pulled Hoffman 



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off the bag, the Yale captain being safe. 
O'Hearn stole second, but Ducky Pond, 
batting for Giblin, fanned out. O'Hearn 
then stole third, and Mallory walked, Neu- 
bauer pitching four wide ones to the Yale 
catcher. The best Hatcher could do, how- 
ever, was to send a grounder to Ruckstull, 
who tossed him out at first. 

Xeubauer pitched a cool and heady game 
for the Bears. The Blue had fourteen men 
left on bases. 

Brown: 3 hits, 3 errors. Yale: 7 hits, no 
errors. 

BROWN 4, N. Y. UNIVERSITY 5 

The Brown nine had a first-rate chance 
to break New York University's winning 
streak at Andrews Field on May 14, but 
loose playing and faulty judgment when 
runs were at stake cost the Bruins a battle, 
tense from beginning to end, 5 to 4. 

Brown scored first with one run in the 
opening frame. New York tallied twice 
in the third and again in the fifth. The 
same inning the Bruins sent one over and 
made it 3 to 2. New York made one in 
the sixth and Brown tied the score in her 
half. The deciding run came in the sev- 
enth as the result of a walk, sacrifice and 
two errors. Brown outslugged the men 
from Gotham, nicking Carlson, ace of 
Coach Bill McCarthy's pitching force, for 
10 hits, including a brace of doubles in the 
opening frame. The New Yorkers made 
one hit less than Brown against the two 
port-siders Coach Wally Snell sent against 
them. Tom Cornell worked for five in- 
nings, yielding six scattered hits. The 
score stood 3 to 2 when Elmer Duggan 
ambled onto the diamond in the sixth. 

Duggan was in good form, and while in 
the sixth he yielded two hits which netted 
one run, he held the situation well in hand 
thereafter. New York hit him safely three 
times. 

BROWN 3, PENNSYLVANIA 6 

Pennsylvania evened the score w T ith 
Brown for her defeat at Andrews Field 



earlier in the season by inflicting a 6-3 
beating. on the Brunonians at Philadelphia, 
May 17. 

"Zip" Long, the Red and Blue hurler, 
with two victories over Yale, held the 
Bears to six hits, three of them coming in 
the last two innings. Neubauer of Brown 
was hammered out of the box in the sev- 
enth inning, Duggan taking his place. Off 
the right hand curves of Neubauer Penn 
made ten hits, Farrell leading with three, 
one being a three-bagger. It was his single 
in the seventh that drove in two runs and 
won the game. Third Baseman Nixon of 
Brown was injured in the sixth in a col- 
lision with Farrell and had to be carried off 
the field. 

The score was 2-2 at the opening of the 
seventh, which turned out to be Brown's 
unlucky seventh as the team went to pieces 
and Penn made four tallies in that frame. 
Penn made a total of five errors and Brown 
was guilty of no less than seven. 

BROWN 3, WESLEYAN o 

Brown played errorless behind Hal Neu- 
bauer and Elmer Duggan and sent Wes- 
leyan down to a 3-0 defeat in the return 
game of the series at Andrews Field, May 
21. Wesleyan won the Middletown con- 
test, 9 to 7. 

Captain Murphy's shoes were ably filled 
by Cutler, who took three chances in fine 
style. Cole replaced Cutler at third and 
also performed creditably. The new com- 
bination worked smoothly. 

BASEBALL RECORD 

April 12 — Brown 18, Conn. State 2. 
April 16 — Brown 3, Clark Univ. 2. 
April 19 — Brown 1, Princeton 5. 
April 23 — Brown 4, Maine 1. 
April 25 — Brown 4, Pennsylvania 1. 
April 26 — Brown 6, Wesleyan 9. 
April 30 — Brown 4, Springfield 3. 
May 3 — Brown 4, Bates 1. 
May 7 — Brown 1, Yale o. 
May 14 — Brown 4, N. Y. Univ. 5. 
May 17 — Brown 3, Pennsylvania 6. 



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A DEGREE IN CHEMISTRY 

Recognizing that chemistry has become 
one of the important studies in the curricu- 
lum, Brown will institute next fall a new 
degree to be known as bachelor of science 
in chemistry. Entrance requirements for it 
will be the same as the requirements for the 
present Ph. B., except that candidates must 
present two units in algebra. 

The opening of the Metcalf Chemical 
Laboratory, the coming of Dr. Charles A. 
Kraus as director of graduate work in 
chemistry and other factors have combined 
to bring the new degree into being. 

The work leading up to the degree will 
be as follows: One-half in specified 
courses in mathematics and chemistry; at 
least one-quarter in required subjects out- 
side the field of chemistry and mathematics, 
and the remainder in elective courses. The 
electives must include in each of the last 
two years a whole year course outside of 
chemistry. 

Many undergraduates have already sig- 
nified their intention of changing from the 
present Ph. B. course to the new one. 

"The new degree is primarily for the 
serious-minded student in chemistry who 
wants to progress in that subject," Pro- 
fessor Samuel T. Arnold of the Depart- 
ment of Chemistry says. "The course has 
been so planned that the student who com- 
pletes it and receives his degree will be able 
to take up industrial work in chemistry, to 
study chemical engineering, and particu- 
larly to teach and to do graduate work. 

"In brief, he will major in chemistry and 
at the same time have the pre-requisites he 
needs in liberal studies to give him a good 
background for his work in life. With a 



quarter of the course elective, with required 
subjects that include English, French, Ger- 
man and physics, it is plain that the student 
of the B. S. in chemistry will have a broad 
training which should be of real benefit to 
him in his chemistry work." 

The outline of courses for the new de- 
gree prepared for distribution urges stu- 
dents who expect to study chemical engi- 
neering to elect, at the proper time, two 
years of engineering and those students who 
intend to pursue physical chemistry in the 
graduate school to elect a second year of 
physics and possibly another year of mathe- 
matics. 

BROWN GIRLS' MAY GAMES 

Brown girls went a-Maying on Satur- 
day afternoon, May 17, and took with them 
i:i their frolic a throng of appreciative on- 
lookers that semi-circled with row after 
row the "village green,' known on other 
days than May Day as the campus of the 
Women's College. 

The smooth greensward, a budding 
biich tree to shelter the Queen's throne, a 
fringe of fir shrubs and the simple back- 
ground was complete for the most colorful 
nnd artistic May Day in the history of the 
college. 

At 4 o'clock, three heralds in all the 
symbolic trappings of their office announced 
the approach of the May Queen, the secret 
of whose identity had been carefully 
guarded, until in her royal robes of velvet 
and ermine, she swept before her audience 
and, escorted by a maid-of-honor, Miss 
Gertrude Squiers, and a group of little 
f.ower girls and attended by the Seniors 
;:nd Freshmen, ascended her throne. For 



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one afternoon holding sway over her col- 
lege mates as their May Queen, but, like 
Cinderella, at the stroke of the hour, re- 
turning to her own more mundane place, 
was Verna Ruth McElroy, member of the 
Senior class. 

While bobbed-hair maidens may be in 
power in the college kingdom on every other 
da) of the year, on May Day it is the girls 
v ith the long, luxurious tresses that are the 
centre of attraction. By a rule of the Se- 
p.ors, no girl with bobbed hair could be 
chosen queen or maid of honor this year. 

MUSICAL CLUBS DINE 

The 1924 season of the Brown Musical 
Clubs was acclaimed as one of the most 
memorable on record at the 74th an- 
nual dinner of the organizations at the 
University Club, May 14. 

Each of the 33 members of the clubs was 
presented with a triangular gold watch 
charm lettered "Brown University Musi- 
cal Clubs" in recognition of the epoch- 
making spring trip. This is the first time 
the insignia has been awarded all the mem- 
bers of the clubs in a single year, the em- 
blem formerly having been given only to 
students who were members of the clubs 
for the first time. 

Emery S. Kates '25 was elected president 
and manager, and John B. Lord secretary 
and treasurer for the ensuing year. Other 
officers were named as follows: Leader of 
the Glee Club — Fredson Bowers; leader of 
the Banjo Club — Malcolm Graham; assist- 
ants — Bruce Loomis and Paul Spencer. 

The toastmaster was Robert B. Jones 
'07 ; the speakers were Thomas B. Apple- 
get, faculty adviser of the clubs ; Samuel T. 
Arnold, director of athletics; Dean Ran- 
dall ,and the following members of the ex- 
ecutive board, Gordon Ritchie, Edward A. 
Hosp, leader of the banjo club ; Herbert D. 
Lamson, leader of the glee club, and Robert 
E. Soellner, secretary and treasurer. 

BROWN DEBATING SCHEDULE 

Brown debaters will meet the teams of 
eight other colleges next year, the schedule 
calling for four triangular debates. 



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Brown will meet Amherst and another 
college (to be picked by the Eastern Inter- 
collegiate Debate League later) on Dec. 6. 
The other debates follow: University of 
Pennsylvania and Yale, Jan. 17; Columbia 
and Wesleyan, March 14, and Williams 
and Dartmouth, April 25. There will be 
three Freshmen debates next year also. 

HONOR SOCIETIES 
Phi Beta Kappa 

The members of the class of 1924 elected 
to Phi Beta Kappa follow: Richard P. 
N. Bien of Tientsin, China ; Bruce M. 
Bigelow and Gordon E. Bigelow of Nor- 
wood, R. I. ; Henry M. Bodwell of Phenix; 
Arlan R. Coolidge of Orange, Mass. ; 
George M. Cravener of Indiana, Pa.; 
Earle C. Drake of Brockton, Mass. ; Hans 
Jordan Gottlieb of Milford, N. J. ; Ernest 
W. Gray of Scituate, Mass. ; Wyndham 
Hayward of Wickford ; Malcolm A. 
Jenckes of Providence ; Earle V. Johnson 
of Chicago, 111. ; Edward R. Place of East 
Randolph, Vt. 

The following Juniors were elected : 
Fredson T. Bowers of New Haven, Conn. ; 
Gordon K. Chalmers of Lansdowne, Pa. ; 
Mason B. Merchant of Providence, and 
Paul J. A. Weber of Hackensack, N. J. 

The following Seniors were elected from 
the Woman's College: Doris Anthony of 
East Providence, Carol B. Bogman of Ap- 
ponaug, Mildred E. Carlen of Providence, 
Alice M. Collins of Rumford, Glenna W. 
Day of Brockton, Mass., Amelia May Har- 
ris of Pawtucket, June D. Heller of Lan- 
caster, Pa., Hilda M. Hoffman of Lyndon- 
ville, Vt., May B. Kelly of Norwich, 
Conn., and Elizabeth L. Young of Provi- 
dence. The Juniors follow: Grace W. All- 
sop of Providence, Helen B. Leavitt of Na- 
tick, Mass., Charlotte T. Perry of Greene, 
R. I., Marjorie C. Roach of Springfield, 
Mass., Faith L. Rogers, Phenix, and Rose 
A. Whelan of Campello, Mass. 

Sigma Xi 
Walter Bernard, Richard P. N. Bien, 



Edward R. Coop, Robert A. Goodell, 
George E. Ham, Louis E. Hathaway and 
Malcolm A. Jenckes, Seniors ; and John D. 
Miner and George W. Richardson, Juniors. 

TO HONOR HANIHARA 

On Commencement Day Brown Univer- 
sity will confer the degree of Doctor of 
Laws on Masanao Hanihara, the Japanese 
Ambassador to the United States. 

The occasion will be the first on which 
Brown has so honored a member of the 
Japanese Government. The invitation to 
the Ambassador, by the way, was extended 
and accepted before the controversy arose 
over Mr. Hanihara's note to Secretary 
Hughes protesting against the exclusion of 
Japanese from the United States as pro- 
posed. 

It will be the first degree which Ambas- 
sador Hanihara has received from an 
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wishes of President Coolidge and Secretary 
Hughes, is said to have made a marked im- 
pression in official and diplomatic circles at 
Washington. 

It is considered a matter of especial in- 
terest that the degree should be conferred 
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NOTES AS WE GO TO PRESS 

The following Juniors were tapped for 
the Cammarian Club, May 24 : A. W. Eck- 
stein, F. T. Bowers, W. H. Wagenknecht, 
J. H. Sheldon, G. K. Chalmers, P. Say- 
ward, P. D. Higgins, C. C. Mvers and 
T. W. Taylor. 

At the New England intercollegiate 
track meet. May 24, Boston College won 
with 32 points. Bowdoin and Williams 
were tied for second place with 30^ each. 
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fifth with 9. Reid of Brown won the run- 
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1876 

Dr. W. S. Rankin, field director of the 
committee on municipal health department 
practice of the American Public Health As- 
sociation, paid this compliment to Dr. 
Charles V. Chapin while in Providence re- 
cently : 

"Health officials generally see Chapin as 
perhaps the greatest authority on city health 
matters in this country. He is regarded 
as exceedingly conservative as a leader. 
As a health officer, he emphasizes more than 
any other man the principles of relative 
values in public health work. He has ex- 
erted a telling influence against picking up 
new problems before reasonable experi- 
mentation has developed effective methods 
for dealing with them.'" 

1879 

Rev. Lyman Winslow King died from 

cerebral hemorrhage, May 19, 1923, at 

his home in Newton Centre, Mass. His 

death occurred in the same house in which 



he was born, which has been the family seat 
since Colonial days. Born June 21, 1855, 
he prepared for college at the Newton High 
School, entered Brown in the class of '79, 
and received the degree of A. B. He was 
graduated from Newton Theological In- 
stitution as B. D. in 1882. His Alma 
Mater gave him an A. M. in 1889. He 
held pastorates at Mt. Holly, Vt., and at 
West Roxbury, Mass., until December, 
1897. From that time until his death he 
resided in his ancestral home, taking an 
active interest in community welfare and 
helping to care for pastorless churches. He 
leaves a widow, two daughters, and one 
son. "His whole Life was characterized by 
an unselfish service and sublime kindness." 

W. L. M. 

1881 
Henry B. Rose's daughter, Miss Con- 
stance Bray ton Rose, was married in Prov- 
idence April 21 to Raymond Flint Long, 
son of Mrs. Flora B. Long of Summit, N. 



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J. Mr. and Mrs. Long will live in Stan- 
fordville, N. Y. 

1882 

Edwin A. Grozier, for a short time an 
'82 man, died at his home in Cambridge, 
Mass., on May 9. He had been editor and 
publisher of the Boston Post since 1891. 
He was born in San Francisco harbor, Sept. 
12, 1859, on hoard a clipper ship of which 
his father, Joshua S. Grozier, was captain. 
He himself went to sea after leaving 
school, but gave it up to enter Brown. He 
later transferred to Boston University. 
Mr. Grozier nevertheless kept up his in- 
terest in Brown affairs and was a life mem- 
ber of the Associated Alumni. His career 
in the newspaper world was a vigorous and 
animating one and his success in making 
over the Boston Post from a nearly bank- 
rupt newspaper into one of the most suc- 
cessful dailies in the country is a classic 
story of newspaper history. Mr. Grozier 
began his newspaper work in Boston as re- 
porter on the Boston Globe, but he got 



most of his experience in early life as sec- 
retary to Joseph Pulitzer, then waging a 
fierce fight to establish the New York 
World in the metropolitan field. 

1883 
Dr. C. M. Sheldon has published through 
T. Y. Crowell & Company a book called 
"The Everyday Bible" — a very handsome 
volume of selections from Scripture. An 
appreciative reader — a clergyman — writes 
us, "The whole movement for shortened or 
abbreviated Bibles in our time is a very in- 
teresting one. The Fundamentalists, of 
course, are against it, and I am heartily in 
favor of it — just as I am in favor of se- 
lections from English literature for those 
who cannot successfully peruse the great 
bulk of English authors." 

1885 
Rev. John B. Diman, son of Professor 
J. Lewis Diman, since his conversion to the 
Catholic faith, has entered the Benedictine 
Abbey at Fort Augustus, Scotland, as a 
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When Pierre Monteux, leader of the 
Boston Symphony Orchestra, made his final 
appearance in Providence, April 29, his 
Providence admirers gave him a bronze re- 
production of Dallin's statue, "Invocation 
to the Great Spirit," which stands in front 
of the Boston Art Museum. Professor A. 
K. Potter made the presentation speech. 
1890 

Fred H. Hovey was one of the referees 
in the metropolitan tennis tournament held 
last month on the courts of the Montclair 
Athletic Club, Montclair, N. J. 

Walter A. Presbrey, chairman of the 
Board of Police Commissioners of Provi- 
dence, was the principal speaker at a "Use- 
the-Law" meeting held recently in his home 
city under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon 
League of Rhode Island. Mr. Presbrey de- 
scribed the obstacles placed in the path of 
the police enforcing the prohibition laws. 
1894 

A. E. Thomas, so theatrical news has it, 
has made a musical comedy out of his pop- 
ular comedy, "Come Out of the Kitchen," 
and will probably have it produced early 
next season. 

1895 

Dallas Lore Sharp spent the winter in 
Santa Barbara, Cal., resting and studying 
bees. In a letter to the Boston Authors' 
Club, of which he is President, he wrote : 
"We are coming back to Boston with this 
bee book! Else how can I justify myself 
in your eyes? Presidents of Authors' 
Clubs are in duty bound to write!" 

Rev. Dr. Peter C. Wright of the Board 
of the Northern Baptist Convention, with 
headquarters in New York, was a recent 
campus visitor. Dr. Wright's son, Stuart 
Mead Wright, is a member of the class of 
1926. 

i897 
At the centenary of the Franklin Insti- 
tute of Philadelphia, to be celebrated in 
September, 1924, Brown University will be 
represented by Edwin C. Broome, Ph. D., 
Brown 07- superintendent of schools in 
Philadelphia. 

1898 
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Me., has received official notice from the 
War Department of his advancement to 
the grade of colonel in the Medical De- 
partment of the Officers' Reserve Corps, 
for which he successfully passed examina- 
tion at Boston last month. Colonel Bur- 
rage first entered the military service as a 
major in March, 191 8. He was promoted 
to lieutenant colonel in October of the 
same year, and was discharged from active 
service in May, 191 9. During the war he 
filled many important assignments and was 
officially cited for specially distinguished 
service by General Pershing while in 
France. He was successively assistant 
chief of Medical Service, of the base hospi- 
tals at Camp Jackson, S. C, and Camp 
Greene, N. C., and in France he was chief 
of Medical Service, Base Hospital 54, Con- 
sultant in Medicine, Mesres Hospital Cen- 
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pital 54, respectively. Colonel Burrage has 
been very active in organized reserve mat- 
ters and has done much to advance the med- 
ical organization of that part of the army 
in his section of Maine. Rev. Dr. Henry 
S. Burrage '61, his father, is proud that 
Dr. Tom has outstripped the Rev. Doctor's 
own creditable military rank — that of ma- 
jor in the Civil War. 

1899 

James Winthrop Campbell, former 
Providence resident and Brown graduate, 
died last month in Houston, Texas, where 
he had been engaged in developing a fig 
plantation for the past four years. His 
body was sent to this city for burial. He 
was the brother of Mrs. George W. Matte- 
son, wife of Dr. Matteson '96 of this city 
and of Mrs. Edith C. Buffum, wife of the 
late Dr. William H. Buffum '98. He was 
the son of the late James M. and Phebe 
Babcock Campbell. He was born in this 
city in 1876 and lived here until his grad- 
uation from Brown in 1899, when he went 
to New York to engage in the commission 
brokerage business. Later he went South 
and lived for several years in various cities 
of Texas. 

At the annual meeting of the Rhode Isl- 
and Conference of Congregational 
Churches, May 7, Edward A. Stockwell 
was elected treasurer. 

James F. Dyer, centre of the varsity 



football team in his undergraduate days, 
member of the Cammarian Club and oth- 
erwise prominent, died suddenly in Provi- 
dence on May 9. Born in Portland, Me., 
March 11, 1876, the son of Charles A. and 
Clara L. Brown Dyer, he prepared for col- 
lege at Portland High School. After his 
graduation he studied law for a short time. 
In 1904 he entered the firm of Aldrich, El- 
dredge Co., wholesale grocers of Provi- 
dence, and was with this firm until his 
death. He served as its president for ten 
years. In January of this year he resigned 
to take a position with the Equitable Insur- 
ance Co. Mr. Dyer belonged to Delta 
Kappa Epsilon. He is survived by his 
widow, Mrs. Amy (Aldrich) Dyer, and a 
daughter, Amy Dyer. 

Raymer B. Weeden was elected Presi- 
dent of the Battery A, One Hundred and 
Third Field Artillery Association, at the 
fourth annual meeting held in Providence 
last month. 

Dr. James M. Kent's new office address 
in New York is 34 East 40th st. 
1900 

Dr. Frederic V. Hussey was elected sec- 
retary of the State executive committee of 
the New England Section, American Col- 
lege of Surgeons, at the convention held in 
Providence last month. Dr. George A. 
Matteson '96 was also chosen counselor of 
the committee. 

Waldo G. Leland, who has been in Paris 
during the last two years continuing his 
historical mission for the Carnegie Institu- 
tion of Washington, is to return to Amer- 
ica at the end of June, for a period of ten 
months, in order to direct the survey of 
American societies and associations devoted 
to the humanistic studies, which is being 
undertaken for the Carnegie Corporation 
by the American Council of Learned Socie- 
ties. During his residence abroad Mr. Le- 
land has served as American member of the 
International Union of Academies, and has 
attended the meetings of the International 
Committee on Intellectual Co-operation of 
the League of Nations as the substitute of 
Dr. R. A. Millikan, the American member, 
recent winner of the Nobel prize in physics. 
He is also a member of the International 
Committee of Historical Sciences formed 
after the International Congress held in 



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Brussels in April, 1923, which he attended 
as a delegate of the American Historical 
Association. During the present academic 
year he has been exchange professor of the 
Cercle Francais of Harvard University 
(James Hazen Hyde Foundation) in the 
French universities, lecturing in French in 
the fifteen provincial universities on French 
colonization in North America in the sev- 
enteenth and eighteenth centuries and on 
the sources and bibliography of that sub- 
ject. His address in America will be as 
heretofore with the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington, at Washington, D. C. 

1901 
Editor Brown Alumni Monthly: 

A few days ago four naughty ones gath- 
ered at the home of Roy Smith, he of 
wrestling prestige. The quartet consisted 
of Jack Bryant of the sweet tenor voice, 
Mattie Madison of research fame, Bill 
Waller, who "was" and "is still" fond of 
good cooking, and Roy Smith. 

Here were four Brown men "bred" who 
were formerly all members in good stand- 
ing of the Baptist Church, who are now all 
members of the Congregational Church 
and, to carry out the similarity, are all dea- 
cons of the same. With one exception they 
all married Rhode Island girls. 

Needless to say, this group of four 
thought and talked of the friends of old 
and to them all through these columns 
their greetings send. 

H. T. Waller '01 

Akron, Ohio. 

E. Tudor Gross told the members of the 
Rhode Island Historical Society at one of 
their last meetings something about his fa- 
vorite subject, "Posts and Postage Stamps 
Before 1847." 

1902 

The residence of Henry K. Metcalf is 
now 27 Gray Gardens, Cambridge, Mass. 

1903 

Rev. Alexander H. Abbott, pastor of the 
United Congregational Church of Nor- 
wich, Conn., looked as young and as 
friendly as ever when we met him in Nor- 
wich last month. A fine baseball player 
in his college days, he wanted to know all 
about the new athletic field programme. 

Col. Michael J. Lynch had the honor of 
passing; in the first check for the new foot- 



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ball amphitheatre at the campaign workers' 
dinner in Providence, April 29. As the 
Colonel explained, the check was thrust 
into his hand a few hours before the dinner 
and he simply had to tell the world about 
it. 

Paul M. Wiswall reports that he is now 
doing business in Terminal Bldg., A, 15th 
and Bloomfield sts., Hoboken, N. J. 
1904 

Walter E. Prince was judge at the Bos- 
ton University-Syracuse debate held in Bos- 
ton, March 18; also, at the Boston Univer- 
sity-Middlebury debate held in Middlebury, 
April 9. In each case Boston University 
won by a unanimous decision, 3-0. 

1905 

Harry Harding is in the builders' sup- 
plies business at Albany. 

George Allison announces the arrival of 
a fine boy, David, Jan. 14, 1924. 

Roy Foulder at Schenectady is busy de- 
signing engines for the American Locomo- 
tive Co. Stedman, of the same city, has 
been elected vice president of one of the in- 
surance companies there. 

F. E. Marble is still pointing Lynn boys 
to Brown. He was down with three of 
them the other day and with Paul De- 
Wolf's help gave them a good time. 

Harry Anthony sends greetings from 
Spokane. 

The local men responded well to the re- 
union dinner recently held and showed keen 
interest in bringing back the largest num- 
ber ever for the Twentieth Gathering next 
year. John Palmer was appointed to for- 
mulate a budget and Mrs. Spicer was cho- 
sen to plan entertainment for the wives of 
returning 'o5ers. 

Ira Z. Allen is teaching again. His ad- 
dress is 66 Addington road, Brookline, 
Mass. 

Hinson Howlett reports progress in the 
ninth year of his pastorate at the First Bap- 
tist Church, Atlantic City. 

M. Stuart Hall is electrical engineer for 
the Shepard Electric Crane and Hoist Com- 
pany at Mintour Falls, N. Y., specializing 
in overhead cranes, with customers way 
around the globe. 

The re-election for the fourth time of 



Dr. George D. Allison, pastor of the Sec- 
ond Baptist Church, this city, as president 
of the Delaware Baptist State Convention, 
is more than a tribute to Dr. Allison. It 
is gratifying proof of his ability and stead- 
fastness as president of the convention for 
the past three years, and an evidence of 
merited appreciation by the churches in the 
convention. Dr. Allison has a large church 
to whose interests he necessarily must give 
most of his time and thought ; but despite 
his many tasks as a pastor he has handled 
the duties of convention president in a way 
that has brought credit to the convention 
and to his own church. We feel sure that 
Dr. Allison will find many opportunities 
for carrying forward the work of his 
church in Delaware in the same fine manner 
in which he has progressed in the past. — 
Wilmington, Del.. Every Evening. 

Paul C. DeWolf was elected President 
of the National Metal Trades Association 
at the 26th annual convention held at the 
Hotel Astor, New York, last April. 

George B. Bullock tells us that he is 
now with T. A. Francis & Co., 112 Water 
st., Boston, Mass. 

On April 2, 1924, a baby, Donald James 
Davidson, came along to add to David Da- 
vidson's reasons for selling more pictures 
this year than last. 

The '05 contingent stood loyally behind 
Paul DeWolf in the amphitheatre drive. 
1906 

Horace E. Chandler writes us from 
Tsingtau, Shantung, China, American 
Presbyterian Mission: "If all goes well I 
hope to return to the United States on fur- 
lough in 1925, and will attend the twen- 
tieth reunion of the class of 1906 if I can 
possibly arrange it." 

T. Elliot Tolson is up and going strong 
once more after an attack of appendicitis 
laid him low last winter. Ted is now run- 
ning the Hotel Wentworth in New York 
in addition to his first love, the Hotel 
Bristol. 

1907 

Prof. Benjamin G. Sinclair will teach 
sociology at the summer school of the Rhode 
Island College of Education, Providence. 

Vic Schwartz has once more settled in 
Providence, this time with the National 



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City Co. Vic has found a house, he re- 
ports, and he hopes to be able to put his 
nameplate on the front door early next 
fall. 

Ed. Ross, helping represent Norwich, 
Conn., at the amphitheatre campaign din- 
ner, told us that he liked this section of 
New England so well that he wondered 
why he remained so long in the Middle 
West and thereabout. He is regional agent 
for the Indemnity Co. of North America 
and his office is at 63 Broadway, Norwich. 

Homer Clark, the little bird whispers, 
has left New York desolate to continue his 
work as an advertising man in Cambridge, 
Mass., that fairly well-known suburb of 
Boston. 

Dr. Herbert E. Harris (and Dr. John 
G. Walsh '06) has been reappointed by the 
Rhode Island State Commissioner of Edu- 
cation to make physical examinations of 
Providence children applying for age and 
employment certificates. 

1908 
William C. Bitting, Jr., Kenneth H. 
Bitting '20 and Chapin S. Newhard '22, 
have formed the partnership, Bitting & Co., 
to conduct a general business in high-grade 
investment securities at 715 St. Charles St., 
St. Louis, Mo. Seems good to have an all- 
Brown company so far from the old home 
grounds. 

1909 

At the dinner tendered Dr. Faunce in 
recognition of his twenty-five years of ser- 
vice, the following '09 men were present 
and grouped in one corner of the room : 
Messrs. Wells, Poland, Sherwood, Meader, 
Bennett, Huxford, Tanner, Whitmarsh, 
E. A. Greene and Chafee. As a matter of 
interest it was found that all but one of 
the group had responded to sales' talks 
from a classmate, Al. Leach. 

Robert J. B. Sullivan is going abroad for 
the summer and will not be present at the 
Class Reunion. 

Henry B. Selleck, who is with the Albee 
Corporation, advertising, of Detroit, Mich., 
writes that he is receiving his mail these 
days at 4221 Glendale ave., Detroit. 

John W. Mayhew writes to the Alumni 
Manager that his address is Saigon, Cochin 



China, care Socony, and adds: "I have been 
here since my return from home leave in 
February and may be here until 1927, then 
home leave again. Best to all." 

William B. Miller writes from London 
that he will be back from Europe and 
wants to be counted in on the Commence- 
ment party from A to Z. 

Robert K. Bennett, superintendent of 
the Central Falls School Department, was 
elected President of the Barnard Club at 
a meeting and luncheon of its members re- 
cently. The club includes many prominent 
educators attached to various State of 
Rhode Island schools. 

In a letter received from Clarence John- 
son, he writes: "While the charms of the 
Midnight Sun have been trying to work a 
spell on me, they have lost out and I am 
leaving Norway the last part of May so as 
to be on hand for our Fifteenth Reunion. 
It will be great to see the boys again." 

Howard K. Jackson has moved to Chi- 



Winship 

Teachers' 

Agency 

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Incorporated 
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Of Every Description 

Fidelity and Surety Bonds 

17 Custom House Street 
Providence, R. I. 

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cago, where he is in charge of the Brown 
and Sharpe Manufacturing Company's of- 
fice there. 

Major Reginald B. Cocroft's address is 
Camp Alfred Vail, Ocean Port, N. J. 
1911 

Harry A. Ormes, who spoke up for the 
Brown Club of Philadelphia at the amphi- 
theatre campaign dinner, told us between 
bites that he had changed his address re- 
cently to 158 Queen Lane, Germantown. 

The Merchants 

National Bank 

Providence, R. I. 
20 Westminster Street 



Capital, 

Surplus Earnings, 



$1,000,000 
$1,500,000 



ROBERT W. TAFT, President 
CHARLES H. NEWELL, Vice President 
MOSES J. BARBER, Vice President 
FRANK A. GREENE, Cashier 
WILLARD I. ANGELL, Asst. Cashier 
HARRY S. HATHAWAY, Asst. Cashier 



Directors 



George M. Smith 
Robert W. Taft 
Charles H. Newell 
William B. McBee 
Everett L. Spencer 



Moses J. Barber 
Frank E. Richmond 

Edward P. Jastram 
A. Livingston Keller 

Wilson G. Wing 



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Electric Batteries 
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Prescriptions a Specialty 

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Providence, R. I. 



Note — Just one more reminder that 
there is a perfectly good (except for a hole 
in the stem) 191 1 class pipe stored in the 
Alumni Manager's desk, awaiting its 
owner. Of course it was never intended 
that it should remain an orphan for long. 

1912 
Now here's real news in a letter from 
Massachusetts about Ralph S. Drury. A 
bowling round robin has been held during 
the winter at one of the Fitchburg alleys, 
in which the best bowlers of the city have 
taken part. The idea has been that the 
winner of the first ten string match keeps 
rolling different contestants until he loses, 
the loser in each case going to the foot of 
the list. The winner gets $10 each time 
and the loser pays $3 for the 20 strings. 
Two matches of 10 strings each are rolled 
each week and no postponements are al- 
lowed. When Ralph's turn came to roll 
he won and since then has rolled and won 
22 straight matches, averaging 104 pins a 
string for 220 strings. Incidentally he has 
gathered in $220, while his 22 opponents 
have paid $66 for the privilege of rolling 
him. 

1913 

Louis I. Newman has been elected rabbi 
of the Temple Emanu-El, the leading Jew- 
ish congregation on the Pacific coast. Dr. 
Newman, who has been associate rabbi of 
Temple Israel, New York, since 1921, will 
take up his new work next fall. 

Professor Samuel T. Arnold is blossom- 
ing out as an after-dinner speaker. He 
made his bow at the first annual dinner 
and Ladies' Night of the Rhode Island sec- 
tion of the American Association of Textile 
Chemists and Colorists, held, in Providence 
May 9. 

1915 
Dr. M. J. Lossow asks us please to note 
that his new address is 2134 Vyse ave., cor- 
ner East 181st St., Bronx, N. Y. It's noted 
with pleasure, doctor. 

1917 
Harvey Sheahan is back in Wickford and 
Providence, R. I., again after a long sen- 
tence in Mexico City, where he was dis- 
tributing agent and manager for one of the 
large American film agencies. As a country 
to live in for any length of time, Harvev 



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asseverates that Mexico is everything else 
but. 

H. W. MacNair's business address is the 
American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 
195 Broadway, New York. His residence 
is 3558 Rowan ave., Woodside, L. I. 
1921 

Ray Stites, winner of the Morgan Ed- 
wards Fellowship at the University for 
1923-25, is in Rome, Italy, where he is 
studying art at the University of Rome. 
1922 

Artie Miller is at present working for 
the Texas Sugar Refining Co., Texas City, 
Tex. He writes the Alumni Manager that 
he "left New Orleans with regret, even 
though I did lose my appendix there. 
This town is country for sure, but Galves- 
ton is only about ten miles away and this 
helps out the situation. Give my best to 
all the boys." 

1923 
Bob Coons has ambitions to become a ho- 
tel man, according to stories we hear. Well, 
Bob? 

Nat Chase was an Alumni Office visitor 
recently, coming in from Coventry, R. I., 
where he is learning all about the manufac- 
ture of cotton goods with the Coventry Co. 

Norman Paasche has sent us his card, in- 
dicating that he represents Arthur Perry 
& Co., Boston, investment securities, with 
his headquarters in the Hospital Trust 
bldg., Providence. 

Jed Jones reports that his list of '23 men 
who will desert the bachelor ranks between 
now and Sept. 1 is "enough to make a 
strong man weep." He admitted to the 
Alumni Manager not long ago that he 
could not get it through his analytical head 
how some of the boys can do it. "Leave it 
to them," cut in Bill McCormick. And 
there you are. 



ENGAGEMENTS 

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Duhamel of 
Old Warwick announce the engagement of 
their daughter, Miss Irene Rita Duhamel, 
to George F. Thibodeau '23 of Brook 
street. 

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Holland of Fall 



Preston & Rounds Co. 

No. 98 Westminster Street 
Providence, R. I. 



Booksellers 

Stationers 



The 
Corlew Teachers' Agency 

GRACE M. ABBOTT 
Manager 



120 Boylston Street 
Boston 



Providence 
Coal Co. 

Anthracite and Bituminous 

COAL 

Wholesale and Retail 



Central Office, Corner Custom Housr 
and Weybosset Street. Yard, Cor- 
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River, Mass., have announced the engage- 
ment of their daughter, Miss Mary Eliza- 
beth Holland, to Peter L. Cannon '18. 



BROWN DIRECTORY 

ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD 

Consulting Highway and Transport 

Engineer 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Abbott '80 Edwards '96 

ABBOTT, FAUNTLEROY, CULLEN & 

EDWARDS 

Attorneys at Law 

Suite 315, Commercial Building 

214 North Sixth Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Abbott '15 

MENDELL W. CRANE 

Attorney at Law 

312 Howard Building, 171 Westminster St., 

Providence 

PERRY and SAUNDERS 

Counsellors at Law 

185 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. 

Joseph Earl Perry, Williams; Albert L. 

Saunders, Brown 1902 

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The engagement of Miss Rebekah Ad- 
ams Collins to Ralph C. Knight '21 has 
been announced. Knight was a star pitcher 
and captain of the nine in his undergradu- 
ate days. 

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Borden of 
Providence have announced the engagement 
of their daughter, Miss Helen Lincoln Bor- 
den (Women's College '22), to Stanley P. 
Whipple '20. 

The engagement of John W. DeWolf, 
Jr., '20-non, to Miss Helen Louise Clarke, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James M. 
Clarke of Columbus, O., has been an- 
nounced. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Niven of 
Providence have announced the engagement 
of their daughter, Miss Gertrude M. Niven 
(Women's College '22), to Harold A. 
Roberts of Boston. 

BIRTHS 

!903 — To Mr. and Mrs. S. Howard 
Easton of Central Falls, R. I., a daughter, 
June Constance, on April 20. 

1905 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ellery L. Wil- 
son of Providence, a daughter, Mary Hol- 
brook, on May 10. 

1906 — To Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. 
Chandler of Tsingtau, Shantung, China, 
a daughter, Marcia Ruth, on March 4, 
1924. 

1908 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. 
Case of Providence, a daughter, Elizabeth 
Richmond, on April 28. 

191 5— To Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur T. 
Breckenridge of East Orange, N. J., a 
daughter, Eunice Eleanor, on May 3. 

1916 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. 
Ferris, a daughter, Helen Dorothy, on De- 
cember 31, 1923. 

1 91 8— To Mr. and Mrs. J. Harold Wil- 
liams of Providence, a son, J. Harold, Jr., 
on May 11. The boy is the grandson of 
the late James A. Williams '90. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

June, 1924 

Henry R. Palmer, Editor 

Clinton H. Currier, Business Manager 



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President 



FOUR years in Providence must have given 
to every Brown man an acquaintance with 
the names of those who are directing the 
affairs of the Puritan Life Insurance Company 
of Rhode Island. 

NO matter where Brown men are now lo- 
cated they must have experienced a famil- 
iarity with the motive forces of this Rhode 
Island Institution. 

THIS feeling of personal interest is recipro- 
cal. It yields unusual satisfaction to us to 
receive applications for life insurance from 
Brown men. 



Board of Directors 

Puritan Life Insurance Company 

Providence, R. I. 



Waiter R. Callender 
Edmund, D. Chesebro 
Dutee W. Flint 
Lyman B. Goff 
Webster Knight 
Henry F. Lippitt 
Eben N. Littlefield 
Edgar J. Lownes 



Stephen O. Metcalf 
Charles Perry 
Aram J. Pothier 
Edward H. Rathbun 
Henry D. Sharpe 
William P. Sheffield 
Henry G. Thresher 
Clinton C. White 



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