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UNIVERSITY 

HALL 
LIBRARY 




THE BROWN 

ALUMNI 

MONTHLY 




Vol. Ill 



Providence, R. I., October, 1902 



No. 



Building the Greater Brown 



IT would be difficult to enumerate all 
the external changes and improve- 
ments that are taking place at Brown, 
for never in the history of the college 
have so many been in simultaneous pro- 
gress. The last few years have been a 



viduals at a cost of S350 each, and of 
these fifteen have already been put in 
place. The design is in keeping with the 
new gates, the intervening posts being of 
red brick and limestone and the fence 
itself of wrought iron. In the centre of 




THE OLD GATES I.N POSITION UN" THAYER STREET 



period of great material growth, and the 
next few years will see changes of even 
greater proportions. The new fence, 
together with the Van Wickle gates, is 
of course the first prominent object 
of interest to the alumnus as he comes 
up College Hill ; there are now thirty 
sections pledged by classes and indi- 



each section of fence is a wreath with the 
numerals of the class which it commemo- 
rates. Originally these numerals were in 
goldleaf. but the contrast to the black of 
the fence w r as found to be too great, and 
therefore the entire design is now in black. 
Space has been left near the corner of 
Prospect and Waterman streets for the 



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THE NEW FENCE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION 
At this corner the Eajnotti Tower is to be built 



1872 gateway, which may have to be 
changed somewhat from the published 
plans because of the Bajnotti tower, which 
is to be erected about fifteen feet from the 
corner. 

The Bajnotti tower, soon to be built to a 
height of one hundred feet at this con- 
spicuous point on the campus, is the gift 
of Mr. Paul Bajnotti of Turin, Italy, in 
memory of his wife, who was Miss Carrie 
M. Brown of Providence, a granddaughter 
of Nicholas Brown, for whom the college 
was named. Mr. Bajnotti has generously 
offered 830,000 for the memorial tower, 
which will be built of red brick and lime- 
stone, in harmony with most of the build- 
ings recently built and in contemplation 
at the university. About two-thirds of 
the distance from the ground will be a 
clock, an innovation of much usefulness 
on the front campus, as the tower itself 
will be a structure of aesthetic value. At its 
base the tower will be about twenty-five 
feet square. Mr. Guy Lowell of Boston is 
preparing the plans. 

At the southeast corner of the middle 
campus the beautiful new building of the 
John Carter Brown Memorial Library is 
soon to rise. The site is at the intersec- 
tion of Brown and George streets, and the 
building will occupy the area formerly 
covered by the St. Stephen's rectory and 
Howell House, the latter being one of the 
wooden dwellings used by the college for 
some years as a dormitory. Just east of 
Howell stood Messer, a house of similar 
design which, like Howell and the rectory, 
has been torn down. The space occupied 
by Messer will be left vacant, so that a 



good view of the library may be gained 
from all sides. The plans as originally 
drawn for Mr. John Nicholas Brown, '85, 
the former owner of the priceless collection 
of Americana which the new building is to 
contain, showed a structure of marble, but 
it has been decided, on account of the great 
expense, to use Indiana limestone instead. 
This will give a very light effect and is 
expected to be at least as satisfactory after 
a few years of exposure to the weather as 
marble would have been. The plans are 
not yet completed but in general it may be 
said that the architecture will be classic 
Greek, with a portico and pillars on the 
west, which is to be the front. The library 
will protrude to the west somewhat farther 
than Wilson Hall, next which it is to stand, 
but not so far as Sayles Hall, which is 
next beyond Wilson. It will extend across 
Brown street, so that it will be visible all 
the way up that street from Power 
street. The effect will be that of a one- 
story building of great height and the most 
modern plans of library construction will 
be adopted, with of course every possible 
precaution against fire. The sum left in 
Mr. Brown's will for the building was 
$150,000, and added to this is a half-million 
endowment for the library. The value of 
the library as it exists to-day cannot be 
accurately estimated, but it may be roughly 
put at from five hundred thousand to six 
hundred thousand dollars. The foundation 
for the new building is to be built this fall 
but the rest of the work will be deferred 
until spring, on account of weather 
conditions. The architects are Shepley, 
Rutan & Coolidge of Boston. 



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WORK IN PROGRESS ON THE HOYT SWIMMING POOL 
The new structure closely adjoins the Lyman Gymnasium 



Work will soon begin on the foundation 
for the new Rockefeller building at the 
north end of the middle campus. This 
building is to be used as a social and re- 
ligious centre and will be of red brick and 
limestone, three stories in height. Though 
one story less than Hope College, near 
which it will stand and which it will resem- 
ble, it will be about as high. Plans are in 
course of preparation by McKim, Mead & 
White of New York. 

Just east of the Lv'man Gymnasium the 
new swimming pool presented by Mr. Col- 
gate Hoyt is being built. The original 
estimate of its cost was ten thousand dol- 
lars, and that was the amount first offered 
by Mr. Hoyt, but the actual expenditure 
will be twenty thousand dollars, which the 
generous donor will provide. The pool is 
to be seventy -five feet in length and access 
to it will be had through the gymnasium. 
It will probably be ready for use before 
Thanksgiving. 

Lincoln Field is greatly changed from 
the days when it was a baseball ground. 
The old gates that stood for many years at 
the head of College street are now in place 
on Thayer street at the head of Manning, 
and when the plans suggested by Mr. 
Olmsted of Boston and Professor Ware of 
Columbia are carried out there will be a 
long and narrow campus extending from 
these gates westward to the rear of Sayles 
Hall, where a circular embankment of turf 
or stone is to be built. On the south bor- 
der of this campus there is to be erected 
at once a three-story building of red brick 
and limestone, mainly for the courses 
mechanical and civil engineering. The 



building will be approximately as long as 
Hope College and almost square, and room 
will be left on the east for a future addi- 
tion of the same size. There will be some 
heavy machinery in the building and the 
second floor will be occupied at first by 
four general recitation rooms. 

The new dormitory authorized by the 
corporation, which is to be in architectural 
harmony with the new engineering build- 
ing, will extend north and south along 
Thayer street, to the left of the gates as 
they appear in the illustration on the first 
page of this magazine. Dormitories, it is 
pointed out, should always run north and 
south, so that all the rooms may have sun- 
light during some portion of the day. On 
the north side of the gates in due time an- 
other dormitory will probably be erected, 
and Thayer street, instead of being the 
backdoor to the college will be one of the 
main avenues of approach. It is planned, 
though not definitely, to have a biological 
museum, some day, west of this contem- 
plated dormitory, about on the site of the 
old baseball grandstand. 

During the snmmer many minor im- 
provements have taken place at the uni- 
versity, for a description of which there is 
no space in the Monthly at this time. 
Manning Hall has been painted a cream 
white, the corridors of University Hall are 
bright with new colors, and all the build- 
ings have been somewhat renovated. 
Unfortunately all but one of the elm trees 
that were set out on the middle campus a 
few months ago have died, but they are to 
be replaced as soon as possible with 
others. 



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Academic Changes 



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ANY important academic changes 
have recently been enacted by 
the board of fellows. Some of 
these changes are in the require- 
ments for admission, others relate to 
undergraduate courses of study and still 
others pertain to degrees. 

ADMISSION TO COLLEGE 

The changes in the requirements for 
admission affect candidates for all degrees. 
Candidates for the degree of bachelor of 
arts are now allowed to substitute for one 
ancient language, or for the more advanced 
portion of their Greek one or more sub- 
jects chosen from the following list : 
French, German, English and American 
history, solid and spherical geometry and 
plane trigonometry, physics and chemistry. 
When the whole of one ancient language, 
however, is omitted, the greater part of the 
work offered in place of it must be in 
modern languages. It should be noted that 
while greater latitude has been allowed, 
the old requirements will still satisfy the 
conditions of .admission, and it is probable 
that a large majority of the candidates for 
the A. B. degree will continue to present 
the same subjects as heretofore, but the 
change will have brought the university 
into closer connection with some of the 
best preparatory schools which have been 
devoting increasing attention to modern 
languages and the sciences, for the greater 
part (in the case of science the whole) of 
which work their students have hitherto 
been unable to obtain credit on entering 
Brown. 

In the case of the degree of bachelor of 
philosophy the requirement for admission 
has been considerably increased, and is 
now, so far as quantity of work goes, ap- 
proximately equivalent to the A. B. 
requirement. The additional work may 
be done in ancient or modern language, 
mathematics, physics, chemistry, physi- 
ography, astronomy or history. The new 
requirement will go into effect in 1903. 

The degrees of civil engineer and 
mechanical engineer will not be given after 
1905. In their place the degree of bachelor 
of science in mechanical engineering and 
civil engineering respectively will be given. 
The degree of bachelor of science in elec- 



trical engineering has been added to the 
foregoing degrees in science. The general 
scientific course now leading to the degree 
of bachelor of science will be discon- 
tinued. 

The admission requirements for candi- 
dates for the degree of bachelor of science 
have also been increased by the addition of 
solid and spherical geometry, free hand 
drawing and chemistry, for the last of 
which, however, a modern language may 
be substituted. 

COLLEGE COURSES 

Accompanying these changes in the con- 
ditions of admission to candidacy for the 
several first degrees are enlargements and 
certain modifications of the courses leading 
to these degrees. A four years' course in 
electrical engineering has been established 
and a higher standard of work in mechanical 
and civil engineering has been made pos- 
sible by the added requirements for admis- 
sion to these courses. 

The most noticeable changes in the curri- 
culum for candidates for the A. B. degree 
are the increase in the amount of required 
work by the addition of certain new 
courses. To the list of required subjects 
have been added courses ( each of three 
hours a week for a year ) in English liter- 
ature, in physical or natural science, and in 
political science, social science and politi- 
cal economy ( the last three constituting 
together a single course), while the require- 
ment in philosophy has been increased 
from a course for a single term to a course 
running through the year. 

The assignments of these required 
courses to the different college years have 
also been changed. Rhetoric has been put 
back into the freshman year, thus closing 
the gap which has existed between the 
w r ork in the preparatory schools and the 
college. This change has been made pos- 
sible by reducing the time of the ancient 
language courses in the freshman year 
from four to three hours per week, and the 
time allowed to mathematics in the same 
year from five to four hours per week. 
The required history has been opened to 
sophomores as well as juniors. The newly 
required courses in English literature, in 
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economy and in philosophy may be taken 
in either sophomore, junior, or senior year. 
The course in science may be taken in the 
freshman,' sophomore, or junior year. 

The net result of all changes made so 
far as they affect the proportion between 
required and elective 'work is an increase 
in the former from 27-63 to 34-62 of the 
entire coiuse, an increase somewhat modi- 
fied by the fact that in the case of a certain 
portion of the required work the student 
has a choice between two or more depart- 
ments {e.g. Latin and Greek, French and 
German, the various scientific depart- 




PROFESSOR HUNTINGTON 

tnents ) or between two or more courses in 
the same department, as in philosophy. 

DEGREES IN THREE YEARS 

Another important change in the aca- 
demic life at the university pertains to the 
period of college residence. From this 
time on a student may, upon conditions not 
yet fully decided, receive the bachelor's 
degrees in art and philosophy after three 
years of college residence. The privi- 
lege however will be granted only upon 
such terms as will insure the maintenance 
of the present standard of scholarship 
requisite for obtaining these degrees. The 



same number of courses will be required 
of those who graduate after three years of 
study as of those who graduate after four 
years of study. 

FACULTY CHANGES 

The introduction of rhetoric into the 
freshman year has necessitated an increase 
in the staff of instruction in the English 
department and Henry Barrett Hunting- 
ton, A. B., has been appointed assistant 
professor of English. Mr. Huntington 
was graduated at Harvard University in 
1897, was assistant in English at that uni- 
versity 1897-1898, was instructor in English 
in Dartmouth College 189S-1901. Last 
year he was instructor in English at Har- 
vaid taking some of the courses of Pro- 
fessor Baker who had leave of absence for 
the year. Professor Burnham has resigned 
as associate professor of mechanical en- 
gineering. Professor Kenerson has been 
changed from assistant professor of me- 
chanical engineering and drawing to assist- 
ant professor of mechanical engineering to 
act in place of Professor Burnham. Assist- 
ant Professor Meiklejohn has been pro- 
moted to become associate professor of logic 
and metaphysics. The following appoint- 
ments have also been made : Mr. A. E. 
Blanchard to become instructor in civil 
engineering ; Mr. H. J. Hall to become 
instructor in psychology ; Mr. R. M. Pack- 
ard to become instructor in mathematics ; 
Mr. E. T. Whitford to become instructor in 
Biblical literature ; Dr. Frank T. Fulton to 
become instructor in histology and path- 
ology ; Mr. Latham Clarke to become 
assistant in chemistry ; Miss M. E. Clarke 
and Miss G. E. Dickerman to become assist- 
ant cataloguers in the library ; Mr. P. D. 
Sherman to become instructor in German ; 
Mr. T. H. Guild to become assistant in 
English ; Mr. E. T. Williamson to become 
instructor in French ; Mr. H. F. Craft to 
become assistant in English. 

Two professors have leave of absence 
for the year 1902-03, Professors A. G. 
Harkness and E. B. Delabarre. Professor 
Harkness is for the present year director 
of the American School in Rome. His 
courses in the university are being con- 
ducted by Professor Greene. 




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The Brown Alumni Monthly 



The 

Football 

Team 




at 

"Erden 
heim' 



MR. WEAVER'S FARM HOUSE AT BROOKLYN, CONN. 



BROWN has recently received many 
gifts, in money, in books, in fences 
and in buildings. It has greatly 
enlarged its plant, and it has not 
a little increased the beauty of its grounds. 
More students have come to it this year 
than ever before. It has, indeed, entered 
upon a new growth, and to sustain it in 
the tax upon the strength that this happy 
state of enlargement levies on all forms of 
life, President Faunce promised in chapel 
on the first morning of the college year 
that vastly greater things are now being 
planned than as yet have been published. 
Rut among all the gifts that Brown has 
received for many a year, no matter how 
far away in any case the dollar sign may 
have been from the unit figure, and among 
all the other signs of advancement the 
college rejoices in, none is more encourag- 
ing to those who place men above money 
and spirit above matter, than the invitation 
Mr. Charles S. Weaver of the class of 
1882 sent to the candidates for the football 
eleven to spend ten days with him at 
" Erdenheim," his farm, which is situated 
just out of the village of Brooklyn, in 
Windham County, Connecticut. 

Mr. Weaver's estate is large, but his 
house is not of such a size that without 
any previous preparations it could provide 
quarters for a squad of twenty-five or 
thirty young, hungry, boisterously happy 
giants. Even Lyman Gymnasium would 
have to undergo some alterations before it 
could entertain so many guests of this sort. 
On this account, Mr. Weaver sent his wife 
and children away. He turned into a sleep- 
ing-room almost every apartment that could 
be adapted to that purpose, and out of his 
piazza he made a long dining-room, shelter- 
ing it from the rain with a screen. He 



eagerly followed out the suggestion that he 
put an improvised shower bath in the shed 
adjoining the house. He secured the ser- 
vices of a cook from the Hope Club. He 
put all the products of the farm at the dis- 
posal of his guests, and a hundred other 
things he did in the cause. All day long 
he went around looking after the wants of 
the young men who aspired to represent 
their college on the athletic field. At night 
he slept in his office in a building adjoining 
the stable. 

All these things, many of them little in 
themselves, I mention simply to show that 
in them Mr. Weaver made a sacrifice — per- 
formed a personal service. His giving was 
not altogether in the interest of . football, 
however, for if it were he might better have 
turned his farm over to players from a 
larger college. It was, instead, solely for 
the sake of his Alma Mater, Brown. 

Under his loyal roof the members of the 
squad came together to learn something 
about football. They took cross-country 
runs in the morning ; they practiced punt- 
ing and running clown the field under kicks, 
and they lined up every afternoon to go 
through the signals. They breathed the 
purest of country air, they ate the most 
nourishing food, rustic and urban — their 
appetites they soon joyfully discovered had 
expanded in exact ratio to the cube of the 
distance they were above the rest of the 
world — and in their leisure moments they 
looked down over the valley below, a study 
in light and shade, stretching far to the 
north and to the south to the shores of 
Long Island Sound, not forgetting to take 
in at the same time the low hills of west- 
ern Rhode Island under the eastern sky- 
line heavy with the deep hazy blue of 
early autumn. Sometimes, perhaps, some 



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of them wondered about the causes which 
brought them to such an attractive spot. 
If they did they are much the better foot- 
ball players for it. They will give the 
more of themselves to the game, not 
because it is a sport they like but because 
it is played in the name of a college they 
love. 

Mr. Weaver's generosity, indeed, may 
well be taken as the text for a sermon to 
all Brown men, whether graduates or under- 
graduates. For the students, it should be 
helpful in showing them that the moment 
they were admitted to college life they took 
upon themselves the duty of supporting 
with all that is in them the different forms 
of its activity. And so long as Brown puts 
out an athletic team every man should try 
his utmost to inspire it to do its best. Vic- 
tories are worth so much simply because 
they usually mean that the side that wins 
them has advanced farther than the other 
in making the most of its possibilities. If 
this spirit of striving for the utmost is 
developed in a student body on and around 
a field of sport, it must enter in some 
decree at least into the more serious and 



more important sides of college life. When 
a man who delights in scholarship and has 
no leaning whatever toward athletics yet 
enthusiastically supports the eleven simply 
because a " B " is on its sweaters, he is 
almost sure to bring back with him to the 
class-room a few sportsmen friends who 
will be glad to acquire some of his 
academic spirit. Moreover, the man who 
as an undergraduate takes the deepest 
interest in college is the man who as a 
graduate wishes to do the most for his 
Alma Mater. 

Mr. Weaver's gift is one which the 
alumni also may think over with great profit. 
He gratefully admits that he owes Brown 
much, and in trying to find out in what he 
could best serve her, he came to the con- 
clusion that it would be in handing over to 
her his farm for ten days, not forgetting, 
however, to stay on it himself and give his 
own personal labors. What shall be the 
lasting results of this few day's visit of 
the Brown football squad to " Erdenheim " 
is entirely within the power of the under- 
graduates and the alumni to determine. 
Frederick William Jones 




Captain Barry 



A GROUI* OF FOOTBALL LEADERS AT " ERDENHEIM " 



Mr. Murphy 



Manager Dodge 



Mr. ( iammons 



Dr. Parker 

Mr. W T eaver 



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Candidates for the Eleven 



EARLY in September thirty-three 
men started for Brooklyn, Con- 
necticut, for preliminary practice 
under the supervision of Head- 
Coach Gammons and Coaches Murphy 
and Richardson. Mr. Charles S. Weaver 
of the class of '82 opened up his fine 
estate " Erdenheim " of one hundred acres 
for the use of the squad until the opening 
of college. 

" Erdenheim " is situated on the top of 
a high hill, three hundred feet above sea- 
level, commanding an open view of sur- 
rounding country for thirty miles. Here 
the men had the best of food, air and ex- 
ercise, and rapidly got into good condition 
for hard training at Andrews Field. Every 
day they went through light work, such as 
falling on the ball and signal practice, and 
sometimes they indulged in light tackling. 
Two long cross-country runs of five miles 
each were taken and every day the team ran 
to and from the field of practice, a distance 
of perhaps one-half mile. That the work 
might not become too monotonous, Mr. 
Weaver had the men pick the fruit from 
about fourteen hundred peach trees. 

On the sixteenth, the squad returned to 
Providence and began systematic training 
with Gammons, Fred Murphy, '99, Rich- 
ardson, '00, Dr. Parker, Hunt, '99, Bliss, 
'96, and Slocum, as coaches. 

There are old men enough on the squad 
to form a strong basis for an excellent 
team. Captain Barry has a fine knowl- 
edge of the game and, his experience 
makes him a captain whom the fellows 
respect and trust. Colter had an excel- 
lent record last year as centre of the 
varsity and he greatly helps the make-up 
of the team. He weighs about 180 
pounds in good trim and is able to take 
care of his position. Johnson, one of last 
year's team, is training again this year, 
weighing 183 pounds. Hall, 193 pounds, 
an excellent guard, is on hand. Webb, 
the star tackle of last year of 187 pounds, 
is already showing great improvement over 
last year and can be relied upon to take 
care of one tackle. Savage, 172 pounds, 
is another man who plays a hard game. 
Schwinn, although weighing only 135 
pounds, has proved himself invaluable at 
end and is improving steadily. Hascall, 



another member of last year's varsity, 
weighing 155, is out again for end. As 
quarter, Scudder, the man who ran the 
team last year, is trying again. He weighs 
about 150 pounds and has had two year's 
experience at his position on the varsity. 
Gallison is another member of the squad 
of last year who is showing up in good 
form. At half-back Greene, 155 pounds, 
is again out this year and is one of the 
most promising men. 

In former years there has been a lack at 
Brown of suitable men to make compe- 
tition sharp and keen. This year it is not 
the case, for the freshman class has 
brought into college men who are going to 
make the positions on the team very hard 
to get, and already the fight is keen. In 
the list of new men are many players of 
great preparatory school reputations. 

Roberts, 245 pounds, of Attleboro High 
School is a man who is making a hard 
fight for the centre of the line. He is a 
man with a brilliant record, and despite 
his weight, is very fast and aggressive. 
Atwell, who weighs about 195 pounds, is 
also trying for the centre of the line. 
SJi^uy^anjin^mmd athlete of 184 pounds, 
comes to Brown with a bright record not 
only in football but also in track athletics 
and baseball, and is doing a great deal 
towards building up the middle of the 
line. Stearns, 188 pounds, and Cobb, 178 
pounds, are two upper-classmen of good 
football ability who are trying hard for 
the team. Another good man is Huff, a 
Mount Hermon football player who weighs 
160 pounds, and is trying for a tackle or 
end position. Another tackle, enthusiastic 
and hard-working, is Philbrick, '03, who 
weighs 160, This year there need be no 
fear regarding the position of end. With 
the two good men of last year's team, 
Schwinn and Hascall, there are four or 
five good men who can make that position 
safe. ^Russ, 178 jxmnds, has had a re- 
markable record in Worcester A^a^e?ny7 
and playlTthe^g^rhlThard and fast all the 
time. Another good man is Morris of 
New Jersey, who weighs 180 pounds. 
Keen, 172 pounds, Rackle, 150 pounds, 
Fleming, 168 pounds, Price, 165 pounds, 
and Cooke, 160 pounds, are men who can 
make the end of the line secure. 



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At quarter also there are men present 
who can run that difficult position credi- 
tably. Crowell of last year's squad is a 
man of much enthusiasm and life and 
keeps the game, going all the time. Pattee, 
140 pounds, a brilliant baseball player as 
well as football man is of the same type. 
Reilly, a freshnian, is another quarter of 
good ability. 

The half-backs are doing well for this 
early date. Coopej^_ij3x-P_ Purids, j s a very _ 
fleet man a nd comes with a very good 
itcordT^Jnga.\h another man of the squad 
last year is putting up a good fight for the 
team. Graham, 160 pounds, is showing 
excellent form and is one of the promising 
candidates. Walsh is another man who is 
doing consistent work. Chase, 148 pounds, 
is trying for the position of half-back. 



There are four good men trying for 
full-back. Hamilton, a sturdy player of 
173 pounds, is a hard worker and Hick- 
man, 182 pounds, is another man of the 
same sort. Huntley, 170 pounds, and 
VVekert, 160 pounds, are both good men 
and are working faithfully. 

Perhaps the best thing about the work 
of the team so far is the spirit of harmony 
that is seen throughout the whole squad. 
The coaches are obeyed implicitly, the 
players are trying their best and there is 
the finest kind of good fellowship among 
all concerned. The prospects are truly 
encouraging and all may expect to see 
good things from the football team of 1902. 

ALxander H. Abbott, '03 



Graduate Athletes at Harvard 



A WRITER in the Boston Globe of 
September 28 directs attention to 
the extensive use of men from 
other colleges on the Harvard 
football team. These men for the most 
part are enrolled in the graduate depart- 
ments at Harvard, so that no undue press- 
ure in persuading them to study at Cam- 
bridge need be charged, but the spectacle 
of an eleven so largely made up of men who 
are not Harvard undergraduates is unsat- 
isfactory to those who believe in the sports- 
manlike regulation of intercollegiate con- 
tests. The writer in the Boston Globe, who 
may be described as a friendly critic, says : 
" With nearly 5,000 men attending all 
Harvard, it does seem that spirit is want- 
ing somewhere — and this thought comes 
when the fact is recalled that beside Bar- 
nard most of the men prominent in the 
middle line to-day have come to Cambridge 
from other universities. 

" Barnard, '02, taking an extra course at 
Cambridge, weighing 190 pounds and 
promising to become a powerful man in 
the line, remains as the only veteran from 
tackle to tackle. King, at centre, 240 
pounds, is a westerner in his second year 
at the law school. Marshall, 215 pounds. 



who, though experienced at Dartmouth, 
needs a tremendous amount of coaching, 
also is in a graduate school. Force, al- 
ready on the training table, and whose 198 
pounds coaches see their way to utilize in 
the line, is still another post-graduate. 

" Then there is Davenport, weighing a 
few pounds under 190, who comes to Har- 
vard from Williams, and must be consid- 
ered in the thorough trying out that is to 
come ; also Lyons, who played tackle in 
Iowa before coming to Cambridge, and 
who weighs about 200. 

" Eliminate these six men from Har- 
vard's squad, and the remainder of the 
guard and tackle candidates and those for 
centre would not make a showing worthy 
of the university, and the application of a 
rule that would bar all men except under- 
graduates and graduates of Harvard only, 
from varsity teams — and such a rule has 
many advocates — would reveal lack of line 
material among the men who have made 
Harvard their alma mater. 

" Harvard assumes grave responsibilities 
in playing men from other colleges on her 
teams, but in every instance Captain Ker- 
nan has secured proof that these men are 
eligible." 



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The Brown Alumni Monthly 



Philippine Problems 



Extract from an address by Carl Copping Plehn, '8g, Ph. D., at Berkeley, California 



THE problem to-day is not, "Shall 
we retain the Philippines ? " That 
was settled once and for all on 
May clay, four years ago. The 
real issue is how to fit the Filipino for 
citizenship. And in this we need to supply 
the world with the true facts in the case. 
It is to be regretted that when the Philip- 
pine Commission was reorganizing the 
public school system, revising the tariff, 
perfecting the civil service system, enact- 
ing a new code and fighting an epidemic 
for the first time successfully, that the only 
news furnished the public was the sen- 
sational accounts of the capture of Agui- 
naldo, really a third or fourth rate event, 
or the exaggerated reports of a small com- 
missary scandal, or the absurd yarns of 
the atrocities of our soldiers. It is remark- 
able that these things should have so in- 
fluenced not only the general public but 
even persons who should have been better 
informed, and that Congress was forced to 
hear these matters aired before its com- 
mittees and the War Department com- 
pelled to make formal denials. 

These matters, that have been filling the 
public ear, have not been the real issues. 
We have had several problems of more 
far-reaching significance to master. We 
had a military struggle, an inheritance of 
disorder from the time of Spanish domina- 
tion. It required a stretch of humanity 
to regard these misguided foes as fair 
opponents and "to give them the benefits of 
of the laws of war. But we have wrought 
patiently, and the end is in sight. Again, 
we have resorted as an extreme measure 
to a plan concerning the effectiveness and 
humanity of which we have gathered harsh 
notions from Cuba. The system of ' recon- 
centration,' gathering defenseless people 
within protected lines, where, for a limited 
time, they may enjoy the hospitality of Uncle 
Sam, while the guerrilla warfare is waged 
against their enemies — this has been suc- 
cessfully conducted with none of the abuses 
that stigmatized it in Spanish hands, And 
commerce, the exports and imports, which, 



in Spain's best year, aggregated only $60- 
000,000, jumped in the first year of Ameri- 
can control to $80,000,000, increased in the 
next year to $109,000,000, and last year 
reached $120,000,000. This year, with 
the promise of an effective tariff, the island 
trade bids fair to reach the splendid figure 
of $250,000,000. 

Another task which we have faced and 
are solving is that Quixotic scheme of edu- 
cating some six and a half millions of 
Orientals. Nearly 2,000 American teachers 
have been introduced, and they have met 
on the part of the Filipino an eagerness 
for knowledge and no mean capacity to 
learn. One great hope in this educational 
plan is to give the whole archipelago one 
language. We are also giving the natives 
fair courts for the first time, a simple pro- 
cedure and an economical litigation hitherto 
unknown to them. We have made a civil 
service system with rules much stricter than 
those in the United States, and confidently 
hope to prevent the future misuse of the 
public offices for tyranny and injustice. 
Last but not least, we are extending elab- 
orate sanitary measures throughout the 
islands. 

We still have weighty problems before 
us. There must come the separation of 
church and state, a matter full of difficul- 
ties. The administration of immense fer- 
tile tracts in the Philippines is involved in 
the settlement of this question. The 
problem of introducing capital safely into 
the islands must be carefully studied, and, 
finally, we must arouse in the Filipino the 
sentiment of patriotism and give him an 
understanding of his duty as a citizen. 
The general spread of Christianity through- 
out the islands gives us a good basis on 
which to work. It is hoped that these 
responsibilities will sober and govern us in 
political right living. 



* Dr. Plehn is associate professor of finance at 
the University of California and has been serving 
as director of the census for the Philippine Islands. 
His views are given as those of an expert fresh from 
the field, not for the purpose of arousing debate. 



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Topics of the Month 



Brown's Oldest General Francis James 
Graduate Dead. Lippitt f Washington, 
D. C, who was graduated 
at Brown in the class of 1830 and was the 
university's oldest living alumnus, passed 
away at his home in Washington, Septem- 
ber 26, 1902, in the ninety-first year of his 
age. General Lippitt was born at Provi- 
dence, July 19, 18 1 2, and had a varied and 
distinguished career. He served as cap- 
tain in the Mexican war, and as colonel 
and brevet brigadier 
general in the civil 
war. He was a dele- 
gate from San Fran- 
cisco to the Galifornia 
constitutional conven- 
tionin 1849 an d was 
influential in pre- 
venting the introduc- 
tion of slavery into 
the state. He was as- 
sistant counsel for 
the United States de- 
partment of justice 
from 1877 to 1882, 
issued several mili- 
tary and legal treat- 
ises, and in recent 
years had been a prac- 
t i c i n g attorney at 
Washington. His sum- 
mer home was at Bris- 
tol Ferry in this state, 
and there he had spent 
some time this year as 
usual. 

General Lippitt was 
a descendant of the Puritan, John Lippitt, 
who in 1636 was a coadjutor of Roger 
Williams in the settlement of Providence. 
Before entering Brown he spent a year with 
his uncle, who was a professor in the Epis- 
copal seminary at Alexandria, Va., and 
during that time attended a president's 
levee at Washington. "All I remember 
about it," General Lippitt wrote in his 
" Reminiscences," published a few months 
ago by the Preston & Rounds Co. of Provi- 
dence, "is that I was introduced to the 




GENERAL LIPPITT 



President — John Quincy Adams — whose 
hand was very large and icy cold." These 
Reminiscences are rich in personal experi- 
ences, especially in those pertaining to dis- 
tinguished men of the nineteenth century. 
General Lippitt travelled much and was a 
keen observer. As he told his audience 
at the alumni dinner in Providence, in June, 
1901, he witnessed the burial of Lafayette, 
and at the time of his death he was the sole 
survivor of those who stood at the great 
Frenchman's grave. 

General Lippitt was 
a distinguished lin- 
guist and his life in 
Paris, between his col- 
lege days and his emi- 
gration to California, 
was full of picturesque 
incident and marked 
by association with a 
number of famous per- 
sonages, among them 
De Tocqueville, 
whom he assisted in 
the preparation of his 
work on " Democracy 
in America." Gen- 
eral Lippitt was a 
good raconteur, a stu- 
dent of notable accom- 
plishments and a loyal 
son of Brown. He 
had been the univer- 
sity's senior alumnus 
since the death of 
John A. Fayerweather, 
Esq., of the class of 
1826, who passed away at Westboro, Mass., 
January 27, 1901, in the ninety-third year 
of his age. According to the latest edition 
of the university address book, the senior 
alumni are now Rev. William Lawton Brown 
of Wrentham, Mass. ; William Henry Pot- 
ter, Esq., of Kingston, R. L, and Rev. 
Thomas Lyman Randolph of Alameda, Cal. 
General Lippitt retained to the end great 
intellectual vigor, as his address at Brown 
in 1 90 1, when he had been out of college 
seventy-one years, abundantly indicated. 



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Figures of Following are the latest 
Registration obtainable figures of regis- 
tration, with the figures of 
a corresponding period a year ago. It 
should be understood that there will be 
some changes before the catalogue comes 
out : 

September, 1902. September, 1901. 

Graduates 64 77 

Seniors 108 1 28 

Juniors 118 10S 

Sophomores 1 56 147 

Freshmen 206 203 

Specials 49 59 

701 722 

Women's College : 

Seniors 29 36 

Juniors 30 . 27 

Sophomores 43 36 

Freshmen 50 47 

Specials 21 ... ; 31 

173 177 

Total in university 874 899 

When the catalogue for 1901-02 appeared, 
the registration had increased to 920. It 
should pass the 900 mark by the time this 
year's catalogue is issued. 

J- 
Corporation The annual meeting of the 
Meeting corporation was held on the 

third of September. Twen- 
ty-eight members were present, nine fellows 
and nineteen trustees. Robert I. Gam- 
mell, A. M., was elected vice chancellor to 
preside over the trustees in the absence of 
the chancellor, Colonel William God- 
dard, LL. D. Rev. Thomas S. Barbour, 
D. D., and Edgar L. Marston, A. B., en- 
tered upon their duties as trustees. Rev. 
Thomas D.Anderson, D. D., was re-elected 
secretary of the corporation, and the office 
of assistant secretary was created, F. T. 
Guild, A. M., the registrar of the university, 
being chosen to fill the position. Owing 
to Dr. Anderson's removal to Albany, 
N. Y., and his consequent inability to at- 
tend the meetings of the advisory and exec- 
utive committee, his resignation from that 
commtttee was accepted. Eugene W. 
Mason, A. B., of Providence, was added to 
the committee. 

The recommendation for a building sub- 
stantially like Hope College, to be erected 
on Lincoln Field, facing on Thayer street, 
south of the southerly line of Manning 
street, was adopted. The cost of the 
building is estimated to be about $78,000. 
The corner of Waterman and Prospect 



streets was approved as the site for the 
Bajnotti clock tower. It was voted that a 
sum not exceeding $50,000 be appropriated 
from the common fund for the erection and 
equipment of a building for the engineer- 
ing departments, to be expended under di- 
rection of a committee to be appointed by 
the advisory and executive committee. 

Hon. William W. Douglas, LL. D., was 
elected to the board of trustees in place of 
Stephen Greene, Ph. B., deceased. 

Meeting of Exec- A meeting of the ex- 
utive Committee ecutive committee of 
the corporation was 
held on the twenty-sixth of September. At 
this meeting it was voted to appropriate 
$1500 for the construction of a running 
track at Andrews Field, providing the re- 
mainder of the necessary fund is raised by 
contribution from friends of the college. 
In the original plans for the layout of the 
new athletic field provision was made for a 
cinder path of the best quality, but the 
available funds of the association became 
exhausted before this part of the pro- 
gramme was reached and the officials were 
obliged to drop the matter for a time. 

The demand for and importance of this 
feature of a fully equipped athletic field 
have long been recognized by the alumni 
who follow athletics at the university, and 
Dr. Faunce has been a staunch supporter 
of the scheme. 

At the same meeting there was a general 
discussion on matters of university interest. 
As the building committee for the new 
engineering building, Arnold B. Chace, Sc. 
D., John R. Freeman and J. C. B. Woods, 
A. M., LL. B., were appointed. For the 
proposed new dormitory, Robert I. Gam- 
mell, A. M., and William V. Kellen, LL. B., 
Ph. D., were selected as the building com- 
mittee. 

J- 
Three New The corporation has elected 
Trustees the following trustees to fill 
three Baptist vacancies : Hon. 
William W. Douglas, '61, of Providence; 
Edgar L. Marston, Esq., of New York, and 
Rev. Thomas S. Barbour, '74, of Brookline, 
Mass. An extended biography of Judge 
Douglas appeared in the July number of 
the Monthly. 

Edgar L. Marston is a graduate of Le- 
grange College, Missouri. After his grad- 
uation from college he studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in St. Louis, where he 



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lived for a number of years. For the last 
twelve years he has been engaged in busi- 
ness in New York city as a member of the 
firm of Blair & Co., bankers, 33 Wall street. 
Thomas Seymour Barbour was graduated 
at Brown in 1874, and received from the 
university the honorary degree of doctor 
of divinity in 1895. Upon his graduation 
at Rochester Theological Seminary in 1877 
he was called to the pastorate of the First 
Baptist Church, Rockport, N. Y. He has 
since been pastor of the North Orange 
Church, Orange, N. J., 1881-1883, of the 
First Church, Fall River, Mass., 1883-1896, 
and of the Baptist Church in Brookline, 
Mass., 1896-1899. In 1899 he was elected 
to his present position of foreign secretary 
of the American Baptist Union. His office 
is in Tremont Temple, Boston, his home in 
Brookline. Two brothers of Dr. Barbour 
have been graduated at the university : 
Rev. Clarence A. Barbour, D. D., of the 
class of 1888, and Rev. John B. Barbour, 
of the class of 189 1. 



J> 



Additional 
Equipments 



The equipments of the de- 
partments of chemistry and 
physics have recently been 
considerably increased. In the depart- 
ment of chemistry about $4,500 has been 
expended in securing apparatus, chemicals 
and minerals. One thousand dollars of 
this sum has been expended for a supply 
of the celebrated Kahlbaum organic chemi- 
cals, and $600 for Merck's inorganic 
chemicals. The additional apparatus is 
for lecture room and laboratory use. A 
plate glass hood has been installed in the 
lecture room and the room itself has been 
furnished with electric lights. Besides a 
new store of glass and porcelain apparatus 
for ordinary use, some special instruments 
have been acquired, a Schmidt and 
Haensch polariscope, an Ostwald thermos- 
tat, Beckmann's apparatus for the determi- 
nation of molecular weights by the freezing 
and the boiling point methods, and appa- 
ratus for physical chemistry. The base- 
ment of the building has been arranged as 
a store room for supplies. 

To the apparatus of the department of 
physics a number of instruments for pre- 
cision measurement in electricity have been 
added. These include a standard resist- 
ance, 1 00000 ohms and 1-10 ohms, Car- 
hart-Clark standard cell, a Thomson in- 



clined coil ammeter and voltmeter, and two 
D'Arsonval galvanometers. The appara- 
tus of the department has also been in- 
creased by the addition of various minor 
pieces constructed in the shop and labora- 
tory during the summer. 

J- 

Harper's Weekly Harper's Weekly in its 
on President's issue of September 20 

Annual Report commends a feature 

of Dr. Faunce's an- 
nual report as follows : 

"The annual report of President Faunce 
of Brown University is notable not only 
for the announcement that Brown Univer- 
sity will follow Harvard in granting the 
degree of A. B. for a three years' course of 
study, but also because of its frank discus- 
sion of the ethics of college athletics and 
the relatively unsatisfactory aspect of that 
particular phase of college life throughout 
the country. President Faunce points out 
that while it is true that on the side of joint 
legislation against 'professionalism' the 
situation was never more satisfactory than 
it is to-day, yet at the same time there is 
no confidence that the rules which have 
been created are developing a higher code 
of conduct or a better standard of amateur 
athletics among the rank and file of college 
men. As with theologians, so with athletes, 
the ethic of creed subscription is not 
clearly defined; and under the clause of 
the pledge which the college student takes 
who enters athletics, namely, that he has 
not received ' indirect compensation,' it is 
possible for almost as many different inter- 
pretations of that phrase as there are 
applicants. President Faunce is quite right 
in pointing out that it is the duty of college 
officials, editors of student publications, 
and sporting judges to create a better sen- 
timent respecting the ends for which men 
compete in college sports. Recreation, 
enjoyment, good-fellowship, manhood, char- 
acter — these, rather than the champion- 
ship, should be the ideal kept in view. 
Back to the individual and to his sense of 
right and wrong President Faunce would 
go rather than on to new restrictive legis- 
lation. He is as wise as those who pre- 
scribe a higher personal code of honor 
rather than more monitorial oversight to 
abolish such incidents respecting cribbing 
for examinations as recently came to the 
surface at Phillips Andover. 



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THE BROWN 

ALUMNI 

MONTHLY 




Published for the graduates of Brown University 

BY THE 

Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

ROBERT P. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R. I. 

Subscription price, $i oo a year. Single copies, Ten Cents. 
Address all communications to the Brown Ai.umni 
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ADVISORY BOARD 

William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Francis Lawton, '6g, New York, N. Y. 
Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence. 
William V. Kellen, '72, Boston, Mass. 
William E. Foster, '73, Providence. 
Winslow Upton, '75, Providence. 
Zechariah Chafee, 'So, Providence. 
Sam Walter Foss, '82, Somerville, Mass. 
Gardner Colby', '87, New York, N. Y. 
William R. Dorman, 'q2, New York, N. Y. 
George A. Gaskill, '98, Boston, Mass. 



HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor 



JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor 



THERON CLARK, '95, Business Manager 

October, 1902 

A LARGE ENTERING CLASS 

When the freshmen are all registered it 
will be found that they number about 210, 
exclusive of more than fifty in the Women's 
College. This means one of the largest 
classes in the history of Brown University, 
though it is not as large as the class that 
.entered four years ago. If the present 
senior class were not so small, containing 
as it does only 10S members, the total 
registration of the university would be 
near the one thousand mark. As it is, 
the number will probably exceed 900. 

Our congratulations are meanwhile due 
to Dartmouth, whose entering class is 
reported to number 230 young men. 
Dartmouth has enjoyed a great numerical 
growth under Dr. Tucker and is becoming 
one of the larger New England colleges. 



Its situation is remote, but for that reason 
it is peculiarly attractive to some people. 
In a place as small and distant as Hanover 
a college dominates the community and so 
assumes a pleasing if exaggerated impor- 
tance. Brown is still ahead of Dartmouth 
in the number of its freshmen, if we count 
in the young women at Pembroke Hall,, 
but otherwise Dartmouth is slightly in the 
lead. 

One feature of Dartmouth's growth is 
particularly interesting — the establish- 
ment of the Amos Tuck school of Admin- 
istration and Finance, for which a large 
endowment has been provided. It seems 
strange that a school of this character 
should be established in a small and not 
easily accessible town in the Connecticut 
river valley, where "administration and 
finance " do not bear so important a rela- 
tion to the life of the community as they 
do in the centres of population. But the 
Tuck School starts with good facilities 
and will draw students from many states, 
because it is one of the pioneer institu- 
tions of its sort. 

At Brown, rather than at colleges like 
Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams, we see 
the beginning of a genuine university. 
We shall draw in the next few years from 
a wider field than they because of our 
more varied curricula. It will be difficult 
for Dartmouth, maintaining itself almost 
exclusively as a college, to enlarge its 
attendance ecpjally with Brown, which will 
naturally offer more and more courses 
along widely separated lines of instruction. 
Especially will this be true in the depart- 
ments of engineering, which will have 
greater inducements to present a little 
while hence, when the new engineering 
building is ready on Lincoln Field. There 
is an unmistakable demand for instruction 
in engineering, especially electrical en- 
gineering, and the institution that meets 
this demand is bound to push ahead of 
the one that confines itself to the classics 
and theoretical mathematics, though these 
too, are vitally necessary in the modern 
university. 



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NEW YORK AND BOSTON ALUMNI 

The time is coming when permanent 
headquarters for the New York and Boston 
alumni of Brown will be imperative. 
Of course we cannot aspire at present 
to clubhouses like those of Harvard 
or Yale, but there seems no good reason 
why the Brown clubs of those two 
cities should not acquire a modest room 
or two, where Brown men could drop in 
occasionally — say once a week if not 
oftener. A beginning toward permanent 
headquarters may be said to have been 
made in Boston, where the sons of Brown 
meet frequently during the winter. We 
should not be surprised to hear, any day, 
of a movement looking to the acquisition 
of clubrooms or a clubhouse in that city, 
and it would be equally gratifying to know 
that a similar movement had been begun 
in New York. 

According to the latest compilation of 
the residences of Brown graduates, 168 
live in New York City and eighteen in 
Brooklyn. There are also eight in Bridge- 
port, sixty-two in New Jersey, and many 
others within a territory easily tributary to 
the metropolis. There are Brown men in 
the Oranges, in Morristown and in the 
cities and towns along the Hudson. 
Surely there is financial strength enough 
in the neighborhood of New York to 
maintain at least a small permanent club. 

The good such an organization could do 
is immeasurable. It would accomplish 
for Brown in New York what the Univer- 
sity Club has done for Brown in Provi- 
dence. It would bring Brown men 
together and heighten their feeling of com- 
munity. 

In Boston the field is promising. There 
were at last accounts 658 Brown men in 
Massachusetts, of whom 138 were in Bos- 
ton, fifty-two in Cambridge, forty-two in 
Fall River, thirty-four in Worcester, six- 
teen in Newton Centre, fourteen in Taun- 
ton, thirteen in Attleboro, twelve in New 
Bedford, eight in Brockton, and seven 
each in Brookline, Hyde Park, Lowell, 



North Attleboro and Salem. Most of 
these cities and towns are within con- 
venient distance of the Hub and it is cer- 
tain that a Brown Club, open every day in 
the year, would become the natural meet- 
ing-place for Brown men of the neighbor- 
hood when in Boston. 

Is not the experiment of unpretentious 
but permanent headquarters in New York 
and Boston worth trying ? 



THE ATHLETIC SITUATION 

It would be foolish to deny that the 
athletic situation in the colleges of Amer- 
ica is at present unsatisfactory. Profes- 
sionalism lurks everywhere, in one guise or 
another, and the existing rules check but 
do not prevent the participation in inter- 
collegiate games of young men who in some 
way and at some time have received compen- 
sation for playing on the baseball or football 
field. The usual autumn crop of charges 
and counter charges is springing up and no 
prominent institution is likely to escape. 
There has been a wild scramble for athletic 
freshmen and some of the stories that are 
told sub rosa here in New England are 
calculated to discourage the lover of pure 
amateur sport. 

To frame a set of rules that will elimi- 
nate professionalism and yet not bear un- 
fairly on the athletic student is the peren- 
nial ideal of those who have the interests 
of college sport at heart. But how is it to 
be done ? Shall the bars be let down to 
he summer nines ? And if this much is 
conceded, will there be any less hypocrisy 
and stretching of the athletic conscience ? 

Dr. Faunce strikes a ringing note when 
he says that the solution of the problem 
lies in the moral elevation of students 
rather than in the multiplication of rules. 
Yet in this every-day world cold-blooded 
law has its place along with ethical culture, 
and we cannot wholly depend on man's 
better impulses, however assiduously 
trained. 

The root of the matter is this : there are 



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many students to whom the temptation to 
professionalism never comes because they 
do not have to earn their living, and there 
are others who are constantly tempted be- 
cause they need the money that their ath- 
letic ability would easily bring. Shall we 
continue to forbid this latter class to add 
to their income by ball playing during the 
summer months ? And if so, why should 
we not forbid the student with a good voice 
to sing on Sundays for money and a price, 
and compel the undergraduate preacher to 
preach his sermons for nothing? 

The Monthly is not arguing the ques- 
tion with a settled mind. On the contrary 
it finds the problem complicated and vexa- 
tious. But the tone of some of its letters 
from alumni is much like that of the para- 
graph just written, and we have no hesita- 
tion in admitting their .force. 



A TENDENCY IN ATHLETICS 

A tendency in intercollegiate athletics 
that many persons regard as more unsatis- 
factory than the so-called summer-nine evil 
is the practice at the larger universities of 
playing men who have graduated at other 
colleges, or, what is considered worse, men 
who have been recruited from these col- 
leges without first obtaining a diploma. 
On page 53 of this issue of the Monthly 
will be found an extract from an article in 
the Boston Globe, the writer of which says 
that there is dissatisfaction even at Har- 
vard over the presence of so many men on 
the football team who are not Harvard 
undergraduates. It is pleasant to know of 
the existence of such a sentiment at Cam- 
bridge, a sentiment, it need hardly be said, 
that has been developing elsewhere for 
some years. 

A dispatch from New Haven under date 
of September 27 tells of the appearance of 
McMahon, ex-captain of the Bucknell 
eleven, at Yale FieM. He cannot play this 
year on account of Yale's one-year resi- 
dence rule, but he will be in trim next fall. 
It may seem ungracious for other colleges 



to call attention to facts of this kind, but 
these other colleges are at a decided disad- 
vantage when they line up against Harvard 
and Yale and find themselves opposed by 
the crack players of Oshkosh University, 
Tuscaloosa College and the University of 
Cripple Creek. 



There are so many demands nowadays 
on our pages that we must ask contributors 
to be as brief as their conception of the 
importance of their contributions will per- 
mit. The Monthly consists of only twenty- 
two pages of reading matter and if the 
pressure of news contiuues to increase as 
it has increased in the last year we shall 
have to present a selection and a survey 
rather than detailed reports. 



As this issue is put to press, a flood of 
personal items pours in upon us and there 
is nothing to do but carry them over until 
the November number. We appreciate the 
cooperation of our readers and regret 
that the limits of space and time compel us 
so close our forms with many items tem- 
porarily omitted from the record of Bru- 
nonians far and near. 



Tennis has had such a revival all over 
the country that it seems a pity not to pay 
more attention to it at Brown. Harvard 
has produced many expert players, among 
them Whitman, Ward, Davis, Wright and 
Clothier, and one reason is that there are 
courts in plenty near the dormitories. 



Irrespective of their politics, Brown men 
will be glad to see a Brunonian congress- 
man-at-large elected from Colorado. Mr. 
Brooks of '8$ is the Republican candidate, 
and if he wins he will be our sole represen- 
tative in the national capitol. 



It may interest even those of our readers 
who are not advertisers to know that each 
issue of the Monthly now goes to 1,800 
paid subscribers, of whom 1,400 are grad- 
uates of Brown. 



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Chronicle of the Campus 



Brown Hand-Book 

A neat hand-book has been issued by 
the Brown Y. M. C. A. and distributed 
among the members of the freshmen class. 
It is bound in brown leather and contains 
an excellent summary of useful facts about 
the university. There is information about 
many college organizations, the Brown pub- 
lications, traditions and customs, etc., and 
some of the best-known Brown songs are 
reprinted. A brief description and history 
of the college buildings and much informa- 
tion about the city of Providence and its 
prominent institutions are presented. 
There is a diary for the college year and 
altogether the volume is a great credit to 
the Y. M. C. A. committee on hand-book, 
by whom it was prepared. 

Fall Baseball 

Fall baseball practice was tried on Lin- 
coln Field late in September. There were 
few new men on hand and it is unlikely 
that there will be much further practice 
this season. 

Among the old men who came out were : 
Gray, Foulder, Woodsum, Welsh, Abbott, 
Penley, Belding, Leland and Powell. The 
freshmen out were : Baker, formerly of the 
Hope Street High School ; Fuller, three 
years a player on the Haverhill, Mass., 
team; Perley, from the Brewster Free 
Academy of Wolfeboro, X. H., where he 
played centrefield four years, acting as cap- 
tain the last two ; and Myers, of the South 
Jersey Institute, Bridgton, N. J., position, 
left field. 



Sept. 27. 



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8. 


Nov. 


12, 


Nov. 


LS 


Nov. 


22. 



Football Schedule for 1902 

Co'by at Providence.* 
Vermont at Providence. 
Wesleyan at Providence. 
Yale at Providence. 
IT. of P. at Philadelphia. 
Bates at Providence. 
Harvard at Cambridge. 
Lafayette at Easton. 
Tufts at Providence. 
Columbia at New York. 
Holy Cross at Worcester. 
Boston College at Providence. 
Dartmouth. 



* Cancelled by Colby. 



Chapel Choir Chosen 

Professor Ashton has announced the 
appointment of the following men to mem- 
bership in the chapel choir : Schloss, 
Gleason, Cross, Mattuck, Appleton, Sher- 
wood, Mowry, Lundell, Hascall, Joyce, 
Cooke, Eddy, H. W. White, Abbott, Hark- 
ness, Lent. 

Pembroke Seniors Elect Officers 

The Pembroke seniors have elected Miss 
Hester J. Mercer, president ; Miss Ruby 
M. Atwood, vice president ; Miss Edna G. 
Calef, secretary ; Miss Helen S. Sheldon, 
treasurer, and Miss Bessie A. Loud chair- 
man of the social committee. 

Colby Game Cancelled 
Brown was to have played Colby at foot- 
ball, September 27, but the Colby manager 
cancelled the game because of his eleven's 
poor condition. The Maine team began 
training late and could not round into form 
by the date set for the game in Providence. 

Provisional Glee Club 
The following provisional glee club was 
formed after the preliminary trials, Sep- 
tember 23 : First tenors — Cross '05, 
Sackett '04, Mattuck '04, Cook '04, and 
Hutton '06 ; second tenors — Lawton '03, 
Rice '03, Moffat '02, Lytle '05, Joyce '06 ; 
first basses — Milliken '04, Kettner '05, 
Leete '05, Kingman '05, Clark '04, King 
'06, Gilman '06, Allen '03, White '03 ; 
second basses — Thompson '05, Sherwood 
'03, Lundell '06, Appleton '03, Lowell '04, 
Mowry '03, and Meade '06. P. S. Gilman 
'06, was appointed pianist. 

A Track for Andrews Field 
At the meeting of the board of directors 
of the athletic association, September 19, 
the following plans for a track on Andrews 
Field were prepared to be submitted to the 
corporation : The track to be a quarter- 
mile with a two-twenty yards straightaway, 
and the finish near the baseball bleachers. 
The cost will be about $3,000. As the cor- 
poration has approved these plans, the con- 
struction will be placed in the hands of a 
committee of three, two alumni and one 
undergraduate. Manager Dillon expects 
an unusually fast relay team this year. He 
has in view relay races with Wesleyan, 
Columbia and Dartmouth. There will be 
a fall meet early this month. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



1 84 1 

Hon. John M. Thayer of Lincoln, Neb., received 
the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the 
University of Nebraska at its commencement in 
June. Mr. Thayer has represented Nebraska in 
the United States Senate, and from 18S6 to 1890 
he was governor of the state. 

1S46 
Colonel William Goddard of Providence, chan- 
cellor of the university, has returned from Poland 
Spring, Me., much improved in health. 

Dean Francis Wayland of the Yale Law School 
has not yet recovered his strength enough to allow 
him to take charge of the institution. Dean Way- 
land is reported as slowly recovering although his 
advanced age makes any improvement slow. He 
is able to be wheeled about his residence on Whit- 
ney avenue in New Haven. The recent operation 
which was performed by Dr. Roswell Park of 
Buffalo seems to have been a genuine success. 
1851 
Hon. John S. Brayton, LL. D., of Fall River, 
Mass., was one of the speakers at the sixteenth 
annual ''neighborhood bake" at Point Pleasant, 
South Swansea, Mass., September 20. 
1858 
At a reunion of the Stone family last month. 
Colonel William L. Stone of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., 
was elected first vice president. 
1861 
Hon. Charles Matteson, formerly chief justice of 
Rhode Island, who has been travelling in Europe 
for the past two years, with Mrs. Matteson, expects 
to return early in October. 
1870 
Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the 
University of Nebraska, delivered the convocation 
address at the convocation of the University of 
Chicago, August 29. 

Rev. Charles A. Maryott has resigned the pasto- 
rate of the Baptist church in Wickford, R. I., and 
has taken up his residence in Chicago, where his 
son, Harold B. Maryott, 1900, is engaged in musi- 
cal work. 

Joseph B. Bishop contributes to the September 
Century some " Personal Recollections of E. L. 
Godkin." 

1872 
Hon. J. C. B. Woods was severely injured in an 
automobile accident near Providence, August 13. 
An electric car of the Fall River line crashed into 
Mr. Woods's machine, which was practically de- 
stroyed. Mr. Woods and his chauffeur were 
hurled into the air but fortunately escaped fatal 
injury. 

Rev. Albert Arnold Bennett, formerly of Yoko- 
hama, Japan, has accepted the appointment to the 
instructorship in practical missions in the Theologi- 
cal Seminary of Colgate University. 

J873 
Rev. Stephen Goodwin Hastings, recently of 
Montville, Conn., has entered upon his new duties 



as pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church at Hart- 
ford, Conn. He has been pastor of Baptist 
churches at Belchertown, Mass. ; Jewett City, 
Conn. ; Antrim, N. H., and Montville, Conn. In 
college he was a member of Delta Upsilon. 

1S74 
Rev. Thomas D. Anderson, D. D., is on the list 
of college preachers at Dartmouth College for the 
academic year 1902-03. 

1S75 
Dr. George ¥. Keene of Providence was on 
July 31 le-elected president of the Rhode Island 
Medico-Legal Society. Judge William H. Sweet- 
land, '78, read a paper on "Adjective Law, or the 
Law of Procedure and of Medical Testimony," 
before the society on the same date. 

1877 
William Grant Van Home of the class of 1S77 
having been appointed by President Roosevelt to 
the International Court of High Commission at 
Cairo, Egypt, has left this country to assume the 
important duties of the position. His address is 
Hotel du Palais, Paris, France, until October 15, 
1902; after that date Shepard's Hotel, Cairo, 
Egypt. 

187S 
William Gammell of Providence is president of 
the Rhode Island Golf Association, an organization 
formed last summer. 

1883 
Elisha Dyer, Jr., has bought the new French 
renaissance residence at 37 West Fifty-sixth street, 
New York City. This is regarded as one of the 
handsomest new dwellings erected in the Fifth 
avenue section. It contains a fine ballroom, a 
dining room trimmed with Caucasian walnut and 
a Louis XVI apartment. 

1S84 and [S94 honorary 
Edward W. Shedd, '84, and J. Herbert Shedd, 
'94 h, of Providence, have been elected directors of 
the North Carolina Central Railroad. 

1SS5 
The New York Tribune printed the following 
story during the session of the Republican State 
Convention at Saratoga: " Sheriff Dike of Brook- 
lyn and Assemblyman John Hill Morgan are in- 
separable. While sitting on the porch of the 
United States Hotel, Morgan suggested to Sheriff 
Dike that they invite two young women, friends of 
both, to take a drive down to the lake. Dike drew 
the assignment to convey the invitation. Sheriff 
Dike went in search of the two young women, and 
found them chatting with Senator Piatt. There 
was an air of good fellowship in the atmosphere, 
and Sheriff Dike asked the young women to go for 
a drive, and included Senator Piatt in the invita- 
tion. The Senator and the young women promptly 
accepted. Dike came back and told Morgan. 
'But,' said Morgan, 'the rig will carry only four.' 
This was a 'facer,' but Dike is a man of resource. 
' You stay at home, Morgan,' he said decisively, 



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and Morgan, who planned the whole thing, and 
whose idea it was, saw Senator Piatt, Sheriff Dike 
and the two young women drive off gayly. This 
same drive caused quite a' commotion in the political 
atmosphere. Dike came here as an avowed candi- 
date for lieutenant governor. No sooner was he 
seen driving with Senator Piatt than the news 
travelled quickly that it was all settled that Shel- 
don and Woodruff were down and out and that 
Dike was to be nominated. When Dike got back 
he was amazed to receive congratulations on all 
sides. It took several hours to accept the idea as 
a fact." 

Mr. Dike was not nominated for lieutenant gov- 
ernor, but it is understood that he might have re- 
ceived the nomination for secretary of state if he 
had been willing to accept it. 

1887 

Professor Dana C. Munro is the author of the 
articles on early English and mediaeval history in 
the New International Encyclopedia issued by 
Dodd, Mead & Company. 

1 888 

Eli Whitney Blake, son of the late Professor Eli 
Whitney Blake of Brown University, died of pneu- 
monia at New York City, August 30, 1902. in the 
thirty-sixth year of his age. 

Mr. Blake was one of the most brilliant and ver- 
satile men of his time at Brown. He had a keen 
wit, a capacity for impromptu public address, and 
a talent for artistic and literary expression. His 
textbooks became illustrated volumes as the term 
progressed and his artistic temperament showed 
itself in rapidly executed sketches that are still 
cherished by his friends and intimate companions. 
He was an editor of the Brunonian and represented 
Alpha Delta Phi on the Liber. He was elected to 
Phi Beta Kappa and was known throughout his 
course as a good student. 

After graduation at Brown Mr. Blake was grad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School. He spent a year 
at Hampton Institute, Virginia, as assistant and 
acting secretary, and was afterward secretary of the 
Associated Charities in Providence. From here he 
went to Syracuse, N. Y., where he was connected 
with the Solvay Process Co., and from Syracuse to 
New York, where, until the time of his death, he 
was with Grinnell, Minturn & Co., foreign bankers 
and commission merchants. 

The funeral occurred at Peacedale, R. I., where 
the interment took place. 

The sudden and untimely death of Eli Whitney 
Blake, (III), was a shock and grief to his many 
friends. As both parents were also dead, and he 
had been living in New York, the sad news reached 
but few in time to attend his funeral at Peace Dale, 
R. I., and but scant notice of the decease was given 
in the papers. I feel like contributing a few 
thoughts to his memory based on my acquaintance 
with him in college. 

He was easily a conspicuous man among his fel- 
lows, — tall and slender, even to gaunt ness, — and 
would at once be characterized as a diligent and 
an untiring student. I first saw- him at "prelim- 
inary " entrance examinations in 1SS3. On one day, 
in particular, I can remember him, as if it were yes- 
terday, when taking the Latin examination in the 
■chemical laboratory lecture room ; Professor Davis 
was presiding with mathematical dignity. On oc- 
casions of such trial, unforgotten glances of hope, 
fear and even agony pass readily among strangers. 



He was the first one I recognized at final examina 
tions, a year later, and we were duly enrolled in the 
class of iSSS. 

With the few students and limited electives of 
that period, we were usually in the same recitations ; 
later in the course, when studying physics under 
his father, I met him under more social conditions. 

He was a natural artist, and of clever wit, and 
did not hesitate to introduce this ability to cheer 
our way. Algebra was taken under Professor 
Clarke. Blake's text -book was soon adorned with 
marginal illustrations of mathematical conceptions 
that would unlock the most austere face. This 
" edition de luxe " is preserved in the Wilson Hall 
library. Were the publishers to accept and extend 
such helpful illuminations, I am sure freshman 
mathematics would be more popular. During 
junior year another classmate, C. D. Cooke, 
brought around a snapshot camera, and succeeded 
in getting many clandestine pictures on campus, in 
recitation room and even in chapel. Lantern slides 
were soon evolved, and with their help Blake gave 
a well attended lecture in Sayles Hall, depicting 
with an often too true faithfulness familiar college 
scenes and types. 

We were together on the Liber board, he repre- 
senting the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. A large 
number of the illustrations in the 18SS edition were 
from his pen, and the one literary gem was his 
" Fragments from the Unpublished MMS. of Dan 
Chaucer." Under the guise of the Canterbury 
pilgrims, Blake described the faculty emerging from 
regular Tuesday meeting; in true wit that was free 
from sting, the idiosyncrasies of the leading pro- 
fessors were portrayed in a language that Chaucer 
might well have thought his own. Again, we were 
speakers at the class tree, he rightly having the 
address to undergraduates. In his remarks he de- 
parted from a custom that had frequently been 
followed of using this opportunity to ridicule the 
faculty, and faithfully adhered to his opening 
promise that he " would not abuse the faculty, — 
they had already suffered enough at his hands." 
He needed not to make such an apology for his 
Liber poem was largely complimentary. He was 
one of the leaders in scholarship, uniformly cour- 
teous in demeanor, of genuine Christian character, 
and of him it could be said as truthfully as of any 
one, that he was " a man in whom there is no 
guile." 

Art km- K. Watson, '&? 

Charles D. Cooke is quite prominent in auto- 
mobiling circles in New York. At the speed meet- 
ing of the Long Island Automobile Club held at 
Brighton Beach, September 23, Mr. Cooke won 
first place in the five mile race, and second place in 
the pursuit race. 

Francis H. Brownell of Everett, Washington, 
was prominently mentioned as a Republican candi- 
date for Congress from that state last month. 

1889 

Rev. Frank A. Smith has accepted the call to 
the pastorate of the Haddonfield, N. J. Baptist 
Church, and will assume his pastoral duties on 
November 1. Mr. Smith, who has been the pastor 
of the First Baptist Church at Somerville, N. J., 
announced his resignation to his congregation on 
Sunday, September 21, to take effect the last of 
October. 

1890 

Walter Harris Young has been elected principal 
of the high school at Southington, Conn. 



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1891 

Professor Albert B. Johnson spent the summer 
abroad. The greater portion of his vacation was 
passed in France, the lesser portion in Spain. 
This is the sixth successive summer Professor John- 
son has spent in these two countries. 

The article in the Popular Science Monthly by 
Prof. Edwin Grant Dexter on statistics of success 
as compiled from " Who's Who in America," is 
interesting and significant too, for the comparative 
greater success of college educated men. Says 
Prof. Dexter : 

"A mention of 8,602 names in the volume means, 
if we assume that every inhabitant of the United 
States above the age of 21 was eligible to such 
mention, that 1 in each 600 was so honored. This, 
then, would be our ratio of success for all degrees 
of education — good, bad, and indifferent. We 
find, however, that of the whole number mentioned, 
3,237 had received the bachelor's degree in arts, 
literature, science or philosophy at some college or 
university. A study of the alumni lists of such 
institutions shows us that after the commencement 
season of 1899 there were 334,000 living graduates. 
A comparison of the number mentioned in the 
book (3,237) with this whole number alive shows 
us that one college graduate in each 106 found a 
place. But to carry our process of comparison one 
step further; taking 1-600 .as the ratio of success 
for adult Americans, and 1-106 as that for the col- 
lege graduate, we find that the probability of suc- 
cess is increased more than 5-6 times by a college 
education." 

The reason that the college man thus shows up 
to greater advantage than the man who is not a 
college graduate is largely because of the standard 
by which those are selected who receive mention 
in " Who's Who." Business success being a com- 
monplace, the man who has precedence over his 
fellows is he who has achieved a success of the 
mind or character to distinguish him rather than 
the mere ownership of so much money, or the 
mere management of so large an enterprise. It is 
evident tnat, by a different standard, very different 
selections would be made in which, probably, the 
college graduate would be as relatively incon- 
spicuous as he is conspicuous in " Who's Who." 
But is not the standard of "Who's Who" the 
true standard ? — Waterbury Amrican. 
1892 
A dinner was given in honor of Colonel Frank W. 
Matteson of the First Regiment, Rhode Island 
Militia, at the Wellington, Providence, Thursday 
evening, September 18. Colonel Matteson has 
recently returned from abroad. 

Rev. A. P. Reccord, pastor of the Austin Street 
Unitarian Church, Cambridge, Mass., has accepted 
a call to the Channing Memorial Church, Newport, 
R. I. Mr. Reccord has been at Cambridge six 
years and is characterized as "one of the best 
preachers in the university city." He begins his 
work at Newport this month. 

1S93 

Stephen A. Hopkins is with the King-Crowther 
Corporation of Boston and New York. Address, 
The Wadsworth, Boston. 

Arnold B. Chace, Jr., who has been living at 
Saranac Lake, N. Y., for the past two years, vis- 
ited his parents in Providence during May and 
June. He is much improved in health. 

Benjamin F. Thurston, ex-'93, has returned to 
Niagara Falls from the Adirondacks, where he has 
been living for the past year. 



1894 
William Douglas, formerly of Indianapolis, has 
lately removed to New York, where he is teach- 
ing. He visited Providence recently. 

1S94 advanced 
Rev. T. E. Busfield, pastor of the Park Baptist 
Church, Utica, N. Y., received the honorary degree 
of doctor of divinity from Tufts College at its last 
commencement. Mr. Busfield was graduated from 
Tufts in 1880, and from Rochester Theological 
Seminary in 1883. He was pastor of the Grand 
Avenue Baptist Church, New Haven, Conn., 
1883-85, and of the First Church, Bangor, Me., 
1885-1892. The present year is his tenth in the 
pastorate at Utica. Mr. Busfield was registered as 
a graduate student in absenliain Brown University, 
1892-1S94, and received the degree of master of 
arts at commencement, 1894. 

iS95 
Herve W. Georgi's present address is James- 
town, N. Y. 

Wayland L. Beers has recently taken up his 
residence in St. John, N. B., Canada. 

Henry Mahoney, Esq., has removed from New 
York city to Cambridge, Mass., and has an office at 
649 Massachusetts avenue in the latter city. 

1895 and 1902 

Miss Maude E. Clarke, '02, is acting as assistant 
cataloguer at the university library in place of Miss 
Beatrice J. Barker, who has received one year's leave 
of absence. 

1S96 

Arthur D. Call has begun work as superinten- 
dent of schools at Ansonia, Conn. 

Dr. George A. Matteson sailed for Europe, July 1. 
He expects to study at Vienna and elsewhere dur- 
ing the next year, returning to Providence in Sep- 
tember, 1903. 

1S97 

Charles E. Clift is manager of Woolworth's store 
at Waterbury, Conn. 

Everett Colby has recently been elected captain 
of the Squadron "A" polo team at New York. He 
has also been nominated for the legislature by the 
Republicans of Essex County, N. J. 

The Elnihurst Baptist Church of Elmhurst, Long 
Island, of which Rev. William J. Noble is pastor, 
is erecting a new church edifice, costing $16,000. 
Mr. Noble has been pastor of the church since last 
December. 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with Mrs. Rockefeller, 
returned last month from a European trip. A few 
days after their return the Rockefeller home at 
Tarrytown, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire. 
Mr. Rockefeller organized the servants with great 
promptness into a bucket brigade and every effort 
was made to save the house, but in vain. While 
in Scotland Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller visited Mr. 
Carnegie at Skibo Castle. 

Rev. Joseph C. Robbins was ordained to the 
Baptist ministry at Concord, N. H., September 11, 
He is to begin his labors in the Philippine Islands, 
and sailed with Mrs. Robbins, September 27, from 
San Francisco. He will be stationed at Bakold, 
the chief town of Negros, for missionary work. 
Mr. Roberts served in the Spanish-American War 
with Company E of Concord, N. H., and was at 
Chickamauga with his regiment. He graduated 
from Newton Theological Institution in the class 
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1898 

John l'ettibone is principal of the public schools 
in New Milford, Conn. 

Arthur P. Briggs has become the principal of the 
Eliot School, Natick, Mass. 

L. A. Crocker has graduated from the Harvard 
Medical School and is practising in this city. 

A study of Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra by 
William A. Slade has just been issued by T. Y. 
Crowell & Co. of New York. 

Invitations have been issued to the marriage of 
Lewis Tew Place, Brown, '98, and Miss Florence 
Carpenter Crane, which is to take place in Foxboro, 
Mass., October second. 

Charles Carroll, '98, of Providence, and Miss 
Gertrude Vincent Gariepy of Pawtucket are to be 
married Thursday morning, October 2, at the 
Church of the Sacred Heart in Pawtucket. Mr. 
Carroll is a practising attorney in Providence. 

Rev. Stacy Reuben Warburton, '9S, and Miss 
Edith Augusta Thompson, '98, were married on the 
evening of September twenty-third in the Calvary 
Baptist Church, Providence. On the twenty-second 
instant, Mr. and Mrs. Warburton will sail from San 
Francisco for China, where thty will engage in 
missionary work. They will be at the station at 
Kayin in the province of Kwang Tung, South 
China. 

1898 and 1899 

The report of the death of John E. Wells, '98, 
and Louis A. Thomas, '99, at the hands of natives 
in the Philippines, reference to which was made in 
the July Monthly, was unhappily confirmed. 
Recently President Faunce has received from T. H. 
Kenworthy, '01, who is now at Manila, a letter in 
which he speaks of the tragedy that overtook his 
fellow teachers. Mr. Kenworthy says : " Every 
American in the Philippines regrets deeply that any 
such tragedy should have occurred, but we of 
Brown especially regret it for we knew and recog- 
nized their worth. No two better men have come 
to these islands to help carry out the United States's 
generous policy in educating these people than were 
Wells and Thomas. I think that I am the only 
Brown man who met them while they were in 
Manila, and at that time they were eager to be 
assigned and to begin their work, even though they 
did not find conditions as rosy as they had been led 
to believe. They were true Brown men. 

"Although I am not the secretary of the Brown 
Club here, but rather the treasurer, yet I happen to 
be the only member near Manila, and I take it upon 
myself to extend the sympathy of every Brown man 
in the islands to the families of these men and to 
the university as a whole in the loss which they 
have sustained. * * * We all seem to be 
standing the work and the climate first rate, but I 
believe the majority of us will be ready to go home 
in another year. We have not seen each other 
since we parted a year ago, so you can imagine how 
isolated we are." 

1899 

Guilford C. Hathaway is engaged in the practice 
of law at Fall River, Mass. 

Charles Thompson Dewey, Brown, '98, and Miss 
Marie McKinley of Rochester, N. V., were married 
at the home of the bride's sister in New York city, 
September 16, 1902. 

John A. Clough has begun the practice of law in 
the State Mutual building in Worcester. Mr. 
Clough received the bachelor's degree in law from 
Harvard University at its last commencement. 



Rev. William Ashton Thompson, from 1895 to 
1898 a special student in the university, has been 
chosen to succeed Rev. William Sheafe Chase, 
Brown, 'Si, as rector of St. James' Church, Woon- 
socket. R. I. Mr. Thompson studied at the Provi- 
dence High School before entering college. He 
entered the Episcopal Theological School at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., and was graduated in 1901. He was 
ordained to the diaconate in the Church of the 
Redeemer, Providence, on June 14, 1900, and was 
ordained to the priesthood in Grace Church, Provi- 
dence, June 20, 1901, by Bishop McYickar. At 
the present time he is assistant in St. Paul's 
Church, Cleveland, Ohio. 

1S99 advanced 
Howard U. Day of Providence is secretary and 
treasurer of the Rhode Island Golf Association. 

1900 

Miss Minnie C. Mahy has removed from Leices- 
ter, Mass., to Passaic, N. J. 

Miss Ethel G. Westcott is teaching in Waltham, 
Mass. 

Miss Edythe G. Peck's address is 67 Central 
avenue. Westville Station, New Haven, Conn. 

Clarence B. Lester is instructor in French and 
mathematics in Monson Academy, Monson, Mass. 

W alter B. Detmers has changed his address to 
41 Oxford avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. 

James Warren is with the Jessop Steel Co. at 
Washington, Penn. He has been for some time 
with William Jessop & Son, Sheffield, Eng. 

Rolla E. Hunt, 1900, and Miss Nellie Tillinghast 
of Oaklawn, R. I., were married at that place, 
August 6, 1902. M. J. Twomey, 1900, who is also 
a classmate of the bridegroom at Newton Theo- 
logical Institution, was the best man, and among 
the ushers was J. B. Gilman, Brown, 1900, who is 
also at Newton. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt's present 
address is 175 Cypress street, Newton, Ma>^. 

1901 

H. T. Waller enters Baltimore Medical College 
this fall. 

David C. Hall is teaching at the University of 
Oklahoma. 

B. Albert Warren is a student at the Hartford 
Theological Seminary. 

Miss Lilla R. Birge is teacher of English at the 
Southington, Conn., high school. 

G. H. Gilbert is with Westinghouse, Church, 
Kerr & Co. at Wilkesbarre, Penn. 

A second Brown calendar is to be published this 
winter by H. A. Coffin, who is now with Ginn & Co., 
New York city. 

Thacher H. Guild received the master's degree 
from the University of Chicago at its autumn con- 
vocation. Mr. Guild will bean assistant in English 
at Brown this year. 

P. B. Greene has recently become associated 
with the Remington Typewriter Company and is 
now connected with the Providence office of that 
company. He comes to Providence from Phila- 
delphia, where he has been engaged in journalism. 
Harvey N. Davis has received the Whitney fel- 
lowship in physics at Harvard University for the 
present academic year. Mr. Davis was a graduate 
student at Brown last year and received the mas- 
ter's degree in June. He has just returned from 
Europe. 



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i 90 i honorary 

Dr. Timothy Richard, or as the Chinese call him, 
Li Timotai, has been summoned by imperial decree 
to the consultations of the great Counsellors of 
State to consider the problems relating to the 
peaceful prosecution of missionary work in China. 
He is to be a representative of Protestant churches 
in China in the consideration and establishment of 
a code of laws or system of rules governing the 
acts of Protestants in China and the harmonious 
relationship of Protestant Christians and the non- 
Christian Chinese. Dr. Richard is head of the 
Diffusion Society of Shanghai, and president of the 
University of Shan-Se, and was recently called to 
organize the University of Tai-Yuan-Fu. He 
became known to the emperor through the 
reformer, Kang Yu Wei, and his present position 
of favor with the empress dowager is taken as an 
indication that she has changed her attitude toward 
the reform ideas. Brown bestowed the honorary 
degree of doctor of letters upon him in June, 1901. 

1902 
L. S. Milner is in the woollen commission busi- 
ness in New York. 

C. A. Phillips is in the cotton business at Natick, 
R. I. 

C. A. R. Ray has entered the woollen business 
at Franklin, Mass. 

C. R. Greene is studying medicine in New York. 
Allen Greene will study for the ministry at the 

Cambridge Theological School. 

W. H. Woods will enter the Rush Medical 
School, Chicago. 

Elton M. A dye is teaching at Peddie Institute, 
Hightstown, N. J. 

Charles A. Powers is in the office of the Boston 
News Bureau, 17 Exchange place, Boston. 

II. W. Stiness, ex-1902, has matriculated at the 
University of Chicago, and intends to study law. 

H. H. King is in the real estate and insurance 
business at Uniontown, Perm. 

Miss Grace D. Gallup is teaching in Laconia, 
N. H., where she has charge of a grammar school. 

W. C. Blanding, H. D. Briggs and H. K. Met- 
calf are in the claim department of the Rhode 
Island Company. 

The engagement of Miss Hope Shepley of Provi- 
dence to William Cornell Blanding, '02, of this city 
is announced. 

A. S. Gaylord and A. L. Saunders will enter the 
Harvard Law School and H. G. Calder and C. H. 
Hunt the Harvard Medical School this fall. 

F. H. Gabbi is with the Industrial Trust Co., 
Providence. 

W. S. Seamans has a clerkship in the N. Y., N. 
H. & H. R. R. freight office. 

D. M. L. McPhail and F. W. Wheeler have 
entered Newton Theological Institution. 

James B. Littlefield and F. W. Tillinghast are to 
enter the Harvard Law School this month, and 
Harry M. Paine will enter the Yale Law School. 

L. W. Nickerson is studying chemistry at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

W. L. Taudy is engaged in civil engineering on 
the western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 



William R. Bullock is with the Carter Manufac- 
turing Co., Boston. 

Ralph C. Thompson has returned to college for 
graduate work in biology. 

E. K. Aldrich, Jr., is studying law with E. D. 
Bassett, Esq., '73, in this city. 

F. E. Fash is principal of a grammar school at 
Fall River, Mass. 

Roy E. Clark has accepted the assistant secre- 
taryship of the Y. M. C. A. at Bridgeport, Conn., 
after declining the more lucrative offer of the 
secretaryship at Cambridge. Mr. Clark intends to 
make Y. M. C. A. administration his life work and 
wishes to serve an apprenticeship under an ex- 
perienced man before taking full charge of an 
association. Mr. Clark piayed on the New York 
league baseball team during a part of the season 
and later was with the Woonsocket Gymnasium 
nine. 

Philip Caswell, '02, of Middletown, R. I., and 
Miss Mary Florence Slocum of Newport were 
married in St. George's Church at Newport, 
September 11, 1902. The best man was Robert 
Nathan Gee, '02, and among the ushers were Alfred 
Griswold Chaffee, '02, Russell William Richmond, 
'02, Arthur Earle Munro, '02, and Henry Frederic 
Ahrens, '04. Many of Mr. Caswell's fellow mem- 
bers of Kappa Chapter of Beta Theta Pi were 
present at the ceremony, succeeding which there 
was a reception at Sunny Villa, Middletown, Mr. 
and Mrs. Caswell's future home. 

M. E. Ailing who was graduated at Brown last 
June and is now at the Yale Divinity School, has 
been appointed superintendent of Yale Hall, a 
mission institution in New Haven conducted by 
the College Y. M. C. A. From the Yale blue book,, 
a publication similar to the Brown Y. M. C. A. 
handbook, the following description of the work 
is taken : 

" In the Spring of 1S98 the growth of the work 
necessitated a new building. A general appeal was 
made to graduates and undergraduates, and in 
less than three months sufficient money had been 
raised to begin. The building, which, together 
with the land, cost over #8,000, was finished in 
December of that year, and formally dedicated in 
January, 1899. Nearly 500 graduates and under- 
graduates, representing fifty-one different college 
classes, contributed toward the undertaking. Yale 
Hall, as the structure is called, is situated on 
Franklin street, near Grand avenue, and contains 
an auditorium seating 150, a reading room and 
library, boys' club apartments and baths. Gospel 
meetings are held regularly on Sunday evenings. 
A men's neighborhood club for the discussion of 
social problems, a lecture course, a boys' club, 
a Sunday School, a Bible class, and a class in 
civil government are among the branches of work. 
The Boys' Club is conducted by the Sheffield 
department of the association." 

1903 

M. T. Barker and E. B. Beam have spent several 
months in European travel. 

J. D. Drew, a former member of 1903, who has 
been abroad for several months, intends to enter 
business in New York this month. 

Roscoe Carter, ex-'o3, is a special student at 
Harvard. 



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