Bf\(: Bl\()WfJ A,LU|Vi|\JI [VlOjMTHI-Y 906 HALL LIBRARY THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Vol. VII Providence, R. I., December, 1906 No. 5 BROWN 23, DARTMOUTH o ROWN had sweet re- venge on Dart mouth at Hamp- den Park, Springfield, Mass., on Satu rda^^ Nov. 2 4, winning the annual game with the Hanover col- lege by 23 to 0. It was Brown all the time, and there is no debate possible regarding which was the stronger team. Brown displayed speed, skill and confidence. and, once started on the way of victory, there was no halt to the procession. The first relay along the line of the winning march came on a trick, May- hew puzzling the whole Dartmouth team with a 47-yard run along the side line for a touchdown. From this time the Brunonians were always the favor- ites over the hypnotized Dartmouth men. May hew' s trick was one of the feat- ures of his all-roimd brilliant play. The ball was on Dartmouth's 47-yard line, close to the side lines, and was passed to the fleet halfback. His sup- posed interference went for the right side of the Dartmouth line, when the player wheeled down close to the side lines, clearing two tacklers who made useless attempts to stop him. Mayhew was to Brown what Ralph Glaze was to Dartmouth a year ago, and yet every AN EXCITING MOMENT IN THE DARTMOUTH GAME Mayhew (X) Starts to Run With the Ball 'TW 94 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY other member of the Providence back field put up a quality of football that sparkled. It was the ability of the Brown men to clear Dartmouth's sec- ondary defence which caused the high score, while it was the well balanced power of the whole eleven which kept Dartmouth pointless. The Hanoverites were unable to gain through the heavy Brown line, and not until near the close of the second half could they carrj^ the ball inside the 20-yard line; then they advanced because Brown had put in a number of substitutes. For the greater part of the game the play was in Dart- mouth's territory, the Dartmouth line holding fairly well, but the secondary row missing tackle after tackle. Dartmouth did not show much offen- sive strength, while her forward passes were for the most part valueless. Had she had a strong defensive quarter she could have held Brown to a lower score, McDevitt missing his men repeatedly in the second half after playing strongly in the first. Brown's second touchdown came as an indirect result of McDevitt' s fumble of a punt on his 11-yard line, the ball being carried over in three rushes. Later Brown blocked a kick on Dart- mouth's 15-yard line, McDonald pran- cing away from McDevitt for the third touchdown, and, again, a kick blocked by Ayler of Brown gave May hew a 51- yard run for a touchdown. The play was open enough to keep the spectators in touch with the move- ments, and there never was a time when enthusiasm was lacking among the 8,000 spectators. The skill of Mayhew caught the eye of the sup- porters of both teams, and he instilled fear into the one and confidence into the other side whenever he had the ball. Cheering was incessant, both colleges keeping the air lively with /songs and shouts. Brown won the tosfe, and as the men ran to their *" _^ positions Bushnell of Brown, dressed__a^. V^/Jibear, dance3 aBout the players? TJartmouth kicked off, the ball being carried ten yards back to the twenty- yard line. Brown punted and Dart- mouth returned. Mayhew ran twenty- five yards, bringing the oval into Dart- mouth's territory, where it stayed for the better part of the period. The Han- over team held strongly in the line in the first half, and Brown was often forced to punt. In fact, the brilliant showing of Dartmouth early in the game made matters look a trifle doubt- ful for Brown. Brown had recovered the ball on a punt and was thrown for a five-yard loss when the brilliant side line trick by Mayhew was worked. The half closed 6 to in Brown's favor. The New Hampshire eleven was completely bewildered in the second half, Brown picking holes for long gains and continuing to wriggle along toward her opponents' goal. The New Hampshire ends were weak in getting down on punts and kicks. Brown worked a shift play successfully and hammered both sides of the Dartmouth line. Dartmouth's delayed passes were of little avail; and when her men were tackled the skilful Brunonians would fling their men toward the Dartmouth goal line. Brown was superior to Dart- mouth in almost every position, and had weight, skill, confidence and unity of action. Her plays went off quickly and smoothly and the interference was fine. Dartmouth furnished weak interference for her runners, while her passes from centre were not always sure. Dart- mouth had few clever tricks, a forward pass on a fake kick supposition proving unsuccessful. In the first half of the game, the Brown players gained 155 yards, to 23 by Dartmouth. The Providence collegians punted on six occasions, for a total of 187 yards, while McDevitt of Dartmouth kicked the ball for 214 yards on eight trials. Dartmouth ran in punts only eight yards, to 20 for Brown. In the matter of penalties in this period Dartmouth suffered three, for a total of 15 yards, and Brown lost 15 yards on one penalty. In the second half Brown's superiority was more marked than in the first 30 minutes of play. During the last period Brown gained 76 yards on straight rushing, while Dartmouth had only a total of 24. The Brown backfield men ran in kicks for a total of 67 yards. Dartmouth netted only 17 yards after receiving kicks. Brown only suffered a penalty in this half, and that was 15 yards for holding. Brown punted six times for a total of 224 yards, or an average of 37 1-3 yards. Dartmouth THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 95 punted four times, for a total of 148 yards, or an averag-e of 37 yards. The line-up and summary: BROWN DARTMOUTH Pryor, 1. e--. r. e., Stearns, (Pritchard) Kirley, 1. t r. t.,Lang Westervelt, ( McPhee) l.g. r. g., (Smith, Tobin) Conklin, c c. , Brusse Ayler, r. g 1- g-i Peveare Hazard, r. t.-l. t , Baldwin, (C. W. Smith) Flood, r. e 1- e , Jennings, (Kennedy) COMMENT ON THE GAME The series now stands 6 to 5 in favor of Brown . Had Dartmouth been stronger on the secondary defence, had Mc- Devitt accepted chances offered, Brown might have been held to a low score. Yet had Dartmouth this, it could not have won. It was weak, very weak, on the offense. It was simply a question BROW/N CHEERING SECTION AT SPRINGFIELD Brown Substitutes Are Seen in the Foreground Schwartz, qb qb., Brooks, (McDeviti) Mayhew, (Tinkham) 1. hb r. hb., Stuar Curtis, ( Pearsall) r. hb 1. hb., Heneage, (Driver) McDonald, (Corp.) £b fb Hathaway, (Greenwood, Storrs) Toachdowns — Mayhew 2, Curtis, McDon- ald. Goals from touchdowns — McDonald 2. Hazard. Referee — W. H. Corbin of Yale. Umpires— F. Burleigh of Exeter and E. Wrightington of Harvard. Head Linesman — McCracken of Pennsylvania. Time — 30-min- ute halves. of the score. — Springfield Republican. The Providence coach had no fresh- man material while Dartmouth had, which made Robinson's success the more complete. — Bosto7i Globe. Brown rounded out a most successful season on Saturday by fairly over- whelming- her particular rival, Dart- mouth. A team that could force Har- vard and Yale out to win and then smother Dartmouth is deserving- of a 96 THE BROWN ALLMNI MONTHLY forward place among: the best elevens of the year. — Neiv York Tridiuie. As it happened, the football game at Spring-field on Saturday would have been a more evenly matched affair if Harvard, Yale or Princeton had been pitted against Brown . — Providence Joiirnal. The Providence eleven was at the heigfht of its form, and it played with complete confidence in its ability to meet every emergency and with a fight- ing spirit that justified all of its opti- mistic convictions. Scarcely a possible chance to advance the ball or oppose its advance when Dartmouth sought to carry it was neglected. What looked like lucky openings proved fortunate only because there were Brown men on hand who were capable of taking full advantage of them. Had as favorable situations fallen to Dartmouth's lot they would have been of little or no avail, for neither the team nor any one of its members was able to profit by unexpected opportunities. The New Hampshire eleven lacked in intuition, a quality Brown possessed in exceptional abundance . — Providence Bulletin . CELEBRATING THE VICTORY Brown celebrated the victory over Dartmouth by having the greatest night- gown and pajama parade seen in Provi- dence for years. The students, led by Fay's band, marched up and down the main thoroughfares of the city cheer- ing, singing and setting off fireworks and red fire. Cars were stopped for over an hour. At 10 o'clock the stu- dents marched up the hill, where a large bonfire on Lincoln Field was touched off. Speeches were made by Dean Meiklejohn, Professor Langdon, Dr. Marvel and Charles H. S. Weaver, who extended the courtesy of his farm at Brooklyn, Conn., to next year's Brown team. Coach Gammons and Manager Burnham also spoke. The manag'er stated that Princeton, the Indians and possibly Yale would play in Providence next year. A MORAL VICTORY By Robert P. Brozvn, '71 O many of the alumni, the lone statement that Brown defeated Dartmouth 23 to in their annual football con- test would mean but little, were they not acquainted with the ac- cumulated circumstances which go to make the outcome a great moral victory. Athletics are of as much importance in a young man's academic life as phil- osophy or sociology and have as power- ful an influence on the moral side of his nature as any of the courses that claim his interest; hence the great importance of the tendencies of intercollegiate sports; that these tendencies have been at times in the past extremely immoral, no man who is informed can deny. Professionalism, brutality, deception and cheating threatened to put a ban on the most glorious of college sports and it sometimes seemed that honor was dying, with none to attend its funeral. The very acuteness of the disorder forced a remedy and football has been saved for future developments of safety and cleanness for the players and for a vast increase of interest to the specta* tors. The new rules doubling the dis- tance to be made and allowing only four men behind the line have opened up the game and made it more of a kicking contest. The days of heavj^ mass plays and flying wedges, which injured so many players, are passed. The penalty for "slugging'' is so overwhelming that no college can tolerate any such practice and hope to win, as in the more open game it is inevitably detected. The other penalties are severe and en- forced by a watchful corps of usually unbiased officials, so that the time has THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 97 come in football when honesty is the best and only policy. Moreover, there is opportunity for varied skilful and brilliant individual plays instead of a series of pigpiles in which the ball was lost to sight of everyone except the man holding it. The victory of Brown over Dartmouth was splendid, but the victory of Brown over herself was more resplendent. Brown in the interest of pure sport has imposed u pon h erself, rules w hich seem - ed a^ioji lto paralyze the''^coa ches^;___In order to come out at all, a maiTmust be' up to the standard in his studies. No freshman, nor any man coming- from another college, can play on a univer- sity team. Under these regulations, with the oversight of athletics turned over to the faculty, the bottom of pro- fessionalism simply dropped out. All disputes and discussions about eligibil- ily, professionalism and what-not simply evaporated. The victory of Brown on Saturday, November 24, ever memorable, was the victory of harmony, of a united body of students, alumni and football enthu- iasts, of Robinson and Gammons, joined in one thought of the redemption of Brown. It was the victory of an har- monious, obedient band of players trained to the rules. It was the victory of a captain who was a most resourceful ciuarterback and had gray matter enough in his brain not to repeat mistakes, but to make his attacks in bewildering va- riety, a fine player also and a g-entleman, with qualities that found quick response in the respect and alert obedience of his playing associates. The first game of the season played on Andrews Field with New Hampshire College displayed the quality, if not the final ability of the Brown eleven, and whoever saw that game had little reason later to amend his opinions. Early in the season Brown lost her great centre. Smith, from a most unusual accident and also the whirlwind end, Dennie, on account of injury, and the great punter, Adams, on account of deficiency in marks. Nothing- daunted, new men were pressed forward to fill the gaps, and that most acceptably, only four men of the previous year's team entering the game. It seemed, however, to be an advantag-e that the coaches could not fall back on last year's men, but were compelled to bring out and develop new and select material. When the Brown eleven came out on the field at Spring- field, those who had known the situation saw in the background, not the benches packed with Dartmouth enthusiasts, en- veloped in surging waves of song a.nd cheer, but Robinson and Gammons working together to overcome the many obstacles in their way , bearing up against irritating restraint and sending out to the combat as well- trained a band of players as any college could produce. An eminent graduate of Dartmouth said after the game that they were, doubtless the best eleven on the eastern gridiron that day, holding much the same posi- as Dartmouth did two years ago. But on with the game! It was a most beautiful football day, cold and crisp. The Brown stand was protected from the wind and the sun was shining full upon it, so that it was as comfortable for the onlookers as on any summer day. Full assurance that Brown would roll up a score of twenty points or more per- vaded the crowd and they had no ner- vous spasms. It took twenty minutes to make the first score, but in that time, it was fully revealed that Dartmouth was at Brown's mercy and the sleeves full of tricks which they were said to have brought down from Hanover were fired off like so many torpedoes, all sound and sawdust. Do not imagine that the Dartmouth team was weak; on the contrary they played a strong and strenuous game to the end, their two tackles were magnificent, nipping in the bud many of Brown's best arranged plays; but they faced an eleven alert, skilful, well generaled, and were simply outclassed. Brown's four touchdowns were all spectacular and thrilling. After twenty minutes play the first one was made by May hew on a double pass. Brown apparently was to send Curtis around the right end, but the ball was passed across to Mayhew, who waited while both elevens rushed towards the right end and then slid along the side line on the left; leaving the Dartmouth tacklers sprawling in the grass. He was finally tackled by the fullback, but he dragged the latter over the goal line for a touchdown, after a run of 47 yards. 98 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The second addition to Brown's laurels was the result of a splendid dash- ing play by Elrod, who followed a punt down so speedily that when the Dart- mouth back fumbled, he threw himself like a tigfer at the man and the elusive ball, forcing' the man away and securing" the coveted pigskin near the Dartmouth goal. It was quickly carried to the five- yard line and given to Curtis, that most reliable of halfbacks, who went through for a touchdown. The third down was also a remarkable play. Dartmouth at- tempted to punt out from back of her goal line, but the punt was so low that McDonald caught it and dodged through the whole Dartmouth team for a score. The last score was most exciting. Mayhew attempted to punt, but the ball went so low that it was blocked and bounded back towards Mayhew. Quick as a lightning flash, he picked it up and went around left end with all Dartmouth at his heels, making a run of 52 yards and placing the ball squarely behind the goal posts. It seems almost invidious to single out any one of the Brown eleven for special mention. They were all brilliant individual players, trained to work to- gether with the precision of a delicate piece of mechanism. The halfbacks were a phenomenal pair; Curtis second to none as a ground gainer and always reliable when called upon to go through the line for a first down, and Mayhew the wonder, speedy, elusive, the flying Dutchman of the gridiron, — certainly the oldest fans can remember no such com- bination of speed, quickness to seize an opportimity, and ability to dodge and pass tacklers as this 150 pound player from Edgartown has developed. McDonald the fullback did brilliant work through the line and in making the second touchdown. Captain Schwartz covered himself with glory by his gen- eralship and his faultless playing. The only part of the game where he failed was in making the forward pass, the ball being thrown too low and too soon. Pryor and Elrod, the ends, were al- ways in evidence in defence and offence and no Dartmouth player got aroiind either end during the game. The sturdy centre, Conklin, with his two guards, Westervelt and Ay!er, proved an im- passe to all Dartmouth assaults, Ayler, the co lored man, persistently breaking IhroiTgh ah3~tackling the runner behind the line and breaking" up interference in a terrific fashion. The tackles' work was a most difficult one. Opposite them were the two great pla3'ers of Dartmouth. Kirley the giant right tackle of Brown, who has been walking through the enemy's lines all the season for ten or fifteen yards, found in Lang his match, and after one or two at- tempts the ball was sent elsewhere where delivery could be assured. Haz- ard had to handle Baldwin, one of Dart- mouth's star players, but showed up well in this difficult position. It would be well for the officers and faculties of our universities to take note that football has evidently come to stay, as it is the most popular of college sports and the best developer of health, strength and manly qualities in student life. They should actively assist the advocates of the game to make it more humane and to produce players who would rather lose the game than do a dishonorable act. They should keep in such close touch and sympathy with the managers and alumni as to know the truth and prevent men being paid in any way to play on a university team. While the standard of scholarship must be maintained, it would be the part of a loyal faculty to assist in all proper ways such men as need a little aid in order to hold their own when they consider how much time some of them are sacrificing for the reputation of the university. We are proud that among the Brown players there are no hired bravos,and that some of the squad are working their way through college and giving time to prac- tice which is very valuable to them; some are up at work at five in the morning, others work late into the night and it is only by having a training table that a careful oversight can be kept over them to see that they are regular at their meals and fully nourished to meet the strenuous test of intercollegiate games. Sturdy loyalty and helpfulness and sym- pathy with the players on the part of the university officers and instriictors, will inspire our athletic representatives to do their best and to feel content whether chance may give them defeat or victory so long as they hold firm to their watchword "Honor Bright." THE BRO WN AL UMNI MO A THL Y 99 BROWN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION By Percy W. Gardner, '03 Graduate General Secretary of the Association HE Christian Association, which is the principal under- g^raduate religious organiza- tion at Brown, has during- the past two years received considerable criticism from two im- portant classes of students and alumni. It has been criticised on one side for putting too much emphasis upon ethics and philanthropy, and on the other side for too much emphasis on purely re- ligious work. Our critics, we believe, have over- looked the fundamental principle upon which we have been working for the past year and a half, and that principle is this, that the Christian Association is the religious organization for all the undergraduates of Brown. There are men who come to Brown with a pre- vious training: which centres in the prayer meeting: and meeting for the devotional study of the Bible. To de- prive these men of an opportunity to continue along the lines of their early training: as long: as they may desire to do so would be manifestly unfair to them and to their early training". Therefore, the Christian Association is now conducting each week a meeting which is partly devoted to prayer and partly to a devotional study of the Bible, and this meeting- is open to all who desire to come. But there are many students at Brown whose early training or whose college experience has led them to desire an opportunity for religious expression along other lines, and because the asso- ciation in the past has not given them the opportunities to express themselves, it has surely opened itself to criticism. But it is tod^y trying to meet the needs of these men. There are quite a large number of men in Brown who desire, for instance, to study the New Testa- ment with the object of finding out, as far as they are able to learn through their own research, what were the actual doings and sayings of Jesus Christ. Whatever their motive may be, the study is to them primarily in- tellectual, and we are conducting cer- tain Bible classes with the object of making a fearless and honest investiga- tion into questions of this kind. There are other students who, while they can- not honestly appreciate a prayer or de- votional meeting, do derive a large amount of good from a meeting con- ducted on intellectual and ethical lines and the association is, therefore, con- ducting once in two or three weeks meetings in which are discussed sub- jects of an ethical nature and of a nature to appeal to students. Work, there- fore, along both the purely religious and ethical and intellectual lines is being carried on because we are an association for all students. Emphasis is also at the present time being strongly laid upon another line because it is a work into which every Brown man, irrespective of early train- ing or personal belief, ought to enter if he desires to be a Brown man in the fullest sense of the word. The asso- ciation is interesting as many Brown men as possible in work in the nature of settlement work among the young working boys of the city of Providence. In this city there are hundreds and thousands of young boys who have re- ceived little or no training physically, m.entally or morally. These young boys are employed in occupations where they have no opportunity except in the evenings to secure such training, and there are few people who are enough interested in them to give them this training when they have time to get it. The choice presents itself of letting these young boys grow up into sickly, ignorant and unmanly manhood, or of going among them and by winning their confidence and loyalty instill into them some of the fundamentals of physical, mental and moral training. 100 THE BRO WN AL UMNI MONTHL V Such work can be better accomplished by young: men than by anybody else, and can best be accomplished by the young- men of Brown under a proper leadership. There is an unquestionable oblig-a- tion on the college on the hill to help those who live at the foot of the hill. Brown must owe some moral obligation to the city in which it is located and from which it derives so many benefits. There is an opportunity for Brown to help those citizens of the cityof Provi- dence who most need help by doing: this work. It is the plain duty of the college to take this work up and of the Christian Association to be the leader in the work. We are, therefore, put- ting" some of our best endeavors into this work for young- boys, and we are today doing- some splendid work in some of the clubs already org-anized in this city, where we are responsible for a number of such clubs. And we have an ideal for the future and that is this: a Brown club-house set down in the poorest section of the city with bed- rooms for students who shall give a part of their time to the work because they are the picked men for this work, and incidentall}^ for the fact that they are getting- their room rent free. here will be a g-raduate student who has had some special training- along- this line who will be at the head of the house and receive a small salary for his ser- vices. There will be a reading room and library with good, healthy boys' stories in it, and a gymnasium and baths for the use of all who come. Some alumnus who wants to do more for Brown than the mere giving of money, books or buildings will some time give us such a building as this, and in so doing will give to Brown its greatest stimulus to genuine, unselfish, spiritual growth that the undergraduate body could possibly have. And Brown men working in that building, making themselves bigger and nobler thereby, will lay the foundations for a better manhood in this city, and will now and then bring up from the ranks some young boy who in turn will become a worthy son of Brown. By giving to those students who de- sire it purely religious meetings and devotional Bible study, and to those students who desire it meetings along ethical and educational lines, and by calling upon every man in Brown to forget himself and help his fellow men, we believe that we are truly being a Chris- tian association in Brown University. THE SUBORDINATION OF PROFESSORS RESIDENT Faunce has re- centh' made a forceful plea in a newspaper interview for larger financial compen- sation for Brown professors. He thinks that the university ought to have a million-dollar fund, the income of which would be applied to the in- crease of faculty salaries. "The need of increasing professional salaries," he says, "is one of the great- est needs of the present time. The profits of industrial undertakings have increased enormously in the last quarter century. There has been a correspond- ing increase in the wages of laborers. The man on a salary meanwhile has re- ceived in compensation practically no increase. He has rather had his stipend reduced by the growing and now im- mensely greater cost of living. "I spoke of this last winter at the meeting of the Brown alumni in Boston. I told them that we needed to raise a fund of a million dollars to be used solely to increase professional salaries at Brown. The proposal was received with the greatest approval and enthusi- asm. I intend to call attention to it again at the meeting this winter. "The salaries at Brown have been considerably increased in the last five years in the case of subordinate officers, but the salaries of our professors are, with the exception of the income derived from the Women's College, the same as 25 years ago. This ought not to be. There is no need more pressing than THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 101 that for larg'er compensation for large men. Inadequate salaries mean that our teachers cannot have the books, the attendance on learned societies, the wide acquaintance with the world of scholarship which their position and their ambition demand. The profes- sor's position is one of dignity and honor; but honor and dignity will not feed a growing family." In this connection, Professor J. J. Stevenson has an article in the Novem- ber number of the Popular Science Monthly which should be of general in- terest. He contends that the professor is not only underpaid but subordinated: "It is strange that so few college professors become perfunctory in their work. They receive little personal recognition. If they exert themselves to build up the library, museum or ap- paratus, if they induce an acquaintance to give an endowment, all these are so many packages thrown into the presi- dent's basket of achievements. Their services are not acknowledged even in a material way. Their salaries are petty; the salary of a rowing coach in a great university is larger than that of an assistant professor who has done efficient work for many years; in case of urgent deficit, the first relief suggested is in reduction of the professors' salaries. In other professions, experience and efficiency lead to promotion; in this other matters prevail, and too often a young man, untried, is appointed at higher salary than that received by older men of well-ascertained efficiency. It is surprising that so few men come to share the apparent opinion of presi- dent, trustees and many students that their work is of only incidental import- ance. Yet there is no reason why col- lege professors should be more trans- cendental than other men. "These statements may seem strange to many persons of wealth. The needs of the 'poor self-denying professor' is almost a byword. In truth the profes- sor is often poor enough, but he is not guilty of exploiting his poverty or of seeking praise for self-abnegation. In any event, he has profited little from large gifts, which too often take the shape of buildings, thereby increasing the running expenses and endangering the already too small salaries. There is, indeed, sign of awakening conscience, for one day last summer it was an- nounced that a college had received a considerable sum of money and that the salaries would be increased at once. Harvard has received a great sum, whose income is to be devoted solely to endowment; while the presidents of two other great universities have an- nounced that increase of salaries is the most urgent need. It must be remem- bered, however, that these universities are in large cities, where the salaries, though counting large in dollars, have comparatively small purchasing power. Five thousand dollars in New York city is actually less than two thousand in many a college town, while two thous- and dollars in that city means living in conditions incredibly narrow to dwellers in villages. This matter of salary is, however, relatively unimportant. The all important matter for consideration is the insignificant position of the pro- fessor in the organism of which he is the all-important element. These words are written with due deliberation. During his almost forty years of ser- vice, the writer has seen the gradual evolution of the president in American colleges and the resulting decadence of the professor." 102 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY A PAGE OF GENERAL COLLEGE NEWS T. Paul's chapel at Columbia University was thrown open to the students for worship and dedication on Thanks- g'iving- day. The edifice is the offering of unknown givers repre- senting a gift of $300,000, and in many respects is unique in architecture and construction. It is the only building in the United States in which the in- terior construction even to the stair- cases is of burnt clay. The style is of the North Italian architecture of the 15th century. A burst of color as of golden sunshine greets one as the doors open. The whole interior effect is of warmth and harmony. The perfect blend in color throughout the different materials, brick, tiling or bronze char- acterizing all details, produces a singu- larly harmonious and pleasing effect. The interior is of Norman brick, a ma- terial seldom used in church construc- tion, with trimming of terra cotta and limestone. The decoration is of the By- zantine order. Th^ entire floor rests on Gustavino arches, without support of any iron construction, resting only on four solid piers in the basement. Harvard cleared about $5000 above expenses on the Greek play, given in the stadium last June. A large factor in this was the proceeds from the sale of the Greek stage settings. The name of Tufts college Divinity School has been changed to the Crane Divinity School in recognition of a gift of $100,000 from Albert Crane of New York, in memory of his father, Thomas Crane. Harvard has recently endowed a pew in the American church in Berlin, to bear the name of the university, and to testify to the university's interest in the religious welfare of American students at Berlin. Princeton lake, the gift of Andrew Carnegie, is now completed. This great excavation is about 3 1-2 miles long and varies in width from 300 to 1000 feet. The total area of the lake is 1200 acres. The intercollegiate socialist society, which was formed last year, with Jack London president, and Upton Sinclair and J. G. Phelps Stokes vice-presidents, has issued its announcements for its second year. T. Bayard Collins, 112 East Nineteenth street, New York, is the general secretary. The new building of the department of agriculture at Rutgers, which is to provide accommodations for the short courses in agriculture, is nearing com- pletion, and will be ready for occupancy January 2, when the work in these courses begins. The sum of $24,000 was appropriated at the last session of the New Jersey legislature for the erec- tion and equipment of this building. The entire student body — about 500 — of the Centenary College at Jackson, La., struck and went home the other day. They left a signed statement that they were dissatisfied with the retention of Prof. Moncrieff, who two weeks ago stabbed Rev. C. C. Miller, president of the college. The president is still ill from his wounds. e and Prof. Mon- crieff had a dispute about serving food to the students' mess, and Prof. Mon- crieff claimed that he stabbed President Miller in self defence. The new athletic field at Syracuse University is nearing completion. The length of the stadium from the entrance on Irving avenue to the outer row of seats on the east side is 670 feet, and the width is 470 feet. It will inclose a quarter-mile track. The seating capac- ity of the stadium will be 20,000. Be- sides this a promenade 20 feet wide will extend around the outer row of seats, and will contain standing room for nearly as many more. On the east side of the stadium a tunnel leads to the gymnasium. The graduate school of applied scien- ence at Harvard, which was established THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 103 last spring: by the g"overning' boards, has lately begun its work with an en- rolment of 30 students. Courses are offered leading to degrees in the follow- ing subjects: Civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, electrical en- gineering, mining, metallurgy, archi- tecture, landscape architecture, forestry, physics, chemistry, zoology, geology. In three important ways the work of the school will diflfer from that of the Lawrence Scientific School: First, a bachelor's degree will be required of every candidate for regular admission; secondly, every department of the school will carry its work beyond the require- ments for an ordinary degree in scien- ence; thirdly, the school will encourage and provide for original research on the part of students and instructors. THE TORCH RACE By William Adams Sladc, '98 The endless torch race first began Who knoweth where? Who knoweth when? The first relay that swiftly ran With smoking fire Promethean And gave it on from man to man, Who knoweth where? Who knoweth when? Enough to know the race began; Enough to know the runners ran; Enough to know from man to man The fire has come — and we are men. The fire has flamed at night, at morn. While man has run for wider ken Down ways untrodden, dark, forlorn, Laughing at laughter, scorning scorn. Lured by the hope within him born, Running as brave men run, and then, Crowned with the laurel, or the thorn, At sound of dirge, or bugle -horn, Gone out to meet the full-flushed morn As brave men go — and we are men. Meeting the morn he passed the brand That still again, and yet again. By freshening breezes brightly fanned, The runners give from hand to hand, — In lines of flame from land to land; And still again, and yet again, They follow straight the soul's com- mand, — Though but in part they understand, — And still pass on the deathless brand From man to man — and we are men! 104 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Published for the Graduates of Brown University By the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. Robert P. Brown, Treas., 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 WiNSLO^v Upton, '75, Providence Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence Sa.m Walter Foss, '82. Somerville, Mass. Gardner Colbv, '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 ROBINSON PALMER. '90. Editor HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN. Associate Editor CLARENCE S. BRIGHAM. '99. Assistant Editor MARY D. VAUGHAN, '97. Alumni Editor and 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 issueduring August and September. Entered at the Providence post office as second-class matter. DECEMBER, 1906 MR. BISHOP'S CONCEPTION OE THE HAY LIBRARY The university has published in a handsome and dignified pamphlet of twenty-nine pages the address delivered last commencement by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, '70, before the Associated Alumni, on "John Hay, Scholar- States-man." The announcement that 5000 copies have been printed for dis- tribution will be a welcome one both to those who heard the address and to those to whom that pleasure was de- nied. We take the liberty of quoting- a portion of Mr. Bishop's concluding re- marks to the alumni on the John Hay Library. "Let us erect not merely a library building, but a great library building. Let us not merely add another structure to those that are grouped about and crowd upon the old campus, but let us erect one that will dominate all the rest, that in its noble proportions will rise above the university community as the things of the spirit rise above those of the body. Let us build a temple to the genius and beauty and power of learn- ing that shall be an inspiration to am- bitious youth in the generations that are to come, and let us inscribe above its portal the name of John Hay, a pro- found scholar who was a sagacious statesman and great diplomatist, be- cause he employed the knowledge ob- tained from books for the glory of his country and the uplifting of humanity." EXCELLENT COLLEGE SPIRIT There was a notable meeting in Sayles Hall on the morning of the Har- vard game, November 3, at which the dormant Brown spirit was thoroughly aroused. Eloquent speeches were inade by graduates and undergraduates, and in less than half an hour the sum of $2,074.50 had been pledged to to remove the indebtedness resting on the athletic association. Coach Gammons an- nounced that he would refund his $500 salary, and this example of generosity was followed by the general manifesta- tion of a willingness to contribute. President Faunce gave $50, several $25 subscriptions were added, each of the three upper classes gave $50 and the freshman class $60, and the five Chinese and three Armenian undergraduates contributed five dollars apiece. The Brown Daily Herald on the fol- lowing Monday said editorially: "Saturday was surely a great day in the history or Brown athletics. The student body at last waked up, and both at the mass meet ing in the morning and at the game in the afternoon displayed great spirit. Probably even the most sanguine were surprised at the readiness with which money was subscribed, and the enthusiasm which was shown is worth a great deal to Brown University. The chief source of gratification is not so much the amount raised as the unmistakable proof that Brown undergraduates do want athletics and are willing to pay for their maintenance, even THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 105 when it involves the great self-sacrifice which many of the subscriptions must have necessi- tated." The meeting; was a g'ood illustration of the familiar saying- that it is always darkest just before the dawn." ON COLLEGE GROUNDS President Faunce said in chapel on Monday morning, November 26: "I should like to see in the future all games played on college grounds." Good! We heartily echo the senti- ment. And let the next Dartmouth game, or the 1908 match, be played on Andrews Field in Providence. It will be easy to raise the money for the necessary new grandstands, and at least 15,000 people ought to attend. TOPICS OF THE MONTH MOST notable gathering of scholars and scientists is to take place at Brown during the Christmas holidays. Economists, historians and sociologists from all portions of the United vStates will be present to take part in an interesting and important program. The societies which will convene at the university from Dec. 26 to Dec. 29, inclusive, are the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Society. . In addition to these bodies, the New England History Teachers' Association convention will also be in session in this city at the same time, and the Historical Associa- tion meeting on one occasion will be held in conjunction with the assembly of the New England Association. International law, constitutional law and administration, political theories and the government of dependencies embrace the subjects which will be treated in various phases by the mem- bers of the Political Science Associa- tion. The election of officers for the coming year of this body will take place Friday evening, Dec. 28. The general subjects to be discussed at the sessions of the Historical Asso- ciation are European history, economic history, history in the college curricu- lum, the problems of state and local historical societies, American colonial history and later American history. The annual business meeting of the organization will take place Friday afternoon, Dec. 28. The Economic Association will pre- sent many topics of interest on economic theory. Commercial education, trans- portation, insurance and the tariff are the problems which will be discussed at the sessions of this organization. The business meeting will beheld on Thurs- day morning, Dec. 27. Many and varied sociological prob- lems will come up at the sessions of the Sociological Society. The business meeting of this organization will take place on Wednesday morning, Dec. 28* ^ ¥ 1» Harris By the bequest of George Bequest William Harris of Jamaica to Plain, Mass., the university Brown has just received an im- portant collection of books and works of art as a memorial to his father, Dr. Luther Metcalf Harris of the class of 1811. The books number three thousand. They include impor- tant works in the history, biography and criticism of art, among them choice early editions of Ruskin; illustrated art volumes in quarto and folio; collectors' manuals and catalogues in various de- partments of art; fine library editions of the leading American and British authors; early editions of Hawthorne; the standard histories of the United States and European countries; many volumes of travel, especially illustrated books, certain bound sets of periodicals; many volumes on science and other departments of knowledge; general 106 THE BRO WN AL UMNI MO A THL Y reference books, and miscellaneous lit- erature. There are also in the col- lection two beautiful illuminated mis- sals. There are in addition over twenty oil paintings, chiefly of Flemish and Italian masters. These include a Tin- toretto which was formerly presented to Charles Sumner by friends in Eng-land in recognition of his services in behalf of freedom. There are also an ancient Flemish triptych, a landscape attributed to Van Goyen, and a very valuable pair of panels on wood, of the 13th- 14th centuries, in the manner of the contemporaries of Cimabue. The col- lection contains also valuable family portraits, one of them being of Dr. Harris, in whose honor the memorial was given. There is also a portrait bust of Dr. Harris by his daughter, and another of the Rev. James W. Thompson, D. D., of the class of 1827. Mr. Harris also bequeathed to the university all his glassware, much of it being of great age and rarity; all his china, including some very choice pieces; his Japanese ware, consisting of vases and other ornaments; an antique candel- abra; his silverware, which includes a small pitcher by Paul Revere; and a variety of old plated ware. It will necessarily be some months before it is possible to put the art col- lection in order for exhibition . f # ♦ Ten Thousand Dollars for the University from Ratcliffe Hicks The will of the late RatcHffe Hicks, '64, who died in Switz- erland, recently, and whose body was brought to this country and buried at Tolland, Conn., in October, has been admitted to probate. The will was drawn December 1, 1905, with a codicil added March 14, 1906. There are a few public bequests and the remainder is left to relatives. The amount of the estate is not given out but it is believed to be more than $1,000,000. The will leaves $10,000 to the town of Tolland for buying a site and erect- ing a school library and reading room to be known as the Ratcliffe Hicks Building; $5000 to the Congregational church of Tolland; $10,000 to Brown University to be used for educational purposes and to be known as the Hicks fund; $5000 to the Meriden Hospital. The executors are also instructed to set aside a portion of the estate and to add to it for the space of 21 years all in- come and interest. At the end of that period the fund is to be used to erect a building to be used as an agricultural school for the boys of Tolland county, for the purpose of giving to poor boys an education in practical farming. If after a time this is deemed impractica- ble by the trustees, they are empowered to devote the fund to any charitable use of a public nature. «> I* «> Harlow The sum of $33,000 in Bequest public bequests is provided for for in the will of Rev. Rob- Brown ert Henry Harlow of Quincy, Mass. , filed for pro- bate Nov. 2, and after private bequests the residue is to be divided equally be- tween the American Baptist Home Mis- sionary Society and the American Bap- tist Missionary Union. Five thousand dollars each is left to Harvard Univer- sity, Brown University and the Tuske- gee Normal and Industrial Institute. Smaller amounts are bequeathed to a number of Massachusetts religious and charitable institutions. ¥ # ¥ Chancellor The following note is self- Andrews explanatory: at "I wish to let you know Boston that ex-President Andrews is to be a guest and one of the speakers at our next dinner, which takes place at the American House in Boston, January 23. We are very anxious to have a large gathering at this dinner and we need as much advertising as we can get through the Alumni Monthly so as to make it known to all Brown alumni in this vicinity that President Andrews is to be here. I wish, if it is possible, to have a notice in each number of the maga- zine to be published up to that time, in- viting everybody, whether living in Bos- ton or otherwise, to be with us on^that occasion, with the suggestion that any- body desiring to come notify me as secretary. Yours very truly, Wesley E. Monk, Sec'y. THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 107 Room Andover Seminary, now for a hundred years old and Andover liberally endowed, finds it- Seminary self reduced to fourteen Here students and with an enter- ing- class of only three. At least one western city has invited it to remove itself from its century-old foundations, and it has also been pro- posed to unite it with one or the other of the Congreg-ational theological schools in Connecticut. But the best possible plan would be for it to come to Providence. Massachusetts has theo- logical institutions in superabundance — at Cambridg'e, Newton and elsewhere. Connecticut boasts the Yale and Hart- ford schools of Puritan dogma and the Berkeley (Episcopal) school at Middle- town. But Rhode Island has no theo- logical seminary, and the time is now opportune for the annexation of Ando- ver. It might be constituted an affili- ated department of Brown University, and if the objection should be raised that this is strange soil for a distinct- ively Congregational institution, it could be put on a liberal non-sectarian basis, as the university itself will have to be, some day. — Providence Journal^ Nov. 16. ^ ¥ ^ Caesar Augustus The new statue of As the Source of Caesar A u g: u s t u s Anecdotes has already beg:un to be the source of anecdotes. Here is one of them. A colored person loimging in the neigh- borhood was asked by a visitor what character was represented by the statue. He replied, "I don't rightly know, sah, but I think, sah, it is an ancestor of the gentleman what g^ive the statue, sah . ' ' ♦ *» t» President President Faunce has Faunce's lately returned from a trip Western through the west, taken in Trip connection with his duties as president of the Religious Education Association. Dr. Faunce spoke in several cities, and at Detroit his visit was made the occasion for an informal reunion and dinner of Brown men at the home of Rev. Spenser B. Meeser, 1901 hon. Dr. Faunce was im- pressed with the growth of the intellect- ual and artistic spirit in the west, and speaks especially of the art institute in Chicago, where 2500 students are at work, and of Washington University, the recently revivified collegiate in- stitution at St. Louis, where several fine buildings of enduring stone have been erected. ¥ ¥ ¥ Vacation Work of Brown Scientists Professor Appleton, with two assistants, Messrs. Ince and Beattie. has been occupied with prob- lems connected with artificial dyes, es- pecially with the effort to discover con- venient and accurate methods of pro- ducing a series of type dyes. Professor Bucher has been working on the chem- istry of certain organic compounds. Professor Upton has been engaged in working out the results of his recent observations on the sun. Professor Barus has been investigating the con- tinuous changes of the nucleation and ionization of strictly dust-free air, changes which occur in response to some form of external radiation proba- bly coming from cosmical sources. He has completed a monograph for the Car- negie Institution on methods for the ob- servation of these phenomena. Profes- sor Palmer has been working on appli- cations of the theory of errors and the method of least squares to physical prob- lems. Professor Mead delivered the commencement address before the As- sociated Alumni of Middlebury College; his subject was "Spontaneous Genera- tion and Evolution." He has had charge during the summer of the bio- logical laboratory of the Rhode Island Commission of Inland Fisheries at Wick- ford. Professor Slocum has been investi- gating the problems of lobster culture at the experiment station of the United vStates Bureau of Fisheries at Boothbay Harbor, Me. Dr. Sullivan has been one of the government investigators in physiology at the experiment station of the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Wood's Hole, Mass. Professor Slo- cum spent a part of the summer in ap- plying the principles of nautical astron- omy to practice in the navigation of a sailing vessel of 600 tons on the Atlan- tic ocean. Professor Collins, as for two summers previous, has formed one of a 108 THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY party of American botanists who are making- a botanical survey of the Gaspe peninsula at the mouth of the St. Law- rence. Professor Brown has been en- gfagfed in completing- the field work of the United States Geological Survej^ on Mt. Desert Island, Me., and adjacent islands and shores in preparation for the forthcoming- Frenchman's Bay geo- logical folio. He also made a geolog-i- cal excursion to Mt. Katahdin. Dr. Bailey has contributed articles to th.e Journal of Education, the American Botanist and the Plant World. He also furnished for the Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy ' ' The Cadet Life of Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1828-32, edited by his son." He has continued his contributions to the Providence Sun- day Journal, and has carried on an ex- tensive correspondence with seekers after botanical information. %> ¥ 9> A Great Reference The universitv H- Work Acquired by brary has lately the Library made one of the larg-est sing-le pur- chases in its history, that of the British Museum Library Catalogue. This work is pronounced by Ains worth R. Spof- ford, former librarian of Congress, "the most extensive bibliog-raphy ever pub- lished ... a key to the literature of the world in every department of hu- man knowledge." The British Museum Library, with its 2,000,000 volumes, is the second larg-est library in the world, and its resources are far more available than those of the national library at Paris, which is about one-third larger. Its catalogue, which forms the most im- portant general bibliog-raphical work extant, contains some 3,500,000 entries, and, as bound for the Brown University library, occupies 92 folio volumes. It represents all the books added to the library down to the end of 1899. The printing consumed 24 years, 1881-1905. So much more extensive is this work than any rival publication that it has been suggested as the best working- basis for a universal catalog-ue — that dream of bibliographers. It is a great pleasure to handle these substantially bound volumes, with their large type and general amplitude of page. One feature will disappoint the reader who is accustomed to American catalogues, that is that this great cata- logue contains practically only author entries. If the consulter wishes to know what books the British Museum has on a given subject, he must turn to other sources of information. But, if he knows the names of the authors whose works concern him, the catalogue will answer his question at once. The American user will at first trip over a medieval relic which British conserva- tism has retained in the catalogue, viz., the treatment of / and / and of U and K as if each pair represented only one letter. According to this system y