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Vol. Ill Providence, R. I., November, 1902 

Barnas Sears 

Born November 19, 1S02. President of Brown University 1S55-67 
By Professor Albert Harkness 



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ON the roll of the alumni of Brown 
University the name of Barnas 
Sears will ever hold an honorable 
place. Few names awaken in 
the minds of our older graduates more 
pleasing memories ; few are cherished with 
a warmer affection. For twelve years he 
occupied with honor the presidential chair 
of our university, and by his great learning 
and his wise administration added new lus- 
ter to its fair fame. The current year is 
the one hundredth anniversary of his birth 
and may well be remembered by the friends 
of the institution which he served so well. 
He was an accomplished scholar, an in- 
spiring teacher, an able administrator and 
a true man. 

Barnas Sears, the son of Paul and 
Rachel Granger Sears, was born at Sandis- 
field, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on 
the nineteenth of November, 1802. Between 
the ages of five and fifteen he appears to 
have had such opportunities for instruction 
as a country district school at that early 
age could afford. He is said to have been 
" thoughtful and exemplary, but fond of fun 
and full of jokes." 

At the age of fifteen, having obtained 
from his father the greatest coveted gift of 
his time, he resolved to work his way 
through college, and for the next three or 
four years he labored diligently with his 
hands during the summer and taught school 
during the winter. His preparation for 
college, begun under the instruction of the 
Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, was finished ■kl 
the University Grammar School in this city. 

In regard to his student life in Brown 
University we have unfortunately little 
definite information, but from his own tes- 




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timony it appears that he was more intent 
upon laying the foundation for a broad and 
liberal scholarship than upon securing high 
rank in his class, yet his rank at gradua- 
tion in 1825 entitled him to the coveted 
honor of an oration. His theme was " The 
Influence of Association upon the Intel- 
lectual Character." 

During his college course he seems to 
have been as desirous of guarding his re- 
ligious life, as of cultivating his intellect. 
He not only took an active part in the re- 
ligious meetings of his class and of the 
university, but he often exercised his gifts 
as a preacher and always without notes. 

But we should do great injustice to the 
student life of young Sears if we did not 
take notice of the fact that from the first 
he was a great and thoughtful reader. 
Who shall estimate the priceless value of 
the treasures of fact and of learning which 
he gathered from the realms of literature, 
history and philosophy during those four 
years of study and instruction in the classic 
halls of Brown University? 

After graduation he spent three interest- 
ing and profitable years at Newton Theo- 
logical Institution in preparing for the 
Christian ministry, to which he was then 
looking forward as his life's work. Hav- 
ing in the mean time accepted a call to the 
pastorate of the First Baptist Church of 
Hartford, Conn., he entered at once upon 
its duties and soon won the hearts of his 
people, but before the close of the second 
year of his ministry a serious bronchial 
trouble compelled him to resign his charge. 
He accordingly accepted a call to the pro- 
fessorship of ancient languages in Ham- 
ilton Literary and Theological Institution, 
now Colgate University. " His brief career 
at Hamilton, as a teacher of ancient lan- 
guages," in the words of Dr. Hovey, " was 
nothing less than brilliant. He became 
the rising star of the faculty and the pride of 
the students," but he was soon transferred 
to the chair of biblical theology and at once 
asked leave of absence to visit the great 
universities of Germany as a special pre- 
paration for his new and important duties. 
During his residence at Hamilton he was 
married to Miss Elizabeth Griggs Corey of 
Brookline, Mass., who became a devoted 
wife and an efficient helper to her husband 
through all the years of his busy life. 

During the next two years we find Pro- 
fessor Sears once more an earnest and en- 
thusiastic student, sitting at the feet of 
some of the most learned professors that 



the scholarship of the world had then pro- 
duced. At the university of Halle he at- 
tended the lectures of Tholuck, one of the 
first theologians of the day. At Leipsic, 
he tells us, he was charmed with the lec- 
tures of Winer and Hermann. His love of 
the classics seems to have increased as he 
extended his studies to other fields. " I 
am drinking in," he wrote, " at the foun- 
tain of Greek and Roman literature and 
could easily make this the pursuit of my 
life " He could not be a narrow specialist. 
He was a born scholar and welcomed 
knowledge of every kind and from every 
source. This characteristic of his mind is 
finely illustrated by the broad and gener- 
ous course of study which he pursued at 
Berlin under the direction of such scholars 
as Bopp, the founder of comparative 
philology ; Bekker, the famous editor of 
Greek classics ; Neander, the well-known 
church historian ; Hengstenberg, the bitter 
opponent of rationalism ; Ranke, the re- 
nowned historian ; Zumpt, the Latin gram- 
marian ; Ritter, " the prince of geogra- 
phers;" Miiller, then one of the first of 
physiologists, and others scarcely less 
learned and renowned. 

" In these three universities, Halle, 
Leipzig and Berlin," says Dr. Stearns, 
" Professor Sears marked the boundaries 
for the department of biblical theology in 
Hamilton. His life in Germany inflamed 
his zeal for the broadest culture possible, 
placed in his hands the best methods for 
careful research . . . and empowered 
him to understand the sources of Christian 
knowledge and the limitations to which it 
is subject." 

At Hamburg on his arrival in Ger- 
many, he had met a number of pious 
Germans with Baptist sentiments, whom 
he subsequently baptized and organ- 
ized into a church. He also ordained 
one of their number, Mr. J. G. Oncken as 
their pastor. The church thus formed 
prospered greatly and Mr. Oncken became 
the leader of the great Baptist movement 
in Germany. 

After completing his studies in Germany, 
Professor Sears went to Paris, where he 
remained only three months, and then re- 
turned to Hamilton and entered upon the 
duties of his new professorship, but he 
soon accepted a call to the chair of Chris- 
tian theology at Newton Theological Insti- 
tution. He accordingly returned to New- 
ton after an absence of eight years. The 
highest expectations were awakened among 



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the friends of the institution by the acces- 
sion of such an accomplished scholar to its 
faculty. Few professors of Christian 
theology in our country had had the edu- 
cational advantages which had fallen to his 
lot. He had an extensive acquaintance 
with the foremost scholars of the world, 
and was well informed in regard to the 
latest results of studies in the department 
of instruction which had been committed 
to his charge. But far more important for 
the success of his work was the fact that 
he was an inspiring teacher, that he brought 
to his class room not only ample stores of 
knowledge, but an ardent love of truth and 
a deep and abiding interest in those who 
were looking to him for instruction and 
guidance. He always came to his class 
fresh from his study, where lost in medita- 
tion, or in rapt communion with some of 
the great thinkers of Europe, he had been 
gathering inspiration and preparing for the 
duty of the hour. His mind was thus aglow 
with the liveliest possible interest in the 
subject to be discussed. Two leading ob- 
jects were prominent in all his instructions 
— to teach his students to think vigorously 
and accurately, and to inspire them with 
that love of truth which was such a marked 
characteristic of his own nature. It would 
be difficult to exaggerate the beneficent re- 
sults of twelve years of such instruction, 
whether to the institution or to the succes- 
sive classes who had the good fortune to 
share it. But on this point no one is bet- 
ter qualified to speak than President 
Hovey, who was then his pupil and who 
subsequently became his successor. We 
quote the following from his recently pub- 
lished work, Barnas Sears, a Christian 
Educator: 

" Doctor Sears was a most inspiring 
teacher of theology, and perhaps equally so 
of church history. . . His supreme pur- 
pose was to lead his pupils to investigate 
and judge for themselves, to go out into 
the world of history and of experience, 
and especially into the domain of Scrip- 
ture for the data to be used in reasoning 
about questions of faith, and then to 
reason soberly and fairly, with the expec- 
tation of finding the ultimate grounds of 
their belief. . . He encouraged them to 
controvert his own views or those of their 
classmates, with vigor but courtesy, for the 
purpose of having the subject in hand 
thoroughly canvassed by the very persons 
who were in all probability to discuss the 
same subject before the people. More- 



over he knew how to guide such a debate 
and make it profitable. He was an adept 
in the art of leading his pupils to antici- 
pate problems sure to meet them in actual 
life, and to find the solution of them. He 
often referred in his class-room to the 
works of distinguished men, pointed out 
their particular excellencies, and criticised 
in a keen but kindly spirit their faults. 
One left his presence eager to get hold of 
some of these books and to enjoy the light 
which they would pour on the subject of 
present inquiry." 

Moreover it must not be forgotten that 
during the last ten years of his connection 
with Newton, Dr. Sears was not only pro- 
fessor of Christian theology but also presi- 
dent of the institution, and that his admin- 
istration of its affairs was wise and liberal, 
as his instructions were inspiring and help- 
ful. Indeed his usefulness during this 
period of his busy life was by no means 
confined to his class-room or even to the 
institution. He was in the best sense a 
public man, ever ready to respond to the 
call of duty, whether from his own denomi- 
nation or from the world at large. He 
published a revised edition of Nohden's 
German Grammar ; the Ciceronian, the 
Prussian method of instruction in Latin ; 
Select Treatises of Luther with notes and 
the first volume of a Life of Luther. He 
was also joint editor with Professor 
Edwards of Andover and Professor Felton 
of Harvard of a valuable work entitled 
Classical Studies. He was for many years 
the editor of the Christian Revieiv, to which 
he contributed sixteen articles of great 
value and interest. He was also a con- 
tributor to the Bibliotheca Sacra and the 
American Encyclopaedia. 

In the year 1848, Dr. Sears, then at the 
age of forty-six, was elected secretary of 
the Massachusetts board of education. 
The first incumbent of that important 
office, Horace Mann, another distinguished 
graduate of Brown University, had revolu- 
tionized the educational institutions of the 
state, but many of the changes proposed 
by him were still matters of controversy. 
The new secretary brought a calm and 
judicial mind to the questions at issue, and 
his thorough acquaintance with the best 
educational systems of the world enabled 
him to recognize the value of the reforms 
instituted by his predecessor. Accord 
ingly avoiding all controversy he earnestly 
advocated the cause of popular education, 
and having thus secured the sympathy and 



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cooperation of the leading educators of 
the state, he was soon able to convince 
them that the interests of their schools 
could be best promoted by ratifying and 
supplementing the more important of the 
reforms proposed by the first secretary. 
Thus a complete victory was won for the 
cause of popular education in that state. 
" What in Mr. Mann's time," in the lan- 
guage of the Hon. George S. Boutwell, 
" had been regarded by many as experi- 
mental, became in Dr. Sears's time the 
established and recognized policy of the 
state. Old controversies were silenced. 
Our system of education, schools for all 
the people, sustained by all the people, 
was placed upon a foundation as immov- 
able as the foundation of the state itself." 
To those two great secretaries, Mann and 
Sears, the state of Massachusetts and, 
through her example and influence, many 
other states of our union are indebted for 
their present excellent systems of popular 
education. 

In the year 1855 Dr. Sears was elected 
president of Brown University. Seven 
years before he had been called to suc- 
ceed Horace Mann, a prince among the 
leaders of popular education ; now he was 
called to succeed Dr. Wayland, a prince 
among college presidents. Few men could 
hope to fill successfully either of the two 
high ofhces made vacant by the resignation 
of Horace Mann and of Dr. Wayland, and 
that the same Christian scholar should 
have been called to fill in succession both 
of them, and that he should have dis- 
charged the duties of both with triumphant 
success challenges our admiration. The 
writer of this sketch recalls with pleasure 
the interesting scene which he witnessed 
in the college chapel on a bright morning 
in September, 1855, when the new presi- 
dent, on being presented to the faculty 
and students, uttered those wise and char- 
acteristic words which gave such a bright 
augury of a joyous and successful adminis- 
tration : 

" Young gentlemen," said he, " I am 
well aware of the grave nature of the duties 
which I have undertaken to discharge in 
accepting the office to which I have been 
called. My humble abilities . . . shall 
be faithfully devoted to the interests of 
those committed to my charge. . . My 
interest in education is second to that of 
no one. I am deeply interested in young 
men at that period of life when their char- 
acters are formed. In you I see those 



who have left their homes and the influ- 
ence of daily parental example and coun- 
sel, perhaps for the first time. . . Your 
opinions are to be formed anew. Your 
intellects are to be exercised and your 
minds intensely employed in academic 
study just at the period of their most 
rapid growth. . . To do what I may to 
aid you in this important preparatory work 
will be the object of my highest ambition. 
I shall rely on the ingenuousness charac- 
teristic of youth for a reciprocity of feel- 
ing and action. . . Yield yourselves 
then confidingly to that honorable career 
of intellectual and moral improvement in 
which it will be my delight to aid you, and 
spend these few golden years devoted to 
liberal studies in such a way that society 
at large and yourselves individually may 
long enjoy the benefit and rejoice in the 
fruits of it." 

In that brief address the president, it 
has been well said, struck the key note of 
his administration, devotion to the college. 
His highest ambition was to serve his 
Alma Mater and to aid the young men in 
the formation of intellectual and moral 
character. The faculty and students left 
the chapel that morning in the full convic- 
tion that the interests of the university 
would be safe in the hands of the new 
president, and that every young man who 
came under his influence would find in him 
a true friend and a wise counsellor. 

No man had ever brought to the presi- 
dency of an American college more ample 
stores of knowledge, a larger and more 
varied experience in educational work, or a 
heart more fully in sympathy with its duties. 
He was then in the full vigor and strength 
of mature manhood. In earlier life he 
had enjoyed the best educational advan- 
tages which two continents could afford; 
he had subsequently held important posi- 
tions in the pulpit and in academic chairs ; 
he had been president of Newton Theo- 
logical Institution and for the last seven 
years had administered one of the best and 
most advanced systems of popular educa- 
tion then known to the world. 

That President Sears, as the immediate 
successor of President Wayland, should 
be compared with his illustrious predecessor 
was inevitable. In all such' comparisons, 
however, the rare gifts and merits of both 
were gratefully recognized by the friends of 
the university. Each was without a superior 
in his own special sphere ; Wayland in the 
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Sears in the breadth and depth of true 
scholarship. Wayland was preeminently 
a thinker ; Sears preeminently a scholar. 
To those two great presidents, Brown Uni- 
versity owes a debt of gratitude which, it 
is hoped, she will ever be proud to acknowl- 
edge. They were both among the fore- 
most educators of the age. Their wise 
counsels, gratefully recalled in subsequent 
years by those who had received them in 
those well-remembered lecture rooms, have 
gladdened and blessed the lives of many a 
young man in hours of difficulty and 
doubt. When at some future day the his- 
torian shall trace with faithful hand the 
annals of our university, the beneficent 
results of the administrations of Wayland 
and Sears must hold an honorable place. 
Brown University is richer to-day in intel- 
lectual and moral power because of their 
self-sacrificing labors. 

Dr. Sears was in many respects an ideal 
president. Few men had so fully surveyed 
the entire field of ancient and modern 
learning. He took a lively interest in 
every department of collegiate instruction, 
and appreciated the relation which they 
sustained to each other. He recognized 
the truth of those familiar words of the 
Roman author : 

Ojiuies artes quae a// humaiiitatcm perti- 
nent habent quoddain comimine Tincu/iim et 
quasi cognatioue quadam inter se continentur. 
He accordingly encouraged all depart- 
ments of instruction and research, while 
he left all the instructors free to adopt 
methods suited to their tastes and genius, 
believing that thus the best results would 
be reached. By his personal character and 
his rare attainments he exerted a powerful 
influence, not only upon the students, but 
also upon the faculty. We all saw that he 
was deeply interested in the university and 
that he gave his best thought and his most 
earnest endeavors to its welfare. 

President Sears at the very outset of his 
administration secured the respect and 
admiration of the young men under his 
charge by the manifest nobility of his 
character and by the wealth of his learn- 
ing, while by his charming personality and 
by his devotion to their interests he won 
their hearts and bound them to himself by 
the strongest ties of affection and love. 
Thus to the great majority of the students 
the wish of the president became the law 
of the university. They knew that their 
highest welfare lay very near his heart ; 
that he was laboring untiringly to promote 



their intellectual growth, their moral purity 
and their religious life. 

Professor Poland well represents the 
feeling of the student body under the 
administration of President Sears when 
he says : " The entire college felt the 
peculiar power of the president's person- 
ality. We all were sure that he was a 
scholar, a Christian gentleman, and a man 
of lofty character, and we regarded him 
with an altogether unusual feeling of admir- 
ation, reverence and esteem." 

Unfortunately the administration of 
Doctor Sears covered the period of our 
civil war, when it was, of course, impossi- 
ble to do much for the enlargement of the 
university, still it forms an interesting chap- 
ter in the history of the institution. The 
curriculum was carefully revised ; new 
facilities for instruction were secured ; a 
well equipped chemical laboratory was 
erected ; friendly relations were established 
between the university and the state, and 
the institution was placed for the time on a 
more satisfactory financial basis than ever 
before ; but more important than all this 
was the new impulse that was given to 
broad and enlightened scholarship and 
the refining and elevating personal influ- 
ence of the president which pervaded the 
entire institution and gave a better tone to 
the public sentiment of the student body. 
The custom of hazing and other rude and 
barbarous practices, which had become tra- 
ditional in American colleges, gradually 
disappeared and the deportment of Brown 
students began to assume the ordinary 
proprieties which mark the intercourse of 
cultivated gentlemen in other spheres of 
life. 

In this connection I may perhaps be 
allowed a brief mention of my personal 
indebtedness to President Sears for the 
kind interest which he took in my work 
during the earlier years of my professor- 
ship. The warm friendship between us 
which began at that time never lost its 
fervor. After his removal to Virginia, his 
annual visits to New England always 
brought him a welcome guest to my house 
and with him always brought sunshine and 
joy to the entire household. 

But Doctor Sears was not only a wise 
and efficient president but an accomplished 
and faithful professor. He was an inspir- 
ing teacher and he taught the students to 
think for themselves. The same affluence 
of learning and the same love of truth 
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ilton and Newton were conspicuous in his 
instruction at Brown. He aimed to mas- 
ter the best literature of every subject 
which he attempted to teach. HebeHeved 
that young men pursuing courses of study 
in colleges and universities were entitled 
to the full benefit of the best learning of 
the world on the themes which they were 
endeavoring to investigate. Many teach- 
ers labor to store the minds of their pupils 
with a definite amount of positive knowl- 
edge, and on subjects on which this is 
feasible their instructions may be of price- 
less value, but in the estimation of Dr. 
Sears a vigorous search for truth is an 
essential element in all true education. 
Accordingly whenever any vital question 
was under consideration, he wished his 
students to survey the entire field of 
inquiry, to become acquainted with the 
views of the great thinkers of the world 
in regard to it, to weigh those views can- 
didly and to discover, if possible, whatever 
truth they contained. He did not ask 
them to accept his conclusions, or the con- 
clusions of any man, on subjects of inquiry 
about which scholars and thinkers held 
conflicting views. He aimed to furnish 
them the requisite data, and then he 
required them to use their own judgment 
and to draw their own conclusions. He 
wished to accustom them to independent 
thought. He is said to have remarked to 
one of his classes : " I do not care to have 
you remember what I say ; I am simply 
anxious to teach you how to think. If you 
learn that, you may burn my lectures if you 
will." 

His pupils bear ample testimony to the 
excellence of his instructions, to his in- 
tellectual ability, and to his kindness of 
heart. Dr. W. W. Keen of the class of 
1859 writes: '"President Sears has 
always seemed to me to be one of the 
most remarkable men intellectually that I 
have ever met. He impressed himself 
very much upon me by reason of his logi- 
cal acuteness." Dr. Wayland Hoyt of the 
class of i860 says: "Dr. Sears was a 
man of great learning, most courtly man- 
ner and the sincerest and most shining 
Christian character. His administration 
was strong, gracious, wise." Dr. Edward 
Judson of the class of 1865 writes : "As 
a teacher Dr. Sears was very rich in infor- 
mation and suggestion. He individualized 
the students, knowing us one by one and 
impressing us personally with his friendli- 
ness. A refined gentleman of the old 



school, he formed a striking contrast to 
Dr. Wayland's rugged personality." 

But in estimating the work of Dr. Sears 
as an efficient teacher we must give promi- 
nence to the personal element, which was 
surely a most important factor. The quiet 
influence of that upright Christian charac- 
ter, that generous devotion to the good and 
the true, ought to have made every student 
who came into his presence a wiser and a 
better man. To be brought into daily con- 
tact with that noble personality was a large 
share of a liberal education. 

The services which Dr. Sears had ren- 
dered to the cause of education had long 
since attracted the attention of scholars 
throughout the country. As early as 1841 
Harvard University had honored him with 
the degree of doctor of divinity, and in 
1 86 1 Yale University conferred upon him 
the honorary degree of doctor of laws. 

In the year 1867 President Sears was 
called to administer the great trust which 
the generosity of George Peabody had just 
created in the interest of public schools 
in our southern states. Thereupon recog- 
nizing in the call the possibilities of in- 
creased usefulness, he resigned the presi- 
dency of Brown University, removed to 
Staunton, Virginia, and entered with en- 
thusiasm upon the great educational work 
which occupied the remaining years of his 
life, but he soon found himself confronted 
with one of the gravest of pioblems. He 
was charged with the duty of inaugurating 
an educational experiment unlike any that 
the world had yet seen, and that too at a 
time and under circumstances the most 
discouraging. Would the proud planters 
of the South, still brooding over the lost 
cause, tolerate any further interference 
with southern institutions ? Public schools 
for the common people without distinction 
of race or color, would be contrary to all 
the traditions and practices of that part of 
the country. Appreciating the situation 
and feelings of the southern gentlemen 
with whom he was to act, and of the audi- 
ences which he was to address, he at once 
adopted a friendly and conciliatory policy, 
pictured to his hearers the priceless bless- 
ings which free schools would bring to 
them, oftered to aid them in establishing 
and supporting such schools, and at the 
same time assured them that neither he 
nor the board claimed any right to inter- 
fere with the management of the schools 
to which aid should be accorded. Such a 
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hearts of the South. The success of his 
mission was thus assured. 

In regard to the wise method adopted 
by Dr. Sears and the success which crowned 
his labors, we have the following explicit 
testimony from the Honorable Robert C. 
Winthrop, chairman of the board having 
the trust in charge : 

" Dr. Sears conducted that great trust 
in a manner which I do not believe any 
other man, living or dead, could have con- 
ducted it, with so much success, with so 
much ability, with so much devotion. 
We may well thank God that we have en- 
joyed his inestimable services for thirteen 
successive years, and that during this 
period he has accomplished, with our coun- 
sel and cooperation, the first and most im- 
portant part of the plan which he origin- 
ally marked out for us. We have laid 
foundations which cannot be removed." 

In 1867 when Dr. Sears entered upon 
his arduous task not one of the southern 
states had a public school system; in 1880 
at the time of his death not one of them 
was without good common schools. 

As a single illustration of the high regard 
which the South had for him may be 
mentioned that on one side of the grand 
auditorium of the State Normal School at 
Huntsville, Texas, is a splendid memorial 
window in honor of Dr. Sears, as the 
founder of the state school system, while 
on the opposite side is a similar window in 
honor of General Houston, as the founder 
of the state itself. In Texas to have one's 
name thus associated with that of Sam 
Houston is no small honor. 

The last service which Dr. Sears was 
able to render to the cause of popular 
education was the preparation of an ad- 
dress which he had engaged to deliver 



before the American Institute of Instruc- blessings. 



tion at its annual meeting at Saratoga in 
July, 1880, on the educational progress in 
the United States during the last fifty 
years. Although in feeble health he care- 
fully prepared his manuscript and went to 
Saratoga in the hope of being able to 
attend the meetings of the Institute, and 
of delivering his address, but it was soon 
apparent to his friends that he was rapidly 
approaching the end of his useful labors. 
He died on the sixth of July while the 
institute was still in session. "Thus 
passed from human sight," in the language 
of Dr. Hovey, " a leader of men in the 
nineteenth century." Thus closed a life 
full of years, of usefulness and of honors. 
Resolutions of respect and affection, recog- 
nizing in grateful terms the priceless ser- 
vice which he had rendered to the cause of 
education, were passed by the institute. 

The address which he had prepared, but 
was not permitted to deliver in person, 
was read at the meeting of the institute on 
the following day by his friend Dr. G. E. 
Ellis of Boston. It was a masterly dis- 
cussion of a subject of great interest, and 
was listened to with profound attention by 
the hundreds of teachers and educators 
who had assembled to hear it. 

Thus closed the public services of one 
of the foremost educators of the age. 
From the day of his graduation at Newton 
to the last hour of life he had held high 
and important positions of trust and honor. 
His voice had been heard in the pulpit, on 
the platform and in academic halls, and 
always in behalf of the good, the pure, the 
noble; in behalf of education, learning 
and religion. Who shall attempt to meas- 
ure the influence of such a life ! The 
benediction of a grateful nation has crowned 
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Lincoln Field of Old 



By Professor William Whitman Bailey 



IN view of the many and rapid changes 
in the topography of our University 
possessions, it has been deemed 
eminently desirable to put on record 
any available records of the past. 

The writer's undergraduate life embraced 
the war period — from i860 to 1864. The 
last year of that unhappy strife, 1865, he 
spent as a sub-assistant in the chemical 
laboratory under Professor John Pierce and 
Mr. Appleton. He had previously spent 
three years in the University Grammar 
School. Consequently his acquaintance 
with the university grounds extends over a 
period of forty-five years. 

I cannot recall that in my college days 
Lincoln Field, under any name, entered to 
an appreciable extent into the life of the 
students. Indeed, from its original nature 
this was to be expected. The region was 
mainly a swamp, full of sedges, rank grasses, 
flag-root, irises, and the usual flora to be 
expected in low, wet soil. Here, too, the 
strident tryla and the sonorous bullfrog, 
in their symphonies, anticipated the Gre- 
gorian chants which one now hears from 
St. Stephen's church. That beautiful 
edifice did not then exist. Indeed, all the 
region, with mere scattered interruptions, 
was a series of open, houseless meadows, 
from Power street to Olney. The clear and 
often turbulent brook, from which Brook 
street derived its name, was still, to a large 
degree, uncovered. 

But, to return to the Back Campus, there 
was, near where afterwards the Fanning 
stand was erected, a perennial spring. 
About it grew alders and the usual lacus- 
trine shrubbery. A somewhat bushy wil- 
low, about twenty feet high, shadowed this 
spring, and produced on certain branches 
by far the handsomest " pussies " I ever 
saw. I can recall now the splendid old 
gold stamens, as they broke the garnet of 
the scales. 

Apropos of this willow tree, a queer 
thing once happened to me. Willows are 
what botanists call dicecious plants, i. e., 
they are distinctly male and female. The 
complementary kinds may grow far apart. 



Uu this tree, however, I found both kinds 
of catkins simultaneously growing — and 
said to myself, " the end of time has ar- 
rived ; I will sing iiHtic dimittis !'' I made 
up a neat package illustrating the con- 
dition and forwarded it to Doctor Sereno 
Watson at Harvard. 1 had barely received 
his acknowledgment and confession of 
surprise, when another card from him ar- 
rived. This stated that Dr. Gray had 
suggested that the tree was, no doubt, 
grafted ! This proved to be the case, and 
I learned a lesson to proceed slowly in the 
matter of scientific publication ! 

I have been trying to think if, in my 
day, there was any path leading across or 
around this field. I cannot remember. 
We certainly never used it for football or 
other games ; these were played, such as 
they were, on the present Middle Campus. 

It was in my time that a portion of the 
ground, sloping from the rear of the chemical 
laboratory, which was erected in 1863, be- 
gan to be used as an academic grove. I 
should say that it was the class of '63 that 
first planted its class tree in this field. In 
subsequent years, for quite a long period, 
most of the class trees were planted here. 
There was no end of oratory and eloquence, 
no limit of gush poured out over these 
young saplings. Under their shade in 
future years we were to sit with our " hope- 
ful young scions " and tell them of bygone 
days. The class of 1866 had a metallic 
record on its tree. The grove was not con- 
fined, however, to the class trees ; it con- 
tained one or two maples and oaks. 

When the ground where the trees stood 
was demanded for the gymnasium, the trees 
were ruthlessly cut down. Of course they 
had to go — it is the inexorable law of 
change — but it has always seemed a pity 
that no lament or eulogy was offered in 
their memory. 

" Alas ! how the soul sentimental it vexes 
That thus on our efforts, stern Chronos should 

frown." 

Not a bean-pole, even, represents any of 
those classes that contemplated arboreal 
immortality ! 



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From the advent of the gymnasium the 
meadow was devoted more and more to 
athletic purposes. As far back as Pro- 
fessor Greene's time and through his strong 
personal influence, the tract was cleared 
up and put in order for games. It was 
hence called for awhile " Greene Field," 
but, perhaps owing to a freshman's sugges- 
tion of " pastures new," the title fell into 
desuetude. Afterwards, it was formally 
entitled " Lincoln Field," after the genial 
professor who had done so much to en- 
courage and advance good, clean athletics. 
Some wit suggested a perpetuation of the 
names of both benefactors in " Greene- 
Lincoln Field" — but the pith of his humor 
was extracted by the true statement that 
the tield. was no longer ^^'-/w;/. 

My next association with the ground is 
in the memory of its grading and drainage. 
At that time there was formed, about where 
Maxcy Hall now stands, a huge compost 
heap, upon which grew the greatest variety 
of plants, common and rare, that I ever 
saw in similar space. I recall writing for 
one of the professional magazines of that day 
that while Brown Ll'niversity had no botanic 



garden proper, it possessed on its own 
campus a very large and unique flora. It 
was not only very rich in diverse species, 
but phenomenal in the number of natural 
orders and genera. To-day the botanical 
department has to travel miles for what 
then grew, as it were, on our doorstep. 

Perhaps it is not out of place to mention 
here two houses, both residences, which 
during my undergraduate and school life 
occupied the college grounds. I do not 
know just when it was removed, but it was 
before my class (1864) graduated that a 
colonial residence stood at the corner of 
Prospect and George streets. It was then 
occupied by the late Colonel William W. 
Brown, and now stands on Waterman 
street facing the Middle Campus. Pro- 
fessor Eli W. Blake afterwards occupied it. 
dispensing a most generous hospitality. 

Another house, a white frame one, I 
think, and with no pretensions to beauty, 
stood back of Rhode Island Hall, which 
did not then possess the rear ell. As to 
Lincoln Field — I can recall nothing further. 

Brcnun Cniiersiiy, October S, igo2 



Three New Football Songs 



(Stars and Stripes March) 

Bear forward the banners of Brown, 

Fair Brunonia's slogan we cry ; 
Her enemies waver and quake 

At our ringing Ki-Yi-Yi. 

Brunonia's children arise, 

And in love and devotion swerving never, 
In victory, aye, in defeat, 

Send up the cheer, speed the career of Brown 
forever. 

IV. T. Hastitii^s, 'oj 



(Refrain of Heidelberg Stein Song) 

Here's to our Alma Mater dear, 
Here's to her grand renown ; 

Here's to her all defying cheer, 
Here's to her flag of brown. 



Here's to her fame of Lincoln Field, 

Sounding from sea to sea ; 
Here's to her sturdy sons who wield 

The Brown Sword of Victory. 

C. D. Casey, ''04 



A "Football Hooray" 

This is Brown's day on the gridiron, 

Show the foe, boys, where we live. 
For the honor of Brunonia 

Never let the rush-line give. 
Never let your hearts grow daunted, 

Send the score up to the sky, 
Bear the Brown and White to victory, 

To the tune of ki-yi-yi. 

Chorus — 

Up and at 'em boys, we're with you, 

Never let a chance go by, 
Play the game from start to finish. 

While we yell our ki-yi-yi. 

You are ready with your prowess, 

We are ready with a song ; 
All are sons of Alma Mater, 

Bound by countless ties and strong, 
Block the foe in all their rushes, 

Brown-bred spirit ne'er shall die, 
Do your part to bring us victory. 

We'll do ours with " Ki-yi-yi." 



Chorus — 



Irving L. Price, '05 



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The Brown Alumni Monthly 



October Football Games 



BROWN, o ; VERMONT, o 

BROWN opened her football season 
by playing the University of Ver- 
mont, on Andrews Field, October 
I, on muddy grass, in a drizzling 
rain and with superior weight. Vermont 
succeeded in tying the score at o to o. 
The whole game was one of straight foot- 
ball and proved to be of much value to 
the Brown men. Brown's line-up was : 
Schwinn, 1. e,, Shaw, 1. t., Webb, 1. g., 
Roberts, c, Cobb, r. g., Sheehan, r. t., 
Russ, r. e., Scudder, q b., Barry, capt. 
1. h b.. Chase, r. h b.. Baker and Hamil- 
ton, f. b. 

BROWN, 5 ; WESLEYAN, o 

The second game of the season, at 
Andrews Field, was much better than the 
first. The men got into all the plays bet- 
ter and helped each other along. Webb 
made a fine run of thirty yards after having 
been tackled. Wesleyan was a little heavier 
than Brown and succeeded in keeping the 
score down to 5-0. Brown's defence 
showed much improvement over that dis- 
played in the previous game. The line-up 
was : Schwinn, 1. e., Webb, 1. t., Shaw, 
1. g., Colter, c, Cobb., r. g., Savage, r. t., 
Russ, r. e., Scudder, q. b., Barry, 1. h. b., 
Chase, r. h. b., Baker and Hamilton, f. b. 

BROWN, o; YALE, lo 

On October 11, Brown met the heavy 
Yale team on Andrews Field. The play of 
Brown was a revelation not only to Yale, 
but also to her own supporters. In the 
first half Brown clearly outplayed her op- 
ponents, showing an offensive form that 
took Yale off her feet in the first few minutes 
of play. From her thirty-yard line Brown 
rushed the ball to Yale's twenty-five-yard 
line, when Yale held and began taking the 
ball back into Brown territory. The first 
half ended with the score 0-0. The second 
half began in much the same way as the 
first. Brown's defence proved a hard nut 
for Yale to crack, and it was only through 
an individual run of Shevlin that Yale 
scored her touchdown. Again through 
another individual play of Metcalf who 
kicked a remarkable goal from the field, Yale 
brought the total score up to lo-o. Yale's 
heavy line was held in check by Brown's 



lighter one, and time and again the Yale 
backs were repulsed for a loss. The game 
was one of the most intense ever played in 
Providence and showed to all that the 
Brown team of this year is able to take 
care of itself with the strongest of oppon- 
ents. The line-up was : Schwinn and 
Hascall, 1. e., Webb, 1. t., Shaw, 1. g.. Col- 
ter, c, Cobb and Sheehan, r. t., Russ, r. e., 
Scudder, q b., Barry, 1. h b.. Chase, r. h b., 
Baker and Hamilton, f b. 

BROWN, 15; PENNSYLVANIA, 6 

On October i8, before from 8,000 to 
10,000 people at Franklin Field, Philadel- 
phia, Brown defeated the University of 
Pennsylvania, thus beating one of the " big 
four " for the first time in her history. The 
Brown team cleanly outplayed the Quakers, 
showing superior condition and better ability 
in every department of the game. The 
Providence players gained three times as 
much ground as the Pennsylvania men and 
were much stronger on the defence. A 
fumble by Brown early in the game, when 
the ball was on her seven yard line, con- 
tributed to Penn.'s only score, and the de- 
cision that gave the ball at that time to the 
Philadelphia players was questioned. Cap- 
tain Barry of Brown was the star of the 
game, scoring all Brown's points by two 
runs of thirty and fifty yards, and, toward 
the end of the game, kicking a beautiful 
field goal from the twenty-five yard line. 
The playing in the second half was entirely 
in Pennsylvania's territory. Pennsylvania 
was weakened by the absence of Quarter- 
back Dale, but Brown played without Russ, 
r. e., who had proved a tower of strength in 
the game against Yale. The halves were 
twenty-five and twenty minutes and the 
Brown team lined up as follows : Schwinn, 
1. e. ; Webb, 1. t. ; Shaw, 1. g. ; Colter, c. ; 
Cobb, r. g. ; Sheehan, r. t. ; Hascall, r. e. ; 
Scudder, q b. ; Barry, 1. h b. ; Chace, Gra- 
ham, r. h b. ; Baker, Hamilton, f b. 

When the news of the game reached 
Providence preparations were immediately 
made for a celebration. In the evening 
about two hundred men gathered in night- 
shirts in front of U. H. and started down 
street. After parading down town for a 
short time the men went to the University 



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Club, where Coach Gammons was ill, and 
cheered him to the echo. He made a few 
remarks and was followed by Dr. Parker. 
Then the crowd started for President 
Faunce's house where he addressed the 
students. Lincoln Field was next reached 
and a huge bon-lire was lighted and fire- 
works were discharged. The celebration 
was one of the most successful ever held 
at Brown. 

BROWN, o; HARVARD, 6 

The fact that Brown has a team " worth 
cheering for," as a Providence paper put 
it, caused more than i,ioo people to take 
the special train from this city for Boston 
on Saturday, October 25, to witness the 
Brown-Harvard game at Cambridge. In 
addition to these, there were many Provi- 
dence people on the earlier trains for Bos- 
ton, intent on the same mission, so that 
Brown's adherents on Soldiers' Field when 
the game began numbered about 2,500. 
vXhere was also in at^ejidance^ a^biwyj3...and 
white burro from T^o lor ado, the gjf^^if_Col- 
onel Isaac L. Goff to the team^s a mascot. 
Decorated with Brown flags, the little ani- 
mal caused much amusement to the great 
throng of spectators. 

Estimates of the number present at the 
game range from 16,000 upward, and the 
Harvard manager says he could have sold 
5,000 more admissions if all the bleachers 
had been ready. No such crowd ever 
before attended a game in which Brown 
was a participant, and the fact is a mile- 
post on our progress toward inclusion in 
the " big four." The best of feeling be- 
tween the two colleges was shown, as in 
the Brown- Yale game at Providence, when 
the representatives of each university lust- 
ily cheered the other. 

When the game started, Harvard, hav- 
ing won the toss, had a strong wind at her 
back. If Brown had begun with this ad- 
vantage there might have been a different 
ending, but regrets are useless. We might 
have seen the same phenomenal playing 
on Brown's part that distinguished her 
work in the first few minutes of the Vale 
game, but as it was, when Harvard had 
scored the first and only touchdown of the 
day and the teams changed goals, our men 
were a trifle tired. Harvard was some- 
what slow, but steady and strong. Brown 
was alert and quick, but at times unable 
to stand the battery of the crimson line. 
There had been much speculation as to 
the outcome of the game. Brown's reputa- 



tion this season ha\ ing made the supporters 
of the crimson fearful of the result. 

Brown had the kick-off, playing against 
the wind, and sent the ball to Harvard's 
30-yard line. For several minutes Brown 
held the ball near that point, but Graydon, 
taking it, dodged through the Brown line 
for a run of 30 yards, till he was downed 
by a pretty tackle by Lynch. Brown then 
held the ball on her 35-yard line. Hurley 
took it and seemed about to gain for Har- 
vard, but Brown broke up the interference 
so quickly that the advance was scarcely 
perceptible. Brown got the ball on a fum- 
ble and punted to Harvard's 38-yard line. 
Harvard slowly gained back a part of the 
territory by sheer force: finally a hole was 
broken for Kernan, who made a run of 35 
yards and was tackled by Barry on the 
Brown 5-yard line. Knowlton was forced 
over the line for a touchdown and Barnard 
kicked the goal. This score of Harvard, 
6 ; Brown, o, was not changed. The only 
feature of the few minutes remaining of 
the half was another run by Kernan of 
about 15 yards. The half ended with the 
ball on Brown's 45-yard line. 

Soon after the opening of the second 
half, Brown captured the ball on a fumble, 
and, at a moment when Harvard did not 
expect the play, punted to Harvard's 20- 
yard line. 

The punt was caught by C. Marshall, 
who was downed before he could recover 
any of the ground. Harvard then tore up 
Brown's defense for gains to her opponents, 
31-yard line. Brown, getting the ball on 
downs, punted to Harvard's 25-yard line, 
where it was caught by C. Marshall, who, 
aided by the best of interference, carried 
it back 20 yards. Brown again secured 
the ball, punted to Harvard's 22-yard line 
and held it there. With five minutes to 
play, it looked as if Brown might score, 
but the danger to Harvard's goal was only 
momentary. The half closed with neither 
side having scored. 

Following is the Brown line-up : Has- 
call, r. e. ; Sheehan, r. t. ; Cobb, r. g. ; 
Colter, c. ; Shaw, 1. g. ; Webb, 1. 1. ; Schwinn 
1. e. ; Scudder, q b. ; Lynch, r. h b. ; Barry, 
1. h b. ; Baker, f b. Halves, 25 and 20 min. 

GAMKS TO BE PLAYED 

Nov. I. Lafayette at Easton, Penn. 

Nov. 5. Tufts at Providence. 

Nov. 8. Columbia at New York. 

Nov. 12. Holy Cross at Worcester. 

Nov. 15. Boston College at Providence. 

Nov. 22. Dartmouth at Manchester, N. H. 



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ADVISORY BOARD 

William W. Keen, 'sg, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Henry K. Porter, '6o, 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, '80, Providence. 
Sam Walter Foss, '82, Somerville, Mass. 
Gardner Colby, '87, New York, N. Y. 
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HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor 



JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor 



THERON CLARK, '95. Business Manager 

November, 1902 

A TWO=YEAR A. B. DEGREE 

In his first annual report as president of 
Columbia University, Dr. Nicholas Murray 
Butler advocates some radical changes in 
the standards of the degrees of bachelor of 
arts and master of arts. His proposition 
is this : That the degree of bachelor of 
arts be granted after two years of regular 
college study and the master's degree after 
four years of such study. 

The shortening of the course leading to 
the first degree is proposed in order that a 
collegiate degree may be made a require- 
ment for admission to the professional 
schools. Throughout his discussion the 
collegiate degrees are regarded primarily in 
relationship to professional study rather 
than as symbols of a liberal education. 



The modification of the bachelor's degree 
is suggested not so much because it repre- 
sents too high a standard for a liberal edu- 
cation, as because it is an inconveniently 
high stepping stone to the professional 
schools. The maintenance of the distinc- 
tive collegiate education is made secondary 
to the convenience of the special schools. 
The positive value of a course of liberal 
study receives comparatively little atten- 
tion and the fact that the majority of col- 
lege students are pursuing their college 
studies for the intrinsic value of those 
studies is not considered at all. 

There is a theory among educators that 
the professional schools should be upon a 
post graduate basis ; that a college degree 
should be a prerequisite to professional study. 
At Columbia the law school requires the 
bachelor's degree for admission, and the 
medical and scientific schools hope that 
before long they may be able to establish 
the same requirement. But such a require- 
ment would bring a man much nearer thirty 
than twenty at the time of receiving his pro- 
fessional degree. This postponement of 
the period of self-support is a serious mat- 
ter, and to avoid it President Butler sug- 
gests a reduction of the time spent in ac- 
quiring the A. B. degree so that it may serve 
as a preliminary for admission to the pro- 
fessional schools. 

If the professional schools have been 
excessive in demanding the bachelor's de- 
gree for admission to their courses, why do 
they not frankly admit it ? Why insist on 
degrading the present standard of a liberal 
education because it does not constitute a 
convenient standard for admission to schools 
of law and medicine ? The standard of 
scholarship desired of all those undertaking 
legal or medical study can be designated in 
various ways, in college years or in college 
courses, or it can be established by exam- 
inations as the standard of admission to 
college is established. The ambition of the 
schools to be regarded as institutions for 
college graduates is not to be commended if 
such a basis can be obtained only by re- 



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ducing the present standard of the college 
degree. The proposition to lower the 
standard of a liberal education in order 
that professional study may be said to be 
upon a graduate basis is reactionary and 
retrogressive. It should not be allowed 
and we believe it will not be allowed. 

In these days, when the tendency to 
reduce higher education to professional 
learning and technical skill is so strong, 
the genuine worth and indispensable need 
of liberal education should be emphasized. 
For liberal study not only increases the 
ability to earn a living; it enlarges a man's 
knowledge and extends his mental horizon. 
It refines his powers of perception and 
quickens his appreciation, enriching both 
mind and spirit. By it he enters into life 
more fully. Life means more to him. He 
gets more out of it and puts more into it. 
A liberal education means much to the in- 
dividual and a liberally educated person 
means much to the community. He elevates 
the tone of the life about him. His in- 
fluence is of inestimable value to the social 
and political world. Next to the American 
public school system stands the American 
college. Both should be maintained in 
their integrity. 

FOOTBALL " HOORAYS " 

A pleasurable innovation at Brown is 
the football " hooray," which has come to 
be a regular feature of undergraduate life 
this fall on the eve of all contests on the 
gridiron. The college Y. M. C. A. has taken 
the old Sears reading room under its con- 
trol and it is now run as a free institution. 
All students are welcome to use its in- 
creased facilities, and it has become more 
of a college centre than it used to be. A 
piano has been placed in the room and 
around this instrument, in the early eve- 
nings, a group of musical undergraduates 
is accustomed to gather. Just before each 
football game the crowd increases, and the 
night preceding a contest sees the room 
packed with students, loyal, enthusiastic 
and much inclined to sons:. 



The name of football "hooray" has 
been given to these impromptu gatherings 
and they have proved of great benefit in 
organizing undergraduate enthusiasm. The 
singing and cheering at the games on 
Andrews Field this year have been im- 
proved in consequence, and the feeling of 
college community has been encouraged. 
The experiment shows what may be ex- 
pected when the Rockefeller building is 
erected on the middle campus. 

In his fraternity rooms the student finds 
much pleasant society, but he does not 
come into contact with more than a small 
fraction of the undergraduate Brown com- 
munity. A central meeting place will be 
of inestimable benefit to the college in more 
ways than one. Following the Rockefeller 
building there should be another new build- 
ing in which all undergraduates who so 
desire can dine together. The refec- 
tory quarters at present in use are cramped 
and inadequate. 

MORE DISSATISFACTION 

There can be no doubt of the growing- 
feeling of dissatisfaction with the existing 
athletic rules and their practical nullifica- 
tion at the colleges where the most virtuous 
protestations are made. For instance, the 
chancellor of Syracuse University said in 
an address to the undergraduates, October 
lo : " We want rules to be rational, and 
not merely those which are constructed 
through fear or apprehension. We are 
tired of making rules in this institution to 
accommodate other colleges which do not 
follow them. We have been careful, but 
we have found others doing those very 
things which they found fault with us for 
doing. Hereafter we are going to play 
football according to our own rules, and the 
teams that play with us will accept our rules, 
or we will play alone. And I don't think 
we will have to play alone. Any young 
man who is fit to stay in college is fit to 
play on the fooball team. Any man not fit 
to play on the football team is not fit to stay 
in the university." 



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The Brown Alumni Monthly 



Topics of the Month 



LATE reports from the registrar's office 
show that the number of students 
enrolled this year at Brown is larger 
than ever before. The total is 
936, divided among the several classes and 
departments as follows : 

1902-03 1901-02 

Graduates 1 04 94 

Seniors 113 i -8 

Juniors 119 1 1 1 

Sophomores 160 146 

Freshmen 208 198 

Specials 56 67 

760 744 
Women's College : 

Seniors 29 36 

Juniors 30 27 

Sophomores 43 34 

Freshmen 50 45 

Specials 24 34 

176 176 

Total in university 936 920 

Number of Including holders of honorary 
Graduates degrees, there are now 2,826 
living graduates of Brown 
University. Since the establishment of the 
college, there have been in all 5,597 grad- 
ates. As every year now sees nearly 200 
degrees conferred, it may be that by next 
summer the list of living graduates will 
pass the 3,000 line, though the death roll 
will diminish the total somewhat. By 
June, 1904, at the latest, there will be 3,000 
alumni and alumnae of Brown. 

Former Students Through the gener- 
Who did not osity of an alumnus a 

become Alumni ^^'^'"'^ ^\.^f "^. T'^^': 
taken which it is hoped 

will prove of great value to the university. 
From one cause or another a number of 
students drop out of college each year. 
Many of these men are greatly interested 
in the welfare of the university and are 
among its most enthusiastic friends. A 
record of the careers of these former stu- 
dents in the university- — sometimes desig- 
nated as non-graduates — is now being com- 
piled by Miss Mary D. A^aughan, '97, who 
assisted Mr. Koopman in compiling the 
1895 edition of the historical catalogue. 



It is hoped that the results of the research 
will be put into printed form and issued ir> 
1905, when another edition of the histori- 
cal catalogue should appear. 

Miss Vaughan is also preparing a place 
index of non-graduates. This will be of 
great service to the various local alumni 
associations when planning for their annual 
meetings. 



Brown Delegates President Faunce and 
at Middlebury Professor Wilfred H. 

Conference ^^''"'° '^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^- 

gates from Brown Uni- 
versity to the annual meeting of the Asso- 
ciation of New England Colleges, which 
was held with Middlebury College, Ver- 
mont, October 30 and 31. 

Two New Mr. Edgar L. Marston of 

Scholarships the board of trustees has 
recently founded two schol- 
arships of five thousand dollars each. The 
income of the first one is to go to gradu- 
ates of William Jewell College who wish to 
pursue advanced work at Brown. The 
income of the second is to be awarded to 
graduates of LaGrange College, Mr. Mars- 
ton's Alma Mater, who come to Brown for 
the same purpose. The first scholarship 
has been awarded for the current year to 
Mr. Shioi, a Japanese student, who gradu- 
ated at William Jewell last June. 

J- 
New A number of rooms in the 

Furnishings university buildings have re- 
cently been made attractive 
through the gifts of beautiful furnishings. 
Mrs. Lucius Lyon has given two hundred 
dollars to be expended in suitable furni- 
ture for the assembly room in Pembroke 
Hall, and Mrs. Robert Ives Gammell has 
given a reading desk for the same room. 

The faculty and corporation room in the 
administration building has been furnished 
at the expense of 'Mr. Lucian Sharpe, and 
the new room for the department of his- 
tory in University Hall has been furnished 
through the kindness of Mr. William B. 
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Brown and the As readers of the 
School of Design Monthly will remem- 
ber, Brown and the 
Rhode Island School of Design (of which 
Professor Poland is president), have been 
for a year in close affiliation, students 
in each being otTicially permitted to take 
courses in the other and to have these 
courses count toward a degree. The School 
of Design's annual report shows that twenty- 
four Brown students, including eight from 
Pembroke, are enrolled this fall at the in- 
stitution on Waterman street. The execu- 
tive committee of the school report : 

" The agreement between the school and Brown 
University, which was made formerly for one year, 
has been re-enacted about on the same lines as last 
year, but now arranged to continue indefinitely, but 
to be terminated on three months notice by either 
party. 

" The class from the university is larger than last 
year and a still greater increase and more interest 
is expected as the course becomes better known. 
On the part of the School of Design our students 
are gaining more of the advantages of the university 
by taking shop work there. Professor Poland has 
been engaged again as last year for a course of 
lectures on painting and sculpture for the students 
of the School of Design." 

Brown men will be glad to note the in 
creasing intimacy of the relations between 
the two allied institutions. 

J- 
Intercollegiate In common with Bos- 
Entrance Car- ton University, Dartmouth 
tificate Board <^^ollege, Mt. Holyoke Col- 
lege, Smith College, Tufts 
College, Wellesley College and Wesleyan 
University, Brown University took part 
in the formation of the New England Col- 
lege Entrance Certificate Board, organized 
in Boston on May 16, 1902. All these 
colleges have agreed to refer to the board 
all schools that ask for the privilege of 
certification. No school will be placed 
upon the approved list unless it can pre- 
pare for college according to some one 
of the recognized plans of entering the 
colleges represented on this board. Cer- 
tificates that do not cover the entire re- 
quirement will be treated by each college 
according to the rules which that college 
establishes for such certificates. A general 
report of the work of the pupils from ap- 
proved schools will be requested by the 
board. The list of approved schools will 
be revised every three years. The board 
has entered upon its work by sending to 
the colleges represented official circulars 
by means of which the college may inform 



each of its tributary schools in New Eng- 
land that after January i, 1904, no certifi- 
cate will be accepted from any school in 
New England which has not been approved 
by the board. 

J- 
A Grateful President Faunce sends the 
Graduate following self-explanatory note 
to the Monthly : 
"A graduate of Brown, who has been out of 
college one year, has just sent me his check 
for one hundred and twenty-five dollars, in 
part payment, with interest, of the financial 
aid which he received from our scholarship 
funds during his course at Brown Univer- 
sity. There is, of course, not the slightest 
obligation on his part to do this, but he 
recognizes the aid received as constituting 
a debt which he wishes to discharge. We 
had a similar case last year. Possibly the 
existence of such a spirit among a few 
graduates is worth recording in the Alumni 
Monthly. It is certainly worthy of imi- 
tation." 

University School's The University 
Promising New School, reorganized 

Year and incorporated, 

and closely affili- 
ated, though not formally, with the col- 
lege, has opened this fall with fresh 
plans and a promising future. The incor- 
porators are as follows : From Provi- 
dence, Prof. F. G. Allinson, Ph. D., George 
L. Collins, M. D., Hon. Richard B. Corn- 
stock, Prof. N. F. Davis, LL. D., Edwin 
M. Dodd, Stephen O. Edwards, Rev. W. 
H. P. Faunce, D. D., John R. Freeman, 
William Gammell, Prof. H. B. Gardner, 
Ph. D., Prof. Wm. C. Poland, Lucian 
Sharpe. From Pawtucket, Samuel M. 
Conant. From Boston, William V. Kellen, 
Ph. D., James E. Leach. 

The present home of the school on 
Benefit street has been improved during 
the summer by decorations and repairs. 
Individual lockers have been added and 
the lunching facilities increased. The 
laboratories have been refitted and will be 
maintained at such efficiency as will make 
it possible to satisfy fully the largely in- 
creased requirements of the best colleges 
in physics and chemistry. To take charge 
of this department and to teach mathe- 
matics, Mr. C. Edward Fisher, formerly of 
the Highland Military Academy at Wor- 
cester, has been engaged. Mr. Fisher has 
been preparing boys for scientific schools 



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for several years with conspicuous success 
and will be an important addition to the 
corps of instruction. 

The athletic field, the use of which has 
been secured for the school, will fill along- 
felt need. It is within easy access by car 
and competent directors will organize and 
oversee the sports. Boxing, fencing and 
physical culture will be given in class 
together with military drill as part of each 
morning's session. 

A further interesting feature of the 
school will be an afternoon study hour 
when all teachers will be accessible to 
direct or assist pupils either in delinquent 
or advanced work. 



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Brunonians at At the installation of 
Princeton President Woodrow Wil- 

son as President of Prince- 
ton University, October 25, President 
Faunce was the official delegate from 
Brown. Dr. Faunce was entertained at 
luncheon by President Wilson, together 
with other notable guests of the occasion. 
Other Brunonians at Princeton were Pres- 
ident Benjamin I. Wheeler of the Univer- 
sity of California, and President Mary E. 
Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College. 



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Topics at At Princeton a new gymna- 
other slum is being built by the 

alumni and undergraduates. 
The total cost is to be S256,- 
326.44, of which amount $195,084.46 has 
been subscribed, leaving $61,241.98 to be 
raised. There are approximately 7,500 
alumni and undergraduates of Princeton 
and as the total number of subscribers is 
1,336, only about one in six have con- 
tributed. The average subscription is 
$146.50, it is evident that there has been 
some large individual contributions. 

At Yale Field the grandstand is being 
enlarged to accommodate 5.000 more per- 
sons than ever before. This is in antici- 
pation of the Harvard football game later 
in the month. 

Colonel William A. Rafferty, U. S. A., 
who died September 13, in the Philippines, 
from the effects of a fall, was a Princeton, 
'61, graduate, who after his collegiate 
course, entered West Point and graduated 
there. 

Among the colleges reporting the largest 



Colleges 



classes in their history are Rutgers — 
number not stated — Williams, (138), and 
Bowdoin, (86). The academic class at 
Yale shows a decrease, and so does the 
freshman class at Princeton. 

Work has been begun on a $50,000 
library, the gift of Mr. Ralph Yoorhees, 
at Rutgers. At Lehigh a three-story 
brick building is in process of construction 
for the departments of geology and me- 
chanical engineering. 

Trinity's freshmen number nearly 50, 
an increase over the new class last year. 
Middlebury reports 2>3 '^nd Wellesley, 293. 

Of the 224applicants who were registered 
as freshmen at Dartmouth, on the first day 
of the term, 153 were admitted on cer- 
tificate, 2)Z by examination only, and 38 by 
a combination of certificate and examina- 
tion. 

INIills College, California, the only wo- 
men's college on the Pacific Coast, is to 
have an alumnae club in New York, owing 
to the large number of graduates now resi- 
dent there. 

Harvard, says the Ahjn Haven Register, 
has evidently withdrawn Frantz, her pro- 
fessional baseball player, from her football 
squad. Frantz is a manly fellow, and a 
first class athlete. Like Leslie Johnson at 
Yale, he would have been an honor to col- 
lege football had he not played for money 
before coming to college. 

President Butler of Columbia University 
has not stirred up a unanimous chorus of 
approval by his proposition to enable stu- 
dents to secure the bachelor's degree in 
two years. The Ne70 York Commercial 
Advertiser says : " The adoption of a 
change so revolutionary would in the end 
defeat its own most obvious purpose ; for in 
the course of time the bachelor's degree 
would come to mean so little as to justify 
the worshipper of the " practical " in ignoring 
it entirely and in refusing to accept as stand- 
ard coin that which may, to be sure, bear 
the old stamp of value, but which has been 
confesssedly debased." 

On the same subject the Princeton Alumni 
Weekly remarks : " If this competition 
continues some shrewd business-like uni- 
versity will soon be advertising first-class 
bachelor's degrees while you wait; near 
B. A.'s., which look Uke the real thing and 
wear better, already put up, sent to any 
address upon receipt of price, freight pre- 
paid : club rates for large quantities : agents 
wanted. 



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Chronicle of the Campus 



Senior Class Election 

The class of 1903 met in the armory of 
Sayles Hall, October 8, and elected the 
following officers: President, James Gar- 
field Clifford ; first vice-president, Louis 
Foristall Baker ; second vice-president, 
Howard Earle Brown ; secretary, Lionel 
Henry Peabody ; treasurer, Frank Henry 
Ehmke ; class day committee, chairman, 
Harvey Almy Baker ; Thomas Austin Barry, 
Harry Westcott Rockwell, Fred Alleyne 
Otis, Robert Aldrich ; class orator, Percy 
Winchester Gardner; class poet, William 
Thomson Hastings ; first speaker at tree, 
Alexander Hewes Abbott ; second speaker 
at tree, William Albion Hart ; address to 
undergraduates, Robert Lincoln Barrows ; 
president of class supper, Lester Earle 
Dodge; hymnist, Allen Ferguison Westcott : 
statistician, Percival Rogers Bakeman : 
odist, Phillip Bardwell Hadley ; prophet, 
Henry Otis Greene : historian, Charles 
Lemuel Osier. 

Scholarships Awarded 

Dean Meiklejohn has announced the 
award of three of the largest scholarships 
offered by the university. The George Ide 
Chace scholarship of $5,000 has been 
awarded to William Thomson Hastings, 
'03, of Feeding Hills, Mass. 

The income of the scholarship is assigned 
annually by the faculty to some member of 
the senior class who shows " marked ability, 
exemplary industry, generous aspirations 
and irreproachable character." 

The William Gaston scholarship of $5,000 
has been awarded to Arthur Melvin Wins- 
low, '03, of Providence. This scholarship 
is awarded "annually by the faculty to 
some deserving student upon absolute 
merit without reference to financial condi- 
tion." 

The Abby Wheaton Chace scholarship 
of $4,000 has been awarded to Robert 
Grant Martin of Salem, Mass. The in- 
come of the scholarship is awarded an- 
nually to some member of the junior class 
who shows "marked ability, exemplary in- 
dustry, generous aspirations and irreproach- 
able character." 

Sears Reading Room 

The Sears reading room has been given 
over to the Y. M. C. A., which has much 



improved the appearance and usefulness of 
the place. Xew furnishings have been put 
in, an excellent list of periodicals has been 
subscribed for, electric lights have been in- 
troduced and an air of coziness and com- 
fort imparted to the room, largely by the 
addition of comfortable chairs, rugs, pic- 
tures and a piano. Around this piano 
there are frequent "sings" in the early 
evening and on the night before a football 
game there is sure to be a crowd in attend- 
ance to gather the last fragments of news 
and gossip about the eleven and organize 
the enthusiasm for the next day. The 
reading room is now open to all students 
without charge. 

Fall Track Meet 

The fall track meet, held on October 1 5 , 
did not produce many new records, nor did 
it produce many stars in the track depart- 
ment. All the events were very slow and 
lacked interest. The men who were most 
prominent in ' point-getting were Cooper in 
the sprints. Doughty in the runs, Ehmke 
in the weights. Tucker, Slack and Mc- 
Govern, all freshmen, showed up well. 
The sophomores won the meet by scoring 
37 points, the juniors won 30. the seniors 
27, and the freshmen 23. 

Following the meet came the annual foot- 
ball rush. The sophomores won by the 
narrow score of 1-0. 

The sophomore elections have resulted 
as follows : President, W. A. Spicer, 
Providence ; vice-president, S. F. Hunt, 
Providence ; second vice-president, B. A. 
Matthews, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; secretary, 
C. H. Hull, New London, Conn. ; treasurer, 
L L. Price, Worcester, Mass. ; athletic 
representative, H. F. Hatch, St. Albans, 
Vt. ; manager of football team, R. C. Powell, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

The juniors have elected class officers as 
follows: President, C. F. Savage; 1st vice- 
president, A. H. Stanton ; 2d vice-presi- 
dent, A. L. Briggs ; secretary, B. H. Butler : 
treasurer, W. Sandager : athletic represen- 
tative, Houghton Metcalf. 

On Wednesday evening, October 15, Pro- 
fessor MacDonald delivered an address in 
\j. H. on "Patriotism." 



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Professor Gardner at Harvard 
Professor Henry B. Gardner, '84, of the 
department of political economy at Brown, 
is preparing a course of lectures on " The 
Financial History of the United States," 
to be delivered at Harvard University, be- 
ginning next February. Two lectures each 
week will be given, and the total number 
will be thirty-five or forty. 

Pembroke Notes 

At the Women's College there are several 
1902 graduates who have returned for 
additional work. 

The Pembroke juniors have elected Miss 
Annie Fisher, president ; the sophomores. 
Miss Sarah G. Ross ; the freshmen, Miss 
Hope Davis. 

Pembroke has received a Braun photo- 
graph of the Sistine Madonna, the gift of 
Miss Howard. It has been hung over the 
platform in the chapel. 

Trials for the Pembroke Glee Club have 
resulted in the selection of the following : 
Miss Ashworth, '06 ; Miss Buffington, '05 ; 
Miss Cameron, '06 ; Miss Devenish, '06 ; 
Miss Drake, '06 ; Miss Haight, '06 ; Miss 
Ethel Phillips, '06 ; Miss Sherwood, '06. 

The Young Women's Christian Associa- 
tion gave its annual reception to new 
students at Pembroke Hall, Friday even- 
ing, September 19. Miss Edith F. Wilcox, 
president of the association, welcomed the 
freshmen, and there were short addresses 
by President Faunce and Dean Emery. 
Miss K. F. Littlefield,' 02, rendered a piano 
solo, the Misses Traver gave a vocal duet 
and there were two numbers by the Pem- 
broke Quartette. 

Bowling Club Officers 

The results of the recent bowling club 
election were as follows ; President, A. L. 
Briggs, '04; vice president, F. J. Cox, '03 ; 
secretary and treasurer, C. D. Casey, '03 ; 
manager of bowling team, S. H. Whitely, 
'03 ; captain of team, G. A. Kelleher, '03. 
It was decided to enter the duck pin league 
this season. 

A Compliment to Brown 

This year the Providence team in the 
American Roller Polo League will wear 
brown uniforms, in compliment to the 
university. Hitherto the traditional color 
for air Providence athletic organizations to 
wear has been gray. 

Athletic Association Organizes 
On Oetober 21 the Athletic Assoocia- 
tion of Brown University was reorganized 



with the following officers : President, 
Dean Alexander Meiklejohn ; vice presi- 
dent, M. S. Fanning, '91 ; secretary, M. T. 
Barker, '03. Athletic committees consist- 
ing of graduate member, an undergraduate 
member and the manager of each of the 
respective teams were appointed as fol- 
lows : Football — F. W. Matteson, '92, 
chairman ; Houghton Metcalf, '02 ; Lester 
E. Dodge, '03. Baseball — Martin S. Fan- 
ning, '91, chairman ; Merle T. Barker, '03 ; 
Fred J. Cox, '03. Track — E. H. Weeks, 
'93, chairman ; Harry F. Hatch, '05 ; Frank 
L. Dillon, '03. 

Various Items 

W. A. Hart, '03, has been elected editor- 
in-chief of the Brunonian, in place of H. B. 
Grose, Jr., resigned. 

The following men have been chosen to 
constitute the college quartette: P. T. 
Gleason, first tenor ; W. O. Rice, second 
tenor ; H. H. White, first bass ; H. F. 
Hatch, second bass. 

President Faunce is supplying for a few 
Sundays the pulpit of the Central Baptist 
Church, recently made vacant by the 
removal of Dr. T. D. Anderson, '74, to the 
pastorate of the Emmanuel Baptist Church 
at Albany, N. Y, 

The officers of the tennis association 
recently elected are: President, A. U. 
Pope, '03 ; vice-president, H. V. Joslin, 
'04 ; secretary and treasurer, A. L. Briggs, 
'04 ; executive committee, Dean Meikle- 
john ; C. S. Allen, '04 ; R. E. Martin, '04. 

Following are the new officers of the de- 
bating union : President, P. W. Gardner, 
'03 ; vice-president, E. T. Stevens, '04 ; 
secretary and treasurer, R. G. Martin, '04 ; 
executive committee, E. L. Mclntyre, '04 ; 
C. H. Hall, '05 ; W. A. Spicer, Jr., '05 ; 
honorary member, A. U. Pope, '03, ex-pre- 
ident of the association. 

On Wednesday evening, October 8, Pro- 
fessor Dealey delivered an address in 5 U. 
H. on " Social and Personal Purity." 

The celebration committee appointed by 
the dean of the university is Bumstead, 
Clifford, Blanding, '03 ; Stevens, Mclntyre, 
'04; Hatch, Hoyt, '05; Russ, '06 ; Lynch, 
sp. 

The philosophical club has elected as 
officers for the ensuing year : President, 
A. U. Pope ; vice-president, E. T. Paine ; 
secretary and treasurer, J. H. Palmer ; 
executive committee, Dean Meiklejohn, 
H. J. Hall, G. Waterhouse, C. C. Cutler. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



The Monthly cordially acknowledges the as- 
sistance derived from that excellent publication, the 
BraiuH Daily Herald, in the preparation of this 
■department. 

1852 honorary 

Rev. Joseph Angus, who received the honorary 
•degree of doctor of divinity from Brown in 1852, 
recently died at East Hampstead, England, aged 
56. Dr. Angus was the Nestor of the Baptist 
■denomination in England. He graduated at Edin- 
burgh in 1836. His first and only pastorate was at 
New York Chapel, Southwark, Kippon, the church 
■of which Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon became pastor 
in 1853, and which became the world-famous Me- 
tropolitan Tabernacle. Dr. Angus became secre 
tary of the Home Missionary Society in 1839, and 
in 1849 president of Stepney College, which re- 
moved to Regent's Park in 1856. As a college 
president Dr. Angus did the great work of his life, 
remaining at the head of the college until 1893. 
He was the author of the well-known Handbooks 
to the Bible, the English Language and English 
Literature, and edited an edition of Wayland's 
Moral Science, and of Bishop Butler's Analogy and 
Sermons. Besides these labors Dr. Angus was a 
member of the first school board of London, Eng- 
lish e.xaminer in the University of London, and in 
the Civil Service of India, one of the founders of 
the " Freeman," and one of the original company of 
New Testament revisers. He visited the United 
States in 1873 as a delegate of the Evangelical 
Alliance. 

1854 

George P. Upton of Chicago has recently pub- 
lished through the press of A. C. McClurg and 
•Company two volumes on music, entitled The 
Standard Light Operas and Musical Pastels. The 
first of these is an addition to a series of books on 
standard music, published in 1889 and 1890. The 
series now contains volumes upon standard operas, 
•oratorios, cantatas, symphonies, and light operas. 
The other work just issued, Musical Pastels, is a 
•collection of chapters on a variety of musical topics. 

Mr. Upton has been engaged in newspaper work 
in Chicago ever since his graduation from Brown. 
He was on the staff of the A'ative Citiztn, 1855-56, 
■city editor of the Evening Journal, 1856-61, musi- 
■cal critic of the Chicago Tribune, 1 862-1 881, and a 
•war correspondent, 1862-63. He has been asso- 
■ciate editor of the Chicago Tribune since 1872. 

1856 

In an address at Boston, October 11, Hon. Rich- 
ard Olney made a vigorous attack on the Pennsyl- 
vania coal operators, whom he called "the most 
•unblushing and persistent of law-breakers." He 
said : " For years they have defied the laws of 
Pennsylvania, which forbids common carriers en- 
gaging in the business of mining. For years they 
have discriminated between customers in the freight 
■charges on their railroads, in violation of the inter- 
state commerce law. For years they have unlaw- 
fully monopolized inter-state commerce, in violation 
•of the Sherman anti-trust law." 



1858- 

Colonel William L. Stone of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., 
recently visited Brown for the first time since his 
graduation, forty-four years ago. In the Providence 
Su7iday Journal appeared, soon after, a letter from 
him, of which the following is a part : 

" I wish to enter a protest regarding the portraits 
of Professors Lincoln, Dunn, Caswell, Sears, Ban- 
croft, Gammell and Greene, (in Sayles Hall). As 
artistic performances I suppose they are excellent, 
but as likenesses they are, in my opinion, most 
lamentably deficient — so far, at least, as conveying 
to the present generation of students a correct 
representation of these persons as they appeared 
to me in life. I may say, without contradiction, 
that I was during my college course on the most 
intimate terms with Lincoln, Dunn, Bancroft and 
Caswell. Regarding Professors Gammell, Sears 
and Greene I knew them well (ofiicially) for four 
years ; and as I have hinted, with the exception of 
Lincoln (though his is far from good) whose photo- 
graph, sent me by him just before his death, looks 
down upon me as I write this in my library, I 
honestly say that I should not have recognized any 
of these portraits had I seen them in some collec- 
tion irrespective of their surroundings. 

'" Tim ' Bancroft, my old and dearly loved class- 
mate, for instance, I should not have known, for he 
never had such a nose! 

" Now, as I say, why I write this is simply to in- 
form the present students who will gaze on these 
portraits — the deans of their college — that they 
are not correct. 

"In closing and in justice to the artists of these 
various portraits, however, I should state that Miss 
Vaughn told us that they were all painted after 
death from photographs ; so, of course, these 
painters could not, like myself, see their different 
expressions as they spoke. But, granting all this, 
the fact remains as I have said." 

1859 
Dr. William W. Keen has returned to his home 
in Philadelphia from a tour around the world. 

1862 

After a furlough of five months in this country. 
Rev. J. R. Goddard, D. D., is returning to the mis- 
sionary station at Ningpo, China. Mrs. Goddard, 
who came to this country two years ago, is return- 
ing with him. 

1863 

James Henry Foss has recently published a vol 
ume entitled "The Gentleman from Everywhere 
or Truth Stranger than Fiction." 

1863 and 1877 

Rev. Dryden W^ Phelps, '77, of New Haven, 
Conn., writes the Monthly on the subject of 
" close communion " as a Baptist doctrine, apropos 
of an obituary notice of Rev. F. F. Emerson, '63, 
published in the magazine a few months ago. Mr. 
Phelps's letter is interesting, but we hope it will 
not precipitate a doctrinal discussion in our pages. 
He writes : 



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" Vou stated in your obituary of Rev. F. F. 
Emerson, who graduated at Brown University in 
1863, and left the Baptist ministry for the Congre- 
gational in 1879, that in 1879 he changed his views 
upon the subject of close communion, but this is a 
mistake. He was an open-communionist long be- 
fore he left the Baptists. In fact, he told the 
church committee, of whom my father, S. Dryden 
Phelps, D. D., a Brown graduate, was one, that " he 
had always been an open-communionist, out and 
out, and within a couple of months or so he had 
modified his views of baptism, accepting any mode 
as valid." His open-communion views were well 
known, I understand, and would never have cost 
him his pastorate. But when he was no longer a 
Baptist, he did right to resign. I heard a New 
Haven Baptist pastor state, September 8, that of 
the New England Baptist churches, four out of 
every five are open-communion. Another Baptist 
pastor in this city administered the Lord's Supper 
in a hospital, September 7, and stated in my hear- 
ing that probably not one of the communicants is a 
Baptist. He is president of the New Haven 
Baptist Ministers' Conference, and I am clerk of it. 
The vice-president is pastor of a church of about 
1,000 members, and for more than two years has 
publicly invited to the Lord's Supper ' all disciples 
of the Lord, to remain and commune with us.' In 
a Connecticut Baptist church, April 22, I heard the 
invitation to all that love Christ. And another 
Baptist pastor told us he was glad of the invitation 
and of its increasing frequency. I have myself, al- 
though a Baptist, administered the commtinion in a 
Congregational church (Osceola, N. Y., September 
13, 1891)." 

1866 

The IVorct'ster Magazine for August, 1902, con 
tained a sketch of the late Judge John Hopkins of 
the Massachusetts superior court from the pen of 
Judge Francis A. Gaskill, '66, of the same court. 

[870 

Joseph B. Bishop, chief of the editorial staff of 
the New York Commercial Advertiser, writes 
" The Quarterly Chronicle," a department in the 
International Quarterly. 

1874 

Hon. James W. Ferry of New York city is the 
Republican candidate for Congress in the thirteenth 
district of New- York state. 

On his return from Europe a few weeks ago. 
Mayor D. L. D. Granger of Providence announced 
his unwillingness to run for a third term. Shortly 
afterward he was nominated by the Democratic con- 
vention in the first Rhode Island district for con- 
gress, and although he decHned at first he was 
later persuaded to remain in the field. 

1876 
Hon. R. G. Hazard of Peace Dale, R. I., has 
been elected president of the board of trustees of 
the Tower Hill Institute. Hon. T. B. Stockwell, 
'62, of Providence, is a member of the board. 

1879 
G. F. Barnard is manager of the Goodwill Home 
Association, East Fairfield, Me. This is an insti- 
tution for homeless boys. 

1880 
Hon. David F. Slade of Fall River, Mass., has 



been renominated by the Republicans for the gov 
ernor's council. 

1882 

Sam Walter Foss, librarian of the Somerville' 
Mass., public library, has issued a letter to the Sun- 
day schools of Somerville, inviting them to use the 
library by selecting books to be sent to the Sunday 
schools and distributed there on Sundays. 
1884 

The September number of the Providence Mecii- 
ea/ /oitrna/ contcdns an article on "The Trade and 
the Profession," by Hermon C. Bumpus, Ph. D. 
1886 

Mayor Charlton A. Reed of Morristown, N. J., 
contributes to the A^e'ii' York Sunday Tr'thune of 
October 12 a long illustrated article on that city — 
one of a series presenting the attractions of towns 
near New York as places of residence for metro- 
politan business men. 

Professor A. C. Crowell spent three months last 
summer in Europe, during which time he visited 
Rotterdam, Cologne, Bonn, Cassel, Leipsic, Berlin, 
Copenhagen, Kiel, Hamburg and Bremen. He re- 
mained six weeks at Leipsic, attending lectures and 
studying methods. Professor Crowell says that he 
is still convinced that many of our American methods 
are better than the German methods. A week was 
spent at Copenhagen, where he made special inves- 
tigation of subjects in Scandinavian antiquity. 
From this city side trips were made to Frederiksbog, 
famous for the castle of King Christian the Fourth ; 
and- to Kronbourg, made memorable by Shakes- 
peare's " Hamlet." Later, after a brief glimpse of 
Sweden, the return trip was made by way of Kiel 
and Hamburg to Bremen, and thence homeward. 

The lectures of Professor George G. Wilson on 
" Insurgency," delivered before the United States 
Naval War College in the summer of 1901, have 
been translated into French and appeared in the 
August number of the Revue Maritime. 
1887 

The nurseries formerly conducted by the late 
Stephen Crane in Norwich, Ccnn., have been sold 
by the administrator of his estate to Orman E. 
Ryther, Brown, '87, of that city, who will manage 
the nurseries himself. These nurseries which are 
among the largest in New England, were started by 
Mr. Crane in 1867 and from the first proved a suc- 
cessful venture. Mr. Crane built up a business 
which extended throughout New England, and even 
into the West. At one time he had a number of 
selling agents on the road, and up to the time of 
his death in July last, Mr. Crane maintained the 
high standard which the products of his nurseries 
had always held. 

1889 

A. J. Read, who took a special course with the 
class of 1889, is now superintendent of the Phila- 
delphia Institute of Physiological Therapeutics, 
1809 W^allace street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Read 
took a course in science at Brown and afterwards 
graduated from a leading medical college in the 
United States with the degree of M. D. He mar- 
ried Miss Harriet Warren of Acushnet, Mass., and 
the two went as medical missionaries to the South 
Sea islands. Here they remained for five years, 
accomplishing much practical good among the 
natives. They returned to America to make their 



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report to the religious denomination wliich sent 
them and intended to return to the scene of their 
labors, but about two years ago Mrs. Read died as 
the result of injuries received in a railway accident 
near Battle Creek, Mich., and Dr. Read abandoned 
his proposed trip. Since then he has been occupy- 
ing the superintendency of the Thiladelphia Insti- 
tute. Dr. Read recently visited Providence and 
Brown University. 

1890 

Professor Dealey spent several weeks last summer 
in Te.xas, visiting relatives and making inquiries in 
regard to historical material in possession of the 
Houston family and of the State University at 
Austin. On his return he visited New Orleans, 
Atlanta and Washington. 

1892 

E. B. Munger is now located at 36 West 1 7th 
street. New York city. He has recently returned 
to this country after having studied two years 
under Leschetizky, the famous pianist of Vienna. 

1893 
In the recent Democratic state convention in 
Rhode Island, Mayor James J. Fitzgerald of Paw- 
tucket received loi votes for governor to 119 for 
Dr. L. F. C. Garvin of Cumberland. 

1894 

Hon. Archie N. Frost of Lawrence, Mass., pre- 
sided at the Republican congressional convention 
of the fifth district held at Lowell, October 2. 

F. E. Steere is manager of the largest lumber es- 
tablishment in Honolulu, and also owner of a plan- 
tation of lime trees on the island of Oahu. He 
still plays baseball, and is called the best player in 
the islands. He says life in Honolulu is very sat- 
isfactory. 

H. C. Field has just returned to Providence from 
a two years business trip around the world, making 
his third circuit of the globe in the last five years ; 
on this last trip he visited Great Britain, Egypt, 
India, Burmah, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, 
Java and other East Indian islands, the Phihppine 
Islands, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. 
He was married in Brisbane, Australia, and ex- 
pects to make his home in Providence. 

Professor Thomas Crosby, who went abroad 
with Henry A. Barker, '93, spent ten weeks in Eng- 
land, Scotland, Wales and France, most of the 
time being passed in the lake district of England. 

1895 

Andrew Adams, ex-'95, has been living in the 
Hawaiian islands for several years, and is now 
manager of the Kahuhu sugar plantation on the 
island of Oahu, employing some 700 men. He is 
one of the best known of the younger men of 
Honolulu. 



Harry S. Greene has been renominated by the 
Woonsocket Democrats for the legislature. 

1S97 

Invitations have been issued for the marriage of 
Miss Martka Shepard Briggs, '97, to John Laurence 
Hood at the Second Congregational Church, Attle- 
boro, Mass., November 5, 1902. 



Arthur M. Allen, Esq., '97, of Providence has 
withdrawn from the law offices of David S. Baker, 
Esc|., '75, with whom he has been associated, and 
has removed to 1039 Banigan building, where he 
will continue the general practice of law. 

1898 

It is stated that David L. Fultz, ex-captain of the 
Brown nine, has made a contract to play two years 
with the New Vorks at a salary of $5,600 per year. 
He has batted above .300 as a member of the Phil- 
adelphia American team, fielded in fine style, and 
scored more runs than any other man in either of 
the big leagues. He was also third in the list of 
base runners in the American league. 

Miss Pheobe R. Gifford is teaching in the Uni- 
versity School, Providence. 

Lewis Tew Place, '98, and Miss Florence Car- 
penter Crane of Foxboro, Mass., were married on 
October 2, 1902. George F. Jenks, '98, was the 
best man and John W. Comey, '98, an usher. Mr. 
and Mrs. Place will be at home Tuesdays, after 
December i, at loS Daboll street. Providence, R. I. 

James H. Higgins is the Democratic nominee to 
succeed Mayor Fitzgerald, '93, of Pawtucket. 

M. T. Thompson is an instructor at Clark Uni- 
versity, Worcester, Mass. 

Borden Durfee Whiting has entered upon the 
general practice of law at 1039 Banigan building, 10 
Weybosset street, Providence. 

1899 

George W. Parker has been appointed to the 
teaching staff of Drury Academy, Springfield, Mo. 
Mr. Parker has been engaged in teaching since his 
graduation from Brown. P^or one year he was a 
teacher and assistant principal of Stamford Semi 
nary in Stamford, N. Y., and for the last two years 
he has been teaching in Mt. Hermon Academy, 
Northfield, Mass. At Drury Academy he will have 
charge of the work in English. 

James Franklin Dyer, '99, and Miss Amey 
Hoppin Aldrich, daughter of William Fosdick 
Aldrich of Providence, were married at St. John's 
Episcopal Church, October 22, 1902. Among the 
ushers were George A. Gaskill, '98, and Howard A. 
Greene. 

Howard C. Barber, now studying law in Cam- 
bridge, is leader of the Euphony Quartet of" Har- 
vard University. 

Miss Evelyn O. Johnson is teaching in Harts- 
horn Memorial College, Richmond, Va. 

1S99 and I 90 I 
The engagement of Albee L. Ladd, '99, to Miss 
Mary Louise Gregory, '01, is announced. 

1900 

C. B. Lester is teaching French and mathematics 
at Monson Academy, Monson, Mass. 

B. O. Pillsbury is with Woodworth & Co., whole- 
sale grocers, Concord, N. H. 

19CI 

During last summer the class of 1901 lost two of 
its members, Charles Herbert Hough and Arthur 
Ogden Clift, men of l^right promise, who died of 
appendicitis. 

Hough was born in Pawtucket and prepared for 
collegein the Woonsocket High School. He was 



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a member of his class football and baseball teams 
and was prominent in art lines. He was one of 
illustrators for the Liber of 1901, and a member of 
the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. 

Clift, a member of the same fraternity as Hough, 
was socially a prominent man in college. He was 
a member of the Cammarian Club, played on his 
class baseball and football teams, and captained the 
baseball team. He sang on the glee club and was 
a member of the band. He was vice-president of 
his class for two years and was a Liber representa- 
tive. He was manager of one of Walworth's 
stores in Boston and had intended to remain in 
business. 

Frank A. Page is teaching at Newburyport, 
Mass. 

I. L. Woodman is associate governor at the 
Friends' School, Providence. 

E. B. Williams, ex-'oi, is \\'ith the Rhode Island 
Company. 

Abel R. Corbin is at the New York Law School. 

1902 
James W. Barry is at the Boston Law School. 
Lucian L. Drury and Elmer D. Meserve are with 
the Ecjuitable Life Insurance Co., the former at 
Boston and the latter at Providence. 

William C. Hardy has entered the brass foundry 
business with his father at Fitchburg, Mass. 

Louis E. Young is with the First National Bank 
of Providence. 

E. P. B. Atwood is with the Equitable Life In- 
surance Co. at Detroit, Mich. 

Bruce Bennett is principal of the Beachmont, 
Mass., grammar school. 

Frederick D. Sullivan, ex-1902, died October first, 
at Bushkill, Penn., where he had gone in the hope 
of regaining his health. The immediate cause of 
his decease was heart trouble, but he had not been 
well for several months. Mr. Sullivan lived in 
Providence and fitted for Brown at the Manual 
Training High School and the Classical High 
School. Owing to an accident received in 1900, he 
had been out of college for a year, but was expect- 
ing to graduate with the present senior class. Mr. 
Sullivan was especially interested in drawing, and 
much of his work has appeared in the Liber. He 
was a member of Phi Kappa, and had many close 
friends. Yox some years he was in the employment 
of the Providence Journal, in the office of which 
paper he w'as greatly liked for his attractive com- 
bination of dignity and courtesy. Many members 
of the class of '02 attended his funeral. 

Samuel Moffat has become associated with the 
Keystone View Company, photographers and pub- 
lishers, of Meadville, Pa. Mr. Moffat will for the 
present be connected with the New York office, 
no Montague street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

E. B. Jackson is at the Harvard Law School. 
P. D. Sherman is teaching German at Brown. 
G. E. Buxton, Jr., is reporting for the Proi>idence 
Journal. 

W. E. Newcomb is representing Edward C. 
Jones & Co., bankers, of New York and Phila- 
delphia. 

A. K. Potter is in the jewelry business in Provi- 
dence. 

E. K. Smith has entered Y. M. C. L. work at 
Attleboro, Mass. 



C. T. Whitford is an instructor in the biblical 
literature department at Brown. 

PhiHp Caswell is in the florist business at New- 
port, R. I. 

C. R. Austin, E. D. Ramsden, C. R. Haslam and 
T. E. B. Pope are taking post-graduate studies at 
Brown. 

L. L. Drury is teaching at Mt. Hermon, North- 
field, Mass. 

B. H. Green has joined the ranks of teachers. 

W. A. Hill is at the Harvard Divinity School. 

R. F. Knowlton is in the insurance business in 
Boston. 

J. F. Malmstead is in business in Worcester, 
Mass. 

H. Natsch is at the L-nion Theological Semin- 
ary, New York city. 

M. J. Abbey is teaching in Illinois. 

W. W. Barker is at the Harvard Medical School. 

E. L. Bayliss is at the Rochester Theological 
Seminary. 

T. Burgess is at the General Theological Semin- 
ary in New York, studying for the Episcopal 
ministry. 

W. P. Daggett is at the Harvard Divinity School. 

H. M. Paine is at the Yale law school. Address, 
107 Duncan Hall, New Haven, Conn. 

R. W. Richmond is at the law school of the 
University of Pennsylvania. 

A. D. Dudley is now in the "new business" 
department of the United Gas Improvement Co. of 
Philadelphia. 

Duncan M. L. McPhail, now at Newton Theo- 
logical Institution, has been engaged to supply the 
pulpit of the Baptist church at Groton, Mass., for 
one year. 

Howard J. White has become the tutor of the 
two sons of D. Herbert Hostetter of Pittsburgh, 
Pa. In the course of the winter and spring Mr. 
White will accompany them in extensive travel in 
America and Europe. 

Samuel Noyes Douglas, only son of Samuel T. 
Douglas of Providence, died at his home October 
23, 1902, after nearly a year spent in efforts to re- 
gain his health. 



President Faunce to Speak 

The Twentieth Century Club of Boston has se- 
cured President Faunce as one of its speakers for 
its series of university lectures. His subject will 
be "The Protestant View of Moral Education." 
This lecture will be on January 31, following one 
by Archbishop Kean on "The Roman Catholic 
View of Moral Education." 

Legislative Nominees 

The Republicans of Providence have renominated 
C. Frank Parkhurst, '76, for state senator and W. 
M. P. Bowen, '84, and F. T. Easton, '92, for repre- 
sentatives. 

Another Book by Professor Sears 

Professor Lorenzo Sears has recently published 
a new book entitled "American Literature in its 
Colonial and National Periods." It is listed among 
the fall announcements of Little, Brown & Co., pub- 
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