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JUNE, 1900

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One Hundred Thirty-Seventh Academic

Year Begins September 19, 1900.

Twenty-four departments of instruction. Libraries, University and Departmental;

Courses of study partly required, partly Astronomical Observatory ; Labora- elective, leading to the degrees of tories in Physics, Anatomy, Chemistry, A. B., Ph. B., Sc. B., C. E., M. E. Botany, Psychology and Engineering Graduate instruction leading to the de- Museums of Zoology, Anthropology, grees of A. M., Ph. D. Botany, Fine Arts.

For copies of Annual Catalogue, address

F. T. GUILD, Registrar. ; THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY

I Vol. Providence, R. L, June, 1900 No. I

Commencement ^^ ^' expected that an procession will form on the campus and unusually large num- yfQQ^ march to the Meeting-House, (accom- ber of Brown alumni panied by the time-honored strains of a will return to participate in the exercises certain familiar melody). The exercises of Commencement week. Thursday eve- at the Meeting-House will be briefer ning, June 14, at eight o'clock, the Hicks than usual, as only four seniors will prize debate will be held in Manning Hall. deliver orations. At the return of the The next day is Class Day, and the procession to the campus, there will be usual exercises will be held, including brief alumni reunions, and at one o'clock the address by the president of the the alumni dinner at Sayles Hall will senior class, the oration and the poem at be served. The President's reception Sayles Memorial Hall, at 10.30 a, m. at Sayles Hall will be from 8.30 to the front campus concert from 3.30 to eleven in the evening, and all alumni four ; the class tree exercises at four are requested to attend without further and the promenade concert, illumination invitation. On Thursday, June 21, the of the campus and society spreads in annual meeting of the corporation of evening. the On Sunday, at the First the university will be held at 9.45 a. m., Baptist Meeting-House, President at 5 University Hall. On Thursday and Faunce will preach the baccalaureate Friday, the usual examinations for sermon, and there will be music by a admission to college will occur. student chorus. The hour for this ser- vice is 4.30. On Monday, the i8th, at three o'clock, the Pembroke Hall The Endowment The earnest move- students will hold their Ivy Day p J ment for mcreasmg exercises. In the evening, at the Meet- the invested funds of ing-House, the declamations for the Brown University has gone steadily for- Carpenter prizes will be delivered. The ward during the last year. The mem- business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa bers of the corporation gave it a liberal

Society comes at 9.30, Tuesday, at 5 start before any one outside that body University Hall. At 2.30, at Manning was asked to help, but in the last few Hall, the annual meeting of the months statements and appeals have Associated Alumni will be held. The been sent to every graduate in this executive committee requests the country and abroad, and it is safe to say alumni to come prepared to offer prac- that never before were the alumni so tical suggestions as to additional ways thoroughly informed of the exact condi- of keeping the alumni in close touch tion of their alma mater. The univer- with the university. At four o'clock an versity can say, with Savonarola: "My oration will be delivered before the secrets have been few, because my pur- Associated Alumni, at the Meeting- poses were great." Every graduate of House, by Rev. James G. Vose, D. D., Brown is constantly invited to inform pastor of the Beneficent Congregational himself as to the university's condition Church, on "Formation of Character in and to share in its great responsibilities. College Life." The procession to the The endowment committee are cer- Meeting-House will leave the campus at tain of being able to announce on Com- 3.30, and the public is cordially invited mencement Day a large addition to the to be present at the exercises. productive resources of Brown. About Wednesday, June 20, is Commence- ^200,000 has already been paid into the ment Day. At 9.30 the Commencement treasury, and part of the income is —

The Brown Alumni Monthly available. The university now has in a front campus, and when the pro- cash and pledges, conditional and un- posed grading in the rear of Sayles Hall conditional, about ^800,000, but many of is finished, the finest of all the approaches these subscriptions have been made con- to the university will be from Manning ditional on raising one million dollars, street. Thus the new dormitory and and this fact renders evident the gravity the Psi Upsilon chapter house will stand of the situation that now confronts the in an unexcelled location. university and its friends. Shall a large amount of what we have be lost, or '^^^ advisory and execu- shall it be made a round million by The Office Commencement morning.'' «* r»^o„ tive committee of the uni- 01 Dean ., 4.- t^^ The time for conditional subscriptions versity corporation m De- last the oflEice of has now passed as is shown by the large cember established amount paid in. Contributions ought dean, subject to the approval of the to be made freely and without restric- corporation, and appointed Professor tion of any kind in these last few weeks. Upton to the office. The new officer There are twenty-seven hundred living will assist the president in the details of Brown alumni. The great majority of administrative work, and attend to these have, for various reasons, not yet re- matters requiring action when the Presi- sponded to the call of their alma mater. dent is absent from the city. Professor Many are "considering" what they will Upton entered upon his duties in Janu- of do. But this is the time, not for further ary, having been relieved from part consideration, but for action. Many the work of instruction by Dr. Slocum, hesitate because they can give only a whose major subject for the doctor's de- little, but if all would give as they are gree was astronomy. The new Dean able, victory would be certain. Many has had much experience in the adminis- are waiting for the "last call," without trative work of the college, having been considering the anxious strain to which secretary of the faculty for several they are subjecting the endowment years before the duties of secretary committee by their delay. This is the were taken by the registrar, and having last call. No alumnus ought to con- served as chairman of several commit- sent to let others do the work, while tees of the faculty. he simply plays the part of spectator. At Brown a college education is sup- -, Large results are ex- plied at less than a tenth of its cost. „r » Pected from the com- Every alumnus is deep in debt to the CollegernUr»^Dean V^^ ^^ ^^.^^ ^^^j^ university, and it is only fair that a part as dean of the Women's of the great indebtedness should be dis- Crosby Emery next September. Probably no charged before the twentieth of June, College could be found more thoroughly 1900. woman adapted to this position. After gradu- ating from Bryn Mawr she held the " '^^^ private dormitory " European Fellowship the highest A Private — to be erected by Mr. A. honor a Bryn Mawr student can obtain Dormitorynn^LTfnlt ^ Walworth of Boston and was abroad for two years. She then will be placed on the corner of Manning taught for a year at Bryn Mawr and and Thayer streets. The plans are served as secretary to the president. already drawn, showing a fine modern Three years ago she became dean of building, four stories high, with suites women at the tjniversity of Wisconsin, of rooms accommodating eight students where she now has four hundred young on each floor. Every study-room will women under her charge. Her father have the sunlight at some time of the is a judge of the supreme court of day. The building is to be fitted with Maine, and her brother is a professor in all conveniences in the way of steam Yale University. She is a fine scholar, heat, electric lights, bathrooms, fire a good speaker, and a trained executive. places, etc., and will be an ornament to She will bring to Pembroke Hall quali- the city. When the old red fence now ties which will be most helpful to all the surrounding Lincoln Field is removed, students. Dean Snow is doing all in it will be seen that what was once called his power to make it easy for Miss the "back campus," is rapidly becoming Emery to take up the work. She will :

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be in Providence the latter part of June undergraduates and alumni were pres- to inspect the work and lay plans for the ent. The Boston team consists of C.

following year. S. Anderson, captain ; C. B. Fernald, ^ and Albert L. Scott. The Dartmouth H^^l' captain; The board of fel- ^^"? '^ J; H. N. ConterringConferring f^^ , , Davis, F. departedrlpn^irferl and E. Greene. Honorary Degrees l^^^ .^^^ •^ *' from its custom by ^ notifying those persons upon whom it ™iessorPmf^ i^eorger ^r has voted to confer honorary degrees at Alumni Circular vviison, secretary ot Commencement, and by requesting them Discontinued to be present and receive the degree in ^j^^^j ^^^ p^ofesso^r Joseph'^N! Ash- person. The presence of those whom ton, representing the faculty! make the the university honors with Its degrees following announcement: This issue and the ceremony of conferrmg these ^f ^^e bIown Alumni Monthly takes degrees cannot fail to add to the interest ^^e place of the "circular to the alumni," of the Commencement exercises. published annually in accordance with a «M vote of the Corporation. The substitu- ^ion is made with the sanction DrnfAccnr Tflmnnf ^hc faculty loses of the one of its most effi- advisory and executive committee of Leavesfnoloc BrownT^.:;^? ^.^^^ members by the corporation, the retirement of Professor Lamont, ^ resigns who the professorship of rhetoric tt,^ ; ^ j j ^"^ ^'^P^"^' and orat'ory in the university to accept Financial J,^^,^^^ff^ the managing editorship of^he Ne'w Statement Tom prol o^'shi^^ H^^^^^^^^^ York Evening Post. Professor Lamon scholarship and other funds fo; specia has been at the head o the department ^^^ ^^^ included in this brief of rhetoric since the fall of and has 189S. {^..^^^ial statement made untiring ertorts to improve the work done in English composition at income from April 15, 1899 to April 15, 1900. Common Fund, investments the university. He has succeeded in . . $21,358.27 -' . Lmcoln Memorial ^, T r 11 fund .... 4,4s8.6q raising the standard 01 excellence re- J- wiison smith Fund .... 3,141.00 ^"°' quired students in all °\ ''°°. of their rhetorical EucSarpTSiir lll'll work. The university appreciates the .^erm biiis, cash from students, value ot the service rroiessor Lamont turned into the common Fund 87,444.08 ''''''' it has rendered to and greatly regrets Ten'p°e"centront'i^Ion'^and i^ci: his resignation from its faculty. ^ '^^"'^''^ °f women-s CoUege, 1,582.27 o -' Commencement Dinner fees, turned into t^ the Common Fund . . . 587.00 •^ Miscellaneous 435-33 dinner was given Honoring ^ Tota. income ^;;;;;^o ^^^ University Expenditure .^^.s.,, Brown Debaters ^\ Club in Providence, Gross Deficit $2404857 Amount of Guarantees 7,4o°.°o Saturday evening, May 19, in honor of the college debating teams. The after ^^' ^^^"^ $16,648.57 dinner ceremonies were presided over ,^ by Stephen O. Edwards, '79, president _, ^ ^ The ^m of Tohn of the club, who referred to the growth ?T^^^^. ^i^"^ Nicholas N. and H. Brown Rmwn of the debating spirit at Brown, Ind ex- J- ^^f^^j.^^ ^^^^^^ pressed the hope that the time would pledge of ^25,000 to the Brown endow- when Brown would come be second to ment fund and provides ^25,000 more no college in the country in debate, for the university. The will of his President Faunce complimented the brother, Harold Brown, likewise gives of which teams (one had won from the university ^25,000. The valuable Dartmouth, and the other from the library of John Nicholas Brown is to be Boston University Law School), and perpetuated and an endowment of favored the co-operation of the debaters ^500,000 is provided for it. The final with the young lawyers of the city, disposition of this large collection is left Other addresses were made by the cap- to the trustees of the will, who may tains of the teams and by Professors decide to give it into the charge of some Gardner and Lamont. Nearly 100 {Contmued oti page s.f The Brown Alumni Monthly

THE BROWN tablishment of much such a paper as is herewith presented. ALUMNI It was considered wise to create an MONTHLY advisory board of alumni to control the paper, who, after their first selection, should choose their own successors. A Published for the graduates of Brown University. Subscription price, $i.oo a year. Single copies, Ten Cents. sub-committee of three, it was further at Providence; Address articles for publication to the Editor determined, should be appointed from subscriptions and inquiries regarding advertisements to the Business Manager at 5 Slater Hall. among those members of the board There will be no issue during August and September of the living near the university, to manage present year. the details of the undertaking. This ADVISORY BOARD plan has been adopted in the main, and William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia. Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburg. an advisory board has been chosen, con- Francis Lawton, '69, New York. sisting of ten representative alumni. It Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence. William Y. Kellen, '72, Boston. is gratifying to announce that every WiNSLOw Upton, '75, Providence. alumnus invited to act in this capacity Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence. Walter B. Jacobs, '82, Providence. accepted the invitation. The first meet- Gardner Colby, '87, New York. ing of the board will be held at Com- Archibald C. Matteson, '93, Providence. mencement, HENRY R. PALMER, '90, Editor. The editor, associate editor and busi- ness manager are to be appointed by JOSEPH N. ASHTON, '91, Associate Editor. the advisory board. Meetings will be WILLIAM L. CLARK, '01, Business Manager, held annually in June, and oftener if re- 5 Slater Hall, Brown University. quired. The Monthly hopes to repre- June, 1900 sent the university in a semi-official

way, and yet retain its independent char- THE PURPOSE OF THE MONTHLY acter as an alumni publication. As the The Brown Alumni Monthly aims associate editor. Professor Ashton, is a to bring the university and its graduates member of the faculty, its information into closer touch and sympathy. The respecting university concerns may be undergraduate publications, while serv- depended upon as intimate and accurate. ing well the purpose for which they are The success of its alumni personal depart- published, have been inadequate to ment depends largely on the aid of cover the alumni field in addition to the graduates themselves, who are cord- their own special province. The ially invited to contribute to its col-

Monthly extends to them the assurance umns, and especially to inform it of such of its esteem and co-operation. matters regarding themselves as are At a meeting of class secretaries properly of interest. The Monthly de- called by President Faunce to consider sires also to receive communications various matters of graduate interest, a having to do with general university local committee of three, consisting questions.

of Dean Upton, '75 ; Mr. Robert P. Every dollar received as the price of

Brown, '71; and Principal Walter E. subscription will encourage it in what it

Jacobs of the East Side high school, believes is a good work. It will present, was appointed to consider the advisa- once a month, those matters that have bility of establishing an alumni publica- been treated only once a year in the tion. This committee held several meet- pages of the "circular to the alumni," ings and, after studying not only the and, in addition, deal with many things local field but also the alumni papers of not included in that annual survey. It other universities, recommended the es- will aim at conciseness and accuracy The Brown Alumni Monthly

rather than literary distinction, and be made their lawns so beautiful, gave him inspired only by loyalty to Brown and an the various formulae of seed, roller affectionate regard for all her graduates. and fertilizer. " Is that all ? " asked the American. "Yes," said John Bull. "All A PROSPEROUS YEAR you have to do is to keep at it two or The first year of Dr. Faunce's admin- three centuries." istration has been a period of general Somebody once strengthening. There has been no declared that a log with Mark Hopkins at the other it spectacular prosperity, but those who end of would be a university. diploma from are best acquainted with the conduct of A the Berkshire college of which Presi- affairs heartily endorse the wisdom dent Hopkins was the head is as hon- of his election. He has given himself orable as that of many another and richer quietly but effectively to the interests institution. While it is true that of the university, making a long and no college can afford to narrow its oppor- arduous journey through the west last tunity, and that there is a broader field winter to re-awaken alumni loyalty, and awaiting every college if money is forth- striving with great devotion to expand coming, is it necessary to cast a jealous its usefulness at home. He has wisely eye around, and cherish the apprehen- chosen to bend his energies to work sion that some other college will get outside the class-room in this, his first ahead of us because of its more abund- year of service, but next year he in- ant resources.'' tends to give a large share of his atten- at there is little if tion to undergraduate instruction. The Here Brown any of this feeling. is wanted is work of all the departments has gone What money enough to enable the university to do smoothly and there is marked sympathy the broader that it. between the President and the faculty. work presses upon is a The solidity of the year's achievement There great opportunity before us. are looking, will make a substantial basis for future We not to other fields, but growth and prosperity. to our own. It is not to compete with this, that or the other college that UNIVERSITY COMPETITION Brown asks for a million dollars, but to Is there too keen a rivalry among our make it possible for her to hold what

universities .'' A New England college she has gained in recent years and go " president is quoted as saying that the forward confidently for the future. A institution under his care must have a log with Mark Hopkins at the other end

large increase in its funds if it is not to of it " would be well enough in pleasant be outstripped by certain other univer- summer weather, but there are times sities with abundant financial resources. when a roof and a cheerful fire would be There is no college in New England more to the purpose. that does not need more money, but is What Brown needs sorely is more

it not easy to create the impression that roofs to shelter her ever increasing money is the one essential to the build- student family. There must be new ing up of a university and to put too class rooms, new dormitory accommo- high a value on mere college wealth.? dations, better faculty salaries. The California and Stanford, fine and strong graduates of Brown do not know half and stalwart as they are, cannot buy the the story of the devotion and loyalty history or the elms of Harvard, Yale manifested by her teaching force. But and Brown. The Englishman in the those who are nearest to the college old story who was asked by an Ameri- administration understand and appreci-

can, note book in hand, how the English ate it. The Brown Alumni Monthly

COLLEGE LOYALTY '48. Rev. Dr. James Wheaton Smith, one of the best-known Baptist ministers of Philadelphia, died There never was a happier manifesta- at his home in that city, 41 16 Walnut street, May 5, 1900. He had been in failing health for more than a tion of college spirit at Brown than on year. He was run down in his carriage by a street car the fourth of May, when the nine re- early in 1899, but from this accident it was thought he had recovered. He leaves two sons and two defeated from New Haven and turned daughters, his wife having died suddenly last sum-

Middletown. The hopes of the univer- mer at Brielle, N. J. At the time of his death Dr. Smith was pastor emeritus of the Spruce Street Bap- sity had been raised to a high point by tist church, with which he had been identified for its triumph over Harvard the previous forty-seven years. He graduated at Newton in 1 85 1 and became pastor of a church at Lowell before in a ten inning game, but this week removing to Philadelphia. He was prominent in victory was followed within a few days his denomination and held many official positions. His travels led him to South America, Nova Scotia, at the hands of Yale and by beatings Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and in the Civil War Wesleyan. Instead of withholding its he personally aided the wounded on the field during the battles in the Wilderness. At the time of his from the team in these discour- support death he was in his seventy-seventh year. circumstances, the college turned aging '50. A portrait of the late Dean of Princeton out en masse, welcomed the players at University, Dr. James O. Murray, is being painted by H. R. Butler, president of the American Society the station and formed an enthusias- of Artists. When it is finished it will be placed in tic parade to escort them to the campus. the university library at Princeton. The money has been raised by subscription among the faculty. Whether the victory over Princeton the Ex-'54. Joseph Hilliard Worcester of Rochester, day had any connection with this next N. H., a well-known lawyer, died, April 11. He display of Brown loyalty might seem to left college in his senior year on account of ill health. The Rochester Courier says of him that he question, but the general impres- be a "was in all things a profound student, while his sion is that it contributed materially to strong mind and vigorous personality inspired the greatest respect." the result. The team played a fine '61. Captain K, Bucklyn has been elected de- hit the ball at critical J. fielding game, partment commander of the Grand Army of the Re- moments, and exhibited great coolness public in Connecticut. and confidence. It is not too much to '62. David S. H. Smith is treasurer of the Mis- souri Pacific railway, with offices at St. Louis. say that this cordial greeting after de- '64. Brown was represented at the centennial the evolution of a certain feat marks celebration of the University of New Brunswick at college provinciality into something Fredericton, May 28, 29 and 30, by Professor W. Whitman Bailey, on whom the degree of Doctor of better. The disposition to broader and Laws was conferred. athletic one perform- judge an team by '70. Ex-President Andrews has resigned the su- ance smacks more of the backwoods perintendency of the Chicago public schools and accepted the position of chancellor of the University of the university, generous college than of Nebraska at Lincoln. self-confident. and '70. The New York Tribune refers to Isaac Nelson Ford as its "vigilant and discriminating London correspondent." Mr. Ford's daily war BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR. letters have been easily the best sent out from the English capital. Many notes have been cnnvded out of this depart- ( '71. C. C. Luther has been conducting revival ment. They will appear in July.) services in Newark, N. J.

'43. Benjamin Newell Lapham, once one of the '71. Robert P. Brown has been elected presi- best-known lawyers in Rhode Island, died at his dent of the Unitarian Club of Providence. home in Providence, May 13, aged years. He 79 '72. W. V. Kellen has presented to the college was a native of Smithfield and a member of the bar library a large and valuable collection of works on for years. He came of an old Rhode Island 55 international law. family and held a number of public offices. At the time of his death he was the second oldest member '73. Arthur Daggett McLellan of Boston, a of the Rhode Island bar. He married Miss Sophia prominent lawyer, died, April 5. He was born in M. Page, June 24, 1847, by whom he had four Sutton, Mass., and, after graduation, became a re- children. Of these only Mrs. John D. Lewis porter on the Worcester Gazette. Later he pub- survives. lished the Boston Daily Law Bulletin and Banker and Tradesman. At the time of his death he was a '47. Rev. Frederick Denison of Providence has trustee of the university. By his will he leaves been confined to his home for several months, but $8,000 to Brown, and the sum of $2,000, which he his health now shows some improvement. contributed to the endowment fund, is to be paid to '48. George Graham Curtis died, March 29. the university outright if the fund is not raised. The Brown Alumni Monthly

'73. Dr. Edward Young Bogman, a well known '90. Invitations have been issued for the mar- Providence physician, died at Atlanta, Ga., March riage of Miss Rieta Woodruff Babcock, daughter of Babcock, to Henry Robinson 5. He graduated at the Harvard Medical School the late Courtlandt G. in 1876, and became a specialist on diseases of the Palmer, at the Second Congregational Church, Ston- nose, throat and ear. He was born in Massachu- ington. Conn., June 14, 1900. setts and spent his early life there. '91. Rev. Charles D. Burrows has accepted a call to St. Matthew's Episcopal church, Jamestown, '77. Julius Palmer of Providence has recently R. I. recovered from a severe period of illness. '92. William H. Eddy has been re-elected secre- '78. Elon R. is a member of the law firm Brown tary of the Unitarian Club of Providence, of Brown, Carlisle & Hugo, Watertown, N. Y. He has been a member of the Legislature and sat in '92. The engagement of Miss Anna C. Spicer to the Constitutional Convention of 1894. Royal H. Gladding was announced April 30. '93. Mayor John Fitzgerald of Pawtucket is a '83. Invitations are out for the marriage of J. delegate to the Kansas City convention, July 4. Abram Barker and Miss Avis Lockwood Chapman, both of Providence, at the Central Congregational '94. S. P. Remington is preparing for a year's Church in this city, June 12, 1900. trip in Europe and the farther East.

'83. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon has sailed for '94. President-elect Mary E, Woolley of Mount 22. Europe, to be absent several months. The profits Holyoke College visited that institution May from the Topeka Capital during the week of his The entire student-body received her with the col- editorship reached $5,000, of which amount he has lege cheer and sang a Mount Holyoke song. Presi- in of Miss sent a fifth to famine-stricken India. The re- dent Mead gave a reception honor three to six in the mainder is to be devoted to local charities. Mr. Woolley, at Assembly Hall, from were Presi- Sheldon's present interest is said to centre largely in afternoon. Among the invited guests the solution of the "servant-girl" problem. He dent and Mrs. Faunce, dignity of domestic service ought to thinks that the '96. Rev, George F, Greene has been ordained raised. be to the Baptist ministry, and is settled over the First '84. Professor Otis E. Randall of Brown and church at Lawrence, Mass, Mrs. Randall arrived in Paris, May 24, from Berlin. '97. Arthur M. Cottrell of Westerly has just re- I,, from a ten weeks trip in Europe, accompan- '85. J. M. Pendleton of Westerly, R. has turned '85. just returned from a ten weeks trip in Europe. ied by J. M. Pendleton,

'97. William Burgess Peck, son of William T. '85. John Nicholas Brown, a grandson of (principal of the Providence Classical Nicholas Brown, from whom the university received Peck, '70, High School) was united in marriage with Miss Lucy its name, died at New York, May i, in his thirty- Hartwell, daughter of F. W. Hartwell of ninth year. He was a public-spirited citizen of King Providence, 16, 1900. Rev. T. D. Anderson, Providence, and gave $200,000 to the Providence May '74, performed the ceremony, and C. S. Anderson, Public Library two years ago to enable it to erect was best man. the fine building opened last spring. His later ben- 1900, efactions increased his total gifts to the institution to '97. Late in March word was received from $268,000. The John Carter Brown library of Amer- Egypt of the accidental drowning of James Tucker, his intelligent patronage, to be icana grew, under Jr-> '97- the finest collection of its kind in existence. Upon his entrance to college he won three of the A new building is soon to be erected for its use in prizes offered in competitive examinations and Providence. Mr. Brown leaves a wife, who was throughout his college course he showed ability that Miss Dresser, and an infant son, John Nicholas promised a most brilliant future. In his junior year Brown. he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and '85. Andrew McC. Warren has returned to at his graduation he was one of the Commencement Paris after a few weeks visit with friends in this speakers. vicinity. He spends much time in France and Immediately after his graduation, Mr. Tucker class-mate, Germany. His address is care of Brown, Shipley sailed for Germany in company with a & Co., London, E. C, England, and after a summer of sight-seeing and travelling, continued his studies at Berlin University. Ex-'86, Harold Brown, the only brother of John His decided taste for the classics led him gradu- Nicholas Brown, died at New York, May 10. He ally into the study of Grecian Archaeology, and after was, like his brother, prominently identified with the a few months at Berlin he received a Fellowship at manufacturing and social interests of Rhode Island. the American School at Athens, a rare honor, and '89. George Eddy Warren and Miss Frances one that prophesied to a degree the future he had Wightman Knowles were united in marriage, April before him. of pursuing 23, 1900, at the Piedmont church, Worcester, Mass. His trip to Egypt was with the purpose connection L. St. C. Colby, '89, was best man, and other of the study of Egyptian Archaeology in Mr. Warren's classmates were among the ushers. with his studies at Athens, and it was here that his career was so abruptly and so sadly ended. '89. Professor Vernon P. Squires of the Univer- Mr. Tucker was a most congenial companion, a sity of North Dakota has delivered many lectures refined and cultured gentleman, with a character during last few months. In he will make the July beyond reproach. In his death the college loses an address at the Chautauqua Assembly at Ottawa, one of the most promising of its recent graduates. Kansas, and in August he will come east. August Mass., 19 he preaches at Dr. Bixby's church in Providence. '99. Louis Anthony Colvin of Worcester, and Miss Sara Hale Colvin of Riverpoint were Ex-'9o. Rev. George Bloomfield has resigned J. married at the Riverpoint Congregational Church, his pastorate at the Weeden Street Congregational May 23, 1900. The bride was graduated from the church, Pawtucket, and accepted a call to the Con- Women's College of Brown University in 1899. gregational church at Machias, Me. ;

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{Continued frotn page j.) Including the score in the bicycle races local institution. Among the possible at Boston which were postponed till beneficiaries mentioned are Brown Uni- May 21 on account of the weather, the versity and the city of Providence. The summary of the meet is as follows: public bequests of the Messrs. Brown Williams, 33^ points; Brown, 29^ aggregate nearly $500,000, not including Bowdoin, 25 ; Dartmouth, 22^ ; Maine, the half million set aside for the library 8; M. I. T, eyz; Amherst, 5^; Wes- endowment. leyan, ^.

Two new buildings will The university baseball New The Baseball ^°°^ ^^ erected at Brown. team has had a varying Buildinffs Record ^ One of these is the new season. It has played president's house. This will be placed at the best of ball at times, defeating Har- the corner of Hope and Manning streets vard, Princeton and Yale, and being on land owned by the university, and defeated by the latter two. The Memo- long standing unused. The old presi- rial Day game gave the Yale series to dent's house has become unsuitable for Brown. Following is the record of the a family, since the cable cars have turned season up to date : College Hill into a railroad. The new house will be built by capitalizing the II, Brc income now received from the old house, and thus it will not be necessary to draw on the invested funds of the uni- versity. The house will be of brick with white marble trimmings, in a modi- fied "old colonial" style. Plans are now being prepared for the May memorial gates and administration building, for the construction of which $45,000 was bequeathed to the univer- sity by the late Augustus S. Van Wickle, '76. It has not yet been determined where the building will stand, and the bequest leaves the university en- tirely free in this matter. The question whether the gates and the building must form one structure or whether they must simply be adjacent is now under consideration by eminent legal authority. In any case, the administration building is greatly needed. The rooms now used for administrative purposes are too small and inconvenient, and are needed for dormitory purposes. Rooms will be pro- vided in the new structure for offices of the president, the dean, the registrar, and the steward, and there will be rooms for faculty and corporation meetings, and committee rooms for many purposes.

Williams won the Brown Second New England Inter-Collegi- at Worcester ate Athletic meet at Worcester, May 19, with Brown a close second. Eleven New England colleges were represented and Brown's showing was gratifying, though the hope had been cherished that she might win first place. The Brown Alumni Monthly

'^^^ matter has ArtiflM P^^^^ ^^ been so great in this Crowdedr^ll^A^A Outn«+ President, James W. Perry, '74. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Monthly Vice-President, Samuel H. Ordway, '80. that several articles of contemporary in- terest have been omitted. They will Treasurer, William R. Dorman, '92. appear in the July issue, together with Secretary, Everett Colby, '97. a full account of the exercises of Com- Executive Committee: Charles E. Hughes, '81, mencement week, and a review of the Chairman; Francis Lawton, '69; Ira Barrows, '83; life of Rev. Dr. Edwards A. Park of R. C. Graves, Gardner Colby, '87; B. D. Whiting,

Andover, of the class of '26, who died John D. Rockefeller, Jr., '97; Norman S.Dike, '85; June 4, aged 91. John R. Beam, '72; Arthur Lincoln, '70.

PHILADELPHIA Committee on ^^ i^lT/^^J!;^ ^ u^ President, Wayland Hoyt, '60. ^''' °,^ ^^^ ^e faculty Registration of First Vice-President, Henry K. Porter, '60. passed a vote creatmg Telcherqleacners ^ committee for the Second Vice-President, George D. Boardman, '52. registration of graduates of Brown Uni- Treasurer, Frank Mauran, '85. versity who are teachers, and the making Secretary, William H. Bennett, '86. of arrangements for a conference of MARYLAND DISTRICT these alumni in the teaching profession. AND OF COLUMBIA Professors Appleton, Poland, Upton, President, John Hay, '58. Ashton and Greene were appointed to Vice-President, Alfred M. Quick, '87. constitute the committee. The commit- Secretary and Treasurer, John H. Olcott, '72. tee has made arrangements for a con- ference to be held at the university at Executive Committee: William A. Wilbur, '88; Walter G. Chandler, '78; William H. Hawkes, '67. eleven a. m., Tuesday, June 19, the day before Commencement, At this confer- CLEVELAND ence all graduates of the university who President, James H. Hoyt, '74, are teachers will be welcomed by the president, the committee and other Vice-President, Edwin L. Thurston, '81. members of the faculty. Secretary and Treasurer, Frank P. Whitman, '74. Executive Committee: Charles G. King, '84; Newton S. Calhoun, '79; Ralph T. King, '78; the BROWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI Secretary, ex-officio. ASSOCIATIONS CINCINNATI

President, Eliab W. Coy, '58. THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI Vice-President, William H. Pabodie, '55. President, Charles Morris Smith, '59, Providence. Secretary, Samuel W. Smith, Jr., '80. Secretary, George Grafton Wilson, '86, Providence. CHICAGO

President, Noble B. Judah, '72.

President, William V. Kellen, '72. Vice-President, William B. Bogert, '82.

Secretary, George F. Bean, '81. Secretary and Treasurer, Frank L. Morse, '86.

ST. LOUIS PROVIDENCE President, D. S. H. Smith, '62. President, Charles W. Lippitt, '6$. Secretary, Augustus L. Abbott, '80. Secretary, John T. Blodgett, '80. Treasurer, John B. Edwards, '96. COLORADO

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