Honorary

NEWTON DIEHL BAKER, upon whom the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred in 1928, died of coronary thrombosis at his home in Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, December 25, 1937.

He was born in Martinsburg, W. Va., December 3, 1871, the son of Newton Diehl and Mary (Dukehart) Baker. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1892 and studied law at Washington and Lee University, receiving the degree of LL. B. there in 1894. In 1896-7 he was private secretary to Postmaster General William L. Wilson, and in 1897 began the practice of his profession in his native town. He soon removed to Cleveland, and embarked upon a legal career of great distinction.

He was city solicitor from 1902 to 1912, and mayor from 1912 to 1916. By appointment of President Wilson he served in his cabinet as secretary of war from March 7, 1916, to March 4, 1921, his term of office comprising the entire time of the World War. Though always an advocate of peace, his management of the War Department was never surpassed in any time of national participation in war. In 1928 he was appointed by President Coolidge a member of the permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1921 he was appointed by President Hoover a member of the Law Enforcement Commission. He was a former president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. In 1933 he was awarded a medal by the National Institute of Social Science "for services to humanity."

July 5, 1902, Mr. Baker was married to Elizabeth Leopold of Pottstown, Pa., who survives him, with two daughters and a son. .

DR. LAWRASON BROWN, who received the degree of Doctor of Science in 1931, died of heart disease after a long illness at his home at Saranac Lake, N. Y., December 26, 1937.

The son of William Judson and Mary Louise (Lawrason) Brown, he was born in Baltimore, Md., September 29, 1871. He graduated from John Hopkins as A. B. in 1895 and as M. D. in 1900. Immediately after obtaining his medical degree he began work with the Trudeau Sanitorium at Saranac Lake, and continued there for the rest of his life, becoming one of the leading authorities on tuberculosis in the country. He was assistant resident physician in 1900-1, resident physician in 1901- 12, visiting physician in 1912-14, and consulting physician since the last date. He was closely connected with the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis, and one of its leading instructors. He founded the journal, The Outdoor Life, and had long been an associate editor of the American Reviewof Tuberculosis. He published several books on his specialty. He was president of the American Climatological Association in 1920, of the National Tuberculosis Association in 1922-5, and of the American Sanitorium Association in 1919-23.

October 8, 1914, Dr. Brown was married to Martha Lewis Harris of Baltimore, who survives him. They had no children.