IIJJMN! M' o^ 1900 — 1901 > L»l»l-rl-t-MA'. «!;» i-iiffciiifriiM WmmMi iliiii^ !P I'li'f lliiii''^ iiKliiiM^^ THE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY JUNE, 1900 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island ; WEDDING SILVER rOR a substantial and useful Wedding Gift Gorham Sterling Silver Forks and Spoons always commend themselves. Especially, because of the very moderate prices at which the latest and most desirable designs can be purchased. They are sold in any quantity, can be matched at any time and the Serving Pieces can be had at proportionately favorable prices. TILDEN-THURBER CO., silversmiths, Gorham Co.'s Representatives in Providence. MAXIMUM VALUE. MINIMUM COST. BIXBY SILVER CO., Jewelers, Silversmiths, Stationers. Dealers in Fine Arts. 137 MATHEWSON STREET. Abram Mendenhall, '91. FINE ARTS Desirable Pictures, framed in good taste, are always most acceptable wedding presents. Our stock is large and contains many gems at a cost that will commend them at once to the purchaser of wedding gifts. 141 Mathewson Street. BROWN UNIVERSITY 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.