B R O W N A L U M N I M O N T H L Y ’ back Billy Jones, Brown 96 ; for — ’ M e ikl e oh n 93 wards Alec j , Brown , ’ 9 6 George Matteson, Brown and th e famous Bob Wrenn , Harvard quarterback and second baseman and national tennis Sa n Fr a nc is c o . I champion believe that Malcolm Chase , ’ IR mmitte 96 S : You have c o d the u n Brown and Yale , also made the trip . pardonable sin and horrified the right He was one of the first 1 0 tennis players ’ thinking people of San Francisco who are and W re nn s partner as national doubles ’ “ ” c . O jealous of the City s good name . hampion Fat Watson , Charlie wen “ ” You have given St . Francis that detest and Ike Merriman were around the pond “ ” c d c vulgarism, Frisco . St . Francis is and at least engaged in the pra tice games . one of the most glorious names in Sacred This is no hobby but “a part of which y I was ” The composition of the team and Profane History, revered b Protes tants and by various races and creeds , the that went to Canada is the main thing gentlest of men and a brother to th e ani and is history . “ B ’Ol COL. G . A . I D TA YLO mal kingdom . Birds would perc h on h is R R ad Mass H l ey, . shoulders , bunnies would huddle around Ma azi e a his feet and peep out under the hem of g n e o f I d s SIR : I hasten to scrawl a loud Amen . h his robe As he passed , a stream of fis ’ to brother Elmer , Jr . s call for a magazine would rise at his approach , swim into his ’ of ideas . Couldn t you spare at least a hand and away again . A wolf that he had “ ” m few pages each month for us grinds who ta ed followed him through the streets ’ O wouldn t know a good athlete if we saw of Assisi like a pet dog . nce the birds one ? The Philosophy Department had of the air settled in a circ le around him ’ ’ some real thinkers bac k in 2 2 . I wouldn t as he walked in a field , and to hem he t be surprised but that it still has something preac hed his c elebrated sermon and ’ . L IN LN I to say H . O Mac KENZ E 22 blessed hem as they flew away to c arry C t E a t o u l as as s s D M . g , ’ ’ ’ h s th e COL . G . E DW RD B X O 02 t e tiding of Salvation to four corn : A U T N SIR For Pete s sake , don t let them talk the 1 880 - 1 9 49 B n m a n ers of world . ( ) a g reat row , you out of giving full coverage to Brown ’ i i i St Franc is is San Francisc o and means a good c it ze n, a n insp r ng l ead e r sports . Maybe it s juvenile of me but I ’ , in o r w a r an r a nd e r all the world to us . (And don t fly in the peace , ea ly p “ ” still like to know who beat whom at fac e of Providence with Prisc o for s ev e r in g c h a m p i o n o f wo rt h y . ’ what and how W u s . s . — Roger illiams Plantation ) You have a Space problem it must be ca se N BLAI D ’ . S ELL SB c C terrifi when you try to keep everybody San Franc isc o happy . And I suppose that many alumni read all about the games and th e players SIR : I wonder if all alumni , looking in the Eastern papers . But some of us at ’ c abl . at your monthly overs , are e to locate a distance rely on you Actually , we d like e m c e Co ming E ve nts . om the scen s there illustrated It s to to see more statisti s , mor sports reports c of — me that a small outline map might be about our Brown teams . Even a ouple April l l Boston Brown Club Annual h . printed which would help orient the read weeks after the games , it is still fres , Dinner ’ — s . 1 6 er who is not familiar with Brown s new plea ant reading to us April Baseball , Wesleyan . JU T A LU G — e . An X c S er buildings or their sit s ould April 20 Baseball at R . I . State . Brown Chicago mark he spo . t t dinner in Pittsburgh . th e same tirne you migh care o use — At t t 2 1 . April Brown Club of Cincinnati, Dr a shor desc rip ion o ell from whic h spo t t t t t Bigelow guest . — the photograph was taken and to point April 2 2 Brown - Pembroke Chorus Con one out all sees in it . It would have been c ert, Alumnae Hall , Baseball , interesting, for example to tell where he , i . t Arnold . Detroit Brown Club D nner photographer was able to go in order to — April 23 Baseball at Harvard . Track at look down on th e Sc ience Quad on the West Point . Tennis , Tufts . March issue . Some older alumni may not — 5 . April 2 Golf, Harvard have inde ntified the Metc alf Chemistry 2 6— sec Laboratory nor the Metc alf Research April Rhode Island Brown Club , ond annual Pops Concer by Brown Chemistry Lab , although most would t O c . Pembroke r hes ra , Alumnae Hall know the Arnold Lab . The top of th e t mm — 2 7 . Colgate Hoyt Swi ing Pool shows at April Baseball , Columbia Tennis at the lower right, and the glass panes peer Ha rvard . — ing over the bottom left edge could have April 28 Chicago Brown Club Annual been identified as belonging to th e new Dinner . greenhouse . — ’ 2 9 . HU NT INGTON H ANC HETT 32 April Baseball , Navy Pro vid e nce — 30 . c April Baseball , Princeton Tra k at (Good idea . E d . ) T . M I Tennis , Yale $at» — May 2 ~ Friends of the Library Annual ' G ofl SIR : You $ uite outdid yourself in the Meeting ; speaker, Frederick R . ’ 3 7 January BAM . For a long time I have . — been hoping that you would give Brown May 4 Baseball at Penn . c redit for introducing the game of hockey 5 6 7 8— May , , , Sock and Buskin pre “ to the States . sents Countess Cathleen , In the Middle Nineties a team was as — May 6 , 7 Golf, EIGA Round Robin at sembled from Brown and other colleges . Cambridge . They worked out on Railroad Pond ac ross — e I 7 . the Seekonk . was there as goalie on a May Baseball at Cornell T nnis at I . , . prep school team . (Later was a mem West Point Track N Y U — ber of the Brown hockey squad for four May l l Baseball , Providence College . years , playing in the St . Nicholas Rink in Track , R . I . State . New York regular point my j unior May 1 2— Hartford Brown Club Annual year . ) Meeting . The ice polo team whic h later went to — - y May 1 3 S c arsdale White Plains (West Canada and brought back hocke was, Y . chester ) N . , Spring Meeting I : — as recall it goal Billy Larned, many 2 2 time s national tennis champion ; half c o n tin u e d o n p a ge B ROW N APRIL , 1 949 V ALU MNI MONTHLY OL . xu x N UM B E R 8 l x n s t a temb b B n Universit P ovid enc 1 2 R I Published month y (e cept i A ugu nd Sep er) y r ow y, r e, , . n tt n th ct u us t 2 1 9 1 2 at the rovid nr t Admitted to the seco d cl as s of mail ma er u der e A of A g 4, , P e e P os Ofiic e . Inside th e Arno l d Lab 4 4 ’ B Y PROFE SSOR J . WALTE R WILSON, 1 8 Ch a irma n of th e D e pa rtme nt o f B io l o gy W H E N A ME to B o 1 9 1 4 B ow I C r wn in , r n had an o s o of e c e s B o o o s ut tanding gr up t a h r in i l gy, ut tanding among th e departme nts at Bro wn and kno wn throughout e th e co : Me o m W e M c e . untry ad, G rha , alt r, and it h ll Th y taught the ir c lasses amo ng th e muse um c ases o f Rh o de I s new s c io s o o w as e i land Hall , but a and pa u lab rat ry b ng mes as m as 1 9 1 4 o e o s s ti any in , and v r a th u and tude nt e ec e for em on L co e : th e o B o o c r t d th in ln Fi ld Arn ld i l gi al e s o s our co ses r gi trati n in ur .