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APRIL 

1936 

Vol. XXXVI 

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No. 9 



What Should Brown Do 
About Athletics? 

BY CLINTON C. WHITE '00 




Clinton C White '00 did not start to examine the 
athletic situation at Brown just recently or because the 
'Varsity had a bad season last fall. He has been close to 
it for many years, as undergradiuite manager of base- 
ball, as member of the Athletic Council, as leader of 
the campaign that resulted in the building of the 
Stadium at Brown Field, and as a valued, hard-wording 
member of the University Corporation. 

Alumni from all parts of the country sat up and 
listened when he made his observations on Brown 
athletics before the February meeting of the Advisory 
Council. And now that all alumni may have the 
chance of reading it, the Alumni Monthly is privi- 
leged to print Mr. White's stateme^it virtually m its 
entirety. 



tional institution and that the sooner we cease thinking in 
terms of athletics and become conscious of the basic purpose 
of the University, the more speedily will we enter upon the 
true path which leads toward the fulfilment of our educa- 
tional policy and that, therefore, the abandonment of all 
intercollegiate athletics is desirable. 

Between these two extremes there are varying opinions 
and it is not my intention this morning to attempt to answer 
any of them. My subject is a Question and when I complete 
this paper, it is still a Question involving many questions. 

My own position is that Brown should not drift v^rith the 
tide and some day find herself stranded on the rocks so far 
as concerns this particular phase of student life; that we 
should find so far as possible the solution of our athletic 
program in the light of the present. 



WHAT SHOULD BROWN DO ABOUT 
ATHLETICS? 

SHE should recogni:;e the importance of football in the 
minds of the red'blooded youth of today and co- 
operate in all departments to the end that Brown will 
take its rightful place among eastern colleges, setting up a 
balanced football schedule: and then to make it possible 
for Brown to maintain an enviable record with its opponents 
throughout the years by strengthening its coaching staff; 
by arranging class room schedules so that for five afternoons 
every week there is no class or laboratory work after 3:30 
thereby enabling the entire squad to engage in continuous 
practice; by encouraging the admission to Brown of better 
football material: by exercising a degree of leniency in 
academic rating during the football season; by supplying 
jobs for good football men and by granting scholarships not 
for one year only, but during the entire four college years, 
provided a certain established standard of scholarship is 
maintained. 

That is the answer of one group and is a composite of the 
more important suggestions which they have advanced. 

But another group of alumni make a different answer to 
this persistent question. They answer that intercollegiate 
athletics are not an essential part of our educational pro- 
gram; that too much emphasis in the past has been fjiven to 
this phase of undergraduate life; that Brown is an educa- 



M.\Y I explain to you why I have been delegated to dis- 
cuss this subject with you and may I also emphasise 
the fact that the invitation which was extended to me in no 
way is related to the recent football season in which so 
frequently we bared our heads to the words of Alma Mater? 
Nearly two years ago, the Athletic Council recognized that 
the depression was adversely affecting income while fixed 
charges seemed to have a way of continuing fixed. The 
Council, therefore, appointed a special Committee to study 
the financial side of Brown's athletic program. 

This committee immediately found that to balance the 
budget was only a part of the problem. We found, too, that 
this undergradute activity that we call "College Athletics" 
was an integral part of the whole program of student life. 
We soon recogni-ed that our athletic program as now 
organized cannot be removed from the University policy as 
a whole and analyzed by itself without reference to Brown's 
present educational process. 

The Committee, consisting of Vice President Adams, 
Dean Arnold, Prof. Marvel, Mr. Paul DeWolf and myself, 
therefore, studied the program as a whole. We also broke 
it down into the different sports and the branches of our 
program of physical education. We examined each sport 
as to present cost. We weighed student interest, degree of 
student participation in the particular game itself, the 
possibility of the extension of a sport in a manner which 
might engage greater student participation, the effect of the 
sport in question upon student morale and Brown's prestige. 
We weighed the influence upon student enrollment, both 



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as to quality and quantity. We did succeed in instituting 
certain economies without surrendering our responsibility 
to the student body and the members of the teams and at the 
same time with full recognition of our relationship to other 
colleges. 

We rendered our report to the Athletic Council in the 
early summer of 1935 where it was very graciously received. 
President Barbour requested that it be reviewed in part to 
the Corporation at the October meeting, and a few months 
later the faculty invited me to discuss the report with them 
at one of their Wednesday luncheons. I understand that 
there have never been so many of the faculty gathered to- 
gether at one time and in one place unless it might possibly 
be at Chapel. At any rate the faculty were so completely 
enthused over the importance of athletics that they wished 
me to try it out on the Alumni in the hope that Brown 
Alumni, too, might give some emphasis to college athletics 
at Brown. 

OBSERV.ATIONS 

IN making our report to the Athletic Council, we reviewed 
in detail the matter of finances and then made these 
observations which I quote. 

While our report deals only with dollars and cents, in 
our consideration of the iinancial aspect of our sports pro- 
gram we wandered into many iields of undergraduate life. 
The finances of our athletics are wrapped up in the bundle 
of student life. It is one of the most important phases of 
our educational program and cannot be solved by a mere 
summary of balancing figures for any one year. While the 
specific duty of the committee was to conserve as much of 
our Reserve Funds as possible in connection with our imme- 
diate program, we would be remiss if we neglected to 
record some of our observations and to point your thought 
in the direction of Brown's program beyond the next twelve 
months. 

There are at present eleven sports which if represented 
by both Varsity and Freshman give us twenty-two teams 
with attendant schedules, coaches, trainers and equipment. 
Of these only one pays its own freight, and the other 
twenty-one depend upon the financial success of that one, 
namely — Varsity Football. The obvious conclusion, then, 
is to make Varsity Football a financial success. 

This can be accomplished either by bringing each year to 
Brown an even flow of outstanding material, or by engaging 
a coaching staff that may be capable of turning out winning 
teams from average material. If the former course, shall 
"the even flow of outstanding material" take precedence 
over the scholastic requirements of the University? Shall 
Brown compete with other colleges in financial assistance 
to desirable football prospects? If the latter course, shall we 
pay for football coaching, salaries which far exceed the 
compensation of outstanding scholars on our faculty? 

The nature of our schedules also is a vital factor in the 
financial success of football which under our present set-up 
means the life of our entire athletic program. To what 
extent shall potential gate receipts determine the selection 
of our opponents and also the place of the game? Providence 
is not a football city. Certain games played away from 
home draw better gate than if played in Providence. And 
yet we have our investment in our own equipment and there 
are more friends of Brown within our immediate radius 
than in any other location. What should our attitude be 
with relation to existing and prospective leagues? 



THE MINOR SPORTS 

IF football does not bring in sufiicient gate receipts what 
becomes of our other twenty-one teams? Shall our entire 
athletic program be endowed and if that is a solution, when 
shall we begin to lay our plans? Real progress has already 
been made here at I3rown during recent years in lowering 
the cost of the conduct of so-called minor sports. In fact, 
they are upon such a very economical basis today that the 
theory of endowment is not impractical. 

Shall we reduce the intercollegiate program by eliminat- 
ing sports in which student participation is small, sports in 
which student interest is apparently on the wane, sports in 
which we do not have up-to-date equipment? Some feel too 
that Brown's prestige among prospective undergraduates 
may suffer because of a mediocre record through the years 
in certain branches of sports. Would it be desirable then to 
carry out a reduced program of intercollegiate contests in 
which Brown will maintain high rank with an enlarged 
program of student participation? 

When, however, we seriously consider the elimination of 
any sport, the Administration itself recognises the adverse 
effect of such a move upon student enrollment and campus 
life. And yet how many undergraduates are enthusiastically 
interested in our intercollegiate contests? The one major 
sport that finances our entire program is one in which there 
is practically no participation in the years following college, 
while Golf, Squash, Tennis, and Swimming, for example, 
which engage men during the long after-college years, 
receive comparatively little emphasis in our undergraduate 
program. 

Football has made valuable contribution to the enrich- 
ment of what we term "College spirit" and "College 
loyalty." Is there, however, today a growing demand for 
extended student participation and a lessening interest in 
the contests themselves? Is it possible that during the last 
decade and more, undergraduate life in our preparatory 
schools has developed to such an extent that during the pre- 
college days the boys express their interest in competitive 
sport with its increased emphasis both within and without 
the school, so that many enter college today with a sense of 
"maturity" which influences their attitude toward varsity 
contests? At any rate, there is much less evident mass 
interest in and enthusiasm for intercollegiate contests 
whether it be football or baseball. 

Then, too, there is our athletic plant which probably 
approaches $1,500,000 in replacement value, and yet it 




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— • they were answered 40 years ago, but as they should be 
answered today in the Ught of present conditions. There is 
no question in my mind that certain colleges have been put 
on the map by football and athletics. But on the other hand 
that may not be the medium of expression to the outside 
world during the next twenty-iive years. 

In the early days of our Colonial Colleges, the main 
purpose was to train students for the ministry and these 
colleges were often presided over by ministers of their 
respective denominational origin; then the function of these 
colleges broadened and student enrollment included also 
those preparing for the professions of teaching, law and 
medicine with some few of those who planned simply to live 
the common life; there followed a still further broadening 
of the iield of student enrollment and the percentage of 
those who were not preparing for either an academic or 
professional career increased; it may be that the increasing 
emphasis upon athletics during this period was natural. 



lacks certain equipment that is essential if we are to compete 
with colleges of our choice. This is particularly true of 
Swimming. We need a swimming-pool if we are to continue 
intercollegiate Swimming and we also need dormitories and 
recitation halls and we might add — increased Endowment. 
It may be that all athletic funds should be merged with the 
University Funds whether they be surplus or deficit. 

Some feel that there should be more Alumni control; 
others that there should be less. Greater undergraduate 
representation is urged by some. The set-up of the Athletic 
Council itself may deserve further study. 

AS TO THE FUTURE 

THE depression has, of course, adversely affected the 
financial position of our athletics as it has the finances 
of the University itself. When the sun shines again the 
problem of dollars and cents may be solved temporarily. It 
is, however, wise to assume that since the attitude of youth 
has altered toward most of the relationships of life, it may 
have experienced a change also with relation to college 
athletics. As we explored the financial problem of athletics 
at Brown, we made the above observations. 

It is not sufficient to meet merely the immediate future. 
An understanding of the place which a sane athletic pro- 
gram should occupy today in the student life of normal boys 
between the ages of 18 and 24 is our responsibility. What 
is it that the undergraduates want? What ought the under- 
graduates to have? What is best for Brown and for the 
undergraduates in the largest sense? 

Our Committee then expressed its unanimous apprecia- 
tion of the service and the quality of the directorship of Doc 
Marvel over the more than thirty years, and we closed with 
the request that he amplify the report with his own observa- 
tions of the development of college athletics over the years, 
believing that his knowledge of conditions as they were, his 
familiarity with conditions as they are and his forecast of the 
future will serve as a valuable guide to the solution of the 
questions which we raised. 

We have raised these questions because we have the 
conviction that many of them require serious and thought- 
ful study in order that Brown may move forward along a 
defined course in which we have the sincere cooperation of 
all. We should find the answer to these questions, not as 



AS to the future, then Brown's educational program 
. should determine to a large extent its attitude toward 
athletics. The purpose of our report is not to discourage or to 
encourage intercollegiate athletics, its purpose is to stimulate 
a recognition of the importance of college athletics to our 
entire educational program to the end that a fair and un- 
prejudiced study be made here at Brown in order that we 
may not drift, but rather that Brown will meet and solve 
this important phase of undergraduate activity in the light 
of what IS and what to our best ability we may prognosticate 
lies before us. 

It will interest you to know that a Committee is studying 
the whole matter of athletics and its relationship to Phy- 
sical Education in Brown University. It seeks as the solu- 
tion, that plan which will best serve Brown in its broadest, 
biggest, and finest sense. Other universities are attempt- 
ing to meet the problem. Announcement of some of the 
plans has already been made, and these plans are of varied 
type. 

May I quote in conclusion what a distinguished biologist 
has said about athletics : 

"Intercollegiate contests are good wine which, however, 
readily turns to vinegar when fermentation rises to the 
point of obsession. Normally the brilliant and colorful 
spectacle of a big game, the excitement of uncertainty, the 
tense, dramatic moments, the team work, the intense loyalty 
to a common cause, all taken together are emotional experi- 
ences that should not be missed in student life." The speaker 
is Dr. Mead, in that splendid booklet Student Life. 

Our responsibility to the student body demands our study 
of this vital phase of undergraduate life in the light of 
present conditions and future probabilities. We must 
salvage the good and discard the bad. We must provide 
young virile boys with attractive interests to enlist their 
energy, their time and their enthusiasm. Brown must not 
drift in the present changing tides: rather she must prepare 
herself so that she may be able to chart her course wisely. 



A Victory Over Harvard 

Brown debaters successfully upheld the contention that 
the Social Security Laws of the last Congress are detri- 
mental to the interests of the American people in a debate 
with Harvard on March 22. The decision, 2-1, marked the 
resumption of forensic relations with Harvard. 



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Chiefly Concerning the Campus 



The Great Kidnaping Case 

G-Man J. Edgar Hoover opened a telegram in his 
office at the Department of Justice, Washington, 
and read : "Request assistance recovery of kidnaped 
Brown University Sophomore, Floyd Hinckley, missing 
since 11 p. m., March 16.' The message was signed by the 
"Sophomore Class, Brown University." 

The Sophomore Class had cause for concern over Hinck- 
ley, for Hinckley is their class marshal and the Freshmen 
had employed a successful ruse to capture him and hold 
him prisoner for several days before the Flag Rush. 

The Sophomores were eager for aid and sought it from 
Governor Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, even 
asking that the State Militia be called out. "Telegram re- 
ceived," was the reply telegram from the State House. 
"Are you sure class marshal was kidnaped or wants his 
whereabouts discovered? Why should Freshmen want him? 
Or Sophomores want him back?" 

During this exchange of messages, Hinckley was with 
his captors at the Brown Outing Reservation and elsewhere, 
having been lured from the dance floor of the Biltmore 
Hotel to fall into a trap and leave his girl without escort. 
After cruising about the State, he was returned to the 
campus in time for the rush, as promised. Freshman Marshal 
Goodby had been successfully guarded from reprisals in 
the meantime. 

After days of skirmishes between the classes all over 
town, the rush was held. Donald C. Crosby captured the 
flag within the time limit to win for the Freshmen and 
gain them the right to discard their caps unseasonably early. 



Veterans of Future Wars 

BROWN satirists, following the lead of Princeton under- 
graduates, have organized their own chapter of the 
Veterans of Future Wars and demand from Con- 
gress immediate payment of a $1000 bonus plus three per 
cent — interest compounded annually from June 1, 196'), to 
June 1, 1936. They claim they are the ones who will fight 
the next war and seek their "bonus" now, since it is 
"customary to pay bonuses before they are due." In this 
way, say the organisers, the beneficiary will be able to 
enjoy his money before he has been slain in the next war. 

A letter from the historian of Yankee Division Post 
No. 272, Veterans of Foreign Wars, told the Editor of 
the Brown Daily Herald that "during the year 1917, yes, 
even in 1914, the Allied Forces, both Army and Navy, 
were rather surprised by the number of college men found 
in the ranks. 

"While these red-blooded American Youths were going 
through Hell, an organization was formed on our Uni- 
versity and College Campuses known as the S. A. T. C. — 
Some Are Terribly Cautious. These Romulus and Remus- 
like sucklings gallantly remained home so that in later years 
they might make up that army of anti-bonus propagandists. 
We now find their courageous and super-intelligent off- 
spring on the same campuses following robot-like in the 
footsteps of their cautious parents. 

"PULL IN YOUR NECKS," said a Herald editorial in 
reply: "The college boys do not wish to criticise the good 
intentions of the A. E. F., but they do attack the disgraceful 



raids on the treasury on the part of various veterans' 
organizations, the majority of whose members never got 
beyond Hoboken. . . . The Veterans of Future Wars is 
the most colorful method yet hit upon to convey the fact 
that present American undergraduates have no desire to 
he drawn into another major debacle. . . . We back to the 
hilt the Veterans of Future Wars." 



Seniors Will Have Jobs 

A MAJORITY of seniors at Brown University can look 
forward towards employment after graduation with 
L. far more certainty than their predecessors in any class 
since 1929, Prof. Samuel J. Berard, in charge of placement 
at Brown, reports. 

Because of an unusual demand for college-trained men 
by a wide variety of business organizations, Prof. Berard 
declared that "there is good reason to believe that most 
qualified seniors graduating in June will have jobs." He said 
that some seniors have already accepted positions and that 
others are weighing two or three offers. 

From April through May the placement work will be at 
its peak at Brown, with representatives from banking, 
industrial , investment, merchandising, brokerage and other 
organizations holding conferences on the campus with 
seniors by arrangement with the Committee on Placement. 
The policy of the committee is "to bring the student and 
the job together." 

An increasing tendency among leading business organ- 
izations today is to pick its college graduate employees not 
only on the basis of scholarship, but also on the basis of 
character, personality, appearance and promise of future 
achievement, Prof. Berard states. If a student earns any 
of his university expenses, it is considered good evidence 
of his ability to succeed. 

"Scholarship is only one of the criteria considered by 
business organizations in choosing college men," he says. "If 
a student lacks personality or promise of achievement, his 
chances for getting a job are correspondingly slim." 

Prof. Berard points out that Brown University's admis- 
sions policy has a direct and co-ordinated bearing on the 
placement of seniors, inasmuch as the qualifications which 
employers look for are required of applicants for admission 
to the University. Freshmen must meet not only scholastic 
standards but must present "positive evidence of good 
character, acceptable personality, intelligent ambition and 
genuine proficiency." 

Representatives from business organizations visiting the 
campus for interviews with seniors this year report that 
job candidates show exceptional understanding of economic 
conditions, a keen interest in business, and a desire to face 
the future seriously. 

Although records at the University for last year's grad- 
uates are not yet complete. Prof. Berard says that as far as 
is known, most of the 1935 graduates are either employed 
or are doing advanced work in business, professional or 
technical schools. 

Most outstanding students elect advanced and special- 
ized training before going on with their future careers, 
according to Prof. Berard. Usually about 25 percent of the 
graduating class at Brown, including many of those elected 
to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, go on to graduate schools. 



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The Wandering Doe of Wilson Hall 

A STARTLED doe, appearing no one knew whence, created 
a furore on the Brown campus on February 20 by 
wandering into Wilson Hall and making its way down- 
stairs into the physics laboratory of Professor Harry E. 
Farnsworth. Before excited professors and students could 
follow it, the doe had cut itself by jumping at a window 
about five or six feet from the floor and cutting itself on the 
glass so badly that it finally bled to death. 

Several pieces of research equipment were upset by the 
animal, but it fortunately missed — though by a thin margin 
— destroying a valuable vacuum instrument which Pro- 
fessor Farnsvi'orth is using in important experiments. Except 
for one student who had noticed the doe lying in the snov./ 
near the Engineering Building, no one saw her before her 
curiosity lured her into Wilson Hall. 

First Report on the Alumni Fund 

TRUSTEES of the Brown Alumni Fund had some good 
news for their class agents when the response to their 
first appeals was tabulated. As of March 26, the contribu- 
tions received amounted to $9,188.60, an increase over 
the same date of last year of $4,875.3T. These are con- 
tributions from 676 men, a gain over last year of 336. One 
interesting and encouraging fact is that the contributors 
included 108 men who had never contributed to the Fund 
before. 

The Fund is still a long way from its goal for the year, 
however. 

The Intercollegiate Regatta 

TRIALS were under way last month and this as Brown 
skippers contended for the honor of representing the 
University in the first intercollegiate dinghy regatta to be 
held on May 2. Acceptances were coming in from the 
nine colleges invited by Brown to participate in the races at 
Bristol, and M. L T, Yale, Williams, Princeton, and 
Columbia were the first to reply. Boats owned by members 
of the Brown Yacht Club and the Narragansett Bay frost- 
bite association will be lent to the contestants. 

In the meantime Brown alumni have taken the first steps 
toward financing a yachting program for undergraduates 
on a long term basis. They are much encouraged by the 
progress made. 

Teachers' Discussions 

MORE than 350 New England educators attended the 
34th annual meeting of the Brown University Teach- 
ers' Association on March 21. The principal speakers were 
Dr. Herbert H. Jasper of Brown, Dr. Peter Manniche, 
president of the International Peoples' College, Denmark; 
Dr. Kirtley F. Mather of Harvard, Vice President Albert 
D. Mead of Brown, and Dr. Alexander J. Stoddard of 
Providence. Among those who spoke at the various con- 
ferences and round tables were the following members of 
the Brown faculty : Prof. Howard B. Grose, Prof. Jarvis M. 
Morse, Prof. Charles H. Smiley, and Dr. Albert B. F. 
Duncan. 

Officers of the Brown University Teachers Association 
are Prof. William T. Hastings of Brown, president; Clar- 
ence W. Bosworth '09, superintendent of schools in Crans- 
ton, R. I., vice-president; Prof. Benjamin C. Clough of 
Brown, second vice-president; Prof. C. E. Ekstrom of 
Brown, secretary; and Percy R. Crosby '19, vice-principal 
of Pawtucket High School, treasurer. 




TH£ MUM£.\T Of ViCTORT 
Alfred KessIcT of the Brown Camera Club it'tis the ouly photographer to catch Donald C. Crosby 
in the act of grabbiTig the fiafi and tcntniiig the rush for 1939. One can detect the ej^ect of a 
pic\ed squad of freshman dTtillerymen who laid dou'n a barrage of nuid during the actior\. 



The President's Return 

THE appearance of President Barbour in chapel on a 
morning late in March was the signal for a great, pro- 
longed ovation by his students. Returned to full health 
and vigor after his recent attack of appendicitis. Dr. Bar- 
hour has plunged avidly into the tasks that are again his. 
The Sayles Hall demonstration was a convincing, if noisy 
proof of his popularity with the student body on the Hill. 



'When Engineers Convened 

STUDENT engineers from Harvard, M. I. T., Tufts, 
Worcester Tech, Rhode Island State, and Northeastern 
were the guests of Brown men at the annual convention of 
the New England Student Branch of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers. Gordon W. Smithson, Pro- 
fessor William H. Kenerson, Professor Frederick N. Tomp- 
kins, William H. Kahler and Lauriston P. Windsor were 
among the Brunonians who contributed to the program for 
the 70 visitors. 



In the 'World of World Affairs 

ARTHUR Irving Andrews '01 will again ser\'e as Dean 
.of the Institute of World Affairs which will meet next 
August at Ferry Beach, Saco, Maine. In 1935, the first 
year, the Institute had 76 members, with larger audiences 
for the open meetings. The members included diplomats, 
college teachers, ministers and others deeply interested in 
world topics. Andrew's present address is 68 Gray Street, 
Arlington, Mass. 



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Brunonians in the Headlines 



How Caesar Was Born 

JULIUS Caesar, contrary to widespread belief, was not 
born by means of a Caesarean operation. Neither did 
he have anything to do with enactment of the old Roman 
law that forbade burial of a woman who died in pregnancy 
before the body of the unborn child had been removed by 
surgery. 

The old myth about Caesar and his birth is exploded by 
Dr. John Harold Couch of Toronto General Hospital and 
Herbert Newell Couch, assistant professor of Greek at 
Brown University. 

A reason for the persistent linking of Caesar's name with 
the operation is given by the Couches in a report to the 
Journal of the Canadian Medical Association. The reason 
is quite the reverse of the traditional belief. Instead of the 
operation being named for Caesar, Julius Caesar's family 
probably got their name from it. The Couches explain it as 
follows : 

"It is altogether probable that some distant ancestor of 
his was born by means of a Caesarean operation, performed 
on a dead mother, and the cognomen of Caesar, which is 
derived from the verb caedo, to cut, was attached to the 
newborn child for that reason. Another Roman family, 
bearing the name Caeso, may have derived their cognomen 
from the same cause. Such a method of assigning names 
would be entirely in harmony with the early Roman tradi- 
tions. In fact, Pliny is the authority for this assumption, 
for in his natural history he remarks that certain people 
were born by an incision of the mother and that 'the first of 
the Caesars' was said to have been born in this manner." 

No one knows just who the first of the Caesars was, but 
he was not the Julius of historic fame. More than a hundred 
years before this dictator was born there is a record of a 
Sextus Julius Caesar in Sicily. 

Further evidence of the inaccuracy of the old tradition 
about Julius Caesar's birth is cited by the Couches. 

"Not until long after the days of Julius Caesar was the 
Caesarian operation successfully performed on living 
women, and it is a matter of historical record that Julius 
Caesar's mother, Julia, lived for many years after his birth." 

Tradition Overboard 

""T~>v R. Joseph L. Wheeler threw tradition overboard. 
I I . . . His methods are, in many ways, those of a 

L y supersalesman. He believes that enthusiasm, energy, 
thrust, and aggression are necessary to the proper conduct 
of a public library. ... He believes the public library is 
one institution that everyone in the community has a right 
to walk into and say, 'Darn it, this is my library, and I've 
got just as much right here as anybody else' ." 

Thus does Lee McCardell characterize Dr. Joseph L. 
Wheeler '06, librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 
Baltimore, in a well-drawn sketch in the magazine section 
of the Baltimore Sunday Sun. The writer sets forth in 
lucid fashion on the career of the most progressive public 
librarian in the United States who, in ten years, has 
increased the circulation of the Enoch Pratt Library by 
1,700,000 books a year and who says that the library's 
annual circulation should be four or five million books. 

"The next step in Baltimore's public library system, as 
}At. Wheeler sees it, should he the development of four or 



five regional branches with capacities of 300,000 to 400,000 
books each and costing $100,000 or more apiece. . . . And 
he has a dream that some day a genius will arise to edit 
thin books, attractively printed, on "JOO subjects — thin 
books with simple words, short paragraphs, plenty of draw- 
ings and diagrams, and a third of their space given over 
to illustrations explained by long captions." 

Joe Wheeler has always been dreaming such dreams — 
and then making them come true. 

• Reversed the Verdict 

John Hope (Brown, 1894) in his life helped to reverse 
the verdict of the world, that a negro is a kind of man 
incapable of the highest human development," wrote 
M. Ashby Jones in his column, "Text and Pretext," in the 
Atlanta Co7i.stitiition under date of March 1. "He and 
Booker T. Washington become torches of hope — signal 
lights to point the pathway of a race. . . . 

"But the emphasis of the gratitude of southern people 
for the life of John Hope should be placed upon the fact 
that he was unwilling to remain in the north, where he was 
showered with honors, to pose as a social freak, a sensational 
exception to his people. No. He had an unquenchable 
faith in the possibilities of his own people. . . . With the 
fervor of an apostle and the urge of an evangelist, he came 
back to the south to establish a school, and from that van- 
tage point to shout his 'whosoever will, let him come' to all 
his people. . . . 

"For nearly 40 years John Hope has been developing good 
citizens who, in turn, have gone throughout this southland 
to carry to their peoples the spirit and ideals of this great 
institution, Atlanta University." 

To Lord & Taylors Chair 

WALTER HoviNG '20, newly appointed vice president 
and director of Associated Dry Goods Corporation, 
will be chairman of the board of Lord 5? Taylor, New York 
City, a corporation affiliate. Thus he returns to his old 
stamping ground after having been vice president and sales 
manager of Montgomery Ward &' Co., Chicago, for nearly 
five years. He went to Chicago with the mail order house 
after seven years with R. H. Macy i^ Co., New York, 
where he made a name for himself in retail sales work. 

Blac\'s Medical Honor 

DR. Leroy W. Black '20 was made a Fellow of the 
American College of Physicians at a meeting held in 
Detroit last month. Black has been a general practitioner 
in Rutherford, N. J., for the past 11 years and is associate 
director of medicine at Hackensack Hospital, where he is 
also electro-cardiologist. He has three youngsters, Barbara, 
Cynthia, and Billy, to keep him hard at work. 

The Germanic Society 

Four German travel films were shown at the annual 
motion picture meeting of the Germanic Society of Rhode 
Island in the Engineering Building at Brown. Folk songs, 
rendered by the combined voices of two of the Rhode Island 
German Singing Societies, comprised the musical part of 
the program. 



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Presenting Bruno III 

BRUNO III, Brown University's new bear cub mascot, 
will receive a royal reception when he arrives in 
Boston from Maine, Monday, April 20. 

Colonel Colyar P. Dodson and Lee Whitney of the Hotel 
Kenmore invite all well-behaved mascots of New England 
colleges to join in greeting Bruno at a special dinner party 
in his honor to be held on the eventful day Bruno lands by 
plane at the East Boston Airport. 

Last month a group of blue-blooded dogs appearing in a 
local dog show dined at a table together at the Kenmore. 
Canine delicacies were served, and the prize dogs had a most 
enjoyable reunion. Never before, however, has a dinner 
party been held for the animal pets of the various colleges. 
The Kenmore management will invite Handsome Dan, 
Yale's famous bulldog : Boston University's terrier. North- 
eastern University's husky, Rhode Island State's ram, Lasell 
Junior College's raccoon, a native of Maine by the way, and 
various other celebrities of the collegiate circus. 

Bruno will register at the Kenmore some time Monday 
morning, and remain there until after the annual dinner of 
the Brown Club of Boston Wednesday evening, April 22, 
at which time he will be formally presented to Dr. Clarence 
A. Barbour, President of Brown, by Governor Louis J. 
Brann of Maine. 

Bruno has been invited by Professor Clarence P. Houston, 
athletic director of Tufts College, to attend the Tufts 
Brown baseball game, scheduled Wednesday, April, 22, at 




'S^^^^^ 




"I NEVER EXPECTED TO ROMP with a bear alter /it>c minutes' 
acquaintance." ivritcs Edward R. Place '24 of Bruno 111. the mascot he 
helped get for Brown. "I am particularly happy that I jound reports o/ 
Bruno's amiable disposition apparently well founded." 7hese pictures were 
taken at the Dry Mills game farm. 



the Oval in Medford. Judge Kenneth Nash, coach of the 
Tufts nine, is a Brown graduate. 

Bruno likes baseball. His custodian in Maine, George J. 
Stobie, Commissioner of Fish and Game, was a Red Sox 
pitcher, joining the American League team in 1912 after a 
brilliant athletic career at University of Maine. 

Arrangements have been made to fly Bruno to Boston in 
Adriel Bird's La Touraine plane. The big Bellanca air bus 
will be piloted by Bill Wincapaw, one of the country's 
oldest active pilots. He was recently appointed Admiral in 
the Navy of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Gov- 
ernor Curley for his v;ork in flood relief. Bruno, who 
wintered at the Dry Mills game farm, will board the plane 
at Portland. 

Bruno is a year old, and has learned to do many tricks. 
He is fond of climbing trees and will come down when 
called. He was captured last June in the Rangeley region 
by a State game warden. The cub's mother had broken into 
the warden's camp at Bowmantown many times, so the 
warden was forced to shoot her upon finding her ripping 
up the cabin roof. There were three orphaned cubs, but 
two got away from the warden. 

Edward R. Place '24, of Boston, was instrumental in 
getting the cub for Brown. Brown students are making 
preparations to greet Bruno with open arms. They will be 
represented at the Boston dinner by Hermann J. Lips, 



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editor'iri'chief of Liher Brunensis, and Allen H. Krause, 
editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald. 

Willard M. Walcott '23, custodian of the last Bruno 
during its period of active campus service, has volunteered 
to care for the new Bruno when he arrives in Providence. 
Mian GuUan has been appointed temporary keeper by the 
banquet committee. Mr. Gulian was in Florida when 
selected. 

Invitations will be mailed next week to five thousand 
Brown alumni in this section to attend the Boston dinner 
at which Bruno will be presented by Governor Brann. 
Judge Kenneth D. Johnson '19, will be toastmaster. William 
H. Shupert '22, is chairman. 



The J^ew Line Coach 

FORMATION of the new Brown football coaching staff 
under Head Coach DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry was 
completed this month with the following personnel: 
Denny E. Myers, formerly line coach at Yale and West Vir- 
ginia, varsity line coach; Malcolm C. Ball, Brown '34, and 
one of Brown's greatest ends, varsity end coach; Dr. Walter 
H. Snell, Brown '13, scout and second team coach; William 
J. Gilbane, Brown '33 and captain of the Brown 1932 
eleven, head freshman coach; and Thomas F. Gilbane, 
Brown '33, and a great Bruin centre, freshman line coach. 

Myers, Ball and Tom Gilbane are newcomers, while 
Snell and Bill Gilbane will occupy the same positions they 
held last year. Myers and Ball succeed Paul Hodge and 
Thurston Towle, the two varsity assistants who resigned at 
the close of last season, and Tom Gilbane will fill the post 
that Henry Letoile occupied last fall. 

Myers comes to his new post after coaching at West 
Virginia under Earle "Greasey" Neale through the seasons 
of '31, '32 and '33, and at Yale under "Ducky" Pond for 
the past two years. He played on the University of Iowa 
varsity under Bert Ingwerson in '27, "28 and '29, where 
he was rated by Ingwerson as one of the greatest linemen 
he had ever coached. He coached two fine lines at Yale, one 
of which stopped the victorious march of Princeton in 1934. 

Mai Ball, the great Bruin end whose varsity career was 
broken by a trip to Hollywood after he won a part in the 
filming of a picture as the result of his triumph in a nation- 
wide contest for talent, was a volunteer assistant with the 
freshman coaching last fall. He played end on the Brown 
varsity '31, '32 and '34 teams, holding down a regular post 
for three years. 

The Gilbane brothers rank as two of the finest athletes 
ever turned out at Brown, Bill captained the '32 team that 
lost only to Colgate, and Tom was track captain during his 
senior year. He held the New England Intercollegiate shot 
put title and record, and was I. C. A. A. A. A. indoor 
titleholder in the shot. He played centre on the Brown '30, 
'31 and "32 elevens, then made the trip to San Francisco as 
a member of Andy Kerr's Eastern team for the East- West 
game on New Year's day 1933. He was head coach at West- 
minster College last season. Dr. Snell, a member of the 
Brown faculty, has been identified with Brown coaching 
since 1920. 

Myers came to Providence on April 1st, expecting to take 
up his duties in coaching with the opening of the Brown 
spring drill on Tuesday, April 7th. 




HIS JOB THE LIHE 
Denny E. Myers, former line codch at 
Ta!e named as assistant to Tuss Mc 
Lauehry, u/ho is helping w\th the spTiilg 
joothall drills now in progress. 



Bostoyi's Water 

THERE was a distinct and highly pleasing Brown flavor 
apparent in the Proceedings of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers for March. All the technical papers for 
the entire issue were written by Brown men — Frank E. 
Winsor '91, chief engineer of the Metropolitan District 
Water Supply Commission of Massachusetts; Stanley M. 
Dore "20; and Frank E. Fahlquist '23, assistants to Mr. 
Winsor. 

Chief Engineer Winsor, in a lively foreword, told the 
story of the Metropolitan District Water Supply, one of 
the oldest districts of its kind in the United States, and 
emphasized the construction of a major addition to the 
Boston water supply by tapping the Ware and Swift rivers. 
The estimated cost of the additional supply is $65,000,000. 

Stanley Dore went on from where Mr. Winsor left off, 
giving an account of the Quabbin dams, which form the 
Quabbin reservoir; and Frank Fahlquist carried the account 
to its logical conclusion by reporting on the geologic 
features of Quabbin aqueduct, which leads from Quabbin 
reservoir to Wachusett reservoir and which goes through 
solid rock for 24.6 miles. 



Bac\ from the 'Wars 

W. W. (Bill) Chaplin '18, back in New York from 
Ethiopia, where he was war correspondent for Universal 
Service, told of his experiences with the Italian armies in 
Eritrea and Somaliland and the difficulty of gathering news 
at the 12th annual meeting of the Columbia Scholastic Press 
Association in New York City last month. Bill has been 
writing a day-by-day report of his war work under the 
title, "Blood and Ink," for a syndicate of newspapers. His 
Christmas Day interview with the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm 
at Doom, Holland, was an unusually fine piece of reporting. 



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Brunonia Plays the Game 



Two more New England Championships, in wres- 
thng and swimming, belong to the Brown Bear, his 
rewards for an indoor season that ended with even 
more credit than predictions had apportioned him. 

Title honors were a particular satisfaction to Dick Cole, 
wrestling coach, for they have generally managed to elude 
him here, one way or another. But not even an exasperat' 
ing set of mishaps could deny him and his squad this year. 
In the first place. Captain Ken Beaulieu had been injured 
in touch football last fall and did not don wrestling togs 
at all this year. Keegan, whose record has been marred 
by few if any defeats, couldn't make weight for the cham' 
pionships, and others were not in the best of shape. But 
the entries went to work with a will, giving their best in 
each bout and actually winning the title through seven 
extra points gained by falls. Lathrop and Zooloomian won 
New England titles, while Saklad and Cunningham took 
seconds to make the Brown total 27 points, two more than 
Tufts, the pre-meet favorite. Springfield, Harvard, Yale 
and M. I. T. were the other contestants in the Brown gym. 
The varsity won four of six dual meets, losing to Yale 
by a slim margin. Outstanding performer was Jim Lathrop, 
who was defeated only in the Harvard meet but gained 
falls in all others except with M. I. T., scoring 31 out of a 
possible 38 for the season, a fine showing for a Sophomore. 
The freshmen won two of five dual meets after an inauS' 
picious start and did well to finish third in the New Eng' 
lands with 17 points, behind Yale and Harvard. 

UNEXPECTED, too, was the championship that the 
swimmers added to the long string of such New 
England achievements. Victor in four of seven dual meets, 
the team was conceded only an outside chance of halting 
Wesleyan and Amherst. Levy captured the dives. Love the 
100-yard freestyle with Hemmerdinger close behind in 
second position, while the 400-yard freestyle relay set a 
new meet record in winning. Second places were taken by 
Hemmerdinger in the 50, Hayes in the backstroke, and 
Forbes in the 440; while the medley relay took third. Dean 
took a third in the dives, and Everall a fourth in the 
breaststroke, and Forbes a fourth in the 220. At least one 
Brunonian took points in every event except the individual 
medley. 

Other high spots in the season were a successful invasion 
of New York State to defeat Colgate and Syracuse in hotly 
fought sessions; a new Brown record set by Captain 
Everall in winning the breaststroke against Yale; Fred 
Forbes, competing in his first varsity meet, establishing a 
New England Intercollegiate record in the 440. Hemmer- 
dinger, sprint star, led the scoring with 53 points, having 
won at least one first place in every meet except that at 
Hanover. The team is fortunate in that only one of its top 
flight men will be graduated. Captain Everall, and Coach 
Barry will have several good prospects coming up from the 
freshmen, including Captain George, undefeated in his 
specialty all season, and Ipsen, who had three first and one 
second in four starts in the breaststroke. The freshman 
team won against St. George's, Moses Brown, and Worces- 
ter Academy, losing to Harvard. 



AFTER the basketball team reached its peak in a surge 
that carried it past strong obstacles in Yale, M. I. T., 
and Rhode Island, it slumped off in its last three games 
to end the season with an even break in a 16-game schedule. 
Of particular interest were the large crowds that followed 
Brown fortunes late in the year, with 2000 to 3000 at- 
tracted by the hard, spectacular style of play. Capacity 
turnouts forced play into the center courts, with excitement 
particularly high the night of the R. I. game. 

Although Coach Kahler will miss Captain Ray Noonan, 
Steve Armstrong, and Harrison Van Aken, he will have 
Ken Kennedy, Alfred Mordum, and Adolph Sharkey as 
a veteran nucleus. The coach anticipates a better season 
next year, if freshmen and others continue to develop their 
potentialities. Kennedy ranked fourth among high scorers 
in New England, although his team had fewer games 
scheduled than his principal rivals. He caged 86 goals 
and 61 foul shots for an aggregate of 233. The freshmen, 
who had won only four of twelve games, scored a brilliant 
triumph oved Providence College freshmen in their con- 
cluding engagement. 

The fencers acquitted themselves well, too, including 
victories over Amherst and M. I. T. in the late days of the 
winter, while the freshmen had good fortune, too, against 
Tech and school teams. 

If the hockey game against the Dartmouth invaders had 
only ended three minutes sooner, a score of 2-0 would have 
given a truer clue to the gallant stand the Brunonians made 
against a superior outfit. Three goals, two of them in the 
last 45 seconds of play, were added to the Green total in 
those final three minutes. It was not until after 1 5 minutes 
in the second period that Dartmouth pushed its first counter 
behind the brilliant defense of Skillings, who was just off 
a hospital bed. 

The Brunonians closed an honorable schedule on March 
by routing Colgate 8-1 in a game notable for the use of 
19 of the Brown squad, including Captain Harrie Hart, 
who had been unable to play all season because of a tennis 
injury last summer. The sextet won seven of twelve 
contests. 

:k % 4: :{: 4t 

Baseball's Prospects 

WATER, universal throughout New England this spring, 
was present on Brown sports fields in sufiicient quan- 
tities to handicap Coach Kelleher's outdoor baseball prep- 
arations. Indications were, however, that he would rely on 
a veteran infield of Butler, Captain 
Brown, Burbank, and Appleyard 
for the line-up in the opening game 
with Boston University on April 1 1 . 
Sophomores were joining Elrod in 
the outfield, while two of the second 
year men v^'crc fighting on even 
terms for the catching job. Veter- 
ans Murray and Dye seemed likely 
to be the mainstays on the mound, 
despite one of the largest pitching 
squads in many years, including 
Emkhe, nephew of the big league 



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notable of days past. Sports commentators gave encourage- 
ment that Brown baseball fortunes, improved markedly last 
year, would continue to rise. 

A hardy band of alumni were prepared to give the 
varsity its first outside competition on April 4, but wet 
grounds forced the cancellation of the game. Alumni 
players had been announced as Hal Fowler, catcher; Art 
Sondheim and Bill Sullivan, pitchers, Eddie Crane, first; 
Maury Caito, second; Bucky Harris, short; Stan Henshaw, 
third; Bill Gilbane, left; Henry C. Hart, centre; and 
Charley Slader, right. 



For Freshman Athletes 

TWENTY-ONE contests have been announced for the 
Brown freshmen spring sports teams by Dr. Frederick 
W. Marvel, Director of Athletics. The freshmen baseball 
team has a schedule of eight games, with two games listed 
as pending; the first year track men will engage in five dual 
meets and the New England Intercollegiates; the tennis 
team will play four matches, and the lacrosse team will play 
three games. 

The schedules: 

Baseball — April 22, pending; 25, Harvard Fr.; 29, Worcester 
Academy; May 2, Holy Cross Fr.; 6, Rhode Island State Fr.; 9, 
Farmington, Me., High School: 13, Providence College Fr. at 
Aldrich Field; 16, Andover at Andover: 19, pending; 21, Provi- 
dence College Fr. at Hendricken Field. 

Track — April 24, Rhode Island State Fr.: May 1, Worcester 
Academy at Worcester; 9, Holy Cross Fr.: 16, M. I. T. Fr. at 
Cambridge; 21, New Hampshire Univ. Fr.; 22 and 23, New Eng- 
land Intercollegiates. 

Lacrosse — April 25, Harvard Fr. at Cambridge: May 6, Andover 
at Andover; 20, Tufts Fr. 

Tennis— April 25, M. I. T. Fr.: May 1, Dartmouth Fr.; 5, Bos- 
ton College Fr.; 12, Cranston H. S. 

SH it: if Hf ^ 

The Tennis Schedule 

THE Brown varsity tennis team will engage in nine dual 
matches and the New England Intercollegiates this 
season, as follows: April 24, Vermont; 25, M. I. T. at 
Cambridge; 29, Colby; May 2, Wesleyan; 6, Providence 
College; 11 and 12, New England Intercollegiates at Mid- 
dletown; 13, Harvard at Cambridge; 15, Tufts; 20, Am- 
herst at Amherst; and 22, Holy Cross. 

BadTnintOTi Boom 

TOM H.^LL '18 and his badminton team of St. Bartholo- 
mew Community House, New York City, put on an 
exhibition at the Brown Gymnasium one night last month 
to aid in popularizing the sport in Providence. Tom's team, 
said to be one of the best in New York, is made up of players 
from Princeton, Penn, Harvard and Brown, the Brown 
man being Kenneth F. Macdonald '27, former tennis player. 
St. Bartholomew has about 900 members the Journal said, 
of whom about 200 play badminton. 



Ojficiating 

Dick Cole, Brown wrestling coach, was one of the 
referees who handled the National Collegiate meet at 
Lexington, Va., last month and was to be head referee for 
the New England Olympic semi-finals. 



Missing Chapters 

MISSING chapters of many episodes in early American 
life and letters have been filled through acquisitions 
of numerous rare books and documents enlarging 
the Americana collection of the John Carter Brown Library 
at Brown University, the library's annual report disclosed 
recently. 

The books and documents shed additional light on records 
relating to Columbus, Washington, Lafayette and Franklin, 
and provide new links long sought in the chain of historic 
events involving Spanish rule in Peru, King Phillip's War, 
the Battle of Lake George, and the negotiation of important 
Indian treaties. 

Continued additions to the library's resources, made 
possible largely through endowment by the late John Nich- 
olas Brown of Providence and from other more recent 
donors, have enabled the library to maintain its position as 
"one of the most complete collections of early Americana in 
existence," according to Dr. Lawrence C. Wroth, librarian. 

What is regarded as one of the most satisfactory pur- 
chases was made in England, where the library secured six 
folios of vice-regal ordinances and two supplementary vice- 
regal decrees of 160,3, regarding Spanish treatment of the 
natives in Peru. These additions now give the John Carter 
Brown Library more than half of the 32 known items of the 
first 20 years of printing in Peru, including the first printed 
document. 

Reference to Columbus is made in a newly acquired legal 
document containing the full statement of the claim of 
Balthasar Columbus, who in 1578 stepped forward with a 
genealogical chart in which he laid claim to "the rights, 
properties and privileges of the Discoverer" of America. 

The auction of the Colonial Americana collection of 
Ogden Goelet of New York last winter made it possible for 
the John Carter Brown Library to complete one of its most 
important groups of 17th century writings, known as the 
King Phillip's War Narratives, by adding the Brinley copy 
of Increase Mather's edition of the "Brief History of the 
Warr with the Indians in New England," considered the 
key book of the narratives. 

Three titles were added to bring the library's collection 
of Indian treaties to 21 out of a possible 50 said to exist, 
important because of their "great rarity and because we 
regard them as in many ways the most original literary 
production of the Colonial period," Dr. Wroth states. 

A place in the bibliography of George Washington is 
seen by Dr. Wroth for "Jumonville," a French poem writ- 
ten by Antione Leonard Thomas in 1759. The poem, of 
which a copy of the original has been secured, omits the 
name of Washington, but Dr. Wroth recalls that the death 
of N. Coulon de Jumonville by Washington's hand marked 
the opening of the French and Indian War. 

Considerable mystery is attached to a poem purported to 
have been written by Lafayette while in Washington's 
camp at Lancaster, Pa., in January, 1778. Bound with the 
copy which the library now has is a letter written by Mme. 
de Lafayette. The poem and its introduction are on the 
theme that "the uneasiness experienced by absent husbands 
is full repayment for their ordinary privilege of supe- 
riority." 



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For Brown Bookshelves 

O Rare Ben 

LONG wanted has been a competent, thor- 
ough study of Ben Jonson, if we can 
heheve the scholars, but now, if we can 
believe the reviewers, that lack has been 
supplied by Robert Gale Noyes "21 in his 
new work "Ben Jonson on the English 
Stage: 1660-1776" (Pp. 351. Harvard 
University Press. $3.50). 

Appraising each play. Dr. Noyes has 
followed its fortunes historically in the 
period of a little more than a century be- 
tween the reopening of the theatres and the 
retirement of David Garrick. The surpris- 
ing thing is that, despite the rise of Shake- 
speare's popularity, a half-dozen Jonson 
plays held the stage tenaciously through all 
that time. And now, with this book, the 
few loyal Jonsonites can no longer lament 
that their hero has had no able, judicious 
champion. 



Oc 



Birds 



COMPLETELY around the coast of South 
America and to all the islands in 
that part of the world went an expe- 
dition of the American Museum of Na- 
tural History to study the richest and most 
varied sea-population of any of the world's 
great land masses. The findings of that ex- 
pedition are now available in book-form, 
making the first comprehensive treatise 
within its field. The author is Robert Gush- 
man Murphy '11, who with other repre- 
sentatives of the Museum, made the circum- 
navigation described during the years 1912 
to 1917. The title is "Oceanic Birds of 
South America." 

The scope of the study includes the 
islands even as far distant as Ascension, St. 
Helena, Juan Fernandez, the Galapagos, 
and the American quadrant of Antarctica. 
In no other single book are maps and chap- 
ters concerning the regional geography of 
all these localities to be found. 

"Gharles Darwin would have written 
Murphy a long letter of approval and 



praise if the book had been published in his 
day, and Theodore Roosevelt would have 
sent a telegram and invited the author to 
dinner," writes Isaiah Bowman, President 
of Johns Hopkins University, in a eulogy 
which applies the word "monumental" to the 
work. "Throughout this book you can go 
exploring with Murphy, see birds lined up 
in the rigging in the eye of a storm, under- 
stand the crowding of marine life on the 
shallow-water shelves of islands, follow the 
trails through coastal and insular forest 
and jungle, know the causes of the dis- 
placement of oceanic currents and their 
devastating effect on marine life and the 
birds that feed upon it; in short, collect all 
over the South American realm and under- 
stand both the birds and the habitats in 
which they are found. Every scientific 
reader will admire the masterly way in 
which the material has been handled." 

The work, in two volumes, is profusely 
illustrated and for sale only by the Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History ($10.50 
postpaid). 

(Continued on page 249) 



The Year at Headquarters 



Report of the Alumni Secretary 
to the Advisory Council 

I HAVE the honor to submit my fourteenth 
annual report as Alumni Secretary. 
The year has been a difficult one to 
review. Yet one may truthfully say that the 
high spots have overshadowed the low ones, 
and that in the years to come the most vivid 
and kindling memories are likely to be 
Alumni Day, and the discussion that led up 
to the report of the committee on quali- 
fications of a new president of Brown 
University. 

Alumni Day was carefully planned and 
enthusiastically promoted by President Bar- 
bour's committee led by Pajl C. DeWolf 
'05. The time spent with the work of that 
committee was long, but it was agreeable 
and stimulating. The minutes of the meet- 
ings may be routine reading for the his- 
torian of tomorrow; a phonographic record 
of the proceedings would make lively talk 
even among the most matter-of-fact research 
men fifty years from now. 

Alumni Day, I believe, should become an 
annual affair. It can be changed in some of 
its essentials, and improved upon. It is, as 
I see it, a testimonial to concerted action 
and community spirit on the part of Brown 
alumni; it can be developed into a great 
rallying day, especially for the younger 
alumni. Most of the criticism of this first 
effort that has come to the Alumni Office 
has been constructive. That is a heartening 
sign. 

MENTION of Alumni Day invites mention 
of football. From the Alumni Office 
viewpoint, a bad football season has its 
depressing effect. It does breed disaffection. 
It does make many of the alumni articulate. 
It brings out honest complaint, as well as 
carping criticism. Although the Administra- 
tion may rightly regard it as a temporary 
phenomenon, it cannot entirely ignore that 
phenomenon. 




Years ago a group of Yale undergrad- 
uates asked Rudyard Kipling to come to 
New Haven to speak. Mr. Kipling replied 
that he must decline, as he had too much 
respect for the "ructiousness" of youth. An 
alumni secretary in particular and all Uni- 
versity officers in general know too well 
how ructions alumni may become as the 
football team continues to win in almost 
unbroken succession what have tragically 
been called moral victories. 

Football is secondary in the academic 
scheme, yet wherever I go I find it a vigor- 
ous topic of conversation. Since last Octo- 
ber I have had letters about it from all parts 
of the country. Visitors to the Alumni Office 
ask about it. They want inside information, 
and they think I have it. Is the trouble with 
the coach? The material? The Faculty? The 
student body ?Is the Athletic Council doing 
anything to meet the situation? Do the Uni- 
versity officers appreciate how embarrassing 
it is to have Brown so far down in the foot- 
ball depths? 



IT is hard to keep a proper sense of pro- 
portion and perspective. It is hard to 
answer questions if one doesn't know all 
the answers. But one must maintain a bal- 
ance, and try to hold the long view, if the 
more enduring work of cultivating alumni 
interest, of encouraging alumni energy, de- 
termination, and faith is to follow the neces- 
sary tenor of its way. Is it too much to hope 
that some day Brown alumni will show in 
all really important University matters other 
than athletics the best kind of enthusiasm, 
"the enthusiasm that reposes on underlying 
sanity and moderation"? 

This enthusiasm, I believe, was clearly 
apparent at the meeting of the committee 
appointed last June by Henry S. Chafee '09 
to consider the qualifications desired in the 
next president of Brown University. Each 
member of the committee described anony- 
mously on paper the sort of man he felt 
the next president should be, and the dis- 
cussion that followed the reading of the 
descriptions was as intensive as any in 
which I have participated during my years 
at Brown. 

The finished report, which has been 
printed in the Brown Alumni Monthly, 
tells its own story. I am proud to have had 
a hand in its making. And there is also 
pride in recording that a Cornell alumnus 
asked for a copy to send to the committee 
which is looking for a successor to President 
Farrand. He said that no committee could 
make a poor choice by following such lucid 
recommendations. Brown alumni, as a body, 
have reason to be grateful to the qualifica- 
tions committee for its work. 



IN my report a year ago I said that lack of 
a travel fund for the Alumni Secretary 
was the weak point in the present alumni 
set-up. I now have a modest fund upon 
which to draw during the current academic 
year. Since last February I have visited the 
Brown Clubs in the Connecticut Valley, 



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Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New 
York, Boston, New Bedford, Western 
Maine, Merrimack Valley, Fall River. I 
have written news letters from time to time 
to many of the other Clubs, including 
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, 
Alta California, Scranton-Wilkesbarre and 
Rochester. 

Two new Clubs have been formed, one 
in Akron, O., under the leadership of Sam- 
uel A. Steere '07 and William A. Maguire 
'18, and the other in the Youngstown- 
Canton area, with J. Russell McKay 'II, 
Richard B. Wilson "U, Samuel J. Dreyer 
"22 and A. F. Tripp '22 as the proponents. 
The Youngstown-Canton Club is already 
working on a scholarship fund to send a 
boy to Brown from this neighborhood which, 
in other years, was a fruitful field for 
Brown. 

When I went to Washington in April to 
attend the annual meeting of the American 
Alumni Council I had the privilege of ac- 
companying President Barbour to Brown 
gatherings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and 
Washington. On the way home I stopped 
in New York for a luncheon arranged by 
Ralph M. Palmer '10, president of the 
Brown Engineering Association, in honor 
of Dr. Charles A. Kraus and other members 
of the Department of Chemistry then in 
New York at a chemists' convention. 

The meeting in Philadelphia brought to- 
gether the largest number of alumni in the 
history of the Philadelphia Brown Club, 
next to the oldest in the alumni association. 
Eight years ago the late Dr. W. W. Keen 
'59, writing to President Faunce, said that 
"one of the earliest things we did in Phila- 
delphia was to send a student to Brown 
University and supply him with the means 
to pay his expenses, for which he later reim- 
bursed the Club. 

"We were, I believe, the first Club that 
ever sent anyone to the University, and I 
know that we were not only the first, but 
are the only Club, small as we are, that has 
furnished, as we did at the Sesquicentenary 
in 1914, the foundation of a Fellowship by 
a gift of over $10,000." 

Seth K. Mitchell '15, J. Harold Wilson 
'25 and other Brown men in Philadelphia 
contributed to the success of this 1936 din- 
ner. Revival of interest in Philadelphia 
should mean much to the University, as the 
Philadelphia neighborhood is a fertile field 
for prospective students. 

Dr. Samuel R. Damon '16 and Dr. Joseph 
L. Wheeler '06 were our hosts in Baltimore, 
and the luncheon in that city was an inti- 
mate round table affair at which Dr. Bar- 
bour's story of Brown of today was per- 
suasively told. 

The Brown Club of Washington is in 
able hands. Its reception and dinner for 
Dr. Barbour and other noteworthy guests 
were ideal. The new constitution of the 
Club is both brief and comprehensive, and 
is a model for any Brown Club to follow. 
I have sent copies of it to Clubs which 
have been working on changes in their 
constitutions. 

THIS mention of the Washington Club 
leads to the work that Brenton G. Smith 
'11 began about a year and a half ago to 
develop a program for Brown Clubs and of 
which you heard at the Advisory Council 
meeting last year. Mr. Smith had to give up 
the work under his doctor's orders. Presi- 
dent Leith has lately asked W. Easton 




ki^A 



GOI-NG TO ROCHESTER 
Prof. Leonard Cdrmichtiel. who has tc- 
signed as head of the DeptiTtment of 
Psychology at Broifn to become head of 
the department at Rochester and Dean of 
the Faculty of Fine Arts. 



Louttit '25 to take it over and go on with it. 
Mr. Louttit is studying the material given 
him and will shortly have a report to make 
to the Executive Committee. 

A continuing program for all Brown 
Clubs, large and small, is essential. There 
is need of more concerted effort, in view of 
the Alumni Co-operative Admissions Pro- 
gram, the Alumni Fund, and similar in- 
terests of importance to the University and 
the Associated Alumni, to have the Brown 
Clubs working in harmony for a larger and 
better class of applicants for admission, 
increased funds, and a strong, closely-knit 
alumni body. 

President Barbour has visited many Clubs 
during the year. Dr. Bigelow in his work is 
coming more intimately into contact with 
the Clubs, and with their sub-Freshman 
committees. Vice President Adams contin- 
ues to give valuable and unselfish aid to the 
Alumni Office at home and abroad. Vice 
President Mead, Dean Arnold, Dean Rich- 
ardson, Professors Carmichael, Shoemaker, 
Robinson, and Horatio Smith, Mr. School- 
craft, and Coach McLaughry have also 
joined in the work of acquainting the 
alumni with what the University is doing. 

While Dr. Mead, Professor Adams and 
Professor Smith were at the University of 
Minnesota last fall they met with the 
alumni in Minneapolis and St. Paul at 
luncheon. Mr. Schoolcraft has talked with 
numerous groups of selected alumni about 
the University Council. It is my regret that 
I have not been able to go with Mr. School- 
craft in order to meet more of the alumni 
with whom I correspond. 



NEARLY all the Brown Clubs have met 
one or more times in the year. The 
exceptions are the Brown Clubs of Lynn, 
New Hampshire, Northern New Jersey, 
and the Northwest, the last-named of which 
takes in the area about Seattle. I have just 
had a letter from Nathaniel Blaisdell '83, 
president of the Brown Club of Alta Cali- 
fornia, saying that at the annual meeting 
and dinner of that Club in San Francisco on 
February 8 the attendance was the largest 
in many years. The Brown Clubs of Los 
Angeles, Washington, and Chicago, have 
weekly luncheons to which visitors are al- 
ways welcome. 

Of the larger Clubs and their construc- 
tive work I can add little to what I said in 
my report of last year. The Brown Clubs of 
Providence, New York, and Chicago are up 
and doing. They have good leadership. 
They are giving prize scholarships which 
arc attracting desirable applicants. The 
Brown Club of Providence has a well- 
arranged program which commends itself 
to the support of all Brown men in the city 
and its suburbs. 

This is likewise true of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club in New York, where Dr. Har- 
vey N. Davis '01 has succeeded Hunter S. 
Marston '08 as president. The New York 
Club has steadily grown in membership 
since it affiliated with the Princeton Club, 
and is making its work effective and its 
presence felt among the New York alumni. 
Mr. O'Neil, the executive secretary, is a 
member of the Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni, and this connection 
is beneficial to both the Club and the 
association. 

The Brown Club of Boston has recently 
resumed its monthly luncheons, which 
should quicken interest among Brown men 
in that city. The Brown Engineering Asso- 
ciation has held meetings in New York, 
Providence, and Boston, and has begun to 
recover some of the membership it lost from 
1932 to 1935. The Merrimack Valley Club 
has set the custom of having two meetings, 
one in the fall and one in the spring. Four- 
teen Brown Clubs, from Newport to Chi- 
cago and Pittsbureh, are arranging meet- 
ings to take place between this date and the 
end of March. 



AFTER each monthly meeting of the Exec- 
. utive Committee, copies of the minutes 
in full are sent to all members of the Board 
of Directors and to the secretary of each 
Brown Club. The University Calendar goes 
weekly to a large number of alumni in key 
points. The attractive circular, "Brown "39 
Steps Onto the Campus," was mailed to 
all alumni and to a picked list of former 
students. President Barbour's New Year"s 
greeting was a happy thought and was well 
received. The University and the Associated 
Alumni are seriously trying to keep the 
alumni informed about what is going on at 
Brown. 

In the work of spreading and emphasiz- 
ing this information the Brown Alumni 
Monthly has a distinct part. Messrs. 
Worthington and Braitsch, aided by Mr. 
Chafee, are giving real time and thought to 
improving the magazine and increasing cir- 
culation. Class secretaries could help by 
furnishing more class notes, not spasmodi- 
cally, but every month. And most of the 
younger classes, I believe, could develop 
greater class interest by adopting the Lehigh 
plan of class subscription to the Monthly. 



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I cannot end this report without refer- 
ence to the day-today work of the Alumni 
Office. Some of you may have read with as 
much relish as I did the article by John R. 
Tunis in the November Harpers' on the 
alumni secretary. The Brown Alumni Office 
doesn't have quite all the characteristics so 
neatly described by Mr. Tunis. But it does 
find plenty to do to keep the office staff 
from feeling lonely and neglected. The 
quest after wandering alumni never ends. 
The questions that come from alumni and 
outsiders must have answers. Changes in 
address — nearly 1700 in the year — reflect 
the changing times. Brown Daily HeraJd 
reporters weave in and weave out, frater- 
nity men, class secretaries, members of class 
reunion committees come and go. Phi Beta 
Kappa, Sigma Xi, and the Historical Cata- 
logue editors find the office useful. The co- 
operative spirit of Miss Himes and Miss 
Nickerson, my assistants, remains steadfast 
and willing. 

Does the Alumni Office measure up to 

requirements? Is it doing all that it can do 

to keep touch with alumni and with alumni 

interests? Is it working as closely as it 

should with the University officers? . . . The 

Alumni Secretary does believe that some of 

the old loyalties still persist, that the Brown 

spirit and the Brown personality are alive 

and pervasive, and that they will prevail in 

spite of discouragement and adversity. 

There may be something in what Kipling 

has written: "In patience keep your heart. 

In strength lift up your hand!" 

Respectfully submitted, 

A. H. GURNEY, 

Ahfinni Secretary 
* * * 

Faculty 7\Jotes 

PRE.siDENT Clarence A. Barbour and 
Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe will be 
delegates from Brown University at the 
Tercentenary Celebration of Harvard Col- 
lege next September. Undergraduate dele- 
gates from Brown have also been invited by 
the Harvard Fellows. 

Prof. Leslie E. Swain of the Department 
of Physical Education attended the annual 
convention of the Eastern District of the 
American Physical Education Association 
in Syracuse March 25 through March 28. 
Prof. Swain is president of the Rhode 
Island Physical Education Association and 
a member of the council of the Eastern 
District of the American Physical Educa- 
tion Association. 

Prof. Walter H. Snell, chairman of the 
Department of Botany at Brown Univer- 
sity, and specialist for the New York State 
Conservation Dept., has been appointed 
chairman of the Rhode Island Dutch Elm 
Disease Committee and has already taken 
steps to thwart the blight's threatened attack 
on the 74,730 elms in the state. Fifty huge 
elms are on the Brown campus, several of 
them dating back to the founding of Brown 
172 years ago. 

Professor Charles A. Robinson, Jr., is 
president of the newly reorganized Provi- 
dence Society of the Archeological Institute 
of America, the purpose of which is to 
bring together persons interested in various 
subjects related to the Greek and Latin 
classics. 

Professor W. H. Kenerson of the Divi- 
sion of Engineering is chairman of the 
special committee of the Providence Engi- 
neering Society, the object of which is to 
bring about State licensing of professional 



engineers as doctors and lawyers are 
licensed. 

Prof. Goodrich will spend most of his 
leave of absence in Geneva, studying the 
organisation and work of the League of 
Nations, particularly special aspects con- 
nected with machinery for settling inter- 
national disputes. 

* * * 

Sharing Courses 

INNOVATIONS for the second semester at 
Brown University this year included 
changes in the way classes are taught, the 
introduction of new courses, and work on 
special projects. These developments in the 
curriculum are in accordance with a general 
policy at Brown to continue to adjust edu- 
cational opportunities along with the 
growth of new educational needs. 

Particularly noticeable among the changes 
for the new semester is the increase in the 
number of courses in which instruction is 
shared by several faculty members from the 
same or different departments. This 
arrangement has already met with favor- 
able response from students, according to 
reports from Brown. It is designed to bring 
to a single course the points of view of 
various professors. 



In the Letter Box 



Tlian/;s Re7idcred 

EXCERPTS from two letters recently re- 
ceived in the Administration have 
been given to the Alumni Monthly 
because of the general interest they hold 
for all Brown men. One of them said: 

"I am writing a few lines of com- 
mendation for the great work you are 
performing in educating so many 
young men of our land. Keep up your 
good work. Today any training that is 
going to aid us in pulling out of these 
troublous times is always welcome. 
Men have been working at this prob- 
lem for quite a few years and as yet 
have not gotten us out. Because they 
have not gotten us out cannot make us 
admit such a fact to be insurmountable 
and we must carry on." 

Another letter was received from a man 
who spent two years at Brown University 
and then transferred to another institution 
for technical training. He has become a very 
successful man in his field of activity. Last 
year he sent the University $200 in return 
for the scholarship aid which he received 
at Brown University during the two years of 
his residence here. The recent letter is filled 
with expressions of appreciation for what 
he received at Brown: 

"The small sum I sent you to take 
care of the principal sum of my scholar- 
ship grants is a microscopic return for 
what my two years at Brown did for 
me. . . . 

"But as I look back to my classes 
with Manatt, Allinson, Albert Gran- 
ger Harkness, Barus, Johnny Greene, 
A. B. Johnson and Ham Lament's in- 
structors in English, I realise what a 
rare privilege it was to sit under such 
men. I shall never forget how Allinson 
one day discoursed on the connection 
between the letter "L" and some of its 



Sanskrit antecedents; nor how Johnny 
Greene chided us for not knowing more 
about the Bible and Bible history. 
Allinson once asked me to read in 
Greek — in fact, to scan — the first few 
lines of one of the books of the Odyssey 
and I did such a good job he compli- 
mented me and I think there was no 
prouder boy on College Hill that day. 
I can still see Tute Davis' whiskers 
waving in the breeze as he whisked his 
head from side to side in elaborating 
on the limacon or other curves in 
analytical geometry. 

"That was, if I can believe it, more 
than thirty years ago and yet these 
impressions are part of my life. It 
makes me realize how intangible are 
the ways one personality influences 
another and convinces me that in 
those years there were some grand 
men at Brown, as I have no doubt 
there are in this year of grace 1936. 
In fact, a member of the present fac- 
ulty was a classmate of mine and I do 
not think I can send him my best in 
a more appropriate way than to express 
the hope that he now impresses his 
classes as the men I have mentioned 
impressed me when he and I sat in the 
same classes long ago." 

* * * 
WASHBURN COLLEGE 

Topeka, Kansas 

March 12, 1936 
Editor, Brown Alumni Monthly 
Dear Sir: 

DR. Mead's article in the Alumni 
Monthly for February is both inter- 
esting in content and felicitous in 
style. Your publishing this material is a 
valuable contribution to each Brown alum- 
nus who wants to keep in touch with the 
intellectual life on the campus. 

The "new curriculum" is ample evidence 
that the Brown faculty has seriously ad- 
dressed itself to current educational prob- 
lems and trends. They have worked care- 
fully and well at the perennial problem of 
education, how best to organize the cur- 
riculum. The final form of their findings 
fits the genius of Brown. It is a workable 
scheme which promises significant results. 

The success or failure of the "new cur- 
riculum" depends to a great extent on the 
counsellors. But since there has been a 
"ready yielding of departmental interests 
to the interest of the whole," there will be 
faculty members objective enough to give 
adequate and valuable counsel. 

Ultimately some provision should be 
made for a comprehensive examination over 
the field of concentration still further to 
unify and integrate the work to each 
student. 

Sincerely yours, 

A. G. SELLEN '19 

Dean. College 

* * * 

Baltimore, Md. 
March 26 
Dear Sir: 

I wish to take this means of expressing 
to you the pleasure I receive in reading the 
Brown Alumni Monthly. I especially 
enjoy reading what Bruonians are doing far 
and near. Congratulations on the fine type 
of monthly you and your fellow alumni are 
publishing. 

Yours very truly, 

H. H. MURPHY '23 



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Something to Do with Water 



By Our Own Flood 
Correspondent 

A. H. GURNEY 

You sit in comfort in your house on the 
hill and wonder if the news about 
floods in New England is accurate. 

You have an engagement to speak he- 
fore the Connecticut Valley Brown Club 
in Springfield. Professors Adams and Rob- 
inson will be your companions. You will 
start at 3 o'clock from College Hill in 
Professor Adams" sedan. Before you go to 
bed you squint at the sky, see the scudding 
clouds above the city lights, feel the rain 
from the southeast — and tell yourself that 
it may be clearer tomorrow. 

But the day comes, dark and wet. The 
rain falls harder as the morning hours^pass. 
Your secretary calls Springfield. It is "only 
a drizzle" there. She also asks the A. A. A,, 
and reports that the road through Putnam, 
Southbndge, and Palmer is all right. 

At 3 o'clock Professor Adams lights a 
fresh cigar, turns up his coat collar, and 
leads the way to his car glistening in the 
rain. As he climbs into the rear seat Pro- 
fessor Robinson cheerfully remarks that it 
will not rain much more; and you head out 
through the soaking city to the Putnam 
pike. 

The rain falls harder. It blots out the 
fields, already saturated. The wind howls. 
The sides of the roads are rushing brooks. 
Under bridges the water tumbles, now 
white, now black and menacing. 

The windshield wiper does its best, but 
the rain comes faster than it moves. Pro- 
fessor Adams swabs away with his handker- 
chief, and asks for another match. The car 
splashes onward like a torpedo boat de- 
stroyer in a rising sea. 

Chepachet is a blur in the blinding rain 
as you splash through and turn left toward 
Putnam. The rain falls harder in Connecti- 
cut. You are talking about athletics and 
scholarship, and before you know it, you 
have reached Putnam. Time really marches 
on as you discuss such a subject, and dis- 
tances, even in the rain, melt away. 

THERE is plenty of water in Putnam. Men 
in raincoats and boots look up quiz- 
zically as your car with its Rhode Island 
plates goes by. Beyond the town you slow 
down every little while to push as gently 
as possible through water running across the 
road. At the bottom of the hill going into 
Woodstock you whistle as you see that the 
road has become a river. 

Professor Adams stops, lights a fresh 
cigar, and hails an old man who paddles 
out to the car. 

"Worst I ever seen since I've lived here," 
he says. And you believe him as you look 
out on a turbulent sea of water swishing 
through a decrepit motor car and entirely 
surrounding what was once the village 
smithy. 

The oldest inhabitant is doubtful about 
the road ahead but wishes you luck just 
the same. In fact, everybody does. A com- 
mon friendliness is something you will re- 
member with pleasure when this trip in 
your sea-going sedan is over. 




XAVICATOR 
Vic£ President J. P. Adams 

Professor Robinson sees for the first 
time the house in Woodstock that every 
traveler looks at, and misses the fine colonial 
ones; and as the car splashes over the rolling 
highway that goes down into Southbridge, 
talk turns naturally to yachting and its 
benefits to Brown. Professor Adams re- 
lights his cigar with a Robinson match, gets 
comfortable in his seat, and suddenly stops. 

Just ahead is another car, the occupants 
of which are inspecting the road where part 
of the left bank has caved in. Professor 
Adams climbs out, and walks forward, head 
down in the rain. 

"Guess we can get through," he reports, 
as he calls for a match, settles behind the 
wheel, and starts. It is slow progress, as 
rough and treacherous as it is wet, but the 
car rolls on. Once Professor Robinson 
hounds against the roof as the wheels hit a 
depression, and you tactfully turn the talk 
to Greece and archaeology. 

Water pouts a foot deep over the con- 
crete highway leading into Southbridge. 
The lawns of the big optical plant to the 
right are a wilderness of water. Idle workers 
line the sheltered places to watch the cars 
plough through. 

A SHARP turn beyond Sturbridge, and you 
realize that you have something to 
think about now. 

Buses, trucks, passenger cars are massed 
on either side of a lake at least 300 feet 
across. A bright yellow truck with a derrick 
and a gang of men on it is pulling a road- 
ster through the middle of the lake. The 
water touches the headlights.. 

Cars back and turn. Nobody knows any- 



thing except that you won't get to Spring- 
field unless you fly. The derrick truck, 
turned towhoat, keeps plying up and down. 
A giant van pushes through, making waves 
that loom large in the gloomy twilight. 
Silently you watch its red tail light dis- 
appear in the rain and the mist. 

Then you edge toward the deep water. 
An empty nail keg bobs along, whirls gid- 
dily in an eddy, and sinks between the mill 
buildings. The water, running under the 
car, gives you a queer, dispiriting sensation. 
You open the door, see the dark, dirty 
swirls, and wonder why you left home. 

A sign to come ahead, and Professor 
Adams makes a cheerful noise. The engine 
purrs. A truck groans on the right, and you 
call to the driver to swerve in behind and 
push. 

You lift your feet high as the mat under- 
neath begins to feel cold. The car plunges, 
and stops. The truck behind you also stops. 
You are in the middle of a silent sea, two 
inches of water on the floor of the car, and 
no means of retreat. 

PROFESSOR Adams relights his cigar, lifts 
his feet, and waits for the towboat. One 
of the deckhands drops down into water 
nearly to his waist, hitches the tow line on 
the bumper, shouts directions about gears, 
and the towboat starts. 

You hear the water as it swishes over the 
running hoard, and you see it, dark and 
cold, slowly mounting beneath your up- 
raised feet. You are as helpless as a horse 
in a tree, but you are glad to be heading 
toward dry land. 

The deckhand casts off the tow line. You 
thank him and the rest of the crew while 
Professor Adams starts the engine as if 
nothing had happened. You open the door 
to let out the water, and set your feet on 
the floor again. Then a rather perplexed 
voice from the rear seat: 

"Well, Jim, what are we going to do 
about the water in back here?" 

The tension eases. With a hearty laugh, 
in which you join. Professor Adams swerves 
to the sloping side of the road, and the 
water pours through the open door. Pro- 
fessor Robinson is once more high and 
dry, and eager for further adventure. 



Refugee 

ONE of the refugees from the Con- 
necticut River flood was Col. G. 
A. Taylor '01 of Old Hadley, a town 
hard hit by the rush of waters. When 
the siren blew Wednesday, March 
18, he had to leave his house. With 
Mrs. Taylor and her French maid 
on the front seat, and seven grown 
setter-dogs on the back seat, he drove 
to Amherst, where he had just fin- 
ished a three-day exhibition of his 
kennels at Massachusetts State Col- 
lege. 

Although the river broke through 
the dikes and the water came dan- 
gerously near, the Taylor house was 
not damaged, thanks to the foresight 
of his grandfather who, before the 
Civil War, moved the house from the 
lowlands to higher ground. 

During the flood Colonel Taylor 
was on patrol duty with the Amer- 
ican Legion, which took over his 
house as temporary headquarters. 



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The rain falls intermittently. The lights 
of Palmer gleam and grow brighter. Just 
beyond the town the police turn you off 
on a side road, saying that the main highway 
is about five feet under water. Even your 
sea-going sedan would have to anchor there. 

You grope along the winding road, dodg' 
ing red lanterns on barrels, and heaps of 
earth washed down the banks, and at last 
reach the highway into Springfield. 

IT is shortly after 7 o'clock as you sit 
down to a good dinner at the Univer- 
sity Club, and hear about the rising floods. 
Right after dinner Harry Oldfield, the 
secretary, is called away because his church 
in West Springfield is wanted as a place of 
refuge. There are successive bulletins, each 
blacker than the one that went before, and 
Providence begins to seem as far away as 
Kamchatka. 

But when Brown men get together, it is 
always fair weather. The meeting goes on. 
The talks about Brown have savor, and 
spirit. Dick Tucker's introductions strike 
a happy note, and it is always a treat to 
bear Dr. William C. Hill. The new pres- 
ident. Dr. Louis E. Hathaway, Jr., makes 
his bow, and the meeting adjourns. You 
are told you must go back by way of 
Worcester. The road is navigable, but look 
out for deep water. 



Rescue Aides 

STRANDED by the flood while at- 
tending a conference in Hart- 
ford, two Brown undergraduates, 
Gavin A. Pitt and George C. Bright, 
volunteered for service and took an 
active part in relief work. They 
acted as chauffeur for the Sergeant in 
charge of rescue activities, removed 
the stranded from their waterbound 
homes, and directed the flow of flee- 
ing motor cars. They were in the 
thick of things for 10 hours before 
returning to Providence by way of 
New Haven. 



At 1 o'clock you set sail, and 2:15 a. m. 
you are home once more. Four hours of wet, 
wobbling roads, turgid brooks, deep pools, 
detours, amiable volunteer firemen on ma- 
rine duty, helpful policemen, pessimists 
who said you would never get through, city 
squares become lakes, with rats scurrying 
at the high water mark, swinging lanterns, 
farm houses dark and forbidding, and Pro- 
fessor Adams, cigar alight, steering as 
skilfully as a master mariner along a stern 
and rockbound coast. 

Tomorrow: Fair and warmer. 



With the Associated Alumni 



Tlie Executive Cornmittee 

CONVENING within a fortnight after the 
successful meeting of the Advisory 
Council, the Executive Committee 
of the Associated Alumni had a full agenda 
awaiting it on March 6. Reviewing the 
recent meeting, President Royal W. Leith 
'12 said it was a real honor to represent a 
Brown Club on the Advisory Council, 
thought the reports and discussions had 
been profitable, and urged early planning 
of the next such session so that the alumni 
might have a full, enjoyable program. It 
was voted that the Athletic Council be 
asked to schedule one or more major sports 
events at home for the week-end of the 
Advisory Council meeting in 1937. 

Henry C. Hart '01, making a special 
report on Alumni Day, told of conversa- 
tions with Paul C. DeWolf '05, Chairman 
of the first Alumni Day Committee, and 
with alumni of other colleges, and said that 
Alumni Day was generally held to be an 
alumni project. It was voted that the Asso- 
ciated Alumni assume responsibility to con- 
duct Alumni Day, with the understanding 
that any deficit will be underwritten by the 
University, and that the President name a 
Committee on Alumni Day. 

In the belief that a live hear would be 
a desirable athletic mascot, the Executive 
Committee voted to recommend the acqui- 
sition of such a mascot to the Athletic 
Council. 

At the direction of the Advisory Coun- 
cil, the Executive Committee took up the 
subject of the Yachting Program, having 
been empowered "to solicit a selected 
group of alumni whom we know would be 



interested in this particular project." W. G. 
Meader '05, Chairman of the Alumni 
Fund Trustees, who discussed the possible 
effect of solicitation for the Yachting Pro- 
gram upon the Alumni Fund, was assured 
that the work of raising money for the 
Yachting Program would not be allowed 
to interfere in any way with the work of 
the Fund. The President was authorized to 
appoint a committee, with power to add to 
its number, to raise the money for the pur- 
chase and maintenance of a fleet of six 
boats. Sidney Clifford '15, Henry S. Chafee 
'09, Professor Zenas R. Bliss '18, William 
H. Shupert '22, Byron S. Watson '97, and 
John W. Lane '31 were proposed as mem- 
bers of that committee. Sentiment was in 
favor of encouraging reunion classes to 
contribute to this program. 

Charles J. Hill "16, Chairman of the 
Alumni Co-operative Admissions Program, 
reported that a letter and list of suggestions 
for Brown Clubs to follow in ACAP work 
was being sent out to all Clubs. 

^ ^ ti: 

Dr. Bigelow's Circuit 

DR. Bruce M. Bigelow '24, Director 
of Admissions, swinging around the 
circuit from Albany to St. Louis and 
Pittsburgh during the past month spoke 
before the Brown Clubs of Albany-Schenec- 
tady-Troy, Syracuse, Cleveland, Detroit, 
St. Louis, Chicago, Akron-Youngstown- 
Canton, and Pittsburgh before he came back 
to College Hill at the end of March. 

He took with him on the trip two reels 
of moving pictures especially assembled by 
Stanton P. Nickerson '31, in charge of 
University publicity, and reports of the suc- 



cess of his tour and of the interest aroused 
by the pictures were still coming in as this 
was being written. 

"The annual meeting of the Brown 
Club of Chicago at the Interfraternity Club 
was a pronounced success," wrote George 
O. Podd '20, retiring president, "and was 
due entirely to the impression that Bigelow 
made. We had one of the best meetings held 
in Chicago in years." 

A similar note of enthusiasm runs 
through letters from alumni in other cities, 
where Dr. Bigelow not only spoke before 
the Brown Clubs but also visited schools, 
met boys preparing to enter college, and 
made the good name of Brown better known 
in the heart of the Middle West. 

John Monk '24, former secretary, will 
lead the Chicago Brown Club this year, and 
his co-officers will be Joseph L. Strauss, Jr., 
'28, vice president; Will B. Presba '32, 
secretary: and Edward C. Brooks '24, 
treasurer. 

Harry L. Hoffman '25 is the new pres- 
ident of the Brown Club of Cleveland, and 
Carl H. Brown, Jr., '29, 702 Hickox Build- 
ing, secretary-treasurer for 1936-37. 
* * * 

The Providence Scholarship 

THE Brown Clubs Prise Scholarship Com- 
mittee announces that the Brown Club 
of Providence will once again offer a $500 
scholarship to a desirable member of next 
fall's entering class at the University. In- 
stead of restricting those eligible for the 
scholarship to Rhode Island residents or 
Rhode Island school graduates as in the 
past, however, the Providence Club has 
voted to ofl^er the award to any New Eng- 
land boy. 

Wa.s!iinRton 

WITH Joseph B. Keenan '10, special 
assistant to the Attorney General of 
the United States, and Professor Ben W. 
Brown '19 of the English Department as 
the principal speakers, the annual dinner 
of the Brown Club of Washington at the 
Hotel Carlton, March 20, was a real Brown 
family gathering. 

"The attendance was smaller than we 
hoped for," John A. French '25, secre- 
tary, reported, "but possibly quality made 
up for it. Dr. Harris E. Starr '97 did a fine 
job as toastmaster. His recollections of 
Brown men, as you know, are well-pointed 
and delightfully expressed. Ben Brown 
talked interestingly, touching briefly upon 
the more conventional subjects but revealing 
at greater length the nuances of campus 
life in which we all, at heart, have a very 
real interest. . . . Joe Keenan, while accused 
of leading a life of crime, at least so far as 
the toastmaster could discern from pub- 
lished accounts, nearly convinced us that 
a life of crime doesn't pay. Elijah Anthony 
'18 gave the sermon with regard to the 
Brown Alumni Fund. 

"U. S. Senator Jesse H. Metcalf '21, 
honorary, and former Governor Norman S. 
Case '08 each spoke for a few moments, add- 
ing to the pleasure of the occasion." 

Present besides the Brown men named 
above were Fred S. Auty '07, Henry M. 
Barry '94, Tames V. Bennett '18, William 
R. Boger '26, W. B. Bogert '82, F. C. 
Breckenridge '15, Edmund C. Burnett '90, 
Dr. Arthur Deerin Call '96, E. R. Cleave- 
land '14, A. C. Easthurn '12, A. E. Gott- 
shall '15, Carleton Green '30, Hamlin 
Hodges '28, Dean John R. Lapham '09, 
Davis P. Low '3 3, Joseph J. Lyman '3 5, 



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The Last of Oscar 

OSCAR, pet alligator of the Brown 
swimming team, was found 
choked to death last month in the 
Biology building, not many weeks 
after he had been encountered in 
Florida and brought North by Bob 
Love, varsity swimmer. A rope, with 
which Oscar was tied to a table leg 
between workouts in the swimming 
pool, was wound tightly about the 
alligator's neck. 

Coach Leo Barry said Oscar was 
the best mascot the swimming team 
ever had. Evidently, he said, the al- 
ligator lost interest in life after 
Brown won the New England inter- 
collegiate swimming crown. 



Harold B. Master '27, president of the 
Club. John B. Rae "3 2, William A. Semmes 
'3 3, John N. Shotton "28, Thomas Shotton, 
Jr., "30, Norman O. Tietjens '25, Stephen 
Waterman "86, Frederick B. Wiener '27. 



T^ew Yor\ 

THE Brown Musical Clubs will give a 
concert in White Plains, N. Y., Satur- 
day, April 18, under the sponsorship of the 
Brown University Club in New York. The 
concert is the first that the New York Club 
has supported since 1931, and indications 
are that the New York alumni will turn 
out in large numbers to greet the under- 
graduate singers. 

Earl W. Harrington "14, former pres- 
ident of the Brown Engineering Associa- 
tion, has succeeded Ralph M. Palmer "10 
as chairman of the alumni interviewing com- 
mittee for this year, and has already held 
two meetings of the committee at which 
sixty applicants were interviewed. A third 
meeting is on the calendar for early in 
April, with thirty applicants to be seen. 
Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow "24, Director of Ad- 
missions, was present at the meetings in 
March. 

On Chairman Harrington"s committee 
are W. E. Farnham '99, Arthur F. Driscoll 
'06, Dr. R. W. Burgess '08. Sydney Wil- 
mot '09, Karl D. Gardner '13, W. R. Bur- 
well '15, Thomas B. Appleget '17, Joseph 
F. Halloran '16, Wayne M. Faunce "21, 
Arthur W. Packard '25, W. Kenneth 
Anderson '27, J. M. Curtis "30, George R. 
Coughlan, Jr., '31, W. Boardman Leonard 
'31, Donald V. Reed '35. 

Joseph F. Halloran, chairman of the 
Club's Prize Scholarship Committee and 
the ACAP Committee, has combined the 
work of the two groups. He recently sent 
out a request to all metropolitan alumni 
to co-operate with Brown in two ways: 
(1) Interest more desirable boys in Brown; 
and (2) give a small amount to the New 
York Prize Scholarship Fund. The response 
to date has been greatly encouraging; the 
hope is that many more alumni will have 
done their part before the end of this 
month. 

Working with Chairman Halloran are 
J. H. Farnham '14, Moses L. Crossley '09, 
Myron Sulzberger, Jr., "26, John R. Caul- 
kins "32, Robert R. Chase "33, W. Lincoln 
Fogarty "31, Ralph M. Palmer "10, W. R. 
Burwell "15. 



A Tvjeui TorJ; Scholarship 

MEMBERS of the freshman class at Brown 
University next fall who are now 
either living or attending school in New 
York City or vicinity will be eligible for a 
$500 prize scholarship to be awarded by 
the Brown Alumni Club of New York. 
This scholarship, one of a group of special 
prizes offered annually by Brown Clubs 
throughout the country, will be awarded to 
the New York or suburban freshman who 
"combines in the highest degree desirable 
qualities of character and personality, scho- 
lastic ability, capacity for leadership, and 
promise of future usefulness."" 

Although the Brown Club of New York 
prize scholarship will be awarded for the 
freshman year only, subsequent yearly 
scholarships up to $400 will be given by the 
University if the recipient maintains a 
high academic record. This year"s winner 
was Benjamin Ambrosini of 311 Tremont 
Avenue, East Orange, N. J., a graduate of 
Massanutten Military Academy in Wood- 
stock, Va. 

Among the members of the Brown Club 
of New York who will select the winner of 
the 1936-37 scholarship are Hunter S. 
Marston "08, William R. Dorman "92, 
Charles E. Hughes. Jr., "09, Thomas B. 
Appleget '17, Dennis F. 0"Brien '98, Nor- 
man S. Dike '85, Albert L. Scott '00, 
Robert S. Murphy "11, Colgate Hoyt "05, 
W. Earl Sprackling '12, and Dr. Bruce M. 
Bigelow, Director of Admissions at the 
University. 



Syracuse 

PROFESSOR James P. Adams. John School- 
craft, and Dr. Bruce M. IJigelow '24, 
Director of Admissions, were the guests of 
the Brown Club of Syracuse at a dinner 
and meeting at the University Club, Tues- 
day evening, March 3, H. Duance Bruce 
'07, Syracuse lawyer, was elected chairman 
of the committee which will have charge of 
University Council work in the Syracuse 
district. 

Dr. Bigelow outlined to the Club his 
activity of the day, which included visits 
to Pebble Hill Country Day School, Man- 
lius, and Central High School. At Manlius 
he was the guest at luncheon, spoke to the 
student assembly, and after lunch had 
coffee with members of the school Faculty. 
At the other schools he talked with seniors 
interested in college, and also gave short 
talks before the student assemblies. 

Two reels of moving pictures showing 
recent campus glimpses, athletic events, and 
campus figures were greatly enjoyed, as 
were the comments by Professor Adams and 



Dr. Bigelow while the pictures were being 
put on the screen. 

Professor Adams and Mr. Schoolcraft 
occupied the rest of the evening session 
with talks on the long-term program for 
increasing the resources of the University. 
It was voted to have another meeting April 
24, to make special effort to reach every 
alumnus and friend of Brown in the Syra- 
cuse area, and to ask the Alumni Secretary 
to attend. 

Present for the dinner besides the guests 
were William Allan Dyer '86, H. Duane 
Bruce '07, Barnaby McAuslan '22, Allen 

D. Hill '20, W. A. Dyer, Jr., "24, Robert 

E. Soellner '24, E. W. Perry '29, Walton 
Smith '24, Albert F. Eckel, father of Fred 
Eckel (Brown, 1940), and E. C. Drake '24, 
the Club secretary. 

* * * 

The Engineers' Prexy 

REGINALD M. Pease '21 has succeeded 
Charles G. Burgess '24 as president of 
the Brown Engineering Association. Bur- 
gess was obliged to resign after being trans- 
ferred from the New York office of his 
company to Pittsburgh. His elevation to 
the presidency followed his fine work as 
secretary of the a.ssociation for several years. 
He takes with him to Pittsburgh the best 
wishes of his fellow engineers. 

His successor, Reg Pease, is a sound 
engineer for the Bell Telephone Labora- 
tories, and is one of the prominent young 
research men in the electrical field. He has 
made numerous trips across the country 
in connection with sound recording for 
moving pictures, and is devoting most of 
his time to the work of perfecting the sound 
pictures. 

Henry D. Wilson, Jr., "29 will continue 
as secretary of the a.ssociation, with his ad- 
dress at 315 Lenox Avenue, South Orange, 
N. J. 

^ ^ ^ 

T^orthern ?\Jetf Jersey 

George W. Grimm, Jr. "20, aided by 
J. A. O'Neil '31, executive secretary 
of the Brown University Club in New 
York, met with a group of alumni at lunch- 
eon in Newark, March 21, and discussed a 
rejuvenation of the Brown Club of North- 
ern New Jersey. As a result. Dr. Bruce M. 
Bigelow '24, Director of Admissions, has 
been invited to speak at a dinner of the 
alumni to be held in Newark, Thursday, 
April 30. The Alumni Secretary also hopes 
to attend. Judge Grimm was the delegate 
of the New Jersey Club at the Advisory 
Council meeting in February, and he and 
the Alumni Secretary talked over the pro- 
posed rally at that time. New Jersey has 
sent many students to Brown in recent 
years. 



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'Hew Haven and Hartford 

THE rain fell, and the floods came, but 
the spring meetings of the Brown Cluhs 
of New Haven and Hartford were held 
just the same on March 12 and 13, respec- 
tively. The sea-going visitors from the Uni- 
versity were Professor James P. Adams, 
John Schoolcraft, and the Alumni Secre- 
tary. 

The meeting in New Haven at the Hotel 
Taft under the friendly wing of Louis F. 
Horvath, assistant manager of the hotel, 
and honorary member of the Brown Club, 
suffered from the force of the storm, as the 
Brown men from Waterbury and the Hous- 
atonic and Naugatuck Valleys were unable 
to reach New Haven. Walter V. Brown '27, 
treasurer of the Club, went to New Milford 
on a business trip in the afternoon, and 
never came back until next day. 

There was, however, enthusiasm and 
interest in spite of the lack of numbers. 
Dr. Malcolm Harris '13, president, intro- 
duced the Alumni Secretary, Mr. School- 
craft, and Professor Adams in turn, and 
the Club heard in detail about the Advisory 
Council, athletics, the present housing pro- 
gram, the University Council, its aims and 
objectives, the new curriculum, and other 
subjects of common import. Next morning 
Messrs. Harris , C. F. Andrews '26, Andrew 
J. Breckenridge '11, Mr. Schoolcraft, and 
the Alumni Secretary discussed the New 
Haven committee of the University Council, 
and made plans to form such a committee 
to go to work as soon as possible. 

That night at the University Club, 
Hartford, the members of the Brown Club 
of Hartford listened attentively to the story 
of Brown today and tomorrow, and heard 
Frank O. Jones "97, their delegate, give 
excellent account of the Advisory Council 
meeting. They asked questions, too, about 



the new president, and football, and similar 
live topics; elected Allton Green 'II to 
succeed Dr. Vernon K. Krieble '07 as pres- 
ident for 1936-37: and agreed to hold 
another meeting before the end of the col- 
lege year, with Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow "24 
as speaker. Other officers are Dr. R. A. 
Goodell '24, vice president: Cyrus G. Flan- 
ders '18, secretary; and Marion B. Denison 
'83, treasurer. Laurence R. Smith '20 led 
the singing, and Professor Adams mod- 
estly showed his versatility as a pianist. 
* * * 
Boston 

THE Brown Club of Boston and the State 
of Maine will give to the University a 
live bear cub to replace Bruno, late mascot, 
at the annual dinner of the Brown Club at 
the Hotel Kenmore, Boston, Wednesday 
evening, April 22. The dinner will be an 
open one for all New England Brown men, 
to whom invitation through the Brown 
Alumni Monthly is herewith cordially 
extended. 

Fifty-six were present at the March 
luncheon of the Club, a gain of 40 per cent 
over the February gathering. The guest 
speaker was Professor Robert W. Kenny 
'2? of the English Department, who talked 
on the timely subject, "Faculty Advice to 
Freshmen: An Aspect of the New Cur- 
riculum.'" His statistical comparisons of the 
scholastic record of fraternity and non- 
fraternity students was most illuminating. 
At the head table were Charles R. Adams 
"80, former Alumni Trustee of the Uni- 
versity; Dr. Clarence A. Carr '87, Newport, 
R. I.; Dr. Arthur L Connell '87, Fall River; 
and the Rev. C. L. White '87, Hampton 
Falls, N. H., former president of Colby 
College. The Club was deeply honored by 
their presence, particularly since they came 
from distant points. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



1874 

REV. H. M. Penniman in a recent let- 
ter to President Barbour indicated 
" that he was still active at his home on 
Peachbloom Hill, Berea, Ky. The other 
members of the Class which graduated 62 
years ago are Harmon S. Babcock, East 
Providence; Dr. Forrest G. Eddy, Button- 
woods; Samuel Park, New York City; A. H. 
Schoonover, Old Mystic, Conn.; Judge Abel 
P. Tanner, North Stonington, Conn.; and 
Rev. Barnard C. Taylor, D.D., Phila- 
delphia. 

1881 
Frank H. Gifford of New Bedford, an 
Alumni Office visitor last month, said that 
plans were being considered to hold the 
5 5th Reunion of the Class at New Bedford 
in June. 

Col. Henry B. Rose, who has been in 
St. Petersburg, Fla., during the winter, will 
come North late this month or early in May 
and will visit his daughter in Stanford- 
ville, N. Y,, before returning to Providence. 

1886 

PLANS for the 50th Reunion of the Class 
are proceeding apace under the direc- 
tion of a committee made up of Clarence 



H. Manchester, Norman M. Isham, and 
Professor A. Clinton Crowell, secretary. 

1887 

Dr. Arthur L Connell, Rev. Dr. Charles 
L. White, and Dr. Clarence A. Carr were 
the guests of the Brown Club of Boston at 
the March luncheon. They met in Boston to 
talk about reunion this year and the 
50th anniversary of the Class in 1937. 





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"Every- 


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Cobb, 


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1890 
Rev. H. E. Chapman is pastor of the 
Millbury, Mass., Baptist Church. His mail 
address, he writes, is P. O. Box 1044, 
Worcester, Mass. 

1891 

An anthem by Joseph N. Ashton, "One 
Generation shall praise Thy Name to An- 
other," for male voices, tenor solo, and 
organ, has recently been issued in English 
and in German by J. Fischer 6? Bro., music 
publishers. New York City. 
1897 

Dr. Edwin C. Broome, superintendent 
of schools of Philadelphia, will be a Brown 
representative at the annual meeting of the 
American Academy of Political and Social 
Science at the Bellevue-Stratford, Phila- 
delphia, April 24 and 25. 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given an 
additional grant of 266 acres of land to 
Acadia National Park on Mount Desert, 
Island, Me. The park was created in 1919 
by gifts from Rockefeller, who since then 
has given land and buildings on several 
occasions. 

Rev. Timothy J. A. Fitzgerald has re- 
cently been located in Fitchburg, Mass. 

1898 

Rev. Walter R. Tourtellot, rector of 
Holy Trinity Church, Marlboro, gave a 
talk on Roger Williams and the founding 
of Rhode Island and Providence Planta- 
tions in 1636 before the Men's Club of St. 
Luke's Episcopal Church, Hudson, Mass., 
last month. 

Miss Mary Louise Bartlett, daughter of 
Dwight K. Bartlett, was one of twelve out 
of the Junior Class at Wellesley to be made 
a Junior Durant Scholar, the highest scho- 
lastic honor awarded to Juniors. She has 
also been elected editor-in-chief of the 
Wellesley News. 

1899 

Capt. Gordon D. Hale, Medical Corps, 
U.S.N., is in charge of the Naval Hospital, 
Philadelphia. He and N. A. Tufts '00 met 
not long ago at the hospital, and shook 
hands for the first time since they had been 
at Brown together. 

Edward A. Stockwell, for five years 
chairman of the Providence Community 
Fund budget committee, has given up the 
chairmanship, although he will remain a 
member of the committee. He has done 
valuable work as the committee head, a fact 
which his fellow members gladly recognized 
by passing a resolution in appreciation of 
the time, study, and good counsel he has 
given and the sound judgment he has 
shown in preparing the budget each year. 

Mcllinger E. Henry's mother, Mrs. Emma 
Henry, died at the Henry home in Ridge- 
field, N. J., Feb. 9, at the age of 88. She 
was known to her Ridgefield neighbors as 
"Mother" Henry, and she took a lively 
interest in the welfare of the borough in 
which she had lived for nearly 25 years. 

A note a short time ago from E. W. Mc- 
Keen indicated that he was still commuting 
to New York from Rutherford, N. J., where 
he lives at 16 Winslow Place. 

1901 

Henry C. Hart has become chairman of 
the Providence Community Fund budget 
committee, succeeding Edward A. Stock- 
well '99, who has headed the committee 
for the past five years. 

Frank H. Westlake's new mail address 
is 152 West 52nd Street, Room 1 219, New 
York City. 



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1902 

State Senator Alfred G. Chaffee of Sci- 
tuate clashed with Governor Theodore 
Francis Green "87 last month when he in- 
troduced in the Senate a bill to withdraw 
Rhode Island's consent to sub-marginal 
land purchases by the Federal Government. 
In introducing the bill Senator Chaffee said 
it represented "the countryman's revolt" 
against the policy of taking over State land 
by the United States for conservation or 
recreational purposes. "He is blinded by 
partisan fury," the Governor asserted. 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of Robert N. Gee at the Jane Brown 
Memorial Hospital, Providence, March 26. 
An account of his career will appear in a 
later issue of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly. 

1904 

L. Earle Rowe, Director of the Museum 
of the Rhode Island School of Design, spoke 
on Vincent Van Gogh and, in particular, 
the Van Gogh landscape, "Auvers-sur- 
Oise," which the Museum owns, at a meet- 
ing of Faculty and students of the school 
on March 18. 

1905 

Raymond D. Cady, head chemist with 
the Diamond Match Company, Oswego, 
N. Y., is superintendent of the Sunday 
School of the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Oswego. 

Ralph D. Kettner is in the retail drug 
business, with his mail address at 9 Mt. 
Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Rev. Walter O. Terry is pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Southbridge, 
Mass. 

Arthur S. Townsend is principal of the 
Nichols Junior High School, Mount Ver- 
non, N. Y. 

Rodney C. Walker is beginning his l?th 
year as traveling salesman for the New 
England Metal Culvert Company, Boston. 
His home is at 743 Belmont Street, Bel- 
mont, Mass. 

R. B. Woodsum's oldest son, Richard Y. 
Woodsum, is associated with him in A. W. 
Perry, Inc., real estate, Boston. Miss Janet 
Woodsum is in her Sophomore year at 
Wellesley. 

Edgar A. Beatty continues active as New 
England manager of Laidlow Brothers, 
publishers of New York and Chicago, with 
his mail address at 129 South Park Avenue, 
Springfield, Mass. Three of his four 
daughters are now married. 

Frank S. Cooke's avocation is raising 
roses at his place in West Birghton, N. Y. 
In recent years he has won numerous 
prises at the annual shows of the Statcn 
Island Horticultural Society. His choice 
exhibit has been a pink Killarney. His twin 
daughters, Jean and Ruth, now going on 
12, take a great deal of interest in their 
father's rose culture. 

1906 
Rev. W. Douglas Swaffield observed in 
March his tenth anniversary as pastor of 
the Winthrop Street Baptist Church, Taun- 
ton, Mass. More than 300 parishioners gave 
him and Mrs. Swaffield a reception in honor 
of the occasion, and arranged a two-way 
telephone conversation between their pas- 
tor and his father and mother. Rev. and 
Mrs. Walter J. Swaffield of Plainfield, N. J. 
They also gave him a banjo clock, and Mrs. 
Swaffield a bouquet of roses. F. Hartwell 
Swaffield of the Brown Class of "37 was in 
the receiving line with his parents. 



Tsjo Book Mar\s Tet 

D WIGHT T. CoLLEY '18 had his 
picture with pith helmet and 
rod and reel and all that, in the Prov- 
idence £veni7ig BuUetin last month 
to tell the graphic story of his fishing 
trip to Florida with Col. G. Edward 
Buxton '02. When Messrs. Colley 
and Buxton left Providence, the cap- 
tion said, they "were of a mind to 
catch fish — and, as this picture 
shows, they did. The big prize just 
above is a 154-pound tuna, hooked 
by Mr. Colley and landed after a 
fight of one hour, 17 minutes. Col. 
Buxton caught one at the same time, 
pulling it in in 20 minutes." Colley 
thus far has refused to cut his fishing 
line into short lengths and put tas- 
sels on them as book marks for his 
admiring friends. 



1907 

Dr. Vernon K. Krieble, head of the De- 
partment of Chemistry, Trinity College, 
Hartford, Conn., is preparing to equip his 
new $450,000 laboratory which will be 
dedicated next October. The building is 
modern in every respect and when complete 
will be one of the finest on any college 
campus in the country. Miss Gladys V. 
Krieble is studying at the Sorbonne, Paris, 
on a Vassar Fellowship, and Robert H. 
Krieble is doing graduate work in physics 
at Johns Hopkins. 

Earle A. Harrington's new mail address 
is P. O. Box 175, Southampton, Pa. 

Leon F. Payne, vice president and treas- 
urer of Oil Well Supply Company, Dallas, 
Tex., is a director of the Dallas County 
Boy Scouts and is also a charter member of 
the Dallas Petroleum Club. 

The Class of 1907 Scholarship given each 
year to the Senior who combines in the 
highest degree scholastic and athletic ability 
and character will be awarded this month. 
President George Hurley, Dr. Frank A. 
Cummings, Henry G. Clark, Victor A. 
Schwartz, and A. H. Gurney, members of 
the Class committee, made their choice of 
the 1936 nominees at a meeting at the Uni- 
versity Club last month. 

1908 

Ely Eliot Palmer, former American con- 
sul general at Jerusalem has begun his new 
duties as consul general and counsellor at 
the American Legation, Ottawa, Canada. 
Palmer came home from Jerusalem some 
weeks ago, visited his mother and friends 
in Providence and spent some time in 
Washington learning the details of his 
present position. While he was in Prov- 
idence he was the luncheon guest of Wright 
D. Heydon '11 at the University Club, 
where he told of incidents and person- 
alities in Jerusalem and Palestine, and of 
his travels in Persia, Arabia, and in Pales- 
tine itself. His talk had color, and humor, 
and much sound observation in it, and was 
of genuine interest to his auditors. Brown 
men and non-alumni alike. 

Sheldon J. Howe of the Faculty of Deer- 
field Academy, Deerfield, Mass., was a 
campus visitor last month, coming back to 
visit relatives in Providence and to attend 
the annual initiation dinner of Delta Upsi- 
lon. He just escaped the floods which cov- 
ered Deerfield town and threatened the 



school buildings, some of which were used 
as places of refuge. 

1909 

Clarence W. Bosworth, superintendent 
of schools of Cranston, was elected pres- 
ident of the Brown University Teachers' 
Association at the annual meeting held on 
the campus last month. 

George H. Henderson is now on the 
engineering staff of the Koppers Products 
Company, 1109 Industrial Trust Building, 
Providence. 

Sydney Wilmot, manager of publications 
for the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers, represented Brown at the 70th anni- 
versary of engineering at Lafayette College 
in Easton, Pa., March 19 and 20. 

Newton G. Chase is associated with 
Butler, Herrick y Marshall, security brok- 
erage, at 30 Broad Street, New York City. 
1910 

Rev. Harry L. Oldfield has been re- 
elected secretary and treasurer of the Con- 
necticut Valley Brown Club, which has its 
headquarters in Springfield. During the 
recent floods, Oldfield's church, the First 
Congregational of West Springfield — "the 
church on the green" — was used as a place 
of refuge for families driven out of their 
homes, and Mr. and Mrs. Oldfield and 
their colleagues of the church did much 
valuable work to relieve hunger and suffer- 
ing. 

Donald S. Babcock is again serving as a 
member of the budget committee of the 
Providence Community Fund. 

Elmer S. Horton is chairman of the pub- 
licity committee for the Rhode Island Boy 
Scout Jamboree to be held this month. 

Rev. Stephen D. Pyle and Mrs. Pyle of 
the Peking Union Church arrived in this 
country March 8 to remain on furlough 
here until summer. They landed at New 
Orleans after having come from China by 
way of the Dutch East Indies, Africa, and 
South America. They are visiting Mrs. 
Pyle's home in Waterloo, 111., before coming 
East. Their furlough address is in care of 
Harvey O. Dobson, 189 Montague Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1911 

REMEMBER that in June will be the 25th 
Reunion of the Class, and that you 
will want to have a part in it. The week 
end of June 13-14 is the time. How about 
a reunion that will make 1910 wonder how 
we do it, and will give 1912 something to 
aim at in 1937? 

Kenneth J. Tanner has been chosen vice 
president of the Wannamoisett Country 
Club for the current year. 

Allton Green is the new president of the 
Brown Club of Hartford, Conn. He repre- 



Head'Scratching 

DR. Guy B. Colburn '04, of 
Fresno State College, Fresno, 
Calif., and secretary-treasurer of the 
American Association of Teachers of 
Spanish, is conducting a nation-wide 
translation contest for college stu- 
dents of Spanish who are members 
of the Sigma Delta Pi, national 
Spanish honorary society. The pas- 
sage, he says, is from the philosopher 
Migual de Unamuno, and is hard 
enough to make contestants scratch 
their heads and think! 



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sents the Brown y Sharpe Mfg. Company 
in the Hartford district. 

W. W. Nichols, the Packard motor car 
man in Lynn, Mass., had many of the 
women of Lynn and the surrounding towns 
writing letters during the week of March 
16-21 on what they thought was the one 
thing about a Packard car that should be 
advertised to attract women. Nichols' 
agency is at 951 Broad Street, Lynn. 

J. M. (Jake) Howarth is chief engineer 
for Butler Bros., wholesale merchandisers, 
Chicago, where he lives at 1303 Glenlake 
Avenue. 

Robert D. Chase, sales manager of the 
Cyclopedia Corporation of America in New 
York City, lives at 127 Kenilworth Road, 
Ridgewood, N. J. 

1913 

Daniel L. Mahoney, according to report, 
has left Wichita Falls, Tex., and is now 
getting his mail at Ardmore, Okla., where 
he lives on Bixhy Avenue. 

Verne D. Roberts is deputy director of 
the Bolivian Indian Mission at Cochha- 
bamba, Bolivia. Mrs. Roberts is in the field 
with him. They began their missionary work 
at Aiquile, and have since been active in 
Totora and Vallegrande, provincial cap- 
itals. Roberts, some of us will recall, had to 
leave college because of illness. 

Frederick C. Williams, according to the 
Providence journal, has instituted suit 
against the City of Pawtucket for $20,000 
damages for alleged breach of contract. 
Williams was both budget director and city 
engineer of Pawtucket, and his claim is 
that since April 193 3 he has not been re- 
ceiving the weekly compensation agreed 
upon. His term as budget director was to 
have ended in 1938. 



1914 

"Arthur Bartlett," said a recent issue of 
the Worcester Academy Bulletin, "played 
every minute of every football game during 
his four years at W. A. Can anyone prove 
a record equal to this?" 

Nathan M. Wright, Jr., has been elected 
to the Board of Governors of the Wanna- 
moisett Country Club for a three-year term. 
He is chairman of the committee on rules 
and ethics. 

1915 

Rev. John H. Bowman's new address is 
in care of the Montrose School for Girls, 
Montrose, Pa. He had been pastor of the 
Maplewood Baptist Church, Chicago, for 
the past five years. 

Sidney Clifford was co-chairman of the 
83rd financial campaign of the Providence 
Y. M. C. A., which ran from March 25 to 
April 3 and the goal of which was $27,500 
to balance the year's budget. Clifford is also 
chairman of the special committee named to 
raise the Brown Yachting Program fund. 

Seth K. Mitchell, president of the Brown 
Club of Philadelphia, will represent the 
University, in company with Dr. Edwin C. 
Broome '97 and Howard C. Cummings '22, 
at the 40th annual meeting of the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science 
in Philadelphia this month. 

Dr. Roy C. Phillips is Professor of Mod- 
ern Languages at Roanoke College, Roa- 
noke, Va., where he lives during the college 
year at 1704 Hanover Avenue, N.W. His 
home address continues to be 422 Laurel 
Hill Avenue, Norwich, Conn. 
1916 

Harold C. Barney is plant manager of 
the Silver Spring branch of the United 
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The Toungest Mayor 

JOHN J. McNuLTY '32, real estate 
man, is believed to be the young- 
est Mayor in New York State. He 
has just taken office in the village of 
Lake Success, Great Neck, N. Y., 
after a surprise campaign in which he 
and his friends caught opponents 
napping and won the election last 
month. Friends say that his fight 
against a zoning ordinance which 
makes half-acre plots the minimum 
size permitted was the major cause 
of his victory. After election he as- 
sured large estate owners in the Lake 
Success that their property would 
not be affected in any way. 



George R. Arnold, for many years with 
McCann-Erickson, Inc., and other New 
York advertising agencies, has recently 
joined the executive staff of Badger y 
Browning, Inc., prominent Boston adver- 
tising agency at 75 Federal Street, Boston. 
George confesses a yen of long standing to 
get back to New England. He is living in 
Newtonville, Mass. 

Frank A. Farnham, 2nd, working in 
Nashville, Brown County, Ind., won the 
special medal (mythicaH for the telegram 
which he sent to the Brown University 
Club of Chicago when the Club met March 
1 3 : "Brown Club of Brown County regrets 
he can't be with you tonight." 
1917 
Kenneth A. Flanders (your Class Secre- 
tary) reports his correct mail address to be 
1 1 1 Beverly Road, West Hartford, Conn. 
He is with the typewriter division of Un- 
derwood Elliott Fisher, and his ofEce is at 
19 High Street, Hartford. 

William M. Cleare's new house address 
is 1455 President Avenue, Fall River, 
Mass. 

Herman W. Watjen, Jr., with the Phoe- 
nix Mutual Life Insurance Company, is liv- 
ing at lis Coyle Street, Portland. Me. 

Anthony Caputi, engineer with the El- 
liott Company, lives at 17655 Manderson, 
Detroit, Mich. 

Ralph A. Armstrong, attorney for the 
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany, was on duty as a reserve officer dur- 
ing the recent floods in Springfield, Mass. 
He served with the organized reserves and 
had nlenty to do for a week. In Springfield 
itself the reserves and other agencies had 
between 6,000 and 7,000 refugees under 
their care. 

1918 
George J. Heidt, business manager of the 
Riverside Church, New York City, was a 
recent campus visitor, seeing old acquain- 
tances at Faunce House and going to the 
Faculty Club for the weekly luncheon. His 
hoy John will he 16 next fall — almost ready 
to enter college. 

L. F. P. (Pat) Curry, in Dallas, Tex., 
with the Oil Well Supply Company, was a 
little skeptical not long ago when a friend 
hailed him as "a dyed-in-the-wool Texan," 
but he showed that he had no hard feelings 
by a gift of a mint Texas Centennial stamp, 
the most recent of Mr. Farley's unending 
issues. 

1919 
Dr. William H. Sheldon, Jr., former As- 
sistant Professor of Psychology at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago and the University of 



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Wisconsin, is a practising psychiatrist with 
his office at 437 West 59th Street, New 
York City. He received his M.D. degree 
from the University of Chicago in 1933. 
His book, "Psychology and the Promethean 
Will," is on Harper's list for this year. 

Dr. Maynard P. White, petroleum geolo- 
gist at Ardmore, Okla., has published a 
paper in the Journal of Paleontology for 
March, 1936, which deals with microscopic 
fossils and their use in petroleum geology. 

William H. Edwards spoke on the sub- 
ject "Are Christian Ethics Acceptable in 
the Business World?" before the Lenten 
Discussion group at the University, March 
26. 

1920 

Lou Pieri's annual Sportsman's Show at 
the Rhode Island Auditorium drew big 
crowds for a week last month. 

Albert E. Lownes gave a greatly appre- 
ciated talk before the Primrose Garden Club 
of Providence at its March meeting, and 
illustrated it with some of his own beautiful 
pictures. 

Frederic A. Thompson reports his new 
address to be 71 New Street, Naugatuck, 
Conn. 

1921 

THE committee in charge of the 15th 
Reunion has begun work and at this 
writing (March 20) is looking over the 
places suggested for the get-together in 
June. If you have missed the first notice, 
write H. Stanton Smith, 29 Luzon Avenue, 
Providence, or Myles Standish, 507 Union 
Trust Building, Providence. 

Wayne M. Faunce, Associate Director of 
the American Museum of Natural History, 
New York City, will become a director-at- 
large of the Associated Alumni for a two- 
year term beginning July 1 next. 

Preston T. Stephenson is with the Turner 
Tanning Machinery Company, Peabody, 
Mass., and lives at 214 Heath Street, Chest- 
nut Hill, Mass. His summer place is on 
Galloupes Point, Swampscott, Mass. 

Allan B. Colby, with the Armstrong Cork 
Company, Metal Cap Department, Lan- 
caster, Pa., asked in a recent letter about 
the 15th Reunion, and if Myles Standish 
and Ralph Knight were doing anything 
about it. Colby admitted that he had been 
reasonably busy in the past few months try- 
ing to straighten out the difficulties of mak- 
ing tinplate into caps, direct the erection of 
a building for manufacture of the caps, and 
put a "trick" cap into production. He has 
also investigated the renovation of a rubber 
manufacturing plant, and moved his fam- 
ily to 512 School Lane, Lancaster. 

Brayton Eddy, nationally known as an 
authority on insects, gave a talk, "Odd 
Things About Nature," over Radio Station 
WXYZ, Detroit, on Sunday, March 8. 

Ashley Greene, Assistant Attorney Gen- 
eral of Illinois under Attorney General 
Otto H. Kerner (father of Otto H. Kerner, 
Jr. "30) is taking active part, we hear, in 
the intensive primary campaign now under 
way in Chicago. 



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tered Brown with the class of 
'26 as a special student from Newark, 
N. J., is tha composer of "June in 
January" and of music for songs and 
pictures under the name of Ralph 
Rainger. After he left Brown he stud- 
ied at New Jersey Law School, a press 
clipping says, and at the Damrosch 
Institute of Musical Arts. He has 
been solo pianist, lawyer, as well as 
composer. 



1922 

Kenilworth H. Mathus, Supervisor of 
Publications for the Connecticut Mutual 
Life Insurance Company of Hartford, in 
charge of advertising and sales promotion, 
has joined the staff of the Life Insurance 
Sales Research Bureau of Hartford, and 
will be editor of the Manager's Magazine 
and the Handboo\ of Agency Management, 
well known publications in the life insur- 
ance field. He will also serve as consultant 
on sales promotion for several of the 125 
life insurance companies which are members 
of the bureau. He writes that in his new 
work he will travel extensively; and as oc- 
casions permit he plans to renew acquain- 
tance with Brown men throughout the 
country. 

Howard C. Cummings will be a Brown 
representative at the 40th annual meeting 
of the American Academy Political and 
Social Science to be held in Philadelphia, 
April 24 and 25. 

1923 

Norman J. Paasche is with the Universal 
Optical Company, 24 Peck Street, Provi- 
dence. He lives at 598 Waterman Avenue, 
East Providence. 

Rev. N. Lester Lawrence is pastor of the 
Bergen Point Baptist Church in Bayonne, 
N. J. Friends on the Hill had a fine letter 
from him lately telling of his work. His 
house is at 113 Humphrey Avenue, Bay- 
onne. 

H. H. Murphy is office manager of the 
Afro-Anierican, "the largest weekly news- 
paper publishing news of interest particu- 
larly to Colored people," but he finds time 
for some civic duties as well. His name 
appears on the letter-head of the Maryland 
Training School for Colored Girls of Glen 
Burnie, Md., as secretary. Murphy is living 
at 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore. He 
was glad to have news of Dr. Lancess Mc- 
Knight and Rev. Clarence A. Burrell in re- 
cent issues of the Monthly, he wrote the 
editor. 

1924 

A. A. MacKrille is with Shell Eastern 
Petroleum Products at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 
New York City. 

Rev. T. Jerome Hayden is rector of St. 
Uriel's Episcopal Church, Sea Girt, N. J. 

Carleton Scott is back in the building 
business again as a partner in Suburban 
Homes, Inc., 210 Theatre Building, Bir- 
mingham, Mich. There's a boom in house 
construction in Birmingham and neighbor- 
hood, and Scott is busy. In other years he 
built some of the most beautiful houses in 
Birmingham. 

Charles G. Burgess has taken charge of 
the new Pittsburgh office of his company, 
Alco Products, Inc. He resigned as presi- 
dent of the Brown Engineering Association, 
of which he had previously been secretary 



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No. 9 



for several years, because of his transfer 
from New York to Pittsburgh. 

WiHiam Laurans, whose marriage is re- 
ported in another column, is an executive 
with the Red and White grocery stores, a 
chain operating in southeastern Massachu- 
setts. 

Rev. Gordon E. Bigelow, for nearly sev- 
en years pastor of the Trinity Baptist 
Church, Arlington, Mass., will become pas- 
tor of the Baptist Church of the Master, 
Cleveland, next month. He succeeds Rev. 
Dr. Frank Jennings, now executive secre- 
tary of the Massachusetts Council of 
Churches. 

John Monk, new president of the Brown 
Club of Chicago, designed a program for 
the 63rd annual dinner of the Club in Chi- 
cago, Friday, March 13, that brought him 
many congratulations. The cover, with a 
four-leafed clover (Lucky for Brown Men) 
overlaying an ominous Friday the 13th, 
made even the most superstitutious calm 
and comfortable. Monk is with McCormick 
y Henderson, Inc., printers, 411 South 
Wells Street. 

1925 

Homer P. Metsger is with the Zonite 
Products Corporation, with his office in the 
Chrysler Building, New York City. His 
mail address is 315 East 68th Street. 

Willis B. Gilford, member of the class 
for two years before he left college to teach 
school in Thompson, Conn., is the new 
principal of Belmont, Mass., High School. 
He has been sub-master of Brookline High 
School since 1931. 

Louis C. Micone, member of the New 
Jersey bar since 193 2, is practising law at 
9 Clinton Street, Newark. He will he mar- 
ried the 27th of this month to Miss Virginia 
Martellucci. 

Harry L. Hoffman is the new president 
of the Brown Club of Cleveland. His work- 
ing hours are spent with the Society for 
Savings; his avocations, other than the ac- 
tivities of the Brown Club in which he has 
had a growing share in recent years, are 
raising tulips at his house in Lakewood, and 
baseball. His high hope this spring is that 
the Brown baseball team will win a few 
games. 

1926 

F. Lewis Kilbourne, Jr., is with the Xylos 
Rubber Company, Akron, O. 

Henri D. Fournct, Jr., of the law firm of 
Fournet, May 6? Goreth, recently changed 
his residence to 34 Merritt Avenue, White 
Plains, N. Y. 



William E. Cruise's new address is 6 
Baldwin Street, East Orange, N. J. Bill is 
an engineer with the New Jersey Bell Tele- 
phone Company. 

F. Abbott Brown has resumed his work 
with the Delphian Society in Chicago after 
six weeks" vacation in Miami, Fla. 

1927 

Theodore Raynor is on the copy desk in 
the city room of the Hartford Courant, 
Hartford, Conn. 

Jasper S. Costa has formed a partnership 
with Henry A. Maccar for the general prac- 
tice of law under the firm name of Costa & 
Maccar. The firm's offices are in the Bor- 
den Building, 3 50 Madison Avenue, New 
York City. 

Frederic J. McGrath is a commercial ar- 
tist at 168 Eli::abeth Avenue, and lives at 
193 Milford Avenue, Newark, N. J. 

Christopher (Cap) Gunderson, Scout 
Executive of the Cambridge, Mass., Coun- 
cil, Boy Scouts of America, recently re- 
turned from the national convention of 
scout executives at French Lick, Ind., where 
he starred in the dramatic hit of the pro- 
gram. 

John J. Roe, Jr., is in the general insur- 
ance business under his own name at 125 
East Main Street, Patchogue, N. Y. 

Does anyone in the Class know the pres- 
ent whereabouts of George B. Cole, who 
was our best pianist during our years on 
College Hill? The Alumni Office would 
appreciate any information on George. 

Arnold K. Brown's new address is 40 
Fountain Avenue, West Barrington, R. I. 

George F. Whitlock is living at 56 Gar- 
den Street, Garden City, N. Y. 

1928 

Dr. Frederick Behrendt is associated with 
Dr. Leo W. Turner in the practice of den- 
tistry. His office is in the New York Stock 
Exchange Building. 

Ewing W. Brand's present mail address 
is 1631 Euclid Street, N.W., Washington, 
D. C. 

Frank L. Cheeseman, Jr., with Neisser- 
Meyerhoff, Inc., advertising, Chicago, is in 
California on vacation. He works on the 
Wrigley chewing gum account and also 
handles a great deal of work on Mr. Wrig- 
ley's personal paradise, Catalina Island. 

Joseph L. Strauss, Jr., one of the active 
members of the Brown Club of Chicago 
since graduation, is vice president of the 
Club for 1936-37. He is an executive with 
Hillison y Etten Company, printers and 
binders. 

Roy Randall has signed a three-year con- 
tract as head coach of football, baseball and 
basketball at Haverford College, to which he 
went in 1933 after having been director of 
Freshman athletics at University of Vir- 
ginia. 

Nelson B. Jones, Jr., won the singles 
championship. Class C, in the Rhode Island 
Squash Rackets League during the season 
just ended. He is at present tuning up for 
an active season on the golf courses in and 
near Providence. 

Imbrie (Imp) Packard, who was in sales 
work the last time we heard from him, is 
living at 21 Franklin Street, Englewood, 
N.J. 

1929 

George W. Rawlings has been appointed 
manager for Rhode Island of the Fidelity 
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila- 
delphia, with his offices at 1614-15 Indus- 
trial Trust Building, Providence. 



Mitchell A. Orens is general manager of 
the Mack Drug Stores in Hackensack, and 
is living at 782 East 22nd Street, Paterson, 
N.J. 

Dr. Alexander F. Marzilli was guest at a 
testimonial dinner given by friends in 
Providence last month. Thomas J. Paolino 
'28 was toastmaster. Marzilli received his 
M.D. from Tufts College. 

Henry D. Wilson, Jr., is doing research 
work m radio engineering at the Bell Tele- 
phone Laboratories, 180 Varick Street, New 
York City. 

Rev. Winthrop H. Richardson, who re- 
ceived his Bachelor of Divinity degree from 
Andover Newton Theological School last 
June, is minister of the First Congrega- 
tional Church, Dracut, Mass. 
1930 

Robert P. Uhl, with the advertising 
agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine 6? Os- 
born, has removed to 23 Canterbury Road, 
Great Neck, N. Y. 

Dr. Harold Ribner is a practising physi- 
cian at 61 Dean Road, Brookline, Mass. 

Raymond E. Tanner's new address is 
106 Natick Avenue, Greenwood, R. I. 
Ray is an engineer with the Narragansett 
Electric Company in Providence. 

Paul E. Ochs, we hear, is at present liv- 
ing at 1 2 East 97th Street, New York City. 
1931 

Wallace S. DePuy, who won his law 
degree at Columbia, has been admitted to 
the New Jersey bar and is associated with 
the offices of Morrison, Lloyd ^ Morrison, 
Hackensack. 

John F. Also writes that his new mail ad- 
dress is in care of the law firm of Mclvor, 
Kauffman, Smith & Yamamoto, 12-6 Ma- 
runouchi, Tokyo, Japan. He still maintains 
a legal residence at 1408 Tamarind Avenue, 
Hollywood, Calif. 

Joseph M. Baruch is in the publishing 
and bookselling business at 220 West 42nd 
Street, New York City. 

Wilbur W. Frost is a lawyer, with his 
office at 323 Lyman Building, Muskegon, 
Mich. 

Herbert I. Silverson is with the Harris 
Block Company, real estate, 4929 Broad- 
way, New York City. 

John W. Lane is working for his father's 
firm, Parkinson &? Lane, patent attorneys, 
Chicago, and is studying law nights. He 
and Mrs. Lane are living at 129 Kedzie 
Street, Evanston, 111. 

Gordon (Jack") Eraser has joined the 
NBC Radio City announcers' staff in New 
York City. Gordon began his radio career 
at Station WEAN, Providence, while he 
was in college. 

1932 

Morton J. Simon, who received his LL.B. 
from Harvard last June, has opened law 



Legislator's War Record 

ARTHUR Smart '34 is a member of 
.the New Hampshire House of 
Representatives, and is also adminis- 
istrative assistant of the National 
Youth Administration, with his of- 
fice in Manchester. He has had ar- 
ticles on popularized psychology and 
political subjects published in various 
monthly magazines. Under the head- 
ing "War Record," he notes that he 
has "fought with the damned Re- 
publicans up here for the past four 
years." 



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offices at Suite 807, Franklin Trust Build- 
ing, ITth and Chestnut Streets, Philadel- 
phia. 

John A. Segur, with the Lonsdale Com- 
pany at 50 South Main Street, Providence, 
recently removed to Highland Avenue, 
Cowcsett, R. I. 

Henry E. Staniels, who entered with the 
class hut who did not take his degree until 
June, 193 5, is with the Rhode Island Hos- 
pital National Bank, Providence. 

Paul W. Havener is with Jackson Boesel 
6? Company, investments, at 26 Broadway, 
New York City, and lives at 248 Lake Ave- 
nue, Greenwich, Conn. 

Kenneth J. Rupprecht has sailed by way 
of England for Penang, Straits Settlement, 
where he will be mechanical engineer with 
Malayan-American Plantations, a subsid- 
iary of United States Rubber Company, 
with which he has been connected since 
graduation. He will be gone for three 
years, we understand, and his address will 
be M.A.P., Kedah Estates, Penang, S. S. 

Will B, Presba is the new secretary of the 
Brown Club of Chicago. His address is in 
care of Presba. Fellers 6? Presba, London 
Guarantee Building, Chicago. 

1933 

Hal Wagner is an announcer with radio 
station WESG, Elmira, N. Y. 

George Freeman, who is doing develop- 
ment work on mercury lamps for the West- 
inghouse Lamp Company, Bloomfield, N. J., 
is also operator of amateur radio station 
W2BIE; and the yiewarl^ 'Hews recently 
carried a picture of him on station to illus- 
trate a story about him and his radio work. 
"Perhaps Freeman's most unusual contact," 
the T^eui.'i said, "was with an unlicensed 
station aboard a ship, a contact that lasted 
for several hours while the operator aboard 
it, hungry for news, asked innumerable 
questions on sporting and other events. 
The ship's position at the time was about 
5 degrees north of the mouth of the Ama- 
zon River and its signal had the characteris- 
tic 500-cycle note so often found on marine 
signals. Freeman has never identified the 
ship or its operator and hopes that some 
time the operator of X-C7Z, the call signed, 
will verify the contact and perhaps reveal 
the ship's name." 

Bob Bentlcy reports his new mail address 
to be 7007 Ridge Boulevard, Chicago. 

Courtney Langdon is studying at the 
Graduate College for Teachers and is living 
at 832 Bryant Avenue, Winnetka, 111. 

Ed Vreeland (we report the arrival of his 
daughter in another column) asks that his 
mail be sent to 177 Liberty Street, Bloom- 
field, N. J. 

1934 

Knight W. Dunkerley is a student at the 
General Theological Seminary, New York 
City. 

Jack Akin reports that he is "pushing a 
truck in the shipping department" of the 
Hudson Wire Company, manufacturers of 
fine wire. Ossining, N. Y. 

Jack Hall is a member of the sales staff 
of the New England Telephone (i Tele- 
graph Company, with his headquarters at 
112 Union Street, Providence. 

Charlie Eherstadt is secretary of the 
president of Edward Eberstadt Company, 
rare books, 55 West 42nd Street, New York 
City. He is a member of the Admissions 
Committee, Brown University Club in New 
York, and a director of the Horace Mann 
Alumni Association. 

Dave Moore is on the sales staff of Inter- 



national Business Machines, and is living 
at 107 Kensington Road, Bronxville, N. Y. 

Roland Newcomhe is a heating engineer 
with the Providence Gas Company. 

Knight Ames is with the Boston Safe 
Deposit y Trust Company in charge of 
securities. 

Dave Allen is a salesman with Modern 
Home Utilities, Inc., distributor of General 
Electric products, at 123 Ann Street, Hart- 
ford, Conn. We report his marriage in 
another column. 

John Sayward, with the Calco Chemical 
Company, Bound Brook, N. J., writes that 
he managed to do a fair amount of skiing 
the past winter, and that he made one trip 
on a snow train to Pittsfield, Mass. "I was 



For Brown Bookshelves 

{Continued from page 217) 

Technical Happiness 

It's the men who are worried about love, 
according to Dr. Charles Francis Potter 
"08, whose new book "The Technique of 
Happiness" purports to solve the troubles 
of the reader just as the Humanist preacher 
aids those who come personally to him for 
advice in his New York office. In former 
years it was the women who told him about 
unrequited love and similar woes, while 
the men revealed financial troubles as prey- 
ing upon their minds. Today the tables are 
reversed. 

Dr. Potter, famed for his debates during 
the raging of 'the Fundamentalist era, started 
his career as a minister when he was still at 
Brown and retired in 1929 to found the 
First Humanist Society of New York. Mod- 
ern matrimony, he says, will have a still 
better chance when men are instructed that 
they must do their part in holding their 
wives. He believes, too, that marriage needs 
new ceremonies if it is to mean anything to 
modern young people. 

Dr. Potter recently talked along the 
same lines in an interview widely syndi- 
cated by the NEA Service. 
* * * 

Reiiolution in History 

A REVOLUTIONARY method of expounding 
history is to be found in the "'Vis- 
ualised Units in World History" by J. Mad- 
ison Gathany '05, now of East Orange 
High School and the New Jersey State 
Normal School. It is a logical development 
of his earlier work in the unit method of 
teaching the subject, which takes some ele- 
ment or fact or problem of the present 
and traces it back to its origins, without 
confusing the issue with such irrelevant 
material as might appear in the ordinary 
chronological survey. For instance, he will 
follow the development of "orderly gov- 
ernment," "the industrial revolution," or 
"imperialism." Mr. Gathany's book on 
this method was published by McGraw- 
Hill in 1934, receiving wide acclaim from 
educators. 

The new pictorial work is published by 
the College Entrance Book Company, and 
sample pages show wide use of illustrations 
for exposition or questioning purposes. 
The conflict between imperialism and racial 
nationalism in Africa is thus represented 
by a checker game and a recital of the 
moves. 

Born in a log cabin on a farm among the 
hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, Mr. 



very much interested in the skiing slope 
depicted on the cover of the February 
Alumni Monthly," he said. "We winter 
sports enthusiasts hope the weather bureau 
is right about these cold winters foreboding 
a series of more wintry winters!" 

Frank Wilier is exchange teller with the 
Florida National Bank 6? Trust Company 
at Miami. He and Mrs. Wilier (they were 
married last June) live at 2923 N. E. Sec- 
ond Avenue, Miami. 

Charles Smith is advertising manager of 
the Apco Mossberg Corporation, metal 
stampings, tools, and such, in Attleboro, 
Mass. He and Mrs. Smith, the former 'Vir- 
ginia A. Cooke, live at 103 West Street, 
Attleboro. 

{Continued on page 250) 



Gathany worked his way through Brown 
and earned his Master's degree there before 
teaching in Providence, at East Bridge- 
water, Mass., Scarborough School, N. Y., 
and since 1921 in East Orange. He was for 
10 years a member of the educational staff 
of The Oudook. edited "American Patri- 
otism in Prose and Verse," and is the 
author of several fine books on civics, his- 
tory, and their teaching. His permanent 
address is 15 Grant Avenue, East Orange. 



Ho Door Wil! Slam 

AUSTIN H. FiTTZ '00, Director of the 
Division of Finance, Babson Insti- 
tute, was the author of "The Lure of An- 
tiques," the feature article of the Babson 
Institute Ahimni Bulletin for February. 
"One thing is certain," he said in the 
article. "That portion of one's money in 
antiques is where no one can slam the door 
in your face and tell you that you cannot 
have the money rightfully yours, as has 
happened all too often during the last few 
years." He also encouraged young married 
couples to furnish their homes, at least in 
part, with antiques, and set forth the de- 
termining considerations for collecting 
antiques as "beauty and rarity as well as 
age." 

Clerical Coincidences 

MONSIGNOR," the novel by Doran Hurley 
(the pen name of John M. Hurley 
'26) is being read in Southeastern Massa- 
chusetts in particular, newspaper reports 
say. because readers in that section are find- 
ing "amazing coincidences in incidents de- 
scribed" in the novel. "It's not hard to 
guess who 'Monsignor' of this story is," 
said the book reviewer of the !NJet« Bedford 
Times. 

And he went on to draw parallels to 
make some of the narrative and the char- 
acters easier for readers to identify. "Mon- 
signor," as we may have said before, was 
the choice for February of the Catholic 
Book of the Month Club. 



From d Faculty Pen 

PROF. Raymond C. Archibald of the 
Department of Mathematics, now on 
. .^sabbatic leave, has written two sketches 
for the Dictionary of American Biography 
concerning two American mathematicians, 
William Edward Story and Theodore 
Strong. Prof. Archibald is a recognized 
authority on mathematicians. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Roy H. Smith, Jr., is with Howard Luce, 
insurance, at 1999 Union Trust Building, 
Cleveland. He is a member of the First 
Cleveland Cavalry, and is also one of the 
class benedicts, having married Miss Sara 
Luce a year ago last month. The Smiths 
live at 14509 Milverton Road, Cleveland. 

Mel Riley, Jr., is in the security trading 
department of the Bank of Manhattan 
Company at 40 Wall Street, New York 
City. 

193T 

Bill McClafferty is a first-year student at 
the Medical School, University of Mary- 
land. 

Jim Flynn is with the United States De- 
partment of Commerce, Bureau of the Cen- 
sus, and has charge of a section doing sta- 
tistical work in Philadelphia, where his ad- 
dress is 2401 Chestnut Street. He is living 
at the Zeta Psi house, University of Penn- 
sylvania. 

Nat Pritcher is assistant manager of the 
Challenger Food Mart in Pawtuckct. 

Howard Rindge is a first-year student at 
the School of Medicine, Yale University. 

Eli Levinson is working for Lerner Bros., 
department stores, and is living at 417 
Riverside Drive, Apt. 9A, New York City. 

Bob Chapin is a member of the sales staff 
of Chapin 6? Adams Corporation, whole- 
sale foods, 3 5 South Market Street, Boston. 

Peregrine Wroth is studying medicine at 
the Medical School, McGill University, 
Montreal. 

Justin Parvey is with Vaughan 6? Com- 
pany, investments, at 102 Grosvcnor Build- 
ing, Providence. 

Bob Hawkins is a member of the sales 
department of the New England Telephone 
& Telegraph Company, with his headquar- 
ters at 112 Union Street, Providence. 

Fred Nachman, Jr., is in the service de- 
partment of the Nachman Spring Filled 
Corporation, manufacturers of inner springs 
for beds and furniture, in his home city of 
Chicago. 

Nelson Record and Mason Parker are 
special machinist apprentices at the Brown 
& Sharpe Mfg. Company, Providence. 

Gray Temple is a first-year student at 
the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alex- 
andria, Va. An Alumni Office visitor dur- 
ing the spring recess, he said that his south- 
ern accent had not yet had time to blossom. 



Al Cotterill is an agent with the Man- 
hattan Life Insurance Company at 654 
Madison Avenue, New York City. 

Ed White sets himself down as an "in- 
terne teacher" at William Penn Charter 
School, Germantown, Pa. 

Jerry Ferry is a student salesman with 
the International Business Machines Cor- 
poration, with his present headquarters at 
270 Broadway, New York City. 

Dan Fraad is a graduate student in anat- 
omy at Yale, and is getting his mail, he 
reports, at 179 Dwight Street, New Haven, 
Conn. 

Bob Ford is an agent in the real estate 
department of the Woonsocket Institution 
for Savings. 

* * * 

ENGAGEMENTS 

MISS Virginia A. Martellucci, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Petrina Martellucci of 
Providence, to Louis K. Micone '25 of New- 
ark. N. J. 

Miss Loriel Mae Carr, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. George Stanshury Carr of New 
York, to Weston M. Stuart '27 of Nyack, 
N. Y. 

Miss Dorothy A. Sharp, daughter of Mrs. 
W. C. Sharp of Providence, to Maynard 
Cohen '28, also of Providence. 

Miss Frances Bowerman, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowerman of Edge- 
wood, R. L. to Warren A. Pcarce "3 2 of 
Charlotte, N. C. 

Miss Dorothy Alter, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel Alter of Brookline, Mass., to 
Dr. Henry M. Goldman "3 3 of Dorchester, 
Mass. 

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WEDDIHCS 

1924 — William Laurans and Miss Eu- 
dine Reita Biren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William Biren, were married in Philadel- 
phia, March 22, 1936. They will live in 
New Bedford, Mass. 

1925 — Malcolm E. Smith and Mrs. Isa- 
bel Sproul Howe, daughter of the late Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles Sproul. were married in 
New York City, March 3. 1936. They arc 
at home at 345 East 57th Street, New York 
City. 

1932 — Ernest Reiss and Miss Rcnee C. 
Rice, graduate in 1931 of the Leland Pow- 
ers School of Dramatic Art, were married 



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Feb. 16, 1936. They are living at 118 
York Terrace, Brookline, Mass. 

1933 — Leonard Richter and Miss Mollie 
Stanzler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abra- 
ham Stanzler, were married in Providence 
March 8, 1936. They are living at 64 
Eaton Street, Providence. 

1934— Robert M. Hall and Miss Ruth 
Pearl Daniels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Adolphus Daniels, were married in Provi- 
dence. March 17, 1936. They will live in 
Chicago. 

1934 — David R. Allen and Miss Emily 
Jane Birge were married Nov. 7, 1935, the 
Alumni Office has recently been informed. 
They are living in North Haven, Conn. 



BIRTHS 

1921— To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mochau 
of Providence, a son, Alfred Mochau, Jr., 
March 22, 1936. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Ken- 
ney of Riverview, R. I., a daughter, Jean 
Ehsabeth, March 5, 1936. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. 
Frazee of Arlington, N. J., a daughter, 
Carol Jean, March 14, 1936. 

1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. 
Young of New Rochelle, N. Y., a son, Da- 
vid Cook, Feb. 16, 1936. 

1932 — To Mr. and Mrs. H. William 
Koster of Providence, a son, Henry William 
Koster, Jr., March 3, 1936. 

1933 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Vree- 
land of Bloomfleld, N. J., a daughter on 
March 5, 1936. 



Those We Mourn 



Co!. Murray, an Obituary 

COLONEL CUNLIFFE HaLL MuRRAY. 
Professor of Military Tactics, 1896- 
97. and Professor of Military Science 
and Tactics, 1897-99, died at Hilltop, his 
estate at Tenafly, N. J., March 16, 1936, in 
his 84th year. He will be remembered by 
the Brown men of his time as military in- 
structor on the campus before and during 
the Spanish-American War. 

"A splendid man, loved by those of us 
who were under him,'" an alumnus wrote. 

Colonel Murray's career after his grad- 
uation from West Point in 1877 was a va- 
ried one. As a cavalryman he chased and 
fought Indians in Arizona, New Mexico, 
Texas, and Kansas. He was secretary to 
Governor General Otis, first military Gov- 
ernor of the Philippines. He was officer in 
charge of recruiting at Yale: and in 1913 
he took command of the first cavalry bri- 
gade to be formed since the Civil War. He 
retired from the Army in 1916, regretting 
that he had to step down before the United 
States entered the World War. 

Six years ago Colonel Murray broke two 
vertebrae in a 40-foot fall from the roof of 
his barn, but was able to sit on a horse just 
before his death. A native of Charleston, 
S. C he had three ancestors who fought in 
the Revolution. His father was a master 
mariner during the Civil War. Colonel 
Murray's only survivor is a daughter, Miss 
Annie M. Murray. 



250 



1874 

WILLIAM Henry Reeby, oarsman in his 
undergraduate days and newspaper- 
man in New England for 40 years, died in 
Milford, Mass., March 21, 1936, after an 
attack of pneumonia. He was a former part 
owner of the Attleboro Sun. 

When he entered Brown in 1870 he 
joined the Freshman boat crew. The story 
is told that the managers of the University 
Boat Club demanded that he leave the 
Freshman crew and try out for a seat in the 
University boat. A college mass meeting 
followed, and the outcome found Reeby in 
the Brown boat rowing against Harvard, 
Yale, and Amherst Agricultural College 
(big, stout farmer boys, a Brown oarsman 
once said) at Ingleside, near Springfield, in 
the summer of 1871. In class races (six- 
oared shells) on the Seekonk in 1872 he 
was on the winning crew (the time for 
three miles was 21 minutes, 55 seconds), 
and was always proud of the cup given him 
on that occasion. 

He was born in Plymouth, England, July 
23, 1850, the son of Richard M. and Jane 
(Cole) Reeby. He came to this country as 
a boy, prepared at Worcester Academy, 
and was at Brown three years. In 1873 he 
transferred to Harvard Divinity School, 
took the degree of Bachelor of Sacred 
Theology in 1876, and after another year 
of study became a Unitarian minister. I)ur- 
ing the next ten years he held pastorates in 
Dighton, Norton, and Harvard, Mass. In 
1887 he migrated to Denver and worked on 
the Denver 7s[ews-Time5. Returning East 
in 1894, he bought an interest in the Attle- 
boro Sun and continued with that news- 
paper until 1901. 

He worked in Westboro, 1902-05, as a 
correspondent; and in 1905 went to Mil- 
ford, where he had been city editor and 
editorial writer of the Milford Daily 'hlews 
until his last illness. He was a past grand 
of Harvard Lodge of Odd Fellows, and for 
57 years a member of Pioneer Lodge of 
Masons of Somerset. He was married June 
6, 1894, to Miss Emma E. Vance, who died 
a month ago. Surviving are a daughter. 
Miss Ruth A. Reeby, and a son, Eliot V. 
Reeby. 



1880 

REV. William Hoyle Lane, minister of 
the Baptist Church for 50 years and 
local historian, died suddenly at his home 
in Shawomet, R. I., March 15, 1936. Death 
came in his sleep, after an active day at 
home and at the Old Warwick League Li- 
brary, which he served as secretary and as 
librarian. 

He was born in Valley Falls, Dec. 5, 
1852, the son of Amos A. and Ann Celia 
(Hoyle) Lane. He entered Brown from 
the University Grammar School, and after 
graduation went to Newton Theological 
Institution, from which he graduated in 
1883. Newton awarded him the degree of 
B.D. in 1910 for proficiency in the Hebrew 
language and literature. Ordained in Dex- 
ter, Me., in May, 1884, he was pastor of 
the Baptist Church in Dexter for two years, 
and of the church in Yarmouthville, Me., 
for four years. He had a major share in 
building the Yarmouthville church. 

During his pastorate there he also served 
in 1888-89 as supervisor of the public 
schools of Yarmouth. He was clerk of the 
Cumberland Baptist Association of Maine, 
1888-90, resigning to return to Rhode 



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Island as assistant pastor of the Central 
Baptist Church, Providence, in charge of 
the mission church in Manton. 

In 1894 he left the Central Church (the 
late Rev. Thomas D. Anderson, D.D. '74 
was pastor), and from December, 189'>, to 
March, 1912, he was pastor of the Shawo- 
met Baptist Church. "The succeeding years 
of his ministry," the Providence journal 
said, "were devoted to supplying the pul- 
pits in pastorless churches in Rhode Island, 
particularly in the Tabernacle Baptist 
Church, Fiskeville." He was moderator, 
and then clerk and treasurer of the Warren 
Baptist Association; Rhode Island corre- 
spondent of Zion's Advocate for 29 years; 
charter member of the Warwick Historical 
Society, for which he wrote and published 
in typewritten form part of the history of 
Warwick; librarian of the Old Warwick 
League Library since 1920; and worker in 
the causes of temperance and reform. 

He was married Oct. 6, 1880, to Miss 



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Mary A. Wheaton of Pawtucket, who died 
in 1895, leaving two daughters. His second 
marriage took place July 9, 1902, to Miss 
Mary A. Sarle of Warwick, who died Jan. 
21, 1920. Surviving are a daughter, Miss 
Edith M. Lane, a son, Stanley Hoyle Lane, 
and a sister, Mrs. Hattie Treen of Mans- 
field, Mass. 

1889 

FREDERICK Huntington Briggs, presi- 
dent of the Oliver L. Briggs 6? Son Com- 
pany, manufacturers of pool and billiard 
tables, and president and trustee of the 
Boston Penny Savings Bank, died suddenly 
at his home in Boston, Feb. 25, 1936. In 
193 2 he was Grand Commander of the 
Knights Templar for Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island, and was for years an active 
leader in Masonic circles. 

Born in Boston, May 5, 1866, the son of 
Oliver L. and Mary Sabin (Stone) Briggs, 
he prepared at Chauncy Hall and Berkeley 
Schools, and, the story goes, chose to come 
to Brown instead of entering Harvard be- 
cause "he wished to make his way where 
he was not known." After graduation he 
returned to Boston to learn his father's 
business and later to succeed his father at 
the head of it. In 1924 he became presi- 
dent of the Penny Savings Bank and dur- 
ing the past 12 years built the bank up to 
a high position among Boston banks. He 
was a 32nd degree Mason, Past Master of 
Joseph Warren Lodge, Past High Priest, 
St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, and 
Past Commander, Boston Coramandery, 
Knights Templar. 

He was chairman of the relief committee 
of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics 
Association for 30 years; treasurer of the 
National League of Masonic Clubs; and a 
member of the Sons of the Revolution, the 
Genealogical and Geographical Society, the 
Boston Art Club, the Boston Police Square 
Club, and Beta Theta Pi. He founded and 
was first president of the Sharon Country 
Club, and was one of the pioneer golf en- 
thusiasts in the East. He was also a hearty 
advocate of travel by air, being the first 
passenger, with Mrs. Briggs, to buy a com- 
plete round-trip ticket for a 17,000-mile, 
31 -day trip around South America over the 
Pan-American Airways. In 1931 when he 
visited the West with the Knights Templar 
he was received into the Sioux tribe of In- 
dians as Chief White Eagle. 

He was married Aug. 12, 1891, to Miss 
Ada L. Langley, his companion on his trips 
abroad and at home. Mrs. Briggs is his 
only immediate survivor. 
* * * 

1902 

REV. George Milton Bardsley, special 
student in 1900-01 and 1902-03, died 
in Chicago, Jan. 18, 1936, after having 
been seriously ill for the past three years. 

Born in Augusta, Me., March 11, 1879, 
the son of William E. and Hannah 
(Moody) Bardsley, he prepared at SufBeld 
Academy and Gushing Academy, and was 
a special student at Brown, 1898-1900, and 
1900-02. While he was in college he car- 
ried on as a student preacher in chapels and 
churches in Rhode Island towns. From 
Brown he went to Rochester Theological 
Seminary, where he graduated in 1906. 

After 16 months of gospel tent work in 
New York City, he became assistant pastor 
of the First Baptist Church, Hartford, 
Conn., being ordained in May, 1908. He 



was associate pastor of the Lake Avenue 
Baptist Church, Rochester, N. Y., 1910-12; 
and pastor of Galilee Church, Chicago, 
1912-14. He received the degree of B.S.A. 
from the George Williams Y.M.C.A. Col- 
lege in Chicago in 1914, and for the next 
four years was traveling representative of 
Lewis and Clark University. From 1918 to 
1921 he was industrial secretary at the 
Sears Roebuck Y.M.C.A. During the ten 
years 1921-31 he held positions with Mar- 
shall Field Company; Carson, Pirie 6? Scott; 
Olivet Institute, Oxford Institute; and Chi- 
cago School of Law. 

He was married Dec. 31, 1910, to Flor- 
ence E. Galloway. His second marriage 
took place Feb. 2, 1924, to Miss Madge 
Nicholaisen, who survives, together with 
several cousins. Mrs. Bardsley is a past 
president of the Illinois Training School 
Alumnae Association. 

* * * 

1918 

Burton Harrington, who died Feb. 13, 
1936, in Jackson Heights, N. Y., as a 
result of a sudden heart attack, had been 
active in the advertising field as editor of 
several promotional publications and as a 
leader in the development of poster adver- 
tising. He had also served as national chair- 
man of the public relations committee of 
the American Legion. 

He was born in Pawtucket, March 5, 
1895, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Francis M. 
Harrington. He prepared at Classical High 
School and as undergraduate at Brown was 
on the Freshman football team. He left in 
1917 to join Battery A, 103rd Field Artil- 
lery, 26th Division, and served in all the 
major engagements with the battery and the 
division. After his honorable discharge in 
April, 1919, he studied for a while at Bos- 
ton University Law School, sold bonds, 
worked for the O. J. Gude Company, ad- 
vertising, was eastern manager of "Signs of 
the Times," and then, 1921-29, editor and 
general manager of T/ie Poster, Outdoor 
Advertising Association J^ews, and Poster 
T^ews. 

Under his management The Poster stead- 
ily increased to a circulation of approxi- 
mately 15,000 monthly; Outdoor Advertis- 
ing doubled its circulation; and Poster 
AJeu'S, a pamphlet which he began as an aid 
to merchandising, reached 50,000 copies an 
issue. He recruited prominent writers, 
started the international competition for an 
American Legion poster, and for some years 
carried on the outdoor advertising cam- 
paign of the Legion. He wrote and edited, 
with the co-operation of Matlack Price, 
"The Essentials of Poster Design," the first 
practical textbook of its kind. 

In 1929 he resigned as editor and man- 
ager to join Outdoor Service, Inc., in Chi- 
cago as assistant general manager. He later 
became merchandising manager of the Wil- 
liamson Candy Company, and at the time 
of his death was manager of the commercial 
research division of Ross Federal Service, 
Inc. He had been secretary and president 
of the Brown Club of Chicago; Chef de 
Train, Societe de 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, 
American Legion; and was a member of 
Phi Kappa and the Hamilton Club, Chi- 
cago. 

He was married Jan. 9, 1922, to Miss 
Marguerite Jaynes, who survives, with a 
daughter, Patricia, and a son. Burton Har- 
rington, Jr. His interest in Brown and in 
the Brown Alumni Monthly in partic- 
ular was always strong and helpful. 



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1923 

THEODORE Connor Harris, who died 
suddenly at his home in West Roxbury, 
Mass., Nov. 3, 1935, was a graduate of 
Haverhill, Mass., High School, and an un- 
dergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology for three years before he trans- 
ferred to Brown in September, 1922. 

"We've enjoyed his short stay," Liber 
Brunensis of 1923 said. "He is a hard 
working engineer and hopes to play around 
the wheels of progress when he gets his 



Sc.B., but that doesn't hinder him from 
making friends at a remarkable rate." 

He was born in Newburyport, Mass., 
July 18, 1899, the son of William H. and 
Annie M. (Connor) Harris. After gradua- 
tion he returned to Haverhill, whence he 
entered Brown, and started to learn the 
chain store business with the S. S. Kresge 
Company. He was with this company in 
Boston and Haverhill. At the time of his 
death he was sales supervisor for the Croft 
Brewing Company of Boston. Surviving 
are his wife, Mrs. Jeanette Harris, and two 
nieces, the Misses Julia and Katherine Lucy 
of Haverhill. 



Alumnae of Brown 

BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 
Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association 



J Alumnae Education Day 

THE second annual Alumnae Education 
Day, held on March 14th, was a great 
success from every point of view. 
"Modern Trends in the Arts" was the gen- 
eral subject and the alumnae found it even 
more thrilling than they had anticipated. 
At the afternoon session "Stop and Look 
at Modern Painting" with a lecture by 
Anna T. Carmody of the R. I. School of 
Design and "Stop and Listen to Contem- 
porary Music" with a lecture by Prof. Arlan 
R. Coolidge, head of the Music Depart- 
ment, who was assisted by Prof. Arthur B. 
Hitchcock, brought the alumnae up to date 
in painting and music. An informal supper 
was served in the students' dining room 
following this session. 

The evening session offered an opportu- 
nity to "Stop, Look and Listen to Modern 
Drama." Prof. Benjamin W. Brown was 
the interpreter in this field and scenes from 
"Waiting for Lefty" were so realistically 
presented by members of Sock and Buskin, 
assisted by three Komians, that they com- 
pletely won us over to this interesting new 
play by Odets. 

Mrs. John F. Heckman, Chairman of the 
Academic Committee, was in charge of the 
day's program. She was assisted by Hattie 
M. Holt, Jeannette Moifitt Bunn, Sarah 
Hill D'Atri, and Amy Spencer Cappelli. 



Anne Crosby Emery Fellowshil> 

SPECIAL chapel exercises were held on 
March 24th for the awarding of the 
Anne Crosby Emery Fellowship and the 
Arnold Archaeological Fellowship. The 
Emery Fellowship was founded by the 
Alumnae Association in conjunction with 
the classes of 1904 and 1905 in honor of 
the first woman dean of Pembroke and to 
encourage advanced study. It was first 
awarded in 1917 "as an academic honor to 
a member of 'the graduating class on the 
basis of scholarly ability, excellence and 
breadth of general character, and good 
health." 

Dr. Albert D. Mead, Vice President of 
the University, was invited by the alumnae 
to be the guest speaker on this occasion 
and, as always, he was delightfully witty 
and at the same time stimulating. 

The recipient of the award was Shirley 
Battey of Providence, a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa and Sigma Xi. Miss Battey prepared 
for college at Classical High School. She 
has majored in biology and has had the 
honor of being Pembroke scholar, Andrews 
scholar, and head of the Dance Group. 
Mrs. John H. Williams of Cambridge, 
Mass., president of the Alumnae Associa- 
tion, congratulated Miss Battey on behalf 
of tbe organization and presented her with 
a corsage of gardenias, the class flower. 



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The Arnold Archaeological Fellowship 
was awarded to Hilda Margaret Allen of 
Newton Highlands, Mass., who came to 
Brown on the Brown Alumnae Fund Schol- 
arship and who has also had a distinguished 
college career. She is a member of Phi 
Beta Kappa, a Pembroke scholar, Andrews 
scholar, and president of the Classical Club. 
Miss Battey plans to study at Brown next 
year and Miss Allen at Radcliffe. 



Class Notes 

1900 — Clara R. Bass is living at 1511 
Main St., Willimantic, Conn. 

1908 — Hattie M. Holt will attend the 
meetings of the New England Classical As- 
sociation to be held at Bowdoin and will 
preside at the Latin session. 

1916 — Edith Edwards Waldron (Mrs. 
Edward F.) and family have moved to 1039 
Berthram Terrace, Union, Union County, 
N. J. 

1923 — Frances M. Wright and her moth- 
er have an apartment at 1213!/2 West Wa- 
ter St., Elmira, N. Y. 

1924 — Betty Young Jefi'ers visited the 
College on March 25th and entertained 
some of the Blair Academy boys who are 
now students at Brown. 

1925 — Faith Rogers Corbett and family 
have moved from Washington to Boston, 
where Mr. Corbett has been made head of 
the New England Research Council. 

1926 — Martha Dickie Sharp and family 
have moved from Pennsylvania to 308 
Washington St., Wellesley Hills. Mr. Sharp 
is now pastor of the Unitarian Church 
there. 



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Thomas L. Pierce, President 
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Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Charles E. Munyan, Assistant Cashier 
Ida M. Fryer, Assistant Cashier 
Charles M. Smith, UI, Trust Officer 
T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel 

Directors 

William Gammell, Jr. Wilson G. Wing 

Moses J. Barber John Nicholas Brown 

Paul C. DeWolf Thomas L. Pierce 

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Richard S. Aldrich William L. Sweet 

Edward P. Jastram Frederick T. Moses 

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A. Livingston Kelley Charles C. Marshall 

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1928 — Esther Perham Curtiss (Mrs. 
Robert S.) has moved to 275 Pennsylvania 
Ave., Crestwood, N. Y. 

1929 — Dorothy Strachan Chaplin (Mrs. 
R. G.) has moved to 31 Gushing Ave., 
Nashua, N. H. 

1930 — Florence Conn is said to be at 
4516 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Galif. 

1931 — Roana Robinson Dearborn (Mrs. 
Edmund G.) is living at 6 Goodwin Place, 
Boston. 

193 2— Ruth Roper Carr (Mrs. Curtis') 
is living at 20 Pine St., Whitinsville, Mass. 

1932 — Marion L. White is greatly im- 
proved in health after three months in the 
Presbyterian Hospital in New York City 
and is now at 143 5 Alvarado Terrace, Los 
Angeles. 

1933 — Rachel G. Baldwin has returned 
from Pennsylvania and is living at 81 South 
Angell St., Providence. 

1934 — Lillian Price is located at 617 
West 113th St., New York City. 

1934 — Olive Smith has moved to 11 
Bridge St., Warren, R. L 

1935 — Barbara Gaisford is teaching in a 
nursery school in Auburn. 

193 5 — Estelle Gould is teaching math in 
the New Britain High School. 

1935 — Catherine O'Meara has moved to 
404 Lloyd Ave., Providence. 

193 5 — Margaret S. Rich visited the 
Alumnae Office while she was on her way 



from Washington, D. C, to Whitman, 
Mass., for Dorothy Hunt Bassett's wedding. 



Births 

1917 — To Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. 
Center (Elsie Northup), a daughter, Mar- 
garet Ann, on December 18, 1935. They 
are living at 55 Cleveland St., Greenfield, 
Mass. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Liedke 
(Kathe Beyer), a daughter, Margarethe 
Christine, on March 9, 1936. The Liedkes 
are living at 3 38 Tom Hunter Road, Fort 
Lee, N. ]. 

1929— To Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. 
Towne (Loretta Dollon), a son, John Wil- 
liam, on February 27, 1936. They are liv- 
ing at 17 West St., Waterville, Maine. 

1935— To Mr. and Mrs, A. K. Gordon 
(Esther Joan Willett), a daughter, Joan, on 
March 20, 1936. Their address is 3158 
Rawlins Ave., New York City. 



Wedding 
193 5 — Dorothy Hunt was married to 
William Brigham Bassett, Dartmouth '30, 
on March 28, 1936, in the Congregational 
Church in Whitman, Mass. Among her 
bridesmaids were Margaret S. Rich '3 5 and 
Catherine Sullivan '36. A large delegation 
of her classmates attended the wedding. 



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Pembroke Chronicle 

BY MARY LOUISE HINCKLEY '37 



Brownies were very active this past 
month in sponsoring social activities at 
Pembroke. The Stunt Night award 
went to the senior class following its presen- 
tation of a "typical day at Pembroke." The 
winning stunt included the opinion on the 
changes in curriculum as delivered at a 
faculty luncheon. In their semi-annual fash- 
ion show, Brownies presented the latest in 
smart spring fashions. 

Pembroke students had the wonderful 
opportunity of hearing the famous Kolisch 
String Quartet of Vienna which appeared 
in the last of a series of chamber music con- 
certs sponsored by Pembroke and the de- 
partment of Music at Brown. Speaking of 
music — the Pembroke Musical Clubs gave a 



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Sunday afternoon tea musicale in Alumnae 
Hall. The Glee Club, comprised of forty 
voices, made its first appearance. On the 
program was a 'cello soloist and an instru- 
mental trio. 

Dean Morriss entertained at the first of 
a series of suppers to be given in honor of 
the seniors. The Question Club members 
were also guests of Miss Morriss at supper. 

"The Distaff Side," a modern high com- 
edy by John Van Druten, was presented by 
Komians, under the direction of Mrs. Sarah 
Minchin Barker. Five guest actors played 
the men's roles. Pembrokers used to don 
trousers and whiskers and play male roles 
themselves, but Komians has found it much 
more satisfactory to import "real" men. 

Undaunted by any fears or superstitions, 
the sophomore class sought to increase their 
funds (and did') by giving a semi-formal 
dance on the evening of Friday, the 13th. 
The money will be used to help defray ex- 
penses of Masque which will be given this 
year on May 16. Miss Virginia MacMillan, 
Pawtucket, is Masque chairman. 

Twelve official delegates represented 
Pembroke at the annual Model League of 
Nations Assembly held this year at Wil- 
liams College. Pembroke delegates repre- 
sented Bolivia and Sweden. — The Brown- 
Pembroke Orchestra gave a joint concert 
with the Brown Glee Club in Holbrook, 
Mass. — Elizabethans are holding their reg- 
ular weekly meetings. — The upperclassmen 
are looking forward to April 24 — the date 
set for the Prom. Marian Martin, Rumford, 
R. I., is Junior Prom chairman. The men's 
prom, too, is causing much discussion and 
concern. "Are you going?" and "What are 
you going to wear?" 



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