The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-12
BROWN UNIVERSITY NOTES.

BROWN UNIVERSITY NOTES.
 Providence, R. l., May 12.-The pro- gramme for the Brown university com menoement is now practically com plete. The exercises will include four days, extending from June IS to June 21. On Sunday, the 18th, the Baccalaureate sermon will be preached by President Faunce at half-past four o'clock in the First Baptist meeting house. Monday is class day. At half-past ten a. m. exercises in Sayles Hall, with an ad- dress by Charles H. Kingman, of Jamestown, N. r., president of the sem for class; oration by Glenn William Woodin, Blodgett's Mills, N. r.; poem by Charles $. Mitchell, West Long Branch, N. J. At half-past one p. m. baseball game, Brown vs. Holy Cross;. half-past three, concert on the front campus by Reeves. American band and fraternity teas At four, on the front campus, under the elms. exercises; ad- dresses by Jesse M. Gathany, Hallstead, Pa, and Frederick E. Hawkins, of Providence; address to undergraduates, Loard Wolsey Cronkhite, Newton Gen. ire, Mass, and address by President Fausce. At eight p. nl., promenade con- cert and illumination of college grounds, fraternity dances and senior ball. On Tuesday, June 20, the annual business meeting of Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa will be held at half-past nine. At half-past ten, at Pembroke Hall, the ivy day exercises of the Wo- mems college will be held. At half past two comes the annual meeting of the Associated Alumni At four an ad- dress before the Phi Beta Kappaswill be delivered by Hammand Lamorit,s A NJ, of the New York Evening Post; subject, The Daily in a Democracy" At eight p. m, in Pembroke Hall, reception by members of the senior class in the Wo- mems college. On Wednesday,, June 21, occurs the one hundred and thirty -sev- enth annual commencement, with con- ferring of degrees in course, honorary, nouncement of prizes, etc. At oe p. m, commencement dinner; at four D. m, baseball game, Brown vs. Glass of '96 team; at eight in Sayles Hall, presi- dents reception.
 The university library has received from A. Appleton Packard, Esq, of Boston, approximately fiftees hundred volumes and three thousand pamphlets from the library of the late Professor Alpheus s. Packard, LL.D!, presented by the son as a memorial to his father, who has for more than twenty-five years a professor in the university. The. books and pamphlets are of great value, and many of them are rare. They treat chiefly the subjects of zoology, particularly entomology, geology and anthropology.
 The executive committee of the Wo- mems college have appointed a commit tee to secure plans and specifications for the new gymnasium to be erected during the summer.
 Brown university has recently by vote of the faculty become member of the college entrance examination board, whose headquarters are in New York city. This board is already offering. examina tions in all the eastern states, and it's examinations in the future may be substituted for the examination held by Brown university.
 The following have been engaged to teach in the university next year: MT. Henry B. Drowne, Brown, 1903, will be connected with the department of civil engineering during the, absence of Professor Hill. MT. Ernest IT. Paine, Brown, 1901, has been engaged as in structor in Greek. Mr., Paine has dur ing the past year been engaged in arch- geological study in Athens.
 The library of the university has re- ceived from the Hon.. Henry Kirke Por- ter, M. C., the four large portfolios comprising the superb work edited by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, entitled The History of the Art of Writing.'' The work contains over two hundred plates, representing fae-similes of, man uscripts, inscriptions and monuments oriental, classical mediaeval and mod ern, with a description of each plate. X H. F. Heyden '05 was awarded the Gaston prize of one hundred dollars for excellence in oratory at the contest in Manning Hall Monday evening.
 The following have been elected to Sigma xxi society of Brown: Graduate students, V. s. Babasinian, w. H. Cady, ". E. Emmel, F. B. Hadley, e. F. Obear; seniors, A E. Brown, F, Al. Burr, R. D. Cady, H. F. Davidson, R. P. Hovey, F. ". Stephens and N. Vest