BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY !^ ^ %1 1 • •* ;rv VOL. XXXIX NO. 2 JO '°'^-"' LOOK TO TH£ "BALLAST .IND SAILS" IN YOUR INVESTMENTS L, /IKE a sailboat, an investment ac- count, if it is to weather the buffeting winds and squalls of economic changes, should be properly equipped with both ballast and sails. Ballast — enough high-grade bonds which, "blow high, blow low," can be counted upon for their income. Sails — a proper proportion of stocks to take ad- vantage of any inflationary winds that may be blowing. Proper trim of your financial boat was never more essential than today. In Agency Accounts — the ser\ice under which the Trust Company handles the in- vestments of individuals — ballast and sail are given careful consideration. If ballast is light — the account top hea\'y with sail — recommendations to bring it into balance are made to the owner for his approval. Reviews, aimed to keep the account proper- ly balanced and diversified, are made at regular intervals — changes suggested as needed In addition, all routine details such as the collection of income and the keeping of proper records, so important to the prepara- tion of income tax returns, are cared for under Agency Service. If you feel that such service might be helpful to you, one of our officers will be glad to discuss the matter with \ou. mA Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company Pn«tiicket — Providence — Woonsocket Published monthly, August and September excepted, by the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY, Inc., at Brown University, Providence, F Entered at the Post Office, at Providence, R. L, as second class matter, under the law of March 3, 1879. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND JULY, 1938 VOL. XXXIX NUMHER 2 ► ► Commencement Rewards and Inspiration ► ► For the 17l)th time Brown University bestowed its accolade upon a graduating class when ?46 academic degrees were awarded at Commencement exercises in the First Baptist Meeting House on Monday morning, June 20th. For 249 men and 97 women it was the reward of four undergraduate years of study. To nme persons promi- nent in the nation's life it meant the distinction of honorary recognition by the old University. And for hundreds of sons of Brown it meant the climax of days and nights of reunion fellowship that had drawn them back to Rhode Island from all parts of the country and beyond. Thousands watched the pageantry of the Commencement procession as it passed through the out-swinging Van Wickle Gates and dowm the Hill over the route that more than a century of tradition had prescribed. ' Longer than ever, it seemed, was the line of marchers, and it included, for the first time in many years, scores of men in the under- graduate classes. Behind these young students came past generations of Brown men, graduation for some of whom had taken place 60 years and more previously. ► First down the Hill was Frank B. Foster, Senior class marshal, followed by the American Band, which for years has played the familiar music of the Commencement March. ("Slow but rather jaunty, "" one newspaper account called it.) Next came the chief marshal, Dennis F. O'Brien '98, prominent New York lawyer and loyal Brunonian, with Chief of Staff E. Tudor Gross '01 and their aides. Alumni, undergraduates, graduates, faculty, invited guests. Trustees and Fellows, justices of the Rhode Island Courts and State and city officials were in the line, reversing the line at the portal oi the church so that James H. Holland, new High Sheriff ,000 from nearly 3100 alumni contributors to the 1938 Alumni Fund. A number of other important gifts had been previously announced. The listeners heard warnings against two threatening kinds of dictatorship, one from Dr. Douglas, former U. S. Budget Director, against the dictatorship of political and economic regimentation; the other from Dr. Dewey, racket- busting District Attorney of New York, against dictator- ship of crime. Other speakers were President Wriston and Governor Robert E. Quinn '15 of Rhode Island, all presented by Rabbi Louis I. Newman '13 of New York, the presiding officer. Given more than usual prominence this year, the Grad- uate School Convocation not only awarded 60 advanced degrees to graduate students from more than 30 collegiate institutions in the United States and abroad, but it also observed the iOth anniversary of the first graduate degrees awarded at Brown. The Convocation was attended by a large number of scholars who hold advanced degrees from the University, including the two students, now inter- nationally known, who were awarded the first advanced degrees from Brown in 18S8. ► The program of Commencement Week began on Friday, June 17, with the exercises "under the elms" of the Middle Campus, in which the following participated: Frank B. Foster, class president; John Montgomery, Jr., Henry W. Anderson, Roger B. Francis, Fred Halliwell, and President Wriston. New to this year's program was the awarding of athletic certificates to Senior lettermen, the presentation being made by Dean Arnold, Chairman of the Athletic Council, on behalf of Prof. Fred W. Marvel, Director of Athletics. The Senior Tea was held this year in the court- yard of Faunce House. The Seniors returned later in the evening for the Class Night festivities on the Middle Campus and in Sayles Hall, being joined by hundreds of townspeople, members of many reunion classes, and other friends of Brown. The lantern- hung campus and the illuminated buildings made a colorful setting for the animated crowd on the dance-floor and prom- enade, while gay umbrellas identified the meeting places of fraternity, club and class groups. On the stroke of mid- night, the Seniors massed themselves on the steps of Sayles Hall to fill the night with their last songs as undergraduates. Official close of Commencement Week came with the adjournment of the Tuesday meeting of the Corporation of the University. 4 4 4 The Baccalaureate Service ► "Democr.^CY has never been attempted successfully save from the foundation of Christian faith and practice," the Rev. Arthur L. Kinsolving D.D., rector of Trinity Church, Boston, told Brown University Seniors in the baccalaureate message in the First Baptist Church on Sunday, June 19. ■"The appositeness of the mind of Christ to our problems is patent," he explained. "The true foundations of liberty, everywhere threatened today, are not to be found in any theor>' of liberalism, but in the teachings of Christ. He it was who gave vigor to the ideals of democracy inherited from the Greek city-state. After any study of the mind of the Master, the ultimate impression is always one of com- prehensiveness and balance. "What Mussolini says on the Piazsa at Rome sounds ridiculous over the mountains of France. The soeaker at the bankers" convention would be mocked in Moscow. But Christ stands in the centre of the world and violates no aspect of truth which any man holds dear in any country." Prof. William R. Benford was faculty marshal for the students, who marched from the campus to the Meeting House in cap and gown. Participants in the service in- cluded: Rev. Arthur W. Cleaves, D.D., pastor of the church; President Wriston, Vice President Adams, Dean Samuel T. Arnold, Dean Morriss, and Prof. Arthur B. Hitchcock. The Baccalaureate Service was followed at Faunce House by an informal reception by the Dean of the College and the Dean of Pembroke College for members of the graduat- ing classes and their families and friends. 4 Honors Fell Once AfSain ► Scientific honors fell once again upon Prof. Charles A. Kraus of Brown University, president-elect of the American Chemical Society, when he was awarded one of the two distinctive Franklin Medals by the Franklin Institute at elaborate ceremonies in Philadelphia in May. He was one of 12 men selected from science and industry' whose contributions to human progress and welfare were appropriately recognised. The Franklin Medal was the fourth award which Prof. Kraus had received in recent years. Prior to his election as president of the American Chemical Society last December, a national organisation of more than 20,000 members, he received the Society's Nichols Medal, its WiUard Gibbs Medal, and its Theodore William Richards Medal. His latest honor was conferred "in recognition ... of his valuable contributions to the knowledge of reactions in liquid ammonia, of the chemical behavior of metals, and the properties of electrolytic solutions." < The Presidents Reception ► Alumni from far and near, together with other friends of the University, enjoyed the amenities of the President's Reception, which was held for the second successive year on the Sunday evening of the Commencement season. Re- ceiving those who attended the affair m Alumnae Hall were President and Mrs. Henry M. Wriston, Vice President and Mrs. James P. Adams, and Dean Margaret S. Morriss. Fred B. Perkins 19 again commanded the corps of ushers, which included: John W. Haley '19, Roger T. Clapp "19, J. D. E. Jones, Jr., "23, Denison W. Greene '24, Kent F. Matteson '28, Edward R. Austin "26, John Mason Gross '34, Louis B. Palmer '28, Ronald C. Green, Jr., '3 1 , William T. Broomhead '35, T. Dexter Clarke '32, and William J. Gilbane '3 3. i 36 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ► ► FORMER COLLEACl'ES held a reunion at Commence- ment ivhen Presiflent Wriston, once a Wesleran Univer- sity professor^ tvetcometl tivo members of that faculty. Professor Frederick Slocum. left, and Professor Walter G. Cady. The latter tico, classmates at Brown in 1895. had the unusual distittction of a joint citation as they received honorary degrees. The Graduate School Convocation ► ► Advanced degrees were awarded at the June Con- vocation of the Graduate School to IJ alumni of Brown and nine Pembroke graduates. In addition, graduates of 30 other colleges and universities were among the recipients of masters" and doctors" degrees, including Williams, Ober- lin, Providence, Connecticut, Capital University (Saskatch- ewan, Canada), Vassar, Washington University, Univer- sity of Washington, Princeton, Maine, Wellesley, Middle- bur)', Lafayette, Marietta, Kalamazoo. Dartmouth, Whea- ton. University of Utah, Brooklyn College, New Jersey College for Women, University of Wales, Grinnell, Hiram, Baylor, Furman, Syracuse, Maryville, HoUins, M. I. T., Ursinus. Three alumni were among the recipients of Ph.D. degrees at the Graduate School Convocation this year: Angus Mac- Ivor GrifEn "31, Carl Waldemar Hagquist "34, and Julian Louis Solinger "28. The new Masters of Arts include the following Brown men: John Albert Battle '33, Education and Histor>'; Clark Witter Browning "27, John Charles Simkevich "3i, and Cyril Maurice Owen "34, Education; Norman Barnes Dodge "35, John Morton Ferrier, Jr., "33, and Frederick Sheet:, Jr., "37, English; Harry Campbell Eatough "34, Philosophy and Biblical Literature; Thomas Francis Kelley "3'?, Education, Greek and Latin Classics; Francis Tourtellot "36, German. The following earned their Master of Science degrees: Ralph Perry Elrod "36, Botany and Biology; In,'ing James Gruntfest "37. ► Prof. Frederick Slocum "95, professor astronomy in Wesleyan University and director of the Van Vleck Ob- servatory there, was the principal speaker, appealing "to those who are looking forward to teaching as a profession and to helping solve some of the tantalising problems in education."" He begged them to "keep in mind the excep- tionally brilliant student, the one who shows excessive in- tellectual curiosity, the incipient genius."" The student, he declared, "must have adequate prepara- Graduate Study, a Semi-Centennial tion for citizenship and for the social, aesthetic, and spiritual sides of life; and, at the same time, he should have the greatest possible opportunity and encouragement in the development of his special gifts. How this is to be accom- plished, I leave to your own ingenuity." The first 45 minutes of the program was broadcast, in- cluding organ music by Prof. Arthur B. Hitchcwk; the invocation by Dr. Earle B. Cross '05, of the Colgate Roch- ester Divinity School; President Wriston"s presentation of Dr. Roland G. D. Richardson, Dean of the Graduate Schtxil; and Dr. Slocum"s address. Marshaled by Prof. Robert H. George, an academic procession preceded the exercises. They were followed by a reception and tea in the John Carter Brown Library. It was 50 years ago that Brown granted its first two ad- vanced degrees. The recipients. Dr. Austen K. DeBlois and Dr. George Grafton Wilson, who received their A.M. and Ph.D. degrees here, were among the alumni of the Graduate School present to observe the anniversary. Each received an illuminated scroll and was guest of honor at the tea. Tufts Honors Presiilent ff riston ► ► "An inspiring teacher of history, eminent exponent of liberal education, beloved and respected administrator,"" was the characterization of Dr. Henry M. Wriston given by Acting President George S. Miller of Tufts when the President of Brown University received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at Medford this June. ""It is the function of a college to disseminate the truth,'" Dr. Miller said. '"It is the duty of the college president to guard this function. Never was this more important than it is today."" President Wriston also was the Commencement speaker at Tufts. Admitting that the phrase '"rugged individualism" is not popular today and that its users are immediately suspect, Dr. Wriston nevertheless declared that higher education must be an individual experience, for you cannot educate society. "The individual result will be flabby, or nonde- script, or rugged. I prefer men rugged. " Democracy was a system of government designed to serve the individual, he maintained. Its principal objective was liberty rather than action and external discipline. He did not want to live in an "ant hill" created by a totalitarian, collective system. "The tawdry conception that a group of men can sit down and pull a group of strings and bring the whole industrial system into balance is simply stupid, " he con- tinued. But, although "mealy-mouthed politicians have allowed democracy to be put on the defensive in recent years," there is no reason for alarm over its future. i i The Ivy League ISeivspapers ► Represent.-\tives of seven eastern colleges visited the Brown campus the other weekend for meetings of the Ivy League Newspaper Conference as guests of the Brown Daily Herald. Represented were the Columbia Spectator, the Cornell Daily Sun, the Harvard Crimson, the Ddilv Dartniont/i, the Daily Peyinsylvanian, the Prmcetoyxiayi. and the Tale Duily 7\[eu'5. Conferences were held in Faunce House, with President Wriston as speaker at an informal luncheon. Among projects considered was that of having the eight undergraduate dailies choose the ranking three football teams each year from among the eight colleges members of the newspaper conference. 4 37 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Vice President Announced: < < ► ► We have just recently returned from the historic old edifice at the foot of the hill where the Corporation and Faculty assembled again in solemn convocation to mark the close of another academic year and to witness the departure of another class — the one hundred and seventieth to leave these gates — another class in the long succession of men who have gone out into the community "duly qualify "d to perform the offices of life with usefulness and reputation." And again Brown has drawn her sons back to College Hill from all parts of the country and, in some cases, from other parts of the world, to share in these exercises of Com- mencement, a festal occasion by which the University marks the cumulating total of her achievement and by which she renews her spirit and states again her purpose so stead- fastly pursued through all the years. We greet you and we wish for all of you many happy returns of Commencement Day at Brown. ► It is my privilege to announce certain gifts which have come to the University since Commencement a year ago. I mention first a considerable number of gifts for specific purposes, each of which is helping the University to carry on its essential work in one sphere or another of its wide range of activities. From the Mary Dexter Fund, $75 for the Library. From the Brown Yacht Club, $75 for the Brown Boat House. From Mr. Zechariah Chafee, $80 for the Class of 1880 Discussion Fund. From the Estate of Jessie C. Knight, $89.3 5 as the final distribution on account of a bequest. From the Brownbrokers, $100 for Scholarships. From Mrs. Anne Pierce Brown, $100 for a Scholarship. From the Brown Alumnae Fund, $100 for furnishings for Pembroke College. From the Pembroke College Athletic Association, $100 for special purposes. From Harold S. Siser, $100 as an addition to the James Alexander Hall Scholarship fund. From the Class of 1937 of the Central Falls High School, $100 as an addition to the William Overton Scholar- ship. From the Class of 1937 of the College, $112.72 for general purposes. From the Class of 1937 of Pembroke College, $116.56 for furnishings for Pembroke College. From Charles S. Kelly, Jr., $150 for a Scholarship. From Charles S. Kelly, 3rd, $150 for a Scholarship. From Narragansett Bay Oyster Company, $150 for the use ol the Department of Biology. ► From Brown Engineering Association, $200 to establish the James Alexander Hall Scholarship Fund. This fund was established by a contribution from the Treasury of the Association in memory of Professor Hall with the hope and expectation that many graduates of the University who knew him as an inspiring teacher and friend and others with whom he had professional associations will desire to make gifts as additions to this fund so that it may soon reach the sum of $2,000 and begin to yield an income for award as a scholarship. From Circolo Italiano, $200 for prizes. From Mrs. Harold S. Vanderbilt, $250 for the Yachting program. From Mr. J. Richmond Fales, a dinghy for the Yacht Club. From the Class of 1929, a dinghy for the Yacht Club. From the Associated Alumni, a dinghy for the Yacht Club. From a friend of the University, $250 for special purposes. From the Rhode Island State Federation of Women's Clubs, $250 for Federated Clubs Scholarship at Pembroke College. From the Rhode Island Women's Club, $250 for Rhode Island Women's Club Scholarship at Pembroke College. From an anonymous donor, $300 for a Scholarship. From the Beta Chapter of Delta Phi, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Chapter, a sun dial now installed on the south wall of Faunce House, above the court yard. ► I CALL your attention to the next items because they represent gifts to the University not by individuals and not by classes but by groups of Brown men organized on a geographical basis: From the Brown Alumni of Akron, Ohio, $200 for a Scholarship. From the Brown Club of Boston, $500 for the Brown Club of Boston Prize Scholarship. From the Brown Club of Chicago, $500 for the Brown Club of Chicago Prize Scholarship. From the Brown Club of New York, $500 for the Brown Club of New York Prize Scholarship. From the Brown Club of Providence, $1,3 50 for Scholarships. May I interject at this point the announcement that, through the courtesy of the owner, Mr. R. Foster Reynolds, the University has received as a loan for an indefinite period, four beautiful eighteenth century tapestries. Two of these, depicting romantic scenes in pastoral life in appropriately delicate tints are from the looms of the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais and were probably designed by Boucher during the latter portion of his active association with this establishment. The third, a larger tapestry, also from the Beauvais looms, depicts, in deeper shades, a classical scene — imposing figures of Roman senators in a setting which suggests the grandeur of Roman architecture. The fourth, the largest of the group, is one of the twelve so-called Blenheim tapestries which hung in Blenheim Castle and portrays the pictures of the Duke of Marlborough. This tapestry depicts the return of Marlborough with his army and does it with striking contrasts of sombre hue and rich color and with remarkable fusions of depth . and detail. I have described these tapestries because I hope that you will sec them before you leave the campus. They are hanging in the Art Gallery on the second floor of Faunce House. By way of re- assurance may I add that my remarks with respect to the historical beckground and artistic values of these tapestries are sanctioned by the authority of the Department of Art in Brown University. From Mrs. Sophia R. Louttit, $500 for the William Easton Louttit Scholarship. From the Brownbrokers, 600 for general uses and purposes. The Brownbrokers, some of you may not know, is an organization of undergraduate men and women (hence the name BROWN PemBROKERS) whose major interest in college life beyond the demands of the classroom is the planning, writing, composing, rehearsal, and production of a musical campus extravaganza which has now become a part of the festivities of Junior Week. This gift to the University represents the profit on the 1936-3 7 production entitled Man About Brou'7i. The production this year was en- titled CurricuUCurncu]d. I haven't received a report on the profits as yet. It may be that the benefits were more largely academic. From the Charles Irwin Travelli Fund, $750 for Scholarships. From the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Physicians, $800. From the Estate of Helen Grant Martin, $970.69 as an addition to the Robert Mitchell Martin Fund. ► From the Friends of the Library, $838 for the Library. The Friends of the Library of Brown University is a new organization which came into existence this year through the active interest of Carleton D. Morse of the Class of 1913, George L. Miner of the Class of 1897, and other alumni and friends of the University. The spirit and purpose of this organization is indicated by its own descriptive subtitle — "a society of persons who are lovers of books, interested in the Library of Brown University and its growing usefulness." Membership is open to all who share these interests regardless of residence and of other academic affiliations. In addi- tion to the gift mentioned above the University has received, through the Friends of the Library, a number of significant gifts of books including one collection of several hundred volumes on the history of the Northwest from Mr. Frederick S. Peck. One of its central purposes is to offer to its members an opportunity to be of service to the Library by ways and means and in fields of study which represent their own personal intellectual interests. I commend it to your favorable consideration. From the Brown University Graduate Alumni Fund, $280.00. This is a modest beginning of a new project undertaken during the past few weeks by a special committee of men who hold advanced degrees from the University. The purpose of this Fund is to offer to holders of advanced degrees whose primary academic relationships are to other colleges and universities, an opportunity to express their interest in the work and welfare of the University in which they pursued their graduate study. From the Class of 1909, $1,000 as an addition to the Class of 1909 Fund. This is the fourth consecutive year in which this Class has made an annual gift of $1000 as an addition to the Fund which it established in 1934. From the Class of 1912, $1,025.31 to establish the Class of 1912 Fund for Scholarships. From Alumni and Friends of the University, $1,113.75 as an addition to the F. P. Gorham Memorial Fund. > From the Brown University Nautical Association, $1,629.94 for the Brown University Boat House. You will be pleased to know that with the funds generously provided last year by the Class of 1907 and a generous friend of the University the Narragansett) 38 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Come to the Campus Oct. 7th ► Put a red mark around October 7th and 8th on your calendar and reserve those days for Brown. The former is the date of Alumni Day, the latter the first big home game of the 1938 football season, with Lafayette furnishing the opposition. While plans are still in a state of formation, the feature event of the weekend will be the annual Alumni Day din- ner, to be held in the Brown Gym on Friday night. In addition to the varsity football game, there will be a big dinghy regatta on the Seekonk, carrying on the rivalry between alumni and undergraduates that IS already of two years' standing. With the Brown University Boat Clubhouse ready for use, the sailing races will take on especial interest. A Freshman football game may also be scheduled. On Saturday morning the committee hopes to be able to arrange an open house in the new Chemistry Laboratory building, which will be ready by fall, ac- cording to the present schedule. That, too, has spec- tacular possibilities. Fraternity luncheons will be held Saturday. Boat Cluh house on the Seekonk was acquired and with the aid of other funds which were made available hy the Univer.sity the build- ing has been completely rehabilitated. The Brown University Boat House IS now an accomplished fact. It was formally dedicated on the occasion of an Intercollegiate Dinghy Regatta on May 7, 1938. I hope that Alumni from out ot town will have an opportunity to visit this new addition to our lacilitics before leaving the City. May I add also that, during the summer and fall of 1937 the new lodge and boathouse at the Outing Reservation was constructed and furnished hy the use of funds generously provided by the Classes of 1914, 1927, and 1932. From Henry C. Hart, $1,500 for Scholarship purposes. From Lewis S. Milner, $1,500 in gift and pledge for Scholarship pur- poses. From Mrs. Jesse H. Mctcalf, $1,800 for the purchase of a collection of 133 printed documents relating to Peru in the period 1600-1800 for the John Carter Brown Library. From Mr. George J. Holden, a complete equipment of the most modern type for the dental examination room in Andrews' House. From Mrs. Sophie L. Lustig, $2,000 as an addition to the New Infirmary Fund. From Thomas J. Watson, $2,000 as an addition to the Thomas J. Watson Fund. From the Estate of Jessie G. Tiffany, $3,000 to establish the Jessie G. Tiffany Fund at Pembroke College for general purposes. From the Carnegie Corporation, a grant of $3,500 for the De- partment of Psychology. ► During the present year the Alumnae Association has presented to the University for the use of Pembroke College certain principal funds which have been accumulated over the years in the treasury of the Association: Emma Bradford Stanton Scholarship Fund, $5,115.02; Class of 1913 Memorial Fund of Pembroke College, $1,593.21; The Life Membership Fund of the Alumnae Associa- tion, $3,030.00; The Class of 1931 Scholarship Fund, $822.69. I am also pleased to announce at this time that the Alumnae Association of Brown University has inaugurated a program for the raising of a fund of $100,000 which is to be presented to the University on the occasion of the semi-centennial of the establish- ment of Pembroke College in 1942 for use toward the construction of a new dormitory at Pembroke College. This is the second major financial project of the alumnae during the past fifteen years and I am sure that we wish for them a repetition of the success which they achieved w'hen, in 1927, they presented Alumnae Hall as a most worthy addition to the facilities of Pembroke College. From the Alumnae Fund, $5,700 for the current uses and pur- poses of Pembroke College — a splendid achievement of the Alum- nae Fund Committee under the leadership of Mrs. Leslie E. Swain of the Class of 1911 and of an ever increasing number of Alumnae contributors in every class. From Miss Eleanor B. Green, $4,000 in gift and pledge to establish the Dormitory Fund for Pembroke College. From the Rockefeller Foundation, $3,720.66 on account of a grant for special research in the Department of Biology and an additional grant of $2,000 for next year. > From the Class of 1933, $500 to establish the Class of 1933 Scholarship Fund in memory of Professor Jay Barrett Botsford — • this fund to be increased by subsequent gifts from the Class until It reaches a total of $10,000. From the Class of 1898 gifts and pledges amounting to $3,185 lor use in connection with the construction of Andrews' House. The Class plans to increase this gift during the coming year. From the Class of 1903, $1,000 to complete the 1903 Scholar- ship Fund established in 1933. From the Class of 1908, $1050 as an addition to the Class of 1908 Fund for scholarship purposes. From the Class of 1913, $5000 for the establishment of the Class of 1913 Fund on the 25th anniversary of the graduation of the Class for general uses and purposes. From Alumni and Friends of the University, $4,125 for the partial support of an archaeological expedition to Lake Van under the joint auspices of Brown University and the Univer.sity of Penn- sylvania. Professor Casey of the Department of Biblical Literature and the History of Religions has just sailed to participate in this project and with him go two Brown Undergraduates. From the National Research Council a grant of $8,200 for next year for the support of special research in the Department of Biology. From Miss Margarethe L. Dwight, $4,250 to make possible the purchase of real estate for the use of the University. From the Estate of Alice G. Comstock, $5,000 to establish a Kind in memory of John Stimson Greene and Samuel Stillman Greene. From the Class of 1902, $6,144.37 to establish the Class of 1902 Fund for Scholarships. From Mr. Henry D. Sharpe, machine tools of a value of $2,700 for the new Mechanical Engineering Shop of the Division of Engineering. ► From Mrs. John Ormsbee Ames and Mr. Frank Mauran, Jr., the John Ormsbee Ames House at 121 Power Street in memory of Samuel, William, and John Ormsbee Ames, all of whom were good friends of Brown University. We are particularly grateful for the thoughtfulness which caused the donors to write in making the gift — "We believe there could be no more fitting way to perpetuate their names than to entrust them to the keeping of the institution which more than any other is a permanent and integral part of the community in which they lived." This house will be reconditioned during the summer and will be opened in the fall as a graduate dormitory. From Mrs. Frances Knowles Warren, $10,000 to establish the George Eddy Warren Scholarship. From Dr. Charles H. Hare, $10,000 as an addition to the Charles H. Hare Fund for the endowment of Andrews House a supple- ment to an already magnificent benefaction from a generous alum- nus who has dreamed of an adequately equipped and staffed health center for students at Brown which will bear the name ol a de- voted friend which is written large in the annals of the University. It is hoped that as plans progress in the realization of this purn-i-sc. others will desire to share in this project as an expression of their own belief in the importance of its contribution to the life of the Llniversity and of their memories of the man for whom it is named. During the past tour years we have been making a special effort to enlist the members of the Senior classes as charter members of the Society of Annual Contributors to the Alumni Fund. You will remember that last year 100% of the members of the Class of 1937 pledged, to the Alumni Fund the first class in many years to reach such a goal. I am pleased to announce that the Class of 1938 has equalled that record and has established a new one by pledging a total of $1,058.50. the largest amount pledged by a Senior class in the recent history of the Fund. This is a fine record and. on your behalf, I congratulate the members of the Class of 1938. ^ Again it is my pleasure to announce that the Alumni Fund has surpassed all previous records. May I review for you the hislorv of the fund for the past four rears. In 19,3.'i-.?4, 1032 Alumni contributed a total of 81.1.502.00. In 19."{4 33. 1425 Alumni contributed a total of S18.008.00. In 1935-36. 2404 .4lumni contributed a total of S28.027.00. In 1937-38, 2915 Alumni contributed a total of $33,178.00. And this noon, the Alumni Fund Trustees notified us that 3075 Alumni representing every class with members now living and re- siding in all Darts of the countrv have contributed through the Alumni Fund a total of S35,020 for the present year. 39 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY This is a splendid achievement and a fine demonstration of loyalty to the University. It represents the largest amount con- tributed through the Alumni Fund for the current uses and pur- poses of the University since its creation in 1915. It is the result of the conscientious effort of more than one hundred Class Agents of the Alumni Fund. It is also an evidence of wise planning and vigorous action on the part of the Alumni Fund Trustees, under the splendid leadership of W. Granville Meader of the Class of 1905. To all who have shared in the administration of this enter- prise and to all who have participated by their contributions, the University and the Alumni owe a debt of gratitude. May I call your attention again to the fact that the Alumni Fund constitutes a living endowment for the University. The total gift this year through the Alumni Fund represents the equivalent of an in- come on an endowment of $1,000,000 and $1,000,000 is approxi- mately 9'/f of the entire present endowment of the University. In other words, the Alumni through the Alumni Fund are contribut- ing for the current uses and purposes of the University an amount which represents 9% of the income which we are now receiving from all of the income producing funds which the University has accumulated during a period of one hundred and seventy-four years. > From Alumni and Friends of the University on account of pledges made and announced last year and additional gifts during the year amounting in total to $49,600 toward the operating ex- penses of the current year. I am pleased to identify these alumni and friends as follows: Mr. Clifford S. Anderson, Mr. Claude R. Branch, Mr. James C. Collins, Mr. Paul O. Curtis. Mr. Wilham Gammell, Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., Mr. William V. Kellen, The Mary Dexter Fund, Mr. Stephen O. Metcalf, Miss Ellen D. Sharpe, Mr. Henry D. Sharpe, Mr. Elmer E. Silver, Mr. Homer N. Sweet, Mr. Harold B. Tanner, and an anonymous non-alumnus. From Mr. Stephen O. Metcalf, an ever generous friend of Brown University, $20,000 for the general uses and purposes of the College; $10,000 for the general uses and purposes of Pembroke College; and $10,000 as an addition to the Dormitory Fund of Pembroke College. r a.,^ coo From anonymous friends of the University, a gift ot $37,')00 and an additional pledge of $12, 500 toward the construction and equipment of Andrews" House, a splendid gift in the spirit in which Dr. Hare made his own generous gifts for this purpose. From the Estate of WeKster Knight. $52.062. 'iO on account of a bequest to establish the Endowment Fund for the Webster Knight Collection of United States Postage Stamps. This collection will soon be installed on the second floor of the John Hay Library and we invite the philatelists present to inspect it at their convenience — perhaps I should add, a few at a time. > From a generous friend of the University, who shall remain anonymous, $100,000 for the restoration of University Hall. This generous gift from a person not an alumnus is a magnificent dem- onstration of interest in a project which has long been the cher- ished dream of many. No gift to the University could have touched the hearts of Brown men more deeply as a gift to restore and pre- serve for succeeding generations of College men the College Edi- fice which has been for so long the heart of the University in its physical form. An additional sum of approximately one hundred thousand dollars will be necessary for a restoration which will be in every way worthy of the purpose. It is our earnest hope that these additional funds may soon be found so that this project may be undertaken at an early date so that University Hall may be in physical form and interior appointments, what it is in spirit, a beautiful expression of the dignity and simplicity of the colonial origins of Brown University. * * * Again the Alumni, the Alumnae, and the many friends of Brown have spoken in a language which is unmistakably clear. They have manifested a recognition of their responsibility for the mainten- ance and support of this collegiate foundation as a privately en- dowed institution as have those who have preceded them during one hundred and seventy-four years. They have manifested a confidence in her purpose and a hope for her success in the great work to which is dedicated in keeping with the spirit of the ancient charter. For all of this Brown is profoundly grateful. ^ ^ "These Manifestations of Munificence" > > President Wri.ston also voiced the University's gratitude for the benefactions enumerated in the list read by Dr. Adams. "No one could ever talk too long when he is telling us such good news. We will gladly devote more time on any occasion of this sort if we can hear my colleague and friend report such gifts to this ancient foundation. I too, have a deep sense of gratitude to all those who helped enlarge the resources of this institution, and who, in so doing, have given it a position yet more secure. "Among all these gifts it would be invidious to select one; yet 1 must comment on the gift for the restoration and reconstruction of University Hall. Two carefully prepared independent estimates agree that an additional hundred thousand dollars will be required to fireproof the structure fully and to provide an internal finish, which will have the dignity and beauty of the exterior. The mag- nificent initial gift comes from a person who never attended Brown. If one who has never been a student in this institution can think so highly of our greatest single memorial of the past and give so generously, it should not be too much to hope that Brown men will see that the task is speedily completed. "As one listens to these manifestations of munificence, he might gain the impression that our problems are slight. Yet we have operated in almost every year for the last ten with a deficit, miti- gated only by the generosity of friends of the University. The prob- lems of finance press heavily upon us, and bid fair to be even more acute hereafter. There is only one encouraging resource. Several times during the year alumni and friends of the University have sought me out to ask if the Corporation would be willing to accept gifts or legacies for the benefit of this institution. Such experiences — and I assure that I exaggerate not at all in insisting that they arc not rare — show that the days of giving are not over and that the loyalties upon which the greatness of the institution was founded are stronger than ever before. These are manifestations of faith in the security of our institutions, and of this University in particular." i 4 i Alumni Trustees ISamed ► Selected by graduates of Brown throughout the coun- try, William H. Edwards "19, Providence lawyer, and John H. WiUiams "12, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, were named to the Board of Trustees of Brown University last month. They were nominated by ballot by the alumni and formally voted to their offices at the Commencement meeting of the Corpora' tion. Dean Williams will fill an undenominational vacancy among the alumni trustees created when Dr. W. Randolph Burgess was elevated to the Board of Fellows. Mr. Edwards, who is a trustee of Vassar as well and the son-in-law of Prof. A. K. Potter, was named to succeed Henry R. Palmer "90 of Stonington, Conn., whose term as Congregational alumni trustee expired in June. Also elected as the result of balloting among the alumni was Dr. Orland F. Smith "27, candidate for the Browii University Athletic Council. The former "Iron Man"" will fill the place on the Council now held by Edward T. Richards "27. i Without Missing a Dtiy ► Since Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes "81 was named by President Hoover in 19.^0, he has not missed a day from his duties because of illness and has always set a vigorous working pace for his colleagues. Only four present members of the Supreme Court, Justices McReynolds, Brandeis, Butler and Stone, were on the bench when Mr. Hughes succeeded the late William Howard Taft. On the recent anniversary of his appointment as presiding officer of the court, he said his philosophy continues to be: "Em going along without reference to the calendar,"' but he did not mean the Court's. i The First Play Given Here ► The first play ever given on the Brown Campus had a revival this spring when members of the French clubs of Brown and Pembroke presented Molicre's "Les Fourberies de Scapin." Walter Covell had the part played in 1785 by John Brown. 40 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ► ► The President to His Alumni ► ► Neither the growth of the resources of the University through gifts nor its financial difficuhies are the center of my thought this afternoon. Important as they are, the test of the success of Brown is not the number or the si^e or the diversity of such gifts. The acid test which you must apply in your current judgment is not what has been given to us, hut rather what we have succeeded in giving to the youth committed to our charge. You will find no better basis for your inquiry than the words of our Charter. It speaks of this as a "liberal and catholic institution." First of all, it is fair to inquire whether we are indeed liberal. It is an old word and a beautiful one. The prophet Isaiah gave it an iterative emphasis when he said: "'But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." It is still a wonderful word, but how tattered and shoddy its current use! It cannot be confined within the narrow boundaries of economic liberalism, or political liberalism. It is much broader; it refers to an outlook upon life which is philosophically hospitable without being uncritical. It is marked by catholicity of taste, by sincerity and sensitiveness in appreciation. Such qualities of mind will naturally be reflected in social, economic and political views, but whether they will follow the pattern currently labeled "liberal" is not at all clear. ► LiBER.^L means enfranchised; it is the opposite of enslave- ment. It implies freedom; freedom of the mind and of the spirit. The inferences fairly to be drawn from this one word provide a rich interpretation of life. Its implications furnish us with a true philosophy of education. If we accept that philosophy, we shall not be shackled to the present — we will enjoy the gifts of the past and open our eyes upon vistas of the future. Technical information has an ephemeral aspect, a quality of immediacy; a liberal education has a timeless quality. Plato and Aristotle are long dead, but they are still worth reading. The teachings of Jesus are ver>' old, as we count time in terms of human life, yet in many of their essential qualities they are as fresh as yesterday. Changes in the economic structure, changes in our environment — none of these impair the wisdom which is the fruit of an intelligent mind activated by a high heart. ► Viewed m this light, the liberal college finds its full justification if it is an intrinsically valuable experience. It should be an example of physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual living upon an urbane and significant level. The chief emphasis is upon an experience as normal as pos- sible, upon the cultivation of a way of life which will be continuous. That IS our objective and it is enough. If we attain that goal, the future will take care of itself. The student who is habituated to a coherent expression of the urge to live has acquired qualities of permanent value. A liberal education is not, as so often supposed, the acquisition of a polish; it is the reconstruction of one's outlook upon life and the reorientation of one's habits of thought and forms of ex- pression, the refinement of one's tastes and appreciation, and the achievement of something like philosophic coherence in the interpretation of life's experience. It does not conceive of life in narrow terms, but brings to current experience both breath and depth. You are entitled, indeed you are obligated, to ask us whether the life our students lead, whether the temper of the studies made available to them, whether the spirit of the administration of this institution, whether the emphasis of our teaching advance those ideals or retard them. That is the very basic issue which is before us; the Charter supplies the guide; it admits of no compromise. ► The Charter also speaks of this as a "catholic" institu- tion. With explicitness, even at the expense of apparent repetition, it lays emphasis upon the meaning of that phrase. It provides that there "shall never he admitted any religious tests; But, on the contrary, all the members hereof shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute and uninterrupted liberty of conscience: . . . And that youth of all religious denom- inations shall and may be freely admitted to the equal advan- tages, emoluments and honors of the College or University : and shall receive a like fair, generous and equal treatment, during their residence therein, they conducting themselves peaceably, and conforming to the laws and statutes thereof. And that the . . . sectarian differences of opinions, shall not make any part of the public and classical instruction." What wonderfully unequivocal words are these! Abso- lute; uninterrupted; generous. The gifts are not given with niggardly hand, nor in a bargaining spirit, but freely. The guarantees of religious liberty are compounded four times over. It was the first such Charter in New England, and in the face of bitter sectarian differences, it was a great ideal which the founders of Brown expressed. That ideal remains our guide. We may take pride in the fact that our presiding officer today represents a faith which, through centuries, has suf- fered persecution and which at this moment is acutely persecuted in many parts of the world. In this liberal and catholic environment it finds freedom. May we cling to that ideal; in light and learning there is healing; in the search for truth all may unite; it is a strong bond joining together these who have so much in common and so little to divide them. ► The church and the school are two of the instruments of society for the betterment of mankind. They share with the home and with the state the obligation to create an en- vironment wherein youth may live and grow — may grow in grace, may grow in knowledge, in wisdom and in power. It IS a great tradition that separates the functions of the church and the school. That is the true path to religious freedom and the catholic spirit. Church and school are not set over against each other — they are set beside each other. The church cannot exercise all the functions of education, and the school certainly cannot exercise those of the church. It was another bold and brilliant stroke when church and state were divided — when it was recognised that they had common interests which they must pursue separately but that their separate pursuits was of the very essence of the matter. It was a great achievement v.'hen education was left free of political control; when it was supplied with no official text; when it was not called upon to teach an official doctrine. As one looks today at Germany and at Austria and ob- serve that the great tradition of Lehrenfreiheit has been utterly destroyed, as one observes in Russia and in Italy an official doctrine which is prescribed for instruction; he has (Conlinmrd yii puge 41) 41 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Neic Edition of Plates ► ► First subscriber for the new edition of Brown Uni- versity plates by Wedgwood was G. Clayton Upper of the Class of 1937. His order was received at the office of the Associated Alumni barely 24 hours after the subscriptions were invited. Nearly 150 subscribers had followed suit by the time Commencement heightened alumni interest. With the first edition of more than 500 dozen plates com- pletely subscribed, the Associated Alumni were asked to continue their sponsorship of this lovely Queensware dinner service. A new edition of the plates is now in production, and subscriptions are being received. A pamphlet issued by the committee in charge says that "the sponsors are aware that these souvenirs provide a further bond between Brown families and the campus." Two years older than Brown University, the famous English pottery was founded by Josiah Wedgwood, F. R. S., in 1762. In that year he made his first Queensware for Queen Charlotte and named it in her honor. The traditions of the master potter are still carried on in the family, and the Brown University plates "are being made from the original formula of Queensware under the personal super- vision of Josiah Wedgwood, sixth lineal descendant of the founder." Except for the distinguishing backstamp, the new plates will be identical with those of the first edition, which were so highly praised. The different centres, featuring campus landmarks of sentimental and pictorial interest, are hand engraved in brown sepia on the ivory Queensware. Unusually attractive, too, is the embossed border, inspiration for which came from a diploma awarded at the first Brown Commencement after the Revolutionary War. In this bas- relief the University arms occupy a dominant position. Delivery on the new edition was guaranteed before Christmas, with earlier delivery probable. After January I , 1939, the plates will be stocked in Boston, ready for imme- diate delivery. < i He Liked His Uncle's Bench ► ► Sixty-nine years after Marcus Morton, 1838, be- came Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts another Brown man has succeeded to that high office. He is Fred T. Field '00, since 1929 Associate Justice, and now, by nomination of Governor Hurley, Chief Justice to take the place of the late Arthur P. Rugg. "Chief Justice Field, a Fellow of the University since 1926 and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1920 to 1926," said the Providence Journal editorially, "is a Ver- monter by birth but, as in Vermont and Massachusetts, he has close ties of association and friendship in Rhode Island. "He will become Chief Justice of the oldest State Supreme Court in the nation as the result of appointment by a Gov- ernor who allowed no political consideration to influence the choice and who based his selection on the recommenda- tion of a representative committee of the Boston Bar Asso- ciation. This is a laudable example of proper regard for the position of the judiciary and of a farsighted desire to pro- mote justice under the law." Chief Justice Field's uncle, the late Walbridge A. Field, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1890 to 1899 and it was during visits to his uncle that the new head of the court made up his mind that some day he would like to sit upon the bench and live the ideal life of his relative. He won his law degree at Harvard and was practis- ing in Boston when Governor Allen named him to the Supreme Court in 1929. His hobbies are books; walking is his favorite exercise. To law students his one comment is: "Don't go into law unless it is the kind of work that appeals to you." Dartmouth conferred an honorary LL.D. upon him in 1931. i i Their Votes On Peace ► More than 30,000 American undergraduates in more than 100 colleges and universities voted in the Brown Daily Herald's poll of student sentiment on international affairs, especially those involved in matters affecting peace, Ameri- can withdrawal from China and application of the Neu- trality Act was favored by a 2 to 1 ratio over collective security and unilateral action against Japan. A large vote was cast in favor of American entrance into a revised League of Nations and for action by this country leading toward a progressive disarmament. A great majority favored optional drill in colleges with R. O. T. C. units. The college men would fight in defense of continental America, should it be invaded. On the other hand, the sur- vey indicated little sympathy for participation in a foreign war. Antone G. Singsen, editor of the Herald last year, was in charge of this ambitious poll. < The Burroughs Medalist ► The annual meeting of the John Burroughs Association was held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, on April 2, 1938, some four hundred members and guests attending. The Burroughs Medal, which may be struck each year to commemorate a work of foremost lit- erary distinction in the field of natural history, was con- ferred upon Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy '11 in recogni- tion of his two-volume monograph, "Oceanic Birds of South America," which was published by the American Museum in 1936. The same book had already been honored, last November, by the award to its author of the Brewster Medal of the American Ornithologists' Union. i BURROUGHS MEDALIST: Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy '11, honored for distin- guished work as a naturalist. 42 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Alumni Tf'ere Ready to Piny ► The hooking of a game between the 193S basehall varsity and a team of alumni aroused a lot of interest this spring, and the old grads were ready to field what looked like an impressive team. Charley Slader flew on from the Pacific Coast ready to pitch or play almost any other position neces' sary, as he did as an undergraduate. And the rest of the announced line-up was full of colorful stars from other years: O'Reilly, rf; Appleyard, Crane, Henshaw, 3b; Harris, ss; Butler, lb; Elrod, cf; Brown, Caito, 2b; Bill Gilhane, If; Fowler, c; Sondhcim, Murray, Sullivan, Kur- lansky, Slader, p. Were they better than the undergraduates? One will never know. It rained. The Tufts game was also rained out, but the nine finished its season with a surprisingly easy trouncing of Virginia. Ray McCulloch, Sophomore twirler, won his third game of the season, going the route and allowing only five hits until the ninth inning. On the offense, he and his teammates were combining timely hitting with Virginia errors and took a one-sided 12-6 game. A four-run rally in the ninth was the only sign of the power that was to take Virginia through a difficult New England tour without another defeat. And so Brown ended with si,\ victories in 16 games, a record that did not begin to show what a fair ball team she had. Graduated were : Captain Paul W. Welch and James A. Swallow, outfielders; Don Eccleston, Phi Beta Kappa pitcher; Robert L. Brush and Floyd C. Hinckley, catchers; and Kenneth Wnght, first baseman. Vincent Devaney, who pitched the winning games against Holy Cross and Harvard, was also a Senior. i a With the Yachtsmen ► R,\LPH Fletcher of Brown was elected chairman of the important Dinghy Committee of the Intercollegiate Yachting Association when that organization held its annual meeting at Oyster Harbors on the eve of the three-day regatta late in June. Well placed until the last day's races. Brown finished eighth in her debut in this regatta. The winner was Harvard, followed by Dartmouth, Williams, M. I. T., Trinity, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Yale, and Penn. i Faculty Summers < < ► ► The summer "vacation," as one mem- ber of the Brown faculty says, "gives us a chance to get at a lot of the things for which there is no tune during the rest of the year." And so Brown's laboratories will hum dur- ing July and August while other members of the faculty travel and study in different parts of the country and abroad. Most of the summer projects to be under- taken will center around the writing, either of books or articles for various learned jour- nals. Other faculty members will weigh new problems in connection with their courses. Prof. Will S. Taylor, chairman of the De- partment of Art, is to be busy during the summer as chairman of the Rhode Island Section of the National Exhibition of Amer- ican Art in New York City. Reports are expected soon from Prof. Robert P. Casey, chairman of the Depart- ment of Biblical Literature, who is en route to the ancient city of Van in Asia Minor, where he will excavate for clues to the cul- ture of the kingdom's civilization. Practically all members of the Depart- ment of Biology have work mapped out for the next two months. Prof. Philip H. Mitch- ell, chairman, will be working on special material for the Encyclopedia Americana at Woods Hole, where Prof. George W. Kid- der will also he busy at the Marine Biologi- cal Laboratories. Profs. Arthur M. Banta and William A. Castle will be at the marine biological laboratories at Cold Spring Har- bor, N. Y. Members of the department who arc to he in Providence are Prof. J. Walter Wilson, who is continuing his work on the minute structures of protozoa: Prof. Charles A. Stuart, who is investigating problems in bacteriology and immunology: Prof. Paul B. Sawin, who is studying inheritance prob- lems: and Prof. William C. Young, whose investigations deal with reproduction. In the Department of Botany, Prof. Wal- ter H. Snell, chairman, will be with the New York State Conservation Department as assistant forest pathologist. Prof. George L. Church is taking a group of advanced stu- Endoived Sliidenis ► According to Clarence E. Love- joy, alumni secretary of Columbia University, Brown stands well up among American universities in en- dowment per student. He puts Uni- versity of Rochester at the top of the list, with Yale, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, Chicago, Princeton, Duke, Brown, Stanford, Washington Uni- versity in St. Louis, Cornell, Virginia, Tulane, Lehigh, Pennsylvania and Columbia following in order. The University of Rochester, he says, has an endowment of $27,000 a student, whereas Columbia has $2,000 a stu- dent, i dents into the South to collect specimens of grasses. y Brown's chemists will concentrate on plans for opening the new chemical research laboratory — the arrangements being in charge of Prof. Robert F. Chambers, chair- man, and Prof. Charles A. Kraus, director of chemical research. Prof. Norris W. Rake- straw will be in Woods Hole to continue his studies on sea water. Prof. W. Walker Rus- sell and Prof. Laurence C. Foster are to be in Providence conducting research on mi- croanalysis and the chemistry of gallium. Economists with summer projects include Prof. Hugh B. Killough, who will begin work on a book dealing with the competi- tive system and government interference. Prof. James H. Shoemaker is to make a crit- ical analysis of controlled economy in to- talitarian countries. Problems in security loans will be studied by Prof. Willard C. Beatty. Prof. Arthur R. Tebbutt is complet- ing a statistical study. A trip through England to survey its schools will be undertaken by Prof. Andrew H. MacPhail of the Department of Educa- tion. Brown's engineers are to rearrange the mechanical engineering laboratories. Profs. Ben W. Brown and Thomas Cros- by of the Department of English will be busy with the theater. Prof. Crosby acting at the Ridgeway Theater in White Plains. Work on their textbooks in American litera- ture, old English literature, Victorian litera- ture and Anglo-Latin literature will be un- dertaken by Profs. William T. Hastings, chairman: Prof. George W. Anderson, Prof. Sharon Brown and Prof. Leicester Bradner. Prof. Anderson will also teach at the New York State College for Teachers in Albany. Studies in the bed-rock geology of the White Mountains and the region around Lake Winnipesaukee, N. H., will be carried on by Prof. Charles W. Brown, chairman, and Prof. Alonzo Quinn of the Depart- ment of Geology. Prof. Carl C. Branson is to conduct field investigations in Kansas and Missouri. Gordon C. Hautau, assistant, will work on a mineral survey project in Michigan. y Its publication planned for Fall, the Lin- guistic Atlas of New England is to be com- pleted this summer by Prof. Hans Kurath, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Other members of the department who will be engaged in special studies include Prof. Detlev W. Schumann, Dr. Edwin M. J. Kreztmann and Hans Wolff, assistant, who is in Switzer- land. Prof. Benjamin C. Clough, chairman of the Department of Greek and Latin Classics, will be busy with preliminary arrangements for the December meetings ol the American Philological Association and the Archeolog- ical Institute of America, which will be held at Brown. Revision of his text on the history of Greek civilization will occupy Prof. Her- bert N. Couch. Prof. Charles A. Robinson, Jr., and Dr. Frank P. Jones will be writing. In the Department of History, Prof. Ches- ter H. Kirby and Prof. Jarvis M. Morse have special projects. Prof. Kirby, who will be on leave from Brown during the first semester next year, will teach at the summer school of the University of Iowa and then go abroad for research on social Europe in the I9th century. 43 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Mathematicians who will be active this summer include Prof. Albert A. Bennett, who IS to be at Mills College, and Profs. Raymond C. Archibald and Jacob D. Ta- markm. Prof. Archibald is writing a history of the American Mathematical Society. Prof. Clarence R. Adams will he working on a paper. In California until September, Prof. Ar- thur B. Hitchcock of the Department of Music will spend part of his time with mu- sical composition. > Three members of the Department of Philosophy have writing projects mapped out. Prof. Curt J. Ducasse, chairman, has a book on philosophical method in prepara- tion; Prof. Ralph M. Blake will work on a history of philosophy, and Prof. Charles A. Baylis will collaborate with Prof. Bennett on a book on logic. Summer plans of the Department of Physics call for such activities as research and writing by Prof. Robert B. Lindsay, chairman; research on crystals by Prof. Harry E. Farnsworth: and work in color photography by Prof. Carl W. Miller. Members of the Department of Psycho- logy, under the chairmanship of Prof. Walter S. Hunter, will continue their re- search on a variety of problems. Prof. Clarence H. Graham is working on vision investigations and Prof. Harold Schlosberg and Prof. Edward H. Kemp are to be busy with studies in connection with neuroses. The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures has Prof. Robert H. Wil- liams planning to be in New York and Boston studying aspects of relationships between Italian and Spanish literature. Prof. Parker G. Peckham is working at Princeton and Dr. Otis E. Fellows at the Library of Congress. Prof. Edmund L. Loughnan has sailed for England. ^ ^ For a Brown Bookshelf < < "Theatre at the Left'' ► ► It IS like hearing those fine lectures of Professor Ben W. Brown again to pick up "Theatre at the Left," the study of the Russian theatre made during his sabbatic months last year. The book has all the clarity, interest, and substance that under- graduates look for in Professor Brown's lectures. But, of course, it is a more imposing un- dertaking that he has here attempted than he has ever done before. And the result is of solid value as a reliable, comprehensive report on the remarkable things that have been happening on the Russian stage since the Soviet took charge. It is unquestionably a product of scholarship, but it is also an item to be explored with pleasure by the casual reader, too. There have been other works on the Russian theatre, to be sure, but that theatre is so restless that most of these have been outmoded. Professor Brown brings us up to date, writes with sympathetic understand- ing, and yet is no blind enthusiast. You respect his balanced judgment. There are many reasons why the Russian theatre should be different. Its mission was an early one of propaganda and education. The writer sees how the State control works two ways: the subsidies gives the playwright and producer unusual opportunities and equipment for experiment, since box office returns can theoretically be ignored. And yet this State benevolence implies a right to control and censor, which must prove a check on the individual's artistic integrity or mold him to a pattern. At any rate, with art as a weapon, the State has gone into wholesale production in the theatre for a proud people. Professor Brown shows the conflict be- tween the older naturalistic theatre and the new radical wing where novelty is the great virtue. He identifies the figures and their philosophies in this artistic warfare. He shows the fate of the classics, he tells of the revolution-born drama, he acknowledges the place of music and ballet in the theatre's scheme, he follows the drama into the provinces as well as on Moscow's many stages. Professor Brown is amazed at what has been accomplished in 20 years, but he will not admit that the Russian is the world's foremost theatre. But the "Theatre at the Left" has reached a healthy majority and still advances. All of Professor Brown's former students will welcome the chance to read these lectures which they are too late to hear him deliver in the classroom. He has done a thorough, stimulating piece of work. (The 111-page book is published by The Booke Shop, 4 Market Square. Providence, at $1.50 a copy.) < < Posthumous Praises ► "The American Civil War." post- humous book by Dr. Carl Russell Fish '97, for 3 2 years teacher of history at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin and one of the beloved, colorful figures of the Wisconsin campus, came out last month and immediately brought high praise from the reviewers. "This book is not only the best Professor Fish ever wrote, it is the best interpretation of the American Civil War that has ever been written," said Henry Steele Commager in BooJ;s of the H^w Tor); Herald Tribune. "It IS definitely an interpretation, not a narrative history ... a series of essays on selected aspects of the Civil War — essays, each one of which might, in less skillful hands, have burgeoned into a full length book." The editor is Professor William Ernest Smith, who has contributed two chapters — on Civil War finance and on constitutional questions — and the publisher is Longmans, Green 6? Company. i Second Dorr Pamphlet ► "The Constitutional Convention That Never Met" is the second of the "Dorr Pamphlets" by Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. '07 of the Harvard Law School Faculty. Like his other pamphlet in the series, "State House vs. Penthouse, " the work is published by the Booke Shop, Providence. Part of a series on "Rhode Island Affairs, Past, Present and Future," the latest publi- cation concerns itself with the convention planned by the Democrats in 193 5, after they gained control of the State govern- ment, but rejected by vote of the people. Articles by Prof. Chafee, published in the Evening Bulletin in 193 5 on the issue of a constitutional convention, are reprinted, prefaced by a chapter on "The Constitu- tional Convention Struggle." Other articles and appendices include the State Supreme Court's opinion on the au- thority of the Legislature to provide for a convention, an Evening Bulletin interview with Robert E. Quinn, then Lieutenant Governor, on his program for a convention, and a resume of the 193 5 convention act. Included also is the argument of Zech- ariah Chafee '80 of Providence, father of the author, presented to the Supreme Court as a layman, maintaining there should be no constitutional convention because "there is no urgent necessity or preponderant public opinion calling therefore." Prof. Chafee, incidentally, dedicates the pamphlet to his father, "a citizen of Rhode Island going on eighty years." i Phi Beta Kappa Elections > Dean Saml'EL T. Arnold '13 will be president of the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa during the coming year, suc- ceeding Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe "94. The society's elections were a principal part of the annual meeting held on the Saturday of the Commencement weekend. Honorary membership was voted to John Nicholas Brown, member of the University's Board of Fellows, and alumni membership was conferred on Dr. Winthrop J. V. Oster- hout '93, the distinguished scientist of the Rockefeller Institute. Sixteen more Seniors, 10 of them men, had been elected to mem- bership at the end of the year, and their initiation preceded the chapter's luncheon in Faunce House. They made a total of 47 undergraduates chosen by Phi Beta Kappa this academic year. Other officers, recommended by the nom- inating committee of which Prof. George E. Bigge was chairman, were elected as follows: Vice President — Dr. John H. Williams '12, dean of the Harvard School of Public Administration: Secretary — Prof, William T. Hastings '03; Treasurer Judge William W. Moss '94; Historian — Frederick T. Guild '90; Auditor— George L. Miner '97; Committee: Alumni and Honorary Mem- bership — Chauncey E. Wheeler '09, Prof. Sharon Brown '15, Claude R. Branch '07; Arrangements — Fred B. Perkins '19, Eliza- beth Young Jeffers '24; New Chapters — Prof. Hastings, Prof. Robert F. Chambers '09; Prof. L. M. Goodrich: Nomination of Officers — Walter Adler '18, Prof. Sinclair W. Armstrong, Mason B. Merchant '25. Prof. Ben C. Clough, Prof. Lawrence C. Wroth, Prof. Hastings, and Dean Arnold were among those vj^o submitted reports to the meeting. Prof. Hastings speaking of the triennial council of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa which met in Atlanta last fall. < < Faculty Notes > Professor Laurence S. Foster of the Department of Chemistry at Brown Uni- versity has been elected vice-president of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers. Professors C. Emanuel Ekstrom and Will S. Taylor were judges of material submitted in the national competition by high school girls and boys m connection with the Na- tional Air Mail Week. Professor Earlc K. Strachan, of the De- partment of Chemistry, was in charge of the exhibitions arranged at Brown as part of the University's contribution toward New Eng- land Research Day in May. Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Geology, and Engineer- ing laboratories were open all day to man- ufacturers and others interested in research. Professor H. B. Van Hoesen is at work on the "composite biography" of an Egyp- tian, Petearpsenesis, based on papyrus writ- ings. ' ' 44 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY In Sayles Hall < < ► Attacking the doctrine that people should look to the State tor "distribution of the abundant life," Dr. Lewis W. Douglas, principal and vice chancellor of McGill University, deplored the "prevail- ing demoralization ot man's spirit" in his speech before the Brown Alumni in Sayles Hall on Commencement Day. The former U. S. Director ot the Budget, now in the academic world "where budgets cannot be blithedly disregarded," traced the drift toward economic regimentation in this country from the passage of the high pro- tective tariff act of 1872, which he said started it all by applying for the first time the policy that the State should be used to benelit its citisens financially. "This was a profound thought, for it provides the reason for the prevailing sub- sidization of every group in our society. The industrialist who demands his tariff, the speculator who advocates inflation, the farmer who requests his cash payment, the merchant who supports deficit financing, the producer who asks for the extension of public credit for private profit, all are fundamentally advocating the same propo- sition." ► Accelerated by the regimentation of the World War and post-war developments, this doctrine of economic nationalism and public subsidies has led to the establishment of dictatorship in many countries and to "personal governments of unrestrained au- thority" in other countries, Dr. Douglas declared. "Thus absolutism prevails today in almost as virulent a form as 200 years ago," he said. "And thus, too, the world has been converted into a group of nations whose dominant policy is preparation for war. The democratic liberalism of the 19th century has been converted into the royal license of the ISth. Here at home the seeds of the mercantilist policy, planted more than half a century ago, have sprouted, flourished to full growth and are now bearing their fruit and w'e are seeing under our very eyes the development, in industry, agriculture and labor, ot monopolistic practices indorsed by statutory and administrative law and sup- ported by private power." ► Triimphant over all rackets (excepting, said Dr. Douglas, the honorary degree racket), Thomas E. Dewey, crusading Dis- trict Attorney of New York, was given a prolonged ovation as he was introduced to the alumni in the Sayles Hall meeting on Commencement Day. Assailing the "dictatorship of crime", he called for a divorce of "law enforcement and politics, political machines and the un- derworld, and municipal government and political machines." Such action would pro- vide a powerful weapon against the "organ- ized crime that is sapping the vitals ot democracy." But before anything effective can be done to curb crime, he said, the American people will have to overcome the cynical realization that "there is evil, but no one does anything about it." "The modern racket means the existence of men directing a criminal business which runs into tremendous profits," he continued. He mentioned specific rackets, among them the work of the Dutch Schultz mob, which was operating m New York "with all the effrontery of legitimacy and with compe- tent legal advice." "Everybody knew where Al Capone was for a decade in Chicago. Everybody knew where Lucky Luciano lived. They operated openly. And the existence of their rackets was the most dangerous poison that can be administered into the veins of democracy. When society becomes infected with the knowledge that organized crime thrives in Its borders, it leads to the conclusion that organized crime cannot exist without the aid of public officials. Democracy cannot stand that kind ot a spiral, and people have got to tight on all fronts against it." ► Admirable in white linen, unprede- cented but sensible garb for a hot Alumni Meeting platform. President Wri.ston em- phasized the "timeless quality" of a liberal education. Uniting history with philosophy, he reminded his hearers in Sayles Hall of the inheritance of "this liberal and catholic institution" (as the charter commanded it to be) and explained its objectives with Vigor and candor. Pointing out the fact that graduate study at Brown University is no "recent intruder," he defended this phase of univer- sity life and commended research as essen- tial to the society of scholars. "The first duty of the teacher," he said, "is not to do something with or for his students, but with liimselt." Academic freedom, he declared, was essential to a liberal education. It is more, he added, "than freedom for the professor to say and do what he thinks is right and wise in the classroom: it represents freedom of learning even more than freedom of teaching." ► In opening the Sayles Hall meeting, Dr. Louis L Newman "13, New York rabbi, pointed out that the alumni had gathered lor their annual reunion to be reinforced in their faith in life. "We pledge our confidence anew," he said, "in the time when terrorism will dis- appear, when those who lead nations in folly and madness will go the way of others who have tried the same thing and lost out before the principle of liberty." In welcoming back to Rhode Island every "loyal son of Brown," Governor Quinn called this State the "abiding place of free- dom of speech, conscience and action." He urged that the principles of the university and the State be guided by the principles of the Constitution and the Sermon on the Mount. < i The Corporation Meeting ► ► Retirement of Clinton Harvey Cur- rier "98, associate professor of mathematics, gratefully remembered by many a Brown man for his helpful teaching and his services in the administration of the college, was announced at the June meeting of the Corporation. Also placed on the emeritus list was Frederick Taft Guild "90, whose retirement plans had been made public previously. The resignation of James H. Ardrey of New York, a member of the Board of Trustees since 1930, was presented and accepted with regret. Prominent among faculty changes were the following appointments: Art — Edwin Carter Rae, instructor. Biology — C. Lloyd Claff, research associate. Chemistry — Paul Clifford Cross, associate professor: John Perry Howe, assistant profesor: John Robert Lacher and Max F. Roy, instructors; Niels Bjerrum, visiting lecturer. English — Fred- eric C. Marston, Jr., and Roland N. Har- man, instructors. German — Bernard Bloch, instructor. History — Carl Bridenbaugh, associate professor. Mathematics — George Elmer Forsythe, Henry Pearce Atkins, Erben Cook, Jr., Stefan E. Warchawsky, Edward Maurice Beesley, Edmund Dwight Macken- zie Williams, instructors. Political science and sociology — Clarence Glick and Land- rum Rymer, instructors. Psychology — Donald B. Lindsley, assistant professor. Romance languages — Howard Lee No- strand, Hunter Kellenberger, assistant pro- fessors. ► Promotions were announced as follows; German, Robert McBurney M:tche!l to Professor. Romance Languages, William Leopold Fichter to Professor. Astronomy, Charles Hugh Smiley to Associate Professor. Greek and Latin Classics, Herbert Newell Couch to Associate Professor. Mathematics, James Sutherland Frame to Assistant Pro- lessor. Physics, Alfred Bosworth Focke to Assistant Professor. Psychology, Joseph McVicker Hunt to Assistant Professor; Edward Harris Kemp to Assistant Professor. Members of the corporation honored Mr. Guild, who is retiring on June 30 as registrar and assistant secretary of the corporation after 48 years of service with the university, by presenting him a large Chelsea clock. The presentation, an expression of the corporation's appreciation of Mr. Guild's long service as their assistant secretary, was made by Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, the senior Fellow. ► In presenting the clock. Dr. Bumpus said: "The Creator has endowed you with a rare combination of chromosomes. The ability to endure a half-century of academic erosion is unusual, but the attention inci- dent to the duties you have so successfully and pleasantly performed ordinarily would have obliterated anyone lacking in sterling durability. "Your singular power of adaptation has enabled you to become symbiotic with at least four presidents, not to mention the vice presidents, acting presidents and presi- dents pro tern, and ad interim. For two score years and four as secretary of the faculty, you have been present during the deliberations of this erudite body, sym- pathetic with ail its moods and tenses, and you have recorded its actions, interactions and reactions to the complete satisfaction of all concerned. "For years you were the sole adviser — often confidential adviser — of students, a recorder of virtues, vices and academic standing. You have guarded the entrance to and exit from this university, and have been an expert in the bewildering technique of so-called 'entrance requirements' and the ritual ol the commencement platform. "You have meticulously recorded the classroom reports of thousands of students, and you are well acquainted with the scho- lastic work of most of the gentlemen in this room. This, I presume, accounts for the promptitude with which they have re- sponded to my recent reminder that it may be fitting to give you a testimonial of their appreciation of your long, efficient, consi- derate and kindly service." i i 45 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Brown Alumni Monthly Published at Brown University by the Associated Alumni CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 Managing Editor ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 Business Manager HENRY S. CHAFEE 09 ALFRED H. GURNEY '07 Secretary GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 Pembroke Correspondent Subscriptions. $2 a year. Single copies. 25 cents. There is no issue during August or September. Entered at the Providence Post Office at second'class matter. Vol. XXXIX JULY, 1^^^ In the Mailbox Providence, June 24 ► ► DtAR Sir: Would you be interested in an alumnus"s minor criticisms of a fine Commencement? First, I liked the countermarch which was used in 1937 as the procession got under way. That extra swing down the campus and back again let you see the others better. We didn't get it this year, and I almost felt whisked off the campus before the end ol the line had started to move. Second, the University seems to forget that few of us alumni get inside the Church to the graduation exercises. We don't know what has happened there. You heard the question again and again on the campus later, "Who got the honorary degrees?" Yet nobody could give the answer until the evening paper came out. Why not at least announce at the Sayles Hall meeting who received the honorary degrees and identify the individuals briefly? It wouldn't take long. That brings up another point that is somewhat related. Isn't there some way of let- ting the townspeople know when the group of notables is passing, especially the group that is going to get the honorary degrees. I heard a number of regrets that Dewey got by without being seen. This could be done without flaunting the dignitaries in your face, but I think a lot of people come to watch the procession partly because they want to .see the great personages in the line. And they don't know the great personages when they see them. So much on behalf of the townspeople. This next point isn't so considerate of them. Can't outsiders be kept out of Sayles Hall at least until the alumni have a chance to get seats? There were more non-Brown people in the hall this year than ever before. It's not only that they occupy the places which by rights belong to Brunonians, but they also flock out after the first notable has spoken (if he's the one they're interested in), interrupting the proceedings. Maybe some of the Brown men were leaving, too, for three hours is a long spell in a hot hall, but I think most of the alumni wanted to hear President Wriston. More power to him for wearing linen. But when he urges us alumni to go over to Faunce House and look at tapestries, he ought to make sure the janitors are not still in the middle of their sweeping. I haven't a grouch on. I really thought it was a good Commencement. But I'm just passing along a few ideas. Incidentally, I was glad to see the Van Wickle gates were swung out o.k. GRAMPUS { P. S. In case you don't know, a grampus IS a fish with teeth in his lower jaw only. But he still seems to be able to take a bite or two.) ^ ^ The Brotm Aluiinu Monthly, Inc. Gentlemen: ► It is with great pleasure that I enclose my check for next year's subscription to The Brown Alumni Monthly, because this is one case where I know I am getting more than my money's worth. Maybe the old UNIVERSITY is becom- ing more alive with news, — but I am more inclined to suspect that your editorial policy during the past year or so has been changed because this news is presented in such an interesting way that I cannot help hut read the magazine from cover to cover. For instance, the superb article that ap- peared last fall concerning the pro and con of the football situation; — and the excellent account in the current issue about the In- ventory Test. With articles like those the Mo7it/i!y would read just as well if it were bound between two blotters, but there is no doubt that the new color cover is a very laudable improvement in itself. Very sincerely yours, R.^LPH F. Brigcs, 'M ii Berea, Ky., June 18 ► DtAR Sir; I have had a lot of lun answering the questions in the May number which gave a sample ot the Inventory Tests. Vou do not ask for reports, but I am sending you mine just the same. My French is out ol commission and reduces my average, which is 58 out of 93; excluding the French, 58 out of 87. (A very fine record. — Ed.) Included in my correct answers is one which I believe to be incorrectly answered in the magazine. Please pard(m me lor calling my attention to it: The sixth question under Mathematics concern the area of a rectangle of a width of 3 and a length of 5.44+. Now 5.44+ equals 5%; 5%x3 equals 16%- Your answer is 15%. Fraternally, Georoe H. Felton '69 < < 300 Years Old ► ► The First Baptist Meeting House, goal of every Brown Senior on Commencement Day, is celebrating its 300th anniversary this year. A "University Night" to com- memorate the long-standing association of Brown with the church was one of the fea- tures of the observances. In token of that cordial relationship. President Wriston presented to Dr. Arthur W. Cleaves, the pastor, a scroll extending greetings and congratulations, and Prof. Albert K. Potter reminded the celebrants of colorful events in the history of the two institutions. The partnership between church and col- lege IS more significant. Dr. Wriston said. when they "work side by side as equals, neither being subordinated to the other." They exercise their functions best if each retains its independence, he said. He re- ferred to the charter of Brown University as "a landmark in the history ol college charters" because of its fair and liberal attitude. Professor Potter described Commence- ment for 75 years after the Revolution as a "carnival of merrymaking in gaily deco- rated streets," and said "the behavior of the crowds was so riotous and destructive that Church and University protested to the town authorities against the setting up of booths for the sale of liquor even on the church grounds and demanded the protec- tion of the police." The presence of the High Sheriff at modern Commencements was a "unique and priceless relic" of the days when his attendance was "an indis- pensable adjunct ol our ceremonies." The text of the scroll was as follows: "The Corporation and Faculty of Brown University to the Pastor and People of the First Baptist Church in Providence GREET- INGS:— "On the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of your society we send our warm congratulations. Your first leader, in ancient days, cried out against "rigidities and persecutions;" our founders, a century and a quarter later, breathed the same spirit. We have been united in a community of effort Irom the days when James Manning guided not only the infant college, but also your liberal society, and ever since your present edifice was erected, 'for the publick worship ol Almighty Gcfe and also for holding Commencement in,' it has become increasingly endeared through the years in our memories as in yours. It would be long to rehearse the names of good men who served us both, but our grateful thoughts of them join with yours. In the spirit of their faith we heartily believe, with you, as we felicitate you today, that "the equity and piety of that freedom will more and more shine forth to the beauty of Chris- tianity and the lustre ol true faith in God and love to mankind." i i COAL of Slroutt (lontmeni'finfnt mnrrhers^ the First Baptist \feetinu llnuse is ahservinfi its 300th Anniversary. Thf pirltirf is frtim an old print. 46 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Dr. Wriston (C-(J»itiimed from page 41) every reason for satisfaction in the faith and strength of democracy, where alone the gov- ernment may trust the university with real academic freedom. An independent hheral college would he impossible in a collcctivist scheme. It would have to he a servant of the state — without independence. Academic freedom is much more than freedom for the professor to say and do what he thinks is right and wise in the classroom: it represents freedom of learning even more than freedom of teach- ing. As the late Dean Haggerty said. "The denial of academic liberty is the denial of intellectual opportunities to youth." Although the state has long since come to support universities and colleges, the exist- ence of the so-called privately endowed in- stitutions has set a standard of academic freedom and intellectual independence which is at once a model and a safe-guard to those institutions which are supported by the state. For over 170 years Brown has been a beacon light. It is still a liberal and catholic institution. ► Our forefathers did not expect us merely to preserve what we inherited, hut to expand that inheritance, and you have, therefore, the right and the obligation to inquire whether our faculty really advances the frontiers of knowledge, whether its pur- suit of truth is well directed and vigorous. If our teachers merely thresh the old straw, they betray youth. Only if they seek the most significant fields and the richest gains, do their energies come to full fruition. It was fifty years ago that Brown first conferred advanced degrees in course, and we have as our guests at this Commence- ment the two men who then received the Master of Arts degree. Sometimes men speak of the Graduate School as though it were a recent inven- tion and an intruder upon our tradition. Quite the contrary. The Johns Hopkins was opened only sixty-two years ago and it was but four years earlier that Harvard entered upon graduate study in a serious way; Yale did not grant its first Doctor of Philosophy degree until 1861. The work at Brown, therefore, represented the alert and forethoughtful spirit which marked the regime of President Robinson. In his last annual report he remarked that — "It is earnestly to he hoped that courses of graduate study, to he rewarded by higher degrees, which have thus been begun, will hereafter become permanent parts of the educational opportunities afforded at Brown University; and that these courses of study will be so far multiplied and extended as to embrace the chief branches of literature and science. . . ." President Andrews" work made the fulfillment of these hopes in- evitable. It is true that the formal organ- ization of our Graduate School under the leadership of a dean is of more recent date, but the substance and not the organization is significant. > Moreover, advanced study represented something infinitely more important. It represented the reunion of two vital func- tions — passing forward the torch which is handed to us from the past and at the same time blazing a new path through unchar- tered regions, opening wider vistas for future generations. One is the function of instruction; the other is the function of re- search. But fundamentally they are the Hedside Ornduation > One Brown Senior was not present in the First Bapti.st Meeting House this year on Commencement Day, but he received his diploma just the same, — under unique circvimstances. George C. Bright of Scranton, Pa., has been ill since May at the Gaylord Farms Hospital, Wallingford. Conn., and it was there that his father, William E. Bright "07, conducted their private Commencement exercises. A brill ant student. Bright was awarded his degree by action of the Board of Fellows, which followed the recommendation of the Faculty in so doing, although the boy had not completed his formal college work because of his illness. His record had been of such unusual excellence that he deserved to he rewarded with a degree, his profes.sors vouched. In forwarding the diploma to Mr. Bright, Dr. Samuel T. Arnold, Dean of the College, said it was the first time in the history of Brown that a degree had been awarded under such circumstances. Chosen by the University to spend his Junior year in France, Bright became ill while abroad. He returned to this country, however, and continued his studies until May, when he was forced to enter the hospital. He was recently elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has been awarded a fellowship in the Harvard Graduate School. Mr. Bright promised to give the diploma to his son at the same time on Com- mencement Day as the boy"s classmates were receiving theirs. "I can have a little Commencement exercise with him,"' he said, "for I know he will he thinking about tlic others and wishing he could he there."' i i same; it is a tragic and false dichotomy which has tended to set them over against one another. Teaching requires an original mind and the creative spirit. Wh-le there may exist without research training, it can safely be said that an enlightened piece of research is the best available evidence of their pres- ence. The mind of the teacher must be not only original and creative: it must be fresh and vigorous. The greatest single source of academic refreshment is research. There is no real validity in the notion that competent research work and brilliant teaching seldom are to he found in the same person. The very opposite is true. Of course, there are exceptions: sometimes preoccupation with research problems leads a man to neglect his teachings: and occasionally a brilliant teacher finds other outlets for his creative intellectual energies. But the broad rule is that the two gifts go together. It IS fair to say that whatever deepens and enriches experience is likely to improve teaching, whatever frustrates or impover- ishes experience impairs teaching. The good teacher should have a life so abun- dant that many forms of exper:ence are heaped up, pressed down, and running over. The first duty of the teacher is not to do something with or for his students, but with himself. ► Research, if it is to be personally sig- nificant, can never be approached defen- sively, as an arduous duty. The result of efforts so motivated will be dry and unin- spiring. However coldly analytical the rea- soning, the motives must be zeal for truth, adventurous contact with the unknown, pas- sion for new horizons. The work must be intellectual; the drives must be emotional, as every kind of creative urge must inev- itably be. The project must seem important, and beneath fatigue with details and rou- tine there must be an energizing joy in the task as a whole. In this enterprise the teacher has no advantage over those with whom he deals. He is in competition not with students but with other scholars whose learning and whose powers are equal to his own. When he publishes, he submits to an examination not by undergraduates but by his peers. If he enci^unters criticism, he may learn from that: if he wins praise, it gives him courage and incentive to carry on. This adventure can never become dull, and if his pace slackens for a moment, the critical review will speedily show his deficiency. Success in research has its effect upon teaching not only directly through his own gain in power hut indirectly through the gain in respect upon the part of his students. Undergraduates learn to distrust and dislike the authoritarian attitude of a professor but to appreciate and admire real authority. The greatest barrier to teaching is emo- tional resistance on the part of the student: a great aid is the emotional harmony that arises from mutual respect. Brown men may rightly rejoice in the fact that we have a graduate school. It draws to the society of scholars, our faculty, men who are ready to adventure beyond the beaten intellectual paths, men of creative spirit, whose devotion to truth far transcends any definition of self-interest. It brings fresh- ness, vigor, and vitality to the instruction of our undergraduate body. Of course, the college IS the center of our University, but the college profits by the strength which is added to its instruction by the presence of a graduate department. > Gentlemen, you have a great inher- itance. There is an inheritance of beauty embodied in our campus and our buildings. They do not cry aloud of newness and raw- ness: they are not factory productions. Each has its own character and individuality; each reflects the temper, the spirit and the ideals of its own age. The successive thoughts of successive generations with re- gard to what is beautiful in a building, what is useful, and what is noble may here be found. The thought, the care, the faith and the ambition of those who have gone before have given us that which no money can buy — something which is beyond price. But deeper, more significant yet, is the heritage of ideals, the gift of the past to the temper of our teaching, to the struc- ture of our curriculum, to the wisdom, as well as the scholarship of our faculty. As you go out from this 170th Commencement, therefore, go out firm in the faith that the traditions of Brown is being constantly en- riched; that their scope is being broadened rather than narrowed: that we are still ful- filling the promise and the demand of our ancient charter for a "liberal and catholic institution'": that our University continues, in the words of the preamble, to benefit society "by forming the rising generation to virtue, knowledge, and useful literature." i * 47 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Classes in Reunion < < y y Every college generation from 1878 to 1937 was represented this June as Brunonians heeded the call for those re- union festivities which give Brown Com- mencements one of their distinctive qual- ities. For some, especially 1878, 1888, and 1913, the year brought a significant anni- versary that made the observance more im- perative than others. But there have been few years when reports from reunion cen- tres indicated such congenial, well-attended, and successful gatherings as they did this June. Some alumni came from lands across the seas, and many came from distant states to join those nearer to the campus which was the centre of their curiosity and loyalty. Shore resort, country club, farm, hotel and private home opened hospitable doors for the informalities of the week-end, and reminiscence played its large part in the fellowship that was enriched anew. There were 39 classes known to have had reunions: 1878, 1879, 1880, 1885, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1891, 189J, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 19J7. Any roster of reunion classes is bound to be incomplete, but, with apologies for in- evitable omissions, the Alumni Monthly believes even a partial list holds interest for its readers. With thanks to those class secre- taries who assisted, the Monthly herewith note the various observances reported in the press or to the Alumni Office. 1878 ► Senior among reunion classes was the 60-year group, which mustered eight of the 13 living members for a celebration at the Newport estate of William Gammell. In the group were Isaac O. Winslow, Charles F. Butterworth, John A. Cross, Stephen O. Metcalf, Charles T. Howard, William Ely, Rev. Gideon A. Burgess, and their ho.st. From three others came messages of regret: Harold C. Childs, John H. Mason, and George F. Weston. William C. Lincoln "68, 70 years out of college, had also been in- vited to attend but could not. Each mem- ber received a diploma, amusing hut less official than those of '78, when Brown had five buildings and a faculty of 18. Before the group left the Hope Club in Providence for the trip to Newport, President Wriston came to pay his compliments to the elders. 1879 ► Continuing its amazing record the '79ers held their 59th annual reunion, with nine of the 12 living members present at the Anawan Club, Rehoboth, as the guests of Edward S. Marsh of Brandon, Vt. A fea- ture was the business meeting over which Judge Willard B. Tanner presided, during which plans for the 60th reunion were discussed. Telegrams of regret came from George F. Barnard, Boscawen, N, H., and Charles P. Bennett, Colorado Springs. Among those present were: Edward S. Adams, James H. Earle, R. Clinton Fuller, Dr. A. H. Harrington, Dr. Walter L. Munro, Henry O. Tripp, and Dr. Stephen A. Welch. 1880 > Confident that the class's fame was adequately established, the men of 1880 eschewed photographer and newspaper pub- licity this year, but seven of the 15 living members held a jolly reunion just the same, with the secretary's farm, Laneway, their headquarters over the weekend. Those pres- ent were: Charles R. Adams, Henry J. Boyce, Zechanah Chafee, Fred M. Ham- mett, James G. Lincoln, Edward A. Smiley, and Frank L. Tinkham. Of those absent one lives in Japan, two in the Middle West, and one in the western part of Virginia. Three others were kept away by ill health. 1883-1884 > With several of the class of 1884 as guests, the 5 5-year class was entertained at the home of Prof. Henry P. Manning, together with some of the wives and other guests. Among those present were: Prof. F. L. Shepardson of Colgate University, Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Twing, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Burnham, Mrs. H. W. Preston, and Miss Dorothy Preston. Guests from '84 included: Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Baker, Dean Otis E. Randall, H. H. Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Shedd. Prof, and Mrs. Ray E. Gilman and Mrs. C. H. Currier were also present. 1885 > Ten members of the class of 1885 were luncheon guests of Dr. Charles H. Hare at the Harvard Club, Boston, on Saturday, June 18. The class composed a tribute to Chief Justice Fred T. Field '00, of the Mas- sachusetts Supreme Court. In addition to their host, the following were present: Elmer E. Silver, James Monroe Pendleton, Francis W. Greene, Charles E. Bassett, Edgar H. Grout, Edward F. Lovejoy, Francis H. Brown, Andrew McCorrie Warren and Dr. George S. Mathews. 1886 y The class can still rise and shine, for it was on hand early for the annual breakfast at the University Club on Commencement morning and had a prominent place in the procession. Breakfasters included: Prof. George Grafton Wilson, Thomas G. Reese, Clarence E. Bury, Norman Ishani, Prof. E. B. Delabarre and Prof. A. K. Potter. 1888 y Distances meant little to a number of '88 men intent on returning for the suc- cessful 50th anniversary observance, for one came from California, another from Nevada, a third from Maryland, and a fourth from Washington, D. C. Fifteen members were present at the Biltmore Hotel for the class dinner that was the major fes- tivity on the program. They included: Josiah Bartlett, Roland Park, Md.: George S. Brown, Reno, Nev.: Capt. Ernest H. Brownell, Francis H. Brownell, Albert B. Cook, Charles D. Cooke, Areola, N. J.; Rev. Charles H. Day, Arthur P. Johnson, Rev. Henry W. Pinkham, Rt. Rev. L. C. Sanford, Fresno, Cal.; Walter B. Smith, Robert R. Taft, Prof. Arthur E. Watson, Frederic E. Whitaker, and Dr. William A. Wilbur, Washington, D. C. Francis H. Brownell was the class host. 1890 ► Dinner at the University Club on Com- mencement night was the reunion attraction for the class, with the following at the table: Dr. Edmund C. Burnett, Washing- ton, D. C: Rev. Hamilton E. Chapman, Walter A. Preshrcy, Rev. Albert E. Kingsley, James B. Porter, William T. Green, Pres- ident John L. Alger, Edward C. Stiness and Eugene A. Perry. 1891 ► A DINNER at the Agawam Hunt Club Sunday night and a luncheon at the Hope Club on Monday found the following '91 men on hand: Frank L. Hinckley, Rev. C. Albert Meadcr, Herbert L. Dunn, Frank E. Einsor, William H. Paine, Prof. A. B. Johnson, Samuel A. Everett, Edward B. Birge, Dr. Arthur L. Beals, Frank D. Lisle, Arthur H. Colby, Prof. Joseph N. Ashton and Edwin A. Barrows. 1893 ► A SPLENDID turnout of 45 was an ap- propriate total for the 45-year class, which dined at the Squantum Club as guests of the class president, Edward B. Aldrich. Particularly welcome were Dr. Meiklejohn, who came from Berkeley, Cal., and Prof. Herbert E. Day of Washington, D. C, and Prof. Carl "V. Tower of Mansfield, Pa., both attending their first reunion in two years. Mr. Aldrich was re-elected president and Mr. Archibald C. Matteson, secretary. Others present included: Henry W. B. Arnold, Dr. Arthur T. Belknap, Collegcville, Pa.; Robert Marshall Brown, William J. Brown, John L. Casey, Robert Cushman, Rev. Edward B. Dolan, Orrin P. Durkee, Stephen A. Hopkins, Arthur W. Rowcll, Charles A. Selden, Walter E. Smith, Daniel C, Snow, Rev. Everett T, Studley, Edward H. Weeks, Prof. Alfred R. Wightman, Daniel Howard, Horace E. Jacobs, Edward M. Johnson, J. D. E. Jones, Frederick P. Ladd, Crozet, Va.; Dr. William H. Magill, Wendell A. Mowry, George W. Perkins, Charles H. Phelps and Walter S. Reynolds. They had as guests Judge John W. Sweeney, Fred Tenney, Frank E. Smith, Edward D. Robinson, Dean Otis E. Randall, Stuart M. Aldrich, Edwin A. Burlingame, Daniel F. George and Dr. George A. Matteson. 1896 ► Fourteen of the class dined at the Prov- idence Biltmore Hotel Sunday night: Alli- son Stone, John S. Murdock, Ronald C. Green, Everett L. Walling, James H. Rickard, Elmer J. Rathbun, Herbert B. Lang, Albert R. Nichols. Judge Charles R. Easton, Dr. Robert S. Phillips, J. Ellis Ames, Judge G. Frederick Frost, Frederick A. Jones and William A. McAuslan. 1898 ► Dwicht K. Bartlett's summer home at Little Compton and Dennis F. O'Brien's at Watch Hill offered the 40-year class hos- pitality at two corners of Rhode Island. Joseph Taylor appeared at the Bartlett's on the first day and announced he was as eager to return to the Orient as ever. He is at Union College, Chengtu, West China, which he helped found. Edward L. Adams of Downer's Grove, 111., was another who came from a distance. 48 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY At "Sunnylands" on the second day, the class meeting was held, with Borden D. Whiting of Newark retained in the pres- idency. Judge Henry D. C. Diihois was elected secretary-treasurer to fill the office left vacant by the death of Dr. Charles Carroll. Mr. Bartlett is chairman of the class gift committee which raised $J500 toward the Andrews House fund. Chief speaker of the meeting was Prof. James H. Shoemaker. Among others who partici- pated in the reunion were: George F. Troy. Lester B. Mathewson, Edwin E. Wightman, George A. Mellen. Prof. Clinton H. Currier, Howell G. Wil- co-x, George W. Morris. Albert M. Dunham, William E. Winchester, New York; Pliny A. Boyd, Bloomfield, N. J.; William H. Cady, Robert J. Fuller, Thomas E. Steere, John A. Gammons, Dr. Howard N. Kings- ford, R America's amateur "sky-sleuths," known as the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held their 27th annual meet- ing on May 27 and 28, at the Ladd Ob- servatory of Brown University. Since Its founding in 1911, the associa- tion has piled up a total of more than 600,000 observations. Its present 3^0 mem- bers are now adding to this amount to the extent of some 50,000 observations a year. One member alone, Eugene H. Jones of Goffstown, N. H., has been making about 4,000 observations annually, according to Prof. Charles H. Smiley of Ladd Observa- tory. The amateur astronomers, many of whom work with small telescopes they have con- structed with their own hands, are gathering astronomical data which are invaluable to professional astronomers. The wide distribu- tion ol the membership — in 30 states and 17 foreign countries — assures a fairly contin- uous record of the ups and downs in the brightness of interesting or unusual variable stars. Clouds may obscure the heavens in one section of the land but there is a good chance that elsewhere, with a clear view, another observer will be able to make the crucial observations. While originally organized to study the brightness of variable stars, the association has now expanded its work and now spon- sors five other lines of astronomical research: the search ior bright novae (exploding stars), the observation of asteroids (tiny minor planets), the observation of red stars with red filters, lunar occultations and their reduction, and photographic photometry ol variable stars. i i Another Jersey Croup ► The move to form an alumni group ol Brown men in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, New Jersey, has been welcomed locally and also been greeted with delight at headquarters. A leading figure in the for- mation of the new Brown Club is George R. Decker '23, who reported that a meeting in Red Bank the week before Commencement had made the organization effective. Harold W. Lord '20, delegate of the Brown Club ol Northern New Jersey to the Advisory Coun- cil, addressed the meeting. The Club has received a letter from the Alumni Office, carrying the best wishes of the Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni and offering all co-operation with the Club in developing a program. The area is a community where Brown influence is firmly intrenched and growing. The Club should have a lively luture. i 52 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY In the World Beyond > ► Although recession conditions in the world beyond college gates are making in- roads upon the future prospects of seniors at colleges and universities everywhere this year, the placement bureau at Brown Uni- versity reported that more than 50 per cent of this year's graduating class either had jobs waiting after commencement or would enter professional graduate schools in the Fall. Of the 267 Seniors, 146 had definite post- graduation plans, according to Prof. Samuel J. Berard, who is Brown's placement officer. Seventy-one intend to enter such graduate schools as those in engineering, law, medi- cine, theology and business administration. Medical schools will draw the largest num- ber of professionally-minded seniors — 22. "In general, the rate of senior employ- ment at Brown ran behind that of last year," Prof. Berard said. "By July I last year. 90 per cent of the seniors who graduated in June had either accepted or had been as- sured of positions, or had been admitted to graduate schools. I feel reasonably safe in saying that at least 7') per cent of this year's cla.ss should find itself placed by this coming July 1." Salaries for Seniors are about the same as last year, Prof. Berard said, ranging from $25 to $28 and $30 per week. Insurance companies, manufacturing concerns, the utilities and merchandising organizations are among those offering the best starting salaries. The jobs are as diversified as the types of seniors in the graduating class. Prof. Berard said this morning. One senior will be em- ployed by a nationally-known fireworks con- cern, and another will be business manager of a boys' preparatory school. A third is going to Buenos Aires to work for a large oil company. One is entering the theatrical profession. Five will become ministers, i i Brunonians Far and Near BY A. H. GURNEY Peter's Carpet > Dr. Arthur Upham Pope '04 has been acting as agent in the sale of the art treasures of the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Chicago. One of the items is a carpet made, according to Pope, in Persia 600 years ago and once owned by Peter the Great of Russia. Pope, who is an authority on Persian art, reported that an offer of $90,000 had hccn made for the carpet. < 1878 > ► Rlv. Dr. Gideon A. Burces,s'.s son. Dr. Paul S. Burgess, will be Dean of Rhode Island State College, beginning next Sep- tember, and will also have charge of the School of Agriculture and Home Economics, the experiment station and the extension work formerly carried on by Dean George E. Adams, retired. Dean Burgess was pres- ident of the University of Arizona in 1936- 37. His specialty is soils chemistry, but he had also been head of the School of Agricul- ture at Ariiona. 1881 Col. Henry B. Rose, who played with the intercollegiate champions during his un- dergraduate days, continued to he a regular attendant at Brown baseball games this spring. He prefers to watch them from behind the plate. 1885 Ward B. Chase, who followed Brown baseball this year as closely as ever, thinks the 1-0 victory over Harvard on Memorial Day about the finest game Brown team has played in recent years. Having played first base himself in college, he watches that position with particular interest and spoke of the way Ken Wright improved as the 1938 sea.son progressed. 1886 Charles A. Briggs, M.D., has for many years been a much respected and beloved physician in Leetown and Assonet, Massa- chusetts. His address is Assonet. 1887 United States Senator Theodore Francis Green, taking his first real vacation in seven years, sailed for South America on the liner Santa Lucia on July 2. As a member of the Senate foreign relations committee he will have a chance to study at first hand countries which, he told the newspapers, "have been for me merely official documents and read- ing material." 1890 Rev. James MacLaughlin, writing last month from his home at 407 West Fourth Street, Long Beach, Calif., said that he hoped to be able to return for his 'iOth Reu- nion in 1940. "Some of us will look rather ancient then, but we must not be dis- couraged. " he added. Henry R. Palmer's daughter, Miss Mary Babcock Palmer, received her A.B. at Com- mencement. She has been president of the International Relations Club, a member of the Elizabethans and chairman of the class mascot committee at Pembroke. 1891 Frank L. Hinckley's son, Frank, Jr., for- mer oarsman at St. George's School, rowed number 7 on the undefeated Harvard Fresh- man crew this spring. With a height of six feet four and a weight of 180, he is built right for a crew man. ISever a Lost Day ► Forty-four years as teacher with- out ever losing a day for any reason - that is the record of Frank E. Lakey '94 as he retired last month from the teaching staff of Dorcester, Mass., High School for Boys, where he was head of the Commercial Department. His career began at the old Manual Training High School, Providence, and took him to Classical and English H'gh Schools, Pawtucket High School and English and Dorchester High Schools. Boston. And he never stopped studying. He received h A.B.. A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown, a B.C.S. for North eastern University and a B B..'\ from the College of Business Admin istration. Boston University. Indeed, lie won his last degree just 30 years after he graduated from Brown. From 1914 to 1931, in addition to his school duties and his studies, he taught psychology and pedagogy at Burdett College. Boston. Tinkers with Hornets > Albert L. Woodworth '02, in charge of the experimental depart- ment of the United States Arsenal at Springfield, Mass., "has been re- sponsible for more developments in military rifles than any other single individual," according to a caption under Woodworth's picture in Out- doors for June. "In addition," the caption said, "Al is an ardent tinkerer and makes his own bullets for his favorite cali- ber, the .22 Hornet." ^ 1893 J. D. E. Jones was spokesman for the 50- year class at the 1938 Alumni Day at Worcester Academy late in May. 1897 Dr. William S. Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- ing addressed the Society of the Optimates, honor scholarship society of Long Island University, the evening of May 4 on the topic, "Some Results of the Pennsylvania Investigation." Dr. Gregory D. Walcott, who is Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University and who has been president of the Society of the Optimates since its founding in the fall of 1929, had the pleasure of welcoming his classmate on this occasion. Dr. Marcius H. Merchant, medical officer during the World War and for the past 1 1 years as Major in the Medical Corps. Rhode Island National Guard, retired last month under the age limit with the rank of Lieu- tenant Colonel. He began his military serv- ice in 1903. 1898 Simon S. Lapham's daughter. Miss Phoebe Lapham, graduated last month from St. Lawrence University, where she was president of the Varsity Council, a member of the Glee Club and Choral Union, and queen of the 1938 Winter Carnival. Rev. William Carroll, O. P., son of our late classmate. Dr. Charles Carroll, was ordained to the priesthood in St. Dominic's Church, Washington, D. C, June 16. 1899 W. W. WyckofT has recently changed his address from Hotel St. Andrew to Hotel Sherman Square, 2039 Broadway, New York City. 1900 Miss Hope Louise Richardson, daughter of Charles G. Richardson and Mrs. Richard- 53 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Broicnbrokers on Hollywood on College > > One of the most spectacular numbers of the 1938 Brownhrokers' musical show was that which purported to show "Brownbrokers" idea of Hollywood's idea of College." The satire was danced to a lively melody by Charles Farrow, with the following lyrics by Phil Reisman, Jr., giving you an idea of the temper of the humor: HOLLYWOOD According to the movies showing higher education There's no higher aim in college than to study recreation. Where the students all have voices just as good as Nelson Eddy's And they live in dormitories decorated by Bel Geddes. Where absent-minded professors forget to wear their pants And football plays are run off like a Busby Berkeley dance. That's college out in Hollywood! Golly! Would . . . I love to go to college out in Hollywood. The place to pick up knowledge is out in Hollywood. Where school days aren't school days But Samuel Goldwyn rule days. Out in Hollywood! Out in Hollywood! Thousands of beautiful co-eds and thousands of handsome lads Thousands on the faculty and thousands of ancient grads Singing the Alma Mater by Gordon and Revel With the Cossack choir added to give the college yell A small informal rally marching up on College Hill Looks like a horn-rimmed spectacle directed by DeMille That's college out in Hollywood! I'd love to go to college where the athletes don't perspire And students dress two issues ahead of Vogue and of Esquire Where the Dean has beautiful daughters of the most attractive ages A college show like this one would play on revolving stages Where halfbacks are immortalized in statues made of bronze And all the fraternity houses have chromium plated Johns That's college out in Hollywood! i i son was married to William Boyd, Jr., of Chicago in the Central Congregational Church, Providence, June 17. Mrs. Boyd is a graduate of Pembroke College. 1901 Henry C. Hart has been re-elected presi- dent of the Shakespeare's Head Associa- tion, a group formed to preserve Shake- speare's Head, 21 Meeting Street, Provi- dence, the centre of colonial printing crafts- manship in the city. John H. Wells '09 is treasurer, and Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe "94 and John H. Cady '03 are members. Col. G. A. Taylor U. S. A., retired, ap- peared before the students of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Mass., June 4 to make awards of prizes he offered for essays on the lives of famous Polish women. Helen Vi'iater, the Springfield Union said, received first prize and Jennie Podolak second prize. Essays were so good. Colonel Taylor said, that he decided to give a third prize to Irene Surgen and special prizes to three other writers. He spoke of Poland's long and fascinating history and of the many Polish men and women who have been or are world famous. 1902 Charles B. Coppen's daughter. Miss Ruth Coppen, graduate of Pembroke College '38, sailed immediately after Commencement for Germany, where she will study and travel this summer on a scholarship awarded by the Weimar-Jena Summer College for ex- cellence in German. Miss Coppen is the first recipient of the scholarship and one of 27 American students chosen to go abroad for study under the leadership of Professor Carl F. Schreiber of Yale. Col. G. Edward Buxton is a member of the New England committee aiding the Republican National Program Committee in mapping the policies and finances of the party. Professor Arthur B. Bennett, member of the Faculty of New Palt: Normal School, New Paltz, N. Y.. for 26 years and head of the English Department for 20 years, has retired to give his time to writing and lecturing. Kirke P. Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln and their 5 year old daughter are with Lincoln's father, William E. Lincoln '68, in Sarasota, Fla. 1903 President Harry W. Rockwell of New York State Teachers College, Buffalo, dis- trict governor of Rotary International, spent most of the month of June traveling on the special train of Rotary International and taking part in the annual convention in San Francisco, June 19-24. Rockwell left Buffalo early m the month, stopped at Denver and Salt Lake City on invitation of local Rotary Clubs and then went to Del Monte, Calif., for a six-day meeting for officers, directors and district governors, before starting for San Francisco. 1905 E. Everett Harkness's daughter, Hope Janet Harkness, received her A.B. degree cum laude at Commencement and also won election to Phi Beta Kappa. Miss Harkness was managing editor of The Record and a member of the Brownies at Pembroke. Rev. Hinson V. Hewlett and his family are now settled at 70 Hayes Street, Bing- hamton, N. Y., where Howlett recently became pastor of the Conklin Avenue Bap- tist Church. The sympathy of the Class is given in full measure to our active and faithful Secretary, Charlie Robinson, whose wife, Edith Knight (Dexter) Robinson, well known in religious and charitable circles, died in Providence, June 5. Besides her husband, Mrs. Robinson leaves a son. Knight D. Robinson '35. 1906 John P. Mead, intending to come from Pampa, Texas, for Commencement, had to change his pla-ns at the last minute because of developments in the Empire Gas 6? Fuel Company, with which he is associated. Aylsworth Brown, Providence lawyer, has completed "Oui and Thee," a novel of the French and Friends (Quakers) in old Rhode I.sland. For the plot he acknowledges indebtedness to an unpublished play written by his father, the late Judge Arthur L. Brown '76. In Aylsworth's opinion, it seemed a shame to deprive Rhode Islanders and others of a good yarn. So he converted the play into a story. Alexander Graham, retired from active business, is occupying his homestead at Sherman, Conn. 1907 William K. White's son. Bud White '38, and Herbert L. Dorrance's son, John F. Dorrance. were guests of the Class at the reunion luncheon at the Rhode Island Coun- try Club. June 19, and everybody regretted that George C. Bright's serious illness kept both George and his father from being present. President George Hurley sent tele- grams to the Brights, conveying the senti- ments of the Class. Sons of '07 men in addition to Bud White who received their degrees from Brown this year were Myles L. Grover (Dr. Joseph L Grover); Douglas W. Allan (Douglas N. Allan): George C. Bright (William E. Bright): and Alfred W. Dickinson. Bright and Dickinson graduated magna cum laude and Grover, cum laude. a record of which the Class may be proud. An adopted son. Curtis B. Watson (his mother was Amcy Brown Eaton "07) also won his degree cum laude. Robert S. Curley's daughter, Roberta S. Curley, and Rev. Merrick L. Streeter"s daughter, Dorothy Streeter, won their A.B. degrees at Commencement. Bob and Mrs. Curley were in the First Baptist Meeting House to see Miss Curley. member of the Komians. the Dance Group and the Glee Club at Pembroke, get her diploma. But Merrick and Mrs. Streeter are in Tavoy, Burma, and will not come home for at least three years. Miss Streeter, on the Glee Club at Pembroke, has been majoring in English. Dana T. Gallup came from Boston with his son Dick, student at Suffield Academy, and he and Dick walked together in the Commencement procession. R. F. (Pat) Brooks missed the reunion luncheon and a golf game with Vic Schwartz, Bob Jones and AI Gurney be- cause he and Mrs. Brooks were in Ithaca, N. Y., to see their son, Windsor Goodnow Brooks, receive his degree from Cornell, where be has taken the hotel management course. Massachusetts Protest > Professor Edcar S. Brightman '06 of Boston University was a signer of the formal protest made public in Boston last month against the report filed with the Massachusetts Legis- lature by a special recess commission which engaged in an extensive in- vestigation of alleged subversive ac- tivities in the State. The protest called the report "an apology for fascism and the logical outcome of the commission's whole prejudiced procedure." i 54 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Yetling Grad (1912) ► Someone has just sent us a copy of the Worcester TeleKram for the day after Brown handed Holy Cross that surprising wallopnig hy a 14-8 score. Along with the account of the game is a merry cartoon by Al Banx illustrating a dojen high points in the game. One of the pictures showed a wild spectator leaping high above his seat in the stands and shouting in glee, "What did I tell ya?" The caption said, "That guy doing all the yelling was Wiley Marble, the old Brown grad." i Samuel A. Halsey is reported to be work- ing for the Federal Housing Administration in Newark, N. J. 1908 Indications are that the maximum of the present period of solar activity was reached in July, 1937, according to Prof. Harlan T. Stetson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a speaker at the American Association lor the Advance- ment of Science at its meetings in Ottawa in June. The average of sunspot numbers reached a higher value for the three-month period ending July, 1937, than it attained for any other similar period since 1870, he told the scientists. 1909 Miss Miriam Phillips Littlefield, daughter of Ivory Littlefield and Mrs. Littlefield, and John Graham Brooks of West Medford, Mass., were married in Providence June 13. Bancroft Littlefield '34 was best man, and Ivory Littlefield, Jr., and John W. Little- field, younger brothers, were ribbon bearers. Dr. William P. Buffum's son, Thomas A. Buffum, and Miss Trelsie Potter Coffin, daughter of Mrs. Tristram R. Coffin of Providence, were married in Wakefield June 17. William P. Buffum, Jr., was his brother's best man and Albert Harkness, Jr., was an usher. Chauncey Wheeler's son has been elected Captain of the 1939 Amherst baseball team. On Commencement morning your Secre- tary received a letter from Johnny Foote in Japan as a result of which classmates had pleasure in congratulating John's son Ken- neth of the Class of '38 as he was in line for the Commencement procession. Joe Church writes that he is teaching Military Science at the State University of Iowa and coaching rifle teams which have had a most successful season under his direction. We were glad to note that Clarence Whipple, when he was in Los Angeles last March, saw Larry Larrabee and Shad Adams '12. Paul Everett, who is a Doctor of Osteo- pathy practicing at Wellesley, Mass. has an older son, a graduate of Bowdoin, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and teaching French at Phillips Exeter Academy; the younger son is a graduate ol MIT and en- gaged in sales work. E. R. ( Rowdy) Smith has a daughter who graduated from Mt. Holyoke College last month. Zeus Paul now has a daughter finishing her Freshman Year at Mt. Holyoke College. Warren C. Goodwin, whose parish is at Madison, N. H., extends an invitation to any classmate up his way to stop in and see him. Warren is giving one of the longest periods of service as pastor in the history of his church. Don Jackson, whose permanent address is Box 511, Providence, is now living at Chop- mist Hill in the Western Part of Rhode Island. Hank Weil writes from Baltimore that he is distributor for Nash automobiles in a large and adjacent territory. Jarv Alger writes his son is planning to enter Brown in the Fall of 1939. The postal card responses from classmates in 1909 indicate there will be a large attend- ance at next year's Thirtieth Reunion. Many men voluntarily referred to their expecta- tion of attending. 1910 John L, Gorman and his son, John L. Gorman, Jr., were on the campus Com- mencement Day, stopping off on their way from New Hampshire to their home in Pottsville, Pa. It was John, Sr.'s first visit since his graduation, and he had a lively time meeting old friends and introducing John, Jr., who has been a star football and track man in high school and who is head- ing toward Brown. Ralph M. Palmer has been re-elected president oi the Graduate Schools Associa- tion of Columbia University. Elmer S. Horton, your Class Secretary, has been elected a director of the Provi- dence Y. M. C. A. for the term expiring in 1942. Joseph B. Keenan, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, gave the address at the annual meeting of the Miss- issippi Bar Association in Vicksburg, June 10. 1911 Fremont E. Roper, with the Standard Oil Company of Calilornia, has recently changed his house address to 2719 Woolsey Street, Berkeley, Calif. Wright D. Heydon is secretary-treasurer of the Rhode Island Alumni Association of Worcester Academy for 1938-39. Robert F. Skillings, accountant with the Portland School Department, has been re- elected secretary of the Brown Club of Western Maine, a place he has filled with interest and enthusiasm for several years. J. Russell McKay, Alumni Trustee from Youngstown, O., and Charles P. Sisson, life Trustee ol Providence, sat together at the June meeting of the Brown Corporation the day after Commencement. Russ took his appointment last October; Charlie has been on the Corporation since 1925. 1912 ^ The 25th anniversary Class Book, dedi- cated to the sons of Brown 1912, came from the printers in time for the reunion supper at the University Club, Sunday evening, June 19, and immediately won much favor- able comment. It contains a fine foreword by President Wriston; the program ol the 25th Reunion in June 1927, a piece, "Re- membering Prexy," in which William H. Robertson gives a vivid pen picture of the late President W. H. P. Faunce '80; the story of the 25th Reunion by Dr. W. Ran- dolph Burgess; a brief history of Brown since 1912 by Dean Samuel T. Arnold '13; excerpts from the Providence Sunday Jour- nal's feature "Twenty-five Years Ago in Rhode Island"; Earl P. Perkins' "1912 Junior Cruise Song"; and the life story of each member of the Class with his picture TREES ARE HARD TO REPLACE — (pAobidL Jhsyrc — Annual spraying and pruning are important factors in the preservation of your trees. Expert care is necessary to pro- tect them and maintain their health and existence. An inspection by our representative may disclose evidence of decay or disease that will destroy your trees if left unchecked. Your trees are worth saving! Over twenty years' experience qualifies us to offer you efficient service in PRUNING — SPRAYING SURGERY and EXPERT CONSULTATION THE L. H. MEADER CO. Established 1914 PROVIDENCE 75 Westminster St. RHODE ISLAND Stanton S. C. Babcock Manager Established 1914 75 Westminster St. Telephone GAspee 0556 L. H. Meader '09 President Walter H. Snell, Ph.D. Consultant 14 55 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY "then and now." Henry G. Marsh did the editing, with the help of Earl Perkins, Karl Humphrey, E. A. Adams, D. Gerald Dono- van and Harry M. Sutton: and the printer is the Roger Williams Press of Providence. Report IS that members of "13 who have seen the book like it so well that they are talking about getting out a similar one to record the history of their 25th Reunion. Joseph D. Guillmette has been appointed to serve for three years on the new Rhode Island Board of Registration tor Profes- sional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Dr. John H. Williams, newly-elected Alumni Trustee of the University and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Adminis- tration at Harvard, gave the address at the annual meeting of the Providence Y. M. C. A. at the Providence Art Club on June 3. 1913 Edward A. C. Murphy is on the sales staff of Douglas Lawson, Inc., insurance, SO State Street. Ed's boss is the old Harv- ard football player who was line coach at Brown several years ago. Joseph K. Burwell is working for Calco Chemical Company, Bound Brook, N. J. 1915 William C. Crolius's second son grad- uated from Deerfield Academy last month. He played football, basketball, and was high scorer on the Academy lacrosse team. He was also editor-in-chief of The Scroll, the school paper, and president of the Class of 1938. Bill's third son will enter Deer- field in September. The boys are grandsons of the late William R. Tillinghast '79. Governor Robert E. Quinn received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Rhode Island College of Education at Commence- ment last month. President John L. Alger '90, conferring the degree, cited the Gov- ernor for "his unfailing interest in the public schools as manifested in repeated acts of insight and foresight." 1916 Dr. Guy W. Wells was elected secretary of the Rhode Island Medical Society at the 127th annual meeting last month. Dr. William Newton Hughes and Mrs. Hughes are at home again m Providence after a month's trip to San Francisco, where Bill attended the meetings of the American Psychiatric Association. John W. Moore, your Class Secretary, has left Sandagar Motor Sales to work for the Industrial Trust Company, Providence. Dr. Wilbour E. Sanders, headmaster of the Peddie School, was guest of the Peddle Brown Club at luncheon when he visited the campus late in the spring to speak at chapel. 1918 Thomas A. McGuire is instructor of mod- ern languages at Michigan State College. East Lansing, where he lives at 23 3 Linden Street. 1919 Ernest E. Nelson, vice president of the New England Region, Associated Alumni, has recently been elected first vice president of the New England Chapter of Robert Morris Associates, the national group ol bank credit men and loan officers. Nelson is credit manager of the Boston office of Brown Brothers, Harriman y Company. His boy was a member of the baseball team at Gushing Academy last spring until a broken bone in his foot put him on the sidelines. Donald Millar, Ray West '18 and W. H. (Bill) Shupert '22 had reunion at the time Wall Street Prexy ► John K. St.\rkweather '13, head of the investment firm of Stark- weather y Co., New York City, is the new president of the Bond Club of New 'York. "He has served as vice president of the Club during this past year," said the Wall Street Joiima!."He is widely known in in- vestment-banking circles both in New York and throughout the country. . . . Mr. Starkweather recently re- signed as chairman of the IBA's sub- committee on distribution because his attention was being taken up with his work as chairman of the commit- tee which has worked with the SEC, Senator Maloney and the Senate finance committee on the Maloney bill for over-counter regulations of securities." ' of the annual Yankee Division convention in Providence. According to Bill, the three intended to have a nice quiet reunion all their own, but the secret leaked out and the party turned into a general reunion for the old boys of Battery C. Henry T. Samson is manager of the New York State Employment Service, with his office at 169 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, N. Y. W. Chester Beard is a member of the executive committee of St. Andrew's League, sponsor for St. Andrew's School for Boys at Barrington. 1920 Ray W. Greene of the American Bem- herg Corporation is the new president ot the New England Rayon Yarn Peddlers Association. Ray and his family are occupy- ing their new house on Glen Road, West Barrington, right across the way from the Rhode Island Country Club. Ernest T. Clough, active secretary of the Brown Club of Boston and in investment counsel work with Loomis Sayles 6? Com- pany, 140 Federal Street, is secretary of the Marblehead Arts Association and an officer of the Marblehead Historical Society. He also teaches a Sunday School class in the Unitarian Church in his home city. 1921 John R. Stevens is salesman in the South for the College Department of Thomas Nel- son y Sons, publishers. New York City. Jack makes his headquarters in Columbus, Ga., where he lives at 2105 Wynnton Drive, and covers several States below the Mason and Dixon line. It is good to hear that his little daughter, Ann Charlotte, is on the road to recovery after an attack ot infantile paralysis last November. Arthur S. Caputi was back on the campus at Commencement, coming from Chicago for a visit with his parents at Shawomet as well as for reunion on the Hill. Art is sales promotion manager of General Motors "Truck 6? Coach. Midwestern Region. His new mail address is 1700 West Pershing Road, Chicago. Capt. Clair M. Conzelman, U.S.A., is on duty with the 13th Coast Artillery at Fort Barrancas, Fla. Ralph C. Knight, who is selling securities in Boston for Bond 6? Goodwin, gets down to Providence about once a week in order to keep in touch with some of his old cus- tomers. Part of Ralph's present work is wholesaling. 1922 Walter H. Hibbard, who left Providence Central High School last winter to do graduate work in education at Columbia, is living at 300 North Main Street, Man- chester, Conn. Theodore L. Sweet has been re-elected president of The Players of Providence. 1923 Robert T. Williams, special agent for Aetna Fire Insurance Company, has trans- ferred from Salt Lake City to Seattle, Wash., where his office is at 1330 Exchange Building. Ray Henshaw, with Home Oil Heating Company, reports his mall address to be 144 Midland Avenue, East Orange, N. J. Although Lester Kriebcl had made plans to come to the reunion this June, he had to go to the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia instead for an operation. Lester is pastor of the Palm Schwenkfelder Church in Palm, Pa. In a recent letter he asked particularly about Myron Lamb and Bob Meader. Just a week late for the reunion, Joe Rumsey spent a few days in Providence last month with Mrs. Rumsey. He and George Leddy had hoped to come to the reunion together, but found it impossible to get the time off at the right time. Joe thinks one of his boys may prove as good a fisherman as his father. Having advanced in the Dupont Rayon division, Joe is now living at Pearl River. N. Y., moving from Jackson Heights when he bought a home upstate. Red Bleakney, escaping from his exacting duties in the engineering end of the New England Telephone &? Telegraph Company, was on hand early for the reunion. He is re- sponsible for the maintenance of service in several New England states, with headquar- ters in Springfield. One of his boys is count- ing on entering Brown in three years. "Du" Faulkner, who is with the Texas Company in Columbia, Mo., telegraphed his greetings to the class at reunion time, together with his regret that he couldn't be with them. Bill Bromage was in Providence over Commencement week end but was so tied up with a family wedding that he couldn't make the reunion. Having heard that "Pete" Simmons, Colorado rancher, was at the reunion, the Providence Journal photographer came along with orders to take Pete's picture in ten-gallon hat and Wild West suit, which he didn't have. Because six expected babies refused to be born on schedule. Dr. Agostino Sammartino couldn't leave Providence for the reunion. Dr. John Murphy was treated with more consideration by one of his very young patients. Full Complement ► CoL. Francis W. Rollins '16, commanding the 103rd Field Artil- lery, Rhode Island National Guard, was as smiling as a Colonel on pa- rade can be when the regiment left Providence last month for its 15-day tour of duty at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., with its full complement of 54 officers and 605 enlisted men. It is the first time in peace years that the roster of the regiment, which has enlisted many Brown men since the days of old Battery A, has been com- plete. ^ 56 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1924 Ira E. (Bom) Swaney has begun his 1 ^th year as sales representatix'C tnr Gillette Safety Razor Corporation. He's working out of the Detroit office now, after having covered territory in the East and South. Wyndham Hayward, horticulturist and owner of Lakemont Gardens, Winter Park, Fla., is a regular contributor to garden and flower magazines. His recent articles include "Success with Native Ins in Florida Gardens'" in Gardenma Magazine lor June and "Making the Daylilies Multiply" in the May issue of Flower Grower. Frederic M. Harvey, with Marshal] Field 6? Company. Chicago, reports a change ol house address to 565 Woodlawn Avenue, Glencoe, 111. William H. Butler is personnel director of Chevrolet-Bloomfield Division of Gen- eral Motors Corporation in Bloomfield, N. J., where he lives at 26 Berkeley Heights Park. Bill is still a bachelor. Dr. George H. Hunt, on duty at the U. S. Marine Hospital, Seattle, Wash., said in a letter last month that "the more Mrs. Hunt and I sec of Seattle, the better we like it. The winter rainy season is not nearly as had as some people would have you believe, and the summers are beautiful. Cool sum- mers and warm winters make a combination very much to my liking." George also re- corded the fact that Miss Barbara Tilling- hast Hunt would be one year old on July 27. "She has shown every indication of having inherited my love for good lood, with the result that she has sprouted almost visibly. She has been one of the principal subjects of my newly developed photo- graphic bobby (yes, I have fallen for the miniature camera stuff) and I have had a lot of fun during the winter months keeping track of her progress." 1925 President Gordon K. Chalmers of Ken- yon College received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hobart College at the Hobart Commencement late in May. Russ Mallett, traffic superintendent with New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, has recently changed from the Jersey City office to the Newark office at 540 Broad Street. Norman E. Horan represented the gradu; ating class of the Providence Division ol Northeastern University as Commencement orator at the exercises held in the Central Baptist Church June 10. He also received the degree of Master of Business Admin- istration, his thesis being titled "The Es- tablishment of Manufacturing Costs Stand- ards in the Jewelry Industry." Horan is time study engineer with Ostby ^ Barton, jewelry manufacturers. Chris Gunderson and Mrs. Gunderson have recently changed their residence from Arlington to 3 1 Curtis Street, Egypt, Mass. Harry N, Marks is vice president of the newly-formed Westchester County Alumni Chapter of Beta Theta Pi. Harry lives and works in White Plains, N. Y. George A. Pournaras reports a change ol address from Fanwood. N. J., to 301 West 108th Street, Apt. 4A. New York City. 1926 E. A. (Ed) Moir, traffic superintendent with New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, is now on duty at 71 Madison Avenue, Jersey City, and is living at 23 DeHart Road, Maplewood. Howard G. Lewis, assistant principal of Nathan Bishop Junior High School (right across the street from the Brown Stadium) intends to visit the Pacific Coast in August. Ernest E. Intlchouse has the sympathy of the Class in the loss of his father, Andrew L. Intlehousc, insurance man of Providence and for more than 20 years leader of Palestine Shrine Band, who died at his home June 20. 1927 Herbert P. Horton is assistant to the commanding officer of the Army Air Corps detachment at the Chicago Municipal air- port with the rank of Lieutenant, Air Corps. Herb graduated from the Army flying school at Kelly Field, Texas, and saw service in this country and abroad before going to work for the Simonds Saw 6? Steel Com- pany in Fitchburg, Mass., about three years ago. Herbert A. Clark has been teaching this year at the Newton High School, Newton- ville, Mass. Arnold K. Brown looked very well in a wig the last time we saw him. He was playing the role of Col. Mortimer Sherwood in "The Pursuit of Happiness" with the Barrington Players, and the part called for spruce Colonial attire, which became him. Arnold IS settled in Barrington again after the promotion in the Brown y Sharpe or- ganization which brought him back to Provi- dence from New York. 1928 Lyman B. Avery is back in the New York offices of McCann Erickson, Inc., advertis- ing, at 285 Madison Avenue after having been on special work in Washington. Dr. William S. Preston, Jr., is research associate in bacteriology for the new and well endowed Arthritis Research Clinic at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. B. P. Cantrcll is with the Borden Ice Cream Company in Paterson, N, J., and is living at 7 St. Luke's Place, Montclair. 1929 Dr. Kenneth A. Scott is the new president of the Men's Community Club of Washing- ton Park, Providence suburb. W. W. Crawford is working for the Board of Education in Millburn, N. J. 1930 Don Jordan is the new advertising man- ager of Best & Company, department store. New York City. John M. Curtis, we hear, has recovered from an illness that laid hini up from Feb- ruary to May and is back on duty with Babson's Reports, Inc., Wellesley Hills. His new house address is 110 Mill Street, West Newton, Mass. David R. Gathany is working for Eugene A, Kelly, Realtor, 345 Main Street, East Orange, N. J. C. F. (Freddie) Brace will be a councillor at a New Hampshire camp this summer, Freddie, who has one more year to go at Springfield Training College in order to get his Master's degree in physical educa- tion, had a good season as coach of the Freshman swimmers and the varsity divers at Springfield. Dr. Lester H. Sugarman, optometrist, re- ports a change of mail address to 42 Trum- bull Street, Meriden, Conn. Marshall L. Snyder will he in.structor in bacteriology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, next academic year. His pres- We are enclosing a subscription blank for a year's enjoyment. This offer allo'ws you to live once more on the campus. Sincerely yours, . BROWN DAILY HERALD TEAR ON DOTTED LINE Enclose find check or money order for $4.50 for one subscription to 1938-39 Brown Daily Herald. NAME AND CLASS ADDRESS CITY i STATE 57 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ent address is the Hygienic Laboratory, Uni- versity of Michigan. In another column we announce the arrival of Stephen Hopkins Snyder, second youngster in the family. 1931 A group of '31 men, including Hapgood, Marshall, Coughlan, Kernan, Fraser and Micucci, meets Thursday noons for lunch- eon at Radio City, New York. Lloyd Briggs and Hapgood head up a party of Zeta Psi members who get together Tuesdays in downtown New York for luncheon. W. Lincoln Fogarty has left Lazard Freres y Co., investment bankers, to go with the Group Insurance Division, Metro- politan Life Insurance Company in New York. Frank Merchant, one of the editors of Toung America, the "National News Weekly for Youth," writes that he has had a number of interesting stories from the Brown University News Bureau and for- tunately has been able to use some of them. The pictures supplied by the Brown pub- licity office, he says, are a "very attention- catching idea." While Frank has a natural loyalty to Brown he couldn't use the ma- terial unless it was useful from the editor's point of view as well as Brown's, he notes. On leave to do some writing in New Eng- land, he was on the campus at Commence- ment time. Alden R. Walls has returned to Provi- dence as superintendent of the National y Providence Worsted Mill, unit of American Woolen Company, and is living at 166 Bartlctt Avenue, Edgewood. Elwood L. Hopkins has opened an office for the practice of law at 58 Weybosset Street, Providence. Edward C. Hillis, with his LL.B. degree Providence National Bank Established 1791 100 We«tmin«tcr 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 Rupert C. Thompson, Jr., Assistant Casliier Charles M. Smith. III. Trust Officer B. H. LillibridKe, Assistant Trust Officer T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel Directors William Gammell. Jr. Thomas L. Pierce Moses J. Barber William L. Sweet Frank E. Richmond Frederick T. Moses Richard S. Aldrich John B. Lewis Edward P. Jaitram Charles C. Marshall Earl G. Batty Richmond Villi A. Livingston Kelley Maxwell C. Huntoon Wilson G. Wing Charles E. Rigby lf«mber ot the Fedcrsl Deposit Iniurance CorporitloD Zoo-Keeper's Return > Brayton Eddy's Rhode Island Insect Zoo and Nature Center, the first of its kind in this country, has opened on Nooseneck Hill ( Route 3 ) and contains all the friends and foes among native wildlife that Brayton has been able to assemble. The soo is about twice as large as the original one at Goddard Park, near East Greenwich, and is on the main line of travel between Boston, Providence and New York. "It's good to be hack in Rhode Island again after a season in De- troit," Brayton told us at Commence- ment time. Brown men on the soo's advisory committee include Dr. Peter P. Chase '06, John L. Curran '07, Albert E. Lownes '20, Dr. Wal- ter H. Snell 'n, J. Harold Williams '18, and President Henry M. Wris- ton. Brayton's class is 1921. ^ from New Jersey Law School, is associated with Leonard G. Brown, attorney, at 301 Main Street, Orange, N. J. Ed prefers his mail to go to his home at 614 Park Avenue, East Orange. Vincent McKivergan has been appointed acting head of the Guidance Department at the new Roger Williams High School in Providence, a fine promotion. A recent article of his in the Sunday Journal gave a recipe for making a bad citizen and a por- trait of the typical juvenile delinquent, all based on his thorough survey of delinquency in Providence. Dick Reynolds was the author of a Provi- dence Sunday Journal magazine story on Jesse L. Beers last month. As an alumnus of Hope Street High School, where he was captain of swimming and star in tennis, Dick was well fitted to write the apprecia- tion of Mr. Beers, who retires this June after 37 years at the school. Many a Brown man recalls his friendly supervision of Hope athletics and leadership in Rhode Island schoolboy sports during that period. 1932 Dr. George E. Kirk, with his M.D.C.M. degree from McGill University, Montreal, will serve his interneship at Rhode Island Hospital. Sidney Ballon was ordained a rabbi last month at ceremonies held at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O., where on gradua- tion he received the Simon Lazarus Prize for excellence in his studies. During his course he taught at Rockdale Avenue Reli- gious School and for the past two years has been acting rabbi at East Liverpool, O. Dr. Donald L. DeNysc reports a change of address to 922 Park Avenue, Auburn. C. E. Benz IS with Coke Chemical Com- pany at Bound Brook, and lives at 52 Hard- grove Terrace, Irvington, N. J. James R. Westman is doing advanced work in zoology at the Graduate School, Cornell University. George W. Little is chemist with the United States Finishing Company in Nor- wich, Conn. 1933 Ed McCabe, Jr., has been doing graduate work in classics at Harvard this past aca- demic year. Bill Allyn reports a change of address to 9 Myrtle Street, Greenwood, Mass., but doesn't tell us what he is doing. Murray Hines, with Builders Iron Foun- dry, has recently returned from the Phila- delphia to the Providence plant and is again living at home at 102 Bartlett Ave- nue, Edgewood. Tom Webber, Jr., has completed his first year at Harvard for the Ph.D. degree. 1934 Maury Caito is on the sales staff of Metro- politan Life Insurance Company, Provi- dence. It is Dr. Douglas L. Kraus now, Doug having received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California in June, 1937. Dick Kingerley, recipient of the Sc.M. from Rhode Island State College last month, will go to Columbia next fall to continue his studies for the doctorate. 1935 Vern Chapman, newly married as we reported in the June issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly, is on the sales staff of Eastman Kodak Company, Philadelphia. He and Mrs. Chapman are settled at 2120 North 63rd Street, Overbrook, Pa. Fred Bauman is with Public Service Electric ii Gas Company in Newark, N. J. Tom Holmes is working for Worthington Pump a Machinery Corporation, Harrison, and living at 9 Melrose Avenue, North Arl- ington, N. J. Ed Gilman is with the New York, Sus- quehanna 6? Western Railroad at 40 Cedar Street, New York City, to which he com- mutes from his home at 267 Park Street, Montclair, N. J. Herb Cluthe is with Northwestern Mu- tual Life Insurance Company in Newark, N. J. advertisers engraving company I26DORRANCEST. PROVIDENCE, R. I. TELEPHONF SASPEE 7094 ^'Picturize your Product" 58 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Rev. Gray Temple has begun his new duties as curate of Calvary Episcopal Church, Tarboro, N. C. Ed Tuller, graduated last month with honors from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, will continue his studies in France, according to report. Alfred H. Joslin, following in the foot- steps of his father by preparing for the law, was graduated from the Harvard Law School last month, receiving a cum laiide citation. His father is Judge Philip C. Joslin of the Rhode Island Superior Court. 1936 Don Starrett is district representative of the General Casualty Department, Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company, with his office in the Healey Building, Atlanta, Ga., where he lives at 568 St. Charles Avenue, N. E. Charlie White is working for Applcton y Cox, Inc., at 1 1 1 John Street, New York City. 1937 Ed Washburn is electrochemist with Baker y Company, Inc., workers and re- finers of precious metals, at T4 Austin Street, Newark, N. J. Mai Quigley is planning to take summer courses in education at Harvard and hopes to teach next fall. Bob Gordon and Joe Frucht are members of the training squad at R. H. Macy 6? Co., Inc., New York department store. Bill Margesson is a more or less frequent visitor to Providence. Bill is with the Rob- bins Company, manufacturing jewelers, Attleboro. Jay Jacobs is with Lord 6? Taylor, de- partment store. Fifth Avenue, New York City. i i Engagements ► ► Miss Ruth Peterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Peterson of Mai- den, Mass., to Howard L. Hall '30 of Edge- wood. Miss Peterson is a graduate of Sim- mons College. Miss Jane Kent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lyon Kent of New York, to L. Richard Fried "34, also of New York. Miss Millicent Edna Paige, daughter of Rev. Wesley A. Paige "02 and Mrs. Paige, to John E. Marshall, Jr., "3 5 of Barrington. Miss Francoise Fidelis Archambault, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Alberic A. Archambault of West Warwick, to Charles H. Anderson "37 of Glastonbury, Conn. Miss Mary Linen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Alexander Linen, Jr., of Waver- ly, Pa., to Robert J. Connell "38 of Scran- ton, Pa. Weddings ► 1924 — Rev. T. Jerome Hayden, Jr., and Miss Ethel Thorley Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Scott of Providence, were married in New York City June 18, 1938. They are at home in Sea Girt, N. J., where Mr. Hayden is rector of St. UrieFs Episcopal Church. 1927 — George E. Parker and Miss Al- berta Edwards, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Belmont Edwards of Rlandome, L. I., were married in New York City June 3, 1938. They are living in Great Neck, L. I. 1929 — Archie Smith and Miss Miriam Edith Bell, daughter of Joshua Bell "11 and Mrs. Bell, were married at the Bell home in Providence June 8, 1938. They will live in Providence. 1932 — Robert F. Eddy and Miss Deborah Fisher Powers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Powers, were married in Provi- dence June 8, 1958. Dr. Jesse P. Eddy 3rd "28, brother of the bridegroom, was best man and C. Hazard Beckford "30 was an usher. 193 3— Dr. Alfred E. King and Miss Natalie Louise Boice, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James M. Boice of Burgettstown, Pa., were married in Dwight Memorial Chapel, Yale University, June 16, 1938. They will soon be at home in Bryn Mawr, Pa., where Dr. King is on the staff of the Bryn Mawr Hospital. 1934 — William J. Broadhurst and Miss Lucille Loise Brion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brion of Sycamore Lodge, Ros- lyn, were married in Roslyn June 4, 1938. Richard A. Ogden "32 was an usher. Mr. and Mrs. Broadhurst will live in Great Neck, L. I. 1934 — Sumner L. Kerry and Miss Alice M. Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Taylor of Fall River, were married in the First Baptist Church of Fall River June 18, Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D.D., "08, performing the ceremony. They are at home at 13 29 Belmont N.W., Washington, D. C. 193 5 — William H. Storrs and Miss Doro- thy Cranston Vose, daughter of Mrs. Helen Cranston Vose, were married in Providence June 18, 1938. They will live in Spring- field, Mass. Births > 1922— To Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. T. Langdon of Hancock, Ind., a son, Gordon T. Langdon, April 19, 1938. 1925 — To Captain and Mrs. Warren W. Brown of Staunton, Va., a daughter, Bar- bara Fitjhugh, May 4, 1938. 1925— To Dr. and Mrs. E. Wade Bishop of Rumford, a daughter, Jane Marie, May 28, 1938. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Snyder of Ann Arbor, Mich., a son, Stephen Hopkins, May 20, 1938. 193 1 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Marshall of Rye, N. Y., a son, Lee M. Marshall, Jr., May 30, 1938. 1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Briggs of Cleveland, O., a daughter, Mary Anne, May 17, 1938, 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Rutan of Bloomfield, N. J., a daughter. Grange Margaret, April 16, 1938. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Irving M. Dis- raelly of Providence, a son, Hillel, May 26, 1938. 1933 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dress of Providence, a son, Charles Harold, May 12, 1938. * * Professor Botsford ► ► Professor Jay Barrett Botsford of the Department of History and one of the genuinely popular members of the Faculty died at Homeopathic Hospital, Providence, June 1, after an illness of several months. He received leave of absence in February and entered the hospital during that month. "He had a singularly happy disposition,"' said Professor Theodore Collier, chairman of the Department of History, "a cheerful- ness and kindliness of feeling that drew one to him, and a large and generous nature free from prejudice and pettiness. . . , His popularity, which was a campus tradition. [si33r Hotel, Resort, and Travel Department For space and rates write to The WTiere-to-go Bureau, 8 Beacon Street Boston, Mass. NEW YORK HOTEL SEYMOUR ^'..^.^n^Vc" theatrps, Bbop9. art galleries. Radio City. Qalet re- d sQrroQpdlDgg. Slpgle g3. 50 pp : double tS.OOop, # Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter Pemi- sylvania i3 a trav- eler's paradise I Whatever you want — superb mountain scenery, lakes, deep forest, top-notch hunting and fishing, his- toric interest — they're all here, served by 30.000 miles of fine highways. Write Dept. B, Pennsylvania State Publicity Comrnis- sion, Harrisburg. Pa., for your Hospitality Passport, also Map and Travel Guide. was not only the proof of his ability to in- fuse his teaching with imagination and humor and enliven it with wit; it was even more a tribute to his appealing personal qualities and an expression of the confi- dence and the affection in which he was universally held."" Professor Botsford"s father, the late Dr. George W. Botsford, was a member of the Columbia Faculty. The son, graduate of Columbia, where he also received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees, became instructor of history at Brown in 1920, Assistant Pro- fessor in 1924 and Associate Professor in 1930. He was on the committee on educa- tional advice and direction and a former member of the Council of the School of Education and of the committee on the library. He served as officer of the Ameri- can Historical Association, and the Del- phian Society, and was a member of the Economic Historical Society of Great Britain, the AE Club, the British Empire Club and the Central Congregational Church. During the World War he was Second Lieutenant, Ordnance Department, U. S. A. Professor Botsford was joint author of "A Brief History of the World" and author of "English Society in the 18th Century."" He was editor of "Hellenic History,"" which his father wrote, and of "Basic Trends," to which he contributed numerous chapters. He was also a frequent contributor to vari- ous journals and magazines. He was mar- ried in 1923 to Miss Lillian C. Dow '18, who died in May, 1930, leaving a son and a daughter. His mother also survives. ^ 1879 ► John Jesse Greene, for 16 years man- ager of the Hope Valley branch of the Providence Telephone Company, died sud- denly at his home in Hope Valley, June 3, 1938. Born in Millville, Jan. 30, 1856, the son of William R. and Nancy C. (Kenyon) 59 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Greene, he came to Brown from Worcester Academy. On graduation he became cost accountant and later superintendent of the boiler department of Nichols 6? Langworthy Machine Company, Hope Valley. After the plant was destroyed by fire he joined the Providence Telephone Company and was manager of the Hope Valley branch from 1911 to his retirement in 1927. He was librarian of the Langworthy Pub- lic Library for seven years and president for 24 years. He had also served on the li- brary's board of directors since 1888, as clerk of the 2nd Voting District, Hopkin- ton, and as chairman of the trustees of School District No. 9 until the town sys- tem displaced the district system. He was clerk of the First Baptist Church; Past Master, Charity Lodge of Masons; Past Grand Patron, Order of the Eastern Star; and a member of Franklin Royal Arch Chapter and Hope Chapter, O.E.S. He was married Nov. 17 1880, to Miss Phoebe C. Matteson, who survives, with two sons, a sister and a granddaughter. His youngest son, Edwin M. Greene, Engineer Corps, U. S. A., died in service during the World War. i 1886 ► Rev. Arthur Rogers, D.D., retired Episcopal rector, died in Evanston, 111., June 10, 1938. He was a descendant of William Rogers, 1769, Brown's first stu- dent, and was a former chaplain of St. George's School, Newport. Born in Providence, Oct. 26, 1864, the son of Horatio Rogers '55 and Lucia (Waterman) Rogers, he entered Brown from Providence High School and after graduation studied for a year at Harvard Law School. Then he entered the Episcopal Theological School, where he graduated with the B.D. degree in 1889. Ordained deacon of the Episcopal Church in that year and priest in 1890, he was rector of Berkeley Chapel, Middletown, St. George's Church, Central Falls, Holy Trinity, West Chester, Pa., and St. Mark's, Evanston, before he became Rector Emeritus of St. Mark's in 1930. He retired, he told his parishioners, be- cause he coveted "that mastery of my own time which cannot belong to any man in active work. I want to have leisure to read Commercial Banking Trust Department Capital $500,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits (over) .... $1,000,000 BLACKSTONE CANAL NATIONAL BANK EilaHiihed 18)1 20 MARKET SQUARE PROVIDENCE, R. I. Mambar Fadsral Dsgosit Iniuranc* Corporation and write, even to think. I should like to remind myself that there is more to religion than the clatter of ecclesiastical machinery and the babel of confusing tongues." So he came back to Rhode Island, served three years, 1932-35, as chaplain of St. George's School, which was not far from Lazy Lawn, his home, and then went to Evanston to live with a son. In 1909 he received the honorary degree of D.D. from Brown, being cited as "preacher of the ancient faith in modern dialect . . . uniting care for scholarship with cure of souls." He was author of "Men and Movements in the English Church"; "Prophecy and Poetry," and other studies in Biblical and English literature and was a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon. He was married June 16, 1892, to Cor- nelia Arnold, daughter of Samuel Greene Arnold, 1841. Mrs. Rogers died in Sep- tember 193 2. Surviving are four sons, one of whom is Professor Samuel G. A. Rogers '15 of the University of Wisconsin, the well known novelist. ^ 1894 ► Dr. Newell Cutler Bullard, whose father was a practising physician before him and who took over the lather's practice in North Attleboro, died in Cambridge, Md., April 20, 1938. Owing to ill health, he went South several years ago and ap- peared to benefit by the change of climate and scene. Born in North Attleboro, Sept. 28, 1872, the son of Dr. Herbert C. Bullard '66 and Anna L. (Hayward) Bullard, he entered Brown from Moses Brown School. He left college to study medicine at the Medical School, McGill University, and later trans- ferred to the University of Vermont, where he received the M.D. degree in 1898. He did post graduate work at the University of Edinborough and the Sorbonnc, Pans, and was house surgeon at London Hospital for Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat before re- turning to this country to aid his lather in practice. Dr. Bullard was a 3 2nd degree Mason, a member of the Sons of the American Revo- lution, Sons of Colonial Wars, North Attle- boro Historical Society, Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company ol Boston, and Phi Chi. Surviving are his wile, who was Susan G. Higgenbotham, and a son, Her- bert C. Bullard '27, by his first marriage. ^ 1896 ► William Webster Rucg, real estate operator and public official, died suddenly at his home in Watertown, Mass., May 22, 1938. He had been active as realtor for 30 years. Born in Shaftesbury, Vt., Feb. 27, 1871, the son of Rev. William Henry and Fanny (Webster) Rugg, he entered Brown Irom Vermont Academy and was on the track squad as undergraduate. From Brown he went to Georgiaville grammar school as principal and the lollowing year became principal of Mendon, Mass., high school. He was successively manager of the Cool- idge Market Gardens, salesman for real estate and slate products, and since 1918 owner of a real estate and insurance busi- ness in Watertown. As a public spirited citizen he served as president of Watertown Y. M. C. A., clerk of the Boston Baptist Bethel City Mission Society for 18 years, superintendent of the First Baptist Sunday School for 15 years, chairman of the Watertown School Com- mittee and as a meiiihcr of the Zoning Appeal Board. He belonged to Pequossette Lodge of Masons, the Lions and Phi Delta Theta. He was married May 25, 1899, to Miss Emma Coolidge, who survives, with a son and two brothers, one of whom is Francis A. Rugg '97. William C. Rugg, the son, IS said to have been the first boy born to a member of '96 after graduation. i 1905 ► Rev. Frederick Lyman Pruvan, Pres- byterian minister, died in Wyoming, la., Aug. 22, 1937, the Alumni Office learned last month. Born in St. John N. B., June 26, 1881, the son of James W. and Adelia (Pitman) Provan, he prepared at Beverly, Mass., High School, and was at Brown lor four years, but did not take a degree. He studied lor the ministry at Bangor Theological Sem- inary, Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago, and at the Presbyterian Theological Insti- tute, Omaha, where he received a diploma. He was minister of Presbyterian churches in Wcstside, Derby, New London, Anamosa and Onslow, la., lor about 20 years. During his ministry he had been Scout- master, Boy Scouts of America, and a leader 111 the Pioneer Boys and other similar groups. He was married June 8, 1923, to Miss Cora Slagg, who survives. i .t.^V.JCHNSCW CC. frctiHKtice, ft J. Effective Printing— is not a matter of price, of shop- ping around or a mammoth plant. For results call GA 4800 E. A. JOHNSON COMPANY An Oiganization /or Better Printing At Peck and Dyei Sts., Providence, B. I. 60 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1923 ► Carroll Lee Freeman, power sales en- gineer witli Consolidated Gas. Electr;*. Light y Power Company, died in Baltimore, Md., April 6, 1938, after a long illness. Born in Baltimore, Jan. 25, 1900, the son of Isaae P. and Roberta (Bilkips) Free man, he came to Brown as a Sophomore from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. "Car- roll has had a varied (not checkered) ca- reer," Liber Bnmensii of 192? said. "He has been a teacher, sea captain, hank presi- dent and enough other things to stagger tlic average man's conception of versatility." In college he was president of B.T.U., engineering society, a member of the Brown Band and the Junior Week Circus Band, the Interfraternity Governing Board and Kappa Sigma. On graduation with his de- gree in mechanical engineering, he worked tor several months as assistant engineer for the Rhode Island State Board of Pilriti- cation of Waters before going to Baltimore as power sales engineer with Consolidated Gas. He served as secretary of the Brown Club of Baltimore and was a member of the Engineers Club of Baltimore, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Mary- land Academy of Science. He was married Sept. 23, 1924, to Miss Eleanor G. Newcomer, who survives, with two .sons, C. Lee Freeman, Jr., and David N. Freeman, his parents, and a brother, Robert Billups Freeman '24. ^ ► Howard Warren Comstock, who wrote the successful farce, "Stepping Sisters," and other plays, died in Fall River, May 28, 1938, after a long illness. Except for five years in New York he had lived all his life in Fall River, where he was born Aug. 22, 1899, the son of George F. and Ada R. (Simmons) Comstock. He prepared at Gushing Academy, spent two years at Brown and thereafter concerned himself with the work of the theatre. He took special courses at Harvard and Co- lumbia and saw his first play, "Stepping Sisters," blossom into a Broadway success in the .spring of 1930. Samuel French pub- lished the play and the Fox Film Corpora- tion made it into a moving picture shown in 193 2. Comstock's second play, "Doctor X," was a mystery thriller that he wrote in collabora- tion with Allen C. Miller. It was tried out at a summer theatre in Southampton, L. I., and produced in New York in the winter of 1931. Comstock was an organiser and manag- ing director of the Fall River Civic Theatre and director of the New Bedford Civic Theatre. An aunt, Mrs. Anna D. Brown of Swansea, and several cousins are his only near survivors. ^ 1933 ► Philip Boris Nayer, teacher, died in Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, May 18, 1938. He finished his work at Brown as a member of the Class of 1935 but did not take his degree for financial reasons. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 10, 1912, the son of David L. and Lena (Zevin) Nayer, he came to Brown from Central High School, Paterson, N. J. He withdrew in June, 1932, and returned in September, 1934, to complete his course. Since leaving Brown he had taught in junior colleges in Paterson and Essex County, N. J. Surviving are his parents and a brother. Jessie X. Nayer "30, Pembroke College, is a cousin. i ^ SCHOOL & CAMP DIRECTORY GIRL'S SCHOOLS OAK GROVE Prepares for College and Gracious Living. Music, An, Expres6ion. Upper and Lowrr Schools. Crud. Course Sec. Science. Joyoua outdour recreation. Hiding. Mn. and Mrs. Robert Owen, Box 170, Vassaluoro, Maine. ANNA HEAD SCHOOL For Girls. Est. 1387. Accredited College Preparatory and Lower SchooL Swimming. Hockey, Riding, Ten- nis tlie year round. Comfortahle home and gardrn ia college town. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. HvDt, 2528 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif, JOKAKE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS On the slope of Canielback Mt. in Arizona neur Phoenix. College preparatory and general courses. Music, art, dramatics, dancing. Hiding, swimniiri':, pack Iri[)S. Miss Lili \9 G. Bill, Htad:*!! stress, George G. Asiikoiid, Dm-, Jukakk, Aiiizona. 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New recrea- tional center, gym, pool. Sep urate Junior School. A. V. (^albiiaith. Box 3, Easthamcton, Mass. CHESHIRE ACADEMY Formerly ROXBURY SCHOOL Flexi'ile orianization and painstaking supervision of each boy's program offer opportunitv for excep- tional scholastic progress and general development. A, E. Sill nil F, llr \dmasti it, Ciir shire. Conn. NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL A New Hampshire School for Boys. 117th year. Thoroush College Preparation. Athletics for every boy. Moderate Tuition. 125 Boys from 12 States. liiEDERicii Smith, Box 201, New Hampton, N. H. REDDING RIDGE A new, thoroughly modem educational plan for college preparatory boys. More rational study methods, more complete subject mastery. At- tractive buildings and campus 60 miles from New York. Sports, hobbies, other recreation . Write for booklet on the "Redding Ridge Plan". KENNETH G. BONN E R, REDD I N G RIDGE. CONN. BOYS PACIFIC COAST MONTEZUMA Primary — Elementary — High School. Accredited. 400 acres. Mild climate. Outdoor life year round. Horses — Athletics — Entrance any time. Summer Camp. MoNTE/t'MA School Fon Bovs, Box G, Los Gatos, California. BLACK-FOXE MILITARY INSTITUTE THE west's DISTINCltlSHCD SCHOOL FOR BOYS From First Grade Through High School Pictorial Catalogue on Request 660 Wilcox AvrME Los Anceles, Calif. SPECIAL SCHO OTS THE BANCROFT SCHOOL Year-round school and home for retarded and problem children. Restdent physician. Educaiional pro;;ram. 56lh yr. Summer camp on Maine Coast. Catalog. Mldtcal DlRECTon, Dana S. CnuM. PnlN- C!P\L, J. C. CooLEY, Box 315, Haddonfield, N. J- Pembroke. 1916 y Alice Wood Anderson '16, wife of Rudolph F. Anderson and daughter of Wil- liam J. and the late Grace Wills Wood, died in Providence on May 28, 1938. Mrs. Anderson was born in Central Falls and prepared for college at Classical High School in Providence. After graduating from Brown in 1916 she was assistant refer- ence librarian in the John Hay Library at Brown. In 1917 she had a position with the U. S. Fuel Administration and from 1918 to 193 2 she was associated with the Fire- men's Mutual Insurance Company. On August 2, 193 2, she was married to Mr. Anderson and they made their home in Johnston. Mrs. Anderson was a member of the Alumnae Association, the Pembroke Alum- nae Club, the Providence Plantations Club, the American Homemakers, Inc., and the American Association of University Wo- men. She is survived by her husband and her father. i i 61 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Pembroke's Alumnae Day < < by NATALIE HARRINGTON '31 ► ► Alumnae Day this year demonstrated once more the keen desire of Brown alum- nae to return to the Pembroke campus to renew undergraduate friendships and to prove their loyalty to the college, as they have been doing annually for the past 30 years. Under the able chairmanship of Mrs. Leroy Palmer Cox '16, this 30th Alumnae Day provided the traditional opportunity for the reunions of 11 classes, those of 1895, '96, '97, '98, 1913, '14, '15, '16, '33, '35, and '37, and for many other "unoffi- cially " rcunioning classes. Sunshine and blue skies heightened the gaiety of the day, which opened with the annual business meeting of the Alumnae Association, presided over by Mrs. John H. Williams, '12. High spirits ran through the day which was climaxed with the ban- quet in the evening. At the morning session the following officers, elected by ballot during the spring, were announced: first vice-president, Mrs. Sharon Brown '16; recording secretary. HARRIS y GIFFORD Certified Public Accountants at HO HOSPITAL TRUST BUILDING PROVIDENCE. R. I. GAspee 7272 Townes M. Harris '23 Seth B. Gifford "20 PRESCRIPTIONS ...exactly as written When a doctor's prescription conies 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. BLANDING'S 155 Westminster St. 6 Wayland Square Mrs. Gilbert Verney '28: treasurer, Mar- jorie L. Rich '24: three members of the nominating committee to serve for one year, Mrs. David P. Moulton '02: Alice F. Hildreth '11: and Karolinc L. Thayer '28. ► Among the numerous appointments made by the executive board of the Asso- ciation were the following: chairman of the academic committee, Hattie M. Holt '08: new member of this committee, Barbara P. McCarthy "25; chairman of the secretarial committee, Mrs. John W. Spaeth, Jr. '30; chairman of the social activities committee, Mrs. Ralph W. Wood '25; member of this committee, Mrs. Joseph H. Cull '09; vice- chairman of the Semi-Centennial Alumnae Fund, Marion S. Cole "07: new members of the Fund committee, Mrs. George K. An- derson "29, secretary, and Mrs. Victor Frazee '96, acting chairman; chairman of the 1939 Alumnae Day committee, Mrs. Lin- coln R. Arnold '18: vice-chairman of this committee, Mrs. Joseph W. Nutter '24; members of the nominating committee, Hilda Hoffman '24, Dorothy Greene "34; chair- man of this committee, Mrs. David P. Moulton '02. Committee reports were made by the fol- lowing chairmen: Mrs. Leslie E. Swain "11, Semi-Centennial Alumnae Gift: Mrs. Ed- ward E. Bunn '11, academic; Mrs. Lincoln R. Arnold "18, social activities: Mrs. Ger- trude Allen McConnell "10, executive secre- tary of the Association; Mrs. Gilbert Verney "28, recording secretary; Beatrice F. Kohl- berg '12, treasurer; Marion S. Cole '07, alumnae representative on the executive committee of Pembroke College; Mrs. Ches- ter Durfee '13, regional scholarship; and Mrs. J. Brewer Marshall '18, nominating. ► Luncheons in and around Providence were held by all "reunioning" classes fol- lowing the business sessions. Many re- turned to the campus in the early afternoon lor business meetings and for the Alumnae Show presented in the Pembroke Field House in two performances. The show was intended primarily for those who had no scheduled reunions or meetings to attend, but proved popular with many others. Mrs. John F. Heckman '07, assisted by several other alumnae, was in charge of these per- formances. Besides the show, another innovation this year was the exhibition held in the Pembroke Library under the direction of Mrs, William H. Eddy '97, during the altcrnoon. Mementoes of graduation, under- graduate and reunion days were shown there in scrap books and albums. There were also examples of the hobbies of many alumnae, such as work in furniture, jewelry, knitting, horticulture, and metal crafts. The garden party and reception were held in the Middle Campus, with Miss Blanche N. Davis and Miss Emily S. Pad- dock, retiring members of the Pembroke College staff, as guests of honor. Mi.ss Davis has served as director of chapel music for the past 26 years, and Miss Pad- dock as head ot Pembroke residences for 22 years. Also receiving guests were Dean Margaret S. Morriss, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Cox. During the reception the campus was crowded with alumnae, many of whom were accompanied by husbands and chil- dren. y The banquet came close on the heels of the reception as many lingered on the campus with friends during the later after- noon. President and Mrs. Henry M. Wriston returned to the Pembroke campus as guests of the alumnae for this annual dinner, as did Mrs. James P. Adams, wife of the University's vice-president: Mrs, Lillian M, Gilbreth. noted consultant engi- neer, and holder of a PhD. from Brown and an honorary Doctor of Science degree: Mrs. Marion Horton Brett, an alumna and journalist; Dean Morriss and the Mi,sses Paddock and Davis. President Wriston addressed the alum- nae, praising the charm and vitality of Pembroke, and commenting on how much the college had achieved. Dr. Gilbreth also spoke briefly on beauty in life. Mrs. Brett urged alumnae to use common sense and intelligence in checking on the accuracy of newspapers. She also suggested the writ- ing of letters to editors, expressing opinion on what is read in the newspapers. "De- mand the truth and you will get it," she said. > Mrs. Leslie E. Swain reported on the progress of the Semi-Centennial Alumnae Gift Fund for the dormitory for Pembroke, and announced the appointment of Mrs. Victor Frazee as acting chairman of the Fund during the coming year. Mrs. Swain will be abroad. Dean Morriss traced the growth of the Alumnae Association since its formation. As factors contributing to its growth, she cited the formation of the Alumnae Clubs in different centers, the development of the Alumnae Council, and the establishment of the regional scholar- ships. Dean Morriss presented the Dean's Cup, annually awarded to the class having the largest percentage of members back for re- union, to the class of 1898. This class had 1 2 of its 15 members back for its 40th re- union. She also presented the Brownson award of $25 to the class of 1937. Thus the day ended, but many alumnae were continuing their festivities throughout the remainder of the week-end in the coun- try and at shore resorts. ^ ^ Advanced Degrees ► Pembroke alumnae were among the re- cipients of advanced degrees at the 1938 Convocation of the Graduate School of Brown University. Those awarded their A. M. were: Jane Elizabeth Brownlow '36, Greek and Latin Classics: Priscilla Bryant '37, Romance Languages; Hazel May Gil- bert "27, Education; Anne Cecile Kicncke "3 5, English: Elizabeth Buckley McQuaid "3 3, Pearl Louise Miller "3 5. and Ethel Colvin Nichols, Education, English. Recip- ients of Sc.M. were: Dorothy Lillian Blanchard '3 5, Botany: Priscilla Sidney Grennya '36, Biology. ^ Reception Hoslesges ► Brown alumnae who assisted at the President's Reception in Alumnae Hall June 19 were: Mrs. Nels(m B. Record and the Misses Marjorie Battcrshy. Frances Barnes, Alice Van Hoesen, Ruth Hassell, and Elizabeth Rice. ^ 62 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY News of the Alumnae 3 < < By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association ► > 1901 — Saida Hallett entertained eight members of the class at luncheon at Top Hill on June 22nd. The group then drove to Bristol for a visit with Emma B. Stanton "96, and later to the home of Minnie Bart- Ictt Lyons "01, who has been ill for some time. 1904 — Linda Lowell and Marjorie Shaw expect to visit Alaska this summer. 1905 — Elizabeth Perry, who has been doing .social work in California for a num- ber of years, returned to college for Com- mencement. Her address is 2639 Cedar Street, Berkeley, Calif. 1911 — Dr. Eva Waterman Magoon was elected for the 4th successive year as State Delegate from the New Hampshire Cstco- pathic Association to the annual meeting of the American Osteopathic Association at Cincinnati. 191 1 — Anna Canada Swain will leave in August to be one of the 40 delegates from North America to the decennial meeting of the International Missionary Council to be held in Madras, India. 1913 — Ruth Ryther Purdy"s poem "Chil- dren"" appears in the July issue of Amer- ican Mercury. 1913 — Evelyn Tilden is bacteriologist in the Division of Chemistry of the National Institute of Health in Washington. 1914 — Mabel Osborne will spend the summer in Alaska and the Northwest he- fore taking up her duties as an exchange teacher in the high school in Oakland, Calif. 1917 — Grace E. Hawk, Associate Profes- sor of English Literature at Wellesley, was one of the members of the faculty of the Alumnae College which was held at Wel- lesley following Commencement. 1922 — Dr. Beatrice Kershaw is now asso- ciated with the McLean Hospital in Wav- erly, Mass. 1923 — Ruth W. Marvel is taking an ex- tended western trip which will include Alaska. 192? — Ruth F. Thomson flew to Spo- kane last month to be the guest of Mary E. Ralston "27. 1927 — Marjorie W. Sallie received her M. A. degree from Smith in June. Next fall she is to go to Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, where she will continue to teach biology but most of the time will be occupied with executive work as assistant to the principal. She is spending the summer in England. 1928 — Virginia Piggott Verney enter- tained the class for its 10th reunion at her home in East Greenwich. 193 1 — Rosamond Danielson is a librarian in the District Library in Washington, D. C. She is living at 2700 Que St., N. W., Apt. 213, Washington. 1931 — Hester Hastings is spending the summer in England. Upon her return she will go to Elmira College, where she is to teach during the coming year. 1932 — Barbara Evans Knox is now liv- ing on North Raddiffe Street, Bristol, Penn. 193 3 — Jennie Curtis Fish, whose wed- ding was reported in the last issue of the Monthly, is living at 9 Crest Avenue, Saylesville, R. I. 1933 — Eleanor Gilbert Hargrove and family arc at 48 Hillview Avenue, Port Washington, Long Island. 193 3 — Ursula Lewis has been awarded a fellowship for study at the New York School for Social Work for next year. She will be on leave of absence from the Rhode Island Children's Friend Society. 1933 — Albina Osipowich Van Aken and her husband are living at 1043 Wendell Ave., Schenectady, N. Y. 1934 — Ruth Whitaker Shaw is traveling in England and on the continent. She ex- pects to be abroad for about four months. 1934 — Ruth Clayton Whitaker writes from London that she plans to visit a num- ber of the countries in Western Europe and to return to this country the latter part of September. 193 5 — Martha Hamblin Meyer is pres- ident of the Recent Graduates Group of the American Association of University Women in Montclair, N. J. 193 5 — Natalie Smith received her M. S. degree from Wellesley in the Department of Physical Education and has been made Director of Physical Education at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. 193 5 — Mary S. Watkins has completed her course at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture. 1936 — Sally Smith has been working in the Columbia University Library for the past year and has recently accepted a posi- tion in the library at Penn State. 1937 — Margaret Partridge is editor of "Chatterbox,"" published by the Neuro- logical Institute (Hartford Retreat) in Hartford. < i Engagements > > 1929 — Ina M. Hunter to Harry E. Gilmore, Jr., of East Providence. 193 5 — Ruth Goldstein to Richard Mosh- kin. Mr. Moshkin graduated from the Man- lius School in New York and attended Lafayette College. 1938 — Francoise F. Archambault to Charles H. Anderson, of Glastonbury, Conn. Mr. Anderson was a member of the Class of 1937 at Brown and is now a stu- dent at the Boston University Law School. i Weddings ► 1927 — Mildred Louise Fisher was mar- ried to George Spink Newman at Grace Episcopal Church in North Attleboro on June 25th, 1938. Mr. Newman is a grad- uate of Rhode Island State College. Mr. and Mrs. Newman will make their home in Newark, N. J. 1928 — Helen A. Droitcour was married to John Edward Carr at St. Paul's Church in Edgewood on June 4, 1938. They are living at 95 Albert Avenue, Edgewood. 1929 — Helen S. Binkunski was married to Dr. Leon Krajewski on June 25, 1938, in St. Hedwig"s Church in Manchester, N. H 1930 — Gertrude M. McKenzie was mar- ried to Reginald Ganner of Yalesville, Conn., in January. Mr. and Mrs. Ganner are living in Yalesville. 1930 — Laura Florece Nicholson was mar- ried to Wilbur Henry Birkitt on June 18, 1938, in the Woodlawn Baptist Church in Pawtucket. Mrs. Birkitt was attended by M. Isabella Jack as maid of honor. Mr. Birkitt graduated from Rhode Island State College in 1931 and is a member of Phi Sigma fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Birkitt arc living at 30 Summit Street, East Providence. 193 2 — Ethel R. Bennett was married to Dr. Kermit B. Howe on November 18, 1938. They are living at 120 N. E. 56th Street, Miami, Florida. 1933 — Winifred Mayock was married to William A. 0"Hara on June 30, 1938. They will make their home in Providence. 1934 — Doris Davison was married to Marshall A. Smith, Jr., on July 2, 1938, in Providence. They are living at 280 Benefit Street, Providence. 1934 — Helen Howard was married to Vincent Nowlis, Bowdoin "35, on June 11, 1938, in Providence. Mr. Nowlis is a re- search assistant in primate biology at Yale and Mrs. Nowlis is a research assistant in psychology at the same institution. Both Mr. and Mrs. Nowlis are members of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and both expect to receive the Ph. D. degree from Yale next June. They are living at 70 Howe Street, New Haven. 1936 — Helen Hartigan was married to James Butler Mullen on May 14, 1938, in Burlington. Conn. 1936 — Hope L. Richardson was married to William Boyd, Jr., of Chicago at the Central Congregational Church in Prov- idence on June 17, 1938. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd will make their home in Evanston, 111. 1937 — Dorothy Elizabeth Hubbard was married to Arnold Jens Pedersen on June 20, 1938, in Webster, Mass. They are liv- ing in Dousman, Wisconsin. 1937 — Sophia A. Niemants was married to Rowland Atcherley Crowell on May 28, 1938, in New Providence, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Crowell are living at 68 Mt. Hope Avenue, Providence. ^ Births > 1925 — To Dr. and Mrs. Everett Chris- topher (Elizabeth Smart), a daughter, Carolyn Webster, on May 13, 1938. The Christophers are living in Kingston, R. I. 1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Bucholz (Elizabeth Armstrong), a second daughter, Eunice Armstrong, on June 7, 1938. The family is living at 52 Pendleton Street, New Haven. 1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Borden (Dorothea Taudvin), a daughter, Barbara, in April. The Bordens are living in Touisset, Mass. 1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frances J. Figura (Mary McDonough), a daughter, Frances, on April 9. 1938. They are living at 253 Ormsby Avenue, Pittsburgh, Penn. 1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ehrke (Ruth Hess), a son, Carl Van Ditmars, on March 9, 1938. The Ehrkes are living at 29 Sunnyside Avenue, Riverside. 1932 — To Mr. and Mrs. John Moore Hills (Sally Ward), a second son, Joseph Ward, on May 29, 1938. 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