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Real- izing this, many people, both men and women, have employed us to care for their securities and to perform all rou- tine duties connected with them, such as clipping coupons, watching for called bonds, collecting income, etc. Ihis service also includes a careful analysis of each security, recommenda- tions both for sales and purchases whene\"er a change seems advisable, and the making of definite reports on the whole account periodically. The securities are, of course, kept separate and subject to the owner's control at all times. Further information about this ser\'- ice and the moderate fee charged may be obtained from one of our trust officers. Hospital Trust Companij Pawtucket — Providence — Woonsocket ► The Oldest Trust Company in New England ■< • BROWBf ALUMNI MONTHLY • Vol. XXXVII PROVIDENCE, R. I., MAY, 1937 No. 10 An ^^All-Bro^vii'* Commf^iieeinent BROWN U>iiversity's 169th annual Commencement will be'Eimiemorable one, if plans being made for it are any ciHteria. They are making it an "All-Brown" Commencement and urge every alumnus to return to the campus, partly as a demonstration of loyalty to President Henry M. Wriston in his first June at the University. Not only are the usual anniversary classes preparing for their reunions, but others are acting on a recommendation adopted at last February's meeting of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni that all Brown classes, whether they would normally do so or not, schedule reunions this year in honor of Dr. Wriston. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the class of 1 88 1 and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of the class of 1897 are among the prominent alumni who will take part in the commence' ment program. The Chief Justice, a member of Brown's Board of Fellows, will speak informally at the Alumni Meet' ing in the afternoon of Commencement day, June 2 1 . PRESIDENT Wriston will also speak at the Alumni Meeting in his first formal address to the alumni body as a whole since his installation as President in February. Dr. W. Randolph Burgess of the class of 1912, Deputy Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a Trustee of the University, will be the presiding officer. Mr. Rockefeller will be the Chief Marshal for the Com' mencement procession down College Hill. He will head the line of alumni, guests and Seniors as it passes through the Van Wickle Gates to the First Baptist Meeting House, where Brown Commencements have been held since 1774. Dr. William S. Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of Teaching will give the Graduate School Convocation Address on Saturday, June 19. Dr. Learned is a graduate of Brown in the class of 1 897. E. Tudor Gross of the class of 1901 has been appointed chief of staff for the Commencement procession. He will have charge of all arrangements for the colorful march from the campus to the Meeting House. CHARLES Evans Hughes, 3rd, grandson of the Chief Justice, will deliver one of the student addresses from the platform in First Baptist Meeting House, as did his grandfather at his graduation 56 years ago. His father, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., was one of the . scheduled Commencement speakers when the class of 1909 was graduated on June 16, but was excused because of an illness which had kept him away from class rooms for several weeks. Chief Justice Hughes, then Governor of New York, was present when his son received his diploma from Brown University. At the Commencement exercises 56 years ago, Charles Evans Hughes delivered what was then called the Classical Oration. Its subject was "The First Appearance of Soph- ocles." The title of the address which Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., had prepared but did not deliver was "The Changing and the Permanent in the Moral Order." The third Mr. Hughes gained the right to deliver a Com- mencement address last month by winning the Gaston Prise tor excellency in oratory when he spoke on "The United States and the Next War." CLASS Day and Class Night, Friday, June 18, may belong to the Seniors, but they are endeavoring this year to attract as many returning alumni to both of those events as possible. Plans were well under way last month under the guidance of William R. Hulbert, Jr., chairman of the Class Day Committee, and he conferred early with Sidney Clif- ford '15 and W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '25, representatives of the Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni, and Dean Arnold. Providence alumni were being urged to stimulate interest by forming their own parties, serving their own buffet suppers, and the like, especially with out of town friends as their guests. They are emphasizing the fact that Class Night has come to be one of the outstanding social events of Providence. Mr. Hulbert points to a number of changes on the pro- gram this year. The afternoon exercises "Under the Elms" are to be held at 4 P. M., an hour later than usual, with an orchestral concert preceding it. The new hour will permit late arrivals to attend. Dr. Wriston will make his first Class Day address, and alumni can hear him in a talk directed toward his first graduating group. A tea for members of the Senior Class, their parents and friends will be held at 5 in the Faunce House Courtyard. The Class Night Promenade and Dance on the campus will last from 9 to 2:30, with the gathering of Seniors for their traditional sing and procession at midnight. Alumni groups, either classes or Brown Clubs, may hire umbrellas for the evening. These, with numerals or names prominently displayed, will serve as rallying places and refreshment cen- tres during the dance. Tables and chairs are included. They may be reserved through Nelson B. Jones at Faunce House or through Mr. Hulbert. Fraternities will continue their prac- tice of providing umbrellas and tables for their alumni and undergraduates. Hughrs il 271 BROWIV ALUMIVI MOIVTHLY ^^The Xatiire of a Liberal College PRESIDENT Wriston has written ci brisk, commonsense book on a subject whicli when treated with any soundness is usually made dull. In it he runs down the systematizing view of college; he decries the rational plan- ners, knowing that human nature, be- ing both rational and something more, properly calls forth from teachers mul- tifarious and surprising ways of getting itself taught. And so it is no fault if the college is irregular in shape, and from the engineering point of view illogical. There is a tremendous store of knowledge in this short book. Its au- thor IS familiar not only with countless schemes of college organization, sys- tems of examining and not examining, lecturing, curriculum-making, super- vising athletics, developing and cont- troUing fraternities, and with struggles to keep the college religious and its budget balanced ; he also knows the theories that lie behind all these. What makes the book crackle like the fourth of July is that the President discusses what is being done in colleges in terms of the ideas. He punctures as many balloons as a freshman during the last dance. No wasted time; if the idea behind the scheme is a poor one, pop! Mr. Wriston can play effectively with phrases. "In its origin the word curriculum meant racecourse. It was a sound analogy when all students took the same subjects in the same order over a measured period of time. The first in was the valedictorian; second, by a head, was the salutatorian; at the last, the person re- sponsible for putting was graduated in the passive voice. That, however, describes the old curriculum. The mod- ern curriculum, built during the last generation, was no such simple matter; the only racecourse it might resemble was a steeplechase." He makes fun of the statistical orgies of the surveyors and "battery" testers as follows : "Nearly all such tests were designed to prove a con- clusion at which, for financial or other good reasons, the investigators had already arrived; they simply waited for the baggage to be brought up." The chapter, "A Theory of Disciplines," discusses precision, appreciation, and opinion. Not being a romantic, Mr. Wris- ton disapproves of casting out of school the precise subjects. "There are relatively small areas of knowledge where the truth is pure white and error jet black, where there is no room for gray tones between. Though these areas are small, they are strategically placed, like Belgium in Europe, and they have an importance out of all pro- portion to their size." This chapter on discipline is one of the many in this pro- vocative hook that tempt the reader to debate. President Wriston deals with the study of the arts in college and takes the view rather modern among educators that the study of painting and music in their own terms is a mode of thought as valid as mathematics and grammar. Those who hold that }'re.sident (iurdun K. Chalmers i»r Korkfurd (iollege has been good enough tu write for the Brown Alumni Monthly the ac- eoiiipanving review of Henry M, Wriston's "The Nature of a Lib- eral College," whieh has just been published by The Lawrence Col- lege Press at Appleton, Wisconsin (Pp. 177). President Chalmers is a member of the Brown class of 1925. In sending his review to this magazine, President Chalmers re- marked that he had just received a letter from President Brewer of Olivet College, saying that he would like to send Dr. Wriston's book to all the parents of his undergraduates. college is a place to learn how to find meaning in life and to enjoy it will be especially pleased to learn how impor- tant President Wriston believes the arts to be. He calls the study of them the discipline of appreciation; the study of social affairs he terms the discipline of opinion, and of mathematics, grammar, and vocabulary, the discipline of pre- cision. Taken literally, however, Mr. Wris- ton's account of thedi-T^'t^'ine of appre- ciation suggests a less \ " » study of the arts than I think he ii? _nds. "The dis- cipline of appreciation," he says, "is not so rigorous nor does it require so much effort of the will as the discipline of precision." He is writing about music. The study of music, as of poetry and painting, has suffered from paying exclusive attention to Wordsworth's dictum about emotion recollected in tranquility. In the same tradition, Anatole France, if I remember right, advised the spectator on enter- ing the art gallery to leave his mind and all its problems outside the door. Pondering such statements, people have come to say what many great artists would flatly deny : that appreciation is not rigorous nor a matter of using the will. It happens that as I read President Wriston's sentence someone was playing on the gramophone Beethoven's seventh symphony interpreted and directed by Toscanini. Toscanini appreciates Beethoven as he does because he is able to be precise; precise not only in scholarship, but in taste. When he led the ninth symphony in Paris three years ago the critics said : We have heard the real Beethoven for the first time in our lives. Where Toscanini is most original and most impassioned, the listener is completely persuaded because even in the moment of rapture he knows that the feeling is right. What applies to the interpreter, of course, applies to the student, for the student is constantly placed in the position of the critic. Though several valid criticisms of a given work of art are possible, the instructor who is on his toes will be able to distinguish between any one of these and the hun- dreds of vague, imprecise, sentimental papers which the student may write. That Mr. Wriston does not really want to traffic with the vague and arty treatment of painting, music, and poetry, is made crystal clear, however, when he discusses them in a chapter on intellectual discipline. THE debates which "The Nature of a Liberal College" inspire in the mind are like the above — philosophical debates. It is a book full of sharp ideas. It also is full of wisdom gained evidently in rich years of teaching and living among students. For example, in his discussion of what the professionals have called Vocational Guidance, Mr. Wris- ton observes that the crises in the lives of college graduates "have been physical, nervous, ethical, or marital more often than vocational. Many which, viewed externally, seemed vocational," he continues, "were in reality due to some fail- ure of tact or courtesy, of good taste or character. Failure to recognize this is one of the fundamental weaknesses of the 272 BROWN ALITMIVI MOIVTHLY approach of the speciaUst to any problem, and vocational guidance is no exception." Alumni have already begun to recogni;;c President Wris- ton's distinguished powers; we read in the Mo7it/ily of pledges of support "for the duration." Often alumni seri- ously question what practical use they can be to their college, knowing that most alumni of most colleges do nothing but get in the way. What alumni certainly can accomplish is largely included under four items: get or give money; send the better students to Brown; behave themselves and so bring credit to alma mater; and interpret the institution. The Monthly helps in this last with incidental facts about what is happening. But alumni ought to be able to explain the ideas at work in the University as well as the passing events. President Wriston's book gives us a chance to grasp some of the ideas of the new administration; and the most certam mark of our pledged loyalty to him is to get this book and read it through — particularly the passages on the librai-y and athletics. The duty will prove a very rewarding one. GORDON KEITH CHALMERS In the Brown Diplomatic Corps JdN.ATH.'XN M.AXCY, 1787, second President of Brown and the youngest head of any college in American history — he was 24 years old when he succeeded James Manning — was the first President of the University of South Carolina. So it is fitting that Brown should have been represented at the inauguration of Dr. J. Rion McKissick as President of South Carolina on April 6. Leonard A. Prouty '06, Registrar of The Citadel, Charleston, brought the greetings from Brown to Dr. McKissick and South Carohna. Dr. Arthur Bailey Cleaves '27 will represent Brown at the inauguration of Dr. Paul Swain Havens as President of Wilson College in Pennsylvania on May 22. Other Brown men who have taken part in similar inaug' urations and special anniversary exercises at invitation of Vice President James P. Adams, representing President Wriston, have been Dean George V. Kendall '12 of Wa- bash College at De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., March 10; Professor Frederick W. Marvel '94 at Springfield College, Feb. 2 1 ; and Dr. Marcus W. Lyon, Jr., '97 at the LIniversity of Notre Dame, Jan. 10; and Sydney Wilmot '09 at the Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 20. Two Friends Remembered Brown UNDER the provisions of the will of Charles J. Davol, prominent Providence manufacturer who died last month. Brown University will share to a considerable extent in his estate. After certain personal bequests, the residuary estate, estimated at approximately $2,000,000, is to be placed in trust, with the provision that all income go to Mrs. Davol during her life and to Mr. Davol's nephew after her death. The trust will terminate with the death of both widow and nephew, and at that time the entire residue of the estate is to be divided, two-thirds of the principal going to Rhode Island Hospital and one-third to Brown. The latter amount presumably would be about $600,000. Another friend of Brown — who remembered the Univer- sity in his will was Dr. Charles F. Deacon '96, whose estate was estimated in excess of $200,000. After certain bequests, the residue was left in trust, with the income of half of it to go to a brother and his wife. Eventually half of that portion would go to Brown, presumably about $50,000. Into the Air for Degrees AN aerial study of land forms produced by rivers, waves and currents, and by ice-age glaciers in New England • is being made by two undergraduates in the Depart- ment of Geology at Brown University this year as part of their work in a course which is being introduced at Brown for the first time. The course, "Aerial Physiography," is designed to acquaint students with the new viewpoint in making topo- graphical studies, as compared with the old method in which work had to be done entirely on the ground. Extensive use is being made of aerial photographs and observations which students have taken themselves. At the same time, student understanding of the geological forces affecting the New England coastline and topography is being made particu- larly clear by the use of notes and aerial photographs of territory familiar to many undergraduates, according to Prof. Charles W. Brown, chairman of the Department of Geology. Most of the aerial photography and observations are being undertaken by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. '37 of New York and Gilbert Morgan '37 of Longmeadow, Mass., accompanied occasionally by Thomas M. J. Boyle '39 of Providence as photographic aide. Watson owns his own plane. They have taken photographs of Narragansett Bay, southern Rhode Island and Connecticut, the harbors and inlets of Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod, and of Boston harbor. Prof. Brown pointed out today that a wide variety of terrain lies within 75 miles of Providence, or within half an hour's flying time, including the famous ox-bow of the Connecticut River at Northampton and the terminal moraines about the Cape Cod Canal. THE use of aerial photography started last Fall when Prof. Brown and Lawrence Goldthwaite, a graduate assistant, were making a ground study of the origin and development of Gaspee Point, a cuspate foreland in Narragansett Bay, famous in the Revolutionary history of Rhode Island, while Watson and Morgan took aerial photographs and made notes of the point from the air. Photographs supplemented the ground work so well that it was decided to expand the venture. Since last Fall, scores of photographs have been taken to show the development of bay-bar beaches, shoals, glacial moraines and ponds, river courses and valleys. "Laboratory study and discussion of the photographs have clearly demonstrated to students the effects of geologi- cal forces on land forms," Prof. Brown said. "Comparison with earlier maps and charts has also given students an opportunity to see how waves and currents have altered shore contours and shoals over a period of years. The com- parative inspection in the laboratory of aerial photographs of land forms and their contours, as represented on Coast Survey charts and United States Geological Survey maps, lead to a clearer concept of land features than field work has hitherto permitted." Supplementing the aerial studies and obser\'ations made by scientific bureaus and air lines, Watson is also making meteorological investigations of cloud composition and for- mation, their differences in types and heights, and the interacting effects of currents, temperature, dew-point and relative humidity upon them. 273 BROWIV ALUMIVI MONTHLY Important Academic Projects The l\etv Chemical Site BROWN University's new chemical research laboratory will be built on the back campus adjacent to the Jesse Metcalf Memorial Laboratory and parallel to the Arnold Biological Laboratory. This site was reserved tor such a building in 1923 when the comprehensive plan tor the development of the campus was prepared. The new building, to be constructed and endowed with funds which are the gift of Jesse H. Metcalf, will more than double Brown's facilities for research in chemistry. President Wriston, chairman of the building committee, also announced that the building committee has selected Charles Z. Klauder of Philadelphia as architect for the new laboratory. Mr. Klauder was architect for the Metcalf Memorial Laboratory, which was built in 1923. Construc- tion will start this Spring. ■'The proximity of the new building to the Metcalf Laboratory' will be a distinct convenience to members of the Department of Chemistry and to undergraduate and graduate students alike," President Wriston says. "It will facilitate the unification of the programs of research and instruction in the Department of Chemistry. "In this position, the new building will also balance Hegeman Hall and the Engineering Building on the other side of the campus area, of which the Soldiers Memorial Gate will be the center. Ahhough the new building will be joined to the Metcalf Memorial Laboratory, the new struc- ture will be a distinct architectural unit." Great excitement was aroused on the campus when the Brou'n Daily Herald announced that the new chemistry building would be built on land now occupied by the Psi LIpsilon house and the University Infirmary. The statement, however, was nothing but a hoax perpetrated by the retiring editors of the Herald, Allen H. Krausc, Charles E. Hughes, 3rd, and William R. Hulbert, Jr., and promptly denounced as such by the new editor, Antone G. Singsen '38. In the swan song hoax. Rev. Arthur L. Washburn, patron of the Infirmary, was quoted as considering the possibility of using the Pembroke Infirmary. Psi U's were shown ready to tent it out on the lower campus until a new home was built on the site of the Pembroke tennis courts on Manning street below Brook, near the President's House. This was to be the gift of Fraternity Counsellor Theodore Francis Green, who would move the corner-stone to the new site. Prof. Robert F. Chambers, chairman of the Department of Chemistry, says the new laboratory "will undoubtedly stimulate interest in the undergraduate course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry." He empha- sizes the value of undergraduate associations with advanced students who are carrying out specialized research. Some undergraduate work may be done in the new building. The undergraduate course provides training in chemical science for those who expect to enter industry, or for those who plan to do research. It is designed to provide broad training in the physical and biological sciences as well as in chemistry, and to include courses in non-science subjects. The course is virtually on an honors basis. Students admitted must show high scholastic standing. A flexible plan of study is offered so that students may concentrate on subjects most suited to their interests and abilities. Over the past 13 years, since the bachelor of science in chemistry degree has been awarded, 69 students have been graduated, 33 with distinction. The graduates of this course have gone into industry and into the graduate schools of various universities. Many of them now hold important positions in the field of chemistry. When the new laboratory is finished, the old Newport Rogers Laboratory facing the Middle Campus, believed to be the oldest collegiate laboratory in continuous service in the United States, will be discontinued as a chemical laboratory after 75 years of service. The new laboratory will have special facilities for research in photochemistry and electrochemistry, two fields which are becoming of increasing importance in science and industry, according to Prof. Charles A. Kraus, professor of research chemistry. There will also be facilities for research in organic and physical chemistry. With Dr. Kraus and President Wriston on the building committee is Paul C. DeWolf of the Corporation. Brown's entire program in chemistry will be strengthened and unified by the new laboratory building. Twice as many graduate students can be accommodated than has been pos- sible in the Newport Rogers Laboratory. The construction of the new building will also enlarge the facilities available for the conduct of undergraduate work in chemistry. Fast Camera and Long Eclipse HIS goal a Peruvian mountain top, Prof. Charles H. Smiley, director of the Ladd Observatory at Brown University, is sailing for South America this month to photograph a total eclipse of the sun on June 8, using what is believed to be the fastest astronomical camera ever built. He expects to record more of the sun's outer corona than has been possible before. The camera has a lens speed of f/1 and a Schmidt lens- mirror system which had to be ground and polished to within one millionth of an inch of perfection. Prof. Smiley and his assistants have taken more than a year to build the camera, after optical companies refused to undertake such a delicate problem. Prof. Smiley will complete his plans for his expedition in Pasadena, where he is now conducting special investigations in the library of Mt. Wilson Observatory. On his way across the continent he visited leading observatories and conferred with other astronomers concerning his expedition. The eclipse, which will last longer than any other in more than 1 00 years, will begin its totality at sunrise north of the Fiji Islands, and will swing northward in an 8,000-mile arc, 150 miles wide, across the equator to the 10th parallel. Here the period of totality will be seven minutes and seven seconds. The path of darkness will then turn southward, crossing the equator west of the Galapagos Islands, ending in Peru at sunset. With no convenient islands in the path of the eclipse. Prof. Smiley will select a vantage point on some coastal mountain in Peru. Accompanied by an Indian guide, he expects to explore the coastal range north of Chimbote to find a location above the coastal fog. This means that he will work from an altitude of at least 3,000 feet. 274 BROWN ALVMJVl MOIVTHLY Conditions will not be ideal for photographing the eclipse, according to Prof. Smiley. The sun will be low on the horizon and light rays will be distorted by the atmosphere, although the period of totality will last about three and one- half minutes. Additions to tlie Re.servatioii THE fast camera, however, will make it possible for Prof. Smiley to use color filters and eliminate all but the more direct red rays of the sun. He expects to get a comparatively small photograph of the actual eclipse, with most of the negative exposed to catch the image of the long tongues of gaseous fire in the corona as they shoot out for millions of miles into space. Prof. Smiley 's assistants, Harry A. MacKnight, Donald S. Reed and Frederick W. Hoffman, having completed the camera at Brown's Ladd Observatory, shipped it to Prof. Smiley 's headquarters in Pasadena. Mr. MacKnight de- signed and built two machines to do the major part of the tooling; Mr. Reed was in charge of most of the fine optical work, and Mr. Hoffman has contributed mathematical calculations. All are members of the Skyscrapers, amateur astronomical society. The Schmidt camera will record a field of 20 astronomical degrees, as compared with less than the one degree maximum scope of the reflector or ordinary type camera. Light rays are drawn through the four-inch lens to a spherical mirror, six inches in diameter, at the back of the camera. From the mirror the rays are recorded on one-inch film. The camera is to have a four-inch aperture and a four-inch focal length, with a focal ratio, or lens speed of f/1. The most delicate part of constructing the camera was the grinding and polishing of the lens and mirror. Mr. MacKnight constructed special abrasive machinery to grind and polish the pyrex glass mirror and lens to within one- 1 ,000th of an inch of perfection. The final touches — polish- ing the lens with a fine powder — brought the lens to within one-millionth of an inch of perfection. Tests made of the completely polished surface used a wave length of light for detecting possible flaws. PL.ANS for a combined boathouse and cabin for Brown University's lOO-acre Outing Reservation in the hill country of central Rhode Island have been announced by the reservation's Board of Management. The new facili- ties are needed to meet a growing demand for outdoor recreation at Brown, according to K. Brooke Anderson, secretary. The proposed new building would be constructed on the west shore of the lake between the main lodge, a gift of the class of 1906, and a small cabin presented by the class of 1907. A "substanial fund" towards the new boathouse and cabin has been given by the class of 1917. Blueprints call for a two-story rustic building, with a landing float and dock. Storage facilities would be provided on the ground floor for boats and canoes. The second story would be equipped as a lounge and informal study room, having a fireplace, kitchen facilities and overnight accom- modations for 12. Architecturally, the proposed building would conform with other cabins on the reservation. Looking towards the completion of the boathouse, par- ticular attention will be given this Spring towards making the lake and lake- front a center of interest. The Division of Engineering is making alterations to the dam at the south end of the lake to raise the water level, to improve sailing and canoeing conditions. Prof. William H. Kenerson has begun instruction in fly-casting. It is planned to stock the lake with black trout this Spring. Watersports will be under way by the middle of next month. There will be a float and springboards for swimming and diving. The University is considering adding to its present fleet of sailboats, rowboats and canoes. Will Speak in Paris PROF. Arthur E. Murphy of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University has accepted an invitation to speak at the International Congress of Philosophy in Paris in September, according to Prof. Curt J. Ducasse, chairman of the department. Prof. Ralph M. Blake, also of the Department of Philosophy, is expected to accompany him. Prof. Murphy's paper will be on some aspect of the field of metaphysics, in which he has made extensive studies. Other speakers at the congress will include prominent philosophers from all parts of the world. Thousands will attend the various meetings. Prominently identified with learned societies. Prof. Mur- phy is secretary-treasurer of the American Philosophical Association and secretary of the association's national board of oflicers. He is a member of the American Theological Association, associate editor of the International Journal of Ethics, editor of the Carus Foundation lectures for 1930, and book editor for the Journal of Philosophy. Dr. Murphy has been at Brown since 19,il, and has aLso taught at Cornell, the University of Chicago, and the Uni- versity of California, his Alma Mater. At the ouling TCiejvation 275 BROWI^r ALVIII]^ MOIVTHLY Of Broivii aud Broi^vn Men A Mounting Alumni Fund A TOTAL ot $19,284.81 had been contributed to the Brown Alumni Fund by mid-April, a sum in which 1441 subscribers had a part. As Theodore R. Jetfers '23, Executive Secretary of the Fund, pointed out in his letter to the class agents, however, "just to equal last year's mark we need 963 more subscribers and $9,743.03." The 1937 quota, moreover, stands considerably ahead ot the figure reached in 1936, so that the Fund had not quite reached the half-way mark. Agents were spurred on in their effort at an April dinner at which President Wriston was the principal speaker. "Although Brown is small, her impact upon the world has been far beyond her proportionate share," he said. "Not even size, not even equipment, but faith in the University and devotion to her causes, and faith in her ability, are the things that make Brown great." He gave illustrations of faculty loyalty to the university, and of interest and enthusiasm for the work they are doing in teaching and research. He pointed to the efforts which Brown is making to continue improving the quality of the undergraduate body by the university's system of selective admissions. "We need a renaissance in America in benevolence," he said, speaking of the work of the Alumni Fund. "I would be ashamed if I hesitated to ask for a cause as great as the cause for Brown." Some of the things that Brown needs in the near future. President Wriston said, are additional funds to continue strengthening the faculty, making improvements to build- ings and grounds, and enlarging the John Hay Library. "We want the best brains in America to teach our students," he said. "We have two of the most beautiful colonial college buildings in the country — University Hall and Hope College — but much needs to be done with them. Our library cannot meet the demands upon it." Herbert M. Sherwood '09 was toastmaster, while other speakers included Claude R. Branch "07, who urged support of the Fund as an expression of alumni confidence in the new President, and Dr. Edmund D. Chesbro '87, who pledged support on behalf of his class on the eve of its )Oth reunion. Others at the head table were Judge John S. Murdock '96, Vice President James P. Adams and \V. Granville Meader '05, chairman of the Alumni Fund Trustees. Arthur L. Philbrick '03, was chairman of the dinner committee, assisted by Robert H. Goff '24, and George R. Ashbey '21. Financing Tennessee W.^LL Street financiers and students of public financing have been watching with great interest the first major operation of Norman S. Taber '13, "a reorganization of the $128,900,000 Tennessee State debt." Taber, now a municipal finance consultant in New York City, told the Associated Press last month that Tennessee was "an outstanding example of the costliness of faulty financing. He said that the debt was 'by no means exces- sive, but structurally, to echo a Dun and Bradstreet expert, one of the worst in the 48 States.' His task has been to devise a way to release revenues frozen in sinking funds without impairing the specific bonds they backed or the future credit of the State. "To achieve this, Taber recommended the creation of sinking fund certificates — the novel feature experts are watching — to effect a swift payoff of the debt in serial fashion, at the same time freeing $2,500,000 annually ear- marked for sinking funds and saving $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 in debt service over the next 30 years." In his statement to the AP, Taber "asserted that tax- payers of the nation lose more annually by faulty debt funding than by the graft or maladministration they get so wrought up about." His Spanish Service Rewarded ERIC C. Wendelin's noteworthy work at the American Embassy in Madrid when that city was first menaced last summer by the Spanish civil war has been recog- nized by President Roosevelt. His name stood at the top of the list of foreign service officers promoted last month, but instead of being advanced a single grade he was singled out for a two-grade jump, giving him the rank of full consul with a salary of $3500 a year. Wendelin, graduate in 1929, was in charge of the Embassy when the civil war began. His chief. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, and other ranking officers were on vaca- tion at San Sebastian. Bowers never went back to take control. Wendelin and his skeleton staff, with the heroic aid of Mrs. Wendelin, took care of nearly 200 American refugees, fed them, and evacuated them as fast as facilities offered. Then Wendelin moved the Embassy to Valencia, and carried on there with a tact and foresight that won the commendation of Secretary of State Hull and the admira- tion ot loyalists and rebels alike. Wendelin and Mrs. Wendelin are home now, and soon there will be a new assignment. Since he has been in the diplomatic service this quiet, efficient Brown graduate, who dreamed of becoming a career man when he was a hoy in Quincy, Mass., has served as vice consul at Montreal, Ensenada, Mexico, and Havana. He went to Madrid in 1934 as third secretary of the Embassy. Brown men will watch his career as one of the most promising young diplomats in the service of the United States. Sheffield Farms Executive CHRISTIE E. Cuddeb.^CK "21 has become vice president of Sheffield Farms Company of New York City and will direct the company's entire sales program. He succeeds his father, Alva Cuddeback, who has retired after more than 50 years of service. The younger Cuddeback became a director of Sheffield Farms in 1929 and immediately went on the executive committee to serve as general sales manager. H: iii :ii i^ :^ Hawaiian LL.D.'s DR. George Gr^^fton Wilson gave the address and received the honorary degree of LL.D. at the 30th Anniversary Convocation of the University of Hawaii at Honolulu last March 24. Professor Alexander Meiklejohn '93 of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin and director of the School of Social Studies, San Francisco, also received the honorary degree of LL.D. at the same Convo- cation. 276 BROWN ALUIWIVI MONTHLY t'H/tf MARSHA/ John D. Roclif/cller 97 will lead the 1937 (TommciicejneTit procession in its inarch cfoioi the Hill to the First Baptist Meeting House. Red Cross Resigiutlinit DR Thomas J. Burrace '9S, chairman of I'oitUnJ, Mc, Chapter, American Red Cross for five and a halt years, decHned rc-elcction at the annual meeting last month, saying that it was time for a new chairman to take hold. During his term he greatly increased public interest in the chapter, developed a nutrition service with a full tmie, trained nutritionist on duty, and successfully led four disaster relief campaigns, for drought in 1931; Ellsworth and Auburn fires in 19J.3; Maine and national floods in 1935; and national floods this year. Dr. Burrage organized the first disaster relief committee for the chapter in 1929. Phnrmncisl President ALBERT W. Cl,\flin "06 was clcctcd president of the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences last month to succeed the late Dr. Michael H. Corrigan. Active in the college as student, Faculty member and officer for the past 30 years, Claflin was the unanimous choice of the corporation. He has been a registered pharmacist since 1910. "My policy will always be that ot maintenance of high educational standards and close co-operation with the Dean," Claflin said in a prepared statement, "so that Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences will con- tinue to be among the leaders in its field throughout the nation." The new college president, the Providence Journal s^id, "has long been a life governing member of the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and has served successively as secretary, vice chairman, and chairman of the Rhode Island section of the American Chemical Society. An ardent collector of historical blue Staffordshire pottery, stamps, coins, and old furniture. Dr. Claflin has been president of the Rhode Island Philatelic Society more than 10 years; a director of the American Association for Stamp Exhibitions, Inc., of New York, and member of the American Philatelic Society and Collectors Club of New York. He holds membership in many Masonic bodies, being a member of the Past Mas- ters and Past Commanders associations and active social representatives for Rhode Island for the Grand Com- mandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island." Concerned with Cuban Bonds PROFESSOR D.AN.\ G. MuNRi) "12, chairman of the De- partment of History at Princeton, received leave of absence last month to resume talks in Cuba with regard to resumption of payments on Cuban public works bonds. Munro represents the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council. He worked on the same problem nearly all of last summer. Returns as Textile Consultant WILLIAM Ellison Chalmers "25 was in Washington last month to take part in the International Textile Labor Conference held at the invitation of the United States Government. Chalmers has been in Geneva, Switzer- land, for the last couple of years as Assistant Labor Com- missioner for the United States at the International Labor Office. This month he plans to return to Geneva, where his family has remained. His address is: U. S. Delegation, International Labor Office. in Honor for Dr. Colburn Gi'V B. Colburn "04, who teaches foreign lan- guages at Fresno State College in California, has recently been elected national secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. Colburn is a member of the Brown Club of Alta, California. D A !$easoii^$>$ Climax t'ome^i Xearer IDLE athletes are few on the hill these days, with all Varsity and Freshman teams in action, spring foot- ball practice recruiting manpower and enthusiasm for the fall, and a full program of intramural competition nearing its climax. Hoping to repeat the 1936 success, when 12 of 17 games were won, Coach Kelleher faced a number of problems with his baseball squad. Letter-men of last year available were : Brokaw, shortstop; Brush and Hinckley, catchers; Captain Clements, third baseman; Paul Welch, outfielder; and Dye, pitcher. Holes to fill were those left by the graduation of Murray, pitcher; Captain Brown, second baseman; out- 277 BROfVI^ ALUMIVI MONTHLY fielders Elrod and O'Reilly; and Butler, first baseman. A capable replacement for Brown was found in Danny Hicks, Sophomore infielder, and there seemed ample power in the pitching squad of Eccleston, Devaney, Kurlansky, and others. At first base, however, Butler's loss was marked, and the coach had not found a solution of his worries there as the campaign entered May. Wright, a Junior, was shelving himself a reliable hitter, but his errors afield allowed runs in several games. In an experiment Clements was transferred to first but made three misplays in that one trial, while Burbank, former regular shortstop, made a couple in filling in at third. Wright returned to his post. In the outfield. Swallow, Pittochelli, Pagan, Barker, and Arrendell were leading candidates for the two open births, and the first two seemed to have the call. But Swallow despite a pinch-hit single that saved the C. C. N. Y. game and a fair record in 1936, was not batting impressively, and Pittochelli was also under a .200 average and had a weak arm. Most improved of the veterans seemed to be Brush, who took over the catching duties again when Hinckley was injured. Last year this Junior batted for a weak .143, com- pared with a record of eight timely hits in 1 3 times at hat in the first six games. THE season opened with an impressive 9-1 victory over Lowell Textile Institute, the Brunonians making 12 hits while three pitchers. Dye, Kurlansky, and Devaney were allowing only five hits and striking out 17. Kurlansky performed the unusual feat of retiring the Lowell batters in the fifth inning on nine straight strikes. Hicks was the best hitter for Brown, with three doubles to his credit, one of them with the bases full. But Brown lost its batting eye straightway on a visit to Kingston. There, Hines of Rhode Island State held the Brunonians to five hits, without a runner reaching third. The nearest thing to a threat came with two successive hits with one out in the fifth, but a double play retired the side, and Hines ended with a 5-0 shutout. Dye pitched well but had irregular support. A strange affair was the 3-3 tie with C. C. N. Y., an 11 -inning game that consumed three and a half hours. Brown's tying run in the ninth with two out led to a monu- mental protest by the New Yorkers, who decided after a 10-minute demonstration to continue the game. Stalling tactics allowed only two innings of play in an hour, how- ever, and the deadlock lasted out the daylight. Devaney had allowed only four hits when he hurt his finger in cover- ing first in the seventh and gave real promise. Eccleston, Kurlansky, and Dye finished out for him, running up the total of Brunonians in the line-up to 17. Recovering their punch at bat, the Bears outhit Holy Cross 1 1-10 in the annual Patriot's Day game in Worcester, but unenterprising base-running played its part in the 7-4 defeat. Brokaw's triple, Welch's single, and Hick's double threw a scare into the Crusader dugout in the ninth, but only one run was forthcoming. Welch's homer, one of his three hits, was a bright spot, tying the score 3-3 in the third. Dye and Eccleston divided the pitching responsibili- ties. At Medford Brown was clearly superior in an abbre- viated game with Tufts, Kurlansky allowing only four hits in setting the home team back 7-2. Brush's three hits out of three times at bat made the best offensive performance. (Cuntinued on Page 281 J Anliripnlirtf: Voolhnll FORTY candidates and a revamped coaching .staff entered spring practice last month with the determination to start Brown on the way up again in the football world. Coach McLaughry, well plca,5ed with the turnout and spirit, emphasised fundamentals in most of the .sessions. Six new blocking dummies and new blocking aprons were put into use for the first time, the aprons allowing rugged blocking without injury to either player. Two new coaches joined the staff this spring, ready to aid Head Coach McLaughry, Line Coach Denny Myers, and Freshman Coaches Tom Gilbane and Joe Buonanno, who served last fall. The newcomers were George E. ("Eck") Allen, West Virginian All-American who will handle the backs, and Gerald Richard ("Jerry") Dalrymple, Tulanc captain in 1931 and first All-American end in 1930 and 1931, the new Brown end coach. Rated one of the finest players ever produced in the South and cited by Bernie Bierman as the greatest end he has ever coached, Dalrymple comes to Brown eminently fitted for the task of building the Brown end department. He has coached for four years in Southern colleges, and was called from the Graduate School of Louisiana State Uni- versity where he was taking graduate work in physical education to take the Brown appointment. Born in Rosston, Ark., he got his secondary education at Prescott, Ark., where he participated in football and track. After a turn at Ouachita College at Arkadelphia, Ark., a junior college, he entered Tulane in 1927. He missed the season of 1928 when he broke his leg on the fourth day of the preliminary practice and withdrew for the year. He was All Southern end in '29, '30 and '31, and first All-American end in '30 and '31. He captained the '31 team that was undefeated in the regular season, but lost to Southern California in the Rose Bowl, 21 to 12, on Jan. 1, 1932. He was line coach at Southwestern Louisiana Institute al Lafayette, La., in 1932, head coach of football and track and director of intramural athletics at Arkansas State Teachers College at Conway, Ark., in 1933-34, head coach of football and athletic director of the same institution in 1934-35, and in 1935-36, accepted the athletic director- ship of the Eastern New Mexico Junior College at Portales, N. M. He took a year's leave of absence in '36-'37 and took up study for a master's degree in physical education at Louisiana State University, and now has all of the work for that degree completed except the thesis. He has worked under and with single wingback, Notre Dame and short punt formations, has worked under the coaching of Morely Jennings and Bernie Bierman, and has had a major part in faculty roles in summer coaching schools. On April 24th, the visit of LeRoy Mills, noted kicking authority, added a fillip to the workouts when he made his first visit to Brown to give special instruction. Mills, Princeton graduate, has taken up kicking as a hobby and pays all of his expenses to the various Eastern football camps he visits. He has appeared at Yale, Amherst. Wil- liams, Colgate, and Harvard in previous years. He discussed angles, trajectories, twists, spins, fadeaways, "coffin-corner" boots, and many unbelievable feats, all of which he can demonstrate. In one trick he punts the ball off-centre and makes it come to a spinning stop. The whole week-end was devoted to his visit. 278 BROWN ALU9INI MOIVTHLY ^^ Books ! Books ! Books ! '^ BY EDITH RICHMOND BLANCHARD Reference Librarian, John Hay Library THE day of street-cries has passed away. Old cities used to be vocal with them. Everything from "Sweet Lavendar" to "Fried Fish" was shouted at the street corners. Some of the cries Hngercd longer than others. Within quite recent memory the ramshackle cart drawn by a clop-clop- ping old horse, and driven by a hump- shouldered dingy person in a broken derby was still to be seen on Providence streets. The driver's "Old Rags and Bottles" still sent housekeepers skurrying to rag-bags and rubbish barrels. There was an even more disheveled old person who periodically passed one's door bellowing mellifluously "SO-AP, Soap, Soap, SO-AP." And then there was that earlier itinerant of the writer's childhood who came in the Spring as regularly as violets and jumping ropes. He wore a battered straw hat on whose flat top was poised a large white platter heaped with a pale yellow mixture. His cry was "Honey in the COMB. Honey in the COMB." No prophylactically minded mother would today tolerate his unprotected wares, but the "Honey Man" did an excellent business at that time. It was not so much that one craved the cloying sweetness, as that one found a thrill in purchasing from so unusual a counter. Now all this self advertising gentry has given way to the invasions of modern traffic. In Providence, only the "Old Clo'es" man is left of them all, and his haunts are restricted to the College campus where an opportunity to obtain ready cash outweighs the thriftiness of retaining a half-worn pair of shoes or a torn coat. IT is therefore an anachronism for which I am expressing a desire. If the Brown Library could provide a suitable vehicle and a suitable voice, what would produce hap- pier results than to set such a combination perambulating through the Providence streets to the tune of "BOOKS, books, books, BOOKS?" For immediately men and women hearing the cry would run to attics and cellars for all sorts of volumes which they "didn't want to keep, but did not really want to throw away." These would be carried back to the campus and set out on shelves, presently to be sorted and searched in the way librarians have. Much of the accumulation might perhaps be quite worthless except as old paper, but some titles could be used for "exchange" purposes with other libraries, some would be wel- comed to a place in the library's stacks, and now and again, like a nugget in the sifted sands, some broken-backed book or shabby novel would bring joy to the heart of the librarian and add another luminary to the library's crown. Since it appears unlikely that the cry of "Books" will ever be uplifted in Providence streets, the next best thing is to set it out in the black of print and through that medium shout it to Brown graduates. Something of this sort has been done once before in these columns, not without effect, and since everyone is aware with Portia of how a "good deed shines in a naughty world" per- haps a recent gift from attic to Library should be lifted into publicity to let its light make clear the path for other thoughtful givers. A CERTAIN graduate recently came to the Librarian's office with a package of old books under his arm. These he deprecat- ingly offered as being of no further impor- tance to himself but perhaps of some inter- est to the librarian, since had not the latter, in a number of the Alumni Monthly, once solicited just such cast-offs. The Li- brarian had indeed pleaded for them, and with good reason, as this very pile of attic waifs is to prove to you. 279 BROWN ALUMOT MOIVTHLY It was an assorted mixture which the casual observer would probably have dis- missed as uninteresting. First, — there was a group of old school books, dating from the earlier half of the last century. They had seen hard wear in someone's school bag, but among them were titles, or editions of titles, which were not to be found in the library catalog. Such hooks have a very special place in the John Hay Library. It has for some time been accumulating, chiefly by gift, a collection of such texts, those before the middle of the 19th century being especially desired. To an educator they suggest former methods of teaching, and illustrate the his- tory of his profession. More than once they have been used by graduate students in the process of research. FROM old textbooks it is an easy step to those small admonitory volumes on the conduct of life so common in the Victorian era. These outdated advisers constitute an accurate index to the social life and customs of our predecessors, and, as such, are of serious interest to the historian. The Library therefore rejoiced to find two of these books in its gift package. One of them is The American Machinist by Charles Quill, printed in 1838. It is a book of short, didactic essays, dedicated to "the master workmen, journeymen and ap- prentices of America — to be read aloud from the workman's bench — not so much for laborious instruction as for excitement and recreation." Recreation they may in- deed have afforded, but excitement must have been easily experienced if it could be kindled by chapters on the mechanic's temptations, his friends, his wife, his chil- dren, his clubs, his study ot the Bible, his reverses, etc., etc. What could better serve to summon a picture of the workshop of one hundred years ago, with its limited group of native American workmen going about their business in the unhurried at- mosphere of a leisurely day? The very thought of such a book being "read aloud from a workman's bench" in one of our great factories with its roaring machinery and its throngs of foreign faces, suggests the wide gulf which separates the laborer of this century from that of a former time. The other book of advice and counsel was directed to the frailer sex. It is by William A. Alcott, a cousin of Bronson Alcott, and like him ardently devoted through a life-time to education, and the improvement of society in general. This hook IS called "The Young Wife; Showing the duties of woman in the marriage rela- tion." One look at the chapter headings, describing the attributes which a gentleman of the period thought necessary tor his helpmate, explains sufficiently why the young matron of today is so often reproved for running lightly down the primrose path. Surely if one must commit oneself to cult- ivating cheerfulness, confidence, sympathy, delicacy, modesty, neatness, sobriety, dis- cretion, early rising, patience, and a yet further appalling array of virtues in order to be a dutiful wife, it is no wonder that a despairing sex has rushed in discourage- ment to the other extremes. A pendulum has Its own laws. THERE is one field in which the University Library is especially anxious to become strong. That is the field of American fiction in the Victorian period and earlier. It can therefore be understood that the inclusion of several such items in the book gift further heightened its acceptability. One of these is an anonymous work called "The Roman Exile, or the Times of Aure- lius," and is dated 1843. The heroine, the exquisite and "jetty- locked" niece of Marcus Aurelius, is in the first chapter brought to death's door by too reckless devotion to her studies. Sent to Smyrna to recuperate, she there meets the noble Greek, Alethcs, and at once the reader senses that here is her true mate, predestined by the gods and the unknown author. Her eventual union with that para- gon IS seen to be inevitable despite the mis- cellaneous obstacles of a wealthy, but base Roman lover, dangers by land and sea, perils from wild beasts in the arena, and bloody battles with barbarian hordes. Again, since comparisons are inevitable, one calls to mind the modern historical novels of Robert Graves or Lion Feucht- wanger, and considers how, as the an- nouncer declares, "time marches on." Harriet Martineau was probably called "strong minded" by her contemporaries. It was a way they had of accounting for women who were less genteelly acquiescent than the fenunine code required. She wanted people to know and to understand the life and society of which they were a part. A working knowledge of political economy by the general public seemed to her a necessity for healthful and progressive community existence. Since those who were learned in the subject kept their information largely to themselves in serious volumes which would never appeal to the masses, she devised the idea of setting forth the principles of Wealth, Distribution, Con- sumption, Taxation, etc. in a series of books dealing with those subjects in story torm. She probably succeeded fairly well, it one may judge by the little book, "Life in the Wilds" published in 1843. This IS the first of a series of nineteen ol these illustrative tales. The University Li- brary now has all but volumes eight and seventeen. Perhaps some other attic will one day help us to fill these gaps. OF all the books which came to the library from the thoughtful graduate perhaps there was none which looked less promising than a dog-eared pamphlet from which covers, title-page, and numerous other leaves had disappeared. It took some re- search to learn its title which finally was discovered to be "A Device, devised against the Rulers of the Darkness oi this World, or Mystery upon Mystery — " It was published anonymously in New Hampshire in 1795 and appears to be a really rare item. In its mutilated condition It would be called of little value by any book-seller, but the Library considers itself fortunate to be able to add it to its collection of early American imprints. One copy is known to be in the famous Huntington Library, and with photostatic reproductions supplied from that source, this book may be read as a whole once more. Not that many will be moved to inquire for it. It is evi- dently an allegorical protest against the division of the Christian Church into sects. There is much mention of Mr. Caseharden, Aunt Katy Chism, and Dr. Oldstuff. The Congs, the Baps and the Episcops appear in its pages. But it is all rather a valley of bones. There has been only one John Bunyan to clothe such dried skeletons with warm, breathing flesh. And so, then, we have reached the bot- tom of our pile of books. If the old-book wagon, which earlier in this article we coveted, were a fact instead of a fancy, you could imagine us climbing now over its rickety wheel, reaching for the reins which have been looped over the whip- socket, and awakening our drowsing nag with a loud "gid dap." Settling down into a comfortable slump on the worn leather seat we would here resume our importunate cry for BOOKS! books! books! BOOKS! The 1934 Catalogue Is Out COMPLIMENTS appear to be many and sincere with regard to the new edition of the Brown University Historical Catalogue which now carries along the pub- lic roll of Brunonians through June 30, 1934. Most conspicuous of all its virtues is its high degree of accuracy. One senior alumnus, in fact remarked that he had been unable to find an error in it, which may be taken as a high tribute. Nevertheless the editors ask that omissions or errors be re- ported to the Keeper of Graduate Records. Edited by Louise Bauer and Professor William T. Hastings, the volume is the fifth decennial publication in English, Brown catalogues in Latin having appeared at in- tervals between 1772 tu 1886. The work contains full outline biographies of all living persons connected with Brown and ot all now deceased who were not represented by adequate biographies in the 1904 or 1914 catalogues. Biographical data is complete only to June 30, 1934, except for changes of address and deaths, deaths up to June 30, 1935 being included in a special list at the end of the volume. An innovation is the inclusion of biog- raphies of Faculty members who have not held Brown degrees. The type is easily readable, with names in bold face and other matter indented. Pembroke alumnae are in- cluded in listings at the end, and Brown and Pembroke names all appear in one general index. While this treatment of the two groups has the merit of completeness, it makes the work bulky with 1558 pages. One could also wish that a simple roster of names of undergraduates be added to help bridge the gap between publications. Copies of this invaluable book are avail- able at the University at $2.50 each. Three of 40 in S. E. P. PROF. Harold Schlosberg of the De- partment of Psychology at Brown Uni- versity has been elected to membership in the Society for Experimental Psychology. With Prof. Schlosberg's election. Brown now has three members out of a total na- tional enrollment of approximately 40 of the nation's leading experimental psycho- logists. Prof. Walter S. Hunter and Prof. Clarence H. Graham are the other two members from Brown. Prof. Schlosberg was elected a member on the basis of "productivity and the qual- ity of his research," a colleague said. He has been working in the field of conditioned responses and learning, and has made ex- tensive studies of habit tormation. 280 BROWN ALIIIWIW MOIVTHLY Briiiioilia IMay^ the Game CCi'iilmiicd from Pane 278) A loosely r'aycd but .'•ce-sawing game with Dartmouth gave the stands plenty to watch on April 2^th. when the Bear tied the score with two out in the ninth only to lose out 9-8 in the tenth. On an earned run basis, the score should probably have been 2-1. Not untypical was Dartmouth's second inning when three runs were scored without a hit. Brown, outhitting the Hanoverians, overcame a 5-2 lead with a four-run surge in the sixth, lost it when Dartmouth tallied three in the seventh. An auspicious if curtailed inaugural was the Freshman team's when it defeated the Harvard first-year men ?-2 at Cambridge. Features were the fielding of Muller at .second for the Cuhs and the hitting of Nelson, shortstop, who hit a single and homer in three times up. A double by Harkins, Brown centre-fielder, was the only other extrabase hit in the five-inning game which rain interrupted. Other Brunonians were: Outfielders Cook. Redford and McClavc, Pietrurza at third, McNeal at first, and Cheever and Kelly batterymen, Cheever allowing six hits before errorless support. INABILITY to take more than a single point at any distance over a quarter-mile has been an insurmountable handicap to the Brunonian track team in its early meets. Rhode Island State, which appears as a definite threat for the New Englands later, trounced Brown soundly 94-41, while Brown showed to somewhat better advan- tage against the strong Holy Cross victors in a 77-58 meet. State swept five events, the mile, two- mile, 220, hammer, and discus, and allowed Brown only three and a half first places. Bernstein, A. Singsen and Ladd swept the broad jump, the first named leaping 22 feet iYl inches, which gave him his second first of the day after his lO'f, hundred. Horowitz took the shot with a heave of 46:8%. An upset was the defeat of Brown's McShane, New England champion and record-holder, who bowed to E. Singsen of State in the pole vault. The latter established a new New England and Brown Field mark of 12: !0'Teedham. Mass., and graduate of La.ssell Junior Qillege. to Lucian Dniry '36 of Bridgeport, Conn. Weddings 1910 — Paul Lennon and Mrs. Jeanne M. Scott Cable, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Isham Scott of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., were married in Palm Beach, Fla., March 2'i, 1937. They will spend the sum- mer on Cape Cod. 1917 — Dr. Clarence H. Woodmansee and Miss Clare Andrews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Andrews, were married in Edgewood April 24. 1937. H. .Stanford McLeod '16 and Earl M. Pearce '17 were ushers. Dr. and Mrs. Woodmansee are at home at 65 Strathmore Road. Edgewood. 1925 — Herbert W. Campbell and Miss Mary Genevieve Morris, daughter of Mrs. George P. Morris and graduate of Radcliffe '29, were married in Boston Feb. 6, 1937. They are at home at 601 Parker Street, Newark, N. J. 1926 — George H. Hume and Miss Louise Manley. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Warren Manley, were married in Provi- dence April 15. 1937. They are at home at 3 55 Angell Street. 1930 — Dr. Luther A. Heydon and Miss Kathleen Ine: Lea, daughter of Mrs. Sam- uel D. Lea of Danville, Va., were married in Hackensack, N. J.. March 27. 1937. Clark A. Heydon '24 was his brother's best man. Dr. and Mrs. Heydon will live in Ridgefield Park. N. J. 1931 — Gordon J. Peterson and Miss Evelyn Lois Biggins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Biggins of Bellwood. Pa., were married in New York City March 5, 1937. They are living in Mahanoy City, Pa. 1931 — Bernard V. Buonanno and Miss Josephine M. Antenucci, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Antenucci, were married in Providence April 12, 1937. Joseph E. Buonanno '34 was his brother's best man, and John J. Kelly '36 was an usher. Mr. and Mrs. Buonanno arc at home at 549 Broadway. 1932 — Richard F. Canning and Miss Anna Marie Loughrey. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Loughrey, were married in Auburn. R. I., April 10, 1937. 1934 — Kenneth Hampson and Miss Dor- othoy Eli:abeth White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Herbert White, were married in Pawtucket April 24, 1937. Mr. and Mrs. Hampson arc at home at 445 High Street, Lonsdale. 193 5 — Gregory Allen Slader and Miss Lucy Elizabeth Poland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Poland, were married in Providence April 24, 1937. Henry R. Palmer, Jr., '36 was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Slader left by airplane for California and wilt live in San Diego. « « « Births 1912 — To Mr. and Mrs. William Earl Sprackling of New York City a daughter, loan, March 29. 1937. 1919 — To Mr. and Mrs. C. Lincoln Vaughan, Jr.. of Providence a son, George Wheaton Carr, March 18. 1937. 1921 — To Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. McKendall of Providence a third son, Rob- ert Paul. March 10. 1937. 1924— To Mr. and Mrs. John J. Mc- Donald of Providence a son, John Hubert, Feb. 22, 1937. and Mrs. Elmer R. Smith daughter, Sherrell Jane, and Mrs. James A. Gra- Stephany, 1926 — To Mr. of Edgewood April 1, 1937. 1927— To Mr. ham of Pawtucket a daughter, March 26, 1937. 1929— To Dr. Kenneth and Dr. Lillian .Scott of Providence a second daughter, Nancy .Svbellc, April 4. 1937. 1929— To Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rawlings of Edgewood a son. Peter Woods, March 18, 1937. 1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Howe of Providence a son, ward.s, April 2, 1937. 1930- To Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin of Nashua. N. H.. Barbara Whipple, March 29, 1937. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Flynn of Providence a second son, Douglas, March 20, 1937. 1932 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ogden E. Saw- yer of Providence a son, Edward Asa, March 10. 1937. 1933 — To Mr. and Mrs. William G. Bradshaw of Providence a son, Robert Gor- ton, March 5, 1937. William E. Robert Ed Raymond G. a daughter. Those We Mourn 1870 REV. William Ashmore, D. D., for many years most notable of Brown graduates in foreign missionary work and translator of the Bible into modern Chi- nese, was instantly killed at his home in Santa Ana, Calif., March 11. 1937, when his hand came in contact with a live wire. On his 75th birthday in 1926 he made final revision of his colloquial Chinese Bible at Swatow, China, and retired as president of Ashmore Theological Seminary to return to this country. He had since been living in California and keeping busy through writ- ing, translating, and lecturing. His son. Dr. Frank Ashmore, was killed about three years ago by explosion of a carbonated water bottle while preparing soft drinks for neighborhood children. Dr. Ashmore was born in Bangkok, Siam. Sept. 28. 1851, the son of Rev. William and Martha A. (Sanderson) Ashmore. both missionaries. He came to Brown from War- ren, R. I.. High School, and won election to Phi Beta Kappa in Junior year. Between his years of teaching Greek and Latin at Peddie School. Shurtleff College, and Brown he studied at the University of Leip- sig and the University of Berlin, with Ian- 288 BROWJV ALUMIVI MOIVTHLY guages as his major subject. In 1879 he graduated from Rochester Theological Sem- inary, became a Baptist minister, married Mrs. Lida (Scott) Lyon in October of that year, and sailed for Swatow. There. 47 years ago, he began his translation of the Bible that was to become his monument. The translation was his special work aside from the general work of a missionary. He was evangelizer, educator, builder. When he became president of Ashmore Theologi- cal Seminary he drew his own plans and let out contracts. During his service at Swatow he put up 20 buildings, large and small, and even built a couple ot house boats. The missionary of his early days, he has said, was "a sort ot jack of all trades — and had to be." Brown conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 190?, President Faunce citing him as "wise worker on the frontier of Christianity, scholarly translator of the Scriptures, bearer of knowledge and faith to China's millions." At Brown he was a mem- ber of Gamma Nu, which is now Delta Up- silon. His only immediate survivor is a daughter, Mrs. Edith Ashmore Elder. And his only surviving classmate is Dr. William T. Peck, with whom he tramped through Europe while he was a student in Germany. 1878 DR. Edgar Bronson Smith, surgeon un- der whose skillful guidance Brown doc- tors have become proiicient through the years, died in his sleep at Orlando, Fla., April 9, 1937. Born in Winstead, Conn., Dec. 23, 1853, the son of Jesse and Jane P. (Bradford) Smith, he prepared at Lapham Institute, North Scituate, and was a student at Brown for two years. He left to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, from which he received the M.D. degree in 1876. The Brown Corporation awarded him his bachelor's degree with his Class in 1909. He commenced practice in Providence, and for the past 40 years had been surgeon to Rhode Island Hospital, and consulting surgeon, St. Jo.seph's Hospital, Butler Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Pawtucket, Woonsocket Hospital, and Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases. He was a member of the American College of Sur- geons, the various medical societies of the State and nation, and of Sigma Chi. He was at one time active in the Providence Chemi- cal Society and the Friday Evening Medical Club. He served as president of the Provi- dence Medical Society in 1907-08. He was married Oct. 12, 1881, to Evelyn O. Bates. His second marriage took place in 192? to Harriet M. Lindsay, who survives him. At his funeral the ushers were his younger colleagues who knew and appre- ciated his skill and valuable aid and advice. They included Drs. Albert A. Barrows '98, Nat H. Gifford '99, Emery M. Porter and Alex M. Burgess '06, Robert R. Baldridge '21 and A. W. Eckstein '25. 1887 Dr. Homer Clark died in Algiers, New Orleans, La., March 11, 1937. He was a brother of Theron Clark '95, Assistant Registrar at Brown, 1895-191 5, and present Registrar of the University of Southern California. Dr. Clark was born in Niantic, Conn., Jan. 12, 1864, the son of Jonathan S. and Mary (Stark) Clark. He prepared for college at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn., and after graduation from Brown with an A.B. degree entered New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital from which he received his M.D. in 1889. As a result of previous work and experience he was able to cut one year from his medical course. In the same month of May, 1889, that he won his M.D. he commenced practice in Palmyra, N. Y. He later transferred to Wollaston, Mass. For seven years after his graduation he carried on as a general prac- titioner, giving special attention to eye and ear troubles. In 1896 he gave up practice to go into business; and became president of the Vacuum Varnish and Chemical Company, East Norwalk, Conn. He de- veloped a varnish for iron patterns, and moisture and chemical proof coatings for steel, plaster, and brick. After the World War he went South and for a time lived in Dallas, Tex., where he was chairman of the American International Association. He worked later as a chemical engineer in Houston. Dr. Clark was married July 20, 1889, to Marian Clark Austin, Vassar '88. She died in September, 1891, and he later married Charlotte I. Collins. Surviving are two sons by the first wile. Hale Austin Clark, Detroit, Mich., and Homer Clark Jr., Bridgeport, Conn. An older brother, Byron Clark '88 is still living in Niantic. 1892 WILLIAM HOLDEN Eddy, teacher and ad- ministrator in the Providence schools since 1893. died suddenly at his home in Providence, March 26, 1937. 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He took the classical course at Providence High School, and throughout his four years at Brown was an excellent student. He won first prise in mathematics and second prize in Latin on entrance; continued to win prizes as under- graduate; and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. One of his cherished awards was the Brown Maaazme premium for verse. In later years the Atlajitic Monthly and other literary magazines published his sonnets and other verses. After receiving his A.M. at Brown in 1893 he took charge of the commercial de- partment of the Enghsh High School. In 1900 he became principal of Branch Ave- nue Grammar School. Then followed prin- BROWN DIRECTORY ARTHUR H. BLANGHARD, G. E.. '99 Consulting Engineer Highway TraiSc Control Highway Transport Airport Runways and Landing Fields Highway Engineering Contract and Patent Lawsuits Box C, Edgewood Station, Providence HARRIS and GIFFORD Cerufied Public Accountants at 840 HOSPITAL TRUST BUILDING PROVIDENCE. R. I. GAspee 7272 Audita — Systems Taxes Fowncs M. Harris '23 Business Research and Surveys Seth B. Gifford 20 cipalships at Vineyard Street, Messer Street, and English High School, where he served until his appointment in April, 1918, as deputy superintendent of schools in charge of instruction. In 1936 he was transferred to the post of secretary of the school com- mittee. His hobbies were poetry and chess. He and Mrs. Eddy, who was Ruth Story Dev- ereux "97 and whom he married July 19, 1905, were expert chess players. His inter- est in poetry, as eager through the years as it had been in his college days, found him reading much and writing whenever he felt in the mood. He belonged to the poetry group at Brown known as the Quinsnicket Poets. The Rhode Island Tercentenary book of verse includes one ol his poems. In 1899 he received his Ph.D. from Brown, his major study being German. He was past president of the Barnard Club, the Providence Teachers" Association, the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction. He belonged to the Brown University Teach- ers" Association, the Masons, Sons of the American Revolution, the Unitarian Club, Zeta Psi. and several national educational groups. He was a deacon of the First Con- gregational (Unitarian) Church, and a life member of the American Unitarian Asso- ciation. He was treasurer of the Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene, and was active in the Audubon Society and the So- ciety for Humane Education. Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Ruth B. Eddy "32, former Anne Crosby Emery Fellow, and a son, Robert D. Eddy 3'), graduate student at Princeton. 1898 DK. CroRCt HcRBbRT Sherwood, hon- orary director of the American Mu- seum of Natural History, died of a heart .ittack as he was about to introduce a speak- er to an audience at the Museum March 1 8, 1937. At Mrs. Sherwood"s request, the lecture went on. Dr. Sherwood became director ol the Museum m 1927, but resigned because of ill health in 1935. Since then he had been giving his whole time to the school service of the Museum, a work that he loved, as curator-in-chief of education. Born in Richmond. Me., March 28, 1876, the son of Rev. Benjamin A. and Elizabeth M, (Murray) Sherwood, he prepared at Johnston High School, worked his way in part through Brown by selling books, and on graduation went to work as an assistant in the biological laboratory ot the U. S. qdvertisers Gnqravinq companti I26DORRANCESI. PROVIDENCE. R I. TELEPHONE OASPEE 709-4 iPict/urire tjour (Product Fish Commission at Woods Hole, Mass. Dr. H. C. Bumpus "84 was at that time di- rector of the laboratory, and he took a deep interest in Sherwood. In 1901 Dr. Sher- wood became assistant curator in the depart- ment of invertebrates at the American Mu- seum of Natural History, and rose steadily in rank and ability until he was chosen di- rector. He retained, at his request, the post ol curator-in-chiet of education, and con- tinued the work with the city schools that he had so ably developed. He received the degree of A.M. from Brown in 1899 and the honorary degree of Ed.D. in 1928. "He has steadily and successfully pursued the task ol making the results of scientific investigation and exploration intelligible to the world, " President Faunce said. He was president of the New York Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, Councillor, American Association of Museums, direc- tor of the New York Adult Education Council, honorary member of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and a member of the School Nature League, School Art League, Explorers" Club, Cen- tury Association, and the Brown University Club in New York. He had also served as a director of the Audubon Home, Inc., and ot the Alice Rich Northrop Memorial. He had written extensively on professional topics. He was married Oct. 21, 1902, to Al- verda L. Brown, who survives, with a broth- er. Rev. Ralph A. Sherwood '03, and a sis- ter, Grace M. Sherwood "06, deputy libra- rian ol the Rhode Island State Library. 1899 C Henry Smith, librarian of the Uni- • versity of Colorado and former member of the football rules committee of the Na- tional Collegiate Athletic Association, died of a heart attack at his home in Boulder, Colo., March 25, 1937. As librarian at Colorado he enlarged the library building, doubled the number ol books, developed a reading room, and great- ly increased the usefulness of the library to [^acuity and students. He was also the la- ther of the Colorado Union, for which he ran the building campaign and raised the money to complete the structure. "To his love, enthusiasm and determination was due the getting of funds for the Union, which means so much to the social and cultural life ol students, Faculty, and citizens of Boulder generally. . . . His tireless efforts were alone the driving force behind its completion."' Born in Providence, March 4, 1878, the son ol Charles H. and Clara D. (Cheyney) Smith, he prepared at what is now Moses Brown School, and alter a year in the real estate business with his father, went to Den- ver, where he worked in the Denver Public Library until 1911. Then he went to the University of Colorado as librarian. He was a iormer president of the Colorado Library Association, chairman of the Boulder Group, Colorado Mountain Club, Univer- sity Camp Committee, Associated Students ol the University, and a former director ol the Associated Alumni of Brown Univer- sity. He belonged to the American and Colorado Library Associations and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He contributed articles on library work to the University of Colorado Bulletin and to the newspapers. He had officiated at more than a hundred college football games when in 1921 he took over the work ol appointing all foot- ball officials for the Rocky Mountain Fac- 290 BROWN ALUMIVI MOIVTHtY ulty Athletic Conference. In 1923 he was named the first representative of the Rocky Mountain States on the national football rules committee. He and Mrs. Smith re- turned for the 25th Reunion of the Class in 1924, and he had visited Providence since then as a member of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni. His sole survivor is his wife, who was Daphne E. White and whom he married March 4. 1912. The couple celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary just three weeks before Mr. Smith's death. 1901 PARKE Erwin. mechanical engineer with Aluminum Company of America at Massena, N. V., died of pneumonia at Hep- burn Hospital, Ogdensburg, N. Y.. March 27, 1937. Born m Malonc, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1879. ihc son of Dr. Ralph and Flora I. (Southw ck) Erwin, he prepared at Franklin Academy and took his degree in mechanical engineer- ing at Brown in June 1901. A month aitcr graduation he went to work as draftsman for the West Point Foundry, Cold Spi ing, N. Y. He was also draftsman and desgncr with Westinghouse Electric Mtg. Company. McMyler Mfg. Company of Cleveland, the Brown Hoisting y Conveying Machinery Company, and the American Ship Windla.ss Company of Providence. In June, 1904, he joined the staff of the American 6f British Mfg. Company as me- chanical engineer. In 1913 he resigned be- cause of illness, and removed to Champlain, N. Y., where he bought an interest in a sawmill. He operated the property until 1919, building a concrete dam and race- way, installing generating machinery to pro- vide light and power for surrounding towns, and in other ways improving the whole plant. He also designed and built dams in the territory, and did concrete construction work on contract. He went with the Aluminum Company of America in 1919 and at the time of his death was mechanical engineer in the reduc- tion division. He was married Oct. 24, 1904, to Miss Mabel C. Hodges of Providence, who sur- vives, with his mother, now a resident of Worcester, Mass., and two sisters. 1901 RooER Chamberlain Turner, life in- surance broker and former member of the Passaic County Board of Freeholders, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Patersim, N. J., March 5, 1937, after an operation. Born m Maiden, Mass., March 8, 1878, the son of Alfred R. and Anna M. (Hutch- ins) Turner, he moved to Paterson as a young boy, prepared at Newark Academy, and was a special student at Brown, 1897- 98. On leaving college he went into insur- ance work, with New York City as his field. For the past 25 years he had occupied an office at 149 Broadway, commuting there daily from his home in Paterson. He had been a member of the Board of Freeholders of his county for ten years. He was married April 13, 1905, to Miss Florence Clark, who survives, with a daugh- ter, Mrs. John Lenander, two sons, Roger C. Turner, Jr., and John C. Turner: and a brother, William H. Turner '03. His fra- ternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1903 CHARLES Francis Cuddy, first Brown football player to score a touchdown against University of Pennsylvania and for 17 years athletic coach at Swampscott, Mass., High School, died at his home in Swampscott March 23, 1937, after a short illness. Playing end for Brown against Penn on Oct. 7, 1899, Cuddy scooped up a fumble and carried the ball over the goal line. The final score was Brown 6, Penn 6, and there was great rejoicing on College Hill. Lack of funds forced Cuddy's withdrawal from college in the middle of Freshman year. Born in Somerville, Mass.. July 6, 1882, the son of John H. and Annie L. (Math- ews) Cuddy, he prepared at Somerville High School, where he was captain of the football eleven and the baseball nine. In 1897 he was chosen all-scholastic third base- man. After leaving Brown he worked as reporter on the Broc\ton Tunes and the Haverhill Gazette before going back to Somerville High to coach. He resigned in 1907 to go to Maiden, where he stayed sev- en years before taking up his duties at Swampscott High School. In 1920 he resigned to go to work for United Shoe Machinery Company, but he returned to Swampscott the next year, and was active until ill health made him resign in June, 1931. He later recovered and was on the staff of the Lynn Finance Company at the time of his death. His athletic teams fContimied on Page 29S ) Alumnae of Broivn BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 Executive Secretary of the Alumr\ae Association dub Brie fa THE Boston Club was fortunate in hav- ing Dr. Bruce Bigelow, Director of Admissions at Brown, as its speaker last month. Secretary; Mrs. Frederick I. Huss, 88 Garland Road, Newton Center, Mass. A large delegation of members of the Providence Club heard Dr. William L. Leet .speak on "The Right Way to Weigh Right." We shall expect the members to become sylph-like before Alumnae Day. Secretary: Emma A. Driver, 44 Barrows .St., Providence. The Worcester Club entertained the un- dergraduates who live in Worcester County at a tea on April 3rd. Lorna Kendall Snow "34 was the hostess in her Mother's home. Secretary: Mildred F. Maple, 117 Lincoln St., Worcester. The Hartford Club had a record attend- ance at its April luncheon for Dean Morriss with 3 5 present. The luncheon was held at the Heublein Hotel and 21 classes were represented. Secretary: Mrs. E. J. Hickey, 89 Chapel St., East Hartford. The New York Club also had an attend- ance of 3 5 at its dinner for Dean Morriss on April 14th. The affair was arranged by the president, Dorothy Oborne, 109 East 67th St The Southern California Club was enter- tained at the home of Lillian Davenport Shore '13 in Pasadena on April 17th. Sarah E. Bunnell of 45 Mar Vista Avenue, Pasa- dena, is president of the Club. * * * Fellotvship Awards THE Anne Crosby Emery Fellowship was awarded to Margaret I. Carter of the Senior Class. For three years she has been a Pembroke scholar (which means that she leads her class) and an Andrews scholar. Last year she was the only member of her class to become a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. She is doing honors work in the field of psychology. Miss Carter prepared for college at the East Providence High School. Hilda Margaret Allen '36, who came to college on one of our alumnae scholarships, has again been awarded the Emma Josephine Arnold Archaelogical Fellowship. Miss Allen was graduated last year summa cum laude and with final honors in Latin. She has spent this year at Radcliffe, domg graduate work in archaeology and art. Adelaide M. Davidson '3 3 has received the coveted Abbott School Fellowship, carrying with it a stipend of approximately $1200. Miss Davidson held the Arnold Archaeological Fellowship for two years and this past year she has held the Martin Kellogg Fellowship in the Classics at Yale. She expects to study abroad next year. Class Notes 1897 — Ruth Devereux Eddy has the sin- cere sympathy of the alumnae in the sudden death of her husband, William H. Eddy '92, who for many years was Deputy Superin- tendent of the Providence schools. Mr. Eddy had graciously served as Auditor for the Alumnae Association since 1923. Our sympathy is also extended to Ruth B. Eddy '3 2 and to Robert D. Eddy '35 in the loss of their father. 1898 — Elizabeth Grant is president of the R. I. Branch of the New England Class- ical Association and presided at the meeting of the Classics Department which was held at Brown. 1899 — Clara B. Tingley sent an interest- ing letter from Bassein, Burma in which she expressed concern for the new government in Burma after its separation from India on April 1st. 1903 — Charlotte Anthony Fuller is now living in Dunharton, N. H. but she returns to Providence frequently and was a recent visitor at the Alumnae Office. 1904 — Florence Beitenman will sail in June for China and Japan. 1905 — Millie Church McKeever is now living at 270 S. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 1906 — Helen Albro Ewers has moved to 2201 Cedar Ave., Cleveland. 291 BROWIV ALUIWIVI MONTHLY 1910- Marie Blain Moore, wife of Dr. Henry T. Monre, President of Skidmore College, has been chosen as toastmistress for our reunion supper on Alumnae Night in Alumnae Hall. 1911 — Hannah Nicholson Benson had one of her beautiful oil paintings of zinnias in the recent exhibit at the Providence Art Club. 1911 — Jeannette Moffitt Bunn is chair- man of Alumnae Day. 1911 — Clara Stanhope spent her Easter vacation in Bermuda. 1912 — Cynthia Bishop MacKay of Po- land, Ohio, paid us a visit at the Alumnae Office last month and reported that her daughter is most enthusiastic about Pem- broke. Her son, Donald, expects to enter Brown in the fall. 1913 — Dr. Evelyn B. Tilden has been appointed a Bacteriologist at the National Institute of Health, Washington, D. C. She is still stationed in Chicago at the Northwestern University Medical School. 1914 — Marion C. Bates has returned to Rhode Island, after spending several months in Florida. 1917 — Lena Lopiansky returned on the Queen Mary from a two months' trip to Palestine. Her address is c/o Collector of Internal Revenue, 9th Ave. and 30th St., New York City. 1917 — Helen Tingley is said to be living somewhere in Washington, D. C. Can someone give the details? 1918 — Anne Terry White has had TWO books accepted by Harper's. "Heroes of the Five Books," dealing with the five books of Moses, will be published in August or September. The second book — on Shake- speare — will be published at a later date. 1919 — Ruth Huntington, who teaches French, Latin and History in Stow, Mass., dropped in at the Alumnae Office during her vacation. 1923 — Phyllis Appel dropped in last month. She is head of the English Depart- ment in the Watertown High School. 1925 — Grace Suavely Ball and her hus- band. Dr. Eric G. Ball, will leave early in June to spend the next 16 months in Europe. Dr. Ball, associate in the depart- ment of physiological chemistry at Johns Commercial Banking Trust Department Capital SSOO.OOO Surplus and Undivided Profits (over) $950,000 BLACKSTONE CANAL NATIONAL BANK Eslabliihed ISil Member Federal Deposit insurance Corporation 20 MARKET SQUARE PROVIDENCE, R. 1. Hopkins Medical School, has been awarded one of the John S. Guggenheim fellowships for foreign study. They will return to this country in the fall of 1938. 192'i — Harriet Boyd so thoroughly en- joyed her month's cruise to the West Indies ,ind South America that she is already plan- ning another. 1925 — Bertha Peacock Hall has resigned her position as laboratory technician in the Homeopathic Hospital to become Assistant Director of the Physicians' Laboratory Service of which Edith Earle '18 is Director. Mrs. Hall has moved to 7 Squantum St., Meshanticut Park, Cranston. 1925— Charlotte Perry Phillips has moved to Crapelo Road, Lincoln, Mass. 1925 — Bculah Leathers Roensch has moved to 1205 Eaton Road, Birmingham, Michigan. 1928 — Virginia Piggott Verney and her husband are building a house of English architecture on Love Lane in East Green- wich. Virginia and her young daughter spent several weeks in Florida. 1929 — Dorothy Hunt is office manager for the Multigraph Sales Agency, 410 Jack- son BIdg., Providence. She is living at 96 South Angell St. 1929 — Marguerite Hunt is in the midst of a course at the Smith College School for Social Work for Supervisors and Teachers. It involves two months in residence at Smith for two successive summers and eight months' work under the supervision of the Charity Organization Society in Hartford, where she is District Secretary. "Carrying four courses and a job has been strenuous," she wrote, "but worth the effort from a pro- fessional standpoint." 1930 — Irene Burwick Grace has moved to 1 1 Homer St., Worcester. 1930 — Verna Follctt Spaeth recently en- tertained Hattie M. Holt '08 and Mary Gelctte '32, who were attending the meet- ings of the N. E. Classical Association at Wcsleyan; Dorothy Hill and Helena Hogan, who came to visit their god-daughter, Peggy Spaeth: Marjorie Peck Boutelle '30 and her husband, who stopped on their way home from a wedding trip to Washington, D. C. and Virginia: and several members of the Brown faculty and their wives who were at Wesleyan for the classical meetings. 1932 — Edith and Ruth Berger have their own pharmaceutical business known as Beta Products, 86 Weybosset St. They have a nationally advertised product known as Bclasul which is supplied only to physicians. They arc to have an exhibit at the R. I. Medical convention in June. They are living at 292 Hillside Ave., Pawtucket. 1932— Florence Urquhart Rae and her husband, Dr. John B. Rae '32, are back in town from Washington, where they have been living for some time. Dr. Rae has been appointed administrative assistant to Dr. Wriston. 1932 — Mary Rae expects to sail in June for a summer in Scotland and Germany. 1932 — Eunice C. Turgeon is in charge of the certifying office at the Mary B. White School in New Bedford. 193 2 — Marion L. White has recovered her health and has returned from California to take a position at the Applied Research Laboratories, Inc. in Dayton. N. J. Her work is most interesting and her associates most congenial. Her laboratory is unique in its "up-to-date-ness and its complete security from the eyes of the curious public." 193 3 — Ruth Hussey has a leading part in "Dead End," which has been playing in several eastern cities and will soon be pre- sented in California. 1933 — Pauline Nawrocki paid us a visit last month but we had to look twice to make sure it was she for she has taken off about 30 pounds. She is teaching at Norwich Academy and thoroughly enjoys her work. 193 3 — Lucia Steere is secretary to one of the executives in the Vick Chemical Com- pany, which makes Vick's Vaporub. 1934 — Isabelle Andrews is another girl who amazes us for she has taken off about 40 pounds. She is secretary to Mr. A. Wilson Barstow, sales manager of the Naragansett Electric Company. 1934 — Eleanor Campbell has been ap- pointed to a position in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. 1934 — Kay Smith Johnson dropped in last month and seems to be right on her toes. 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