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FHE Brown Alumni Monthly

Volume 1

June, 1 90 1 to May, 1902

PROVIDENCE, K. E ^be JSrown Blumnt /lRa£ia5ine Co. 1902

THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY

Vol. U Providence, R. L, January, 1902 No. 6

PRESIDENT FAUNCE has made devised to meet the needs of the depart- arrangements for one southern ments of the fine arts and drawing, are and one western trip this win- chiefly courses in drawing. One is an ter, in order to attend the alumni elementary course in that subject con- dinners in several cities and at the sisting of work in drawing for two hours same time to meet engagements to de- a vveek and open to all candidates for a liver addresses in other colleges. He degree. A second course is in archi- will spend the week of January 19-26 at tectural drawing and the third is a the University of Virginia, and on his course supplementary to the first year's way back will visit the alumni in Wash- work in the history of art. This latter ington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, re- course is intended to cultivate apprecia- turning in time for tion of the technical the alumni dinner in features of works of Boston, which will be architecture, sculp- held at Young's Ho- ture and painting. tel, Wednesday, Jan- Students from the uary 29. During the School week of March 9-16, of Design may be ad- President Faunce will mitted to any class in lecture and preach at Brown University for the University of Chi- which they are found cago, at which time to be prepared and a the Chicago alumni special course in the will hold their annual history of art is to be reunion. On the way given to the students home he will visit the of the Rhode Island alumni of Cleveland School of Design by and Pittsburg and Professor Poland of will deliver addresses Brown University. at the University of Michigan and Bryn Mawr College. A num- Accessions ber of to the Herbarium years ago The cor- Cooperation PRESIDENT FAUNCE the Her- (Phittoi/rapli hy Huitoii Bros., Pioridence) Between poration barium was irreatly and Brown and faculty of Brown Uni- enriched by the gift of many valuable versity have agreed with botanical School of specimens from C. M. Brownell the Design authorities of the Rhode of Hartford, Conn. Within a short time Island School of Design it has received a further addition of 207 upon a plan of co-operation in accord- sheets of plants amassed by the same ance with which certain courses at the collector. They are particularly valu- Rhode Island School of Design will be able owing to the remote localities from open to students of Brown University which they are derived, such as New- and will be counted as qualifications for foundland, Cape Breton, the West In- a degree. dian Islands and Peru. The specimens The three courses thus far opened, are in most cases ample and well-select- (2) io6 The Brown Alumni Monthly ed. The number of species is, as often Gardner Colby, and was bequeathed by happens, in excess of the sheets. The him to his son, the donor. South American plants are mostly unde- Gardner Colby was a business man termined, but the university is well pro- who was much interested in promoting vided with literature for determining educational work. Besides having been them. one of the trustees of Brown University These supplementary plants are the from 1855 to 1879, the time of his death, gift of Francis E. Brownell, through he was for many years a trustee of Ernest H. Brownell of the class of Newton Theological Institution, serving 1888, for several years instructor in as its treasurer from 1844 to 1868. In mechanical engineeringin theuniversity. 1865 he became a trustee of Waterville College, Waterville, Maine, which, in J- 1867, changed its name to Colby Uni- versity in his honor. To all three of __ A series of mid-week vesper Vesper of contri- services will be held in Savles these institutions learning he Services Memorial Hall at five o'clock buted largely. The total amount of his to Colby University ex- on successive Thursday afternoons, be- benefactions ginning January 9th. This will be the ceeded $200,000. To Brown he gave or less during his lifetime and by second series of such services. The more his will he bequeathed $50,000 to the first series was held last winter and permanent endowment of the university. proved to be very interesting to a large number of people. Indeed, at some of it was impossible for many the services ^^""^ y^^x^ ago Mr. who came to the hall to gain admittance Mr Lincoln's * William L. Lincoln, '68, series will i-> Offert\£c It is hoped that the second Generous ur u i u i published a handsome be no less interesting and attractive and substantial volume in memory of than the first. The list of preachers his father. Professor John Larkin Lin- for the series is as follows : coln, than whom there never was a better Professor Francis G. Peabody, D. D January 9. loved instructor in Brown University. Rt, Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D.,LL. D... January 16. Mr. Lincoln offered the book to any Alexander McKenzie, D. D January 23. Rev. student of Professor Lincoln's who Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, D. D January 30. re- Rev. Frank M. Bristol, D. D February 6. desired it, and he now generously Rev. Orrin P. Gifford, D. D February 13. news the offer in the note which follows. February 20. Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, D. D The volume is one which every Brown President W. H. P. Faunce, D. D February 27. man who travelled the Appian Way with The music at all the services will be Professor Lincoln ought to have. Mr. by the university chapel choir under the Lincoln (whose address is 815 Amberson direction of Professor Ashton. Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.,) says : "It may be that some who were students of my father. Professor John L. Lincoln, have not received a copy of • Abustof GardnerCol- Memorial1 Giftr^£4. ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ his writings, which I published in his to the University memory a few years ago. I would be ,,j;- versify from 1855 glad to send a copy to such of his pupils to 1879, has recently been presented to not received one, if they will the university by his grandson, Gardner as have send and address and year of Colby of the class of 1887, a member of name graduation." the board of trustees since 1896. The bust is in marble and is the work of

Franklin Simmons, an American sculp- , , . , The microscopical an- Laboratory of ^j j^ ^^ ^^J^ j^ tor of note, well-known in Providence, Metallography where many of his works are to be seen. ^/^.^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ Mr. Simmons has now for many years nized as a valuable adjunct to the been a resident of Rome. Mr. Sim- chemical and physical tests which have mons's bust of Mr. Colby is a distinct hitherto been applied to ascertain the addition to the memorials possessed by properties of metals for engineering pur- the university. It was formerly the poses. The subject is, therefore, a com- property of Gardner R. Colby, son of paratively new one and as yet is taugh^ :

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in but few colleges in the . students, this chapter already gives Brown is one of the first to take up this promise of an exceptionally bright fu- new and important line of investigation. ture and bids fair to offer to its mem- The laboratory is located in a room bers not only a pleasant but also a most adjoining the university drawing rooms valuable opportunity to keep in touch on the top floor of University Hall. It with each other and with thinkers in is well equipped. It is provided with other colleges. two machines for polishing metal speci- The first meeting of the year was mens and an excellent Leitz microscope held on the evening of Wednesday, and accessories, including eye pieces November 20, in the lecture room of and illuminating devices for the exam- Wilson Hall, and was a "physics night," ination of them. The laboratory is also planned and addressed by members provided with a camera for use with the from that department. Four illustrated

microscope, a thermo-electric pyrometer talks were presented ; the first on "The for the measurement of high tempera- Stability of Vibrations," by Professor

tures, a lantern slide apparatus, etc. Carl Barus ; the second on "Electro- Adjoining the laboratory is a dark room magnetic Vibrations," by Professor A.

which affords opportunity for photo- de F. Palmer ; the third on "The Be- graphic work m connection with the havior of an Arc in a Magnetic Field,"

study of metallography. The dark room by Professor A. E. Watson ; and the is also used for making lantern slides. last on "Certain Experiments with Soap The work in metallography is in charge Films," by Mr. H. N. Davis, a graduate of Professor Kenerson. student in the department. In addition to those of a business na- ture, of which two have already been found necessary, at least two more D-ui- 1 T» 1. The Biblical Re- Bibhcal Research u /-i u • ^.u meetings are planned for the remainder ^1 , ,, .. search Club m the Club Meetings .. '^ universityannounces of the year, the first a public gathering the following meetings for the remain- for which it is hoped that a lecture on der of the year liquid air can be arranged, and the sec- ond, the annual initiation dinner, at which Biblical Facts at the Basis of a Theory Jan. 14. there will be as usual an address by of Biblical Inspiration. some prominent scientist. Prof. Irving F. Wood, Smith College.

Feb. II. The Apocrypha. Papers by Members of the Club. The December Meeting of Harkness March II. The Decipherment of Ancient Inscrip- ^^^ Classical Society tions. •' S^^I'"^Harkness Classi-ri Pkof. Charles F. Kent, Yale University. cal Society was addressed by Professor

April 8. Annual Address. Minton Warren, for many years profes- Rev. Newman Smyth, D.D., New Haven, Conn. sor of Latin in Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, now professor of Latin in Harvard With the exception of the meeting of University. February eleventh the meetings will be Professor Warren spoke at some held in Manning Hall. That meeting length of the advantages for study af- will be conducted in the Biblical Sem- forded by the American school at Rome. inary room in Sayles Hall. He urged upon his hearers the inspira- tion that comes from contact with ac- tual records from the past and the Some months ago mention many opportunities to enlarge the hori- Sigma Xi was made in these columns zon of our knowledge of classical anti- Meeting of the establishment at quity. He dwelt upon one idea in or- Brown of a chapter of the Sigma Xi, der to dispel it, the idea that "all the representing and encouraging scientific returns are in" from the classical past. scholarship and "zealous research." "The reason why I took up the study Numbering as it does among its mem- of Latin," said the speaker, "was the bers almost the whole scientific faculty conviction that there were so many and many of the best of the graduate things yet to be found out. The longer

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I study the more I find to warrant that was made through the Rhode Island first notion." Society for the Collegiate Education of His lecture proper was entitled Women. "Chips from a Latin Workshop." It consisted largely of a presentation of results reached by himself and his pu- During the latter part of the ChaDel pils in matters of palaeography and fall term the daily chapel ex- Soloists etymology. His use of the inscription ercises were diversified on recently found in the Forum on a stele Monday mornings by the introduction at the so-called grave of Romulus was of solos by prominent church singers of an excellent proof of the constant ap- Providence. Among those who sang pearance of new light upon old and per- were Miss Jennie Hunter, contralto of plexing questions. the Central Baptist Church ; Mr. Wil- liam L. Sweet, baritone of the Benefi- The sum of $300 has cent Congregational Church; Miss For the Library recently been given Helen Greene, soprano of the Central at Pembroke Hall to the Women s Col- Baptist Church, and Miss Carolyn Boyan lege for the purchase of books for the of Boston, contralto of Grace Church, library at Pembroke Hall. The gift Providence.

Chronicle of the Campus

A Dormitory Entertainment and Slocum, the abundance of new ma- terial promises to fill these positions in A dormitory entertainment was given an acceptable manner. McKinney, who in Maxcy Hall, Saturday evening, De- was a member of the '99 team, is back cember 9, under the supervision of An- this year and will prove a strong player, drew L. Frazer, '02, " head " of Maxcy especially on the defence. Hall. It was participated in only by The team is handicapped by not hav- students rooming in the dormitory and ing a good place to practice. What is proved to be a very enjoyable occasion. needed is a rink on Lincoln Field. The program consisted of solos and Every other college in the league has duets, readings and selections from a such a rink. graphophone. Another entertainment Following is the will probably be given during the win- ter term. LEAGUE SCHEDULE January 15, Yale vs. Princeton. Hockey League " 18, Columbia vs. Harvard. " Harvard has joined the Intercollegiate 25, Vale vs. Brown. February Columbia vs. Princeton. Hockey Association and will take part 7, " 12, Princeton vs. Brown. associ- " in the games this winter. The 15, Yale vs. Harvard. " ation now includes Yale, Princeton, 25, Brown vs. Columbia. Brown, , Columbia and March i, Princeton vs. Harvard. " Columbia vs. Yale. Harvard, each one of whom will play 6, All at St. Nicholas rink, . Extra one game with every other team. games series of three games between highest two teams. Brown and Yale, the two leading George F. Andrews Prize teams of last year, both expect to turn out teams up to the standard of those George F. Andrews, Brown '92, has of last season. Yale, however, has lost renewed his offer of a prize for the best three of her best men— Cox, captain and essay on some subject in English or cover-point; Bronson, the star forward, American literature. It was offered last and Smith, who played such a remark- year for the first time and although all able game at goal last year. the essays submitted had merit, the While Brown is much weakened in committee felt obliged to decide that the defence by the loss of Chase, Steere none was good enough to receive so large : ; :

The Brown Alumni Monthly 109 a prize — one hundred and fifty dollars. Currier, '02, Eddy, '03, Turner, '03, '02, '02 In view of this fact the donor has de- Ward, H. W. White, ; second cided,after consultation with the English basses — E. Appleton, '04, Harkness, '02, department, to offer the prize again, but '05, Innis, Sherwood, '04, H, J. '02. to reduce it to one hundred dollars. White, Gene W. Ware, '05, has The reduction in the money value of the been appointed organist. prize carries with it some modification " 1904 '* of the standard of merit which must be reached by at least one essay if the The sophomore numerals committee, prize is to be awarded. consisting of President Hunt, Manager

Brown vs. Yale Sandager, Captain Gallison, C. S. Has- call and H. Metcalf, has awarded the The Yale baseball schedule for 1902 right to wear the "1904" to the following has been published and shows three members of the class football team games with Brown, as usual. The dates Captain Gallison, Ripley, Atwell, Ray- 10 are : April 30 at New Haven ; May mond, Hart, Stevens, Hunt, Sandager, and 24 at Providence. Football draws, Mackie, Greenleaf, Mclntyre, Allen and as a rule, such small crowds in Provi- Clough. dence that it is difficult to get a "big" college eleven here, but baseball pays, Football Outlook two out of three and thus Yale plays Of the men who played in the Dart- every season with Brown in this games mouth game, Greene is the only one city. who will graduate next June. Captain Musical Clubs Bates, who did not participate, owing to The musical clubs have been on an injuries, will also graduate. Johnson is extended concert trip in the South dur- a graduate student and if he returns ing the holiday season. Their engage- next year is eligible to play. Of the ments follow other men who played against Dart- mouth three are '03 men, five are '04, December 24, Columbia, S. C. and six are freshmen. Most of the " 26, Augusta, Ga. " substitutes belong to the lower classes. 27, Columbus, Ga. " 28, Columbus, Ga. Thus it would seem on paper that there " 30, Washington, N. C. will be a good nucleus about which to " 31, Newport News, Va. build a winning team for next year. January i, Farmville, Va. " 2, Staunton, Va. " Gift to Pembroke 3, Harrisonburg, Va. Freshman Numerals Asa MesserGammell, Esq., Brown '41, has presented to the Women's College The freshman numerals committee, sixteen volumes of a series of books consisting of the executive committee entitled " Famous Composers and their of the class, together with the captain Music." At the same time Mr. Gam- and manager of the team, has awarded mell made a gift of a sum of money to the "1905" to the following men: Captain buy other books. Ingalls, Manager Otis, Sheldon, Foulder, Matthews, Wilcox, Colter, Meredith, Pembroke Dramatics Brown, Taylor, Keene, Hinds, Damon, Marble and Gordon. The contract for The Women's College Dramatic As- the sweaters has been awarded to Webb, sociation has elected these officers : President Cook, '02. '05. A hat, much like that of last year's —Amy J. Vice-President—Florence Brandenburg, '02. 'varsity, will be given to each of the Secretary and Treasurer—Esther D. Griswold, '02. fifteen men. The Chapel Choir Tennis Championship The following are the names of those The final match for the tennis cham-

chosen for the year's chapel choir : First pionship in doubles was to have been tenors — Cross, '05, Fletcher, '05, Hey- played between Chaffee and Hill and don, '04, Powers, '02, Schloss, '04 Leland and Joslin. Joslin, however, second tenors — Lent, Sp., Moffat, '03, was compelled to be absent and Chaffee Paige, '02, '02 first — Hill won by default. Reese, ; basses and no The Brown Alumni Monthly

THE BROWN each and every secretary. Certainly it is not too to expect o^'Ei'W', much a few items ALUMNI once or twice a year from the permanent MONTHLY scribe of every class. The magazine would profit from a regular influx of

Published for the graduates of Brown University this kind, its readers would be gratified BY THE and the office of secretary would take Brown Alumni Magazine Co. on more than the perfunctory character ROBERT P. BROWN, Treasurer, Providence, R. I. which, in too many instances, it now Subscription price, $i.oo a year. Single copies. Ten Cents. Address all communications to the Brown Alumni Monthly, possesses.

Hrown University, Providence, R. I. At the class sec- There is no issue during August and September. Entered at the Providence post office as second-class matter. retaries have a permanent organization. They hold regular meetings and each ADVISORY BOARD year dine the latest comer to their William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburg, Pa. ranks and instruct him in the require- Francis Lawton, '69, New York, N. Y. ments of his position. They send un- Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence William V. Kellen, '72, Boston, Mass. failing news-letters to the Graduates

WiNSLOW '75, Providence Upton, Magazine and take pains to get into touch Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence Sam Walter Fc^s, '82, Somerville, Mass. with every man in every class. Thus a Gardner Colby, '87, New York, N. Y. class of recent graduation, with several William R. Dorman, '92, New York, N. Y.

Archibald C. Matteson, '93, Providence. hundred members, has learned through its secretary the whereabouts of all ex- HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor cepting two of its men. The secretaries issue occasional news-letters on their JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor own account to their classmates, and by reason of their energy the Graduates' THERON CLARK, '95, Business Manager Magazine is able to maintain a very full and valuable alumni news department. January, 1902 The Brown Alumni Monthly would be glad to see the system that has al- CLASS SECRETARIES ready been begun at Brown enlarged Since the inauguration of Dr. Faunce and intensified. There might be, as at as president of the university a promis- Harvard, a secretary of the secretaries, ing attempt has been made to increase to provide efficient management for the the effectiveness of the class secretary scheme. There certainly should be a system. Meetings of these potentially desire on the part of each class to have important officers have been held and at itself well-represented in the news pages one such meeting a committee was ap- of the Monthly through the medium of pointed to inquire into the feasibility of a wide-awake and willing secretary. a graduate's magazine—with the result that the Alumni Monthly was estab- lished. OUR ATHLETIC RULES To some class secretaries the Various causes, among them the lack Monthly owes a debt of gratitude for of success of the university football team

an occasional contribution of personal last fall, have contributed to a certain items, but it may be said without undue dissatisfaction with the athletic rules frankness that these contributions have now in force at Brown. These rules, a been few and far between. What is reader of the Monthly affirms on desirable from every point of view is a another page of this issue, are imprac- system of regular contributions from ticable, unfair and impossible of honest The Brown Alumni Monthly III

enforcement. With a portion of his professional schools in games with col- complaint we are in sympathy, but we leges that have no graduatedepartments.

find it difficult to agree with his con- Thirdly, "the collection of gate money clusions. The Monthly believes that should be left to professionals," in the

even if the exclusion from a university judgment of the reader already quoted. team of a player who belongs to a This calls for a lofty "status" indeed, "semi-professional" or wholly profess- and, so far as the editor can see, to

ional summer nine works that particular maintain it would be impracticable.

player an injustice, it is nevertheless Receipts from the annual "champion- not only wise but necessary to sacrifice ship" football games at New Haven and him for the good of the university. If Cambridge are fabulous and Brown

we let down the bars to the '* poor but athletic financiers may be excused if worthy" student, he may be followed in they wonder what becomes of all the

by a crowd of likewise poor but un- money; but there is no immediate worthy persons and even by players danger of accumulating a large corrup- from the professional leagues. What tion fund here. If the athletic ledger would prevent the entire Pittsburg team balances at the end of the season, the from matriculating at Brown, under such managers and treasurers heave a sigh conditions, provided they could meet of relief. the intellectual requirements.' Their The editor of the Monthly believes season is only a little longer than that that Brown ought to insist on rules for

of some of the summer nines and it itself as rigid as those at any other col- might be possible to arrange cuts enough lege. It was in the day of ethical laxity to provide for their absence from reci- in athletics that our baseball fortunes tations in May and September. were at the lowest and the lack of a

The reader of the Monthly whose suitable 'varsity backstop made it neces- views are grouped under the title of sary to press into service the accommo- "Ethical Status in College Athletics" dating Mr. Hubbard, the famous ex-Yale on another page declares in the second catcher who happened to be living in place that the existing rules should be Providence at the time. In that inter- so amended as to forbid the playing of esting period Brown's opponents were graduates on college teams. At first more lenient in such matters than they thought this may seem desirable, but the are now, possibly because their own modern requirement that no player shall "ethical status" was not above suspicion compete in intercollegiate athletics or reproach. In any event, we cannot longer than four years greatly diminishes afford to lag behind the most stringent the evil complained of. It did not pre- colleges now. It was at Brown that the vent the playing of Mr. Cutts, aet. 28, since-famous intercollegiate conference on the Harvard eleven last fall, long met to frame the rules that our corres- after he had graduated at Bates College, pondent discusses, rules that have served, but this case is the exception that proves whatever their shortcomings, to dignify the rule. Nowadays a baseball player college athletics and add to Brown's cannot represent Brown on the diamond reputation for satisfactory amateur throughout his undergraduate course standards. If the rules need amend- and then wear the colors of another ment, let there be at any rate no back- college nine for two or three years. At ward step and let Brown shun the sus- the same time there is something to be picion of a desire to adopt an athletic said against the dignity and propriety code less lofty than that in force among of a university playing men from its her most reputable neighbors.

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HALF-WAY up College Hill and A few doors south of the University running at right angles to it is Club is the old site of the Women's Col- Benefit street, one of the finest lege, now used for a plebeian paint-shop. old residential thoroughfares of Across the street is the old edifice of Providence. The tide of building im- the Central Congregational Church, provement has passed it by, but there is abandoned some years ago when the no more stately or dignified street in the congregation moved to its new house of city. Either directly upon it or near at worship on Angell street. The vacant hand there have grown up several insti- building could easily have been made tutions of a public or semi-public char- into a home for some branch of the acter that are linked in intimate con- university's activity, but a few days ago nection with the university and may it was secured by the First Light In- be said to occupy a Brown "sphere of fantry for an armory. influence" half-way between the college At the southeast corner of Benefit and Market square and half-way, like- and College streets is the Providence wise, between the college in its intellec- Athenseum, ofificered largely by Brown tual aspect and the outer world. men, with its 63,000 books and extensive First among these buildings is the list of periodicals, domestic and foreign, old meeting-house where the annual availa'ble to the Brown undergraduate commencements are held. It faces on at a nominal fee. On the southwest North Main street but the grounds corner, directly opposite, is the Provi- reach to Benefit street. Directly op- dence County Courthouse, where many posite it on Waterman street is the Brown graduates, including Chief Jus- Rhode Island School of Design, now tice Stiness of the Rhode Island entering into a closer relationship with supreme court and Associate Justices

the university ; to which Brown men Rogers, Douglas and Blodgett, hold have given liberally and at the head of offices of dignity and trust. which a Brown professor, W. C. Poland, All in all, the Brown sphere of influ- has been for several years. Within a ence in the neighborhood of Benefit few yards, on Benefit street, is the Uni- street is rather remarkable. In the fu- versity School, of which H. M. Rice, ture the university may grow down the '60, is the principal. The school is now hill toward this "sphere" as well as affiliated with the university and prom- eastward in the direction of the presi- ises to become in the immediate future dent's new house. Every year will in- a more important contributor to the crease the demand for space. Already membership of the college classes. the college is expanding beyond its or- Next south on Benefit street is the Uni- iginal restricted campus and has several versity Club, established in 1899, occu- buildings outside the old wooden paling. pying the fine old Waterman mansion. The library was long ago set beyond To this has been added a handsome Waterman street from the campus, and dining-room, which occupies the fore- since that time the Ladd Observatory, ground in the accompanying picture. the Psi Upsilon chapter-house, the presi- The influence of the University Club on dential mansion, the new private dormi- the interests of the university has proved tory, "Brunonia Hall," and the Van most salutary in the last two years. Wickle administration building have Here groups of Brown graduates may been erected outside the ancient limits. be found at almost any hour of the day Gradually College Hill might be dotted or evening. Here plans for college with collegestructuresasfar west as Ben- improvement are discussed over cozy efit street and along Benefit street might tables in the main dining-hall or in the spring up some department of the uni- more secluded private dining-rooms up- versity or closely affiliated institution. stairs. The members of the club num- In the meantime the Brown man who ber nearly 350 and of these about one- strolls along Benefit street may feel alf are graduates of Brown. pretty much at home. The Brown Alumni Monthly 113

A BROWN SPHERE OF INFLUENCE

Photographs taken for the Broion Alumni Monthly 114 The Brown Alumni Monthly A Notable Anniversary

twenty-fifth anniversary of Rev. Dr. Shearman was born in THEthe settlement of the Rev. Sum- Wickford, R. I., the son of Hon. Sylves- ner U. Shearman, D. D., of the ter Gardner Shearman, an associate class of 1861, over St. John's justice of the supreme court of Rhode Church, Jamaica Plain, Mass., was ob- Island from 1855 to 1867. In response to served on Advent Sunday, December i. the call for volunteers in the summer of in It was in itself an unusual and note- 1862 Mr. Shearman enlisted the army. worthy event and has brought out He was mustered out of the service several important and interesting rela- December 17, 1864, having been pro- tionships which have existed between moted to a captaincy. He participated St. John's Church and Brown University. in many noted battles, in the battles of The founder of the church was a Brown South Mountain and Antietam, the graduate, Rt. Rev. first battle of Fred- Mark Antony De- ericksburg and the Wolfe Howe, D.D., battle of the mine LL. D., of the class in front of Peters- of 1828, and two of burg. He was its rectors have taken prisoner in been graduates of this last named en- the university, gagement and was Rev. William Rob- con fined in the inson Babcock, D. Confederate prison D., of the class of at Columbia, S. C. 1837, and Rev. Dr. Upon returning Shearman of the home he began the class of 1861. The study and practice church was started of law, following the wish of his in 1 84 1, as a mis- sion of St. James' father. His father Church, Roxbury, died in 1868 and of which Rev. Dr. his death caused Howe was then rec- the son to relin tor. Rev. Dr. Bab- quish his secular cock was rector of occupation and de- the church from vote his life to the 1856 to 1872, and work of the minis- try. Mr. Shearman Rev. Dr. Shearman REV. SUMNER U. SHEARMAN, D. I has been its rector came to his present since 1876. The rectorates of these position as rector of St. John's Church, two honored sons of Brown have covered Jamaica Plain, after having been for more than forty of the sixty years of the two years rector of Trinity Church, existence of St. John's Church. Woburn, Mass. In the twenty-five years In addition to this a number of Brown of his rectorship of St. John's Church, men have been prominently connected the present beautiful church and chapel with the church as parishoners. Win- have been erected and the work of the throp C. Durfee of the class of 1878 and parish has been greatly enlarged. Brown Ira C. Hersey of the class of 1884 are conferred the honorary degree of doctor at the present time among its vestry- of divinity upon him at commence- men. William V. Kellen of the class of ment, 1899. 1872 and Edward O. Stanley of the At the evening service on the day of the class of 1876 have been parishioners, his quarter-century celebration, several but have changed their places of resi- noted visitors were present and partici- dence, the former to Boston, the latter pated in the exercises Among them to New York. were Rev. Reginald Heber Howe, D.D., The Brown Alumni Monthly 115

Brown,'66,of the Church of Our Saviour, S. Lindsay, D. D., LL.D., of St. Paul's, Longwood, Mass., son of Bishop Howe, Boston, and Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, the founder of the church; Rev. John D. D., bishop of Massachusetts.

Mr. Cortheirs Engineering Work

RECENT warlike events in Argen- degree of M. A. was conferred upon tina and Chile, though happily him. He is a member of the Phi Beta succeeded by an amicable agree- Kappa Society. Upon leaving the uni- ment at this writing, lend an versity he entered a general engineering added interest to the work of a Brown office in Providence, engaged in railroad, engineer in the former country, Elmer hydraulic and city work. In 1868 he

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS.

Lawrence Corthell, Sc. D., of the class was assistant engineer in charge of con- of 1867. struction of the Hannibal and Naples Mr. Corthell was born at South Abing- Railroad, Illinois; in 1869 he was in ton, Mass., in 1840. He was for two charge of location and construction, as years in Brown University before the division engineer, of 45 miles of the civil war, and served in the ist Regiment, Hannibal and Central Missouri Rail- Rhode Island Light Artillery, rising road, Missouri; m 1870-71, chief assist- from private to captain of a battery, four ant engineer, constructing the bridge years and three months, nearly all the over the Mississippi River at Hannibal, time in active service in Virginia and Missouri; in 1871-74 chief engineer of

North Carolina. After the war he re- the Sny Island Levee, 5 1 miles in length, entered Brown and was graduated in on the east bank of the Mississippi 1867 as B. A. The following year the River, in Illinois. ii6 The Brown Alumni Monthly

In 1873-74 he was chief engineer in the Mexican republic. In 1895 Mr. the construction of the bridge over the Corthell wrote a descriptive and illus- Mississippi River at Louisiana, Missouri, trated paper upon the works for the for the Chicago and Alton Railway, Institute of Civil Engineers at London, with a draw 444 feet long — the longest for which he received the Telford pre- in the world at that time. From 1875 mium and the Watt medal. to 1880 he was engaged in the Mississ- It is estimated that the works of ippi jetties and in 1879-80 he wrote and various kinds constructed under the published an illustrated history of the supervision of Mr. Corthell have cost work. In 1880 he went toTehuantepec, fully $100,000,000. He has written Mexico, to make surveys for the isth- articles for Johnson's Cyclopedia on mian ship railway, and in 1881-84 he "Jetties," "Levees," "Ship Canals" and was chief engineer on the construction "Ship Railways," and Brown conferred of the New York, West Shore and the degree of doctor of science upon Buffalo and New York, Ontario and him in 1894. In the spring of 1898, Western railroads. Secretary Sherman of to the State Department From 1885 1887 j he gave most of his commissioned Mr. j attention to the Corthell as delegate Tehauntepec project to the seventh inter- and in 1887-1888 national congress of he was engaged in navigation held in designing and con- Brussels in July of struction with head- that year. He was quarters at New York elected vice-president and Chicago. Mr. of the congress and Corthell's firm during placed upon the bu- this time constructed reau of the congress many important river to arrange for a per- bridges, among them manent organization the one at Cairo, 111., to be adopted at its over the Ohio, the meeting at Paris in longest steel bridge 1900. in the world. In 1899 the Argen- To record Mr. Cor- tine government re- thell's engineering quested the United achievements in the States government to past fifteen years is to recommend an engi- rehearse some of the ELMKR LAWRENCE CORTHELI. neer of large exper- most important ience upon river and mechanical feats of the last half genera- harbor works who would - u n d e r- tion. In 1889, to name one of his works, take to act as its consulting engineer he made examinations, plans, and a for a year upon the important problems report on the proposed improvement of connected with the great rivers and the harbor at Tampico, Mexico, for the harbors of that country. Mexican Central Railroad and had Mr. Corthell was recommended by charge of the construction of the jetties the United States government for this as chief engineer during 1890, 1891 and position, the contract for which was 1892. They increase the depth from signed in New York on March 23, 1900, about 8 feet, which existed at the mouth and on the 26th of the same month he of the Punuco River, over a changeable left for Buenos Ayres, where he now is, and dangerous bar, to a wide navigable engaged on the works contemplated. channel with a least depth of 27 feet, The Argentine government reserved in have raised the port of Tampico from the contract the option to extend the one of little importance to be the second contract six months or twelve months; entrepot of Mexico, and have reduced before the expiration of the year a de- freight rates from all United States and cree was issued extending the time European ports to the entire interior of twelve months longer, until April, 1902. The Brown Alumni Monthly 117

ORVILLE PECKHAM, '67 E. O. BROWN, '67 GEORGE PACKARD,

A Brown Law Firm in Chicago

law firm of Peckham, Brown twenty-five years almost entirely devoted THEand Packard at Chicago con- to the legal interests of the First sists of three graduates of Brown National Bank, the largest financial University. institution west of New York. He has Orville Peckham, who was graduated been its counsel during these years and at Brown in 1867, was born in Newport, at times a director of the bank. The R. I., in 1849, his family having been general practice of the firm is more par- among the earliest settlers upon the ticularly in the hands of its other part island. His older brother, Francis B. ners. Mr. Peckham has a beautiful Peckham, now practicing law in New- home in Geneva, III, in the vicinity of port, was a graduate from Brown Uni- Chicago, and is fond of all country and versity in 1857. For a time after leav- out-door sports. He is a skillful horse- ing college, Orville Peckham studied man and enthusiastic golfer. law in his brother's office at Newport Edward O. Brown who, like Mr. Peck- and then became assistant clerk of the ham, was graduated at Brown in 1867, supreme court of Rhode Island, in which was born in Salem, Mass., in 1847. He position he was succeeded by his former is, on his paternal grandmother's side, of classmate and present partner, Mr. the family of Choates to which Rufus Brown. Mr. Peckham then became a and Joseph H. belong. Upon gradua- student in the office of Messrs. Thurston tion he became a teacher at St. Mark's & Ripley at Providence, and shortly School, Southborough, Mass. At the afterwards managing clerk for that firm. end of the year he began the study of In 1869 he was admitted to the bar of law in Salem, but shortly afterward he Rhode Island and to the bar of the fed- entered the Harvard Law School, where eral court. He formed a partnership he took the first of the Dane prizes in under the name of Peckham & Ames the class of 1870. Mr. Brown, however, with his former classmate, the late did not stay to take a degree from the Edward C. Ames. The firm practiced Harvard Law School, but became assist- with success in Providence for a year or ant clerk of the supreme court of Rhode two, but in 1872, with his intimate friend Island during the year 1869, succeeding and classmate Mr. Brown, Mr. Peckham Mr. Peckham in that position. In 1870 moved to Chicago and in the firm of Mr. Brown, who in connection with his Peckham & Brown, now Peckham, duties in the supreme court had pursued Brown and Packard, (Mr. Packard being the study of the law, was admitted to his nephew), he has continued the prac- the state bar of Rhode Island and tice of the law for almost thirty years. shortly afterward to that of the United Mr. Peckham individually has been for States circuit court of Rhode Island. ii8 The Brown Alumni Monthly

While he stayed in Rhode Island he was The practice of the firm, however, is associated with Charles E. Gorman, late very general and in all branches of the United States district attorney for law, rather than keenly specialized. Rhode Island, as a partner, under the But through the connection of a quarter firm name of Gorman & Brown. In of a century of the senior partner with 1872, a few months after the great the First National Bank of Chicago as Chicago fire, Mr. Brown, in company its counsel, its business has naturally with Mr. Peckham, established himself tended largely to matters of commercial in Chicago, the firm name being Peck- and corporation law. ham and Brown. From that time until George Packard, the third member now it has existed under this name and of the firm, wss born at Providence, its present style of Peckham, Brown May 27, 1868, and was graduated at and Packard. Brown in 1889. He went immediately During this period of almost thirty after graduation to Chicago, clerked years of uninterrupted connection the with Peckham and Brown and attended firm has become one of the foremost in the Northwestern University Law Chicago. Mr. Brown is engaged in School, where he was graduated in 1891 much of the important private and pub- with the first prize for orations and the lic litigation in that city. He was for second prize for theses. Mr. Packard some years the counsel for the Lincoln was shortly afterward admitted to the Park commissioners and in that relation bar and taken into the firm, which re- was connected with much interesting lit- tained its name of Peckham and Brown igation both in Chicago and in Washing- until 1897, when it became Peckham, ton respecting the rights respectively of Brown and Packard. the public and of littoral owners on the Mr. Packard has done good service great lakes to the use of the submerged since his admission to the firm, having lands. He is a member of the bar of made a wide reputation by his exhaust- the supreme court of the United States. ive briefs in the lake front cases.

College Memories

( Extract from a graditate s letter to the editor )

* * * Not being a subscriber to your view and then to blend itself into the periodical it is seldom I see it, or any- substantialities of the present. That thing else, for that matter, about my "commencement procession" of 1901, Alma Mater. But today I took from in the July number, for instance. The the carrier a package of several numbers numbers ought to be changed to read of the Monthly, sent me from California 1862. Or perchance that "long line by a college chum. entering the meeting-house" is a kind The first casual glance at the cover of "university extension" or a sort of of the January number somehow opened endless trail. Instead of the fathers, a surging flood of emotions as I looked the sons. upon the old gates through which my In one thing I see a change in these young feet passed more than forty years snap-shot pictures from what once was. ago. Then, turning on to the June num- In my day young women looked on pro- ber, there flashed upon my gaze the cessions in which they could have no picture of the new gates which my part. Now they march in the processions

former parishioner at Morristown ,N .J., themselves, the same as they always has given as an exquisite memorial of have west of the Alleghanies. his too quickly ended bright young life. Messrs. Editors, please excuse this Whenever I turned your pages some bit of sentiment stirred by the pictures * mirage from the past seemed to lift into of your attractive publication. * * ;

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Professor Vernon P. Squires

PROFESSOR Vernon Purinton of the board of Briuionian editors and Squires, who was graduated at class poet. After graduation he taught

Brown in the class of 1889, has one year at Worcester Academy ; held recently assumed charge of the the chair of Greek and Latin for three department of English at Kalamazoo years at the State Normal School at

College, Kalamazoo, Mich., going Oneonta, N. Y. ; went thence in 1893 to a fellowship in PZnglish at the Uni- versity of Chicago, taking the degree of

iV[. A. there in 1895 ; after several months abroad he returned to serve as instructor in the university; in 1897 he went to the State University of North Dakota as assistant professor of En- glish and the next year he was advanced to the full professorship. Last fall Pro- fessor Squires began his work as head of the department of English at Kala- mazoo College. Kalamazoo is a pleasant city of 25,000 inhabitants and the college has lately taken on new life, having become afifiliated with the University of Chicago. New buildings have been erected and the faculty has been enlarged. Profes- sor Squires is the third Brown man on the faculty, the other two being Sam- PROFESSOR SQUIRES uel Brooks, D. D., '52, professor of Latin, and Seth Jones Axtell, A. M., thither from the chair of English at the '64, professor of Greek. State University of North Dakota. The Monthly congratulates this little At Brown, Professor Squires, whose group of Brown men on " getting to- home was then at Cortland, N. Y., was gether " and hopes to hear before long a student of the highest rank, chairman of the "Brown Club of Kalamazoo."

Coaching Fund for Brown

reason for the comparatively Martin S. Fanning, Treasurer; Col. ONEpoor showing of the Brown Frank W. Matleson, John S. Murdock,

football team last fall was the Col. Harold J. Gross, Edward H. Weeks, lack of proper coaching. Mr. William O. Blanding, Dr. James E. Sul- Robinson, '96, did conscientious and livan. efficient work and was assisted loy- With the idea of preventing a purely ally by a number of other graduates, temporal boom which might collapse but the labor fell on too few shoul- when the first enthusiasm had faded, ders and friends of the team came to contributions are to be made annually believe that a fund for coaching is for three years and the subscriber who necessary. names a sum agrees to duplicate it At a recent meeting definite steps twice at intervals of 12 months. were begun to start this fund by the ap- Already $1,578 per annum has been pointment of a committee as follows: pledged for three years and this will be Prof. Courtney Langdon, Chairman increased to $2,000 per annum. I20 The Brown Alumni Monthly

''Ethical Status" in College Athletics

COLLEGE athletics have under- athletic ability, which, however, has the gone in the last few years a necessity imposed upon it of earning its process of purification from way through college and cannot receive professional taint. Caspa Whit- any help either direct or indirect without ney's "ethical status," persistently being debarred under the rules from hurled at offending colleges, brought participating in intercollegiate contests. the existing conditions prominently Again, a particularly skilful ball-player, before the public and compelled all wishing to keep in practice or improve those who desire the respect and recog- his playing for the good of his university, nition of prominent seats of learning to and not having the means to recreate, take heed and eliminate the causes of plays in a summer nine, possibly for his board perhaps receives offence. ; he a purse from On February i8th, 1898, a conference the visitors at the resort or something of delegates from the leading colleges, from the hotel keeper for his guest's summoned by Professor Munro of Brown diversion. When he returns to college University, met at the university for he finds a certain stigma attached to a discussion of "the questions arising his amateur standing. The man who out of collegiate contests and the object- waited on table or washed dishes at the ionable features connected with them." same hotel for a weekly stipend can The result of this conference was the represent his college in contests with adoption of a code of rules regulating others, no matter how indifferently, but athletic contests between colleges and under the rules, the summer-nine man passing upon the eligibility of contest- must ingloriously look on. Straightway, ants. These rules were recommended the question starts up: Do not the to all colleges and have been practically rules here run counter to our democratic adopted by the leading ones. idea of the inherent right of every man Great praise is due to the promoters to occupy the place for which his intrin- of this movement to elevate college sic merit fits him, and shall an espionage athletics, and the rules, if rigidly en- be kept on every man during his free forced, would place these athletics on a vacation time to know just how he paid much purer amateur plane. In many his board bill or how he earned a sum respects the adoption of the rules has for his educational expenses .-* produced most gratifying results and It would certainly seem, according to yet there are some questions to be set- our American status, as if a man had a tled before their unchallenged adoption right to employ his skill in the direc- in toto. tion best adapted to him and that if he In the first place, are they practicable uses that talent outside of any profess- in our American college life.' ional club and receives some compensa- Second, are they entirely fair, taking tion for his vacation time, no prejudice into consideration the different con- should attach to his record. But to test ditions existing at different colleges, and these points, an appeal must be taken Thirdly, can they be honestly admin- to the student bodies and inquiries istered under present conditions .' made. Do they sympathize with and As to the first point, under the so- will they support to the letter this part called "summer-nine" rules, the ethical of the rules.'' Otherwise, neither per- status evolved might be such as pre- manence or practicability can be assured. sumably obtains at the English univer- It is idle to make rules or laws which sities of Oxford and Cambridge, and outstrip the general morals or standards would require that every man who rep- of the community where they are to be resented his college must have time and enforced. Evasion and covert attack means at his disposal. Now the make- will soon force such restrictions into the up of many of our student bodies companionship of the "dead-letter" contains a large per cent, of sturdy statute. Inquiry and observation lead stock containing perhaps the best to the belief that while undergraduates ! ! —

The Brown Alumni Monthly 121 accept heartily the rule that athletes Will the rules, under present conditions, representing a college must be gen- be honestly carried out.' The rules aim uine and permanent students and of at a pure amateurism yet by allowing ; good standing in their studies, yet there college contests to be played for gate is a considerable opposition and there money, they destroy all claims of the will be a constant violation of the rules players and the associations to be clean of the summer-nine type. amateurs and allow the associations to On the second point, the fairness of do just what they exclude the individual the rules as applying to very different for practicing. In the late Havard-Yale conditions in different mstitutions, it game, each association received about it well to consider whether a strong $25,000 and each secured as much more protest should not be entered. This in the various preceding football games protest is against the use of graduate of the season. He must be fresh from players in college teams. The prevalence Utopia who imagines that these vast of this custom in certain colleges having sums in the hands of college associations large professional schools attached or do not in some occult way affect the made up largely of such schools has make-up of teams in subsequent con- caused more controversy than any other tests. one point. When a man graduates from If purely amateur, let all sports be college, he should be ineligible to any supported by the students and all ex- strictly college team. It is entirely un- hibitions be witnessed by the students fair to allow any university to employ and their guests. To state the points its own graduates or the graduates of concisely: First, the rules should not other institutions on its professed college violate the independent rights of the teams. If the graduates desire to con- individual player or go much beyond tinue their athletics, let them organize the average sense of honor and self- professional school teams to contest respect of the student bodies, otherwise with such teams from elsewhere. The they will fail to receive their support. sentiment of college loyalty belongs to Second, all graduates should be excluded the place where a man passes his college from college teams. Third, the collec- days and not to the professional schools tion of gate money should be left to which he attends largely for commercial professionals. reasons to put himself in a position to The suggestions given in this article earn his living; consequently it offends are in no way to be regarded as a criti- all sense of propriety and loyal feeling cism of the praiseworthy efforts of to see a man, after graduating, join the the committee to formulate effective team of an opponent and attempt to rules, nor do they indicate any tendency lower the colors to which he owes un- toward a retrograde movement, but dying fealty. aim rather so to amend and extend the The disadvantage of a purely college rules that there can arise no cause for team playing against a team in part controversy and mutual recrimination made up of graduates selected from and no suspicion of "off-side" playing various colleges for their ability, is too may have reason to exist. manifest to admit of dispute and in When these conditions are accepted order to render college contests fair and we may have purely amateur contests sportsmanlike the rules should rigidly ex- which will arouse our utmost enthusiasm clude graduates from taking active part. and assure fair play for all. But the third point is the crucial one: Ahi)/inus, 'yi

'^Whenas In Silks

" " Whenas in silks my Julia goes Or when the golfing plaid and red How all must turn and wonder Her grace enhance and sweeten What glistening grace each movement shows; What reck I if I turn my head What spell she puts mc under Until at last I'm beaten?

When in the sunny summer sea But when in lace and filmy lawn, She sports with nereid graces, The shimmering moon above her, How can I view but jealously All eyes to her alone are drawn Each wave that her embraces? What can I do but love her? Brunonian .

122 The Brown Alumni Monthly Brunonians Far and Near

1854

"Let Us Make a Beautiful City," the burden of Jared I. Williams was recently elected chaplain a series of practical and inspiring articles now run- of the Lancaster, N. H., G. A. R. post. ning in the Springfield Republican, might well be Nathaniel Poole of Rockport, Mass., is justly taken up by the people of Middleboro, Plymouth proud of his success in market-gardening. Last County, Massachusetts. They have the chance now season he took his first green corn to market at to make improvements that every progressive town Gloucester, July 22, and continued the supply daily covets, but few towns think they can afford. There until November 22, when, to quote the Gloucester died in Middleboro, in September, bachelor a mer- Daily Times^ "he threw up the sponge and brought chant named Thomas Sproat Peirce, who had suc- in his last lot." "This shows that Mr. Poole," ceeded to and for sixty years conducted the profit- continues the Times^ " is a good calculator as well able business his father founded. He was a man as a good farmer, and the man who can so arrange who made no display and spent very little money on his corn crop as to get a supply every day for four himself, the quiet kind of "solid citizen" that months is justly entitled to honorable mention." thriving communities are built upon. Probably no Mr. Poole writes to the Monthly: "I reside in one realized how rich he was, but when his will was the northeast corner of Massachusetts, about the probated it was found that his native town benefited latitude of southern New Hampshire and southern to the amount of about a million dollars. Fifty Vermont. I think this record cannot be beaten by thousand dollars were given for a public library, any Brown man north of Rhode Island." another fifty thousand to maintain it, and, deducting certain private bequests, the residue of the estate was placed in the hands of three trustees, "said Rev. Edward L. Clark, D. D., has resigned the trust to be used for the benefit of the town of Mid- pastorate of the Central Congregational Church, dleboro in such manner as said trustees or their Boston, after eight years of successful service. successors shall determine." One of the trustees Prior to his settlement over this Boston church Dr. has estimated that, aside from the library fund, Clark was for twenty-one years pastor of the Presby- Middleboro gets a million dollars, which will yield terian Church of the Puritans in New York City. at present about forty thousand dollars annually, more than half as much as the town appropriated 1859 for all purposes last year. So now Middleboro may have model highways, beautiful school buildings Dr. William W. Keen, who is on a journey around and the like, and a lower tax rate in the bargain. the world, was recently reported at Calcutta. For his part Mr. Peirce is sure of enduring good-will 1862 and remembrance. There are many millionaires who might envy him that. — YoiilJi^s Coinpanion Rev. Addison Parker has resigned the pastorate in LaPorte, Indiana, which he has held for the last 1846 eight years and has taken up the pastoral charge of the First Baptist Church at Richmond, Indiana. Professor Francis Wayland's illness has resulted in the appointment of Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, 1S64 professor of international law, as temporary dean of Professor W. Whitman Bailey, LL. D., spoke the Yale Law School. Prof. Woolsey is the son of before the Natural History Society of Newport, the late President Woolsey of the university and is Wednesday, December iSth, before the Rhode an authority on international law. Professor Way- Island Horticultural Society at Providence, Thurs- land, who was graduated at Brown in 1846, has day, December 19th, and before the Franklin been the dean of the school practically since it Society of Providence, Tuesday, December 31st. attained prominence. He has been at the head Dr. Bailey is scheduled to address the Lonsdale of the department for nearly a quarter of a Botanical Club, February 3rd. century. It will be remembered that Dean Wayland was seized with an illness last August which has 1874 prevented his attendance at the routine exercises of Rev. Albert G. Upham, D. D., pastor of the the school the past fall. Mis trouble, which was Stoughton Street Church, Boston, has been called to a stoppage of the circulation in one of his legs, still the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Fall prevents his presence at the school and it was River. decided to choose a temporary dean until he becomes 1878 able to attend to his usual duties. Dean Wayland is recovering as rapidly as could be expected. He William Mauran Stockbridge of Boston was senior is at his home on Whitney Avenue, is dressed counsel for Luigi Slorti, whose case attracted atten- daily and is wheeled about the house in a reclining tion far beyond the limits of Massachusetts, largely chair. It is believed that before the close of the because of the skillful management of his interests. school year he will be able to take up again his The Boston Posl says of Mr. Stockbridge that he work as dean of the law school. During the last made "the hardest fight ever made for a condemned fall much of the routine work of the school has murderer in this state." The case was carried step been carried on by the secretary of the school, Pro- by step to the United States supreme court. fessor Foster. Professor Wayland says it is his intention to keep in close touch with Professor Woolsey in the hope that the dean will be able to Miss Helen Talbot, youngest daughter of Mr. and return to his work in the spring. Mrs. William Richmond Talbot of Providence, was The Brown Alumni Monthly 123

married in this city, Nov. 7, 1901, to James Benton mett Co., school and kindergarten supplies, 116 Porter, Brown, '90, of Philadelphia, the son of Dr. Summer street, Boston. George L. Porter, Brown, '59, of Bridgeport, Conn. Martin S. Fanning is chairman of the committee Charles F. Coffin of Schenectady, N. Y., was best in charge of the public school teachers retirement man. The ushers were George Porter, '89, brother fund in Providence. of the bridegroom, of Bridgeport, Conn.; Eli Whit- '88, of ney Blake, New York ; Walter Burgess 1891 (Ph.D.) Smith, '88, of Providence, and Arnold Gingrat Tal- bot of Providence. A large reception followed the Rev. Edward Caldwell Moore, pastor of the Cen- ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Porter will live in Phil- tral Congregational Church of Providence, has been called to the adelphia, where Mr. Porter is assistant manager of Parkman chair of theology at the Har- Divinity the local office of the General Electric Company. vard School. This is his third call to the same chair. Edmund C. Burnett, Ph. D., is professor of history 1891 and 1896 and philosophy in Mercer University, Macon, Ga. The engagement of Professor Albert D. Mead, (Honorary) 1890 A. M., Brown, 1891, and Miss Ada Geneva Wing, Clarence King, the well-known geologist and A. M., Brown, 1896, has been announced. mining engineer, died in Arizona, December 24. He was born at Newport, R. I., January 6, 1842; was graduated at the Sheffield Scientific School, F"rank T. Easton, Esq., has been appointed second Yale University, in 1862. and received the honorary assistant city solicitor of Providence and begins his degree of LL. D. at Brown in 1890. Mr. King duties January 1st. travelled widely, was of varied cultivation in letters 1893 and in art, an alert and fascinating thinker, with a charm wholly his own in personal intercourse, and a Daniel Howard has just published a work en- heart the kindness of which seemed to grow with titled "A History of Isaac Howard of Foster, Rhode each of the countless manifestations of it. Island, and his Descendants who have Borne the The Boston Hrraldsdiys editorially of Mr. King that Name of Howard." It is published " at Winsor he was the forerunner of the men who at the Locks, Conn. present time are looked upon as more representative than any other class of American energy, intelligence W. E. Smith, who for several years previous to the and business aptitude A generation ago — that is, present year was instructor in chemistry, is chemist in 1865 or 1870 — the scientific American endowed for the T. P. Shepard Company of Providence. with all the practical business instincts of the Yankee had not been developed as a class. Richard Hard- 1894 ing Davis has depicted him as one now to be found Albert Ellsworth Thomas of New York City has in all parts of the world, particularly in the un- a short love story, entitled ''The Wooden Indian," settled regions of North and South America, building in Scribner's Magazine for January. It is told with railroads, developing mines and in other ways grace and feeling and Howard Chandler Christy employing his unparalleled aptitude for practical illustrates it with a picture in colors. Mir. Thomas affairs. But when Clarence King came on the scene was known as a facile writer in college and won a of active life the western half of this country was prize offered by the Brown Magazine for the best wholly unsettled and practically unexplored. Into poem contributed to its pages within a given year. the work of bringing to the attention of the American people the opportunities that were to be found in Archie N. Frost, Esq., of Lawrence becomes a their own country Clarence King threw himself with member of the Massachusetts state senate on the an energy and enthusiasm which conquered all inauguration of the new government in that state at obstacles. If he did not establish through his per- the beginning of the year. Mr. Frost has been a suasive powers what is known as the United States representative in the Massachusetts legislature for geological survey, he probably did more than any the past three years. His election as senator was other man to popularize it and make its work con- the most notable senatorial victory in Massachusetts tinuous as well as effective. As a mining engineer in the late election. The senatorial district which his services were in great demand, and years of his he now represents has for the past two years been life were spent as the scientific agent of American strongly Democratic, and, in the late election, his and foreign capitalists in examining and passing opponent in the Republican primaries refused to judgment upon the merits of various mining propo- withdraw his candidacy after his defeat there and sitions that had been submitted to them. As a ran as an independent Republican. writer, Clarence King possessed not only the ac- curacy of a trained scientist, but the enthusiasm of a 1895 devoted lover of nature, combined wtth the idealism A. A. Macurda has filed his application of a poetic temperament. He was, as we have said, for the master's degree at the University of one of the pioneers of a class of Americans who California. have, perhaps, done more to give their country credit Edwin A. Skinner has removed from Colorado in the eyes of foreigners than any class we have; Springs, Col., to Babbtown, Mo. for we think we are justified in attributing to the Henry B. Slade is chemist in the American engineers, more than to any other class of experiment station in connection with the University of our people, the credit for the tremendous industrial Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. development that has taken place in the United States during the last thirty or forty years." Dr. William McDonald, who recently completed his two years' service on the staff of the Rhode Island Hospital, is now on the medical staff of the is in W. W. Gushee the office of the J. L. Ham- Butler Hospital in this city. 124 The Brown Alumni Monthly

and returned to Vaiden, Miss., his home, where he expects to be admitted to the bar shortly. Before Frederick is principal A. Jones of the Providence leaving Providence he was for a considerable period Evening High School. of time in the law office of Alfred S. and Arthur George B. Van Doren, M. D., has begun the P. Johnson, Brown, '90 and '88, respectively, and practice of medicine in Watertown, N. Y. was connected with the reportorial staff of the yoiirnal. Leon H. Denison is in the real estate business in Kansas City, Mo., with the firm of E. E. & A. E. I. O. Hunt, who has been playing on the Home- Holmes, 513 New England building. stead football team, has returned to his studies at Harvard Law School. 1897 1900 Charles W. Goodwin is superintendent of ihe public schools of West Brookfield, Mass. Henry S. Pratt is physical director at the Univer- sity of H. H. Utley is mining engineer for the Taylor Cincinnati. Coal Company and the North Jellico Coal Company N. A. Moss is with the Armour Packing Company in their main oflfice, 415 West Jefferson street, in Kansas City. Louisville, Ky. 1901 Guy M. W^hipple, Ph. D., has been appointed lecturer in the educational at department Cornell. L. L. Eaton is in the offices of Sayles bleacheries Dr. Whipple has been in the psychological depart- at Saylcbville, R. I. ment of Cornell University for the last three years. C. Sherman Hoyt is with the Eastern Ship Build- David M. White was married November 6th to ing Co., at New London, Conn. Miss Eva Latham of Edgewood. Clinton C. White, '00, was best man, Sidney and D. Humphrey, '97, F. A. Page is teaching in the high school at New- F. D. Easterbrooks, ex-'97, Roy E. Clark, 'or, and bury port, Mass. Arthur J. Latham, '05, were ushers, Mr. White is editor of the Coos Comity Democrat of Lancaster, E. T. Paine is an instructor at the University the leading weekly of northern New Hampshire. School in this city.

Charles McCarthy, in who was famous under- Myron P. Davis is secretary to the superintendent graduate days as the university fullback, is a fellow of the New Jersey .State Hospital at Morris Plains, and instructor in history at the University of Wis- N.J. consin. He holds a responsible position, also, with the state, all bills of an economic character intro- Several professional league baseball clubs are duced into the legislature being presented to him endeavoring to secure the services of ex-Captain for investigation and report to that body. It is said Roy E. Clark of the Brown nine. that only one other state. New York, employs such A. Coffin has resigned as associate gov- an officer and that he is a member of the Columbia Howard faculty. ernor at the Friends School in Providence to accept a position with Ginn & Company. He will be con- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been appointed a nected with their New York office at 70 Fifth member of the "peace tribunal" chosen by a avenue. conference between the leaders of labor and capital at New York last month to attempt to harmonize their divergent interests. The committee consists Professor J. B. E. Jonas read a paper before the of three divisions, the first representing employers Modern Language Association of America, which and capitalists, the second organized labor and the held its nineteenth annual meeting at Harvard Uni- third the public. At the head of these three divisions versity, December 26, 27 and 28, on "A discrep- respectively are Senator Hanna, Samuel Gompers ancy in several of Schiller's Letters." He shows and ex-President Cleveland. that two letters, dated Jan. 29, 1783 and April, 1783, respectively, being Letters numbered 52 and 1898 66 in the Jonas edition of Schiller's Letters, are E. E. Franklin, formerly of Tioga Centre, N. Y., astonishingly misquoted and misinterpreted by all of acute painstaking Ger- has taken up the study of law in this city. almost the most and manic scholars dealing with Schiller, such as Box- Warren E. Greene has returned from duty with berger, Viehoff. Diintzer, Palleske, Wychgram, and the hydrographic survey in Cuba and is studying law Goedeke. Professor Jonas proves that at least two at Georgetown University. of these critics have access to, and that one of them H. C. Wardwell has begun the practice of law in actually used, original sources in dealing with these Missouri Valley, Iowa. particular letters and the poems of which mention is made in them. This discrepancy leads him to sus- Erik H. Green is a student in chemistry at the pect, as a possible hypothesis at least, that different University of Heidelberg. Mr. Green has been versions of these letters may in some way, perhaps engaged in chemical research ever since his gradua- in manuscript copy, have become current and been tion at Brown. He has been studying at the used by these several biographers and critics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past Schiller. To settle the question, it would be neces- two years and is doing his work abroad this year as sary to investigate the manuscripts on the subject a fellow of the Institute. now preserved in the Goethe-Schiller A7chiz> in Weimar. Professor Jonas has another paper on the program, to be read, by title, "The Life and Works

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