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BROWN UNIVERSITY 
1905 



THE 
BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Vol. V 



Providence, R. L, March, 1905 



No. 8 



ALPHiaKS SIMilNG PACKARD, M. D. PH. D. I.L.D 




due to 



ROFESSOR A. vS. Packard 
died at his home on Angell 
street, Providenee, on the 
afternoon of Tuesday, Feb- 
r u ar y 14. Death was 

blood ])()is()nin.^', indirectly 




ALPHEUS SPRIXC; I'ACKARD, 

resulting- from an ulcerated tooth. While 
his illness had lasted for some time, it 
was not g-enerally known until near the 
end how serious his condition was, and 
the news of his death came as a gTcat 
shock to his many friends both within 
and without the university. 

Professor Packard was born in Bruns- 
wick, Maine, February 19, 1839. His 
father, Alpheus Spring- Packard, was a 
noted classical scholar and professor of 
Greek and Latin at Bowdoin, and his 



mother, Frances Elizabeth (Appleton) 
Packard, was a sister of the wife of 
President Pierce. Professor Packard 
was graduated from Bowdoin with the 
class of 1861. Already his interest in 
natural science was shown by joining, 
in the summer of 1860, the Williams 
College expedition to Labrador and 
Greenland under the charge of Professor 
P. A. Chadbourne. In 1861 he obtained 
the master's degree from his alma mater 
and in 1864 he was graduated from the 
Maine Medical School with the degree 
of M. D. In the same year he received 
the degree of bachelor of science from 
Harvard. For the next three years he 
worked under Agassiz at the Lawrence 
Scientific School. During a part of this 
time he served as assistant surgeon of the 
Maine Veteran Volunteers. In 1879 
Bowdoin bestowed u])on him the honor- 
ary degree of doctor of philosophy and 
in 1901, that of doctor of laws. 

In 1865 Professor Packard became li- 
brarian and custodian of the Boston So- 
ciety of Natural History, and, in 1899, 
curator of the Essex Institute. From 
1867 to 1878 he was connected with the 
Peabody Academy of Science, for 
a time as curator and later as direc- 
tor. From 1871 to 1873 he was 
the state entomologist of Massa- 
achusetts, and from 1877 to 1882 a mem- 
ber of the United States Entomolog-ical 
Commission. In 1878 he began his 
long term of service with Brown Uni- 
versity, being- elected to the professor- 
ship of geology and zoology. During 
the quarter-century of his connection 
with Brown he was an indefatigable 
worker in his chosen field. He was one 
of the founders of the American A^atur- 
alist, a publication devoted to natural 
history and research, and was for twenty 
years its editor-in-chief. He was the 



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author of more than 400 monog-raphs, 
papers and notes in g-eology, paleontol- 
ogy and zoology, besides writing- a con- 
siderable number of more elaborate 
works. His publications g-ained for him 
a world-wide reputation as a naturalist, 
and brought him recognition from a 
larg'e number of learned societies both 
in the United States and in foreign 
countries. In 1872 he was elected to 
membership in the National Academy 
of Sciences, and also the Imperial Zoo- 
logical and Botanical Society of Vienna; 
in 1875 he was made a member of the 
Societe Royal des Sciences de Lieg-e, 
Belgium, and in 1891 of the Society of 
Friends of Natural Science of Moscow, 
Russia. In 1901 he received the rare 
distinction of an election as a foreign 
member of the Linnean Society of Lon- 
don, after the Royal Society the most 
noted natural history society in Eng- 
land. At that time there were only 
four American members besides Profes- 
.sor Packard. Among other European 
scientific associations of 'which he was 
either honorary or corresponding mem- 
ber were the entomological societies 
of London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Stock- 
holm and Brussels. He was elected 
one of eig-ht honorary presidents of the 
Zoological Congress at Paris in 1899. 
He was honorary president of the sec- 
tion of zoolog-y of the French Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, 
and vice-president of the corresponding 
section of the American Association. 

To g-ive a complete list of even the 
titles of Professor Packard's many pub- 
lished works is impossible for lack of 
space. Among the more important 
ones may be mentioned the following': 
"Our Common Insects." 1873; "Life 
History of Animals," 1876; "Half 
Hoiirs With Insects," 1877; "Injurious 
Insects of the West," 1877; "Zoology 
for High Schools and Colleges," 1879; 
"First Lessons in Geology," 1882; 
"Zoology," 1883; "First Lessons in 
Zoology," 1885; "Entomolog^y for Be- 
ginners," 1888; "Observations on the 
Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and 
Maine," 1891; "A Textbook of Ento- 
mology," 1898; "Lamarck, the Founder 
of Evolution, His Life and Work , " 1901. 
In October, 1867, Professor Packard 
inarried Elizabeth Derby, daughter of 
Samuel Baker Walcott. Mrs. Packard, 



a son, Alpheus Appleton Packard, of 
Brookline, Massachusetts, and two 
daughters survive him. 

We all know that Professor Packard 
was a great naturalist, because he was 
recognized as a peer by the greatest 
naturalists of the world; but few of us 
have the requisite knowledge to enable 
us to pass judgment upon his scientific 
attainments, or to enumerate his contri- 
butions to knowledge. But every one 
who came in contact with him could ap- 
preciate the excellencies of his beautiful 
character, his transparent sincerity; 
his unassuming modesty, his kind- 
liness and patient helpfulness, and his 
untiring' zeal in the cause of .science. 
The recognition of the worth of the per- 
sonality of the man is the prevailing' 
note in the comment of persons of all 
classes upon his departure, of faculty, 
of students, of the community at large, 
It is universally felt that his death not 
only deprives Brown University of the 
services of one of her most learned and 
distinguished teachers, but also leaves 
the college world and the community at 
large poorer by the loss of a living ex- 
ample of simplicity of character and de- 
votion to high ideals. 

Such feelings found expression at the 
memorial service held in the chapel on 
the Saturday morning after Professor 
Packard's death. Tributes to the mem- 
ory of the departed were paid by Pro- 
fessors Poland, Mead, Everett and 
Barus. The Monthly regrets that lack 
of space forbids it to publish all the 
addresses, as each was excellent of its 
kind, and all ought to be published in 
some form and circulated among the 
alummni. The addresses of Professors 
Poland and Barus are given below. At 
the same meeting W. G. Meader, 
'05, as a representative of the student 
body, the Cammarian Club and Pro- 
fessor Packard's classes, paid tribute 
to the latter in a short speech, and 
offered the following resolutions, which 
were unanimously adopted by the stu- 
dent body : 

Whereas, There has passed from 
our number one who lived with marked 
distinction the academic life, and by his 
scholarly attainments conferred lasting' 
honor and benefit upon the university 
which he has so faithfully and unselfishly 
served, and upon the world of science 



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in which he has pluNX-d ii conspieious 
l)art; and 

WiiicKKAS, In tliis master workman 
his ])Ui)ils liave alwaxs found a keenl\- 
s\-m])athetic and lai-.'^e-hearled teacher 
and man; be it 

Rhsolvhd, Tliat we, as students of 
Brown Universit>-, throu.i^h these reso- 
lutions con\-c\- our sincere s\-miiath\' to 



the famil\- (^f Professor A]i)heus Spring 
Packard, and pay our humble tribute to 
the memory of a true friend and a great 
man. 

On behalf of the student body, 

Lkonakd W. Ckonkhite 
Fri:i)i;kick Schwinn 
William (i. Mi;ai)i:k 



ADDRESS Ol^^ PROFESSOR CARL BARUS 



Mr. president. .v;cntlemen of the fac- 
ulty, students of I-5rown Universit.\-: 
I have not known Professor Packard 
as long", nor as intimately as inany of 
my colleag'ues; and where they have 
spoken I should remain silent. Neither 
am I (pialified to discuss his more im- 
mediate scientific work. I can, how- 
ever, in response to the president's sug-- 
g-estions, speak of him in the lig-ht in 
which one scientific man sees another, 
older and wiser than himself; but I do 
so with ditiidence. I have therefore 
written down with some care the things 
which I would not otherwise venture to 
express. 

In seems an ungracious confession to 
make, but it is nevertheless true that it 
was triroug'h Professor Packard that 
many of us in Washing'ton, twenty or 
thirty years ag'o, became aware of the 
existence of scientific activity at Brow^n 
University. For age had wearied the 
enthusiasm of Alexis Caswell twenty 
years earlier. Vet it was not by his 
presence that Packard represented her; 
at least in the years in which I knew 
him he was not a frequent attendant at 
scientific meetings remote from Provi- 
dence. It was his untiring- and remarkably 
pervasive industry that confronted us. 
The president of the National Academy, 
the director of the Geological ^Survey, 
the secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution all felt the force of it. and at one 
time there were dismal mutterings in 
the high places of legislation, asking 
why the public printer's time should be 
spent in bringing out the elaborate re- 
searches of one w'ho stood remote 
from public ofhce. How did this come 
about? Certainly a man of Professor 
Packard's singular modesty, of his al- 
inost morbid habit of self -depreciation, 
was the last to find his wav through the 



mazes of a government lobby. His 
transparent sincerity would have been 
infiniteh' removed from all this. And 
yet there was no myster_\- about it. It 
was a mere force from within breaking 
its way. The power of Professor Pack- 
ard's intellect bearing on subjects of 
natural history, the scope and accuracy 
of his learning and the purity of his 
scientific ideals were his only resources; 
and wherever institutions needed the 
fruits of x\\)Q scholarship to dignify 
their own scientific activities, these were 
the first to feel the influence of Profes- 
sor Packard's productive zeal, as they 
were compelled to guide its progress. 
And so our unobtrusive colleague taxed 
the people of the w^hole United vStates to 
publish his magnificent memoirs — be- 
cause he was genuine. 

The same facts appear in a difTerent 
way, in the further story of Professor 
Packard's life. I am the last man to 
speak lightly of the young vigor and the 
promise of our American institutions, or 
of our learned societies. But it is 
nevertheless true that in comparison 
with the famous academies of the old 
world we are as yet mere children. In 
a history of the essentials in the pro- 
gress of science there is but rare need 
of the mention of American accomplish- 
ments. We have much of the practice, 
and we show a degree of independence in 
our imitations, but w^e lack the philo- 
sophic depth, the intuitions, and the pro- 
found originality. It is to the law- giver 
of science that the true academy is born, 
and it is by her law-givers again that it 
must be nurtured. To men of exquisite 
genius no climate within the whole 
range of our immense country has yet 
been congenial. 

We are apt to smile at the Englishman 
for the letters which decorate his name . 



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We laiig'h at the German for his titles 
and at the Frenchman for his ribbons 
and his uniform. We smile because to 
us such insignia mean nothing"; and it 
is to our shame. We forget that these 
symbols voice a sentiment of almost 
religious purity. We have not yet 
learned to constitute nor even to revere 
a tribunal so august as to be incompat- 
ible with pettiness. We never ask why 
the F. R. S. is inseparable from the 
names of Lord Kelvin, of Lord Lister, 
even in their age and amid the splen- 
dors of their glory- To make the 
French Academy, even on its scientific 
side, required the brains of Cuvier, of 
Lamarque, of St. Hilaire, of Buffon, of 
Pasteur, of the brothers Jussieu; it re- 
quired Laplace, Lavoisier and Lagrange, 
Carnot and Cauchy , Fresnel and Fourier, 
Ampere and Arago, Poisson and Poinsot, 
to mention only a few; and the dictum of 
the Academ\- arbitrates wdth the author- 
ity of these tremendous names. 

Precisely to such bodies of inexorable 
critics did the intrinsic strength of the 
work of Professor Packard ultimately 
appeal. And it was from the judgment 
of his confreres, from the men who had 
themselves traversed the same intellec- 
tual territory and knew" it, that he reaped 
his supreme honors. From these alone 
could the reward have come; for below' 
the decisions of his peers, there was no 
other guide but conscience. 

Few of us realize how difficult it is, 
what persistent convictions, what sturdv 
vigilance is required to enter serioush' 
into competition with the whole world, 
as Packard did; indeed one might say to 
enter handicapped, against a world 
richer in its traditions, more refined in 
its higher intellectual atmosphere, more 
bountiful in its opportunities, than our 
young countr}^ It takes courage to 
press forward alone, self-reliant, mis- 
understood, at peace only with one's 
own convictions. Did we think of this 
in Packard's case? Did we look at his 
Linnean and other honors in this light ? 
Did even our corporation feel that the 
cause of which it is the supreme guar- 
dian had in Packard been awarded 
with the most cherished tokens of the 
world's approval ? 

Packard was not lacking in rever- 
ence for art, for literature, for music; 
but his soul cried out for science. He 



felt instinctively that the handiwork of 
man, however sublime, cannot be more 
than human; and that a finite brain has 
fashioned all its cultures. Nature is 
the offspring of omniscience. He real- 
ized what the world was so slow" to 
realize, what only within the last few 
hundred years has come like a tumult- 
uous awakening, that the universe was 
wrought in the workshops of God, and 
that she alone is ultimately divine. He 
felt, too, that her true poetry is not 
written in rhetoric but in mathematics 
and in the stern logic of science. For 
all our natural philosophies are but an 
attempt at a picture. We find no ade- 
quate symbols in our efforts to restate 
her methods; our analogies, our meta- 
phors, are gross; we have to shift, to 
approximate, to neglect. But nature 
neglects nothing! To her the infinitely 
large and the infinitely small on the 
boundaries of which we live are alike 
finite among her infinities. Touch her 
at any point and your contact is with 
the eternal. 

To contemplate the prolific labors of 
Professor Packard is to stand face to 
face with the attributes of genius . I do 
not wish to make an over- statement; 
true, there is a higher genius among 
the geniuses, but there is none in 
whose heart that sacred fire does not 
burn. There can be no holier joy than 
the joy of creative work, and yet it is a 
joy akin to terror. What is it which 
possesses a man even in early youth, 
which impels him despite all obstacles 
and restraint to strive evermore, intel- 
lectually alone, without approval, profit- 
lessly, after an imattainable ideal ; whose 
spell grows more potent as his years 
ripen, as his toil increases, as the world 
grows caustic in its rebuke; and that 
leaves him only with death ? Do not 
suppose that the poet or the sculptor or 
the martyr alone have it. It burns to- 
day with subdued passion, but with all 
its pristine and unmitigated fierceness 
in the life of every true student of 
nature . 

Wh^i.t is it that can sustain a man 
when every new avenue of thought dis- 
covered is but the approach to countless 
avenues beyond; when to finish, be it 
after years of labor, is only to be ready 
to begin; what encourages him when 
the unknown looms with greater vast- 



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ness ris the known is more ])rofoundly 
mastered; when the very pinnaele of at- 
tainment is tlie snblimeeonscioiisnessof 
iS'norance, and when to lie most re- 



nowned is to be most devoutly humble? 
It is the inspiration whieh illumined the 
life of our eollea.uue, our teacher. 
Lon.t,"- may his ideals j^uide us at Brown ! 



ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR W. C. POLAND 



Mr. jiresident, my honored eollea.uues 

of the faeulty, my fellow students in 

Brown University : 

On this occasion I windd that it could 
not have seemed strant^-e if I had used 
the ancient classical academic appellation 
of "commilitones," for today we miist 
all feel the sense of comradeship, we 
must feel that our ranks are weakened, 
and it must be that we are quickened by 
an impulse to draw nearer to one an- 
other, to cherish one another with a 
warmer affection, because we know so 
well how great is the loss, common to 
us all, how deep is the affliction which 
we now commemorate. 

In the swiftly flying- years during 
which it has been my fortune to teach 
in Brown University, years which seem 
so few, although they extend over the 
space of a generation, I have mourned 
the loss of many ag'ood comrade. Only 
a few months ago, — so it seems, — died 
the colleague whose name preceded my 
own in the list of the faculty, and now 
the name which for more than twenty- 
five years has followed my own will 
henceforth disappear from the roll. We 
cannot outlive these lessons without 
grief, and although we may dispute our 
gTief like men, we must also feel it as 
men . 

As we approach the sad duty 
of this hour, and honor ourselves in 
g'iving hig-h praise to one who deserved 
the amplest honor which can be render- 
ed to a great scholar, a true man, a 
staunch friend, a man of innate refine- 
ment, a reverent Christian, it gives me 
the greatest gratification that I can say 
truthfully that in all the years of my 
connection with the faculty of Brown 
University- I have found that in the long- 
run, with many differences of conviction, 
a singular harmony has united our body. 
When a colleague has suffered we have 
suffered with him, when he has been 
blest by fortune we have rejoiced with 
him. And perhaps no opportunity more 
fitting to say this will ever present itself 



than this opi^ortunity, when in the shad- 
cjw of a great affliction we speak in 
\our ])resence, students, graduate and 
undergraduate; for ycni too are dear to 
us, it is for you that he labored who now 
rests from his labors, it is for you that 
we labor and rejoice to labor, it is your 
rig'ht and privilegfe to share in all that 
is best and sweetest in our common 
academic life. Believe me when I say 
that _\-ou may search the world in vain 
to find anything human outside of your 
own fireside that can excel in its satis- 
faction the association which one enjoys 
who lives in intimacy with men devoting: 
themselves unselfishh' to academic pur- 
suits. 

Professor Packard was an academic 
man of the rarest type. We all esteemed 
him. With the rest I know that he was 
learned, a leader in his science, although 
I am incompetent to weigh his services 
to his science. I have gone to him re- 
peatedly to learn, and have acknow- 
ledged my debt to him when I have used 
in instruction what I learned from him. 
I have wished and have cherished a 
vague resolve to enter his classes in an- 
thropology. 

I remember well the first time that I 
met him and the kindliness of his greet- 
ing. I recall walks with him in the 
fields. In these walks and on other 
occasions, we talked, as all men talk, on 
whatever occurred to us, and often we 
touched on the subjects in which we had 
a special interest from the nature of our 
pursuits. It seems to me that I was 
always the learner at such moments. 
When he came back from his occasional 
journeys abroad he had fresh tidings 
for me from the old fields, from Stone- 
henge, from Carnac in Brittany, from 
the caves of the Dordogne, from My- 
cenae, from Egypt. In this very term 
I have been indebted to his kindness, 
as often before, for the use of illustra- 
tive material. 

Professor Packard had the inestima- 
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a good ancestry, that until far into the 
meridian days of mature manhood he re- 
joiced in the living presence of a highly 
honored father, the venerable and ven- 
erated Professor Packard of Bowdoin 
College, of whom Longfellow wrote in his 

Morituri Salutamus. ' ' The poet speak- 
ing for his college class on its fiftieth 
anniversary, recalls his 

"Teachers who in earher days 

Led our bewildered feet through learning's 
maze;" 

and, listening for their salutation, thus 
concludes his grateful recognition of 
them with affectionate words of praise 
for their only survivor, the elder Pack- 
ard: 

"They are no longer here; they all are gone 
Into the land of shadows, — all save one. 
Honor and reverence, and the good repute 
That follows faithful service as its fruit. 
Be unto him, whom living we salute." 

The qualities of intellectual and moral 
strength, of gentleness, of refinement, 
the habits of study, of discipline of 
character, the love of learning, of truth, 
and of goodness; the cultivation of the 
godly life, the regard for the rights and 
happiness of others, and many another 
manly and amiable trait of character, 
which he inherited, and which he was 
encouraged by parental precept and ex- 
ample to cultivate, became, through his 
faithful stewardship of the talents en- 
trusted to him, the constant inotive 
forces of his daily life. We loved him, 
nay, we love him, for he still lives, — 
"Dying is only living" was one of his 
latest utterances, — we love him, because 
he was a good and true man who loved, 
and therefore because he was a inan to 
be loved. What reasonable and true man 
could undervalue him, or fail to esteein 
him very highh- in love for his work's 
sake ? 

He was not a graduate of our college, 
— alas ! that too late delay has made it 
impossible to call him by our highest 
adoption a son, him whom so many a 
learned body in our own land and in 
other lands has eagerly sought to adorn 
its roll of members, — he was not a grad- 
uate of our college, but he served Brown 
University through many years, as loy- 
ally and faithfully as any of her sons. 
His coming here added at the outset to 
the fame of a college in whose worthi- 
ness we all believe, although we cannot 
affirm that thirty vears ago it had the 



wide recognition which it deserved. 
Professor Packard had scarcely held his 
chair a year, when, as tradition affirms, 
a graduate of Brown University, on re- 
vealing at Oxford the name of his alma 
mater, found that his college was known 
to scholars there because it was the col- 
lege in which Professor Packard taught . 
And later, perhaps a dozen years ago, 
Professor Packard gave the best of 
evidence that he valued his connection 
with us; for the authorities at Oxford 
requested him to allow his name to be 
used as that of a candidate for a pro- 
fessorship there, for a position which 
afforded opportunities for the kind of 
scientific work which Professor Packard 
particularly enjoyed, opportunities far 
superior to those which he had here; 
and although the opportunity was al- 
luring, and deserved and received the 
most serious consideration, he finally 
declined it, knowing that he turned away 
from what promised security of position 
and emolument, leisure for scientific 
investigation, association with men who 
valued the things of the mind above all 
inaterial goods; and he remained with 
us, with fidelity toiling with the rest of 
of us amid the uncertainties, the em- 
barrassments, the limitations, and the 
insecurity which surround the American 
scholar. How large were his contribu- 
tions to knowledge, how great were his 
services to science some of us heard 
from Dr. Hyatt, perhaps two years ago, 
when the faculty of Brown University 
united in giving a dinner, at which our 
modest colleague, Professor Packard, 
whose honors always came to him with- 
out his seeking, who bore his faculties 
so meek , was forced to listen to the story 
of his distinguished achievements. We 
are all glad that we did not wait itntil 
this sad hour to do him such honor as 
we could. 

Professor Packard had large and 
enlightened conceptions of what liberal 
learning means, of what is its worth. 
Progressive though he was, favoring, as 
he did, the modern freedom of choice of 
studies by the undergraduate, no one 
lamented more than he the fact that here 
and there a man earnest and accom- 
plished in the sciences to which he was 
himself so loyally devoted gave man- 
ifest signs of a- lack of humanistic dis- 
cipline. May I quote here a few words 



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from one of Professor Paekard's rather 
recent mono,L;Tai)hs, a i)a])er which he 
sent to me, and which I have had on my 
table for a lon<i- time for reference? The 
very title somehow breathes with a 
<>-enial spirit. It is "An Afternoon at 
Chelles and the ICarliest Evidence of 
Human Inchistr_\- in France." The pa- 
per bristles with exact information con- 
veyed throux"h the liberal use of scien- 
tific terms; but the author directs our 
vision to the facts exhibited through the 
vista of a mellow afternoon, and it is the 
thout^ht of a human hand long" stilled 
which inspires him in the quest of know- 
ledgfe. Before he arra3's the facts dis- 
covered he dwells on the large relations 
with other lands of the place visited, 
on its occupation in prehistoric, Roman 
and mediaeval times, and near the close 
of his introduction he says: "Hence a 
visit to this classical locality on a serene 
though hot July afternoon, in a most 
attractive reg-ion and in most delightful 
company, was most interesting and 
memorable." Nature spoke peace to 
his soul, historic associations appealed 
to him, and he delighted all the more 
in what he learned at Chelles, because 
he could learn it in the company of his 
own kind. He was no mere recluse, 
although he could toil long and patiently 
alone, and accomplish herculean tasks. 
He loved his family unspeakably, he 
loved his friends, nothing human was 
foreig'n to him, his studies stood clearly 
in their largest relations as he thought 
of them and prosecuted them. How elo- 
quent to us two days ag'o was that 
room in which he has wrought so 
faithfully for a quarter of a century, 
that room in which his colleagues were 
assembled to participate in the last sad 
rites of farewell! We thought of what 
the activities of that library had meant 
to the world, as well as to him who had 
exercised them, of what the loss is to 
the world now that those activities have 
ceased. We bow before God's will. 
We cannot understand it. If hands out- 
stretched and yearning cries could recall 
him, we should draw him back to us 
again; but, — who of us all knows what 
is untimely, or can order even his own 
steps aright ? 



Reason and the counsels of the wise 
of all ages remind us that we honor the 
dead by remembering them, and by 
striving to accomi)lish what they de- 
sired. It certainly is the part of wisdtnn 
and of affection to remember the exam- 
ple of the g-Qod and to strive to follow 
it in the direction of our own lives. We 
have chiefly desired in this simjile ser- 
vice to do honor to our associate, to 
express our love for our friend; but we 
shall show that we truly ]f)ve and honor 
him if we never forget the noble example 
which he has left to us in the record of 
his life. We remember the eloquent 
and touching- words with which Tacitus 
closes his tribute of affection to Agricola: 
"Placide quiescas .... Admiratione te 
potius quam temporalibus laudibus, et, 
si natura supi^editet, aemulatione de- 
coremus. Is verus honos, ea coniunc- 
tissimi cuiusque pietas .... Forma 
mentis aetema, quam tenere et expri- 
mere non per alienam materiam et artem 
sed tuis ipse moribus possis." 

The undying commemoration (jf the 
spirit of our friend must be spiritual. 
wSo far as our native powers suffice, let 
us honor him, and all the g-ood men 
whom we have lost, and whose influetice 
over us we thankfulh' confess, by emula- 
tion of what they have worthily done. 
We have not his work to do. That 
work is done, and it is well done, as 
God willed it. We think of work, when 
we think of a life like his, of work 
which is no drudgery; of work which is 
an exalted privilege, the privilege of a 
divine companionship. Life's gfreat 
harvest is before us all, my fellow stu- 
dents. It is the harvest that is ever ready 
for the reaper, and yet it is ever growing 
and preparing' for the latest comer who 
girds him for the toil. If our dear col- 
league, our dear teacher, could speak 
one more word to us, if he could tell us 
something- froin some new height afford- 
ing' new prospects to his clarified vision, I 
must believe that he would bid us to take 
our manly part in the work g-iveu us to 
do, to find our joy in the working', in the 
love of of our friends, in the hope that 
we may worthily serve the world, and 
thereby may please God. 



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THE BROWN MEDICAL SCHOOL, 1811-1827 




ONSIDERABLE difficulty 
has been experienced, in 
compiling- the forthcoming- 
historical catalogue, in ob- 
taining definite information 
about the graduates of the early medical 
school at Brown. In fact, few gradu- 
ates realize that a full fledged school of 
medicine ever existed here at the uni- 
versity. And \-et this school graduated 



It was quite an innovation to organize 
a new and important department in a 
college which, though scarcely in its 
infancy, contained less than one hundred 
students. In September, 1811, the cor- 
poration laid the foundation of the new 
school by appointing Dr. William In- 
galls professor of anatomy and surgery. 
Dr. Solomon Drowne professor of 
materia medica and botany, and Dr. 






LECTUBES 

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OLD TICKET TO MEDICAL LECTURES 



about ninety students from 1814 to 
1827 and did much to further the cause 
of medical education in Rhode Island. 

It was in response to a general feel- 
ing that medicine should be treated as a 
science rather than as an outgrowth of 
intuition that several schools of medi- 
cine were established throughout New 
England in the second decade of the 
nineteenth century. vSimilar schools 
had previously been formed at Harvard 
in 1782 and at Dartmouth in 1797. The 
first school to be founded as a result of 
this general sentiment was at Brown 
University in the year 1811. Yale fol- 
lowed in 1813, Vermont in 1818, and 
Bowdoin in 1820. 



William C. Bowen professor of chemis- 
try. The first of these professors, who- 
was a prominent Boston surgeon, was 
compelled to resign his position in 1816. 
The reasons therefor can easily be 
traced in an anonymous pamphlet pub- 
lished in 1815, and illustrating the condi- 
tion of the medical school at the time: 
"On the present plan the medical pro- 
fessors depend for compensation entirely 
on the fees of attendance. This gives- 
them a most precarious standing. Re- 
peatedly has it been the lot of a profes- 
sor, as the season for his lectures ap- 
proached, to visit the college, inquire 
how many attendants would be had, be 
informed that for this or that reason 



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they would be very few, and return to 
his residence, lamenting- that he must 
wait another year because an unfortu- 
nate arrang:ement has made the dis- 
chars'e of his duties dependent on the 
accidental finances and feelin,q-s of fifty 
or sixty youths." Dr. In.u'alls contin- 
ued to.u-ive lectures in P>oston, the stu- 
dents attendin.q- and counting- the time 
thus spent as a part of their required 
course of study in Brown University. 
The Rhode Island Historical Society 
has in its library a beautifully engraved 
card of admission to his lectures on 
anatomy and surgery in 1817. 

Dr. Drowne remained in his position 
as long as the school existed. Dr. Wil- 
liam C. Bowen resigned in 1813, two 
years before his death, and in 1817 John 
DeWolf of Bristol was appointed to fill 
this vacancy. The fourth professorship 
connected with the medical school was 
that of theory and practice of physic, 
which w^as filled in 1816 by the appoint- 
ment of Dr. Levi Wheaton. In 1822 
Dr Csher Parsons came to the chair of 
anatomy and surgery and apparently 
brought new' life to the medical school. 
The late Dr. Park, in speaking of him, 
said: "The fact of his having been a 
surg-eon in the United vStates Navy, and 
at the battle of Lake Erie, gave him a 
great eclat as he assumed the professor- 
ship." His son, Dr. Charles W. Par- 
sons, relates that he was particularly 
skilled in anatomy, and that "he made 
arrangements through channels over 
which a veil of secrecy had to be thrown 
for a supply of anatomical material." 

The anatomical work was carried on 
in the old University Grammar School 
building, recently demolished, on the 
site of the present administration build- 
ing. This structure was built in 1810, 
through the subscriptions of friends 
o# the college, and in vSeptember 
of the same year was set apart by the 
corporation as the "anatomical build- 
ing." Its upper story was used as a 
dissecting room, an opening or trap door 
allowing the specimens to be low^ered 
into the lecture room beneath. The 
building- at that time w^as a structure 33 
by 24 feet, and did not have the addition 
that was later built on in the earr. It 
was the scene of many student pranks, 
possibly because of its being slightly re- 
moved from the immediate college en- 



closure. Dr. Parsons relates an inci- 
dent of an elderly practicing physician 
from Seekonk who was wont to attend 
the anatomical lectures. He wore a very 
conspicuous queue. The students, to 
play a trick upon him, appointed a com- 
mittee to ask him to cut off his queue 
upon the pretext that it interfered with 
the pupils seeing the lecturer's illustra- 
tions. To their great surprise he did 
not prove as obstinate as Knickerbock- 
er's hero, Keldermeester, and appeared 
at the next lecture shorn of his i)igtail 
appendage. 

It is a matter of recent tradition that 
the eventual extinction of the school was 
brought about by the rather unpleasant 
ending of the following prank: One day 
some students discovered in front of the 
building a barrel containing some mate- 
rial for the dissecting- room. They car- 
ried it out to Collegre street and, g-iving 
it a grood start, sent it rolling down the 
hill. Gathering- impetus, the barrel 
went speeding- on, until it finally 
brought up with a crash agfainst the old 
town house at the corner of Benefit 
street. Armless trunks and tnmkless 
heads were strewn in every direction. 
It is not known what punishment was 
meted out to the perpetrators of the 
trick, or even whether they were ever 
discovered, but it is needless to say that 
the unpleasant consequences resulting- 
from the inquiry that followed brought 
public attention to the lack of discipline 
that existed in the school. 

When Dr. Wayland entered upon his 
duties as the new president of the uni- 
versity in 1827, he brought with him 
very decided views upon college disci- 
pline. Acting under his inspiration 
the corporation voted in March, 1827, 
that no member of the faculty 
should thereafter receive his salary 
unless he occupied a room in the 
college buildings throughout every term 
and devoted himself to the preservation 
of order among the students as well as 
to their instruction. The medical por- 
tion of the faculty, being- physicians in 
active practice, of course could not com- 
ply with such a condition, and were in 
reality compelled to withdraw from the 
faculty. The medical school was thus 
allowed to suffer sudden extinction. 
Considerable protest against this rather 
summary method was made at the time, 



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but Dr. Wayland's profound convictions 
in reg-ard to the matter soon brougrht 
over his opponents to his view. The 
medical school fell, not because of any 
hostile feeling- on the part of the presi- 
dent, but as an indirect result of his 
general policy. As Dr. Parsons said in 



regard to the change in administration: 
"In drawing the reins up so suddenly 
and turning so sharp a corner, it was 
not strange that something- should be 
jolted out, and the medical school had 
the loosest hold." 



ANOTHER BRUNONIAN CHIEF JUSTICE 



A)ii Ojv: More Bnino)iian . Issoc/afe Judge 




IN February fifteenth, the 
general assembly of Rhode 
Island met in grand com- 
mittee to elect a successor 
to the late Chief Justice 
Pardon E. Tillinghast, an honorary 
member of the class of 1890 at Brown. 
Justice William W. Douglas of Provi- 
dence, a graduate in the class of 1861, 
was chosen to fill the vacancy and C. 
Frank Parkhurst of Providence, a grad- 
uate in the class of 1876, was sub- 
sequently elected to the supreme court 
bench to fill the vacancy caused by 
Judge Douglas's promotion. 

Judge William W. Douglas was born 
in Providence, November 28, 1841, and 
was the son of Rev. William and vSarah 
Sawj^er Douglas. He received his early 
education in the public schools of the 
city and graduated from Brown Univer- 
sity in the class of 1861. He decided to 
adopt the law as his profession, entered 
the law department of Union University 
of Albany, N. Y., from which he was 
graduated in 1866, and was admitted to 
the Rhode Island bar January 1 of the 
same year. His elevation to the su- 
preme bench occurred in 1891. Judge 
Douglas received the degree of LL. D. 
from Brown University in 1902. He 
has held offices in both the city and 
state governments, having served as a 
member of the common coimcil of this 
city from 1873 to 1876, and in the gen- 
eral assembly from 1871 to 1873. He 
was division judge advocate of the 
Rhode Island militia from 1866 to 1874, 
assistant adjutant general in 1881, and 
adjutant g-eneral in 1882. He served as 
judge advocate general of the national 



encampment of the Grand Army of the 
Republic from 1871 to 1877, and was 
senior vice commander of the Masf^a?'-.u- 
setts commandery. Military Order ot the 
Loyal Legion of the U^nited States, in 
1889. His military record was achieved 
as captain of the 5th Rhode Island Ar- 
tillery Volunteers. In politics he has 
always been a Republican. 

C. Frank Parkhurst, son of William 
H. and Sarah T. Parkhurst, was born 
in Providence, September 17, 1854. He 
received his early education in the 
public schools of this city, and was 
graduated from Brown University with 
the class of 1876. He married Miss 
Estelle Louise Elliot, and two children 
are the result of that imion, Eliot G. 
and Leah F. Parkhurst. The son is a 
member of the present junior class at 
Brown, and manag-er of the university 
football team. In January, 1879, Judge 
Parkhurst was admitted to the bar, and 
he has practiced law in this city ever since . 

He is a member of the state. United 
States and supreme court bars. From 
1892 to 1896 he was a member of the 
Providence common council. A few 
years after his retirement from the 
common council he was made senator 
from Providence, and he acted in that 
capacity from 1900 to 1902. 

The connection between the Rhode 
Island supreme court and Brown Uni- 
versity has for many years been inti- 
mate, as was pointed out at some length 
in the Alumni Monthly about two 
years ago. It is doubtful if any other 
state has drawn so freely for its highest 
judges from any one college. 

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time four arc .^radiuilcs of IJrown: Cliicf 
Justice William W Dou.^ias of the class 
of 1.S61, and Associate Justices John T. 
Blodg-ett of the class of IHSO, Clarke II. 
Johnson of the class of 1S77 and C. 
Frank Parkhurst of tlic class of 1.S76. 

Ever since the >ear IS.:!? the chief 
justiceship of Rhode Island has been 
held by a Brown gTaduate, with the ex- 
ception of the few months of Jud.i^e Til- 
lins'hast's administration — and he had 
an honorary- dc.urcc fi^om the colle.u'e. 
I-'ollowin.*;- is a li-t of the chief justices: 

Hon. Samuel Ed(l\- of llie class of lh7S 
served from 1827 to 1835. 

Hon. Job Durfee of the class of 1813 served 
from 1835 to 1847, in which year he died. 

Hon Richard W. tjreeneof the cla.ss of 1812 
served from 1848 to 1854. 

Hon. Will am R. Staples of the cki'^s of 1817 
served from 1854 to 1856. 

Hon. Samuel Ames of the class of 1823 
served frf)m 1856 to 1865, in which vear he 
died. 

Hon. Charles S. Bradley of the class of 1838 
served from 1866 to 1868. 

Hon. George A. Brayton of the class of 1824 
served from 1868 to 1875 

Hon. Thomas Durfee of the class of 1815 
served frf)m 1875 to 1891. 

Hon. Charles Matleson of the class of 
1861 served from 1891 to 19()i) 

Hon. John H. Stiness of the class of 1861 
served from 1900 to 1904. 

In the course of these seventy-eight 
years a larg-e number of Brown gradu- 
ates have been members of the court. 
Levi Haile of the class of 1821 was an 
associate justice from 1835 to 1854; Al- 
fred Bosworth of the class of 1835, was 
an associate justice from 1854 to 1862; 
J. Russell Bullock of the class of 1834 
was a member of the court from 1862 to 
1865; Walter S. Burg-ess of the class of 
1831 served from 1868 to ISSl; George 
M. Carpenter of the class of 1864 was 
appointed in 1882 and served until 1885; 
Horatio Rogers of the class of 1855, 
who recently died, became a member of 
the court in 1891 and retired in 1903. 

Prior to the appointment of Samuel 
Eddy to the chief justiceship in 1827, 
graduates of the college as follows, had 
occtiiMcd places on the bench: Samuel 



Randall of the class of 1804 was an. as- 
sociate justice from 1824 to 1830; Luke 
Drury of the class of 1813 was an asso- 
ciate justice from 1S22 to 1824; Tristam 
Burges of the class of 1796 was chief 
justice from lsi7to 1S18; James Burrill 
of the class of 17«8 was chief justice 
from 1816 to 1817; and Thomas Arnold 
of the class of 1771 was chief justice 
from 1809 to 1810. 

The founders of the college were men 
of public s]:)irit, and in several instances 
of marked legal ability as well. The 
first named trustee and first chancellor 
of the cc;llegc, Hon. Stephen Hoi)kins, 
signer of the declaration of inde]:)end- 
ence, first recipient of the honorary de- 
gree of doctor of laws from the cf^llegc 
(the degree was in 1784), was chief 
justice of Rhode Island in colonial days, 
from 1751 to 1756, and again from 1770 
to 1774. The second chancellor of the 
college, Jabez Bowen, LL D. (Dart- 
mouth College, 1800), recipient of the 
honorary degree of master of arts at the 
first commencement ia 1768, w^as an as- 
sociate justice from 1776 to 1778, and 
was chief justice in 1781. David How- 
ell, the first professor in the college, 
recipient of the honorary degree of 
master of arts in 1767 (he was a grad- 
uate of the College of New Jersey in the 
class of 1766), and of the degree of 
doctor of laws in 1793, was an associate 
justice from 1781 to 1782, and again 
from 1786 to 1788; Job Bennet of the 
original board of trustees was an asso- 
ciate jitstice from 1773 to 1776. 

It should be noted that two professors 
in the college, Professor David Howell, 
LL. D., and Professor Tristatn Burges, 
LL. D., have served on the supreme 
bench. Rev. Asa Messer, D. D.,- LL. 
D., of the class of 1790, president of the 
college from 1804 to 1826, was elected 
chief justice in June, 1818, but declined 
to serve. This is probably the only in- 
stance of a doctor of divinity having 
been elected to a post of adtninistrative 
justice. 



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THE 
BROWN 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, '69, 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, 'SO, Providence 
Sam Walter Foss, '82, Somen,-ille. Mass. 
Gardner Colby, '87, New York, N. Y. 
Joseph N. Ashton, '91 Salem, Mass. 
William R. Dorman, '92, New York, N. Y. 
George A. Gaskill, '98, 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. L 

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. 

MARCH, 1905 



COMMENCEMENT DINNER 

The committee havingf in charg"e the 
arrang'ements for the next commence- 
ment dinner are doing what they can to 
improve upon the achievements of their 
predecessors. The most serious diffi- 
culty they encounter arises from the fact 
that the arrangements for serving- in 
Sayles Hall and in the gymnasium to 
crowds as large as those which attended 
the dinners in recent years are .very in- 
adequate, and the expense of service is 
consequently high. It has been sug- 
g-ested to the committee that the best 
solution of the problem is to increase the 
price of the dinner to $1.25 per plate. 
Another suggestion is to raise the price 
to $1.25 for the older classes which sit 
in Sayles Hall and to leave the price for 
classes in the gymnasium unchanged. 
The committee invite expressions 
of opinion from the alumni on the two 



propositions. Communications should 
be sent to Professor Henry B. Gardner, 
Brown University. 



DEAN EMERY'S RESIGNATION 

As we go to press the announcement 
of the resi.gnation of Miss Annie Crosby 
Emery as dean of the Women's Col- 
lege is made. Miss Emery retires be- 
cause of her approaching' marriage to 
Professor Francis G. Allinson, and 
thoug-h the college loses her valuable 
services it is pleasant to know that she 
will remain in Providence. 

Under her manag-ement, the Women's 
College has waxed strong in numbers 
and increased in efficiency. She leaves 
the institution with the g-reat g:ood will 
of her associates in the teaching force, 
and all who know her will wish her in 
her new relations the utmost prosperity 
and hapi^iness. 



]VORIx OE THE BROUN UNION 

Among the salutary influences of 
recent years at the university the Brown 
Union must be placed very near the 
front. It was instituted at a time when 
fraternity exclusiveness had worked its 
inevitable injury to the community 
spirit, and when the danger from this 
source promised to be greater because 
of the establishment of more fraternity 
houses outside the campus. Opinions 
are honestly divided as to the inerits of 
the fraternity house system and it is not 
incumbent on us, at least at this time, 
to balance its advantages and disadvan- 
tages; but it is probabh- true that within 
the next few years other societies will 
have their sei:>arate homes and that 



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means will have to be used to counteract 
the resultant dispersion of colletife 
spirit. 

Tlic P)r<)\vn Union stands for tlic re- 
actionary tendcnc>' toward a close-knit 
under.^Taduate body. Not that the fra- 
ternities love Brown any the less but 
that, when thc\- arc hrml\- established 
in tlicir own homes, they may be 
temi)ted to lo\-c themselves more. The 
Union thus offers fraternity members 
and non-fraternity men the best possi- 
ble o]:)portunit>" for meeting' on a com- 
mon ground and for the increase of a sen- 
timent of community. The officers of 
the Union are of the opinion that it has 
already done a useful work in this re- 
spect. At all hours of the day and 
evening" larg'e numbers of men inay be 
seen in its principal rooms, eng^aged in 
cheerful converse, studying" lessons, 
g'athered about the piano in the smoking" 
room, reading" current literature, play- 
ing" pool or billiards in the comfortable 
basement quarters, or otherwise follow- 
ing" their whims or pursuing" their more 
serious tasks, and all within the atmos- 
phere of comradeship and g"ood will. 

There is no undemocratic exclusive- 
ness in the Brown Union. In this cen- 
tral place every man meets his neigrhbor 
on an equal footing". In the dining" room 
there are four long- tables, each of which 
is devoted to one of the undergraduate 
classes. Members of one society eat side 
by side with members of another society 
or with "non-frat" men. There is some 
little contribution h\ this harmless 
means to class sentiment, of which it 
cannot be said that there is too much at 
Brown. Around the larger tables are 
grouped smaller ones, each for four per- 



sons, and here th?re are no fraternity 
lines, of cour.se. 

It is not unfitting" to speak in this place 
of the success of the menage at the 
Union under the present management. 
Mr. Arthur Jefferson, better known to 
an older generation of Brown men as 
"jumbo," is in charge of this depart- 
nient (jf the organization's work audit 
is conceded that he has made a great 
improvement over last year, when the 
restaurant privilege was in other hands. 
Between fifty and sixty men are served 
by the week in the dining room, and in 
the adjoining" lunch room, w'here there is 
merely a refreshment counter, about 130 
meals a day are sold. Graduates as 
well as undergraduates are frequently 
seen in the dining room and a number of 
professors ordinarily lunch there. 

Reference has already been made in 
these pages to the reproductions of 
works of art that adorn the walls of the 
Union. Under the intelligent direction 
of Mr. Theodore F. Green, '87, a fine 
collection of photogravure editions of 
famous ])ictures has been hung in the 
various rooms, and the result is that the 
student is surrounded with an influence 
of unmistakable artistic force. It is 
much for a young man in his most im- 
pressionable years to see about him froi"n 
day to day the masterpieces of Michel- 
angelo, Rembrandt, Constable, and the 
other geniuses of every recorded age of 
art. 

The number of members of the Union 
is a little under a thousand, owing to the 
crossing off the list of many names of 
men who entered at the beginning" with 
no fixed intention of retaining their mem- 
bership permanently. 



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TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



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RS. Harriet M. Littlefield, 
widow of the Hon. Georg-e 
L. Littlefield, at one time 
a prominent manufacturer 
of Pawtucket, died recently 
at her residence in that city. Through 
her death Brown comes into possession 
of nearly the whole of the estate of her 
late husband, the value of which is not 
far from $500,000. Of this amount 
$100,000 must, by the terms of Mr. 
Littlefield's will, be invested as a per- 
manent trust fund for the maintenance 
of a professorship at the university to 
be known as the George L. Littlefield 
professorship of American history. 
The income from this sum may be used 
to pay the salary of the professor, and 
for other purposes in the interest of the 
department. The remainder of the be- 
quest is for the g-eneral uses of the uni- 
versity as an educational institution to be 
held and expended in such ways as its 
government for the time being shall 
think best. Such unconditional gifts 
to the university are always especially 
valuable, as they can be used in what- 
ever w^ay the corporation considers most 
advantag-eous to the institution. Gifts 
for specific purposes, while gfladly re- 
ceived, frecpiently are a source of em- 
barrassment to the university on account 
of the additional expense which they 
enforce upon it. ^Ir. Littlefield died 
in March, 1902, and an account of his 
life will be found in the Monthly of 
April of that year. 



othjiR gifts Anion li' minor gifts to 
TO BROWN g^^^^,^ within recent 

months, two or three deserve special 
mention. Mr. Stephen Jencks has pre- 
sented to the Mechanical Engineering- 
Laboratory a six-inch fire pimip, which 
will serve as brake for the engine, and 
also give water for the course in hydraul- 
ics. The pump makes a vahuible addi- 
tion to the equipment of the laboratory. 
The Builders Iron Foundry of this city 
has also presented to the laboratory a 
steam meter of a new^ type, and of great 



value for experimental as well as prac- 
tical purposes. The donors will install 
the meter at their own expense, and it 
will soon be in use by the students. 

The department of coinparative anat- 
omy has come into possession of a pro- 
jecting machine valued at over $500, 
through the generosity of physicians of 
Providence and other cities interested 
in the work of the department. The 
ai^paratus is the only one of its kind now 
set up in America; the only other one 
in the world having been on view at the 
vSt. Louis World's Fair. By means of 
this machine, which is to be used for the 
daily work of the comparative anatomy 
class, all kinds of objects may be en- 
larged and thrown u]Don a regulation 
lantern screen exhibiting color, texture 
and motion. Minute microscopical ob- 
jects are thrown up to any size required, 
by the simple operation of shifting the 
interior projecting lens. Transparent 
objects, such as lantern slides, can be 
used as well as illustrations in books. 
So, too, dissected specimens and moving' 
objects, .such as swimming fish in glass 
ta-nks, may all be viewed with particular 
accuracy as regards life-likeness and 
color. 



GYMNASIUM L has been definitely de 

FOR WOMEN'S cided that the lot of land 
COLLEGE recently purchased on 

Gushing street and adjoining the Wo- 
men's College is to become the site of a 
gymnasium for the students of that im- 
portant branch of Brown University. 
The property, which was purchased by 
the Rhode Island Society for the Col- 
leg-iate Education of Women, is in all 
ways adequate for the erection of a large 
gymnasium, as it contains about 7,000 
square feet of land. 

The erection of the new gymnasium 
is made possible by a subscription from 
Frank A. Sayles, '90, of Pawtucket, to 
the amount of $50,000 to the university. 
The amount was received as i3art of the 
million dollar endowment fund com- 
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the condition that the use to which it 
was to be devoted should be determined 
hiter, and should b2 subject to the a])- 
proval of Mr. vSayles and the i:)resident 
of the university. When this lar.^-e do- 
naticjn was made known, friends of the 
Women's Colleg-e requested that the 
fund be used for the construction and 
equipment of a g"ymna§ium for that in- 
stitution. The request met with favor 
at the hands of Air. Sayles and it was 
recently decided by him with the ap- 
proval of President Faunce that the $50,- 
000 should be used in that way. 

Mr. Sayles 's gift will enable the Wo- 
men's Colleo-e to 8'ive its students facil- 
ities for physical training- equalled 
among colleges for women by those of 
Harvard and Mount Holyokeonly. The 
erection of the gymnasium will supply a 
g-reat need in the college work. 

Stephen O. Edwards, '79, who as 
counsel for Air. Sayles, and trustee of 
Brown University, made public the 
l^roposed erection of the new gymnasium 
a few days ago, says that a committee 
will at once be chosen by the execuitve 
committee of the university corporation 
to decide definitely concerning plans for 
construction and architects. He also 
says that the plans for the erection of 
the gymnasium will be pushed as rapidly 
as possible. 

Dean Emery announced the appro- 
l^riation of the gift to the students in 
chapel, on February 2Z. The enthu- 
siastic applause which greeted the an- 
nouncement gave evidence of the appre- 
ciation of the student bod v. 



year to have tlie alumni well represented 
at the annual Brown banquet, to be held 
on April 15, the date of the Brown- 
Princeton baseball game. 



MIDWINTER y^^ ^ meeting of the class 

BANQUET ^ . ^ ^, 1 

secretaries of the alumni, 
held on February 20, it was decided not 
to have a midwinter alumni dinner in 
Providence this year, and March, 1906, 
was set as the date for the next banquet. 
The reason given for the omission of the 
dinner this year was that because of 
the lateness of the month no adequate 
arrangements could be made. While 
the decision will undoubtedly cause 
considerable disappointment among lo- 
cal alumni, it must be remembered that 
it was the original plan to hold the ban- 
quets every other year, and the present 
action is mereh' a return to the original 
plan. A special effort will be made this 



NEW DISTINCTION .^^ ^^1^ annual meet- 

DSAN BARus ^"•^' *^^ ^^^ American 

Physical Society, held 
during the Christmas vacation. Professor 
Carl Barus, Ph. D., dean of the grad- 
uate department at Brown, was elected 
president of the society for the ensuing- 
year. The election is one of the highest 
professional honors to be obtained in 
this country by a student in physical 
science. Professor Barus, it will be re- 
membered, has been selected for dis- 
tinguished honor before, having'- been 
awarded in 1900 the Rumford medal for 
discoveries in light and heat. 



;JJ^^J°^ Junior week will be celebrated 
this year on the 24th, 25th and 
26th of April. The chief innovations 
in the program are the track meet with 
Tufts on Monday afternoon and the 
reading- by Air. Copeland on Alonday 
evening. It is understood that Air. 
Copeland will read from either Shakes- 
peare or Kipling-. The full progrram for 
the week is as follows: 

Alonday, April 24. Track meet with 
Tufts (afternoon.) 

Pi Kappa farce (afternoon.) 
Fraternity teas (5-6.30 p. m.) 
Readingf by Air. Copeland (evening.) 
Tuesday, April 25. Sock and Buskin 
in "Charley's Aunt," (afternoon.) 
Alusical clubs (evening.) 
Informal dance in gymnasium after 
musical club concert. 

Wednesday, April 26. Baseball game. 
Brown- Williams (afternoon.) 
Junior promenade (evening.) 



f,^.?,^.^l^°^ T- Irving Alanatt, professor 

MAN^TT ". ^ 'f 

ABROAD '^'^ Greek lite rature and 

history, sailed for Europe 
early in January. Professor Alanatt will 
spend eight or nine months in Greece, 
where he intends making investigat o 
in Greek archaeolog-v. 



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R. A. Tukey has been appointed in- 
structor in the Greek department and 
will take chargfe of some of Professor 
Manatt's work. Mr. Tukey is a grad- 
uate of Bates Colleg-e and took his A. M. 
at Harvard. Since then he has been 
studying- and teaching at Yale Univer- 
sity. 



5^ll';n^3l°'!x?.l, , Ahhouo-h the Board 

PRESIDENT ANGELL r ti . r ^i 

or Regents of the 
University of Michig'an refused to accept 
the resignation of President Angell, the 
fact that he offered to retire from the 
position he has filled so long and so ably 
deserves at least passing- notice. He 
may well feel that he has earned the 
right to a few years of rest after more 
than a half century of active service. 
It was 53 years ag'o that President Angell 
begfan his academic career as professor 
of modern languages at Brown, and for 
nearly forty years he has occupied the 
chair of university president. But a de- 
sire for rest is not the cause of his recent 
action. To quote his letter of resigna- 
tion directly: "Although I have been 
g-raciously favored with health and 
strength , I am impressed with the belief 
that it would be to the advantage of the 
University of Michigan if you were to 
call a young-er man to the position I now 
occupy." The board of regents did 
not take the same view of the matter, 
and voted not to accept the resig-nation, 
but if necessary to employ an assistant 
for President Angell. The educational 
world will certainly applaud the action 
of the board of rei^ents. 



Rpni/J'^^ ^ The appearance of a new 

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monthly magazine, called 
Bothsides, which proposes to make a 
special feature of debating news from 
all the principal colleges, is a welcome 
indication of the g-rowing- interest in 
debating- among college students. The 
first number of the magazine contains 
briefs of both sides of the recent Brown- 
Dartmouth debate, and of the debate 
between Chicago and Minnesota. At 
Brown the increase in the interest taken 
n debating- is shown in various ways, 
but perhaps in no way more noticeably 
n in the organization of a freshman 



.debating society. Experience has 

shown that it is increasingly difficult to 
retain the interest of students in class 
debating societies as the class advances 
in its course. But if only the freshman 
and sophomore classes keep up such 
societies it ought to result in a great im- 
provement in the character of the annual 
freshman-sophomore debate, and in 
bringing- out good men for the contests 
with Dartinouth and Johns Hopkins. 
This year there is a prospect of a debate 
between the Dartmouth freshmen and 
the Brown freshmen, the Brown fresh- 
men debating team having received and 
accepted a challenge from the Dart- 
mouth freshman team. It is somewhat 
with a view to the preparation for this 
debate that the freshmen debating so- 
ciety has been organized. Those who 
believe that the athletic side of student 
activity is being somewhat overdone may 
see in the present widespread growth of 
interest in debating- the first indication 
of the inevitable reaction towards more 
intellectual forms of activity. 



COLLEGE Yt IS mterestmo- to com- 

ENROLLMENT ^-, ^i, ^ . 

pare the enrollment of 
students at Brown with that of the lead- 
ing universities in the country in point 
of size. The total reg'istration at Brown 
for the current year as given in the cat- 
alogue is 988. The enrollment of the 
fifteen American universities having the 
largest attendance is as follows: 

Harvard, 6,013 

Columbia, 4,557 

Chicago, 4,147 

Northwestern, 4,007 

Michigan, 3,726 

California, 3,690 

Illinois, 3,661 

Minnesota, 3,550 

Cornell, 3,438 

Wisconsin, 3,221 

Yale, 2,990 

Pennsylvania, 2,664 

Syracuse 2,207 

Princeton, 1,383 

Leland Stanford, Jr 1,370 

It must be borne in mind that nearly 
all of these larger institutions include a 
considerable number of professional 
schools, where students are included in 
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A comparison of minibers in llic inirely 
academic courses would be much more 
favorable to Brown. 

CLASS OF .\^j- ,^ nieetin.u' recentl\- held in 
REUNION ^^''^ office of Edward C. 
Stiness, '90, at Providence, 
plans for the fifteenth anniversary meet - 
in.s^- of the class of Ninety were formu- 
lated. H. R. Palmer and E. C Stiness 
were appointed a committee on class 
history; Cx. H. Webb, F. M. Rhodes 
and E^. C. Frost, a committee on dinner 
and entertainment; J.Q. Dealey, a com- 
mittee on corres])ondenee; and A. S. 
Johnson a committee on photogTaphs. 
All members of the class are requested 
to co-operate with these committees in 
making" the reunion at commencement 
time a thorough success. 



bSJwn university ^^ f f rtainly not 
CLUB IN NEW YORK <'"t ot placc tor the 
^Monthly to call 
attention to the advantag'es which the 
Brown University Club in New York 
offers to graduates and former students of 
Brown living- outside the metropolis, but 
having- occasion to visit the city more or 
less frequently . The quartei s of the club 
are in the Mansfield apartments, No. \1 
West 44th street, within easy walking" 
distance of the 42nd street station. On 
the files in the main club room are ,to 
be found current Brown publications and 
other literature. The club thus furnishes 
a convenient and comfortable place in 
which to spend the leisure time before 
the train leaves. Morever in the late 
afternoon and in the evening" one is sure 
to find a number of other Brown men 
at the club, and there have an opportu- 



nity of renewing" c^ld acciuaintances or 
forming" new fmes. The dining-room 
service is excellent, dinner costing 75 
cents and luncheon 60 cents. A suite 
of two rooms and bath may be had for 
f^l a day. The initiation fee is $5; 
the annual dues for non-residents are 
only $5. Any person wh(j has ever been 
connected with Brown, whether as 
officer, instructor or student, and who 
resides at a distance of forty miles from 
New York is eligible for non-resident 
membership. A full description of the 
club rooms with illustrations will be 
found in the Monthly of December, 
1903. 



nrRfr^HAlnsoN ^ ^" ^^^ afternoon of 

DR. RICHARDSON t^ i 

rebruary 11, Dr. 
Rufus B. Richardson, late director of 
the Classical School at Athens, gave an 
interesting- talk on Greece before the 
Harkness Classical Society. Dr. Rich- 
ardson has spent many years in Greece, 
having" had charge of a number of im- 
portant archaeological excavations and 
having visited every section of the 
country, and is thoroughly familiar with 
the land and its people. In his talk be- 
fore the Classical Society, after explain- 
ing" in a general way the topographical 
features of Greece, he described at 
considerable length a number of the 
most famous localities of the country, 
such as ]\Iarathon, Olympia and Delphi. 
He then turned from the country to its 
inhabitants, and spoke of the effect upon 
the people of the long: subjection of the 
Greeks to other nations, especially Tur- 
key. He closed with a short but inter- 
esting- account of the political, economic 
and social conditions of Greece at the 
present time. 



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OBITUARIES 



News of the death of Darius Ford, '52, at 
Elmira, N. Y., and of George Stephen Good- 
speed, Ph D., professor of comparative re- 
ligion and ancient history in Chicago Univer- 
sity, at Chicago, was received too late for an 
adequate notice in the present number of the 
Monthly. An account of their lives will ap- 
pear in the next issue. 

WILLIAM CLAFLIN, 1837 

Hon William Claflin, LL. D., died at his 
home, the ''Old Elms," in Newtonville, Mass- 
achusetts. Thursday, January 5, 1905. He 
had been in poor health for some time and 
had suffered from a complication of troubles 
which, together with his advanced years, had 
gradually undermined his strong constitution. 

William Claflin was born in Milford, Mass- 
achusetts, March 6, 1818, and was thus at the 
time of his death nearly 87 years old. He was 
the son of Hon. Lee and Sally (Adams) Claf- 
lin. He fitted for college at Milford Academy 
and entered Brown in 1833. Before the end 
of his freshman year, on account of the death 
of his mother, and his own delicate health, he 
went into the shop of his father, who 
was one of the pioneer shoe manufacturers of 
Massachusetts, and in 1837 set up in business 
for himself in a small .shop in Ashland, Mass- 
achusetts. As his health continued poor it 
was thought that a change of climate would 
be beneficial, and his father sent him to St. 
Louis, where he soon after established a large 
business on his own account. For many years 
his firm was looked upon as one of the strong- 
est and most trustworthy in the city. While 
in Missouri, Mr Claflin was a member of the 
Free Soil party, and during the Kan.sas 
troubles his St. Louis manufactory was sev- 
eral times threatened with destruction by 
mobs He created a good deal of stir in the 
community on one occasion by buying with 
his partner a family of slaves, consisting of a 
father, mother and one child, and at once 
giving them their freedom. 

In the late '40s Mr. Claflin came East to 
live, leaving his St. Louis business in the 
hands of his partners, and settled in Hopkin- 
ton, Massachusetts He at once began to ex- 
tend his business throughout the country, and 
developed large factories at Milford and Hop- 
kinton. He .soon established a reputation as 
one of the most trustworthy and most success- 
ful business men of the country. 

Mr. Claflin's strong sympathy for the cause 
of the .slaves brought him into prominence in 
Massachusetts, and in 1849 Hopkinton sent 
him to the state house of representatives on 
the freee-soil issue. He held this position un- 
til 1853. He was state senator in 1860 and 1861, 
being president of the senate the latter year. 
He was lieutenant-governor of Ma.ssachusetts 
from 1865 to 1868, and governor from 1869 to 
1871. In 1876 he was elected to congress and 
sat in the hf)use of representatives from 1877 



to 1881. He was always prominent in the coun- 
cils of the Republican party. He was a mem- 
ber of the Republican national committee for 
twelve years, and chairman of the committee 
from 1868 to 1872. As a delegate from Ma.ss- 
achusetts to the national Republican conven- 
tion in Chicago in 1860, he helped to nominate 
Lincoln for the presidency. He was sent as a 
delegate also to the conventions of 1864, 1868 
and 1872, being chairman of the convention of 
1868, which nominated Grant for the first 
time. 

Mr. Claflin occupied many positions of honor 
and trust during his long life. He had been 
president of the board of trustees of Brown 
Universit}', and was for many years from its 
foundation a trustee of Wellcsley College. 
He was president of the Theological Library, 
president of the New England Historic-Gene- 
alogical Society, president of the Massachusetts 
Club, one of the founders and for many years 
president of the Hide and Leather National 
Bank, and president of the New England Shoe 
and Leather Association. He received the 
degree of LL. D from Wesleyan in 1868 and 
from Harvard in 1869. 

In 1841 Mr. Claflin married ]\Iiss Harding of 
Milford, who died in 1842. In 18-15 he married 
Miss Davenport of Hopkinton, who died about 
eight years ago. Three children survive him, 
Arthur Bucklin and Adams Davenport Claflin, 
and Mrs. Charles W. Ellis. 

Mr. Claflin was an example of the best pro- 
duct of New England civilization of the last 
century. He was a man of great energy and 
decision of character, of absolute integrity, of 
unerring good judgment, of cultured tastes, 
of wide sympathies, of broad philanthrophy. 
He enjoyed the friendshsp and esteem of the 
rqost distinguished men of his time, many of 
whom he entertained at his beautiful historic 
home in Newtonville, once the property of 
Governor Bradstreet. 

SETH M.\NN, 2nd, 1839 

Seth Mann, 2nd, died Saturday, January 
28, 1905, in Randolph, Massachusetts, in the 
house in which he was born and had always 
lived. He was born February 28, 1817, and 
was thus nearly 88 years old. He prepared 
foT college at Pierce Academy, Middleboro, 
Ma.ssachusetts, and was graduated from 
Brown with the class of 1839. Three years 
later he received the master's degree from 
his Alma Mater. After graduation he joined 
his father and brother in a manufacturing en- 
terprise. His chief interest, however, was in 
the law, and he devoted himself chiefly to 
the settling of estates and to giving legal ad- 
vice. Though never admitted to the bar, he 
acquired an enviable reputation in his native 
town for the soundness and shrewdness of his 
legal opinions. He was a justice of the peace 
from 1855 until his death, a period of fifty 
vears. He was also selectman for twelve 
years, a member of the school committee for 



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neiui\' iis lonj;;i jjcriod, county commissioner 
for four years, and a representative to the 
general court of Massachusetts in 1861, 1S76 
and 1S77 From 1862 to 1875 he was a collec- 
tor of internal revenue for the district in 
which he lived. 

Mr. Mann was married in 1839 to Miss 
Eliza A. Cole of Braintree, Massachusetts. 
Mrs. Mann died in 1901, after more than 
sixty years of wedded life, and of several chil- 
dren who were born to her only one, Miss A. 
Klizabeth Mann, survives him. 

Mr. Mann was for 53 years a loyal and 
useful member of the First Baptist Church of 
Randoli)h, servinj;- for many years as clerk, 
trustee and treasurer. He enjoyed to an ex- 
ceptional degree the affection and confidence 
of those who knew him, and his long life was 
filled with acts of helpful kindliness to his 
friends and neighbors. 

nathaxii:l c. peckham, 1854 

.Nathaniel C. Peckham died suddenly at 
South Kingstown, R 1., January 11, 1905. 
He was apparently in his usual health during 
the day, and in the afternoon drove to visit 
his daughter in Wakefield. While unharness- 
ing the horse after his return in the evening, 
he suddenly fell backward, and died almost 
immediately, from a shock of apoplexy. 

Nathaniel C Peckham was a .son of Na- 
thaniel C. Peckham, whose homestead estate 
was near Kingston Hill The family was al- 
ways prominent in the affairs of the town, and 
at the time of his death Mr. Peckham was a 
factor in the conduct of the town's financial 
matters. He made the law his ^^rofesiion in 
early life, being a member of the New York 
and Rhode Island bars, but, preferring a coun- 
try life, a number of years ago he relinquished 
active practice and purchased an estate at Nar- 
ragansett, which was then a part of South 
Kingstown. Subsequently he sold this place 
and purchased his recent home near Tower 
Hill, where he had since resided. 

The deceased served in the legislature from 
his native town in the early 70s, had been a 
member of the town council and board of as- 
sessors, was much interested in school affairs, 
and always took an active part at the financial 
town meetings Mr. Peckham was also one of 
the commissioners appointed to lay out the 
dividing line between his town and Narragan- 
sett when the latter was set off from the for- 
mer. 

He leaves a widow, two children, a son, 
Samuel Peckham, and a daughter, Mrs. R. H. 
KnSwles, and a number of grandchildren, 
three of whom were children of a daughter 
now dead, who resided with him. 

URIAH WILLIAM LAWTON, 1856 

Uriah W. Lawton died at Jackson, Mich- 
igan, early in the morning of January 30. He 
was born at Westport, Massachusetts, April 
27, 1831. His parents were of Quaker descent, 
and his ancestors were among the earliest set- 
tlers in Massachusetts. 

Professor Lawton prepared for college at 
the University Grammar School, and grad- 
uated from Brown in 1856 with the degree of 



A. M. After leaving college he began to 
teach in Dexter, Michigan, at that time one of 
the important towns in the southern part of 
the state. In 1857 he became superintendent 
of schools at Tecum.seh, and in that position 
he remained 'iwii years. In 1862 he took charge 
of the scho(>]s at Ann Arbor. He found the 
.schools in a dist^rganized condition owing to 
the war, but he soon had them in a prosperous 
state. 

After five years at Ann Arbor, Professor 
Lawton spent a year teaching in the East, and 
visiting schools. In 1868 he returned to 
Michigan, and became superintendent of 
schools in Jackson, where he remained for 
fifteen years, and where he continued to reside 
until his death except for a short residence at 
Beloit, Wisconsin, about 1884. Profe.ssor 

Lawton's vvork, both as sui)erintendent and 
as teacher, was of high order. The Attn 
.Irbor Argus says of him that he had the rec- 
ord of being a fine disci])linarian, and pos- 
sessed a faculty of imjiarting knowledge, which, 
sup]ilemented by a large experience, tilaced 
him in the front rank on instruction." He 
alwa\ s took great interest in astronomy, and 
had an observatory at his house. President 
Angell, '49, says of him that he "was a solid 
man, of strong character and good scholar- 
ship." 

Professor Lawton married Miss A. Augusta 
King at East Taunton, Massachusetts, and 
leaves one daughter, Frances A. Lawton. 
His son, Ge.orge, who was a promising astron- 
omer at the Naval Observatory at Washington, 
died of typhoid fever. His father never fully 
recovered from the blow 

LVMAX PARTRIDGE, 1863 

Rev. Lyman Partridge died at his home in 
Westwood, Massachu-setts, February 12, 1905. 
He was theson of Elisha and Maria (Paine) 
Partridge, and was born in West Medwav, 
August 23, 1836. He studied at Pierce Acad- 
emy, Leicester Academy and the Westfield 
normal school, and was graduated from Brown 
in 1863. He was graduated from Newton 
Theological Institution in 1866, and in the 
same year was ordained as pastor of the 
Wales (Mass. ) Baptist Church. During his 
nearly forty years of service as a Baptist 
clergvman he preached in the following 
places: Wales, Mass., 1866-69; Wakefield, R. 
I., 1870-72; Sharon. Mass., 1872-82; Roslindale, 
Mass., 1882; Westminster, Mass., 1883-92; 
Westwood, formerly West Dedham, Mass., 
1892 until his death. He was a man of varied 
intellectual interests and was always promi- 
nent in the community in which he lived. At 
the time of his death he was a trustee of the 
Westwood public library, and a member of the 
Dedham historical society. He was the author 
of a considerable number of occasional ad- 
dresses and historical papers His widow and 
one son. Dr. H. J. Partridge, Brown, '92, 
survive him. 

BENJAMIN CH.\SE DEAN, 1864 

Benjamin Chase Dean died in Boston on 
January 26, after an illness lasting about a 
year. Mr. Dean was born in Lowell in 1842. 
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High School, and graduated from Brown in 
1864. In 1867 he received the degree of A. M. 
from his aluia mater. 

In 1866 Mr. Dean became assistant clerk of 
the Massachusetts senate. In 1874 he was 
appointed private secretary to Governor Tal- 
bot, and also assistant inspector general of 
Massachusetts In 1875 he was deputy insur- 
ance commissioner of the state. In 1876 he 
became president of the common council of 
Lowell, and in the same year he was appointed 
superintendent of the Manchester Print 
Works, a position which he iilled for fifteen 
years. During nearly all of the time he lived 
in Manchester, New Hampshire, and became 
prominent in the business life of the state. 
He was president of the Opera House Com- 
pany of Manchester and director of the Amos- 
keag Insurance Co. He was also a member 
of the school board of Manchester for ten or 
twelve years. 

In 1891 Mr. Dean returned to Massachusetts 
and the last years of his life he spent in Brook- 
line. At the time of his death he was treasurer 
of the Kewernaw Association, and a director of 
the New England Telegraph and Telephone 
Co., the First National Bank, and the Tremont 
and Suffolk Mills of Lowell. From 1899 to 
1903 inclusive he had a seat in the Massachu- 
setts lower house, representing the town of 
Brookline. In all the positions which he occu- 
pied, whether public or private, he enjoyed 
the confidence and respect of his business and 
oflicial associates. He always retained his in- 
terest in the welfare of his aluia iiiafei\ and 
was a prominent and active member of the 
Boston Alumni Association. 

Mr. Dean was married in 1870 to Emilie 
Steere Evans. He leaves three children, 
Dudley Stuart Dean, James Dean, and Mrs. 
Ethel (Dean) Montgomerv. 

CYRUS BENEDICT PECKHAM, 1866 

Reverend Cyrus Benedict Peckham died of 
paralysis at his home in Hallowell, Maine, on 
October 14, 1904, after an illness of about six 
months. Mr. Peckham was born in Middle- 
town, Rhode Island, March 20, 1833 He was 
fitted for college at New Hampton, New 
Hampshire. In 1866 he was graduated from 
Brown with the degree of A. M. After grad- 
uation he studied theology at New Hampton, 
and began to preach in 1869, having his first 
pastorate at West Derby, Vermont He then 
had churches successively at South Parsons- 
field, Hallowell and Gardiner, Maine, and, 
after evangelistic work for three years, again at 
Limerick and Mechanic Falls, Maine. 

In 1881 Mr. Peckham, now 47 years old, 
entered the Bowdoin Medical School, where 
he spent three years and acquired 
a medical degree. In 1884 he took up active 
missionary work in Boston and New York, 
but in 1887, owing to his imperfect health, he 
returned to his former home in Hallowell, 
Maine. He retained his interest in evangel- 
istic work, and gave such assistance to the 
cause as his weakened condition would allow. 

Mr. Peckham was married three times: 
in 1860 to Miss Waity Steere; in 1867 to Miss 
N. Jennie Smith; and in 1878 to Miss A. E. 
Burnett. His last wife and four children sur- 



vive him. A grandson. Earl Winifred Peck- 
ham, is now a student at Brown, a member of 
the class of 1908. 

JOHN MARTIN BRENNAN, 1875 

General John M. Brennan died in Provi- 
dence, February 19, 1905, after an illness of 
nine months. He was born in Providence, 
July 17, 1852. He received his education in 
the public schools of Providence and attended 
Brown University for one year. He then en- 
tered the law office of Hon. Charles E. Gor- 
man, where he remained three years, being 
admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1875 
After that he began the practice of his profes- 
sion, and in this he continued up to the time 
of his final illness, succeeding to an extent 
that gained for him the respect of the bar and 
the public, and earned for him the reputation 
of being one of the most brilliant advocates at 
the Rhode Island bar. 

Gen. Brennan took an active part in local 
politics, and in 1877, shortly after his admis- 
sion to the bar, was elected to the common 
council. He served three terms in that body 
and a few years later, in 1883, became a mem- 
ber of the board of aldermen. He served 
there until 1888, in which year he was ap- 
pointed judge advocate general of the Rhode 
Island militia by Governor Davis, then the 
chief executive of the state. In 1888 and 1889 
he was a member of the house of representa- 
tives from this city, and during both years 
held the important position of chairman of the 
house committee on judiciary. 

In 1878 Gen. Brennan married Miss Edith 
O'Keefe of Worcester, who, with a son and 
daughter, survives him. The surviving chil- 
dren are Miss Mollie Brennan and Horace, at 
present a student in Amherst College. 

EDGAR WILSON REMINGTON, 1885. 

Dr. Edgar W. Remington died at his home 
in Providence on January 14, from troubles 
attendant upon an abscess in the ear. He 
was born at Riverpoint, Rhode Island, August 
27, 1861, the son of Horatio A. and Martha 
(Knight)Remington. He prepared forcollege 
at the Mowry and Goff school, and was grad- 
uated from Brown with the class of 1885. He 
then entered Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege, New York, and received the degree of 
M. D. from that institution in 1888. He came 
directly to Providence, and rapidly built up a 
large jjractice He was known as a skillful 
surgeon, as well as a physician of high stand- 
ing. 

For ten years Dr Remington was physician 
for the Providence Dispensary in wards 4,5 and 
6. He was a member of the Rhode Island 
Medical Society and the Providence Medical 
.Society, and also medical examiner for the 
Order of Pilgrim Fathers. 

He was also deeply interested in homing 
pigeons and was secretary of the local associa- 
tion which is affiliated with the national asso- 
ciation. He was the owner of "Richard," the 
famous winner of the long-distance compet- 
itive flies for distances from one to six hun- 
dred miles, excepting 300 miles, and had a 
very hand.some silver cup at his home, the 
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Dr. Reniinylon was married in 1.S.S8 to Miss 
Dilla Ralph of Phenix, Rhode Island, who, 
with a son, Edgar D. Remington, survives 
him. 

LOUIS VICTOR C.\MI'BELL WINTIiR, 1895 

Louis V. C. Winter died of locomotor ataxia 
at Mentone, California, February 17, 1905. 
Mr. Winter was born on Staten Island, July 
17, lS7v\ the son of William and Elizabeth C. 
Winter. He prepared for college at the 
Staten Island Academy, and was graduated 
from Hrown in 1S95 with the degree of Ph. B. 
After graduation he was for a time a reixirter 
on the staff of the AVri- York Tribune, and 
afterwards private secretary to Major J. H. 
Pond. Nearly six years ago he was compelled 
to give up work on account of ill health. In 
1898 he married Miss Eva Ander.son, by 
whom he had two children. 

FRANK H. CROKKR, 1901 

Frank H. Croker, for one year a member of 
the cla.ss of 1901, died at Ormond, Florida, 
January 25, from the eft'ect of injuries received 
the i^revious day in an automobile accident. 
While riding along the beach at a high rate of 
speed he collided with a motor cycle and was 
thrown violentl}- to the ground. The mechan- 
ical expert who was riding with him was in- 
stantly killed, and he himself had at least 
seven bones broken besides receiving a num- 
ber of serious flesh wounds. It is supposed 



that death was due to the terrible nervous 
shock. 

Mr. Croker was born in New York City in 
1878, the second son of Richard Croker, 
the Tammany chieftain. He prepared for 
college in New York City, and entered Brown 
with the class of 1901, leaving, however, at 
the end of his freshman year. While in col- 
lege he became very popular, both on account 
of his athletic ability and because of his attrac- 
tive ])ersonal character. After leaving Bnnvn 
he divided his time between the bu.siness en- 
terprises in which he became interested and 
various forms of sport. He was secretary and 
director of the Roebling Construction Co., and 
a director of the Atlantic Coast Realty Co., 
and of the Casualty Company of America. In 
sports he was especially interested in racing 
automobiles and motor boats, and in the 
breeding of bull terriers, of which he had 
some extremely valuable specimens. His 
motor boat XPDNC is one of the swiftest in 
American waters. 

Mr. Croker was unmarried. He had gone 
to Florida in company with his mother and 
sister, but had left them at Jacksonville while 
he went on to Ormond to jirepare for the com- 
ing races. His death was so sudden that his 
relatives were unable to reach him while he 
was still alive. 

Mr. Croker left a fortune estimated at 5400,- 
000, although he was only in his 28th year. 
While at Brown he played first base on the 
university nine and was a member of Psi 
Upsllon. 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



Hems of iiifonnaiioii about former students of 
Broreii, xehcther alumtii or non-graduates, a /// 
be gladly received by the editors of the Monthly. 
Those zeho ev.joy reading about their former 
college friends may be sure that their friends 
icilt be equally glad to hear front them. Ad- 
dress communications for this department to 
Dr. Allan H. U'illettf Brown University. To 
insure insertion in any paiticular number of 
the Monthly they must be in the hands of the 
editor by the 20fh of the preceding month. 



Information concerning the alumni in the 
following list is desired by the keeper of grad- 
uate records for use in the new edition of the 
historical catalogue: 

Rev. Frederick Olney Barstow, 1852. 

Thomas Francis Richardson, 1852. 

Henry Wentworth Johnson, 1854. 

Samuel Leonard Crocker, 1856. 

Rev. Samuel Hartwell Pratt, 1863. 

William Tallman Richmond, 1869. 

Gilbert Noxon Campbell, 1871. 

Alfred Nelson Fairbank, 1878. 

Joel Mann Spencer, 1879 



Benjamin Willev Lightburn, 1884. 
Joseph Taylor, 1898^ 

1881 

Alfred H. Hood, Esq., is paying a visit to 
California. The class of '81 is well represent^ d 
in that state, four of its members, William C. 
Baker, Samuel L. Irons John Murray Marshall, 
and C. W. Pendleton, being located there. 
I\Ir. Hood hopes to meet "the boys" before 
his return. 

1888 

James Floyd Denison is instructor in the 
State Preparatory School at Boulder, Colorado. 

The editor of the Monthly acknowledges 
the receipt of a four page religious weekly 
called Bethany, of exceptional interest and 
merit. The editor and publisher is Rev. 
Henry W. Pinkham. 

Frederic Earle Whitaker, Ph. D., is the 
author of an article on "Greek Law," which 
appeared in the February number of the 
Green Bag. 

1892 

James C. Collins, Jr., has been appointed 
assistant attornev general of Rhode Island bv 



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THE BRO \VN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



the recently elected attorney general, William 
B Greenough. Mr. Collins has for a number 
of years been counsel for the prosecuting 
officer of the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. 

1893 
The copies of the '93 publication, "Book of 
Pictures, with Some Letters From and Papers 
Concerning the Class of 1893," were distrib- 
uted to those present at the annual midwinter 
supper, held this year at the Hope Club on 
Benevolent street, on the evening of Monday, 
February 20. Absentees received their copies 
later "by mail. 

Born on January 17 to Mr. -nd Mrs. John 
J Fitzgerald, a daughter. 

Charles A. Powers has returned from Cali- 
fornia and started upon a second journey to 
that state. Address as before— Nordhoff, 
California. 

A. B. Chace, Jr. and E. H. Weeks early 
in January opened an office on the seventh 
floor of the Industrial Trust Building, Provi- 
dence, where they welcome all investors in 
good stocks and bonds. 

Charles H McLane has assumed charge of 
a parish at Tuolumne, in the Protestant Epis- 
copal diocese of California. 
1896 

Champlin Burrage has recently brought out 
the work on "The Church Covenant Idea," 
on which he has been engaged for some time. 
1897 

Dr E. C Tyzzer has returned from Manila, 
P. I., where he has been, in the interests of 
Harvard Medical School, experimenting with 
certain diseases whose nature is not yet thor- 
oughly understood. He has collected much 
valuable material, upon which he estimates a 
year's work will be necessary before definite 
results can be published. 

Miss Mabel L. Potter holds the position of 
sanitary inspector at the Women's Education- 
al and industrial Union, 264 Boylston street, 
Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts. 

The engagement is announced of Miss Ruth 
Story Devereaux '97, and W. H. Eddy, '92 
principal of the Vineyard Street Grammar 
School, Providence. 

Frank P. Sackett, paymaster on board the 
United States cruiser Boston, who was for some 
time seriously ill with yellow fever, has re- 
covered from the attack, and is now on a visit 
to his father General F. M. Sackett in Prov- 
idence. 

1898 

Walter D. DeVault is studying law at Har- 
vard. Address, 44 Perkins Hall'^ Cambridge, 
Massachusetts. 

1899 and 1901 

George Albert Gould'.ng, '99, and Miss Ruth 
Appleton, '01, daughter of Professor John 
H. Appleton,were married at the residence of 
Professor Appleton at noon, February 15, 
1905. The ceremony was performed by 
President Faunce, assisted by Rev. H. M'. 
King of the First Baptist Church. Only the 
members of the families and a few intimate 
friends were jiresent. After the wedding a 



reception was held at which many of the fac- 
ulty of Brown and classmates of the bride and 
groom were present. 

1900 

Captain Alonzo R. Williams of Providence 
has been appointed by Governor Utter a mem- 
ber of the state board of the expenditure of 
the firemen's relief fund. 
1901 

Harvey N. Davis is president of the Grad- 
uate Students Club at Harvard 

Leland L. Eaton was married to Miss Emily 
Gertrude Lanphear at the home of the bride 
in Peace Dale, Rhode Island, on August 1,1905 
Mr. Eaton is connected w.th D. C. Heath & 
Co.. 225 Fourth avenue, New York City, and 
lives at 310 Bryant street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
1902 

Thomas E. B. Pope is located for the winter 
on the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries' steamer 
Fish Hawk in connection with a survey and 
investigation of the oyster beds of Matagorda 
and Lavaca Bays, Texas. 
1903 

Lester Earle Dodge, '03, and Miss Harriet 
Clara Blades, daughter of William C. Blades, 
general superintendent of the Lorraine Manu- 
facturing Companj^ of Pawtucket, were mar- 
ried at the residence of Mr Blades, November 
30, 1904. Mr. Dodge is connected with the 
United States Engineering Office at Newport, 
and is assistant doorkeeper of the state senate. 

Lester Burrel Shippee is instructor in the 
French and English departments of Peddie 
Institute, Hightstown, New Jersey. 

George Waterhouse is travelling for a large 
wholesale paper house of New York City. His 
address is 149 Remsen street, Brooklyn. 

James L. Gartland has gone from Warren, 
Rhode Island, to the editorial rooms of the 
Rocky Mountain Xezvs, Denver, Colorado. 

C. C. Curry represents the Westinghouse 
Electric and Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburg, 
at Minneapolis, with offices at 419 Guaranty 
Loan Building. 

1904 

Wm. Young Ea.sterbrooks is in the mercan- 
tile business at 281 Main street, Pawtucket. 

Clarence W. Dealtry is payma.ster for the 
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts. 

Charles D. Roston has been in the employ 
of the American Extraction Company of Prov- 
idence since last July. 

Houghton Metcalf is with the Eastern Coal 
Co , 35 Weybosset .street, Providence. 

The present address of Harry W. Hastings 
is 541 Merchant street, Williamsport, Penn- 
sylvania. 

Miss Mari'>n L. Shorey, instructor in house- 
hold economics at the Women's College, is 
giving a series of lectures on household affairs 
before St. Mary's Guild of Grace Church, 
Providence. 

Miss Sarah E. Taylor read a paper on "The 
Life and Times of Euripides" before a bible 
class of Methuen, Massachusetts, on Jan- 
uary 9. 



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