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THE BROWN 

ALUMNI 

MONTHLY 

Providence. R. I., April. 1902 




No. 



B\' commencement time the new ^'an 
Wickle administration building at 
the corner of Prospect and College 
streets will be completed, though 
it will not be occupied by the administrative 
officers of the university until some time 
afterward. It is built of red brick with 



for faculty and other meetings. The build- 
ing will fill a " long-felt want'' and some- 
what relieve the pressure for space on 
University Hall, where for so many years 
the administrative offices have been situ- 
ated. 

In the accompanying picture, the n ew 




THK VAN WICKLE ADMINISTRATION Bl'ILDING 



sandstone trimmings and a metal cornice. 
The cupola and the railing around the roof 
are of wood. 

On the first floor will be offices for the 
president, dean and registrar. These open 
upon an interior hallway but are also inde- 
pendently connected with each other. On 
the second floor is a large assembly rqom 



building is shown at a rather later stage of 
construction than is warranted by the facts. 
The builders' scaffolding has not yet been 
entirely removed, but, in order to exhibit 
the building as it will appear when com- 
pleted, this scaflfolding has been painted 
out. The photograph shows how near to 
one another the two Van Wickle memorials 



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President Faunce 
at Chicago 



are — the administration building and the 
gates. To complete the architectural sym- 
metry of the neighborhood a new building 
should be erected directly opposite Van 
Wickle Hall, on the site of the refectory 
( the former presidential residence ). It 
need not follow the Van Wickle building 
and gates very closely in design, but it 
should be within architectural hailing dis- 
tance of these two memorials. 

President Faunce left 
Providence on Fri- 
da\', March yth, for a 
trip through the West. He lectured four 
times at the University of Chicago and 
preached on two successive Sundays in 
Kent Theatre at the university, the second 
time delivering the convocation sermon, 
which corresponds to our baccalaureate. 
Dr. Faunce attended the annual reunion 
of the Brown Alumni Association of 
Chicago, which was held at the Grand 
Pacific Hotel, Thursday evening, March 
13th. Twenty-four sons of Brown were 
present, and the occasion was very en- 
joyable. Noble B. Judah, Esq., '72, 
president of the association, presided 
at the dinner, at which addresses were 
made by President Faunce ; A. H. Nelson, 
Esq., '58 ; E. O. Brown, Esq., '67 ; Rev. 
J. B. Thomas, '76, and J. A. Johnson, '82. 
For the ensuing year Uonald L. Morrill, 
'80, was elected president of the associa- 
tion, George A. Bacon, '67, vice-president, 
and Frank L. Morse, '86, secretary and 
treasurer. 



Brown Alumni of 
Central New York 



A new alumni organi- 
zation has been 



formed at Syracuse, 
to be known as the Brown University 
Alumni Association of Central New York. 
On his return trip from Chicago, Presi- 
dent Faunce stopped over in Syracuse at 
the invitation of Frederick R. Hazard, '81, 
at whose home he was a guest during his 
visit in the city. Mr. Hazard was per- 
sonally the host of the company of Brown 
men who assembled at the Century Club, 
Tuesday evening, March nth, to meet 
the president of the university and form a 
permanent organization. Besides Dr. 
Faunce there were present : Professor 
Robert H. Thurston, '59, of Cornell l^ni- 
versity : Rev. C. S. Savage, '78, of Os- 
wego ; F. R. Hazard, '81, of Syracuse; 
Rev. R. R. Martin, 'Sg, of Utica; Pro- 



fessor \\\ G. Bullard, '92, of Syracuse Uni- 
versity ; J. S. Fox, '94, of Phcenix ; George 
B. Van Doren, '96 ; Rev. Joseph C. Van 
Doren, '96 ; A. O. Foster, "97, of Utica, 
and ('. B. Dakin, 1900, of Syracuse. Pro- 
fessor Thurston travelled five hours (each 
way) to be present.. 

The dinner was one of the most sumptu- 
ous ever seen at a Brown reunion. The 
menus were daintily printed in white ink 
on a brown background, and on the cover 
was the familiar invitation : " Here's to 
good old Brown, Drink her down ! " Otfi- 
cers of the new association were elected as 
follows: President, F. R. Hazard, 'Si; 
vice-president, J. S. Fox, '94; secretary and 
treasurer. Professor W. G. Bullard, '92. 
These three officers constitute the executive 
committee of the association. Annual 
meetings are to be held, probably in Sy- 
racuse, with the object of promoting the 
interests of Brown. 



Graduates Organize 
at Sioux City 



A Brown Alumni 
Association has been 
formed in Sioux City, 
Iowa. An informal lunch was served at 
the home of Rev. J. F. Watts, '95, in that 
city, the other day, and an organization was 
formed with the following oiificers ; Presi- 
dent, E. H. Kucknam, '65 : vice-president, 
Rev. J. F. Watts, '95 ; secretary, H. VV. N. 
Bennett, '97 ; treasurer, F. W. Mears, '95. 
Mr. Bennett writes ; " We are in hopes of 
forming an association of the Northwest 
with at least fifty members. We have also 
one or two men in view for the university. 
Would it not be possible for some of our 
graduates to come out here this year ? 
There is a chance for two or three men in 
business if they are true Brown men ; also 
a place or two in the schools. The more 
men we have out here the more men we 
can send back to Providence." 



Professor Poland l''of«ssor Poland be- 

_ gan, March 2 1 st, a 

at Boston -^^^„^ ^^^-^^ ^^ j^^. 

tures on art at Boston University. Two 
lectures a week are given, and they will be 
continued through the term. Last year 
Professor Poland conducted a similar course 
at Boston University, with a regular class 
of 120 students. Examinations are held on 
the work covered and the course counts 
toward a degree. The lectures are made 
possible by an alumni fund. 



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171 



Fine Photographs ^he university cor- 

T,, ■ TT 11 poration has pur- 

in Manning Hall ^j^^^^^ f^^,^^ ^ P^^. 

Elson & Co. of Boston a large number of 
permanent carbon photographs, hand- 
somely framed, illustrative of Greek, Ro- 
man and Egyptian architecture. With one 
exception these photographs were talcen by 
an artist sent specially from Boston to the 
old world : the e.xception is a picture pur- 
chased in Rome. 

Under the direction of Professor Poland 
of the department of the fine arts these 
photographs, which are on the average 
about 5x2 feet in size, have been hung 
upon the walls of Manning Hall, which is 
now used by Professor Poland as a recitation 
and lecture room. They add greatly to the 
appearance of the hall, which students of a 
dozen years or more ago will remember as 
a chill and barren place, with its rows of 
uncomfortable benches and its pulpit at the 
east end, covered with faded green cloth 
and adorned with decrepit green fringe. 

The photographs illustrate : the Temple 
of Poseidon at Paestum, Southern Italy, the 
only place where Greek antiquities are 
found in the Italian peninsula ; the Acrop- 
olis at Athens, from the southwest ; the 
Propylaea at .\thens ; the Parthenon at 
.Athens : the Erechtheum at Athens (three 
views) : the Temple of the Wingless 
Victory at Athens, so-called, though 
there is no trace or record of a wing- 
less figure anywhere about ; the The- 
seum at .Athens ; the pyramids and sphinx 
at Gizeh ; the rock-cut tombs of Abu Sim- 
bel, where the names of Greek mercenaries, 
scratched on some of the monuments, may 
still be seen ; the temple at Edfou, which 
shows Greek influence; the Temple at 
Karnak; the Colosseum and Arch of ('on 
stantine at Rome ; the Roman Forum ; and 
the '■ Maison Carree" at Nimes, the most 
complete specimen of Roman architecture. 

In addition to these photographs are five 
more, for which a permanent place has not 
yet been found. They are copies of Trum- 
bull's Alexander Hamilton and Stuart"s 
George and Martha Washington, (the latter 
the Athenaeum portraits) : the Hermes and 
Dionysius of Praxiteles, and the Victory of 
Samothrace. 

On the lower floor of Manning Hall is 
the large painting of " Moses Smiting the 
Rock " by Domenico Tintoretto, which 
hung in the university library for some 
years. It was originally loaned by the late 
Hon. C. S. Bradley, '38, and recently has 



been given to the university by his daugh- 
ter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Bradley of Provi- 
dence and his son, Mr. George Bradley of 
New York. 



Brown 
Graduates 
Recently 
Deceased 



The address book lately is- 
sued records the death of the 
following thirtj-'Seven grad- 
uates of Brown together with 
the dates of their death : 



S26. John A. Fayerweather, Jan. 27, 1901. 

SjS. Alexander Burgess. Oct. 8,1901. 

S59. Ebenezer L. L. Sheppard, June 12, 1901. 

539. Peleg Spencer W^hitman. May 22, 1900. 

540. John Eddy, Oct. 2, 1901. 

S43. Benjamin Gardiner. Nov. 2, 1901. 

S43. Charles Sexton James. June 8,1901. 

543. Daniel F. Morrill. Sept. 10, 1900. 
844. Thomas Sproat Peirce. Sept. 16, 1901. 

544. Jonathan Edwin Whitaker. 

846. Thomas Durfee. June 6, 1901. 

S46. James Cooley Fletcher. April 23, 1901. 

S46. Augustine Shurtleff. Jan. 27, 1901. 

847. Frederic Denison. Aug. 16, 1901. 

848. Jonathan Mabbett. March 8,1901. 
848. Thomas Jones Montague. 

856. Francis Wayland White. Sept. 13, 1901. 

85S. Merrick Goldthwait. May 26, 1901. 

858. Samuel Turner Harris. 
S62.//..\twood Bond Meservey. Feb. 22, 1901. 

863. Mark Dee Shea. September, 1900. 

S65. William H. Williams. March 11, 1901. 

869. George Allen Buffum. Oct 11, 1901. 

S70. John Coggeshall Macy. July 23, 1901. 

S70. Alonzo Williams. March 16, 1901. 

573. Stephen Greene. Nov. 7, 1901. 

574. Daniel Richardson Blood. June 28, 1900. 
S77. Edwin D. McGuinness. April 21, 1901. 
877. Walter .\sa Peck. May 31, 1901. 

883. Clifford -A.. Harrington. June 8, 1901. 

885. Frank Locke Titcomb. Jan. 19, 1901. 

S8S. John Powell Hunter. March 27, 1901. 

890. Joseph Mary Killelea. Dec. 25, 1899. 

S94. Foster Williams Taft. May 7, looi. 
895. //.Lewis George .Janes. Sept. 4, 1901. 

898. Ida Evelyn Waite. Jan. 7, 1901. 

899. William F. Koopman. April 25, 1901. 



The junior class has arranged for 
J !^ a series of social festivities simi- 

lar to that conducted last spring 
by the class of 1902 and named by them 
"Junior Week," The celebration is set 
for the twenty-first, twenty-second and 
twenty-third of April. The program will 
follow the general plan of last year's cele- 
bration. Instead of a theatre party at 
Keith's, however, a play will be presented 
by the students at the Providence Opera 
House. It is to be given Tuesday after- 
noon, the twenty-second. This change will 
impart to the program of Junior week a 
more distinctly collegiate character. 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 




THE BROWN 

ALUMNI 

MONTHLY 




Published for the graduates of Brown University 

Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

ROBERT P. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R. I. 

Subscription price, $i oo a year. Single copies, Ten Cents. 
Address all communications to the Bkown Ali^mni 
Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
There is no issue during August and September. 
Entered at tlie Providence post office as second-class matter. 

ADVISORY BOARD 

William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Henry K. Porter, '6d, Pittsburg, Pa. 

^^, '6g, New York, N. Y. 

YN, '71, Providence. 

LLEN, '72, Boston, Mass. 
WiNSLOw Upton, '75, Providence. 
Zechariah Chafee, 'So, Providence. 
Sam Walter Foss, 'Sz, SomerviUe, Mass. 
Gardner Colby, 'S7, New York, N. Y. 
William R. Dorman, 'g2. New York, N. Y. 
Archibalti C. Matteson, 'g3, Providence. 

HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor 

JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor 

THERON CLARK, '95, Business Manager 



P. Bro\ 
M V. Ke 



April, 1902 



LET US HAVE A PRESS DINNER 

The annual dinner of the Yale Daily 
A'e7eis, held at New Haven a few e\'enings 
ago, suggests the desirability of establish- 
ing a similar function here at Brown. The 
Yale dinner brought together 120 men, 
most of them editors, past or present, of 
the JVi'7cis. There were several helpful after- 
dinner speeches, including toasts by mem- 
bers of the editorial boards of the Harvard 
Crimson and the Daily Princetoniaii. The 
retiring chairman of the board of editors 
of the Neii<s told what he and his associates 
had tried to accomplish, and the chairman- 
elect outlined his own plans and ideals. 
The gathering brought the younger men 
and their predecessors into sympathetic 
touch with each other, and furnished one 
more opportunity for good fellowship and 
the demonstration of college loyalty. 



Perhaps the best plan for such a dinner 
at Brown would be to invite to it all editors, 
past and present, of the Bnuioiiian, Broivn 
Magazine and Daily Herald. Of these three 
publications, the Brunoniati has the longest 
list of ex-editors, for it has been published 
continuously for the last thirty-four years. 
It would be a task of some magnitude to 
collect the names of all its former editors 
and send them invitations, but the work 
could be done by a committee without ex- 
cessive trouble, and the results, we feel sure, 
would be worth while. Invitations should 
be sent sufficiently in advance to enable 
men from out of town to arrange to be 
present on the date set, though there are 
enough ex-editors in Providence or its im- 
mediate vicinity to guarantee a large at- 
tendance. 

A committee to arrange the dinner might 
voluntarily assume the task, on the under- 
standing that, if its success warranted an- 
other next year, a more forinal invitation 
would then be issued by a regularly ap- 
pointed committee, composed in part of 
alumni and in part of undergraduates. 
At Yale the custom of an annual Ne7os 
dinner is so popular that it has been 
maintained for twenty-five years, and the 
Alumni Weekly refers to the reunion as 
the most representative of all such events 
at the college. 

It is unnecessary to dwell on the possible 
benefits from a press dinner here. The 
editor of the Monthly remembers with 
pleasure the dinner twelve years ago at the 
Narragansett Hotel, at which representa- 
tives of the New England Intercollegiate 
Press Association were present in large 
numbers. The dinner was arranged by the 
editorial boards of the Brunojiian and the 
Bro7vn Magazine and was successful and 
felicitous in every way. One of the fea- 
tures was the good speaking. If a press 
dinner should be arranged now, it would be 
highly desirable that a group of capable 
speakers should be invited to address the 
company. There might be representatives 
from other colleges but one cannot study 



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the list of former Brown editors without the 
conviction that we ourselves have many 
alumni to whom it would be a pleasure to 
listen. If we were to single out a name 
from the long list of Brwionian editors, we 
might mention that of President Faunce. 

If the suggestion is well thought of, let 
the Monthly hear from it. There is time 
for a press dinner before the close of the 
present academic year. 



COLLEGE VANDALISM 

College " spirit '' sometimes degenerates 
into college vandalism, as is shown by two 
recent events at New England universities. 
At one of these — happily neither offence 
occurred at Brown — some heedless stu- 
dent, presumably, unfastened the metal 
gnomon of a handsome sun-dial presented 
to the university by an alumnus of many 
years' standing, and carried it away. Steal- 
ing is a harsh word for the act, but what 
milder phrase is justified ? The perpe- 
trator of the theft thought only of the 
brilliant "haul" he had made; the donor 
of the sun-dial thought of many other 
things and was not slow to express his 
opinion in the public prints. No wonder 
he had some sarcastic things to say about 
the undergraduate of the present day and 
generation, though it may be that only one 
individual participated in the offence for 
which the entire student body suffered. 

At the other university a party of stu- 
dents cut the portrait of the dean of the 
women's college from its frame and strung 
the mutilated picture high in air between 
two college buildings. The act was essen- 
tially like that committed in the first in- 
stance, though it was even more serious in 
character. Expulsion is none too severe 
a punishment for young men who per- 
petrate outrages like this. If a third in- 
stance of undergraduate " spirit " run wild 
were needed, it might be found in the raid 
of a party of middle states underclassmen 
upon a nearby city and the daubing of 
their class numerals in bright-hued paint 
wherever a blank wall presented itself. 



To consign the sophomore class to a 
warmer region is a favorite freshman de- 
vice, but when the consignment is made in 
brilliant paint and private property is used 
for the purpose there is something more 
serious than mere undergraduate frivolity 
to be taken into consideration. 

By all means let us have college spirit, 
but not of this ridiculous and offensive 
kind. It is neither manly nor funny to 
destroy private property and commit acts 
that are punishable by fine or imprison- 
ment in courts of law. A certain liberty 
is granted college students. A large de- 
gree of freedom has been allowed to them 
from time immemorial. But their liberty 
must not become license, or if it does they 
must not expect to be treated otherwise 
than non-collegiate offenders are. 

MR. LITTLEFIELD'S BENEFACTION 

One of the most important bequests ever 
made to a New England college is that of 
the late Hon. George L. Littlerield of Paw- 
tucket to Brown. The gift will not be 
available for the purposes of the university 
during Mrs. Littlefield's lifetime, but, 
as the will directs, nearly the entire estate 
will eventually come to it. No definite 
statement has been printed regarding the 
amount of the property, but it is estimated 
at from $400,000 upward. One hundred 
thousand dollars is to go to the endow- 
ment of a chair of American history, and 
the remainder to a general university 
fund. 

Coming so soon after the transference of 
the John Carter Brown Library to the uni- 
versity, and the generous gifts of many 
Rhode Islanders in connection with the 
two-million-dollar endowment and other- 
wise, Mr. Littlefield's gift reveals a grow- 
ing spirit in this state of loyalty to Rhode 
Island's chief educational institution. May 
the city and the state be inspired with the 
desire to develop on College Hill as ster- 
ling and beautiful a university as there is 
in any .\merican commonwealth ! 



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The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the 

Founding of the Johns Hopkins 

University 



Professor Francis G. A/Hiison, 

Delcs-atc from Hrowu Uuivenity 



IN February occurred the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of the founding of the 
Johns Hopkins University. At its 
foundation the 22nd of February was 
selected as commemoration day and even 
since the inevitable addition of a June 
" commencement," when 
the candidates for the 
bachelor's and the other 
d e g r ees are generally 
presented, Washington's 
birthday has been cele- 
brated as the chief day 
in the university calen- 
dar. 

The celebration this 
year was emphasized 
both as marking the 
completion of a quarter 
of a century and as the 
occasion of the formal 
inauguration of the sec- 
ond president, Dr. Rem- 
sen, who has been pro- 
fessor of chemistry in 
the university from the 
beginning and who en- 
ters upon his executive 
duties with the confi- 
dence, alTection and hear- 
ty support of the comma- professor 
nity, the alumni and the student body. Dr. 
Gilman, who hands over the administration 
to his former colleague, retains at least a 
nominal connection with the university as 
"president emeritus" while assuming the 
new burden of president of the Carnegie 
Institution. 

The importance of this occasion to 
scholars other than the graduates of the 
John Hopkins may be briefly pointed out 
by way of e.\planation of this article. 
Naturally it is not respect to years. A 
quarter of a century is the life of a minor 
compared, for example, with the 266 years 




of Harvard or the 138 of Brown. But 
many eminent men, presidents of univer- 
sities from Canada, New England, the 
West and the South, united in ascribing to 
the young institution unique merit for na- 
turalizing in American universities true 
graduate work and orig- 
inal research. From 
none came more cordial 
or more unqualified en- 
dorsement than from 
President Angell and 
P r e s i d ent Eliot. To 
their addresses we shall 
recur later. 

Another fact that 
raises this occasion 
above the level of merely 
local interest has not 
been so often pointed 
out. All other older col- 
leges and universities 
h a V e long been sur- 
rounded by a loyal body 
of alumni ever ready, 
when comparisons are 
made, to cry out: 
"Great is Diana of the 
Ephesians " ! And it is 
well, within reasonable 
Ai.LiN.soN limits, that this should 

be the case. The Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, on the other hand, in its initial stages 
at least, was the product of many other 
institutions — a composite photograph, so 
to speak — president, professors, fellows 
and other graduate students bringing from 
the North, the South, the middle states 
and the far West their contributions to the 
policy and conduct or to the spirit of the 
new university. This circumstance, while 
precluding any excuse for provincial self- 
laudation, has also secured an unusual 
amount of hearty sympathy and coopera- 
tion in the experiment begun in Baltimore 



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in 1876. This does not diminish but 
rather enhances the praise due IVIr. Gihnan 
for his conception and reahzation of a 
true graduate school in the face of much 
local clamoring for the conventional col- 
lege of the old type. 

The celebration was notable for a per- 
vasive optimism. This was due in part to 
the re-union of hundreds of alumni and in 
part to the recent gift by several Baltimore 
gentlemen of a beautiful tract of land some 
180 acres in e.xtent, within the northern lim- 
its of the city and bounded on one side by 
North Charles street. This will secure in 
the near future a permanent home for the 
university hardly equalled elsewhere in 
our eastern states for e.xtent, natural 
beauty and close proximity to the heart of 
a great city. The feeling of optimism was 
not even to he dampened by the rather 
depressing hint of President Harper that in 
the not distant future a university with five 
million dollars annual income might perhaps 
set the pace for the rest. At the thought of 
"high living" and "high thinking" thus un- 
equally yoked together men, young twenty- 
fi\e years ago, rubbed their eyes. Would 
this be better, they wondered, than the 
simple but stimulating poverty of their 
student days ? 

The celebration lasted in reality from 
Thursday evening, the 20th, till Saturday 
night. 

On Thursday evening there were special 
meetings of the students of history and 
economics and of the students of ori- 
ental and classical languages. The latter 
took the form of a dinner to Professor 
Gildersleeve as an occasion to present to 
him a volume of monographs written by 
his former or present pupils and colleagues 
in honor of his seventieth birthday and to 
commemorate his great services to sound 
linguistic scholarship. For the smaller 
number of men who participated in this 
gathering there was struck clearly the same 
note of eager interest in constructive 
scholarship that sounded through the 
whole celebration. 

On Friday was held the first of the two 
public meetings. A great throng of spec- 
tators was present each day. In the pro- 
cession of invited guests were about 140 
official delegates, the presidents and pro- 
fessors of some 90 other universities and 
institutions of learning. These were ar- 
ranged according to the chronological 
order of the founding of the respective in- 



stitutions : Harvard ; Yale ; Pennsylvania: 
Princeton; Washington and Lee; Colum- 
bia ; Brown ; Rutgers, and so on through 
the list. 

Dr. Oilman occupied the main place on 
this day with his able re'sume' of the incep- 
tion, projection and administration of the 
university. The history of this is too well 
known to educators generally to need a 
mere synopsis. For anything more it is 
better to refer to his printed speech. 

An address, signed by more than one 
thousand alumni, rehearsing their debts to 
Dr. Oilman, was presented and read by 
one of their number. Dr. Woodrow Wilson 
of Princeton. That this address should 
be couched in strong terms seemed to those 
who signed it to be demanded by the facts, 
and it is worth mentioning here, perhaps, 
as embodying in general the spirit of the 
working creed of the many students who 
have been influenced by Mr. Oilman and 
sent out to scores of other educational in- 
stitutions. 

On Saturday morning, the 22nd, took 
place the formal inauguration of President 
Remsen. The opening address by the 
governor of Maryland was remarkable at 
once for its manner and its matter. In 
really eloquent words he urged that a com- 
munity should support its crowning educa- 
tional institution, whether a state or a pri- 
vate foundation, no less than its public 
schools, by definite subsidies, independent 
of all political interference. 

President Remsen in his address mapped 
out his policy. In brief it is to uphold the 
established policy of the university, in pro- 
moting the same spirit of free inquiry and 
research, while developing, on the new site 
offered, the undergraduate work to still 
larger proportions and to an e.xtent hitherto 
impossible. 

Dr. Remsen's definition of research and 
the emphasis laid upon it were entirely in 
accord with the former history of the uni- 
versity. Investigation, he said in effect, of 
great problems yielding startling results, 
— like discoveries, for example, in electri- 
city — naturally appeals to all, but univer- 
sity research may also be justly concerned 
with some minute point that may, or may 
not, be used by subsequent investigators. 
It is the pursuit of truth without immedi- 
ate reference to its practical application. 
Many years ago, on a much less public 
occasion, in a talk on his own specialty, he 
intimated that chemistry to the scholar 



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is not a search for new baking-powders. 

Next followed the conferring of honorary 
degrees. First on the list came three men 
who, twenty-si.'i years ago, stood sponsors 
to the infant university — Presidents Angell 
and Eliot and Hon. Andrew D. White, then 
president of Cornell. Other distinguished 
men were honored and among them none 
more appropriately, as it seemed to their 
fellow alumni, than four of the early " doc- 
tors " of the John Hopkins. Among these 
four was Professor Jameson, recently of 
Brown. Contrary to the custom usual in 
the United States, President Remsen sim- 
ply conferred the degrees, the address both 
of presentation and of characterization of 
the candidates being made by Dr- Oilman 
on behalf of the board of trustees. 

The congratulatory address by President 
Eliot was short but very welcome to the 
audience. His praise of the work of the 
university was sweeping and generous. 
Although Harvard had begun her gradu- 
ate school several years before the Johns 
Hopkins opened, yet she was unable, Dr. 
Eliot affirmed, to make much headway un- 
til the stimulus and reaction came from 
Baltimore. The Johns Hopkins, in short, 
led and inspired the great movement for 
graduate work of the last quarter of a 
century. 

When appreciative words like these are 
spoken it will not be supposed that there 
is a disposition to ignore the previous 
work of great scholars and investigators, — 
like W. D. Whitney,* for instance, at Yale 
to take but a single name in a single sub- 
ject. But the Johns Hopkins was from 
the first free to address itself to this task 
of making graduate work with research 
the primary object. Other older institu- 
tions were for a time hampered in their 
efforts by the traditions and mechanism of 
their great collegiate equipment. 

The concluding event was the alumni 
banquet in the evening. The galleries 
were crowded with attentive listeners until 
long after midnight. Some 700 of the 
alumni and their guests sat down to dinner 
and listened to speeches by Dr. Royce the 
toastmaster. Presidents Remsen, Gilman, 
Eliot, Angell, Patton, Alderman and Had- 
ley. None of them could have been 
spared. 

President Angell was impressive both in 

* Two of Whitney's pupils, previously inspired by the great 
philologian, went to the Johns Hopkins in those early days to 
become, one after tile other, professors of Sanskrit there and 
to win the highest fame for the institution by their brilliant 
work. 



his manner and in his words. He empha- 
sized with vigor the great contributions of 
the Johns Hopkins in the line of original 
research, and, in reinforcing the words of 
the governor of Maryland, contrasted the 
worth of men as compared with bricks and 
mortar. 'J'he collection of unsightly build- 
ings in which the university has been 
housed does the greatest honor, he de- 
clared, to Mr. Gilman and to the manage- 
ment of the university, standing, as these 
buildings do, for the forced choice between 
material show and the successful realiza- 
tion of a university of a type then under- 
stood by only a few. 

President Hadley's witty but earnest 
words cannot be repeated here nor even 
the substance of the forceful and eloquent 
address of President Alderman. 

Dr. Oilman's reference to the adminis- 
tering of the Carnegie fund, was of great 
interest to the audience as confirming offi- 
cially the general policy of using this great 
foundation strictly for original research. 

What, then, in conclusion, are the net 
results claimed for these twenty-five years 
of this university with its comparatively 
few students and teachers? Scholars al- 
ready great received a chance to grow 
greater; young men of promise were dis- 
covered ; many other patient workers were 
stimulated to hard and persistent effort in 
pushing forward, if even by a very little, 
the boundaries of the known into the un- 
known. In its laboratories new things, 
great and small, were discovered. In its 
Journals, launched in one department after 
another, were published the monographs, 
now brilliant, now dry as dust, but always 
honest, written by teachers and scholars 
working side by side. 

One minor note of sadness was inevita- 
ble in this celebration. The university has 
already lost by death, abnormally early in 
more than one instance, some of her most 
distinguished or most promising teachers. 
They had "scorned delights and lived la- 
borious days," but no one shall dare to add 
that they did not " win the fair guerdon " 
of enriching their fellow-men, before the 
'•accursed shears" came and "slit the 
thin-spun life." 

Schiller's oft-quoted lines on " Science '" 
may have come to the minds of many in 
those great audiences while reflecting upon 
the ideal of pure research — of the scien- 
tific, as contrasted with the utilitarian 
spirit — this ideal that the university has 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 



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•ever striven, and not without success, to 
give to every man, young or old, who has 
crossed her threshold : 

■" Einem ist sie die liohe, die himmlisclie Gottiii, dem 
Andern 
Eine tiichtige Kuh, die ihm mit Butter veisorgt." 

May Dame Fortune send that in those 



pastures new — the five-million-dollar-a- 
year universities of the future — the prac- 
tical butter-givers may be tethered tenderly 
in some succulent paddock — some univer- 
sity extension — and not be set up in the 
inner sanctuary usurping, like a molten 
calf, the throne of the heavenly goddess ! 



The HoUey Memorial Again 



LAST fall attention was called in these 
pages to the neglected condition of 
the monument to Alexander Lyman 
HoUey of the class of '53 in Wash- 
ington Square, New York, and the suggest- 
ion was made that the beautiful memorial 
erected by members of the engineering pro- 
fession in this country and Great Britain 
might be placed on the campus of the 
universit}-. This, it 
appears, cannot be 
done, but it is under- 
stood that steps have 
been taken to care ad- 
equately for the mem- 
orial in the future. 

There has been sent 
to us a copy of the ad- 
dress delivered just 
twenty years ago at a 
Holley memorial meet- 
ing of the American 
Society of Mechanical 
Engineers in Philadel- 
phia by anothereminent 
Brown graduate, Pro- 
fessor Robert H. Thurs- 
ton, '59. of Cornell Un- 
iversity, from which we 
quote. Professor 
Thurston said : 

" Intellectually great, 
with a noble soul, and 
possessing the next es- 
sential, a powerful and 
vigorous yet graceful body, Mr. Holley was 
in all the days of his middle working life one 
of the finest illustrations of the type of man 
that Agassiz is said to have been. It was 
the soul of a sage in the body of an athlete. 
* * * The time must come, and that 
we hope very soon, when a pressing want of 
this great country shall be supplied by the 
establishment of a complete system of thor- 




MEM0RI.4I. TO A. 



oughly scientific practical education of the 
people for their work, a congeries of trade 
schools and of technical colleges, united 
into a thoroughly organized and well- 
administered whole. Such a system it seems 
now certain must be the work of private 
hands, and must be built up by the intelli- 
gent liberality of comparatively few wealthy 
and patriotic citizens. We have not yet 
statesmen in numbers, 
intelligence a n d in- 
fluence equal to the 
task of securing a gov- 
ernmental system of 
education such as has 
done so much for Ger- 
many and France. But 
the work is begun, and 
when it has so far pro- 
gressed that the grand 
central, crowning and 
directing member of the 
organization, a great 
university of the arts 
and sciences, shall have 
been founded and en- 
dowed by some noble 
modern Vaucanson, or 
^^'orcester, or citizen 
more kingly than Ptol- 
emy of Alexandria, — 
some one, perhaps of 
the beneficiaries of the 
I HOLi EY '- comrade whom we 

mourn, — let us hope 
that its most important department may be 
known as the Holley Memorial School of 
the Arts and Sciences of Engineering." 

Why should there not be some such 
memorial to Holley at Brown ? His name 
is one of the most eminent in the annals of 
American engineering ; his memory is 
cherished most deeply by those who are 
best acquainted with his life and work. 



178 



The Brown Alumni Monthh 



Mr. Littlefield's Munificent Bequest 



HON. George L. Littlefield of J^aw- 
tLicket, who died in tliat city, 
Marcli igtli, made munificent 
provision in liis will for Brown 
University. In that document he directed 
that after the decease of his widow, to 
whom he gave a life interest in his estate, 
and the payment of several legacies amount- 
ing to about $25,000 and the provision for 
an annuity of $500 to his sister, his entire 
estate, estimated variously at between 
$400,000 and $600,000, shall go to Brown 
University; $100,000 for the establish- 
ment of a professorship of American his- 
tory and the residue for a general fund. 

In the original will, dated October 18, 
1893, he bequeathed " all the residue of 
said trust estate, real and personal for my 
said trustees upon the death of my said 
wife, to stand seized of the same however 
then invested, to the use of the corporation 
known as Brown University, m said Provi- 
dence, the same to be known as ' The 
George L. Littlefield Fund,' and to be 
held and applied by said university for the 
promotion of its objects and purposes as 
an educational institution, as its govern- 
ment for the time being shall deem best." 
In a codicil, added May 24, 1900, he 
made the following stipulation : " I direct 
that of the sum which shall, under the provi- 
sions of my said will in that behalf, be event- 
ually paid over to Brown University, the 
sum of one hundred thousand dollars, if the 
sum so paid over shall amount to that sum, 
otherwise, such less sum as shall be so paid 
over, shall be invested and kept invested by 
said university as a perpetual trust fund 
for the establishment and- maintenance of 
a professorship in said university to be 
called ' The George L. Littlefield Pro- 
fessorship of History,' and the income 
derived from such trust fund shall be 
devoted to the payment of the salary of 
the professor holding such professorship, 
or to the other special uses of the depart- 
ment of history, in said university, as its 
managing officers for any time being shall 
deem best; and the residue of said sum so 
paid over in excess of one hundred thou- 
sand dollars, if any, to be called ' The 
George L. Littlefield General Fund,' shall 
be held and applied as in my said will 
provided." 



In a second codicil, made June ig, 1901,. 
he directed " that the professorship pro- 
vided for in the first codicil to my said will 
bearing date on the fourth day of May, 
A. D. I goo, be changed so as to be called 
' The George L. Littlefield Professorship 
of American History.' " 

Hon. George Leander Littlefield was 
one of the best known citizens of Paw- 
tucket and Rhode Island. He was a 
brother of the late Alfred H. Littlefield, 
Governor of Rhode Island from 1880 to 
1883, and of the late Daniel G. Littlefield, 
Lieutenant-Governor of the State in 1889. 
He was born in North Kingstown, R. I., 
December 20, 1824, and was for fifty years 
prominent in the business and financial 
life of Pawtucket. 

In 1852 he formed a copartnership with 
David Ryder, under the firm name of 
David Ryder & Co., manufacturers of 
threads and yarns, in which he continued 
until 1857, when Mr. Ryder sold his inter- 
est to Mr. Littlefield's brother, Alfred H., 
and the business was continued under the 
name of Littlefield Brothers until 1889, 
when he sold his interest to A. H. Little- 
field. 

l^pon the organization of the Cumber- 
land Mills Company in 1866, George L. 
Littlefield was elected president and man- 
ager, which posts he held for twenty-one 
years. He was also for years one of the 
guiding spirits in the Pawtucket Hair Cloth 
Company. 

As a banker his interest began January 
II, 1881, upon his election to a seat in the 
board of directors of the First National 
Bank of Providence. On August 25, 1885, 
he was chosen vice-president, and in 1891 
he succeeded to the office of president, 
which he held at the time of his death. 
Mr. Littlefield was also a director in the 
Industrial Trust Company, and a stock- 
holder in many of the leading manufactur- 
ing industries of Rhode Island. 

In August, 1846, Mr. Littlefield married 
Miss Ann Frances Cobb, now deceased. 
Of this union was born Mary Frances, also 
deceased. He married July 24, 1859, 
Harriet Messenger, who survives him. 
Mr. Littlefield was a member of the First 
Baptist Church of Pawtucket and a gener- 
ous contributor to many good works. 



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179 



In Favor of the Athletic Rules 



THE recent editorials in this maga- 
zine dealing with the rules govern- 
ing athletics at Brown should claim 
the attention of every alumnus and 
invite the most open and frank expression 
of opinion. So vital do I consider the 
question, and of such moment to the wel- 
fare and reputation of the college, that I 
wish to enter my individual protest, as well 
as that of the great majority of the New 
York alumni, against any movement which 
would tend to lower the present high stand- 
ard at Brown and make possible a revival 
of the humiliating conditions of years ago. 
The rule of the athletic committee which 
seems to meet with the opposition of 
Alumni '71 and '95 is found in Article g, 
which says that " no student shall be 
allowed to represent the university in any 
public contest, either individually or as a 

member of any team who 

shall at any time have received for taking 
part in any athletic sport or contest any 
pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, di- 
rect or indirect The quali- 
fication worked bv this rule shall be held 
to include those students who receive or 
have received any emolument direct or in- 
direct by reason of their connection with 
so-called summer nines." 

This rule is undoubtedly seveie and 
strict, working an occasional hardship, but 
it was not framed in haste, but after the 
most careful consideration and thought 
It was in accord with the general senti- 
ment prevailing in other colleges at the 
time, although Brown I believe was the 
first to put it into effect, and it seemed the 
only way to crush professionalism alto- 
gether out of college life. With a few ex- 
ceptions, the actual working of the rule has 
been to a very large degree successful, and 
in the long run has done more for the rep- 
utation of Brown than any other move in 
the last ten years, and it would be suicidal 
for us to take any step backward, without 
the co-operation of all the colleges. 

The argument advanced by Alumni '7 i 
and '95 in support of their contention is 
that the present rule, being impossible of 
enforcement, leads to deceptions with a 
consequent lowering of the moral tone of 
the college. Alumnus '95 writes : " Is it 



not subversive of the respect due to a col- 
lege as an upholder of manly ideals to pre- 
tend to enforce a rule which is well known 
to those on the inside of college athletics 
to be everywhere evaded .'' " Would this 
statement, if true, not indicate that it is not 
the rule which is creating a bad moral tone, 
but rather a very feeble moral tone that 
would allow the rule to be thus infringed ? 
Is it possible that it is " well known " that 
men are " everywhere " breaking their 
pledges and living a lie ? I cannot believe 
it, but if it is so, then surely the rule is not 
incapable of enforcement, because of the 
difficulties in ascertaining a man's amateur 
st.mding, for what is " well known " to 
those on the inside can be known to a 
committee appointed for the purpose of in- 
vestigating, and while there may be an oc- 
casional mistake the general result will be 
far better than if we relax the rules and 
open the way to the abuses which have ex- 
isted for so many years in almost every 
college in the country. 

Although many students may feel that at 
times the severe rule works hardships, all 
must admit that up to the present time it 
has proved the only way to prevent " pro- 
fessionalism " in its various phases from 
destroying college spirit. So long as men 
can receive pay in any form for their abili- 
ties as athletes, it is impossible to prevent 
the management from securing their ser- 
vices in college by means of some subtle 
inducement, impossible to detect, and we 
throw the whole field open again for ques- 
tionable operations. Semi- professionals 
will not come to college if they must give 
up emoluments, and that class of men we 
wish to keep out of college athletics. 

The argument that a man can be a gen- 
tleman and yet receive pay for summer ball 
playing has nothing to do with the case. 
It is not the man the rule attacks, but his 
standing ; not his character, or the fact 
that he has received money, but the result- 
ing condition which makes possible evils 
which have been proved to be absolutely 
incompatible with the best interests of col- 
lege and university life. 

Everett Colby, 'p/ 

New York City. 



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The Brown Alumni Monthly 



Where Brown Graduates Live 



A COMPILATION of the residences 
of Brown alumni shows that there 
are, naturally, more graduates of 
the university- in Providence than 
in any other city. The total number in 
Providence is 691. Next to this city come : 
New York cit}', (Manhattan borough), 168 ; 
Boston, 138 ; Pawtucket, 63 ; Cambridge, 
52; Philadelphia, 43; Chicago, 42, and 
Fall River, 42. These figures do not, how- 
ever, give an adequate idea of the extent 
of the Brown influence at the several points 
mentioned, because there are many gradu- 
ates in the immediate suburbs. To get a 
proper conception of Brown's numerical 
forces in New York, we must add the iS 
alumni in Brooklyn, and many of the 62 in 
New Jersey. The annual Brown dinners 
in New York draw from the farther banks 
of the Hudson and East rivers, and many 
of the Brown men in Brooklyn and New 
Jersey have their business headquarters in 
New York. 

The following list is only approximate, 
but some interesting facts may be gathered 
from it. It shows all the states and coun- 
tries in which any Brown alumni are resi- 
dent, and also the cities and towns in which 
they number seven or more. It is surpris- 
ing to iind so few in northern New Eng- 
land, especially Yermont. The explanation 
probably is that on graduating from college 
comparatively few young men return per- 
manently to their homes in Vermont, New 
Hampshire and Maine. Yet there are only 
nine students registered at Brown from 
Vermont at the present time. Maine is 
better represented, with 24, and New 
Hampshire with 28. Brown has, by the 
way, only 107 graduates in the three states 
of northern New England, while in the 
three states of southern New England she 
has 1697. Turning to the undergraduate 
body we find that against 61 students from 
the three northern states of New England 
there are 722 from the three southern. 

The figures that follow suggest the pos- 
sibility of forming alumni associations, if 
only for an annual reunion and dinner, in 
many localities where such organizations 
do not now exist. In the Connecticut valley, 
it will be noticed, there are nine graduates 
at Springfield and 12 at Hartford. In the 
towns nearby these cities there are many 



more, while at New Haven there are nine 
and at Bridgeport eight. Eastern Connec- 
ticut Brown men should " get together " at 
Norwich or New London at least once a 
year, and why should not the seven hun- 
dred alumni of Providence have an annual 
dinner? The organization of a Central 
New York association is a step in the 
right direction. 

The list is worth a little study : 



37 Maine 

S Portland 

50 New Hampshire 

20 Vermont 

65S Massachusetts 
1 38 Boston 
52 Cambridge 

42 Fall River 
34 Worcester 

16 Newton Centre 
14 Taunton 
r3 Attleboro 

12 New Bedford 

9 Springfield 
S Brockton 

8 Fitchburg 

8 Lawrence 
7 Brookline 

7 Hyde Park 
7 Lowell 

7 North Attleboro 
7 Salem 
942 Rhode Island 
691 Providence 
63 Pawtucket 
23 Newport 
14 Central Falls 
14 Woonsocket 

13 Bristol 

10 East Greenwich 
10 East Providence 
7 Valley Falls 

97 Connecticut 
12 Hartford 

9 New Haven 
S Bridgeport 

7 Nonvich 
293 New York 

16S New- Vork City 

18 Brooklyn 

7 Ithaca 
62 New- Jersey 
87 Pennsylvania 

43 Philadelphia 
13 Maryland 

1 1 Baltimore 
3^ Washington, D. C. 
8 Virginia 
I West A'irginia 
3 North Carolina 

3 South Carolina 

5 Georgia 

6 Florida 

4 Alabama 



7 Mississippi 

3 Louisiana 

5 Te.xas 

6 Arkansas 

6 Tennessee 
9 Kentucky 
iS Missouri 
40 Ohio 

1 1 Cleveland 

6 Cincinnati 

4 Indiana 
74 Illinois 

42 Chicago 
26 Michigan 
8 Detroit 

16 Wisconsin 
19 Minnesota 

7 Minneapolis 
13 Iowa 

I North Dakota 
3 South Dakota 

I I Kansas 
10 Nebraska 

1 Oklahoma 

2 Montana 

1 Idaho 

17 Colorado 

7 Denver 

7 Colorado Spring 

2 Utah 

I Nevada 
34 California 

7 San Francisco 

7 Los Angeles 

3 Oregon 

5 Washington 
I Porto Rico 

7 Philippine Islands 

9 Canada 

I West Indies 
I Argentina 

1 Peru 

10 England 

8 London 

2 France 

I Germany 
I Holland 
I Italy 
I Persia 

3 China 

6 Japan 

1 1 India 

6 Burma 
I Zanzibar 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 



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A Delightful College Class Dinner 



(Kev. Dr. James B. Simmons, '51, of New York, 
sends the Monthly the subjoined account of the 
half-century reunion of his class last June, and 
adds ; " Possibly if you print my half-serious, half- 
humorous account of our dinner and send a copy 
to each survivor of 1S52 it may help to call than 
together. Of course, they and we are well ac- 
quainted. I only suggest. Already one of the class 
of 1 85 2 has written me about our class meeting 
and of the interest he had in hearing of it, and of 
his purpose to be at Brown ne.\t June." The din- 
ner referred to in Dr. Simmons' account was ten- 
dered to the class by Hon. John S. Brayton of Fall 
River.— v?;/.) 



M^ 



\' class in Brown University cele- 
brated its fiftieth anniversary in 
June, I got. Only eight of us 
survive out of a class of thirty- 
two. Not once had we met since we grad- 
uated in 185 1, as we were widely scattered 
in this and other lands, and all too busy 
with life's great duties. 

Of the eight survivors, one is an able 
business man in Colorado ; one a skillful 
doctor of medicine in Rhode Island ; one 
a distinguished judge and ex-college presi- 
dent of Iowa ; one a learned clergyman in 
Brooklyn ; one a celebrated Egyptian ar- 
chajologist recently removed from New York 
to Boston ; one is state historian of Penn- 
sylvania and the author of huge volumes ; 
one a wealthy manufacturer and legislator 
of Massachusetts, and one, viz. : this scribe, 
has lived in New York thirty-four years 
and escaped the almshouse ! 

Among the eight there are two doctors 
of divinity, one doctor of medicine and two 
doctors of law. Two are members of the 
corporation of Brown University and help 
to manage its great affairs. How can it 
otherwise be accounted for, that in two 
recent years the funds of the university 
have been increased full two millions of 
dollars ? ! 

All of the eight were invited to address 
the assembled alumni. Several responded 
wisely and eloquently. Others were absent ; 
but all of the eight were present at the 
delightful class dinner given at the Narra- 
gansett Hotel by one of our number, viz. : 
the Massachusetts man aforesaid. That 
occasion was just royal. It was the crown 
jewel of that commencement day. The bill 
of fare was sumptuous ; the printed menu 
was ornate, each man's name appearing in 
elegant type: and oiu- popular host presided 



gracefully and genially. We took our seats 
at table about 5 p. m. and rose at 1 1 p. m. 
College stories, and life's wondrous story 
since we graduated, occupied the time. It 
was a golden six hours to us all. The 
names of our twenty-four beloved class- 
mates who had died were all reverently and 
lovingly mentioned and their virtues 
rehearsed. Taking the occasion all in all 
no feast of reason or flow of soul ever sur- 
passed that in the experience of any of us. 
No wine w-as served, for we are all temper- 
ance men, and there was not a whiff' of 
tobacco that I remember. 

Now, it is well known that college stu- 
dents, like young horses at breaking time, 
are high steppers. They are endowed 
with a surplus of will, are strong en the bit, 
brim full of ambition, and every one " feels 
his oats " keenly. Growing wiser and wiser 
every day very fast, they soon seem to 
themselves to be in power. If they choose 
as a class to set up for themselves and rebel, 
the faculty tremble and they know it. If 
they choose to behave, it is a condescend- 
ing favor to the college authorities. 

\\'ell, the class of 1851 behaved! It 
was during our four years' undergraduate 
administration of the college and its affairs 
that we gave our distinguished president. 
Dr. Francis \Vayland, not only our consent, 
but ample leisure as well, to devise his 
famous elective system and we also helped 
him to inaugurate it. 

By means of that system dull students 
can choose their own branches of study and 
so graduate with credit. Dr. VVayland dis- 
covered that the classes which had preceded 
ours had stood in need of such an arrange- 
ment to help the dullards along, and he 
foresaw that all the classes after ours would 
be likely to require the same aid. By 
means of the elective system, the college 
faculty at Brown has increased in fifty 
years from six to seventy-six, and the 
student body has had a corresponding in- 
crease. \Miether both faculty and students 
are as distinguished for sound learning and 
scholarship as w ere the men of fifty years 
ago, the class of 185 1 are too modest to de- 
cide. At any rate all colleges now employ 
Dr. ^Yayland's plan. But what in the world 
could the great man have done with his 
discovery had it not been for such a class 
as ours to help him inaugurate the system ? ! 



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The Brown Alumni Monthly 



I have neglected to say that one of the 
eight survivors of this famous class has a 
wife who is the mother of a member of 
congress. And I suppose that one of our 
number would have been wanted for presi- 



dent of the United States, had not such 
men as Lincoln, Garfield and McKinle\- 
monopolized that niche of fame so success- 
full}'. James B. Simtiwns, '5/ 
New York City. 



New Books by Brown Authors 



AN attractive volume with the title, 
" Our Risen King's Forty Days " 
has been published by the Lip- 
pi ncotts. The author is the Rev. 
George Uana Boardman, D. D., LL, D., of 
the class of 1S52. His subject is the life of 
Christ between His resurrection and His 
ascension, a period concerning which the 
details are scanty and often apparently 
contradictory. Yet, as Dr. Boardman 
points out, it is possible to obtain a toler- 
ably intelligent account of what really hap- 
pened, despite the intense e.xcitement 
among the Disciples : and he adds with 
equal truth that the very diversity of the 
narratives is a sign of their authenticity. 



In this book he gives a running commen- 
tary upon each event in its probable order. 
His spirit is thoroughly reverent and devo- 
tional, and he does not leave the solid 
ground of fact for the bogs which have en- 
gulfed some higher critics. He holds 
that the body of the risen Lord was at 
once real and supernatural. Ll^pon any 
other theory, indeed, the belief of the 
Primitive Church would be ine.xplicable. 
Dr. Boardman's book is not controversial 
in tone, but he believes thoroughly in the 
ancient creeds and he states his reasons 
for belief with conviction. It is a book 
well worth attention both for its manner 
and for its matter. 



"Briers of Wild- Rose " is a little book 
of verses by Rev. Preston Gurney of the 
class of 1866, published by Charles E. 
Goodspeed, Boston, 1902. Mr. Gurney 
has the poetic temperament and a lively 
and artistic imagination. He sees an infi- 
nite variety of beautiful objects in the 
world about him and describes them with 
much delicacy and sentiment. His natu- 
ral facility of expression, however, leads 
him into occasional hastiness and some- 
times in what seems to be impatience of 
his theme he mars an attractive poem with 
a line or a couplet of commonplace. The 
following is a dainty bit : 

H.^LF Past Three 

I see a little maid at play far on the hill. 

^Tis Tuesday, — half past three, — about thy age, 

I ween. 
Pretty little maid afar on the hill, on the grasses 

green, 
Playing in the sunbeams, bright and blithe as they, 
Would thy life might be gladsome as thy play. 
When 'tis /ml/ past three in life's afternoon. 
(Little maid, little maid, 't will come full soon.) 
Do not be afraid. Play, httle maid ; 
Time will play with thee ; play with time alway ; 
As now, at half past three. 



In some of his poems Mr. Gurney de- 
scribes historic places he has seen in his 
travels. In some he praises his literary 
favorites. Thus he analyzes the subtle 
qualities of Charles Lamb : 

" Quince-Uke flavor, a]l thine own; 
Caprice and sense together sown. 
Mind whose whimsies curl like smoke." . . . 

It is in his nature-pictures, however, 
that Mr. Gurney appears to us to be at his 
best. The last four lines of the following 
poem are tri;e and lovely : 

Sh,\dows 

Shadows of trees on the grass ; 
Shadows of rustling green, 
Cool in the noontide glare, 
Spangles of light between ; 
Cool to the eye that beholds 
As ices to tongue. 
Shadows, what are you so fair. 
Rustling in grasses there. 
Clovers and daisies among.' 

A'othino they tell me you are — 

Than something more rare. 

One tree up in the air 

Where the bird sings; 

One below on the lawn 

Where the bird's shadow has wings. 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 



183 



Colonel Dike Appointed Sheriff 



COLONEL Xorman S. Dike of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., (Brown, '85), was ap- 
pointed sheriff of Kings Count}- 
early in March by Governor Odell. 
to take the place of Charles Guden, re- 
moved. Colonel Dike did not assume 
complete control of his office for several 
days, as Mr. Guden declined to abdicate 
and his successor wished to avoid all legal 
difiiculties. finally, on the advice of the 
governor to take the deposed officer by the 
scruff of the neck and tiing him forth, the 
new sheriff advanced on the apartment oc- 
cupied by Guden and ordered him out. 
The strenuous incident 
is thus reported in the 
Evening Post : 

"At g.05 o'clock Col- 
onel Dike, with about 
twenty deputies, came 
from the equity depart- 
ment, of whicli he has 
been in undisturbed 
possession since his 
appointment. and 
marched ten feet up 
the corridor to the 
main sheriff's office, 
and walked in. Except 
at the wire screen en- 
closing the inner office, 
no • smashing ' was 
done. Guden, who 
was behind the screen 
in his shirt-sleeves, 
watched the proceed- 
ings in a calm but in- 
terested way, }-et would 
not open the gate. 
When one of his friends made a move 
as though to hold the gate tight shut. 
Guden shouted. ' Don't do that, don't do 
that.' Colonel Dike finally kicked the 
door open, which was not hard to do. 
The deputies were ordered to clear Guden, 
his friends and his personal effects out of 
the office, (iuden said that he could not 
find his coat, and one of the deputies had 
to find it for him. The contents of the pri- 
vate wardrobe were made into bundles, 
wrapped in newspapers, and carried away. 
Acting under the advice of his lawyers, 
Mr. Guden notified Colonel Dike that he 




COLONEL NORMAN 



relinquished the office under protest, and 
that he would hold his successor responsi- 
ble for everything that happened in the 
office. The new sheriff, as was to be ex- 
pected, was perfectly willing to assume this 
responsibility.'' 

Colonel Norman S. Dike is a son of the 
late Camden C. Dike. He is a graduate 
of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and 
Brown I'niversity and has been practising 
law for the past fourteen )-ears. In college 
he was a member of Psi Upsilon. He 
served two terms in the board of supervis- 
ors in Brooklyn while it was under Repub- 
lican control, during 
Mayor Schieren's ad- 
ministration, and was 
president of the board 
in his second term. 
He served as assistant 
judge advocate general 
on the staff of Govern- 
or Morton, for seven 
years was president of 
the board of trustees of 
the Brooklyn Homoeo- 
pathic Hospital, and a 
few months ago w'as 
appointed by Governor 
Odell a member of the 
board of managers of 
the state tuberculosis 
hospital. 

Although active in 
politics and for some 
timeamemberof the Re- 
publican county com- 
mittee, he has kept free 
from factional entangle- 
ments. He is a member of the Hamilton 
Club, the Crescent Club, the University 
Club, the New England Society- and sev- 
eral other social organizations. He is 
prominent in social circles and is an enthu- 
siast for golf and other outdoor sports. 

Sherifl:' Dike and ex sheriff Guden will 
settle in the courts the controversy that 
exists between them. Justice Gaynor of 
New York declares that Mr. Guden was 
illegally removed by the governor and that 
Colonel Dike is not sheriff de jure. From 
this decision an appeal will be taken to 
the highest courts if necessarv. 



1 84 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 



American College Campuses 



SECOND ARTICLE. 



FEW American universities have so 
stately a site as Cornell, which is 
built on a lofty hill, overlooking 
Cayuga I^ake. The University of 
California indeed is the only one that oc- 
curs to mind at the moment, at least among 
the larger universities, with a more im- 
pressive location. Cornell has almost 
limitless possibilities in the way of growth, 



in Its third of a century of existence has 
made great progress. It has 366 instruct- 
ors and 2,980 students. Among the Brown 
graduates who have been connected with 
it are Dr. Andrews, Professor Thurston 
and President Wheeler, not to mention 
other instructors and many students who 
have gone from lirown to Cornell for post- 
sfraduate work. 




CORXKLI, (.'AM it; 

and if any criticism should be passed 
upon its general aspect by the graduate of 
a New England college it is likely to con- 
cern its appearance of extreme youth. For 
its " newness," however, Cornell is hardly 
to blame, and there are certainly some ad- 
vantages in new buildings over those that 
bear the marks and illustrate the discom- 
forts of age. 

Cornell is only thirty-four years old and 



1,1 MIKINC, XoRTH 

Ithaca IS a city of thirteen or fourteen 
thousand people. The town lies largely in 
a valley, on the eastern slope of which the 
university is built. One feature of Cornell 
that interests all visitors is the large num- 
ber of handsome fraternity chapter houses. 
These add greatly to the beauty of the 
broad campus, which comprises 270 acres 
at a height above Cayuga Lake of about 
450 feet. 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 



185 




Princeton University is situated on level 
ground in the midst of an ideal " college 
town." The town is so small that it is 
dominated by the university, though its 
growth has recently been rapid and it has 
drawn to itself many people of culture and 
means who are directly or indirectly affili- 
ated with the university and add to instead 
of detracting from the atmosphere of refine- 
ment and academic dignity so desirable in 
a college community. 

As the visitor leaves his train at the 
Princeton station, the handsome white 
stone gatewa)' of Blair Hall rises before 
him. On either side stretch new dormi- 
tories of the same material, with other 
buildings in course of construction near at 
hand. Beyond the gateway are the older 
buildings, including Nassau Hall, the 
original " college.'' from which our own 
University Hall was designed. Princeton 
unites the dignity of age with the progress 
of youth. Its broad acres are shaded by 
noble elms (many of which were badly 
damaged by ice a few weeks ago) and its 



sons have given most generously to its 
architectural beautification. 

The newer buildings are the most impos- 
ing structures on the campus, but " Old 
North " transcends its neighbors in his- 
torical interest and holds chief place in 
the affections of the graduate body. On 
its front steps, flanked by its ancient lions, 
the senior class assembles for the final 
picture of the four years' course. It is a 
typical college building of the earlier style, 
adorned with ivy and venerable with age. 

Whig and Clio Halls are two white 
marble buildings of pure design. Their 
snowy architecture fits most agreeably into 
the frame of nature's greenery. They are 
the homes of the two debating societies 
which are supposed to take the place of 
Greek letter fraternities at Princeton. At 
the right of the picture in which these 
buildings are shown may be dimly seen the 
old cannon, planted in the centre of a circle 
of earth, around which innumerable class 
festivities have been held and many bonfires 
lighted in honor of athletic victories. 




1 86 



The Brown Alumni Monthly 



Brunonians Far and Near 



Editor Brown Alumni Alonthly. 

Dear Sir : Your editorial in the Jan- 
uary number of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly on class secretaries informed me 
of a duty of which I had previously been 
ignorant. The suggestions you offer are 
well worth careful thought, and if the 
alumni are to get the most good from the 
Monthly it will be necessary for the class 
secretaries to lend their hearty cooperation 
to the success of the enterprise. But this 
evident disregard of such a duty does not 
rest entirely with the class secretary. If 
the members of each class will inform their 
secretary of any change in their residence, 
or business, or their social life, of any pro- 
motions, or other successes that come into 
their lives, they would enable him to make 
reports to the Monthly and lend their as- 
sistance to its success. Let the class secre- 
tary be a source of information as to the 
whereabouts of his classmates, let him keep 
posted so that he may give information in 
regard to his class when it is needed, and 
then the responsibility for the success of 
the Alumni Monthly will rest largely 
with him. I suggest that it might be a 
good plan for the editor of the .Alumni 
Monthly to publish a list of the class 
secretaries with their addresses. This will 
enable all readers of the Monthly to put 
themselves in touch with their secretary. 
Very sincerely yours, 

Eniesi P. Carr, 

Secretary Class I go I. 

:^:^ Fairvievv street, Fitchburg, Mass. 

1S56 

The Philadelphia Record says : " The country is 
in debt to e.\-Secretary Olney for a clear and timely 
statement of an important fact. In his brief .■speech 
at the Boston banquet to Prince Henry he e.vposed 
the fallacy of the popular belief that America has 
captured the markets of the world. Mr. Olney was 
e.xact when he e.xplained that what we have done 
and all we have done is to challenge other countries 
to the conflict — an announcement tfiat we have 
entered into what Professor Huxley and Mi. Olney 
justly describe as the most immense and arduous 
struggle the world has ever seen. ' Fortunate, in- 
deed,' e.xclaimed Mr. Olney, 'if this contest does 
not, like so many others, degenerate into ''grim- 
visaged" war, with all its unutterable brutalities 
and horrors." It will be a struggle for existence, 
and it is absurd to suppose that our competitors 
will succumb at the mere appearance of ."Kmerica in 
the list." 



1S5S 

" Jim Bludsoe," a melodrama founded on Secre- 
taiT Hay's poem of that name and some other of 
his " Pike County Ballads," has been put on the 
stage in Chicago. 

The March number of the Educational Kef u-v, 
(Dr. X. B. Butler, editor), contained an article "The 
Little Red School House." by A. H. Nelson, '58. 

1S62 

Rev. Heniy F. Colby, D. D., has resigned the 
pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Dayton. O., 
which he has held since 1868. His resignation is 
to take effect January ig, 1903, at which time he 
will have been pastor of the church for thirty-five 
years. 

President Chase of Bates College writes as fol- 
lows in the Lewiston ( Me. ) yiwrwa/ .■ 

" The retirement of Professor Thomas L. Angell 
from service at Bates College, after a connection 
with that institution of thirty-three years, is an 
event of no slight interest to our community. The 
period of Professor Angell's ser\-ice is nearly co- 
eval with the life of the college. Bates was founded 
in 1S63, but did not receive its charter till March, 
1S64. Professor Angell entered upon his work in the 
college in January, i85g. He brought to it the lepu 
tation of an experienced and successful teacher. 
Graduating from Brown in the class of '62, he be- 
gan his work as an educator the same year — four 
decades ago. During the four years immediately 
preceding his coming to Bates, he was the efficient 
principal of Lapham Institute at North Scituate, 
Rhode Island. 

"After a short term of service at Bates. Professor 
Angell was granted leave of absence for one vear. 
He spent this time abroad, cUviding it about equallv 
between France and Germany, while he devoted 
himself to a study of the languages and literature 
of those countries. On his return he became the 
professor of modern languages, succeeding Profes- 
sor Hayes in the care of this department. Bates 
was then in her infancy, and her meagre resources 
did not permit her to make that desirable sub-divi- 
sion of work which has become possible during 
more recent years. Professor Angell shared with 
his associates the ditticulties inevitable in pioneer 
work ; and the list of studies taught bv him at 
various times included mathematics and Latin as 
well as German and French. For many years also 
he had the care of work properly belonging to the 
department of rhetoric and English literature. 

"The increase in the membership of the facility 
at length permitted Professor Angell to devote him- 
self entirely to his own department, and during the 
last few years he had taught only the German. 

"Professor Angell long ago formed the purpose 
of retiring from his college work on the attainment 
of a certain age. He had tendered his resignation 
to take effect at the last commencement. But as 
his wife's serious illness made it impossible for hint 
to leave Lewiston, he was employed by the com- 
nrittee upon instruction to teach classes in French 



The Brov.n Alumni Monthly 



187 



during the first term of the present year. The 
death of his wife on the r3d of December last has 
deprived him of the sad privilege of personally min- 
istering to her needs, and he now closes his connec- 
tion with the college to seek the rest and change so 
imperative after years of confinement and solici- 
tude. . . . 

" Whether he shall hereafter make his residence 
in Washington with his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Lin- 
coln, or shall remain in Lewiston, he will have the 
best wishes and the affectionate regard not only of 
his associates in the college and his former stu- 
dents, but of hundreds of our citizens." 

1S64 
Seth Jones Axtell, professor of Greek at Kal- 
amazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich., died in that 
city, March 23d, aged 60 years. Professor A.xtell 
was graduated at Brown in 1S64, and at Newton 
Theological Institution in 1867. He was ordained 
to the Baptist ministry in 1S6S, and filled pastorates 
at Monroe, Mich., 1S68-70, and West Medway, 
Mass., 1S70-7S. He was president of Leland Uni- 
versity, New Orleans, 1878-81, a pastor at Wey- 
mouth, Mass., 1SS3-88; president of Central Uni- 
versitv, Pella, Iowa, 188S-90, and professor of Greek 
at Kalamazoo College from 1S90 to the time of his 
death. .■V few years ago Brown bestowed the degree 
of A. M. upon him. When in college he was a 
member of .\lpha Delta Phi. 

1S65 

Rev. William Dennis Upham Shearman died at 
Los Angeles, Cal., February 9th, after an illness of 
several weeks. He had not been in good health 
for some time and was therefore prevented from 
performing any large amount of work. He went 
to the Pacific Coast about ten years ago. He was 
in charge of the Church of the Ascension, Sierra 
Madre, and of the missions of Monrovia and Duarte 
for several years. For a timt he was in charge of 
the Church of the Advent, Prescott, Arizona. 
Before going West Mr. Shearman served in several 
parishes in New England and Ngw York. He was 
the first rector of St. James' Church of Providence, 
over which parish he was settled from 186S to 1879. 
He was then rector of Christ Church, Pittsford, 
X. v.. for four years, from iSSo to 1SS4, and of St. 
John's Church, Champlain, and Christ Church, 
Rouse's Point, N. Y., from 1S84 to 1891. 

Mr. Shearman was born in Wickford, R. I., Feb 
ruary 6, 1843, the son of Sylvester Gardner and 
Mary E. Upham Shearman. His father was an 
associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode 
Island from 1855 to 1867. In the year of his ap- 
pointment to the bench Brown conferred the hon- 
orary degree of master of arts upon him. The late 
Mr. Shearman's only brother was Rev. Sumner 
Upham Shearman, D. D., of Jamaica Plain, Brown, 
'61, the observance of whose twenty-fifth anniver- 
sary as rector of St. John's Church was related in 
the January number of the Mo.nthlv. The late 
Mr. Shearman was a man of fine education and 
ability, a pleasing speaker and of an exceedingly 
amiable disposition. He leaves a widow, one son 
and a daughter. The funeral service was held at 
St. John's Church, Los Angeles, February 13th, and 
was attended by a large number of the clergy. His 
remains wil be brought to Rhode Island and be 
interred In the family lot at Wickford. 

1S70 
A large collection of newspaper clippings given 
to Columbia University by W. C. Hamm of the 



editorial staff of the Philadelphia Press is now 
ready for consultation. It includes more than 
200,000 articles, covering particularly the political 
events of the past twenty years. This gift, coupled 
with the Townsend collection, puts Columbia in 
an exceptional position in respect to newspaper 
material. 

1874 

John M. Potter died at his home on Lafayette 
street, Salem, Mass., Thursday, February 14th. 
He had been in poor health for some time, but had 
been confined to the house but a few weeks. He 
w-as born in Rowley, Mass., and was in his 52d 
year. After graduating at Brown he taught and 
later turned his attention to journalism. He was 
teacher in the high school at Warren, R. I., 1874- 
75, and in the Friends' School, Providence, 1875-85. 

With his brother, Isaac J Potter, he founded the 
Ipswich [Mass.] Chronide, and subsequently was 
one of the publishers of the True Flag, the YcDikee 
B'uide and the Lynn Bee. In 1S93, in company 
with Abel G. Courtis, he purchased the Salem 
Gazelle, and he continued its publication until about 
three years ago. He was also proprietor at the 
same time of the Amcshiry Daily Xews, and con- 
tinued to publish that paper until the time of his 
death. He leaves a widow, a son, Myron P. Potter, 
and a young daughter, Catherine Potter. 

18S0 

The wife of Benjamin F. Thurston of Newport 
died in New York, January 23. Mrs. Thurston 
before her marriage was Miss Mary Banning. 

Arthur W. Howe has withdrawn from the firm 
of Howe & Johnson, iron brokers, Philadelphia.and 
has joined the firm of Henderson, Hindley & Co., 
310 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and 100 Broad- 
way, New York City, bankers and stock brokers. 

1SS3 

At the exercises held in the state capitol at 
Trenton, X. J., March 24th, in memory of the late 
United States Senator Sewall, the address of the 
occasion was delivered by Hon. E. C. Stokes of 
Millville, ex-state senator, and recently a prominent 
candidate for the succession to the national senate. 
Both houses of the legislature attended the me- 
morial exercises. 

1 886 

William Henry Frost, a member of the Xew York 
Trilnme staff, died at his home. No. 121 Fifth ave- 
nue, Friday afternoon, March 21st, after an acute 
illness of less than three days. Mr. Frost had been 
in impaired health for some time, but no fears were 
entertained for him by his friends or himself till 
Tuesday evening, when he suddenly collapsed, and 
reached home only with difficulty. Continued fail- 
ure of the heart, with other complications, was the 
cause of his death. 

Mr. Frost had occupied the position of dramatic 
news reporter for the Tiibiiiu since August, 18S9, 
a po.sition that had brought him into close relations 
with a wide circle of theatrical people, actors and 
managers. He joined the Triluine's staff in June, 
18S7, as a general reporter, and a year later was 
made assistant night city editor. He was born on 
March 1,8, 1863, in North Providence, R. I., a part 
of the town that has since been incorporated with 
the city of Providence. His father was John Dud- 
ley Frost. Mr. Frost, the son, was educated in the 
public schools of Providence and in Brown Univer 
sitv, from which he was graduated in the class of 
'86. 



iSS 



The Brown Alumni Monthh 



Mr. Frost liad a peculiarly rich and charming 
vein of humor that his friends enjoyed in personal 
intercourse no less than his readers. He delighted 
to treat in a playful or humorous vein matters of 
daily news that struck his sense of the ludicrous 
or the incongruous, or to pierce sham and pre- 
tence vrith the kindly shafts of his mt ; and in 
writing thus the scope of his work on the Tribune 
e.xtended far beyond that of the theatrical report- 
ing that was properly his. The same genial and 
human qualities were in evidence in various arti- 
cles and sketches that he wrote for other publica- 
tions, and in the four books of which he was the 
author ; " The Wagner Story Book " (1894) ; "The 
Court of King Arthur" (1896); "The Knights of 
the Round Table" (1897), and "Fairies and Folk 
of Ireland." These were books for young people, 
a retelling of the stories that showed knowledge of 
their sources as well as unusual sympathy with and 
appreciation of the youthful point of view. Gen- 
tleness and kindliness of spirit chiefly marked his 
character, and were never failing in his intercourse 
with fiiends and strangers alike. A wide circle of 
frieirds, including many in the theatrical and news- 
paper professions, will feel a deep sense of loss in 
Mr. Frost's death. He was a member of the Lotos 
Club. 

Mr. Frost's father died about a year ago. His 
nearest surviving relati\e is a brother. Edwin C 
Frost (Brown, '90), of Providence. The funeral 
services were held in All Souls' Church (Unitarianl 
March 24th, and conducted by Rev. Thomas R. 
Sheer, formerly of Providence. 

1S90 

H. R. Palmer, editor of the Monthi-V, sails for 
England, April v and e.\pects to be absent a month. 

1 89 1 
Edwin .\. Barrows has been appointed United 
States bank e.xaminer for the state of Rhode Island. 
Mr. Barrows has been for several years in the em- 
ploy of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. His 
new appointment is an unusual honor for so young 
a man. 

1894 

George W. Gardner, M. D., has begun the prac- 
tice of medicine in Providence with an ottice at i j8 
North Main street. He received his degree in 
medicine from the Harvard Medical School in 
1900, since which time he has been serving as in- 
tern in Boston hospitals. He has the diplomas of 
the Carney Hospital and the Boston Lving-in 
Hospital. 

1S95 

.\rthur L. Eno is spending his second year as 
student of English at the Harvard Graduate School. 

1S96 
Frank E. Smith has been admitted to the bar of 
the state of New York and has entered practice as 
counsellor and attorney in New York city. 

Ambrose A. Mulligan is general superintendent 
of the Central Accident Insurance Company of 
Pittsburg. His duties carry him on periodical 
journeys through most of the middle and New 
England states. 

iSqS 

Earl C. Pierce, second lieutenant Artillery 
Corps, is quartermaster at Fort Wadsworth, N. Y. 



Luke J. Kavanaugh is now a news editor on th^ 
Philadilphia Ficss. Since graduation he ha- had 
e.xtensive e.xperience in newspaper work. Previous 
to going to Philadelphia he was connected with the 
Sprhigfifid A'c'pHliliiiin 2.nA the JVorcesler Telegram. 

1S99 
Nathaniel L. Niles is teaching at Wakefield, R. I. 



M. S. Brennan is at Laclede, 111., in the ottice of 
the engineer of bridges and buildings of the Illi- 
nois Central Railroad Company. 

Horace Mason Hovey has recently become a 
member of the staff of instruction of the Con- 
necticut Literary Institution at .Suflield, Conn. 

1 90 1 

Clarence Albert Coates died Saturday evening. 
March 8th, at the home of his parents, Albert O. 
and Martha R. Coates. in this city, after an exhaust- 
ing illness of eight weeks, the result of overwork. 
Mr. Coates was a young man of much promise 
and had won for himself a large circle of devoted 
friends. He was born in East Providence, Septem- 
ber 12. 1S77, but spent most of his early years in 
Manton, removing three years ago to Mount Pleas- 
ant. He graduated from the Manton Grammar 
School in 1893, from the Providence High School 
in 1S97 and from Brown University in 1901. 
After completing the course at Brown he became 
a law student with Van Slyck & Mumford, and also 
pursued some special studies at the university. He 
was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity of Brown 
and had been elected a member of Roger Williams 
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., shortly before his illness. 
He was also a vestryman in St. Andrew's Church, 
and president of its parish club of young men. 
While a resident of Manton he was senior warden 
of St. Peter's Church. 

William Larcher. e.x-1901. has duiing the past 
winter acted as leader of the Trinitv College Banjo 
Club. 



Arthur H. Whittemore, ex-1902, is assistant base- 
ball coach at Georgetown Universitv. 



Professor Kent on Hazing 

Professor C-harles Foster Kent, until recently a 
member of the faculty at Brown and now head of 
the department of Biblical literature in the Yale 
Divinitv School, is reported as having defended, 
in a lecture before the senior class, the practice of 
hazing. The story of Joseph and his brothers had 
engaged the professor's attention, and, according 
to the report, he took occasion to say that Joseph 
was a '■ fresh " young man, and that his brothers 
had hazed him effectually. He said Joseph's haz- 
ing was a good thing for the youth, who needed 
taking down. He added; "We all look back on 
the hazing incidents of our college days as a pleas- 
ant memory. Hazing has done many a young man 
good and has brought out his best qualities. I be- 
lieve in it when practiced moderately, as it usually 
is in this country. It rarely does a boy harm, and 
in most instances does him good." 



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