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* DOUGLAS HOWE ADAMS
D OUGLAS HOWE ADAMS died January 27, 1931, at Somers Point, New Jersey. He was born August 12, 1876, at Cape May City, New Jersey, the son of Samuel Douglas and Sophia (Hampton)
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Adams, and prepared for college at the Forsythe School, Philadel- phia. He received an A.B. from Haverford College in 1896 and came to Harvard in the fall of that year, taking an A.B. in 1897. For a year following he taught at the Cloyne House School, New- port, Rhode Island, and then spent eleven years at the Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania. For the last five of these years, he was one of the school's principals and had full charge of all athletics. In 1909 he returned to the Cloyne House School as headmaster. Two years later he left to found his own school, the Winchester School, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Two days before the school opened, he was offered full charge of the football and baseball teams at Phillips Exeter Academy, but he chose the scholastic rather than the athletic position.
Adams was always intensely interested in sports. He enjoyed hunting, and as a member of the All-Philadelphia Cricket Club went abroad to play against the best professional teams in Eng- land and Ireland. He was a founder and Regatta Committeeman of the Seaside Park, New Jersey, Yacht Club and for two years was chairman of the Regatta Committee of the Atlantic City Yacht Club. Motor trips, fishing, tennis, and baseball were also among his diversions. He was for several years superintendent of the Sunday School at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and served as vestryman at All Saints Episcopal Church, Chelsea, New Jersey. He never married.
+ WALTER DAVENPORT ADAMS
W TALTER DAVENPORT ADAMS died at Wakefield, Massachusetts, on November 18, 1946. He was born at Roxbury, Massachu- setts, on May 18, 1874, the son of George Zaccheus and Joanna Frances (Davenport) Adams, and was prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School. Graduating with us in 1897, Adams became associated with the Adams Chapman Company, a wholesale com- mission house dealing in meats, butter, eggs, fruits, etc., situated at 37 North Market Street, Boston. This site adjoins that of Fan- euil Hall and was erected and presented to the city, by Peter Faneuil in 1742, to serve as a combined market and town hall,
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wherein, during Revolutionary times, so many patriotic meetings were held that it became known as "the Cradle of American Lib- erty". Charles Bulfinch, the distinguished Boston architect, made the plans for its enlargement in 1806.
At the time of our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report, Adams wrote that, as vice-president of his firm, he was still carrying on the business, and on that identical spot. He later retired, and lived at Wakefield.
He was married at Boston, on June 3, 1902, to Annie M. Hough- ton. She survives him as do their two children, George Francis, born December 12, 1903 (married Gladys L. Holmes ); and Robert Houghton, born April 12, 1908 (married Lillian K. Hilman). There are three grandchildren: Donald H., Jane Lois, and Nancy Ann Adams.
On July 16, 1946, Adams had returned his questionnaire for this Report in which he said:
"My arthritis and infirmities have restricted my movements de- cidedly. During World War II, my wife was very active in Red Cross work and also assisted in foreign relief work. We enjoy our little home on the hill in Wakefield and are always glad to have friends stop in for a chat."
H. T. N.
+ HERMAN MORRIS ADLER
H ERMAN MORRIS ADLER, distinguished psychiatrist and criminol- ogist, died December 7, 1935, at Boston. The son of Isaac and Frida Sarah (Grumbacher) Adler, he was born October 10, 1876, at New York City. Before coming to Harvard, he attended Sachs' Collegiate Institute. After graduation he went to Columbia University, taking an M.D. and A.M. in 1901, and then studied for two years abroad. Returning to the United States, he opened an office in New York, but in 1907 moved to Boston. In 1909 he was appointed to the staff of the Danvers State Hospital. From 1912 to 1916 he was assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and chief of staff at the Boston Psychopathic Hos- pital. He then moved to Chicago, where he conducted research
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under the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and the Rocke- feller Foundation.
In the spring of 1917 he was appointed director of the Juve- nile Psychopathic Institute and the following July was appointed by Governor Lowden of Illinois to the post of state criminologist in the newly organized Department of Public Welfare. From July, 1918, to March, 1919, he served as a major in the neuro-psychiatric section of the Army Medical Corps. For nine years following he was professor of criminology at the Medical College of the Uni- versity of Illinois. In 1930 he went to California, where, at the time of his death, he was professor of psychiatry at the University of California, adviser to the California Department of Institutions, director of the Behavior Research Fund, a member of the Harvard Survey of Crime and Law, and consultant to the National Com- mission on Law Observance and Enforcement. While in Illinois he took part in a survey of the administration of justice in Cleve- land, which was conducted by Roscoe Pound and Felix Frank- furter. He was a member of many professional organizations and had published numerous articles and papers in his field.
On March 17, 1917, at Hubbard Woods, Illinois, he married Frances Porter, who, with their child, Frances Porter Adler, born July 10, 1920, survived him.
ELIOT ALDEN
O UR classmate Eliot Alden died on April 19, 1946, at Los An- geles, California. He came of New England stock. His father Charles Henry Alden, was Assistant Surgeon General in the Army, a descendant of John Alden of the Plymouth Colony. His mother, Katharine Russell Lincoln, came from one of the Lincoln families of Hingham, Massachusetts.
He entered college from the St. Paul, Minnesota, High School with our classmate, Robert E. Olds. After graduating from college, cum laude, he entered the Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1901, also cum laude.
In 1906 he moved to Los Angeles where he practised as a physi- cian and a surgeon until his death. Previous to this he had served
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as an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and one year as a resident surgeon at the Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland, Ohio. He studied abroad in 1903, and practised a short time in Cleveland and in Pasadena, California. While in Cleveland, he was a mem- ber of the City Troup, and later in California he was an officer in the Medical Department of the National Guard. On May 16, 1912, he married Etta Estill of Estill, Missouri. Mrs. Alden, their two married daughters, Katharine Alden Burton, born February 15, 1915, and Florence Alden Stoddard, born February 28, 1920, and a grandson, Peter Stoddard, survived him.
During the first World War Alden served as a Captain overseas from April, 1918, until May, 1919, returning as Commanding Offi- cer of Base Hospital No. 35. He was also consulting surgeon of the Veterans Administration Facility at Los Angeles.
He was highly successful in his profession, practising in the hospitals in and about Los Angeles. He was on the surgical staff of the Hollywood Hospital. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons and of various medical associations, and presi- dent of the Hollywood Academy of Medicine. He also published articles on medical subjects.
Alden had a happy disposition, enjoyed a good time, and had many congenial friends. Like many able men, he was reticent and modest about his attainments. A few knew that he earnestly wished to leave college at the end of his sophomore year in order to enter the Medical School and that he was persuaded with diffi- culty to finish his college course.
He was one of those fortunate men with a strong bent from the start, and a deep and absorbing interest in his life's work. Small wonder, then, that possessed of first-rate abilities he had a success- ful and useful life.
R. L. R.
+ RALPH CLIFTON ALDRICH
R ALPH CLIFTON ALDRICH was born May 27, 1875, at Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of George Wellington and Carrie Elizabeth (Ames) Aldrich. He prepared for college at Dalzell's
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School, Worcester, and was at Harvard only one year. From 1896 to 1899 he was a private secretary in Paris, France. In July, 1899, his health failed and he moved to Colorado. His illness developed rapidly, however, and he died January 29, 1900, at Colorado Springs. He was unmarried.
LOUIS VICTOR ALLARD
I WAS born in Paris, France, February 21, 1873," writes Allard, "and was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1896. The degrees I took there qualified me to teach in either lycées or universities. After my military service I was appointed professor ·
in the Lycée de Beauvais (1898-1900) to prepare candidates to the French baccalaureate. I obtained a travelling scholarship around the world, granted by the University of Paris (1900-1902), and was, in 1902, sent by F. Brunetière, director of the Revue des Deux Mondes to inaugurate the new chair of French literature at the University Laval of Quebec.
"From 1906 to 1939 I practised my profession at Harvard Uni- versity. At present, being retired, and keeping for the moment a residence in New York, where I hope to return as soon as circum- stances permit me to do so, I often remember with a deep pleasure the years of my teaching at Harvard. And if I enjoy some 'durable satisfaction', it is the thought that I have done some good for my students, doing my best to let them appreciate French civilization and culture.
"To occupy my time in Paris I am working in the libraries with the purpose of writing another book on the life and theatre in the Paris of the Second Empire. It is also a 'durable satisfaction' to feel that one enjoys a physical and mental health which enables one to find interest in the surrounding life and to accomplish some intellectual work during the years of retirement from one's active profession."
Allard's parents were Louis Victor and Noemi (de Rigaud- Gelis) Allard. He attended Harvard for one year, 1905-1906, which he spent in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He took a B .- ès-lettres degree at the University of Lille in 1890, was
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made an ancien élève de l'École Normale Supérieure in 1894, and took a Lic .- ès-lettres degree at the University of Paris in 1894, and Agrégé des lettres at the University of France in 1897. In 1920 Knox College conferred upon him the degree of Litt.D. In 1922 he was elected an honorary member of our Class.
During the first World War, Allard was an interpreter with the British Army. He is the author of La Comédie de Moeurs au XIX Siècle in two volumes, which was crowned by the French Acad- emy, and Esquisses Parisiennes en des Temps Heureux (1830- 1848). Until 1945 he was a member of the Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York. He is unmarried.
EDWARD HARRISON ALLEN
E DWARD ALLEN has practised law continuously in Piqua, Ohio, since 1899, specializing in corporate law and the settlement of estates.
After taking an A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1896, he came to Harvard for the year 1896-97, and in 1899 received an LL.B. at Ohio State University. He was active in church and civic work and during World War I served as a "four-minute man," captain of his precinct during all drives, and chairman of the local publicity committee for all drives. He has been a director of the Meteor Motor Car Company, Metal and Wood Products Company, Piqua Chamber of Commerce, and Piqua Chautauqua Association, secretary of the Harvard Club of Dayton, Ohio, and a member of A.F. & A.M.
The son of Andrew Jackson and Lenora ( Brecount) Allen, he was born June 15, 1874, at Lena, Ohio, and attended Ohio Wes- leyan Preparatory School, Delaware, Ohio. He married Luelle Jane Frazier June 15, 1900, at Frazeyburg, Ohio. Their children are Elizabeth Lenora (Mrs. Robert E. Nelson), born December 20, 1901; Edward Harrison, Jr., born March 20, 1905; and Mary Rose (Mrs. Mark A. Bradford, Jr.), born March 20, 1912. There are three grandchildren, all married, and two great-grandchildren.
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* JOHN STONE ALLEN
J OHN STONE ALLEN died January 14, 1938, at Schenectady, New York. The son of Alexander Viets Griswold and Elizabeth Kent (Stone) Allen, he was born October 5, 1875, at Cambridge, and attended the Cambridge Latin and Browne and Nichols Schools. After receiving his degree from Harvard, he became a cub reporter on the Philadelphia Press, and was employed subsequently on the Philadelphia Evening Telegram, the Pittsburgh Gazette, the Pitts- burgh Dispatch, the Providence Journal, and the Providence Tribune. He spent five years on The Youth's Companion and a year or two "spreading propaganda for a beautiful system of na- tional highways," his own words in the 25th Class Report. He was also a director and later president of the Boston Common, which was heralded as "an experiment in cooperative journalism and which," he wrote, "proposed to be fearless and unfettered. .. . It was not a success." In 1915 he joined the staff of the Boston Herald and from 1916 to 1920 was its managing editor. Ill health forced him to retire for the winter of 1922 to Nantucket, but as soon as possible, he yielded again to the attractions of journalism and became managing editor of the Union-Star in Schenectady. His health broke down again, and he was overtaken by the illness which caused his death.
As an undergraduate Jack, his classmates will remember, was a slender, fair-haired lad of great personal charm whose rather frail physique placed a curb on his athletic activities.
He was survived by his wife, the former Lillian Chase Reming- ton, whom he married at Fall River, Massachusetts, on December 6, 1906, their daughter, Elizabeth Kent, born March 8, 1920, and a brother, Henry Van Dyke Allen, '95.
+ SAMUEL PARKER ALLEN, JR.
AMUEL PARKER ALLEN, JR., was born March 30, 1876, at Boston. S He was the son of Samuel Parker Allen, '67, and Matilde Wi- cliffe (Chapin) Allen, and received his early education at Derby Academy, the Hingham, Massachusetts, High School, and the
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Brookline High School. After spending three years at Harvard, he was forced by circumstance to seek employment and he regret- fully left college. He was employed for a time by the Brown- Wales Corporation and later held a responsible position in the Illinois Steel Works. Overwork caused his health to break down, and though he spent a brief period at the Cleveland Rolling Mills, he soon returned to Brookline an invalid. He died at Worcester, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1907. He never married.
* GEORGE EDWIN ALLYN
G EORGE EDWIN ALLYN was born July 19, 1873, at Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Horace Augustus and Elizabeth (Dunn) Allyn. He attended the Cambridge Manual Training School before coming to Harvard, where he was a special student in the Lawrence Scientific School for one year. Until 1902 he was in the employ of the Cambridge Gas Light Company. He then became associated with the Providence Gas Company, where he held the position of superintendent of distribution at the time of his death on November 22, 1918, at Providence, Rhode Island. He married Maude May West in September, 1906, at Providence.
+ HAMLET ANDERSON
H AMLET ANDERSON was born June 18, 1874, at Boston, the son of Olie Anton and Mary (Vial) Anderson. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was in the Lawrence Scientific School for two years. After leaving college he was associated with the Great Northern and the Southern Pacific Railroads in turn. Ill health forced him to go to Saranac and later to Switzerland, where he died at Locarno on January 10, 1918.
* ROSWELL PARKER ANGIER
R OSWELL PARKER ANGIER, professor of psychology and director emeritus of the Psychology Laboratory at Yale University, who retired in 1941 after thirty-five years on the Yale faculty, died suddenly June 24, 1946, at Tucson, Arizona. He had also served
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from 1937 to 1941 as associate dean of the Yale Graduate School, and had made his home in Tucson since his retirement.
He was born October 21, 1874, at St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Albert Edward and Emma Elizabeth (McNeil) Angier. He prepared for Harvard at the English High School in Boston. He received his A.B. in 1897 magna cum laude, an A.M. in 1901, and a Ph.D. in 1903, all at Harvard. Following the completion of his work in Cambridge, he studied from 1903 to 1906 at the Univer- sities of Berlin and Freiburg, Germany. Yale conferred an hon- orary A.M. upon him in 1917, and Franklin & Marshall College an LL.D. in 1922.
After serving for 1905-06 as an assistant in the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Berlin, he returned to this country and joined the Yale faculty as an instructor in 1906. In 1917 he was made a full professor and served also as director of the Psy- chology Laboratory, a post he held until his retirement. In 1920 he was appointed dean of freshmen, a post which he held until 1925. He was granted a leave of absence from the Yale faculty on three occasions. In 1917 he served as a visiting professor at Har- vard; in 1920 he filled a similar post at the University of California; and in 1925 he served for a year on the faculty of the University of Chicago.
During World War I he served as a captain in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army. In World War II he did Red Cross work in Tucson. He was a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Physiology Society, and Sigma Xi.
He was survived by his wife, Emma Genevieve Severy, whom he married September 2, 1907, at Seattle, Washington; and by their three sons: Roswell Parker, Jr., born October 23, 1908; James Severy, born October 31, 1911; and Philip Holt, born December 21, 1912. There are four grandchildren.
The above record of the life of Roy (Tubby) Angier, while showing his accomplishments and honors, is far from satisfactory to those of us who knew him as a friend and companion. It is but a skeleton, needing flesh and blood to present a true picture of the man.
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It was my good fortune to know Roy intimately and to see him and his family many times during the past forty years. In New Haven I came to know well some of his fellow-members of the Yale faculty and found that while they respected his great ability in his particular field of study, they loved him as a friend and admired him as a man. I saw enough of his work at Yale to realize that perhaps his greatest service there lay in his capacity as a man of broad interest and vision, which made him a wise counsellor and endeared him to his students. I am sure it was qualities like these which led to his appointment as the first dean of freshmen and later as assistant dean of the Gradu- ate School.
He had the same sane and human view of knowledge and sci- ence which made William James, Nathaniel Shaler, and George Herbert Palmer great men and great teachers.
While not an active churchman, Roy was in the truest sense a religious man. He knew, as every wise father and teacher knows, that intellectual training alone is inadequate to cope with the problems and forces of life, that ideals and spiritual power are essential for the good life.
While at times he had an abrupt manner and used a certain roughness of speech, underneath and at heart he was the embodi- ment of kindness, consideration, and generosity. No one will ever know how many students and friends he helped, not only by counsel, but by friendship and financial assistance.
He was not only learned but witty, and had a keen sense of humor, as will be well remembered by those who have enjoyed his utterances at previous Class reunions. He was one speaker who was always acceptable and enjoyed.
While Roy was a profound student and scholar, he was in no way pedantic or merely academic. He was keenly interested in current affairs, and was informed and intelligent in many fields. He was liberal in his thinking, and careful and discriminating in his opinions and judgments. Always quiet and unassuming, in conversation and discussion, he never made one feel ignorant or stupid. I am sure that this combination of wisdom, modesty, and broad interest must have played a large part in his influence with
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students and in creating the great respect in which he was held by his faculty brothers and the heads of the University.
The passing years may and probably will produce new theories of psychology which will consign those of Roy and his day to oblivion, but never will his manhood, character, and influence be forgotten by those who happily knew and will forever hold him as "my friend Tubby Angier."
F. S. B.
+ HENRY MORGAN APPLETON
H ENRY MORGAN APPLETON was born March 16, 1874, at Spring- field, Massachusetts, the son of Julius Henry and Helena Sarah (Allen) Appleton. Before coming to Harvard in 1895, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He took an A.B. with the Class in 1897. He died at New York City on July 5, 1898.
+ CHARLES AUGUSTUS ARCHER
C HARLES AUGUSTUS ARCHER was born April 24, 1876, at Salem, Massachusetts. His parents were Charles Frederic Waldo and Annie Laura ( Moore) Archer. He came to Harvard from the Salem Classical High School, and after taking his A.B. he spent a year at the Law School. After a year in Europe, he became asso- ciated with the Locke Regulator Company, Salem, of which he was secretary at the time of his death. He was very active and popular and took a prominent part in the affairs of his native city. He was president of the Common Council and of the Water Board and was twice a candidate for mayor. His memberships included the Salem Club and the Salem Republican Club, as well as the Massachusetts State Board of Trade. He was president of the Salem Board of Trade and of the Essex County Associated Board of Trade.
He died October 6, 1911, at Saranac Lake, New York. He was survived by his wife, the former Sarah A. Locke, whom he mar- ried December 6, 1899, and two children - Phoebe Waldo, born November 7, 1902, and John Beardsley, born December 14, 1908.
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+ WALTER TALLMADGE ARNDT
W ALTER TALLMADGE ARNDT died January 1, 1932, at Trenton, New Jersey. The son of Edward Wilcox and Ellen Mary (Delany) Arndt, he was born October 11, 1872, at Depere, Wis- consin, and prepared for college at the Milwaukee High School and Beloit College Academy. He attended the University of Wis- consin before coming to Harvard, joining our Class in 1895 and receiving an A.B. in 1897. He spent the next two years in the Graduate School, taking an A.M. in 1899. Although originally intending to teach history and economics, he decided instead on a journalistic career and became a reporter on the New York Sun. He became a member of the editorial staff of the International Year Book and later of the New International Encyclopaedia. He contributed more than 1000 articles on American history and biography to the latter publication. In 1904 he became an assist- ant editor of the Historian's History of the World and the follow- ing year joined the staff of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. During 1905 he was also dramatic editor of Current Literature.
In the spring of 1906 he returned to journalism as exchange editor of the New York Evening Post, becoming successively City Hall reporter, political editor, and legislative correspondent. In these capacities he came into close contact with the political affairs of the day and with such statesmen as Roosevelt, Root, Hughes, and Wilson. In 1912 he left newspaper work to become political secretary to Oscar S. Straus, Progressive candidate for governor. Succeeding positions were as secretary of the Citizens' Committee for Non-Partisan Public Service Regulation; secretary of the Municipal Government Association; one of the secretaries of the Constitutional Convention, serving with the Committee on Governor and State Officers and assisting in framing the state re- construction proposal subsequently approved by the Convention; publicity secretary of the Committee for the Adoption of the Con- stitution; legislative secretary of the City Club of New York; press secretary of the Roosevelt Non-Partisan Committee, organized to promote the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican presidential nomination; publicity director of the Hughes Alliance,
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an organization formed to support the presidential campaign of Charles Evans Hughes.
When the United States entered World War I, Arndt offered his services to his friend, Secretary Baker, and suggested the prepara- tion of an educational course for men in the new Army. This resulted in his developing, with William H. Lough, '01, "A Read- ing Course for Citizen Soldiers," accepted by the War College and General Staff and issued by the War Department in thirty lessons to the newspapers of the country. It was later published in book- let form as No. 6 of the War Information Series. He then sug- gested to the War Department a plan for using motion pictures in military instruction and in carrying out the plan became associated with the work under the Y.M.C.A., in producing and distributing films for use in Army camps. He was also managing editor of a war news film weekly which was issued in this country and to the Army overseas.
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