07-The address of Bay E. Estes, LL.B. '09, is in care of Timberlake & Co., 97 Exchange St., Portland, Me.

07-W. Rodman Fay, LL.B. '10, is president and chairman of the board of directors of G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers, 3 East 43d St., New York City.

07-The engagement of Fairfield Goodale of Cambridge to Miss Anna Bowditch Perkins of Framingham, daughter of Robert F. Perkins, '89, is announced. During the war Goodale was captain of a machine gun company in the 81st Division, A. E. F.

07-Edgar B. Stern, A.M. '08, was married at Ravinia, Ill., June 29, 1921, to Miss Edith Rosenwald.

08-Harry E. Aulsbrook's address is 1156 Edison Ave., Detroit, Mich.

'09 The engagement of George I. Cross to Miss Louise Brewster Holden of Worcester, Mass., has been announced.

'09 Richard M. Faulkner's address is Poplar Farm, Keene, N. H.

09-Lewis R. Ripley has moved his business to Harvard, Mass., where he has rented the machine-shop and equipment of Hildreth Bros., and is building their line of wood-splitting and sawing machines in addition to his own.

09-Armitage Whitman, M.D. (Columbia) ’12, is an assistant surgeon at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, New York City. He is a member of the advisory counsel to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

'10 Gerald W. Hallowell's address is 43 Irving St., West Medford, Mass.

'10-Edward E. Hunt is secretary of President Harding's Conference on Unemployment. Hunt's temporary address is Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.

'10-The address of Eliot G. Mears, M.B.A. 12, is Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C.

'10-A daughter, Alice Elizabeth Robertson, was born, Sept. 6, 1921, to Robert Hamilton Robertson and Alice (Coombs) Robertson.

10-A daughter, Susan, was born, June 25, in Jamaica Plain, Mass., to Louis Y. Stiles and Josephine (Howes) Stiles.

11-Stanley W. Moulton has formed a partnership with J. M. Whitehead, under the firm name of Stanley W. Moulton & Co., accountants, auditors, engineers, and tax consultants. Their offices are in the Little Building, Boston, Mass.

12-The address of Alexander Baltzly, A.M. 13, is 1 Arsenal Square, Cambridge, Mass.

'12-Robert C. Benchley has published through Henry Holt & Co. a book entitled "Of All Things."

'13 Howard T. Nickerson, Grad. Bus. '13-14, is with Haskins & Sells, certified public accountants, 3 Park St., Boston.

'14 Carroll F. Merriam has been re-appointed

instructor in mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has recently returned from an extended visit in eastern France. '14 Norman J. Silberling, A.M. '15, is in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. '14 Frank H. Storms's address is 10 South La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.

'14-Roscoe L. West's address is 247 Hillcrest Ave., Trenton, N. J.

'16-R. Winthrop Nelson was married at Windsor, Conn., Oct. 15, to Miss Mabel King of West Hartford. Nelson is manager of the Hartford office of Estabrook & Co., investment securities, 49 Pearl St., Hartford.

'17 The address of Francis H. Cabot, Jr., is 157 East 81st St., New York City.

'17-Thomas K. Fisher's address is Voses Lane, Milton 86, Mass.

'18 Horace G. Killam is an assistant engineer with the United States Finishing Co., Providence, R. I.

'18-The address of C. Lane Poor, Jr., is Deering Harbor, Greenport, N. Y.

'18-Erving Pruyn's address is 30 East 60th St., New York City.

'18-Edward F. Rowse, A.M. '20, is teaching history at Loomis Institute, Windsor, Conn. '18-A daughter was born, July 28, to William Hamilton Russell and Mrs. Russell.

'19 A daughter, Marie Merrill Hubbard, was born, Aug. 18, to William C. Hubbard and Elizabeth M. Hubbard.

'19-Robert M. Lloyd, Jr., was married at Boston, Oct. 8, 1921, to Miss Isabel Goodwin.

'20-Frederic L. Reynolds was married at Cambridge, Sept. 24, 1921, to Miss Eunice Tyler Davis (Radcliffe) '22. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds will live at 57 Francis Ave., Cambridge.

OBITUARIES

'56-CARLETON HUNT, A.M. '59, LL.B. (Univ. of Louisiana) '58. Died at New Orleans, La., Aug. 14, 1921. He entered the class of 1856 in the second term of its sophomore year. From 1858 until the beginning of the Civil War he practised law in New Orleans. In 1861, when Louisiana withdrew from the Union, he was commissioned first lieutenant of artillery in a regular regiment of the Confederate Army raised by the state. He resigned his commission in August, 1862, and lived at various times in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Just before the close of the war he resumed the practice of law in New Orleans. He was by appointment of the Governor a member of the Board of Administrators of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), which his father had helped to found, and later he became a member of the law faculty. For fourteen years he taught law there, notwithstanding the demands of an active

practice, and for nine of those years he was dean of the law faculty. He declined an appointmnt as Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association and chairman of its first Committee on Legal Education. In 1882 he was elected to Congress from the First Congressional District of Louisiana, and served throughout the Fortyeighth Congress. In 1888 he became corporation counsel for the city of New Orleans; and in that capacity argued before the United States Supreme Court, and won the important case of Peake vs. New Orleans, 139 U. S. 349, which involved the liability of the city for a large outlay on account of warrants issued for drainage purposes. He continued the practice of law in New Orleans until his death and had become the Idean of the New Orleans bar. He is survived by his widow, who was Miss Georgine Cammack of New Orleans, and three sons: Thomas Hunt, '87, LL.B. '90, a member of the Boston bar; Edward L. Hunt, '93, M.D. (New York College of Physicians and Surgeons) '96, a New York physician; and Robert Hunt, '00, who has recently become advertising manager of the BUL

LETIN.

M.D. '57-FRANCIS PELEG SPRAGUE. Died at Boston, Mass., Oct. 6, 1921.

Law '60-61-SAMUEL DAVIS PAGE, A.B. (Yale) '59. Died at Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1921.-He was well known in Philadelphia where he practised law and held municipal office. During his student days in New Haven he stroked the first Yale crew that ever defeated Harvard. He was long associated in the practice of law with United States Senator Boies Penrose, '81. In 1877 Page was a member of the City Council in Philadelphia, and was City Controller in 1883-84. He was Assistant Treasurer of the United States in 1886-90.

Sc. '66-68-ARTHUR CLARENCE

WALWORTH.

Died at Newton Center, Mass., June 28, 1921.— He was for many years a member of the firm of Walworth, English, Flett Co., contractors and engineers, 100 Pearl St., Boston.

Law '82-84-EVERETT SAWYER CHANDLER. Died at North Judson, Ind., April 10, 1917.

'92-LEVERETT THOMPSON, LL.B. (Northwestern Univ.) '95. Died at Lake Forest, Ill., Aug. 14, 1921. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1895, and for several years was with the firm of Holt, Wheeler & Sidley, Chicago. In 1904 he became associated with the Chicago Savings Bank & Trust Co., first as trust officer and later as its secretary. In 1911 he resigned the post of secretary, became a director of the bank, and formed a partnership under the name of Poole & Thompson, trustees and dealers in farm mortgages. He had been mayor of Lake Forest, where he lived most of his life.

'10 EDMUND NEVILLE BENNETT. Died at Weston, Oct. 9, 1921.-He was well known in the wool business. After his graduation from College he entered the employ of Brown & Adams, wool merchants, of Boston, where he stayed until he enlisted in the Army in 1918. As buyer he spent three summers in the Middle West, and in 1913 began to visit Buenos Aires, Ar gentina, once a year in the interests of his firm. More recently he had been associated with the firm of Grundy & Co., Boston and Philadelphia, as South American buyer. He entered the Officers' Training Corps at Camp Lee, Va., in the autumn of 1918, was commissioned a second lieutenant, and assigned to duty with the 152d Depot Brigade, Department of Military Police, at Camp Upton, where he remained until his dis charge in January, 1919. He is survived by his parents, Samuel C. Bennett, '79, and Mrs. Bennett, three brothers, two of whom are Samuel C. Bennett, Jr., '12, and Roger W. Bennett, '13, and two sisters.

ergies upon the reluctant undergraduate whose chief concern is to employ the maximum of time and the minimum of effort in getting an education. This is not a new idea, of course; the BULLETIN has itself given voice to a similar conviction on more than one occasion during the past couple of years. We are glad, however, to hear a newly-inaugurated president declare his allegiance to the policy of giving the best brains the right of way.

The colleges of the United States are educating an enormous number of students, the great majority of whom have neither the ability nor the ambition to be high scholars. These young men and women, by sheer weight of their numerical strength, have absorbed the teachers' energies every where. Astonishingly little stress has been placed upon the obligations of the college to the student of unusual ability and scholarly ideals. For the most part he has been compelled to jog along with the crowd, taking the same courses (or nearly the same), shackled to the same routine, and compelled to observe the same precise regulations in order to obtain his degree. The effect of this upon the student of high intellectual quality is deadening; the wonder is that he comes through it (as he occasionally does) with any zest for the further pursuit of knowledge.

Now President Aydelotte's remedy for this situation is simple. He would have the college set to work, as its first job, to winnow the tares from the wheat. Having separated them, they should be kept separate. The "average" student would continue to obtain an "average" education as at present; but President Aydelotte would like to see an education de luxe provided for those who are mentally opulent enough to afford it. The glory of an educational institution is, or ought to be, in its standards, not in its numbers. And the proper place to measure standards is at the top, not at the bottom.

At Harvard, through the administration of the rules relating to degrees with distinction, we have made a start in the right direction. It is a beginning which may well be followed up. No one contends that the undergraduate who seeks only a general education should get anything less than he is getting now; the problem is to keep average standards where they are and to build above them.

Harvard
Men in
School

Administration.

The death of Frank V. Thompson, A.M. '07, Superintendent of Schools of the city of Boston, removes from public school work one of the few Harvard graduates who have recently attained high distinction in that field. Mr. Thompson was still a young man; he was active, enthusiastic, attractive; and his death was sudden and wholly unexpected. Among superintendents of schools he was conspicuous for his vigor, originality, and genuine constructive power. He was conspicuous also for gifts of personality which endeared him especially to his friends: an infectious laugh, an eye which kindled easily, a trick of mind which broadened every subject to its full horizon. The schools of Boston have lost an able, courageous, and devoted leader, and the University one of its best representatives in an important field of service.

More Harvard men should turn to school administration as a career for college-bred and professionally-trained workers. The profession is not overcrowded. It offers large opportunity for service. If it does not afford the chance to become rich, it offers salaries up to ten or twelve thousand a year and a fair reward from the very start. It demands more of a man in some ways than a college professorship-more executive capacity, more practical, constructive imagination. There is in it the chance to achieve a name for oneself among people who value leadership in edu

cation. There is in it, above all, the chance to put into effect for generations, and for thousands in each generation, the best ideals a man can translate into working form.

Now that we have a Graduate School of Education the Harvard men in school superintendencies may rightly look for recruits to this band of "happy warriors." Among these should be some graduates of Harvard College. The class that sends no man into school administration may well ask whether its educational contingent lacks altogether the kind of courage that can make a man both an educator and a statesman. To be afraid of "politics" is sometimes a sign that one distrusts his own powers. Frank Thompson had a Rooseveltian gaiety in his attack on school problems involving political issues. Har vard College ought to select, ripen, and inspire men of his type for the Graduate School of Education to train and the towns, cities, and states of America to use.

Harvard Harvard does not want for paband the ulum of the theatre. Once a year Drama. the Pi Eta and Hasty Pudding Clubs frolic across the stage in diverting musical comedies. At various times throughout the academic year the "47 Workshop" and the Harvard Dramatic Club produce new plays from youthful pens, or old plays whose literary value has become well known. Thus, no phase of the theatrical profession escapes Harvard audiences.

Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," however, has given the Dramatic Club in recent years a significance and an opportunity which many clubs do not have. College dramatic clubs are generally active in the production of plays from undergraduate pens. Since the "47 Workshop" exists at Harvard as part of the curriculum for that purpose alone, the Dramatic Club has wisely turned to new

It produces

and no less fallow fields. foreign plays which have never before appeared upon American stages. recent years it has produced Lord Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet" for the first time on any stage, and Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus," Milne's "Wurzel-Flummery," Maeterlinck's "The Blind," and several other equally notable plays for the first time in this country. This year it ventures even further afield: it will produce in November "The Witches' Mountain" by the South American playwright, Sanchez Gardel, translated into English by Jacob S. Fassett, Jr., Grad. '15-16, and "The Violin of Cremona" by François Coppée, part of the repertory of the Comédie-Française, translated by Edgar Scott, '20. The American stage is singularly barren of South American literature; and the French plays produced here are scarcely representative of the best in French drama. Consequently, the Dramatic Club's autumn production has intrinsic value as a program.

For those whose passion is the theatre the productions of the Harvard Dramatic Club, ably directed by J. W. D. Seymour, '17, are something of a treat. Commercial theatrical enterprises, like commerce in every art, are too timid, too wary of adventure, too willing to cling to the surefire play. If dramatic enterprise depended upon commercial theatres alone theatregoers might have less varied entertainment than they do; they might stew contentedly in a kettle which has been on the fire for years. Amateur performances like those of the Harvard Dramatic Club lack the finish of the professional theatre. and the elaborate equipment of the commercial stage. Yet in a measure they are so much the more free and unfettered. And the Dramatic Club has the great privilege of contact with an established experimental theatre known the country over, and of counsel from its director.