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THE 
BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Vol.. VII 



Providence, R. I., April, 1907 



No. 9 



THE BROWN UNIVERSITY EXPEDITION 

TO JAMAICA 



By Professoi- Charles U^i/sou Broicn 




CRUMPLED handkerchief 
picked up by the mid- 
dle!" So Columbus de- 
scribed to Queen Isabella 
the appearance of the 
island of Jamaica [Xaymaca "well 
wooded and watered!"] The aptness of 
the simile cannot be questioned when 
one sees the many steep knife-edged 
divides — typical "bad-land'' topography 
— rising' abruptly in fifteen miles 7400 
feet to the misty Blue Mountain peaks 
from the narrow plains that fringe the 
seashore. These plains form the 
largest part of the very small percent- 
age of the island that is fairly level, and 
it is upon these plains that the larger 
towns and the larger plantations of 
bananas and sugar-cane are found . They 
are made of up alluvial fans or sheet- 
wash brought from the adjacent ragged 
slopes by the rivers in fiood time. Up 
on the slopes occasional rectangular 
patches of lighter green show the loca- 
tion of sm.all banana farms or "pens,'' 
but the more tropical verdure is found 
lower down with the significant cocoa- 
nut palm and its flaring tuft of foliage, 
looking remarkably like an umbrella 
blown inside out swaying its rags in the 
breeze. Coffee, pineapples and cin- 
chona, limes, lemons and oranges, 
grow in the uplands that appear to have 
constant rain. 

Jamaica, five days south from New 
York, two north from Colon and twelve 
from England, is, as Mr. R. T. Hill has 
described it, nearly at the centre of the 
American Mediterranean. Its batho- 
graphic relations are significant. If we 
should imagine the rather flat sea-floor 
of the Caribbean elevated above water 
and Colorado Springs situated just south 



from Jamaica, the Blue Mountains 
would tower into the clouds 12,000 feet 
feet higher than Pike's Peak above Man- 
itou. Furthermore, just over the 
mountains, say at Cripple Creek, there 
would be a great valley 8,000 feet lower 
than the pseudo- Colorado Springs, and 
a hundred or two miles to the right 
there would be a great depressed gulf 
8,000 feet deeper still. We see that 
Jamaica, then, with the other Antillean 
Islands are but the higher peaks of a 
lofty and precipitous but submerged 
mountain chain. Its wealth of vegeta- 
tion, varying with the altitude, and 
equable climate, have made it one of the 
best-known of the West Indian islands 
since the days of the Spanish Main, the 
buccaneers and Port Royal. If Con- 
necticut were lengthened and narrowed 
we might have a Jamaica, though with 
a slightly larger population and area. 
But Jamaica has most of its population 
scattered along the roads and paths in 
villages and huts, for only one-four- 
teenth live in cities, and only something 
over two per cent, are white. Further- 
more only about one in five can read, 
and one in fifty vote. One feature, 
however, concerning the schools might 
make even the educators of this en- 
lightened country tremble at the ap- 
proach of the annual inspection board, 
and that is, for the schools receiving 
any government aid, the regulation of 
the teachers' salaries is according to the 
grade obtained by the pupils at the 
official examination. 

Port Royal is at the western tip of a 
narrow, seven-mile sand-spit that makes 
a natural breakwater to one of the finest 
harbors in the West Indies. When this 
town was submerged and destroyed by 



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the earthquake of 1692, this favorite 
site was abandoned for the Ligfuanea 
plain just across the harbor, the laro:"est 
of these fringfing' plains of loose!}' com- 
pacted sands and g"ravels, and Kingston 
was founded. And here in this closely 
built city of 60,000 (and at Buff Bay, 
opposite on the north shore) the destruc- 
tion from the last earthquake was felt 
most keenly. Eig"hty-five per cent, of 
the building-s were destroyed or injured. 
Then came King'ston's old enemy, fire, 
and swept over ten or fifteen blocks of 
the business and warehouse section. 
But detailed description of the general 



stress." We know the crust of the 
earth is always in a state of tension. 
This stress may come from shrinkagfe 
of the earth; from the loading- and un- 
loading- of the earth's surface through 
erosion and deposition, or fr^m other 
sources. When the stress becomes too 
g-reat for the crust to stand, as on a 
steep slope such as that about the 
West Indies, where the resistance is 
lessened — since a bent column is weaker 
than a straight one — or as in the case of 
a weak shaly rock, then a sudden slip 
may occur in the adjustment and the 
resulting jar is transmitted through the 




AT WORK UPON THE RUINS OF THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. THE LINE OF ARCHES IS PARALLEL 
TO THE DIRECTION OF THE SHOCK 



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destruction in Kingston, the loss of life, 
the suffering and the heroism of its 
people have been published in the 
columns of the press. It remains for 
us, therefore, to speak only of the ob- 
jects of the expedition that was made 
possible through the generosity of a 
friend of Brown and gave the opportu- 
nity for this university to range itself 
with other institutions in the extensive 
seismic investigations that are being 
conducted throughout the world. 

To understand the nature of the data 
desired let us consider first an earth- 
quake theoretically. As Dr. C. G. 
Knott has said: "An earthquake 
always means a yielding to stress, what- 
ever may have been the source of this 



earth in all directions in the same way 
that sound waves travel through other 
media. These waves or vibrations we 
call earthquakes, and they may vary in 
intensity as the tremors that come from 
a swiftly passing train may be less than 
those coming from a dynamite blast. 
These waves are of many kinds; normal, 
transverse, surface and epifocal. It is 
almost impossible for any one kind to 
occur alone and usually all gradations 
of mixtures result. The epifocal waves 
are the most destructive and are the 
ones that apparently overthrow walls 
and buildings, wreck great bridges, 
tear apart the earth in huge fissures 
that may be closed with the ejection of 
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motion is said to be seen, witb waves a 
foot or so high and a hundred feet apart. 
The epifocal waves are caused by other 
waves passing- through the more highly 
elastic deep-seated rocks to the more 
loosely compacted surface rocks which 
are less elastic and the chanq-e results in a 




STATUE NEARLY TWISTED OFF THE PEDESTAL 
BY TWO COMPONENTS OF THE SHOCK 

great increase of the amplitude. All the 
waves, moreover, are reflected and re- 
fracted in passing through media of 
different degrees of elasticity, which 
accounts for the large variation in 
destruction on made lands and incohe- 
rent rocks as compared with that over 
areas on solid rock. Kingston was 
built on the former kind of foundation 
and therefore suffered great destruction, 
while buildings within two or three 
miles, built on rock, were comparatively 
undamaged. 



We can get the direction of the path 
of these vibrations from cracks found in 
buildings; from the direction in which 
easily moved objects are thrown or 
columns tumbled. For it has been 
proved that the prevailing angling" 
cracks are perpendicular to the path of 
the vibration as it emerges from the 
denser ground into the lighter medium 
of the air. It may be seen, therefore, 
that if one can get enough data from 
the direction of fallen objects over a 
large enough area — since the vibrations 
radiate from some common centre — that 
one would probably find objects fallen 
away from some central region, and that 
further, if one could find enough of these 
angling cracks in the region, one could 
from the downward converging perpen- 
diculars estimate the point from which 
the disturbance emanated, the fociis. 
Then to describe the earthquake one 
must approximate the focus, draw lines 
through places that have suffered equal 
intensities of destruction, called isoseis- 
mals and construct similar lines 
through places at which the earthquake 
occurred at the same time — coseismals. 
Beside the foregoing data, the speed of 
transmission of waves, the description 
of the shock itself, its duration, nature, 
and the preliminary and sequent phe- 
nomena, must be ascertained. 

There were no preliminary shocks at 
Kingston. There usually have occurred 
slight shocks every month or so, but 
the last disaster came without warning" 
on the afternoon of January 14, at 3:32, 
when streets were crowded with busi- 
ness. The shocks that followed have 
numbered thirty or more, with a more 
severe one during each week. The 
most violent sequent shock occurred on 
February 23, five weeks after the disas- 
ter, which indicates that the adjustment 
is by no means completed. One small 
shock caine one morning at 3:30 with a 
slight wiggling of my cot, which 
awakened me instantly. The continu- 
ance of the motion gave one a sense of 
insecurity and unsteadiness with a 
slight tinge of dread and nausea. Upon 
first waking, a rushing, whistling sound 
approached from the southwest; it in- 
creased and passed overhead, rapidly 
lessening" and disappearing". Very sim- 
ilar in sound it was to the approach and 
swift passing of a large flock of ducks 



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flying low. Then from the race-course 
only a quarter-mile distant and only a 
short time quieted, came the cries of 
the frightened negroes and the howls 
of the numerous dogs with which Kings- 
ton is cursed, and the crowing of the 
many roosters in the trees — as they did 
about every hour during the night. 
Some sleepers did not notice the tremor, 
and when one is walking only a rather 
strong shock is noticeable. 

One line of investigation was the 
plotting of the isoseismals. On accoimt 
of the smallness of the island, closed 
curves could not be drawn, for 



to the east, did not feel the quake, nor 
Grand Cayman, a little farther to the 
west. But Santiago, 90 miles north, 
had a slight shock. At Washington, 
by the seismometer, a slight shock was 
recorded. From the restricted area, 
then, we know that the depth of the 
origin, or focus, was shallow, probably 
in the neighborhood of three miles. 

As to the direction of the path of the 
waves, we know that the larger waves 
approached the island from the south- 
west, and that when they reached the is- 
land they were changed according to the 
topography. So that in Kingston east 




ZONE OF FISSURES IN THE PALISADOES, SHOWING SLIGHT SUBSIDENCE OF BUILDINGS 



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the direction in general appeared 
to be from the southwest, though 
modified in direction on the island by 
the heterogeneity of materials. An area 
of greatest destruction, however, would 
take in the eastern half of the city of 
Kingston, along the west base of Long 
Mountain, dying out in intensity rapidly 
toward the east, and less so toward the 
west, and still less so northward. An 
area of less intensity, but of consider- 
able destruction was in the small town 
of Buff Bay, directly opposite, on the 
north shore of the island. In fact, one 
of the peculiar lessons to be drawn 
from this earthquake is the dependence 
of destruction upon plains and valleys. 
The eastern and western ends of the 
islands were affected in about the same 
degree. Porto Rico, a hundred miles 



and west walls were thrown eastward, 
as well as fence-posts, chimneys, col- 
umns and monuments, while a short 
distance north the northern walls suf- 
fered, showing a slight change of direc- 
tion of the path of the wave. At the 
western end of the Linguanea plain, at 
Spanish Town, the wave appeared to 
swing around and come from the east, 
while in a southeastern arm of this plain 
the wave appeared to enter the arm 
from the north and travel southeasterly. 
On the island, therefore, the epicentre, 
or the area above the focus, appeared 
to be in the vicinity of Kingston. From 
the angling cracks there, the path of 
the wave would dip about forty degrees 
to the west, which would indicate a dif- 
ferent locus for the origin of this quake 
than would the isoseismals and the epi- 



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centre. The wide difference in conclu- 
sion between the two classes or data 
have not yet been studied carefully, 
but they indicate a line of fault rather 
than a point as the locus of the origin 
for this earthquake. 

The earthquake lasted about thirty- 
five seconds, varying in length with 
the location and geological position of 
the observer. One man, used to earth- 
quake countries, hearing the sounds 
from the preliminary tremors, rushed 
out of doors only to be thrown down to 
the west in the street by the violent 
shaking. He dragged an injured com- 



The speed of the waves in this case 
can only be approximated. During a 
shock that occurred afterward of about 
one-third the intensity, from an inter- 
rupted telephone conversation from 
Kingston to Port Antonio, it was esti- 
mated that that wave travelled about two 
thousand feet per second. The prelim- 
inary tremors were heard before being- 
felt, and were probably slower than 
sound waves. With the increase of 
speed with the increase of intensity of 
earthquakes, it is likely that its rate of 
transmission was probably not much 
under ten thousand feet a second. 




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SOLDIERS STANDING IN SUBMEKGED CASEMATES AT PORT ROYAL. SUBSIDENCE HERE WAS OVER 
TWENTY FEET AND BROUGHT THE PALMS BELOW WATER 



panion a hundred feet or so during a 
slight lessening of the violence of the 
shock and then felt the second climax 
of a slow undulatory moveinent pass 
underneath. Another man afterward 
went through the same motions and 
found that he could jump through the 
fallen w^all of the house and then over 
a low fence and get into the street in 
about forty seconds. It is very diffi- 
cult, however, to tell just when the 
movement begins or ends, it is done so 
gradually. It is evident that in this 
disaster the movement reached its cli- 
max in about ten seconds, then lessened 
for about ten more, then gently swelled 
to a second climax and disappeared in 
about thirty-five seconds. Some places 
reported the quake of ninety seconds in 
duration, others only twenty. 



Very oddly a line of Assuring ap- 
peared to encircle the harbor of Kings- 
ton and ^ cause considerable subsidence 
in its bottom just off shore. Trees 
were submerged twenty-five feet along 
the .sand-spit, the Palisadoes, and the 
batteries at Port Royal sunk so that their 
casemates were flush with the water. The 
channel and the centre of the harbor ap- 
parently were untouched. This belt of 
subsidence varied in width from a hun- 
dred feet to two or three hundred yards. 

The destruction of the beautiful car- 
riage road to Newcastle and the injury 
to the barracks themselves was due 
more to their position on steep slopes or 
crests of divides than to the violence 
of the earthquake. 

There were manj' reports of sea- waves, 
but the only reliable account was gained 



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from a careful observer at the eastern 
end of the harbor. Here, a few mo- 
ments after the shock came, the water 
retreated a hundred feet or so, then ad- 
vanced and covered the shore inward 
about sixty feet. But the rest of the 
harbor was apparently unaffected. A 
similar phenomenon was noted on the 
north shore of the island- 

In conclusion, then, it might be said 
that the shock was of limited extent and 
shallow origin, but that its most de- 
structive area happened to coincide with 
the location of the city of Kingston; 
that the many brick walls and buildings, 



rather poorly built at that, taken in con- 
nection with the narrow streets, caused 
a much larger ratio of destruction to life 
and property than otherwise would have 
occurred; that the disasters of San 
Francisco, Valparaiso and Kingston 
should teach the lesson that in the case 
of cities located in a danger-zone (where 
there are many recurrent shocks of 
slight nature). certain types of buildings 
should be built, streets laid out and 
water and sewage systems planned in 
sections with the certain possibility of 
the coming of a disastrous earthquake. 



THE BROWN UNIVERSITY 

ASSOCIATION 



TEACHERS' 



By Professor Walter Ballon Jacobs 




ERTAIN cities prize their 
reputation as convention 
cities. If Brown Univer- 
sity has not yet the title 
convention university, it is 
not the fault of her hospitality or of the 
number of conventions that find their 
meeting place within her gates. It is 
more than fitting that such a mother of 
teachers as she has been should 
find her home the Mecca of annual pil- 
grimages, and rejoice in the home-com- 
ing of her sons and daughters. The 
university has reason to be proud of her 
children who have been teachers as they 
have reason to be proud of her. Brown 
University and the state of Rhode 
Island have as much reason to be proud 
of the plain granite shaft in the old 
North Burial Ground that marks the 
resting place of Horace Mann, as have 
the citizens of Massachusetts who have 
placed his statue before their state 
house. Can we imagine an assembly 
of teachers in which Francis Wayland 
would not hold a central and pre-emi- 
nent place? It is a sore sorrow to Har- 
vard that her first president cannot be 
remembered with honor. Few univer- 
sities have had a founder equal in bril- 
liancy and wisdom to the first great 



teacher of this university, James Man- 
ning, professor of languages and other 
branches of learning. To choose from 
the long- and illustrious list of those who 
have followed is a needless task. They 
are known to every son of Brown. But 
as Homer's hearers never tired to hear 
the catalogue of the ships, so Brown 
men never tire to hear of Angell at 
Michigan, of Wheeler at California, of 
Andrews at Nebraska, and we add to- 
that list a name of no small distinction, 
President Woolley of Mount Holyoke. 
In answer to the call for the fifth 
annual meeting of the Brown Univer- 
sity Teachers' Association responses 
came from the north, south, east, and 
west; from every state in New England, 
from New York, New Jersey', Penn- 
sylvania, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, 
Wisconsin, Kansas, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkan- 
sas, Louisiana, Texas, North Dakota and 
Washington. The president of the asso- 
ciation was Dr. Abercrombie, for a quar- 
ter of a century the honored head of Wor- 
cester Academy. The program reflect- 
ed in its definiteness, precision and 
careful organization the characteristics 
of the president. The speakers from 



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abroad were Professor Baker of the 
English department of Harvard, Pro- 
fessor Sachs and Professor Thorndike 
of Teachers CoHeg-e at Columbia; D. O. 
S. Lowell of the Roxbury Latin wSchool 
and President Taylor of Vassar. 

In his address of welcome, President 
Faunce, in his inimitable way, touched 
upon the responsibilities and the oppor- 
tunities of the teacher. "Teaching is 
a profession, not a trade. Trade makes 
every man a rival of all other traders; 
profession makes every man a colleague 
of all who work with him '' This was 
the key note of the meeting. The col- 
lege, the academy, the high school, the 
normal school and the elementary 
school all met together to discuss com- 
mon problems. 

The problem of the Friday afternoon 
meeting was the problem of accuracy in 
scholarship and how to secure it. Pro- 
fessor Baker dealt with the question of 
accuracy in English. We never shall 
secure accuracy in English so long as 
the pupil looks upon his English as 
something reserved for the English 
department or for state occasions, some- 
thing quite unnecessary for his work 
with other departments and quite out of 
place in the ordinary affairs of life. 
The average student regards "English 
as a dress-suit, and particularly out of 
place in the morning hours . ' ' To secure 
accuracy in English the teacher of Eng- 
lish must have active support, not only 
from the teachers of every other subject, 
but frotn the home. This support, it is 
sad to say, often comes more earnestly 
from the home of the immigrant, who 
seeks the treasures of a new language, 
than from the home of the native Ameri- 
can who in his security of possession 
is careless of how his English inherit- 
ance is transmitted to his son. Pro- 
fessor Baker's contention that the pupil 
regards the English taught in the class- 
room as something for ornament and 
not for actual use, is well illustrated by 
a story recently published in Judge: 

A certain little boy in a vinag;e school had 
fallen into the habit of saying "I have wrote" 
and "I have went." 

Tiie teacher tried in several ways to break 
hinr of this habit. One day she haa him re- 
main after school and write the two phrases 
lUO times each, thinking that in that way he 
would surely remember to say "I have writ- 
ten"' and "I have gone." 

A few minutes before he finished his task 



the teacher was called out of the room. When 
she returned she found on the desk the 
phrases correctly written 100 tinges, and be- 
side them a note, saying: 

"Dear Teacher: I have wrote 'I have writ- 
ten' too times and I have went home " 

Professor Thorndike spoke of accu- 
racy from the point of view of the 
psychologist. What we call accuracy 
corresponds in the nervous system to 
the power of making delicate connec- 
tions, and this power is markedly hered- 
itary. We ought to weigh a person's 
performance by that of his father or 
mother or grandparents and assign a 
place to heredity. But really there is 
nothing in the nature of mind why it 
shottld be accurate rather than inaccu- 
rate. The mind is as accurate as is 
necessary to accomplish its purpose. 
That and no inore. The only way to 
induce a boy to be more accurate is to 
show him that in some way it is profit- 
able to be accurate, particularly in the 
beginning of his education, that the 
habit may become set. The appeal to 
the instinct of contest or rivalry, partic- 
ularly with one's past accomplishments, 
has been used in experiments at Colum- 
bia with astonishing results. Average 
pupils were able by this method of pit- 
ting themselves against what they had 
done before and trying to improve on 
that to learn 1200 German words with 
their English equivalents in twenty 
hours. There is something wonderful 
in this power of the instinct of contest. 

Mr. Tilley of the Hope Street High 
School, Providence, approached the 
problem from the subjects of study 
where accuracy is the cardinal virtue, 
matheinatics and science. He advo- 
cated a wider use of checks in the work 
of the student. The bookkeeper's 
check is to add the column the other 
way; in algebra we substitute the value 
of -v in the original equation; in science 
we repeat the experiment. All this re- 
quires time. It is better to do less work 
and do it accurately than to do inuch 
work that is careless and inaccurate. 

The Friday evening meeting dealt 
with the problem of the higher educa- 
tion of women in Rhode Island. The 
meeting was held in the new Saylcs 
Gymnasium of the Women's College. 
President Taylor spoke strongly for the 
culture element in the college course 
and against in any way abridging the 



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time given to those studies which make 
for richness and fulness in the life of 
the soul. Mrs. Walter Stokes Irons 
pointed out some of the ways in which 
the women of Rhode Island might aid 
the Women's Collegfe. Perhaps the 
most illuminating- address of the even- 
ing was given by Dean King. In her 
address she presented a simple statisti- 
cal statement of what the Women's Col- 
lege has done for the education of Rhode 
Island women. Compare what the 
Women's College has done with the 
work done by colleges outside the 
state: 

"336 Rhode Island women have re^is'ernl 
at colleges outside of the state; of these 192 
have completed the course and graduated, 91 
are non-graduates, and 53 are now in college. 
Since the tall of 1891, when the Women's Col- 
lege was opened, 776 Rhode Island women 
have registered at Brown; of these 272 have 
graduated, 364 are non-graduates, and 140 
are now in college. Thus the contribution of 
the Women's College to the number of college 
women in the state is the multiplication of • 
the number of graduates by about two -ind 
one-half, o[ the number of non-graduates by 
about fiv'C, and of the present number of col- 
lege students by about four and one-half." 

Forty graduates of the college are at 
present teaching in the public or private 
high schools of the state. 27 others have 
at some time taught in these schools; 22 
are at present teaching in the element- 
ary schools, and 11 others have done so. 
The Women's Colleg-e bids fair to de- 
serve the title given it by President 
Andrews at its birth, a ''state college." 

The topic for discussion at the last 
session of the association was an im- 
portant one: "The Departmental Or- 
ganization of Teaching." Dr. Sachs 
fully recognized its importance when he 
said that in considering this subject 
''a question as large as the efificiency of 
our secondary school system is before 
us. " Neither the general utility teacher 
nor the extreme specialist is what we 
must seek. Both Dr. Sach and Mr. 
Lowell came to this conclusion, but by 
very different lines of thought. "As a 
matter of pure logic," said Mr. Lowell, 
it seems wiser not to load a fowling 
piece with grape and canister. The 
result may be as startling and more 
■disastrous than the discharge of the 
S'reat gun of which Eli Perkins tells. It 
was somewhere in Germany that he saw 
It. The cannon weighed 27 tons and 
the cannon-ball 36 tons. vSome one 



suspiciously asked hitn if he saw it fired. 
He said: 'Yes, and a curious thing 
happened. The ball stood perfectly 
still, and the cannon went twelve 
miles.'" Dr. Sachs would secure the 
proper organization of teaching in 
elementary schools by securing properly 
equipped teachers. The teacher should 
not be a strict specialist, but should be 
thoroughly equipped after the German 
model. He should be well equipped in 
knowledge and skill to teach in three 
departments, a major and two minors. 
This is excellent as an ideal, but at 
present our schools have difficulty in 
securing teachers well equipped in one 
subject. After all, the lack of thorough 
preparation on the part of teachers is at 
the door of the schools. As long as the 
schools will accept poorly prepared 
teachers, there is small inspiration for 
the future teacher to prepare himself 
thoroughly. 

As to departmental teaching in the 
grammar grades. Principal Chapin of 
the Rhode Island Stale Normal School 
declared himself a thorough agnostic, 
and found no sufificient reason in theory 
or experience for advocating one posi- 
tion as exclusive of the other. Under 
certain favorable conditions and limita- 
tions departmental teaching might be 
successful. Mr. Winslow of the Thayer 
Street Grammar School, Providence, 
seemed to have found such favorable 
conditions. . In opening the discussion, 
he described the departmental work in 
that school, and spoke in high terms of 
the success of the plan, and of its poptt- 
larity with pupils and teachers. 

The purpose of the association is to 
afford a means by which graduates of 
Brown who are teachers, wherever they 
are or in wh,3,tever field of work, may 
co-operate for mutual helpfulness. This 
year the addresses delivered before 
the association will be published in 
the April number of Education. The 
membership has been increased by nearly 
two hundred new members, and is 
thoroughly representative of the work 
of the sons of Brown in teaching. The 
present membership represents not only 
every section of the country, but every 
department of teaching, from the college 
president to the teacher in the element- 
ary school and the private tutor. The 
new president is Professor W. C. Bronson 



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Z. CHAFEE, Jr., '07 



H. 1). BRUCE. -07, Capt. 
WINNEKS AGAINST DARTMOUTH 



G. HURLEY, '07 



BROWN WINS AGAIN AT DEBATE 




jROWN on the evening: of 
March 4 again demonstrated 
her superiority at debate 
over Williams and Dart- 
mouth Colleo-es. Simulta- 
neous discussions were held at Provi- 
dence, Williamsto'wn and Hanover, 
Brown beating" Williams at Williamslown 
and Dartmouth in this city. Dartmouth 
won from Williams at Hanover. The 
same question was debated at all three 
places, the home team having the af- 
firmative in each case. 

Governor James H. Higgins, '98, 
presided over the debate in this city, 
while Hon. Herbert Parker, ex- 
attorney general of Massachusetts, Pro- 



fessor Charles H. Haskins of Harvard 
University and Hon. Arthur P. Stone of 
Cambridge, Mass., acted as the judges. 

The Brown debaters upheld the affirm- 
ative side of the question: 

"Resolved, That armed intervention 
is not justifiable on the part of any na- 
tion to collect, on behalf of private indi- 
viduals, financial claims against Ameri- 
can naticns." 

The members of the team represent- 
ing Brown at Providence were: Zech- 
ariah Chafee, Jr., '07, of this city, 
George Hurley, '07. of this city, and 
Harry D. Bruce, '07, of Moretown, Yt. 

Dartmouth's speakers, defending the 
negative side of the question, were 






D. L. STONE. '09 



R. N. DENNETT, '07. Capt. 
VICTORS OVER WILLIAMS 



C. R. BRANCH. 07 



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Harry G. Kelly, '07, of Omaha, Neb.; 
James B. Browne, '07, of Everett, Mass., 
and James M. O'Neill, '07, of Canan- 
daigiia, N. Y. 

From the beginning' the debaters of 
both teams showed that the question 
which they were discussing had been 
studied with great care and intelligence. 
In fact, the arguments were presented 
in such a succinct, clear and strong- 
manner that when the judges announced 
the result of their deliberations it was 
said that two of them had favored 
Brown, while the other believed that 
the Dartmouth debaters deserved the 
decision. 

The debate at Williamstown was close, 
both teams presenting a strong argu- 
ment, and their speaking being excep- 
tionally good. The decision of the 



judges rendered individually in writing 
to the presiding officer was two votes for 
Brown and one for Williams. 

The judges were Alfred S. Hayes and 
Walter I. Badger of Boston and Profes- 
sor Samuel Williston of Cambridge. 
The presiding officer was Professor 
Henry D. Wild of Williams, and music 
was furnished by the college orchestra. 

The speakers were: For Williams, 
George D. Carrington of New York, 
Elmer P. Groben of Buffalo, N. Y., and 
Roy H. Case of Canandaigua, N. Y.; 
for Brown, Claude R. Branch of Prov- 
idence, Donald Stone of Indianapolis, 
Ind., and Ralph N. Dennett of South 
Hadley Falls, Mass. , Carroll E. Robb of 
Richmond Hills, N. Y., was alternate 
for Williams, and Benjamin T. Schick 
of Fairwater, Wis., for Brown. 



FALL RIVER ALUMNI MEET 




In March 6th, the nineteenth 
annual dinner of the Sons 
of Brown of Fall River was 
held at the Quequechan 
Club. There was an in- 
formal reception in the library from 
6:30 to 7:30 o'clock, at which the treas- 
urer of the club. A. J. Wood, made the 
first "hit" of the evening, and not a 
son escaped payment of annual dues 
and banquet charges. The company 
then marched to the banquet room, to 
music by the Festival orchestra, which 
played throughout the dinner and so 
satisfactorily that several encores were 
given. The dining room had been 
very effectively decorated. A profu- 
sion of flags, the national emblem and 
Brown banners, were used, and festoons 
of artificial pink flowers were hung 
from the corners of the ceiling and 
clustered in the electric chandelier at 
the centre. There was also a profuse 
display of spring blossoms on the tables, 
azaleas, carnations and daffodils, and 
the effect of the whole was charming 
and generally commented upon. A 
boutonniere of a galax leaf and a white 
carnation, representing the college 
colors, brown and white, lay at every 
plate. The dinner was excellent and 



well served. Between the courses there 
was hearty singing, led by Joseph W. 
Mackenzie, the songs being old favor- 
ites, with which all present were famil- 
iar. 

Dr. Arthur I. McConnell, '87, vice- 
president, presided. He referred briefly 
to the growth of the college during the 
nineteen years since this club was 
organized, the number of the students 
having increased from 268 to 963, and 
the financial resources from less than a 
million dollars to more than three and 
a quarter millions. The material 
growth in buildings and equipment was 
also referred to. But material growth, 
he said, was not the only change that 
had taken place. Equal pace had also 
been kept in internal affairs. To tell of 
what was being done on these lines he 
presented Courtney Langdon, professor 
of Romance languages and literature 
at the university. 

Professor Langdon said that if his 
auditors were looking for progress in 
the physical growth of the college, he 
should refer them to the college cata- 
logue; if for material growth, he would 
tell them to go to Providence and see 
the many new buildings upon the camp- 
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would be noted by those who studied 
closely the affairs of the college; the 
salary of the professor had not ad- 
vanced. Material evidence is not, how- 
ever, the safest measure of progress. 
Dr. Adler says money is not wealth, 
which may be bought by money. 
Money can buy culture; it can also buy 
vulgarity. The progress of the univer- 
sity is not to be measured by money, 
unless also it has brought real wealth. 
Opposite the names of the professors in 
the catalogue ought to be the salaries of 
the professors. If proud of the number 
of the professors, the college ought also 
to be proud of the salaries paid to them. 
Institutions, like individuals, ought to 
live within their means. It is danger- 
ous to have too long a list of courses at 
the expense of the men to sustain them. 
Brown, in common with other colleges, 
has too many men and courses for its 
means. The professor, to eke out a 
living, is forced to give outside lectures 
and instruction. He gives the hours he 
is paid for to his college, but not the 
energy that he ought to, because he is 
forced to give part of this to outside 
affairs. He would not say this at such 
a gathering if it were not true of all uni- 
versities. 



Other speakers were Dr. Hubert G. 
Wilbur, representing the Harvard Club, 
who made a facetious and happy ad- 
dress, following which "Fair Harvard" 
was sung in his honor, and three cheers 
were given for the Harvard Club. F. 
W. Greene, Jr., Brown, 1902, represent- 
ing the Brown Club of New Bedford, 
which had twenty-three men at its din- 
ner this fall, one of them coming from 
New Jersey to be present, spoke, and 
so did Dr. Clarence F. Swift of Fall 
River, a graduate of Oberlin College. 
Their remarks were bright and witty, 
though Dr. Swift interrupted his fun 
long enough to say that he was glad of 
the notice Professor Langdon had served 
of a common peril to the colleges that 
must be met. "Nothing so counts for 
high-grade manhood," said Dr. Swift, 
"as the influence of the high-grade 
teacher." 

The reunion was another of the 
Brown Club's social successes in the 
opinion of each of the more than thirty 
men who attended it. 

The president-elect is Simeon Borden, 
'82; vice president. Dr. McConnel treas- 
urer, Augustus J. Wood, '95; secretary, 
Henry Fenner, '01; 



BRUNONIANS AT NEW BEDFORD 




ITH an attendance of over a 
score and a strong display 
of Brown spirit, the Brown 
Club of New Bedford was 
formed on Wednesday even- 
ing, Dec. 26, at the Parker House. 
Classes from 1848 to 1910 were repre- 
sented, a range of 62 years, and all 
were enthusiastic over the opportunity 
to meet their fellow Brunonians so- 
cially. 

Allen F. Wood presided and the 
speakers included John A. Gammons of 
Providence, Maj. Austin S. Cushman, 
(since deceased). Professor Frederick 
Slocum, Rev. Clarence M. Gallup, Theo- 
dore B. Baylies, William O. Devoll, Jr., 
Fred W. Greene, Jr., Dr. D. J. Low- 
ney and John W. Mayhew. 



Mr. Gammons urged that the local 
Brown men show their loyalty to their 
Alma Mater by turning all the young 
men preparing for college in the direc- 
tion of Brown University. Professor 
Slocum told of the growth of the college 
in the 15 years he has been connected 
with it, the number of buildings having 
increased from 9 to 23. Rev. Clarence 
M. Gallup discussed the influence of 
President Andrews on the student body, 
Qonsidering him the best educator of 
his time. Theodore B. Baylies told of 
the days when football teams were made 
up on the field, and gave the early his- 
tory of the Brown Daily Herald. 

William O. Devoll, Jr., representing 
the undergraduates, described the 
growth of Brown spirit in the last few 



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years. He mentioned as an illustration 
the fact that when an appeal for foot- 
ball funds was issued, John A. Gam- 
mons led off with a contribution of 
$500, which was quickly swelled to 



How he nearly became a football 
player was told by Dr. D. J. Lowney. 
As an underg-raduate Dr. Lowney was 
coaxed into a football game. He was 
playing- quarterback and gave, himself, 
the sig-nal to run with the ball. He ran 
about 80 yards, when the whole oppos- 
ing- team settled upon him. 

"I made up my mind that if I ever 
got out from under that pile alive I 
would quit football," said Dr. Lowney, 
and he said he kept his pledge. 

John W. Mayhew of Edgartown, the 
university halfback, spoke briefly, say- 
ing he was glad to do what he could to 
add to the honor of Brown. 

Maj. Austin S. Cushman was the last 
speaker and recounted happenings of 
over 60 years ago, when he was a stu- 
dent at Brown. He stated his conviction 



that the United States had no ideal uni- 
versity, but that Brown was nearer tO' 
the ideal than any other college. f"^ -J 

An election of officers was held dur- 
ing the evening with the following re- 
sults : President — Dr. H. W. Parker; 
first vice president — Maj. A. S. Cush- 
man; second vice president — Edward 
W. Holmes; secretary and treasurer — 
Fred W. Greene, Jr. 

Following is the list of those who at- 
tended the dinner : Allen F. Wood, '69; 
A. S. Cushman, '48; John A. Gam- 
mons, '98; Frederick Slocum. '95; E. 

E. Potter, "90; E. H. Gammons, '10; 

F. H. Childs, '05; W. O. Devoll, Jr., 
'07, John W. Mayhew, '09; Stephen A. 
Lowe, '05; Charles O. Dexter, '85; 
Raymond W. Seamans, '05; Edward 
W.' Holmes, '03; Gardner T. Hart, '06 
W. H. Hand, Jr. '98; T. B. Bajdies 
'95; Rev. CM. Gallup, '96; Allen W 
Milliken, '04; Frank H. Gifford, '81 
Fred W. Greene, Jr., '02; James L 
Sherman, '03; Dr. D. J. Lowney, '98 



BROWN DINNER AT NEWPORT 





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ANUARY 31 was the date of 
the annual dinner of the 
Newport Brown Alumni 
Association, which was held 
in the rooms of the Mianto- 
nomi Club and proved to be not only 
one of the most largely attended but one 
of the most enjoyable in the series of 
annual gatherings of Brown men and 
their friends in the former Rhode Island 
capital. 

The meeting was held in the up- 
per story of the club, where a large 
banquet hall has recently been fitted up 
with coat and reception rooms adjoining. 
An informal reception was held early in 
the evening, when the members and 
their guests gathered in social inter- 



course, awaiting the arrival of President 
Faunce and other guests from Provi- 
dence, who were delayed an hour by a 
late train. 

During the reception the annual 
business meeting of the association 
was held, with the reading of the record 
of the last meeting', the treasurer's 
report and the election of officers, the 
choice of the latter being as follows: 

President — Alan R. Wheeler, '01; 
first vice president — William R. Harvey, 
'01; second vice president — William P. 
Buftum, '79; secretary and treasurer — 
Clarence A. Carr, '87; executive com- 
mittee—Fred M. Hammett. '80, R. G. 
Martin, '04, Benjamin F. Thurston, 
'80. 



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PROFESSOR EDMUND C. BURNETT. 90 
Who has become a principal assistant of Dr J. F. Jameson in the REV. FfkEDERlCK E STOCKWELL. 90 

department of historical research of the Carnegie Institute at Called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New 
Washington. . burgh, N . Y,, from the churchat Beverly, N |. 




PKOFESSOR CHARLES W. BROWN, 1900 GEGKGE DUDLEY CHURCH, 99 

Assistant professor of geology at Brown University, whose article Headmaster of the Abbott School, Farmington, Me, which has 

on the Jamaica earthquake appears in this number of the two other Brown men on the faculty and is rapidly growing 

Alumni Monthly. in numbers and influence. 



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THE 

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Published for the Graduates of Brown University 
By the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

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and Business Manager 

Address all communications to the Brown Alumni 
Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 

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matter. 

APRIL, 1907 

FOR HIGHER SALARIES AT 
BRO WN 

"The one respect in which we have done 
nothing whatever for our faculty in the last 
thirty years is in the compensation paid to 
our full professors. The maximum salary 
paid to a professor is the same today as when 
J. Lewis Diman began to teach, while the 

cost of living is at least a third more To 

economise here is the worst conceivable ex- 
travagance. To cripple our faculties is to 
degrade the ideals of America. When I say 
that Brown University needs a million dollars 
for increase in the salaries of professors more 
than it needs that sum for any other purpose 
whatever — I say what evokes instant response 
in the mind and heart of every alumnus." — 
President Fau?ice at the Boston atiinini dinner. 

Since making- this statement the presi- 
dent has spoken repeatedly to the same 
purpose. As he says, the movement 
for higher salaries for professors is not 
merely a local one, though there are 
conditions that intensify the situation at 



Brown. The discussion of it has been 
wide-spread. The Educational Review 
for January published a 12-page bibliog- 
raphy relating to teachers' salaries and 
pensions, besides a forceful article on 
the compensation of college teachers. 
The late President Harper of Chicago, 
and President Butler of Columbia have 
in particular borne witness to the criti- 
cal importance of more adequate salaries 
to the present and future influence of 
our universities ; and President Schur- 
man of Cornell spoke convincingly on 
the subject in a recent public address, 
the substance of which we give on 
another page. In this general situation 
the position of Brown is one that the 
loyal alumnus cannot contemplate with 
satisfaction. The present standard 
salary of our full professors went into 
effect in the fall of 1870, when the max- 
imum was raised from $2,500 to $3,000. 
Not to mention the increase in the cost 
of living since that date, the advance in 
the standard of living, especially in a 
community like Providence, has been 
so great in these forty years as to place 
the professor of today, who is dependent 
upon his salarv^, in a social position far 
inferior to that of his predecessor of a 
generation ago. Not all our full pro- 
fe sors, it is understood, receive the 
established maximum, though great 
credit is due to the present adminis- 
tration for its efforts in bringing up 
deficient salaries. But $3,000 will no 
longer suffice for the salary of a Brown 
professor. Our present standard should 
be $4,000 at the very least; and even 
with the addition of one -third to his 
salary the professor of today will hardly 
find himself so advantageously situated 
as the professor of 1870. But such an 
increase of salary would be a recogni- 
tion of the university's obligation to its 
professors tmder present conditions, and 
it would be a long step in advance. A 
financial journal remarks that an in- 



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crease in wages, "on a scale never seen 
before, marks the closing- months of 
1906. ' ' We believe that the friends and 
alumni of Brown will see to it that the 
professors at the university are not 
overlooked in this readjustment of the 
nation's economic equilibrium. 

But the question, as President Faunce 
has pointed out, is one vastly wider 
than the needs and claims of the present 
faculty of Brown University. It in- 
volves the ultimate standing of the uni- 
versity itself. To hold the position 
which it now occupies in the front rank 
of what may be called the academic 
universities of America, Brown must 
have a teaching force which shall be 
second to that of no other institution. 
This means that Brown must be enabled 
henceforth to keep its professors in spite 



of calls from elsewhere; that when it 
seeks new professors its salary must be 
sufficient to attract teachers of the high- 
est quality: and last, but not least, that 
its salary shall in some sense warrant 
the brilliant men among its own gradu- 
ates in turning aside from the prizes of 
business and fitting themselves to suc- 
ceed their own ablest teachers in the 
faculty. 

Such is the problem at Brown, which 
in var3dng degrees is the problem of 
every American university. Upon its 
solution almost more than upon that of 
any other present-day problem in the 
field of higher education, depends the 
relative standing of our universities in 
the near future, and even their influence 
as a whole upon the life of the nation. 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 




RINCETON is to have a crew 
and it seems a pity that 
Brown cannot have one also. 
When our numbers were 
less than 300 our crews 
rowed at Worcester and Saratoga, yet 
now with 600 male undergraduates we 
are unrepresented on the water. 

Crews cost a large ainount of money, 
but why not organize a four-oar boart to 
begin and challenge, for instance, the 
Yale or Harvard 'varsity substitutes, or 
any other college quartette? The 
Monthly ventures to say that if a be- 
ginning were made enough interest 
would be aroused to justify a more am- 
bitious development later on. 

With the Seekonk less than a mile 
away. Brown ought to be a rowing col- 
lege again. 

Why not call a meeting to talk the 
matter over? 

President The argument for in- 

Schurman creasing the salaries of our 
0^ ^ teachers, especially those 

Salaries in colleges, was urged with 

much force by President 
J. G. Schurman at the dinner of the 



Cornell alumni in this city (New York) 
Saturday night. (March 2). He is the 
third or fourth college president who 
within a few months has laid this sub- 
ject before New York graduates; it has 
also been discussed in the magazines — 
notably by Professor J. B. Fletcher of 
Columbia in the January issue of the 
Educational Review. President 
Schurman 's plea was not specifically for 
Cornell; he spoke rather in behalf of the 
general cause of education. The average 
salary of college and university profes- 
sors in the United States is, as he pointed 
out, only $1,200. "The maximum salary 
is seldom more than $3,000 or $4,000, 
and then only in or near great cities, in 
which the $5,000 or $7,000 actually paid 
represents no real increase." This in- 
crease is far below that of engineers, 
lawyers and physicians. Indeed, the 
salaries of college professors have re- 
mained practically stationary for two 
decades, while the cost of living has in- 
creased 50 per cent. President Schur- 
man would not make the pay of the pro- 
fessor so large that it would "serve as 
a bribe" to those who do not feel the 
"inner call." He and all who have 
studied this grave problem know that 



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the salaries are always likely to be too 
low rather than too hig-h; but he utters 
a plain warning" that the salaries . must 
suffice to provide the ordinary comforts 
of life for the teacher's family, must 
supply him with necessary books, and 
educate his children. On any other 
terms ambitious men will be frig-htened 
away from the profession. And, he 
adds, "if the ablest young men of the 
country cease to become teachers in our 
highest institutions of learning, the 
training of the rising' generation will 
suffer, ideas will become stagnant, and 
the boundaries of knowledge will cease 
to expand." In fine, the evidence is 
irresistible that the time has come when 
our colleg^e benefactors can perform the 
g:reatest service, not by devoting their 
money to buildings and material equip- 
ment, but to strengthening the teaching 
force. — The Nation, March 7 . 

* * l» 

.Woonsocket The recent Brown din- 
^iid ners at Albany and Woon- 

Albany socket occurred too late for 

Dinners adequate treatment in this 

number of the Monthly. 
Reports, however, are being- prepared 
and will be printed next month. Both 
dinners were of unusual interest. 

^ fi ^ 

Historic A most interesting' his- 

Pictures torical and artistic gift has 

for been made to Brown b}^ 

Brown Mr. Samuel Morris Con ant 

of Pawtucket. His letter 
to President Faunce transmitting the 
g:ift is in part as follows: 

March 8, 1907, 

My Dear President Faunce: 

I herewith give to Brown University a set of 
14 pictures, painted in oil by Frank O. Small. 
These paintings are illustrative of notable 
scenes and events in early American history. 
I give them to the university upon the condi- 
tion that they be hung on the walls of one or 
more of the rooms used, or to be used, by the 
department of American history, I will 
enumerate the paintings as follow^s: "Colum- 
bus," "The First Slave Market," "A Hudson 
River Fur Trader," "Return of the May- 
flower, ' ' "Presentation to William Penn of the 
Emblems of Possession of His Colony," 



"Death of King Philip," "English Soldiers 
Scaling the Heights at Quebec," "A Salem 
Witch Trial," "A Colonial Town Meeting in 
New England," Samuel Adams Denouncing 
the Tea Duty in the Old South Meeting 
House," "Washington and Lafayette," 
"Washington Taking Leave of His Officers," 
"The Signing of the Constitution." "Daniel 
Boone." 

For several reasons this seems an opportune 
time for me to add to the equipmeat of Brown 
University. My sons have had, and are now 
having, the advantages of Rhode Island edu- 
cational institutions. My ho,iored father, 
Hezekiah Conant, in the latter part of his life, 
assisted the German and astronomical depart- 
ments of Brown University, and I in turn 
would like very much to assist ni this way the 
department of American history, as my tastes 
have always been particularly drawn toward 
art and the beginnings of New England. 

I subscribe myself. 

Very sincerely yours, 
(Signed) Samuel Morris Conant. 



¥ ^ *l 

Various Brown was represented 

University at the dedication of the 
Activities $75,000 Delta Phi chapter 
house at Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York, March 7. 

A series of important volumes is to be 
prepared under the auspices of the 
American Historical Association, and 
under the general editorship, as the 
representative of the association, of J. 
Franklin Jameson, Ph.D., LL.D., di- 
rector of the department of historical 
research in the Carnegie Institution at 
Washington, and formerly professor of 
history at Brown. The volumes are dei- 
signed to provide scholars and other 
individual readers of history and the 
libraries of schools and colleges with a 
comprehensive and well-rounded collec- 
tion of those classical narratives on 
which the early history of the United 
States is founded — the ipsissima verba 
of the first narrators. Argonauts or eye 
witnesses, vivacious explorers or cap- 
tains courag-eous. 

An alumnus in the far west recently 
sent his check for eleven dollars to the 
imiversity in payment for the Alumni 
Monthly and the Historical Catalogue, 
writing: "Please turn the balance into 
the printing fund or postage fund of the 
university. This is an acknowledg- 



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ment of various items of mail matter re- 
ceived by me in the past few years." 

On Saturday evening, Mar. 9, Mr. 
Owen R. Lovejoy, assistant secretary of 
the National Committee on Child Labor, 
delivered an address under the auspices 
of the Civics Club, giving' a short outline 
of the committee's plans. 

At the annual meeting of the Rhode 
Island Library Association on Feb. 25, 
H. L. Koopman, the librarian of the 
university, was for the third time elected 
president. 

The annual spring examinations took 
place during the second and third weeks 
in March. From Mar. 20 to Mar. 27 the 
college was closed for the usual spring 
recess. 

President Faunce is to be the orator 
of the day on Tuesday Sept. 10, when 
Rhode Island day is celebrated at the 
Jamestown Ter-Centenary Exposition. 

The junior class had an enjoyable 
supper at the Crown Hotel on the even- 
ing of -Mar. 8. Captain Pryor of the foot- 
ball team was toastmaster. 

The senior class in engineering re- 
cently presented to Professor O. E. 
Randall a silver loving cup as a mark of 
admiration and esteem. 

There will be a Harvard-Brown chess 
tournament at Rockefeller Hall, early in 
April, with 10 men on each side. 

An Amherst-Brown chess tournament 
is in progress in Providence as the 
Monthly goes to press. 

Professor Kraeger of Dusseldorf, 
Germany, lectured on Arnold Boecklin 
at Manning Hall, Mar. 28. 

April 15 and 16 are the dates chosen 
for the annual Vaudeville Club enter- 
tainment. 

March 1-3 was the annual "visitors 
day" at Brown. 

*» ¥ f 

Enlarging The Women's College is 

Women's to have a larger campus, 
College thanks to the gift by 

Campus Stephen O. Metcalf, '78, 

of a tract on Cushing 
street. The property consists of the 
house a ad lot at 101 Cushing street, ad- 
joining the property at 99 Cushing street , 



given to the college two years ago by 
Mr. Metcalf and Mrs. Radeke. The 
property directly adjoins the Sayles 
Gymnasium. Both the lot now given 
and the neighboring one. No. 99, are 
built upon, and it will be necessary to 
tear down or move away the structures, 
consisting of a large double tenement, 
with a stable in the rear of No. 101, be- 
fore the work of laying out the addition 
to the campus can proceed. The work 
of demolition, it is expected, will be be- 
gun as soon as the necessary prelimina- 
ries are completed, in order thai the 
grounds may be laid out as completely 
as possible during the coming summer. 
In addition to the necessary work of 
clearing and grading, the plans, so far 
as fixed, contemplate the planting of 
trees to give the scholastic shade associ- 
ated with the idea of a cam]3us. When 
completed the campus will, it is ex- 
pected and hoped, prove a great addition 
to the beauty and the usefulness of the 
Women's College and its surroundings. 

¥ 1^ ¥ 

Modern The Rhode Island group 

Language of the New England Mod- 
Association ern Language Association 
assembledf orits third meet- 
ing Feb. 23, in room 5 of Sayles Hall. 
The gathering brought out a fair attend- 
ance and several speakers of note made 
addresses during the course of the 
session . 

The meeting was called to order at 3 
o'clock by Professor A. Clinton Crowell, 
t hairman of the state group, and after a 
short business session he introduced 
Miss Gertrude E. Hall of Albany, N. Y., 
who led a discussion on the subject of 
"Method in Sight-Translation." The 
speaker considered the question psycho- 
logically and from several points of 
view. She declared that some of the 
best results are reached by training the 
memory to remember words, by teach- 
ing the student to compare English with 
German terms, and instilling a creative 
imagination in the pupil which would 
help him to divine the meaning of words 
as he reads along. 

William B. Snow of the English High 
School, Boston, followed with an ad- 
dress on "The Teaching of Elementary 
French." He considered that less 



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emphasis should be placed on the lan- 
g-uage itself and more on g-eneral educa- 
tion, which was the main thougfht of all 
teaching-. 

The principal address of the afternoon 
was delivered by Professor Camillo von 
Klenze of Brown, formerly of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. Taking- for his sub- 
ject: "Texts most desirable for Second 
and Third Year German," the speaker 
declared that these grades generally con- 



fine themselves to the reading- of 18th 
century classics, whereas more attention 
should be paid to the literature of the 
19th century, including the lyrics, short 
stories and dramas of the latter period. 
The importance of iiuch names as Lleist, 
Grillparser, Hebbel and Hauptmann in 
the dramatic line was especially empha- 
sized. 

The next stated meeting of the Rhode 
Island group will be held in November. 



THE ATHLETIC CALENDAR 




T the Lyman Gj-mnasium, on Wed- 
nesday evering, March 6, Brown 
closed the basketball season by 
defeating Dartmouth, 22 to 21. 
As the score indicates, the game 
was close and exciting, fortune 
shifting from one side to the other as the play 
progressed. At the end of the first half the 
tally was 9 to 6 in favor of Dartmouth, but 
Brown outplayed the Green in the last half, 
Dickinson's fine work being an important 
factor in the victory. As soon as the game 
was over, the Brown players were borne aloft 
on the shoulders of their enthusiastic fellows 
amid cheers and songs. A bonfire was lighted 
on the campus and a war dance took place 
about it. 

Having beaten Dartmouth at baseball, foot- 
ball, debating and basketball within a year. 
Brown feels most comfortable and cordial 
toward her Hanover neighbor. 

The bas!:etball team won from Harvard, 
Yale, Dartmouth and several other important 
teams. 

The basketball record for the season is as 
follows: 



BASKETBALL RECORD 



Jan. 5. 
Jan. 9. 
Jan. 12. 
Jan. 16. 
Jan. 19. 
Jan. 23. 
Jan. 26. 
Jan. 30. 



Feb. 1. 
Feb. 2. 
/eb. 6 
Feb. 9. 
Feb. 13. 
Feb. 18. 
Feb. 27. 
Feb. 30. 
Mar. 6. 



Brown 15 
Brown 26 
Brown 23 
Brown 38 
Brown 19 
Brown 29 
Brown 15 
Brown 12 
Brown 16 
Brown 7 
Brown 21 
Brown 13 
Brown 11 
Brown l6 
Brown 33 
Brown 30 
Brown 22 



Tufts 

M. I. T. 

Wesleyan 

Boston Univ. 

Pennsylvania 

Trinity 

Harvard 

Colgate 

Andover 

Dartmouth 

Weslevan 

M I. t. 

Williams 

M. I. T. 

Hamilton 

Yale 

Dartmouth 



18 
17 
22 
"9 
27 
14 
13 
23 
19 
30 
36 

5 
19 
10 

6 
19 
21 





Games 


No. 


No. 


Total 




Played. 


Baskets 


Fouls 


Pts. 






Scored 


Scored 


Scored 


Pryor 


17 


58 


19 


135 


Reynolds 


13 


22 


32 


76 


Schwartz 


17 


30 




60 


Dickinson 


17 


7 


13 


27 


Ladd 


12 


9 


1 


19 


Elrod 


12 


9 


1 


19 


Hallborg 


6 


5 


1 


11 


Totals 




140 


67 


347 



COLUMBIA WINS AT WATER GAMES 

Brown beat Columbia at water polo, 1 to 0, 
at the Hoyt Swimming Pool, March 5, but 
Columbia outdistanced the home team at the 
other water games and won the meet, 42 to 11. 
Brown was handicapped by the absence, 
through illness, of Captain Bushell. 



SWIMMING SEASON 

The close of the season of the Intercollegiate 
Swimming League found Brown hopeful for 
the future rather than exultant over the past. 
Two meets were held away from home, with 
Princeton and Pennsylvania, and three at 
home, with Harvard, Yale and Columbia. 
The record: 

SWIMMING 

16 Harvard 
14 Yale 

8 Pennsylvania 

17 Princeton 
11 Columbia 

66 Opponents 

WATER POLO 

6 Harvard 

Yale 

" 1 Pennsylvania 

" 2 Princeton 

" 1 Columbia 

Games won by Brown, 2; lost, 3. 



Brown 



Brown 
Brown 



37 
34 
44 
36 
42 

193 

4 
1 
3 
4 




Brown 346 Opponents 

Games won by Brown, 10; lost 8. 



308 



COLLEGE GYMNAST 

A. L. Denton of Pittsfield, X. J., won the 
title of college gymnast at the Brown physical 
training exhibition March 9, in Lyman Gym- 



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199 



nasium with a score of 138 7-15. Robert 
Whitmarsh was second with 131 1-6, andR. B. 
Farnum third with 119 7-10. It was visiting 
day and the "g-ym" was crowded with mem- 
bers of the corporation, faculty, visiting com- 
mittees and their friends, who showed great 
interest in the system of physical training 
used at the university. 



BROWN-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL 

Saturday, November 23, has been agreed up- 
on as the date of this year's Brown-Dartmouth 
football game, but the place has not been se- 



lected. Dartmouth has a leaning toward 
Manchester, but Brown is opposed to that dis- 
tant and comparatively small city. 



WORCESTER ACADEMY PLAYERS 

Some of the crack Worcester academy play- 
ers will probably go next fall to the following 
institutions: Greenwood, quarterback, Cornell 
or Worcester "Tech"; Cha.se, left guard, 
Dartmouth; Crowley, centre, Dartmouth; 
Dudley, guard, Harvard; Gildersleeve, full- 
back, Worcester "Tech"; Jones, halfback, 
Amherst or Brown; Young, halfback, Brown 
or Worcester "Tech"; Kellen, guard. Harvard. 



OBITUARIES 



JOHN CARTER BROWN, 1860 

John Carter Brown of the class of 1860 died 
at his home in Providence, Feb. 19, 1907, a^ed 
66 years, 11 months and 4 days. He was the 
son of Nicholas and Matilda Clements Brown 
and was born in New York city, March 15, 
1840. He received his early education in 
Providence, entering Brown in the autumn of 
1856 and remaining one year, after which he 
completed his studies in Europe. At the out- 
break of the war in 1861, he promptly offered 
his services and was commissioned as major 
in a New York regiment. For nearly two 
years he served with credit in Virginia. The 
hardships and exposure of army life seriously 
Impaired a constitution nev^er very robust. 
He struggled bravely against the disease 
which blasted his hopes of usefulness to his 
country in the field and finally was compelled 
to resign. He returned to his home carrying 
the seeds of disease, from which he suffered 
for the remainder of his life. 

On April 15, 1869, he married Miss Anne 
Crawford Allen of Providence, who survives 
him. 

Mr. Brown inherited from his father a love 
for books, and devoted much of his time to 
their society. He was especially versed in the 
history, language and litei-ature of France 
and Italy. He was a great lover of nature as 
well and the happiest hours of his life, it is 
said, "were spent amid the peaceful scenes of 
his country home at North Kingstown." 

AUGUSTUS NELSON CUNNINGHAM, 1863 

Augustus Nelson Cunningham, of the class 
of 1.S63, died at his home in East Providence, 
R. I., February 25, 1907, at the age of 65 
years, 3 months and 20 days. Mr. Cunning- 
ham was the son of Joseph N and Sara 
Aborn (Bishop) Cunningham, and was born 
in that part of Seekonk which is now East 
Providence, November 5. 1841. He prepared 
for college at the University Grammar School, 
Providence, and in 1859 entered Brown Uni- 
versity where he remained for two years. At 
the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a 
member of Company D, Second Rhode Island 
regiment. Later he re-enlisted in the 78th 



New York regiment and was made a second 
lieutenant, serving in that capacity until the 
consolidation with the 102d New York, when 
he was returned to the Rhode Island regiment 
and was made captain of Company H. He 
was mustered out of service at Haven Hill, 
Va , July 31, 1865. 

After the war was over Mr. Cunninghain 
became a civil engineer and in his earlier life 
was associated with his father. He served 
in the employ of the Boston and Providence 
railroad and with his father laid out the road 
for that company, and later was with the 
Boston, Hartford and Eiie, and the Connecti- 
cut Valley Railroads He served the latter 
road as superintendent of construction and su- 
perintendent of bridges, and when the road 
changed hands and was absorbed by the Old 
Colony railroad, he was made assistant road- 
master. 

Mr. Cunningham had been prominent in the 
social and political life of East Providence, 
and in 1886 President Cleveland appointed 
him postmaster. In this capacity he served 
until 1891, and it was due to his "efforts that 
the office was raised from a third to a second 
class rating. In 1887 he was elected to the 
Rhode Island senate on the Independent 
Democratic ticket and served one year. As 
highway surveyor of the first district of East 
Providence Mr. Cunningham had of late years 
rendered the greatest service. - Under his di- 
rection the roads of the town in his district 
were improved to a great extent and at 
a small cost to the town. 

He married Miss Hattie Burleigh Frink of 
Windham, Conn., and had two children, both 
of whom died before reaching maturity. 



Notice has been received of the death of 
Augustus Cummings, 1854; Henrv Dudley 
Williams, 1855; Ellery Metcalf Brayton, 1866;, 
William Clawson Lott, 1882; Henrv Anthony 
Tillinghast, 1882; Stephen Earl Greatrix, 1905; 
Byron Whittemore, 1906 ; Margaret May 
Levere 1907; George Albert Kemp, 1 9(3 
Obituaries will appear in the May issue. 



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BRdNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 



The A /inn 111 
1852 

"Senator Isaac W. Brooks of Torrington 
was given a cordial welcome Wednesday by 
his colleagues in the senate on his return to 
his legislative duties,'' says a Hartford pa]ier. 
The senator has been quite sick as a result of 
a fall which he sustained while walking down 
the steps of the new federal building in Tor- 
rington some weeks ago. 
1866 

Judge Francis A. Gaskill was recently elect- 
ed president of the board of trustees of Wor- 
cester Academy, Worcester, Mass. 

The class of '66 at its 40th reunion, on June 
19, 1906, voted to raise a fund of SI, 000 to add 
to the permanent fund for sustaining the John 
Hay Library, now in process of foundation. 
The class has raised one-half the amount and 
expects to secure the balance at the coming 
commencement. 

1872 

Hon. Andrew J. Jennings has been re-elect- 
ed president of the Fall River Y. M. C. A. 
187-1 

Hon. D. L. D. Granger was a member of 
the recent part}' of congressmen who went to 
Panama to investigate conditions there. 
1877 

Rev. Dryden W. Phelps of New Haven, 
Conn., has received a unanimous call to the pas- 
torate of the Baptist church at Hueneme, Cal. 
1880 

On March 9, President Faunce was one of 
the speakers at the Delta Upsilon Club dinner 
in New York. 

Hon. David F. Slade has been elected vice 
president of the Fall River Five Cent Savings 
Bank. 

1881 

On March 9, Governor Hughes was the 
guest of honor of the Delta Upsilon Club of 
New York. 

Rev. Frankliji G. McKeever, D. D., pastor 
for more than fourteen years of the First Bap- 
tist Church of New London, Conn., delivered 
a lecture on Tuesday evening, Feb. 19, at the 
Newton Theological Institution on ' Michel- 
angelo and His Masterpieces." The lecture 
was highly commended by both faculty and 
students. 

1882 

William H Tolman of New York has an il- 
lustrated article on " Workingmen's Gardens 
in France," in the March issue of the Cen- 
tury Magazine. The pictures are by Andre 
Castaigne. 

Sam Walter Foss, librarian of the Somer- 
ville. Mass., Public Library, read a paper be- 
fore the Rhode Island Library Association on 
Feb 25, taking for his subject, "Man before 
mechanism: a librarian's first duty is to his 



public." At this meeting Mr. Foss was elect- 
ed one of the two honorary members of the 
association. 

1883 
The address of Rev. Joseph ]\I Hobbs is 
changed from 169 Academy avenue to 29 
Dover street. Providence. 

1884 

A service in memory of the Rev. Everett 
Doughty Burr, D. D., was held by the 
First Baptist Church of Newton Centre, 
Mass., on Thursday evening, March 14. The 
speakers were Professor C !<.. Brown Presi- 
dent, Nathan E. Wood, Rev. Charles R. 
Reese, Rev. Edward M. Noyes, Rev. John A. 
Hague, Mr. George W. Coleman and Presi- 
dent W. H. P. Faunce. 
1885 

Professor James Charles Monaghan of Wash- 
ington, D. C. and formerly of Providence, has 
resigned his poution as chief of the consular 
division of the bureau of manufactures at 
Washington. It is understood that he will 
return to educational work. 
1886 

Professor George Grafton Wilson was one of 
the speakers at the dinner • the Harvard 
Club, held at the University Ckib, Providence, 
on the evening- of March 5. 
1887 

Professor Walter C. Bronson was elected 
president of the Brown Univer.-,ity Teachers' 
Association, at its recent meeting. He has 
recently been in Asheville, N. C, recovering 
from an illness. 

1890 

Rev. Frederick Emerson Stockwell has been 
called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Newburg, N. Y., which has 
had only three pastors in more than 100 years. 
Mr Stockwell is at present pastor of the Pres- 
byterian church at Beverly, N. J., where he 
has been since 1899. While at college he was 
an editor of the Brunonian, a member of the 
Delta Upsilon fraternity and a scholar of high 
standing. He married a daughter of Chancellor 
MacCracken of New York University. Mr. 
Stockwell received the degree of D. B. from 
Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 
1898, and the degree of A. M. from Columbia 
L^niversitv in 1899. He was a teacher at the 
Franklin School, Philadelphia, 1890-92, and at 
the Classical High School, Providence, 1892-94; 
travelled in Europe and Asia, 1896-97; was 
ordained a Congregational minister in 1898; 
was assistant pastor, West End Presbyterian 
Church, New York, 1898-99; and has been 
pastor of the church at Beverly ever since. 

Professor Lyman C. Newell of Boston Uni- 
versity has an article in School Science and 
Mathematics for March, entitled, "Profit 
and Lost in Experimantal Chemistry." 

Thomas Edwin Brown, Jr., has been ap- 
pointed a federal judge in Panama. Mr. 



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201 



Brown was born in Brooklyn, N, Y., in 1867, 
and was graduated from Brown University in 
1890. Immediately after he went to the Pacific 
coast and spent a year on the staff of the 
Tacoma Daily News. Afterward he re- 
turned to New York, studied law at the New 
York Law School, and became a member of 
the bar. In 1895 Mr. Brown was a supervisor 
of the state census, which was the only gov- 
ernmental position he had held prior to the 
Panama appointment. He is a member of 
Phi Beta Kappa, the Brown University Club 
and several political clubs. He has been long 
identified with the Washington Heights Re- 
publican organization. "I do not think that 
this position is in any sense a political appoint- 
ment," said Mr. Brown in an interview with 
a New York reporter. "As I understand it, 
the judges are being picked from different 
parts of the country, irrespective of their po- 
litical affiliations. There are to be five of 
them, to be known as district judges, and they 
will try all cases, civil and criminal, not going 
to the circuit court. In fact, they will answer 
the purpose of courts of the first instance. 
Aside from that, I understand that they will 
be courts without record — that is, that they 
will have no seals." Judge Brown is the son of 
Rev. T. E. Brown, formerly of Providence and 
now of New Britain, Conn.; and a brother of 
Judge George S. Brown, '88, of Nevada and 
Theodore S. Brown, '92, of Peace Dale, R. I. 

S. G. Goldthwaite has been appointed post- 
master at Boone, Iowa. After graduation 
from Brown in 1890 he entered the newspaper 
business as city editor of the Boone Daily 
News. He became one of the editors and 
proprietors of the Boone County Republican 
in 1892, selling out in 1896, to take a position 
with the Dry Goods Reporter in Chicago. 
In 1899 he became editor of the News, and 
on October 1, 1906, combined the Daily 
News and Evening Republican into the 
Newi-Republican. Mr. Goldthwaite's pho- 
tograph was printed in the December issue of 
the Alumni Monthly. 

1893 

Dr. Clarence E. Ide is with the Greene 
Gold-Silver Company, at Temosachic, Chih, 
Mexico. 

The many friends of Andrew C. McKenzie, 
Esq., will regret to learn that his condition 
does not improve. He is now living with his 
sister, Mrs. RicharJ S. Wilder, Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Walter S. Reynolds is president of the 
Young People's League of the Union Congre- 
gational Church, Providence. 

Henry A. Barker, chairman of the special 
committee on Appalachian reservations of the 
American Civic Association, has been active 
in trying to secure the passage by the United 
States house of representatives of the bill, al- 
ready passed by the senate, providing for the 
creation of a White Mountain and an Appa- 
lachian forest reserve. 

1893 advanced 

Professor Herbert E. Walter delivered a lec- 
ture recentlv before the Audubon Society of 



Rhode Island on "Feathers." The lecture 
was given at Rhode Island Hall and was illus- 
trated by the epidiascope. 

1895 

Arthur J. Hull of Bridgeport, Conn., was 
re-elected in November to the Connecticut 
house of representatives, and was appointed 
chairman of the house excise committee, 
which has important legislation in its charge 
this year. 

1897 

Rev. Harris E. Starr was installed as pastor 
of the Congregational church at Mt. Carmel, 
Conn., Feb. 20. The charge to the church 
was delivered by Professor Charles F. Kent 
of Yale, formerly of Brown. 

1898 

Dr. Thomas J. Burrage has been appointed 
pathologist to the Maine General Hospital at 
Portland, Maine. 

1899 

Freeman Putney, Jr., has a story in the 
March number of the All Story Magazine, 
entitled "John Hansen, Crew," and a p>oera 
in a recent number of the New York Times 
on the woes of the commuter. Later he pub- 
lished in the same paper the following: 

THE MODERN TRIAL 

Writers and experts fast assembling; 
Artists with eager pencils trembling; 
Defendant, on his nerve, dissembling 

His calm or fury; 
Attorneys, loud and consequential; 
Friends, fashionable and influential; 
And somewhere, awkwardly essential, 

A judge and jury. 

That lady in the corner, praj'. 
How came she here on such a day? 
Her garments never saw Broadway; 

Poor, plain, neglected, 
She's carried with her to this spot 
A pair of scales, all rusty— What! 
'Tis Justice? I had 'most forgot 

She was expected! 

Freeman Putney, Jr. 

For five years George Dudley Church has 
been the successful headmaster of the Abbott 
School for Boys at Farmington, Maine, a 
school which already ranks with the best 
home schools in the country. Mr. Church is 
a. native of Providence and a son of George 
E. Church, principal of the Peace Street 
Grammar School. After leaving Brown he 
served his apprenticeship in the Little Blue 
School at Farmington, accepting a position in 
the Worcester Academy for the following fall. 
During the summer the Little Blue School 
burned down and in 1902 Mr. Church returned 
to Farmington, and on the Little Blue estate 
organized the Abbott School of to-day. Ab- 
bott is a select home school, offering the 
romantic life of the Maine woods, effective 
teaching, systematic athletics and superior 
home accommodations to 30 pupils. The 



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THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



teaching force consists of six teachers, two of 
whom are graduates of Brown, Charles F. 
Bates, 1900, and Ray Brown, '06. During 
last summer a gymnasium and a cinder track 
were added to the equipment. 

1900 

Dr. Herbert Hamlin Armington has com- 
pleted his term of service as interne at the 
Rhode island Hospital. His address is 57 
Almy street. Providence. 

Herbert Richard Cross has recently given 
two lectures at Wellesley College on Roman 
art. 

1901 

The Cambridge address of Henry Clay Hart 
is Craigie Hall. 

The correct address of W. H. Hull is 1635 
Cranston street, Knightsville, R. I. 

Edward D. Tweedell has resigned his posi- 
tion at the Providence Public Library, to ac- 
cept a position as assistant at the John Crerar 
Library of Chicago. Mr. Tweedell's Chicago 
address is 1902 Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111. 

1902 

The address of William Penn Bates is Mia- 
mi, Floi-ida. 

The address of Walter Hastings Woods is 
298 Washington street, Boston. 

Charles R. Austin is teaching at the New 
Jersey State Normal and Model School at 
Trenton. His address is 241 East Hanover 
street. 

Albert Langworthy Saunders is practicing 
law at 24 Milk street', Boston. 

The executive committee for the reunion of 
the class of 1902 is composed of the following: 
J. Palmer Barstow, chairman; Howard D. 
Briggs, treasurer; Edward R. Aldrich, Jr , 
secretary; Charles A. Phillips, Charles A. R. 
Ray and G. E. Buxton. Jr. Arrangements 
are already under way for a successful reunion. 

Dr. Wilfred A. Streeter has recently left 
Worcester for an extended and perhaps per- 
manent stay in London. After leaving col- 
lege Dr. Streeter became interested in oste- 
opathy and was graduated from the Massachu- 
setts College of Osteopathy in 1903. He has 
since practiced in Worcester. During 1906 
he took an advanced course in osteopathy 
under the direct teaching of the founder of 
osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. 

1904 

Harold V. Joslin is a resident engineer in 
the employ of the Norfolk and Southern rail- 
way. His address is Washington, N. C. 

Louis E. Feingoldof Worcester has recently 
been admitted to the JNIassachusetts bar. 

1905 

The address of Charles H. Douglass has 
been changed from 135 Brook to 130 Vinton 
street. Providence. 

Leonard W. Cronkhite, one of Rhode Is- 
land's representatives at Oxford, has just been 
rowing in the W orcester College Torpid. The 
Torpid eights' races extend over six days of 



the winter term, and are distinguished from 
the "Eights" in being rowed on fixed seats 
instead of slides. The crews achieve a much 
coveted and typical Oxford honor. 
1906 
Nathan Sackett is doing graduate work in 
mathematics at Columbia LIniversity. 

The Alumnae 
1906 
Florence C. Reynolds has resigned her po- 
sition at Hyannis, Mass., to accept a position 
as teacher of mathematics ana history at the 
St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

Mary A. D. Brennan is teaching in the 
Cranston High School. 

Engagements 

Announcement has been made of the en- 
gagement of Winthrop Morton Southworth, 
'01. and Miss Inez Mabel Southworth. Welles- 
ley, '02, of West Stoughton, Mass. 

The engagement of Emory M. Porter, 06, 
to Miss Mary Bradley has been announced. 

Clifford P. Seagrave, '85, has announced 
his engagement to Miss Pauline Read of North 
Salem, N. Y. 

The engagement of Miss Leonora Hill, '02, 
to Dr. Alfred W. Love of Plainfield, N. J.,has 
recently been announced. 

^^arriages 

On Wednesday, March 20, 1907, at Halifax, 
N. S., occurred the marriage of Dr. Carlos 
Grout Hilliard, '99, to Miss Margaret Evelyn 
Shields. Mr. and Mrs. Grout will be at home 
after April 20 at 483 Elmwood avenue, Provi- 
dence. 

On March 14, 1907, at Providence, R. I., 
Miss Dorothea Esther Cotton, ex-'08, was 
married to Professor Edmund Burke Delabane 
ex-'86, Amherst, '86. Professor and Mrs, Dela- 
barre will live at 9 Arlington avenue. Provi- 
dence. 

On March 26, 1897, at Fort Myers, Fla., oc- 
curred the marriage of Miss Clara Battey 
Cobb, ex-'99, to John Thcrnturg xMurphy. 

On January 23, 1907, occurred the marriage 
of Dr." Edward Herbert, 1900, to Dr. Eleanor 
Chace, Wellesley, '97. 

Biiihs 

Born, on Thursdav, Feb. 21, 1907, at Paw- 
tucket, R. I., to Frank A. Sayles, '90, a 
daughter. 

Born, on February 23, 1907, at Brooklyn, 
N. Y., to Elam Ward" Olney, '98, a son. 

Born, on March 4. 1907, at Pawtucket, R. 
I., to Mrs. Caroline Briggs McWhinnie, a 
daughter, Rosalind McWhinnie. 

Born, on February 23, 1907, at Worcester, 
Mass., to George West Hathaway, '04, a son, 
Lloyd Albro Hathaway. 

Born, March 1, 1907, at 141 Belmont street, 
Boston, Mass., to Dr. Fred A. Simmons, '99, 
a son, Fred Albert Simmons, Jr. 

Born, F^ebruary 27, 1907, at Farmington, 
Me., to George Dudley Church. '99, a daugh- 
ter, Adelaide Bigelow Church. 



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