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Vol. XXVIII 



PROVIDENCE, JANUARY, 1928 



No. 6 



On The Hill 

Comment on Contemporary Topics of Interest to (graduates of 'Brown 



Fraternity Freshmen 

npHE Freshman rushing seasod 
came to a close on Friday even 
ing, December 9, when 2iO members 
of the class of 1931 accepted invita- 
tions to join the 20 Greek-letter fra- 
ternities at Brown. The class num- 
bered 429 a little earlier in the semes- 
ter, and probably the 210 fraternity 
pledges represent just about 50 per 
cent, of the total number of Fresh- 
men at the present time. 

Of the 210 pledgees only 17 live 
in Providence and 23 in Rhode Island 
outside of Providence, a total of 40 
for the State. Some of the other 
States represented are New York 48, 
Massachusetts 41, New Jersey 20, 
Pennsylvania 12, Ohio 11, Connecti- 
cut 10, Illinois 5, New Hampshire 4, 
Michigan 4 and Missouri 4. These 
States account for 199 of the 210; 
the remaining 1 1 come from Maine, 
Delaware, Maryland, Florida, Indi- 
ana, Hawaii and Cuba. 



Jl'hat These Figures Shoic 

'T'HESE figures show that the fra- 
ternities are not drawing very 
heavily on Providence at the present 
time. We have no statistics at hand, 
at the moment to give the whole num- 
ter of Freshmen from this city, but 
the number for the city and State to- 
gether is 131, of whom only 40 have 
been pledged by the Greek-letter so- 
cieties. Meanwhile the societies are 
getting a great many men from New 
York, Massachusetts and New Jer- 
sey. The number from New York 
city is steadily increasing, with a large 
representation from certain suburban 
centres like New Rochelle. Flushing, 
also, sends a noticeable squad this 
year. Cleveland continues strongly 
represented, and Chicago is beginning 
to show up as a Brown centre. New- 
port has never, within our recollec- 
tion, sent many students to Brown, 



and this year contributes only one 
man to the fraternities. 

Nobody can study these figures and 
escape the conviction that Brown is 
profiting every year from the visits of 
University authorities to preparatory 
schools in the past. It seems as it 
every locality that has been carefully 
cultivated had responded with a good 
crop of students for Brown. There 
should be more such visitations in the 
future. We should become more of 
a national university year by year. 
We do not wish to be inbred in New 
England or the East. We welcome 
undergraduates from every part of the 
Union. 

Providence and Broivn 

\ GREAT deal has been said of 
■^^ late about the number of eligible 
Providence young men who go to 
other colleges. There is no blinking 
the fact. We wish that in some way 
more of them could be kept at Brown. 
The usual argument of the boys them- 
selves or their parents is that they 
want to get a\\-ay from home, yet 
there are any niuiiber of instances of 
Brown students whose parents live in 
Providence and who have neverthe- 
less lived on the campus during their 
undergraduate career, and have had as 
much freedom and practically as 
mucli responsibility as if they had at- 
tended college a hundred or a 
thousand miles away. 

It seems to us as if an arrangement 
of this sort had many- advantages. 
The boy can always get in touch with 
home in a few minutes, which may be 
an argument against the arrangement, 
but which, notwithstanding, leaves 
him with an abundance of responsi- 
bility if he wishes to exercise it. We 
do not believe in a close supervisory 
system for a boy in these circum- 
stances if he has shown himself bal- 
anced and reliable. If he has a room 
in a dormitory or chapter house and 

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eats either at the Union or at a fra- 
ternity table, he may not see his fam- 
ily, or even hear from them, from 
the beginning to the end of the week. 
On the other hand, it is pleasant for 
the family to have him take, for ex- 
ample, a Sunday meal at home, and 
generally speaking it is pleasant for 
him also. This amounts to even less 
contact with home than attending a 
college within a hundred miles of 
home and going home for week ends. 
There is the further argument that 
Providence boys who go to Brown 
are subject to all sorts of diversion-, 
that they would not encounter in a 
country college. Very likely, though 
this is probably over-emphasized 
Most of the unwholesome or un- 
worthy diversions in Providence can 
be found in the country. In some 
instances they are more plentiful there 
or within convenient distance, or on 
the other hand being remote are still 
resorted to, thanks to the ubiquitous 
automobile. We hold no brief against 
Princeton, which is situated in a small 
town, but it is a well-known fact 
that many Princeton students make 
frequent pilgrimages to New York 
and Philadelphia, between which two 
convenient cities the college lies. 
Amherst, Williams and Dartmouth 
are isolated from large communities, 
but the two former are within short 
runs of New England manufacturing 
centres and thus only Dartmouth of 
the trio maintains what the advocates 
of rural aloofness would describe as 
an ideal situation. We should like to 
know just what the diversions are at 
Hanover in addition to the well- 
known system of outing clubs in the 
mountainous neighborhood. 

Meanwhile at Providence there are 
obvious advantages of a cultural sort, 
and for those whose tastes seldom per- 
mit them to patronize any other va- 
riety of uplift performance than the 
movies, we certainly are amply pro- 
vided. 



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Providence and Neiv Haven 

t> EARING directly on the ques- 
tion of Providence students go- 
ing elsewhere than to Brown is an 
interesting fact obtainable from the 
list of Sophomore pledgees to the 
eight Junior Greek-letter fraternities 
at Yale, as printed in the Yale 
Alumni ^Veekly of December 9. 

As is well know-n, the fraternities 
do not elect in Freshman year, but 
a certain valuable analogy may be se- 
cured between the situation at Provi- 
dence and that at New Haven. 

In the list of Sophomores elected 
to the fraternities appear 160 names — 
and only two of these 160 Sopho- 
mores live in New Haven. Indeed 
the entire State of Connecticut fur- 
nishes only 18. Evidently Yale has 
its New Haven problem, as Brown 
has its Providence problem, and as 
every other college, no doubt, has a 
similar perplexity with which to deal. 
For a final example, we note that 
Captain-elect Eddy of the Yale foot- 
ball team hails from Middlebury, 
Vermont, which has an excellent col- 
lege of its own (and a Yale man for 
President) ; while among the Fresh- 
man fraternity men at Brown we find 
one from New Haven and another 
from Princeton. Of course thousands 
of New York youths go outside rather 
than attend any of the several insti- 
tutions within the metropolitan limits, 
while Boston and its neighborhood, 
including Cambridge, are always rep- 
resented at other colleges than Provi- 
dence. It amounts in fact almost to 
a student exchange system. 

However, we should like to see a 
little more systematic work put on 
the problem of getting more desirable 
Providence students to come to 
Brown. Of course a little of the 
glamour it possesses for students from 
elsewhere has been worn off for Prov- 
idence boys by the fact that they have 
been born and brought up within easy 
distance of the campus, but we believe 
that the advantage of going to a dis- 
tant college, (while there is of course 
such an advantage), has been much 
over-stated. (Since we wrote the 
foregoing lines the Yale rvl'mini 
Weekly of Dec. 16 has arrived ivith 
a list of 48 Yale students just elected 
to three Sheffield Scientific Sr'-nnl 



fraternities. Of these 48 not one 
comes from New Haven. Adding 
these to the list given above we have 
208 fraternity initiates this year at 
Yale, of whom only two live in New 
Haven; whereas out of 210 new fra- 
ternity men at Brown — practically 
the same number as at Yale — 17 live 
in Providence). 

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Broivu ]\Icn at a Cambridge Church 

pROSPECT Church (Congrega- 
tional) of Cambridge, Mass., 
almost under the shadow of Harvard 
University, has had two Brown Uni- 
versity graduates as ministers during 
the 100 years of its history. This 
first century of the church came to 
a close on October 30 and was appro- 
priately celebrated. 

The older of these two Brown 
graduates was Rev. James O. Mur- 
ray of the class of 1850, who served 
the church during the Civil War pe- 
riod. Later he was minister of the 
Brick Presbyterian Church of New 
York city and still later professor and 
Dean at Princeton L'niversity. 

The present minister is Rev. Wil- 
liam M. McNair, Brown 1903, who 
has occupied this post since 1908, 
going to the church from Mansfield, 
Mass. The Prospect church has be 
tween five and six hundred members 
and the Sunday school numbers about 
400. There are a women's guild and 
the Prospect Club, two organizations 
managed by women ; a Christian En 
deavor society dating from 1884, and 
the Prospect class for men, one of the 
most notable of such classes in 
Greater Boston and widely known foi 
its singing ability. Extensive repairs 
and renovations, costing about $27,- 
000, have just been made to the 
church edifice. 

Congratulations to Mr. McNair 
and his century-old church as it starts 
on its second hundred years. 

Captain Cornsweet 

T^LSEWHERE in this number ot 
■* the Alumni Monthly will be 
found an editorial appreciation, from 
the Brown Daily Herald, of Captain 
Albert C. Cornsweet '29 of Cleve- 
land, the 1928 leader of the Brown 
football team. There can be no 



doubt, as the Herald says, that the 
student body is gratified at the choice 
of this sterling player, one of the few 
Iron Men of 1926 who will be in 
college next year. Every friend ot 
Brown, indeed, should be pleased by 
the selection of Cornsweet, and par- 
ticularly by the fact that it was unan- 
imous. Cornsweet is not a fraternity 
man, which further emphasizes the 
significance of his election. It was 
he who saved the Colgate game by 
overtaking Yoblok just as the latter 
was about to reach the Brown goal 
line with the ball after an 80-yard 
run. Cornsweet is a member of the 
Junior honorary society of Pi Kappa 
and of the Sphinx, a club reserved 
for men who have shown a talent or 
taste for intellectual activities. He 
was the mainstay of the wrestling 
team last year, is a good lacrosse 
player and a substantial student. We 
congratulate the team on its new 
leader. 

Incidentally we heartily endorse 
what the Herald says in praise of 
Captain Roy E. Randall. He has 
carried himself well during a difficult 
period, with notable poise, enthusiasm 
and efficiency. 



Appreciations 

Broun Alumni Monthly: 

I wish to thank you for sending 
the issue of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly and have decided that I 
should no longer miss receiving it 
regularly. Therefore, I am enclosing 
herewith my check for a year's sub- 
scription. 

Sincerely yours. 

/. Harold Wilson '25 

Lansdowne, Pa., 

Oct. 20, 1927 



Broivn Alumni Monthly: 

The last issue of the Alumni 
Monthly reached me and was read 
with interest and pleasure. With its 
new make-up and arrangement it ap- 
pears a decided improvement upoii 
former issues that I have seen. Please 
accept the enclosed check and continue 
to send it to me. 

Very truly yours, 

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Hopedale, Mass., 

October 31, 1927 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Class of 193 i 

By Kenneth O. Mason, Dean of Freshmen 



V\7'ITHIN the memory of not the 
oldest alumni there used to be 
popular what was labelled "A Com- 
posite Picture of i8 — ". It consisted 
of the facial elevations of every mem- 
ber of the illustrious class, superim- 
posed one upon the other. The re- 
sult was somewhat irregular in out- 
line, muddy in definition, and far 
from beautiful. Supposedly, how- 
ever, it preserved for posterity the 
characteristic features of the group 
and it not infrequently gave rise to 
much pleasant merriment. 

Were one to attempt to give vi- 
tality to certain dry statistics in the 
files of the Office of the Dean of 
Freshmen and from them to construct 
a brief characterization of the typical 
member of the Class of 193 1, the re- 
sultant wholly mythical Freshman 
would be a little under nineteen 
years of age, of rather more than av- 
erage height and weight for a boy of 
his years, prepared for college in a 
public high school of high grade, and 
the son of a business man of moderate 
but comfortable means. Yet any 
such composite portrait would be 
worse than lifeless. Nothing is less 
appealing than the merely typical. 
And no representation that lacks in- 
dividuality can fairly represent so 
vigorous, so human, and so varied a 
group as the present .Freshman Class. 
The outstanding characteristic of 
the class is its size, 429 men, the 
largest class that ever trudged up Col- 
lege Hill and swarmed through the 
Van Wickle Gates. The Class of 
1930, the first to be chosen by the 
modified policy of admission, seemed 
to some disappointingly small. Ap- 
plications for September, 1927, how- 
ever, came thick and fast throughout 
the whole of last winter and spring 
and continued with no diminution 
well through the summer. The 
Committee on Admission, therefore, 
was able to choose from a wide field. 
That the class finally registered was 
at least thirty larger than the Com- 
mittee intended or expected is evi- 
dence of the quality of the men fi- 
nally admitted. It is interesting to 



compare the size of the last five en- 
tering classes. 

Year Number in Class 

1923-1924 385 

1924-1925 422 

1925-1926 388 

1926-1927 361 

1927-1928 429 

Experienced college officials agree 
that it is not easy to find logical 
causes for such fluctuations. Athletic 
teams bring publicity to a college ; 
they advertise it, if academic adver- 
tising can be measured by inches of 
space on the sporting page. On the 
other hand, they do not necessarily 
attract well-qualified applicants. The 
real reason for an increase or a de- 
crease is probably too intangible to 
state in a word. The pressure of 
collegiate population steadily increases 
but that pressure varies in locale 
from year to year. 

It is significant to see how cosmo- 
politan is the group that may be 
gathered within the limits of a single 
class on a single college campus. 
Brown Freshmen hail from far and 
near. Half a dozen lads come from 
homes within earshot of the old bell 
on University Hall. One student 
comes from Korea, another comes 
from the Hawaiian Islands, and still 
another from Cuba. As usual, Rhode 
Island boys comprise rather more 
than a quarter of the class. Brown 
still holds high repute in her own 
small state. 

Class of 1931 

Distribution of birthplaces and 

homes of students: 

Birth- 
State places Homes 

Alabama, I O 

Arkansas, I O 

California, 2 2 

Colorado, i O 

Connecticut, 20 25 

Delaware, O i 

District of Columbia, 3 O 

Florida, O I 

Illinois, 10 9 

Indiana, 2 2 

Iowa, 3 O 

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Maine, 


5 


5 


Maryland, 


2 


I 


Massachusetts, 


88 


80 


Michigan, 


2 


4 


Missouri, 


6 


4 


New Hampshire, 


6 


7 


New Jersey, 


29 


36 


New York, 


81 


86 


Ohio, 


17 


12 


Oklahoma, 


I 


I 


Pennsylvania, 


15 


14 


Rhode Island, 


107 


131 


South Carolina, 





I 


Vermont, 


4 


I 


Virginia, 


2 





West Virginia, 


3 





Washington, 


I 





Wisconsin, 


I 





Wyoming, 





I 


Unknown, 


3 





Foreiffn 






Canada, 


I 





China, 


I 





Cuba, 





I 


England, 


2 





Hawaii, 





I 


Italy, 


2 





Korea, 


I 


I 


Mexico, 


I 





Roumania, 


I 





Scotland, 


I 





Sweden, 


I 





One recognizes 


how varied is the 


raw material that 


comes to 


a college 


when he examines such fi 


gures as 


these below. A 


class that 


includes 


the sons of citizens in every 


walk of 


life is a cosmopolitan democracy. 


Education in such 


a milieu 


must as- 


surdly make for 


good Americanism 


Occupations of Pare 


NTS 


Occupations 


Number 


P. c. 


Business, 


II 


2.6 


Accounting, 


6 


1.4 


Advertising, 


2 


•5 


Artisan, 


38 


8.9 


Banker, 


10 


2.3 


Broker, 


5 


1.2 


Clerk, 


7 


1.6 


Contractor, 


20 


4-7 


Executive, 


48 


11.2 


Hotel, 


I 


•3 


Insurance, 


9 


2.1 


Jeweller, 


8 


1-9 



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48 

33 
2 
2 
4 

14 

20 



9 
3 
2 
2 

7 
18. 

15 
I 

13 

I 

4 
I 

2 

10 



2.6 

7-5 
1 1.2 

7-7 

•5 

5 

•9 

3-3 

4-7 



Laborer, 

Manufacturer, 

Merchant, 

Miscellaneous, 

Newspaper, 

Painter, 

Printer, 

Realtor, 

Salesman, 
Professions 

Civil Service, 

Clergyman, 

Dentist, 

Druggist, 

Editor, 

Education, 

Engineer, 

Farmer, 

Judge, 

Lawyer, 

Master mariner, 

Miscellaneous, 

Municipal, 

Music, 

Physician, 

Nor is it less significant to note 
what use our students plan to make 
of the education they obtain at 
Brown. That 30.1 per cent, have as 
yet made no definite decision is not 
to be wondered at. Rather is it grat- 
ifying to note that more students ev- 
ery year come to us with specific plans 
for their careers. No sign is more 
hopeful than an increase in educa- 
tional motivation ; the man who en- 
ters college knowing why he has 
come and what he wants to take away 
with him is likely to succeed. 
Proposed Career at Time of En- 
trance 



Occupations 
Profession 

Engineering, 

Law, 

Medicine, 

Teaching, 

Journalism, 

Chemistry, 

ALnistry, 

Architecture, 

Dentistry, 

Art, 

Operatic Tenor, 

Pathology, 

Psychiatry, 

Stage Designing, 

West Point, 



NuillliLT 

79 
58 

41 
21 

. 13 
8 

5 

4 
4 



P. C 

18.5 

13.6 

9.6 

4-9 

3-1 

1.9 

1.2 

•9 

•9 

.2 

.2 

.2 

.2 

.2 

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Business 

General business, 26 6.1 

Foreign Trade, 8 1.9 

Banking, 7 1.6 

Broker, 6 1.4 

Advertising, 3 .7 

Manufacturing, 3 .7 

Real Estate, 2 .5 

Textiles, 2 .5 

Accounting, i .2 

Photography, I .2 

Undecided, 129 30. j 

Certain miscellaneous bits of less 
formal statistical information are also 
interesting. The youngest Freshman 
is a scant fifteen and a half ; the old- 
est just twenty-five. Over thirty-five 
per cent, of the class prepared at pri- 
vate schools; 286, or 66.6 per cent, 
stood so high in their respective sec- 
ondary school classes as to be able to 
enter without supplementary exami- 
nations. The class includes twenty- 
one men who entered Brown from 
other colleges, but who, not being 
able to meet our entrance require- 
ments, could be admitted only to 
Freshman standing. Over seventy 
per cent, could pass the swimming 
test at registration time ; nearly eighty 
per cent, took part in some kind of 
extra-curricular activity during their 
preparatory school courses. To date 



( December 1 5 ) only six men have 
found it necessary to leave Brown for 
any reason and not one of them has 
left gladly. 

Such statistics as these, and others 
less obviously significant, could be 
cited for pages. Our personnel cards 
record for the use of the advisers and 
the deans every kind of information 
which can be made useful. Informa- 
tion covering a boy's interests, capa- 
bilities, likes, and dislikes are all val- 
uable in helping that boy choose a ca- 
reer. His standing in his secondary 
school class and his teachers' esti- 
mates of his personality and ability, a 
record of his extra-curricular activi- 
ties, his rank in our intelligence tests, 
his entrance credits, and his college 
grades, all are essential. But there 
is one set of statistics that offers a 
valid test of all processes of selection 
— that which shows us how well a 
given group of boys can do in the 
classroom. The Class of 1930 made 
a most gratifying record at the end 
of their first semester. It is yet too 
early to guess what toll the January 
examinations will exact from the 
ranks of 1931, but their mid-term 
grades would indicate that the class 
is not only the largest but probably 
the best prepared that has yet come 
to Brown, as the data below exhibit. 



Mid-term E's 



Men receiving i E 
Men receiving 2 E's 
Men receiving 3 E's 

In other words, although approxi- 
mately the same proportion of each 
class are below passing in one subject, 
a much smaller proportion of the 
Class of 1 93 1 are in apparent danger 
of being -dropped for low standing. 

If Brown can attract as large and 





1931 


No. 


Per Cent. 


79 


18.4 


21 


4-9 


I 


0.2 



1930 

No. Per Cent. 
64 17.2 

24 6.9 

6 1.7 

as capable a class as came to her last 
September, and if that class can suc- 
ceed in achieving a satisfactory 
standard of scholarship, she amply 
justifies her existence as an institution 
of higher education. 



'Varsity Baseball 



April 7, Providence League; April 
9, Columbia in New York; April 11, 
Providence League; April 14, open; 
April 19, Holy Cross at Worcester; 
April 21, Boston Lniiversity; April 
25, Maine; April 28, Holy Cross; 
May 2, Bates; May 5, Williams; 
May 8, Dartmouth at Hanover; 
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IVIay 12, Yale; May 16, Rhode Is- 
land; May 19, Dartmouth; May 23, 
Harvard at Cambridge; May !26, 
Providence College; May 30, Har- 
\ard ; June 2, Providence College; 
June 9, open; June 16, open; June 
18, open. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Intellectual Adventures 

Unrequired readings tor students outside and after the class-room, 

selected and annotated 

BY PROFESSOR F. K. W. DRURY 
Assistant Librarian, John Hay Library, with the cooperation of various members of the Faculty 



HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 

Webb, C. C. J. A history of philos- 
ophy. 1915. ..Holt. 

Succinct survey from Thales to 
Spencer. Expounds in imtechnical 
language, distinguishes without dis- 
torting, and presents clearly and con- 
cisely. A marvel of condensation, 
tho a gallop through the ages. 

Durant, W. J. The story of philos- 
ophy. 1926. Simon and Schuster. 

Intelligible outline of the lives and 
opinions of 1 8 of the chief philoso- 
phers from Socrates to John Dewey. 
An enthusiastic style makes human 
and readable this presentation of es- 
sential thot thru the centuries. 

Joad, C. E. M. Introduction to mod- 
ern philosophy. 1924. Oxford. 

Concisely elucidates the various 

fields and contemporary doctrines, 

such as pragmatism, realism and neo- 

idealism. 

Rogers, A. K. English and American 
' philosophy since 1800, a critical 
survey. 1922. Macmillan. 

Compact synopsis, judicially and 
sympathetically setting forth the ten- 
ets of the various schools. 

Royce, Josiah. The spirit of modern 
philosophy. 1892. Houghton. 

Surveys first the prominent philos- 
ophers from the 17th century to his 
own time, and then gives an exposi- 
tion of his own philosophical faith. 

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY 

Bergson, Henri L. Creative evolu- 
tion. 1907. Tr. by Mitchell. 
Holt. 1911. 

This thoro-going evolutionist places 
intuition above intellect which is help- 
less in the presence of life. In this 
famous book he compels people to 
rethink their creeds. 

Dewey, John. Reconstruction in phi- 
losophy. 1920. Holt. 

Concrete contrasts are presented be- 
tween the older and newer types of 
philosophical problems. Among other 



characteristics discussed is a clear au- 
thoritati\e statement of pragmatism. 

Dickinson, G. Lowes. A modern sym- 
posium. 1905, reprinted 1925. 
Doubleday. 

Broadvisioned thot and discussion 
by men of contrasting types as they 
converse about their individual reac- 
tions to life. Opinions which fight 
for ascendancy in the world are ex- 
pressed by pessimist and optimist, 
conservative and liberal, scientist and 
poet, socialist and anarchist, man of 
action and man of thot. 

James, William. Pragmatism. 1907. 
Longmans. 

Applying the tests of experience, 

sets forth a new name for an old way 

of thinking. Anything that works 

approximates the truth. 

James, William. The will to believe, 
and other essays in popular phi- 
losophy. 1897. Long^mans. 

The title essay had a tremendous 
influence on religious thot; all de- 
fend the legitimacy of religious faith. 
His "Dilemma of determinism" is 
among the ablest things he wrote. 

Keyserling, H. A. graf von. The 
travel diary of a philosopher. 
1920. Tr. by Reece. Cape, Lond. 
1925. 

A richly cultivated mind reflects on 
the civilization and spiritual cultures 
met in an Eastward journey, thus re- 
viewing Buddhism, Hinduism, theos- 
ophy, Tagore and his circle, and the 
philosophies of China, Japan and the 
West. 

Santayana, George. Dialogues in 
limbo. 1925. Constable, Lond., 
Scribner, N. Y. 

With lambent wit and fruitful 
irony discourses philosophically on 
diverse matters from madness to self- 
government and the secret of Aristo- 
tle. The enjoyment hangs on a rel- 
ish for the unique style of the author 
with its melancholy cadences and 
vivid imagery. 

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Singer, E. A. Modern thinkers and 
present problems. 1925. Holt. 

Brilliantly brings the experience of 
some great personalities to bear upon 
some difficulties presented in our 
daily living. 

Unamuno, Miguel de. The tragic 
sense of life in men and peoples. 
1912. Tr. by Flitch. Macmillan. 
1921. 

Harsh downright reply to self suf- 
ficient rationalism by the Spanish phi- 
losopher who states passionately and 
brilliantly the grounds that exist for 
faith in immortality now that reason 
and science have done their worst. 

MODERN ETHICS 

Everett, W. G. Moral values; a study 
of the principles of conduct. 1918. 
Holt. 

Genially and profoundly judges all 
human activities to be good or bad, 
better or worse, according to the con- 
tribution they make to the worth of 
human life as a whole. 

Fite, Warner. Moral philosophy; the 
critical view of life. 1925. Diai 
press. 

Suggestively discusses ethics, show- 
ing the necessity of thinking for one's 
self, since morality is the critical eval- 
uation of life. 

Calkins, Mary W. The good man and 
the good. 1918. Macmillan. 

Moral responsibility is thrown up- 
on the individual will in this intro- 
duction to ethics which refers to many 
historical examples. Written in the 
pleasant style of an inspiring conver- 
sation. 

Russell, Bertrand. Why men fight. 
1916. Century. 

AVith wide vision surveys the ele- 
ments in human nature which impel 
to warfare and seeks the influence 
which must be developed to avoid fu- 
ture conflicts. First published in 
England with the title : Principles of 
social reconstruction. 



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Hobhouse, L. T. Morals in evolution 
1906, rev. ed., 1915. Holt. 
Comparative ethics is studied from 
primitive times to the present day. 
An encyclopedic work which en- 
hances the value of all subsequent 
reading. 

LANDMARKS IN PHILOSOPHY 

Plato. Socratic dialogues 4th cent.. 
B. C. Tr. by Fowler. Loeb li- 
brary. 1913. 

The trial and death of Socrates 
are especially revealed in three of the 
dialogs. The Apology is his defence 
before his judges; the Crito is his 
answer to a proposal to escape; the 
Phaedo relates how he drank the hem- 
lock. In the three are found not only 
a pattern of piety and courage in the 
presence of death, but also some of 
Plato's most famous speculations. 

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. 4th 
cent.. B. C. Tr. by Welldon. 
Macmillan 1892. Tr. by Ross. 
Oxford. 1925. 

The greatest happiness is found by 
man when he realizes his unique ca- 
pacity in the god-like life of knowl- 
edge. This involves the exercise of 
social and civic virtues. 

Epictetus. Discourses. 1st and 2nd 
cent., A. D. Tr. by Oldfather. 
Loeb library. 1926. 

Wisdom and Stoic philosophy 
which gave strength and consolation 
to the man in facing the battle of life. 

Other translations are: by Long 
in Bohn's library; by Carter in Ev- 



eryman's library; by Crossley in 
Golden Treasury series. 

Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus. Medita- 
tions. 2d cent. A. D. Tr. by 
Long. Bohn's library. 1887. 

Proud Stoic precepts are tempered 
with love of mankind by this practi- 
cal moralist who lived with wisdom, 
justice, fortitude, and temperance. 

Other translations are : by Casau- 
bon in Everyman's library ; by Ren- 
dale in the Golden Treasury series, 
and by Haines in the Loeb library. 

Descartes, Rene. Discourse on meth- 
od. 1636. Tr. by Veitch. Every- 
man's library. 1912. 

His inquisitive mind doubted every- 
thing but his own existence. He set 
matter and mind, extension and thot 
over against each other. His "Cau- 
sal argument for the existence of 
God" was a bridge between the mind 
and the real world. 

Spinoza, Benedictus de. Ethics. 1677. 
Tr. by Boyle. Everyman's li- 
brary. 1910. 

To him God and Nature are one, 
and all things else are attributes or 
modifications of that one substance. 

Berkeley, George. Dialogues between 
Hylas and Philonous. 1713. Har- 
vard classics, V. 37. 1910. 

Subjective realism was perfected by 
him. He also first asserted there was 
no such thing as the material external 
world, this being his famous "denial 
of the existence of matter." 



Hume. David. An enquiry concern- 
ing human understanding. 1748. 
Open court, Chicago. 1907. 

The great speculator's aim was to 
establish a uni\ersal scepticism by per- 
plexing the relations of cause and ef- 
fect. 

Kant, Immanuel. Selections by J 
Watson entitled: The philosophy 
of Kant as contained in extracts 
from his own writings. 1781-98. 
Maclehose, Glasgow. 1919. 

An epoch in philosophy is marked 
by Kant's books, especially his Crit- 
ique of pure reason (1781) in which 
he called upon reason to take stock 
of its native powers and the means at 
its disposal. 

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Studies in 
pessimism. 1851. Tr. by Saun- 
ders. Modern library. 1917. 

Pessimistic philosophy is empha- 
sized by him in that all existence is 
essentially evil. His famous work is 
The icorld as ivill and idea, (1818). 

Spencer, Herbert. First principles of 
a new system of philosophy. 1862. 
Appleton. 1914. 

His synthetic philosophy is here in- 
troduced with a statement of general 
principles. He believes that phe- 
nomena alone are knowable, ultimate 
reality is unknowable. 

Nietzsche, F. W. Thus spake Zara- 
thustra. 1883-91. Tr. by Com- 
mon. Modern library. 1917. 

His typical Superman is depicted in 
this narrative of the passage of a per- 
fected human being thru life and his 
attitude toward the difficulties encoun- 
tered. 



University Hall In the Fifties 

By Rev. JFiUiani J. Batt. 1855 
Senior Living Graduate of Brown 



TJNIVERSITY Hall in old-time, 
top floor front, south end — 
where was there another room like 
that? The front windows looked 
above the tree tops, over the principal 
part of Providence, the south window 
took in a sweep so wide that of a 
bright afternoon, one could see the 
window glass on the hills of Fall 
River ! 

Sleep was sweet, and waking a joy 
there in 1855! Franklin Pierce in 



the White House, D. C, had no guest 
room like it! 

The hallway ran from end to end, 
except on the ground floor. They 
knew how to build long ago. Brown 
has many buildings now, but none 
brings students together so sociablv 
as old University Hall, built ir 
1770-1. 

On the third floor in the old days, 
under 43, was Professor Gammell's 
ofliice, below him Professor Lincoln. 
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The future statesman, Richard Ol- 
ney, roomed on the third floor, and 
across the entry at the foot of the 
stairs, roomed in succession, I think, 
the Diman Brothers. The painted 
portrait of the elder of the two 
adorns the hall where alumni will 
long meet for happy memories ! 

But of the lower floor I would 
speak a word also. Two transverse 
hallways cut across it east and west. 
The ground floor, south end, is cut 



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off by itself. Here is a floor space. 
say 30 by 40 in the rough, with a 
convenient sunny yard south of it. It 
used to be a residence ! Who first 
hved there? Did either Dr. Man- 
ning, or Dr. Maxcy, or Dr. Messer, 
ever live there ? 

There is some reason to think that 
Dr. Wayland's stately mansion was 
erected during his presidency, but 
where did his predecessors live? 
There must be records that tell. In 



1855 the Registrar lived there, but 
if, in the opening years of the cen- 
tury, great Presidents lived there, it 
might throw light upon the life ot 
that day, to know it. 

Dr. Munro, of 1879, has lately 
given us an exceedingly interesting 
story of the Brown land in his time. 
There was an earlier day when the 
good name 'campus' was little used. 
In front we spoke of the grounds, the 
immediate land back was the yard. 



where were unscientific, rough-and- 
tumble football games. 

All is different now, the unsightly 
outbuildings on the eastern border of 
the yard were long since superseded 
by other accommodations. Time 
brings changes, but while grander- 
areas now occupy our attention, per- 
haps it will not be without interest 
if a word be added about the dear old 
building of the 1 8th century. 



The Year in the University Library 

By Professor Harry Lyman Koopman, Librarian 



T' 



HE work of a library is summed 
up in three words: acquisition, 
incorporation, distribution. The Uni- 
versity Library seems now to have 
struck an average of 15,000 volumes 
a year. Of these somewhat more 
than half come by purchase. As com- 
pared with a public library one 
tenth its size, the circulation is small, 
having been only 22,547 i" the last 
twelve months; but this is its largest 
recorded circulation. 

The work of incorporation, which 
represents the entering and catalog- 
ing of the volumes and their arrange- 
ment on the shelves, covered some- 
I what more volumes than the acquisi- 
tions, namely, 20,682. For these 
the cards inserted in the catalogues 
were 69,258. 

The Harris collection of American 
Poetry, which is the largest in the 
world, was increased during the year 
by 2,678 volumes, besides 344 sheets 
of music. The Collection now totals 
47,440 volumes, besides 8,347 sheets 
of music. 

The volumes purchased include an 
early American novel, Mrs. Rowsen's 
"Reuben and Rachel" ; an early 
undated copy of the "New England 
Primer' ; the complete works of va- 
rious French classical writers ; the 
proceedings of certain European 
academies, besides an early impres- 
sion of the best edition of the 
"Thousand and One Nights" in Ar- 
abic, published at Boulak, 1862, in 
4 volumes, and a beauiful Arabic 
manuscript of the Koran with illumi- 
nations. 



Some' important gifts have been 
received. These include Cahier de 
la Quinzaine, 227 volumes, from 
Mrs. Jesse H. Mctcalf; Schiller's 
Sammtliche Schriften, 27 volumes, 
from Alonzo R. Williams, of the 
class of igoo; 20 volumes from Mrs. 
George St. John Sheffield; 155 vol- 
umes from the Hispanic Society of 
America; and the Classical Weekly, 
volumes 1-18, from Charles H. 
Forbes, of the class of 1890. 

The great gift of the year is of 
course the 485 Lincoln letters given 
by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of 
the class of 1897, and other friends. 
These have been added to the 132 
Lincoln manuscripts already in the 
Collection, and all have been 
mounted in 7 beautiful volumes, 
which were on exhibition at Com 
mencement. The most important 
purchase of the year for the Collec 
tion is the negative portrait of Lin- 
coln taken at Gardner's studio, Aug- 
ust 9, 1863. John Hay remarks in 
his diary that he went with Lincoln 
to have this picture taken and that 
the President was in good spirits. 
An engraving from this negative has 
been used to form the frontispiece of 
a volume of the hitherto unpublished 
letters in the Collection. This vol- 
ume was issued at Commencement. 
It is beautifully printed and contains 
four facsimiles of Lincoln letters. 
It is dedicated to Mr. Rockefeller in 
commemoration of the thirtieth an- 
niversary of his graduation. 

A valuable gift has been received 
from Mrs. Scott A. Smith and other 

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heirs of the Hon. Walter S. Burges, 
of the class of 183 1. It consists of 
two boxes of letters and three larger 
boxes of newspapers relating to the 
Dorr War. The letters were written 
by Governor Dorr to Mr. Burges. 
They supplement the Dorr War ma- 
terial in the Rider Collection, the 
whole being of unequalled importance 
as source material for its subject. 

Another gift is the private library 
of Mr. Alfred G. Langley, of the 
class of 1876, which includes his very 
valuable Leibnitz collection. Dr. 
James H. Penniman, of Philadel- 
phia, has continued his gifts to the 
Brown Penniman Library of Educa- 
tion. 

One of the most interesting devel- 
opments connected with the Library 
is due to Mr. Zechariah Chafee, of 
the class of 1880. This is the estab- 
lishment of the Hegeman Hall Read 
ing Room. It has now had a year's 
test and appears to have established 
iself in student favor as a browsing 
room. A number of notes have been 
received from the students testifying 
to their appreciation of this room. 
One writes: "This reading room is 
the one place in college where a man 
can spend the small hours of the 
morning over some entertaining 
book. Another writes: "The Hege- 
man Reading Room is an intellectual 
oasis in a desert of moronic over-em- 
phasis on athletics. Another writes: 
"After trying to study in a noisy 
dormitory it is a relief to find this 
quiet nook." Another student finds 
it "a very homelike library in which 
to read, study and chat." 



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An inventory of the equipment of 
the John Hay Library was recently 
made, and the value of the card cata- 
logue at lO cents a card was esti- 
mated at $106,500. The value of 
the depository catalogue, which con- 
sists of printed cards from the Li- 
brary of Congress and the libraries 
of Harvard and Michigan Universi- 



ties, at 3 cents a card, is estimated at 
$60,000. 

The John Hay Library building 
has now been occupied nearly seven- 
teen years. It still wears to the eye 
the aspect of newness, but inasmucli 
as the number of volumes has more 
than doubled, being increased from 
I70,(X)0 to 345,000 during this pe- 



riod, its shelves are already so well 
filled as to be overcrowded and its 
working rooms are no longer am- 
ple as when they were first occupied. 
AVithin a few years the land to the 
north designed for an extension of 
this building should be covered with 
a structure virtually doubling in size 
the John Ha\' Library. 



News From the Brown Clubs 

BY ALFRED H. GURNEY, ALUMNI SECRETARY 



"P VERY Brown Club is hereby re- 
■^ minded that, according to pres- 
ent plan, the annual meeting of the 
Advisory Board of the Associated 
Alumni will take place February 2 1 
and 22, next, in conjunction with Vis- 
iting Day at the LTniversity. 

The Advisory Board, made up of 
delegates from the clubs and includ- 
ing the Alumni Trustees and the As- 
sociation of Class Secretaries, is the 
connecting link between the alumni 
and the University; and no club 
which can possibly send a delegate 
should miss doing so. This is the 
time to prepare for the meeting. The 
program will be a stimulating one, 
and there will be opportunity for the 
delegates to see the LTniversity in ac- 
tion. 

And so every club is respectfully 
urged to name a delegate to respond 
for it when President Wiley H. Mar- 
ble calls the meeting to order on Tues- 
day evening, February 21. 

NEW YORK 

No use denying it, the fall season 
at the Brown Club was a quiet one. 
Yet it has had its compensations. 
There was a band concert in early 
October — the first that the Brown 
and ever gave in New York. The 
affair was a success, even though, fi- 
nancially, the net profit was not any- 
thing to write home about. I think 
possibly in subsequent years, when this 
concert has become a social fixture — 
in the same way as the concert by the 
musical clubs — there will be less 
trouble with it. 

We had a direct wire for the big- 
ger football games. I understand 
that despite the fact that the team lost 



most of its contests, alumni in Provi- 
dence were right behind it to the very 
end. Quite remarkably, the same was 
true in New York; and the general 
interest in the wire reports was every 
bit as great as last year, when the 
eleven was cleaning up all opposition. 
Each Saturday we had at least fifty 
men around the telegraph board. 

The next affair we are working on 
is the annual dinner, to be held in the 
latter part of February. None of the 
details has been settled yet, but it is 
to be presumed that the affair will be 
as successful as the dinners of former 
years. 

One thing in passing, and that is 
that the Club is always glad to wel- 
come out-of-town Brown men who 
are in New York for a short or long 
stay. Rooms are reserved for tran- 
sients. They may be had at the very 
nominal rate of $2.50 a day. The 
Club management is confident that 
any of the alumni, or even under- 
graduates, would feel much more at 
home in the pleasant atmosphere of 
the Club than in a hotel room. While 
the Club offers all the features of any 
good hotel, there is one thing that 
other places do not possess. That is 
a group of men with common inter- 
ests, sociable in every sense of the 
word. No one need be lonesome 
while staving here. And no one 
is.— P. L.' 

HARTFORD 

Driving rain, mingled with flurries 
of snow, failed to dampen the hardy 
spirits of the Brown Club of Hart- 
ford who gathered at the New Uni- 
versity Club on Friday, Dec. 16, for 
the annual meeting and at the same 

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time to listen once more to the 
Alumni Secretary. Dr. Mead, Vice 
President of the University, was also 
on the program as a speaker, but a 
last-minute call prevented his depart- 
ure from the campus. The dinner 
was in the best style of E. C. Wat- 
tles '13, retiring president; the intro- 
duction that he gave the Alumni Sec- 
retary was both short and subtle; and 
the meeting brought out several of the 
younger alumni recently settled in 
Hartford. Secretary Krieble added a 
formal note by appearing in his even- 
ing clothes. 

Election of officers resulted as fol- 
lows: President — Frank R. Wheeler 
'97 ; Vice Presidents — M. A. Wad- 
hams '14, Cyrus G. Flanders '18; 
Secretary — W. F. Robotham "26; 
Treasurer — Rev. Arthur F. Mc- 
Kenny '23. 

The Alumni Secretary's talk was 
followed by many questions and dis- 
cussion of various phases of college 
life. A satisfying and invigorating 
evening, a fine example of the hospit- 
able Hartford spirit. 

BALTIMORE 

It was a friendly little party ol 
Brown men that the Alumni Secre- 
tary met at the New Howard Hotel, 
Baltimore, on Dec. 2. The affair 
was wholly informal, and it was in- 
deed pleasant to sit with these Bru- 
nonians around one big table, hear 
what they were doing, try to answer 
their questions, join with them in dis- 
cussion of matters of interest to them 
and talk over frankly some of the 
problems of the University and of the 
alumni. Josiah Bartlett '88 intro- 
duced the Alumni Secretary felici- 



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tously, and the Alumni Secretary 
thoroughly enjoyed himself as he 
gave account of affairs on the Hill. 
Interruptions were frequent and ac- 
ceptable; Alfred M. Quick '87 en- 
livened the evening with some just 
comment on Commencement Week 
shortcomings ; and Joseph L. Wheeler 
'06, Samuel R. Damon '16 and the 
rest kept the discussion going in vig- 
orous manner. 

It was good to hear words of praise 
for the work that Joe Wheeler is 
doing as librarian of the Enoch Pratt 
Free Library, that Sam Damon and 
Justin Andrews '23 are keeping 
Brown's name prominent at the 
School of Hygiene and Public Health 
at Johns Hopkins, that Paul Higgins 
'25 is developing strong athletic 
teams at Gilman Country School, and 
so on through the list. The group in 
Baltimore is a small one, but it is de- 
serving well of Brown. Besides the 
men already mentioned, W. M. Ga- 
fafer '18 and John B. Pastore '27 — 
both new-comers to Baltimore — were 
at the dinner. 

CLEVELAND 

Plans for the annual Christmas 
meeting of the Brown University 
Club of Cleveland were nearly com- 
plete as this was written. The date 
was set for Friday, Dec. 30, at the 
University Club, with Dean Randall 
as the guest of honor and principal 
speaker. The committee, so Everetc 
T. Marten '25 sent word, was pre- 
paring for an attendance of about 
a hundred, including alumni, luider- 
graduates, prospective Freshmen and 



others. Albert C. Cornsweet '29, 
captain-elect of the football eleven 
and a Cleveland resident, was down 
for a short speech, and the committee 
had special motion pictures to add to 
the program. 

The Ohio students at the Univer- 
sity have been increasing in numbei 
in the last few years, due largely to 
the work of the Cleveland club and 
the fact that the undergraduates from 
Ohio seem to take real interest in 
talking about Brown to their friends 
in the high and preparatory schools. 

WASHINGTON 

Of Washington's hospitality there 
is always pleasant memory. From 
the viewpoint of the Alumni Secre- 
tary, his visit to Washington on Dec. 
I was a genuine success. He found 
the Brown men in Washington will- 
ing to listen to his story with interest 
and patience ; he had pleasure in 
meeting so many men that he knows, 
as well as others that he doesn't 
know so well ; he appreciated the 
truly hospitable qualities of Charles 
R. Stark, Jr., '07 and Arthur Siuid- 
lun '11, and he wished that he migh'. 
have been able to stay longer to ac- 
cept invitations from other Bruno- 
nians in the district. The meeting at 
the Cosmos Club, with President 
Sundlun in the chair, brought out a 
large gathering, and certainly the 
Alumni Secretary heard with some- 
thing of a thrill the report of Secre- 
tary Mark F. Coles '26, giving the 
activities of the club for the year. 
There's no doubt that the Washing- 
ton club has been up and doing, ami 



its retiring officers are to be com- 
mended for their energy. 

The election that followed the re- 
port resulted as follows : President — 
Daniel D. Grubbs '26; Vice Presi- 
dent — Mark F. Coles '26; Secretary- 
Treasurer— F. Miles Flint '27; Ex- 
ecutive Committee — Arthur J. Sund- 
lun '11, Charles R. Stark, Jr., '07, 
Ernest R. Cleaveland '14 and Daniel 
C. Chace '00. 

After the talk by the Alumni Sec- 
retary, there were questions about the 
new members of the Faculty, the 
Freshman class and, of course, the 
football team. Haywood M. Butler 
'05, a visitor, was introduced by C. 
C. Waters '05, and J. Mark Jacob- 
Coles. Dan Grubbs, president-elect. 
Coles. Dann Grubbs, president-elect, 
made a short speech, and there was 
discussion of letters from the man- 
agers of the University musical clubs 
and orchestra, respectively. The 
meeting broke up early, with the re- 
sult that there was time to greet and 
talk with most of the alumni individ- 
ually. 

MIDWEST MEETINGS 

Deans Randall and Mason left 
College Hill just after Christmas to 
be the guests of the Brown L^niversity 
Club at Chicago at a dinner and meet- 
ing scheduled for the University Club, 
Chicago, on Dec. 28. From Chicago 
the traveling Deans went to Detroit 
and then to Cleveland, Buffalo and 
Albany. We expect to have full ac- 
counts of their visits in the February 
issue of the Alumni Monthly. 



The University Chronicle 



The Neic Football Leader- 
The Brown Daily Herald says 
editorially: 

In the last meeting that the 1927 
football team was to hold as a unit, 
the members of that organization 
swung a mighty bludgeon on the 
feeble tales of favoritism and politics 
that have clouded the horizon for the 
past two months. In electing Albert 
C. Cornsweet captain of the 1928 
University eleven, the team did much 



to justify the confidence and whole- 
hearted support of the student body. 
The unanimous choice of the man 
who was obviously the logical candi- 
date for next year's leader indicates 
clearly that there could have been no 
outside influence to hamper the judg- 
ment of the players who made the 
selection. In sheer performance alone 
Cornsweet has no equal on the grid 
iron. But there was more than that 
in his favor. His winning personal- 

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ity and spirit of cheerful co-operation 
in the most trying moments of the 
past campaign were of even greater 
value to the team than his fine work 
in the backfield. 

Next season Cornsweet will face 
a tremendous task in helping Coach 
McLaughry rebuild the University 
eleven. It is a man-sized job, but we 
may feel assured that a capable and 
hard-working man has been elected 
to handle it. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



In passing we wish to express the 
gratitude and appreciation of the 
L^niversity for the work of the man 
whom Cornsweet succeeds at the 
helm of Brown football. The men 
of this University will always re- 
member Roy Randall for his fine 
sportsmanship throughout a season 
that was disappointing only from the 
point of view of games won and lost. 
That standard has never been the 
standard of Brown and we hope it 
never will be. 

We lose a great leader, but we 
also gain one. We congratulate "AF" 
Cornsweet and wish him the best of 
lucic, or rather, the best return for 
his conscientious efforts in the cam- 
paign to come. 

* * 

Phi Kappa Psi House 

Rhode Island Alpha Chapter of 
Phi Kappa Psi, which was established 
at Brown in 1902, is about to take 
possession of the substantial residenc-; 
at 108 Waterman street formerly 
owned by the Charles G. King fam- 
ily. It starts at the curve of Water- 
man hill, on the south side of Water- 
man street, just east of the Univer- 
sity Club. The lot on which it 
stands contains 14,000 square feet 
and the house has 19 bedrooms and 
three baths. The property adjoins 
the Alpha Delta Phi property, which 
faces on College street. 

The property was purchased in the 
name of Phi Kappa Psi of Brown, 
Inc., a corporation including both 
alumni and undergraduates. The 
board of directors comprises J. Nelson 
Alexander, Chester Beard, Andrew 
B. Comstock, Jesse P. Eddy, 3d, Wil- 
liam B. Freeman and Clarence H. 
Philbrick. 

» » 

The Tuentieth Fraternity 

The Bear Club has become a local 
fraternity, the 20th Greek-letter so- 
ciety at Brown, taking the name of 
Tau Delta Epsilon and being ap- 
proved by the L'niversity authorities 
and the Interfraternity Governing 
Board. 

The Bear Club was organized in 
1922 for non-fraternity men, and has 
prospered and increased in numbers. 
As the Freshman classes have greatly 



grown in recent years there has been 
a general feeling that the 19 existing 
fraternities were insufficient, and ac- 
cordingly this 20th one is welcome. 
The Bear Club has been conducted 
in fact, on much the same lines as the 
fraternities, adopting a pledging sys- 
tem identical with that of the latter 
and maintaining quarters in North 
Slater Hall. 

It is expected that in due season 
Tau Delta Epsilon will become a 
chapter of a national fraternity. 
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J'esper Services 

The vesper service at Sayles Hall 
on Sunday, Nov. 20, was the occa- 
sion of a sermon by President Faunce, 
who eloquently pleaded for a broader 
racial and religious view. On Nov. 
27 the preacher was Rev. Dr. Wil- 
liam L. Stidger '12, minister of the 
Linwood Avenue Methodist Episco- 
pal Church of Kansas City ; he is a 
rapid-fire speaker, with a decided gift 
for picturesque description. He para- 
phrased Christ's saying: "If I be lifted 
up, I will make all men taller." A 
Boston Symphony quintet furnished 
music on Dec. 4 and Rev. M. J. 
Twomey '01, Baptist minister of 
Newark, gave a strong sermon on 
Dec. II. On Dec. 1 8 there were 
Christmas carols. Counsellor O. T. 
Gilmore has presided at these services 
and Professor Gene Ware has been 
at the organ. All the services have 
been well attended, though compara- 
tively few students have been present. 

Why Not a Broun Theatre? 

We sympathize with the feeling of 
the Brown Daily Herald when it says 
editorially: 

"Whenever we pass the Union Au- 
ditorium and hear the hammers bang- 
ing and the paint brushes slapping as 
the stage crew of the University Dra 
matic Society prepares scenery for a 
production, we become respectably re- 
sentful that such capable performers 
and technicians should be boxed up 
in such a little auditorium. 

"The fact is that the Sock and 
Buskin's settings are too professional 
and the performances of the Society's 
actors are too capable to limit them 
to such ridiculously small quarters. 

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"We do not care o revive the old 
issue of a University Auditorium a: 
this time, but we do insist that the 
next building erected on the campus 
have included in it a modern 'little 
theatre' where the men who are work- 
ing so faithfully for Sock and Buskin 
can do so to much greater advantage." 

'I'arsity Track 
Jan. 28, K. of C. meet in Boston; 
Feb. 4, B. A. A. meet in Boston; 
Feb. 22, American Legion, Boston; 
Feb. 25, open ; March 3, I. C. A. A. 
A. A. indoor meet. New York; 
March 10, Worcester P. I. dual 
meet; April 21, Rhode Island; April 
28, Colby; May 5, Bowdoin at 
Brunswick; May 12, Columbia; May 
18 and 19, N. E. I. C. A. A.; May 
25 and 26, I. C. A. A. A. A. at Cam- 
bridge. 

* * 

Freshman Baseball 
April 14, open; April 21, Dean at 
Franklin; April 28, Holy Cross '31 
at Worcester; May 5, Boston L^ni- 
versity '31; May 12, Yale Junior 
'Varsity at New Haven; May 19, 
Harvard '31 at Cambridge; May 28, 
Roxbury; June 2, open. 

* .* 

\cxt Fall's Football Squad 

The Brown 'varsity football team 
and squad will lose by graduation 
next June: Captain Roy E. Randall. 
E. J. Lawrence, A. W. Pett, R. J. 
Hardy, E. T Towle, P. B. Edes, I. 
W. Crull, C. R. Consodine, J. R. 
Campbell and P. H. Hodge, a total 
of 10 players. 

There will remain in college as a 
nucleus for the 1928 'varsity: H. B. 
Edwards '29, A. Ricci '29, W. S. 
Trefethen, Jr., '29, A. C. Cornsweet 
'29, J S. Stewart '29, H. Heller '29, 
P. L. Dujardin '29, H. Cornsweet 
'29, E. A. Kevorkian '29, L. Farber 
'29, R. H. Albisser '29, R. D. E. 
MacLean '30, C. H. Edwards '30, 
R. J. Woerner '30, D. A. Kelly '30, 
J. E. Munroe '30, N. H. Munson 
'30, J. H. Channing '30, N. H. Mc- 
Cabe '30, D. Polsky '30, R. H. Ford 
'30, R. H. Clarke, Jr., '30, J. J. 
Burke '30, L. G. Cary '30 and D. O. 
Merrill '30 (total 25). Many or 
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jii actual games last fall and some 
were either first-string men or close 
to it, as the Cornsweet brothers, the 
Edwards brothers, Trefethen, Stew- 
art, Heller, Kevorkian, Farber, 
Woerner, Munroe, Munson and 
Merrill. This year's squad will also 
include the members of last fall's 
Freshman team, an unusually strong 
aggregation. 

The sole surviving "Iron Men" of 
1926 in college next fall will be "Al" 
Cornsweet, Kevorlcian and Farber. 



Studyiriy Blister Rust 

A recent article in the Journal of 
Agricultural Research dealing with 
field investigations of white pine blis- 
ter rust describes the work of two 
Brown graduates and of a former 
Brown instructor. The graduates 
are Professor Walter H. Snell of the 
Department of Botany on the Hill 
and Mrs. Annie Rathbun-Cjravatf 
'16, Women's College, and the for- 
mer member of the Faculty is Dr. 
Harlan H. York. The researches 
reported in the article cover the en- 
tire time of some four summers 
spent in the forest preserves at North 
Conway, N. H. 

Many thousand inoculations were 
made. Dr. Snell says, some under fa- 
vorable conditions for work, very 
many in a swamp where mosquitoes 
thrived, many in the rain, and a good 
part of the hardest ones done at 
night. Several thousand were com- 
pleted between the hours of 6 p. m. 
and 6 a. m. 

In this last group of inoculations 
of white pine with the rust fungus, 
an attempt was made to ascertain the 
moisture conditions under which in- 
fection of the pine took place. In 
order to work under natvu^al instead 
of artificial conditions, inoculations 
were made on pines in the woods 
growing naturally and at a time of 
day when the relative humidity gra- 
■^ient was satisfactory. Therefore 
some sets of experiments, usually con- 
sisting of over a thousand inocula- 
tions at a time in one night, were 
made from 6 p. m. to 3 a. m., when 
the moisture of the air was increas- 
ing in amount from day conditions 
to saturation. Other sets were made 
from 12 o'clock midnight to 9 a. m.. 



when the conditions were reversed. 
For two summers the experimenters 
worked only at night in this manner, 
spending every fourth night in the 
woods. The first sets were weary- 
ing, but thereafter the nights spent 
in the woods were barely noticed. 
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Basketball 

Brown lost the first basketball 
game of the season to Boston Univer- 
sity at Providence, Dec. 7, 39-27- 
The score was even, at 21-21, with 
only four minutes remaining, but 
"Hy'' Heller of Brown wrenched his 
ankle at this point and the home team 
went temporarily to pieces. The 
Brown team at the outset consisted of 
Heffennan, Frost, Tyson, Greenleese 
and H. Heller. Substitutes were 
Milligan, Smith, Mileady and S. 
Heller. 

The second basketball game of the 
year was a victory for Brown over 
M. I. T. 

The third game was a victory for 
Brown over Harvard, 33-30, Brown 
leading all the way. This game, on 
Dec. 16, was the first athletic contest 
of any kind in the new University 
Gymnasium. A throng of 1300 
spectators was in attendance and the 
enthusiasm ran high. Some idea of 
the size of the new building can be 
gained from the statement that the 
players and spectators occupied only 
one-third of the floor space — in other 
words, two other games might have 
been played simultaneously in the 
great structure. It is a noteworthy 
fact that although the gym is a mile 
distant from the campus, and corre- 
spondingly distant from the centre of 
the city, the attendance at the Har- 
vard game was the largest ever at- 
tracted by a basketball match at 
Brown. 

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Notes of the Month 

Allen E. Reed, Harvard '26, for 
two years captain of the Harvard la- 
crosse team, has signed a one-year 
contract to coach the Brown lacrosse 
team. 

In the opening hockey game of the 
year. Brown beat Norwich Univer- 
sity at the Auditorium on North 
Main street, Dec. 15, by a score of 

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3 to I. The Brown team lined up 
as follows: Hunt g, Gardner Id, 
Lingham rd. Chase rw. Partridge c, 
Eastwood Iw. 

Track practice is scheduled to begin 
at once after the Christmas recess. 

The college administration has de- 
cided that class dues will not be 
placed on term bills. 

R. C. Gurney '28 has won the ap- 
pointment as Rhodes Scholar from 
Rhode Island. He is a talented base- 
ball and football player, son of Pres- 
ton D. Gurney '97, and a member of 
Alpha Delta Phi. His home is in 
Brockton, Mass. 

Dr. R. C. Murphy '11 lectured to 
a large audience in Sayles Hall on 
"Mountain and Seacoast in Ecuador" 
on Dec. 15. 

In the class of 1880 prize speaking 
competition, Dec. 13, L. M. Gold- 
berg '28 won first prize ($30) and 
W. G. S. Sherman '28 and M. J. 
Vieira '28 second prize ($20 each). 
The subject was: "Should Seniors be 
allowed unlimited absence. Goldberg 
and Vieira said no, while Sherman 
said yes. 

The Freshman-Sophomore debate, 
Dec. 15, was won by the Freshmen. 
The question was the proposed repeal 
of the Federal estate tax. The 
Sophomores said yes and the Fresh- 
men no. 

Professor Carmichael of the De- 
partment of Psychology talked on 
"Present-Day Psychology" to the un- 
dergraduate Phi Beta Kappa chapter 
at the home of W. W. Moss '94, on 
Dec. 13. 

Sock and Buskin made a substan- 
tial success of its presentation of 
Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends 
Well" in the Union, three evenings 
at the beginning of December. The 
play had never, so far as known, been 
presented before on any stage in 
America. On Dec. 15-16 the Fresh- 
man players of Sock and Buskin pre- 
sented acceptably two short plays, 
"The Valiants" and "Two Gentle- 
men from Soho.' 

The Psi Upsilon team touch-foot- 
ball champions of Brown, were beat- 
en for the Eastern intercollegiate 
championship by Aupha Sigma Phi 
of Harvard, 14-7, at Cambridge, 
Dec. 3. 



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Life at the Women's College 



/^ X Wednesday afternoon, Xo- 
^^ vember i6, Miss Marie Thomp 
son, a well-known soprano vocalist, 
gave a recital of the folk songs of 
the Hebridean people in Alumnae 
Hall. Miss Jean Buchanan accom- 
panied her on the piano. Both AL'ss 
Thompson and Miss Buchanan are 
English, and their concerts have been 
received in England and in Scotland 
with the most enthusiastic criticisms. 
The melodies were very simple, but 
were exquisitely sung by Miss 
Thompson. The concert was the 
gift to the Women's College of Mrs. 
George St. John Sheffield. 

On Sunday afternoon, December 
II, the second concert of the series 
was given by the Marianne Kneisel 
String Quartet. This quartet is led 
by Miss Marianne Kneisel, daughtei 
of Franz Kneisel, himself a famous 
quartet leader. Miss Kneisel plays 
first violin, having received her en- 
tire training from her father at the 
Institute of Musical Arts in Xew 
York. The other members of the 
quartet are: Miss Elizabeth Worth, 
second violin, who was born in Vi 
enna and studied there with Arnold 
Rose; Miss Mary Lackland, viola 
who received her training in Rich- 
mond, Va., studying there with Al 
exander Bloch and Paul Kochanski, 
and winning four times a Juillard 
Musical Foundation Scholarship; and 
Miss Xancy Wilson, 'cello, born in 
New York, and trained by Lielif Ros- 
anoff, 'cellist. The concert was made 
possible by a number of Providence 
women and ^vas greatly enjoyed by an 
audience that filled the hall. 

The third concert will be an organ 
recital by Miss Helen Hogan, as- 
sisted by Mme. Avis Bliven Char- 
bonnel, on January 13, while Mr. 
Jerome Swinford, baritone, will be 
the artist at the fourth on Feb. 14. 

At the organization meeting of the 
class of 1 93 1 the following officers 
were elected : President, Hester 
Hastings ; Vice President, Beatrice 
Schwensen ; Secretary, Eleanor Dem- 
erest; Treasurer, Dorothy Noble. 

The Freshman class tennis cham- 
pionship has been won by Hope Pet 
tey of Cranston. 

As its first chapel speaker, the Stu- 



ff}' Sylvia Berkman '28 

dent Chapel Committee selected Miss 
Nermine Mouvafac '28, who has 
come from the University of Con- 
stantinople to study at the Women's 
College. Miss Mouvafac gave a 
brief, interesting talk on her life in 
Turkey and her future work in Tur- 
ke\' when she returns there next year. 
The second chapel speaker of the yeai 
was Miss Nancy Dyer, on Decembei 
7. Miss Dyer was secured by the 
Chapel Committee last year, also, 
and at that time sketched a delightful 
little story of life along the country 
side of France which so pleased the 
students that they urged the commit- 
tee to try to have Miss Dyer come a 
second time. Her second talk only 
deepened the impression of her charm 
and personality. 

The Chapel Committee consists of : 
Helen Butts '28, chairman; Grace 
McAuslan '28, Elizabeth Rose '29 
and Dorothy Piggott '30. This com 
mittee presents a speaker on Thursday 
morning of every other week, alterna- 
ting with the Student Government 
Association at chapel exercises. 

The second meeting of the newl\- 
formed Debating Society of the 
Women's College was held in Alimi 
nae Hall, Xovember 29. The sub- 
ject of the debate was: "Resolved, 
That the age limit for entrance to 
college shall be eighteen years." The 
negative side, under Helen Haveles 
'30 and Mary Blanchard '31 won 
from the affirmative, under Eleanor 
Washington '31 and Mary Banigan 
'31. The judges were Dr. Wilder 
and Miss Frances Mason. 

The Komian Board presented two 
one-act plays on the evening of De- 
cember 9 in Alumnae Hall: "Entei 
the Hero" and "Why the Chimes 
Rang." Mrs. Sarah Minchin Barker 
acted as coach. The casts were as 
follows: "Enter the Hero": Ann Ca- 
rey, Elsie Sherrington '28; Ruth Ca 
rey, Mildred Starkweather '30; Har- 
old Laivson, Josephine Gable '29 ; 
Mrs. Carey. Ethel Martus '29. 

"Why the Chimes Rang" : Holder. 
Dorothea Luce '28; Steen, Winifreu 
Bogle '29; Bertcl, Rose Goldys '29; 
Old U'oinan, Ethel Humphrey '29; 
Angel. Helen Butts '29; Priest, Mary 
Matheson '29 ; Man, Farrior Brown 
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'28; If Oman, Evelyn Jillson '29; 
Courtier. Rose Hand '30; Sage, Dor 
othy Roth '29; Girl, Margaret Hall 
'28 ; King, Gwendolyn Scott '28. 

By means of the Vocational Guid- 
ance Committee, Miss Mary Taylor, 
field representative of the Yale 
School of Xursing, met a small but 
enthusiastic group of students at a 
breakfast in the cafeteria on Decem- 
ber I. Miss Taylor talked inform- 
ally and afterwards met a few of the 
students in the small dining room in 
Alumnae Hall. Dean Morriss and 
Miss Mooar also atended the break- 
fast. The Vocational Guidance 
Committee consists of Georgianna 
Cameron '28, chairman ; Elizabeth 
Sanderson '28, Marion Kaklman '28, 
Dorothy Roth '29, Elizabeth Rose 
'29, Mary McDonough '29, Grace 
I^i'ig 30, Virginia Paine '30, Anne 
Carr '31. 

On ^Vednesday evening, Xovember 
30, Brownies presented the annual 
Fashion Show in the auditorium of 
Alumnae Hall. Coats, hats, after- 
noon, sport and evening dresses were 
furnished by Gladdings'. On the 
stage there were also small tables 
holding jewelry and other accessories, 
which the models selected and dis- 
played as they appeared. The models, 
chosen from all four classes by 
Brownies, were: 1928 — Dorothy 
Hodgson, Mary Brownell, Kathryn 
Lichty, Mary Mulgrew, Betty Herr, 
Louise Weaver; 1929 — Loretta Dil- 
lon, Eleanor Haley, Alice McGrath, 
Josephine Gable, Dorothy Strachan, 
Dorothea Taudvin ; 1930 — Mai 
Dorrmann, Gladys Frankenburg, Al- 
ice Shepherd, Beatrice Simpson, Vir- 
ginia Roberts, Mildred Starkweather; 
193 1 — Isabelle Andrew, Mary An- 
drew, Dorothy Rose Hess, Kathryn 
Taylor, Lorraine Weinstein. 

The new Student-Faculty Com- 
mittee consisting of Farrior Brown 
'28, chairman ; Marguerite Salomon 
'28, Annette Sheridan '29, Alice 
Shepherd '30 and Hester Hastings 
'31, gave its first tea on Thursday af- 
ternoon, December 8, in the Common 
Room of Alumnae Hall. Professor 
S. Foster Damon of the English De- 
partment, the guest of the afternoon, 
read several of his own poems, and 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



talked informally with a group of ten 
students about poetry and the drama. 
Imitations to the tea were personal 
and limited, as they will continue to 
be for the teas to follow, since the 
committee hopes to reach every girl 
in the college, in so far as possible, 
and to secure professors from all 
departments. The purpose of the 
newly introduced teas is to gather to- 
gether a certain number of students 
with a common interest with a mem- 
ber of the faculty who can stimulate 
and encourage that interest, as well 
as to promote a more intimate rela- 



tionship between students and profes- 
sors. 

Another inno\ation is the newly- 
organized Spanish Club, fostered by. 
the Spanish Department, whose mem- 
bership is drawn from all the classes. 
The first meeting, held November 1 8, 
in the rotunda of IMarston Hall, was 
devoted mainly to necessary business 
matters, including the election of offi- 
cers for the coming year. The officers 
are : President, Frederick B. Agard 
'28 ; Vice President, Bernice Church 
'30; Secretary, Pj^yllis Fletcher '29; 
Treasurer, C. B. Cable '31. 



After the business meeting a hastily 
prepared program was presented and 
refreshments were served. To insure 
interesting programs in the future, a 
program committee has been ap- 
pointed. The members are: Virginia 
Wright '28, chairman; Helen Ken- 
nard '28, Rosina Quinones '28 and 
Waldo Smith '28. 

At the second meeting of the club, 
held in Marston Hall on December 
9, Mr. DeLand of the Spanish De- 
partment gave an informal illustrated 
talk on his e.xperiences in South 
America last summer. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



President Faunce's address, "Edu 
eating Twentieth Century Pioneers," 
given before the Association of Life 
Insurance Presidents in Xew York 
on Dec. 8, stirred up considerable 
controversy in Providence and neigh- 
borhood. The paragraph in debate 
was: "We have in America the 
largest public school system on earth, 
the most expensive college buildings, 
the most extensive curriculum. But 
nowhere else is education so pointless 
and aimless, so blind in its objectives, 
so indifferent to any specific outcome 
as in America." 

Dean Randall has been re-elected 
a member of the executive committee 
of the Association of Xew England 
Colleges and Secondary Schools, and 
Professor Walter Ballou Jacobs is 
again secretary, a position he has held 
continuously since igii. 

Professor L. T. Damon was one of 
the speakers at the meeting of the 
New England Association of Teach- 
ers of English in Springfield, Mass., 
on December 9, his subject being: 
"What is Scholarship in English ?" 

Professor Walter H. Snell gave a 
paper, "Methods of Estimating Dam 
age Caused by Forest Tree Fungi," 
before the White Pine Blister Rust 
Conference of the Northeastern 
States in Boston on Nov. 28. Dr. 
Snell outlined methods in which he is 
a pioneer and of which he has made 
thorough study during his summers 
of work in New York State for the 
Department of Conservation. 

Professor Henry T. Fowler at- 
tended, as a member of the Honorary 
Advisory Committee, the dinner given 
in Philadelphia on Nov. 29 to Dr. 
James M. Anders in observance of 



Dr. Anders' fiftieth anniversary in 
the practice of medicine. 

Professor F. K. ^V. Drury, assist- 
ant librarian of the University, was 
the Brown delegate to the annual 
meeting of the Eastern College Li- 
brarians at Columbia University on 
Nov. 26. He presented a paper, 
"Minimum College Entrance Re- 
quirements in Library Knowledge," 
in which he urged that Freshmen re 
ceive training in the use of libraries. 

Professor Edmund B. Delabarre 
was the November speaker before the 
Old Colony Historical Society, 
Taunton, Mass. He reviewed his 
recent investigations concerning the 
writings on the historic Dighton Rock 
and illustrated his talk with lantern 
slides. 

Professor Frederick N. Tompkins 
of the Division of Engineering ap- 
peared last month before the Prov- 
idence County Courthouse Commis- 
sion to tell the Commission of ways 
to light the new building properly. 
Professor Tompkins is an authority 
on modern lighting, and it is a pleas- 
ure to hear him talk on the subject. 

Professor Rudolph Altrocchi of the 
Department of Romance Languages 
and Mrs. Altrocchi made their bows 
before a Providence audience at the 
Faculty Club on Dec. 8 with an en- 
joyable and illuminating lecture on 
"Castles in Italy." The Altrocchis 
alternate as they give their lecture — 
a system all their own, Professor Al- 
trocchi laughingly explained — and 
they both have the art of vivid de 
scription and a sharp sense of humor. 

Once again we have evidence of 
the active part members of the Fac- 
ulty play in the life of the community 
as we read the program issued by th," 
Providence Y. M. C. A. under the 

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title, "Adventures in Thnking." Par- 
ticipating in these adventures is a 
group meeting every Thursday night 
during December, January and Feb 
ruary. Among the leaders and thei' 
topics we note : Professor R. H 
George, "The Background of Scienc 
and the ]\Iodern W^orld" ; Professo." 
C. H. Currier, "What Science Re- 
veals Through Astronomy" ; Profes 
sor E. K. Strachan, "What Scienc 
Tells of the Constitution of Matter" ; 
Professor Bradford Willard, "Nature 
and Development of the Earth ' ; 
Professor Walter H. Snell, "The 
Plant Kingdom"; Professor H. E 
^Valter, "The Antiquity of Man"; 
Professor Harold Chidsey, "What 
Philosophy Tells Us of Life" ; Pro- 
fessor James Quayle Dealey, "Crea- 
tive Opportunities"; O. T. Gilmore, 
student counselor, "Science and Re- 
ligion as Co-Partners" ; Profes.sor 
Millar Burrows, "The World's Re- 
ligions" ; Professor Leland M. Good- 
rich, "Is Democracy Applicable ?" ; 
Professor Leonard Carmichael, "He- 
redity and Environment". Norman 
S. Case '08, Lieutenant Governor of 
Rhode Island, opened the series of dis- 
cussions, which surely ofifers an un- 
usual opportunity in education and 
which redounds to the credit of our 
Faculty members. 

Professor Horatio E. Smith of the 
Department of Romance Languages 
represented the University at the in- 
auguration of Dr. Arthur Stanley 
Pease as president of Amherst Col- 
lege on Nov. 4, 1927. Professor 
Smith is a graduate of Amherst in the 
class of 1908. 

Professor C. H. Currier attracted 
considerable notice in the newspapers 
uast month by his statement that, 
because of sun spots, radio enthusi- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



asts would have more trouble than 
usual in getting programs clearly for 
the rest of this year and during the 
early part of 1928. Professor Cur- 
rier, his assistants and students at 
Ladd Observatory have been making 
studies of the disturbed areas on the 
sun's surface. 

Professor F. W. Marvel and Nor- 
man S. Taber '13 of the Board of 
Trustees represented the Univer- 
sity at the annual meeting of the Na- 
tional Collegiate Athletic Association 
which will take place in New York on 
Dec. 29. 

Professor James A. Hall of the Di- 
vision of Engineering read a paper, 
"The Effect of Hob Corrections on 
Gear Teeth," at the semi-annual 
meeting of the American Gear ^L-ln- 
ufacturers' Association held Oct. 20, 
21, 22 in Montreal, Canada. 

Dean Kenneth O. Mason, Profes- 
sor A. W. MacPhail, A. E. Jensen 
and Alumni Secretary Gurney were 
Brown's representatives at the second 
annual meeting of the Department of 
Education and Vocation, University 
Club, Boston, which took place at 
the club on Nov. 16. Dean Mason 
spoke on the topic, "How can the per- 
sonnel work in the colleges and in 
business and industry be better co-or- 
dinated?" 

Professor W. H. Kenerson of the 
Division of Engineering presided at 
the dinner which was held in Fall 
River, Mass., on Oct. 25 by the Prov- 
idence sections of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, 
American Institute of Electrical En- 
gineers and the power section of the 
Providence Engineering Society. The 
dinner followed an inspection of the 
Montaup Electric Company plant 
and the mills of the American Print 
ing Company. 

Professor Verner W. Crane of the 
Department of History is giving an 
extension course this semester under 
the title, "Epochs of American His- 
tory," in which he is using the Yale 
photoplays (Chronicles of America) 
which were presented to the Univer 
sity about two years ago by Mrs. 
George St. J. Sheffield of Providence 
in memory of her husband, Yale grad- 
uate and enthusiastic friend of Yale 
rowing. 

Professor Walter Ballou Jacobs, 
director of University Extension, is 
conducting a course, "Social Psychol 
ogy," in Providence, Boston and 
Springfield, Mass. The course has 



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tronomer, in Cambridge, ALiss., on 
Nov. 23, 1927, calls to mind the fact 
that he was Professor of Astronomy, 
pro tempore, and Director of the 
Ladd Observatory at the L^niversity, 
1896-7. "His activities in science 
covered a wide range of subjects," 
said H. H. Clayton in the Boston 
Transcript. Professor Very, accord- 
ing to Mr. Clayton, assisted Langley 
"for ten years in his epoch-making 
work in astronomy and in aerodyna- 
mic studies on which Langley based 
his model flying machine. He as- 
sisted Frank W. Bigelow in the prep- 
aration of his books on the thermo- 
dynamics of the atmosphere, and co- 
operated with Percival Lowell in his 
studies of the atmosphere of the plan ■ 
152 



ets." He also did much work in ra- 
dio pioneering and in the study of the 
moon's surface temperature and ot 
the absorption of heat by our atmos- 
phere. "His task in life," Mr. Clay- 
ton concluded, "was to enlarge the 
boundaries of human knowledge and 
to show that there was no conflict be- 
tween science and religion." 

Alumni 

1868 

The address of Richard S. How- 
land, formerly editor of the Provi- 
dence Journal, is 44 West i6th St., 
Jacksonville, Fla. 

1869 

Dr. Daniel M. Fisk, professoi 
emeritus of sociology, Washburn Col- 
lege, Topeka, Kan., has been busy 
during the last three years writing for 
publication on the subject, "The So- 
cial Interpretation of Religion." Dr. 
Fisk was professor of biology in 
Hillsdale College, Mich., for four- 
teen years and for the next fourteen 
years was a Congregational minister, 
first in Michigan, then in Toledo, O., 
and St. Louis, Mo. He left the min- 
istry to become professor of sociology 
at Washburn College, resigning in 
1924 after having served 24 years. 
He was made professor emeritus and 
granted the only retiring allowance 
that the college had given in its 62 
years. 

1872 

Francis Andrew Howarth, for half 
a century active and well known as a 
manufacturer, died at his home in 
Howarth's Village (Oxford), Mass.. 
on Nov. 30, 1927, after a long illness. 
He was born in Richmond, Va., in 
1849, the son of Andrew and Mar- 
tha (Moorcroft) Howarth. He pre- 
pared at Philips Andover and took 
his A. B. with the class. As soon as 
he was graduated he went into busi- 
ness with his father under the firm 
name of Andrew Howarth & Son, 
with mills making white flannel in 
Northfield and Rochdale, Vt. In 
1882 the business was moved to Ox- 
ford, Mass., and through the years 
has been one of the successful con- 
cerns in its field. Its blankets, made 
in connection with the manufacture 
of the flannel, are widely known for 
their excellent quality. Howarth 
was strictly a business man, giving 
all of his time to his mills. Thus he 
avoided politics and civic affairs. A 
home lover of the old school, one 
might characterize him. He was 




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An Ad-'certisement of the 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 



Ten years ago fifteen of the 
largest corporations in the 
United States had a total of 
approximately 500,000 stockholders. 
Today the American Telephone and 
Telegraph Company alone has more 
than 420,000 stockholders. 

This is an instance of the amazing 
growth of saving and investment that 
has taken place in this country. 

Who are these new investors? 




file in ei'ery state, nearly every 
town and city, in the land. Me- 
chanics and merchants, teachers 
and bankers, laborers and lawyers — 
every station of life is represented in 
this investment democracy. And it is 
a democracy, for the average holding is 
only 26 shares. No one person owns 
as much as 1% of the total stock. 

The American Telephone and Tele- 
graph Company and its associated com- 



panies comprising the national Bell 
American Telephone and Telegraph Telephone System are owned by the 
stockholders come from every rank and people they serve. 



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married Sept. +, 1873, to Bertha 
Anna Husy, and she survives him, to- 
gether with a son. Andrew P. How- 
arth of Oxford, and two grandsons, 
Andrew and Francis, the last named 
of whom is a Senior on College Hill. 
Howarth was a member of Chi Phi, 
now Sigma Chi. 

1874 and 1872 

Dean Frank E. Rockwood of Ov- 
erbrook, Philadelphia. Pa., said in a 
recent letter to the Alumni Secretary . 
"The Dartmouth number of Bru- 
notes had an item that recalls old 
memories. In the first column of the 
editorial matter mention was made of 
the ball game between Brown and 
Dartmouth in 187 1. I was a Fresh- 
man then, was at the game and re- 
member it well. It is only fifty-six 
j-ears ago. 'Bub' Jennings was Cap- 
tain and pitcher of the Brown team. 
He was a Junior and a college hero 
then, a leader in everything worth 
while and probably the most populai 
man of his day. That year he won 
Phi Beta Kappa, first honor at Jun- 
ior Exhibition, first Carpenter Dec- 
lamation Prize and a prize rosewood 
and silver bat for the best batting rec- 
ord on the team. He won many vic- 
tories as a pitcher, and when he put 
in a substitute he usually went behind 
the bat — just for a change! His 
name, Andrew Jackson Jennings, was 
on the roll of Trustees for many 
J years." 

1876 

Dr. Charles V. Chapin has been 
named as the first honorary member 
of the Delta Omega Society, created 
by the schools of hygiene in this coun- 
try to correspond to Phi Beta Kappa 
and the Sigma Xi. Presentation o.' 
the golden key of the society to Dr. 
Chapin took place at a dinner in New 
York on Dec. 9, 1927. 

Richard H. Tingley continues with 
amazing facility his syndicated cross- 
word puzzles which thousands of 
newspaper readers work out daily. 
Tingley is also the author of a "What 
Do You Know"' series which is na- 
tionalh' popular. 

1879 
X. S. Calhoun asks us kindly to 
announce that "my address will be 
The Huntington, Pasadena, Cal., un- 
til April I, 1928." 

1880 
President Faunce has contributed 
to the fund being raised for an ath- 
letic field for the Concord, N. H., 
High School. "In the Concord High 



school I spent some of the pleasantest 
years of my life, graduating in the 
class of 1875, and the progress of 
that school will always be dear to 
me," the President wrote the fund 
committee. 

Frederic R. Mason, member of the 
class for two years, died at Corev Hill 
Hospital. Brookline, Mass., on Dec. 
^, iq27. He was born in Pawtucket, 
R. I., March II, i8sq, the son of 
Robert Durfee and Mary Bicknell 
(Nicholas) Mason. He prepared for 
college in the Pawtucket schools and 
at Rev. C. M. Wheeler's private 
school. On College Hill he special 
ized in chemistry : and after two years 
of this study he beccame assistant 
manager of the Robert D. Mason 
Company, dyers and bleachers, m 
Pawtucket. In l88q he was made a 
partner in the firm, the name of which 
was changed to Robert D. Mason & 
Son. He took the office of treasurer 
at the time the company was incorpo- 
rated and so remained until a change 
of ownership came. Then he retired, 
took up his residence in Boston and 
also spent some time in California. 
He was married Tune 6, 1894, to 
Anne E. Boone. Her death, several 
weeks before he himself passed on, 
was a great shock to him. "It would 
be hard to name Fred ;Mason's equal 
in the class for high ideals in business 
or devotion to his church, or for af- 
fection and thought of his family," a 
classmate wrote of him. "In all cir 
cumstances and under some very de 
pressing trials, his cheerfulness was 
unfailing." Mason is survived by ;' 
son and a sister. 

1881 

Charles Evans Hughes has defi- 
nitely squelched all talk of him as a 
candidate for the Republican nomi- 
nation for President. "I stand by 
the statement I made last May," he 
has said firmly. And that statement, 
as many of us will recall, said that 
"I do not wish my name to be used 
in any contingency. I am too old to 
run for President and I would neither 
seek nor accept the nomination." 

1883 

Abram Barker writes that his busi- 
ness address is care of Benedict Drys- 
dale &: Co., investments, 71 Broad- 
way, and his home address is 2730 
Sedgwick ave., New York. 

Charles B. Wood continues active 
in the practice of law at 160 N. La 
Salle St., Chicago. 

Former Governor Edward C. 

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Stokes is again stirring up political 
affairs in New Jersey by his candidacy 
for the Republican nomination for 
United States Senator. 
1884 
The new address of Rev. Augustus 
E. Scoville is Memorial Home Com- 
munity, Penney Farms, Fla. Scoville 
began preachng in 1887, being or- 
dained in Dover Plains, N. Y., and 
served successively Baptist churches 
in Akron, O., Melrose, Mass., 
Adrian Mich., and Peabody, Mass., 
with an interval of five years teach- 
ing in 'Virginia Union L niversity, 
Richmond, Va. 

Manton B. Metcalf, ex-'84, who 
died at Orange, N. J., Oct. 12, 1923, 
left a gross estate of $1 1,483.1 12, ac- 
cording to the report of the New 
York State Transfer Tax Depart- 
ment, published Dec. 14, 1927. Mr. 
Metcalf attended the dedication of 
the Metcalf Chemical Laboratory at 
Brown a few days before his death. 
To the fund for the maintenance of 
the laboratory he gave $100,000, thus 
generously supplementing the princi- 
pal gift of his brother, Jesse H. Met- 
calf, and those of other members of 
the family. 

1888 
F. H. Brownell, first vice presi 
dent of the American Smelting and 
Refining Co., is president of the Cop- 
per Institute, recently formed by the 
leading copper producers to stabilize 
the industry and also to supplement 
the activities of the Copper Export 
Association, in which Brownell is 
likewise prominent. 
1894 
Rev. George R. Hazard, rector of 
Grace Church, Manchester, N. H., 
was publicly honored last month on 
his 20th anniversary as a local min- 
ister. Bishop John T. Dallas of New 
Hampshire was among the guests and 
one of the speakers to congratulate 
Hazard on his work in Manchester. 
The members of the parish gave Mr. 
and Mrs. Hazard a substantial purse 
of gold. 

Colonel H. Anthony Dyer, friend 
and lover of Italy, was decorated in 
Providence on Nov. 21 with the Or 
der of the Commendatore of the 
Italian Crown by Marchesi Agostino 
Ferrente, Italian Consul at Boston. 
The decoration, the highest conferred 
by the King of Italy, was given to 
our own "Corky" for his work in be- 
half of Italy — "a man," as one 
speaker described him faithfully, 
"who through the medium of his 



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brush has brought here the most 
beautiful and suggestive scenery of 
Italy, and by his talks on the progress 
of Italy has done much to promote 
understanding of Italy in America." 

1895 

Rev. W. W. Bustard, now en- 
gaged in evangelistic work through- 
out the country, has been spending 
the last two months in New England, 
conducting services in Lowell, Haver- 
hill, Winchester, Mass., and other 
cities. 

Rev. Franklin D. Elmer's church, 
the First Baptist of Hamilton, N. Y., 
observed last month the 131st anni- 
versary of its founding. The church 
is the mother of Colgate University, 
the New York Baptist Convention 
and of churches at Eaton, Lebanon, 
South Hamilton and Randallsville, 
N. Y. Frank L. Shepardson '83 is 
chairman of the Board of Deacons. 

1896 
John S. Murdock, LTnited States 
District Attorney for Rhode Island, 
has been elected President of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association for the 
year 1928. Other Brown men serv- 
ing as officers with the new president 
are John H. Slattery '01, vice presi- 
dent; Fred B. Perkins '19, secretary 
Herbert M. Sherwood '09, treasurer; 
G. Frederick Frost '96, James C. 
Collins '92, Walter S. Reynolds '93 
and Clarence N. Wooley 'i2n on the 
executive committee. 

1897 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given 
the Library of Congress the sum of 
$700,000, of which $450,000 is to be 
used for American historical research 
and $250,000 for the enlargement "of 
the bibliographical apparatus of the 
library in the interest of its informa- 
tional service to other libraries and to 
research investigators." William 
Adams Slade '98 is acting chief bibli- 
ographer of the Library. 

1898 

The Cranston, R. I., Teachers 
Association gave a dinner last month 
to John K. Fenner, Superintendent 
of Schools, and Mrs. Fenner in ob- 
servance of Mr. Fenner's tenth anni- 
versary in office. The association has 
started the Fenner Fund to be used 
to equip a library in the old Crans- 
ton high school building. 

We haven't heard anything as yet 
about the plans for the 30th Reunion 
of the class next June, but Fred W. 
Arnold whispers that something 
definite may be soon forthcoming. 



Judge Howard B. Gorham of the 
Sixth District Court of Rhode Island 
gave a comprehensive report of the 
proceedings of the last conference of 
the National Crime Commission be- 
fore the annual meeting of the Rhode 
Island Bar Association in December. 
1899 

Mellinger E. Henry of the Dickin- 
son High School, Jersey City, N. J., 
had the leading article in the New 
Jersey Journal of Education for No- 
vember, 1927, under the title, "Pro- 
fessor Will S. Monroe— Trail 
Builder from New Jersey." The 
Monroe Skyline Trail of Vermont 
was the work of the subject of the 
article. As some of our Brown trail- 
followers may know, it extends north 
from Middlebury Gap, Vt., to the 
summit of the Couching Lion, a dis- 
tance of 43 miles. 

1900 

Roscoe Dexter's nephew, Dextei 
Clarke, was captain the past seasop 
of the Central Falls High School 
football team, considered by the 
sports writers the best schoolboy 
eleven in Rhode Island. Young 
Clarke played guard, and perhaps 
we'll see him in a similar position on 
a Brown eleven some day. 
1901 

Lieutenant Colonel George A. 
Taylor, U. S. A., has the thanks ot 
the Alumni Office for the football 
programs he sent from Cincinnati 
last month and also for the copy of 
The Salvo, the bulletin of the Artil- 
lery Group, Fifth Corps Area, of 
which George is the up-and-hustling 
editor. 

Edwin Farnham Greene's mailing 
address is 24 Thomas St., New York, 
where he is at present maintaining 
his headquarters. 

Harold L. Madison's son, Harold. 
is a member of the Freshman class on 
the Hill and a pledge to Phi Delta 
Theta fraternity. 

Don LeStaed and George Tavlor 
met each other in the Cincinnati Club 
in Cincinnati. O., on Dec. 14, the 
news is, and Don and "Bird" got into 
immediate reminiscence of the time 
both plaved quarterback on the Fresh 
man eleven in i8q7. Don was on a 
business trip for his two iewelrv con- 
cerns in North Attleboro. and "Bird" 
(usually addressed as Colonel) was 
foresatherine at lunch with the Cin- 
cinnati Chapter, Reserve Officers' As- 
sociation. 

1902 

Dr. J. W. Leech, President of the 
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Rhode Island Medical Society, came 
out vigorously last month with a 
statement in the Providence papers 
against the unrestricted use of X-ray 
for removal of superfluous hair. 

1903 
The Class Secretary has been pre- 
paring his lists and otherwise getting 



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things shipshape for the start of the 
campaign to make the 25th Reunion 
next June second to none in class his- 
tory. 

Frank Ehmke is still in California, 
his brother Charlie informs us, being 
located at Escondido in the Golden 
State. 

Roscoe A. Carter, member of the 
class for three years, died at his home 



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in Needham Heights, Mass., on Dec. 
7, 1927, following an attack of pneu- 
monia. At the time of his death he 
was assistant treasurer of the Wil- 
liam Carter Company, manufacturers 
of knit underwear. He was born in 
Needham Heights, July 29, 1880, 
the son of ^VilIiam and Jane G. 
(Avery) Carter. He prepared at 
Needham High School and, after 



leaving Brown in the spring of 1902. 
entered Harvard, where he studied 
for two years. He had been with the 
William Carter Company since 1904. 
He was active in the affairs of the 
town and filled several town offices, 
and was a member of the Rotary Club 
of Boston and of a Masonic lodge in 
Needham. He was married Oct. 17, 
1906, to Christine ]\L Wittig of New 



Brown's New Trustees 



The Trustees of the University 
elected by the alumni in June are: 

Zechari.ah Ch.afee, 1880, Prov- 
idence. President and treasurer 
Builders' Iron Foundry, director 
What Cheer and Hope Mutual Fire 
Insurance Companies. Since 19 1 9 
member of the corporation committee 
in charge of the John Hay Library, 
chairman for past eight years. Mem- 
ber of advisory and executive commit- 
tee of corporation, 1917 to date. As- 
sociated with advisory board. Asso- 
ciated Alumni, four years as delegate 
from Association of Class Secretaries, 
then as alumni trustee. Secretary of 
his class since graduation. His four 
sons are members of the Brown 
classes of 1907, 1909, 1916, 1927. 
and his daughter graduated from the 
Women's College in 1924. Has al- 
ready served two terms as alumnus 
trustee. 

William Allan Dyer, 1886, 
Syracuse, N. Y. In business since 
graduation. In 1898 incorporated E. 
S. Brown Company, Fall River, 
Mass., becoming treasurer and gen- 
eral manager. Removed to Syracuse 
in 1903. Successively treasurer, vice 
president, general manager Smith 
Premier Typewriter Company, 191 2, 
vice president and manager, Chappell- 
Dyer Company. President, New 
York State Retail Dry Goods Asso- 
ciation since 1914. President Syra- 
cuse Chamber of Commerce; vice 
chairman, Syracuse Street Railway 
Commission ; member board, New 
York State School; trustee, Syracuse 
Museum of Fine Arts; President, 
Brown Alumni Club of Central 
New York; trustee. Brown Loyalty 
Fund ; vice president. Associated 
Alumni. Organized Liberty Loan 
committees in Syracuse during World 



War. Honorary degree of A. M., 
Syracuse L^niversity, 1921. Chair- 
man, $2,500,000 campaign for Syra- 
cuse Memorial Hospital and Medi- 
cal Centre. His only son, William 
Allan Dyer, Jr., was graduated from 
Brown, 1924. 

RuFUs Matthew Jones, Haver- 
ford, Pa. A. B., Haverford College. 
1885; A. M., 1886; LL. D., 1922. 
Has degrees also from Harvard and 
Marburg, Oxford and Swarthmore. 
Graduate of Moses Brown School 
Principal Oak Grove Seminary, Vas- 
salboro, Me., 1889-93. Member of 
faculty of Haverford College since 
1893. Now Professor of Philosophy 
Editor Friends' Review, 1893; The 
American Friend, 1894-1912; Pres- 
ent Day Papers, 1914-15. Chairman, 
American Friends Service Commis 
sion, European Relief, 1917. Trus- 
tee Bryn Mawr College, 1896 to 
date; President of board since 1916. 
College preacher. Harvard, 1914- 
Author of thirty-odd books, includ- 
ing the History of the Society of 
Friends. 

Arthur Wellington Pinkhaai, 
1902. Lynn, Mass. Manufacturer 
and banker. Graduate of Lynn Clas- 
sical high school. Member Lynn 
School Board and Park Commission. 
President of the National City Bank 
of Lynn. President, Lydia E. Pink- 
ham Medicine Co. Past President 
Brown University Club of Boston. 
Organized Brown Club of Lynn and 
instrumental in sending many boys 
to Brown from Lynn and neighbor- 
hood. Director in numerous indus- 
trial and philanthropic enterprises. 
Member executive committee en- 
gaged in raising Brown Endowment 
Fund, igiO-20. Trustee, Brown 
Alumni Loyalty Fund. 
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The Trustees elected by the Cor- 
poration in October are : 

Joseph Chandler Rorbins, 1897, 

New York, N. Y. 

Missionary Secretary. Born Ro- 
dan, Nova Scotia, March 20, 1874. 
Prepared at Vermont Academy, Ph. 
B., Brown ; graduate, Newton Theo- 
logical Institution, 1902. Ordained 
Baptist minister. Concord, N. H., 
1902. Missionary, Philippine Is 
lands, 1902-09; Traveling secretary, 
Student Volunteer Movement for 
Foreign Missions, 1910-13; Joint 
Secretary for New England District, 
American Baptist Foreign Mission- 
ary Society and American Baptist 
Home Missionary Society, 1913-14. 
Candidate Secretary, Student Volun- 
teer Movement, 191 4- 16. Foreign 
Secretary, American Baptist Foreign 
Missionary Society since 1916. Trus 
tee of Newton Theological Institu- 
tion since 191 7. Executive Commit 
tee, World's Sunday School Associa- 
tion ; member First New Hampshire 
Volunteers, Spanish-American War. 
Author, "Appeal of India" and "Fol- 
lowing the Volunteers." Honorary 
degree of D. D. conferred by Alma 
Mater and Franklin College, 19 18. 

Charles Talbot Aldrich. 1877, 
Cotton Manufacturer. Born in 
Providence and prepared in the Prov- 
idence schools. Active as an under- 
graduate in baseball and dramatics. 
Has been in cotton manufacturing 
business since graduation with degree 
of A. M. With his brother, Henrv 
L. Aldrich 1876. was donor of gift 
that made Aldrich Field and Brown 
Field possible and also of gift of 
$500,000 in 1925, with the provision 
that the L^niversity raise an equal 
amount. 



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Brunswick, X. J., and she survives 
him, together with his mother, four 
brothers and two sisters. His frater- 
nity was Theta Delta Chi. 
1904 

Colonel Noble B. Judah's appoint- 
ment by President Coolidge as Am- 
bassador to Cuba has been hailed in 
many quarters as a worthy one, and 
we who know Noble are certain that 
he will make as strong a name for 
himself in the field of diplomacy as he 
has made in military and legal affairs. 

Houghton ]Metcalf reports that his 
present occupation is insurance, that 
his office is 703 Merchants National 
Bank bldg., Los Angeles, and that he 
is living on the corner of Sierra 
Madre road and Wabash ave., Glen- 
dora, Cal. 

C. F. Savage has become executive 
secretary of the Central Nassau Dis- 
trict of the Y. M. C. A., with his 
offices at 44 Main St., Hempstead, 
N. Y. 

1905 

John H. McGough was the author 
of an article, "Brown Is Proud Oi 
Doctor Faunce, Its Head," which ap 
Deared in the December issue of the 
Phi Kappa Temple. It was a warn. 
and appreciative sketch of "Prexy." 

Haywood M. Butler was in Wash- 
ington, D. C, last month, conducting 
a campaign for the Girl Scouts of the 



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District of Columbia. The sum of 
$55,000 was set as the goal, the 
money to be used for a permanent 
camp fund and the 1930 budget. 
1906 

Leonard A. Prouty is Registrar 
and Assistant Professor of Mathemat- 
ics, The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. 
The Citadel is the military college ot 
South Carolina. 

Robert A. Marble has been ap- 
pointed structural engineer of the 
Carnegie Steel Company. Marble's 
son, Arthur, is a member of the 
Freshman class on the Hill. 

T. W. Prestwich has the sympathy 
of the class in the loss of his father, 
who died in Bristol, R. I., on Dec. 
II, 1927. The elder Prestwich was 
a veteran of the Civil War, having 
served in the Fourth Rhode Island 
Volunteer Infantrv from 1861 to 
1S65. 

Can anybody in the class give the 
Alumni Office any informtion of H. 
A. Bolt, who has been reported "miss- 
ing" for some years and for whom 
search thus far has been in vain ? 

Lieutenant Commander G. R. W. 
French, L\ S. N., is stationed on the 
receiving ship at San Francisco, Cal., 
the Bureau of Navigation, Navy De- 
partment, tells us. 

"The proposed football schedule 
for 1928 looks like an all-New Eng- 
land schedule," Alexander Graham 
wrote the Alumni Secretary early in 
December. "I hope Brown isn't go- 
ing to adopt a policy of confining its 
football games strictly to New Eng- 
land colleges. When the present 
tendency is for intersectional games, 
why shouldn't we have at least one 
intersectional game on our schedule?" 
Many Brown men feel similarly, and 
we hope the Athletic Council will 
take notice. 

1907 

Dr. C. D. McCann, making his 
first venture into politics, was a Dem- 
ocratic candidate for the school com- 
mittee at the election in Brockton, 
Mass., last month. "A mere 2200 
votes separated me from the winning 
class," Charlie told us in a special in- 
terview. "However, I was fortunate 
in leading my ticket, and for that I 
am grateful. The town is normally 
two-to-one Republican." 

Francis Anderson, Arthur Bruce, 
Charlie Stark and Al Gurney had a 
class reunion at the time of Gurney's 
visit to Washington last month. 
Leon Truesdell couldn't get aroiuid 

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You will find at each Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel an 
index of the resident Alumni of the participating colleges. 
Think what this means when you are in a strange city 
and wish to look up a classmate or friend. 

You will find at these hotels a current copy of your 
Alumni publication. 

You will also find a spirit of co-operation and a keen 
desire to see you comfortably housed and adequately pro- 
vided for. Reservations may be made from one Intercol- 
legiate Alumni Hotel to another as a convenience to you. 

Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels are a new and vital force 
in assisting your Alumni Secretary. He urges you to sup- 
port them whenever and wherever possible. He will be glad 
to supply you with an introduction card to the managers 
of all Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels, if you so request. 

THE PARTICIPATING COLLEGES 

The alumni organizations of .the following colleges and universities are participants 
in the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel movement: 



lRBANA-LINCOLN 
Lrbanj. III. 



Akron 

.Alabama 

Amherst 

Antioch 

Bates 

Beloit 

Bowdoin 

Brown 

Bryn Mawr 

Bucknell 

Butfalo 

California 

Carnegie institute 

Case School 

Chicago 

College cf the 

Ciry of New York 
Colgate 
Colorado 

School Mines 



Colorado 
Columbia 
Cornell 
Cumberland 
Emory 
Elmira 
Georgia 

Georgetown College 
Goucher 
Harvard 
Illinois 
Indiana 

Iowa State College 
Kansas 

Teachers' Coll. 
Kansas 
Lake Erie 
Lafayette 
Lehigh 
Louisiana 



Maine 
M. I T. 

Michigan State 

Michigan 

Mills 

Minnesota 

Missouri 

Montana 

Mount Holyoke 

Nebraska 

New York University 

North Carolina 

North Dakota 

Northwestern 

Oberlin 

Occidental 

Ohio State 

Ohio Wesleyan 

Oklahoma 

Oregon 



Oregon State 

Penn State 

Pennsylvania 

Princeton 

Purdue 

Raddiffe 

Rollins 

Rutgers 

Smith 

South Dakota 

Southern California 

Stanford 

Stevens Institute 

Texas A. and M. 

Texas 

Tulane 

Union 

Vanderbilt 

Vassar 

Vermont 



Virginia 
Virginia 

Polytechnic Institute 
Washington and Lee 
Washington State 
Washington (Seattle) 
Washington (St. Louis) 
Wellesley 
Wesleyan College 
Wesleyan University 
Western Reserve 
Whitman 
Williams 
Winthrop 
Wisconsin 
Wittenberg 
Wooster 
Worcester 

Polytechnic Institute 
Yale 



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L-ALIIuKMAN 
Fresno. Calil 




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SAINT PAUL 
Si. Paul. Minn. 




MULTNOMAH 
Ponland. Oic. 




I'ALACE 
San Francisco, Calif. 





ST JAMES 
San Diegc. Cjlif. 




WALDORF-ASTORIA 
New York, N. Y 




ONONDAGA 
Syracuse, N, Y 




WOLVERINE 
Decroit. Mich. 



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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
rhiUdelphia, Pa. 




MUbHLEBACH 
Kansas City, Mo. 



Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels 




Every Dot Marks an Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel 



Baltimore, Md., Southern 
Berkeley, Cal., Claremont 
Bethlehem, Pa.; BeMehem 
Birmingham, Ala., Bankhead 
Boston, Mass., Copley-Pkiza 
Chicago, lll.,B(a<:/cs[one 
Chicago, III., Windermere 
(„mcinnati, Ohio, Smton 
Columbus, Ohio, hJeil House 
Danville, III., Wolford 
Detroit, Mich., Wolverine 
Fresno, Cal., CaUfornian 
Kansas City, Mo., Muehlebach 



Lincoln, Nehr., Lincoln 
Los Angeles, Calif., Bdtmore 
Madison, Wis., Park 
Minneapolis, Minn., Radisson 
Montreal, Canada, Mount Royal 
New Orleans, La., Monteleotie 
New York, N. Y., Rooseielt 
New York, N. Y., Vi/uldorfAstoria 
Northampton, Mass., Northampton 
Oakland, Cal, Oalclanii 
Peoria, 111., Pere Marquette 
Philadelphia, Pa., Benjamin Frank/m 
Pittsburgh. Pa., Sehenley 



Portland, Ore., Mukonomah 
Rochester, N. Y., Seneca 
Sacramento, Cal., Sacramento 
St. Louis, Mo., Coronado 
St. Paul, Minn., Saint Paul 
San Diego, Cal., St. James 
San Francisco, Cal., Palace 
Seattle, Wash., Oljmfiic 
Syracuse, N. Y., Ononcfaga 
Toronto, Canada, King Edward 
Urbana, III., Urbana-Lincoln 
Washington, D. C, WiKani 
Williamsport, Pa., Looming 



.le Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel movement is sponsored by the Alumni Secretaries 
and Editors of the participating colleges and directed by 

INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI EXTENSION SERVICE, 18 E. 41st St., New York, N.Y. 




BILTMORE 
Los Angeles, Calif- 




COPLEY. PLAZA 
Boston. Mass. 





•WINDERMERE 
Chicago, Hi 




OLYMPIC 
Seattle. Wasli. 



DIRECTORS 



J. O BAXENDALE 

Alumni St^crciary 
Universiry of Vermoni 

A. C BUSCH 

Alumni SccTL'taT^ 
Rutgers College 

R, W. HARWOOD 

HtiTVtiid Alumni Bulltrt 
^orvuiJ UniieTsit> 



STEPHEN K. LITTLE 

Princeton Alumni Weekly 
Prmcelon Universiry 

JOHN D. McKEE 

Wooster Aii*mni Bul/etin 
Woosier Collt-gt' 

HELEN F. McMILLIN 

Wellesley Alumnae Magazine 
Wdleslcy College 



J. L, MORRILL 
Alumni Sccreiary 
Ohio State Uniiersity 

W R. OKESON 
Treasurer of 

Lehigh Unu'ersi[> 

R \V. SAILOR 

Cornell Alumni News 
CoTJiell Universiry 



W. B. SHAW 
Alumni Secretary 
Uniiersity of Michigan 

ROBERT SIBLEY 
Alumni Secretary 
Unnersity of Cahfornia 

FLORENCE H. SNOW 
Alumnae Secretary 
Smith College 



E. N SULLIVAN 

Alumni Secretary 
Penn Stale College 



LEVERING TYSON 

Alumni Ft'tieiation 
Columbia Unii'fTsity 



E. T. T, WILLIAMS 
Broun Uniiersto 







'^C EDWARD 
"■tonto, Can 



BANKHEAD 
Birr7.;n':ham, A!a. 



r.tTHLtHEM 
Lvihlchcm Pj. 



LYCOMING 
■Williamsport. Pa. 





MONTtLEONE 
New Orleans, Lj 



SOUTHERN 
BaUimore. Md. 




SACRAMENTO 
Sacramcnco, Cal'f. 




PARK 
Msdiwn, Wis. 




NORTHAMPTON 
North.impton, Mass. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



because he was moving, and George 
Davis was somewhere in the South 
building bridges. 

iqo8 

The first notices of the 20th Re- 
union went out on Dec. 14 and witli- 
in three davs replies had been received 
from twentv-three members of the 
class who expected to return for the 
reunion and from four who were 
afraid that thev could not make it. 
Amone the men to return are Bush 
nell. Carroll, Case, Collins, Dillon, 
Frost, Gleason, Hall, Tones, Bill 
MacDonald, Minnerlv. Mason, 
O'Connor. Ormsbee, Plummer. 
Prvor, Sammis, Shaw, Sternsher, 
Sturdy, Thomas, Whalen, Young. 
The committee will meet again this 
month and 20 ahead with the follow- 
ups. 

Lucian Himes, after many years in 
the service of the United States as an 
engineer, resigned recently to become 
manager of the Greenport Oyster 
Co., Greenport, N. Y. 

Howard M. Chapin maintains his 
leadership as the class's most prolific 
writer. Howard had an article enti- 
tled, "Notes on the Early Develop- 
ment of the Designs in Marine Sig- 
nal Flags," in the November 1927 is- 



CAMBRIDGE 
Junior College 

AXD 

TUTORING SCHOOL 
FOR BOYS 

WILLI AM STOWN, MASS. 

Junior College Department is for 
young men who have been 
dropped from a college due to 
faulty preparation. We prepare 
them either to re-enter college 
or for a business career. Coll"gc 
faculty. Large campus. Win- 
ter sports. Address Dean. 

College Preparatory Department is 
for boys who desire rapid and 
thorough preparation for Brown, 
Harvard and other colleg-s. 
Individual instruction. Biys 
taught how to study. 

W. Garrett Conant (Brown). 
President 



The New Commencement 
Week 

Thursday, June 14 

Senior Dance, Women's Col- 
lege. 

Friday, June 15 

Class Day, Men's College. 
Ivy Day, Women's College. 
Meeting, Board of Fellows. 

Saturday, June 16 

Annual Meeting, Phi Beta 
Kappa. 

Alumnae Day. 

Awarding of Advanced De- 
grees. 

Annual Meeting, Associated 
Alumni. 

Alumnae Dance, Women's 
College. 

Sunday, June IJ 

Baccalaureate Sermon. 

Monday, June 18 

Commencement. 

Commencement Luncheon. 

Baseball. 

Fraternity Receptions. 

President's Reception. 

Tuesday, June IQ 

Meeting, Board of Trustees. 



sue of the United States Naval Insti- 
tute Proceedings. 

1909 

Don Jackson has two songs "Just 
for Bruno and for Brown" and "We 
are ever true to Brown" played by 
the Brown Band on the Victor record 
of Brown songs. 

Edmund Moffett is associated witii 
the Interlaken Mills, Arkwright, R. 
I., in the mechanical department. He 
is the proud father of three boys. 

Among the 'o9ers present at the 
Brown football dinner December 12 
were Messrs. Wheeler, Wells, Whit- 
marsh, Tanner and Chafee. 

191 1 

Bob Murphy, Curator of Oceanic 

Birds at the American Museum of 

Natural History, was Marshall 

Woods lecturer at the University on 

Dec. 15, taking for his subject. 

Mountain and Seacoast in Ecuador." 

^ib gathered his material at the time 

'1' his visit to South America in 1925, 

when he received the honorary degree 

'' Sc. D. from San Ma-xos L'niver- 

160 



sitv, the oldest university in the New 
World. 

1912 

Bill Weidmann, writing from Ma- 
nila, P. I., to the Alumni Secretary 
not long ago, said: "I look forward 
to see you all if ever I get back to 
Providence again, and will then make 
my excuses in person for not keeping 
up my correspondence better." As 
far as the Alumni Office is concerned, 
Bill does delightfully well as a letter 
writer. 

Rev. Wilbur S. Deming is located 
at Satara, near Bombay, India, fol- 
lowing his return to the Far East 
from a year's furlough in this coun- 
try. Deming took back with him the 
degree of Ph. D., which he received 
from the Hartford Seminary Founda- 
tion, the subject of his dissertation 
being "Ramdas and Ramdasis," :i 
study of a Hindu movement in West- 
ern India. The thesis is being pub- 
lished by the Association Press ot 
Calcutta in the "Religious Life of In- 
dia" series. 

1914 

A. A. (Larry) Gardiner, former 
varsity quarterback, who has been on 
the "missing" list at the Alumni Of- 
fice for several years, has turned up 
safe and sound. Allan Langley re- 
ports that Larry is an assistant editor 
on the staff of the American Legion 
^Monthly, 331 Madison ave., New 
York. 

Stanley Rowland sets down his oc- 
cupation as "mural painter" and re- 
cords the fact that he is living at 410 
East 50th St., New York. 
1915 

Russ Burwell, former Dean of 
Freshmen at the University and now 
in business in Cleveland, O., spoke 
before the student body of the Uni- 
versity of Rochester on Dec. 5 on 
"Experiences at Oxford." Russ was 
the first Rhodes scholar to bring back 
an Oxford Ph. D. 

1916 

Dr. Samuel R. Damon of the 
School of Hygiene and Public 
Health, the Johns Hopkins Univer 
sity, is the author of a book, "Food 
Infections and Food Intoxications," 
which was published last month and 
which is characterized as "the first 
study since 1920 of food infections 
and intoxications, and the most com- 
plete yet made." It is also spoken of 
as a book "valuable to physicians, 
public health workers, nutrition ex- 
perts and many others." Sam is do- 
ing laudable work in Baltimore, and 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



we admit him gladly to our circle of 
authors. 

1917 

R. A. Armstrong has left the Fisk. 
Tire Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass., to 
become affiliated with the Massachu- 
setts Mutual Life Insurance Co. as 
associate counsel. His new home ad- 
dress is Westford Circle, Springfield, 
Mass. 

1918 

Reggie Harris was a December vis- 
itor to College Hill. Reggie is still 
hard at woric at the Biological Labo- 
ratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., 
and, he admits, resisting every little 
while some tempting offer to go on a 
scientific expedition into a far cornei 
of the earth. It may be that he will 
succumb to an offer one of these days. 

1919 
Josh Weeks is practicing medicine 
in the old home town of New Bed- 
ford, Mass., and intends soon to re 
strict his work to surgery. His ad- 
dress is Dr. J. H. Weeks, 33 Seventh 
St., New Bedford. 

1920 

Don Hylan has changed his resi- 
dence to 51 Wellington st., Spring- 
field, Mass. Don is with the Massa- 
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., 
which, he says, "seems to be accumu- 
lating quite a Brown delegation." He 
mentions Ralph Armstrong '17, Bill 
Hopewell '27, Lester Sornborger '25 
and Esther Spear '20, Women's Col- 
lege. 

Louis Fieri has been receiving de- 
served praise throughout Rhode Is- 
land for the football eleven that he 
developed at Central Falls High 
School the past season. Lou's boys 
were all little fellows, but they went 
through all opposition as if they were 
giants, every one. A strong, well- 
coached team it was, and Lou has ra- 
ted all of the fine things said of him 
and his boys. 

Ed Walsh's address for the next 
year will be in care of the Interna- 
tional Telegraph & Telephone Corpo- 
ration, Sarandi, 4.4.4., Montevideo, 
Urusuav. 

J. Howard Covell expects to take 
his master's degree in religious educa- 
tion at the Graduate School, Uni- 
versity of Chicago, next March. The 
following month, if all goes well, 
Howard, Mrs. Covell and the baby 
will again start housekeeping in Yo 
kohama, Japan, where Howard will 
resume his teaching. 



1 92 1 

Dr. Arcadie Giura has his office 
for the general practice of medicine 
at 4 Lyndon St., Warren, R. I. 

Bill Brightman has recently moved 
to Pittsburgh, though he hasn't told 
us what he is doing there. Bill has 
a young daughter that he's mightv 
proud of, we hear. 

Clute Ely sailed last month for a 
two months' tour of Italy, France, 
Switzerland and England. He plans 
to study conditions in cotton mills in 
Manchester, England, and will also 
enjoy the winter sports in Switzer- 
land. 

1922 

Seemed good to get a note from 
Artie Miller not long ago. Artie's 
young hopeful (named after the old 
man) is coming along fine, we hear, 
and Artie has hopes that the boy will 
be a ranking athlete. The Miller ad- 
dress is Box 1387, Sarasota, Fla. 

Bob Gerstenlauer is practicing law 
with his office at 20 Exchange place. 
New York. Bob's home address con- 
tinues to be 107 Congress ave., Prov- 
idence. 

C. E. Winsor's business address, 
he reports, is 528 Commonwealth 
ave., Boston, Mass., where he is man- 
ager of the Kenmore Employment 
Bureau. 

Bill Walsh is asain on the iob with 
the Standard Oil Co. of New York 
in Bombav. India, bavins returned 
recentlv from a six months' vacation 
in the United States. 

Rev. H. Lincoln MacKenzie was 
recently installed as pastor of the 
Community Church, Great Neck, N. 
Y. He was formerly associate min- 
ister of the Union Congregational 
Church, Boston. 

1923 

Harold H. Young is the author of 
a statistical and analytical review of 
the railroad situation in New England 
which has been issued by Bodell & 
Company, with which Hal is affili 
ated. 

Bob Adams is associated with his 
father's firm, C. D. Parker & Co., 
specialists in public utility stocks of 
Massachusetts, with offices at 150 
Congress St., Boston. 

Mike Gulian was a campus visitor 
last month, and, when a.^k"d if he had 
definitely given up football, Mike 
broke into that famous smile of his, 
with the positive assertion: "Not so 
you could notice it!" He played part 
i6t 



Blackstone Canal 
National Bank 

20 Market Square 



Capital Stock $500,000 

Surplus and Undi- 
vided Profits 900,000 



Albert R. Plant, President 

John B. Branch, Vice President 

Charles P. Brown, Cashier 



DIRECTORS 
Edwin M. Dodd Albert R. Plant 
C. Moulton Stone William A. Viall 
Chas. H. MerrimanFletcher S. Mason 
Frank O. Field Henry S. Chafee 
John B. Branch Frank L. Hinckle.v 
Charles D. Dunlop 



Providence 
National Bank 

Established 1791 

CAPITAL $1,500,000 

SURPLUS 2,500,000 

UNDIVIDED PROFITS over 300,000 



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

Directors 

Robert W. Taft R-ichard S, Aldrich 

Charles H. Newell PVIwar'-! P Jastram 

William B. McBee Farl G. Batty 

Jf hn Ormsbee Ames A 1 ivingston Kelley 

William Gammell. Jr. WiKnn G Wing 

J.ihn B. Lewis J'lin Micholas Brown 

M(y«es J. Barber Thonia-. L. Pierce 
Paul C. DeWolf - -t n H. Hazard 

FranJ: E Richmond '^ ■" i I. Sweet 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



of the past season with the Provi 
dence professional eleven. 

Rev. Willard F. Johnson became 
minister of the First Baptist Church, 
Vineyard Haven, Mass., the first of 
this month. 

1924 

Milton Staples is an assistant buyer 
with the Associated Merchandising 
Corporation, with his headquarters at 
1440 Broadway, New York. 

Al Parsons has shifted his base of 
operations for the Ipswich Distribu- 
tors. Inc., now beins located in the 
New York office at 1107 Broadway. 

Charlie Doll, instructor in geology 
at the University of Vermont, is re- 
arranging niany of the specimens in 
the University museum, according to 
a note in a recent issue of the Ver- 
mont Alumni Weekly. Charlie evi- 
dently has a big job ahead of him, as 
the museum collection has had little 
attention for years. 

Kern Metzger is field supervisor 
for the United States Fidelity and 
Guaranty Co., in the branch office at 
800 Hickox bldg., Cleveland. Kern 
and Mrs. Metzger are living at 2980 
Washington boulevard, Cleveland 
Heights, O. 

Jack Monk tells us he is writing 
copy for the Lincoln-Lilly Advertis- 
ing Agency, Chicago, and making his 
home at 1637 Farwell ave., in that 
well-known city. 

Paul Snyder is doing post graduate 
work at Newton Theological Insti- 
tution. 



Hal Loring has become assistant 
materials testing engineer for the New 
Hampshire State Highway Depart- 
ment, with his headquarters in Con- 
cord, N. H. 

Carleton Scott is president of the 
Scott Construction Co., Detroit, and 
is engaged in building houses in Bir- 
mingham and Pontiac, Mich. 

1925 

Joe Tuckerman is attending the 
Dental School, University of Penn- 
sylvania. Jos worked as a chemist 
with General Chemical Co. and du 
Pont de Nemours Co. before he de- 
cided that dentistry was his field. 

Gib Case is a student adviser at 
Hope Street High School, Provi- 
dence, and at the same time is doing 
graduate work on the Hill. 

Andy Crawlev is teaching at Cum- 
berland High School, Valley Falls, 
R. I. No doubt only a few members 
of the class have heard that Andy had 
the misfortune to lose his wife by 
death last March. 

Freddy Bowers is an assistant in- 
structor in English at Harvard and 
with Mrs. Bowers and Fredson, Jr., 
is living at 5 Concord ave., Cam- 
bridge. 

Jimmy Jones is a member of the 
staff of the New York Public Li- 
brary, so we learn. His house address 
is 685 Academy st., Apartment 52, 
New York. 

1926 

Roland (Doc) Harrall has com- 




A Good Morning Cup— 



rich brown, fragrant 
and mellow, free 
from bitterness, and 
with a delicate fla- 
vor all its own — that's 




Autocrat Coffee 

bold everywhere : In Qties — in 
the Mountains— By the Seashore 

UROWNELL & FIELD CO. 
Providence, R. I. 

\ valuable coupon in each can. 

Write for premium Ijm 



162 





pleted his salesmanship training 
course with Bodell & Co., invest- 
ments, and is now a full-fledged sales- 
man. 

Eddie Austin has been transferred 
from the statistical to the trading de- 
partment of Bodell ^- Co., Provi- 
dence. 

1927 

Bill Smith and Charlie Arnn are 
listed among the teachers of the class, 
Bill having his mathematics as his 
subject at the Burrillville, R. I., 
High School, and Charlie being a 
member of the Faculty of the Tena- 
fly, N. J., High School. 

Sam McCormick is learning some 
thing of the rudiments of banking as 
a member of the staff of the First Na- 
tional Bank, Attleboro, Mass. 

Bill Whalen is in the purchasing 
office of the Builders' Iron Foundry, 
Providence. 

J. W. Merriam, Roger Case and 
Walcott Chandler are 1927 men with 
the New York Telephone Co. Mer- 
riam and Case are in the traffic de- 
partment and Chandler is on the en- 
gineering end. 

Ralph Taylor is enrolled in the 
Graduate School, Yale University, 
with English as his major subject. 

"Ink" Wolcott has cast his lot with 
William R. Hearst and the New 
York American and is getting his 
mail, he writes, at 330 West 86th st., 
New York. 

Bill Edson is selling investment se- 
curities for Spencer Trask & Co., 
with his headquarters at 50 Congress 
St., Boston. 

Jack Hall has gone in for real es- 
tate, being employed by G. L. and H. 
J. Gross, Union Trust bldg.. Provi- 
dence. 

Ted Raynor is a reporter on the 
staff of the Courier-Express, Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

"Goose" Guild is learning the ins 
and outs of New York real estate in 
the office of Brett &' Wvckoff (^Val- 
ter C. Wyckofif '95), SSS Madison 
ave., New York. 

John Odin is an examiner in the 
Inland Marine Department, Auto- 
mobile Insurance Co. of America, 
with his office at 49 Pearl st., Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

Buster Brown is a clerk with the 
Puritan Life Insurance Co., 410 
Turks Head bldg.. Providence. 

John Pastore is a first year student 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



at the Medical School, John Hopkins 
LTniversitv, Baltimore. Md. Bill 
Rucker is aimins for his medical de- 
cree at Tufts. 

George Cole puts down his occupa- 
tion as "pianist and arranger. Enoch 
Lisht Orchestra," and gives his busi- 
ness address at Hotel Nollet, SS Ruo 
Nollet, Paris, France. George also 
conveys the information — which some 
of the bovs may have known — that 
he was married on Feb. S, iq27, to 
Evelyn Saunders Pavson. 

ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Frances Hunsberger, daugh- 
ter of Dr. and Mrs. J. Newton 
Hunsberger of Norristown, Pa., to 
Ernest L. Lynn '23 of Providence. 
AL'ss Hunsberger is a graduate of 
Goucher College, Baltimore, Md. 

WEDDINGS 

1 916 — Joseph F. Halloran and 
Aliss Grace Stinson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. D. M. Fernandes, were 
married at the home of the bride in 
Kew Gardens, N. Y., in November 
They are at home in the New Conti- 
nental Apartments, Forest Hills, L. I. 

1920 — Alfred C. (Johnnie) Brooks 
and Miss Irene Harriman, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Harriman, 
were married in Rahway, N. J., on 
Nov. 15, 1927. Elmer G. Armstrong 
'20 was best man. Mr. and Mrs. 
Brooks are living in Rahway. where 
Johnnie is in the real estate business. 

1923 — William C. Munroe and 
Miss Phyllis Wilson Sadler, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Sadler, 
were married in South Attleboro 
Mass., on Nov. 26, 1927. James E. 
Paige '18 and A. Stuart Tinkham 
'23 were ushers. The Munroes are 
at home at 570 Western ave., Albany, 
N. Y. 

1925, Women's College — Faith L. 
Rogers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harr}' J. Rogers and president of the 
class in her Senior year, was married 
to Roger B. Corbett in Providence on 
Nov. 24, 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Cor- 
bett are living in Providence. 

I926n — Robert F. Weller and 
Miss Florence C. Thornton, former 
secretary to Dean Kenneth O. Ma- 
son, were married by President 
Faunce at the home of the bride's 
parents, Pawtuxet Neck, Edgewood, 
R. I., on Nov. 19, 1927. W^illiam J. 
Turtle "26 was best man, and Hope 
Thornton "25, Women's College, at 
tended her sister. Air. and Mrs. 



^Veller are making their home at 51 
Argyle Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BIRTHS 

1902 — To Rev. and ]VIrs. Wesley 

A. Paige of Providence, a son, on 
Nov. 21, 1927. 

1907 — To ]\Ir. and Mrs. John 
Courtland Knowles of Providence, a 
daughter, Elizabeth, on Dec. 4, 1927- 

1913, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. Prescott A. Whitman (Ma- 
rilla L. Bogle) of Providence, a son, 
Kenneth Barber, on Nov. 25, 1927. 

iqi4_To Mr. and Mrs. Earl :\I. 
Medbery of Pro\idence, a daughter, 
Ann Dorothy, on Nov. 23, 1927- 

1914 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
H. Farnham of New York, a daugh- 
ter, Susan, on Oct. ig, 1927. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. Theo- 
dore K. Ferry of Woodcliffe, N. J., 
a son, Theodore Kennard Ferry, Jr., 
on Nov. 28. 1927. 

191 7n — To Dr. and Mrs. Nelson 

B. Sackett of New York, a son. Nel- 
son Benson Sackett. Jr., on Nov. 13, 
1927. 

iqi8 — To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond 
H. Parker of Providence, a daughter, 
Nancy Elaine, on Dec. 9. 1927. 

iq20 — To Mr. and Mrs. Laurence 
R. Smith of Hartford, Conn., a son, 
Laurence Richards Smith. Jr., on 

Au2. ^O, 1027. 

1920 — To Mr. and Mrs. George 
H. Rhodes of Providence, a daughter, 
Nancy Patricia, on Nov. 20, 1927. 

192^ — To Mr. and Mrs. William 
B. McCormick of Providence, a 
daughter. Martha, on Dec. 4. 1927. 

I924n — To Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
S. Tufts of Pinehurst, N. C, a son, 
Leonard Tufts, 2nd. Mrs. Tufts is 
the daughter of the late Frank T. 
Easton '92. 

iq2 7n — To ]Mr. and Mrs. J. An- 
ton Hasios of New York, a son, 
Theodore Anton, on Nov. 24, 1927. 



Alu 



mnae 



1913 

Minnie White Taylor has pub- 
lished in a recent issue of "Your Gar- 
den" an article, "Starvation and Suf- 
focation of Cleveland's Old Resi- 
dents." Miss Taylor is advisory edi- 
tor of the Cleveland Museum of 
Natural History. 

1920 

Doctor Kathleen M. Barr an- 
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34 Dorrance Street 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



nounces the opening of her offices at 
105 Waterman St., Providence, for 
the general practice of medicine. Dr. 
Barr received her M. D. at Tufts in 



BROWN DIRECTORY 



ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD 

Consulting Highway Engineer 

Highway Transport Consultant 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 

Mich. 

Abbott '80 Edwards '96 

ABBOTT, FAUNTLEROY, CUL- 

LEN & EDWARDS 

Attorneys at Law 

Tenth Floor, Liberty Central Trust 

Building 

506 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Abbott '15 

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

PERRY and SAUNDERS 

Counsellors at Law 

185 Devonshire street, Boston, Mass. 

Joseph Earl Perry, Williams; Albert 

L. Saunders, Brown 1902 



Winship 
Teachers' 
Agency 

Send for blank. 

6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 

ALVIN F. PEASE 

Brown Graduate, A. B. & A. M. 

DRUGS 

Chemicals and Medicines 

Electric Batteries 
Invalid Roller Chairs 
Prescriptions a Specialty 



GEO. iL. CLAFLIN CO. 

76-78 North Main Street 
Providence, R. L 
Opposite First Baptist Church 



1924. Since then she has been as- 
sistant in aoplied therapeutics at 
Georgetown University, instructor in 
physical diagnosis at George Washing- 
ton University, and chief resident 
physician at Gallinger Municipal 
Hospital, Washington, an honor held 
by a woman for the first time. 
1922 
Isabel Abbott is doing research 
woric at the Institute of Historical 
Research, University of London, and 
is living at 8 Cartwright Gardens, 
London, W. C. i. 

^MARRIAGES 

1917 — Anna Mee was married to 
\ViIliani Gaboon on July 9, 1927. 
They are living at 75 South St., 
Woonsocket. 

I922n — Constance Hurlihy was 
married to Donald S. Reed on Aug- 
ust 22, 1927. They are at home at 
7 Congdon St., Providence. 

1923 — Joan Shea is married to 
John F. Cowley and living in Jerome, 
Arizona. 

1925 — Elinor Hall was married on 
August 24, 1927, to Clement Hall. 
They are now living at 39 Taft St., 
Southbridge, Mass. 

1925 — Grace Snavely was married 
to Eric G. Ball on October 10, 1927- 
They are living at 426 Essex ave., 
Nariseth, Pa. Grace is doing edito- 
rial work. 

1925 — Bertha Peacock was mar- 
ried to Wesley K. Hall on June 11, 
1927. Bertha is laboratory techni- 
cian at the Truesdale Hospital, Fall 
River. 

I926n — Dorothy Nelson was mar- 
ried to Gerald E. Hart on July 23, 
1927. They are living at 43 Old- 
ham St., Providence. 

I926n — Vivian Atkins was married 
to Alfred Staebner on June 22, 1927.. 
They live at 116 Chatfield st., Derby, 
Conn. 

1927 — Dorothy Millington was 
married to Allan Snyder on June 4. 
1927. They are at home at 43 ilain 
St., Shelbourne Falls, Mass. 

BIRTHS 

1913 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harold 
Stearns of Washington, D. C, :i 
daughter, Dorothy Eloise, on Novem- 
ber 4, 1927. Mrs. Stearns was Dr. 
Norah E. Dowell. 

1916 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
F. Comber, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., a 
son, Thomas Francis Comber, 3rd, 
164 



on October 20, 1927. Mrs. Comber 
was Adele Wildes. 

1919 — To Mr. and Mrs. Clifford 
Jennings of Clinton, Conn., a son, 
Arthur Lawrence, on November 20, 
1927. Mrs. Jennings was Novella 
Eastman. 

1920 — To Mr. and Mrs. Merton 
C. Arms of Springfield, Vt., a daugh- 
ter, Margaret Clement, on August 
14, 1927. Mrs. Arms was Marion 
A. Day. 

1922 — To ]\Ir. and Mrs. John 
Hilton of Worcester, Mass., a son, 
John Da\id, on July 28. 1927. Mrs. 
Hilton was Eunice Simpson. 

1923— To Mr. and Mrs. Carl 
Flores of Stonehurst, Pa., a son, Rich- 
ard Winthrop, on November i, 1927. 
Mrs. Flores was Miriam Dick. 

I924n — To Mr. and Mrs. Brooks 
Hawkins of Barrington, R. I., a sec 
ond son, George Edward, on Septem- 
ber 26, 1927. Mrs. Hawkins was 
Dorothy McCormick. 

I926n — To Mr. and Mrs. Otis 
Wyatt of Siher Hook, R. I., a son, 
Otis Wyatt, Jr., on October 15, 
1927. Mrs. Wyatt was Prudence 
Flagg. 



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Published for the graduates of Brown 

LTniversity by the Brown Alumni 

Magazine Company 

Henry R. Palmer, 
Editor and President 

Clinton H. Currier, 
Business Manager and Treasurer 



Sylvia Berkman, 
Women's College Correspondent 

Member of 
Alumni Magazines Associated 

Business Office, Brown University 

Subscription, $1.00 a year. Single 
copies, 10 cents. 

There is no issue during August and 
September. 

Entered at the Providence post-office 
as second-class matter. 



T O L S O N 



Operated Hotels and Restaurants 
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 



HOTEL BRISTOL 

129 West 48th Street, New York 



400 rooms 



A most conveniently located 
famed for its dining service. 

Single rooms with bath — $3, $4, $5. 
Double rooms with bath — 55, $6, $7. 



300 baths 

transient hotel. 



HOTEL WENTWORTH 

59 West 46th Street, New York 
250 rooms ISO baths 

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

Single room with use of bath — S3. $3.50. 

Double room with use of bath — $4. S4.50. 

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

Double room -with private bath — §6, §7, S8. 



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 — $3.50. 

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

Suites of any size, on application. 



EL PATIO RESTAURANT 




58 West 47th Street, New York 




A distinctive restaurant, convenient to the the- 




atrical and shopping centers. Noted for its de- 




licious plate luncheons and dinners at sensible 




prices. 


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creates a Sinking Fund 
to meet definite future 
obligations. 

Why not apply the same 
principle to /ncct your defi- 
nite future ohligationsf 



The above cut which we use through the courtesy of the Insurance Research 
AND Review 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 $6000 or $1500 a year and 
this is a fair minimum not the maximum. 



18 Years of 
age 

At Birth 



At 5 Years 
of age 

At 10 Years 
of age 



At 15 Years 
of age 



At 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 1 8, and prepare accordingly. 



of the 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. 



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



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 ID. 



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. 



the child will be ready for college and it no definite provision has been made in 
advance, the expenses must he 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 



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