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Dr. Henry Kalloch Rowe of Newton Highlands, Mass., Brown '92, theologian, author and educator, professor at Andover-Newton Theological School, Doctor of Divinity. Charles Franklin Kettering of Dayton, O., en- ginneer. Doctor of Science. Lawrence Counselman Wroth, librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown Uni\ersity, Doctor of Letters. John Livingston Lowes, Cambridge, Mass , author, L^octor of Letters William Allen White of Emporia, Ks., author and journalist. Doctor of Letters. A similar recognition of 20 years' standing was recalled by the presence of Dr. Inazo Ota Nitobe, former Under-Secretary of the League of Nations, who was in line during the march down the Hill and was summoned to the platform of the Meeting House for special greeting by President Barbour. Dr. Barbour came back to Providence in time for the Commencement exercises, and his return gave an added interest to the observances. FOR the first time in many years, Col. Henry Bray ton Rose '81 did not lead the procession. He walked down the Hill w ith his class, having been relieved of his post as chief marshal at his own request. Maurice Howe Cook '97 was chief marshal in his stead, with Martin S. Fanning '91 as his adjutant. The staff included: Aides to Chiel" Marshall, Archibald Claflin Matteson '93 John Davis Edmands Jones '93, Frederick William Marvel "94 Byron Sprague Watson '97; John .Ashley Gammons '98, Edward Tudor Gross '01; Abbott Phillips '02. Henry Garfield Clark 07, Denison Warner Greene '24; Kent Fleming Mat- teson '28. Aides in charge of divisions, Royal Willis L.eith 12; Colin Gordon MacLeod '15; Sidney Daniels Humphrey '97, James Cunliff'e Bullock '02. Aide in charge of Graduating Class of the Women's College. Marion Luther Bacon '13. Fourth Divifion .•\ide in Charge, James Cunliffe Bullock 02. Classes of '31-32 — Vlarshals. Douglas MacMillan Stewart '31, Clinton Nickerson Williams '31. Cla.ss of '29 — Marshals, Edison Richard Rand '29, John Sheldon Collier '29. Class of '28-29 — Marshals. Robert Williams Buckley '27, Robert Perkins Brown '27. Classes of '26-'22 — Marshals, Harrison Barrows Huntoon "22, Theodore Lawton Sweet '22. Ihird Division .Aide in Charge, Sidney Daniels Humphrey '97. Classes of '21-'12 — Marshals, Earl Philip Perkins '12, William Barbour Farnsworth 17. Classes of 'll-'02 — Marshals. Victor Arthur Schwartz 07, Everett James Horton 02. Classes of '01-'92 — Marshals, Arthur Moulton .Mien '97, Francis Mitchell Smith '92. Classes of '91-'59 — Marshals. George Hazard Crooker '87, Edmund D. Chesebro '87. Second Division Aide in Charge. Colin Gordon MacLeod 15 Graduating Class; Men — Head Marshal, Paul Francis Mackesey, Marshals. Wendell Burton Barnes. Gerald Leonard Bronstein. .Man Philip Cusick, Melvin Marston Dichter, Stanley Clifford Paige, John Bell Rae, Da\id Hart Scott, John Read Caulkins. Graduating Class; Women — .Aide in Charge. Marion Luther Bacon '13, Marshals, Katherine Babington Bird. Mary Jane Hagan. Frances Merle Young, Beatrice Victoria Hunt. Faculty — Marshals. Prof. Leighton T. Bohl, Prof. Benjamin William Brown. First Division .Aide in Charge, Royal Willis Leith 12. Invited guests, judges of courts and candidates for honorary degrees. Marshals, Prof. Robert Foster Chambers, Prof. William Ihompson Hastings Board of Trustees — Marshals, Ward Beecher Chase '85 ; William Judson Brown '93. Board of Fellows — Marshals, John Henshaw '87; Charles Henry Merriman, '92. It was a matter of general comment that the line was the longest it had been in recent years. The oldest marcher was 87-year old Martin S. Smith '67, while the youngest was the two-year old son of Rust Scott 17, who came from Georgia with his father. The spokesmen for the class of 1932 in the Meeting House were Alan P. Cusick and John B. Rae, the former criticizing imperialistic ambitions in the American foreign policy, the latter deploring the frenzy of extra-curricular activity he found obscuring real undergraduate scholarship in .American colleges, including Brown. 35 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY H^ THE alumni meeting in Sayles Hall on Commence- ment Day impressed many of those who at- tended as one of the most profitable and success- ful of such assemblages in many years President Barbour had a message the alumni were all eager to hear, after his absence in the Orient since Fall, and the speakers flattered the gathering with their serious, interesting discussions. They were William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, Claude R. Branch '07, Harvey N Davis 01, President of Stevens institute of Technology, and Governor Norman S. Case '08, the presiding officer being Herbert H Rice '92. In their individual ways Mr White and President Davis gave their opinions on the cause of the depres- sion. Excessive worship of material goods had brought civilization to its present crisis, Mr. White declared, demanding a scheme of justice that would provide the necessities of life to all "without any relation to their ability to grab " Mr. Davis said that it was uncontrolled and obligatory thrift on the part of nations that had brought on the depression. He wanted thrift made "safe for democracy" by rational control of production of public and quasi- public works. Mr. Branch, admitting more humor to his remarks, asked that more young men enter upon political life today. [ENRY Robinson Palmer '90, it was announced, had been elected Alumni Trustee to fill the Congregational vacancy. The other alumni election resulted in the naming of Victor A. Schwartz '07 to the Athletic Council for a two-year term. Mr. Sch\\artz had been leading the cheers, but yielded to a substitute for the moment During the course of the announcement of gifts to the University. Dr. Barbour had unveiled three new portraits w hich are now the property of Brown, added to its gallery of notable servants. One was that of the late Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace, painted by William C. Loring and presented under Dr. Chace's will. Another was Lazar Raditz's por- trait of the late John Carter Brown Woods, member of the Board of Trustees since 1884 and for many years secretary of the advisory and e.xecutive com- mittee of the Corporation. It was presented by his nieces. Prolonged applause greeted the unveiling of John R. Erazier's portrait of John Francis Greene '91, associate professor of Roman Literature and History, which was presented by Mrs. Albert Granger Hark- ness and her son. Albert Harkness '09 Professor Greene was not in the hall at the time, but many of his former students found him on the campus later. "I told Mr. Frazier, " he told some of them, "that 1 would like to look intelligent and genial." It was their opinion that the artist had been obedient and that the likeness was excellent. Luncheon in the sunken garden of Faunce House had preceded the alumni meeting. HEADING the list of gifts to Brown University, announced by Dr. Barbour at the alumni meeting in Sayles Hall Commencement Day, was that of an unnamed alumnus who will give $300,000 "to hasten the day when the University will have an infirmary worthy of the institu- tion " It is to be a memorial to President Andrews Not merely the generous amount of the gift but the anonymity of the donor made this one of the most talked of incidents of Commencement Week on the Hill. Dr Barbour s announcements to the alumni were as follows: "A loyal alumnus — of a class whose 50th reunion is not remote — has given what is substantially his entire personal estate of approximately $300,000, expressing the desire that thereby he will hasten the day when the University will have an infirmary, available to students and faculty alike — to bear the name of E Benjamin Andrews — its structure, equipment and management, when duly endowed, to be worthy of the institution it w ill serve and a fit memorial to a president that endeared himself to those students who came under his remarkable influence. "In June 1910 President f-aunce in conferring an honorary degree made the following citation' 'Henry Ames Barker, of the Class of 1893: citizen who looks beyond his business office, who has seen the vision of the City Beautiful, and by pen and deed daily spurs us to transform the waste places of the earth into gardens and homes. ' I am privileged to an- nounce that the Trustees of the Estate of Mr. Barker — in furtherance of his wishes — now give to the University securities having a present market value of $15,000. "Further to make real the vision of Henry Ames Barker his sister — Mrs. Jessie Barker Gardner and her husband, George Warren Gardner, of the Class of 1894 — give to the Department of Art real estate to the guaranteed value of $50,000 and a collection of period furniture and furnishings, works of art et cetera appraised at $b0.000. < < pROM the Estates of Henr>' L and Charles T. •t^ Aldrich, on account of residue of said estates, securities with a market value of $9b,863.75 and real estate (or interest therein) valued at $b9,5b0.00 Total received to date on principal account $lbb,- 423 75 In addition we have received from the cur- rent income of these estates the sum of $15,000. "From the estate of George F Comstock, $ lb, 29b 99 representing one-half of the residue of the estate. "From John D. Rockefeller, Jr., $295,000 on ac- count of his pledge for the erection and endowment of Faunce House "From the Rockefeller Foundation the sum of $20,000, or as much thereof as may be required, in support of a project of economic research on the international gold standard. "From the trustees of the Alumni Fund $16,000, including a gift of $2000 from the Class of 1907. "From the Carnegie corporation the sum of $15,000 in support of a community program in art. "From the estate of Howard H. Payne a bequest of $10,000 as an addition to the J. Milton Payne Scholarship Fund established by his father. 36 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY MObl RECJENI ALUMNUS OF BROWN AND NEW CHANCELLOR U i//ui*7i .\//om John D. Rockefeller, Jr , $5000 for the McLellan Collection of Lincolniana. "From Henry D. Sharpe $5000 for the Sharpe [fellowships. "From the estate of Laura B. Sims a bequest of $5000 to establish the Carlton F. Sims Scholarship. "F'rom the Carnegie Corporation $5000 for the purchase of books for the library. "I'"rom the estate of Emily j. Anthony $5043,30, representing a share in the residue of the estate, to be added to the Emily j . Anthony Fund. "From a friend $2000 to be added to the Perry Edson Faunce Scholarship "F-rom J. J. Bodell $1000 for the Bodell & Co. Fellowship in Economics "From Lewis S. Milner $750 for the Milner Fellow- ship in Economics "hrom E. J. DuPont de Nemours Company $750 for the DuPont Fellowship in Chemistry. "From Herbert W. Rice $700 for the Herbert W. Rice Fellowship in Chemistry. "From the Alumnae Fund of Pembroke College $850 for Scholarships. "[^rom Mrs. Isabelle Scott Bollard $600 for the Bollard Scholarship in Pembroke College. "From the estate of Howard Clifton Jcwett $500 to establish the Jewett F-und for Pembroke College "F-rom Jesse L Rosenberger $500 as an addition to the Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize Fund " An Added $5000 for the Alumni Fund Since Commencement Day, when the total of the Alumni Fund was announced as $ lb, 000, contribu- tions have increased that sum to $21,000. This, as did the announced total, includes $2000, as a gift from the Class of 1^)07 which is to be used for the construction of another cabin at the Recreation Camp at Greenville. The amount received by the University frorn general contributions is exactly the same as that of last year. The Trustees of the Fund have been able to maintain this year the total raised during 1930- 1931. The number of contributors is 22 per cent below last year's — 1045 as compared with 1345. The current list holds the names of 80 new con- tributors. "In the face of existing circumstances," William B. Farnsworth, secretary of the Trustees of the Fund, points out, "the figures seem somewhat more en- couraging than perhaps might have been anticipated. There seems to be a very loyal group of Brown men who continue to assist the University in this way year after year. Some of them, to be sure, found it 37 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY necessary to reduce the amount of their usual con- tribution, but on the other hand we have had a number of men who, realizing the situation, have been able to increase their contributions at least for the present year. " ^ ^ :^ :f; :); Phi Beta Kappa's 103rd Meeting ONE honorary member and three alumni members were elected to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa at the 103rd annual meeting at Com- mencement Lawrence C. Wroth, librarian of the John Carter Brown Library who has been given pro- fessional rank this year, was the new honorary mem- ber, while the alumni members are Prof. J. Franklin James, chief of the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, and one time professor of his- tory at Brown; Wallace R. Lane 'Q9, distinguished expert on patent law; and John T. Winterich '12, editor of the American Legion Monthly and author- ity on book collecting. Prof. Albert K. Potter '8b, was re-elected President of the Rhode Island Alpha. The other officers for the year are: Vice President — Samuel H. Ordway '80; Secretary — Prof. William T. Hastings '03; Treasurer — William W Moss '94; Historian — Prof. Wilfred H. Munro '70; and Auditor — Harold C. Field '94. 1 he Baccalaureate Message Denying that college days are irresponsible ones, President Barbour told the members of the gradu- ating class in his baccalaureate sermon to them in the First Baptist Meeting House that many of them had already demonstrated a capacity to bear bur- dens. It was a happy preparation, he said, for they were not going into an easy world. Each, he warned, must shoulder his share of the world's responsi- bilities. :^ 4: :{c :): 4: Hundreds at President's Reception More alumni and friends of Brown than in recent years were present in Alumnae Hall Commencement Night for the reception to President and Mrs. Barbour, the concluding social function of the week- end. The return of the President from the East and the transfer of the affair from the Faculty Club were among the reasons for the increase in the attendance, it was said. Receiving with the President and his wife were Vice President Albert D Mead and Mrs Mead and Dean Margaret Shove Morriss Fred B Perkins 19 was again head usher, assisted by the following: John W. Haley '19, Rufus C. Fuller, Jr., '19, J, D. E. Jones, Jr., '23, C. Arthur Braitsch '23, Denison W. Greene '24, Mark R Flather '24, Kent F. Matte- son '28, Howard F. Eastwood '29. W[ 1 he Senior Seniors Meet riTH Dr William T. Peck, '70 as host, six mem- bers of the Fifty-plus classes met together Saturday evening, June 18, to talk over old times, discuss ways and means of getting out more gradu- ates of older classes and hear letters from many of the men invited, hut unable to be present. Dr. Peck sent out cards to men in the classes from 1864 to 1875 living in comparatively easy reaching distance of Providence, and the actual responses were Martin S Smith '67, Prof Wilfred H. Munro '70, Arthur H. Armington '71, Rev. A. E Johnson '71, William H. Scott '75, and the host. Mr. Smith set the record for activity. In his 88th year, he left his house in North Scituate in his motor car and in 45 minutes was shaking hands with Dr. Peck at the Peck house on Princeton Avenue, Provi- dence, He left for home at 1 1 and got there at 11:35 saying afterward that the traffic had not held him up anywhere along the road. During the evening President Barbour telephoned his congratulations to the group. There w as informal talk of college days and memories, of present day affairs, and, after special discussion, appointment of Messrs. Peck, Armington, and Scott as a committee to arrange for a joint gathering in 193 3 of those classes out for more than 50 years and not having their own reunions. Letters were read from X. D Tingley, A. S. Denison and William E. Lincoln 'b8 Henry xN. Cady '69; Rev. Daniel W. Hoyt '71 William Vail Kellen and Edward B. Hamlin '72 Judge Cjeorge T. Brown, Herbert Almy, Rev. E. P. Mathewson, John B. Grinnell, and Edward Carring- ton '73; Dean F. E. Rockwood, Rev. E. W. Babcock, D D. and Dr. George H Coffin '74; Rev. Charles A Reese, Rev. William P, Chipman, John F, Clark, Alvin h\ Pease, and Rev, Nelson B, Jones '75, Be- fore adjournment the host served ice cream and macaroons. Brou'n Will Benejit by Two Wills BROWN University will receive a trust fund of $15,000 from the estate of the late Dr. William W. Keen '59, it was learned when his will was pro- bated in Philadelphia last month. Three-fourths of the income is to be used for graduate fellowships in chemistry and biology, and the other fourth is to be added each year to the principal until it reaches $1,000,000, after which all of the income is to be used in the realm of pure science. Originally Dr. Keen's will had created a trust fund of $100,000 for the University, but a codicil executed a month before his death reduced this to $15,000 on the basis of the new value of the estate The direc- tion regarding the accretion to $1,000,000 had not been changed in the codicil Under the will of George E. Walker ^W, w ho died April 29, last, the LIniversity, the city of Wakefield, Klass , and Wakefield Lodge of Elks are to share equally in the Walker estate after the deaths of Mrs. Walker and certain relatives. The bequest to Brown is to be know n as the George E. Walker Scholarship Fund. ***** 1 he Graduate School Convocation Advanced degrees were conferred upon 75 mem- bers of the Graduate School at the Convocation held in Sayles Hall on Saturday of the Commencement weekend. Thirteen received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 42 that of Master of Arts, and 20 the 38 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY degree of Master of Science. The conferring of the degrees by President Barbour was preceded by an address by John Livingston Lowes, of the Harvard English faculty. Dean Richardson of the Graduate School presented the candidates The candidates who received their doctorate were: Jaime Homero Arjona, University of Minnesota; Paul Beh-Nien Bien. Shanghai College; Raymond Vlatthew Fuoss, Harvard; Edmund Grant Johnson, Kalamazoo College; Harry Le Vern Krall. Gettys- burg College; Ross Clayton McCardle, University of Michigan; David Moskowitz. Carnegie Tech; Samuel Milton Nabrit, Morehouse College; Robert Merritt Pike, Brown; Hendrick Romeyn, Jr., University of Utah; Napoleon Joseph Tremblay, Saint Mary's College; Charles Henry Vehse, Brown; Claude Dowell Williams, West Virginia Wesleyan. Citations for Honorary Degrees Master of Arts — .Arthur Leverett Washburn Graduate of Harvard University in the Class of IWO. for seventeen years rector of Saint Martin's Church in the City of Providence, during the World War a Red Cross chaplain, now Lecturer in Italian in our Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, thoughtful and mspiring preacher and teacher, faithful minister, so deeply and unselfishly devoted to the life of the undergraduate body of Brown as \-oluntarily to take up his residence among the students even before his official con- nection with the University, wise and untiring in all his student contacts, genial of personality, calling forth the best in all, lover of the language and culture of the Italian people, growing in wholesome influence with the pas.sing years. Doctor of Divinitv — Henry Kalloch Rowe Of the Class of 18P2. for more than a quarter of a century a member of the faculty of the Newton Theological Institution and now professor of church history and social science in the Andoser-Ncwton Theloogical School, author of notable histories of religion in the L'nited States and of the (Christian people, never ordained to the ministry, but by his de\oted and scholarly service to religion through a lifetime of instruction of students for the ministry richly meriting the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Doctor of Science — Charles Franklin Kettering Engineer, organizer, inspiring leader, at whose touch darkness quicklv turns to light and machines leap into throbbing life, and who. directing the research organization of a great industry, applies Natures laws and gifts to the use and convenience of man UNOFFICAL CHAPLAIN Rev ,Ar(/iuur Lexerell Vashhurn, whose interest tn Broun long preceded his at^pomtment to the Italian faculty, tiias one oj the six recipients oj honorary degrees at Commencement . [")ncinr o( Letters — Student of colonial printing 1-awrencc Counselman W ruth ind history; keeper and bibli- ographer of the treasures of the John Carter Brown Library; fittingly called to fill the Chair of Research in American History . Doctor of Letters — John Livingston Lowes Gift of the Middle West to .American Letters; master of English Literature in every period; revealer of the hidden sources of poetry and the processes of their transmutation; bearer of the torch of pure scholarship in a materialistic world. Doctor of Letters — William Allen White .Author and iournalist. for nearly forty years editor of the Emporia Gazette, keen observer and discriminating interpreter of men and events, master of a vigorous and versatile style replete with trenchant epithet and vivid simile, instinct with robust optimism, and native humor, making his paper not only the mirror of his personality but also a virile and original force in .American iournalism. arid illustrating in his daily work the qualities of his own ideal, "an honest mind and a kindly heart ribbed with courage. " Brown's New Chancellor HENRY D. Sharpe '^)4 is the 12th Chancellor of Brown University. The Corporation elevated him to the position at its Commencement meeting, thus filling the vacancy left in that office by the death of Arnold Buffum Chace '66. Mr Sharpe has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1904 and has been a member of the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corpora- tion. He received an honorary MA. in 1920 and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi. Appropriately enough, it was he who offered the memorial on Chancellor Chace's death of which the Corporation took official notice at the same meeting. A record of "high appreciation of the life and service to the University" of Chancellor Chace was spread upon the minutes of the meeting. 39 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Another Vice President Created BROWNS OTHER VICE-PRESIDENT Professor James P Adams, acting Vice President of the University during the past year, was promoted by the Corporation at Commencement lime. Dr. Mead continues Vice President, as well. PROF. James P. Adams, chairman of the Depart- ment of Economics and acting Vice President of the L'niversity during the past year, was named to the office when the Corporation created a second post of vice president for Brown. At its Commence- ment meeting the Corporation heard the following statement when Prof. Adams was nominated for the office: "When the Survey Committee concluded their visits to the University in June 1Q30, they made the specific recommendation that an additional man be assigned to the office of the Vice President. The Advisory and Executive Committee immediately met in special session and appointed Professor Adams to that post. He assumed office at once and under- took, as a first assignment, the large task of planning a revision of the administrative machinery of the University by means of which the work delegated by the President, Corporation and Faculty is per- formed. His drastic recommendations resulting from six months of study and conference were unani- mously approved and adopted by both Corporation and Faculty and are now in operation, "In January 1931, the Vice President fell ill and Professor Adams carried the work of the office for the rest of the year He continued in the office as Acting Vice President while the President was absent in the Orient during the year 1931-32 Therefore, he has been actually Vice President since January 1 , 193 I . "His executive experience during the war as Com- missioned Instructor in the Central Officers Training School, Camp Lee, Virginia, and his trying but eminently successful performance as arbiter in the United Electric Railways Company wage dispute of 1925 stood him in good stead His work as Vice President has been characterized by vision, initiative, judicial poise, sense of obligation and fairness and an inordinate capacity for work. "His training in the accounting field of economics, in conjunction with these personal qualifications, has been of crucial value to Brown in this period of financial stress when the budget has needed to be severely pruned but pruned with a view to future rehabilitation. "His faith in Brown as a great educational enter- prize has recently been thoroughly tested by an urgent and tempting invitation from another highl\' reputable institution of learning Happih' for Brown he will remain. ' Prof. Adams, a graduate of the University of Michigan, joined the Brown faculty as assistant professor of economics in 1921 He became a full professor in 1928 and has served as assistant comp- troller of the Llniversity, as chairman of the com- mittee on student loans, as a faculty member of the Athletic Council and as an officer of the Facultv Club. Progress Toward Brown Club Scholarships PRACTICAL loyalty motivates the report on Brown University Prize Scholarships which James S. Allen, president of the Associated Alumni, re- ceived at Commencement time from the special com- mittee headed by Victor A. Schwartz. The report, resubmitted in turn to the various Brown Clubs throughout the country, crystallizes a widespread sentiment which found expression at the annual meeting of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni last February. It is an important step which follows careful in\'estigation and thought by the committee. Outstanding in the report is the recommendation for the establishment of Brown Club prize scholar- ships for the purpose of attracting particularly promising students to the University. And the com- mittee was almost immediately heartened by the action of the Brown Club of Providence, which has 40 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY authorized a prize scholarship of $500 for the next academic year. The full report to President Allen reads as follov\s: THE Committee you appointed to study the matter of raising Brown University Prize Scholarships, composed of Prof. Clinton C. Currier, Charles J. Hill, and Victor A. Schv\artz, with the power to add others, has appointed Dr. Har\'ey N, Davis and Dr. Charles C. Tillinghast to its membership; made a preliminary report on April 28th, and was authorized to proceed further with the addition of President Allen and Sidney Clifford to its personnel. This Committee has had numerous meetings, and feeling that the establishment of the proposed Prize Scholar- ships will bring the finest type of students to Brown University, reports as follows: 1. That there be established Prize Scholarships of Brown Clubs in the various Regions such as the Providence, Boston, New York, Chicago, Phila- delphia, Syracuse, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis Brown Clubs, and many others if possible, with the exception (because of lack of members) that the far western Region combine their Clubs, say, under the Los Angeles Club to provide one Scholarship. We recommend that the name of these Scholarships be "Brown University Prize Scholarship of the Brown Club of " to be awarded to the boy who combines in the highest degree scholastic ability, desirable qualities of character and personality, capacity for leadership, and promise of future use- fulness. 2. The money value of the Scholarships. We recommend that these prize Scholarships be in the amount, in the discretion of the various Clubs, of $500, $750, and $1000 We feel that the minimum should be $500, and hope that the more powerful Brown Clubs will decide to set up the larger amount Prize Scholarships. To attract the most outstanding boys of the country to Brown University, these Prize Competitive Scholarships should be outstand- ing compared with those of other Colleges and Universities. The sum decided upon should be awarded for one year only. The competition should be renewed each year, so that a succession of top notch boys would be coming to Brown. THE Corporation of Brown University is co-oper- ating w ith us in the fullest degree, and at the last meeting of the Corporation on June 21st, it was \oted to authorize the Committee on Scholarships to make Scholarships awards, during their second, third, and fourth years, to needy students who hold Brown Club Prize Scholarships during the Freshman year, in accordance with the following schedule: (a) to students who, during the preceding year, maintain an academic average which places them in the upper tenth of their class, a scholar- ship of $400; (b) to students who, during the preceding year, maintain an academic average which places them in the second tenth of their class, a scholarship of $300; (c) to students who, during the preceding year, maintain an academic average w^hich places them in the third tenth of their class, a scholar- ship of $200; provided, that this authorization is limited at present to students who hold such Brown Club Scholarships during the academic year 1933-34, and provided further, that this authorization is limited, at present, to three such Brown Club Scholarships. THE method of award. The Committee of Award should be composed of the following: 1. The Director of Admissions of the University. 2. The President of the Brown Club of the City of its location. 3. Two, or more, other members of the same Brown Club including if possible one Alumni Trustee The L'niversity would send out a Broadside to the Secondary Schools in the City and w ithin the sphere of influence of the Club involved, stating that appli- cations should be made to the Prize Scholarship Committee of such Brown Club, or to the Director of Admissions of Brown University, not later than The basis of eligibility would be that the boy com- peting would be either in a School in the City or sphere of the Club, or be a resident of such City or sphere; in which latter case the Broadside would be sent to his School in some other Club territory It is conceivable that one boy might thus try for a Scholarship in two different Brown Clubs. Of course, if successful, he would only be awarded one Prize Scholarship. The Director of Admissions by virtue of his office would furnish the check on this. Per- sonal interviews with applicants should be made by the Committee. The financial status of an applicant should have no bearing on his selection. 4. The method of raising the money. No an- nouncement of Prize Scholarships by any Brown Club should be made until the money therefor is in hand The Presidents of all Brown Clubs should immediately be asked to appoint a Committee in each Club to determine the amount to be raised and the means to be employed to do so. We recommend that there be no special drive for these funds each year, but that they be incorporated in the Club Budget, either as part of Club dues or a supplement thereto. Thus, for instance, if dues were $5.00, it could be stated that a certain amount of this sum would be applied to the Prize Scholarship. There could well be a space provided at the bottom of the annual bill for dues wherein a member could give a greater amount than the dues as his contribution for the Prize Scholarship fund. The full sum of these Scholarships should be de- posited with the University, which would disburse the funds to the students selected against term bills, etc. The full sums for these Scholarships should be raised between now and December 31st, so that general announcement, accompanied by the Broad- sides to the various Schools, could be made early in January of 1933; to give prospective applicants an opportunity to make their plans accordingly. 5. Publicity involved. All publicity in connec- tion with these proposed Prize Scholarships should be co-ordinated with the Publicity Committee of Brow n University. Your Committee feels that there is tremendous publicity value in these Prize Scholar- ships, and this must be handled on a National Scale, 41 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY with the University as a focal point, supplemented at the proper time by the various Clubs with their local press. :}; :f; * H' * The gratitude of the Administration was expressed to the committee in a letter from Prof. James P. Adams, secretary of the Advisory and Executive Committee. He promised the Administration's "whole-hearted interest in the successful growth of the program projected." "The limitations placed upon the authorization," Mr. Adams added, "are due largely to the reluctance of the committee to mortgage the future in view of the present financial situation. In Memory of Dr. William W. Keen (Minute on the death of William Williams Keen offered by William Vail Kellen at the meeting of the Corporation of Brown Uni\'er- sity, June 21, 1932 ) BY THE death of Dr William Williams Keen of the Class of 1859, on June 8, 1932. in his 9bth year. Brown University lost a distinguished son, a faithful friend and a wise counsellor. DR. W W. KEEN The passing of Brown s senior alumnus of the class of 1859 was widely lamented. He leaves a generous share of his estate to the University He has joined that company of great leaders of men whom Alma Mater has given to the world among others in Henry Wheaton, William Learned Marcy, Richard OIney, John Hay and William Herbert Perry Faunce Both the University and Dr. Keen were honored in the bestowal upon him of degrees by great Universities on both sides of the Atlantic. Dr. Keen was chosen a trustee in 1873, and was transferred to the Board of Fellows in 1895, thus serving 59 years as a member of the Corporation. L'ntil recently he was constant in his attendance upon the meetings of the Board of Fellows and of the Corporation, and until the end zealous in promoting the highest interests of the University. President Faunce used to say that there was scarcely a day during his administration in which the morning mail did not bring him one or more letters from Dr. Keen, chiding him, encouraging him, or suggesting ways and means for enlarging the work of the University. Members of the Corporation will remember the interesting and painstaking address which Dr Keen delivered at Warren, Rhode Island, the first home of the college, "Upon the Early Days of Brown Uni- versity" during the celebration of its 150th anniver- sary They will also recall the graceful and benignant manner in which he presided over the University Dinner which brought that notable occasion to a close. Dr Keen passed almost immediately from these peaceful halls of learning, with a brief interval at a medical school, into the din and turmoil of the Civil War Thenceforward his entire life was spent in ameliorating the sufferings of his fellows caused by w ar and disease. Besides his active work as a surgeon, especially as a peerless operator in diseases of the brain, was his long service as a teacher of generations of medical students to follow in his footsteps, while as the author of the standard work on surgery, he became the daily guide and consultant of numberless surgeons in the pursuit of their beneficent profession. To emphasize his overseas repute, it is recalled! that the Prince of Wales, in welcoming to London the International Society of Surgeons, of which Dr Keen had been president, mentioning him alone by name out of that distinguished company, said; "We especially extend a welcome to Professor Keen of Philadelphia in appreciation of his great work for 42 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY suffering humanity." It is needless to speak of his standing as the doyen of American surgeons, but it is enough to say that at a meeting of the profession in Boston to celebrate the discovery of ether as an anaesthetic, the Bigelou Medal, given by the Boston Surgical Society for outstanding achie\'ement in surgery, one of the great prizes of the profession, was awarded to Dr. Keen, the orator of the occasion Dr. Harvey Gushing, the celebrated brain surgeon, in presenting the medal, emphasized the respect and admiration felt by the medical profession for Dr. Keen. Nearly to the end of his long and useful life, he v\ as in active correspondence w ith earnest researchers in medical science all over the world, inciting them to new discoveries, and encouraging them, despite stupid opposition, to adopt neu- methods and new remedies. His native city was the gainer by his ceaseless effort for better sanitation as well as for civic im- provement; his country especially in his efforts to relieve the suffering and mitigate the horrors of three wars; the world at large by his attempts to widen the outlook and raise the standards of the me^dical profession. He was the greatest of surgeons, a most loyal son of Brown, a great citizen, a benefactor of all man- kind, a Christian gentleman. The Committee on Commencement Advises T o THE Corporation of Brown University: Gentlemen: The term "Commencement" conveys diff- erent meanings to various groups To the Senior, Commencement means the Graduating Exercises, Glass Day, and the attendant festivities; to the Alumnus, it means a Reunion w ith former classmates and acquaintances of college days, or it recalls the traditional Commencement Procession and Alumni Luncheon and Meeting in Sayles Nail. To those officially connected with the University, Commence- ment is the outstanding academic function of the entire year. It is very natural, therefore, when suggestions are made for improvement of Commencement, that they take their flavor from their source. These sugges- tions have been numerous and varied, some of signifi- cant importance and others worthy of only minor consideration But there has been no one group responsible for Commencement by whom these suggestions might be understandingly studied. The present Committee on Commencement is ap- pointed by the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corporation and its duties are restricted to arranging for the Dinner on Commencement Day and also to the selection of the speakers subject to "regulation of the Board of Fellows " Certain indi- viduals appointed by the President assume responsi- bility for certain other features of the Vv'eek. The Alumni and Alumnae carry out their own programs and the Seniors function through their own com- mittees. These various committees and individuals never confer for united study or coordinated action, so that in the absence of centralized responsibility these suggestions have come along from year to year and they have remained in their original state — merely suggestions. It is evident that the present set-up does not lend itself to progressive improvement of our Commencement Week program. UPON recommendation of the Academic Council, the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corporation authorized the President to "appoint a special Committee to study the whole matter of Commencement, including the nature of the exercises and of related events, the place, the time, etc., with representation from the Corporation, the Faculty, Pembroke College, the Graduate School, and the Alumni." The President subsequently appointed the follow- ing as members: Prof. C. Raymond Adams, Dr. Herman C. Bumpus, (Corporation), Henry S. Chafee (Alumni), Prof. Theodore Collier, Prof. C. Emanuel Ekstrom, Prof. William T. Hastings, Dean Mar- garet S. Morriss, (Pembroke College), Prof. R. G. D. Richardson (Graduate School), and Clinton C. White (Corporation), as Chairman. To this Com- mittee was added with the approval of Acting President Mead, Dean Samuel T. Arnold to represent the Undergraduate interests in our discussion This Committee is composed of thoss who have been inti- mately associated with the arrangements for Com- mencement from year to year. The Committee has devoted many hours in long sessions to the careful consideration of the entire Commencement situation, with special attention to the present set-up of committees and individuals ap- pointed to assume responsibility for certain assigned functions The Committee gathered from various sources the numerous suggestions and criticisms and for the first time these suggestions have been studied correlatively. Detailed Report with recommenda- tions and an Appendix containing the results of our study has been presented to the Advisory and Execu- tive Committee of the Corporation who now submit the Report to the Corporation w ith recommendation for its approval. Because of the many items dis- cussed, the Report is necessarily of considerable length An abstract of the Report follows. Abstract of Rejjort THE Report first recites the more persistent sug- gestions and criticisms which have come to the attention of the Committee and observes that while it is true that the responsibility for all of the functions of Commencement Week has not been centralized, nevertheless the program from year to year has been carried out with a remarkable degree of accuracy as 43 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY to details, and to general satisfaction. The plans and arrangements have become more or less standardized, and those in charge of the various functions have be- come so familiar with the details that with their community of interest the program from year to year has, as far as the general public is aware, run very smoothly. " It expresses the opinion "that the festivities of the Commencement season are the functions of no one particular group. Commencement Week opens uith the Social and Literary Exercises of the Senior Classes of Brown and Pembroke College These are distinctly Llndergraduate functions; the Akimni Re- union and Meeting, the Alumnae Reunions and allied gatherings, the Commencement Luncheon and Afterdinner Speaking are primarily Alumni and Alumnae functions; the Convocation of the Graduate School, the Baccalaureate Sermon, the Commence- ment Procession, the exercises of the Graduating Class, the President's Reception and the Entertain- ment of Guests are University functions." These various activities will be more adequately handled if their direction is in the hands of those v\ho represent the interests of Undergraduates, of Alumni and Alumnae, and of the University; and further by combining these representatives in one general Committee proper responsibility will be more definitely placed and coordination of effort w ill result. This phase of the situation is, to our mind, the most important; and to the appointment, per- sonnel, and size of such a Committee we have di- rected our particular attention," The report, there, RECOMMENDS "That in place of the present Committee on Com- mencement, appointed by the Advisory and Execu- tive Committee, with restricted duties, a Committee on Commencement shall be appointed, which shall be charged with complete responsibility for and the direction of all the activities of Commencement Week." THE recommendation makes detailed provisions for the Size of the Committee, Functions to be Assigned, Manner of Appointment, Personnel, and Sub-Committees The Committee shall consist of from eleven to thirteen members, who shall be se- lected with regard primarily for the functions to be performed, but with consideration to representation of Corporation, Faculty, Alumni, Alumnae and Undergraduate interests, e. g. the Dean of Under- graduates shall be a member of the Committee as representing the interests of the Undergraduates, the Dean of Pembroke College in behalf of the Under- graduates of Pembroke College, a representative of the Alumni, a representative of the Alumnae, the Dean of the Graduate School representing its Con- vocation and the Adjutant in order that the Com- mencement Procession shall be brought definitely under the control of the Committee. The President of the University shall be a member ex-officio and he is urged to participate in the deliberations of the Committee. The Chairman shall be an officer of the Administration. CRITIC OF COMMENCEMENT Axked by the Adniinistratton 10 study the f}roblem of Commenc ment, Clinton C. \i'hite's committee has reported. The President of the University shall appoint the Chairman and in consultation with him he shall appoint the other members of the Committee and the Chief Marshal. The recommendation suggests that in the appointment of Alumni and Alumnae members and also the Chief Marshal, the President should confer with representatives of the Alumni and Alumnae Associations. The recommendation also provides for the set-up of Sub-Committees to any extent that is expedient for the carrying out of the various functions and con- cludes with the statement that "The Committee shall be appointed annually by the President im- mediately following each Commencement, and shall convene in full Committee not later than November 1st in each year. Not later than April 1st in each year a second meeting of the full Committee shall be held, by which time detailed plans for Commence- ment Week shall be presented." THE Committee makes one other recommendation. There is a very decided opinion on the part of those closely associated with the administration that the Commencement Procession should more defi- nitely be brought under University control. And, too, many Alumni have expressed the feeling that in continuing our present practice of practically the "life appointment" of the Chief Marshal, who has selected his own aides and Alumni Marshals, the University has neglected an opportunity to recognize prominent members of successive reunion classes. The Committee meets both of these problems by arranging for the appointment of an Adjutant who shall be selected primarily with regard for his special 44 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY qualifications in this direction. He shall he a mem- ber of the Committee and shall be appointed for a term of years. The Chief Marshal's appointment, however, shall be honorary. He is to be appointed annually by the President and on recommendation of the Committee on Commencement he shall appoint aides and other marshals. The Report, therefore, RECOMMENDS "That the Chief Marshal and the Alumni Marshals shall be appointed annually, prefer- ably from the reunioning classes; and that the Adjutant, who shall be a member of the Com- mittee on Commencement, shall be appointed for a term of years. The President shall appoint the Chief Marshal and the Adjutant; and the appointment of Aides and Marshals shall be made by the Chief Marshal, on the recommenda- tion of the Committee on Commencement. " Then follows the necessary recommendation "That all rules and regulations of the Corpora- tion or Faculty inconsistent with the foregoing recommendations be rescinded." These are the only recommendations. They are certainly in no sense revolutionary, but by a very simple procedure strike at the crux of the situation by the appointment of a carefully selected Committee in which all interests are coordinated and entire responsibility is lodged. We consider it unwise to restrict the new Committee with any regulations as to the program for Commencement Week. Through the Report, however, we equip them with construc- tive suggestions. All of the accumulated comments on Commencement have been studied correlatively in our Committee and through the Appendix of the Report valuable material is transmitted to the new Committee on Commencement. In the Appendix will be found 1 Report of the Sub-Committee on "The Place and Character of the Graduating Exercises." This is an analysis of the suggestion that the exercises be held in some place other than the First Baptist Meeting House and the related problem of the Separation of the Pembroke College Commencement. This Sub- Committee was composed of the Chairman, Prof. Ekstrom, who has been in charge of the exercises in the Meeting House, Mrs. Marion L. Bacon, (repre- senting the Alumnae), Henry S. Chafee (the Alumni), Paul C. DeWolf, (the Corporation) Dean Morriss (Pembroke College), and Prof. Richardson (the Graduate School). II "A Statement Regarding the After-Dinner Speak- ing and the Honorary Degrees . This Statement of the problems involved in our present set-up is made by Prof. Collier, who is chairman of the present Committee on Commencement charged with the selection of speakers. HI "Notes on the Commencement Exercises of 1931" with suggestions for improvement in details by Prof. Hastings, Secretary of our Committee. "IV "Additional Topics" — which is a summary of the various suggestions that have been made with obser- vations by the Committee. Clinton C. White Chairman June 21, 1932 A Gift of Unrivalled Whitmania 'T'/ZE University acknowledged the gift of the John S. •' Saunders Collection of Whitmania on May 18, when ^ hitman scholars and other friends of Brown met in the Harris Collection room of the John Hay Library on the occasion of the formal inspection of this neir treasure added to the famous repository of Ameri- cana The Saunders collection, acquired through the beneficence of Col. Webster Knight of the class of IS76, has been called the "finest and most complete in the world." Mr. Saunders, a Canadian scholar, ivas present to tell of his adventures in making the collection, xvhile other speakers ivere Professor Emory Hallowell of Adelphi, a Whitman authority. Prof. S. Foster Damon, curator of the Harris Collection, and Dr. Harry Lyman Koopman. librarian emeritus. From Mr. Saunder.s's remarks the Alumni Monthly is privileged to quote liberally ON SUCH an occasion as this 1 thought perhaps the most interesting remarks I could make would be about the genesis of and twenty years work given to the making of my Whitman collection. Either by natural instinct or by very early train- ing, I have always been a collector With our father s example and help, the boys in our family, five of us, were encouraged to study entomology and botany, making collections of both; these two hobbies have retained their fascination all through life. But our hobbies did not stop there, our collecting instincts found vent in stamps, coins and many other less significant lines. For a few years before 1910 Esperanto was another interesting occupation for my spare time. To fix the date of the inception of the Whitman work I refer to the copy of Franklin Evans, bought in May 1910, because it was the first purchase after a definite decision to collect Whitmania. Having become interested in Whitman mainly through my wife s admiration for Leaves of Grass, I found him the most fascinating and inspiring writer of my read- ing experience. Joaquin Miller had, some twenty years earlier aroused my enthusiasm by his rugged- ness, but in Whitman I found equal ruggedness, with deeper and more searching thought. However, I believe it was the unusual form in which Leaves of Grass is written that was one of the main attractions. 45 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY arresting rhy attention immediately, the conven- tional or strictly formal construction of most poetry has been in my case a barrier to enthusiasm. Let me tell of something perhaps not apparent on the surface uhen one considers studying specially the work of a single writer, that is, the vistas it opens up of other jvriters and their work. In this Whitman study I came immediately in contact with John Addington Symonds, Edward Carpenter, Emerson, John Burroughs, William Douglas O'Connor, John Dpwden, T. W. Rolleston, Edmund Gosse, Mrs Anne Gilchrist, Lfon Bazalgette, Horace Traubel, Oscar Lovell Triggs, Dr R. M Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, W. H. Trimble, I. H. Piatt, Ernest Crosby, Bliss Perry. Later on other names were added, in- cluding Basil de Selincourt, Carleton Noyes, Will Hayes, Shigetaka Naganuma who is doing good Whitman work in Japan, John Cowper Powys, Flora Macdonald Denison who spent $1000, carving "'Old Walt" and an inscription on a rock at Bon Echo, Ontario, and Dr Clara Barrus. M^ [Y INCLINATION, when once a study is under- taken, is to go into it whole-heartedly, and twenty years ago it was much easier to find" many items that are scarce now, that is how I acquired such a large number of magazine articles Copies of the first edition of Leaves of Grass were then changing hands at $40. to $45. but even at that price I felt they were beyond my reach. My collection lacked that very important item, which, I am happy to say, was supplied by a generous donor since the col- lection has come here. I was fortunate in acquiring a number of things from the late Karl Knortz, one of the best being Whitman's own copy of the Life of Anne Gilchrist with his signature on a corner of the title-page sepa- rated from the printing by a line crudely drawn. This book is mentioned in With Walt ^"hitman in Camden Where it is the subject of a conversation with Horace Traubel, Whitman saying Traubel should read it — "I loaned my copy to Karl Knortz," he said, "but could not get it back." Some twenty years 'atei Karl Knortz offered it for sale to me. •! also, purchased from him many German Whitman books which are now very scarce. An interesting lot of photographs, etc., from the Bucke collection came to me in a curious way. A friend called my attention to an inquiry from Hamilton, Ontario, in the Toronto Star of several days before re the value of Whitman manuscripts. On inquiry at the Star office they were unable to furnish the address of the writer. I sent adver- tisements to the two Hamilton papers and a few- days later received a reply from the party; an ap- pointment was made for the following Sunday, the only day I was free to go there. I went, and carried home with me valuable photographs, the two origi- nal drawings made by Pennell for illustrating Dr. Bucke's Walt Whitman, and a few other things. The manuscript, about which the holder had made the original inquiry, turned out to be a facsimile of a Whitman letter; there were no original manus- cripts in the lot. I might add that these things had come legitimately from the Bucke collection. I A MONO my recollections as a lad is one which I am ■'»■ glad is still a vivid memory, it is of meeting Whitman. My father was a druggist in London, Ontario, and Dr Bucke superintendent of the Asylum there; consequently they knew each other intimately. (The copy of Bucke's first hook: Man's Moral Nature in the collection is inscribed by the author to my father.) During Whitman's visit to Dr Bucke in 1880 my parents invited them both to have supper in our home on a Sunday evening. My recollection of Whitman is quite distinct; a commanding figure sitting in a certain place in a room, the centre of attraction, but 1 cannot recall anything that happened except that Whitman took quite a fancy to my elder brother who was very interested in birds. My brother still has an auto- graphed photograph Whitman gave him then. My wife and I attended the New York Whitman Fellowship meeting in 191 1 ; on the following day, June 1st. a party of eight or ten of us went to Whit- man's birthplace at West Hills, Long Island; the lilac bushes grow ing around the place were a great attrac- tion to my wife, who carried home to Toronto, tied up in a handkerchief, a very small plant. It took a good many years for it to become established and vigorous enough to bear flowers, but now we are re- minded of Whitman specially at lilac time in our own garden by the "heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate." HAVE spoken of the interest aroused regarding other writers by studying one particularly. I wish also to add a word about the friendly fellowship existing among Whitman lovers, which I first came forcibly in contact with at the Whitman Fellowship meeting in New "^'ork in 1911. This has also been exemplified in my correspondence with Whitmanists. the first being Charles N. Elliot then of Portland, Oregon, now living in Honolulu At the same time I got in touch with W. H. Trimble of New Zealand. Having worked for six months on a concordance to Leaves of Grass before hearing Trimble had already completed it, I wrote to him, and we corresponded regularly from that time till his death. His valuable Whitman collection has since been given by his daughter to the Dunedin Public Library. The next Whitman worker I became associated with was Prof Emory Holloway; we collaborated on the bibliography for the Cambridge History of Ameri- can Literature, and for years kept up a vigorous ex- change of letters, Mrs. F. J. Sprague of New ^'ork and Dr. Will S. Munroe are more recent enthusiastic correspondents, and Mr. Clifton J. Furness, with whom I am now working on an up-to-date bibli- ography All of these as well as those from whom letters have been less frequent, exemplify the com- radeship from a common interest in Whitman A unique feature of my Whitman work, and one that has gi\en me considerable pleasure is the pub- lishing of scarce Whitman items in editions of from 100 to 150 copies, binding all of them myself. The titles are: Walt Whitman, by Stuart Merrill, 1922; For Walt Whitman , by Mildred and Clement Wood, 1923; Richard Maurice Bucke, by Dr. J. H. Coyne, 4b BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1923; The Higher Consciousness, a little essay of my own, 1924; and The Good Gray Poet, by William Douglas O'Connor, 1927. In the case of this last book I did the type-setting as uell as the binding: all my printer did \^■as the press work. Then besides these I ha\e made up entirely by hand three separate larger \-olumes, each illustrated with from 250 to 350 photographs: Whitman Portraits. 1*322; Illustrations to Leaves of Grass, 1924, and Portrait Gallery of Whitman W riters. 1927; the last two mentioned are limited to ten copies each The only work of mine published by a regular publisher was the compilation of Parodies on Whitman, Nev, York, 1923. In the realm of music, which, by the way, is my profession, it is astonishing the number of works inspired by Whitman. My list includes no less than 138 separate compositions, to which constant addi- tions are being made. In conclusion may I say that it gives me great satisfaction to have my work permanently placed in this LIniversity, where I hope and believe it will be of service to Whitman students and specialists. 1 have Dr. Koopman to thank primarily for this, he ha\ing first made the suggestion and started the negotiations I have been mildly reproached by some Canadians for letting it pass out of my own country, but I be- lieve there is nothing narrowly national in my out- look; I feel more internationally minded than that, and wanted my work placed where it would be of most use. A Seminar on Human Relations WITH an aim of "religious libert\' and mutual understanding, ' Brown University and Providence College recently united in spon- soring a Rhode Island Seminar on Human Rela- tionships for Catholics, Jews, and Protestants. It wished to "emphasize the study and educational processes by which justice, understanding and co- operation can be advanced between the cultural groups that comprise this State." A widespread communit\' interest and participation in the Semi- nar resulted from the thoroughness with which the unusual program was arranged and from the spirit shown in its progress. It sought not "to win tolerance at the cost of indifference, nor to water down diversifying tenets of faith," and it undertook to avoid the danger of letting talk spend itself in mere affirmation b\' noti- fying participants in the Seminar that they would be expected to enlist "in an active and effortful explora- tion of the real problems as met in New England." < i T THINK it may be a sign of the times," Dr A Mead said in offering the L'niversitys welcome on the first day of the Seminar, "that this is the fourth occasion in this academic year when delegates from near and far have met at the University to compare and discuss differences in religious, cultural and national outlooks, and to promote sympathetic understanding as a basis of cooperative action, — to wit: a conference of delegates from the Universal ist and Unitarian Churches, the Students' Model League of Nations and the Institute on Near Eastern Affairs ha\'e preceded this Seminar on Human Rela- tionships; and meanwhile our President and three other members of our Corporation have been spend- ing the entire academic year in India, China and Japan, studying the effects of western religious and cultural ideas on the oriental civilization. "The general fact which seems to me significant is the acknowledgment everywhere that the age-old natural barriers that have separated, and have indeed served to develop, the races and cultures of mankind are rapidly \anishing, and that no artificial walls can prevent the interminglinging of these cultural ideas. "The specific fact emphasized by this Seminar, as I understand it, is that the persons who constitute the democratic body of our State are variously de- rived, and inherit through the centuries a variety of religious faiths, — principally represented by the Catholics, the Jews and the Protestants. "The object of the Seminar is to add intelligent tolerance to our already long established religious freedom, to secure a better understanding by each of the other's attitude and convictions, and through this understanding to make more effective the cooperation in enterprises for the common weal. (( TN RESPECT to rcligious freedom the Seminar will •l not have to break new ground in this State of Roger Williams, the very keynote of whose royal charter (1663) is religious liberty; ""'To hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained — with a full liberty in religious concernments." "The original charter of the University, written exactly one hundred years later, also enjoins religious freedom in unequivocal terms: ""'Into this liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests: But, on the contrary, ail the members hereof shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute and uninter- rupted liberty of conscience." "More recently the cause of religious toleration and cooperation in this community has been notably ad\anced by the presence and the unremitting activity of Dr. Faunce, for thirty years President of Brown University, an honored and loyal citizen of Rhode Island. As a bodily presence he is no longer here, yet the motive of this Conference is identical with the primary interest of his life, and in a very real sense his liberal and courageous spirit abides in 47 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY this community. The building in which ue are meet- ing is dedicated to his memory, and the salutation of the University to this Conference may well be the words of Dr. b^aunce written twenty-five years ago: "'Here, then, is the line of progress for our noble commonwealth. Forever shall its intellec- tual hospitality be preserved. Welcome to prophets of every name and faith'!" AFTER Dr. Mead's welcome there were remarks by Monseignor Peter A. Foley, Rabbi Samuel M, Gup, and Dr Arthur H Bradford, former mayor Joseph H. Gainer presiding as chairman There followed under the leadership of Everett R Clinchy, director of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a spirited discussion from the floor, which lasted until lunch. George N. Shuster, New- York editor, was the luncheon speaker, considering the historical background for a discussion of religious and national conflicts Herbert M Sherwood '09 was chairman. Professor Theodore Collier presided over the general session in the afternoon, which has as principal speaker, Professor Mark Mohler of Skid- more College Six round-table sections continued the morning discussions. That evening in Alumnae Hail, five Catholics, five Jews, and five Protestants spoke of certain specific difficulties in community relationships, the representatives including: Rev. Edward Brennan, Rev. Joseph P Gibbons, Rev. Thomas F. CuUen, Dr J. D Dingwell, Rev Daniel Hughes, O S F C, Rev James C McCarthy, Rev A. Mason Brown, Rev. Asbury E Krom, D D , Rabbi Israel M Gold- man, Philip C Joslin, Rabbi Isaac Landman, Rabbi Samuel M Gup, Rabbi Louis Wolsey, William H. Edwards 19, Prof. A. D. Sheffield of Wellesley, and Dean Henry B. Washburn. When the Seminar transferred its activities the follow ing day to Providence College, with the follow- ing speakers leading the discussion: Dr. William A. Lawrence, chairman. Rabbi Wolsey of Philadelphia, Dr. Dw ight Bradley of Newton Centre, and Max L. Grant With Dr. Lorenzo C. McCarthy, president of Providence College, in the chair the evening, session heard a churchman's point of view by Rev. Michael J. Ahem of Boston, an educator's point of view by President Robbins W. Barstow of the Hart- ford Theological Seminary and a layman's by Joseph M. Proskauer of New ^'ork. Brunonia Plays the Game Final Notes on the Year's Sfyorts Fred Powers, University track coach, was honored w ith election to the vice presidency of the Association of College Track Coaches of America at the annual meeting in San FTancisco early in July. Tom Gilbane, New England Intercollegiate cham- pion and record holder in the shot put, qualified for the finals in this event at the I. C. A. A. A A meet on the Pacific Coast but failed to place The Brown weight man was off form and could not equal his efforts in the New Englands, any one of w hich would have placed him second or third. Brown's other three entrants in the big meet did not qualify. Bucky Harris, star shortstop and "sparkplug " of the Brown baseball team for the past season, signed a contract with Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics after graduation. He was farmed out to the Wilmington club of the Piedmont League. "Jimmy Smith Is Dead When the name, James Smith, appeared in the obituary column of Providence papers, few Brown men realized that it was the old varsity track star, starter, and coach whose death was announced. He had been a familiar figure at New England track meets for 40 years. As a sprinter in the early 90's Mr. Smith competed first for Brown and later for the Boston Athletic Association. He preceded J. Fred Powers as coach at Brown, serving for two seasons. * + !»: + * A Prohibition on Broadcasting: ACTING in concert with all other major institutions which comprise the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Brown will forbid the radio broadcasting of all home football games next fall The agreement w as made at the June meeting of the association in New York, prompted by the prospect of curtailed gate receipts during the football season. Other colleges which are affected by the decision are: Harvard, "V'ale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Navy, Army, Columbia, Syracuse, Dartmouth, and Pcnn State Dr Fred W. Marvel was representing Brown at the meeting The association's stand was explained by its presi- dent, Major Philip B. Fleming of West Point, as follows: "We must take advantage of every oppor- tunity to increase financial receipts at football games It was with considerable reluctance that we decided to forbid any broadcasting of games which we control. Of course, when members of this organization play at the stadia of non-members, we will abide by their rules. This action ma>' result in charges of commercialism of football. As that sport is the only one producing the necessary monies to support our athletic programs, we must take the steps necessary to derive all the financial benefits possible." 48 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Roll Call of the Reunion Classes J, TiriRTY-TWn Brunonian classes, spanning the years at inter- vals from liS7b down, seized upon their Commencement pportunity to hold their reunions, returning to the scenes of their academic days, journeying to seashore and country resorts for their celebrations, and marching down the Hill to honor the graduating class Loyalty and comradeship Ibund their ex- pression in the peculiar way each class chose. The classes of I8K2. 1907. and 1922 held the center of the stage by virtue of respective 50th. 25th. and 10th anniversaries they were observing. Others, however, had arranged programs calling for evervthing from long, elaborate reunions to simple meals: The classes were: l- to its charge to "study Commencement," As a survey, the report is a thorough and admirable consideration of a diffi- cult, delicate subject. It is not, however, obviously remarkable in its recommendations, nor is it surprising that this is so. Indeed, the fact shows us once again that the prob- lem is not a simple one, easy of solution It must be remembered. moreo\'er. that the Committee w as not asked to settle anything. At second glance, too. it w ill be seen that the Com- mittee has accomplished much more than one would immediatels' suspect, for questions have been raised, phrased and recorded which ha\e been passed by as embarrassing but which can no longer be neglected Progress has been made which is important in that it opens the w ay for further progress. The major problems now have official recognition With such standing, they thereby will be the sooner faced The University now admits the crowding of the First Baptist Meeting House, admits the possi- bility of a separate Commencement for Pembroke College, considers the after-dinner speaking, the defection of the undergraduates, the awarding of honorary degrees, and other important elements of the Commencement period. The Committee is to be congratulated on its work. 50 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The report does not consider Commencement merely from the alumni point of view, of course, and that fact explains two omissions which may be noted. The first is the avoiding of any reference to sugges- tions for the adoption of the Dix Plan for class re- unions, which on many college campuses brings back in the same June several classes that belonged to the same undergraduate generation Under the present system the alumni see none of their former college mates who were not members of their own particular classes, and the Dix alternative appeals strongly to many of the younger alumni While the plan may have been discussed at committee meetings, it plays no part in the report submitted to the Corporation. Another omission is a traditional attitude in late years. The University never officially admits the fact that many alumni who return to the Hill have a natural and strong interest in their fraternity. It was a part of the college life of half of the alumni which it is absurd for the University to ignore. The annual hospitality of "Open House Night" is a fiction, and the dances on that neighborly evening do not exist, if one were to judge from amount of official notice given them. The night is never listed on the program of Commencement "events." Nor is official encouragement given to the fraternity teas which have in some years been held in connection with the Class Day exercises under the elms. These are of course, matters of secondary im- portance as compared to a few of the problems con- sidered in the report, but they might well be placed on the agenda of the body which furthers the im- provement of Commencement as made possible by the serious spade-work of this preliminary survev committee. MR. PALMERS ELECTION TN ELF.CTINC Henry Robinson Palmer '90 as Trustee A to fill the Congregational vacancy, the alumni have designated a man who is unusually well equipped to serve Brown and who takes to his new- office a temperament and outlook that will be valu- able in a number of ways. The Corporation needs business men on it, but it also needs the type repre- sented by Mr Palmer. He has a natural sympathy w ith cultural scholarship and an intimate knowledge of the University that few outside the Corporation could have had. It was not merely that he had been editor of the Alumni Monthly for its first 3 1 years, but he had constantly inquired into the state of the University and given freely of time and thought on her behalf, with the result, that he will take little "breaking in " It was fitting that the announcement of his election should have been made on Commence- ment Day after the singing of his hymn, "Mother Dear, Brunonia." THE ORIENTAL REUNIONS THERE were overtones and implications in Dr. Barbour s Commencement Day greeting to the alumni that were little short of stirring. They were there for any who had imagination enough to realize just what their full import was. We refer to the brief descriptions of the reunions that the President had had during the year with alumni of Brown scattered through the Orient, and it was not hard to guess what sentiments filled those men as they heard of the University which now must seem so remote to them. Their loyalty was impressive and inspiring to those of us nearer home. Brown Men in the Headlines Alien Honors for Broivn Men COMMENCEMENT time meant new honors for Brown alumni on other campuses. Degrees, citations, or medals were shared by the follow- ing graduates; Dr. Edwin C Broome '97, Superintendent of Schools of Philadelphia, attended the Commence- ment exercises at Columbia Llniversity, June 1, to receive the public award of the Llniversity Medal, given by the Board of Trustees of Columbia L'ni- versity for distinguished service in the field of edu- cation and public endeavor This is not an annual award, but is presented from time to time by the President of the University as a result of the vote of the Board of Trustees. The last award w as made in June, 1929. This honor is not merely a personal one, but may be looked upon as an honor for the school system of Philadelphia, and is partly in recognition of the splendid progress that has been made in the schools during the last few years. Undoubtedly, also, the trustees were influenced in awarding this medal by Dr. Broome's extensive services in recent years to the cause of education, both state and national. Dr. Broome also holds the honorary degrees of Doctor of Education, Doctor of Letters, and Doctor of Laws, from different universities. He received the Doctor of Education from Brown, and Doctor of Letters from Rhode Island College of Education. He was president of the Department of Superinten- dents of the National Education Association, 1931- 32. PRESIDENT John Hope '94, of Atlanta University received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the Commencement exercises of Bates College last month. His citation read: "Born in Georgia in reconstruction days; son of Brown L'niversity, but henceforth a son of Bates; who, though northern training offered an opportunity to work among white people, chose rather to return to his own race; whose subsequent career as president for a quarter of a century of Morehouse College and later of Atlanta University has given him a position of com- manding influence in the education of Negro youth. " 51 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Dr. Charles V. Chapin 76, received the honorary degree of Sc D. from Rhode Island State College last month. "Leader in public health work in Rhode Island for over a period of 50 years; recognized and honored the world over for his outstanding contri- butions, " the citation read in part. ***** MARSHALL S. Brown '92, senior Professor at New York University and Dean of the f-aculties since 1917, was honored b\' the degree of Doctor of Letters at the Commencement of N. Y. U., last month. His citation follows: "Through long and distinguished service in New \'ork University, as teacher and administrator, you have won confidence, respect, admiration and affection in an unusual de- gree. By authority of the University Council and with cherished remembrance of our many years and labors here together, we welcome you to a new associ- ation as an honorary alumnus of this university." Associate Justice Charles A. Walsh '99, of the Rhode Island Superior Court received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the Commencement exercises of Providence College. June 9. "Providence College would honor the man, " the citation read, "upon whose conscience and integrity has been placed the responsibility for sustaining justice, to whose clearness of mind and accuracy of decision has been left the interpretation and the application of the principles of the natural law." Rev. J Bruce Gilman, '00 pastor of the First Baptist Church, New Brunswick, N. J., received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Com- mencement of the Biblical Seminary, New York, in May. As he was recovering from a severe illness at the time he was not able to be present in person to accept the honor. The Brown Bookshelf 1 I ''HE Experimental College." by Alexander Meikiejolin, '93. has been published by Harper & Brothers It is the story of the college that Dr. Meiklejohn started at the Llniversity of Wisconsin in September. 1927, on the basis that "the college, as a place of gen- eral teaching, has one aim and that aim is intelligence." He recounts the diffi- culties met in the beginning, the distrust and hostility of members of the Wisconsm Faculty; the attitude of undergraduates toward the Experimental College: and he admits that 'the plain fact is that the procedure of the Experimental College is still in the making." R. L. Duffus, re- viewing the book in the New York Times Book Review of June 19. said in conclu- sion. "What cannot be questioned, how- ever, is the earnestness and sincerity of Dr. Meiklejohn's teaching and the essen- ESTABLISHED 1914 THE L. H. MEADER CO. Announce that they specialize in The Care of Trees and are prepared to furnish estimates PRUNING. SPRAYING. TREE SURGERY WOODLAND IMPROVEMENT CUTTING L. H. Meader, Jr., '09, General Manager W. H. Snell, Ph.D., '14, Consulting Pathologist 75 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. tial fact that he has expressed construc- tively a widespread belief that under- graduate teaching needs overhaulmg and renovation " * ♦ * .'\ new catalogue of the Rhode Island .Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa has come from the press of D. B, Updike, edited by William T. Hastings "03. the chapter secretary. It is more than a cold, useful listing of names and addresses. howe\er. for an account of the proceedings in con- nection with the chapter's centennial is gi\en at length, including the historical address by Chief Justice Charles E\ans Hughes "81. the anniversary poem by Henry R. Palmer "90. the initiation of honorary and alumni members, and the afterdinner addresses. Of interest, too, is the appendix with the documentary record o( the unsuccessful and successful petitions for a charter of Phi Beta Kappa. T^ ^Hi- death of Dr W. W, Keen "59 re- calls not mcreh' the importance of his scientific texts and monographs but several books which he intended for the layman. They revealed the deeply re- ligious turn of mind which accompanied his labors for surgery, and he was much concerned that men should find religion and science incompatible "1 believe in God and Evolution " was one significant title. Once, when speaking to the point, he said, ""Some theologians admit that evolution applies to all animals but man. It is just as silly to say that as if we should say that mathematics apply up to a million and then stop ' AT YOUR COMMAMD €YouR BcUTelcphoncstands k\ ready and waiting to carry Jsj your voice to any one of 31 I0 million other telephones in this and loreign countries. 52 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY McGraw-Hili have issued a revised edition of "Public Speaking for Business Men," which William G. Hoffman '04 wrote for them. Carl Russell Fish 97 is one of the con- tributors to "The United States and Great Britain," published by the L'ni- versity of Chicago Press Charles Carroll '98 looks forward to the State's tercentary in "Rhode Island: Three Centuries of Democracy, " a thorough history published by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company ot New York. The results of painstaking historical and sociological research are to be lound in "Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America. " It is the work of Marcus W. Jernegan '% and is published by the University of Chicago Press. One of the most prolific writers in .America today is Rufus M. Jones, a member of the LIni\ersity Corporation. "Mysticism and Democracy in the Eng- lish Commonwealth " is the title of a work which the Harvard Uni\ersity Press is sponsoring, while the Macmillan list includes "A Preface to Christian Faith in a New Age. " * * * CONSPICUOUS among magazine contribu- tors was Zechariah Chafee, Jr., '07, whose article on Justice Cardozo ap- peared in the same issue of Harpers that boasted "A L^efense of Machines" by George Boas '13, ,'\ssociate Professor of Philosophy at John Hopkins. Prof. William T. Hastings's record ot the "Wars of the Greeks at Brown " ap- pears in the current issue ot the New England Quarterly. Originally an ad- dress betbre the Seventeenth Triennial Council. L'nited Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, at Providence last fall, this mono- graph describes the bitterness that at- tended Phi Beta Kappa's entrance into Brown University. The amusing aspects of the episode and the background of the University of the day are not neglected in the vivid account. Thomas B .Appleget '17, Joseph H. Farnham 14, Dennis F. O'Brien '98. Watson Wyckoff '28. W. Arnold White '13 (President of the Brown Engineering Association), and Mvron Sulzberger. Jr.. '2b. In appreciation of the splendid work "Denny " O'Brien has done for the past two years as the inspiring leader ot the Club President-elect Graham, on behalf of the members, gave him a set of Brown Bear book ends and several books re- lating to Brown. The Club, through the Brown Daily Herald, has invited all graduates of 1932 who expect to be in New York next year to join the Club without charge for one year. 1 he "fhursday luncheons will con- tinue through the summer at the Hotel Wentworth and will be wholly informal. ■At one of the luncheons just before Com- mencement the special guest was Lt. Col. LeRoy Bartlett '02, visitor from California, with his son. Bob. Jerry Holmes, Samuel Moffat and the Rev. W. A. Hill. D.D.. all classmates, were on hand to greet Bartlett, and they had a delightful time talking of college days. Activities of the Brown Clubs D W[ Fall River rmi the Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D D., '08. as the always engaging introducer, song leader and humorist and with the Rev. Henry H .Arnold, father of Dean Samuel T. .Arnold as the special guest, the Brown Club of Fall River met for annual business and dinner at the Fall River Country Club, May 25 It was a rare pleasure to ha\e Mr, .Arnold, Sr., present to tell something about his son's boyhood; and it was also a delight to hear Dean Arnold try to explain some of the revealing history that his lather told. Other guests were Norman Zal- king '35. whose speech was brief and commendable, and the .Alumni Secre- tary. The class of 1908 had the largest delegation present. The new officers are: President — Augustus |. Wood '95; Vice President — Dr. Ernest M. Morris 10; Treasurer — Arthur C. Durfee '22; Secretary — R. A. Bogle '20; Executi\e Committee — Charles Soforenko '23. Frank T. .Albro 05. and Rev. Dr. Thomas. T PhilaJelhhia HE Brown Club of Philadelphia, at its last luncheon of the academic year on June o, listened to a news letter from the Alumni Secretarv and discussed some of the things in it as well as the matter of the Brown Club Prize Scholarships. President M. Joseph Twomey 00. was in the chair. The qusetion of a scholarship is re- ceiving serious consideration from the club, but because of the unusual eco- nomic situation in Philadelphia (which has been harder hit by the depression than many eastern localities) it has been thought best to hold up plans for a short time. It is worth noting that the Brown alumni in Philadelphia was one of the first groups — if not the tirst — to raise funds for a scholarship at the University. The guiding genius was the late Dr. \V. W. Keen '59. Providence THE Brown Club of Providence, ac- cording to a notice Irom Brenton G Smith 11. secretary, has authorized an appropriation of $500 for a prize scholarship to be known as the "Brown L'niversity Prize Scholarship of the Brown Club of Providence." and expects to make the sum available for the college year beginning September. 193 3. As a result of this action, which was taken at the meeting of June 9, the Brown Club of Providence is the first of all the Brown clubs definitely to provide for a scholar- ship of the type recommended by the special committee of the .Associated Alumni, of which Victor .A. 5>chwartz 07, is chairman, and appro\ed by the Advis- orv and Executi\e Committee of the University Corporation. The committee of award will be com- posed of Dr. Bruce M Bigelow '24. acting director of admissions, and lour members of the Brown Club of Pro\idence, includ- ing President Sidney Clifford 15. A' Neiv York LEXANDER Graham 06, for many years one of the leading workers in the Brown University Club of New York, was elected president of the club to succeed Dennis F. O'Brien '98. at the annual meeting, May 2b. Other officers for 1932-33 will be: Vice Presidents — .Alfred B. Meacham '9b, Herbert B. Keen 07, Hoey Hennessy '12; Secretary — Philip Lukin '24; freasurer — Lee H. White 07, Governors for three years — 53 Albany and Vicinity EAN Arnold, Dean Currier and Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow were the Univer- sity representatives at the annual meet- ing and dinner of the Brown Club of Albany. Schenectady and Troy at the Albany Country Club. May 18. ,A fine crowd, a fine dinner, and excellent talks by the guests — who could ask more? President Robert Forster '03. who has done much the past year to keep mem- bers in touch with what is going on at Brown, was in the chair. Ihe new officers are. President — W. Clark Forstall '22. Amsterdam; Vice President — J. B Humphrey 12. Ball- ston Spa; Secretary- 1 reasurer — Walter S. Stedman '27. .Albany. Robert Hard- ing, who hopes to be a member ot the Class of 193b. was the guest of his father, Harry S. Harding '05. Chicago THE Prize Scholarship Committee of the Brown Club of Chicago, headed by Ralph M. Brown '25, has been doing "noble work, " Secretary Earle V. John- son reported in his last letter, and to date has raised a substantial cash sum toward its goal of $500. " in spite of these hard times," Johnson said, "the evident will- ingness of the L'niversity to cooperate in taking care of the Brown Club Scholar- ship student for the remaining three years of his college career, providing his scholarship grades are high enough, has given us for the first time a real sales talk, and contributions, therefore, are easily obtained. " Secretary Johnson is a member ot the .Admissions Committee of the Inter- fraternity Club of Chicago, and if any Brown men from the East anticipate be- ing in Chicago from time to time they are invited to get in touch with him with regard to use of the club while they are in the city. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Notes of the Faculty D^ vEAN R. G- D. Richardson and Pro- fessors C, R. Adams, R. C. Archi- bald and J O Tamarkin will attend the International Congress of Mathemati- cians this summer in Zurich, Switzerland. Dean Richardson will be the delegate from the American Mathematical Soci- ety, of which he is secretary, and Pro- fessor Archibald will represent the Mathematical Association of America. Professor Leslie E. Swain of the De- partment of Physical Education was the Brown representative at the last annual meeting of the American Physical Education .Association in Philadelphia. His interest was in the research and therapeutic sections, where good posture was actively discussed. Professor Swain has been carrying on intensive studies of this subject at Brown for the past four years. Professor George W. Benedict s son, George Grenville Benedict, instructor in Phillips Andover Academy, was married in Providence June 15 to Miss Marie- Louise Whitney Landeau ol Waterbury. Conn. Professor Theodore Collier of the [de- partment of History is spending the summer in Central Europe, where he is studying political and social conditions. O. T. Gilmore, student counselor, is visiting university centres in Germany and Austria, to observe at first hand how the intellectual leaders of youth in those countries are meeting present day prob- lems Brown Professors Honored T (An editorial in the Providence Journal) HE extent and character of the recog- nition of the ability of members of the Brown faculty that has been made dur- ing the past academic year should cause gratification "on the hill." Six profes- sors have been elected Fellows of the American .Academy ot Arts and Sciences — the most distinguished national or- ganization of the kind. Seven other pro- fessors ha\e already received this honor. The new members are Professors W. A. Noyes. Chemistry; C. R. .Adams and .A. A. Bennett. Mathematics: Horatio Smith. Romance Languages: Leonard Car- michael. Psychology; and R. B Lindsay. Physics. Professor J. B. Hedges has been chosen a member of the Harvard Board of Examiners in History. Government and Economics. Professor C. A. Kraus has been elected Chairman of the Di- vision ol Chemistry and Chemical Tech- nology in the National Research Council for next year. This responsible position will involve his half time absence Irom the universitv Quite as striking recognition has been made in the form of grants-in-aid from various foundations for the advancement of knowledge. Professor Carmichael has received such a grant in Psychology from the National Research Council. Professor R. H George has received a grant from the Social Science Research Council for historical researches that he is now con- ducting in Europe. Professor H. N. Couch has received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies for work on the Greek Anthology. Pro- fessor R. H. Williams has received from the same source a grant for research in Spanish Literature. Also from the same source, the University Librarian, Dr. H. B. Van Hoesen, has received a grant for continuing his work in the Bibliography of Greek Papyri. Mr. P. T. David and Mr. A. V. Abramson of the Department of Economics have received research (ellowships from the Brookings Institute of Washington. .A striking recognition of the attain- ments of Professor W. A. Brown. Jr., and Mr. C. J. Smit, both of the Department of Economics, has come in the form of a special grant of $20,000 from the Rocke- feller Foundation for work on the Gold Standard. This work began on June 10. and will continue to the end of 1933. It will be done under the direction of an administrative committee appointed by the President. Thus the talents and training of Brown teachers are shown to be in wide appreciation and demand. This recognition should redound to both their efficiency and their inspiration m the class room. \f>ur Favorite Fruit Drink.'" WtV/i the addition of Brunonians Far and Near orsford? Phosphate becomes a tonic drink, that relieves mental and ner- vous exhaustion ; increases the activity of the brain and assists nature in restoring vitality to the body. Try it! AT ALL DRUGGISTS 1870 Professor Emeritus Wilfred H. Munru wrote the inscription on the memorial tablet to the Pilgrims, which was pre- sented to the State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island Society ot Mayflower [descendants and dedicated at the State House, Providence, June 15. Professor Munro is Deputy Governor General ol the Society. One of the speakers was Percy W, Gardner 03. 1873 Rev and Mrs. .Augustus I i, I'uller of Ballard\alle, Mass . obsersed their golden weddmg anniversary at their home on June 7. rhe Fullers have been living in Ballardvalle since 1904. A memorial tablet to William E. Foster, librarian ol the Providence Public Library, 1877 to 1930, was un- veiled in the central building of the library on June 1. The inscription, written by Professor Emeritus Harry Lyman Koopman. is: "He created this Library, he founded its traditions, he gave it worldwide inHuence." I he tablet in the words of an editorial writer on the Providence Journal, reminds all who enter the library "of the more than a half-century's service to this community of one who, while toiling ceaselessly for his fellow men, always sought to avoid 54 recognition. To him his work was its own sufficient reward, accompanied as it was with the consciousness that it was approved by those best able to judge it." 1881 Samuel W. Culver, lawyer in Boston for many years, with corporation work his specialty, died in Boston. June 7, 1932. He was a native of Toledo, O., where he was born .Aug. 14. 1858. the son of William and Roselle R. Culver. He entered Brown from the Providence High School He was married in 1917 to Helen E Dennison. who sur\ i\es him. 1884 George M. Wadsworth. who retired in 1927 after a teaching career of 43 years, died at his home in Whitman. Mass., May 20, 1932. He had been in failing health for many months. Born in South Weymouth, Mass., .April 4, 1857, the son of John and Elizabeth (Leonard) Wadsworth, he prepared at the Holliston, Mass., High School, and was a student at Colby College lor two years before transferring to Brown in 1882. While in college he took part in athletics, with baseball as his favorite game. His early teaching was in the schools ol Adams and West Quincy, Mass., where he held the position of principal He was superin- tendent of schools in the Bedford District BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of Massachusetts for a year; master of the Charles G. Pope Grammar School, Somerville. Mass., for 27 years, and master of the Southern Junior High School in the same city from 1918 to his retirement in 1927. At the time of his retirement he was guest at a testimonial dinner at which the Mayor of Somerville was toastmaster. The speakers paid tribute to the guest as "the man, the teacher, the administrator, the friend of his pupils." For many years he was financial secretary of the Teachers' Annuity Guild, a position requiring much tmie and sound judgment. He was director of the Somerville Boys- Club, member of the Union Baptist Church, where he was a deacon and teacher of the Bible Class, and of Delta Upsilon He also was a Mason. He was married March 2b. 1885, to Elsie L. Warfield, who died Nov. 22, 192b. His second marriage took place March 2b, 1928, to .Alice M. Warfield, who survives him, together with three brothers, one of whom is Rev, Arthur L. Wadsworth '8b, of Pasadena, Calif. 1887 Dr. Louis F. Snow, former Professor of Rhetoric. University of Chattanooga, came back for the class reunion and also spent several weeks in and near Provi- dence, renewing acquaintances 1892 Charles H Merriman's son, Howard R. Merriman, and Miss Anne Woods Kilvert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles .A Kilvert, were married in Providence. June 3, 1893 Edward N, Casey's death in Provi- dence, May 2b, 1932, lollowed a com- paratively short illness Known as the original "iron man' ol Brown football fame — a title given him by E, N. Robm- son '9b — he had been with the Provi- dence Journal (Company tor 25 years as proof reader. .After his football days in college, chess became his favorite game. He was an expert at it. He wrote a column on chess for the newspapers, was president of the Providence Chess Club for seven years, and took great interest in teaching and coaching recruits. He was born in Whiting. Vt,, March 8, 18b7. the son of L^aniel Norton and Caroline M (Needham) C^a.sey. He came to Brown When BETTER CARS are Built WILL BUILD IHEM LINCOLN R. ARNOLD, 16 Providence Buick Co. 25 RESERVOIR AVENUE Broad 6800 from Vermont .Academy and for four years on College Hill was end on the football team. It is said that he never had to be taken out of a single game in that time. As a student and for seven years after graduation he was with the firm of Casey Bros , printers and en- gravers. Providence. From 1900 to 1904 he was a salesman: for the next three years he was a proof reader on the New York Evening Post. He came back to Providence in 1907 to do similar work for for the Providence Journal. For some months before his death he had been at work on a geneology of the Casey family, which dates back to lb37, when Thomas Casey settled in Newport. He was married Nov. 28. 1894, to Elizabeth Temple of Granville, N. Y.. who survives him, together with two daughters, Dorothy N. and Elizabeth T. Casey, former students at Pembroke College; and two brothers, John L. Casey '93 and Herbert D. Casey '94. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and Zeta Psi. A. E. Thomas, settled for the summer at his house in Matunuck, R. I., gave some friendly ad\ice to budding writers in an interview published in the Provi- dence Journal of May 30. The inter- viewer also learned that A. E. has been in Europe, looking over the theatre in Paris and in London (which, he says, is the "gayest capital in Europe"), and that he is working on a new play. Professor Thomas Crosby, Jr.. is the new president of The Players, the well known Pro\ idence theatre group with which he has been identified actively for years. 1895 George W Bartlett. for the past ten years teacher and supervisor of the indus- trial arts department ol the Pawtucket Public Schools, died suddenly at his home in Pawtucket, June 23, 1932. ".An ardent and thoughtful worker, one al- ways alert for new ideas in the interests of manual arts in our schools, " was the tribute given him bv Supt. W. A. Newell. Born in Valley Falls, R I.. June 2. 1871. the son of William L. and Harriet (Smith) Bartlett, he entered Brown from the Pawtucket High School and alter graduation became a mechanical dratights- man with the Fales &' Jenks Machine Co , Ontral Falls, He also worked for the Mossberg Company, Attleboro, Mass in a similar capacity. He had been teacher ol mechanical drawing and mathematics at the Pawtucket High School since 1921 and. in recent vears, supervisor of the industrial arts depart- ment. For several years he served as principal of the industrial evening school and always had taken great interest in pupils undergoing more than ordinary experience to get an education. He was active in the Masonic fraternity, was a member of the Pawtucket Congregational Church, the Providence Engineering Society, and the Barnard Club, He was married Nov. 8, 1899, to Elizabeth M Carter, who survives him, Fred W. Mears is a practicing lawyer at 4342 Normal Avenue, Los Angeles Calif, ■ 55 BROWN DIRECTORY Abbott, '80 Edwards, '96 ABBOTT, FAUNTLEROY, CULLEN & EDWARDS Attorneys at Law Tenth Floor, Mississippi Valley Trust Building 50b Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Abbott, T5 PERRY, SAUNDERS & CHENEY Counsellors at Law 185 Devonshire Street, Boston. Mass Joseph Earle Perry, Williams Albert L. Saunders, Brown, '1902 Edwin A. Cheney, Boston Uni,, 1917 ARTHUR S. HASSELL, '2b Sales Research Market Analysis and Survey 109 George Street Providence, R. 1. ARTHUR H, BLANCHARD, C E , '99 Consulting Engineer Highway Traffic Control Highway Transport Airport Runways and Landing Fields Highway Engineering Contract and Patent Lawsuits 18 University Avenue, Providence, R. 1. Commercial Banking Trust Department Capital $50«,(»0 Surplus and Undivided Profits (over) . . . tl,UUO,U(M) BLACKSTONE CANAL NATIONAL BANK Established 1831 20 MARKET SQUARE Providence, R. I. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1«97 Senator Chester W. Allen, having served one term in the Massachusetts Senate with distinction, is a candidate for re-election from the First ]^ampden District, which includes Springfield. The Springfield Union said; "Senator .Allen's record in the Legislature during the last two years has been one which has shown his close attention to alfairs of the State. " Allen is chairman of the Com- mittee on Cities, and a member of the Committee on Civil Service and the Committee on Mercantile Affairs. Rev. Benjamin T. Livingston has changed his house address to 375 High Street, Sharon Hill. Pa ! 8Q8 John H. Kelaghan is living in Wilming- ton. Vt.. where in recent months he has been showing active interest in improving the school administration. Caroline Webster Smart, wife of Fred .A. Smart, and mother of Richard P. Smart '33, Arthur K. Smart '33. and Mrs. Everett P. Christopher (Elizabeth W. Smart) Pembroke College '25. died in Tilton, N. H., June 0. 1932, after an illness of four months. Dr. Charles Carroll was the head of the group of delegates from Rhode Island who attended the annual convention of the National Education Association at Atlantic City. June 25 to 30. Carroll was a member of the budget committee of the association in 1931-32. 1899 Arthur H. Blanchard is serving as Editor-in-Chief of the International High- way Traffic Control Handbook and the International Highway Engineers' Hand- book. The text of the two Handbooks is being written by seventy-two .Associate Editors, nineteen of whom are residents ot foreign countries. George S. Beal was the Brown repre- sentative at the inauguration of Dr. Karl Tinsley Waugh as president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., June 3. Rev. Antonio Mangano of the First Italian Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.. is conducting a summer series of evangelistic meetings in a "big brown tent" near the church He made the experiment last summer and found it successful. As a letter about the meetings said: "The members of the First Italian Baptist Church of Brooklyn are committed to the task of evangelizing the Italian people of their community. The summer season presents the most favorable oppor- tunity for the accomplishment of this task The properly equipped tent enables us to present a coherent, educa- tional and religious program for two months. Literally thousands of people will hear the good news through this means. ' Mellinger E. Henry was the guest speaker at the summer outing of the Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club held near Reading, Pa., early last month. 1900 Dr. John A. Young's son, John A. Young, Jr., graduating from Brown with the class of 1932. wore in the Commence- ment program the same gown that his father wore at Commencement 32 years ago. Young, Jr., won the Ph B. degree, with geology as his major subject. Willifred E. Hunt, member of the class in Freshman year, died in Greenfield, Mass., April lb. 1932. He prepared at Vermont Academy and was a student on the Hill. 189b-97. After serving in the Spanish-.American War. in which he at- tained the rank of Captain, he became in farmer in Charlestown, N. H.. his birth- place. Then he opened a grain and feed store, sold out in 1913 and removed to Greenfield, where he had been in similar business from 1913 to his death. He also had a branch in Springfield. Mass., for some years. In Greenfield he was a leader in civic affairs, being especially prominent in Boy Scout work. He had been treasurer of St. James' Episcopal Church for 18 years. He was married June b, 1900, to Nina E. Messer, who died in 1910. His second marriage took place Oct. lb. 1911. to Lilla S. Briggs, who survives him, together with three daughters, and two children by his first wife. Professor Eriing M. Hunt. Columbia University, and Mrs. Lucile E. Thompson of Chicago. Other survivors are his father, stepmother and two brothers, Dean Charles W. Hunt '04 of Cleveland, and Homer B Hunt 08, of East Lynn, Mass. 1902 Lt. Col. LeRoy Bartlett. LI. S. A., re- tired, came East from California in good time for the 30th Reunion. He brought along his son Bob. star football player and a graduate this year of the L'niver- sity of California. Colonel Bartlett is active in civil .service work During his visit in this part of the country he at- tended Commencement exercises at West Point, saw many friends, and renewed his contacts with Brown. 1904 Lester 1 1. Nichols was a campus visitor early in J une and looked up several of his old college friends while in Provi- dence. He is general manager of the E. L. Nichols Department Store, Ben- nington, Vt.. and in his hours outside the store is following with interest the de- velopment of Bennington College, which will probably open next fall. Walter E. Prince. Associate Professor of English at Massachusetts State Col- lege, gave the address at the George Washington Bicentennial exercises at the college. lune 1. Winship Teachers* Agency SEND FOR BLANK 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Alvin F. Pease Brown Graduate, A. B. & A. M. TT IS ALWAYS a pleasure X families and their friends a to have Brown men, their t my hotels, where we are glad to render every special service possible. T. ELLIOl'l TOLSON, Brown, '06. HOTEL HOTEL BRISTOL WENTWORTH 129 WEST 48ih STREET, NEW YORK 59 WEST 46tfi STREET, NEW 10RK 400 Rooms 300 Baths Home of the Convenient to everything and everywliere. BROWN CLUB of NEW YORK Room with Private Bath : JOHN P. TOLSON One person. . . .$2 00 to $4 00 per day Vice Pres. and Mgr. Two persons. . $3.00 to $6 00 per day Including Meals : One person ...$4.00 to $e.00 per day Two persons . .$6.50 to $9.00 per day Famous Table d'Hote Restaurants : BON AIR LODGE -ON - LAKE HOPATCONG LUNCHEON $40 DINNER.... $7>" 1000 feet above sea Icvci — Fifty Miles from New York A La Carte Service of f\/1erit JOSEPH E. BATH, Manager Every form of outdoor amusement American Plan $6 00 to $10 00 per day 56 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1907 I. Harvey Baugh is Associate Justice of the Court of Civil Appeals of the Third Supreme Judicial District, Austin, lexas. He was planning to return for the 25th Reunion, but an unusual num- ber of cases on the court docket pre- vented him from carrying out his plans. Rev. William Partridge. Jr., is editor of the Linited C^hurchman, which is the organ of the L nitcd ('hutches of Canada His office and home arc in Sack\illc, New Brunswick- l^ana 1 Gallup, practicmg law in Boston, has a new daughter in the family Her name is Ruth Corinne and she will be one vear old next Hallowe'en, or Oct 31. Rev. Merrick L Streeter, in charge of the American Baptist Burman Mission, Tavoy, Burma, expects to return to this country in 1Q?3. "1 tried my best to be with the boys on the only 25th Reunion we shall ever have together, but the best I can do is to be only one year late, " he wrote. 'Since all my boys are girls, I am doing my best by sending my eldest girl to Brown She is in the class of 1935." Z. Chafec. Jr , Professor of Law at Harvard, is giving a course on the law of trusts at the Summer School, Columbia f'niversity, and in leisure moments is brushing up on his chess game. IQDS I he class dinner at the Rhode Island ( ountry Club, Nayatt. brought this illuminating report from Jim Hall, the class secretary; "khose present included Governor Norman S. Case, Bill Browne and Hunter Marston of New York, 1 om Miller of Duluth, Paul Chipman of Boston, kommy Thomas and Nate Sternscher ol Fall River, Cliff Hubbard of VVheaton College. khe local con- tingent included Howard Young, jimmy Murray, Howard Newman, Norm Sammis, klerb Sturdy, Don Pryor, Earl Bullock, Leslie Swain. Roy tjrinnell and the writer. Monday morn- ing we were joined by Percy Shaw of New York and Louis Gillespie of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Class had a most delightful time swapping yarns as well as discussing plans for the 25th Reunion next year " Carl J . Hunkins has been elected a charter member of Alpha Pi Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, the national profes- sional education fraternity at Rutgers I Iniversity. Hunkins has been doing graduate work in education at Rutgers and has completed his examinations successfully lor the Doctor of Education degree. He hopes to finish his disserta- tion in time to receive the degree next June, coincident with the 25th Reunion of the class. He still is teaching science in the South Side High School. Newark, N.J. Lewis 11. Meader, operated on for appendicitis June 4, was getting along all right as this note was written. Charlie Hughes brought on for the Commencement festivities his two sturdy sons, who are students at Deerfield Academy. Lt Col. Re,N Cocroft, L', S. A., was in South County, Rhode Island, in June and saw some of his old '09 classmates. He has been stationed at the .^rmy War College in Washington. President Barbour, in his Commence- ment address, referred to the pleasant visits he had with iW men in the Orient mentioning Mayhew, Hess, Foote and Cristy. Malcolm Champlin is gradually getting back the use of his left arm, the elbow of which he had broken when a motor car bumped his machine early in June. Ernest R. Hager, the astronomer of the class, prepared the radio talk and also the guide for the public schools of Provi- dence for the total eclipse of the sun on Aug 3 1. next. Julius Lasker, back from Palestine where he has spent the past few years, is now in Boston. His mail address is 55 Brook Ledge Street, Ro.xbury, Mass. Don Clark, purchasing agent of Brown & Sharpe Mfg. C^o , had the distinction of being the only purchasing agent to address the convention of the National Association of Purchasing Agents in Detroit the week of June b. The '09 celebration at Commencement went oft with pleasure for al! Com- mencement luck as to weather prevailed A good clam bake was served, and George Huxfords hospitality was much appreci- ated by all 1 he following were present or marched down the Hill: Messrs. Wheeler. Buflum. Cameron, A. M. Chace, Chambers, Dodge, Henderson, Huxford, Leach, Littlefield, Moffitt. Poland. Tan- ner. Whitmarsh, Ward Seabury. Sykes, Hughes, Chafec, Bugbee and HoUen. 1910 Frederick A. Gardner, public relations engineer in the New Hampshire State Highway Department, was being promi- nently mentioned to handle publicity tor the new State L^exelopment Commission as this note was written (June 21)). "Gardner has cultivated a natural apti- tude for publicity," said a story in the Concord Monitor. "He is an expert photographer, writes an easy and attrac- tive style, has a broad background of State departmental knowledge, and be- cause of his extensive travels in the State Highway Department knows every nook and corner in the State. " 1912 Ernest I Kilctip, acting treasurer ol the Davol Rubber Company, Providence, was elected vice president of the National ,'\ssociation of Credit Men at the 35ih annual meeting in [~)etroit, June 24. Wiley H. Marble has taken out Re- publican nomination papers for State Senator from the First Worcester, Mass., [district. He has been a member of the Worcester School Committee since 1925 and chairman of the building committee during the period of greatest school expansion in Worcester history Robert H. Wills and Ralph W, Hill (Tufts 14) who for the past lb years have been associated with the Boston office of David Lupton's Sons Co., have formed their own sales organization under the name of Wills & Hill, and have 57 opened offices at 44 Bromfield Street, Boston. They are New England dis- tributors for several nationally known manufacturers of steel building acces- sories. Henry G. Marsh has presented to the Graduate Records of the University a letter written in 1922 to his father, Henry Marsh, Jr., '71, by the Rev, C () Luther 71. who was trainer-coach of the lamous Brown crew of lt<71. winner over Yale. Harvard and ,'\mherst on Lake Quinsigamond. Worcester. In the letter Luther tells of his interest in boating before he came to college, of his success- ful efforts to arouse interest at Brown and oi the dire results of the professional coaching that followed his modest labors as an amateur. 1 he letter is a valuable addition to the University archives. L^elmar B Orcutt is superintendent of the Brant ford, Ontario, plant of the Dominion Radiator and Boiler Co , Ltd the Canadian subsidiary of the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Cor- poration. His house address is 146 Nelson Street. Brantford Charles F. Strickland who has been doing a musical act in vaudeville m recent \ears, is at present associated with the Rhineland Gardens at .Armonk, near White Plains, N. Y., where he is leader ol the orchestra. .An opening engage- ment dinner with special entertainment was given in Strickland's honor, June 14 1914 Lewis Barrington has been serving in recent months as a theatre director for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission of the District of Columbia. He is living at 2900 Connecticut Avenue. Washington. 1915 Clarence k. Hamill is a sales engineer and is living at 427 E. Genoa Street, Arcadia, Calif. khe sympathy of the class goes out in lull measure to Edward W. Hincks and Mrs. Hincks in the loss of their two sons, William H. Hincks and Richard S. Hincks, 1 1 and 9 years old, respectively, who were drowned in Lovejoy Lake, Kents Hill, Me, June 4, 1932 The boys were out rowing with another boy, and the boat capsized, throwing them into the water. William tried to save his brother, but both went down before aid came. Warren F-". Norton, superintendent of .schools in Mead vi lie. Pa . and his family are now occupying their new home at 434 N Park Avenue. Meadville. Maurice J. Sievers is the new executive director of the United Jewish Social .Agencies of Cincinnati. Since 1927 he has been director of the Jewksh Board of Guardians in New York. Dana M. Hubbard, who reports that his present occupation is publishing, has his offices at 1512 kower Building, b N. Michigan .Avenue, Chicago. His home is at 1402 Seward Street, Evanston, III. 1916 Jesse M, Bailey's ten years old son, Philip, died in West Hartford, Conn., on June 23, last. Jesse and Mrs. Bailey have the sincere sympathy of the class in their loss. '- . BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1917 Rust Scott is manager of the Globe Ticket Company. Inc., 208 Stewart Avenue, S. W., Atlanta, Ga. Professor Carl O Lathrop. who teaches bacteriology at the Medical School. University of Buffalo, is in Chicago, do- ing research work that he started last summer. The opportunity to continue the work came as he was preparing to return to the campus for the 15th Re- union, and he could not refuse it. He will be in Chicago until Sept. 1, with his address at the Gamma Alpha house, 5731 Kenwood Avenue. He is president of the Brown Club of Western New York, and he admits that he attends "as many Sigma Chi and Sigma Xi luncheons as time allows me." Lathrop has two boys and one girl. 1918 Dr. Reginald G. Harris of the Long Island Biological Association and director of the biological laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, was the speaker at the annual meeting of the Huntington, N. Y , High School Alumni, July 1. 1919 George T. Curry is in the real estate business for himself at Conimicut, R. I. Rufus C, Fuller, Jr., alumnus adviser of the Sock and Buskin at the University and a member of The Players, was one of the judges of the New England Dramatic Day finals, held in Pawtucket late in May. Seven New England high schools entered their budding actors, and the two prizes went to the entrants from Manchester, N. H., and Revere. Mass. vIanc^cJ .FINE CLOTHESy John Winters MEN'S SHOES SCOTCH IMPORTS These Shoes are manufactured from the finest Scotch Grains and Calfskins, made by skilled hands, at one of the world's leading shoe manufacturing plants in Carnoustie, Scotland. This unusual offer is e.xtended to you only once in every year. Regular $12.50 and $14.00 $5.45 Annual Summer Clearance Priced at Sizes 51/2 to I2V2 THeBFOWN-^HOP THAYER ^T. at BENEVOLENT ./^PON.^ORED BY LamcrocK PROVIDEMCE.RI. AT BROWN CAMPUy STORES AT : Yale, Princeton, Williams, Harvard, Exeter, Andover 49 Broadway, New York City. 58 Frank C. Haddleton is production superintendent of the Cambridge Rubber Company. Cambridge, Mass. He re- cently has changed his house address to 6 Elliot Circle, Milton. Mass. 1920 Ray W. Greene and Mrs. Greene, and their son, Marshall Whitney, born Oec 20, 1931. are living at 9 Hazelton Drive, White Plains, N. Y. Ray is in the techni- cal department of the American Bem- berg Corporation at 26! Fifth .Avenue, New York. Seth B. Girtbrd has been elected president of Providence Chapter Inter- national .Accountants Society. Walter Ho\ing's new house address is Melody Road. Lake Forest. 111. As we reported last month. Walter is vice presi- dent and general sales manager of Mont- gomery Ward & Co.. with his headquar- ters at bl9 West Chicago Avenue. Chicago Jim Sinclair, superintendent of the Outlet Company. Providence, got his picture in the papers last month, along with two salmon, weighing 14 and 12 pounds, respectively (so the title said), which he caught on a three-day fishing trip to New Brunswick. Jim made his captures in the Hart Pool. St. John's river. Fred Thompson reports a change of address from Leonia, N. J., to 840 Rural Avenue, Williamsport, Pa. 1921 H. Stanton Smith has removed from East Providence to 29 Luzon Avenue, Providence. Jonas Sallet is senior partner of the law firm of Sallet and Ress. 32 Custom House Street. Providence. 1922 Edward Recs reports that he has moved his law office to 810-12 Mahoning Bank Building. Youngstown. O. William Posey is now getting his mail at 374 Delaware .Avenue. Buffalo, N. Y., where he is continuing his sales work for tha Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. 1923 Townes M Harris, certified public accountant, has opened an office in the Old Colony House. Room Wh. 5S Wey- bosset Street, Providence. 1924 loc Nutter, sports writer on the Provi- dence Evening Bulletin, who ha-; been at Saranac for nearly a year in an effort to build up his physical strength, has re- turned to Providence, and reports are that he is looking better than he has looked in several years. 1925 Rev. Joseph E. Olsson is teaching in the American Church Mission, Hankow, China. William H. Wagenknecht and his family are occuping their new home at 25 Marbury Street. Pawtucket. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Dr. Vincent Cenci of the State Hospital for Mental Diseases, Howard. R. 1., gave an oral health talk over Station WJAR, Providence, on Memorial Day. The talk was one of a series given under the auspices of the Rhode Island Dental Society. Cenci said that it was a real experience, as it was the first time he ever faced a microphone. 1926 Report is that John Talbot, teacher of English and coach of athletics at Taber Academy, Marion, Mass., will do gradu- ate work in English at Harvard next fall. The Shanghai, China, Mercury in a comparatively recent issue said in one oi its baseball paragraphs that "it is probable that West Right, a newcomer, will hold down the left garden " None other than our own Wes Wright. Dr. Walter S. Jones, who has been at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, has joined the staff of Butler Hospital, Providence, and will stay there until next October, when he will go to the Rhode Island Hospital for two years of duty. Dr. Gerald J. Currieri, back in Provi- dence after two years as interne at the Fall River General F^ospital, was guest at a testimonial dinner given him at the Narragansett Hotel, June 7. He is an associate member of the St. Joseph's Hospital staff and at present has his office at 825 Charles Street. E. D, Thompson and Reggie Farrow both received their M.D degrees last month. Ed won his at McGill Llniver- sity Medical School and Reg received his from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Columbia L'niversity. Reg will serve his interneship at the Rhode Island Hospital, according to Newark, N. J , Call, and is spending the summer at Camp Yawgoog, the Rhode Island Scout Camp, as staft medical officer. Charlie Dixon and Mrs. t^ixon are now luing at 12 Maynard Street, Pawtuckec. 1927 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle in its issue of June 7 carried a picture of H. R. Myers, Jr., with this caption: "Harold Russell Myers. Jr.. of Ml Linden Boule- vard, who last week carried off the high- est honors in the graduating class at the C'ornell University Medical College. He was a prominent athlete at Poly Prep and Brown I Iniverslty and is a member ol Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary society of the medical profession. He will ser\e his interneship at Brooklyn Hospital. ' Dave Mishel was the guest speaker al the June 1 meeting of the Rotary Club. Gloucester, Mass., and according to the Gloucester Times gave a splendid talk on o\-er-emphasis of college sports "He won his audience immediately with his easy-going manner of speech, his com- mon sense philosophy and his ability to say what he had to say and then quit before he lost the attention his words had gained." Al Geremia, with an M.D. from Tufts Medical School, will serve his interneship at the Memorial Hospital, Pawtucket. Andy Goodier, who is a manager for the New York Telephone Company, has his office at 2030 Walton .^venue, New York 1928 Sam Levy, who won his LL B , cum laude, at Harvard last month, has entered the law offices of Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast, Phillips & Wheeler, in Provi- dence. Sam was one of the editors of the Harvard Law Review, a Sheldon Hale Scholar in 1930 and holder of a Faculty scholarship in the past two years. Mario Palmier! received his M.D. de- gree from Yale last month. His thesis had to do with the physiology of vitamin B in the pigeon. Johnny Aldrich, whose engagement is reported in another column, is back at the Cleveland Museum of Natural His- tory after his expedition to Panama, where he secured many specimens of birds not before included in the museum's collection. Johnny Getz came back from Detroit last month to see that his old roommate. Nelson B. Jones, Jr., was properly mar- ried and to visit friends on the campus and roundabout. Henry C Lawson, graduated last month from Cornell University Medical College with the degree of M.D., re- ceived the William M. Polk Memorial Prize of .1550 in gynecology. Lawson will be an interne at the King's County Hospital, Brooklyn, N Y., for the next two years. Win Schuster has been appointed to the Governor's Council by Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts to fill the unexpired term of his father, Walter A. Schuster, who died at his home in East Douglas, Mass.. June 13. The elder Schuster will be remembered by many Brown men for his intense interest in baseball and the fine teams that he used to get together to represent East f^ouglas He was well known as a woolen manufac- turer and was president or treasurer of various companies engaged in the woolen business. Win has the sympathy of the class in the loss of his father and great companion. Morris Packard is a salesman lor Standard Brands. Inc., at 689 Washing- ton Street, New York. S. J. Goldowsky, holder of an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, has taken up his residence as surgical house officer in the Beth Israel Hospital, 330 t-5rookline Avenue, Boston. Bob Bolan reports a change of address to 545 Angell Street, Providence. 1929 W. E Cavanagh, Jr., is the supervising chef-steward at the L')earborn, Inn Dear- born, Mich, Johnnie Child is a salesman with the Aetna Life Insurance Company, 830 Industrial frust Building, Providence, hut he continues to cling to the old home town of Warren as his place of residence. Jack Foster is a member of the sales staff of the Simmons Company, beds and such, with his headquarters at 4th and Channing Streets, N. E., Washington. 59 Herb Pearson and Louis Cook, who have been doing graduate work in chemis- try at Duke University, came through their preliminary examinations with fly- ing colors, we hear, and thereby proved to the I^uke authorities that their in- struction in chemistry at Brown was of a high order. W. C. Foster, Jr., is in St. Paul, Minn . with the intention of attending the Medical School, University of Minne- sota, next fall. 193u W. F. Almy, Jr., is a salesman for Wm. F. Almy Company. Inc., manufac- turer of lacquer and enamels, and is living at 6 King Street, Peabody, Mass. 1931 Stan Pillsbury. who has been working at the John Flay Library, is on the job for the summer at the New York Public Library. Leon Bakst is back in Providence after a year's study at the Liniversity of Ala- bama, where he received the degree of Master of Science last month' Jack Wright, with the Hanlon & Goodman Company, brush manufac- turers, Belleville, N. J., modestly notes the fact that he is learning the business Ben Greenfield is assistant production manager for the Old Colony Knitting Mills, Hingham, Mass. Oscar Schneider's new business ad- dress is Hotel Regent, 93 Bleeker Street, Newark, N. J. Gordon Peterson, with the W. T. Grant Company, has left the Raleigh, N. C. store and is now at the Grant 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 L. Sawyer, Assistant Cashier George A. Freeman, Assistant Cashier Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel Empire St. Branch, Frank L. Sawyer, Manager Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Manager Directors Charles H. Newell Wilson G. Wing William Gammell .Jr Moses J. Barber PaulC. DeWolf Frank E. Richmond Richard S. Aldrich Edward P. Jastram Earl G. Batty A. Livingston Kelley John Nicholas Brown Thomas L. Pierce Lauriston H. Hazard William L. Sweet Frederick T. Moses John Ormsbee Ames Wiliard 1. Angell John B. Lewis, Jr. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY store at 777 Broad Street, Newark Ken Fisher, who is also with the s;ime company, is with the store in York. Va. Gates Romer. member of the class for two years, is a salesman for the Linde Air Products Co . New York, and is living at 180 Forest Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. (Charlie Washburn was an exhibitor at the last annual exhibit of the students at the Swain School of Design. New Bed- ford, Mass "He concentrates on wild animals." said a reviewer in the New Bedford Standard "He tries them in oils, in water colors and in pen and ink " John ."Xiso. having finished his first year at Harvard Law School, sailed last month to spend the summer studying at Geneva. Ben Lewis is doing graduate work at Ohio State Liniversity and expects to continue his studies through the summer. Jerome S. Anderson. 3rd. reports that he is a printer-editor in Stonington. Conn., and smiles whenever he thinks that he intended to be an engineer. Joe Mahood wrote not long ago that while every one says that business has been dead these past two years, his has been deader than dead, as he has been assistant to an undertaker over on Long Island. He plans to enter Harvard School of Business Administration next fall if all goes well. Wes Cazel, former member of the class, is director of the Wesley Foundation at the University of California at Los Angeles. Since leaving Brown. Wes has been in Germany and has married. He hopes that any of his friends going out to Los .Angeles for the Olympics will call on him at 10621 Le Conte, near the LJniversity campus. Bill Thompson has been doing gradu- ate work at the University of Oklahoma the past year. * * * Engagemenln Miss Helen Lindsay Ihompson, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L, Thompson of Waterbury, Conn,, to the Rev. Arthur F. McKenny '23, also of Waterbury. Miss E. Louise Kendall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Lee Kendall of Highland Park. 111., to John Warren Aldrich '28, of Clex'eland, O. Miss Elma Davis of Waltham, Mass., to Robert G. Trenholm '28, also of Waltham. Miss Mildred Sherman Smith, daugh- ter of Mrs, .Mbert C, Francis of Taunton, Mass.. to Claude L, Belknap '29, of Providence Miss Eloise M. Gibbud, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mervin J. Gibbud of New Haven. Conn., to David N Torrance T7n, of Orange, N. J. Miss ."Xnne Margaret Grisko. daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Peter G, Grisko and graduate of Pembroke College '30. to Donald S Flvnn '30. of Providence. Miss Dorothy Lyman Patten, daugh- ter of Mr, and Mrs, William H, Patten of Nashua. N, H,. to Kenneth S. Minard '2b, of .Andover. Mass. Miss Patten is a graduate of Smith College, "Weddings 1^20 — ^James Quayle Dealey. Jr.. and Miss Esther Poole Reed of Grafton, Mass.. were married in New York City, June 24. 1932. 1923 — Robert M. Addoms and Miss Viola K, Jordan were married in Plain- field. N, J". June 25. 1932, Mrs. Addoms Is an honors graduate of Mount Hoi yoke College. The best man was .Mbert R. Mount '24. and the ushers included J. Rolfe Denman '23. Mr. and Mrs, Addoms will live in Plainfield, N, J. 1923 — Arvid N. Larson and Miss Elinor Susan Chace. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Chace of Edge- wood, were married in Providence. June IS. 1932. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Earle B. Cross '05. of Rochester, N Y., the form of it havmg been prepared by the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. 1925sp — Dr. John Langdon. son of the late Professor Courtney Langdon and Mrs. Langdon. and Miss Margaret Douglas Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Robert M. Reese, were married in Alexandria, Va.. June 9, 1932. They will settle in Providence after Sept. 1. 1925— Dr. Marshall S. Brown, Jr., and Miss Jean Lewis Brewster, daughter advertisers Bnqravinq compang 66 ORANGE ST. PROVIDENCE, R. \. TELEPHONE GASPEE 7094 \idcncc, for ihc SLimmer. 1928 Nelson B Jones. Jr.. and Miss Marlon Rich daughter of Kir, and Mrs William Wallace Rich, svere married in 1 lingham, Mass. June 23. 1932. Presi- dent Clarence A, Barbour performed the ceremony and John B. Getz. Jr.. '28. of Detroit, was best man Mr. and Mrs THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL ^^^^^ reorganized in association with Cornell Univer- sity, offers an exceptional professional prepara- tion in nursing. For Bulletin, apply ; DIRECTOR OF NURSING 1300 York Avenue. New York City BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Jones are living on Sargent Avenue, Providence. Mr. Jones is manager of Faunce House 1Q28— Dr. Jesse P. Eddy, 3rd, and Miss Constance L. Burch Jones, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Jones, were married in Providence, June 4, 1932. They are at home at 140 East 28th Street, New York. 1Q2') — David J. Colbert and Miss Mary A. Donnelly were married in Providence, June 22. 1^532. During the summer they will be at Lamson Road. Barrington, R. 1. Next fall they will go to Ann Arbor, Mich., where Colbert will complete his work for the PhD degree at the University of Michigan. NMth mathematics as his special study. 1929 — Prescott Kittredge Bearce and Miss Dorothy Evelyn Houghton were married in Worcester. Mass., June 2 3, 1932. 1929^John P Child and Miss Beatrice Possner were married in Warren late in June. 1929 — Natha.iiel S Keith and Miss Marjorie ■ ictoria Macdonald. daughter of Mrs James R. Macdonald were mar- ried m New York. May 21, 1932. Ken- neth Carpenter '29, was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Keith are living in New York. I929n — Richard Hayward and Miss Ruth [^rummond Harris were married in Winter Park, Fla., June 4, 1932. Hay- ward, who received his A B. degree Irom Rollins College in 1929. has been an assistant instructor in French at Rollins for two years. 1930 — Henry Cutler and Miss Lillian Blistein. daughter of Mr and Mrs. Philip Blistein. were married in Provi- dence, June 19, 1932. They are now at home at 200 President's Lane, Quincy, Mass. 1930-^Daniel Polsky, 2nd, and Vliss Edythe Woolf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Woolf. were married in Providence. June 12, 1932. They are living at 50 Lincoln Avenue. Norwich, Conn. 1931— Fred J. Dyer and Miss Edna P. Hermanson of East Providence were mar- ried Dec 2b. 1931. They are living at b50 East 29th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1931 — Victor Ullman and Miss Frieda Joyce Lippman. daughter ol Mr. and Mrs Martin Lippman, were married in Providence, June 22, 1932. They are living in Sunnydale, N, Y. 193 In — A. N. Caslowitz and Miss Helen D. Horowitz were married .April lb. 1932. They are living in New Britain. Conn. 1931 — Frederick L Harson and Miss Helen Louise Jordan, daughter of Dr and Mrs William H Jordan, were mar- ried in Providence. June 27. 1932 1 hey are living at 1 32 Elton Street. Providence Faculty — Professor Leonard Car- michael. chairman of the [department of Psychology, and Miss Pearl Lillian Kid- ston. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Kidston, were married in Hudson, Mass., June 30, 1932. They are living in Providence. Faculty — Professor C C. Bosland of the Department of Economics and Miss Ann Elizabeth Cullen. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P Cullen, were mar- ried in Providence, June 30, 1932. They are spending the summer in South L5akota. Birlhs 1912 — To Mr. and Mrs Kenneth J. Tanner of Providence, a daughter, Martha Geddes, on June 5, 1932. 1915 — To Mr and Mrs. Lawrence L. Hall of Florham Park. Madison, N, J,, a daughter, Nancy Kay, on May 22, 1932, 1920— To Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Lownes of Providence, a daughter on, June 20, 1932. 1920n— To Mr and Mrs. W. Harold Searles of Pawtucket. a son, William Harold Searles, Jr., on May 23, 1932. 1925— To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Metzger. Jr.. of Interlaken. N. J., a daughter, on June 1, 1932. 1925— To Mr. and Mrs D Lloyd Hobron of Hartford, Conn., a son, Ed- ward Lloyd, on June 21. 1932. 1926— To Mr. and Mrs. Noel M. Field of Providence, a daughter, on Mav 29 1932. 1927--ro Mr and Mrs. Arthur L. Lawrence of Providence, a daughter, on May 27, 1932. 1928— To Nir and Mrs. Leslie P. Van Sant of New York, a daughter. Diane, on June lb. 1932. 1929n— To Mr and Mrs Ronald C. Bishop of Orange. N. ) . a daughter, Elizabeth Aldrich, on May 19. 1932. 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Snow, first dean of the college. Mrs. Richard B Snow, presi- dent of the Alumnae Association. Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth, member of President LYDIA L ADAMS # PUBLIC • SECRETARIAL ■ SERVICE typing • multigraphing ■ dictation 1203 New Industrial Trust Building [Dexter 7231] PRESCRIPTIONS ...exactly as written When a doctor's prescription comes to us for compounding we consider it as a means toward someone's good health. Accordingly we prac- tice utmost accuracy in compound- ing, using the finest quality ingredients the world affords. Bring YOUR prescriptions here. BLANDING'S 190 Weitminster St. 6 Wayland Square Hoover's unemployment commission, and the presidents of the nine reunion classes were guests ol honor at an indoor garden party that followed the annual meeting of the Alumnae Association. A record number of sub-Freshman applications has already been received, Dean Morriss announced. Already 221 have applied, as compared with 179 last year, and 77 have requested scholarship aid. T R'^ HE citation of Dr. Woolley was written by Miss Anne W. Carpenter and pre- sented by Miss Marion S. Cole. It spoke of her as "among those pioneers whose charm and intellect stimulated the found- ing of this college by President .Andrews." Other references cited her as "within si.\ years of graduation, president of Mount Holyoke College, which her ability and leadership raised from its lowly plane to eminence and from which for .32 years her virtue has gone forth to quicken, fire, beautify thousands of lives; traveller in America and in foreign lands, tireless, undismayed, at the distance of the goal, working with rare co-operative genius to make the nations known to one another and thereby hasten the day of hope for a war-wracked world; delegate ap- pointed by President Hoover to the Dis- armament Conference of 1932. whereby she becomes the first woman to represent the United States at a major international conference, first woman to participate in a disarmament conference, first officially appointed woman diplomat to participate in a major diplomatic world conference and first woman to champion the protest of the women of the world against the mad folly of war." I EPORTiNG as chairman of the Alum- nae Fund Mrs. Augustus F. Rose, president of the class of 1897, announced the total receipts were considerably more than $3500 By the present plan the university, which formerly financed the operation of the alumnae body, saves $700. Gifts to the fund included $bOO made yesterday by the class of 1931 as the first step toward establishing a $1000 scholarship fund. Other gifts were for $350 from the Brown clubs. The be- quest of $10,000 from the late Mrs. Gus- tav Radeke has been assigned to scholar- ship uses, the alumnae learned. The alumnae association finished the year with a net loss of about 50 mem- bers. More than 150 new members have been enrolled in the year. Worcester is about to organize a club and Springfield will probably have a group before winter, Mrs. Gertrude A. McConnell reported as alumnae secre- tary. MRS. Mildred Bosworth Brown was elected vice president of the .Alum- ;.ae Association: Mrs. Alice Manchester Chase was elected second vice president; Mrs. Pauline Barrows Hughes, secre- tary; Mrs. Martha Case Arnold, treas- urer, and Mrs, Beulah Sheldon Bellows, alumnae representative on the .Advisory Council of Pembroke College. Next 62 year's nominating committee is Dr. Magel C. Wilder, chairman Mrs. Myrtis Milliken Clayton, Miss Flora Cotton, Miss Beatrice Kohlber and Miss Eleanor Hanson Mrs, Laura Brooks Hawkins presented this year's slate for the committee comprising Miss Nellie C. Donovan, Miss Matty L. Beattie. Miss .Alice F. Hildreth and Mrs. Faith Rogers Corbet. Ruth Cook Peterson was named chair- man of ne.Kt year's Alumnae Day cele- bration. Other appointments announced were: Marjorie Battersby, social activities committee; Mrs. Mildred B.iiley Read- ing, academic committee; Mrs. Lillian G. Moulton. Alumnae Fund committee. M' [iss Mabel Potter was chairman of the reunion committee for 1897, ob- serving the 35th anniversary of its gradu- ation. Among the hostesses were Miss Potter, Miss Mary A. Brownell. Miss Louise Brough. and Mrs. John Allen, while Mrs. Horatio Fordmutch, Mrs. Henry Stoughton, Mrs. Louis L. Whit- ney, and class president Mrs. Augustus F. Rose were others taking a prominent part in the reunion. Second in rank in the .Alumnae Day processional was the class of 1907. 25 years out of Brown. Among those back were: Mrs. John Heckman. class presi- dent, Mrs, Harry H, Thurlow, chairman of reunion committee, Mrs. Howard C. ■Arnold. Mrs William H. T. Hamil. Miss Nellie Donovan. Mrs, Ralph Boas. Mrs, Clarence L. Briggs. Mrs. Frances E. Clarke. Miss Blanche Crapo. Mrs. H. Otis Green. Mrs. Joseph Grover, Mrs. C. A. Hall, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Mrs, Henry Huthall, Miss Mary Whittle- sey. Miss Katheryn MacKenzie. Mrs, David H, Partridge. Mrs. Howard C. .Arnold, Mrs. Sidney Bellows (whose daughter was president of the Student Council for 1931-2), Miss .Alice Blessing, Mrs. Gertrude Clarke. Mrs. Herbert E. Harris, and Miss Bertha W'ilco.x. A Book o/ Remembrance THE exercises of the memorial service held in remembrance of the late Dean Lida Shaw King find a record in a volume published by Pembroke College and printed by the Merrymount Press (D. B. Updike). .An unnamed "Friend ot Pembroke " made it possible to print the complete details of the ceremony, which Dean Morriss said was to honor Dean King's memory, not to renew the mourning for her loss which the college had felt upon her enforced retirement a decade ago. Here in permanent form are Acting President Mead's appreciation of Dean King's work as an administrator. 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