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Vol. XXXIII 



PROVIDENCE, R. L, MAY, 1933 



No. 10 



A Class Night for the Alumni 



A restoration of the old-time Class Night, with 
wishes and interests of alumni respected, is prom- 
. ised by the 1933 committee entrusted with details o, 
this event which in years past has held a high place in the 
sentiments of Brown men. 

A greater alumni participation in the program of Friday 
evening, June 16, has been made possible, and some of the 
features have been included as the direct result of requests 
from graduates, according to Dean Coffin, chairman of the 
Class Night committee. It had been felt that alumni interest 
in the night had been waning m recent years, and practices 
once popular with the returned graduates are to be restored. 

Fraternities are to take part, most of them being assigned 
locations on the campus for the evening. While the old- 
time booths will not be set up because of the expense 
entailed, there will be markers and facilities available 
whereby the fraternities can hospitably entertain their 
members and guests. Large umbrellas in fraternity colors 
will be set at selected spots, and the fraternities will be able 
to use the catering provided by the committee. Of the first 
13 Greek letter societies to consider participation, 12 
voted in favor of it. 

The reunion classes will also find themselves welcome 
and definitely expected this year for the first time in 
recent Junes. While it has been a growing custom for the 
returned classes immediately to go off to their reunions in 
remote parts of the State, the Class Night committee has 
asked the class committees to include the campus event in 
their program. A number of them have promised to co- 
operate in this way. 

A prise will be offered to the returning class which best 
renders a class or college song in a special competition. 
This event, with incidental cheering, is expected to add 
extra color to the festivities, and the pri~e which will be 
sent to the reunion of the winning singers is said to be a 
considerable one. The assembly of the classes will make it 
possible for the meeting of friends who might have been 
missed under the visiting at the fraternity locations. 

Class night, says the committee, is one of the delightful 
old traditions left in a changing college. Its decora- 
tions, the lantern-hung campus, the open-air dancing, the 
promenade, and the concert always make for a colorful 
night, but with the other old customs restored, the commit- 
tee expects between 1500 and 2000 to enjoy themselves this 
year. 

The undergraduate part in the evening will include the 
seniors' last sing from the chapel steps, a brief program 
by a part of the glee club, and the general dance. Sayles 
Hall will be used for dancing as well as the open air sur- 



face set up under the elms. The committee is not recom- 
mending formal dress. 

Letters have been addressed to the secretaries of each 
Brown Club and each class, asking the help of all 
returning alumni in restoring Class Night to its old glory. 
The early response has been very encouraging, Mr. Coffin 
says. 

The Administration, too, is making a particular effort 
this year to preserve as fully as possible the fine old 
tradition of alumni participation in the Commencement 
procession. 



Dignifying the Graduate Convocation 

P^orESSOR Niels Eohr of the University of Copenhagen 
will give the address at the Graduate School Convoca- 
tion on June 17, 1933, his title being: "The Meaning of 
Explanation in Natural Science." Professor Bohr is inter- 
nationally know^n for his work on the structure of the atom, 
for which he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 
as well as m my h :n: rary degrees, medals and other honors. 
He is the director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at 
the University of Copenhagen and during 1922-1923, Pro- 
fessor R. B. Lindsay of the Department of Physics at Brown 
ctudied with him. 

At this Convocation, honorary degrees will be con- 
ferred on seme foreign scientists who are in America 
to speak at the scientific meetings held in connection with 
the Chicago Exposition. Application for tickets of admis- 
sion to this exercise can be sent to the Office of the Graduate 
School. 

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On the Ballots for Trustee 

Official ballots for alumni trustees, alumni member 
of the Brown University Athletic Council and offi- 
cers of the Associated Alumni have been mailed to 
degree holders and former students of Brown. Holders of 
degrees received three ballots; former students may vote 
only for officers of the Associated Alumni. 

There are tour alumni trustee vacancies in the Board of 
Trustees of the University to be filled. The terms of Clin- 
ton C. White '00, Baptist; William Allen Dyer '86, Epis- 
copal, and Arthur W. Pinkham '02, undenominational, 
expire next month. Dr. Rufus M. Jones, Quaker, of Haver- 
ford, Pa., was elected by the alumni, and then named as a 
corporation trustee. The present candidates are: 

Baptist — Clifford S. Anderson '00, Worcester, Mass.: 
Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D.D.. '08, Fall River, Mass.: 
Charles C. Tillinghast '06, New York. 



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Quaker — Barclay L. Jones '16, Overbrook, Pa.: L. Ral- 
ston Thomas, headmaster Moses Brown School, Providence. 

Episcopal — J. Palmer Barstow '02, Providence; Henry 
C. Hart '01, Providence; William P. Sheffield '1 5, Newport. 

Undenominational — W. Randolph Burgess 12, New 
York; Dennis F. O'Brien '98, New York; Homer N. Sweet 
'07, Boston. 

Nearly 6,800 ballots were mailed to holders of bachelor, 
advanced and honorary degrees in all parts of the United 
States and abroad. The Associated Alumni ballots, which 
went to graduates and former students alike, number about 
10,000. The results of the elections will he made known at 
the alumni meeting in Sayles Hall, Commencement Day, 
June 19. 

Under the agreement between the Brown Corporation 
and the Associated Alumni, the alumni have the priv- 
ilege of choosing 14 out of the 42 members of the Board of 
Trustees. They nominate to fill alternate vacancies in the 
board until they have filled their quota, which is divided as 
follows: Seven Baptists, one Quaker, two Congregational- 
ists, two Episcopalians, and two without regard to de- 
nomination. 

The candidates on this year's alumni trustee ballot are 
well known in their respective fields. Mr. Anderson is gen- 
eral counsel and secretary of the Norton Company of 
Worcester. Dr. Thomas is pastor of the First Baptist 
Church of Fall River. He received the honorary degree of 
D.D. from Brown in 1931. Dr. Tillinghast, headmaster of 
Horace Mann School for Boys, is also the holder of an 
honorary degree from Brown, having received an Ed.D. 
in 1930.' 

Dr. Jones is headmaster of the Friends Central School, 
Overbrook, where Mr. Thomas was in charge for two years 
before coming to Moses Brown School in 1924. Mr. Bars- 
tow is a manufacturer, long active in Brown affairs, and 
Messrs. Hart and Sheffield are lawyers and prominent in 
civic work. 

Mr. Burgess is deputy governor of the Federal Reserve 
Bank of New York; Mr. Q'Brien, former president of the 
Brown University Club in New York, is general counsel of 
the Actors Society of America, American Society of Dra- 
matists and Composers, and the United Artists Corporation. 

Mr. Sweet is in public accounting practice, and a lec- 
turer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Admin- 
istration. 



For President of the Alumni 

Henry S. Chafee '09 and William B. Farnsworth "17, 
both of Providence, are the candidates for the office 
of President of the Associated Alumni of Brown Univer- 
sity, being named on the ballots sent out to 10,000 former 
students. Mr. Farnsworth has been a force behind the 
Alumni Fund and active with the Brown Club of Prov- 
idence. Mr. Chafee is managing director of the Alumni 
Monthly, a member of the Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni and other committees. 

Nominated without opposition for the office of treasurer 
is Charles J. Hill "16, who engineered the Providence Brown 
Club's successful membership drive and worked on the 
special scholarship committee. The results of the election 
will be announced at Commencement. 



Candidates for the Athletic Council 

AS successor to George S. Burgess '12, who, in June, will 
. complete a two-year term with the Brown University 
Athletic Council, the alumni will elect by ballot one of the 
three candidates chosen by the Advisory Council of the 
Associated Alumni in February. The candidates are John 
C. Hennessy '10, New York; William C. Giles "11, Spring- 
field, Mass.; and R. G. Sykes '21, Boston. 

Hennessy, a civil engineer, is prominent in the sports 
world as an intercollegiate and professional football official. 
In recent years he has officiated in some of the big games in 
the East. As an undergraduate he played on his class foot- 
ball, basketball and baseball teams, and was captain and 
catcher on the varsity team in his Senior year. 

Giles, who has served one term, 1929-31, as member of 
the Athletic Council, is a lawyer in Springfield, being a 
member of the firm of Ely, Giles ii Ely. In college his 
specialty was baseball; and he was captain and first baseman 
of the nine in 1911. He has been president of the Con- 
necticut Valley Brown Club. Although he still calls baseball 
his favorite sport, he keeps in close touch with what is going 
on in intercollegiate football and hockey. 

Sykes, president of Sykes ii Sykes, Inc., insurance, for 
some years has been a leading figure in amateur sport circles 
in Boston. He is chairman of the athletic committee of the 
University Club of Boston; and last year was chairman of 
the Boston Olympic finance committee. He retired in Jan- 
uary as president of the Brown Club of Boston. He is a 
special writer on football for the Boston Transcript, and is 
a student of track, hockey, and swimming. 



Placing the Graduating Class 

The Committee on Placement, appointed last year to 
assist members of the graduating class in securing posi- 
tions in the business world after graduation, is continuing 
its task for the members of the Class of 1933. This com- 
mittee consists of Assistant Dean Clinton H. Currier, 
Chairman, Messrs. K. Brooke Anderson, O. T. Gilmore, 
and Nelson B. Jones, Jr. 

The committee would appreciate very much the cooper- 
ation of Brown alumni in bringing to its attention openings 
in the business world which might be of interest to the 
Class of 1933. Communications should be addressed to 
Mr. O. T. Gilmore, Secretary of the Committee on Place- 
ment, Brown University. Mr. Gilmore will be glad to 
furnish full information about the ability and character of 
seniors registered with the committee who might be quali- 
fied for a given position. Personal interviews with appli- 
cants will be arranged if desired. 

Arrangements have been made with the Department of 
Education and Vocation of the University Club of Boston 
so that Brown seniors will have the assistance of that organ- 
ization. Mr. Stanley C. Lary, Director of this Department, 
visited the campus on February 28 and March 7, inter- 
viewing seniors concerning their vocational and placement 
problems. 

Last year in response to an article in the Monthly atten- 
tion was called to a number of openings. 



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DIDN'T TAKE 
THE PLEDGE 

Members of the 
S. A. T. C. at 
Brown during the 
War. 




The War the Peace Drive Started 



FOR the first time in its long history Brown University 
faced a Legislative investigation this spring and was 
"exonerated." The affair, not without its Gilbert and 
Sullivan aspects, even threatened to become a Federal inci- 
dent instead of a mere State one but did not. 

It all came about as the result of an editorial campaign 
in the Brown Daily Herald, with the support of other 
undergraduates, asking a student pledge at Brown and on 
other American campuses "not to bear arms except when 
the country is invaded." Petitions were circulated and the 
support of other college newspapers solicited with con- 
siderable success. 

The act immediately brought praise and denunciation 
from many sides and from surprising quarters. Among 
those to attack the movement as "founded in Communism" 
was William A. Needham, T5, a war veteran who asked 
United States District Attorney Henry M. Boss, Jr., '94, 
for a Federal investigation of undergraduate activities. At 
the same time the Rhode Island General Assembly passed 
a resolution empowering the Speaker to appoint a com- 
mittee to investigate the University and to provide penalties 
for disloyalty to the State and Nation. 

The instant effect of this Legislative action was to stimu- 
late the drive on the campus, doubling the number of 
pledges to 700. The movement at Brown had by this time 
spread to a number of other colleges where the newspapers 
resorted to straw votes, petitions, and other means of deter- 
mining student sentiment. First to co-operate were the 
Columbia Spectator, the Tale Daily J^ews, the Daily 



Princetonian, the Buc\nellian. and others. At Columbia 
271 of 500 voted for the Herald plan. At Yale 672 and at 
Dartmouth 602 were for it. At Harvard there were 717 
signatures. 

OFFICERS of the American Legion and the Veterans of 
Foreign Wars were vigorous in denouncing the pa- 
cificism. William Gammell, '78, member of the Corpora- 
tion and chairman of the committee which erected the 
World War Memorial Gateway, wrote to Dr. Barbour 
that the Herald drive would do the University "an immense 
amount of harm." Norwich students, all R. O. T. C. 
members, unanimously voted opposition to the plan in a 
petition seven feet long which they sent to Washington. 

A number of the alumni wrote in to congratulate the 
Herald on its stand, among them Dr. George H. Hunt, '24, 
R. C. McCormick, '31, Robert F. Skillings, Tl, Edward J. 
Teachman, '29, P. L. Bailey, Jr., '26, Paul F. Gleason, '32, 
Miner T. Patten, '32, and Augustus T. Swift, '99, who 
sent the editor a picture of Coolidge signing the Kellogg 
pact. Others who commended the pacifist pledge had less 
direct University connection : Harry Emerson Fosdick, 
John Haynes Holmes, Norman Thomas, a former member 
of the Nova Scotian parliament, Prof. Harlow of Smith, 
and James F. Greene, Yale student who spoke at the 
Geneva disarmament conference. 

The Intercollegiate Disarmament Council invited 800 
other colleges to join the movement started at Brown, and 
the Herald each day reported some new institution where 
student sentiment was being made articulate on the subject, 



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as widely scattered as Chicago, Tulane, Occidental, and 
Read College, Oregon. Women's colleges also recognized 
the controversy and took votes. 

The American pacifist development parallels one in Eng- 
land, where the stands of the Oxford Union and Cambridge 
were far more extreme than at Brown, denying any par- 
ticipation in war whatsoever. In Canada, McGill, Toronto, 
and Bishop's College were among the pacifist strongholds. 



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HE Administration attitude at Brown was described in 
a Boston paper as one of "hands off," although Dr. 
Barbour declared that he was not in favor of a declaration 
such as that the Herald was sponsoring. Dr. Mead suggested 
that students "signing an irrevocable pledge should ask 
themselves two questions: 1. Can I predict with certainty 
what my conviction on a particular matter will be 15 or 20 
years hence? If my honest conviction as to the right course 
of action shall conflict with a pledge made 15 or 20 years 
before, shall I then violate my pledge or my conscience?" 

After some difficulty, the R. I. House succeeded in getting 
six men to serve on its committee of investigation. Both 
Republican and Democratic floor leaders declined appoint- 
ment, the former believing the inquiry not important 
enough to bring him to Providence from Newport for 
its meetings. 

To the aid of the sponsors of the "War Against War" 
movement came offers of legal assistance from the Ameri- 
can Civil Liberties Union of New York and a score of 
Providence attorneys, most of them Brown alumni. The 
latter included: Alberic A. Archambault, John W. Baker, 
John P. Beagan, Elmer S. Chace, Roger T. Clapp, Sidney 
Clifford, Gurney Edwards, Walter A. Edwards, William 
H. Edwards, Charles R. Haslam, Henry C. Hart, Edward 
T. Hogan, George H. Huddy, Jr., Robert E. Jacobson, 
Francis B. Kenney, Clifford A. Kingsley, John C. Knowles, 
Edgar J. Lanpher, Ivory Littlefield, E. Butler Moulton, 
Eliot G. Parkhurst, Fred B. Perkins, Charles C. Reming- 
ton, Edward T. Richards, Judah C. Semonoff, Herbert M. 
Sherwood, John H. Slattery, Kirk Smith, Edward A. Stock- 
well, Frank H. Swan, William C. Waring, Jr., and Freder- 
ick B. Wiener, many of them having had Herald affiliations 
in college. 

WITHOUT holding any public hearings, however, the 
Legislative Committee came to the conclusion that 
disloyalty was not rampant on the Hill. Brown was "ex- 
onerated." The committee report said there was "no neces- 
sity for action by the State in suppressing these activities 
by the students" which were in no way "prompted by 
disloyal organizations outside the student body." Dr. 
Barbour was quoted at some length on the function and 
freedom of opinion on the campus, and the report went on 
to conclude that "the embryonic editors apparently toying 
with ideas would be like Brown men of other years, among 
the first to answer the call to the colors." Brown, "an 
admirable university, one of the finest in the United States," 
had never been found wanting in time of national need, it 
was said, 1975 of her sons having been in service during the 
World War. 

The Herald is continuing its drive, as are other college 
newspapers, although their activities are no longer first 
page news or topics of editorial leaders. Maxwell G. 
Hoberman, '33, was editor-in-chief when the campaign 
began, the new editor, William B. Flack, '34, and his board 
carrying on. 




85 5 TO 3 FOR HIM 

Lawrence L. Larrabee '09, president of the 

Los Angeles Bar Association 



Head of Los Angeles Bar 

Lawrence L. Larrabee '09 is president of the Los Angeles 
Bar Association for 1933-34. His selection, by ballot, was 
almost unanimous, the vote for him being 85 5 to 3. Larry 
has been serving as counsel for the Los Angeles Loan 
Agency of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation since 
last fall, and between this work and his own law practice 
he has been unusually busy this winter. 



A Rich Man's College 7 

Only at Yale is education more expensive to the student 
than at Brown University, if we are to believe the 
findings of "several of the largest life insurance companies 
in the country" reported in the Brown Daily Herald. The 
estimate for Brown was given as $1600 a year, the same as 
at Harvard and M. I. T. Yale's figure was said to be an 
average of $1700, while some of the other better known 
institutions were these : 

Amherst $1500, Bowdoin $1200, California $1050, 
Carnegie Tech $1300, Case $1150, Chicago $1200, Col- 
gate $1300, Columbia $1200, Cornell $1200, Dart- 
mouth $1500, Duke $800, Georgia Tech $950, Illinois 
$1000, Indiana $800, Lafayette $1300, Lehigh $1200, 
Michigan $1050, Ohio State $1 100, Penn State $800, Penn- 
sylvania $1500, Stanford $1200, Syracuse $1200, Wes- 
leyan $1300, Williams $1300, Wisconsin $1000. 



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Brunonia Plays the Game 



A lthough drenching weather in early April retarded 
/-\ preparations in every line of sport and postponed 
-*■ *- a number of the openings, the Brown teams made 
a creditable beginning in the nine branches of activity 
given official recognition. Overshadowing the different 
varsities was the work of freshman teams in baseball and 
track, which went undefeated against sturdy opponents in 
the first half of the season. 

Denied a chance to play by rain on four different occa- 
sions, the baseball team finally opened its schedule on April 
22, losing 6-0 to the invariably strong Holy Cross club. 
Deserved victories over Colby and New Hampshire, 6-2 
and 3-2 respectively, were followed by a heart-breaking 
2-1 rebuff at Harvard and a 7-1 whipping by Boston Uni- 
versity. While Coach Kelleher had been able to use his 
pitching ace, Bert Humphries, but little, his battery material 
is better than in recent years and his veteran line-up should 
be capable of a good season. 

The freshmen won their first five encounters in spec- 
tacular style, twice pulling games out of the fire in Mem- 
well finishes. Against the Harvard freshmen Butler's 
homer in the ninth with three men on gave the Cubs a 7-4 
decision, while a single with two out in the ninth enabled 
them to beat the Harvard Junior Varsity 2-1. The latter 
was a return game, the 1936 nine having previously nosed 
the Jayvees out 7-6. Bradford Durfee Textile School of 
Fall River lost 3-1, while Worcester Academy went home a 
9-2 loser. 

After two starts in which they showed how the weather 
had handicapped their development, the lacrosse ten 
showed power in beating Boston University 14-0, M.I.T. 
8-3, and New Hampshire J-4. Yale was played on even 
terms during the first half but ran away later to win 8-3. 
Harvard's experience was somewhat similar, although pen- 
alties for roughness prevented Brown from showing to 
advantage. The score was 8-2. 

Coach Powers had discouraging news at the outset of 
the track campaign. Lee, perhaps the best half-mile 
prospect since Norman Taber, had to leave college at mid- 
years for financial reasons, and Firsching and Swart; were 
declared ineligible on the eve of the first meet. Firsching is 
a good two-miler, running in an event where Brown was 
weak last year, while Swart; was an interscholastic cham- 
pion in middle distances. 

Against Rhode Island the field men scored 4T of the 
68 points, one more than State's total of 67. Although 
Danesi took only a third in the hammer, he set a new Brown 
record of 136 feet 9% inches which displaced Harry Corn- 
sweet's old mark. When Brown was losing to New Hamp- 
shire the following Saturday, 73-62, Danesi raised his dis- 
tance to 140 feet 2 inches. Against the Granite Staters, the 
Bears took only 16 points on the track. At Hanover the 
squad placed third, Dartmouth winning with 6lYz points, 
Columbia taking second with 38 points, and Brown gar- 
nering 29J/2 points, taking only five thirds in track events. 



In dual meet competition with either of the two rival-. 
Brown's record would have been much better, probably 
good enough to beat the New Yorkers. 



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OM Gilbane, New England Intercollegiate champion 
in the shot-put, won not only his specialty in the three 
meets but took the discus as well. Buonanno has tied for 
first in the pole vault each time he has competed, setting a 
new Brown record of 12 feet 5 Y4 inches in the triangular 
meet. Larry Brown, who holds the New England title with 
him, has also been vaulting well. 

The freshman track entries have been well balanced, 
with strength enough to take every first place from 
Dean Academy, and 1 1 each from Rhode Island freshmen 
and Holy Cross freshmen. Davis, sprinter, and Pierson, 
weight man, have been outstanding. 

With Captain Chace starring in number one position. 
Brown won three tennis matches (from Boston Uni- 
versity 7-2, Boston College 9-0 and Providence College 
6-3) before suffering whitewashings from Harvard and 
North Carolina, the latter undefeated in four years and 62 
encounters. In the latter meet Chace took the Chapel Hill 
captain to 14-12 in the last set before yielding, while Har- 
ris, number two player, has also played soundly. The fresh- 
men have two victories on the courts and two losses, the 
former from St. George's School and Providence College 
freshmen, the latter to Classical High and Harvard fresh- 
men. 

Having rejoined the intercollegiate golf league this year, 
the Brunonians have been more successful outside of 
its sphere than in it. They beat Tufts IY2 to Yl and Bos 
ton College 8-1 but bowed to each of her rivals in a week- 
end tourney with Princeton, Pennsylvania and George- 
town. 



Strenuous Football Schedule for 1934 

A nine-game schedule, longer by one than the corre- 
sponding one for next fall has been announced for 
the 1934 season football season. It includes contests with 
Harvard, Yale, Syracuse, Columbia, Holy Cross, and Col- 
gate, Columbia reappearing on the Brown list in place of 
Princeton. Springfield and Rhode Island will again oppose 
the Bruins, while Boston University is the newcomer, open- 
ing the season a week earlier than usual in order to allow 
preparation for major games. Relative dates of the latter are 
considerably changed. 

There are few "breathers" in the following list: Sept. 
29 — Boston University at Providence; Oct. 6 — R. I. State 
at Providence; Oct. 13 — Harvard at Cambridge; Oct. 20 — 
Yale at New Haven; Oct. 27 — Syracuse at Providence; 
Nov. 3 — Springfield at Providence; Nov. 10 — Columbia at 
New York; Nov. 17 — Holy Cross at Providence; Nov. 29 
— Colgate at Providence. 



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Brown Men in the Headlines 



Masury Was Aboard the Ahjon 

Alfred Fellows Masury '04, automotive engineer 
/\ of national reputation, lost his life when the U. S. 
X JL Navy dirigible Akron crashed into the sea off the 
Jersey coast in the early morning of April 4, 193?. On 
board as a guest officer, he had not told his wife in New 
York that he was going so that she would not be unduly 
worried. His body was found April 8 near the scene of the 
wreck. Born in Danvers, Mass., Sept. 2, 1882, the son of 
Charles H. and Evelyn A. (Fellows) Masury, he entered 
Brown from the Holten High School, Danvers, studied 
mechanical engineering and won his M.E. degree with the 
class. From Brown he went to the General Electric Com- 
pany, Lynn, Mass., to serve under R. H. Rice, chief 
draughtsman. In succession he worked for the Vaughn 
Machine Co., Peabody, Mass., Corwin Mfg. Co., also of 
Peabody, the Hewitt Motor Co., and the International 
Motor Company, of which he was chief engineer for nearly 
20 years. He was also a vice president of the company, 
now a division of Mack Trucks, Inc. When he went to 
New York some 20 years ago he took courses at the Davis 
School of Highway Engineering at Columbia. In recent 
years he had taken out numerous patents for the Inter- 
national Motor Company. During the World War he was 
in Washington co-operating in the designing of Liberty 
motors; as Lieutenant Colonel, Ordnance Department, 
O.R.C., he had an eager and intensive interest in the devel- 
opment of power for dirigibles. In May, 1929, he started 
out from Germany on the Graf Zeppelin and came down 
with that ship in France. He was married June 1, 1912, to 
Marion Edna Lanphear, who survives him, together with 
his mother. He was a senior member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers and of Psi Upsilon. 

The Oldest School Celebrates 

COLLEGIATE School of New York City, at which many 
men prepared for Brown, has just completed the 
observance of its 300th anniversary. It is the oldest school 
in America, having been founded three years before Har- 
vard College. Henry G. Carpenter '06 has been a teacher 
at Collegiate School for the past 24 years, while his son 
Henry G., Jr., of the class of 1934 is one of several Brown 
undergraduates who acknowledge the school as their other 
Alma Mater. At the anniversary dinner on March 10th 
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., '09 was toastmaster. 

"We sit amid thousands of Indians and barbarians," said 
a resident of New Amsterdam at the time the school was 
founded in rented quarters. No one dared "to move a foot 
to fetch a stick of firewood without a strong escort." Es- 
tablished jointly by the Dutch West India Company and 
the elders of the Established Church of Holland, the school 
links in its history the present day of the highly trained 
teacher-specialist with the day when, under the Dutch plan, 
keeping school was a part-time duty of the church "zieken- 
trooster," or consoler of the sick. 

The publicity given to Collegiate School prompted Isaac 
B. Burgess '83 to write a splendid letter to the Tsjeto Tor^ 
Times about the "school which has long claimed to be the 
oldest in America — the Boston Public Latin School for 
Boys." This school, according to Burgess's documentary 



evidence, was founded in 1635. "From the first," wrote 
Burgess, "it seems to have taught Latin and Greek and to 
have prepared pupils for Harvard College, which opened 
the next year, 1636, and to this institution it has continued 
to send students in large and increasing numbers until this 
day, almost three hundred years, and has become note- 
worthy for the high excellence of its preparation." Burgess 
concluded: "My interest in the matter is not a casual one, 
for in my early teaching days I was on its (Public Latin 
School) staff for three and a half years and owe much to it." 



Another Smile from ]ohn Williams 

THERE are lines about the face of John Henry Williams 
'1 2 to attest that he smiles often. So, at least, "W.A.M." 
of the Boston Transcript discovered when he went to inter- 
view the newly elected Nathaniel Ropes professor of politi- 
cal economy at Harvard University. Professor Williams' 
appointment to this important chair (he succeeds Professor 
William Z. Ripley) came shortly after his return to Amer- 
ica after representing the United States in preparation of 
the agenda for the London economic conference soon to be 
held." 

The world should modify the four main types of restric- 
tion on trade, the professor told the newspaperman. 
"They are depreciation of currency involving departure 
from the gold standard; control of exchanges permitting 
purely nominal adherence to the gold standard but involv- 
ing control over the flow of bank balances between coun- 
tries; direct restriction on trade by quotas, licenses, and 
prohibitions; indirect restrictions on trade by tariff rates." 
Professor Williams has been in great demand for a 
public speaker lately. He came back to Providence late 
in March to speak on "The Road to World Economic Re- 
covery" at the season's last meeting of the Foreign Policy 
Association. He was the guest speaker at the April meeting 
of the Brown Club of Boston, talking about the World 
Economic Conference. He also spoke before the model 
world economic conference which Harvard students con- 
ducted recently. 



When ]ersey Got Its Beer 

Governor A. Harry Moore was having lunch with 
Harvey N. Davis '01, President of Stevens Institute 
ot Technology in Hoboken, N. J., Wednesday, April 5, 
and so it came about that the Governor signed at Davis's 
house the temporary beer control law passed by the New 
Jersey Legislature at Trenton the previous night. A mes- 
senger carried the bill to the Governor's law office in 
Jersey City, and kept right on to Hoboken as he learned 
that Governor Moore was a guest at lunch at the Davis 
home on the Stevens Campus. To sign the measure the 
Governor borrowed a pen from Marian Davis, ten-year-old 
daughter of President Davis. 

George W. Grimm '20, Police Recorder for East Orange, 
N. J. (to give him one of his numerous titles) was appointed 
Beer License Commissioner for New Jersey. He will have 
a deputy commissioner in each county of the State, and the 
deputies will issue licenses to breweries and wholesalers. 



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"Starred" Among 250,000 Scientists 

Five graduates of Brown University, a member of the 
Brown Faculty, and two former members, are included 
in the list of 250 men of science in the United States 
who have been selected out of 20.(100 tor addition to the 
fifth edition of the Biographical Directory of American 
Men of Science. 

"These men," said Dr. J. McKcen Cattell, editor of 
Science, "are regarded by their colleagues as among the 
leading scientific workers of the United States." They will 
be classed as "starred scientists," having achieved some- 
thing notable in their respective fields. 

Professor C. R. Adams "IS of the Brown Department 
of Mathematics, and Professor Raymond L. Wilder 'IS of 
the University of Michigan are among the 20 mathema- 
ticians on the new list. It is unusual that two men from the 
same college class should be chosen for such a select group. 

Professor Harlan T. Stetson '08, director of the Perkins 
Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan University, wins a place 
among the astronomers, and Dr. Edgar Allen '15, Dean of 
the School of Medicine, University of Missouri, is among 
the anatomists. Professor T. Harper Goodspeed '09 of the 
University of California is chosen as one of the outstanding 
young botanists of the country. 

Professor W. Albert Noyes, Jr., of the Department of 
Chemistry at Brown; Professor R. E. Langer, former mem- 
ber of the Department of Mathematics and now at Michi- 
gan, and Professor Leigh Hoadley, formerly with the 
Department of Biology and at present at Harvard, also 
have places among the elect. 

A graduate of Brown in 1918, Professor Adams has been 
a teacher of mathematics on the Hill except tor the three 
years, 1920-1923, that he was doing advanced work at 
Harvard, and then at Rome and Gottingen. He belongs 
to Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Mathematical 
Society, the Mathematical Association of America, Alpha 
Tau Omega, and other scientific and social units. Last sum- 
mer he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences, "the most distinguished organization of 
the kind," as an authority has described it. 

Professor Noyes, who received his bachelor's degree at 
Grinnell College, Iowa, and his doctor's degree at the 
University of Paris, came to Brown in 1929. He has taught 
at the University of Chicago and the University of Cali- 
fornia, and is doing important work in the fields of electro- 
chemistry and photo-chemistry. He and Professor Adams 
have the reputation among the undergraduates of being 
efficient and inspiring in the class room. 

Inspector of the Heavens 

DR. Harlan T. Stetson 'OS, who as director of the 
Perkins Observatory of Ohio Wesleyan University 
peers through the second largest telescope in America, re- 
cently dropped some observations for his fellow mortals to 
ponder. They were widely printed in Associated Press 
member newspapers. 

Young couples standing in the moonlight may blame 
Luna for sending shivers down their spines, he said in an 
address, but in reality she is doing a lot more than that. 
She is swaying the earth under their feet. The ground 
moves six feet every time the moon rises, Dr. Stetson ex- 
plained. 

And speaking of shivers, mankind may be in for some 
real ones. 



Old mother earth is racing through space at the rate of 
1 1 miles a second and doesn't know where she is going, the 
astronomer warned. Sooner or later she may run into a 
"cosmic fog" which will cut down the sunlight and the 
result will be another ice age. 

That reminded Dr. Stetson of the North Pole and here 
again, it seems, the moon is up to monkcyshines. The North 
Pole swings around a 60-foot orbit, all due to Diana's pull. 
For that matter, the astronomer added, America and Europe 
draw ever so slightly toward each other and then draw 
away with each trip of the moon across the sky. 

Professor Stetson was elected secretary of Section D 
(Astronomy) of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, at the winter meeting in Atlantic 
City. On this occasion, Stetson, in collaboration with 
Alfred L. Loomis of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., presented a sig- 
nificant paper on the "Correlation of Changes in Longi- 
tude with the Hour Angle of the Moon." 



Handling Unitarian Finances 

Percy W. Gardiner '03, is the new chairman of the 
finance committee and general counsel of the American 
Unitarian Association. The last annual statement showed 
that the Association had stock and bond investments "of 
about five and one-half million dollars, and other property 
of about three million dollars. The Association acts as trus- 
tee under more than four hundred trusts, and owns prop- 
erty throughout the United States." 

This situation, the Christian Register said in a recent 
issue, made the need imperative "of appointing someone to 
give personal attention to investments and to follow up the 
business affairs of the Association. Mr. Gardner brings to 
the position many years of experience as counsel for many 
large estates and as a trustee and financial adviser. He has 
long been active in Unitarian affairs." He has served as 
treasurer of the General Unitarian Conference and presi- 
dent of the Unitarian Laymen's League. 

***** 

Assuming Prohibition's Repeal 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., '97, is backing a study of 
liquor-control laws throughout the world "on the as- 
sumption that the Eighteenth Amendment ultimately will 
be repealed and that the problem of control of the liquor 
traffic will be one upon which the fullest accurate informa- 
tion will be of value." Albert L. Scott '00, president of 
Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc., and prominent in the 
Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, is acting as one of Mr. 
Rockefeller's right-hand men in the survey, with his time 
given to Canada and the United States. Raymond B. Fos- 
dick, trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Leonard 
V. Harrison of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, are conduct- 
ing the study in Europe. 

"Mr. Rockefeller used to be an ardent dry," said the 
7\Jew Tor^ Herald-Tribune, "but last summer he announced 
himself in favor of repeal, explaining he hoped that the 
tremendous effort put forth in behalf of the Eighteenth 
Amendment by millions of earnest consecrated people will 
be continued in effective support of practical measures for 
the promotion of genuine temperance. To that cause, he 
added, my own efforts will ever be devoted. 

"At that time. too. Mr. Rockefeller expressed concern 
over the problem of liquor control after repeal, and sug- 
gested that an interim should be allowed between the pas- 
sage of repeal and the date of its effectiveness to permit 
State Legislatures to study methods of control." 



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Brown Alumni Monthly 



Published at Brown University by the Associated Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON. '2 3 
Managing Editor 

HENRY S. CHAFEE. '09 

Managing Director 

HENRY G. CLARK, 07 

For the Alumni Fund 



ARTHUR BRAITSCH. 25 

Business Manager 
ALFRED H. GURNEY, '07 

Secretary 
GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL. 10 
Pembroke Correspondent 



Subscriptions, $2 a year Single copies, 25 cents. There is no issue durim; 

August or September. 



Entered at the Providence Post Office as second class matter. 



Vol. XXXIII 



MAY, 1935 



No. 10 



Why the President Was Tired 

A COPY of The Crisis for November, 1932, came be- 
latedly to hand one day last month and in it we read 
an arresting article by Dr. John Brown Watson '04, Pres- 
ident of Arkansas State College for Negroes, under the 
title, "A Tired College President." No short article of its 
kind has brought out more clearly and more strikingly the 
way in which routine matters distract a college head from 
his real work of leading and teaching his students. In one 
paragraph Watson, weary after a day of wrestling with 
curriculum and catalogue, pays his respects to Brown with- 
out naming the University. 

"Why do we change our plans so much and often?" he 
asks. "One of the oldest colleges in America several times 
has changed its curriculum in the past fifty years. I have 
just compared its catalogue issue of 1931 with that of 1899. 
What changes I should say! I suppose these changes have 
been made with the aim of turning out better statesmen 
than Hay, better lawyers than Hughes, better preachers 
than Sheldon and Barbour, better doctors than Keen, bet- 
ter business men than Rockefeller, better teachers than 
Manning, Angell, Wheeler, Andrews, Faunce, Tute Davis, 
et cetera. I hope so, but I doubt it. Once upon a time the 
colleges headed by the graduates of this one college belted 
the continent from Rhode Island to California." 



Optimist After Six Depressions 

The Worcester, Mass., Sunday Telegram of March 26 
carried a full page, illustrated article on the Rev. D. 
W. Hoyt '71, pastor emeritus of the Adams Square Bap- 
tist Church of Worcester, who, the interviewer said, "has 
passed through six major depressions and is still an opti- 
mist." During the course of the interview Hoyt talked of 
the Civil War, in which he enlisted at eighteen, anti-slav- 
ery, movements, and national crises, with emphasis on 
financial ones. "In every great crisis of this kind," he said, 
"it has been the leadership that has failed." In a recent 
letter Hoyt, who has a fruit farm in Worcester, wrote: "I 
am very well and very busy for a man nearly 88." 



Why the Editor Praised Johnny 

In the Columbus, Ohio, Despatch there appeared an edi- 
torial entitled "John France Greene." It was a fine 
tribute to "Johnny," so fine, in fact, that Earl N. Man- 
chester '02, librarian of Ohio State University, was curious 



to know who wrote it. He learned that "the writer had 
been accustomed to tramp about New England in vacation 
season and on one of these trips had met and come under 
the spell of the charm which was characteristic of 'Johnny' 
Green in the classroom and out of it." 



Who Says "See-Saw" 7 

Dr. Hans Kurath's article in American Speech, the 
quarterly of linguistic usage, on "New England 
Words for the New England See-Saw," attracted a wide 
press. Almost all the New England newspapers carried the 
Associated Press story on the variations of tilt, tilting board. 
teeter, teeter-totter, see-saw, etc., and not a few editorial 
writers used the theme for comment. 

The Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada 
is being sponsored by the American Council of Learned 
Societies and has its headquarters in the Lyman Gymnasium 
at Brown. Dr. Kurath, who is chairman of the committee 
in charge and director of the staff, is receiving field assist- 
ance from Rachel Harris, Sharpe Fellow at Brown, and 
Herbert Penzl, an honorary fellow at Brown. In talking 
about the project at a Faculty Club luncheon, Dr. Kurath 
provoked an interesting discussion on the variations of 
doughnut and porch, found in 150 communities in New 
England. He also showed sample charts that gave regional 
distribution of pronunciations and usages. Later, he said, the 
investigators hope to make 1000 phonograph records of 
local speech. 



Champion Tennis Father 

J. D. E. Jones '93, and his sons, J. D. E. Jones, Jr. '23, 
and Arnold W. Jones, furnished material for an absorb- 
ing special story by Joe Nutter '24, in the February 16 issue 
of the Providence Evening Bulletin. The full story of the 
Jones family in tennis was set forth with sketches by Allan 
Halladay, and the subheading was: "Joneses to continue 
father-son play 'until Arnold gets too old'." 

Jed and his son, Arnold, have won 1 3 national titles in 
tennis and have at least 150 cups and trophies to testify to 
their skill. Arnold was twice captain of the Yale tennis 
team, and Jed, Jr., was captain of the Brown team. Jed 
himself, as many of his contemporaries will recall, put base- 
ball above tennis while he was in college and was a star 
second baseman on the Brown nine. He and Arnold have 
held the national father-and-son tennis title since 1928. 



His Bees Made a Map 

One of the most remarkable honey combs ever shown 
in California," said the Pasadena Star-J^ews about 
the comb exhibited at the Los Angeles County Fair at 
Pomona by Nathaniel W. Dexter '95, who is an active 
apiarist as well as a civil engineer. Dexter's bees, the Star- 
J^leivs said — and printed a picture to prove it — "have made 
a map of the United States, startlingly faithful as to detail, 
with reddish buckwheat honey, on a field of light sage 
honey." True to form the bees, being Californian, out- 
lined Florida very sketchily, but they did nobly by all other 
parts of the country. The comb was made on the Dexter 
ranch in Kagel Canyon. 



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'Washburn College Pays a Tribute 

As \ fitting tribute to the late Dr. Daniel M. Fisk '69, a 
. whole issue of the Washburn College Bulletin was 
recently given over to the story of Fisk's career and the 
memorable work he did for Washburn in its adult years as 
well as in its formative period. "Washburn in paying 
tribute to Dr. Fisk renews her vision of her own ideal," 
said President Philip C. King in the foreword. "Dr. Fisk 
was ahead of his time in the way that every teacher must be 
who brings inspiration to a new generation, for he sensed 




DR. DANIEL M. FISK 

some of the new attitudes and new movements which would 
form the environment in which his students would have to 
live and work.''' 

Dr. D. L. McEachron described vividly "The Public 
Work for Washburn of Dr. Fisk," telling how Dr. Fisk 
travelled for five years "up and down Kansas and the 
neighboring States, the apostle of higher education." David 
Neiswangcr wrote of "Dr. Fisk as a Teacher"; and Dr. 
W. J. Morgan considered him as a pioneer sociologist. L. D. 
Whittemore's tribute was to "Dr. Fisk as a Friend and 
Neighbor," and Dean Arthur G. Sellen '19, former mem- 
ber of the Brown Faculty, had an intimate and moving 
essay on Dr. Fisk's closing years. 



Under the title, "The Grand Old Man," the Washburn 
Review, the student publication, paid its tribute to one 
"who did much to influence the students with the idea of 
human service." And the Tope\a State Journal said in a 
short, revealing editorial: "In the life of the man lovingly 
known to hundreds who came into contact with him as 
students as 'Daddy' Fisk, we catch ,i glimpse of the qualities 
we hope to inspire in the generation we are training." 



Assistant Attorney General 7 

The Providence Journal, in a special despatch from 
Washington April 17, said that "the name of Joseph 
B. Keenan "10, Cleveland lawyer, who formerly lived in 
Pawtucket, has been proposed as Assistant Attorney Gen- 
eral (of the United States)." The Journal added that "Mr. 
Keenan is understood to have the backing of Senator 
Robert L. Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio, and Representative 
Martin L. Sweeney, Ohio member of the House. . . . Mr. 
Keenan was a former Assistant District Attorney in Cleve- 
land and has practised law in that city for a number of 
years." 



A Prowi Without Corsages 

Corsages were flatly forbidden girls invited to the 1933 
Junior Prom at Brown. The committee had ruled 
against them because it was considered unfair to ask most 
men to go to the extra expense this year, and the committee 
spokesman even went so far as to say that "any young lady 
wearing a corsage or a shoulder display of flowers will be 
asked to remove that corsage or shoulder display before 
entering the Junior Promenade." Otherwise the Prom had 
its traditional features, including the tapping of the Brown 
Key society choices. 

***** 

Heard on the Brown Campus 

Notables from far lands have been included among the 
lecturers heard on the Brown campus in the last 
month. Among them were: Dr. Oscar Riddle, authority on 
genetics, Carnegie Foundation; Dr. Otto Hahn, director of 
the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in Berlin; Prof. 
G Polya, mathematician from the University of Zurich; 
Dr. Edgar Sheffield Brightman of Boston University; Prof. 
William R. Dennes of the University of California; Dr. 
L. P. Jacks, Oxford philosopher; Dr. William D. Harkins 
of the University of Chicago; Otto Ashermann, the dancer; 
Lester Little of the Chinese customs service; Dean Charles 
Clark of the Yale Law School; H. Pensl, Viennese graduate 
student at Brown; and members of the University" faculty, 
including seven lecturers under the Community Art Project! 



A Campus Miscellany 

A Freshman-Sophomore mix-up was threatened several 
times as the classes turned out for the first sing of the 
spring May 1. There were no hostilities, however. The 
band provided other music. 

Electing H. R. Palmer president, the Brown Flying Club 
also discussed plans for entering a few amateur aviation 
meets in New England this spring. 



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The University Orchestra ended its season with a Faunce 
House concert, playing Haydn's Military Symphony, and 
Mozart's "Magic Flute" Overture as the feature numbers. 
Quartet and solo numbers were also included. 

The Musical Clubs' last concert was at the Post-Prom 
Frolic in Churchill House. 

A committee of 12 undergraduates hopes to keep the 
peace in Hope College for the rest of the year, a self- 
governing body having the dean's approval. 

The University Chorus, made up of the Chapel Choir 
and the Pembroke College Glee Club, offered its second 
annual musicale on Good Friday. 

The Administration has announced that it will not per- 
mit "the sale of malt beverages containing approximately 
3.2 per cent in any University building." The policy of the 
University with respect to the presence of beer in dormi- 
tories remains as it was be lore the adoption of the 18th 
Amendment. 



The Engineering Department has been compiling bio- 
graphical material about George H. Corliss, famous Prov- 
idence inventor of the steam engine, with George W. Rich- 
ardson, graduate student, in charge. The work is being 
done at the request of the British Society of Engineers. 



The Honor Societies Brea\ Bread 

Sittim; down together, the Brown chapters of Phi Beta 
Kappa and Sigma Xi, scholastic fraternities, held their 
annual dinners on April 20 at the Providence Biltmore 
Hotel. The principal speaker at the joint dinner was Dr. 
Lawrence Pcarsall Jacks, former principal of Manchestrr 
College, Oxford, and a renowned philosopher, who talked 
on "The New Education." Dr. Jacks has just completed the 
Charles K. Colver Lectures for 1933 at Brown, speaking 
before large audiences on "Some Ethical Factors of the 
Present Crisis" on successive Friday evenings. 



Gentlemen of the Faculty 



Professor A. M. Banta of the Depart- 
ment of Biology has been appointed a 

member of the Fellowship Board of the 
Division of Biology and Agriculture of the 
National Research Council, succeeding Pro- 
fessor H. S. Jennings of Johns Hopkins 
University. 

Professor C. J. Ducasse of the Depart- 
ment of Philosophy has been appointed 
Chairman of a Special Committee of the 
American Philosophical Association for the 
planning of a bibliography and an Annual 
Index of philosophical publications to which 
the Council of Learned Societies has given 
a grant in aid. 

Dean R. G. D. Richardson of the Grad- 
uate School attended the meetings of the 
American Mathematical Society at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago on April 14 and 15. He 
is secretary of the Society. 

Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, Secretary of the 
Corporation, was in Washington during the 
week of April 17 in connection with the 
work of the National Park Service. He also 
attended the meetings of the Sixth Biennial 
Conference on Wise Public Giving under 
the auspices of the Committee on Financial 
and Fiduciary Matters. 

During the present semester, Dr. Henry 
B. Van Hoesen, Librarian of the Univer- 
sity, has been offering a seminar on Library 
Administration at Columbia University. 

Professor L. M. Goodrich of the Depart- 
ment of Political Science and Sociology 
attended the meeting of the International 
Law Teachers in Washington, D. C, on 
April 27, 28 and 29. 

Dean S. T. Arnold attended the meetings 
of the Eastern College Personnel Officer-.' 
Association in Cambridge on April 7 and 8. 

Professor James A. Hall of the Division 
of Engineering attended the dinner of the 
Gridiron Club in Washington on April 29. 

Professor Leslie E. Swain of the Depart- 
ment of Physical Education was the guest 
speaker at the annual clambake of the 
Rhode Island Scout Masters' Association, 
held at the Sauantum Club, March 22. His 
subject was "Values of Good Posture." 

Professor Albert deForest Palmer and 
Mrs. Palmer have the sympathy of all mem- 



bers of the University family in the loss of 
their son, Albert deForest Palmer. Jr., who 
died in North Hollywood, Calif., April 12, 
after an attack of scarlet fever. 

Professor Emeritus Walter G. Everett 
gave his lecture, "Spinoza, Three Hundred 
Years After," at the University of South 
Carolina, Columbia, S. C, March 28. He 
has also lectured at Rollins College, the 
University of Virginia, and Duke Univer- 
sity in recent months. "Such lectures by 
Professor Everett," says the News Letter 
of the Department of Philosophy, "make 
him, as it were, philosophical ambassador- 
extraordinary from Brown to other institu- 
tions of higher learning, and to the philo- 
sophically minded public of the country, — 
a function of distinct value to the Depart- 
ment and to the University." 

Professor W. H. Kenerson of the Divi- 
sion of Engineering, speaker at the meeting 
of the Rotary Club of Providence, Hotel 
Biltmore. March 28, took for his topic, 
"Where Is the Engineer Leading Us?" and 
told the Rotarians of some of the accom- 
plishments of machinery and the relation 
of scientific achievement to engineering 
practice. 

Professor Horatio Smith of the Depart- 
ment of Romance Languages discussed col- 
lege board entrance examinations at the 
5 4th meeting of the Connecticut group of 
the New England Modern Language Asso- 
ciation at Albertus Magnus College, New 
Haven, in March. 

Professor John E. Hill of the Division of 
Engineering, the Faculty's most talented 
gardener, gave an illustrated lecture on 
"Flower Gardens" at the Faculty Club, 
March 3 1 . Professor Hill is an expert on 
iris. He has developed several new varieties; 
he grows something like 500 varieties in his 
gardens. For many years gardening has 
been his great and all-engaging hobby 

Professor James H. Shoemaker of the 
Department of Economics, speaking at the 
luncheon-meeting of the Town Criers of 
Providence at the Hotel Biltmore, April 5. 
said, according to newspaper report, that 
"it is very questionable whether Japan will 
get enough out of her Manchurian venture 



to justify, even economically, her military 
campaign there." His subject was "Current 
Conditions in Manchuria and Japan." Pro- 
fessor Shoemaker has lived in Japan and 
has traveled in the Far East and Russia. 

Professors R. M. Geer and H. N. Couch, 
T. C. Theodondes, instructor, and a num- 
ber of undergraduates taking courses in the 
Department of Greek and Latin Classics 
represented the University at the 28th an- 
nual meeting of the Classical Association of 
New England at Deerfield Academy, March 
31 and April 1. Dr. Geer read a paper at 
one of the sessions. 

Dean C. H. Currier and Dr. B. M. Bige- 
low attended the meeting of the College 
Entrance Board in New York on April 5. 

Professors C. A. Kraus, N. W. Rake- 
straw, L. S. Foster, W. W. Russell, Dr. 
R. M. Fuoss and Mr. L. Onsager attended 
the meetings of the American Chemical 
Society in Washington during the week of 
March 27. 

Professor Adams and Mr. J. A. Clarkson 
presented a joint paper at the meeting of 
the American Mathematical Society in New 
York on April fifteenth. Professor Tamar- 
kin presented two papers at this same 
meeting. 

At the meeting in Cambridge, Mass., on 
April first, of the Association of Teachers 
of Mathematics in New England, Professor 
A. A. Bennett spoke on "Irrational Num- 
bers and Their Relation to Geometry." 
Professor Bennett was recently elected vice- 
president of the Mathematical Association 
of America. 

One of the important abstract journals of 
the world is one published in Germany for 
mathematics. Editors were chosen in seven 
other countries. The American representa- 
tive recently chosen was Professor Tamar- 
kin of Brown University, who was already 
an editor of the Transactions of the Amer- 
ican Mathematical Society, and of the 
Annals of Mathematics. 

On March 18, Professor R. C. Archibald 
was the speaker at the annual meeting, in 
Faunce House, of the Sigma Delta Epsilon, 
Graduate Women's Scientific Fraternity, 
his topic being "Babylonian Mathematics." 



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Activities of the Brown Clubs 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



Washington Acknowledges Spring 

WITH President Barbour as the prin- 
cipal speaker, and with Chief Justice 
Charles Evans Hughes, '81, Senator 
Jesse H. Metcalf, '21, honorary, Senator 
Felix Hehert, George S. Holmes, '04, past 
president, and the Rev. Newton M. Sim- 
monds, 'S9, at the head table, the Brown 
University Club ol Washington gathered 
at the Cosmos Club, Washington, for its 
spring dinner, March 27. The attendance 
was the best in recent years, forty-one being 
present. 

"We had an inspiring and highly inter- 
esting talk from Dr. Barbour," wrote our 
correspondent. "We heard him tel! some- 
thing of his experiences during his sojourn 
abroad in the interest of missions, with a 
brief summary of recommendations made 
by the commission of which he was a mem- 
ber, followed by an outline of some of the 
high spots in the story of Brown today and 
the efforts being made to meet present 
economic conditions and carry on in the 
old Brown spirit. After Dr. Barbour came 
Dean William Allen Wilbur — college chum 
of Dr. Barbour and continuing close friend 
ever since — who read to us an entertaining 
account he had written of a boat race sailed 
some decades ago when the President ol 
Brown held the wheel of Captain Wilbur's 
boat Sweetheart, and won the race. So 
vivid was the picture that we all but felt 
the salt spray as the craft cut through the 
choppy seas." 

Senators Metcalf and Hebert also spoke 
briefly, to add to the pleasure of the meet- 
ing. Besides the ones already named, these 
alumni were present: — John A. French, 
'25, William A. Slade, '98, Ismar Baruch, 
'IT, Emery M. Foster, '18, William A. 
Wilbur, '88, Everett Eynon, '29, Rich- 
mond Carpenter, '28, Harry L. Watson, 
'01, Arthur D. Call, '96, Morris S. Kan- 
trowitz, "22, E. R. Cleaveland, '14. A. E. 
Gottshall, '15, A. A. Viault, '24, P. H. 
Francis, '12, George W. Davis, '07. A. C. 
Eastburn, '12, Arthur Sundlun, '11, Wil- 
liam R. Boger, '26, Chester C. Waters, '05, 
Charles P. Smith, '02. Dr. Edwin G. Dex- 
ter, '91, Dr. Harris E. Starr, '97, H. M. 
Barry, '94, Dean John R. Lapham, '09, 
George S. Newcombe, '03, Dr. E. C. Bur- 
nett, '90, Francis M. Anderson, '07, F. C. 
Breckenndge, '15, W. F. Littlejohn, '15, 
Richard H. Anthony, '25, George F. 
Viault, '26, Warren B. Francis, '29, Harold 
B. Mistr, "27 % George W. Field, '87, J. C. 
Wccdon, Jr., '27. 



Philadelphia Hears Dr. Barbour 

THIRTY' alumni from Philadelphia and 
neighborhood attended the luncheon 
given by the Brown Club of Philadelphia 
for President Barbour at the St. James 
Hotel, March 28. "The attendance was con- 
siderably smaller than we had anticipated." 
Harry G. Remington, '27, secretary of the 



Club, wrote, "but that is the usual difficulty 
we encounter in Philadelphia, However, 
the audience was an interested and appre- 
ciative one. Dr. M. J. Twomey, '00. oui 
president, was in the chair. Dr. Barbour's 
talk was a very enjoyable one. He told 
briefly of his visit to the Far East, and spoke 
particularly concerning the situation at the 
University. He was followed by Dr. Rufus 
M. Jones of Haverford, who was elected a 
life trustee of Brown last fall. Dr. Jones 
made note of the fact that Roy Randall, 
'28, had been recently appointed athletic 
director at Haverford and that he was 
chosen from a very large number of appli- 
cant- Another prominent alumnus at the 
luncheon was Dr. Edwin C. Broome. '97, 
superintendent of schools of Philadelphia. 
A committee was named to arrange for the 
annual Brown Club dinner." 



In the Connecticut Valley 

Rev. Harry L. Oi.dfield, '10, was 
. elected president of the Connecticut 
Valley Brown Club at the annual meeting 
held at the University Club, Springfield, 
April 9. He succeeds Paul C. Richards, 
'17. Other officers for 1933 are Leonard B. 
Campbell, '15, vice president; Ralph A. 
Armstrong, '17, secretary and treasurer; 
and William C. Hill, '94, and Elmer F. 
Davenport, '16, executive committee with 
the officers ex-officio. Professor James P. 
Adams, vice president of the University, 
D. O. McLaughry, head football coach, 
who is an adopted citizen of the Connec- 
ticut Valley, and A. H. Gurney, alumni 
secretary, were the speakers. Professor 
Adams gave a comprehensive review of the 
financial situation, which his auditors fol- 
lowed with genuine interest. Coach Mc- 
Laughry talked of prospects for next fall 
and explained the triple wing back forma- 
tion which caused much comment in the 
newspapers last fall. The alumni secretary 
told of news on the Hill and described the 
"war against war" campaign, which the 



Brou'ii Daily Herald began and which the 
General Assembly of Rhode Island voted to 
investigate (and then decided not to do so). 
After the meeting, which took the form of 
.i smoker, many questions were asked. Re- 
Ireshments followed. The attendance was 
excellent, and the committee of arrange- 
ments, led by Armstrong, did its work well. 



Baltimore 

Dr. Barbour was the guest of the Brown 
Club of Baltimore at luncheon March 27. 
In the morning he spoke at the assembly 
of Baltimore City College and inspected the 
hc.iiitilul new Enoch Pratt Free Library 
under the guidance of Joseph L. Wheeler, 
'06, the librarian. 



T'iew Tory's House Warming 

THE New York Brown Club is now 
settled in its new headquarters at Park 
Avenue and 39th Street. The first affair at 
the Club was a formal dinner Tuesdav, 
April 18, at which Dr. Harvey N. Davis, 
'01, President of Stevens Institute of Tech- 
nology, presided. Other speakers were 
Alexander Graham, '06. President of the 
Club, and Archibald A. Guhck. Vice- 
President of the Princeton Club. Messrs. 
Kenneth S. Clark and S. G. Ethenngton, 
both Princeton alumni, extended the wel- 
come of the Club to Brown members. Hoey 
Hennessy, '12, was chairman of the com- 
mittee in charge of arrangements. 

Plans are under way for the annual meet- 
ing of the Club, which will be held Thurs- 
day, May 18. At that time new officers 
will be elected and plans for the coming year 
will be discussed. 

The Club's Selection Committee, of 
which Thomas B. Appleget, '17, is chair- 
man has started to interview applicants 
for the Class of 193 7. To date, forty-five 
have been interviewed, and they appear 
to be a fine group of boys. At the first 
meeting of the committee, Dean Clinton 
H. Currier sat in to assist in the work. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



186S 

Xenophon Demosthenes Tingley, educa- 
tor and one of the three oldest graduates 
ol the University, died at his home in 
Providence, March 24, 1933, after a short 
illness. He had been retired since 1914. 
Born in Pawtucket, Aug. 12, 1844, the 
-on ol H.utlord Jcnckes and Selina 
(West) Tingley, he entered Brown from 
the University Grammar School. Before 
he began his college studies, however, he 
enlisted as a private in Company I, 
Eleventh Rhode Island Volunteers, and 



cued in Virginia Irom September, 1862, 
to July, 1863. On receiving his degree in 
1868 he taught for a year in the Paw- 
tucket public schools. He was a teacher in 
Charlestown, W. Va., 1869-71; San Fran- 
cisco, Calif., 1871-72; Napa, Calif., 1872- 
73; Oakland, Calif., 1873-74; Pawtucket, 
1874-S1; Central Falls, 1881-84; and 
principal ol the Grammai School Glouces- 
ter, Mass., from 18S4 to 1914, Mathematics 
was his special subject. In 1888 he served 
as secretary of the Essex County (Mass.) 
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1898 as treasurer. He had been secretary o 
the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction 
1877-84, and was a member of the Amen 
can Philological Society and Delta Upsilon 
He was married July 28, 1873, to Miss Row 
ena Peck Barnes. Surviving him are two 
daughters, Clara Belden Tingley, '99, mis- 
sionary teacher in Bassein, Burma, and 
Rowena Peck Tingley, with whom he lived; 
and two sons, John B. Tingley, '99, Glen 
Ellyn, 111., and Ralph H. Tingley, '07, 
special, Providence. 

1869 
Royal K. Southwiek is living in West 
Cornwall, Conn., where, he writes, he is 
"enjoying quietly a serene old age." 

1872 
Judge John Day Smith, founder of the 
juvenile court and its system in Minne- 
apolis and a veteran of the Civil War, 
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 
E. S. Hughes, in Minneapolis, March 4, 
1933. Death came while he sat with the 
family at dinner. Born in Litchfield, Me., 
Feb. 25, 1845, he was the son of Edward 
G. and Elizabeth Brown (Lord) Smith. 
His great-grandfather, James Lord, led a 
company at Bunker Hill. He prepared at 
Waterville, Me., Classical Institute, went 
from school to become a private in Com- 
pany F, Nineteenth Maine Volunteers, 
and fought in most of the major battles 
of the Civil War, from Fredericksburg to 
Cold Harbor. He was slightly wounded at 
Gettysburg; near Petersburg in June, 1864, 
he received a face wound that nearly 
proved fatal. Surgeons at a dressing sta- 
tion to which he was taken said that there 
was no chance for him. But he fooled 
them, finally got hack to his home in 
Maine, and in 1868 entered Brown. He 
won his A.B. with the class, and his A.M. 
in 1875. After serving as principal at 
Worcester Academy, 1872-76, he began 
the study of law at Columbian University, 
Washington, and received his LL.M. in 
1878. Admitted to the bar in 1880, he 
practised in Washington and also was 
Professor of Evidence, Torts and Con- 
stitutional Law at Howard University. In 
1886 he removed to Minneapolis, and he 
lectured on American constitutional law 
at the University of Minnesota, 1 892- 
1904. He was a member of the Minnesota 
House of Representatives, 1889-90; the 
Minnesota Senate, 1891-95; a judge on 
the Hennepin County bench, 1905-13; 
Commander of the G. A. R., Department 
of Minnesota; president Minnesota Chap- 
ter, Sons of the American Revolution; 
and author of "Cases on Constitutional 
Law" and "History of the Nineteenth 
Maine Reeiment." He also belonged to 
Phi Beta Kappa and Zeta Psi. He was 
married July 20, 1872, to Mary H. Chad- 
bourne of Lexington, Mass., who died in 
1874. His second wife was Miss Laura 
Bean of Delaware, O., whom he married 
Sept. 16, 1879. He is survived by a son, 
Edward Day Smith, Santa Monica, Calif., 
and three daughters, Mrs. Hughes and 
Mrs. J. A. Taggart of Minneapolis, and 
Mrs. Mary C. Gates, Leandro, Calif. 

1876 
Charles Howard Poor, oldest practising 
attorney in Haverhill, Mass., in point of 
years, died at his home in Haverhill, 
March 28, 1932, after an illness of several 
weeks. He spent his whole life in the city 



where he was born Sept. 6, 1854, the son 
of George and Ruhia Anne (Perley) 
Poor. He came to Brown from Haverhill 
High School and, after graduating with an 
A.B. degree, returned to Haverhill to 
study law in the office of J. P. Jones. In 
1879 he received his A.M. from Brown 
and in the same year became secretary of 
the Haverhill School Board, serving until 
1886. Admitted to the Massachusetts bar 
in February, 1880, he engaged in the prac- 
tise of law with Benjamin F. Brickett 
under the firm name of Brickett 6? Poor. 
In 1897 he formed a partnership with 
Edmund B. Fuller, and in 1906 became 
associated with Essex S. Abbott. He had 
practised alone since 1923. He became a 
member of the Haverhill Water Board in 
1892 and served ably thereon until his 
retirement in April, 1932. In his earlier 
years he was an ardent supporter of athle- 
tics in Haverhill. Fishing and hunting 
were hobbies, and he gave due attention to 
golf as a member of the old Island Golf 
Club. He also belonged to the Pentucket 
Club, Saggahew Lodge of Masons, Haver- 
hill Commandery Knights Templar, and 
Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was married 
Nov. 3, 1880, to Frances D. Swan, who 
died some years ago. His second marriage 
took place in Exeter, N. H., Dec. 6, 
193 2, to Miss Grace Gilman, who survives 
him. 

1883 

Dr. Francis W. Shepardson will this 
year observe his 50th anniversary as a 
staff member of Beta Theta Pi, the first 
college fraternity magazine. Beta Theta Pi 
was founded in 1872 and has been pub- 
lished without interruption ever since. 
Shepardson was its editor-in-chief in 1917, 
and its editor and publisher, 1918-31. He 
continues to be a regular contributor. 

Dr. W. E. Simonds has changed his 
house address to 210 Mitchell St., Ithaca, 
N. Y. 

1890 

Under the title, "A Long Pastorate," 
the Providence Journal of March 30 had 
an editorial -on Rev. William T. Green, 
minister of the Natick Baptist Church, 
who was installed in 1893. Forty years in 
his present parish — "this is not a record- 
breaking length of ministerial service," 
the editorial said, "but it ranks high in 
the list." The writer commented on the 
careers of Green and the late Charles H. 
Forbes, who spent all of his professional 
life at Phillips Academy, Andover. In con- 
clusion he said: "Mr. Green no doubt 
would say that in his single parish he has 
had no lack of work and opportunity, and 
that as for variety, there is enough, even 
in a quiet community, to keep a healthy 
mind alert and occupied." 

Dr. James Quayle Dealey presided at 
the 14th annual meeting of the South- 
western Social Science Association in 
Dallas, Tex., April 14 and 15, and at the 
general conference dinner Friday night, 
April 14, gave the address, "Social Trends 
and Social Leadership." 

1893 
J. D. E. Jones's youngest son, Meredith 
W. Jones, has become engaged to Miss 
Marian Kimball Marshall, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Marshall of Provi- 
dence. Mr. Marshall was quarterback and 
captain of the Harvard football team of 
1902. 



Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, on leave of 
absence this semester from the University 
of Wisconsin, is carrying on special re- 
search at the University of California. 

1894 

Henry M. Barry writes that he has a 
desk and typewriter at the headquarters "t 
the National Aeronautic Association, 
overlooking Dupont Circle, Washington, 
and that he puts in "some tunc there 
now and then doing a bit of writing on 
various subjects, occasionally drawing 
upon a somewhat extended experience on 
Capitol Hill for material." 

Col. H. Anthony Dyer, Mrs. Dyer and 
Miss Nancy Dyer, who is an artist in her 
own right, are somewhere in Europe (prop- 
ably Italy by this time), and hope to stay 
through the summer. They will sketch and 
paint as they go from country to country, 
as is their custom. 

William C. Hill, principal of the Cen- 
tral High School, Springfield, Mass , was 
elected last month a member of the exec- 
utive committee of the Connecticut Valley 
Brown Club. 

1895 

Rev. Dr. Peter C. Wright and Mrs. 
Wright were present at the first dinner of 
the New York graduates of Wayland 
Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis., held at the 
Barbizon Club, New York, March 30. 

1896 
Edward Bailey Morse, newspaper man, 
died in New York March 18, 1933, as a 
result of a stroke of apoplexy. He had 
been a member of the editorial staff of 
The Sun for four years previous to his 
death. A native of Bridgeton, N. J., where 
he was born Aug. 9, 1873, the son of the 
Rev. Bailey S. and Mary L. (White) 
Morse, he prepared at the Providence 
High School. After graduation from 
Brown with an A.B. degree he worked 
for a year as a reporter on the city staff 
of the Providence Journal. He went from 
the Journal to the 7\[eu> Tori; Times, and 
thence to the Chicago T^ews and Ameri- 
can, where he was sub-editor, 1899-1901. 
After a short period of prospecting for 
gold in Montana he returned in 1902 to 
New York to become a sub-editor with the 
Evening World, and then with the Evening 
Telegram. He also worked on the old N.eu' 
Tori; Tribune, the Evening Mail, the 
World and the Herald before he joined 
the staff of The Sun. He had a summer 
cabin at Sugar Loaf, near Goshen, N. Y., 
where he used to spend his leisure hours. 
Surviving him are a brother, Frank L. 
Morse, '86, principal of the Carter Har- 
rison Technical High School, Chicago; a 
sister, Mrs. Mary Morse Woodbury, 
Evanston, 111., and a niece and a nephew. 
Morse, who was never married, was a 
member of Theta Delta Chi. His father 
was well known in Rhode Island for many 
years as preacher and reform leader. 

1897 

The Alumni Office records with regret 
the sudden death of Ralph Bertram Harris 
at his home in Salem, Mass., April 15. A 
heart attack was the cause. 

Prof. E. W. Bagster Collins of Teachers 
College, Columbia, gave an address on 
"Observations on Grammar in the Modern 
Language Course" at the 54th meeting 
of the Connecticut section, New England 
Modern Language Association, at Alber- 



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tus Magnus College, New Haven, in 
March. 

The sympathy of the Class is given 
Seril C. Armstrong, whose wife, the 
former Harriet Main, died at the Arm- 
strong home in Chepiwanoxet, Warwick, 
R. I., March 22. The Armstrongs were 
married May 3, 1910. 

1898 

President Borden D. Whiting of the 
Class has appointed Dwight K. Bartlett 
chairman of the Reunion Committee for 
1933, and the following members to serve 
with Bartlett: Charles Carroll, secretary, 
Henry D. C. Dubois, treasurer, James S. 
Allen, Frederick W. Arnold, Jr., George 
S. Drowne, R. R. Hunter, and Denni- F. 
O'Brien. 

M. Louis B. Sweatt's son, Kelsey Bal- 
lou Sweatt, and Miss Betty Joyce Geissler 
were married in Boston, March 25. They 
are at home in Woonsocket. 

Dr. Arthur Leon Grover died in Reno, 
Nev., Jan. 28, 1933, after an illness ol 
several months. Born in Deenng, Me., 
April 29, 1876, the son of Alpheus E. 
and Elisabeth A. (Landers) Grover, he 
entered Brown from the Portland High 
School. In May, 1898, he left college— his 
bachelor's degree assured — to go into 
camp with the First Infantry, Maine 
National Guard. Later he became a corp- 
oral with Battery A, First Maine Heavy 
Artillery, and went South and then to 
Cuba with that regiment. After less than 
two months in Cuba he returned to this 
country, where he was mustered out in 
March, 1899. He received the degree of 
M.D. from Harvard in 1903, and an Sc.M 
from the State University of Iowa in 1913. 
He commenced the practice of medicine 
in Hyde Park, Mass., in 1903; he re- 
moved from Hyde Park in 1911 to go to 
Iowa City as instructor in pathology and 
bacteriology. He resigned in 1917 to be- 
come Professor of these two subjects at 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
University of Southern California. In 192U 
he was appointed head of the Department 
of Pathology at the Medical School, Uni- 
versity of California at Los Angeles. In 
1927 he settled in Reno, where he operated 
clinical laboratories. He was a former 
member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety, the Iowa Medical Society, and the 
Board of Health of Hyde Park. He also 
belonged to the American Medical Asso- 
ciation, the American Bacteriological So- 
ciety, the Association of American Patho- 
logists and Bacteriologists, and Phi Rho 
Sigma. For the medical journals he wrote 
numerous articles. He was married Dec. 
30, 1909, to Maude Atherton Sherwood, 
who survives him. 

John K. Fenner and Mrs. Fenner of 
Auburn, R. I., have announced the en- 
gagement of their daughter, Miss Helen 
Wooddell Fenner, Pembroke, '24, to Leroy 
Walter of Inwood, N. Y. 

1899 
Arthur H. Blanchard has recently been 
appointed Executive Director of the 
National Highway Traffic Association, now 
in its 15th year; of the International In- 
stitute of Transport, now in its fourth 
year; and of the National Pedestrians As- 
sociation, incorporated in the last month 
under the laws of the State of Rhode 
Island. 



1900 

Dr. Herbert Richard Cross of the Col- 
lege of Fine Arts, New York University, 
will be in charge of the Art Institute, one 
of the special features of the summer ses- 
sion at Rhode Island State College this 
year. 

1901 

The Alumni Office again asks readers of 
the Alumni Monthly to supply any pos- 
sible information about the present where- 
abouts of Dr. Arthur (Archie) L. Slocum, 
whose last known address was in Roches- 
ter, N. Y. 

Colonel G. A. Taylor, U. S. A., retired, 
writes that he believes he has made a new 
record. During the past two years he has 
sung bass in five vested choirs, St. Mar- 
tin's, Lawton, Okla., Grace Church, Cin- 
cinnati, where he was also a vestryman. 
Church of the Ascension, Wakefield, R. 
I , St. Paul's Church, Burlington, Vt., and 
Lenten and Easter music in St. John's Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church, Northampton, 
Mass. During the past winter he has been 
doing solo work in the old First Church 
ill Hadley, whose pastor once sheltered 
the regicides, Generals Goffe and Whalley, 
and has sung with the Clef Club of Had- 
ley. The Hampshire Gazette of Northamp- 
ton and the Springfield Union have pub- 
lished his verse, the latest poem, "Emily 
Dickinson's Garden," receiving much 
favorable comment. His house is on the 
site of the Dickinson Tavern, once run by 
Miss Dickinson's forebears, who moved 
from Old Hadley to Amherst. 

Daniel J. Maloney, assistant engineer. 
Department of Plant and Structures, New 
York City, has his office in Room 1814, 
Municipal Building, he reports, and lives 
at 5 Raleigh Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Daniel A. Clarke of Fiskeville is presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Forestry Asso- 
ciation lor the current year. The associa- 
tion plans to set out several thousand trees 
in the George Washington and Wicka- 
boxet State forests and to give trees to 
schools in country towns to be planted 
under direction of a trained forester. 

1902 

Rev. Henry Natsch Furnald, director of 
religious education for the Presbytery of 
New York, will be a delegate to the Gen- 
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
in Columbus, O., May 25. 

E. K. Aldrich, Jr., has added another 
Schipperke of repute to his Diamond Hill, 
R. I., kennels. The dog is Bargee of Kelso, 
a Canadian champion, and Aldrich plans 
to enter him in eastern shows with the 
hope that he may become an international 
winner. 

Dr. Harold G. Calder's father, Charles 
G. Calder, friend of many Providence 
artists and charter member of the Provi- 
dence Art Club, died in Providence, April 
2, in his 76th year. 

1904 

Dr. Bertram H. Buxton of Providence 
has received promotion to Lieutenant 
Colonel, Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A. 

C. H. Hobson, superintendent of 
schools of Palmer, Mass., renewed ac- 
quaintances on the campus last month, 
being in Providence for a week end visit. 
He brought with him a protege who hopes 
to enter Brown next September. 

John F. Heckman and Maj. Marvil G. 



Armstrong won the first Rhode Island 
contract bridge tournament for pairs held 
last month at the Biltmore Hotel, Provi- 
dence. Heckman and his partner (who is 
a Coast Artillery instructor from the regu- 
lar army) play the Sims system. They 
plan to compete in the Grand National 
tournament in June. 

1905 
Michael F. Costello, lawyer, past presi- 
dent of the Pawtucket Bar Association 
and chairman of the grievance committee 
of the Rhode Island Bar Association, is a 
member of the new Rhode Island Liquor 
Commission, appointed by Governor Theo- 
dore Francis Green, '87, last month. 
Governor Green characterized him as "a 
prominent lawyer with a reputation for 
activity in many lines with a splendid 
record ot public service." 

1906 

Leon S. Gay of Cavendish, Vt., and 
Mrs. Gay observed the 25th anniversary 
of their wedding, March 27. With them 
for the celebration were their three chil- 
dren, Miss Alice Hadley Gay, graduate 
of the University of Vermont in 1932; 
Leon S. Gay, Jr., member of the Junior 
Class at the Rhode Island School of De- 
sign, and John A. Gay who, we hope, 
will be enrolled at Brown within the next 
ten years. 

Richard W. Banfield, son of F. Eugene 
Banfield and Mrs. Banfield of Saco, Me., 
will be captain of the Dartmouth swim- 
ming team in 1933-34. Dick, a graduate 
of Newton High School and Worcester 
Academy is a short distance man, with 
the 50-yard dash as his specialty. He is a 
consistent point winner in this race. He 
is also a member of the Dartmouth relay 
team, usually being the anchor man. 

1907 

A. W. Bushell is engineer of contracts 
and construction with the Connecticut 
State Highway Department and has his 
main office in Hartford. The Mount Her- 
mon Alumni Quarterly says that "Bush- 
ell's job is to take bids on proposed State 
work, to see that contracts are made with 
the low bidders and to have charge of the 
construction of all roads and bridges under 
the direction of the State Highway Depart- 
ment." "Bush" lives at 90 James Street, 
Hamden, Conn. He has a son about ready 
to enter college. 

Claude R. Branch has become a mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors of the Provi- 
dence Washington Insurance Company 
to fill the unexpired term of his father, 
the late John B. Branch, who was asso- 
ciated with the company for 58 years. 

Rev. Royal McKnight Merritt of the 
Church of the Sea and Land, New York 
City, will be a delegate from the New 
York Presbytery to the General Assembly 
of the Presbyterian Church in Columbus, 
O , the 25th of this month. 

R. A. (Dick) Sanders, Deputy Tax 
Assessor of Providence for nearly 20 years 
and a valued city official because of his 
knowledge of properties and his interest 
in tax work, was ousted last month by 
the Providence City Council, now Demo- 
cratic by a good margin. Ivory Littlefield, 
'09, Republican Councilman, made a sound 
plea for the retention of Dick and other 
co-workers of experience, but to no pur- 
pose. 



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1908 

THE Carlton Hotel, Narragansett Pier, 
is the scene, and from Friday to Sunday 
afternoon, June 16 to 18, is the time of the 
25th Reunion of the Class. The cost will he 
low, $12.50 covering two full days at the 
Carlton. For those who cannot spend a 
night at the hotel Saturday, June 17, will 
be the big day. Two meals on this day will 
cost $3.00. The Class historian, best known 
as Tommy Thomas, is anxious to get in- 
formation about all classmates, whether they 
will be at the Reunion or not. A blank for 
data has been sent to every member, and the 
historian hopes to see nearly every one of 
the blanks come back to him, properly iilled 
out. He is an optimist, as always. 

Secretary James A. Hall said April 18 
that "it looks as though we would have a 
fine crowd back. Sid Paine is planning to 
drive up from Greensboro, N. C, and is 
hoping to bring Chris Greene with him. 
Clarence Griffith hopes to come down from 
Sugar Hill, N. H. Among others hoping to 
be back are Ben Frost, Hunkins, Hamilton, 
Bill Walker, Sturdy, Howe, Billy Mc- 
Donald, Carroll, Thomas, Riley, Honiss, 
Newman, Howard Young, Mooch O'Con- 
nor, Sammis, Minnerly, Collins, Henry, 
Shaw, Grinnell, Gillespie, Maryott, Mason, 
Burnham, and Don Pryor." 

C. Hill Griffith is a member of the finance 
committee of Lisbon, N. H., the town that 
includes Sugar Hill, where Griff and Mrs. 
Griffith have their home. 

Wade C. West, maintenance engineer at 
the Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, 
Nev., admits that he may be the first grand- 
father of the class, having become one in 
November, 1930. He likes his work out 
there in the open spaces, and he says that 
his avocations are teaching in the mission 
Sunday School and aiding the neighbor- 
hood singers to harmonise. 

E. Biddle Conklin, superintendent of the 
plant of the Semet Solvay Company, De- 
troit, Mich., with Mrs. Conklin and their 
two sons, Hugh and Biddle, spent two days 
in Providence last month, and Bid renewed 
acquaintances all along the line. His son 
Hugh, now a Senior at Cooley High School, 
Detroit, is planning to enter Brown with the 
Class of 1937. 

1909 

George Henderson has become a member 
of the Board of Governors of the Wanna- 
moisett Country Club for the term ending 
in 1936. 

A. K. Westervelt reports his address to 
be 927 First St., Webster City, la., and he 
laconically adds: "No occupation at pres- 
ent." 

Allen O. Seabury's death at New Bed- 
ford, Mass., April 2, 193 3, came as a 
shock, although it was known that Allen 
had been seriously ill since early in Decem- 
ber of last year. A native of Little Compton, 
R. L, where he was born Aug. 22, 1888, 
the son of John Allen and Nancy G. Sea- 
bury, he prepared at the B. M. C. Durfee 
High School in Fall River. After gradua- 
tion from Brown with the degree of A.B., 
he went to work for the Standard Mill Sup- 
ply Co., Providence, and continued with 
the company until the entry of the United 
States into the World War. In June, 1917, 
he enrolled in the United States Naval 
Reserve, and in December of that year re- 
ceived his commission as lieutenant. He 
served overseas with the Grand Fleet from 



July, 1918, until after the armistice. On 
his honorable discharge in January, 1919, 
he became associated with his brother, 
Arthur G. Seabury '07, in the New Bedford 
Shuttle Company, and was superintendent 
of the company at the time of his last ill- 
ness. Besides his brother, his survivors in- 
clude a niece and a nephew. He was a 
member of the University Club of Provi- 
dence and Beta Theta Pi. 
1910 
Dr. Richard D. Allen of the Providence 
School Department will be one of the sum- 
mer lecturers in education at Yale Univer- 
sity. He will speak July 19 on "An Organ- 
ized Program of Guidance in Secondary 
Schools." 

1911 
William H. Shanahan has changed his 
address to 3 Bishop St., Portland, Me. 
1912 
Henry G. Marsh of Sylvester M. Bud- 
long, Inc., insurance, is occupying a new 
office in the Bank of Commerce building, 
146 Westminster St., Providence. 

Stanley P. Marsh and his three charming 
daughters, Misses Ruth, Louise and Hazel 
Marsh, gave the campus close inspection 
last month. It was school vacation in Buffalo, 
and Stan thought it just the time to visit 
some of his old friends on the Hill and to 
show his daughters the beauties of Brown, 
and Pembroke, too. 

1913 
Preston F. Arnold has been elected pres- 
ident of the Bethany Home of Rhode Island. 
He is also treasurer ol the American Home- 
makers, Inc., but his regular occupation 
continues to be assistant trust officer ol the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company. 

Norman S. Taber is associated with Gren- 
ville R. Hood 6? Company, investments, 
1209 Turks Head Bldg., Providence. 

"Prize speakers at East Providence High 
School were Robert J. Davids, Arnold B. 
Carts, Otto C. Pahline . . ." We quote from 
a paragraph in a recent "Twenty-five Years 
Ago in Rhode Island" in the Providence 
Sunday Journal. His classmates never knew 
that Otto was an orator before he came to 
Brown. 

Benjamin M. McLyman and Edward W. 
Day, '22, are practising law under the firm 
name of McLyman ii Day at 634 Hospital 
Trust Bldg., Providence. Day was an as- 
sistant to Ben while Ben was Attorney 
General of Rhode Island. 

H. F. Osteyee, with the United States 
Chamber of Commerce, is located for the 
present in Providence. In recent months 
Herb has been working in Massachusetts, 
with New Bedford as his headquarters. 
1915 
Rev. Wallace L. Gallup is the new pastor 
of the Weequahick Presbyterian Church, 
and is living at 290 Meeker Ave., Newark, 
N.J. 

It's good to know that E. J. (Spike) Staff 
is again to be a member of the Brown foot- 
ball coaching staff. Spike will continue to 
work with the Freshman squad. 

Leonard B. Campbell is assistant treas- 
urer of the Ware Savings Bank, Ware, 
Mass. Len is also the new vice president of 
the Connecticut Valley Brown Club, which 
has its headquarters in Springfield. 
1917 
Solon C. Kelley, Jr., is sales manager for 
Richards 6? Wack, 342 Madison Ave., New 
York. His preferred mail address is 854 
E. Main St., Stamford, Conn. 



Ken Flanders i> witli the Underwood 
Typewriter Company, 304 Asylum St . 
Hartford, Conn. As soon as summer comes, 
Ken reports, the family address will be 87 
Spring St., Hartford. 

1918 

James R. Murphy reports that his mail 
address is Bunea Park Hotel, Chicago, 111. 

Harold A, McKay, who is President of 
the Brown Club of Hartford, has been pro- 
moted by The Travelers Insurance Com- 
pany to Assistant Superintendent ol Agen- 
cies. Casualty Lines. "In each of the various 
positions which he has held," said The 
Travelers Protection, the house organ of the 
company, "he served so ably that his pro- 
motion has come as a natural sequence of 
events. His many friends throughout the 
Travelers organization will be gratified to 
learn of this latest recognition of his abil- 
ity." So will all of us who know McKay, 
who has been with The Travelers since 
1920. He has worked in Sryacuse, Minne- 
apolis, St. Paul, Montreal, Rochester, and 
Hartford. He returned to the Home Office 
in 1929 as Agency Assistant. 

Dr. Augustus C. Webb is Professor of 
Health and college physician at Talladega 
College, Talladega, Ala. Webb received his 
M.D. at Northwestern University Medical 
School and was a practising physician in 
Chicago from 1924 to 1931. 

J. Harold Williams (Jimmy to most of 
us), chief of the Boy Scouts in Rhode Is- 
land, doesn't know it, but he got an un- 
solicited testimonial from one of his guests 
at the 1933 clambake for his scout masters. 
"If any of your Brown alumni are hungry," 
-aid the writer, "they would not be hungry 
for another year if they went to the scout 
masters' bake at the Squantum Club. 
Harold Williams certainly knows how to 
put it across." 

1919 

Edward S. Porter, in the probation de- 
partment of the Court ot General Sessions, 
New York, is living at 125 Riverside Drive 
in that city, and is writing novels in his 
spare hours. 

George T. Welch reports his new house 
address to be 56 Bridgham St., Providence. 

Henry T. Samson, aide to the Secretary 
of Labor and secretary of the Rhode Island 
Unemployment Relief Commission, has 
been on front pages of the Providence and 
Rhode Island newspapers regularly in the 
past month, as he and the administration of 
his office have been under fire by a special 
committee of the General Assembly. As this 
was written, Henry was holding his ground 
ably, with plenty of support from Governor 
Green and many prominent citizens. 

William H. Edwards, 2nd, speaking re- 
cently before civic groups in Providence, 
ha- -aid that the United States will "un- 
doubtedly become a participator in the 
League of Nations and a member of the 
World Court" in the next ten years or so. 

1920 
Aaron Archie Aronstam, member of the 
Class tor two years, died suddenly in 
Springfield, Mass., March 25, 1933. "He 
was very successful in law here in Spring- 
field, specializing in bankruptcy work, and 
was well thought ot in legal circles," Ralph 
A. Armstrong, '17 wrote the Alumni 
Office. Aronstam was born in Springfield, 
July 28, 1895, the son of Joseph and Ida 
(Bloch) Aronstam. He prepared at a school 
in New York, won an LL.D. degree at St. 



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Lawrence University in 1916 and then 
entered Brown. He left college in June, 
1918, and was in service at Fort Slocum, 
Fort Hamilton, and Fort Tilden until after 
the armistice. Admitted to the Massachu- 
setts bar in 1919, he opened an office in 
Springfield and became special counsel for 
the city in 1921. He was active as a Mason 
and Odd Fellow, a leader in the Zionist 
movement in Springfield and in Massachu- 
setts, and an organizer of religious and 
educational work in the Congregation 
Kodimoh, of which he was secretary. Two 
brothers and a sister survive him. 

Henry N. Lonergan is manager of the 
Group Division of the Aetna Life Insur- 
ance Company which has its offices in the 
First National Bank Building, Cincinnati, 
O. Lonergan's new house address is 746 
Avon Fields Lane, Cincinnati. 

Alexander Addeo, Inspector of Buildings 
in Providence, has been elected a member 
of the executive committee of the New 
England Building Officials Conference. 

Clifford Crowther is teaching English 
at Tilton School, Tilton, N. H. 
1921 
Starting out in the belief that the time is 
at hand for a new type of approach to the 
manufacturer's sales problem, the new 
marketing and advertising firm of Stearns, 
Hopkins 6? Company, Inc., has begun busi- 
ness at 444 Madison Avenue, New York, 
where it occupies the whole 24th floor of 
the building at that number. It is of inter- 
est to all Brown men, as four Brunonians 
are represented in the company. They are 
Howard B. Stearns, '21, president; Stephen 
W. Hopkins, '2 In, vice president and treas- 
urer; John R. Lyman, '24, assistant treas- 
urer; and Charles S. Stedman, Jr., '24, as- 
sistant to the president. 

The company operates as a planning and 
administrative group. It is hooked up with 
a number of independent service companies 
specialising in various functions of sales 
and advertising. In the handling of opera- 
tions on its clients' account the Stearns 
company will work through its affiliates, all 
operations being controlled and coordinated 
by the central organisation which will apply 
for each client the particular services re- 
quired. It will also act as marketing, selling, 
and advertising counsel for banking and 
other financial interests concerned with in- 
dustrial organisations. Stearns and his as- 
sociates have behind them two years of in- 
tensive study, during which time their plans 
have been reviewed and checked by more 
than a hundred leading men in the fields of 
industry, banking law, advertising, and 
general business. 

John Randolph Stevens is manager of 
Schuessler's Department Store, 1135-37 
Broadway, Columbus, Ga., and with Mrs. 
Stevens and their new daughter, Ann Char- 
lotte, is living at 2105 Wynnton Drive, 
Columbus. "If any Brown men come down 
this way," John said in his letter, "I wish 
they would look me up, as I'd delight to 
give them a hearty welcome in this old Chat- 
tahoochee town." 

1922 
Scott Libby sets himself down as organ- 
ist and choirmaster with his home in South 
Hamilton, Mass. 

Edwin C. Walmsley is teaching eco- 
nomics at the College of the City of De- 
troit. 

Edward W. Day is junior member of the 
law firm of McLyman 6? Day, 634 Hospital 



Trust Bldg., Providence. Ed's partner, Ben- 
jamin M. McLyman, "13, was his boss when 
Ed was an assistant attorney general of 
Rhode Island. 

Mayor John F. Quinn of Pawtucket was 
chairman of the committee which arranged 
the annual dinner of the Rhode Island 
Democratic State Committee to honor the 
memory of Thomas Jefferson in Providence, 
April 23. 

Wallace N. Thurber's new house address 
is 20 University Ave., Providence. 

1923 

GARDNER'S INN on the island of 
Jamestown is to be the scene of the 
class's 10th Reunion during Commence- 
ment Week-end. Eb Morse, 46 Lawrence 
Road, Scarsdale, N. Y., and Mike Gulian, 
13 Charles River Parkway, Newton, Mass., 
are committeemen for their localities, and 
detailed information may be gotten from 
them or the general reunion committee, 
211 Grosvenor Building, Providence. 

The following have definitely an- 
nounced that they are coming: Adams, 
Applegate, Beede, Braitsch, Bleakney, 
Chase, Dickinson, Dustin, Girvin, Gor- 
man, Gregory, Gulian, Hagan, Jed Jones, 
Lanpher, Hal Larson, Lownes, Lundin, 
Morse, McCormick, Paasche, Clarence 
Rice, Harvey Reynolds, Dick Smith, Don 
Thorndike, Gonzalez, Thibodeau, Trainor, 
J. W. Worthington, W. C. Worthington. 

The following expect to be present: 
Almy, Andrews, Addoms, Bartlett, Coons, 
Decker, Earle, Fales, Fahlquist, Goddard, 
Green, Heeks, Ray Henshaw, Harris, 
Hanley, Van Hoesen, Jeffers, Bob Litch- 
field, Legris, Joslyn, Lisbon, Martin, Mun- 
roe, McClellan, Doc Murphy, Midgely, 
Rogers, Schanack, Summerfield, Spellman, 
Wagner, Waldau, Phil Welch, Horton, 
Woelfel. 

Harold H. Young has begun his sixth 
term as clerk of the Union Baptist Church, 
Providence. 

Francis L. Jones, head of the Latin 
Department, State Teachers College, Wor- 
cester, read a paper on "Clodius, Roman 
Gangster in Politics," at the 28th an- 
nual meeting of the Classical Association 
of New England at Deerfield Academy, 
Deerfield, Mass., April 1. 

F. Kenneth (Luke) Armstrong is with 
the Creamery Pkg. Company of Philadel- 
phia. He covers Washington and the 
District of Columbia and is living on 
Rhode Island Ave., College Park, Md. 

Bob Russell's house address is 22 East 
62nd St., New York City. Bob is a special 
representative with the General Reinsur- 
ance Corporation at 90 John St. 
1924 
George F. Foley is with the Metropolitan 
Edison Company. Reading, Pa. 

Rev. Gordon E. Bigelow of the Trinity 
Baptist Church, Arlington, Mass., read a 
paper on "Francis Wayland" at the April 
meeting of the Theological Circle at the 
Lincolnshire Hotel, Boston. 

Luigi Capasso's father, Francesco Capasso, 
died in Providence, March 17, after a short 
illness. Another son is Antonio Capasso, 
'34, guard on the football eleven in 1931. 

Charlie Burgess has the sympathy of the 
Class in the loss of his wife, Marion J. 
(Lloyd) Burgess, who died in New York 
City, April 9, twelve days after giving birth 
to a daughter, Elaine Marian Burgess. 

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James H. Barrett, the papers say, has 
leased a fine colonial house on Rosedale 
Ave., White Plains, N. Y., where he is 
practising law. With the house there is a 
tract of 22 acres, which will be plenty for 
Jim to take his morning walk on or develop 
into a golf course. 

1925 

Philip Jones was assistant stage manager 
and a member of the cast of "Best Seller," 
a piece taken from the French of Edouard 
Bourdet, which was tried out in Washing- 
ton last month with Peggy Wood and 
Ernest Truex as the stars. 

Jack Keefer was back in Rhode Island 
last month, on vacation from his work in 
Dayton, O. He and Mrs. Keefer spent 
much of the time in Woonsocket, where 
Mrs. Keefer's parents live, but Jack was 
able to come to Providence to renew ac- 
quaintances. Joe Nutter, '24, wrote of him 
in the Providence Evening Bulletin: "He 
(jack) is backfield coach at the University 
of Dayton and owner of a sporting goods 
house in Dayton, and admits that he has 
lost none of his interest in Brown and the 
University of Michigan football. He saw 
some of the Michigan games last fall, but 
found Brown's great team a little too far 
distant to sit in on any of its games. Michi- 
gan is coached by one of Keefer's old run- 
ning mates, for the backfield combination 
of Kipke and Keefer was the sensation of 
the Western Conference back there a dec- 
ade ago. At Ann Arbor, where he starred 
for one season, Keefer laid the ground work 
for the brilliance that he was later to show 
at Brown." 

Easton Louttit is a member of the City 
Plan Commission of Cranston, R. I. He was 
named for the post, which carries no salary, 
by Mayor Frederick A. Jones, '96. 

1926 

Dr. W. H. Weidman is resident physi- 
cian at the Norwich State Tuberculosis 
Sanatorium, Uncas-on-Thames, Norwich, 
Conn. Bill was an Alumni Office visitor 
last month. 

John Talbot and Art Barry, '27, who 
have been doing graduate work at Harvard 
this year, visited Providence one day last 
month, and we had a pleasant chat with 
John while Art was interviewing a pros- 
pect for his "Barry Boys Abroad," the sum- 
mer vacation in Europe that he directs for 
American boys of preparatory school age. 

Can anyone in the Class give the Alumni 
Office the correct addresses of Walter F. 
Weber and Harold E. Neese? Mail sent to 
Weber at 122 First St.. Elizabeth, N. J., 
and to Neese at 56 Sheridan St., Irvington, 
N. J., has come back. 

1927 

Ray Adams, New England engineer and 
sales manager for Jenkins and Adair, Inc., 
broadcast equipment, is writing "Sound 
Systems and Apparatus" for the publishers 
of "Radio," we hear. He and Mrs. Adams 
are living at 75 Brown St., Providence. 

Owen P. Reid is an associate in the 
law offices of Greenough, Lyman £•? Cross, 
Hospital Trust Bldg., Providence. He 1* m 
good company, as among his co-workers 
are Thomas F. Black, Jr., and E. J. Lan- 
pher, '19, Harvey S. Reynolds, '23, and 
Paul H. Hodge, '28. 

Dr. Ernest W. Blanchard has been pro- 
moted to be Associate Professor in the 
Department of Biology at Bryn Mawr. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Boh Buckley is supervisor of salesmen 
for the Buttenck Publishing Company, with 
his office at Room 414, 31 Milk St., Boston. 
Bob still claims Providence as his home, 
however. 

It is Dean H. Echols, M.D., now, and 
Dean recently received appointment as a 
member of the Faculty, Department of 
Neurology, in the Medical School, Uni- 
versity of Michigan, from which he got his 
doctor's degree in 1931. He was married 
last September to Miss Frances Foerster of 
Milwaukee. He and Mrs. Echols are living 
at 1402 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, 
Mich., and Dean tells us that he hopes to 
hear from some of his old college chums. 

1928 

Ken Tyson is a law clerk in the offices of 
his father, Frank L. Tyson, 277 Broadway, 
New York City. 

Henry Hayes reports that his new mail- 
ing address is 253 West 85th St., New York 
City. 

W. W. (Cowboy) Mann's letter to the 
Alumni Secretary, giving his impressions 
of the earthquake in Southern California, 
was such a spirited one that we regret that 
we have not the space to publish it in full. 
Cowboy, at his apartment in Los Angeles, 
was listening to the March of Time on the 
radio when the first shock came. By the 
time that the shock ended he was out in the 
street. "The shaking had stopped . . . the 
whole universe was as silent as the John 
Hay Library for the space of a thought . . . 
the telephone poles in the street were sway- 
ing like trees in a gale. I don't know that I 
have ever known such a sensation before 
in my life. It was terribly weird." He re- 
counted his observations as he recalled them 
after the lapse of several days and added: 
"The very definite and clearly defined con- 
clusion is that I don't like earthquakes. Yet 
I'll stay in this country until I'm shaken 
out." 

Dick Gurney was a recent campus visitor. 
It is the first time that he has been back to 
Brown since his return from Oxford nearly 
two years ago. He saw friends and ac- 
quaintances while he was here, inquired 
about some of his college chums in other 
cities, and said that he hoped to come back 
to teach in Providence or neighborhood. 
Dick is at the Rivers School, Brookhne, 
Mass., where he teaches English and coaches 
baseball and football teams. 

1929 

F. A. Simeone, in his third year at Har- 
vard Medical School, has won a fellowship 
at the school for 1933-34, his third honor. 
He will get his M.D. degree in June, 1934. 

Hy Heller is studying medicine at the 
Medical School, University of Chicago. 

Archie Smith is completing his work at 
the University of Chicago Law School and 
hopes to receive his LL.B. at the convoca- 
tion next August. 

Ronald C. Bishop's wife, Elizabeth (Aid- 
rich) Bishop, died in Providence, April 5, 
1933, after a long illness. Besides her hus- 
band and her parents, Mrs. Bishop leaves a 
daughter, Elizabeth. 

Bob Shanklm's new mailing address is 
75 Four Mile Road, West Hartford, Conn. 

Clyde Barrows, with the Remington- 
Rand Corporation, is installing one of his 
company's billing systems for the Brook- 
lyn Union Gas Company, and is living at 
275 West Lena Ave., Freeport, N. Y. 



1931 

Walter Holmes is teaching science and 
serving as director of Freshman and lower 
school athletics at Tilton School, Tilton, 
N. H. 

Walter Paydos was an Alumni Office 
visitor last month, coming down from Tufts 
Medical School, where he is a second year 
student. He is living at 548 Newbury St., 
Boston. 

Gordon Baxter is planning to enter Al- 
bany Medical College, which is affiliated 
with Union College, and he writes that he 
has been taking pre-medical courses at 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in his 
home town of Troy, N. Y., this year. 

1932 
A NOTE TO THE CLASS 

THE Saturday before Commencement — 
June 17 is the exact date — is the day to 
set aside for the 1932 Class Reunion. The 
committee is working to get a real worth- 
while program at the least expense. No mat- 
ter where you are, if it is humanly possible, 
get back to Providence for at least a part 
ot the reunion. If you can't possibly get 
back, drop a line to Rip Hurley, class secre- 
tary, at 723 Hospital Trust Bldg., Provi- 
dence, and tell us where you are and what 
you are doing. Reunion data and new class 
insurance plan as substitute for class dues 
will be mailed soon. If you have any good 
movies of our Commencement let Rip Hur- 
ley know. The Class would like to buy 
copies to keep on file for future class func- 
tions. 

Paul Mackesey is acting as assistant coach 
of the Boston University lacrosse team. 

A. N. (Jack) Foster, Jr., is a partner in 
the Campbell-Hathaway Co., shoe retail- 
ers, 73 West Main St., Uniontown, Pa. 

Ed Eveleth's father, Charles E. Eveleth, 
vice president of the General Electric Com- 
pany and former general manager of the 
Schenectady works of the company, died 
at his home in Schenectady, N. Y., March 
25, 1933. Mr. Eveleth, Sr., was author of a 
system of work and pay that increased the 
efficiency and wages of the men under him 
and he made it work largely by his own 
personality. Ed and his family have the 
sympathy of the class in their loss. 

Tom Reidy has been serving this year as 
a substitute teacher in the public schools of 
New London, Conn., his home city. 

Sid Weinberg is assistant manager of the 
State Theatre, Quincy, Mass. 

Ray Andrew is a chemist with the United 
States Oil Company, and is living at 217 
Prospect St., Pawtucket. 

Frank Taylor is completing his first year 
as a student in psychology at the Graduate 
School, Princeton University. 

Harry Strickland is working for the 
Samoset Worsted Mill, manufacturer of 
worsted yarns, Woonsocket, R. I. 

Dick Small is with Shields 6? Co., stock 
brokers, 44 Wall St., New York, after 
having been with Theodore Prince ii Co. 
since last July. 

Syd Maslen is an educational adviser 
for the Alexander Hamilton Institute. 
During the annual campaign last fall he 
was on the staff of the Providence Com- 
munity Fund, Inc. 

Gordon Pyper is teaching English at 
Mount Hermon School, from which he 
entered Brown. He was married last August 
to Ida Elizabeth Fendel. 



Engagement 
Miss Ruth Ellen Hart de Coudres, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Thomas H. de Coudres of Prov- 
idence, to Robert C. Hollingworth, '28, son 
of Arthur Hollingworth, M.D., '97n. 



Weddings 

1922— G. Ellsworth Gale, Jr., and Mrs. 
Margaret Arthur Colby, daughter of James 
H. Arthur, '97, and Mrs. Arthur, were 
married in Providence, March 22, 1933. 
H. Edward Field, T3n, was best man. Mr. 
and Mrs. Gale are at home in Plainfield, 
N.J. 

1926 — Dr. Walter S. Jones and Miss 
Florence Roberts were married in Brain- 
tree, Mass., Sept. 3, 1932. Dr. Jones is an 
interne at the Rhode Island Hospital. 

1927 — Frederick Bernays Wiener and 
Miss Esther Helen Green, Pembroke '32, 
daughter of Robert H. Green of New Mil- 
ford, Conn., were married in New York 
City, April 8, 1933. They are living at 
19 Angell Street, Providence. 



Births 

1907— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Jones 
of Providence, a son, Robert Wagenseil, 
March 22, 1933. 

1908— To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon J. Howe 
of Deerfield, Mass., a son, Nicholas Shel- 
don, on April 10, 1933. 

1923— To Mr. and Mrs. Albert O. Lun- 
din of Providence, a daughter, Ens, April 3, 
1933. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hagan, 
Jr., of Manville, R. I., a daughter, Cath- 
erine, March 23, 1933. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Earle Vincent 
Johnson of Chicago, a daughter, Cynthia 
Ann, March 28, 1933. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius N. 
Allen, Jr., of Hopewell, N. J., a son, Cor- 
nelius N. Allen, 3rd, December 13, 1932. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. James H. Sims 
of Providence, a daughter, Margaret An- 
thony, April 2, 1933. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Freeman T. 
Putney of Wellesley Hills, Mass., a son, 
Freeman Theodore Putney, Jr., April 1, 
1933. Mrs. Putney was Adelaide B. Me- 
lendy, daughter of Jesse G. Melendy, '01. 

1926A— To Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Jonah 
of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a daughter, 
Martha Jane, March 30, 1933. Mrs. Jonah 
was Miss Anne Crawford, Pembroke '27. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold K. 
Brown of Providence, a son, Arnold K., Jr., 
on May 2, 1933. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Irving G. Lox- 
ley of Edgewood, R. I., a daughter, Sally 
Ann, March 16, 1933. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Garrett D. 
Byrnes of Providence, a daughter, Davis 
Roseen Byrnes, March 7, 1933. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson B.Jones, 
Jr., of Providence, a son, Nelson B. Jones, 
3rd, on April 1, 1933. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop H. 
Richardson of Newton Upper Falls, Mass.. 
a son, Winthrop H. Richardson, Jr., March 
25, 1933. 

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Per- 
ley of Washington, D. C, a daughter, Joan 
Irene, on April 2, 1933. 

1929n— To Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. 
Eastwood of Edgewood, R. I., a second 
daughter, Judith, March 27, 1933. 



270 



The Painless 




. .. High up under the dome of Boston's Massachu- 
setts General Hospital, far removed from the wards 
so that the .screams of sufferers under the knife will 
not horrify the ward patients, is the Hospital's famed 
operating amphitheatre. Many a medical student 
dreads the operations he is privileged to watch, fre- 
quently faints. But one day last week Dr. John C. 
Warren, Boston surgeon, led a group of surgeons 
and students (class of 1847) up the long stairs, eager, 
hurrying. 

For there beckoned an interesting experiment — 
surgery without pain. Dr. William Thomas Green 
Morton, 27-year old Boston dentist, thought it pos- 
sible, had experimented to that end with ether, a 
volatile, pungent chemical compound capable of pro- 
ducing insensibility. He had tried it on animals, on 
himself, then on his patients while extracting the 
roots of decayed teeth. Finally he had obtained per- 
mission from Dr. Warren to let him test his drug 
before an audience. One Gilbert Abbott, with a tumor 
on his neck, was to be the first trial. 

At 11 a.m. the last privileged student hurried into 
the amphitheatre. Experimentee Abbott, fidgeting on 
the operating-table, looked anxiously at the clock. 
Casual talk ceased, sudden silence prevailed as the 
minute-hand crawled past the hour, and Dr. Morton 
did not appear. "He and his anesthetic I Humbugs 
both, no doubt!" mumbled a doctor. It became five 
minutes past eleven, ten, then a quarter after. The 
patient stirred uneasily. Dr. Warren selected an in- 
strument, advanced to the table — useless to delay pro- 
ceedings any longer. As his knife poised for the in- 
cision. Dr. Morton, breathless, apologetic, rushed in. 
He held in one hand a curious globe-and-tube apparatus. 

In eager concentration, tensely expectant, the wait- 
ing group of surgeons and students watched while the 
newcomer — a charlatan perhaps, a genius possibly — 
adjusted his peculiar inhaling apparatus to the pa- 
tient's mouth and with tense composure administered 

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



his anesthetic. Veiled skepticism revealed itself when 
the patient reacted suddenly in wild exhilaration, but 
this exuberance subsided, relaxation took its place, 
then unconsciousness. Skepticism was routed, amaze- 
ment paramount. Said Dentist Morton to Surgeon 
Warren: "Your patient is ready." 

Dr. Warren began to operate, proceeded quickly, in 
five minutes had finished. From the patient came no 
cry of pain, no agony of distress, only slight move- 
ments, mumbled words as from one who stirs on the 
borderland of sleep .... 

"This, gentlemen," exclaimed Surgeon Warren, "13 
no humbug." 

Awake, Gilbert Abbott said, "I felt no pain." 

So, in part, had TIME been published in 
October, 1846, would TIME have reported the 
first public demonstration of ether as a sur- 
gical anesthetic. So, too, would TIME have 
reported how one Dr. Crawford Williamson 
Long, of Georgia, came forward later saying 
that he had used ether four years previous, had 
given it up as impractical .... So, too, would 
TIME have reported the bitter persecution that 
came to Dentist Morton when he patented his 
discovery as "Letheon"; the seizure of "Leth- 
eon" by the U. S. Government for its own uses; 
the claims of Dr. Charles T. Jackson, the Bos- 
ton chemist from whom Dentist Morton had 
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proudly refusing his share; the long Congres- 
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Dentist Morton's death in poverty in 1865. 

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MR. E. A. Burlingame, Comptroller of 
the University, returned on Tuesday, 
April 18, from six months leave of absence. 
Mr. and Mrs. Burlingame and their daugh- 
ter Katherine spent the winter in Palma de 
Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. 
* * # 

Harry G. Seidel, T2, and Mrs. Scidel, 
who have been visiting in this country for 
the last two months, sailed on the Majestic 
April 19 for London. 

First Lieutenant Robert C. Padley, '17, 
Q. M. C, U. S. A., and Mrs. Padley have 
returned from Hawaii, where Padley has 
been on duty for two years, and have been 
visiting Mrs. Padley's mother, Mrs. Eva J. 
Hesse, in Rumford, R. I. Padley is detailed 
to Holabird, Q. M. Depot, Maryland. 

Major S. S. Winslow, '08, C. A. C, 
U. S. A., has also returned from his period 
of duty in Hawaii and at present is attached 
to the Quartermasters' Corps, with his 
headquarters in Philadelphia. 



On Ocean Island 
A note last month from Dr. E. C. Gould, 
'01, said that he was still living on Ocean 
Island, Central Pacific, where he is the 
Government medical officer. He enclosed a 
photograph showing "part of my tropical 
home, sweet home," and the view was a 
most appealing one. Ocean Island is a Brit- 
ish possession, one of the atolls which dot 
that section of the Pacific. It uses the post- 



age of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, which 
are north of the Fiji Islands and northwest 
of Samoa. Gould's chief point of contact 
with the mainland is Melbourne, Australia. 

* * * 

A Brown Club in Athens. 7 
Dick Howland, '31, winner of the Charles 
Eliot Norton Traveling Fellowship at Har- 
vard University for 193 3-34, will study 
archaeology at the American School in 
Athens. After he finishes his graduate work 
at Harvard next month, he will sail for 
Athens by way of Munich, Germany, where 
he plans to stay for a short time to make 
intensive study of German and otherwise to 
prepare himself for his journey to Greece. 
The Fellowship carries an appropriation of 
$1400 and is one of the most coveted 
awards made at Harvard. 

In Athens Howland will find a classmate, 
Dick Breaden, who is assistant librarian at 
the Grenadius Library, American School of 
Classical Studies. It has been suggested that 
the two organize a Brown Club there. 

* * * 

Alumnae Abroad 

Mrs. Cecil Cross (Ruth Henderson) of 
the class of 1915 is now at the American 
consulate in Barcelona. 

Bessie Bloom Wessel, "11, who travelled 
through Russia last summer, has spoken be- 
fore a number of clubs lately describing her 
impressions of that country. 

Since finishing her work at the Library 
School at Simmons, Dorothy Carr has spent 
three months in England, Scotland, and 
Wales. 



Pembroke Chronicle 

BY JANE SANFORD, '3 5 



KOMIANS presented two one-act plays 
April 21 and 22 to a very appre- 
ciative audience. They gave two 
contemporary Spanish productions, 
"Women's Town" by Serafin and Joaqin 
Quintero, and "No Smoking" by J. Bena- 
vente. The latter is a curtain-raiser of pure 
farce concerned with the joys and sor- 
rows of travelling. The former play is in 
marked contrast to the explosiveness of 



"No Smoking" having the traditional lasy 
charm and quiet humor of Spain. This is 
the last production of the year with the 
possible exception of Alumnae Day plays 
in June. 

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of their passing for elections are begin- 
ning, starting off with S. G. A. President 
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daughter of Professor Hastings of the 
English department, has been elected by 
the college at large for the S. G. A. pres- 
idency for the coming year. Elizabeth has 
served on various committees throughout 
her two years and was elected Junior Phi 
Beta Kappa. 

Junior Prom, held on April 28, was one 
of the outstanding affairs, as always, of 
the year. Seniors sponsored a tea dance 
on the following day, under the direction 
of Violet Bander, chairman of the Senior 
social committee. That evening, to cap the 
weekend. Brownies conducted the AH 
College Formal under Mary Jane Eschel- 
man, their president. Record issued a 
special pictorial supplement to commem- 
orate the weekend. 

Spring Day came on Wednesday morn- 
ing, May 10, with the traditional Senior 
Breakfast. Professor Shoemaker was chosen 
as the favorite professor and made a de- 
lightful address in chapel. Lucia Steere 
presented the class mascot. Ivy Day will be 
June 16, with the Senior class planting the 
Ivy. Beatrice George will give the trowel 
to a member of the Junior class and various 
members from other classes will carry the 
Ivy chain. 

Basketball is over and we ended the 
season with a fairly good record — some 
victories, some defeats, but a whole lot of 
fun. And now tennis, archery, and base- 
ball come to the front to claim our atten- 
tion — and also, some studying! 



Eva Le Gallienne to Spea\ 

SINCE fewer alumnae each year attend 
the afternoon exercises in Sayles Hall 
on Commencement Day, we are going to 
try the experiment of having exercises in 
Alumnae Hall. Eva Le Gallienne has been 
chosen as the speaker and because of her 
popularity we hope that many alumnae 
and undergraduates will be present. 



With the Alumnae Clubs 

THE Boston Club was entertained by 
Jessie Monroe Williams (Mrs. J. H.) 
at her home in Cambridge on April 29th. 
Miss Eva A. Mooar, Director of Admis- 
sions at Pembroke College, and Mrs. Ger- 
trude Allen McConnell, Executive Secre- 
tary of the Alumnae Association, brought 
news of the College and of the alumnae. 

The Providence Club at its April meet- 
ing had an interesting travel talk by Edith 
Earle, '19, assistant director of the Sundial 
Travel Service, who showed motion pic- 
tures of the West Indies and Spanish 
American Republics. A successful dance 
was held on May 5th to raise money for 
the Scholarship Fund. The annual meet- 
ing is to be an outing on the estate of 
Senior Nicholson, father of Hannah 
Nicholson Benson, '11. 

The Worcester Club visited the new 
Art Museum on March 4th and had a 
meeting afterwards at the home of Anna 
L. Metcalf, '97. Irene Burwock, '30, as- 
sisted the hostess at the tea which fol- 
lowed. In April the club entertained the 
undergratuates at the home of Annie 
Adams Atwood, '17. 



The New York Club had Miss Eva A. 
Mooar as its guest speaker on April 8th. 
They also had as their guests a number ol 
possible sub-freshmen. 

The Philadelphia Club will be the 
guests of Helen Newbury Ridington at a 
luncheon meeting at her home in Lans- 
downe, Penn., on May 27th. Dean Mor- 
riss will be the speaker. 

The Southern California alumnae were 
entertained at the home of the president. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Collins McCoy, '00n is Los 
Angeles on April 15th. The club was glad 
to welcome Virginia Robert, '30n. The 
Club reelected the officers who have served 
this year. Easter colors decorated the table 
at the delightful tea which followed the 
meeting. 



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her studies at the University of London 
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1894 
Mary E. Woollcy was recently awarded 
an LL.D. degree by Rollins College. 

1902 
Myrtis M. Clayton has been serving as 
radio chairman of the R. I. State Federa- 
tion of Women's Clubs this year. She has 
furnished a program over station WEAN 
every Thursday from 1:45 to 2 P. M. 
Dean Morriss was the speaker on April 
20th and her subject was "The types of 
girls who should go to college." Mrs. Clay- 
ton and her son, Donald, a graduate from 
Brown in 1931, are to manage the Green 
Shutters at Boothbay Harbor this summer. 
Mr. Donald Clayton received his A. M. 
from Brown last June and is now a stu- 
dent teacher at Central High School. 

1904 
Lottie Devlin Ward has a daughter, 
Margaret D., in the senior class. Another 
daughter, Charlotte C. Ward, will enter 
Pcmbroke next fall. 

1907 

Louise Schutz Boas, professor of Eng- 
lish at Wheaton, has been giving a num- 
ber of lectures in various cities. She spoke 
on biography in Fall River and New Bed- 
ford and on current novels before the Col- 
lege Club of Boston and women's clubs in 
Attleboro, Mansfield, and New Bedford. 
She also gave five lectures at the Norton 
High School. 

Eunice C. Smith Goard paid the Alum- 
nae Office a visit last month. We have 
tried for so long to locate her that she 
seemed almost like a visitor from another 
planet. She is head of the French Depart- 
ment at Wilkes-Barre Institute. Her ad- 
dress is Wilkes-Barre Institute, Kingston 
Post Office, Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. 

1908 
Polly Presbrey McCarthy is a social 
case worker for the Associated Charities 
in Cleveland. 

1909 
Margaret B. Stillwell was the speaker at 
the chapel exercises on March 30th when 
the Anne Crosby Emery Fellowship was 
awarded. 

1913 
Marion B. Greene spent the winter in 
Tryon, N. C. Her new Providence address 
is 1 23 Waterman St. 

1916 

Wilhelmina Bennett Cox (Mrs. L. 
Palmer) has moved to 66 Belvidere Boule- 
vard, North Providence. 

Edith Sprague Hansen (Mrs. A. F.) 
has moved to 1752 Mildar St., Rivera, 
Calif. 

1919 

Miriam Nuzum Hoisington (Mrs. F. 
W.) has moved from Wisconsin to 316 
Church St., Princeton, 111. 

1920 

Helen K. Wallace has an interesting 
new position at Colby Junior College. She 
is in residence half the year and in the 
field recruiting students the other half 



year. Her address is Colby Junior College, 
New London, N. H. 

1921 
Elsie Lord has moved to 81 Columbia 
Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1929 

Christine Anthony is teaching at the 
Katharine Gibbs School of Executive and 
Secretarial Training in Providence. 

Louise Burt is doing social service work 
in the surgical department of the Rhode 
Island Hospital in addition to her work .it 
the Simons Dental Clinic. 

Josephine Gable is living at the London 
Terrace Apartments, 45 5 West 23rd St., 
New York City. 

1931 

Ruth Kerns Lane (Mrs. John W.) is 
living at 25 High St., Bristol, R. I. 

Estelle Moore has a position at the 
Howard M. Chapin Hospital. 

Alice Brophy has been appointed a 
social case work supervisor and will serve 
on the training staff for the group of sever- 
al hundred home visitors throughout the 
State. 

1932 

Helen Baldwin has a secretarial position 
with the R. I. Hospital Trust Company. 

Hope Williams is doing social work for 
the R. I. Unemployment Commission. 

Engagements 

1924 — Helen Fenner to Leroy Lock- 
wood Walter, Wesleyan, '20, of New 
York. 

1929 — Ethel M. Humphrey to Dr. 
George K. Anderson, Associate Professor 
of English at Brown. 

193 2 — Alice Gindin to Rollo G. Silver, 
'31, of New York City. 

Weddings 

1918 — Marion N. Hudson was married 
to Guy D. Williams, an alumnus of the 
University of Tennessee, on April 1 1 . 
1933. Mr. and Mrs. Williams will make 
their home in Los Angeles. 

1926 — Hope V. Gilbert was married to 
Jefferson Bo'rden, 3d. Harvard, on April 
8th. Mr. and Mrs. Borden arc living at 
291 Cherry St., Fall River. 

193 2 — Esther H. Green was married to 
Frederick Bernays Wiener at the Waldorf 
Astoria in New York on April 8th. Su- 
preme Court Justice William H. Black 
officiated. Mr. Wiener is a graduate ol 
Brown University and of Harvard Law 
School and is associated with Edwards 
and Angell, lawyers, in Providence. Mr. 
and Mrs. Weir.er are living at 19 Angell 
Street. 

1932 — Hazel E. Ives was married to 
Samuel Abbott Hutchinson, '31, in the 
First Church of Christ, Fairfield, Conn., 
,,n May 13, 1932. 

Births 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Booth, 
(Elsie Carlen), a second son, Stephen 
Dudley Booth, on December 16, 1932. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. James H 

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Hagan (Catherine Fitzgerald), a daughter, 
Catherine, on March 23, 1933. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Jonah 
(Anne Crawford), a daughter, Martha 
Jane Jonah, on March 30, 1933. 



Death of Miss Thurston, '04n 

Louise Isabel Thurston, daughter of the 
late H. Edward Thurston and Abby I. 
(Wood) Thurston, died on March 12, 
1933, after a long illness. Miss Thurston 
was educated in the public schools of 
Providence and after graduation from 
Classical High School, entered Brown in 
September, 1900. At the end of her fresh- 
man year she was compelled by failing 
health to give up her college career, but 
her loyalty to the college and her interest 
in the class of 1904 she never surrendered. 
Although her long illness had prevented 
her from taking an active part in alumnae 
activities, she kept in close touch with 
everything that was going on and always 
sent a greeting for the annual Christmas 
party and for other events. She main- 
tained her contact with friends and her 
interest in literature and in current events. 
With unfaltering cheerfulness she bore 
her constant pain and faced the problems 
of life and the mysteries of death with a 
faith that nothing could defeat. Her class- 
mates might appropriately cite Louise 
Isabel Thurston for loyalty and supreme 
courage. 



Providence 
National Bank 

Established 1791 

CAPITAL $1,500,000 

SURPLUS $2,500,000 

Main Office — 100 Westminster Street 
Branch — Corner Empire and Washington Sts 



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 I.. 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 St. Branch, Frank L. Sawyer. Manager 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Manager 
Directors 
Charles H. Newell Wilson G. Wing 

William Gammell, Jr. John Nicholas Rrown 
Moses J. Barber Thomas L. Pierce 

PaulC. DeWoIf Lauriston H. Hazard 

Frank E. Richmond William L. Sweet 

Richard S. Aldrich Frederick T. Moses 

Edward P. Jastram John Ormsbee Ames 

Earl G. Batty Willard I. Angell 

A. Livingston Kellcy John B. Lewis 

Charles C. Marshall 




1 IIVIJlL once demanded by his investments 
— Mr. J now devotes to 
business and travel 




±. OR years 
Mr. J has been a close stu- 
dent of financial matters, 
particularly as related to in- 
vestments. He is proud of 
his knowledge, and rightly 
so, for it has enabled him to 
build up substantial holdings 
in worthwhile securities. 

With two very definite 
objects in mind, Mr. J 
recently turned his securities 
over to the Hospital Trust 
Company under an Agency 
Service Account. 



First and foremost, he 
wanted to check his own 
judgment against the impar- 
tial and conservative group 
judgment of our officers and 
directors, which he knows 
is based on the findings of 
exhaustive analyses. By so 
doing he felt that he would 
be better able to reach sound 
decisions when making 
changes or reinvestments. 

Second, he wanted to be 
relieved of all detail care, 
such as clipping coupons, 



collecting incomeand watch- 
ing for called bonds, in order 
that he might feel free to 
travel for extended periods. 

One feature of Agency 
Service which appealed par- 
ticularly to Mr. J is the fact 
that he receives all this ser- 
vice without in any way re- 
linquishing his own control. 

Perhaps this is just the 
type of service you have been 
looking for. Ask one of our 
Trust Officers for complete 
details. 



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"I dropped into a little to- 
bacco shop, and when I asked 
for a pack of Chesterfields 
the man smiled and told me 
I was the seventh customer 
without a break to ask for 
Chesterfields. 'Smoker after 
smoker,' he said, 'tells me 
that Chesterfields click ... I 
sell five times as many Chest- 
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