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FRANCIS G. BENEDICT, Nutrition Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington."
A very complete memorial exhibition of Mr. Hale's paintings and drawings was held in the Boston Art Museum during November, 1931.
CHARLES DONAGH MAGINNIS was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1867 and educated in Dublin. Coming to America at the age of cighteen, he has established a high reputation as an architect, particularly in the field of ecclesi- astical architecture. Among his most admired buildings are the Byzantine Shrine of the Immaculate Conception still in process of erection at Washington, the Boston College group, which is modernized Gothic, the Carmelite Convent at Santa Clara, which is Spanish Renaissance, and St. John's Church, Cam- bridge, the general type of which is Lombard Romanesque. His firm, Maginnis and Walsh, was awarded a gold medal in 1925 by the American Institute of Architects, the J. Harleston Parker gold medal in the same year, the Washington Chamber of Commerce bronze medal in 1926, and a diploma of honor at Budapest in 1930. Mr. Maginnis is also distinguished as a writer
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on art. He has been a member of the Municipal and State Art Commissions, and is a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Society of Arts of England. He has received the degree of LL. D. from Boston and Holy Cross Colleges and the Laetare medal, awarded annually by Notre Dame University, Indiana.
GRANT HYDE CODE writes on "The Decorative Arts in Boston" with an authority derived from his life-long interest in the subject, culminating in an experience of two years, 1928-30, as director of the Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston. He is a native of Wisconsin, educated at Harvard, where he received his degree in 1918. During the World War and afterwards he was a lieutenant attached to the Sixteenth Infantry and to Headquarters, First Division, A. E. F. Between 1919 and 1927 he taught at Boston University, Harvard, Radcliffe and the University of Delaware. At present he devotes much of his time to writing and lecturing.
CHARLES HALL GRANDGENT was born in Boston in 1862. He was educated at Harvard, where since 1896 he has been Professor of Romance Languages, and abroad. Twice' he has represented his university as exchange professor in Paris. In the spring of 1931 he lectured at the Sorbonne on Le Théatre Américain Contemporain. He is a Litt. D. from Harvard and an L. H. D. from Chicago, Michigan and Oberlin; a member of American and foreign academies; the recipient of the gold medal of the Società Dantesca Italiana, the silver medal of the Italian Red Cross, the bronze medal of the Sorbonne; a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a Commander of the Italian Order of the Crown. His writings include text-books in French and Italian, treatises on Old Provençal, Italian and Vulgar Latin, a series of Dante studies which contain incidental verse translations of admirable quality, and several volumes of miscellaneous essays. A true humanist, he is a man of the widest interests, and wears his great learning lightly. In his article on the drama he speaks less as a technical critic than an intelligent playgoer, of lifelong habit, sure instinct and still unjaded relish of the best.
KENNETH LAMARTINE MARK was born of American parents in Leipzig, Germany, in 1874. As the son of the eminent zoologist, Professor Edward L. Mark, of Harvard, he naturally studied at that university and as naturally applied himself to scientific branches, specializing in chemistry. From 1900 to 1903 he was an assistant in chemistry at Harvard, receiving his Ph. D. in the latter year. Since 1903 he has taught his subject in Simmons College, where he was made full professor and director of the School of Science in 1915. Professor Mark has published two volumes on chemistry and was a captain in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army during the World War. His interest in the whole field of scientific discovery is reflected in his article in this volume.
HENRY ASBURY CHRISTIAN, M. D., though a resident of Boston for over thirty years, was born in Virginia in 1876 and educated at Randolph-Macon
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College and Johns Hopkins University. His large hospital experience, upon which he has drawn freely in the preparation of his article, includes service in the Long Island, Boston City and Children's Hospitals. He was physician-in- chief at the Carney Hospital from 1907 to 1912 and has held this responsible position in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital since 1911. He has been Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic since 1908 in the Medical School of Harvard University and was dean of that institution from 1908 to 1912. Doctor Christian is a member of many American and foreign medical societies and has received honorary degrees from Randolph-Macon and Jefferson Medical Colleges and Western Reserve University. He is the author of papers on medical subjects and the editor of "Oxford Medicine" and of "Oxford Monographs," published by the Oxford University Press.
CHARLES MILTON SPOFFORD was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts, in 1871. He is a graduate of the Institute of Technology and has taught there continuously since 1896, with the exception of four years spent as professor in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Since 1909 he has been Hayward Professor of Civil Engineering and for two years, 1925-27, was chairman of the faculty. Since 1914, as a member of the firm of Fay, Spofford and Thorndike, - and previously as an independent engineer, - he has had a part in the design and construction of many important engineering works. Among these may be mentioned the Army Supply Base in Boston, the Hampden County Memorial Bridge at Springfield, and the Lake Champlain Bridge. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been Director of the American Society of Civil Engineers and President of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. He has written a book on "The Theory of Structures."
JEREMIAH EDMUND BURKE was born in Frankfort, Maine, in 1867. He was a graduate of Colby College, which awarded him the degrees of A. M. and Litt. D. He had been superintendent of schools in Waterville, Maine, Marl- borough and Lawrence before coming to Boston as assistant superintendent in 1904. From 1921 to his death in 1931 he was superintendent. Under his direction the public school system of the city was enriched with new courses and progressive methods. Indeed, many of the recent advances described in his article are the fruits in a great measure of his personal advocacy. Doctor Burke wrote much on education in the form of documents and reports, and, besides his honorary doctorate from his alma mater, received the degree of LL. D. from Holy Cross College and from Villanova. In 1922 he delivered the Independence Day oration in Fancuil Hall.
Superintendent Burke's death, like Mr. Belden's, which occurred four days earlier, was preceded by the warning symptom, persistent fatigue, which is nature's cry for relief, too often disregarded by American men of advancing years. In the night of October 28-29, after a day of somewhat unusual exertion, he passed away during sleep at his home. As the head of the public school system, directing 5,000 teachers and 132,000 pupils, he was even more in the
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public eye than Mr. Belden, Mr. Chadwiek and Mr. Hale. A model of dignified courtesy, he was loved and honored by his associates and his professional standing was excellent. By his ereation of the junior high school, by his insistenee on higher standards of training for teachers, and by his emphasis on eharaeter-building as an essential in publie education, he exerted what might almost be ealled a transforming influence on the schools of Boston. -
The Transcript, in its editorial utteranee, from which an extraet is given below, refleets the general estimate of Doetor Burke's character and services:
"It can be truly said of him that he enjoyed the respeet of leading educators throughout the United States. It was not, however, as a master of teaching technique that he will be best remembered here, but rather for the intense humanity which was his leading characteristie. He was of the forward- looking type, and his capacity to analyze the merits of the myriad proposals for the introduction of new courses and the improvement of the teaching service amounted almost to genius.
"The superintendent of the Boston schools must be as much of a diplomat as an educator, and Doetor Burke was remarkably sueeessful in smoothing out the many controversies which inevitably arise in the course of school work, while the trust reposed in his judgment is evineed by the terms of the reeent law which requires the signature of the superintendent of schools, as chairman of the Board of Apportionment, to every new school projeet. He will be missed as an educator of national reputation, and even more as a friend by the thousands of parents and children whose privilege it was to know him."
LOUIS JOSEPH FISH was born in Wauregan, Connecticut, in 1889. He is a Master of Business Administration from Boston University and a graduate in law from Northeastern. After eleven years' experience as instruetor in St. John's Preparatory College, Danvers, Lowell High School and the Boston High School of Commerce, he was made Commereial Co-ordinator in the Boston school system. Since 1925 he has been its Educational Statistician. He has also given special courses in Boston University. Mr. Fish was a United States naval officer during the World War. He is the author of "French Com- mereial Correspondenee," a French Commercial Reader, "Fundamentals of Advertising," "Examinations Seventy-five Years Ago and Today," and of many magazine artieles on educational subjeets.
In his threefold eapaeity as a successful praetising lawyer, a writer on legal subjects and an official of various legal associations FRANK WASHBURN GRINNELL has established the broad personal eontaets which enable him to write with authority on the Beneh and Bar of Boston. He was born in Charles- town in 1873, attended the Boston Latin School and received his academie and legal training at Harvard. A member of the firm of Hale and Dorr, he retired from active practiee ten or fifteen years ago in order to devote himself to the general interests of his profession. He has been editor of the Massachu- setts Law Quarterly and secretary of the Massachusetts Bar Association sinee 1915, and secretary of the Judicial Couneil sinee its ereation in 1924. He is also a member of the American Law Institute and chairman of a committee
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of the National Conference of State and Local Bar Associations. From 1925 to 1927 he was a member of the special committee of the American Bar Associ- ation on Canons of Professional Ethics, and he has frequently been called to fill other positions similar to these in character and importance.
ROBERT LINCOLN O'BRIEN was born in Abington, Massachusetts, in 1865, and is a graduate of Harvard College. After a service of three years as ste- nographer to Grover Cleveland, he became Washington correspondent of the Transcript, 1895-1906, and editor, 1906-10. From 1910 to 1929 he was editor of the Herald and president of the company that published the Herald and the Traveler. His review of newspaper history in this city during the last half-century is based upon thirty-five years of successful personal experience and intimate contact with the leading figures in his profession. His high standing is attested by the degree of Litt. D. which has been awarded hiin by Dartmouth, Colby, Brown and Boston University. He is an honorary member of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and of the advisory board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism. In November, 1931, he was appointed by President Hoover chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission.
CHARLES FRANCIS DORR BELDEN was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1870. A graduate of the Harvard Law School, he became upon graduation secretary of the Law Faculty and then successively assistant librarian of the Harvard Law Library, Librarian of the Social Law Library, and Librarian of the Massachusetts State Library. With this wide-ranging and cumulative experience he was selected in 1917 as director of the Boston Public Library, a position second to few in the entire library world. Mr. Belden's reputation is attested further by the honors which he received. He was an honorary A. M. of Harvard and an honorary Litt. D. of Boston University. He had been president of the American Library Association, and was chairman of the State Division of Public Libraries, a member of the New York Bar, the Massa- chusetts Bar Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, an honorary member of Swiss, Chinese and Czecho-Slovakian library associations, and a Cavalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
Mr. Belden was the third of our contributors to be taken from us before he had had an opportunity to see the Memorial Volume to which he had made a valuable contribution. Tired out with the strain of conscientious application to his duties, lie had left the city for a short rest, when on the morning of October 24, 1931, he succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage. Warm tributes were paid to him, not only as a librarian but as a public-spirited citizen and a man, by the Governor, the Mayor, his fellow librarians of Harvard and the Athenaeum, and the daily press. His honorable career deserves a fuller record than we are able to give it here, but the following abridgment of an editorial in the Herald, entitled "Double Duty Well Done," may serve as a measure of the esteem in which he was widely held:
"The late C. F. D. Belden, director of the Boston Public Library, was doubly successful to an unusual degree.
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"He put additional books within the reach of the public, made them more accessible, opened up the shelves liberally and greatly increased circulation. The library has become a much greater influence in the workaday life of the community than when he was appointed. He also gave special and loving attention to the scholarly collection, which is one of the greatest in the United States. There have been some notable accessions in the last few years - the De Foe volumes, for example, are unmatched anywhere else in the world in number, variety and value. The prestige of the library among scholars increased during liis directorship.
"Mr. Belden's achievements as a librarian are fairly comparable with those of the most distinguished of his predecessors, among them Justin Winsor and the present librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam. His associates through- out the world recognized him as an outstanding figure. He left the Boston library system better than he found it."
DAVID THOMAS POTTINGER was born in Boston in 1884 and educated in the Boston public schools and at Harvard. After taking advanced courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Business Administration, he taught English at Thayer Academy in Braintree until 1917, when he became connected with the Harvard University Press. He has written text-books and has contributed many articles to the Transcript and the Herald. Books of his design have appeared among the "Fifty Books of the Year" exhibits arranged by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. As a worker in the field of artistic book-making, in which men like Daniel B. Updike and Bruce Rogers have placed Boston in the very front rank, and also of publication, Mr. Pottinger is doubly qualified to tell the story of the publishers of Boston.
EVA WHITING WHITE was born in Webster, Massachusetts, graduated from Simmons College and took advanced courses at Columbia and the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. Few women in Boston have lived so active a life or brought to such a variety of tasks so much energy and intelligent initiative. She has been an educator as well as a social worker,- for four years, 1914-18, a director in the Boston public schools; for seven years, 1922-29, director of the School of Social Work at Simmons; since 1917 nonresident lecturer at Bryn Mawr. Among her other activities the following may be mentioned. Since 1927 she has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Immigration and Americanization division of the State Board of Education. Since 1909 she has been head worker at Elizabeth Peabody House and since 1929 president of the influential Women's Educational and Industrial Union. Mrs. White has also written many articles on social reform and is a member of sociological and economic societies.
EDWARD J. CAMPBELL, who writes with authority on the Roman Catholic Church in Boston, was born in this city in 1883 and educated in its public and parochial schools. Receiving his degree from Boston College in 1905, he entered St. John's Seminary and was ordained a priest in 1910. Father Camp- bell's first assignment was to St. Angela's Church, Mattapan, as assistant
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pastor. In 1919 he was transferred to St. Cecilia's Church, Back Bay. Here he combined his duties as asistant with editorial service on the Pilot, the official diocesan weekly. His work in this capacity so commended itself to his superiors that after 1928 he devoted himself entirely to the Pilot, of which he was made the editor. In April, 1932, he was promoted to the pastorate of St. Catherine's Church, Charlestown.
HENRY KNOX SHERRILL was born in Brooklyn November 6, 1890, and educated at Yale and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Ordained priest in 1915, he has been associated with Boston ever since, if we except the period of the war, 1917-19, during which he was a Red Cross and Army Chaplain. The following four years, 1919-23, were given to service as rector of the Church of Our Savior in Brookline. From 1914 to 1917, as assistant minister, and from 1923 to 1930, as rector, he was connected with Trinity Church. In 1930, to the satisfaction of all who knew his exceptional qualities, he was elected Bishop of Massachusetts in succession to Bishop Charles L. Slattery. Doctor Sherrill (a Doctor of Divinity from Yale) has been a lecturer at the Boston University School of Theology, a member of the board of preachers at Harvard and president of the Greater Boston Federation of Churches.
ARCTURUS Z. CONRAD was born in Indiana in 1855. After graduating from Carleton College, he received his theological training at Union Theo- logical Seminary. Pastorates in Brooklyn and Worcester followed and finally the call to Park Street, which came in 1905. In this venerable and beautiful church he ministers to a flock of over two thousand worshipers. Doctor Conrad has been awarded the degrees of D. D. from Carleton and Ph. D. from New York University. He has been guest preacher in Birmingham, London and Glasgow and is the author of several books on religious subjects.
WILLARD LEAROYD SPERRY, born in Peabody, Massachusetts, in 1882, was educated in Olivet College, Michigan, and at Oxford, where, as a Rhodes scholar, he took a first-class honor in theology and afterwards received the degree of M. A. He is also an M. A. from Yale and a D. D. from Yale, Amherst and Brown. He was ordained in 1908 as a Congregational minister. After pastor- ates lasting till 1922 in the First Church, Fall River, and in Central Church, Boston, during part of which he taught at Andover Seminary, he became dean and professor at the Harvard Divinity School. He has also been a member of the board of preachers at Harvard,- chairman since 1929,- and is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Dean Sperry has been Hibbert Lecturer, Essex Hall Lecturer in London, and Upton Lecturer at Oxford. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has written several books on religious subjects, and is a frequent and valued contributor to the leading magazines.
LEWIS OLIVER HARTMAN was born in Indiana in 1876. He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and at Boston University. Ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1903, he served for seven years in the pastorate
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at Cincinnati, and later was made superintendent of the institute and foreign departments of the Board of Sunday Schools of his church. In 1920 he was inade editor of Zion's Herald. He has received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and D. D. froin Ohio Wesleyan and S. T. B. and Ph. D. from Boston Univer- sity. Doctor Hartman is a trustee of Boston University and Wilbraham Academy and, besides his editorial work, has written a volume entitled "Popular Aspects of Oriental Religions."
HAROLD MAJOR was born in Brooklyn in 1887, and educated in the New York public schools. After a career in banking he decided to enter the min- istry and pursued a course of study at the Southern Baptist Theological Sem- inary, from which he graduated in 1913. Several pastorates in the South preceded his call to Boston in 1926. Besides serving as pastor of the First Baptist Church at Commonwealth avenue and Clarendon street, Doctor Major has been professor of New Testament Evangelism at the Gordon College of Theology and Missions. The degree of D. D. was awarded him by the Carson and Newman College of Tennessee.
CHARLES L. PAGE is a native of Bow, New Hampshire. He had been a high school principal and a Y. M. C. A. secretary before entering the ministry. As assistant pastor of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, he specialized in work for men and founded the "Page Class" in 1888. This organization inspired many similar classes and has had a widespread influence in civic and religious circles. Since 1917 Mr. Page has been engaged in general religious and philan- thropic work. He served two years as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, is a minister of the First Union Church, Readville, and secretary of the Roxbury Historical Society.
ROBERT WATSON was born in Scotland in 1865, but came to Canada as a child and was educated at the University of New Brunswick and at Princeton. Ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1896, he filled pastorates in Oxford, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati and New York before coming to Boston in 1923 as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. He was chaplain of the New York Scottish Regiment, 1917-20, and since 1924 has been chaplain of the venerable Scots Charitable Society of Boston. He was President of the Massachusetts Federation of Churches for several years and is now Executive Secretary of the Lord's Day League of New England. Doctor Watson has received many academic degrees. He is an M. A. from Princeton, Ph. D. from Gale College, D. D. and LL. D. from Cedarville, D. D. from Washington and Jefferson. He has also represented the Presbyterian Church at councils in Great Britain and at many general assemblies.
JOHN H. VOLK was born in Boston in 1876 and received his elementary education in the public schools of this city. He is a graduate of Concordia College, Indiana, and of Concordia Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis. In 1899 he was ordained as assistant pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, New York. From 1901 to 1906 he was engaged in missionary and pastoral work, followed
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by a pastorship of seventeen years at St. John's Church, Bayonne, New Jersey. Since 1922 he has been successively associate pastor and pastor of Zion Lutheran Church on West Newton street, the oldest Lutheran church in New England. He has also been secretary of the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau. His Boston birth and associations have given him an intimate, personal knowledge of the history of the Lutheran church in this section.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS NORWOOD was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, in 1880. He graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Law School and has practised law in Boston since 1905. For five years, 1911-15, he served in the State Legislature, as representative and as senator. From 1917 to 1929 he was General Counsel for the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and since then he has been its Manager of Committees on Publication.
HENRY CLINTON HAY was born in Portland, Maine, in 1853 and received his academic education at Harvard. Ordained in 1885 to the ministry of the Church of the New Jerusalem, he served as assistant minister and as pastor in Fall River, Cincinnati, Providence and Brockton until 1902. In that year he came to Boston, where he has been successively associate pastor and pastor of the Boston Society. He has been connected with the New Church Review since 1897 and has published three books dealing with the future life and the needs of the soul. He is secretary of the board of managers of the New Church Theological School and is prominent in other activities of the Swedenborgian denomination.
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