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Administrator Insures Titles to Real Estate Guardian Rents Safe Deposit Boxes $4 ro $100 Pays Interest on Daily Balances and Takes Entire Charge of Real Estate 1 Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian Trustee and Trustee Wills Receipted for and Kept Without Charge J. HENRY FERGUSON, President Savings Fund Department LEMUEL T. APPOLD '82 Christmas Fund Ficr-Presideni WM. GRAHAM BOWDOIN, JR. :-: Fice-Prest. and Trust Officer JOSHUA R. MORGAN CHARLES K. Zuo, '80 President Interest allowed on Deposits, subject to check Vfre-President JAMES V. ELLISON, Treasurer Come back lo C A R L I S L E and Buy Your Clothes and Furnishings at less than City Prices KRON EN BERGS CARLISLE, PA. ""Ghe Store for o1'er 50 years"

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Room with bath, single rate $2.50, $3.00 and $4.00 Room with bath, double rate $4.50, $5.00 and $6.00 Room without bath, single rate $2.00 Dining room service with moderate prices. Special attention to private parties and banquets. Dinner music every evening, 6 to 8 o'clock. -Dancing every Saturday night, 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock. WM. FLENNER, Manager. Published Quarterly for the Alumni of and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editor ------Dean M. Hoffman, '02

ADVISORY BOARD Terms expire in 1926 Terms expire in 1927 E. M. Biddle, Jr '86 Terms etcirire in 1928 L. T. Appold .....•...... '82 Morris E. Swartz •••..... '89 J. M. Rhey, ••..... '83, '96t J. Banks Kurtz ..•.. '93, '93L Merkel Landis ...... •.... '96 Lewis M. Bacon, Jr '02 Wm. D. Boyer, '88, '929 W. C. Clarke ...... •... '95 Harry L. Cannon, •.•..• • • 3 J. W. Long ..•...... •. '07 E. Foster Heller .....•... '04 ;5 Philip S. Moyer .•...... , '06 Robert Y. Stuart, .••••• · · Murray H. Spahr, ...... •• 'l 2 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF President •...••••.. Lemuel T. Appold DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW Vice-President .•.••.•... Merkel Landis President .... Justice John W. Kephart Secretary ..•••.••.•• Murray H. Spahr First Vice-President .. Robert Hays Smith Treasurer John M. Rhey Second Vice-Pres ..•• Judge Fred B. Moser Sec'y-Treas...... Joseph P. McKeehan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE Alumni Association Gaining Life Members . 3 Commencement Plans Developing Rapidly . 4 Alumni Council Stimulates Increasing Int_erest . 7 College Library Now a Real Work Shop . 8 Taught Political Economy in 1822 . 10 College Presidents Study Football Situ:ation . 11 May Form Pennsylvania Football Conference . 12 Football Team Will Meet Lafayette at E~ston . 14 Basketball Team Wins Seven Straight Games . 15 Editorial · . 16 Reminiscences of Dickinson . 21 Starts New Shore Hotel Project . 25 Personals ...... 27 Obituary ...... 31

Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart. Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including one year's subscription to the magazine. All communications should be 11;ddressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, Denny Hall, Carlisle, Pa. "E tered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at n Carlisle, Pennsylvania, unqer the Act of March 3, 1879."

--~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS February, 1926 Alumni Association Gaining Life Members INCE the annual meeting of the S General Alumni Association at Com• SETS NEW BIRTHDAY VOGUE mencement last June, nineteen more alumni of the College have taken out A new fashion in birthday cele• Life Memberships in the Association, brations, which it is hoped will be and the list now numbers thirty as followed by all Dickinsonians, was follows: recently set by President J. H. Morgan, member of the Class of Judge E. W. Biddle, '70, Carlisle, Pa. 1878. On January 21 when Presi• Robert H. Conlyn, '72, Carlisle, Pa. dent l\101·gan passed another Dr. James H. Morgan, '78, Carlisle, Pa. milestone, he wrote a check for Dr. J. Warren Harper, '80, Hartford, Conn. Forty Dollars for life membership J. Hope Caldwell, '80, New York City. in the Alumni Association. Charles K. Zug, '80, Philadelphia, Pa. Lemuel T. Appold, '82, Baltimore, Maryland Judge E. M. Biddle, Jr., '86. Carlisle, Pa. Wm. D. Boyer, '88, Scranton, Pa. Alumni Council, and will always be Dr. C. W. Prettyman, '91, Carlisle, Pa. eligible for election thereon. George M. Hays, '93, Carlisle, Pa. Life Membership fees are not con• William M. Curry, '93, Scranton, Pa. sumed in current expenses, They are Paul Appenze!lar, '95, New York City. paid over to a Trust Company, and the Merkel Landis, '96, Carlisle, Pa. income only is available for current ex• J. B. Kremer, Jr., '97, Montclair, N. J. penditures of the Association. At the Harry L. Cannon, '99, Bridgeville, Del. present time the principal of the Fund Boyd Lee Spahr, 'oo, Philadelphia, Pa. amounts to $1140.00 invested in United Thomas L. Jones, '01, Altoona, Pa. States Government Bonds. It has noth• D. Walter Morton, 'oz, Los Angeles, Calif. ing to do with College endowment. It William D. Burkey, '02, Hamburg, Pa. is the property of the General Alumni Col. James G. Steese, 'oz, Washington, D. C. Association, to do with the income there• Edwin C. Amerman, 'oz, Scranton, Pa. from as the Council may from time to Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., 'oz, Baltimore, Md. time decide. Judge E. Foster Heller, '04, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. It is believed that the possession of Abram Bosler, '05, Carlisle, Pa. such a fund, as it grows, will give stabil• Robert F. Rich, '07, Woolrich, Pa. ity and importance to the Association as C. LeRoy Cleaver, '11, Hingham Centre, almost nothing else will give. Mass. Bayard L. Buckley, 'uL, Philadelphia, Pa. The annual membership dues just about pay the expenses of printing and Murray H. Spahr, Jr., '12, Philadelphia, Pa. mailing the magazine. There are other Gilbert Malcolm, '15, Carlisle, Pa. desirable things we would like to accom• The fee for Life Membership is plish. We should have a regularly paid $40.00 (less the annual dues of $2.00 Alumni Secretary; we may want to in• if already paid for the current year) crease the number of issues of the maga• and payment may be made in two zine; we may want to add to the pleas• equal installments, six months apart, if ures of Alumni Day at Commencement. desired. There are no further dues. There are other uses, all of them desir• The member is a member for the rest able, to which we can devote the income of his life; will always receive THE from such a Fund, once it assumes sub• DICKINSON ALUMNUS; will always be stantial proportions, Corne in, and entitled to vote for members of the watch it grow! 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Commencement Plans Developing Rapidly OMMENCEMENT plans are in will be opportunity for friendly class the making. The dates are June C rivalry in staging "stunts" and in out• 4, 5, 6 and 7. Class reunion commit• yelling and out-singing each other. Re• tees are making the round-up, soliciting funds, interviewing costumers and union class banners can be in evidence scattering "pep" where needed. The and along with "pee-rade" costumes a Alumni Council's Alumni Day Commit• colorful picture is certain to result. tee has been organized for action. A One of the best arguments advanced better and more largely attended Com• for this luncheon en masse is that all mencement is in prospect. marchers will be assembled at "pee-rade" The Council accepted recommenda• time. This will overcome the difficulties tions at its mid-winter meeting for a in getting the parade formed on some• thing like schedule. modification of last year's Alumni Day program. Chief among the changes will The "sings" on the steps of Old West be restriction of the costumed "pee-rade" have been growing in popularity so to the campus or at most the campus and speedily in recent years that a more ela• Biddle Field; an alumni luncheon on the borate ceremony is in prospect. By campus Saturday instead of in the "gym" common consent the "sing" of last June Monday and a more extended and ela• as the graduates, old and young lounged borate "sing" on the steps of Old West on the steps in the mys of colored flood in the evening. Alumni Day will be lights, and sang the old songs was one observed this year, Saturday, June 5. of the most appealing of all the features The change in the "pee-rade" route of Alumni Day. Hearts this year are to be stirred even more deeply if the com• was suggested not only to preserve its mittee has its wish. exclusively college character but to re• duce the walking distance in the inter• While the Alumni Council is striking est of the older alumni to whom Car• out for these goals, the various class groups are concentrating on their own lisle sun in J une is no jesting test of physical endurance. It is not impro• reunions. That irrepressible group of "silver grays" from the classes of '76 to bable that the procession will be piloted '86 plunge deeper each year into the in such a way as to pass thrrough all fountain of youth and are coming back the memorial gateways of the campus, as in June with more "pepperino" than a matter of sentiment, proceeding thence ever. As usual the active promoters are to Biddle Field for a program of "high the Rev. Dr. Frank F. Bond, of Phila• jinks" to be staged by the reuning delphia, and Edwin Linville, of New classes. A. York. To many of this group it means The all-alumni campus luncheon idea a 40th, a 45th or a 50th anniversary of is an outgrowth of the enjoyable campus their graduation. luncheons which have been held inform• For its 35th anniversary, the class of ally for the last few years, and is sched• '91 has plans under way, while '96 aims ul~d for a day when more graduates to outshine all others at its 30th reunion. will be present than in usually the case Three of its members are on the ground on Monday which heretofore has been now, Merkel Landis, J. Harvey Line reserved for the alumni luncheon in the and Ralph Jacobs, all of Carlisle, who "gym." The Monday luncheon will a re issuing letters of irresistible appeal. continue to be held bur for the gradu• This is the class that in Richardson and ating class and their friends only. Burns boasts of two Methodist bishops It is proposed at the campus luncheon and likes to think that Dickinson never for class groups to sit together and to had a quarter back quite so game as its encourage classes in reunions to assemble own Ruby Vale, now a distinguished with the others. Under this plan there Philadelphia lawyer. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 5

The Class of 1901 is counting heavily on the 25th reunion of the musical clubs CLASS STANDING of that year under Dorsey l\!Iiller, of Paid Up Membership for 1925-1926 in the General Alumni Association as of Feb. 1, 1926. Harrisburg, to bring back its own mem• xo. Per- No. Pt>r- bers in droves. According to the annals. Mem- cent- )Ie111- cent- 1901 was known as a "game group" in Cln ss bees aue Class bers n ge 1858 .. 1 100. 1868. ... 2 28.;) interclass battles. Though outnumbered 1872 .... 8 80. 1908 . . . . 21 27 .5 both undergraduate years, it never failed 1870 .. 6 60. 1906 .. .. 19 2,7. to pick up the gauntlet by whomever 1878 .. 3 60. 1905 ... . 21 26.9 or wherever thrown. 1882 .. i\6. 1876. 4 26.6 1884. . . . 11 fi2. 1912. . .. 31 2G . Claimants to the distinction of being 1881. 4 30. 1861.. 1 25. the first Dickinson class to start a re• 1874. ... 4 48. 1895 ... .10 20. union costume, the class of 1906 is plan• 188() .. .. 5 45 . 1909 . . . . 2::) ~5. ning its 20th reunion. Its members. are 1885. ... 5 4D. 1904 ... 17 ~~.() 1902 .... 41 44. 1873. ... 3 ~.a looking for leadership to Rippey Saddler, 1866 .... 2 40. 1896. . . . 12 22.6 of New York, and Deputv Attorney 1893 .... 16 40. 1899 .. .11 21. 5 General Phil S. Moyer, of Harrisburg, 1911. ... 39 39. 7 1928 ... .40 21- who have the reunion plans in charge. 1907 .. . . 32 39. fi 1859. 20 . 1887. ... 10 3~.4D 1879 .. 1 20. For its fifteenth reunion, the class of 1883 .. .. 6 37. 1891. .. 6 eo. 1911 is getting set and the class of 1913, 190() .. .. 16 37. 1890 .. 3 18. 7 just to prove its spirit is: going to stage 1914 .... 41 36.9 1877 .. - 3 17.6 a thirteenth reunion with the hopes it 1901. ... 25, 3:1.7 1918 .. .. 18 17 .G 1915 .... 35 33.3 1886 ... 4 17. will be a precedent for other classes. A. 1894 .... 14 34. 1919 . . . . 22 17. H. Allison, of Carlisle, is directing the 1888 .. 33. 1921. .. . 21 16.6 plans for the 1916 round-up, with the 1889 .... 9 33. 1869 ... lG.5 classes of 1921 and 1925 clearing the 1910 .... 34 33. 1933 ... . 25 16. 3 1897 ... .20 31. 2 1922 ... .18 15. 7 decks for their reunion ceremonies. 1898 ... .18 31. 1916. .. 11 14.8 All the classes are being urged to pro• 187?1. 3 30. 1924 ... .28 14. 7 vide costumes for the "pee-rade", Last 1903 ... . 21 2,0.~ 1917 ... .13 13.G year's showing marked a big advance 1013 ... . 29 29.+ 1920 20 13. fi 1sn .... 8 es.« ]867. 12.5 over former years and is believed to have started a custom which will need little guidance in the years ahead. Gil• bert Malcolm, editor of THE ALUMNUS, Names Nominating Committee Denny Hall, Carlisle, has adequate data on costumes, costume makers and quota• President L. T. Appold has just tions and stands ready to extend any named the Nominating Committee which assistance to the various class organiza• will elect candidates for the mail election tions. for members of the Alumni Council of the General Alumni Association. Fol• lowing the nominations, ballots will be The Ten Classes After 1900 Boast• mailed to the members of the Associa• ing the Highest Number of Paid Up tion early in May, bearing the names of .Members, Pass '02 and '14 ! ten nominees, five of whom will be Lite Member; elected for a three-year term to expire 1902 ...... 41 1914 ...... 41 .....•..... 0 in 1929. 1925 ... 40..... 0 Judge E. M. Biddle, Jr., '86, of 1911 39 . Carlisle, has been named Chairman of 1915 ...... 35 . 1910 ...... 34 0 the Committee, with Lewis M. Bacon, 1907 32 0 Jr., '02, of-Baltimore, and Dr. John W. 1912 31 . Long, '07, of Williamsport, Pa., as the 1913 29 0 other members. They will likely meet 1924 ...•...... 28 0 soon in Carlisle to select the nominees. MERKEL LANDIS LEWIS M.'BACON, Ji2. t.FoSTSR HELLER

HAI!RY L. CANNON ROBERT Y. STUART MOR:QAY H. SPARR, JR.

THE ALUMNI COUNCIL 1925-1926 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 7 Alumni Council Stimulates Increasing Interest ''THE greatest thing at Dickinson cate, one of Methodism's leading pub• today is the real interest mani• lications. fested by the alumni," a professor of Hon. J. Banks Kurtz, '93, '93L, is thirty. years standing recently said to one of Dickinson's representatives in the THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS. With oc• Congress of the United States. He lives casion to watch all the changes and in Altoona where he has a lucrative law while rejoicing in the material gains, practice. this professor places the enthusiasm of W. C. Clarke, '95, for many years the alumni above everything else. connected with the Evening Bulletin of He also said that while he had read Philadelphia, for the past eighteen years in this magazine that the Alumni As• has conducted his book store in Carlisle. sociation had been reorganized, he said Rev. Dr. J. W. Long, '07, is doing a that it should be called anything but fine piece of work as President of Dick• that. In all his experience he named the inson Seminary at Williamsport, Pa. 1925 Conunencement as the high mark Terms Expire in 1927 for all time of alumni enthusiasm, L. T. Appold, '82, Trustee of the A few years ago at one of the old College, lives in Baltimore where he is fashioned meetings of the supposed Vice-President of the Colonial Trust Alumni Association, L. T. Appcld, '82, Company. He is President of the Gen• of Baltimore, was elected president. It eral Alumni Association, and is also is not known whether he was present at known to Dickinsonians as the donor the meeting for in that day absence must of Memorial Hall and the McCauley have been a prerequisite to holding of• Room. fice. Learning of his election, Mr. Ap• Merkel Landis, '96, is Vice-President pold decided that he was either going of the General Alumni Association, and to be president of something or the as• lives in Carlisle where he is President sociation would not need any officers. of the Carlisle Trust Company. In From that decision, came the selection that capacity during the trying days of of a group of alumni, the formation of the College, his loyalty did much to keep the Alumni Council, now elected annual• Dickinson's doors open. He is widely ly and the live, quickened General Alum• known as the inventor of Christmas ni Association ofDickinson College. Savings Funds. Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., '02, is known On the opposite page appear the photo• only to some Dickinsonians as the ballet graphs of the fifteen members of the clad Chief Marshall of the 1925 Alum• Alumni Council as it is now consti• ni Parade, but he served faithfully as tuted. Five of the members are in the President of the Baltimore alumni as• class whose terms expire in June of this. sociation for many years and has always. year, five in 1927 and five in 1928. been associated with Dickinson doings. Terms Expire in 1926 He carnied his enthusiasm to marrying a Dickinson girl, Ruth Heller of the . Judge E. M. Biddle, Jr., '86, resides Class of 1912. "Ham," as: he is best m Carlisle where he is President Judge known to Dickinsonians, lives in Balti• of the Cumberland County courts. Prior more where he is one of the city's. lead• to his election as Judge, he had a dis• ing insurance men. tinguished career 'as an attorney. Judge E. Foster Heller, '04, is Judge The Rev. Dr. Morris E. Swartz, '89, of the Orphans Court of Luzerne ably filled Methodist pulpits for a num• County. ·Prior to his election he prac• ber of years, occupied many important tised law with great success in Wilkes• positions of the church, and is now edi• Barre. tor of the Washington Christian Advo- Philip S. Moyer, '06, attorney of Har- 8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

risburg, is Deputy Attorney General of Harry L. Cannon, '99, is the son of Pennsylvania, and served as District At• Henry P. Cannon, '70, and is engaged torney of Dauphin County. in the canning business in Bridgeville, Terms Expire in 1928 Del. He is a Director of the Federal J. M. Rhey, '83, '96L, Treasurer of Reserve Bank and is First Vice-Presi• the Alumni Association is one of the dent of the National Canners Associa• leading members of the Cumberland tion. County bar and lives in Carlisle. He Major Robert Y. Stuart, '03, is a was at one time District Attorney of graduate of the Yale Forestry School, Cumberland County and is an active and is Commissioner of Forests of Penn• Rotarian. sylvania in Governor Pinchot's cabinet. Wm. D. Boyer, '88, '92L, success• Murray H. Spahr, Jr., '12, Secretary ful Scranton attorney, has long been of the General Alumni Association, is a been known to many Dickinsonians as successful attorney with offices in the the leading champion of strong athletic Morris Building, 1421 Chestnut Street, representation in all sports. Philadelphia.

College Library Now a Real Work Shop BY LYDIA M. GOODING, '10, College Librarian HOUGH a college library does not chiefly from the Library Guild fund, and T offer that entertainment of the pub• 200 gifts, making a total of 39,700 vol• lic library-frequently misquoted tides, umes. We subscribe now to 62 periodi• such as the proverbial "Tails of Two cals, and receive others as gifts. Though Kitties" instead of "Tale of Two Cities" these purchases sound rather imposing, -yet life in the Dickinson Library does they do not sound so when stated in this give an occasional opportunity for a laugh form: the expenditures for library books up the librarian's sleeve. One earnest and magazines averages only $2.00 per Junior once asked for the works of an student. author named "Ibid.", who was frequent• When one stops to realize that every ly quoted in the Economics text. A book ordered goes through at least fif• soldier of fortune recently inquired for teen different processes before it reaches a pamphlet written by a man who left the shelves, and that every book has Carlisle during the first gold rush, in from two to one hundred cards rep• which a claim in California was de• resenting it, some conception of the work scribed. When the librarian was unable entailed in the preparation of these new to produce either the pamphlet or any books is given. To do this routine work information about the author, the man and to care for the problems of attend• replied in a very critical and faultfind• ance and reference, there is a staff of ing tone: "You ought to remember him; one full time librarian and fourteen he left Carlisle in 1849 !" student assistants, working about an Will it surprise many of the alumni hour a day each, or a total of seventy• to learn that the attendance at the library five hours a week. These boys will tell during the day has sometimes been 380, you that it requires some hustling to and 210 in the evening? However, a shelve 1800 books in one day! It keeps more average number is 180 during the this staff busy to keep abreast of cur• day, and 60 at night, which doubles or rent work, without any opportunity to trebles that of five years ago. rearrange in more logical form the Last year the number of books was wealth of older material which the li• increased by 380 purchased volumes, brary possesses. So the library staff is THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9 ' Another Dickinson Judge Can You Help? Alumni are again asked to ransack their attics or hiding places for Dick• insoniana which is lacking from the College Library files. While some a]umrii have already promised to sup• ply a very few of the items listed, duplicates are also desired. If any alumnus or alumna can give informa• tion which would lead to securing any of the desired material, kindly drop a note to the Editor of THE DICKIN• SON ALUMNUS. The following Dickinsonians are Jacking from the files: The monthly edition from 1882 to 1890; and those of 1901-02, known as the Dickinso.n Literary monthly; also the weekly edi• tions from 1898 to 1902. The following Microcosms are lack• ing: Classes of 1869-80; 1906, 19?7, 1912, 1913, and 1915. Second copies are needed of Classes: 1896, 1897, 1899, 1902, 1905, 1908-1913, 1916, 1919- 20 and 1922. in the same situation as the queen in "Alice in Wonderland" who said that in her country she had to keep running to stay where she was. An occasional exhibit of historical or HERBERT G. COCHRAN, '08. literary material is arranged in connec• Herbert G. Cochran, '08, on January tion with some special event. A bulletin 5, was named Judge of the Juvenile board of West China Union Court of Norfolk, Va. His appointment interest is also maintained. An annual by the Norfolk City Council ended a event is the "personally conducted tour" proposal to revamp the Juvenile Court of the freshman class, which is divided arrangements, which had caused heated into small groups for an hour's explarra• debate in the council chambers. tion of the use of the library and the Judge Cochran graduated with the assignment of practice problems. A few Class of 1908 and then as a Rhodes sample freshman reference questions Scholar, he attended the University of read like an Edison questionnaire: Who Oxford, England, where he graduated was Hygelac? Where are the Central in 1911. He graduated from the Uni• Mountains? These sound easy-but versity of Virginia L:aw School in 1912. try them! The literary resources of the college have been recently increased by the at• A Big Party in Harrisburg tractive books in the McCauley Room Many Central Pennsylvania alumni and English Research Room, on early gather yearly for the annual dinner of American history and English literature. the Dickinson Club of Harrisburg. These collections are proving valuable Announcement has just been made that additions to our working resources, while this party will be staged on Monday, their charming surroundings make a bit March 1 at 6 :30 o'clock in "Bill" royal the road to learning. Graupner's Hotel Plaza. 10 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Taught Political Economy in 1822 ICKINSON was one of the first conclude "that Dickinson was one of the Dplaces in this country, if not the Erst, where Political Economy was very earliest places in this country where Political Economy was taught." Other taught, it has just been established. Evi• records of the College more fully estab• dence supports the fact that lectures lish this fact. were delivered first in 1822 or that the subject was a regular course of the The Trustee minutes show nothing on College between 1821 and 1829. the subject at the time of the election of Prof. Edwin R. Seligman of the fac• Prof. V ethake, nor for several years ulty of Political Science at Columbia after. But in 1826 an action of the University, is preparing a book on the Board of Trustees permitted certain theo• logical students being trained in Carlisle origin of the teaching of Economics. In his work he ran across the statement to attend lectures inter alia in "political that "Mr. G. Vethake began lecturing economy." In November of the same in Political Economv at Dickinson Col• year this minute is recorded in the Trus• lege in the year 1822," and wrote Presi• tee book: "Resolved, that to the profes• sorship of Mr. Henry Vethake be added dent Morgan asking for some verifica- .. tion of this fact. that in political economy," which was agreed to. This would indicate that Records of the College show that Henry Vethake, professor of mathematics Henry Vethake from 1821 to 1829 was and science, had interest in political econ• a professor in Dickinson College, mathe• omy and probably gave lectures in it matics and natural philosophy apparent• prior to its being formally added to the ly being his major interest, though he style and title of his professorship in published "Political Economy" articles Dickinson College. in the Encyclopedia Americana. In 1833, Prof. Vethake published sev• eral books on Economics and in the To Cease Granting M. A. Degree preface of one of them, Prof. Seligman writes, appears a statement that the book Over a considerable time, it has been included the substance of a course of the custom of Dickinson College to grant lectures that he had been giving for the degree of Master of Arts to her twelve years." graduates completing the graduate Prof. Vethake taught at Princeton, courses of study in schools of Medicine and later became President of Washing• and Theology, and also to her own ton College, Virginia, which is today graduates and the graduates of other Washington and Lee. Recently, Presi• standard collegesJ completing courses of dent Morgan found among some old study in the Dickinson School of Law. documents, Prof. Vethake's address on On several previous occasions, the faculty the occasion of his inauguration as presi• has taken action looking to the cessa• dent of , and for• tion of this custom, and at its regular warded it to the President of Washing• meeting, Monday, February the 1st, ton and Lee. Prof. Vethake's days at final action was taken to the effect that Dickinson apparently ended in 1829. the granting of graduate degrees will cease with the year 1927, and thereafter In that year, the College went into the Bachelor's degree alone will be con• eclipse for a time, but was reopened four ferred by the College in cursu; this ac• years later and has continued its work tion to be published in the forthcoming ever since. is ue of the Catalogue, THE DICKINSON The fact that Prof. V ethake pub• ALUMNUS and the "Dickinsonian"• lished his book in 1833 and was at Dick• such publication to constitute final notice inson until 1829, led Prof. Seligman to to the Dickinson constituency. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11. College Presidents Study Football Situation By PRESIDENT J. H. MORGAN N the last number of the Alumnus I foster conference groups and take such · I outlined some steps taken or being actions from time to time as seems desir• taken to change some of the conditions able to put into effect the ideals and, now prevailing in intercollegiate ath• standards of the Association. letics. The reactions from that state• 5. These four headings would be in• ment showed such interest that I know complete without a fifth, that the spirit, some at least would like to know what and purpose of the college presidents further steps have been taken. seemed definitely set toward a cleaner The Committee of five of the College athletic life as conducted in Pennsyl• Presidents of Pennsylvania after full vania , with the underlying be• conference made an :absolutely unani• lief that fair play in our athletic rela• mous report-unanimous in spirit as well tions with one another was of vastly as word. This report was made to the more value than any possible victory State Association in annual meeting held gained without it. at the Penn-Harris Hotel in Harris• Four colleges, Dickinson being one of burg, Friday, January 22, 1926. them, have had three meetings looking The report recognized the present to the formation of a conference group, evils attending our state foot-ball condi• and at their third meeting, held Satur• tions, and suggested some possible re• day, February 6th, the representatives medies. The suggestions of the Com• of three other colleges joined them on mittee and the subsequent discussion of invitation for full discussion of the mat• the full meeting of the College Presi• ters involved, and it seems altogether dents resulted in actions which may be probable that these seven colleges will summarized about as follows: form a first conference group of Penn• 1. That faculty control of athletics sylvania colleges for definite regulation is fundamental to make the athletic life of their athletic relations with one an• of our colleges a part of the educational other. What these regulations are to program of our colleges, to be conducted be I might guess or more than guess, by the same ethical standards as prevail but before they have finally shaped their in other departments of college life. statement of policy it seems inexpedient that I anticipate their action. I am quite 2. That there should be formed sev• sure, however, that in the next copy of eral conferences or groups. of Pennsyl• THE ALUMNUS there may appear the vania colleges to play with each other statement of a really definite plan to im• under some such conditions as exist in prove the athletic relations of Dickinson the Harvard, Princeton, Yale Confer• with some other Pennsylvania colleges. ence. As I said in the last issue of THE ALUMNUS, I am wholly committed to 3. That while it may not be possible any movement in the direction outlined for the College Presidents Association to above, and stand ready to take some go into the details by which specific evils chances in the matter. While I speak are to be ended, the various conference of taking chances, however, I hasten groups can do so and should be encour• to say that I am fully persuaded that the aged to do so. purposes of our old-time athletic rivals 4. The original Committee of five are quite as good as our own, and their college presidents was continued as the promise is quite as good to live up to representative of the full Association, to the terms of any agreement made. 12 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May Form Pennsylvania Football Conf ere nee LANS are being considered for the of the conference have been scheduling P formation of a football conference university teams in the past, it has been by the leading small colleges of Penn• practically impossible for them to adopt sylvania. No definite action has been the one year rule without seriously taken as yet, but it seems safe to pre• weakening the varsity eleven. There is dict at this date that the conference a possibility that the one year rule may will be in full swing within a short not become effective for the 1926 season, time, and that its action will control but will be deferred until 1927 as each the 1926 football season. of the colleges has practically arranged Seven or eight colleges will likely its schedule for the coming season. form this conference though it is known that other colleges are seeking admission. The rule against seasonal coaching This may lead to the formation of a seems to be the product of the expert• second conference along the same plan ence of the various colleges. The Pre• as the leader. sident's Association has indicated that Dickinson, Gettysburg, Swarthmore, it favors that the football coach should Haverford, Muhlenberg, Franklin and not only be an "all year man" but that Marshall, and Ursinus are the seven he should be a member of the faculty. colleges which will likely band together It is doubtful that the conference will while the eighth member may be invited take the position that the coach must be to join the conference. a member of the faculty, but it will In the proposals, the suggestions has likely legislate against the man who is been to seek an arrangement between the only associated with the college during the football season. members of the conference similar to that between Harvard, Yale and Prince• The third rule will probably be that ton with some of the features of the "there shall be no supervised pre-season Western conferences. It is thought that football training prior to twelve days through this conference some of the before the last Saturday of September," existing football evils will be dissipated, in other words that there will be no while many fine possibilities will be pre• football practice prim to the opening of served. Six rules, which may be adopted the colleges of the conference. As the and made the basis of the conference, first game is usually staged the last have been outlined in the deliberations Saturday of September, this will give a to date. These rules are as follows: coach but twelve days to prepare for the opening contest of the season. 1. One Year Rule 2. No Seasonal Coaching The rule against the training table for members of the football squad during 3. No Supervised Pre-season Training 4. No Training Table the season is based on the thought that little good is derived from the training 5. No Scouting table, while it places too great emphasis 6. No Early Season Games. on football. It is said that the men The formation of the conference will cannot get football off their minds when make possible the adoption of the one a training table is in operation, and that year rule. This rule simply means that while this may help football, it does no student may represent his College on not help the academic careers of the men the varsity eleven until after one year's involved. residence. It will make Freshman in• The Conference will also likely adopt eligible, and at the same time. place the proposed rule against scouting. As the emphasis on Freshmen leading to many know, it has been the practice to a full schedule for Freshmen teams. As carefully watch the play of a future op• all of the colleges likely to be members ponent and school the eleven against the THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13 expected attack. Many football authori• then on to . His ties have argued against this practice coming to W. & J. has caused the pre• saying that it hurts the game. diction that "Pop" Warner will return The sixth rule proposed is that no East and will soon be either at his old member of the conference shall schedule stand at Pitt or coaching at W. & J. a football game prior to the last Satur• day of September. With the adoption of this rule, all of the members of the Football Barely Self Supporting conference will start the season on the same date. Several times in recent years, The current notion that football pro• the Dickinson eleven has faced a team vides money for all athletic deficiencies in the opening game which had already received a setback in the financial state• played one or two games. Last year, ment of the 1 ns football season just the team opened after two weeks prac• issued by Dr. C. William Prettyman, tice against Lebanon Valley which had Bursar of the Athletic Association. His already played Penn State and was held report shows that the net profit on the to a tie. season's operations was but $451.44. With the formation of the conference, His report gives the net profit on it is likely that in the future the sched• games, after paying for the transporta• ules of the members of the conference tion of the squad, as $7,434.00 and will consist largely of conference games the expenses listed total $7,391.49. with each a championship contest. In While the attendance at some games, an eight member conference, seven games notably the one with Gettysburg, was are possible and the usual football season greater than in other years, the crowd consists of nine games. This will give at several of the home games was two games a year with non-conference smaller than in other years. teams. The Bursar's report was as follows: It is likely that schedules for varsity and Freshmen teams will be arranged. FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF r925 FOOTBALL SEASON Of recent years, Dickinson has had jun• Net Profit on Games, $7434.00 ior varsity and Freshmen teams but these have. been nothing more than de• EXPENSES fensive teams with little attention being Coaches' Salaries, . 4000.00 paid to a schooled offense. A confer• Overseer of E. q u i p me n t 's Salary, . 77.00 ence Freshmen schedule should soon take Training Table, . 368 .00 on almost the same importance as the Band to Philadelphia, . 446.26 varsity conflicts and would likely make Equipment, . r433.72 possible a home game every Saturday of Repairing & Laundry, . 355 .40 Photographs, . r7 .oo either the varsity or Freshmen eleven. 34.00 ~!~~~~~~; .-.-.-.-.-.·.-.·.·.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 54.85 Drugs, ·.· . r96.33 Press Agent, . 34. r8 Andy Kerr to Coach W. & J. Banquet, . r2r.25 Announcement was made in January Traveling, . 28.20 Postage, T e I e g r a p h, Tele- that Andy Kerr, '00, had signed a three phone, . 62.29 year contract as football, basketball and Police, . 47.67 track coach at Washington and J effer• Scouting, . rr5 · 37 son College. Newspaper accounts an• Total Expenses, $739r .49 nounced his salary at $8,000 a year. While Glenn Warner was coach of Net Profit on Season's Opera- football at the Indian School, Andy tions, ...... $45 r. 44 filled the role of scout, and went with G. William Prettyman, him to the University of Pittsburgh and Bursar. 14 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Football Team Will Meet Lafayette At Easton HE 1926 football schedule is still T in the "tentative" state, with eight opponents selected and an open date 1926 Football Schedule unfilled. P. M. C. and Albright, which have held places on the schedule in other Dct. 2-Western Maryland at Carlisle years have both been dropped. Lebanon Oct. 9-Franklin Marshall at Carlisle Valley the first opponent last season, Oct. 16-Lafayette at Easton gives way to Western Maryland. Dct. 23-Villa Nova at Philadelphia On the third Saturday ·of the season, the team will journey to Easton to meet Der, 30-Schuylkill, Carlisle or Reading an old foe, Lafayette. It is a number Nov. 6-Gettysburg at Harrisburg of years since a Dickinson team met the November 13-Muhlenberg, Carlisle moleskin warriors of Lafayette, and or Wilkes-Barre many alumni welcomed the flr

OUND evidence of the sturdy foundations upon which THE ALUMNUS is being .S built is furnished in the recent increase in life memberships. Within the year t?e number has increased from 11 to 30, a remarkable gain, an encouragement to its publishers and a stimulus to all loval Dickim;onians. Nothing will so surely prevent .the familiar fate of so many publications of this character as an endowment of the type provided by $40 life memberships. Where periodicals like THE ALUMNUS are dependent solely on the somewhat hazardous revenue of annual subscribers, it is: not unusual for them to succumb sooner or later to casualties of bills that are neglected. The protection against such risks is life membership in the association which is also life subscription to THE ALUMNUS. There must be hundreds of Dickinsonians of a disposition and financial capacity to enroll under the life-membership standard. To do so is both an expression of loyalty and a guarantee of the magazine's per• manency with all that means of effort to pledge graduate support to the welfare of Old Dickinson.

MORE MINOR SPORTS v\TO generations ago, colleges of Dickinson's size were fortunate to be repre• T sented in a very few sports such as baseball, football and track. That was the athletic formula of most colleges. Since that time the situation has changed amazingly. These are only the major sports now. There has come a swarm of other pursuits which have greatly amplified the athletic program, wrestling, lacrosse, soccer, boxing, golf, basket ball, cross country, fencing, gymnastics, tennis and still others. In a -few of these minor sports Dickinson is represented, In one at least, or perhaps two, swimming and gymnastics, the college will have to await its new gymnasium. But in some of the others at least, there is considerable alumni senti• ment that the college be represented. Naturally this is an administrative problem, into the solution of which the alumni are not prone to obtrude but a broadening of the catalogue of sports will be pleasing to many in the graduate ranks.

HIGHLY CREDITABLE

EW finer compliments can be paid a student body than that which the Dickin• F son undergraduates paid itself shortly after the holiday recess when through its Senate it sent an ambassador before the student body of Gettysburg: to apologize and express regret for acts of vandalism committed on the latter's campus in the name of Dickinson just before the annual football battle of the two colleges. Gettysburg gate posts were smeared i~delibly with ~heir rival's. letter. . It_ was done without the knowledge or authority of responsible student orgarnzations ; perhaps by a sympathizer rather than a studen_t o! _the college. But. the· student body of Dickinson did not quibble over technicalities. ~t me_t t~e i:s:ue frankly cl becomingly when it made the amends honorable to a sister mstitution. an Perhaps it is not appropriate for gray-haired alumni to say it, but none the less THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 17

it is true that when students of athletically pugnacious colleges can maintain rela• tions with a high regard for a college man's code of honor, there is nothing finer in the curriculum anywhere. LIMITED ENROLLMENT OT all but many and perhaps most Dickinsonians find gratification in the N notice issued sometime ago by President Morgan to the effect that limited en• rollment is virtually a: fact at Carlisle. More applicants appear than can be absorbed. It is no longer necessary to scout for students as was once the case. A student body at Dickinson, limited to numbers, is pleasing to a great many alumni, certainly to all who believe that Dickinson should remain a "small college." Unquestionably there are some who abhor the idea of any limitation for the institution. The university idea is in their mind and they would like to see it realized. The financial and other difficulties in the way of unrestrained expansion are perhaps at this day too formidable to give any hope of a university. But even if these were not in the way, the violence to tradition and sentiment involved in large expansion would probably bar the step. As all educators agree there is a place in this nation for the small college. New England is rich in them. Any attempt to advance Williams or Amherst or Bowdoin to the state university class would have to be made over the dead body of every alumnus of those institutions. Among Dickinsonians there are many who would make the same sacrifice to preserve the college with its intimacy between student and teacher, its campus compactness, its student body democracy, its neighborliness and the great service it renders as a 'result of all these. With a limited enrollment, a nice discrimination in the matriculation of students, a custom, the equivalent of a law, that the sons of Dickinson go to Dickinson, and the old college will grow in influence and distinction. PLANNING EARLY

HERE is scarcely any doubt that a successful college commencement from ia111 T alumni standpoint is one of the most helpful factors in maintaining a graduate interest in the well being of the institution. This has. been evident at Dickinson as inevitably it must be elsewhere, For that reason it is gratifying that reunion plans of many of the classes for the 1926 Commencement are beyond the incubator. This is precisely as it should be. No college group unless possessing a highly effi• cient class organization earn hope to do credit to itself or realize fully on its invested energy if it delays planning its reunion until within the twilight zone of Commence• ment. Graduate classes at Dickinson are coming to this viewpoint. It is especially true this vear. The results are sure to be evident in June. U~der the authority of the Council of the Alumni Association the Alumni Day program of the 1926 Commencement is to undergo some changes. The costumed "pee-rade" will be more than ever a campus event, perhaps extended to Biddle Field for the baseball game, if satisfactory arrangements can be made for admis• sion to the baseball game. The committee is also directed to' stage, if possible, an alumni luncheon on the campus Alumni Day, June 5. The plan is to have reunion classes pool their customary luncheons with the general alumni. These and other features are expected to make Alumni Day this year even more enjoyable than that of 1925 which by common consent has been accorded high water mark in Dickinson Commencements in attendance, variety of attractions and expression of spirit. 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Three New Instructors Teaching at College

B. FLOYD RINKER MULFORD STOUGH HORACE E. ROGERS

Three new instructors were added to the faculty with the opening of the present academic year. Mulford Stough, A. B. of Washington and Lee, and A.M. of the University of Pennsylvania, is assisting in the Department of History. H. E. Rogers, '24, is an instructor in the De• partment of Physics and Chemistry, while B. Floyd Rinker, '24, is an instructor in the Department of English.

Harrisburg Alumnae Banquet N. Y. Alumnae Ten Years Old. The annual banquet of the Harrisburg The Dickinson College Alumnae Dickinson Alumnae Association was held Club of New York City observed its tenth birthday anniversary at a party on February 4 in the Penn-Harris Hotel. on February 13, in the Club Room of Mrs, ]. H. Morgan was the guest of the Y. W. C. A. of New York City. honor. Other speakers included Dean Ten years a,go, Mrs.. C. Grant Cleaver, '02 of Richmond Hill, called Josephine B. Meredith, Miss Hazel together the alumnae of New York at Bullock, of the College faculty, and her home for a tea. This occasion Elva R. Lippi, '18. The committee in proved so delightful that the Club was soon formed and has been functioning charge was Lillian Kell, '19, Mrs. W. ever since. Thr_ee times a year, on the A. McCune, '12, Dorothy Buch, '24 second Saturdays of November Feb• ruary arnd May, - the Club has met and and Roxanna Garman, '20. is now meeting regularly on those dates The club has recently purchased four at the Y. W. C. A, 610 Lexington volumes containing a collection of re• Ave., New York City. Any graduate plicas of famous paintings and photo· of the College, residing within the met• ropolitan area, may become a regular graphs of sculpture, which will be pre• member and others are invited to at• sented to the College library. tend these parties. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 19

First Club Dinner of Year Heads Romance Language Dept, The annual dinner of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Dickinson Alumni Associ• ation was held at the Hotel Jermyn at Scranton on Thursday, January 21. It was attended by a large number of alumni. Clarence Balentine, '93, of Scranton, was toastmaster. Talks were given by W. A. Valentine, '01 L, Ainthony T. Walsh, '03 L, W. D. Boyer, '88, P.rof. F. E. Craver, '99, representing the College faculty, Prof. W. H. Hitchler, representing the Law School faculty and Dr. Johnson of West Pittston, son of a former President of the College. The officers for the coming year were elected as fcllows: President, Judge E. Foster Heller, '04, '05 L; Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph Fleitz, '04 L; Executiye Committee, W. A. Valentine, '01 L, Arthur James, '04 L and Herman Goldberg, '19 L.

Makes Bequest to College Henry B. Bruner, an attorney of Columbia, Pa., who was very active in the Methodist Church, under his will EDGAR M. BOWMAN, A. M., PH. D. made some small bequests and gave the remainder of his $36,000 estate in trust Dr. Edgar M. Bowman became head to a sister, upon whose death it wiU of the Department of Romance Langu• revert to a niece. The niece will re• ages with the opening of the present ceive the income until she marries or academic year and is teaching French. dies, and then under the will "the He graduated from money will be turned over to Wesleyan in 1915 and later received his A. M. University, Dickinson College or any there. He received his Ph.D. from Col• other good college under the direction umbia University. lv . of the Methodist Church, and applied to the educating of young men." and is generously illustrated with pic• tures of the Gooding gate at East College campus entrance, presented by the class 1905 and "The Aftermath" last June and with reunion pictures. Adhering. to a custom started some The forepart of "The Aftermath" in• years ago, the class of 1905 h:as capped cludes the official programs of the class its successful 20th annual reunion with commencement in 1905 and copies of the "The Aftermath," a very attractive stimulating correspondence leading up to brochure of 113 pages recording the de• the reunion. One of the most interest• tails of the anniversary. ing features is a chapter on "Letters and The book was prepared under the Lives" which tell of the fortunes of the direction of Edna Albert, the secretary class. 20 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Old Tradition Encouraged Benevolence THAT one of the old customs of report on the general state of the Col• Dickinson College has been lost in lege is as follows: "Resolved, that a the passing of years is shown by the book be procured in which shall be tran• minutes of the Board of Trustees of a scribed in a large legible hand the names resolution presented in a meeting of of the donors to the College-and that June 21, 1797. It provided that one of all persons who have subscribed and the students should deliver an oration paid Ten Pounds and upwards shall be at each Commencement "in favor of Be• in a separate list, as principal benefactors nevolence to Literary Institutions," and of the College-and that the same shall that the names of "the principal bene• be read publiclv at every Commence• factors of the College" should be read ment in the presence of all the members publicly at every Commencement. of the College-and that an oration be At this early day, when the College was but fourteen years old the minutes delivered by one of the students at each tell something of the struggle for suf• Commencement in favor of 'Benevolence' ficient finances to provide for all the to Literary Institutions." needs of the institution. There is fre• In this same meeting held 129 years quent mention made of appeals to the ago, it is interesting to note that the Legislature for funds and on June 20, 1797 a committee of seven members. of "Taverns in this Borough" were present• the Board of Trustees was appointed to ing a problem which had a bearing on take into consideration "the general state "the general state of the College." At of the College." any rate, Henry Hill was a member of This committee made a• lengthy and the Board of Trustees and also the man detailed report the next day and offered who imported a very fine wine from the two suggestions to help the financial con• Island of Madeira, which was known dition of the College. for many years as "Hill's Madeira," The first of these urged an appeal to the Committee saw fit to recommend the Legislature and stated, "Resolved, the following: "Resolved that it be par• that this Committee is of the opinion ticularly recommended to the Faculty to that another application be made to the attend to the morals of the students and next Legislature for the purpose of pro• that the Committee of Visitors be en• curing an endowment for the College to joined to inquire if any Taverns in this enable the Trustees to pay off the debts Borough entertain the said students or of the institution-v-and that its revenue any of them at unreasonable and im• may equalize its expenditures." proper times-and in the case of such The second suggestion was apparently misbehavior, that the proper steps be calculated as a money raiser and a re• taken to endeavor to prevent any such 'Yard to the donors at the same time. Tavernkeeper obtaining license here• To give "Ten .Pounds or Upwards" after." meant the donor's name would be en• While it is doubtless true that these tered in "a large legible hand in a special worthy gentlemen were opposed to the list"· to be known as one of the "prin- Taverns at all hours, it might be noted cipal ' benefactors of the Col 1 ege " ; an d that they complained apparently only that the name of the donor would be about the "unreasonable and improper read at Commencement "in the presence times." Perhaps. they felt that there of all the members of the College." were "reasonable and proper times" The resolution 'as presented in the when the Taverns might entertain the fourteenth paragraph of the committee's students of the College. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 21 Reminiscences of Dickinson By GEORGE EDWARD REED, L.T.D., LL.D., President 1889-1911 Number V.-Enlargement, Construction and Reconstruction. The summer of 1889 marked the beginning of a period of enlargement, co1)struction and reconstruction which con• tinued for many years. Some years prior to 1889 a gymnasium-now in use• had been erected on the college campus, the gift of Mr. C. R. Woodin of Berwick, Pa. The structure though small and of unpretentious architectural design, nevertheless sufficed for the limited number of students then in attendance. The donor, however, had made no provision for the furnishing and equipment of the building. Soon after its completion this lack was supplied through the generosity of Mr. William C. Allison, of Philadelphia, to whom the college became DR. GEORGE E. REED indebted for many other valuable improvements, who pro- vided for the building and equipment said to have been unsurpassed in completeness of detail by that of any other among the schools and colleges of the country. In those days the many huge a:nd imposing structures now standing on college grounds especially those of the larger institutions, had not been erected. The vast amphitheaters, with seating accommodations for twenty or thirty thousand specta• tors existed only in the imaginations of college men. The Dickinson "Gym" there• fore with its ample apparatus, its bowling alley, and horror of horrors !-its billiard table in the finely appointed office, were justly matters of pride on the part of the student body, though now antiquated and sadly worn by constant use. A new, commodious, and up-to-date established. The new field was. never building, as we understand, is now con- entirely satisfactory but was, neverthe• ternplated and probably will soon take less, the only one at the time available. forneed.m, thus meeting a great and pressing By the opening of the Fall term of But while provision had been made 1889-90 it was sufficiently graded for for indoor sports, no provision had been use for football purposes. Later on, a made for those of out-of-door character. diamond was laid out, a fine running All sports having been prohibited on the track constructed, tennis courts laid out college campus, an athletic field became and eventually a grandstand of wood, an imperative necessity. capable of seating some two hundred fifty spectators W::J.S erected at the western FIRST ATHLETIC FIELD encl. This stand after serving its pur- Accordingly at the June meeting of pose for several years was destroyed the Trustees the President received au• bv fire, the origin of which ever remained thorization for the purchase and equip• a mystery. The general suspicion was ment of a suitable field for athletic pur• that the fire originated during a mid• poses. After investigation, the field night "lark" or beer-drinking bout, parti• selected was the irregularly shaped tract cipated in by students both of the college of land running alongside the freight track and the school of law. The fact, how• of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, ever, was never proven. The authori• one corner of which abutted on Louther ties incensed at this destruction of prop• Street where the main entrance was erty, the grandstand was never rebuilt. 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

The field continued to be used for heating of all buildings used for col• some thirteen years, when it became clear lege purposes. The plant was put that a larger and better field was needed in at a cost of about twenty-five thou• for the accommodation of the increasing sand dollars, and is still in good con• numbers in attendance in all departments dition after more than thirty-five years of the institution. The college, however, of service. The winter of 1889-90 was was not in a financial condition ade• exceptionally favorable for out-of-door quate to warrant the large expense in• work, there being but little frost in th_e volved. ground, and no heavy fall of snow until THE BIDDLE MEMORIAL FIELD. March, which, however, soon klisap• It was at this time that the Hon. peared. In the early part of January, Edward W. Biqdle, a graduate of the steam was turned on in East and West class of '70, a Trustee of the college, colleges, follow~d immediately by a and Judge of the Cumberland County general exodus of the iron stoves, coal Courts, together with his accomplished bins, 'and wood boxes, hitherto used wife, Mrs. Gertrude (Bosler) Biddle, in all dormitory buildings, and recita• submitted to me a proposal for a new tion rooms for heating purposes. Not athletic field to be designated "The long after the mains were extended to Herman Bosler Biddle Memorial Field" Bosler Hall, The Tome Scientific in memoriam of their son recently de• Building, South College, The Presi• ceased, a brilliant and promising young dent's Home, the Allison Methodist man who was graduated from the col• Episcopal Church, Boyd Hall, the Law lege with the class of 1 ?~5, and .who School Building~ and ultimately, Con• after a brief cbtut prormsmg business wav Hall. career had suddenly passed away. The steam boiler was located in an The highly g_ratifying proposal was excavation made. beneath the floor of accepted and the property now known the bowling alley of the Gymnasium. as "Biddle Field" secured. This was of but thirty horse power, On June 8, 1909 after a year of and soon another boiler of ninety horse unremitting labor on the part of Judge power was placed by its side. The Biddle assisted by the President, the smoke chimney, a huge iron stack, was new field carefully graded, equipped placed in position outside which after with all modern conveniences for the a few years gave place to the handsome conduct of the athletic sports was ready white brick chimney that now stands for use. in its place. The old iron stack with The present handsome grandstand its row of rungs on the outside was and ornate and graceful entrance gate a sore temptatiqn to Sophomores and were erected under the personal super• Freshmen eager to paint upon its sur• vision of Judge Biddle, a man to whom face the numerals of the respective the college is greatly indebted not only classes, each of course, a little higher for his munificent gift but also for that that of the rival class. As the iron long years of faithful service as. a became rusty through the action of smoke Trustee as member of the Executive and gasses this form of sport became Committee later as President of the exceedingly dangerous. Nevertheless it Board of :Trustees-which position he was persisted in until the chimney was taken down. now holds+-and as the author of several For the winter months of that first historical monographs on the early days year three stalwart sons of Delaware, of the life of the college. McAllister, Van Northrup and Mc• STEAM HEATING INTRODUCED Crea served as firemen, that in this way Another project of great importance, they 'might help to meet their college was begun in the Fall of 1889, the expenses. It was a heavy task but the establishment of a steam plant for the young fellows stuck to the job with THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 23

great fidelity. Later, regular firemen ground, with the generous aid of Wil• were employed. liam C. Allison, a story and a half was added to the building, afford• A NEW HOME FOR THE PRESIDENT. ing ample capacity for entertainment of In the Fall of 1889, becoming dis• guests and for public receptions. In satisfied with the fourth section of one of the wings the President estab• .. Old East" as ~ residence I began to lished his office with room for faculty look about for some building sufficiently meetings and a small private office in near to be convenient, which might be which sat, in after years, many a stu• selected as a home for the President of dent while "investigations" were going the College, and' in this succeeded. On on, which hundreds of students of the Main Street, directly opposite the cam• period will readily recall. In these of• pus stood a building, at that time with• fices the administration business of the out occupants, originally constructed by college was carried on during the entire the Hon. John Reed at one time Presi• period of my administration. Many dent-Judge of the Cumberland County and bitter were the criticisms passed Courts, and for sixteen years Professor upon the President while the transfor• of Law in Dickinson College that is, mation was going on. Once again the from 1834 to 1850. After his decease cry of desecration went up. An old the house beca~e the residential prop• "landmark" was disappearing and many erty of a Mr. Woodward who carried mourned its departure, The new con• on a flour and grain business. in a large struction was finished in season for the brick warehouse located on the corner June Commencement of 1890, and the of Main and West Streets. Between doubters invited to attend the first re• the house and the warehouse was a sid-' ception held within its walls. After ing running from the main line of the that event the voice of criticism died Cumberland Valley road, over which away and soon was forgotten. On the cars were drawn to and fro by horse completion of the work the entire prop• power, to the great annoyance of many. erty was turned over to the trustees This "Villa" as it was called was a of the College, a property worth fully structure purely Italian in architectural fifteen thousand dollars on which stood design and was regarded with pride by the mortgage of eight thousand five the townspeople. It was a low roofed hundred dollars, for which I had made structure with large wings projecting myself personally responsible. It has from each side of the main building. been the home of the President of the Along the front of each wing was a college from that day to this. piazza supported by massive columns of COLLEGE CHURCH. solid wood, terminating in a sweeping In the same year, 1889, the Trustees spiral stairway leading to the ground. of the Methodist Episcopal Church had The lawn in front was deoressed and purchased the property on which the ultimately had to be filled in with some Woodward warehouse stood and were three feet of earth. In the basement planning for a new church building. The of this structure was a large room in site which they had secured was which for sixteen years Judge Reed long and in reality too narrow for conducted his classes in law. Kitchen, dining room, and laundry occupied the their purpose even were the siding removed. The plan contemplated plac• remaining portion of the basement. The ing the front elevation on the line of living rooms were all on the first floor. the sidewalk in order that yard room ALLISON AGAIN TO THE RESCUE. for the Parsonage, also contemplated, The location was admirable. This might be secured. To obviate this ne• villa I purchased on my own responsi• cessity I agreed to present to the Trus• bility. Not wishing to live under- tees six additional linear feet, and yard I

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I j 24 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS in the rear of my own dwelling, pro• Memorial Church, and South College vided they would agree to have the extending to the large grain elevator a:id building set back from the sidewalk mill owned by Mr. J. D. Graybill. by at least twentv feet. This offer Just above South College, and but a few feet distant was a third siding lead• was accepted much to the advantage ing into the coal yard of Mr. Andrew of the church, and to some extent to the Blair, and above this on the site of the· benefit of the property adjoining. In handsome residence of Mr. Abram Bos• this way the objectionable siding was ler was yet another leading to the flour removed. and feed store occupied by a Mr. In this connection, as a matter of Thompson. historic interest, we may remark that in These sidings have now been elimi• 1889 and for a number of years after• nated, and the block is now entirely for· ward, in the block opposite the campus residential purposes. The siding of the were three other sidings, all of which main line still remains despite all ef• were eventually eliminated, greatly to forts to have it removed. A continual the improved appearance of the now source of noise and confusion, inter• beautiful block. · fering often with exercises conducted The first of the three ran back be• in Bosler Hall and Denny Building. It tween the house - that now serves as a is to be hoped that in time the nuisance· parsonage for the Pastor of The Allison will be abated. ·

Handles all Pennsylvania Auto Licenses Every automobile license plate, every year ago at St. Paul, nine of the ten application for a driver's license, every recommendations urged upon the con• certificate of ownership in Pennsylvania ferees by the California representative, passes through the Dickinsonian process. had been put in use by "Tom" months That's because Thomas H. Lourimer, before. 'OSL is the boss of that industry at the State Capitol. Pennsylvania issued last year consid• Reappointed U. S. Commissioner erably over a million pair of license Judge W. H. S. Thomson in federal plates with an even larger number of court at Pittsburgh on January 29, an• drivers' cards. As head of the auto nounced the reappointment of Ray Pat• mailing division, Lourimer conducts the ton Smith, '11, attorney of Johnstown, largest sub-post-office in the nation. as United States commissioner for the The ease and facility with which the district in which he resides for a term m:ailing division operates is due largely of four years. to Lourimer's planning. He has devised In recounting the appointment, The a number of intricate machines to handle ] ohnstown Democrat, heads the story the material without lost motion. So "Smith, Very Dry, Is Given Another well was his work done that his division Four-Year Term." The article states is equipped to handle 100,000 pieces that any attorney who has so actively of mail daily. fought the wets would normally come It is part of his job to select and in• under the ban of political bosses. spect all the material which goes into the Mr. Smith has held this post for plates and into the cards. ~y a_uto eight years and has weathered predic• mailing chiefs in other states, this Dick• tions that his dry activities would only insoriian is regarded as their leader. At result in his "rooting himself out of a a national conference of such officials a job." THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 25

Starts New Shore Hotel Project

Atlantic City's newest and most unique hotel is the child of a Dickin• sonian's brain. The president of the President apartment hotel at Albany Avenue and Boardwalk is Walter G. Souders, '98 of New York. The structure is to cost $5,000,000 and is already underway. Next-door neighbors of the President are the Ritz-Carlton and the Ambassa• dor. The hotel will be six-stories high and two-thirds of the 506 rooms will be famlily apartments, each with a kitchen and furnished. The other rooms will be for transients. Mr. Souders will re• side in a two-story bungalow erected on the hotel roof. Construction will be of Indiana lime• ~tone and red brick. Its equipment will mclude incinerator chutes on all floors, servidors for all rooms and modern ap• pointments in the apartments. Atlantic City newspapers commenting on the prominence of the head of the hotel company emphasized the fact that he was born in Salem, New Jersey, that ALTER G. SOUDERS, '98 he is a graduate and trustee of Dickin• w son, 'a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and a prominent financier of a year jumped to $1,000,000 and in 1921 Chicago and New York. In 1898, Mr. reached $2,000,000. Souders was in the "Y" work of the Mr. Souders has been very active in Spanish-American War. Mr. Souder's financing large building operations. In New York Offices are at 31 Nassau June, 1923, he completed the Marlboro street. He resides at 290 Park Avenue. Apartments in Chicago, a half-million Following his graduation from Dick• dollar project, involving 105 apartments inson, Mr. Souders was married to Mar• and 405 rooms. tha Jane Zeitler> of Punxsutawney and entered the Congreg:ationalist ministry, being assigned to· a church at Blue Is• May Form Three New Clubs land, Illinois. After four years in the Interest is being manifested in projects pulpit, he gratified his business instincts to form alumni cJubs in Altoona, Wash• by becoming head of the bond depart• ington and Trenton. It is likely that ment of the M~lwaukee Trust Co., Mil• calls will be issued to the alumni in waukee, Wis. Three years later he be• these districts to gather about festive came a member of the firm of Devitt, boards during the present winter. Tremble & Co., Chicago, investment All of the older clubs are making bankers. Three years later he establish• plans for winter dinners in New York, ed his own investment banking business Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore, with a $500,000 organization, which in Carlisle and Pittsburgh. 26 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

IN OLD BELLAIRE

William Chalmers Stuart, who as a Mrs. Reed B. Teitrick, mother of member of the firm of Eckels and Stuart Harold Teitrick, '19, and Ruth, '26, and later under his own name, sold died at her home in Carlisle on January many a Dickinsonian shoes, died at Car• 18. At the time of her death she was lisle, January 16. He was the father president of the Carlisle Council of Re• of two Dickinsonians, Major Robert Y. publican Women's Clubs. She was a Stuart, secretary of the Pennsylvania De• former president of the Y. W. C. A. partment of Forests and Waters, and the and the Carlisle Civic Club. late Hugh Stuart, both of the class of '03.

James Farabelli, whose name and "Nick" Econom, who conducted the fruit store are recalled by two genera• Crystal Restaurant and catered to many tions of Dickinsonians, died J anuary 12. students for a number of years and then He is said to have amassed a considerable left to open a restaurant in Baltimore, fortune. is back again at his old stand.

UNDERGRADUATE NOTES

The business manager · of the 1926 the time for the election of captains in Microcosm, published a year :ago, recent• the various sports, giving the Executive ly reported a profit of $632.19. This Committee of the association power to set balance which he holds will be used in the date of the elections. The previous part to finance a- Senior ball. provision was that captains should be elected after the third game of the sched• The Dickinson Players, under the di• ule. rection of Dr. Norcross, are irn rehearsal preparing the mid-year play, "The Whole Town's Talking" for presenta-• The men's Glee Club under· the direc• tion March 16. tion of Prof. C. -E. Wass, has been giv• ing a number of concerts and has been Two hundred delegates from twenty• well received everywhere. The concerts five colleges and are expect• booked for this month and l\/Iarch are ed to arrive in Carlisle for February 19, as follows: Feb. 25, Lock Haven; Feb. 20 and 21, when the twenty-first annual 26, Jersey Shore; Feb. 27-28, Williams• Student Volunteer Conference of East• port; Mar. 5, Huntingdon; Mar. 6-7, ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey will Altoona; Mar. 45, 26 & 27, Baltimore. be held on the Dickinson campus. An elaborate program with noted speakers Dr. G. W. Ray, noted traveler and featured has been arranged, and careful explorer, was a speaker at one of the plans have been laid for the entertain- series of lectures and entertainment given ment of all visitors. · at the chapel services recently. The College presents various noted lecturers An amendment to the constitution of and talented musicians throughout the the Athletic Association was adopted year and they are enthusiastically re• recently by the student body. It changes ceived by the student body. l

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[ PERSONALS

1859 A. S. Griffith is Supervising Principal of In a letter received last month from James the Elmira, N. J., schools. J. Patterson, Alpena Pass, Ark., he says: 1891 "Should my present vigor continue, I cherish Mrs. John D. Landis, mother of Dr. W. W, the hope of meeting you on the old ground Landis of the College faculty, died in De• June next. Perhaps there to note my 88th cember at her home in Coatesville, Pa. natal day at the shrine of my earlier years. President Morgan, Dean Filler and Profes• 1866 sors Mohler and Prettyman attended the funeral services. Dr. C. W. Super has been honored by the Dr. Frank Moore, President of the Ameri• opening of the new Super Hall for the can Prison Association, spoke on "Coopera• Engineering and Manual Training Depart• tion, the Need of Our Prisons" at the meet• ment at Ohio University, Athens, 0. Dr. ing of the organization at Jackson, Miss., Super, who has retired, was for many years November 7-14. Dr. Moore is Superinten• connected with the Engineering Department dent of the N. ]. Reformatory at Rahway. of the University. The cost of the building He was a delegate to the International Prison was $220,000, and the equipment $20,000. Congress in London last summer. 1870 1892 Hon. and Mrs. E. W. Biddle are stopping Virgil Prettyman, who is Vice-President of at The Wellington, Philadelphia, over the the Fred F. French Company, architects, winter months. Judge Biddle visited Car• builders and financiers of New York City, lisle in January to attend annual meetings is in charge of an office at· Miami Beach, of several bodies in which he holds offices. Fla., where his company has some large 1872 operations under way. Rev. C. W. Prettyman, Trustee of the 1893 College, is again spending the winter months Dickinsonians were saddened to learn of at Orlando Beach, Fla. the death on December rst last of Rosanna Thedford MacAlarney, twelve years old, 1880 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mac• Dr. J. Warren Harper was heard in a Alarnev. She had been ill of typhoid-pneu• radio broadcast from Station W T I C, moni a ·for only a short time. Hartford, Conn., in December. He read his poem, "The First American Speaks", which 1896 he first presented at the Commencement Members of '96 are requested to write the last June. Reunion Committee saying that they wil! be 1881 present for the 30th Reunion at Commence• Edwin H. "Zeb" Linville sent out attractive ment. Christmas cards at Yuletide to the members Ralph Jacobs, Carlisle attorney, was re• of '76-'86 and also many Dickinsonians in cently elected President of the Cumberland Carlisle. His card bore the photograph of Valley Building and Loan Association. Rob• the '76-'86 Group on the steps of Old West. ert H. Conlyn, '72, is one of the directors. 1888 1897 Curwen B. Fisher, who has retired from James G. Miller is Registrar of Mercers• the ministry, recently entered politics and burg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa. served as County Auditor of Burlington 1898 County, N. J. Standing for clean politics and law enforcement, he was elected by an Dr. Glenn C. Brown, instructor at Bucknell even larger majority recently to the Board University, gave a demonstration of liquid of Chosen Freeholders, and is serving as air before the Mohler Scientific Club of the Director of Bridges. He resides at Mt. College early in December. Holly, N. J. Dr. Leon C. Prince will likely be a candi• 1890 date for Congress this fall from the Nine• "Speech is the most misused of the human teenth Congressional District. It is said that faculties,'' said the Rev. Dr. Frank W. Crow• the Republican organization will doubtless der in his sermon before St. James Episcopal back him in ·the coming election. Church, Madison Ave. and 71st St., N. Y., 1899 where he is pastor. Dr. Crowder is quoted Harry L. Cannon, canner of Bridgeville, practically every Monday morning by the Del., who is a Director of the Federal Re• New York Times. serve Bank, was elected First Vice-Presi- 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Reserve Bank. He lives in Mechanicsburg New York Notes and continues to practice law there and at his office in Carlisle. C. G. Cleaver, Corres., cl o Ginn & Ca., 70 Fifth Ave., N'esu: York City 1901L L. Floyd Hess was recently re-elected for Mr. and Mrs. Gratwold Curran, his third term as President of the Boiling 're, of Standish Arms, Brooklyn, left Springs State Bank. on February 3d for a trip to Cuba, the 1902 Isle of Pines and other points of in• The father of Clyde Hoover, who is super• terest. intendent of schools in West Fairview, died William A. DeGrott, '97, was ten• on January 9th and his mother died three dered a testimonial dinner at the New days later. His parents were buried at a Triangle Hotel in Richmond Hill, N. double funeral in Shippensburg. Y. C., on Saturday evening, January 30th, in honor of his elevation to the 1903 office of U. S. Attorney for the second Robert B. Stauffer was recently elected or Eastern District of N. Y. Pr.esident of the Rotary Club of Philipsburg, Pa. Lloyd \V. Johnson, '03, Vice-Princi• Major Robert Y. Stuart, Secretary of the pal of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, Department of Forests and Waters of Penn• attended on January 23d, the inaugural exercises of President Dr. Parke R. sylvania, has been named by Governor Pin• chot as Chairman of the State Sesqui-Cen• Kolbe, of Polytechnic Institute as the tennial Commission. personal representative of President James H. Morgan. Merril C. Haldeman, head of large real estate and financial interests in Detroit, came Because of ill health Georgi a M. east to spend the Christmas holidays with Cranston, '06, bas resigned her posi• his parents at the old home in Thompson• tion in the Yonkers High School, and town, Pa. is spending the winter in St. Augus• 1905L tine, Fla. Elmer W. Ehler, of Harrisburg, and Miss Gertrude Super Curtis, '02, is teach• Erma L. Wilson of the same city were mar• ing French and English in the High ried January 29th. They are spending their school, Santa Ana, Calif. honeymoon on a Mediterranean cruise. Mr. Dr. Jobn Edwards, '96, is now lo• Ehler, in addition to holding a place in the cated in the Methodist Book Rooms, Pennsylvania State Department of Health. 150 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C., and is Sec• is prominent in suburban real estate develop• retary of the General Missionary ments. Movement of M. E. Church. 1906L Addison Bowman, Carlisle attorney who re• sides in Camp Hill, was recently appointed by Judge C. W. J ohnson of the Federal dent of the National Canners Association at Court as Referee in Bankruptcy for tbe Cum· a convention held in Louisville, Ky., in J anu• berland County district. It will be Mr. Bow· ary, Under the custom of the Association, man's fifth term in this office. this insures his election as President a year hence. 1906 1900 Henry F. Wile, who is editor of the Rev. Dr. Albert M. Witwer is pastor of "Bell Telephone News," the magazine pub• the Seventh Street M. E. Church, 7th & Nor• lished by the Bell Telephone Company of ris Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Pennsylvania, was married to Miss Nelle Boyd Lee Spahr, Esq., is planning to sail Sweeney, of Harrisburg, on November 27tb. They now reside at Nassau Court, Philadel• for Europe with his family on August the phia. rst, for a trip through France and a visit in London. Dr. Norman B. Shepler has just finished a successful term as President of the Acad• 1901 emy of Medicine,. Harrisburg. Twenty-four members of the class of 1901 1907 have already stated that they will be present Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gehring, Carlisle, an• for the 25th-and first-Reunion of the class nounced the birth of a son, Philip Klepfer at Commencement on June 4-7. Gehring, on November 27th. George Lloyd, who has been serving as a Dr. Wilbur H. Norcross, of the College director of the Savings division of the Fed• facultv, has been re-elected president of the eral Reserve Bank, recently became Trust Carlisle Chamber of Commerce. He continues Officer of the Peoples' Bank in Philadelphia. in great demand as a pulpit orator and He continues in an advisory capacity in the luncheon or dinner speaker, frequently filling Bank Relations Department of the Federal such engagements. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29

1908 A. M. Hess was recently elected to serve for a two-year term as director of the Ki• Baltimore Notes wanis Club of Harrisburg. Carlyle R. Earp, Correspondent, 129 E. Redwood St., Baltimore, Md. 1909L The engagement of John Clarence Funk Rev. Charles E. Dudre a r, '77, \Valk• to Miss· Ada Cynthia Pruden, of Haines• ersville, Md., has been giving the ville, La., was recently announced. No date readers of the Washington Christian for the wedding has been set. Advocate considerable pleasure re• Leo MacDonald is managing the lecture cently with his essays on various re• tour of William E. Mitchell, until recently a ligious subjects in that publication. Colonel of the U. S. Army Air Service. A series of articles on "Atonement' John T. Olmsted, Harrisburg has with• appeared during January. drawn from the law firm of Snyder, Miller Mrs. E. McNeal Shannah an of Eas• & Hull, and opened offices in his home, 3 r7 ton, Maryland, the wife of. Shan• Chestnut St. nahan, '02, sailed for Europe m Jan• uary in company with her daughter, 1910 who is to study in Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Baker announced Rev. John J. Bunting, '08, the pas• the birth of a son, James Hugh, on January tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church ath, This is the second future Dickinsonian at Crisfield, Maryland, attended the in the Baker family. Educational Conference at Evanston, Marjorie L. Mcintire is the State Chairman Illinois as a delegate at the encl of of the third year Latin group of the Classical December. Association of New Jersey. During the re• Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., '02, the cent Convention, she was on the Reception inimitable "Harn '' has been announced Committee of the Atlantic City A. A. U. W., by President A~pold of the. Ah~mni which was hostess to the North Atlantic Association as one of the trrumvi rate Section. to choose candidates for the Alumni 1911L Council this year. John R. Jackson, formerly of Chambers• Mrs. Carl. F. New, the wife of New, burg, Pa., has assumed the practice of Wil• '02 attended a conference of the Worn• liam T. Omwake and Watson R. Davison, in en'~ Foreign Missionary Society of Waynesboro, Pa. Mr. Davison has been · the Methodist Church at Eustis, Flor• elected Judge of the Franklin County courts. ida, as a delegate early in January. and Mr. Omwake is retiring. The annual dinner of the Dickinson Club of Baltimore will probably be 1911 held in March. Ric·hard R. Spahr, M.D., of Mechanics• burg, Pa., was elected Secretary of the Cum· berland County Medical Society at the an- · nua] meeting of the organization in Harris· 1916 burg in January. A New Year babe was born to Mr. and 1912 Mrs. William G. Stephens, when their The twentieth anniversary celebration of daughter, Patricia Ann, arrived at eight• the First M. E. Church of Pottsville, of which thirty on January r st. The time of its ar• the Rev. Charles W. Kitto is pastor, was ob• rival gave it the distinction of being the served the first week in December. first child born in 1926 in Carlisle, and the baby became the winner of many prizes 1913 awarded by the merchants of Carlisle for the Plans are being carried out for a "T11ir• first baby born in the New Year. teenrh Reunion for 'I3" at Commencement in Dr. Clayton C. Perry, who has been se rv• June. Begin planning now to be on hand! ing in the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., 1915 sailed with his wife on the "Aquitania," Jan• Mr. and Mrs. George W. AM, of Roslyn, uary 30th, to spend several months at St. Long Island, announced the birth of a son, Mark's Hospital, London. Following his George Watkins Ahl, Jr., on December 30th. work there, he plans to travel in France and Ruth M. Sellers has been elected a teacher Italy and will then likely locate in Cleveland in the high school of Lemoyne, Pa. A new for the practice of medicine. His present high school building is just being corn• plan is to be in Carlisle for Commeucemenr pleted in Lemoyne, where she will teach. and the tenth reunion of the class. Dr. Robert B. Kistler, who is on the 1917 staff of the Children's Homepathic Hospital, Edmund G. Young, formerly of Tunk• Philadelphia, now resides at 1715 Green St., hannock, Pa., is now attending New York Philadelphia. University. 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Rev. John Collins, Altoona. They are re• Luzerne-Lackawanna Notes siding at 145 E. Market St., York, Pa. 1923 J. H. Super, Jr., Corres., 302 Academy The engagement o{ Oella Liggett, who is st., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. a member of the faculty of the Carlisle Oliver Stecher, '24, was married No• High School, was announced to James Mal• vember r8th, 1925, to Estelle T. Risch, colm Stott, of Oxford, Pa., at a luncheon at of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mr. Stecher has her home, December 30th. The following been employed for several years in the Dickinsonians were among the guests pres• advertising department of the Wilkes• ent: Virginia Watts, Rachael Shelley Stetler, Barre "Record." Kathryn Wagner Porter, Janet Loy, Dorothy "Syl" V. Pauxtis, 'r6, had :.t very Line and Sarah McCrea. successful year, as coach of the Kings• Stanford W. Mulholland, who graduat.ed ton High School football team. His from the Medical School of the University team won the championship of the ?f Michigan in ]une, has been appointed ~n Wyoming Valley. rnterne at St. Agnes Hospital, Philadelphia. The following were among the Dick• He expects to obtain a fellowship in Gen• insonians who attended the Convention eral Surgery at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, of the P. S. E. A. at Scranton during Minn., in the near future. ' the holidays: Dr. George G. Cham• Morris E. Swartz, Jr., who was Sporting bers, '02, Frank B. Green, '06, ~eorge Editor of the "Patriot," Harrisburg, Pa., and Briner, '07, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Supe r, then went to a like position on the Harrisburg Jr. '09, Grier Briner, '09, T. H. Grim, "Telegraph/' has returned to the "Boening '09', W. E. Strawinski, '12, R. A. News" as State Editor. Shields, '12, J. W. Potter, '13, and 1924 J. F. Puderbaugh, 'r7. Past numbers of the magazine have not Wolfe Rosenberg, 16-L, was recently chronicled the marriage of Rose S. Buckson married to Edith Kaufman, of Wilkes· to J. Layton Moore, a Barre, Pa. The wedding took place g_raduate, on June 30, 1925. They were mar• at the Hotel Adelphia, Philadelphia. ned at Grace M. E. Church, Millsboro, Del., Laurence Savige, 'r7-L, has been ap• by her father, Rev. J. A. Buckson. Elizabeth pointed Deputy Clerk of the Courts DeMa1'is, ''24, was maid of honor, and of Lackawanna County for the en• the bride's maids were Elizabeth Chambers, suing term of four years. This will '24, Louise Sumwalt, '24 and Miss Grace be his second term in this· posinon. Ellison. Marion Keen '~4 sang and Ruth Gomer W. Morgan, "r r-L, was re• Read, '24, played the ~edding m~rch. They cently appointed to be Assistant Gen• reside at Dover, Del., where Mr. Moore is eral Attorney of the D., L. & W. R. R. Vice-President of the School District. The story ·of the rise of D. R. Reese, Rachel Shelly, teacher 00' mathematics in '99-L fro~ breaker boy to General t~e high school, Middletown, Pa., was mar• Atto;ney of the D., L. & \V. R. R., rie d to Russell A. G. Stetler, a graduate of which first appeared in the D1_CKIN• Susquehanna University, on December 19th, SON ALUMNUS, was recently featured at New Bloomfield. They are residing in in the "American Magazine." Harrisburg, where the bridegroom is a life insurance agent. 1919 1924L R. H. Spare is Secretary of the Chamber Charles Quinn was married to Catherine of Commerce of Milton, Pa. !Vlary Convery on Saturday, January 23rd, 1920 in Trenton, N. J. They will reside after Rev. Ralph L. Minker has been appointed March rst at 709 Edgewood Ave., Trenton. pastor of the Baker Memorial M. E. Church, 1925 Concord, N. H. . The first Class Reunion will be held at Miss Katherine B. Riegel, Mechanicsburg, Commencement, June 4-7. Everybody Out! was married December r st to Mr. Fr~nk Fred Zeigler, j r., who is teaching history Mumma at Silver Spring Church, Mechanics• in the Greencastle high school, recently pur• b rg The bride-groom is a graduate of chased, and is manager of the "Echo-Pilot," C~n~ay Hall Preparatory School, Carlisle. a consolidated newspaper ~f Greencastle, Pa. They will reside on South Marke.t St., Me• 1925L chanicsburg, where Mr. Mumma is head of The engagement of Joseph P. Hoerle. who the firm of F. S. Mumma and Son. is practicing law in Johnstown, Pa., to Caro• 1922 lvn Rupley, of Carlisle, was announced by A· Dickinson romance culminated in the Mrs. Arthur R. Rupley on J a nua rv zoth, at marriage of Florence Everhart, '23L, of York, a bridge supper at the Hotel Molly Pitcher, and Charles C. Collings, '23L, of Clearfield, Carlisle. No definite date has been set for on August r Sth last, at the bride's home by the wedding. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 31

OBITUARY

'91-Alexander M. Parker, general superinten• dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, stationed at Harrisburg, and a member of a distinguished Carlisle family, died suddenly December 10, as the result of a cerebral hemor• rhage. He was 55 years old. Mr. Parker had spent the day in his private car on an inspection trip and had returned to his home only a short time when fatally stricken. He is survived by a widow. Mr. Parker was born in Carlisle, June 20, 1870, the son of William Brisbane and Jennie Talcott (Jones) Parker. He entered Dickinson after a course in the Car• lisle public schools. At the end of his college career, he ALEXANDER M. PARKER joined a surveying corps of the Pennsylvania. From 1893 . he served the company 'as supervisor at Tyrone, York, Nor- nstown and New Brunswick, N. J. He then became principal assistant engineer of the New York division and in 1902 was appointed to his first superintendency, tlie Hudson division in New York. Subsequently he served as superintendent of t~c. Allegheny division at Pittsburgh, the West Jersey at Camden and the Terminal division at Philadelphia. He was made general superintendent of the Eastern Pennsylvanra Division in 1922. Many clubs and societies listed Mr. Parker as a member. These include the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the Philadelphia, th~ l!arrisburg, the Engineers and the Venango. He was active in affairs of the Dickinson Club of Harrisburg, rarely failing to attend its dinners and conferences. . For years he maintained the family Parker pew in St. John's church, Carlisle. His funeral, which was held in Harrisburg, was attended by high officials of the Pennsylvania and other railroads. Interment was made at Hollidaysburg, the home of the widow. Mr. Parker or "Don" as he was known to his intimates, belonged to a family closely associated with Dickinson. Isaac Brown Parker, one of his ancestors, was graduated from Dickinson in 1805. "Don" Parker's grandfather, John Brown ~arker was graduated in 1839, the father, William Brisbane Parker, a United States consul in Greece, was awarded his diploma in 1864 'and "Don" Parker him· self wore the class numerals of '91. 1854-Dr. John Peach, who had been one of the oldest living alumni of the College, died on December 7, 1925, at Mitchellville, Md. He was ninety years and eight months of age, having been born April 18, 1835, at Ashcroft, Md. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Maryland in 1858, and practiced medicine nearly forty years in Prince George's County, Md., following a term when he devoted his attention to farming enterprises. He is survived by five sons and three daughters. His son, Rev. P. L. Peach, is Secretary of Education at the M. E. Mission, Singapore, Malayasia. 1904-L-Willi'am L. Houck, attorney of Scranton, Pa., was buried December 2, 1925, aged fifty-four. He was admitted to the Bar of Lackawanna County on October 1, 1904·. He formed a law partnership with Frank P. Benjamin, who had been bis classmate at Dickinson, and continued in that partnership until 1923. He 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

quickly won the respect, confidence, esteem and good will of his associates of the Bar. He acquired a large practice. His briefs and legal papers were always models of professional workmanship of a high order. He gave to his clients patient and conscientious consideration. He was the head of the Big Brother Organization. at Scranton and was also a member of the Council of the Boy Scouts. He marned Catherine Klink, of Carlisle, who survives him. Mrs. Houck was a student at Dickinson College and a member of the class of 1893 . . 1911-Mrs. Yates Jeffers Snyder died suddenly on Sunday, December 29, 1925. She was the wife of Frank Snyder of Newport, Pa., and left also six children.

'24L-Over-exertion while hunting deer in Franklin County and the effects of gas poisoning during the World War contributed to the death of R:obert F. Young on December 15. He collapsed while preparing breakfast at a deer camp, four• teen miles from Chambersburg. He was 31 years of age. He was a member of S. A. E. Fraternity and had been practising law in Harrisburg, while his home was at Lawnton, Pa.

NECROLOGY

Dr. Bernard C. Steiner, educator and author, died at his home, 1631 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, on January 12th at the age of 58 years. Dr. Steiner had been the librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the public library system of Balti• more, for 33 years in addition to having been the author of a number of works and articles on historical, biographical and educational subjects. A graduate of Yale of the class of 18.88, Dr. Steiner received his master's de• gree from that institution two years later, followed by the degree of doctor of philosophy from Johns Hopkins in 1891. Three vears later he received the de• gree of bachelor of laws from the University of Maryland. · Dr. Steiner is best known to Dickinsonians because of his "Life of Roger Brooke Taney" and it was in recognition of the publication of the biography of this renowned alumnus that Dickinson conferred the degree of doctor of literature upon Dr. Steiner in June, 1923. ------The Rev. Dr. Frank Brice Lynch, Trustee of the College, pastor of the Chelten Avenue M. E. Church of Philadelphia, and former President of the Philadelphia Federation of Churches, died of pneumonia at his home in Germantown on Decem• ber 2. He was 71 years old. He was born !in West Virginia, the son of a Methodist minister and graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in 1881, entering the Philadelphia Confer• ence the same year. He served as presi?in:g elder of the South Philadelphia Dis- trict, succeeding in that office the late Bishop Neely. . . . He served on the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan Umvers1ty and was active also in social and fraternal organizati.ons. _He had been a member of th~ l\!Iasonic Fraternity and had attained the thrr~y-thlfd degree. He was chaplain of the Grand Lodze of Pennsylvania, F. and A. M. The Rev~ Dr. W. H. Ford, '94, J?is:trict Superintendent o~ the N.orthwest Distb nc,· t Philadelphia Conference,. . offic. iated at the funeral services, which were attended by a delegation of Dickinsonians. PROFESSIONAL CARDS R. R. McWHINNEY GEORGE V. HOOVER Attorney-at-Law Attorney-at-Law 1303 Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 201-202 Calder Bldg., Harrisburg, Pa.

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