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No. I 



On The Hill 

Qontempoj-ary Topics of hiterest to Qradiiates oj Thrown 



President Ftiunce's Thirty Years 
'TPHIRTY academic years of rich 
fruition comprise the record of 
Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce's 
Presidency of Brown. 

He came to the headship of the 
University as a young man of forty, 




THIRTY YEARS AGO 
As Dr. Faunce looked when he as- 
sumed the Presidency of Brown 

fresh from a New York pastorate. 
That he came with some measure of 
reluctance and misgiving is shown by 
the fact that as late as May 20, 1899, 
he wrote a formal letter to the Brown 
authorities declining the Presidency. 
His reasons, as recited in this letter, 
were natural and forceful, but hap- 
pily they were overborne, and in the 
fall of the same year he was installed 
as Dr. Andrews's successor, the Presi- 
dents of Harvard, Chicago and Prince- 
ton taking part in the inauguration 
proceedings at the old meeting house. 
President Faunce began his execu- 
tive task with full knowledge of the 
necessity of increasing the financial 
resources and material facilities of the 



University. Under President An- 
drews it had developed from an in- 
stitution of less than 300 students to 
one of more than 800 ; the Women's 
College had been established (largely 
on faith) ; a remarkable number of 
inspiring and successful teachers had 
been added to the Faculty, and 
Dr. Andrews had imparted to the 
executive office a new breath of life 
and courage. But along with these 
developments had gone no adequate 
financial expansion. Certain of the 
Povv'ers that Were did not approve 
some of the President's economic ten- 
ets. He was beloved by the student 
body, the younger alumni cheered 
him to the echo at their reunions, the 
Faculty evinced an extraordinary loy- 
alty to his leadership, but the money 
requisite to support his ambitious col- 
lege program was not forthcoming. 

When Dr. Faunce assumed the 
Presidency he encountered the cross- 
currents of this preceding administra- 
tion. He was fully aware, of course, 
of its strength and its weakness. He 
came to a varied responsibility ; he 
was required to compose differences, 
increase endowments and build up 
what we now see before our accus- 
tomed eyes as the larger and loftier 
Brown. 

As a financial leader. Dr. Faunce 
quickly demonstrated his remarkable 
talent. From inconsiderable totals 
the University's resources and in- 
come steadily rose. Looking back 
over these three decades and contem- 
plating his cherished tastes and pre- 
ferred occupations, we cannot help 
marvelling at the assiduity with 
which, especially in his earlier years 
at Brown, he kept at what must often 
have been the dreary business of solic- 
iting money for the institution. We 
can explain it only on the theory that 
he had pledged himself to give of his 
uttermost to the college, and that he 
took this pledge with absorbing ser- 
iousness. 



It has often seemed indeed, to 
those who have been closest to him, as 
if his waking hours were wholly en- 
grossed with Brown's interests — that 
is as if he did not divide his day be- 
tween University concerns and other 
matters, but centred all day long on 
Brown, looking at many another 
problem and approaching many an- 
other dutj' conscious of its possible 
relation to the college, and eager to 
achieve some advantage for Bruwn 
from his long catalogue of outside 

contacts. 

* * * 

Thirty Years of Expansion 

T T is difficult to visualize Brown 
as it appeared to the physical eye 
thirty years ago. Dr. Faunce began 
very shortly after his coming the 
labor of material construction. The 
old wooden fence that surrounded 
the front and middle campuses gave 
way to the present fence of brick 
and iron, with the Van Wickle Gates 
at the top of the hill and the Robin- 
son, John Carter Brown and God- 
dard Gates on the middle campus. 
The President's mansion, facing 
College Street, at the corner of Pros- 
pect Street yielded to the new 
brick residence at the corner of Hope 
and Manning Streets. The Carrie 
Tower was erected on the front cam- 
pus. The John Hay Library was 
built, and just south of it the Admin- 
istration Building. The John Carter 
Broun Library was secured for the 
University and the building it occu- 
pies on the middle campus was erect- 
ed. Rockefeller Hall was built at 
the north end of the middle campus 
and the old pump surrendered to the 
bronze one of the present era. The 
Engineering Building rose on Lin- 
coln Field, and a new dormitory, Cas- 
well Hall, just east of it. Brunonia 
Hall, beyond Thayer Street, was ac- 
quired from its private owners. The 
Arnold Biological Laboratory was 
erected, the Colgate Hoyt swimming 



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pool, and, newest of the dormi- 
tories, Littlefield and Hegeman Halls. 
Meanwhile also the University stead- 
ily acquired nearby property for which 
it might some day have a use, so 
that now it owns a dozen or more 
plats south of George Street, all the 
private residential property on the 
south side of Waterman Street be- 
tween Rockefeller Hall and the Ar- 
nold laboratory, and two athletic fields 
on Thayer Street, south of Charles 
Field Street, as well as a tennis field 
on Manning Street and the property 
on the south side of College Hill be- 
tween the D K E House and the 
Providence Athenaeum. It has also 
acquired the Brown Stadium, Aldrich 
Field and the new Gymnasium. 



Our Xuiiierical Growth 

TN the Brown Catalogue of 1899- 
-*• 1900, the first issued after Presi- 
dent Faunce's inauguration, the num- 
ber of graduate students was 85, of 
men undergraduates 631, and of 
women undergraduates 152, a total 
of 868. The faculty numbered: Full 
professors 25, associate professors 
8, assistant professors 9, instructors 
24 and assistants 2, a total of 68. 
There were also 21 other officers and 
instructors of various sorts, making a 
total administrative and teaching 
force of 89. 

At the present time the number of 
students, graduates, undergraduates 
and members of university extension 
courses is 413? (2201 graduate and 
undergraduate students and 1936 ex- 
tension course registrants), and the 
administrative and teaching force 

numbers 230. 

* * * 

Dr. Faunce As a Speaker 
■pv R. FAUNCE has developed, 

*~^ during his thirty years at Brown, 
a national reputation as a public 
speaker. So far as we know- he has 
never written for publication any 
rules or formulae for the guidance 
of young orators — or old ones, for 
that matter, but we hope that with 
his retirement from the executive of- 
fice he will find time, or make time, 
to do so. During the course of a 
long and friendly acquaintance with 



him, we recall only one hint from 
him as to effective public speech, and 
as we consider it of particular value 
we are going to embrace the present 
opportunity to broadcast it. So here 
it is, orators young and old, and 
would-be orators one and all: 

"Don't make your introduction 
too long." 

Horace gave the same advice when 
he advised an immediate plunging in 
medias res: and he added that if you 
must discuss the origin of the world, 
you should do so in the middle of 
your discourse. Professor Bancroft 
had much the same idea when he 
urged a strong beginning and end- 
ing, and suggested that if any part 
was to be weak it should be the 
middle. 

President Faunce's own manner 
of speech adheres to his doctrine of 
short introductions. He knows what 
he has to say and he goes immediately 
about the business of saying it. 

Moreover, with the fullness of 
\ears he has not become verbose. On 
the contrary he has imbibed the spirit 
of a wise old clergyman of our boy- 
hood acquaintance who pledged him- 
self to cut a minute off his sermons 
every year, a noble experiment worthy 
the trial of ministers far and wide. 

It is commonly remarked of Dr. 
Faunce that he "says just the right 
thing." That is an art, having to do 
with matter rather than manner. We 
like to contemplate the years of ex- 
perience that have gone to the per- 
fecting of this practice — ^here a hint 
from his trained observation, there 
a suggestion, here an example, there 
a precept, and in the long run a 
masterly moulding of thought and 
word into fit and acceptable utter- 
ance. 

When Dr. Faunce writes his book 
on public speaking (and we should 
like to publish it), the country will 
have an invaluable manual. He will 
(we trust) tell us what he knows of 
balance and contrast, of analogy and 
simile, of the beauty and power of 
words, of enunciation and rhetoric, 
of conviction and persuasion. Mean- 
while, suffice it to say that his voice 
has been a real force in the commun- 
ity, the State and the Nation — a force 
for sound common sense, civic right- 
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rousness and high personal ideals. It 
has meant much to Brown Uni\er- 
sity that its President for thirty years 
has been easily first in public speech 
among the college executives of this 
part of the United States. 

Degrees Given in JO Years 
nn'HE following statistics have 
bsen compiled by Professor J. P. 
Adams of the Department of Eco- 
nomics: 

Of the 8799 men who have re- 
ceived bachelors' degrees from Brown 
University during 164 years, 4247 or 
48 "^i of the total have received their 
degrees during 29 years of Dr. 
Faunce's administration. If the pro- 
spective recipients at the l6ist Com- 
mencement this June (approximately 
265) are added it will mean that 
more than 4500 of the more than 
9000 bachelors' degrees awarded or 
approximately 50% will have been 
awarded during the 30 years of Dr. 
Faunce's administration. 

Of the 5346 living graduates 
(holders of bachelors' degrees) in 
April 1929, 41 13 or 77 /t of the to- 
tal received their degrees during 29 
years of Dr. Faunce's administration. 

Financial Expansion 

COMPTROLLER E. A. BUR- 
LI NGAME of the University 
has sent us the following note con- 
cerning the financial expansion of 
Brown during the thirty years of Dr. 
Faunce's Presidency: 

Dear Mr. Palmer: 

Following is a statement of finan- 
cial conditions of the University in 
1899 and 1929 — information which 
you recently requested of me: 

In the spring of 1899, the year 
when Dr. Faunce became President, 
the funds of the University were $1,- 
158,676.66, the Universit)' income 
was approximately $180,000 and the 
Women's College income was ap- 
proximately $30,000. 

On January I, 1929, the funds of 
the University were $9,931,005.84. 
The operating income for the college 
year 1927-28 was: University $1,- 
146,862.84. Pembroke College $274,- 
916.40. 

A valuation of the buildings and 



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grounds in 1899 involves some re- 
search, but for comparative purposes 
we may take insurance figures. In 
1899 $626,400 was carried; today we 
carry $5,500,000. In thirty years 
plant capital and funds have in- 
creased to nine times the 1899 values. 
Income has increased nearly seven 
times. (The income of Pembroke 
College for 1927-28 was $65,000 
more than the income of both Uni- 
versity and Women's College in 

1899.') 

Sincerely yours, 

E. A. Burlingame 

May 10, 1929. 

* * * 

What of the Future? 

\T7 HAT of the future at Brown? 

President Barbour no doubt 

has a definite program taking shape 



in his mind. His experience as a 
minister and as the head of an im- 
portant divinity school has of course 
given him a valuable preparation for 
his new work in Providence. There 
will be general interest in what he 
has to say when he makes his inau- 
gural address next fall ; we feel sure 
that it will be terse and vigorous. 

Meanwhile from our long-time 
post of observation in the office of 
the Brown Alumni Monthly, the 
publication of which commenced al- 
most immediately after the coming 
oi Dr. Faunce to the presidency, we 
feel called upon to say a few words 
of our own. 

What Brown needs today more 
than anything else is, in our judg- 
ment, a larger emphasis on student 
personnel. Mere increases in our 
student body will not avail us, nor 



will the mere erection of new build- 
ings or the addition of teachers to the 
Faculty. We believe that a much 
greater work remains to be done than 
has yet been done in the selection of 
members of our successive Freshman 
classes. It ts not enough to say that 
a changing population has made new 
demands upon the University; the 
University, while maintaining its 
democratic traditions, must save its 
own soul. There is no teaching of 
Scripture, so far as we know, that 
requires the saving of other souls at 
the expense of our own. We are in- 
deed taught that he that loseth his 
life shall save it, but we cannot think 
that that implies an altruism forget- 
ful of one's own morale and ideals. 
The new administration must ad- 
dress itself to this question with all 
the wisdom and energy it possesses. 



The Old Back Campus XI 



CONCERNING BASEBALL 

By ir alter Lee Alunro, 1879 



T> ASEBALL at Brown began in 
-^ 1862 with the class of 1865 
leading the way. Previous to that 
time "one-old-cat," "two-old-cat" and 
"rotation," or "rounders," as our 
English cousins call it, played with a 
comparatively soft, unstandardized 
ball, of any material and frequently 
without a cover, had always been in 
vogue. In this game it was allow- 
able to put out a base-runner by hit- 
ting him with the thrown ball. Base- 
ball with a capital B was a horse of 
another color. 

The ball-field was laid out on the 
Old Back Campus with the home 
plate just back of the north line of 
the straight walk which led from the 
back door of Manning Hall to the 
Chemical Laboratory, and first base 
about forty feet east of the north door 
of University Hall. There were no 
trees in the centre nor along the west 
side but a row of sturdy elms on the 
east, one being quite near third base, 
and another row running east and 
w^est in deep centre-field. Here all 
of the practicing was done during the 
outdoor season, but no matches were 
played. 

That this space was a trifle too 




// idler L. Alunro 

circumscribed was clearly demon- 
onstrated when Munro, '70, the 
writer's brother, one day connected 
with a foul-fly to right field which 
landed exactly upon the intersection 
of the two sashes of a fully opened 
window in LTniversity Hall, carrying 
away all of the eight panes of glass. 
Great was the acclaim. 



Early baseball knew no such thing 
as a backstop fence. A passed ball 
might travel half a block before it 
came to rest. The catcher had no 
mask, no chest-protector. Noone had 
a glove. The ball was as hard as that 
of today ; the pitching doubtless less 
scientific, but, with the pitcher's posi- 
tion only 45 feet away from the plate 
instead of 60 feet as at present, 
even more vicious to handle with bare 
hands, as evidenced by the crooked 
fingers and enlarged joints of sur- 
\i\ing veterans. 

In fair weather practice was inces- 
sant. Men were even known to leave 
the classrooms on the lower floor of 
U. H. by the windows, after roll-call, 
when the professor's back happened 
to be turned, in order to participate. 
Possibly the instructor was not as 
blind as he seemed for many of the 
Faculty were dyed-in-the-wool "fans." 
Their interest in the nine sometimes 
led to very practical results. 

One day more than a score of years 
later, when a critical game was to be 
played in the afternoon, one of our 
indispensable stars was ineligible be- 
cause of failure in one study. A dep- 



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utation waited upon the head of that 
department, a loyal rooter for Brown, 
and asked him to give the star a 
"make up" that morning. The Pro- 
fessor agreed, saying, "Yes, I'll give 
him the examination hut I doubt 
whether he can pass it." The "make 
up" was given, the player reinstated, 
the game won. After it was all over 
an intimate friend said to Professor 
X, "Well, you got that man through 
his examination all right." "Yes," 
said X, "but it was a mighty close 
shave." "How was that?" "Why," 
says X, "you see they have to make 
an average of 50 on make ups. I 
asked him one question and he an- 
swered it all wrong; so I gave him 
O. Then I asked him another and 
he said 'I don't know.' That was cor- 
rect so I marked him 100 on it. It 
just pulled him through." 

Until the advent of professional 
baseball and the opening of the Ade- 
laide Avenue ball-park, all matches 
were played on Dexter Training 
Ground. Brown soon won the cham- 
pionship of the city. Their first in- 
tercollegiate game was against Har- 
vard on the Training Ground. 
Though Brown was beaten, as had 
been anticipated, it was a great and 
glorious occasion, with the tvvo nines 
riding to the grounds in open ba- 
rouches, the American Band discours- 
ing sweet music in the intervals, and 
a veritable galaxy of beauty and fash- 
ion honoring the contenders. The 
two teams were banqueted after the 
contest. It is doubtful whether any 
match since that faraway day has 
been staged with greater eclat. 

At these games there could be no 
admission fee, as the field was not 
enclosed, and no collection was taken. 
The spectators grouped themselves in 
dense formation about the home-plate 
and down the foul-lines. The first 
thin entering wedge of commercialism 
in college sports was inserted when 
the Baseball Association provided 
some seats which were stored in a 
nearby lumber yard between times 
and brought out to be sold for twen- 
t5'-five cents each when a game was 
played. 

With the entrance of the class of 
'70 in 1866 there came a delegation 
of athletes who were destined to place 
Brown firmly on the baseball map 



for all time. Rarely, if ever, in the 
history of the game at Brown has one 
class held such a monopoly on the 
raw material of which nines are 
made. With the exception of one 
man, George M. Smith, '69, the Uni- 
versity nine and '70 class nine were 
identical ; and thereby hangs a tale. 

The Brown nine in the spring of 
'68 had gone its victorious way, over- 
coming all of its opponents. The 
"Lowells" of Boston (named for 
their patron John A. Lowell, the en- 
graver), who considered themselves, 
and were held by residents of the 
Hub, to be the crack nine of New 
England, condescended to challenge 
the University team. On the morn- 
ing set for the game it was quietly 
arranged with George Smith that he 
was to be sick for the day. When 
the Lowells arrived they were re- 
gretfully told that it would be im- 
possible for the University nine to 
play them ; but they were offered a 
game with the class-nine of '70. 
Great was their indignation and dis- 
dainful their remarks anent this in- 
sult to their self-esteem ; but they fi- 
nally decided, after the expense and 
loss of time were held up for their 
consideration, that it would be better 
to go home with a '70 scalp rather 
than none at all, and, condescending- 
ly, agreed to play. Much to their 
chagrin they were soundly beaten and 
departed for Boston a crestfallen and 
dispirited aggregation. History does 
not record whether they ever discov- 
ered the joke which had been played 
on them. 

In 1869 and 1870 the Brown nine, 
almost uniformly victorious, won the 
championship and gained for the col- 
lege a repute in baseball which it has 
never since lost. Of this conquer- 
ing, pioneer nine of more than sixty 
years ago, four men, Bowker, Fales. 
Herreshoff and Munro, are still liv- 
ing. Colwell, Grant, Hitchcock, 
Matteson and Taylor have joined the 
majority. 

Meanwhile new material had been 
trickling in. There was then no 
three-year rule, no ineligibility on ac- 
count of scholastic failure. A stu- 
dent was permitted to play on the 
college nine from the day of his en- 
trance until he severed his connection. 
This, of course, gave institutions 

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which had schools of medicine and 
law a great advantage over their 
smaller rivals. Men not infrequent- 
ly played on their teams for seven 
consecutive years. Graduates of 
other colleges, after playing four 
\ears for their Alma Mater, often 
put in three more as representatives 
of the college or university where they 
were pursuing their professional stud- 
ies; and (\\-hisper it softly) some of 
these had no occasion to worry 
about the wherewithal to meet their 
term-bills and other expenses. Base- 
ball and in fact all amateur sports 
were then, as judged by our modern 
standards, on a far from ethical basis. 
The great moral awakening came 
some years later, when the rapid 
growth of professional sports com- 
pelled the development of a conscience 
in the amateur ranks. 

In the early seventies Brown had 
always a strong team but none of 
championship calibre. Her fine in- 
dividual players were so numerous 
that it is perhaps invidious to try to 
name them. Among them were Joe 
Earle, Morris Howland and Joe 
Jewell of '71 ; Jim Hendrick and 
"Bub" Jennings of '72; Asa Stratton 
of "'73 ; Harry Aldrich, Horace 
Brown, Dick Comstock, W. C. Par- 
ker, Gus Van Wickle of '76; Char- 
lie Aldrich, George Dow, Arthur 
Griffin, Clarke Johnson, Kit Lee, 
Joe T\'ler of '77; Charlie Butter- 
worth, "Jick" Cross, Charlie Huse, 
Steve Nickerson of '78. All these 
were stars of greater or lesser mag- 
nitude in their day. They are only 
a part of the procession which passes 
in memory before one's closed eyes. 

Meanwhile professional baseball in 
Providence had made its debut and 
enclosed ball grounds had been pro- 
vided, at first on Adelaide Avenue 
near Broad Street, and later, with the 
ad\ent of the big league, on Messer 
Street. The sport was now thor- 
oughly commercialized, all intercol- 
legiate and other matches being played 
at the ball park. Practice was still 
mostly on the Old Back Campus. 

With the entrance of the Class of 
'80 came an aggregation of talent, led 
b>' Lee Richmond, the mighty pitcher, 
which, long before their graduation, 
carried baseball at Brown once more 
to championship heights. Meader, 



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Paul Waterman and Winslow were 
the other members of the strong group 
of '80 ball players. The Class of '81 
contributed Ladd and Rose; the 
Class of '82 Dilts, Johnny Greene, 
Hovey and White. These men 
made up the championship team 
of '79. Harry Hardy, '80, was the 
manager. They lost an early sea- 
son game to \'ale for which later 
sweet revenge was taken ; but that 
was the extent of their reverses. No 
alumnus whose memory carries back 
over fifty years can have forgotten the 
two victories over Harvard. The 
first game, on the Messer Street 
grounds, resulted in a score of 2 1 to 
5 in our favor. Before the second 
game, which was played a few days 
later on Jarvis Field in Cambridge, 
the entire student body, apparently, 
went baseball mad with enthusiasm. 
Every man who could beg, borrow or 
steal the price went down with the 
nine. Never in all its history had 
the old college seen such an hegira to 
an out-of-town game. Daily bulle- 
tins had informed them of the con- 
sternation which Brown's victor)^ had 
created among Har\ard men and 
their implacable determination to 
wipe out the affront. It was known 
that their famous battery, Ernst and 
Tyng, who had graduated the pre- 
ceding June, had been re-enrolled, 
Ernst in the Aledical School and 
Tyng in the Law School, for the ex- 
press purpose of beating Brown; 
that ^Vright, their premier first-base- 



man, who was laboring under some 
sort of scholastic disability, had had 
it removed to the extent of allowing 
him to play ball for the honor of 
Harvard. Thus they regained for 
the day and occasion their hitherto 
invincible infield. But Brown out- 
matched them, man for man, and won 
the game 6 to 2. It was a bitter de- 
feat for the Harvard cohorts who 
crowded the stands and a sweet vic- 
tory for their aforetime contemned 
rivals. 

It was due not alone to Richmond's 
masterful pitching but also to his su- 
perb support. Winslow behind the 
bat, AVhite on first, Ladd on sec- 
ond. Waterman at third, Dilts, the 
peerless shortstop, Meader, Rose, 
Greene and Hovey in the field, each 
played with the combination of skill, 
speed and confidence which wins 
games. 

By way of filling Harvard's bit- 
ter cup of defeat full to overflowing 
the Fi'eshman nine of '82, in the same 
month, twice defeated the Har\ard 
Freshmen. 

The Champion University Nine of 
'79 was the last great team at Brown 
whose habitat throughout was the 
Old Back Campus, the passing of 
which within a few short months was 
already planned. It was a glorious 
ending. The irony of the situation, 
as far as the Class of '79 was con- 
cerned, was that it alone, of the four 
classes in college, had not a single 
representative in the game. 



What Dr. Faunce Said About the 
Faculty Thirty Years Ago 



(Extract Irom His Inauz/i/ral Aildresi) 



np HE duty of the professors is 
first of all to love knowledge 
and continually to advance it. They 
are to be both discoverers and teach- 
ers. The teacher who has never been 
at the circumference of human knowl- 
edge and made independent research 
and fresh discovery, who has never 
stood like the discoverer of the Pacif- 
ic, "Silent, upon a peak in Darien, " 
is necessarily an echo, growing faint- 
er as the years pass. On the other 



hand, the original investigator in 
science, or history, or language, who 
fails to keep about him a band of 
eager students and disciples, easily 
becomes a doctrinaire, with no ap- 
prehension of how knowledge should 
culminate in life. Research and 
teaching are rivals only as the left 
hand is the rival of the right. The 
facultv' of an institution of the high- 
er learning must remember that a 
University is greater than any one 



department, and that each depart- 
ment is preserxed from provincialism 
only by a vital contact with all the 
others. The unity of the faculty fitly 
and finely symbolizes the unity of 
knowledge — man\' facts, but one 
truth. 

The teacher is at all hazards to 
preserve his intellectual candor, and 
to maintain unsullied tile Leiirfreiheit 
which is a part of the birthright of 
every true school. Any college in this 
country that should receive any gift 
whatsoever on condition of making 
the donor's personal private vie\vs 
the standard of instruction would be 
guilty of an inconceivable degrada- 
tion both of itself and of the cause 
of education which it misrepresents. 
In partisan politics, in the petty dis- 
putes of the market place, in the heat- 
ed cries which fill the air in the morn- 
ing and are forgotten at night, the 
University can officially have no 
part. It can no more descend to such 
things then can the Supreme Court 
of the State. The University de- 
clines to rush into the arena on every 
pretext, or fling itself as make-weight 
into every trembling scale, deliberate- 
ly choosing to influence the world not 
by caucus and hustings, but by the 
slow, invisible yet absolutely irresist- 
ible processes of education. This does 
not mean the separation of the Uni- 
versity from the life around it. On 
the contrary, that life is to be per- 
meated and moulded by the influence 
of the teaching staff. Each member 
of the faculty will gladly give time 
and strength to any cause that needs 
assistance. But he will not seek to 
make the University as a whole the 
organ of individual opinions, or at- 
tempt to force its students into cer- 
tain views. The University is to train 
students into such independence of 
judgment, such clear intelligence, 
such soundness of reasoning, such 
loyalty to truth and reverence for 
righteousness, that whatever views 
they hold, they shall hold them hon- 
estly, defend them bravely, and in- 
carnate them in unsullied lives. 

In order to do this all the mem- 
bers of the faculty should cultivate 
intimate personal relations with their 
students. To be satisfied with purely 
official relations, to deliver a lecture 



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merely as a necessary interruption of 
more congenial private study is to 
miss one's greatest opportunity. Our 
aim in undergraduate work is not 
to create specialists, but to rnake men 
and women. The faculty, beyond all 
others in the world, can, by the per- 
sonal touch of life on life, communi- 
cate high-mindedness, courage, integ- 
rity, faith, and those simple, homely 
virtues without which all knowledge 
will vanish "as an insubstantial pag- 
eant faded." No parchment or mi- 
croscope or stuffed specimen can serve 



as substitute for the living personal- 
ity of the teacher, and to him we may 
say with Emerson : "What you are 
speaks so loud I cannot hear what 
you say." This University has, dur- 
ing all its history, been rich in pow- 
erful personalities, men who were in 
themselves an education and whose 
radiant inspiring presence was more 
than books or scrolls. Such men never 
rest content with technical achieve- 
ment, but they lead us not only to 
the tree of knowledge, but to the tree 
of life. 



An Easterner from Brown Gives 
His Impressions of the West 

By Reginald Poland, Broun, '14; Director of the Fine Arts Gallery of San 

Diego, California 

/^ARL SANDBURG tells the afterwards. With such wonderful 

^^story of a newcojner who enquired parents as mine I have no excuse if 

of an old-timer as to the nature of resi- I fail to accomplish something. This 

dents of the town in which they were is said solely because the heritage and 

conversing. The native replied by also environment which they gave me 

asking a question: "How were they ought of themselves to be productive 



where you come from?" "A low- 
down, contemptible, thieving, miser- 
able lot," the stranger said. "Well, 
that's about the way you'll find us, I 
guess." After a time another new- 
comer asked this same native con- 
cerning the nature of the residents: 
Once more he enquired before trying 
to give the information requested: 
"How were they where you come 
from?" As fine a lot as you could 
find anywhere, seems like." "Well, 
stranger, I guess that's what you'll 
find them to be here." 

Home is very nearly what and 
where you make it. North, south, 
east or west, persons are more alike 
than we often imagine before ac- 
quaintance. 

Increasingly this seems true to me 
since going out from the priceless 
protection of my parents' home. We 
scarcely appreciate what we have not 
paid for ; in receiving so much with- 
out the asking, and without any ef- 
fort on my part, of course I could 
not understand it nor profit particu- 
larly at the moment. However, sucii 
tireless and perfect parental care of 
wholesome and constructive spirit as 
I received means more to its recipient 



of some good, even if I should never 
do more than give a chance to those 
assets which have been given to me. 

My brothers and I iiave another 
invaluable treasure and happy mem- 
ory in the instruction which our late 
father, William Carey Poland, per- 
sonally gave us at various times. In 
the summer months this was in Gras- 
mere. New Hampshire, where on our 
"farm" an already mature grove of 
murmuring pines stands as proof of 
his love of the beautiful and noble, 
every tree having been planted and 
tenderly cared for by him. Later on, 
in Brown University, we began to 
learn the significance and beauty of 
the fine arts in that department of 
which he so long held the chair. From 
his classes we received that splendid 
interpretation and information con- 
cerning the subject which he gave to 
all. I continued to study art and to 
enter that field professionally, be- 
cause William Carey Poland was not 
only the finest possible father but 
the best type of interpreter and of 
education, in the true sense of that 
word. 

Like many, we grew up to believe 
tiiere could be no place like Provi- 
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dence. The Liber Brunensis said about 
the writer: "His grandfather, fa- 
ther, two brothers, uncle, five cous- 
ins, etc., went to Brown, so what 
chance did he have to go elsewhere?" 
It is true, however, that I always 
loved Brown and, regardless of my 
relatives, always planned to go to 
Brown and would never have gone 
elsewhere. Even when in graduate 
work at Princeton and at Harvard 
I would come back home as often as 
possible, to keep in touch with my 
first love. Brown, and the college 
city. 

When invited to become Director 
of the Denver (Colorado) Art As- 
sociation, I "accepted with regret," 
and then almost rejoiced tiiat the 
War came so that I should not have 
to li\e away from Providence! Fol- 
lowing the war, I was happy to learn 
that I could live in Rome, Italy, un- 
der a fellowship if I chose, rather 
than go to Denver as Director; this 
position they had held for me until 
my return. I finally chose Denver, 
more in order to begin what I then 
called "a more productive life." Also 
having been abroad about a year in 
the war, where I began to get an 
idea of the relative values in life and 
to exist as a more positive entity, I 
now chose Denver because with that 
foreign stay even Colorado seemed 
nearer Providence than Italy. 

In Denver, as formerly on a sum- 
mer's trip abroad, I was recognized 
as a dyed-in-the-wool New England- 
er and my frigid "New England re- 
serve" was not infrequently men- 
tioned to me. They said in drawing 
classes that the figures I perpetrated 
recalled members of the Nev/ Eng- 
land clergy — this quite to my own 
surprise. I really went to Colorado 
with painful effort — to others as 
well as myself, no doubt. The pos- 
sibilities, unexhausted assets of the 
mid-West, as compared with the al- 
ready developed and more or less "ef- 
fete East" and the infinite reaches 
and monumental beauty of the still 
unspoiled natural surroundings were 
all pointed out without stirring me a 
particle. In fact, it took that truly 
monumental mountainous country, 
with its balance of limitless plains, a 
year and a half to finally convert me 
— that and mv wonderful wife, 



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whom I first met in Deiuer. Fin- 
ally I came not only to sensibly see 
and enjoy the West's attractiveness 
and potential development, but also 
the adaptable, creative and whole- 
somel>' genial character of the people 
who take up with anyone who is 
really trying to accomplish some- 
thing. 

Denver is as creative a place as 
we know ; the high altitude makes 
the people as keen as a blade. If 
anything, they tend to be dogmatic, 
with resultant conflicts which side- 
track much that is worth while ac- 
complishing. Whereas New Eng- 
land may tend toward smugness and 
contentedness. Denver often seemed 
unwilling to compromise for the sake 
of the greater common good. West- 
ern pioneers had to win or die ; 
though this is no longer so true. 
Westerners sometimes seem to have 
a "hangover" from such a pioneer 
philo^oplhy of life. T'he frank, 
friendly, positive and active nature 
of the Westerner is what increasing- 
ly we came to prefer. 

We next chose Detroit because of 
its greater offerings and possibly fu- 
ture development, both from a self- 
ish standpoint of what we ourselves 
might obtain, and from the stand- 
point of art. Detroit had long had 
splendid collections and was on the 
verge of that progress which has since 
made some speak of the present Gal- 
lery, its art and activities, as first, 
proportionally, in the country. While 
Detroit is less creati\e than Denver, 
it is more dynamic, broad-minded, 
productive and cosmopolitan. Art 
seems perhaps more naturally a part 
of the life of Denver and Denver- 
ites than of Detroit. It may seem 
the irony of fate that, while Denver 
is not doing so much about art as is 
Detroit, it is acting with zest, but 
often with doubtful value to the 
cause of art, as compared with De- 
troit, where art appears rather as 
an artificial importation. However, 
eventually we feel sure that both 
places will have and enjoy art sin- 
cerely and in a big way. — but not 
until the cities and their citizens, 
change. They will change because 
they are Western ! 

Like many persons, we had won- 
dered whether we should ever see Cal- 



ifornia. Finally we had decided that 
our life was apparently fixed else- 
where — and then, within the month, 
I was invited to become Director of 
the Art Gallery in San Diego, Cali- 
fornia. From what we had heard 
we believed the city an ideal spot. It 
is the one place of previously un- 
known quantities which has come up 
to our expectations and hopes. 

Balboa Park, where stands the Art 
Gallery of which the Art Society has 
charge, is a perfect park, lovely, in 
itself, an inviting masterpiece of the 
landscape gardener's and architect's 
work ; by the Olmsted brothers, it is 
in perfect key with the 1915 Exposi- 
tion buildings of rich Spanish baroc 
style, erected by the late Bertram 
Goodhue. The new permanent Fine 
Arts Gallery building, designed in 
the magnificent Spanish plateresque 
style by William Templeton John- 
son, strikes just the right note for 
harmony with the Exposition build- 
ings. 

San' Diego has more than doubled 
in population within about 20 years, 
now numbering somewhat in excess 
of 150,000. It has not tried to grow 
or progress with unusual intensity. 
As in most semi-tropic regions, in- 
habitants have rather the "laissez- 
faire" attitude. So we were frankly 
most gratified to see so much knowl- 
edge, understanding and pleasure in 
all worth while things — music espe- 
cially, literature, the sciences, the 
theatre of the right sort and the Fine 
Arts. 

When we opened the art gallery, 
we owned but $50,000 worth of art. 
Within three years the collection was 
valued in excess of a half-million dol- 
lars. For the same period our mem- 
bership changed from 600 to over 
1300. Now our membership is pro- 
portionally second in the United 
States for the city's population. 

A splendid policy of purpose, ac- 
tivity, exhibition and acquisition was 
drawn up. The purpose is two-fold, 
first, to serve the public at large and 
then to give significant offerings to 
the connoisseur, critic and creative 
artist. The temporary exhibition of 
art includes any so-called art which 
has real interest, as long as it is not 
destructive in its spirit. Acquisitions 
will come from both gift and pur- 

7 



chase. We shall not be so strict as 
to quality in the former case, if we 
feel that the offering is of value to 
the general public ; however, we ac- 
cept nothing "with even a single 
string." The purchase of art is in 
accordance with the strictest of rules 
and of absolutely nothing but the best 
in quality. It must be with a iinani- 
mous vote of a special committee 
and the gallery director. 

The Society is concentrating on 
Spanish and late and contemporary 
American art. Our American treas- 
ures already include 107 bronze 
sculptures by Arthur Putnam, given 
by Mrs. Alma de B. Spreckels and 
children, paintings and drawings by 
the early Homer Martin, Elihu V^ed- 
der and William Keith, others by 
Ranger, Bohm, Foster and Twacht- 
man and, by our contemporaries, the 
canvases of such as Emil Carlsen, 
John Sloan, Lawson and Henri. 
Two divisions, painting and drawing, 
already well represent the work of 
Southern Californians. 

Our Spanish treasures take one 
from Greek and Roman days to the 
present. They include El Greco's 
"St. Francis," Coello's "Queen Isa- 
bella," Zuloaga's "Antonio," Sor- 
olla's "Maria in the Gardens of La 
Granja," and Pruna's "Blanche," 
which was said to be the logical win- 
ner of the second prize in the Inter- 
national show at Pittsburgh this year, 
where this same artist did win that 
award for another canvas, a still- 
life of flowers. In addition, we are 
very proud of a superb portrait by 
Lucas Cranach, the Elder. This 
likeness of a Saxon Courtier has the 
feeling of an "Old Master" and of 
a very modern picture. 

We are tending toward the "Per- 
iod-room" idea and so already have a 
Spanish and a Dutch room, the latter 
particularly for children, with hun- 
dreds of Delft tiles in friezes about 
the walls, each one with its own dif- 
ferent picture or historical event. 

Some riches are bestowed with- 
out being sought. We have thus ac- 
quired Oriental and French art of 
marked distinction. Included is Cour- 
bet's "Silent Pool," which we prize 
among our first four masterpieces. 
Last, but by no means least, we es- 
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with its colorful figures woven in 
silk of the officers of Louis XIV 
plundering Pfalz, and driving forth 
men and herds of cattle, goats and 
swine. Never have we seen a more 
brilliant or attractive Gobelin. 

The people ha\e been very respon- 
sive to the gallery and its life. And 
outsiders from far and wide have 
claimed a share in this art develop- 
ment. Our generous donors range 
from New York City to San Diego. 
We have often and long heard it 
said that San Diego's leading citizens 
are placing this art movement first in 
the city's interests. Because of this 
and because San Diegans tend to do 
only what they wish, without the dy- 
namic feverish drive of Detroit or the 
rather dogmatic, narrower, exhaust- 
ing sprinting of Denver, San Diego 
is going long and far artisticalh'. It 
is not a matter of fashion with this 
city; of course art itself has nothing 
to do with fashion. The best element 



in San Diego is making itself respon- 
sible for the art gallery, thereby 
setting the right example which others 
are gladly following. 

We once feared that the very ease 
of life here and the charms of nature 
might make persons somewhat too 
content with such offerings to be- 
stir themselves about art objects and 
art galleries, but we have seen a 
steady growth in a thoughtful and 
substantial regard for art not as- 
sumed as a temporary fad, but as 
one regularly takes food for his phys- 
ical well-being. We have therefore 
come to agree with Maurice Brawn, 
an international artist and art-figure, 
who says, "Oh, absolutely, San Diego, 
partly because of her climate and 
beauties and partly because of her 
potential patronage, of definite, if 
not unusually large proportions, must 
become a great centre for the appre- 
ciation and creation of art. The many 
will enjoy beautiful living here." 



News From the Brown Clubs In 
All Parts of the Country 

By A. H. Gurney, Alumni Secretary 



' I *HE Union League Club was the 
scene, and May 22 the date, of 
the final meeting of the year of the 
Brown Club of New Haven. And it 
was fitting that the speaker of the 
occasion should be Dean Randall, 
soon to give up his active duties on 
the Hill for a year abroad. "An oc- 
casion of note," the advance notice 
said. It was, for then and there Dean 
Randall spoke his ^■aledictory as an 
officer of Brown who in recent years 
has done more than any other mem- 
ber of the administration to bring 
the University and the alumni nearer 
together. 

Secretary Walter V. Brown, '27 
said in a letter not long ago that 
"plans are under consideration with 
Yale for a joint Brown-Yale band 
concert and dance next fall on the 
eve of the Brown-Yale football 
game. 

"On April 5," he went on, "a fine 
meeting was held in Waterbur\- at 
the Y. M. C. A. Vic Hedberg is 
doing some real work up there. He 
and Harry Soper were responsible 



for one of the best meetings the club 
has had. The speaker was Floyd 
Roberts, who gave a stirring talk. 
In addition there were three amusing 
vaudeville acts. After the entertain- 
ment, we went to the bowling alleys 
and Vic Hedberg and President 
Smith worsted Roland Copeland after 
a very exciting contest." 

Broun Engineers 

With the spring meeting in Bos- 
ton pleasant history, the Brown En- 
gineers were preparing for their final 
get-together of the present academic 
year as we wrote final copy for the 
June number of the Monthly. The 
get-together called for a dinner at the 
Holtz Postkeller Restaurant in New 
\ork and then adjournment to the 
Telephone Building at 24 Walker 
Street to hear Arthur A. Denico, '04, 
telephone engineer, speak on "Long 
Distance and Transatlantic Tele- 
phone Problems." The date was 
May 24. 

Thirty-two Brown engineering 
alumni, including President Parker, 
8 



Vice President Tompkins, Director 
Sydney Wilmot and Secretary-Treas- 
urer Wayne M. Faunce, were pres- 
ent at the meeting in Boston on April 
26. The Boston City Club was the 
rallying point. Frank E. Winsor, 
'91, as toastmaster, introduced Presi- 
dent Parker, Professor Arthur E. 
Norton, '00, of the Harvard Engi- 
neering School, and Dean Otis E. Ran- 
dall as the principal speakers of the 
evening and Professor W. H. Kener- 
son, who brought to Boston several 
reels of his campus pictures and his 
own pat comment to go with them. 

President Parker reviewed the 
work of the association, paid tribute 
to Dean Randall and read letters 
from President Faunce which were 
listened to with genuine interest. 
President Parker also complimented 
the Boston committee on the success 
of its arrangements. 

Professor Norton, the headline 
speaker, drew an interesting com- 
parison between the aims and activi- 
ties of the engineering societies of 
Brown and Harvard, respectively. 
He stressed the importance of exer- 
cising the good fellowship and the 
social side of activities and expressed 
the opinion that they were of more 
importance than technical discussion 
in holding the engineers together. 
He advised strong efforts to bring 
about a close fellowship between grad- 
uate and undergraduate engineers and 
told of the s\stem of alumni advisors 
for Senior engineers which has re- 
cently been, adopted by the Harvard 
Engineering Society. In closing he 
spoke feelingly of his association with 
Dean Randall, whom he had as a 
teacher at Brown. 

Mr. Winsor, in introducing Dean 
Randall, reminded the engineers that 
the Dean was in large measure re- 
sponsible for the early organization 
of the engineering course at Brown. 
As Dean Randall rose to speak he re- 
ceived an ovation indicative of his 
place in the hearts of the Brown 
men present. He commented on some 
aspects of modern methods of educa- 
tion in vogue at Brown and other 
colleges and referred to the great and 
lasting joy which service to Brown 
has brought to him. He spoke of the 
excellent — indeed, excelling — records 
which Brown engineering graduates 
are making in the world and attrib- 
uted this success to the close harmony 
in the relationship which exists be- 
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in the Engineering Division, a re- 
lationship which is of inestimable 
value in the development of the stu- 
dent's character. 

Professors Watson, Hall, Tomp- 
kins and Bliss spoke briefly ; Sydney 
Wilmot told of the progress of the 
fund to provide the annual Engineer- 
ing Prize and Secretary Faunce had 
a few words to say with regard to 
increasing membership. In fact, he 
got four new members at the meet- 
ing. Then Professor Kenerson 
showed his movies, and President 
Parker named Mr. Winslow to serve 
as chairman of the committee to ar- 
range for a spring meeting in 1930. 

Hartford 

Nearly a score of members of the 
Brown Club of Hartford were on 
hand for the May meeting at which 
the speaker was Coach D. O. Mc- 
Laughry of the football team. Coach 
McLaughry told of prospects for next 
season, commented on some of the 
high spots of the 1928 campaign and 
then answered questions. "Such old 
timers as Frank Wheeler and Frank 
Jones and one not so old, Jesse Bailey, 
plied Tuss with questions," said our 
correspondent, "and the rest of us 
had a few to ask ourselves — questions 
about the old game and the new, 
about pla>s and players. As someone 
put it, it's a treat we have been look- 
ing forward to for three years, or 
since McLaughry came to Brown." 

The Hartford club will not hold 
any more meetings until ne.xt fall. 

TFestern Alaine 

Dean Kenneth O. Mason and the 
Alumni Secretary opened their May 
tour in Portland, Me., May 6, on 
which occasion they were the guests 
of the Brown Club of Western Maine 
at a dinner and meeting at the Lafaj'- 
ette Hotel. Also present as guests 
were Melden Rice, Captain, and 
Coach Richard Gustafson of the vic- 
torious South Portland High School 
basketball team which won the Brown 
Cup, offered by the Brown Club for 
the best basketball five in the State. 
George S. Ellis, '94, presided, and 
the attendance was the largest in sev- 
eral years. Election of officers for 
next year resulted as follows: 

President, Robert C. Moore, '18, 
Bingham ; Vice President, Rev. H. S. 
McCready, '96, special; Secretary, 
Robert F. Skillings, '11; Treasurer, 
Dr. Thomas J. Burrage, '98; Execu- 
tive Committee, Rev. A. E. Kingsley, 



'90, Hebron; Walter S. Trefethen, 
'29n, South Portland, and Mavnard 
E. Wright, '13, Alfred. 

Dean Mason discussed admissions 
frankly and succinctly, and outlined 
the efforts now being made to get a 
better selection of students. The 
Alumni Secretary told the news of 
the Hill and urged the alumni to 
come back for Commencement. A 
question period followed, and Dean 
Mason and the Alumni Secretary 
answered the barrage more or less 
satisfactorily. A resolution read by 
Robert F. Skillings setting forth the 
work of President Faunce as Brown's 
leader during the last thirty years and 
extending to him the best wishes of 
the Maine Alumni as he retires 
was adopted unamimously. Robert 
Moore's choice as president is a pop- 
ular one. We know that he will be 
as active as George Ellis and his co- 
workers have been in the year now 
closing. Professor Arthur N. Leon- 
ard, '92, of Bates, Myron U. Lamb, 
'23, and several others sent letters 
regretting that they could not attend. 

New Hampshire 

For the first time in three years 
the Brown Club of New Hampshire 
met at the Derryfield Club, Man- 
chester, May 7, to greet Dean Mason 
and the Alumni Secretary. The mem- 
bers came from various places in the 
State. Bertram Blaidsell, '92, of 
Meredith presided suavely ; and there 
was a real innovation in having the 
wives present. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
M. McDonough, parents of Joseph 
M. McDonough, '31, and other 
guests were also in attendance, and 
they heard a fine talk by Dean Ma- 
son on admission questions and lis- 
tened with patience to the Alumni 
Secretary as he recounted events that 
have taken place on the Hill since 
last September. The following officers 
for 1929-30 were named: 

President, H. D. Corkum, '17; 
Vice President, Dr. George M. 
Crowell, '94; Secretary, Dr. H. W. 
N. Bennett, '97; Treasurer, Henry 
B. Stearns, '99 ; Executive Commit- 
tee, William S. O'Gorman, 'i6n, B. 
E. Tremblay, '13, special; Delegate 
to Advisory Board, A. W. Rowell, 
'93n. 

The New Hampshire scholarship 
fund was discussed and it was agreed 
that an effort should be made to in- 
crease this fund and to try to have one 
or more meetings annually hereafter. 



A social half-hour followed the meet- 
ing. 

Merrimack Valley 

Dr. Albert D. Mead, Vice Presi- 
dent of the University, Professor 
James P. Adams, head of the De- 
partment of Economics, and the 
Alumni Secretary were the guests 
of the Merrimack Valley Brown 
Club at the seventh annual dinner at 
the Red Tavern, Methuen, Mass., 
May 4. President William H. Cady, 
'98, Lewis H. Conant, '03, and 
James S. Eastham, '19, were the 
hosts, and to them thanks are here 
publicly given for their hospitality. 
At the business session reports were 
heard (Jim Eastham would win a 
prize any day in a report-reading 
competition) and the following offi- 
cers were chosen : 

President, William H. Cady, '98; 
Secretary-Treasurer, James S. East- 
ham, '19; Executive Committee, Dr. 
H. D. Smith, '03, George A. Mellen, 
'98 and Nowell R. Kinney, '19. 

Jim Eastham as toastmaster — 
well, barring a few personalities, he 
did a real job, introducing in turn 
Professor Adams, the Alumni Secre- 
tary and Dr. Mead. Professor Adams 
gave an informative and wholly ab- 
sorbing talk on the Department of 
Economics, how it is now constituted, 
how it handles its subjects, and how 
it runs the Brown Business Service 
in co-operation with the Providence 
Chamber of Commerce. He also de- 
scribed the Brown Plan of Student 
Loans (one of the best in the coun- 
try) and distributed copies of the 
plan, as well as copies of the Brown 
Business Service Bulletin. His talk 
was excellent in every respect ; we 
commend him to other Brown clubs 
looking for a live and engaging speak- 
er from College Hill. 

After the Alumni Secretary had 
said his say about college affairs, and 
particularly about Commencement on 
June 17, Dr. Mead gave the greetings 
of President Faunce to the club, 
touched upon the changes in admin- 
istration as President Faunce pre- 
pared to retire and President-elect 
Barbour made ready to take up the 
work, the changes in the Faculty, the 
Sabbatical year of Dean Randall, and 
the appointment of Professor Samuel 
T. Arnold as acting Dean, and then 
devoted the rest of his time to the 
stoPt' of his visit to Japan last year. 
A vivid and enlightening story it was, 
and all of us listened with great at- 



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tendon and pleasure. After he fin- 
ished, questions came from many of 
us ; and later, at Jim Eastham's house, 
there were more questions. 

Among the guests were Albert 
Stacy, Wallace C. Fiedler, Louis E. 
Wright, Matthew Ziskind and Ger- 
ald Donahue, all of whom are plan- 
ning to enter Brown next fall. 

Fall River 

With Governor Norman S. Case, 
'08, of Rhode Island as the guest of 
honor, and with Dean Mason, Dr. 
Samuel T. Arnold, '13 (a Fall River 
boy), and the Alumni Secretary rep- 
resenting the University, the Brown 
Club of Fall River held an enthu- 
siastic meeting at the Fall River 
Country Club, May 7. Preston H. 
Hood, '12, Carl A. Terry, '15, and 
Amasa F. Williston, '14, were the 
committee of arrangements and thev 
did their work up brown. We take 
our hat off to them for the dinner 
they provided, for the setting, for 
the happy idea of having "Tommy" 
Thomas, '08, as song leader, and, all 
in all, for as pleasant an evening as 
we have enjoyed in a long time. 

Governor Case gave a remark- 
ably pointed talk on the need of col- 
lege men participating in political af- 
fairs and also told of his visit with 
President Hoover in Washington. 
Dean Mason again discussed admis- 
sions, the Alumni Secretary recited 
his piece about coming back for Com- 
mencement, and Dr. Arnold described 
intimately his work as supervisor of 
non-athletic activities on the Hill. It 
was our first adventure with Dr. 
Arnold on a program, and we say 
emphatically that he is worth hear- 
ing again. And we hope that next 
academic year he will be able to visit 
some of the clubs to tell the alumni 
what he has been doing for the un- 
dergraduate organizations in the last 
few years. 

Cleveland 

Dean Kenneth O. Mason arrived 
early in the morning of April 25, and 
we had him out at the University 
School for chapel by 8:40. Several 
days before coming to Cleveland he 
spoke at Lake Forest Academy on the 
North Shore, Chicago. As chapel 
services there are at 8 o'clock he had 
to get up at 5:30 in order to reach 
Lake Forest on time. It might be 
comforting to some of the Fresh- 
men back on the campus to learn that 



their Dean did not have life too easy 
while on his trip West. 

In addition to University School, 
the Dean spoke at Shaker Heights 
High School and at Cleveland 
Heights High School. He also gave 
talks at Shaw and East Side High 
Schools. At Shaker, where the Corn- 
sweet brothers did their preparatory 
work, there are eleven applicants for 
admission next fall. We had a very 
interesting and worth while alumni 
meeting and dinner at the University 
Club and Dean Mason drew for us 
a clear picture of the problems that 
confront the University officials on 
admission. — L. S. M. 

Cantoii-Akrrjii 

Samuel J. Dreyer, '22, has written 
that "a meeting of Brown men was 
held April 28 at the Congress Lake 
Country Club, north of Canton. The 
occasion was a general get-together of 
the alumni from Canton, Akron, 
^ oungstown and Cleveland, the 
headline being a golf meet, followed 
by a dinner and a talk by Dean Ma- 
son, who was our visitor at Canton 
over the week-end. The golf meet 
vied with a rainstorm of real propor- 
tions, yet thirty-five loyal Brunon- 
ians showed up — and most of them 
played golf in the rain and enjoyed 
it! At the dinner, John R. Bair, '13, 
acted as chairman, and J. L. G. Pot- 
torf, '03, as toastmaster. Russ McKay, 
II, spoke briefly and Dean Mason 
interrupted the singing of the Youngs- 
town contingent to give an illumi- 



nating talk on his special subject of 
admissions. I ended up by talking 
myself, asking the men to arrange 
these affairs in the various cities about 
once a month. 

"Among those present were Rusty 
Phillips, '15, Charlie Clegg, '15, Luke 
Wilson, '15, E. S. Walton, '13, Russ 
McKay, '11, Bob Leedy, '29, How- 
ard W. Jones, '23, special, all of 
Youngstown ; H. T. Waller, '01, and 
son, Jonathan Taylor, '97, C. E. 
Bryant, '01, S. A. Steere, '07, W. A. 
Maguire, '18, of Akron; Paul 
Keough, '17. Ralph Gordon, 'i8n, 
Joe Burwell, '13, Harry Hoffman, 
'25, Fred Cross, '26, R. E. Barnes, 
'27, Bob Adams, '26, Everett Mar- 
ten, '25, Mark A. Hanna, 3rd, of 
Cleveland. Also Canton was there 
one hundred per cent in the persons 
of the committee that did the work, 
Messrs. Pottorf and Bair, Hal BVoda, 
'27, Red Fogle, '27, Bill Lerch, '31, 
and yours truly. (Yes, we had some 
good sub-Freshmen, too.)" 

Detroit-Chicago 

Dean Mason covered both Detroit 
and Chicago (and also St. Louis) 
thoroughly during his visit to the 
Middle West. Blair Moody, '22, 
got some excellent publicity for the 
Dean in Detroit, and in Chicago the 
Brown club committee showed him 
the meaning of true Chicago hospi- 
tality, aided and abetted by Furber 
Marshall, at whose apartment the 
meeting with Dean Mason took place. 
The St. Louis group, also, made his 
visit to that citv a memorable one. 



A Portrait of Samuel C. Eastman 
Given to the University Library 



A N oil portrait of Samuel C. 
Eastman, painted by L. G. Sell- 
stadt in 1901, has just been presented 
to the University Library by Mrs. 
Marion Duncan McGann, niece of 
Mrs. Eastman. The portrait has 
been hung in the Harris Room and 
justly commemorates the interest in 
that famous collection taken by its 
greatest benefactor. 

Mr. Eastman died in 191 7 at the 
age of eighty. He was graduated in 
the class of 1857. His especial in- 
terest in the Brown University Li- 
brary may have sprung from the fact 
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that he spent his first year out of 
college as its assistant librarian. He 
studied law at Harvard and then took 
up the practice of law in his native 
city of Concord, N. H. He was 
prominent in the city government of 
Concord and was one of the Repub- 
lican leaders of the state. In 1904 
he was a delegate to the Universal 
League of Lawyers and Jurists. He 
was President of the New Hampshire 
Savings Bank of Concord, of the 
Concord Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, and the Concord and 
Portsmouth Railroad. He was Presi- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



dent of the New Hampshire Histori- 
cal Society and the State Bar Asso- 
ciation. He was a director in the St. 
Louis and San Francisco Railroad 
and in many other corporations. 

Soon after graduation, he pub- 
lished "The White Mountain Guide 
Book." Having taken up the study 
of Danish, he translated Brandes' 
"Impressions of Russia" and Lie's 
"The Family at Gilje." By his will 
the University received $ioo,ooo to 
establish a professorship of political 
economy. 

Mr. Eastman married the daugh- 
ter of Albert Gorton Greene, the 
founder of the great collection of 
American poetry at Brown. At Mr. 
Greene's death this collection was 
bought b\ Caleb Fiske Harris and 
at his death by Senator Anthony, 

Brown Library 
Dr. Faunce' 

V^T" HEN President Faunce was 
inaugurated in 1899, the Uni- 
versity Library contained just lOO,- 
000 volumes. That was a proud 
moment in the history of the Library, 
for it had taken more than one hun- 
dred and thirty years to attain to 
this rank. Incidentally, this was the 
number of volumes in the largest 
American Librar\ when President 
Faunce was born. But in the suc- 
ceeding thirty years this number at 
Brown University has been multi- 
plied by four. In other words, dur- 
ing the administration of President 
Faunce, three times as many books 
have been added to the University 
Library as there were in the largest 
Library of any kind in America when 
he first saw light. 

Very interesting are the additions 
to the University's Library resources 
made during that period. They be- 
gin with the unrivaled gift of the 
John Carter Brown Library, the 
world's most complete collection on 
the history of North and South Amer- 
ica from the discovery down to the 
end of the eighteenth century. With 
this was coupled a gift of half a mil- 
lion dollars for endowment and 
$150,000 for a library building which 
was dedicated three years later. In 



who added to it his own collection 
and bequeathed the whole to his Alma 
Mater. The collection came to the 
University in 1886. Ten years later 
il received its first additions. Soon 
after, Mr. Eastman began to take a 
special interest in building it up in 
memory of his father-in-law. Also 
in the course of a few years he built 
up a fund of $10,000 for the pur- 
chase of books for the collection. 
Under his will the Library was made 
his residuary legatee and now, thanks 
to his interest, it enjoys the income 
of more than $70,000. It is thus due 
more to Mr. Eastman than to any- 
one else that the Harris Collection of 
American Poetry and Plays at Brown 
University is the largest and most 
important in the world. 

Harry Lyman Koopt/ian 

Growth During 
s Presidency 

1902 William V. Kellen, of the clasi 
of 1872, founded the Wheaton Col 
lection of International Law with 
an initial gift of the most complete 
collection of editions of Grotius on 
"War and Peace." In 1903 the 
University Library received by the 
gift of Marsden J. Perry the Sid- 
ney S. Rider Collection of Rhode 
Island History. In 1910 the classes 
of 1899 and 1900 gave the Ham- 
mond Lamont Library, chiefly of 
eighteenth century English literature. 

In 191 1 the University Library re- 
ceived by the bequest of George Earl 
Church his very choice South Amer- 
ican collection. The next year the 
great engineer, Elmer L. Corthell, 
gave to the University his library of 



engineering with $5,000 for endow- 
ment. In the same year Mr. Henry 
D. Sharpe, of the class of 1894, gave 
the very important working library 
of Dante literature formed by Wil- 
liam Henry Chambers of Florence. 
In 1913 the Library received from 
the family of the late Professor Les- 
ter F. Ward his scientific and socio- 
logical library, and almost at the 
same time the class of 1872 gave the 
linguistic library of the late Dr. 
Adrian Scott. 

In 192 1 the widow of William 
Henry Hoffman gave his choice Na- 
poleon collection to the Library and 
fitted up a room especially to re- 
ceive it. In 1923, under the will of 
Walter Hammond Kimball, of the 
class of 1894, the University re- 
ceived his books, which form a fine 
example of a gentleman's librar\. In 
1923 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave 
to the University the McLellan Lin- 
coln Collection, already the largest 
in the world, -and he has provided for 
its extension so that it is now rec- 
ognized to be the most complete 
scholarly collection on Lincoln in 
existence. The Lincoln letters and 
documents alone number 662. The 
collection is steadily growing and oc- 
cupies two adjoining rooms fitted up 
for it by Mr. Rockefeller. 

The crowning gift to the Univer- 
sit\ Library is the John Hay Library 
building, which was erected by the 
gift of Andrew Carnegie and other 
friends of Brown, and was dedicated 
in 1910. This building, quite as 
much as any other provision, has made 
possible the extraordinary library de- 
velopment that has gone on at Brown 
during the thirty years of Dr. 
Faunce's administration. 

Harry Lyman Koopman 



Schedule of Spring Sports 



J'arsity Baseball 

Brown O, Holy Cross 11. 
Brown 2, Providence League 9. 
Brown 7, Providence League 16. 
Brown 5, Pennsylvania 8. 
Brown 2, Holy Cross 3. 
Brown I, N. Y. University 2. 
Brown 7, Dartmouth 10. 
Brown 4, Providence College 
Brown 5, Middlebury 2. 

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Brown 5, Providence College 3. 
Brown 7, R. I. State 2. 



V^arsity Baseball Games in June 

Wed. 12 — Yale at New Haven. 

Fri. 14 — Dartmouth at Providence. 

Sat. 15 — New Hampshire at Dur- 
ham. 

Mon. 17 — New Hampshire at 
Providence. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Freshman Baseball 
Brown 8, Dean Academy 4. 
Brown 14, Moses Brown 4. 
Brown 3, Boston Univ. Fresh. 5. 
Brown 3, Yale Junior Varsity 10. 
Brown 3, Tufts Freshmen 10. 
Brown I, Holy Cross Fresh. 20. 
Brown 6, Brockton High 4. 

Varsity Track 

Brown 65, Wesleyan 50, Rhode 
Island State 20. 

Brown 26 3-5, Harvard 83 2-5, 
Holy Cross 25. 

Brown 65 2-3, Columbia 69 1-3. 

Brown 31, Army 87 2-3, Colgate 

35 1-3. 

Brown o. Harvard Fresh. 4. 

Freshman Track 

Brown 67, Moses Brown 50. 
Brown 55, Rhode Island State 
Freshmen 80. 

Brown 36, Holy Cross Fresh. 90. 
Brown 52 1-2, N. H. Fresh 70 1-2. 

J'arsity Lacrosse 

Brown 2, Boston Lacrosse Club 8. 
Brown i, St. Stephen's College 8. 
Brown 2, Williams I. 
Brown 19, M. I. T. 3. 

Brown o, Springfield 2. 



Freshman Lacrosse 

Brown o. Harvard Freshmen 8. 
Brown I, Harvard Fresh. 7. 
Brown 3, M. I. T. o. 
Brown I, Springf. 2ds 7. 

Varsity Tennis 
Brown 4, Amherst 5. 
Brown I , Rutgers 4. 
Brown 9, Tufts o. 
Brown 7, Holy Cross o. 
Brown 6, Worcester Poly. 3. 
Brown 4, Wesleyan 5. 
Brown o, Harvard 9. 
Brown i, Dartmouth 8. 

Freshman Tennis 
Brown 5, Dean Academy I. 
Brown 2, Exeter 7. 
Brown 6, Boston Univ. Fresh, i. 
Brown 3, St. George's 3. 

Varsity Golf 
Brown 4, New Bedford Countrv 
Club 5. 

Brown i, Yale 8. 
Brown I, ^Villiams 8. 
Brown 4, Dartmouth 5. 
Brown 5, Boston Univ. i. 
Brown 6, Colgate o. 
Brown 4, Boston Col. 5. 
Brown o, Princeton 9. 
Brown o, Pennsylvania 8. 
Brown 3, Amherst 3. 



Program of the i6ist Annual 
Commencement 



Friday. June 14. 2.00 p. m. Class 
Day Exercises. Middle Campus. 
Address: John Sheldon Collier, 
President of the Senior Class. 
Class Poet: Willis Henry Gerry. 
Class Orator : Kenneth Allen 
Scott. Class Odist: Howard El- 
liot Cook. Class Prophet: Harold 
Mercer Cole. Address: President 
Faunce. 

4.00 p. m. Baseball Game. Aldrich 
Field. Brown vs. Dartmouth. 

8.00 p. m. Promenade Concert. 
Middle Campus. 

8.30 p. m. Senior Class Dance. 
Sayles Hall and Middle Campus. 

12.00 p. m. Senior Sing. Chapel 
Steps. Senior Procession. 



President Faunce. Address: Miss 
Eva A. Mooar, Acting Dean. Ad- 
dress to Undergraduates: Clarice 
Josephine Gable. Planting of Class 
Ivy. Addresses by Annette Ayer 
Sheridan and Verna Evelyn Fol- 
lett. 
9.00 p. m. Ivy Night Dance. Pem- 
broke College. Alumnae Hall. 



10.30 a. m. Ivy Day Exercises. 
Alumnae Hall. Address: Doro- 
thy Whipple Strachan, President 
of the Senior Class. Address: 



Saturday, June IS- 9-30 a. m. Bus- 
iness Meeting of the Rhode Island 
Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa. 5 Uni- 
versity Hall. 

3.30 p. m. Graduate Convocation. 
Sayles Hall. Awarding of Ad- 
vanced Degrees. Address: Indi- 
vidualism and Higher Education, 
Professor Hans Zinsser of the 
Harvard Medical School. 



1.00 p. m. Alumnae Luncheon. 

Metcalf Hall. 
2.30 p. m. Class Aleetings. 
4.30 p. m. Reception and Garden 

Party. Pembroke College Campus. 
6.30 p. m. Class Reunion Banquet 

and Entertainment. Alumnae Hall. 



Sunday, June lb. 4.30 p. m. First 
Baptist Meeting House. Bacca- 
laureate Exercises. Members of 
the graduating class will meet in 
front of Manning Hall at 4 p. m. 
and march to the Meeting House. 
Members of the graduating class 
of Pembroke College will meet at 
the same time at Pembroke Hall. 

8.00 p. m. Organ Recital by Pro- 
fessor G. W. Ware. Savles Hall. 



10.00 a. m. Business Meeting of 
the Alumnae Association. Alumnae 
Hall. 

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Monday, June ly — One Hundred 
and Sixty First Aniuud Commence- 
ment. 

9.00 a. m. The procession will form 
on the Middle Campus. 

10.00 a. m. First Baptist Meeting 
House. Exercises of the Graduat- 
ing Class. Orations by Chester 
Carr Greene, Jr., Robert Perry 
Montague, Harold Scott Sizer. 
Awarding of Degrees. Conferring 
of Honorary Degrees. After the 
exercises the procession will re- 
turn to the Campus. 

12.15 P- m- Busses and cars will af- 
ford transportation to Aldrich 
Field, starting from the north end 
of the middle campus.. 

1. 00 p. m. Luncheon for all grad- 
uates of the University in Aldrich 
Gymnasium, followed by addresses. 
Tickets $1.50. Tables will be re- 
served for classes. Speakers : the 
President of the University ; Rev. 
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, hon. 
'20; Everett Colby, '97; Zechar- 
iah Chafee, Jr., '07. Professor 
Walter Goodnow Everett, '85, will 
preside. Class Secretaries will be 
responsible for informing the com- 
mittee, not later than June loth, 
of the number of classmates for 
whom places should be reserved. 
This will be the last public ap- 
pearance of Dr. Faunce as Presi- 
dent. 

4.00 p. m. Baseball Game. Aldrich 
Field. Brown vs. University of 
New Hampshire. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



9.00 to 11.00 p. in. President's re- 
ception. Faculty Club, 13 Brown 
Street. Graduates are requested to 
attend without further invitation. 



Tuesday, June 18. g.30 a. m. 

Meeting of the Corporation. Fac- 
ulty Club. 



The Faculty Club, 13 Brown 
Street, will be open for the use of 
Alumni during Commencement 
Week. 

The University Club, 219 Benefit 
Street, will keep open house for 
Alumni on Commencement Day. 

A Registration and Information 
Bureau, for the use of Alumni, will 



be open in the Alumni Office, John 
Hay Library (College Street en- 
trance), from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. on 
Friday, June 14th; from 9 a. m. to 
4 p. m. on Saturday, June 15th; 
and from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Mon- 
day, June 17th. All visiting Alum- 
ni are requested to register as soon as 
possible after reaching Providence. 



The University Chronicle 



BrrjiL'ii's Baseball Season 

Brown's early baseball season con- 
sisted of a series of defeats, while at 
the same time in practically all the 
games the team showed power and 
promise. The Dartmouth game on 
May 7 was the seventh successive 
beating for the Brunonians, and yet 
it seemed, in contest after contest, as if 
they were almost, if not quite, equal 
to their competitors. Indeed in some 
of these contests they outplayed the 
latter, but in vain. 

On May 11 Brown was beaten 
for its eighth successive time by Prov- 
idence College, 3 to 2, greatly out- 
hitting the latter, but losing by errors 
and the breaks of the game. Attend- 
ance 5500. 

After these eight defeats. Brown 
won three s.traight, from Middle- 
bury, Providence College and Rhode 
Island State. 



Pi Kappa Elections 

Members from 1931 : T. G. 
Anderson, Whitneyville, Conn., Phi 
Kappa Psi. University football guard 
and class treasurer. D. R. Atherton, 
Jr., Scranton, Pa., Delta Phi, as- 
sistant manager football team ne.\t 
season. S. B. Flora, Warren, O., Al- 
pha Delta Phi, football halfback and 
baseball pitcher. W. L. Fogarty, New 
York City, Delta Kappa Epsilon, 
football halfback and member of track 
and baseball teams. F. D. Gurll, New 
Bedford, Mass., Delta Kappa Epsi- 
lon, member of football and baseball 
teams. R. S. Hall, Lynn, Mass., Del- 
ta Tau Delta, sprint star on swim- 
ming team and member of 1931 ball 
committee. E. G. Hapgood, Jr., New- 
ton Highlands, Mass., Zeta Psi, 
member of football and lacrosse 
teams and glee club. E. B. Mar- 



san, Bondville, Mass., Alpha Delta 
Phi, member of football, baseball and 
basketball teams. L. M. Marshall, 
New York City, Psi Upsilon, class 
vice president and member of foot- 
ball team. L. M. McGinn, Lynn, 
Mass., Delta Tau Delta, captain- 
elect of soccer team and member of 
football team. W. E. S. Moulton, 
Boston, Mass., Phi Delta Theta and 
member of football, hockey and base- 
ball teams. P. A. M. Snyder, Frank- 
lin, Pa., Phi Kappa Psi, captain-elect 
of basketball team and member of 
football team. 

Elections to Phi Kappa are based 
on prominence achfe\ed in Sophomore 
year. 



Broii'n-Coluinbia 

Although Columbia beat Brown, 
May II, at New York in a dual 
field-and-track meet. Brown's show- 
ing was very encouraging. Time and 
and time again during the meet it 
looked as if victory would finally 
rest upon our banners, but the final 
figures were Columbia, 69 1-3; 
Brown, 65 2-3. Brown was decid- 
edly the better in field competition, 
but Columbia excelled on the track. 
Captain Collier of Brown set a new 
intercollegiate mark in the 220-yard 
low hurdles, 0:24 4-5, while G. F. 
Troy of Brown made a new record 
in the 220-yard dash, 0:22 1-5. The 
summary : 

100-yard dash: Won by Lewis, 
Columbia; Edelstein. Columbia, sec- 
ond ; Schweitzer, Columbia, third. 
Time 10 1-5 seconds. 

120-yard high hurdles: Won by 
Collier, Brown ; Carney, Brown, sec- 
ond ; Axelrod, Columbia, third. Time 
15 1-5 seconds. 

One-mile run : Won by Gilchrist, 

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Columbia ; Aldridge, Brown, second ; 
Becker, Columbia, third. Time 4:40 

2-5- 
440-yard run : Won by Pratt, Co- 
lumbia; Brown, Columbia, second; 
Tierney, Columbia, third. Time 53 
2-5 seconds. 

Two-mile run : Hagen, Columbia, 
and Joyce, Columbia, tied for first ; 
Cahill, Columbia, third. Time 10:17. 

220-yard dash : Won by Troy, 
Brown ; Edelstein. Columbia, sec- 
ond : Lewis, Columbia, third. Time 
0:22 1-5. 

220-yard low hurdles: Won by 
Collier, Brown ; Axelrod, Columbia, 
second; Blatterman, Columbia, third. 
Time 0:24 4-5. 

880-yard run: Won by Huse, 
Brown ; Gilchrist, Columbia, second ; 
O'Connell, Columbia, third. Time 
2:04 1-5. 

Pole vault : Won by Bueanno, 
Brown; Housekeeper, Columbia, sec- 
ond; Fogarty, Brown, third. Height 
10 feet 9 inches. 

High jump: Won by Russell, 
Brown; MacCatherine, Brown, Col- 
lier, Brown, and Blaise, Columbia, 
tied for second. Height 5 feet 9 1-2 
inches. 

Shot put: Won by Cornsweet, 
Brown ; Demarest, Brown, second ; 
Clark, Columbia, third. Distance 44 
feet 4 inches. 

Discus throw: Won by Slatter)', 
Columbia ; Cornsweet, Brown, sec- 
ond ; Demarest, Brown, third. Dis- 
tance 1 15 feet. 

Running broad jump: Won by 
Carney, Brown ; Brooks, Columbia, 
second; Collier, Brown, third. Dis- 
tance 21 feet 5 inches. 

Hammer throw: Won by Pond, 
Columbia ; Cornsweet, Brown, sec- 
ond ; Horton, Brown, third. Distance 
138 feet 5 inches. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Javelin throw: Won by Scott, Co- 
lumbia; Fogarty, Brown, second; 
Hasenfratz, Brown, third. Distance 
175 feet 4 inches. 

Carpenter Prize Speaking 

G. E. McGregor, 1930, won first 
prize in the annual Carpenter Prize 
Contest for public speaking, deliver- 
ing Woodrow Wilson's "Speech at 
Pueblo" before an audience which 
filled Manning Hall, on the evening 
of April 24. Second prize was 
awarded to W. L. Carpenter, 1930, 
who gave Phillips' "Touissaint 
L'Ouverture," while N. H. Dorsee, 
193 1, won third prize with his pre- 
sentation of an address to Congress 
by Calvin Coolidge. 

The judges were Professor Thom- 
as Crosby, Jr., Chairman, John C. 
Reed and Arthur E. Jensen. 

Junior Jl eek 

The events of Junior Week went 
off pleasantly as follows : 

Thursday, May 9 — 3 :00 p. m. 
Garden Party, Middle Campus; 
8:15 p. m.. Concert and Dance, Mu- 
sical Clubs, Ball Room, Providence 
Biltmore Hotel. 

Friday, May 10 — 9:00 a. m., Up- 
perclass Chapel, Sayles Hall; 9:15 
a. m.-2 p. m.. Classes; 3:0c:) p. m.. 
Golf Tournament, Colgate ; 3 :oo p. 
m., Tea Dance; 7:00 p. m.. Class 
Sing, Middle Campus; 9:30 p. m., 
Junior Promenade, Brown Gymna- 
sium ; 1 1 :30 p. m.. Grand March ; 
12:00 p. m., Tapping of New Pi 
Kappa. 

Saturday, Way 11 — 3:00 p. m.. 
Providence College baseball game, 
Aldrich Field; 4:45 p. m.. Pi Kappa 
Tea Dance, Churchill House; 8:15 
p. m.. Junior Frolic, Brown Gym- 
nasium. 

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The Crouell Prizes 
The Committee on Academic 
Honors in Brown University has an- 
nounced the completion of a fund of 
$800, establishing the Asa Clinton 
Crowell Prizes in entrance German 
to be awarded annually to members 
of the entering class of Pembroke 
College. 

The fund will provide a first prize 



of $25 and a second prize of $15, 
which will replace the Alumnae Ger- 
man Prize of $25 given for several 
years by annual contributions from a 
group of alumnae. A letter to Pro- 
fessor Crowell, signed by twelve 
Brown alumnae, announcing the es- 
tablishment of the prize fund, makes 
expression of his "loyalty and de- 
voted service to Pembroke College." 

This new gift, together with a sec- 
ond recent gift by Mrs. Marion L. 
Misch, supplementing the Caesar 
Misch Prize Fund, from which it is 
now possible to award two entrance 
prizes to men, places German on a 
parity with the other subjects in 
which prizes are awarded by exam- 
ination for "excellence in prepara- 
tory studies." 

Professor Crowell, graduate of 
Brown in the class of 1886, has been 
teaching German at Brown since 
1892. 

Brijivn in Scarsdale 
The Trust Company of Scarsdale, 
organized a month ago in Scarsdale, 
N. Y., a suburb of New York, is 
well represented by Brown men. R. 
R. Hunter, 98, is Chairman of the 
Board and a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee. Arthur F. Driscoll, 
'06, is First Vice President, a mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors and of 
the Executive Committee. The com- 
pany will be purely a community 
one, and it has already attracted at- 
tention because of its plan to pay all 
bills for its depositors (with the de- 
positors' money, of course). 

Both Hunter and Driscoll have 
been active in civic affairs in Scars- 
dale for some time past. Hunter has 
served as a member of the village 
board of trustees (similar to select- 
men in New England), as President 
of the village, and is now chairman 
the Zoning Board of Appeals, which 
plays an important part in the restric- 
tive zoning effective in Scarsdale. 
Driscoll has also served on the Zon- 
ing Board of Appeals and is at pres- 
ent a member of the board of trus- 
tees of the village. 

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Cainniarian Club Nominations 

Following is a list of the nomina- 
tions by the Cammarian Club of 1929 

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for the club of next year: David E. 
Alper of Brookline, Mass. ; Norman 
P. Arnold of Wakfield, Mass. ; Ken- 
neth T. Bosquet of Campello, Mass. ; 
Philip M. Lingham of Littleton, 
Mass. ; John G. Mosby of Webster 
Groves, Mo. ; Nelson H. Munson of 
Groton, Conn. ; Howard L. Post of 
Spencerville, O. ; Cecil T. RusseU of 
Lynn, Mass. ; Edward L. Sittler, Jr., 
of Uniontown, Pa. ; Howard R. 
Smith of Stratford, Conn. ; Thomas 
Shotton, Jr., of Washington, D. C, 
and Herman O. Werner, Jr., of 
Providence. 



Tu'enty-seventh Class Breakfast 

E\er\- Commencement morning 
since 1893 the Class of '86 has had 
a Breakfast Reunion. George Wil- 
son was the first to act as host and 
twenty-one members of the class 
have taken a turn, some of them more 
than once, at entertaining. This year 
Stephen Harris invites his classmates 
to breakfast at the Universitv Club. 



Cornsweet's New Scholarship 

Albert C. Cornsweet of Cleveland, 
O., Rhodes scholar-elect, wrestler, 
football and lacrosse player, has re- 
ceived the class of 1907 scholarship, 
given annually at Brown to a mem- 
ber of the Senior class "who combines 
in a high degree scholastic ability, 
athletic ability and character." 

Cornsweet has the highest scho- 
lastic ranking of any Brown under- 
graduate who has won the scholarship 
since the first award to Parkman 
Sayward, now of New York, in 
1925. He is one of the four lead- 
ers of the class of 1929, a James 
Manning scholar, a member of Phi 
Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and a 
candidate for final honors in psychol- 
ogy and biology. 

He played on the Brown football 
eleven three years, being captain in 
1928, was on the wrestling team for 
a similar period, and is now finish- 
ing his third j'ear as a member of the 
Brown lacrosse team. Last year he 
won a place on the third Ail-Ameri- 
can college lacrosse twelve. For two 
years he was New England intercol- 
legiate wrestling champion at 175 
pounds, and last season he won the 



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title in the 158-pound class. He was 
also runner-up in the national 
open wrestling championship at 160 
pounds. 

Cornsweet came to Brown from 
the Shaker Heights High School, 
Cleveland, O. He attracted atten- 
tion in his Freshman year in track, 
football and wrestling. In his Soph- 
omore year he was one of the famous 
Iron Men eleven, playing at fullback 
and scoring the touchdown that beat 
Yale in 1926. 

Besides being a member of the 
Cammarian Club, the undergradu- 
ate governing body at Brown, he be- 
longs to the Sphinx Club, Pi Kappa 
and Owl and Ring. When he goes 
to Oxford next fall he will become 
a student at St. John's College, 
where Norman Taber, the great 
Brown runner, registered some 16 
years ago. 

The Germanic Society 

A society of people interested in 
the study of Germanic languages, 
literature and civilization was organ- 
ized at a meeting of about 30 per- 
sons. May 14, in Marston Hall. Any 
persons of the community who are 
interested may become members. The 
name of the society and meeting 
schedule will be selected later. 

Following explanations of the aims 
of the society by Temporary Chair- 
man A. C. Crowell and Temporary 
Secretary A. P. Martin, the meeting 
elected the following officers: Pres- 
ident, Dr. Robert S. Phillips; Vice 
President, Joseph B. Mclntyre ; Sec- 
retary, Albert P. Martin ; Assistant 
Secretary, Mrs. E. K. Strachan ; 
Treasurer, Preston F. Arnold. 

Directors and chairmen of com- 
mittees were named as follows: Di- 
rectors, Theodore Francis Green, 
Charles J. Hill, Arthur W. Cate, A. 
Clinton Crowell, Mrs. Susanna Y. 
Cushing and Mrs. Charles P. Sisson ; 
nominations committee. Otto J. 
Nass; by-laws, Charles J. Hill; pub- 
licity and membership. Dr. John A. 
Hayward. 

It is planned to hold lectures, read- 
ings and conversational hours in Ger- 
man, as well as musical meetings. The 
first regular meeting will be held in 
October. 

Following the meeting of May 14, 



a social hour was held, and refresh- 
ments were served in charge of the 
following committee: Mrs. A. C. 
Crowell, Mrs. A. P. Martin, Miss 
Dorothea Pearson, IVIiss Elise Ab- 
bott and Miss Senta Bormann. 
• » 

Broiun the Debate Champion 

Brown has won the championship 
of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debat- 
ing League, her representatives being 
H. S. Sizer, '29; Alfred Berman, 
'29; H. O. Werner, Jr., '30, and J. 
F. Aiso, '31. 

There are nine colleges in the 
league and Brown has lost but one 
contest this year. The rating of the 
teams in the league is as follows for 
the year: Brown, Amherst, Prince- 
ton, Uni\ersity of Pennsylvania, 
Vassar, Williams, Wesleyan, Yale, 
and Harvard. 

Concerning the reversion, next 
)ear, to the old system of deciding 
debates by judges instead of by the 
audieilce, the Brown Herald says 
editorially : 

"Much credit is due to the mem- 
bers of the University Debating 
Union for their victory over teams 
from eight leading universities of the 
East, especially since this group in- 
cluded Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and 
Pennsylvania, all of which have a 
much larger student body than that 
of the University. Not only should the 
team be lauded for defeating these 
teams, but much praise is in order 
for the interest which these men held 
in this activity. As most undergrad- 
uates know, or rather do not know, 
there is little support for this activity 
in the student body. Although much 
publicity is given to debates which are 
to be held, when the men give their 
speeches in Sayles Hall, the audience 
usually consists of outsiders or persons 
who are compelled to attend to get 
material for some classroom subject. 
"The Eastern Intercollegiate Union 
is to be congratulated for its change 
in the system of judging debates. As 
was experienced at Princeton, the 
University lost a decision because the 
audience was composed of three mem- 
bers of the Princeton Union and two 
outsiders. In such cases it is difficult 
to see how such a decision should be 
accepted and the Union's decision was 
the only reasonable thing to do." 

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The officers of the Brown De- 
bating Union for next year are: Pres- 
ident, J. F. Aiso, '31 ; Secretary- 
treasurer, W. R. Pitts, '30; Execu- 
tive Committee, H. O. Werner, Jr., 
'30; Daniel Jacobs, '31, and J. B. 
Rae, '32. 



Neiv Greek History Course 

A full-year course in Ancient 
Greek History (Greek 121, 122), 
under the direction of Charles A. 
Robinson, Jr., is announced for next 
year by the Department of Greek and 
Latin Classics. The new course, 
which will deal with the history of 
the Greeks from the Bronze Age 
down to the capture of Corinth by 
the Romans in 146 B. C, is elective 
for A. B. and Ph. B. Juniors, Seniors 
and Graduates who have completed 
the requirements in Ancient Lan- 
guages or in Ancient Civili'zation, and 
for others by written consent of the 
instructor. 

Mr. Robinson, the instructor in 
the course, has done research in the 
field of Greek History at Princeton 
and in Greece itself. 



Elections to the Sphinx- 
Class of 1930 — J. S. Dziob, W. 
F. Frohock, D. R. Hunt, A. H. 
Rogers, R. P. Uhl, L. C. Walling. 
Class of 193 1 — J. F. Aiso, L. G. 
Briggs, L. F. Demmler, F. E. Mer- 
chant, W. F. Murphy, E. M. Read, 
3rd, W. T. Scott, W. V. Thompson. 



Motes of the Month 

The Junior Prom was attended b\ 
300 couples and a good time was had 
by all. 

The Brown Herald will print a 
large Commencement pictorial issue 
on June 10. 

The annual Sock and Buskin din- 
ner was given at Carr's on the eve- 
ning of April 27. 

E. W. Williams has been elected 
captain of the tennis team. He is 
from Brooklyn, N. Y.. and a member 
of Psi Upsilon. 

Under direction of Swimming 
Coach Barry, a sizable squad of 

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When Dr. Faunce's Administration Was Young 




Profhssdr Bumpus 




Ivy Day, igoo, at Pembroke 





Professor Upton 




Professor Clarke 



Pictures from the Alumni Monthly of that Time 




Professor Bronson 



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(Continued from page !§) 

undergraduates has been receiving in- 
struction in life-saving. 

The Spring Day address was de- 
livered by Warren Briggs Francis, 
'29, of Taunton, Mass. It was tart 
— perhaps a little tarter than usual. 
The Junior Marshals of the occa- 
sion were C. H. Edwards, E. L. 
Sittler and P. M. Lingham. 

Brown will play Holy Cross at 
football in Providence, Oct. 25, 1930. 
Last year the two colleges met in 
Providence, Brown winning, 6-0, and 
next fall they will meet in Worces- 
ter. The 1930 game, which com- 
pletes next year's Brown schedule, is 
under a one-year contract, the two 
previous games being under a home- 
and-home, two-year arrangement. 

The University Band held its fif- 
teenth annual dinner at the Narra- 
gansett Hotel on the evening of May 
14. Dr. Faunce was the principal 
speaker and Professor J. P. Adams 
was the toastmaster. Other speakers 
were Dean Randall. Professor S. T. 
Arnold, Coach McLaughry, A. B. 
Lemon and Coach Gaul of the band. 
Irving Harris, '28, organizer of the 
band, came on from New \ ork to 
attend the dinner. 



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Elmira College, of which Dr. 
Frederick Lent, Brown, '00, is presi- 
dent, has received a bequest of $500,- 
000 from Mrs. Sarah Wey Tomp- 
kins, one of the college trustees. 

President and Mrs. Faunce will 
be at home in the autumn at 52 
Lloyd Avenue, Providence, (between 
Prospect and Brown Streets). 

The Sphinx Club held its annual 
dinner at the Faculty Clubhouse, 
May 22. It was the Sphinx's silver 
jubilee. 

The Mathematics Club took its an- 
nual boat trip. May 22, to Prudence 
Island. 

The only members of the Corpora- 
tion today who were members when 
the Faunce Administration began are 
Dr. Faunce, himself. Dr. W. W. 
Keen (who has been a member 57 
years), Arnold B. Chace, W. V. 
Kellen and S. O. Metcalf. 

In the meet at West Point, May 
18, participated in by Brown, Army 
and Colgate, J. S. Collier and C. T. 
Russell of Brown broke Brown rec- 
ords. Collier ran the 120-yard high 
hurdles in 14 5-10 seconds, and Rus- 
sell, in the high jump, made six feet 



two and one-half inches. Both won 
their events. Troy of Brown was 
third in the 220-yard dash ; Perley 
of Brown was fourth in the half-mile ; 
Collier of Brown was second in the 
220-yard low hurdles; Fogart}' of 
Brown was first (167 feet, 7 inches) 
in the javelin throw; Al Cornsweet 
of Brown was third in the shot put 
{43 feet 5 3-8 inches) and fourth in 
the discus throw (122 feet i 3-4 
inches) ; and Carne\- of Brown was 
first (21 feet 11 3-4 inches) in the 
running broad jump. 

As the Monthly goes to press, a 
Liberal Club is being formed at 
Brown. 

Dr. William W. Keen of Phila- 
delphia has sent word that he in- 
tends to be present at the coming 
Commencement, which marks the 
70th anni\ersary of his graduation 
from Brown. There is only one sur- 
viving alumnus of an earlier class 
than his — Rev. William J. Batt, '55, 
of Concord Junction, Mass. 

The first week-end in December 
has been set aside as the fraternity 
period for rushing Freshmen, next 
semester. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



Professors Charles A. Kraus, Lu- 
cius A. Bigelow and Norris W. 
Rakestraw of the Department of 
Chemistry attended the 77th annual 
meeting of the American Chemical 
Societ\' at Ohio State University, 
Columbus, the first week in May. 
Professor Rakestraw was a speaker 
at the symposium on "Lecture Exper- 
imentation." 

Professor R. C. Archibald of the 
Department of Mathematics has been 
elected a corresponding member of 
the International Committee on the 
History of Science. Of the nineteen 
mathematicians on the committee two 
are from the United States, six from 
Germany, four from France, three 
from England and one each from 
Australia, Egjpt, Poland and Swe- 
den. During a visit this spring to 
Washington to attend the annual 
meeting of the National Research 
Council, Professor Archibald secured 
in the duplicate collection of the 
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Library of Congress several hundred 
volumes for the John Hay Library. 

Dean Kenneth O. Mason is secre- 
tary and treasurer of the newly or- 
ganized Eastern Association of Deans 
and Advisers of Men. 

Professor Harry E. Farnsworth 
of the Department of Physics read a 
paper, "Diffraction of Electrons by a 
Copper Crystal," at the April meet- 
ing of the American Physical Society. 
Professor C. W. Miller, who also 
attended this meeting, has been giv- 
ing a series of lectures on "Modern 
Science" at Gordon College, Boston. 
At scientific meetings in New York, 
seven members of the department. 
Professors Palmer, Phillips, C. W. 
Miller, Farnsworth, and Messrs. C. 
E. Bennett, Williams and Under- 
wood, were the Brown rerpesenta- 
tives. 

Howard L. Andrews, '27, for the 
last two years an assistant in physics, 
has received a Coffin Research Fel- 
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Company for graduate study leading 
to the doctorate at Brown. His prob- 
lem will have to do with the meas- 
usement of di-electric constants at 
high frequencies. 

Professor Leslie E. Swain of the 
Department of Physical Education 
was the Brown delegate to the spring 
meeting of the Eastern Section, 
American Physical Education Asso- 
ciation, held in New Haven the last 
of April. "Professor Nash said that 
not a single request came to the New 
"i'ork University Graduate School of 
Physical Education last year for 
coaches. All requests were for either 
teachers first, and incidentally coach- 
es, or for all-round physical educa- 
tors," Professor Swain reported on 
his return. "A very healthy and sane 
development seems to be taking place 
in the realm of physical education." 

Professor C. H. Currier gave 
an illustrated lecture, "The Night 
Skies," at the April meeting of the 
L^nitarian Laymen's League in the 
Unitarian Church at Dedham, Mass. 

"The author's judgments are dis- 
passionate, but very definite," said a 
reviewer in the Providence Journal 
in his review of "The Southern 
Frontier, 1670-1732," by Professor 
Verner W. Crane of the Depart- 
ment of History. "Judgments? Of 
course this book is largely one of 
facts. But Professor Crane knows 
that facts are not all. Some modern 
historians discover too many facts, 
and lose themselves in a heap of 
trivia ; not so the present writer. . . . 
There has been careful and wise 
evaluation and arrangement. Facts 
about the Southern frontier? Yes, 
hundreds of them ; but they are all in 
focus. " 

Professor Henry B. Huntington of 
the English Department made the 
historical address "describing the 
spiritual and material conditions of 
the Protestant Episcopal Churches" 
in Providence from 1828 to 1853, at 
the observance last month by All 
Saints' Memorial Church of the 
completion of seventy-five years of 
service. During this period the church 
has had only two rectors. Rev. Dan- 
iel Henshaw, S. T. D., and Rev. Dr. 
Arthur M. Aucock. 

Professor William T. Hastings of 
the English Department has been 
elected President of the Providence 
Chapter, L'nitarian Laymen's League, 



succeeding Professor Philip H. 
Mitchell of the Department of Biol- 
ogy. Professor Hastings' book, "Con- 
temporary Essays," received excellent 
notice in a recent number of Books, 
New York Herald Tribune, the re- 
viewer saying: "A book of essays 
chosen with impeccable literary taste 
from among the established masters 
of the older and middle generations, 
including Christopher Morley, Hey- 
wood Broun, Aldous Huxley, T. S. 
Eliot, indicates once more how much 
sound prose is being written in this 
supposedly journalistic age." 

Dr. H. L. Koopman, the Univer- 
sity librarian, will represent Brown 
at the inauguration of Dr. Franklin 
Winslow Johnson as President of 
Colby College, Waterville, Me., on 
June 14. Dr. Koopman is a graduate 
of Colby in the Class of 1880. 

Professor John Francis Greene of 
the Department of Greek and Latin 
Classics was the author of an article, 
"Old Faiths, Old IVLnnners," which 
appeared in the recent number of the 
Brown Literary Quarterly. 

Alumni 

1858 

A special room has been set aside 
in the new library building now un- 
der construction at Peiping, China, 
for a collection of books on Interna- 
tional Law and China's Foreign Rela- 
tions in memory of John Hay. A 
paragraph sent us by F. K. W. 
Drury, former assistant librarian of 
the University, says that "Hay's ef- 
fort to maintain and strengthen the 
integrity of China has been regarded 
as a great diplomatic achievement, and 
it is but fitting that a memorial room 
should be dedicated to his memory." 

1859 
Dr. W. W. Keen still has hope of 
coming back for his 70th Commence- 
ment, according to a letter received 
by the Alumni Office last month. 
One of our friends, writing at the 
end of April, said: "I was in Phil- 
adelphia a week ago last Saturda\' to 
attend the symposium of the Ameri- 
can Philosophical Society on the 
character and relative antiquity of 
the civilizations of Eg^pt and Baby- 
lonia. Dr. Keen was at the meetings, 
morning and afternoon, and, at the 
close of the afternoon session — three 
hours of straight talk — members and 
friends were in\ ited to have tea with 

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him and his daughter at their apart- 
ment. At 6 o'clock he was as chipper 
as could be. We must all seem mere 
youths to him." 

1862 
Emmons Johnson, former member 
of the class, died in Waterloo, la., 
April 5, 1929. He was born in 
Ellicottville, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1835 
and was at Brown only a short time. 
He had lived most of the later years 
of his life in Waterloo, where he was 
president of a trust company, the 
Waterloo Savings Bank and the First 
National Bank of Waverly. Notice of 
his death came to the Alumni Office 
from his daughter, Mrs. Marion L. 
Easton. 

1866 
Rev. Dr. J. B. Gough Pidge ob- 
served last month the fiftieth anni- 
versary of his pastorate at the Fourth 
Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 
"A number of our members have had 
the unique experience of growing 
from infancy to maturity, from par- 
ents to grandparents, with but one 
pastor throughout all their lives," 
said the anniversary issue of the 
Fourth Baptist Church Worker. 
"And so, through all the years the 
bond has been growing deeper and 
stronger." 

1873 
A striking photograph of Rev. Dr. 
Edwin P. Farnham appeared on the 
cover of the April number of The 
Ministry, published by the Ministers 
and Missionaries Benefit Board of 
the Northern Baptist Convention. 
Farnham at present is Minister 
Emeritus of the Community Church 
(interdenominational). Great Neck, 
L. I. A note on him in The Ministry 
says that he was one of the charter 
members of the Board and "through- 
out its history he has been a devoted 
and faithful member." Farnham was 
President Faunce's minister when 
the President was an undergraduate. 
"He presided in the pulpit and I in 
the organ gallery (at the Friendship 
Street Baptist Church)," says Dr. 
Faunce, "and our friendship has been 
unbroken through all these years." 

1880 

George W. Stone's new address is 
1406 Morningside Court, Holly- 
wood, Cal. 

1881 
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Hague, where the World Court, ot 
which he is a member, convened on 
May 13. At the last meeting of the 
American Society of International 
Law, Hughes made a speech in favor 
of our participation in the World 
Court which won wide editorial com- 
ment. The New York World char- 
acterized as "a courageous proposal, 
but one which seems thoroughly 
practical," the Hughes suggestion 
that there be a special treaty arrange- 
ment for "giving the United States 
a share in consultative action" in the 
League of Nations proceedings in 
time of threatened trouble. 

1883 
A chatty letter from Nathaniel 
Blaisdell in San Francisco the first 
of last month had a paragraph say- 
ing: "If Dr. Barbour visits the Coast 
ne.xt winter, please give me a few 
days' notice and I'll get all the Brown 
men available to meet him at a din- 
ner." Surely that is fine Brown spirit. 
And we hope that Dr. Barbour will 
be able to go to California next win- 
ter to meet the Brown men in San 
Francisco, Los Angeles and other 
places. 

1884 
Rev. Charles R. Upton, retired, 
has changed his residence to Gras- 
mere, N. H. 

1885 
Andrew McC. Warren has gone 
abroad again, and his mailing address 
is in care of Brown, Shiplev & Co 
123 Pall Mall, London, S. W, Eng- 
land. 

1 891 
Dean Shailer Mathews of the 
University of Chicago, friend and 
colleague of the late Gerald Birney 
Smith for the past thirty years, has 
written this tribute to our classmate : 
"There are few men in America who 
have touched so manv minds and in 
touching them have freed them from 
prejudice and bigotry without arous- 
mg scorn and cynicism. He was so 
essentially human that his religion 
could be tolerant. His influence will 
live on in hundreds of lives that he 
touched as a teacher and won as a 
friend." 

1893 
Edward H. Weeks, head of the 
Old Colony Cooperative Bank, is the 
new president of the Providence Bet- 
ter Business Bureau. 



George Grant Hunter, member of 
the class for two years, one of the 
founders and first editor-in-chief of 
the Brown Daily Herald, died Sept. 
10, 1928, according to notice received 
at the Alumni Office last month. He 
was the brother of R. R. Hunter '98, 
and the father of Raymond M. Hun- 
ter, '20. Hunter took his degree at 
Cornell College, Iowa, after leaving 
Brown. He was for many years the 
editor of The Northwestern Banker, 
was president of the Des Moines 
Fire Insurance Company, Iowa In- 
vestment and Mortgage Company, 
Central Iowa Joint Stock Land Bank, 
and otherwise active in the business 
life of his native state. He maintained 
his interest in Brown and its progress 
and had many friends among Brown 
men. His fraternity was Phi Delta 
Theta. 

1894 

George S. Ellis's daughter, Doro- 
thy e.xpects to receive her Ph. B. de- 
gree from Pembroke College this 
month, just 35 years after her father 
won the same degree (and Phi Beta 
Kappa, too ) . 

Morehouse College, Spelman Col- 
lege and Atlanta University have 
agreed to combine under the name of 
Atlanta University and John Hope 
will become President of the new in- 
stitution. "A University in Atlanta," 
says the Morehouse Alumnus, com- 
mending the plan, "will encourage 
advanced graduate study and will en- 
able more colored students to take 
graduate and professional training." 
Hope will continue as President of 
Morehouse until the present endow- 
ment campaign is complete. 

1895 

Judge Chester W. Barrows of the 
Rhode Island Supreme Court was 
elected president of the Rhode Island 
Humane Society at the 25th annual 
meeting held in Providence April 30. 

Theron Clark, Registrar of the 
University of Southern California, 
had an article on "Correspondence" 
in the winter number of the bulletin 
of the American Association of Col- 
legiate Registrars. In it he described 
how he has expedited the process of 
recording grades at the end of the 
semester. 

Dallas Lore Sharp, special lecturer 
in English at Boston Universiy, will 
be the Commencement speaker at 
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the American International College, 
Springfield, Mass., June 11. 

1897 

Dr. Gregory D. Walcott has been 
promoted from Associate Professor to 
Professor of Philosophy at Long Is- 
land University. Walcott has also 
been elected to the Council of the 
History of Science Society to serve for 
a period of three years. 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has re- 
cei\ed one of the gold medals of the 
National Institute of Social Sciences 
"in recognition of his distinguished 
social service in exemplifying and 
promoting high standards of business 
ethics and for widespread and fruitful 
generosity." 

1898 

Clifford E. McGIauflin, former 
Judge of the Municipal Court of 
Portland, Maine, attracted much at- 
tention in Western Maine recently 
by an address before the W. C. T. U. 
of his home city in which he pleaded 
for reasonable laws and just sentences. 
"Let public sentiment as well as the 
judges be governed by common sense 
and there will be greater respect for 
law e\erywhere," he asserted. Mc- 
GIauflin, according to an editorial in 
the Evening Express praising his 
stand, "is widely known as an earnest, 
sincere and consistent advocate of the 
prohibitory law. . . . Therefore in 
saying to the members of the W. C. 
T. U. of this city that unreasoning 
enforcement is to be deplored, he 
spoke not as one who is lacking in 
sympathy with the existing laws, but 
as a stalwart of stalwarts, with re- 
spect to prohibition." 

Frederick W. Arnold's original 
poem purporting to be a conversation 
between Julius Caesar and a former 
Latin teacher at the school (as the 
Pro\idence Tribune described it) 
was one of the high lights of the last 
annual dinner of the alumni of 
Mowry & Goff's School which, in 
its heyday, prepared many a boy for 
Brown. Other Brown men on the 
program with Fred were Henry D. 
Sharpe, '94, Archibald C. Matteson, 
'93 and Fred A. Otis, '03. 

Colonel Frank E. Hopkins of the 
7th Field Artillery, U. S. A., will be 
in command of the Citizens' Military 
Training Camp planned for this year 
at Fort Ethan Allen, Burlington, Vt. 
1899 

Mellinger E. Henry is continuing 




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his series of articles in the New Jer- 
sey Journal of Education on "The 
History of the American Folk Song." 
The April number began the story of 
the folk song entitled "The Lexington 
Girl." ' 

1899 
Everything is ready for the 30th 
Reunion of the class at the Hotel 
Breakers, Narragansett Pier, on 
June 14, 15, 16 and 17. At least 
fifty members have signified their in- 
tention of coming to the Reunion, 
and we hope that others will join 
the procession. 

1900 

R. O. Hughes of the Peabody High 
School, Pittsburgh, has finished a 
huge 20-page chart for the use of civ- 
ics students. The chart, begun in 
January, 1927, contains graphs, 
comparative figures, illustrations and 
diagrams by means of which stu- 
dents may get a clearer understand- 
ing of the text they are studying. 
"Every civic question and problem is 
explained and simplified by Profes- 
sor Hughes's system," said the Pitts- 
burgh Sun-Telegraph. 

Ill health and depression caused 
Daniel Howland to take his life in 
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June 9, 1878, the son of Richard 
Greene and Isabella Jane (Allen) 
Howland. He came to Brown from 
Mowry & Goff's School of Provi- 
dence and after receiving his degree 
entered the Hope Mill. Illness, how- 
ever, forced him to give up work 
about 1903 and go to the colony at 
Saranac Lake, N. Y. When he re- 
turned to Rhode Island he settled on 
the Howland farm at East Green- 
wich. And there he lived with the 
exception of recent winters which he 
spent at an apartment in Providence. 
He served as Treasurer of the town 
of Scituate, was a member of the Scit- 
uate Town Council, president of the 
Phenix, R. I., Trust Company, direc- 
tor of the Hope Webbing Company 
and the National Carbonic Gas Com- 
pany of New York. During the 
World War he served as a First Lieu- 
tenant in tlie Rhode Island State 
Guard. In 1925 he was elected vice 
president of the Eastern States Farm- 
ers Exchange. He had scientific 
knowledge of farming and while he 
was in the Rhode Island General 
Assembly as Representative from East 
Greenwich he took active interest in 
bills having to do with farm subjects. 
For two terms he was president of the 
East Greenwich Town Council and 
also acted as Town Moderator. He 
was married May 10, 1913, to 
Katharine Stanley Jewett, who sur- 
vives him. together with two children, 
Daniel and Katharine Stanley How- 
land. His fraternity was Alpha Del- 
ta Phi. To his widow and children 
the sympathy of the class goes out in 
full measure. 

1901 

The April number of The Salvo, 
the official bulletin of the Artillery 
Group, Fifth Corps Area, edited by 
Lt. Col. George A. Taylor, F. A., 
was a farewell affair. Two poems by 
the editor, one on F. J. H. Price '06, 
killed in action in 1916, and the 
other a pen picture of a military char- 
acter, and an article (also signed G. 
A. T.) on the late Marshal Foch's 
visit to Providence were read with 
interest and appreciation by your 
correspondent. When Donald Le 
Stage was in Cincinnati in April he 
was Taylor's guest at a luncheon of 
the Cincinnati Chapter, Reserve Of- 
ficers' Association. 

President Harvey N. Davis of 
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Stevens Institute of Technology was 
the guest speaker at the April meeting 
of the Schoolmasters Association of 
New York and Vicinity, held at the 
Princeton Club in New York. 

"The Missionary Education Work 
of Northern Baptists" is the title of 
an article written by our own Wil- 
liam A. Hill, secretary of Missionary 
Education, which appeared in the 
April number of "The International 
Review of Missions." Copies ha\e 
been reprinted for distribution among 
Hill's fellow workers and friends. 

President Harvey N. Davis of 
Stevens Institute of Technologi,', 
speaking before the alumni of the Co- 
lumbia Schools of Engineering in 
New York, April 25, said that "the 
spirit of science (which he defined as 
meaning 'facing the realities of the 
world unafraid') is taking a strong 
hold on educational methods and re- 
search," and predicted that at the end 
of the next t\\ent\ -five \ears we may 
find that engineering schools as thev 
are at present constituted and as their 
courses are being set forth "may be 
more nearly tj'pical of the future edu- 
cation than are the arts colleges of 
today." 

1904 

Rev. Albert H.Stanton has resigned 
as pastor of the Bergen Baptist 
Church, Jersey City, N. J., to be- 
come director of evangelism and pas- 
tor-at-large for the official board of 
the New Jersey Baptist Convention. 
Stanton had been with the church for 
twelve years, during which time his 
pastorate was successful in every way. 
His new work offers a wider field 
of endeavor. 

The University Glee Club of 
Providence has closed another cred- 
itable season under the inspiring lead- 
ership of Berrick Schloss. 

1905 

Ralph B. Woodsum is chairman 
of the School Board of Braintree, 
Mass. Ralph's son, Dick, is at 
Thayer Academy. Dick is a good 
golfer and football player and he will 
be ready soon for Brown. 

The Class of 1905 Scholarship has 
been awarded to Nelson H. Mun- 
son of the Class of 1930, tackle on 
the Brown football team for two 
\ears and manager of intramural 
sports at the University. Munson is 
a member of Phi Delta Theta and 
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Springfield Technical High School 
and Maine Central Institute. "I'll 
try to be worthy of your interest, and 
I wish to thank you and the class 
for the award," Munson said in his 
letter to Paul C. DeWolf of the 
scholarship committee. 
1906 
Rhys Powell, Superintendent of 
Schools in Scranton, Pa., since 1922, 
died in Scranton, April 27, 1929, 
following an operation performed two 
days pre\'iously. "He has been not 
only a fine and a beneficial Super- 
intendent of Schools," the Scranton 
Republican said editorially, "but he 
has so emphatically blazed the trail 
for future superintendents that per- 
sonally alone his seven years have 
been a momentous era." Rhys was 
born in St. Clair, Pa., in 1883, the 
son of David C. and Rachel (George) 
Powell, His father was a Welsh 
writer of more than local repute and 
a recognized student of Welsh liter- 
ature. Rhys came to college from 
Scranton High School, played foot- 
ball as an undergraduate, was on 
the class basketball team and became 
first vice president of the class in his 
Senior year. In the year after gradu- 
ation he was a teacher of science at 
Rutgers Preparatory School. The 
following year he taught at Mt. 
Pleasant Academy, Ossining, N. Y., 
and in 1908 returned to Scranton to 
teach in the Technical High School. 
He became superintendent of schools 
in 1922; and during his term of of- 
fice he made an unusually able record 
as administrator, builder and friend 
of teachers and boys and girls alike. 
He was, as one chronicler says, "a 
prodigious worker, an' organizer of 
abilit\' and a master of detail." His 
job, as he saw it, was to make the 
schools of Scranton better and more 
efficient in every way, and he went 
at that job intelligently, enthusiastic- 
ally. Scranton will miss him. Brown 
will miss him. Rhys never married. 
He was an elder in the Ebenezer 
Welsh Presbyterian Church, former 
president of the Mathematics and 
Science Teachers' Association of 
Northern Pennsylvania, vice presi- 
dent of the Pennsylvania State Edu- 
cational Association in 1925-26, a 
trustee of the Scranton Community 
Chest, a Mason and a member of 
Phi Sigma Kappa. He is survived by 
two sisters. Miss Bertha Powell and 
Mrs. Thomas Williams. 




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1907 

Shan Clark, as President of the 
Rhode Island Electric Protective As- 
sociation, is occupying his new offices 
at III Empire Street, Providence. 

The Class Dinner is set for the 
Agawam Hunt Club, Saturday, June 
15, at 7 o'clock p. m., daylight sav- 
ing time. Members of the class who 
wish to play golf or tennis can do so, 
according to the notice sent out by the 
committee composed of President 
Hurley, Henry G. Clark, Claude R. 
Branch, Victor A. Schwartz and A. 
H. Gurney. Don't miss it, men! 

1909 

Among the '09 men from distant 
points who have signified their in- 
tention to be present at the twentieth 
reunion this year are Larrabee and 
Bert Smith from the Pacific Coast, 
Selleck from Detroit, and Howard 
Jackson from Chicago. 

Appointment of Charles Evans 
Hughes, Jr., as Solicitor General in 
the Department of Justice last month 
came as a distinct surprise to every- 
body. Charlie hadn't even been men- 
tioned for the place, and the story is 
that less than half an hour before 
President Hoover made the announce- 
ment the politicians from New York 
were telling newspapermen the name 
of their candidate as the correct one. 
The New \'ork World editoriall\ 
paid that the choice was a happy one, 



even if Charlie was not known in 
practical politics. "He is known in 
public-spirited work like that of the 
Legal Aid Society, of which he is 
Vice President. An able son of a 
distinguished father, Mr. Hughes 
should fully justify the confidence 
the President has shown in naming 
him to assume the heavy responsibility 
of this great law office." 

Hubert Ede, radio editor of the 
Newark Evening News and Profes- 
sor of Journalism at Rutgers Univer- 
sity, went on the air in April, we 
hear, to tell his listeners about 
"Training in Journalism." Ede shared 
the program with Dr. Allen Sinclair 
Will, head of the Department of 
Journalism at Rutgers. 
1912 

Rev. Dr. William L. Stidger of 
the Copley Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Boston will be the Com- 
mencement speaker at East Green- 
wich, R. I., Academy, his old school, 
Jime 10. 

1913 

Dan Mahoney and his twin broth- 
er Bob, '12, were hailed not long ago 
in Fort Worth, Tex., by Major H. 
W. Stiness, 'o2n, instructor of the 
144th Infantry. Both Dan and Bob 
"were carrying on on horseback," so 
the ]\Iajor said, and were looking fit. 

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Rhode Island said that he was not a 
candidate when his name was men- 
tioned last month in connection with 
the vacancy existing at the time on 
the bench of the Circuit Court of 
Appeals at Boston. 

Alfred B. Lemon has been re- 
elected chairman of the Republican 
City Committee of Providence, fol- 
lowing acceptance by party leaders of 
his terms that there "should be a re- 
organization of the Providence branch 
of the party, that it should have a 
headquarters of its own separate from 
that of the State organization, and 
that it should do its own financing." 
Al has a long, hard fight ahead of 
him to improve the position of his 
party in Providence, and we wish 
him well as he takes up the work once 
more after being out of action since 
last November. 

Stanley M. Banfield has changed 
his address from Worcester, Alass., 
to 1 5 14 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y. 

1914 

Mehille C. Mason reports that 
his law office is now at 2900 Union 
Trust bldg., Detroit, Mich. 

1915 

A. W. Anthony, Jr., has moved 
from Cambridge, Mass., to 31 Home 
Road, Belmont, Mass. 

W. R. (Russ) Burwell has been 
elected a director of the Wheeling 
Steeling Corporation, a $125,000,000 
concern, with plants in nine different 
cities, including Steubenville, Martins 
Ferry, Yorkville and Portsmouth, O. 

E. J. (Spike) Staff will be back 
as coach of the Brown Freshman foot- 
ball squad next fall. Spike is now the 
veteran of the coaching staff, having 
served for several years with Ed Rob- 
inson and Reggie Brown before Tuss 
McLaughry came to Brown to act 
as head coach. 

Warren P. Norton, superintend- 
ent of the Meadville, Pa., public 
schools, will again be a member of 
the Summer Faculty of Allegheny 
College, offering courses in school 
management and the principles of 
education. Norton's new house ad- 
dress is 554 Walnut St., Meadville. 

Eddie Hincks has turned out an- 
other first-class baseball nine at 
Thayer Academy, we hear. Up to 
the middle of last month Eddie's boys 
had beaten six of their strongest op- 
ponents. 



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1916 

Frederick L. Smith, Jr., sending 
his regrets at not being able to be 
present for Commencement, said that 
he expected to come to Providence 
in July. Fred is out in Santa Mon- 
ica, Cal. 

We saw Bill Hurlin at the Brown 
dinner in ALmchester, N. H., May 
7. Bill came down from Antrim, and 
he told us that he was looking for- 
ward to the Fifteenth Reunion in 
193 1- 

1918 

Cy Flanders has been arranging 
the meetings of the Brown Club of 
Hartford, Conn., since the first of 
the year, and he has had such attrac- 
tions for the alumni in his district as 
Dean Mason, Prof-essor W. H. Ken- 
erson and D. O. (Tuss) McLaughry. 

We recently read the annual re- 
port of the Biological Laboratory at 
Cold Spring Harbor, L. L, and we 
found much interest in what Reggie 
Harris, the director, had to say about 
the work of the laboratory in 1928. 
Reggie hopes to be on hand for Com- 
mencement. 

1919 

Earl and Allan Bowen have the 
sympathy of the class in the recent 
death of their mother, Mrs. Susan 
Chace Dyer Bowen. Mrs. Bowen 
was a pianist of repute and the author 
of several musical compositions whjch 
attained recognition. 

Douglas Holyoke has come back 
East from California as assistant to 
the general sales manager, United 
States Hoffman Machinery Corpor- 
ation, 105 Fourth Avenue, New 
York. 

1920 

Dr. Marshall N. Fulton has been 
appointed resident physician at the 
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 
Huntington Avenue, Boston. Mar- 
shall will begin his new duties next 
September. 

George Grimm is getting right into 
politics down in the old home State 
of New Jersey. He's been recom- 
mended by the East Orange Repub- 
lican Executive Committee for a place 
on the Assembly ticket and no doubt 
by the time this paragraph appears in 
print George will be all set to make 
his campaign next fall. 

C. R. Phillips is working now with 



the sales force of P. & F. Corbin, 
hardware manufacturers, and has 
moved his family to 5 Ricker Road, 
Portland, Me. 

Rev. C. D. Wentworth tells us 
lie has transferred his activities from 
Gre:nville Junction to Corinna, Me. 

We are delighted to hear that Eric 
P. Jackson, now Associate Professor 
of Geography and Geolog>' at Hills- 
dale College, Hillsdale, Mich., has 
received a Fellowship from the In- 
stitute of International Education for 
study next academic year at the Uni- 
versity of Grenoble, France. He will 
do. advanced \\ork in L'Institut de 
Geographie Alpine, a part of Gren- 
oble, under Professor Raoul Blan- 
chard. 

1 92 1 

Ed Ryder and Mrs. Ryder lost 
their son, Edward Sheldon, two years 
old, on April 18, last. Both of them 
have the earnest sympathy of' all of 
us in their loss. 

Chris Cuddeback, personnel mana- 
ger of the Sheffield Farms Com- 
pany, New York, was recently made 
a member of the Executive Commit- 
tee of the Company. Looks as if 
Chris is stepping along in business 
with the same speed he used to show 
on the track. 

Bra\ton Eddy made his first ad- 



vertised appearance in Providence as 
a lecturer on April 26, on which oc- 
casion he told the members and guests 
of the Providence Plantations Clubs 
all about the "Personality of Insects.'' 
Brayton is co-author, with Royal 
Dixon, of a book of the same name 
as his lecture and another \olume, 
"Personality of Water Animals." 
1922 

Ed Bratcher is an accountant with 
Haskins & Sells, Inc., and is living 
at 475 North 1 2th Street, Newark, 
N. J. 

Joe Marto is a member of the 
University Club Glee Club of Bos- 
ton. Joe and Harry M. Sutton, '12. 
are trying to give the proper Brown 
tone to the organization, which in- 
cludes alumni of some twenty col- 
leges. 

1923 

Bill Roux's artistic note that his 
advertising firm, Rankin & Roux, 
Inc., has consolidated its Newark and 
Montclair offices and is now settled 
at 14 Park Place, Newark, N. J., 
was genuinely enjoj-ed. The firm 
has been growing and Bill says cryp- 
tically that the incorporation "may 
or may not mean something." 

A delightful letter from Win 
Munro last month gave us news 
about some of the Brown men in 



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This (juaint tale of a stirrin.y ])eriod in 
the history of Brown is now available 
in bound form. A colorful review of 
the pranks, adventures and activities 
"on the Hill" when Seniors wore side- 
burns and "Bingo"' was the favorite 
college song. 

Everj' Brown man should own 
a copy of this historically- 
correct narrative. 

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education Win meets in liis work as 
representative of the Educational 
Book Department of The Century 
Co., in southern territory. He men- 
tioned Dean A. S. Libby, '04, ad- 
vanced, of Oglethorpe University; 
Dean A. B. Morton, '94, of Georgia 
Institute of Technology; W. W. 
Burton, '06 of the Department of 
Mathematics. Clemson College; L. 
G. Painter, '00, head of the Depart- 
ment of English, Mississippi State 
College for Women ; Wallace Wade, 
'17, coach of football and baseball. 
University of Alabama ; Professor 
Louis F. Snow, '87, of the Univer- 
sity of Chattanooga; T. Edward 
Owens, '97, of Tuskegee Institute 
and F. D. MacLean, i6n, coach at 
Newberry College, Newberry, S. C. 



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1924 

Bill Shattuck is a salesman with 
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gets his mail at 1332 Riverside Drive 
in the same city. 

Herb Lamson, member of the Fac- 
ulty of Shanghai College, China, 
writes that he has been teaching gen- 
eral sociology, anthropology, social 
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Ed Morris has passed his exam- 
inations and is now a member of the 
Rhode Island bar. 

1925 
Bill Waring, Joe Goodman and 
Morris Yaraus have become members 
of the Rhode Island bar, having suc- 
cessfullv passed the written and oral 
e.xams given them. The Board of 
Bar Examiners in Rhode Island is 
one of the hardest in the country to 
get by, which is shown by the fact 
that only sixteen out of fifty-four can- 
didates met requirements in the recent 
tests. 

Rev. Gordon C. Capen, who took 
his divinity degree at Boston Univer- 
sity School of Theology last June, is 
the new pastor of the Methodist 
Church of East Hampton, Conn. 

Ted Ferry admits that he has been 
mighty busy in his official capacity 
as sales manager for the William R. 
Compton Company, investments, 44 
Wall Street, New York, for the past 
year and that he has also had extra 
work to do guiding the enthusiasm of 
Lew Jelleme, '27, and Mike Jadick, 
'26, who are with the Compton com- 
pany. 

Graham Beresford reports that he 
is now an analyst with the Atlantic 
«k Pacific International Corporation, 
an investment trust, wnth his head- 
quarters at 68 William Street, New 
York. 

Jack Cobb has changed his house 
address to 701 Howard Avenue, Apt. 
B 21, New Haven, Conn. 

Bill Lyons sets himself down as a 
trainee with Montgomery, Ward & 
Co., temporarily hard at work in 
Clinton, Mass. 

1926 

Horace Mazet, director of infor- 
mation. Aviation Business Bureau, 
Inc., was the author of an article, 
"Pulling the Stick Back," in the last 
issue of the Delta Upsilon Quarterly. 
It was a lively and comprehensive 
story of the training that aviators 
must go through in order to qualify 
for the United States Naval Reserve. 

Reggie Lewis, last reported in 
Panama, is back in Boston where his 
business address is in care of Carl 
Fraudenberg, Inc., 201 South Street. 

Lloyd Mclsaac is with the ac- 
counting firm of Haskell & Sells, 
Inc., 80 Federal Street, Boston. 



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Slid Chisholm, former member of 
the class, has changed his address to 
Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
He is still with the Liggett & Myers 
Tobacco Company. 

Ken Corlew has hit the long, long 
trail to westward and his new ad- 
dress is Nampa Orchards Co., Eagle 
Heights, Nampa, Idaho. 

Lewis Kilbourn politely announces 
a change of address to 366 Mildren 
Avenue, Cuyahoga Falls, O. 

Gerry Higgins is associate editor 
of The Shoe Retailer, and he and 
Mrs. Higgins are making their home 
at 306 Riverway, Apt. 2, Boston, 
Mass. 

1927 

Ken Anderson reports that he has 
changed his address to 719 Rush St., 
Chicago, 111. "Will drop you a line 
one of these days and give you all the 
dope," Ken wrote. And we are still 
waiting for the letter. 

Dave Mishel will return as back- 
field coach of the Brown football 
squad next fall. We haven't seen 
Dave lately, or heard much about 
him, but we understand that he is 
planning to run a boys' camp of his 
own next summer. 

1928 

Horace (Bo) Partridge, and we 
suppose his golf game is improving 
regularly, is with Child, Jeffries 
Company, investment securities, 50 
Congress Street, Boston. 

Tom Morris, who has been work- 
ing in Berlin, N. H., the last year, 
has received the Cushman Fellowship 
in Chemistry at Western Reserve 
University, Cleveland, O., for the 
next academic year. 

Sam Levy was in Providence for 
the Brown Daily Herald dinner last 
month. Sam had to give up his 
course at the Harvard Law School 
because of a serious attack of the flu, 
but he hopes to be back at his books 
next September. 

ENGAGEMENTS 

Miss Dorothy Sarah Maclntyre of 
Providence, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ronald J. Maclntyre, to Eu- 
gene W. O'Brien, '19, of Atlanta, 
Ga. 

Miss M. Frances Jennings, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse W. Jen- 
nings of Southport, Conn., to Albert 
B. Gordon, '25, of New Rochelle, 
N. Y. 



Miss Barbara Allen Powers, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James 
Cornell Powers of Providence, to 
Robert C. Knox, 25n, of Providence. 

Miss Alva Russell Jefferds, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Charles H. Jefferds, Jr., 
to Arnold K. Brown, '27, of Provi- 
dence. 

WEDDINGS 

1890 — Rev. Herman W. Watjen, 
D. D., retired, and Miss Rosira 
Snelling were married in Pawtucket, 
R. I., April 27, 1929. They are now 
at home at 26 Anthony Avenue, Paw- 
tucket. 

1919 — William M. McSweeney 
and Miss Elizabeth Harriet Jordan, 
daughter of Mrs. Sarah T. Jordan 
of Providence, were married in Prov- 
idence on April 8, 1929. They are 
living in Chicago. 

1925 — C. Russell Vreeland and 
Miss Florence Bradley Taylor, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 
W. Taylor of Newark, N. J., were 
married in Newark on May I, 1929. 

1925 — David S. Ballou and Miss 
Helen Dudley Brown, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vernon Brown, 
were married in Sandusky, O., on 
April 27, 1929. They are living in 
Taylors, S. C. 

1926 — Announcement has been re- 
ceived of the marriage in March of 
Norman Howard and Miss Erma 
White of Amherst, Va. Mr. and 
Mrs. Howard are living in Hope- 
well, Va. 

1928— Ralph B, Mills and Miss 
Marguerite Doris Povey, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. William Povey, were 
married in Pawtucket, R. I., on May 
4, 1929. Russell W. jVIills, '27, was 
best man. Mr. and Mrs. Mills will 
make their home in Pawtucket. 

19280 — William R. Powers, 2nd, 
and Miss Alice Channing Graves, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
H. Graves of Edgewood, R. I., were 
mar ied in Providence on April 16, 
1929. They are at home at 232 
Fourth Street, Providence. 

BIRTHS 

1906 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
F. DriscoU of Scarsdale, N. Y., a 
daughter, Susan, on May 6, 1929. 

1907— To Mr. and Mrs. Claude 
R. Branch of Providence, a daughter, 
Audrey, on May 8, 1929. 

1912 — To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon 
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C. Collins of Great Barrington, 
Mass., a daughter, on April 3, 1929. 

191 5— To Mr. and Mrs. Law- 
rence L. Hall of East Orange, N. ].. 
a daughter, Doris Emerv, on May"3, 
1929. 

191 8— To Mr. and Mrs. Francis 
L. Simons of Kennebunk, Me., a 
daughter, Marilyn Brooks, on April 
30, 1929. Mrs. Simons was Dorothy 
S. Holt, '20, Pembroke. 

191 9— To Mr. and Mrs. George 



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T. Welch of Providence, a daughter, 
Mildred Edith, on April lO, 1929. 

igign — To Mr. and Mrs. H. Ray- 
mond Searles of Pawtuclcet, R. I., a 
son, Raymond Edward, on April 11, 
1929. 

1920 — To Mr. and Mrs. Dutee 
J. Hall of Rosemont, Pa., a second 
son, William Lyon, on Jan. 23, 1929. 
Mrs. Hall was Leota Lyon, '22, Pem- 
broke College. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Eben P. 

Morse of Scarsdale, N. Y., a daugh- 
ter, Dale, on May 4, 1929. 

I924n — To Mr. and Mrs. Everett 



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1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. George 
H. Mitchell of Providence, a son, 
Donald Philip, on May 11, 1929. 

I925n — To Mr. and Mrs. Theo- 
dore K. Ferry of Oradell, N. J., a 
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daughter, Priscilla Morris, on April 
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Pembroke College Ungraduate 
Activities 



"VTOW that April 19 is past and 
gone Prom has slipped into the 
background. The Record made a 
record by issuing a special "Prom 
Number" which was very well re- 
ceived. The favors — for men, pock- 
et knives, for the girls, tiny perfume 
bottles — were commented on favor- 
ably. Then the following afternoon 
we tea-danced and Saturda>- night 
the 'All-College" enticed us, and 
now, as this chronicle goes to the 
printer, Masque and Spring Day are 
in the air. 

The annual Song Contest was 
held in Alumnae Hall on April 24, 
under the supervision of Albertina 
Bailie, president of Musical Clubs. 
The Juniors won the cup and the 
Seniors won honorable mention in 
this annual event. 

On May 2 and 3, the Spanish Club 
presented three one-act plays in Mar- 
ston Hall. The plays — "Los Sal- 
teranas," "Manana de Sol," and "Los 
Pantalones" — were all coached by 
Professor Deland. 

Professors Night was held Tues- 
day, May 7, when the faculty forgot 
their dignity and just had a good 
time. 

Ethel Martus, '29, head of A. A., 
and Grace King, president for the 
coming year, were delegates to the 
Eastern Sectional Conference of the 
A. C. A. C. W., held at Greensboro, 
North Carolina, on May 10 and 11. 
Miss Dennett, head of the Depart- 
ment of Physical Education, accom- 
panied the girls. 

ALidame Soudre entertained the 
members of Le Solon Francais at her 
home on April 30. Prof. Horatio 
Smith, head of the language depart- 
ment, gave an informal talk. Then re- 
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freshments were served in true French 
fashion. 

Virginia Hunter, '31, of Delhi, N. 
Y., is the new all-college bowling 
champion. B. Gross, '32, was a close 
runner-up, with Florence Nicholson, 
'30, varsity captain, and K. Scott, 
'31, t>'ing for third place. 

Spring House Dances are to be 
held on Friday evening. May 17. 
Miller, Metcalf and Alumnae Halls 
are all being used on this occasion 
and couples are to be allowed to go 
from one dance to the other. Hal 
Sheffer and Bernie Siegal are fur- 
nishing the music. 

The following day, May 18, is the 
Sophomore Masque at 3 o'clock. 
Eleanor Demarest is chairman of the 
whole, with four committees working 
under her. Edith Kenney is in charge 
of dancing, Muriel Barnes, music; 
Alice Stewart, costuming, and Myrtle 
Ryder heading the Finance Commit- 
tee. 

May 16 is the -day set for the an- 
nual Senior May breakfast and Spring 
Day exercises. Following the break- 
fast the favorite professor will speak 
and then Savila Harvey will present 
the mascot. 

Sub-Freshman Day was May 4. On 
this day prospective Freshmen were 
shown around Pembroke and enter- 
tained by some "V ignettes," of Aus- 
tin Dobson, by the Komians, coached 
by Mrs. Seals. 

COLLEGE ELECTIONS 

The elections have been under the 
management of the Student Govern- 
ment Association, which this year 
has instituted the use of printed bal- 
lots. 

The officers of the Student Gov- 
ernment Association for next year 
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Hester Hastings, Vice-President; 
Marjorie E. Battersby, Secretary; 
and Myrtle Ryder, Treasurer. 

The "Record" has elected Vir- 
ginia M. Paine, '30, Editor-in-Chief. 

'Tress Club" has abolished two 
offices this year. The new officers 
are Dorothy Slocum '30, President, 
and Bertha L Daily, '30, Secretar\'- 
Treasurer. 

The officers of the Christian As- 
sociation now elected are : Alice A. 
Walter, '30, President; Josephine M. 
Mclntire, '31, Vice-President; Ada 
Rounds, '32, Secretary, and Rosamond 
Danielson, '31, Treasurer. 

The Dormitories have elected the 
following officers: Metcalf Hall, 
Mary O. Diener, '30, President; 
Rosamond H. Danielson, '31, Vice- 
President, and Elinor L. IVLartin, '32, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 

Miller Hall, Helen E. Riley, '30, 
President; Helen Daniel, '31, Vice- 
President, and Beulah B. Morris, '32, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 

East House, Emily J. Piatt, '30, 
President. The other officers of East 
House, as well as those of Sharpe 
House, will be elected next fall. 

The results of the class elections, 
which were completed on ]\Lay 3, 
are as follows: 1930 — President, Dor- 
othy Riley; Vice-President, Louise C. 
Kelley; Secretary, Honor C. McCus- 
ker, and Treasurer, Grace R. King. 

1 93 1 — President, Marjorie E. 
Battersby ; Vice-President, Eleanor 
E. Demarest; Secretary, Enis E. De- 
Magistris, and Treasurer, Dorothy 
E. Noble. 

1932 — President, Margaret L 
Bates; Vice-President, Frances M. 
Young; Secretary, Katherine B. Burt, 
and Treasurer, Elinor L. Martin. 

Dorothy S. Roth, '2Q 



Pembroke Alumnae 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Boston entertained the Executive Sec- 
retary at a tea at the home of Jessie 
Munroe Williams, '12, in Cambridge, 
on April 27. About twenty-five 
members were present. After the 
business meeting, there was a program 
of piano and violin music, and Miss 
Young talked informally about Col- 
lege and the Alumnae Association ac- 
tivities. The annual meeting with 
election of officers will be held on 



June 8 at the home of Charlotte Fer- 
guson, '24, Marblehead, Mass. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Connecticut Valley held a meeting 
on May 1 1 at the home of Hannah 
Nicholson Benson, '11, in New 
Haven. Mrs. John S. Murdock, 
President of the Alumnae Associa- 
tion, was the guest of honor at this 
time. 

The Springfield Branch of the 
Connecticut Valley Brown Alumnae 
Club sponsored a luncheon on May 

25 at Riverbend-in-the-Berkshires, 
for the benefit of the Alumnae Hall 
Fund. Mrs. George B. Affleck, '03, 
was in charge. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
New York held a meeting on April 

26 at the Women's Association's new 
building. The acting-dean, Miss Eva 
A. Mooar, was guest of honor at the 
dinner, at which eighteen members 
were present, after which she talked 
informally about college activities. 
The club is most anxious for any- 
body ivho is planning to live in or 
around New York next year to get 
in touch with the president, Marie 
Goulett, '20, 85 Highland Avenue, 
Yonkers, N. Y., or with the secretary, 
Hilda Hoffman, '24, 78-11 New For- 
est Lane, Apt. 4F-B, Forest Hills, 
N. Y. 

For the spring meeting of the 
Brown Alumnae Club of Southern 
California, Mrs. Frank E. McKeever 
(Millie Church, '05), assisted by 
Mrs. Edwin Price (Rachel Cool- 
idge, n'li), entertained with a lunch- 
eon at her home in Pasadena on 
April 20. The members were glad to 
welcome into the club Mrs. George 
Trescher (Sue Shea, '21), who is 
living in Glendale. 

At the business meeting which fol- 
lowed the luncheon officers for the 
new year were elected as follows: 

President, Blanche Schiller Hook, 
'15; Vice-President, Jeannette Bald- 
win Courtwright, '08 ; Recording 
Secretary and Treasurer, Lillian 
Davenport Shore, '13; Corresponding 
Secretary, Millie Church McKeev- 
er, '05. 

The Woman's Section of the Al- 
pha Beta Kappa held its annual meet- 
ing on May 22 at a supper in Alum- 
nae Hall. The following officers 
were elected for the coming year: 

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chant, '97 ; Vice-Chairman, Eugenie 
Ward Rigbey; Secretary-Treasurer, 
Edythe Pine, '27; Chairman of Pro- 
gram Committee, Doris Briggs Hath- 
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mittee, Frederica F. Kraus, Anna 
Bullock, '26. 

Laura Brooks Hawkins, '04, who 
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ENGAGEMENTS 

1929 — V'era ALatteson to Fred 
Kauer. 

WEDDLNGS 

I924n — V'elma Pilling* was mar- 
ried to William C. McClelland on 
May I. 

1925 — Hannah Pickels was mar- 
ried to Harold J. Carson of Hart- 
ford, Conn., on April 27. 

1927 — Catherine Bond was mar- 
ried to Ellsworth H. Wheeler on 
April 2. 

Aileen Terry was married on April 
20 to William Ernest Flemming. 
They will live in Roxbury, Mass. 

1928 — Alice Lippman was mar- 
ried to Caspar Sutton on April 14. 

BIRTHS 

igiSn— To Mr. and Mrs. Clif- 
ton O. Budlong of Camden, N. J., 
a son, Harold Charles Budlong, on 
April 27. Mrs. Budlong was for- 
merly Amelia Borden. 

19^0 — To Mr. and Mrs. Francis 
L. Simons of Kennebunkport, Me., 
a daughter, IVLarilyn Brooks Simons, 
on April 3t\ Mrs. Simons was for- 
merly Dorothy Holt. 

I923n — To Mr. and Mrs. Eben 
Morse of Scarsdale, N. Y ., a daugh- 
ter. Dale Morse, on May 4. Mrs. 
Morse was Winnifred Winter. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. Freder- 
ick Stedman of Wakefield, R. L, a 
son on October 24. Mrs. Stedman 
was formerly Ada Dykstra. 

I925n — To Mr. and ]\Ls. Joseph 
P. Ott of Pawtucket, a son on April 
14. Mrs. Ott was Pauline Pender- 
gast. 

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DEATHS 

1897 — Sister Hilda, formerly Ed- 
na Davis, died on ALirch 5 at St. 
John's House, Arlington Heights, 

Mass. 

1900 — Inez Whipple Wilder, who 
was professor in the Zoology Depart- 
ment of Smith College, died on April 
29 in Northampton. Within the last 
month she had completed a scientific 
work begun by her husband, Profes- 
sor Harris Wilder, who died in Feb- 
ruary, 1928, and whom she succeeded 
as chairman of the department. The 
Providence Journal says: "Mrs. 
Wilder was a member of the Ameri- 
can Society of Zoologists and fre- 
quent contributor to such scientific 
journals as Copeia, the Anatomical 
Record, and Journal of Experimental 
Zoology. Her research dealt largely 
with mammalian palm and sole con- 
figuration, and in the latter subject 
she collaborated with her husband, 
who was a leading authority on fin- 
ger prints in this country. She was 
also the author of 'Laboratory Stud- 
ies in Mammalian Anatomy' which 
is widely used in study." Besides 
this she wrote "Morphology of Am- 
phibian Metamorphosis" and several 
scientific articles in German and Eng- 
lish. She received her A. M. in 1904 
from Smith. She was a member of 
the Connecticut Valley Brown Alum- 
nae Club. 

NOTES 

1 9 10 — Gertrude Allen McConnell 
is to be Executive Secretarv of the 
Alumnae Association. 

I923n — Evelyn Sheehan has passed 
her bar examinations and will re- 
ceive her law degree from Portia Law 
School in June. 

1925 — ^ Barbara McCarthy has 
been appointed an instructor at Wel- 
lesley for next year. 

1927 — Theta Holmes has been ap- 
pointed instructor in Psychology at 
Skidmore College for the coming 
year. 

1929 — Mildred Williamson has 
been appointed to take Mildred Fish- 
er's ('27) place as assistant in the 
Registrar's Office at Pembroke. 

Ethel Humphrey is to succeed 
Theta Holmes as assistant in Person- 
nel. 



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