BRGWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



^ 1924 - 1925 ^ 



FOUR years in Providence must have given 
to every Brown man an acquciintance with 
the names of those who are directing the 
affairs of the Puritan Life Insuremce 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 jrields unusual satisfaction to us to 
receive applications for life insurance from 
Brown men. 



Board of Diredtors 

Puritan Life Insurance Company 

Providence, R. I. 

Walter R. Callender Stephen O. Metcalf 

Edtnxuid D. Clvesebro Churles Perry 

Dutee W. Flint Aram J. Pothier 

Lyman B. Goflf Edward H. Rathbun 

Webster Knight Henry D. Sharpe 

Henry F. Lippitt William P. Sheffield 

Eben N. Littlefidd Henry G. Thresher 

Edgar J. Lownes Clinton C. White 



VOL. XXV NOVEMBER, 1924 NO. 4 

BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 




ON THE HILL 91 

THE PRESIDENT OF BROWN 93 

FRIENDS WITH LIFE 94 

UNIVERSITY FINANCES 95 

HONORS DAY 98 

THE CLUBS 99 

THE CORPORATION 100 

FRESHMAN NOTES loi 

A GREAT TIME AT CHICAGO 102 

THE WOMEN'S COLLEGE 103 

FOOTBALL 105 

BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR ....... 108 



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Vol. XXV 



PROVIDENCE, NOVEMBER, 1924 



No. 4 



On The Hill 



A LTHOUGH the new baseball stand 
'^ at Aldrich Field is to remain for the 
present without a roof, this is not because 
of lack of funds. The reason is that 
an honest uncertainty exists as to the de- 
sirability of covering the stand. 

It requires only a moment's reflection to 
see that as most of the baseball games of 
the 'Varsity schedule are played before the 
hot summer sun gets in its fine work, it is 
pleasant rather than otherwise to have the 
sunshine fall unobstructed on the specta- 
tor's back; and the stand is so situated that 
his back will be to the westward. Of 
course on rainy days a covering is conven- 
ient, but a rainfall serious enough to inter- 
fere with the comfort of the crowd is apt 
to cause a postponement or abandonment of 
the game. 

It is interesting to know that the total 
amount of the money and pledges for the 
athletic improvements at Brown raised in 
the whirlwind campaign of a few months 
ago was $541,000. To this it is expected 
that $100,000 will eventually be added as 
the proceeds from the anticipated sale of 
Andrews Field, for which the University 
will have no use when the new fields are 
put into operation. 

Work has continued up to the present 
time uninterruptedly on the stadium, Al- 
drich Field and the new tennis courts on 
Thayer street. The fine fall weather has 
favored the undertaking, and no doubt is 
felt of the completion of the entire project 
on time as originally planned. 
* * # 

' I ^WO representative alumni have lately 
commented in private letters as fol- 
lows on the Brown Board of Trustees. We 



pass along their comments as timely and 
interesting. The first letter says : 

"I recently examined a list of the Trus- 
tees of Brown University elected since 
June, 191 5. I was interested to note that 
with one exception not a single one of 
these trustees was either a clergyman or an 
educator. The exception was George H. 
Ferris, who is now dead. I think that while 
it is desirable that we have representative 
business men on the Corporation, it will 
be unfortunate if we do not maintain a lib- 
eral sprinkling of educators and represent- 
ative clergymen on the board also. 

"For example, if we could secure the 
services of men like Rufus Jones or Pres- 
ident Aydelotte from the Quakers, or a 
man like Dean Washburn — who resided 
some years in Providence — from the Epis- 
copalians, it would be well. 

"Should we not also try to secure the 
serivces of men like President Barbour of 
Rochester Theological Seminary — a Brown 
graduate — or a man like Joseph C. Robbins 
'97, or Frederick Lent, president of Elmira 
College, 1900? 

"Men of this type would, in my opinion, 
tend to leaven the lump, and to bring to 
our deliberations a point of view which 
would be most desirable." 

The second letter is of a like tenor: 
"The Brown University Board of Trus- 
tees, like all other boards of educational 
trustees in this country, tends constantly to 
choose lawyers and captains of industry to 
the exclusion of teachers and preachers and 
journalists and artists and writers. While 
such exclusion has never been planned, it 
has come about without planning. A large 
part of the tension between faculties and 



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trustees in America has been due in the 
past to such exclusion. Where such exchi- 
sion prevails, sooner or later the material 
side of the university is developed at the 
expense of the intellectual and spiritual. 
The public wakes up to find that the labo- 
ratories and shops are multiplying and art 
and literature and spiritual leadership are 
somehow always just around the corner." 
* * * 

\\;^ESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has 
lately taken a step of direct interest 
to Brown. After a long list of Presidents 
drawn from the pulpits of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, the college at Middle- 
town has gone outside that sphere of selec- 
tion and chosen a successor to the late Presi- 
dent Shanklin from the ranks of the Con- 
gregational laity. The new executive, Dr. 
McConaughy, is a graduate of Yale in the 
class of 1909, has taught at Dartmouth 
and for a number of years has been the 
President of Knox College in Illinois. 

Brown should be equally free to choose 
a President without regard to his denomi- 
national affiliations. In Dr. Faunce we 



have had an executive of exceptional natu- 
ral qualities, whose quarter century in his 
present office has been a period of constant 
growth and increasing efficiency. But 
when the unhappy day finally comes — and 
may it be long distant — on which he lays 
down the burden he has borne so long, we 
ought not to be forced to restrict ourselves 
to any religious body whatsoever in filling 
the gap. 

It is no secret, by the way, that the 
Brown Alumni Monthly stands, as it has 
stood during its entire history, for the re- 
lease of the University from the illiberal 
charter which is at once a sentimental irri- 
tation to the overwhelming majority of its 
graduates and a practical handicap to its 
progress. We have learned to live with its 
eighteenth-century prohibitions, but are 
little more reconciled to it than ever. And 
we can think of nothing that would more 
surely cement the alumni of Broyvn and 
hearten them to more spontaneous loyalty 
than opening to all of them the privi- 
leges of the University Government on 
equitable terms. 



NEWPORT ROGERS "LAB" 

The laboratory of graduate research, 
now in charge of Professor Charles A. 
Kraus and situated in the old chemical lab- 
oratory building, has been officially named 
the Newport Rogers Laboratory of Chem- 
istry in order to distinguish it from the 
Jesse Metcalf Laboratory on Lincoln Field. 

SENIOR CLASS ELECTIONS 

The Senior class elections resulted in the 
choice of Adolph W. Eckstein of Elizabeth, 
N. J., for President; Charles C. Myers of 
Ardmore, Pa., First Vice President; Wil- 
liam H. Wagenknecht of Adams, Mass., 
Second Vice President; Gordon K. Chal- 
mers of Landsdowne, Pa., Secretary, and 
William M. Browne of Maiden, Mass., 



Treasurer. The first four are Cammarian 
Club men. 

Eckstein is captain of wrestling this year 
and has been a star on the football eleven 
at centre for four years. His fraternity is 
Theta Delta Chi. 

Myers has been a quarterback through- 
out his college course. He is a member of 
Phi Kappa Psi. Wagenknecht, captain of 
the basketball five last winter, belongs to 
Phi Gamma Delta. 

Chalmers and Browne belong to Phi 
Delta Theta. The former is President of 
the Debating Ll^nion, an editor of Case- 
ments, a member of Sphinx and the English 
Clubs. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa 
in his Junior year. Browne was class 
treasurer last year. He has served on com- 
mittees and is a member of the Glee Club. 



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The President of Brown 



I 




Portrait of Dr. Faunce presented to the University by the Providence Chamber of 

Commerce 



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Friends With Life 



'^OBODY could have written a book 
-^^ like Mrs. Allinson's "Friends with 
Life" without having been on friendly 
terms with life herself. 

What a pity it is to go through the 
world forever at odds with it, enlarging 
its difficulties, finding fault with it, refus- 
ing to grasp the hand it outstretches! Mrs. 
Allinson does not shut her eyes to the dark 
possibilities of life; she is no foolish op- 
timist. She takes account of its hazards 
and disappointments, balances them against 
its largess and its loveliness and pronounces 
it good. 

Reporting an intimate conversation with 
a young friend — a college boy, she con- 
trasts her mood with his. He thought life 
"a sorry thing for most people, a mystery 
more dreary than exciting." But she, on 
the mature heights where disillusionment 
dwells, had evolved a cheerful philosophy. 
She says: "I, upon whom time has forced 
the usual first-hand acquaintance with grief 
and disappointment, staunchly defended 
life, maintaining its essential beauty and 
charm." Youth plays with melancholy; 
happy the older heart that keeps youthful 
by rejecting it. 

Being friends with life is entering into 
a constructive partnership with it. Why 
not take it at its best, expect high things 
from it, demand that it shall speak with 
you and deal with you in the spirit in 
which you speak and deal with it? Here 
is a homely illustration — we press a button 
in the living room and the electric light 
that has been generated miles away floods 
the place; we turn the tap in the bowl 
and the water gushes from the Scituate 
hills; we take down the telephone receiver 
and are in audible contact with wide realms 
beyond the physical horizon that hems our 
bodies in. We are in partnership with the 
forces of nature, friends with the universe. 
These forces have their darker side. In 
other circumstances they may turn and rend 



us. But it is our business to escape the 
buffetings of their angry moments and sit 
down at peace with them in the best of 
all possible worlds. 

The same truth emerges in our human 
relationships. Every man's better nature 
is worth knowing; his worse nature is not. 
Or at least his worse nature is not worth 
dwelling upon and worrying about too 
much. We all have within the circle of 
our friendship some person whose kindli- 
ness reaches out to the kindliness in other 
people and will have nothing to do with 
their unlovely self, except to discourage it 
and train it into the semblance of what it 
has the power to be. And there are other 
persons who leave a sinister trail behind 
them, having got not the best but the worst 
out of the fellow human-beings with whom 
they have come into mutually corrupting 
touch. 

Mrs. Allinson preaches a lofty ideal. 
"Basic in any desirable blend" (of char- 
acter), she says, "are courage and honesty. 
Without them it is not possible to be just 
or loyal or unselfish or honorable or mag- 
nanimous or constant or generous." She 
tells us that personal power may be attained 
through the cultivation of inward strength. 
"It is within that the little brawling stream 
of the individual is made to flow in strong 
steady motion with a vaster current." To 
personal happiness she devotes another 
chapter. "If pleasure is to be the cup- 
bearer of happiness, the draught it offers 
must be as sweet at the end as at the be- 
ginning. . . . If it is true that mem- 
ory is given to us that we may have roses 
in December, it is equally true that the 
late blooming depends upon having planted 
roses and not wild oats in the spring of 
life." That is no less true, of course, even 
if it is as hard as it ever was to make youth 
see it. There is a deep philosophy in this 
also that "The honey must be good in the 
long run, or the quest is without joy. Hap- 



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piness deepens and widens exactly in the 
ratio in which our private valuation of de- 
sires approximates the truth." 

After personal power and personal hap- 
piness, Mrs. Allinson discusses personal re- 
ligion. It is the chief charm of her book 
that it is intimate from cover to cover. It 
is of the stuff that evening fireside talks are 
made of among old friends after the clock 
on the mantelpiece above the genial em- 
bers has struck ten. To her the best per- 
sonal definition of religion she has ever 
heard is this: "Betting your life on the ex- 
istence of God." Yet she goes on to say 
that man's awareness of God is a vital el- 
ement of religion. We lean to that opinion 
rather than the other. If we are aware 

»of God, we do not have to bet our life on 
His existence. But we wish we might dis- 
cuss this with the author from ten to eleven 



some quiet evening in front of her study 
fire or our own. 

Perforce we hurry through several inter- 
vening chapters on many alluring themes 
till we reach the final page, where we find 
the whole matter thus summed up : "Wher- 
ever person touches person, the word 
'friend' best describes the most perfect re- 
lationship. And so it is between the in- 
dividual and his existence in this world. 
To be friends with Life means to trans- 
form a fatally necessary connection into an 
intimacy which is free and beautiful and 
noble." 



Friends with Life. By Anne C. E. Al- 
linson, former Dean of the Women's Col- 
lege in Brown University. New York: 
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1924. 



University Finances 

(From the annual report of Frank W . Matteson 'g2. Treasurer) 



To the Corporation of Brown University, 

Gentlemen : 

The Treasurer submits herewith his An- 
nual Report for the year ending June 30, 

1924. 

The year has seen many changes in in- 
vestments, as may be seen by comparing the 
list of assets of this year's report with the 
report of a year ago. 

Early in the year it seemed advisable 
that a comprehensive history of all the 
Funds of the University should be pub- 
lished. This work has involved an im- 
mense amount of labor on the part of the 
Comptroller in compiling from old records 
and every other source available a complete 
history so far as possible of each of the 
Funds. This has now been published and 
distributed to the members of the Corpo- 
ration for their information. 

Changes have been made in the Account- 
ing of many of the Funds as will appear 
in the Statements of the Comptroller. 



Hitherto no record has been kept by the 
Treasurer of the holdings of the University 
in real estate, buildings, etc., unless such 
real estate was counted as an asset in a 
particular Fund. It seemed desirable that 
such a record should be kept of this class 
of property, and accordingly a very care- 
ful description of all the various buildings, 
real estate, etc., together with the valua- 
tions, has been made, the results appearing 
in the "Plant Account" which shows the 
value of the plant in use by the University 
to be $3,267,879.03. 

The old "Common Fund" was the sub- 
ject of much confusion, as its name implied 
that it could be used, both principal and 
interest, for the general needs and uses of 
the University. Investigation brought out 
the fact that only a very small part of the 
Fund could be so used, and that by far 
the larger portion must be kept perma- 
nently, only the income to be used for 
general purposes. A careful study was 



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made of the various items that constituted 
the Common Fund and all that were of a 
permanent nature were withdrawn and set 
up in a new "Permanent Fund," the in- 
come only of which is available for general 
uses. 

Some items of unproductive real estate 
were found in various Trust Funds and 
these were transferred from the Fund 
where they had been carried to the Com- 
mon Fund and proper substitution of in- 
come-bearing securities from the Common 
Fund to the Trust Funds was made, 
thereby restoring the earning value of the 
Trust Funds. 

The "Common Fund" has been much 
depleted by these changes and now stands 
on the books at $102,041.62, nearly all of 
which is represented by unproductive real 
estate. It is earnestly desired that an effort 
be made to build up the Common Fund as 
one of the greatest needs of the University 
is an unrestricted working fund upon which 
it can draw to meet future growth and 
needs. 

The real estate, known as the Lyman 
and McNeil Estates, situated on West- 
minster Street and Exchange Place, Prov- 
idence, has been sold during the year, the 
sale resulting in a profit over book value of 
$i93.i73-49- This enabled the overdrafts 
between the Funds of the University to be 
repaid. 

A careful study of the Funds of the 
University showed that many of them, and 
especially the smaller ones, were more or 
less improperly invested, and in order to 
insure a proper diversion of investments, 
a plan was presented to the Committee on 
Finance and fully approved by it, provid- 
ing for the pooling of such Funds as are 
not required by the term of gifts or be- 
quests to be held as separate Trusts, under 
one caption to be known as "General In- 
vestments," it being voted by the Commit- 
tee on Investments: 

"ist. That under such a pooling ar- 
rangement, no Fund is to lose its identity, 
but is to be represented on the Treasurer's 

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Accounts as having a pro rata interest in 
the securities of the 'General Investments.' 

2nd. That the Treasurer may from 
time to time set aside from the accrued in- 
come of these 'General Investments' a 
small fractional percentage for a so-called 
'Insurance Reserve' and thereafter pro rate 
the net earnings of these 'General Invest- 
ments' to each pooled Fund. 

3rd. That the so-called 'Insurance Re- 
serve' may be established from the above 
suggested distribution of earnings, and also 
by adding thereto the gains, or deducting 
therefrom the losses, from the sales of se- 
curities, and that it is to be used as a mu- 
tual 'Insurance Reserve' for the safety of 
the Funds so pooled, and in which each 
pooled Fund is entitled to a pro rata bene- 
ficial interest." 

This action of the Committee on In- 
vestments was duly reported to the Ad- 
visory and Executive Committee for their 
records. In accordance with the above 
vote arrangements have been made to pool 
as of July I, 1924, all Funds which can 
be pooled. The so-called "Insurance Re- 
serve" creates a profit and loss account to 
which may be charged such losses as may 
be met with in the future, and may, if car- 
ried long enough, create a Fund which can 
be used to offset losses in book values of se- 
curities now owned. The same method 
has been adopted with reference to the 
Funds of the Women's College. 

During the year much activity in the ex- 
tension of athletic lines at the University 
has developed and funds in excess of $500,- 
000 were secured by the alumni for the 
erection and equipment of a suitable am- 
phitheatre, and for further increase of ath- 
letic facilities. It is expected that the fall 
of 1925 will see the completion of this 
structure. Andrews Field had become ut- 
terly inadequate for intramural as well as 
intercollegiate sports and it therefore be- 
came necessary to develop the Cole Avenue 
property, which had been held for athletic 
purposes. This will cost approximately 
$150,000 and will include a baseball dia- 



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mond, with adequate concrete grandstands 
for intercollegiate contests, as well as pro- 
viding three other auxiliary diamonds. 
The field is also to be used in the fall sea- 
son for five football practice fields. It is 
hoped that this development will be en- 
tirely paid for by proceeds from the sale 
of Andrews Field when released from Uni- 
versity uses, and from any surplus avail- 
able after the Amphitheatre is constructed. 
Sufficient funds have been raised to not 
only completely pay for the Amphitheatre 
construction but to leave a surplus which 
will be devoted to the completion of the 
Cole Avenue field. A proper field house is 
absolutely essential for the proper use of 
these fields. It is hoped that this may be 
secured also. 



The report notes among the gifts of the 
year: 

The bequest of Walter H. Kimball '94 
of his library and a large amount of money. 
(We have heard the value of the library 
put at $40,000 and the money at $150,- 
000). 

Two thousand dollars bequeathed by 
Everett C. McVickar for the Bishop Mc- 
Vickar Prize Fund (Department of Bibli- 
cal Literature). 

Miss Sarah E. Doyle's bequest of $500 
for the Women's College Library. 

The bequest of Dr. Frank N. Mande- 
ville '05 of $5000 for a lecture fund. 

The bequest of Walter C. Hamm '70 ot 
his residuary estate. 

One thousand dollars bequeathed by 
Abby M. Fisher, the income to be used for 
books for the Romance Department. 

The gift of $250,000 from the executors 
of the will of John R. Hegeman for a 
men's dormitory, " to be known as the John 
Rogers Hegeman Memorial or the John 
Rogers Hegeman Hall ; this inscription to 
be cut into stone over the entrance and un- 
[der it a bas-relief in bronze of Mr. Hege- 
' man's head, of which we (the executors) 
will supply a plaster cast." 

A gift of $3,000 from the Central Falls 



High School Alumni Association for the 
"William Overton Scholarship" in honor 
of William Overton '87, principal of the 
Central Falls High School for over 30 
years. 

The sum of $14,500 given to the Wo- 
men's College for the purchase of the house 
at 132 Angell street by Stephen O. Met- 
calf '78. 

The sum of $25,000 from Jesse H. Met- 
calf, who accompanied the gift with the 
following: "This with the sum that I have 
given 5'ou should produce an income large 
enough to keep the Jesse Metcalf building 
in repair, — probably go quite a way to- 
wards maintenance, and, if by chance the 
remainder of the income should be larger 
than is necessary for the two items, the re- 
mainder may be used for anything con- 
nected with the Chemical Department. I 
would call your attention to the fact that 
my brother, Manton B. Metcalf, has al- 
ready given you $iOO,000 for a similar ob- 
ject." (From the surplus remaining after 
the erection and equipment of the Jesse 
Metcalf Memorial Laboratory $76,000 in 
securities was added to the above mentioned 
$25,000, and the sum entered on the LTni- 
versity books as the Jesse H. Metcalf Fund 
for the Maintenance of the Department of 
Chemistry. 

The sum of $5,000 from Mrs. Edgar 
John Lownes for the Edgar John Lownes 
Memory Day Fund, the interest to be used 
in giving an organ recital yearly by some 
distinguished artist and if possible to be 
open to the public. 



The insurance on the University's build- 
ings and contents amounts to $4,088,400. 

The balance in the hands of the Treas- 
urer on June 30, 1923, was $8,291,983.21. 
Additions during the ensuing year were 
$2,701,494.11. The plant account is given 
as $3,267,879.03, making a total of $14,- 
261,356.35. 

The cash balance, July i, 1923, was 
$80,319.32. 



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Receipts of income during the year were 
$1,405,823.77. Total $1,486,143.09. 

The disbursements during the year were 
$1,376,498.03, leaving a cash balance, June 
30, 1924, of $109,645.06. 

Bonds in the possession of the University 
amount to $5,862,300.41. 



The total assets of the University, in- 
cluding bonds, stocks, mortgages, real es- 
tate held under funds, certificates of de- 
posit, participation accounts, cash, land and 
buildings were on June 30, 1924, $12,173,- 
666.56. 



Honors Day 



A T THE annual Honors Day exercises 
"^ in Sayles Hall on the morning of Oc- 
tober 7, President Frank Aydelotte of 
Swarthmore College delivered the principal 
address. He said in part : 

"Respect for the development of intel- 
lectual life has never been so widespread 
in any country, I believe, as in our own. 
This can be seen in the tremendous 
amounts of money spent in. endowing our 
colleges. But in spite of the present system 
of education generally effective in our 
country, which has proved a very wonder- 
ful and effective system, I think we could 
improve our students if we changed the 
system. 

"The academic routine required at pres- 
ent is a pure waste of time for the better 
than average students. They are required 
to conform to the programme and routine 
which was not made for them. This pro- 
gramme encourages docility in students 
above all other virtues. Docility is not the 
virtue most highly rewarded by the world, 
however. 

"Outside activities encourage independ- 
ence, initiative and original thinking which 
the undergraduates do not get in their 
class work. I would capitalize for aca- 
demic purposes those qualities which are re- 
quired in these outside activities. I favor 
the movement now being started in this 
country to give the undergraduates more 
freedom to do good work, or bad work, if 
they so choose; to make their own tasks; 
to receive stimuli and advice from their in- 
striictors rather than too much instruction. 



"We are using this system at Swarth- 
more. At the end of the course we give a 
severe examination for which cramming is 
no use. The undergraduate must pass the 
examination by what he knows. Such a 
course is severe, but it makes students able 
to proceed under their own power. This 
movement for more freedom on the part of 
students is the only way to break the intel- 
lectual lockstep, I believe. 

"This system is democratic because it 
gives the opportunity for every man to do 
the best he can. The very future of 
democracy depends on a high level of intel- 
lectual excellence. Democracy needs the 
services of men trained to the highest point 
of which they are capable." 

A long list of honor students was read at 
these exercises. There were 70 of these 
students who won honors during the aca- 
demic year 1923-24. 

SCHOLASTIC HONORS 

To Jacob M. Jacobson of New Bedford, 
Mass., and Allen C. Morrill of Worcester, 
Mass., belongs the distinction of being the 
highest-stand men in the class of 1926 at 
Brown. They are the only ones to win 
preliminary highest honors as a result of 
two years' work on College Hill. 

Eighteen other Juniors at Brown and 
twelve members of the class of 1926 at the 
Women's College won preliminary honors, 
to attain which a student must secure a 
grade of 90 or more in 30 per cent, of his 
work and a grade of 80 to 90 in 70 per 
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contained, as the conditions read, "not less 
than 65 per cent. A (90 or higher) and 
100 per cent. A and B (80 to 90)." Inci- 
dentally, it is necessary that a winner show 
mastery of his subjects as well as superficial 
ability to get high marks. 

Jacobson has been prominent in debating 
at Brown and is one of the best students in 
mathematics on College Hill. Morrill has 
not been active in undergraduate affairs. 

The winners of preliminary honors are 
Percy L. Bailey, Jr., from Rogers High 
School, Newport; Horace H. Barker and 
Frederick L. Kilbourn, Jr., Pawtucket; 
Marie P. Canaipi, Joseph W. Cohen and 
Perry S. Horenstein, Technical High 
School, Providence; Carl F. Bayerschmidt, 
James H. Peers and Jacob Shapiro, Clas- 
sical High School, Providence; Godfrey 



Goff and Jacob S. Tomkin, Hope Street 
High School, Providence; Joseph Freed- 
man, Cranston; Robert O. Gilmore, East 
Providence; Leslie T. Fagan, Waterbury, 
Conn. ; John T. Hunt, Richmond Hill, N. 
Y. ; Ferdinand B. Hurt, Cicero, 111. ; Wil- 
liam F. Storms, Norwich, Conn., and Fred- 
erick L. Wood, Hopedale, Mass. 

The women are Marion M. E. Broad- 
bent and Mary V. Kenny, Fall River, 
Mass.; Edna M. Goggin, Warren; Mar- 
garet F. Phelan, Newport; Dorothy I. 
Pratt, Brockton, Mass. ; Esther B. Quack- 
enboss, Canaan, N. Y. ; Mary Light 
Schaefifer, Lancaster, Pa.; Elizabeth M. 
Smith, Woonsocket; Belinda E. Snow, 
Raynham Centre, Mass. ; Claudine C. Wal- 
ford, Edgewood, and Winifred F. Pine and 
M. Avis Sugden of Providence. 



The Clubs 



A S THE last call for copy arrived, word 
"^ came that the Brown Club of Hart- 
ford got together the night before the 
Brown-Yale game to stir interest in that 
contest. Furber Marshall 'ign, end coach 
of the varsity squad, was the guest of the 
Club. At the same time the Brown Club 
of New Hampshire, with headquarters in 
Manchester, was planning to do what it 
could to make Brown men comfortable on 
their way to the Brown-Dartmouth game 
at Hanover. 

The Brown Club of Providence, through 
its various committees, has been working 
zealously for several months on matters of 
real importance to the University. In 
another column you may read of the activ- 
ities of the Brown Club of Chicago with 
regard to the Brown-Chicago contest. 
Other clubs are also up and doing. Now 
is the time to begin action all along the 
line. These Brown units can do much to 
spread the name of Brown, to search out 
desirable boys in their respective commun- 
ities and to work with the University and 
the Alumni Office to the common end of 



helping make Brown stronger and better. 
Here's to a busy and successful season 
everywhere, from the Brown Club of Port- 
land, Me., to the Brown Club of Kobe, 
Japan ! 

NEW YORK 

With the appointment of Harold M. 
Jackson '15 as chairman, the entertainment 
committee of the Brown Club of New 
York at once rose to the occasion of the 
Chicago-Brown game in Chicago on Oct. 
II and had the Western Union put in a 
private wire direct from Stagg Field to 
the clubhouse. Chicago alumni were in- 
vited and the game was reported play by 
play to a crowd that filled the house. Al- 
though the game was a joy only to our 
Chicago guests, all good Brunonians for- 
got their disappointment in the pleasure of 
seeing old friends again and having an old- 
fashioned reunion. So well did the party 
go off that there will be others of similar 
nature — for the Harvard game in particu- 
lar. 

Ray Walsh '17, chairman of the mem- 



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bership committee, has been right on the 
job of late and expects soon to have his 
plans ready for an intensive membership 
campaign. 

CONNECTICUT VALLEY 

The Connecticut Valley Brown Club is 
planning one of the most active years of 
its history. Besides the annual dinner, 
which will probably take place in Febru- 
ary, there will be a number of informal 
luncheons in Springfield and vicinity. 

In the spring a number of men got to- 
gether at the home of the club president, 
Prof. Ralph P. Boas in Springfield. The 
gathering was the largest that has assembled 
recently on any occasion other than the 
annual dinner. Plans were gone over for 
the present year and a program outlined 
which has considerable promise. 



On Sept. 23 a number of the men got 
together at the Highland Hotel for an in- 
formal luncheon and to talk over plans for 
the immediate future. There will be a 
series of these luncheons during the fall 
months and this activity will probably be 
supplemented by trips to the football games. 
Two of the major games on the Brown 
schedule are played in or near the Connec- 
ticut Valley and we are within easy motor 
distance of both Yale and Dartmouth. 

It is refreshing to see an increasing 
amount of Brown news sent out from 
Providence appearing in Springfield papers. 
Somehow Springfield and Providence in the 
past have seemed a great deal more de- 
tached than the distance would warrant 
and it is one of the prime aims of the Club 
to bring them closer together insofar as 
Brown interests are concerned. 



The Corporation 



'T^HE OATH of office as members of 
the board of trustees of Brown Uni- 
versity was administered to Herbert H. 
Rice of Detroit, Webster Knight of this 
city and C. Sherman Hoyt of New York 
on October 8 at a meeting of the Corpora- 
tion of the LTniversity, held in the adminis- 
tration building. Action to fill two exist- 
ing vacancies, created by the deaths of A. 
Chalkeley Collins and Lucius Brown, was 
deferred until the June meeting. 

The secretary of the Corporation, Dr. 
Thomas D.. Anderson '74, having removed 
to Colorado, presented his resignation. Dr. 
Hermon C. Bumpus '84 was elected sec- 
retary for the regular term of three years. 
F. W. Matteson '92 was re-elected treas- 
urer for three years. 

The Corporation received and placed on 
file the reports of President Faunce and 
Treasurer Matteson. Reports were re- 
ceived also from the committee on plans 
and policies of the University, presented by 
Zechariah Chafee '80, and from the com- 



mittee on charter revision, presented by the 
chairman, Samuel H. Ordway '80. 

For the committee on the new athletic 
fields, Paul C. DeWolf '05 reported that, 
since the development of Aldrich Field is 
costing more than the $100,000 of the orig- 
inal estimate, the Aldrich brothers (H. L. 
'76 and C. T. '77) have made a further 
gift of $25,000 for the complete equipment 
of the field. 

The report of the committee on the new 
Hegeman dormitory was presented by the 
chairman, Charles R. Adams '80. The 
Corporation inspected and approved plans 
of the architect, \lv. Klauder of Philadel- 
phia. 

The Corporation elected Miss Mary 
Brownell of the Advisory Council of the 
Women's College to fill the vacancy caused 
bv the death of Miss Sarah E. Dovle. 



■ The October meeting of the Advisory 
and Executive Committee of the Corpora- 
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Friday, October 17th, at 2.30 p. m. The 
greater part of the afternoon was spent in 
discussion of the various building projects 
of the University. The report of the Su- 
perintendent of Buildings was read and 
placed on file. Arrangements were made 
whereby students may have opportunity for 
piano practice in a room on the lower floor 
of 36 Waterman street, where Professor 
Ware's office has been established. 

A communication was read from the 
President of the Associated Alumni and the 
Alumni Manager, setting forth certain dif- 
ficulties that the organization of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni is now facing. A committee 



consisting of Messrs. Bumpus, DeWolf and 
Pendleton was appointed to meet a similar 
committee to be appointed by President 
Archibald C. Matteson — the two commit- 
tees to confer regarding the matter and re- 
port at the November meeting of the Ad- 
visory and Executive Committee. 

The Commencement Dinner Committee 
was reappointed. Since two members. Pro- 
fessors Collier and Smith, are now in Eu- 
rope, two other men. Professors Gorham 
and Adams, were appointed to take their 
place. 

The meeting adjourned at five o'clock. 



Freshman Notes 



FRESHMAN SWIMMERS 

The required swimming tests in the Col- 
gate Hoyt pool have disclosed the fact that 
Coach Charlie Huggins has some promis- 
ing material for his Freshman squad. 

R. T. Harnden, fullback on the Fresh- 
man football team, is a crack swimmer. He 
did the lOO-yard dash in the swimming test 
trials in i minute 3-5 seconds, the best 
record ever made at Brown in these trials. 
At summer camp at Creggville, Mass., last 
summer he readily defeated Gordon Richie 
and Bob Adams in a 50-yard race. Adams 
was not in very good condition, but' Harn- 
den showed convincingly that he is a comer. 
He has made exceptionally fast time in the 
backstroke event. 

D. Goff, who swam for Technical High 
School of this city last year, is one of the 
best prospects. He did the "lOo" in i min- 
ute 6 4-5 seconds and a fair backstroke. 

E, Balzar, from New Haven High 
School, did the century swim in i minute 
6 seconds. 

J. W. Aldrich shows good racing form 
for the breast stroke, although his time was 
only fair, T. F. Pevear is another breast 
stroke candidate who may be a contender 
for the team. 

Other good "lOo" men are J. N. Heffer- 
man, Freshman football man; L D. Had- 



ley, regular back on the eleven ; D. D. 

Smith, W. Wyckoff and G. M. Gross. 

Hadley is also a backstroke man of ability, 
as is G. M. Merchant. 

THE FRESHMAN RULES 

1. No Freshman shall smoke upon the 
campus. The campus includes Andrews 
Field and Thayer Street Field. 

2. No Freshman shall walk up or down 
the south side of College Hill until after 
the interclass baseball game. 

3. All Freshmen shall wear from two 
days after the opening of college until Dec- 
oration Day a brown skull cap with white 
button. This is to be worn at all times 
within the city limits except on Sundays, on 
holidays, and during vacations. 

4. All Freshmen are forbidden to wear 
knickerbockers. 

5. All Freshmen are forbidden to wear 
galoshes unbuttoned. 

6. All Freshmen attending any athletic 
function must sit in the cheering section un- 
less attended by a guest. 

7. No Freshman at any athletic contest 
shall leave his seat until after the conclu- 
sion of the contest. 

8. No Freshman shall wear a cap in the 
dining room or grill room of the Brown 
Union. 



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A Great Time at Chicago 



itHPHIS team," said Head Coach Rob- 
inson at the dinner given by the 
Brown Club of Chicago at the Hotel La 
Salle on the evening of Oct. lO, "has cour- 
age, enthusiasm and love of hard work." 

He might have said the same thing about 
the alumni in the Chicago sector who gave 
so liberally of their time and their energy 
to make the visit of the football team to 
Chicago a memorable one. The great re- 
gret is that the eleven could not have de- 
feated Chicago and so reciprocated in fit- 
ting fashion for the fine efforts in its behalf. 

For nearly two months the Chicago 
committee worked to stir interest in the 
game. It got results. It never overlooked 
a Brown man in the Middle West. It 
likewise took in men from Yale, Harvard, 
Dartmouth, Prmceton and other eastern 
colleges. There was a spirit of intercolle- 
giate friendship manifest that it would do 
well to cultivate. Not often do we see 
so many men from so many colleges unit- 
ing in the common cause. 

The Chicago committee, with Ronald 
M. Kimball 'i8 as its chairman and Elmer 
T. Stevens '04, Burton Harrington '18, 
Melville Lowe '17, John T. Walker, Jr., 
'13, Dana Hubbard '15 and Harry E, 
Roelke '11 as some of its active spirits, co- 
operated fully with Dr. Marvel and the 
Alumni Manager on the Providence end 
of the line. When the Alumni Manager 
went to Chicago three days ahead of the 
squad he found all members of the com- 
mittee ready and eager to aid him in 
spreading the news of the team and of its 
invasion. Competing with the World's Se- 
ries in baseball was not easy. But Chicago 
newspapermen were friendly and whatever 
space they had available was for Brown. 

The dinner at the La Salle the evening 
before the game brought out the largest 
number of Brown men ever gathered to- 
gether in Chicago. A hundred men re- 



plied to notices sent out; and more were 
on hand when Wallace R. Lane '99 rapped 
for order and, amid cheers, introduced 
Head Coach Robinson of the eleven. Rob- 
bie was brief — he said what he had to say 
in the words quoted at the beginning. La- 
ter on he gave the line-up, with a word 
of praise for each player, as well as an 
added word of regret that Adolph Eck- 
stein '25, "the best centre in the East," 
would play, but would not shine because 
of a serious injury to his shoulder. 

Dr. Marvel reminded the alumni that 
Coaches Stagg of Chicago and Robinson of 
Brown were the two veterans of the grid- 
iron. "Stagg has been at Chicago 33 
years," he explained. "Robinson has been 
our mainstay at Brown for 23 years." He 
touched briefly and feelngly on Robbie's 
methods of coaching and then described 
colorfully the new athletic fields and the 
programme of physical education that his 
department is trying to carry out. The 
Alumni Manager told of his work, Charlie 
Huggins gave notice that Brown would 
"fight its head off" against Chicago, and 
Furber Marshall '19, the end coach, did a 
humorous monologue on the football team 
and its members as he had seen them. 
(Note — Any committee looking for a first- 
grade speaker, with humor and ability, 
would do well to address "Furb"). 

Dean Randall, who went to Chicago as 
the special guest of the Brown Club out 
there, spoke on "The Human Side of Ath- 
letics." Dean Randall was in fine form 
and the alumni sat right up and listened 
to him with genuine interest. "Athletics 
advertise the college as few other agencies 
can," he said. "And they offer a channel 
through which the alumni can come in 
closer contact with the inner workings of 
the college. They furnish a splendid 
agency for establishing esprit de corps — a 
great contest breaks down all class, all fra- 



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fernity lines, and unifies every element. 
No thing is doing more to build character 
at Brown than our athletics." The Dean 
paid compliments to Coach Robinson and 
Dr. Marvel and to the high calibre- of the 
men on the football squad. "The Chicago 
alumni have certainly shown a great spirit 
in preparing for this game," he said in clos- 
ing. "Personally I appreciate the oppor- 
tunity you gave me to come out here and 
I can say for the boys, as Robbie has said: 
'We're going to do our best for you'." 

Mr. Lane read a letter of regret from 
Coach Stagg, who had an irritating cold, 
in which the "Old Man" spoke reminis- 
cently of the last visit of Brown to Chicago 
in 1900, when Brown won, 11-6. Mr. 
Lane also introduced W. A. Giffen, head 



of the University of Chicago football tick- 
ets committee, who told what he had done 
to make it possible for Brown men and 
friends of Brown to see the contest. After 
"Silent Harry" Roelke, president of the 
Chicago Club, had received a cheer, the 
gathering, on motion of Elmer Stevens, 
unanimously voted "loyaltv and confidence 
in Coach Robinson, his assistants, and the 
team." Then John Walker, cheer leader 
(and a good one), got his cohorts together 
and rehearsed songs for the next day. It 
was a fine dinner, a lively reunion. The 
Chicago alumni deserve praise for their 
share in the proceedings. The regret is — 
but none of us has as yet forgotten the 
score of the game. 



The Women's College 

(Contributed by the Press Club of the fVomen's College) 



Freshmen from Far Away 
npHE Women's College is developing. 
The Freshman class has 138 students, 
some of whom come from states as far 
away as Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland 
and Florida, as well as from New England 
and the Middle Atlantic region. But it 
will be of particular interest to alumnae 
to learn- that there are several foreign stu- 
dnts at the college: Mile. Elise Benoit 
from the Sevigne in Paris, Mile. Olga Hess 
from Russia, and Fraulein Kathe Beyer 
from Berlin. These foreign students bring 
the college into contact with the educa- 
tional atmosphere of Europe. 

In order to accommodate the increased 
number of students, the whole of Sharpe 
House on Angell street is being used this 
year. This building, formerly a private 
house, has been completely renovated and 
equipped for college needs. There are at- 
tractive dining rooms, a charming living 
room and rooms for 28 girls. Miss Anna 
Vinton, the house mother for the past two 
years, is again in charge of Sharpe House. 



Miss Vinton, with Miss Frances Boyd of 
East House, is also engaged in managing 
the dining room at the Brown Union. 

Chapel Talks 

Dean Margaret Morriss with the aid of 
the Students' Vocational Guidance Com- 
mittee has planned a series of chapel talks 
which will give the student body practical 
information on opportunities for college 
women. During the first semester there 
will be in all five chapel talks, each by a 
well-informed woman capable of discuss- 
ing and offering advice in her own partic- 
ular field. The students are able to meet 
the speakers personally through interviews 
(if they wish further advice or informa- 
tion). 

The first of the series was given by Miss 
Florence Jackson, director of the Appoint- 
ment Bureau of the Women's Educational 
and Industrial Union, on October 15. On 
October 27 Miss Nora E. Dowell, Ph.D., 
Brown 191 6, assistant geologist in the Uni- 
ted States Geological Survey, spoke on the 



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opportunities in geological fields. Arrange- 
ments for other speakers during November 
are now under way. 

Republican Activities 

The Brown unit of the Rhode Island 
Women's Republican Club staged a lively 
political rally in the chapel in Pembroke 
Hall on the afternoon of October 14. The 
meeting gave those interested in this fall's 
campaign a splendid opportunity to hear 
speakers who are among the leaders of the 
party in this State. Mrs. Harold J. Gross, 
the president of the Women's Republican 
Club, and Mrs. Henry Babcock spoke in- 
terestingly on political matters. The prin- 
cipal speakers were the Hon. Richard W. 
Jennings, the Republican candidate for the 
office of State Treasurer, and Colonel An- 
thony Dyer. The glee club of the Wo- 
men's Republican Club sang a number of 
lively campaign songs. 

The Brown Unit of the Women's Re- 
publican Club is not a distinct political 
club. It is rather the group of girls in 
college who have joined the large State 
club. 

A Conference at Wellesley 

Brown University and the Women's 
College were among the New England col- 
leges represented at the intercollegiate con- 
ference at Wellesley on Saturday, October 
II. President Faunce and Arthur W. 
Packard represented the University; Dean 
Margaret Morriss and Miss Marjorie 
Roach, president of the student government 
association, represented the Women's Col- 
lege. At the conference were many distin- 
guished educators, for the administration of 
each of the colleges was represented by an 
important member. The student repre- 
sentative from each college was in most 



cases prominent in the work of the local 
student government or Christian associa- 
tion. Miss Mary E. Woolley, president of 
Mt. Holyoke College, opened the confer- 
ence; President Faunce was elected the 
chairman. 

The purpose of this conference was to 
afford the faculties and students of the sev- 
eral colleges an opportunity to discuss the 
social problems which at present are de- 
manding so much attention. Those attend- 
ing the conference appreciated the oppor- 
tunity of learning and comparing the va- 
rious attitudes toward rules and customs. 
The speeches and reports of the faculty 
generally expressed optimism. There was 
a distinct feeling of co-operation among the 
representative, who, although they were not 
able to accomplish anything tangible, felt 
that such a conference was well worth 
while. 

Death of Miss Ordway 

The death, on Sept. 19, 1924, of Helen 
Frances Ordway of Winchester, Mass., 
has served only to deepen the influence of a 
brief but remarkable life. Miss Ordway 
graduated from Mt. Holyoke and sooii 
afterwards accepted a position as instructor 
in biology in the Women's College at 
Brown. Here she received her M. A. and 
was elected to Sigma Xi. To her, biology 
was fascinating and she had the gift of ma- 
king it so to others. Students discerned in 
her, not only a teacher, but a close friend. 
About four years ago the appearance of 
cancer ended her college teaching. Many 
of the alumnae of the Women's Col- 
lege will remember Miss Ordway as a fine 
teacher of a subject dear to her heart, and 
as a friend always exerting a noble influ- 
ence. 



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Football 



BROWN 45, COLBY o 

Brown's opening football game of the 
year was a 45-0 victory over Colby College 
of Waterville, Maine, at Andrews Field, 
Oct. 4, in the presence of an enthusiastic 
crowd of 3000 persons.. The afternoon 
was bright and mild, the student attendance 
was large and the good showing of the 
Brown team kept the fans exceedingly 
cheerful. 

The Brunonians smashed and battered 
the Colby line to shreds, made many spec- 
tacular runs, and tackled with such precis- 
ion and determination that the Blue and 
White warriors were never in a threatening 
position. 

The shining lights were Jackson Reefer, 
Charlie Dixon and Fred Sweet. These 
three time and again roused the audience 
yvith scintillating plays. 

Keefer's advent into the game was under 
exceptional circumstances. Coach Robin- 
son had kept him under cover in the first 
quarter, but when the second period started 
and the crowd kept calling: "Give us Reef- 
er ! Let's see Ripke's running mate ! Bring 
out the man who can rival Fritz Pollard!" 
Robinson could not hold out any longer. 
Li went the great Western back and from 
then on the crowd had plenty of thrills. 

Reefer's performance, even though 
against only a weak team, put new hopes 
in the hearts of the Brunonian supporters^ 
Entering the game in the second period he 
took the ball on the second play and tore off 
a run of 13 yards, a point from which he 
shot across the line for a score a few mo- 
ments later. 

In the fourth period, after a layoff in the 
third while Robinson was trying out vari- 
ous substitute combinations. Reefer, on a 
slide off tackle, jogged along for 25 yards 
before he was stopped. A few plays later 
on a similar formation he added 30 yards 



more, only to see half of it forfeited by off- 
side play. 

Dixon's chances for carrying the ball, 
while not frequent, came often enough to 
allow him to star. Sweet made a 35-yard 
run, an intercepted pass giving him an op- 
portunity to get through most of the Colby 
team before he was downed. His defen- 
sive work also brought him into the spot- 
light. 

On the whole. Brown made a great 
showing, in spite of a few weaknesses that 
were bound to crop out in the initial con- 
test of the year. 

The Brown lineup : 

Sheldon (Capt.) 1. e. ; Roman, 1. t. ; Sta- 
ples, 1. g. ; Eckstein, c. ; McDermott, r. g. ; 
Sayward, r. t. ; Stifler, r. e. ; Myers, q. b. ; 
Rlump, 1. h. b. ; Pavor, r. h. b. ; Pohlman, 
f. b. 

Score by periods: 

I 

Brown 7 

Colby o 

Touchdowns made by — Myers, Reefer 2, 
Dixon, Sweet, Richardson, Rlump. Goals 
after touchdown . (drop-kick) — Rlump, 
Mishel, Sweet. 

Substitutions: Brown — Dixon for 
Rlump, Mishel for Pohlman, Richardson 
for Myers, Reefer for Payor, Neubauer for 
Staples, Talbot for Stifler, Smith for Ro- 
man, Johnson for Neubauer, Broda for 
Sheldon, Magee for Sayward, H. Metzger 
for McDermott, McCrillis for H. Metz- 
ger, Ferry for Reefer, Higgins for Dixon, 
Sweet for Mishel, Cross for Richardson, 
Myers for Cross, McDermott for Mc- 
Crillis, Payor for Ferry, Ferry for Higgins, 
Staples for Neubauer, Reefer for Ferry, 
Richardson for Myers, Sheldon for Broda, 
Stifler for Talbot, H. Metzger for McDer- 
mott, Eckstein for S. Metzger, Pohlman for 
Sweet, Rlump for Reefer, Reefer for Pay- 



2 

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or, Dixon for Kecfcr, Say ward for Magee, 
Miller for Stifler, Stoehr for Klump, Mac- 
Donald for Richeson. 

Referee — W. J. Halloran, Providence; 
Umpire — Kelly, Springfield ; Field Judge — 
Williams, Wesleyan. Head Linesman — 
Carpenter, Tufts. Time — Two 15 and 
two 13-minute periods. 

BROWN 7, CHICAGO 19 

Facing a heavier and more experienced 
team, Brown was beaten at Stagg Field, 
Chicago, Oct. 11, before 25,000 spectators, 
when the University of Chicago backs 
smashed through the line for three touch- 
downs and kicked one goal. Brown could 
only make one touchdown and goal against 
the Westerners. 

The credit for winning the game for 
Chicago, whose final score was 19, goes to 
Thomas, who, taking the ball time after 
time, went fhrough the Brown line for two 
of the touchdowns. Francis, an end on last 
year's Freshman team, took the ball over 
for the other touchdown. 

Stifler of the visitors blocked an at- 
tempted punt of Thomas' and gave Brown 
its only opportunity to score. Payor and 
Richardson took the ball for nine yards 
on two tries and then Keefer was given 
the ball. With a yard to go for first down, 
Keefer flashed through a hole opened by 
Sayward and McDermott. He reversed 
the field and went over the line before the 
Western backs knew where he was. Mish- 
el kicked the goal. 

The Brown line-up: Sheldon and Stifler, 
ends; Sayward and Roman, tackles; Mc- 
Dermott and Staples, guards; Eckstein, 
center; Richardson, quarterback; Dixon 
and Keefer, halves; Sweet fullback. 

BROWN 35, BOSTON U. o 

With an improvised team, Brown beat 
Boston University at Andrews Field, Oct. 
18, 35 to O. Several of the regular eleven 
were still sore from injuries received at 
Chicago, and Coach Robinson was anxious 
to give them more time to recuperate be- 



fore the tussle with Yale a week later. Ac- 
cordingly the line-up was as follows: 

Broda 1. e.. Smith 1. t., McDermott 1. g., 
Stephens c, H. Metzer r. g., Roman r. t., 
Talbot r. e., Myers q., Klump 1. h., Payor 
r. h., Pohlman f. Payor made two touch- 
downs, Klump one (after a 65-yard run), 
Keefer (who was in only a few minutes) 
one, and Sweet one. All five goals were 
kicked — by Klump 3, Keefer and Higgins. 
(Dropkicks from formation). 

BROWN 3, YALE 13 

A heart-rending game was lost to Yale 
at New Haven on October 25. Up to 
within four minutes of the end of the con- 
test Brown led at 3-0, having scored on 
Keefer's field goal in the first period. The 
great crowd of Yale supporters was leaving 
the field, disconsolate over what looked 
like the sure defeat of their favorites, when 
Cottle suddenly broke through Brown's 
right tackle and with fine interference 
rushed for a touchdown, a goal quickly fol- 
lowing. In this unexpected crisis, with the 
Brown team stunned and crushed, a sec- 
ond Yale touchdown, without a goal, was 
scored while only eight seconds of play rer- 
mained. 

Until the fourth period Yale never as- 
sumed a really menacing aspect. W. O. 
McGeehan, one of the veteran football 
writers of the country, says in the New 
York Herald Tribune: "Until those last 
few minutes of play the Yale eleven was 
fairly well baffled by the brilliant attack 
of the Brown men and held at the crit- 
ical points by a stubborn Brown line. Un- 
til those last few minutes of play the Brown 
eleven seemed to be jnuch better than Yale, 
much better than the score of 3 to O would 
indicate." 

As Brown outshone the Elis, so Keefer 
outshone the other Brown players. The 
versatile halfback was a tower of strength 
on the offence and defence as well. In the 
first quarter he electrified the fans with a 
5 1 -yard run along the side lines after catch- 
ing Cottle's 40-yard punt; later in the 



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game he ripped off gain upon gain with his 
clever running, and in the third quarter 
was making a spurt with the ball on Scott's 
poor attempt for placement kick when he 
was hurt by Scott's violent tackle. From 
then on he seemed to slow up considerably. 
Along with Keefer, however, there were 
other stars who played well enough to win 
almost any football game. Dixon, Sweet, 
Myers, Payor and Pohlman smashed their 
way through the wavering Yale line for 
substantial gains when gains meant first 
downs. 

But the real treat of the game was the 
showing of the Brown forward line. Con- 
sidered before the game as the weak part 
of the Brunonians' team, the linemen 
opened gaps consistently for their plunging 
backs, throwing the Blue defence all over 
the field. Eckstein, Broda, Talbot, H. 
Metzger, Sayward, S. Metzger and Roman 
gave the Yale men one of the hardest af- 
ternoons they have ever experienced, Eck- 
stein particularly showing up the famous 
Capt. Lovejoy with his brilliant work. 

Brown outrushed, outpunted and out- 
played the Blue at every stage of the game. 
In straight rushing Brown amassed 192 
yards to Yale's 181 and added 61 more 
yards by forward passes, which Yale at- 
tempted only once. Then it failed; for 
Dixon picked the pigskin out of the air. 
Both Keefer's and Myers's punts outsoared 
those of Cottle and Scott and were high 
enough to give Talbot and Broda chances 
to get down and drop the runners without 
much gain. 

Yale played her strongest team from the 
outset. 

About 1000 Brown students and their 
friends were present from Providence, a 
special train carr^qng about half this 
number. 

The total attendance at the game was 
50,000-. 

The score by periods : 
Brown 3000- 

Yale O O O 13- 

The Brown line-up 



3 
13 
Broda, 1. e. ; Ro- 



man, 1. t. ; McDermott, 1. g. ; S. Metzger, 
c. ; H. Metzger, r. g. ; Sayward, r. t. ; 
Stifler, r. e. ; Myers, q. ; Keefer, 1. h. ; Pay- 
or, r. h, ; Pohlman, f . 

Brown substitutions: First half, Dixon 
for Payor, Eckstein for S. Metzger, Talbot 
for Broda, Neubauer for McDermott, 
Richardson for Myers, Smith for Roman, 
Provonchee for H. Metzger. Second half, 
Broda for Talbot, Myers for Richardson, 
Payor for Dixon, Roman for Smith, Rich- 
ardson for Myers, Dixon for Payor, Sweet 
for Pohlman, Provonchee for Neubauer, 
Johnson for Provonchee. 

BROWN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 

Games Played 
Brown 45, Colby o. 
Brown 7, University of Chicago 19. 
Brown 35, Boston University O. 
Brown 3, Yale 13. 
Brown 3, Dartmouth 10. 

Games to be Played 

Nov. 8 — Haskell Indians at Providence. 

Nov. 15 — Harvard at Cambridge. 

Nov. 22 — University of New Hamp- 
shire at Providence. 

Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving) — Colgate at 
Providence. 

FRESHMAN FOOTBALL 

On Saturday, Oct. 4, the Brown Fresh- 
man football team beat the Moses Brown 
School team of Providence, 14-O. The 
game showed that 1928 has some excep- 
tionally fine material, though the short 
time that had elapsed between the opening 
of college and this, the first game of the 
year, made it impossible to make the most 
of it. 

On Oct. II, while the 'Varsity eleven 
was at Chicago, the Freshmen met Dean 
Academy of Franklin, Mass., at Andrews 
Field and won, 9-0, The hero of the day 
was "Red" Randall of last year's Andover 
Academy team. He made the only touch- 
down of the contest and also kicked a field 
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team was much heavier than the Freshmen, 
but only once threatened the Brown goal. 
That was in the second quarter, when the 
ball was rushed to the four-yard line. The 
most conspicuous Brown players were Ran- 
dall, Hadley and Ford. Brown's touch- 
down was made in the second frame and 
the field goal in the third. 

Worcester Academy beat the Freshmen 
at Worcester, Oct. i8, by a score of 20-0. 
The squad on Oct. 17 elected Gurney of 
last year's Exeter eleven, captain. 

The Freshmen beat Phillips Andover 
Academy at Andover, Oct. 25, 10 to 7. 

NOTES OF THE MONTH 

Coolidge and LaFollette clubs have been 
organized, the former having the larger 
number of members. 

Pi Kappa will have a tea dance Nov. 27, 
after the Brown-Colgate game, to which 
both teams will be invited. 

As we go to press the college is sad- 
dened by the sudden death of Charles 
H. Huggins, our athletic trainer. 

Dunsany's two-act tragedy, "The Tents 
of the Arabs," was well given at the Sock 
and Buskin Dramatic Society's members' 
night, Oct. 16. 

The Brown Herald urges that it is un- 
dignified for students to appear at chapel 
in sweaters instead of coats and with shirts 
open at the throat. 

A fire, origin undetermined, damaged 



the Sigma Nu house on Charles Field 
street, about 4 p. m., Oct. 2, to the esti- 
mated extent of $2,500. 

In the storm of late September, which 
rose to a 60-mile gale in Rhode Island, a 
large elm tree on College Hill, near the 
Providence Athenaeum, fell. 

The Pi Kappa dance at the Churchill 
House, Oct. 18, was a pleasant affair. 
Annan's orchestra furnished the music and 
the refreshments were from Carr's. 

The Athletic Association Board has 
passed the following vote : "It is recom- 
mended that all athletic sweaters with 'Var- 
sity letters or numerals be worn with the 
insignia showing at all times." This is 
aimed at the bizarre practice of wearing 
sweaters wrong side out. 

Professor Drury, assistant librarian, has 
undertaken a systematic explanation to the 
Freshmen of the character and resources of 
the University Library. Groups of twelve 
men have been formed to be taken through 
the library building and instructed in the 
use of the quarter-million or more volumes 
that it contains. 

Registration figures as of October i : 
Men's College — Seniors 280, Juniors 278, 
Sophomores 339, Freshmen 402, Specials 
31, total 1330. Women's College — Seniors 
90, Juniors 93, Sophomores 97, Freshmen 
138, Specials 9, total 427. Grand under- 
graduate total 1757. To this maybe added 
an estimated total of 150 graduate students, 
making a grand aggregate of 1907. 



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Sidney W. Rivenburg has returned to 
this country after a long residence in India, 
and is to be addressed at Clifford, Susque- 
hanna County, Pa. 

1885, 1896 and 1916 

During a visit to Stockbridge, Mass., 



early in the fall. Professor Walter G. Ev- 
erett presided at an impromptu reunion of 
Brown men in the town, including Samuel 
B. Churchill '96, John P. Palmer '16 and 
Elmer F. Davenport '16. 

1886 

Norman M. Isham is on the programme 
of the Metropolitan Museum this fall and 
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of this month on his favorite subject, 
"American Colonial Architecture," 

Joseph H. Ward, formerly with the Ti- 
tle Guarantee and Trust Co. and the Bond 
and Mortgage Guarantee Co. of New 
York, is the new President of the Excelsior 
Savings Bank. President Ward's office is 
with the bank at 221-3 West 57th st.. New 
York, 

1893 

Professor Winthrop J. V. Osterhout, 
who has been in the department of botany 
at Harvard since 1909, has resigned to be- 
come head of the division of general physi- 
ology of the Rockefeller Institute for Med- 
ical Research. Dr. Osterhout has for sev- 
eral years been a director of the Institute. 
His resignation from the Harvard faculty 
is effective Sept. i, 1925. He will do part 
of his new work in New York and part in 
Bermuda. His latest book, "The Nature 
of Life," has recently appeared. 

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn has returned 
from Italy with Mrs. Meiklejohn and their 
daughter, Annabella, and' is preparing to 
begin a series of lectures in this country on 
various phases of education. 

1897 

Sanford K. Gurney's son Richard is play- 
ing right tackle on the Freshman football 
team and showing great promise of develop- 
ing into a varsity player next fall. Rich- 
ard came to Brown from Exeter, where he 
shone in both football and baseball. 

George L. Miner gave a talk on "New 
England Sailing Ships" at the October 
meeting of the Rhode Island Historical So- 
ciety. 

1899 

Ernest A. Parkis writes that he has 
changed his address from 555 Shirley st., 
Winthrop, Mass., to 27 Ardmore st., East 
Braintree, Mass. 

Arthur H. Blanchard, professor of high- 
way engineering and highway transport at 
the University of Michigan and president 
of the National Highway Traffic Associa- 
tion, was the official delegate of the Societe 
des Ingenieurs Civils de France at the one 
hundredth anniversary of the founding of 



Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, 
N. Y., on Oct. 3. Professor Blanchard has 
recently been appointed by Secretary of 
Commerce Hoover as a member of the na- 
tional committee on traffic control, which 
is to report at the national conference to 
be held in Washington next month. 

1902 

J. Francis Russell has begun his duties 
as registrar and field secretary of Hebron 
Academy, Hebron, Me. Mr. Russell was 
a chaplain in the Army during the World 
War and has seen much service in foreign 
missionary fields. 'He comes to Hebron 
especially fitted for the work," said the Au- 
gusta Journal. 

Leon Drury was a campus visitor last 
month, coming down to see the Freshman 
eleven defeat Dean Academy and also to 
be on hand while the play-by-play returns 
from the Brown-Chicago game were being 
received. Leon has several Fitchburg pro- 
teges in the Freshman class and he is doing 
his best to see that they come up to stand- 
ard. 

1903 

Louis Baker has deserted Providence to 
become manager of the Philadelphia office 
of the Library Bureau, and Arthur Phil- 
brick, disconsolate at the loss of his cowboy 
pool partner at the University Club, is 
thinking of taking up mah jong, report has 
it. Mr. Baker's promotion is Philadel- 
phia's gain. 

Professor William T. Hastings of the 
University faculty spoke before the Town 
Criers, an advertising body, in Providence 
last month on "Making Words Work 
Well." His hearers, according to the pa- 
pers, learned a few things about the proper 
use of English that they are already putting 
into practice. 

1904 

Colonel Noble B. Judah was one of the 
principal speakers at the annual convention 
of the Military Order of the World War, 
held in Boston last month. Colonel Judah 
had some extremely lively and pertinent 
facts to offer on the subject : "The Military 
Training Camps' Movement as a Means to 
Sane Citizenship." 



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1905 

"Lou" Gurney is practicing law in Los 
Angeles, Calif. He reports that city a de- 
lightful place in which to live, but hopes 
to get back to Providence for '05 's 20th re- 
union next June. 

Hans Schneider, 1905 special, delivered 
an address on Music to the Parents' Asso- 
ciation of the Cranston High School, 
Oct. 8. 

Ralph Johnson stepped up to the Alumni 
Manager in Chicago, where, with Archie 
Webb, he did much of the yelling at the 
Brown-Chicago game for the class, and 
said that he'd bet the A. M. couldn't re- 
member him. And the A. M. couldn't, 
thinking that Ralph must have been gradu- 
ated in 1916 or thereabouts. Some of us 
simply refuse to look as old as we are, that's 
all. 

1906 

William Reade Hersey had a delightfully 
readable and informative article, "Heart of 
the Hostel," in the Saturday Evning Post 
of the week of Oct. 13. It was all about 
sauces and such-like attractive appeals to us 
who are fond of eating good things prop- 
erly prepared, and it made us long immed- 
iatly for one or two dishes we used to get 
in a little restaurant in Paris. 

Wesley F. Morse has been named lieu- 
tenant-governor of the Central Massachu- 
setts and Rhode Island District of the Ki- 
wanis International. There is no indica- 
tion that this new title will interfere with 
Wes's golf game. 

Charles C. Tillinghast, principal of the 
Horace Mann School for Boys, New York, 
and a member of the faculty of Teachers' 
College, Columbia, addressed the Berk- 
shire County Teachers' Convention at 
Pittsfield, Mass., Oct. 10 on "The Need of 
Character Training in the Schools." 

1907 

Charlie Stark was a caller on the Alumni 
Manager recently, but of course the Alum- 
ni Manager had to be out. Charlie con- 
tinues to feel at home in Washington, 
where he is with Carlisle, Peters & Co., 
bond dealers. 

Ray Tift, according to the Post Office, 




was lost a short time ago, but Ray turned 
up smiling in Providence, with the comment 
that his address is 209 Washington St., Bos- 
ton. 

Fred Auty and Al Gurney had a 1907 
reunion on their own hook at the Brown- 
Chicago game. Fred helps run the Ma- 
chinery Club of Chicago, is publicity man 
for Drying Systems, Inc., and occasionally 
finds time to play at golf. Pat Brooks, 
Harry Pearsall, Myron Curtis and Myron 
Affleck please note. 

Robert Grieve, a special student who en- 
tered the Univrsity with 1907, died at his 
home in Providence Oct. 15, 1924. Mr. 
Grieve had been a practicing attorney in 
the city for many years and in 1903 was 
private secretary to Gov. Lucius F. C. Gar- 
vin. In 1908 he was the unsuccessful can- 
didate on the Democratic ticket for Secre- 
tary of State of Rhode Island. Before he 
took up law he had been engaged in news- 
paper work, first as reporter, then as prac- 
tical printer. Mr. Grieve was always 



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deeply interested in civic improvement and 
was a quiet, effective worker for a more 
beautiful Providence. Although he took 
only a few courses on the Hill he was a 
sincere supporter of Brown and had been 
for years a member of the Associated 
Alumni. He was the first printer of the 
Brown Alumni Monthly and gave it a very 
attractive format. 

William Spinney died in Litchfield, 
Conn., on Sept. 27. For two years he 
fought courageously the battle against ill 
health, but neither his courage nor the air 
of the Connecticut hills could prevail. 
Born in Duluth, Minn., July 19, 1884, 
Mr. Spinney — or Bill, as every member of 
his class called him — prepared for college 
at Barringer High School, Newark, N. J., 
where his father, the Rev. William Almor 
Spinney, was for many years a minister. 
In college he soon won a name for himself 
by his fine, manly qualities, his quiet en- 
ergy and his zeal in any cause in which he 
believed. He was business manager of the 
Brown Daily Herald, president of the 
Athletic Association, and of the Y. M. C. 
A., and a member of the Cammarian Club. 
After graduation he went with Henry 
Holt & Co., publishers, and remained with 
them for ten years. At the time of his 
death he was an assistant secretary with the 
Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. He 
was married, Dec. 24, 1913, to Miss Mabel 
Foster, Bryn Mawr, 1907. His widow 
and three children survive him. In 1916 
Mr. Spinney was active in politics as pres- 
ident of the New York Democratic Club 
and was also prominent in the Civic Club 
of New York and in the Greenwich Vil- 
lage Improvement Society. His fraternity 
was Psi Upsilon. "A man's man" was one 
of his phrases that his friends in college used 
to fling back at him on occasions. His 
mates know that Bill Spinney lived the 
phrase. 

1908 

Major S. S. Winslow, who graduated in 
June from the Army Command and Gen- 
eral Service School at Fort Leavenworth, 
Kansas, has been detailed instructor in mil- 
itary science and tactics at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology. 



Rev. Albert C. Thomas is president of 
the New York City Baptist Ministers' 
Conference, one of Al's admirers writes the 
Alumni Manager, and is giving courses in 
religious education in the extension de- 
partment of Columbia, as well as serving 
as chaplain of New York University. 
Moreover, Al's church is building a new 
auditorium for dedication next month. 

L'lllustration (Paris) for September 6, 
1924, contains an illustrated article on the 
Printing Press of the French Fleet which 
brought our French allies to America in 
1780. The articles, as it states, is a re- 
sume of the researches made by Howard 
M. "Chapin, who is described as "bibliophile 
distingue, grand ami de notre pays." 

1909 

Major Robert Coker ex- 1909 of the 
United States Army Air Service gradu- 
ated in June from the Army Command and 
General Service School at Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kansas. 

Clarence W. Johnson, formerly profess- 
or of sociology at Roberts College, Con- 
stantinople, recently addressed the under- 
graduates at chapel at Brown previous to 
his departure for the Sociology Department 
at Bucknell University. 

Johnny Mayhew, in a recent letter, 
states that he is starting to play Rugby 
football. In addition to this new athletic 
accomplishment, he has collected several 
club monthly championships this season in 
golf. 

Fred R. Budlong is a candidate on the 
Republican ticket for representative from 
the town of Coventry in the Rhode Island 
House. 

1911 

Charles P. Sisson is the Republican can- 
didate for Attorney General of Rhode Isl- 
and. 

A son, Arthur Palmer, Jr., was born 
April 23, 1924, to Dr. and Mrs. Arthur 
Palmer. Dr. Palmer, since returning from 
France, has specialized in the practice of 
ear, nose and throat. At present he is in- 
structor at Cornell Medical College and 
surgeon in the Department of Laryngology 
at the Cornell Pay Clinic. He is also con- 



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suiting oto-laryngologist at Sing Sing 
Prison. 

Harry A. Ormes has been made secre- 
tary of the North Brothers Mfg. Co., Phil- 
adelphia. 

1913 

William L. Dealey is head of the depart- 
ment of education of exceptional children 
at Oshkosh Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis. 
This department, a new one at the school, 
will be devoted to preparing teachers for 
work among children both below and above 
normal. The Oshkosh Northwestern gave 
our own Bill a fine sendoff in its columns 
and now, we suspect, Bill is working like 
a beaver to live up to the advance notice. 
1914 

Professor Kenneth O. Mason of the 
English department of the University is 
the co-author of a volume of selected short 
stories recently issued. The title page also 
bears the names of Professor William T. 



Hastings '03 and Professor Benjamin C. 
Clough ( Harvard ) . 

Earl Medbery manages to find time one 
afternoon a week to watch the Freshman 
football squad in practice. Earl has, how- 
ever, declined to be the mascot of the first- 
year team. 

George S. Goodspeed is treasurer and 
sales manager of S. V. Claggett and Co., 
investment securities, with headquarters at 
35 Congress st., Boston. George was for- 
merly New England representative of Mc- 
Kinley and Morris, members of the New 
York Stock Exchange. 

Bill Moffett came down from Detroit to 
see the Brown-Chicago game, and reported 
that the advertising business in his home 
city was as well as could be expected. 

Mayor Stephen S. Bean of Woburn, 
Mass., and Mrs. Bean, according to the 
Woburn Daily Times not long ago, "arc 
expected to sail from Cherbourg, France, 



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the early part of next week, arriving in 
Woburn the latter part of this week or the 
early part of next week." As nearly as we 
can learn, Steve and Mrs. Bean got home 
from a pleasant summer in Europe on 
schedule time. 

1915 

Lieutenant George T. Paine, U. S. N., 
has gone to sea as aide to Admiral Taylor 
on the U. S. S. Savannah. George was 
formerly stationed at Mare Island Navy 
Yard, California. While he is at sea, his 
wife and their children will be with Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank E. Paine of Warwick 
Neck, R. I. 

Harold Jackson is back East again, 
working as usual for the Chicago Tribune 
with New York as his headquarters and 
New England as his special field. 

Sidney J. Clifford, Republican candidate 
for State Senator in Providence, is a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Sherwood, Heltzen 
& Clifford, and was previously connected 
with the firm of Edwards & Angell. Mr. 



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Clifford has spent practically all of his life 
in this city. He graduated from the Web- 
ster Avenue grammar school and Classical 
High School. His graduation from Brown 
University followed in 191 5 and from Har- 
vard Law School, in 1920. He served ov- 
erseas for 18 months in the World War, 
being a first lieutenant in the Forty-ninth 
Infantry. At present he is captain of re- 
serves. Three Hundred and Eighty-fifth 
Infantry. Mr. Clifford took advantage of 
the educational opportunities offered by the 
A. E. F. to study for a year in France at 
the University of Toulouse, Le Mans. On 
his return he completed his study at Har- 
vard Law School. 

1916 

Bancroft H. Brown has been promoted 
to be an assistant professor of mathematics 
at Dartmouth. 

1917 

Mel Lowe, who has been for some time 
in the merchandising department of the 
Chicago Tribune in Chicago, has been 
transferred to the New York office of the 
same paper. Mel has been a real worker 
in the Brown Club of Chicago and the 
boys out there will miss him and his energy. 

Leslie Perry, in asking us to note the 
fact that his address is 44 Woodbine ave., 
Plainfield, N. J, adds modestly the inter- 
esting news that there is a daughter, Eve- 
lyn Sylvia, in the family and that she ar- 
rivd on April 17, 1924. 

1918 

Rev. John C. daRosa has recently pub- 
lished a Portuguese translation of "The 
Prophets as Statesmen and Preachers," a 
text book for Bible classes by Professor 
Henry T. Fowler of the University faculty. 

Merrill K. Bennett, says the Daily Palo 
Alto of Stanford University in bold, black 
type, "is studying farm cost accounting in 
the East. He is to visit Cornell University, 
the State Universities of Wisconsin, Ohio, 
Minnesota and North Dakota, as well as 
various points in Kansas and Iowa." Ben- 
nett is junior associate in the Stanford 
Food Research Institute. 
1919 

Hugh Robertson is physical director at 
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Mass. Hugh has been on the campus sev- 
eral times lately and up at Andrews Field 
helping the football squad get into shape. 

Webb Wilder has severed his connection 
with Starkweather and Shepley and has 
opened an office for the carrying on of a 
general insurance business at 76 Dorrance 
St., Providence. 

Daniel Coggeshall, State Senator from 
Bristol, R. L, nominated Theodore Francis 
Green '87 for United States Senator from 
Rhode Island at the State Democratic con- 
vention and was later named to succeed 
himself in the State Senate. 

After receiving his LL.B. from Har- 
vard in June, Watson Smith spent a sum- 
mer in educational travel in China and 
Japan. He is now associated with the firm 
of Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast and Phil- 
lips in the practice of law in Providence. 
(Roger T. Clapp is also with this firm). 
Smith and Edgar J, Lanpher have taken an 
apartment at the Minden on Waterman st.. 
Providence, for the winter. 

Fred B. Perkins, as secretary of the 
class, would be glad to have any class items 
sent to him at 437 Industrial Trust Bldg., 
Providence. Now is the time to write, and, 
remember, please, that items should be 
mailed by the I2th of the month preceding 
the issue of the Alumni Monthly. 

1920 • 
Irving Crompton writes that he has 
shifted his base of supplies to 202 East 
Stockton ave., N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

1921 

Marshall Cannell is with the Gladding 
Dry Goods Co., Provdence, in the positiion 
of assistant merchandise manager. Mar- 
shall was graduated from the Harvard 
Business School in 1923. He worked a year 
in a Boston department store, which re- 
warded his efforts by a buying trip to Eu- 
rope. 

Curley Oden is once again at the old 
stand, quarterback on the Steam Roller pro- 
fessional eleven of Providence. Curley ex- 
pects to be playing the game until he is at 
least fifty-five. 

We owe Harold Yeaton an apology. In 
the October Monthly we said that Yeaton 
had left Little Rock, Ark., for Reading, 



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Russell Jones, who obtained his law de- 
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just taken examinations to be admitted to 
the Bar in Rhode Island. 

"Tel" Jones would be glad to see all the 
recent benedicts. He is with the Paine Fur- 
niture Co. in Boston. 

Fred Itschner is the latest to declare his 
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Warren Campbell came down from 
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"Clute" Ely is going to have a thorough 
knowledge of the textile business. He has 
spent three years in Jew^ett City with the 
Ashland Cotton Co., learning how to man- 
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States Finishing Co. of Providence, seeing 
how the colors are dyed on the cloth. 

"It might be of interest to the readers 
of the Monthly," writes Milton Bates '22, 
"to know that during the past season 
Brown, at least athletically, has had a suc- 
cessful 3'ear in Kobe, Japan. Ralph Stand- 
ish '21 not only was captain of the Kobe 
Foreign baseball team but was the heaviest 
hitter and led in run-getting and base- 
stealing. As a result a cup was awarded 
him for being the man most valuable to the 
team. In the Interport series with Yoko- 
hama Ralph was chiefly instrumental in 
bringing victory to Kobe and received a cup 
for being the outstanding star of the series. 
And, further, it might not be amiss here to 
add that the Brown Club of Kobe is doing 
well despite the fact that it has but two 
members, Standish '21 and myself. Had 
not Congress seen fit to have its say, the 
Club by now would undoubtedly have had 
several promising young Japanese lined up 
for Brown. As it is, our activities consist 
of watching for all stray sons of Brown 
who may come this way and trying to en- 
tertain them a bit. Some of the recent call- 
ers have been Watson Smith '19, Charlie 
Pinkham '22 and Ray Rich '22." 

Thomas Francis Burke, well-known and 
popular member of the class, died suddenly 
at St. Joseph's Hospital in Pawtucket, R. 
I., on Thursday, Oct. g, following a ma- 
jor operation. Mr. Burke had apparently 
been enjoying good health and the opera- 
tion was thought to be in no way serious. 
The unexpected death was a shock to all 
who had known him. Mr. Burke was born 
in Pawtucket, the son of Mary (O'Neill) 
and the late Patrick R. Burke, but had 
lived at 202 New York ave.. Providence, 
with his mother for the past j^ear. He was 
an honor student at the Pawtucket High 
School. At Brown he concentrated in 
chemistry and prior to his illness was em- 
ployed as a chemist by the Oliver Johnson 
Company and also was an instructor in the 
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Mr. Burke was a member of the Phi Kappa 
fraternity and was a first violinist in the 
Brown University orchestra. Being natu- 
rally of a quiet and retiring nature, he had 
devoted most of his attention while at col- 
lege to his studies and to outside work in 
order to complete his course. These vir- 
tues had endeared him to large numbers of 
his classmates, and he was held in the high- 
est respect. 

1922 

Tom Corcoran has won the Sears prize 
of $400 as the best student of the Sopho- 
more class in 1923 at the Harvard Law 
School, and is also serving as note editor of 
the Harvard Law of Youth Review, the 
law school's official publication. Somehow, 
Tom just can't help carrying off honors. 

Ray Rich, who is teaching in China, is a 
special correspondent of the Boston Tran- 
script and gets a signed piece in that excel- 
lent newspaper quite frequntly. Ray hasn't 
recovered, you see, from -his journalistic 
days in college. 

1923 

David Midgeley, who took graduate 
work at Harvard last year, is now teaching 
English in the high school at Amherst, 
Mass. 

Bob Adams and Norman Paasche went 
from Providence to Chicago to see Brown 
and the Maroon grapple at a total expense 
to each, so Norman deposes, of $10 each. 
They got lifts in motors, rode freight 
trains, did some of the distance on the ten- 
der of a locomotive, and also covered many 
miles in a caboose in which were friendly 
brakemen. They met hoboes, police and 
plain, ordinary citizens — and found every- 
body willing to keep them going ahead. 
"Great stul?," they told us in Chicago, "but 
never again — maybe !" 

Art Braitsch, who last year served as an 
assistant in English at the University, is at 
present a full-fledged instructor and doing 
his best to teach Freshmen that English is 
a language to be used, not abused. 

Bill Munroe has written the Alumni 
Manager from down in Honduras, where 
he is with the Truxillo Railroad Co. His 
address is Sangrelaya Farm, Black River 
District, Puerto Castilla, Honduras. Bill 
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Harold W. Streeter has entered on his 
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Y., teaching romance languages. Hal did 
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Tom, the best 135-pound wrestler Brown 
ever had, admits throwing the business 
world for a fall is a hard assignment. But 
he's getting on. 

A. R. Goodall, held up by the inquiring 
reporter on the sidelines at Stagg Field, 
Chicago, last month, let it be known that 
he is with the National Marking Co., 4022 
Cherry St., Cincinnati. 

Jerry Fisher is at last safely settled in 
Stanford University, after a trip by sea 
that he says was entirely uneventful except 
for a near-rescue at sea, a battle between 
seamen with knives and a few other more 
or less common incidents. Jerry wrote not 
long ago that he thought he would like 
California as soon as he became used to the 
so-called marvelous climate out there. 
1924 

Davy Jones, who was on deck with his 
best voice for the Brown-Chicago game, is 
in the real estate business with the Freder- 
ick H. Bartlett Realty Co., 69 W. Wash- 
ington St., Chicago. 

Harold Moore is doing special work in 
the students' training course of the General 
Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y. 

E. R. Coop and E. W. N. Anderson are 
taking the student engineering course at the 
Lynn works of the General Electric Com- 
pany. Coop's initial assignment in the test- 
ing department was to the constant current 
current transformer section, and Anderson's 
to the turbine section. 



ENGAGEMENTS 

Dr. and Mrs. H. Mortimer Sanger of 
Providence have announced the engagement 
of their daughter. Miss Virginia Quimby 
Sanger, to Carleton F. Sims 'i3n. 

Judge and Mrs. Theophilus J. Moll of 
Indianapolis, Ind., have announced the en- 
gagement of their onlv daughter, Miss June 
Moll, to William W Wilcox, Jr., '21. 
Mr. Wilcox is on the editorial staff of the 
Philadelphia North American. 

Mrs. Henry W. Cooke of 191 Thayer 
St., Providence, has announced the engage- 
ment of her daughter, Adelaide Welch, to 



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Charles E, Trowbridge, Yale '17S. The 
wedding will take place at Grace Church, 
Providence, on November 29. Miss Cooke 
is a daughter of the late Henry W. Cooke 
•'91. 

WEDDINGS 

Thomas L. Keily '14 and Miss Mary 
Catherine Grimes were married in Edge- 
wood, R. I., on Sept. 27. Mrs. Keily is 
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Grimes 
of Pawtuxet, R. I. The young couple will 
make their home in New York. 

Miss Leila Alice Varet, daughter of the 
late Eugene Emile Varet and Mrs. Varet, 
became the bride of Charles H. Appleby 
'23-n at the home of her mother in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., on Sept. 24. Lincoln Vaughn 
'19-n was best man. Mr. Appleby is one 
of the active members of the Brown Club 
of New York. He came to Brown from 
Pawling school. Mrs. Appleby is a grad- 
uate of the Academy of the Holy Child, 
Suffern, N. Y. 

Arthur K. Litchfield '22 special and Miss 
Alice Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward H. Adams of Eden Park, R. I., 
were married in Providence on Sept. 24. 
Robert C. Litchfield '23 was best man, and 
Stanley Dore '20 and Loring P. Litchfield 
'28 were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Litchfield 
will live in New York. 

Elton H. Tucker '20 and Miss Eleanor 
Benns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
P. Benns of Washington, D. C, were mar- 
ried in Washington on Sept. 27. Mrs. 
Tucker is a graduate of Vassar College. 
After a wedding trip of a fortnight's dura- 
tion, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker returned to 
Providence, where they are now living at 
224 Fifth St. 

Miss Alice Taylor Wilcox and Zenas 
R. Bliss '18, a member of the University 
faculty in the division of engineering, 
were married in Providence on Oct. 17, 
1924. Thomas C. Watson, Jr., '19, Myles 
Standish '20, John B. Kilton '25 and 
George W. Kilton '25 were ushers at the 
wdding. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss are now oc- 
cupying their new home at 75 Upton ave., 
Providence. Mrs. Bliss, we might add, is 
a granddaughter of the late Albert G. Ut- 
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J. Winthrop DeWolf, Jr., '20n of Bris- 
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lumbus, O., on Oct. 15, 1924. Mrs. De- 
Wolf is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
James Madison Clarke of Columbus. 

Miss Margaret Anna Milan and Mark 
A. Golrick, Jr., 'ign, were married in 
Providence on Oct. 11, 1924. Mrs. Gol- 
rick is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Mi- 
chael B. Milan. Edmund F. Beagaji '20 
was the best man and John J. Cashman 
'16, Henry M. Burke 'll and James J. 
Tyrrell '14 were ushers. Mark is chief 
engineer with the Saylesville plant of the 
Sayles Finishing Co., and we presume he 
and Mrs. Golrick will make their home out 
Sajdesville way. 

Raymond H. Parker '18 and Miss 
Grayce Strath Dee Hyslop, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. John Hyslop, were married 
in Grace Church, Providence, on Oct. ii, 
1924. Robert W. Parkinson 'i9n was best 
man, and the ushers included Wright Hey- 
don '11, Ernest P. B. Atwood '02, Albert 
Nuttall '22n and Richard H. Sarle '20n. 
Mrs. Parker was a student at Smith Col- 
lege. 

Miss Hope Smith Mathewson became 
the bride of Wallace H. Henshaw '23 in 
Providence on Oct. 11, 1924. Mrs. Hen- 
shaw is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- 
win L. Mathewson and the wedding was 
performed at the home of her parents. Al- 
len B. Sikes '23 was best man. Mr. and 
Mrs. Henshaw are now at home in Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

BIRTHS 

1 91 2 — To Professor and Mrs. John H. 
Williams of Cambridge, Mass., a daughter, 
Margaret Cozzens, on Sept. 6, last. 

I9i3n — To Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. 
Smith, Jr., of Groton, Conn., a daughter, 
Meral Smith, on Oct. 9, 1924. 

191 5n — To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leon 
Parker of Providence, a son, Gilbert Roy 
Parker, on Oct. 12, 1924. 

1919 — To Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. 
Samson of Providence, a second son, James 
Lyon Samson, Oct. 7, 1924. 

1 91 9 — To Mr. and Mrs. William Moss 
of Edgewood, R. L, a third son, Albert 
Hartley, on Sept. 20. 



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