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ATHLETIC SITUATION AT BROWN : 

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THE READIXC; ROOM 
At the east end of the building. The walls are in a delicate green 



AMID great enthusiasm Rockefeller 
Hall, the new building for social 
and religious uses, was dedicated 
on Wednesday afternoon, January 
twentieth. The exercises began with the 
singing of Alma Mater, and a prayer by 
Rev. Thomas S. Barbour, D. D., of the 
board of trustees. Brief addresses were 
then made by President W. H. P. Faunce, 
Theodore Francis Green, Esq., representing 
the building committee, and Houghton 
Metcalf of the senior class, president of 
the Brown Union. President Faunce called 
attention to the fact that a dozen years 
ago the Brown Young Men's Christian 
Association began to dream of a home on 



this campus, and raised $1500 for that 
purpose. But, as the years passed, the 
original purpose broadened until the asso- 
ciation has secured a home not for itself 
only, but for all the organizations and 
societies of student life at Brown. Every 
dollar required has been solicited by the 
association. The president paid a tribute 
spoke of the generosity of the donor and 
to the loyalty and devotion of the alumni in 
providing an endowment for the building. 
The students are delighted with the new 
hall, and well may they be. It is an ideal 
building. The donor and the building 
committee have paid the fullest regard to 
the needs of the students and the building 



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THE TROPHY ROOM 
In the centre of the a:iound floor 



affords an excellent place for stimulating 
genuine collegiate fraternity. It provides 
ample and adequate accommodation for all 
the various college organizations and insti- 
tutions. The reading room on the tirst 
floor is four times as large as the former 
reading room in University Hall, and is 



many times more attractive. The lunch 
room and the restaurant in the basement 
have facilities superior in every way to 
those of the former quarters of "Jumbo" 
in the basement of University Hall. The 
lunch counter has seats for eighteen, the 
restaurant for a hundred. The kitchen with 




THE MAIN HALL 

In the centre of the second and tliird stories. Seats 300 persons 



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THt SMOKING ROOM 

At the west end. Rugs and walls in a reddish tint. There are large round tallies in the room and leather-cushioned 
lounges in the corners. Just the place for a comfortable chat. 



its marble floors and perfect plumbing is 
a model of its kind. In the basement also 
are the new quarters of the bookstore and 
the'daily and monthly undergraduate pub- 
lications. Each of these has better accom- 
modations than it formerly enjoyed. On 
the second floor the Young Men's Christian 
Association has three rooms, two offices and 



a reception room. The meetings of the 
association and of other organizations will 
be held in the large hall on this floor, a 
hall seating four hundred, or in a small 
hall at the eastern end of the building which 
seats from a hundred to a hundred and 
twenty-five. Many college organizations, 
such as the debatins: union and athletic 




THE RESTAURANT 

Has accommodations for loo diners. Near by is the buffet lunch room 



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associations, which heretofore have had no 
permanent and suitable headquarters, have 
been assigned to adequate accommodations 
in Rockefeller Hall. Besides the rooms 
already mentioned as being devoted to 
special purposes, there is a large room, the 
central room on the first floor, for the ex- 
hibition of college trophies, a room for 
smoking, another for billiards, a coat room, 
a barber shop, a study room, a card room, 
etc. Alumni associations such as the Class 
Secretaries Association, may on applica- 
tion secure rooms in the building for their 
meetings. 

In whatever part of tiie building we may 
go, we are always impressed with the 
beauty of its lines and its colors. Each 
room is well planned. The wall spaces are 
relieved by doors, windows and fireplaces, 
yet they are not cut up so as to fail to give 
a distinct impression of breadth and 



dignity. The arrangement of rooms and 
halls is excellent. Everywhere there is an 
attractive vista. The color scheme through- 
out the building has been carefully and 
happily worked out ; walls, rugs and furni- 
ture are always harmonious in color. The 
furniture is of a special design which is 
both beautiful and appropriate. The 
electric lighting fixtures are noticeable for 
the beauty of their form and for their 
effective placement. In the evening the 
lights in the building give a cheeriness to 
the middle campus which has heretofore 
been conspicuously wanting. 

The Brown Union has begun life most 
auspiciously. Already it has nearly one 
thousand members. Graduates as well 
as undergraduates are eligible to member- 
ship and a considerable number of alumni 
have availed themselves of the oppor- 
tunity. 



PAINTINGS OF THE ACROPOLIS 



DURING the month of January there 
have been on exhibition at Man- 
ning Hall, Brown University, two 
large paintings in oils of the 
Athenian Acropolis. In themselves they 
are of interest to every student of the 
classics, and especially the classic arts ; 
but Brown men have found in them an 
added source of interest because of the fact 
that they were painted by Mr. Walter 
Francis Brown of the class of 1873, who 
for a dozen years or more has made his 
home in Venice but for some weeks past 
has been in Providence, the city of his 
birth and boyhood. A further interest 
attaches to these pictures because a move- 
ment is on foot to purchase them for the 
university. 

It was on Mr. Brown's way home to 
\'enice from a journey to Egypt and Pales- 
tine, four or five years ago, that he stopped 
off in Athens, impelled by a desire to see 
Greece but with no idea of painting the 
Acropolis. As the steamer came in sight 
of the Piraeus, the golden brown of the 
Pentelic marbles on the famous hill shone 
warm and bright in the clear atmosphere, 
and struck at once Mr. Brown's artistic 
fancy. He was not long in making arrange- 
ments to transfer the scene to canvas, 



though it required three months to com- 
plete the work. One view was taken from 
a hill about one hundred and fifty feet 
high near the stadium. This is not the 
view that is shown in the picture accom- 
panying this article ; that is the second 
view, taken from a position on the south- 
west side of the Acropolis, near a little 
Greek church. In the original of the 
picture here produced there is a fleecy 
white cloud effect above the ruins, and 
some persons who have seen the picture in 
Providence have been surprised because 
they had supposed that clouds seldom ob- 
scured the Athenian horizon. But Mr. 
Brown smilingly says that these particular 
clouds were there when he painted the 
picture, and they certainly add to the 
picturesque effect of the view. 

The canvases are each eight by four and 
one-half in size, a generous scale. All wlio 
have seen the pictures and have had their 
appreciation of them heightened by resi- 
dence in Mediterranean countries express 
their delight at the success of the artist in 
reproducing the genuine atmospheric 
quality of southern Europe. Mr. Brown's 
work, indeed, had long been known for 
this very excellence. His life in Venice 
has given him, without doubt, a close 



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VIEW OF THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM THE SOUTHWEST 
Photographed from a painting by Walter Francis Brown, '73 



acquaintance with the cloudless blue of the 
South that Northern artists, painting there 
for the first time, would find it difficult or 
impossible to transfer to canvas, 

Mr. Brown found a congenial theme in 
the Acropolis. He has painted it with 
sympathy and a touch of artistic imagina- 
tion that is of itself a Greek quality and 
lifts these pictures far above the photo- 
graphic level, even for the untrained 
student. It would be a pity if they should 
find a permanent resting place elsewhere 
than at Brown University, now that they 
have been placed here temporarily and 
have drawn to the college many interested 
and admiring lovers of art. It is a com- 
paratively small sum, the Monthly under- 
stands, that is required for their acquisi- 
tion, and this, we sincerely trust, will 
speedily be obtained. The pictures form a 
well-nigh indispensable aid to Professor 
Poland in his teaching of the history of art, 
since Greek art, around which the art of 
the world centres, centres about this 
Acropolis, even in its ruined state. 

Mr. Brown was graduated from Brown 
in 1873. He had never taken any lessons 
in art up to that time, but either while he 
was still in college or shortly after his 
graduation he began his artistic career. At 
that time the principal newspaper illustra- 
tors of America were Edwin A. Abbey, 
Charles S. Reinhart, Sol Eytinge, and a 
few others whose work in the Harper and 
Scribner publications will be remembered 



by middle-aged people, and by some who 
are not yet as old as that. One day it 
occurred to the young Providence artist 
that a certain picture in Harper's Weekly 
did not represent a higher grade of artistic 
talent than he believed he himself was 
capable of, and he forthwith sent a half- 
page drawing to the publishers. The draw- 
ing was on a humorous, even a trivial sub- 
ject, but Mr. Brown's heart was gladdened 
by the receipt of a cheque for twelve dollars 
and a half in payment for it. This encour- 
aged him to other and more serious work. 
While he was still a youthful alumnus he 
illustrated a poem by Mr. Charles T. 
Miller, also a Brown man, on the coming of 
Roger Williams to Rhode Island. It was 
a humorous poem, of the rhythm of the 
then popular " King of the Cannibal 
Islands," and Mr. Brown's pictures, as well 
as the verses, captured the popular fancy. 
Mr. Miller and he sold three thousand 
copies of the book and Mr. Brown's share 
in the proceeds was fifteen hundred dollars. 
With this money, the product of his un- 
taught efforts in the world of art, he went 
to Paris in 1876, to train his obvious talent. 
He spent ten years in Paris, studying with 
Gerome, the master who has recently died. 
He went to Venice first in 1882 and again 
in the early nineties, since which time he 
has made his home there. He has spent 
two years in Egypt and the Holy Land, 
and thus his pictures include scenes from 
several widely separated countries. 



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ATHLETIC SITUATION AT BROWN 



PRELIMINARY EXPLANATION 



THIS number of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly has been held back for 
the purpose of enabling it to pre- 
sent both sides of the athletic con- 
troversy which came to a head just as the 
magazine was going to press. We have 
endeavored to describe the situation fairly 
and succinctly in the following pages. 
Professor Langdon one of the majority 
of the athletic board, whose announced 
repeal of the amateur athletic rule at 
Brown started the ball rolling; and Pro- 
fessor Hill one of the minority of the board, 
which dissents from the majority, have writ- 
ten their views at the request of the editors 
of the Monthly. The full text of the 
board's statement is herewith printed. It 



is signed by seven of the nine members of 
the board, the dissenting members being 
Professors Hill and Meiklejohn. 

So great is the interest in the question 
that two mass meetings of undergraduates 
have been held, at which spirited addresses 
on both sides of the controversy have been 
heard. There is no room in the Monthly 
to report these meetings in detail. The 
most we can do at this late hour is to pre- 
sent in a manner as fair as possible the 
merits of both contentions, reserving to 
ourselves in our editorial columns the 
privilege of expressing our own opinion. 
We may say that the several members of 
the editorial board of the Monthly sub- 
scribe to these latter views without dissent. 



STATEMENT OF THE ATHLETIC BOARD 



{Published Febrtmiy 5, 1904) 



AT a meeting of the board of directors 
of Brown University Athletic As- 
sociation held on January 18, the 
rule debarring students who had 
ever engaged in athletics for money out- 
side of the university from representing 
Brown in intercollegiate contests was 
repealed. A week later, after much further 
discussion, a motion to reconsider this 
change was lost. 

In order to avoid all unnecessary and 
unwarranted misinterpretation and criti- 
cism of its action that might be harmful 
to the university the board in hereby 
announcing this change of its policy to the 
public, wishes to present therewith a full 
explanation of its motives and reasons. 

For the benefit of the public reference 
might profitably be made here to the fact 
that the board of directors of the Brown 
University Athletic Association has under 
its constitution full powers conferred upon 
it by the corporation in regard to all regu- 
lations of Brown athletics, with the single 



exception of the standard of scholarship 
required of athletes on Brown teams and 
their absences. This board is composed 
of six members appointed by the corpora- 
tion, three of whom must be members of 
the university faculty, and three alumni, in 
addition to three undergraduates, who are 
elected respectively by the senior, junior 
and sophomore classes. 

It ought to be obvious to all that this 
action of repealing the old rule was taken 
by the board in conscious disregard 
of any fear lest it be accused of having 
been actuated by a desire to save the base- 
ball nine of the coming season. That team 
was safe, as far as its indulgence in summer 
ball was concerned, because of the board's 
final conviction of its inability to secure 
during the coming season any evidence of 
its ineligibility upon which it could justifi- 
ably act. Practically the same team could, 
therefore, have played next spring, even 
had the old rule remained in force. 

The change in the rules should in all 



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fairness be referred to other and worthier 
motives than the above, to which reference 
is here made only because it had been very 
seriously urged as the motive likely to be 
attributed to the board by all of Brown's 
friends and by all of her constituency, out- 
side of Providence. 

x\s for a voluntary withdrawal of the 
present baseball team for the sake of 
silencing possible criticism of the university, 
whether just or unjust — obviously only a 
temporary solution of the problem — the 
board owes it to itself to state that two of 
its faculty members urged this as a possible 
solution to likely leaders of undergraduate 
opinion, only to be positively assured that 
such a suggestion would not be supported 
by either the team or the student body, 
because it would be considered inexpedient 
however ideal. At any rate, the change in 
the rules still leaves the team free to with- 
draw, and, indeed, will only render such a 
step the more meritorious on its part if 
thought to be justified by any future ethical 
aspects of the situation. 

It should be noticed first of all that 
unanimity had already been reached by the 
board early in December by the passage of 
the following preamble to their proposed 
restatement of the elegibility rules — a 
minprity disagreeing only as to when and 
how Brown could best inaugurate the con- 
templated change : 

" The board of directors of the B. U. A. 
A. proposes as soon as advisable to rescind 
its present eligibility rules concerning pro- 
fessionalism because it believes : 

" I. That giving his athletic services for 
money on the part of a student, previous 
to his entering the university or during his 
free summer vacations, is in itself perfectly 
respectable, and in many cases may be even 
commendable; that it does not necessarily 
impair his future athletic loyalty to his 
university or the amateur sportsmanlike 
quality of his playing while on the 'varsity 
team, and that, consequently, he ought not 
to be, because of so doing, limited in such 
a proper means of self-support under 
penalty of being forever debarred from 
engaging in intercollegiate sports. 

" 2. That, however, there are universally 
recognized objections to his receiving 
financial remuneration from any sources for 
playing while in residence, and while or 
because of representing his university. 

" 3. That the present eligibility rule 
regarding so-called professionalism is 
neither indorsed by the general sentiment 



of college athletics, undergraduates or the 
younger alumni, nor is capable of being 
strictly enforced, but is consequently re- 
sulting in a growing prevalence of evasion 
or deception, and of unsportsmanlike re- 
crimination ; and 

" 4. That the essential interests of the 
intercollegiate sport and incidentally of 
undergraduate morality can be far better 
subserved by limiting the eligibility of 
athletes to an exclusive and strict insist- 
ance upon their creditable standing as to 
scholarship, gentlemanly character and 
loyalty to the university, with regard to 
which rules can be enacted which can both 
secure genuine support and be really 
enforced." 

The board having thus voted unani- 
mously in favor of the above position, in 
compliance with the desire of a minority who 
were averse to Brown's taking immediate 
action alone, in spite of oft-repeated failures 
to elicit any official promise of support 
from the other institutions in the "con- 
ference" with Brown, namely: Harvard, 
Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania — an organization 
that in no way binds any of the athletic 
boards more or less informally represented 
— the majority of the board consented to 
the appointment of a committee to see 
what could be dons with the other New 
England colleges. 

Three meetings with members of the 
Dartmouth board, together with direct in- 
formation concerning the attitude of other 
colleges, convinced the committee of the 
futility of expecting help from institutions 
which, for one reason or another, felt 
satisfied with the present state of things 
under the old rule — one, however, which, 
in the unanimous opinion of the Brown 
board, cannot fail to prove a perennial 
source of more or less veiled suspicion and 
recrimination, demoralizing to all con- 
cerned. 

As a result of this committee's report, 
a majority of the board feeling that they 
were alone responsible for the full powers 
conferred upon them by the corporation, 
after a most careful consideration of all 
sides of the matter, and in spite of many 
earnest warnings that this action would be 
misunderstood, decided that its only con- 
sistent and dignified course was, neverthe- 
less, to repeal a rule, in which, to begin 
with, it was known by the Brown under- 
graduates not to believe, and which further- 
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and past information, good reasons for 
knowing itself impotent to enforce. 

With regard to the obstacles in the way 
of an efifective administration of the old 
rule, the following deserves especial men- 
tion : 

1. College athletes and those under- 
graduates, alumni and others who are in 
touch with the actual situation do not gen- 
erally believe in it, but, on the contrary, 
are generally disgusted with what they 
look upon as the ludicrous attempts of 
athletic boards and college authorities 
everywhere to persuade themselves, as 
well as a more or less ignorant public^ 
that strict amateurism actually is, or is 
capable of being enforced in intercollegiate 
sports. There is, in consequence of this, 
an utter lack in the college world and in 
the public generally of that all-necessary 
moral influence which alone can make such 
a rule as the old one really effective, and 
in that respect render its maintenance 
justitiable. 

2. The demoralizing casuistical art of 
evasion of the rule is apparently so univer- 
sally practiced and has been so highly 
developed, that any attempt to obtain 
proofs of the rule's infraction in individual 
cases has at last come to be met, on the 
part of Brown's athletes, by a polite but 
frank refusal to answer questions that 
might incriminate themselver or their fel- 
lows, which practically blocks all investiga- 
tion, when taken in connection with the 
usual bland assertions of summer hotel 
keepers and managers of utter ignorance 
of any money transactions, all direct evi- 
dence of which is presumably kept out of 
existence. 

Unwilling any longer to seem to " pro- 
fess one thing and live another," a good 
description of the recent immoral position 
of the board, and facing thus the alterna- 
tive of repealing a rule which they consid- 
ered, in view of American conditions, to 
be unjust in itself and utterally demoraliz- 
ing in its consequences, as well as imprac- 
ticable — or the other alternative of con- 
tinuing to seem to abet what had come to 
be looked upon so generally as a farcial 
fraud, and so have to pose as guaranteeing 
the amateur status of teams they had too 
many good reasons for unofificially consid- 
ering open to suspicion, the majority of 
the board decided to take what thev con- 
sidered to be for them the only honest and 
self-r""'^ecting course, especially because it 
seem be, in their opinion, the one best 



calculated to improve athletic morals at 
Brown in the long run. 

Two other alternative courses, suggested 
in turn as dictated by expediency in view 
of anticipated adverse criticism of the uni- 
versity, were for evident reasons rejected. 
These were that the board should do as 
other boards are froquently accused of 
doing, namely, let the team play under the 
old rule, while, perhaps sacrificing to a 
dreaded criticism prominent members of 
the team against whom no charge could be 
definitely proved, or else arbitrarily debar 
the whole team on the ground of vague 
suspicion which would rest equally on any 
of its available successors for several years 
to come. 

In deciding to have the change take 
effect at once, the majority of the board 
was actuated by a desire to clear up mat- 
ters and set itself and Brown straight once 
for all, whatever others might do, and so 
put an end immediately to further pos- 
sibilities of temptation to evasion and 
deceit. Thus alone could it enable itself 
to present to the college public this spring 
a baseball team composed of men whom it 
could honestly and sincerely say all that it 
will be then supposed to say. This will be 
that in every respect they are bona fide 
Brown students in good standing as to 
scholarship and character, and, as far as 
charges of semi-professionalism or private 
subsidy are concerned, incapable because 
of the present state of tilings of being 
proved to be either better or worse than 
those with whom they propose to compete, 
whatever the local rules under which the 
latter may still deem it best for their inter- 
est to play. 

Plainly aware that this action may 
shock some, surprise man}-, and not at 
once please all, the board, nevertheless, 
hopes that it will serve to enlighten those 
who are ignorant of real conditions, and 
trusts that it will ultimately win the respect 
of sister institutions and the support of all 
true friends of Brown. Among these latter 
there will surely be many who will prefer 
that Brown's board, as its own responsible 
athletic representatives, should limit itself 
henceforth to making a strictly honest, if 
only a modest claim, for the status of its 
athletes, rather than one which, while ne- 
cessarily subjecting the board, and so the 
honor of the university, to constant ridicule 
and suspicion, subjects Brown's teams to 
constant temptation, and whatever they 
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agreeably flattering such a pretentious 
maintenance of the old rule maybe to those 
who are not intimately conversant with the 
situation. 

A perusal of the following stringent and 
yet enforceable rules, whose object is to 
insure what may be called "academical 
amateurism" in Brown athletics, will it is 
hoped, show that in spite of this change, 
the board still proposes to itself a high 
standard of eligibility, and one of which 
no thoughtfully conscientious alumnus need 
be ashamed. 

1. No student shall play on a Brown 
'varsity team whose standing as to schol- 
arship and absences does not strictly fulfill 
the requirements of the faculty committee 
in charge of these matters. 

Note — In brief, a student who is not in 
good standing, who does not intend to take 
a full year's work, who is seriously delin- 
quent in his work, who is deficient in more 
than one entrance subject, who has entered 
as a special student, who has not been in 
residence from the beginning of the aca- 
demic year, who is taking less than twelve 
hours' resident work, or who is under college 
discipline, is under this rule debarred from 
playing on a 'varsity team. 

2. Any student who by reason of ungen- 
tlemanly conduct while connected with a 
'Varsity team shall be considered by a 
two-thirds vote of the board of the B. U. 
A. A. an undesirable representative of the 
university, shall be warned by the presi- 
dent of the board, and, if again offending, 
shall by a two-thirds vote of the board, be 
publicly declared ineligible for the remain- 
der of the academic year. 

3. No student shall receive remunera- 
tion, direct or indirect, from the university 
or from any university organization be- 
cause of his representing his institution as 
an athlete, nor shall it be considered legiti- 
mate for him to receive for this reason 
financial help from any other source. 



Note — The enforcement of the latter 
part of this rule the board cannot under- 
take to guarantee, for perfectly obvious 
reasons. It, however, wishes to deprecate 
strongly any such violation of the spirit of 
the rule. 

4. No student shall, while connected 
with the university, the summer vacations 
excepted, remain eligible if he play upon 
any other team than one of his own insti- 
tution. 

5. No student who has played on the 
'varsity team of any other college or uni- 
versity before coming to Brown can play 
on a Brown 'varsity team until he shall 
have resided at Brown one academic 
year. 

6. No graduate of any other college or 
university than Brown shall be eligible for 
any Brown 'varsity team. 

7. No student shall represent Brown in 
intercollegiate athletics after he has en- 
gaged therein at Brown or elsewhere for 
four years. 

Believing these rules sufficient for the 
present, justifiable in themselves and capa- 
ble of securing both general support from 
undergraduates and alumni, as well as 
strict enforcement by the board, the latter, 
in undertaking their administration, asks 
from all concerned a fair consideration of 
this result of its deliberate judgment and 
fearless sincerity. 
For the board, 

Courtney Langdon, 

Representative of Faculty 
Edward H. Weeks, 
George A. Matteson, 
Martin S. Fanning, 

Representatives of Alumni 
Houghton Metcalf, 
Thomas A. Welch, 
Harry E. Pattee, 
Representatives of 

Undergraduates 



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POSITION OF MAJORITY OF THE BOARD 

'By Professor Courtney Langdon 



WITH regard to the time and 
manner of publication by the 
board of directors of the Brown 
University Athletic Associa- 
tion of the statement explaining the action 
it took on January i8th, — the only thing so 
far condemned by the committee of the 
corporation, — I am reCjuested by the ma- 
jority of the committee of the board to pre- 
sent the following : 

We were under the impression that in 
accordance with the printed constitution of 
the Brown University Athletic Association 
we had full responsibility in the matter 
under debate through powers derived from 
the corporation and faculty. 

We also believed that the objection made 
to the change by the president of the uni- 
versity was wholly personal and unofficial, 
he having assured two of our members that 
he wished in no wise to be construed as in- 
terfering, since the decision must be ours. 

We declined to refer the matter to a 
mass meeting of the students because they 
were fully represented on the board by the 
three men they had elected. 

Finally, after our action had come to be 
known in the university and in town, and 
the opposition had started in the local paper, 
the board, while deeply regretting to decline 
a request for delay received from the 
faculty, felt that in justice to itself it ought 
to make public the motives and reasons for 
the action it would soon be generally known 
to have taken. 

In all this the majority of the board had 
no thought of slighting either students, 
faculty, alumni, or corporation. To the 
endorsement or repudiation of the latter 
body it, of course, most respectfully leaves 
the action and its main issue. 

By the way, however, of setting forth its 
attitude in the matter at the present stage, 
the majority members feel that they can do 
nothing better than to recommend to the 
perusal of alumni the following letter by 
Lewis A. Waterman, '94, w-hich it hereby 
substantially endorses : 

MR. waterman's letter 

To the Editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly : 

I view with regret the attempt of some 

of the Brown alumni to have rescinded the 



action of the board of directors of the Brown 
University Athletic Association repealing 
the rule relating to professionalism. This 
step is inadvisable and impracticable. The 
most of those who favor this action have 
been induced to do so by the zealous 
advocates of the old rule maintaining that 
to take this step now would invite criticism 
of the motives. In other words, the advo- 
cates of the old rule have been driven back 
from one position to another until now they 
are making their final stand on the claim 
that though the rule should be repealed, 
the time is not ripe for such action, but it 
should be brought about " by mutual 
agreement." 

We do not need to enter upon an ex- 
haustive discussion of the merits or de- 
merits of the old rule. Practically every 
Brown man from the president down to the 
youngest undergraduate has after years of 
experiment and careful consideration, 
come to the conclusion that the rule is im- 
practicable, its enforcement is a farce and 
results merely in hypocrisy and deception, 
thereby inculcating a low standard of 
morality in the student body. The utter- 
ances of no man have been more clear and 
forcible upon this matter than those of our 
president himself. The idea that a man 
who earns his way through college by 
teaching athletics or by engaging in athletic 
contests during the summer vacation is 
incapable of true loyalty and devotion to 
his alma mater and thus of worthily repre- 
senting her with true "sportsmanlike" 
spirit on the athletic field, has never taken 
very deep root in American soil. It is 
decidedly un-American. The bugaboo of 
" National League " players, competent to 
take up the regular college studies and 
desirous of so doing, giving up their regular 
positions with its emoluments and flocking 
to the various colleges for the purpose of 
playing on a college team once or twice a 
week for two or three months a year, has 
ceased to frighten any but the most timid. 
To say that athletics are on a higher plane 
now than they were ten or twelve years ago 
is to beg the question. Other rules have 
been put in force. Faculties have ceased 
to be as lax as in the past in their over- 
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not to be presumed that those who were 
endeavoring to correct former evils were 
endowed with omniscience and that the 
rules they made, because they were a step 
in the right direction and served to better 
existing conditions, were thenceforth to be 
considered as perfect and never to be 
tampered with. In all reforms we are not 
at the time sufficiently discriminating ; the 
pendulum is apt, in fact is almost certain, 
to swing too far and it must be permitted to 
resume its normal position. But, however 
this may be, I am willing to accept the con- 
clusion of our president and of every 
member of the board of directors of the 
Brown University Athletic Association, 
that the rule relating to professionalism 
should be repealed for the reasons they 
have so well stated. 

But it is claimed that the time is not ripe, 
it is not opportune to make such a change 
at present. Our critics will say we did it 
to save our baseball team. When will the 
time come when our critics will not charge 
us with some selfish or ignoble motive in 
taking this step ? Has there ever been a 
time in the past fourteen years when we 
have had a successful team but what some 
of our jealous critics have criticised its 
membership no matter how hard we tried to 
keep it up to the highest standard pre- 
scribed by the rules then in force ? If the 
change is made after a successful season it 
will be charged that we knew that that team 
was not up to the standard and we are 
striving to preserve the team for another 
season. If the change is made after an un- 
successful season, it will be charged that 
we did it to induce good athletes to come 
to Brown so that we could build up strong 
athletic teams. 

Shall we make the change now to go 
into effect one year hence ? Our team for 
this year will be the same anyhow, and it 
will be charged that we are promulgating 
the rule at present so as to advertise for 
athletes. Even if the rule was repealed to 
save our baseball team, it does not follow 
that it should not have been repealed. If 
it is right to -make the change, we should 
take the step fearlessly and regardless of 
consequences. We should have the courage 
of our convictions and not let the fear of 
what others may say deter us in the least 
from doing what we know to be right. 
Under what code of ethics should we 
" profess one thing, and live another " until 
the situation can be remedied "by mutual 



agreement ? " And at what stage of the 
world's history was any reform brought 
about "by mutual agreement?" A few 
pioneers have always had to blaze the way. 
For this they have been severely criticised 
and it has frequently been claimed that in- 
stead of advancing they retarded the cause 
which they advocated. 

But does any close student of history be- 
lieve this ? True, the latent opposition 
which had hitherto no cause to be aroused, 
but was nevertheless existent, rose in all 
its might to crush the reform and with it 
sided for a time those who hesitate to stir 
up any subject for fear of opposition and 
criticism, and who claimed that the time 
was not opportune for a change. And 
what was the result ? The matter which 
would otherwise have lain dormant indefi- 
nitely if it had been left to " mutual agree- 
ment " was speedily brought to a head. 
Public sentiment crystallized so that it 
became an invincible force. And in the 
end the reform was hastened and right 
prevailed as it always will for " truth 
crushed to earth will rise again." So in 
this case there will arise a storm of criti- 
cism ; first on the part of those who still 
believe in the old rule; second, and these 
are the most to be feared, on the part of 
those who while they are opposed to the 
old rule, fear that the time is not oppor- 
tune for a change. For a time there will 
be heated discussion. The friends of the 
new rules will gather together in their 
defence, in a short time they must of ne- 
cessity be joined by the opportunists and 
in the end all effective opposition will cease 
for the right will prevail. 

It is a condition and not a theory that 
now confronts us. The die has been cast. 
The Rubicon has been crossed. The rule 
relating to professionalism has been re- 
pealed. We cannot retreat under fire. By 
so doing we will expose ourselves and 
justly to the shafts of criticism of our op- 
ponents. They will impugn our motives. 
They will charge either that we did not 
have the courage of our convictions, or that 
we were insincere and were compelled 
against our will to retire from a position 
that was clearly untenable. It is not now 
opportune to condemn or censure the 
board of directors of the athletic association 
for their action. They had full authority 
to act, and they acted after a careful study 
of the question, and with a full knowledge 
of the conditions. They were elected to 



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their positions on account of their intelli- 
gence and judgment and they should re- 
ceive the earnest support of every true 
friend of Brown in whatever action they 
may take. For the executive board to 
meet hastily and without any hearing " to 
condemn the action of the board in repeal- 
ing certain important rules without pre- 
viously submitting such action to the fac- 
ulty, corporation or students of the univer- 
sity," seems to me ill-advised. Every man 
is supposed to be appointed to any position 
on account of his peculiar fitness for it, and 
he should be governed in that position 
solely by his own best judgment. If this 



were not so every legislator would have to 
run to his constituents who might not have 
any special knowledge of the subject mat- 
ter upon every question of importance that 
might arise. Such a thing would not be 
feasible. 

We should therefore support our board 
of directors, bearing in mind that they 
were unanimous in favor of a change with 
a very small minority differing only as to 
Its feasibility at the present time. In 
justice and fairness to them we should give 
the new rules our heartiest support until 
they have had a fair trial. Not until then 
will the time come to discuss their repeal. 



POSITION OF MINORITY OP^ THE BOARD 

"By Professor John R. Hill 



IPROrOSE to give the position of the 
minority of the board of directors of 
the Brown University Athletic Asso- 
ciation in protesting against the repeal 
of the eligibility code ; but before so doing 
I wish to express my thanks to the seven 
of the majority for their uniformly cour- 
teous treatment. We are still good friends. 
The arguments tnat the minority offer 
may be given under four heads. 

I . The method of procedure was bad. — ■ 
We dissent from the action of the majority 
because they passed a resolution of vital 
importance to take immediate effect with- 
out either the consent or the official knowl- 
edge of corporation, faculty, alumni, or 
undergraduates ; and because after the 
passage of the resolution, but before its 
publication, they disregarded not only the 
protest of the secretaries of the alumni 
classes, but also the request of the faculty 
to postpone publication. 

All the constituent elements of a college 
must work in essential agreement for the 
common good. The decision of any ques- 
tion of vital importance by one element, 
e. g. the faculty, must affect all, but more 
particularly must it affect the alumni and 
the undergraduates — who are the future 
alumni — because they have to bear in so 
many ways the effects of criticism. If this 
be true, what right have nine men, even if 
clothed with the necessary authority, to 
plunge the college into a wrangle which 
may set faculty and corporation against 



undergraduates, or array alumni against 
faculty, when such a snarl might have 
been avoided. Does such action show 
sound judgment? Star-chamber proceed- 
ings are seldom advisable in a good cause 
and in this case were entirely avoidable. 

But the majority say that they are justi- 
fied in going ahead without consulting the 
wishes of their constitutents, because most 
of the alumni, corporation and faculty are 
not experts in athletics and do not know 
the facts. Who are the final judges in the 
matter, the board or their constituents ? 
liecause a man does not know certain facts 
it does not follow that he cannot under- 
stand them when presented. Because I do 
not know the chemistry of gunpowder does 
it follow that I do not know its explosive 
qualities ? 

The case is now presented to Brown 
University for approval, and if the action 
of the board is disapproved, it must be re- 
versed or the wishes of the university dis- 
regarded. If approved, we frankly admit 
the position has been sustained, but we 
still question the method. 

2, The action was inexpedient.— The 
action was inexpedient at this time because 
of the large amount of public criticism 
against certain members of the baseball 
team and the fact that we have exception- 
ally fine material for a team this spring. 
Honesty of intention and purity of motive 
would have been much more clearly shown 
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postponed until next spring. This argu- 
ment when used in the meetings of the 
l:»oard at once raised the cry from the ma- 
jority "you are advocating expediency as 
against right — we must not endanger the 
moral perceptions of the students." There 
are two general classes of right actions, 
one obligatory, the other facultative or 
permissive. Actions of obligatory right 
are those which force a man to do or else 
violate his conscience ; actions of faculta- 
tive right give him an option. We cannot 
admit that either the adoption of an eligi- 
l:)ility code or the rescinding thereof is an 
obligatory right action, hence from our 
standpoint the introduction of the argu- 
ment of expediency is permissible. 

3. The action was subversive of honest 
morality in the student body. — In the light 
of the foregoing considerations it may be 
maintained that the action of the board 
was morally wrong, in which case our posi- 
tion becomes self-evident and needs no 
defense. 

A number of the baseball team stated 
that they would refuse to answer questions 
concerning their eligibility if requested so 
to do by the board. Chiefly because they 
could not agree upon a method of procedure, 
the board did not ask the players any ques- 
tions, but notwithstanding this fact re- 



scinded the rules. Yet at the same time the 
board declared that they considered the 
team ineligible under the old rules. 

It is evident that if the team were eligible 
there was no evasion and no deceit on their 
part, hence there was no reason for chang- 
ing the rules. To change the rules when 
the team is ineligible involves shirking of 
responsibility and is a bad example to set 
before the student body. We are again 
forced to strongly condemn the action. 

4. The action will defeat its own end — 
namely, uniformity among the colleges in 
the regulation of athletics on other than 
an amateur basis. — We prophesy not only 
that as a result of this action the larger col- 
leges will not rescind their eligibility codes, 
but that they will make more stringent 
regulations to enforce the existing rules. 

Professor Meiklejohn and myself agree 
in all of the above statements. 

In justice to myself I must say that 
my mind the strongest argument against 
the change is the fact that it utterly re- 
pudiates the amateur principle. However 
far beyond our reach an ideal may be, yet 
constant striving cannot possibly work for 
evil. The spirit of amateurism must ever 
remain the guiding star in the college 
athletic firmament. 



CLASS SECRETARIES ACT 



THE following minutes are self-ex- 
planatory : 
At a meeting of the class secre- 
taries held on December 18, 1903, 
a resolution was presented by Robert P. 
lirown, '71, as follows : 

" RESOLVED : That it is the sentiment 
of the secretaries of the Brown classes 
assembled at their annual meeting that 
ISrown having entered into relations to 
other universities in the adoption of cer- 
tain mutual athletic rules, it is inexpedient 
for Brown to annul or abandon any of such 
rules, unless joined in such action by one 
or more of the other parties to the agree- 
ment." 

A discussion of the resolution ensued. 
It was finally moved and seconded that 
the matter of the resolution be referred to 
tlie executive committee. So voted. 

The executive committee, at their meet- 
ing held on January iith, voted to recom- 
mend that the resolution be not adopted. 



At the meeting held January 26th it was 
then reported that the executive committee 
recommended that the resolution pre- 
sented at the last meeting be not adopted. 
Robert P. Brown, '71, then renewed his 
motion that his resolution be adopted. 
Motion was seconded, and it was voted to 
adopt the resolution then before the meet- 
ing. Zechariah Chafee, '80, then moved 
that the following vote be adopted as a 
substitute : 

" It is the sentiment of the meeting that 
it is not expedient that Brown take any 
action at the present time to change the 
existing rules governing our college ath- 
letics ; and it is the desire of this meeting 
that the rules be strictly observed so long 
as they are in force." 

The motion was seconded. It was then 
voted to substitute this resolution for the 
one before the meeting. 

James C. Collins. Jr., '92, 
Secretary of the Class Secretaries' Association 



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February, 1904 

KEEP UP THE BARS! 

Neither as a matter of policy nor as a 
matter of principle can Brown University 
afford to accept as final the findings of 
the majority of the athletic board. We 
believe the members of this majority are 
loyal friends of the college, inspired by a 
desire to do the right and honest thing ; 
but we differ absolutely from them in their 
view of the existing athletic situation. 

As a matter of policy Brown cannot 
afford to abrogate the rule forbidding men 
to play on its team who have played for 
money, either on summer teams or else- 
where. In the first place, the published 
statement of the majority of the board 
has elicited from reputable newspapers all 
over the country unreserved condemnation. 
It is not only the much-quoted Mr. Caspar 
Whitney whose journalistic opposition is 



certain — the press of the United States, so- 
far as it has registered its opinion on the 
subject, has criticised the committee in 
unequivocal terms. This is an excellent 
indication of what an influential factor in 
the community thinks about letting down 
the bars to college professionalism. Hun- 
dreds of thousands of American news- 
paper readers within the last few days 
have been told that Brown has taken an 
unwise and deplorable stand, though Brown 
as Brown has not yet done anything of the 
kind. Secondly, the action of the major- 
ity of the board is regrettable not only 
because it makes easier the path of the 
professional baseball player at Brown but 
because it emphasizes the existence here 
of an element, too large in proportion to 
the whole, which needs financial assistance 
to carry it through college, and an element 
that does not represent the culture disso- 
ciable from the true university idea. The 
natural result of such a change as the board 
proposes will be a flocking to other colleges 
of those young men who do not have to play 
ball for money and an influx at Brown of 
those who need financial help from any hon- 
orable source that is open to them. And 
there is no question that playing ball for 
money is perfectly honorable, provided the 
player does not seek to represent his col- 
lege in amateur sport. 

But it is a matter of principle of which 
we mean chiefly to speak. King Money is 
dominant in all our American college 
athletics. He sits enthroned in the Har- 
vard stadium and on the Yale football 
field. Whether an individual player at 
New Haven or Cambridge or any other of 
our college towns has received money for 
playing baseball in summer may be a serious 
but it is not the most serious factor in the 
situation. As a people we are putting out 
a tremendous amount of money on our 
college athletics. Thirty -five thousand 
spectators crowded into the great structure 
at Soldiers Field in Cambridge last fall to 
see a football game and paid from two to 
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Yale Athletic Association, if we remember 
correctly, made a greater profit last season 
than ever before. The figures, as we recall 
them, were in the neighborhood of fifty 
thousand dollars. The cost of training our 
athletic teams increases every year. To 
put the situation in a phrase, COLLEGE 
ATHLETICISM IS BECOMING TOO 
MUCH OF A BUSINESS. It is ceas- 
ing to be mere sport and is becoming a 
matter of dollars and cents. Elven though 
not one penny is spent in the illegitimate 
compensation of players, even if no player 
has accepted money for playing on a sum- 
mer nine, he is part of a commercial sys- 
tem, the motive power of which is the coin 
of the realm. A generation ago, when 
Brown played Harvard at the Dexter 
Training Ground in this city, the specta- 
tors paid no money to witness the game, 
nor did the players dream of being recom- 
pensed for their labors. These labors, 
indeed, did not deserve to be called by 
that name; they were rather genuine and 
unadulterated play. Yet there was just as 
much pleasure and profit in this and simi- 
lar old-time contests. The absorbing inter- 
collegiate rivalry of to-day had not been 
developed, nor had it brought with it its 
great attendant train of evils. King Money 
had not invaded the college diamond. But 
now all is changed. Intercollegiate games 
are advertised on every blank wall and on 
every street car. An admission fee is 
charged at the gate and the grandstand. 
It was considered, a year ago, that the 
Brown football season had been successful 
hardly more because the eleven had won 
many of its games than because the enter- 
prising manager had closed the year with a 
large financial surplus. 

It is time for our American colleges to 
call a halt. If intercollegiate rivalry in- 
volves this tremendous financial strain that 
we have seen so markedly on the increase 
in recent years, let us get back to whole- 
some and humble sport, with the element 
of intercollegiate rivalry eliminated. If we 
cannot have at Brown a champion baseball 



team without letting down the bars to pro- 
fessionalism, then let us have some other 
kind of team. If there are no expert base- 
ball players in college who have not played 
ball for money, then let us have a nine that 
Princeton and Harvard and Yale can whip, 
or let us go back to marbles and mumblety- 
Peg. 

It really is not necessary that we should 
have a university nine this year. The 
Monthly is certain that it would be much 
better for us to have none than to 
possess one on which rested the imputation 
which the action of the majority of the 
athletic committee places on every athlete 
in college. It is a time in college affairs 
when our faces ought to be set in the 
direction of higher amateur ideals, and 
now that the issue has been forced, the 
friends of " honest professionalism " will 
find that there are a host of those who 
will demand HONEST AMATEURISM 
in every athletic team that hereafter rep- 
resents Brown. We respect the majority 
members of the atliletic board, they 
are all our good and personal friends ; 
but it is our plain opinion of the neces- 
sities of the case that since they have 
confessed in so many words that it is im- 
practicable to keep a college team on an 
amateur basis it is desirable that the 
future of Brown athletics should be en- 
trusted to a board of a contrary con- 
viction. In other words, our athletic 
fortunes should be in the hands of those 
who sincerely and eagerly believe in 
amateurism, rather than in the keeping of 
those who, honestly and sincerely, believe 
that the university should permit its repre- 
sentatives on the diamond and gridiron to 
play for money in the vacation season. We 
cannot escape the feeling that Hammond 
Lamont and eight other men who feel as he 
does on the subject of athletics would 
produce at Brown not a winning nine right 
away, perhaps, but a nine beyond suspicion 
in respect of amateur standards. At any 
rate the experiment would be worth trying : 
indeed it will have to be tried unless we 



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are to surrender to the lower ideals offered 
us now under the alluring but specious 
disguise of athletic " honesty." 

Why is an amateur system in athletics 
" un-American " and " undemocratic," as 
has so frequently been said of late ? The 
Monthly is thoroughly sick of those 
phrases. Is it un-American to play ball 
without money and without price, earnestly 
and skilfully and for the honor of Alma 
Mater? Is it undemocratic to inculcate in 
the minds of our American youths the 
desirability of keeping business on one side 
and sport on the other ? We might think, 
from all the recent talk about the imprac- 
ticability of introducing English methods 
here that every English athlete is the son of 
a Duke or an Earl, whereas in our own 
beloved America can be discovered the most 
notorious evils of aggregated wealth-wealth 
equal to the liberal endowment of British 
universities beyond their former dreams of 
riches, and equal also to the equipment of 
American college boys with more luxuries 
than the average British undergraduate 
would expect or desire. On the other hand, 
is there anything peculiarly American in 
professionalism ? If we remember our 
American history correctly it was the 
amateur soldier. General George Washing- 
ton, who drove the professional Hessians 
out of Trenton on a cold winter morning. 
It was the amateur northern army that 
saved the nation • a generation ago. It 
is under the amateur system that a vast 
host of inspiring traditions have been 
woven about our college athletic fields. 
Amateur effort in war or in play is not un- 
American. We are accused as a nation of 
worshipping King Money, but we still 
reverence sentiment and tradition in some 
things and still desire to see the stamp of 
disinterested achievement set upon our 
college athletic teams. If it is no longer 
possible to have successful athletes with- 
out professionalism, let us have unsuccess- 
ful athletes. Triumph on the baseball field 
is not a matter of such immense concern 
to Brown University that it can afford to 



sacrifice its old ideals and the ideals, more 
over, of every college in the country whose 
friendship it ought to treasure. The 
athletic board may rally to its standard 
a few of the institutions for whose rivalry 
on the diamond we do not care, but it 
cannot hope for the fraction of a second 
for the support and collaboration of one 
university whose wholesome companion- 
ship and rivalry on the athletic field we 
cherish. Neither it nor its supporters 
among Brov.'n graduates or undergraduates 
should be deluded on this score. The only 
result of its action, if there is any result, 
will be to strengthen the standards of other 
colleges and to keep up their bars. 

And that is exactly what will happen at 
Brown. The bars must be kept up. It is 
a matter of small importance, comparatively 
speaking, whether we have a baseball nine 
this summer. It is a matter of very great 
importance whether we hold fast to our 
athletic ideals. Let us be honest. Let us 
be quite as honest as the majority mem- 
bers of the board, but in a better way. 
They demand honesty on a plane that per- 
mits professionalism. The friends of the 
amateur ideal demand honesty on the plane 
of generous and wholesome amateur sport. 

THE AMATEUR STANDARDS IN 
BROWN ATHLETICS MUST BE 
STRENGTHENED AND THE MAIN- 
TENANCE OF THESE STANDARDS 
MUST BE IN THE HANDS OF 
THEIR FRIENDS. 



IV HAT ARE YOUR VIEIVS 
Alumni will find in this number of the 
Monthly a printed slip on which it is 
hoped a large number will be glad to put 
an expression of their opinion regarding 
the athletic situation. This is not a formal 
vote, but we earnestly hope to learn from 
the experiment something definite about 
the feeling of Brown graduates on a mat- 
ter of critical importance. We should be 
gratified to have every alumnus express 
his views on both of the subjects indicated, 
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one, or an independent expression in the AN APOLOGY 

blanl< space at the foot of the paper. The pressure of matter pertaining to the 

Space has been left for the word " not " athletic situation has compelled us to hold 

in both paragraphs on the slip. Please be over till March enough other material to 

sure to cross out any paragraph regard- fill more than one-half the magazine. We 

ing which you prefer not to give your ask the indulgence of our readers for the 

views. scantiness of the following departments. 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



THE two leading topics of the month 
are the opening of the home of the 
Brown Union and the athletic sit- 
uation. These matters have been 
treated in the first part of the magazine, 
where more space could be given than 
in this section. 

J- 
Alumni Reunions Arrangements have 
in February been made for hold- 

ing the following al- 
umni reunions in the month of February. 

February i at Philadelphia. 

February 4 at New York. 

February 5 at Fall River. 

February 10 at Hartford. 

February 11 at Albany. 

The exact date of the meeting of the 
C'hicago alumni has not been decided upon. 
It will be one of the days in the week of 
February 14 — 21. 

Brown and A committee from the New- 
Newton ton Theological Institution 
appointed to confer with a 
committee from the university relative to 
crediting work done in the departments of 
Biblical literature and history and of elocu- 
tion in the university towards graduation 
from the seminary has reported that credit 
up to a specified amount will be given by 
Newton for work done at Brown. The 
number of prescribed hours in the Newton 
course is 1620. The new arrangement 
enables a student from Brown to be 
credited with work up to 388 hours, pro- 
vided he shall have secured in all the work 
the rank of " C," or that he shall pass 
examinations upon it satisfactory to the 
Newton faculty. 

The Biblical courses in the university 
are planned primarily for purposes of 
general historical and literary culture and 



not especially with the theological course 
in view ; the greater part of the students 
in these courses do not intend to enter the 
ministry, so that the Biblical work in the 
two institutions coincides in part only. 
The committees have, however, found 
enough of the work parallel to make the 
above credit possible. 

The details are as follows : 

Hebrew, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, three hours a week 
through two years, credited for Junior Hebrew at 
Newton, 132 hours. 

Biblical Literature and History (English), 4, 5, 6, 
three hours a week for one year, credited for Old 
Testament literature and EngUsh Bible, Old Testa- 
ment, at Newton, 80 hours. 

Biblical Literature and History (English), i, 2, 3, 
three hours a week for one year, credited for 
English Bible, New Testament, at Newton 32 
hours. This course is credited also for some pre- 
scribed reading at Newton which is not included in 
the 1620 hours, though recjuired for graduation. 

New Testament Language and Literature, 7, 6, 
3, Acts and Pauline P^pistles, three hours a week 
for one year, credited for 52 hours New Testament 
at Newton. 

New Testament Language and Literature, 5, i, 
2, the Gospels, Johannine and Petrine writings, 
three hours a week for one year, credited for 56 
hours New Testament at Newton. 

Elocution 36 hours or more credited for 36 hours 
at Newton. 

A student who has obtained credit for 
all of these courses (388 hours at Newton) 
can complete his theological course in two 
years by carrying seventeen hours a week, 
except for one half term when he must 
carry eighteen hours. One who has taken 
part of the above courses may receive such 
credit as will give him time in his pro- 
fessional course for much wider reading 
and research than is ordinarily possible, or 
for entering into practical work in city 
missions and similar activities. 

The granting of credit by theological 
institutions for work in Biblical languages 
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course is no new thing, but the arrange- 
ment outlined above indicates definitely 
just what credit can be obtained by Brown 
graduates at Newton and defines the re- 
strictions under which these institutions 
believe that such credit may properly be 
given. 

J- 

Brown Teachers The officers of the 
Association Brown Teachers As- 

sociation which was 
established early last spring, have made 
arrangements for the holding of a con- 
ference at the university on Friday and 
Saturday, March fourth and fifth. The 
program of the meetings will be as follows: 

Friday afternoon : The teaching of the 
modern languages ; papers on the teach- 
ing of French by Professor Albert B. John- 
son of Brown University, and Fred A. 
Aldrich of Worcester Academy, papers on 
the teaching of German by Professor A. 
Clinton Crowell of Brown University, and 
Miss Alice R. Sheppard of the Classical 
High School of Providence. 

Friday evening : Address by Professor 
Andrew F. West, Ph. D., LL. D., Litt. D., 
dean of the graduate school of Princeton 
University. 

Saturday morning : Address by John 
Tetlow, Sc. D., principal of the Girls' 
Latin High School of Boston, president of 
the association, on the teaching of Latin ; 



addresses on the New England Entrance 
Certificate Board by Professor John K. 
Lord, Ph. D., of Dartmouth College, and 
Isaac Thomas, principal of the Edmunds 
High School of Burlington, Vt. 

Ail teachers of schools sending students 
to Brown University and all alumni who 
are teachers may become members and 
are urged to attend. 



Brown Dinner There will be a Brown din- 
in Providence ^''er in Providence, simi- 
lar to that of last year, 
March second. Plans and arrangements 
for it are being made by a committee con- 
sisting of Robert P. Brown, '71, chairman, 
Robert W. Burbank, '78, Herbert H. Rice, 
'92, treasurer, Archibald C. Matteson, 
'93, Edward H, Weeks, '93, J. E. D. Jones, 
'93, and Clarence S. Brigham, '99, 
secretary. 

eSfc 

Special Rates The executive committee 
for Alumni o^ the Associated Alumni 

are making arrangements 
for reduced fares for those desiring to 
attend commencement exercises. Rates 
have already been secured for points east 
of the Hudson River. Negotiations are 
in progress for the securing of reduced 
rates for more distant sections. Further 
particulars will be published later. 



CHRONICLE OF THE CAMPUS 



ALREADY the influence of the Brown 
Union is being felt throughout the uni- 
versity. The spacious and convenient 
rooms of Rockefeller Hall are utilized 
daily by a large number of men, and the 
previous lack of an undergraduate centre of activ- 
ity is more than ever reahzed, now that such a 
centre has been provided. It is a great thing for 
Brown that there has been built at an accessible 
point on the campus a building of this kind, where 
men may meet for social or intellectual purposes, 
where college plans may be talked over, and where 
a community of university feeling may be aroused. 
From roof to basement, the new structure is a boon 
to Brown. 

Baseball Candidates 
In response to the first call for candidates for 
the university nine, January nth, thirty-five men 
were present at the gymnasium. Following are 
the men who reported with their positions, and in 
the case of the freshmen, their preparatory schools : 
1904— Capt. M. J. Lynch, pitcher; W. K. Beld- 
ing, lb; W. H. Gray, 2b; H. M. Penley, 3b; H. 



Metcalf, field; C. W. Dealtry, field; J. F. Heck- 
man, field; H. V. Joslin, infield. 

1905 — R. B. Woodsum, ss. and 3b; R. H. Fou 
der, 3b ; T. Welch, pitcher and outfield ; F. E. 
Marble, pitcher; L. A. Wells, ib; R. G. Ostby, 3b; 
A. W. Ingalls, infield. 

1906 — H. E. Pattee, ss. ; E. D. Kilburn, 2b and 
field ; E. W. Weikert, pitcher and field ; J. E. 
Flemming, field ; J. W. Mason, field ; A. Graham, 
field ; F. R. Belding, pitcher; F. J. H. Price, 
pitcher and field. 

1907 — W. A. Dickinson, 2b, Somerville H. S. ; R. 
F. Tift, pitcher and field, Somerville, H. S. ; J. 
Hamilton, 3b, Cambridge M. T. S.; A. H. Gur- 
ney, ss. New London H. S. ; H. W. Paine, catcher, 
English H. S., Providence; W. L. Boyson, field, 
Cambridge M. T. S. ; W. M. Higgins, catcher. 
Dean Academy; R. L. Elrod, infield, St. Albans 
H. S. ; H. N. Sweet, ss, English H. S., Providence ; 
H. G. Clark, field. Westerly H. S, ; H. F. Zim- 
owski, 3b, New Haven; R. R. Smith, ib, Tilton 
H. S. ; E. V. Ross, pitcher and field. 

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Basketball Games 

BROWN, 10; PENNSYLVANIA, 25 

University of Pennsylvania beat Brown in the 
latter's first game of the season, at the Lyman 
Gymnasium, Thursday evening, January 8. Tlie 
Pennsylvania men greatly outweighed their oppon- 
ents and the Brown players were unfortunate in 
shooting goals. The line up : 

BROWN PENNSYLVANIA 

Rackle-Reynolds, r. f r. f., Lawrence 

Schwartz, 1. f 1. f. Kase 

Leland, c c. McCrudden-Hayes 

Ahrens, r. g r. g. Bennett 

Ingalls, 1. g 1. g. Kunkle 

Length of halves — 20 m. Umpires — Mandeville 
and Ney. Referee — Ney and Mandeville. Timer 
— Schwinn. 

BROWN, 17; WESLEYAN, 9 

Brown V)eat Wesleyan at Providence without 
■much trouble, though the contest was spirited. Li 
the second half the home team easily outplayed the 
Connecticut men. The line up : 

BROWN WESLEYAN 

Reynolds, r. f h g., Taylor 

Schwartz-Rackle, 1. f r- g-. Garrison 

Leland, c c, MacNaughton 

Ahrens, r. g 1. g., Deming-Goodman 

Ingalls, i. g r. f.. Woodruff 

Goals from floor — Reynolds, 5 ; Ahrens, i ; 
Schwartz, i ; Deming, i ; Goodman, i ; Taylor, i ; 
Garrison, 1. Goals from fouls — Ahrens, 3 ; ^Vood- 
ruff, I. Referee — Mandeville. 

BROWN, 22; TRINITY, 4 

In a tedious and featureless game at Providence, 
Saturday evening, January 16, Trinity was beaten. 
Brown's passing and shooting in the first half was 
poor, but improved in the second. The line up : 

BROWN TRINITY 

Reynolds, r. f 1. g., Bartlett 

Schwartz-Harding, 1. f r- g-, Meredith 

Leland, c c, Chamberlain 

Ahrens, r. g 1. f., Duffy 

Ingalls, 1. g r. f., Ensign 

Goals from the floor — Reynolds, 5 ; Harding, 2 ; 
Ingalls, 2 ; Ahrens, Leland, Duffee. Goals from 
fouls — Ensign, 2. Referee — Mandeville of Brown. 
Umpire — Brown of Trinity. Time of halves — 20 
minutes. 

BROWN, 7; HOLY CROSS, II 

Considerable interest centred in this, the first 
athletic meeting of the two colleges for two years 
or so, at the Lyman Gymnasium, Wednesday 
evening, January 20. At the end of the first half 
the score was 5 — 2 in favor of Holy Cross, so that 
Brown scored almost as many points as the Wor- 
cester team in the second. The line up : 

BROWN HOLY CROSS 

Rackle-Reynolds, r. f 1. g., Quinn 

Harding, 1. f r. g., Reed 

Leland, c c. Spring 

Ahrens, r. g 1. f., Connor 

Ingalls, 1. g r. f., O'Toole 

Goals from floor — Connor, 3 ; Spring, Reed, 
Leland, 2 ; Harding. Goals from fouls — Spring, 3 ; 
Ahrens, i. Referee — Mandeville. Umpire — 
Hanify. 

BROWN, 8 ; WILLIAMS, 4 

At Providence, Saturday evening, Jan. 30, Brown 
beat Williams at basketball by a score of 8 to 4. 
The game was fast and clean. 



BROWN, 24: MASS. STATE, 16 

At Providence, Saturday evening, January 23. 
Brown beat the " Amherst Aggies " in an interesting 
game. 

BROWN, 29; AMHERST, I7 

Before a large audience, including a notable rep- 
resentation from local society, Brown defeated 
Amherst at basketball in the Lyman Gymnasium, 
Wednesday evening, January 27, by a score of 29 
to 17. The first half ended with the score 18 to 4 
in favor of Brown, but Amherst's improved playing 
in the second half netted her 13 points to 11 for 
the home team. Ahrens and Rackle worked a 
long pass trick on Amherst for several goals. The 
line-up : 

BROWN AMHERST 

Rackle, r. f 1. g., Roundsville 

De Wolf, 1. f r. g., Kelliher-MacRae 

Leland, c c, Bishop 

Ahrens, r. g 1. f ., Beach 

Ingalls, 1. g, r. f., Crawford 

Goals from floor — Rackle, 7 ; De Wolf, 5 ; Le- 
land, Ahrens, Beach, 3 ; Roundsville, 2 ; Kelligher, 
Crawford, Bishop. Goals from foul — Rackle, i ; 
Crawford, i. Referees — -Schwinn and Turner. 
Umpires — Turner and Schwinn. Time — 20-minute 
halves. 

Hockey Gaines 

BROWN, 2 ; AN DOVER, I 

Brown won from Philips Academy by the score 
of 2-1 at Andover Wednesday afternoon, January 
20, in a rather uninteresting but very wet game. 
One goal was four inches under water and for 
thirty feet in front of it there were at least two 
inches of water on the ice, which made fast work 
at that end of the ice an impossibility. The rink 
was small and the snow which had fallen over the 
sides and lay along the edge of the ice, rendered 
carom work on the sides difiicult. 

The Brown line-up was as follows : 

Chase-F. E. Marble forward 

Lane " 

Hunt " 

Paine " 

Marble, R. A cover-point 

Otis point 

Hill goal 

Time — 20 and 15 minute halves. 

BROWN, O ; YALE, lO 

Yale defeated Brown at hockey, 10 to o, in New 
York, Wednesday evening, January 27. At no 
stage of the game did Brown have any chance 
against Yale. The defensive work, in particular, 
of the Providence seven was much inferior to that 
exhibited against Princeton three weeks ago, and 
the men played poor hockey. Yale put up a good 
game. 

The line-up : 

YALE BROWN 

Beverly Goal Hill 

Miller Point Ot s 

Ward Coverpoint R. Marble 

Behr Forward Paine 

Marcus .... Forward Lane 

Cornell Forward F. Marble 

Rowland ... Forward Hunt 

Referee — Hornfeck, N. Y. A. C. Goals scored — 
By Cornell, 4 ; Marcus, 2 ; Behr, i ; Rowland, 2 ; 
Kay, I. 



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OBITUARIES 



FRANCIS WAYLAND, 1 846 

In the death of Dr. Francis Wayland, for thirty 
years dean of the Yale Law School, Brown has lost 
one of her most honored and distinguished 
graduates. As a very appreciative account of his 
life and character appeared in a recent number of 
this magazine [Brown Alumni Monthly, May, 1903] 
it remains only to say a few words about his last 
illness. 

It is now nearly three years since Dean Wayland 
was suddenly attacked with a rather remarkable 
stoppage of the circulation of the blood in one of 
his legs. He had been in his usual health till the 
time of his illness but was suddenly protrasted. 
Specialists were called and pronounced it a type of 
embolism not frequently met. From active duties 
at the head of the law school he was compelled to 
give his attention to his own recovery and right 
manfully he fought his disease for two years. It 
was seen, however, from the first that the dean's 
activity as the aggressive head of the law school 
was past. The break-down of the dean occurred 
when the spring term had just ended and he was 
about to start on his summer vacation. 

By the time the fall term opened the corporation of 
the university had decided to name Professor Theo- 
dore S. Woolsey the acting dean. He continued in 
this capacity till last spring when Dean Wayland 
decided not to hold nominally the position of the 
directorship of the school any longer and his formal 
resignation was handed to the Yale authorities who 
elected Professor Henry W. Rogers, formerly presi- 
dent of the Northwestern \iniversity, as the new 
dean. Professor Rogers assumed cnarge of the 
school at the beginning of the fall term. 

At that time Dean Wayland seemed much better. 
His leg had never recovered its strength and he was 
unable to walk freely but otherwise he was in 
excellent health physically. He had never ceased 
to be in tip-top mental vitality. During the past 
fall the venerable ex dean has been a somewhat 
familiar figure on the streets of New Haven, driving 
about in his carriage. His return to the joy of 
living was by no means quite complete but the 
limited amount he was able to enjoy gave him his 
old time zest and enjoyment and his cheerful face 
beamed on friends with its former geniality. It 
was only two weeks before his death that he gave 
up his daily rides and retired to the room he was 
destined never to leave. 

His death came somewhat unexpectedly, though 
for ten days previously his condition had been 
serious. Symptoms of diabetes had developed and 
on the day before his death he suffered an attack 
of acute bronchitis. This complication of diseases 
he was unable to withstand. His death occurred 
at three o'clock on Saturday, January 9. 

HON. CHESTER W. KINGSLEY 

Hon. Chester W. Kingsley of Cambridge, Mass., 
a benefactor of Brown University, died at his home 
January i, 1904. His wife died three days before 
his decease. Mr. Kingsley was born in Brighton, 
Mass., June 9, 1824. Early in 1835 he went to 
Michigan, journeying by rail as far as Westboro, 
Mass., thence by stage to Albany, canal to Buffalo, 
by the lake to Detroit, and from there in a wagon 



to Webster, forty miles distant, where a brother was 
postmaster. For two years while living with his 
brother he carried the mails on horseback to Ann 
Arbor, six miles distant. From Webster he went 
to Kalamazoo. In 1840, having been able to make 
but little progress in his education, he gladly availed 
himself of an opportunity that offered to go back to 
Brighton. Here he continued his studies until he 
was graduated from the high schools. After leav- 
ing school he learned the carpenter trade; but not 
inclining to that life as an occupation he gave it up 
and entered the bank at Brighton as messenger, in 
which position he served for two years. His am- 
bition was gratified by his promotion to the position 
of teller, which he held for three years. 

In 1 85 1 he became cashier of the Cambridge 
Market Bank, remaining there for five years, after 
which he established himself in the wholesale pro- 
vision business in Boston. After nine prosperous 
years in trade he retired from mercantile life and 
turned his attention to the coal industry, becoming 
part owner in a mine in Pennsylvania and treasurer 
of the Anthracite Coal Company. From 1879 ^° 
1 887 he was president of the National Bank of 
Brighton, whose career was then honestly closed, the 
stockholders realizing $126 a share for their stock. 
In 1 85 1 Mr. Kingsley became a resident of Cam- 
bridge. He was a widely known and much esteemed 
public citizen and a man of high moral worth. He 
served as a member of the school committee and 
the board of aldeiman, and also twenty-nine years 
on the Cambridge Water board, his services during 
that time bringing him the title of " Father of the 
Cambridge Water Works." He was in the State 
Legislature five years; as a representative in 1882, 
1883 and 1884, and as a senator in 1888 and 1889. 
He was a trustee of the Worcester Academy, Colby- 
College, the Newton Theological Institution, the 
American Baptist Education Society, and the 
Massachusetts State Convention and was three 
years president of the American Baptist Home 
Mission Society. He had been one of the executive 
committee of the American Missionary Union and 
president of the Boston Baptist Social Union. 

Mr. Kingsley had given much time and money to 
two causes, whose interests he had greatly at heart, 
education and religion. Among his beneficiaries 
were the Worcester Academy, Colby College and 
the Newton Theological Institution. In March. 
1898, he gave #25,^00 to each of the above and 
to the American Baptist Missionary Union, Ameri- 
can Baptist Publication Society at Philadelphia, 
American Baptist Home Mission Society at New 
York and the Massachirsetts Baptist Convention. 

In December, 1S99, Mr. Kingsley gave to Brown 
for "its uses and purposes" the sum of twenty five 
thousand dollars. The only condition of the gift 
was that during the life of the giver and his wife the 
university should " pay to him or her an annuity of 
seven hundred and fifty dollars." Mr. Kingsley came 
to Providence with his gift and presented it in 
person. 

STEPHEN ELMER MANN, 1 884 

Stephen Elmer Mann died of pneumonia in 
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1856 

Hon. Richard Olney was endorsed for the Demo- 
cratic presidential nomination by the Massachusetts 
state committee, January 9. The following resolu- 
tions were adopted: 

" The Democratic state committee of Massachu- 
setts herewith places upon record its appreciation 
of the eminent services rendered the Democratic 
party and the nation by Richard Olney, and 
expresses its firm conviction that under his leader- 
ship in the coming presidential campaign important 
New England states will swing over into the Dem- 
ocratic column, and the national party will achieve 
a sweeping victory, insuring a speedy reform of the 
abuses following a continuance in power of the 
Republican party and the re-establishment of those 
fundamental principles of government which that 
party has deliberately and flagrantly violated. To 
this end we invite the co-operation of the Demo- 
crats of New England and of the nation." 

These resolutions were introduced by Congress- 
man McNary, who classed Mr. Olney as one of the 
" foremost Americans and foremost Democrats." 
He thought that if the Democrats were to win this 
year they must carry the eastern states. It 
appeared, he said, that Mr. Olney was strong in 
New York and New Jersey and that he would be 
acceptable to those states. New York not having 
any candidate, the nomination of a man from New 
England, and that man Mr. Olney, would have the 
immense advantage to tlie Democrats of establish- 
ing a large Eastern area where the scales could be 
turned in favor of the Democratic nominee. Mr. 
Olney would be strong in Illinois and Connecticut. 
In closing Mr. McNary thought that Mr. Olney 
would receive at the polls the great independent 
vote of the country. 

1864 

Professor William W. Bailey was seriously ill 
recently in Boston, where he went for medical treat- 
ment. He has since returned to his home in Provi- 
dence, and is now able to be about the college 
again. 

On January 21 Dr. George H. Kenyon, of 
Providence, was reelected surgeon-general of 
Rhode Island by the legislature. 

1871 
Robert P. Brown has been appointed by Governor 
Garvin of Rhode Island chief of staff. Col. Brown 
is the father of a son, born Feb. 3, 1904. 
1876 
Rowland G. Hazard has been re-elected president 
of the Washington County (R. I.) Agricultural 
Society. 

1879 
Frank A. Farnham, who has for some time been 
acting attorney for the N. Y., N. H. and H. R. R. 
Co., was recently promoted to the position of 
attorney of the same company, with headquarters 
at the South Station, Boston. 

1884 and 1887 
Two Brown graduates were on the program of 
the conference on the Gospel of John, held in Grace 
Episcopal Church, Providence, on Wednesday, 



January ij : Rev. Everett D. Burr, D. D., '84, of 
Newton Centre, Mass., and Rev. B. L. Whitman, 
I). D., '87, of Philadelphia. 

1885 

Among recent passengers on the Clyde Line 
Steamer "Apache," bound from New York to 
Jacksonsville, Florida, were A. P. Folwell '85, who 
with his wife and daughter was to take a trip up the 
St. John's River. 

1887 

Howard Donald McLeod, ex. '87, is a mechanical 
engineer at Great Falls, Montana, with the Boston 
and Montana consolidated copper and silver mining 
company. 

Frank Sigel Dietrich, Esq., is engaged in the 
practice of law at Pocatello, Idaho. He is assistant 
attorney of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Com- 
pany. 

1889 

Rev. Sylvanus E. Frohock is pastor of the First 
Baptist Church, Liberty, N. Y. 

Francis Burdick is an assistant division superin- 
tendent of the Old Colony Street Railway Com- 
pany in charge of the Newport system and of the 
Fall River and Newport road as far as the Massa- 
chusetts line. His address is Newport, R. I. 

Edward Harris Rathbun of Woonsocket is presi- 
dent of the Providence and Burrillville street rail- 
way company. 

1890 

Walter A. Presbrey, councilman for the seventh 
ward in Providence, is said to be slated for the 
position of alderman from that ward, left vacant 
by the resignation of the recently appointed police 
commissioner, Mr. Peirce. 

Professor James Q. Dealey is giving a course of 
eight lectures on sociology at Newton Theological 
Institution. 

1891 

Rev. George H. Ferris, pastor of the Calvary 
Baptist Church, New Haven, delivered the address 
at the first vesper service of the year, which was 
held on the 13th of January. While he was in 
Providence he was entertained at lunch by Henry 
W. Cooke, '91, in company with the following 
members of the same class : J. N. Ashton, A. W. 
Calder, Seeber Edwards, F. L. Hinckley, T. F. I. 
McDonnell, A. C. Mendenhall. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris 
have since sailed on a trip to Egypt and Palestine. 
They expect to be abroad about four months. 

On January 26, Edwin A. Barrows of Providence, 
United States bank examiner, was elected treasurer 
and secretary of the Narragansett Electric Lighting 
Co. vice D. A. Peirce, resigned. 

1893 

Walter S. Hawkins, ex. -'93, who took the part of 
the Prince in the successful comic opera " Red 
Feather," has recently been married to Miss Grace 
Kimball, a member of the cast of the same opera. 

Wm. Everett Chalmers has resigned the pastorate 
of the West End Baptist Church of New York 
City and is now in charge of the Waukesha Baptist 
Church, Waukesha, Wisconsin. 



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1894 

Miss Annie T Weeden had charge of the prepar- 
ations for the first of the series of pre-Shakesperean 
plays, given during the year under the auspices of 
the Andrews Association. The first performance 
was on January 23, at which time two plays were 
presented, " Noah's Flood " and " The Slaughter of 
the Innocents." The manner in which the plays 
were rendered did great credit to Miss Weeden's 
training. 

1S95 

Rev. Fred A. Robinson is settled over a church 
at Milford, N. H. 

1896 

Rev. G. DeWitt Dowling, who has been rector 
of St. Luke's Church, Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a 
little over two years, has resigned to accept a call 
to the rectorship of Trinity Church, Davenport, 
Iowa. He will enter upon the duties of his new 
parish February i, 1904. 

1S96, ADVANCED 

Rev. Goldsberry B. Merritt, Ph. D., 1896, for nine 
years pastor of the Baptist church, at Somersworth, 
N. H., has accepted the call of the First Baptist 
Church of Bangor, Me. 

T898 
Invitations are issued for the marriage of 
Miss Mary Fo.x Moore of New Bedford, Mass., to 
William Ellis Farnham, '98, on March i, 1904, in 
New Bedford. Mr. Farnham was graduated at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901 and 
holds the degrees of B. Sc. and Ph. B. He is an 
electrical engineer with the American Telephone 
and Telegraph Company of Boston. 

1898 and 1900 

J. T. Peacock '00 and Mrs. Edna B. (Arnold) 
Peacock '98, announce the birth of a son Leishman 
Arnold Peacock, on January 26. Mr. Peacock is 
pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Westeriy, 
Rhode Island. 

1899 

Charles D. Atkins has been appointed secretary 
of the American Society for the Extension of Uni- 
versity Teaching, Philadelphia, Pa. 
I goo 

Gilbert N. Batchelder is engaged in the beet 
sugar industry in Kohala, Hawaiian Islands. 

James B. Gilman has been ordained as pastor of 
the Morningside Baptist Church, Pittsfield, Mass. 

Rev. Frederick Lent has been called to the pas" 
torate of the First Baptist Church, New Haven, 
Connecticut. 

1 90 1 

C. C. Eaton, who is superintendent of a shoe 
factory in Brockton, Massachusetts, has been elected 
member of the city council for 1904. 

Jesse G. Melendy on February 23 takes charge of 
the General Chemical Company's new plant at 
Hudson Heights, New York. 

19CI A. M. 
Herbert B. Hutchins is pastor of the First Groton 
Baptist Church at Old Mystic, Conn. 

1902 
\V. P. Bates, captain of the 1901 Brown football 
team, coached the eleven of the Alabama Polytech- 
nic Institute last fall. The team had a successful 
season, winning six games out of nine, despite the 
fact that it was lighter than any team it played. 



Mr. Bates has an offer to coach the baseball team 
at the same place, and also an offer from North- 
western University, but has not yet decided on his- 
plans. 

Bradford E. Stephens, who has acted as reporter 
for several newspapers, is now on the editorial 
staff of the Rochester Herald. 

Arthur L. Giles is a civil engineer in the employ- 
ment of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr and Co. 
of Long Island City and New York City. 

Walter E. Nevvcomb's address is i Nassau street,. 
New York, N. Y. 

Miss Helen M.Sherman is teaching in the Graf- 
ton, Mass., high school. 

Earl N. Manchester has been appointed second 
assistant in the university library. 
1903 

The engagement of Richard W. Blanding, 1903, 
and Miss Mabel Hamilton, has been announced. 

As the result of a competitive examination, D. 
E. Bellows has been appointed to the position of 
sub-inspector of the improvements at the navy yard 
and naval academy at Annapolis. 

Announcement has been made of the engagement 
of L. E. Dodge, '03, of New Shoreham and Miss 
Harriet C. Blades, of Pawtucket, for two years a 
student at the Womens' College in the class of 1904. 

Graduate Cammarian Club 

The fourth annual banquet of the Graduate 
Cammarian Club was held on January 20th at the 
University Club in Providence. President Edward 
A. Thurston, '93, presided and Dean Alexander 
Meiklejohn was the guest of honor. After one of 
the University Club's best dinners the Dean gave 
a most interesting talk on "The Opportunity and 
Duty of the Cammarian Club in Under Graduate 
life." Following this the ever present question of 
athletic eligibility was introduced and debated for 
many hours. The club took no action in the mat- 
but each individual present gave his views on the 
question. 

Officers for the club for the ensuing year were 
elected as follows: President, E A. Thurston, '93;. 
vice president, E. F. Greene, '01 ; secretary and 
treasurer, G. A. Gaskill, '98; executive committee, 
C. A. Lingham, '97, H. M. Cobb, '03, Sumner T. 
Packard, '95. 

The following were among those present : Edward 
A. Thurston, '93, Frederick W. Marvel, '94, Clar- 
ence H. Lingham, '97, John A. Gartimons, '98, 
Clifford S. Anderson, '00, Thatcher H. Guild, '01, 
Alfred K. Potter, '02, Edward H. Weeks, '93, John 
Murdock, '96, J. D. E. Jones, '93, R. W. Steere, '01, 
George A. Matteson, '96, I. O. Hunt, '99, E. N. 
Stevens, '04, N. B. Judah, 04, and C. W. Hunt, '04. 

Rhode Island Historical Society 

The close relation existing between the univer- 
sity and the Rhode Island Historical Society is 
shown by the large number of Brown men among 
the officers of the latter institution. At the recent 
annual meeting the following were elected : Presi- 
dent, Albert Harkness, '42 ; vice president, Profes- 
sor William MacDonald, R. H. I. Goddard, '58 ; 
secretary, Wilfred H. Munro, '70 ; secretary pro 
tempore, George P. Winship ; Treasurer, Robert 
P. Brown, '71 ; librarian and cabinet keeper, Clar- 
ence S. Brigham, '99. Among the procurators 
elected was David S. Baker, '75, for North Kings- 
town. 



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