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June, 1904 to May, 1905 



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BROWN UNIVERSITY 

1905 



THE 
BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Vol. V 



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No. 2 



IMPRESSIONS OF COMMHNCEMENT 



LOOKING back at the commence- 
ment season just passed, the im- 
pression that fixes itself most 
deeply is that it was a sentimental 
period — the much-abused word sentimental 
being used deliberately but discreetly. 

It was not a time of great gifts to the 
college. No new buildings were announced, 
or large funds or anything else of the sort, 
though the new clock tower and the Robin- 
son gate were dedicated. But it was a 
season of pleasant incidents full of gracious 
quality to Brown men. The Robinson 
gate, given by the class of 1884, was 
offered as a tribute to one of the most 
dignified and admired of Brown's presi- 
dents. The class gave the gate not as so 
much brick and iron, for the completion of 
an ornamental quadrangle; but as a me- 
morial, wrought in love and honor, to the 
man who for seventeen years in the best 
portion of his career labored and produced 
for the university, and in so laboring and 
producing unconsciously created in the 
minds of thousands of undergraduates the 
indestructible image of a stalwart man. 

It is needless to enlarge upon the senti- 
mental quality of the ceremonies at the 
(.'arrie Tower. The structure was given, 
as Dr. Faunce said on a previous occasion, 
as a tribute to memory, imagination and 
faith ; and if anything had been lacking to 
emphasize the tender character of the me- 
morial, it would have been furnished by 
Mr. Bajnotti's cablegram from Liverpool, 
which was read at the alumni dinner on 
commencement day : " May the Carrie 
Tower strike many happy hours." 

Two gifts were announced at the alumni 
dinner, namely a silver loving cup from 
the Boston alumni, to be competed for by 
the members of the interscholastic athletic 
association which is conducted under 
Brown auspices ; and a new college pump, 
the gift of the class of 1894, to be erected 



on the site of the ancient pump back of 
Hope. This pump is to be of bronze and 
may cost any desired sum not exceeding 
five hundred dollars. Whether so great a 




COLONEL WILLIAM GODDARD 

Chancellor of the University 

(From a photograph by K.oshiba> 

glory of tradition will ever gather around 
the new pump as now surrounds the old 
is an open question, but surely it was a 
sentimental prompting that led the class of 
1894 to give this gift, and the college will 



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be the better for such a sentiment and 
such memorials. 

The commencement season opened with 
the baccalaureate service on Sunday after- 
noon, June 12. President Faunce preached 
a forcible sermon to a congregation that 
crowded the meeting house. The weather 
was favorable and remained so during the 
remaining days of the commencement 



period. For the first time class day came 
on Monday and the general verdict was 
that the change was excellent. All the 
events of the week are now compressed 
into a small space of time, though without 
undue crowding. There were the usual 
class day exercises, with the attendant 
spreads and dances. A large throng was 
in attendance, though its numbers were 




EX-PRESIDENT ANDREWS. Portrait Presented to the University by the Class of 1893. 
(Photographed by Koshiba, Providence, of whom prints can be obtained.) 



not as great as that of the crowds of some 
other years. The evening illumination was 
beautiful, as usual. 

On Tuesday the Pembroke graduating 
class had its ivy day exercises. These 
proved attractive and were attended by a 
large company. On the same day the 
Robinson gate and Carrie Tower were 
dedicated and Professor Charles E. Ben- 
nett, '78, now a member of the Cornell 
University faculty, addressed the Associ- 



ated Alumni in Sayles Hall on " The 
Present Status of College Education." It 
is unfortunate that no provision has yet 
been made for the publication of this 
thoughtful address in permanent form. 
The Monthly regrets that its space is not 
great enough to permit it to do so. There 
ought, indeed, to be some permanent re- 
pository for all the addresses and poems 
of the commencement season. 

Commencement day, Wednesday, brought 



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out the largest gathering of alumni on 
record, over eight hundred sitting down at 
the one o'clock dinner in Sajles Hall and 
Lyman Gymnasium. The most recent 
class at the Sayles Hall tables (except that 
of 1904) was 1889, and in the gymnasium 
were gathered the alumni from 1890 to 
1903 inclusive, with Col. H. Anthony Dyer, 
'94, of Providence as toastmaster. There 
were good short speeches from Theodore 
V. Green, '87 ; John Hope, '94; F. L. C. 
Keating, '95, and Clifford F. Anderson, 
'01 ; and Col. Dyer kept things lively with 
his intermediary remarks. After the dinner 
had been finished, the younger alumni ad- 
journed to Sayles Hall, where their elders 
were at the moment singing " Alma Mater." 
Fine portraits of Chancellor Goddard and 
ex-President Andrews were unveiled. The 
former was the Chancellor's own gift, made 
at the request of President Faunce a year 
or two ago ; and the latter was given by 
the class of i^<)^. 

The exercises in Sayles Hall were pre- 
sided over by President Faunce. The 
speakers were : Governor Garvin of Rhode 
Island, Chancellor Goddard of the univer- 
sity, Senator Aldrich, Captain Sperry, 
president of the Naval War College at 
Newport, and Plishop McVickar of the 
Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. 

At the conclusion of the exercises many 
alumni attended the Brown-xAmherst base- 
ball game at Andrews Field. A notable 
feature of this occasion was the presence, 



in marching line, of the four classes of 
1894, 1899, 1901 and 1904, with pictur- 
esque banners and impedimenta, the latter 
including a burro, appropriately brown in 
hue and surmounted by a member of the 
class of 1894, draped, prophet-fashion, in 
a big brown flag. Each class had its 
musicians and the entire procession, led 
by Chief Marshal Dyer, made a short tour 
of the campus before proceeding to the 
ball game. The class of 1899 carried 
American flags and blew with vigorous 
frequency on small horns ; 1901 wore 
white duck caps and carried explosive 
canes, with which an ear-splitting volley 
was periodically produced. By all odds 
the class yell of 1899 was the best heard 
from any quarter during the day It was 
lively and fetching, and it rang out with 
the precision of ardent practice. It is a 
pity that the regular university cheers, 
which sound so mournfully at ball games, 
have not been, ere this, submitted to the 
1899 cheer-makers for amendment and re- 
suscitation. The " long Brown " and the 
calliope cry are impressive if done well by 
a great company, but if they are ill done, 
and by a small number of undergraduates, 
they are melancholy and ineffective. 

The number of graduates was 143 : no 
men and 7,^ women. Several further items 
of interest regarding the commencement 
season will be found among the " Topics 
of the Month" on page 35 of this maga- 
zine. 



SEVENTY-NINE AND FIFTY-FOUR 



AT the recent commencement the 
class which celebrated the twenty- 
fifty anniversary of its gradua- 
tion invited as its guests the 
members of the fifty year class. This 
joint reunion of the class of Seventy-Nine 
and Fifty-Four was a delightful occasion. 
Thirty-three Seventy-Nine men were pres- 
ent, and ten Fifty-Four men. This was 
the first reunion of the half-century class, 
class reunions being a somewhat recent 
development. The pleasures of the gradu- 
ates of Seventy-Nine were greatly increased 
by the presence and speeches of their 
seniors, who took them back to the days 
of Wayland, Gammell and Dunn. 



The class of 1879 was one of the small- 
est sent out from Brown in half a century, 
graduating only forty-seven members. Its 
rate of mortality for the first quarter-cen- 
tury after its graduation is remarkably low. 
During the four years in college, four 
members died, but of the forty-seven who 
received degrees in 1879 all but four are 
living and in good health. This is a record 
of almost 92 per cent, of survivals after 
twenty-five years. Of the forty-three sur- 
vivors, thirty-eight had written their inten- 
tion to be present, at the silver anniversary, 
but five of these failed to get here, so that 
of forty-three living thirty-three attended 
the reunion, or 77 per cent. One of those 



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who could not be present is Rev. Truman 
Johnson, a missionary in Assam, India. 
One member traveled nearly twice 2500 
miles to be present, Charles P. Bennett of 
Colorado Springs. 

The members of the class of 1879 have 
achieved a fair average of worldly success 
and prosperity. Their occupations are 



thus summarized : Mercantile life, 13 ; 
teachers, 9; clergymen, 8; attorneys, 6; 
physicians, 4; journalists, 2; farm mana- 
ger, I. Of the forty-three, thirty-seven 
are married and six are single ; the thirty- 
seven have sixty-five children, thirty-eight 
boys and twenty-seven girls. 



RECIPIENTS OF HONORARY DEGREES 



John R. Freeman, Sc. D. 

John R. Freeman, upon whom the uni- 
versity conferred the honorary degree of 
doctor of science, is one of the most dis- 
tinguished hydraulic and fire protection 
engineers in the country. He was born 
in West Bridgeton, Maine, July 27, 1855, 
and was jiraduated at the Massachusetts 




JOHN R. FREEMAN 

Institute of Technology in 1876. After 
graduation he joined the stafif of the Water 
Power Company, in whose employ he 
had spent several summers as computer, 
draughtsman and assistant. He continued 
with this company for ten years, residing 
in Lawrence, Mass. Meanwhile he was 
called upon to make surveys and designs 
for water-power improvements in many 



places. In 1886 he decided to open an 
office in Boston for the general practice 
in hydraulic engineering and mill work. 
While this project was under consideration 
he accepted a position with the Factory 
Mutual Fire Inspection Companies. Of 
this company he is now the president and 
in its field of work the leading authority. 
He has not, however, devoted himself ex- 
clusively to this phase of engineering work. 
From 1894 to 1896 he was a member of 
the Water Board of Winchester, Mass., 
and in the latter year he was appointed 
one of the original members of the Metro- 
politan Water Board. He had much to 
do with the organization of this board, but 
his change of residence from Boston to 
Providence, where he now lives, caused 
him to resign. In 1899 he was appointed 
to investigate the water supply of New 
York City. His report, made in the fol- 
lowing year, is a book of about 6co pages 
which is generally acknowledged as the 
most elaborate work on water-works ever 
prepared by one engineer. Of great dis- 
tinction is also his report as chief engineer 
of the committee appointed in 1901 to 
consider the advisability of constructing a 
dam across the tidal estuary of the Charles 
River between Boston and Cambridge for 
forming a large water-park. Many other 
works of note have come from his pen. 

Mr. Freeman is a member of many en- 
gineering societies and is one of the trus- 
tees of the Massachusetts institute of 
Technology. 

Charles Edwin Bennett, Litt. D, 

Charles E. Bennett, upon whom the 
degree of doctor of letters was bestowed, 
is a Brown alumnus who is professor of 
Latin in Cornell University. He was 
graduated at Brown with the class of 1878. 
For nine years subsequent to his graduation 



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he was devoted to instruction in secondary 
schools and to advanced study in leading 
American and European universities. 
From 1889 to 1891 he was professor of 
Latin in the University of Wisconsin. In 
1 89 1 he became professor of classical 
philology at Brown and in 1892 was ap- 
pointed to his present position at Cornell. 
Professor Bennett is the author of a num- 
ber of books. He has written a Latin 
grammar, and a Latin composition book and 
has edited a number of Latin classics. He 
has also published treatises upon linguistic 
subjects, and books upon the teaching of 
Greek and Latin in secondary schools. 
He is editor of the Cornell Studies in 
Classical Philology. From 1S95 to 1903 
he was joint editor-in-chief of the Allyn 
and Bacon College Latin Series. 

Frederick Lincoln Anderson, D. D. 

Frederick L. Anderson, upon whom the 
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred 
at the recent commencement, is professor 
of New Testament interpretation in Newton 




REV. FREDERICK L. ANDERSON 

Theological Institution. He was born in 
St. Louis, Mo., April 14, 1S62, the son of 
Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., LL. I)., 
then pastor of the Second Baptist Church 
of that city. He received his preparatory 
education in private and public schools in 
Newton, Mass., Brooklyn, N. V., and Chi- 



cago, 111. He attended the University of 
Chicago and was graduated as the valedic- 
torian of his class with the degree of 
bachelor of arts in 1882. In 1885 he 
received the master's degree. From 1S82 
to 1885 he was professor of Latin in the 
university. He then studied theology at 




REV. JOHN H. MASON' 

the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, 
Morgan Park, 111., from which he was 
graduated in 1888. Upon graduating from 
the seminary he accepted the call of the 
Second Baptist Church of Rochester, N. Y., 
where he remained until 1900, when he 
was elected to the professorship in Newton 
which he now holds. 

John Henry Mason, D. D. 

John Henry Mason, upon whom the 
doctorate in divinity was conferred, is 
professor of the English Bible in the 
Rochester Theological Seminary. He is 
a Brown alumnus, having received the 
first degree in arts at Brown with the class 
of 1872. After graduation he became a 
member of the city staff of the A'fto York 
Tribune. At the end of two years he relin- 
quished journalistic work and entered upon 
the study of theology in the Rochester 
Theological Seminary. In 1877 he was 
graduated at the seminary and ordained 
to the ministry. He has had four pastor- 
ates ; the tirst at Sennett, N. Y., from 1877 



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to 1 88 1, the second at Brockport, N. Y., 
1881-1889, the third at New Haven, where 
he was pastor of the First Baptist Church 
from 1889 until 1896. He resigned this 
charge for the purpose of spending some 
months in European travel and study. In 
1897 he became the pastor of the First 
Baptist Church of Batavia, N. Y., in which 
position he continued until his election to 
the newly established Huntley professor- 
ship of the English Bible in the Rochester 
seminary. 

"William Neilson McVickar, LL. D. 

William N. McVickar, upon whom the 
degree of doctor of laws was conferred, is 
bishop of the diocese of Rhode Island in 
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was 
elected bishop coadjutor October 19, 1897, 
was consecrated January 27, 1898, and 
succeeded to the bishopric upon the death 




RT. REV. WILLIAM N. McVICKAR 

of Bishop Clark last September. He was 
graduated at Columbia College with the 
class of 1865. He studied theology at the 
General Theological Seminary and was 
graduated in 1868. From 1868 to 1875 
he was rector of Holy Trinity, Harlem, 
N. Y.; and from 1875 to 1897 rector of 
Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. While in 



Philadelphia he received the honorary 
degree of doctor of divinity from Kenyon 
College, and at the first commencement 
after his election as bishop coadjutor of 
Rhode Island he received the honorary 
degree of doctor of sacred theology from 
his Alma Mater, Columbia, and that of 
doctor of divinity from the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

William Carey Poland, Litt. D. 

Professor William Carey Poland was born 
in Goffstown, N. H., January 25, 1846, the 




WILLIAM CAREY POLAND 

son of Rev. James Willey Poland. He 
was prepared for college at the Melrose 
[Mass.] High School, and was graduated 
at Brown in 1868 with the degree of 
bachelor of arts and the honor of the 
philosophical oration. Immediately on 
graduation he accepted the office of prin- 
cipal of Worcester Academy, then a greatly 
depressed school. He remained in that 
position for a year and a half, having the 
satisfaction of seeing the removal of the 
academy to its present site during his 
administration. In 1870 he was called to 
Brown to have charge of the Greek depart- 
ment for one year during Professor Albert 
Harkness's absence in Europe. In 187 1 
he was reappointed instructor, this time of 
Greek and Latin, and continued to give 
instruction in these languages until 1875. 



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In this year he resigned and spent a year 
in study at the Universities of Berlin and 
Leipzig and in travel in Italy. In 1876 
he was appointed assistant professor of 
Greek and Latin. From 1S88 to 1892 he 
was associate professor of (ireek, and since 
1892 he has been professor of the history 
of art. From 1878 to 1881 he had leave 
of absence to serve as private tutor of the 
brothers John Nicholas Brown and Harold 
Brown. He studied in Furope a part of 
this time. In 1891-92 he was at Athens 
as annual director of the American School 
of Classical Studies, conjointly with Dr. 
Waldstein, and he conducted excavations 
in (Ireece for a part of this time. 

During the spring term in 1901 and 
again in 1902 he gave a course of lectures 
on the history of art at Boston University. 
Professor Poland has been secretary of the 
Comn)ission of Colleges in New Fngland 
on Admission Examinations since its found- 
ation in 1 886, a member of the managing 
committee of the American School of Class- 
ical Studies at Athens since 1892, and 
president of the Rhode Island School of 
Design since 1896. 



Irving Berdine Richman, Litt. D. 

Irving B. Richman, upon whom the 
degree of doctor of letters was conferred, 
is the author of several works on American 
history. He was born in Muscatine, la., 
in 1 86 1. He attended the Iowa State 
L'^niversity and was graduated in 1883. 
He served in the Iowa legislature in 1889 
and was appointed by President Cleveland 
in 1893 as consul general for Switzerland. 
At the expiration of his consulate, in 1898, 
he returned to his home in Iowa and soon 
afterwards devoted his attention to the 
writing of the history of Rhode Island. 
After having made a careful study of all 
the important sources that the Wisconsin 
Historical Society could furnish he came 
east during the summer of 1900 and again 
in the following summer to examine the 
uncommon and documentary material to 
be found here and to gain further knowl- 
edge of local conditions. His History of 
Rhode Island appeared in 1903 and has 
taken first rank for its historical and liter- 
ary excellence. He has also written " John 
Brown among the Quakers," 1894, and 
" Appenzell, a Swiss Study," 1895. 



THE 
ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT FAUNCE 



AT the recent commencement Dr. 
Faunce completed live years of 
service as president of the univer- 
sit\'. It is therefore pertinent at 
this time and in this place to note the most 
important changes which have taken place 
during this period. 

When Dr. Faunce came to the presidency, 
in 1899, there were thirteen college build- 
ings, exclusive of the two dwelling houses 
on George street, recently demolished, 
which the university had acquired and 
was then using as dormitories. At the 
present time the buildings of Brown Uni 
versify number twenty-one, not including 
the Carrie Tower. The new buildings are 
as follows: — the president's house, the 
Slater Memorial (dormitory for women), 
the administration building, the Colgate 
Hoyt swimming pool, the engineering 
building, Rockefeller Hall, Caswell Hall 
(dormitory for men), and the John Carter 
Brown library building. The chemistry 
building, now known as Rogers Hall, has 



been enlarged by the addition of a story to 
the rear portion. The president's house, 
the engineering building, and Caswell Hall 
were built by the corporation. The others 
were gifts from alumni and friends of the 
university. 

Mention should also be made of the 
new fence and ornamental gates which 
have come as a natural consequence of the 
initial gift of Mr. Van Wickle, of the me- 
morial organ presented to the university 
by Mr. Lucian Sharpe of the class of 1893, 
of the clock tower presented by Mr. Paul 
Bajnotti, of Turin, Italy, as a memorial to 
his wife, Carrie Mathilde (Brown) Bajnotti, 
and of the portraits and busts presented 
by alumni and friends of the university. 

The movement to increase the endow- 
ment of the university, inaugurated by the 
Boston alumni at their reunion in January, 
1898, was brought to a successful conclu- 
sion in a little more than three years, at 
commencement, 1901. Only a part of the 
$2,000,000 secured, however, is available 



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for Ihe general uses of the university, as a 
considerable portion of it was given for 
particular purposes specified by the donors, 
as in the case of the $650,000 gift for the 
John Carter Brown library building and 
endowment. The treasurer's report of 
April 15, 1899, showed funds in the hands 
of the treasurer amountingto $1,158,676.66. 
The total productive funds available for 
general expenses of the university were on 
April 15, 1904, $1,936,995.17. In addi- 
tion to the above there are aid, scholarship, 
prize, special, and other funds not available 
for the general expenses, making the total 
funds of the university $2,275,677.53, 

In the last five years an unusually large 
number of changes has taken place in the 
constitution of the faculty. One professor 
has died and six have resigned, and there 
have been fourteen appointments to pro- 
fessorial rank. Of the recently appointed 
professors five were promoted from instruc- 
torships. In the academic year 1899-1900 
there were seventy-two on the teaching 
force ; twenty-seven professors, eight asso- 
ciate professors, nine assistant professors, 
twenty-five instructors and three assistants. 
In the academic year 1903-4 there were 
seventy-four on the stafi of instruction ; 
twenty-six professors, eleven associate pro- 
fessors, thirteen assistant professors, sixteen 
instructors and nine assistants. Of the 
seventy-two on the teaching force five 
years ago forty-four are still in the service 
of the college. The increase in the num- 
ber of professors has been in the depart- 
ments of English (2 additional), astronomy, 
Latin, chemistry, civil engineering, and 
romance languages. In the academic year 
1 899-1900 there was temporarily one addi- 
tional professor in the department of Greek. 
Changes have also been made in the 
academic administration of the college by 
the appointment of a dean of the university 
and a dean of the graduate department. 
The former position was created in 1899, 
the latter in 1903. Both of these posi- 
tions are filled by professors. In 1900 a 
system of faculty advisers was established. 
Each freshman is placed in charge of some 
member of the faculty to whom he is in- 
vited to go for advice whenever he may 
have occasion. 

The courses of study have been extended 
in the period under review. In 1899 the 
number of term courses — there are three 
terms a year — was 546; in 1904 it was 
684. Not all of these, however, have three 
meetings a week. Of the courses listed 



last year 64 were one hour courses, 27 two 
hour courses, 6 four hour courses, 1 five 
hour course and 11 six hour courses. In 
the case of graduate courses it frequently 
happens that no number of hours is speci- 
fied. There has been a tendency to make 
courses more uniformly three hour courses. 
In 1899 there were 73 one hour courses 
against 64 last year, 42 two hour courses 
against 27 last year, 13 four hour courses 
against 6 last year, and 3 five hour 
courses against 1 last year. Not all 
the courses mentioned above are given 
in any one year. Of the 546 courses listed 
in 1899, 82 were not ofi^ered in that year; 
of the 684 listed last year 107 were not 
offered. 

The academic advantages which Brown 
offers to its students have been increased 
through two agreements which it has 
entered into with outside bodies. In 1901 
the university signed an agreement with 
the school committee of the city of Provi- 
dence by which a number of graduate 
students are to be annually appointed stu- 
dent teachers in the high schools of the 
city, each one to receive from the city four 
hundred dollars per year. They are to 
teach a certain number of hours per week 
under the direction of an experienced su- 
pervising teacher. Provision is also made 
for the appointment of student teachers 
not graduates, who shall have opportunities 
for observation and practice in the city 
schools, but shall receive no compensation. 
In 1902 the university entered into an 
arrangement with the Rhode Island School 
of Design by which certain courses of the 
latter school are open to Brown students, 
in return for similar favors shown to stu- 
dents of the School of Design by the uni- 
versity. This arrangement materially in- 
creases the number of courses in art open 
to Brown students. 

In 1901 the system of visiting commit- 
tees for the various departments was intro- 
duced. To each department is assigned 
a special committee, with a member of the 
corporation as chairman. These commit- 
tees visit the various departments and 
confer with the instructors, and report on 
the equipment and needs of the work. 

During the past five years the library 
has been greatly enriched along certain 
lines. Most conspicuous, of course, is the 
gift of the John Carter Brown library, the 
notable collection of Americana with its 
beautiful building and its ample mainte- 
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tion of manuscripts and printed material 
relative to the history of Rhode Island, 
valued at $15,000, has been presented to 
the university by Marsden J. Perry of 
Providence. The Harris Collection of 
American Poetry has been enlarged through 
the gift of $1,000 by Chancellor (ioddard 
and an endowment fund of $1,000 from 
Samuel C. Eastman of the class of 1857. 
The VVheaton Collection of ]iooks on In- 
ternational Law, now numbering over a 
thousand volumes, has been established 
by William V. Kellen of the class of 1872. 
The Hamm Collection of Newspaper Clip- 
pings, 1883-1903, carefully collected by 
Walter C. Hamm, formerly of the Philadel- 
phia Press, a graduate in the class of 1870, 
has been added by gift to the university 
library. Mention should also be made of 
the establishment of a fund of $5,000 for 
the purchase of books for the biological 
department by Dr. W. W. Keen of the 
class of 1859, of the gift of 1,200 volumes, 
many of them on the history and antiqui- 
ties of Egypt, presented by the late Rev. 
Lysander Dickerson of the class of 185 1, 
of the 125 valuable works on botany pre- 
sented by Hon. Royal C. Taft, and the 
Bailey Herbarium, containing some 6,000 
sheets of plants, purchased from Professor 
Bailey and presented to the university. 

Important changes have been made rela- 
tive to the conditions of admission and 
courses of study, and the period of study 
required for degrees. Candidates for the 
degree of bachelor of arts are allowed to 
offer for admission in place of one of the 
ancient languages an increased amount in 
modern languages with work in history, 
mathematics or science. Candidates for 
the degree of bachelor of philosophy or of 
science must offer about a year's more 
work than formerly. The degrees of civil 
engineer and mechanical engineer will not 
be given after next year. In their place 
will be given the degree of bachelor of 
science in civil engineering and in mechani- 
cal engineering. The degree of bachelor 
of science in electrical engineering has 
been added. For candidates for the degree 
of bachelor of arts the amount of required 
courses has been increased from 27-63 to 
34-62 of the entire course, and the amount 
of elective courses correspondingly de- 
creased. Another change has been intro- 
duced through the provision that a student 
of sutiicient ability may, by carrying more 
than the required number of hours of work 
each year, complete his course in three years 



instead of four. Credit is also given for 
work done at an approved summer school 
or under supervision of the department. 
If the student does not complete his course 
by the end of the third year but completes 
it before the end of the fourth year, any 
additional work that he may have done 
may be counted towards the master's de- 
gree. It is thus made possible for a 
student to do four years' work in three, 
and obtain the bachelor's degree at the 
end of the third year, or five years work in 
four, and obtain both the bachelor's and 
the master's degree at the end of the 
fourth year. 

In connection with ten other New Eng- 
land colleges Brown has recently estab- 
lished the New England College Entrance 
Certificate Board which is designed to im- 
prove the efficiency of the certificate sys- 
tem of admission. This board, of which 
Professor Davis is secretary, passes on the 
qualifications of New England schools ap- 
plying for the certificate privilege. 

The opportunities for the physical de- 
velopment of the students are greatly in- 
creased by the facilities aft'orded by the 
swimming pool, built through the gift of 
Mr. Colgate Hoyt. The interest of students 
in general athletics has been promoted 
by the improvements at the new athletic 
ground, known as Andrews Field, where 
an excellent cinder track has recently been 
constructed. 

The opening of Rockefeller Hall has put 
the social life of the students on a new and 
better footing. The opportunities for in- 
formal social intercourse afforded by its 
large cheerful rooms and its broad balcony 
will do much to develop the spirit of fellow- 
ship among the students. 

Rockefeller Hall ministers to the re- 
ligious life of the students no less than to 
their social life. It provides suitable rooms 
for prayer meetings and bible classes and 
the other work of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association, which has been greatly 
enlarged since the appointment of a paid 
secretary in 1900. In the winter of 1900- 
01 the first series of mid-week vesper ser- 
vices was held in Sayles Hall, conducted 
by eminent clergymen from various parts 
of the country. The services were largely 
attended and similar series have been held 
in succeeding years. 

Much has been done in recent years by 
way of enlisting the interest and co-opera- 
tion of the large body of alumni in the uni- 
versity. Among the influences brought to 



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bear in developing among the alumni a 
feeling of loyality to their alma mater has 
been the Brown Alumni Monthly. The 
first number of the Monthly was issued 
in June, 1900. Its object, as stated in 
its first number, is " to bring the uni- 
versity and its graduates into closer 
touch and sympathy." 

Largely through the influence of the 
Monthly the secretaries of 28 classes 
graduating between 1857 and 1902 met at 
the University Club in December, 1902, 
and organized the Association of Class 
Secretaries, to secure uniformity of action 
in matters in which the alumni were inter- 
ested. One of the first objects to which 
they devoted their attention was the hold- 
ing of a mid-winter banquet of the " gradu- 
ates and friends of Brown," an enjoyable 
festival which has already become an es- 
tablished feature of the life of the uni- 
versity. A similar organization of the 
class secretaries of the Women's College 
was effected early in 1903 on the initiative 
of the Monthly. 

The number of alumni associations has 
been largely increased during the past live 
years through the efforts of President 
Faunce, who has devoted much time and 
attention to the encouragement of these 
societies. 

Two other alumni organizations having 
special features must be mentioned. In 
1900 a committee for the registration of 
graduates of Brown University who are 
teachers was appointed by the faculty, and 
the first of a series of conferences of such 
alumni was held in June of that year. In 
1903 the Brown University Teachers' 
Association was formed. In 1900 there 
was established at Brown a new honorary 
society, Sigma Xi, for the purpose of rec- 
ognizing and binding together men in the 
university who have shown superior ability 
in scientific study. It aims to do for the 
scientific students what Phi Beta Kappa 
does for the candidates for the degrees of 
bachelor of arts and philosophy. 

It has seemed best to reserve for separ- 
ate treatment the development of the 
Women's College during the present ad- 
ministration. Through the generosity of 
Mrs. Horatio N. Slater, the college came 
into possession of the Slater homestead on 
Benefit street to be used as a dormitory 
for the Students of the college and to be 
known as the Slater Memorial Homestead. 
An endowment fund of $60,000 has been 
raised among the friends of the college. 



The most important single contribution 
was one of $25,000 from the estate of 
Andrew Comstock. In the spring of 1900 
Dean Snow resigned the position which he 
had held since the organization of the 
college, and in September Miss Annie 
Crosby Emery became dean of the college. 
In 1903 the corporation of Brown Univer- 
sity voted to assume full responsibility for 
and control of the Women's College, and 
provided for the appointment of a special 
executive committee of the Women's Col- 
lege. At the same time it provided for 
the establishment of a " distinct faculty, a 
part of the general university faculty, with 
the various committees, rules, etc., neces- 
sary to its work." These two changes put 
the Women's College on a much firmer 
foundation, and at the same time provide 
for a more careful supervision of the aca- 
demic work of the institution. 

In the course of the last five years the 
number of students in the Women's Col- 
lege has increased from 165 to 195. 
Of special interest is the establishment, 
in 1903, for four years, through the 
generosity of a friend of the college, of 
a course in household economics, to be 
devoted to scientific instruction in sanita- 
tion, hygiene, food values, and similar sub- 
jects. The chief addition to the equipment 
of the college has come from the growth of 
the library, to which many contributions 
have been made. 

A marked change in the regulation of 
matters pertaining to the social life of the 
students, and of certain academic matters 
involving conduct, was introduced in 1900, 
when student self-government was estab- 
lished through the organization of the 
Association for Student Government. The 
success of the association has been note- 
worthy. The literary activity of the stu- 
dents has found expression through the 
establishment of a magazine called The 
Sepiad. Chapel services were first intro- 
duced in the fall of 1899. 

The athletic affairs of the Women's Col- 
lege were, in 1902, put under the control 
of an athletic association, whose executive 
committee includes the dean and the in- 
structor in physical culture. 

The interest of the alumnae in the de- 
velopment of the Women's College has 
been stimulated by the organization, in 
1 90 1, of a society known as the Andrews 
Association, the object of which is to aid 
the college by contributing to its material 
and educational resources. Its efforts at 



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the present time are largely directed towards 
securing funds for a much-heeded gym- 
nasium. 

In 1900, the Plii Ueta Kappa Society 
voted to admit women to its membership. 
The women form a separate section of the 
chapter, and elect members from the junior 
and senior classes of the Women's College 
in accordance with the rules governing the 
election of men to the Alpha chapter. 

The period in the history of Brown Uni- 
versity extending from 1890 to 1900 was 
one of remarkable growth in numbers, both 
of faculty and of students. The reputation 



of the members of the faculty and the good 
work they did, in spite of insufficient equip- 
ment, drew students to its doors in ever 
increasing numbers. During the five years 
of the present administration considerable 
progress has been made towards providing 
adequate equipment, but much remains to 
be done. It is the hope of the MfjNrm.Y 
that this brief record of the achievements 
of the last few years may spur on the 
alumni and friends of the university to 
provide it with an endowment sufficient to 
enable it to fulfil its duty as an institution 
of sound learning and broad culture. 



THANATOS ATHANATOS 



AT eve when the brief wintry day is sped, 
I muse beside my fire's faint-flickering glare — 
Conscious of wrinkling face and whitening hair — 
Of those who, dying young, inherited 
The immortal youthfulness of the early dead. 
I think of Raphael's grand-seigneurial air ; 
Of Shelley and Keats, with laurels fresh and fair 
Shining unwithered on each sacred head; 
And soldier boys who snatched death's starry prize. 
With sw^eet life radiant in their fearless eyes. 
The dreams of love upon their beardless lips, 
Bartering dull age for immortality ; 
Their memories hold in death's unyielding fee 
The youth that thrilled them to the finger-tips. 

— /o/in Hay, '^8, in the Century Magazine 



ARCH/EOLOGY 



THE crumbled city stifles in the sand; 
Its turrets with the breeze-blown dust are blent. 
(Jone is the pride of every monument ; 
Gone is the spicy bloom of Samarkand. 
A hush is on the devastated land. 
Thebes from her ruins beckons drowsy (ihent ; 
Rome steals along the road that Athens went. 
Yet ne'er in vain w^^s raised the builder's hand ; 
Never in vain the sculptor shaped his cast : 
The kind earth gives us back again his art ; 
Life throbs once more in every desert mart; 
And the new city shall forever fold 
Close to its heart the vision of the Past, 
The undying joy and splendor of the Old. 

— H. R. P. 



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BROWN 



THE 
ALUMNI 



MONTHLY 



Published for the graduates of Brown University 

BY THE 

Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

ROBERT P. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R. I. 



Advisory Board 

William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Francis Lawton, '6g, New York, N. Y. 
Robert P. Brown, '71. Providence. 
William V. Kellen, '72, Boston, Mass. 
William E. Foster, '73, Providence. 
WiNSLOw Upton, '75, Providence. 
Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence. 
Sam Walter Foss, '82, Somerville, Mass. 
Gardner Colby, '87, New York, N. Y. 
Joseph N. Ashton, 'gi, Salem, Mass. 
William R. Dorman, '92, New York, N. Y. 
George A. Gaskill, 'gS, Worcester, Mass. 



HENRY R. PALMER, '90. Editor 



ALLAN H. WILLETT, '86, Associate Editor 



CLARENCE S. BRIGHAM, '99, Assistant Editor 



JACOB BRACK, '07, Business Manager 



Address all communications to the Brown Alumni Monthly, 

Brown University, Providence R. I. 
Subscription price, $1 00 a year. Single copies. Ten Cents. 
There is no issue during August and September. 
Entered at the Providence post office as second-class matter. 



July, 1904 



OUR FIFTH VOLUME 
The fact escaped comment in last 
month's issue of this magazine that we 
have passed our fourth birthday and are 
prosperously entered upon our fifth year. 
The number of paid subscribers is now 
about 2200, and the tendency, year by 
year, is toward a healthy increase in the 
list, because each graduating class adds a 
hundred or so while the number of with- 
drawals is gratifyingly small. Not all our 
subscribers agreed with us in our exposi- 
tion of a certain recent controversy, but 
practically nobody has '' stopped his paper " 
because of his dislike of our statement of 
the case. We have refrained from perpet- 
uating the controversy in our pages and 
have endeavored not to take any unfair 
advantage of those who disagreed with us. 



In the future, if a question of large univer- 
sity interest arises, we shall speak our 
mind; but if any alumnus of Brown has a 
contrary opinion to express we shall give 
him and his friends the opportunity for an 
effective presentation of their views. The 
Monthly would not be true to itself if it 
failed to state its convictions, at least where 
such expression appears to it to be neces- 
sary or desirable; but it stands ready to 
give equal space and prominence to those 
who do not endorse its sentiments. We 
believe the alumni of Brown will approve 
our standing policy in this respect. 



PROFESSOR ASHTON 

It is with sincere regret that we announce 
the retirement of Professor Joseph N. Ash- 
ton from the editorial board of the Brown 
Alumni Monthly. He has been with the 
magazine from the beginning, a loyal and 
competent worker, always ready to sacrifice 
his lime in its behalf and to give it his 
best abilities as writer and adviser. His 
withdrawal is especially regrettable to the 
editor, because of the intimate association 
of interests that has grown up between 
them since the initial number of the maga-r 
zine, a scanty issue of eight pages, was 
printed in June, 1900. Professor Ashton's 
retirement leaves the latter as the only 
remaining member of the original editorial 
board, although, as everybody acquainted 
with the enterprise well knows. Colonel 
Brown, who is still at the helm as treasurer, 
has occupied that important and difficult 
post from the first. 

Professor Ashtcn's conspicuous qualities, 
as shown in his labors for the magazine, 
have been carefulness and conservatism. 
He has been a guiding influence of very 
great value and it is pleasant to announce 
his continued service for the Monthly as 
a member of the advisory board. We are 
sure he will not regard this as a perfunc- 
tory position. 

Of his withdrawal from the university it 
is less incumbent upon us to speak, but 



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those who have followed his work know 
that it has been done conscientiously and 
enthusiastically. He has kept the highest 
musical and intellectual ideals in close 
view, and the university, as well as the 
young men and women he has taught, is 
better for his service in Providence. 

To the undivided station of associate 
editor, we welcome Professor Allan H. 
Willett, who for some months has occupied 
the post in conjunction with Professor 
Ashton. He has heretofore had in charge 
the Obituary and Brunonians Near and Far 
departments, and in the future will add to 
these the Topics of the Month, besides shar- 
ing in the general conduct of the magazine. 



LITERARY BRUNONIANS 
Only a few months ago reference was 
made in these columns to the literary ex- 
-cellence of the public utterances of Secre- 
tary Hay and ex-Secretary Olney. Further 
evidence to the same effect may be found 
in the elaborate oration delivered at Jack- 
son, Michigan, by Mr. Hay, on the occa- 
sion of the fiftieth anniversary celebration 
■of the establishment of the Republican 
party ; and in the thoughtful address given 
by Mr. Olney before the Harvard Law 
School alumni touching our Philippine 
policy. There is force and grace in these 
important utterances. 

And if another example should be desired 
it may be found in the interesting article 



in the July number of Munseys Magazine 
by Isaac N. Ford of the class of 1870, who 
writes of the rising statesmen of Great 
Britain. Mr. Ford is more than a practiced 
writer : he has an incisive and confident 
style that carries conviction with it ; and 
added to this quality of strength is that of 
literary sensitiveness. Among his fine 
characterizations of the younger British 
publicists may be cited that of Lord Hugh 
Cecil, son of the late Marquis of Salisbury. 
In these days of divergent university 
interests, it cannot fail to be pleasing to 
the "old guard," and in some measure to 
every university graduate, to note the real 
literary productivity of Brown men. 



SHORTER COMMENCEMENT PERIOD 
It is safe to say that the arrangement of 
the commencement period w'hich went into 
effect this year will continue indefinitely. 
The entire period is now compressed into 
the space of four days, so that a busy 
alumnus can attend all the exercises of 
class day and commencement day without 
sacrificing a large amount of time. One 
apparent effect of the new arrangement 
was a larger alumni attendance than ever 
before, at least at the commencement day 
lunch. Those who are responsible for the 
substitution of Monday for Friday as class 
day have every reason to congratulate 
themselves and the university on the inno- 
vation. 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



OXE hundred and seventy-four de- 
grees were conferred by the uni- 
versity at the recent commence- 
ment, seven honorary degrees 
and one hundred and sixty-seven degrees 
in course. The degrees in course were 
awarded as follows : bachelor of arts on 
seventy-one (fifty-five men and sixteen 
women), bachelor of philosophy on sixty- 
one (forty-four men and seventeen women), 
civil engineer on five, mechanical engineer 
on six, master of arts on twenty-four (^thir- 
teen men and eleven women. Three (two 



men and one woman) received both the 
bachelor's and the master's degree, having 
completed five years of college work in 
four years of college residence. The de- 
gree of doctor of philosophy was not con- 
ferred on any candidate. 

J- 

Brown Men At its recent commencement 
Honored Harvard University conferred 

the honorary degree of doc- 
tor of divinity upon William Herbert Perry 
Faunce, "liberal thinker, eloquent preacher 



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and efficient pastor, since 1899 president 
of Brown University." 

At the semi-centennial of the University 
of Wisconsin the honorary degree of doctor 
of laws was conferred on James Burrill 
Angell, '49, president of the University of 
Michigan, and upon Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 
'75, president of the University of Califor- 
nia. President Angell received the doc- 
torate in laws this year also from the Uni- 
versity of Vermont. 



J- 



Professor Ashton 
Leaves Brown. 



Professor Joseph W. 
Ashton has resigned 
the professorship in 
the iinivpi'^itv ^^hicl^ he has held for sev- 




I'ROP^ESbOK JOSEPH N. AsllTUN 

eral years. He was appointed instructor 
in musical theory and history under Presi- 
dent Andrews in 1895, being the first to 
teach this subject at Brown. In 1898 he 
was promoted to become associate pro- 
fessor of musical history and theory. Since 
1900 he has also been director of chapel 
music. Last year the large organ which 
was installed in Sayles Hall was put in 
mainly under his direction, and during the 
past academic year, in addition to his reg- 
ular work, he conducted two series of re- 
citals on the organ. 7'he last recital was 
given by himself. Professor Ashton has 
taken a large interest in the development 
of the university as a whole, has been for 



a series of years a member of several of 
the standing committees of the faculty and 
has served on a number of special com- 
mittees. He has been the associate editor 
of this magazine since its establishment in 
1900. 

Professor Ashton was graduated at 
Brown with the class of 1S91. From 
the time of his graduation until his ap- 
pointment to the faculty, in 1895, he studied 
at Harvard and under private teachers in 
Boston. While at Harvard he took all 
the courses in music offered there and 
also courses in the history of art, in the 
psychology of art, and in mediaeval and 
modern literatures. In 1893 he received 
the degree of master of arts from Harvard. 
He is a member of a number of musical 
organizations and a fellow in the Ameri- 
can College of Musicians. 

Next year Professor Ashton will devote 
himself to composition and research in 
musical history in Boston and Cambridge. 
He will also be the organist and choir- 
master of the First Baptist Church of 
Newton Centre, Mass. 

J- 

Honorary The university conferred seven 
Degrees honorary degrees this year : 
one degree of doctor of 
science, two degrees of doctor of divinity, 
three degrees of doctor of letters, and one 
degree of doctor of laws. They were be- 
stowed as follows : 

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE 

John R. Freeman, leader in applied 
science, specialist in hydraulics, expert in 
insurance, consulting engineer, trustee of 
the Massachusett Institute of Technology, 
honored in many cities, not without honor 
in his own country and among his own 
kin. 

DOCTOR GF DIVINITY 

Frederick L. Anderson, minister of the 
Christian faith, helper of the poor in great 
cities, student of the sacred Scriptures, 
professor of New Testament interpretation 
in Newton Theological Institution, in- 
spirer and guide of young men. 

John H. Mason of the class of 1872, 
preacher of a sane and wholesome gospel, 
wise in counsel, persuasive in speech, pro- 
fessor in Rochester Theological Seminary, 
wisely dividing the word of truth. 

DOCTOR OF LETTERS 

Charles E. Bennett of the class of 1878, 
student of classic tongues and authors, 



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sometime teacher in Brown University, 
professor of Latin in Cornell University, 
interpreting to the new age great writers 
the world will not let die. 

Irving B. Richman, author, publicist, 
and historian, formerly representing the 
United States in Switzerland, author of 
" The Making and Meaning of Rhode 
Island," achieving a name by expounding 
the name and fame of this state. 

William Carey Poland of the class of 
iS68, student and teacher of classic lan- 
guages and classic and modern art, lec- 
turer and author, professor of the history 
of art in Brown University, teaching by 
word and example the beauty of truth and 
the truth of beauty. 

DOCTOR OF LAWS 

William X. McVickar, bishop of the 
diocese of Rhode Island, faithful shepherd, 
loyal friend, lover of humanity, wise ad- 
ministrator, preacher of personal, social, 
and civic righteousness. 

J- 

Professor Crowell Leave of absence for 
receives Leave of the academic year 
Absence ^^04-5 has been 

granted to Professor 
A. Clinton Crowell, associate professor of 
the Germanic languages and literatures. 
Professor Crowell will spend the entire 
year in Europe, the greater portion of it 
in Germany. He expects to attend lect- 
ures at the University of Leipzig or of 
Berlin. In the coldest season he will go 
south, probably as far as Rome, and before 
returning home will visit Denmark and 
possibly Norway and Sweden. During his 
absence the advanced courses of the de- 
partment will be carried by Professor 
Jonas and Morton C. Stewart, A. M., '94, 
at present a candidate for the doctor's 
degree at the University of Leipzig. With 
the exception of one term (the first of the 
academic year 1900-1, the term immedi- 
ately following Professor Williams's return 
from Europe after a year of absence and 
preceding his illness) Professor Crowell 
has been the acting head of the German 
department since 1899. 



Faculty Professor E. B. Delabarre has 
Notes been elected a corresponding 

member of the Philadelphia 
Geographical Society. 



Notable Investigation The Financial 
in Charge of History of the 

Professor Gardner ^"^^f. '^^^^^es, 

which IS to con- 
stitute a portion of the general Economic 
History of the United States to be under- 
taken by the Department of Economics and 
Sociology of the Carnegie Institution, has 
been placed in charge of Professor Henry 
B. Gardner of Brown University. The 
Carnegie Institution has made a liberal 
grant for this work, which is expected to 




I'KOl-ESSOU HENRY B. GARDNER 

occupy about five years and which is to be 
carried on under the general direction of 
Carroll D. Wright. United States Commis- 
sioner of Labor and president of Clark 
College. 

The department is at present organized 
in eleven divisions, as follows : — 

Population and Immigration — Prof. Walter F. 
Willcox, Cornell University. 

Agriculture and Forestry, including Public Do- 
main and Irrigation — President Kenyon L. Butter- 
field, Rhode Island College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts. 

Mining — Mr. Edward W. Parker, United States 
Geological Survey. 

Manufactures — Hon. S. N. D. North, Director of 
the Census. 



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Transportation — Prof. W. Z. Ripley, Harvard 
University. 

Domestic and Foreign Commerce — Prof. Emory 
R. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania. 

Money and Banking — Prof. Davis R. Dewey, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

The Labor Movement — Hon. Carroll D. Wright. 

Industrial Organization — Prof. J. W. Jenks, Cor- 
nell University. 

Social Legislation, including Provident Institu- 
tions, Insurance, Poor Laws, etc. — Prof. Henry W. 
Farnani, Yale University. 

Federal and State Finance, including Taxation — 
Prof. Henry B. Gardner, Brown University. 

Alumni Vote The official ballot for trus- 
for Trustee tee of the university, to fill 
a Congregational vacancy 
(sent out by the university to all graduates 
as part of its newly- established Bul/etiii), 
contained the names of six persons who 
had been nominated for the vacancy by 
fifteen or more alumni in response to the 
invitation of the Associated Alumni previ- 
ously extended. On commencement day 
President Faunce announced the result of 
the balloting as follows : 

Robert P. Brown, '71 211 

Charles Matteson, '61 148 

Henry D. Sharpe, '94 1 24 

Edward C. Moore, '91 82 

Louis F. Snow, '87 55 

William P. Sheffield, '77 51 

At a subsequent meeting of the univer- 
sity corporation, Henry D. Sharpe, '94, 
was elected trustee to fill the existing 
vacancy. 

Corporation At the meeting of the cor- 
Meeting poration, June 16, Professor 

Albert Harkness, Ph. D., 
LL.D., '42, and Hon. Francis A. Gaskill, 
LL.D., '66, were elected members of the 
board of fellows, and Henry D. Sharpe, 
A. B., '94, as noted above was elected to 
the board of trustees. 

At the School On May 25, at the gradu- 
of Design ating exercises of the 

Rhode Island School of 
Design, Professor William Carey Poland 
presided as president of the corporation of 
the school, made an address, presented 
the diplomas to the graduates, and an- 
nounced the scholarships bestowed as 
rewards of merit. 

The Rhode Island School of Design has 
recently received from Mr. C. L. Pendleton 
(since deceased) the valuable gift of his 
rare collection of old English and Colonial 



furniture, porcelain and china, a collection 
unrivalled in this country, at least. There 
are some fine old pictures in the collection 
also. It will ultimately be placed in a 
house built expressly for it on Benefit 
Street, near the Memorial Hall of the 
School by Stephen O. Metcalf, of the class 
of '78 at Brown, and his sister, Mrs. Gustav 
Radeke. 

Letter from The following interesting 

Goldwin Smith letter from Professor 
Goldwin Smith, which 
was read at the formal transfer of the 
John Carter Brown Library to the univer- 
sity, is self-explanatory : 

The Grange, Toronto, 
May 1 1, 1904. 
The President of Brown University. 

Dear Mr. President : 

I wish very much that I could avail 
myself of your invitation to be present at 
the dedication of the John Carter Brown 
Library. But old age has made me a 
valetudinarian and I now seldom leave 
home. 

Nearly forty years have passed since, 
with my friend Mr. Bancroft, I was the 
guest of your university at an academical 
celebration. It was a memorable time. 
The Civil War was still raging though 
victory had inclined to the North. I had 
brought with me from England the assur- 
ance of the earnest sympathy of all my 
political friends with the defenders of the 
Union, to which Brown University re- 
sponded by conferring on the envoy an 
honorary degree. I always think with 
pleasure and pride of that day when my 
memory ranges over the incidents of a 
life now near its end. 

Accept my congratulations on this occa- 
sion and my hearty good wishes for the 
])rosperity and honour of Brown Univer- 
sity. 

Very truly yours, 

(Signed) Goldwin Smith. 



Commencement 
Breakfast 



Following the initiative 
of last year the class of 
1886 enjoyed a class 
breakfast at the University Club on the 
morning of commencement day. The 
breakfast this year was given by Professor 
A. K. Potter. 



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Brown Verse, A volume of verse repre- 
1804-1904 senting the poetic output 

of Brown students for the 
past ten years has recently been issued. 
The book was compiled and arranged by 
Ilsley Boone, '04, and bears the imprint of 
Preston & Rounds Company. It embraces 
all the class poems for the decade and 
many poems which have appeared in the 
BriDionian, The Brown Maj^azi/ie, The 
Sepuui and the Libre. The class poems 
are the most extended works included in 
the collection. Besides these somewhat 
elaborate works, a large variety of short 
poems is to be found : — parodies, love 
songs, humorous lines, didatic stanzas and 
bright scintilations of college wit. The 
publication of such a volume is a capital 



thing for the college and its alumni, and 
let us hope it will prove so for the 
publishers. The price of the book is 

Si. 50. 



John Carter The organization of the 

Brown Library Joh" Carter Brown Li- 
c«-3« brary for the coming year 

is as follows : George 
Parker Winship, the librarian, will have an 
assistant librarian. Miss Maude E. Clarke, 
now of the state library. The janitor of 
the building will be Edward D. Morris. 
A bindery will be established in the base- 
ment, and F. P. Hathaway, one of the most 
skillful and experienced binders in the 
country, will be placed in charge. 



BASEBALL RECORD FOR I904 



A 



S might have been expected, the " abso- 
lutely amateur" university baseball team 
had a season of alternating victories and 
defeats. Following is the record : 

BASEBALL RECORD TO DATE 



Brown, 



4 


Trinity, 
Tufts, 


6 

I 


I 
I 


Holy Cross, 
Yale, 


7 
19 


7 


Princeton, 







Dartmouth, 


10 


I 


Yale, 


10 




I 


Pennsylvania, 
Dartmouth. 


7 



2 


E.xeter, 





S 


Princeton, 


15 






Georgetown, 
Yale, 


1 1 
3 



q; 


Bowdoin, 


6 


2 ; 
0; 


Holy Cross, 
Williams, 



8 


0; 
3 ; 


Pennsylvania, 
Amherst, 


2 
8 



Brown, 



Games won by Brown, 6; lost, 12. 

Runs scored by Brown, 38 ; by opponents, 1 18. 

After the Amherst game at Providence on com- 
mencement day, Raymond Frank Tift, '07, of 
Somerville, Massachusetts, was elected captain of 
the nine for next season. He has been the most 
successful pitcher of the team during the season 
recently closed, and at his best has shown a most 
skilful and puzzling delivery. Next year the team 
should be considerably stronger than it has been 
this season and well up toward the high level of 
the best Brown nines. 



OBITUARIES 



MARK BAILEY, 1848 

Mark Bailey, of the class of 1848, died suddenly 
at Tacoma, Washington, May r2, 1904, aged 8t 
years, 11 months and 25 days. He was the son of 
Mark and Abigail (Mooie) I3ailey, and was born at 
Sterling, Mass., May 17, 1822. He was prepared 
for college at the W'orcester County Manual Labor 
High School (now Worcester Academy), of which 
his brother, Silas Bailey (B. U. 1834), was then 
principal. Dr. Silas Bailey had a marked career as 
pastor and educator, being president of two col- 
leges, Granville (now Denison University) and 
Franklin, and professor at Kalamazoo College. 
There were twelve children in the family, of whom 
Mark Bailey was the last survivor. 

After giaduation, with the degree of bachelor of 
arts, he was principal of the preparatory department 



of Acadia College at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 
1848-49. From 1849 to 1852 he was tutor in 
Granville College; in 1852 he lived at Portsmouth, 
O. ; from 1853 to 1859 he was professor of mathe- 
matics at Frankhn College; from 1S59 to 1862, 
principal of Ladoga Seminary, Indiana; from 1863 
to 1866, professor in the old Chicago University; 
from 1866 to 1873, president of Petaluma College, 
California; from 1S73 '° 1S76 (being ordained as 
a Baptist minister in 1S73), president of McMinn- 
ville College, Oregon ; from 1876 to 1S95, professor 
of mathematics and astronomy at the University of 
Oregon. In 1S95 ^^ retired as professor emeritus, 
retaining his residence at Eugene, the seat of the 
university. In September, 1903, he went to Tacoma, 
where he made his home with his son. Professor 
Mark Bailey Jr., of Whitworth College. His sud- 
den death came in the late afternoon, as he sat 



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with his wife reading the Greek New Testament. 
Mrs. Bailey saw him suddenly gasp, sprang to his 
side, but found him already dead. He had spent 
the morning in the town and was apparently in the 
best of health and spirits. 

He was a broad scholar, a man who had read 
widely and deeply. In his work as a teacher he 
had success as a builder of character as well as in 
formal instruction. He was a sincere, earnest, and 
practical Christian. He influenced for good a host 
of men and women who were his pupils. He 
received the degree of master of arts in course 
from Brown, and in 1881 the honorary degree of 
doctor of philosophy from the University of Oregon. 

He married at Franklin, Indiana, July 5, 1854, 
Lizette L. Perkins, who survives him with her two 
sons, Edward Bailey, M. D., an army surgeon, now 
stationed at Manila, P. I., and Mark Bailey, profes- 
sor of ancient languages at Whitworth College. 

LEWIS EVERETT SMITH, 1 853 

Lewis Everett Smith died suddenly at his home 
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on May 30, 1904. 
Mr. Smith was born at Lincoln, Massachusetts, 
January 2, 1831. He was the son of Cyrus and 
Tryphena (Brooks) Smith. His early education 
was received in the schools of Lincoln and Concord. 
He prepared for college at Lawrence Academy, 
Groton, Massachusetts. Upon graduating from 
Brown he began his life work as an educator. 
After teaching in a number of other places he was 
called to the Portsmouth High School in 1859. 
He remained at the school until 1873, serving as 
principal for the last ten years of that time. In 
1873 he established Smith's Academy and Com- 
mercial College, of which he remained the head 
until his retirement in 1897. He was a prominent 
member of the Middle Street Baptist Church of 
Portsmouth, having served as deacon for nearly 
forty years, and was deeply interested in the work 
of the parish. 

Mr. Smith was married July 17, 1856, to Miss 
Eliza Abbott, daughter of the late Oliver R. Abbott 
of Bedford. His widow and one son, Howard 
Revere (Brown, 1896) survive him. 

The Portsmouth Herald, in commenting on Mr. 
Smith's death, uses the following words : 

" Mr. Smith was a gentleman of firm convictions, 
of a most courteous nature, and bore with him all 
through life the heartiest esteem of those who 
knew him." 

CHARLES DEARBORN WIGGIN, lS68 

Charles Dearborn Wiggin died at Mystic, Con- 
necticut, on the afternoon of Saturday, May 21, 
after an illness of one week. His illness declared 
itself as pneumonia, but the immediate cause of 
his death was heart failure. 

Dr. Wiggin was born at Meredith, New Hamp- 
shire, December 7, 1840, He prepared for college 
at Phillips Exeter Academy. In 1871 Brown gave 
him the degree of A. M. and in 1875 ^^ obtained 
the degree of M. D. from Yale college and began 
the practice of medicine. He made his home in 
Providence from the time he entered college in 
1864 until 1887. During a part of that time he 
was consulting physician to the Providence Lying- 
in hospital and a member of the school committee 
of Providence. 



In 18S7 Dr. Wiggin went to Nebraska with his 
brother, Dr. Oliver C. Wiggin, and engaged in a 
cattle-raising venture. In 1890 he returned East, 
and settled at Mystic, Connecticut, where he prac- 
tised medicine until a short time before his death. 

Dr. Wiggin was twice married and two children 
survive him, Mrs. Hope Bucklin of Mystic. Con- 
necticut, and Mrs. Marion Dolan, who lives in 
western Massachusetts. 

ANDREW NEWALL, 1 884 

Andrew Newall died of syncope, induced by 
malarial fever, at Thirty-five Mile Camp, Sekondi, 
Gold Coast, West Africa, March 9, 1902. He was 
born at Dalbeattie, Scotland, December 30, i860. 
When he was ten years old the family migrated to 
the United States, and in 1873 came to Westerly, 
Rhode Island, to live. Mr. Newall prepared for 
college in the Westerly High School. After gradu- 
ating from college he returned to Scotland and 
studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. 
In 1892 he received the degrees of Bachelor of 
Medicine and Master of Surgery, and in 1899 that 
of Doctor of Medicine. He began practice in 
Forrest Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. In 
1901 the miners of Backworth Colliery, Northum- 
berland, asked him to accept the position of medical 
ofiicer for the district. This appointment was the 
first of its kind, the result of a movement among 
the miners of Northumberland and Durham to ap- 
point and pay their own physicians on the co-opera- 
tive system. The Northumberland Medical Asso- 
ciation, of which Dr. Newall was a member, decided 
that this movement tended to lower the status of 
the medical profession. He therefore relinquished 
the appointment and accepted a government posi- 
tion in the West African Railways. He went to 
Africa in November, 1901, and died after only four 
months' service. 

In 1901 Dr. Newall married Mrs. Jane Murton 
of Percymain, Northumberland, who survives him. 

HERBERT CARPENTER BROWNELL, 1892 

Herbert C. Brownell was the victim of a fatal 
accident which occurred on the afternoon of 
May 26. He was running the separator in his 
dairy for the purpose of preparing cream for the 
morning delivery. The machine consists of an 
iron bowl which is revolved at a very high rate of 
speed, centrifugal force separating the cream from 
the milk. The weight of the bowl is about thirty- 
five pounds. While it was turning at the rate of 
9,000 revolutions a minute it suddenly flew out of 
its socket and struck Mr. Brownell in the forehead, 
crushing his skull and killing him almost instantly. 

Mr. Brownell was born in Providence, March 14, 
1872. He prepared for college at the University 
Grammar School. Soon after graduation he start- 
ed the Brightridge dairy, located on Brightridge 
avenue. East Providence, and built it up from a 
small beginning until it was the largest dairy farm 
in the state. 

Mr. Brownell was soon to have married Miss 
Mary W. Horton, daughter of Councilman Horton 
of East Providence. Miss Horton was by his side 
when the fatal accident occurred. Mr. Brownell 
had already hired a house in East Providence and 
it had been completely furnished for the young 
couple. 



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BRUNOMANS FAR AND NKAR 



Inquiry concerning a Civil War Veteran 

Some time ago the dean of the faculty recei%'ecl a 
letter from Mr. E. K. Baldwin of Norrell, Mississippi, 
of which a j^ortion is here quoted : 

"On the 2d of July, 1S62, 1 was wounded and 
taken prisoner by McClellan's forces in the charge 
on Malvern Hill. I was carried to heachiuarters at 
the Malvern House. The next morning I was hav- 
ing my wound dressed at the barn wliich was being 
used as a hospital, when it was found that there 
were no bandages, the supplies having been lost in 
the retreat. A young Federal soldier, who was 
lying on the floor near by, wounded with a musket- 
ball tluough his leg, spoke up, saying that he had a 
linen handkerchief which he would tear in two, and 
give me one half for a bandage. When my arm 
was bandaged with this, I went over and sat down 
by him and we commenced talking. Directly, he 
noticed that I had a little book in the pocket of my 
jacket, and asked me what it was. I told him that 
it was a pocket edition of Cicero's De Oj'/iciis, which 
I had got two or three days before out of a brick 
house up the line, which we had used as a fort, and 
that I had been carrying it along, and reading it as 
I had leisure. 'Why,' said he, 'you must be a col- 
lege man.' I told him that I was a University of 
Michigan man. 'I am a Brown University man.' 
said he. So we got out the book and lay there and 
read it all the evening until the Federal army re- 
treated and the skirmish line of the Confederates 
came up." 

Mr. Baldwin desires to learn the name of the 
Brown University man and his subsequent history. 
He described him as follows: "He was a young 
man of about 20 years of age, dark complexion, 
black eves and hair, and slim build, about :; feet 





Gt.UKC;E 1". IPiU' 



54 



REV. Al.lXANDKK M II lu 
Who Died Recently 



10 inches in height. I think he was a private, or 
possibly a non-commissioned otiicer." The letter 
is published with the hope that it may fall under 
the eyes of the man in question, or of some one 
else who can furnish the desired information. 

1847 

On the 2'th of May resolutions on the death of 
Elijah B. Stoddard, who died last September, were 
presented to Judge Francis A. Gaskill (Brown, 
1866) in the Superior Court of Worcester by a 
committee of the bar of Worcester county. The 
last part of the resolutions was as follows : 

"In 1S48 he began his professional career in 
Worcester. For more than fifty years he received 
those manifestations which prove the confidence 
and respect which the community has for him. 
Our records will not furnish a single example of a 
man who held more private and public positions of 
importance and trust. 

" With patience and judgment he filled alike the 
positions which added to his wealth and reputation 
and the positions which contributed nothing but 
the satisfaction of work well done. 

"The city of Worcester, the educational interests 
of the commonwealth, will long benefit from the 
faithful work of the public officer and the adviser. 

" The manv people who, when in trouble, found 
in him a Samaritan, will remember the neighbor 
and the friend. 

" He died at Alfred, Maine, on the 25th day of 
September, 1903." 

Senator George F. Hoar spoke words of high 
appreciation of the life and character of Col. Stod- 
dard, saying among other things that with full 
understanding of what words meant he believed 
Mr. Stoddard to be, on the whole, the most perfect 



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example of the character of a Christian gentleman 
he had known in that community for years. 

Judge Gaskill closed his reply with the following 
words : 

" It is a sweet pleasure to think of our friend in 
his unvarying courtesy of true manliness ; in his 
sturdy and abiding loyalty to worthy friend and 
noble cause; in the inevitable charm of his greet- 
ing ; in the enthusiasm of his advocacy and in the 
safe reliance upon his true and generous heart. 
Rare friend and sweet companion he was." 

1854 
Two portraits of members of the class of 1854 
are herewith printed, having been received too late 
for publication with the account of the class last 
month. Mr. Higgins has recently died. 

1856 

C. H. Alden, M. D., colonel U. S. army, retired, 
in May was promoted brigadier general on the 
retired list under act of Congress passed at its last 
session. After graduating from Brown, in 1856, 
with the degree of A. M., General Alden spent two 
years at the Pennsylvania Medical College, receiv- 
ing the degree of M. D. in 1S5S. He became a 
medical officer in the U. S. army in 1859, and con- 
tinued in active service until 1900 ; when he retired, 
on account of age, as colonel and assistant surgeon 
general. During the Civil War he held the rank of 
brevet major and lieutenant colonel. From 1888 
to 1893 he was medical director of the department 
of Dakota, and from 1893 to 1900 president of the 
Army Medical School at Washington. He is the 
author of numerous articles in medical journals, in 
publications of the war department, and in trans- 
actions of medical and medico-military societies. 
His present address is Newtonville, Massachusetts. 

General Alden received an honorary M. D. from 
the University of Pennsylvania in 1901. His father. 
Rev. C. H. Alden, chaplain in the U. S. navy, re- 
ceived an honorary A. M. from Brown in 1825. 

1858 

Secretary of State John Hay, representing the 
President, delivered the principal address at the 
celebration at Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, of the 
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Republi- 
can party. Dr. James B. Angell (1849), president 
of the University of Michigan, described the growth 
and development of the party in Michigan. 

The June Century Magazine contains an excellent 
reproduction of Sargent's portrait of John Hay, 
faced by a sonnet from that lettered statesman 
entitled Thanalos Athanatos, which we print else- 
where. 

1861 

Rev. E. O. Stevens, D. D., has just edited for the 
Baptist Mission Press of Rangoon Brief Histories 
of Some of the Bttr?nese Baptist Churches in Lower 
Burma. The volume is written in the Burmese 
language, and gives an account of the landing and 
work of Judson (Brown, 1S07), and of the origin 
and history of the Rangoon, Prome, Henzada, Bas- 
sein, Thongzai, Letpadan, Sanyuay, and Zigon 
churches. The printing of the work was provided 
for by the Russell fund. 

The article by Amasa M. Eaton on " Proposed 
Reforms in Marriage and Divorce Laws" which 
appeared in the Columbia Law Review, April, 1904, 
has been reprinted in pamphlet form. Another 
recent monograph by Mr. Eaton has also been 
reprinted in pamphlet form, " The Negotiable 



Instruments Law : Its History and its Practical' 
Operation," taken from the Michigan Law Review 
of January, 1904. 

1870 

Under the head : "Can Piatt defeat Bishop?"' 
the Waterbury Afnerican says: "It is no wonder 
that Senator Piatt of New York is protesting vig- 
orously against the reported appointment of Joseph 
B. Bishop to be secretary of the Panama Canal 
Commission. There are probably few men in the 
State of New York whose selection would be more 
personally galling to Senator Piatt than that of 
Mr. Bishop. Yet, probably, few people even in 
New York State know who Mr. Bishop is. 

"For 17 years, from 1883 to 1900, Mr. Bishop- 
was the leading editorial writer on the New York 
Evening Post next to Mr. Godkin. He possessed- 
in a peculiar degree those fecilities or infelicities of 
style, according to one's point of view, which made- 
Mr. Godkin so effective. . . . Making Tom 
Piatt writhe was a favorite amusement with Mr. 
Bishop for 17 years. So it is not at all strange 
that Mr. Piatt, now chairman of the Senate Com- 
mittee on Interoceanic Canals, should be using his^ 
strongest 'pull ' to prevent Mr. Bishop from secur- 
ing so distinguished and lucrative a place. 

" All this is aside from the question of Mr. 
Bishop's fitness for the place, something, we should- 
say, that no well posted newspaper man would 
gainsay. Mr. Bishop is a Brown man of 1870. 
He entered journalism immediately on leaving col- 
lege and was a member of the editorial staff of the 
Tribune until he joined that of the Evening Post. 
He has done not a little first-class magazine writ- 
ing, and has contributed anonymously in other 
leading publications to determining public opinioa 
on important questions. Mr. Bishop is in the best 
sense of the word a publicist, and the place of sec- 
retary to the Panama Canal Commission is evi- 
dently one that a trained publicist is best fitted to- 
fill." 

1870 and 1880 

Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, 1870, and 
President W, H. P. Faunce, 1880, spoke at the 
closing general meeting of the National Educational 
Association at St. Louis, both of them discussing 
" Present Tendencies of College Athletics." 

1874 

Professor Frank E. Rockwood has been called 
upon to suffer the loss of his wife, who died or». 
May 25, after a long and painful illness. Mrs. 
Rockwood was a woman of unostentatious and 
refined life, and a large circle of friends regret her 
death. 

1876 

Walter H. Barney, who has been since 1889 a 
member of the Providence School Committee, ten- 
dered his resignation to that body on April 29. 
His withdrawal had been expected for some time, 
since he had frequently expressed himself as unable 
to carry on the work together with his practice as 
an attorney. R. B. Comstock, '76, makes the 
declaration that " Mr. Barney has done more for 
the schools of Providence than any other man could 
do." Frederick Rueckert, '77, has been elected as- 
his successor. 

1878 

Rev. Charles H. Pendleton, who had been located 
at Mount Holly, New Jersey, for a number of years,, 
recently accepted a call to the First Baptist 
Church of Youngstown, Ohio. 



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1 88 1 

On the 4th of May Frederick R. Hazard was 
■chosen j^resident of the Chamber of Commerce of 
Syracuse, New York. The comments ui)on his 
election in the newsjiapers of that city reHect the 
esteem felt for Mr. Ilazard by his fellow-townsmen. 
The /^os/S(tif/d(ird says that his success in business 
has been won by methods which fit him for distin- 
guished service in this new capacity. The Herald 
says that his time, his money, and his talents have 
always been at the command of the city, whenever 
a good cause lias invited his co o])eration. The 
Tdlci^rani hopes that he will take u]) the ])roject of 
a Chamber of Commerce building with his charac- 
teristic energy, and push the enterprise to a speedy 
conclusion. 

1882 

W. B. Jacobs was elected a member of the board 
of directors of the National Educational Associa- 
tion at the recent meeting of that organization in 
St. Louis. 

1883 

Frederic E. Whittemore, principal of the high 
school at Reading, Massachusetts, from 189 1 to 
1903, has been elected superintendent of public 
schools of South Hadley and Granby, Massachu- 
setts. 

1884 

Rev. E. P. Tuller has resigned as pastor of the 
First Baptist Church in Detroit, and accepted a call 
to the Memorial Baptist Church in Chicago, one of 
the leading churches of the denomination in that 
city. Mr. Fuller is regarded as one of the strong 
men of the Baptist denomination, and in the three 
years of his pastorate at Detroit has put the P'irst 
Church on a firmer basis than it ever had before in 
its history. He has been a meml^er of the board 
of managers of the American Baptist Missionary 
Union since 1887 and recording secretary of that 
body since 1901. He is a trustee of Kalamazoo 
College, and President of the Detroit Baptist 
Union. 

Leonidas Raymond Higginsis head of the classi- 
cal department at Grand Island College, Grand 
Island, Nebraska. 

1885 

Charles T. Eaton, for nearly ten years principal 
of schools of the ninth school district of Stoning- 
ton, Connecticut, was recently appointed supervis- 
ing principal of schools in that place. 

1887 

Rev. William W. Wakeman gave up his pastor- 
ate at Reading, Massachusetts, at the end of 1903 
and is now acting pastor at New Braintree, Massa- 
chusetts. 

1890 

Walter A. Presbrey is chairman of the e.xecutive 
committee of the Rhode Island Young People's 
Christian Union. The committee displayed a 
great deal of energy in making preparation for the 
annual national convention of the Union, to be 
held in Providence the week of July 6-13. 

Edwin Collins Frost is in charge of the catalogu- 
ing of Marsden J. Perry's Shakespearean library on 
Power street. It is said to be the finest library of 
the kind in the United States and the finest owned 
by any private collector in the world. Mr. Frost 
has now been engaged upon the library for more 
than three years. 



i89r 

Stephen S. Colvin, Ph. D., who has been assist- 
ant professor of philosophy and natural theology at 
Brown during the academic year just closing, has 
been ajjpointed professor of philosophy and educa- 
tion for the summer session of 1904 in the Univer- 
sity of Iowa. Elmer A. Wilcox, '91, holds a profes- 
sorship in law in the same institution. Next year 
Dr. Colvin will resume his work at the University 
of Illinois, where for several years he has been 
assistant professor of psychology. Edwin G. Dex- 
ter, '91, is professor of education in that university. 

Professor Joseph N. Ashton has been appointed 
organist and choirmaster of the First Baptist church 
of Newton Center, Massachusetts, to succeed Mr. 
Maurice Hauptman Emery, who has been appointed 
dean of a conservatory in New York. 

PMward O. Bartlett, Jr., is acting this yeai as 
instructor in English at the Riverview Military 
.\cademy, Poughkeepsie, New "\'ork. 




COL. RUI5ERT W. lAP'T, 9I 

Robert W. Taft was recently elected director of 
the New York, New Plaven and Hartford Railroad 
Company, in place of his father, Hon. Royal C. 
Taft, who had resigned. 

1892. 

H. H. Rice left Providence May 3 to become 
manager of the Waverly department of the Pope 
Motor Car Company. This is a promotion of im- 
portance to Mr. Rice, who as manager of the Prov- 
idence branch of the Pope Manufacturing Company 
of Hartford made a reputation for good service in 
the bicycle and automobile fields of Rhode Island 
and southeastern Massachusetts. After his grad- 
uation from Brown he went to Hartford, where he 
had three years' training in the sales department. 

George Frederick Andrews is a manufacturer in 
London. His address is care of Brown, Shipley 
and Co., 123 Pall Mall, London. 



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Rev. Henry Morgan Stone, rector of Trinity 
Church, Newport, Rhode Island, sent in his resig- 
nation some time ago. At a meeting of the vestry 
held early in May it was unanimously voted that the 
resignation be not accepted and that an extension 
of six months be made to Mr. Stone's leave of ab- 
sence. This action has been communicated to Mr. 
Stone, who is now at Colorado Springs, and it is 
hoped that he will not insist on having his resigna- 
tion accepted. 

1893 

Arthur W. Rowell is treasurer of the Philadelphia 
& New England Coal Company, with head otifice at 
45 Milk Street, Boston, Mass., and branch offices in 
thirteen smaller cities of eastern Massachusetts and 
southern New Hampshire, including Manchester, 
New Hampshire, where Mr. Rowell resides. He 
received his early training as ticket-seller at the 
little hole in the high board fence at the north east 
corner of Lincoln Field as it used to be in "other 
days at Brown." 

Charles E. Adams, the last of the lost Ninety- 
three men, has been located in St. Louis. Thus is 
shown the value of a search of the registration 
lists. Adams had not been heard from, as far as is 
known, by any Brown man since he left college in 
freshman year; but he had registered as the son of 
R. D. Adams of Alhambra, California, who now 
lives in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, of the 
same state. 

Gilbert C. Carpenter with two other Providence 
citizens early in May incorporated the Providence 
Musical Association under Rhode Island laws. The 
object of the association is the advancement of the 
interests of "the higher music." 

1894 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Field are visiting at the 
home of Mrs. Field's parents on Brown street, 
Providence. They hope to be able to make the 
city their permanent home. 

A son was borYi recently to superintendent J. B. 
Stanton of the Norwich public schools. 

M. M. Fogg, instructor at Brown from 1895 to 
1900 under Professor Lamont, instructor in English 
at the University of Nebraska in 1901-1902, was re- 
cently made associate professor of English. Though 
he gives courses in literature his work is mainly in 
rhetoric, argumentation and debate. Under his 
training Nebraska students have won every inter- 
state debate in which they have engaged in the three 
years — six with Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. 
These victories brought Nebraska the debate cham- 
pionship of the Trans-Mississippi West in 1902 and 
1903. The sixth debate, which was on the main- 
tenance of the Monroe Doctrine, with Kansas as 
opponent, was held at Lincoln, April 29. Chan- 
cellor E. Benjamin Andrews presided. 

1895 

William G. Tarbox, who for three years has been 
principal of West Town school of Norwich, Con- 
necticut, has been promoted to the position of prin- 
cipal of the Town Street School of the same city. 
During July Mr. Tarbox will conduct a party of 
tourists on a twenty three day excursion through 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 

The Catholic Summer School of America has 
completed arrangements for a session of nine weeks, 
from July 5 to September 2, at Cliff Haven, New 
York, on Lake Champlain. From the 22d to the 
26th of August Prof. Monaghan of the Department 



of Commerce and Labor will lecture upon The 
American Consular Service and Trade Relations 
with Foreign Countries. 

Frederick L. C. Keating has been selected by 
Mayor McClellan to fill the position of Commis- 
sioner of Licenses of New York city. This is a 
new office, created by a recent act of the legisla- 
ture, which is to have control of the city employ- 
ment bureaus and to look after the issuing of 
licenses in those occupations where licenses are re- 
quired. Mr. Keating will organize the bureau. 
The law allows him two deputies. It will be re- 
membered that Mr. Keating was democratic candi- 
date for state senator in the fifteenth senatorial 
district of New York in 1902, but was defeated by 
Senator Elsberg. He is a governor of the Osceola 
club, the chief democratic organization in his dis- 
trict. 

William Henry Millington has been teacher of 
English in the schools of Iloilo, Panay, Philippine 
Islands. He is now on his way home to Providence, 

Mrs. Isabel Warwick (Bliss) Wood and her hus- 
band leave shortly for a six months' trip in Europe. 
Mr. Wood has received leave of absence from the 
Baptist church at West Medford, of which he is 
pastor. 

1896 

H. L. Thompson has severed his connection with 
the Suffield Academy, formerly the Connecticut 
Literary Institution, of Suffield, Connecticut, of 
which he has been principal for eight years. At 
the recent commencement of the school Mr. 
Thompson was the recipient of many tokens of 
affection and esteem. The graduating class gave 
him a handsome loving cup, and the board of 
trustees presented him with an engrossed copy of 
the following resolutions : 

J!7iereas, Principal H. L. Thompson has tendered 
his resignation of the principalship of the Suffield 
Academy in terms that call for our acceptance of 
the same, 

Resolved, That we record our full recognition of 
his tireless devotion to the highest interests of the 
academy during the entire time of his principalship, 
and that we express our deep appreciation of the 
splendid service that he has rendered as a construc- 
tive leader, an aggressive and efficient organizer, a 
wisely economical manager, a thorough and enthu- 
siastic teacher and a cool and conscientious disci- 
plinarian. 

Resolved, That we also record our appreciative 
recognition of the fact that these high qualities of 
leadership have borne most gratifying fruitage, 
which is abundantly manifested in the rank which 
this institution takes among academies, in the 
marked confidence placed in its credentials by the 
faculties of higher institutions, and in the com- 
mendable standing maintained by its graduates in 
the various pursuits of broader culture. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be engrossed 
and presented to Principal Thompson on behalf 
of the trustees. 

Rev. G. DeWitt Dowling, rector of Trinity 
Church, Davenport, Iowa, preached the sermon 
before the diocesan convention of the Episcopal 
Church of Iowa which met in Des Moines May 24 
to 26. The subject selected was The Influence of 
Christianity on Social Development. Mr. Dowling 
has been elected one of the trustees of St. Luke's 
Hospital of Davenport. 




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