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On The Hill 

Cotn/nent on Contemporary Topics of Interest to (graduates of 'Brown 



The JJ'oinen's College's Name 
A N old controversy has been pre- 
cipitated by a formal statement 
issued by Stephen I. Hall '28, editor- 
in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald, 
in behalf of the managing board of 
that publication. This statement 
urges that the name of the Women's 
College in Brown University be 
changed to Pembroke College in 
Brown University. 

The statement follows: 

"After' years of misunderstanding 
and misinterpretation, the Brown 
Daily Herald believes that the time 
is ripe to define clearly the status of 
the \Vomen's College in Brown Uni- 
versity in relation to the men's di- 
\ision. 

'"The attitude of generations of 
men undergraduates toward women 
students has been incompatible with 
the ideals of the Women's College as 
set forth by its founders and as per- 
petuated by the present Administra- 
tion of the University. 

"The Women's College in Brown 
University was organized in 1892, 
one hundred and twenty years after 
the founding of the men's division, 
for the education of the women of 
Rhode Island. The new college was 
the result in this State of a nation- 
wide movement toward higher educa- 
tion for women. It was only natu- 
ral that the facilities and established 
traditions of Brown University should 
have been enlisted in the organiza- 
tion of the first college for women in 
Rhode Island. 

"It is our belief that this worthy 
College should not suffer in any way 
from connection with the very Uni- 
versity of which it is an integral part. 
It is actually a separate institution 
with its own undergraduate body and 
its own administration. But it is not 
so regarded. In this way the Wo- 
men's College is considered a supple- 



mentary and incidental part of Brown 
University rather than as a distinct 
entity. 

"Many plans have been suggested 
in the past to emphasize this entity, 
some of which, if adopted, would 
have gone so far as to weaken the 
College by complete isolation from 
the University. It is obvious that 
any such solutions to the problem 
which tend in the least to dissolve the 
bonds tying the Women's College to 
the University would be undesirable. 

"But there is a solution so simple 
that it has been overlooked in the 
past. The single source of contention 
over the status of the Women's Col- 
lege has been the ambiguity of its 
name. This name alone has given 
Brown University the reputation of 
being co-educational. This name in 
recent years has prevented the Wo- 
men's College from attaining a dis- 
tinctive and individual development. 
The ultimate solution of the situa- 
tion then hinges upon a simple change 
of name without one iota of change 
in personnel, administration, or rela- 
tion with Brown University. 

"What we propose, therefore, is 
not the adoption of any new policies. 
We simply suggest the change of one 
word in the title of the institution 
from Women's College in Brown 
University to Pembroke College in 
Brown University. 

"We are proud of the Women's 
College with its increasingly modern 
facilities and its fine undergraduate 
body. But these factors should mean 
more to the institution than they do. 
The Women's College in Brown 
University is handicapped by its 
name. The title of any college can 
often retard the growth of its reputa- 
tion and its future success, and the 
lack of a distinctive name for the in- 
stitution here has hindered a whole- 
some growth. 

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"We want this College to be Pem- 
broke College in Brown University, 
a sister institution, — no longer an in- 
fant branch as it is now, worthy in it- 
self, but powerless to gain the recog- 
nition it rightly deserves." 
* * * 
Opinions Differ 

HP HIS statement, published in the 
daily press of the city, as well 
as in the College daily, aroused much 
interest. Interviews with various per- 
sons connected witth the Women's 
College showed at once that, as of 
old, a grave division of opinion ex- 
ists as to the desirability of the pro- 
posed change. Some alumnae, prob- 
ably for the most part older graduates, 
prefer to retain the name of Women's 
College in Brown University. Among 
the younger alumnae there is appar- 
ently a greater sentiment for a change. 
Opinions differ, however, as to 
whether, if a change is made, the 
name of Pembroke should be em- 
ployed. It is suggested that a more 
fitting one could be secured than the 
name of a college of the University 
of Cambridge which can scarcely be 
called one of the most prominent or 
attractive which make up that insti- 
tution. It is pointed out that when 
the Women's College was established 
in Providence, the first building 
erected for its use was called Pem- 
broke College, after Pembroke Col- 
lege at the English University, 
was believed to have graduated there. 
That seems to us a rather slender 
reason for naming the Women's Col- 
lege in Brown University Pembroke 
College, though there is something 
more to be said for the proposal now 
than there was a generation ago, be- 
cause in the interval "Pembroke" has 
become a sort of accepted designation 
for the Women's College. 



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Difficulties Jnyuay 
VyHATEVER is done or left 
undone, there will be difficul- 
ties. If the Women's College re- 
mains the Women's College or be- 
comes a college with a more distinct- 
ive name, how shall we refer to the 
integral division of the University 
containing the four classes of under- 
graduate men? Shall we call it the 
Men's College? Or shall it be re- 
constituted as "Brown College" after 
the fashion of Yale College in Yale 
University and Harvard College in 
Harvard University? In that case 
the organization of the University 
would be somewhat as follows: 

Graduate School. 

Brown College. 

Women's College (or Pembroke 
College). 

School of Education. 

Division of University Extension. 



More About Names 

\X7'E should think that eventually 
it might be desirable to estab- 
lish the Engineering Department as 
a School of Engineering, or perhaps 
a College of Engineering, and give it 
a special name. We suggest for such 
an institution the name of HoUey 
College of Engineering, in honor of 
Alexander Lyman Holley '53, who 
introduced the Bessemer process for 
the manufacture of steel into the 
United States and afterward became 
president of the American Institute 
of Engineers and founder of the 
American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers. The School of Education 
might be erected into Mann or Hor- 
ace Mann College of Education and 
a distinctive name might be found for 
the Graduate School (or College). 



In an editorial supplementing its 
first statement on the subject, the 
Brown Herald has proposed alterna- 
tive new names for the Women's 
College. It offers the name of Met- 
calf College and Rockefeller College 
as variations from Pembroke College, 
in case the last designation is not ac- 
ceptable. Members of the Metcalf 
family, as is well known, have given 
generously to the Women's College, 
One of the dormitories already bears 
the family name and Mr. Stephen O. 
Metcalf '78 materially assisted in the 
erection of the beautiful new Alumnae 
Hall by offering to match the contri- 
butions of other givers, gift for gift. 

Meanwhile the Women's College 
publication, the Record, approves the 
plan for a distinctive College name, 
apparently voicing a substantial un- 
dergraduate sentiment. 



The Old Back Campus III 

CONCERNING THE HOPE COLLEGE ATTIC AND PROHIBITION OF BONFIRES 



tJOPE COLLEGE in olden 
times, though minus a cellar, 
had an attic, entered from the top 
floor of the middle division, in which 
had been accumulating for fifty years 
a nondescript collection of highly in- 
flammable material. Old trunks, 
packing cases, discarded pieces of fur- 
niture, many of them veritable an- 
tiques, which, revamped, would in 
these modern days bring fabulous 
prices, jostled one another in pic- 
turesque confusion. 

Many a student arrived at Brown 
with a family trunk of such bucolic 
aspect that by the end of the year his 
enhanced dignity forbade his travel- 
ing in its company. It found its way 
to the attic. Bureaus of solid ma- 
hogany were discarded in favor of 
Grand Rapids creations decorated 
with flowers and fruit. They, too, 
went to the attic. Old-fashioned 
"sinks," discarded lounges, decrepit 
bedsteads, barrels of excelsior, all 
were there. In fact it constituted a 
fire hazard of the first magnitude. 

The big key of the attic was sup- 
posed to hang on a nail in the Regis- 



By Walter Lee Munro 'jg 

trar's office but, on one pretext or 
another, it was found convenient to 
keep it in the middle division much of 
the time. 

Bonfires were a much favored form 
of diversion among the lower class- 
men. In these more enlightened days 
they are a regular part of the curricu- 
lum, presided over and addressed by 
the college authorities and condi- 
tioned only on the winning of suffi- 
ciently glorious athletic victories. 
Hence they are not too common and 
always conducted openly and above- 
board. 

Then, however, by some perverse 
psychology, which made a crime of 
that which was in itself no crime, 
they were strictly taboo and their 
perpetrators punishable by suspen- 
sion (fortunately not by the neck) 
or permanent banishment, thus giving 
the forbidden fires more thrill and 
rendering them altogether desirable. 
Dean Randall says: "It is dangerous 
to make hard and fast laws and create 
fixed penalties." This is true, espe- 
cially when you are dealing with 
wide-awake boys. 

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At the beginning of the year 
it was announced in chapel : There 
ivill be no bonfires this year ana 
anyone found attempting one u'ill 
be summarily expelled." If any fur- 
ther incentive to the making of bon 
fires was needed that rash pronounce- 
ment furnished it. It was an ill-ad- 
vised challenge. 

One cannot fail to note the perfect 
analogy to the Eighteenth Amend- 
ment and the Volstead Act, and then 
as now it was speedily discovered that 
"prohibition does not prohibit." 

A group of presumably law-abid- 
ing students were leaving chapel after 
the address when one of them said: 
"The old man is going a little too 
strong about bonfires. We'll give the 
Freshmen just a week and then if 
they don't attend to the business we 
will." The Freshmen proved recre- 
ant so, after the probationary week 
was over, there began the most im- 
portant series of fires in the history 
of the college. 

It was then that the attic of Hope 
College came into its own. Up to 
that time it had been customary to 



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find combustibles in the shape of 
wooden gates from nearby fences, 
wheelbarrows and building materials 
from houses in the process of con- 
struction, in fact anything portable 
that would burn; but now the pro- 
hibition enforcement agents in the 
shape of the college slaves, two of 
whom were kept on duty each night 
in University Hall, were on the 
watch and it was necessary to find a 
safer base of supplies. A plan of 
campaign was mapped out. There 
was to be one fire a week. Friday 
night was the appointed time and the 
exact hour was to coincide with the 
arrival of the fraternity men upon 
the campus after their weekly meet- 
ings at their rooms, which were then 
all down town. The attic of Hope 
College was to be depended upon for 
materials, thus obviating undue ex- 
posure in the open. 

The work went merrily on, be- 
coming each week a little more peril- 
ous for the participants. At first the 
pyre was erected at some little dis- 
tance from the building, kerosene 
poured over it and the match applied ; 
but, as the risk of detection increased, 
the distance each week became shorter 
and it was deemed advisable to satu- 
rate the combustibles before carrying 
them out of doors. 

The last and most memorable bon- 
fire was built upon the concrete not 
more than ten feet from the dormi- 
tory. As soon as it was ignited all 
the doors of Hope College were fas- 
tened upon the inside. The windows 
were all dark, the students apparently 
all asleep ; but when the flames 
mounted and the Registrar and 
slaves, reinforced by the policeman 
upon the beat, with their meagre fire- 
fighting facilities, appeared upon the 
scene, pandemonium broke loose. 
Shouts, catcalls, blasts of horns and 
the intermittent barking of a brace of 
old horse-pistols punctuated the din. 

The fellow who owned these anti- 
quated weapons, being a law-abiding 
chap, would not fire them off himself, 
but would spend half the afternoon 
finding someone without such scruples 
to whom he could lend them for the 
evening. 

Slop buckets and pitchers were 
emptied upon the devoted heads 
of the prohibition enforcement agents 



and even coal from our scanty hoards 
was sacrificed to the cause. In fact, 
from the point of view of the average 
college boy, it was a great and glori- 
ous occasion, and the honors undoubt- 
edly accrued to the members of the 
self-appointed committee on bonfires. 
They felt that they had proved their 
point as to the efficacy of prohibition 
and could desist from their labors. 

But one suspect was called upon 
the carpet. Things certainly looked 
black for him for a time, as the police 
officer asserted that a tumbler, which 
struck him upon the arm during the 
melee, was thrown from the suspect's 
window. Threatened with expulsion 
unless he could clear himself of the 
charge before night and feeling very 
blue at the prospect, he met upon the 
campus one of the men who had been 
in his room during the excitement and 
told him his tale of woe. The friend 
assured him that he could fix it up 
all right and hied himself at once to 
the President's office. Having told 
the President that he had heard of 
the accused student's predicament and 
had come to accept the responsibility 
for the tumbler-throwing episode, and 
being asked: "You are aware, sir, 
that the penalty in your case will be 
the same as in Air. X's if he had 
been the guilty party?", he said: "No, 
sir, it will be quite different." 

"No impertinence, sir, what do 
you mean?" 

Calmly and courteously he replied, 
"I understand, sir, that if I was still 
a student at Brown you could expel 
me, but I left college a month ago 
and am now enrolled at Harvard 
Medical School. You have no au- 
thority over me." 

The incident was closed. The for- 
mer suspect was no longer under sus- 
picion. The series of bonfires came 
to an end without casualties. 

Looking back after a lapse of more 
than half a century it is clearly evi- 
dent that, instead of censure, the in- 
formal committee merited a vote of 
thanks from the Corporation for abat- 
ing the fire hazard which existed in 
the Hope College attic. 

Each year, at some chapel exercise, 

we were reminded that, under the 

rules of the college, all lights were to 

be out at ten o'clock and attendance 

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at theatres and other places of amuse- 
ment was strictly forbidden. This 
prohibition was, of course, an obvious 
anachronism. Doubtless the Presi- 
dent did not expect it to be taken too 
seriously. It certainly was not. 

Going back in memory to those 
golden days of youth we love to recall 
the balmy nights in Spring when the 
groups of students came loitering up 
the hill, with occasional snatches of 
song, until coming in sight of Hope 
College and Professor Davis's bright- 
ly lighted window at No. 27 they 
would all chime in, the volume of 
sound swelling as they grew nearer: 
Where, oh where is Tutor Davis? 
'Way down in the land below. 
He went down on a parallelopipedon 
He went down on a parallelopipedon 
'Wav down in the land below. 



And then to bed and to sli 
Pepys would say. 



Pays to 1938 

Brown Alumni Monthly, 
Brown University, 
Providence, R. I. 
Worthy sirs: 

It is time that I lessened a little 
your own periodic tasks as well as 
my own. Enclosed please find $iO.OO 
for the extension of my subscription 
to the Alumni Monthly. 

Each issue of the Monthly, with 
all of its timely news of College Hill, 
with a good measure of cultural ar- 
ticles on campus and college life, and 
with sketches either about or from 
Brunonians of prominence, serves to 
keep alive a warm and abiding inter- 
est in Alma Mater, at least it is one 
important item in securing that re- 
sult. 

Congratulations to the editor and 
to the management that makes so ex- 
cellent a college paper the herald of 
good news to Brunonians far and 
near. 

Sincerely yours, 

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New York, Jan. 18, 1928. 

(As Mr. Boone was already paid 
up to the end of the Monthly's 1927- 
28 year, his $10 check entitles him 
to the magazine to June i, 1938. 
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Psychological Testing at Brown 

By Andrnv H. JMacPhail 
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology 



"Vr EARLY ten years ago Bro\\n 
-^^ University allied itself with a 
few colleges that were the pioneers 
in a movement which has since be- 
come quite definitely established in 
hundreds of higher institutions of 
learning. Ten years ago students 
did not walk into a certain of^ce on 
the Hill and ask, "Can you tell me 
what my psychological score is and 
what it means?" or "Can you tell me 
what my IQ is? I am curious to 
know how it agrees with the results 
of another test I took in high school." 
College faculty members and officials 
were not talking about or asking 
about students' psjchological ratings, 
and only a very few were even think- 
ing about them. During the last ten 
years, however, all these things and 
many similar ones have taken place. 
The psychological examination of all 
entering students has become a regu- 
lar annual occurrence and is defi- 
nitely scheduled part of the program 
that marks the official opening of the 
college academic year. It was begun 
under the direction of the late Pro- 
fessor Colvin when the S. A. T. C. 
and the Naval Unit were at Brown 
and continues as one of the activities 
of the Committee on Educational Ad- 
vice and Direction, of which Profes- 
sor Kenneth O. Mason, Dean of 
Freshmen, is chairman. This partic- 
ular activity and its related research 
are under the immediate supervision 
of the writer. 

The Brown University Psychologi- 
cal Examination is intended to meas- 
ure general mental ability of the sort 
that is involved in the doing of the 
usual type of academic work. It is 
not a test of one's mastery of any par- 
ticular kind of subject matter but 
measures a group of mental abilities 
which have been found to be import- 
ant factors in doing successfully what 
is required of students along the lines 
of scholastic attainment. Such exam- 
inations are known by various names, 
such as intelligence tests, psychologi- 
cal examinations, mental agility 



tests, or scholastic aptitude tests. 
Regardless of the name by which they 
are called, these tests measure sub- 
stantially the same thing as far as 
the practical purposes of educators are 
concerned, i. e., some groups of fac- 
tors which contribute in a measure- 
able way to academic success. The 
examination used at Brown requires 
seventy minutes of working time, ten 
of which are devoted to an inspection 
of some sample questions preliminary 
to taking the examination proper. 
Five different kinds of questions are 
used. Part One consists of a num- 
ber of sentences arranged in the or- 
der of difficulty from each of which 
certain words have been left out. 
The student is to fill in these blanks 
in such a way as to make the best pos- 
sible sense. Part Two is a vocabu- 
lary test. In Part Three the student 
is required to select from certain given 
words those that mean just the oppo- 
site of certain other given words. In 
Part Four it is necessary to identify 
pairs of words which involve the 
same relationship as certain other 
pairs of words. The last part of the 
examination is an arithmetic test. 
Although this may all seem very sim- 
ple, an inspection of this and similar 
examinations has prompted some 
alumni to say they were glad they 
went to college in the nineties. 

The developmental background of 
psychological tests is much longer in 
terms of years and much more soundly 
scientific in its nature than many peo- 
ple realize. The growing interest in 
scientific research in the field of men- 
tal measurement which began fully 
fifty years ago is usually considered 
as having come to a focus in the life 
and work of the French psychologist, 
Binet, often referred to as the Father 
of Intelligence Testing. Because of 
his interest and research studies, Bi- 
net was requested by the educational 
authorities of Paris, in 1904, to assist 
them in the identification of children 
who should receive special educational 
treatment. Within a year, Binet's 
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study of twenty years duration crys- 
talized itself into the form of a scale 
for the measurement of intelligence. 
About 1910 this scale, in proper form, 
was introduced into the United States 
chiefly through the efforts of God- 
dard and, since then, has gone 
through many revisions in this country 
and has been translated into many 
different languages. The next event 
of major importance was the decision 
of our military authorities in the 
World War to give psychological ex- 
aminations to the soldiers. For this 
purpose special tests were experi- 
mentally constructed by a committee 
of experts and given to about ij700,- 
000 men. Immediately after the 
close of the war thousands of these 
same tests, and newly devised simil^ 
ones, were given in educational insti- 
tutions all over the country and, since 
that time, extremely valuable data 
have been accumulating and have 
been carefully studied by scientific 
methods. 

Every year in all fields of educa- 
tional endeavor, and industry as well, 
more and more use is being made of 
examinations of this type. State-wide 
surveys have been made at certain 
educational levels, notably of high 
school seniors in Indiana, Massachu- 
setts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, 
and Illinois. At the college level, the 
critical study and use of psychological 
tests has been undertaken very seri- 
ously as is shown by the activities of 
certain organizations and hundreds 
of institutions. For a number of 
years the Society for the Promotion 
of Engineering Education, the Amer- 
ican Council on Education, and the 
Ohio College Association have been 
sponsoring cooperative programs of 
psychological testing in which a 
great many colleges in all parts of 
the country are taking part. Proba- 
bly the most important recent devel- 
opment at the college level is the fact 
that, in April 1925, the College En- 
trance Examination Board appointed 
a committee to prepare and direct 



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the administration of psychological 
examinations. Accordingly, the Col- 
lege Entrance Examination Board 
gave, in June 1926, a "Scholastic Ap- 
titude Test" to over eight thousand 
candidates for college admission. 
Such a test was also given in June 
1927. It is significant that a num- 
ber of the larger colleges in the East 
require all candidates to take this ex- 
amination and that a number of other 
important eastern colleges practically 
require it of certain candidates and 
strongly recommend that many others 
take it. 

The uses that are made of the psy- 
chological test scores at Brown are 
varied and are quite typical of col- 
leges in general. The examinations 
are given several days before the col- 
lege opens and are immediately cor- 
rected so that the scores are in the 
hands of the Committee on Admis- 
sions before registration begins. No 
applicant is ever refused solely because 
of a low score. So far as the writer 
is aware it has never been advocated 
at Brown or at any other college that 
psychological test scores should be the 
sole criterion for admission. What- 
ever such tests measure is only one of 
many factors contributing to aca- 
demic success, but it is a demonstra- 
bly important factor. Each year the 
Committee on Admissions is attach- 
ing more importance to the results of 
these tests as supplementary informa- 
tion in considering the cases of appli- 
cants whose admission is uncertain. 
In their annual reports the deans, 
both of the men's college and of the 
women's college, have made favora- 
ble reference to the practical value 
of the tests as an aid in the selection 
of students and in the performance of 
the usual guidance and supervisory 
functions of their offices. Some use 
has also been made of the test results 
in a supplementary way in selecting 
students who should receive scholar- 
ship aid and in the reinstatement of 
students. 

Each year the uses of the test re- 
sults are becoming more diverse, more 
generally employed by various agen- 
cies within the college, and more 
firmly established. This year in par- 



ticular an unusually large number of 
calls have been made upon the office 
of the Committee on Educational 
Advice and Direction for psycholog- 
ical test records. For example, upon 
request, complete records of all the 
students who took the tests last fall 
were delivered to the chairman of the 
Committee on Admissions, the Dean 
of Freshmen, the Registrar, the Dean 
and Director of Personal Work at 
the Women's College, the Medical 
Director, and to the Departments of 
Chemistry, Mathematics, and Eng- 
lish. For several years, the last two 
named used the test scores as a par- 
tial basis for the division of students 
into groups for instructional purposes. 
Occasionally, faculty members ask for 
special reports on particular students 
and some use the psychological rat- 
ings to check up the academic achieve- 
ment of certain students with what 
might reasonably be expected of them, 
some of which check-up involves the 
discovery and treatment of those wil- 
fully slighting their college work. 
At the request of certain departments, 
special problems involving psycholog- 
ical scores as factors have been stud- 
ied and reports rendered. The mem- 
bers of the Committee on Educational 
Advice and Direction, over twenty 
in number, who act as advisers to all 
undergraduates, have the psychologi- 
cal scores before them when confer- 
ring with students. The above indi- 
cates the growing generalness of use 
given the results of these tests and the 
justification of the practice lies in the 
fact that careful studies carried on 
over the last nine years indicate that 
the results, properly interpreted, pos- 
sess practical significance. In more 
specific terms some of the findings will 
be briefly summarized. 

The reasons why psychological 
tests are considered valuable as one 
means of predicting probably failure 
or success in college are based on the 
following facts as found true at 
Brown. Two-thirds of the Freshmen 
who "flunk out" at the middle of the 
year score in the lowest fifth on the 
psychological test. Of the Freshmen 
who fail in two or more subjects in 
either semester, eight times as many 
score in the lowest psychological fifth 
as in the highest and twenty-two 
169 



times as many in the lowest tenth as 
in the highest. Studies of the careers 
of students making very low scores 
show that out of five Freshmen who 
enter with psychological scores in the 
lowest tenth only two remain in col- 
lege more than one year and only one 
graduates. 

In terms of intelligence quotients 
(IQ's), the facts seem to indicate 
that an individual with an IQ of less 
than 100 is simply out of the running 
and, out of eight individuals with 
IQ's of less than no, three drop out 
during the first year, three during the 
second, and only one graduates. Stu- 
dents with IQ's of 1 1 5-1 19 have just 
an even, 50-50 chance of graduating, 
which is just the normal or average 
chance for any student at random ac- 
cording to the records of two classes 
recently graduated. In brief, a large 
majority of those scoring below a de- 
finable critical score are poor risks, 
and others may be classified as ques- 
tionable and good risks. The extent 
to which good risks are identified by 
the test scores is shown by the fact 
that almost without exception no 
Freshman whose grades are all C or 
better makes a very low test score. 
The facts concerning students whose 
work has been of such high grade as 
to win recognition in terms of various 
academic honors are also very con- 
vincing. For example, a study of the 
records of men who took honors dur- 
ing their four years at college show 
that only one student, who incident- 
ally had taken one honor, scored 
in the lowest fifth on the psychologi- 
cal test and even then not so low as 
to fall in the lowest tenth. This 
study was based on the records of 
three classes so that this one individ- 
ual is a striking exception. Nineteen 
out of twenty who take honors dur- 
ing their college course score in the 
highest two-thirds psychologically, 
and the majority rank in the highest 
third. It is clear that the limits with- 
in which to seek potentially good risks 
and potential honors men are pretty 
well defined. 

The results and practical uses of 
psychological examinations in other 
colleges have been described in hun- 
dreds of articles published in appro- 
priate professional journals. A thor- 



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oiigh study of this literature leads to 
a feeling of gratification through the 
discovery that Brown is one of the 
very few colleges to have made the 
longest use and most thorough evalu- 
ation of this supplementary means of 
selection, prognosis and guidance. 
There is also gratification in the fact 
that from every point of view the 



practical results of psychological ex- 
aminations at Brown compare very 
favorably indeed with the findings of 
other institutions the country over. 
A number of articles have been pub- 
lished describing the results obtained 
at Brown, the mose recent of which 
deals with the very significant find- 
ings obtained at the Women's College, 



where this phase of personnel work 
was introduced in 1923. Some re- 
prints of these articles are still avail- 
able and will be gladly sent to grad- 
uates who may wish to read more in 
detail about some points which are 
merely mentioned in passing here be- 
cause of the necessarily limited scope 
of the present statement. 



Intellectual Adventures in Greek and Roman 
Civilization 

Unrequired readings for 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 



GREEK HISTORY 
Stobart, J. C. The glory that was 
Greece. 1911, Ed. 4, 1921. Sidg- 
wick & Jackson, Lend. 

Vivid survey and picture book of 
ancient Greek culture and civiliza- 
tion in which statues and poems re- 
place the history of wars and treaties. 

Zimmern, A. E. The Greek common- 
wealth. 1911, Ed. 4, 1924. Ox- 
ford. 

Engagingly written, the conflicting 
problems of living in those ancient 
days are made very real when he com- 
pares the means of livelihood and the 
driving necessities of economic devel- 
opment with those of today. 

Grote, George. A history of Greece. 
1846-56. Everjrman's library, 
1907. 12 V. 

Effectively combines acquaintance 
with the obscure byways of Grecian 
literature with the great highways in 
tracing the influence of political free- 
dom on human actions from Solon 
thru the loss of Athenian liberty (403 
B. C). Conveniently condensed into 
one volume by Mitchell and Caspar, 
Routledge, London. 1907. 

ROMAN HISTORY 
Stobart, J. C. The grandeur that was 
Rome. 1913. Sidgwick & Jack- 
son, Lond. 

Brilliant survey of Roman culture 
and civilization, picturing with statue 
and story her contributions to pro- 
gress. 



Showerman, Grant. Eternal Rome. 
1924. 2v. Yale University press. 

Delightfully readable history of the 
city and its people from the earliest 
times to the present day. 

Frank, Tenney. An economic history 
of Rome. 1920, ed. 2, 1927 
Johns Hopkins press. 

Valuable study of available evi- 
dence, showing how the industry and 
commerce developed by the Etruscans 
was abandoned by the Romans who 
turned to farming until the soil was 
exhausted. Then followed territorial 
expansion. 

Mommsen, Theodor. The history of 
Rome. 1854-56. Tr. by Dickson. 
Everyman's library, 1911, 4v. 

Brilliantly describes the growth of 
the Roman state to the establishment 
of the Empire under Caesar. A mas- 
terly gift of character delineation and 
striking conclusions from philological 
and archaeological sources make en- 
tertaining reading. 

CLASSICAL LITERATURE 
Wendell, Barrett. The traditions of 
European literature from Homer 
to Dante. 1920. Scribner. 

Admirable interpretation of classi- 
cal, early Christian and medieval lit- 
erature, comprehensive in scope and 
skillfully executed by a competent 
scholar. 

Loeb classical library. Putnam. 

With nearly 200 volumes so far 
170 



published, nearly all important au- 
thors and many minor ones are com- 
pletely available with the Greek or 
Latin text on the left hand page and 
the English translation on the right. 
Further readings of selected writers 
may thus be enjoyed. 

GREEK LITERATURE 

Livingstone, R. W., ed. The pageant 
of Greece. 1923. Oxford. 

The greatest writings from Homer 
to the 6th century A. D. have been 
arranged on a chronological pattern 
with comments that weave them into 
a colorful unity, thus tracing in Eug- 
lish the growth of Greek literature. 

Norwood, Gilbert. The writers of 
Greece. 1925. Oxford. 

With exact critical judgment 14 
leading authors are discussed in brief 
excellent sketches. 

Murray. Gilbert. A history of ancient 
Greek literature. 1897. Apple- 
ton. 

Well proportioned, valuable out- 
line with excellent critical judgments 

ROMAN LITERATURE 
Bailey, Cyril, ed. The mind of Rome. 
1926. Oxford. 

The best writings of 54 authors 
are arranged in chronological order 
under three types: verse, verse and 
prose, and prose, thus presenting in 
English fleeting glmpses of the de- 
velopment of Roman literature. 



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Duff. J. W. The writers of Rome. 
1924. Oxford. 

Excellent brief sketches of the chief 
authors of the three ages of Roman 
literature: earlv, golden, and silver 
(240 B. C— 117 A. D.). 

Mackail, J. W. Latin literature. 1895. 
Murray, Lond. 

Brilliant, valuable sur\ey, very 
readable and outlining the whole sub- 



ject. 



OUR INHERITANCE 



Livingstone, R. W., ed. The legacy 
of Greece. 1921. Oxford. 
Readable essays emphasize the debt 
of the modern world to the Greek 
contributions to science, art, litera- 
ture, history and politics, philosophy 
and religion. 

Bailey. Cyril, ed. The legacy of 
Rome. 1923. Oxford. 

Excellent essays cite the prominent 
aspects of Roman civilization for 
which the modern world is indebted, 
such as, administration and law, com- 
munication and commerce, building 



and agriculture, science and literature, 
philosophy and religion. 

Dickinson, G. Lowes. The Greek 
view of life. 1896, ed. 13, 1920. 
Methuen, Lond., Doubleday, N. Y. 

Ably presents with clear and pene- 
trating criticism the specific achieve- 
ments of the Greek spirit in art, in- 
dividual life, the state, and religion. 

Livingstone, R. W. The Greek genius 
and its meaning to us. 1912, ed. 
2, 1915. Oxford. 

Brilliantly points out definite man- 
ifestations of the Hellenic spirit in 
its beauty, freedom, directness, hu- 
manism, sanity and many-sidedness. 

Our debt to Greece and Rome, ed. by 
G. P. Hadzsits and D. M. Robin- 
son. 1922. Longmans. 

Attractively prepared small vol- 
umes each by a different author. The 
aim is to help the present to under- 
stand itself and its time by under- 
standing the past. 

Personalities, whose influence has 
been recognized thru the centuries 



have separate volumes and include 
great poets, as Homer and Vergil, 
Sappho and Horace ; great orators, as 
Demosthenes and Cicero; great phi- 
losophers, as Aristotle, Plato, Seneca 
and the Stoics; great dramatists, as 
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and 
Aristophanes. 

In addition to these may be men- 
tioned also : 

Lucian, satirist and artist, by F. G. 
Allinson. 

Martial and the modern epigram, 
by Paul Ni.xon. 

Some subjects treated in an inter- 
esting way are : 

Modern traits in old Greek life, by 
C. B. Gulick. 

Roman private life and its survi- 
vals, by W. B. McDaniel. 

Ancient and modern Rome, by R. 
A. Lanciani. 

Stage antiquities of the Greeks and 
Romans, by J. T. Allen. 

Architecture, by A. M. Brooks. 

Greek biology and medicine, by H. 
O. Taylor. 

Mythology, by J. E. Harrison. 



The Alumnae Christmas Party 



npHE annual Christmas meeting of 
the Alumnae Association is in 
the nature of an informal midyear re- 
union. At this time many alumnae 
are home on vacations and there is 
an incentive for out-of-town members 
to return, particularly now that we 
ha\e our own headquarters. 

On December 28, Alumnae Hall, 
gay with Christmas wreaths and 
trees, opened its doors hospitably to 
about 150 alumnae. The festivities 
began with an informal supper in the 
cafeteria, followed by an entertain- 
ment given in the auditorium by the 
Brown Alumnae Club of Providence. 
This took the form of an Old Eng- 
lish Twelfth Night celebration. 

The large hall was in darkness, soft 
music plajang. Suddenly caroling 
was heard in the distance. The doors 
burst open and a hilarious troop of 
lords and ladies, pages, heralds and 
peasants ran in joyously singing an 
old wassail song. More dignified, 
came the King and Queen and the 
Abbess, with a gay little jester caper- 
ing about them. The royal group 
seated themselves while the company 



gathered around the throne by candle- 
light and sang carols. A wandering 
French troubador sang his French 
songs, the "fiddlers four" of the court 
played several selections and a wan- 
dering band of players gave a mystery 
play. 

The delighted court watched with 
interest the simple story of Noah's 
Ark, with an angel and the voice of 
God helping Noah to build his craft, 
and Noah's wife and the Devil trying 
to lure him from duty. But as in all 
old plays, righteousness prevailed and 
the venerable Noah proceeded. 

The lords and ladies, not to be si- 
lenced for long, again sang carols, 
and, laughing at the antics of the jolly 
old tavern-keeper, went on their way, 
perhaps to sing in some nearby manor 
or to partake of a feast in the castle 
banqueting hall. 

The Lady Abbess (Mrs. John S 
Murdock), however, lingered to serve 
all the company with coffee and 
Christmas cakes, while everybody 
chatted and renewed old friendships 

Those taking part in the revelries 
were as follows: King, Ruth Cooke 
171 



Peterson; Queen, Isabelle Brownson ; 
Abbess, Nettie S. G. Murdock; Jes- 
ter, Madeleine Johnson; Herald, 
Frances Foster ; Tavern-keeper, 
Maude Farnum; King's Minstrels, 
Virginia B. Anderson, Elizabeth 
Cook, Iva Stone and Barbara Mitch- 
ell; Jacques, Elizabeth Rustigian ; 
Court Singer, Katherine Fanning; 
other lords, ladies and townspeople, 
Irma Gyllenburg Cull, Alice Collins 
Gleeson, Sadie McMichael, Candace 
Smith, Elizabeth Lee Young; Ac- 
companist, Ruth Foster Porter. 

Players: Noah, Elizabeth Whit- 
man Abbott; Noah's wife, Mildred 
Hatch Stone ; Angel, Alice Desmond ; 
Devil, Ruth Peterson Watjen; Voice 
of God, Sharon O. Brown. 

Gertrude Annan was chairman of 
the Christmas Party committee for 
the Alumnae Association. The chair- 
men of the two Reading Clubs, Isabel 
McMurty Voight and Alice Des- 
mond, were in charge of the play. 
Alice Collins Gleeson is chairman of 
the Glee Club, which presented the 
Twelfth Night revels and choristers. 



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Dr. David Downie, 1869 

Appreciation of a Veteran Brunonian Missionary by Joseph Chnndhr Rohbins ' gj in the If'atchnian Examine) 



jr\R. DAVID DOWNIE, veteran 
^"^ missionary of the American 
Baptist Foreign Mission Society, suc- 
cessor of Jewett of the Telugu mi-,- 
sion, died in Pasadena, Calif., July 
19, 1927. Beautiful indeed were the 
closing days of this missionary's life. 
He had completed his long service in 
India in March, had arrived ir, 
America and met his friends in New 
York, traveled comfortably to Pasa- 
dena, where he was at home with his 
daughter, son-in-law and grandchil- 
dren, and then, with only a day's ill- 
ness, journeyed on to meet, his Mas- 
ter. 

Doctor Downie was born in Glas- 
gow, Scotland, July 29, 1838. In 
1852 the family came to America. 
On the first Sunday of April, 1854, 
Doctor Downie was baptized and 
joined what is now the Central Bap- 
tist Church of New York city. As 
a small boy in Scotland he had heard 
the great Scotchman, Alexander Duff, 
the pioneer educational missionary 
to India, and an impression was re- 
ceived that was never lost. In 1861 
the way opened for him to begin his 
preparation for his life work. He 
was graduated from Phillips Acad- 
emy, Andover, Mass., in 1865, from 
Brown University in 1869, and 
from Rochester Theological Semi- 
nary in 1872. In February, 1873, 
Doctor Downie was appointed a mis 
sionary to India of the American 
Baptist Missionary Union. Upon 
his arrival in India, he was desig- 
nated to Nellore, taking over thj 
work of the sainted Jewett. 

John E. Clough at Ongole and 
David Downie at Nellore were for 
more than a generation the two dom- 
inant figures in the South India mis- 
sion. Three months after his arri- 
val at Nellore, Doctor Downie was 
appointed mission treasurer, and for 
more than forty-one years held this 
important and difficult position, 
which gave him a leading place in the 
administration of the Telugu mission. 
In the famine of 1876-78, in which 
three million people perished, Doctor 



Downie was appointed honorary sec- 
retary and treasurer of the Nellors 
district famine relief committee. 
During the two years of the famine 
$100,000 of the London mansion 
house fund for the relief of the fam- 
ine sufferers passed through his 
hands. In Madras last March, just 
before sailing, he was deeply moved 
when two of our leading Baptist Tel- 
ugu men, whom as boys he had taken 
into his home in famine days, came 
from Nellore to Madras to say good- 
bye to Doctor and Mrs. Downie, the 
only father and mother they had 
known for nearly half a century. In 
1915, after forty-two years' service 
in Nellore, Doctor Downie was 
transferred to Coonoor in the hill 
country where he continued to live, 
doing literary work, until he returned 
to America last March. 

No missionary has ever given to 
me, as foreign secretary, more hearty 
support, nor been of greater inspira- 
tion to me than this veteran from the 
Telugu field. He was a careful stu- 
dent in matters of mission adminis 
tration, and one of the most forward- 
looking men in the Telugu mission. 
All through his life. Doctor Downie 
took a vital interest in all matters of 
denominational policy and progress. 
In a letter to the foreign secretary 
sent from Pasadena on June 27, he 
wrote vigorously in regard to a pro- 
posal of the South India Mission 
Conference and then added : 

"In view of the conditions in 
China and India and the reports that 
must have reached the convention 
(the Northern Baptist Convention 
meeting in Chicago), I am a bit dis 
appointed that the great convention in 
Chicago did not rise in its strength, 
and pledge the men and money to 
carry out the board's program and 
avoid either a cut or a delay in send- 
ing out the men and women who are 
ready to go and who are so urgently 
needed. That, it seems to me, would 
have done more to unite the denomi- 
nation than any scheme to reduce 
work at home or on the mission field. 
172 



and, better still, it would have hon- 
ored and gratified the heart of our 
blessed Lord in that it would hasten 
the glad day when he shall see of the 
travail of his soul and shall be satis- 
fied." 

Doctor Downie was for many 
years the editor of the Baptist Mis- 
sionary Review of India, and had 
done a vast amount of literary work. 
His most notable works, perhaps, 
were the "History of the Telugu 
Mission," published in 1893; "The 
Lone Star," published in 1924; and 
"Reminiscences of Forty-Eight Years 
in the Lone Star Telugu Mission." 
At the time of his death, he was writ- 
ing his autobiography, "From the 
Mill to the Mission Field." 

When Doctor Downie opened the 
Baptist Telugu Mission Conference 
in Nellore on Dec. 28, 1926, with a 
devotional service, he called attention 
to the fact that he was standing on 
almost the precise spot where he 
made his first address in India fifty- 
three years ago. When he began his 
service, the Telugu mission had one 
station, Nellore, and three workers. 
He saw it grow to twenty-nine sta- 
tions, with 130 missionaries and a to- 
tal church membership of 88,489. 

In all of his missionary labors 
Doctor Downie has had the devoted 
and untiring support and aid of Mrs. 
Downie. Three of their daughters 
returned to India as missionaries : 
Annie, who died in Nellore in 1901 ; 
Alice, who became the wife of Dr. 
J. W. Stenger, formerly of Ongole, 
South India; and Minnie, who be- 
came the wife of Rev. S. W. Stenger, 
now stationed in Madras, South 
India. 

In all the fields of the American 
Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 
Doctor Downie was looked upon as 
an outstanding missionary, a real 
leader, a wise, forward-looking man 
of high character and sturdy faith 
He was an honored friend of the 
highest British officials of the Indian 
empire, was known and respected by 
missionaries of other denominations 



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and dearly loved by our Baptist mis 
sionaries and the Telugu Christian?. 
The memory of this veteran mission- 
ary who served his Master for more 



than fifty years is a rich heritage to 
the denomination. We should take 
heed to his last message to us at th( 
Chicago convention : "Opportunities 



and responsibilities in India and the 
entire non-Christian world demand 
that the denomination go forward." 



News From the Brown Clubs 

BY ALFRED H. GURNEY, ALUMNI SECRETARY 



THE DEANS ON TOUR 

Dean Randall and Dean Mason re- 
turned to the campus at the beginning 
of the New Year with good report of 
their trip westward — a trip which 
included meetings with the alumni in 
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and 
Buffalo. 

The Chicago dinner, at the Hamil- 
ton Club, brought out an enthusiastic 
crowd. President R. M. Kimball 
'i8, who later handed over the di- 
rection of the Brown Club of Chi- 
cago to Walter Smith 'oi, the new 
president, was in the chair ; Furber 
I. Marshall 'i8 introduced the speak- 
ers who, with their topics, were as 
follows: "Deans and Dilemmas," 
Wallace R. Lane '99; "Academic 
Gains and Losses," Dean Randall ; 
"Out of the Huddle," Jess B. Haw- 
ley, head coach, Dartmouth football 
squad; "Democratic Ventures," The- 
odore Francis Green '87, University 
Trustee; "Traditions New and Old,'' 
Roland Haynes, secretary. University 
of Chicago; "College Additions and 
Subtractions," Dean Mason. The 
so-called veteran singers, Frank A. 
Farnham, 2nd, 'l6n, George W. Ko- 
walski 'i9n, Earle V. Johnson '24 
and Davy Jones '24, and the orches- 
tra of the Hinsdale, 111., High School 
furnished the music. 

The luncheon by the Brown Uni- 
versity Club of Detroit was given at 
the Detroit Club, with President W. 
Carleton Scott '24 introducing the 
two Deans. Alumni, wives and their 
children were present, and on his re- 
turn to College Hill, Dean Randall 
assured us that seldom had he had a 
more delightful time than he did in 
Detroit. 

President Lloyd Brown '99 gave 
welcome to the Deans and about 
eighty-five others, including prospect- 
ive Brown men and undergraduates. 



at the University Club, Cleveland. 
Some of Professor Kenerson's campus 
pictures were shown, and there was a 
surprise when A. C. Cornsweet, cap- 
tain-elect of the football team, put 
on reels which he had made of foot- 
ball games last fall. Former Dean 
W. R. Burwell '15 introduced Dean 
Randall felicitously. Everett T. 
Marten '25, secretary, worked hard 
and successfully to make the Cleve- 
land gathering memorable. 

The Buffalo meeting was held at 
the Hotel Lafayette, with a large 
number present. Glen W. Woodin 
'05, president of the Brown Club of 



Buffalo, and Stanley P. Marsh '12, 
secretary, had charge of the affair, 
and they did nobly. The Buffalo 
Brunonians heard the two Deans 
with real interest. It was Dean Ma- 
son's first visit with them, and they 
liked him immensely, we have been 
told. 

NEW YORK 
Beginning Jan. 12, a bridge tour- 
nament was started at the club, 119 
East 39th St., and the plan, according 
to Alexander Graham '06, is to con- 
tinue play on the second and fourth 
Thursday of the month. "We ex- 



Advisory Board and Visiting Day 

A GAIN Visiting Day at the Uni- 
■^ versity and the annual meeting 
of the Advisory Board of the Associ- 
ated Alumni will coincide. The in- 
novation of last year was so successful 
that the chances are that it will be- 
come a fixture. Visiting Day will be 
Wednesday, February 22; the Ad- 
visory Board will convene Tuesday 
evening, February 21, and continue 
its meeting Wednesday morning. 

Two important items of business 
are on the docket for the first Advis- 
ory Board session, which, if all goes 
well, will take place at the University 
Club, Providence: 

1. Nomination of Alumni Trus- 
tees to fill vacancies now existing in 
the Corporation. 

2. Nomination of candidates for 
alumni member of the Athletic Coun- 
cil for the place occupied by Byron S. 
Watson '97. 

The Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni is preparing for 
the coming of the club delegates, the 
Alumni Trustees and others eligible 
to the Advisory Board. Standing 
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committees which will make reports 
are : 

Needs and Problems — Henry G. 
Clark '07, chairman; Henry S. 
Chafee '09, Homer N. Sweet '07 and 
Thomas B. Appleget '17. 

Alumni Organizations — William 
Allan Dyer '86, chairman ; Burton 
Harrington '18, L. L. Larrabee '09, 
Chapin S. Newhard '22 and Everett 
T. Marten '25. 

On Conference with Undergradu- 
ates — F. A. Ballou, Jr., '16, Victor 
A. Schwartz '07 and the Alumni 
Secretary. 

President Wiley H. Marble 'l2 
will preside at the sessions, and 
among the guests will be President 
Faunce, Vice President Mead, Dean 
Randall, Dean Mason and represent- 
atives of the undergraduate body. 
The attendance last year was the best 
in the history of the Associated 
Alumni. With every club cooperat- 
ing, another record can be made this 
year. 

Now is the time to answer the call 
to come back to the campus on Feb- 
ruary 21 and 22! 



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pect to keep up these bridge tourna- 
ments at least during January, Febru- 
ary and March," he wrote. "Any 
out-of-town Brown men who happen 
to be in New York on the second and 
fourth Thursday of the month will 
be welcome. And we might add that 
they can have dinner at the club be- 
fore play opens." 

CONNECTICUT VALLEY 

The annual dinner and meeting of 
the Brown Club of the Connecticut 
Valley is scheduled for Springfield on 
Tuesday, Feb. 7. Dean Randall, 
Coach b. O. McLaughry and the 
Alumni Secretary are on the program. 

NEW BEDFORD 
Professor W. H. Kenerson, C. R. 
Considine '28, centre of the Univer- 
sity football team in 1926 and 1927 
and A. H. Gurney, Alumni Secretary, 
were the speakers at the annual din- 
ner and meeting of the Brown Uni- 



versity Club of New Bedford, held at 
the Wamsutta Club on Thursday, 
Jan. 19. We'll have report of the 
affair in the March number of the 

Monthly. 

MERRIMACK VALLEY 

Henry H. Harris, principal of the 
Lowell High School, was the speaker 
at the December dinner of the Merri- 
mack Valley Brown Club, held at 
the Marlborough House, Lowell. 
Mr. Harris took for his topic, "Sec- 
ondary Education" and gave his 
hearers a quickening account of the 
changes in educational work since 
"the good old days" and of present 
dav trends. After his talk. President 
William H. Cady '98 called on As- 
sistant Attorney General J. S. East- 
ham '19, the club secretary, for a re- 
port of the work of the executive 
committee done since the last meet- 
ing. The secretary reported that the 
committee recommended arrange- 



ments for a concert by the University 
Orchestra, to be given in Nevins Me- 
morial Hall, Methuen, Friday, Feb. 
10, and the club adopted the recom- 
mendation. Present were President 
Cady, Secretary Eastham, Charles H. 
Mclntire '85, George A. Mellen '98, 
Dr. H. D. Smith '03, Nowell R. 
Kinney '19, Richard Almy '23, J. F. 
O'Donoghue '15, F. S. Beattie 06, R. 
E. Corlew '25, K. A. Corlew '26, J. 
L. Kent '92, John G. Gordon '89, 
Robert S. Curley '07 and W. G. 
Chace '26. 

BOSTON 
Announcement that the annual 
dinner of the Brown Club of Boston 
would take place Feb. 2 arrived at 
the Alumni OfHce as last copy for this 
issue was being mailed to the printer. 
Members of the club heard a fine lec- 
ture on 'Criminal Identification," by 
Inspector James R. Claflin of the 
Boston Police Department at the 
L^niversity Club on Jan. 11. 



The University Chronicle 



VXT'ELL, who would have thought 
it! Who would have believed 
that in printing a list of new Univer- 
sity Trustees the Brown Alumni 
Monthly would omit the name of 
that sterling worker for Brown, Clin- 
ton C. White 1900? 

However, that is exactly what the 
Monthly did and accordingly it 
apologizes. We simply overlooked 
Mr. White, in spite of the fact that 
we have a high regard for him. 

Following is a brief record of 
Trustee White's busy career: 

Clixtox Chase White, 1900, 
Providence. Secretary, Treasurer 
and Director, Puritan Life Insurance 
Company of Rhode Island ; President, 
Brown Club, Providence ; Vice Pres- 
ident, Providence Y. M. C. A. ; Di- 
rector, Providence Community Fund; 
Corporation, Providence Boys' Club ; 
Board of Governors, Turks Head 
Club, Providence; Committee, Brown 
Athletic Fields and New Gymna- 
sium ; Graduate Advisory Committee, 
Brown Christian Association. 191 2, 
Rhode Island Committee Brown En- 
dowment; 1917-18, State Industrial 



Chairman Liberty Loan and War 
Work Campaigns; 1 920, Rhode Is- 
land Committee Brown Endowment 
and Development Fund; 1923, 
Brown Amphitheatre Building Com- 
mittee; 1924, Chairman, Brown Am- 
phitheatre Campaign; 1925, Chair- 
man, Dedication Brown Field; 1927, 
Executive Committee, Homeopathic 
Hospital Campaign. 



Penn Wins on Forfeit 
The University of Pennsylvania, in 
opening its new Sydney E. Hutchin- 
son swimming pool, on Jan. 14, ap- 
parently lost and then won from 
Brown, 34 to 28. A dispute followed 
the relay and caused a change in the 
final result. 

Brown, previously leading, 28 to 
26, in the dual swimming meet, fin- 
ished first in the relay, which would 
have made the score 36 to 26. It 
was claimed, however, that Captain 
Litchfield of Brown started too 
quickly as anchor man. Koenig, a 
touchoff official, upheld the protest 
and Referee Agnew McBride order- 
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ed the relay race recontested. Coach 
E. L. Barry of the Bruins would not 
agree to this, and McBride then 
awarded the race to Penn, thus mak- 
ing the final score 34 to 28 in Penn's 
favor. 

Goff, Arnold, Barrows and Captain 
Litchfield swam in that order for 
Brown against Teaf, Russell, Cow- 
perthwait and Captain MacLea. The 
first three Red and Blue swimmers 
managed to maintain a scant lead. 
Then Litchfield dove off the edge of 
the new pool and in a sensational 
burst of speed passed the Penn cap- 
tain in the home stretch, to win by a 
touch. The protest followed. 

Ihmcn Graduate School 
The Brown University Graduate 
School announces the following Fel- 
lowships open to graduates of any 
college : 

Seven Fellowships of $1000 each, 
two in Chemistry and one each in Bi- 
ology, English, History, Mathematics 
and Romance Languages. 

Nine Fellowships of $750 each, 
four in Chemistry and one each in Bi- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ology, English, History, ALithematics 
and Romance Languages. 

One Fellowship of $700 in Chem- 
istry. 

Eight Fellowships of $550 each, 
three in Chemistry and one each in Bi- 
olog)-, English, History, Mathematics 
and Romance Languages. 

One Fellowship of $500 in Biology. 

Fellowships open only to graduates 
of Brown Universit}': 

One Fellowship of $iOOO, one of 
$7CX) in History, one of $500, and one 
of $500 in Archaeolog}-. 

Ssholarships. Scholarships suffici- 
ent approximately to cover tuition are 
available in Chemistry and English. 

Tuition. Unless otherwise stated, 
tuition must be paid by the student. 
In exceptional cases, the tuition of fel- 
lows may be remitted. 

Application and Award. Applica- 
tion blanks may be obtained from the 
Registrar of the Graduate School. 
Applications will be received until 
March first. Award will be made on 
or before March 15. 

Assistantships. There are thirty- 
five half-time assistantships, each pay- 
ing approximately $750 and tuition. 
In addition there are several paying 
lesser amounts, ranging down to part 
of tuition only. 

Further information may be ob- 
tained by writing to the Registrar of 
the Graduate School. 

Sock and Buskin 

The Brown University Dramatic 
Society's need of a larger auditorium 
is thus set forth editoriallv bv the 
Herald: 

In a day when theatre-going is 
more in vogue than ever before, it 
seems strange that the average Brown 
undergraduate should take as little 
interest as he apparently does in an 
organization of the calibre of the 
present Sock and Buskin Society. 

But the reason for this lack of in- 
terest on the part of the students is, 
as even the society itself is willing to 
admit, largely a matter of the type of 
play which the society is forced to 
present. Much as the Sock and Bus- 
kin would like to produce a modern 
play or two each year, it is unable to 
do so simply because of the matter of 



expense. Royalties on a Galsworthy 
or an O'Neil production are far in 
e.xcess of any amount that the society 
is able to pay at the present time. 
The size of the auditorium in which 
the plays are presented limits the size 
of the audience and consequently, the 
amount of money that may be taken 
in. It is no longer even possible to 
hire the Providence Opera House, 
because of the expense. And so, 
through the inability to finance any 
other type of production, the Dra- 
matic Society is forced to fall back 
upon older plays with little or no 
royalties. 

The organization at the present 
time seems to be facing a dilemma. 
It realizes what its audiences would 
like, it appreciates the attitude of the 
student body, and yet there does not 
seem to be any way out of its pres- 
ent difficulties. The establishment of 
a Little Theatre (a dream whose re- 
alization seems to lie rather far in the 
future) might solve the problem, 
provided the society were allowed to 
use the building. 

Commenting on the Herald edito- 
rial. President Lester T. Chase of the 
Dramatic Society says that the failure 
of the society to choose modern plays 
is not entirely the high price of royal- 
ties. The Broadway successes are or- 
dinarily not released for a long time — 
sometimes they cannot be secured for 
five years; by that time they have be- 
come so familiar to Sock and Buskin 
audiences that it would be unwise to 
reproduce them. 

Professor Ben W. Brown says the 
society, as he sees it, exists principally 
to present plays having a direct bear- 
ing on the work of the Departments 
of Literature at Brown. He thinks 
the society is getting as much under- 
graduate support as any organization 
of the same nature. He thinks it 
would be undesirable to compete with 
professional companies in producing 
recent plays. Moreover, men cannot 
satisfactorily take women's parts in 
a modern play. However, he wishes 
Sock and Buskin could secure the 
rights on new plays, and above all he 
wishes it could produce some plays 
written by undergraduates. 



Lacrosse 
As Brown and Dartmouth have 
agreed to forego spring football prac- 
tice. Coach McLaughry has directed 
all football men who are not intend- 
ing to engage in any other spring 
sport, to report for lacrosse. Under 
our new lacrosse coach, Reed of Har- 
vard, it is expected that Brown will 
have a successful season, especially 
with this accession of football players. 
« « 

A $50,000 Bequest 
Brown University is to receive a 
bequest of $50,000 under the terms 
of the will of Charles L. Baker of 
Fall. River, lately deceased. Mr. Ba- 
ker stipulated that $40,000 be used 
by the University as a memorial to 
the class of 1884, of which he was a 
member, and that $i 0,000 be used 
for work in political and social sci- 
ences in memory of his late partner, 
Edward Anthony Thurston, who 
graduated from Brown in 1893. The 
bequest to Brown and other minor 
public bequests are subject to life es- 
tate in the testator's sister. 



Laivson as Line Coach 

Douglas Lawson, former Harvard 
'Varsity tackle and head coach at Wil- 
liams for the past three years, has 
been signed as line coach at Brown 
and assistant to Coach McLaughry. 

Edgar J. (Spike) Staff, 'Varsity 
line coach for a number of years un- 
der Coach Robinson and Freshman 
coach for the past two years, has been 
signed to coach the Fr'eshman teams 
again. 

Lawson played tackle on Captain 
Percy Wendell's team at Harvard in 
1912, and became second team coach 
at Harvard in 1913. He coached and 
played on an amateur team in Oregon 
in 1914 and 19 15, entered the Army 
during the World War and played on 
and coached the Second Division Reg- 
ular Army team in igig and 1920. 

He became the coach at Williams 
in 1 92 1 and continued there until 
1923, when he went to Columbia with 
Percy Haughton. After Haughton's 
death, he returned to Williams as as- 
sistant coach and directed the line in 
1924. 



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He became head coach at Williams 
in 1925 and continued until the com- 
pletion of the season, when he re- 
signed in accord with a new system 
which requires fulltime coaches. 

Lawson is with the Sun Life Insur- 
ance Company of Canada in the Bos- 
ton office, and makes his home in Bos- 
ton. 

W. Earl Sprackling '12, backfield 
coach on McLaughry's staff last year, 
will not return to his post. 



Some days later it was announced 
that "Dave" Mishel '27 will be back- 
field coach of the 'varsity football 
team next fall. Mishel was one of 
the Iron Men of the season of 1926, 
played the quarterback pofrtion to per- 
fection and was a constant source of 
strength to the team. Last year he 
was assistant coach of the Freshman 
team. 

Assistant Coach Ormsby will not 
return, but Sprackling will attend to 
some of the scouting work. 



Brown Athletes Long-Lived 
Athletes graduating from Brown 
have the lowest mortality rate in a 
ten-college group, according to statis- 
tics presented at the annual meeting 
of the American Student Health As- 
sociation by Dr. Dublin of the Met- 
ropolitan Life Insurance Co. The 
meeting was held at the Hotel Astor 
in New York on December 28 and 
29. 

Dr. Dublin's report consisted of 
a detailed investigation of the health 
and death rate of athletes of ten col- 
leges up to and including 1905. 
Their lives after graduation were 
traced up to 1925. This survey was 
conducted by Dr. Dublin for the 
committee of fifty on college hygiene 
and had the co-operation of the ad- 
ministrations and athletic associations 
of the various colleges concerned. 

Taking the mortality of the av- 
erage man as one hundred per cent., 
the death rate of athletes graduating 
from Brown is 74.1. Yale athletes 
were found to outlive Harvard, 
while Dartmouth men were found to 
have the highest death rate among 
the ten colleges. 



The most important finding of the 
survey was that the athlete shows a 
better mortality rate than the average 
man. 



Lecture on Japan 
"The Problems of Japan and Its 
Relations with China, Russia and 
America" was the subject of Yusuke 
Tsurumi, who delivered the fourth 
Marshall Woods lecture at Brown 
on the evening of Jan. 9. The lec- 
ture was to have been given in Met- 
calf Hall on Thayer street but the 
crowd overflowed that comparatively 
small auditorium, and accordingly an 
adjournment was taken to Sayles 
Hall, which was thronged to the 
doors. Mr. Tsurumi was to have 
spoken on Jan. 24, but the near con- 
vening of Parliament at Tokio and 
duties connected with the Liberal 
party leadership required him to ad- 
vance his date here. He proved a 
master of English, possessed of much 
wit, and a genuinely interesting 
speaker. 

* * 

Basketball 

Wesleyan won from Brown at bas- 
ketball in Middletown, Jan. 7, by a 
score of 39-34. Until the whistle 
blew the result could not be confi- 
dently prophesied. 

Brown beat Middlebury at basket- 
ball, 31 to 30, in the new gymnasium, 
Jan. II. 

Brown won from Amherst at bas- 
ketball, at Amherst, Jan. 14. 

Brown beat Tufts at basketball, 
Jan. 18, by a score of 29 to 21 at the 
new gymnasium. 

Yale beat Brown at basketball at 
the new gym, Jan. 21, by a score of 
36-30. At the end of the first half 
Brown was in the lead, 16-15. At- 
tendance 700. 

At Lyman Gymnasium, Jan. 7, the 
Brown Freshmen beat the M. I. T. 
Freshmen at basketball, 55-12. 

The Freshmen beat the Boston 
University Freshmen at basketball, 
50-23, on Jan. 13, following victories 
over Bridgewater Normal School and 
M. I. T. '31. 

The Freshman basketball team beat 
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St. George's School at Newport, Jan. 
21, 21-17. 

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'Varsity 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. 

'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 University; April 
25, Maine; April 28, Holy Cross; 
May 2, Bates; May 5, Williams; 
May 8, Dartmouth at Hanover; 
May 12, Yale; May 16, Rhode Is- 
land; May 19, Dartmouth; May 23, 
Harvard at Cambridge; May 26, 
Providence College; May 30, Har- 
vard; June 2, Providence College; 
June 9, open; June 16, open; June 
18, open. 

* * 

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

?r * 

Notes of the Month 
Addressing the Brown Club of 
Providence, Jan. 24, Dean of Fresh- 
men K. O. Mason said: "It's the job 
of the college to refrain from educat- 
ing the woefully ignorant or incura- 
bly idle. . . . With the amaz- 
ing increase of the academic popula- 
tion in recent years, we are faced as 
never before with the problem of 
choosing the best men upon whom 
we can depend to make genuine con- 
tributions to society in the future." 



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Dr. Emery H. Porter 'o6 was elected 
President of the club. 

Commencement speakers from the 
class of '28 have been appointed as 
follows: Earl H. Bradley of See- 
konk, Mass.; John G. Getz, Jr., of 
Kent, O., and Frank K. Singiser, Jr., 
of Troy, N. Y. 

President Faunce has announced 
that the question of a change of name 
for the Women's College will be defi- 
nitely submitted to the University 
Corporation in June. 

After a good deal of discussion the 
decision has been reached to issue the 
Liber Brunensis this year as usual. 
Last year the pictures were poor. This 
year they will be by Bachrach, which 
promises an improvement. 

An aero club has been organized at 
Brown. P. L. Dujardin '29 is pres- 
ident. Thirty-three undergraduates 
attended the organization meeting. 

One of the most attractive lectures 
of the year was given at Alumnae 
Hall, Jan. 5, by Professor George 
Pierce Baker of Yale on the evolu- 
tion of the American drama. A large 
and delighted audience greeted the 
speaker, who is a native of Provi- 
dence. 

Leonard E. Werner '29 of Boston 
has been elected leader of the L ni- 
versity Band. He has been a mem- 
ber three seasons, was manager in his 
Sophomore year and is a member of 
Delta Phi. ' 

Nelson B. Jones, Jr., '28, has been 
appointed manager of the Brown 
Union. 

C. H. Edwards has been elected 
president of the Sophomore class. His 
home is in Chicago and he is a mem- 
ber of the 'varsity football and swim- 
ming teams and of Phi Kappa Psi. 

The 1 93 1 football eleven was ban- 
queted at Carr's on the evening of 
Jan. 19. 

Friday, Feb. 24, is the date of the 
Senior Frolic. 

The Honors Day address on "Pur- 
poses in the Education of Women," 
given by President Ada L. Comstock 
of Radclifife College at the Women's 
College on October 28, is reprinted 
in the December number of the bul- 
letin of the American Association of 
L'niversity Professors. 

Tau Delta Epsilon (formerly the 



Bear Club) has announced the pledg- 
ing of two Juniors and one Sopho- 
more since the rushing season. 

Yale outwrestled Brown, 14-9, at 
Providence, Jan. 14. On the same 
date the Yale Freshmen won from the 
Brown Freshmen at New Haven. 

William J. Cashman has been com- 
pelled by the press of other duties to 
resign the captaincy of the Brown 
wrestling team. 

A. C. Cornsweet, captain of the 
'varsity football team, has been chosen 
captain of the 'varsity wrestling team, 
in place of Captain Cashman, re- 
signed. 

Dayton College, of Dayton, Ohio, 
will fill the hitherto vacant date, Oct. 
13, on the Brown football schedule. 
The game will be played in Provi- 
dence. 

Irving Harris '28 has retired from 
active leadership of the University 
Band in order to give the new leaders 
a chance to accustom themselves to 
the work this spring. 

Paul P. Johnson '29 of Cleveland, 
Ohio, has been elected to represent 
the Junior class on the Undergradu- 
ate Athletic Council. 

The Brown swimming team met 
the College of the City of New York, 
Jan. 6, and won by a score of 45 
to 17. 

Brown's swimmers were beaten by 
Yale at New Haven, Jan. 25, by a 
score of 41 to 21. Brown won the 
relay in an extremely close finish b\- 
Litchfield! 

Brown's swimmers beat Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute, Jan. 27, b\ a 
score of 43-19. 

The Brown Freshman swimming 
team beat Brookline High School, 32 
to 30, on Jan. 12. 

The Brown Freshman swimming 
team took a dual meet from Moses 
Brown School, Jan. 17, by a score of 
41 to 12. 

The Brown Freshmen lost a swim- 
ming meet to Huntington School of 
Boston, Jan 20, by a score of 30-32. 

In spite of the lack of two tem- 
porarily debarred swimmers, Brown 
beat Wesleyan in the latter's pool, 
Jan. 21, by a score of 42-29. Mer- 
chant of Brown was the star. 

Yale beat Brown at hockey in 
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Providence, 8 to i, Jan. 10. As the 
score shows, the Yale team outclassed 
the home players. 

Harvard beat Brown at hockey 7-0, 
at the Boston Arena, Jan. 18. 

Brown was beaten by New Hamp- 
shire at hockey, 2-3, on Jan. 25. 
Lingham '30 was the star of the 
game. 

The Brown Freshman hockey team 
tied with Technical High School, 2-2, 
Jan. 12. 

Brown '31 beat Cranston High at 
hockey, Jan. 17, by a score of 2 to i. 

The Freshmen beat Moses Brown 
in a track meet at the new gym., Jan. 
27> 44-19. 

From Dr. Faunce 

Editor Broun Alumni Monthly : 

In my last annual report recently 
sent out, I see that I neglected to an- 
nounce one very important gift to the 
University. I should have announced 
that the class of 1902 is collecting a 
fund of $25,000 to be presented to 
the University for certain specified 
purposes. Gifts for that fund are 
coming in this very month and ap- 
parently there is assurance of its com- 
pletion and devotion to important 
uses. Such a gift is most encourag- 
ing and inspiring to all of us on Col- 
lege Hill. 

Sincerely yours, 

If. H. P. Faunce 
Providence, Jan. 18, 1928. 



App 



reciation 



Broun Alumni Monthly: 

The same day that the copy of the 
Alumni Monthly reached me I saved 
a dollar unexpectedly. Happy coin- 
cidence. As that dollar had all been 
allowed for in my extensive ( ? ! ! ) 
budget, I am passing it along to yoii 
for a year's subscription. I have 
never been at a single class reunion 
since I was graduated in 1898. It's 
too far to walk and minister's money 
simply isn't. So the Monthly will be 
a welcome visitor. Wish you had 
sent me one before to prod my mind. 
Wishing you the greatest of success, 
I am Yours sincerely, 

(Rev.) Lester B. Matheivson 'g8 

Hayden, Arizona, 

Oct. 19, 1927 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



Professor A deF. Palmer, on sab- 
batic leave, is working at the Califor- 
nia Institute of Technology- in Pasa- 
dena. In a recent letter to President 
Faunce, he said: "The place is domi- 
nated by the research spirit and every 
one is busy and enthusiastic. In ad- 
dition to attendance upon lectures and 
seminars, I am engaged on a some- 
what intensive mathematical investi- 
gation in the hope of arriving at a 
theoretical explanation of certain ex- 
perimental results I obtained some 
years ago but have had no opportu- 
nity to develop until now." Professor 
Palmer will spend the second semester 
in Germany. 

Professor Theodore Collier of the 
Department of History spoke in 
Worcester, Mass., Jan. 9, on "Tur- 
key in Transformation," and in Bos- 
ton, Jan. 10, on "Our Latin-Ameri- 
can Policy." Professor Collier is 
chairman of the Rhode Island Branch, 
Foreign Policy Association, and is 
active in the work of that body, par- 
ticularly in bringing to Providence 
speakers who can discuss intelligently 
international topics. 

Professor F. K. W. Drury, assist- 
ant librarian of the University, read 
the play, "Adam and Eva," by Guy 
Bolton and George Middleton, at 
the January meeting of the Kalmia 
Club, North Attleboro, Mass. 

At the annual meeting of the 
American Mathematical Society held 
in Nashville, Tenn., during the 
Christmas recess. Professor R. C. 
Archibald was re-elected to the Board 
of Trustees for a three-year term and 
was also named as a vice president 
and Chairman of the Mathematics 
Section, American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. He will 
preside at the New York meetings 
next year and deliver his retiring ad- 
dress at Des Moines, la., in 1929. 
Dean R. G. D. Richardson of the 
Graduate School at the University is 
secretary of the American Mathe- 
matical Society. 

Professor Verner W. Crane of the 
Department of History has become a 
member of the board of editors of the 
Americal Historical Review. Choice 
of Professor Crane for this position 
reflects credit on his ability and on 
the University. The Review is a 
quarterly, the leading publication of 



its kind in the United States. Dr. 
Dana C. Alunro '87, of the Princeton 
Faculty, and Dr. J. Franklin Jame- 
son '14, honorary, are associates of 
Professor Crane on the board. 

Professor A. E. Watson gave an 
illustrated talk on "The First Baptist 
Meeting House" at the annual meet- 
ing of the Rhode Island Historical 
Society on Jan. 10. Professor Wat- 
son, long active in the affairs of the 
church, has made the study of the 
structure and its history one of his 
hobbies, and he knows his subject 
thoroughly and well. 

Professor Walter C. Bronson and 
Mrs. Bronson sailed on Jan. 7 for 
Europe on the steamship France. 
They planned to land at Monaco and 
spend a good part of the winter in 
Menton. Professor Bronson has been 
busy with his writing since his retire- 
ment last June. 

Two members of the Faculty Com- 
mittee on Academic Honors, Profes- 
sor William T. Hastings andProfes- 
sor J. Walter Wilson, visited Swarth- 
more College on November 29 to see 
Swarthmore's Honor System in op- 
eration. The five-year experiment at 
Swarthmore, 1922-27, has recently 
been described in a book by Professor 
Brooks, "Reading for Honors at 
Swarthmore," published by the Amer- 
ican Branch of the Oxford University 
Press. The Honors System at Brown, 
which in some respects closely resem- 
bles that at Swarthmore but allows 
for greater variety in procedure, was 
established in 1920. 

"Banking Theories in the United 
States before i860," by Professor 
Harry E. Miller of the Department 
of Economics, has been published by 
the Harvard University Press as 
Volume 30 of the Harvard Economic 
Studies. Professor Miller traces the 
development of our understanding of 
commercial banking from Colonial 
beginnings down to the Civil War. 
In this early American literature, us- 
ually neglected as sterile, Professor 
Miller has found evidence that cer- 
tain American thinkers had reached 
sound conclusions on not a few mat- 
ters of banking theory before they 
were reached by European writers in 
the field. Particularly acute was 
their analysis of the business cycle. 
Most of the grave evils that attended 
the early practice of banking in Amer- 
ica, the author finds, we had learned 
178 



to overcome at the time of the estab- 
lishment of the National Banking 
System during the Civil War. 

Professor H. E. Farnsworth of the 
Department of Physics attended the 
annual meeting of the American 
Physical Society held in affiliation 
with the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science in Nashville, 
Tenn., during the Christmas recess. 
At one of the sessions, Professor 
Farnsworth read a paper, "Secondary 
Electron Current as a Function of 
Crystal Structure." 

Greenberg Publishers of New 
York have recently put out a trans- 
lation of Friedrich Von Wieser's 
"Social Economics" by Professor A. 
F. Hinrichs of the Department of 
Economics. The original treatise ap- 
peared in Germany in 19 14 and a 
second edition came out in 1924. 
The book is a notable addition to the 
literature of the field because Von 
Wieser was a leader in the so-called 
Austrian School of Economic Theory 
and the only one of the group who 
has attempted a comprehensive treat- 
ise. He was an economist of inter- 
national distinction and his 75th 
birthday in 1926 was the occasion for 
a testimonial publication to which 
many leading American economists 
contributed. He died later in 1926. 
Professor Hinrichs's translation is de- 
signed to make the work more readily 
accessible to American and English 
students. 

Professor Charles W. Brown and 
E. K. Gedney of the Department of 
Geology represented Brown at the 
annual meeting of the Geological So- 
ciety of America in Cleveland, O., 
during the Christmas recess. They 
presented two joint papers, 'A New 
Syenite Occurrence in New England" 
and "Quantitative Spectroscopic 
Analysis of Minerals," and Mr. Ged- 
ney also read a paper of his own on 
unusual minerals from Cumberland 
Hill. Dr. M. E. Hurst, instructor 
in geology, recently had published by 
the Mines Branch, Canadian Geolog- 
ical Survey, a bulletin on "Arsenic 
Ores of Canada." 



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which appeared in the January num- 
ber of the Atlantic Monthly. 
1862 

William Daniel Martin, for forty- 
eight years previous to his retirement 
in 1 91 2 connected with the Manville 
Company and its predecessors and one 
of the oldest of our graduates, died 
in Providence on Jan. 6, 1927. He 
was born in Camden, Ala., Nov. 2, 
1840, the son of William F. and 
Catherine Amanda Martin. He pre- 
pared at Providence High School, re- 
ceived his A. B. on graduation and his 
A. M. in 1865. He entered the em- 
ploy of the Lippitt mill interests 
shortly after he left College Hill and 
remained with them as an accountant 
until he retired July i, 1912. Since 
then he had made his home with his 
son, Frederick R. Martin. He was 
married Nov. 18, 1863, to Adaline 
A. Phillips, who died. His second 
wife was Ida L. Bosworth, his mar- 
riage to her taking place Nov. 28, 
1900. He was a member of Theta 
Delta Chi. 

1866 

Dr. Herbert Cutler Bullard died 
in Lawrence, L I., on Jan. 5, 1928, 
following a brief illness. One of the 
first internes at the Rhode Island 
Hospital, Providence, and for more 
than forty years a practicing physi- 
cian in North Attleboro, Mass., he 
was well-known in southern New 
England in his day. He was born in 
West Medway, Mass., March 25, 
1843, the son of Joseph Newell and 
Sarah (Cutler) Bullard. He pre- 
pared at Phillips Andover, was an 
honor student on the Hill, and after 
graduation became an assistant pro- 
fessor of mathematics and rhetoric at 
the United States Naval Academy. 
He served as interne at the Rhode 
Island Hospital, 1869-70, and in 1870 
commenced practice at North Attle- 
boro. He was married July 18, 1871, 
to Miss Anna L. Hayward of Mil- 
ford, Mass., and upon her death in 
1907 he gave up practice and moved 
to the Isle of Pines, where he de- 
voted his time to agriculture and the 
growing of fruits. He is survived by 
a son, Dr. Newell C. Bullard '94n, 
of North Attleboro, a brother, Mait- 
land, Bullard of Boston, and a grand- 
son, Herbert C. Bullard '27. He was 
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and 
Alpha Delta Phi. 

1878 
Stephen O. Metcalf and his bro- 



ther. United States Senator Jesse H. 
Metcalf '21, honorary, have given 
$200,000 for the building and endow- 
ment of a boys' club in the Branch 
avenue (Wanskuck) district of Prov- 
idence. 

1879 

Rev. Alva E. Carpenter has con- 
cluded his duties as rector of St. 
Peter's Episcopal Church, Manton, 
R. I., and has taken the chair of 
church history in the Church Army 
Training School which was recently 
opende at the Bishop McVickar 
House, Providence. Carpenter served 
for 25 years at St. Peter's and has 
been an active and important figure 
in the life of the Diocese of Rhode 
Island. 

1880 

Rev. Frederick J. Walton, accord- 
ing to the Church Militant, "has 
been ordered by his physician to give 
up work entirely for the present and 
rest for a long period. His retire- 
ment from the Cathedral Church of 
St. Paul (Boston), where he has 
been since 1910, comes as a genuine 
loss to the parish." 

Prescott O. Clarke has retired 
from the firm of Clarke and Howe, 
architects, after thirty-one years of 
practice of his profession. During 
this period he designed, with his as- 
sociates, four of the public schools of 
Providence, six buildings for St. 
George's School, Newport, the Rhode 
Island Country Club, Rhode Island 
Medical Society building, the Nurses' 
Home, Rhode Island Hospital, Prov- 
idence Post Office, Providence Gas 
Company and New England Tele- 
phone Company buildings, Citizens' 
and People's Savings Banks, and the 
Arnold Biological Laboratory and the 
Engineering Building on the campus, 
and the new gymnasium. Clarke has 
also drawn the plans for many beau- 
tiful houses in and about Providence. 



Charles Evans Hughes was the 
leader of the American delegation to 
the Sixth International Conference of 
American States, held in Havana last 
month. Colonel Noble B. Judah '04, 
new American Ambassador to Cuba, 
was a member of the delegation by 
reason of his official position. 
1882 

Dr. William H. Tolman, author 
and traveller, has been awarded the 
Cross of the Knight of the Czecho- 
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previously decorated by Czechoslo- 
vakia for his social work in the coun- 
try following the World War. His 
book, "Hygiene for the Worker," 
has been translated into the Czech 
language. 



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^ViIliaITl Harris's address, the 
Alumni Office has been informed, is 
P. O. Box 90, Tyrone, New Mexico. 
Harris is engaged in civil and mining 
engineering in Tyrone. 

1884 
Pneumonia claimed Charles Lewis 
Balcer at his home in Fall River, 
Mass., on Jan. 7, 1928. He was a 
member of the law firm of Baker, 
Seagrave and Terry (Carl A. Terry 
'15) at the time of his death. He 
was born in Fall River Aug. 22, 
1862, the son of Charles Andrew and 
Melissa D. (Harding) Baker. He 
came to Brown from the Fall River 
High School, received his A. B. with 
the class and his A. M. in 1886. He 
studied law at Boston LTniversity 
Law School and was admitted to the 
Alassachusetts bar in 1888. He com- 
menced practice with Milton Reed 
and later joined forces with the late 
Edward A. Thurston '93. For many 
years he served as public administra- 
tor. A quiet, modest citizen, his 
whole interest was in the law and the 
Central Congregational Church, of 
which he was a member. He also be- 
longed to the American, Massachu- 
setts and Bristol County Bar Associ- 
ations. His only survivor is his sis- 
ter. Miss Mary A. Baker. 

1890 
Edward C. Stiness, for 28 years 
secretary of the Rhode Island Board 
of Bar Examiners, has been elected 
chairman of the board to succeed 
Frank L. Hinckley '91, resigned. 
The new secretary is Chauncey E. 
Wheeler '09. 

1893 

Edward B. Aldrich was elected 
last month chairman of the Warwick, 
R. I., Water Supply Board which is 
expected soon to undertake the instal- 
lation of a new water works for the 
town. 

The Alumni Office recently re- 
ceived a welcome letter from Frank 
Grant Lewis, librarian of Crozer 
Theological Seminary and. the Amer- 
ican Baptist Historical Society, Ches- 
ter. Pa. Lewis is planning to come 
to the reunion next June. 

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's new 
experiment in education is evidently 
making progress at the Universitv of 
Wisconsin. The Associated Press 
carried a story about the Meiklejohn 
school not long ago, giving the favor- 
able comments of several students on 
the project. 



The New Commen'cemexi 
Week 

Thursday, June 14 

Senior Dance, Women's Col- 
lege. 

Friday, June 75 

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 ly 

Baccalaureate Sermon. 

Monday, June 18 

Commencement. 
Commencement Luncheon. 
Baseball. 

Fraternity Receptions. 
President's Reception. 
Tuesday, June ig 
Meeting, Board of Trustees. 



Plans for the 35 th Reunion of the 
class are under way, so A. C. Matte- 
son reported unofficially a few weeks 
ago. 

1894 
"Latin-America — Men and Mar- 
kets," the new book by Clayton 
Sedg\vick Cooper, was characterized 
as being of "special value to consular 
officers and foreign trade managers" 
by a reviewer in the December num- 
ber of The Grace Log, published by 
W. R. Grace & Co. "xMr. Cooper 
is animated by the desire to promote 
clearer understanding of the main 
characteristics of Latin American bus- 
iness men and a better knowledge of 
the trade relationships which exist be- 
tween the United States and Latin 
America." 

1896 
Rev. Henry F. Huse has become 
pastor of the North Haven Baptist 
Church, North Haven, Me. His 
new location is an island community 
off the coast of Maine, an hour's sail 
from Rockland. Huse goes to a new 
church and a new parsonage and we 
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wish him real success as he begins his 
duties. 

Frederick A. Jones is the new 
chairman of the Narragansett Chap- 
ter of the Appalachian Mountain 
Club. 

1897 
Professor Gregory D. Walcott of 
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., 
is general editor of a series of 
"Source Books in the History of the 
Sciences." which "will present the 
most important contributions of the 
most eminent scientists from the Ren- 
aissance to the present. Seven differ- 
ent fields of science, philosophy, chem- 
istry, physics, astronomy, anthropol- 
ogy, mathematics, zoology and ge- 
ology, are being covered, and the plan 
is to bring out at least one volume 
each year. The first volume on astron- 
omy, under supervision of Professor 
Harlow Shapley of Harvard, will be 
ready for publication within the next 
few months. The work is being done 
through the medium of the American 
Philosophical Association with money 
granted by the Carnegie Corporation. 
Sanford K. Gurney's younger .son, 
Richard Carver Gurney, a Senior at 
the LTniversity, will go to Oxford 
University next fall as the Rhodes 
Scholar from Rhode Island. "Dick" 
expects to specialize in English at 
Oxford. By a mental slip, the Jan- 
uary number of the Alumni Monthly 
gave his father's name as Preston D. 
Gurney. The editor has graciously 
apologized to the Alumni Office for 
that slip. 

News of the death of Charlie Clift 
in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., his home, on 
Jan. 9, 1928, came as a profound 
shock to his classmates, especially to 
the ones who saw him and talked with 
him at the Reunion last June. He 
was born Charles Eugene Clift in 
Middletown Springs, Vt.. March 9, 
1870, the son of Henry K. and Enie- 
line (Ogden) Clift. He prepared at 
that good old pro-Brown school, Ver- 
mont Academy, and received his de- 
gree of A. B. on the Hill with the 
class. During his college days he be- 
came interested in the Y. M. C. A., 
and after graduation went to the 
New Bedford "Y" as secretary. He 
remained in the position about 'two 
years. Then came opportunity to 
join the F. W. Woolworth organiza- 
tion, which he accepted. He got his 
early training in the Woolworth 
store in New Bedford. He also 
worked in the stores in Waterbury, 
Conn., and Boston, and finallv re- 



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ceived promotion to assistant office 
manager for the company in New 
England. Then he was transferred 
to Pennsylvania and in 1920 was 
made district office manager for Penn- 
sylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, 
Delaware and the District of Colum- 
bia. He resigned in 1925, at which 
time newspapers carried a sensational 
story that he had given up "a job pay- 
ing $125,000 a year to take on a 
$3,000 city job." The statement was 
far from the fact, and it caused Clift 
embarassment as well as amusement. 
The truth is that he was elected to 
the Wilkes-Barre City Council while 
he was absent from the city. And, 
as he wrote Alumni Secretary Gur- 
ney, he had no intention of "helping 
everybody, as the papers said. By liv- 
ing modestly, I hope to be able to 
meet my bills, and I plan to be very 
human and reasonably selfish, at least 
for a year or two. After that, I have 
no plans." He was married June 26, 
igo2, to Miss Grace Warner Glines, 
and she and two sons and two daugh- 
ters survive him. He was a member 
of Alpha Tau Omega. A good friend, 
a sturdy citizen and genial companion, 
we shall miss him. 

Sidney D. Humphrey of the Mar- 
tin-Copeland Co., manufacturing jew- 
elers, Providence, has been chosen as 
a director for four years of the Na- 
tional Jewelers Board of Trade. 

George L. Miner is the new chair- 
man of the civil affairs committee of 
the Providence Chamber of Com- 
merce. Miner has long been active 
in safety council work in his native 
city. 

Dr. Carl Russell Fish, Professor 
of History, University of Wisconsin, 
has recently had published, "The 
Rise of the Common Man,' which is 
volume six in the Macmillan series, 
"A History of American Life." Fish 
tells the story of the growth of the 
West, and the new appreciation of 
the rights of the common man. 



David L. Fultz, member of the 
Athletic Council of the University, 
was elected president of the Football 
Officials Association at the meeting 
held in New York in December. 

Joe Taylor is back on the job at 
Chengtu, West China, doing his best 
to conciliate the partisans of three 
warring Governments and at the 
same time to carry on his educational 
and religious work. "The taxes for 
1929 have been collected at least once 
in this province and will be collected 
again," he wrote some time ago. The 
great need of China, as Joe sees it — 
and sees it clearly — is for a strong 
leader who can "bring this senseless 



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Would that he might arise and hring 
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John B. Tingley, who has been 
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and at the same time conducting an 
electrical supply business in Green 
Bay, Wis., for a number of years, has 
shifted his base to Chicago where he 
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vice chairman of the school board, 
Worcester, Mass., and in his place is 
Wiley H. Marble '12, President of 
the Associated Alumni. Clough, 
Marble and Albert Farnsworth '10 
constitute the Brown delegation on 
the board. The Worcester Telegram 
reported that "the Clough retirement 
and the Marble elevation are under- 
stood to have been the result of pres- 
sure, in which the agreeable Demo- 
crats, aided by the two Republicans, 
achieved the transformation." 
1900 
Austin H. Fittz has become presi- 
dent of the newly organized Webber 
College, Babson Park, Fla., founded 
by Mrs. Roger W. Babson. The 
Boston Globe describes it as " a col- 
lege for women, incorporated in 
Florida and conducted for the pur- 
pose of giving women an intensive 
training in the fundamentals of busi- 
ness." Fittz has been connected with 
the Babson Institute, department of 
finance, for the past eight years. 
1 901 
Dr. David C. Hall will represent 
Brown at the inauguration of Mat- 
thew Lyle Spencer as president of the 
University of Washington, Seattle, on 
Feb. 22. Hall is Professor of Hygi- 
ene and University Health Officer at 
the University of Washington. Two 
other Brown men are on the Faculty 
with him. Dr. William B. Savery, 
Professor of Philosophy, and Dr. 
Herbert E. Cory, Professor of Eng- 
lish. 

Don LeStage's son, Donald, Jr., 
(and a good baseball player like his 
father, so they say) is a student this 
year at the Hill School down in Penn- 
sylvania. 

Dr. Albert L. Midgley has been 
chosen as a member ot fhe National 
Board of Dental Examiners, which is 
nationwide in scope and which will 
give certificates to successful candi- 
dates that will enable them to prac- 
tice in any State in which the author- 
ities accept the standard of the board. 
Midgley is also secretary of the Rhode 
Island Board of Registration in Den- 
tistry. 

Amos L. Taylor is President of the 
new Belmont Trust Company, Bel- 
mont, Mass., which received its char- 
ter last September, with authority to 
open in December. It has begun bus- 
iness with a capital of $100,000 and 
a surplus paid in by stockholders of 
$20,cxxx The entire stock is held 
within the town of Belmont. Our 
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wish for the success of the new en- 
terprise of which Taylor is the head 
is a hearty one. 

1902 

Rev. Anthony H. Dexter, formerly 
priest-in-charge of St. Simon's Episco- 
pal Church, San Fernandino, Cal., 
was recently called to St. Andrew's 
Church, Fullerton, Cal., and he and 
his family are now living at 300 
Jacaranda ave., Fullerton. Dexter 
was at San Fernandino for nearly 
eight years. 

L. L. Drury and Jerry Holmes 
are represented at Mt. Hermon 
School by their sons, Charles R. 
Drury and Jerry A. Holmes. Drury, 
pere, is Alumni Secretary at Mt. 
Hermon, and last month we found 
real interest in reading his annual re- 
port. 

1903 

Edward J. McCaffrey was re-elect- 
ed last month a member of the Board 
of Police Commissioners, Providence, 
and for his sixth consecutive three- 
year term. McCaffrey is the only 
Democrat on the Board. 

Marc T. Greene, former member 
of the class, was the author of an ar- 
ticle, "Are the Japanese Dangerous?" 
which appeared in the December is- 
sue of Plain Talk, a new magazine of 
consuming interest. Greene is at 
present making a tour of the world, 
taking notes and writing as he pro- 
ceeds leisurely on the course he has 
set for himself. 

1904 

Houghton Metcalf's new house ad- 
dress is Sierra Madre and Wabash 
Roads, Glendora, Cal. 

Frederic William Wile, newspaper 
syndicate writer on political topics, 
had this to say not long ago about 
Noble Judah: "The Chicago soldier- 
lawyer owes his appointment as Am- 
bassador to Cuba in no small degree 
to the circumstance that he has been 
a student of the Spanish language and 
literature for more than twenty years. 
Judah's law practice has taken him 
regularly to Latin American coun- 
tries. . . . He is the possessor of a 
comfortable fortune, partially inher- 
ited from his maternal grandfather, 
the late B. P. Hutchinson of the Chi- 
cago Board of Trade. During the 
gay '90s, 'Old Hutch' was the wheat 
king of Chicago." 

1905 
W. J. Lamkie is the new e.xecutive 
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tractors of America, with his office 
at 30 Martina ave., White Plains, 
N. Y. Bill has two sons, Robert and 
William, Jr., at Mt. Hermon School, 
from which he himself came to 
Brown. 

1906 

Hume Flagler, formerly represent- 
ative of the Stevens Yarn Co., in 
New England, has become affiliated 
with the Crown IVLmufacturing Co., 
Pawtucket, R. L 

Richard D. Tucker's new house 
address is 45 Howard St., West 
Bridgewater, Mass. Dick is super- 
intendent of schools in the towns of 
West Bridgewater and Raynham. 

1907 

Claude R. Branch is the new Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Historical 
Society, having been elected at the an- 
nual meeting on Jan. 10, 1928. 

Pat Brooks of Taunton, Mass., 
was a Providence visitor shortly after 
the Christmas holidays, and when he 
heard that Bill Reynolds was building 
a new public golf course on the out- 
skirts of Providence, he immediately 
engaged himself to help Bill open the 
course auspiciously about the middle 
of next summer. 

Charlie Stark's new house address 
is 3000 44th Place, N. W., Washmg- 
ton, D. C. Charlie is with Bon- 



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Rathbone, is a member of the Fresh- 
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1908 

Elmer J. Bunting has left Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., where he has been with 
the L. C. Smith & Corona Tj'pewri- 
ters. Inc., to settle in Oakland, Cal., 
in which city he will be with the 
Marchant Calculating Machine Co. 

A. R. Evans, superintendent of 
schools in Corbin, Ky., is planning to 
attend the 20th Reunion next June. 
"Only something in the way of emer- 
gency shall pre\ent my coming," he 
wrote Jim Hall recently. 

Dr. W. H. Seymour, recently re- 
ported missing by the Alumni Office, 
has turned up safe and cheerful at 
the U. S. Veterans Hospital No. 62, 
Augusta, Ga., where he is psychia- 
trist. 

Rev. Charles Francis Potter, for- 
mer member of the class, has suc- 
ceeded Rev. Joseph Fort Newton as 
minister of the Church of the Divine 
Paternity, New York. 

C. H. Griffith is director of sales 
promotion for the Pure Oil Co., 35 
East Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. 
"Griff" wrote recently: "If I don't 
get caught in a machine gun barrage, 
I expect to attend the 20th Reunion 
of good old '08 next June." He also 
admitted that he liked his work and 
that he was covering as his territory 
Indiana, Ohio "and points East — also 
go to Minneapolis frequently." 

Replies continue to come from men 
planning to attend the 20th Reunion 
next June, and these names are to be 
added to the twenty-three noted in 
the last issue of the Monthly : Burn- 
ham, Chipman, Densmore, Evans, 
Griffith, Gfinnell, Hunkins, Mar- 
shall and Hunter IMarston. These 
men have written that they hope to 
be on hand : J. C. McDonald, Olsen, 
Paine, Stacy, Whittemore. The Re- 
union Committee met after this par- 
agraph was sent to the printer and 
discussed the work of following up 
men who ha\e not replied to the first 
letters. 

1 909 

E. L. Chandler, who has been in 
Texas the past year on a hydro-elec- 
tric power job, has finished his work 
and, in a letter to the Alumni Office, 
says that his next stopping place will 
probably be in Michigan. "I have 
quite enjoyed being down here," he 
added. "It is a great country. Not 
so very far removed from the davs of 
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bad men and quick justice, either. I 
have seen more guns in the past year 
than I ever expected to see in civil 
life in a lifetime. The people are 
fine, though, and the cities are 
strictly up to the mark." Chandler's 
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1911 
We wonder how Courtland Mudge 
dared go back to the University ot 
Cah'fornia last month after what the 
Providence papers quoted him as say- 
ing about California and its climate. 
Mudge. home on a vacation, told a 
Providence Journal interviewer that 
it wasn't all sunshine in his adopted 
State and that cold weather actually 
did exist there, "in spite of the fact 
that it rarely gains prominent news 
mention or official recognition from 
the booster organizations." 

John A. Anderson has been elected 
assistant manager of the Statistical 
Department, Rhode Lsland Hospital 
Trust Co., Providence. John has 
been with the company since gradua- 
tion, except when he received leave 
of absence for army service in 191 8. 
1913 

Walter Garrett reports that his 
home address is 4 Lake St., Whitney- 
ville. Conn. He is in the transpor- 
tation department of the New Haven 
railroad. 

Spring Glen, one of the newer 
suburbs of New Haven, Conn., is re- 
ported in the New Haven Journal 



CAMBRIDGE 
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AXD 

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FOR BOYS 

WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS. 

Junior College Department is for 
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faulty preparation. We prepare 
them either to re-enter college 
or for a business career. College 
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 colleges. 
Individual instruction. Boys 
taught how to study. 

W. Garrett Conant (Brown), 
President 



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Courier to be planning a new church 
of which the directing pastor is Rev 
B. Malcolm Harris. "There are 
many families in this beautiful dis 
trict of cultivation and church tradi 
tion who will doubtless sense the op 
portunity of place of worship for 
themselves and their families. The 
thought is of a community church,' 
said the Journal Courier editorially 

Fred C. Williams has been elected 
city engineer of Pawtucket, R. I. For 
the past four years Fred has had 
charge of the construction of Paw- 
tucket's new reservoir at Arnolds 
Mills, near the Massachusetts line. 

Jim Readio has sold out his com- 
pany, the Tar Products Corporation, 
to the American Tar Products Com- 
pany, which has its head offices in 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Jim is still con- 
nected with his old concern as director 
and vice president, but is actually en- 



gaged in a national managerial ca- 
pacity with the owning company. 
His home address continues to be 162 
Albert ave., Edgewood, R. I. 
1915 

Russ Burwell's new business ad- 
dress is 809 Cuyahoga bldg., Cleve- 
land, O. He is President of the Con- 
tinental Shares Co., Inc. 

William G. Thurber was elected 
last month to the Board of Fire Com- 
missioners of Providence, succeeding 
Everett J. Horton '02. The fight for 
the place was as bitter as any that has 
been waged in Providence in years, 
ill had the support of all regular Re- 
publicans, so called. 

Rev. Wallace L. Gallup has begun 
his duties for the fourth consecutive 
year as pastor of the Second Congre- 
gational Church, Stonington, Conn. 
Gallup is also a member of the fac- 
ulty of Connecticut College for 
Women, New London, Conn. 
1916 

Harry Burton became vice presi- 
dent and agent of Slater Mills, Inc., 
Webster, Mass., the first of the 
month. Harry was superintendent of 
one of the units of Nashawena Mills, 
New Bedford, Mass., when his new 
place was oflered him. 
1917 

Ralph Denison is still construction 
engineer with the Standard Oil Com- 
pany, stationed at Shanghai, China. 
Denny expects to make his second 
trip back to the homeland sometime 
during 1928. He has been in 
Shanghai since early in 1922. And 
note this: He was married to Miss 
Marguerite Uhler of Wrangell, 
Alaska, on Easter Sunday, 1926. 

Joe Maguire, editor of the history 
of Phi Kappa at Brown, was publicly 
thanked in a recent issue of The Tem- 
ple, the fraternity magazine, by the 
undergraduates of the Brown chap- 
ter. "Jos has always been one of our 
most loyal alumni and there have been 
few if any men in the past ten years 
who did not know him person- 
ally. ... A gentleman, a scholar 
and a true friend." We can see Joe 
blushing like the modest chap that he 
is as he read these deserved words. 
1919 

Arthur J. Levy is continuing to 
practice law at 1004 Union Trust 
bldg., Providence, following the re- 
moval of the copartnership of Lyman 
and McDonnell (T. F. I. McDon- 
nell '91) from the offices at this num- 
ber. 



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Roger Clapp, Watson Smith, Ed 
Lanpher and Fred Perkins had speak- 
ing parts in the annual Christmas 
play at the University Club, Provi- 
dence. The piece, "July and Decem- 
ber, was the work of F. W. Arnold, 
Jr., '98. 

1920 

Walter ]\L Burse was admitted to 
membership in the law firm of Lyne, 
Woodworth & Evarts, Sears bldg., 
Boston, Mass., on Jan. i, 1928. 

Doc Armstrong is district traffic 
superintendent on Staten Island for 
the New York Telephone Co. Doc, 
however, still hangs his hat at 192 
Elm ave., in his beloved Rahwav, 
N. J. 

John Winthrop DeWolf, Jr., has 
become associated with C. L. 
Vaughan & Co., 206 Turks Head 
bldg., Providence, in the retail invest- 
ment department. 

Walter Hoving, one of the best 
football centres we've had at Brown 
in the last ten years — and we have 
had some good ones — is going right 
along in the business world. Walter 
was recently appointed an executive 
vice president and merchandise coun- 
cillor of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., re- 
tail dry goods. New York. He will 
be "specially identified," the New 
York World said, "with the merchan- 
dising of the men's departments of the 
store." 

1921 

W. B. Robinson is a chemist with 
the Taunton Oilcloth Co., Taunton, 
Mass. 

Edward G. O'Connor has passed 
the Rhode Island bar examinations 
and has been admitted to practice in 
Providence. Eddie is in the office 
with his father, E. D. V. O'Con- 
nor '92. 

1922 

Dick Morrissey, last heard from in 
California, is now in Indianapolis, 
Ind., as special representative of the 
National Cash Register Co. Dick's 
home address is 104 Salem ave., Day- 
ton, O. 

George H. Webb, Jr., has re- 
turned to Providence to practice law 
with Baker & Spicer (A. A. Baker 
'84, W. A. Spicer '05) at 704 Indus- 
trial Trust bldg. 

Charlie Mangan was one of the 
few successful candidates to pass the 
Rhode Island bar examinations given 
in Providence last fall. 



1923 
Skillman Myers reports that he is 
director of boys' work, South End 
House, 20 Union Park, Boston. 

Jack Applegate was sworn in as a 
member of the New Jersey bar on 
Jan. 12. Jack took his law degree at 
Columbia in 1926 and since then has 
been with the firm of Lindabury, De- 
pue & Faulks in Newark, N. J. He 
is now affiliated with J. W. Rufus 
Besson in Hoboken, N. J. 

Al Curry has passed his bar exami- 
nations in Rhode Island and has com- 
menced the practice of law in Provi- 
dence. He received his LL.B. at 
Yale Law School last June. Jack 
O'Neill (of Pawtucket) is also one 
of the new members of the Rhode 
Island bar. 

1924 

Wes Hayward, Class Agent for 
the Alumni Loyalty Fund, has asked 
us to print a note to urge every man 
in the class to get behind the work 
of putting '24 nearer the top in the 
Loyalty Fund standing. About 30 
per cent, of the class have contributed 
so far. Why not more? Small 
amounts are as welcome as large ones. 
Make your check payable to the 
Brown Alumni Loyalty Fund and 
send it along as soon as you can. Let's 
put '24 on top! 

The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate 
reports that A. F. DeMilia "has suc- 
cessfully passed his examination for 
entrance into the medical branch of 
the U. S. Navy, with the commission 
of junior lieutenant." 

Sam Willard is a member of the 
sales force of the Congoleum-Nairn 
Co., with his business address at 1421 
Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 

Anybody heard from Micky Webb 
lately? The last we heard of him 
was a report that he was happily mar- 
ried and was working as a practical 
farmer up in West Brookfield, Mass. 
1925 

Bob Rockefeller is a statistician in 
the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 
New York and is living at 125 West 
17th St., in that growing city. 

Bill Lyons is assistant manager 
with the S. S. Kresge Co., Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Paul Hayden is working for the 
Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co., 
and his house address at present is 11 
South Lake ave., Albany, N. Y. 

Jack Keefer, we hear, is all-year 
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coach at Steele High School, Dayton, 
O. As soon as Jack finished the foot- 
ball season, he turned to basketball. 
In the spring he will teach his boys 
some of the fine points he has learned 
in baseball. 

1926 

Ken Corlew is working for the 
Lowell Electric Light Corporation 
and getting his mail at 47 Mount 
View ave., Lowell, Mass. 

Bill Robotham, member of the 
staff of the accident department. 
Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford, 
Conn., was recently made an assistant 
underwriter for the company. He 
and Mrs. Robotham (we report his 
marriage elsewhere in this issue) are 
living at 171 South Whitney St., 
Hartford. 

John Hunt, former member of the 
University basketball team and di- 
rector of the Stevens Memorial Insti- 
tute, Ludlow, Mass., is coaching the 
basketball five at Ludlow High 
School this winter. 

1927 

Art Haynes is studying medicine at 
the Universitv of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill, N. C. 

Franklin (Felix) Elmer, who 
spent the summer touring Europe on 
a bicycle, climbed Mont Blanc in 
France just for diversion and then 
wrote an excellent piece describing 
the climb which we have read with 
interest and pleasure in a copy of the 
Hamilton, N. Y., Republican, pre- 
sumably sent us by the author. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Jack Warren is a student at Tufts 
College Medical School, Medford, 
Mass. 

John Munroe modestly subscribes 
to the fact that he is a public account- 
ant with Price, Waterhouse & Co., 
60 State St., Boston, and that he re- 
ceives his mail at 25 Orchard St., Pea- 
body, Mass. 

ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Clara Wilhelmine Maertens, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William 
Maertens, to W. Chester Beard '20 
of South Attleboro, Mass. 

Miss Hope Rawson, daughter of 
Mrs. Henry G. H. Rawson, to Hor- 
ace B. Pray '22, member of the Fac- 
ulty. Miss Rawson, graduate of 
Smith College '22, received an ad- 
vanced degree at Brown in 1924. 

Miss Harriet Walden Inman, 
daughter of Charles M. Inman, to 
Laurence S. Day '22 of Melrose, 
Mass. 

Miss Alfhild Gustavson, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gustavson of 
Montclair, N. J., to Alfred C. Gie- 
now '26 of River Edge, N. J. 

Miss Anna De Bucci, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Felix De Bucci, to 
Fred Sciotti '26 of Providence. 

Miss Harriet Hunter, daughter ot 
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hunter of 
Bridgeport, Conn., to Reginald W. 
Ray '27 of Bradford, Mass. Miss 
Hunter is a graduate of National 
Park Seminary, Washington, D. C. 

Miss Hope Thornton '25, Wom- 




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en's College, to A. Royal Tillinghast 
'25n of Providence. Miss Thornton 
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- 
ert Edward Thornton of Pawtuxet 
Neck, R. I. 

Miss Eris AI. Pearson, daughter ot 
Mr. and Mrs. John Pearson, to Al- 
bert O. Lundin '23 of Providence. 

Miss Elizabeth Martyn, daughter 
of Mrs. Elizabeth Martyn of Castine, 
Me., to R. Kenneth Bailey '27 of 
Trenton, N. J. 

Miss Katharine Brown, daughter 
of Henry Collins Brown of Hastings- 
on-Hudson, N. Y., to James H. Bar- 
rett '24. Miss Brown is a graduate 
of Wellesley College, '24. 

WEDDINGS 

Faculty — Percy Marks, former in- 
structor in English, and author of 
"The Plastic Age" and other novels, 
and Miss Margaret Ellen Gates were 
married in Gardena, Cal., on Dec. 7, 
1927. They are at home at 2414 
Telegraph ave., Berkeley, Cal. : 

191 1 — Earle F. Bliss and Miss 
Margaret Perkins, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Herbert Farrington Per- 
kins, were married at the home of the 
bride's parents in Chicago on Dec. 
21, 1927. They are at home at 985 
Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass. 

i922n — Joseph C. Derochie and 
Miss Margaret Agnes Mahon, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Ma- 
hon, were married in Newark, N. J., 
on Dec. 12, 1927. They are living 
at 64 Glenwood ave., Jersev City, 
N. J. 

I924n — George P. Merchant and 
Miss Margaret Lydia Arnold, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Manning Ar- 
nold, were married in Woonsocket, 
R. I., on Jan; 14, 1928. They are 
making their home in Gloucester, 
Mass. 

1925 — Arthur F. McGinn and 
Miss Mary E. Smith, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Terence Smith, were 
married in Providence on Dec. 31, 
1927. They will make their home 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1926 — William F. Robotham of 
Unionville, Conn., and Miss Annabel 
Howarth '24, Women's College, 
were married in Providence on Oct. 
3, 1927. They are living at 171 South 
Whitney st., Hartford, Conn. 

I927n — Robert P. Brown, Jr., son 
of the late Col. Robert P. Brown '71 
and Mrs. Brown of Providence, and 
Mi.ss Annabelle Josephine Garrett, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 



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H. Garrett, were married in St. 
Louis, Mo., on Dec. 31, 1927. The 
younger Brown took his degree at the 
L'niversity of Iowa last June. 

BIRTHS 

1908 — To Mr. and Mrs. George 
Wyman Carroll, Jr., of Norwich, 
Conn., a daughter, Marie Louise, on 
Nov. 4, 1927. 

1910— To Mr. and Mrs. Alex W. 
Muir of Trenton, N. J., a daughter, 
Barbara Ann, on Dec. 22, 1927. 

191 1 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harry 
Robinson Howe of Mansfield, Mass., 
a son, Richard Hildreth, on Dec. 25, 
1927. 

1912 — To Mr. and Mrs. Milledge 
M. Purdy of Rye, N. Y., a daughter, 
Dorcas, on Nov. 26, 1927. Mrs. 
Purdy was Ruth Ryther '13, Wo- 
men's College. 

1913 — To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan 
Langdon of Providence, a son, Dun- 
can Langdon, Jr., on Jan. 7, 1928. 

19 1 4 — To Mr. and Mrs. Howard 
R. Perrin of Klamath Falls, Oregon, 
a son, William Randolph, on Oct. 
14, 1927. 

191 5— To Mr. and Mrs. William 

C. Crolius of Orange, N. J., a son, 
Peter Clarkson, on Jan. 4, 1928. 

1916 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald 

D. Curtis of Providence, a son, Jud- 
son Blake, on Jan. 10, 1928. 

1920— To Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. 
Denison of Newark, N. J., a son, 
James Tillinghast, on Dec. 4, 1927. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
H. Henshaw of West Hartford, 
Conn., a son, Wallace H. Henshaw, 
Jr., on Dec. 26, 1927. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
H. Henshaw of West Hartford, 
Conn., a son, Wallace Howard Hen- 
shaw, Jr., on Dec. 26, 1927. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. Abraham 

E. Pobirs of Providence, a son, Allen 
Justin, on Dec. 15, 1927. 



All! 



mnae 



The second annual Alumnae Coun- 
cil meeting is to be held on February 
lO-ii. Dean Morriss will entertain 
at dinner on Friday, Feb. 10. The 
business meeting will be held in 
Alumnae Hall on Saturday morning, 
followed by a bulifet luncheon and an 
informal tea in the afternoon. 

The biennial banquet of the Alum- 



nae Association of Brown University 
is to be held in the auditorium of 
Alumnae Hall on Feb. 11. All 
alumnae are urged to come to the tea 
in the afternoon in the Alumnae 
Room, or to come to the banquet 
early so that they may have plenty 
of time for chatting and "reuning" 
with other alumnae in our new head- 
quarters. 

1899 
Mrs. Charles M. Bagwell (Ger- 
trude Edna Millard) died in Wins- 
ton-Salem, N. C, on Jan. 10, 1928. 
She had been living in Winston-Salem 
since her marriage to Mr. Bagwell, 
who is with the R. J. Reynolds To- 
bacco Co. She was born in Provi- 
dence, Dec. 17, 1875, the daughter of 
Frank H. and Sarah (Thomas) Mil- 
lard. She came to college from English 
High School and prepared herself to 
teach. Previous to her marriage, she 
taught in the schools in Hope Valley, 
R. I., Hyannis and Cottage City, 
Mass. Since her removal to Wins- 
ton-Salem, following her marriage on 
Sept. 12, 1905, she had been active 
in club and church affairs in that city. 
She is surivved by her husband and 
three sons and two daughters. 

1907 
Blanche Crapo is circulation man- 
ager of the Reader's Digest. Her 
address is the Reader's Digest Associ- 
ation, Inc., Grandview Circle, Pleas- 
antville, N. Y. 

1911 

Mrs. Beth Hughes Browne is on a 

year's furlough from Jamshedpur, 

Bengal, India. She is living on 87 

North Fremont ave., Bellevue, Pa. 

1920 
Avis Pillsbury is at McGill Uni- 
versity Library School, Montreal, 
Canada. 

1922 
Katherine Colton is director of 
Physical Education in the Rhode Is- 
land College of Education. 

1923 
Frances M. Wright is teaching 
mathematics at Elmira College, El- 
mira, N. Y. It is a coincidence that 
she is successor to Frances W. 
Wright '19. The latter is studying 
at Radcliffe and the New England 
Conservatory of Music. 

1924 
Katherine Johnson and Myrtle 
Hodkins are second lieutenants in the 
Army Nurse Corps and are on the 



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staff of the Army School of Nursing. 
Mildred Carlen is Registrar of the 
Graduate School of Brown Univer- 
sity. 

BROWN DIRECTORY 

ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD 

Consulting Highway Engineer 

Highway Transport Consultant 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 

Mich. 

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ABBOTT, FAUNTLEROY, CUL- 

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Attorneys at Law 

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Building 

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Abbott '15 

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Attorney at Law 
312 Howard Building, 171 Westmin- 
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PERRY and SAUNDERS 

Counsellors at Law 

185 Devonshire street, Boston, Mass. 

Joseph Earl Perry, Williams; Albert 

L. Saunders, Brown 1902 



Winship 
Teachers' 
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ALVIN F. PEASE 

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

DRUGS 

Chemicals and Medicines 

Electric Batteries 
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1925 

Evelyn Giusti is a social case work- 
er at the Boston City Hospital. 

Catherine Black is with the Rhode 
Island Children's Bureau — (not the 
State Home and School ; there has 
been no placing-out department there 
for a year and a half). 
1927 

Grace Corbet is at Jordan-Marsh 
Training School. 

Aileen Terry is working at Chand- 
ler's. 

Florence Fortin is a student at Bos- 
ton University. 

I927n 

Henrietta Cipriano is studying 
medicine at the Women's Medical 
College of Pennsylvania. 

ENGAGEMENTS 

William H. Avery announces the 
engagement of his daughter, Helen 
Brown Avery, '23, Women's College, 
to Leon Hughes Hetherington. Miss 
Avery is now an instructor at Welles- 
ley College. 

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Taber of 
Phillips St. announce the engagement 
of their daughter, Mildred Taber, sp. 
'22, Women's College, to Dr. Samuel 
Adelson of Newport. 

The engagement has been an- 
nounced of Doris Anthony '24, Wo- 
men's College, to Arthur Frederick 
Ballou. 

WEDDINGS 

I9i9n, Women's College — Marjo- 
rie Leonard was married to Edgar L. 
Ritchie on August 8, 1927. Mr. and 
Mrs Ritchie live on Shore Road, 
Perry, Me. 

1924, Women's College — Marion 
Lennon was married to Savery F. 
Coneybear in October and has lately 
left for California. 

1927, Women's College — Marga- 
ret Lewis was married to Ralph H. 
Nay on December 13, 1927. Mr. and 
Mrs. Nay are living at 37-42 8oth 
St., Apt. 613, Jackson Heights, Long 
Island. 

BIRTHS 
1906, Women's College — To ]Mr. 
and Mrs. John Cronin of Watertown, 
Mass., a daughter, Jean, on Aug. 2, 
1927. Mrs. Cronin was Emma ]\Ic- 
Kenna. 

1910, adv — To Mr. and Mrs. Jo- 
seph S. Davis of Stanford L'niversity, 
190 



a son, Robert Danielson, on Oct. 20, 
1927. Mrs Davis was Florence Dan- 
ielson. She received her A. M. in 
1910, and taught biology in the Wo- 
men's College for several years. 

1912, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. John Alfred Wells of New 
Brunswick, N. J., a son, John Alfred 
Wells, Jr., on Dec. 22, 1927. Mrs. 
Wells was Anne P. Borland. 

1913, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. Milledge Purdy of Rye, 
N. Y., a daughter, Dorcas, on Nov. 
26, 1927. Mrs Purdy was Ruth 
Ryther. 

igiSn, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. Lincoln E. Barber of Prov- 
idence, a son, Lincoln Edward, on 
Dec. 9, 1927. Mrs. Barber was Doris 
Field. 

1922, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. Grant Potter of Provi- 
dence, a daughter, Jane Burtis, on 
Dec. 18, 1927 Mrs. Potter was Ma- 
rion Sampson. 

1927, Women's College — To Mr. 
and Mrs. F. Lloyd Young of Provi- 
dence, a daughter, Pruda Louise, on 
Dec. 8, 1927. Mrs. Young was for- 
merly Pruda A. Moulton. 



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taire, lay "their cards on the table" with us 
are certain of sound advice. Come in and 
see us. You are welcome anytime. 



INDUSTRIAL 

TRUST COMPANY 



! More Than 



100.000,000 



MdmbtTT of Federal Reserve System 

Five Providence Offices— Branches in 

E. PROVIDENCE PAWTUCKET NEWPORT 

WOONSOCKET BRISTOL WESTERLY 

PASCOAG WARREN WICKFORD 



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The Business Concern 
creates a Sinking Fund 
to meet definite future, 
obligations. 

Uliy not apply the same 
principle to ?neet your defi- 
nite future obligations? 



The above cut which we use through the courtesy of the Insurance Research 
AND Review pictures a big idea in a ^•ery small space. 

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

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



18 Years of '^ ^" 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 



e, namely age 18, and prepare accordingly. 



At Birth ^i 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. 

At 5 Years °"'y '3 years remain before college age and the annual savings must be increased 
nf ntrf '" °'^'^" ^o create the fund. 



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At 10 Years 
of age 



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



At 15 Years ^^^ child is within only 3 years of college age. If you wait until then to begin 
nf ncrp •'°"'' ^^'^''"8^ ^°^ educational purposes, the annual savings will mount into the 

ui a^sC fpyr figures. 



At 18 Years t^e child win be ready for college and it no definite provision has been made in 

of affP advance, the expenses must be met out of current income or out of capital if any 

* fortunately exists. 



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

Puritan Life Insurance Company 

Home Office 410 Turks Head Bldg. 
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND