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VOL. XXV 



DECEMBER, 1924 



NO. 5 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 




ON THE HILL The Editor 121 

FREDERICK EUGENE PARTINGTON '79 . . W. L. Munro 123 

GEORGE HEIDT AND HIS WORK . . . A. W. Packard 126 

TWO NEW DORMITORIES 127 

SAVING THE COLLEGE ELMS 127 

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VARIOUS MATTERS 130 

THE WOMEN'S COLLEGE 132 

FOOTBALL 134 

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Vol. XXV 



PROVIDENCE, DECEMBER, 1924 



No. 5 



On The Hill 



tj^OR the first time in its history Brown 
University has more than 2000 stu- 
dents on its rolls. It has graduated from 
the ranks of the smaller colleges into the 
ranks of the larger ones. Its Freshman 
class is also the largest in its annals, with 
422 members enrolled in the Men's Col- 
lege and 137 in the Women's College, a 
total of 559. 

The figures in detail are as follows for 
this year and last: 





1924 


1923 


Graduate students 


150 


157 


Undergraduate men — 






Seniors 


283 


197 


Juniors 


289 


293 


Sophomores 


341 


330 


Freshmen 


422 


385 


Special students 


34 


28 




1369 


1233 


School of Education 


66 


51 


Women's College — 






Seniors 


89 


72 


Juniors 


94 


92 


Sophomores 


97 


99 


Freshmen 


137 


96 


Special students 


II 


II 




428 


370 



Total 



2013 



1811 



T N VIEW of these figures, what is to 

be the future policy of the University 

with respect to numbers? No sooner is a 

definite limit of 1200 established for the 



body of undergraduate men than the de- 
mand upon our facilities swells far be- 
yond that arbitrary restriction. We can 
increase our academic requirements, at 
least theoretically, until the host of ad- 
mitted young men accords with our inade- 
quate rooms, dormitories and purse. Or 
we can recognize the new needs of the 
new time and expand our facilities and 
our resources, relying upon the community, 
the State and in a certain measure the na- 
tion for help. 

In the judgment of the Alumni 
Monthly, the University will not be able 
for an indefinite period to hold the number 
of undergraduate men to the 1200 mark — 
or anywhere near it. Any attempt of this 
sort must eventually prove an attempt 
against nature. The genius of America, 
as now exemplified, insists on a liberal ed- 
ucation for more of its sons, and the 
American colleges, however reluctant, can 
no more shut their eyes and ears to the fact 
than King Canute could ignore the rising 
ocean tide. 



A FTER the Brown-Dartmouth game 
"^ at Hanover, the Brown Daily Herald 
said editorially: 

"Although the team did not play the 
game of which it is capable, and suffered 
defeat in a contest it was particularly anx- 
ious to win, Saturday's game must be 
counted as a distinct success in fostering 
Dartmouth-Brown friendship. The treat- 
ment accorded Brown men, players and sup- 
porters alike, made a decidedly favorable 
impression on everyone who made the trip. 

"One feature of the week end, which 



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particularly impressed the players and man- 
agerial staff, was the reception by the Dart- 
mouth Green Key Club, an organization 
of thirty-five or forty men, organized to 
help visiting teams in every possible way. 
The Green Key Club was of the greatest 
service in performing all kinds of tasks, 
from caring for injured Brown players to 
looking after the team's equipment. 

"The formation of such an organization 
at Brown would do much toward creating 
good feeling between Brown and different 
teams visiting Providence, particularly next 
year." 

The Brown Alumni Monthly has long 
urged that there should be a permanent and 
active organization at Brown whose busi- 
ness would be to make our guests, athletic 
and other, feel at home. Such an organi- 
zation could do a great deal for intercol- 
legiate friendship and for Brown's reputa- 
tion as a courteous and gentlemanly college. 
We are sure that any college might well 
strive so to conduct itself in its undergrad- 
uate relations that everyone would recog- 
nize its courtliness and urbanity. On the 
contrary, a reputation for ignoring the 
niceties of social intercourse is one that no 
college can afford to invite. 

Nothing is more satisfactory to the great 
body of Brown alumni, we are sure, than 
the assurance that Brown students are gen- 
tlemen, wherever they may be. 
* * * 

/^N FRIDAY, November 21, the cor- 
^^ nerstone of a nevi^ gymnasium at Col- 
gate University was laid. The structure 
is to cost $400,000. We need a new gym- 
nasium at Brown — certainly as badly as 
Colgate does; and every Brown graduate 
and undergraduate earnestly hopes that 
the date of the laying of the cornerstone 
will not be long postponed. 

The new athletic building programme 
here is now well on toward completion. 
Fine fall weather has contributed to the 
construction of the stadium, the baseball 
field and the new tennis courts. It is not 
too soon to shape our plans for the great 



gymnasium building which must supple- 
ment these fine outdoor facilities. 
« * * 

T^ R. W. W. Keen sends us the following 
^'^ letter from Philadelphia on a theme 
of genuine university importance: 
Editor Brown Alumni Monthly: 

I have read with great interest in the 
Monthly for November, 1924, on the first 
two pages, the opinions of "two represent- 
ative alumni," in relation to the elections to 
our Board of Trustees in the last ten years. 

We are, I feel very sure, exalting the 
material side of life far too much, and are 
forgetting the spiritual and educational 
side. We certainly owe a great debt to 
the lawyers and captains of industry who 
are on our Board of Trustees and who 
have given us such valiant service, but we 
must remember that we have also the ed- 
ucational, the emotional, the artistic and 
the Christian sides of life to deal with, 
quite as much as the material. 

I hope that the alumni themselves will 
see this need, and will nominate men rep- 
resentative of this intellectual side for 
election, and, in our own choice, uninflu- 
enced by the alumni, that we shall bear in 
mind the same great need. 
Yours very truly, 

W. W. Keen '59 



BROWN FOOTBALL RECORD 

Brown 45, Colby o. 

Brown 7, University of Chicago 19. 

Brown 35, Boston University O. 

Brown 3, Yale 13. 

Brown 3, Dartmouth 10. 

Brown 13, Haskell Indians 17. 

Brown 7, Harvard O. 

Brown 21, New Hampshire o. 

Brown 20, Colgate 6. 

Total points won by Brown 154; by op- 
ponents 65. The 1925 schedule will in- 
clude Rhode Island State and Boston Uni- 
versity, as well as Colby, Pennsylvania, 
Bates, Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, New 
Hampshire and Colgate, all at Providence. 



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Frederick Eugene Partington '79 

educator and zy^an of Jitters 



PREDERICK Eugene Partington, or 
"Ike," as he was known and loved by 
his friends, died at Spencer, Mass., Sep- 
tember 22, 1924, in his seventy-first year. 

Blessed with a sunny, optimistic disposi- 
tion, a fund of unquenchable, whimsical 
humor, an intensely human interest in ev- 
eryone and everything about him, distin- 
guished executive ability and, withal, an 
absolute contempt for riches, he so combined 
vocation and avocations as to make of life 
one long and enjoyable adventure. 

He had a natural talent for music which 
was destined to play an important part in 
enabling him to get an education. It was 
early put to practical use. At the begin- 
ning of the Civil War, when he was six 
years old, his father, an Englishman by 
birth, enlisted in a Maine regiment and was 
commissioned Major. On arriving at the 
training-camp at Augusta, he found a 
dearth of men who could beat the drum- 
calls ; so the child of six was taken to camp 
ahd served as drummer for about three 
months till men could be trained to take 
his place. 

His father fought through the war and 
died at thirty-five, as the result of exposure, 
leaving a comfortable fortune. His widow, 
Lura (Smiley) Partington, was a talented 
woman, who did noble service with voice 
and pen, in the cause of temperance. 

Might it not have been better for our 
country, if temperance, not prohibition, had 
continued to be the ideal? 

With his mother, Frederick traveled 
much in Europe, gaining an education and 
developing the love of art and beauty which 
enriched his whole life. A year in Eng- 
land and travel, another in Brussels and 
then two years in a school at Asnieres, now 
a part of Paris, made of him a true cosmo- 
politan. The trjang but wonderful days of 
the Commune found them shut up in Paris. 



Thus his youth was spent and the founda- 
tion of his education laid. 

Shorn of his fortune by the bad judg- 
ment of his trustees, Ike was obliged to 
work his way through college. It was 
characteristic of the boy and his confidence 
in his own resources that he did not take 
a room on the top floor of University Hall, 
but hired a comfortable suite on Prospect 
Terrace and proceeded to make his way, 
smilingly and without worry, by serving as 
organist, by painting ornamental signs in 
gold and vermilion on the windows of 
banks and offices and by other congenial 
and lucrative methods. Specimens of his 
lettering are still to be seen over the alcoves 
in the Old Library. He had never learned 
sign-painting but had taken it up as a fad. 

He had a brilliant mind. Literature and 
composition were his delight; but he never 
even pretended to take a deep interest in 
subjects which he believed would be of no 
use to him. 

Like all of us he occasionally flunked, 
and one who has never seen Ike Partington 
flunk has missed something of the joy of 
life. Courteous, debonair, smiling, totally 
unembarrassed, he was easily master of the 
situation. It was the poor professor who 
cut a sorry figure. 

Memory brings back a day in '77. 

Scene — "Tute" Davis' recitation-room. 
' Subject — Calculus. 

Dramatis Personae. 

(On the platform) Professor Davis, ruf- 
fled and tortured by an unappeased urge to 
impart knowledge. 

(Centre of stage) A section of the class 
of '79 — not receptive. 

(Left wing at blackboard) Ike Parting- 
ton, courteous, smiling and wnruffled. 

Professor Davis: Why, Mr. Partington, 
you understand what we mean by "In- 
finitv?" 



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Ike (very decidedly) : Certainly not, sir. 

Professor: Why, Mr Partington, we've 
been on that all of the term. It is just as 
simple as the multiplication table. 

Ike (triumphantly) : Ah, well, Professor 
Davis, you know I have never understood 
that yet. 

After graduation, to use his own words, 
"the only opening wide enough for me to 
squeeze through in those early days was the 
so-called teaching profession. It called for 
no elaborate training and paid well. At 
the end of the first year I got a vacation 
by simply selling my furniture. Lacking 
capital, I went to Europe and, in this man- 
ner, saved up enough to go into school 
work again." 

He landed on the other side with just 
five dollars in money and a contract to 
write a series of letters for the old Boston 
Journal on Preparatory Education. 

He studied at Dusseldorf and, at the 
same time, did much secretarial work for 
Bret Harte, then U. S. Consul at Crefeldt, 
a few miles from Dusseldorf, where Harte 
later died. 

Partington's letters written from the 
viewpoint of a German student attracted 
wide attention and undoubtedly exerted an 
influence on college preparatory work in 
America. His perfect English, his limpid, 
flowing sentences and rare vein of whimsi- 
cal humor rendered a dry subject interest- 
ing and established his reputation as a lit- 
erary man. 

Soon after his return Ike dropped in 
upon me and gave an account of himself. 
On being asked "What are you going to 
do next?" he replied "You know me, 
Munny; you've heard the old saw about 
beginning at the bottom and working up. 
That doesn't apply to me at all. If I be- 
gan at the bottom, I should always stay at 
the bottom. The only place for me to be- 
gin is at the top. I am going to be Head- 
master -of New Paltz Academy." He went 
there and found it an almost moribund in- 
stitution. He worked hard, built up the 
school, put it on a paying basis, accumu- 



lated a library and then handed in his resig- 
nation at the end of the school year. On 
Commencement night the Academy build- 
ing burned and with it his library, all of 
his own and the other masters' clothes and 
belongings and his valuable collection of 
rare old laces and other articles which his 
mother had collected in Brussels, and in 
Paris during the Commune. 

He withdrew his resignation next day, 
stayed on, collected funds, rebuilt the 
Academy, established lecture courses, in- 
creased the staff, paved the streets of the 
town, installed street-lights and then in 
1884 turned the institution over to the 
State as the New Paltz Normal School. 

Hard, wearing, unselfish work; but all 
work and no play was no part of Parting- 
ton's philosophy. Each year he had dis- 
missed all cares and taken his vacations 
abroad. As he said, "by spending the sum- 
mer abroad I could get enough ahead to 
teach all winter." 

In September 1884 he founded the new 
Staten Island Academy, a co-educational 
day school, again beginning at the top. Dr. 
William Winter, or Willie Winter as he 
was affectionately known, dean of dra- 
matic writers, was President of the Boar'd 
of Trustees and became his lifelong friend. 
William C. Joslin, Brown '76, was one of 
his masters. He remained there until 1907. 
"He started with a small salary and much 
discouragement but ended by leaving an ad- 
equate building, free from debt, a 25,000 
volume reference library, twelve scholar- 
ships for boys and girls, a fund to build a 
George William Curtis Memorial Hall, a 
faculty of twenty-five to thirty teachers." 

In 1907 he resigned to become Director 
of the National Park Seminary at Forest 
Glen, Maryland, just outside of Washing- 
ton. As he told me, in commenting on the 
change, "he did not believe in a man's rust- 
ing out in one place." 

He remained there eleven years. He 
found it a high-grade "finishing-school" for 
girls. He left it a junior college which 
accepted only high-school graduates and 



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gave them a diploma at the end of two years 
college work. 

All these years his literary style had been 
growing. He dipped his pen in the "well 
of English undefiled." His clarity of ex- 
pression and remarkable power of descrip- 
tion were enriched by quaint and whimsical 
conceits. No touch of cynicism or bitter- 
ness ever defaced his writing. 

Every vacation abroad was spent in col- 
lecting material for his lectures on art, his- 
tory and travel and a magnificent collection 
of slides to illustrate them. These slides 
were beautifully colored by his wife, for- 
merly Elizabeth Hamilton Bateman of 
Portland, his constant companion, of whom 
he wrote me at that time, "I have a wife 
who is the embodiment of calm, and cheer, 
and comfort." 

By her gift these lectures and slides are 
now the property of Brown University. 

After leaving National Park Seminary, 
Partington spent two years as stalif-writer 
of the Washington Cathedral of St. Al- 
ban's, "collecting and editing material from 
the great cathedrals and writers on this 
theme." His literary style and almost life- 
long familiarity with the cathedrals of 
Europe peculiarly fitted him for this con- 
genial task. His work for St. Albans was 
highly appreciated. 

Meanwhile he lectured often and widely 
and everjrwhere to enthusiastic audiences. 

Two very enjoyable and happy years in 
Washington, thus employed, followed, 
though shadowed by the cloud of begin- 
ning ill health. He writes, "By a life of 
abstemious habits and by a thoughtless as- 
sociation with the rich, I have contracted 
arthritis and go with a cane." 

In spite of all that science could do for 
him, the cane soon became crutches and 
finally even these were useless; but his 
cheerful optimism still persisted. 

With Mrs. Partington's patient, un- 
failing care, he continued his travels in 
spite of his disability. Of these latter years 
he reports, "I have even spent a winter at 
Monte Carlo and one at pious Palm 



Beach. Of the two^ Monte Carlo is, by far, 
the less bedevilled." 

His letters were always bright and sunny, 
perfect, in a literary sense, and scintillating 
with wit. In fact, as a letter-writer he was 
in a class by himself. 

Besides his lectures and more important 
writings, he wrote many "short stories." 
He never wrote verse, but his very prose 
was poetical. 

Intensely loyal to Brown, it was the re- 
gret of his life that he had only once been 
able to get back for Commencement and 
class reunion. He had lectured in Sayles 
Memorial and had been here at other times, 
but never Commencement week except in 
1904, when our class, celebrating its twen- 
ty-fifth, entertained as our guests the mem- 
bers of the fifty year class. 

At another of our reunions, at a time 
when a new tariff law was in process of 
being brought forth and the scare-heads on 
the front page of the morning paper bla- 
zoned the demands of the sugar-barons of 
Louisiana for super-protection; when the 
lusty young city of Tacoma was blowing 
its own trumpet on all occasions, Ike sent 
us this telegram: 

"You may wonder at tariff and sugar-men's 
share 

If you like, and, eke, at the growth of Ta- 
coma ; 

But there's naught to compare with the 
wonder most rare 

Of how Ike ever got his diploma." 

As an impromptu, dashed off on the spur 
of the moment, that rhyme seemed to us 
decidedly good. 

Only last June, he wrote me, "You can 
hardly figure the value of the privilege 
you have had of seeing the boys annually 
since '79. I wish it had been my good for- 
tune — but I have nearly always been locked 
down to school duties on that date; and so 
I had a record of forty years teaching with- 
out a single absence. I couldn't well wreck 
my only claim to fame." 

His letters of regret were always inter- 



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esting and characterized by his delicate wit. 

With the increasing ravages of his ar- 
thritis he became almost completely help- 
less; but his indomitable spirit remained 
unbroken. 

Only recently he wrote, "I am now liv- 
ing on no particular income and — a diet — 
and having a good time. All my debts are 
happily outlawed and there is a sinking 
fund, sufficient to sink me in the family 
plot. Generally speaking, I have had a 



bully time ever since I was born and I 
should like to try it all over again." 

His was a life of accomplishment. By 
his example and by his writing he had 
been a source of joy and inspiration to ■ 
others and, throughout, in spite of periods 
of hard and discouraging work, in spite of 
his final devastating illness, he had en- ■ 
joyed himself hugely. ■ 

"Life owed him nothing." 

Walter L. Munro 'jg 



George Heidt and His Work 

Arthur W. Packard '25 in the Mount Hermon Alumni Quarterly 



it'^rOTHING was forgotten; nothing 
was left undone." Such was the 
comment of Dr. Faunce as he reviewed the 
work of George J. Heidt before a group 
of men deeply interested in the student life 
at Brown. The compliment is well de- 
served ; furthermore, it is a very high one. 
This becomes more apparent when one con- 
siders the many sides of George's work and 
the thoroughness with which that work is 
done. He is primarily a friend ; that is his 
vocation and his avocation — but not his 
religion. To say that he is a friend means 
that he works for the interests of others 
in season and out of season. That is why 
his work ranges from keeping the Brown 
Union and Christian Association financi- 
ally solvent to sending out over forty dep- 
utation teams in one college year to ad- 
dress over 5000 young people on the 
Christian way of living. That is why the 
college student, be he Freshman or Senior, 
knows where to go when he is "broke." 
George has a way of finding all kinds of 
jobs for all kinds of men. 

Strictly speaking, he is the general secre- 
tary of the Brown Union and Brown 
Christian Association, two separate organi- 
zations which, under his instrumentality, 
have become largely merged through 
growth. And a man who holds such a po- 
sition must do more than devote his talents 



to Christian work; he must have certain 
talents to devote, not the least of which is 
business ability. Such ability George has 
in abundance. 

A brief "then and now" comparison 
gives abundant testimony to that fact. In 
191 8 when George started his work, after 
winning a Phi Beta Kappa key and an M. 
A. degree, the Union had an annual deficit 
of approximately two thousand dollars per 
year. It now has a surplus of over fifteen 
thousand dollars. The Christian Associ- 
ation was struggling to raise a budget of 
two hundred and seventy-five dollars each 
year. Now it raises fifteen hundred dollars 
amongst the students in the same time. He 
started the Bear Press with a fifty dollar 
printing outfit and one man to run it with 
no outside capital. To-day, a year after its 
start, the press has an equipment worth 
five thousand dollars and a weekly turn- 
over of $200. This unique experiment 
provides work for fifteen college men who, 
in their spare time, earn on the average 
eight dollars per week. He conducts an 
employment agency for college students 
and in this way has been the means of help- 
ing hundreds of students through tight 
places. 

But a mere statement of the physical suc- 
cess of his eff^orts would be to neglect that 
part of his work which is most significant 



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and important. George has to pay atten- 
tion to physical needs to provide means for 
carrying on his program of service to the 
spiritual needs of young men in college. 
Were you to visit him shortly before college 
opens, you would find him at the "retreat" 
in Narragansett Bay meeting w^ith nineteen 
or twenty students, all of whom are inter- 
ested in making Christianity and the spir- 
itual side of life mean more to men in col- 
lege. Twenty-two men from Brown now 
attend the students' conference at Silver 
Bay, New York. The student interest in 
this conference is due to George's untiring 
and resourceful initiative. Of great value 
and significance to the students are the Bi- 
ble discussion groups and devotional meet- 
ings which are held periodically through- 
out the college year. For these meetings 
George plans, works and prays, together 
with a small group of Christian students. 

He has the happy faculty of knowing 
how to get students to work for them- 
selves in the carrying out of Christian ideals 
and interests. At the present time there is 
an active working force of about 8o men, 
all of whom are participating in some form 
of Christian service. Deputation teams 
speak in churches throughout Rhode Island. 
The association has special departments 
for boys' work, campus service, church co- 
operation, employment. Freshman work, 
industrial work, and world fellowship. 
Through these branches of work, and un- 
der George's direction, students find a prac- 
tical way of serving while they are being 
served. And by no means is the work con- 
fined to the serving of college students. 



Around Christmas time you could have 
seen in the Providence Journal a picture 
of George in a room with over a hundred 
Providence newsboys. As part of the boys' 
work program, these lads were enjoying a 
Christmas tree upon which was a present 
for every last one of them. And a look at 
their boyish faces would reveal the fact that 
they were enjoying it, too. 

You might drop out to his house almost 
any evening for dinner and find that you 
were not the only guest. Besides Mrs. 
Heidt, who graciously presides over his 
household, and little Johnny, who holds the 
cub championship for pillow-fighting, head- 
standing, and innocent care-free laughing, 
you would find perhaps a student who is 
homesick and needs a change from board- 
ing house atmosphere, a student whose 
check has been late in coming and who 
otherwise might not be eating, or a group 
of students who, over fricasseed chicken, are 
making plans for next year's work or the 
coming devotional meetings. The poet 
who wrote "Man works from sun to sun'* 
did not know about George. His work 
lasts after business hours, for the business 
of being a friend has no office hours. Peo- 
ple don't need friends during office hours 
alone ; they need friends all the time. That 
is why George's job is an everlasting one 
and one for which he is well fitted. His 
interest in the student, his knowledge of 
individual students together with his bus- 
iness ability enables him to help young men 
in a very real sense in many and varied 
ways. He is one of D. L. Moody's "gap" 
men. 



Freshmen End a Great Football Season 



On Oct. 30 at Hanover, Brown's fine 
Freshman football team played the Dart- 
mouth Freshmen a tie game, score 6 to 6. 
The Brown line-up was Crull, Hef- 
fernan, Towle and Smith, ends; H. Mo- 
rey, Considine and Gurney (Captain), 
tackles; D. Morey and Getz, guards; Al- 
lison, centre; Randall and Richards, quar- 



terbacks ; Edes, Pizano, Jones and Richards, 
halfbacks; Hadley and Jones, fullbacks. 
Hadley made the touchdown for Brown. 
On Nov. 13 the Brown Freshmen beat 
the Harvard Seconds at Cambridge, 7-6. 
Randall scored Brown's touchdown and 
kicked the winning goal, late in the final 
period. 



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Two New Dormitories 



A CCORDING to the tentative work- 
ing plans of the new Hegeman Hall, 
it is to be a red brick structure in the Co- 
lonial style, four stories high on Thayer 
street and three stories on George street, 
with a two-story wing fronting northward 
on Lincoln Field, where the temporary en- 
gineering building now stands, between the 
main Engineering Building and Caswell 
Hall. Thus the crude steel structure that 
has caused so much unfavorable comment 
will disappear. 

Hegeman Hall, which is to be built 
with the $250,000 bequest received from 
the estate of the late John R, Hegeman of 
New York, will house 82 students, most 
of whom will occupy suites consisting each 
of a study and two bedrooms. The plans 
as now drawn show a building in the man- 
ner of Massachusetts Hall at Harvard and 
Connecticut Hall at Yale. 

Another dormitory is under serious con- 
sideration. If built it will be in the same 
Colonial style and should be ready at the 
same time as Hegeman Hall. Work is ex- 



pected to start on both in the coming 
spring and they may be completed and 
ready for occupancy in the following fall 
— the fall of 1925. This second dormitory, 
as planned, will accommodate about 75 
students, so that the rooming facilities of 
the University will be increased between 
150 and 160 by the two structures. 

What this means is further shown by the 
fact that at the present time there are dor- 
mitory accommodations for less than 400 
students on the campus, while the frater- 
nity houses provide accommodations for 
not quite 400 more. There are about 50 
students occupying rooms in private houses 
that are under University supervision, but 
the remainder of the undergraduate men 
are outside University jurisdiction so far as 
their sleeping quarters are concerned. 

Day and Klauder of Philadelphia are 
the architects of Hegeman Hall and it is 
presumed that they will be for the other 
dormitory as well. The same firm did 
most of the new buildings at Princeton. 



Saving the College Elms 



The following statement comes from the 
Comptroller's office: 

The University is advised by its Forester 
that in order to help insure the life of the 
University elms, particularly those on the 
front campus, it will be necessary to plow 
up the sod this fall and allow the ground 
to lie fallow during the winter. In the 
spring this ground will be properly fertil- 
ized, and it will be kept cultivated through- 
out the summer. It may even be necessary 
to carry this treatment through a second 
season. 

During the past two growing seasons 
there has been a great shortage of moisture 



and the close-growing sod has prevented 
moisture and food from reaching the tree 
roots, and only by keeping the ground open 
for one or two seasons will we be able to 
bring the trees back to normal condition. 

Similar treatment of the Boston Com- 
mon has been productive of excellent re- 
sults and much as we regret the necessity 
of plowing up the campus we feel we must 
make every endeavor to save the elms of 
Brown. 

We shall be able to keep the larger part 
of the lawn area of the middle campus, 
which means that there will be some green- 
sward at Commencement time. 



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The Clubs 



NEW YORK 



The second of the series of football par- 
ties since the installation of a Western 
Union private wire at the clubhouse — the 
occasion of the Brown-Dartmouth game 
on Nov. I — was much more successful than 
had been hoped for. Nearly a hundred 
Brown and Dartmouth alumni received the 
reports of the game play by play. And al- 
though the outcome was once more a dis- 
appointment to the Brunonians, our Dart- 
mouth guests were delighted and expressed 
their delight freely. 

The Brown- Harvard game was much to 
the liking of the Brown listeners and there 
was no concealing the satisfaction manifest 
over the defeat of the crimson for the 
third year in succession — a feat accom- 
plished by no college eleven against Har- 
vard outside of Yale and Princeton. 

The University of Chicago men so thor- 
oughly enjoyed themselves here on Oct. 1 1 
that they asked to come again. So on Nov. 
8 the clubhouse was opened to alumni of 
the universities in the Western Conference 
and the Chicago-Illinois game was re- 
ported. The Illinois-Ohio State game was 
on the Club calendar for Nov, 22. It is of 
interest to note that Brown men have 
found these games nearly as exciting as 
contests on their own schedule. 

Kenneth Sheldon '23, brother of Capt. 
Jim Sheldon of present varsity fame, and 
William Cushman '23, are now at the Club 
as permanent residents. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE 

There's no question about it — the Brown 
Club of New Hampshire did its share in 
putting Brown on the map in Dartmouth 
territory before the Brown-Dartmouth 
game on Nov. i. There was co-operation 
between the Brunonians in Manchester and 
the Alumni Office, and it is a fact that 
Brown got more good space in the New 



Hampshire newspapers than she had had at 
any time, perhaps, since the football eleven 
played in Manchester 21 years ago. Dr. 
H. W. N. Bennett '97 worked indefatiga- 
bly to" put over a "Brown Night" in Man- 
chester the night before the game, but ow- 
ing to circumstances which it was impossi- 
ble to control, the affair was not as success- 
ful as had been hoped for. However, all 
New Hampshire alumni as far as we can 
check up were at the game; and all are 
once more infused with the spirit of keep- 
ing Brown in the forefront in the Granite 
State. 

The annual meeting of the Brown Club 
of New Hampshire preceded the Brown- 
Dartmouth contest a week. It was held 
in Manchester, with Professor C. H. Cur- 
rier '98, a former Manchester high school 
boy, as the guest of the evening and the 
principal speaker. Professor Currier told 
his hearers the latest news of the campus 
and also gave a lively and absorbing ac- 
count of his visit abroad last year, with 
particular reference to his work at Cam- 
bridge University. Bruce N. Coulter '20, 
a former varsity baseball captain and now 
instructor in French, and English and ath- 
letic director at New Hampston Literary 
Institute, spoke from the viewpoint of the 
younger graduate and left the gathering 
with some pertinent things to think about. 
At the business session these officers were 
electd for 1924-25: President— Bertram 
Blaisdell '92, Meredith; Vice President — 
Arthur W. Rowell '93, Manchester; Sec- 
retary — Dr. H. W. N. Bennett '97, Man- 
chester; Treasurer — William O'Gorman 
'16, Manchester; Executive Committee — 
George I. Hopkins '75, Manchester, and 
Stanton Owen '90, Laconia. Mr. Rowell 
was chosen delegate to the Advisory Board 
of the Associated Alumni. 

In addition to the ones already named 
the alumni present were Dr. George W. 
Crowell '94, Candia, Dr. Howard N. 



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Kingsford '98, Hanover, Rev. William P. 
Bartlett '78, Plymouth, H. A. Stearns '97, 
Henry B. Stearns '99, Rev. George R. 
Hazard '94, Percy A. Shaw '08, Daniel S. 
Jenks '90, Dr. Walter T. Crosby '95, 
Howard D. Corkum '17, Manchester. 
Frederick J. Young, Trinity '02, and Wil- 
liam Savacool, father of Leon B. Savacool 
14, were guests. 

HARTFORD 

With Furber Marshall 'i9n, end coach 
of the varsity football squad as its guest, 
the Brown Club of Hartford had its first 
meeting of the year the night before the 
Yale-Brown game. Jesse M. Bailey '16, 
for several years an active worker in the 
club, was elected President for 1924-25, 
and the following officers were named to 



serve with him: Vice Presidents — Rev. 
Henry A. Blake '73, John W. Worthing- 
ton '23; Secretary — C. Wilbur Cary '98sp; 
Treasurer — Clarence C. Chaffee '24. 

Furber Marshall gave the members of 
the club some inside information as to the 
football squad and sidelights on activities 
on the campus as he has observed them. 
Again Furber, we are told by Hartford 
Brunonians who heard him, made as big a 
hit as he did in Chicago last October. He's 
a good coach and a good speaker — and that 
helps. 

Several young graduates have recently 
invaded Hartford to do battle with the 
world for a living and they will, we are 
sure, become interested in the work of the 
Brown Club to further the interests of 
Alma Mater in the Hartford district. 



Various Matters 



CAMPUS POETRY 

The frequency of appeals for subscrip- 
tions on the campus led an anonymous un- 
dergraduate poet to print the following 
lines in the Herald on Nov, 17: 

No more are the Brown-in-China pests, 
No more will we have to pawn our vests, 
But far greater evils. 
Invented by devils. 
Are these gol-darned community chests. 

BROWN DAY AT TAUNTON 

Browu University Day was observed at 
a meeting of the Old Colony Historical So- 
ciety at Taunton, Nov. 19. Joshua E. 
Crane '72, President of the society, pre- 
sided and in the decorations of the hall 
the University colors were conspicuous. 

Miss Mary Caswell read a paper of 
reminiscences of Alexis Caswell, formerly 
President of Brown. Rev. W. R. Tour- 
tellot '98, pastor of St. John's Church. 
Taunton, gave a talk on "The Hu- 
guenots of Rhode Island." The address ot 
the afternoon, "Folk Lore and Legends of 



Rhode Island," was by Wendell A. Mowry 
'93, Superintendent of Schools of Taunton. 

A MEDICAL DIRECTOR 

In line with the new facilities for phys- 
ical education on the Hill, a new office has 
been created, that of Medical Director in 
the University. Alex. M. Burgess, M. D., 
the first incumbent, began his work with 
the opening of college. 

Dr. Burgess was graduated from Brown 
in the class of 1906 and from the Harvard 
Medical School three years later. Subse- 
quently he became assistant professor of 
Pathology in McGill University, Mon- 
treal. 

The duties of the Medical Director will 
include those of the university physician 
and also include teaching in the Depart- 
ment of Biology, where Dr. Burgess is 
serving as assistant professor. An office 
will be opened on the campus, where Dr. 
Burgess will hold his daily office hour. All 
dormitories and fraternity houses will be 
under the care of the Medical Director. 



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WRESTLING 

The call for candidates for the wrestling 
team was answered by 26 men, including 
several veterans. Coach Frank Herrick and 
Capt. Dolph Eckstein are both pleased with 
the response to their appeal as Brown faces 
one of its severest schedules in years. 

Brown will definitely meet Harvard, 
Yale, M. I. T. and Springfield, while there 
is a possibility that Princeton and Dart- 
mouth will be added to the list. 

Brown was strong in the heavyweight 
classes last year with Capt. John Spellman 
and Eckstein. As Spellman has graduated, 
another strong man must be found to take 
the Olympic champion's place. Pat Say- 
ward, who wrestled two years ago, will be 
available for the unlimited class. Charlie 
O'Brien, a member of the Freshman team 
last year, also may develop into a good 
heavy man. 

One of the most welcome additions to 
the squad is Lester Brightman, a New Eng- 
land champion in the 125-pound class, who 
was on Capt. Dustin's team two years ago. 
Brightman was not in college last fall. Bus 
Smith, middleweight, has reported, and 
Ed. McCrillis is another heavj'-weight pros- 
pect. Noel Field alternated with Brooks 
last year in the 115-pound class, but is 
alone this year as Brooks graduated. John 
Cox, a 125-pound class contender, An- 
drews, Sulzberger and Weidman are good 
men. 

From the 1927 class team there is Capt. 
Buckley, 145-pounds; B. J. Rockefeller, 
158, and several other Sophomores. 

Coach Herrick expects that a few ineli- 
gibles who worked out daily last winter 
will strengthen the squad this year. He 
realizes that in every class there must be 
three or four capable grapplers, for injuries 
occur so often in wrestling that the same 
team seldom goes onto the mat in two 
successive meets. A dififerent combination 
had to be formed about every week last 
year. 



ON HARVARD LAW REVIEW 

Thomas G. Corcoran, Brown 1922, has 
been elected Note Editor of the Harvard 
Law Review. Harry Shulman, Brown 
1923, has been elected to the Board of Ed- 
itors. 

Both Corcoran and Shulman were elected 
to the board in their second year; Shulman 
this year, and Corcoran last year. 

Election so early in the course is con- 
sidered a high Iionor. 

Among the thirteen men elected from 
the second year class', one is from Harvard, 
one from Yale and one from Brown. The 
remainder are from colleges outside of New 
England ; most of them from the West. 

NOTES OF THE MONTH 

Sigma Nu has pledged Edgar P. Duell 
of Hackensack, N. J. 

The Brown Orchestra is working on 
Beethoven's First Symphony. 

D. K. E. has pledged Raymond Bennett 
Bragg '27 of Worcester, Mass. 

The Brown cross-country team beat M. 
I. T. but was beaten by Rhode Island 
State. 

Coach Evans started basketball practice 
on Nov. 5. This is his second season at 
Brown. 

Sock and Buskin will produce "King 
Henry VIH" on the evenings of Dec. 3, 4, 
5 and 6. 

Phi Gamma Delta has pledged three 
1927 men: E. A. Simmons, M. C. Hutch- 
inson and W. D. Burrows. 

Three concerts have been given by the 
Musical Clubs, the latest at Trinity 
Church parish house in Pawtucket. 

The Brown Union is not maintaining a 
library this year because of the large number 
of books taken out and not returned last 
year. 

Henry D. Sharpe '94 has presented to 
the University a moving picture reel taken 
at the thirtieth reunion of his class at Nyatt 
last June. 



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The Cercle Francais met on Nov. 7 and 
saw moving pictures of "Don Quixote." 
Later there were games in French, French 
songs and refreshments. 

The electric "flood" lights at Andrews 
Field have been of great assistance in 
lengthening the daily period of football 
practice. 

At the opening meeting of the Mathe- 
matics Club for the year, Nov. 14, Pro- 
fessor Morley of the Worcester Polytech- 
nic Institute spoke. 

Most of the student eating houses in the 
neighborhood of the campus furnish only 
lunch and dinner, and also omit the Sunday 
night evening meal. 

The straw vote on President brought out 
less than one-half the undergraduate men 
at Brown. The result was: Coolidge 423, 
Davis 79, LaFollette 77. 

Theta Delta Chi opened its new chapter 
house on Waterman street, Saturday, Nov. 
8, with a smoker. Many alumni were 
present and the affair was thoroughly en- 
joyable. 

Walter de la Mare, the famous English 
poet and novelist, gave the first lecture in 
the 1924-25 Marshall Woods series at 
Sayles Hall, Nov. 12. His subject was 
"Magic in Poetry." 

A fire in Rogers Hall, the old chemical 
laboratory, did considerable damage, Oct. 
30. The blaze started in the paint store- 



room in the basement and is said to have 
been caused by spontaneous combustion. 

Professor A. J. Carlyle of Oxford Uni- 
versity, England, lectured to a capacity 
audience at the Metcalf Laboratory Audi- 
torium, Nov. 5, on "Some Aspects of the 
Political and Economic Situation in Eng- 
land to-day." 

The University Band has been reorgan- 
ized, with an enlarged number of musi- 
cians. Henceforth the members will have 
free admittance to athletic contests at which 
they play — as of course they should have. 
I. Harris '28 is the new leader. 

The Brown Peddie Club met on Nov. 
6 and at this writing is planning a dinner 
to be held shortly at Brennan's on Thayer 
street. There are eight Peddie men in the 
Freshman class — Birge, Cook, Harris, 
Hunt, O'Neil, Preston, Strauss and 
Schwabe. 

Henry D. Jones '25 is the new president 
of the Brown Christian Association vice 
Gordon K. Chalmers, who resigned to take 
the presidency of the National Student 
Council of College Christian Associations. 

The Brunonian chapter of the Alpha 
Delta Phi will be host at the 93rd con- 
vention of the Alpha Delta Phi, which 
will be held in this city on Jan. i, 2 and 
3. Delegates from 26 chapters will attend 
the session of the convention. The final 
event will be the dinner held in the Provi- 
dence-Biltmore on the evening of Jan. 3. 



The Women's College 

(Contributed by the Press Club of the Women's College) 
KOMIANS 



npHE KOMIAN rehearsals for the 
"Romantic Age" by A. A. Milne are 
well under way at the time the Monthly 
goes to press, and the performances of the 
play are scheduled for the evenings of Dec. 
5 and 6. 

In presenting this play, the dramatic 



society of the Women's College has de- 
parted from the custom of the past few 
years of confining its efforts to strictly 
costume plays. Shaw's "Pygmalion," which 
was given in 1921, was the last modern 
play which the Komians sponsored. 

Miss Elizabeth Linz, who as Nan in 
last year's play, "The Tragedy of Nan," by 
John Masefield, received such generous 



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and deserved applause, will play the role of 
Melisande, the romantic heroine. She is 
supported by the following cast: Jane, 
Miss Margaret Banigan; Bobby, Miss 
Mary Wesson; Gervase, Miss Gertrude 
Annan; Susan, Miss Elizabeth Simpson; 
Erb, Miss Ann Borden; Mr. Knowles. 
Miss Gretchen Eisenwinter. With but a 
few exceptions all the members of the cast 
are veteran players. 

As has been the custom for several years, 
and will continue to be until the erection 
of the new Social Hall, the play will be 
presented in Sayles Gymnasium, where a 
special stage will be erected for that pur- 
pose. 

The Komian board was fortunate in se- 
curing the services of Mrs. Sarah Minchen 
Barker as coach for this play. Mrs. Barker 
by her skillful directing has done much to- 
ward making former Komian plays success- 
ful. 

POLITICAL NEWS 

Election night this year witnessed the 
first torchlight parade on the Women's 
College campus. There were the tradi- 
tional red fire, rattle of tin pans, whistles, 
horns and cheers that animate such a pro- 
cession. The Junior Unit of the United 
League of Women Voters, which has an 
enthusiastic following on the campus, spon- 
sored this election-night celebration as the 
windup of its fall campaign, which has 
stimulated a greater interest in a presiden- 
tial election than has been felt for some 
years. • 

The line of march started at Pembroke 
Hall on Meeting street and from there 
marched down Brown to Angell street, 
over to Thayer, and up to Gushing street 
and concluded its route on the steps of 
Sayles Gymnasium, from which speeches, 
taking off the platform of and personal 
characteristics of the three leading presi- 
dential candidates, were delivered. Miss 
Nellie Apple '25 represented the Republi- 
can party, Miss Margaret Banigan stood 



on the Democratic platform, and Miss Mil- 
dred Marcett upheld the LaFollette pro- 
gram. 

The Women's College is indulging in a 
bit of pride warming feeling of I-told-you- 
so over the results of the National election, 
for in the straw vote which was held the 
last of October under the auspices of "The 
New Student," the college declared em- 
phatically for Coolidge. 

Dean Margaret S. Morriss expects to 
attend the annual board meeting of the 
National Board of Directors of the Y. W. 
C. A., which is to be held in New York 
Dec. 3. Miss Morriss has for some years 
been a member of this board. Miss Mor- 
riss has also accepted an invitation from 
the head of Hartridge school in Plainfield, 
N J., to address the student body on the 
value of college training. She has also been 
invited to deliver a similar address at Drew 
Seminary, Carmel, N. Y., on Dec. 5. 

STUDENT CONFERENCE 

Miss Marjory Roach '25 and Miss 
Edith Snow '26, the President and Vice 
President of the Student Government As- 
sociation of the Women's College, were the 
Brown delegates at the National Student 
Government Conference of Women's Col- 
leges, held Nov. 13 and 14. The confer- 
ence was held this year at Vassar, where 
the delegates from women's colleges 
throughout the country were royally enter- 
tained. This gathering meets yearly and is 
intended as a means of promiting a com- 
mon method of student government through 
comparative discussion. 

MUSICAL CLUBS 

The membership of the musical clubs 
has been greatly increased this year, and a 
mandolin club has been formed. This new 
club is under the direction of L Nigel, 
former director of the Biltmore orchestra. 

A general concert is planned for Jan. 16, 
but plans for broadcasting concerts are un- 
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through this fall. The interest in the glee 
club, especially among the entering stu- 
dents, was so great that a cut in the club 
had to be made early in the season. Miss 
Blanche Davis is training the club this 
year. For several seasons she has helped 
appreciably to raise the standard of achieve- 
ment of this organization. 

VOCATIONAL PRO Cr RAM 

Under the general vocational program 
which is being carried out at the Women's 
College this year, Miss Margaret David- 
son, a Wellesley graduate, who has had 
experience in personal work with the Wo- 
men's Educational and Industrial Union in 
Boston, has been engaged in establishing a 
Placement Bureau. 

Miss Davidson's work has so far included 
the interviewing of all the students both 
personally and by questionaires. With this 
material in hand she is getting in touch 
with employers. 

The student vocational committee, of 
which Miss Doris Watts '25 is chairman. 



is co-operating with Miss Davidson in her 
work. 

A BAN ON DANCES 

"May we express our admiration of the 
step taken by Dean Morriss in stopping all 
dances in the gymnasium for this semester, 
on account of the unfortunate behavior of 
some of the guests at the last dance." This 
quotation is from the editorial column of 
the Record, the weekly newspaper of the 
Women's College, and expresses definitely 
the student body's attitude toward the de- 
cision of the Dean. 

"The stopping of dances," said the edi- 
torial in conclusion, "is a weapon which 
has been held over the college for many a 
long year, and now that it has fallen the 
wisdom of such a step is clear to all." 

The college as a whole, as indicated by 
the editorial, supports Dean Morriss in her 
attempt to maintain the dignity of social 
functions at the Women's College. In her 
insistence that no liquor shall be brought 
in, Dean Morriss is merely in line with the 
faculties of colleges throughout the country. 



Football 



BROWN 3, DARTMOUTH 10 

The defeat of Brown by Dartmouth at 
Hanover, Nov. i, was in accordance with 
the forecasts of most unprejudiced proph- 
ets. Brown had played a nerve-racking 
game against Yale the week before in 
which she showed her vital weakness — the 
lack of reserve power. At Hanover she 
was beaten by a superior team — superior, 
at least, on that particular afternoon. It 
was the first time in the long history of 
Brown-Dartmouth football that our team 
had ever played in the New Hampshire 
college town. The two teams have now 
played 18 games (the first in 1893) and 
the series stands: Brown 9, Dartmouth 9. 

We quote some interesting comment by 
a writer in the Boston Transcript: 

Dartmouth played some keen defensive 



football against Brown on Saturday after- 
noon, or at least it looked like that from 
a seat in the crowded press peak. Brown, 
with a great corps of shifty, fast and com- 
paratively light backs, naturally was more 
dangerous around the ends and in the air 
than in the line. 

Dartmouth, it was observed, pulled its 
centre out of the line and played what foot- 
ball players call a 6-3-2 defense when 
Brown had the ball in comparatively safe 
territory. Brown, seeing the Dartmouth 
mid-section vulnerable, elected to ram into 
the centre of the line and did gain on 
short plunges in the fourth period. But 
while the Brunonians were doing that, 
Dartmouth was spared the danger of a 
speedy Brown back rounding an end or 
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have scored a touchdown. Then, down in 
the vicinity of the 20-yard stripe, it was 
noticed that the Dartmouth centre came 
back into the line to make a 7-2-2 defense 
and Brown stopped gaining there and re- 
sorted to forward passes, but now Dart- 
mouth's secondary defence had less territory 
to guard and the Brown aerials also were 
stopped. 

Brown, handicapped by the absence of 
Captain Sheldon and Laurence McDer- 
mott, both veteran players, put up a cour- 
ageous fight against the Green, as Brown 
always does, but Dartmouth was the better 
football team. Except for an occasional 
flash the Brown backs failed to get away. 
They didn't get the protection or the aid 
that the Green ball carriers got, and the 
Brown line failed to show the same sort 
of football that report had credited it with 
showing at the Yale Bowl the previous 
week. 

The rules committee will have something 
new to talk about at its next session as a 
result of the penalties levied on the Green 
because of the objection of one official to 
the stance of a Dartmouth lineman. The 
Dartmouth contention is that the position 
was the same offensive position that the 
team had employed for years, and in all 
earlier games this season — the feet spread 
about two feet apart, one foot about twelve 
inches in front of the other, the hand oppo- 
site the front foot on the ground and on 
the scrimmage line and the other forearm 
resting on the knee. The Green coaches 
were a bit perturbed about the decisions 
and will ask a definite review of the prop- 
osition by the rules committee solons. 
Dartmouth's contention is that the Green 
employed no especial position to aid the 
linemen in swinging into the interference. 
The further discussion of the matter will 
be interesting. 

The Brown contention is that one of the 
Dartmouth linemen was not on the line of 
scrimmage. The rules specify that each 
lineman must have both hands within a 
foot of the ball, or one hand and the oppo- 



site foot that close to the neutral zone. 
Brown observers declared that the Dart- 
mouth lineman who was claimed not to be 
up to the line of scrimmage did a great deal 
of damage by swinging quickly into the in- 
terference. If a team fails to have seven 
men on the line of scrimmage it is liable to 
a five-yard penalty. 

BROWN 13, HASKELL INDIANS 17 

At Andrews Field, Nov. 8, the Haskell 
Indian team from Lawrence, Kansas, 
sprang a great surprise on the Brown play- 
ers and 5,000 spectators, scoring two touch- 
downs and a field goal to two touchdowns 
by Brown. 

Brown had an off day and the Haskell 
team played first-rate, versatile football. 
Brown's touchdowns were scored by Payor 
and Dixon, and Keefer kicked one goal. 
Haskell deserved its victory. 

BROWN 7, HARVARD o 

Before a throng of 47,000 in the Har- 
vard Stadium, Nov. 15, Brown duplicated 
her victories of 1922 and 1923, beating the 
Crimson for a third successive year — this 
time by the score of 7 to o. No other 
team except Yale and Princeton has ever 
achieved this feat of three triumphs in a 
row over Harvard. 

It was near the end of the second quar- 
ter that Brown scored. Captain Sheldon, 
after Stafford of Harvard had fumbled a 
forward pass, dropped like a flash on the 
ball, putting Brown within scoring dis- 
tance. A little later Keefer made a fine 
pass to Broda, which netted 22 yards. 
Another pass from Myers to Keefer landed 
the ball on the 7-yard line. Klump made 
the touchdown and kicked the goal. 

The Harvard team was out to block 
Keefer, but could not altogether check the 
brilliant back. It was the strongest Har- 
vard team that could be put in the field, 
and it played a very much better game 
against Brown than against Princeton. 

The Boston Herald said of the game : 



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"If Harvard had fought Princeton the 
way it did Brown yesterday the Tiger 
would not have had the meal he was 
served a week ago. 

"Brown was a much better team yester- 
day than it was against Haskell a week 
back. Brown played more like it did 
against Yale. And remember this when 
you get down to comparisons. Yale was 
lucky, very lucky, to win from Brown. 

"The visitors deserved their verdict and 
it was gained from a Harvard team. The 
Crimson never intended to let the impres- 
sion out that it was saving men for the 
Yale game." 

The Boston Globe said: 

"Harvard gave everything it had to win. 
Bob Fisher wanted a victory badly. Har- 
vard's waning morale needed the stimulus 
that a smashing win alone could give. The 
first-string line started the game and stuck 
to the guns until, one by one, the men 
straggled out, wearied by their losing ef- 
forts." 

BROWN 21, NEW HAMPSHIRE o 

In a high easterly wind Brown turned 
back the ambitious University of New 
Hampshire team at Andrews Field on 
Nov. 22, scoring three touchdowns and 
three goals. The home team was superior 
throughout, Keefer, Klump, Payor, Pohl- 
man and Sayward showing up particularly 
well. Wentworth, the New Hampshire 
captain and quarterback, is a star of the 
first magnitude, but his team mates were 
of markedly inferior brilliance on this oc- 
casion. 

BROWN 20, COLGATE 6 

Before a capacity crowd of 6ooo fans, a 
great Brown football team ended its season 
in a blaze of glory Thanksgiving Day 
morning, when it battered, smashed and 
flattened the powerful Colgate eleven by 
a score of 20 to 6. 

Never was Brown in better form, and the 
spectacular work of Keefer, Klump and 
Payor in the backfield, and the great work 



of the linemen gave the spectators thrill 
after thrill. 

During the first half the Brown team 
uncovered an attack which completely be- 
wildered the much-heralded Maroon 
eleven. With the exception of the first 
few minutes of play, when a Brown fum- 
ble gave Colgate a saving chance on 
Brown's 25-yard line, Brown was in her 
opponent's territory the entire time. 

The first score came in the initial pe- 
riod, when Dulify Myers, replacing Higgins 
at quarter, after drawing the Colgate ends, 
tossed a forward pass to Johnny Pohlman, 
who raced 15 yards for a touchdown, 
after which Klump kicked the goal. In 
the opening minutes of the second period 
Myers again threw a forward pass, this 
time to Jim Stifler, who ran twelve yards 
for the second score. Keefer kicked the 
goal. 

By this time Colgate was completely at 
loss, and the stage was all set for Jack 
Keefer to show his speed. He caught a 
punt on his own 45-yard line and raced 
through the entire Colgate team for the 
third score. This ended the scoring as far 
as Brown was concerned, and although 
Bruno got to Colgate's four-yard line in 
the third quarter she could not put the 
pigskin over. Colgate made a glorious 
comeback in the last period, throwing for- 
ward passes at will. One of these, Tryon 
to Stratton, was good for fifty yards and 
a Colgate touchdown; but although the 
Maroon got down to Brown's 20-yard line 
again, the whistle blew before another 
score could be made. 

This was the final game of their college 
career for Captain Sheldon, who played a 
wonderful game at end. Dolph Eck- 
stein, Freddy Sweet, Johnny Pohlman, 
Duffy Myers, Pat Sayward, Ben Roman, 
Buddy Klump, Tiny McDermott and other 
great stars. Brown will have a hard task 
to fill their places next year, for all of 
them are among the best Brown has ever 
had. L. B. P. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



Dr. Charles A. Kraus, professor of grad- 
uate research in chemistry, was Brown's of- 
ficial representative of the institution at the 
dedication of the new Goessmann chemical 
laboratory of the Massachusetts Agricultu- 
ral College at Amherst, Mass. 

Professor William H. Kenerson, chair- 
man of the division of engineering at 
Brown, represented the University at the 
centennial celebration of Renssalaer Poly- 
technic Institute at Troy, N. Y. 

Professor C. H. Currier spoke on "The 
Fourth Dimension' before the Pythagorean 
Club at the Technical High School, Prov- 
idence, on Nov. 12. 

Professor Charles H. Hunkins of the 
University French department represented 



Brown in Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 20, at 
the laying of the cornerstone in a building 
of a series to form part of the Free Univer- 
sity of Brussels. The new buildings con- 
sist of dormitories for men and women 
students and a building in which will be 
grouped the faculties of law and philosophy, 
the library and administrative offices. 
Other American universities represented at 
the ceremonies were Utah, Minnesota, 
Michigan, Clark, Stanford, Johns Hop- 
kins, Columbia, Vermont, Yale, Princeton 
and Harvard. 

Courtney Langdon, professor of Ro- 
mance languages at Brown, died at his 
home in Providence on Nov. 19, 1924. He 
was born of American parents in Rome, 
Italy, Jan. 18, 1861, and was instructor at 
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Brown. Professor Langdon received his 
early education in Florence, Italy; Geneva, 
Svi^itzerland, and Mr. Noble's School in 
Boston. After completing his elementary 
training he enrolled in Harvard, where he 
studied from 1878 to 188 1. He later re- 
ceived an honorary degree of bachelor of 
arts from Brown in 1891. Professor Lang- 
don was the author of "Sonnets on the 
War," and also translated the Italian text 
of Dante's "Divine Comedy" into English 
blank verse. He was married to Susan 
Howard Taft of Uxbridge, Mass., August 
I, 1894. Mrs. Langdon and six sons sur- 
vive. The sons are Chauncy T. '18, Rob- 
ert, Henry G. T. '22n, John, George and 
Courtney. In spite of illness. Professor 
Langdon conducted two courses until about 
two weeks before his death. 



Alumni 



1859 

Word recently reached the Alumni Of- 
fice of the death, in Waukesha, Wis., on 



July 13, 1924, of Henry Phelps, a non- 
graduate in the class of 1859. Mr. Phelps, 
who was nearly 87 years old, fell heavily 
and the shock from the fall proved fatal. 
He had been associated for some time with 
his son in the business of developing the 
Arcadian Mineral Spring at Waukesha. 
His widow and two sons survive him. 
1871 

H. Walter Child, who has retired from 
business, is living at 541 Boylston st., Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

Rev. Henry H. Wyman, C. S. P., has 
cshanged his address from New YorK to 
911 South Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. ^Ve 
are indebted to Fr. Wyman for the nev.-s 
concerning Rev. John B. Diman '85, 
which appears under 1885 notes. 

1873 
John B. Grinnell of Mystic, Conn., has 
sent the Alumni Office an interesting item 
of the early days of the University. It is 
a bill for a quarter's tuition ($5) and use 
of the library (50 cents) made out to 
Elias Brown of the class of 1808. It bears 



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Seventy-three pages of the best Brown songs of all time; bound in brown cloth 
with cover design in gold and red. For sale at Preston and Rounds' and the 
Brown Union Book Store; or send check for $2.00 payable to Brown University, 
and your name and address, to the Executive Secretary, Brown University. 

(Over 1800 copies already sold) 

'THE HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF 1924" $2.50 

Five hundred and seventy-six pages giving class, degree, fraternity, occupation, 
and address of all living Brown men. An invaluable book of reference for all 
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gratefully indebted 
Fall River for the 
. MacKenzie, who 
Mr. Adams re- 
Mrs. MacKenzie. 
the Alumni Office, 
any alumnus who 



the date March 6, 1807. The name "R. 
Island College" is crossed out and "Brown 
University" written in by Asa Messer, who 
signed the receipt. "Elias Brown," adds 
Mr. Grinnell, "went to school in Poque- 
tanuck, Conn. His father was a lawyer in 
Norwich. Young Brown studied law and 
practiced in Norwich. With others he 
went to Stonington, Aug. 10, 18 14, when 
that town was bombarded by the British. 
On the way home the party was entertained 
at Old Mystic, where Brown met the 
young lady he afterward married. Later 
he moved to Old Mystic and lived there the 
rest of his life. He was a successful lawyer 
and business man, leaving at his death what 
was considered quite a fortune in those 
days." 

1879 
The Alumni Office is 
to Edward S. Adams of 
class album of John M 
was graduated in 1876 
ceived the album from 
The book is available at 
John Hay Library, for 
may care to inspect it. 

1880 

Rev. George W. Stone, so the Alumni 
Office is informed, is living at 1603 Cher- 
okee St., Los Angeles, Calif. 

James C. Starkweather of Denver was 
elected a District Judge of the Second Ju- 
dicial District of Colorado at the general 
election Nov. 4. Judge Starkweather vyas 
a member of the Colorado State Senate, 
1916-20. 

1882 
William Everett Jillson writes that his 
present address is 1907 Orrington St., Ev- 
anston. 111. 

1884 

William Jacob Cloues is another Brown 
librarian who was inadvertently omitted 
from the list in a recent article contributed 
to this magazine. He has been Alva 
Woods Librarian of the Newton Theolog- 
ical Institution since 191 7, and was assist- 
ant librarian from 191 1 to 1917. 
1885 

A recent despatch from London said : 




"Five American monks, having completed 
a novitiate at Fort Augustus Abbey, Scot- 
land, have sailed from Liverpool with the 
Abbot of Fort Augustus to start a new 
Benedictine Foundation in Washington. . 
. All the members of the band are 
deep students and educators. One of them 
is the Rev. John B. Diman, a convert fron. 
the Anglican Church, who established and 
for several years was headmaster of St. 
George's School, Newport, R. I. 
Scientific work for the welfare of mankind 
is the object of Rev. Dr. Moore (the leader 
of the band) and his associates in founding 
the new Benedictine establishment. The 
plan will be similar to that of the Rocke- 
feller Institute of New York." 

1886 

Norman Gunderson has typed his present 
address for us as follows: 9 Berkley Court, 
Brookline, Mass. 

Professor George Grafton Wilson of the 
Harvard faculty is chairman of the cabinet 



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which directs the work of the Philh'ps 
Brooks House at Harvard. 

Joseph H, Ward, the new head of the 
Excelsior Savings Bank, 221-223 W. 57th 
St., New York, was the subject of an ar- 
ticle in the Savings Bank Journal for Sept- 
ember. "Although Mr. Ward has just 
entered the field of savings banking," said 
the writer, "he has taken up the responsi- 
bilities of his new position in a manner 
that indicates a broad understanding of 
savings methods and problems. Since com- 
ing to New York in 1886, a young man 
then just out of college, he has enjoyed a 
career of long service and notable achieve- 
ments in that division of the real estate 
field which is most intimately associated 
with savings banks." Mr. Ward took up 
his duties as president of the Excelsior Sav- 
ings Bank, which has resources of more 
than $27,000,000, following his return 
from a vacation spent in England and Scot- 
land. 

William Shaw White, for many years a 
Universalist clergyman, a former member 
of the Massachusetts Legislature and prom- 
inent in Masonry, died at the Memorial 
Hospital, Pawtucket, R. L, on Sept. 22. 
Mr. White failed to rally from a surgical 
operation. He was born in Pawtucket, 
Feb. 28, 1863, the son of Joshua Shaw and 
Harriet Newell White. He prepared for 
college in the Pawtucket schools and en- 
tered Brown with the class of 1886, with 
which he was graduated with the degree of 
A. B. After graduation he worked for two 
years with the J. S. White Co., iron found- 
ers, of Pawtucket. He then entered Tufts 
College Divinity school and was graduated 
in 1 89 1 with the degrees of A. M. and B. 
D. His first pastorate was in Cleveland, 
O. Mr. White returned East after a short 
stay in Cleveland and became pastor of the 
Universalist Church in Foxboro, Mass. 
While there he was elected to the Massa- 
chusetts House. As a member of the com- 
mittee on labor and woman suffrage he did 
much valuable work at the State House. 
H gave up the ministry in 1899 and had 
since devoted himself to the business of iron 
foundering. Throughout his life he main- 
tained a deep interest in church work and 



at the time of his death was an active mem- 
ber of the First Congregational Church 
(Unitarian), Providence. Mr. White was 
married, Oct. 27, 1891, to Susan E. Ross. 
He is survived by his widow and two chil- 
dren, John Ross White and Miss Ruth 
White. Mr. White was a member of Del- 
ta Tau Delta, which he joined while at 
Tufts. 

1888 

Dr. Alexander Marshall, Republican, 
was elected on Nov. 4 to the Rhode Island 
Legislature from Cumberland. 

Rev. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, president 
of the Rochester Theological Seminary, was 
one of the preachers during October at Sage 
Chapel, Cornell. 

1889 

It's always pleasing to receive a note 
from Dean Vernon P. Squires of the Col- 
lege of Liberal Arts, University of North 
Dakota, because the note, however brief, 
indicates that the Dean is ever mindful of 
Brown, even though he is so far away from 
CoHege Hill. 

1890 

Fred M. Sackett, Republican, was 
elected United States Senator from Ken- 
tucky on Nov. 4, defeating Senator A. 
Owsley Stanley. 

Frank T. Westcott, for 17 years Town 
Treasurer of North Attleboro, Mass., died 
suddenly at Pittsfield, Mass., following an 
attack of acute indigestion, on Oct. 22, 
1924. Born at Burrillville, 56 years ago, 
Mr. Westcott graduated from the public 
schools and Brown University. He took 
up civil engineering about 20 years ago and 
went to North Attleboro, where he became 
Superintendent of Streets, filling that posi- 
tion until appointed Town Treasurer. Mr. 
Westcott is survived by two children, Miss 
Cynthia, a teacher at Cornell University, 
Utica, N. Y., and a son, Frank. In addi- 
tion to being well known in North Attle- 
boro, Mr. Westcott had a wide acquaint- 
ance in this city, where he conducted a civil 
engineering business for several years. 

1891 
Edwin A. Barrows, president of the 
Narragansett Electric Lighting Co. of 



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Providence, has been named vice chairman 
of the public relations section of the Na- 
tional Electric Light Association, Mr. 
Barrows has for many years been active in 
public relations work both in Providence 
and in New England. 
1892 
Edmund Bingham Munger has taken up 
his residence in Bloomington, 111., after a 
fifteen-years' connection with the Illinois 
College Conservatory in Jacksonville, 111. 
He is now at the head of the piano depart- 
ment of the College of Music of Illinois 
Wesleyan University, and has charge of 
the classes in music history and music ap- 
preciation. In recognition of his services to 
Illinois College at Jacksonville that insti- 
tution conferred on Mr. Munger the de- 
gree of master of music in June, 1924. 

1893 
Professor Irving L. Foster of the Penn. 
State faculty is the editor of Brieux's play, 
"Les Americains chez nous," which Ginn 
& Co. are publishing as a text book for sec- 
ond and third year French students. 

1893 and 1910 
Albert A. Bennett '10 writes from the 
University of Texas, where he is in the de- 
partment of pure mathematics: "It will 
doubtless be of interest to the readers of 
the Alumni Monthly to learn that here in 
Texas, where local patriotism flames as 
brightly, perhaps, as in the days of the Con- 
federacy, and where oratory is still studied 
and practiced, a recent State bulletin com- 
prising 133 selected orations on topics of 
civic interest contains the following num- 
ber of addresses for each of the speakers 
here listed: Alexander Meiklejohn ('93) 
10, Thomas JefiEerson 5, Robert Ingersoll 
4, William Blaikie 4, Henry Clay 3, Henry 
W. Grady, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas 
Paine and Theodore Roosevelt 2, Burke, 
Cicero and others, one each." 

1894 

Henry D. Sharpe has been re-elected 
president of the Family Welfare Society — 
the re-named Society for Organizing Char- 
ity. 

Professor F. W. Marvel, together with 
Professor John E. Hill, will represent the 
University at the 19th annual conference 



of the National Collegiate Athletic Asso- 
ciation to be held at the Hotel Astor, New 
York, Dec. 29 and 30. 

Dr. George W. Gardner and Mrs. 
Gardner, who have been abroad for some 
time, arrived at their home in Providence 
late last month. 

Rev. George R. Hazard and George S. 
Ellis had a reunion all their own in Man- 
chester, N. H., before the Brown-Dart- 
mouth game. Mr. Ellis came over from 
Portland, Me., and went to Hanover as 
the guest of Dr. H. W. N. Bennett '97. 
Before the game he introduced himself to 
Jim Stifler, the varsity right end, whose 
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1897 
The Societe des Architectes Diplomes, 
the alumni association of the Ecole des 
Beaux Arts in Paris, has awarded its 
Grande Medaille to John D. Rockefeller, 
Jr., in recognition of his gift for the resto- 
ration of Rheims, Fontainbleau and Ver- 
sailles. 

1898 
At the last national convention of the 
Military Order of the World War, Colo- 
nel Thomas J. Burrage was appointed to 
the General Staff, of which Major General 
James G. Harboard is Chief of Staff. 

1899 

We all knew that Dave Fultz was an un- 
usually active person, but we never sus- 
pected that he was so active that he could 
officiate at two football games on the same 
afternoon, as a New York paper recently 
credited him with doing. By the way, 
Fultz was head linesman at the Yale- 
Princeton game, Nov. 15. 

Warren Bigelow ran for Congress in the 
15th New York Congressional District last 
month and while his total showed him far 
ahead of his ticket he was defeated, the en- 
tire city of New York going Democratic 
for Governor, Congress and State Senate. 

Mallinger E. Henry, teacher of English 
in Dickinson High School, Jersey City, N. 
J., has recently been appointed associate 
editor of the Journal of Education of New 
Jersey. 

Lieut. Commander Gordon D. Hale, M. 
C, U. S. N., completed three years' duty 
as executive at the Naval Hospital, New- 
port, R. L, last month, and is now on active 
duty with the hospital ship Relief on the 
Pacific coast. 

Joseph J. McCaffery, superintendent of 
playgrounds, was host to members of the 
Park and Recreation Association of New 
England at their semi-annual meeting in 
Providence on Nov. 20. 

1900 
Joseph T. Cashman had an article in the 
Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Journal for 
September on "Give the Constitution a 
Chance." Mr. Cashman has the credit of 
being the father of the "anti-vote slacker" 



movement which spread through the 
country before the national election last 
month and woke many a lethargic citizen 
to doing his duty at the polls. 

1902 
J. Cunliffe Bullock was re-elected to the 
Providence Common Council on Nov. 4. 

Raymond M. Hood is one of the archi- 
tects selected to compete in the designing 
of the $5,000,000 group of buildings to be 
built by the Harvard Business School un- 
der the George F. Baker Foundation. Mr. 
Hood's most recent work is the American 
Radiator Co. building in New York, with 
its color scheme of black and yellow bricks. 

1903 
Arthur L. Philbrick was elected to the 
Providence Common Council on Nov. 4. 

1904 
Harold W. Drury is now located at 
Babson Park, Mass., where he is filling an 
editorial chair for Poor's Publishing Co. 

1905 

Rev. J. Harrison Thompson has re- 
signed the pastorate of the First Baptist 
Church of Portland, Me., to become pastor 
of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church in 
Boston. Mr. Thompson will begin his new 
work next month. 

Frank S. Cooke of the Dry Dock Sav- 
ings Institution, New York, writes: "May 
I report the safe arrival of girl twins at 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Cooke's?" Good 
news, say we, and perhaps Frank will tell 
us their names and the date of their birth 
when he writes again. 
1906 

E. Raymond Walsh made a great run 
against Mayor Gainer, Nov. 4, as Repub- 
lican candidate for Mayor of Providence 
but was beaten by about 2500 votes in a to- 
tal of about 76,000. Mayor Gainer re- 
ceived the degree of A. M. from Brown last 
June. 

1907 

Dr. C. W. Way of Sea Isle City, N. J., 
has recently completed a six weeks' course 
of special study in Paris, France, hospitals. 

Henry Hallborg is becoming acclimated 
in New Jersey — so much so that he con- 
fides that he is trying to conduct himself 



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as a serious native Jerseyite at his new 

home, 24 Macopin ave., Upper Montclair. 

1908 

John B. MacKenzie has deserted the 
sunny precincts of Baltimore to enter the 
cotton business in Providence in association 
with Frank T. Albro '05. John is living 
at 89 Angell st. 

1909 

Bob Sullivan accompanied the football 
team to Chicago and an impromptu class 
reunion was held by him, Howard Jackson 
and Eddie Mayer. 

1910 

James M, Aldrich has come back to old 
New England, his new address being 255 
Walnut St., Brookline, Mass. 

F. A. Gardner has the thanks of the 
Alumni Office for the road map of New 
Hampshire he sent us just before the 
Brown-Dartmouth game. Fred is with the 
State Highway Department at Concord, N. 
H., and is editor of the New Hampshire 
Highways Bulletin, an excellent publica- 
tion of its kind. 

During their respective trips abroad last 
spring and summer. Dr. John H. Morris- 
sey, William H. Lynn and Paul B. How- 
land held reunions in Naples, Rome and 
Paris, reporting a good time was had by all. 
In Genoa, Howland visited George LaRoe 
'15, who is in the Vacuum Oil Company 
there. Lynn and Morrissey returned on 
the Nieuw Amsterdam of the Holland 
America Line in June, and Howland on 
the Laconia of the Cunard Line in July. 

1911 

Charles P. Sisson, Republican, was on 
Nov. 4 elected Attorney General of the 
State of Rhode Island. 

Dr. E. H. Brunquist is now a member 
of the department of physiology. Univer- 
sity of Colorado Medical school, Denver, 
Colo,, having transferred to the big city 
from Boulder, Colo. 

1913 
Norman Taber and Benjamin McLyman 
are both lecturing in the present series of 
extension courses at the University. Ta- 
ber's subject is the "Federal Income Tax," 
while Ben is discussing the drafting of leg- 



islation and giving his class pointers on how 
to put a bill together properly. 

Raymond J. Bennell, whose engagement 
is announced elsewhere in this issue, con- 
fesses that he is "still plugging along in the 
hardware business in Morristown (N. J.), 
with the hope that I can come to Provi- 
dence soon to see some of the old crowd 
again." Bennell is living at 25 Prospect 
St., Morristown. 

George Boas is an associate in philosophy 
at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. 
1915 

Robert E. Quinn was on Nov. 4 the un- 
successful Demxratic candidate for Lieu- 
tenant Gover lor of Rhode Island. 

Dr. Minot J. Crowell, but better known 
as Cap, is teaching medical bacteriology at 
the Yale Medical School. Cap's son and 
heir, David Freeman Crowell, who was 
born June 23 last, gives promise of develop- 
ing into a first-class varsity pitcher, we un- 
derstand. 

A. W. Anthony, Jr., writes from San 
Francisco, Cal., to the Alumni Manager: 
"Gold mining is doing as well as might be 
expected. The rains have come early this 
j'ear and I am now at the Columbus mine, 
getting things in shape to run. If she runs 
satisfactorily, I expect to be back next June 
for my tenth reunion." 
1916 

Barclay L. Jones is principal of the 
Friends' Central School, 15th and Race 
sts., Philadelphia. 

1917 

Wallace Wade, director of athletics at 
the University of Alabama, developed a 
fine eleven this past season — one of the best, 
in fact, that Alabama has had in years. 
This is Wally's second year in the Far 
South. 

1919 

C. Lawrence Evans is a member of the 
stafif of George Martin Rex, C. P. A., 
Hospital Trust bldg., Providence. Evans 
received his certificate as a certified public 
accountant from the State of Rhode Island 
last June. He is living at 14 Young Or- 
chard ave., Providence. 

Mark Golrick, Jr., recently married, has 



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set up his Lares and Penates (proving that 
we know Latin) at 1113 Smithfield ave., 
Saylesville, R, L Mark is with the Sayles 
Bleachery. 

Ralph Dexter is teaching in the New 
Haven High School and taking graduate 
work at Yale. His New Haven address is 
52 Howe St. 

1920 

Edward J. Walsh has returned from 
Porto Rico to his office in New York. He 
is working for Anderson and Company, au- 
ditors, and expects to be sent by the com- 
pany to the Pacific Coast soon. 

Paul R. Gast and Mrs. Gast (who was 
Miss Charlotte Mikalson '20, Women's 
College) have changed their address to Pe- 
tersham, Mass. Gast is research assistant 
in the department of silviculture and for- 
est management at Harvard and is doing 
most of his work in the Harvard Forest, 
Petersham. 

Johnny Brooks coached the Rahway, N. 
J., high school football squad, during the 



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1921 

Report from Palo Alto, Cal., tells of the 
birth of a son to Dr. and Mrs. John E. 
Blair. Dr. Blair, now instructor in bac- 
teriology at Leland Stanford, took his Sc. 
M. in 1921 and his Ph. D. in 1923. Mrs. 
Blair, who was Lorraine H.' Ferguson, re- 
ceived her Ph. B. in 192 1 and her Sc. M. in 
1922. 

Class dinners are held the twenty-first 
of every month in the Rathskeller at 6.30 
P. M. Anyone who happens to be in town 
on that date will receive a welcome recep- 
tion by his classmates. 

Al Mochau is in the foreign department 
of the Hope Webbing Co. of Providence. 

Frank Honan was among the Brown 
rooters at the Brown-Harvard game. He 
is in the first year at the Medical School. 
Arcadia Giura, a second-year student, was 
also cheering for his Alma Mater. 



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Dr. Charles J. Fish is out to get his 
name in Who's Who in America. He is 
now with the U. S. Board of Fisheries at 
Woods Hole, Mass. Shortly after the first 
of the new year he is to accompany Dr. 
Beebe of the New York Zoological Society 
on a trip to Africa to study sea life in the 
water. In all probability he will be gone 
at least six months. 

"Curly" Oden is still in the lime light in 
sporting circles around Providence. This 
fall he has been the star performer on the 
Providence Steam Roller football team. He 
recently ran seventy-three yards for a touch- 
down, the only score of the game. Seems 
to be quite spry for an old man. 

Floyd Buswell is the proud father of a 
young daughter born on the first of the 
month. 

Marshall Cannell is buyer in the dress 
department of Cladding's dry goods store. 
Providence. 

Harry Broadbent is going to get his pic- 
ture in the Hall of Fame some of these 



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days. Just now he is drawing plans for a 
perpetual motion machine. 

Everett Sweet has left Upper Darby, 
Pa., and moved to Philadelphia, where he 
is greeting the postman at 1934 Chestnut st. 

Harold Dodge writes the Alumni Office 
that during business hours he is on the job 
at 221 E. 37th St., New York, and at home 
at 84 Fairview ave., Port Washington, 
L.I. 

Brayton Eddy, now working seriously at 
the writing game, is making his headquar- 
ters at Allerton House, 143 E. 39th St., 
New York. His latest book, "The Person- 
ality of Insects," which he wrote in collab- 
oration with Royal Dixon, has been pub- 
lished by Charles W. Clark Co., New 
York, and is said to be an attractive and 
readable volume. 

Jesse H. Metcalf, A. M. 1921, was 
elected United States Senator from Rhode 
Island on Nov. 4, for both the long and 
short terms. 

1922 

Paul Chalmers has joined the faculty of 
Lafayette as instructor in English. He 
went to Easton, Pa., from Peddie School, 
where he has been teaching for the last two 
years. 

Walter Daniels, working efficiently, as 
usual, on the reportorial staff of the Provi- 
dence Journal, now receives his mail at 70 
Humboldt ave., Providence. "The change 
means only that our rent has been raised — 
nothing to add to your necrology records," 
he adds, reassuringly. 

Rodney Underwood has shifted from 
Schenectady, N. Y., to 6801 Elmwood ave., 
Philadelphia. Oh, yes; he is still with the 
General Electric Co. 

Winfield Ohlson's latest home address is 
21 Elbridge St., Worcester, Mass. He will 
finish at the Harvard Law School next 
June if all goes well. 

1923 

Willard B. Jewell is a graduate fellow 
in geology at Princeton. During last sum 
mer Jewell waj an assistant in geologival 
survey work in Alaska under Dr. Arthur 
F. Buddington '12. 

Walt Dolbeare admits that he contin- 



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ues to like his work in the commercial de- 
partment of the Blackstone Valley Gas and 
Electric Co., and adds that he is living at 
307 Blackstone st., Woonsocket, R. L 

Fred Sweet, one of the leading English 
students of the class, is remaining faithful 
to his old love as an instructor in English 
at Rutgers, which, as every reader should 
know, is situated in New Brunswick, N. J. 
Fred makes his home at the Y. M. C. A. 
there. 

Abner Newton writes that he has 
changed his address from Litchfield to Dur- 
ham, Conn. 

William J. Walsh is at present working 
for the Standard Oil Company of New 
York, in Bombay, India, where he intends 
to remain for two years. 

Frank Fahlquist spoke before the Pick 
and Hammer Club at the University on 
Oct. 30, his topic being "The Economic 
Geology of Portland Cement." Frank is 
boosting cement these days and doing well 
at it, we hear. 

Bob Adams, shaking the dust of the East 
from his feet, has settled in St. Louis, Mo., 
where he is in the bond business with Bit- 
ting & Co., one of the few all-Brown firms 
beyond the Mississippi. 
1924 

Clarence ChafJee, Bob Soellner and Dave 
Goddard are with the Connecticut Gen- 
eral Life Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn. 
Gordon Ritchie is also swelling the ranks 
of the Brunonians in Hartford. He's 
working for the Retail Credit Co., so Clar- 
ence tells us. 

Molly Meier, Dick Mazet, Art Nelson 
and George Hunt are active members of 
the Brown colony at Columbia, and along 
with Jack Applegate, Sammy Sammartino 
and Chet Worthington '23, Duke Edwards 
'22 and Campbell Posey '26n are managing 
to keep Brown on the map at Nicholas 
Murray Butler's well-known institution. 

Eddie Place of the reportorial staff of the 
Providence Journal is in the race for the 
next Rhodes Scholarship from Rhode Isl- 
and. So is George Hunt, and members of 
the class will be more than pleased to see 
either Ed or George win. 

Malcolm Jenckes is upholding the honor 



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and dignity of the class at M. L T., where 
he is registered in the class of 1926. 

Ed Keyworth is advertising manager and 
vice president of the Collier-Keyworth Co., 
Gardner, Mass. 

Jerry Bennett was looking as neat and 
smiling as usual at the Brown-Yale game. 
Let's see, seems that Jerry told us he was 
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Robert W. Taft Frank E. Richmond 

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If that isn't right, Jerry will let us know. 

Carl Lalumia is having his fling at the 
newspaper game as a reporter on the Pas- 
saic Daily Herald. His home address is 11 
Summer st., Lodi, N. J. 

Ralph Smith doesn't admit it, yet we 
presume he is working earnestly to learn 
the hardware business with the Pickering 
Hardware Co., Cincinnati, O. 

Eloy Murphy has put baseball behind 
him temporarily while he buckles down to 
the job of learning the telephone game as 
engineer with the New York Telephone 
Co. "Murph" hangs up his hat and over- 
coat at 154 South loth st., Newark, N. J. 

As a result of a motor car accident on 
the way to the Brown-Dartmouth game 
at Hanover, Norman W. Saunders died 
Nov. I in Memorial Hospital, Nashua, 
N. H. Saunders and Eugene W. Murray 
'26 left Providence for Hanover in Mur- 
ray's car. Near the town of Merrimac, 
N. H., they ran into a thick fog, obscuring 
their vision and forcing them off the road 
at the end of a steep grade. The car struck 
soft sand, skidded, hit a telegraph pole and 
turned over several times. The two occu- 
pants were found about an hour later by a 
passing motorist and taken to Memorial 
Hospital. Saunders died after regaining 
consciousness. Murray had both legs bro- 
ken, but is reported as on the way to re- 
covery. "Sandy," always a quiet, likable 
member of the class, came to college from 
Classical High School, Providence. He 
was the son of Walter Mills and Florence 
Sutcliff Saunders and was born Dec. 22, 
1 90 1, In college he tried out for the swim- 
ming team, but otherwise was not active in 
undergraduate affairs. He was a member 
of Psi Upsilon. His death is the first to 
break the ranks of 1924 since Commence- 
ment and every man in the class sympa- 
thizes with the Saunders family in his 
tragic passing. 



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1907 



148 



Leah B. Allen of the faculty of Welles- 
ley College is spending this year as a grad- 
uate student at the University of California 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



and doing research work at Lick Observa- 
tory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal. 
I 1909 

Bessie L. Mayo's address is 3 Walnut St., 
Boston, Mass. 

»I923 
Marion S. Holland writes that she is 
now living at 37 E. 71st st.. New York. 



(From Mrs. J. B. Botsford) 

On Tuesday, Oct. 28, a group of alum- 
nae sponsored a bridge for the benefit of the 
Social Hall Fund. It was held at the 
home of Mrs. William P. Young on Free- 
man Parkway. Over a hundred were pres- 
ent. Mrs. Young was assisted by Mrs. Ed- 
ward S. Moulton. . 

On Saturday, Nov. i, the class of 1905 
of the Women's College held a bridge and 
sale for the benefit of the Social Hall Fund 
at the Women's Republican Club. 

The class of 19 18 recently met at the 
Providence Plantations Club for a fall re- 
union supper. Earlier in the season this 
class held a bridge at which over fifty dol- 
lars were cleared toward their quota of the 
Social Hall Fund. 



ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Anna Somerwill of Warren, O., 
has announced the engagement of her niece. 
Miss Ida Bertha Somerwill, to Francis C. 
Breckenridge '15. Miss Somerwill is a 
graduate of Western Reserve, class of 19 1 6. 

Announcement has been made of the en- 
gagement of Miss Florence Braun, daugh- 
ter of Robert C. Braun of Hartford, Conn., 
to Russell E. Larkin '20. 

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford J. Varrell of 
Amesbury, Mass., and York Harbor, Me., 
have announced the engagement of their 
daughter. Miss Sarah Alcott Varrell, to 
Philip P. Borden '21. 

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bingham of 
Manchester, N. H., have announced the 
engagement of their daughter. Miss Cor- 
delia Pearman Bingham, to Frank C. Had- 
dleton '19. 

Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Price of Mor- 



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ristown, N. J., have announced the engage- 
ment of their daughter, Miss Helen Bab- 
bitt Price, to Raymond J, Bennell 'i3n. 



BROWN DIRECTORY 

ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD 

Consulting Highway Engineer 

Highway Transport Consultant 

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Attorneys at Law 

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506 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. 
Abbott '15 

MENDELL W. CRANE 

Attorney at Law 

812 Howard Building, 171 Westminster 8t., 

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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son of former Mayor Alexander Bennell of 
Morristown. Miss Price is a graduate of 
N. Y. U. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee of German- 
town, Pa., have announced the engagement 
of their daughter. Miss Julia Davis Lee, to 
Donald C. Rubel '23. 

Mrs. Effie S. Now^ers of Rockwood, 
Tenn., has announced the engagement of 
her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Nowers, to 
Kenneth P. Blake '23. 

WEDDINGS 

Mr. and Mrs. George J. Appel of Bos- 
ton, Mass., have announced the marriage 
of their daughter. Miss Ruth Phyllis Ap- 
pel (Women's College '23) to Hobart D. 
Haskins '24, on Oct. 27, 1924. Mr. and 
Mrs. Haskins are now at home on East 
ave., Rochester, N Y. 

The wedding of Miss Eleanor Mowton 
to Granville B. Affleck '21 took place Oct. 
7 in St. Andrew's Church, Yonkers, N. Y. 
Stuart Forstall '21 was one of the ushers. 
Mrs. Affleck is the daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward Pearsall Mowton of Yon- 
kers. 

BIRTHS 

1905 — To Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. 
Hall of Montour Falls, N, Y., a daughter, 
Eleanor Grafft, on Oct. 30, 1924. 

I9i5n — To Mr. and Mrs. Percival Mil- 
ler of Providence, a son, Gordon Hall, on 
Nov. 6. 

1 92 1— To Mr. and Mrs. Floyd W. 
Buswell of Providence, a daughter, Vir- 
ginia Borden, on Oct. 26, 1924. 

To Katherine Everett Gilbert, A. B. 
1908, A. M. 1 9 10, and Allan H. Gilbert, 
a son, Creighton Eddy Gilbert, June 6, 
1924. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Hathaway of 
Pawtucket announce the birth of a son on 
Oct. 27, 1924. Mrs. Hathaway was for- 
merly Miss Doris Snow Briggs of the 
class of 1914. 

1916 — To Mr. and Mrs. Seward G. 
Byam (Marjorie W. Cotton '17) of Sha- 
ron, Mass., a daughter, Marjorie, on Nov. 
10, 1924.- 

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