.ir*-:;i:f *'' ill'"'" a l|ii m .""iff mi " / 1-11 \ J. |ii l).|' , 'lll'illl' W^A l"(l ini ,i,ii„[iili'i' mi; »' 10m "Am HI'i ii'4t 1 iijii lip iii ik »il!l :i fi"''!lii::i!,!l w il'v Hi n ti If, * m ' !!iii; ''1. 'III! " .11 ; "i.>,"ii' „;"'ia ••'«ri,iiii ¥'\1S^'"4 Uli e .'„„< ill mII'iI' 'u 1 a: mm THE Brown Alumni Monthly Vol ume II June, 1 90 1 to May, 1902 PROVIDENCE, R. I. IT be JBrovvn Blumnt ^afla3ine Go. BRC^WN UNIVERSITY 1902 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Vol. II Providence, R. I., FEiiRiARv, 1902 No. 7 BROWN professors have frequent- ly been honored in the past l^y calls to other fields of work, necessitating', in the acceptance of the honor, a permanent withdrawal from Providence. l^rofessor Albert ( Iranger Harkness, however, has been called to an honorable service at Rome from which he will return to Brown a year from next Se])tember. He has been chosen professor of Latin for one vear at the American School of Classical Sttidies in Rome, and will leave Providence about the middle of next June. He intends to spend the summer in the Apennines and begin work with the School in Rome in October. .\t a meeting of the executive committee of the university cor- poration, January lo. it was voted to grant Professor Harkness a leave of absence for one year, in order that he might accept the appointment. T h e School in Rome is maintained for gradu- ate stud}", and is sup- ported jointly by a number of the leading ALBERT GRANC;ER HARKNESS Photograph by Hortoii Bros., Providence universities of the United States. Each }-ear one prominent Latin scholar is selected from these to go to Rome. Since the establishment of the school, six vears ago. Harvard, Yale. Johns Hopkins, Western Reserve, Michigan and Chicago have been represented, and now Prown is honored. Professor Albert G. Harkness. A. AL. professor of Roman literature and history in Brown ITniversitv, is the son of Pro- fessor Albert Plarkness, who is still pro- fessor emeritus at Brown. Professor Albert Ci. Harkness was graduated at Brown in 1879, taught Latin and Greek at Peddie Institute. Hightstown. X. J.. two }ears, and then went abroad, where he studied two years, some of the time in France, and the remainder at Berlin. Leipsic and Bonn. Returning to Amer- ica in 1883. he went to Colgate Univer- sity (then ]\[adison) as professor of Latin, and for six years remained at this post. In 1889 he was elected associate pro- fessor at Broiwn. Four years later — Professor John Larkin Lincoln, the head of the depart- ment, having died in the meantime^ — he was made full professor. Professor Harkness h a s been associated with his father in the preparation of some of the latter's text-books, notabl}- the grammar and the new edition of C 36 s a r " s Comment- aries, just now appear- ing. He has con- tribtited articles on epigraph}- to the American Philological Journal, and has de- livered a number of public lectures on classical archreology. He visited Italy some years ago and spent a considerable period in Rome. Professor Harkness the elder has been a member of the managing committee of the American School at Athens since its foundation in 1881. Professor William Carey Poland, head of the fine arts de- partment at Brown, served as annual' di- rector of the School at Athens in 189 1- 126 The Brown Aluiiini Monthly 92. President B. I. Wheeler of the University of California is another Brown graduate (class O'f '75 ), who has been in- timately connected with the School at Athens. He served it as professor of the Greek language and literature in 1895-96, and, with Professors Harkness and Po- land, is now a mem'ber of its managing committee. When ex-President An- California drews was in California, Dinner to early in January, a din- Dr. Andrews ner was given to him in the red room of the Bo- hemian Club by the Brown Club of Cali- fornia. In the centre of the round table was a bank of holly, manzanita and red berries, with a brown riblion winding through the decorations and out over the table. \ canopy of Christmas greens was suspended over the board and lights were partly concealed in the foliage. Rev. O. W. Briggs, a Brown graduate of more than sixty years' standing", was the senior member of the club in attendance, and his comfort and pleasure were care- fully regarded by the younger men. President Wheeler, '75, of the Uni- versity of California spoke of the won- derful personality of Brown that is due to something more than mere class-room training and asserts its charm when it brings together men of an epoch covering sixty years, hardly two of whom knew each other in college or sat under the teaching of the same professors. He spoke of President Andrews's work and worth and proposed that the club drink his health. In response Dr. Andrews spoke with much feeling. His theme was Brown, and his listeners waraiied to his words. Few of them had ever met or heard Dr. Andrews before this occasion and their enjoyment was very great. Those present at the dinner were : Rev. Obil W. Briggs. '40; Albert N. Drown, '61 ; Thomas B. Bishop. "64: ex- President E. Benjamin Andrews, '70; Rev. Henry H. Wyman, '71 ; President Benjamin I. Wheeler, 75 ; Nathaniel Blaisdell. "83 ; Professor George B. Wake- man, '84; Rev. Lonis C. Sanford, '88; Prqfessor Winthrop J. V. Osterhout, '93. The T^.rown Club of Cahfornia has been in existence about two years, has approximately twenty members and has previously given a dinner to President \\'heeler. ^ , -r , , Professor Jacobs has Professor Jacobs's .^turned from the Study of European half-vear's trip abroad S^^^®^^ which he took for the purpose of studying some of the schools of Europe. The secondary schools of England, France and Germany and the institutions for training teachers connected with the schools themselves, and also with the universities have been his particular subject of study. He returns especially impressed with the alertness of attention and precision of scholarship in the German class-rooms ; with the scope and excellence of the prim- ary schools of France, 'and with the life in the great public schools of England as a means of developing honor and manli- ness. '^Vmerica, however," says ^Ir. Jacobs, "is the land of opportunity and possibility in education as in everything else. We in the past have been too much inclined to put on the cast-off clothing or the mis- fit coats of Europe and admire them be- cause they were foreign made. 'Made in Germany' has bewitched the teacher in America as surely as it has terrified the manufacturer in England. What we need is soberly and confidently to work out our own problems, using what is l>eing done abroad for suggestion but not for servile imitation." KAA "R ir ^^^^ address book contain- Address iiook 5,^^ ^j^^ ^^.^^^^^^ ^^^^^ addresses tor 1901-02 Qf ^j^g jj^.jj^g graduates of the university has come from the press and will shortly be mailed to all the altimni. In the summary at the end of the l)ook it is stated that the total number of persons who have received degrees at the university is 5,434. of which number 2,665, 01" almost one half, are still living. It was intended to omit the publica- tion of an address book this year, and merely issue a supplementary list of cor- rections to its predecessor, but the great number of changes which have occurred in the addresses of the alumni during the year made a new issue of the book The Brown Alumni Monthly 127 necessary. It is expected that another edition will not he pul)lishcd until De- cember, 1903. The new book is not as large as last year's, having but eighty pages. This is due to the printing of names in "lower case" type instead of capitals and to the omission of the alphabetical index. The book was formerly used for mailing pur- poses, and on that account its t}pe had to be rather large. Rut within the past year the university has purchased a mailing machine which does away with this use of the address book. The omission of the alphabetical index, a most important aid to the use of strch a book, is a serious de- fect. All those who use the book will hope for its restoration in the next issue. ^^. ^ An editorial board con- "Other Days ^j^^j^ . ^^ p.of,,,^, ^Val- at Brown" ^^^. ^^- Bronson, _ '87; Henry R. Palmer, '90, and Professor Joseph N. Ashton, '91, with Howard A. Cofihn, 1901, as business manager has been organized for the purpose of edit- ing and compiling a boo'k portraying life at Brown from the beginning down to comparaitively recent times. The book has not yet been fully planned, but it will contain at least three sections : I. Historical Sketches. These will be confined to the earlier years, and will treat such matters as early courses of study, old-time commencements, quaint customs and regulations, and the college in the Revolution. H. Reiiiiiiiscences ami Traditions. This ought to be the largest and most valuable section of the book, for there should be forthcoming a wealth of ma- terial about famous presidents and pro- fessors, the undergraduate days of dis- tinguished alumni, college scrapes, "town and gown," student publications, the old debating societies, the beginnings of col- lege athletics, scenes at Brown during the Civil W'slv. and many other matters which will vividly illumine the life of the university during an important half-cen- tury of its history. III. Items and Anecdotes. This sec- tion is intended to be a convenient catch- all for miscellaneous material that cannot well be pujt into the other sections. It will readilv be seen that a book con- ceived on this Inroad plan can present in- teresting and graphic pictures of Brown life and at the same time have the dignity and historical value appropriate to such a publication. Its pages ought to be en- tertaining reading; they ought to in- crease the affection and loyalty of all the sons of Brown ; and for the younger generation they ought to have a peculiar value by showing the historical con- tinuity of the life of the university. Such a link between the old Brown and the. new Brown is especially needed just now. Furthermore, if reminiscences of the days of President Wayland — perhaps the most interesting of all the periods which the book will cover — are not collected soon, they never can be. Will not every alumnus who has some reminiscence, anecdote, college joke or other suitable matter send it to Profes- sor W. C. Bronson, Brown University? Contributions of any length will be welcome, although the editors reserve the right to decide just what and how much shall be published. If any alumnus should not have leisure to put his material into finished form, let him send a first draft and the editors will undertake to prepare it for pul:)lication. Manuscript may be sent at any time before July i, 1902, but the sooner the better. Contributors are requested to indicate whether or not they wish to remain anonymous in the book. jit Series of Life Work Talks A brief course of "life work talks" has been ar- ranged by General Secre- tary Roy E. Clark of the' College Y. M. C. A. They are being given on Wednes- day evenings at Y. M. C. A Hall, the first having been delivered by Rathbone Gardner, Esq., 'yy, of Providence, Jan- uary 22d, subject, "The Law," and the second by Dr. L. L. Doggett, president of the Training School at Springfield, Mass., January 29, on "The General Secretaryship of Young Alen's Christian Associations." The other speakers and their topics are: Februarv 5th, "Busi- ness," John D. Rbckefeller, Jr., '97, New York city; February 12th, "The Minis- try," Rev. Nathan E. Wood, President of Newton Theological Seminary ; Feb- ruary 19th, "^ledicine." Dr. H. A. Whit- 128 The Brown Alumni Monthly marsh, '76, New York Homeopathic Col- leg^e; February 26th, "The Physical Di- rectorship of Young Men's Christian Associations." Dr. J. H. McCtirdy, physi- cal director International Training School, Springfield; April 2d, "The Alis- sionary," Rev. Henry C. Mabie, D. D. ; April 9th, "The Teacher," President \\\ H. P. Faunce ; April i6th, "How to Choose a Life Work," Rt. Rev. W. N. McMckar, bishop coadjutor of Rhode Island. Eighty-Seven's Fifteenth Reunion F The class of Eighty- seven is preparing for a memorable reunion next June on the fifteenth an- niversary of its graduation. The com- mittee has engaged the fine club house and grounds at Squantum for the day and evening of Tuesday, June 17th, and responses already received show that there will be a large attendance. The celebration will last two days, Tuesday and Wednesday, and Eighty-seven will endeavor to sho^w the more youthful classes that it is alive and loyal. A remarkal^le fact about the class is that it has had a dinner every year. These annual reunions have not always been largely attended, but a few enthusiastic members have- assembled to renew O'ld memories, and it is owing largely to this fact that the outlook for a successful meeting this year is so bright. The class has set an excellent example to other classes in publishing an occasional re- cord of the activity of its members. No less than four pamphlets have been issued summarizing the career of each man so far as the record was obtainable. In this way the class has kept together in spirit, and fostered its interest in all its members and in the universitv. Chronicle of the Campus Musical Clubs in the South. The Brown nmsical clubs returned, Januarv 6th, from a successful southern trip on which, with one exception, a large and enthusiastic audience greet- ed the clubs everywhere. In every city visited the men were looked up and invited to enjoy the privileges of some business men's social club during the day, and a dance or a reception was given after almost every concert in the evening. In consequence some permanent friend- ships were formed. Two concerts were given at Columbia, S. C. At Augusfa, Ga., there was an appreciative audience O'f 1,100 people. On New Year's eve, after the concert in Newport News, an impromptu ban- quet was held in the hotel at Norfolk, and 1902 was duly ushered in with Brown cheers, songs and speeches. On New Year's afternoon a concert was given to over 300 young ladies at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Va. This was repeated in the evening in the town hall. Eleven concerts were given on the trip. Only ten men were taken, bnt with these an enjoyable entertain- ment was possible. Athletic Meeting. At the meeting of the Brown Univer- sity Athletic Association immediately after chapel, January 23d, it was voted to accept the recommendation of the board of directors, namely, "that the proposi- tion of the faculty giving entire control of university athletics for the coming year to the association, provided that the association elect to its board of directors the faculty committee on athletics and accept the faculty rules regarding ath- letics, be accepted." After remarks by J. Holmes, R. E. Clark and E. K. Smith it was voted that "the sentiment of the association is that a change in the present eligibility rules is desirable." Basketball Record. Following are the results in liasket l>al] for the season up to February 1 : Jan. II. Brown, 36; Boston U.. 31. Jan. 14. Brown, 23: Tufts, 17. Jan. 18. Brown, t,,^; Mo1_v Cross, 36. Jan. 21. Brown. 2^; Boston U., 38. Jan. 2=,. Brown, 19; Williams, 45. Jan. 28. Brown, 42: Tnfts, 16. Jan. 30. Brown. 31 ; Holy Cross, ~^^. The Brown Alumni Monthly 129 The schedule for the remainder of the season is : Feb. I. Dartmouth at Hanover. Feb. 5. Harvard at Providence. Feb. 8. Trinity at Providence. Feb. \2. Williams at Williamstown. Feb. 13. Williston Seminary at East Hamp- ton. I'eb. 19. Dartmouth at Providence. Feb. 21. Lafayette at Easton. Pa. Feb. 22. Trinity at Hartford. March 4. Mass. State College at Provi- dence. March. 18. Fall River Y. M. C. A. at Fall River. In the Hockey League. lorown won from a team of graduates at hockey, January 19th, 3 to i, but, owing in part to insufficient experience, went down before Yale, 11 to i, at the St. Nicholas rink. New York, January 25th, in the first of her games in the intercol- legiate league. Chapel Speakers. Two speakers addressed the students at chapel during the past month. On Wednesday niorning, January i6th. Rev. Edmund S. Rousmaniere, D. D.. rector of (irace Church, Providence, spoke on the contri1)utions which college men should make to the life of the community and the nation. Dr. Rousmaniere said that col- lege men should show sanity in looking at the facts of life, should see the'm from all sides and in their relations, and should be al)le to detect the great moral prin- ciples, such as the principle of service, and base their lives and actions upon ihem. The other chapel speaker wa^ William E. Eoster, Litt. I)., librarian of the Providence Public Library. He spoke \^^ednesday morning, January 29th, urging the students to become acquainted with the best literature of the world and to make it their lifelong friend. Harvard Wins Debate. A large audience was present at Sayles Hall, Thursday evening, January 23d, to hear the debate participated in by repre- sentatives of the Brown sophomores and freshmen and the Harvard freshmen. Harvard won b)- better all round work. The question under debate was, "Re- solved, that the present policv of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of parliament and the people." Rev. A. M. Lord of i'^rovidence, Har- vard, '83, presided. The judges were Hon. J. H. Stiness, Bro)wn, '61 ; R. G. Huling, Brown, '69 ; and F. R. Martin, Harvard, '93. The Harvard team con- sisted of D. A. McCabe, E. W. Baker, J. N. Johnson and William Badt, alter- nate. The Bro'wn team was made up of Isley Boone, "04; R. G. Martin, '05; F. E. Hawkins, '05, and W. G. Meader, "05, alternate. Each speaker had 12 minutes for his first speech and five for rebuttal. Harvard argued the negative side of the question. New Football Manager. In a close and hotly contested election, lanuary i6th, the junior class chose Les- ter E. Dodge, of Block Island, manager of the football team for next year. Air. Dodge prepared for college at East Greenwich Academy, where he played for two years on the baseball and football teams. He was also manager of both team's. Each of these years the football eleven won the interscholastic cup oli'ered by Brown L'niversity. Since entering Brown Mr. Dodge has been prominent in class affairs. He played on his class baseball team both freshman and sophomore years, and the latter year was manager. In that year he was also vice-president of his class. He has been interested in a variety of college activities, such as the Masonic Club, the Sears Reading Room Associ- ation and the Refectory Association. He is a member of the Kappa Sigma frater- nity. H. \\ Joslin, '04, of Scranton, Penn., las been chosen assistant football man- ager. Cataloguing Valuable Pamphlets. Aliss Henrietta R. Palmer, of this city, has been appointed assistant cataloguer in the university library to catalogue twenty or thirty thousand bound volumes of pamphlets and many unbound pamphlets. The work will require two or three years, and when completed, a great mass of material of historical value will be avail- able for students. i^o The Brown Alumni Monthly THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the graduates of Brown University r.V THE Brown Alumni Magazine Co. ROBERT p. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R, I. Subscription price, $i oo a year. Single copies, Ten Cents. Address all communications to the Brown Alumni Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post office as second-class matter. ADVISORY BOARD William W. Keen, 'sg, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry K. Porter, '6o, Pittsburg, Pa. Francis Lawton, '6q, New York, N. Y. Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence. William V. Kellen, '72, Boston, Mass. WiNSLow Upton, '75, Providence. Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence. Sam Walter Foss, '82, Somerville, Mass. G.^RDNER Colby, '87, New York, N. Y. William R. Dorman, '92, New York, N. Y. Archibald C. Matteson, '93, Providence. HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor THERON CLARK, '95, Business Manager February, 1902 MR. ROCKEFELLER'S OFFER Mr. Jdhn D. Rockefeller's generous offer of $75,000 to be used for the erection of a building- for social and religious pur- poses at Brown University has elicited a general expression of gratification among alumni and undergraduates. Such a building has long been needed at the col- lege. For several years the Young Men's Christian Association has been endeavor- ing to procure a permanent home for itself, and at the time Mr. Rockefeller's offer was made it had collected about three thousand dollars toward a building fund. The new building will provide accommodations not for the Y. M. C. A. alone, but for many college organiza- tions, and thus become the centre of student life. It will also afford a meet- ing place for alumni who visit the univer- sity. To those familiar with existing con- ditions at Brown, it is evident that this broadening of the original purpose of the Y. M. C. A. is fortunate. The asso- ciation did indeed contemplate the erection oi a building where other col- lege enterprises beside itself should be housed, but Mr. Rockefeller's offer goes somewhat beyond the limits of this plan and proposes a home for the social and religious interests of the university as such, with no excessive emphasis laid upon the latter. The Y. M. C. A. authorities will have the oversight of the building, at least until the corpora- tion of the college determines otherwise, but it will be open to all students with- out regard to their religious convictions or lack of them. It will be liberally ad- ministered and will provide a headquar- ters for secular college interests as well as for such organizations as the Y. M. C. A. and the Bishop Seabury Associ- ation. Similar buildings at other uni- versities have contributed to the up- building of a loyal undergraduate spirit. The result at Brown may confidently be expected to be good. Mr. Rockefeller's offer, which was made through his son, John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., of the class of 1897, calls for the raising of an endowment fund of $25,000 by next commencement. About one-third of this almount has been sub- scribed, $6,000 coming already from the undergraduate body, i^very Brown graduate who wishes to see a unification of college in- terests under wholesome auspices may feel amply justified in sending a contribution to the fund between now and the eighteenth of June. The movement should not be per- mitted to fail or lag. Mr. Rockefeller's continued interest in the university is in- dicated in this latest oft"er, and he mav The Brown Alumni Monthly i^i properly expect the other friends of Brown to do their reasonable share toward its prosperity and increase. HAMMER AND TONGS A request comes to the editor of the Monthly for a protest against the adop- tion of the name "Sock and Buskin" to designate the dramatic society at the col- lege. The alumnus who makes this pro- test feels that a slight has been put upon the ancient name under which so many creditable dramatic performances have been presented. "Hammer and Tongs," he says, is an honorable title, around which cling happy memories. Sock and Buskin may be more appropriate, as its authors allege, but it has no tradition or association to commend it to the old graduate. The editor feels, as this alumnus does, that the change is unfortunate. It is the duty as well as the privilege of a col- lege community to maintain old nomen- clature so far as it can and endeavor to perpetuate whatever is good in the old regime. To our way of thinking Ham- mer and Tongs is a most excellent name. It is original and unifjue. It does not copy the style of any other college dramatic society, and it has all the virtue of a valuable trade mark. That it l>ears no theatrical significance is beside the mark. It has age and history ; it used to have a perennial cut in the Liber that was Superior to any of the more pre- tentious illustrations that have fol- lowed it. For the sake of auld lang syne, the Monthly opposes the abandon- ment of the familiar name. If the so- ciety must be Sock and Btrskin for the present, let the old name be restored at the earliest convenient moment. There is nothing the matter with Sock and Buskin. It has a learned sound. But old graduates — and soiiie graduates who are not yet old — wish to see the historic title restored. To fling the old name away is almost as wanton as the substi- tution of an artesian well or a modern faucet for the College Pump would be. We have many traditions at Brown, man}- old names — but none too many. It is the province of the undergraduate as well as of the graduate to conserve and cherish these, and to oppose this latest iconoclasm with "hammer and tonpfs." The Recent Changes in Regard to Degrees, the Requirements for Admission, and the Curriculum DURING the past year important changes have been made affecting the degrees offered by the univer- sity, the requirements for ad- mission, and the courses within the college itself. Hitherto there have been conferred, on the completion of four years of under- graduate work, the degrees of bachelor of arts (A. B. ), bachelor of philosophy (Ph. B.), bachelor of science (Sc. B.), me- chanical engineer (M. E.), and civil en- gineer (C. E.). The last two degrees will not be given after IQ05, but in their I)lace will be given the degree of bachelor of science in mechanical and civil en- gineering respectively, and the degree of bachelor of science in electrical engineer- ing will be added. In making this change the university is following the example of the best technical schools. On the other hand the general non-technical course now leading up to the degree of bachelor of science will be omitted ex- cept for men already in college. I T,2 The Brown Alumni Monthly The change in the requirements for ad- miission will affect candidates for all de- degrees. Candidates for the A. l\. degree will be alloiwed to substitute for one ancient language, or for the more advanced portion of their Greek one more sul^ject cho-sen from the following list : P"rench, ( jerman, English and American liistory, solid and spherical geonietr}' and plane trigonometry, phy- sics and chemistry. When the w hole of one ancient language, however, is omitted, the greater part of the work offered in place of it must be in modern languages. I5rown is thus recognizing the fact tihat certain modern studies have reached such a stage of progress that they can claim to contribute equally with the older disciplines to the clevelopment of the h-ig4iest culture. In order to ensure good quality of work in the studies now for the first time accepted for entrance, it has been pro- vided that admission in such studies shall be by examination only. It should be noted that while greater latitude has been allowed, the old requirement will still satisfy the conditions of admission, and it is probable that a large majority of the candidates for the A. B. degree will con- tinue to present the same subjects as heretofore, but the change will have brought the university into closer con- nection with some of the best preparatorv schools which have been devoting in- creasing attention »o modern languages and the sciences, for the greater part ( in the case of science the whole) of which work their students have hitherto been unable to obtain credit on entering Brown. In the case of the Ph. B. degree the re- quirdment for admission lias been coii- siderably increased, and is now. so far as quantity of work goes, approximatelv equivalent to the A. B. requirement. Tbe additional work may be done in ancient or modern language, mathematics, phv- sics, chemistry, physiography, astronomy or history. The new requirement will go into eft'ect in 1903. The admission requirements for can- didates for the Sc. B. degree have also been increased Iw the additions of solid and spherical geometry, free hand draw- ing and cliemistrv, for the last of which, bowever. a modern language may be substituted. The changes in the requirements for admission necessitated corresponding changes in the college curriculum. These changes have already been provided for in the courses leading to the A. B. and the Sc. 15. degrees, and like changes in the courses leading to the Ph. B. degree will prolmbl}- be made during the present year. In the case of the Sc. B. degree the changes involve not only the develop- ment of the course in electrical engineer- ing to the equivalent of the courses in civil and mechanical engineering, but a distinct advance in these latter courses made possible by the new requirements for admission. The most noticeable changes in the curriculum for candidates for the A. B. degree are the increase in the amount of required work and the addition of certain new courses. To the list of required subjects have been added courses (each of three hours a week for a year ) in English literature, a physical or natural science, and political science, social science and political economy ( the last three constituting together a single course), while the requirement in i)hilo'sophy has been increased from a course for a single term to a course running through the year. The new courses added are elementary (ireek, which is being oft'ered this year and promises to be a popular course, and a year's conrse in the history of Greek and Roman life and institutions which will be open to all classes. Idle net result of all changes made so far as the}' affect the proportion between required and elective work is an increase in the former from 2/-f)2 to 34-C)2 of the entire course, an increase somewhat modified by the fact that in the case of a certain portion of the required work the student has a choice between two or more departments ( c. o-. Latin and Greek, French and German, the various scientific departments ) or between two or more courses in the same departinent, as in philosophy. The advantage gained is that the student is assured, at least, an elementar}' acquaintance with certain sub- jects a1)S(dutely essential to a hberal edu- cation. The Brown Alumni Monthlv Xot less important ]:)crhaps than the above is the pntting- liack of rhetoric from the Sophomore to the Freshman year, tihus closing- the unfortunate gap which has existed between the work in the preparatory school and the college, and giving to the student at the start, the elementary instruction in composition which is an essential condition O'f satis- factory work in all his subsequent course. This change has been made possible by reducing the time of the ancient language courses in the freshman year from four to three hours per week, and the time allowed to mathematics in the same year from five to four hours per week. The required history has also been opened t(5 sophomores as well as juniors. In the ancient languages the student will then be required to take two courses each running throug'h a year, although be will l)e pemiitted to take both courses in either Greek or Latin instead of being required to divide his time between the two as heretofore ; though courses in modern languages must also be taken at present even by students who present advanced work in one or both of these languages for admission. It will be seen from the above, account that the changes made involve no lower- ing of the standard. Their motive has been the desire to adjust the work at Brown to the changed educational con- ditions in the world about her ; they have been the subject of long and careful con- sideration by the faculty and board of felloiws, and we may hope that thev wdll Ijenefit the work of the university in all its departments. Washington and the College Ox the twenty-ninth day of May. 1790, more than a year after the inauguration of the first presi- dent of the United States and the assembling of the first congress, the state of Rhode Island adopted the con- stitution and joined herself in permanent federal luiion with the states she had formerly been identified with in the war for liberty and independence. At the time of the ratification of the constitu- tion by Rhode Island congress was in session at X'ew York, then the temporary seat of the new government. Immedi- ately upon the adjoLirnment of congress in the early part of August, President Washington made preparations for a visit to the new state. Accompanied by Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state. Governor Clinton and several others, the president took passage on boardaRhoide Island packet on the fifteenth of August, and reached Newport on the morning of the seventeenth. Here the president and his party disembarked and remained a day enjoying the hospitality of the com- munity. On the morning of the eigh- teenth they embarked for Providence, which was reached at about four o'clock in the afternoon after a tedious passage of some seven hours. The arrival of President Washington at the entrance of the harbor was an- nounced by the discharge of a cannon from Ferleral Hill. As he came ashore he was welcomed' bv a federal salute of 134 The Brown Alumni Monthly cannon and the ringini;' of the church bells throughout the town. A procession, which included re'presentatives of the col- lei^e, escorted him from the wharf to the tavern. This procession is said to have night, he was informed by Colonel Peck that the students of the college had illuminated it and would be highly flat- tered if he should visit them. Though the weather was disagreeable and President l^- {:■■ i|^•^^ r c^^^y:^ (^^7f^c y . ^ ^^' i 0^7^-^ y^s^^L-^^^^^^^^cr:^ ^2^-^^^;^^-^^ ^^^^^csy^^i^i^^^ ic ^^/^<^/^,^L^ 5 '.««?• K'V^-'ia'iMi; J "exceeded anything of the kind ever ex- hibited in this Town." Upon his arrival at the tavern the president reviewed the procession and then retired from public gaze. After tea that evening, just as he was taking leave of his party for the Washington was unaccustomed to going- out at night, he and his party accepted the students' invitation and "made a noc- turnal procession" to the college, which, according to the diary of Mr. William Smith, a member of congress from South '1 he Brown Alumni Monthly 135 Carolina who was one of the presidential company, was well worth seeing, heing "splendidly illuminated." On the forenoon of the next day, Thursday, August 19th, "the President, accompanied hy his Excellency, Governor introduced into the College Library and Museum." While at the college. Presi- dent Washington ascended to the roof of University Hall, the only college building which then existed, except the president's house, in order "to view the beautiful and .r^ ^i<5Cd:::J;?_lan . THKD FL O or PLAM mittee will have general management, necessary to obtain Air. Rockefeller's perhaps, but their policy will l)e broad, offer of $75,000. He said he wanted to He appealed to the students to assist sec the corner stone laid at next coni- in the movement to raise the $25,000 mencement. 140 The Brown Alumni Monthly Mr. Rockefeller's letter reads as fol- lows : "To the Corporation of Brown University, Providence, R. I. : "GENTLEMEN' — My father stands ready to erect, furnish and give to the corporation of Brown University, free of expense, a build- ing to be devoted primarily to the social and religious uses of the students of the university. While this building shall always be under the absolute control of the corporation, it is his desire that the work carried on therein shall be under the direction of the Young Men's Christian Association of Brown University as represented b}' its graduate advisory com- mittee, so long as such direction i^hall be deemed wise by the corporation. "He expresses this desire in order that the association shall have a proper home for its work, and that the importance of its Avork may adequately be emphasized. "In general, it is my father's desire that the building shall be administered in the broadest and most liberal spirit, and that the entire student body and all university organizations that help to promote the welfare of the stu- dents shall, as far as possible, share it! its privileges. "My father will give the building above re- ferred to, which with its furnishings shall cost whatever amount of money may be deemed necessar)' up to a total of $75,000, provided that an endowment of $25,000 to be used for the maintenance of the building and its work be procured in good and substantial pledges by commencement day, 1902, and that a suitable site upon the University grounds shall be pro- vided for the building by the corporation. "Very truly yours, "John D. Rockefeller, Jr." The reading of this letter was received h}' the large gathering of students with great enthusiasm. General satisfaction was expressed at the conditions imposed by the generoiis benefactor of the col- lege and it was the opinion of all con- cerned that the necessary $25,000 would be forthcoming by the eighteenth of Tune. Midwinter Alumni Reunions AT PHILADELPHly\ IX the tastcftilly decorated dining hall of the University Club of Philadel- ])hia was held., 011 the evening O'f Tuesday, January 2S. the th.irty- third annual reunion and diiuier of the JJrown L'niversit}" alumni of Philadelphia and vicinity. The thirty or more loyal sons of Brown who gathered around the board demonstrated by their attendance and enthusiasm the fact that the cluli is still keenl}' alive to the progress and growth of its Alma Mater. Before the dinner began, a meeting of the club was held, at which the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, Frank B. Greene. ^2 ; first vice-president, Henry K. Porter. L L. D.. '60 ; seooiid vice-president, Jefferson Shiel '82; secretary, Wiihiam H. Bennett. M. D., '84; treasurer, Frank INIauran. '85 ; executive comoiittee. Horace P. Dor- mon. '96; Pierson T. Fort. '95, and j. Benton Porter, '90. At the close of the business meeting it was voted to send words of sympatliy and regret to Dr. W. W. Keen. '59, and Rev. Dr. George Dana Boardman. '52. members 04 the Phila- deli)hia organization who are bo'th at ])resent suffering from illness in distant cities. The dinner was memorable in that President Faunce was able to be present as a guest of the club. Professor E. H. ^lagill. "52, president emeritus of Swarth- more College, presided at the dinner, and introduced as the first speakers of the evening President Faunce and Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt, '60, pastor of the Epi- phany Baptist Church. Philadelphia. After he had spo'ken. Dr. Ho}t acted as toastmaster. and introduced the remain- ing speakers: Rev. Dr. B. L. Whitman, "87 ; Rev. Dr. Floyd W. Toiiikins, rector of Holy Trinitv Church. Philadelphia, a close friend of Brown students when he was rector of Grace Church in Provi- dence ; Louis F. Snow. '87. ex-dean of the \\'omen's College; Rev. Arthur Rogers. '86. and J. 1 teuton Porter, 90. President k'aunce. whom Professor -slagill. now for half a century a Brown aluniiuus. introduced with a g-lo'wing tril)ute, spoke in the course of his address (if the movement for the increase of the I'rown ITiiversity endowment. w:hich has been successfully carried through during the past year 0)winig- to the great gift to the college O'f the John Carter Bro^wn Library, "without constdt- ing wliicli." he declared, "no student of The Brown Alumni Monthly 141 histi)r\- can in tlic fulnrc write a liislory of America." Indeed, this rare lilirary which has l>een growing- up in Trovi- dence for many years will in the future tend to make the city the mecca for all students of American history every- where. President l''aunce then alluded to the new building which, thanks to the untir- ing efforts of students and alunnii in general, and of John D .Rockefeller, jr.. in particular, will soon be erected at Brown for the "social and moral welfare of the student body." Dr. Faunce spoke of the future de- velopment o>f the various departments of the imiversity ; of the loyalty of both the graduate and the undergraduate body ; of the purity in athletic sports which is striven for at pjrown. and oi the new book soon to be published, entitled "Other J3ays at Brown," which, he said, would be a comprehensive re- view of Brown's past in the form of essay, story and anecdote. In closing. President Faunce spoke earnestly of the desire which all at BrO'wn felt, namely, to have the college come in closer touch, in the future, with the best ]ireparatorv schools of the coun- try. Re\'. Dr. Whitman talked eloquently of th'^ spirit of culture, which he con- sidered should he ])rominent at Brown, back of all endowments, and eulogized the present executive of the old college on the hill. Dr. Floyd \\'. Tonikins. though a Har- vard graduate, recited the i)raises of Brow'n. Never, he said, had he seen men so bound together as the students and ahunni of old Brown, especially in the alumni associations in the various cities of the country, iirown, he added, stands preeminently for progress, there alwavs Ijeing in the soul of the lirown man "a hearty determination to get somewhere and be somebody." He also s])oke i)f the way in which P.rown men enter into the life of the City of Provi- dence as perhaps no other college men do into the life of the cities in which their alma maters are situated ; of the "heartiness of the fellows;" and ex- pressed the opinion that college men must be at the liead of every great reform movement, for college men are. as Hol- land declares, "possessed oi opinions and a will." are willing to see both sides of a ([uestion.are, above all. cultured men, and, finall}-. are possessed of lofty ideals. As he sat down again. Dr. Tomkins said: 'I feel as if I w^ere a Brown man; I learned a good manv lessons at Brown." Among the graduates and former stu- dents of Brown present, other than those mentioned, were Professor James Mac- Alister, '^(). president of Drexel Insti- tute of Philadelphia ; Walter C. Hamm, '70, of the editorial staff' of the Phila- delphia Press: Charles R. Peck, 77 ; H. M. Trask. "84; Rev. C. H. McLane, '93; S. T. Packard, 95 ; Rev. J. \L Hunt. 96; Rev. J. H. Deming, '97 ; WiUiam H. Cady, L. J. Kavanaugh, and W. E. Win- chester, ■98- H. H. Brown, Samuel AI. Beale and James W. Campbell, '99 ; Per- cival B. Greene and Irving L. Woodman, "01 ; H. F. (h-eene. ex. '02. AT BOSTON Songs of Brown, from "Alma Mater" to "Xicholas Brown" and "The Chapel Steps;" stories of I'.rown from the apocryphal cow down to the latest escapade at the old pump, and prophecies of Brown, from that of curriculum en- largement to the addition of a new social rendezvous in the shape of a $75,000 l)ui]ding — all this and more echoed from the walls of the banquet hall at Young's on Wednesday evening, Januarv 29th, where 144 sons of Broun in Boston and vicinity gathered to participate in their twenty-ninth annual reunion. The president of the university, a mem- ber of the faculty, prominent alumni in the law. tlie ministry and medicine, spoke oif the old and the new college, toasting- the past and forecasting the future with enthtisiasm. In addition to all the oratory and handshaking, there was a delegation of tmdergraduates, who enlivened the din- ner with instrumental music and humor- 142 The Brown Alumni Monthly OLis readings. Altog'ether, it was the best and largest Brown dinner ever held in Boston^ After coffee, the whole company rose and sang "Alma Mater " and the presi- dent of the association, Dr. George F. Jelly. '64, welcomed the alumni briefly and presented President Faunce, who was greeted with a rousing Brown cheer, every man rising to his feet. Dr. Faunce said he was glad to be present at this, the largest gathering of Brown alumni anywhere outside of Providence, at a reunion of the largest alumni association of the college any- where. He alluded to the generous con- tribution vvhich the Boston association has made to the endowment fimds, and told what the college has done in the last year, naming the assets of a university as th.e visible and tangible and the in- visible and intangible, the latter. Dr. Faunce declared, being the far more valuable. The tangible assets have been greatly increased during the year, said the presi- dent, first by the $1,000,000 fund (the second of that amount), and then by the Jobn Carter Brown Library — some vol- umes of which are worth from $5,000 to Si 0,000 each — and $150,000 already at the disposal of the corporation for a building to house this library. The president referred to the oft'er of a gift of $75,000 from Mr. Rockefeller, to be used for a social and religious building, where the college Y. M. C. A. and the athletic, social and club interests may be centrally and comfortably located. rhe president alluded to the need of a college "commons" to replace the unsatis- factory "refectory" where the students now eat and to the beautifying of the grounds in the architectural" layout of buildings and campuses now being prepared. The need of Lincoln Field, the old ath- letic grounds, as a site for new buildings, was touched upon and the new residence ior the president was mentioned. Tn speaking of the athletic standing of the college, the president attributed the recent lack of victories in football to the rigid enforcement of eHgil)ility rules. Speaking of the college spirit Dr. Faunce said he would rather have "Alma dialer" than $100,000. When, vears ago, the endowment of Brown was $31,300 plus Francis Way land, the presi- dent said, the old university was strong and influential. Dr. Faunce announced an innovation in Brow^i publications. "Other Days at Brown,"" which is soon to appear, an his- torical and legendary volume of great interest to Brown men. He spoke feel- uigly of the death of Stephen Greene within the past year. The treasurer of the association, Mr. Dean, "81, announced a subscription of Sioo in 1)ehalf of his class toward the new l)uilding. Rev. Charles L. White, president of Colb}' and a Brown alumnus, spoke reminiscently of old days in college and of his new charge, Colby College, where a young man can be educated for $250 a year, steam heat, electric light and room rent thrown in. Walter F. Angell, '80, told some good stories. Professor Walter G. Everett of the v'hair of philosophy, for the faculty, said that about fifteen courses are now being ort'ered in the philosophical department. Among the needs of Brown, he added, are a psychological laboratory, a philoso- phical library and two or three fellow- ships, besides several new lecture rooms. A member of the class of 1891 an- nounced that his class would make a sub- stantial contribution to the building fund at commencement. John Tetlow, "64, spoke in praise of the new curriculum and of the arrangement between Brown and the Providence school board regarding tihe employment of college men as teachers. Sam Walter Foss, '82, read a new ]^oein on "Business." Hon. Andrew J. Jennings, '72, of Fall River, commended the modern system of eliminating Greek from the list of required studies. At the business session which preceded dinner, these officers of the association vere elected : President, Hon. Fred H. Williams, 'jj; N'lce-presideiit, Benjamin C. Dean, '64; treasurer, George F. Bean, '81 ; secre- tary, Charles R. Adams, '80; executive committee. Joseph Walker, '87 ; Howard P. Quick, '87 : Ernest A. Hicks, '91 ; Paul -M. Wbite, '95;. Herbert B. Lang, '96. The Brown Aliinini Monthly 143 Wilson and Tucker's International Law Intcriialioiial Law, by Cleorge Grafton Wilson, Pli. I)., Proftssor in Brown University, and George Fox Tucker, Ph. J)., lately Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Silver, Burdett & Co., New York, iqoi. AFTER a brief bibliography and a table of the cases to be cited, follow Part I, General and His- torical; Part II, Persons in Inter- national Law; Part III, International Law of Peace; Part IV, International Law of War; and Part V, International Law of Neutrality. There are several valuable appendices presenting; important treaties, reg'ulations, decisions, and the like, and a copious index. The analysis of subjects is close, logical and typo- graphicallv salient, rendering the manual -extremely convenient for students, also for ready reference by experts. The style is nearly everyw'here lucid and orderly. Why a given document is under part of the text while another ap- pears only in an appendix is not always quite clear, though study would perhaps reveal a good reason in each case. Almost every page has references to sources or to authorities. Discussions are at all points brought to date. Items of inter- national law and practice made important l)v recent events (neutrality, insurgency, l)elligerencv, stibmarine cables, humanitv in war, the Hague Peace Conference) are considered with due fulness. The methods, mechanisim and etiquette of diplomatic procedure are set forth much more amply than in most international law manuals. The origination of inter- national law and also its growth, par- ticularly during its most recent period, is interestingly exhibited. Historical ref- erences and recondite quotations abound. The authors might have given us, at least in an appendix, the remarkable treaty of alliance, commerce and extradition which Rameses II. made v/ith a Hittite king, the text of wihich stands chiselled in stone at Karnak. It is the world's most ancient diplomatic document, and one of the most precious historical sources which all antiquity has left us. Wil- son and Tucker's habitual point of view is that of the positive school, deducing the law from actual practice by nations. }et they here and there adduce ethical and general jural considerations as hints of what ought to be. The^- have done a meritorious piece of work. E. Beiij. Andrews University of Nebraska, January, 1902 More About the Athletic Rules Editor Brown .■llnniiii Monthly: Since Alumnus, "71, has started a dis- cussion about present athletic rules, may I be permitted to add a query which has been forcing itself into the minds of some of the younger alumni of various colleges. It is this ; is it not subversive of the respect due to a college as an upholder of manly ideals to pretend to enforce a rule W'hich is well known to those on the inside of college athletics to be every- where evaded ? I refer to the rule in re- lation to amateur standing. Alumnus, '71, has put it too weakly when he says, "Evasion and covert attack will soon force such restrictions into the com- panionship of the dead-letter stattvte." He would have been correct had he used the past instead of future tense. This statement is not mere speculation. It is a fact which some of those closely con- nected with athletics at the colleges \vhere these rules are in force will candidly ad- mit in private conversation. It is a fact which the players on many of the college teams will also candidly admit, but it is said that it will not do for one college to propose a change because that college will be charged at once with backsliding. Is it not, however, more manly, more in keeping with college ideals to have a standard which can be enforced than one which is evaded directly and indirectly, and with the sanction of a large portion of the student body. Does your editorial 144 The Brown Alumni Monthly answer this first point which Ahnnnus, '71, makes? Does it not rather assume that the rules are practicahle and are lived up to? Have you been in close touch with athletics from the student's end since these rules were put in force ? Under these rules could be named in a certain college an instance where a man too honest to subscribe to the annual statement set before the players, to wit, that they have never directly or indirectly received money for baseball playing, was debarred, while another whose con- science was more elastic subscribed to that statement and played throughout the season. And this is not an isolated in- stance. Such instances are occurring al- most every year and in almost every col- lege. The recent Cutts incident at Har- vard is only one case where the deception was discovered, for many which have not been found out. The faculty committees are not blameworthy because very natur- ally such facts are kept from their notice when possible, but by a large majority of the student body and by the public when the committees declare, as I believe in all honesty, that there is not a taint of pro- fessionalism, such committees are con- sidered as hypocrites or simpletons, and neither position is pleasant for the com- mittees, nor does it elevate respect for the college. I do not propose at this time to discuss the advisability of the present rule from any point of view other than of its prac- ticability, but there are many alumni who heartily agree with the views of Alumnus. '71, that the rule is thoroughly imprac- ticable and productive of evil rather than good in college athletics. To be constructive as well as destruc- tive, some of us would even go to the ex- tent of saying that the only rule needed on this point is that a man should be a bona fide student whose average is up to grade, and of this point the faculty can be absolutely sure. If it results in the presence of all the members of the Pitts- burg team in one college, so much the l:)etter for them and the college, and if thev can keep up in their college work are they not as worthy representatives as any of us ? The mere fact that a man has re- ceived money for use of athletic abilities certainly does not so affect his character that he is unworthy for association with college men ; but the true answer here is that the members of a professional base- ball team in ninety cases out of a hun- dred have not had the prelimnary train- ing necessary to matriculate at any col- lege. Perhaps this plan would be ob- jectionable for other reasons, and it is simply thrown out as a suggestion. The rule as now framed, however, is the laughing stock of players and the public, is evaded almost ever}- year in almost everv college where it is in force and until human nature is essentially altered will continue to be evaded. To many of us it seems undemocratic, unsuccessful and unwise from an athletic standpoint. It seems to offer every inducement to dis- honesty, and even worse than this it puts the college authorities into the position where they seem to be theorists or the easiest of dupes. Brown led in the movement for the purification of college athletics a few }-ears ago : wh}' not now stand for some rule as to eligibility which can approxi- mate enforcement? Ahtiiiuus 'Qj Memories of '59 Editor Brown Alumni Monthly : "Whenas in Silks"" in your January number, page 121, reminds me of: To Araminta. "How broad my cranial bones must be, Their sutures how extended ! Within my skull .there seem to be Accommodations splendid. For one who in her silks and hoops Makes quite a little spread Seems always though unbidden To be running in mv head." I send this from 1859, encouraged by "College Memories" from 1862 on page 118. "To Araminta" was printed at the time in the Providence Journal, edited liy James B. Angell, '49. I highlv value the news and sentiments of the Monthly. Yours ver}- trul_\'. A. B. /iidson, 'jQ I ^ladison Avenue, Xcw A'ork Citv. The Brown Alumni Monthly I45 Brunonians Far and Near In its issue of January 5th the Springfield Republican mentions Mr. Charles Chandler Burnett of the class of 1839 as one of the prominent elder residents of West Springfield. After mentioning two inhabitants of that town who are older than Mr. Burnett, it says of the latter : "The third representative of West Springfield's long-lived people is Charles Chandler Burnett. ... In his old age he seems not less active than either of the others mentioned, though, judging from the fact that he has spent his life in the confining business of school-teaching, one would hardly expect to find him in as good condition as either the farmer or the blacksmith. It is true, neverthe- less, that Mr. Burnett is still active in both mind and body, and goes every day to the post- office in Springfield. . . . Charles Chandler Burnett, was born in Worcester, October 16, 1813, and there is no doubt in the minds of those who know him best that on that day over eighty-seven years ago a teacher was born. For in 1839 he graduated from Brown Univer- sity and he has been a successful teacher ever since. Immediately after graduation he took charge of the Connecticut Literary Institute. This was an institution of standing which pre- pared for both college and business. Later, in the sixties, Mr, Burnett bought the English Classical Institute, located at Springfield, and spent there many of the best years of his life. He has also taught in the Worcester Academy and elsewhere. During his long years of ser- vice Mr. Burnett has had the pleasure of help- ing a large number of young men to get a start in the right direction and rise later to positions of prominence. To Mr. Burnett as much as anybody the Rochester Theological School is indebted for its distinguished professor, Henry S. Robbins, who persisted in saying during his student days that he was not meant for the ministry. Mr. Burnett has tw-o daughters now livina', one being Mrs. Dwight S. Williams of Leonia, N. J., and the other Mrs. C. E. Smith ■of Waterbury, Conn." 1858 Rev. Edward L. Clark, D. D., whose resig- nation of the pastorate of the Central Congre- gational Church of Boston was noted last month, will continue his ministrations for that church until the first of next September. i860 Of Dr. Wayland Hoyt (Brown, '60 ^ and three other religious leaders, the PhilaJclphia Press says : "That the gulf which has sepa- rated the church and the stage is rapidly clos- ing is demonstrated in the active interest mani- fested by such men as Bishop Potter, Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt, Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Bishop Krauskopf and other leading religious teachers in the Actors' Chiuxh Alliance. The ban that has been placed upon members of the theatrical profession by moralists and religious teachers is a survival of mediaeval ages and it is gratifying to find the foremost religious teachers with their own hands are removing this barrier and welcoming into the uplifting influence of the church a class of men and women as talented, worthy and upright as can l)e found in any occupation in the w^orld." 1861 George Olney Hopkins died at Chepachet. R. I., December 30, 1901. After graduation at Brown he served as principal of the Wood- stock, Conn., x\cademy for three years, 1861- 64; of the Danielson, Conn., High School, 1865-67: of the Mystic, Conn., High School, for fifteen years from 1868, and of the Norrid- gewick High School, 1882-84. The remainder of his life was spent at his beautiful home near Chepachet, but he continued to be interested in educational matters, filling the place of superintendent of schools and committee until a short lime previous to his death. 1866 Rev. J. V. Osterhout has entered upon his twenty-first year of service as pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church, Providence. When he began his work he organized a Sunday school class with one man. Now the class numbers more than a hundred, and on Jan. 2, 1902, there were 105 present and 830 present in the Sunday school. Twenty years ago the church numbered 155; it now numbers 760; is one of the largest Baptist churches in the state, and the Sunday school is one of the largest in New England, numbering about 1,200. There are three branches connected with the church, two of them being housed in good chapels and the other in a hall, and all are in a flourishing condition. Rev. Emory H. Porter is one of the incor- porators of the new Charity Organization Society at Newport. 1867 Charles Pemlierton Deane died in Spring- field, Mass., January 9th. He was born in Boston, Jan. 20, 1845. He went to Spring- field in 1857 with his father, the late George H. Deane, when the latter was appointed agent for the management of the mills at Ludlow. He was educated at Brown University and after leaving college joined his father in the work at Ludlow. He had a marked talent for mechanical and scientific pursuits and when still quite a young man invented the Deane steam pump, which later became the basis of a large and prosperous industry. Early in the seventies the elder Deane gave up his posi- tion at Ludlow and joined his son in the manufacture of the Deane pump. Later the enterprise was organized as a corporation and moved to Holyoke, where it enjoyed a long 146 The Brown Alumni Monthly career of prosperity. Charles Deaiie continued one of the active managers of the large busi- ness until the company was finally absorbed in 1899 by the International Pump Company, with which he had been associated since. Mr. Deane was married on June 30, 1869, to Miss Mary Dwight Childe, daughter of the late Captain John Childe of Springfield, who sur- vives him. They had two daughters, Lelia Childe, who became the wife of Professor George Lefevre, now of the university of Missouri, at Columbia, where she died two years ago, and Kate, who is the wife of Alfred E. Stearns, registrar of Phillips Academy at Andover. 1870 The Cosmopolitan for January has an article by ex-President Andrews on free text-books in the public schools. 1873 Rev. Frederick Burgess, D. D., was con- secrated Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, in Grace Church on the Heights, Brooklyn, Jan- uary 15th. 1876 Charles V. Chapin, M. D., superintendent of public health in Providence, has an article in the Popular Science Monthly for January, on "The End of the Filth Theory of Disease." Dr. Chapin was for a number of years pro- fessor of physiology in the university. Since 1894 he has devoted his entire time to muni- cipal sanitation. His large work on "Municipal Sanitation in the United States" was noted in the October number of the Monthly. 1877 Clarke H. Johnson has been elected presi- dent of the West Side Club of Providence. Rev. Frank L. Sullivan, for nearly eleven years field editor of the Paciiic Baptist, Port- land, Oregon, has accepted a similar position with the Watchman, Boston, Mass. 1878 W. B. Winn is the publisher of the Pacific Oil Reporter with offices at 318 Pine street. San Francisco, Cal. 1880 A stirring address by President Fauncc in which he set forth with emphasis the needs of a' well-endowed textile school in Rhode Island, was the event of the 38th annual meeting of the Providence Board of Trade, held January 8th, in the Board's rooms at Market Square. The hundred or so members present applauded President Faunce's remarks vigorouslv, and the vote of thanks extended to him will be put in writing and spread on the records of the organization. Dr. Faunce pointed out that one-half the facilities required for a textile school already exist at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. 1883 In the Republican legislative caucus at Tren- ton, N. J., January 23d. Hon. Edward C. Stokes- of Millville came within three votes of election as United States senator to succeed General William J. Sewell, deceased. The contest was the closest in years in New Jersej' and the bal- loting did not conclude till four hours after the beginning of the caucus, at which six men were placed in nomination : John T. Gardiner of Atlantic County ; ex-Sheriff David Baird of Camden ; E. C. Stokes of Cumberland ; Barker Gummere of Mercer ; John W. Griggs of Pas- saic and John F. Dryden of Essex. Ex-Governor Griggs and Mr. Dryden live in the northern part of the state, where Senator Kean also has his home. Mr. Stokes lives in- South Jersey and for that reason had a certain strategic advantage over these other two who J proved his chief competitors; but the Sv.uth Jerseyites, who controlled twenty-eight of the necessary thirty-two votes, were long in "get- ting together" and the result was fatal to Mr. Stokes, who from the beginning of the cam paign had been conceded to be the one candi- date from below the Raritan who could hope to secure the required four votes from the other end of the state. As the roll call for the ninteenth ballot was concluded the total stood: Dryden, 31 ; StoKes. 29 and Griggs, 3. Then Senator Cross of Union, one of the tliree Griggs men, changed his vote and gave Mr. Dryden the necessary thirty-two votes. The Philadelphia Inquirer says : "Between the Stokes and Dryden forces there has al ways been maintained a very close alliance, so that the friendship between the two men has never been in the least strained. In fact. Mr. Stokes acted as pleased as if he had been the winner himself. " 'The selection of Mr. Dryden is a most excellent one,' said the chancery clerk ( Mr. Stokes) later in the evning to the Inquirer correspondent. 'He is a typical American, a self-made man of broad and liberal views, of wide experience and culture, and will b^" a credit to the state of New Jersey on the floor of the Senate.' "Mr. Stokes will now take a much-ne?ded rest. He overworked himself in the campaign of last fall, and in fact has been burning the midnight oil in the interest of the Republican party ever since General Sewell became ill, up- wards of two years ago. Mr. Stokes was -i reluctant candidate for the senatorship and only became an avowed aspirant when his friends had pushed him so hard that ther<: was virtually no avenue of escape. . . . "It is regarded as certain that Mr. Stokes wi le the next choice of the Republican party for governor of New Jersey. The strenq^th he develoncd to-day, together with his great popu- larity with the people, seem to insure him the nomination two years hence." 1S84 M. A. Newell, insurance iM^nkcr. has removed his offices to 318 California street, San Fran- cisco, Cal. The Brown Alumni Monthly 147 At the annual Polytechnic mid-winter ball in Brooklyn, N. Y.. January 24th, the chairman of the committee in charge was Norman S. Dike. Professor Walter G. Everett of the department of philosophy lectured before the I'hilosophical Cluh of Yale University, last month. Allan H. Willett of Providence and iNIiss Mabel Hnrd of Syracuse, N. Y., were married in the latter city, Saturday. December 21st. Louis F. Snow has been since 1900 a gradu- ate student at Columbia University, New York. His address is 841 North Broad street, Eliza- beth, N. J. Irving C. Hicks is spending the winter at Marlin, Texas. His permanent address in 4908 Parkside avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Richard Wright, who until recently was the pastor of the Congregational Church at Windsor Locks, Conn., is now settled at New- buryport. Mass. H. P. Quick is with the Boston Electric Rail- way Company as designing engineer and chief draughtsman in the department of motive power and machinery. He has planned for it important railway buildings and equipment. Henry L. Burdick, who was a member of the class for some time, took a prospecting and hunting trip into British Columbia in 1897. The next year he enlisted in the Astor Battery, went with it to Manila and received honorable mention in general orders. He was for some time with the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company at Boston and is now with the same company at New '^^ork. Henrj'- F. Colwell, ex-'87, is a member of the Boston Stock Exchange, with an office at 146 Devonshire street. W. J. Chase is dean of the Academy for Boys, a department of the University of Chicago at Morgan Park, Illinois. Walter Perley Hall, cx-'Sq. is city so- licitor at Fitchburg. Mass. 1890 At the annual meeting of the New England Street Railroad Club, held at Hotel Brunswick, Boston, January 23d. Edward E. Potter, gen- eral superintendent of the LTnion Street Rail- way Co. of New Bedford, was elected vice- president. Mr. Potter was toastmaster at the annual dinner, at which more than 250 were present. 1892 Leland H. Littlefield, ex-'92. bids fair to be the great Brunonian traveller. He has been to the four corners of the earth and a recent trip took him to Japan and back. More recently he has started on a European journe3^ ■•Judith," a lyric drama, libretto by Wil- liam C. Langdon, '92, and music by George W. Chadwick, was successfully given in Sym- lihony Hall, Boston, by the Plandel and Haydn Society under the composer's direction, Sun- day evening, January 26th. Rev. Henry M. Stone, rector of Trinity Church, Newport, preached at Trinity Church, Boston, January 26th, in exchange with Rev. Dr. Donald. 1893 H. A. Richards's present address is Upper Montclair, New Jersey. The Editor and Publisher, (New York), says of an ex-member of the class of 1893 : Andrew C. McKenzie, the newspaper man who went to South America several months ago to inquire into the resources of the country over which the Guyaquil & Quito Railroad runs, has re- turned to New York. Mr. McKenzie during his stay in that far-off country rode some 1,600 miles on the back of a mule and traveled 800 miles in a canoe. He was obliged to "rough it" the most of the time while he was away. On one occasion for four days the only civilized food that he had was one can of Heine's "fifty-seven varieties.'' Mr. McKenzie will pre- pare a book for the railroad company as the re- sult of his travels and will also contribute a number of articles to the different magazines. As he took a camera along with him and suc- ceeded in obtaining a large number of excellent photographs, he will undoubtedly be able to present to the public some exceedingly inter- esting data. 1895 Elno Dustin Lancey died at the home of his parents in Providence. December 24th. He had been in poor health for several years. Everett L. Walling has begun the practice of law in Providence with an office in the Banigan building, room 335. H. S. Mabie has recently become the pastor of one of the Baptist churches in Fitchburg, Mass. E. N. Robinson has opened a law office in the Tremont building, Boston. Charles P. Nott has given up his position with the University of California and is now at Palo Alto. Cal. 1897 E. W. Bagster-Collins is an instructor in German in the Teachers College of Columbia University. He received the master's degree from Columbia in 1901. Frank E. Watson, for the past two years an assistant in the department of zoology in the LTniversity of Nebraska, is this year a student of zoology in the Harvard Graduate School. Harris E. Starr was ordained to the minis- try at the United Congregational Church in East Providence. January 3d. Mr. Starr was born in Phenix, R. I. After receiving his 148 The Brown Alumni Monthly preparatory training at the Providence Eng- lish and Classical School he entered Brown. While at college he was interested largely in athletics, being a leading member of the track team for three years. He was editor-in-chief of the Bninonian in his senior year. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Upsilon fraternities and of the Cammarian Club. After graduating at Brown in 1897 he took a post graduate course in philosophy and literature at Harvard, receiving the degree of A. M. in 1898. For two years he was an instructor in rhetoric and English at Brown, and for the last three years he has also been acting pastor of the United Con- gregational Church in East Providence of which he was strongly urged to remain as permanent pastor. He was married in 1899 to Miss Caroline L. Tuthill of Palmer. Mass., a graduate of the Women's College in the class of 1897. He has recently accepted a call to the Congregational Church at Starrs, Conn., and has entered upon his work there. 1898 Dionysius F. O'Brien of Providence was ad- mitted to the practice of law in Rhode Island, January i6th. He studied law at George- town and with Dennis H. Sheahan, "80. of Providence. 1S98 (Honorary) Alpheus Hyatt, upon whom Brown conferred the honorary degree of .doctor of laws in 1898, died suddenly from apoplexy in Cambridge. Mass., January i6th. An extended account of his remarkable scientific career will be pub- lished next month. 1899 Walter W. Clark is practicing law at Wor- cester. Mass. 1900 Ralph S. Bryden is in business with his father in Boston. Gilbert N. Batchelder has recently accepted a position in Montreal with a chemical manu- facturing concern. Mr. Batchelder was a graduate student at Columbia University last year. L. Charles Raiford was married December 20, 1901, to Miss Sadie Alice Broomhead of Hebronville, Mass. George Marsden, 1900, was best man ; Miss Lura C. Stone. 1900. was one of the bridesmaids, and R. N. Brown, E. S. Cobb, A. O. Pritchard and R. C. Robinson, all 1900. were ushers. 1901 Edwin F. Greene has been appointed presi- dent of the engineering firm of Lockwood, Greene and Co. of Boston. Mr. Greene takes the place of his father, Stephen Greene, 73, whose death in November vv-as a great loss to the many interests with which he was con- nected. At the time of his father's death Mr. Greene was pursuing courses in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Amos L. Taylor is studying law at the Bos- ton Law School. 1902 Arthur \V. Pinkham, who left college a year ago on account of the death of his father and the cares of the latter's extensive business, was elected a member of the school board at Lynn, Mass., January 15th. Brown Scientists at Convention At the recent convention of the Affiliated Scientific Societies at the University of Chi- cago, December 30, 1901 — January 27, 1902, several original papers were read by members of the department of comparative anatomy in Brown. Before the American Morphological Society : Dr. L. W. Williams, "The Vascular System of the Common Squid;" Mr. G. E. Coghill, "The Branchial Nerves of Amblis- toma ;" Mr. M. T. Thompson, "The Larva of Naushonia Crangoides ;" Mr. A. K. Krause, "The Drumming Organs of Some Marine Fishes." Before the Society of American Bacteriologists; Professor F. P. Gorham, "The Morphology of Baccillus Diphtherise ;'' .Mr. C. A. Fuller, "Oysters and Sewage in Narragan- sett Bay." . Dr. L. W. Williams and Mr. G. E. Coghill were elected members of The Ameri- can Society of Naturalists and The American Morphological Society. Medical Articles by Brow^n Men Almost all the contributions to the January number of the Proz'idcncc Medical ] oiinnil are from the pens of Brown men. Dr. Walter L. Munro, '79, has an article on "Epidermoid Car- cinoma ; with some Reference to its Treatment by Cancer Quacks ;" Dr. George F. Keene, '75, an article on "Some Phases of Elipepsy and the Epileptic Constitution," and Dr. Charles V. Chapin, '76, an article on "Methods Pro- posed for the Restriction of Tuberculosis in Providence." Professor Bailey has a poem in this issue of the journal relative to the dis- tinctions recently conferred upon Professors Packard and Barus of Brown Lhiiversity. The poem was read at a dinner given at the University Club, November 8, igoi, in honor of these two scientists. Graduate Cammarian Club At the second annual meeting of the Gradu- ate Cammarian Club, held at the University Club, Providence, Wednesday evening, Janu- ary 8th, twenty-eight members were present. The following officers were elected for the en- suing year : President. C. H. Lingham, '97 ; Vice President, W. A. Scott, "97; Secretary- Treasurer. C. W. Towne. '97 ; execeutive com- mittee, E. .\. Thurston, '03 ; S. T. Packard, '95 ; ^\■. T. Grinnell, Jr., "98. Brow^n Botanists Piofessor W. Whitman Bailey and Mr. J. F. Col- lins of the department of botany have lately joined the Association Iiitcrnaiioiiale des Botanistes, of which Professor Lotsky of Leyden is secretary. The society piiblishes the Botanische Centralblatt and it will be subscribed for by the university library. "'liii 'III mm .ii^lii iIh wiS«^^^^ I'll '111 11 'III:! 1 lllllll'l wm I'll! )m "ll'l'lllTiM. 1 ' ;! If I 'itl'^iil 'mmm mmm .liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilifciil!," T'''<-;>f-' !»^^S^^»5^ > '■