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1932 



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Vol, XXXII 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., JANUARY, 1932 



No. 6 



Graduate Work at Brown 

By PROF. CURT JOHN DUCASSE 



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BROWN since its foundation 
has been primarily a college 
and in that capacity has 
rendered distinguished service. It 
has graduated many men who 
have later become eminent, or 
have otherwise demonstrated the 
value of the education they had 
received at Brown. It goes with- 
out saying that Brown, in the 
future as in the past, will spare no 
effort to maintain the high stand- 
ing it has always enjoyed among 
the colleges of the country. 

For various reasons, however, it 
has been necessary for Brown 
gradually to become a university 
as well as a college. Some of these reasons have been 
mentioned already both in the statement of policy 
published by the Corporation two years ago, and in 
the report of the Survey Committee last year. 
They need not be recapitulated. But special stress 
may well be placed upon the fact that a significant 
change in the character of American higher educa- 
tion is now taking place, — a change which Brown 
has not wished to ignore. 

The large increase in the numbers of students in 
colleges that occurred after the w ar now seems to be 
coming to a stop, while at the same time the realiza- 
tion is rap'idly growing that what is now needed is a 
better quality of education in the colleges rather than 
still larger student bodies. The reasons for that need 
are not far to seek. Our age, which is so often 
referred to as a machine age, is such only because it 
has been first a scientific age. It exhibits the appli- 
cation to all departments of life of the vast amount 
of knowledge that has in the last fifty years been 
won by the natural sciences. In an age which is thus 
dependent in such large and ever growing measure 
upon natural science and technology, it is obvious 
that better trained and more numerous scientific 
and technological experts are needed. 

But if the present age is rooted in the natural 
sciences, the next will be rooted in the social sciences. 
The day is approaching when the know ledge that the 
latter are winning w ill be applied to the improvement 
of our economic, sociological, and political institu- 
tions with results as effective and beneficial as have 
been those of the application of natural science to 
the improvement of our material condition. 



Has the graduate school at 
Brown University Justified it- 
self? In what ways can its 
effectiveness be increased? 
These are some of the ques- 
tions which Professor Ducasse 
raises in the accompanying 
article. He describes the 

enormous changes that have 
come over American education 
and has some important, speci- 
fic recommendations to make 
with regard to Brown's policy 
as affected thereby. 



And this means that also in the 
fields of the social sciences and 
their technologies the day of the 
trained expert is increasingly upon 
us. But a college education such 
as for the most part it has been 
hitherto, no longer constitutes a 
sufficient preparation for entrance 
upon the training of an expert, — 
a training, it may be noted, which 
something like 25%of Brow n grad- 
uates at present go on to seek. 
Even the remaining 75%, who do 
not enter the professions or other 
occupations calling for expert train- 
ing, find themselves confronted 
by the fact that the number of 
"college graduates" turned loose upon the country 
by its myriad colleges every year is so great that a 
bachelor's degree is no longer now any great asset to 
them, unless it happens to be the mark of an edu- 
cation more extensive, more thorough, and more 
effective in kind than that possessed by the large 
majority of college graduates. 

T^HESE facts seem to be primarily responsible for the 
i fundamental change which is taking place in 
American higher education in the leading institu- 
tions of the country. That Brown is determined to 
maintain its place among these is shown by the 
transformations and improvements that it has insti- 
tuted within itself in recent years. Brown, for 
example, was one of the first institutions to introduce 
honors courses; and it has seen to it that its graduate 
work should answer the need of the times. 

Five years ago it officially put upon the footing of 
a graduate school the graduate work that it has long 
been offering in some departments. Since then, the 
development of its graduate work has been rapid and 
far reaching in its results. Through it, for one thing. 
Brown is taking in the training of the many experts 
needed today the part that properly belongs to it. 
For it would be a great mistake to think that, because 
there are large graduate schools in several univer- 
sities on the Atlantic seaboard, Brown has no part 
to play in graduate education. 

That mass production methods in education make 
it a mere farce is being recognized today even where 
undergraduate education is concerned. And if such 
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so in the case of graduate education, which should 
in great measure be individual. Because of this a 
small graduate school, if properly manned and 
equipped, can give better training to its students 
than one in which large numbers make impossible 
the close contact between students and teachers 
which is a feature of Brown. 

BUT the Brown graduate school is also justifying 
itself by the effect it is gradually exercising upon 
the work of the college, — an effect which again is in 
part made possible by the Corporation's most wise 
decision to limit the numbers of students in the 
University to a fixed and relatively small figure. 
Under this condition the sort of standards, the point 
of view, and the methods w hich are characteristic of 
graduate work at its best are beginning to influence 
the undergraduates w ho come in contact with gradu- 
ate students in advanced classes, in the departmental 
clubs, and in the other informal meetings that are so 
facilitated by the existence of the department com- 
munities. Moreover, the establishment of the gradu- 
ate school has made it both necessary and possible 
to attract to the faculty of Brown University men of 
high distinction, who are actively engaged in re- 
search, and w hose enthusiasm for intellectual explor- 
ation is infectious. Through contact with them and 
with graduate students, undergraduates are having 
forced upon their attention in the most effective 
manner possible the difference, of which so much is 
being justly made today by progressive thinkers, 
between instruction and education 

Instruction, necessary as it is up to a point and in 
certain directions, is primarily a process in w hich the 
student is passive and docile. It is largely the sort 
of process to which he has been subjected through 
the grade and high schools, and by the time he gets 
to college it is no wonder that he should be rather 
tired of this business of just learning one thing after 
another. 

The restlessness of college students is probably due 
in no small measure to the fact that, at their age, they 
are becoming aware of the existence of a real world 
which they w ill have to face before long, and in which 
they will have to live their lives and make their ways 
by their own pow ers. An instinctive need to exercise 
those pow ers is perhaps w hat tends in them to rob of 
interest any mere continuation of the process of 
passive learning, and to lend on the contrary a glamor 
to social life, college activities, and sports, which 
imitate real life at least to the extent of confronting 
the individual with a competitive situation which 
puts him on his mettle. 

But whereas instruction is a building in from with- 
out, of information that was absent within, educa- 
tion, as contrasted with it and in its proper sense, 
consists rather in a drawing out of interests and 
powers that were latent within. What it demands 
from the student is not receptiveness and docility, 
but much rather intellectual initiative, independence, 
and resourcefulness. For the only road along which 
education properly so called truly lies is that of 
intellectual adventure in pursuit of which new,' and 



fascinating realms are explored, difficulties confronted 
expedients devised and enemies or bad servants of 
the truth combated and exposed. 

■pDUCATiON in this sense is exactly what both the 
•L-^ students and teachers in the graduate school, 
who are devotedly absorbed in the pursuit of scholar- 
ship and the solving of problems, are engaged in 
together. The undergraduate who associates with 
them cannot fail to see that among them work, 
thought, and study are nothing hard or dreary to 
which they would have to drive themselves. On the 
contrary they constitute an avenue of passionate 
self-expression, along which one can find all the 
emotional excitement that gives to sport its tang and 
makes possible its feats. 

Intellectual adventure is as stirring and fascina- 
ting as any form of sport, but with this advantage: 
The powers developed in sport are primarily physical 
and therefore of no great real value to men w ho today 
no longer live by war and hunting; the powers, on 
the contrary, that are developed in the pursuit of 
intellectual adventure are of the very sort that will 
be most urgently needed by any man who is to 
achieve anything in the environment of present-day 
society. More today than ever before, it is mind that 
counts rather than muscle, so that, apart from the 
mere enjoyment to be found in sport, the chief real 
utility of it to modern man is that of keeping healthy 
the body in which his mind is housed. And the 
character-discipline which is in some measure and 
under some circumstances to be found in competitive 
sports, is more than matched by that which is pro- 
vided through the no less intense devotion called 
forth by intellectual enterprise of the type described. 

A vivid realization of these facts by undergraduates 
affords the chief prospect of bringing the effectiveness 
of their education up to the standard made necessary 
by present-day conditions. Close contact with the 
example and influence of the sort of work in which are 
engaged the students and staff of the graduate school 
is undoubtedly the most powerful agency available 
to bring about that realization. 

BUT the graduate school justifies its existence in 
yet a third important way. In addition to train- 
ing the experts that society needs, and transforming 
gradually the character of work of at least upper- 
classmen, there does issue from it a constant stream 
of contributions to the advancement of human 
knowledgCi culture, and thought. It is sometimes 
said that unless a teacher carries on some research, 
his value as a teacher is bound to diminish as time 
passes, and this is urged as a reason for encouraging 
research and other creative work by University 
teachers. 

There is little doubt that the premise is in most 
cases true, and that the reason is therefore a good one. 
But to regard it as the sole or even perhaps the most 
important one is to overlook the contribution which 
universities should make and alone can make to the 
progress of human know ledge and culture. I f univer- 
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the expert knowledge already won in the past, they 
would be serving to maintain our civilization at the 
level it has already reached, but would be contribu- 
ting nothing whatever to its further advance. Even 
the training of graduate students in methods of 
research would not help that advance if those stu- 
dents did not eventually engage in actual research, 
but only in their turn prepared their own students 
to do so. The fact is worth stressing that there is 
nothing to be taught to the students of today, except 
the results of researches carried on yesterday. 
Vitally important as it is to pass on these results to 
each succeeding generation, it is no less important, 
but if anything more so, to push farther and farther 
back in each generation the high wall of ignorance 
which hems in mankind on all sides, and which 
together with the scourge of selfishness, is the prin- 
cipal cause of the appalling amount of suffering that 
even in this twentieth century humanity still has to 
undergo. 

And of the task of pushing back that wall of igno- 
rance, the larger and the most difficult part devolves 
upon the universities. They alone have the equip- 
ment indispensable for it, and they alone can give to 
the men capable of performing it the economic oppor- 
tunity to do so. It is through them that the civili- 
zation of today makes, not its most spectacular, but 
its most basic and most far reaching contribution to 
the civilization of tomorrow, for there is no invest- 
ment that has yielded such vast returns as invest- 
ment in pure research. 

Research, then, is not something that needs to be 
justified by the relation that it undoubtedly has to 
effective teaching. Rather, its essential justification 
is found in the fact that the progress of mankind so 
largely depends upon the research and creative work 
of its original thinkers and investigators 

ON THE three grounds that have now been reviewed 
the graduate school is seen not only to justify its 
existence, but indeed to be the organ upon which 
most directly depends the vitality of a modern 
university and its component college. Bearing these 
facts in mind, it may now be asked what policy 
should guide the development of graduate 
work at Brown. The essential features of that 
policy, as the present writer conceives it, are not 
far to seek. 

For one thing, the graduate school at Brown should 
maintain standards of admission and graduation in no 
way inferior to those of the very best graduate schools in 
the country. It should aim consistently to become 
known, not for the number of its graduates, but for 
the outstanding character of their training and 
natural endowments. The graduate school at 
Brown, in several departments or subjects is already 
in position to give to its students training that is the 
equal of any to be had. That training is already be- 
ing sought by many more distinctly superior students 
than can be admitted; and in view moreover of the 
fact that most graduate students admitted receive 
fellowships or other aid, it is both proper and possible 
for Brown to admit none but exceptionally able and 



well-prepared students, and to insist on their doing 
work of the highest quality w hile here. 

Such a policy has certain corollaries that deserve 
explicit mention For instance no del:>artment in the 
University should at any given time admit graduate 
students unless its staff and equipment are such at that 
time as to enable it to give first class training to first 
class students That is, if through changes in its 
staff a department should for a given period no 
longer be in a position to do this, it should not during 
that period admit any graduate students and should 
send elsewhere those of w hom it is no longer able to 
take proper care. 

Again, there is no reason ivhy any department should 
attempt to offer advanced graduate instruction in every 
subject of its field; rather it should offer it only in 
subjects in which some member of its staff is a 
specialist and acknowledged authority. For it is 
better that Brown should become known as the best 
place in the country to which to come for certain 
specific subjects, than as an indifferently good place 
to which to come for every subject. 

Another important element of policy should be to 
consolidate as far as possible the ground that happens 
to have been already ivon by the graduate school. It is 
better and easier to keep at high efficiency a depart- 
ment that has already won a reputation, than to 
neglect or impair it for the sake of building up a 
department that has yet to make its mark. Desirable 
as is such building up, it should await its opportunity, 
and not be allowed to interfere with what is already 
built and sound. 

Again, in the case at least of graduate students 
who expect to become university teachers, depart- 
ments should attempt to give them some training in the 
process of teaching by actual practice under close super- 
vision. Although it is not generally advisable to put 
graduate students who have had no teaching experi- 
ence in full charge of elementary classes, it is often 
possible for them to do quite effective work in quiz, 
laboratory, or discussion sections, in occasional lec- 
tures, and in reading and grading of reports and test 
papers. Such work not only prepares them for 
teaching but also almost always gives them an 
entirely new conception of what it means, really to 
know one's subject. 

Lastly, the graduate school should encourage research 
by the members of its staff in every possible way. Re- 
search for the sake of the value of its results to 
civilization is acknowledged as one of the most 
important tasks of universities. Then, without 
any intent to divorce teaching and research, it should 
also be acknow ledged that (just as in the college it is 
advisable for teachers to do as much research as will 
help their teaching) in the case at least of the more 
productive members of the graduate school, it is 
advisable for them to do as much teaching, but no 
more, as will help their research. And there is no 
reason to believe that such a policy will mean either 
the sacrifice of research to teaching or of teaching to 
research. Rather the two will, although with a 
different emphasis at each end, go hand in hand 
throughout and vitalize each other. 



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Brown in the Mediterranean 

By PROF. BENJAMIN C CLOUGH 



RECENT excavations in tine Mediterranean world 
liave greatly increased the general interest in 
archaeological and other studies conducted in 
Mediterranean countries under American auspices or 
with American co-operation. Brown men may take 
pride in the fact that Brown University is and has 
long been in close touch with the institutions con- 
ducting such work. Brown is affiliated, and that in 
no perfunctory sense, with the American School of 
Oriental Studies in Jerusalem, the American School 
of Classical Studies in Athens, and the School of 
Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. 
A word about Brown's relation to each of these will 
undoubtedly be of interest to alumni and others at 
this time. 

Brown was one of the institutions cooperating to 
found the American School of Oriental Studies in 
Jerusalem, and it is one of fifty-three institutions 
which contribute to its support and are represented 
on its Corporation. Three learned societies, the 
Society of Biblical Literature, the Archaeological 
Institute of America, and the American Oriental 
Society are represented on the Board of Trustees. 
In 1Q23 a similar school in Baghdad was opened 
under the same control At the present time Pro- 
fessor Millar Burrows of Brown is serving as ad 
interim Director of the Jerusalem School, and James 
P. Hyatt, A.M., Brown 1Q30, is a student there. 

At the American School of Classical Studies in 
Athens the Albert Harkness Fund provides free 
tuition (in the winter session) for properly qualified 
Brown graduates, and for many years Brow n has had 
two representatives (from the department of Greek 
and Latin Classics) on the managing board The 
late Professor Francis G. Allinson was Annual Pro- 
fessor at the School in 1910-11. 

Professor B. D. Meritt, of Michigan, formerly of 
the Department of Greek and Latin Classics at 
Brown, was assistant director at the School in 1927- 
28, and so won the confidence of the Greek authorities 
that he was allowed to take apart and reconstruct, 
according to the corrections which he had worked 
out, the steles containing the inscriptions of Tribute 
Lists. 

The Arnold Archaeological Fellowship in Pem- 
broke College is another link with the Athens 
School, though not restricted to that use. Brown 
scholars were pleased in 1926 when Miss Barbara 
McCarthy, an Honors graduate of Pembroke, after 
holding the Arnold Fellowship at Athens, won the 
fellowship of the Archaeological Institute, a com- 
petitive award. (Miss McCarthy is now instructor 
in Greek at Wellesley College, and is planning to 
spend the summer of 1932 in Greece.) 

During the past four years Professors Clough, 



Geer, and Couch of the Department of Greek and 
Latin Classics have visited Athens, as have Messrs. 
Monroe and Theodorides. Professor Couch and 
Mrs. Couch were at the School in 1927-28, Mrs. 
Couch holding a fellowship there. 

STUDENTS at Athens, even in the Summer Session, 
have the use of the beautiful Gennadius Library, 
and they are housed in Loring Hall, a fine new- 
dormitory. Last summer students visited not only 
well-known sites in Attica, but more than thirty 
famous sites, including Thebes, Delphi, Olympia, 
Corinth, and Sparta. 

Among these students were two Honors graduates 
of Brown, R P. Eldridge '31, and R. P. Breaden '31, 
and Mr. Breaden has remained for a year of study in 
Athens. One member of the present Brown senior 
class and two members of the Classics staff will 
probably spend the summer of 1932 in Athens at the 
School- It had been the desire of the department to 
establish a "summer scholarship" at Athens and this 
it hopes to do in the near future. The charge for 
tuition in the summer session is only $50.00, and 
total expense is estimated at $400.00 to $500.00. 

At the School of Classical Studies of the American 
Academy in Rome, Brown graduates are entitled to 
free tuition, thanks to an anonymous gift from a 
friend of the Classics Department. Brown has not 
as yet had a student here, although Professor Clough 
has taken the summer course which is annually 
conducted by Professor Showerman of Wisconsin. 

LIntil quite recently Brown had no course in 
archaeology. At the present time a year-course is 
offered at Brown and Pembroke in alternate years. 
For this and other reasons it seems likely that 
Brown's relation with the above-mentioned schools 
will be even closer in the future. 



Carrying Out Relief Program 

Harry Samson '19, having carried the Providence 
Community Fund to a successful conclusion by 
means of his publicity methods, is acting as the paid 
secretary of the commission created to carry out the 
$1,500,000 unemployment relief program of the 
State of Rhode Island. "Within the limits of the 
special law, Mr. Samson w ill do everything of a co- 
operative nature which can be done for directors of 
public aid throughout the State," said the chairman 
of the commission. "Mr. Samson will be, in effect, 
the commission's representative in cities and towns 
where loans for unemployment relief are extended." 



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Will Brown Lose McLaughry ? 



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DO McLaughry, football coach at Brown 
since 192bs "Iron Men" season, became "a 
■ strong possibility" to succeed Albert D 
Wittmer at Princeton in the opinion of newspaper 
writers who commented on the resignation of 
Wittmer on Dec. 18. After a single year in charge 
at Princeton, one marked by a succession of defeats 
from the Brown game on, he was willing to retire, 
and the board of athletic control accepted his 
resignation. 

Some newspapers, while granting that McLaughry 
had not been approached officially, went so far as to 
speculate upon his successor at Brown. This, says 
Norman S. Taber '13, head of the Brown Athletic 
Council, has created "an erroneous impression " 

"Brown was made to seem indifferent about Mr. 
McLaughry's plans," Mr. Taber told the Alumni 
Monthly just before it went to press, "On the con- 
trary, we are most anxious that he should continue 
on the Hill with us. There have been no steps 
toward considering a successor, and there will be 
none until we have official word that Mr. McLaughry 
wishes to leave Brown. Officially, the matter has 
not come up, and nothing has happened. 



"He is at liberty to leave, under an option in his 
contract, which has two more years to run We hope 
he will not go." 

The Providence Journal pointed to Arthur Samp- 
son, former Tufts coach who has been backfield 
coach at Columbia and Harvard recently, as 
McLaughry's possible successor at Brown. Such 
talk, says Mr. Taber, is speculation and " 99 per 
cent newspaper. " 

If McLaughry is to be invited to Princeton, it 
must alter its present policy in favor of graduate 
direction of sports, for McLaughry is an alumnus of 
Westminster College. Since coming to Brown, the 
elevens he has coached have won 38 games, lost 18, 
and tied 3. 



Hashish and Prof. Delabarre 

Professor E B. Delabarre of the Department of 
Psychology has recently made a report of the results 
of his researches on the physiological and psychologi- 
cal effects of hashish (cannibis sativa). The re- 
searches, which have extended over a number of 
years, thoroughly studied the effects of the drug on 
the mental processes and the physiological and 
emotional condition of the individual. It was found 
greatly to increase emotional mobility and vigor, 
enhancing and dramatizing the mood in which the 
indix'idual happened to be when it began to take 
effect It produced, also, for several days after 

administration, feelings of great ease and efficiency 
of action and thought. 

While the drug has often been reported to produce 
visions and distorted perceptions of space and time, 
its mental effect is variable on different individuals, 
and Professor Delabarre found its effect on himself 
to lie chiefly not in producing visions, but in raising 
to an unusual pitch the general fullness, clarity, 
rapidity, and ease of the imaginative and perceptual 
processes. 

Among the sensory capacities, cannabis was found 
to cause no significant change in power of vision, but 
it greatly sharpened and increased the individual's 
aw,-areness of his own movements and bodily pro- 
cesses. Keenness of hearing, as measured by 
laboratory tests, was doubled. 

No ill after effects were noted from taking the 
drug, but it was necessary to arrange the researches 
with suitable intervals between experiments to pre- 
vent the formation of a habit. 



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COL. H. ANTHONY DYER, "94 


To act as Toast Master at the Rhode Island 
Regional Dinner, January 21st 



WITH all plans complete. Brown men in the 
Rhode Island region are awaiting their first 
regional dinner which they have been invited 
to attend on Jan. 21. As the result of the initiative 
of the Brown Club of Providence, Sayles Hall will be 
turned into a banquet hall for the evening, and good 
comradeship, fun, and serious moments are all 
promised. 

On the serious side, the chief interest of the even- 
ing will center in the talk by Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, 
dean of the graduate school and acting president of 
the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ford, best known 
to Brown men as one of the now famous Survey 
Committee which subjected the University and its 
policies to a rigid scrutiny, will come east just for the 
dinner. He will be spokesman for the Survey Com- 
mittee in a frank discussion of the future of Brow n 
as implicit in its present. 

The dinner is planned to give to the Rhode Island 
alumni a contact with the University w hich they have 
been denied. Though nearer the campus, many of 
them know less of the changes that have taken place 
there than alumni in more distant centers. 

Dr. Albert D. Mead, will represent the University, 



while Herbert M. Sherwood '09, Providence attorney, 
will be the third speaker. Complete details have 
been sent to all alumni w ithin the Rhode Island area. 



Grace Church's 100 ) ears 

Few churches in the land have been more impor- 
tant than Grace Church, Providence, according to 
the often expressed opinion of the late Bishop 
Thomas M, Clark, one-time presiding bishop of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. Hundreds of Brown 
men ha\e attended service there. Of that church, 
which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1929, Prof. 
Henry B. Huntington of the Brown University 
faculty has recently published the official history. 
He has been clerk of the vestry of Grace Church for 
many years John Hutchins Cady '03, was Prof. 
Huntington's assistant in the preparation of the 

work. 

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Marshall Xi'oods Lecturer 

Professor Curt J Ducasse, head of the Department 
of Philosophy, will be the ne.xt member of that 
faculty to deliver one of the Marshall Woods lec- 
tures, his talk being scheduled for Jan. 13 and his 
subject, "The Role of Philosophy in Civilization." 
It will be held in the Metcalf Auditorium. 



The Alumni Choose "Camille" 

( i /^~>A\fiLLE." the vivid creature of Dumas Jils 
I which has attracted the ambitions of great 

^~^^ actresses from Bernhardt down, w ill be the 
first production by the Sock and Buskin .Alumni 
Association on the new stage of Faunce House. 
With the selection of this hardy drama, the Alumni 
continue their successful policy of reviving old-time 
favorites in respectful, earnest fashion. Rehearsals 
have been in progress for a fortnight, and the perfor- 
mances will take place on Monday, Tuesday. Wed- 
nesday, Jan. 25, 26, and 27. 

The Alumni will again be ably assisted by their 
guest artists, including Sarah Minchin Barker in the 
title role, Mrs. Daniel Webster, Mrs. Zenas R. Bliss, 
Miss Shirley Heltzen, and Mrs. George H. Huddy. 
The Alumni cast includes Prof. Thomas Crosby, 
Prof Benjamin W . Brown, Theodore L. Sweet, 
Rufus C. Fuller, Jr., Robert Bergh, and Francis 
Armington. The play will be directed by Messrs. 
Crosby, Brown, and Sweet, with Leslie T. Chase in 
charge of the entire production. Settings will be 
arranged by Francis Armington. 

It is hoped that the production will meet with the 
success which has been attained in past alumni bills 
such as "East Lynne," "The Lady of Lyons," and 
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." 



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The alumni production aids considerably in filling 
out the undergraduate program which has already 
included "The Merchant of Venice" and "Dr. 
Faustus." 



During Nicaragua's Rebellion 

Willard L. Beaulac '20, has been acting as charge 
d'affaires in Nicaragua in the absence of the Ameri- 
can minister, Matthew L. Hanna. The news cables 
of Nov. 28 gave considerable importance to Mr. 
Beaulac's report of the rebel attack on Chichigalpa, 
near the Honduran border, the first uprising in 
Nicaragua in months. Renewed activities are 

expected in view of the presidential election in the 
offing. Mr. Beaulac is secretary of the United States 
Legation at Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. 



Dr. Luther Meets the Emergency 

Dr. Eliot H. Luther '17, who is recuperating in 
Saranac Lake, N. Y., gave splendid assistance to the 
local physicians during the recent outbreak of infan- 
tile paralysis and as a result of his efforts received the 
public thanks of the Board of Health of Saranac 
Lake and Harrietstown. A resolution said: 

"The members of the Board express their gratifi- 
cation that in recent poliomyletis cases we were so 
fortunate as to have in our midst one with the 
experience and comprehension of the disease that 
Dr. Luther has acquired in his studies. The Board 
wishes to extend to him its appreciation of the assist- 
ance which he rendered to the local physicians in the 
treatment and control of this dreadful disease. The 
fortitude with which he set aside his own illness to 
respond at any time to the call of his confreres was 
heroic, and his kind and tactful attention afforded 
comfort to the families of the afflicted and instilled 
confidence in the hearts of his fellow practitioners." 
Some of Eliot's patients lived as far as ten miles 
away from Saranac Lake Village, but he went to 
them regardless of his own discomfort. 



O'Connor and Party Harmony 

Representative John J . O'Connor '08, of New York 
was a candidate for the Democratic floor leadership 
of the House of Representatives, but withdrew his 
candidacy in the interests of party harmony. The 
New York Times said in an editorial that "the blight 
of Tammany is on the otherwise legitimate aspiration 
of Representative John J . O'Connor of the Sixteenth 
New York to be Democratic leader in the Seventy- 
second House Mr. O'Connor is considered by 

his colleagues a man of ability and diligence His 

district includes Welfare Island and the fashionable 
East Sixties. He was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention, and is a loyal retainer of Tammany 
Hail. The latter connection will overshadow the 
others." 



Billy Lynn, Composer 

Billy Lynn '10, is playing the role of the American 
composer in the comedy, "Sing High, Sing Low," at 
the Sam H. Harris Theatre in New York. Members 
of the Theta Delta Chi chapter at Brown attended 
one night last month to applaud Billy. The New 
York Herald Tribune of Sunday, Dec. 6, had a 
delightful caricature of him in his role. 



Made Officer of the Legion 

Harry Seidel, recently home from Paris on a busi- 
ness trip, has been honored by the French Govern- 
ment by being made an officer of the Legion of 
Honor. So Harry's old home newspaper, the Fitch- 
burg, Mass., Sentinel reports. Harry is in charge of 
European production of the Standard Oil Company 
of New Jersey, of which he is a director. The honor 
conferred upon him is the result of his part in negoti- 
ations of value to the French Government. 



A "Boner' about the Judge 

Judson A. Crane '05, of the Law School, Univer- 
sity of Pittsburgh, sent us the following clipping 
(taken from a Norwich, Conn., newspaper) which 
would indicate that Allyn Brown is doing what he 
can to dissipate gloom in the divorce court: 

"A continued hearing on the matter of alimony in 
the divorce suit of Daisy Duggan Bosworth of Water- 
ford against Burton D. Bosworth of Pomfret and 
Eastford has been set for Thursday of next week in 
the Superior Court here before Judge Allyn L. 
Brown. A partial hearing was held before Judge 
Brown this week in which counsel for Mrs. Bos- 
worth called upon the defendant to produce his 
savings bank books and to explain withdrawals 
therefrom. Refreshments of cake, doughnuts, and 
coffee was served by the entertainment committee." 



Receives Grant-in- Aid 

Professor Robert H George of the Department of 
History will sail late this month for England, where 
he will work during the second semester on his study 
of "The Quo Warranto Proceedings in the Reigns of 
Charles II and James II." For the purpose he has 
received a grant-in-aid from the Social Science Re- 
search Council, which has been organized by seven 
national scientific societies for the support of research 
projects in the several fields of the social sciences. 

Professor George has been giving considerable 
time to a study of the reign of James II and has pub- 
lished two articles, "A Mercantile Episode" in the 
Journal of Economic and Business History, and 
"The Financial Relations of Louis XIV and James 
11" in the Journal of Modern History. He will do 
his research in the Public Records office and the 
British Museum in London, and in The Hague, 
Berlin and Paris. 



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A Test of Medical Aptitude 

Forty-six Brown students took the medical apti- 
tude test at tine LIniversity last month under the 
direction of Dr A H MacPhail, Associate Professor 
of Educational Psychology. These aptitude tests, 
given throughout the country for the first time last 
year, are used by the admissions officers of the medi- 
cal schools as one of the criteria in admitting students 

Dr. MacPhail says that study of the test results 
has shown that the aptitude test can be relied upon 
to prognosticate the future success of students in 
the medical schools more accurately than any other 
method used heretofore in the selection of students. 
But other criteria will supplement it. The student's 
scholastic record in his premedical training, his 
character, the consensus of opinion of those teachers 
who know him and the impressions he makes upon 
the members of the committee on admissions — all 
will continue to be carefully considered, 

***** 

The Future of the Forests 

AN ENTIRELY new thesis, holding that the point of 
view of foresters and pathologists in general 
concerning the treatment of forest diseases has been 
wrong, has been developed by Dr. Walter H. Snell, 



Associate Professor of Botany on the Hill. Dr. 
Snell's view is that heretofore "we have looked too 
much at the damaged individuals and not at the 
trees which are going to be left to make up the future 
forest. Now it is time to emphasize the forest 
instead of the pathology." 

He has brought this view to light in an article in 
the Journal of Forestry entitled "Forest Damage and 
the White Pine Blister Rust," Reprints of the 
article are now in circulation, and Dr. Snell already 
has had letters congratulating him on his thesis. 
One from Dr. Thornton T. Munger of the Pacific 
Northwest Forest E.xperiment Station said: "I con- 
cur most heartily in your principal thesis; I enjoyed 
its method of development. All you have said about 
estimating depletion in forest stands from pathologi- 
cal causes is equally true of other causes of depletion, 

such as fire and insects Foresters must look at 

the forest to see what remains rather than to see 
w hat is lost 

Dr Snell, basing his article on his work as assistant 
forest pathologist of the New York State Conserva- 
tion Department, tells of the strides the science of 
forest pathology has made in the last 25 years, 
"largely because of the necessity of studying and 
combating two serious imported diseases — the 
chestnut blight and the white pine blister rust," dis- 
cusses, the concept of "imminent mortality," and 
then develops one aspect — forest damage — of his 
advocated mode of attack. In this development he 
uses results from a study of eight separate forest 
plots in New York State. 



Honors for Honorary Graduates 

TWO honorary graduates of the University have 
had new honors given them in recent weeks. 
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Litt.D., '24, is the new 
chairman of the United States Tariff Commission. 
His appointment by President Hoover was a surprise 
to many of the old-line politicians. Mr. O Brien 
has been an active Republican for more than thirty 
years and for the last three years has served as presi- 
dent of the Middlesex Club, a party organization 
trying to aid the Republican cause in Massachusetts. 
Mr O'Brien is a former editor of the Boston Herald. 

Wilberforce Fames, who also received his Litt.D. 
in 1924, was the recipient of the gold medal of the 
New York Historical Society "in recognition of his 
scholarship, and his unselfish devotion to the inter- 
ests of all researchers in the field of American his- 
torical literature " at the exercises commemorating 
the 127th anniversary of the founding of the society 
in New York in November. At the same time a por- 
trait of Dr. Fames by DeWitt M. Lockman was 
unveiled Dr Fames was cited by President Faunce 
as "erudite scholar in realms of bibliography, whose 
accurate knowledge of rare books has enriched our 
generation " 



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An Important Lincoln Item 

A CONTEMPORARY portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 
painted by Peter Baumgras, has been added to 
the McLellan Lincoln Collection at Brown Univer- 
sity, the vice president's office has announced. The 
John Hay Library, w here the collection is kept, plans 
to arrange on Lincoln's birthday a special exhibition 
of Lincoln portraits, including the new purchase. 

Peter Baumgras, the artist, was a native of 
Bavaria, where he was born in 1827. He studied art 
at Dusseldorf and at the Royal Academy in Munich, 
came to the United States in 1853 and painted and 
taught art in Washington and Annapolis, Md., until 
1877. He died in Chicago in 1904. 

He had his first glimpse of President Lincoln 
shortly before the inauguration. He saw Lincoln 
often after that; and in Lincoln's second term, when 
the Confederacy began to collapse, Baumgras started 
his portrait. The finished work is said to resemble to 
some extent the familiar pictures of Lincoln by 
Littlefield and Marshall, but the expression about 
the eyes is different from that in every other picture. 

The Lincoln collection has received during the 
current year the famous painting of Lincoln's death- 
bed by the American painter of the period, Alonzo 
Chappel, and other acquisitions to the number of 
664, according to the recent report of Dr. Henry B. 
Van Hoesen. the Brown librarian. The collection, 
the gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., several years ago, 



now contains over 650 Lincoln autographs, the 
largest number in any known collection of Lin- 
colniana. 



Old Phi Beta Kappa Keys 

Professor William T. Hastings, Secretary of the 
Brown Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, is looking up the 
history of the various types of key worn by members 
of the Chapter since 1830. Eight or nine variations, 
some of them unexpectedly interesting, have so far 
come to light. It is desirable to know if any further 
designs were used, and also, during what years each 
design was employed. Anyone having or knowing 
the whereabouts of a key issued before 1875 is 
requested to communicate w ith Professor Hastings. 

The Chapter is also anxious to discover a copy of 
the badge of the Federal Adelphi Society, which 
flourished between 1797 and the 1830's. The badge 
was a crescent moon. 

Professor Hastings was the official delegate from 
the Brown chapter to the exercises in commemora- 
tion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the 
Harvard Chapter which were held in Cambridge on 
Saturday, Dec. 5. Among the other delegates from 
the various chapters was Professor Morton C. 
Stewart '94, Secretary of the Chapter at Union 
College. 



Campus Miscellany 



The 1935 debating team won a 2-1 decision over 
the Yale University 1935 team just before the 
Christmas vacation began. The subject was. 

Resolved: That the Federal Government should 
institute a system of compulsory unemployment 
Insurance, and the affirmative side was upheld by 
N. M. Zalkind, B. I. Shulman, and A, H. Joslin of 
Brown. 

Alan P. Cusick '32, well-known undergraduate 
debater, won the annual Class of 1880 Debate prize. 
Marshall B. Marcus '32, and Leo L. Tobak '33, won 
second and third prizes respectively. The discussion, 
which was on the subject, "Resolved, That an appli- 
cation of the Princeton Club methods to the fra- 
ternities at Brown would improve their scholastic 
standing and be beneficial to Brown University, " 
was presided over by John B. Rae '32. 

A course in "Metallography" has been added to 
the Extension Department's curriculum, and will be 
conducted by Dr. John P. Walsted, Assistant Pro- 



fessor of Physical Metallurgy at M. I. T. The 
course will be held in the Engineering Laboratory 
and will consist of twenty lectures. 

Manuel NI. Pearson '32, was recently awarded the 
William H. Bennett Scholarship for excellence in 
work done in the Biology Department. Pearson, a 
member of Pi Lambda Phi, is very prominent on the 
campus, being business manager of the Brown Jug, 
as well as a member of the senior cabinet of the 
Brown Christian Association. 

On Nov. 9, Professor Richard Woltereck of the 
University of Leipzig gave a lecture in Arnold Lab- 
oratory Auditorium on the subject "Stratification, 
movements and shapes of the Daphnia." Daphnia, 
it is alleged, are microscopic animals w hich are found 
mainly in fresh water. 

In the annual interclass debate held recently in 
Marston Hall, the 1934 team, supported by H. N. 
Couden, K. T. Gordon, and E. M; Goldsmith, won 
the unanimous decision of the judges. 



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Brunonia Plays the Game 

Edited by LOUIS B. PALMER 



The \('inter Sport Season Begins 

WHEN the annual Christmas vacation called a 
temporary halt on all athletic activities on 
the Hill, three of the four 'varsity outfits and 
two of the 1Q35 teams had competed v\ith other 
college and school teams. The University swimming, 
basketball, and hockey teams, and the freshman 
basketball and wrestling aggregations have already 
swung into action, while the varsity wrestling and 
the 1935 hockey and swimming squads were not 
scheduled to open their seasons until the first week 
of the new year. 

While it is still too early to give any definite opinion 
as to the possible success of the teams, to date the 
freshman basketball team has turned in the best 
record, having won its first three games. With 
Floren, former Brockton High School star, and 
Reed, a Yonkers boy, playing well, the Cubs de- 
feated Bryant and Stratton College, 23-17, North- 
eastern 1935, 40-18, and Wentworth Institute, 31-32. 
The only other first year aggregation to perform was 
the wrestling squad, which lost its opening meet to 
Dean Academy, 30-10. 




CAPTAIN-ELECT WILLIAM GILBANE 
' Varsity Football 



The sw imming team, one of the best to represent 
Brown in several years (and Brown swimming teams 
have been consistently good), won its two opening 
meets easily, defeating Connecticut Aggies on Dec. 
11, 61-16, and then swamping Bowdoin on Dec. 19, 
57-19. The basketball team, with but one veteran, 
Capt. Jack Caulkins, lost its opener to Boston Uni- 
versity, 19-18, won its second encounter 38-37, and 
dropped its third to Connecticut Aggies, 27-22. The 
hockey team, after holding its Boston University 
opponents scoreless for two periods, weakened in the 
final, the Terriers scoring three goals to win, 3-0. 

On Dec. 19, spectators saw one of the greatest 
individual performances ever seen in Colgate Hoyt 
pool, when Bill Lewis, sophomore sensation, won 
both the 50-and 100-yard dashes. In the former, 
Lewis broke the Brown record, the pool record, and 
the New England Intercollegiate record, and tied 
the national mark, swimming the distance in 24 
seconds flat. The former Brown record, made by 
Ray Hall, was 24 3/5 seconds. By covering the dis- 
tance in 24 seconds, he becomes co-holder, with 
Swartz of Northwestern and Johnny Bryant of 
Dartmouth, of the National title. Six watches 
caught Lewis as he made the record. Not content 
with that performance, he came back later to win 
the 100 by over 20 yards from Esson, his Bowdoin 
opponent, and tied Davey Jones' record of 54 4/5, 
which is also the Brown pool and the New England 
mark. 

Although he is the outstanding member of the 
team, he is ably assisted by Frank White, who 
finished third in the Intercollegiates in the backstroke 
last year, Henry Stanton, also a backstroker and 
Capt Hugh Butler in the breast stroke. 



Ray Hall '31, and Frank White '33, have been 
chosen members of the mythical All-American 
swimming team for 1930-31. Hall, who was captain 
of the University team last year is selected as one of 
the sprinters, ranking eighth, while White, who 
excelled in the backstroke, is placed fifth in the 
entire country. 



The Football Captain 

riLLiAM J. GiLBANE of Providence, was unani- 
mously elected captain of the 1932 football 
team at a meeting of the twenty-six letter men of 
this years" team, held in Faunce House on Dec. 17. 
By his election, he becomes the first Rhode Islander 
to lead a Brown varsity football team since 1916 
when Mark Farnum of Georgiaville was captain. 



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During the football campaign of 1931, Gilbane 
played at both the halfback and fullback positions, 
and at both posts proved to be a very capable per- 
former. With his brother Tom. v\ho was regular 
center on the team this year. Bill Gilbane has been 
a member of the football team for two years. 

He prepared for Brown at Moses Brown School in 
Providence, is 21 years old, stands 5 feet II, and 
weighs 175 pounds. In his freshman year he was a 
member of the freshman football and wrestling 
squads, and was captain of the former. His fra- 
ternity is Phi Kappa Psi. 



Although no Brown man was chosen for the 
mythical All-American football team of 1931, Capt. 
Paul Mackesey at tackle and Tom Sawyer at end 
were given honorable mention by the Associated 
Press. 

The undergraduate members of this year's Athletic 
Council are the following: Paul F. Mackesey, 1932, 
representing the Cammarian Club; M. A. Cancelliere, 
1932, manager of the football team ; Donald Gardner, 
1932, manager of the baseball team; Melvin M. 
Dichter, 1932. track manager; Donald E. Ewing, 

1932, representing the Senior class; Robert R. Chase, 

1933, from the Junior class; George W. Schwenck, 
1932, of the Brown Daily Herald; and Stanley C. 
Paige, 1932, and J. Penn Hargrove, 1933, who were 
chosen members-at-large. 

Psi Upsilon's touch football team, which was the 
outstanding aggregation of its kind on the hill this 
past fall, won the Intramural Championship by 
defeating Rockefeller Club, the club champions, in 
the game between the winners of the fraternity and 
non-fraternity leagues, and then went on to greater 
glory Dec. 12. Playing on Soldiers Field, they 
Brown representatives clearly showed their super- 
iority, in defeating the Sigma Alpha Mu team. 
Harvard champions, 18-6. Harvard had previously 
beaten the Dartmouth intramural champions. 



Campus News Notes 

THE annual Christmas recess began this college 
year on Sunday, Dec. 20, 1931, all students be- 
ing required to return and attend classes on Jan. 4th, 
1932. 

An attempt was made at the chapel service held 
Dec, 17th to act on the Cammarian Club's proposal 
that that body take over all the duties of the Senior 
Frolic Committee, thus doing away with the time 
and bother of nominating men and then holding 
elections. However, so few Seniors attended chapel 
that there was not a quorum, and the few votes cast 
were thrown out, necessitating another attempt 
after the Christmas Holidays. 

Thirty-eight persons attended the first open night 
at Ladd Observatory, recently, and according to 
reports the night was a good one for observation. 



The Brown debating team, composed of Irving A. 
Beck, 1932, and Harry J, Chernock, 1932, was 
awarded a unanimous decision over the Smith 
College team in the debate held Dec. 1 1 at Brown. 
The subject was: "Resolved: That the United States 
should participate as an active member of the 
League of Nations, " a favorite subject for college 
debaters. The Brown men took the negative side, 
and admitted, before the argument began, that they 
were arguing against their convictions. 

Paul Mackesey, '32, better known, perhaps, for 
his football exploits than his public speaking, was 
one of the speakers at the Youth Forum held on Dec. 
18th, in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Jewish 
Youth Conference, at Temple Emanu-el, Providence. 

The newly organized University Orchestra, com- 
posed of twenty-eight men, gave its second concert 
of the season under the auspices of the Channing 
Guild of the First Congregational Church of Provi- 
dence on Dec 1 1. 

Joe Buonanno, football star, was chosen sophomore 
marshall, and D. V. Reed, 1935 basketball player, 
was chosen freshman marshall at elections held 
recently. Buonanno, whose home is in Providence 
is pledged to Delta Tau Delta, while Reed, a Yonkers, 
N. Y. boy, is pledged to Psi Upsilon. 



Supreme Court of the State of N. Y. 
Justices Chambers 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

November 27th, 193 1 

Mr. Henry S. Chafee. 
c/o Brown Alumni Monthly. Inc. 
Brown University, 
Providence. Rhode Island 

My dear Mr. Chafee; 

I am in receipt of the November issue 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly, which is 
a number issued in such excellent taste, 
and so distinctly upon a higher plane of 
interesting publications, that I am led to 
offer my congratulations to the Board of 
Editors especially as, in a way, the publi- 
cation is the logical successor, it seems to 
me. of the old "Brunonian" with which 
1 was connected for two years back in 
the 80's. 

With best wishes, believe me 

Very cordially and sincerely yours, 

Norman S. Dike '85 



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Neimarx 



The Bewilderment 
of Apprenticeship 



The above picture, reprinted through the courtesy of the Brown Bedel, is the work of 
Mr Fred Stepina Neiman, a member of the Freshman Class. Mr. Neiman is intensely 
interested in photographing Bro\\-n subjects, and the charming vista republished here indicates 
his flair for good composition as well as the technical excellence of his work It is hoped 
that the Alumni Monthly, the Bedel and other University publications will derive further 
benefit from his activity. 

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The Brown Bedel 

Volume 1, No. 1, Makes Its Appearance 



A HANDSOME and articulate contemporary, The 
Broun Bedel, made its presence known just 
before the Christmas holidays, having content, excel- 
lent design, and — what has been rare among its 
fellows on the campus — every appearance of perma- 
nence. The Broivn Bedel "attempts to be something, 
new, smart, and different in college magazines, an 
undergraduate review," 

Four issues a year are promised and, along with verse 
and belles lettres, to contain "a frank and vigorous 
discussion of subjects vital to Brown — fraternities, 
athletics, publicity." On the last named matter, the 
new review is most outspoken, advocating under the 
name of its editor, the appointment of a full time, 
experienced, mature publicity officer of the Llniver- 
sity. Brown, says the writer, is 15 years behind the 
other leading universities of the country "in the 
progress she has made toward cultivating public 
favor." The article is extensive in its documen- 
tation. 

On the subject of athletics a writer urges the ex- 



change of " tuitions for touchdowns," a candid 
subsidy of good football agents Perhaps the most 
notable feature of The Bedel is the photography of 
Fred Stepina Neiman, a member of the freshman 
class. 

The board of publishers who' dedicate their efforts 
to "Recognition and Progress for Brown" are: 
Wendell B. Barnes, editorial; Ward H, Jackson, 
business: Ben W Brown, faculty; Robert W. Wolfe, 
William H. Vail. 3rd, Andre J. Perry, Walter J. 
Walsh, and C Hollister Judd, Jr. 

Almost as much excitement was aroused by the 
previous appearance of a false Bedel, a mimeographed 
affair which undertook, for reasons of malice, hoaxing, 
or advertising, to dismay many who had previously 
subscribed to the real publication. Copies were 
distributed to faculty and press, with the result that 
some persons took the illiterate forerunner for what 
its unknown sponsors seemed to wish How much 
harm it did The Bedel has been the subject of much 
discussion. 



"Cast of Characters'* 



A NUMBER of alumni have asked that the 
Monthly identify any students who 
have posed for the cover photographs 
used this year. The omission of names 
has not been a matter of neglect ; it was 
prompted, rather, by the fact that we 
were interested in the pictures not so 
much as portraits of individuals but as 
phases of Brown life. The individuals 
were representing many more who were 
participating in the same activities. 

We are glad, however, to comply with 
requests for identity. The three mem- 
bers of the football varsity shown on the 



October cover are Ferrebee, Marsan, and 
T. Gilbane, Last month Captain Caul- 
kins of the basketball team was pictured 
about to make a shot The student in 
the shadow of exams this month is 
Stanley Paige, president of the Cammar- 
ian Club, 

The laborer shown working near 
Faunce House in November has been 
variously identified as Giuseppe Gari- 
baldi, Michael Cavanaugh, Oscar Ander- 
son, and John Smith, none with Univer- 
sity connections. We are not prepared to 
settle this controversy. 



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Brown Alumni Monthly 



Published at Brown University by the Associated Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON. '23 
Managing Editor 



HENRY S. CHAFEE, '09 
Managing Director 

ARTHUR BRAITSCH. '23 ALFRED H GURNEV. '07 

Business Manager Secretary 

LOUIS B PALMER, '28 GER I RUDE ALLEN McCONNELL. 'lO 

News Editor Pembroke Correspondent 

HENRY G CLARK, '07 
For the Alumni Fund 

Subscriptions, $2 a year- Single copies, 25 cents There is no issue during 
August or September- 
Entered at the Providence Post Office as second class mattet- 



Vol. XXXII 



JANUARY, 1932 



No 6 



WHEN BROWN MEN DINE 

FOR the first time in many years, Brown men in 
Rhode Island will be able to read of the dinners in 
New York, Boston, and eslewhere without the feeling 
of helpless envy they have known for so long. They 
have felt neglected, given no share in the pleasure 
and inspiration that these meetings have bestowed 
in metropolitan centers farther away from the 
campus. This year the alumni of Rhode Island can 
have no such resentment, for they, too, are to dine 
in the name of Brown, and they will do so on within 
her very gates. 

Elsewhere in this issue of the Alumni Monthly, 
three of these January dinners are described in pros- 
pect. Those v\ ho habitually attend such affairs need 
no more prompting than the announcement of a date. 
Those who are casual about them are unfortunately 
missing moments more and more endowed with 

richness. 

***** 

THE DEPRESSION AND BROWN 

WHEN times of Depression descend, a university is 
no more immune than an individual. Many insti- 
tutions in different parts of the country, it is a 
matter of concern, have suffered severely in the last 
year because of financial losses that have befallen. 
They have had to adopt stringent measures because 
securities held by them have declined in value and 
dividends have been reduced or ignored. And so it 
was with anxiety that Brown men have awaited a 
statement of the University's financial experiences in 
a harassing period. 

They will find grounds for regret and relief alike in 
the statement of the Acting President on that 
Subject. Brown must cut nearly $50,000 from the 
budget she is now preparing for 1932-1933. Expedi- 
ents and economies will have to be in force. Dr. 
Mead says, but he adds that Brown is distinctly 
better off than most of her sister universities, "be- 
cause of excellent investment policies of the Univer- 
sity's finance committee " 

How will Brown retrench^ Some courses are to be 
dropped, temporarily, although which the University 
has not yet decided. Some assistants, appointed 
annually, may not be reappointed, while clerical 
staffs may be reduced. Such changes will be in effect 
only so long as economic conditions do not improve. 



When the difficulties were seen to be inevitable. 
Faculty members in all departments were called into 
conference with the administrative officers of the 
University. They were informed of the need for 
economy. As a result, faculty members in each 
academic department are voluntarily working out 
w'ays and means of reducing expenses. 

"The plan," Dr. Mead said, "carries out the Brown 
policy of seeking the cooperation of the Faculty 
rather than having the administrative department 
issue orders. We have men on our Faculty well quali- 
fied to take over administrative duties and we are 
now receiving the benefit of their ability. As a 
result of this cooperation, we are being able to effect 
economies which the administrative department 
alone could not have brought about." 

The Acting President has praised the cooperative 
spirit of the Faculty members which will make 
possible the economy program. Surely, when the 
Corporation sits in its annual meeting in June, it 
cannot fail to recognize in its turn that willingness 
and loyalty which makes an emergency less critical, 

FOR CLOSER CONTACTS 

MORE important than the actual granting of a two- 
day review period before examinations was a 
faculty vote which it prompted which should here- 
after make it easier for students and administration 
to discuss campus problems. And this statement in 
no way minimizes the wisdom of the review period. 
Many alumni will wish it had been in force in their 
day. 

The suggestion, which had been made from time 
to time in the past, came this year from the enter- 
prising Cammarian Club, which has already made a 
name for itself this year. In concurrence, the Stu- 
dent Government Association of Pembroke College 
also made its representations to the administration. 
The point was made that a student occasionally finds 
himself faced w ith several examinations in succession 
at the outset of the critical period. He is less likely 
to do w ell than a student w hose exams happen to be 
more happily scheduled and allow better reviewing 
of the semester s work. Such reviewing was declared 
of permanent value apart from the mere cramming 
for a better mark. 

A petition was presented to the Faculty asking 
that the students be allowed two days between the 
last class and the first examination. The request was 
transmitted to a special faculty committee, w hich in 
turn presented it to the faculty, with the eventual 
result that Dr, Mead announced there would be no 
college exercises on Jan. 20 and 21, and a similar 
period is to be set aside for two and one-half days 
before the finals in June. If the experiment proves 
its worth, it will be made a permanent practice. 

Out of the discussion of the review period came a 
statement of policy which was to guide procedure in 
any future case where undergraduates wished to offer 
a suggestion or discuss a problem. The steps, ac- 
cording to the faculty vote, should be the following: 

(1) Accredited representatives of the student body 
may bring proposals to their Dean, and (2) if, after 
discussion, the undergraduates do not wish to with- 



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draw their proposal, he will call a meeting of the 
Faculty and such students as he may designate. Then 
(3) the committee may present the suggestion to the 
Faculty as a whole, with one of the group acting as 
advocate for the students if desired. 

The proposed contact between students and Fac- 
ulty works both ways. If at any time the Faculty 
may wish to bring matters to the attention of the 
students, a similar use of committees is authorized. 
The creation of such a useful channel seems dic- 
tated by good sense. The wonder is that it had not 

been provided before this. 

***** 

THE L'ni\ersity has a right to presuppose that 
alumni w ill have a strong interest in the Bulletin 
of Broivn University which contains the yearly 
report of the President of the Corporation. To 
certain Alumni groups these Bulletins are distributed 
by the office of the Alumni Fund. Many of the 
alumni have doubtless discovered the mass of en- 
grossing information and opinion which this booklet 
contains 

LInfortunately, however, there are many busy 
graduates who have not given this report the con- 



sideration it deserves. They have done little more 
than give it a swift thumbing on the chance that a 
stray item might recommend itself to their full atten- 
tion, and then they have laid it aside for a more 
leisurely perusal, which may be forthcoming or not. 
So much of the material, legitimate and admirable 
as a matter of report, has no wide appeal. The more 
rewarding passages must be sought out v\ith some 
persistence. 

It would be so easy to call attention to the out- 
standing contents of such a Bulletin. It might be a 
difficult task to discriminate between one paragraph 
and another, between one author and another, but 
there do seem to be editorial opportunities which are 
neglected. The matter of emphasis, arrangement, 
and display might so easily add to the general useful- 
ness of the bulletin, which, after all, has a real 
message to deliver. So many of us, for better or 
worse, have been influenced in our reading habits by 
the headlines with which newspapers cater to our 
laziness or impatience that we need discreet, selective 
editing to guide us at other times Here is a chance 
for the new Corporation Committee on Publications 
to add to its accomplishments. 




From the John Hay : A New Prospect 



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Activities of the Brown Clubs 

By ALFRED H. GURNEY, 07 



The Executive Committee 

0'\. GiLMORE. student counselor, 
and K. Brooke Anderson, secre- 
• tary of the Brown Christian 
Association, were the guests of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the .Associated Alumni 
at the meeting in Faunce House on Dec 
1 1 , and gave account of the work that 
they are doing to help Freshmen and 
other undergraduates orient themsehes 
and establish contacts of benefit to the 
students and to Brown. 

There was also discussion of the work in 
progress to develop the spiritual side ol 
student life. In this work, which is of 
positive value in these days of change 
and uncertainty. Dr. Arthur L Wash- 
burn, Professor Cyril Harris, and others 
are participating quietly and effectively. 
President .Mien announced the election 
of Rev. Dr. M, Joseph Twomey 00, of 
the Baptist Temple. Philadelphia, as a 
member of the Board of Directors of the 
association from the Midland Atlantic- 
District for two years- He sticceeds 
Arthur Sundlun T 1 of Washington. 
New York 
Radical changes from past years will 
mark the t«4th annual dinner of the Brown 
Club of New York, to be held at the 
Hotel Brevoort on lower Fifth Avenue, 
Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 6:30 P. M. The 
dinner wilfbe wholly informal The price 
will be the lowest in years. The speeches 
will be short; the entertainment will have 
snap and variety. Now is the time for 
every Brown man in the neighborhood 
to plan to be there. 

Hunter S. Marston '08. toastmaster. 
will introduce as speakers; W. Randolph 
Burgess '12, Deputy Governor of the 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Sir 
Henry W. Thornton '31, honorary, 
Canada's great railway man; Col. H. 
Anthony Dyer '94. of the silvery tongue; 
and Dr. A. D. Mead, acting president. 
Daddy Jim Coombs '97, Charlie Lundell 
'06, and Don Ball '27, will help entertain. 
The Brevoort under the management of 
Evariste Orteig '20, is famous for its 
French cooking and friendly atmosphere. 
Voila! 

On the dinner committee of which 
Marston is chairman are President 
Dennis F. O'Brien '98. e.\-officio, Everett 
Colby '97, Herbert B. Keen '07, Harold 
O. Barker '11, Hoey Hennessy '12, 
Joseph H. Farnham '14, Hugh W. 
MacNair '17, and J. A. O'Neil '31. A 
representative from each class has been 
named to get out his classmates, and the 
signs are that the dinner, with its radical 
changes, will be one of the best in the long 
history of such gatherings in New York. 
The Club was host to Dr. Bruce M. 
Bigelow '24, director of admissions, at 
the informal dinner at the Club, Dec. 10. 
Most of the members of the selection 
committee of the Club were present to 
take part in the discussion of admission 
subjects. Under the leadership of W. 
R. Dorman '92, the committee has made 
an enviable record. The work of selec- 
tion has meant time, and patience, and 




.\LFRED H GURNE"!', '07 



Study, yet the results have justified the 
effort. Dr. Bigelow will cooperate with 
the committee. 

The weekly Thursday luncheons are 
continuing to be so popular that it has 
been decided to have luncheons down 
town in order to give the men unable to 
come up town a chance to get together 
.After the Brown-Columbia week end. R. 
M. Palmer '10. gave a short talk on the 
game, described the addition to Faunce 
House, and spoke of new developments 
in the Division of Engineering. Then 
John C. Hennessy '10. told some of his 
"experiences as a football official, and he 
was highlv entertaining. 

The Thursday after the round robin 
at New Haven, Fred W. Murphy '99 
gave his impressions of the team and 
coaches as he observed them "behind the 
scenes." Daddy Jim Coombs led the 
singing of old time favorite songs and 
wound up with Brown songs. Ken 
Anderson '27, was a splendid accom- 
panist. Incidentallv, a large delegation 
from the Club made the trip to New 
Haven and sat together through the 
courtesv and foresight of Dr. Marvel. 
Comments of the metropolitan news- 
papers on the Bowl tournament, as well 
as on the Brown-Columbia game, were 
assembled by Hoey Hennessy and given 
out at the luncheons. 

* * * 

Boston 
On Friday. Jan. 29, the biggest, peppi- 
est Brown dinner ever held in New 
England will be put on at the Univer- 
sity Club. The time is b:30 P. M. 
The Committee has chosen to call it the 
".All New England Brown Blow Out' in 
its endeavor to get away from the formal 
type of banquet that has been held in 
Boston in former years. This is. in 
reality, the 55th annual dinner of the 
Brown Club of Boston, but in order to 
make it more successful, the Committee 
is inviting the Brown men in New Eng- 
and to attend. 

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One of the most important features is 
that the price has been reduced from .$3 
to $1 98 and, in spite of this reduction, 
the Committee is guaranteeing better 
food and a snappier entertainment than 
ever before. Prime ribs of beef as only 
the chef of the University Club can 
create will be in themselves worth the 
price of admission. (There will be fish 
for all who wish it.) 

The Committee realizes that the main 
purpose of such an event is good fellow- 
ship and the renewing of old friendships. 
With this in mind the members have 
planned an attractive entertainment 
which is so original that it has taken all 
the courage that the Committee can 
muster to sponsor it. Needless to say, 
there will be no speeches. Although 
such men as Dr Mead and Bob Gersten- 
lauer '22 have agreed to say a few words 
to the bovs at this time, the Committee 
is to be armed with high calibre rifles 
which will guarantee that these brief 
talks will not degenerate into speeches. 

Other than saving that the dinner will 
he held at six-thirty sharp and that dress 
will be informal, there is no other infor- 
mation that can be divulged at the 
present time without giving away some 
secrets which the Committee is guarding 
with its respective lives. 
* * * 

New Haven 

Twenty members of the Brown Club 
of New Haven met at the Elks Club on 
Nov. 24 to hear Robert Kiphuth. coach 
of the Yale swimming teams, tell of the 
visit of the ail-American swimming team 
to Japan last summer and to show pic- 
tures made during the trip. They also 
listened to a news letter from the .Mumni 
Secretary, to whom a vote of thanks was 
given for his part in making the meeting 
an informative one. Well let C. F. 
Andrews '2b, secretary, concinue; 

"Tickets for the round robin football 
tournament in the Yale Bowl were sold 
at the meeting. Porter L. Wood 7b was 
present and bought a ticket. He is in a 
law office in New Haven, and he says that 
the past year has been one ot the best the 
office has ever had. It was also an- 
nounced at the meeting that Bartlett 
Van Note '24 was the proud father ot 
twin girls, Margaret and Jane, born at 
the New Haven Hospital on Oct. 31. 
Mrs Van Note was Grace Wamsley 24, 
Pembroke, so it is a real Brown affair. 
Too bad they weren't boys." 
* * * 
Merrimack \'alley 
Dr Walter H. Snell. associate professor 
of botany and chief scout for the varsity 
football team, went to Amesbury, Mass., 
Dec 11 to tell the members of the 
Merrimack Valley Brown Club something 
of the last football season as well as of 
scouting. President H. D^ Smith 03. 
writing about the visit, said: We kept 
him talking for an hour and a half and 
if he could have remained longer, 1 am 



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sure that all would have listened to him 
for an hour more. The subject of foot- 
ball scouting was a new one to many of 
us, and the way Dr. Snell handled his 
topic held the attention of all very closely. 
From the comments which I heard after 
Dr. Snell had gone. I know how all en- 
joyed what he had to say. 

"There were sixteen members of the 
club present, and one guest, so that 
Dr. Snell had an audience of seventeen 
(which is larger than was expected in 
view of the fact that this fall meeting 
was an experiment ) After Dr. Snell 
had left to catch the train in Haverhill, 
the members of the club remained for an 
hour, visiting and getting a little better 

acquainted The arrangements were 

made by Col. George W. Langdon, Jr., 

12 The annual meeting will be 

held at the Phillips Inn, Andover, on the 
first Saturday of next May, and we are 
looking forward to seeing Dr. Bigelow at 

that time." 

* * * 

Detroit and Rochester 
The Brown Club of Rochester gathered 
for its monthly meeting at the Chamber 
of Commerce, Rochester. Dec. 2 and 
discussed the salient points of a news 
letter from the Alumni Secretary. The 
Brown Club of Detroit listened to a 
similar letter Dec. 1 1 and made plans for 
a visit from Professor James P. Adams, 



acting vice president, late this month. 
The Club also voted to have a luncheon 
Tuesday, Dec. 29, to greet students 
home for the holidays and to entertain a 
few desirable prospective students in the 
Detroit neighborhood. President H T. 
Miller '99 was in the chair. 



tToRMER Dean Otis E. Randall has been 
■'■ elected a vice president of the New 
England Association of Colleges and 
Secondary Schools, with which he has 
been identified for some years as a mem- 
ber of the executive committee. 

Professor Theodore Collier of the De- 
partment of History spoke on" Shifting 
Scenes on the International Stage" at the 
dinner meeting of the State Board of 
Management of the Business and Pro- 
fessional Women's Clubs in Fall River, 
Dec. 13. 

Professor James P. Adams, acting vice 
president, was the guest speaker at the 
luncheon of the Rotary Club, Providence, 
Dec. 1. His subject was "The Survey of 
Brown University." V. A. Schwartz '07, 
chairman of the day, introduced him. 

Professor C. W. Miller of the Physics 
Department, who was abroad last year 
studying at the University of Leipzig 
under Professor Debye, has been en- 
gaged in completing an elementary text- 
book of physics which will be published 
soon by John Wiley and Sons. 

Professor W. H. Kenerson, chairman 
of the Division of Engineering, Professors 
James A Hall, Paul N. Kistler. and 
Zenas R. Bliss, and Waldo H. Fish, Jr., 
assistant, attended the meetings of the 
American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers in New York the first week in 
December. 

Dean Samuel T. Arnold, Assistant 
Dean C. H. Currier, Prof. C. E. Ekstrom, 
Prof. A. W. MacPhail, Prof. Sharon O. 
Brown, and Prof. A. F. Hinrichs were 
among the Brown representatives at the 
46th annual meeting of the New England 
Association of Colleges and Secondary 
Schools in Boston, Dec. 4 and 5. Pro- 
fessors Brown and Hinrichs were the 



Broion Engineers 

W. Arnold White '13 was elected presi- 
dent of the Brown Engineering .Associ- 
ation at the annual meeting and dinner 
held at the Brown Club, Hotel Went- 
worth. New York, Thursday evening, 
Dec. 3. Between fifty and sixty engineer- 
ing alumni were present for the informal 
affair, Percy A. Shaw '08, retiring presi- 
dent, presided, and Wayne M. Faunce 
'21, retiring secretary-treasurer, made 
report of the year's activities. 

Faunce's report showed that the associ- 
ation had met five times in 1931 (in 
Boston and Providence, as well as in New 
York) , that it was doing all that it could 
to assist unemployed Brown engineers 
find jobs; that it was co-operating with 
the Brown Club of New York; that its 
annual engineering prize had gone to 
Salvatore Di lorio '31 ; and that it had as 
its guest at the dinner this year, R. H. 
Stafford '32- Faunce spoke a helpful 
word for his successor, Charles G. 
Burgess '24, and paid compliment to the 

Notes of the Faculty 

official delegates from the University. 

Professor Charles H. Smiley read a 
paper of his own and another paper 
jointly with Miss Dorothy Whittemore, a 
graduate student, at the 47th annual 
meeting of the American Astronomical 
Society in Washington, Dec. 28-30. Mrs. 
Smiley, also an astronomer, having 
taught at Wellesley before her marriage, 
was present at the sessions. 

Professor H. E. Farnsworth of the 
Physics Department has been engaged in 
preparing for publication the results of 
his recent experiments on the diffraction 
of electrons by a single crystal of silver. 
Professor Farnsworth spent most of his 
summer studying at the University of 
Michigan, where a number of well known 
physicists gave courses in modern de- 
velopments in physics. 

Professor C. O. Oakley of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics and Dr. R. P. 
.Agnew, National Research Fellow at the 
University, read papers at the 38th 
annual meeting of the American Mathe- 
matical Society held at Tulane Univer- 
sity, New Orleans, Dec. 28-31. Professor 
J. D. Tamarkin of the department intro- 
duced Dr. Eberhard Hopf, International 
Research Fellow at Harvard, at one of the 
sessions. Dean R. G D. Richardson of 
the Graduate School is secretary of the 
society. 

1 he entire staff of the Department of 
Philosophy, Professors C. J. Ducasse, R. 
M. Blake, A. E. Murphy, and C. A. 
Baylis. attended the annual meeting of 
the American Philosophical Association, 
Eastern Division, at Yale on Dec. 27, 28, 
29. Professor Ducasse is a member of 
the executive committee of the associ- 
ation. The first paper of the evening 
session of Monday, Dec. 28, was read by 

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officers of the association and of the 
University for their work with him. 
Other new officers are: Vice President 
Prof. Zenas R. Bliss 18; Trustees D. J 
Purdie 11, Walter H Jillson '22, and 
Earl W. Harrington '14, and Percy H, 
Shaw '08, non-elective. 

The speaker of the evening was Dr. 
A. D. Mead, acting president, who gave 
a "mighty interesting talk on conditions 
at the Unixersity. He spoke particularly 
of Faculty changes which will be neces- 
sary in the near future because of retire- 
ments, referred to the new outing camp 
established near Greenville; and intro- 
duced Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow '24. new 
director of admissions. Alexander 

Graham '06, representing the Brown 
Club of New York, Professors Hall, 
Watson. Berard. and Bliss from the 
Division of Engineering. Dr. Bigelow, 
and Eugene W. O'Brien 19, editor of the 
Southern Power Journal, also spoke 
briefly. R. H. Stafford '32 reviewed the 
activities of the student engineering 
group and urged the alumni to meet with 
the students as often as possible. 

.A double-pen inkstand ornamented 
with a striking bronze model of a brown 
bear was given to the retiring secretary- 
treasurer, Wayne Faunce, in appreciation 
of his six years of service to the associ- 
ation. 



Dr. Murphy, his subject being "Objec- 
tive Relativism Reconsidered." 

Professor Thomas Crosby. Jr., of the 
English Department opened the course 
of lectures and concerts of the Jewish 
Community Centre, Pro\idence. Sunday, 
Dec. 6. by reading " If I Were King " 

Professor R. B. Lindsay of the Physics 
Department has recently published two 
theoretical papers — the first, "Wave 
Motion and the Equation of Continuity," 
in the Proceedings of the National 
Academy of Sciences for July, 1931 ; and 
the second, "A Canonical Transformation 
and the Vibrations of a Loaded String," 
in the Physical Review for Aug. 1, 1931. 
Professor Lindsay has completed the 
manuscript of an intermediate book on 
"Mechanics and the Properties of Mat- 
ter" which will be published next spring 
by the D. Van Nostrand Co. 

Professor Sharon O Brown of the 
English Department was one of the 
speakers at the 31st autumn meeting of 
the New England Association of Teachers 
of English in Worcester, Dec. 11 and 12. 

Dr Bruce M. Bigelow, the new acting 
director of admissions, was the guest of 
the Horace Mann School for Boys, New 
York, at a dinner and meeting at the 
school. Dec. 4. He was one of a group 
specially invited by the principal. Dr. C. 
C. Tillinghast 06, to talk over admissions 
work and the relations between the 
school and the colleges which admit its 
graduates. 

Professor Matthew C. Mitchell of the 
Department of Social and Political 
Science gave the address, "Citizenship 
Under the Constitution, " at the annual 
meeting of the Americanization Institute 
at the Narragansett Hotel, Providence, 
Dec. 9. 




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Shanghai, with a load of tea. Becalmed, 
down near the line in the southern Pacific. 
Her home port, Boston — marketplace 
for all Xew England — and a tea-shortage 
— almost a tea-famine — throughout 
America. 

The first ship in from the China Coast was 
sure of a bonus — a big extra profit on its 
tea-cargo. There were four tall ships 
headed for Boston town, all within fifty 
miles of each other. 

And all four of them becalmed in the 
Doldrums. 

A market ahead — and a decision to make. 

Three of the skippers were the old fash- 
ioned, superstitious sort who believed in 
signs and portents and such tricks as 
whistling for the wind. 

So they sat and rocked gently in the 
Doldrums, whistling for wind. 

Cap'n Asahel Wiggmore of the "Empress 
of China" was another breed of cat. 

The second hour his ship was becalmed he 
said, "H'm! Seen this sort o' thing last 
fer two-three weeks, many's the time." 

And then he bellowed to the mate, "Pipe 
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The other three ships sat on their sterns in 
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Engagements 

Miss Ellen Elizabeth Bartlett, daugh- 
ter of Dwight K. Bartlett '98 and Mrs. 
Bartlett, to Norman V. Ballou 75 of 
Providence. 

Miss Eleanor Eddy, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Augustine H. Eddy, to Nelson 
T. Wright '27n, of North' Smithfield, 
R. I. 

Miss Jessie M. Le Maire. daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Le Maire, to 
Carl M. Caspar '31, of Orange, N. J. 



Weddings 

1894n — Roger D. Harvey and Miss 
Lillian Marie Christiansen, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christiansen, were 
married in New York on Nov. 28, 1931. 
They are at home in Milford. Conn. 

1894n — Harold Congdon and Miss 
Florence Donnelly, formerly of Provi- 
dence, were married in Albuquerque, 
N. M., on Nov. 27, 1931. They are living 
in San Diego, Calif. 

1922, special — Timothy J. Lyons and 
Miss Laura Keilty, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Michael M. Keilty, were married in 
Providence on Nov. 19, 1931. They are 
at home at 75 Cypress Street, Providence. 

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married in New York on Dec. 12, 1931. 
according to announcement in the Pro\i- 
dence Journal. 

1925 — John R. Cox and Miss Beatrice 
Egan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Thomas Egan, were married in Chicago 
on Sept. 12, 1931. They are at home at 
1619 R Street, N. W., Washington, N. C. 

1925n — Newton T. Dana and Miss 
Charlotte Elise Schmidt, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmidt, were mar- 
ried in Summit. N. J., on Nov. 14, 1931, 
They are at home at 37 Ogden Street, 
Providence. 

1928 — Thomas C. Morris and Miss 
Edith Jamison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Alois Jamison of Fort Morgan, Colo., 
were married in Cleveland on June 13, 
1931. They are at home at 706 Sackett 
Street, Cuyahoga Falls, O. 



Births 

1919n— To Dr. and Mrs. John H. 
Almy of Edgewood, R. L. a daughter, 
Ruth Minona, on Dec. 2, 1931. 

1921 — To Dr. and Mrs. Maurice M. 
Pike of Hartford. Conn., a son, Robert 
Cramer, on Aug. 7, 1931. 

1923^To Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. 
Co.\, Jr.. of Bloomfield. N. J., a son, 
Philip Warren, on Nov. 22, 1931. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence 
Lanpher of Providence, a daughter, on 
Nov. 28, 1931. 

1923— To Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. 
Macfarlane, Jr., of Scarsdale, N. Y., a 
daughter, Marlyn, on Aug. 19, 1931. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. W. Irving 
Reid of Pawtucket. R. 1, a son. William 
IrvingReid, Jr., on Nov. 23. 1931. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett M. 
Van Note of New Haven. Conn,, twin 
daughters, Margaret and Jane, on Oct. 
31, 1931. 

1924— To Mr. and Mrs. William H. 
Sargeant of Attleboro, Mass., a son, 
Richard Falkner, on Nov. 5, 1931. 

1925— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. 
Stoddard of Woodhaven. N Y . a son. 
Ralph Gilbert, on May 14, 1931. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Byron M. 
HoUingshead of Lewisburg, Pa . a second 
son, Charles Thornton, on Sept. 4. 1931 

1927n — To Mr. and Mrs. J. Anton 
Hagios of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., 
a second son, Frederick Karl, on Julv 
14, 1931. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Leslie T. 
Chase of Providence, a son, Winsor 
Lyon, on Nov 17. 1931. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Allyn J. 
Crooker of Kingston, Pa., a daughter on 
Dec. 3, 1931. 

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1871 

Horace Walter Child, member of the 
class for two years, father of Richard 
Washburn Child, author and diplomat, 
and for many years a manufacturer in 
Boston, died at his home in Boston. Nov. 
27, 1931 He was born in West Millbury, 
Mass., Oct. 6, 1952, the son of Elisha 
Norwin and Elizabeth H. (Martin) 
Child. He prepared at Harris R. Greene's 
School, Worcester. Mass., left Brown in 
June, 1869. and went to work in Boston. 
He spent most of the years of his business 
life with the Rubberhide Company, of 
which he was treasurer and then presi- 
dent. His hobbies were botany and 
genealogy; he was a member of the New 
England Historic-Genealogical Society, 
the American Orchid Society, the Boston 
Natural History Society, the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, the Bo- 
tanical Club of New England, the Royal 
Societies Club of London, England, and 
the Episcopal Church. He was also a 
commander of the Order of the Crown of 
Italy. His son. Richard Washburn 

Child, Harvard '03, was at one time 
United States Ambassador to Italy. 
Child was married Nov. 7, 1878, to 
Susanna S. Messenger of Worcester, who 
survives him. together with his son, and 
a sister, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird. 

1872 

Joshua Eddy Crane, librarian of the 
Taunton, Mass., Public Library from 
1895 to his resignation a month ago, died 
at his home in Taunton, Dec. 1, 1931. 
He had been ill since last July. A 
native of Bridgewater, Mass., where he 
was born Oct 1. 1850, the son of Joshua 
Eddy and Lucy (Reed) Crane, he pre- 
pared at the Bridgewater .Academy and 
took his .A.B. at Brown in 1872 and his 
A.M. in course in 1875. .After graduation 
he taught for a year in a public school in 
Duxbury. Mass.. and then lor two years 
was principal of the Bridgewater 
Academy. In 1875 he went to Beirut, 
Syria, to become teacher of English in the 
preparatory department of the Syrian 
Protestant College. He returned to the 
United States in 1879. taught Latin at 
the Albany. N. Y., Academy, 1882-84. 
and gave up teaching to take the position 
of librarian of the 'Young Men's .Associ- 
ation, .Albany, the library of which was 
the oldest in New York State. He re- 
signed in 1887 to be associate principal of 
the Latin School. Portland. Me., but he 
resumed his work in Albany in 1891, 
resigning finally in 1892 as a result of a 
controversy between the trustees and 
managers of the library. Until he went 
to the Taunton Public Library in 1895 he 
occupied himself with tutoring and with 
genealogical research for the Old Bridge- 
water Historical Society. Biography was 
one of his hobbies, and numerous bio- 
graphical sketches by him appear in the 
collections of the Old Colony Historical 
Society of Taunton, of which he was 
president at one time. He was also a 
member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha 
Delta Phi. He was married Jan. 1, 1884, 
to Katharine Perkins, who survives him. 



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together with a daughter. Clara Whitney 
Crane. "His entire service (as librar- 
ian)," said the Taunton Gazette, "was a 
period of credit and satisfaction to the 
trustees of the institution and to the 

public at large Mr. Crane kept 

thoroughly abreast of the times in his 
knowledge and information and was 
broad and con\incing in his views and 
opinions " 

1877 

Re\'. Frank Terry Latham, retired, 
died at the Medina. N. Y.. Memorial 
Hospital Sept. lb. 1931, after an illness 
of one week. He was born in Orient 
Point, L. I., Nov. 29, 1849, the son of 
Daniel T and Lydia (Webb) Latham. 
He prepared at what is now Suffield 
School. recei\ed his AS. in course at 
Brown and entered Rochester Theological 
Seminary, from which he was graduated 
in 1880. Ordained as a Baptist minister 
in the same year, he held pastorates at 
Suffield. Conn. 1880-83; Newport. N. H. 
1883-88, Medina, N. Y,. 1888-1904; 
Oneida, N. Y.. 1904-1 1 ; and Wilson. N. 
Y., 1911-14. Retiring in 1914. although 
he served as a supply pastor for several 
years, he settled in Medina, where he had 
lived quietly for the past twelve years. 
As one has written of him: "Most of his 
mature life was spent in the service of 
others, both in the church and outside, 
and we all feel that the community in 
which he lived has lost a power for good," 
He was married Dec. 22, 1880, to Nellie 
Webb, who survives him. together with 
two daughters and three sons, one of 
whom is Burton F Latham '08 of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., His fraternity was 
Delta Upsilon. 

1878 

Charles Leroy Pulsifer. banker, died in 
Laconia. N. H,, Dec. 14. as a result of a 
fall received while leaving the Lakeport 
National Bank of which he was President, 
on Dec. 2. 

1879 

Rev. .Mva E. Carpenter, rector emeri- 
tus of St. Peters Episcopal Church, 
Manton. R. 1.. and a prominent figure in 
the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island for 
many years, died in Providence. Dec. 15, 
after an illness of four weeks. There will 
be an account of his career in the next 
issue of the .Alumni Monthly. 

William Richmond Tillinghast. active 
tor nearly 40 years as a lawyer, and a 
sound and progressive student of the law, 
died in Providence. Dec. 7. after an illness 
of several months. He was born in 
Providence April 15. 1858. the son of 
James and Sarah B. (Anthony) Tilling- 
hast, and was a descendant of John .Alden 
and of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the 
Declaration of Independence. His 

family connections with Brown are note- 
worthy. His great-great-grandfather, 
Theodore Foster, was a graduate in 1770. 
His grandfather, Charles F. Tillinghast. 
took his degree in 1814, and his father, 
James Tillinghast, was a graduate in 
1849. All of these forebears were well 
known in the law. Other members of the 
family also received degrees from Brown, 
W. R. Tillinghast prepared at Mowry & 



Goff's School, was a scholastic leader at 
Brown and, after leaving College Hill, 
entered Harvard Law School, from which 
he was graduated in 1892. He became a 
member of the Rhode Island bar the 
same year and had practiced in Provi- 
dence ever since. At the time of his 
death he was senior partner of the firm of 
Tillinghast and Collins ("James C. Collins 
'92). He had a share in the restatement 
of the. law on Conflict of Laws and Law of 
Trusts by the American Law Institute, 
contributed articles to the Harvard Law 
Review, and was a friend and counselor 
of young lawyers. He was married Oct. 
22. 1884. to Annie Barton Aborn, who 
survives him, together with three child- 
ren. James A. Tillinghast. a member of 
his father's firm: Mrs. Gerard Dane and 
Mrs. William C. Crolius. wife of William 
C. Crolius '15. His brother is Theodore 
F. Tillinghast '84. He was a member of 
the Rhode Island Bar Association, the 
.American Law Institute, the Agawam 
Hunt Club, the Turks Head Club, the 
L'niversity Club, the Sons of the .Ameri- 
can Revolution, Alpha Delta Phi and 
Phi Beta Kappa. 

1881 

Rev. Henry Clay Peepels, former pas- 
tor of the old Park Avenue Baptist 
Church of Rochester, N. Y., died at his 
home in Rochester Nov. 23, 1931. He 
retired from active church connections 
some years ago to do general pastoral 
work for the Baptist Church. He was 
born in Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jan. 17. 1857, 
the son of )ohn and Rebecca (Tussy) 
Peepels. He prepared at Mt. Pleasant 
Institute, studied a year at Bucknell and 
came to Brown in September, 1878. He 
won his A.B. with the class, and his A.M. 
in 1884. After spending a year at the 
Western Theological Seminary he went 
to Rochester Theological Seminary to 
complete his course for the ministry. 
On graduation in 1884 he was called to 
be pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist 
Church, where he had preached as a 
divinity student. He ser\ed until 

December. 1890, resigning to become 
pastor of the South Avenue Baptist 
Church in the same city. While he was 
with the Park Avenue church he started 
the successful campaign for a new site 
and a new building, and increased the 
church membership trom 355 to three 
times that number. He introduced the 
use of individual communion cups, and 
in other ways pro\ed himself a minister 
of foresight and ability. Ill health 

forced him to give up active pastoral 
work in 1915, and since that time he had 
carried out assignments of a general 
nature for the Baptist Church He was a 
trustee of Rochester Theological Semi- 
nary from 1891 to 1905, and was the 
author of "Chapel Offerings," a volume 
of his special sermons. He was married 
July 17, 1888, to Marguerite Louise 
Elkins of Pittsburgh, who survives him, 
together with a daughter, Mrs, Thomas 
L. Toan. 

1882 

Rev. and Mrs. Asa Reed Dilts are at 
Penney Farms, Fla., for the winter. 
Dilts has had a long and successful 
pastorate at the Baptist Church, Am- 
herst, Mass. 

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Rev. Benjamin L. Herr retired in June 
from the active ministry and is now living 
at Homer, N. Y., where he and his wife 
have their permanent home. He was 
pastor of the Baptist Church in Homer 
from 1906 to 1917. 

1883 

Dr. Alfred W. .Anthony has given to 
the Stanton Bird Club of Bates College 
what the Bates Alumnus describes as "a 
great stone fireplace, with wide-spreading 
ingle seats and tall chimney." The club's 
sanctuary is on Thorne Mountain, about 
two miles from the campus, and the fire- 
place is now its most prominent marking. 
.Anthony gave the land for the sanctuary 
because he said that he regarded "the 
Stanton Bird Club as one of the most 
wholesome influences operating in the 
community of Lewiston-Auburn and 
vicinity." The Bates Alumnus, noting 
that .Anthony is a member of the Bates 
Board of Fellows, characterizes him as 
'one of Lewiston's most constructive 
community builders. " 

1884 

Rev. A. E. Scoville is among the 
colonists at Penney Farms, Fla., this 
winter. 

1886 

Dr. and Mrs. William H. Bennett were 
guests recently at a reception by officials 
of the First Baptist Church. Fitchburg, 
Mass , in honor of their marriage, which 
was reported in the last issue of the 
Alumni Monthly. Bennett has served as 
clerk of the church for more than 35 
years. 

1887 

Theodore Francis Green was the guest 
speaker at the weekly convocation of 
Rhode Island State College at Kingston 
on Dec. 8. His subject based on his 
visit to the Continent during the summer, 
was "Europe in Transition." 

1888 

Rt. Rev. Louis Childs Sanford, mis- 
sionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in 
the district of San Joaquin. Calif . and 
president of the province of the Pacific, 
has been giving a series of addresses in 
New York State and elsewhere in con- 
nection with the general program of the 
Episcopal Church, adopted at the last 
general convention in Denver. 

1891 

Dr. Edward Bailey Birge. professor of 
music at Indiana University, spoke re- 
cently at the membership meeting of the 
Musicians' Club of Evansville. Ind., on 
"The Significance of Opera in the Evolu- 
tion of Music. " Birge, well known as 
author and composer, has been at 
Indiana since 1921. 

1892 

Professor Arthur N. Leonard of the 
Bates College Faculty was the presiding 
officer at the Brown-Bates debate in 
Lewiston, Me., last month. The Bates 
team won the decision. 



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1893 

Rev. Edwin B. Dolan is the new presi- 
dent of the Massachusetts Federation of 
Churches, of which he has been for the 
past six years the recording secretary. 
As secretary, according to a writer in the 
Boston Transcript, "he has endeared him- 
self to a wide circle of friends by his 
unfailing kindliness of spirit, his con- 
scientious devotion to the interests of all 
the churches, and his ability as a religious 
leader." Dolan's son, Winthrop W. 
Dolan. is Dean of Bacone College, 
Oklahoma 

An inventory of the personal estate of 
the late Lucian Sharpe, filed in Provi- 
dence Probate Court last month, showed 
a total of $3,253,873.45. the newspaper 
reports said. Sharpe, who died in France 
a year ago, gave $100,000 to the Univer- 
sity, In his life time he had been a 
generous benefactor. 

The sympathy of the class goes to E. B. 
(Ned) Aldrich whose wife, Lora Lawson 
Aldrich, died in Providence, Dec. 3, 
after a short illness. Besides her hus- 
band, she leaves a daughter. Miss Ruth 
A. Aldrich, and a son, Robert .-Mdrich. 
Mrs. Aldrich was a native of Troy N. H. 

1894 

William C. Hill, principal of the Cen- 
tral High School, Springfield, Mass., was 
chairman of the committee for the public 
secondary school delegates at the 46th 
annual meeting of the New England 
Association of Colleges and Secondary 
Schools, held in Boston, Dec, 4 and 5. 



1897 

Martha Baird, wife of Arthur M. Allen, 
is called one of .America's great pianists 
by Wintrhop P. Tryon, writing in the 
Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Tryon 
said: "They arrange themselves in three 
groups — first, brilliant executants and 
classic interpreters; second, bringers of 
fresh ideas; and third, aspirants to fame 
whose notions are as yet incompletely 
formed, though their technique may be 
finished to the last point of certainty. 
In Group One I place Josef Hofmann. 
Myra Hess, and Rudolph Ganz ; in 
Group Two, Percy Grainger, John 
Powell, Katherine Bacon and Martha 
Baird; in Group Three, Carlo Zecchi, 
Robert Goldsand, Sascha Gorodnitzski, 
and Alton Jones ... Powell, Grainger, 
Miss Baird and Miss Bacon go back to 
the beginning and treat their Beethoven, 
Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, as a new, 
rather than as a continuuing, problem." 

1898 

Justice James A. Dunne of the Supreme 
Court of the State of New York was 
toastmaster at the third annual dinner of 
the Baseball Writers' Association. Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., Chapter, held in Brooklvn, 
Dec. 14. 

1899 

Mrs. Mary Barstow Comstock, wife of 
William P. Comstock, died in Providence, 
Nov. 30, 1931, after a long illness. She 
is survived by her husband and a daugh- 
ter. Miss .Alice Evelyn Comstock. to 
whom the sympathy of the class is given. 



1900 

Charles H. Porter, Professor of Ac- 
counting at the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, had an article, "A Com- 
parison of Public and Private Electric 
Utilities in Massachusetts," in the No- 
vember issue of the Journal of Land and 
Public Utility Economics. 

Rev. M. J. Twomey. D D., pastor of 
the Baptist Temple. Philadelphia, has 
been elected president of the Pennsyl- 
vania Baptist State Convention for the 
current year. 

Judge Roscoe M. Dexter was a member 
of the historical committee of the Paw- 
tucket Business Men's Association which 
prepared and issued the history of the 
association on the occasion of the 50th 
anniversary last month. The association 
has been a constructive, energizing factor 
in the life and growth of Pawtucket and it 
can, indeed, point to its 50-year record 
"without fear, without apology, and 
with the consciousness of an honorable 
and useful career." 

1901 

John H. Slattery has been re-elected 
president of the Rhode Island Bar 
.Association At the annual meeting last 
month, Slattery said that the views of 
the association should have more weight 
in the selection ot judges for the Superior 
and Supreme Courts of the State. He 
also recommended a committee to survey 
and report on the situation with regard 
to so-called expert testimony in the 
courts and commended the action of the 



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Supreme Court in adopting a new set of 
rules for admission to the Rhode Island 
bar. Henry C. Hart made the report for 
the committee on amendments of the law. 

Daniel A. Clark, who owns and oper- 
ates the Red Oak Nurseries. Fiskeville, 
R. I., has given some bOO shrubs to 
Wheaton College and has also presented 
to the college the gardens for the new 
nursery school at Wheaton. Clark will 
direct the arrangement and the planting 
of the gardens himsell. 

1902 

Rev. Harry C. Leach, D.D., is entering 
upon his Ibth year as pastor of the First 
Baptist Church, Hackensack, N. J. 

James B. Littlefield represented the 
Providence World Court Committee at a 
dinner and meeting of national advocates 
of American adherence to the Court held 
at the Penn Athletic Club. Philadelphia. 
on Dec. 1 1 . 

Garland B. Russell, son of Rev. J. 
Francis Russell, pastor of the Lakewood. 
R. I.. Baptist church, has been licensed 
to preach and has accepted a call to the 
Manton Avenue Baptist Church. Provi- 
dence, until May, 1932. Young Russell, 
who is 19 years old, is a member of the 
Class of 1933 on the Hill. 

The Secretary regrets to report the 
death of Howard D. Briggs at the 
Mountainside Hospital. Montclair. N. J.. 
Dec. 18, 1931. .^n account of Briggs' 
career will be prepared for the next issue 
of the Alumni Monthly. 



1903 

Dr. Ernest K. Tanner has been ap- 
pointed chief attending surgeon of the 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Hospital, with which 
he has been associated for the past 25 

years. 

Arthur L. Philbrick of the Congdon & 
Carpenter Company, Providence, is the 
new vice president of the Providence 
Chamber of Commerce. 

Wakeman Bovey is engaged in sales 
promotion work with the Headley Emul- 
sified Products Co , 405 Lexington Ave- 
nue, New York. 

Rev. Thomas Albert Fenton. pastor of 
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Syra- 
cuse. N. Y.. for 2b years and recently 
assistant to the president of the Presby- 
terian Theological Seminary, Chicago, 
died in Chicago. Dec. 1, 1931. He was 
born in Hamilton, Ont., Jan. 12, 18b8, 
the son of Philip and Jennie (Gillen) 
Fenton He prepared at the Collegiate 
Institute, Brantford, Ont., and after 
receiving his Ph.B, at Brown, went to 
Auburn Theological Seminary. Before 
he came to college he served as minister 
of the Presbyterian Church in Morris- 
viUe, N, Y,, and of the First Presby- 
terian Church. Providence. In April, 
1904, he was installed as pastor of the 
church in Syracuse and remained there 
until May. 1930, when he resigned to go 
to Chicago. While he was in Syracuse he 
was moderator of the Syracuse presby- 
tery, president of the Ministers' .Associ- 
ation, and otherwise prominent in re- 



ligious and civic affairs. He received the 
degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology 
from Syracuse University in 1913. He 
was married June 10, 1897, to Kathleen 
MacTaggart, who survives him, together 
with a son, Wallace G. Fenton, and a 
daughter, Mrs. S. Howard Evans. His 
fraternity was Phi Gamma Delta. "His 
interest in all things of community 
betterment was unfailing," said the 
Syracuse-Post Standard in an editorial. 
"His acquaintance was broad; and his 
friendships were many. He was a widely 
known figure in the cultural life of 
Syracuse. " 

1904 

Col. Nobel B. Judah has been elected a 
director of the National Cash Register 
Company, Dayton, O. 

John F. Heckman, Jr . son of John F. 
Heckman. has won a $bOO scholarship at 
Phillips Exeter, where he is preparing for 
college. 

1905 

The Class of 1901 of the old Newark, 
N. J., High School held its second re- 
union since graduation at the Downtown 
Club. Newark, on Dec. 8. and we had a 
real interest in the news story announcing 
the affair because Fred Schwinn. Paul 
DeWolf, and the late Dr. Frank N. 
Mandeville were members of the class. 
So was Jerome Kern, the composer, and 
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1906 

The first Christmas Seal to reach the 
Alumni Office came the first week In 
December on a card from William H. 
Sewell, bringing the information that 
Sewell is still practicing law in Follett, 
Texas. 

Dr. Edgar S. Brightman, Dean of the 
Graduate School and Professor of Philos- 
ophy at Bo.ston University, recently ga\'e 
a series of lectures on the subject of "A 
Personal God" before the Y. M. C. A. 
Graduate School, Nashville, Tenn. 

John P. Mead is chief clerk for the 
Panhandle District. Empire Gas & Fuel 
Company, Route No. 2. Pampa, Texas. 

1907 

Charlie Stark and his family, we are 
told, have left Washington. D. C , to 
settle in Spokane, Wash., where Charlie is 
doing editorial work for the Spokane 
Spokesman-Review. 

Speck Paine's oldest boy, Rolf, will be 
ready to enter college next fall. He is an 
athlete, being good at football, hockey, 
baseball and golf, and also playing 
basketball. Rolf is a student at the 
Montclair, N. J., High Sdhool. His 
father is with the Du Pont Viscoloid 
Company, Arlington, N. J., as a chemist. 

1908 

Don Pryor's father. John Dustan 
Pryor, died in South Orange. N. J., Dec. 
7, 1931. Mr. Pryor, Sr.. who was in his 
83rd year, had been active up to the time 
of his retirement five years ago. 

Raymond W, D. Jones is district man- 
ager for the Westinghouse Lamp Com- 
pany, with his headquarters in Chicago, 
and is living at 829 Case Street, Evans- 
ton, 111. 

Governor Norman S. Case was the 
guest of honor at a dinner given by the 
Woonsocket City Republican committee 
in Woonsocket on Nov. 23, and. as he 
remarked later, "sat through a barrage" 
of praise by two L'nited States Senators 
(Moses of New Hampshire and Hebert 
of Rhode Island) and local political 
leaders and felt his ears tingle with the 
applause by the thousand persons gath- 
ered at the tables. Senator Moses said 
that Norman's leadership was of the 
highest type, and Senator Hebert praised 
him as patriot and friend. 

1909 

Eddie Mayer and Mrs Mayer from 
Chicago and Charlie Hughes, Jr., and 
Mrs. Hughes and the two Hughes boys 
from New York were among those 
present at the Brown-Colgate game at 
Brown Field on Thanksgiving Day. 

1910 

Dick Allen, assistant superintendent of 
schools in Providence in charge of re- 
search and guidance, spoke before the 
Women's Republican Club of Providence 
on Dec. 4 on the value ol continuation 
schools for children who work. Dick's 
boy, Gordon, is a member of the Fresh- 
man class on the Hill. 



Earl Herbert Williams, contractor and 
builder, died at his home in Auburn. R, 1.. 
Nov. 19, 1931. Born in Auburn, Nov. 
30, 1887, the son of Herbert A. and Eva 
E. Williams, he prepared at the Cranston 
High School and won the degree of B S. 
in E.E. at Brown. Since leaving college 
he had been superintendent of building 
for the Providence Gas Company; build- 
ing inspector with Jenks &l Ballou : super- 
intendent of construction with Sherwin 
Williams Company, Chicago, superin- 
tendent of construction with the C. M, 
Pritchard Company, Tulsa, Okla., and 
then for the past ten years or so in busi- 
ness for himself as a general contractor, 
building and selling small houses. He 
had also acted as consulting engineer 
with Jenks & Ballou. He was married 
April 20, 1910, to Marguerite Cummings. 
who died Oct 8, 1918. His second mar- 
riage took place July 19. 1920. to Thelma 
Grant, who survives him, together with 
a daughter by his first wife. He was a 
senior member of the Providence En- 
gineering Society and of Phi Gamma 
Delta. 

1911 

Da\e Purdie has been elected a trustee 
of the Brown Engineering Association, a 
unit of the Associated .Mumni. 

Clare S. Johnston reports that he is 
still practicing law with his offices in the 
Central Bank Building. Oakland, Calif. 

1912 

Herman O. Werner, special student 
with the class from 1908 to 1912. died at 
his home in Providence. Nov. 29. 1931. 
He was born in Greiz, Germany, June 
30, 1881, the son of Franz and Pauline 
(Haendel) Werner. He prepared in the 
German public schools, studied in private 
schools in this country and, after leaving 
Brown, went into the woolen business. 
He was superintendent of the North Star 
Woolen Mill Co.. Minneapolis, Minn,, 
1912-17; manager of the wool spinning 
department. Forstmann &l Huffmann 
Co.. Passaic. N. J., 1918-23; textile 
expert in Springfield, Tenn.. 1924; wool 
buyer and yarn manufacturer, 1 ientsin, 
China. 1925-27, manager of the Mt, Hope 
Spinning Co., Warren, R. 1., 1928; and 
since then an insurance agent with the 
Acacia Mutual Life Association, Before 
he came to Brown he organized and was 
in charge of the textile department at the 
Rhode Island School of Design. He was 
the author of articles on the designing and 
construction of woven fabrics. He was 
married June 14, 1905. to Amy Beatrice 
Martin, who survives him, together with 
a son, Herman O. Werner, Jr., '30, and a 
daughter. Beatrice -A. Werner. 

Ralph Sherwin Drury, president of F. 
L. Drury &l Sons Company, grocers, died 
at the Glenside Sanitarium. Jamaica 
Plain, Mass., Dec. 7, 193 1, alter an illness 
of two years. He was born in Fitchburg, 
Mass., Jan. 10, 1890, the son of Frederic 
L. and Flora E. (Sherwin) Drury. He 
entered Brown from the Fitchburg High 
School and as an undergraduate was 
manager of the Brown basketball team, 
and a member ot the bowling team and 
of the Cammarian Club. He started his 
business career with the Drury Company 
and in April, 1915, became a partner in it, 

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When the company opened a branch in 
Leominster he was manager. He re- 
mained until the store was combined 
with the Fitchburg store, where he con- 
tinued active until his last sickness. He 
was a past director of the Fitchburg 
Chamber of Commerce, past president of 
the Kiwanis Club, a member of the 
Monoosnuck Country Club, the Wachu- 
sett Auto Club, Aurora Lodge of Masons, 
and Alpha Tau Omega. He gave much 
of his time to contrructive work with the 
Y. M. C A. on the financial side. Bowl- 
ing was his hobby as a sport ; for many 
years he had the reputation of being the 
leading bowler in the Fitchburg district. 
He was married May 21, 1913. to Miss 
Florence M. Farnsworth. who survives 
him. together with a son. Ralph S. 
Drury, Jr., a daughter, Jane Drury, and 
a brother, Leon A. Drury '02, a nephew, 
Leon A. Drury, Jr., '33. and other rela- 
tives. "Prominent in fraternal and ser- 
vice organizations, keenly interested in 
athletics, a courteous, efficient business 
man Mr. Drury was one of the most 
popular and esteemed men in the com- 
munity, said the Fitchburg Sentinel. 

Dr. Louis 1. Newman, minister of 
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, New 
York, made one of the principal addresses 
at the peace meeting of Westchester 
County, held Sunday. Dec. 13, at the 
County Center. White Plains, N. Y. 
Everett Colby '97 was the other leading 
speaker, so the platform had a real 
Brown aspect. Protestants. Catholics, 
and Jews united for the meeting, and 
Michael Williams, well known Catholic 
layman, was presiding officer. 

1913 

Thomas C, Shedd, associate professor 
of structural engineering at the Univer- 
sity of Illinois, is co-author of "Theory of 
Simple Structures, " just published by 
)ohn Wiley & Sons Inc, New York. The 
book, we are told, "presents an unusually 
simple and direct discussion of the subject 
which should make a strong appeal to 
teachers and students alike." 

1915 

Samuel H. Workman is chairman of the 
committee of the Jewish Community 
Center, Providence, which has arranged 
an attractive series of lectures and con- 
certs for the winter and spring. Sam's 
speakers include Louis LIntermyer, the 
poet, Isaac Don Levine. newspaper cor- 
respondent and author. Max Eastman, 
literary critic. 

.John F Kelly is a mortgage broker 
with Wallace Bros., 963 First National 
Bank Building, Chicago. 

Sidney Clifford was elected and in- 
stalled as Worshipful Master at the 75th 
annual communication of What Cheer 
Lodge, No. 21, F. and A. M., of Provi- 
dence on Nov. 30. 

I9I6 

E. T. Willson, Jr., is industrial rela- 
tions manager with the .American Woolen 
Company, Shawsheen Village. Andover, 
Mass. 

Francis J. Brady has been re-elected 
chairman of the Providence School Com- 



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mittee for the next two years. Brown 
men on the committee with him are Col. 
Henrv B, Rose '81. secretary. Frank A. 
Paee'Ol, and John H. Wells '09. 
1917 

Elliott L. Thurston, former Washing- 
ton correspondent of the New York 
World, is now correspondent of the 
Philadelphia Record, we have heard. 
Elliott was doing free lance work in 
Washington after the World went out ol 
existence a year ago 

1918 

Lyle M. Prouse is a certified public 
accountant at 25 Beaver Street, New 
York. 

R. A. Gladue reports that he is 
chemist with the Herrick-Voigt Chemical 
Company, Bayonne, and that his house 
address is 75 'Carlton Road, Westfield, 
N. I. 

Ben Slade has been elected and in- 
stalled as High Priest of Providence 
Chapter, No. 1, Royal Arch Masons. 
Twenty-one of the 25 surviving high 
priests of the chapter were present at the 
138th annual convocation to see Ben 
take office. 

1919 

Leland .'X. Wildes is a supervisor with 
the Colonial Beacon Oil Co., with his 
headquarters in Everett. Mass. He and 
Mrs. Wildes and their daughter, going on 
two years old, are living at 38 Main 
Street, Maiden, Mass. 
1920 

Walter B. Lister is a member of the 
editorial staff of the New York Evening 
Post and is one of that newspaper's best 
bridge players, we are told. He has 
been covering the Culbertson-Lenz com- 
bat. 

Bill Shay is with George M. Dallas & 
Co., certified public accountants, 271 
Madison Avenue, New York. 
1921 

Dr. Maurice M. Pike reports a change 
of mailing address to 4 Atwood Street, 
Hartford, Conn. He is associated in 
practice with Dr. Paul P. Swett and Dr. 
S. H. McPherson in Hartford. In his 
letter he said that he was still enjoying 
the memory of his Tenth Reunion in 
Providence last June 

Norman B. Sowell. M. D., has opened 
offices for the practice of medicine in the 
Green Tree Building, West Chester, Pa. 
1922 

Milton Bates, writing from Calcutta, 
India, in October told the Alumni Office 
that he had pleasure in advising us that 
he was still with the National City Bank 
of New York and that his home address, 
as heretofore, was in care of Mrs. Paul 
Curtis, 1 Bay View Avenue, Swamp- 
scott. Mass, 

Harry Kent is engaged in electrical 
engineering with the National Electric 
Light Association, 420 Lexington .A\enue. 
New York, and is living at 48 Colonial 
Road, Glenbrook, Conn. 

Thomas G. Corcoran is with the law 
firm of Cotton. Franklin, Wright 8k' 
Gordon, t)3 Wall Street, New York. 

Chape Newhard, manager of the stock 
exchange department of Reinholdt & 
Gardner, members of the New York 
Stock Exchange, is occupying his new 
office at 718 Locust Street, St. Louis. 
Chape's firm recently acquired the offices 
and business of Oliver J . Anderson &' Co., 




GERALD L. BRONSTEIN, '32 

Played "Mephislofiheles" in Sock and Buskin's 

" Doctor Faustus " 

and the combination means a wider field 
and more business. 

1923 

Rev. Albert Sherberg is now well into 
his second vear as pastor of the Sayles 
Memorial Church, Saylesville, R. I., and 
is acquiring prestige as well as experience 
in his field. The Memorial Church is the 
community church of the Saylesville. one 
of the model villages of New England. 

Francis L. Jones is head of the Latin 
Department of the Worcester State 
Normal School. Worcester, Mass. He 
notes with interest that the Alumni 
Monthly is "now under the guiding hand 
of two of mv classmates." 

Don Thorndike is sales manager with 
Edward S. Jones Sons Co., printers, 
178 Union Avenue, Providence. The 
Jones boys are F. C. Jones '04 and R. B. 
Jones '07, so Don is in good Brown 
company. 

Andy Macfarlane is now executive vice 
president of Van Strum Financial Ser- 
vice. Inc., investment counselors, 730 
Fifth Avenue, New York. Andy was in 
Providence for a couple of hours one 
night in November and he wrote that he 
got a great kick out of walking through 
the campus and getting a glimpse ol 
Faunce House. Elsewhere we report the 
arrival of .Andy's new daughter, Marlyn. 

Walter Fenner, Jr.. is a division con- 
ference leader with the New York Tele- 
phone Company, at 199 Fulton Avenue, 
Hempstead, N. Y, 

1924 

H. B, (Hank) Smith has turned up safe 
and sound after his address had been 
missing at the .Alumni Office for some 
time. Hank is advertising manager with 
the Royal Lace Paper Works, Inc., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and is living with Mrs. 
Smith (they were married Sept. 29, 1928) 
at 1 Montague Terrace, in the same city. 

Bob Soellner, with the Connecticut 
General Life Insurance Company, has 
changed his address from 1772 First 
National Bank Building, Detroit, to 
b05 Svracuse Building, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Looks" to us as if Bob were getting nearer 
and nearer to the old home town of 
Schenectady 

Vernon Libby is department store sales 
counsellor for the San Francisco Exami- 
ner, San Francisco. Libby went to the 
Coast from Racine, Wis., where he had 

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been sales manager of the Wheary Trunk 
Co. He and Mrs. Libby (who was Miss 
Fidelia Dura) are living at Casa Robles, 
San Mateo. 

Rev. Thaddeus J. Hayden, Jr., — 
Jerry in our college days — was advanced 
to the priesthood in the Protestant 
Episcopal Church by Bishop James 
DeWolf Perry at a service held in St. 
Stephen's Church on George Street, 
Providence. Nov, 30. In the last four 
years Jerry has been teaching at the East 
Providence High School and studying for 
the ministry in his leisure time. He was 
ordained to the diaconate last January. 
He is now giving his whole time to the 
parish and mission of the Church of the 
Epiphany in Providence. 

A\ Parsons was an Alumni Office visitor 
one day last month and saw some of the 
old-tirriers (including Bruce Bigelow and 
Bill Sargeant) on and off the campus. 
Al is growing stout, but he says that the 
increased weight makes him look better, 
so what of it? He said that he and Bob 
Bent had visited Joe Nutter at Trudeau, 
N. Y.. one week end in November and 
that Joe was in good spirits and confident 
that he would be back on duty again in 
good season. 

Ed Place, member of the sports stalT of 
the Boston Transcript, with horses and 
dogs as his specialty, handled sports 
publicity for the University during part 
of the last football season. Ed was a 
pinch hitter for Joe Nutter, whose illness 
forced him to give up work several 
months ago. 

Charlie Burgess is the new secretary- 
treasurer of the Brown Engineering 
Association, succeeding Wayne M. 
Faunce '21. Charlie is a mechanical 
engineer with Heat Transfer Products, 
Inc., 30 Church Street, New York. 
1925 

It's Major Adolph W. Eckstein now, 
Eck having been promoted last month 
and assigned to the Medical Department, 
One Hundred and Third Field Artillery, 
Rhode Island. He becomes the head of 
the unit as Major, and therefore will have 
plenty to do in the spare time Irom his 
own medical practice. 

Edson Lockwood and Mrs. Lockwood, 
teaching in the American College, Ma- 
dura, India, sent us an unusual Christmas 
card, or what you will, giving glimpses of 
their lives and activities at Madura 
throughout the vear 193 1 . Among other 
things, they report that they pay 37 
cents a gallon for gasoline, that they eat 
apples imported from the State of Wash- 
ington at 5 cents each, and that it costs a 
student at the American College a dollar 
a month for a room, $4 a month lor 
board, and $31 to .$39 a year for tuition. 
Incidentally, the average temperature ol 
Madura is' 84 degrees, which should be 
solace to some of us who find that our 
1929 overcoats are getting a bit thin these 
wintry days. 

1926 
Bill Weidman is an interne at the Gay- 
lord Sanatorium, Wallingford, Conn., 
where .Mbie Booth, the Yale football 
captain, is at present the best known 
patient. Bill received his M. D. from 
McGill University Medical School last 
June. 

Mark Coles sent us Christmas greetings 
from the office of the New Jersey Bell 



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CAPITAL $1,500,000 

SURPLUS $2,500,000 

Main Office — 100 Westminster Street 
Branch^ Corner Empire and Washington Streets 



Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board 
Thomas L. Pierce, President 
Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier 
Charles M. Smith, III, Trust Officer 
Frank L. Sawyer, Assistant Cashier 
George A. Freeman, Assistant Cashier 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel 

Empire Street Branch, Frank L. Sawyer, Manager 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Manager 



Directors 



Charles H. Newell 
William B. McBee 
William Gammell, Jr. 
Moses J. Barber 
Paul C. DeWolf 
Frank E. Richmond 
Richard S. Aldrich 
Edward P. Jastram 
Earl G. Batty 



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Wilson G. Wing 
John Nicholas Brown 
Thomas L. Pierce 
Lauriston H. Hazard 
William L. Sweet 
Frederick T. Moses 
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ELECTRIC BATTERIES 

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Telephone Co , Newark, N. J , where he 
has just taken over some new work. 
Both Mrs. Coles and the new Coles baby 
are doing well. Mark reports, and the 
whole family likes its new house at 7 
Esse.x Street. Clifton. N. J. 

A. E, Nowack is a law clerk in the office 
of Louis Pressman, 21 East 40th Street. 
New York A. E. received his LLB. 
from the Brooklyn Law School last spring. 
He is now doing work for his A.M. at 
Columbia, so he has no complaint to 
make about not being busy. He and 
Mrs, Nowack are living at 573 West 
19 1 St Street, New York. 

.M Rafuse continues to keep moving 
West for the W. T. Grant Companv. 
The latest card from him reports that he 
is manager of the Grant store at 510 
Feli.x Street. St. Joseph, Mo. 
1927 

Charlie Kenney is now with the Kenney 
Manufacturing Company, extension cur- 
tain rods and drapery hardware (no 
charge for the advertising. Charlie) at 589 
E. Illinois Street, Chicago His house 
address is 5903 Winthrop Avenue. 
Charlie has been representing the same 
company, with St. Louis as his head- 
quarters, smce he left college 

Ed Goldberger has become associated 
with McGovern & Slattery (John H. 
Slattery '01) in the general practice of 
law at 1204 Industrial Trust Building, 
Providence. 

Bill Whalen is in the Real Estate De- 
partment, Standard Oil Company of New 
York, with his office at 230 Park Avenue. 

Rev Charles G E. Chilton has become 
pastor of the Sheldonville, Mass., Baptist 
Church, one of the attractive rural fields 
in this part of New England, the Rhode 
Island Baptist says. 

Ken Hovey is a field engineer for the 
Western Electric Sound Equipment, with 
his headquarters in the Industrial Trust 
Company Building. Providence. 

Russ Wonderlic, in a letter from 
Buffalo. N. Y., just before the holidays 
sent his regards and good wishes to all ot 
the old boys. Russ is the executive of 
the Erie County Council. Boy Scouts of 
America His headquarters are at 810 
Walbridge Building. Buffalo. 

George W. Niedringhaus. Jr.. is assist- 
ant secretary of the Granite City Steel 
Company, Granite City, 111 George 
said that he passed through Providence 
in the summer and that the old college 
looked excellent and greatly improved in 
some ways. He added that if any of the 
boys were coming out St. Louis way to 
be sure to let him know. 

Al Cleaves is with the National Credit 
Office, 140 Federal Street, Boston, and is 
living over in classic Cambridge at 15 
Prentiss Street, 

Bill Crawley writes that he has changed 
his address from New Rochelle, N. Y., to 
100 Park Street. New Haven. Conn., but 
he doesn't say what he is doing in New 
Haven. 

Tom Morris, settled in his new home at 
70b Sackett Street, Cuyahoga Falls. O,, 
(we report his marriage in another 
column) writes that he likes the style of 
the new .Mumni Monthly very much and 
that he is looking forward to future 
issues, Tom took his A.M. in chemistry 
at Western Reserve in 1930. 

R, F, Pickels is working for the Hemin- 

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way Press, Waterbury, Conn., we were 
told in New Haven not long ago. 

Rev. Duncan Eraser, who was ordained 
deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church on Nov. 30 by the Rt. Rev. 
Bishop James DeWolf Perry, has become 
a member of the staff of the Cathedral of 
St. John. Providence. 

1929 
Fred Smythe is a salesman with the 
Proctor 6; Gamble Co . and is living at 
Apartment 920, 5 Prospect Place. N. Y. 
John S Collier is with the Old Colony 
Co-operative Bank. 58 Weybosset Street. 
Providence. John is in the midst of a 
Brown company. E. H, Weeks '93. is the 
head of the organization. Walter E. 
Smith '93. Maurice W. Holton 'I7n. and 
A- B- Schweikart '3 1 are also Brown men. 
Then there is R. R. Crosby '26. who is 
with the Woonsocket branch of the bank. 
Eric Wendelin was one of 32 survivors 
from nearly 300 competitors to pass the 
foreign service examinations given by the 
State Department at Washington late in 
November. "As for the appointment." 
he wrote from Quincy. Mass . in response 
to a note of congratulation, "that is in the 
lap of the gods — or of the State Depart- 
ment! In any event, the first appoint- 
ment is for a brief period of training (six 
months to a year), usually at a post near 
by. The definite appointment follows a 
period in the Foreign Ser%ice School at 
the Department, lasting, at present, for 
six months." Eric also added a compli- 
mentary word about the new Alumni 
Monthly- 
Ed Hodsdon's present business address 
is P. O. Box 7827, Sharpsburg, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

.Al Clark is in the production depart- 
ment of Rand. McNally &l Company, 
map makers and printers, at 53b S. 
LaSalle Street. Chicago. We gather from 
Al's business-like report of his where- 
abouts that he is still a bachelor. 

1930 

Otto Kerner is a student at the North- 
western University Law School. Chicago. 

Newland Jones is with the W. T. Grant 
Company store at 85 Market Street, 
Newark. K. J. 

Earl Morgan, member of the class in 
our Freshman year, is manager of the 
Lewiston, Me., store of Montgoemry 
Ward & Co. Earl was married Jan. 14, 
1930. to Miss Barbara Pease. 

The memorial gate erected at the en- 
trance to Community Field. North -Attle- 
boro, Mass.. to Clarence (Toots) Munroe 
was opened to the public last Thanks- 
giving Day. It is the gift of Mr. and 
Mrs. James A. Munroe in memory of 
their son. who was one of the star 
athletes in North .Attleboro history, and 
who died a year ago. The Providence 
Journal said that "the memorial, impos- 
ing in the sturdiness and beauty of its 
architecture, was viewed with reverence 
by several thousand people. Hundreds, 
who knew the great young athlete per- 
sonally, stood in silence alongside the 
gate before and after Thursday morning's 
same. " 

1931 

Art Schweikart is working for the 
Old Colony Co-operative Bank, Provi- 
dence. 

Cliff Counihan is a member of the 



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sports staff of the Providence News- 
Tribune, and gets his picture and a by- 
line at the top of the major news stories 
that he turns in. 

Wally Fish, assistant in the Division of 
Engineering, attended the annual meet- 
ing of the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers in New York last month, 
and saw several members of the class 
while he was in the big city. 

Ken Henn and Red McDonough have 
been reported to be working their way 
around the world, Joe O'Neil tells us 
that, when last heard from. Ken and Red 
were in Singapore. 



Ed Fedeli was back on the campus just 
before the Christmas recess looking up 
old acquaintances. He has been with 
the Gammino Construction Company 
since graduation, building several miles 
of new highway in eastern Connecticut. 

Frank Merchant and Win Scott were 
among the contributors to Folio, the first 
number of which appeared on the campus 
last month. Folio is "a magazine of 
experiment." and its backers hope to 
print, without any shouting from the 
house tops, "the best materia! we can 
secure anywhere in the University com- 
munity." 



The Alumnae Clubs 

By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL 



The Christmas Party 

THE .Annual Christmas party of the 
.Mumnae .Association, which was held 
this year for the first time in the 
afternoon on the day after Christmas, 
proved to be a charming occasion. Mrs. 
Sarah Minchin Barker gave a delightful 
reading of a Christmas story and the 
Ensemble of the Brown Alumnae Club 
of Providence furnished a program 
which was greatly apreciated. Among 
those who poured at the tea were Dean 
Margaret S. Morriss, Mrs. Albert D. 
Mead. Mrs. Richard B. Snow, and Mrs. 
William T. Has^tings. The Social Activ- 
ities Committee, which had charge of 
the party, consisted of Mrs. Gertrude 
Niven Roberts Miss Ethel McKechnie, 
Miss Marjorie Battersby, and Mrs. 
Gertrude Allen McConnell. The Com- 
mittee was assisted by ten members of the 

Class of 1931. 

+ * * 

The Biennial Banquet 
The biennial banquet is to be held in 
Alumnae Hall on Saturday, Feb. b. and 
it will mark the fortieth anniversary of 
the founding of Pembroke College. 

* * * 

Boston Alumnae Club 
The Brown Alumnae Club of Boston 
held its December meeting at the home of 
Alice Tattrie Fletcher '20. (Mrs Leslie) 
who has recently returned from three 
years in Honolulu. Supper was served in 
true oriental style and it was a delicious 
meal. After the business meeting which 
followed, the Executive Secretary of the 
Alumnae Association gave various news 
items concerning the College and the 
alumnae. The January meeting is to be 
a luncheon on the Ibth at the Women's 
City Club with Dean Margaret S. 
Morriss as the guest of honor. Sylvia 
Berkman '28, is in charge of the arrange- 
ments. 

* * * 

Deaths 
Word has just been received of the 
death of Margarella Dickson Conrad 
(Mrs. Warren B.) at her home in Yakima, 
Washington, on Dec. 2, 1931. Mrs. 
Conrad was a graduate of Packer Col- 
legiate Institute and was a graduate 
nurse. She entered Brown with the 
Class of 1897 but did not remain to grad- 
uate. On Jan. 1, 1908 she was married 
to Warren B. Conrad, who, together 
with four sons, survive her. The sincere 



sympathy of the alumnae is extended to 
the family. 

Sallie 'Wolff Mielatz 'II, died suddenly 
in Wallingford. Conn, on Dec. b. 1931. 
She was the daughter of the late Charles 
Frederick Mielatz and Sallie Christine 
Nugent Mielatz of Newport, R. I. Miss 
Mielatz prepared for college at Rogers 
High School, from which she was gradu- 
ated in 1907. Upon entering college she 
became a member of Zeta Zeta Zeta 
fraternity and she was always a loyal and 
devoted daughter of Brown. From 191 1 
to 1917 Miss Mielatz taught in the high 
school in Branford. Conn. In 1917 she 
became secretary to the superintendent 
of schools in Branford. In 1920. when 
serious illness made it necessary for her 
to live thereafter at Gaylord Farm 
Sanatorium in Wallingford. she was made 
X-ray technician and held the position 
up to the time of her death. Miss 
Mielatz had a quiet, friendly and inter- 
esting personality and her death came as 
a distinct shock to her many friends. 



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News of Pembroke College 

By STELLA HOFFHEIMER, '33 



THE 16th annual convention of the 
Women's Intercollegiate News As- 
sociation with 13 publications represented 
was held at Pembroke Dec. 11 to 13, the 
Record actinjj as official hostess. Besides 
Alice Gindin. editor of the Pembroke 
paper, who is also this year's president of 
the Association, and Marjorie Holt, busi- 
ness manager, secretary-treasurer of the 
Convention, four other delegates from 
Pembroke attended the meeting. These 
were: Sally Ward '32, advertising man- 



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ager; Doris Gobeille 32. circulation 
manager. Ruth Sutcliffe '32. and Stella 
Hofflieimer 33, managing editors Other 
colleges sent two delegates a piece .Aside 
from the many editorial and business 
discussions at which outside speakers 
presided, there was a formal dance Dec. 
II. The following afternoon was spent 
at the Outing Club, and that evening a 
formal banquet was held, after which 
Komians presented three one-act plays. 
Publications represented at the conven- 
tion were as follows: The Record. Pem- 
broke College: Wellesley College News, 
Smith College Weekly. Radclifl'e News. 
V'assar Miscellany News, Connecticut 
College News, Blue and Grey, Hood 



College. Frederick, Md., Barnard Bulle- 
tin, Hunter College Bulletin, New York 
City. Goucher College Weekly, Balti- 
more. Mount Holyotce News. Willson 
Billboard, Chambersburg, Pa, and 
Wheaton News. 

Brun Mael announces that Miss 
Emma Stanton, college registrar now on 
sabbatical leave, is the honorary member 
of the book for this year. 

The English Singers will be the third 
attraction in the concert course which 
Pembroke College has sponsored this 
year, coming to .Mumnae Hall on the 
evening of Jan 14 to present one of their 
programs ot Elizabethan songs. These 
six artists have circled the world since 
their last recital in Providence. Future 
bookings in this series include Gregor 
Piatigorsky 'cellist, for Feb. 17, and 
Maria Kurenko, soprano, for March 14 



Alumae of Brown 

By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL 



BLANDING'S 

1 60 Westminster St. 6 Wayland Square 



1897 — Ruth S. Devereaux Eddy has a 
son in the freshman class at Brown. 

1899 — Henrietta Benson Allen has a 
son in the sophomore class. 

1899 — Clara Tingley has returned to 
Bassein. Burma, after a year's leave of 
absence. While in the United States, 
Miss Tingley filled a number of speaking 
engagements throughout the country, 
making two trips to California. 

1908— Cora Medbury Lever (Mrs. 
John M.) has moved from Lincoln. Neb. 
to b9 Amherst Street, Worcester, Mass. 

1911 — Lila Crapo is sportswear buyer 
for the Fox Company of Hartford, Conn. 

1911 — Irene Perry's new address is 
Box Q, Waltham. Mass. 

191 1 — Bessie Bloom Wessel's new book 
'An Ethnic Survey of Woonsocket, R. 
I." has been published by the University 
of Chicago Press and reviewed in the 
American Journal of Sociology, the Sur- 
vey, and the Providence papers. Much 
of the work on the book was done while 
Mrs. Wessel was teaching at Brown 
from 1925 to 1928. Mrs, Wessel is now 
teaching in the department of economics 
and sociology at Connecticut College. 

1915 — Ruth Henderson Cross (Mrs. 
Cecil M. P.) is living in Capetown, 
South .Africa. 

1915 — Edna Solinger Lyons (Mrs. 
Stanley H.) has moved to 51b5 Fountain 
Avenue, Fountain Manor, Hollvwood, 
Calif. 

1915 — Inex McMeehan Northam (Mrs. 
A J.) is recovering from a serious auto- 
mobile accident. 

191b— Ethel Page Pratt (Mrs. R. W.) 
has moved to 224 Crawford Avenue. 
Effingham, 111. 

1917 — Ruth Harvey Hall is teaching 
at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. 

1917 — Betsey Keene has moved from 
Oswego to Albany where she is living at 
51b Myrtle .Avenue, 

1917 Helen Tingley is living at 186 
Easf 75th Street, New York City. 

1919 — Ingeborg Toll Mears (Mrs 
.Atherton) has moved to Falls Church, \'a 

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1921— Dorothy Maxwell Klotz (Mrs. 
Edgar) has moved from Pennsylvania to 
926 Irving -Avenue. Westfield. N. J. 

1922 — Helen Osborne McCombs has 
moved from Columbus. Ohio to 1504 
Demonbramm Street, Nashville, Tenn, 

1923— Gladys Bauer Gray (Mrs. Er- 
nest W.) is living in Williamsburg, Va., 
where her husband is a member of the 
faculty of William and Mary College. 

1925 — Elinor V. D Smith is teaching 
in the biology department at Smith. 

1925 — .Alice Hathaway was recently 
appointed librarian of the Tockwotton 
branch of the Providence Public Library. 

1925 — .Adelaide E. Faris. daughter of 
.Adeeb Faris. formerly of the firm of 
Faris & Shehadi, is now a consulting 
agent in New York for clients who wish 
to purchase oriental rugs tapestries, 
linens, and works of art. Her headquar- 
ters are at 171 Madison Avenue. 

192b — Dorothy Stafford Huss (Mrs. 
F. I.) has moved from New Jersey to 30 
Montvale Avenue. Newton Center. Mass. 

1927— Alverda Sammis Beck (Mrs. V. 
R.) is in New York for the winter and is 
living at IbO Claremont .Avenue. 

1927 — Mildred Marcett is studying in 
London and living at 7 Mecklenburgh 
Square. 

1927 — Dorothea Pearson is teaching in 
New Haven and living at 43 Livingston 
Street. 

1928 — Sarah Mazick is completing her 
medical course at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity. 

1928 — Gertrude Potter is an assistant 
in the advertising department of the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company. 

1927 — Theta Holmes is doing graduate 
work in the psychology department of 
the University of Minnesota. 

1927 — Hope Kane is working on a 
Bibliography of .American Travel for the 
.American Historical .Association, with 
headquarters in Pittsburgh Her address 
there is 615 Clyde Street. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1927 — Margaret Lewis Nay (Mrs. 
Ralph) has moved ro the Van Tassel 
Apartments. North Tarrytown, N. Y. 

1929 — Ruth Hovey has moved to 1063 
Beacon Street. Boston. 

1929 — Harriet Riley has moved from 
New York to Boston and is living at 
39 Anderson Street. 

1929 — Evelyn Jillson Sharpe (Mrs. 
Russell) has moved to 1 3 A Ware Street, 
Cambridge. 

1929 — Frances Tirrell is dietitian in the 
Gorgas Hospital. Ancon, Panama Canal 
Zone. 

193 1 — Sylvia Cohen has opened a dress 
shop in the Kingsley Building, Westmin- 
ster Street, Providence. 

* * * 

Engagements 

1930 — Eleanora Cecilia Olsen to 
Robert Joseph Wade. 

1931 — Edythe Annette Olevson to Sid- 
ney Arthur Kane. 

* * * 

Weddings 
1924 — Laura Udell Keilty was mar- 
ried to Timothy John Lyons on Nov. 18, 
1931. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons are living at 
75 Cypress Street, Providence. 



1925 — Hope M. Baker was married to 
Lawrence W. Lundgren on June 20. 1931 
Mr. and Mrs. Lundgren live at 2 01i\'e 
Street, Attleboro. Mass. 

i927n — Rhea De Cbudres, daughter ol 
Thomas H. De Coudres '99, was married 
to Dr. Thomas Howard Peterson. North- 
western Medical '25, in the First Baptist 
Church in Providence on Nov. 18, 1931. 
Dr. and Mrs. Peterson are living at 94 
.^thelstone Road. Newton Center, Mass. 

1928 — Elizabeth Van Cor was married 
to Dr Dwight Lewis Siscoe, Harvard 
Medical School, in Emmanuel Church in 
Boston on Nov. 27. 1931. After a wed- 
ding trip in California, Dr. and Mrs. 
Siscoe will live in Brookline. 

1929n — Florence Ballou Nichols was 
married to John Anderson Lord, Jr., on 
Oct. 29, 1931 at Danvers. Mr. and Mrs. 
Lord are living at 1 1 Marion Avenue, 
Woburn, Mass. 

1930 — Esther Feinsod was married to 
Sidney Vogel in Norwalk, Conn, on Nov. 
2b. 1931. Mr. Vogel is a graduate of 
Cornell University and of the law school 
at Yale. Mr. and Mrs. Vogel are making 
their home in Norwalk. 



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BANK 

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MECHANICS 
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PROVIDENCE, R. 1. 



TOLSON 



HOTELS and RESTAURANTS 

THAT WILL PLEASE BROWN MEN 

T 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 TOLSON, President, Brown 1906 



IN MIDTOWN NEW YORK 



HOTEL BRISTOL 

129 WEST 48th STREET, NEW YORK 

400 Rooms 300 Baths 

Convenient to everything and everywhere. Within easy 
walking distance of all good shops and theatres. 

FAMOUS TABLE D'HOTE MEALS 

Three Restaurants 

LUNCHEON $.50 DINNER $1.00 

A La Carte Service of Merit 

RATES 

One person $2.00 to $4.00 per day 

Two persons $3.00 to $7.00 per day 

JOSEPH E. BATH, Manager 



HOTEL WENTWORTH 

59 WEST 4oth STREET, NEW -I'ORK 
250 Rooms 150 Baths 

Home of the BROWN CLUB of NEW YORK 

A select hotel in the Fifth Avenue area catering to perma- 
nent and transient guests. Whether your visit is for a day 
or a year you'll like the quiet, dignihed service we render 

EL PATIO RESTAURANT 

A bit of old Spain in New York 

LUNCHEON $.50 DINNER $1 00 

A La Carte Service of Merit 

RATES 

One person $3 00 to $5 00 per day 

Two persons $5 00 to $8 00 per day 

NATHAN A. TUFTS, Managing Director 



Also HOTEL WEBSTER, 40 West 45th Street, New York 

IN NEW JERSEY 



BON AIR LODGE -ON -LAKE HOPATCONG 

1000 feet above sea level — Fifty Miles from New ^'ork 
The Switzerland of America — Open June to September 

AMERICAN PLAN — $7.00 TO $10.00 PER DAY 



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The University 



recently circularized all Brown men suggesting that they 
file the names of their sons as prospective students, the 
same to compose a preferred list. This is an excellent idea 
and no doubt you have submitted the list. 

What provisions have you made to finance your son's 
education? 

Have you heard of the Puritan Child's Educational Fund 
Contract? It is truly a remarkable plan and we have yet 
to find its equal. 

Just mail the attached coupon to-day for complete infor- 
mation. We shall be glad to serve you. 



Puritan Life Insurance Company 

Executive Offices 

Turks Head Building 

Providence, Rhode Island 



PURITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 
Turks Head Building 
Providence, R. I. 

Kindly send me information regarding your Child's 
Educational Fund Contract. 

Father's Date of Birth 

Child's Date of Birth 

Name 

Address