I.O¥N ^IIJMMI MONTHLY 1937 '^ 1938 Copyright 1937. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co "man L. Silverman '31 ALUMNI MONTHLY uhlished monthly, August and September excepted, hy the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY, Inc., at Brown University, Providence, R. I. Entered at the Post Office, at Providence, R. I., as second class matter, under the law of March 5, 1879, If You Own Securities ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS .... When you are out of town can you make changes in your securities if necessary? .... When you change your address, do your dividend checks follow your .... Do you cut your coupons promptly? Are your called bonds presented for payment on time.'^ .... Are the proceeds invested at once? .... Do you have difficulty in deciding how the proceeds shall be invested? .... Have you experienced losses because of lack of information concerning rights, exchange offers, redemptions? .... Do you have difficulty with ownership certificates? .... Do you postpone sales because it is inconvenient to go to your safe deposit box? .... Could you use more profitably the time you now consume in caring for your securities? If the handling of your own securities has been a diffi- cult or troublesome problem in any way, we suggest that you discuss with us the advisability of placing them in our care under an Agency Account. m .^ Rhode Island Hospital Trust Compantj Pawtucket — Providence — Woonsocket BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY PROVIDENCE. RHODE ISLAND NOVEMBER 1937 VOL. XXXVIII NUMBER 4 ► ► Joseph Freshman, Brown 1941 BY DR. BRUCE M. BIGELOW "24, Director of Admissions ► ► The month of January in the year 1919 may seem to be an unimportant yesterday to most Brown alumni. To the average boy in the Class of 1941 it was a very momen- tous month. That was when "Joe Freshman", Bnnvn 1941, was born. Joe has asked me what Brown was like when he was a babe in arms. With a feeling of senility I told him about the days immediately before I entered college and I showed him some old copies of the Brown Daily Herald. Joe Freshman seemed to know that the students at Brown at that time had been celebrating football victories. He had heard about the late season scores of 1918 — Brown 28, Dartmouth 0, and Brown 6, Harvard 3. An alumnus had told him. With surprise, however, he learned that earlier in the season Brown had lost to Syracuse *)? to 0, and that the big team had been trimmed by the League Island eleven in Philadelphia 21 to 7. "Never heard of the team or the defeat," commented Joe. It Vvfas the Syracuse game report m the Providence Journal that surprised him most. "The Providence gridiron warriors were all muddied up with their own signals," reported the correspondent. "On several occasions the carrier of the ball was seen to dart one way, while his interference was racing in an entirely different direction." "Well, well," says the disillusioned Joe. "No one ever told me about those defeats." I explained to the Freshman that college does strange things to memory and that eighteen years from now he too will talk to a suh-freshman about the victories of 1937 and never mention the defeats. i < ► J(iE wasn't interested solely in athletics so he continued to look over the old Heralds and ask questions about campus life. He was reminded of the World War when he read about a memorial service m Sayles Hall. Doctor Faunce reported to the students that some day they might have a Soldiers' Gatew-ay on Thayer Street. "In time past," said BROWN UNIVERSITY THEIRS BY INHERITANCE: These are the sons of Brown alumni in the Freshman class on College Hill this year, photographed on the steps of the John Carter Brown Library. They are. from left to right: First row — Robert M. Burbank. son of the late Robert T. Burbank '08 of Providence; William G. Remington, son of Judge Charles C. Remington '99 of Providence: Harmon E, Mclntyre, son of Frank D. Mclntyrc 'n6 of Milwaukee. Wis.; William P. Buffum. Jr., son of Dr. \ViIliam P. Buffum '09 of Providence; Kenyon W. Greene, son of the late Warren E. Greene '9.S of Washington. Conn,; John A. Goulding. son of George A. Goulding '99 of Providence: Earle B. Dane. Jr.. son of Earle B. Dane "II of East Greenwich. R, I.; Norman S. Dike. Jr.. son of Judge Norman S. Dike '85 of New York City; and Earle F. Cohen, son of Dr. Leo Cohen '12 of Providence. Second roii' — Earle C. Tanner, son of Harold B. Tanner '09 of Providence; William P. ShefBeld. 3rd. son of William P. SheiSeld. Jr. '15 of Newport. R. I.: Dexter N- Smith, son of Howard D. Smith '05 of Chelmsford. Mass.; Chandler S. Murray, son of Walter J. Murray '07 of Providence; Earl W. Harrington. Jr.. son of Earl W. Harrington '14 of White Plains, N. Y,: George Hurley, Jr,. son of George Hurley '07 of Providence; Allan S, Nanes. son of Philip Nanes '05 of Brooklyn. N. Y,; Roger H, Brown, son of Wendell S, Brown '11 of Cranston, R. I.; and Preston H. Hood, Jr.. son of Preston H. Hood 12 of Somerset. Mass. Third rcuc — Benson R, Frost. Jr.. son of Benson R. Frost '08 of Rhinebeck. N. Y. ; Eugene L. McCarthy, son of Dr. Eugene A. McCarthy "04 of Fall River. Mass.; Donald B, McKay, son of J, Russell McKay '11 of Poland. Ohio; Warren C. Johnson. Jr.. son of Warren C. Johnson '10 of Providence; Dana F. Peck. son of Edward B, Peck '12 of Elizabeth. N, J.; George V. Snell, son of Prof, Walter H, Snell '13 of Providence: Edward L. Leahy. Jr,. son of Judge Edward L, Leahy '08 of Bristol. R, I,; John B, McEvoy. son of Charles D. McEvoy '07 of VX'orcester, Mass,; Charles E. Ailing, son of the late Morris E. Ailing '02 of Northford. Conn.; and Robert S. Wilmot. son of Sydney Wilmot '09 of Tuckahoe. N. Y. Fourth TOK' — Carl Barus, son of Ma.\\vell Barus '10 of Montclair. N. J.; Aubrey L. Raymond, son of Ira Barrows '8?> of Palo Alto. Cat: William E, Smith. son of Leon E, Smith '12 of East Providence; Robert M, Curtis, son of Adolph Curtis '17 of Chappaqua. N, Y,; H, William Paine. Jr,. son of Harold W, Paine '07 of Upper Montclair. N, J.; Edward H. Rickard. son of James H. Rickard '96 of Woonsocket. R. I,: J, Paul Cali. son of the late Rev, Frank Cali '19 of West Warwick. R. I,; Willis F, Woods, son of John B, Woods '12 of Longview. Washington; Robert F. Grabb. son of the Rev. Carl J. Grabb '20 of Painted Post. N, Y.; Stuart S. Whipple, son of Clarence M, Whippie '09 of Albany. N, Y.; and William R, T, Crolius. son of William C, Crolius '15 of South Orange. N, J, Ralph Sherwin Drury, son of the late Ralph S. Drury 12. was not present when this picture was taken. 99 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY STEPCZTK Frovideytcc PERSOH -Neu' York UGROS Chtcanu MARSOLIHl Boston 1941 Men Winners of Broun Club Prize Scholarships the President, "we have thought of Lineohi Field as being the backyard of the University. Twenty years from now it will be the front yard." I interrupted Joe's reading to tell him about the old Lincoln Field where the life of a professor was always in jeopardy on a balmy spring afternoon as he ducked home runs and motorcycles. Joe was told that he probably would waste too many minutes down there this year watching a steam shovel clear the way for a new chemistry lab. "But what does this mean?" queried Joe as he pointed to a note on an editorial page: "Wanted by the Sophomore Class some good old pep at 9:15 a. m." Joe will probably never see an old fashioned chapel rush, but he will see frequent editorials in the Herald that the Freshman and Sophomores just haven't the old pep of former days. He will soon learn that when most people speak of college spirit, they mean riots, water fights, and bloody noses. < i ► From the 1919 Herald Joe continued to learn more about life at Brown when he was an infant. He read aloud, "The eating situation at Brown is well nigh intolerable. For many years it has been growing from bad to worse." That com- plaint, I explained, is another perennial which has probably bloomed once every year since 1764. Advertisements in the papers also caught his attention. "College men's shoes both high and low" brought forth a caustic remark about the "queer looking birds" of 1919. I merely smiled as I looked down at Joe's dirty white shoes which he thinks are smart. Joe didn't learn much from the theater ads for only a few names did he recognize. The movie houses in Provi- dence presented Charlie Chaplin in Shoulder Arms, William S. Hart in The Silent Man, Charles Ray in The Law of The 7S[orth, Mary Pickford in ]ohanna EriUsts, Fatty Arbuckle in Canipmg Out, and Theda Bara in The She Devil. Joe asked if I had ever seen Houdini get out of a straightjacket at Keiths, heard Enrico Caruso sing in the old Providence Opera House, and seen Clark and McCullock play in a burlesque at the Colonial. Just then the Chapel bell sounded and I told my inquisitive Freshman that the history lesson was over. i i ► The Class of 1941 is made up of 402 enthusiastic, like- able boys. They will soon be known as Brown men, but to a Director of Admissions who saw them before they bought their Camel's Hair coats. Freshman caps, and briar pipes, they continue to be boys. In this respect at least I agree with their mothers. Eighteen-year-old Freshmen may begin to look like men in college, but they still act like boys — unsophisticated, mischievous, adventurous, and charming boys, who make the rest of us envious of youth. The "four hundred" this year were selected from the largest number of applicants in the history of the University. Economists tell us that the bottom of the depression came in the Summer of 1932. It is rather amazing that in that year Brown had a record number of applicants for admission and that in every year since, the record has been continually broken. This year again gave us a new "high". The size of the class will, however, continue to be limited. Alumni are chiefly responsible for the increase in the number of students seeking admission to Brown. President Wriston's stirring message on admissions work to the alumni on February 22nd of this year and the intelligent development of the Alumni Cooperative Admissions Pro- gram by Charles J. Hill "16 and Theodore R. Jeffers '2.i have aroused the alumni of the country to their duty and privilege in pointing the way toward College Hill. We do not want a Bigger Brown, but we shall always want a Better Brown. i < ► Frequently I am asked by alumni about the effect of a losing football team upon admissions. It has been my privi- lege to introduce to Brown only the last six classes, but I have already seen a great team in 1932 — a team which had national fame — and I have also seen four of the most disastrous seasons experienced in Brown's history. Observa- tions clearly indicate to me that the effect on applications for admission is not what most alumni expect. It may be true that a phenomenal team such as the Brown Iron Men of 1926 creates such favorable publicity for the college that a number of 18-year-old boys will suddenly decide to apply for admission. Many of these decisions made in the Fall, however, are not lasting and the fickle boys do not woo Alma Mater in May as they did in November. It should be understood that a boy's memory is not his greatest asset (ask our professors) and football scores which seem so vital to us alumni are soon forgotten by the sub- freshman. I doubt if over 10 per cent of the Class of 1941 could even list our major football defeats of 1936. Not one could probably give you the exact scores. It is when Winter comes in the boy's Senior year that he gets down to the serious business of selecting his college. Football scores in January he can't remember, but scholastic reputations he can't forget. The Director of Admissions, who witnessed as an under- graduate at Brown ignominious defeats and glorious vic- 100 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY tories between 1920 and 1924, would like to see his college hold its head higher in the football world, but he wants to go on record and repeat that the last four disastrous seasons on the gridiron were followed by the largest number of applications for admission in the 173 years of our distin- guished history. Football is an exciting, intriguing, and unrivaled side show, but it is the big tent itself that draws the crowd. i i ► Twenty-five st.^tes and four foreign countries sent Freshmen to Brown this year. The boys from foreign coun- tries are German E. Peres of Venezuela, James H. Sands of Brazil, Hans J. Epstein of Germany, and Maughan C. Gould of France. The German student, admitted by examination at Oxford, decided in the Summer to enter an American University and selected Brown. The Freshman from France, great grandson of Jay Gould, has a brother in the Sopho- more Class. Statistics on the last few classes indicate a slightly larger number than usual from outside New England. The per- centages over the past few years are as follows: 19J2 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 From New England 63.3 64.3 67.1 65.7 59.4 58.9 Outside New England 36.7 35.7 32.9 34.3 40.6 41.1 One of our best delegations this year comes from Chicago, and particular credit goes to the alumni who demonstrate through their loyalty that distance makes the heart grow fonder. The past and present heads of the alumni in Chicago, John J. Monk '24 and Earle V. Johnson '24, both rate a long cheer. (Here's to 1924.) Frederick "Fritz " Bassett '33 had charge of a bon voyage party in September for the Chicago group and the Freshmen are still talking about it. A similar luncheon was held in New York with Everett Colby '97, President of the New York Club, and Joseph Hailoran '16, Chairman of the New York Alumni Coopera- tive Admissions Committee, acting as hosts to the eighty-five boys from Greater New York. Joe Hailoran is becoming an expert on sub-freshmen gatherings! Six boys from Milwau- kee came to Brown this year, all determined to enter the college where Doctor Wriston was President. The geographic distribution is as follows: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 Massachusetts 87 86 84 85 77 83 Providence 65 68 65 73 73 62 Rhode Island (Outside Prov.) 61 62 62 62 59 63 New York 61 66 58 64 66 73 Connecticut 36 30 30 25 22 24 New Jersey 24 23 18 19 38 30 Pennsylvania 18 14 18 8 11 9 West and Middle West 23 30 24 32 34 43 South 10 5 4 8 8 6 Other New England States 13 5 10 7 4 5 Canal Zone 1 Foreign 1 1 -) 4 398 390 374 383 395 402 Of the 402 Freshmen, 53.2% prepared at public high schools, and 46.8^ at private schools. Again we have struck a balance which seems to be ideal. i < ► Curiously enough, there is very little change from year to year in the list of vocational preferences. Law, Medi- cine, Chemistry, and some form of Business are at the moment the most intriguing fields for the Class of 1941 The list of preferences is as follows: Law, 40; Medicine, 37; Chemistry, 30; Engineering, 26 Business, 25; Teaching, 19; Journalism, 13; Brokerage, 5 Manufacturing, 5 ; Banking, 4; Textile Work, 4; Dentistry 3; Diplomatic Service, 3; Research (science), 3; Account ing, 2; Architecture, 2; Civil Service, 2; Contracting, 2; Literary Work, 2 ; Merchant, 2 ; Ministry, 2 ; Advertising, Archeology, Art, Finance, Geology, Insurance, Hotel Work, Photography, Real Estate, Scouting, and United States Army, 1 each. Not Stated, 3. Undecided, 157. Total, 402. The fathers of our Freshmen seem to come from all walks of life. Three boys say they are "army born" and two are the sons of naval officers. It is rather curious that although 30 boys are headed for a career in Chemistry, only three Freshmen are the sons of Chemists. The fathers of almost half the Freshmen are in some form of business, 24 are in engineering, 27 in law, 20 in medicine, and 12 in teaching. There is also a miscellaneous group covering a score of activities. jACKSOH Hdmden, Conn. CLATTON Chicago. III. DREHKAH Oak Part III. CORCORAN £T'(I)IStO)l. III. CRAMP MontclaiT, H- J. 1941 Men Winners of John Hay Scholarships 101 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY We have found that the average Freshman is five feet ten inches in height; the tallest boy is six feet four, and the shortest is five feet three. The average weight is 155 pounds; the heaviest boy tips the scales at 215, and the lightest just hits 100. Eleven of the Freshmen weigh 200 pounds or more. (Sounds like the right number for a football team.) The average age of the Freshmen is 18 years and 8 months; the oldest is 24 years and 11 months, and the youngest 1 6 years and one month. i i ► As usu.'\L, we can boast of our sons of Brown alumni. This year 40 boys, practically 10% of the class, are follow- ing in their fathers" footsteps. Their photograph herewith will introduce them to you. The Class of 1912 has six sons who are Freshmen and the classes of 1 907 and 1 909 tie for second place with delegations of four each. Four of the boys this year had a double interest in the University since they have a Brown-Pembroke combination for parents. A total of 1 1 3 students out of the 402 in the class have one or more relatives who at one time attended Brown. Some of these boys have relatives who go back into the seventeen hundreds at the University. We like that kind of tradition! Extra-curricular activities claimed the attentions of prac- tically every Freshman in secondary school. The distribu- tion is as follows: Athletics, 293; Publications, 168; Dra- matics, 134; Glee Club, 76; Debating, 60; Band, 35; Orchestra, 32. Fifty Freshmen were class presidents in secondary school, 32 held the office of vice president, 15 as secretary, and 27 as treasurer. One hundred twenty-eight were club officers and 5 3 were on the student council. Believe it or not, however, not a single first year student admits that he is headed for a career in politics. Applications for admission can bring smiles as well as headaches. One applicant said he belonged to the "Apis- copal" church. Another started to write Congregationalist, found difficulty with the spelling and changed it to "Babtist." We have enough poor spellers in the class, and these two applicants were not admitted. i i ► We try our best to be explicit in our Instructions to Freshmen, mailed to all incoming students in the Summer. Sometimes the boys are far ahead of us. This year a young man asked if women were allowed in the dormitories. After the rule was explained, he said, "I thought that couldn't he done, for in the dormitory rules it says that no pets are allowed in the rixams." We have at least one champion in the class. From one of the great New England preparatory schools came this report about a Freshman: "Oddly enough he is an expert at tiddle-de-winks, which he plays before packed houses in his room. I have now forbidden these sporting gatherings, but Joe feels that, after all, tiddle-de-winks is a very harmless game." One young man wanted me to find a roommate who could speak at least three foreign languages. Needless to say, I failed. Another boy became slightly confused about his room and gave his address as 186 Pembroke Hall. In his autobiography, a young man from the West wrote : "Regarding social activities, I was glad to hear that Pem- broke College was so easily accessible although I do not plan to do much of this as it would inevitably interfere with my work." The first part of that sentence bespeaks the boy's age and interests; the second part indicates a talk with father before leaving for Providence. A pretty good summary of interest is expressed in another autobiography which informs us that this boy likes good THE ARRIVAL OF A FRESHMA1\ (circa 1900) books, good plays, good music, baseball, swimming, biology, history, and a girl with blue eyes. His dislikes are radicals, crowds, gossips, fights, and drunks. We rather like this fellow and we also admire the other Freshmen who are already showing the Sophomores that life at Brown begins not with '40, but with '41 ! ^ ^ < The Boston Scholarship Choice ► ► John R. M.'\rsolini, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Marsolini of 152 Blue Hill Avenue, Milton, Mass., has been awarded a $500 scholarship at Brown University by the Brown Alumni Club of Boston, the University's Com- mittee on Scholarships announced last month. Marsolini, now enrolled at Brown as a Freshman, received the scholarship for "combining in the highest degree scholas- tic ability, desirable qualities of character and personality, capacity for leadership and promise of future usefulness." He was chosen for the award from scores of Freshmen from Greater Boston, Although the scholarship is granted for a year only, Marsolini will receive a similar scholarship from the University for his remaining three years at Brown if he maintains a high scholastic average. The Boston Brown Club scholarship winner entered Brown from Milton High School, where he was president of the senior class, president of the student council, an honor roll student for three years and winner of the school's high- est award, the Hiram Tuell citizenship prise, last June. Marsolini was captain of baseball, won his letter in football for three years, and was head of the Milton High School athletic association. He was president of the French Club last year and has been active in his school glee club and press club. He has competed in swimming and track. Members of the scholarship committee from the Brown Club of Boston are Linus Travers "27, chairman; James S. Allen '98, Paul O. Curtis "15, James S. Eastham "19, Ernest E. Nelson "19, Hugh Robertson "19, Homer N. Sweet "07, and Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow "24. < ^ ^ 102 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ► ► Of Brown and Brunonians Dr. Bum pus Retires ► ► The resignation of Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus '84 as Secretary of the Corporation of Brown University, and the election of Albert L. Scott '00, a member of the Board of Fellows as his successor, was announced at the annual fall meeting of the Corporation. President Henry M. Wriston, in announcing the resigna- tion of Dr. Bumpus, expressed the Corporation's regret over the resignation and its "deep appreciation of his long and effective service in that post." Dr. Bumpus was graduated from Brown in 1884 and received his Ph.D. from Clark University in 1889. He was called to Brown by President E. Benjamin Andrews six years later and made assistant professor of zoology. He became full professor of comparative anatomy the next year. He holds three honorary degrees. Brown and Tufts con- ferring degrees of Doctor of Science in 190^ and Clark University, the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1909. He was president of Tufts from 1914 to 1919. Dr. Wriston's tribute to Dr. Bumpus's tenure as Sec- retary of the Brown Corporation, to which post he was elected in 1924, was as follows: "Dr. Bumpus accepted re-election as Secretary of the Corporation a year ago with the understanding that he would serve for one year until the new administration of the University had begun. "In accepting his resignation today the Corporation ex- pressed its regret that Dr. Bumpus felt it necessary to relinquish his duties as Secretary of the Corporation and its deep appreciation of his long and effective service in that post. "We are all happy to know that he will continue to have his advice and counsel through his service as a member of the Board of Fellows." i i ► Dr. W.\ldo G. Lel.'KND, a member of the board of Fellows and permanent secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies, speaking in the corporation meeting on behalf of his colleagues, reviewed Dr. Bumpus's long and devoted service to the University as a member of the Faculty, as a member of the Board of Fellows, and as Sec- retary of the Corporation. He expressed on their behalf "sincere appreciation and the hope that he would long continue to serve the Univer- sity as a member of the Board of Fellows." Mr. Scott, who became a trustee of Brown in 1916 and a member of the Board of Fellows in 1921, is president of the Lockwood, Greene, Engineers, Inc., of New York. He is also a trustee and chairman of the board of Riverside Church, New York City. A trustee of Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., he holds the same position with the Andover-Newton Theological School. During the World War he was chief of the supply and equipment division of the LInited States Army. In 1936, he was elected president of the National Association of Finishers of Textile Fabrics. Two new members of the Corporation, elected last June, were inducted. They were Dr. W. Randolph Burgess '12 of New York, a member of the Board of Fellows, and J. Russell McKay '1 1 of Youngstown, O., a member of the Board of Trustees. 4 •< < The Passing of Dr. Jameson ► ► Dr. J. FR.ANKLIN J.AMESON, Professor of History at Brown from 1888 to 1901 and friend and mentor of a host of Brown graduates, died of pneumonia and heart compli- cations in Washington, D. C, Sept. 28, 1937. He had been chief of the manuscript division of the Library of Congress since 1928. Brown conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature in 1914. In his death. President Wnston said, "American histori- cal scholarship loses its most vigorous leader." "He was not merely a student and teacher of history," said a Providence Evening Bulletin editorial, "but a con- structive collector of historical material. . . . His principal monument is his contribution to the history and biography of his own country. In that ample field he proved his talents to the utmost, and among the results due markedly to his inspirational labors is the successful carrying through, over an extended period of years, of the massive 20-volume Dictionary of American Biography. As chairman of the committee of management of this great enterprise he in- creased his reputation for breadth of view, mastery of detail and sense of proportion. He conformed to proved methods of historical and biographical research but initiated particular methods of his own. "He was not only an earnest historian but an ardent American. The story of this country from its colonial beginnings fascinated him and educed his finest endeavors. And those endeavors in themselves constitute an invaluable American heritage." ^ < 4 A Servant in Medicine ► Dr. H.^rvey E. Wellm.an, long a friend of Brown and her servant for several years as a member of the University medical staff, died in Providence on Oct. 20 after an illness of 10 days. He was a Williams graduate who did advanced study at M. I. T. before entering the Harvard Medical School. He had served in the War with the first Rhode Island Hospital unit. Editorially, the Brown Daily Herald said of Dr. Wellman : "Brown students have had few more understanding and interested friends. As an adviser as well as in his capacity of physician, the late doctor served Brown men faithfully. The University will long feel its loss." < < ^ Meeting House Repairs ► Rep.mrs on the First Baptist Meeting House, along the lines projected in the June issue of the Monthly, have begun. Both interior and exterior will be cared for under the four-year plan which will preserve the building, to which little extensive repair work has been done for 25 years. Professor Arthur E. Watson, chairman of the committee in charge, says the necessary funds are being raised by subscription. < < < The 1902 Gift Total ► When the gift of the Class of 1902 to the University was announced at Commencement last year, the sum was given as $6000. Actually the University received $6144 from the Class, some other contributions swelling the total at the last minute. ^ < ^ 103 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY A Strange Exulting Note < < ► ► At 4:1') on the afternoon of Saturday, October 23 rd, 1937, the bell atop University Hall began to ring with a strange exulting note. And the rope'pullers were either durable or numerous, for it kept ringing on into the night. When some of the neighbors dropped otf to sleep at 2 :30 Sunday morning, the bell was still active. Brown had won a varsity football game against a major opponent. That afternoon in distant New York a Brown Bear, given no chance by any football expert, except those of the Brown Daily Herald, had done the impossible and beaten a strong Columbia eleven. Small wonder the chapel bell rang out so ecstatically, for it had had no such opportunity since 1933, when Brown won its last major victory, over Syracuse. The stay-at-homes — and they were not few — couldn't believe the bell's message at first. But when they did, they got busy. The ancient order, "Freshmen, get wood!" could hardly have been familiar to any undergraduate, but wood appeared. And at 9:30 the bell resounded with a fresh command. Some 200, ignoring a University and police rule against a parade downtown, stormed down the Hill to meet the train on which the team immediately returned to Provi- dence after the 7-6 triumph. But the players did not stay in the station for any ovation. Bundled into taxicabs, they were rushed to the Middle Campus, and there the celebra- tion began. To the old grad some of the aspects of jubilation would have seemed unfamiliar. With scant regard for Prexy Faunce's grass, a bonfire had been built right before the Union, and there was no Courtney Langdon to be appro- priately flamboyant. Phonograph records of Brown songs were played on a hired sound truck (the band was still in New York), and the speakers addressed the big crowd through a microphone and amplifier. i i ► But it was an old heartening spirit that awakened the campus. Exhibit A was a huge segment of goalpost brought up from the station in a special taxi. And there were cheers for every hero and replies from some of them. "Shine" Hall, who still had a couple of books under his arm, an- nounced that he had had the game all figured out in advance — and produced a slide-rule to prove it. President Wriston, just returned from a two-day conference in New York, was discovered in the crowd of 700 and cheered when he urged that the spirit continue, "Whether we won another game or not." Coach McLaughry took his ovation happily, with praise for his players. To be sure, the players were sent along, tired, to bed at 11, but you needn't think the campus quieted down just then. For there were stories to be told by those who had been lucky enough to witness the greatest upset in college foot- ball that day. The week before, a Brown team, which had showed pluck and spotty strength against Harvard, had been soundly beaten by Dartmouth before an Alumni Day crowd that could not believe in such a thoroughly submis- sive Bear. And the Brunonians had gone down to New York, still undermanned, to meet a Columbia eleven that had trounced Penn and been beaten by Army 21-18 only because it could not convert three six-point touchdowns into sevens. Har- vard had beaten Brown because it discovered the Bear vulnerable in the air, and how could he stop the East's greatest forward passer, Luckman, who completes every other toss? i i ► But again and again the Brunonians took the ball away on downs when their goal was threatened, twice on the 21 -yard line and once on the two-yard line just before the first half ended. A tie would have been a moral victory, and many a Brown supporter would have been content with the 6-0 lead which Columbia established in the third period after one onslaught had been halted on the Brown 17-yard mark. And Columbia certainly, having made good one of its threats on a ^8-yard advance, seemed to have no fears. But the Brown team, bolstered by a number of Sopho- mores who hadn't become quite so accustomed to defeat as the "veterans", was not done. Taking the ball on their seven-yard line where a punt went outside, the Brunonians started an advance that bore comparison with the drive in 1932 that also gave Brown a late 7-6 triumph, — and that is high compliment. With Atwcll back in the end zone in kicking position, the ball was snapped to Hall, and he hit through the line to the 14. Another Hall punch at the same spot carried to the 20 for a first down, and then the Bears operated from a triple-wing formation to shake Hall loose through tackle. He ploughed and straight-armed his way through the sec- ondary and even past the safety-man for 43 yards, the longest single run of the game, to the Columbia 37-yard line. Foster and Hall pounded through for nine yards, and then John McLaughry, playing his fifth 60-minute game, bolted through for a first down on the 2 5 -yard line. After two unsuccessful plays, Foster grabbed a tipped pass from Atwell for 19 yards and a first down. Six yards were lost on a low pass from centre, hut Atwell faded back to throw a sweet forward to Nash in the end zone. And Hall calmly place-kicked the goal from Foster's holding. The game was far from over, for Columbia marched to- ward the Brown score-line again. They advanced 71 yards, but the Bears outfought them on the nine-yard line to take the ball away just before the time expired. Each team used IS players, four Brunonians playing full time: Foster, Hall, McLaughry, and Manrodt, the latter a Sophomore guard. George Larkowich, first string end last year, was converted during the week to bolster the tackle contingent and did beautifully, as did Junior Barney, an- other promoted tackle. But the defensive stars were John McLaughry and Mike Turcone, the twin backers up. The latter received newspaper praise beyond all others, but there was glory enough to go around. i i ► The high spirit continued against Tufts the last Saturday of the month when 7000 saw the Brunonians, after a shaky start, pile up an impressive yardage, 373 against 134. make 20 first downs against 6, and push over three touchdowns. Foster, Bernstein, and Hall did the scoring. Brown's marked advantage enabled McLaughry to use 19 of his reserves, among whom 136-pound Kenny Wood caught the fancy of the stands with his elusive running. But the reserves was not blocking as well as the starting linc-up, and their play was spottier. For the first time this season John McLaughry was taken out of the game, re- ceiving a tremendous cheer when he left the field. 104 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Against Harvard on October 9 the Brunonians looked strong defensively except against a brilliant passing attack that let two touchdowns get away from them. Good line play, stout backing up, and efficient work on the ends was offset by the bewilderment of the secondary when the Crimson took the air. Starting after mid-time with a 14-0 score against them, the Brunonians showed iirst signs — but promising ones — of offensive power, advancing 6i yards to a McLaughry touchdown. A spectacular runhack by Atwell set the drive in motion, carrying 49 yards. It was Brown's first score against Harvard since 19.i3, but this uprising was the last, and the final score was 34-7. You don't want to read about the Dartmouth game. do you? The score was 34-0. 4 < ^ Next Year's Football Schedule ► ► Brown will play a nine-game varsity football sched- ule in 1938, with si.x games listed against major opponents. Dr. Frederick W. Marvel, Director of Athletics, announced late last month. The Columbia Lion, beaten by Brown 7 to 6 in the major upset of Eastern football, will come to Providence on Thanksgiving Day. Lafayette, a rising power in the football world, will return to the Brown schedule after an absence of 26 years and will meet the Bruin in Providence. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Columbia and Lafayette are the major opponents, and Connecticut, Rhode Island and Tutts provide the so-called minor opposition. The schedule: Sept. 24, Connecticut; Oct. 1, Harvard at Cambridge; 8, Lafayette; 15, Dartmouth at Hanover; 22, Rhode Island; 29, Tufts; Nov. 5, Yale at New Haven; Friday, 11, Armistice Day, Holy Cross at Worcester; 19, Open; 24, Columbia. Significant changes in the schedule is the advancing of the Harvard date, and Brown will open the Crimson sched- ule on Oct. 1st. Brown filled the Crimson's second playing date this year. Rhode Island State, hitherto listed as an early opponent, moves down the list now and fills a date on Oct. 22nd. With the apparent wealth of Rhode Island Freshman material this year, that game will assume con- siderably more importance next fall. Dartmouth, Yale, Tufts and Holy Cross will occupy the same relative dates next fall that they have this season. Columbia takes the Thanksgiving Day post that was origi- nally intended for 1936. Brown released the Lion from that date a year ago to permit Columbia to meet Stanford in the "return" on the Rose Bowl game of 1934. Lafayette, undefeated and unscored-on in this season's play, has met Brown four times, and has won three of the four games. Opening the series in 1901, Lafayette defeated Brown in Providence, 1 1 to 6. The following year, Lafay- ette defeated the Bruin, 6-5, at Easton. In 1908, Lafayette won its third and last game from Brown in Providence, 8-6. In the last of the four games in the series, played in 1912 in Providence, Brown won, 21-7. Brown has all of the opponents except Lafayette on the 1937 schedule. Brown and Connecticut have met twice, the Rhode Island series now includes 26 games; Harvard 40; Dartmouth 28; Columbia 8; Tufts 21; Yale has been met 42 times; and Holy Cross 13 times. i i ► Brown will renew football relations with Princeton in 1939, when the Bruin journeys to Princeton on Oct. 28. The series dates back 41 years to 1898, the two teams having met nine times, Princeton winning six games and Brown three. The last game was played in Providence in 1933, when one of Princeton's greatest teams defeated Brown, 33 to 0. Brown had previously won three successive games in '29, '30 and '3 1 . Princeton won five games between 1898 and 1903. Singularly enough. Brown and Princeton relations are older than the football rivalry. Brown's first president, James Manning, was a Princeton graduate in the class of 1762, and Brown's first tutor, David Howell, was a Princeton graduate in the class of 1766. Brown got her first faculty, the entire faculty, from Princeton. Brown's oldest building, University Hall, is said to have been copied from Princeton. Edward L. McMillan, captain of the Princeton football team in 1925 and a graduate in the class of 1926, was Brown line coach in the year of the Brown "Iron Team" in 1926. A. Barr "Whoops" Snively, captain of the "2 3 Tiger varsity eleven and graduate of Princeton in 1924, was line coach at Brown during the years of Brown's ascendency over Princeton. 4^4 Other Sports on page 108 The Brown Wedgwood Pltites ► ► First s.^mples of Brown University Plates were received late in September from the Wedgwood potteries, where production officers fulfilled their promise to give Brown business precedence "now that the Coronation is out of the way." The samples were on display at the Alumni Dinner, attracting much interest and enthusiastic comment. That they are unusually handsome plates was readily apparent, and the 500 subscribers to the first edition will have no regrets. The plates are Wedgwood Queen's Ware, which gets its name from the fact that in 1762, two years before Brown was founded, Josiah Wedgwood presented his improved earthenware to Queen Charlotte. It is therefore doubly fitting that her portrait appears in the small backstamp on the plates, for she and George III are portrayed on the first University seal, one of the three seals combined in a mono- gram as the distinguishing mark for the first edition. The border of the plates is in the white of the original ware. Its embossed pattern is a handsome design borrowed with hardly any change from that on a diploma awarded to the recipient of an honorary degree in 1786, the first Brown Commencement after the Revolution. The present Uni- versity seal has been cleverly incorporated in this border design. The plates get their color from the centres, where a drawing of one of six familiar Brown landmarks is printed in a rich brown on each. With only minor changes five of the centres have been approved as they appear on the sample plates. The centre that shows University Hall through the Van Wickle Gates is being entirely re-engraved, because of several errors in fact in the rendering. It is not yet known whether this delay will prevent the anticipated delivery at Christmas time or not. Upon the delivery of the first edition orders of 500 dozen plates, new subscriptions will be received for subsequent editions. The first edition, particularly prized by collectors, will pay the principal expenses of design, engraving, pro- motion, and early production. From then on a profit on each order is anticipated, even at the uncommonly low price of $1 5 a dozen. The Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni, sponsors of the plates, is considering possible University purposes to which the profits can be diverted. Although the plates are in the traditional Wedgwood spirit, they embody technical achievements hitherto deemed 105 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY impossible. How difficult the proceeding was may be judged from the observation of a ceramic expert who was shown the Brown designs recently at the offices of Jones, McDuffee 6? Stratton, Wedgwood agents in Boston. Said the expert : "What a lovely design! Isn't it too bad that no one could ever make a plate like it?" The expert was astounded when the samples were brought in, to prove that the unbelievable had been accomplished. 4 •< < They Serve Los Angeles ► Lawrence L. LARR.^BEE '09 took office in July as mem- ber of the Los Angeles School Committee to which he was elected in the spring by l.i4,000 votes. During the summer he had a great deal to do with setting up a retirement system for the 15,000 employes of the schools. He is also on the law and rules and finance committees, and is chairman of the insurance committee. Larry came East last month as delegate to the national convention of Public School Busi- ness Officials in Baltimore, but regrettably could not visit Providence as he had planned. E. A. (Shad) Adams '12 is a member of the Los Angeles Board of Fire Commissioners and, one of his old colleagues in the law tells us, seems to be enjoying the routine work as well as the pleasure of showing visiting firemen around. < 4 < ISamed by Governor Lehman ► Former Supreme Court Justice John R. Vunk '98 has been appointed District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, by Governor H. H. Lehman. Judge Vunk, mem- ber of the law firm of Vunk ii Carleton of Patchogue, N. Y., will serve until the end of the year and at the same time will be a candidate for election to the full term of the office. < < < An Academic Union ► Dr. Waldo G. Leland '00 was elected president for the next three years of the Union Academique Internationale at the annual meeting in Pans late in May. The Union is a body representative of all the humanistic academies of Europe and America, and in recent years Leland has been one of the two American representatives in the Union. ^ ^ ^ A Notable Alumni Day < < ► ► There must be intrinsic virtue in the institution of Alumni Day. There have now been three, each a succers and each achieved without the promise of football delights to lend special attraction to an otherwise pleasant program and renewal of ties. Some 750 alumni and friends of Brown sat down on Oct. 1 5 for the dinner around which the week-end was built, and this was only one index of the popularity of the affair. Congratulations for the committee, headed by Fred A. Otis '03, were many and honest for an event well planned and managed. Dinghy races, soccer. Freshman football, varsity football, classroom lectures and demonstrations, fraternity luncheons and dances, and special exhibits were items on the pro- gram. Only the Dartmouth varsity gridiron squad failed to cooperate. With Its messages of serious import, the banquet was kept on a genial but adult plane, the speakers discussed various aspects of democracy as they affect the University, and the University as it affects democracy. Capping all was a ringing profession of faith in academic freedom and liberal education stated by President Wriston. Following an informal reception at 6 o'clock, the diners sat down in a setting that disguised any of the normal func- tions of the gymnasium. Music by the Brown Band was supplemented by other efforts, impromptu and coerced, and a good dinner further roused good humor. Seating arrangements were handled smoothly. < i ► In extending a welcome to the alumni. Sidney Clifford '15 was making his first public appearance as president of the Associated Alumni. He was reminded, he said, that the first alumni organisation began in 1S42. He paid a high tribute to the committee, acknowledged the help and interest of the faculty, introduced undergraduate leaders present, and then turned to make a graceful and earnest pledge : "I welcome him whose coming was heralded in this hall one year ago, him who will act as consort to our Alma Mater as she rears succeeding generations of college youth, him whom we have already learned to respect and love, our president, Henry Merritt Wriston. I doubt not that he has high hopes and aspirations for the future usefulness of Brown. As your representative may I take this opportunity to pledge him your support, and to wish him God-speed in the adventurous years that lie before us. "In pledging alumni support to Dr. Wriston, I am con- strained to remind you that such support cannot be given without the cooperation of every individual. In this con- nection I am convinced that there is no lack of loyalty amongst us, but that there is a lack of something which will capitalize such loyalty into service. Perhaps that some- thing is real knowledge of existing campus and administra- tion conditions, since it cannot be denied that hosts of alumni permitted their academic education to lapse upon receiving their diplomas. Bu whatever it is, I call upon you as indi- viduals to continue contact with your Alma Mater and I call upon the administration with the cooperation of this organisation to supply you with the material and oppor- tunity whereby you may receive fresh inspiration to carry forward the work so happily envisioned by our forefathers nearly two centuries ago. "The theme of loyalty to Brown is an old one, but changing voices and personalities keep it eternally new. Thus do succeeding generations of Brown men continue to come from far and near to sing her praise." i i ► Witty and facile was toastmaster Col. G. Edward Buxton, Jr. '02, who acknowledged the "old loyalties for young men." Governor Robert E. Quinn '15, welcoming the gather- ing in the name of the State of Rhode Island, offered his support to Dr. Wriston in a very felicitous address. Refer- ring to the political unrest in the State, he turned to John W. Mayhew '09, who came from Hong Kong for the dinner. "Johnny may have thought he was wise in getting out of the Orient," he said, "and here he is in Rhode Island. It takes an intrepid group of men to come here now." D. Gerald Donovan '12 of New York reminded the group that academic freedom is no academic matter. He raised a storm of applause with his obvious reference to Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes '81, declaring that Brown had produced the type of men he would like to have interpreting a written Constitution. J. Russell McKay '11 of Youngstown, Ohio, contended forcefully that the Brown 106 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of 30 years ago accomplished its vital purpose of preparing men for useful living. "There are numberless instances," he said, "of boys who came to Brown entirely unknown and unheard of who took advantage of the privileges they found here of equal opportunity for all, so that by their merit and ability they rose to positions of influence and leadership among the undergraduates. Later they went their different ways out into a democratic nation. They were well grounded in democracy and wherever merit and ability were recognized they have been successful. In every field of human endeavor there are Brown men of our college generation who have achieved success. We find a number of them here on the University Faculty. We find them in Washington and in other state capitals in positions of responsibility and impor- tance. They are in the professions in all parts of the country, as well as being men of affairs and business men in all the wide-spread classifications of that general term. "We believe that these conditions still hold true. Brown is thirty years older but still vigorous and youthful, and Brown graduates will function usefully in a democratic society so long as such a democratic society continues." < < ► James S. Eastham, '19 of Boston, former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General, deplored the fact that the stu- dents of the World War classes lost all sight of the usual college life when the campus became "an armed camp in spirit if not in fact." Not only were the students thrown from their usual activities, but those who went to war faced a long period of readjustment when they returned to complete their education, he said. "The tragedy of it all is that it can happen again," he said. "But it must not! "As Brown men, we must do all in our power to prevent the return of such war days to our campus on the hill." i < ► The gathering gave Dr. Wriston a tremendous ovation when he was presented. He continued the stimulating discussion. We are living in an era of profound dissatisfac- tion, he said, with most people sorry for themselves and wishing fervent wishes, all of which are ways of escape and not ways of solution. "It is this temper which has put democracy in hazard," he said, "because democracy depends upon the individual who attends to his own business freely and competently. Its discipline is self-discipline — it cannot be external. It is the freedom of men who know what they want. "Once you ask the government to do too much for you, democracy totters. The farther from the individual the government gets, the less chance government has to remain democratic. Democracy rests, therefore, upon the power of the individual to govern himself. lilt Vv V'i.'S (;i^v'......,T,;,->,i;^i|^,,, "Self-discipline, and self-government, are not matters which depend exclusively or even primarily upon informa- tion and knowledge. They are aspects of character, a re- flection of standards of value. More than any other form of government, democracy requires patience, courage, and imagination. "The educational institution in a democracy, therefore, does not have propaganda as one of its functions. It has, of course, the function of imparting information, but that is not its exclusive or even its primary purpose. If it is to fulfill its function in a democracy, its principal emphasis must be upon the cultivation of the habits of self-discipline, upon establishing standards of value, upon the enrichment of the mind, of course, but upon the enrichment of the spirit as well. This is not an impracticable program. "We are too much impressed with the power of propa- ganda. Now propaganda can be successful only if it repre- sents the truth, or if the truth is suppressed. Downright lies from official sources, with the press so muzzled that there can be no challenge, may misguide a people, but partisan statements, with a free speech and a free press, are answered by other partisan statements, and in the long run the truth will prevail. i i ► "Nowhere must the channels of information and opin- ion be kept as clean as in the educational institutions. Aca- demic freedom, mind you, is no mere academic matter. Men who have given up expectations of material rewards in any large measure — men whose years of preparation are exceeded by no other and yet whose returns are the smallest save those of men who preach the gospel — men whose devotion to truth and whose love of youth draw them into this profession — such men should not be coerced or asked to sacrifice the integrity without which they are 'as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.' If they are to teach, they must teach the truth as they see it. "What shall they teach? Two things only are valuable: The experience of mankind, what he has said, what he has thought, and what he has done; and secondly, theory — the great hypotheses upon which men operate in the search for truth. It is the only practicable program. "If you start with the assumption that these men, after they graduate, are to be freeborn, free-spirited, free-thinking citizens in a democracy, you cannot stuff them with wisdom. Courses on How to Be Happily Married are silly business, and so are courses on How to Invest Your Money. It is the business of the college to make young men fit for matrimony and fit to invest money — it is their business to become experts through experience. Our purpose is to develop the man; his duty is to become the expert. No one can be a second-hand expert, no one can hope to inherit other people's skills. His relationship to skill must be creative, or it is sterile, becoming mere dexterity and not skill at all. If you're going to stuff them, you've got to kill them first. And when they're stuffed, the growing process is stopped. * i ► "Wh.at has been the experience of Brown? Did its grad- uates attain distinction by being stufl^ed with techniques? By being taught the answers? By being given a 'modern education' which denies the laws of economics and the laws of physics and the laws of psychology by assuming that we live in a new world? By assuming that the United States isn't on the earth and doesn't have any neighbors and that what they do doesn't affect us? By arguing that the classics are of no use because the Greeks and Romans are dead, that modern languages are no good because they're spoken by foreigners and foreigners are no friends of ours." 107 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The President said he selected men of distinction and went over their college rec- ords, not men of one class or one time, although all are living. He took men "who would pass without challenge as effective in the life of today," taking them from many fields of activity and rejecting none "because he did not fall into a preconceived pattern." There were merchants, manufacturers, law- yers, engineers, hankers, physicians. And invariably he found that they had taken general arts courses, social sciences, foreign languages, philosophy, mathematics — not pre-law courses or pre-medical courses, or career specialties. "You will find," said Dr. Wriston, "that in their college courses not only did they have this broad distribution of subjects, but with a few exceptions they did conspicu- ously well academically; that almost without exception they were active members of the college society, — not recluses; that their courses were not confined to gathering in- formation likely to be useful in their pro- fessions but to enlarging the mind and sensi- tizing Its appreciations. They were building up those very standards of value, cultivating the imagination, gaining in resourcefulness, by which alone man rises to his full stature and makes democracy possible. Man shall not live by bread nor by information alone. ► "If we are to come to terms with life there must be an emotional fulfillment. Cold light is not the ideal, but a warm response, an awareness of beauty. A program of this kind IS wholly impracticable unless the stu- dents have the character and the will, the imagination and the enterprise to follow It. It is not the type of education which will be useful to everyone; to many it would be simply a confusion and meaningless waste of time. We have had a lot of nonsense about an aristocracy of brains and about the lack of democracy involved in selecting students. The essence of democracy is equal opportunity. And if there is an aristocracy in this, it is an aristocracy of character, for only those with the will and courage and imagination to treat life as an adventure will find in this experience the rewards of those who have gone on to eminence and those who in less conspicuous station have found life rich. "The world is plagued by economic trou- bles, daunted by political difficulties, many of which arise from the failure to recognize that the spirit of man is more significant than his stomach, — as we have left it to the Communists and the Fascists to dem- onstrate over again. "Brown was born in the midst of a period of political turmoil, and it has survived many wars, political and martial. Brown was born in the midst of poverty, and with all her gains has never attained riches; yet is has survived all depressions. Brown has made its finest contributions not in experts and technicians, but in men who have come to terms with life and lived wisely, adven- turously, joyously, and fully. May we cling steadfastly to that ideal and subordinate everything to the attainment in our students of the full stature of a man." i ► The week-end began auspicuously when the old grads showed the undergraduate Yacht Club that there was nothing acci- dental about their victory on the Seekonk last year. This year's regatta went to the alumni by a score of 317-257. Alumni skippers included: Frederick B. Thurber "O'l, William 0. Thurber "IT, Arnold S. Hoffman "14, H. Stanton Smith '21, C. Lincoln Vaughan, Jr. "19, Herbert B. Bar- low "20, Prescott Gustafson "37, Alan Young '37, and Deane K. Fox '37. Hoff- man, Barlow, and Fox were winners in three of five races, total points being earned as follows: Hoffman 11, Barlow 54, F. Thurber 46, Gustafson 44, W. Thurber 38, Vaughan 35, Young 30, Smith-Fox 35. Saturday morning was given over to academic attractions, among them a lec- ture by Professor George Downing on the "Cathedral of Chartres," Professor Charles H. Smiley's talk on his exploits at the solar eclipse when he went "Eight Thousand Miles for 202 Seconds", and a lecture- demonstration in applied psychology, "Illu- mination and Its Influence on Visual Effi- ciency," by Professor Harold Schlossberg. Most fraternities had luncheons for their alumni, while many held dances at tea-time or during the evening, too. Serving with Mr. Otis on his hardwork- ing committee were: Vice President James P. Adams, Professor Frederick W. Marvel '94, Dennis F. O'Brien '98, Alfred H. Gurney '07, X'ictor A. Schwart: '07, Elmer S. Horton '10, Royal W. Leith '12, Pro- fessor Leighton T. Bohl '13, Preston F. Arnold "13, Sidney Clifford '15. Charles I. Hill '16, Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19, Theodore R. Jcffers '23, William B. Mc- Cormick '23, Thomas W. Taylor '25, and Louis B. Palmer '28. On various sub- committees were: William R. Benford "27, Professor Samuel J. Berard, Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow '24, Nelson B. Jones "28, Professor Paul N. Kistler, Lawrence Lanpher "23, Samuel Lerner "30, Stanton P. Nickerson "31, Joseph A. 0"Neil "31, Edward R. Place "24, Myles Standish "20, and W. Chesley Worthington "23. i i In the Magazines ► ► Said the Saturday Evenmn Post for October 9: "Theres a lot to John McClain, who appears in the Po.st for the first time this week with 'No Visible Means". Mr. Mc- Clain IS of the 200-pound-and over six-foot- variety, and we seem to remember him as one of Brown University's eleven Iron Men, who played through the whole season with- out substitution. He"s a roving reporter for the l^ew Tor/; American now, after covering the water front for the American and the Sim. " His class at Brown is 1927. Clarence M. Webster, who took graduate work in Brown University, is now writing in Hampton, Conn., and had the lead article m September Taji/(ce. "The Donkey in the Pulpit."" Webster writes for the American \ierciiry, the American Legion Wee/fly. and other publications, and his '"Puritans at Home" appeared last fall on the Harcourt Brace hook list. Mr. Webster, a World War veteran is a "keen observer of trends in American life and does not pull his punch- es,"" says the editor of Yankee. Yankee for October prints David Cornel Dejong"s "Pheasants,"' together with the comment that the last story he wrote for Yankee was chosen by Harry Hansen for the O. Henry Prize Collection. i i Pilgrims' Hall ► The Lincoln collection at Brown Uni- versity was visited in July by members of a group making a Lincoln pilgrimage from Hingham, Mass., to Hodgenville, Ky. Hing- ham was the home of Samuel Lincoln, who came from England 200 years ago, this year, while the Kentucky town was the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Stops were made along the way at places of inter- est to Lincoln admirers. ^ ^ Alumni of De Will Clinton ► The Alumni Association of DeWitt Clinton High School is sponsoring a 40th anniversary celebration to be held at the school (Mosholu Parkway and Paul Av- enue, Bronx) at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, Nov. 16. Tickets at one dollar may he procured from B. E. Mitler, 30 Church street. New York, or at the school, accord- ing to David Price of the Committee in charge. i i Bruiioiiia Plays the Game (Continued from page lOJ) Another Good Freshman Team ► ► M.^^'Y an alumnus, eager to anticipate the varsity of tomorrow, looks intently at the Freshman football team of today. A year ago an undefeated group of Cubs seemed likely to send along some willing and able varsity recruits for this fall, and that promise has been fulfilled in the part Sophomores have played in the improving of the Bear. This fall another Freshman team is off to a heart-warming start, beating three strong foes without the loss of a point. Eighty members of the class were listed as "candidates" for the yearling team, and they were a heavier lot than usual, according to squad statistics that showed 41 tipping the scales at 1 70 or more, 22 at 1 80 or more, and 10 at 190 or more. Of this number 36 saw service in the opening games, against Kent's Hill School from Maine, Worcester Academy, and the Harvard Freshmen. Tom Gilbane "3 3 was again head coach of Fresh- man football, assisted by Joe Buonanno '34 and Maury Caito '34, backfield and end coaches respectively. For the end assignments John Occhiello from New Bedford High and John Marso- lini from Milton (Mass ) High were selected as the starting pair, two tall, 170-pound boys. Others who saw service were: lerry Sokol, Freehold (N. J.) High: W. J. Mul- len, Jr., from Morristown School; Walter Jaeger, from De Witt Clinton High: Hugh Brown of Poly Prep, Brooklyn; and Abbott Mongeau, Pawtucfcet High. Starting at tackle each time were John Saltis of Mamaroneck and Amos G. Taylor, Jr., the latter a 6 foot 2'/2. 207-pound boy from New Bedford High. Others who played were Everett F. Umhey, 207, Mamar- oneck High; Ray Stark, 190, Curtis High, New York; and Bob Steinsieck, 161, Bor- dentown Military. Three centres were out ahead of the others, Leon Tracy, 192, from Wilbraham Academy getting the call over Tom Carty, 174, Jamaica Plain High, Mass.; and Stuart Ashton, 181, Hope High. Arnold Eggert, 189, from Scarborough School, had one guard berth in hand, while 108 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY a new man started in the other post each game, including: Giles MacEwan, IS', from Peddle; Art Smith, 154, Hope High; and Leonard Luhin, 172, from Bordcntown Military. Other reserves are: Jack Kidney, 161, Thayer Academy; Leroy Walton, 199, Pennington Prep, N. J.; J. V, Ortoleva, 1 54, Classical, Providence; and Kenyon Greene, 170, Gunnery School. Backfield finds seem to be Bronislau Stepcjyk of Williston, a fullback; Bud Detwiler, a West Virginia protege of Var- sity Coach Eck Allen, who coached last year at Parkersburg; Bill Sheehan and Peter Laudati, teammates Irom La Salle, Provi- dence; and Louis Duesing, former Horace Mann quarterback. Other hacks are: War- ren Johnson, Jr., Moses Brown; Bill Erick- son, Fryeburg; W. J. Britt, Jr., New Hamp- ton; Dick Buck, Mt. Hermon; Walter Dunn Perkiomen Prep; L. L. Berger, Jr., Nichols School; Tom Lohr, Boontown High; and Perry Spindler, Lakewood High, Ohio. < ► In the Alumni Day game against Kent's Hill, Stepc:;yk was the main power, scoring three touchdi-iwns, one on a 35-yard run, another on a 15-yard run, and a third on a 10-yard line plunge. Laudati and he alter- nated in carrying the ball in the first 70-yard march. Then Duesing had his turn, led m an advance, and scored. Britt and Erickson also proved ground-gainers, the latter mak- ing a touchdown on a line plunge from the eight-yard mark. Laudati kicked four place- ments. For three periods neither team threatened the goal-line in the Worcester Academy game. Then the Academy boys penetrated Brown territory only to have Duesing inter- cept a pass on the Cub 22-yard line. Two running plays, a pass, and a tackle plunge took the ball to the Worcester 38-yard line, whence Bud Detwiler cut loose on a 38-yard romp to the score-line, only three minutes before the end of the game. It was a stout Worcester team's first deleat, coming after victories over Lawrence, Gushing, and Har- vard Freshmen. The final was 6-0. To keep its goal-line unsullied, the Cub eleven had to take the ball away from the Harvard Freshmen on the two-yard line on one occasion and play strong defensive foot ball. A smartly executed reverse play that shook a Brunonian back loose for 56 yards and a touchdown in the third period, brought the 6-0 victory. Reporters did not agree as to whether Stepc:yk or Sheehan had carried the ball. ^ ^ Defending Cham pion > ► A RtCURli unmarrcd by defeat since 1935 received a dent when heavy rains bogged the West Point soccer field and slowed down play in Brown's 1-0 defeat. Going into November, however, the Bru- nonians had not met defeat in two years of New England Intercollegiate League soccer. West Point IS not a league member, and Brown, twice tied, outplayed all rivals in the first six encounters within its ranks. The Bear is the defending champion. The season opened with a 3-1 victory over a strong Wesleyan team, followed by a similar score against Worcester Tech, an extra-league opponent. Harvard held the Brunonians to a 1-1 tie, but Dartmouth was no match, being overwhelmed 5-0 in a sparkling game during the Alumni Day program. Against Williams m the rain, Kelly's goal in the third period proved the deciding score lor Brown. Yale seemed con- tent with a 0-0 tie in a defensive battle in which the advantage seemed to lie with the Bear. M. 1. T. was no match in a 2-0 game. Harrington and Gurll are among the league's high scorers, and Kelly, Quinn, Jackson, and Hoober have also tallied. Much of Brown's strength, however, has rested in her defence, where Coach Sam Fletcher has one of the finest aggregations in college soccer. Outstanding are Corn, Dearden, Swallow, and Dickinson. Arthur Schweikart '31, former Brown soccer star, is coaching the Freshman soccer team this year. It lost its first game, against Worcester Academy. ^ ^ TLSS McLAlJOHRY Lion-Tamer Brown Skippers ► ► A DINCHY regatta, rubber event in a week-end of sporting engagements with Dartmouth in Providence, went to the Brown yachtsmen when one of their crews won each of the three races and the team ran up a 38-24 total against their visitors. Ralph Fletcher '40, with Edward Leahy '41 as crew, was high scorer with three seconds for 1 5 points. Each institution was repre- sented by three dinghies on the Seekonk course near the Brown Boat Club. Two races were won by John Mason '39, whose crew was Foster Davis "39, and the final race went to Skipper Russell Field '40, with Kenneth Woods '40 as mate. The following week-end the Brunonians competed in a four-cornered regatta in Cambridge against M. I. T., Harvard, and Dartmouth, placing second. The scores were: M. I. T. 102, Brown 83, Harvard 61, and Dartmouth 58. Each college had three dinghies in the four races, the Brown skip- pers scoring as follows: Mason 3 3, the third best record of the day; Fletcher 28, fourth; and John Magee 22. Mason had Davis for crew, Fletcher, Field, and Magee, A. L. Francis. On the same day the M. I. T. Freshmen were visitors in Providence, beating the Brown Freshmen in four closely contested races, 103-91. Barus was the leading Cub skipper with one first and 28 points. Bar- ber, Leahy, Meyer, and Gustafson were the others. < i The ISeiv Mascot, Butch Bruno ► ► "Butch Bruno", likely successor to a long and occasionally checkered line of Brown Bear mascots, appeared on the grid- iron at the Alumni Day football game and made an instant hit. Far from rebelling and climbing a tree like his officially presented predecessor from Maine, Butch proved doc- ile, eager to turn somersaults and chase goalposts, and undismayed by his new emi- nence. His powers as a luck-bringer, a week later in arriving, were unmistakable in New York at the Columbia game. Butch is the protege of Owl and Ring, Senior society. He is a 10-month-old Cana- dian bought from the Benson Animal Farm in New Hampshire. Between games his home is Slater Park, Pawtucket, where his immediate predecessor, Bruno III, is satis- factorily under lock and key. The two had not been introduced at this writing ^ ^ From the Sidelines ► ► Hall, Riegler, Turcone, O'Leary, Dresdale, Siglock, Sharkey, Hicks, Digen- naro, Barney, Blount, Bernstein — it sounds like a starting line-up, the Herald remarked editorially. But they were only the names of first string Brunonian football players or potentials who were on the sidelines be- cause of injuries early in the campaign. "There isn't much question hut that Brown's injured players could beat the injured play- ers on any team on the schedule," the writer observed, "but they pay off on touchdowns against whole and hearty men." i y Bright moments at the Brown-Dart- mouth game were few on the Brunonian side of the field. One came with the surprise pro- duction of the new mascot. The other appeared in the air, where two planes towed their advertising messages. One recom- mended a popular eating place on the Bos- ton road; the other followed, advising in an accidental libel: "Shift to Rival Dog Food. It's best." i ► Coach Mal Williams, new varsity track coach, inaugurated a series of distance runs in getting an early start for the year. In the first event a score ran over an im- provised 21/2 mile cross country course in Aldrich Field and the Stadium, Syren of last year's varsity and Winterrowd of last year's Freshman team leading the field of 28, all of whom finished. A track club was organized in October with 44 students at- tending the first meeting. Coach Williams told the members he plans to take movies of candidates in order to point out errors in form by comparing them with others. ► Sam Fletcher, soccer coach at Brown has been re-appointed New England mem- ber of the United States Football Associa- tion, the national challenge cup committee. It is Fletcher's fourth season as a member of the committee in charge of the United States open national soccer championship tourney. He is president of the New Eng- land division of the American Soccer League and was named to manage the international team which was to represent this country in Mexico. Because it conflicted with his duties at Brown, he had to decline the last honor. i i 109 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Under the Elms Fraternity Scholarship ► Beta Theta Pi won permanent posses- sion of the Interfraternity Scholarship Cup by attaining the highest scholastic fraternity average last year for the third year in suc- cession, Dean Samuel T. Arnold announced last month. This house and Pi Lambda Phi were the only fraternities to beat the non- fraternity men's average, however. Eight fraternities were above the average for all men, while two more were better than the fraternity norm. Fraternity averages were better in 1936- 1937 than in the previous year, showing improvement in the face of a decline by other groups. Non-fraternity men had a mark of 2.500 as against a previous 2.555, all men had one of 2.274 as against a pre- vious 2.3 30, while fraternities averaged 2.210 as compared with a previous 2.141. In addition to Beta Theta Pi's remarkable performance. Pi Lambda Phi was notable for rising to second from last year's sixth place. Phi Sigma Kappa, in third place, had been 13th in 1935-1936. Lambda Chi Alpha rose from 18th to si.xth. Conspicuous change in the other direction was Delta Phi's drop from second to eighth. Psi Upsilon replaced Delta Kappa Epsilon at the bottom of the \>st. The averages for 1936-1937 were: Beta Theta Pi— 2.573. Pi Lambda Phi— 2.507: NON-FRATERNITY— 2.500. Phi Sigma Kappa— 2.393. Delta Tau Delta— 2.374. Alpha Tau Omega — 2.372. Lambda Chi Alpha— 2.338. Delta Upsilon— 2.325. Delta Phi— 2.296. ALL-MEN'S AVER- AGE— 2.274. Phi Kappa Psi— 2.262. Zeta Psi— 2 23 3. ALL-FRATERNITY— 2.210. Theta Delta Chi— 2.203. Alpha Delta Phi — 2.202. Kappa Sigma — 2.107. Sigma Nu— 2.095. Sigma Chi— 2.081. Phi Delta Theta— 2.067. Phi Gamma Delta — 2.067. Delta Kappa Epsilon — 2.034. Psi Upsilon — 1.812. i i Freshmen f ersus Sophomores ► Retaliating for previous indignities, the Freshmen "got organised" on the night of Oct. 4, rounded up a dosen unwary Sophomores, and ducked them under the college pump. The ceremonies were illumi- nated by Hope College residents who hung their reading lamps out of windows, and water bags goaded the Freshmen on to more furious efforts. Properly soaked, the Sopho- mores had nothing to lose, assumed the offensive, and had revenge on a number of their persecutors. Cammarian Club officers, quick to take advantage of the combative spirit thus en- gendered, scheduled the lower class flag- rush for the next day. Resolute Sopho- mores, defending the pole and pennant, held out until the expiration of time, there- by thwarted Freshman hopes of discarding their caps at Thanksgiving time. The dinks will be worn until Memorial Day. i i A ISew Election Procedure ► Proportional representation was used for the first time in Brown history this year when the Seniors elected their class officers. The Cammarian Club commended it be- cause it is a quick method, makes primaries unnecessary, prevents marked political man- ipulation. Each Senior was given a ballot with four places, numbered 4, 3, 2, and 1. For his first choice as a class officer, he wrote the name opposite the number 4: for his next choice, opposite 3. He might indicate any member of the class, there being no nomi- nations. He voted for four classmates, de- posited his ballot. Tellers named the man who received the highest number of points the class president, the second man vice president, the third secretary, the fourth treasurer. Elected were: Frank B. Foster, Fred A, Forbes, Paul W. Welch, and Robert E Riegler. In another year two of these pop- ular men might have run against each other tor an office, one losing, and a less popular man gaining another o) the posts. The class officers replace the class marshals of recent years. i < To Them Brown Is News ► ► The Brown News Bureau started an improved plan for sending news to home town and school newspapers on Nov. 1 by enlisting student correspondents, Stanton P. Nickerson '31, director, reports. The plan will he tried experimentally with four papers. Requests for special correspondents have been received at the News Bureau from the y^ew Bedford Stii)idard-Tiine.s. the Hartford Times, the 7\(eu' Tor\ Sun and the Sprin,c;/ield Union. Each newspaper will pay its correspondent at space rates, varying from ten cents to twenty cents per column inch. Although the News Bureau supplies news of Brown undergraduates to home town and school newspapers, the New Bed- ford, Hartford and Springfield papers want additional and feature coverage. The Jvjeu' Yor\ Sun is interested in special coverage of events of general interest. As a future development of the corres- pondent plan, the News Bureau may spon- BROWl\ MEN MOVRIS HIS PASSING: Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, as Brunonians remembered him on the History faculty. His obituary appears on page 103. 110 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY sor a press club, which would be a student organiiation to work in cooperation with the Brown Daily Herald in encouraging and improving newspaper writing. ^ ^ Rushing Dates and Rules ► ► The 19 national fraternities at Brown are signatory to the 1937 agreement on rush- ing and pledging of Freshmen, which sets Monday, Nov. 22. as formal pledge night. Until that time there is permitted such con- tact between members ot fraternities and first-year students as they may desire, except that the Freshmen are allowed to enter fra- ternity houses only on five specified days beginning Nov. 10. Nor can fraternity members, including alumni, have contacts with Freshmen off the campus, or after 6 p. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes- days, and Thursdays, except on Nov. 10 and 17. A closed period forbids contacts of any sort on Nov. 22, the date of pledging. Similar to last year's regulations are those dealing with the mechanics of pledging. No fraternity may pledge more than 20 first- year students. At noon on Nov. 22 each fraternity submits to the Dean's Office a list of the names of the Freshmen to whom it wishes to extend final bids, with the names arranged in order of preference. At 1 o'clock the Freshmen assemble in Sayles Hall where each shall state in writing his first, second, and third choices of fraterni- ties. The Interfraternity Governing Board, armed with this information from fraterni- ties and Freshmen, allots to each fraternity the men indicated by the preferences shown by the first-year men, subject to the limita- tion of 20 to a delegation. At 6 o'clock the first-year man returns to Sayles Hall to receive the final bid to which he is entitled and then to sign a statement pledging himself to the fraternity to which he has been allotted. Those who do not pledge on that night may not be pledged before Feb. 1, 1938. A terminated pledge makes the Freshman ineligible for other pledging before next September. Severe penalties are provided for breaches of the agreement. ^ ^ Fraternity Paddles Are Banned ► ► Paddling of Freshmen by Brown fra- ternities was abolished by action of the Interfraternity Governing Board last month, a move which, although not by unanimous vote, is binding on all chapters on the Hill. President Wriston called it "the natural course of events." It had been on the pro- gram of nearly every national fraternity in the last ten years, he said, adding that he thought "boys should treat each other like men." Many Brown fraternities had given up the practice long ago, and last year the Brown Daily Herald listed abolition of this "Rah-Rah barbarism of half a century ago" as Objective Number Two in its "Platform for Brown". A front-page editorial after "Hell-Week" cited the disproval of the Division of University Health, a few in- jured Freshmen, and several broken pledges as the result of pre-initiation "physical vio- lence." "A few houses only are guilty of these absurdities," it said. AH fraternities will confine their scutting this year to the same week in February. The I. G. B. set the date in the hope that the Faculty might not plan tests for that period. Hitherto scutting dates were left to the pleasure of each fraternity. 4 4 Brown By-play y y Scoops . . . New management in the Brown dining rooms in Faunce House has brought table service in the grill for the first time this year, and an astounded patron reports getting three scoops of ice cream in a cotfee cabinet from the soda fountain. ► Protest . . . Thirty Freshmen were paddled by Sophomore members of the Vig- ilance Committee allegedly because they were found, after two warnings, not wear- ing Freshman caps. Some of them protested first, that they were not guilty; second, that they had not been warned: third, that it hurt. 4 ► Light . . . Last year an undergraduate investigator took a light-meter into the John Hay Library, reported that his tests showed the illumination deficient according to pow- er company and other standards. Promptly this fall a second investigation was made to assay the merits of the new electric in- stallations. The 1937 illumination was noted as 120O9f better under fixtures, 400% bet- ter between fixtures, 600% on the sides, T00% in corners. 4 ► Co-ops . . . The Liberal Club is con- ducting two co-operative enterprises in laundry and used textbooks. 4 ^ Piglets . . . Because of an epidemic of what we would consider intestinal grippe, guinea pigs in the Brown Biology Depart- ment were dying last month faster than their magical powers of reproduction could re- place the losses. Said a mass obituary in the Brouni Daily Herald: "Forty per cent of one colony went before you could say Ellis Parker Butler." 4 ► Poof! ... Pi Lambda Phi, holding a fall initiation, employed an alcohol flame to add impressiveness to the rites. The pretty fire somehow led to an explosion and brief, furious conflagration, burning several of the members before it was put out. 4 ► Records . . . Phonograph concerts, a regular Friday afternoon Faunce House feature, are proving popular with the under- graduates. Each week the curator of the music room selects a program from the well-stocked albums of fine recordings and has them played. One program, for in- stance, included Tschaikowsky and Beetho- ven Symphonies: another, Dehu,ssy's "Pel- leas and Melisande". Coffee is served after- ward. 4 y Honors . . . Forty juniors received cita- tions at the annual Honors Day Convoca- tion, including nine for Preliminary High- est Honors. Twenty-one upperclassmen re- ceived James Manning scholarships and 28 Francis Wayland scholarships. Speaker of the occasion was Dr. Dexter Perkins, Wat- son professor of history at the University of Rochester. 4 4 ► Horseplay . . . The Narragansett Race Track and the political situation in Rhode Island served as excuse for a student bur- lesque on the campus and Waterman street, where overstuffed jockeys rode two bor- rowed livery horses, hawksters peddled tip- sheets and "Scarlett O'Hara", klansmen, stormtroopers were among 200 participants in the mock ceremonies. 4 ► Supers . . . "What's the idea of com- ing with white shoes? And you call your- self University men. How can you be in an opera with white shoes?" The manager of the opera company at the Metropolitan Theatre in Providence seemed to expect the worst when he saw the seven undergradu- ates who had been sent down in response to a _call for spare guardsmen and smugglers in 'Carmen." Their later services were noticed by the music critic of the Provi- dence Journal as "somewhat ludicrous but lively and entertaining." 4 > Drive . . . More than $3000 was raised for the Brown Christian Association during a campus drive to underwrite its activities for the year. Robert D. O'Brien '39, son of Dennis F. O'Brien '98, was general cam- paign chairman. ^ * Pockets ... By running off 23 shots in a row, Louis V. Valente '40, broke a University record for consecutive points in pocket billiards. < i Gentlemen of the Faculty y ► President Wriston, Vice-President James P. Adams and Dean Samuel T. Arnold attended the 79th annual meeting of the Association of Colleges in New Eng- land in Williamstown, Mass. Colleges and universities which are members of the asso- ciation, in addition to Brown, are Har\'ard, Yale, Dartmouth, Williams, the University of Vermont, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Am- herst, Trinity, Wesleyan, Tufts, Boston University and Clark. The annual confer- ence was held at Brown last year. Dean Arnold and Prof. William T. Hast- ings were delegates at the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of Dartmouth's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national honor- ary scholastic fraternity. Dean Arnold at- tended as a delegate from Brown and Prof. Hastings as a senator of the national society. Prof. Walter H. Sncll, chairman of the Department of Botany, has received word from the publishers of his recent book, "Three Thousand Mycological Terms," that the volume has been in demand in 19 foreign countries as well as in the United States and its possessions. The book is a glossary of the terms and phrases used by workers in mycology, which is the study of fungi. More copies have been sent to Japan than to any other country. Prof. Snell's book has gone to such parts of the world as Australia, Jugoslavia, Brasil, Russia, South Africa and China. Waldo I. Kener.son, assistant technolo- gist and chief of the Federal Government's Providence soils laboratory, has been ap- pointed a lecturer on soil mechanics in the Division of Engineering. Arrangements for Mr. Kenerson's appointment were made by co-operation of the United States Engineer office of the War Department. Brown is now one of the few institutions where in- struction in soil mechanics is offered. i ► President Wriston addressed the As- sociation of American Colleges at Vassar, speaking on "Academic Freedom and Tenure " He is chairman of a commission dealing with that subject. Professor William A. Noyes of the De- partment of Chemistry has been elected associate editor of Chemical Reviews, the organ of the American Chemical Society. Carrying on its work through 19 profes- 111 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY sional divisions that embrace all chemical science, the society is the largest profes- sional organization of its Ikind in the world, with a membership of more than 30,000. {fS^"-*®"— S3- Prof. Herbert N. Couch of the Depart- ment of Greek and Latin Classics at Brown University has been elected editor for New England of the Clasaxcal ]ourna\, succeed- ing Prof. Russell M. Geer, who served from 1930 until his resignation from Brown last June. The ClasiKal ]ourna\. published in St. Louis with Prof. Eugene Tarvenner of Washington University as editor, is a monthly periodical containing articles on Greek and Roman literature, history, lan- guage and culture. Prof. Couch will have charge of material submitted by New Eng- land scholars. Rev. Arthur L. Washburn, resident counselor at the University, is giving a course of six biographical lectures this year at Froebel Hall. They come on the first Thursday afternoon of the month and con- cern: St. Catherine of Siena, Pius II, .Savon- arola, Lucrezia Borgia, Baldassare Castig- lione, and St. Francis Borg;a. Professor Zenas R. Bliss, navigator of two successful America's Cup defenders, has been a popular speaker on the 1937 races between the Endeavor II and the Ranger. Early bookings included the Prov- idence Engineering Society and the Prov- idence Art Club, and he seems destined for a busy winter. Stanton P. Nickerson "31, director of the Brown News Bureau, and Miss Natalie M. Barnngton, director of the Pembroke College News Bureau, were delegates from the University attending the annual Fall conference of the New England District of the American College Publicity Associ- ation, held at Massachusetts State College on Oct. 22 and 23. Forty-five colleges and universities were represented to discuss such problems as publicity by radio, serious edu- cational publicity, and new techniques. Mr. Nickerson spoke informally on serious edu- cational publicity. Dean Samuel T. Arnold attended the meeting of the College Entrance Examina- tion Board in New York last month. Prof. Andrew H. MacPhail, assistant director of educational measurements, was present at New York meetings of the Edu- cational bureau of Records. Representing Brown at the Cambridge session of the Eastern Association of Col- lege Personnel were Dean Edgar J. Lan- pher. Prof. Samuel J. Bcrard, placement director, and Comptroller Edson R. Rand. Prof. James H. Shoemaker is director of the World Caravan Guild, Inc., a Provi- dence group interested in world travel and conditions. i i The Associated Alumni Projects — Preparations ► President Wriston is already making plans for his appearances before Brown alumni groups. Secretary A. H. Gurney told the first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni in October. Dr. Bigelow, director of Admis- sions, is also working with the Alumni Office on a schedule of visits to Brown cen- tres during 1937-1938. The Executive Committee of the Asso- ciated Alumni was getting an early start on the year's work. The Board of Directors last February named the following to the Executive group: Ralph A. Armstrong '17 of Springfield, Mass.; Joseph A. O'Neil '31 of New York; Royal W. Leith '12 of Bos- ton; and W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '2? of Providence. President Sidney Clifford 'H has also appointed Ernest E. Nelson '19 of Boston, Vice President of the New England Region, and Arthur L. Philbrick '03 of Providence, Vice President of the Rhode Island Region, to the committee. Alton C. Chick '19, Treasurer of the Associated Alumni, takes the place of Charles J. Hill '16. Theodore R. Jeffers '23 and W. Chesley Worthington '23, also sit with the com- mittee, representing the University Council and the Brown Alumni Monthly, respec- spectively. President Clifford reported the resig- nation of Mr. O'Neil as a member of the Executive Committee, following the resig- nation of Mr, O'Neil as executive secretary of the Brown University Club in New York after six years of devoted service. To fill his vacancy on the Executive Committee, the group named Douglas S, Widnall '37, new executive secretary of the New York club. Joseph F. Halloran '16, Vice President of the Atlantic-Midland Region, has also been invited to sit with the committee at his convenience. ^ If here Is Brown ? ► "To save my life," wrote a sub- scriber to the Richmotid J^ewS'Leader last month, "I can't remember where Brown University is. Will you help me?" The editor of the query column was able to do so. It reminded us of one of the ques- tions in the Scrtbner'.s Quii last July, stated thus: "If you're planning on visiting some of the U. S. college towns this summer, you'd best find out which one of these is in its wrong city: Amherst — Amherst: U. of 111. — Urbana; U. of __Cal.— Berkeley; Brown — Pawtucket " Maybe the Virginian was just get- ting around to asking. i i ► Mr. Clifford, noting that no one had been named to succeed Mr. Hill as chairman of the ACAP ( Alumni Co-operative Admis- sions Program), spoke briefly on the defi- nite work ahead of making alumni conscious of their part in the Associated Alumni. He said he had talked with Administration officials and with alumni, and the feeling was that the experimental stage was over, the time at hand to tie things more closely together and develop a proper understand- ing between the Administration and the alumni. The University, he said, needed money and men, and he felt that both could be obtained hy an alumni program that was responsive to Administration policies and consistent with them. Mr. Clifford pointed to the Brown Yacht- ing Program as a pioneer alumni project and said that similar concerted effort might be necessary to push ACAP along in the right direction. He is seeking a Providence alumnus to succeed Mr. Hill, who .'■et up the original organization and started the pro- gram auspiciously. The Alumni President commented on the purchase of the Narragansett Boat Club for use of the Brown University Nautical Association and emphasized the success of the yachting program as a whole. He has received a letter from President Wriston recommending the dissolution of the Nau- tical Association and the establishment of more direct University control. It was the sense of the Executive Committee meeting that in view of the infancy of this activity the alumni siiould have an equal voice with the Administration in its future develop- ment. It IS Mr. Clifford's hope that regional alumni work may be expanded and that regional vice presidents may take more ac- tive part in alumni programs. He said that he had talked recently with Vice President John Monk '24 in Chicago and that a re- gional executive committee had been pro- posed as a useful instrument. Henry C. Hart '01, Herbert M. Sher- wood 09, and Harvey S. Reynolds '23 were appointed a committee to consult with President Wriston regarding the present fraternity situation and the future of fra- ternities at Brown. i < Chicago ► The jamboree issue of The Brown Derby. publication perpetrated at odd intervals by ihe Brown University Club of Chicago, gave lively account of the fall golf match at the River Forest Country Club. H. B. (Jim) Edwards "29 was the winner, with an 82 net; and Bill Presba '3 2 and Jim Laadt '31 took low gross honors with 84 each. Other low gross players were lohn McFadden '30, C. H. (Bud) Edwards' '30, Earle V. 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All the Brown men may well note the fact that the Friday luncheons of the Brown Club of Chicago arc being held at Carson Pirie's Men's Grill, and that any Brown man is welcome to sit in between 12 noon and 1:30 p.m. Football is a leading topic these days, and report is that some of the diners are pretty fair as downtown coaches. i i Brunoiiinna ► President F. J. Ward '14 and his co- workers are preparing for the annual meet- ing and dinner of the Brown Engineering Association, active unit of the Associated Alumni, in New York City, Thursday, Dec. 9. President Henry M. Wriston will make his first appearance before the engineers as a group, and the dinner committee is stressing this happy fact in order to bring everybody to the dinner. . . . Coach D. O. McLaughry was speaker at the first fall luncheon of the Brown Club of Boston at the Chamber of Commerce, Oct. 6. He told the Boston alumni that the 1937 eleven, in his opinion, was the best that Brown had produced since 1953, and gave special praise to various members of the squad. President Edward R. Place '24 in- troduced the coach; and sitting at the head table were Paul F. Mackcsey '3 2, captain of the 193 1 eleven and one of Brown's great tackles; Judge Kenneth L. Nash '12, base- ball star whose nephew Tom is an end on the Brown eleven. Fred W. Woodcock '91, former Brown baseball coach; and C. H. Neubauer '25, baseball and football player m undergraduate days. . . . Professor Zenas R. Bliss '18, navigator of Ranger, winner of America's Cup yacht races la.st summer. was guest of the Brown University Club in New York at dinner at the clubhouse, Oct. 7. He told about the yacht races, the inter- est in dinghy racing on the Hill, and showed superb pictures. The publicity for the din- ner, done in rhyme by an unknown hand, was admirable. . . . Our deepest and most respectful bow to the author. . . . The Brown Club of Western Maine (Portland) is dis- cussing the idea of a fall meeting. Secre- tary R. F. Skillings '11 writes. i ^ Open House > The O'Briens— Dennis F. of '98, Paul of '27, Kenneth of '28, and Robert of '39 held open house, as has been their custom for several years following the Brown- Columbia game in New York, at 125 Alta Avenue, Park Hill, Yonkers, on Saturday, Oct. 23, after Brown had beaten Columbia and completely upset all the prophets. More than a hundred Brown men and their friends gathered at the O'Brien house, with E. T. (Ed.) Richards '27 of the Brown Athletic Council and Mrs. Richards leading the Providence contingent. A good time was had by all. i i Brunoniaiis Far and Near m < B,v A. H. GURNEY, '07 1878 ► Robert Alexander's new address in Los Angeles, Calif., is 2209 Court Street. 1881 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes has given a memorial window to be put in the sanctuary of the West Baptist Church, Oswego, N. Y., in memory of his father. Rev. David C. Hughes, former pastor of the church. 1883 The Deni.son D«tin_v l^ews in its Octo- ber issue paid tribute to the late Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, member of the Denison Board of Trustees who had been elected this year for another three-year term. "He rendered very valuable service," said the ^ews, "in connection with the Board of Trustees as the author of the 'Denison Uni- versity History,' published at the time of the Centennial in 1931. From the time of his election to the Board he was active in its affairs and served on the executive and other important committees. His love for Granville and Denison was nurtured from boyhood and deepened with the years. . What he gave in counsel, in loyalty, in historical contributions, is beyond tabula- tion." In his will he provided for two schol- arships to Denison to be known as the Cora Whitcomb Shepardson and Francis Wayland Shepardson Scholarships. Dr. G. E. Smith reports a change of address to 137 North Lawn, Kansas City, Mo. 1884 James L. Jenks and Mrs. Jenks are back at their home in Pawtucket after a six- weeks' trip abroad which included a week each in Pans and London and a two weeks' tour of Great Britain. 1893 Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout's daughter, Mrs. Theodore M. Edison, recently began a half year's service without pay as the first interne Birds, Fish and a Bite > Dr. Robert Cushman Ml'rphy '11, Associate Curator of Oceanic Birds at the American Museum of Natural History, is back on duty after a thousand-mile scientific hunt along the Pacific Coast of Columbia from Panama to Guayaquil. He brought home to New York seven- teen specimens of rare birds and twelve of fish, including flying fish, besides other forms of sea life. He also returned with a lame left leg, the result of being bitten by a botfly while he was at sea in a small boat. i i in the pharmacy department of Orange, N. J., Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Edison, daughter-in-law of the late Thomas A. Edison, is a graduate of the premedical course at Vassar and an honor graduate of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy. Under the New Jersey regulations, the >^eu) Tor/; Herald Tribune said, she must serve six months as interne and an additional six months filling prescriptions in a drug store before qualifying for a State certificate. 1894 Rev. Charles H. Ellis, fur 40 years pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford, Mass., has resigned. "Mr. Ellis has always taken a lively interest in good clean sports," said the recent Worcester Academy Bul- letin, "and for years served as umpire at local baseball games. While at W. A. he caught on the baseball team four years, and played m every football game." Rev. Edwin B. Dolan '93 was a speaker at the reception given Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis in Chelms- ford in June. 1896 Frederick A. Jones has begun his third consecutive term as president of the Wil- liam H. Hall Free Library Association, Cranston. Dr. George A. Matteson and his family are living at 105 Keene Street, Providence. They intend to go to Texas sometime during the winter. Judge G. Frederick Frost was elected pres- ident of the East Providence Free Library Association at the annual meeting last month. Rev. Dr. G. DeWitt Dowling, now living in Venice, Fla., as we reported in last month's Brown Alumni Monthly, is retiring in this, his 40th year of service in the Episcopal Church. Fifteen of these years were spent west of the Mississippi, four in Western New York, and 20 in New England. 1897 Representative Charles D. Millard, mem- ber of Congress from Westchester County, N. Y., since 1931, resigned late in Septem- ber to be Republican candidate for Surro- gate of Westchester County in the election held this month. .4 Little Lou Little > W. F. (Ump) Tewhii.l '14, ath- letic director and coach at Horace Man School for Boys, New York City, for the past nineteen years, has an unusually small squad this fall, the y'lew Tor}{ Herald Tribune said not long ago, and "Tewhill has to rely almost entirely upon his starting line-up." Horace Mann, the writer added, is a smaller pattern of the Columbia eleven, with Tewhill emu- lating in nearly every detail the meth- ods and formations of Coach Lou Little. < i 114 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Longmans has recently published "The American Civil War," an interpretation by the late Dr. Carl Russell Fish, beloved Pro- fessor of American History for many years at the University of Wisconsin. 1898 Ratcliffe G. E. Hicks is a trustee of the William H. Hall Free Library, Cranston. Thomas E. Steere is the new president of the Providence Athenaeum, succeeding Dr. Lawrence C. Wroth "3 2, honorary. Li- brarian of the .John Carter Brown Library. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. George Troy's daughter, Martha Alicia, is reported elsewhere in this issue. 1899 George Dudley Church, for the past four years vice president and director of admis- sions at Westminster School, Simshury, Conn., is now associated with Brookmire Corporation, investment counselors, at 551 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 1900 Charles G. Richardson of Builders Iron Foundry, Providence, was author of "The Fiftieth Year of a Great Invention," which appeared m Water Works Engmeenng fur Sept. 15, 1937. 1901 Col. G. A. Taylor's Norwottock Kennels of Old Hadley, Mass., have had a successful season. At Boston, the Dedham Polo and Country Club, the Berkshires Hunt and Country Club, Leno.x, and at other major shows his English setters took numerous ribbons. At the Eastern States E.\position, Springfield, Mass., his team of four matched orange beltons went first. His blue belton, Norwottock Kansas Pete, placed in the held trials ot the East Longmeadow Rod and Gun Club, and his other favorite, Counte.ss Potocka of Nancy also turned in consistent performances. The Colonel, who breeds, trains, and handles his own dogs in the field and in the show ring, was the donor of the silver trophy for the field trial class at the Morns-Essex show, New Jersey's best known competitive gathering. E. Tudor Gross spoke on "Modern Methods of Stamp Collecting" at the Octo- ber meeting of the Rhode Island Philatelic Society, of which he is a past president. 1902 Irving Southworth of the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass., is a director of the Na- tional Association of Cotton Manufacturers to serve until 1940. He is a former president of the association. S. Foster Hunt of Nicholson File Com- pany is head of the Industrial and Com- mercial Division, Providence-Cranston Com- munity Fund Campaign of 1937. 1903 Rev. Robert B. Longwell, missionary in Assam, India, for the past 30 years, reports his present mail address to be 104 Chemung Street, Say re, Pa. 1904 Arthur E. Cameron said in a recent note that during his last trip to Colorado he was especially glad to see Gene Wilson in Den- ver and to meet Gene's family. "Gene is doing well at insurance and occasionally takes a handat preaching, and does a first rate job at it." Cameron's new house address IS 264 Prospect Street, Westfield, N. J. Charles D. Casey and Mrs. Casey have announced the marriage of their daughter Miss Margaret Dyer Casey, to Robert Earl Wright of Central Falls on Oct. 16 in Boston. Stamps on the Block ► The first lot of stamps from the famous collection of the late Judge Robert S. Emerson '97 brought $27,3 50 at auction at the Collector's Club in New York City last month. The sale included 276 lots of United States stamps on the original covers, and a strip of three 1-cent stamps of 1851 sold for $2,800, the highest priced item in the sale. This strip, the Neii' Tork Herald Tribune re- ported, contained the rare Type I, which was printed from only one position of Plate I, which was in service less than a year. The buyer, E. R. Jacobs of Chicago, also took the second highest-priced item, a 90-cent stamp of 1857, used to the Cape of Good Hope. He paid $1,300 for It. ^ ^ 1905 Rev. John P. Filson has moved from Canisteo, N. Y., to 1176 Mirasol Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Paul C. DeWolf is the new treasurer of the Machinery and Allied Products Insti- tute, national society of machinery manu- facturers. 1906 Homer E. Hunt, superintendent of schools, St. Albans, Vt., was elected pres- ident of the Vermont Educational Associa- tion at the annual meeting in Rutland last month. Charles C. Tillinghast, principal of Horace Mann School for Boys and an Alumni Trustee of the University, gave a delightful talk at the reception held for members of the Brown Corporation and the Senior Class in Sayles Hall, Oct. 14. Charlie brought his two young sons from New York for the Brown-Dartmouth football game. 1907 George Campbell, visitor from Schenec- tady for the Alumni Day Dinner and the Brown-Dartmouth game, had his first re- union in years with many members of the Class. George Hurley, Vic Schwartz and Harold Miller combined to round up the '07 delegation, and George was host at a pre-dinner party at the University Club, where we missed Myron Curtis, Chet Snow, and Claude Branch in particular. Dillon McEvoy's son Frank came m to meet us all, and Dillon was congratulated on having two sons, Frank "39 and John B, McEvoy 41, in Brown. In the dinner party were Campbell, Affleck, Brooks, Bill Burnham, Bill Reynolds, Briggs, Boh Jones, Branch] Miller, Harris, Cummings, Graves, McEvoy, Gurney, Schwartz, Hurley. Report of the 30th Reunion of the Class at the Cariton, Narragansett Pier, in June has gone out to all '07 men with known addresses. Messrs. Schwartz, Miller and Jones, co-workers on the report, may well take a bow for their efforts. Harold Miller has admirably compiled the statistics: Bob Jones designed the format and wrote the foreword: and Vic Schwartz outlined the report and saw that it came out in good season. PROTECT WHAT YOU HAVE COPYRIGHT 1932 by IN6. CO. OF NORTH AM£RJCA M .ATERIAL success depends not only upon acquiring but also upon holding what you gain. 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Dr. Harlan True Stetson '08 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the Amateur Astronomers" Association in New York last month. "Even the temporary slumps of March and September paralleled solar disturb- ances," he said. "If Major Angas, Colonel Ayres or Roger Babson or other noted investment counselors had predicted the market during the last eight years on the basis of behavior of sun spots they could not have been more successful in their prophecies." The week of October 4, he said, according to the Neu' Tori; HeraM Tribune, "was one of almost unprecedented solar activities. ... A billion square miles of the sun's surface is being devastated as the sun spot cycle reaches its maximum. Sun spot activity in 1937 has been on a scale unequaled since 1917. "Whether or not sun spots are a mark of certain cosmic etiects which in some mysterious way change our physiological and psychological condition is a question over which there has been much debate. But there are many effects on the earth directly traceable to sun spots which can be observed with all the accuracy of science, and which leads us to believe that cycles in solar behavior may have more to do with changing cosmic conditions of the earth and its atmosphere than we have been accustomed to suppose." < < Myron S. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis are oc- cupying their new house at 45 Dryden Avenue, Pawtucket, not far from the Prov- idence city line. H. Thornton Peace is now in charge of the United States Weather Bureau at Block Island. R. L. (Heinle) Elrod has returned to Providence to sell electric refrigeration and IS living with his son, R. Perry Elrod '36, at 129 Benefit Street. 1908 Principal Alfred J. M.iryott of Pawtucket Senior High School and Mrs. Maryott have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ruth S. Maryott, to Dr. Henry A, Barrett in New York City, Oct. 2, 1937. Rev. Roland C. Ormsbee's new mail address is 221-50 92nd Street, Queens Village, N. Y. 1909 The following sons of '09 men entered Brown this fall: Earl C. Tanner, William P. Buffum, Jr., Robert S. Wilmot, and Stuart S. Whipple, Among the members of the Class seen at the Brown-Harvard game in Cambridge were Messrs. Clark, Whitmarsh, Tanner, Kirley, Mayhew, Hardy, Chambers, Buffum, Bugbee, and Chafee. The Alumni Day Dinner on October H found '09 as usual with the largest number of men of any class in attendance. In addi- tion to the 3 1 members present there were as guests three sons of classmates Patterson, Earl Smith, and Chafee. The record Class roll included Messrs. Poland, Mayhew, Sherwood, Wells, Hughes, Chambers, Crossley, Burnett, Bosworth, Cameron, Greene, Leach, Patterson, Tanner, 1. P. Adams, Huxford, Wheeler, Connell, Rich- mond, Dodge, Bugbee, Clark. Mayer, Brown, E. R. Smith, Kirley, Whitmarsh, Buffum, Wilmot, Chafee and Henderson. Eddie Mayer came from Chicago espe- cially for the dinner and the Brown-Dart- mouth game. One of his periodic loyalty trips back to Brown as a classmate put it. All '09 men were delighted to see him and all were (and are) appreciative of his con- tinuing regularly to send a Chicago boy to Brown each four years. E. L. Chandler and his family have re- roved from Chattanooga to 119 Cherokee Drive, Knoxville, Tenn., where Tink, chief estimator with TVA, has his office at 504 Union Building. 1911 Wendell S. Brown was elected a trustee of the WiHiam H. Hall Free Library Asso- ciation, Cranston, at the last annual meeting. Miss Marion Elisabeth Goff, daughter of Darius Goff and Mrs. Goff, and Charles K. Cook, member of the New York Stock Exchange, were married in Pawtucket, Oct. 21, 1937. 1912 Theodore B. Farnsworth and his family are occupying their new home at 16924 St. Paul Avenue, Grosse Pointe, Mich. Arthur F. Newell, lecturer in England on the James Bryce Fellowship, is at pres- ent in this country to speak in the Middle West, the East and in Canada before he goes back to London about Christmas time. Ernest I. Kilcup has been elected chair- man of the board, president, and treasurer of Davol Rubber Company, Providence. 1914 Rev. Edward I. Everett and Mrs. Everett recently returned from the Belgian Congo, Africa, where Everett was superintendent of the Methodist Church work at Eliiabeth- vjle. He came back to the campus for Alumni Day, and preached Sunday, Octo- ber 17, at the Haven M. E. Church, East Providence. Frederick R. Hasard is general chairman of the committee for the 1937 membership campaign of the Rhode Island Birth Control League, Inc. 1915 William P. Sheffield is a new member of the Newport School Committee. He was unanimously named by the Newport Board of Aldermen as one qualified in training and ability to fill the place on the committee made vacant by deatn. W. R. (Russ) Burwell represented Brown at the centenary of co-education held Oct. 8 at Oberlin College, Oberlin, O., where the first young women to share a college cam- pus with young men appeared in 1837. 1916 Twenty-two members of the Class were on hand for the Alumni Day Dinner — Dr. Wells, Williston, MacNeill, Pratt, Buzz Andrews, Booth, Sanford, Scott, Ted Bal- lon, Roy McBee, Eckstrom, Brower, Burton, Stan McLeod, Phil Feiner, Jack Dunn, Moore, Ike Smith, Hill, Graham, Lyall, and Brady. Miss Ann Pitkin Palmer, adopted daugh- ter of John Pitkin Palmer and Mrs. Palmer, and John W. Schoonmaker were married in Stockbndge, Mass., Oct. 9, 1937. Harold P. (Bu:z) Andrews has changed his mail address to 1 10 Towne Street, Attle- boro Falls, Mass. Charles B. MacKay is principal of the Laurel Hill Avenue School, Providence. 1917 Jasper (Jap) Wight's appearance at the Alumni Day Dinner was a genuinely pleas- ant surprise. He was guest of Dwight T. Colley '18 during his stay in Providence, and he had a fine time seeing old friends and discussing old times and new. He and his family are living at 414 Fitth Avenue, Belmar, N. J. Lieut. Governor Raymond E, Jordan be- came an honorary member of the First Light Infantry Veterans at the annual old timers' campfire reun-on in Providence last month. Solon C. Kelley, Jr., back with his son for the Alumni Day Dinner and the Brown- Dartmouth game, reported a change of mail address to Midbrook Lane, Darien, Conn. Sol is with C. L. Thompson 6? Co., Inc., 347 Madison Avenue, New York City. Ward E. Butler, back on his feet again after a long siege in hospital, is on the sales staff of the furniture department of the Outlet Company, and lives at 1896 Broad Street, Providence. This Appeals to Arsenic of Humor ► ► David McCord, executive secretary of the Harvard Alumni Fund, says per- haps the best letter that his office ever received is one "which declined the delightful privilege of giving, but which bore evidence of considerable thought and seemed at the moment, I think a better tonic than a crisp green bill. "It was written," he continues, "by the son of a universally known artist. When I read the fifth word, I thought that he was merely ignorant, and I felt sorry for his father. But when I had finished the letter I felt he was abnormally clever: 'Gentlemen — " "As I am an aluminum of two other colleges besides Harvard, and cannot, with my bismuth in its present state, pay antimony tcj all three, I hope you will not think me a cadmium if I do not caesium this opportunity of making a donation. 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Painc and Martha Alicia Troy, daughter of Mr. George Fran- cis Troy "98 and Mrs. Troy of Providence, were married in that city, Oct. 23, 1937. They are at home at 490 Angell Street, Providence. 1926 — William A. Stephens and Miss Marion Bowden McKnight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McKnight, were mar- ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1937. Wilmot E. Fanning, Jr. "27 was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens are at home at One Plaza Street, Brooklyn. 1930 — Nicholas E. Janson and Miss Reta Mae Follett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Follett, were married in Peter- sham, Mass., Aug. 14, 1937. They are at home at 138 Waterman Avenue, Eden Park, R. I. Mrs. Janson is a graduate of Rhode Island College of Education '28. 1930 — Lavon H. Sahigian and Miss Winifred Chapman Kelley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. F. Kelley, Jr., were married in Providence, Oct. 2, 1937. They are at home at 43 Farragut Avenue, Providence. 1931 — Edward Cosgrove Connor and Miss Helen Joyce Williams, daughter of Mrs. Michael I. Williams, were married in Newport, Oct. 14, 1937. 1933 — Henry F. Newkirk and Miss Celeste Allard, daughter of Mrs. Reginald Allard, were married in Escanaba, Mich., Sept. 4, 1937. They are at home at 318 Lake Shore Drive, Escanaba. 1934 — Edward N. Robinson, Jr., son of Edward N. Robinson "96 and Miss Carolyn Worthington, daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. Maurice P. Worthington of Montgomery, Ala., were married in New York City, Oct. 2, 1937. Mrs. Robinson, graduate ot Birmingham Southern College and of William and Mary, where she received her Master's degree, has been a social worker with the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society. 1934 — Roger O. Van Du:er and Mi.ss Helen Taylor, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, were married in Bronxvillc, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1937. They are at home at the Pelham Biltmore Apts., Pelham, N. Y. 193 5 — Nelson B. Record and Miss Mary Louise Hinckley "37, Pembroke College, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Hinck- ley, were married in Fall River, Oct. 16, 1937. Richard B, McLeod, Jr. "3? and Richard S. Shaw "35 were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Record arc at home at 42 Gentian Avenue, Providence. 193') — John A. Considine and Miss Martha Remington Lindslcy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. N. Lindsley, were married in Providence, Oct. 16, 1937. William S. Blanchard "3 5 was best man, and Richard A. Batchelder '3 5 was an usher. Mr. and Mrs. Considine are at home at 199 Morris Avenue, Providence. 1936 — Joseph Olney, Jr., and Miss Bar- bara Macurda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Macurda, were married in Concord, N. H., Oct. 9, 1937. Whitney E. Easton '36 was best man, and ushers in- cluded Thomas F. Gilbane "3 3, Norman M. Appleyard, Jr., '36, Evans L. Rand '37, Herbert M. Adams, Jr., '37, and John H. Morrison, Jr., '36. Mr. and Mrs. Olney will be at home at 58 Taft Avenue, Provi- dence, after Dec. 1. 1936 — George L. Munde and Miss Zelda Mae Ogle, daughter of Mrs, W. C. Ogle, were married in Norman, Okla., Sept. 12, 1937. They are at home at 750|/2 DeBarr Street, Norman. Munde received his bach- elor's degree from the University of Okla- homa last spring. Mrs. Munde is also a graduate of the University. 1936 — Gordon W. Smith.son and Miss Phyllis Louise Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Taylor, were married in Pawtucket, Aug. 21, 1937. Gerald Smith- son '37 was best man, and ushers included Richard C. Fallon. Richard W. Pearce. Irving W. Lovell, Walter E. Rollins and Walter C. Newman, Jr., all classmates of the bridegroom. 1937 — Thurston Steele and Miss Carolyn Lindsay Patton '37, Pembroke College, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Patton, were married in Edgewood, Oct. 2, 1937. Francis T. Eddy '37 and Edward W. Wash- burn '37 were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Steele are living in Edgewood. < i Births ► ► 1918 — To Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sydney of Providence, a fourth son, Albert Haskell. Oct. 7. 1937. 1923 — To Dr. and Mrs. Daniel "V. Troppoli of Providence, a daughter, June Buxton, Oct. 3, 1937, 1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman La- Verne Kilpatrick of Providence, a son, Norman LaVerne Kilpatrick, Jr., Oct. 16, 1937. Mrs. Kilpatrick was Rachel Harris '29, Pembroke College. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. John O. Prouty of West Newton, Mass., twin sons, Rich- ard and Russell, Aug. 27, 1936. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Crowell of Providence, a son, Robert Clin- ton, Sept. 30, 1937. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Harson of Providence, a daughter, Eliza- beth Ann, Oct. 17, 1937. 1932— To Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Mc- Manus of Milton, Mass., a daughter, Sarah Ellen, July 24, 1937. 1933— To Mr. and Mrs. J. McCall Hughes of Mamaroneck, N. Y., a daughter, Gail Meredith, Oct. 8, 1937. Mrs. Hughes was Dorothy Hanson '33, Pembroke College. i i Those We Mourn 1879 ► Alfred Updike Eddy, captain of the first organized football eleven at the Uni- versity and founder of the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Company, died in Kingston, R. I., Oct. 2, 1937, after an illness of three weeks. Born in Providence, Jan. 6, 1857, the son of John and Caroline (Updike) Eddy, he descended from Samuel Eddy, who came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1630. His mother belonged to the Updike family which founded Wickford. He prepared at Provi- dence High School, organized in 1878 the first Brown football team to wear uniforms, and also played baseball. On graduation he studied law in a Providence office, com- mencing practice in 1883. While studying law he organized the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance C(.>nipany, was its first secre- tary and treasurer, and was a member of advertisers engraving company I26DORRANCEST. PROVIDENCE, R. I. TELEPHONE GASPEE 7094 "J^icturize your Product''' the board of directors at the time of his death. In 193 3 he was named to honorary membership in the Rhode Island Bar Asso- ciation in recognition of his 50 years as a lawyer. He was always interested in Brown. He was an an active follower of Brown's ath- letic fortunes. He was a leader of his Class, and it was largely owing to his efforts that the Class has never missed a reunion since Its graduation. He was Class Agent for the Brown Alumni Fund. At many class reun- ions he read poems that he had written in advance, and his classmates enjoyed the reading of these entertaining and apt verses. He was a member of the University Club, where his favorite game was billiards, at which he was adept. Providence Art Club, and Sigma Chi. He also took deep interest in the work of the Rhode Island School of Design. He was married June 28, 1883, to Miss Annie C. Proctor, who died in April, 1936. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Clark- son A. Collins, Jr.; a sister. Miss Isabel Eddy; two grandsons, Clarkson A. Collins, 3rd, '33, Alfred U. Collins '34; and a great granddaughter. One of Mr. Eddy's happy memories was that during a political visit ot Abraham Lincoln to Providence he sat on Mr. Lincoln's knee and ate Mr. Lincoln"s gum- drops. The President accepted invitation to stay at the Eddy hou.se because the Eddys had the only bed in Providence long enough tor him to sleep in with comfort. i \ 1884 ► Paul Henson, member of the Class in Freshman year, died suddenly after a stroke of apoplexy at his home in Kingman, Kan., Oct. 2, 1937. 122 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Born Nov. 1, 1860. on a plantation about fifty miles from Richmond, Va.. the son of Rev. and Mrs. Poindextcr S. Henson, he came to Brown from Philadelphia, where his father was minister of the city's largest Baptist church. He left in June, 1881, and worked in Philadelphia and Chicago before settling in Kingman in July, 1927. For many years he was deputy county clerk of Cook County, Illinois. He was married July 26, 1911, to Mary Louise Springer, who survives, with three brothers. He was a member of the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1887 > Isaac Hldson Gilhuly, retired teacher, died at his home, Wooddale, Eatontown, N. J., Sept. 11, 1937, after a long illness. He had been in retirement for the last seven years. Born in Keyport, N. J.. Oct. 1, 1863, the son of John and Mary (Walling) Gilhuly, he prepared at the Peddie School: won his A.B. at Brown in 1887, and his A.M. in 1890. For two years after leaving Brown he was principal of the Oceanport, N. J., public school. He taught languages and mathematics in Saratoga Institute for SIX years; and from 189? to retirement in 1930 he was successively vice principal or principal of schools in West Long Branch, Waldwick, and Woodbridge, N. J. During his 26 years at Woodbridge High School he won the respect and affection of many of his pupils as able teacher and helpful friend. He was married Dec. 25, 1890, to Minnie Estelle Hulse, and there were two daughters and two sons. His second marriage took place Aug. I'), 1917, to Oeta M. Hall, who survives. He was a member of Washington Lodge of Masons, Eatontown, the Brown Providence National Bank Established 1791 100 Westminster Street CAPITAL ^1,500,000 SURPLUS ^2,000,000 OFFICERS Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board Thomas L. Pierce, President Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier Charles L. Eddy. Assistant Cashier Henry H. Eddy. Assistant Cashier Charles E. Munyan. Assistant Cashier Ida M. Fryer. Assistant Cashier Benjamin H. Cate. Assistant Cashier Charles M. Smith. III. Trust Officer B. H. Lillibridge. Assistant Trust Officer T. I. Hare Powel. Investment Counsel Directors William Gammell. Jr. Wilson G. Wing Moses J. Barber Frank E. Riclimond Richard S. Aldrich Edward P. Jastram Earl G. Batty A. Livingston Kelle; John Nicholas Brown Thomas L. Pierce William L. Sweet Frederick T. Moses John B. Lewis Charles C. Marshall Richmond Viall Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation University Club in New York, where he was a well known figure, the Red Bank Ice Yacht Club and the New Jersey State Teachers" Association. He was a former president of the Peddie Alumni Association. i i 1889 ► Lauriston Hartwell Hazard, public citizen, died at his home in Prt.ividencc, Oct. 9, 1937, after a short illness. He was a direct descendant of Thomas Hazard, who settled in Boston in 1638. He had been president of Butler Hospital since 1926, and a trustee of the hospital since 1913. He was a member of the Rhode Island State Board of Parole from 1915 to 1921; member of the Providence School Committee, 1925 to 1931; junior warden ol Grace Church for 13 years; former president of the Rhode Island Soci- ety for the Prevention ol Cruelty to Chil- dren; and active in other civic organizations. To the public service he gave earnestly and intelligently of his time and his thought. He was born in Providence, Nov. 22, 1866, the son of Jeffrey Hazard, Captain of the Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, and Anna L. (Hartwell) Hazard. He came to Brown from Providence High School, and on graduation entered the cotton brokerage business with his lather in the firm of Hazard &f Chapin. Five years later this firm became the Hazard Cotton Company, with which he continued for the rest of his life. He had been president of the company since his father's death in 1911. He was a drector of the Providence Washington Insurance Company and the Anchor Insurance Company, Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and a trustee of the Peoples Savings Bank. He belonged to the Hope WHERE-TO-GO Hotel, Resort, and Travel Department 1906- American Mercury, Current History, The Forum, Nature Magazine, News- Week (2 bsues) and The Graduate Group. For space and rates write to The Where-to-go Bureau, 8 Beacon Street Boston, Mass. TRAVEL WEST INDIES CRUISES S4 Uiiys Siiao - 13 Hays «130 Tours to all parts of the world at moderate rates, n'estheim Travel Service liGO Broadnaj-. N. V. VAGABOND VOYAGES ON FREIGHT AND CARGO SHIPS Send for Buokiet H'. G 6 cents forvuidi'iy ihaige SISK TOURS, 435 W. 23rd St.. N. Y.C. 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He was a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Brown Club of Providence, a director of Zeta Psi Association of Rhode Island, and a member of St. Johns Lodge of Masons and St. Johns Command- ery. Knights Templar. As one of the house committee of Epsilon Chapter of Zeta Psi he was active in improving and maintaining the equipment of Zeta Psi house. Golf had been his hobby; at Wannamoisett Country Club he was a leading player for years. He was married June 14, 1925, to Miss Margarett Millard McDowell, who sur- vives, with his mother, two daughters, and a son. In his will he left $5,000 to Rhode Island Hospital to found a free bed. i i J. Earl Clausen's THESE PLANTATIONS . . . is now available in Hook Form "' It should be REQUIRED Reading' ' Copies are available at Two Dollars Each from Here is a hook jor Rhode Islanders, about Rhode Islanders, by a Rhode Islander who zvas better fitted, perhaps, to write about his State, its people and its unique history than any other man of his day. It should be re- quired reading for all who have any appre- ciation of the story of these Plantations. ROBERT E. QUINN, Go-vernor E. A. JOHNSON COMPANY 71 Peck Street • PRINTERS Providence, R. I. 124 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Alumnae of Brown By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 Secretary of the Alumnae Association Alumnae Club Leaders y y The following alumnae are serving as presidents of their alumnae clubs: Boston — Marjorie W. Shaw "04, 31 Edgemere Road. Quincy. Providence — Mrs. Walter G. Brown "13, 105 Butler Ave. J^ewport — Mrs. William MacLeod "26n, 78 Washington St. Southeastern Massachusetts (Fall River, New Bedford, and Taunton) — Grace A. Hopkins "24, 184 Winthrop St., Taunton. Worcester — Mrs. Leland L. Atwood '17, 319 June St. Hew Hareir— Mrs. H. H. Buchoh "27, 5 2 Pendleton St. Hartford — Mary W. Cushman '21, 839 Farmington Ave,, West Hartford, A[eiti Tor^ — Virginia Wright "28, 669 68th St., Brooklyn. Plnladelp/iid— Mrs. H. H. York "13, The Fairfax, Locust at 43rd St. Washington — Jessica Barr "13, The Allies Inn, 1703 New York Avenue. Cleveland — Mrs. Kern Met:ger "23, 13415 Shaker Boulevard, Shaker Heights, Cleveland. Pittsburgh — Mrs. Karl Johansson "09, 222 Lehigh St., Edgewood. Chicago — Mrs. Chauncey G. Hobart "24, 1459 Asbury Ave., Evanston. Southern California — Mrs. George Tres- cher "21, 1212 Cordova Ave., Glendale, Calif. i i CLASS NOTES y y 1896 — Grace Cleveland Gary has the sincere sympathy of the alumnae in the sud- den death of her husband, C. Wilbur Gary of Hartford. 1897 — Clara Whitehead has returned to her home in Great Crosby, near Liverpool, England. 1899 — Florence Bartlett has sent us a delightful poem about "The Girls of Brown"'. Much of it is in humorous vein hut at the end she paid a fine tribute to Mary E. Woolley. 1901 — Ruth Appleton Goulding's son is a Freshman on the hill, 1902 — Lillian Gamwell Moulton is the proud possessor of a grandson. 1905 — Flossie Doane Harris is occupy- ing her new home at 22 Wingate Road, Providence. 1907 — Eunice Smith-Goard is teaching in the Green Mountain School, Poultney, Vermont. 1908 — Beatrice Sturdy Paine has a son, Harold W., Jr. in the Freshman class. 1910 — Annie Burnside Thornley attend- ed the Episcopal convention in Cincinnati and while there took an interesting trip through Kentucky with Theodora Dobler Kohler, who had recently returned from Italy. 1910 — Alma Brown Whipple has a son, Stuart, in the Freshman class. Alma re- cently moved to Washington, D. C. 1912 — Cynthia Bishop McKay has a son, Donald, in the entering class. 1915 — Dr. Lucy Bourn visited Labrador during the summer. 1916 — Alhertine L. Butts also visited Labrador. 1929 — Mary Fessenden is supervisor of physical education in the elementary schools in Meriden, Conn. She is living at 130 Lambert Avenue. 1929 — Elinor Margerum attended the summer session at Columbia. 1931 — Marion Boettiger Leonard and her husband are at Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. 193 2 — Anita Bellows is a Supervisor in the Department of Old Age Assistance. 193 2 — Mary Kernan recently made her debut as a singer with the R. I. Civic Sym- phony in West Warwick before a large audience. 193 2 — Dorothy B. Mills has a position in the office of the Graduate School at Brown. 1932 — Katherine Perkins is teaching in the East Providence High School. 1933— Elizabeth Tillmghast Angell is living on Church St., Lenox, Mass. and likes it immensely. 193 3 — Helen Hazard is an investigator in the Department of Old Age Assistance at the State House. 1934 — Ruth Clem is working for the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington. She IS living at 2110 R St., N W. 193 5 — Elizabeth Blanchard is teaching in the Joseph Jenks Junior High School in Pawtucket. 1936 — Dorothy Lovell is working for the Bureau of Old Age Assistance. 1936 — Caroline Arns is teaching in the Everett School, Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1936 — Isabel Jeffrey is teaching store or- ganization and retailing in the high school in Allentown, Penn. 1936 — Mary Stowell is working for the Second National Bank in New Haven. 1936 — Alice Van Hoesen visited Italy, Germany and France last summer. 1937 — Jane Duffee is doing social work in Scranton in connection with the work for her Master's degree at Smith. She is living at the Y. W. C. A. 1937 — Marian Martin and Lucille Mc- Laughlin are doing social work in East Providence. 1937 — Mildred Pansy is giving piano lessons. 1937 — Barbara Williams is teaching at the Wheeler School. i i ENGAGEMENT ► 1929— Elise Abbott to John Shepard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "21. 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Gifford '20 PRESCRIPTIONS ...exactly as written When a doctor's prescription comes to us for compounding we consider it as a means toward someone's good health. Accordingly we practice utmost accuracy in compounding, using the finest quality ingredients the world affords. Bring YOUR prescriptions here. WEDDINGS ^ 1931 — Isabel Wallace Andrew was mar- ried to John Moffett Beery in the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn on Octo- ber 15, 1937. A reception at Sherry's fol- lowed the ceremony. Mr. Beery is a grad- uate of the Augusta Military Academy and the Wharton School of finance of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He is associated with the Chemical Bank and Trust Com- pany in New York. 1931 — Claire Reizen was married to Dr. David Freedman on May 17, 1937. Dr. Freedman, Brown "30 and Harvard Medical "34, is resident surgeon at the Truesdale Hospital, Fall River. Dr. and Mrs. Freed- man are living at 155 5th St., Providence. 1931 — Helen Joyce Williams was mar- ried to Edward J. C. Connor, Brown "3 1, on October 14, 1937 in Newport, R. I. They are making their home in Charlotte, N. C. 1934 — Louise Laviolette was married on June 27, 1937 to Rev. C. F. Yoke in the Methodist Church in Litchfield, Conn, of which Mr. Yoke is the pastor. Among the attendants were Harriet A. Legg '34 and Elizabeth O'Laughlin "3 5. 1936 — Pauline Kleinberger was married to Dr. Henry William Radom of New York City on October 10, 1937 in Providence. They will make their home in New York. 1936 — Evelyn Seder was married to Dr. Hyman Heller on June 12. 193 7 in Webster. Dr. Heller was graduated from Brown in 1929 and from the Medical School of the University of Chicago in 1935. They are living in Dudley. Mass. 1937 — Mary Louise Hinckley was mar- ried to Nelson Burgess Record, Brown '3 5, in the Union Methodist Episcopal Church in Fall River on October 16, 1937. Among her attendants were Dorothy Bliss '37, Bar- bara Allen '40, and Catherine Chippendale '38n. Mr. and Mrs. Record are living at 42 Gentian Ave., Providence. 1937 — Carolyn Lindsay Patton was mar- ried to Thurston Steele, Brown '37, on October 2, 1937 in the Church of the Transfiguration (Episcopal) in Edgewood. Among her attendants were Muriel Baker '37 and Frances Sartwell '37. Rosalind Wallace '34, her senior, played the organ. Mr. and Mrs. Steele are living at 119 Indi- ana Ave., Providence. i BIRTHS ► 1925 — To Mr, and Mrs. Mason B, Mer- chant (Helen Leavitt), a son, David Mason, on July 1, 1937 in Providence. 1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Carlton H. Bliss (Ethel McKechnie), a second son, Donald Thayer, on July 26, 1937. 1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Kil- patrick (Rachel Harris), a son, Norman L., Jr. on October 16, 1937 in Providence. 1930— To Mr. and Mrs. R. Irving Blanchard, Jr. (Ada Moore), a son, David Irving, on October 4, 1937. 1930 — To Dr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Jensen (Dora Anstey), a son, Philip Kirk, on April 28, 1937, 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. George A. Free- man (Ruth Mann), a daughter, Barbara Grace, on September 8, 1937. 193 3— To Mr. and Mrs, J, McCall Hughes (Dorothy Hanson), a daughter, Gail Meredith, on October 8, 1937. 193 5 — To Rev. and Mrs. Rufus Ansley (Rhoda Madden), a son, Rufus Ansley, Jr. on October 16, 1937. i 4 Pembroke Chronicle BY ANNE G. ZEMAITIS, 1938 BLANDING'S 155 Westminster St. 6 Waylaiid Square ► ► Dr Katharine J. Gallagher, Pro- fessor of History at Goucher College, spoke to the undergraduates on "The Implication of E.xcellence " at the Honors Day chapel held in Alumnae Hall on October 26. Forty-one students were awarded honors at the exercises. The Pembroke Debating Society, which last year was runner-up for the champion- .'hip of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League, is making plans for debates with Bowdoin, Colgate, Wesleyan, M. I. T., Mt. Holyoke, Bucknell, RadclifFe, Amherst, Rhode Island State, Connecticut, and Mid- dlebury. Mr. Daniel Jacobs, who served as the varsity coach for the first time last year, is again directing the teams. Peggy Banta, 1938, president of the Outing Club, recently conducted a student hike on an old Indian trail in South County. Besides planning hikes, the Outing Club makes arrangements for weekends students wish to spend at its cabin in Chepachet. Numerous parties have been given for rNe Freshmen during the past few weeks. The Sophomores and Juniors entertained t' e yearlings at Hallowe'en and "Farmer- ette" parties, respectively. Plans for the traditional Senior-Freshman party are now under way. A puppet show was recently presented by t'-e French Club. The organization holds r'cetings jointly with the Brown French Club. This year's varsity hockey schedule in- cludes games with Rhode Island State Col- lege, Radcliffe, Wheaton, and Jackson. Class games have been arranged also by the Athletic Association which is headed by Dorothy Page, 1938. Mr. T. Scott Miyakawa, the Japanese journalist, was a guest speaker of the Inter- national Relations Club. Mr. Miyakawa, who IS a correspondent for the Japan Times, spoke to the students on the Japanese situa- tion. Edith Bien, 1938, a Chinese student, was also a recent guest speaker of the organ- ization. The traditional Senior Class Dance was held in Alumnae Hall on October 30. An- other recent social event was the Miller Hall Tea dance. Pembroke has been invited to co-operate in the publication of the CoHegiatc Review, the new intercollegiate magazine which was started at Clark University. Literary, news, and publicity agents for the magazine will be selected from the student body. i i AMERIfAIV At'AIIEIWY OF DRAMATIC ARTS Founded io 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent. The first and foremuat institution for Dramatic Training io Acting, Diiecting. ami Teachin Fall Term Begins October 26 For Catalog address Sfcrrtary, fioam I8U, CARNEGIE HALL. 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