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~bt iDtchin~on arumnu~ Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editor - Dean M. Hoffman, '02

ADVISORY BOARD Terms Expire in 1924 Terms Expire in 1925 Terms Expire in 1926 L. T. Apnold 82 J. M, Rhey, '83, 096L Hon. Whiteman Judge E. M. Biddle, Jr, . ."86 T. M. '00 Henry R. Issacs ..•...... • '04 Rev. Dr. M. E. Swartz ..... '89 Boyd Lee Spahr, '00 ti. C. Curran, •...... •.. '11 Thomas L. Jones ••...••. '01 Hon. J. Banks Kurtz '93, '9JL S. W. Stauffer, '12 W. C. Clarke, •...... '95 Dean M. Hoffman, '02 Dr. Robert B. Kistler •••. '15 Robert Y. Stuart, .•...... '03 Dr. J. W. Long ...... •. '07

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President Lemuel T. Appo ld President .•.• Justice John W. Kephart Vice-President Boyd Lee Spahr First Vice-President .. Robert Hays Smith Secretary William C. Clarke Second Vice-Pres• .. Judge Fred B. Moser Treasurer John M. Rhey Secy-Treas. • ..... Joseph P. McKeehan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE Select Members of Alumni Council ...... Come Back For Commencement : . Trustees Authorize Building Plans , . Hero of "Boxer" Rebellion . Why They Quit Dickinson . Relay Team Wins Championship . Track History is Second to None . Magazine Enters Second Year . Editorial . The First Dickinson Commencement . Dickinson College Faculty . Alumni Clubs Hold Annual Banquets . Dickinson Marching Song . Personals . Obituary . · · · · · · · · ··· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·

Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including one year's subscription the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, Denny llaU, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at ·the post office Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879."

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Lmonm rt THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 Select Members of Alumni Council Ballots for a secret, mail vote for the til after the expiration of one year, ex• elections of members of the Alumni cept L. T. Appold, president of the as• Council of the General Alumni Associa• sociation, who was nominated for elec• tion were mailed the last day. of April, tion by the committee. and for the first time the alumni of the With each ballot a return envelope College are selecting officers in this way. bearing the address of William C. All alumni, who have paid the dues of Clarke, secretary, was sent and upon it the association are eligible to vote and a appeared a line on which each voter ballor was sent to each such member must sign his or her name to validate the from Carlisle by William C. Clarke, vote. The names appearing on the re• secretarv of the association. turned envelopes will be checked by the The names of ten nominees were an• tellers with the membership list of the nounced during the past month by the association and then the envelopes will nominating committee, consisting of be thrown away before the ballots are Charles K. Zug, 'So; Boyd Lee Spahr, unfolded. Thus, the vote will be a 'oo and Dean M. Hoffman, '02. In the secret one. seldction of nominees, the nominating All of the ballots must reach the sec• committee was governed by the By-laws retary by six o'clock on the week day of the association which required it to preceding the annual meeting, according consider the date of graduation and res• to the By-laws. The secretary will then idences of nominees "Bearing in mind deliver the unopened envelopes to the members of the council holding over." Executive Committee of the Council, The members of council, whose terms who will act as tellers. The tellers will expire at Commencement were in classes throw out the envelopes not having the from 1882 to 1903, and the ones hold• name of the member written thereon, ing over included the more recent grad• and the ballots will then be counted. uates. The new nominations are in Announcement of the results of the elec• classes from 1882 to 1906. tion will be made at the meeting of the The list of ten nominees given to the association on Saturday morning at IO voter, who casts a ballot for five of those o'clock May 31st, and following this named, is. as follows : L. T. Appold, meeting the newly elected members will '82, Baltimore; Clarence Balentine, '93, meet with those holding over to elect Scranton; Robert H. Richards, '95, officers of the Alumni Council, and to Wilmington; Merkel Landis, '96, '98L, transact such other business as shall come Carlisle; William A. Jordan, '97, '99L, before that body. Pittsburgh; William M. Wooster, 'or, The annual reports of the president, Crisfield, Md.; Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., the treasurer and the editor of the mag• '02, Baltimore; Reuben F. N evling, '02, azine wil] be given at the annual meet• Clearfield; E. Foster Heller, '04, '04L, ing of the association, and other pro• Wilkes-Barre; and Philip S. Moyer, '06, posals will come before the organization. 'o8L, Harrisburg. President L. T. Appold, '82, urges The members of council, whose terms every member of the association to vote expire this year are as follows: L. T. in the election of members to the Coun• Appold, '82; T. M. Whiteman, 'oo; cil and to send in his or her vote Boyd Lee Spahr, 'oo; Thomas L. Jones, promptly to the secretary of the associa• 'or ; Dean M. Hoffman, '02; and Robert tion, and to keep in mind the require• Y. Stuart, '03. Under the constitution ment of signing the envelope on the line none of these is eligible to reelection un- designated for signature. 4 THE DICKINSON AJ_,UMNUS May, 1924 Come Back for Commencement Kindled by a steadily growing inter• est in alumni activity, a spontaneous out• "Information Please" burst of enthusiasm is predicted for the One Hundred Forty First Commence• Placards will point the way to an In• ment when a greater number of alumni formation Bureau, which will be oper• ated throughout Commencement, in "Old and alumnae are expected to gather in West." On arrival in Carlisle, head for the shade of "Old West" than ever be• this place first and after registering learn fore in the history of the College. what this Bureau offers. Committees preparing for group re• There will be a check-room adjacent. a cafeteria, group meeting rooms and unions, fraternity secretaries, College of• all the information abour reunions and ficials, correspondents, and others are all other Commencement activities. Tickets declaring that everyone is planning to for all functions will be sold or as• come to the old campus this year. signed at this Bureau and it will be the center of all Commencement doings. The program opens on the afternoon Plan to register first! of Decoration Day, May 30th, and many are planning to motor to Carlisle that day to be on hand for Alumni Day, Sat• rooms, check rooms, an Information urday, May 31st, a day which will be Bureau, and a regular cafeteria where brimful of activity. Commencement light lunches will be sold. The fourth will end the festivities on Tuesday, June feature will be the baseball game be• 3d. tween the varsity and an Alumni team• It is probable that reduced railroad the stars of all time-to be played on rates will be offered over the Pennsyl• Monday afternoon, June zd. vania Lines, though no definite an• While it is too early to predict the nouncement can yet be made. The rate scope of class reunions, it now appears may be regular fare to Carlisle and half that a group reunion of the classes from fare on the return trip. If this rate is r 880 to 1 884 will not only be one of the allowed, certification will be required at most unique in the history of the College, the Information Bureau in "Old West." but one of the finest parties staged on Apart from the hilarity of the Par• the campus in a long, long time. Rev. ade of class and other reunions, there Dr. Frank F. Bond, of Philadelphia, will likely be four outstanding features who is chairman of the committee pre• of this year's Commencement, which will paring for this celebration, predicts that prove departures from those of recent there will be forty men present from the years. The first will be the outward evi• '80-'84 generation. He has met with a dence of awakened alumni interest as remarkable response to his call, and re• manifested in the first annual meeting senting the implication of advancing of the reorganized General Alumni As• years one grad of that day says that he sociation and in the meeting of the is coming to prove the words of the late Alumni Council. The second will General King that "There's life in the likely be that this will be a "singing old man yet." Commencement," for the singing of the A twenty-fifth reunion with a 100 present Musical Clubs and that of the per cent. attendance is the aim of 1899 1914 Glee Club in its tenth reunion and' in the first notice sent out by H. should be contagious. The third fea• L. Cannon calling the classmates to the ture will be the activity of the alumnae festivities, the statement was made that in response to the lead of the Harris• twenty-three had then expressed their burg Alumnae Club, which is sponsor• intention of being present. ing a plan to make "Old West" a real, The quietness of the preparations be• social center with comfortable meetmg ing made by 1904 headed by Henry R. May, 19'£4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 5

One Hundred Forty F.irst COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM )fay 30 to June 3, 1924 Friday, May 30 2 :30--lntra-mural and Inter-scholastic Track and Field Meets, Biddle Field. 8 :oo--Social Fraternity Events. Fraternities "At Horne." Saturday, May JI-Alumni Day 10:00--Meeting of General Alumni Association followed by meeting of Alumni Council, Bosler Hall. 1 :30--Alumni Mass Meeting and Parade. (Alumni, faculty, students; visitors.) 2 :30--Baseball. Dickinson vs. Gettysburg. Biddle Field. 3 :oo to 5 :30--Reception at the home of President and Mrs. Morgan. 5 :oo--Fraternity Banquets. 7 :45-Concert-College Musical Clubs, Bosler Hall. Admission by ticket only. ,9 :15-College Sing, Steps of "Old Wiest." 1914 Glee Club Reunion and Concert. Sunday, June I 11 :oo--Baccalaureate Service. Sermon by Bishop William Fraser McDowell, of Washington. 6 :30--Vesper Service, "Old "'est." 1914 Glee Club. Monday, Ju11e 2 9 :oo--Annual Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Denny Hall. 9 :30--Class Day Exercises, Class of 1924, Bosler Hall. 12 :30--Commencement Luncheon for graduating classes, their visiting friends, alumni, college visitors, faculties and trustees. Admission by ticket only. Secure tickets from Professor Prettyman early, certainly before 10 A. M. Monday. 2 :oo--Baseball. Varsity vs. Alumni. Biddle Field. 2 :30--Meeting of College Trustees, Scientific Building. 8 :oo--Commencement Play, the College Dramatic Club will present "The Master Builder," by Henrie Ibsen, in Bosler Hall. Admission by •· ticket only. Tuesday, June 3 9 :30--Commencement Exercises, Bosler Hall. Address by Professor Edmund D. Soper, '98, Northwestern University.

Issacs, of Wilmington, is foreboding and find Carlisle holding an elaborate parade a thunderous twentieth reunion may be and the first Commencement event will in the offing. interest all lovers of sport. At 2 :30 in Clarence D. ·MacGregor, who is the afternoon two track and field meets rounding up the 1909 clan for its fif• will be staged simultaneously on Biddle teenth reunion, refuses to say more than Field. The one will be an inter-fratern• to utter the warning "Keep your eye ity · struggle and the other an inter-· open for '09." scholastic meet with many nearby schools Reports indicate that 1914 will be in competition. A new feature of the nosier in its tenth reunion than it was evening will be "open house" at each of when in College, if that is possible. the fraternity chapter houses, when each Each member will back up the old class fraternity will open its doors to all yell with a cane from which will flutter alumni, visitors, students, faculties and a red flag bearing the black numerals, friends. Each fraternity is planning en• 1914. tertainment and dancing will command Though only a year out of College, most attention. 1923 is planning to start out on the re• Alumni Day will open on Saturday, union-every-year plan and Harry B. May 31st, with the meeting of the Gen• Mullon has issued a call for all of his eral Alumni Association in Bosler Hall classmates to return for Alumni Day. and the meeting of the Alumni Council Early arrivals on Decoration Day will and then activity will center at "Old 6 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924

West" and on the campus. Following 1914 Glee Club singing several anthems various luncheons, the alumni will again it used ten years ago. Several of the· meet on the campus at 1 :30 for the an• members of the club will sing solos, and nual all College Parade which will end the club will combine with the present at Biddle Field where the baseball team Glee Club to form a large choir to lead will meet the nine from Gettysburg. in the congregational singing. After the game, there will be a reception The annual meeting of Phi Beta at the home of President and Mrs. Kappa will be held Monday morning at Morgan and the fraternity banquets will 9 o'clock and the Class Day Exercises of start at 5 o'clock. In the evening at the Class of 1924 will start at 9 :30. 7 :45, the combined Musical Clubs will The annual Commencement Luncheon give a concert in Bosler Hall and after will be held in the gymnasium at I 2 :30 it, the 1914 Glee Club will repeat some and at 2 o'clock there will be a baseball of the selections on the program it gave game between the varsity and an alumni ten years ago, and will sing the College team. In the evening the Dickinson songs on the steps of "Old West," and Players under the direction of Prof. will then act as "the choir" for a big College sing. Wilbur H. Norcross, '07, will present Henrie Ibsen's play, "The Master Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Wash• Builder," in Bosler Hall. ington, will deliver the sermon at the Edmund D. Soper, '98, a professor Baccalaureate Service to be held on of Northwestern University, will be the Sunday morning at I I o'clock. Instead Commencement orator in the Com• of a speaker featuring the Vesper Ser• mencement Exercises on the morning of vice, it will be a service of song with the Tuesday, June 3d, at 9 :30 o'cock.

Plan Law Reunion in June An Opportunity to Help The annual gathering of the law "As our alumni well know, a large alumni and the annual meeting of the proportion of the students at College Alumni Association of the Dickinson must earn part or even all of the money School of Law will be held in Carlisle necessary to secure their education," de• the third week in June, according to J. clares L. F. Bower, the Young People's P. McKeehan, secretary-treasurer of the Secretary; who calls on the alumni to organization. While no definite date aid him in securing employment for the has yet been set for the ses~ion, annou~ce• present students. ment will likely be made 111 a short time calling the alumni to Carlisle for a two As summer is practically the only time days' meeting. when most of them can earn this money, Mr. Bower is cooperating with the John D. Faller, '09L, "\\'.ho was ap• students by securing and compiling in• pointed chairman of a committee on pro• formation regarding selling propositions, gram at last year's session, is· planning summer resorts, highway construction, some lively entertainment for the Law railroads, steamship lines, building oper• men, and hopes to stage a reunion which ations and other activities where extra will excel those of past years. help might be needed. John E. Myers, '12, '13L, dis_trict ~t• "There is a real opportunity to ren• torney of Cumberland C?untJ:, is chair• der acceptable service to Alma Mater," man of a committee which aims to se• Mr. Bower says by those alumni who cure larger representations from classes. are in a position to either give him such He is working out a plan to arra?ge for information as they may have or to offer several class reunions at the commg ses• employment to students when they can sion. do so.

I 0 ~~-·~li!ili&~~Wl!!lml!i&i~~Gl!lll .. May, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 7 Trustees Authorize Building Plans The first step in the building plans submit plans providing for the alteration outlined during the endowment cam• of the interior of this building to make it paign of 1922, was taken at a meeting a complete, modernly equipped dormi• of the Executive Committee of the tory. Board of Trustees held in Baltimore With the larger enrollment of· stu• last month, when President Morgan was dents, the administration stresses the given authority to direct the College need for modern dormitories and. for architect to make a study of the buildings this reason plans to make alterations to and to, submit plans for such alterations the present dormitory buildings as soon as should be made and to consider the as possible, and to give this work prece• site, size and kind of a gymnasium which dence in the building program. should be erected. Acting on this authority, President While alterations are being made to Morgan called William W. Emmert, the dormitories, plans will be drawn for the College architect, of Baltimore, who the gymnasium after a complete survey came to Carlisle· and made a complete of the needs and the proper site for this examination of East College, the first structure. No indication can be made building in which changes will probably as to the date when the building of the be made. Mr. Emmert will shortly gymnasium will begin.

Alumni to Play Varsity Stay for Lunch "Batteries for today. Goldstein and The Harrisburg Alumnze Club is Hoch," will ring across Biddle Field sponsoring a plan to make West College again after a silence of twelve years the center of alumni activity at .Com• when an alumni baseball team will meet mencement and also to operate a cafe• the varsity on Tuesday afternoon, June teria, This organization calls on all zd. alumna to join in this work and asks "Jerry" Hoch is a little heavier than the cooperation of all alumni. he was in the days when he was the star The cafeteria will open Alumni Day moundsman, but Coach McAndrews when sandwiches, hot and cold drinks, fears that he will still prove the nemesis and ice cream will be on sale at all times. to his present sluggers. Mack's charges Two plate luncheons will be served, one will also have an opportunity to view for 2 5c and the other for 7 5c. The the slants of Kenneth Vaughan, who luncheon de luxe will have for its main held Bucknell to a lone hit not so long drawling card chicken salad. ago. The space in front of Tome Scientific The infield should prove a stonewall Building will be made into a model tea on the defense and powerful on the of• garden under this plan. Chairs and fense if years have not dimmed batting tables will be placed under attractive eyes, for "Chick" Henderson will likely umbrellas, and efficient service will be cavort at first base with Captain "Jim" maintained to all alumni. Steckel at short-stop, "Buck" Weaver West College will become a hostess at second and "Sid" Cohen or "Dave" house, with an information bureau, Price at third. checking rooms, lounging rooms and The outfield will be filled with such class-meeting rooms. The secretaries of luminaries as Scott Cook, Bruce Patter• classes in reunion may reserve meeting son, "Perk" Long, "Fog" Smith, "Bob" rooms on the second floor of "Old Rawley, Wendell Holmes, and G. W. West," which will be found more de• Sharp. sirable than the places used formerly. 8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 . Hero of the "Boxer" Rebellion Dickinsonians in college during the Boxer rebellion in China need no in• troduction to their fellow alumnus, the Rev. Dr. Frank D. Gamewell, '81, the outstanding figure in the heroic defense of the British Legation at Peking. Nor is an explanation of the name· necessary for the hundreds of refugees within the compound, nor for the military records of Great Britain, the United States, Germany and the other nations associ• ated in that dangerous experience, nor for the missionary chronicles of China, nor for any who search history for evi• dences of intelligent bravery winning over great odds. The story of Dr. Gamewell has been told many a time, but, like all good tales, it may be told again. While his exploits in Peking are certain to continue as the "high lights" in his career, there are other achievements of great importance if less conspicuous . . Dr. Gamewell is a South Carolinian. He was born at Camden, S. C., August 31, 1857. His grandfather and several of his uncles had been Methodist clergy• 0REV. men. Some expected him to follow in THE DR. FRANK D. GAMEWELL, '81 those footsteps, but for a time their ex• the delegates from the North China pectations were not realized, for young Conference to the present General Con• Gamewell began to show an early fond• ference of the Methodist Episcopal ness for science and he determined upon Church at Springfield, Mass. In r 884, civil engineering. His early education he was made the superintendent of the was obtained at Hackensack Academy West China M(ssion, having his head• in New Jersey in 1875. Thereafter he quarters at Chungking in the Province of entered Rennselaer Polytechnic at Troy Szechuan, All mission property in that and subsequently Cornell corning to city was destroyed in a frightful riot in Dickinson in time to graduate with the July, 1886. After sixteen days' imprison• class of '81 with his B. A. degree. ment the missionaries escaped to Shana• N ear the time of his graduation, the hai, and later Dr. Gamewell went ~o Missionary Board of the Methodist Peking where he learned his first lessons Episcopal Church, which had been ~n international diplomacy, little dream• searching the colleges for a suitable man mg how well it was to serve him in later to send to Peking, sent him a call to years. work there. In 1889, Dr. Ganiewell returned to Dr. Gamewell was engaged . several Peking and was appointed Professor of years in Peking in teaching and evan• Physics in Peking University, which zelistic work, being principal of the position he filled for eleven years, erect• school which later developed into Peking ing during that time the first electric Univ;rsity, and having among his light plant in Peking. students the Rev. Liu Fang, who heads Dr. Gamewell was a university pro- May, 192.11 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

The American Secretary of State, fessor in Peking in the spring of I 900, when the first sign of the Boxer trouble John Hay, was ·formally advised by became apparent. A mission station Marquis Landsdowne, the British Sec• near by was burned by 'the rebels May retary of State for Foreign Affairs, of 28th. Dr. Gamewell instantly recog• England's appreciation of Dr. Game• nized its importance and foresaw at well's signal services. Quoting the Eng• least some of the events which were to lish officer in charge, the Marquis writes: follow, "He states that the Rev. F. D. Game• Foreigners soon got into consultation. well carried out the entire defenses of The plan was that the Americans should the British Legation, and that these de• use the Methodist mission as long as fenses have excited the admiration of the possible and, when owing to troop ad• officers of various nationalities who have vances that place became untenable, all since inspected them. As a tribute to l should move over to the British Lega• their excellence, he mentions that, not• tion, th~ largest of the group, and m;ke . withstanding a constant rain of rifle fire a last stand. As the danger increased, during the five weeks of the siege, not a foreigners were advised by their diplo• single- woman or child in the legation mats to leave Peking. Few did and suffered. He adds that a debt of grati• these suffered death or great suffering. . tude is owed to him by all the besieged." By the middle of June the orders After the raising of the siege, Dr. came for all foreigners to seek the safety Gamewell returned to America, and of the British Legation. Prior to this served on the Missionary Board four at the Methodist mission, Dr. Game• vears as field secretarv of the New York well organized the defenses and various division of the Open. Door Commission, bureaus of supply. He was given the and four years more as Executive Secre• same position at the British Legation. tary of the whole movement. He arranged the defenses, water supply In 1909, he returned to China and for and other systems, bringing to his work fifteen years has been Secretary of Edu• the engineering skill he had acquired in cation of the Methodist Episcopal Church his technical courses. in China, and twelve years General Sec.~ For nearly two months the refugees r etary of the China Christian Educa-· submitted to the most harrowing ex• tional Association, an interdenomina• periences of congestion and the constant tional and international organization attack of the enemy. All this time, Dr. which aims to bring all the Protestant Gamewell, a missionary, not a soldier, churches and missions in China into a served as chief of staff on fortifications homogeneous and effective educational to the credit of himself and the unstinted system. For ten years he was editor-in• commendation of the vanous govern• chief of the Educational Review, a ments represented. quarterly published at Shanghai. The allied troops, as many recall, Dr. Gamewell is in this country to reached the beleagured colony August attend the General Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Spring• 14th. For the protection and feeding of field, Mass. 3500 persons in the British legation dur• Elect Dickinsonians ing the days of siege, Dr. Gamewell was At. the annual meeting of the Educa• given high praise. Bis services became tional Association of the M. E. Church the theme of newspaper stories in Eng• held in January, the Rev. John W. Long, land and America. On the head of it '07, president of Williamsport-Dickin• Dickinson conferred on him the degree son Seminary was elected secretary of of Ph.D.; Syracuse gave him an LL.D. the association and Rev. Henry G. Budd, and Columbia University made him :i D.D., '9 r , president of W. C. I., Dover,' master of science. Del., was elected treasurer. 10 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 Why They Quit Dickinson

BY DEAN MERVIN G .. FILLER, '93 Information as to the causes of "Student Mortality" are valuable to any college administration, and for some years I have been collating facts as to with• drawals from Dickinson, which may not be without interest to our Alumni. For the four completed years 1919 to I923, and the present year to date with• drawals have been as follows: All withdrawals If' ithdrawals except for com- because Total enrollment pletion of course At! other of sclzolarsltip withdrawal.r 1919-20, 380 1920-20, 85 40 450 I08 45 1921-22, 40 508 IOZ 68 1922-23, 38 514 119 64 1923-24, 60 529 59 59 (Partial to date) 35 24

2381 473 zr3 260 Thus for five years, students required or advised to withdraw because of low scholarship have made up nearly half of our losses apart from graduation, and the proportion of loss due to this cause shows marked increase. During this same period we have been steadily raising our standards of admission until last year nearly all admitted had come from the upper two-thirds of their respective high school classes. T1hese two facts-stricter standards for admrission and despite this, the elimination in larger numbers of the comparatively low-grade student-show most strikingly the marked advance in scholastic standards which Dickinson is making. Even when other reasons for withdrawal are present, low scholarship is often partly responsible for voluntary withdrawal, for the survey clearly shows that even our voluntary withdrawals come in. the main from students of low grade. For the last four years those who withdrew voluntarily graded as follows:

r 90% or above, - _ ...... "A'' 28 80% to 90%, ·...... "B" 92 70% to 80%, - ...... "C" r11 6oo/o to 7oo/o, ...... "D" 48 50% to 6oo/o, ...... "E" 4 below 5oo/o, ... ·. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ...... ''F'' 104 remained less than one semester. 388 As about 3 7 % of all our students secure grade of A or B, this means that only 7% of all our losses come from the upper 3 7 % . More than nine-tenths of our

Founders' Day in :May Hang White House Picture A May Day Festival will be held on Dickinson was well represented at the May i yth, under the auspices of the recent conferences of the Phi Beta Phi All-College Social Committee to coi:i• Fraternity held in Washington, when a rnemorate Founders Day.· The day will portrait of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, open with a May breakfast serv~d by painted by Christy, was presented to the the Y. W. C. A. in the gym, and in the White House. During the conference afternoon the Greek Club will present forty Dickinson women held an informal the play, "Iphigenia in Tauris." luncheon at the New Willard. May. 19'24 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11 losses come from the lower two-thirds, for those who do not remain for one se• mester are almost always students of low grade. Few students enroll at Dickinson with any other plan than that of completing the course. Very few withdraw voluntarily to enter other Liberal Arts colleges. For a time a small group was admitted each year for a partial course preparatory to medicine, but more recently most of these,' if successful in their work, remain to graduate, A survey of the 260 withdrawals of the last 5 years not required because of low scholarship shows this quite clearly: Withdrew to enter other Colleges of Liberal Arts, ...... 19 Withdrew to enter Technical or Professional Schools, ...... 52 Withdrew because of sickness in family or sickness of student, ...... 35 Withdrew for financial reasons, ...... 19 Withdrew within ten days after admission, ...... 24 Dismissed because of conduct, ...... 23 Unclassified, ...... 88 260 The voluntary withdrawals-those not required because of low scholarship or conduct-have constituted in five years just 10% of our enrollment, 237 of 238 I. All surveys of other colleges which I have seen show a greater "Student Mortality." The last which has come to my hand, that of the University of Minnesota, shows a voluntary withdrawal in one year of more than 1/6 of the enrolled student body. We at Dickinson have no patience with the practice of admitting a large number with the avowed intention of dropping them. But even so and with all our care we have in the past been admitting too many unable to do the grade of work we now require.. For that reason President Morgan has instituted the practice of selecting for admission only those who graduate in the secondary school with good rank, such as to give fair promise of success in college. This policy should lessen in some measure, at least the withdrawals forced by low scholarship, and our ex• perience thus far this. year tends to confirm this hope. Non-Frat Men Organize Commons Club The non-fraternity men of the Col• Campus life with a true spirit of dem• lege have organized into a Commons ocracy : an equal opportunity for all male Club, the primary purpose of which is undergraduate students; loyalty to the to afford to men who do not belong to best interests of the College above loyalty fraternities social privileges and con• to any organization within the College. tacts which they hitherto have not en• Dr. J. Fred Mohler, who has taken joyed. a great interest in the movement, was chosen faculty advisor. Forty-three charter members consti• Rooms have been opened up in the tute the nucleus around which the Club section of Old East formerly occupied will form. Steps have already been by the S. A E'. Fraternity and the Club taken toward its incorporation and they expects to stage a Commencement event hope by Commencement time to be fully to which all alumni who have no affilia• incorporated. Provisions to prevent its tion with any fraternity in the College ever becoming a Greek letter fraternity will be invited. are being worked out. Non-fraternity alumni of the College The aims of the Club have been de• expecting to return for the Commence• clared to be: the promotion of unity and ment season are requested to communi• cooperation with the rest of the student cate with Fred M. Uber, Section 3, Old body and the faculty; vitalization of East, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Ma,y, 1924 Relay Team Wins Championship

DICKINSON RELAY TEAM Winpers Class )3 Championship, Middle Atlantic States Association. Left to right: Coach Craver; · · Templin, '24; Nichols, '25; Evans, '26; Norris, '27; and Manager Wagner, '24. At the relay carnival of the Univer- fight through a severe struggle to a vic• sity of Pennsylvania, held on Franklin tory in an exceedingly close finish. A Field, Philadelphia, on Saturday, April m1ique characteristic of our team was zbth, Dickinson's relay quartette fought that the four runners were arranged in its way to a brilliant victory in the Class the order of the college classes, Fresh• B Championship race of the Middle At- man, Sophomore, Junior, Senior and lantic States Collegiate Athletic Associa- that each succeeding runner surpassed tion. Eight colleges participated in this the time of his teammate before him. race. At the finish the first four in The time by quarters was 54, 53 2/ 5, 52 order were Dickinson, Muhlenberg, 3/5, 50 2/5, completing the mile in the Union, Swarthmore; the other contest- fastest time that has ever been made hv ants were Washington and Jefferson, a Dickinson relay team. · Gettysburg, Haverford and ·Franklin The closeness of the struggle is evi• and Marshall. The Class B Champion- dent from the fact that for less than one ship race eclipsed the record of the Class entire lap of the race Dickinson was in A Championship. The time was three the lead. Twice the Red and White minutes thirty and two fifths seconds, was in the van only to be passed by some while the Class A race was two and two opponent. Our first runner, Norris, fifths seconds slower. finished his quarter in third place owing For the first time in several years largely to a bad start, which compelled Dickinson was represented by a seasoned him to put forth a supreme effort early in team and it was partly due to this fact the race to get into a. favorable position. that' our representatives were able to Evans who took the baton from Norris May, 1924 'l'HE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13

pushed to the front but was forced back into second position on the home stretch SPORT NOTES by the brilliant spirit of one of his com• I petitors. Nichols, our third runner, set Jupiter Pluvius has been winning about his task in a businesslike manner most of the baseball games, though the and, at the end of about a hundred team has yet failed to register a victory yards, girding up his loins showed his in the games 'which have been played. heels to the foe and opened up a gap of Lack of hits caused defeats to F. & M. about five yards, with which advantage 3-2; to Lehigh by a 3-0 score and to the race was in the keeping of the "Iron Johns Hopkins in a 9-5 result, while a · Man" of Dickinson's spiked warriors, twelve inning slugfest mixed with "Sam" Templin. errors went to F. & M. r r-ro, Coach Never was a giant's task assigned to McAndrews believes his nine will soon an athlete more ready to meet the emer• hit their proper stride. · gency. Templin with five yards advan• The 1924 football team will meet the tage was running against Robinson, now Quantico Marines on Franklin Field, of Muhlenberg, but formerly star Philadelphia, on Election Day as the quarter miler of Rutgers College. One ·result of an agreement 1between the hundred yards from the start Robinson Athletic Committee and General S. D. had reversed the positions and was easily Butler, who acted for the Marines, ac• five yards in front. But the gap did not cording to a recent announcement. widen. Three fourths of the way it was still the same, but then slowly, inch by Speaking of football, Coach Joe inch the greatest of our track men of Lightner is authority for the statement this day, began to close in upon his op• that he isn't married to either of the ponent. Fifty yards to go and they were girls conflicting newspaper accounts running neck and neck. At twenty five credited him with marrying while at from the finish line, Templin was mov• the training camp of the Reading Inter• ing away from his faltering foe and with nationals. but a scant yard or two to spare passed over the line, bringing victory to his The basketball team, under Coach team in a race that eclipsed the old McAndrews, maintained the fast pace it set early in the season to the last game record by two and two fifths seconds and hung up ten victories in fifteen con• and gave to Dickinson the first honors tests during the season. The five scored' in Class B of the Middle Atlantic States an average of thirty points a game ro Colleges. their opponents twenty. Large Subscription List The girls' basketball team scored five. overwhelming victories in six starts and The Princeton Alumni Weekly with lost only to Temple by the score 30 to 10,58 I subscribers claims the largest paid 20. subscription list of any college paper in the world. Approximately 85 % of all Dr. C. W. Prettyman, of the Athletic Committee, created some surprise when Princeton graduates receive the maga• he announced that football last fall was zine regularly and there are only 34 I operated at a loss of $337. 70. individual subscribers as every class from The tennis team which opened its 1891 to 1923 inclusive, subscribes under season with a victory over Western a ·class subscription, and two other Maryland has matches scheduled with classes, I 789 and I 888 subscribe on this Lebanon Valley, F. & M., Bucknell and basis. Gettysburg. 14 'rHE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 Track History Is Second to None BY FORREST E. CRAVER, '99, Physical Director Few Dickinsonians are aware of the class that has characterized the years fact that there is one branch of athletics just recounted. Not a single defeat is in which the record of their Alma recorded in 1915, 1916 and 1917. Mater's sons is second to that of no other Seven dual meets were contested with• college of like numbers in America. out a reverse, among these being such Noting the recent splendid victory of opponents as the Indians, Lehigh, and our team in the Class B championship at Muhlenberg. In addition to these dual the Pennsylvania relay races some may contests, we were twice winners of the have thought of it merely as a lucky Triangular Meet in which Bucknell, chance, but the fact is that this is but F. & M. and Dickinson were the con• one of a long series of brilliant achieve• tenders. ments of our track men. In these same three years, we were Here is the story of recent track his• twice winners at the relay races on tory in a nutshell: no student now at Franklin Field, In 1915 ~'e defeated Dickinson has ever seen a Dickinson Catholic University, Manhattan, Getty:.• track team defeated on Biddle Field. burg, St. John's of Annapolis, St. John's, During the four years prior to the sea• son just opened with a victory over Le• of Brooklyn, and Muhlenberg in 3.32 high University, only once has a dual 2/ 5. Two years later our representa• tives triumphed in the Middle Atlantic meet found us on the short end, once our States Championship relay race, run• opponents tied the score, and eight other dual contests have been victories for the ning the mile in 3.31 3/ 5 and defeating Red and White. Rutgers, Lafayette, Lehigh University, New York University, Swarthmore and Although the season of 1923 was by the other five colleges of the Association. no means exceptional, a summary is given here to furnish to our alumni a With these victories there have been established in track athletics at Dickin• more accurate idea of the performance son a spirit and a tradition such that of our spike men. Two dual meets last year resulted as follows: a future even more brilliant may be pre• dicted in this sport which seems to us not Dickinson 77 M·uhlenberg 42 only here but elsewhere to manifest the Dickinson 84 Gettysburg 42 cleanest and best spirit in American in• In the Central Pennsylvania Inter• tercollegiate life. collegiate meet the score was: Dickin• son 51;1, Bucknell 33;Ji, Muhlenberg, 19, Gettysburg 18, and four other c?l• Concerning Flappers leges with lesser scores. The .1923 Mid• Judging a generation by its song, the dle Atlantic States Intercollegiate Cham• flapper of today is only even up with the pionship meet found Dickinson in sixth girls of '74 if one has heard the modern place among the sixteen colleges of the ditty which declares "Last night on the association, the score reading: J. H. back porch I loved her best of all," and U. 40, Lafayette 25, N. Y. U. 16;1, then read the words of "R" appearing I Rutgers 16, W. & ]. 15, Dickins?n IO, in the issue of "THE DrcKINSONIAN" Haverford 8, Bucknell 6, Lehigh 6, for May 5, 1874 as follows: Juniata 5, Swarthmore 4, Delaware 1;1, Life is laden with joy and with sorrow, F. & M. 1, the other colleges not scor• And of each we will get our full share; ing. Hope ever looks on to the morrow, When the day is gloomy with care. If we now turn to the pre-war record I stay not to dream of the future, we find that Dickinson had for three Nor of blessings which there may await; years prior to this shown the same high 'Twas only last night in the moonlight, That she kissed me good bye at the gate. May, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 17

BEFORE their college career. But to them as to all. must come a glow of pride that at length has come a day when mere admission to Dickinson\ is a scholastic distinction. Selective matriculation seems in perfect harmony with a pedagogical era which is beginning to doubt whether a college education is desirable for all who think they want it. Dickinson's policy is in accord with that trend and will add further to its scholastic prestige. But it ought to do more than that. It ought to accelerate and refine the processes of instruction, give the classes a longer stride with no halts along the way until the stragglers come up. It ought to raise the tone of the student body in every way. The mental sluggard may become a very proficient professional ath• lete, but he does not make much of a college athlete, because sport is only one of many talents a typical college man is assumed to have. The real college and class spirit do not thrive in soil intellectually sterile. There is a vast difference between mental in• dolence and mental incompetence. In life as in college, neither may be desirable, but the former has hopes; the latter has none. Dickinson is not likely to be en• veloped in scholastic gloom by the action of its faculty in elevating admission re• quirements. Quite the reverse may be expected. This elevation of standards will attract students. It will bring elation to every alumnus w:ith the thought that he is a1 graduate of an .institution which, how• ever wide its doors to the worthy, does not have a "barker" on the front step to drag within its "sacred walls" any old Tom, Dick or Harry who happens by. The situation ought to make every Dickinsonian just a little prouder of alma mater.

FOOTBALL SCHEDULES HEN alumni voice the hope that another season will see the football W schedule arranged to provide a game in the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton section of Pennsylvania, it is worth attention by those in authority. The Alumnus long since suggested that if practicable, the schedules of Varsity teams, notably the eleven should be arranged with some regard to . large alumni groups. Thus it was proposed that games arranged in the Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Wilkes-Barre and Scranton areas would give the large alumni units in these districts an opportunity to see the football teams of Dickinson in action. An annual game in Harrisburg is established. Last year Philadelphia and nearby Dickinsonians had their opportunity in the Delaware contest on Franklin Field. They will have a similar opportunity in the Quantico Marines-Dickinson game next autumn. When Navy or Hopkins or Western Maryland are played on their home fields, the Baltimoreans are "in luck." New York alumni have the advantage of seeing Dickinson basketball teams in action. Next year New England graduates of the college will be close to the basketball team circuit. A football ~ame with Rutgers at New Brunswick would tempt many a New York graduate to go to Jersey for the afternoon. Thus far the enthusiastic and loyal Dickinson group ·about Wilkes-Barre and Scranton have had to take the long trek to see teams in action. The suggestion that Dickinson meet Syracuse or some other worthy eleven on the Wyoming Sem• inary gridiron near Wilkes-Barre is worth consideration. These proposals do not reflect an attitude that the college ought to conduct its athletics for the benefit of the alumni. That is not the point at all. Rather it is suggesting an opportunity to recognize alumni wishes, and meeting them, weld still tighter the bond between the college and its former students. And Dickinson can• not have too strong a weld, 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 The First Dickinson Commencement in 1787 The first Commencement exercises in added Rev. Dr. Davidson, Professor of the history of the College were held in Belles Letters and Robert Johnston, the present First Presbyterian Church, ProfessoT of Mathematics, in 1785. on the square, Carlisle, on September The Institution was under the control 26, 1787, when the degree Bachelor of of the Presbyterians. The number from Arts was conferred on seven graduates which I take the extract is dated October who had pursued a course of two year's 3, 1787: study. On Wednesday, the z6th ultimo, was held Mrs. J. C. Bucher, of Boiling Springs, the First Commencement for Degrees in Pa., recently presented to THE DICKIN• Dickinson College. The Trustees having

'I I' SON ALUMNUS a scrapbook which had obtained leave to use the Presbyterian Church, been kept by her grandfather, Capt. Wil• on this occasion the exercises, with which a crowded assembly of ladies and gentlemen liam M. Porter, who was the editor of were very agreeably entertained, were ex• The Carlisle Herald from 1857 to his hibited in that large and elegant building. enlistment in the army at the time of At ro o'clock, in the morning, the Trustees, the Civil War. Though not a Dickin• Professors, and several Classes of students sonian, Capt. Porter was a staunch in College, proceeded in order from the College to the Church. When all had taken friend of the College as some of his the places assigned them, the Principal intro• editorials pasted in his scrapbook reveal, duced the business of the day with prayer. and he was well known to many Dick• The following orations were then pro• insonians as the father of the "Porter nounced: Sisters," who graced many Commence• A Salutatory Oration, in Latin, on the ments. advantages of learning, particularly by a public Education, by Mr. John Bryson. One of the clippings the scrapbook An Oration on the excellency of Moral contains is from The Carlisle Herald 0£ Science, by Mr. John Boyce. May 12, 1858, and tells the story of -the An Oration on the Importance and ad• first Commencement in 1787. It is in vantages of concord especially at the pre• the form: of a letter to the editor of the sent crisis of the United State of America, by Mr. David McKeehen. paper but no name is signed to the arti• An Oration on Taste, by Mr. Isaiah Blair. cle. It is as follows: An Oration on the advantages of an MR. EDITOR-I observe another Com• accurate acquaintance with the Latin and mencement is approaching, which occu• Greek Classics, by Mr. Jonathan Walker. After an intermission of two hours, the pies a considerable share of public atten• following exercises took place in the after• tion for a time. noon: Perhaps the following account of the An Oration on the pleasure and advan• first Commencement may be interesting tages of the study of History, by Mr. David to the friends of the Institution, and \Vatts. An Oration on the nature of Civil Liberty your readers generally. I take _it from and the evil of Slavery and Despotic Power Kline's "Carlisle Gazette and Western by Mr. Steel Semple. Repository of Knowledge," a file of An Oration on the various and wonder• which I have, commencing with volume ful power and faculties of the human Mind, first number twelve, r 785; which was by Mr. James Gettings. The degree of Bachelor of Arts, was then the 'first newspaper in the County, and conferred by the Principal, on the following the furthest west in the State, and of young zentlemen, viz: John Boyce, John course contains many things concerning Bryson, Robert Duncan, Isaiah Blair, John• the old "borough." athan Walker, David Watts, David Mc• The Faculty was organized in 1784, Keehen, James Gettings, and Steel Semple. This was immediately followed by the Rev. Dr. Nesbit, President, James Ross, Address to the graduates, in which they were Professor of Languages, to whom were affectionately exhorted to prosecute thelr l

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studies with zeal and diligence, and to con• he was ordained and went South where duct themselves in future life in such a man• ner as might render them useful citizens, he served various churches in the Caro• blessings to their country, and an honor to linas. He died March 18, 1793. John the Col'lege in which they had been educated. Bryson, who was born in Cumberland A Valedictory Oration in praise of Science, County in 1758, was ordained by the and of the worthy patrons of Literature, Carlisle Presbytery in 1789 and from concluding with suitable address to the Trustees, Professors, and Graduates, w.as l 790 to 1 84 I1 he was pastor of churches pronounced by Mr. Robert Duncan. at Warrior Run and Chillisquaque, Pa. The business of the day was concluded Robert Duncan died in Kittanning in with prayer by the principal. I 807 when but 39 years old and Steel The young gentlemen performed all these Semple died in Pittsburgh on April 20, exercises with a probity and spirit which did them great honor, reflected much credit r 8 r 3. These are the only facts known on thei.r teachers, and gave ground to hope concerning these graduates and there is that the sons of Dickinson College will at no record of the lives of David Mc• least equal in useful learning and shining Keehan or James Gettings. talents those of any other seminary. That the hope expressed that "the Becomes Washington Publisher sons of Dickinson College will at least Rhey T. Snodgrass, '02, has been des• equal in useful learning and shining tal• ignated as publisher of the Washington ents those of any other seminary" was Herald at the National Capitol. Mr. immediately realized from this first grad• Snodgrass assumed this responsible posi• uating class of seven men may be in• tion in the Hearst newspaper organiza• ferred from the available records of a tion late in March. few of them; Mr. Snodgrass, who spent a number In 1789, Johnathan Walker was ad• of years since leaving Dickinson in the mitted to the bar and in turn served as advertising game in Philadelphia and president judge of the Court of Com• New York, joined the Hearst forces mon Pleas; judge of the High Court of early in t923. Shortly after he was sent Errors and Appeals; and judge of the U. to Milwaukee to become publisher of S. District Court. He was the father of the Wisconsin News and Milwaukee Robert J. Walker, who became a U. S. Telegram. His work there was so sat• senator from Mississippi and was later isfactory that his advancement to the Secretary of the Treasury under Presi• Washington field followed. dent Polk. Judge Walker served as a By way of comment on his frequent trustee of the College from 1804 to l 824. changes of residence, Mr. Snodgrass David Watts also became a noted said: "I was brought up between a lawyer. Following his graduation, he Methodist parsonage and a moving van, read law in Philadelphia and from l 790 so I am well acquainted with the habit to 1819 he was a prominent member of of never being entirely unpacked. So• the Carlisle bar. He served as a trustee cially we are quite adjustable and I do of the College from 1801 to 1819, the not believe in letting school interfere year he died in Carlisle. He was the with my daughters' education." grandfather of Judge E'. W. Biddle, '70, In his college days, Mr. Snodgrass the present president of the Board of was a popular campus figure on account Trustees. of his athletic ability. He was one of Two of the class entered the ministrv. the best trackmen produced at Dickin• John Boyce, who was born in Irela~d son, being a member of one of the teams thirty years before his graduation, was of that day that brought home the gold licensed to preach the year he graduated watches and the winning banner from by the presbytery of Pennsylvania of the the relay races at Penn against such United Presbyterian Church and 'in 1788 rivals as Lafayette and Penn State. e omo 5: . • "iii m>-.c ,., .• a. E -~"' ~ ~ ~., E~"'> en" J!u "' g" ~wg •-" a." .~LL~

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J M' J May, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 21 Alumni Clubs Hold Annual Banquets . Banner attendance and a greater en- and C. G. Cleaver, chairman, was thusiasm marked each of the club ban- elected. quets held in New York, Philadelphia, Secretary Logan has made a request Baltimore, Scranton and Harrisburg that all New York alumni who have not during the past two months. While :1 been receiving the club notices, or those new club will be organized at a banquet living near New York who desire to to be held in Carlisle on May 8th, which attend the club functions, write him. may set the attendance record, the Har- His address is 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, risburg club can rightly claim the larg- New York. est turnout of alumni. There were Among the diners present were Judge seventy men present at a. stag affair, but Isaac Franklin Russell, '93 Hon., form• Philadelphia ran its total of men and erly dean of the N. Y. U. Law School women, some of 'whom were wives and and more recently a judge in the courts Dickinsonians by marriage, to 86. of New York; Colonel F. R. Keefer, , Altoona is still talking about a ban- '85, of the U. S. Army, now stationed quet and may stage one during the or. Governors Island; Edwin H. Lin• present month. and alumni in New ville, '81; Harry I. Huber, '98; Rev. J. Jersey are likely to hold a dinner at Lane Miller, '06, pastor of Hanson Trenton early in the fall. Place Church, Brooklyn formerly served NEW YoRK by Dr. George Ed~111rd Reed and Dr. The New York Club fired the first Morris W. Prince; Professor N orner gun in the banquet season in the East Gray, '95, of the New York City Public Room of the Hotel Pennsylvania on Schools; and Prof. H. N. Shenton, '06, March 7th, with a large attendance of of the Department of Sociology of Col- alumn] and alumna: present. Dr. J. urnbia University. Fred Mohler, of the College faculty, PHILADELPHIA and Gilbert Malcolm, Editor of THE One of the finest Philadelphia club ALUMNUS, were the guests of the club. banquets in years was held in the Hotel President Lloyd Wellington Johnson, Walton on March zoth. Every detail '03, was toastmaster and injected several had been carefully planned by the com- unusual features at the party. One of mittee in charge and the result was ex• these was an order to several diners to cellent. In the 86 diners were alumni rise and immediately tell the most hum- from Philadelphia Wilmington, Chester orous thing that happened during his or and Camden, and the Red and White her College days. This experience meet- Orchestra from the College which liv• ing proved rich in fun and story. Fol- ened up the proceedings greatly. Be- lowing the set speeches, the Rev. J. Lane tween courses, Geo. E. Olewine, Jr., Miller, '06, Dr. H. N. Shenton, '06 '25, as a reader with the orchestra kept and Rippey T. Sadler, '06, made brief everyone gurgling. addresses. Judge Edward W. Biddle, '70, served C. Grant Curran, 'ro, was elected as toastmaster and introduced as speak• president of the club in a brief business ers Justice John Kephart, '94L, Associ• session and he immediately pledged more ate Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme life and greater activity than the New Court; Professor W. H. Hitchler, of York club has ever before manifested. the Law School faculty; Gilbert Mal- ]. Lane Miller, '06, was elected vice- colm, Editor of THE ALUMNUS; Pro• president; Henry Logan, 'ro, secretary- fessor W. H. Norcross, '07, of the Col• treasurer; and Karl Quimby, '11, treas- lege faculty, and President ]. H. Mor- urer. An executive committee com- gan. posed of L. W. Johnson, H. N. Shen'ton Officers elected for the present year 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 were: President, Lester S. Hecht, '15; Frank P. Benjamin, '04, was toast• Vice-presidents, Jay Leopold, '16L, master and introduced as a speaker the Grace Filler, 'ro, and Bayard L. Buck• guest of honor, Dr. Wilbur H. Nor• ley, '11L; Secretary-Treasurer, G. Al• cross, oI the College faculty, who was fred Kline, '07. assigned Ben Hodge's old topic "The BALTIMORE Generality of Things in General." Dickinsonians of Maryland and Other speakers were E. C. Amerman, Washington met at a sumptuous ban• '02; Anthony Walsh, '03L; Clarence quet in the Hotel Emerson on March Balentine, '93, '94L; vVilliam D. Boyer, 2 r st, with 60 present and made a de• '88; and Judge E. Foster Heller, '04, parture from the usual run of these af• 'osL. · fairs. Cards had been issued to many Apparently the spirit of the Scranton friends of the College and alumni of dinner stirred the hearts of four alumni other colleges and immediately follow• for a few days later, Anthony Walsh, ing the banquet after a brief address by '03L, W. Alfred Valentine, '01L, 0. President lVIorgan, the room was cleared F. Macklin and Thomas B. Miller, "Ir, and more than 200 heard the Alaskan 'I 3L attended the banquet of the club lecture of Colonel James G. Steese, "'02, in Harrisburg. who was the guest of the evening. · His HARRISBURG lecture with its accompaniment of motion . Following vaudeville acts of profes• pictures and stereopticon views of the sional and their own talent, seventy trip of the late President Harding members of the Dickinson Club of Har• through the territory, was enthusiastic• risburg at their eleventh annual banquet ally received. in the Penn-Harris Hotel on April 17th, Arrangements for the dinner at which heard speeches of pride and gratitude at President Elberth R. N uttle, 'oo, acted affiliation with the oldest college west as toastmaster, were in charge of Lewis of the Susquehanna and the eleventh M. Bacon, Jr., '02; E. R. Nuttle, '09; oldest in the nation. Speakers placed Benson B. Boss, '08; Homer M. Respass, emphasis on the priceless traditions of '1 7; Carlyle R. Earp, '14; and L. T. the College and pleas were made for Appold, '82. Officers elected were as their preservation. ·follows: Benson B. Boss, '08, president; Robert E. Einstein, 'I 2, president of Rev. S. Carroll Coale, '08, vice-presi• the club, got the dinner going, proposed dent; Homer M. Respass, ',17, treas• a toast to John Dickinson and surren• urer; and Carlyle R. Earp, 14, secre• dered to William S. Snyder, '94, as toast• tary. The executive committee chosen master. Then followed speeches by Dr. was Major Louis E. Lamborn, '16; C. Leon C. Prince, Dean M. G. Filler and W. Sharp, '14L; and Hyman N. Levy, Dr. W. H. Norcross, of the College '10. faculty; Prof. W. H. Bitchier, of the The music for this occasion was fur• Law School faculty; Gabriel H. Moyer, nished by Bohl's Orchestra of Baltimore '98, manager of the State Workmen's and Lewis V. Compton, '17, and Walter Insurance Fund; · Gilbert Malcolm, B. Peters, '26, sang solos. editor of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS; SCRANTON E. Walter Long, '11; Major Robert The annual dinner of the alumni of Y. Stuart, '03, State Forestrv Commis• Northeastern Pennsylvania was held at sioner; Football Coach Joe. Lightner, the Hotel Jermyn, Scranton, on March and the four Scranton visitors, Messrs. 27th, with about sixty present. En• Walsh, Valentine, Miller and Macklin. thusiasm ran high at this function and These officers were elected at a busi• the club pledged greater interest in the ness meeting of the club: President, athletic activity of the Red and White. David M. Wallace, '15, '17L; vice- May, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 23

president, C. Ross Willis, '16; and sec• Writes New College Song retary-treasurer, Robert W. Hankee, Mrs. Helen Hall Bucher, of "High• '11L. land Terrace," Boiling Springs, Pa., is CARLISLE the author and composer of the "Dick• Aiming to organize a club at Carlisle, inson Marching Song," which appears the seat of the College, composed of on the two following pages of this num• alumni of Cumberland County, and to ber. It was recently introduced by the make it the leading alumni club, a ban• Glee Club, under the direction of Prof. quet will be held at the Hotel Carlisle C. E. Wass, to the student body who re• on May 8th, a few days after this num- ceived copies of the manuscript. Mrs. ber goes to press. · Bucher was the mother of the late Helen An Organization Committee met at Bucher Malcolm, '15. several luncheons and planned this ban• quet and the organization of alumni. One of its projects will be to play host Dickinsonians in Primaries to the alumni returning for Commence• Primaries in Pennsylvania April 22d, ment, and to encourage alumni to re• brought fulfillment and disappointment turn to the campus frequently. to the hopes of Dickinson candidates. The organization committee was com• posed of the following: Merkel In the Republican primaries in the Landis, '96, '99L, Chairman; C. D. 2 rst congressional district, Congressman MacGregor, '09, 'r SL, secretary-treas• ]. Banks Kurtz, '93, of Altoona, was re• nominated after the almost unprece• urer; Milton N. Wagner, '83; J. M. Rhey, '83, '96L; E. M. Biddle, Jr., '86; dented feat of carrying every one of the 138 voting precincts in his district. In William C. Clarke, '95; F. E. Craver, nine of them, Mr. Kurtz received every '99 i W. H. Norcross, '07; Allen D. vote cast. His vote was four to one over Thompson, '07; John D. Faller, '09L; his opponent. Jacob Goodyear, '17, '20L; F. E. Mas· Dr. Leon C. Prince, '98, head of the· land, Jr., 'r8, and Paul Masland, '19. history department, and Joshua W. Swartz, '92L, of Harrisburg, in digni• Found-A Museum fied fashion went to the mat for the Re• Rewards were offered yearly not long publican nomination for Congress in the ago to the person finding the College r oth Pennsylvania district composed of Museum. The catalogue told of the the counties of Cumberland, Dauphin Priestly apparatus and other instruments, and Lebanon. The contest was spirited the remarkable ornithological collection and ended in Mr. Swartz' nominatiori of Spencer F. Baird but no one ever by a majority of 765. saw them. Mr. Swartz had the Organization With appropriate ceremony the Col• backing which emphasized the remark• lege community greeted the opening of able showing made by Dr. Prince, who the lVIuseum in March in the Tome carried Cumberland by nearly 3,000 Scientific Building. Dr. Mohler, Dr. and lost Lebanon by less than 200 votes. Vuilleuimer and Prof. Davis, of the Mr. Swartz carried his home county of science departments, had with student Dauphin by 3500. Undergraduates help carefully. gathered all the valuable helped promote the Prince candidacy, collections, mounted and arranged each the college band making several tours exhibit. Geological and other scientific with him. collections of value have also been set In the same primaries, J. Douglas in the museum, which will be a spot of M. Royal, '17L, won the Democratic interest to alumni returning for Com• nomination for the Legislature in the mencement. Harrisburg district. ~1r1

24 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Ma,y, 1924

Dickinson Marching Song

Words and Music by HELEN HALt BUCHER

her daugh - ter s all ral - ly a - round. her I The rings back from the North to the South-land, To Thy brow with a chap - let of lau - rel, And of

toe - sin is sound ingl Ohl Haste to o bey/ Dick - in son, Haili E'en from isles of the seas. Thet, Al ma Ma - ter, Thy chi! dren shall dream.

~opyright MCMXXIV by Helen Hall Bucher. P•'uted io the U.S. A, May, 1924 THE DJCKINSON ALUMNUS 25

CHORUS

T.hen list to the voice of thy loved Al - ma Ma - ter 1 Let ne'r

not plead in vain to her chi! dren so dear ; But be

loy - al and true to old Dick - in - son's col - ors, The

and re - vere . Red and the White 1 we'll pro - tect

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PERSONALS 1872 on sic~ leave, having spent the winter con-. Rev. C: W. Prettyman, who spent the valescing at Asheville, North Carolina. winter and early spring at Enterprise, Dr. Horace L. Hoch, is a member of the Florida, plans to return to Carlisle this faculty of Modesto Junior College Modesto; month to be on hand for Commencement. California. ' 1885 William I. Reed, for some years state direc-. Prof. Frank T. Baker of Teachers College tor in Maine for the Near East Relief, has Columbia University, was recently granted mo:'ed from Portland to Harrisburg, Pa., a sabatic leave of absence and has for some mamtam1ng the same connection. time been traveling on the Pacific Coast A~thur H. Sloop is supervising principal of and is now in California. pu blic schools at Bellefonte, Pa. 1889 1903 George V. Morris recently left Florida for Frank P. Flegal, of Oakland California Truro, Cape Cod, Mass. He expects to be superint.endent of the Napa di~trict of th~ present at the reunion of the class at Com• Methodist Church, spent part of February mencement. m the East attending sessions of the Good• 1895 will Industrial Bureau Commission at Pitts• Rev. Louis Heib is pastor of the First burgh. Congregational Church of Hartington, Neb. Major Robert Y. Stuart, secretary of the 1898 Department of Forests and Waters of Penn• Walter G. Souders, of Chicago, who has sylvania, has been elected president of the been conspicuously successful in the bond alumni association of the Yale School of business, heads a group which is building Forestry of which he is a graduate. The President, Atlantic City's big hotel for Mr. Thomas F. Chrostwaite and Mrs. Mary Hull Chrost~aite returned in April from a transients and residents. It is to be an 11 European trrp where they visited Italy, story structure, costing $5,000,000, a neigh• France and England. bor of The Ambassador. There will be 360 Dr. Elmer Lynn Williams and his wife rooms for apartments and 140 for transients. Katherine. Kerr Williams, '02, of Chicago: The same group has just completed a large had a distressing experience on April 28 apartment house in the neighborhood. when their home was bombed because of r>r'. Howard E. Moses, Harrisburg, Pa., has William's heroic efforts to clean up the city been named without opposition for president of Chicago. of the Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania. 1905 Mr. Moses holds a high engineering post Claude M. Stauffer, of Hazleton, former with the Pennsylvania Department of Health. leader of the famous band of the Carlisle 1900 Indian School and recently in charge of the M. Hoke Gottschall, chief of the bureau boy's band of the Loysville Orphan's Home of statistics of the Department of Internal has been chosen leader of the Bethlehem Affairs of Pennsylvania, has recently com• Steel Company Band. piled a very comprehensive industrial direc• .19051, tory, just issued by the state and also a report Frank B. Barnhart and his wife Gertrude on productive industries and miscellaneous H~ller Barnhart, '05, Johnstown,' Pa., will other statistics. sail from New York in July to attend the 1901 meeting of the International Bar Associa• George ,V. Pedlow, for many years a tion in London, and later to travel on the member of its faculty, has been made prin• continent. cipal of the high school at Chester, Pa. One 1906 of Chester's junior high schools, the Joseph C. M. Salter is with the Northern Alumi• G. E. Smedley School, is named in memory num Co., Ltd., with offices at Sterling Road, of a distinguished Dickinsonian of the class Toronto, Canada. of '97. 1908 1902 Laura Harris Ellis will be at 130 Lexing• D. Walter Morton has been elected a full ton Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. for two years professor and dean of the accounting depart• for her husband, Major E. D. Ellis, has ment of the Universitv of Southern Cali• accepted a detail as a student in the Harvard fornia, Los Angeles. His university sched• Graduate School of Business Administration. ule permits him to engage in a substantial 19U business on the side. Dr. Julia Morgan is now teaching in the Mervin "\V. Bricker, credit man for the medical school of the Christian Union Uni• Coal and Iron National Bank, New York, is verity at Tsiananfu, Shantung, China.

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Baltimore Notes New York Notes Carlyle R. Earp, Correspondent, 129 E. C. G. Cleaver, Correspondent, 8426 Redwood St., Baltimore, Md. s t otl: si., Richmond Hill, N. J. Lansdale G. Sasscer, ("Pete"), Law Dr. Lynn M. Saxton, '96, and his 'r4, who practices law at Upper Marl• sister Margaret Saxton, 'oo, are both boro, Maryland, was the Senator from teaching and living in New York City. Prince Georges County in the session Dr. Saxton is professor of political of the General Assembly of Maryland economy in the College of the City of that closed on March 3 rst. New York, and Miss Saxton is teaching Lewis V. Compton, 'r7, is preparing modern languages in the Julia Richman himself to become a dramatic tenor at High School. the Peabody Institute. 'Recently he sang Rev. Fred B. Harris, '09, is the popular a leading tenor role in Mozart's "Magic pastor of Grace M. E. Church in this Flute,", an opera presented by the Pea• city. body Opera Club in Baltimore. Several Dickinson alumnae enter• The Sun Life Assurance Co., of tained Dean Meredith at luncheon at Canada, has announced the appointment the Peg Woffington Tea Room on May 3. of Carl F. New, 'oz, as manager of that The Dickinson Alumni Club of New :ompany's Maryland state agency with York City will hold a luncheon on May headquarters in the American Building in Baltimore. 10, at the Y. W. C. A., Lexington Avenue and 53d Street. · Mary C. Love Collins, 'oz, a Ken• The Misses Mildred and Helen tucky lawyer and national executive Conklin, Margaret Craig, Lillian Mind• head of the Chi Omega fraternity, was lin and Mrs. C. G. Cleaver attended in Baltimore in March in the interest of the recent Pi Beta Phi Conference held two women students of the University in Washington, of Maryland, who were suing for rein• statement in that institution. It was al• leged th at the students were denied re• 1912 admittance into the state college be• Gilbert Darlington is treasurer of the cause of their activities to establish a American Bible Society with offices at the chapter of the Chi Omega fraternity at Bible House, Astor Place, New York City. the school. 1913 Beulah Fair, 'z2, connected with the R. B. Whitmoyer is head of the science Y. w, C. A. at Annapolis and Helen C. department of the Atlantic City High School, Strayer, '22, medical student at Johns and Irvin E. Kline, '01, is in the department Hopkins, attended the reunion and of mathematics in the same school. dinner of the Baltimore Alumni on A third book, "The Office of Experiment March z rst. Stations '' recently came from the pen of Frank Y. Jaggers, 'r4, was assigned Prof. Milton Conover, of New York Uni• to Fayette St. M. E. Church to succeed versity. The copy presented to the College S. Carroll Coale, '08, who was sent to library gives Dickinson credit on several McKendree Church, Washington, as pages for the part the College played in pastor, by the recent session of the the early days of agricultural education. Baltimore Conference. Conover is now preparing a book on "The Harry L. Price, '96, and J. Frederick Extension Service of the Department of Agri• Laise, '06, were recently elected lay culture." delegates to the General Conference of 1914 the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dr. C. E. ~T agner, president of the class, Springfield, Mass., now in session, by will send notices setting forth the plans for the laymen of the Baltimore Conference. the Tenth Reunion to be held at Commence• Harry Ev au l, "r z, succeeds Wm. M. ment to members of the class within a few Hoffman, '07, assigned to Waugh days. He is planning for a class luncheon Church, Washington, as pastor of Clif• on Alumni Day, participation in the parade ton Avenue M. E. Church, Baltimore. when each member will carry a cane bearing Rev. Drs. John R. Edwards, '96, of a class pennant. The flairs have been ordered Washington and Francis R. Bayley, 'oo, and have arrived in Carlisle. Manv of '14 left recently to attend the General Con• have already sent in word they will be on ference of the Methodist Episcopal hand. It looks 100 per cent. Church now in session at Springfield, 1915 Mass., where they are delegates from Lester S. Hecht was recently apno inr ed the Baltimore Conference. Assistant Counsel for the Bureau of Legal 'Aid in Philadelphia, and has charge of all 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924

Philadelphia Notes N. Y. ·Alumnae Club Lester S. Hecht, Correspondent, 215 S. Broad St., Philadelphia From Mrs. Ethel Deatrick Lieb ens• Bayard L. Buckley, 'uL, was re• berger, Secretary, 48 Washington cently married to Miss Esther Mac Ave., Rutherford, N. J. Millan of Ardmore. Mr. Buckley is one of the Vice-Presidents of the Philadel• The Dickinson College Alumnae Club of phia Graduate Club. New York City held its Annual Winter George W. Pedlow, 'or, has been Luncheon on Saturday, February 9th, at the elected principal of the Chester High Central Branch of the New York Y. W. C. A. School. Places were laid for thirty-three guests, the Dr. Allen B. Dalton, 'r6, is engaged large~t number as ~et attending any of our in the practice of medicine in Portland, functions, Mrs. G. C. Curran of Brooklyn Maine, his address being 296 Congress had charge of the arrangements and a verv Street: Iov~ly luncheon was served. A delightful James Steese, ''02, who has been lec• s~cial ho1;1r followed. Dickinsonians from a turing on Alaska, recently delivered a distance mcluded Miss Grace Filler Presi• lecture before the Philadelphia Forum. de'.'t of the Philadelphia Alumnae' Club; Rev. Milton Harold Nicholls, '06, at Miss Eleta Witmer of Atlantic City· Miss the recent conference was chosen as the Irma Riegel ?f Asbury Park; Mrs. Ed. Bar• Pastor for the Arch Street M. E. Church, n1t~ .of Carlisle and Mrs. F. Brown Smith which is one of the leading pulpits in (Lillie Reese) of Harrington, Del. this country. · I_f any g'.ad~ate living in the metro• Rev. Frank B. Lynch, who is one of politan and district has not received announce• the trustees of the college, has been ment of meetings of the New York Dickinson President, since October, 1923, of the ~lumnae Club, the secretary would be de• Philadelphia Federation of Churches. hi::hted to have any such drop her a line This organization has firmly endorsed gung nan;ie, class and present address. The the present Law Enforcement Campaign membership of our club is composed of any in Philadelphia. Dr. Lynch presided at wo~en who have been students in, or have the recent meeting in the office of the re;e1;ed degrees from Dickinson College, Mayor of Philadelphia, which was held Dickinson Law School, Conway Hall or any by the ministers for the purpose of departments that may be added. A cordial welc?me to join us is extended to all so showing the Mayor and Director of qualified. Public Safety Butler of their endorse• ment of the Law Enforcement Campaign. The Dickinson Club of Philadelphia of the bo:ou.gh o.f Steelton, Pa., succeeding plans to hold a Smoker about May 22d another D1ckmsoma'.', ]. Dress Pannell, 'r6L. or 23d. The committee in charge con• Jasper Deeter. d_1rector of .the Hedgerow sists of Jay B. Leopold, '16L, Vice-Pres• Theater. near Philadelphia and the Rose ident of the Club, and ] ames Hopkins, Vallev Players, read the n lav "The Inherit• 'II. The charge for the Smoker will be nrs," before the Col!eP"e bodv at chapel in nominal and an evening of good fellow• March and was enthusiastically received. ship and real enjoyment is promised. 1917L Jesse A. G. Andre is a member of the law firm Stevens & Andre with offices at 39 Main court cases m the Municipal Court of Com• Street. Northampton, Mass. mon Pleas. B. V. O'Hare is practising law with offices 1916 in the Shenandoah Trust Co. Bldg., Shenan• Announcement was recently made of the doah, Pa. marriage in Philadelphia on December 22, 1920 1923, of Albert H. Allison and Miss Ione Dr. Joseph N. Rov is senior suraeon of Austraw, of Pittsburgh. Allison is a dis• Bellevue Hospital, New York City. " trict representative for the Equitable Insur• Announcement of the eugazment of Miss ance Company of Iowa with offices in Car• Lucille E. Smucker. to Dr. Albert Goho, a lisle, and is also well known there as a graduate of Bucknell and U. P. Dental School Kiwanian. was made recentlv. T'hev will be married 1917 in the fall and will live in Harrisburg. Edmund G. Young and Elizabeth Meck 1921 Young recently became the proud parents of Frank G. Black is an instructor in the a baby girl. They are living at Tunkhan• Eng~ish Department of Beloit College, Wis• nock, Pa. · consm. He went rhere in September from the Carl B. Shelley has been elected solicitor State University of Iowa. Mny, 19'!!4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29

Charlotte Schinder, who was married last August, is at present connected with a music Trenton Notes establishment in Paris, where she is required I. Howell Kane, Correspondent, 25 Lee to use four languages. A'Ve., Trenton, N. J. 1922L Rev. D. Wilson Hollinger, '98 has George M. Stevens has removed his law been pastor of the Bethany 'Presbyterian offices to Market and Seventh Streets, Camden, N. J. Church of this city for ten years. Rev. A. C. Brady, is pastor of the Louis M. Mallin recently announced the '11, First M. E. Church of Burlington, N. J. opening of his offices to 522 Guarantee Trust Building, Atlantic City, N. J., where he will Two Dickinsonians were involved in engage in the general practice of law. changes recently made by the Trenton Board of Education necessitated by plans 1923 for improving the local school system. President Harry B. Mullon appointed By these changes, Stanley Wilson, '15, R. W. Crist chairman of a committee on was appointed principal of the Joseph reunion for the coming Commencement. Wood School and Raymond S. Mich• "Bob" plans to start the class on a reunion aels, '16, principal of the Cadwalader every year program. School. 1923L Miss Helen Jones, '17, was recently '.'{rs. Eleanor Fulkerson Stevenson, .of the speaker at the monthly missionary Elizabethville, who was the first woman service of the First M .. E. Sunday School. registered in Dauphin County as a law stu• Charles A. Thomas, '21, is located at dent was recently admitted to the bar at Princeton, N. J., Harrisburg. She plans to practice in Phila• delphia. 1924 home in Harrisburg of the engagement of The engagement of Margaret H. Paul, Helen C. Notestine to Paul C. Moser, of who will graduate in June, to Otis G. Reading, a graduate of Penn State. They Sawyer, a Trinity College graduate, was will be married in the fall. announced recently. Miss Paul, who has Horace Rogers was recently awarded a been a member of the girls' basketball squad graduate fellowship in chemistry for the for four years was captain of this year's team. coming academic year at Lafayette. This Cards were issued recently announcing is the second year in succession this fellow• the marriage of Mary Watkins Davies, a ship has been filled by a Dickinsonian. member of the graduating class, to Brvon Guy Rolland, '23, will vacate the fellowship Weston, of Boston, on February 12 at Hagers• at the end of this year and will become an town, Md. instructor in the chemistry department at Announcement was made at a tea at her Lafayette, OBITUARY '5 I-George Banghart Day, who was named as the oldest living alumnus i;1 the May number last year, died January 31st, and was buried at Los Gato~, Cali• fornia. Had he lived another month and a half he would have reached his 96th birthday. He retained all of his faculties and his mind was keen and clear up to twenty-four hours before his death. He was born in New Providence, N. ]., in I 828, and prepared for College at Pennington Seminary. Following his gradua• tion he was a bank cashier, teacher and farmer. '72-John Henry Shopp died April r Sth, at his borne in Harrisburg, Pa., after an extended illness at the age of 74 years. He was born January 20, 1850, near Shiremanstown, Pa., and following his preparation in the Dickinson grammar school entered College, receiving his A. B. in 1872 and A. M. in 1875. In 187::-73, he was professor of natural. science at Lebanon Valley College, and was admitted to the Dauphin County, Pa., bar in 1878. He specialized i? ~orporation law a.nd at one time was president of the Dauphin County Bar Association. He was active in the Masonic fraternity, having received the 33d d~gree and. held many offices in his lifetime. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the U. P. Society. He is survived by his widow and one son, John C. Shopp. '74-John Wise Wetzel, dean of the Cumberland County bar, died February 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1924 11 I' 24th, in an attack of heart disease following a ten day illness at his home in Carlisle, Pa., at the age of 74 years. He was born in Carlisle, April 20, 1S50, and prepared for College at Sterrett's Academy, Carlisle, Pa. He was treasurer of the first busi• ness board of "The Dickinsonian," which made its appearance his first year in col• lege. He was a member of Chi Phi Fraternity and the B. L. Society. The year of his graduation he was admitted to the Cumberland County bar and gained prominence as a corporation lawyer, especially as counsel for many years for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. From rSSo-1SS4, he was district attorney of Cumberland County. Active for years in the Democratic Party, he was defeated sixteen years ago for the judgeship of Cumberland County by the late Wilbur F. Sadler in one of the most memorable political campaigns in the history of the county. He was a member of the board of incorporators of the Dickinson School of Law, a trustee of Franklin and Marshall College, a member of the Board of Regents of Mercersburg Academy, while he held directorships in many of the industrial, finan• cial, and public service companies of the state. '75-Rev. James E. Diverty, D.D., author and member of the New Jersey and Philadelphia M. E. Conferences, died at his home near Trenton, N. ]., on March 21, 1924, at the age of 72 years. He was the son of Judge Diverty, Cum• berland County, N., J:, and after attending Vineland Academy and Pennington Seminary entered College in rS70. He graduated from Drew in 1S72, and from the National College of Elocution in rSS9. He received a D.D. from the Western University of Chicago in rS99. His early ministry was spent in the New Jersey Conference and later transferred to the Philadelphia Conference where he served the following charges: Parkesburg; St. Paul's, Lancaster; Simpson Memorial, Philadelphia; Mauch Chunk; St. Paul's, Philadelphia; Mt. Hope; St. Clair; New Hope and Halifax. He took the retired relation in 1912, and made his home in New Jersey, and since then has been active as a supply preacher and as assistant chaplain of the New Jersey Assembly. He was the author of "Laws of Compensa• tion as Interpreted by the Holy Scriptures," "Bible Reading and Pulpit Manner• isms," "Childhood Conversion," "Systematic Giving," and other works. 'Sr-Charles F. Humrich died at his home in Carlisle on March r jth, after a week's illness, in which pneumonia developed. He was born in Carlisle March 1S, 1 S6o, and prepared for College at the Dickinson preparatory school. He was a member of Chi Phi Fraternity and B. L. Society. Prominent as an insurance agent, he was treasurer of the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce at the time of his death and secretary of the Cumberland Valley Building and Loan Association. While deeply interested in all community and church affairs, he was active in politics and for a number of years was chairman of the Cumberland County Repub• lican standing committee. He was postmaster of Carlisle under President McKinley, serving from 1S9S to 1903. 'S2-Franklin F. Warthen died. at his home, 1647 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, on March 17, 1924, at the age of 67 years. Mr. Warth~n prepared for the Meth• odist ministry at Dickinson but left college before graduation to enter the Baltimore Conference. He was ordained at Old Eutaw Street Church but after only a few years of service, it became necessary for him to retire from all active work because sf ill health. During the last twenty-five years, Mr. Warthen occupied himself with religious study and with writing, but it is not known whether he published any of his work. Since Mr. Warthen left Dickinson, he and Rev. George M. Clickner, 'Sr of Cincinnati, maintained close friendship and the latter was to have officiated at his 'funeral. Mr. Warthen is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie L. Warthen and M,ay, 1924 'l'HE, DICKINSON AT_;UMNUS 31 a son, Dr. William H.F. Warthen, (Hopkins, '22), who is the resident physician of the Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio. '84-George B. Mumper died after an illness of three days at his home in New Cumberland, Pa., on April r Sth, at the age of 69 years. '98-Brig. Gen. Richard Henry Pratt, retired army officer, founder and organizer of the Indian School at Carlisle, and superintendent of the Indian School for a quarter of a century, died March i yth, in San Francisco and was buried in ~rlington National Cemetery, at Washington. He was 83 years old. Following his service in the Civil War when he rose to a captaincy, he entered the regular army and in 1879 founded the Indian School. While superintendent of the school, the College conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon him in 1898. '03-Rev. Irvin T. Edwards, after twenty-one years of service in the Phila• delphia M. E. Conference, died in Philadelphia on March 12, 1924. He was 49 years old. Born in England, he came to this country as a child, his parents settling In Bangor, Pa. He graduated from Pennington Seminary as valedictorian of his class. He was a fine Greek scholar, a writer, debator and orator. He entered the ?hiladelphia Conference following graduation from College and served the follow• mg charges: Ambler, Norwood, McConnell Memorial, Swarthmore, Cookman, Columbia, Honeybrook, Lykens, Tacony, Spring City, and St. Clair. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and of the U. P. Society. '06-Paul Wagonseller Emrick, formerly of Carlisle but who had been living at Catawissa, died at his home February 26th, following a stroke of paralysis at! the age of 38 years. He was born in Newville, Pa., the son of the late Dr. B. F. Emrick, who for many years conducted a drug store on Main Street, Carlisle. He graduated from the Carlisle High School, the College and Brooklyn Law School. Eight years ago, he became secretary of a shoe manufacturing company. He was a member of the S. A. E. Fraternity, B. L. Society, the Elks and the Masonic fraternity. '26-Harry Frycklund, a member of the Sophomore Class of College, died at the Carlisle Hospital from pneumonia on February zoth. He was 20 years old, a native of Carlisle and a graduate of the Carlisle High School. NECROLOGY Mrs. Harriet May Orem, the wife of Rev. William L. Orem, '90, a retired minister of the Baltimore Conference, died at her home at Chevy Chase, Md., on March zorh.

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