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VOL. XXX 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., FEBRUARY, 1930 



No. 7 



On The Hill 



Stressing Sluality at ^rozvn 



\ NYONE who studies the re- 
"^^cently published "Policy of 
Brown University" must be conscious 
of its increased stress upon quality as 
a sine qua non of the university's fu- 
ture. Whatever material growth we 
are destined to experience, whatever 
development of facilities, equipment 
and student body, it is proposed that 
Brown shall be first of all an institu- 
tion with excellence as its watch- 
word. 

There are innumerable colleges 
and universities in America, each do- 
ing its work more or less efficiently. 
We have no criticism of them, no 
wish to interfere with their expan- 
sion along any line that may seem 
good to them. But we do not propose 
to be simply one of a great group of 
academic institutions, a mere unit in 
a host of educational enterprises. 

Brown is the seventh American 
college in the order of foundation. It 
has an honorable record of 166 years. 
It has a right to leadership in the 
collegiate world, and the purpose of 
its authorities, as reflected in their 
statement of policy just referred to, 
is to assert this right — not boastfully 
or grandiloquently, not in unworthy 
competition with any of its neigh- 
bors, but in recognition of its digni- 
fied past, the place to which its age 
and history entitle it, its location in 
the second city of New England, the 
cultured environment in which it 
finds itself, and its possession of what 
those who best know the facts de- 
clare is the strongest faculty it has 
ever had. 

With this basis to build on it can 
go confidently forward to a larger 
educational usefulness. It has long 
seemed to the Alumni Monthly that 
stress ought to be laid, as it is being 



laid at the present time, on the grad- 
uate work of the university. The 
erection of the Graduate Department 
into a Graduate School has been ac- 
companied by an increase in require- 
ments, an elevation of standards and 
a broadening of scope. The present 
enrollment of candidates for second 
and third degrees is greater than ever 
before. It would be difficult to over- 
estimate the importance of the pres- 
ence of these graduate students on 
the campus. They tend to lift the 
entire intellectual tone of the univer- 
sity, a fact in strict accordance with 
the experience of other institutions 
of learning. 

Indeed there is good warrant for 
saying that the best way, or one of 
the best ways, to strengthen the in- 
tellectual life of a body of under- 
graduates is to lay emphasis on ad- 
vanced and research work and to se- 
cure teachers whose time will be 
largely given to it. Mark how this 
policy reacts upon the teaching force 
as a whole — a faculty which con- 
tains men engaged in such work nat- 
urally acquires an outside reputation 
and draws to itself in consequence 
desirable men for undergraduate 
work as well as graduate work. 

The whole intellectual fabric of 
the university is improved — and the 
improvement is not concealed from 
the exterior world. 

We believe — that is, the adminis- 
trators of the universit\' believe — and 
the Alumni Monthly assuredly joins 
in the belief, that there is a distinct 
opportunity for Brown in the direc- 
tion here outlined. We have an op- 
portunity in Providence, unexcelled 
anywhere, to build up a teaching 
force that will challenge attention 
and respect from every quarter. The 
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Monthly pointed last month to the 
remarkable fact that in the last four 
or five years no fewer than 66 
changes have been made in the list of 
teachers at Brown, out of a total of 
140. This shows what a work of 
reconstruction has recently occurred. 
There can be no doubt that the teach- 
ing force is stronger today than it 
was in 1925-26, and there can also 
be no doubt that the determined pur- 
pose of those in charge of the uni- 
versity is to work hereafter in the di- 
rection of still further strengthening 
the grade of instruction offered here. 
We are violating no confidence when 
we say that in instance after instance 
in late years attempts have been made 
by other institutions to persuade some 
of our best teachers to leave us and 
that these attempts have frequently 
been thwarted by a liberal increase 
of salaries at Brown. This has oc- 
casioned a serious draft upon the uni- 
versity's resources which will have to 
be met by its alumni and other 
friends. But such a policy is abso- 
lutely necessary if Brown is to endure 
and progress as an institution of the 
first class. 

» * » 

Imagination Wanted 

npWO Brown men were talking 
the other day of the value of im- 
agination in the development of a 
college or university. They agreed 
that it had a very great value, prop- 
erly directed. 

They were not sure as to exactly 
what direction it might best take in 
the development of Brown, but they 
agreed that, rightly employed, it 
would be of essential service to the 
university. 

We have often thought that Brown 
could sensibly use more imagination 
in looking to the future. We 
do not mean that it should be vi- 
sionary in the accepted mean- 



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ing of that word. We do not 
mean that its gaze should soar ex- 
clusively in the clouds and that it 
should forget to keep its feet on the 
ground. But there have been times 
in its past when it had opportunities 
to rise and expand along certain new 
lines, and has not taken advantage of 
these opportunities. Some of its young 
men have seen visions and some of its 
old men have dreamed dreams — and 
nothing has come of them because of 
a lack of faith in high quarters or it 
may be a lack of imagination, or 
sometimes even a lack of plain cour- 
age. 

We have long believed — and have 
expressed our belief in the Alumni 
Monthly — that Brown might well 
establish at least one college on its 
campus after the Oxford and Cam- 
bridge plan. Practically no Ameri- 
can university, so far as we know, 
had actually undertaken the experi- 
ment when we made the suggestion, 
unless the Graduate College's rec- 
tangle at Princeton may be so denom- 
inated. But what a chance there 
was at Brown for somebody with vi- 
sion to set up, or cause to be set up, 
an Oxford-like college on the Hill! 
This might not have fitted in per- 
fectly with the general scheme of 
things at Brown ; it might not have 
adjusted itself perfectly to the fra- 
ternity system, for instance ; cer- 
tainly the end of the experiment 
could not have been foreseen at the 
start. And yet what might it not 
have brought forth ! What interest 
might it not have excited in the aca- 
demic world ! And what an agreeable 
reputation might it not ha\e acquired 
for Brown as an up-and-doer! There 
would have been little risk in found- 
ing a college here on a theory ap- 
proved by centuries on the Isis and 
the Cam. On the other hand, it 
would have contributed a tone and 
quality to our campus worth all the 
outlay and experiment. Or so it 
seems, and has always seemed, to us. 

We speak with special feeling be- 
cause not only has the sum of eleven 
or twelve million dollars been lately 
assured to Harvard for a similar ex- 
periment on a larger scale but the 



generous donor, Mr. Harkness, now 
undertakes to provide for the practi- 
cal duplication of the Harvard 
"houses" at Yale, his own univer- 
sity. We do not remember exactly 
how Yale happened to decline Mr. 
Harkness's original offer; as we re- 
call the incident, this offer did not 
fit in with the New Haven univer- 
sity's proposed plans at the time. But 
now there are to be "houses" and 
quadrangles at Yale as well as at 
Harvard, thanks to a rich Yale grad- 
uate. We wish he might be persuad- 
ed to set up a college or two on the 
same liberal and pleasant lines at 
Brown. We can imagine (for at 
least we have a fairly workable im- 
agination of our own) how fine a 
quadrangle after the Yale plan would 
look on College Hill. It might upset 
some of Brown's cherished ideas 
about curricula and all that sort of 
thing. But we are convinced that 
visitors to Providence would be taken 
to see it (if it were architecturally 
beautiful, like the already existing 
Harkness tower and quadrangle at 
Yale), and that our alumni and 
friends would boast about it ; and we 
have little doubt that a way would 
be found to adjust it to the existing 



educational scheme of the campus. 

Even without Mr. Harkness's help 
(which we fear we cannot actually 
look forward to), we still have a 
hope that some day a distinct though 
subordinate college will be built on 
the Oxford plan at Brown. In this 
college will be grouped perhaps 250 
young men. They will live to some 
extent a communal life. They will 
eat their meals together and learn 
their lessons together, and there will 
be great open fireplaces around which 
they may gather on winter nights, 
and there will be books owned by 
the college itself instead of the uni- 
versity, or at least permanently loaned 
or loaned on a long-term basis to the 
college. And there will be archways 
permitting attractive views down 
bricked and tree-shaded paths from 
dormitory to dormitory within the 
college, and grace and beauty will 
here abide, and in the midst of the 
city there will be peace and quiet and 
the still air of delightful studies. 

If we go on, we shall be charged 
with an excess of imagination. Yet 
if a real and tangible image came out 
of such an imagining of things that 
do not now exist, would not every 
true son of Brown be glad? 



"The Lady of Lyons" at Brown 



By Harry Lyman Koo/^man 
/^ N the four evenings January 
^^ 14-17. the "boards" of the 
Brown Union were trodden by the 
Sock and Buskin Alumni as they im- 
personated Bulwer's romantic play 
now in its ninety-second year. First 
produced at the beginning of Queen 
Victoria's reign, it was so popular that 
fifty years later there was said to be 
not a theatrical night in the year 
when it was not produced somewhere 
in Great Britain. Justin McCarthy 
estimated that it was the most suc- 
cessful acting play brought out in 
England since the days of Shakes- 
peare. Bulwer, when he wrote this 
play, was already a seasoned novelist, 
having to his credit his best known 
works of fiction like the "Last Days 
of Pompeii" and "Rienzi." The part 
170 



of its hero, Claude Melnotte, was 
acted by the great Macready and 
was the favorite with the leading ro- 
mantic actors well toward the end 
of the nineteenth century. 

But how did it impress a some- 
what sophisticated twentieth century 
audience? There was much laugh- 
ter, not at the costumes, but at the 
unrealism and at what now sounds 
high flown or bombastic or even tin- 
selled. Yet, thanks to good acting, 
the piece was genuinely put over and 
the emotional tension at the critical 
points was transferred to the audi- 
ence. It is needless to say that Pro- 
fessor Crosby was convincing as Col- 
onel Damas. Professor Ben Brown's 
part of the heroine's father. Mon- 
sieur Deschappelles, is a light one 
and never has the sympathy of the 



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audience. All the more credit, 
therefore, to an excellent impersona- 
tion of it. Russell W. Richmond as 
the landlord was irresistible. The 
character of the villain, Beauseant, 
played by Theodore L. Sweet, might 
well have seemed exaggerated, yet 
those who remember the earlier act- 
ing of the play realized that, if not 
acting the part, he was at least re- 
enacting the old acting of it. 

The difficult part of the hero, 
which was taken by S. Everett Wil- 
kins, Jr., and of which Macready in 
his journal recorded merely that he 
himself acted the part "pretty well," 
was done agreeably, and, so far as 
such a self-contradictory part per- 
mits, convincingly. The part of the 
heroine's mother, taken by Frances 
Snow Huddy, though not one sym- 



pathetic to the audience, was excel- 
lently done. Mrs. Webster as Wid- 
ow Melnotte made a constant and 
deep appeal. 

The difficult part of Pauline, 
which was played by the leading 
English actresses during the nine- 
teenth century — Helen Faucit, who 
played with Macready, Ellen Terry, 
Mary Anderson and Mrs. Langtry 
— was taken by Mrs. Alice T. W. 
Bliss, the wife of Professor Zenas R. 
Bliss, in a thoroughly convincing 
fashion even to an audience which 
could not put itself into sympathy 
with some of the situations. Her 
statuesque and classic beauty natu- 
rally contributed to the success of her 
acting. Indeed, toward the end when 
the heroine seemed deserted by her 
own family and had not vet realized 



Frederic M. Sackett, '90, Ambas- 
sador to Germany 



A LL Brown men must have been 
gratified by the recent appoint- 
ment of United States Senator Fred- 
eric Moseley Sackett of Kentucky 
as Ambassador to Germany to take 
the place of Jacob G. Schurman, 
who is retiring from the diplomatic 
service. 

Ambassador Sackett was born and 
brought up in Providence, his father 
having been General Frederic M. 
Sackett of the class of '6i, and his 
brothers Henry W. Sackett, '94, and 
Frank P. Sackett, '97. His brother- 
in-law, Lauriston H. Hazard, was 
graduated in 1889. 

"Fred," as his friends are privi- 
leged to call him, was, from the out- 
set, a prominent member of the class 
of 1890. He was a good student, a 
likable comrade and a natural public 
speaker. He shone in Sophomore 
declamations and Junior orations. In 
Senior year he was elected class pres- 
ident, and on Class Day presided with 
grace and ease at the exercises in 
Sayles Hall. A few years ago he 
was the presiding officer at the Com- 
mencement exercises in the same 
place. During his undergraduate ca- 



the presence of her lover, her poses 
reminded one of what those of a 
Greek Antigone or Electra must have 
been. 

It was a happy thought to consti- 
tute the group bearing the somewhat 
elastic name of Sock and Buskin 
Alumni. The success of their pro- 
ductions on the stage of Rockefeller 
Hall should encourage them to con- 
tinue the historic revivals which they 
have made their specialty. In look- 
ing at their performance, so well 
staged and played, one could not re- 
sist the inward query whether fifty 
years hence a revival of some of the 
plays most highly esteemed today will 
give as much pleasure or leave as 
good a taste in the mouth as did this 
lecent revival at Brown University 
of Bulwer's "Lady of Lyons." 



reer he was a member of Psi LTpsilon. 

He is descended from Simon Sack- 
ett, who with a hardy band of colo- 
nists, including Roger Williams, sailed 
from Bristol, England, on December 
I, 1630, on the ship Lyon, and 
reached Boston-town, February 5, 
1631. 

His paternal grandfather was Ad- 
nah Sackett, who moved to Provi- 
dence from Southwick, Mass., in his 
early youth and was one of the pio- 
neer jewelry manufacturers in this 
section of the country. 

His parents were Gen. Frederic 
M. and Emma L. (Paine) Sackett. 
General Sackett was a student in the 
Senior Class at Brovvm University 
when the Civil War broke out and 
enlisted in the ist Rhode Island 
Regiment. Like the new Ambassa- 
dor he was a member of Psi Upsilon. 

Frederic M. Sackett was born 
Dec. 17, 1868. He received his early 
education in Providence schools, 
graduated from Brown University in 
the class of 1890 and studied law at 
Harvard University, receiving a de- 
gree of LL. B. from that institution 
in 1893. He practised law in Co- 

171 




AMBASSADOR SACKETT 

lumbus, Ohio, from 1893 to 1897, 
and from there moved to Louisville, 
Ky., after marrying Olive Speed, 
daughter of James B. Speed of that 
city. He has been engaged in the de- 
velopment of the many large enter- 
prises in Kentucky with which Mr. 
Speed had been identified and has 
also taken a keen interest in all civic 
matters. 

He was elected L^nited States Sen- 
ator from Kentucky by the Republi- 
can party in 1924 and has held many 
important committee assignments ia 
the Senate. 



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During the World War he was 
Food Administrator for Kentucky 
under Herbert Hoover, for whom at 
that time he learned to feel the great- 
est admiration. 

His younger brother, Franklin P. 
Sackett, Brown, 1897 (also a mem- 
ber of Psi Upsilon), served as assist- 
and to his father, Frederic M. Sack- 
ett, Adjutant-General of Rhode Is- 



land during the Spanish War, and af- 
terward entered the L^nited States 
Navy, serving as an officer for up- 
ward of 20 years. He resigned after 
the World War to enter business, but 
died suddenly in 1920. Henry W. 
Sackett, Brown, '94, is the senior 
partner of the banking and brokerage 
firm of Richardson and Clark of 
Providence. 



Delta Upsilon Wins the Lanpher 

Cup 



By Professor Leslie E. Swain 
'"T'HE fine Intramural Trophy, a 
■*" large silver cup, presented to the 
Intramural Department by E. J. 
Lanpher, '19, as a perpetual trophy 
to be awarded each year to the fra- 
ternity scoring the highest in Intra- 
mural Athletics was won last year by 
Delta Upsilon. The Delta U's will 
hold it during '29-'30, thus taking it 
away from Zeta Psi, who held it dur- 
ing '28-'29. 

It seems quite appropriate that Dr. 
Marvel's fraternity should secure 
first possession of the cup, and it is 
worthy of note that Dr. Faunce's 
fraternity is the only other winner to 
date. 

Assistant Athletic Director T. W. 
Taylor, '25, was responsible for in- 
teresting Mr. Lanpher in giving the 
cup and also for the general outline 
of the scoring system used in making 
the awards. The important fact about 
this scoring system is that winning is 
not made the sine qua non of point 
getting. Zeta Psi indeed won the 
Lanpher Cup a year ago without 
obtaining a single sport championship. 
Points may be gained by competition 
regardless of wins, or lost by forfeit- 
ure. Also, points may be gained by 
members on the Varsity and Fresh- 
man athletic squads. 

Some fraternities have so many 
men out for these teams that they are 
seriously handicapped in Intramurals 
and these squad points help to adjust 
these handicaps. We believe, how- 



ever, that no group can win the cup 
unless it has consistently good Intra- 
mural teams throughout the season. 
We feel, therefore, that the system 
of scoring which gives points in the 
three ways outlined above is fair and 
has worked very satisfactorily. Delta 
Upsilon obtained their points as fol- 
lows: 

Touch football, 50; basketball, 35; 
swimming, 49; track, 36 1-2; base- 
ball, 40; handball, 18 ; horseshoes, 1 1 ; 
tennis, 11. Squad points: Fall, 17; 
Winter, 19; total, 286 1-2 points. 

Delta U's nearest competitor, Phi 
Kappa Psi, had 252 1-2 points. Much 
credit for the win goes to J. S. Stew- 
art, '29, intramural athletic manager 
for Delta Upsilon, in that he placed 
men in every event throughout the 
entire year. 

The Lanpher Cup stimulates to 
continuous effort not alone in the 
activity for which it is easiest to get 
the group out and in which they are 
strongest, but also in those sports in 
which the particular group is weaker. 
There is what may be called a vol- 
untary compulsion to get needed ex- 
eicise and play. We hope it will in- 
creasingly serve this purpose. Seven 
hundred and thirty-nine students took 
part last year, 55.2 per cent of the 
total undergraduate enrollment. Not 
as good for regular exercise as we 
want, of course, but 236 others got 
exercises in required work, 72.8 per 
cent of our enrollment — 0.8 per cent 
better than last year. 
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In addition to the main trophy, 
group prizes and medals were won 
as follows: 

Delta Upsilon, touch football cup, 

swimming cup, handball singles plate. 

Phi Kappa Psi: Handball doubles 

plate, tennis singles plate, tennis 

doubles plate. 

Lambda Chi Alpha: Horseshoes 
doubles plate, horseshoes singles plate. 
Phi Delta Theta: Baseball cup. 
Theta Delta Chi : Basketball cup. 
Zeta Psi : Track cup. 
Six of the twenty fraternities won 
one or more championships. 

Littlefield: Touch football medals, 
baseball medals, handball doubles 
medals. 

*Maxcy: Basketball medals, swim- 
ming medals, horseshoes doubles med- 
als. 

Caswell: Handball singles medal, 
tennis singles medal. 

LTniversity Hall : Track medals, 
tennis doubles medals. 

William T. Peck Club: Horse- 
shoes singles medal. 

Five of the ten dormitory teams 
won one or more championships. 
* Now the Jonathan Maxcy Club. 
The following is the Lanpher Cup 
standing of each fraternity: 

D U - 286^ 

Ph K Ps 2521^ 

Z Ps 208^4 

Th D Ch 207 

Ps S K iggyi 

Ph D Th 164 

K S 152 

L Ch A iSSyi 

Ps U 135 

DTD 129 

D K E io7>4 

A T O 104 

S N 102 

Ph G D 9(>y2 

B Th P 76 

Tie— 

S Ch 70 

S Ph S (TDE) _- 70 

A D Ph 26 

D Ph 22^ 

Ph K 8 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Background of Postgraduate Education 

A Detailed Statement 



of a Matter of Vital Interest at Present to 
Brown University 



By Charles A. Kraus, Research Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry in Brown 
University 
QINCF, the policy of Brown Uni- 
versity, as recently declared, con- 
templates an educational program in 
which graduate work is to play an im- 
portant role, it is of interest to exam- 
ine the general background of grad- 
uate education in this country. 

For example: How many institu- 
tions are doing a satisfactory grade 
of graduate work; how many stu- 
dents are carrying on graduate study, 
how are they localized and what is 
the proportion of graduate students 
to graduate instructors ; how are the 
graduate students initially selected, 
what are the scholarship standards 
for admission and what standards are 
maintained for advanced degrees; 
what are the conditions surrounding 
tuition, scholarships, fellowships and 
graduate assistantships; what is the 
quality of the research work carried 
on by graduate students; are the 
courses of graduate instruction ade- 
quate and how is the student's time 
divided between formal courses and 
research ; are the graduate schools 
adequately financed ; in short, what 
is the present status of graduate edu. 
cation generally? 

These are some of the questions 
that suggest themselves and to which 
we need an answer in order to direct 



the course of our own Graduate 
School in Brown intelligently. Un- 
fortunately, many of the necessary 
data are lacking or have not been 
published in readily available form. 
It is possible, however, to get a gen- 
eral notion of the graduate school 
situation from statistics that have 
been collected, for the most part, by 
the Bureau of Education. 



The Growth uj 

Graduate Education 

During the past 30 years there has 
been a phenomenal development of 
graduate education. In Table I are 
tabulated the number of graduate 
students registered in the United 
States ^rom i8go to 1926, or for a 
period of 36 years. In the same ta- 
ble are given the number of advanced 
degrees conferred from 1890 to 1926 
and, in the last column, are given 
incomplete figures for 1927. There 
are also given the total number of 
graduate students registered from 
1920 to 1926 as well as the total 
number of undergraduate students 
registered in the Arts and Sciences 
during the same period. 

As may be seen from the table, the 
total number of graduate students 
during the period from 1890 to 1926 
increased more than 13 times (13.6). 
In the period from 1900 to 1926 the 



total number of advanced degrees con- 
ferred increased almost six times 
(5.8), which is approximately equal 
to the increase in the total number 
of graduate students over the same 
period (5.6). From 1890 to 1926 
the number of Ph. D. degrees con- 
ferred increased approximately 10 
times (10.3) and between 1900 and 
1926, 3.7 times. Thus, the number 
of doctor's degrees conferred, aver- 
aged over the whole period, increased 
relatively less rapidly than the num- 
ber of graduate students or the num- 
ber of first graduate degrees. How- 
ever, as the data for 1924 and 1926 
indicate, there has been a relative in- 
crease in the number of master's and 
doctor's degrees conferred in recent 
years. Thus, between 1924 and 1926 
the total number of students increased 
12.8 per cent, while during the same 
period the number of master's degrees 
increased 23 per cent and of doctor's 
degrees 22 per cent. We may draw 
the conclusion that while for the per- 
iod from i8go to 1926 there was an 
increase in the total number of stu- 
dents relative to the number of ad- 
vanced degrees, particularly the Ph. 
D. degree, recently the tendency has 
been reversed and the increase in 
the number of advanced degrees is 
markedly greater than that of stu- 
dents. This reflects an increase in 
the proportion of students who take 



T.VBT.F. T 
GRADUATE STUDENTS REGISTERED AND ADVANCED DEGREES CONFERRED IN THE 

UNITED STATES FROM 1890 TO 1926 

1890 



Grad. Students Reg. 
Graduate Degrees 
Ph. D. Degrees 
First Degrees in Arts 

and Sciences 
Students registered 

in Arts and Sciences 



2,382 



126 



1900 


I9IO 


1920 


1922 


1924 


1926 


1927 


5,831 


9,370 


15,612 


23,016 


28,799 


32,500 




1,952 


2,541 


4,853 


7,327 


9,261 


II.45I 


10,126 


352 


409 


5,?2 

27,267 
289,164 


883 

30,857 

358.067 


1,064 


1,302 

46,638 

536,143 


1,377 



(This table does not include medical degrees.) 
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up graduate work seriously as a prep- 
aration for their life work. 

Advanced and First 

Degrees Compared 

It is interesting to note that the 
total number of advanced degrees 
now conferred is comparable with 
that of first degrees conferred in the 
Arts and Sciences, excluding educa- 
tion degrees and professional degrees. 
From 1920 to 1926 the ratio of high- 
er degrees to the lower degree rose 
from approximately one-sixth to one- 
fourth. This is a significant fact. 
Approximately one-fourth of our 
graduates take advanced degrees. The 
number who do some graduate work 
but who do not take advanced degrees 
is, of course, larger. 

The percentage of graduates who 
take the Ph. D. degree is larger than 
one might expect. In calculating this 
percentage one must bear in mind 
that at least three years of training 
are required for this degree. The per- 
centage should therefore be based on 
the number of first degrees conferred 
three years previously. On the other 
hand, an appreciable number of stu- 
dents taking the Ph. D. degree are 
graduates of professional schools. 
Basing our figures on the number of 
first degrees conferred in 1924 and 
Ph. D. degrees conferred in 1926, 
4V2 per cent of the graduates of 1923 
received the doctorate in 1926. 

The wastage of material in the un- 
dergraduate schools is shown by the 
figures of Table I. In 1922 there 
were 358,067 undergraduate stu- 
dents registered in Arts and Sciences. 
Dividing by four, this gives an enter- 
ing class of 89,500 students of whom 
only 46,638, or 52 per cent, graduated 
in 1926. The actual figures would 
be decidedly lower since the enter- 
ing class in 1922 must have been con- 
siderably larger than one-fourth the 
total number of undergraduates at 
that time. Basing our conclusions on 
the relative proportion of students re- 
ceiving degrees, undergraduate edu- 
cation is on the whole little, if any, 
more efficient than graduate educa- 
tion. 



Prospective Need of 

Ph.D. Graduates 

Reference may be made to another 
phase of the graduate school prob- 
lem. In 1926 there were 43,326 in- 
structors and professors in the col- 
leges and collegiate departments of 
universities in this country. Present 
day standards make it desirable that 
a college teacher have a Ph. D. de- 
gree, not only in the interest of bet- 
ter teaching but also as a protection 
for the teacher. Already practically 
all better grade colleges and univer- 
sities require that teachers of in- 
structors grade or higher shall have 
the doctorate. In addition, the doc- 
torate is required of many teachers in 
professional schools, to say nothing of 
graduate schools. Finally, a large 
number of men who have received the 
doctorate are absorbed in business, 
the industries and governmental de- 
partments — city, state and federal. In 
the sciences, probably nearly 50 per 
cent of those who receive the doctor- 
ate are absorbed outside the teaching 
field. There would now be an acute 
shortage of instructors who have the 
Ph. D. degree were it not that the 
instructors' grade has been largely 
abolished in many of our large uni- 
versities, their places being taken by 
graduate assistants. There are liter- 
ally thousands of graduate assistants 
teaching in our undergraduate insti- 
tutions; in chemistry alone the num- 
ber must be approaching one thou- 
sand. 

If, for convenience, we allow 30 
years as the average academic life of 
an instructor and take 43,326 in- 
structors and professors as a basis, i,- 
444 Ph. D. degrees would be re- 
quired per year to make up the wast- 
age due to time alone. Now, taking 
into account the facts that as time 
goes on the number of teachers must 
be increased and that many of our 
doctor's graduates are absorbed out- 
side the teaching profession, it be- 
comes clear that graduate education 
will have to be expanded far beyond 
its present limits if the needs of mod- 
ern society are to be met. It is to 

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be hoped that expansion will take 
place in the direction of a larger 
number of graduate schools rather 
than of larger existing schools. 

Li//iited Supply of 

Advanced Teachers 

It needs to be borne in mind that 
before graduate schools can be profit- 
ably established or expanded, the 
teachers for these schools will first 
have to be found and trained. From 
a broad point of view, it is useless to 
speak of building up strong faculties. 
Where are the teachers and investi- 
gators for these faculties to come 
from ? There are not enough men of 
first rate ability to go round. If the 
faculty in one university is strength- 
ened, it is only at the expense of some 
other university. In order to provide 
more teachers for our colleges and 
universities, we must find and train 
a larger number of able men and we 
must pay them enough to hold them 
in competition with more lucrative, 
non-academic occupations. This con- 
stitutes one of the outstanding prob- 
lems of present day education. 

Student Distinction 

as to Subjects 

As regards the distribution of grad- 
uate students among different sub- 
jects of study, it is evident that the 
master's degree is conferred on a rel- 
atively greater number of non-science 
students than of science students. 
Thus, in 1927 (from somewhat in- 
complete statistics) there were con- 
ferred 6,874 M. A. degrees as against 
1,875 M. S. degrees. It should be 
noted, however, that in many institu- 
tions the M. A. degree is also con- 
ferred on science students, while in 
technical schools the M. S. degree 
alone is conferred. Probably about 
two-thirds of the master's degrees 
were conferred on non-science stu- 
dents. 

The number of doctorates con- 
ferred in the sciences is somewhat 
greater than in the non-sciences. 
Thus, in 1924, out of a total of 1,026 
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in science and 429 in non-science sub- 
jects. The increase in the number of 
doctorates conferred in the sciences 
has not been uniform among the dif- 
ferent sciences. The greatest in- 
crease has been in chemistry. Thus, 
in 1928-29, a total of 310 doctorates 
was conferred in chemistry out of a 
total of 1025 in all the sciences. 
Grouping all the biological sciences 
together, the number of doctorates 
conferred in biology in 1928-29 was 
about 287. In other words more 
than one-half the doctorates con- 
ferred in the sciences were in chem- 
istry and the biological sciences. 
Among the other sciences the degrees 
conferred were in the (decreasing) 
order, psychologv' (112), physics 
(loi), mathematics (61), geology 
(45), engineering (34), agriculture 
(27), anthropology (13), geography 
(12). Less than 10 doctorates were 
conferred in each, astronomy, metal- 
lurgy, archaeology, meteorology, pale- 
ontology and mineralogy. 

The number of highly trained men 
produced each year in the sciences 
is still well below the demand. The 
product is readily absorbed by the 
industries and the professions. Over- 
production is not to be anticipated for 
a long time to come if standards are 
maintained. In this connection, it 
may be recalled that concern is often 
expressed over the depletion of our 
natural resources. It is feared that, as 
these resources become depleted, civil- 
ization will retrograde. If anything 
of this kind ever occurs, it will be 
because of the depletion of our supply 
of superior intellects. The rate of 
advance of civilization is primarily 
determined by the trained intellectu- 
al c.ip.icity of the r.ice rather than by 
material, political or social factors. 

Distribution Among 

Various Institutions 

In 1927, higher degrees were con- 
ferred by 159 institutions in the 
United States and doctorates were 
conferred by 51 of these institutions. 
It is not practicable to give a com- 
plete analysis of the distribution of 
graduate students among the various 



universities, but we get some notion 
of the relative activity of the various 
institutions in the graduate field by 
comparing the number of degrees con- 
ferred, for example, in 1926-27. For 
the purpose of the present discussion 
it will be sufficient to consider only 
those institutions that conferred the 
Ph. D. degree. 

Of the 1377 Ph. D. degrees con- 
ferred in 1926-27, 1087 or 80 per 
cent were conferred by fifteen insti- 
tutions, 37 per cent were conferred 
by four institutions, and 24 per cent 
by two institutions. Thus we see 
that two institutions conferred ap- 
proximately one-fourth of all the 
doctorates and four institutions con- 
ferred two-fifths. 

Geographical 

Distribution 

The degrees conferred in 1926-27 
were geographically distributed as 
follows: New England States, 180; 
North .Atlantic States (including the 
District of Columbia), 494; Mid- 
western States, 545 ; Pacific Coast 
States, 122; Southern States, 33; 
Western Mountain States, 3. The 
prevailing notion that graduate work 
in this country is carried on mainly 
east of the Alleghenys is manifestly 
in error. During the past ten years 
the center of graduate education — 
from the numerical point of view, at 
any rate — has shifted to west of the 
Alleghenys. While the number of 
doctorates conferred by the eastern 
institutions has increased oniy moder- 
ately since 1 920, the number con- 
ferred by the western institutions has 
increased enormously. This will be 
clear from the following table: 



It is seen that mid-western and 
far-western universities have extend- 
ed their graduate work much more 
rapidly — numerically at least — than 
eastern institutions. The rapid rise 
of graduate education in the mid-west 
is well illustrated by the following 
data: Four leading eastern univer- 
sities conferred 133 doctorates in 
1920 and 255 in 1927, an increase of 
100 per cent. Four mid-western 
state universities conferred 41 doc- 
torates in 1920 and 156 in 1927, an 
increase of 300 per cent. It must not be 
inferred that the number of doctor- 
ates conferred is the sole criterion of 
the standing of a graduate school ; on 
the contrary, rapid development may 
well be followed by a deterioration of 
quality. Nevertheless, the western 
universities are formidable contenders 
in the field of graduate education. 
The eastern, privately controlled uni- 
versities need to capitalize all their 
advantages of superior flexibility and 
scholarly traditions if they are not 
to be outdistanced by their newer 
rivals. 

Over Expansion in 

Some Departments 

Any considerations relative to 
graduate education, which are based 
solely on figures relating to the total 
number of doctorates conferred in the 
different institutions, give only a 
very inadequate idea of the actual 
state of such education. In nearly all 
institutions, graduate education is lo- 
calized in a limited number of the 
more effective departments. Thus, if 
an institution confers 60 Ph D. de- 
grees, most of these degrees will per- 
haps be confined to not more than 



TABLE II 
DISTRIBUTION OF PH. D. DEGREES IN 1920 AND 1927 
Group of States No. of Ph. D. Degrees Conferred 



New England 
North Atlantic 

Mid-Western 

Pacific Coast 

Southern 

Western Mountain 



1920 


1927 


% Increase 


107 


180 


68 


211 


494 


134 


183 


545 


198 


32 


122 


281 


6 


33 


450 





3 





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half a dozen departments. In other 
words, there is a concentration of 
the graduate work in certain depart- 
ments while other departments are 
scarcely represented. 

In order to make this clear, some 
data may be given as to the distribu- 
tion of graduate students in chemistry 
during the year 1927-28. During 
that year there were 2071 students 
registered for higher degrees and 
carrying on research work in chem- 
istry. The total number of grad- 
uate students was probably nearly 
double this number. Of these stu- 
dents, 1 101 were registered for the 
doctorate and 970 for the master's 
degree. 1273 of these students, or 
more than 60 per cent, were localized 
in nineteen institutions, or an aver- 
age of 67 students per department. 
588 students, or nearly 30 per cent, 
were localized in five universities 
having more than 100 students each 
and averaging 118 students per de- 
partment. Only one eastern univer- 
sity is represented in this list of five 
departments having more than 100 
students. In at least several of these 
universities, the development of grad- 
uate work has taken place largely 
within the past ten years. 

Ratio of Students 

to Ifistructors 

It is impossible to arrive at a sat- 
isfactory estimate of the ratio of grad- 
uate students to instructors. This 
can be done only by a detailed study 
of individual departments in the sev- 
eral institutions. It is quite obvious, 
however, that the number of stu- 
dents per instructor in the case of 
many of the universities having fifty 
01 more graduate students per depart- 
ment is disproportionate. In the un- 
dergraduate field it is held essential 
that the number of students per in- 
structor shall be less than ten. In 
many instances the number of grad- 
uate students per graduate instructor 
is Several times greater than this. 
Graduate students are unequally dis- 
tributed among the members of the 
instructing staff, and properly so, 
but there are instances where the 
number of students working under 



the supervision of one professor is 
disproportionately large. On the 
other hand, in some instances, grad- 
uate students carry on their researches 
under the direction of inexperienced 
instructors. This is disadvantageous 
tc both instructors and students. 

The Selection of 

Graduate Students 

Probably no problem of graduate 
education is more important than 
that of selecting graduate students. 
This, without doubt, is also one of 
the weakest points in the whole 
scheme of graduate education. While 
in the undergraduate schools we have 
a rigid procedure for the selection of 
entering students, in the graduate 
school the only demand often is 
that the student shall have a de- 
gree from a college of recognized 
standintj. The selection of gradu- 
ate students is too frequently per- 
functory and the departments 
themselves, as well as the adminis- 
trative officers, are often too much 
concerned with obtaining a large 
rather than a select body of gradu- 
ate students. 

Graduate Assistants 

in the Scheme 

The problem of selection is fur- 
ther complicated in that graduate ed- 
ucation is intimately bound up with 
the problem of cheap undergraduate 
instruction. Our graduate schools 
are usually associated with large un- 
dergraduate schools. The cost of 
supplying instruction to the large un- 
dergraduate student bodies is so high 
that financial pressure has forced 
many institutions to carry on much 
of their undergraduate instruction, 
particularly in the first two years, by 
means of graduate assistants. It is 
not uncommon for a single depart- 
ment to have more than fifty gradu- 
ate assistants. In some instances the 
whole scheme of graduate education 
is based on such a s\stem of graduate 
assistantships. 

Since it is imperative that teaching 
positions be filled, graduate assistants 
are not primarily selected on the 
176 



basis of their academic standing or 
their ability as scholars. Selection 
is more often dictated by necessity and 
b\ the student's teaching experience. 
Furthermore, in very few institutions 
are there adequate numbers of grad- 
uate fellowships. Since many of our 
graduate students do not have the 
means to finance themselves during 
the period of graduate study — even 
for one or two years — they find it 
necessary to continue their teaching 
throughout the period of their grad- 
uate study and the time required of 
graduate assistants in instructional 
service is not infrequently dispropor- 
tionate to the salary paid. 

Conclusions voith 

Reference to Brown 

As this brief survey shows, gradu- 
ate education now constitutes a con- 
siderable proportion of the higher 
educational activities in this country. 
There is a need for a larger number 
of well trained doctors graduates to 
fill teaching positions in our colleges, 
universities and technical schools and 
to meet the needs of our expanding 
social and economic development. In 
any one subject, the work for the 
doctorate is largely localized in a few 
universities and there are frequently 
altogether too many students in pro- 
portion to the graduate staff. 

The graduate schools are too 
largely dependent upon a system of 
graduate assistantships (graduate stu- 
dents giving undergraduate instruc- 
tion) in building up their student 
body. This method of financing the 
undergraduate instructional work of 
the university on the one hand and 
the student's period of graduate study 
(jn the other has some merit, but it 
is overdone, much to the detriment 
of both the university and student. 
The solution of the problem lies in 
more fellowships for graduate stu- 
dents and more funds for undergrad- 
uate instruction. 

A university should expand its 
graduate student body only as its re- 
sources, in the way of personnel and 
material equipment, permit improve- 
ment in the quality of the work as 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The selection of graduate students 
i< altogether too haphazard. Much 
less attention is paid to the selection 
of graduate students than to that of 
undergraduates and yet the number 
of higher degrees conferred each year 
is one-fourth that of first degrees in 
the Arts and Sciences. Rigid prin- 
ciples of selection need to be en- 
forced if we are to have a reason- 
ably able student body. 

A larger number of effective 
graduate schools is urgently needed 
in order to prevent the overcrowding 
of those that already exist. This 
means the training of a much larger 
number of men who are capable of 
instructing and directing advanced 
graduate students. At the present 
moment there is a great scarcity of 
men of this type. There are not 
enough to properly man the existing 
graduate schools and an adequate sup- 
ply is not in sight. Graduate and 
undergraduate schools must co-oper- 
ate in reaching the able students; the 
universities must provide fellowships 
that will enable such students to com- 



plete their training and, when 
trained, the universities must offer 
such men sufficient compensation to 
retain them in academic work in 
competition with other more lucra- 
tive employments. 

The informed general public seems 
tr sense this situation more accurately 
than do the universities themselves. 
The establishment of numerous post- 
doctorate fellowships, such as the Na- 
tional Research Council Fellowships, 
by foundations and by individuals, 
shows that the public recognizes the 
great need for highly trained and able 
men. The universities, on the other 
hand, are making no comprehensive 
move to similarly provide adequate 
opportunity for their superior grad- 
uate students. 

Brown, like other New England 
universities and colleges, finds her- 
self in no position to compete for 
numbers with the larger and newer 
universities that have grown up else- 
where during the past thirty years. 
On the other hand. Brown possesses 
the advantages of scholarly traditions 



reaching far back into the past and of 
exceptional facilities in certain fields 
that can not readily be duplicated 
elsewhere. Another advantage is her 
location, not far from European cen- 
ters of culture, on the one hand, and 
near the oldest centers of American 
culture on the other. These advan- 
tages Brown needs to capitalize in the 
interests of higher education. 

What is lacking in graduate edu- 
cation in America is leadership. With 
the rapid economic development of 
the country during the past twenty- 
five years, the universities have not 
had time to survey the field and 
evolve a deliberate plan of action. 
Changes have taken place mainly as 
the result of immediate economic and 
social reactions. It remains for some 
university to assay the higher educa- 
tional situation, to resolve it into its 
elementary components and then to 
evolve a plan of action, based on ex- 
act knowledge, -ather than on the 
necessities c>f vhe moment. 



Now Comes the Advisory Board Meeting 

Alumni Secretary Alfred H. Gurney Gives Details of the Gathering 
and Also Reports on the Far-Spread Alumni Clubs 



'nr'WO innovations will mark the 
■*• annual meeting of the Advisory 
Board of the Associated Alumni, 
which will take place at the Univer- 
sity, Friday, Feb. 21, and Saturday, 
Feb. 22. The Saturday session will 
tie in with Visiting Day. 

One will be the entertainment of 
all delegates to the meeting without 



without curtailment. 

President Barbour will be the 
guest of the Board and the principal 
speaker at the dinner on Friday eve- 
ning. It is also planned to have 
present representatives of the Cam- 
marian Club, the Brown Daily Her- 
ald, the Debating Union and other 
major organizations on the campus 



expense to them after their arrival in to give the delegates the undergrad- 
Providence. The Brown Club of 
Providence was developing a plan to 
act as host as these words were writ- 
ten. 

The other innovation will be the 
experiment of beginning the sessions 
at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. Presi- 
dent Victor A. Schwartz, '07, and 
the Executive Committee of the as- 
sociation belie\e that the extra time 
given by this early start will make 
it possible to carry out the program 



uate viewpoint from different angles. 
Nominations for Alumni Trustee 
vacancies, four in all, and of candi- 
dates for the place of W. E. Sprack- 
ling, '12, on the Athletic Council 
will be made. Among the topics on 
the calendar for discussion will be 
the Regional Plan, proposed by the 
Middle West clubs a year ago, se- 
lective admission and the part of the 
alumni in it, and the work of the 
Brown Club of Providence. The 
177 



complete program will be in the 
mails about the time that this issue of 
the Monthly is ready. 

President Schwartz earnestly 
urges every club to send a delegate 
01 delegates to the meeting and to co- 
operate fully with the Executive 
Committee to make this year's gath- 
ering the best in Brown history. 
* « » 
New York 

1 he annual dinner of the Brown 
University Club of New York will 
be held Thursday evening, Feb. 27, 
at the Hotel Astor. The speakers 
of the evening will be President Bar- 
bour, Dean Christian Gauss of 
Princeton, and Nathaniel T. Guern- 
sey of the American Telegraph and 
Telephone Company. Mr. Guernsey 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ber of Brown men attending and in 
enthusiasm this year's dinner is ex- 
pected to create a record. 

During the last few months the 
membership of the New York unit 
has been increasing, and the officers 
believe that it will continue to in- 
crease at a satisfactory rate. 

Moreover, the club is carrying 
out its purpose to help in arranging 
appointments for young Brown men 
who are in search of advice and coun- 
sel with regard to various business 
activities. It is giving assistance in 
making contacts possible in advertis- 
ing, banking, insurance and other 
businesses. The club naturally is glad 
to render this service and it hopes 
that Brown men will make use of 
it to the fullest possible advantage. 

* * * 

New Bedford 

President Barbour made his first 
appearance before a Brown club 
Tuesday evening, Jan. 14, when he 
was the guest of the Brown Club 
of New Bedford at the annual din- 
ner and meeting at the Tabitha Inn, 
Fairhaven, Mass. The welcome giv- 
en him was a highly enthusiastic one. 
As President Barbour said after- 
ward, "it was a meeting of fine 
spirit." 

The address by President Barbour 
was of the sort to appeal to every 
Brown man. It was straightforward, 
vigorous ; it had a thrilling ring of 
sincerity, and it clinched the con- 
viction that the right man has come 



to Brown at this time to carry on 
the work that President Emeritus 
Faunce ended last June. It stirred 
every listener. At the finish the ap- 
plause indicated that every Brunon- 
jan in the hall was with Dr. Bar- 
bour heartily and loyally. 

President Wardwell C. Leonard, 
'18, was re-elected head of the club. 
His fellow officers for 1930 will be: 
Vice President, Dr. J. H. Weeks, 
'18; Secretary, Frank A. Walker, 
'08 ; Treasurer, Charles F. Archam- 
bault, '12; Executive Committee, T. 

B. Baylies, '95, John B. Riddock, 
'18, and N. R. Underdown, '26. 
President Leonard, who has done 
much for the club in his term of 
office, will again be the delegate to 
the Advisory Board. 

Edmund Wood, '76, one of the 
University Trustees, introduced 
President Barbour gracefully, and A. 
H. Gurney, Alumni Secretary, and 
Francis T. Gurll, '31, quarterback 
on the Brown eleven, spoke briefly. 

C. W. Washburn, '31, was also a 
guest of the club. 

« jK # 

Boston 

As we reported in the last issue, 
the 57th annual dinner of the Brown 
Club of Boston took place at the 
University Club of Boston on Friday 
evening, Jan. 31. The program of 
the dinner, a very attractive one, ar- 
rived as the printer was calling for 
final copy. The speakers were: Pres- 
ident Barbour, Charles E. Hughes, 



Jr., '09, Solicitor General of the 
United States, and Charles P. Sis- 
son, '11, Assistant Attorney General 
of the United States. Reginald G. 
Sykes, '21, was chairman of the com- 
mittee and Mian Gulian, '23, was 
treasurer. We hope to have a com- 
prehensive account of the dinner in 
the March Monthly. 
* * * 
Dr. Barbour on Tour 

President Barbour will visit near- 
ly all of the Brown clubs this side 
of the Mississippi River during the 
next two months. Immediately after 
Visiting Day on Feb. 22, he leaves 
for Washington, where he is sched- 
uled to speak on Feb. 24. Then fol- 
low engagements with the Brown 
clubs in Philadelphia on Feb. 25, in 
Baltimore on Feb. 26 and in New 
York on Feb. 27. 

On April 7 he will visit Cleve- 
land. His next stop will be at De- 
troit on April 8, Chicago on April 
9 and St. Louis on April 10. After 
a short stay at home he will go to 
Albany on April 30, Syracuse on 
May I , Rochester on May 2 and 
Buffalo on May 3. It is also likely 
that he will be the guest of the clubs 
in Springfield, Portland and other 
cities in New England before the 
academic year is over. It is an am- 
bitious program, but he is anxious to 
meet all of the alumni and to tell 
them of the work of the University, 
as he is beginning to get acquainted 
with it in his first year in office. 



Campus News and Views 



Dr. Phelps Speaks at Brown 
Professor William Lyon Phelps of 
Yale was the speaker at the under- 
graduate convocation at Brown, Jan. 
16. All undergraduate men are re- 
quired to attend the six convocations 
of the year, which supplement the 
regular chapel exercises this year. 
Three convocations have been sched- 
uled for the First Baptist Meeting 
House and three for the Central 
Congregational Church, which is not 
far from the campus. The convoca- 



tion of Jan. 16 was at the latter 
place and the student body filled it 
to the doors. The speaker's subject 
was "The Courage of Ignorance" 
and was an eloquent and forceful 
presentation which "went over" with 
the audience. Previously, on Wed- 
nesday afternoon, Professor and Mrs. 
Phelps were entertained at a large 
tea in the Brown Union. They were 
the guests of President and Mrs. Bar- 
bour while in Providence. 

While the holding of Brown con- 
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vocations at the Central Congrega- 
tional Church may seem an innova- 
tion, it is interesting to remember 
that the first five Brown Commence- 
ments in Providence, after the re- 
moval of the college from Warren, 
were held at the Beneficent Congre- 
gational Church. 

Boston U. Drops Coaches 
Boston University has failed to re- 
engage its football coaches, "Ed" 
Robinson and 'Reggie" Brown, 
former coaches at Brown. This is 
said to be a move in the interests of 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



economy. The Boston team will be 
coached next season b\' "Al" Mar- 
sters, late of Dartmouth, and Ma- 
haney, who has been a coach at Bos- 
ton in the past. 

* • * 
Baseball Notes 

The new Brown baseball coach, 
John P. Kelleher, formerly assistant 
coach at Harvard, is due in Provi- 
dence early this month. He has been 
al his home in Brookline, ALiss., re- 
covering from an operation. 

The task before the new coach is 
not an easy one, though there is con- 
siderable good infield and outfield 
material in college. 

Battery prospects are not verj' en- 
couraging and this department will 
require a good deal of work in the 
way of development. 

* « # 

Baseball Schedule for igjo 

The Varsity baseball schedule is 
as follows, all games not otherwise 
listed to be played in Providence: 
April 12, Boston University; i6. 
Tufts at Medford ; 19, Holy Cross 
at Worcester; 23, Bates; 25, Am- 
herst at Amherst; 26, Williams at 
VVilliamstown ; 30, Colby; May 3, 
Dartmouth at Hanover ; 6, Rhode Is- 
land; 10, Holy Cross; 14, open; 17, 
Providence College; 21, Harvard at 
Cambridge; 24, Providence College; 
28, Wesleyan ; 30, Harvard; June 7, 
Syracuse; 11, Yale; 13, Dartmouth; 
14, New Hampshire at Durham; 16, 
New Hampshire. 



Notes of the Month 
On Saturday evening, Jan. 18, the 
Brown and Wellesley glee clubs gave 
a joint concert at Wellesley. Music 
for dancing after the concert was 
furnished by the Brown and White 
Orchestra. 

On Jan. 21, the dental extension 
course at Brown under the auspices 
of the Rhode Island State Dental 
Society began.. It comprised 36 hours 
of lectures, conferences, demonstra- 
tions and clinics in which faculty 
members of the Tufts College Dental 
School, the Massachusetts Commis- 
sioner of Public Health, the Division 
Directors of Health Service in that 
State and members of the Boston 
Dispensary's department of food and 



nutrition participated. 

Karl Stein, '30, has left college 
to be one of a party of four to ex- 
plore and map the unexplored wil- 
dernesses of Honduras. The party 
will be led by A. Mitchell-Hedges 
and Lady Richmond Brown, English 
explorers. Stein, who has been prom- 
inent in athletics and has served as 
stage manager of Sock and Buskin, 
expects to return to Brown next year 
to complete his work for a degree. 

Stuart Chase, economist and 
writer, gave the second Marshall 
Woods lecture of the season on 
"Your Money's Worth," Jan. 10, to 
an audience that filled Sayles Hall. 

A practical course in journalism 
for Seniors and Juniors will be given 
by the Department of English in the 
second semester by George W. Pot- 
ter of the Evening Bulletin editorial 
stafif. 

The "Genial Cynic" in the Her- 
ald humorously says: "The circula- 
tion department of this paper seems 
to be 'in a bad way. Evidently sub- 
scriptions are falling off. The answer 
to this is the new chapel system. With 
chapel only once a week, the average 
student does not see the need of pay- 
ing $5.00 for the Daily Herald." 



President Barbour's recent speak- 
ing engagements have included the 
annual dinner of the Bible Class of 
the Riverside Church in New York, 
a lunch for a special group of the 
Brown Club of New York to dis- 
cuss alumni and university topics, the 
annual meeting and dinner of the 
Brown Engineering Association at 
New York and two meetings at Mer- 
cersburg Academy, Pennsylvania. 

"Spain, Its Cities and Peoples," 
was the subject of the Mandeville 
lecture by Professor E. Allison Peers 
of the University of Liverpool at 
Brown on Jan. 17. 

Professor S. Foster Damon says 
in the Daily Herald: "In the prose 
articles the Brown Literary Quar- 
terly soars above the ordinary under- 
graduate level and rises to profes- 
sional heights." He praises in partic- 
ular the contributions of Messrs. Fro- 
hock and Scott, and adds: "If the 
entire number were on the level of 
its highest points the Quarterly would 
be in the very front rank of college 
magazines ; and in view of its im- 
provement during its brief existence, 
I can see no reason why that level 
should not be attained." 



Midwinter Contests 





J 


'arsity Basketball 




Brown 


vs. 


M. I. T. 


22-33 


Brown 


vs. 


Dartmouth 


18-47 


Brown 


vs. 


Boston Univ. 


25-19 


Browr 


L VS 


. Worcester Pol. 


36-35 


Brown 


vs. 


Williams 


26-42 


Brown 


vs. 


Amherst 


3033 


Brown 


vs. 


Wesle\an 


32-26 


Brown 


vs. 


Clark' 


29-22 


Brown 


vs. 


Conn. Aggies 


29-22 


Brown 


vs. 


Tufts 


20-39 




/ 


'arsity Swim in in ff 




Brown 


vs. 


Col. City N, Y. 


54- 8 


Brown 


vs. 


Dartmouth 


28-34 


Brown 


vs. 


Springfield 
J arsity Hockey 


45-32 


Brown 


vs. 


Boston Univ. 


3-5 


Brown 


vs. 


Northeastern 


2-0 


Brown 


vs. 


Mass. Aggies 


7-0 


Brown 


vs. 


Univ. N. Hamp. 


3-1 


Brown 


vs. 


Univ. N. Hamp. 


4-4 



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28-23 

27-19 
40-49 

37-34 



Varsity J/Vrestling 
Brown vs. Yale 

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6-26 



Brown vs. Springfield 

Varsity Track 

Brown vs. Worcester Pol. 5i/4-25}4 

Varsity Debating 

Brown vs. Princeton. Brown won by 
unanimous decision of judges. 

Freshman Basketball 
Brown '33 vs. M. 1. T. 'j,}, 
Brown '33 vs. Bridgewater 
Brown '33 vs. Harvard ' ^t, 
Brown '33 vs. Bryant & S. 
Brown '33 vs. Durfee H. S. 38-41 
Brown '33 vs. N. Attleboro 20-19 

Freshman IVrestling 

Brown '},}, vs. Yale 'a 5-31 

Brown ' ^;i, vs. Springfield '33 15-25 

Freshman Swimming 
Brown 'jiji vs. Moses Brown 
Brown '33 vs. Huntington 

Freshman Track 

Brown \^i vs. Dean Acad. 
Brown '3^ vs. Moses Brown 

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35-i« 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brunonians Far and Near 



Faculty 



Acting Dean Samuel T. Arnold 
was the Brown delegate to the i6th 
annual meeting of the Association 
of American Colleges, held in Wash- 
ington during the week of Jan. lO. 

Professor Henry T. Fowler of the 
Department of Biblical Literature 
has been named as a consultant in 
classical literature by the Geological 
Society of America. 

Professors Theodore Collier, Ver- 
ner W. Crane, Robert H. George 
and Edward C. Kirkland of the De- 
partment of History attended the 
meetings of the American Historical 
Association at Durham (Duke Uni- 
versity) and Chapel Hill (Univer- 
sity of North Carolina), N. C, from 
Dec. 30 to Jan. i. Professor Crane's 
book, "The Southern Frontier, 1670- 
1732," was published by the Duke 
University Press. 

Professor C. J. Ducasse and Dr. 
C. A. Baylis of the Department of 
Philosophy were at the meetings of 
the Eastern and Western Divisions 
of the American Philosophical Asso- 
ciation at Columbia, Dec. 30 and 31. 
Dr. Baylis read a paper on, "Mean- 
ings and Their Exemplifications," at 
one of the sessions. Dr. Ducasse was 
elected a member of the Executive 
Committee of the Association. 

Professor Harold R. Chidsey, a 
member of the Faculty since 1925, 
has resigned to become Professor of 
Philosophy and head of the depart- 
ment at Lafayette College, from 
which he was graduated in 1909. 
Before coming to Brown, Professor 
Chidsey taught at Union College, 
Harvard and Dartmouth. He has 
made a good record on College Hill 
and his colleagues, pleased at his 
promotion, nevertheless regret to see 
him go. 

Professors Benjamin C. Clough, 
John W. Spaeth, Jr., R. M. Geer, 
C. A. Robinson, Jr., Dr. John J. 
Savage, and C. A. Lynch and J. 
H. Monroe of the department of 
Greek and Latin Classics attended 
the meetings of the American Philo- 
logical Association in Boston, Dec. 
26-28. Dr. Robinson read by title 



a paper, "Alexander's Descent of 
the Indus." He has been making a 
special study of the legends concerned 
with Alexander the Great. 

Professor A. M. Banta and Dr. 
W. C. Young of the Biology Depart- 
jnent were the Brown representa- 
tives at the meetings of the Ameri- 
can Zoologists in Des Moines, la., 
during the holidays. Dr. Banta read 
a joint paper by himself and Pro- 
fessor C. A. Stuart and Dr. Young 
presented a paper of his own. 

Professor R. C. Archibald of the 
Department of Mathematics gave 
his retiring address as vice president 
and chairman of Section A of the 
American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science in Des Moines, 
la., on Dec. 30. His topic was, 
"Mathematics Before the Greeks," 
and he considered Egyptian and Baby- 
lonian mathematics used before 1 600 

B. C. 

Professor R. G. D. Richardson, 
Dean of the Graduate School, was 
re-elected secretary of the American 
Mathematical Society at its annual 
meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., Dec. 27- 
28. Papers were read at the meet- 
ing by Professors J. D. Tamarkin, 

C. R. Adams and F. C. Jonah and 
bj Dr. C. O. Oakley and A. P. Mel- 
lish of the Department of Mathemat- 
ics. Other Brown delegates were : 
Professors Albert A. Bennett, for- 
merly head of the Department of 
Mathematics at Lehigh, C. H. Cur- 
rier, R. E. Oilman, and H. S. Thurs- 
ton, D. H. Lehmer and Harold F. 
S. Jonah, instructors. 

Professor Charles Wilson Brown 
of the Department of Geology, who 
has been traveling in the Near East 
on leave of absence, was one of the 
scientists fortunate enough to be on 
hand for the public showing of the 
newly discovered skull of the "Pek- 
ing man" at Peiping, China, the last 
week in December. The experts es- 
timate that the skull is more than 
a million years old, and Roy Chap- 
man Andrews, '26, honorary, says 
that there is "no question that the 
Peking man is the most important 
discovery in the whole history of hu- 
man evolution." 

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Professor A. deF. Palmer of the 
Physics Department has been able 
this academic year to secure a num- 
ber of prominent outside speakers for 
the department's weekly colloquia. 
The speakers have included Pro- 
fessors Struik, Vallarta and Muller 
of M. I. T., and R. Bruce Lindsay, 
'20, of Yale. During the summer 
Professors Palmer, H. E. Farns- 
worth and C. E. Bennett worked on 
problems of "Elliptically Polarized 
Light," "Electron Diffraction" and 
"Gaseous Refractive Indices," re- 
spectively. The work was done with 
the cooperation of H. L. Andrews, 
Coffin Fellow and graduate student 
in physics, and M. L. Williams, 
Chase Fellow. 

Professor C. W. Miller of the 
Physics Department is giving a 
course of lectures on astronomy at 
Gordon Theological College, Bos- 
ton, supplementing a course in phy- 
sics, which he gave there last year. 

Professor John W. ' Spaeth, Jr., 
arranged an unusually interesting 
display of editions of Virgil, which 
was shown in the exhibition room of 
the John Hay Library from Dec. 19 
to Jan. 19. 

Professors John E. Hill and 
Leigh ton T. Bohl and W. R. Ben- 
ford, instructor, of the Division of 
Engineering, attended the annual 
convention of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers in New York during 
the week of Jan. 13. 



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1867 

The Alumni Office records with 
regret the death of George A. Bacon 
in Atlantic City, N. J., on Jan. 14, 
1930. An account of his life will 
appear in the next issue. 

.866 

Aurin Bugbee Nichols, who took a 
special course in engineering with the 
class, died at his home in Philadel- 
pha, Dec. 15, 1929. He was one of 
the engineers in charge of the survey 
for the proposed Nicaragua canal and 
was later an engineer with the Isth- 
mian Canal Commission, which built 
the Panama Canal. Nichols was 
born in Charlton, Mass., Nov. 10, 
1845, the son of Thomas and Tir- 




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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



zah (Lamson) Nichols. He studied 
in the public schools and under pri- 
vate tutors before entering Brown, 
where he remained a little more than 
a year. In November, 1863, he re- 
ceived a diploma as a civil engineer, 
and then went with the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. After a career with other 
railroads and with the Government, 
he began business for himself. In 
1899 he became a division engineer 
with the Isthmian Canal Commis- 
sion and, except for two brief inter- 
vals when he was engaged in other 
government work, remained with 
the Commission until 1914. At the 
time of his retirement he was office 
engineer. 

1863 

John Jenckes Holmes, veteran of 
the Civil War, died in Providence, 
Dec. 16, 1929, after a two weeks' ill- 
ness. Holmes was born in Smith- 
field, R. I., Jan. 28, 1842, the son of 
Thomas Dresser and Hannah C. 
(Jenckes) Holmes. He prepared at 
Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, 
Conn., and Dudley Academy, Dud- 
ley, Mass., and in May of his Junior 
year at Brown left college to enlist 
as a private in Company K, Tenth 
Rhode Island Volunteers. He was 
mustered) out in September, 1862, 
and returned to his studies. After 
graduation he taught for two years 
at Woodstock Academy. From 1865 
until his retirement years ago he had 
been in business as a dealer in build- 
ing materials. He was married Jan. 
28, 1867, to Miss Ellen Augusta 
Howe and to them six children were 
born. Five survive. Miss Alice S. 
Holmes, Mrs. Warren D. Kent, 
Mrs. Walter T. Anthony, John J. 
Holmes, Jr., and Howard S. Holmes. 
Holmes was a member of Slocum 
Post, G. A. R., which he served as 
Commander for two terms, and of 
Chi Psi. 

1872 

John Carter Brown Woods, trus- 
tee of the University since 1884, died 
at his home in Providence on Jan. 
2, 1930, following an attack of pneu- 
monia. "He was a faithful worker, 
a loyal citizen, a true servant of his 
city and state,' and long ago proved 
himself a fine scholar at that ancient 
university for which his family did 
so much and that he loved so well, 
asking nothing in return save the 
privilege of service," President Emer- 



itus Faunce said of him. Woods was 
born in Providence, June 12, 1 851, 
the son of Marshall and Anne Brown 
(Francis) Woods. He prepared for 
college under the Rev. Charles H. 
Wheeler and, after receiving his A. 
B. at Brown, went to Harvard Law 
School, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1874. He took his A. M. at 
Brown a year later. He had been a 
practicing member of the Rhode Is- 
land bar since 1874; in 1927 he be- 
came an honorary member of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association in 
recognition of his long and honorable 
career. For many years he was ac- 
tive in city and state affairs, serving 
as president of the Providence Com- 
mon Council, on the Providence 
School Committee, and in the Rhode 
Island General Assembly. He also 
held numerous State offices and was 
a leading figure in the activities of 
the Rhode Island Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals, the 
Charitable Baptist Society, the Rhode 
Island Society. Sons of the American 
Revolution, and other organizations. 
He was one of the founders of the 
Hope Club and its president from 
1892 to 1898. He belonged to many 
other clubs and societies, but in re- 
cent years had not been active in any 
of them. 

Members of Woods's family have 
been connected with Brown since the 
beginnings of the University. John 
Brown and Nicholas Brown, his 
great-great-grandfathers, were incor- 
porators. Nicholas Brown, a great- 
grandfather, was a trustee and a fel- 
low. John Brown Francis, his 
grandfather on the maternal side, 
was a trustee and then Chancellor. 
Alva Woods, his paternal grand- 
father, was a professor, President ad 
interim, 1826-27, a trustee and a fel- 
low. His father, Marshall Woods, 
founder of the lectureship bearing his 
name, was a trustee and also treas- 
urer of the University. Woods him- 
self, besides serving as a trustee, was 
secretary of the Corporation for 
many years. He gave up this place 
in 19 16, because of increasing deaf- 
ness. He was president of Rhode 
Island Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, for 
two terms and was otherwise prom- 
inent in the work of the chapter. He 
was the author of "John Carter and 
His Descendants" and was a frequent 
contributor to genealogical publica- 
tions concerning the Woods, Mar- 
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shall, Francis and Brown families. 
His fraternity was Zeta Psi. 

1874 
Charfes Adolphus Cadwell, spe- 
cial student with the class for two 
years, died in Springfield, Mass., last 
July 2, the Alumni Office has 
learned. Cadwell was born in South- 
ington, Conm, June I, 185 1, the son 
of Birdsey and Martha (Neal) Cad- 
well. He entered Brown from the 
Connecticut Literary Institute, now 
Suffield School, and was a member 
of Sigma Phi in college. For most 
of the years of his life after leaving 
the Hill he followed the profession of 
funeral director. He was married 
Sept. 22, 1875, to Eloise Baker Wil- 
liams, and there were two children, 
Mabel, who became Mrs. H. F. Hol- 
comb, and Paul S. W. Cadwell. 

1876 

Richard H. Tingley, the famous 
crossword puzzle expert, is the au- 
thor of a pamphlet, "What Are the 
Railroads Worth?" which was re- 
cently published by the Bureau of 
Railway News and Statistics, Chi- 
cago. The sub-title, "Why Current 
Methods of Valuation are Valueless," 
gives Tingley s point of view suc- 
cinctly. 

Cromwell Turner Schubarth, re- 
tired merchant, died in Roxbury, 
Mass., Dec. 30, 1929. He was born 
in Providence, March 26, 1856, the 
son of Niles B. and Elizabeth C. 
(Read) Schubarth. He prepared at 
Providence High School and after re- 
ceiving his Ph. B. with the class went 
into business as a civil engineer and 
architect. In 1878 he migrated to 
Minnesota and stayed about a year. 
On his return East he settled in Bos- 
ton, where, for many years, he was 
associated with the E. T. Cowdrey 
Co., preservers and importers of table 
delicacies. He was treasurer and 
general manager of the company for 
more than a quarter century. His 
hobbies were verse and music; he 
wrote numerous poems for the en- 
joyment of himself and his friends 
and was also the composer of what 
he liked to call "simple songs, with 
words, both patriotic and sentimen- 
tal." Some of these songs were writ- 
ten after he passed his 60th birth- 
day. He was married Oct. 17, 1883, 
to Miss Katharine D. Cowdrey, who 
died several years ago. He is sur- 
vived by three daughters. Miss Kath- 




IQ Rubicon 




The Gallic wars over, Gaul reduced to a 
peaceful Roman province and his term as Pro- 
consul about to expire, Julius Caesar had de- 
cisions to make. It was the bleak winter of 
60-49 B.C. but Julius Caesar chafed in his 
Thirteenth Legion's camp at Ravenna, south- 
ernmost city of Cisalpine Gaul. Events at 
Rome disturbed him. The old triumvirate, 
Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, had ended with Cras- 
sus' death, and now world-conquering Pompey 
had Asia, Africa, Spain and Italy at his feet. 
Caesar, supreme only in Gaul, but counting 
on the devotion of his Legions, braced himself 
for an inevitable conflict. As TIME, had it 
been published on the Ides of January, 49 B.C., 
would have reported subsequent events : 

. . . To Julius Caesar came travel-stained Tribunes 
Mark Antony and Quintus Cassius Longinus, bearing 
bad news: On January 7th, the Senate, intimidated 
by Pompey's partisans, had declared Caesar guilty of 
high treason if he did not at once resign his Pro- 
consulship of Gaul, disband his legions. For seeking 
to exercise their traditional right of veto, they, Trib- 
unes Antony and Cassius, had been hounded from 
Rome by Pompey's soldiery. As they blurted out 
their story, long-nosed Caesar listened quietly, smiled 
faintly. Then sharply, he issued orders to the Cen- 
turions of the Thirteenth Legion. 

Soon foot soldiers in small groups set out for 
fateful Ariminum (30 miles away), first Roman city 
beyond the Gallic frontier. Caesar himself feasted 
and dined until mid-evening, then suddenly he left 

Cultivated Americans, impatient with 
turn increasingly to publications edited 
tions, fair-dealing, vigorously impartial, 
in the sense that they report what they 



the banquet hall, leapea lo a cnariot, drove speedily 
southward, his cavalry thundering behind. 

Soon he came to the banks of the little river 
Rubicon, hardly more than a stream. At the ford, 
Gaul-Governor Caesar paused until his horsemen 
caught up. Here was the frontier he might not legally 
cross — in arms, and accompanied by his legions. Caesas 
knew that five thousand of his foot soldiers were 
already well across the Rubicon, well on their way 
to Ariminum, but a touch of drama was necessary to 
weld his cavalrymen still closer to him, to nourish 
the fast-swelling Caesar legend. So, slowly, earnestly, 
he spoke: "My trends, if I pass not this river im- 
mediately, it will be for me the beginning of all mis- 
fortunes (a murmur from the ranks), and if I do pass 
it, I go to make a world of people miserable." (a 
cheer from the ranks). For an instant he hesitated, 
seemingly lost in thought, then suddenly drove his 
chariot through the shallow stream, crying in a deep 
voice "Let the die be cast!"... 

Two hours later Caesar overtook his foot soldiers 
at Ariminum, and by sun-up invested the surrounding 
countryside. Soon fleeing peasants were carrying to 
Rome inspired rumors that great Caesar with al! his 
Legions was coming to avenge himself on Pompeius 
Magnus. Rome gasped in horror, remembering all 
too vividly the butcheries of too-recent civil strife 
between Marians and Sullans 

So too, in succeeding issues, would TIME 
have reported how Caesar drove Pompey out 
of Rome, then, relentlessly, out of Italy; how 
after four years of bitter civil war throughout 
the Empire, Caesar returned to Rome trium- 
phant, master of the civilized world — until 
assassinated six months later. 

cheap sensationalism and windy bias, 

in the historical spirit. These publica- 

devote themselves to the public weal 

see, serve no masters, fear no groups. 



TIME 

The Weekly Newsmagazine 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



arine M. Schubarth, Miss Helen 
Schubarth and Mrs. Walter C. Eber- 
hard, and a sister, Mrs. Stephen 
Greene. His fraternity was Delta 
L^psilon. 



Samuel W. Culver, qorporation 
specialist, has changed his office ad- 
dress to 44 School Street, Rooms 
410-11, Boston. Culver is living at 
39 Grover Avenue, Winthrop, Mass. 

1883 
"Teachers of Knox College," a 
booklet recently sent out from Gales- 
burg, 111., contains an excellent pic- 
ture of William E. Simonds, who 
has been at Knox since 1889, first as 
teacher of English and now as Dean. 
He "has been not only teacher but 
guide and friend to more than forty 
classes," said the booklet. 

1885 

Dr. and Mrs. Harlan P. Abbott 
have changed their residence to 15 
Diman Place, Providence. 

1886 

William Allan Dyer is chairman 
of the Syracuse, N. Y., Ciiamber of 
Commerce committee which is work- 
ing for a municipal auditorium in 
Syracuse and at the same time trying 
to find the most suitable site for it. 

1887 

Dr. Charles L. White has retired 
as executive secretary of the Ameri- 
can Baptist Home Mission Society 
after twenty-one years of efficient 
service. His office staff gave him a 
traveling case at the time of his fare- 
well. 



Mrs. Wendna Osborne Pinkham, 
wife of the Rev. Henry W. Pinkham, 
died at Newton Hospital, Newton, 
Mass., on Jan. 8, after an illness of 
nearly two months. Mrs. Pinkham, 
a native of Denver, Col., was secre- 
tary of the Massachusetts Civic 
League and for many years was a 
leading welfare worker in Massachu- 
setts. 

1890 

Professor Lyman C. Newell, head 
of the Department of Chemistry at 
Boston University, has received from 
Giessen University, Giessen, Ger- 
many, the Justus von Liebig Medal 



in recognition of his many years of 
study and contribution to the field of 
historical chemistry. Newell has 
been prominent in the work of the 
American Chemical Society and at 
present is chairman of the division of 
history and chemistry, as well as a 
vice president of the societ\'. 

Dr. and IVIrs. Harry L. (jrant 
left Providence, Jan 22, for a trip 
to Honolulu, expecting to be absent 
three months or more. 

1894 

President John Hope of Atlanta 
University has received a gold medal 
and a $400 honorarium from the 
William E. Harmon Foundation for 
his work "in promoting college edu- 
cation among negroes in the South." 
President Hope became head of At- 
lanta University last year, following 
a merger of Spellman College for 
Women, Morehouse College for 
Men, and Atlanta L^niversity, a 
graduate school. "Nine heads of 
other negro colleges have been grad- 
uated from Morehouse during the 
time Dr. Hope has been associated 
with the college," the Harmon re- 
port said in making the citation. 

1896 

Dr. George A. Matteson has 
given up his practice in Providence 
and is settled with his family at 824 
W. Magnolia Avenue, San Antonio, 
Tex. He will remain in San An- 
tonio until June and then come north 
to Saunderstown, R. I., for the sum- 
mer. 

Carleton Hale was visiting old 
friends in Providence during the 
Christmas holidays. Hale is with the 
United Fruit Company, with his 
headquarters at Banes, Oriente, 
Cuba. 

1897 

Arthur M. McCrillis is chairman 
of the committee of correspondence 
and safety of the national organiza- 
tion of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. The purpose of the 
committee, according to an article in 
the Providence Sunday Journal, is 
"to arouse the public to a realization 
of the need and wisdom of national 
defense and of the dangers from anti- 
American and ultra-radical move- 
ments." 

Walter D. Phillips reports that 
his new mail address is Park and Ox- 
ford Roads, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

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Rev. Walter R. Tourtellot, for 
the past 16 years rector of St. John's 
Episcopal Church, Taunton, Mass., 
has taken up his new work as rector 
cf the Church of the Holy Trinity in 
Marlboro, Mass. 

1899 

A note from Dr. Bernard C. Ewer 

of the Faculty of Pomona College, 
California, came to the Alumni Of- 
fice last month from Ginling College, 
Nanking, China. Ewer did not say 
what he was doing in the far coun- 
try, but he did remind us that his 
temporary address would be in care 
of the American Express Company, 
Naples, Italy. We suspect a sab- 
batic year. 

1900 

Dr. Frederick V. Hussey has been 
reelected chairman of the executive 
committee for Rhode Island of the 
American College of Surgeons. Dr. 
Charles O. Cooke, '99, will again act 
as secretary of the committee. 

1901 

Irving L. Woodman is teaching 
mathematics in the Lawrence School, 
Hewlett, L. I., but his house address 
continues to be 340 West 55th Street, 
New York. Woodman had thirty- 
nine boys at his Camp Wildmere, 
Long Lake, Harrison, Me., last sum- 
mer. 

1903 

Leslie R. Hicks, recently report- 
ed as having returned from South 
America to continue his work as 
electrical engineer in Springfield, 
Mass., has set up his household goods 
at 21 Maple Road, Longmeadow, 
Mass. 

Louis F. Baker is manager of the 
Baltimore office of Remington-Rand, 
Inc. Baker's son, George T. Baker, 
2d, is studying at a school near Balti- 
more with the intention of taking 
the examinations for the United 
States Naval Academy. 

1904 

H. N. (Ray) Otis is with the An- 
aconda Wire & Cable Co., 25 Broad- 
way, New York, and is commuting 
between his office and Pomander 
Walk, Teaneck, N. J. 

Artiiur L. Young has begun his 
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Board of Education. In that time 
Young has seen remarkable changes 
in rural schools and methods of teach- 
ing. 

John F. (Jack) Woodman is still 
finding life agreeable out in the great 
open spaces of the Flying V Ranch, 
Wj'oming, where he entertains east- 
ern "dudes." During last summer 
he had seven boys from the East 
among his guests. 

1905 
Dr. Leonard E. Norris, a special 
student with the class in our Fresh- 
man year, died in Providence on Jan. 
13, 1930, of pneumonia. He was 
born in Providence, Oct. 3, 1884, 
the son of Edward and Maria J. 
(Dolan) Norris. He came to Brown 
from the Classical High School and, 
after taking a few courses on the 
Hill to fit him for the study of medi- 
cine, went to Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege, Philadelphia, from which he re- 
ceived his M. D. He had practiced 
in Providence since 1907. 

A memorial service to Rev. Wil- 
lard L. Pratt, who died Dec. 5, 1929, 
was held by the Boston Ministers' 
Conference shortly before the holi- 
days. "Mr. Pratt gained a strong 
hold on the community by his sin- 
cere kindheartedness and helpful- 
ness," said the speaker, Frank Brier, 
treasurer of the city of Boston. "Hh 
pastorate for nine years was the long- 
est in the history of the Stoughton 
Street (Baptist) Church." 
1906 
Alexander M. Burgess, Jr., mem- 
ber of the Freshman Class on the 
Hill, got his name in the newspapers 
recently by reason of the fact that he 
is the fourth generation of his family 
to enter Brown. Alexander Burgess, 
his great grandfather, was graduated 
in 1838, his grandfather, Thomas 
Burgess, in 1870, and his father in 
our class. We hope that he will 
maintain the Burgess tradition in 
scholarship and friendliness. 
1907 
Zach Chafee discussed one of his 
pet subjects, "Should We Abolish 
Capital Punishment?" at the Y. M. 
C. A. Forum in Lynn, Mass., on 
Feb. 2. 

Bill Burnham reports receipt of a 
long letter from George Burnham, 
who returned to the Philippines last 
summer after his first visit home in 
ten years. Bill says that it is a fine 
letter and that he intends to pass it 
along for other members of the class 
to read. 

We have heard indirectly that H. 
Duane Bruce continues to keep cheer- 
ful and active as corporation counsel 
for the city of Syracuse, N. Y., where 



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the Brown football eleven will ap- 
pear next fall. Bruce's stepson is a 
student at Dartmouth. 

1908 

Chris Greene came up from Vir- 
ginia to spend the Christmas holidays 
in Providence and was greeted by a 
number of the class at a dinner at 
the University Club on Monday eve- 
ning, Jan. 6. Discussion of politics, 
religion. Brown athletics and Brown 
educational policies proved so inter- 
esting that the party did not break 
up until late. In addition to Chris, 
those present included Bill Walker, 
Norm Sammis, Jack Cooney, Frank 
Mason, Harry Jager, Jimmie Mur- 
ray, Earl BuUock and Jim Hall. 

Hap Hazard and his numerous 
family appear to be fair and flour- 
ishing, according to Chris Greene. 
Hap is Assistant State Forester of 
Virginia, with offices at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia, Charlottesville. 
Hap, in fact, is just si.x miles from 
Ivy Depot, where Chris tends his 
peach and apple orchards. 

Bob Burgess, chief statistician. 
Western Electric Company, New 
York, has written a chapter, "Re- 
search for General Administration," 
in the new book entitled, "Scientific 
Management in American Industry." 

Joe Vernon's present house ad- 
dress is Heights Road, Allendale, N. 
J. Joe is in the life insurance busi- 
ness at 225 Broadway, New York, 
with trusts and tax service as his 
specialties. 

1909 

The Bucknell Alumni Monthly 
for December said editorially: "Buck- 
nellians will welcome the return of 
Professor Clarence R. Johnson to his 
regular teaching post next semester. 
Professor Johnson has been kept out 
this semester by illness which started 
last spring. At present he is conval- 
escing at Saranac Lake, N. Y. . . . 
Professor Johnson's genial personal- 
ity, his quick sympathies and his tol- 
erant understanding of student prob- 
lems have been severely missed this 
past fall." 

Chauncey Wheeler's law firm 
with which he has been so long as- 
sociated as a partner has now changed 
its name to include his own and reads 
Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast, Phil- 
lips and Wheeler, 2200 Industrial 
Trust Bldg., Providence. 



The Vineyard Gazette of Mar- 
tha's Vineyard, Mass., published in 
the issue of Dec. 13, 1929, a story on 
Johnny Mayhew under the heading 
"Interesting Vineyarders." The ac- 
count is quite complete, reporting 
John's short venture in selling life in- 
surance, his teaching and coaching 
activities at Louisiana State Univer- 
sity, service in the Philippine Con- 
stabulary and finally association with 
the Standard Oil Company of New 
York in the East. 

1910 

A New Year's card revealed the 
fact that Steve Pyle and Mrs. Pyle 
are still in Europe, to which they 
went on their honeymoon several 
months ago. "We're staying on this 
side longer than we anticipated," 
Steve said in a note from Geneva, 
Switzerland. We also read with real 
interest the Christmas letter that 
Steve sent from Geneva to the people 
of his parish in Rock Springs, Wy- 
oming. 

Dick Allen is a member of the 
Child Welfare Committee named by 
President Hoover and will serve on 
the sub-committee having to do with 
educational and vocational guidance. 
At a meeting in Providence not long 
ago, Dick outlined his scheme of a 
"central clearing house for human 
abilities," which, he told his hearers, 
was needed to cope with the prob- 
lems of educational and vocational 
adjustment of adults. 

1911 

Charles M. King, after a year in 
the West, has come back East and is 
now bursar and business manger of 
Hackley School, Tarrytown, N. Y. 

Arthur Kiernan is doing corpora- 
tion work with the Detroit and Se- 
curity Trust Co., and is living at 
8100 E. Jefferson Avenue, Detroit. 

Rev. William I. Hastie is pastor 
of the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church, Coffeyville, Kan., which 
town, if we mistake not, sent Walter 
Johnson, the baseball pitcher, out into 
the world to make history. 

Edwin C. Bosworth is dean of 
Benjamin Franklin University, a 
school of accountancy and business 
administration, which occupies part 
of the Transportation bldg., 17th 
and H sts., N. W., Washington, 
D. C. 

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Harry R. Westcott, head of West- 
cott & Mapes, consulting engineers, 
New Haven, Conn., spoke at the Jan- 
uary meeting of the Providence Engi- 
neering Society on the subject, "Econ- 
omies of New England from an Engi- 
neer's Point of View." 

1912 

John T. Winterich was the subject 
of a happy paragraph by Alexander 
WooUcott in the January 1 1 issue of 
the New Yorker. "He has emerged 
in recent years as a bibliophile of no 
little learning, humor, and renown," 
Woollcott wrote, and added that 
John was a headline writer second to 
none when he and Woollcott were on 
The Stars and Stripes, the A. E. F. 
newspaper, in France during the war. 
John's three books on book collecting, 
as we have said on other occasions, 
are worth owning. 

Max Grant was host to a compli- 
mentary dinner given Arthur Newell 
at the University Club in Providence 
on Dec. 9. Max did everything up 
in his most delightful way, and Art 
gave us a fine talk on his activities 
at Robert College and about condi- 
tions in general in Turkey and the 
Near East. Present, in addition to 
the host and guest, were Kip Chace, 
Earl Perkins, Wyman Pendleton, 
Tom McGreen, Leo Cohen, Walter 
Allen, Karl Humphrey, Howard 
Williamson, Ken Tanner, Harold 
Salisbury, "Rosy" Parker, Sam Na- 
thanson, John McLaughlin, Preston 
Hood, "Pete" Guillemette, George 
Brewster, Willard Anthony, Ernest 
Kilcup and Roy Jencks. 

1913 

Dr. Louis I. Newman, for the past 
five years rabbi of Temple Emanu-el, 
San Francisco, was elected rabbi of 
the congregation Rodeph Sholom in 
New York last month. Newman has 
made an enviable record as preacher 
and civic leader since he has been on 
the Pacific Coast. 

We extend our felicitations to 
Benjamin M. McLyman^Ben to all 
of us — on his election to the post of 
Attorney General of Rhode Island. 
Ben succeeds Oscar L. Heltzen, 'o4n. 
He entered the Attorney General's 
Department in 1925 as Third Assist- 
ant and became First Assistant last 
August. 

1914 

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ative in the Rhode Island General 
Assembly from Narragansett, is re- 
covering from an operation for ap- 
pendicitis. Fritz was stricken shortly 
after the House adjourned one day 
last month and was taken at once to 
the Jane Brown Memorial Hospital 
in Providence. 

David C. Adelman is the new re- 
porting clerk of the Rhode Island 
House of Representatives, now in ses- 
sion. 

Louis Bagnall's father, Joseph 
Bagnall, for many years a manufac- 
turing jeweler in North Attleboro, 
Mass., died in North Attleboro on 
Dec. 24, 1929. 

1915 

Frank Frost's sudden death in 
Washington, D. C, Dec. 21, 1929, 
was a shock. The cause was a rup- 
tured appendix. Frank was born 
Franklin Blaine Frost in Tiverton, 
R. I., Aug. 20, 1892, the son of Wil- 
liam I. and Lillian G. (Fuller) 
Frost. He came to Brown from the 
B. M. C. Durfee High School, Fall 
River, Mass., and as an undergrad- 
uate, won election to Phi Beta Kap- 
pa and was first speaker at the Class 
Tree. From Brown he entered Har- 
vard Law School. The war inter- 
rupted his course ; he left law school 
to go to the first officers' training 
camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., where he 
won a commission as second lieuten- 
ant in the Quartermaster's Corps. 
He started in the transport service, 
served nine months overseas and re- 
ceived his honorable discharge from 
the Army with the rank of first lieu- 
tenant. He went back to Harvard, 
from which he was graduated with 
an LL. B. in 192 1. After his ad- 
mission to the Rhode Island bar, he 
practiced first with Huddy, Emerson 
& Moulton and then alone. In Jan- 
uary, 1925, he became a student in 
the Foreign Service School, Washing- 
ton, and was one of the graduates 
the following September. His first 
assignment was to the position of 
vice consul at Tangier. In 1926 he 
was promoted to third secretary in 
the diplomatic service and sent to 
Santo Domingo. He returned to 
Washington last spring, after two 
years of duty in Santo Domingo, and 
was in the main office of the State 
Department, with European relations 
as his particular field, when his final 
illness overtook him. Frank is sur- 



vived by his parents and a brother. 
He was a member of Theta Delta 
Chi. 

E. C. Sydney tells us that his 
house address for the present is 884 
Riverside Drive, New York. 

R. A. (Rod) Gillis has become a 
partner in the firm of Borton & 
Borton, 1326 Hanna bldg., Cleve- 
land, O., one of the oldest stock and 
bond houses in the city. The Cleve- 
land Plain Dealer, announcing the 
news, said that Rod "has been active 
in Cleveland Bond Club affairs, serv- 
ing as secretary for some time, and 
is now a member of the Board of 
Governors. He is a sports lover and 
horseback riding is among his diver- 
sions." 

1916 

Francis W. Rollins has been pro- 
moted to Lieutenant Colonel and 
made second in command of the new 
regiment, One Hundred and Third 
Field Artillery, Rhode Island Na- 
tional Guard. Rollins joined Battery 
A — the old Brown battery — as a pri- 
vate in March, 191 5, and after the 
World ,War returned to the unit as 
its captain. 

1917 

Arthur Finch's new address is 158 
Solida Avenue, Tulare, Cal. 

Otis Fuller is an engineer with 
the New Bedford Rayon Co., New 



Bedford, Mass., and is living at 27 
Green Street, Fairhaven, Mass. 

1918 

Bill Higgins has joined the Electric 
Bond Si Share Company as auditor 
on the foreign traveling staff, with 2 
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office. Bill went with the Associated 
Gas & Electric Co., after leaving the 
Harvard School of Business Admini- 
stration in 1926 and was in the of- 
fice of the treasurer for three years 
before resigning to go to his present 
job. 

Rube Chase, John Riddock and 
Wardwell Leonard represented the 
class at the annual dinner of the 
Brown Club of New Bedford, Mass., 
held at the Tabitha Inn, Fairhaven, 
Jan. 14. President Barbour was the 
guest of honor. Leonard will again 
lead the club this year, and an ex- 
cellent leader he is proving to be. 

Jim Bennett's father, the Rev. Ed- 
mund Cooke Bennett, rector of St. 
Albans Episcopal Church of Centre- 
dale, R. I., for 24 years, died in 
Providence Jan. 11, 1930, shortly be- 
fore he was to undergo a major oper- 
ation. Mr. Bennett's three sons are 
all Brown men. In addition to Jim, 
they are Edmund J. Bennett, '23, and 
Kingsley L. B. Bennett, '25. 

Winn W. Chase has moved from 
North Dighton, Mass., to 27 Brae- 
more Road, Upper Montclair, N. J., 
but he doesn't intimate what he is 
doing in that select section of Jersey. 

George Heidt is comfortably 
settled, we understand, in his new 
office at Riverside Drive and I22d 
Street, New York, where the River- 
side Church, of which Rev. Dr. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick, '19, honor- 
ary, is minister and Rev. Eugene C. 
Carder, '07, is assistant minister, is 
situated. George is the business 
manager of the church. 

1919 

Ralph Nichols is working for 
The Bradstreet Company, with his 
headquarters at loig Industrial 
Trust Bldg., Providence. Ken Flan- 
ders, '17, is manager of the office. 

Roger T. Clapp became a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Hinckley, 
Allen, Tillinghast, Phillips & Wheel- 
er (every name is that of a Brown 
graduate) the first of this year. The 
offices of the firm are at 2200 Indus- 
trial Trust bldg.. Providence. 

Edgar J. Lanpher was reelected 
recorder of Alpha Delta Phi at the 
98th annual convention of the na- 
tional fraternity at Portland, Me., 
last month. 

"Billboards were attacked as haz- 
ards of safety here today by James 



S. Eastham, Assistant Attorney Gen- 
eral," began an Associated Press des- 
patch from Boston one day in De- 
cember. Jim argued that the State 
police didn't like the boards because 
of the menace to the view on the high- 
ways, that the fire authorities called 
them fire hazards and that "the space 
behind billboards was also used for 
parking by drinkers and 'petting par- 
ties'." 

Jack Haley's first book, "The Old 
Stone Bank History of Rhode Is- 
land," has been published. A good 
looking volume it is, and very read- 
able. The material deals with Rhode 
Island personages and vivid facts of 
Rhode Island history, and Jack has 
set it down humanly and pictur- 
esquely. 

1920 

Wes Dedrick reports that he is a 
member of the sales force of the E. 
F. Hanserman Co., 140 South Dear- 
born Street, Chicago, 111. 

Eric Jackson, winner of one of the 
American Field Service Fellowships 
for French Universities, is hard at 
work at L'Institut de Geographic Al- 
pine, University of Grenoble. France, 
under Professor Rauul Blanchard. 

1921 

Brayton Eddy is once more on the 
lecture circuit, according to clippings 
that we receive every little while. 
The last clipping, recited the fact that 
Brayton spoke on "The Personality 
of In.sects," his favorite topic, before 
the Women's Club at Winston-Salem, 
N. C, early in January. "One of 
the most interesting and instructive 
lectures to be heard at the club for 
some period of time," wrote the re- 
porter of the Winston-Salem Sen- 
tinel. 

1922 

Phil Brown, who is working for 
his Ph. D. in economics at Harvard, 
is associate director of Camp Wild- 
mere. Long Lake, Harrison, Me., 

during the summer months. 

William J. Harper, since last 
September superintendent of schools 
in Bristol, R. I., became chief proba- 
tion officer of the Children's Court, 
Westchester County, New York, the 
first of this month. Harper made a 
record for himself as probation offi- 
cer in Rhode Island before he re- 
signed last July to go to Bristol. 



We had a striking Christmas card 
from Milt Bates, but we were not 
able to decipher the Chinese on it 
Milt is at Harbin, China, still work 
ing for the National City Bank of 
New York. 

Paul Chalmers is with the S. S. 
Kresge Co., Trenton, N. J., and is 
living at 30 N. Overbrook Avenue, 
Trenton. 

Horace B. Pray is doing research 
work in chemistry for E. I. duPont 
de Nemours & Co., Wilmington. 
Del. 

Bill Prentiss's business address is 
in care of the Hodge Finishing Co., 
East Dedham, Mass. 

Eddie Day is the new First Assist- 
ant Attorney General of Rhode Is- 
land, having been named to the of- 
fice last month by Attorney General 
McLyman, '13. Eddie became a 
member of the Rhode Island bar in 
1925, and for the past year has been 
Clerk of the Eighth District Court 
in Cranston, his home city. 

Stan Holt's address in Australia is 
the Commonwealth Bank of Austra- 
lia, Sydney, New South Wales. Stan 
is out there, as we have noted pre- 
viously, working for the J. Walter 
Thompson Company, advertising. 

George T. Slavin, for the past five 
years a member of the city staff of 
the Providence Tribune, has joined 
the stafif of the Greenwich., Conn., 
News and Graphic. George and 
Mrs. Slavin (the marriage is re- 
ported in another column) are liv- 
ing at 7 East Elm Street, Greenwich. 

Art Merewether, they say, is learn" 
ing to be an aviator at one of the fly- 
ing fields in Texas. If Art gets so 
that he can handle an airplane as he 
used to handle grounders around sec- 
ond base, he can ask us to fly with 
him at any time. 

1923 

George Johnstone, recently re- 
ported missing at the Alumni Office, 
has turned up with his old smile and 
all at 59 Wall Street, New York, 
where he is with Brown Brothers & 
Co., investments. 

What has become of George 
Leddy? We haven't heard anything 
about George in at least an age. We 
know he received his LL. B. at 
Georgetown, but since then he has 
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cronies will give us a fact or two 
about him and his present where- 
abouts. 

Dr. A. L. (Tony) Loiacono is 
now on the staff of the Truesdale 
Hospital, Fall River, Mass. 

Anybody seen or heard from Tom 
Dustin lately? The Alumni office 
would appreciate a report as to his 
whereabouts. 

1924 

Curt Dalton's new address is 26 
Auburn Street, Melrose Highlands, 
Mass. Curt was recently transferred 
from Gardner, Mass., to the Boston 
office of the Heywood Wakefield 
Co., with which he is traveling audi- 
tor. He has two boys eligible for 
the classes of 1948 and 1950, respec- 
tively, at Brown. 

Dick Bien is professor of physics 
this year at Northeastern University, 
Mukden, China. Dick went to Muk- 
den in 1926 to teach in the Univer- 
sity and the promotion to a profes- 
sorship is the result of his good work. 
He is a member of the Science So- 
ciety of China. 

Herb Lamson was the author of a 
signed article, "The Yangtzepoo So- 
cial Centre and Its Work," which 
appeared in the Shanghai, China, Sun- 
day Times of Nov. 17, 1929. Herb 
is in the Sociolog>' Department of 
Shanghai College and is active in the 
development and progress of the So- 
cial Centre. Mrs. Lamson is work- 
ing with him. In a Christmas letter 
to President Faunce, she said that 
"work goes on smoothly here in 
Shanghai, despite wars and rumors 
of wars all about us." 

Bill Butler is still in Java, doing 
advertising in that far-off country 
for the General Motors Export Cor- 
poration. 

Frank Hough and Phil Lukin are 
now in the trade paper business, we 
hear, in addition to their duties with 
Charles Austin Bates, Inc., advertis- 
ing, New York. Phil is vice president 
of the Bates organization and Frank 
is secretary. Their new paper is The 
Advertising Printer, the sales and cre- 
ative magazine of the printing indus- 
try. 

1925 

Howard Weeks has become assist- 
ant advertising manager of the Con- 
solidated Gas Company of New York. 



Harry Abramson has begun his du- 
ties as principal of the Centre Mor- 
iches, N. Y., High School, and in 
addition is working for his master's 
degree at Columbia. 

Otto Burkard, former member of 
the class, has become a member of 
the law firm of Burkard & Burkard, 
with offices at 1832 Myrtle Avenue, 
Ridgewood, N. Y. Burkard took his 
law degree at the Brooklyn Law 
School. 

1926 

Stuart P. Cooke's new address is 
1757 1-2 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, 
Cal. 

Rowland Keach was a recent visit- 
or to the Alumni Office. Keach is 
with the Puritan Life Insurance 
Company, 410 Turks Head Bldg., 
Providence. 

Looks as if Ollie Rodman were de- 
veloping into an author. We have 
seen articles on hunting by Ollie in 
recent issues of the Boston Transcript 
and the Providence Sunday Journal. 
Wes Wright is sales correspondent 
in the foreign department of the 
Union Carbon & Carbide Co., 30 
East 42d Street. Wes decided that 
business was the thing for him after 
three successful years as a teacher at 
St. George's School, Newport, R. I. 
John Talbot, who is teaching Eng- 
lish and coaching various teams at 
Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass., 
may take the Tabor baseball squad 
South next spring. John chaperoned 
the boys on a trip to Honduras a 
couple of years ago. 

Bill Stephens admits that he is 
continuing right on the job with Or- 
ton Kent & Co., brokers, at 39 
Broadway, New York. 

Bob Bergh recently went to work 
for the Chase National Bank in New 
York, we hear. 

Amarendranath Sen, Avho was for 
a time a special student with the 
class, is secretary of the Luxmi In- 
dustrial Bank, Ltd., 80, Chowringhee 
Road, Calcutta, India. Charlie 
Di.xon received an unusual letter from 
Sen not long ago in which Sen said 
that he would be very glad to be re- 
membered to all of his friends and 
that some day, perhaps, he would re- 
turn for a reunion. 

1927 
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dence office of Lee, Higginson & Co., 
to become associated with Johnson 
& Webb, brokers, at I20 Broadway, 
New York. 

Ken Burton's father. Dr. Sanford 
S. Burton, died in Providence on 
Dec. 24, 1929. Ken, studying at the 
Harvard Medical School, expects to 
carry on the tradition of having a 
doctor in the family. 

San Bidle is back in Providence 
with The Gorham Company, silver- 
smiths, and is living at 220 Mel- 
rose Street. 

Charlie Williams is teaching Eng- 
lish at the Chestnut Hill Academy, 
Chestnut Hill, Pa., but he says that 
his permanent address continues to 
be the renowned city of Pottsville, 
Pa. 

Arthur Tebbutt is a statistician 
with the Harvard Economic Society, 
1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

Jack Munroe and Mrs. Munroe, 
we learn, are living at 15 Perkins 
Manor, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Mrs. 
Munroe was Miss Selma P. Roberts. 
She and Jack were married Oct. 12, 
1929, at Greenfield, Mass. 

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Harvard Medical School, is living at 
992 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, 
Mass., during this academic year. 

Merritt Seymour, sales engineer 
with the Boiler-Smith Co., electrical 
measuring instruments and circuit 
breakers, wrote just before Christmas 
that at the beginning of the New 
\ ear he would be "living somewhere 
in New York with Phil Smith, '29, 
and Steve Carleton, '29." 

"Holly" Hollinshead is beginning 
his second year as instructor in Eng- 
lish at Bucknell. He likes it. One 
of the chief compensations of his work 
is a congenial bunch to work and 
play among. Young Byron S. Hol- 
linshead, Jr., is a happy fellow of 
seven months plus, and one of the 
prizes in the eyes of Mrs. Hollins- 
head and his father. 

1928 

Walt Littlehales is advancing with 
the New York Telephone Co., in 
Syracuse, N. Y., and, we are told, 
"seems quite prosperous." Maybe 
Walt sold out before the stock mar- 
ket went to smash. 

Red Randall is coaching at the 
University of V'irginia. Red and 
Mrs. Randall came back to New 
England for the holidays and Red 
was at college calling on Dean Ma- 
son and Mr. Guild, but we did not 
see him. 

F. T. (Tillie) Kenerson and Bill 
Faddis, '29, are in construction work 
in New York and are living at 147 
West 75th Street with Art Schroeder 
'29. 

Al Cleaves is in Buffalo, N. Y., 
taking the training course given at 
the head offices of Remington-Rand, 
Inc., manufacturers of and dealers in 
office and library equipment. 

Mark McClain, member of the 
class in our Freshman year, is in the 
sales department of the Lehigh Port- 
land Cement Co., New York, and 
lives at 89 Grove Avenue, Wood- 
bridge, N. J. Mark was married 
May 5, 1926, to Miss Victoria 
Brown, and they have a son, John 
Charles McClain, who will be ready 
for Brown about 1944. 

1929 

Ken Demarest is temporarily lo- 
cated in Massilon, O., at the works 
of the Griscom-Russell Co., manu- 
facturers of heat transfer apparatus 
and engineering specialties. In a 
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letter not long ago, Ken said that he 
had had several get-togethers with 
Hal Broda, '27, Herb Geisler and 
Bill Lerch, '3 in, all of whom are in 
Canton, O. 

Ray Balkcom is breaking in with 
the Aberthaw Co. Boston, construc- 
tion managers, and at present is per- 
forming as a timekeeper. 

Carl Brown and Fred Bentley are 
first year students at the School of 
Law, Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland, O. 

Al Blake is studying dentistry at 
the Harvard Dental School. 

Al Cornsweet has been getting his 
name into the papers lately because 
he will probably be one of the mem- 
bers of the Oxford-Cambridge soc- 
cer team which will invade the 
United States next spring. Al re- 
ports ever>thing well and pleasant at 
St. John's College, Oxford, where 
he is registered. 

Mart Coughlin is on the editorial 
staff of The American Hatter, the 
trade organ of the hat trade, with his 
offices at 1225 Broadway, New 
York. 

Will Davis is news editor of the 
Newport County Sentinel, published 
weekly in Tiverton, R. I., which is 
Will's home town. 

Herb Geisler is a loan solicitor 
with the Paar Agency, Canton, O., 
operators in real estate, insurance 
and first mortgage loans. 

Van Graves is learning some of 
the details of international banking 
as a student in the foreign depart- 
ment of the National City Bank, 
New York. 

Chet Greene is doing graduate 
work in the classics at the Graduate 
School, Princeton University. 

Milt Horn is with the New Jer- 
sey Bell Telephone Co., and is get- 
ting an idea of what the telephone 
business is all about by starting as an 
inside agent in the commercial de- 
partment. 

Johnny Lofgren sets himself down 
as a graduate student with the West- 
inghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., with 
his class rooms at the company's plant 
in East Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Dave Novick is back among the 
home folks in Easton, Pa., and is do- 
ing graduate work at Lafayette. 

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structor at the Joseph Jenks Junior 
High School, Pawtucket, R. L Win 
was at the Hope Street High School, 
Providence, throughout the fall. 

Art Schroeder is a student at the 
National Recreation School, New 
York, and is doing work among boys 
at the Healy Club and Harlem 
House. 

AI Simmons is in the investment 
division of the trust department of 
the Continental Illinois Bank & 
Trust Co., Chicago. 

Here's some real news! Al Sin- 
auer, reporting a change of business 
address, announces his marriage on 
May 8, 1929, to Miss Blanche Douty 
of Wellesley College and Elton Park, 
Va. Al has our congratulations, a 
little late, of course, but nevertheless 
sincere. And, oh yes, Al is now in 
the pearl department of Oppenheim- 
er Bros. & Veith, wholesale jewelers, 
527 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

Herb Pearson is a chemist in the 
Jackson Laboratory of E. I. duPont 
de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, 
Del. 



Engagements 

Miss Gladys Hammond, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Ham- 
mond of Edgewood, R. I., to Wes- 
ley L. Dedrick, '20, of Chicago, 111. 

Miss Helen Capwell, daughter of 
Dr. and Mrs. Remington P. Cap- 
well of Providence, to Milton Hugh 
Glover, '22, of New York. 

Miss Marie L. K. Church, daugh- 
ter of Capt. Albert H. Church, to 
Kenneth C. Baxter, '27, of Hyannis, 
Mass., and Grand Rapids Mich. 

Miss Sally Louise Coller, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Man- 
chester of Providence, to Irving G. 
Loxley, '27, of Providence and Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

Miss Ruth Edna Spaulding, 
daughter of Mrs. George R. Hall of 
Providence, to Ralph G. Kenney, '27. 

Miss Ruth L. Howland, daugh- 
ter of George H. Howland of Wor- 
cester, Mass., to J. William Merri- 
am, '27, of New York. Miss How- 
land is a graduate of Middlebury, 
'27. 

Miss Frances Stewart Tennant, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Fowler Tennant of Newport, R. I., 
to Ernest S. Brown, '27, of Lan- 
caster, N. H. 



Miss Letitia Le.xington Wood, 
niece of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R. 
Hope of Providence, to Chester S. 
Worden, '27, of Providence. 

Miss Rosalind Horton, daughter 
of Mrs. Mabel J. Horton of Cran- 
ston, R. I., to G. Richmond Car- 
penter, '28, of East Providence and 
Washington, D. C. 

Miss Mary M. Reoch, daughter 
of Mrs. William S. Reoch, to J. 
Ronald Brogden, '29, of Providence. 

Miss Helen May Grove, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. I. Leonard Grove of 
Central Falls, R. I., to Lloyd M. 
Partridge, '28, of Schenectady, N. Y. 

Miss Florence C. Raymond, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. 
Raymond of East Orange, N. J., to 
Clarence S. Sherman, '27, of Asbury 
Park, N. J. 

Miss Hope Irwin Small, Pem- 
broke, '29, to Thomas W. Brown, 
'28, of Chatham, N. J. 

Miss Margaret Berry Crane, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. 
Crane of Arlington, N. J., to John 
F. Borden, '28n, of Bradley Beach, 
New Jersey. 

Weddings 

1922 — George P. Farrell, Jr., and 
Miss Elizabeth Paula Labbee, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Lab- 
bee, were married in Providence on 
Dec. 16, 1929. They are at home 
at 165 Prospect Street, Pawtucket, 
Rhode Island. 

1922 — George T. Slavin and Miss 
Inez Josephine Hull, daughter of 
Mrs. George H. Hull of Cranston, 
R. I., were married in Greenwich, 
Conn., on Dec. 17, 1929. They are 
now at home in Greenwich. 

I929n — Everett Eynon and Miss 
Victoria I. Carpenter, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Carpenter, 
were married in Providence on Jan. 
9, 1930. Roland R. Mackenzie, '29n, 
the well known golf player, was best 
man. Mr. and Mrs. Eynon are liv- 
ing in Washington, D. C. 

I929n — Donald A. Davis and 
Miss Jean Darling Parks, daughter 
of Mrs. Charles D. Parks, were mar- 
ried in Danbury, Conn., on Dec. 2, 
1929. Mrs. Davis attended Bryn 
Mawr. She and Mr. Davis are at 
home in Danbury. 

Births 

1907 — To Mr. and Mrs. John 
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Courtland Knowles of Providence, a 
son, on Dec. 9, 1929. 

1913— To Rev. and Mrs. J. Rus- 
sell Case of Tunbridge, Vt., a son, 
Albert Russell, on Nov. 20, 1929. 

191 7— To Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Di 
Leone of Providence, a daughter, 
Zelia Clotilde, on Dec. 16, 1929. 

1919— To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley 
W. Burlingame of Providence, a son, 
Donald Ward, on Jan. 12, 1930. 



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1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
D. Koechling of Floral Park, N. Y., 
a son, Charles Tabor, on Dec. 3, 
1929. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. David 
L. Jones of Chicago, 111., a son, 
David Leslie Jones, Jr., on Dec. 21, 
1929. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. E. L. 



Nevens of Meriden, Conn., a daugh- 
ter, on Jan. 9, 1930. 

i928n — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
S. Preston of Providence, a daugh- 
ter, Anne Perry, on Dec. 22, 1929. 

1929 — ^To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 
G. Winterbottom of Providence, a 
son, Goddard Williams, on Dec. 15, 
1929. 



Pembroke College 



The Pembroke Glee Club and the 
Brown Choir gave a concert of 
Christmas carols in Sayles Hall on 
December 16, under the direction of 
Professor Berard and Professor 
Ware. The concert was of excep- 
tional merit and was the first of its 
kind that has ever been given at 
Brown. About fifty girls took part. 
Elizabeth Collins, '31, was one of 
the soloists. 

On the following afternoon the 
Pembroke Choir presented its annual 
Christmas Vesper Service in Alum- 
nae Hall. Three pantomimes, de- 
picting the shepherds, the wise men, 
Mary, Joseph and the Christ Child, 
were given by members of the Ko- 
mians. The Choir, which is under 
the direction of Miss Blanche Davis, 
Director of Music, sang the follow- 
ing numbers: "Adeste Fideles," 
"Quem Pastores," "The Angels," 
"The First Noel," "Noel, Let Us 
Sing," "An Infant Lay Within a 
Shed" and "The Holy Mother 
Sings." The student body joined in 
the singing of "Holy Night." The 
members of the Komians who took 
part in the pantomimes were : Thelma 
Tyndal, '30, Elizabeth Dennett, '32, 
Mary Coy, '32, Mary Ferdon, '32, 
Sally Ward, '32, Jean Butterfield, 
'32, Muriel Barnes, '31, Frances 
Miller, '30, and Eva Caldwell, '32. 
Mildred Starkweather, '30, directed 
the pantomimes. 

The bowling tournament has been 
concluded with the Junior Class vic- 
torious. At the end of the final games 
a tea was held at which announce- 
ment was made of the Varsity team. 
After examinations are over the var- 
sity team will play against several lo- 
cal bowling teams. 



The first game of the basketball 
tournament was held in the gymna- 
sium on Wednesday, January 8. 
The Juniors were successful in de- 
feating the Freshmen by a score of 
31-19. The game was close and ex- 
citing throughout the first three quar- 
ters with some spectacular playing by 
the Junior forwards and the Fresh- 
man centers. The Junior team 
comprises Myrtle Bilsborough, Hen- 
rietta Chase, Harriet Coady, Mabel 
Cullen, Enis DeMagistris, Alice 
Donnelly, Agnes Fitzgerald, Dorothy 
Noble, Jane Reid. The second team 
of the class of 193 1 includes Mary 
Bannigan, Sylvia Cohen, M. Eliza- 
beth Kraus, Mary Metcalf, Kather- 
ine Mardsen, Hope Petty, Claire 
Reizen, Myrtle Ryder, Katherine 
Scott, Eleanor Smith and Carol 
Bauer. The Freshman first team is 
composed of J. Bauer, G. E. Brown, 
H. Herz, A. C. Magyar, E. M. Mc- 
Quaid, M. B. Merritt, M. R. Patt, 
G. M. Purington, H. A. Salisbury, 
R. Shailer, R. Sittler, S. Sugarman. 
The members of the second are R. 
Baldwin, V. S. Bondes, M. J. Eshel- 
man, K. Goffin, E. R. Gorton, H. 
Hazard, M. Irish, M. Manley, L. 
Steere, M. E. Tillinghast, E. Wright. 
Agnes M. B. Fitzgerald is captain 
of the Junior first team and Jean 
Bauer is the Freshman captain. 

Tryouts for the class swimming 
teams will take place shortly under 
the direction of Agnes Fitzgerald, 
Varsity Swimming Captain, and 
Mrs. R. W. Higgins, coach. 

The Junior Debating team com- 
posed of Jean Martin and Eleanor 
Smith defeated the Freshman team 
composed of Gertrude Zwick and 
Ruth Clem on January 7. The sub- 
192 



ject of the debate was: Resolved, That 
billboards should be confined to com- 
mercial districts. The Juniors sup- 
ported the negative side and were 
awarded a two to one decision over 
their opponents. Later the Freshman 
team will meet a Freshman team 
from the men's college. 

The Student 'Government Asso- 
ciation announced at their regular 
Thursday morning meeting on Janu- 
ary 9 that an open forum would be 
held on January 16 to discuss the 
cutting down of the number of chapel 
services from four days a week to 
three. Throughout the rest of the 
year the Student Government As- 
sociation is planning to hold open 
forums on subjects which students 
wish to have brought up for general 
discussion. 

The Christian Association held a 
party for orphans and poor children 
on Wednesday evening, Dec. 18, in 
the g>'mnasium. Games were played, 
presents were distributed by Santa 
Claus and refreshments were served 
by the C. A. Cabinet which is com- 
posed of Audrey G. M. Watson, 
president; Josephine Mclntire, Ada 
Rounds, Rosamund Danielson, Dor- 
othy Hill, Dorothy Jencks, Grace 
King, Myrtle Ryder, Mary Kernan 
and Ada Moore. 

At a recent meeting of the Classi- 
cal Club, Professor C. A. Robinson 
spoke about his experiences while 
traveling in Greece and Eg}pt. A 
paper on Saturnalia was read, and a 
talk on the modern Greek Christmas 
was given by Helen Havelas, '30. 
The officers of the Classical Club, 
whose constitution was recently ac- 
cepted by the Student Government 
Association, are: President, Eliza- 
beth J. MacDonald, '30; Vice Presi- 
dent, Hester Harrington, '30; Sec- 
cretary-Treasurer, M. Isabelle Jack, 
'30; Chairman of the Program Com- 
mittee, Dorothy Slocum, '30. 



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been bequeathed to Pembroke College 
by the late Helen E. Talcott to es- 
tablish a scholarship fund in her 
name. 

Brown Alumnae 

Christmas Party 

The annual Christmas party of 
the Alumnae Association, which was 
held in Alumnae Hall on the night 
after Christmas, was a most enjoy- 
able occasion. Mme. Louis Landre, 
a member of the staff at Pembroke 
College, described in a delightful 
manner the typical French customs 
at Christmas and Epiphany and Mrs. 
J. D. Tamarkin gave a charming ac- 
count of the Russian customs at this 
season. Mrs. O. T. Gilmore sang 
some beautiful French and Russiari 
Christmas carols and was accornpa; 
nied at the piano by Mrs. Ruth Fos- 
ter Porter, '08. 

After, . the entertainment, refresh* 
ments were served in the Commons 
Room, which had been made partic- 
ularly attractive with a Christmas 
tree, holly and tall red tapers. 

The committee in charge of the 
party consisted of Mrs. Helen Brint- 
zenhoff Stuart, '22, chairman, Lois 
Campbell, '24, and Mrs. Dorothy 
Gray Watts, 24. 



Alumnae Clubs 

The Brown Club of Vermont is 
still an enthusiastic group, but cir- 
cumstances over which they have no 
control have prevented them from 
holding a meeting. The September 
meeting was postponed until Novem- 
ber because of the illness of the pres- 
ident, Mrs. George L. Hunt, '00, 
who was in an automobile accident. 
The supper meeting which was set 
for November 8 in Rutland had to be 
cancelled because of a heavy snow- 
storm, which made it impossible to use 
cars. A meeting will be held in the 
spring. Mrs. F. D. Carpenter 
(Gwendolyn Blodgett, '10), will 
represent the Club at the Alumnae 
Council meeting in February. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Washington was entertained at the 



Walter Reed Hospital on December 
18, with Ruth Johnson, '24, and 
Myrtle Hodgkins, '24, as hostesses. 
Attending the meeting were Mildred 
Fisher, '27, who is teaching at Na- 
tional Park Seminary, Stella R. 
Clemence, 'lO, who is doing some spe- 
cial research work in the Library of 
Congress, Ann Rathbun Gravatt, 
'16, who is working in the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Doris Heaton, 
'27, who is doing transmission ana- 
lyzing work for the Chesapeake and 
Potomac Telephone Company in its 
engineering department, and Dorothy 
Burge Stark, '08, Clarice Ryther 
Kaufman, '12, and Marie Ettl Ben- 
nett, 'i8, who are busy with their 
families. Ruth Johnson and Myrtle 
Hodgkins are instructors at Walter 
Reed Hospital. 



Engagements 

1922 — Nancy A. True to Edward 
J. Burns- of the Museum of the City 
of New York. 

1925 — Lucile IMunroe to Ralph 
W. Wood. 

1929 — Hope Small to Thomas 
Brown, '25. 

1929 — Dorothy Sumner to J. 
Richard Campbell, '28. 



1929 — Mildred C. Williamson to 
Stanton E. Cull, University of New 
Hampshire. 

Weddings 

192 1 — Lucile Crapo was married 
to Stanley Griffin at the Little 
Church Around the Corner in New 
York City on January 8. Mr. Grif- 
fin is a graduate of the Springfield 
Training College and is an instruc- 
tor at the East Orange, N. J., High 
School. 

1925 — -Catherine Fitzgerald was 
married to James H. Hagan, Jr., 
'23, on June 27. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hagan are living at 470 Morris Ave- 
nue, Providence. 

Births 

191 7 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harold 
G. Abbott (Ella K. Hudson), a 
daughter, Marcia Lee Abbott, on 
October 4, 1929. 

1920 — To Lieut, and Mrs. Leslie 
S. Fletcher (Alice Tattrie, '20), a 
second daughter, Elizabeth Seekell, 
in Honolulu on October 28th. 

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She will speak before the College 
Club of Reading on the Geneva 
meeting of the International Feder- 
ation of University Women and will 
be the guest of the Brown Alumnae 
Club of Pennsylvania at its March 
1st meeting. This carefully worked 
out schedule was arranged by the 
club and will undoubtedly be of great 
benefit to the college. 

Miss Eva A. Mooar, Director of 
Admissions and Personnel, and Mrs. 
C. H. Tiedemann, Assistant Profes- 
sor of Hygiene and Physical Educa- 
tion, attended the meetings of the 
American Student Health Association 
in New York during the Christmas 
vacation. 

1897 — Bertha Grant Huse has a 
daughter, Marjorie, in the Fresh- 
man class. 

1904 — Hope Devlin Ward's 
daughter, Margaret, entered college 
in the fall. 

1907 — Blanche Crapo is doing 
work in Vocational Guidance in the 
Taunton schools. 

1907 — Alma Blackburn Par- 
tridge's daughter, Elizabeth, is a 
member of the Freshman Class. 

19 10 — Gwendolyn Blodgett Car- 
penter (Mrs. F. D.) has recently 
been appointed a member of the Ver- 
mont Commission on the Enrichment 
of Adult Life, sponsored by the Na- 
tional Education Association. She is 
also one of the officers of the Ver- 
mont Council on International Rela- 
tions and a member of the Vermont 
Women's Joint Legislative Commit- 
tee. 

1913 — Evelyn B. Tilden received 
her Ph. D. degree from Yale last 
June. 

19 1 4 — V. Helen Anderson is 
spending the year abroad and is at 
present at Nice, France. 

1917 — Mary Anderson Turner 
(Mrs. W. E.) has moved from North 
Dakota to 6 Arnold Street, Quincy, 
Mass. 

1920 — Margaret Pressey Moore 
(Mrs. C. A.) has moved to 218 Fair 
Avenue, Marquette, Michigan. 

1920 — Mariette De Robbio is 
teaching in Westlake Junior College 
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in Los Angeles. 

1923 — Dorothy Patton Lockwood 
(Mrs. Edson C.) is at the American 
College, Madura, India, where her 
husband is a teacher. In a very en- 
thusiastic and interesting letter to 
Dr. Faunce she wrote that the col- 
lege has an enrollment of 450 and is 
rapidly growing both in numbers and 
in buildings. She wrote further: 
"The pleasantest sound, to me, is the 
heavy patter of rain on the tiled roof, 
after three months of 105-degrees-in- 
the-shade heat; the most beautiful 
sight is the lush green of the paddy 
fields, or the silhouette of a palm 
against a sunset's glow ; the most dis- 
couraging aspect of the missionary 
situation is the low mentality of the 
majority of the people; the most in- 
spiriting is the progress that has been 
made by Christianity in a hundred 
years, despite these difficulties; the 
most modern touches in my living are 
from the electric lights in our bun- 
galow and the motor-driven street- 
sprinkler that passes down the road." 

1925 — Barbara McCarthy received 
her Ph. D. from Yale last June, and 
is teaching at Wellesley. 

1928 — Betty Herr is working in 
her father's office at the Herr Manu- 
facturing Company in Lancaster, Pa. 

1928 — Gladys Kletzle is serologist 
in the laboratories of the Connecticut 
State Health Department. 

1928 — Elizabeth Saunders is in 
the Educational Department of the 
Buffalo Museum of Science. 

1929 — Albertina Bailie is study- 
ing at a secretarial school in New 
York. 

1929 — Harriet Carpenter is study- 
ing art at Pratt. 

1929 — Averill Y. Houghton is 
technician at the Union Hospital in 
Fall River. 

1929 — Estelle Lingham is teach- 
ing at Claflin University, Orange- 
burg, South Carolina. 



Kindly send items of interest to 
Mrs. Gertrude Allen McConnell, 
Executive Secretary of the Alumnae 
Association of Broiun University, 
I-J2 Meeting Street, Providence. 



T O L S O N 

Operated Hotels and Restaurants 
That Will Please Brown Men 

I AM complimented when fellow Brunonians patronize my hotels. I pledge to the 
public clean, comfortable accommodations, good food and courteous service, at 
sensible prices. Try one of the group of Tolson operated hotels or restaurants and 
experience satisfaction. 

T. Elliott TohovLy Brown, 1906 



HOTEL BRISTOL 

129 West 48th Street, New York 
400 rooms 300 baths 

A most conveniently located transient .^ tel, 
famed for its dining service. 

Single rooms Vfith bath — $3, $3.60. $4. 

Double rooms with bath — $5, $6, $7. 



HOTEL WEBSTER 

40 West 45th Street, New York 

A quiet, exclusive resiv 'ntial hotel, within easy 
reach of Fifth Avenue. Gri..d Central, the theatres 
and shops^American Plan — exceptional dining 
service. 

Room with use of bath — $3.00 and $3.60. 

Room with private bath, single $5; double 16. 

Suites of any size, on application. 



HOTEL WENTWORTH 

59 West 46th Street, New York 
250 rooms 150 baths 

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

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

Double room with use of hath — $4. $4.50. 

Single room with private bath — $3, $3.50. $4, $5. 

Double room with private bath — $6, $7, $8. 

Home of BROWN CLUB of NEW YORK 

EL PATIO RESTAURANT 

58 West 47th Street, New York 

A distinctive res.auranv ;onvenient to the the- 
atrical and >. hopping centers. Famed Table d'Hote 
Luncheon, 50c. Dinner, $1.00. 



IN NEW JERSEY 



BON AIR LODGE AND COTTAGES 
(Lake Hopatcong) 

Ideal Summer Resort 




Jh)m Generation to Generation 



There is still no better means of 
accumulating money than a good 
old fashioned savings account. 



INDUSTRIAL 

TRUST COMPANY 

Rl3ourcis More Than St^o.ooo.ooo Mtmbtr of Ftdtral Rtttrvt Sysltm 

Five Providence Offices — Branches in 
E. PROVIDENCE PAWTUCKET NEWPORT 

VVOONSOCKET BRISTOL WESTERLY 

PASCOAG WARREN WICKFORD 




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