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Vol. XXVIII 



PROVIDENCE, MAY, 1928 



No. 10 



On The Hill 



A Chapel Incident 

COME weeks ago a clergyman vis- 
iting in Providence was engaged 
to conduct a number of chapel 
services at Brown. One morning 
during his stay an undergraduate 
came under his ban by reason of read- 
ing a newspaper during the services. 
The clergyman requested the young 
man to leave the hall and he did so. 
The Brown Daily Herald said the 
next day byway of editorial comment: 

"The fiasco in chapel yesterday 
morning can be taken as a striking 
example of the absurdity which now 
reigns in the compulsory services of 
this University. Rank discourtesy 
from the student body and platitudi- 
nous inanity from the speaker's plat- 
form indicate that a radical change 
must be brought about in the present 
chapel system if the recurrence of 
such an exhibition is to be avoided. 

"It is evident that there is a cer- 
tain element among the student body 
which fails to discriminate between 
the manners of a corner pool room 
gang and those of a supposedly gen- 
tlemanly group of college men. The 
rudeness shown yesterday is inexcus- 
able. 

"College men have, however, the 
right to expect intelligence and inter- 
est from those who address them. It 
is highly absurd and unnecessary to 
bombard the modern students of a 
modern college with an enforced bar- 
rage of medieval religious platitudes. 

"Unintelligence has lived long 
enough in chapel. With the excep- 
tion of speakers drafted from the ad 



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Need Chapel Reform 

AXT" E would go further and say 
that the "speakers drafted 
from the administration and faculty" 
have not always proved ideal chapel 
talkers. Some of them have been bet- 
ter than others, but we wonder how 
often even they have failed to lure 
the undergraduate audience away 
from its books, papers and semi-slum- 
bers. 

The sooner it is realized at Brown, 
as everywhere else, that the art of 
public address is an art separate and 
distinct in itself, the better it will be 
for all concerned. 

If chapel is to continue, it should 
be made as spiritually and intellectu- 
ally attractive as possible. If it is not 
so made, it is not worth perpetuating 
as chapel. If Brown needs a daily 
rally of undergraduates, that is one 
thing; but if it needs a stately and 
beautiful religious service, that is 
quite another. We believe it does 
and that a very large proportion of 
the services now held fall far short 
of deserving that characterization. 

We wish there might be a new 
chapel at Brown, but failing that we 
wish that the interior of Sayles Hall 
might have a coat of paint of some 
less distressing hue than the present 
bilious green; and that new shades 
might replace the ancient ones that 
now interpose their sad and soiled 
length between the audience and the 
clean and sprightly sun. 
• « • 

Football Plans 



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school year has seen no chapel speaker 
who has offered stimulation and in- 
telligent interest to the student body. 
If this is the best that can be offered, 
it will be better to abolish outside 
speakers and let chapel boredom slum- 
ber in peace without rousing it to bad 
manners." 



McLaughry and Lawson (the 
latter formerly head coach at 
Williams) addressed 67 candidates 
for next year's Brown eleven. Plans 
for next season's Brown eleven. Plans 
were outlined for the coming season 
and the announcement was made that 
training will start on the Wednesday 

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following Labor Day, allowing 3 1-2 
weeks of preparation before the first 
game is scheduled. 

The training this year will be at 
Aldrich Field, adjacent to the new 
gymnasium. There is much to com- 
mend this arrangement in place of the 
annual traimng campaign at Quonset 
Point. The field is perfect ; the gym 
provides unexcelled facilities for 
dressing, bathing and the like, and the 
players will be able to use their sleep- 
ing quarters at the college or else- 
where in the city. 

"To regain our fortunes and win 
new glories" is the way Coach Mc- 
Laughry sizes up the ambition of the 
staff. There could hardly be a better 
way of putting it. The reasons for 
the extraordinary decline of the team 
of 1927 in playing ability compared 
with its predecessor of 1926 are still 
more or less shrouded in mystery. 
But we cannot help feeling that there 
is something in the theory that it had 
in some measure burned itself out. 
How much of this burning was phys- 
ical and how much psj'chological we 
do not profess to know. 

But we are hopeful that the lapse 
of a year, the introduction of new ma- 
terial to buttress the splendid remain- 
der of the Iron Men still in college, 
and the shaking off of the 1927 jinx 
will produce a victorious eleven once 
more. 

As reported by the Brown Herald, 
Coach Lawson, responding to a pleas- 
ant speech of introduction by Coach 
McLaughry, said that he had act- 
ually started his football career 
by playing in his first Harvard 'V^ar- 
sity contest against a Brown eleven. 
"I'm awfully glad to come here," he 
continued, "for I've known a lot of 
Brown men and have always liked 
them." 

"I am glad to come here particu- 
larly because of what happened here 
last year. Two years ago you had the 



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'Iron Men' and everybody heard of 
them, but last year you didn't get on 
so well. I'm not trying to rub it in. 
But after the season finished, I un- 



derstand the graduates gave the team 
a better banquet than they gave the 
'Iron Men' despite a losing season. 
That's the thing that happens alto- 



gether too infrequently. A man play- 
ing on a losing team often gives more 
for his team than a player with a 
winner." 



A Foreword by President Faunce 



(The following "forcivord" by 
President Faunce has been ivritten to 
accompany several reports made to the 
Advisory Board of the Associated 
Alumni, February 22-23. 1928. These 
reports mere printed in the April is- 
sue of the Alumni Monthly and are 
now to be circulated in pamphlet 
form) 

TN this pamphlet we spread before 
■^ the alumni and friends of Brown 
University certain documents that are 
significant and challenging. Most "re- 
ports" are proverbially dry — issued 
as a matter of duty and read, if at all, 
for the same reason. Scores of aca- 
demic reports from many learned so- 
cieties regularly come to my office, 
and — well, I will not state where I 
deposit them. But here are reports 
written not by college officers at all, 
but by busy men who out of sheer 
love for Alma Mater have devoted 
many days to study of her problems 
and are frankly telling the world 
what they have found. They neither 
extenuate nor set down aught in 
malice. They ask us with them to 
face the facts. 

The truth is that no part of chang- 
ing America is changing more rapidly 
than the American college. Never 
again will Brown be what it was 
forty years ago, when the whole stu- 
dent body attended chapel si.x times 
a week in Manning Hall, when "the 
Chemical Laboratory" was the sole 
representative of modern science, 
when the bleachers stood on Lincoln 
Field, when "Archibald" ruled the 
campus and "John, the candy-man," 
controlled the commissariat. Golden 
days those in memory, but we can no 
more call them back than we can 
summon again "the snows of yester- 
year." No sensible man wants to 
do it. 

Yet any attempt to build a new 
Brown without regard to the past 
would be academic suicide. Just as 
our new buildings are all varieties 
of the original colonial type, so the 



new curriculum, the new honors sys- 
tem, the new libraries and laborato- 
ries, the new program of physical 
training and outdoor sports, must all 
grow up out of the aims and ideals 
which our Fathers cherished. 

What interests me in these reports 
is the way in which our alumni, while 
loyal to the past, are vigorously pro- 
claiming that "new occasions teach 
new duties." Any college is rich 
and strong when it can receive such 
a report as the one on "Current 
Needs and Problems." Here is a 
document which emphasizes first of 
all the ability and the compensation 
of the Faculty! Nothing in this 
alumni report about a "winning 
team," nothing about "publicity," 
nothing about class suppers or alumni 
dinners, but a straight-from-the- 
shoulder-declaration that the vital 
centre of the University problem is 
the calling of first-class teachers at 
adequate salaries. Amen ! 

The other recommendations of 
this alumni committee are either al 
ready adopted by the Corporation or 
are being seriously considered. That 
in admitting students we should con- 
sider character and personality as 
well as scholarship we all agree. This 
very year we are appointing a trusted 
alumnus in each part of the country, 
to whom we may send each applicant 
for admission and from whom we may 
obtain a report as to personality. 
This year for the first time each ap- 
plicant must send to us his photo- 
graph! "No time should be wasted 



on students of inferior capacity" — 
that was written by men whose per- 
sonal friends may later be affected. 
Nothing is said about college songs 
and parades and bonfires, but there 
are pointed recommendations regard- 
ing the religious life of the students. 
"The era of organized cheering" has 
given way to the era of quiet evalua- 
tion. The rest of the report is in sim- 
ilar vein. 

Mr. Dyer's consideration of 
Alumni Associations is at the same 
time fair and critical. He recognizes 
all that these organizations have 
achieved. (I still remember my first 
New York Alumni Dinner, when the 
whole body sat spell-bound by the 
address of the chairman, George Wil- 
liam Curtis). But he pronounces 
some of them "actively weak," and 
points out their undeveloped re- 
sources. 

Mr. Singiser's address, though by 
a Senior, has the maturity and judg- 
ment of a man ten years out. Here 
again is no call for winning teams, 
but for intramural physical training. 

The paper on "Financial Aid" 
proves that no hardship need result 
to any worthy student from increased 
tuition. The manifold duties and 
labors of the Alumni Secretary's office 
are engagingly set forth in "Al" Gur- 
ney's report. 

Some fifteen hundred years ago 
Augustine of Hippo heard a voice 
crying in his ear: "Tolle, lege" — take 
up and read !" So say I of these re- 
ports. W. H. P. Faunce 



Joy at the Library 



Not long ago there was received 
at the John Hay Library the follow- 
ing letter addressed to the Librarian : 

"It is almost nineteen years ago 
since I graduated from the Univer 
sity and I recall a charge which was 
paid for a book which I borrowed 
and did not return. 

"Yesterday, looking over a pile of 
school books, I came across the va- 
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grant tome, which I am returning un- 
der separate cover. I hope that 'Di- 
vision and Reunion' by Woodrow 
Wilson is still among the books con- 
sulted by students at the University 
so that on its return to its old home 
it may find a welcome." 

Miss Blanchard of the library staff 
writes : 

"The traditional joy in Heaven 



over one sinner that repents cannot 
exceed the emotion of the Reference 
Librarian of the University Library 
when this letter was received. 

"To balance the very real joys of 
contact, with a university public, a 
college librarian develops a persistent 
pessimism regarding the carefulness 



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of borrowers of books. 'Lost' books 
are returned to the Library from 
boarding houses, from barber shops, 
from garages, from lunch rooms, 
from theatres, from railway stations, 
from almost every conceivable place 
where a man can spend a relaxed mo- 
ment, but seldom, all too seldom, do 



they come back to us from the hands 
of the original culprit. If publishing 
this letter could bring other graduates 
to look over their shelves and follow 
so notable an example the University 
Library would remain forever in the 
writer's debt." 



The Old Back Campus V 

CONCERNING UNIVERSITY HALL 



rjNIVERSITY HALL or "The 
^ College Edifice," as it was 
called prior to the erection of Hope 
College in 1822, was built in 1770. 
Just think of having to live in "The 
College Edifice ;" but maybe the boys 
of those days had been so brought up 
that they didn't mind it. 

The four original Sons of Brown 
"John and Josey, Nick and Mosey" 
took charge of the work and carried 
it through to completion with their 
usual energy and forcefulness. A 
"President's House" was built at the 
same time a little north of west from 
the College Edifice and about half 
way between it and the front of the 
campus. The location was "at the 
head of Presbyterian Lane" (now 
College Street), so called because of 
the church which stood on the corner 
where the Providence County Court 
House now is. (We are indebted to 
Professor Bronson's History for many 
of the details). 

So great was the driving force of 
the Brown brothers that the building, 
for which ground was broken in April, 
was completed in October, though 
only a part of the interior was ready 
for use. That the work was well 
done is attested by the fact that the 
walls stand today practically as they 
were erected 158 years ago. 

In these days of cheap money and 
soaring prices it is interesting to note 
that the entire cost of the two build- 
ings up to March 1771 was, in our 
currency, $9480. As was the custom 
of the times the workers, at each stage 
of progress, were regaled with West 
India rum, "very good and old" 
at 3s.6d (approximately eighty-five 
cents) per gallon. Their thirst must 



By Walter Lee Miinro '79 

have grown with the growth of the 
building, for whereas one gallon suf- 
ficed when the first floor was laid, 
seven and three-quarters gallons at an 
expense of £1 s8 d6j4 were required 
for the laying of the fifth. Consump- 
tion dropped again, however, with the 
raising of the roof, to three gallons. 
That they took their liquor "straight" 
as a rule, is shown by the fact that 
only two pounds of sugar were used 
with the seven and three-quarters gal- 
lons. 

When Manning Hall was erected, 
in 1835, of stone covered with stucco, 
some misguided innovators decided 
upon a similar treatment for the dig- 
nified old colonial building to the 
south of it. So the disfiguring coat 
of stucco, with which all of the old 
boys for many generations were fa- 
miliar, was applied and the gentle Co- 
lonial curves of the window frames 
made straight ; and so they remained 
for seventy years until in 1905 the 
stucco was removed and the original 
architectural features were restored. 

It is not necessary to go into many 
details as to the layout of the build- 
ing. The deeper, central portion of 
the first three stories was given up to 
class-rooms. The "Presidents Office" 
and the "Register's Office," as an- 
nounced by tin signs upon the doors, 
were on opposite sides of the lower 
corridor. Evidently there had been 
a dearth of apostrophes truly remark- 
able in an institution of learning, for 
neither sign boasted one. 

Matriculation was a very simple 
process. The whole Freshman class 
was rounded up in the President's of- 
fice early in the year and commanded 
to write their names in a book which 

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bore some printed matter at the top 
of the page. When one of the fel- 
lows started to read this document he 
was ordered to "sign your name and 
pass on." On his trying to explain 
that his father had taught him never 
to put his name to anything until he 
had first read it, he was interrupted 
with "No impertinence, sir! sign your 
name and pass on." I don't know 
that anyone ever found out what it 
was to which he had sub.scribed but 
whatever its nature it was good for 
four years, for the ceremony was 
never repeated. 

The first two floors and basement 
in the south end of the building were 
occupied by the Register and his fam- 
ily. (The title Registrar appeared 
for the first time in the records in 
1880). 

The interior of University Hall 
Avas for several decades greatly in need 
of repairs : so much so as to call forth 
strong language in the President's an- 
nual report. It was damp, dark and 
musty. To say that it had "a general 
flavor of mild decay" would be gross 
flattery. It was finally renovated and 
partly remodeled in 1883. 

In olden times the corridors on all 
of the floors extended the whole 
length of the building. The partitions 
in the centre dividing the three upper 
floors into north and south were put 
in later. 

Those who roomed in University 
Hall had some peculiar ways of 
amusing themselves, such for instance 
as hurling a ten-pound cannon ball 
thunderously up and down the corri- 
dors, eliciting strong expressions of 
disapproval from members of the fac- 
ulty who were rooming there and 



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even from some studiously inclined 
students. This -stunt was later im- 
proved upon. The solid shot was 
heated red-hot in a stove and then 
rolled against the door of some har- 
assed individual where it would come 
to rest and proceed to burn its way 
into the flooring. It was, of course, 
necessary to retrieve the shot in order 
to perpetuate the sport, so when it 
was thought that the persecuted in- 
dividual had wrestled with the prob- 
lem sufficiently long in his ineffectual 
way, the perpetrators of the plot 
would come to his aid with expres- 
sions of sympathy and some easy 
method of recovering their ammuni- 
tion. The floor in the halls of the 
south division formerly showed many 
deep cup-shaped depressions caused by 
this playful pastime. Presumably 
they are still in evidence. 

One of the boys brought with him 
from home a dulcimer, an instrument 
looking when closed like a cabinet- 
organ but composed of many wires 
and played with hammers. It was 
the delight of some of the roisterers, 
returning to the campus in the wee, 
small hours, to rap him up and ask 
him to play for them, which he good- 
naturedly did, nor could the intruders 
ever determine, it is said, whether 
their victim suspected that they were 
moved by aught else than a sheer love 
of music. 

Originality in room furnishing 
found its foremost exponent in a stu- 
dent who discarded a stove in favor 
of a grate-fire, dispensed with a bed 
and slept curled up in a blanket upon 
the hearth. Having no pictures and 
feeling the urge of the aesthetic, lie 
hied himself to the old West Bury- 
ing Ground which then, unkempt and 
uncared for and used as a playground 
by all the boys of the district, occu- 
pied the present site of Hayward 
Park and the two squares between 
that and the Fifth Police Station 
picked up a small headstone kicking 
about upon the ground and returned 
in triumph to his room with this 
unique decoration for his mantel. The 
inscription : 

"A CHILD STILL-BORN." 

Many are the tales of the old class- 
rooms. Not infrequently in warm 
weather the boys were known to en- 
ter and leave by way of the windows. 



This practice was, of course, frowned 
upon when detected, but by that time 
the fellow was inside and could not, 
without loss of prestige and sacrifice 
of decorum on the part of the Pro- 
fessor, be ordered to go out by the 
same route and return by the door. 
Nothing would have pleased the boys 
more than such an order. 

For some unexplained reason disci- 
pline was especially lax in the classes 
in modern languages. Possibly it was 
because the professors assumed that 
\oung men in quest of an education 
would naturally conduct themselves 
like gentlemen. This was not a safe 
assumption at all times. One French 
professor, after a particularly trying 
succession of meetings with one of 
his classes, was finally dislodged from 
his chair and his position in the col- 
lege by a bunch of firecrackers set off 
in the middle of the room during rec- 
itation. Of course pandemonium 
broke loose. The professor, a mild, 
scholarly man beyond middle life, was 
so upset and flustered that he did not 
know what to do. The assistant reg- 
istrar, hearing the racket, came in and 
dismissed the class. 

It wa a shame, for the kindly, gen- 
tle old man needed his job and the 
stipend which went with it. It was 
an instance of mob-cruelty for no 
one of the boys individually would 
have injured a hair of the old man's 
head. 

Nor were the senior professors al- 
ways immune. In those days legs 
were "limbs" and, even by that ap- 
pellation, not to be lightly mentioned 
in polite society, much less looked at. 
Only a few years before Charles 
Dickens had informed his Victorian 
readers that "in America the people 
are so modest that they put panta- 
lettes on the piano legs." (Some of 
my readers will remember when that 
was actually the custom, but from mo- 
tives of thrift, not modesty). 

Now Professor Harkness was very 
modest. His chair was upon a low 
platform in his room on the third 
floor, behind an ordinary four-legged 
library table. The boys concocted a 
scheme for enlivening an otherwise 
dull hour. One of them, whose seat 
was directly in front of the rostrum, 
stared long and earnestly at Harkie's 
"limbs," giggled somewhat ostenta- 

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tiously and nudged his neighbors on 
either side who proceeded to do the 
same until the whole room was in a 
state of carefully suppressed merri- 
ment with every pair of eyes focussed 
upon the professor's legs. Poor Har- 
kie blushed prodigiously, fidgetted and 
fussed, looked himself over, felt him- 
self over and finally got up, left the 
platform and walked out upon the 
floor in order to see for himself what 
it was all about. A day or two later 
the class on entering the room found 
a heavy curtain of some dark material 
draped about the front and ends of 
the table to protect the professor's 
morals and peace of mind. Another 
day or two and it was gone to take 
its place as a valued trophy in one of 
the fraternity-rooms down town. 

One could go on indefinitely with 
the chronicles of LTniversity Hall. 
Many great and good men have 
passed four of their happiest years 
within its walls and many traditions 
and memories of them and their times 
are still with us ; but Rhode Island 
Hall, as rich in legend and story as 
any of the Old Front Row, is still 
between us and the Old Back Cam- 
pus. 



Likes Name Pembroke 

Editor Broivn Alumni Monthly: 

I was interested in the editorial in 
the February number on the name 
of the Women's College. Personally, 
I should like to see the college called 
by the name which to many people, 
not only in Providence but in othei 
college circles, has been its real name 
for more than twenty-five years. I 
consider Pembroke both dignified and 
beautiful. The only other name thar 
I could prefer would be that of An- 
drews, in honor of the President un- 
der whom the Women's College came 
into existence. The name Andrews 
College in Brown LTniversity would 
please a large number of the early 
alumnae; to many people it would 
seem a very appropriate name for the 
Women's College in Brown Univer- 
sity. 

Very sincerely yours, 

Sarah Gridley Ross 
Office of the Dean, Skidmore Col- 
lege, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 
Feb. 23, 1928. 



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A Tribute to Mr. Hughes 

"The Best Equipped Private Citizen ot these United States" 

for the office of President 



'X'HE New York Sun printed the 
following editorial on April 1 1 : 

This is the birthday of Mr. 
Hughes. He is 66. A few months 
ago he had the hardihood to suggest 
that he was too old to be President. 
Hardihood, we say, because, although 
as a rule the American people believe 
Mr. Hughes implicitly, on the occa- 
sion referred to they dissented from 
his lonely view, and he should have 
known that they would do so. 

In the vast number of public issues 
on which Mr. Hughes has spoken this 
is the only instance of record where 
he has failed to substantiate an alle- 
gation with facts and, on the contrary 
has let the evidence disprove his as- 
sertion. Even if it were admitted, 
for the sake of argument, that the 
cold numerals of Mr. Hughes's years 
were enough to overshadow his ac- 
complishments as lawyer, Governor, 
Justice of the Supreme Court and Sec- 
retary of State, the fact would re- 
main that no age figures could bedim 
his performance, in his sixty-sixth 
year, as the American spokesman at 
Havana. 

On that occasion Mr. Hughes, far 
from being the ancient that he has 
tried to picture himself, delivered a 
speech so full of the youth and vigor 
of the Republic, as well as of the 
justice and wisdom of true statesman- 



ship, that his fellow countrymen had 
to turn back to Webster for a parallel 
in crystal-clear expression of the 
American spirit. If Mr. Hughes's 
previous history had been by some 
black magic obliterated, the Havana 
speech alone would stamp him as one 
of the greatest of Americans. 

Mr. Hughes, we repeat, is 66 to- 
day; so old, in his own solitary opin- 
ion, that he should not think of the 
Presidency, but not so old as to pre- 
vent him from being sought daily as 
the owner and operator of the finest 
thinking apparatus in this hemisphere. 
He is not so old but men turn to him 
whenever there is a question concern- 
ing the relation of this Government 
to the outer world. He is not too 
old to be regarded by all who know 
him as an example of perfect physical 
health and mental strength. 

All of which may possibly be re- 
membered at Kansas City if the situ- 
ation should call for the nomination 
of the best equipped private citizen of 
these United States. 



On April 13 the Sun printed this 
letter: 

To the Editor of the Sun — Sir: 
If a copy of your excellent editorial 
article "Mr. Hughes Is 66" could be 
handed to every delegate at the com- 
ing Kansas City convention, and he 



would view the subject with an open 
mind, it seems to me that the result 
might well be "Hughes by acclama- 
tioEi!" — "Hughes the unanimous 
choice of the con\ention !" 

And, assuming that this greatest 
living American statesman should find 
himself unable to resist that unani- 
mous draft to the highest position in 
the gift of his fellow citizens, what 
would it mean? It would mean that 
the Republican party would have a 
standard bearer who could bring to 
the vastly important office of Presi- 
dent ripe knowledge and experi- 
ence of statecraft in international as 
well as national affairs, profound 
knowledge of law, international as 
well as national, the bearing and 
breeding befitting a President of a 
great nation, and the background that 
in his heart every cultured and edu- 
cated American feels to be essential 
for a position so preeminently con- 
spicuous not only in our eyes but in 
those of the other nations of the 
world. 

I make bold to say without fear of 
contradiction that in neither party i? 
there any candidate who comes within 
gunshot of him whom you rightly de- 
scribe as the "best equipped private 
citizen" of these United States — 
Charles Evans Hughes. Citizen 

New York, April 12. 



Dallas Lore Sharp's New Book 

By Harry Lyman Koopman, University Librarian 



"r\ALLAS LORE SHARP, Brown 
■^-'^ '95, being a real farmer as well 
as several other real things, knows the 
virtues of letting cattle get a little 
hungry before feeding them. He ap- 
plies the same practice to his readers, 
and we had become decidedly hungry 
for another volume from the Laugh- 
ing Philosopher of Hingham before 
this new volume appeared. It is a 
story of adventures, misadventures 
and peradventures. So far as its nar- 



rative goes, it is the record of a motor 
trip from Hingham to Santa Barbara. 
But it is much more than this. It 
is an emulsion of DLS philosophy and 
science, flashlight pictures of nature 
and, above all, Daphne. The book 
might well be called a Daphneis, so 
large a part is played by the lady in 
the case, who was the stabilizer of 
the expedition. Spiritually, his theme 
is that of Hawthorne's Threefold 
Destiny, for The Better Country is 

247 



found to be the very one from which 
the quest set out. 

Seldom have the seeing eye and the 
speaking tongue been more perfectly 
matched than in our writer. Note 
his picture of the "green stitched 
wheat," and the Iowa soil that "lowed 
from excessive black richness." He 
describes the coming of snow in Iowa : 
"Had the heavy curtain overhead 
been suddenly ripped like a bed tick, 
the feathers could hardly have fallen 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



faster than the snow." After the 
snow cleared away he speaks of the 
"brittle light" of the morning. On 
the boundless plains of Kansas he 
says: "We crawled along the crest of 
an illimitable universe that yielded us 
plenty of action, but no feeling of 
progress, no consciousness of time." 

He passes from the antiquity of 
New England through the newness 
of the Middle West into the greater 
antiquity of Santa Fe, of which he 
writes: "It is the lover of old ways, 
quiet, sequestered ways, of shadowy 
■forests and the alluring, enthralling 
desert, who seeks ' out Santa Fe." 
Bluewater, New Mexico, inspires this 
utterance: "It is on a map containing 
more unclaimed, unlocalized earth, 
and more unsearchable heaven — more 
of the universal — than I had ever 



found myself at the centre of before." 
Dallas Lore Sharp would not be 
himself did his mind not penetrate to 
the absurdity of denaturing the In 
dian without making him a white 
man. He tells us how at Holbrook, 
Arizona, he met a fine specimen of 
an Indian who poured out his indig- 
nation at the course pursued by our 
Government toward his people. Sharp 
did not fail to appreciate the fact that 
the Indian is far more religious than 
the white man, all his life and work 
being religion. 

Daphne, on the evidence presented 
denies to her consort the title of poet, 
but read this picture: "The pricking 
lights of the camp at the gold mine 
away in the blackness below us, like 
fires through the roof of Hell." He 
has a loving eye for the tree world. 



He speaks of "leafy palms and lacy 
pepper trees." He can carry out a 
figure of speech regardless of its desti- 
nation. In crossing the Mohave Des 
ert he thus describes the motor wreck- 
age that lined the sandy road: "Pro- 
truding from the drifting sand, or 
prone where they had fallen, lay the 
bones of every known species of car, 
waiting for the great honk of the 
Judgment Day." 

The reader need not fear. We 
have plucked only a few of the plums 
out of this delightful volume. "The 
Better Country" falls into no literary 
class. We can only call it a yarn ; 
but its fibres were spun from the 
Golden Fleece. 



Sharp, Dallas Lore. The Better 
Country. Houghton Mifflin Com- 
pany, 277pp. $3-0O. 



News From the Brown Clubs 

BY ALFRED H. GURNEY, ALUMNI SECRETARY 



/^WING to the lack of space it 
was not possible to print last 
month the names of the delegates to 
the Advisory Board meeting of 1928, 
the best attended so far in the history 
of the Associated Alumni. The guests 
were President Faunce, Dr. Mead, 
Dean Randall, Dean Mason, Dr. Em- 
ery M. Porter '06, President of the 
Brown Club of Providence, Stephen 
I. Hall '28 and Joseph L. Strauss, 
Jr., '28, both of the Brown Daily 
Herald. The delegates were: 

Albany and Schenectady — L. P. 
Atkins '20; Boston — Harvey N. Da- 
vis '01, H. K. Metcalf '02; Buffalo — 
Harry H. Rockwell '03 ; Chicago — 
Wallace R. Lane '99, Ronald M. 
Kimball '18; Cleveland— W. R. Bur- 
well '15; Connecticut Valley — 
Charles M. King '11; Hartford- 
Frank O. Jones '97 ; Lynn — Frank 

E. Marble '05 ; New Hampshire — 
Dr. H. W. N. Bennett '97, A. W. 
Rowell '93 ; Merrimac Valley — Wil- 
liam H. Cady '98; New Bedford— 
Wardwell C. Leonard '18; New Ha- 
ven — H. H. Bucholz '25 ; Newport — 

F. M. Hammett '80 ; New York— A. 
B. Meacham '97, Walter R. Bullock 
'02; Providence — Sidney Clifford '15, 
Alfred B. Lemon '13; Rochester — 



Earle B. Cross '05 ; Syracuse — Wil- 
liam Allan Dyer '86. 

Brown Engineers — Frank E. Win- 
sor '91 ; Alumni Monthly — Henry R. 
Palmer '90; Association of Class Sec- 
retaries — -Henry S. Chafee '09, 
George S. Miner '97 ; Alumni Loy- 
alty Fund — Henry G. Clark '07 ; 
Alumni Trustees — Charles R. Adams 
'80, James M. Pendleton '85, Wil- 
liam Allan Dyer '86, C. C. White 
'00, Arthur W. Pinkham '02, Z. 
Chafee '80. Executive Committee — 
President W. H. Marble '12, George 
B. Bullock '05, E. K. Aldrich, Jr., 
'02, James S. Allen '98, Victor A. 
Schwartz '07, Maurice A. Wolf '14. 
F. E. Whitaker '88 of Woonsocket 
and Fred H. Gabbi '02 of Portland, 
Me., were prevented at the last min- 
ute from representing their clubs. 

NEW YORK 

We are not making much noise 
about it, but activity at the Brown 
Club has been greater this season than 
ever before. 

Every two weeks, until recently, 
there was a bridge tournament, con- 
ducted by Alexander Graham '06 and 
enjoyed by all who participated. In- 
terest in these tournaments indicates 
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that they will become a fixture. 
Then we have had two super-special 
smokers through the courtesy of Den- 
nis F. O'Brien '98 and Arthur F. 
Driscoll '06. Twice they have fur- 
nished us with moving pictures, equip- 
ment and operators. The first time 
Douglas Fairbanks in "The Gaucho" 
was the attraction, and the second 
time complete films of the Dempsey- 
Tunney affair in Chicago, and the 
Dempsey-Sharkey tea party. Attend- 
ance was large. 

And finally we had the concert of 
the Musical Clubs, with a dance af- 
terward, at the Waldorf-Astoria on 
April 4. The concert was also well 
attended. 

L'nder the able leadership of Har- 
old Barker '11, the administration of 
the club is maintaining an aggressive 
policy and real progress is being 
shown. The club house is fairly well 
filled with resident members at the 
present time, but we hold open a few 
rooms for itinerant Brown men, who 
are always welcome. — P. L. 

PHILADELPHIA 

Rev. Dr. F. E. Stockwell '90 is 
the new president of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club of Philadelphia, succeed- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ing Dr. D. H. Fuller '86. With Dr. 
Stockwell are serving this year Bar- 
clay L. Jones 'i6, vice president, H. 
C. Cummings '22, secretary and treas- 
urer, and Harry G. Leighton '03, 
Allan A. Wood '11, Seth K. Mitchell 
'15, Joseph F. Shea '19, and Donald 
C. Rubel '23, executive committee. 

The annual dinner at the Penn A. 
C. on March 5 brought out a large 
number, with Robert D. Gerstenlauer 
'22 as toastmaster and Dean Randall 
as the guest from the University. Dr. 
Stockwell and Jefferson Shiel '82 also 
spoke, and Dr. W. W. Keen '59 (he 
never misses the annual gathering) 
reported on the Morgan Edwards 
Fellowship. Resolutions were passed 
extending sympathy to the widow of 
Arthur L. Giles '99 and to Albert E. 
Barnes '25, who at the time was ill in 
St.. Luke's Hospital. 

BOSTON 

Brown men in Boston are gathering 
every Thursday at the University 
Club for lunch. There are no speak- 
ers ; "come when you can and go when 
you have to" is the slogan. The 
Alumni Secretary was present at one 
of the luncheons last month and spent 
a genuinely agreeable hour at the 
Brown table. Brunonians in Boston 
are specially urged to go to these 
luncheons and see old friends and 
meet new ones. 

CLEVELAND 

Since the last issue of the Alumni 
Monthly, the Brown University Club 
of Cleveland has had a splendid even- 
ing get-together, the first in the his- 
tory of the club, and has also spon- 
sored the annual concert by the Mu- 
sical Clubs, which took place on April 
9. The committee that made the visit 
of the clubs such a success in 1927 
was again in charge, with Albert J. 
O'Connor chairman, and R. A. Gillis, 
Ralph Gordon, Bert Lewis, L. S. 
McLeod, Kern Metzger, E. T. Mar- 
ten, Frank H. Westlake, Roy E. 
Smith, Dr. Russell H. Birge, Dr. 
Charles W. Hunt, Sanford Bidle and 
Richard E. Barnes assisting. Presi- 
dent Lloyd Brown of the club was 
the honorary chairman. 

At the evening get-together, W. R. 
Burwell, former Dean of Freshmen 
and delegate to the Advisory Board, 



told about Visiting Day and the meet- 
ing of the Board at the University 
on Feb. 21 and 22. He mentioned in 
particular the growth in calibre of the 
Faculty during the past few years and 
said that there seemed to be a finer 
spirit at the University than ever be- 
fore. Dr. Birge reported on a pre- 
paratory school which the club has 
been considering. After the business 
was over, bridge was played. One 
new member. Dr. David Steel '16, 
was added to the list. 

NEW HAVEN 

Twenty-three alumni met at the 
Roger Sherman on March 1 5 for the 
monthly dinner, at which the Alumni 
Secretary was the speaker. President 
E. A. Smith, Jr., '25 had to make 
his graceful bow to the applause that 
followed Secretary Walter V. 
Brown's announcement that the pres- 
ident had become the father of a boy 
the day before, but he recovered his 
composure soon enough to call on H. 
H. Bucholz '25 to tell of the meet- 
ing of the Advisory Board and to in- 
troduce the Alumni Secretary as easily 
as though new arrivals in his family 
were an old stor}'. 

There is a wholesome spirit ap- 
parent in the New Haven club, and 
the young alumni who compose it are 
already working to find the right kind 
of boys in their district to talk to 
about Brown and to make the name 
of Brown better known in Western 
Connecticut. The Alumni Secretary 
had a hugely enjoyable evening, meet- 
ing old friends as well as making the 
acquaintance of new ones and catch- 
ing some of the enthusiasm that ani- 
mates this newest club on the list. 

NEW BEDFORD 

A bowling team from the Brown 
L^niversity Club of New Bedford de- 
feated a team of Harvard alumni last 
month in what our correspondent 
calls a hot and heavy match. It took 
the last string to decide the winner. 
T. B. Baylis, Frank A. Walker, 
Frank C. Gifford, Wardwell C. 
Leonard, Leslie Sutherland, Dr. Josh 
Weeks and Jimmy Murphy all had a 
hand in overthrowing the Crimson. 
A return match is on tap, we hear 
and surely the Brunonians will repeat. 

The New Bedford club was spon- 
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sor for a well-attended concert by the 
Musical Clubs at the New Bedford 
Hotel, at which the patronesses were 
Mrs. Edmund Wood, Mrs. Arthur 

D. Delano, Mrs. Frank A. Walker, 
Mrs. Walter H. Underdown, Mrs. 
Arthur G. Seabury, Mrs. Charles A. 
Pratt, Mrs. Oliver Prescott, Jr., and 
Mrs. Wardwell C. Leonard. The 
proceeds from the concert will be used 
to aid the scholarship fund that the 
club is raising to provide for two 
scholarships at the University. 

BROWN ENGINEERS 

Harry D. Winsor '09 is the new 
president of the Brown Engineering 
Association, having been elected to 
that place at the annual meeting 
held at the Brown Club, New York, 
on Feb. 17, 1928. Professor John 

E. Hill was chosen vice president and 
Wayne M. Faunce '21 was re-elected 
secretary and treasurer. The direct- 
ors are Howard F. Parker '13 and 
Brenton G. Smith '11. William E. 
Farnham '99 and Sydney Wilmot '09, 
past presidents, will likewise serve 
this year as directors. 

The speakers at the dinner were 
Dean Randall, Professor Kenerson, 
Professor Hall, Professor Tompkins 
Professor Berard, H. E. Blomstedt, 
instructor, and J. H. Shepard, Jr., 
who represented the undergraduates 
in engineering. Professor Kenerson's 
movies made a real hit with the audi- 
ence, especially since Professor Ken- 
erson knows so aptly how to comment 
as he unreels his scenes of campus life 
and campus figures. Sydney Wilmot 
told about the permanent endowment 
fund being raised to take care of the 
annual engineering prize at the Uni- 
versity and distributed blanks for sub- 
scribers. 

CHICAGO 

John Monk '24, secretary of the 
Brown L^niversity Club of Chicago, 
has written the Alumni Office these 
few words which do not need any ac- 
companying music : 

"The ubiquitous Dr. Marvel, who 
turns up in all sections of the L^nited 
States at odd moments, was in Chi- 
cago a scant week or so ago. He was 
espied at an American Legion lunch- 
eon — specifically by Dana Hubbaid. 
Davy Jones and Wilbur Riker, all 



BROWN ALUMNI MOxNTHLY 



Brunonians of comparatively recent 
vintage. That was fortuitous, of 
course, and a delightful Brown get- 
together was enjoyed by all. The 
point is that only four were there. 
When representatives of the Univer- 
sity do so far forget themselves as to 
appear in 'Bloody Chicago,' why not 
have them get in touch with the 
Brown Club and let us entertain 
them at our weekly luncheon? Op- 
portunities to gather, when we have 
a real lion to offer members, are in- 
frequent ... I wish you would 
drive my point home." 

Having got that so well out of his 
system. Jack proceeded to report that 
the Chicago Club is working to keep 
up its record of sending the best 
available boys to the University and 
that "we are living in hope that one 
of the big guns from Providence will 
be forced out here by business, or 
duty, and favor us by being a guest of 
ours at a luncheon, smoker, dinner, 
or what have you?" 

WASHINGTON 

The cup offered by the Brown 
University Club of Washington to 
the high school dramatic society 
which gives the best production of the 
year, has been won permanently by 
Eastern High of Washington, the 
players of that school having cap- 
tured it for the third time with their 
presentation of "The Admirable 



Crichton," on March 29 and 30. 
The cup was given to the school at a 
school assembly last month. Dean 
William A. Wilbur '88 of George 
\Vashington University making the 
speech on behalf of the Brunonians in 
Washington. 

WORCESTER 

The first meeting that the Brown 
Club of Worcester and neighborhood 
has held in several years took place 
at Brigham's, Worcester, on Thurs- 
day, April 19, following the Brown- 
Holy Cross baseball game. The 
speakers were Dr. A. D. Mead, vice 
liresident of the University, Coach 
McLaughry, Captain-elect A. C. 
Cornsweet '29 of the football team, 
and Captain Winfield A. Schuster '28 
of the baseball nine. President Mar- 
ble of the Associated Alumni and the 
Alumni Secretary were also present. 

ST. LOUIS 

Professor W. H. Kenerson, on his 
way to Tulsa,, Okla., stopped off at 
St. Louis at the invitation of Chapin 
S. Newhard '22 on April 3 and, as 
"Chape" wrote the Alumni Office, 
"Kenerson came and conquered. I 
met him at the train, took him on a 
short 'Cook's tour' of the city and so 
to the University Club, where we got 
twelve men together on the short no- 
tice. A good dinner and then the 
Kenerson movies. Every one enjoyed 



him and his pictures — and all of us 
hope that he will stop off longer on 
his next trip. Also that members of 
the Faculty will visit us more regu- 
larly. If they are all as good scouts 
as Professor Kenerson is, nothing 
more could be asked. " 

It was indeed thoughtful of Pro- 
fessor Kenerson to offer to stop at St. 
Louis and to take some of his pictures 
with him, and the Alumni Office is 
grateful to him for his part in bring- 
ing the campus and the college closer 
to the Brunonians in St. Louis. And 
Chapin Newhard also gets a word of 
thanks for his zeal in getting the 
Brown men together and showing 
their guest such a delightful time. 

MEETINGS ELSEWHERE 

As this issue was on its way to 
press, the Brown Club of the Merri- 
mac Valley, through President Wil- 
liam H. Cady '98 and Secretary 
James S. Eastham '19, was preparing 
for its spring meeting, with Dean Ma- 
son as the guest from the University. 

The Brown Club of Western 
Maine, under the direction of Presi- 
dent Arthur L. Leonard '92 and Sec- 
retary Francis D. O'Connor '12, met 
on April 25 in Portland, with the 
Alumni Secretary as the speaker. 

The clubs in Albany and Schenec 
tady and in Rochester were also stir- 
ring, and we hope to have news about 
all of these gatherings in the June; 
number. 



Early Season Baseball 



Broun 0, Providence (E. L.) 4 

The baseball season opened for 
Brown on Saturday, April 7, when 
the Providence Eastern League team 
defeated the collegiate players by the 
score of 4 to O. 

The game was played at Kinsley 
Park, Providence, with more than 
1400 spectators present. The excel- 
lent work of the Providence pitchers 
Dunlap and Ekelson, kept Brown's 
hitting close to the zero point — in 
fact the only hit registered from a 
Brown bat was one that Heffernan, 
the right fielder, made. Brown's 
pitching game started with Roland 
Ford in the box. In the 3 innings 
he stayed on the mound the Grays 



netted 4 hits. George Rawlings, the 
only veteran twirler on the Brown 
squad, succeeded Ford in the 4th and 
was touched up for 3 hits in 2 in 
nings. Phil Lingham, son of Ling 
ham '97, went into the box in the 7th 
inning and held the enemy to 2 hits 
in 2 frames. Jim Edwards was on 
the mound in the ninth inning and 
allowed no hit. The Grays thus 
made 9 hits in all. Errors: Brown 2, 
Providence 2. Struck out, by Ekel- 
son 3, Dunlap 2, Rawlings i, Ling- 
ham 2. 

* * 

Broun I , Columbia I 

Brown visited New York on 

April 9 and 10, and on the first of 

these days met Columbia University. 

250 



The game went 10 innings and re- 
sulted in a I to I tie. Rawlings 
pitched the entire game for Brown, 
allowing 6 hits, while Cerny of Co- 
lumbia was touched for only 3. These 
were made by Gurney (c), Wright- 
(2) and McLean (ib). Rawlings 
struck out II Columbia batsmen, 
while Cerny fanned only 7. Errors. 
Brown 4, Columbia 4. Brown made 
the 1st run in the 2d inning, whil: 
Columbia tied the score in the 7th. 
Rawlings passed 6 men and Cerny 8 
Rawlings looked invincible during the 
first part of the game. 



Broivn S, N. Y. University 8 
Although Brown led 5 to 4 in the 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



7th inning in the game with New- 
York University at New York on 
April lO, the metropolitan team 
pulled the contest out of the fire in 
that frame by piling up 4 runs. Ford 
started in the box for Brown, which 
was played in a cold, windy atmos- 
phere. Ford was hit lO times in 7 
innings, while Lingham, who suc- 
ceeded him, kept his record down to 
I hit in the remaining frames. Er- 
rors: Brown I, N. Y. 2. Struck out: 
by Follet 6, by Gallagher i, by Ford 
2, by Lingham I. Brown hits: by 
McGinley (cf) 2, Gurney (c) 3. 
Ford (p) 3, Freedman (If) I, Smith 
(s) I, Allard {batting for Smith in 
9th) I. 

* # 

Broun 4, Providence 6 

Providence (Eastern League) won 
a second game from Brown, at Al- 
drich Field, April 16. Rawlings, 
Lingham and Edwards all served in 
the box. 

* * 

Broun 7, Holy Cross 18 

On Patriots' Day, April 19, at 
Worcester, Holy Cross administered 



a smashing defeat to the Brown nine, 
before a crowd of 10,000. Holy 
Cross made 21 hits and Brown 11. 
Rawlings started in the box for 
Brown but Ford finished the game. 



Broun 2. Boston University o 

Brown beat Boston L'niversity at 
Aid rich Field, April 21. Rawlings 
held the team from the Hub to one 
safe hit. 

* * 

Broun Q Maine J 

At Aldrich Field, April 25, Brown 
beat the University of Maine team, 9 
to 3. Rawlings pitched 5 innings, al- 
lowing 3 hits and no runs; Lingham 
finished the game, allowing 5 hits and 
3 runs. 

■;s * 

Brown 2, Bates O 

Rawlings proved a puzzle to Bates 
at Aldrich Field, May 2, holding the 
Maine batters to 5 hits. The Bates 
pitcher, Marsters, in fact allowed 
onh 3 hits, but Brown won. Raw- 
lings is doing the great bulk of this 
vear's box work for the home team. 



The University Chronicle 



I'arsity Baseball 

May — 2, Bates, Providence; 5, 
Williams, Providence; 8, Dartmouth, 
Hanover; 12, Yale, Providence; 16, 
R. L State College, Providence; 19, 
Dartmouth, Providence; 23, Har- 
vard, Cambridge; 26, Providence 
College, Aldrich Field; 30, Harvard, 
Providence. 

June — 2, Providence College, Al- 
drich Field; 9, open; 15, Univ. New 
Hampshire, Providence; 16, L niv. 
New Hampshire, Durham; 18, Wil- 
liam & Mary, Providence. 
« * 

Freshman Baseball 

May — 5, Boston University Fresh., 
Providence; 12, Yale Junior Varsity, 
New Haven; 19, Harvard Freshman, 
Cambridge ; 26, Roxbury School. 
Providence. 

Varsity Track 
May — 5, Bowdoin, Brunswick; 12, 



Columbia, Providence; 18, N. E. L 
A. A., Cambridge; 19, N. E. L A. A-., 
Cambridge; 25, L C. A. A. A. A., 
Cambridge; 26, L C. A. A. A. A., 
Cambridge. 

* * 

Freshman Track 

May — 4, R. I. State Freshman, 
Providence; 11, LTniv. New Hamp- 
shire Fresh., Providence; 19, Worces- 
ter Academy, Providence. 



Fresh I 



Football 



The most difficult seven-game 
schedule ever arranged for a Brown 
Freshman football team has been 
booked as the offering next fall. For 
the first time in many years, and for 
the first time in the history of Fresh 
man football, Princeton is on a Brown 
list. The schedule follows: 

October — 13, Moses Brown, Prov- 
idence; 20, New Hampshire Fresh- 
men, Providence; 27, Holy Cross 
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Freshman, Providence. November — 
2, Princeton Freshman, Princeton ; 
10, Dartmouth Freshman, Hanover; 
16, Harvard Second, Cambridge; 23, 
Roxbury School, Providence. 
» * 

f arsity Lacrosse 

May — 9, Harvard, Cambridge; 19, 
Springfield, Providence; 26, C. C. of 
N. Y., Providence. 

June — 2, Williams, Providence. 

* * 

Freshman Lacrosse 

May 12 — Harvard Freshman. 
Cambridge. 

» * 

J arsity Tennis 

May — 2, Mass. Inst. Tech., Prov- 
idence; 5, Boston College, Provi- 
dence; g, Worcester Poly. Tech., 
Worcester; 12, Bowdoin, Providence; 
16, Amherst, Amherst; 18, Wesleyan, 
Providence; 21, N. E. L T. Ass'n 
Boston ; 22, N. E. L T. Ass'n, Bos- 
ton; 23, Colgate, Providence; 26, 
Dartmouth, Hanover. 

* ♦ 

Freshman Tennis 

May — 9, Andover, Andover; 16, 
Exeter, Exeter; 19, Dartmouth, Han- 
over; 25, Mass. Inst. Tech. Fresh, 
Providence. 

* * 

I'arsity Golf 

May — 2, Boston College, Provi 
dence; 5, Williams (A. M.), Boston, 
Mass. Inst. Tech. (P. M.), Boston; 
9, Boston University, Providence ; 
12, Fordham (A. M.), New York 
Pennsylvania, New York; 16, Yale, 
New Haven; 19, Dartmouth (A. 
M.), Boston, Amherst (P. M.), Bos- 
ton; 21, Colgate, Providence; 23, 
Harvard, Providence. 



Notes of the Month 

The Junior Prom, May 11, will be 
held in the new gymnasium. 

Percy Kingsley has been elected 
Spring Day orator for the e.xercises 
on May 4. 

The only lacrosse game played by 
Brown in April was won by Dart- 
mouth, 15-2. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Hicks prizes for excellence in 
debate have been awarded to Percy 
Kingsley and Harold S. Sizer '28. 

Trees have been planted on Lin- 
coln Field, which thus progresses on 
its way toward the ideal of a stately 
quadrangle. 

Tau Delta Epsilon (formerly the 
Bear Club) has received permission 
from the Intej-fraternity Governing 
Board to join the national fraternity 
of Sigma Phi Sigma. 

Roland MacKenzie '30, having 
been declared ineligible on account of 
absence from college for a semester to 
represent Brown in intercollegiate 
golf, has left college. 

Last month we printed a notice of 
Professor Hastings's "Contemporary 
Essays," but failed to say that Hough- 
ton Miffln Co. of Boston are the pub- 
lishers and that the price is $2.75. 

At the annual track meet between 
the Sophomores and Freshmen, March 
28, at the new gymnasium, the Fresh- 



men won, 46 to 17. The day before 
the Freshmen beat the Sophomores at 
swimming 35 to 27. 

E. H. Bradley '28 is the winner of 
the Washburn Cup given by Rev. 
Arthur L. Washburn of St. Martin's 
Church to the member of the upper 
three classes ranking highest in physi- 
cal efficiency in intramural sports. 

Pi Kappa has voted to take on so- 
cial duties and responsibilities similar 
to those of Green Key at Dartmouth. 
These have to do with meeting and 
entertaining visiting athletic teams, or- 
ganizations of various kinds and 
speakers. 

There will now be five Brunonians 
in the Philippines, W. E. Seymour '27 
being about to sail for Manila. He 
will teach for two years in the islands. 
The other Brown men there are H. 
W. Corp, G. E. Burnham, W. A. 
Weidmann and Capt. F. Webster 
Cook. 

In the last triangular debate of the 
season, March 31, Brown beat the 



L^niversity of Pennsylvania, taking 
the affirmative side of the Mussolini 
policies. The Brown debaters were 
Percy Kingsley '28, A. C. Kingston 
'28 and S. H. Levy '29. On March 
28 Brown beat Dartmouth. 

The Freshman debating team beat 
the Tufts Freshman team in Man- 
ning Hall, April 14. The Brown 
debaters upheld the negative of the 
question : "Resolved, That the Uni- 
ted States cease to protect by force of 
arms the property of its citizens in 
foreign countries without the formal 
declaration of war." The decision of 
the judges was unanimous. 

Late in March a combined Faculty 
and undergraduate Presidential pref- 
erence vote was taken at Brown. The 
number of the Faculty members vot- 
ing was 94 and the number of under 
graduates 102 1. The result was: 
Hoover 640, Smith 279, Dawes 90, 
Lowden 57, Willis 17, Walsh (of 
Montana) 17, Reed (of Missouri) 
14, Ritchie 9, Curtis i, Donahey i. 



Life at the Women's College 



npHE initiation and banquet of 
Sigma Xi was held on the even- 
iing of March 21, in Alumnae Hall. 
The newly-elected members are : Class 
of 1928: Sarah Mazick, Providence; 
Ida Noble, Central Falls; Althea 
Page, Providence ; Annette Rivard, 
Providence; and Isabelle Rowell, Au- 
burn. Class of 1929: Marjorie Kent, 
Providence; Elinor Margerum, Au- 
burn ; and Juanita Tallman, Provi- 
dence. 

On March 17, Sayles Gymnasium 
was filled to see the varsity basket- 
ball team defeat the team of New 
York University by a score of 40-14. 
In the evening, N. Y. U. avenged 
the defeat of the afternoon by an ov- 
erwhelming victory over the varsity 
swimming team, coming through to 
a first place in every event. The star 
performer for N. Y. U. was Ethel 
McGeary, Olympic champion. This 
is the first time that the Women's 
College has competed with N. Y. U. 
in any athletic event. 

The Teacher's Association of 
Brown University held its twenty- 
si.xth annual meeting at Alumnae Hall 



By Sylvia Bcrkman 'jS 

on Saturday, March 17. About two 
hundred members attended. There 
were morning and afternoon sessions, 
divided by lunch in the cafeteria. In 
the morning. Dean Morriss gave an 
address of welcome to the guests. 

On Wednesday afternoon, March 
14, the college Press Club gave a tea 
for those interested in journalistic 
work, in the Commons Room of 
Alumnae Hall. Elizabeth Sanderson 
'28, president of the Press Club, made 
a speech of welcome to the prospect- 
ive scouts, explaining the means by 
which one becomes a member of the 
board, and the duties subsequently in- 
volved. Professor Sharon Brown, 
faculty adviser of the club, spoke upon 
journalism as a field for women, and 
the work of the Press Club in the 
Women's College. Helen Anderson 
'29 and Ethel Humphrey '29 poured. 

Le Salon Francais and Cercle Fran- 
cais of the men's college held a joint 
meeting in the form of a tea-dance 
in the Crystal Room of Alumnae 
Hall on Tuesday afternoon, March 
20. Tea was poured by Madame 
Landre. Arrangements were in 
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charge of Dorothy Blais '28, president 
of Le Salon Francais. 

The class of 1931 played hostess to 
the upperclassmen at a St. Patrick's 
Day party in Sayles Gymnasium on 
the evening of March 22. The 
feature of the evening was an amusing 
program which the Freshmen offered 
for the entertainment of their guests; 
a specialty dance by Marion Wein- 
berg, Hartford, Conn. ; songs by Sue 
Deacon, Elizabeth, N. J.; songs by 
Charlotte Bedrick of the Gibbs Sec- 
retarial School with Edythc Olevson 
of Providence ; and an amusing pan- 
tomime. The committee in charge 
was: Harriet Coady, Attleboro, 
Mass. ; Elizabeth deCourcy, Darien, 
Conn.; Susan Demery, Middletown, 
R. I. ; and Edythe Olevson, Provi- 
dence. 

The first of a series of readings to 
be given under the direction of the 
Komians was held on Friday after- 
noon, March 23, when Mrs. Sarah 
Minchin Barker, director of Komian 
plays, read "Caponsacchi," Goodrich's 
adaptation of Browning's "The Ring 



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and the Book." After the reading, 
tea was served. 

At a meeting of the Spanish Club 
held on Thursday evening, March 29, 
a most interesting program was given, 
including the presentation of a one- 
act play, "Songue Garda" by Helen 
Kennard '28 and Frederick Agard 
'28; Lillian Berger '30 played two 
Spanish pieces on the piano, and Mr. 
Deland and Mr. Rubio rcjited sev- 
eral short poems. After the program, 
••efreshments were served. 

The awards of the two most im- 
portant fellowships of the Women's 
College, the Anne Crosby Emery Fel- 
lowship and the Emma Josephine 
Ayer Arnold Archaeological Fellow- 
ship, were made in chapel on Mon- 
day, March 26, at a special service at 
which Professor George W. Benedict 
was the speaker. The Anne Crosby 
Emery Fellowship was awarded to 
Elizabeth Sanderson '28, who will use 
it for graduate study at some Ameri- 
can university. The Arnold Archae- 
ological Fellowship went to Marion 
Mary Broadbent, A. B., Brown '26, 
who will study next year either at 



Rome or at one of the German uni- 
versities. 

The Mathematical Club held its 
second meeting of this semester on 
Tuesday evening, March 27, in 
Pembroke Hall, when an interesting 
program was presented by Louise 
Woodman '29, and Aubrey Smith, a 
graduate student. The committee in 
charge of programs includes : Pro- 
fessors Archibald and Bennett, Her- 
bert Howard '28. Ida Noble '28, Ho- 
mer Smith '29 and Louisa Wood- 
man '29. 

The annual interclass Gym Demon- 
stration and Competition was held on 
the evening of April 2 in Sayles Gym- 
nasium, with the Freshman class win- 
ning first place and the award of the 
Shield for the year 1927-28. 

On March 30 the annual Stunt 
Competition, held in Alumnae Hall, 
was won by the class of 1928 with a 
stunt burlesquing the subject of Fa- 
vorite Professor on Spring Day. 
Colonel Lindbergh was introduced as 
professor of a new course at the Wo- 
men's College, Aviation i, 2, (W), 
and proved to be the most popular 



faculty member at the college. The 
comittee included : Sylvia Berkman 
'28, chairman ; Marion Kalkman '28, 
Olive Lombard '28, Ethel McKech- 
nie '28, and Betty Herr, ex-officio. 
The Junior class won honorable men- 
tion with a college version of "Good 
News" with the introduction of spe- 
cial song and dance numbers. The 
Junior committee was: Loretta Dil- 
lon, chairman ; Elizabeth Quinham, 
Zatae Straw, Prudence Skinner, and 
Dorothy Strachan, ex-officio. The 
Sophomore skit was entitled "Like 
Nothing Human," and portrayed 
Pembroke as it would be if seen in the 
movies. Dorothy Miller was chair- 
man of the committee in charge, as- 
sisted by Thelma Tyndall, Audrey 
Watson, Mildred Starkweather, He- 
lena Hogan, and Dorothy Jenckes, 
ex-officio. The Freshman stunt. 
"The Brown Bug House," cleverly 
burlesqued the class's biology lectures. 
Those in charge were : Alice Stewart, 
chairman; Sue Deacon, Catherine 
McSoley, Myrtle Ryder, Mabelle 
Hinton, and Hester Hastings, ex-of- 
ficio. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



On April 30 Yale and Harvard 
had a "skull" contest — a three-hour 
competitive examination in English 
literature. There were three judges — 
one each from Princeton, Cornell and 
Brown, Brown's representative being 
Professor Albert K. Potter. 

Professor John Francis Greene was 
the guest of friends at a birthday din- 
ner at the Faculty Club, April 13, 
which in spite of the fact that the 
date was "Friday the 13th" was a 
very enjoyable occasion. There was 
a birthday cake with an appropriate 
number of candles, and a large bas- 
ket of flowers was presented to Pro- 
fessor Greene. 

Dean Randall will represent the 
University at the inauguration of Dr. 
Frederick B. Robinson as President 
of the College of the City of New 
York on May 7. 

Professor Walter G. Everett of the 
Philosophy Department is teaching 
in the experimental college at the 
University of Wisconsin which is be 
ing conducted by his son-in-law. Dr. 



Alexander Meiklejohn '93. He is 
studying methods at the college for 
the purpose of forming an estimate 
of the advantages and disadvantages 
as compared with common pio:e.iiire 
at Brown and elsewhere. 

Professor Theodore Collier of the 
Department of History spoke at the 
April meeting of the Rhode Island 
Women's Club on "A Decade of 
American Foreign Policy." 

Professor Ben C. Clough of the 
Department of Greek and Latin 
Classics is absent on leave this semes- 
ter and will spend the next few 
months in Rome, Athens and Ger- 
many. While he is in Germany he 
will visit the famous printing and 
publishing exposition in Cologne. 

Professor James P. Adams of the 
Department of Economics was the 
speaker at the April meeting of the 
Providence Chapter, National Asso- 
ciation of Cost Accountants, his sub- 
ject being "Cost Analysis for Rate 
Making in Public LTfilities." 

Professor Fred W. Marvel, direct- 
or of athletics, spent three weeks last 

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month in California, attending the 
National Boy Scout Conference in 
San Francisco, and looking over the 
athletic plants at University of Cal- 
ifornia and Leiand Stanford. The 
vacation was the longest one Dr. 
Marvel has taken since he came to 
Brown a quarter century ago. His 
assistants on the Hill gave him a 
traveling bag for the trip. 

Professors John Francis Greene, 
Clinton H. Currier and Albert A. 
Bennett were on the program at the 
annual meeting of the Brown Uni- 
versity Teachers' Association held at 
Alumnae Hall, Women's College, in 
March. Professor Greene's subject 
was "The Race that Has Outlived 
Empires." 

Professor Emeritus Francis G. Al- 
linson was the guest of the Newport 
Art Association at its April meeting 
and gave an illustrated lecture on 
"Hermes and Charon." 

Professor Rudolph Altrocchi of 
the Department of Romance Lan- 
guages was one of the lecturers be- 
fore the Italian Society at Yale Uni- 
versity the past winter. His topic 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



before the Yale group was "The Ital- 
ian Epic of the Renaissance." 

Professor Harold A. Phelps of the 
Department of Social and Political 
Science has had two articles in recent 
issues of the Journal of Criminal 
Law and Criminology, the first being 
"Rhode Island's Threat Against 
Murder, " and the second, "Fre- 
quency of Crime and Punishment." 
He has also had published in the 
Proceedings of the American Statis- 
tical Association a paper read before 
the Association on "Effectiveness of 
Life Imprisonment as a Repressive 
Measure Against Murder." 

Professor Verner W. Crane of the 
Department of History has received 
leave of absence from the University 
for the semester beginning next 
September to be visiting lecturer in 
colonial history at Harvard Univer- 
sity. Professor Crane lectured at 
Harvard two years ago. 

Comptroller E. A. Burlingame, 
with Mrs. Burlingame and Miss 
Katharine DePew Burlingame, sailed 
from New Yorl: last month for a 
three months' tour of Italy, France 
and England. 

Professor Leslie E. Swain of the 
Department of Physical Education 
discussed "A Natural and Logical 



Method of Teaching Swimming " at 
the last meeting of the swimming 
club of the Technical High School, 
Providence. Professor Swain also of- 
ficiated at several swimming meets in 
and near Providence the past season 
and is doing much to encourage the 
sport among the city high schools. 
Swimming is his special study and he 
is becoming recognized as an author- 
ity in its teaching. 

Professor F. K. W. Drury and 
Mrs. Drury sailed for Europe last 
month on Sabbatical leave. They 
will spend the next four months tour- 
ing Italy, France and Switzerland, 
and at the same time Professor Drury 
will study libraries in those countries. 
In June they will be joined by their 
son, John B. Drury, 2nd, an under- 
graduate at Dartmouth. 



Alumni 

1866 

Judge Lorin Morris Cook, lawyer, 
friend of many Brown men and al- 
ways a genial companion, died in 
Providence on March 12, 1928. He 
had been in poor health for some time. 
Judge Cool: was born in Milford, 
Mass., Sept. 17, 1845, the son of 



Officers of the Musical Clubs 




Friini the Brown Diii j llerakl 



Left to right: E. E. Hart '28, Leader of Banjo Club; T. L. Jones '28, 
President-Manager; T. C. Abbey '28, Secretary-Treasurer, and W. E. 
Greer '28, Leader of the Glee Club. 

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Levander and Olive Eliza (Daniels) 
Cooic. He prepared at Providence 
High School and received his A. B. 
at Brown in 1866. He commenced 
the study of law in the office of 
Browne & Van Slyck and was ad- 
mitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 
October, 1868, and to the United 
States Circuit Court in 1875. In 
June, 1874, he was elected Justice of 
the Police Court in Providence, serv- 
ing until January, 1886. The next 
year he was elected to the Rhode Is- 
land House of Representatives as a 
Democrat. After three terms in the 
House he retired to resume the prac- 
tice of law. In 1896 he was appoint- 
ed Register in Insolvency, a place 
which he held for two years or until 
it was abolished by a new bankruptcy 
law. Since then, and until very re- 
cent years, he had been engaged in 
law work. At the time of his death 
he was dean of the State's barristers. 
He belonged to the University Club, 
the Providence Art Club and other 
organizations. He was married Dec. 
16, 1873, to Lizzie A. D. Howe of 
Providence, and two sons, Maurice 
H. Cook '97 and Captain F. Webster 
Cook '05, of the United States Army, 
survive him. Judge Cook was a mem- 
ber of the old fraternity, Chi Psi. 
1872 
William Vail Kellen, member of 
the LIniversity Board of Fellows, is 
at present abroad and intends to spend 
the simimer in Italy and later in 
England. 

1876 
Edmund Wood of the University 
Board of Trustees is on a Pacific voy- 
age, but is planning to return in time 
for Commencement. 

1877 

F. Arthur Spence is living at 
lOio West 2ist St., Los Angeles, ac- 
cording to Fred H. Williams, who 
visited Spence on a trip to the Coast 
the past winter. 

1879 

Dr. Arthur H. Harrington, consult- 
ing psychiatrist to the Rhode Island 
State Hospital, spoke on "Progress in 
Psychiatry in the Last Twenty-five 
Years" at the spring meeting of the 
New England Society of Psychiatry, 
hehl at Howard, R. I., last month. 
1880 

Dr. J. Lee Richmond was the L'ni- 
versity's representative at the inau- 
guration of Dr. John Henry Doer- 
mann as President of the LTniversity 
of the City of Toledo on March 19. 
Richmond is Professor of Physical 



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Three Brown Men 




NORMAN S. TABER '13 

President Family Welfare Society 
of Providence and Chairman Brown 
Athletic Council. 



HARVEY N. DAVIS '01 

President of Stevens Institute of 
Technology. ( Photograph by Mar- 
shall Studio, Cambridge, Mass,) 




EARL N. MANCHESTER '02 

To become Librarian of Ohio State 
University in July. (Photograph by 
Moore, Lawrence, Kansas.) 



Education at the Toledo institution. 
After a third of a century as an 
e.xecutive of Penn College, Oslca- 
loosa, la., H. D. Lane resigned in 
March and last month sailed for Ja- 
pan, where his address is Sapporo, in 
care of Hokkaido Imperial Univer- 
sity. "I have certainly enjoyed read- 
ing the Alumni Monthly," he wrote 
before his departure, "and learning 
of the success and widespread influ- 
ence Brown is having in many lines 
through her Faculty, student body 
and alumni." 

1882 
Dr. William H. Tolman is the re- 
cipient of another foreign honor, this 
time having been elected an active 
member of the Academy of the Var, 
France. The Academy is a literary 
and scientific institution and Tolman 
is the first foreigner to hold full mem- 
bership in it. 

1883 

Frank L. Shepardson, for many 
years a member of the Faculty at Col- 
gate University, has been promoted to 
the rank of Professor of Greek. 

Former Governor Edward C. 
Stokes of New Jersey delivered a 
vivid eulogy on John W. Griggs, and 
Foster M. Voorhees, also former 
Governors, before the New Jersey 
Legislature in joint session at Trenton 
on March 26, 1928. Governor 
Stokes is a leading candidate for the 



Republican nomination for United 
States Senator. 

Arthur Eaton Baker, active as a 
teacher since his graduation, died in 
Reading, Mass., on Jan. 30, 1928. 
His teaching experience carried him 
to the Pacific Coast and back again 
to New England. He was born in 
Winchester, Mass., Aug. 2, 1 861, the 
son of Frederick and Mary Louisa 
(Eaton) Baker. He came to Brown 
from Winchester High School, re- 
ceived his A. B. with the class and 
his A. M. in 1889. He taught in the 
schools of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., San 
Pedro, Cal., Los Angeles, Cal., Bos- 
ton and Lawrence, Mass. For five 
years, 1888- 1893, he was deputy 
school superintendent of Los Angeles, 
and for the next eleven years was 
head of the classical department in the 
Los Angeles High School. He was 
married Aug. 30, 1893, t" Miss 
Frances Duncan, and Mrs. Baker sur- 
vives him, together with a son, Ken- 
neth L. Baker, a daughter, Josephine, 
and a sister, Mrs. Marv L. Winn. 
1885 

Edgar H. Grout, who will com- 
plete 25 years service as Superintend- 
ent of Schools, East Bridgewater, 
Mass., next September, plans to re- 
tire at that time. He is president of 
the Plymouth County Teachers' As- 
sociation and during his years in East 
Bridgewater has been an active factor 
in education in that part of Massa- 

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chusetts. His two sons, Harold and 
Edgar, are Brown men. 

Howard K. Stokes, teacher, jour- 
nalist, bond dealer and, in his later 
years, banker, died in New York on 
March 24, 1928, following an op- 
eration which had kept him in the hos- 
pital since last December. He was 
born in Burlington, N. J., in 1863, 
the son of Edward Hiclcs and Ma- 
tilda Gale (Kemble) Stokes. He pre- 
pared for college at what is now 
Moses Brown School and after grad- 
uation became a teacher. He took 
his A. M. degree in 1888 and his 
Ph.D. in 1899. He gave up teaching 
to go into newspaper work, in which 
he remained until 1893, when he be- 
came teller in the Globe National 
Bank of Providence. Later he joined 
the Bankers' Life Insurance Company 
of New York and was for some years 
vice president and treasurer. He 
wrote a history of banking in Rhode 
Island and also a history of the fi- 
nances and administration of Provi- 
dence. In recent years he had been 
in the banking business in New York, 
with his home in Allenhurst, N. J. 
He was married June I, 1907, to 
Miss Agnes Montgomery Gill, and 
she and five children survive him. 
Stokes was a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa and the American Economic 
Association. He was a brother of 
former Governor Edward C. Stokes 
'83, of New Jersey. 



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Francis H. Brownell, first vice 
president of the American Smelting 
& Refining Co., and a leading figure 
in the copper industry, has been 
elected a director of the Chase Na- 
tional Bank, New York. 

1892 
William R. Dorman and Charles 
Bates Dana '99 have moved their law 
offices to 17 John St., New York. 

1893 
Word of the death of Rev. William 
E. Chalmers in Clifton Springs, N. 
Y., on April 5, 1928, came as a shock 
to members of the class and to the 
Alumni Office. He suffered a break- 
down late in March and had gone to 
the sanatorium for treatment.. To 
his widow, daughter and three sons, 
all graduates of the University, goes 
our heartfelt sympathy. A review of 
his life will appear in the next issue. 

1894 
Charles S. Aldrich is the president 
oi the Troy, N. Y., Chamber of Com- 
merce for the current year. He is a 
member of the law firm of Murphy, 
Aldrich & Guy and is prominent in 
civic matters in Troy. 

1896 

Champlin Burrage, back from his 
second archaeological trip to Europe 
in the past two years, is at present 
engaged in research work in the 
Mound Builders' country in Ohio. 
His pamphlet, "The Ithaca of the 
Odyssey," has recently been published 
by B. H. Blackwell, Ltd., Oxford, 
England, and is an engaging study in 
research. 

Rev. Dr. Clarence ^L Gallup of 
the Central Baptist Church, Provi- 
dence, has been named as the winner 
of the first prize offered by the Rhode 
Island Anti-Saloon League for the 
best sermon on Prohibition preached 
in a contest last January. Gallup's 
sonnet on the late Rev. Dr. Cornelius 
Woelfkin, which appeared in The 
Baptist, has been reprinted for distri- 
bution. 

Louis Windsor, member of the 
class for one year, died at his home in 
North Providence, R. I., on April 11, 
1928. He was one of the last "dirt 
farmers" in his community and he 
took genuine pride in his farming. 
He is survived by his widow, two 
brothers and a sister. 

1899 
A. E. Dunn's new address is Fra- 



Brown Plane Afloat 




From tlie Brown Daily Hfnikl 

The Brown Aero Club's Challenger 
plane takes the air at the Rumford 
Flying Field. 

zer, Mont. "Hope to bs back next 
year for our thirtieth anniversary," 
he wrote the Alumni Office not long 
ago. 

Mellinger E. Henry had published 
recently in the Journal of American 
Folk Lore a new version of the old 
ballad, "Barbara Allen," which he 
discovered. He also had two folk 
songs in the New Jersey Journal of 
Education. One of Henry's favorite 
haunts is the mountains of Virginia 
and the Carolinas, and during his 
trips there he has collected many na- 
tive songs and ballads. 
1900 

Dr. Joseph L. Peacock, President 
of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C, 
represented Alma Mater at the inaug- 
uration of Francis P. Gaines as presi- 
dent of Wake Forest College, Wake 
Forest, N. C, on April 25. 

Clifford S. Anderson was one of 
eleven candidates recently suggested 
by The Manufacturers' News as good 
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timber for President of the United 
States. A reporter for the Worces- 
ter, Mass., Gazette went to see An- 
derson as soon as the editorial ap- 
peared and he went back to the office 
to write that "up to press hour Mr. 
Anderson hadn't ordered any stickers, 
opened any headquarters or mapped 
out any speech-making itinerary. He 
hadn't even approached the prospect- 
ive delegates from the Fourth Con- 
gressional District or surrendered 
what was said to be a preference for 
the nomination of Herbert Hoover." 

1901 

Rev. George E. Hathaway, Captain 
of Cavalry, Rhode Island National 
Guard, has been appointed aide-de- 
camp on the staff of Governor Nor- 
.nan S. Case '08. Hathaway is a 
first-class rifle and pistol shot and an 
ardent horseman and is genuinely pop- 
ular among the State's soldiers. 

Dr. Harvey N. Davis, president- 
elect of Stevens Institute of Technol- 
ogy, Hoboken, N. J., was the guest 
of Stevens alumni and Faculty to the 
number of 900 at a dinner in New 
York in March. It was the largest 
gathering of Stevens men ever under 
one roof, we are told, and a promi- 
nent Stevens alumnus wrote our own 
Alumni Secretary that 'Davis capti- 
vated everyone by his extraordinary 
personality." He also said that Stev- 
ens "offers a wonderful opportunity 
for leadership in engineering educa- 
tion, and Dr. Davis is the man to 
achieve it." 

Harry W. Mumford's new busi- 
ness address is 401 Cornell bldg., 
Scranton, Pa., where he is practicing 
law as a member of the firm of 
Welles, Mumford & Stark. 

Dr. David C. Hall, Professor of 
Hygiene and Health Officer of the 
University of Washington, is the 
president of the Kings County 
(Washington) Medical Society for 
the current year. "His record speaks 
eloquently of achievement," said an 
article about him in a recent issue of 
the LTniversity of Washington alumni 
magazine. 

Edward D. Tweedell, assistant li- 
brarian of the John Crerar Library, 
Chicago, died in Florida on March 
30, 1928, according to a note from 
John Monk '24, secretary of the 
Brown University Club of Chicago. 
"A scholar, a gentleman, a loyal son 
of Brown who exemplified all those 
qualities true Brunonians esteem," 
said the April letter sent out to mem- 
bers of the Chicago club by Secretary 



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Monk. We shall have more about 
Tweedell and his career in the June 
issue. 

Rev. Thomas George Spencer, a 
special student with the class for a 
year, died in Orange, N. J., on March 
9 shortly after undergoing an emer- 
gency operation. He was born on the 
Isle of Guernsey, England, June 23, 
1867, the son of Thomas and Olivia 
(Murton) Spencer. He came to this 
country as a boy, studied at B. M. 
C. Durfee High School, Fall River, 
Mass., and at Drew Theological 
Seminary, from w^hich he was grad- 
uated in 1897. As a Methodist 
Episcopal minister, he held pastorates 
in Providence, Matamoras, Pa., East 
Orange, Jersey City, Ridgewood, 
Newark and Montclair, N. J. He 
was Superintendent of the Elizabeth 
District of the Newark Conference 
from 1920 to 1923, when he became 
minister at Montclair. He was mar- 
ried Oct. 4, 1899, to Miss Marion 
Evans of Mt. Carmel, Pa., and she 
survives him. 

1902 

Earl N. Manchester, formerly of 
the University Library and for the 
last seven years director of libraries 
at the University of Kansas, has been 
appointed librarian of Ohio State Uni- 
versity, effective next July i. 

G. Edward Buxton will be a del- 
egate-at-large and Abbott Phillips 
will go as a delegate from the Second 
Congressional District of Rhode Is- 
land to the Republican national con- 
vention at Kansas City. How man>' 
members of the class saw the Boston 
News Bureau's write-up of "Buck" 
under the title, "Col. Buxton, Man 
of Varied Career?" The artist's 
conception of "Buck" in the role of 
"The New England Spirit'- was a 
gem. 

Rev. Dr. Thomas Burgess, secre- 
tary of the Foreign Born Americans 
Division of the National Council of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, is 
the author of a highly interesting 
booklet, "Friends, Not Foreigners," 
issued by the Council this year to tell 
of the accomplishments of the plan 
"whereby the Protestant Episcopal 
Church has reached effectively the for- 
eign-born and their children." The 
plan, set forth eight years ago, has 
spread into all parts of the United 
States; and in its growth Tom Bur- 
gess has had a large and important 
part. Through the plan, the Church 
is now reaching forty-four different 
races. 



1903 

Percy W. Gardner was elected 
(jovernor of the Rhode Island Soci- 
ety of Mayflower Descendants at the 
annual meeting held in Providence 
last month. 

The Reunion Committee, which 
has been meeting once or twice a 
month for the past few months, has 
nearly all its lines laid for the three- 
day party at the Massasoit Hotel, 
Narragansett Pier. The plan is to go 
to the Pier on Friday afternoon, June 
15, and remain until Monday morn- 
ing, June 18, leaving early enough on 
Monday to participate in the Com- 
mencement procession. Some fifty 
members of the class have already sig- 
nified their intention of being present. 
The number includes one from Geor- 
gia, one from Florida, one from West 
Virginia, and one from Ohio. There 
are at least twenty more men that the 
committee is reasonably certain will 
be here, but who have not yet sent in 
their replies. Jack Cady is hard at 
work on preparations for an anniver- 



sary book. Send your biographical 
data to him, please, without further 
delay ! 

1905 

Rev. Willard L. Pratt, pastor of 
the Stoughton Street Baptist Church, 
Boston, is one of the New England 
ministers who are sponsors for the 
Ambassadors Boy's Camp, Ocean 
Park, Me., where it is planned to 
bring some 300 boys together two 
weeks next July for religious and 
manual instruction and play. Pratt 
described the scheme of the camp in 
the Watchman-Examiner for March 
15, 1928. 

Captain F. Webster Cook, U. S. 
A., until recently stationed at Fort 
Adams, Newport, has sailed for Ma- 
nila, Philippine Islands, where he 
will remain for the next two years on 
duty at Fort Mills. Before he left, 
he was the guest at lunch of some of 
his old cronies in Zeta Psi. 

Charlie Seddon's death in Litch- 
field, Me., on March 8, 1928, fol- 
lowed nine years of suffering which 



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Only when he returns 
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again, Charlie nevertheless kept his 
spirit and his smile to the last. Let- 
ters to Charlie Robinson, the Alumni 
Office and to other friends showed the 
courage and the cheerfulness that was 
in him. Charlie was born Charles 
Henry Seddon in Blackley, Manches- 
ter, England, Oct. 11, i88j, the son 
of Robert and Ellen M. (Powell) 
Seddon. He came to college from 
Classical High School, Providence, 
and after graduation went into the 
stationery business, in which he was 
increasingly successful until 1917, 
when, as a Sergeant, first-class, in the 
ambulance company, R. I. N. G., he 
left Providence to go to France with 
the 26th Division. In January, 1918, 
he slipped on the ice in the trenches 
and fell on his back. The injury, at 
first thought slight, grew steadily 
worse, although Charlie never gave 
in to it until a long time after the war 
was over. During the Peace Confer- 
ence he was a special courier travel- 
ling between Paris and European 
points and Paris and Washington. 
He came home in 1919, still under 
treatment, and went to Camp Meigs 
where he remained as a soldier until 
April, 1920. He was assistant man- 
ager of the Chevrolet Motor Car 
Co., Providence, for about two years. 
Then he had to resign ; and from 1922 
until a few months before his death, 
he spent all of his time in Govern- 
ment hospitals in the vain effort to 
cure the paralysis that had seized 
him. As a patient, he learned to 
make beaded bags and pocketbooks, 
and he helped support himself by the 
sale of his handiwork. He was mar- 
ried June 28, 1920, to Rosa de Lima 
Prather, who survives him, together 
with a daughter, Ora Prather Sed- 
don. His mother, Mrs. E. M. 
Stubb;, also survives. Charlie was a 
communicant of Grace Church and a 
member of Mt. Vernon Lodge of 
Masons, Providence. His collection 
of war souvenirs has been given to the 
L niversity. 

John H. McGough was the prin- 
cipal speaker at the last annual dinner 
and entertainment of the Kiwanis 
Club of Brockton, Mass. Dr. C. D. 
McCann '07, president of the club, 
introduced Jack as a fellow Thespian 
of Sock and Buskin days and said that 
Jack would answer the question, "Is 
Poetry the Bunk?" Bill Drohan also 
had a few words to say about his 
poetic classmate. 

1906 

Harris Stone is chief draftsman 

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with the Safety Car Heating & Light 
Co., and is living at 8j2 Quinnipiac 
ave.. New Haven, Conn. 
1907 
Heinie EIrod, long a resident of 
California, has come East again and 
is doing sales work in New England 
for the United States Chain Co., 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Heinie was in Prov- 
idence last month and had lunch with 
Claude Branch, Victor Schwartz and 
Al Gurney. He has a boy in high 
school in San Francisco who will re- 
turn East next fall to complete his 
preparatory education. 

Cliff Slade was re-elected a vice 
president of the United Electric Rail- 
ways Company of Providence at the 
last annual election. 

A trophy in memory of Alfred W. 
Dickinson was presented to each win- 
ner in the last annual indoor track 
meet at the Massachusetts High 
School Athletic Association, of which 
Dick was one of the founders and in 
which he was a leading spirit until 
his death. 

1908 

Rev. John Howard Lever, last re- 
ported in Philadelphia, is pastor of 
Trinity Episcopal Church, Lincoln, 
Neb., and lives at 1222 J St., in the 
late Mr. Bryan's old town. 

John Mackenzie's latest card car- 
ries the news that he is doing a real 
estate and insurance business at 1 5 
Rue des Beiges, Cannes, France. John 
has written that he would like to be 
back for the 20th Reunion, but doubts 
if he can do so. 

1909 

Dr. Harold M. Frost is now as- 
sociate medical director with the New 
England Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
He is also chief surgeon for the Bos- 
ton & Albany Railroad. 

Eddie Mayer of the law firm of 
Altheimer & Mayer, 10 South La- 
Salle St., Chicago, announces the ad- 
mission to partnership of five attor- 
neys who have been associated with 
him for some years. Looks as if Ed- 
die's firm were a busy one, and up and 
coming. 

Charlie Briggs, who for about a 
year has been a resident of Dallas, 
Texas, where he is engaged in- the 
export cotton business, shuffles back 
and forth between New England and 
Texas and is also expecting to visit 
France this spring on business mat- 
ters. 

Howard H. Payne has been named 
as one of two delegates from the 




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In the memory of many now liv- 
ing, Alexander Graham Bell made 
the apparently rash prediction that 
the day would come when we could talk to 
other countries, even across wide expanses 
of water. That was shortly after the his- 
toric conversation between Boston and 
Cambridge, a distance of two miles. 

Bell's vision was made a reality when in 
1926 New York and London spoke to- 
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Third Rhode Island District to the 
National Republican Convention. 

Plans are under way for the Class 
Reunion this spring. The Committee 
consists of Messrs. Poland, Huxford 
and Sherwood. Announcement will 
be made by the Committee in due 
course. Attractive arrangements are 
being planned. 

Harold Tanner and John Wells 
are actively interested in the Provi- 
dence Y. \I. C. A., which at the 
present time is conducting a campaign 
for added funds. 

The Saigon, Indo China, paper re- 
cently printed the following with re- 
gard to our classmate Johnny May- 
hew: Les resultats due Campionnat 
de golf de 1927. La finale jouee en- 
tre M. Petersen M. Mayhew a ete 
tres interessante parce que la lutte 
fut tres serree de bout en bout. Jus- 
qu'au I5e trou M. Petersen a pris 
avantage sur M. Mayhew. Celui ci 
a gagne le i6e trou le mettant a eg- 
alite avec son adversaire. Perdant le 
trou suivant il a pu egaliser au i8e. 
Le jeu a ete de plus en plus serre, 
personne n'a pris I'avantage jusqu'au 
ige mais le 2oe trou a ete finalment 
gagne par M. Mayhew, qui merite 
son titre de Champion. 

1910 

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claimed Harold L. Wheeler in Mus- 
kegon, Mich., on March 3, 1928. 
Throughout his long illness, Harold 
maintained his cheerfulness and, above 
all, his interest in the Hackley Public 
Library, of which he was the libra- 
rian, and in the world of affairs, 
Brown included. He was born in 
Fall River, Mass., Jan. 14, 1889, the 
son of Rev. George Stevens and 
Mary Jane (Draffin) Wheeler. He 
came to Brown from Providence Clas- 
sical High School, took his A. B. 
with the class, and his B. L. S. at the 
New York State Library School in 
1913. For two years after he left the 
Hill he was an assistant in the read- 
ing room of the Library of Congress. 
After taking his library degree, he 
became librarian of a branch of the 
New York Public Library and in 
1916 he went to Rolla, Mo., as libra- 
rian of the Missouri School of Mines. 
He stayed there five years, during 
which he served as President of the 
Missouri Library Association and, in 
the war period, in charge of the books 
at Camp Humphreys, Va. He 
was also instrumental in having 
passed the. law giving counties in Mis- 
souri the right to establish libraries. 
In 1 92 1 he accepted the call from 
Muskegon to become librarian of the 
Hackley Public Library. Here Har- 
old showed his real ability. He re- 
organized and built up the library so 
that to-day it is a strong, vital force 
in its community. "Mr. Wheeler has 
put the Muskegon library abreast of 
the best," said the leading editorial in 
the Muskegon Chronicle of March 
5, 1928. "It has become a great pub- 
lic university of information, serving 
the needs of every class of citizen 
alike. Such a development of an in- 
stitution in our midst cannot be over- 
appreciated." Surely the tribute was 
genuine and deserved. Harold is sur- 
vived by a widow, who was Kate 
Weston Tipton of Washington, D. 
C, and by four brothers, one of 
whom is Joseph L. Wheeler '06, li- 
brarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Li- 
brary, Baltimore, Md. He was a 
member of the American Library As- 
sociation and Phi Kappa Psi. An 
earnest, friendly classmate, we shall 
miss him. 

1911 
Bill Hastie — now the Rev. Wil- 
liam I. Hastie — is minister of the 
Paseo Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Kansas City, Mo., and his home ad- 
dress is 5845 Highland ave., Kansas 
City. The church is a new one, only 
three years old, yet it has a member- 
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ship of nearly 400 and is growing 
fast in a residence section of the 
beauty for which Kansas City is no- 
ted. This month the Methodists of 
Bill's district will entertain the Gen- 
eral Conference — they expect 75,000 
visitors during the 30 days — and Bill 
will act as director of music. 
1912 

Harry M. Sutton wore his friend- 
liest smile for the picture that we saw 
of him in an April issue of the Bos- 
ton Sunday Herald. Harry is a 
member of the executive committee 
of the L^niversity Glee Club of Bos- 
ton, which gave its first concert last 
month. 

E. Payson Blanchard, advertising 
and assistant sales manager of the 
Bullard Machine Company, Bridge- 
port, Conn., was the speaker at the 
March meeting of the Hartford, 
Conn., chapter of the National Asso- 
ciation of Credit. Blanchard is act- 
ively connected with the "Forward 
New England Movement" in eco- 
nomic research and analysis in pro- 
duction and marketing of New Eng- 
land goods. 

Joe Conzelman has lately accepted 
a position as assistant general man- 
ager with the Alabama Rock Asphalt, 
Inc., Pioneer bldg., Birmingham 
The company produces bituminous 
limestone. Not long ago Joe had 
lunch with Bill Wilmarth '11 in Lit- 
tle Rock, Ark., and of course they 
talked most of the time about Brown. 

Alan Slade's house address is 6 
Summit court, Flushing, N. V. Alan 
is president of the Baronet Mills, Inc., 
College Point, N. Y. 

Earl Perkins, our secretary, and 
Mrs. Perkins have the sympathy of 
the class in the loss of their little 
daughter, Cynthia Ellen Perkins, 
whose death occurred in Providence 
in February. 

Wilbur Deming, writing to Presi- 
dent Fauiice from Satara, India, 
where he is engaged in missionary 
work, says that "The Alumni 
Monthly brings me the college news 
from month to month. I hope that 
Brown will remain on a selective ba- 
sis, thus ensuring a cultural and qual- 
ity education to its students." Dem- 
ing likewise had some comment on the 
chaotic social outlook in India, clos- 
ing with the hopeful note that "in 
the main. Christian work is making 
remarkable progress and the Indian 
Christian church will undoubtediv 
have a noteworthy contribution to of- 
fer the church universal." 




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time to kill. Particularly if you have not seen each other for years . , . 
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1913 

Ed Murphy, sub-master of the 
Utica Country Day School, New- 
Hartford, N. Y., is attracting edu- 
cators by his method of teaching sci- 
ence which he explained in a recent 
number of "Science and ALithemat- 
ics." All the world is a laboratory, 
as Ed looks at it, and he is using it 
as such instead of sticking too closely 
to textbooks. 

The MacMillan Company has pub- 
lished "A College Textbook of Hy- 
giene," by Dean Franklin Smiley and 
Dr. Adrian G. Gould of our class, 
now assistant medical adviser and as- 
sistant professor of hygiene, Cornell 
University. Gould's new address is 
120 Irving place, Ithaca, N. Y. 
1914 

Reggie Nash is in his eleventh year 
as baseball coach at Milton Academy, 
and as he began the season his teams 
had won 89 times in 122 starts. 
There's a record for any schoolboy 
coach to shoot at. Wish we could 
have more of Reggie's products come 
to Brown, but most of them matric- 
ulate at Harvard. 

Nathan M. Wright, Jr., has be- 
come a member of the new law firm 
of Voigt, O'Neil & Wright, with 
offices at 85 Westminster St., Provi- 
dence. 

Fritz Hazard is going to the Re- 



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well, but as for method — I 

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answer. We have sent thousands 
of our budget sheets to wives who 
have attacked this problem. 

To business men who care about 
ordered and reasonable expendi- 
ture and saving — that is, the in- 
troduction of business methods 
into the home — we recommend 
the John Hancock Home Budget 
Sheet. 

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will be glad to send you a copy, 
or one can be obtained by writing 
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publican national convention at Kan- 
sas City as a delegate from the Sec- 
ond Congressional District of Rhode 
Island. Fritz is living in Saunders- 
town, R. I. 

191 5 

H. G. (Heinie) Nelson has been 
appointed manager of the Fifth Av- 
enue, New York, retail store of the 
Gorham Company. Heinie has been 
acting as assistant superintendent of 
the store for some time. Before he 
went to New York he was in charge 
of the flatware production depart- 
ment at the Gorham factory in Provi- 
dence. 

Roland Stickney, former member 
of the class, reports that he is a de- 
signer with LeBaron, Inc., automo- 
bile custom coach builders. His office 
is at 724 Fifth ave., New York, and 
his home is at 9 Mayfair ave.. Floral 
Park, N. Y. He has two children, 
Alden and Marian, and of course we 
expect to have Alden enrolled at 
Brown in good time. (Note by the 
editor of the Monthly : Why not Ma- 
rian ?) 

1916 

David Steel is a physician at the 
Cleveland City Hospital and is mak- 
ing his headquarters at the L^niver- 
sity Club, Cleveland. 
1917 

Solon C. Kelley, Jr., reports that 
he is now associated with the Smith- 
Ernster Laboratories, Inc., 80 Erie 
St., Cambridge, Mass. 

Clarence H. Woodmansee, with 
the M. D. after his name that he re- 
ceived from Washington University, 
St. Louis, in 1925, is associated in 
practice with Dr. E. D. Che.sebro 
'87, with his office at 2 Hawthorne 
St., Providence. 

Harvey Sheahan's present busi- 
ness address is Room 2310, 2 Rector 
St., New York. Harvey is down in 
Barranquilla, Colombia, so Tom Ap- 
pleget kindly tells us, selling invest- 
ments. Seems to us Harvey has 
spent most of his time in "furreign" 
lands since he left the Hill. 

A pleasant note from Ken Flanders 
not long ago told us that a plan was 
under way to get more news into 
the Monthly about men of the class 
and the news was just the kind we 
like to get. Ken is still with the 
Bradstreet Company, 983 Main St., 
Hartford, Conn., and still believes he 
has a winning baseball game or two 
in his good right arm. 

Chauncey B. Ladd sends in his card 
262 



from St. Louis, Mo., to tell us that 
he is a salesman with the Fidelity & 
Deposit Co., of Maryland, with of- 
fices at 1052 Pierce bldg., in Colonel 
Lindbergh and Chapin Newhard's 
favorite city. 

1918 

Cy Flanders continues to earn his 
bread and butter as assistant manager 
of the Hartford, Conn., office of the 
Bradstreet Company, but in his spare 
time, we hear, he is a member of the 
Board of Education of Windsor 
Locks, financial secretary of the 
Board, on the Republican Town 
Committee, Commander of the local 
post of the American Legion and a 
leader in the "Boost Windsor Locks" 
movement. The rest of his waking 
moments he devotes to what he calls 
"the finest family of future Brown 
men anywhere around." Looks as if 
Cy were really enjoying life. 

Dr. Armand L. Caron announces 
the opening of an office for the treat- 
ment of diseases of ear, nose ana 
throat at 629-630 Slater bldg., 390 
Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

Burton Harrington's new address 
is Room 818, 165 W. Wacker Drive, 
Chicago. Burt, one of the best au- 
thorities in the country on poster ad- 
vertising, was originator of the idea 
by which the American Legion is tell- 
ing the world of its purposes and 
ideals through some of the most artis- 
tic billboard posters we have yet seen. 

All aboard for the Tenth Reunion! 
The class will gather at Sakonnet Inn 
on Saturday, June 16, and will re- 
turn to the campus Monday, June 18, 
in time to join in the Commencement 
procession. The Reunion Committee, 
Harold Wilcox, chairman, Walter 
Adler, secretary, John Chafee, Joe 
Cummings, George Heidt, Clifton 
Munroe and Harold Williams, is 
working hard to bring every possible 
191 8 man back. So come on, you 
hesitaters and doubtful ones, get go- 
ing and make yom- plans to be on 
deck when the bell rings! It's going 
to be a Reunion that you don't want 
to miss. The new Commencement 
Week w^as made to order for you. 
All aboard ! 

1919 

Eddie Howell is a commercial esti- 
mates engineer with the New York 
Telephone Company an lives at 1 1 40 
Anderson ave., New York. 

Fritz Pollard reports that he is 
manager of the Silver Creek Coal Co., 
83 East 35th St., Chicago. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1920 

"Johnny" Brooks was the speaker 
at the spring rally of the Hi-Y Club 
of Rahway, N. J., arranged to inter- 
est boys in going to college. Johnny, 
according to the newspapers, gave the 
boys a fine talk in his best and snap- 
piest style. 

Don Shaw, for the past few years 
advertising manager for the Hunter 
Mfg. 5: Commission Co., has joined 
the staff of Dorrance-Sullivan & Co., 
advertising agents. New York, as an 
accountant executive. Don is the au- 
thor of the slogan, "This Is Cotton 
Year," which had a wide vogue in 
1927. 

Gaston Welton was a campus vis- 
itor last month, on his way back to 
New York from Billerica. Mass., 
where he conducts during the summer 
Pine Grove Camp for boys and girls. 
AVelton is teaching biology and is also 
disciplinary officer at New L'trecht 
High School. 

Stone House, Sakonnet, R. I., June 
16 and 17! The place and the dates 
to remember, men ! The Class will 
foregather at Sakonnet Vith 191 8 and 
1923, and, according to Bill Dewart, 
in charge of preliminaries, there will 
be plenty doing to satisfy everybody, 
from riparian sports and golf to just 
plain sitting around and talking. The 
start will be made from the Univer- 
sity Club, Providence, shortly after I 
o'clock, Saturday, June 16. Let's go! 

Russell Besser has changed his home 
address to 407 N. Harvey ave., Oak 
Park, 111. He is still with the Phoe- 
nix Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, 
Conn. 

Mike DeFillipis is recuperating, 
with apparent success, so we learn, 
from tuberculosis at Albuquerque, N. 
M., where his address is 1303 East 
Silver ave. He has decided to give 
up his work at the University of 
Michigan, Department of Romance 
Languages, and seek a place in the 
south or west when he becomes well 
again. 

Cliff Lovenberg is the president of 
the newly-organized Providence 
Alumni Chapter of Sigma Nu. 

Lawrence Atkins is associated in a 
sales capacity with the Connecticut 
Mutual Life Insurance Co., 51 State 
St., Albany, N. Y. Atkins reports 
that his boy Donald is now seven 
months old and has already learned 
the chorus of "Ki Yi Yi." 

Carl Ely lives at 41 Pleasant ave., 
New Haven, Conn., and is working 
for Frederick B. Stevens, Inc., 
foundry, polishing and plating sup- 
plies. 







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1921 

George Ashbey was the April 
speaker before the Women's Adver- 
tising Club of Providence, with 
his subject, "Writing Between the 
Lines." 

It's Dr. Edgar B. Cochrane now 
and his office is at 106 Davison St., 
West, Detroit, Mich. He received 
his medical degree from the Univer- 
sity of Michigan. 

Dr. Frank P. Massaniso is serving 
as an assistant instructor in urology 
at the Medical School, University of 
Pennsylvania, this semester. 
1922 

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Our Class President, Charlie Pink- 
ham, seems to be progressing with real 
strides in the business world. The 
latest Lynn, Mass., "Who's Who" 
lists him as carrying on a variety of 
activities. Charlie and Mrs. Pink- 
ham and Charlie, Jr., live at 142 
Ocean St., Lynn. 

Gordon D. Smith is with Coombe, 
Kerr and Pratt Co., stock brokers at 
100 Broadway, N. Y. The Smiths — 
this includes young Mr. Neil Glover 
Smith — live at 30 Snowden place, 
Glen Ridge, N. J. 

Milt Bates returned to the Orient 
after our Fifth Reunion last June and 
is now with the National City Bank 
in Harbin, Manchuria. A short time 
ago he once again took the leading 
role in "Nothing But the Truth," in 
aid of a municipal soup kitchen. Last 
year Milt played the part in Tokio. 
He's the Sock and Buskin's traveling 
missionary, without doubt. 

Milt Glover is assistant sales man- 
ager for the J. G. White Co., in- 
vestments, 37 Wall St. "Moon" is 
living the bachelor's life out in Glen 
Ridge, N. J., at present. 

Lloyd McAllister is chief test en- 
gineer with the Lukens Steel Co., 
Coatesville, Pa. At the last national 
convention of the American Iron and 
Steel Institute, Lloyd was one of the 
speakers. Incidentally, there's a new 
McAllister (girl) in the house at 
1212 Olive St., Coatesville. 

1923 

E. R. (Jock) Joslyn was admitted 
to partnership in the firm of Bitting 
& Co., investments, 316 North Eighth 
St., St. Louis, Mo., last month. An 
all-Brown firm if there ever was one, 
with William C. Bitting '08, Kenneth 
H. Bitting '20n, Chapin S. Newhard 
'22 and Joslyn in it. 

Noyes Stickney has been teaching 
this year at the Grafton High School, 
Grafton, Mass. We tell of his en- 
gagement in another column. 

Steve McClellan, who spent sev- 
eral months recently in Nicaragua on 
business for the Pratt & Whitney 
Aircraft Corporation, is the author of 
a series of three articles on aviation 
which have been appearing in the Cir- 
cle, the national magazine of Zeta 
Psi. 

Walter Becket will receive his M. 
D. degree from Meharry Medical 
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College, Nashville, Tenn., this month 
and thereafter will become an interne 
in the George W. Hubbard Hospital. 
He writes that he hopes to be able to 
come back to Providence for a short 
visit next summer. 

Bob Spellman expects to complete 
his studies at the New York Law 
School next month and at the same 
time take the New York bar exami- 
nations. 

Wy Worthington is manager of 
the Philadelphia office of the M. S. 
Little Mfg. Co., 515 Otis bldg., i6th 
and Lansom St., and is living at 48 
Wellington road, Ardmore, Pa. 

Dick Almy admits that he is still 
working hard in the print works of 
the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass. 

Report has it that Mike Gulian is 
developing into a golfer who can hit 
'em high, far and handsome. Mike 
denied indignantly not long ago that 
he had forsaken football for the older 
and more leisurely game. 

The Reunion Committee has sent 
notices to all members of the class, 
describing the., Fifth Reunion, to be 
held at the Sakonnet Inn, June 16 
and 17. The Class of 19 18 is also 
gathering at Sakonnet, and although 
the boys in that class have a five-year 
edge on 1923, we intend to show them 
just what class spirit really is. Like- 
wise we'll probably give them some 
good instruction in baseball, swim- 
ming, golf and what have you. From 
every viewpoint it's going to be an ex- 
tremely interesting week end. If you 
haven't yet made up your mind to be 
there, now's the time to shake ofif the 
indecision, send in your card and be 
ready to answer to your name when 
the roll is called. 

1924 

Vern Ellington reports that he is 
in business as a civil engineer, with 
his headquarters at 490 Broad ave., 
Leonia, N. J. 

Bob Freeman is a mechanical en- 
gineer with the American Water 
Works Corporation, with his business 
address at 50 Broad St., New York. 

Wes Hayward has been made asso- 
ciate general manager of the National 
Life Insurance Company of Vermont 
in Rhode Island. 

Tony Migliaccio, with his degree 
in medicine from Harvard assured, 
has entered upon two years of service 
as interne at the Rhode Island Hos- 
pital, Providence. "It sure will be a 
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to Old Brown and take active interest 
in what's doing on the campus," said 
Tony in a recent letter. 

Eddie Place, publicity director at 
Northeastern University, Boston, was 
co-author of the musical comedy, 
"Yes, Yes Siam," produced by the 
dramatic society of Northeastern last 
month. Eddie's co-worker was none 
other than Pat Kenny '25, and Eddie 
and he admit that their brainchild was 
so "terrible that it was bound to be a 
big success." 

1925 

Fordyce Lozier, sometimes known 
as Fliv, has come back to Providence 
to work for the Merchants Protect- 
ive Service, 87 Broadway. 

Charlie Morhouse, instructor in bi- 
ology' at Lehigh University, is a char- 
ter member of the new chapter of the 
Society of the Sigma Xi recently 
formed at Lehigh. 

Harold Higgins, former member 
of the class, is the commercial man- 
ager of the Westinghouse radio sta- 
tions WBZ-WBZA, Springfield and 
Boston, Mass. Higgins's business ad- 
dress is Hotel Statler, Boston, and his 
house is at 168 ^L-^plewoad St., Wa- 
tertown, Mass. 

Pat Sayward has become associated 
with Edgar B. Davis, dealing in rub- 
ber and oil, with offices at 366 Mad- 
ison ave., New Y'ork. Pat's engage- 
ment, on which we congratulate him 

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Seven sons of Brown men have 
been enrolled. 

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corded in another column. 

Paul Hayden is in the sales depart- 
ment of the Westinghouse Electric 
and Mfg. Co., with his headquarters 
at 601 Home Savings Bank bldg., Al- 
bany, N. Y. Paul was married last 
June to Miss Margaret Carter Hin- 
dle, and he and Mrs. Hayden are 
living at 6g Eileen St., Albany. 

1926 

Stewart L. Barker died in Tucson, 
Arizona, Feb. 20, 1928. After 
spending practically four years work- 
ing his way through college, Stewie, 
as he was known on the campus, was 
stricken with tuberculosis in May, 
1926. That was six weeks before he 
would have received a well-earned en- 
gineering degree. He went to the 
home of friends in Bangor, Me., 
never to return to the Hill he loved 
so strongly. His parents dead before 
him, Stewie fought gamely — and at 
times quite alone — for almost two 
years before losing out to his dread 
enemy. Penniless himself, but with 
money subscribed by friends, he mov- 
ed to Arizona in a final effort to come 
back. There in Tucson his hope was 
calm, even though he was never sure 
where the money for his next meal 
was coming from. His friends in old 
U. H., where he lived during his 
years in college, will not soon forget 
him. 

Paul Spencer has been teaching 
English since last February at Villa- 
nova School, Ojai, California. "We 
were no closer than fifteen miles 
from the nearest assault of the flood 
you've been reading about," said Paul 
in a letter to the Alumni Office. 
"However, that's not a very safe mar- 
gin, is it?" 

Henri Fournet, after a year and a 
half in insurance, is studying law at 
Fordham University Law School, to 
which he commutes from White 
Plains, N. Y. 

Sydney Feig is with his brother in 
the furniture business in New York. 
Syd hated to think of the work when 
he started, but he is beginning to like 
it now, we hear. 

Les Kelly is with the General Mo- 
tors Acceptance Corporation, New 
York. Les and George Hume and 
Jap Gude were living together in the 
big town, but their landlord, the 
story goes, insisted on greater peace 
and quiet than they thought was nec- 
essary and so they broke up house- 
keeping. 

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Charlie Hall, who is with Bartley 
Bros, and Hall, wholesale leather 
goods. New York, has gone and got 
engaged to Miss Janet Rowland, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
Rowland. Mr. Rowland is District 
Attorney for Westchester County, 
New York. 

Karl Heine, who left college to 
continue his studies at University of 
Minnesota, from which he was grad- 
uated last June, is learning the ba- 
kery business with Cushman's Sons in 
New York. Karl still hangs up his 
hat in White Plains. 



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Ed Coons reports that he has 
changed his address from Ann Arbor, 
Mich., to 3525 Davenport St., N. W., 
Washington, D. C, but he doesn't 
tell what he is doing in that politi- 
cally-minded city. 

A recently compiled list of '26 men 
who are with the Bell S\stem, which 
takes in all of the big telephone com- 
panies, includes Elliott Cruise, Reggie 
Farrow, Johnny Hargrove, Gordon 
Needham and Joe Hopkins. Joe is 
farthest from home, being with the 
Western Electric Company and living 
in that hotbed of gangsters, Cicero, 
III. 

Frank Hayes, one of the fastest 
basketball players the L^niversity has 
had in recent years, kept in the game 
the past season as a substitute with a 
semi-professional team in Syracuse, 
N. Y. 

Gordon Dewart is assistant pub- 
licity director at Northeastern Uni- 
versity, Boston, his chief being Eddie 
Place '24. You'll read all about Gor- 
don's engagement in another column. 

1927 

Bud Provonchee is selling bonds 
for E. H. Rollins & Sons, 306 Turks 
Head bldg., Providence. Bud has a 
car which will stand without hitching 
and in it he carries his wares and his 
smile — and it's a real smile that Bud 
has — to much of the territory round- 
about Providence. 

Charlie Kenney's new address is 
814 South Theresa ave., St. Louis, 
Mo. Charlie is covering the St. 



Louis territory for the Kenney Mfg. 
Co., makers of extension rods. 

Don Brewer, who finished his work 
at the LTniversity last February, has 
fetched up in Lockport, N. Y., his 
old home town, where he is a member 
of the local sales force handling Frig- 
idaire. "Seems strange indeed to be 
out of good old Providence and into 
a completely different world, so to 
speak," said Don in a recent letter. 
"But I'm ideally located and very 
comfortable." 

W. R. Bushnell is a salesman with 
the Aluminum Company of America, 
with his business address at the Alu- 
minum Club, New Kensington, Pa. 

Eddie Bromage is an insurance ad- 
juster with Woodhouse & Cornwall, 
983 Main St., Hartford, Conn. Ed- 
die says that some day soon he hopes 
to begin the study of law. 

Harold Kirby, telegraph editor of 
the Pawtucket Times, won the richly 
jeweled fraternity pin offered by the 
Delta Lambda Chapter of Sigma Nu 
for the best student in the chapter 
during the academic year 1926-27. 

A lively letter from Ray Adams 
not long ago brought the news that 
Ray is on a ranch in Kernville, Cal., 
"riding range and spending my spare 
time in an attempt at writing." Ray 
confessed that he has produced about 
twenty short stories and has been at 
work on a novel "which I have torn 
up." But he is sure , that he will 
climb the ladder yet," and we are bet- 
ting on him to succeed. 





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ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Muriel Violet Kettelle, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Bradford Kettelle of Edgewood, R. 
I., to Elmer R. Smith '26. 

Miss Alice Wangenheim, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. George Wangen- 
heim of New Haven, Conn., to Mil- 
ton B. Salzmaii '26n. 

Miss Margaret Nelson, daughter 
of Professor and Mrs. Bertram G. 
Nelson of the LTniversity of Chicago, 
to Franklin D. Elmer, jr., '27. 

Miss Margaret Rosemary Smith, 
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Smith 
of Valley Falls, R. I., to William A. 
Graham '16. 

Miss Marion Dodge King, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. King 
of Providence, to Donald I. Ball '27. 

Miss Catherine Ludwine Ash- 
worth, daughter of Mrs. Matilda 
Ashworth of Pawtucket, R. I., to 
James B. Corey 'i9n. 

Miss Madeline Louise Cutler, 
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Julian S. 
Cutler of Orange, Mass., to Charles 

B. Dixon, former halfback on the 
L'niversity football eleven. 

Miss Emma Dickerman, daughter 
of Mrs. Robert K. Dickerman of 
Brookline, Mass., to Gordon Dewart 
'26n of Boston. 

Miss Althea Woodhull, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Clifford Wood- 
hull of Summit, N. J., to Parkman 
Sayward '25 of New York. Miss 
Woodhull is a graduate of Dana 
Hall, Wellesley, Mass. 

Miss Eleanor MacTaggart, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney A. Mac- 
Taggart of Portland, Me., to Walter 
R. Cole '20n of Kennebunk, Me. 

Miss Jeanette Dora Perlman, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett 
Perlman of Providence, to Walter 
KatzNelson '25. 

Miss Rosamond Phyllis Fairbanks, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. 
Fairbanks of Keene, N. H., to Noyes 

C. Stickney '2^. 

WEDDINGS 

Faculty — Professor Harold R. 
Chidsey of the Department of Phi- 
losophy and Miss Elizabeth Ann 
Brink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles M. Brink of Palo Alto, Cal., 
were married in Providence at the 
home of Professor and Mrs. Walter 
G. Everett on April 4, 1928. Most 
of the guests at the wedding were 
members of the Faculty. 



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1884 — George M. Wadswoith and 
AL'ss Alice M. Warfield of Whitman, 
Mass., were married in \Vhitman on 
March 26, 1928. The date was cho- 
sen because there had been three wed- 
dings on ALarch 26 in Mr. Wads 
worth's family. The Wadsworths 
attended the National Congress of 
the D. A. R. in Washington during 
the weeic of April 16. Mrs. Wads- 
worth is regent of Capt. John Pulling 
Chapter. 

igiyn — Henry A. Batchelor, 3rd, 
and Mrs. Alice Stearns Foster were 
married in Chicago, 111., on April 7, 
1928. 

1919 — George T. Welch and Aliss 
Eleanor Austin Allen, daughter of 
Mrs. Edith Day Allen, were married 
in Providence on March 30, 1928. 
Philip A. Welch '23 was an usher. 
Mr. and Mrs. Welch are living on 
Clinton St., Cambridge, Mass. 

1922 — Warren T. Chandler and 
Miss Gertrude Catlin, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Catlin, were 
married in St. Louis, Mo., on March 
22, 1928. William M. Cushman '23 
was best man, and Chapin S. New- 
hard '22 and Lawrence Lanpher '23 
of Providence were ushers. Other 
Brown men at the wedding were E. 
R. Joslyn '23, John B. Abbott '15 
and G. W. Neidringhaus '28n. Mr. 
and Mrs. Chandler are spending their 
honeymoon in France and Italy. 

1925 — Robert ^V. Kenny and Miss 
Gertrude Frances Brady, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Irving L. Brady, were 
married in Westfield, N. J., on 
March 24, 1928. William J. Dugan 
'25 was best man. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kenny are at home at 78 Boston St., 
Somerville, Mass. Next September 
they will come to Providence to live. 

1925 — Horace D. Blomstedt and 
Miss Agnes Lillie Chambers were 
married in Lynn, Mass., on April 7, 
1928. Blomstedt has been an in- 
structor in electrical engineering at 
the L^niversity during the present ac- 
ademic year. He and Mrs. Blom- 
stedt will make their home in Rum- 
ford, R. I. 

BIRTHS 

1 91 2 — To Rev. and Mrs. Clarence 
F. Gifford of Assonet, Mass., a son, 
Clarence Frank Gifford, Jr., on Oct. 
29, 1927. 

I9i2n — To Mr. and Mrs. Haw- 
thorne Howland of Madison, Conn., 
a second son, Paul, on March 28, 
1928. 



1913 — To Dr. and Mrs. Adrian 
G. Gould of Ithaca, N. Y., a second 
daughter, Caroline Marcella, on Dec. 
21, 1927. 

191 4n — To Mr. and Mrs. Ed- 
mund S. Parsons of Providence, a 
daughter, Virginia Henderson, on 
March 30, 1928. 

19 1 8 — To Mr. and Mrs. J. Irving 
McDowell of Providence, a daughter 
Nancy Church, on April 4, 1928. 

I9i8n — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
B. Malone of Providence, a daughter, 
Janet Douglas, on April 3, 1928. 

1920— To Mr. and Mrs. Seth B. 
Gifford of Eden Park, R. I., a son, 
Frederick Barney, on Feb. 16, 1928. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Stanton 
L. Rowley of Bloomfield, N. J., a 
daughter, Louise, on April 5, 1928. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. David 
Midgley of Albany, N. Y., a daugh- 
ter, Dorothy Ann, on March 8, 1928. 

1925— To Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen 
Smith, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., a 
son, Robert Allen, on March 13, 
1928. 



Alumnae Notes 

On March 1 1 at 4:00 the Brown 
Alumnae String Ensemble gave its 
first musicale to a group of members 
of the Brown Alumnae Club of Prov- 
idence and guests. Alumnae belong- 
ing to the ensemble are Ruth Marvel, 
pianist; Helen Briggs, Lois Campbell, 
Iva Stone, Barbara Mitchell, Edith 
Remington and Eliza Cooke, violins. 
Other alumnae who are interested in 
stringed instruments are invited to 
join, and may do so by getting in 
touch with Barbara Mitchell, 964 
Laurel Hill ave.. Providence. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Worcester County held a food sale on 
January 13. On January 16 it spon- 
sored a performance in the Worcester 
Theatre. The proceeds of both these 
activities are to be devoted to thi- 
quota of the club for the Alumnae 
Hall Fund. 

1910 
On Dec. 12, 1927, Flora Marie 
Rausch, a former member of the class 
of 1910, died at Oak Bluffs, Mass. 
1912 
Dorothy C. Walter, director of 
the Girl Scout Council of Springfield, 
Vermont, has resigned her position. 
At present she is staying in Provi 
dence with her uncle and aunt, Dr. 
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Albert R. Plant, President 

John B. Branch, Vice President 

Charles P. Brown, Cashier 



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C. Moulton Stone Fletcher S. Mason 
Chas. H. Merriman Henry S. Chafee 
Frank O. Field Frank L. Hinckley 
John B. Branch Charles D. Dunlop 
Albert R. Plant Francis M. Smith 
William A. Viall G. Edward Buxton 



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SURPLUS 2,500,000 

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Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board 
Thomas L. Pierce, President 
Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier 
Willard I. Angell, Vice President 
Franli L. Sawyer, Assistant Cashier 
George A. Freeman, Assistant Cashier 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 



Directors 



Robert W. Taft 
Charles H. Newell 
William B. McBee 
John Ormsbee Ames 
William Gammell, Jr. 
John B. Lewis 
Moses J. Barber 
Paul C. DeWolf 
Frank E. Richmond 



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Edward P. Jastram 
Earl G. Batty 
A. Livingston Kelley 
Wilson G. Wing 
John Nicholas Brown 
Thomas L. Pierce 
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William L. Sweet 



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and Mrs. Herbert E. Walter, of 67 
Oriole ave. 

1914 
On March 6, the class of 1914 had 



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Highway Transport Consultant 

213-215 Richardson Building, Toledo, 

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Tenth Floor, Liberty Central Trust 

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506 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Abbott '15 

MENDELL W. CRANE 
Attorney at Law 
312 Howard Building, 171 Westmin- 
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Providence 



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Counsellors at Law 

185 Devonshire street, Boston, Mass. 

Joseph Earl Perry, Williams; Albert 

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its regular monthly supper and bridge 
at the home of Alice Waddington. 
Eleven members were present. 

1916 

Elsie Pickles was married on Oct. 
17, 1927, to Dr. Lynne A. Hoag and 
is living at 3234 83rd St., Jackson 
Heights, Long Island. Dr. Hoag is 
doing research work in children's dis- 
eases and is second in authority on 
this subject at Cornell. 

Rose Wagner Evenden has changed 
her address from Okeechobbee, Flor- 
ida, to 3735 Villa Terrace, San 
Diego, Cal. 

1920 

]\L'Idred Chase is on leave of ab- 
sence from the Providence Public Li- 
brary and is taking library courses at 
Simmons. 

1924 

On March 2, the class of 1924 held 
a class supper in Alumnae Hall Four- 
teen members were back. After sup- 
per the evening was spent in bridge. 

Lucille Pettibone has left Norfolk, 
Va., and is now assistant to the Di- 
rector of the Family Service League, 
Petersburg, Va. 

ALarian Lennon Coneybear is liv- 
ing at 1539 Sunset ave., Hollnvood, 
Cal. 

1925 

Rose Whelan has been elected to a 
full membership in Sigma Xi. 

Catherine Hinchey is at the Bio- 
logical Laboratory in Cold Spring 
Harbor, Long Island. 

1926 

Norma Matheson is laboratory 
technician at Staten Island Hospital. 

Mary Wesson has left her position 
at Wheaton College, and is doing 
secretarial work in Rochester. Her 
address is the Rochester Times Union, 
22 Exchange St., Rochester, N. Y. 

Doris Johnston is attending library 
school in New York. Her address is 
Barbour House, West 36th st. 

Elizabeth Linz is playing in a stock 
company on Long Island. Her ad- 
dress is Mission House, Church of 
Saint Mary the Virgin, 133 West 
46th St., New York. 

Elizabeth Stillwell is with the 
Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, doing 
family case work. 

1927 
Helen Dorsey is teaching in At- 
lanta University, Ga. 

Kathcrine Patton has changed from 
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the Boston City Hospital to research 
work at the Evans Memorial Hospi- 
tal in Boston. Kay Bond has her old 
job as technician at the City Hospital. 
Adelaide McLaughlin is studying 
in Paris. 



BIRTHS 

1914, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. Harold C. Kinne of 23 
Spring St., Pawtucket, a son, Russell 
Cutler Kinne, on Feb. 7, 1928. Mrs. 
Kinne was Mildred Cutler. 

191 4n, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. E. Penniman of East Prov- 
idence, a son, Bruce, in December. 
Mrs. Penniman was Laura Brown. 

1919, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. George F. Remington of 
Davisville, R. I., a son, Herbert 
Winslow Remington, on March 11, 
1928. Mrs. Remington was formerly 
Helen Vaughan. This is their third 
child. 

1925, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. Walter Swanson of Attle- 
boro, Mass., a son, Graham Cobb 
Swanson, on Dec. 20, 1927. Mrs. 
Swanson was Mildred Cobb. 

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That Will Please Brown Men 

I AM complimented when fellow Brunonians patronize my hotels. I pledge to the 
public clean, comfortable accommodations, good food and courteous service, at 
sensible prices. Try one of the group of Tolson operated hotels or restaurants and 
experience satisfaction. 

T. Elliott Tolson, Brown, 1906 



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HOTEL BRISTOL 

129 West 48th Street, New York 
rooms 300 baths 



A most conveniently located transient hotel, 
famed for its dining service. 

Single rooms with bath — $3. $3.50. $4. 
Double rooms with bath — $5, $6, $7. 



HOTEL WENTWORTH 

59 West 46lh Street, New York* 
250 rooms 150 baths 

A select hotel in the Fifth Avenue district, with 
accommodations for permanent and transient guests. 
Excellent restaurant. 

Single room with use of bath — $2.50, $3, $3.50. 

Double room with use of bath — $4, $4.50. 

Single room with private bath — $3, $3.50, $4. $5. 

Double room with private bath — $6, $7, $8. 



HOTEL WEBSTER 

40 West 45th Street. New York 

A quiet, exclusive residential hotel, within easy 
reach of Fifth Avenue, Grand Central, the theatres 
and shops — American Plan — exceptional dining 
service. 

Room with use of bath — $3.00 and $3.50. 

Room with private bath, single $5; double $6. 

Suites of any size, on application. 



EL PATIO RESTAURANT 

58 West 47lh Street, New York 

A distinctive restaurant, convenient to the the- 
atrical and shopping centers. Famed Table d'Hote 
Luncheon. 50c. Dinner, $1.00. 



IN NEW JERSEY 



BON AIR LODGE AND COTTAGES 

(Lake Hopatcong:) 

Ideal Summer Resort 



A Profitable Exchange of Ideas 

One of our clients found himself at a disadvantage in carrying on a certain line 
of business. 

We pointed out to him just where his difficulty lay and suggested a plan by which 
he completely reversed his method of doing business. 

By following the suggestion w^hich our experience had proved sound, this client, 
in a short time, turned a seeming handicap into a decided advantage and made 
a fine showing in 1928. 

If you care to discuss financial matters with us, please feel free to do so any 
time. It is surprising how often a mutal benefit results from the exchange of 
ideas. 



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TRUST COMPANY 



Resources MoreThan $100,000,000 



Memter o/ Federal Reserve Sysi.^m. 



Five Providence Offices — Branches in 

E. PROVIDENCE PAWTUCKET NEWPORT 

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AND Revieav pictures a big idea in a very small space. 

$4000.00 ^"^ $1000 a year for four years is a minimum cost of a college education in terms 

of dollars. In fact it will undoubtedly demand nearer $6ooo or $1500 a year and 
this is a fair minimum not the maximum. 



18 Years of 
age 



is an average college entrance age. It is impossible to know exactly at what age 
your child will be ready to enter college. You can very wisely accept the aver- 
age, namely age 18, and prepare accordingly. 



At Birth °^ ^^^ child or during the first year, therefore, is a good time to establish a defi- 

nite fund for education, for you will have 18 years in which to accumulate the 
fund and the annual savings will consequently be small. 



At 5 Years 
of age 



only 13 years remain before college age and the annual savings must be increased 
in order to create the fund. 



At 10 Years 
of age 



the grade is steeper for the number of years that are left has been greatly re- 
duced. The annual savings must be materially increased, if you wait until the 
child is 10. 



At 15 Years 
of age 



the child is within only 3 years of college age. If you wait until then to begin 
your savings for educational purposes, the annual savings will mount into the 
four figures. 



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the child will be ready for college and it no definite provision has been made ii> 
advance, the expenses must be met out of current income or out of capital if any 
fortunately exists. 



The Puritan Childs Educational Fund matures when the child is 18. It pays 
him a definite sum each year for the four college years. It may be established 
at birth of the child or at any age prior to age 9. 



Puritan Life Insurance Company 



Home Office 410 Turks Head Bldg. 
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND