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lands of the Caucasus, green with life-giving grass. 

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in search of food. In our lands of little rain, electricity 
pumps water to make the desert bloom. Elearicity 
lights the herdsman's home and milks the cows in his 
stable. Elearicity powers the great network of trans- 
portation and communication which binds city and 
country into one complex system of civilized living. 

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Vol. XXIX 



PROVIDENCE, NOVEMBER, 1928 



No. 4 



On The Hill 

(Contemporary Topics of Interest to (graduates of ^?-own 

President-elect Barbour 
r^LARENCE A. BARBOUR of 



Vice President Mead 



the class of 1888 has been 
elected President of Brown Univer- 
sity to succeed William Herbert 
Perry Faunce '80, who has served 
thirty years. The Corporation 
chose Dr. Barbour by a unanimous 
vote on October 10, upon the recom- 
mendation of the special committee 
appointed to fill the prospective va- 
cancy. 

Dr. Barbour, who is President 
of the Rochester-Colgate Divinity 
School at Rochester, N. Y., an- 
nounced a week later his acceptance 
of the position. To the trustees of 
the divinity school he said : "I 
hoped to complete my life's work in 
Rochester. The call from Brown 
University was entirely unsolicited 
and I feel that a greater duty calls 
me." 

Brown University was advised of 
Dr. Barbour's decision in a telegram 
that read : "Deeply appreciating the 
honor and the opportunity for ser- 
vice conveyed in the unanimous ac- 
tion of the Corporation, I accept the 
presidency of my alma mater with 
faith in the enabling wisdom of God 
and the loyal support of the alumni 
and the friends of Brown." 
* * * 

n'flcome to the Neiv President 

nPHE Brown Alumni Monthly of- 
fers its congratulations to Pres- 
ident Barbour and its best wishes for 
his happiness and success. Whatever 
this magazine can do to prosper 
Brown University under his admin- 
istration it pledges itself to do. He 
will find it eager to support him in 
the great task he is about to take up, 
as it has supported President Faunce 
during the latter's long tenure here. 
Dr. Faunce came to Brown in 1899 
and in June, 1 900, the Monthly be- 
gan its career. Its history has been 
very largely a history of his admin- 
istration. 



TT IS especially gratifying to know 
that Vice President Albert Davis 
Mead will remain permanently in 
the office he has so effectively filled 
during the last few years, since the 
impairment of Dr. Faunce's health 
made it necessary for him to yield 
part of the executive burden of the 
University to other hands. 

Dr. Mead has registered an excep- 
tional success in a difficult post. He 
has united tact with courage, vision 
with common sense. It has been ex- 
traordinarily easy to do business with 
him, because of his quick comprehen- 
sion of problems, his readiness to 
meet "the other man" half way, and 
the minimum of emphasis he has laid 
upon red tape. We shall never for- 
get the spirit of co-operation he has 
manifested in his relations with us — ■ 
a spirit manifest, indeed, in his deal- 
ings with all those who he has had 
reason to believe were sincerely and 
reasonably working for the good of 
the University. 

It is cause for real satisfaction 
that President Barbour and Brown 
will continue to have the services of 
Dr. Mead as Vice President. 



ter also states that the break was in 
no way due to bad feeling between 
the undergraduates of the two uni- 
versities. We feel that the students 
at both universities desire the annual 
series to be renewed." 

The Brown-Harvard series is one 
of the oldest dual football rivalries 
in America, going back 34 years ex- 
cept for a break at the time of the 
World War and during the present 
year. The last game but one, in 
1926, filled the Harvard Stadium to 
overflowing, while the 1927 game 
also attracted a great crowd. 

If Brown and Harvard are not 
"natural" rivals in the sense that 
Yale and Harvard are, they are 
"near neighbors" and good friends, 
and we hope their old gridiron rela- 
tionship will be resumed in 1929. 
* » * 

For a Literary Quarterly 

'T'HE English Club has lately be- 
come the Manuscript Club 



and the re-named organization plans 
to establish a Literary Quarterly. 

The Alumni Monthly cordially 
endorses this proposal, recalling the 
palmy days of the Brunonian and 
Brown Magazine. 

Brown University is large enough 

to support a quarterly publication of 

this character. If, however, it will 

A S WE go to press the question ^^^ j^ so— that is, if the undergrad- 

uates will not — we go so far as to 



Brrj-an-Harvard Football 



of a resumption of Brown-Har 
vard football relations arises. 

The Brown Daily Herald strongly 
urges the Athletic Council to open 
negotiations with Cambridge, and 
the Alumni Monthly as strongly 
seconds the motion. 

The Herald says: 

"In the issue of March 9, 1927, 
the Daily Herald published an open 
letter from the Harvard Crimson 
which stated that Harvard itself de- 
sired a resumption of football rela- 
tions. The break last year was due 
to the policy of a 'Rotating Sched- 
ule' at Cambridge, but that does not 
prevent a game next fall. The let- 

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favor a subsidy or endowment from 
any convenient and proper source to 
permit it to function. 

Sock and Buskin 

for the attention 



TT IS high time 
of the alumni 



to be called to 
be called to Sock and Buskin, the 
undergraduate Dramatic Association 
of the University. For twenty-nine 
years this organization has been la- 
boring conscientiously in the interest 
of a better college drama, and has 
succeeded in accomplishing its pur- 
pose purely through the efiforts of its 



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own members. The policy of Sock 
and Buskin has been, and is, "to 
produce those plays not regularly 
seen in the professional theatre, to 
revive the old, and to encourage the 
new." This is certainly a laudable 
policy and one that is worthy of 
support. Its success is witnessed in 
the memory of such performances as 
the one given by Theodore Jeffers 
in "Aedipus Rex" or Arthur Pack- 
ard's Cardinal Woolsey in "Henry 
VHL" not to mention Theodore 
Sweet's excellent work as Tsar Ivan 
in "The Nihilists." 

Among the more unusual plays 
done by the society, one finds such 
pieces as Otway's "Venice Pre- 
served," and "Measure For Meas- 
ure" and "All's Well That Ends 
Well" by William Shakespeare. It 
is interesting to note that the Sock 
and Buskin's production of the lat- 
ter play was heralded as the first 
performance of that "dark comedy" 
in America. Shaw's "Androcles and 
the Lion," Chesterton's "Magic," 
Ibsen's "Ghosts," and a revival of 
Mrs. Wood's "East Lynne" have all 
been sponsored by this ambitious 
group of undergraduates. Among 
the original plays presented by the 
society, one finds "Children of 
Fear" bv B. W. Brown and Frank 
Hough '24, "The Third Candle" by 
Frank Fowler '26 and "The Heart 
Key" by Spencer Hukill '25. The 
organization has frequently offered 
plays that have been especially trans- 
lated for its own exclusive use. 
Among these are: Moliere's "Doctor 
in Spite of Himself," translated by 
Frank Russo '26, "Formio" of Te- 
rence translated by Professor John 
F. Greene, and Plautus's "Men- 
aechmi," also translated by Professor 
Greene. The plays that we have 
mentioned above are only a small 
part of a long list of exceedingly 
fine things that Sock and Buskin has 
accomplished. 

No small part of the success of the 
Dramatic Society is due to the untir- 
ing efforts and devotion to the or- 
ganization of the Faculty Adviser 
and Director, Professor Ben W. 
Brown. In an interview Pro- 
fessor Brown says: "Since 1920 my 
classmate, Rufus Fuller, has been my 



devoted assistant. His loyalty and 
able administration of the office of 
Alumnus Treasurer have aided in- 
dispensably in whatever success Sock 
and Buskin has achieved." 

The announcement for the 1928- 
1929 season has just been made pub- 
lic. The programme, like so many 
of its predecessors, promises to be 
most interesting. The first major 
bill, to be presented some time in 
November, is a modern version of 
"Macbeth." This will be followed 
by another major bill- early in the 
Spring. In the interval, there will 
be a series of readings, lectures and 
laboratory nights. It is understood 
that "Macbeth" is to be played in 
modern dress and is to be staged 
with modern scenery. We are look- 
ing forward to this unusual produc- 
tion with a great deal of interest. 

On October 16 and 17 the Society 
opened its season with two one-act 



plays: "The Brink of Silence," by 
Galbraith and "Helena's Husband," 
by Moeller. The plays were care- 
fully mounted and exceedingly well 
acted by the following undergradu- 
ates: P. M. Dawley '29, F. D. 
Geisler '29, E. L. Herrick '29, W. 
C. Carpenter '30, Bertram Thome 
'30, J. E. Cadden '31, Clinton Wil- 
liams '31, Edward Williams '31 and 
Myer Rosenthal '31. 

The Executive Board of the Dra- 
matic Society have announced their 
intention of taking the Spring pro- 
duction on the road. We are de- 
lighted to hear of this proposed 
Easter trip in view of the fact that 
other universities have used the 
drama as a means of bringing the 
college to the alumni, and we feel 
that the splendid work of this so- 
ciety deserves to be called to the at- 
tention of Brown graduates. 



Brown Men at Harvard Law School 



"LJARVARD Law School contin- 
ues to draw men from the 
University. Thirty-two Brown grad- 
uates are enrolled at the school this 
year, according to a list given the 
Monthly by a correspondent at Cam- 
bridge. They include fourteen mem- 
bers of the class of 1928, graduated 
last June, eight of 1927, nine of 
1926 and one of 1924. 

Two graduates, Noel M. Field 
'26, former editor-in-chief of the 
Brown Daily Herald, and Frederick 
B. Wiener '27, have been elected to 
the board of the Harvard Law Re- 
view, one of the highest honors that 
any law student at Cambridge can 
attain. Mr. Wiener has also re- 
ceived a Faculty Scholarship because 
of his excellent first-year work. 

The Chafee Law Club, named in 
honor of Professor Z. Chafee, Jr., 
'07, includes the following Bruno- 
nians in the third year court: Mat- 
thew W. Goring. Second year 
court: C. E. Conklin, Edward T. 
Richards, Paul D. O'Brien and 
Frederick B. Wiener. First year 
court: Raymond D. Brennan, Thom- 
as F. Peterson, Jr., Samuel H. 
Levy and Allan C. Robotham. 
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The whole list of students fol- 
lows: 1924 — Charles S. Barton, 
Uxbridge, Mass. 1926 — Matthew 
W. Goring, Methuen, Mass., John 

C. McOsker, Edgar V. F. McCril- 
lis, Noel M. Field, Joseph W. Rees, 
J. S. Temkin, Providence ; C. E. 
Conklin, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Harold 
E. Reese, Irvington, N. J.; Lloyd 

D. Keigwin, Mount Vernon, N. Y. ; 
1927 — Paul D. O'Brien, Yonkers, 
N. Y. ; Edward T. Richards, Mount 
Vernon, N. Y. ; Frederick B. Wie- 
ner, New York; Abraham Heller, 
Willimantic, Conn. ; Edward F. 
Harmon, Winchester, Mass.; Ed- 
mund Wexler, Isador Korn, Provi- 
dence; William D. Whalen, Paw- 
tucket. 1928 — Thomas F. Peterson, 
Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Allan C. 
Robotham, Unionville, Conn. ; Sam- 
uel H. Levy, Newport; Manuel J. 
Vieira, Jamestown ; Nelson J. Con- 
long, Waterbury, Conn. ; Paul H. 
Hodge, Fitchburg, Mass. ; Martin 
M. Zucker, Pawtucket; Albert Lis- 
ker, Stanley H. Smith, Jr., W. G. 
Stuart Sherman, Martin M. Silver- 
stein, Thomas J. Paolino, Howard 
Presel, Providence; Raymond D. 
Brennan, Pawtucket. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Next President of Brown 




CLARENCE AUGUSTUS BARBOUR 
President-elect of Brown University 

Photograph by Furlong. Rochester 



/CLARENCE A. BARBOUR 

^^ was born in Hartford, Conn., 
April 21, 1867, the son of Judge 
Heman H. and Myra (Barker) 
Barbour of that city. He prepared 
for college in the schools of Hartford 
and graduated from Brown Univer- 
sity in the class of 1888. 

He graduated from Rochester 
Theological Seminary, Rochester, X. 
Y., in 1 891 and was ordained to the 
Baptist ministry in the same year. 
'While a member of the Senior class 
of the seminary he was called to the 
pastorate of the Lake Avenue Bap- 
tist Church, Rochester, N. Y., where 
he remained for 18 years. This was 
his only pastorate. 

From 1909 to 191 5 he was asso- 
ciate secretary of the International 
Committee of the Younsr Men's 



Christian 
America. 



Association 
In 1915 he 



of 
was 



North 
elected 



president of Rochester Theological 
Seminary. During the past year the 
Rochester Theological Seminary and 
the Colgate Theological Seminary 
have combined and Dr. Barbour is 
now president of the reorganized in- 
stitution, the Colgate-Rochester Di- 
vinity School. 

During the World War Dr. Bar- 
bour was at the head of the Person- 
nel Department of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, speaking him- 
self in twenty-seven camps in this 
country, and had full charge of the 
selection of speakers overseas. In 
1 9 16- 1 7 he was president of the 
Northern Baptist Convention. He 
was a member of the Board of Edu- 
cation of that convention from its 
beginning, serving as vice-chairman 
under Dr. Ernest D. Burton as 
chairman. When Dr. Burton be- 
came President of the University of 
Chicago, Dr. Barbour became chair- 
man of the Board of Education and 
he now holds that position. 

For jears Dr. Barbour has been a 
college and school preacher. He 
has preached at Harvard, Yale, 
Princeton, Chicago, Cornell, Am- 
herst, Dartmouth, Williams, Penn- 
sylvania State, Smith, Vassar, Wel- 
lesley and other colleges and at An- 
dover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Lawrence- 
ville, Hill, Mercersburg, Peddie and 
other boys' preparatory schools. 

Dr. Barbour has received the de- 
gree of D.D. from Brown, Univer- 
sity of Rochester, Williams and Col- 
gate; the degree of S. T. D. from 
Syracuse University, and that of 
LL.D. from Denison L'niversity. 



Informal Glimpses of Dr. Barbour 

In an article on Dr. Clarence A. approachable and easy to talk to. 

Barbour, President-elect of Brown, He follows up his alumni, makes 

in the Boston Post, Dr. Clinton much of their home-coming to semi- 

Wunder, one of his former students, nary and anniversary dates, and is 

describes him as ''a great fisherman constantly sending words of encour- 

and outdoor man, athletic and of agement, advice and sympathy to 

powerful physical build ; he is a fine graduates as he hears of their needs 

bowler and a splendid story teller, or achievements." 

being especially good at imitation of Dr. Wunder continues: "When I 

Scotch brogue and telling Scotch sto- was a student under him he empha- 

ries. He reads poetry beautifully sized having one good meal a day 

and gathers many groups of students with good silver, clean table linen 

and faculty in his home." and good food and service, to keep 

Dr. Wunder goes on: "His door up our self-respect, as against a too 

is always open to students seeking frequent diet of a bottle of milk and 

counsel and he is very democratic, crackers in our rooms." 
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Fifty-eight Years Ago on Ouinsigamond 



(While Dr. Mitnro is recovering 
the full use of his right arm, injured 
from a fall on shipboard last sum- 
mer while he was returning fro?n 
Europe, let us read the following ac- 
count of the famous Brown Fresh- 
man boating victory at Worcester in 
1870. It is taken from the Class of 
'7j's Freshman history, written by 
Edward Young Bogman of Provi- 
dence, afterivard a ivell-known phy- 
sician of this city. — Ed.) 

TT IS now permitted to record the 
■*• glorious boating victory of 
Brown " 'Seventy-three" as Fresh- 
men. Immediately after our class 
elections, a class boat club was 
formed, officers chosen and crew se- 
lected, for there were many who 
thought it 

"Better to roiu in boats for health 
unbought. 

Than fee the doctor for a nause- 
ous draught. 

He wise for cure, on exercise de- 
pend, 

God never made his work for 
man to mend." 

Twelve have at different times had 
the great honor of belonging to the 
class six, but soon feeling that there 
was more truth than poetry in the 
chorus, 

"Oh, the pipes and the bowls they 
must leave us, 
On raw beef they will feed us. 
And oat meal porridge they will 

give us. 
To train for the honor of old 
Brown." 
From time to time they have laid 
aside the oar to give place to others, 
so at last of the original six, only 
three took part in the grand race 
at Worcester. Immediately after 
the Thanksgiving vacation, the crew 
commenced practice in the gymna- 
sium. Whether Messrs. West and 
Hunt had read the history of Rome 
and from thence taken the idea of 
the construction of rowing seats is a 
question, but nevertheless, the crew 



By Edivard ^ oung Bogman 'jS 

learned to row on rowing seats, after 
the manner of the ancient Romans. 
About April 1st the class purchased 
the noted boat "17.40^2" in which 
the crew commenced practice. Their 
first race took place Saturday morn- 
ing, June 4th, with the "Narragan- 
setts" of Providence. Although an 
unhappy foul took place owing to the 
mis-stationing of the two crews at 
starting, and although the Brown 
crew rowing with four oars came in 
two lengths behind their opponents, 
still the pluck with which they kept 
on and the wind and muscle exhib- 
ited, gave hopes to even the faint- 
hearted that " 'Seventy-three" might 
go to Worcester and win. Again 
they rowed an unsuccessful race with 
the Harvard Scientifics on the See- 
konk, June i8th, when, owing to a 
useless rudder, they took a zigzag 
course and came in three lengths be- 
hind. Still, with the belief that the 
third time never fails, as soon as ex- 
aminations were over, they went into 
training, and the 22d of July found 
them ready for the Grand Worces- 
ter Freshman race of 1870, looking, 
as one writer expressed it, "as if they 
had been starved, and put in the sun 
to dry." 

Now the wished-for day arrived, 
and the steeds of the sun ushered in 
the twenty-second morning with a 
serene sky. The great renown of the 
illustrious crews had drawn together 
on the banks of the lake two hundred 
and fifty thousand people (with the 
two off). Regatta Point was 
crowded. A few yards of magenta, 
blue and purple, might be seen amid 
the sea of Brown. Ribbons and 
veils of this color not only adorned 
the hats and coats of the students, 
but nestled in clusters on the snow- 
white muslins and costliy fabrics in 
which their fair friends were envel- 
oped, or hung in graceful festoons or 
floated in streamers from their 
pearly white throats, jockey hats, 
whips and shades. After the city 
races, of little interest to the assem- 
bled crowd, the race of the day took 
82 



place between the Brown, Harvard, 
Yale and Amherst Freshman crews 
of " 'Seventy- three." 

The Brown crew first appeared 
through the bridge, rowing with a 
quick even stroke. Harvard and 
Amherst soon followed, Yale coming 
into line last. Amherst had the in- 
side. Brown next, Yale third, and 
Harvard the outside. 

At five o'clock the word was given, 
and a good start was made. Brown 
taking the water first, Gower, their 
stroke, starting with forty-four 
strokes a minute; Amherst spurting 
at fifty-five. Yet the long, steady 
stroke of the Brown boys told, for, 
as they drew near Regatta Point, they 
were seen to be holding their own, 
their backs — as brown as the hand- 
kerchiefs on their heads — moving 
with a motion as regular as the heav- 
ing of the snowy bosoms on which 
many a Brown bow nestled. When 
opposite the point, Yale and Har- 
vard, far to the right, seemed a little 
ahead, of the two Yale the foremost, 
while near the point Amherst was 
a little ahead, but not showing clear 
water between her stern and the bow 
of the Brown boat. Then the inter- 
est of the race was centered upon 
Brown and Amherst. The former 
gaining rapidly the bow oar called 
out to Amherst to keep a straight 
course and not to take his water. 
This warning Amherst did not heed, 
but still kept to the right, attempt- 
ing to take the water of Brown, al- 
though not yet showing clear space 
between stern and bow. To avoid 
a foul with Yale the bow oar, hav- 
ing warned Amherst five or six times 
to no effect, took his rightful straight 
course, when Amherst fouled Brown. 
In the foul Mac's oar took off the 
rudder of the Amherst boat. Im- 
mediately the bow oar, with great 
presence of mind^ commanded his 
crew to back water : but one of the 
brave boys, earnest to win the race, 
continued pulling and cried out, "I 
won't ; I am put here to pull ;" yet 
the crew backed water until the oars 



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unlocked, when having fallen behind, 
they gave waj', passing Amherst on 
the left. Yale was now ten lengths 
ahead of Brown and Harvard six, 
but putting on a little spurt Brown 
soon passed the Harvards, and reach- 
ed the turning stake just as Yale had 
commenced to turn. Unfortunately 
for the latter, they took a long sweep, 
leaving room for Brown to turn in- 
side. Luther immediately perceiv- 
ing his chance gave the order, "port 
hold, starboard, run," and then with 
his eye on the Yale stroke, as soon 
as he perceived there was room to 
turn without fouling, shouted "star- 
board, give way, now boys let them 
have it on the turn." The crew 
obeyed, and turning with their port 
oars touching the stake boat, com- 
pleted their turn when Yale were 
but half way round, thus making the 
best turn ever made on the lake; 
then in obedience to the order, "give 
way," they started on the home 
stretch a length and a half ahead of 
Yale, Gower giving them a magnifi- 
cent stroke of forty-four a minute. 
Soon from Regatta Point two crews 
were seen approaching; then a third 
came into view. The color of the 
foremost was either brown or ma- 
genta — which was it? — the second 
was unmistakably the blue of Yale. 
In breathless silence the anxious 



crowd waited, until at last a student, 
sporting magenta, after a long look 
through a glass, reluctantly drawled 
out, "Brown is ahead!" A moment's 
silence, then such a shout. "Brown! 
Brown ! Brown !" rang through the 
air, and the woody banks resounded 
with the cry. The shouting contin- 
ued while Brown rapidly drew 
nearer and nearer, their superior 
stroke telling the story and gradu- 
ally widening the distance between 
their boat and that of Yale. As they 
passed the point, the shouts were 
deafening, but above all were heard 
the peculiar Brown cheer, "Rah, 
Rah! Rah, Rah! Rah, Rah!" and 
shouts of "Brown!" "Brown!" 
" 'Seventy-three!" " 'Seventy-three!" 
"Rip her up!" "Keep her in the mid- 
dle of the road!" "R. H. U.," Sic. 
Then Brown putting on a splendid 
spurt still further increased her lead 
on her opponents and crossed the 
line in nineteen minutes and twent}'- 
one seconds, the best Freshman time 
ever made. The boys were wild 
with joy. Such hugging, jumping, 
cheering and shouting were never 
seen or heard before; but when they 
spied among the spectators the ever- 
smiling face of their beloved Libra- 
rian, with one accord they rushed to 
him and bearing him to an open 
space, again they cheered, while he 



in their midst seemed as rejoiced as 
any, as he told them that "He knew 
he had not come to Worcester to see 
Brown disgraced." 

With these shouts of victory ring- 
ing in our ears, let us return to the 
crews. Brown won in 19.21, Yale 
coming in second in 19.45, Harvard 
third in 20 minutes, Amherst's time 
not taken. All confess that but for 
the foul with Amherst, the Brown 
crew would have made the three 
miles inside of nineteen minutes. 
Two days before they rowed the 
same course in eighteen minutes and 
fifty-seven seconds in practice. 

It is needless to relate the discus- 
sion of the foul, for the Referee 
fairly decided that evening at the 
Bay State House that "the Brown 
Freshman crew of the class of 'Sev- 
enty-three had fairly won the Wor- 
cester Freshman race of 1870, in 
19.21, and were entitled to the prize 
medals and flags." Again the Brown 
cheers rang through the halls of the 
hotel, and the rejoicing students 
proudly bore aloft on their shoulders, 
Gower, Brown, Smith, Caldwell, 
McClellan and Luther, and then 
him to whom, for his faithful coach- 
ing, was owing a great part of that 
day's glory, C. C. Luther of the 
class of " 'Seventy-one," the Captain 
of the L niversity Club. 




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BROWN FOOTBALL COACHES, 1928 
Staff, Mishel, McLaughry, Lawson, Smith, Towle 



The Football Season 



Brou'n J2, Worcester Poly, o 

Brown won the first game of the 
season, beating Worcester Polytech- 
nic Institute at Brown Field, Oct. 6, 
32 to o. Dr. Marvel tells us that 
the actual number of people present 
was 4022. 

McLaughry used three complete 
teams and three extra players. Wor- 
cester was on the defensive during 
practically the whole game and 
Brown scored in every period. The 
longest run of the day was scored by 
Edwards — 48 yards in the second 
quarter. 

The Brown line-up at the begin- 
ning of the game was as follows : 
Babcock le, Kevorician It, Farber Ig, 
Wentworth c, Gillies rg, Schein rt, 
Johnson re, Munroe qb, Marsan Ih, 
Fogarty rh, A. Cornsweet (Captain) 
fb. 
Score by periods : i 2 3 4 

Brown 6 7 12 7 — 32 

Worcester Poly. 000 O — O 

Touchdowns: Brown — Munroe, 
Marsan, Edwards, Hilbert. A. Corn- 
sweet. Points after touchdown: 
Brown — Kevorkian 2 (placement). 

Substitutions : Brown — H. Corn- 
sweet for Babcock, Hapgood for Gil- 



lies, Munson for Schein, Schneider 
for Wentworth, Richards for Kevor- 
kian, Brown for Farber, Gurll for 
Munroe, Edwards for Marsan, Hil- 
bert for Fogarty, Marshall for A. 
Cornsweet, J. E. Munroe for John- 
son, Snyder for J. Munroe, Dema- 
rest for H. Cornsweet, O'Neill for 
Munson, Demler for Hilbert, Dodge 
for Richardson, Henn for Brown, 
Carton for Schneider, Nelson for 
Hapgood, Moulton for Gurll, Edes 
for Edwards, Chaiklin for Hilbert, 
Heuser for Carton, Stewart for 
Henn ; Worcester — Freeman for 
Graham, Asp for Putnam, Graham 
for Freeman, Taylor for Babbitt, 
Delano for Shakour, Sodano for Gill, 
Anderson for Carlson, Freeman for 
Taylor. 

Referee — D. A. Kelly. Umpire — 
A. F. Noble, Field Judge— E. F. 
Loughlin. Linesman — A. T. Tow- 
er. Time of periods — 15 minutes. 

Broun ij, Dayton 6 

Brown beat the University of 
Dayton at Brown Field, Oct. 13, in 
the presence of 5000 people who sat 
spellbound in the rain. The fea- 
tures of the game were a 71 -yard run 

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for a touchdown by Captain Swan 
of Dayton, and, immediately, an 88- 
yard run from kick-off, also for a 
touchdown, by Lincoln Fogarty of 
Brown. 

The Brown line-up at the begin- 
ning of the game was: Babcock le, 
Kevorkian It, Gillies Ig, McDonough 
c, Farber rg, Schein rt, H. Corn- 
sweet re, Marsan qb, Fogarty lb, Ed- 
wards rh, A. Cornsweet (Captain) 
fb. 

Score by periods: 1234 

Brown o 7 o 6 — 13 

Dayton O 7 O O — 7 

Touchdowns : Brown — Fogarty, 
C. A. Munroe ; Dayton — Swan. 
Points after touchdown : Brown — 
Kevorkian (placement) ; Dayton — 
Swan (placement). 

Substitutions : Brown — Anderson 
for Gillies, J. E. Munroe for Bab- 
cock, Chrust for Kevorkian, Brown 
for Anderson, Heuser for McDon- 
ough, Hapgood for Farber, Munson 
for Schein, Johnson for H. Corn 
sweet, C. A. Munroe for Marsan, 
Flora for Fogarty, Hilbert for Ed- 
wards, Kevorkian for Chrust, Bab- 
cock for J. E. Munroe, Anderson for 
Brown, McDonough for Heuser, 



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Farber for Hapgood, Schein for 
Munson, H. Cornsweet for Johnson, 
Marsan for C. A. Munroe, Fogarty 
for Flora, Edwards for Hilbert, 
Wentworth for McDonough ; Day- 
ton — Finn for Lensch, Grimes for 
Gieason, Robello for Dehler, Bakos 
for McDermott, Marshall for 
Grimes, Reilling for Kendall, Ca- 
brinha for Swan, Swan for Cabrinha, 
Lensch for Finn, Lutz for Gowan, 
Kendall for Robello, McDermott 
for Bakos, Shucy for McColgan. 

Referee — ^J. E. Keegan. Umpire 
— J. K. Desmond. Field Judge — 
C. E. Keithley. Linesman — A. R. 
Lake. Time of periods — 15 minutes. 



Broun 14, Yale J2 

A Yale team of championship cal- 
ibre took Brown into camp at New 
Heavn, October 20, by a score of 
32-14, in the presence of a crowd of 
about 45,000. 

Yale got the jump, capitalizing 
Brown errors, and at the end of the 
first half the score was 26-7 in favor 
of the Blue. In the last half Brown 
outplayed Yale, each side adding a 
touchdown and Brown scoring a goal 
after touchdown. The Brown play- 
ers who particularly starred were 
Fogarty, halfback, 12 of whose 20 
forward passes were completed ; 
Marsan, quarterback, who ran a punt 
back 35 yards, took two forward 
passes for 30 yards each and fooled 
Yale completely in an 18-yard run 
for Brown's first touchdown, and 
Captain Al Cornsweet, who, as al- 
ways, was a tower of strength at 
fullback and specialized in catching 
forward passes. When Brown got 
the ball on Yale's 5-yard line, he was 



used to buck it over, a job sturdily 
accomplished for Brown's second 
touchdown. Flora showed up well 
when he took Fogarty's place, "mak- 
ing a long run. "Toots" Munroe 
was highly creditable at quarterback, 
but in a collision with Miller of 
Yale suffered a fractured cheek bone. 
Kevorkian kicked both of Brown's 
goals after touchdowns. The line-up : 
Brown — Babcock le, Schein It, 
Farber Ig, McDonough c, Kevor- 
kian rg. Gillies rt, H. Cornsweet re, 
Marsan qb, Edwards Ih, Fogarty rh, 
A. Cornsweet (Captain) fb. Yale 
— Walker le, Marting It, Green Ig, 
Charlesworth c, N. Hall rg, Eddy 
(Captain) rt, McEwen re, Hoben 
qb, Garvey Ih, Decker rh, Hub- 
bard fb. 

Score by innings i 234 

Yale 13 13 O 6—32 

Brown O 7 O 7 — 14 

Touchdowns: Yale — Garvey 2, 
Wilson, Ellis; Brown — Marsan, 
Cornsweet. Points after touch- 
down: Yale — Eddy (placement). 
Miller (placement) ; Brown — Ke- 
vorkian 2 (placements). Substi- 
tutions: Brown — Johnson for H. 
Cornsweet, J. Munroe for Babcock, 
C. Munroe for Marsan, Flora for 
Fogarty, Hilbert for Edwards, Heu- 
ser for McDonough, Anderson for 
Schein, Munson for Farber, Brown 
for Kevorkian, Hapgood for Gillies, 
Marsan for C. Munroe, Kevorkian 
for Brown, Farber for Hapgood, 
Fogarty for Flora, Edwards for Hil- 
bert. Yale— Ellis for Hoben, Mill- 
er for Decker, Loud for Garvey, 
Hickok for McEwen, Dunn for 
Hubbard, West for Walker, Loeser 
for Charlesworth, Wilson for Ellis, 
Miner for Hall, Lampe for Loud, 



Ferris for Marting, McEwen for 
Hickok, Charlesworth for Loeser, 
Stewart for Hall, Hall for Stewart, 
Wilson for Ellis, Billhardt for Wil- 
son, Snead for Miller, Hickok for 
McEwen, Loeser for Charlesworth, 
Ford for Lampe, Ordway for Loud, 
Crile for West, Aldrich for Crile. 

Referee — -W. T. Haloran, Provi- 
dence. Umpire — J. K. Esmond, 
Harvard. Field Judge — -J. E. Kee- 
gan, Springfield. Linesman — A. C. 
Tyler, Princeton. Time of periods — 
15 minutes. 

Broivn Football Schedule 

Oct. 6, Brown 32, Worcester Pol. 
Inst. O. 

Oct. 13, Brown 13, University of 
Dayton 6. 

Oct. 20, Brown 14, Yale 32. 

Oct. 27, Brown 19, Tufts 13. 

Nov. 3, Holy Cross, Providence. 

Nov. 10, Dartmouth, Hanover. 

Nov. 17, Univ. of New Hamp. 
Providence. 

Nov. 24, R. I. State, Providence. 

Nov. 29, Colgate, Providence. 
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Freshman Football Schedule 

Oct. 13, Brown 7, Moses Brown 
2. 

Oct. 20, Brown 13, New Hamp- 
shire Freshmen 7. 

Oct. 27, Brown o, Holy Cross 
Freshmen 29. 

Nov. 2, Princeton Freshmen, 
Princeton. 

Nov. 10, Dartmouth Freshmen, 
Hanover. 

Nov. 16, Harvard Second, Cam- 
bridge. 

Oct. 23, Roxbury School, Provi- 
dence. 



News From the Brown Clubs 



A N All-Brown rally by the Brown 
Club of New Haven vnth Dean 
Randall and Assistant Coach Doug- 
las Lawson as the guests on the 
night before the Brown-Yale game 
at New Haven, Oct. 20, started the 
club season of? with fine spirit. Now 



By A. H. Gurney, Alumni Secretary 

for a busy and satisfying year from 
College Hill to Los Angeles! 

The ne.xt organization to get to- 
gether will be the Brown Engineers, 
who, as this was written, had their 
plans made for a meeting and dinner 
in Providence on Nov. 3, with Pres- 

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ident Faunce as the speaker and the 
Brown-Holy Cross game as a second- 
ary attraction. Professor John E. 
Hill is chairman of the committee of 
arrangements. 

Then comes Philadelphia, with 
the date set tentatively for Tuesday, 



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Nov. 20, says a heartening letter 
from Howard C. Cummings '22, sec- 
retary. The Alumni Secretary has 
been invited to be on hand and it is 
with real pleasure that he has ac- 
cepted. 

The Brown University Club of 
New York, after due deliberation, 
moved to the Hotel Wentworth, 59 
West 46th street, and set up quar- 
ters there through the friendly aid 
of T. Elliott Tolson '06, under 
whose management the hotel is run. 
The decision to move came after sev- 
eral months of discussion ; and the 
sincere wish of the Alumni OfSce is 
that Hugh MacNair and his co- 
workers will find that their decision 
was wise and timely. 

The Brown Club of Providence 
under the presidency of Dr. Emery 
M. Porter '06 and with Alfred B. 
Lemon '13 head of the Executive 
Committee is outlining its plans for 
the year. The club has been, and 
continues to be, of genuine benefit to 
the University. It merits the sup- 
port of every active Brown man in 
the Providence district. Its scope is 
broad ; it is working with the Uni- 
versity authorities ; and it is contrib- 
uting in good measure to alumni and 
undergraduate activities alike. 



The Brown Club of Chicago, un- 
der the direction of President Wal- 
ter Smith '01, is studying methods 
that may enable it to be of greater 
service to the University. The 
Brown Club of Hartford is meeting 
regularly, and the Alumni Secretary 
is looking forward to his visit to 
Hartford. Other active clubs in the 
East, Boston, Washington, Lynn, 
Baltimore, New Bedford, Portland, 
Connecticut Valley, Merrimack Val- 
ley, Worcester, which was revived 
last spring after a period of quiet, 
are also working effectively with the 
Alumni Office. 

George L. Hunt '00 of Montpel- 
ier has become President of the 
Brown Club of Vermont in place of 
Arthur I. Andrews '01, resigned, 
and already there has been corre- 
spondence between President Hunt 
and the Alumni Secretary with re- 
gard to an old-fashioned Brown get- 
together in Vermont next spring. 

The Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni has been meeting 
monthly with President Wiley H. 
Marble '12 in the chair and it is 
making preliminary arrangements 
for the sessions of the Advisory 
Board on Feb. 21 and 22, next. The 
plan is to have a record-breaking Vis- 



iting Day on Feb. 22 ; and even this 
early it might be feasible for Brown 
men to note the date and decide, if 
possible, to come back to College Hill 
on that day. 

CLEVELAND 

Dr. Charles W. Hunt '04, Dean 
of the School of Education, Western 
Reserve University, was elected 
president of the Cleveland Brown 
University Club at the annual meet- 
ing at the LTniversity Club, Cleve- 
land, on Oct. 4. He succeeds Lloyd 
Brown '99. 

R. A. Gillis '15 was chosen vice 
president, Albert J. O'Connor '10, 
treasurer, and Leland S. McLeod 
'15, advanced, secretary. McLeod 
takes the place of Everett T. Mar- 
ten '25, who has filled the office of 
secretary with great credit and who, 
with the retiring officers, has done 
much to bring the Cleveland Club 
up in the world. The Board of Di- 
rectors will consist of the officers and 
Dr. R. H. Birge '94, Lloyd Brown 
'99 and Frank H. Westlake '01. 
One of the topics considered at the 
annual gathering was better news 
service with regard to Brown in the 
Cleveland district. 



'98 Suggested "Andrews" for Women's College 



Previous to the action of the Cor- 
poration last month in naming the 
Women's College Pembroke College, 
the following communication was 
sent to the Corporation : 

At the reunion of the class of '98, 
in Jvme, 1928, the matter of a name 
for the Women's College was 
among the subjects discussed, and it 
was voted that the Corporation be 
requested to consider the name An- 
drews College, in honor of Presi- 
dent Andrews and as a fitting me- 
morial to him. The undersigned 
were delegated by the class to con- 
vey this request to the Corporation, 
and to prepare the statement which 
follows. We are happy to execute 
this commission. 

Whether we turn to Denison Uni- 
versity, where Andrews first filled 



the office of college president, or 
turn to Brown, or to the University 
of Nebraska, the story is the same : 
the devotion, the loyalty to An- 
drews, of all who came under him, 
was complete ; their enthusiasm for 
him knew no bounds. Under his 
leadership, Denison prospered, 
Brown and the University of Ne- 
braska increased so as to mark eras 
in their history. President Burton 
of the University of Chicago, who 
was one of his pupils at Denison, 
called Andrews the greatest teacher 
in his experience. President Har- 
per, who was only twenty or so 
when teaching at Denison under An- 
drews, called him "his inspired 
friend," his exemplar," "his intellec- 
tual father," and some years later, 
in the early '90s, wanted Andrews 
to share the presidency of the Uni- 
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versity of Chicago with him. But 
Andrews could not be persuaded to 
leave Brown. The devotion he re- 
ceived from the students he. equalled 
in his devotion to them and to the 
institution. We ourselves, speaking 
not only for ourselves, but speaking 
as we feel we may for the men and 
women of our college generation, 
testify to this which we know: that 
the judgment of our maturer years 
confirms our youthful enthusiasm. 
Now we know with force what then 
we felt with force : that whoever 
touched Andrews touched a man — a 
man among men. 

Yet all these things granted, is 
there appropriate reason for giving 
the Women's College the name An- 
drews College? We think that there 
is. When the movement for the 
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Island crystallized in the early days 
of Andrews' administration, he gave 
his eager and untiring support to it. 
His annual reports to the Corpora- 
tion show how important he regarded 
it, his zeal for it. When young 
women were first admitted to in- 
struction in the University, and no 
class room was available in the late 
winter afternoon, as darkness fell, 



President Andrews's office in Uni- 
versity Hall was placed at their dis- 
posal. When the question of finan- 
cial responsibility arose, Andrews 
himself bore it until relieved some 
time later by a committee of women. 
Professor Bronson, in his "History 
of Brown University," writes : "The 
success of the movement during these 
years of experience was due first ot 



all to President Andrews, the 
strong prop and inspiring soul of 
the whole." 

The class of '98 respectfully re- 
quests that the Corporation consider 
the name of Andrews College as the 
name for the Women's College in 
Brown University. 

William Adams Slade, 

Charles Carroll 



Chancellor Chace as a Mathematician 



A SHORT while ago President 
Faunce and 44 members of the 
Faculty addressed the following self- 
explanatory letter to Chancellor 
Chace : 

Arnold Buffum Chace, Sc. D.j Chan- 
cellor. 

Your friends of the Faculty have 
followed with interest the prolonged 
studies which you and Mrs. Chace 
have made in the field of Egyptian 
mathematics. They still remember 
the first fruits of your joint labors in 
the form of your lectures to small 
groups, and whether or not they fully 
comprehend your expositions, they 
have been glad to know that vou had 



in mind the publication of a new 
translation of the Rhind papyrus, 
with an elaborate mathematical com- 
mentary. Now, after many years, in 
which you have enlisted two of their 
colleagues as collaborators, they have 
the great satisfaction of seeing the 
first volume, presenting a portion of 
the results of your investigations, and 
of knowing that the second volume. 
in which members of the staffs of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts 
and the British Museum have collab- 
orated, will soon be off the press. 

It is a source of pride to us all that 
although the work does not bear the 
imprint of the University it is in a 
very real sense a Brown University 



publication, being from the pen of our 
honored Chancellor. We heartily 
congratulate you and ourselves that 
you have been able in the midst of 
business cares to find the time for this 
protracted labor, but more particu- 
larly that, inspired with unusual in- 
tellectual curiosity and a desire to 
promote knowledge, you were en- 
dowed with the ability to perform it, 
and impelled to undertake and com- 
plete it. 

Unwilling to delay our felicitations 
until we may have the pleasure of 
presenting them to you in person, we 
join in this collective expression, 
which we beg you to accept as each 
subscriber's own sentiment. 




ALBERT DAVIS MEAD 

Permanent Vice President of Brown 

University 



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The University Chronicle 



University Registration 

As of Oct. 25, the Brown Univer- 
sity registration was as follows : 

Seniors 276, Juniors 245, Sopho- 
mores 392, Freshmen 388, Specials 
18. Total 1319. 

Pembroke College — Seniors 128, 
Juniors 107, Sophomores 122. 
Freshmen 139, Specials 4. Total 
500. 

Graduate School — 275. 

University Extension — (last year's 
figures 2402 ; this year's not yet 
available). 

Grand total, exclusive of Univer- 
sity Extension, 2094. This is a 
slight falling ofif from last year, on 
account of more rigid admission reg- 
ulations. The totals for Pembroke 
College and the Graduate School, 
however, are larger than ever before. 

Dr. Barbour as an Undergraduate 

The Brown Herald has been in- 
terviewing members of Dr. Bar- 
bour's class (1888) at Brown. One 
of them, describing a dual class foot- 
ball rush of the old days, when all 
the Freshmen lined up against all 
the Sophomores to carry the ball 
across the goal line, says: 

"Dr. Barbour had been appointed 
umpire for the Freshman class and 
George W. Field 1887, who taught 
at Brown from 1893 to 1896, was 
umpire for the Sophomores. After 
the battle had waged for some time 
neither umpire could stand by and 
merely watch the game, so both of 
them mixed in with the rest of the 
fellows, and proceeded to do their 
share for their respective classes. I 
believe," the narrator concluded, 
"that Clarence, as we all called him, 
emerged with the customary bloody 
nose." 

Dr. Barbour was business manager 
of the Liber Brunensis for 1888, 
business manager and treasurer of 
the Glee Club, first bass of the club 
and quartette, president of the foot- 
ball club in his Senior year, a member 
of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi 
Beta Kappa, and class orator at grad- 



uation, his subject being "The Re- 
action from Puritanism." 

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Senior Class Officers 

John S. Collier of Providence has 
been elected president of the Senior 
class. Everett Eynon and Allen L. 
Atwood were chosen first and second 
vice presidents respectively, and Na- 
thaniel S. Keith secretary. Harry 
Cornsweet was automatically re-el- 
ected class treasurer, while C. C. 
Barrows was chosen to represent the 
class on the University Athletic 
Council. 

Junior Class Officers 

The class of 1930 has elected 
Philip M. Lingham of Littleton, 
Mass., (son of Clarence Lingham 
'97), president, Norman P. Arnold 
of Wakefield, Mass., first vice-presi- 
dent; Clarence A. Munroe of North 
Attleboro, Mass., second vice-pres- 
ident; Thomas Shotten, Jr., of 
Scranton, Pa., secretary ; Harold P. 
Carver of Newton Highlands, Mass., 
treasurer; and Charles H. Edwards 
of Chicago, III., Junior Member of 
the Athletic Council. 

Rhodes Scholar Candidates 

J. S. Collier 1929, A. C. Corn- 
sweet 1929 and J. G. Getz, Jr., have 
been selected as candidates by the 
Faculty Committee for the Rhodes 
Scholarship from Rhode Island for 
the coming year. 

Collier is president of the class of 
1929 and of the Cammarian Club 
and captain of the track team. He 
represented the United States in the 
Olympic games at Amsterdam last 
summer. 

Cornsweet is a James Manning 
Scholar, a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa, captain of the Varsity foot- 
ball and wrestling teams and New 
England wrestling champion in the 
175-pound class. 

Getz was a Francis Wayland 
Scholar, a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa and a winner of first honors 
88 



in economics and is now an assistant 
in the Department of Economics. 

Final selection of the Rhodes 
Scholar will be announced on Dec. 8. 



240 Men in Fall Sports 

A record for fall sports activities 
at Brown has been established dur- 
ing the time that the teams have been 
working this season, for two hundred 
and forty men or close to 20 per 
cent, of the entire college enrollment 
have already identified themselves on 
some sports team. Football has 165 
men; soccer has 57 and cross country 
has 18. The number by respective 
squads follows: Varsity football, 79; 
Freshman football, 86; Varsity soc- 
cer, 26; Freshman soccer, 31; Var- 
sity cross country, 13; and Freshman 
cross country, 5. — Brunotes for Oc- 
tober. 



Broivn's Soccer Record 

After two defeats at soccer. Brown 
met Amherst at Aldrich Field, Oct. 
19, and held the visitors to a tie at 
l-l. In the first three-quarters of 
the game neither side scored. In the 
fourth quarter Ingerson scored for 
Brown, while a minute later Felt 
scored for Amherst. Amherst has 
not been beaten in two years, and 
earlier in the present season, had de- 
feated Clark (which beat Brown) 
and Harvard. The Brown line-up: 
Carleton g, Connor rfb, Williams 
Ifb, Gill rhb, McGinn chb, Schwei- 
kart Ihb, Bearce ob, Ingerson ir, 
Cameron cf, Carosella il, Arnold ol 
Time of halves 44 minutes. 

On Oct. 13, Springfield College 
beat Brown at Soccer 3-1 on Aldrich 
Field. 

Northeastern College did the same 
trick Oct. 27, 2 to O. 



Faculty Changes 

Important changes in the Brown 
faculty this year include the follow- 
ing: Professor James P. Adams sue- 



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ceeds Professor Henry B. Gardner, 
retired, as chairman of the Depart- 
ment of Economics ; Professor Al- 
fonso de Salvio comes from North- 
western University to take the place 
of Professor Rudolph Altrocchi in 
the Department of Romance Lan- 
guages, and Professor Thomas O. 
Mabbott, also from Northwestern, 
has joined the Department of Eng- 
lish. Professor Ralph E. Badger 
returns to the Department of Eco- 
nomics after an absence of two years, 
and two new professors in the same 
department are Dr. William Adams 
Brown, Jr., Yale, and Dr. Charles 
A. Glover, U^niversity of California. 
Dr. Albert D. Mead, Vice Presi- 
dent of the University, is on leave 
during the first semester, and Dean 
R. G. D. Richardson of the Gradu- 
ate School is temporarily acting in 
his place. 

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Notes of the Month 

The Brown Jug held a smoker at 
Brennan's on Oct. 17. 

The Spanish Club held its first 
meeting of the year on Oct. 25 at 
Marston Hall. 

The Freshman football squad this 
year has contained a record-breaking 
number of candidates for the team 
—86. 

E. H. Williams '31 won the fall 
tennis tournament on Oct. 23, beat- 
ing V. L. Heuser '30, by a score of 
6-2, 2-6, 6-8, 12-10, 6-3. 

William T. Tilden, 2d, ex-nation- 
al tennis champion, made an interest- 
ing informal address at chapel, Oct. 
17. The session was open for all 
classes. 

The Rhode Island State College 
harriers beat Brown 26-31, Oct. 19. 
On the same day the Kingston 
Freshman harriers beat the Brown 
Freshmen 15-40. 

The L^niversity Glee Club held its 
first rehearsal of the season, with 20 
old members and 40 new candidates 
in attendance, on Oct. 18. Professor 
Gene Ware is drilling the club. 

President-emeritus Thvving of 
Western Reserve University ad- 
dressed a Phi Beta Kappa meeting at 
the home of ^V. W. Moss '94, Oct. 



25, and spoke at chapel the next 
morning. 

The Brown rally at the Roger 
Sherman restaurant in New Haven 
on the night before the Yale football 
game brought out an enthusiastic as- 
sembly of 200 from many nearby 
cities and towns. 

At the annual Honors Day exer- 
cises, Oct. 16, President Neilson of 
Smith College spoke on "Academic 
Slovenliness," making a strong plea 
for the best as an ideal in student 
work, instead of "well enough." 

The Brown Freshman football 
team beat the New Hampshire 
Freshman team on Oct. 20, 13-7. 
This was its second victory, the first 
having been scored over Moses 
Brown School, Oct. 13, 7-2. 

The Freshman soccer team beat 
Bridgewater Normal School, Oct. 
17, 2 to I. Earlier, on Oct. lO, it 
beat Hope High School 5-0. On 
Oct. 24 the team was beaten by 
Bradford Durfee Textile School of 
Fall River 4-2. 

The University Band of 50 pieces 
late last month made a successful 
tour of Connecticut, giving five con- 
certs at Waterbury, Meriden, Essex- 
Cheshire and New Haven. The con- 
cert at Cheshire was given in the op- 
en air at the Roxbury School. The 
band also played at the Yale Bowl 
during the Yale-Brown football 
game. 

A special train will run from 
Providence to Hanover on Friday, 
Nov. 9, the day before the Brown- 
Dartmouth Freshman and Varsity 
football games (at 10.30 a. m. and 
2 p. m. respectively). The train will 
leave Providence at 6 p. m., carrying 
a sleeper and a dining car, and will 
be due at Hanover at 1 1 p. m. The 
football team will sleep on the train. 
The Brown-Dartmouth soccer game 
is scheduled for Nov. 9 at Hanover. 
The train will leave Hanover on the 
return trip at 10.30 p. m., Saturday, 
Nov. 10. An extra sleeper will be 
available on the return. 



poem by a student of Brown Univer- 
sity was recently awarded). 

Sometimes ghosts walk through 
dimly vaulted rooms 

Across the moonlit floors of old cha- 
teaux, 

Where no one hears or sees the 
wraithly hands 

That lift the rusted locks of long ago. 

And people hurry past the doors and 
glance 

Behind their shoulders where the 
shadows loom. 

And cry, "It's haunted! Hush!" when 
roaming winds 

Blow cobwebs or a leaf across the 
gloom. 

But when my host comes back it shall 
be noon. 

And August, and the crickets' reedy 
song 

Shall herald my approach, and dai- 
sies nod 

The way my ghostly feet have passed 
along. 

And none shall fear, but in my drift- 
ing by 

Shall feel a ray of sunshine, or the 
flight 

Of thistledown through buoyant, shin- 
ing air. 

And know an ecstasy of strange de- 
light. 
Honor Cecelia RIcCusker 'jl 



Ghosts 



(To this poem the Rosenberger 
prize of $50 for the best original 

89 



An Epitaph 

UPON A VIRGIN 
fFho Died While Her Maids Slept 

We woke, dazed with the midnight 

cry: 
The destined groom had stolen by; 
While we were dark with dreams of 

day, 
He found where the lost Princess lay. 
We heard the clamor of his horns, 
Departing from the Keep of Thorns, 
And strove to light our empty lamps 
Beneath the vaulted shades and 

damps. 
To find only the empty dress 
Of her limp body's loveliness. 

S. Foster Damon, Department of 
English at Brown, in the Saturday 
Review of Literature. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



BROWN BUREAU OF BUSINESS RESEARCH 



'T^HE Brown Bureau of Business 
■*■ Research was established in 
1922 by the joint action of the De- 
partment of Economics of Brown 
University and the Providence 
Chamber of Commerce. Its organ- 
ization was accomplished largely as 
a result of the vision and efforts of 
Professors Henry B. Gardner, Ralph 
E. Badger and William A. Berridge 
of the University and Messrs. Ralph 
B. Watrous, Charles T. Howard 
and Charles A. Horton of the 
Chamber of Commerce. 

The function and aims of the 
Brown Bureau of Business Research 
are briefly outlined in the Articles 
of Agreement between the Chamber 
of Commerce and the Department of 
Economics : 

"The primary purpose of said Bu- 
reau shall be the maintenance and 
operation of a research laboratory 
which shall devote its attention to 
problems relating to the financial 
commercial and industrial develop- 
ment of Metropolitan Providence 
and vicinity. 

"It is, further, the purpose of 
said Bureau to develop closer rela- 
tions between said Department of 
Economics and the members thereof 
on the one hand and said Chamber 
of Commerce and the financial, com- 
mercial, industrial and professional 
leaders represented in its member- 
ship on the other hand." 

At the outset it was decided that 
the Bureau should confine its activ- 
ities to the study of economic condi- 
tions peculiar to the community in 
which it was located. Thus, in 
Providence, was established one of 
the first research agencies connected 
with an American educational insti- 
tution to devote its attention to an 
intensive study of local economic 
phenomena. This pioneer work has 
attracted wide attention to the Bu- 
reau and in recent years a number 
of similar agencies have been estab- 
lished in connection with other edu- 
cational institutions for the study of 
economic conditions in their own in- 
dustrial and commercial areas. 

In 1924 the Bureau developed 
further its project to gather, analyze 
and distribute information of timely 
interest to the business community 
by establishing a research staff and 
inaugurating its official publication, 



Arthur L. Phdbr'uk, Cliairiiuin of the Board 

the Broun Business 
periodical is issued 



Service. 1 his 
monthly from 
Septembsr to July. In addition, 
special reports are released from time 
to time. Subscription lists were op- 
ened and since that time a large 
number of the substantial business 
concerns in Providence and vicinity 
have contributed to the work of the 
Bureau as subscribers to the Brown 
Business Service. While the sub- 
scription list has continued to grow, 
the work could not have been carried 
on without the aid of certain co-op- 
erating agencies and individuals 
The costs of operation in excess of 
subscription revenues have been un- 
derwritten by Brown University, 
the Providence Chamber of Com- 
merce, the Providence Clearing 
House Association and several prom- 
inent business and professional men. 
Much of the credit for the continued 
existence and for the growth and 
development of the Bureau is due to 
the interest and co-operation of these 
agencies and individuals and to their 
faith in the ultimate contribution of 
such a research agency to the eco- 
nomic life of the community. 

It must also be noted that the 
Bureau has enjoyed the co-operation 
of certain other agencies through 
which it gathers economic data for 
analysis and interpretation, namely : 
the City of Providence, Industrial 
Relations Association of Rhode Is- 
land, New England Manufacturing 
Jewelers' Si Silversmiths' Associa- 
tion, Providence Real Estate Ex- 
change, Providence Retail Credit 
Managers' Association, Providence 
Safety Council, Rhode Island Auto- 
mobile Dealers' Association, Rhode 
Island Bankers' Association, Rhode 
Island Metal Trades Association, 
Rhode Island Textile Association 
and the State of Rhode Island. 

The Bureau has recently been re- 
organized to take advantage of the 
larger opportunities for effective 
achievement which have offered 
themselves. As now constituted the 
Bureau is governed by a Board of 
Directors consisting of ( I ) three 
members ex-officio, the President of 
Brown University, W. H. P. 
Faunce; the President of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce, William L. 
Sweet; and the Professor Emeritus 
of Economics, Henry B. Gardner; 



(2) eight members of the faculty of 
the Department of Economics, Pro- 
fessors James P. Adams, Ralph E 
Badger, Hugh B. Killough, Harry 
E. Miller, A. Ford Hinrichs, George 
E. Bigge, W. Adams Brown, Jr., 
and Charles A. Glover ; ( 3 ) twelve 
members appointed by the Board of 
Directors of the Providence Cham- 
ber of Commerce, including Ar- 
thur L. Aldred, Thomas V. Barb, 
Fred B. Barrows, Charles P. 
Brown, Elmer S. Horton, Francis 
B. Keeney, Arthur L. Philbrick, 
Theodore B. Pierce, J. William 
Schulze, Richard B. Watrous. For 
the current year the officers of the 
Board are Arthur L. Philbrick, 
Chairman ; Theodore B. Pierce, first 
Vice-chairman ; Professor James P, 
Adams, second Vice-chairman and 
Professor W. Adams Brown, Jr., 
Secretary-Treasurer. The Execu- 
tive Committee of the Board consists 
of Messrs. Philbrick, Keeney and 
Barrows and Professors Adams and 
Badger. Professor Hinrichs, Direct- 
or of Research, and Professors Bad- 
ger, Killough and Brown constitute 
the research staff. 

The Articles of Agreement pro- 
vide that in addition to the publi- 
cation of the Brown Business Service 
the activities of the Bureau shall in- 
clude special surveys of important lo- 
cal economic developments, periodi- 
cal supplementary reports to particu- 
lar industries, and co-operation with 
the Chamber of Commerce through 
the maintenance of library facilities 
and information files for the use of 
local business interests. 

In 1927-28 the Bureau co-operated 
with the Division of Industrial and 
Municipal Research of Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology in the 
Industrial Survey of Metropolitan 
Providence. More and more the 
files of the Bureau are being utilized 
and the research staff is being called 
upon for timely information concern- 
ing the current economic situation 
with respect to general business or 
particular industrial activities. The 
Bureau welcomes such opportunities 
to be of service. 

In a later issue of the Alumni 
Monthly, Professor A. F. Hinrichs 
will describe the functioning of the 
research organization ' of the Brown 
Bureau. 



BROWN BUSINESS SERVICE 

ANALYSES OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND 



VOLUME 5 



OCTOBER 23, 1928 



REPORT 2 



FALL RECOVERY SHOWN IN SEPTEMBER 

MANUFACTURING: Metals excellent. Jewelry strong. Rubber, silk and textile finishing up. Cotton 
shows recovery to a fair level. Woolens and worsteds no change from depressed condition. 

REAL ESTATE: Building slows down. Residential construction about on level of recent years. Less 
demand for mortgage loans. Real estate turnover less in Providence district. 

RETAIL TRADE: Slightly below last year. Large fall increase will probably not go to last year's level 
because of slight decrease in wage-earners' incomes. 



GENERAL MANUFACTURING ACTIVITY 

September was a good month. The average daily power 
consumption of 403,800 kwh in sixty- two representative 
establishments compares very favorably with the low 
consumption of 323,800 kwh in August and 384,500 kwh 
in September of last year. The figures are shown by 
months in Chart 1. This is the first month of the year 
to show a definite impro\ement over the corresponding 
month in 1927. 

The trends noted in the last issue of the SERVICE 
continue. Some of them need merely be summarized. 
The general machinery group shows even greater strength 
than we had anticipated. Average daily power consump- 
tion in three plants, 28,700 kwh, set a record. Employ- 
ment increased. Shipments of reporting members of the 
National Machine Tool Manufacturers Association, 
considering the short working period this September, 
were probably at a high rate for all time. In actual 
amount for the month, shipments were almost equal to 
those in August. They were 205 per cent of the average 
monthly shipments in 1922-1924. Last September they 
were only 127 per cent. Despite these large shipments, 
unfilled orders increased so much as to assure a con- 
tinued high level of activity for the next few months. 

The jewelry industry.reaches its fall peak within a few 
weeks. Both the number employed and the amount of the 
payroll in October are larger than they have been in any 
month since 1926 when our reports begin. Payrolls in 
October were 13 per cent larger than last year and 5 
per cent larger than in 1926. 

Textile finishing plants continue active. Power con- 
sumption was 13,900 kwh per day in September as 
compared to 1 1 ,900 kwh in August. Last September the 
consumption was 11,300 kwh. 



Chart 1 

INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IN RHODE ISLAND 

As Measuhed by Average Daily Consumption of Electricity 

IN 62 Plants 

(Unit 1,000 Kilowatt Hours) 




COTTON 

All figures descriptive of September business in terms 
of volumes for the month must be examined with the 
greatest care. September this year contained only 21.5 
working days, if Saturdays are counted as half days 
and Labor Day is omitted. August had 25 working days. 
Therefore unless the rate of operation expanded 16 per 
cent, the aggregate for the month of September would be 
less than for August, due merely to the shorter period. 

The data for cotton consumption in September are 
especially misleading, if the length of the working period 
is not taken into account. The total number of bales 
put thru the openers was 16,200 in September; in August 
it was 17,700. September consumption would appear to 



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be 5.6 per cent below normal; August was 18.5 per cent 
above normal. Actually the average number of bales 
opened per working day was 753 in September and 708 
in August. The rate of operation was 6.4 per cent 
higher in September than in August. This is less than the 
normal seasonal increase in September. It is therefore 
true that in terms of normal operation: i. e., in terms of 
what might ordinarily have been expected, September 
was not quite as good a month as August. It was much 
better than the aggregate figures lead one to believe. 

The BUREAU secures figures for power consumption 
from ten cotton mills. In general we prefer to rely on the 
figures for cotton consumption which cover all mills. 
This month it is believed that average daily power con- 
sumption gives a better picture. The early months of 
1927 were good ones. With the coming of the 1927-28 

Table 1 

POWER CONSUMPTION IN COTTON MILLS 

Ten Rhode Island Plants 

1927-1928 

{Vnit: 1,000 Kilowatl-Hours Per Working Day) 



Month 1927 1928 

January 182.8 165.0 

February .... 194.6 164.7 

March 196.1 148.3 

April 190.9 156.7 

May 185.2 172.3 



Month 1927 

June 177.9 

Julv 150.4 

August 136.7 

September... 164.3 



1928 
151 
147.0 
127,2 
168.2 



crop year the business slumped from 20 per cent above 
normal in the summer to 10 per cent below normal in 
the winter of 1928. This year September is slightly 
above September of last year. Unless the rate of operation 
falls — and seasonally it should increase — the last quarter 
will be better than it was in 1927. 

In the last issue of the SERVICE the probable effect 
of the settlement of the New Bedford strike was discussed. 
The strike is fortunately settled. October figures for 
cotton consumption, not released by the Census Bureau 
until the middle of November, should be watched. We 
still believe that the reopening of these mills may cut 
into our operations sufficiently to prevent the usual 
seasonal expansion. Even if this be true and operations 
are little above present levels, the fourth quarter will be 
about normal. 

OTHER TEXTILES 

Woolens and worsteds continue weak both locally and 
nationally. The per cent of maximum single-shift 
spindle-hours operated is available thru August on a na- 
tional basis from the Bureau of the Census. In wool this 
percentage dropped to 74 in July and August. It had been 
78 and in the summer months last year was 76.5. The 
early months of this year in woolens compared favorably 













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with either 1926 or 1927. Worsteds were relatively 
weaker and continue to be so, although there has been a 
recovery from the low point in June. In August spindles 
were operating only 58 per cent of capacity. This is the 
worst August of record except 1924. The year as a whole 
is the worst. There is no sign of any significant change 
immediately ahead. The industry has not operated at 
80 per cent of capacity in any month for five years; it 
has averaged barely two-thirds of capacity. 

Chart 2 
SILK DELIVERIES TO AMERICAN MILLS 

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Silk mills operated at a high level in September. 
Their average daily power consumption was 38,800 kwh. 
This is an increase of 7,700 kwh since August and is 43 
per cent above September, 1927, in which month there 
was a sharp drop to the low of the year. Raw silk de- 
liveries to American mills are well sustained. (Chart 2.) 
A comparison with the dashed line shows that they 
have not expanded as rapidly in 1928 as in recent years. 
The drop in the absolute amount delivered in Septem- 
ber is due wholly to the shortness of the working 
month. 

NEW CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE 

There has been a marked decrease in new construction 
during the present year. The figures for contracts let 
in Rhode Island, published by F. W. Dodge, indicate 
that new contracts in the third quarter call for 30 per cent 
less floor space than those let in that period in 1927. 
The first quarter started vigorously, but there was less 
gain in the second quarter than is usual. The drop has 
been primarily in industrial and commercial construction 
In the quarter ending with September non-residential 
construction was contracted for to the extent of 1,034,000 
square feet in 1927; in 1928 contracts for these types 



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Table 2 

NEW BUILDING CONTRACTS IN RHODE ISLAND 

By Quarters: 1926-1928 

( Lhiil: 1000 Square Feet of Floor Space) 

Quarter All Contracts Residential 



OF Year 

First 

Second . . . . 
Third 



1926 


1927 


1928 


989 


850 


1214 


1953 


1655 


1596 


2042 


1794 


1280 



1926 1927 1928 

648 609 675 

1333 1101 1025 

963 760 885 



called for 395,000 square feet. Residential building goes 
forward at about the level of 1927 and slightly below that 
of 1926. 

New contracts are a better measure of prospective 
than of current building activity. The contract for the 
Industrial Trust Company's office influenced actual 
building operations for months after it was let. The 
completion of this project might be expected to reduce 
activity. The office of the State Commissioner of Labor 
instituted in March a series of reports on employment 
in the building trades. The figures are reported by about 
20 firms. Comparisons can not be made with last year. 
In March 2300 men were employed by these firms and 
in May 2700. Employment during the summer was 
about 2500. On the last day of September only 1970 
were employed. This sample of firms showed a decline 
in current operations, as measured by employment, 
of about 20 per cent from summer levels. From the 
figures for contracts let we assume that present activity 
is below 1927 levels. 

Real estate is also less active than it was in 1926 or 
1927. Chart 3 shows the number of deeds recorded in 
Providence. These always reach a peak in the spring. 
The peak came later than usual this year. The fact that 
there was a recession would not call for attention except 
that the drop was greater than in recent years. In 
Providence and Pawtucket the third quarter was less 
active than it had been in either 1926 or 1927. Cranston 
was far below 1926 levels, though better than it was in 

Chart 3 

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1927. Only in Johnston and East Providence is there 
greater activity than in either of the preceding years. 
With this slowing down of real estate and the decline 
in construction has come a lessened demand for mortgage 
loans. In Table 3 are shown the amounts of mortgages 
recorded in the third quarter in and about Providence. 

Table 3 

AMOUNTS OF MORTGAGES: THIRD QUARTER 

Providence Area: 1926-1928 



Place 

Providence 

East Providence . . 

Pawtucket 

Cranston 

North Providence. 
Johnston 



{Unit: $1,000) 

1926 

$7,058 

679 

1,847 

1,400 

258 

94 



1927 
$6,156 
894 
2,263 
634 
289 
130 



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$11,336 $10,366 



1928 
$5,460 
782 
1,673 
577 
173 
180 

$8,835 



The aggregate of mortgage loans made was $11,300,000 
in the third quarter of 1926; §10,300,000 in 1927; and 
only $8,800,000 in 1928. A decline from 1926 and 1927 
levels is noticed in all districts except East Providence 
and Johnston. In the former the peak came in 1927. 
Only Johnston shows further increase from the 1927 
levels; in this town in each of the quarters of this year 
mortgages in 1928 exceeded those in 1927. 

INDUSTRIAL DIVERSIFICATION 

The fundamental importance of a diversification of the 
business activities of a community cannot be stressed too 
greatly. Many agencies are interested in promoting the 
growth of this part of New England. It is important to 
our prosperity that new kinds of industry, as well as 
new plants, be brought in. 

The basis of this conclusion is that rarely are all 
industries depressed in the same month. The terms, 
prosperity and depression, do not imply that every 
industry booms or suffers depression at the same time. 
Prosperity means that most business is doing well — 
some of it at new peaks; much of it somewhat above 
normal; some of it perhaps depressed. With broad 
diversification the wide swings in individual industries 
are averaged down to more moderate fluctuations. 

Recent periods in our local industrial situation illus- 
trate the point. In 1926 building was in unusual volume, 
cotton was poor and the metal trades were fair. 1927 
was a better year for cotton and a bad year for metals. 
This past winter, as was pointed out at the time in this 
SERVICE, building activity was a strong supporting 
factor. Today the metal trades are unusually active, 
building has dropped and cotton is somewhat below last 
year. Each at a different time has been a sustaining 



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factor that prevented business from becoming really 
bad and, on the whole, has given us several good years. 
Still wider diversification would be our best insurance. 

RETAIL TRADE 

With the approach of the holiday season, retail sales 
will increase. The level will probably be slightly below 
that of last year. Retail sales from January thru Septem- 
ber were 1.8 per cent below those of that period in 1927. 
Weekly payroll withdrawals in Providence were 2 per 
cent below the 1927 level in September. As was pointed 
out in the last issue of the SERVICE, payrolls in Rhode 
Island outside of Providence ha\e been consistently 
below 1927 levels. (Chart 4.) For the third quarter 
total payroll withdrawals in the state were down to 
$46,162,000, a drop of 2.3 per cent from the 1927 figure. 

Chart 4 
PAYROLL WITHDRAWALS IN RHODE ISLAND 
On Basis of Four- Weeks' Month 
(.Unit: $1,000,000) 



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X. 



BANK OPERATIONS 

Debits to individual accounts by Providence Clearing 
House banks were larger in September of this year than 
in that month in any earlier year. The index stands at 
118.5 per cent of the monthly average in the base period, 
1919-1923. For the preceding four years the index in 
September was about 100. In each month of 1928 debits 
have been somewhat larger than in 1927. (Chart 5.) 
Bank clearings are one of the best indicators of the dollar 
volume of business. The index in October, 1926, reached 
an unprecedented height during the financial transactions 
involving the consolidation of two local utility companies. 



Chart 5 

DEBITS TO INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS 

Providence Clearing House Banks 

(.1919-1923 Average = 100) 




This extreme high point dwarfed later figures and for a 
time confused comparison. From the chart it will be 
seen that present levels, while high, are not forced up in 
any single month. 

In contrast with debits are the figures of net demand 
deposits for ten Providence banks. These averaged 
$118,400,000 in September. Last year at this time they 
were §125,900,000. Demand deposits reached a peak of 
$130,100,000 in January and maintained a high level 
until May. Since that month they have been consistently 
below 1927 levels. Demand deposits are one indication 
of potential buying power. A decline in deposits will 
normally be accompanied by a decline in debits. It seems 
probable therefore that debit figures are reflecting not 
only business activity but also a change in speculative 
activity. Of this there is no proof; the suggestion is 
advanced because a gain of IS per cent in debits over 
last year seems rather too large. 

Loans and discounts are the third series of banking 
figures reflecting business conditions. Because of a 
change in the accounting procedure of one bank, no direct 
comparison can be made with last year. Loans averaged 
$183,500,000 in September. This shows a normal increase 
over the summer months and compares favorably, with 
the spring peak of $186,500,000. It is probably about 
10 per cent larger than last September. 

Bank operations on the whole show business to be 
making a favorable comparison with last year. 



BROWN BUREAU OF BUSINESS RESEARCH 

(brown university and providence chamber of commerce 

IN cooperation with other agencies) 

Copyright, 1928 

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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Pembroke College in Brown 
University 



A T the meeting of the Brown 
■^^ University Corporation on Oc- 
tober. lO, the following vote was 
passed : 

"That in recognition of the 
growth of the Women's College and 
in order to give it a more distinctive 
name and place in American educa- 
tion, it shall henceforth be known as 
Pembroke College in Brown Univer- 
sity. In the making of this change 
in name, which has long been desired 
by many of the best friends of the 
Women's College, the Corporation 
wish to place on record their deep 
satisfaction in the growth and 
achievement of this division of the 
University. We recognize the Wo- 
men's College as an integral part of 
the University, not only at the pres- 
ent time, but through the expanding 
future. So long as we offer the 
highest education to men, so long we 
expect to offer it also to women. 
Under the new name, the old policy 
will continue and Pembroke College 



in Brown University will be one of 
the chief objects of our interest and 
care." 

This ends a long discussion over 
the name of the Women's College. 
Various more specific titles than 
"Women's College" have been sug- 
gested from time to time, including 
Andrews, in honor of President E. 
Benjamin Andrews, who was practi- 
cally its founder, and Metcalf, to 
commemorate the family chiefly in- 
strumental in providing it with its 
enlarged campus and group of build- 
ings. A considerable proportion of 
the alumnae, moreover, have been in 
favor of retaining the old name. 

Last spring the agitation for a 
change was renewed by the Brown 
Daily Herald and the Corporation 
was urged to give the institution a 
distinctive designation. Now the 
change has been made and we believe 
there will be general acquiescence 
in it. 



Happenings at Pembroke 



Freshman statistics are always in- 
teresting and perhaps they are even 
more than usually so this year for the 
class numbers on its roll a girl from 
Palestine and also one from Califor- 
nia. Rhode Island contributes the 
same this year as last, namely 73. 

The figures follow: 

This year Last year 
Rhode Island, 73 73 

Massachusetts, 27 21 

Connecticut, 16 18 

New York, 12 9 

New Jersey, 6 6 

Pennsylvania, 2 2 

New Hampshire, i I 

Virginia, I O 

Michigan, I O 

California, i o 

Palestine, i O 

Transfer students, 9. 
* * 

Metcalf Hall stole a lead on Mil- 



ler, and for the first time in three 
years came first in the dormitory ser- 
enading. Miller was not to be beat- 
en, however, and serenaded Metcalf 
at ten o'clock, by starlight, instead of 
interrupting the dinner hour. 

A new course is being given this 
year by Mrs. Mary Morris Seals, 
lately of Barnard, in Spoken English. 
All Sophomores are required to take 

it. 

» » 

Dean Morriss entertained at her 
summer home in Noank, Conn., 
Miss Eva Moore of the Personnel 
Department and six members of the 
Question Club. The girls fortunate 
enough to spend a week end with the 
Dean were Elizabeth Rose, president 
of C. A., Mary Fessenden, president 
of S. G. A., Alice McGrath, presi- 
dent of Brownies, Ethel Martus, 

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president of A. A., Dorothy Stra- 
chan, president of the Senior class, 
and Florence Weinstein, editor-in- 
chief of the Record. 

On Wednesday morning, Septem- 
ber 26, the first chapel service offici- 
ally initiated the present college year. 
Dean Morriss gave a welcoming ad- 
dress and then the service was turned 
over to the Class of 1929. Follow- 
ing the sing to the Freshmen and the 
impressive recessional, the Seniors 
gave the traditional plaintive Senior 
sigh. 

■* c- 

On Friday evening, the 28th of 
September, the Christian Association 
reception ushered in the social season 
for the year. President Faunce was 
introduced by Elizabeth Rose, presi- 
dent of C. A., and spoke entertain- 
ingly to the members of all the 
classes. Dean Morriss introduced 
the staff of the Women's College and 
we were surprised to find how many 
there were. A skit, followed by 
dancing and refreshments, concluded 
the evening. 

* * 

Women are interested in politics ! 
On the fourth of October ex-Gov- 
ernor Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyom- 
ing spoke on "Smith for President" 
and the following morning Mrs. 
Rogers, congresswoman from Massa- 
chusetts, told us why she favored 
Hoover. Shortly a straw vote is to 
be taken and Republican and Demo- 
cratic clubs are to be started. 

Saturday, October 6, the A. A. 
picnic for 1932 was held at the new 
Outing Club House at Rumford. 
Some of the girls went swimming 
and all had a good time, despite "in- 
itiations." 

* » 

An all-college tea was given on 
Tuesday, September 26, to introduce 
the Freshmen to the upper class wo- 
men. The Terrace and Commons 
Room of Alumnae Hall were the 
scenes of this informal gathering, 
which was under the capable direc- 
tion of Mary Fessenden and Eliza- 
beth Rose. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



President Faunce's Administration 

(From the Providence Evening Bulletin, October lO, 1928) 



DROWN UNIVERSITY has 
'^ expanded more under the presi- 
dency of Dr. William H. P. Faunce, 
who submitted his resignation to the 
University Corporation to-day, than 
during the combined administrations 
of eight Presidents who preceded 
him. 

The material, financial and intan- 
gible assets of the University have 
increased so greatly under the guid- 
ance of Dr. Faunce that the Univer- 
sity resembles only slightly the col- 
lege which Dr. Faunce took over 
from President E. Benjamin An- 
drews in the fall of 1899. Old grads 
who returned this last week and for 
Commencement, who had not seen 
the college in recent years, marvelled 
at the expansion, both at the L'niver- 
sity proper and at the Women's Col- 
lege in Brown University. 

Dr. Faunce's administration began 
with the academic year of 1899- 1900 
There were then 860 students. The 
past academic year saw more than 
2000 students at Brown, not includ- 
ing the many students of the LTniver- 
sity extension courses. 

The total assets of Brown in 1899 
were slightly over $1,000,000. To- 
day the total assets of the University 
are practically 13 times that amount. 

The faculty, which numbered 90 
members when Dr. Faunce became 
President, had more than 180 mem- 
bers, including instructors and de- 
partmental assistants, during the last 
academic year. 

When Dr. Faunce arrived at 
Brown, the University was in need 
of endowment funds and buildings. 
A year after he becaine President, 
Dr. Faunce launched a campaign for 
$1,000,000 for endowment purposes, 
and got it. 

Two years later, a like amount 
was raised. In 1912, under Dr. 



Faunce's leadership, the University 
added another million to its endow- 
ment fund. 

The war, which added materially 
to the expenses of the University and 
cut its revenue, made operation of 
the University financially difficult, 
and a $200,000 deficit showed on the 
books for 1918. 

In 1919, the greatest financial un- 
dertaking ever attempted by the Uni- 
versity was launched. No goal was 
set, but, through the tireless efforts 
of Dr. Faunce, working day and 
night with the alumni, a fund of 
$3,000,000 was raised. 

With the coming of Dr. Faunce, 
Brown University entered upon the 
greatest building period in its history. 
In 1 90 1, the President's house at 
Hope and Manning streets was com- 
pleted and in the following year the 
Administration building and the 
beautiful Van Wickle gates were 
completed. 

The Colgate Hoyt pool. Rockefel- 
ler Hall and Caswell Hall were 
erected in 1904. The University Li- 
brary, in 1906, had outgrown the 
building at Waterman and Prospect 
streets, and Andrew Carnegie offered 
$150,000 for a new library, provid- 
ing the University raised a like 
amount. This resulted in the com- 
pletion of the John Hay Library in 
1910. 

The Arnold Biological Laboratory 
on Lincoln Field was added to the 
University's plant in 1914, and, in 
1923, the Metcalf Chemical Labora- 
tory was given by Senator Jesse H. 
Metcalf as a memorial to his father. 

This last Commencement week 
saw the completion of the new mil- 
lion-dollar athletic plant, when the 
huge gymnasium on Elmgrove ave- 
nue was dedicated as an addition to 
Aldrich Field and Brown Field. Lit- 



tlefield Hall, Hegeman Hall and the 
Marston Hall of Modern Languages 
are other buildings which have ap- 
peared on the Brown campus re- 
cently. 

When Dr. Faunce first became 
President, the Women's College con- 
sisted of one building, Pembroke 
Hall, and to this have been added 
the seven or eight other buildings 
which now constitute the Women's 
College plant. The latest of these 
additions is the beautiful Alumnae 
Hall, dedicated during the past year. 

But President Faunce's contribu- 
tions to the material advancement of 
Brown have been closely parallelled 
by the advance in the intellectual and 
spiritual aspects of the college. En- 
trance requirements for the degree of 
Ph. D. were raised in 1903, and 
those for the engineering degrees in 
1902 and again in 1906. Entrance 
requirements for the A. B. degree 
were broadened in 1 908 and again in 
19 1 3. Changes to check the abuse of 
the elective system were made and, 
in T911, the three-term system was 
given up for an academic year con- 
sisting of two semesters. 

The number of hours of instruc- 
tion offered per week has increased 
during the 29 years from 458 to 
more than 750. The office of Dean 
was created in 1 900, and, in 1920, 
the office of Dean of Freshmen was 
created. 

Through President Faunce's ef- 
forts. Brown University has been 
brought in to closer co-operation, not 
only with the city of Providence and 
the State of Rhode Island, but also 
with other higher institutions of 
learning. Certain courses at the 
Rhode Island School of Design now 
count as credit for a university de- 
gree. Newton Theological Semi- 
nary agreed to accept toward its de- 
gree certain courses given at Brown. 
The State of Rhode Island makes 
annual appropriations for graduate 
courses in education. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



Professor Emeritus James Quayle 
Dealey has begun his duties as a spe- 
cial writer on the staft of the Dallas, 



Tex 



He and Mrs. Dealev 



are living in the Highland Park sec- 
tion of Dallas. 

Professor James A. Hall of the 
Division of Engineering read a paper 
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on "Measuring Devices, Primarily 
Manual," at a meeting on measure- 
ment held in New York, Oct. 17. 
Professor Hall was a speaker at the 
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Technical Societies of Boston at the 
Boston City Club, Sept. 26. He is 
also the author of a paper, "Hob 
Corrections for Gear Tooth Modifi- 
cations," which appeared serially in 
the four September issues of the 
American Machinist. 

Professor S. Foster Damon of the 
English Department is at work on a 
biography of Amy Lowell, to be 
published by Houghton, Mifflin 
Company. Mr. Damon is a poet in 
his own name and is known for his 
volume on William Blake. 

Professor Harry E. Miller of the 
Department of Economics is giving 
an advanced course on current prob- 
lems in finance at Clark University, 
Worcester, this semester under the 
auspices of the Carroll D. Wright 
Fund, established in honor of the 
first president of Clark University. 

Professor Walter Ballou Jacobs, 
director of LTniversity Extension, be- 
gan his fall series during the week 
of October 22 with sixty courses, 
the largest number on record. 
Among the members of the Faculty 
new to extension lecturing on the 
Hill are William Adams Brown, 
Jr., and Charles A. Glover of the 
Department of Economics, DeOr- 
mond McLaughry, coach of football 
and basketball, Arthur E. Jensen of 
the English Department, Cecil Lewis 
and Napoleon Tremblay, modern 
languages, and Chester H. Kirby, 
History Department. Professor 

Gene Ware is a special lecturer on 
music and Professor Thomas Crosby 
on the drama. 

Professor Theodore Collier of the 
History Department and Professor 
Leland M. Goodrich were the speak- 
ers before the first fall meeting of 
the Sphinx Club held at the LTniver- 
sity on Oct. 10. Professor Collier 
set forth the reasons why Herbert 
Hoover, honorary 1916, should be 
the next occupant of the White 
House, while Professor Goodrich 
extolled Alfred E. Smith for his lib- 
eralism and political leadership. 



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i860 

Judge George N. Bliss, former 
member of the class and father of 
William C. Bliss '96, died in East 
Providence, R. I., on Aug. 29, 1928, 
in his 92nd year. He was a veteran 



of the Civil War, winner of the Con- 
gressional Medal for extraordinary 
bravery in action, court justice for 
half a century and otherwise an en- 
ergetic citizen. He left Brown after 
two years of study and took his de- 
gree at Union College. He pre- 
pared for the law at Albany Law 
School. 

1872 

George Appleton Stockwell, re- 
tired, died in Providence on Oct. 14, 
1928. In his early life he had been 
newspaperman, consul and magazine 
writer. He was born in Webster, 
Mass., Feb. 3, 1847, the son of 
Charles Perry and Abigail Heaton 
(Towne) Stockwell. He prepared 
at Worcester Academy and received 
his A.B. with the class and his A.M. 
— "my precious A. M.," he used to 
call it — in 1875. He was a reporter 
on the staffs of the Boston Adver- 
tiser, Providence Journal and Provi- 
dence Press, acted as agent for the 
United States Coast Survey and 
served as British Vice Consul in 
Providence for many years. He al- 
so was secretary of the Rhode Island 
Board of Agriculture, the author of 
several Massachusetts town histories, 
editor of the Rhode Island Almanac 
and contributor to foreign newspa- 
pers. He was married Sept. i, 1874, 
to Anne Allen Ives Douglas. His 
fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

1877 

George F. Weston and Mrs. Wes- 
ton were guests at a reception held 
in their honor at Technical High 
School, Providence, on Oct. 19, pre- 
vious to their departure for Califor- 
nia. Weston was the beloved prin- 
cipal of Technical from 1895 to 
1915, when he resigned. 

1880 

The Alumni Office has received 
report of the death of William 
Francis Richardson in Seattle, 
Wash., on Jan. 15, 1928. He had 
been in retirement for some years. 
He wrote in 1923: "Although I 
have no vocation, I have the avoca- 
tion of carrying out the Twelve 
Principles of the Bahai Movement, 
particularly of free instruction in Es- 
peranto. I am also founder and 
president of the 'Religious Open Fo- 
rum.' " One of the objects of this 
forum, he explained, was to restore 
the word religion "to its ancient 
sense." Richardson was born in An- 

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dover, Mass., Feb. 10, 1856, the son 
of Francis and Charlotte (Barr) 
Richardson. He prepared at Phil- 
lips Andover, took his A. B. with our 
class and his A. M. in 1885. He 
taught school in Vermont for three 
years after graduation, spent five 
years in the United States Army as 
a private in the Signal Corps and 
then moved to Seattle, where he en- 
gaged in the real estate business for 
several years. In 1889 he became 
secretary of the Seattle Branch of 
the Theosophical Society and its 
president in 1892. He was married 
a second time in March, 191 8, to 
Mary Margaret Durbin. The 
Alumni Office has written for fur- 
ther information. 

At a meeting of the Convocation 
of the American Churches in Europe, 
Herbert Ide Keen, living in Paris 
and a warden of the Church of the 
Holy Trinity, was elected first on 
the list of lay members of the Coun- 
cil of Advice. 

1881 
Charles Evans Hughes is one of 
the recipients of the Roosevelt Medal 
for Distinguished Service this year. 
He is "honored for his work in the 
administration of public office and in 
the development of public and inter- 
national law." The medal, made of 
gold, carries the motto: "If I must 
choose between peace and righteous- 
ness, I choose righteousness." Ac- 
cording to plans as we went to press, 
the medal was to be awarded at a 
dinner at the Roosevelt House, New 
York, on Oct. 27, the day of Theo- 
dore Roosevelt's birth. 

1883 

News of the death of Dr. James 
H. Davenport in Providence on Oct. 
15, 1928, arrived as the time limit 
for copy for this issue of the Monthly 
had been reached. An account of 
Dr. Davenport's career will appear 
next month. 

Charles A. Steere, former member 
of the class, died in West Somerville, 
Mass., Aug. 3, 1928. Secretary 
Preston reports that Steere's "later 
years were passed in retirement on 
his farm at Chepachet, R. I., but the 
early years after leaving college were 
probably strenuous years of varied 
experience." His brother, Edwin 
Steere, of West Somerville, is a sur- 
vivor. 

1885 
Samuel Slater Stone, lawyer, died 



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in Saunderstown, R. L, Sept. 9, 
1928. His deatli brought to an end, 
the Providence Journal said, "the 
oldest law firm and partnership in 
the city of Providence." Except for 
a term in the Rhode Island House of 
Representatives, Stone had given his 
whole life after college to the prac- 
tice and study of the law. He formed 
his partnership in 1889 with his 
classmate and room mate on the Hill, 
Edward F. Lovejoy, and his career 
at the bar was an honorable one. 
"He was thorough and exhaustive in 
his examination of all matters and 
legal questions submitted to him. He 
had a trained, orderly and logical 
mind, all of which made him a safe 
and helpful counsellor." Stone, a 
descendant of Samuel Slater of cot- 
ton mill fame, was born in Dudley, 
Mass., coming to Providence as a 
boy. After graduation he read law 
in the office of Thomas A. Jenckes 
'77 and was admitted to the Rhode 
Island bar in 1887. He is survived 
by a widow, Mrs. Edith Rodman 
Stone, and five daughters. The class 
was represented at the funeral by E. 
F. Lovejov, Frank Hail Brown, 
Ward B. Chase, Dr. George S. 
Mathews, Judge Arthur P. Sumner, 
Knight C. Richmond, John C. Heb- 
den and Andrew McCorrie Warren. 

1886 
George Grime, Mayor of Fall 
River, Mass., City Solicitor for 
many years and well-known lawyer, 
died in Fall River on Oct. i, 1928, 
following a long illness. A sufiferer 
from diabetes, he lost a leg by ampu- 
tation in the spring of 1926 and 
though he recovered from the opera- 
tion rather well he was not able to 
make a winning fight against his 
malady. "He appears cheerful de- 
spite his misfortune," a friend wrote 
some time ago. "He is sitting up in 
a chair, is able to answer telephone 
calls and talk with some callers." 
Grime was born in Manchester, 
England, in 1859. He came to this 
country as a boy, took his A. B. and 
A. M. at Brown and his LL.B. at 
Harvard Law School in 1890. He 
commenced practice in Fall River 
and in 1893 became City Solicitor. 
In 1896 he resigned office to accept 
appointment as special justice of the 
Second District Court of Bristol 
County, Massachusetts. In 1901 as 
Republican candidate for Mayor of 
Fall River he swept the city — "dis- 
tinctly the people's choice," said one 
of the city's newspapers the day af- 



ter the election. He returned to the 
private practice of law in 1905, 
served again as City Solicitor 1913- 
1923, and, until his final sickness, 
maintained his interest in the law 
and in civic affairs. He was married 
Oct. 9, 1899, to Miss Helen A. Ar- 
nold of New Bedford, Mass. 

Edward Clifton Burnham, for- 
merly a member of the Faculty of 
the University and designer with the 
Draper Company, Hopedale, Mass., 
for the last 26 years, died in Hope- 
dale on Oct. 4, 1928. He was bom 
in Central Falls, R. I., Oct. 2, 1863, 
the son of Charles Cushing and Lu- 
cinda (Mason) Burnham. He 
came to college from Pawtucket 
High School and after receiving his 
A. B. with the class went to Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, 
from which he was graduated with 
a B. S. degree in 1890. He at once 
entered the Rhode Island Locomo- 
tive Works as a draughtsman, re- 
maining two years. He came back 
to College Hill in 1892 as instructor 
in mechanical drawing and engineer- 
ing, and in 1896 he became associate 
professor of mechanical engineering. 
He resigned in 1902 to go with the 
Draper Company. In college Burn- 
ham was a fine student, winning Phi 
Beta Kappa in his Junior year and 
then election to Sigma Xi. He was 
a leader for some years in the Soci- 
ety for the Promotion of Engineering 
Education. He was married in 1893 
to Miss Mary E. Wright; and their 
three sons, Malcolm W., Kenneth 
N. and Edward C. Burnham, Jr., all 
attended the LTniversity. Burnham's 
fraternity was Delta Upsilon. 

1888 

Dr. William Allen Wilbur. Dean 
of Columbian College, the George 
Washington University, Washing- 
ton, D. C, has been named Provost 
of the University, dating from the 
beginning of this academic year. 
Dean Wilbur has been on the Fac- 
ulty of the George Washington Uni- 
versity since 1895 and is prominent 
in educational and religious circles 
in Washington. 

1889 

David G. Smyth reports that his 
new address is 7 Frederick St., Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

Lauriston H. Hazard is a candi- 
date for re-election as a member of 
the Providence School Committee 
which at present is engaged in revis- 
ing and rebuilding the public school 
system of the city. 

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1891 
Gerald Birney Smith's new book, 
"Current Christian Thinking," is de- 
scribed by a reviewer in the New 
Republic as "a clear and succinct ac- 
count of the religious tendencies of 
the times, which the author traces to 
their beginnings in the building up 
of ecclesiasticism in medieval times 
on the basis of dogmatic authority." 
The book comes out under the im- 
print of the LTniversity of Chicago 
Press. 

1894 

President John Hope of More- 
house College, Atlanta, Ga., has had 
another honorary degree conferred 
upon him, this time an LL.D. from 
McMaster University, Toronto, as 
a tribute to his work for education in 
the South. Hope also has honorary 
degrees from Bucknell and Howard 
Universities. 

1895 
Justice Chester W. Barrows of the 
Rhode Island Supreme Court and 
John A. Tillinghast, together with 
Justice Elmer J. Rathbun, John S. 
Murdock, LTnited States District At- 
torney, C. R. Easton and Frederick 
A. Jones, all of the class of '96, and 
Thomas P. Corcoran '93 observed 
the 30th anniversary of their admis- 
sion to the Rhode Island bar by a 
dinner in Providence on Oct. 3, 
1928. 

1896 

Judge Frederick G. Frost was re- 
elected chairman of the East Provi- 
dence, R. I.,- budget committee at 
the organization meeting of the com- 
mittee last month. 

1897 

Dr. Gregory D. Walcott, for 
some years professor of philosophy in 
Hamline University, St. Paul, 
Minn, is giving a course in modern 
thought at the new Long Island 
University this year. He is living at 
147 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Russell Grinnell, Senator from 
Exeter and Republican leader in the 
Rhode Island State, refused last 
month to run again for office, saying 
that he intended to give his whole 
time to his business affairs. Grin- 
nell's farm in Exeter is one of the 
finest in New England. 

1898 

Rev. Lester B. Mathewson has 
given to the University Library 
what is believed to be the smallest 



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edition of Homer ever printed. The 
book was printed in 1831 and was 
presented to Mathewson by Henry 
S. Latham '63, a devoted Greek and 
Latin scholar. "He was the most 
gentle and cultured man I have ever 
met," ALithewson wrote President 
Faunce. 

1899 

John 13. Tingley reports his new 
house address to be 517 Linden st., 
Glen Ellyn, 111. He is teaching in 
the Coyne Electrical School, Chi- 
cago. 

Ewing Hill, former member of 
the class, is living at the Ritz Carl- 
ton, New York, and has his office at 
52 Vanderbilt ave. 

1900 

Rev. Dr. M. Joseph Twomey of 
the Peddie Memorial Church, New- 
ark, N. J., was the speaker at the Fa- 
ther and Son and Mother and 
Daughter dinner held at the First 
Baptist Church, North Adams, 
Mass., the last week in September. 
1901 

President Harvey N. Davis of 
Stevens Institute of Technology has 
been nominated as a trustee of the 
Teachers Insurance and Annuity 
Association of America for a four- 
year term from 1928-29. Harvey 
made his bow as an Alumni Trustee 
of the University at the meeting of 
the Corporation at the Faculty Club 
on Oct. 10. He will be inaugurated 
as President at Stevens on Nov. 22- 
23. Presidents Faunce and Lowell 
will speak. 

1902 

Everett J. Horton, former Fire 
Commissioner, was in the field for 
Alderman from the Second Ward of 
Providence as this was written (Oct. 
15). Horton accepted the nomina- 
tion at the behest of the Civic Club 
of the ward, an organization formed 
to combat standpat Republicanism in 
that section of the city. 

1903 

Arthur L. Philbrick has been re- 
elected chairman of the Brown Bu- 
reau of Business Research. Phil has 
also been chosen as a member of the 
budget committee just authorized 
for the city of Providence. 

J. H. Jones, Jr., tells us that he 
is still on duty at the City Hall, Bos- 
ton, as associate editor of the Boston 
City Record. 

1904 

A pleasant note from Fred Savage 



recently brought the information that 
he is executive secretary of the Cen- 
tral Nassau District, Y. M. C. A., 
with his office at 44 Main St., Hemp- 
stead, N. Y. 

Plans are in the making, we hear, 
for the 25th Reunion of the class to 
take place next June. No doubt 
about it, the class will have to move 
fast to equal similar reunions by 
1902 and 1903. 

1905 

Judson A. Crane of the Faculty 
of the Law School, L'niversity of 
Pittsburgh, is special lecturer this 
year at the University of Southern 
California School of Law, Los An- 
geles. 

The Class of 1905 Scholarship 
has been awarded to Nelson H. 
Munson, Jr., of Groton, Conn. 
Munson won his football letter as a 
lineman in 1927 and is again a regu- 
lar this fall. The committee chose 
him for the award after consultation 
with President Faunce. 

Earl Browning is librarian of the 
Public Library, Peoria, 111., and 
lives at 213 South Glenwood ave., 
Peoria. There are three youngsters 
in the Browning family, Nancy and 
Martha, twins, and Herbert Wil- 
liam, who was three years old last 
July, thank you. 

Charlie Robinson's father, C. H. 
Robinson of Providence, has given 
to Henry Ford for Mr. Ford's mu- 
seum in Dearborn, Mich., an old 
pipe organ believed to have been pur- 
chased originally for the Chestnut 
Hill Meeting House, Mendon, 
Mass., which was built in 1769. 
The Robinson family came from 
Mendon, and Robinson, pere, bought 
the organ from a peddler years ago. 

1906 

George G. Shor is managing edi- 
tor of the Philadelphia Record. He 
has recovered from the sickness that 
sent him to hospital last spring and 
is back at the job of running the Rec- 
ord with his old, aggressive energy. 

Preston S. Moulton, head master 
of Birmingham School, Birmingham, 
Pa., since 1916, had a major share in 
the 75th anniversary of the school, 
held last summer. His history of the 
school shows its surprising growth 
and prosperity and tells the story of 
the development of student govern- 
ment at the institution. Mrs. Moul- 
ton has been of great aid to her hus- 
band in the conduct of the school. 

Joe Wheeler set forth with great 
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clarity and interest the business of a 
public library in a signed article in 
the Evening Sun, Baltimore, Md., 
of Sept. 13, 1928. Joe is librarian 
of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 
Baltimore, and he is doing a splendid 
work in making the library serve its 
public. 

1907 

Leon E. Truesdell, chief statisti- 
cian for population, Bureau of the 
Census, received the degree of Ph.D. 
at the Commencement exercises of 
the Robert Brookings Graduate 
School of Economics and Govern- 
ment in Washington on Sept. 8, last. 
Leon has been doing part time work 
at the school for several years. He 
presented as his thesis a volume on 
"The Farm Population of the L^^ni- 
ted States," which was published by 
the Census Bureau two years ago 
and which has been favorably com- 
mented upon, at home and abroad. 
One Welsh reviewer praised its at- 
mosphere of common sense and said 
that "British students should read it 
as an antidote to some of the litera- 
ture to which they had become in- 
ured." 

Heine Elrod was an Alumni Of- 
fice visitor last month, introducing 
his son. Perry, now a student at 
Newton, Mass., High School, and 
getting information about the men 
in the class. He and Perry saw the 
Brown-Worcester Polytech game at 
Brown Field. 

We don't know whether or not 
Hep Pearsall is becoming an anti- 
quarian, but we must admit the fact 
that we saw Hep and Mrs. Pearsall 
inspecting Henry Ford's collection of 
antiques at the Waj'side Inn, Sud- 
bury, Mass., one day toward the tail- 
end of the summer. 

George Hurley is one of the di- 
rectors of the newly-organized As- 
sociation of Rhodes Scholars which 
proposes to "make some return to 
Oxford L^niversity for the benefits it 
has given American Rhodes Schol- 
ars." George has been doing only a 
little political campaigning this fall 
in Rhode Island. 

1908 

Miss Mary-Hunter Marston, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter 
Marston, will be introduced to so- 
ciety at a dinner dance to be given 
at the Ritz Carlton in New York, 
Dec. 22. Miss Marston attended 
Westover School, Middlebury, 
Conn., and studied last year at Miss 
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John J. Cooney is candidate for 
Representative from the First Rhode 
Island Congressional District on the 
Democratic ticket. 

1909 

A more than welcome letter from 
Heinie Selleck not long ago brought 
the news that Heine was married 
Sept. 8, 1928, to Mrs. Mary J. John- 
son and that he and Mrs. Selleck 
are living at 17725 Manderson road, 
Apartment 202, Detroit, Mich. 
Heinie is with the national advertis- 
ing agency of Brooke, Smith & 
French, Inc., in the city that Messrs. 
Ford and Cobb made famous. 

Chauncey E. Wheeler of the law 
firm of Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast 
& Phillips has moved his offices to 
the new Industrial Trust bldg., 
Providence, Room 2200. 

A Manton Chace is the new pres- 
ident of the Exchange Club of Prov- 
idence. Manton's office address is 
1606 Industrial Trust bldg. 

Hubert Ede, formerly city editor 
of the Newark Evening News, is 
Professor of Journalism in Rutgers 
L^niversity. 

Jimmie Connolly, City Solicitor 
of Pawtucket, was candidate for el- 
ection as Lieutenant Governor of 
Rhode Island on the Republican 
ticket. With Jimmie, Norman S. 
Case '08, up for re-election as Gov- 
ernor, and Charlie Sisson '11, run- 
ning again for Attorney General, the 
ticket had a distinct Brown tinge. 

E. L. (Tink) Chandler, who is 
with Price Brothers, contractors and 
builders of Dayton, O., left Seguin, 
Texas, last June and is now on a 
large hydro-electric construction job 
at Evansville, Ind. His address is 
Station B, Evansville. 

John Lapham, acting dean for 
some time, has been appointed Dean 
of the School of Engineering, the 
George Washington University, 
Washington, D. C. 

Charlie Hughes has been repre- 
senting the International Telephone 
& Telegraph Company before the 
Federal Radio Commission asking 
for allocation to the company of 
short wave wireless channels for 
land communication. 

Bill Miller was elected President 
of the Providence Athenaeum last 
month to succeed Dr. G. Alder Blu- 
mer, 1905, honorary. Bill is also a 
member of the library committee. 

The class of 1909 claims Presi- 
dent-elect Barbour as a member. He 



received the degree of D. D. on the 
day the rest of us received our first 
degrees. 

1910 

Gaius H. Barrett is superintend- 
ent of schools this year in the towns 
of Littleton and Bethlehem, N. H. 
His office is in Littleton. 

Jack Hartigan is the new District 
Deputy Grand Master of the Elks 
of Rhode Island. Jack has been act- 
ive in the Elks for the last ten years 
and is an honorary life member of 
Providence. As we go to press he is 
the Democratic nominee for Attor- 
ney General of Rhode Island, against 
Charlie Sisson '11. 

Report of the death of Franklin 
L. Wheeler in Baltimore, Md., on 
Aug. 30, 1928, reached the Alumni 
Office too late for last month's issue. 
Wheeler, always a loyal member of 
the class, although he only spent two 
years with us on the Hill, had been 
connected with the Wheeler Schnei- 
der Coal Co., Sheldon, Conn., since 
191 1. He was born in Shelton, 
Feb. I, 1882, the son of Horace and 
Sarah A. (Mallett) Wheeler. He 
studied for two years at the Univer- 
sity of Colorado' Boulder, and en- 
tered Brown in 1908. He was a stu- 
dent at the Yale Forestry School, 
1910-11, but he gave up the idea of 
becoming a forester to enter the re- 
tail coal business in Shelton. At the 
time of his death he was secretary 
and treasurer of the Wheeler 
Schneider Company. His mother 
and a sister survive him. Wheeler 
was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. 
1911 

Charlie King is hard at work as 
principal of the upper school at Pem- 
broke, a boarding and day school for 
boys in Kansas City, Mo. Charlie 
is also teaching English and history. 
The prospectus shows the school as 
a genuinely attractive one, and per- 
haps it will come to pass that Char- 
lie will send some of his best boys to 
Brown. 

Ellis Yatman was sworn in as 
Judge of the Municipal Court of 
Providence last month. Ellis held 
his first court on Tuesday, Oct. 16. 
He has gone to the bench from the 
office of City Solicitor Elmer S. 
Chace '01. 

Russell E. (Slip) Sisson died sud- 
denly of cerebral hemorrhage in 
Providence on Oct. 6, 1928. To 
his friends who had seen him and 
talked with him a day or so before 
the end, the news was a real blow. 
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And it was a shock to the rest of us 
who knew Slip and enjoyed his com 
radeship. He was born in Provi- 
dence, Aug. 4, 1 89 1, the son of 
Charles and Elizabeth Davies 
(Eyre) Sisson. He came to college 
from Moses Brown School, played 
basketball as an undergraduate and 
was editor-in-chief of the Liber Bru- 
nensis in his senior year. From 
September, 191 1, to March, 1920, 
except for two years in war service, 
he was cost accountant and salesman 
for the Hope Webbing Co., Paw- 
tucket, R. I. He enlisted May 3, 
1917, in Battery A, 103rd Field Ar- 
tillery, 26th Division, and went into 
camp with the battery at Quonset 
and Boxford, Mass. Then he was 
transferred to the Ordnance Enlisted 
Corps, in which he served until his 
discharge, March 24, 1919, with the 
rank of First Lieutenant. In March, 
1920, he became associated with the 
Brockton Webbing Co., with which 
he remained for a year. Until re- 
cently he had been a salesman, first 
for the Autocar Sales and Service 
Co., and then for A. B. Leach & Co., 
with headquarters in Providence. 
Slip's favorite game in the last eight 
years was golf, and he stood high 
among Rhode Island golfers. He 
came close to winning the State 
championship on one or two occa- 
sions and he had several important 
club cups in his collection. He is 
survived by his mother, two brothers, 
Charles P. Sisson of our class and 
Dr. William E. Sisson '18, and a 
sister, Ruth Sisson, '14, Pembroke. 
To them the sympathy of the chss 
is given. Slip was a member of the 
L^niversity Club, Old Town Club 
and Alpha Delta Phi. 
1912 
John W. Brown died in River- 
point, R. I., Oct. 14, 1928, follow- 
ing a long illness. He was born in 
New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 7, 1888, 
the son of John Watson and Hannah 
(Smith) Brown . He came up the 
Hill from Classical High School, 
Providence, took his Sc.B. in civil 
engineering with the class and went 
forth into the world as an engineer. 
He began with the Interborough 
Rapid Transit, New York, and was 
successively with Robert W. Hunt 
& Co., Rome Manufacturing Co., 
Rome, N. Y., and the New York 
Canners Co., Inc., also of Rome. He 
was a member of Kappa Sigma and 
was well up in Masonry in Rome 
and Rochester, N. Y. He is sur- 
vived by his widow, who was Miss 




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Jane Higham, a son, William, his 
mother, three sisters and three 
brothers. 

Arthur Newell has entered upon 
his second year as Professor of His- 
tory and International Relations at 
Robert College, Constantinople. Art 
was home during the summer, and 
he certainly was enthusiastic about 
his work and its prospects. 

Rev. William L. Stidger's new 
book, "The High Faith of Fiction 
and Drama," was published recently 
by Doubleday Doran Company. It 
is a book about books — the kind 
Stidger likes to write and with which 
he has been successful. He's preach- 
ing in Edward Everett Hale's old 
pulpit at the Copley Methodist 
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of graduates who have proceeded to 
advanced work in geology in the last 
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of the University Athletic Council. 
Sprack is also acting as scout for the 
team this season. 

■ 1913 

Busty Ashbaugh's new house ad- 
dress is 84 E. Delason ave., Youngs- 
town, O. Busty is athletic director 
at South High School, Youngstown. 

Carleton Sims has begun another 
vear as a member of the Faculty of 
Allendale School, Rochester, N. Y., 
where he is teaching history and ge- 
ography. 

Al Lemon, Republican candidate 
for Mayor of Providence, has the 
distinction of having written his own 
platform. Al set down in clear, 
understandable English just what he 
was aiming at ; his party accepted 
what he had written ; and, as this 
copy was being mailed to the printer, 
Al was carrying his fight forward 
with vigor. 

1914 

Preliminary reports have it that 
the 15th Reunion of the class will 
take place at Jamestown, R. I., next 
June. Now is the time to begin to 
prepare to be there. 

Reggie Nash is on leave of absence 
this year from Milton Academy and 
is doing special graduate work at 
Harvard. He is living at A 11, 
McKinlock Hall, Cambridge. 

1915 

Ray Gallant is now living at 92 
Fountain St., Haverhill, Mass. His 
business is the Gallant Weaving Co., 
silk manufacturers. 

Stricken by spinal meningitis while 
on a business trip, Herbert N. Nich- 
olas died in a New York hospital on 
Sept. 27, 1928. In the last few years 
he had risen rapidly as one of the 
foremost young business men in Paw- 
tucket, R. I., where he was born. 
May 15, 1891, the son of George 
Edwin and Carrie (Newell) Nicho- 
las. He prepared at Pawtucket 
High School, took his A. B. with the 
class and his A. M. in 1916. He 
was head of the History Department, 
Attleboro, Mass., High School, for 
a year, resigning to enlist in the First 
Company, Coast Artillery Corps, 
July 7, 1 91 7. He was transferred 
to Company A, loist Engineers, 
26th Division, and saw service in 
France until April, 1918, when he 
returned as member of a special 
party to speak throughout the coun- 
try. He rejoined his regiment in 
July, became a corporal in October, 
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igi8, and came home with the 26th 
Division in April, 1 919. He re- 
sumed teaching as head of the His- 
tory Department, Medford, Mass., 
High School, but retired in 1 920 to 
join the Newell Coal & Lumber Co., 
Pawtucket, of which he was treas- 
urer and general manager at the 
time of his death. He was President 
of the Pawtucket Credit Rating Bu- 
reau, active in several lumber asso- 
ciations, and a member of the Lions, 
To Kalon Club, Pawtucket Golf 
Club, Rhode Island Country Club 
and the Oyster Harbor Club of Os- 
terville, Mass., where he spent his 
summers. Likewise he showed gen- 
uine interest in his fraternity. Phi 
Gamma Delta, and was a frequent 
visitor to the chapter house. He is 
survived by his widow, who was 
Miss Nell Rhodes of London, Eng- 
land, and whom he married July 3, 
1918, his parents, two brothers and 
three sisters. 

1916 
Rowland Hughes is on his way 
once more, this time with London, 
England, as his destination. When 
he's settled in London his address 
will be care of the National City 
Bank of New York, West End 
Branch, 1 1 Waterloo place. 

1917 
Tom Appleget returned to the 
campus last month to be sworn in 
as the youngest member of the Uni- 
versity Corporation — he was elected 
last June as an Alumni Trustee, you 
know — and to visit some of his old 
friends in Providence. Tom spent 
most of the summer in Europe on a 
combined business and pleasure trip. 

1918 

Rev. Earl H. Tomlin, former 
member of the class, and for the last 
several years pastor of the Home- 
wood Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, 
Pa., has assumed his duties as assist- 
ant pastor of the Calvary Baptist 
Church, Providence. 

Walter Adler, our genial secre- 
tary, is now Third Assistant City 
Solicitor of Providence, having be- 
gun work in his new office last 
month. Walter's boss is Elmer S. 
Chace '01 and one of his side kickers 
is our own Cliff Munroe. 

1919 
Sam Temkin was right in the mid- 
dle of his fight to win the election 
as Republican candidate for State 
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Sam is practicing law at 311 Turks 
Head bldg.. Providence. 

Fred Thomas resigned in July as 
treasurer and agent of the Pemaquid 
Mill, New Bedford. Mass., to join 
Homer Loring of Boston in Mr. 
Loring's work to rehabilitate the 
Fall River textile industry. Fred is 
in charge of manufacturing for the 
mill consolidation which Mr. Lor- 
ing is putting into effect. He has 
been thoroughly successful in his 
field since he took his degree and 
we'll all cheer for him to get results 
in the difficult job that he has under- 
taken. 

Rudolph Fisher's book, "The 
Walls of Jericho," received favora- 
ble notices from the reviewers when 
it appeared about a month ago. The 
London Times Literary Supplement, 
we have heard, was outspoken in its 
praise. The' chief characters of the 
sory are a piano mover and a house- 
maid in Harlem. 

Harry Samson is editor of Com- 
munity Welfare, the magazine pub- 
lished by the Providence Commun- 
ity Fund, Inc., and is directing the 
news campaign which the Fund car- 
ries on throughout the vear. 



1920 

Stanley Dore has joined the engi- 
neering staff of the Metropolitan 
District Water Supply Commission, 
Boston, of which Frank E. Winsor 
'91 is Chief Engineer. Stan is living 
at 120 ]\Lanthorne road, West Rox- 
bury, Mass. 

Ray Halliday has become assistant 
professor of modern languages at the 
Citadel, Charleston, S. C. The Cit- 
adel is the leading military school of 
the South. Another Brown man on 
its Faculty is Leonard A. Prouty '06. 

Dan Whitford, who received his 
Master of Education degree from 
Harvard in 1927, is instructor in 
Mathematics at Brooklyn Polytech- 
nic Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
1921 

Stuart Macmillan, who is practic- 
ing law in the offices of Barker, Da- 
vison and Shattuck, 35 Congress st,, 
Boston, is living on Leavitt St., Hing- 
ham, Mass. Stuart's marriage is re- 
ported elsewhere. 

George W. Potter, editor of the 
Providence Tribune, is giving the ex- 
tension course in journalism at the 
University this fall. George's edito- 
rial on President Faunce's resigna- 



tion (in the Tribune of Oct. 11, 
1928) was a fine, sympathetic piece 
of writing, quite in George's best 
style. 

1922 
Austin Davies is with the Public 
Charities Association, Philadelphia, 
and he tells us that his work is "to 
increase the membership and keep the 
finances going." His home address is 
781 1 Forest ave., Highland Park, 
Pa. 

Ed Bullock, who has been teach- 
ing school in Connecticut for several 
years, reports his new address as 
Sturtevant Hall, Newton Theologi- 
cal Institution, Newton Center, 
Mass., so we presume Ed is studying 
for the ministry. 

1923 

Mike Gulian blossomed forth as 
a football official this fall and has al- 
ready appeared in action in several 
college games. Looks to us as if 
Mike would be a worthy successor 
to Fred Murphy, Dave Fultz, Vic 
Schwartz and other leading Brown 
officials. 

Andy ^Vlacfarlane is a member of 
the investment council, common 
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York. In a letter to the Alumni Of- 
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at least play a football game in New 
York every other year." 

Fred Sweet, instructor in English 
at Lafayette last year, is back on the 
Hill this year, doing graduate work 
in English. 

Bob Meader was ordained as dea- 
con in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church by Rt. Rev. James DeWolf 
Perry, Bishop of Rhode Island, on 
Sunday, Sept. 30, in St. Luke's 
Church, East Greenwich, R. I., of 
which Bob's father, Rev. Charles A. 
Meader '91, is rector. Bob is in 
charge of St. Andrew's Church, 
Providence. 

Charlie Scanlon, who has been 
teaching at Simmons College for the 
last four years, is a member this year 
of the Modern Languages Depart- 
ment, Marquette University, Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

Rev. Arthur F. McKenny re- 
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tention a month ago when he an- 
nounced his resignation as assistant 
pastor of the Central Baptist Church, 
Hartford, Conn., to enter the Epis- 
copal Church. Arthur said in his 
statement that he took the step be- 
cause in the Episcopal Church he 
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we wish him success and a larger 
usefulness in his new field. He will 
be assistant at St. John's Church, 
Waterbury, Conn. 

Howard Fales, so we hear, is 
learning the business "from the base- 
ment up" with the Stillwater 
Worsted Co., Harrisville, R. I. 

Burton McCumber writes that he 
has been down in Tennessee since 
last spring and expects to remain un- 
til after Christmas. He's putting in 
air-conditioning equipment in two ar- 
tificial silk mills in Elizabethton for 
the Carrier Engineering Co., of 
Newark, N. J. "Nothing like the 
sunny South," he chortles. 

Jerry Fisher, looking right up to 
scratch and admitting that he never 
felt better, was back on the campus 
last month during his vacation. 
Jerry is with D. Appleton Company, 
publishers, and is selling trade books 
through the South and part of the 
Southwest. 

1924 

George Saute is again at Harvard, 
filling the position of part-time in- 
structor in mathematics and also 
studying for his doctor's degree. 
George returned from Europe in 
September after having stayed seven 
months in Brussels, four in Gottin- 
gen and one in Switzerland. "The 
Alumni Monthly came to me wher- 
ever I was," George wrote Professor 
Currier, "and I certainly found it 
good to get news about my friends in 
and out of Brown." 

Eloy Murphy was a campus vis- 
itor about the time college opened. 
"I'm still working in the Plant De- 
partment of the New Jersey Bell 
Telephone Co. — right in the old 
home town of Newark," he told us. 
He's given up baseball and is think- 
ing of devoting a little attention to 
tennis and golf. 

Eddie Place is back at the old 
stand as director of public relations 
for Northeastern University, Boston. 
Eddie is living at 32 Sidlaw road, 
Brighton, Mass. 

Curtis Dalton has been promoted 
to office manager of the Gardner, 
Mass., plant of the Heywood- 
Wakefield Co. Curt and Mrs. Dal- 
ton and Junior are now at home at 
18 Walnut St., Gardner. 

Rev. Jarvis C. Worden has re- 
signed from the pastorate of the Ol- 
ivet Baptist Church, Hartford, 
Conn., to engage in work for the 
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blind as assistant to Secretary Stet- 
son K. Ryan of the Connecticut 
State Board of Education for the 
Blind. 

1925 

Heine Welch, after two years of 
teaching and coaching at East Prov- 
idence, R. I., High School, has mi- 
grated West and is working at West- 
ern Reserve University, Cleveland, 
for his Ph.D. He is doing special 
research for the National Carbon Co. 

Charles Ives has been made man- 
aging editor of the new magazine. 
Eugenics, to be published in New 
Haven, Conn., by the American Eu- 
genics Society. Charlie resigned as a 
member of the editorial staff of the 
New Haven Journal Courier to take 
over his new assignment. 

Rev. Joseph E. Olsson, for the 
last two years pastor of the Swedish 
Congregational Church', Naugatuck, 
Conn., is planning to leave for China 
to resume educational missionary 
work. Olsson has been in China be- 
fore, coming to this country to study 
for his college degree. Mrs. Olsson 
and John, the son, will go to China 
with him. 

Dick Sweet is in his second year 
at Boston University Law School. 

Edson Lockwood's address is Ko- 
daikanal, South India, where he is 
beginning his career as a missionary. 

George Lomas has come back to 
Providence in connection with his 
work with the New England Tele- 
phone Co., and is living at 152 Elm- 
grovea venue. 

Bill Foxall wrote us last month 
that he was "looking forward to a 
good year at the Greenwich, Conn., 
High School." 

Charlie Morehouse is studying 
this year at the Medical School, 
University of Vermont, and is also 
doing part time teaching in bacteri- 
ology. 

Trask Wilkinson, for the last two 
years on the teaching staff of Hill 
School, is instructor in English at 
Phillips Andover this year. 

Newell Norton is junior instruct- 
or in forestry at the School of For- 
estry and Conservation, University 
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at the 
same time is working for a Ph.D. in 
his subject. 

1926 

Ed Chace is with the advertising 
department of Brown & Sharpe 
Mfg. Company, Providence. His 
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and advertisements for the grinding 
and gear cutting machines. 

Percy Smith is head of the Latin 
Department in the Adirondack- 
Florida School and is also acting as- 
sistant head master. The school is 
located at Onchiota, N. Y., in the 
fall and spring and at Coconut 
Grove, Fla., in the winter. 

The Alumni Office has been told 
that John F. W. Saltzsieder, former 
member of the class, died in New 
York last spring after a long illness. 
Saltzsieder was married to Miss 
Lillian Burke of New York in 1927. 

Frank Fowler, aide last year to 
President Faunce, has begun his du- 
ties as director of dramatics at the 
University of Kentucky, Lexington. 
Frank, we learn, has a new theatre 
to work in, and his task will be to 
build a department of dramatics in 
connection with the direction and 
production of plays in the theatre. 

Pret MacDonald has been spend- 
ing a few afternoons each week this 
fall helping Eddie Hincks '15 with 
football candidates at Thayer Acad- 
emy, South Braintree, Mass. "Most 
of my work is with the younger 
boys," Pret informs us, "teaching 
them what Wally SncU calls 'the 
art of maintaining your centre of 
gravity!" 

Jake Goodman is instructor in 
mathematics at Rutgers University 
and is likewise continuing his mathe- 
matical studies at Princeton Gradu- 
ate School. 

John Talbot, instructor in Eng- 
lish and coach of various sports at 
Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass., is 
taking special courses in English at 
the University this semester. John 
is as happy as a father should be over 
the arrival of his daughter, Ann, 
whose birth we record elsewhere. 

Bill Avery, with the West India 
Oil Co., Santiago, Chile, gladdens 
our heart by telling us that he is "en- 
joying the Monthly very much, es- 
pecially while I am way down here 
in Chile. I'm a long way from the 
States, but such things as the 
Monthly help one to keep connection 
with the rest of the world." 

Fred Wood, teaching this aca- 
demic year at the University of Illi- 
nois, admits that "the wild and 
woolly West is much tamer than I 
formerly thought. Surroundings are 
beautiful, every one is friendly and 
my job in the Math department is 



just great. Incidentally, I'm work- 
ing for the Ph.D. as well." 

Chet Whitman writes that he and 
Mrs. Whitman are living at 3360 
N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind., 
with the apartment number H 3. 
Maybe in his next letter he'll report 
what he is doing out there. 

1927 

Ken Bailey, until recently floor- 
man in the Boston Store of W. T. 
Grant Co., has been promoted to as- 
sistant buyer in the New York office 
of the company. 

Walter Brown, with the Southern 
New England Telephone Co., has 
changed his address to 1475 Chapel 
St., New Haven, Conn. 

W. M. Cady is doing graduate 
work in the Jefferson Physics Labo- 
ratory at Harvard. Bill was at 
Yale last year. 

Hal Conrad, after a year of teach- 
ing English and history at Meredith, 
N. H., High School, is taking ad- 
vanced work at Clark University, 
Worcester, Mass., with his Ph.D. in 
mind. 

Newell Mason is a member of the 
Faculty of Norwich University, 
Northfield, Vt., in the Department 
of Social Science. 

Dick Strull has entered New York 
University Law School after having 
studied for a year at Harvard. He's 
attending the evening sessions, he re- 
ports, and working during the day. 

Charlie Goulding, after a year of 
teaching at the L^niversity, has gone 
with the Stillwater Worsted Co., 
Harrisville, R. I., and when we saw 
him not long ago he confessed that 
he never realized what hard work 
meant until he tackled his present as- 
signment. 

1928 

"Bob" Andrews is a first year stu- 
dent at Western Reserve Medical 
School, Cleveland, O. 

Vern Chase is with the S. S. 
Kresge Co., having made his debut 
at the Springfield, Mass., store of 
the chain. 

Harold Johnson is publisher's rep- 
resentative with "Spur," a magazine 
published at 425 Fifth ave.. New 
York. 

George Leis is assistant superin- 
tendent of the Saranac Engineering 
Co., construction engineers, in the 
old home town of Saranac Lake, 
N. Y. 

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Henry Otte is in the training de- 
partment (educational work) of 
the Norton Company, manufacturers 
of grinding machinery, Worcester, 
Mass. 

Earl Saunders is with the J. T. 
Robertson Co., soap manufacturers, 
with his business address at 147 Rich- 
mond ave., Syracuse, N. Y. 

Leslie Van Sant is manager of the 
Franklin Vocational Advisers, Inc., 
employment agency, at 1 1 42nd St., 
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Kent Matteson, Leo Goldberg and 
Sid Friedman are at the Yale Law 
School. 

Harvey Ollsen and Bob Trenholm 
are with the New England Tele- 
graph and Telephone Co., Harvey 
in the accounting and Bob in the 
commercial department. Recent ad- 
vices say they are both going strong. 

Gordon Clark is with Dillon, 
Read & Co., investments, New York, 
and there is a report that he's en- 
gaged. 

Al Cleaves has decided that a year 
at sea is the thing for him and he's 
shipped as an ordinary seaman on a 
freighter bound for the Mediterra- 
nean and the Black Sea. 

Ambrose McAlevy is studying at 
the University of America, Wash- 
ington, D. C, as the winner of the 
National Chemistry Scholarship of- 
fered in competition last spring. 

Freddie Behrendt is getting expe- 
rience in the banking business as a 
student banker with the New York 
Trust Co., lOO Broadway, New 
York. 

Curly Edes is an apprentice with 
the General Fire Extinguisher Co., 
Providence, and so manages to get 
up the Hill with more or less regu- 
larity. Curly was tutoring in New- 
port during the summer and he cer- 
tainly looked fine and fit when we 
saw him just before he took up his 
new work. 

Irving Harris is learning the fine 
points of the textile business with the 
Harris Company, io6 Worth st., 



New York. He came back to the 
campus after college opened to see 
that the Brown Band got away to a 
proper start. 

Jack Heffernan is teaching and 
also serving as athletic director at 
Troy Conference Academy, Poult- 
ney, Vt. 

"Hutch" Hutchinson is news edi- 
tor of the Western Star, which is 
published daily in "Hutch's" old 
home town of Lebanon, O. 

Johnny Aldrich is an assistant at 
the Buffalo Museum of Science, 
Buffalo, N. Y., of which Charlie 
Fish '21 is curator. 

Louis Berdansky is studying at 
Brooklyn Law School of St. Law- 
rence University and is living at 672 
Pennsylvania ave., Brooklyn. 

Brack Clark is with the Cochrane- 
Bly Co., machine tool manufactur- 
ers, Rochester, N. Y. 

Les Chase is assistant treasurer of 
Burrows & Kenj'on, Inc., lumber, 
with his office at gi Globe st.. Prov- 
idence. 

George Cummings is in the Per- 
sonal Trust Department, Bankers 
Trust Company, 16 Wall St., New 
York. George commutes every day 
except Sunday from Montclair, N. 
J., where he lives at 213 Park st. 

Ben Crehore is selling corrugated 
shipping containers for the General 
Fibre Box Co., West Springfield, 
Mass. 

Dante D'Alessandro is a first-year 
student at Fordham Law School and 





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is getting his mail at 5 Southway, 
Bronxville, N. Y. 

Gordon Davis is a member of the 
planning department of the National 
India Rubber Co., Bristol, R. I. 

"Eggie" Duell is a clerk in the 
stock brokerage office of E. A. Pierce 
& Co., 1 1 Wall St., New York. "Eg- 
gie" still swears by Hackensack, N. 
J., as the best place he knows of to 
sleep and vote in. 

Jess Eddy is a student at Cornell 
Lfniversity Medical College. Jess 
trained for the hard work he is now 
engaged in by a trip to Europe and 
parts during the summer. 



ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Elsa M. Metzger '19, Pem- 
broke, to Wright D. Heydon '11 of 
Providence. Miss Metzger is the 
daughter of \lr. and Mrs. John 
Metzger and sister of Mrs. Norman 
S. Taber '13, Pembroke. 

Miss Barbara L. Goodell, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. John Goodell of San 
Jose, Cal., to Isaac D. Short '28 of 
Elizabeth, N. J. 

Miss Marita Nevers Cushman of 
Newburyport, Mass., to Wilfred E. 
Kneeland '23 of Chestnut Hill Pa. 

Miss Madeline Elizabeth Reagan, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis 
J. Reagan of Providence, to Edward 
J. Day '22. 

Miss Barbara Backes, daughter of 
Mrs. Henry Rogers Backes of Wal- 
lingford, Conn., to Edward S. Flint 
'28n. 

WEDDINGS 

1889— Judge Nathan M. Wright 
and Mrs. George T. Reynolds were 
married in Nayatt, R. I., on Oct. 14, 
1928. Nathan M. Wright, Jr., 'i4n 
was best man. Judge and Mrs. 
Wright are at home at 491 Lloyd 
ave.. Providence. 

191 8 — Thomas W. Hall and Miss 
Florence Farrier, daughter of the 
Rev. Dr. Robert E. Farrier and Mrs. 
Farrier of Ridgewood, N. J., were 
married in Ridgewood on Sept. 22, 
1928. Walton Smith '24n was best 
man. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are liv 
ing in New York. 

192 1 — E. Stuart Macmillan and 
Miss IVIargaret McCorkle, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Andrew 
McCorkle of Akron, O., were mar- 
ried in Cuyahoga Falls, O., on Sept. 
19, 1928. They are at home on 
Leavitt st., Hingham, IMass. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



igaan — Leslie B. Goff and Aliss 
Rena Gray Althans, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Edward "M. Flemming of 
Providence, were married in Provi- 
dence on Sept. 15, 1928. They are 
at home at 5 Harvard St., Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

1923 — Allen Randall Mathues 
and Miss Muriel Morrison were 
married in Media, Pa., on Sept. 20, 
1928, according to announcement by 
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Herbert Morrison. 

1927 — Carlos H. Crandall and 
Miss Jane Auld Langley, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter James 
Langley, were married in Newport, 
R. L, on Oct. 6, 1928. 

1925 — George C. Johnson and 
Miss Hellen Mowry, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Mowry, 
were married in Sterling, Conn., on 
Sept. 17, 1928. The ceremony was 
performed by the Rev. George L. 
Drowne '98 of St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church, Plainfield. Nelson B. Jones 
'28 was best man. Mr. and Mrs. 
Johnson are at home at 2 Grace 
Court, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

I925n — Paul S. Tilden and Miss 
Dorothy Kip Monell, daughter of 
Colonel Theodore Monell, were 
married in New Yoric on Sept. 26, 
1928. They are living at 107 Wav- 
erly place. New York. 

1926 — Ralph R. Crosby and Miss 
Emily Mosher Weeks, daughter of 
Edward H. Weeks '93 and Mrs. 
Weeks, were married in Providence 
on Sept. 22, 1928. Leslie B. Ryder 
'25 was one of the ushers. Mr. and 
Mrs. Crosby are at home at 29 
Doane ave., Providence. 

1926 — Robert F. Day and Miss 
Elizabeth Waity Chase, daughter of 
Rev. and Mrs. C. Thurston Chase 
of Fall River, Mass., were married 
in Great Barrington, Mass., on Sat- 
urday, Aug. II, 1928. Theodore R. 
Jefifers '23 was best man and Wil- 
liam J. Turtle '26 was an usher 
Mr. and Mrs. Day are living at lOi 
Med way St., Providence. 

1927 — Herbert Arnold Clark and 
Miss Dorothy Miller Hampson '27, 
Pembroke, were married in Edge- 
wood, R. L, on Oct. 13, 1928. H. 
Vinton Potter '25 was best man, and 
Herbert P. Negus '27 and Philip E. 
Loux '25 were ushers. Mr. and 
Mrs. Clark will live in Pawtucket, 
R. L 

1928— William T. Knight, Jr., 
and Miss Virginia Chapin, daughter 



of Mr. and Mrs. Ashabel Chapin of 
Oradell, X. J., were married in Ora- 
dell on Sept. 5, 1928. John C. 
Gorenflo '28 was best man, and 
Frank A. Spellman, Jr., '28 and 
Donald J. Knight '31 were ushers. 

BIRTHS 

Faculty — To Professor and Mme. 
Louis Landre in Paris, France, a 
daughter, Suzanne, on Oct. 3, 1928. 
1898 — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
A. ]\Iarsh of Maiden, IMass., a son, 
Charles Atwood, on Oct. 6, 1928. 

1913 — To Professor and ^Irs. 
Samuel T. Arnold of Providence, a 
son, Henry Jerome, on Sept. 29, 
1928. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ber- 
trand L. Shurtleff of Fall River, 
Mass., a second daughter. Faith, on 
Sept. 17, 1928. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Francis 
]\L Sprague of Providence, a daugh- 
ter. Amy, on Sept. 9, 1928. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. E. John 
Lownes, Jr., of Providence, a son, 
Robert Balcom, on Sept. 11, 1928. 

1923 — -To Mr. and Mrs. Dwight 
K. Bartlett, Jr., of Warehouse 
Point, Conn., a second son, on Oct. 
9, 1928. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. ]\Iaur- 
ice H. Beavers of Newark, N. J., a 
daughter, Janet Louise, on Sept. 18, 
1928. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. John O. 
Talbot of Marion, Mass., a daugh- 
ter, Ann, on Sept. 4, 1928. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Chester 
B. Whitman of Indianapolis, Ind., a 
daughter, Suzanne, on Oct. 13, 1928. 
Mrs. Whitman was Elizabeth Hind- 
ley '26, Pembroke. 



Alumnae 

1899 

Adelaide Esten, secretary of the 
Republican Congressional conven- 
tion in 1922, was named as State 
Finance Chairman of Rhode Island, 
along with United States Senator 
Jesse H. Metcalf. 

1909 

Dr. Mary Hall James has sailed 
for Europe, where she will study at 
the University of Paris and do re- 
search work in the Continental 
school systems. 

Mrs. Gardiner Boyd is teaching at 
Barre, Mass., during the first term. 
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Blackstone Canal 
National Bank 

20 Market Square 



Capital Stock $500,000 

Surplus and Undi- 
vided Profits $1,000,000 



Albert R. Plant, President 

John B. Branch, Vice Presidbni 

Charles P. Brown, Cashier 



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



Providence 
National Bank 

Established 1791 

CAPITAL $1,500,000 

SURPLUS 2,500,000 

UNDIVIDED PROFITS over 300,000 



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



Directors 



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



Richard S. Aldrich 
Edward P. Jastram 
Earl G. Batty 
A. Livingston Kelley 
Wilson G. Wing 
John Nicholas Brown 
Thomas L. Pierce 
Lauriston H. Hajard 
William L. Sweet 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1916 
Edith M. Sprague has been 
awarded the Laura Spellman Rocke- 
feller Memorial Scholarship at Co- 
lumbia University. She will make 

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Consulting Highway Engineer 

213-215 Richardson Building, Toledo, 

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Attorneys at Law 

Tenth Floor, Liberty Central Trust 

Building 

506 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Abbott '15 



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



PERRY and SAUNDERS 

Counsellors at Law 

185 Devonshire street, Boston, Mass. 

Joseph Earl Perry, Williams; Albert 

L. Saunders, Brown 1902 



Winship 
Teachers' 
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DRUGS 

Chemicals and Medicines 

Electric Batteries 
Invalid Roller Chairs 
Prescriptions a Specialty 



GEO. L. CLAFLIN CO. 

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



a study of child psychology. Her ad- 
dress is Johnson Hall, 41 1 West 
ii6th St., New York city. 

1923 
Dorothy Patten writes: "I am 
sailing on the S. S. Laconia from 
Boston, Oct. 28, for England and 
thence to Madura, South Luiia, 
where on Dec. 8 I plan to be mar- 
ried to Edson Clark Lockwood, 
Brown 1925. He sailed for India 
last October and has been studying 
the Tamil language this year. He 
will teach in the American College, 
a school of between 500 and 600 Li- 
dian young men — Hindu, Moham- 
medan and Christian. There are 
seven Americans on the faculty and 
about twenty-one Indians. Madura 
is in the centre of the temple district 
of Southern India, 9 degrees above 
the equator, and the third hottest 
city in the world. I expect to be out 
there six years. Madura is on the 
direct tourist line, so if any Bruno- 
nian is strolling about the world, let 
him know that we'll be more than 
glad to see him. My address will be 
c|o American College, Madura, 
South India." 

1924 
Lois Campbell has opened a gift 
shop in the Pembroke Book Store in 
East Building. She is specializing 
in inexpensive but unusual gifts. 

1926 
Phyllis Smith has left Connecticut 
Agricultural College and intends to 
enter dramatics in New York. 

1927 

Catherine Grout has gone to Illi- 
nois Library School, Urbana, III. 
1928 

Georgianna Cameron is teaching 
in Unadilla, N. Y. 

Harriet Silver is doing graduate 
work in the School of Theology and 
the Conservatory of Music at Ober- 
lin College. 

Sylvia Berkman is working at the 
Harvard L^niversity Press. 

Elizabeth Sanderson, who was 
awarded the Anne Crosby Emery 
Alumnae Fellowship for 1928-29, is 
studying English at Radcliffe. 

Marion Kalkman has begun train- 
ing at the Walter Reed Hospital in 
Washington. 

Grace McAuslan is teaching in the 
Hindman Settlement School in Ken- 
tucky. 

Isabel Green has enrolled as a 
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graduate student at Radcliffe, having 
recently returned from a summer 
spent in Italy, Germany, France and 
England. 



ENGAGEMENTS 

1 92 1— Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Smith of Providence announce the 
engagement of their daughter, Fan- 
nie B. Smith, to Lazare Bawley of 
Jerusalem. 

1928 — Martin Lippman of Prov- 
idence announces the engagement of 
his daughter, Alice Lippman, to Cas- 
per M. Sutton. 

MARRIAGES 

1911— Jeanette B. Moffitt was 
married to Edward E. Bunn on June 

16, 1928. They are living at 175 
Sessions St., Providence. 

1918 — Sarah Ida Morse was mar- 
ried to Dr. James Murray Beardsley 
on Oct. 9, 1928. 

1924 — Fannie Rapfogel was mar- 
ried to Jacob B. Eiseman on Aug. 12, 
1928. 

BIRTHS 

1919— To Mr. and Mrs. Ather- 
ton Mears of Germantown, Pa., a 
son, Eric Christofer Mears, on Aug. 

17, 1928. Mrs. Mears was Inge- 
borg Toll. 



Brown Alumni Monthly 



Published for the graduates of Brovra 

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Business Office, Brown University 

Subscription, $1.50 a year. Single 
copies, 15 cents. 

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HOTEL BRISTOL 

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A most conveniently located transient hotel, 
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Single rooms with bath — $3, $3.50, $4. 
Double rooms with bath — $5, $6, $7. 



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59 West 46th Street, New York 
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A select hotel in the Fifth Avenue district, with 
accommodations for permanent and transient guests. 
Excellent restaurant. 

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

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40 West 45th Street, New York 

A quiet, exclusive residential hotel, within easy 
reach of Fifth Avenue, Grand Central, the theatres 
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Room with use of bath — $3.00 and $3.50. 

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

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A distinctive restaurant, convenient to the the- 
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