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AMHERST
GRADUATES' QUARTERLY

VOLUME III

October, 1013 to June, 1914

PUBLISHED BY THE GRADUATES OF

AMHERST COLLEGE

CONTENTS

Page
Frontispiece. — The Sigma Delta Rho House. From

photograph by Mills. Facing 1

The College Window. Editorl\l Notes 1

To What Purpose Then.? — ^A Nursery of Ignorance. —
From our Item Editor.
The Goal and the Game. Baccalaureate Address.

Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown, '93 11

In Amherst Town. Poem. Frederick Houk Law, '95 . . 21
At the Sign of the Big, Red Apple. Walter A. Dyer, '00 22

Sonnets. Garret W. Thompson, '88 «. . 28

Pleasures of an Amateur Print Collector. Ernest G.

Draper, '06 29

0n CoUege J^iii

The College Year of 1912-13. Editor 34

The Ninety-Second Commencement. Editor 40

Portrait of President Emeritus George Harris. From

painting by H. L. Hubbell. Facing 46

George Harris, D.D., LL.D. Herbert L. Bridgman, '66 . 46

Portrait of Professor E. P. Crowell. From portrait by

E. B. Child, '90. Facing 49

A Hero OF Half A Century. John F.Genung, b.on. '13 . . 49

tlTfje Jgoofe Cable

Boynton, London in English Literature. — Field, Rome,
H. de F. Smith. — Chancellor, Our Presidents and their
Office, J. F. Genung 53

0Uitial anb ^ersfonal

The Trustees 57

The Faculty 58

The Alumni 60

The Classes 61

LIBRI SCRIPTI PERSONiE

President Meiklejohn, author of the baccalaureate address, to which we have
given the title "The Goal and the Game," needs no introduction.

Frederick Houk Law, who wrote the poem "In Amherst Town," when he was
an undergraduate, is at the head of the Department of EngUsh in the Stuy-
vesant High School, New York City.

Walter A. Dyer, who writes the article "At the Sign of the Big, Red Apple,"
is one of the editorial staff of Country Life in America.

Garrett W. Thompson, who writes the sonnets on page 28, is professor of German
in the University of Maine, Orono, Me.

Ernest G. Draper, who writes about "The Pleasures of an Amateur Print Col-
lector," is in business in New York City.

Herbert L. Bridgman, who gave the speech on President Emeritus George Harris,
is a distinguished journalist of Brooklyn, N. Y.; prominent also for his interest
in Arctic exploration.

The writer of the review of Mr. Boynton's book modestly desires to remain anony-
mous.

H. de F. Smith, who reviews Mr. Field's book, is professor of Greek in Amherst
College.

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GRADUATES' QUARTERLY

VOL. III.— OCTOBER, 1913.— No 1.

THE COLLEGE WINDOW.— EDITORIAL NOTES

ANOTHER Commencement has come and gone, as is the
way of Commencements; and now at the opening of a
new college year, while the directors of affairs on the hill
are caring for the undergraduate beginners, we of the alumni
T Wh t P ^^^ cherishing fond and friendly thoughts of

rrt -V the goodly company of men who have iust gone

pose Then? j. , . . , .

from us, and are now entering upon their

matriculation as Freshmen in a larger and sterner school. We
project our remembered experience into theirs; and we realize
that in the years here beginning they, as did we, will ask them-
selves what college values remain intact or growing, what will
prove transient, and whether on the whole those four pleasant
but expensive years spent at college, were a paying investment.
It is the same question that many others, both within and without
academic circles, are asking, one of the leading questions in fact,
in the current assessment of educational values. Money, as we
are well aware, is not the only measure of value; but in the years
immediately succeeding college, before age creeps on and makes
us introspective, it cannot help bulking large in many minds, and
college life cannot well escape its unit of appraisal.

One is led to this reflection by an article on "The Value
of a College Education," in a recent number of the Woman's
Home Companion, by an able and popular author, Mr. Ralph
Waldo Trine. It will pay you to borrow your wife's copy of the
September number and read it. He concedes the eminent value

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of a college education; estimates its elements with engaging
frankness; but it is especially interesting to note where and
how he locates it. In reading his estimate one recalls rather too
vividly that he is writing for women; but I hasten to let that
pass lest I incur an uncomplimentary implication not only to him
but to them. I quote his opening section.

"Is a college education," he writes, "as valuable as those who
have not the good fortune of having it are apt to think it is.?
Does a college education pay?

"The answer to the former question is unquestionably in the
negative: No. The answer to the latter is unquestionably in
the affirmative: Yes — it pays, and pays abundantly.

"When we remember the fact that ninety-nine and two-thirds
per cent, of all one learns at college, to err on the side of conserva-
tism, is promptly forgotten after one has been away from it,
say, for ten years; so far as actual knowledge is concerned, the
price is too hea\y in both time and means.

"When we remember, however, that its real value is something
quite different from the mere acquisition of knowledge, and
consider training, unfoldment, contact, associations, friendships
formed, the finding of one's self, the increased ability readily
to enter open or even closed doors, no man or woman of experience
will deny that its returns are far greater than its cost. "

Mr. Trine then goes on to make out a charming and convincing
case for all the elements here enumerated, except — learning. That
is the evanescent thing, the thing of which more than ninety-nine
per cent, vanishes, while the rest remains and more than balances
the account. What he means by this fleeting ingredient he later
refers to as "general information, learning, if you please." Well,
if we please to narrow learning to this, we will not gainsay him.
As reservoirs of "general information" gained ten years ago
most of us are pretty leaky. And yet to the outsider, for whom
Mr. Trine is writing, this will look like the play of Hamlet with
the princely Dane left out. What, he will ask, is a college for,
with its libraries and laboratories and lectures and seminars, with
its founders' and patrons ' hopes fondly centered there, if not pre-
cisely to store young men's brains with rare and varied knowledge?
What indeed has become of the "enterprise of learning," if its

EDITORIAL NOTES 3

avails are so fugitive, — unless, by some shallow optimism we can
still hold (with apologies to the shade of Tennyson) that

" 'Tis better to have learned and lost
Than never to have learned at all."

As a matter of fact that is what we do hold, the least scholarly
of us; and we show our faith in it by sending our sons to repeat
our experience. College still remains to us, in spite of enormous
shrinkage, an institution of learning.

But somehow, we do not feel so badly about all this forgotten
knowledge as our outsider thinks we ought to feel. We laugh it off
when we come back to reunion, as if it were a good joke; we note
how impossible entrance examinations would be to us now; we
seek out our old teachers and remind them, not of things they
taught us, but of certain pleasantries or escapades of the class-
room. Or if we bring up specific facts retained from lectures
and books it is in the ironical spirit of Stevenson, whose elaborate
bluff at memory is made not in regret, but in glee at the slenderness
of it. "I have attended a good many lectures in my time," he
says. "I still remember that the spinning of a top is a case of
Kinetic Stability. I still remember that Emphyteusis is not a
disease, nor Stillicide a crime. " All of us, I presume, can produce
such bits of remembered things as these from our mental scrap-
bag, and we have our own reasons, sometimes as trivial as Steven-
son's, for keeping them; but our sense of values is elsewhere.
"Though I would not willingly part," Stevenson continues, "with
such scraps of science, I do not set the same store by them as by
certain other odds and ends that I came by." ^Vliere he got these
others is not to our purpose here; but they were not cribbed from
a book nor retained merely by memory; they were things that
had become vital and moving in what he calls the "Science of
the Aspects of Life." For the sake of this he could afford to
forget many things, and even make merry over it; he was still
an educated man, devoted to the enterprise of learning.

The truth is, we can bear to lose our class-room acquisitions
with such serene equanimity because memory is no longer our
measure of value. It was more so when we were children in

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grammar school and high school, and then was the time to culti-
vate and prize it; but college is the place to cultivate initiative
rather, to learn the art of thinking for ourselves. Of course we
are apt to make a mess of this at first; and the result, as compared
with what our betters have thought out and put in order is so
crude as to seem hardly like learning at all, and so tentative as
to be better forgotten, or rather outgrown. But we instinctively
banish the mind whose only asset is sheer memory to the category
of arrested development; and the man who in later years becomes
a walking encyclopaedia of remembered facts, and nothing more,
belongs to the freak class. The sense of this tendency is at the
real basis of the college sentiment against "grinds" and "sharks"
and bookworms. There is a stage of mental achievement beyond
this which it is the college man's business, however lamely, to enter
upon and climb; it is the thinking, constructive, creative stage,
wherein his individual powers seek an expression of their own.
In this transition from the memory unit to the constructive, it is
only a law of nature that, as Goethe says, "When you lose interest
in anything, you also lose the memory of it." But you have not
lost the real substance of learning; no, nor the remembering power
either; you have only placed it where, according to your taste
and temperament, it belongs. What really concerns you, and is
woven into the tissue of your life, is recalled, or rather lives on,
as vividly as ever. In a very true sense, the arbitrary memory
has died, only to rise again in a fairer, more vital form. And
this is the learning that pays.

In view of this leakage of one's college accumulations, Mr. Trine
ascribes the greater value to an alternative. "There can be no
question," he remarks, "that so far as general information, learn-
ing, if you please, is concerned, the same length of time spent in
well-ordered, earnest, systematic reading and study will give one
far more than any college education can possibly give." Leaving
then this ingredient of "learning, if you please," as if it were the
inert and discountable element in college values, he goes on to
ask, "Are there other gains.''" and to answer, "There are, and
through these come the chief advantages of a college education."
Then follows the discussion of the charming list already quoted.
To all this we make no demur. We only raise one question:

EDITORIAL NOTES 5

Suppose then we eliminate the "learning, if you please" element,
and let the other values go on unimpeded, — the training, unfold-
ment, contact, associations, friendships formed, and the rest.
What culture medium, what atmosphere, what common interest
and endeavor, would these have to develop in? What pretext
for such expensive companionship would remain? We know what
happened not long ago when these elements got a little out of
balance. The side-shows, it was complained, were in danger of
swallowing up the circus. Where, on the one hand, dispropor-
tionate emphasis was laid on the "training and unfoldment" due
to games and athletics; where, on the other hand, disproportionate
emphasis was laid on the "contact, associations, friendships
formed" due to proms and social functions; it is not enough to
say the primal object of the college suflFered, the whole tone and
character of college life was lowered and cheapened. Life was
projected, so to say, on a more ignoble background. And the
call was for a return to the quest for knowledge, the storing of
information, the "learning, if you please," whose life in memory
is alleged to be so short. The steady effort to be scholars, the
resolve to remember and apply your findings, — in short the thing
of which "the price" is alleged to be "too heavy in both time and
means," is what gives worth and dignity to all the rest; and
the rest, whose returns are so gi-eat, cannot be had in true value
without it.

YOU have heard the anecdote of a young fellow engaged
with a company in the American game of "swapping
yarns," who when his turn came capped the contest with
a story so grotesquely impossible as to incur immediate remon-

. TVT c strance. "Why," he urged in defence, "I thought

A Nursery of ,. ,. . „. f„ y. .^ . ' ,^ , ^.

T^ twas lies you was tellin . It it is laults he is

Ignorance „ ,. , . n/r m • , • i-

tinding, we are prepared to cap Mr. i rine s indict-
ment of learning with a charge still more serious, — to beat him
at his owTi game. Our heading may sound hke a cynical, or
let us say Chestertonian topic for an editorial note if the writer
is understood to apply it to the college. Let me say at once
that is just what I mean to do, and in no censorious or muck-rak-
ing animus either. As a certain Irish listener replied to his fellow
when the two had misunderstood an intoned clause in the

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church service, "Doan't thot bate hell?" " Sure," was the prompt
and loyal answer, "thot's theintintion." The college educational
order, no less truly than the church, has a number of large and
wise intentions, and this of fostering ignorance is one of them,
not the only one, of course, nor the final one, but worth con-
sidering in good faith as a legitimate element of its compre-
hensive function. Some things in the review of the past year
tend to bring this element to hght.

Let us get at our meaning by the Greek route; that, you know,
is much in favor nowadays. Browning, who shows his keen
insight into the Greek genius in his portrait of Cleon the poet,
shall make him suggest it. Cleon may stand as a ripe example of
the all-round college-bred man. In his letter to "Protus in his
Tyranny" he points with pride, as the politicians would say, to
the many things he has done — poetry, sculpture, painting, anat-
omy, music — in his general culture, for he has not attained the
highest specialism in any line; and then as a crowning achievement
of learning he boasts,

" And I have written three books on the soul.
Proving absurd all written hitherto.
And putting us to ignorance again."

That, he deems, is a thing to be proud of, — sweeping the boards
clean, as it were, and pushing the learned world back to ignorance.
It is about what we blame and ridicule in the Greek Sophists,
who are to us the synonym of insincere special pleading. But
lest We should think Cleon — or his creator Browning — were
laughing in his sleeve, let us interrogate Socrates himself, whose
noble sincerity we would not question. "Listen to him," (I quote
from a scholarly writer on the Greek genius) "in a friend's house
at Athens. He is discussing justice. 'What,' he asks, 'is it.?'
'Giving back to your neighbor what is his own,' replies some one.
'And would you give a sword back to a madman if it were his own,
and he likely to do murder with it?' 'No.' 'Then we must
look for some other definition.' 'Justice is to do harm to one's
enemies and good to one's friends.' 'But if our enemy is a good
man, is it just to injure him? Surely not? You will have to
give up that definition too.' And so on; definition after defini-

EDITORIAL NOTES *

tion is raised and found wanting, and we end— probably in a fog.
This happens in every dialogue. The discussions of Socrates lead
to little in the way of conclusion; they are sceptical; they never
reach more than a provisional truth; they are always ready to
throw away results, to sacrifice a position that might seem to
have been gained."

Now what is this but just Cleon's feat of putting us to ignorance
not merely "again" but constantly? I was reading the dialogue
of Eutyphron the other day and found the same bewildering
method. It discusses the subject of holiness; and I would challenge
any one to tell from it what holiness definitely means. Socrates,
as we know, was an inveterate old puzzler and sceptic, though he
made nobly good at the end, and though his positive contributions
to clarity of thinking put him with the world's supreme teachers.
But one thing — the great redeeming thing — was almost a mania
with him: that the men with whom he talked should be jolted
out of the smug, superficial, untested notions and prejudices
which they had inlierited, and which they had retained merely
because they were too lazy to think. Ignorance — a proved and
grounded ignorance, for there is such a thing — is far preferable
to such a mentally vegetative state. Or as the author just quoted
puts it: "He holds it more worthy to seek than to find, better
never to reach his goal than to arrive at a wrong one."

We do not have to go to Socrates or to antiquity for this hos-
pitality to ignorance. It is abundant in modern science and
literature; it is a corollary of the sincere search after truth. A
professor of science in one of our colleges once remarked to his
class that geologists formerly thought thfey knew the cause of
earthquakes, but now they are sure they do not; "a proof," he
said, "of the progress of science." This remark may stand as a
fair type of what is "doing" in all fields of learning. I have illus-
trated it from the methods of that classic race which, with all its
dubious results, has taught the world to think, and we relegate
the questions on which they laid out their thought to the sphere
of philosophy and religion; but science and history and literature
are just as full of such uncertainties and disillusions.

"Our little systenis have their day:
They have their day and cease to be."

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Some are built on facts, which are the slipperiest things in the
world; some on experiment, which is always giving way to the
findings of other experiment; some on the logical process of putting
one thought and another together, which is open to the invasion
of fallacy and unsound reasoning. "All thought carries with it,"
as has been said, "an element of unrest"; and this unrest, while
it means growth toward certitude, has its obverse of growth
toward ignorance, toward the discovery of mistakes, toward many
a cul de sac whence there is no further progress and our anticipation
fails. Since the most of us were undergraduates scientific research
in many lines has had to begin all over again; history has found
itself groping between facts and lies; literature — well, we seem
to be just emerging from the tangle that the latest movements
have made of things. A Socratic spirit is in control in educational
methods; and the old prejudices, conceits, inherited notions,
cock-surenesses, which have so long done duty as substitutes for
thought, find themselves consigned to the limbo of stark ignorance.
Such is the melting-pot of ideas which the present-day scholar
must confront, and out of which he is to get grounded and clarified
impressions.

Of course the college, the nursery of scholars, cannot ignore
all this; cannot take its stand on some arbitrary dogmatic bound-
ary and say Thus far and no farther. It must submit to be a
nursery of ignorance, so far as a stage of ignorance is a necessary
ingredient in the findings of the scholar. It must be a place where,
if the truth demands it, men will dare to be ignorant; where, if
the truth delays, men can hold judgments in abeyance; where
being sure of things is not the same as being cock-sure. Such
attitudes as these are not always easy where young men in whom
the vision of great things is surging up are ready to take the king-
dom of truth by violence. It is certainly not a place where igno-
rance is bliss. In that sweet lubberland, where it is folly to be
wise, one imagines there is nothing going on but sports and social
distractions and perhaps moving picture shows, — a vacuous sort
of bliss. But in the real home of learning the ignorance that
must needs be incurred is a pain, albeit a stimulating pain, as it
were the growing-pains of wisdom. I think something like that is
what President Meiklejohn had in mind when in his inaugural

EDITORIAL NOTES 9

address he said: "I should hke to see every freshman at once
plunged into the problems of philosophy, into the difficulties and
perplexities about our institutions, into the scientific accounts of
the world especially as they bear on human life, into the por-
trayals of human experience which are given by the masters of
literature." He makes the condition that this be done by proper
teaching, and admits that the student "would be a sadly puzzled
boy at the end of the first year"; but sets before him three good
years in which to recover and achieve. They are not to stay
puzzled, and their very puzzlement is constructive; that you can
see from the baccalaureate address. Well, perhaps one year to
three is a fair proportion of bewilderment to clarity; for ignor-
ance, as we have said, is not the only thing nor the final
thing. I have dwelt upon it as something which may have its
transitional place in our college education; as a legitimate element
in promoting that "intintion" not greatly unlike what our two
Irish friends attributed to a more sacred institution. After all,
that is the objective, in spite of the ugly name.

WE HAVE from time to time taken our fellow-alumni into
our collective confidence, and always with a spirit of
encouragement and goodwill. We will now preserve
the same spirit, although our words may seem slightly critical.
p, ^ Our work has been lightened by the material

J p, ,. assistance and spiritual approval of many alumni,

for which we are most grateful. The effect
might be greater, and the results more tangible, if we could have
more active cooperation from that group of the elect known as
class secretaries. To many of our subscribers the most welcome
pages are those containing the personal news of fellow-alumni.
For this news we are, theoretically, dependent upon the class
secretaries; and yet only a small minority of these scribes have
given any evidence of knowing that the Quarterly exists. Some
have succeeded in remaining wholly quiet after repeated joggings.
This may not be due entirely to them. It may be the system
under which often the news center, or the nerve center, of the
class, otherwise known as its "live wire," is not the class secretary.
In this case our appeal is to those — there must be such in each
class — who will make themselves secretaries pro tem., and let the

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teni. be any time when they can pick up a good item^
We are of the good old Yankee sort, we — that is, all of the
alumni — "want to know," you know. If our hint does no more
than stimulate correspondence, and interest, between a secretary
and his constituents, we shall be satisfied; for we are confident
that when this change comes the result will be shown in the
Quart ERI.Y. We can read the Republican and the Sun and even
the Cincinnati Enquirer, but we can not read all the local papers,
and we can not readily invent news. We will not, however, sus-
pend our department of investigation of the doings of our modest
alumni, but we do hope the class secretaries will occasionally ex-
hibit some visible interest in the functions of their office and in.
the efforts of the Quarterly.

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THE GOAL AND THE GAME
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS

ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN

THIS is a lay sermon. I take no scriptural text. Let my
text be simply the occasion — this college and these young
men whom, nurtured and trained, she now sends out upon
ter mission. What shall she say to them — the last word — as they
go forth.''

On such an occasion our look must be outward and forward —
not back to the days and the joys that have been, but on to the
years and the opportunities that are to come. Let us ask, and
try to answer, whither they are going, what they will find, what
they may hope to accomplish, what difficulties they will meet,
in what causes they may enlist in that wonderful world of human
living for which we have been preparing them.

Amherst college, with every other liberal college worthy of the
name, has found her justification in the lives, the activities, the
deeds of her graduates. Have they lived to better effect than
they would have done had they not come here, — then her training
is justified. Have they approached the human task with finer
discrimination, with greater certainty of touch, with stronger
resolution, with clearer insight, with greater capacity for dealing
with it as a man should deal with it, — then Amherst has done well
and her sons may rejoice in her. To make them ready for living
worthily of their manhood, of living well rather than badly, that
has been the aim of the college. Today she is saying that she has
done what she could to make them ready, and as they go out we
give them one last word descriptive of the land that lies before
them.

What is this field of human action into which our graduates go.?
What are the activities, the deeds, the enterprises which human
beings are carrying on.? Wliat in its broadest outlines is the
human task in which every one of us, wise or foolish, strong or
weak, successful or failing, must take his place? I am minded,

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you see, to tell these young men what in the twenty years since
my own graduation, I have found life to be, whether in my own
experience or in that of the people about me.

Human beings, as I have found them, are engaged in two sets
of activities and only these two. On the one hand, they are doing
what they want to do; on the other, they are doing what they
do not want to do. Some of our actions appeal to us as good in
themselves; they are activities which we approve, upon which
we gladly enter, from which we reluctantly depart, events in our
experience in which we rejoice for their own sake, and because
of which we are happy to be alive. And there are other actions
and experiences which are not good in themselves, which we do
not choose for any value of their own, into which we go only
when constrained by some necessity, which can be approved if
at all not for themselves but for the sake of something else to
which they may contribute. In the interest of brevitj'^ and clear-
ness may I give to each of these sets of activities a name.'^ The
use of words may not seem to you the customary one, but it admits
of accurate statement and will serve our purpose if followed care-
fully.

When a human being is engaged in an activity which he freely
chooses for its own sake, let us say that he is at play. When he
embarks upon an enterprise which he desires not for its own value
but because it is useful for some other value, he is at work. If
for example one sits down in a quiet corner with a good book, life
is good for that time, the experience delights and satisfies, the
happy reader is playing. So too if one climbs a hill, or talks with
a friend, or cheers at a baseball game, or takes a plunge in the surf,
or exchanges confidences with a child; these experiences seem
worth while; one is sorry to have them ended, for then his playing
is done. But the men who are tending the machines in the mills
are not at play; they are not there chiefly because of any value
in the experiences they are having; they are there because they
must be, they are at work. And the girl behind the counter in
the shop, the man digging up the street with his pick and spade,
the school-boy with his hated book of grammar, these are active,
each in his own measure, not for the love of what they are doing-

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but for the wages of their labor, the other things that may be
gained and purchased by what they are doing. And in this we
typify a very large segment of this human experience of ours.
They are the workers, toiling not for the joy of the labor, but
for the joy of the reward, not playing but working.

It may perhaps be said that it is not always possible to distin-
guish these two sets of activities from each other, to separate
play and work. In answer I would offer a fairly satisfactory
test which may be applied. If you find a person busy about some-
thing but cannot tell whether he is playing or working, offer him
a holiday. Go to the small boy with the grammar and say,
" You need not stay at your lessons any longer, school is dismissed
for today." In all probability you will discover with great
rapidity what he has been doing. The normal boy is round the
corner before the decision may be withdrawn. And if you follow
him round the corner and find him already playing baseball, the
same test may be applied. Say to him, "You need not stay at
your pitching any longer. I will take your place and you may go
back to the grammar if you choose." Your words, before so
significant, have now no meaning; he is no longer at work, he
does not wish to be released; the term holiday does not apply;
the boy is playing, and all that he asks is that the game may go
on and he be in it.

Our first bit of news then for these young travelers is that in
the world into which they are going they will find awaiting them
two sets of activities for both of which we have tried to prepare
them. They will find themselves occupied like the boy with the
grammar and busy like the boy with the baseball. And the
college expects that whether they work or play they will do it better
because of the nurture and training which she has given them.

But now how are these two sets of activities related .^^ How
do the work and the play of life affect each other.? Is one of them
more important than the other, and if so which one is the greater.'*
Are they of equal value; or is one of them so fundamental and
primary that all the ultimate values of life must be found within
it alone? Is the meaning of human living to be stated equally

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in terms of play and work, or is the meaning finally reducible
to terms of one of them?

It is my own conviction, that in explaining life, play as we have
defined it is primary and work merely secondary. The things
which have worth in themselves are fundamental, and upon the
worth of these all other values depend. And if this be doubted
the proof is obvious. Why do we carry on activities which are
not good in themselves, why labor at tasks which are repellant,
why submit to toil which in itself is burdensome and hateful ?
There is only one answer, viz., that by means of the labor we
achieve something else worth while, by submitting to what we
do not want we may secure what we do want. The work of life
is justified only as in some way and in some lives it contributes
to those other experiences which we have called the play. If at
any point in the social scheme it can be shown that human beings
are being repressed and hindered and thwarted without any
return of values to themselves or to others, then at that point
we condemn the social scheme and demand that it be changed.
We are willing to give our work in payment for the values of play,
but if those values are not realized, then we cry out against the
injustice or the folly of our institutions. We will endure hardship
as good soldiers if only there is something worth fighting for.
But if there be no cause to further, no ends to realize, no results
to achieve, then the labor and the conflict have lost their meaning.
It is folly to do what we do not deem worth doing in itself unless
in some way it contributes to ends which are good in themselves,
to some experiences which appeal to us as worthy of our seeking.

The second piece of news for our travelers is then that in the
experiences of life the elements of play are fundamental in value,
while the elements of work are secondary and merely instrumental.
Life in its essence is a game rather than a task. It is an enterprise
which one chooses rather than a labor to which one is compelled.
The dominant quality of a game is just this, that one enters upon
it for its own sake, because it is good; as we say one chooses to
play for the fun of it. Now it is in exactly this same spirit
that life should be lived by those who have discovered the values
of living and have established them in proper relations. No one
of us can choose whether or not he shall exist; that has been
already decided for us. But every one of us, finding himself

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alive, can determine how he shall face the experience which is his.
Shall he regard his career as a task imposed upon him? Shall
he enter upon it as a slave driven and compelled hy circumstances?
If once he sees life clear and sees it whole, he cannot regard it in
this way. Underlying every task is an aim which the task is
intended to realize. Justifying every labor is a choice for the
sake of which the labor is done. And when life is taken as a whole
it is seen to contain these two things in the relation of end and
instruments, first the things which we choose for themselves, and
second the things which, though not wished for in themselves,
are yet chosen for their usefulness.

Ill

There are several objections to this way of viewing life which
I should like to mention, giving in each case a word of reply to
the contention which is urged.

When one suggests that life should be regarded as a game
rather than as a task it is objected that the figure is lacking in
seriousness, that it seems to deprive human experience of its
dignity, to make it rather trivial and childish, unworthy of men
and women of serious purpose and intention. But is it true that
games are less serious than labor, play less serious than work?
For many years now I have observed college boys on the athle-
tic field, busily engaged in conflicts with their foes and it has
never seemed to me that they were lacking in seriousness. Do
we not rather find them swept off their feet by the eagerness and
determination of their endeavors? Is not the whole college group,
when the great days of the season arrive, simply carried away by
the common devotion, the common enthusiasm, the common in-
terest which dominates them? Surely if I have heard Faculty
discussions aright it is not lack of earnestness in their play of
which we complain but rather an over-earnestness, an exagger-
ated zest, beside which all other interests seem to lose their
proper values. And on the other hand I have often seen college
students in the classroom, but have seldom had reason to com-
plain of exaggerated interest there. Is it not true that the same
boys who were aglow with enthusiasm on the field sit idle and
listless when the daily task in logic is assigned? For them the

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undistributed middle is not a cause for excitement, nor is begging
the question an unforgivable sin. The very boy who was aflame
with vexation at the fumble in the diamond is idly unperturbed
by the fallacy of accident. And the simple reason is that in the
classroom the boy is at work, the fallacies and the syllogisms have
for him no immediate value; they are supposedly useful for some-
thing else but that something is a long distance off and hence the
work, standing by itself, fails to disturb his lethargy. Yes, but
every teacher knows too another experience: — that of finding a
boy who is earnest about the things of the mind, whose eyes
flash at a fallacy, whose lips tremble at a discovery, whose jaws
are set in the face of a problem, — and when we see him we know
that here is a boy for whom thinking is not a task but a joy, not
labor but a game, not work but play. He is one who just like
the other players has found something which seems to him worth
doing in itself, and because of its appeal he is carried away by the
earnestness of his desire after it.

And surely it is not strange that play should be more serious
than work. What would make one serious and determined and
eager if not the presence of acti\'ities and experiences which are
in themselves worth while? The only men I have ever known
who seemed to me to regard life with a seriousness worthy of it
have been men at play. These men have found in human experi-
ence things of fundamental value, interests so compelling, causes
so great, enterprises so dominating that beside them all the
machinery of life has seemed small and petty. Such men are
willing to do the things that need to be done, to perform the
daily task, to follow the routine, but these do not express for them
the real significance of their experience. Behind all these they
seem to catch a vision of the things which are really important,
the things which men choose because they are good, the values
upon which all other values depend. A man who has gotten
this vision is forever raised above the ranks of slaves and mere
instruments, he has freely chosen to follow his own highest and
deepest desires; he is a spirit at play, and playing with all the
earnestness that the significance and beauty of his interests ensure.

I have heard the description of life as a game criticised on the
ground that, however true, it is dangerous, not a good doctrine
to preach to the youth of the present day. Our young people.

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we are told, already know how to play and are eager for it;
what they need to learn are the values of work. Now I do not
wish to challenge the second part of this statement but the first
part seems to me clearly and strikingly untrue. The one thing
which our people, old and young, do not know is how to play.
Go into our churches and see how many of us understand and
appreciate the experiences of contemplation and worship; go into
our libraries and see how many of our people know the joys of
reading what is worth reading; go to our concert halls and our
galleries and see how far we have realized the delights of appreci-
ation. And again if you think we know how to play, listen to our
conversation and hear how largely it is trivial and stupid; go to
our popular places of amusement and see how much of it is coarse
and vulgar. In all our social scheme I know nothing that is
more depressing than the failure to use our leisure time. It is
not our working days that lead me to despair, it is rather our
holidays. If, for example, you go through a mill town on a day
when the mills are closed, you may witness a sight which, more
than almost any other, seems to me to typify our social failure.
I mean the long rows of men lining the street curbs, idly wait-
ing for something to happen. Here are men who day in and
day out have been working for the instruments of living, and
now for a few hours they are free. But apparently within the
possibilities open to them, there is nothing which attracts them,
no enterprise that seems worth waging, no game that seems
worth playing, no suggestion, no invention, no initiation of an
activity which would satisfy long thwarted desires. If our social
scheme leads to this, if the result of our working is that we lose
all power of appreciating and enjoying the fruits of our labor,
then the scheme seems all awry and the game of life hardly
worth the candle. To avoid such results as this, to open men's
eyes to the possibilities of life, to make clear and vivid the worth-
while experiences that are fine, and true, and permanent, and
satisfying, this seems to me one of the chief aims of all education.
There are many other objections advanced against our inter-
pretation of life. I will mention only one more of them in passing.
It is the contention that to regard life as play is to make it self-
centered and even selfish. We are accustomed to identify playing
with idle pleasure-seeking and, it is urged, life cannot possibly

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be reduced to terms such as these. But this is not play as we
have defined it nor as I have seen it in human experience. The
man at play is one who has found something that seems to him
good, some cause or interest or activity that commands his adher-
ence, his enthusiasm, his zeal. If he has really given himself up
to it nothing could be less selfish than his attitude. It is not
himself for whom he is playing but his cause, his enterprise. How
true this is may be seen in the complete identity of interest in
the members of a team. They are not striving each for himself
but each for the team and for the game, and one who would think
of self in such a contest has simply lost the spirit of it all; he does
not know what it means to play on a team. And so in the game
of life, when we strive that by means of our labors, good things
shall be achieved, good ends shall be realized, it is not for ourselves
that one seeks them. Our demand is simply that in some life,
in some experience, better living shall be substituted for worse,
richer experience for poorer, finer feeling for coarser, achievement
for disappointment, success in living for failure. We and our
fellow players are together in the common cause, and the ends
which we seek do not sunder us apart but bind us together in
common purposes and endeavors u-ithin which the spirit of devo-
tion, of play, makes selfishness impossible,

But now what shall we say of the work of life.'' It is always
hard for the seer of visions to realize that life is more than its
essence, that always present with the fundamental are the acci-
dents, the properties, the circumstances in wl,ich that essence is
embodied. I would have young men see the vision and be drawn
after it by sheer attraction, but they must learn too that the way
is hard, that we can attain what we wish only by doing what we
do not wish, that we can achieve our ends only by using the
instruments present to our hand. The glory of this human life
of ours is that we choose; but a choice always implies denial as
well as acceptance. To take the thing we want is also to renounce
many other things which we want. One of the hardest things
to forgive within the college or outside it is that weakness of will
which makes one unable to cleave to his own purposes and
do what needs must be done in order that these may be realized.

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The man who wishes to play on the college team but has not
enough strength of purpose to train or to keep up the required
standing in his studies is typical of a whole world in which every
one of us is included. The young enthusiast aglow with eagerness
for his chosen career but who cannot endure the training and
informing which would fit him for the career, — ^he is just another
instance of the type which wishes for the reward but is not willing
to pay the needed price. Let us rebel as we will against needless
fruitless labor, but let us realize too that in this human life ends
are accomplished only by the use of means, that circumstances
are mastered only by submission to them as to our instruments,
that we can achievewhat we wish only by thwarting and throttling
many of our desires and aims; that necessary in the carrying on
of play is the doing of the work on which that play depends.

I have spoken of work as that which in itself is undesirable and
undesired, and I have no wish to withdraw any word that has
been said. But may I add one other word regarding it? Every-
one who has worked for a cause knows that for him the work
does not stand by itself but may be taken into the total experi-
ence of means and end by which a purpose is realized. And if
one sees the work in this relationship, then every one knows that
the value and joy of the end may spread so over the whole that
even the hardest and most hateful experiences may take on some
tinge and color of delight. In the playing of a game there may
be many a hard knock, many a rude shock, many a disappoint-
ment; and yet, if the game be worth the candle, the joy of the
whole is big enough to cover these hardships and give them a
place in the satisfaction of the total experience. This is a gospel
which has often been preached and which ought not to be forgotten.
But it should not be confused with the false doctrine that any
hardship is good, that any disappointment is salutary, that work
as such is an end in and of itself. Intelligent grasp upon life
demands of us that hardship be justified by its rewards, labor
by its fruits, the thwarting of our purposes by a still greater
realization than would have been possible without the thwarting.
There is a distinction between the play and the work of life; some
things are better and others worse, some experiences are worthy
of choice and others not worthy, and in the interests of life as a
whole we must not lose sight of the distinction nor of the proper
relationship.

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Members of the Class of 1913 in Amherst College:
I welcome you as players of the game, as members of the team;
and now I ask you, "Are you ready?" Have you seen those fine
and beautiful things in human experience which can compel
your allegiance? Are you ready to separate out the true from the
false, the good from the bad, the generous from the selfish, the
beautiful from the ugly? Can you read a good book and find
satisfaction in the experience; can you talk with a friend and
make the talk worth while; can you be alone and not be lonely
and vacant of mind; are you sensitive to the wonders and possi-
bilities of human experience and of the world within which that
experience falls; can you be fine but stalwart, gentle but relentless,
enthusiastic but sensible, earnest but reasonable? And again
are you able to endure? Will you, when once you set your teeth
into a task, keep them clenched until the task is done or reason
has seen some better bite to take? Can you be counted on by
your fellows to do what you have given them reason to expect
you will do? Can you count on yourself to stand the strain
when the time of trial comes?

If you have in any measure achieved these qualities — the
vision to see and the power to endure, then Amherst sends you
out with confidence to play the human game. Keep clear your
vision of the things that are best; keep strong your resolution
to follow them to the end; and as the days go by come back and
tell us how the game goes on.

IN AMHERST TOWN 21

IN AMHERST TOWN

FREDERICK HOUK LAW

N Amherst town the blue skies beam
On many a bright and hopeful dream
Of j^outh, which knows no doubt, no fear,
And thinks of friends and friendships near,

And trusts that men are all they seem.

So this is youth and youth's bright dream;
It somehow has a brightened gleam
From off the shining sunbeams clear.
In Amherst town.

And yet a day will come — I deem —
When brightness all away will stream;
And all the world so dark and drear.
And men so strange; that then I'll hear
They crave again that sunny dream —
In Amherst town.

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AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG, RED APPLE

WALTER A. DYER

AS a graduate of the institution of learning that produced
the Class of 1885, I should begin this little treatise with
a Latin quotation. I have a somewhat vague recollection
of a reference to a Sabine farm beloved of Q. Horatius Flaccus,
familiarly known to us classicists as Horace.

Unfortunately, I have mislaid my Horace. Now that I think
of it, I must have mislaid it some twelve or fourteen years ago,
together with the kindly companion volume in my mother tongue
to which I owe much of my familiarity with the Roman poet.
Possibly Howe and Williams got them both — for a consideration.

So I am forced to turn (as I intended to do in the first place)
to my good friend and fellow scholar, Abraham Cowley. If you
do not know him, let me introduce him as a Seventeenth Century
combination of Nungie and Pa Fletcher, with a noticeable admix-
ture of Morse, who, in these latter years of otmm cum dignitate,
has turned Pelhamite and horticulturist.

For my text, then, allow me to quote at some length from
Cowley's adorable essay, "Of Agriculture:"

"Since Nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite,
and Fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possi-
bility, of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best
mixture of affairs that we can make are the employments of a
country life. . . . Cicero says, the pleasures of a husbandman,
Mihi ad sapientis proxime videntur accedere, come very nigh to
those of a philosopher. There is no other sort of life that affords
so many branches of praise to a panegyrist: The utility of it
to a man's self; the usefulness, or, rather, necessity of it to all
the rest of mankind; the innocence, the pleasure, the antiquity,
the dignity."

You will perceive that this chap was a dear, calm-minded»
wordy old soul, dreaming away among his pastoral ideals. I
have often smiled at his unpractical philosophy and quaint ped-

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antry, but somehow I come back to him again when I need a
little quiet companionship in my own less feverish moods. Though
it was he who wrote "God the first garden made, and the first
city, Cain," he is never bitter, seldom satirical in his contempt
for the urban life, but always seeks to draw his friends away from
the vanities of the town to the peaceful satisfactions of the farm.

And gradually, through the years, I have gone along with him,
until now there is a title deed to eighty acres in the county clerk's
ofiice in Northampton, and over among the Pelham hills lies our
farm !

For I can truly say with Cowley, " I never had any other desire
so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have
had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and
large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them,
and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of
them and the study of nature" — and, I may add, to the growing
of the finest apples in New England.

Back in Sophomore days. Tip Tyler made us learn to sketch
a family tree of the animal world, tracing the evolution of life
from the amoeba to bird, fish, and mammal, with man perching
like Zaccheeus, in the topmost branches, I could not draw that
tree now, but I think that somewhere on the line from the monad
to me there must have been a carrier pigeon and a bee. For the
homing instinct is strong within me.

I have not traveled far, but the more I see of the world the
fairer Amherst looks to me, and I want to live and die somewhere
within sight of the old square tower on the hill, I felt that way
on the day I received my sheepskin, and I feel so now.

When I was a Freshman I think I wrote a poem for the Lit.
on "The Pelliam Hills." I was the seven hundred and thirteenth
undergraduate poet to attempt it, and like the artists who have
tried to paint the glories of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
none of us have been able to do the subject justice. There is
little that is grand or inspiring about the view east from the
College Church, but what Amherst man can forget it, and who
else can understand it?

For three years I lived before a window looking west, and there
I dreamed my youthful dreams of fame and glory. \Vlien those
gorgeous sunsets of ours painted the western sky with lavish

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splendor and cast their purple robes over the western hills, my
heart leaped out to join them — to hasten to the wonderland of
heart's desire. But it was the gentle admonishment of the
motherly east that wrought the more lasting spell upon me, and it
is to the east I have turned after some few disillusionings. The
western glory fades, but the Pelham hills stand eternal.

And somehow to this mood speaks with singular sympathy
the printed word of old Cowley. The sun is sinking again behind
the western hiUs and throwing the Pelham ridge into a rare en-
chantment of lights and shadows. Over there the cattle are
taking their calm, unhurried way to the home barn, and the
lights are beginning to twinkle in the farmhouse windows. Let
us give ourselves over to the Cowley mood for a space; other
things can wait awhile.

For Cowley is a mood personified. Living in the troublous times
of Cromwell and Milton, he wrote, in a calm and gentle spirit,
of humility, honesty, personal liberty, and the peaceful pursuits
of a pastoral life. The Cowley mood is worth recalling in these
present days of storm and stress.

Cowley's philosophy of self-mastery, contentment, and liberty
is one that we have all preached spasmodically and with doubtful
consistency. His philosophy gains force through the fact that
he actually practiced what he preached. He left the irksome
company and service of kings and queens, and retired at last
to a little house and a little garden beside the Thames, where
he passed the remainder of his life in serene content. He chose,
as many of us would choose, if we had his courage and greatness
of soul. His attitude toward hfe is well expressed in one of his
translations of Martial:

" Me, who have lived so long among the great.
You wonder to hear talk of a retreat:
And a retreat so distant, as may show
No thoughts of a return when once I go.
Give me a country, how remote so e'er,
WTiere happiness a moderate rate does bear.
Where poverty itself in plenty flows
And ail the solid use of riches knows."

Cowley wrote charmingly of liberty, of solitude, of obscurity,
of greatness, of the dangers of being an honest man, but most

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convincingly he wrote of the folly of avarice and the wisdom of
modest wants. In that he lies ever beyond me. From his calm
height of content he shows me a vision to which I know I shall
never attain, but which will ever be worth striving for.

" An humble roof, plain bed, and homely board.
More clear, mitainted pleasures do afford
Than all the tumult of vain greatness brings
To kings, or to the favorites of kings."

Perhaps you or I could utter sentiments like that, lightly;
one needs to read the whole of Cowley to appreciate how sincerely
a part of the man they were.

"A field of corn, a fountain, and a wood
Are all the wealth of nature understood."

I have my field of corn, my crystal spring, my little wood, but
I have yet to learn that content will not come through setting my
heart on a Colonial mansion aud a brace of automobiles. My
weight of worldly desires still holds me back from Cowley's height.

Again, and more at length: "When you have pared away all
the vanity, what sohd and natural contentment does there remain
which may not be had with five hundred pounds a year.'' Not
so many servants and horses, but a few good ones, which will
do all the business as well; not so many choice dishes at every
meal, but at several meals all of them, which makes them both
the more healthy and the more pleasant; not so rich garments
nor so frequent changes, but as warm and as comely, and so
frequent change, too, as is every jot as good for the master, though
not for the tailor or the valet-de-chambre; not such a stately
palace, nor gilt rooms, nor the costlier sorts of tapestry, but a
convenient brick house, with decent wainscot and pretty forest-
work hangings. Lastly (for I omit all other particulars, and will
end with that which I love most in both conditions), not whole
woods cut in walks, nor vast parks, nor fountains or cascade
gardens, but herb and flower and fruit gardens, which are more
useful, and the water every whit as clear and wholesome as if
it darted from the breasts of a marble nymph or the urn of a
river-god."

Here, to be sure, he makes the way not so diflBcult for us, though
the philosophy is the same. "A convenient brick house, with

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decent wainscot and pretty forest- work hangings" — that wouldn't
be so bad, now, would it?

Now this philosophy in Cowley's day would not live in town —
nor will it in our day. It demands the freedom of the country
and the wholesome occupations of the farm. Hence Cowley's
encomiums on agriculture and the pastoral life, and hence our
eighty acres in the Pelham hills. It is on the farm, if anywhere,
that honest toil and actual production will count. There we may
brush away the complications of modern society and settle down
to fundamentals, with a due sense of pride in the wisdom of our
course.

"Such was the life the prudent Sabine chose.
From such the old Etrurian virtue rose."

"We may talk what we please of lihes and lions rampant, and
spread eagles in fields d'or or d'argent; but if heraldry were
guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most
noble and ancient arms."

And the farm need not be a place of intellectual stagnation —
especially if located within sight of a college town. On the
contrary, Cowley pleads for the clear thinking that can come only
in the quiet of open spaces. Many a philosopher has followed the
plough. "Poetry," says he, "was born among the shepherds."

You will doubtless agree passively with all these sentiments.
For my part, I find them worth acting upon. For though, like
Cowley at one time in his life, "I am gone out from Sodom, but
I am not arrived at my little Zoar," still I have mapped my course
and have planted my trees. ^

And it all fits in so perfectly with the other thing that I care for
— the sense of comradeship with Amherst College. For from
the top of our hill, where we dream that our "convenient brick
house" may one day stand, we can gaze across old Amherst town
to the far hills beyond, with the college halls and towers and
leafy shades in full view in the middle distance.

Can you beat it? Could old Cowley himself beat it on the
banks of the Thames? Am I not in a fair way toward combining
a Cowley -like "philosophy" and "study of nature" with not
only the "employments of a country life," but also a promixity

'And I have sampled his apples — they were good, worthy of an Amherst graduate. — Ed.

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to the sources of my youthful inspiration and the college that I
love?

Perhaps you don't feel the way I do about it. Perhaps you can't
appreciate the joy that comes from the planting of a tree or the
gathering of fruit that your own acres have produced. And
perhaps you don't hanker for a daily sight of old chapel row and
the town common. Perhaps you have no wild bee or carrier
pigeon in your family tree.

For my part, I am not ashamed to be sentimental about it
to feel a choke in my throat when I look at the empty rows of
seats in chapel where my classmates once sat, and to seek every
opportunity to feel that way.

To own eighty acres in the Pelham hills, to possess a little
house where home is and where old friends are welcome, to eat
of the fatness of the land, and to live within feeling distance of
the glad days that were — this, it seems to me, is a not unworthy
substitute for a "stately palace" with "gilt rooms."

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SONNETS

GARRETT W. THOMPSON

I SOMETIMES think the tributes left unsung
Are fitter far than all the metred throbs
That pulse from heart-depths where each fetter robs
Them of the unshaped beauty whence they sprung.
Speaks joy in runes? Has every grief a tongue
To reel in gloomy vowels all the sobs
That burst like billows on the soul? Is the mob's
Wild passion measured by a rod? Or wrung
Pain spelt in syllables? The lens lets thro'
The light with selfish blur and each word cries
For tribute of our thought ere it will do
Or undo. So the soul's best feeling lies
Unspoke, and love disdaining Nature's few
Mean vehicles lives most in reveries.

If I could blend God's harmonies in one
Sweet strain and catching every vagrant note
That strays thro' infinite space as gossamers float
In air, and then with deftest touch could run
The deep full chord its vocal length, when done
'Twould jargon be, lacking thy voice; if too,
I ravished every flower of its hue
And stole the brilliance of each star and sun,
Or sent swift argosies to boundless space
To gather from its mystic ports such grace
As decks ideal being, and then with heart
And eager hand could build a perfect art
Reflecting flawless worth, it still would be
A mean and faulty thing — since God made thee.

PLEASURES OF A PRINT COLLECTOR 29

PLEASURES OF AN AMATEUR PRINT
COLLECTOR

ERNEST G. DRAPER

ABOUT four and a half years ago I was walking down Fifth
Avenue on my way home from business. I turned into
one of the side streets and, in doing so, passed a shop
window with a large sign in it. The lettering caught my eye.
It read, "Exhibition of Whistler Etchings Inside." Now, Whist-
ler was to me a very vague personage. To be sure, I had some
time before seen an exhibition of his paintings at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and had been much interested in them, as well as
in the fabulous prices at which some of them were recently bought.
What an etching actually was, however, I was sure I did not
positively know, and that Whistler etched as well as painted any
considerable work was news to me. So, out of curiosity, I entered
the shop. The walls were lined with prints of various kinds. I
looked at them all and, still out of half -interested curiosity, I
asked the price of one impression that seemed to me to be particu-
larly fine. "Twenty -five dollars," the attendant replied. That
was staggering news. The man evidently saw my look of amaze-
ment, for he went on to explain that the large number of impres-
sions in circulation accounted for the low price. But that was no
explanation to me. It seemed incredible that a W^histler of any
sort should sell at that price. And if the acknowledged modern
master of them all could do work that twenty-five dollars would
buy, why couldn't the work of good but less skilled artists be
secured for even less? The thought bothered me long after I
left the shop, and it continued to bother me until I determined to
have the matter settled in my own mind once for all, and investigate.
I presume this experience is a typical one and I imagine that
what started others, like myself, towards an interest in etchings
was the fact that here was an art, practised by the very masters
whose names are familiar to all, in actual reach of persons without
a swollen bank account! Surely, possession is an inherent instinct
and the pleasures derived from it can extend to objects of art as

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well as to more material things. And surely one's enjoyment of
fine prints as well as other art objects is greatly increased by own-
ing these prints and having them where you can see and study and
speculate concerning their making, from day to day. To judge
by my own case, the chief reason why more young men are not
interested in paintings, rare books and the like is merely because
the objects themselves seem so far away and so in: possible to get
into intimate touch with. For instance, one gets a thrill at seeing
some wonderful work of art in a gallery. But one can't be forever
haunting the gallery, and the impression one first received fades
in time. Moreover, the feeling of awe, the inspiration, while an
intense enjoyment in one way, in another is a keen disappoint-
ment. For one would like to have that enjoyment more often — •
and one realizes that only the very wealthy can do that. So there
comes a tinge of aloofness and a feeling that such works of art are
more especially for those that can afford to own them. Perhaps
this is a crude notion and one unworthy of the man interested in
art for art's sake. Perhaps it is — but all people do not have it
in them to be interested immediately in art for art's sake. They
need other incentives to keep alive their half-awakened interests,
and it is the art that can provide the best and easiest methods
by which it may be studied that will gather to itself the most
enthusiasts.

In this respect etchings afford a rare opportunity to the person
who desires to collect and study something artistic that is really
worth while. They are small in price but large in value in that
they are often work of a master's needle. Does not a Whistler
etching or a Turner mezzotint or a Hillet wood engraving express
as much of the artist's skill as if the same work were done in colors
on a canvas? There is, of course, the objection that it is the
color and size of the canvas that will always hold its superiority
over its black and white "sister." But this is a narrow view of
the power a truly great etching can exert over the imagination;
for a fine print, in what it suggests, can be as pleasing to the mind
and senses as though it were executed with paint and brush. There
is also the objection that the mere multiplicity of impressions, as
it cheapens the price, so it cheapens the quality of the product.
In like manner one should say the ideas expressed by the author
of the Merchant of Venice must be worthless stuff, because so

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many copies of the book containing these ideas are in circulation!
In the case of great etchers it is rarity and public fancy that deter-
mine price far more than excellence of execution per se — and that
is why an etching of which only one impression is in existence is so
much more expensive than an etching of which several hundred
impressions are in existence. But, other things being equal, the
art is as great in the latter as in the former, and sometimes greater.
Frederick Wedmore in his book, "Fine Prints," has happily
expressed the pleasure in general that the collection of etchings
affords. The paragraph reads:

"Again, the print-collector, if he will but occupy himself with
intelligent industry, may, even today, have a collection of fine
things without paying overmuch, or even very much, for them.
All will depend on the school or master that he particularly affects.
Has he at his disposal only a few bank-notes, or only a few sover-
eigns even, every year? — he may yet surround himself with excel-
lent possessions, of which he will not speedily exhaust the charm.
Has he the fortune of an Astor or a Vanderbilt.^ — he may instruct
the greatest dealers in the trade to struggle in the auction room,
on his behalf, with the representatives of the Berlin Museum.
And it may be his triumph, then, to have paid the princely ransom
of the very 'rarest' state of the rarest Rembrandt. And, all the
time, whether he be rich man or poor — but especially, I think,
if he be poor — he will have been educating himself to the finer
perception of a masculine yet lovely art, and, over and above
indulging the 'fad' of a collector, he will find that his possessions
rouse within him an especial interest in some period of Art History,
teach him a real and delicate discrimination of an artist's qualities,
and so, indeed, enlarge his vista that his enjoyment of life itself,
and his appreciation of it is quickened and sustained. For great
Art of any kind, whether it be the painter's, the engraver's, the
sculptor's or the writer's, is not — it cannot be too often insisted —
a mere craft or sleight-of-hand, to be practised from the wrist
downwards. It is the expression of the man himself. It is, there-
fore, with great and new personalities that the study of an art,
the contemplation of it — not the mere bungling amateur perform-
ance of it — brings you into contact. And there is no way of study-
ing an art that is so complete and satisfactory as the collecting of
examples of it."

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To follow the prices of the same etchings as different impressions
come out for sale from time to time is a fascinating occupation,
and one that increases in interest in proportion to the knowledge
of the collector. It is also a pleasing sensation to have one's own
selections vindicated by public taste. It is, of course, a mistake
for an amateur to buy with the sole idea of speculating on the
public's future desires. It is a mistake because it warps the
collector's own ideas of what is artistic and because nobody can
determine in what work public fancy will interest itself. To be
sure, there are certain masters such as Rembrandt, Claude, Whist-
ler, Hadan and a few others whose work is immune from wide
fluctuation in prices. Outside of these few, however, no one can
guess with perfect certainty where, when or how long the lightning
will strike. It is a common occurrence to see the public turn a
deaf ear to the entreaties of dealers in their attempts at populariz-
ing the work of some artist. On the other hand the public will
frequently, without warning, take up some comparatively unknown
etcher and boost his work to the skies. Such was the case this
winter with the Swedish etcher, Zorn. He is an artist still living,
the author of some inferior work and liable to do more that may
result in damaging the value of his entire output. And yet prices
of his work soared to fabulous sums. Six, eight, even twelve
hundred dollars was being obtained for some of his better etchings
and yet there are literally hundreds of good impressions by Whist-
ler and Haden (to whom Zorn cannot be compared in the same
breath) that can be bought for one-tenth these figures. Public
taste is verily an enigma. But if one goes out with an open mind,
purchases a worthy print at what he considers a low price, and a
few years later finds that public demand has boosted the print's
price outrageously, he is apt to look upon the vagaries of public
fancy with indulgence! I am not so sure, however, that the
experience is so very frequent with even the keenest collectors.

After all, for the amateur the old prints are the best. New and
original work catches the fancy but only rarely can it hold it.
There are exceptions — but not many. "Good wine needs no
bush," and fine prints by real masters no commendation. How
affectionately they may be regarded is well set forth in a poem by
the late Frederick Keppel who prefaces his poem with the remark:

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"James L. Claghorn (the great financier and art collector),
seated in his print room, speaks:

"I sit among my folios all

My friends in black-and-white!
And silent speakers, wise as fair,
Surround me as I write.

No need to sail three thousand miles

To Dresden, Florence, Rome,
Art's greatest master-works to know —

I have them here at home !

Come, Father Diirer, rigid, quaint,

Solve me thy mystery!
What broods that winged woman strange ?

That weird Knight, where rides he?

Come, Rembrandt! ha, what forms are these —

Clumsy, uncouth and poor!
This Virgin like a peasant "Frau,"

Saint Joseph like a Boor!

Nay, pardon me, thou artist grand,

'Tis but with friends I jest.
Of all the cherished favorites here,

Rembrandt, I love thee best !

We shall not part ! my gentle friends.

Time but endears us more.
Still will ye cheer, instruct, refine,

Till here my days are o'er.

Then when ye pass to stranger hands

Good fortune still befall;
'Loved, honored, cherished may ye be.

For ye are worth it all!"

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©n College ]^ill

THE COLLEGE YEAR OF 1912-13

IT HAS been the opening year of a new Amherst administration;
a year tense with interest and inquiry. Curious eyes all
over our wide-spread constituency have concentrated atten-
tion on the activities of College Hill, as if watching the beginning
of a new game to note the pith and promise of the first inning.
The interest has been compounded of several elements. There
is first the natural curiosity, not to say solicitude, attaching to a
new regime; especially as the direction of this is entrusted to
one not of our graduate body, and bringing with him a different
college tradition from ours. With the advent of a new president
things must needs shape themselves a changed order and emphasis,
which must by time and thoughtful adjustment ripen into the
steady matter-of-course that the old one was. Then there is the
wholesome impulse partly roused and partly found by the much
discussed '85 memorial; which has by no means spent itself,
though its effects may be working out in ways not specifically
contemplated in the original plea. The alumni have doubtless
been watching for the sequel of that. As for the larger wave
of educational revival and criticism, like a call for the taking of
stock and the revision and enliancement of values, in speaking
of this we speak not for Amherst alone but for all the colleges
and for the spirit of the time; we have been in the current of it,
and have felt its inspiration. And this is one of the things which
many of our kindly alumni, especially of those who, gone onward
in the paths of liberal learning in other institutions, have watched
eagerly to see incorporated into their ideals of Amlierst.

The Inauguration and its Sequel. — Our impressive inaugural
occasion, with its interchange of ideas on the part of the foremost
educators, and especially with its strong and courageous inaugural
address, was the summons not so much to a new order as to a new
concentration and resolve. It took naturalization papers, as we
may say, for the thing which Professor Woodbridge had already

THE COLLEGE YEAR OF 1912-1913 35

SO ably inculcated, "the enterprise of learning." And through
the year this eminently rational enterprise has to an encouraging
degree determined the keynote and tonal quality of the college
life. It has proved its intrinsic power to be a leading motive
without making prigs of students or martinets of teachers;
which is to say, it has been a healthy response to a sound and
normal stimulus. The year has accordingly been one of unusual
alacrity and heartiness for scholarly and cultural interests. Dis-
cussion and ventilation of weighty questions have been rife in
the fraternities and at boarding tables. Clubs, seminars and
reading circles have flourished. The vigor with which the under-
graduates have responded to the new impulsion has of course
gratified the observant alumni whose hopes were set that way;
while also it has had an emollient or at least pacifying effect on
two classes of graduates who were suspicious of anything revolu-
tionary. There were the young alumni of the "whoop 'er up"
sort, who feared for the benumbing effect of cerebration on the
open-air and noisy activities; and there were the alumni of medi-
ocre ideals to whom high standards of mental strenuousness were
hazardous. "Oh, they hadn't ought to bear down too hard on
the boys," one of these remarked to me; "you can't expect them
all to be scholars." This was in reference to the stiffened stand-
ards and requirements which dismayed him. He has a son in
college, by the way, who has a generation the start of the father,
I think both father and son have found the college a very endurable
place after all; nor has anyone observed a lack of zest and high
spirits even under the supposed danger of brain fag. The era of
the pale and long-haired student is only a tradition.

The Extra Lecture Courses. — The several endowed courses
of lectures, while not adding greatly to the regular pursuits of
the class-room, have been of great service in bringing the students
in contact with men of national and international reputation and
broadening their regards from the parochial and provincial to
the scholarly interests of the larger world. It has been interest-
ing to note how these several courses of lectures, each in its way,
furnished valuable literary, personal, and speculative stimulus.

The Clyde Fitch ecturer for 1912-13 was Felix E. Schelling,
professor in the University of Pennsylvania, author of many
works on English drama, expecially a history of "Elizabethan

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Drama," the present standard authoritative work, which gave
its author a foremost place among the scholars in this subject.
In his work at Amherst he gave three public lectures. The first
was on "Recent Discoveries Concerning Shakespeare"; in which
he recounted and explained the important facts that have been
brought to light in the last ten years. The second was on "The
Elizabethan Theatre"; in which he discussed, and illustrated by
stereopticon views, our knowledge and the current theories of
the Elizabethan stage. As he is one of the foremost authorities
on the subject, his statement of his own views and theoretical
plans carried special weight and interest. In the third lecture,
entitled "Shakespeare and Demi-Science," he gave an acute and
witty criticism of the modern tendency to test the semblances of
art by the actualities of present science. He took occasion also
to answer the questions : \Mierein does the quest of art diflPer from
that of science.'' and, What is the essential function of the teacher
of literature? — Not only as a public lecturer but as a teacher with
classes, as did Professor Gilbert Murray with the Greek classes
last year. Professor Schelling took over for three weeks the work
of the class in English drama. He devoted his attention to Shakes-
peare, especially to the main features and principles of the study
of Shakespeare; not only by class-room lectures and recitations
but by many private conferences with students. He was very
successful and stimulating; his charming personality assisting
greatly to make his work with the students effective.

Succeeding to this contact with the genial personality of a man
of letters and learning was a contact still more intimate and home-
like, when the college was privileged to hear the Henry Ward
Beecher course of lectures by District Attorney Whitman, of the
Class of 1890. They were more like familiar talks than lectures,
and the sessions were prolonged by the answers to numerous
questions mostly from the eagerly listening students. It was
like a report direct from the "firing line" where great principles
are at stake and great responsibilities nobly met. Above the
practical interest of the lectures themselves, which was broad and
large, was the sense of the personality behind them, so sterling
and true, yet so thoroughly of the best spirit of Amherst. Two
of the lectures, the second and fourth, given in College Hall,
were devoted to the general subject of "The Enforcement of Law,"

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and were attended by a deeply appreciative public as well as
college audience. The other two, intended more specifically for
the college and given as afternoon talks in Johnson Chapel, were
more conversational and familiar; the first a talk on the work
of the District Attorney's ofiice, and the third an intensely inter-
esting account of Mr. Whitman's part in the famous Rosenthal
case. Both lectures were followed by the answer to so many
questions which had been handed up on slips of paper, that the
time did not sufiice for all of them. Amherst has seldom seen
so hearty and enthusiastic a response to the words, and more espe-
cially the deeply felt character and integrity of a distinguished
visitor.

Soon after Mr. Whitman's visits came the newly instituted
course, the William Brewster Clark memorial lectures, on the
general subject of "The Modern Point of View." They were
given by Professor James T. Shotwell, professor of history in
Columbia University. The object observed, with great wealth
of learning and language, from this year's modern point of view
was the alleged modern revolution in religion. It is a subject
much "in the air"; and the large attendance and keen interest,
on the part of the undergraduates, attested how living a subject
it is at Amherst. In the April number of the Quarterly we
mentioned the lectures when only two of them had been given,
but suspended judgment on them as a whole, as the lecturer
warned his audiences to do, until the last and key-lecture had
been delivered. Well — perhaps we had better leave it suspended.
I think the general sense was that the key did not unlock quite
so substantial a treasure-house as we had been led to expect.
"No man also having drunk old wine straightway desire th new:
for he saith, 'The old is better.'" Perhaps the reason lay in the
futility of trying to reduce rehgion to terms of archaeological and
anthropological science; perhaps the sciences themselves are not
quite matured enough to speak with authority. But the lectures
did us great service; as much perhaps by the reaction they
caused as by the swallow-it-whole agreement. It is well to know
"where we — or they — are at." It was not a personality that
was felt in these last lectures ; it was an embodied up-to-date spec-
ulation; and as such it was rewarding. We are learning to
speculate too.

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The Athletic Situation. — ^Two Commencements ago one of
our honored alumni, whose songs have done much to cheer
as well as "cheer /or Old Amherst," warned us to "look out for
Aggie." We did, Aggie proved worth looking out for. At the
close of the hockey season, whose last game was with Aggie,
the newspaper heading was, "Amherst all in gloom." I met one
of the students the day after. "Well," I remarked, "the Aggies
licked you, did they?" "Yes," he replied; "two to one. But
it was a good game. They have a better team than we; we
admit it. But we did our best. And it was a good game." I
thought of the newspaper heading. That was the kind of " gloom"
in which Amherst was plunged. Instead of trying to account for
the beat by some finicky fluke or other, they took their medicine
cheerfully and went on doing their best. I don't remember
even to have heard the plea that the professors were "bearing
down too hard" on the students; some of them were doing their
best in study lines too. They seemed also to enjoy the game
as well as the score. And as they went on through the season
the gloom — such as it was — lifted. The alumni know of the
good recover that they made, and of the pride with which at the
end of the year they could look back on a season of sound achieve-
ment in sports and athletics, made in a spirit worthy of men
in liberal pursuits, to whom the things of the mind share in just
proportion with the things of the body.

On the whole as, mindful of the noble and uninterrupted old
Amherst tradition, we have been getting acquainted with the
new administration and trend of things, we can report a remark-
ably inspiring, broadening, healthy-minded college year. And
the new year bids fair to be like it.

From the Football Field — The main athletic interest of the
opening new year centers of course in football; and we have
secured from Coach Henry H. Hobbs the following account of
the season's prospects, so far as they could be estimated after
about a fortnight's practice.

"The Amherst football squad reported for the initial practice
Monday, September 15.

"About twenty-four men composed the squad, among them
being eleven veterans, including two men, Kimball, tackle, and
Curry, guard, who were not eligible last fall but played on the

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1911 team. The first ten days were devoted entirely to the so-
called ' fundamentals ' of the game, passing and falling on the
ball, quick starting, tackling the dummy, all methods of kicking,
and catching of punts for back-field candidates.

"Only straight basic plays have been given to the players to
master, after which will come the more complicated plays. For
the most part the men are of fairly good weight and fast in action
for this time of the year.

"The freshman squad, who are at work daily on Blake field,
under Cooper, last year's substitute quarter-back, will be used
very soon against the college team to give the necessary scrimmage
practice. The freshmen have an entirely different set of signals
and set of plays and as they come in contact only during scrim-
mage with the college team, it is evident that there can be no
playing signals, while on the contrary, each team must use intel-
ligence in diagnosing instantly the opponents' play.

"Mr. Nelligan has agreed to care for the physical condition
of the squad. The first game made evident how beneficial his
services have been in that not once during the entire game did
Amherst call for time.

"This year's schedule is unusually good in that every game,
except possibly Dartmouth, affords a fair sporting proposition to
the competing elevens.

"Without serious accidents, and with each man doing his
share of hard work, it seems reasonable to expect a successful
season."

The schedule of games for the season, is as follows:

Amherst Score

VS. Amherst

Sept. 27 — ^Rhode Island State College at Amherst . 10

October 4 — Colgate at Hamilton 0

October 11— Y. M. C. A. College at Amherst 6

October 18 — ^Trinity at Hartford

October 25 — Wesleyan at Middletown

November 1 — Dartmouth at Amherst

November 8 — W. P. I. at Amherst

November 15 — Williams at Williamstown

Opp's
0
21
20

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THE NINETY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT

WHAT an Amherst Commencement is like, the alumni
have no need to be reminded. It all comes up with
the mention of the name. They all began to feel, by
anticipation, its twinge of sadness when they had their last Senior
Chapel together; they all experienced its joy not unmixed with
solemnity when they went up on the stage to receive their diplo-
mas, and when they partook together of their first alumni dinner
realizing their accession to the honorable estate of alumni-hood.
Most of them have felt the renewed pleasure of reunion, so unlike
anything else, as they have come back to the old college to find
their classmates there again, changed all the way from jolly rotund-
ity to gray-headedness, yet the same young-hearted boys they
were. I do not need, therefore, to describe it. Description is only
of things you do not see; and the Commencements of which you
and your class were a part, living so kindly in your memory, do
not belong to that category.

I can think of no name so fitting to characterize the ninety-
second commencement as a whole, as the word domestic. There
are shades of difference in commencement reunions, just as there
are in college classes; no two are alike; and perhaps we may say,
taking account of their unit of interest, that all are the best. The
best in this case was the pervading air of home-like sociability, the
alumni with their wives and families making and renewing acquaint-
ance, and in attending the various exercises and entertainments of
the week living over again the old experiences. There was nothing
boisterous, and nothing tame. Of course there were the usual
fantastics and brass bands and processionings and cheering of
Saturday evening; it would be a calamity to dispense with these;
and surely nothing could exceed the picturesqueness of those
bloody pirate costumes, which, however, could not make their
wearers fierce. They captured President Meiklejohn at the
muzzle of a (wooden) revolver, but whether he had to walk the
plank or become a bloody pirate, we could not quite make out. I
think he did not lay it up against them; it but served to make
him more truly one of our great graduate family.

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The baccalaureate address on Sunday morning, which took no
scripture text and professed to be a lay sermon, was given by
President Meiklejohn, the accompanying services being conducted
by a clerical member of the Faculty. The address is published on
previous pages of the Quarterly, under the title "The Goal and
the Game," and readers can judge for themselves of its eminently
inspiring and robust message to young men.

The sacred concert of Sunday afternoon, under the direction of
Professor Bigelow, instead of being as heretofore a single cantata or
oratorio, had a varied program rendered by male voices, assisted
by the college orchestra and members of the Boston Festival
orchestra. Among the pieces given were : the choral from Mendels-
sohn's Hymn of Praise, "Let all men praise the Lord"; Schubert's
"Great is Jehovah the Lord"; a rhapsody by Brahms; the Credo
and Sanctus from Gounod's St. Cecilia mass, with Mr. Reed
Miller as soloist; and the Memory Song to Amherst.

A leading feature of the evening of the lawn fete was the planting
of the Beecher elms, this year being the centenary of Henry Ward
Beecher's birth. A row of elms was planted along the brow of the
hill at the south of the campus, between the Gymnasium and the
Biological Laboratory and overlooking the new Hitchcock Field.
The speech of presentation was made by Rev. Howard Bliss, of
the class of '80, president of the Syrian Protestant College in
Beirut, Syria; and responded to by President Meiklejohn. Of the
Lawn Fete itself we need not speak, save to say that every year
it seems better and more conducive to the delight of an Amherst
commencement .

The commencement speaking, in general, reflected well the whole-
some and hearty spirit which through the past year has animated
the activities of the college. The speakers with their subjects were
as follows:

Lewis Dayton Stilwell of Syracuse, N. Y. A Plea for the
Old Religion.

Raymond Witherspoon Cross of Rochester, N Y. ^ Result
of College Experience.

Frederick Russell Pope, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The Idea of Service.

Allison Wilson Marsh of Quincy, Mass. The Personal Relation.

Frederick John Heinritz of Holyoke, Mass. The Basis of
Social Reform.

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The Bond prize for the best Commencement address was awarded
to Mr. Pope.

In the ceremony of investiture and conferring of honorary
degrees a variation from the custom hitherto observed was made,
in that the formula of request was pronounced by Dr. Talcott
Williams, '73, president of the Pulitzer School of Journalism, and
one of the trustees of Amherst College, while the President of the
College made the award. The honorary degrees conferred this
year were as follows :

William Cox Redfield secretary of commerce, public man of
public spirit, using party as a means not an end, manufacturer
associated in fiduciary relations with wide-spread interests, giving
of himself to social service, national legislator wisely chosen to
direct the department of commerce. Amherst seeing in him the
man of public usefulness and personal devotion to public service,
adds him to the list of those she delights to honor, and on behalf
of the Trustees and Faculty of this college I ask you to confer on
him the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Charles Seymour Whitman, district attorney of the county
of New York. Elected to this post because he has been, as magis-
trate and judge, intrepid, impartial, just, and merciful; as public
prosecutor he has, by giving edge and efiiciency to the sword of
justice, redeemed the honor of a great city, enforced law and
broken the conspiracies of evil-doers making sordid merchandise
of public power and responsibility. * His skill as a lawyer and his
vigor and vigilance as district attorney have shown the land that
ancient remedies, in the hands of men honest and strong, can meet
all new evils. Amherst fondly remembers her son, faithful and
fearless, at a post of public need and personal peril, and on behalf
of her Board of Trustees and her Faculty I have the privilege to
ask you to confer on him the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Marion Leroy Burton, president of Smith College. Teacher
and preacher, by birth and education from Iowa and Minnesota,
states of New England origin. A man of vision, perseverance
and courage. A theologian seeing his science as a divine plan
displayed in human development, an educator who has devoted all
his energies in the institution of which he is the head to improve
the position of the teacher and to raise the standards of the pupil.
At the threshold of an enlarging career begun by securing a great

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addition to the resources of the institution of which he is the head :
I ask on behalf of the Board of Trustees and Faculty of Amherst
college that you confer on him the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Harlan Fisk Stone, dean of the school of law in Columbia
University, lawyer, jurist, educator, head and administrator of
a great school of law, teaching men not alone the practice but the
principles of an ancient calling charged with the administration
of justice among men. In the midst of the storm of new doctrine
and strange remedies, true to the ancient foundations of juris-
prudence, Amherst recognizes in him devotion to the precedents of
the past, to the service of the present, and to the imminent need
and call of the future. On behalf of the Trustees and Faculty of
Amherst college I ask you to confer on him, her son, the degree of
Doctor of Laws.

Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe, educator and head of the Hill
School of Pottstown, Pa., a preparatory institution set on the hill
of opportunity. Wisely using the opportunities, he adds to admin-
istrative capacity, academic training, scholarship and the teacher's
powers. This college educated him, and today honors him for
the use he has made of her training. On behalf of the Trustees and
Faculty I ask you to confer on this son of Amherst the degree of
Doctor of Letters.

Harlan Page Beach, professor of theory and practice of mis-
sions in Yale University. Earlier, for seven years in China, a
missionary in practice as well as theory, head of the school for
Christian workers in this country, secretary of the student volun-
teer movement for foreign missions. Teacher of those who are to
teach the world, inspirer of Christian youth in the world-labor and
world-view of this world-century, he has brought to his task the
scientific direction afforded by systematic geographical knowledge.
A pioneer in this field, he is today its foremost authority. On
behalf of the Trustees and Faculty of this college, founded and
existing to render all lands radiant with divine truth, I ask you to
confer on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Jay Thomas Stocking, priest of God, preacher, pastor, faithful
shepherd of Christ's flock committed to his care, not forgetting the
service of little children, in manifold acts for the church which has
honored him : Amherst sees in him a son, one of many in all the
years of all her history set apart to divine service by the divine

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will, and I ask you on behalf of the Trustees and Faculty to confer
on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity,

William Keeney Bixby of St. Louis, by early training versed
in railroad management, by energy, capacity and directing ability
now sitting at the council board as director of banks, trust com-
panies, railroads and manufacturing corporations. Giving his
leisure, his resources and his executive powers to the study of
history, to the organization of historical study and to the private
publication, in a form which adds to the triumphs of the printer,
of unpublished historical documents precious to the historical
student and unavailable without this aid. Honored in his home,
vice-president of Washington University : on behalf of the Trustees
and Faculty of this college which today adds his son to the list
of her alumni, I ask you to make the father also a son of Amherst
by conferring on him the degree of Master of Arts.

As the closing feature of the Commencement service, after the
honorary degrees were conferred, two portraits were presented ta
the college, one of President Emeritus George Harris; the other
of the late Professor Edward Pay son Crowell. The speeches of
presentation, as belonging by their subjects to "The Amherst
Illustrious," are given on other pages of the Quarterly.

At the Alumni dinner the guest of honor and principal speaker
was Hon. William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce in President
Wilson's cabinet. Secretary Redfield, who has a son now in college,
is a brother of Mrs. Neill, widow of the late Professor H. H. Neill
of Amherst. His speech was a practical business man's plea for
the saving of waste in the mental operations of school and college;
illustrating the waste that he had in mind by the hard technical
language in which much pedagogical instruction is conveyed, and
by the dry and dead analysis which so often misses the elements of
vital worth in literature and thought. It was the "efficiency
system" put into the terms and operations of the higher
education.

Brief speeches were made also by District Attorney Whitman,
who along with Secretary Redfield and others had just been the
recipient of an honorary degree; and by Mr, Atwood representing
the class of 1903, the ten-year class.

The Alumni Trustee elected this year is Rev, George A, Hall,^
'82, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

THE NINETY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT 45

The award of the cup for the highest percentage of attendance
at reunion, as announced by Howard D. Gibbs, '02, was made to
the class of 1893, which reported a percentage of 75.53, seventy-
one of the ninety -four members being present.

A noteworthy gift to the college, announced by the President,
was the sum of five hundred dollars, given by the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity, who have just completed their new fraternity house.
Two collections have in the past year been presented to the college:
one the library of the late Charles Sprague Smith, '74, consisting
mainly of works on comparative religion; and the other the library
with its fittings and furniture of the late Clyde Fitch, '86, which
collection includes some rare and valuable works of art. The latter
gift is made with the understanding that these furnishings be
suitably housed in some place on the college campus where the
atmosphere of the playwright's library can have its associations
preserved for the benefit of the college students.

It looks as if Amherst were on the eve of notable developments
toward giving the town and college distinction in works of artistic
and monumental significance. An anonymous donation has been
promised of a reproduction of the Beecher statue in Brooklyn.
Richard Billings, '97, presents a bronze statue of Noah Webster,
the first president of the Board of Trustees of Amherst, as an
allegorical figure representing the spirit of Amherst College. In
addition to these works of monumental art, it is proposed, and
warmly advocated by some of our alumni, to erect on the college
campus an equestrian statue of Lord Jefferey Amherst, a "soldier
of the king" whose personal relation to the town is a nominis
umbra, and to the college the embodied sentiment of Jimmy
Hamilton's stirring song. But perhaps John Harvard and Elihu
Yale are scarcely more in their spheres; all are "names that time
can never dim."

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®te 3ml)et£(t 3Uu£(ttiou£i

GEORGE HARRIS, D.D., LL.D.

HERBERT L. BRIDGMAN

[The portrait by Hubbell of President Emeritus George Harris, a donation to
the college from a number of the alumni, was presented by his classmate, Herbert
L. Bridgman, M.A., who spoke as follows:]

THE pleasing and honorable duty which the unmerited kind-
ness of my fellow alumni assigns me this morning demands
but few words. Should those words appear to lack some-
thing in judicial temper or critical analysis, attribute the fact, I pray
you, to the friendship, born in freshman intimacy and enthusiasm
which, for more than half a century, has been in perennial flower.
"Call no man happy until he is dead," runs the ancient adage.
We ask you to admit to the Amherst Pantheon a Uving guest, to
include a mortal among your immortals, Beecher and Storrs,
Tyler and Seelye, Bullock, Huntington and the Hitchcocks. Yes,
and noble old "Lord Jefferey Amherst, soldier of the king," wor-
thies of whom the world was not worthy, and we do it confident
of the merit of our candidate and the propriety of our request.

Embarrassment, however, awaits me should I attempt to set
forth in words our case. Echoes of his voice, shadows of his
presence, still haunt this hall. But "the boy is father to the man,"
runs another and wiser adage. Let me outline the freshman who
fifty-one years ago came from "'way down East" to Amherst, and
the senior who four years later, on this stage, delivered a gradua-
tion oration whose characteristic title, "Silence," I accept as a
warning. Thirty years later Wilham Sharp, that dual seer and
mystic, speaking as Fiona Macleod, declared that the three most
potent forces in life are love, silence and "wind, confirming the
vision and valuations of the Amherst student. George Harris
came among us youngsters of '66, knowing none of his future
and lifelong classmates and friends, unlieralded, with no prestige
to buy or maintain, and, as happens more surely and speedily in
college than anywhere else in the world, he fell speedily and surely

GEORGE HARRIS, D.D., LL.D.

President Emeritus, Amherst College

GEORGE HARRIS, D. D., LL. D. 47

into his rightful place. Not the most brilliant, certainly not the
hardest-working scholar of the class, he took high rank easily, — for
those were the good old days of the marking system, — and held
it until the end. Mathematics, the classics, the sciences, what we
had of them, were all well done, but it was not so much the thing
done as the method and the man which the doing disclosed.

Harris had a mind of his own, and very early in the course
teachers and classmates recognized the candor and the clarity of
his intellect. None of our or any other class surpassed him in
these powers of mental digestion and assimilation, and, when his
result was reached, it was his own and he was worthy of it. Bind-
ing all together, inspiring all of us, was a rare endowment of mother
wit and common sense, which lightened many a weary recitation
hour and lightened irksome tasks. Sterling intellectual integ-
rity, springing from the moral depths, was the foundation, the
background upon which this simple, sturdy and lovable character
unfolded before us, day by day, for four years. Surefooted and
four-square, in all aspects of his nature and being, — is it any
wonder that every man of '66 was proud of George Harris then,
and is proud of him today?

Four years at Amherst set the pace and the standards for the
future. It is not necessary for me to review the thirty succeeding
and successful years, as pastor, preacher and teacher, training
those who followed him in time-honored Andover to serve God
and their fellow-men. And as to his administration of Amherst,
we are too near the fact justly to value and finally to estimate it.
But "if you would see his monument, look about you." More
and better buildings, estate expanded, improved and beautified,
purse strings loosened, endowment multiplied fourfold, trustees,
faculty and students harmonized, public confidence restored, and
faith in the future born again. I cannot forbear, in passing, to
note, despite its hackneyed misapplication, that nothing in his
administration became him like his leaving it. When it became
obvious that the appeal of '85 and of many others was to prevail,
and that the college was to "shift its emphasis," then the clear
vision of President Harris, with eye undimmed and natural force
unabated, solved two situations in one, and with that true and far-
sighted loyalty to Amherst, he initiated the changes which today
we gladly welcome, thanking God that once more Amherst steers

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her course by the eternal stars, not by the harbor-lights of experi-
ment and expediency, nor drifts helplessly, paralyzed, to dry rot
and disintegration.

"Morituri te salutamus," we of '66, all soon to join the great
majority, unite with all our fellow alumni in asking you to accept
and cherish this portrait of President Emeritus George Harris,
whom we love and honor for what he is to us and for what he has
done for Amherst.

^g-

PROFESSOR EDWARD PAYSON CROWELL, D. D.

1830-1911
From Painting by Edwin B. Child, '90

AHEROOFHALFACENTURY 49

A HERO OF HALF A CENTURY

JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG

[The portrait by Child of Professor E. P. Crowell, painted in the last year of
his life, and recently secured by the alumni for the college, was presented by
one of his colleagues on the faculty, who spoke, or rather wrote out his speech
for publication, as follows:]

SUCH we may call him; as such, without reservation, we honor
him: the man whose features you now see unveiled before
you, Edward Payson Crowell, who, for fifty years as pro-
fessor of Latin in Amherst College, fought the good fight of sound
learning and wisdom and godly character, waging it for half that
long period in darkness, — for those blank glasses cover sightless
eyes. They are no blemish to the portrait; to us who remember
the later years of his heroism they reveal more than they hide.
Not all of us can realize this with equal vividness; for the older
alumni here present sat in the class-room of a young and clear-
seeing man. As I endeavor, therefore, to speak of him I am aware
of two tides of memory and sentiment that here meet and blend.

There is first the Professor Crowell of the older alumni, who
remember him as he was in the full possession of his senses. Born
in Essex in 1830, the son of Rev. Robert and Hannah Choate
Crowell, a cousin of the celebrated lawyer, Rufus Choate, he was
a true heir of the most sterling and sturdy New England Puritan-
ism. This strain of character showed itself in him not in the aus-
terity which we so Hghtly and foolishly blame, but in the steady
loyalty to the highest ideals of his caUing. His allegiance to the
demands of sound learning was a conscience. Many here present,
doubtless, can recall how strict and sharp were his methods in the
class-room; he was a rigid disciplinarian. They will remember
also, if their recollection goes beneath the surface, that his severity
flamed out only against two things: inaccuracy and injustice.
These were the fuel, so to say, which never failed to kindle the
stern judgment of his New England conscience. It was so not
merely in the class-room, or as a matter of pedagogic method with
students, for his was no divided character. In his literary and

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editorial work too, which in his prime was very productive, it
was the severe demands of accuracy and thoroughness that called
out his faithful powers of research. Nor was it otherwise in the
affairs of the town and community, in which as long as his health
permitted he was an active and outspoken influence for things
just and right and sternly against whatever was crooked or unjust
to any. Do not let me, however, leave with you a one-sided im-
pression of his character. The genial and kindly side of his nature,
the native sweetness which made all his severity reasonable and
beautiful, lay far more deeply at the roots of his being. He was
a sympathizer and friend, a faithful counselor among students,
a helpful neighbor among neighbors. We recall those Sunday
evenings of sacred song, in which family and students and members
of the Faculty joined, and in which the mellow tones of his flute
were always heard; we remember his unfailing delight in a good
story, and in anything that savored of refined humor or scholarly
wit. As for many years Dean of the College, he was not unmind-
ful of the amenities as well as the necessary rigidness of his respon-
sible ofiice. There is a characteristic story of a certain student,
who one Sunday morning, whether dehberately or otherwise,
lengthened his early morning walk until it was too late to get back
to College church. It was in the days when church attendance
or absence had to be strictly answered for. The next day, on
being called upon to report, he explained that having found himself
belated he came in from the PeUiam hills and attended service
at the East Street church. "Ah," said the Dean, "and who
preached?" The student did not know who it was; it was a
stranger; and on being further interrogated gave a sadly confused
and incoherent account both of preacher and sermon. "Well,"
replied Professor Crowell, "I am interested to know I look so differ-
ent in the pulpit from how I look in the class-room." The student
was fairly caught; but it would seem he lived to tell the tale, and
perhaps to enjoy it — later. And he did not love his professor less
for it.

Then there is another not less noble and, to us who knew and
worked with him, infinitely uplifting and pathetic side of the pic-
ture: the Professor Crowell who for half his fifty years of service
studied and taught in darkness. The younger alumni are bringing
this to mind as I speak. The eyes that had done him so long and

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efficient service were removed; he must by stern effort develop
entirely new habits of work and intercourse; but he would remit
no part of his college duties. He had been one of the stated
preachers in College church; he continued for years to preach
as his turn came. He had been a frequent conductor of chapel
service; and many of us will recall how he would stand at the desk
and repeat a chapter of scripture and give out the number and
line of the hymn as if his eyes still saw. He held his classes in
the lower front room of the library building; and one of his admiring
friends, an esteemed neighbor in our town, has told me how he
used to go in and see how the blind professor conducted his classes.
They were seated around a table with him at the head; and on the
table, in front of each student, would perhaps be a pile of photo-
graphic views illustrative of the subject in hand. "Mr. So-and
So," he would say, "in the pile of photographs before you, the
third from the top, you will find such-and-such a view, and near
the center you will observe such an architectural detail; please
note it and pass it round." Then when its bearing on the lesson
was determined, "Mr. So-and-So, in your pile of photographs,
the second from the bottom, you will find such a landscape view,
and near the left of the picture you will observe such a tower or
temple; please note it and pass it round." So he would go patiently
through the class, omitting no detail of the subject and giving each
student his share of the work. The same old accuracy, the same
old justice to every feature of the work and every ability of the
man. Naturally, however, with the oncoming of age and with his
sad affliction, his manner was much mellowed and subdued,
though the strong swift power was only sleeping; it was like a
sweet and gentle benison moving among us, the gentleness of a
strong, self-mastered personality. As we met him in the street
or at his home, he was just as ready as of old for the kindly quip
and jest, just as full of interest in affairs and the ways and by-
ways of genial culture — an undiminished youthfulness of spirit,
an immense courage of life.

Such was the man whose memory we honor today; and we have
before us the portrait, the generous gift of graduates who loved
him, to remember him by. I cannot fairly leave my subject with-
out a word about the portrait itself. It was painted by one who
sat in his classes, and who, as a student and during the years since.

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has felt toward him the strong drawing of reverence and love,
Mr. Edwin B. Child of the class of 1890. It was this reverent
affection which led him to request the Professor, in the last year
of his life, to sit for the picture, although he had not been com-
missioned to do so. Let me read to you what, at my request,
he wrote me about his work. "My portrait of Professor Crowell,"
he writes, "was not painted in any accidental or haphazard man-
ner. I did not paint him with his black glasses on simply because
they happened to be before me. I suppose there was no man on
the College faculty whose life and character impressed me more,
while in College and since, than his. To put it briefly, the way
in which he took what would seem to be one of the greatest pos-
sible misfortunes, refusing to accept it so, but turning it into a
triumph, doing his work blind better than most men could have
done it with all their faculties, and showing to the end that he
had the serene and true vision of an idealist — seeing better than
many who had eyes the things of most worth to the college —
this is to me one of the most beautiful chapters in the history
of our Alma Mater, and this is what I have tried to record".

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1897

London in English Literature. By Percy H. Bonyton. The University of
Chicago Press. 1913.

Not to re-present London as it has been described by great English writers —
though this is what the title might seem to imply — but to present London as it
environed and influenced these wiiters, is the purpose of Mr. Boynton's book.
In his own words, it is "to give an idea of London atmosphere in the various liter-
ary periods, to expound the chief places of interest for successive generations, and
to make a reasonably generous selection from old and new engravings and photo-
graphs." That precisely this task had, as Mr. Boynton claims, never been at-
tempted before, was doubtless sufficient justification for the attempt; but to give, in
the space of some three hundred pages, even an "idea" of the atmosphere of Chau-
cer's, Shakespeare's, Milton's, Dryden's, Addison's, Lamb's and Byron's, Dickens's
London, of Victorian and contemporary London, might seem an impossibility.
It is a cause of much surprise to the reader and ground for warm congratulation
to the writer that he is after all decidedly successful in his attempt. Fragmentary,
limited, the book was of course bound to be; but so skilful has the material been
selected, so deftly illustrated from the works of the authors, so thoroughly human-
ized— if one may be permitted the word — by Mr. Boynton's own comments, that the
reader obtains, if not the very form and pressure, at least the taste and flavor of
the times. Chaucer's London and contemporary London — the former perhaps
because of the scantiness of material, the latter because of its superabundance,
come off least well; but there is no chapter that fails to illuminate richly the litera-
ture of its day. Best of all, perhaps, is the suggestive power of the book. The
reader who is caught by the fascination of these little chapters will easily be tempted
to extend his view by turning to some of the larger and more detailed works on
London; and for such a reader the author has appended to the various chapters
valuable lists not only of the best standard topographical and social histories,
but of contemporary literature and illustrative fiction as well. The selection of
illustrative prints and engravings is on the whole excellent; only the ancient maps
suffer from the much reduced scale imposed by the size of the volume.

As "first aid" to the college student of English literature Mr. Boynton's book is
sure to find wide welcome and use; but it is more than that — a genial and well-
instructed companion whose delightful conversation no lover of English letters
can well afford to lose.

[The reader is also referred to a critique quoted from the New York Evening
Post under The Classes, p. 70. — Ed.]

1883

Rome. By Walter Taylor Field; two volumes in one; Vol. I, The Rome of the
Ancients, pp. 278; Vol. II, The Rome of the Popes and the Rome of the Artists,
pp.294. Boston:L. C.Page and Co. 1913.

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In these volumes, first published in 1904, and now reprinted for the fourth time,
Mr. Field has aimed at making a book about Rome which should be "not as barren
as a guide book nor as discursive as an estay but helpful in showing what is worthy
of appreciation in the monuments, the churches, and the galleries of the most in-
teresting city in the world." Like a guide, he takes his reader on various journeys
with him through the city, and, like a wise lover of Rome, he points out her many
wondrous features, helps her tell her story and weave her spell. He has been suc-
cessful in making a book which will serve well the sight-seer, charm the stay-at-
home and revive in the mind of the returned traveler memories of pleasant and
strenuous days of exploration in the "Eternal City."

Mr. Field evidently knows Rome and her history thoroughly. Moreover,
he writes well, with keen insight and no little wit and humor. Notable features
of the book are the imaginative reconstructions of scenes and events suggested by
places and monuments. His thorough study of the authorities has not led him
to overburden his pages with lesser facts. His information and interpretations
seem generally sound. Only occasionally does one find a statement that seems
questionable. For example, the Farnese Palace is called, on one and the same
page, a specimen both of mediaeval and of Italian Renaissance architecture. The
statue in the hall of the Spada Palace is wrongly called Pompey, a fact which rather
invalidates some remarks about "the stone which witnessed Caesar's death."
A precise archaeologist might quarrel with some of his statements, might claim, for
instance, that what he calls the temple of the Tweh^e Gods is really a •portico, that
the Ludovisi Juno is more Roman than Mr. Field seems to think it is, and that
more might be said about the Laocoon, etc. Those who know the diflBculties of
selection will not censure his failure to mention some chosen work of art but will
regret that he has passed over some things in silence, such as e.g., the Throne of
Aphrodite in the Museo delle Terme. Criticisms like these are, however, of a minor
sort and limited in number.

The book is then to be commended as eminently readable and reliable. It is
well printed and furnished with plans and more than eighty good photographs.
Finally, however, one word of blame must be here set down. The work has been
reprinted, without revision, after the lapse of nearly a decade, during which ex-
cavation, building and rearrangement have gone on unceasingly in Rome. The
book is surely so good a piece of work that both author and publisher should feel a
pride in keeping it thoroughly up-to-date.

H. DE F. Smith.

1889

Our Presidents and Their Office: Including Parallel Lives of the Presidents
of the People of the United States and of Several Contemporaries, and a History of
the Presidency. By William Estabrook Chancellor. With an Introduction by
Champ Clark. New York: The Neale PubUshing Company. 1912.

This very interesting book is diflBcult to characterize in conventional terms, it
moves so athwart the beaten paths of biography and history. It contains abundant
materials for both, all put in short, condensed side-headed paragraphs, whose prin-
ciple of arrangement (if there is one) is not very lucid; and imtil we read quite a
distance it seems as if these materials were jumbled together, things important

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and things trivial cheek by jowl; but as one goes on one comes to realize that this
rises mostly from the constant endeavor to compare one character or situation
with another; and in the end it is hard to think how, with such a complex object
in view, the author coidd have produced a more consecutive sum-total of effect.
The first two parts of the book, on "History of the Presidency" and on "Presiden-
tial Powers," are more of this mixed and miscellaneous character; with Part
Three, "Lives of the Presidents," the book assumes decidedly more evenness and
homogeneity of tissue. The presidential figm-es appear successively, each for the
time in an almost startling lime-light, surrounded by the men, measm-es, and events
which make the administration distinctive, and then step down, to be succeeded
by another moving-picture series, in which, however, each man may come up again
and again for endless comparison and contrast with others. At the beginning of
each chapter the statistical details of the administration are tabulated, thus:

"Theodore Roosevelt

"1901-1909

"1858—
"45-46 States Population. 85,000,000

"Admitted: Oklahoma."

Many things in the body of the history, also, are presented statistically, as if the
book were a literary World Almanac; but these are merely material for the ceaseless
fire of comment, comparison, and summary which give vigor and spice to the ac-
count. The book, we may say, consists of fact and comment : the facts one literary
step beyond tabulation, the comment crisp, absolute, seldom touched with humor
or satire, not infrequently oracular and caustic. One is oddly reminded, as one
reads his swift disposal of things, of a certain French lecturer's receipt for hunting
lions in the desert. "The desert consists of sands and lions. You sift the sanda;
the hons remain. These you put into a bag, which you have brought along for the
purpose." To press the analogy would be grossly unjust to Mr. Chancellor's
book; but he sifts the historic sands so deftly, and bags the lions, big and Uttle, so
easily and absolutely, that the analogy makes itself felt. Through it all, too, we
are getting frequent glimpses of the writer himself: his personal attitude, his animus,
his point of view. We know, for instance, that he is opposed to the tariff; that
Grover Cleveland is on the whole his presidential hero; that Washington is
judged an unfortunate site for a capital; that great wealth, wherever it appears,
is to be tested for corruption; and more of like purport.

The mo\'ing-picture quality of his delineations can only be realized by reading
the book itself; quotations can do but Uttle toward it. As an example let us take
this portrayal of Andrew Jackson (p. 321 ) : " For the sake of Adams himself, we may
regret that Jackson defeated him for a merited second term. We may even regret
that a man of many sterling and startling qualities, with as many terrifying defects
as Jackson ever came to the Presidency at all. He had broken at least five of the
Ten Commandments : he had daily taken the name of God in vain, he had killed, he
had committed adultery, he had stolen, he had coveted. But it is wiser for us to see
and to reaUze that we were fortunate in winning democracy without a bloody social
revolution. Jackson was a safety-valve, opened wide, and screeching, thereby releas-

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ing the genie of destruction into the atmosphere." As a specimen of his comparison
of men with one another we quote the following (p. 577): "Let us set Theodore
Roosevelt with Jackson. Let us think of him side by side with Benjamin Franklin.
Even so, we see that he was unique. Perhaps Hayes was his almost exact antithesis.
Perhaps, intellectually, but not otherwise, he most resembled J. Q. Adams. For
all his faults, however, Theodore Roosevelt was distinctly superior to the weakest
and worst of our Presidents — to speak comparatively, for not one was intention-
ally unpatriotic or false to his trust — to Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, and
Grant. For all his virtues, he was measurably inferior to the strongest and best
of the Presidents. His ultimate rank is of course beyond present estimation; but
with his views on war and peace, on sobriety of utterance and dignity in action before
a calmer world of posterity, Theodore Roosevelt is not likely to be listed with Jeffer-
son, Madison, Lincoln or even ^dth J. Q. Adams, Van Buren, or Cleveland." There
is more to the comparison, but we have not room for it.

The motto on the title-page, taken from Grover Cleveland, is "Tell the truth."
Remembering the first occasion of that remark, we are prepared to have the outs
as well as the ins, the seamy side as well as the comely, deployed before us; and it
cometh to pass. There is a pretty decided tendency, if there is anything unsavory,
to strike for it, and not only to call a spade a spade but to hunt up all the spades in
the shed; though in the end the writer balances things bad and good quite fairly,
and contrives to leave each President with the best he can say of him. But if we
had the presidential company before us we should be inclined to give them Burns's
warning:

"If there's a hole in a' your coats,

I rede you tent it :
A chield's amang you taking notes.

And, faith, he'll prent it."

On the whole, if he will "nothing extenuate," it is hard to judge that he "sets
down aught in malice" either; though there are touches here and there of a kind of
arbitrary hardness, as if the writer had a bone to pick with things in general.

The style is full of vigor, directness, thrust, — not of charm nor of lightness and
affability of touch. Sometimes a too rapid and unre vised writing has left quite
needless ambiguity. Such a sentence as: "Jackson, Polk, and Lincoln made no
such changes; but they worked fairly well with others, including Roosevelt and
Taft" (p. 191); or, "Van Buren was bom on December 5, 1782; Burr in 1756, being
then twenty-six years old" (p. 347), is not dealing quite fairly by his ihetoric teach-
ing; and I think Professor Cowles woidd wince at such a Latin locution as "anni
mirabili." Such things, however, are rare.

On the whole, the book is an efficient piece of work. It could not be expected
that we should agree with all his estimates and criticisms; and there are hosts of
things that we should want also to weigh in other scales; but that he has pronounced
on such an amazing number and variety of men, measures, and situations, has
thrown his shuttle back and forth through such an intricate web of judgments in a
way calculated to rouse so little dissent, is a notable achievement in itself.

John F. Genung.

THE TRUSTEES

©fficial antr ^ersJonal

THE TRUSTEES

At the Commencement meeting of
the Trustees twelve members of the
Board were present.

Much routine business was transacted.

The degrees recommended by the
Faculty were voted to the graduating
class, and several appointments were
made to the Faculty. Dr. John B.
Zinn was appointed instructor in
chemistry; Mr. Thomas W. Bussom
instructor in Romance languages; Dr.
Edwin L. Truxell assistant in geol-
ogy; and Mr. Harold H. Plough, '13.
assistant in Biology. Professors Bigelow
and Olds were appointed members of
the Library Committee for three years.

The special committee on the Alumni
Council reported that the matter was
now under discussion by the society of
the Alunmi, and that on the completion
of their work further report would be
made to the trustees.

The thanks of the Board were voted
for numerous gifts, among them being
the presentation of a protrait of Presi-
-dent Harris by Mr. Herbert L. Bridg-

man of the class of 1866 and other
donors, and that of the late Professor
Crowell by Mr. Frank E. Whitman of
the class of 1885 and his associates; the
Phi Delta Theta Society for a special
gift to the College; the Japan Society
for a prize for an essay on Japanese
affairs; and Messrs. C. M. Pratt,
Daniel Kent, Frank L. Babbott, Win-
ston H. Hagen, Arthur H. Dakin and
Mrs. Frances W. Kimball for various
benefactions.

An important announcement was of
the gift by Mrs. William G. Fitch,
mother of the late Clyde Fitch of the
class of 1886, of Mr. Fitch's valuable
library, together with the fittings and
ornaments of his work-room, to be
received by the College whenever a
suitable place can be provided for their
housing. The Committee on Build-
ings and Grounds was directed to con-
sider the suitable installation of this
interesting gift.

WiLLisTON Walker,

Secretary.

AMHERST GRADUATES QUARTERLY

THE FACULTY.

The world-champion Austrahan crick-
et team at Providence, R. I., July 29,
played an all Rhode Island team of
twenty-two men, twice their number,
and won by 190 to 66 in the first of a
series of two games. The Rhode Island-
ers were captained by President Alexan-
der Meiklejohn of Amherst College.
It was the first time they had played
together.

Ex-President Merrill E. Gates was
married on June 14 to Miss Elizabeth
Farmer Head, daughter of Franklin H.
Head, Esq., of Chicago.

At the Union College Commence-
ment, June 11, Prof. J. F. Genimg, who
was present by invitation, listened to the
following from President Richmond:
"John Frankhn Genung; a graduate
in the class of 1870, of Rochester
Theological Seminary, and of Leipzig
University; professor of hterary and
biblical interpretation in Amherst Col-
lege; author of many illuminating
books; inspiring teacher; man of broad
culture, and a master in many fields,
honoris causa, I admit you to the
degree of Doctor of Humane Letters."

Prof. James W. Crook has been ap-

pointed by Governor Foss a member of
the new board of labor and industry,
which is to take over the duty of the
enforcement of all the labor laws of
Massachusetts. The appointment is
for four years.

On October 6 a daughter, Sarah
Eliza Sigourney, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas C. Estey. This is the
first daughter born in the Esty family
since 1798.

On July 9 a daughter, Mary Bingham,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry W.
Kidder.

Prof. Arthur L. Kimball was married
on Commencement Day, June 25, to
Miss Julia Sayre Scribner at Amherst.

Prof. Henry Carrington Lancaster
was married on Jime 11 to Miss Helen
Converse Clark, daughter of Prof. John
Bates Clark, '72, at the Manhattan
Congregational Church, New York
City.

Mr. Clarence E. Sherman was mar-
ried Oct. 8 to Miss Inez B. Copeland,
of Brockton, Mass.

On May 6 a daughter, Katharine
Wolcott, was born to Professor and Mrs.
Charles H. Toll.

THE ALUMNI

The Commencement Meeting.— The
society of the alumni met in Johnson
chapel at 11.30 a. m., Jmie 24. The
meeting was cal'ed to order by Vice-
President H. P. Field, '80. The follow-
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year:

President, WilUam Orr, Jr., '83.

Vice-President, E. A. Grosvenor, '67,
Collm Armstrong, '77, H. P. Field, '80,
J. P. CusHng, '82, G. B. Mallon, '87,
Isaac Patch, '97.

Secretary and Treasurer, T. C. Esty,
'93.

Executive Committee, H. P. Field, '80,
J. O. Thompson, '84, A. C. James,'89,
H. S. Pratt, '95, H. W. Kidder, '97,
J. S. Hitchcock, '89, H. A. King, '73.
H. N. Gardiner, '78, F. M. Smith, '84.

Ins'pector of Election, A. S. Hardy, '79,
H. H. Bosworth, '89, N. P. Avery, '91.

Member of the Athletic Board for three
years, G. D. Storrs, '89.

Member of the Board of Public Exhi-
bitions, for three years, A. H. Dakin, '84 .

President Orr then assumed the chair.
Mr. C. E. Kelsey, '84, reported for the
lawn fete committee and the report,
being duly audited, was accepted. Upon
motion of Mr. Kelsey it was voted to
reappoint the same committee on the
lawn fete and to add Mr. H. B. Cran-
shaw, '11. The committee thus con-
stituted is: Talcott Williams, '73, C. E.
Kelsey, '84, G. B. Mallon, '87, Gros-
venor Backus, '94, O. B. Merrill, '91,
T. C. Hill, '09, H. C. Keith, '08, H. B.
Cranshaw, '11.

The following resolution was pre-
sented by G. E. Oldham, '88:

"Resolved, That the society of the
alumni approve in principal the forma-
tion of an alumni council.

" Resolved further. That the president
of the society appoint a committee of
fifteen alumni (of which committee the
president of the society shall be a mem-
ber) to consult with the Trustees of the
College and prepare a plan for an
almnni coimcil, which when approved
by the Trustees the committee is
authorized to declare effective and put
into operation when the committee
deems best.

At the request of H. T. Noyes, '94,
Mr. F. S. AlHs, '93, presented the
following resolution and it was adopted
by vote of the society:

The alumni of Amherst College
deeply appreciate the services that have
been rendered to the College, first in
connection with the recent addition to
the endowment of the College, which
made possible an increase in the salaries
of the professors of about $500 per
annum; and second, in connection with
the selection and installation of a new
president of the College. The alumni
of the College at this their first meeting
under the new administration desire
formally to express their thanks and
gratitude to all whose contributions
made possible the increase in the sala-
ries of the Faculty and also to Mr.
George A. Plimpton and the members
of the Board of Trustees, who have
carried through these two achievements,
and have given to Amherst so generously
of their time and abihty.

Mr. C. E. Kelsey expressed his dis-
satisfaction with the present method of
electing Alumni Trustees.

The meeting then adjourned to Wed-
nesday, Jime 25, at 12.30 p. m. in Pratt
Gymnasium, where, upon assembUng
they dined as guests of the corporation.

AMHERST GRADUATES QUARTERLY

President Orr presided and grace was
said by Rev. James G. Merrill, '63.

President Orr announced his appoint-
ment of the committee on the nomina-
tion of Alumni Trustees as follows :
E. W. Chapb, '63, O. C. Semple, '83,
J. E. Oldham, '88, C. D. Norton, '93,
E. H. van Etten, '05.

A. L. Hardy, '79, reporting for the
inspectors of election, announced the
election of Rev. G. A. Hall, '82, as
Alumni Trustee.

President Orr then announced that
the Bond prize was awarded to F. R.
Pope of the graduating clasa.

The toastmaster. Prof. J. M. Tyler,
'73, was then introduced.

Mr. G. A. Plimpton, president of the
Board of Trustees, read the following
resolution presented by the class of
1893:

The class of 1893 at its twentieth
reunion, with seventy-one men present
pledges anew its loyalty to its Alma
Mater; it aflBrms its confidence in its
new President, and in his educational
policy; its confidence in her Faculty
and her Board of Trustees; its confi-
dence in the College and her powers for
usefulness; its confidence in the Am-
herst type exercising as she has for
nearly a century that spiritual concep-
tion of life and the world and that
ideal service which has been given her
sons by her great teachers; and it
aflarms its confidence in the loyal devo-
tion of her four thousand alumni and
in their desire to serve her.

The class of 1893 believe that a closer
union of these alumni and their College

is possible and desirable and that some
form of graduate organization with a
resident graduate secretary should be
established at Amherst as was proposed
to the Board of Trustees last Com-
mencement by other alumni, and has
been since approved in principle by the
Board and by the Society of the Alumni.

To this end in grateful appreciation
of all that Alma Mater has been to it,
the class of 1893 offers to the Board of
Trustees the sum of $5,000 to be used
by it towards the establishment of such
form of graduate organization as shall
seem advisable to the board and to
the committee of fifteen of the society
of the alumni, with the hope that the
coming college year may see the begin-
ning of such organized cooperation.

Signed: George D. Pratt, PresitiCTiL
F. S. Allib, Secretary.

The speakers at the alumni dinner
were President Meiklejohn, Secretary
Redfield, District Attorney Whitman,
'90, A. W. Atwood, '03, and H. B. Gibbs,,
'02; the last-named of whom presented
the re-union trophy cup to the class of
1893, that class having won the cup
with a percentage of 75.53.

T. C. ESTY,
Secretary.

THE LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS

The Brooklyn Association. — The
present oflScers of the association are:

President, James S. Lawson, '95.
Vice-President, Edward A. Baily, '06.
Treasurer, Lester J. MoUer, '12.
Secretary, Harold J. Baily, '08.

THE CLASSES

THE CLASSES.

1856

Hiram C. Haydn, D.D., LL.D.,

founder of the College for Women of
Western Reserve University and presi-
dent of the University from 1888 to
1890, died at his residence on Euclid
Avenue, Cleveland, O., July 31. Dr.
Haydn was eighty-one years old. He
had been in poor health for several
months and his death was the result
of a complication of diseases. He was
as prominent as a clergyman and
author, as he was as an educator, and
was for twenty-five years pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church. He was
born at Pompey, N. Y., December
11, 1831.

1859

Rev. Edward C. Ewing, Secretary,
223 Walnut Ave., Roxbury, Mass.
Hon. Luther Rominor Smith died
recently in Washington, D. C. He
was born in Colrain, Mass., and fitted
for college at the Shelbume Falls
Academy. After graduation from Am-
herst he studied law and was admitted
to the bar in 1862 in Detroit, where he
practised law for a short period. The
same year he enlisted as a volunteer
and became first lieutenant and then
captain of the Ninth Michigan Battery
during the Civil War. He was promi-
nent in the reconstruction work in the
South, a member of the state constitu-
tional convention of Alabama, and had
been for a long time judge of the seventh
judicial court of that state.

1862

Rev. Calvin Stebbins, Secretary,
Framingham, Mass.

The American Historical Retiew for
July contained a review of Mason W.
Tyler's "Recollections of the Civil
War," edited by William S. Tyler, '95.
Among other things the reviewer writes
as follows: "Perhaps the most inter-
esting chapter is the one devoted to a
carefully written and detailed account
of the battle for the saUent at Spottsyl-
vania. The Twenty-seventh Massa-
chusetts held the apex of the angle for
twenty-two unbroken hours of desper-
ate fighting and the leader of Colonel
Tyler's very graphic description will
not be inclined to challenge his high
estimate of the service rendered by the
regiment in that terrible struggle."

1866

Herbert L. Bridgman, Secretary,
604 Carlton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Herbert L. Bridgman on September
25 gave an illustrated lecture before
the Union League Club of New York
on "Victorious Bulgaria." The lec-
ture was based upon his interviews and
experiences during a visit to Belgrade
and Sofia last April.

1867

The Columbia University Quarterly for
September contains an article by Prof.
John W. Burgess on "Reminiscences of
Columbia University in the last Quar-
ter of the last Century."

AMHERST GRADUATES

UARTERLY

1869

William Reynolds BRO^^^s^, Secretary,
79 Park Ave., New York, N. Y.
Charles H. Allen, recently treasurer
and second vice-president of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company, was in
July elected president of that company.
After representing the Lowell district
in Congress for several terms, Mr. Allen
served as assistant secretary of the Navy
and as the first governor of Porto Rico.
In 1904 he became vice-president of the
Morton Trust Company and when that
company was merged in the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York con-
tinued as Aace-president until his elec-
tion as treasurer of the company which
he now heads. He is a director of the
Guaranty Trust Company, the National
Bank of Commerce, the American
Surety Company, the Cape Cod Canal
Company, the Electric Properties Com-
pany, and also of the Appleton National
Bank of Lowell.

1872

Rev. Albert H. Thompson, Secretary,
Raymond, N. H.

The Atlantic Monthly for September
contained an article on "The Minimum
Wage" by Professor John B. Clark.
An editorial in the New York Times,
discussing the article, says: "Prof. John
Bates Clark, senior professor of eco-
nomics at Columbia, turns the white
light of his clear and candid thought
on the minimum wage in the current
issue of The Atlantic. No one is better
qualified than he to discuss the difficult
and complex question and the situation
from which it has arisen. His calm
good sense, his fair-mindedness, and
his sympathetic temperament, no less
than his patience and penetration as an
investigator, fit him for the task."

1873

John M. Tyler, Secretary,
Amherst, Mass.

The Independent for August 7 con-
tains an article by Professor Talcott
Williams on "Teaching Journalism in
a Great City."

1877

Rev. a. DeW. Mason, Secretary,

222 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

The address of Warren B. Keith has
been changed from Bridgeport, Conn.,
to 11 W^ashington Street, Central Falls,
R. I.

Rev. Charles S. Nash, D.D., is a
member of the "Committee of Nine-
teen" which has had charge of the
very responsible duty of advising the
National Council of Congregational
Churches as to the relation of the benev-
olent societies to the denomination and
kindred questions relating to polity
and administration. This committee
is composed of some of the most promi-
nent representative ministers and lay-
men of the Congregational Church, and
its recommendations, which are to be
made to the National Council convened
in Kansas City in October, are awaited
with much interest by Congregational-
ists in all parts of the country.

Professor Erastus G. Smith is this
fall serving as an exchange professor
in chemistry at Harvard.

1878

Prop. H. N. Gardiner, Secretary,
23 Crafts Ave., Northampton, Mass.

The class held its thirty-fifth anni-
versary lunch at Carter's in Amherst on
the Tuesday of Commencement Week.
There were thirty-five present, two
non-graduates and thirty-three grad-
uates, exactly half the number of the
graduates hving. Two members of the

THE CLASSES

class, Brownson and Hill, were reported
as having died since the previous
Reunion. The Comnaittee on the
Class Fund reported that the fund
would amount to $3,000, and might
be added to, and that it would be given
to the College as a scholarship fund,
preference in its use to be given to
needy and worthy descendants of mem-
bers of the class. The present officers
were reelected. Prof, and Mrs. Cowles
gave a lawn supper to the members in
town and their families on Monday
evening and put their house at the dis-
posal of the class as headquarters during
the whole Reunion period. Their cordial
hospitality was greatly appreciated.

Frank L. Babbott's daughter, Mary
Richardson, was married on June 5 to
William Sargent Ladd, a son of Wilham
L. Ladd, also of '78.

Henry P. Barbour is chairman of the
Building Committee engaged in raising
$85,000 for a new Congregational
Church in Long Beach, Cal. On May
26 he presided at the meeting of leading
organizations in that city convened to
deal with the situation created by a
terrible accident in which thirty-six
persons were killed and upwards of
two hundred injured.

H. N. Gardiner has been elected by
the Massachusetts Congregational Con-
ference a member of the Committee on
Church Polity.

Charles H. Moore has resigned his
position as national organizer of the
Negro Business Men's League and has
returned to his old home in Greensboro,
N. C. He has recently been the moving
spirit in the successful effort on the
part of the citizens of Greensboro to
secure for that town a Carnegie library.
Joseph H. Selden is at present min-
ister-in-charge of the North Woodward
Avenue Congregational Church, Detroit
Mich.
5

1879

J. Franklin Jameson, Secretary,
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.
The Political Science Quarterly for
September contains an article by Pro-
fessor Frank J. Goodnow on "Regula-
tion of State Taxation."

1880

Henry P. Field, Secretary,
Northampton, Mass.

Henry P. Field has been reelected a
member of the Republican State Com-
mittee of Massachusetts, representing
the Berkshire-Hampshire-Hampden dis-
trict.

In July Governor Foss appointed
former Congressman George P. Law-
rence a member of the new public serv-
ice commission of Massachusetts.
Subsequently, owing to the pressure of
private business, Mr. Lawrence re-
signed from the commission.

Rev. George A. Strong, for the past
eleven years rector of Christ Episcopal
Church, New York City, recently
resigned. His resignation, which is
to take effect on November 1, is due to
continued ill health.

1881
Frank H. Parsons, Secretary,
60 Wall St., New York City.

William G. Dwight was a delegate
this month to the Massachusetts state
convention of the progressive party.

At the opening exercises of Columbia
University on September 24, Professor
James F. Kemp, head of the depart-
ment of geology, delivered the cus-
tomary address. His subject was "The
Appeal of the Natural Sciences."

Edward Hamilton McCormick was
married at Kirby-Wicke, Yorkshire, on
July 31 to Miss Phyllis Mary Samuel-
son. He is the second son of Leander
Hamilton McCormick, formerly of

AMHERST GRADUATES QUARTERLY

Chicago, who now Hves at 11 Hertford
Street, Mayfair, London.

At the celebration in June, when the
Lackawanna Railroad opened its new
station at Montclair, N. J., among the
speakers were Starr J. Murphy, '81, and
George B. Mallon, '87.
1882
John P. Gushing, Secretary,
Hamden Hall, New Haven, Conn.

John Albree has moved his office
from Barristers Hall to 35 Devonshire
Building, 16 State Street, Boston, Mass.

Rev. Enoch Hale Burt is now pastor
of the old First Congregational Church
at Torrington, Conn. For fourteen
years he was at Ivorytown, Conn.,
where his pastorate was a great success.

Frederic Bancroft has edited the
"Speeches, Correspondence and Politi-
cal Papers of Carl Schurz, " which has
just been published in six volumes by
G. P. Putnam's Sons. The work was
done under the auspices of the Carl
Schurz Memorial Committee.

William D. Smith has a boy bom
September 8. He is now principal of
the schools in Scottsville, Va., to which
place he moved from Bon Air, Va., five
years ago.

1883
John B. Walker, Secretary,
33 East 33d St., New York, N. Y.

Alexander D. Noyes has an article
on "The Money Trust" in the May
Atlantic Monthly.

At the annual convention of the
National Education Association, held
at Salt Lake City in July, a paper on
"The Wall of Tradition as It Affects
the Teaching of Science" was presented
by William Orr.

At the meeting of the American
Institute of Instruction, held at Bethle-
hem, N. H., in July, a paper on "New
College Entrance Requirements" was
read by WiUiam Orr.

Professor Charles A. Tuttle was in
June elected professor of economics in
Wesleyan University. After leaving
Amherst Professor Tuttle taught one
year in the Ware High School, and
spent two years in study at Heidelberg,
where he received the degree of Ph.D.
He became instructor in political
economy at Amherst in 1886, and in
1887 was made assistant professor.
In 1893 he resigned from the Amherst
faculty and for the past twenty years
has been professor of economics in
Wabash College. His son was gradu-
ated from Amherst last June.

1884

WiLLARD H. Wheeler, Secretary,

2 Maiden Lane, New York City.

In the baccalaureate sermon on June
15 at Middlebury College, President
Thomas commented at length upon
William S. Rossiter's special census
report on the statistics of population of
Vermont. Among other things, Presi-
dent Thomas said:

The people of the state have not
dealt quite fairly by the historical and
statistical study of the progress of
Vermont published by Mr. William S.
Rossiter two years ago. A few sen-
tences have been often quoted and
criticised, and it has been made to
appear that Mr. Rossiter declared
Vermont to be hopelessly decadent. I
am not concerned to defend him, but
I may say that I have read few nobler
tributes to the fathers of Vermont —
and none more discerning, more care-
fully substantiated by fact, more judi-
cious and discriminating and at the
same time more enthusiastic and truly
laudatory — than the homage paid to
the founders of this Commonwealth by
this student whom many have branded
as a calumniator.

Further quotation would show that
Mr. Rossiter is not less enthusiastic
as to the traits of character possessed
by the Vermonters of today, as to the
advantages now in our hands, the oppor-
tunities open before us, and the possi-

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bilities of progress through wise and
constructive statesmanship and the
exercise of determination and grit.
These are not the conclusions of a pessi-
mist, and the facts submitted as to the
backwardness of the state in certain
respects are not the exuberations of a
man who heralds our failure and pro-
claims our doom, but rather the warning
and summons of a faithful and far-
seeing friend, who points out our peril
and calls us to our duty.

Mr. Rossiter's paper was a study in
the statistics of population, and the
fact which stands out among the con-
clusions of his research is the steady and
persistent decrease of population in
the small towns. Since 1830 a large
proportion of Vermont towns have
reported a diminution of population in
each decade. In 1910 two-thirds of the
towns reported a smaller population
than ten years before. In 1890 three
fourths of the towns in the state were
found to have lost ground in the decade.
In 174 towns, about two thirds, there
was a larger population in 1850 than
there was in 1910. Seven eighths of
the municipalities of the state have fewer
people in them today than they had at
some previous time. If every town in
the state could have held the maximum
which it has at some time attained,
without affecting the growth of those
which have gone forward, our popula-
tion would be nearly one third larger
than it is. In our own county nine
towns had more people before 1830
than they have ever had since, and not
a single town in the county has as
many people today as it has had at
some previous time. Our owti Middle-
bury had a larger population fifty years
ago than it has now. Whatever increase
has been effected in the state as a whole
in the last half century has been due to
the growth of the cities, which have
flourished at the expense of the smaller
communities. The farming towns have
gone backward notably in the last sixty
years, and there are one million less
acres in cultivation today than in 1850.
In the country districts almost steady
retrograde has been the rule, and if the
movement has been checked, it has
not manifested itself markedly in the
returns, either in the number of the
people or the value of industrial products.

1885
Frank E. Whitman, Secretary,
490 Broome St., New York City.

The London Times of September 18th
contained the following: "Mr. H. B.
Ames, member of Parliament for the
St. Antoine Division of Montreal, has
been visiting the various naval ship-
building yards throughout Great Britain
on behalf of the Dominion Govern-
ment."

Rev. Francis L. Palmer, since 1910
professor of ethics and apologetics at
Seabury Divinity School, Faribault,
Minn., upon the urgent request of his
old parish, returned in June to Ascen-
sion Church, Stillwater, Minn., where
he had previously been rector for ten
years. In December last he published
a biography, "Mahlon Norris Gilbert,
Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota, 1886-
1900," a book of about 300 pages, well
illustrated, issued by the Young Church-
man Company. The friends of that
much beloved Bishop, and the book
reviewers in general, have received the
book most favorably.

James E. Tower is in Switzerland,
engaged in literary work. His mail
address is. Care of Brown, Shipley &
Co., 123 Pall Mall, London, England.

Edwin G. Warner is the first grand-
father in the class. Harold Lawson
Warner, Jr., son of Harold Lawson War-
ner, '10, was born July 7, 1912, is 1910's
class boy, and attended the Trien-
nial Reimion of 1910 in June.
1886
Charles F. Marble, Secretary,
4 Marble St., Worcester, Mass.

Captain and Mrs. W'illiam G. Fitch,
parents of the late Clyde Fitch, have
recently presented to the College the
contents of the playwright's Ubrary in
his town house, in East 40th Street,
New York, including books, manu-
scripts, desk, lamps, furniture, book-

AMHERST graduates' QUARTERLY

cases, ceiling, and rare works of art,
all eventually to be built into a Clyde
Fitch Memorial Room at Amherst.

The New York papers state that
"the great Chapel of the Intercession
on Washington Heights, which many
believe will be the finest example of
ecclesiastical art and architecture in
New York, if not in the covmtry,"
will in a few months approach com-
pletion. The chapel is in the parish of
Trinity Church, and the %ncar is the
Rev. Milo H. Gates.

1887

Frederic B. Pratt, Secretary,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.
At the Gettysburg Memorial cele-
bration in July, Barry Bulkley read the
Gettysburg Address of President Lm-
coln. Mr. Bulkley 's father, the late
Dr. John Wells Bulkley, was among
the first of the physicians to reach
President Lincohi's side after he was
shot, remaining vA\h. him throughout
the night until his death. Another
member of this class. Lieutenant Wil-
liam S. Magill, M. R. C, had charge of
one of the outpost hospitals on this
occasion. Dr. Magill is director of
laboratories in the New York state
department of health.

1888

Asa G. Baker, Secretary,

6 Cornell St., Springfield, Mass.

The American Historical Review for

July contained a review of Andrews'

"The Colonial Period" by Professor

Herman V. Ames.

The Forum for July contains an arti-
cle on "The Church and Religious
Leadership" by Rev. James A. Fan-ley,
minister of the Unitarian Church of
Hackensack, N. J.

Augustus S. Houghton is now a mem-
ber of the law firm of Benjamin, Shep-

ard, Houghton and Taylor, with oflBces
at 111 Broadway, New York City.
1889
H. H. BoswoRTH, Secretary,
15 Elm St., Springfield, Mass.
Professor Robert Warner Crowell was
married on July 16 to Josephine Mc-
Arthur at Vancouver, B. C. They will
live at Waterville, Me., where Crowell
is professor of Romance languages in
Colby College.

1890

Edwin B. Child, Secretary, 62 South
Washington Sq., New York City.
Rev. Charies E. Ewing died suddenly
on September 27 of heart failure, while
bathing at New Haven, Conn., where he
was spending his vacation. For the
past thirteen years Ewing had been a
missionary in China under the A. B. C.
F. M.

In Jime New York University con-
ferred the degree of LL.D., upon Dis-
trict Attorney Charles S. Whitman.
He has this fall been renominated for
his present office by both the Republican
and Democratic parties and his reelec-
tion is, therefore, assm-ed. It had been
widely expected that he would be nomi-
nated for mayor of New York by the
"fusion" committee, but this did not
OCCIU-. Mr. ^Miitman was also the
recipient of the degree of LL.D. from
Amherst at this year's Commencement.
1891
WiNSLOW H. Edwards, Secretary,

Easthampton, Mass.
Henry W. Boynton contributed to
the New York Times of June 29 a review
of Young's "The Battle of Gettysburg"
and of Singmaster's "Gettysburg."

The American Historical Review for
July contained reviews of Ruffini's "La
Gio\nnezza del Conte di Cavour" and of
Fanfani's "La Principessa Clotilde di
Savoia" by Harry Nelson Gay.

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Edward Lyman Morris died suddenly
from accidental asphyxiation by gas on
September 14 at his home, 428 East
Twelfth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Morris
was born in Monson, Mass., October
23, 1870. He was laboratory assistant
at Amherst from 1893 to 1895 and
instructor in biology in 1895-1896. He
then served as instructor in chemistry,
botany and biology in the Washington
(D. C.) High School, and from 1900 to
1907 was head of the department of
biology in that school. In 1898 he
served as special plant expert of the
Department of Agriculture and in 1900
was a field assistant of the United States
Fish Commission. Since 1907 he had
been curator of natural sciences in the
museum of the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences. He leaves a widow
and a three-year-old son. The burial
was at Monson, Mass., where Morris
was bom. Professor John M. Tyler
writes of Morris as follows: "He was a
fine botanist, and had done some very
good work on some of the famihes of
plants, especially the plantains. He was
a steady, patient, enthusiastic worker,
and a fine teacher of botany both at
Amherst College and in Washington."

A daughter, EUzabeth, was bom to

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spurr Weston

on May 22. Their home is at 185

Winthrop Road, Brookhne, Mass.

1892

Demon H. Roberts, Secretary,

YpsUanti, Mich.

The American Historical Review for
July contained review of Ford's "Writ-
ings of John Quincy Adams" by Pro-
fessor Allen Johnson.

WiUiam R. Royce died of yellow fever
last winter at Havana, Cuba.

The annual meeting of the Executive
Committee of the class was held on
March 1, at the University Club, New
York City, eight members being present.

1893

Frederick S. Allis, Secretary,
21 Main St., Amherst, Mass.

The class of 1893 held a most success-
ful and largely attended Twentieth
Reunion last Commencement. Early
in the year the plan was adopted of
forming a Common Fund to which
every man was asked to contribute and
out of that fimd paj-ing every man's
railway fare to and from Amherst and
every man's expenses at Amherst.
The attendance and expressions of the
men proved the wisdom of the plan.

Miss Brown's house on Spring Street
was the class headquarters. The men
were housed here, at Mrs. King's, fac-
ing the Common, and in the new Pratt
Dormitory. By Saturday night nearly
half the class had registered and by noon
of Commencement Day seventy-one men
out of ninety-four, a percentage of
seventy-five, thus winning for the class
the Reunion Trophy Cup. Men were
present from California, Utah, Nebraska,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Ohio, Maryland and Tennessee.

Sunday afternoon the class received
the members of the Faculty and their
wives and a few friends at Miss Goess-
mann's. Monday afternoon, headed by
Stevens Band, of Chicopee, and wearing
white duck trousers, dark coats and
straw hats with '93 bands, the class
joined the parade for the ball game.
After the ball game a special trolley
car took the class and their guest.
President Meiklejohn, a '93 man at
Brown, to the Orient. Miss Whitman,
of The Pheasant, served a picnic supper
around the camp fire. That evening
after dramatics a buffet luncheon was
served at headquarters. At the class
meeting, George D. Pratt was reelected
president and Frederick S. Allis secre-
tary and treasurer, and a beautiful
loving cup with the fac-simile signature

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of each man present at the Reunion
engraved on it was given to the secre-
tary. Professor Howard Doughty of
the Chemistry Department, a '93 man
at Johns Hopkins, was elected an hon-
orary member of the class. The reso-
lution here passed and read at the
alumni dinner by the President of the
Board of Trustees, will be found under
"The Alumni," on page 59.

A "Second Flight Cup" was presented
to the class by Charles D. Norton, the
conditions of the gift, providing that
the name of every child, boy or girl,
bom to any member of the class, after
January 1, 1913, shall be engraved upon
the cup in the order of his or her birth,
and that the cup shall be held succes-
sively by each latest bom child, boy or
girl, and shall be surrendered to the
next born child at its birth. The child
bom last shall own it.

The class secretary received an appre-
ciative letter from President Meikle-
john acknowledging the kindness of the
class to him personally and the "splen-
did gift" of the class to the College.
He also received letters from a large
number of the men who were present,
saj-ing how much the Reunion had
meant to them. Some of these had not
been back since graduation. The fol-
lowing men were present: Abbott, AUis,
Babson, Baldwin, Beebe, Beekman,
Bhss, Blodgett, Breed, Brooks, Buffum,
Clark, Cole, Dann, Da\'idson, Davis,
Edgell, Ellis, Esty, Gallinger, Gill,
Goddard, Goodrich, Griswold, Hamilton,
Hawes, Houghton, Kemmerer, Kimball,
Lacey, Lay, Lewis, Man well, Morris,
Nash, Norton, Olmstead, J. H., 01m-
stead, R. E. S., Parker, Pratt, Raub,
Reed, Rogers, Ross, Shea, Sheldon,
Smith, Tinker, Tufts, Wales, Wood, C.
G., Wood, H. C, Wood, W. H., W^ood-
worth, Allen, Baker, Brown, Byron,
Dodge, Gallaudet, Hallock, Hunt,

Keating, Kennedy, Paul, Reade, Tay-
lor, Tower, Tsanoff, Walker, Harbaugh.

S. V. Tsanoff, who is known in many
cities as a pioneer of the movement for
educational playgrounds, gave an inter-
esting account of his educational work
at his class Reunion. At the close of
his speech he made the following sug-
gestions for the alumni: "Amherst this
year decided to form an Alumni Council.
Why might not this council resolve
itself into an Amherst Civic Union with
branches in cities where there are a good
number of alumni for promoting elabo-
rated plans for educational work and,
maybe, social betterment.' The world
today needs men and women whose
minds have been trained to think, not
mere sentimentaUsts, as there are many
of those who meddle in public affairs.
It seems to me that there is work wait-
ing just for college-bred men to come
together and take up. Thousands of
them are earnest and sincere as well as
free to enter public activity for the good
there is in them."

1894
H. E. Whitcomb, Secretary,
Station A, W'orcester, Mass.

Stephen P. Cushman has removed his
offices from the Tremont Building to
60 State Street, Boston, Mass.

The Executive Committee of the class
held a meeting in New York in
September which was attended by
Backus, Mitchell, Schmuck and Stone.

Announcement was recently made of
an anonymous gift of $100,000 to Ober-
lin Theological Seminary. Students re-
turning for the new academic year will
find that half of this sum has been used
to endow a new professorship in "The
philosophy of Religion and Christian
Ethics." This important new chair
will be filled by Prof. Eugene WiUiam
Lyman of Bangor, Me., who takes up
his work with the opening of the fall

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term. Dr. Lyman graduated from
Amherst College in 1894 and Yale
Divinity School in 1899, taking highest
honors in both, including the Phi Beta
Kappa in his Junior year. At Amherst
he was a member of the Delta Upsilon
fraternity. Winning the Hooker fel-
lowship at Yale, he pursued graduate
studies for two years in Germany at
the universities of Marburg, Halle and
Berlin, supplemented recently by special
study under Rudolph Eucken at Jena.
Dr. Lyman has had an unusually broad
experience as a teacher. Between col-
lege and seminary days he taught
Latin at Williston and Lawrenceville.
Specializing in philosophy and theology
in his graduate work on the Yale fellow-
ship, he was called back from Germany
to take the chair of philosophy at
Carleton College. After three years of
college teaching. Professor Lyman de-
cided to devote his life to theological
work, serving first in the Congrega-
tional College at Montreal as professor
of theology and, since 1905, in the same
capacity in Bangor Theological Semi-
nary. Both as teacher and writer in
recent years he has attracted attention
as one of the notable men in his field.
Besides contributing to theological and
philosophical magazines, he is the author
of "Theology and Human Problems"
(1910), and "The Influence of Prag-
matism on the Status of Theology"
(1906). He is a member of the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society and the So-
ciety of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.

1895

Prof. Chahles T. Burnett, Secretary,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.
Herbert L. Pratt, vice-president of
the Standard Oil Company, has been
awarded a gold fire badge by the New
York City Fire Department in recogni-
tion of his ser\dces to the department.

In making the presentation. Commis-
sioner Jolmson said, "The service which
Mr. Pratt has rendered to the city in his
help to the fire department is immeasur-
able. Through his efforts we have been
able to fight big waterfront fires, with
practically no loss of firemen, because
he has placed at our command, through
the Standard Oil Company, a fleet of
fire tugs which are equipped with every
device for fighting waterfront fires."

1896

Thomas B. Hitchcock, Secretary,
60 Federal St., Boston, Mass.

Carlisle J. Gleason's law firm has
changed its name to Elkus, Gleason and
Proskauer. Their offices are still at
170 Broadway, New York City.

Merrill E. Gates, Jr., who has taken
an active part in the Progressive cam-
paigns in Westchester County, N. Y.,
has opened a law office at White Plains,
in addition to his New York City office
at 31 Nassau Street.

Following the reorganization of the
Consolidated Cotton Duck Co., which
has been succeeded by the Interna-
tional Cotton Mills, T. B. Hitchcock,
class secretary, has been transferred to
Boston, where the executive offices of
the new company are located at 60
Federal Street.

System, the Chicago business
monthly, is publishing a series of
articles on advertising by Worthington
C. Holman, who has been a regular
contributor for more than a year and
is a recognized authority upon the
subject.

Clarence E. Jaggar, president of the
class, after a nine months' absence from
business on account of poor health, has
entirely recuperated and has returned
to his office at 85 South Street, Boston.

William Edwards Milne, who died
suddenly on September 6, at the home

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QUARTERLY

of Mr. Clinton H. Blake, Englewood,
N. J., was born in Genesee, N. Y.,
March 6, 1873, the only son of Dr.
William J. Milne, President of the
State Normal College, at Albany,
N. Y., and of Eliza Gates Milne. He
first entered Union College with the
class of '95, but on account of ill
health was obliged to withdraw during
his first year there; in the following
fall he entered Amherst, where he was a
member of Alpha Delta Phi, and took
an active part in college affairs; during
his senior year he won the tennis cham-
pionship of Amherst. After graduation
he studied law at Harvard and later
at Columbia, being admitted to the
New York Bar in 1901. Since then he
had practised his profession in New
York City, for several years past as
a member of the law firm of Milne,
Blake & McAneny at 2 Rector Street.
In 1909, Mr. Milne was married to
Miss Marion Blake, who survives him.
At the funeral services held at En-
glewood on the 9th his class and
fraternity were represented by delega-
tions and Merritt E. Gates, Jr., '96,
a cousin, was one of the pall bearers.

At the armual convention of the
American Bankers' Association, held at
Boston, October 6-9, Roberts Walker
addressed the Trust Company Section
upon "Additional Legislative Regula-
tion of Corporate Reorganizations."

1897

Benjamin K. Emerson, Jr., Secretary,

72 West St., Worcester, Mass.

Rev. Herbert A. Barker has resigned
from the Boylston Church, Jamaica
Plain, to accept a call to the Elliott
Church, Lowell.

The New York Evening Post of Sep-
tember SOth contained a review of
Professor Percy H. Boynton's "London
in English Literature," recently pub-
lished by the University of Chicago

Press. Among other comments, the
reviewer says :

"While, as he says in his preface,
"nothing is included in the volume
which cannot be easily traced by ref-
erence to standard works on London
and obvious sources of literature," we
have to admit his claim that the exact
method and purpose of the present
book have, so far as we can recall,
never been anticipated. Mr. Boynton
has set himself to reproduce, in chrono-
logical order, the contemporary atmos-
phere of successive literary periods in
the history of London, and the principal
value of his achievement, as he intended
it should be, is in its suggestiveness.

"The book is written primarily for
the student of English literature —
doubtless it is the outcome of Mr.
Boynton's experiences with his own
students — and we shall be guilty of no
disrespect towards the author if we
liken his work to the tempting hors
d'oeuvre that whets the appetite for the
more solid repast. There are a dozen
topics touched on and passed by con-
cerning which we would desire more
information, or would wash to join issue;
but it is atmosphere with which Mr.
Boynton is concerned, and when with
a few bold strokes he has indicated how
men lived and moved and thought in a
given period he is ready to pass on to
the next picture.

"Mr. Boynton has done what he set
out to do so extremely well that one
is tempted to wish that the limitations
he imposed on himself had not been
quite so rigid. Even at the cost of
slightly increasing the scope of the
book, the topography of the city in the
various periods described might advan-
tageously have been dealt with in
greater detail."

Professor Percy H. Boynton of Chi-
cago University has an article on " Sort-

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ing College Freshmen" in the February
number of the English Journal.

Gerald M. Richmond was married
on June 28 to Miss Isobel Stewart
Bryan of Northampton, Mass.

On July 9 a daughter, Mary Bingham,
the third in their family of daughters,
was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Harry W.
Kidder.

Rev. Augustine P. Manwell has re-
ceived a call from Geddes Congrega-
tional Church, Syracuse, N. Y., to the
First Congregational Church at Glovers-
viUe, N. Y.

1898

Rev. Charles W. Merriam, Secretary.

31 High St.. Greenfield, Mass.

Rev. F. Q. Blanchard has recently
been elected to the following positions:
president of the school board of East
Orange, N. J., secretary of the Execu-
tive Committee of the American Mis-
sionary Association, trustee of Illotson
College, Texas, trustee of Piedmont
College, Ga., and chaplain of the Orange
Chapter, S. A. R.

Chester M. Bliss was elected last
year head-master of the English High
School, Cambridge, Mass.

Robert C. Breed, formerly professor
of biology and geology at Allegheny
College, has become bacteriologist at
the New York State Experiment Sta-
tion at Geneva, N. Y. The following
is an editorial from the Geneva Times
under date of April 20, 1913: " Dr.
Robert S. Breed, professor of biology
at Allegheny, has been appointed bac-
teriologist at the Experiment Station.
It is considered that in Dr. Breed the
Board of Control has secured a specially
well trained man to take up the work of
Dr. Harding. Dr. Breed is an alumnus
of Amherst College, where he was
graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors
in 1898. After two years of study
Harvard conferred upon him the degree

of Doctor of Philosophy. Besides this
graduate work Professor Breed has
studied at the laboratory of the United
States Fish Commission at Woods Hole,
Mass., and at Gottingen and Kiel,
Germany, under eminent biologists."

Charles G. Burd has resigned from
the department of Pubhc Speaking and
Religious Work at the Hill School,
Pottstown, Pa., and is now an instructor
in English at Columbia University.

H. Griswold Dwight has an article in
the May Atlantic Monthly on "Two
Brush Pictures," and one in the May
Scribner's on "Turkish Coffee Houses."

Walter H. Eddy has just been elected
vice-principal of the High School of
Commerce, New York City. He is the
author of two text-books, a "Text-Book
in General Physiology and Anatomy"
and "A Laboratory Manual of Physiol-
ogy. " both published by the American
Book Co.

Julius W. Eggleston has resigned as
assistant professor of minerology and
geology at the University of Missouri
to accept the professorship of geology
and botany at the Occidental College,
Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas M. Evans died on April 27,
1913. Evans left Amherst Sophomore
year and graduated from Yale 1898.
On October 13, 1900, he married Miss
Martha Scott Jamagin of Mosey Creek,
Tenn. At the time of his death he was
president of the National Bank of
McKeesport, Pa., director of the
Colonial Trust Co. of Pittsburgh, direc-
tor of the American Tomb Co., director
of the McKeesport Chamber of Com-
merce, director of the Glassport Trust
Co., director of the McKeesport and
Port Vue Bridge Co., vice-president and
trustee of the McKeesport Hospital, and
a member of the University Club and of
the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.
He left a widow and two children.

AMHERST GRADUATES QUARTERLY

Samuel B. Furbish, after having been
assistant treasurer of Bowdoin College
for eleven years, has been elected
treasurer of the same college.

Edmund A. Garland has recently
been elected to the following business
positions in Worcester, Mass. : treasurer
of the Dodge Mill Co., president of the
Bond Grain Co., and president of the
Oxford Grain Co.

William H. Hitchcock was married
on March 11 to Winifred Harriet Lundy
of Dedham, Mass.

The Independent for October 2 con-
tains a leading article on "Speculation
and Gambling" by its associate editor,
Harold J. Rowland.

The First Congregational Church of
Mt. Vernon, N. Y., has recently dedica-
ted a splendid new church edifice. Her-
bert C. Ide took the church under dis-
couraging circumstances and has led it
to a new position of influence and power.

Tyler W. James has resigned his posi-
tion with the J. A. and W. Bird Co. of
88 Pearl Street, Boston, Mass.

Albert Mossman was elected this year
captain in the Coast Artillery Corps,
Connecticut National Guard.

Theron Potts is reported as dead by
the postmaster of Mayaguez, Porto
Rico. Mr. Potts left Amherst Sopho-
more year and has since been engaged in
business in Porto Rico.

In January, 1913, Carl Stackman
resigned as pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Somerville, Mass.

Neil A. W^eathers was married on May
14 to Miss Edna Cush'ng, of East
Orange, N. J.

Arthur J. Wyman is the pas' or of the
First Presbyterian Church at Little
Falls, N. Y.

1899
E. W. Hitchcock, Secretary,
26 Broadway, New York.
The September issue of Everybody s

Magazine contains a poem by Burges
Johnson, entitled "The Spy."

In the Journal of Political Economy
for July is an article by H. P. Kendall
on "Systematized and Scientific Man-
agement,"— a subject on which he has
made himself an authority.

1900

Fred H. Klaer, Secretary,
334 South 16th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Robert Lyman Grant has recently
resigned as assistant cashier of the
Baker-Boyer National Bank of Walla
Walla, Wash., and will make a tour
around the world before reentering the
banking business in the northwest.
Grant was with the Hampden National
Bank of Westfield, Mass., until 1905,
and then joined the force of the First
National Bank of Minneapolis, Minn.,
leaving that position to go to Walla
Walla in 1907. The Walla Walla
Evening Bulletin speaks of him as "one
of the best equipped of the younger
generation of bankers."

1901

John L. Vanderbilt, Secretary,
14 Wall St., New York.

The firm of John Somma Co., of
which John P. Adams was secretary and
treasurer, has changed its name to the
Kensington Mfg. Co. Adams is now
the president of the company, located
at 541 East 79th Street, New York City,
which manufactures "period" furniture.

Edwin C. Hawley has returned on a
year's leave of absence from China,
where he has been as a missionary.
He spent last winter studying in New
York. This summer he has been in
charge of the Y. M. C. A. work of the
Columbia Summer School at Litchfield,
Conn. His address for the present is
Amherst.

Ralph C. Hawley, who is a professor
in the School of Forestry at Yale, has

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been out west this summer investigating
the national forest reserve.

In the Hibbert Journal for July is an
article by Dr. Preserved Smith on "A
New Light on the Relations of Peter and
Paul."

The New York members of the class
held their annual party at Coney Island
on July 30, the schedule consisting of
a swim, followed by a shore diimer, and
then doing and seeing some of the stunts.
Among those present were Bates,
Everett, Farrell, H. V. D. Moore, Morse
and Towne.

1902

Eldon B. Keith, Secretary,
36 South St., Campello, Mass.

Armouncement is made of the engage-
ment of Henry W. Giese of Boston to
Miss Emily Williston Stearns of Newton,
Mass. Miss Steams is a daughter of
Frank W. Stearns, '78, and a sister of
Foster W. Stearns, '03.

Theodore B. Plimpton was married
to Miss Irene Snow on Wednesday,
June 11, at Boston, Mass.

1903

Clifford P. Warren, Secretary,
168 Winthrop Road, Brookline, Mass.

Thirty-five members of the class were
registered at the Decennial Reunion at
Hitchcock Hall, Amherst, in June.
The list follows: Stearns, W^arren,
Cadieux, Burke, Washburn, Jay, Clark,
Getchell, J. A. Jones, Park, Boyer,
Rhodes, Patrick, S. H. Tead, Favour,
Foster, Fisher, Hardy, Baker, Atwood,
Scott, Longman, Pratt, McCluney,
Ewen, Haradon, R. D. Hildreth, W. A.
Hildreth, Armsby, Phalen, Shearer,
Snushall, Maloney, King, Childs. The
following ladies were present: Mrs.
Steams, Mrs. Rhodes, Mrs. Clark, Mrs.
Warren, Mrs. Favour, Mrs. Marble,
Mrs. W. A. Hildreth, Mrs. King, Mrs.
Baker, Miss Emily W. Stearns, Miss
Caroline E. Clark, Mrs. Eugenie L. La

France, Miss Beatrice La France, Miss
Louise E. Snow.

The class, captained by Park, prin-
cipal of Cutler Academy, Colorado
Springs, its "longest-distance" man, led
the alumni parade Saturday evening,
which was followed by a private celebra-
tion and dramatics at Hitchcock Hall.
Monday morning '98 defeated the class
badly in a very exciting ball game. In
the evening the banquet was served at
Hitchcock Hall. The Greenfield MiU-
tary Band dispensed excellent music for
the class. The Reunion costume was a
senior cap and gown of purple and white.

The class exchanged greetings by
cable ^-ith ex-president Harris who was
traveling in Europe and whose term in
Amherst began with the Freshman year
of the class.

Cadieux and Warren were reelected
president and secretary and Foster was
chosen chairman of the Reunion Com-
mittee.

Albert W. Atwood is writing on
finance each week for the new Harper's
Weekly, and is conducting a department,
entitled "Your Money and How to
Make it Earn," in McClure's Magazine.
He is also editor of Business America.
This winter he will give a course on
"Stocks and the Stock Market" in the
School of Commerce, Accounts and
Finance of New York University.

Byard W. Bennett was married on
June 25 to Miss Martha Muir at Bristol,
Conn.

Alexander C. Ewen is associate prin-
cipal of Dean Academy at Franklin,
Mass.

Foster W. Stearns has been appointed
librarian of the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts in place of Morris Carter, recently
appointed assistant director. During
the past year he has been a student of
library methods in the library school of
the New York Pubhc Library.

Stanley H. Tead is with George H.

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McFadden & Bro. at 3 South William
Street, New York City.

A son, John Cushman, was born
August 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford P.
Warren.

1904

Rev. Karl O. Thompson, Secretary,

643 Eddy Road, Cleveland, Ohio.

Professor Thomas C. Bro^vn of the
department of geology, Bryn Mawr,
and Mrs. Brown have a son, Richard
Leland, born December 2, 1912.

Dr. Heman B. Chase returned from
Honduras in April and has resumed his
practice in Hyannis, Mass.

Fayette B. Dow was married on
June 18 to Miss Annie Lloyd Thomas,
daughter of Mrs. Annie Schley Hoyt,
at Denver, Col.

H. Gardner Lund is doing settlement
work in East Cambridge, Mass., and is
living at 38 Mt. Vernon Street, Clifton-
dale.

Fred E. Sturgis is living in Westfield,
N. J., and is engaged in the real estate
business.

Rev. E^arl O. Thompson received an
M. A. degree in June from Olivet Col-
lege, Olivet, Mich., for non-resident
study and a thesis on "Early Irish
History and Literature."

A. E. Westphal is physical director
at the Indiana State Normal School,
Terre Haute, Ind.

Ernest M. Whitcomb has been elected
vice-president of the Hampshire Agri-
cultural Society.

1905

Emerson G. Gaylord, Secretary,
37 Gaylord Street, Chicopee, Mass.
John G. Anderson was the runner-
up in the National Amateur Golf Cham-
pionship Tournament of the United
States which was held at Garden City,
New York, Sept. 1st to 6th. Anderson
was the first representative from
Massachusetts for seventeen years who
was successful in reaching the final
round; he was defeated for the title

by Jerome D. Travers who won the
championship for the fourth time.
Anderson's work throughout the tour-
nament was characterized as sensa-
tional. To reach the finals, Anderson
had to defeat Chas. Evans, Jr., the
Chicago golfer. This was a particularly
welcome victory for Anderson as it
was Evans who defeated Anderson
three years ago in the final round in
France for the French national title,
when Anderson compelled Evans to
play through the thirty-eighth hole.
Anderson was the intercollegiate golf
champion throughout his college course,
and won the state title in Massachusetts
both in 1907 and 1911. His work this
year, however, has been better than
ever before and his achievement in
reaching the final round for the Na-
tional title has won for him an inter-
national reputation. In the September
issue of Golf, Anderson has two articles,
one entitled "French Aspirants for
American Title" and the other, "The
Boston Letter."

1906
Robert C. Powell, Secretary,

92 Canon Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Rev. Ellison S. Hildreth and Miss
Lottie R. Lane of Rockpoxt, 111., were
married on June 18 at the First Baptist
Church, Boston. They have this fall
left for Swatow, China, where Hildreth
will engage in missionary work under the
direction of the Baptist Foreign Mis-
sionary Society. On August 2, the
Second Baptist Church of Holyoke,
Mass., gave Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth a
farewell reception which was largely
attended. Hildreth is the first member
of this church to enter the foreign
missionary field.

Mason W. Tyler has been appointed
an instructor in the department of his-
tory and politics at Princeton.

A son, Roger Hawley, was bom to
Mr. and Mrs. Newton C. Wing, in
August. Wing has moved to Atlanta,.

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-Ga., where he is the local manager for
the Library Bureau.

George A. Wood has been appointed
an instructor in the department of his-
tory and politics at Princeton.

1907

Charles P. Slocum, Secretary.
424 Wabiut Street, Newtonville, Mass.
T. B. Averill will be married on
November 8 to Miss Margaret Irwin
Nevin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph T. Nevin, of Sewickley, Penn.

Edward C. Boynton and his brother,
Morrison R. Boynton, '10, sons of
Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, '79, were
ordained to the ministry on May 21 at
the Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn,
N. Y., of which their father is pastor.
The moderator of the council of ordina-
tion was Rev. Lewis T. Reed, '93. Of
the service the Congregationalist said:
^'An unusual feature was the participa-
tion of ministers of five denominations
in the laying on of hands. Aside from
the Congregationalists were Methodists,
Baptists, Presbyterians and Unitarians.
A sixth denomination, the Dutch Re-
formed, was to have been represented,
but the pastor was unable to attend and
sent a letter of greeting to Dr. Boynton
instead. An endeavor was made to
have still another denomination, the
Episcopal, but it was impossible to
secure a representative. A gathering
of such various denominations in con-
nection with a Congregational or any
other denominational ordination is un-
usual and perhaps unprecedented."

Rev. Hugh Hartshome was married
on Saturday, June 28, to Margaret,
daughter of Mrs. Edward L. Curtiss,
at New Haven, Conn. Mr. Harts-
horne, who is instructor in religious
education in Union Theological Sem-
inary, has written a book on "Wor-
ship in the Sunday School." It is
published by the Teachers CoUege,
Columbia University, New York.

1908
H. W. ZiNSMASTER, Secretary,
Duluth, Minn.
WiUiam H. Burg is now in business
for himself, dealing in stocks and bonds.
James P. Fleming of the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company is now
located in Chicago as traveUng repre-
sentative for that company. Residence
address, 1363 East 50th Street, Chicago.
William Haller was married on Sep-
tember 3 to Miss Malle\'ille WTieelock
Emerson, daughter of Professor Benja-
min K. Emerson, '65, Amherst. Mrs.
Haller is a Smith graduate of the class
of '08. Haller is now instructor in
EngUsh in Columbia University.

Philip S. Jamieson resigned May 1
from the Marsters Tours Company, of
Boston, to go into the cotton and yam
business with his father.

Daniel B. Jones of the George B.
Keith Shoe Co. now has charge of their
business in Iowa.

John E. Marshall has become manager
for Rhode Island of the Union Central
Life Insurance Company. His office is
in the Turks Head Building, Providence.
Charles W. Niles and Frank R.
Goodell are now sales agents for the
Converse Rubber Shoe Co., under the
name of Niles-Goodell Company, Reade
Street, New York City.

M. Hayward Post, Jr., is now prac-
tising medicine in St. Louis.

Ned Powley is rate engineer for
Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co., San Francisco,
Cal. Home address, 903 Fell Street.

H. W. Zinsmaster is now in the bread
business with R. F. Smith, '10, in
Duluth, Minn. The concern's name is
the Zinsmaster-Smith Bread Company.

1909

Edward H. SuDBxmY, Secretary,

343 Broadway, New York.
Alfred S. Frank has been awarded a
Carnegie Hero Medal for his work at
Dayton during the Ohio flood.

David F. Goodnow was married on

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UATERRLY

August 2 at Ballston Spa, N. Y., to
Miss Margery Smith, daughter of Dr.
Samuel Smith of Ballston Spa and New
York City. They will live at 1009
Edgewood Avenue, Pelham Manor,
N. Y. Goodnow is now practijing law
in New York City, in the office of
Winston H. Hagen, '79, and is a mem-
ber of Squadron A. Mrs. Goodnow is
a graduate of Bryn Mawr.

1910

Clarence Francis, Secretary,
£6 Broadway, New York.
William Sargent Ladd of Portland,
Ore., was married to Miss Mary Rich-
ardson Babbott, daughter of Frank L.
Babbott, '78, at the latter's country
home at Glen Cove, Long Island, on
June 5. Charles T. Ladd, ex-'13, was
best man for his brother.

1911

Dexter Wheelock, Secretary,

75A Willow St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

The engagement of Chester F. Chapin
to Miss Anna Dormitzer of South
Orange, N. J., was announced last Jime.

Owing to the death of his father,
Clayton B. Jones has entered into
partnership with his brother in the
firm of George P. Jones & Co., cotton
brokers, at 71 Wall Street, New York.

Roger Keith and Miss Carolyn B.
Hastings of Brockton were married on
April 12 at Brockton.

Herbert G. Lord is in the bond busi-
ness with the firm of Spencer, Trask
& Co., New York.

The engagement has been announced
of William W. Patton and Miss EUza-
beth BojTiton of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
daughter of Rev. Nehemiah Boynton,
'79. Patton is now studying at the
Andover Theological Seminary.

Richard B. Scandrett has been elected
to the board of editors of the Columbia
Law Review.

Waldo Shumway received the degree
of M.A. at Columbia University in June.

Frederick W. H. Stott was married
on June 17 to Miss Ruth Binkerd at
New Canaan, Conn. Mr. and Mrs.
Stott will live in Andover, Mass., where
Stott will teach public speaking again
this year.

Dexter AVheelock and Miss Josephine
I. Newman were married on August
27 at the Central Presbyterian Church
of Orange, N. J.

E. Sumner Whitten has been ap-
pointed professor of German in St.
Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y.

Lawrence Wood is with the Carnegie
Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.

1912

Beeman p. Sibley, Secretary,
Wellesley Hills, Mass.
A quiet home wedding took place
Saturday, October 4, at the home of
Fred W. Sloan on North Prospect
Street, Amherst, when his only daugh-
ter, Laura, was married to Russell
Bertram Hall, of Worcester. Mr.
Hall, who was captain and manager of
the 'varsity football team during his
senior year, has pursued a coiu-se of
graduate study at the Agricultural
College during the past year, and is
now engaged in fruit-growing in Med-
way, where he has bought a farm.

1913

Bradford Horwood is in the insurance
business with Johnson & Higgins, 49
Wall Street, New York.

The engagement has been announced
of Henry S. Leiper to Miss Eleanor L.
Cory, Smith '13, of Englewood, N. J.
Leiper will spend the coming year at
Union Theological Seminary. Miss
Cory is a traveling secretary of the
student volunteer movement for foreign
missions

Harold H Plough has been appointed
assistant in biology in Amherst College.

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CONTENTS

Page

Frontispiece: The Morris Pratt Memorial, West

Front. Facing 77

The College Window. — Editorial Notes 77

Getting the Transition Made. — Learning as News. —
From our Treasurer's Desk.
Democracy and Culture. Harry P. Swett, '93 ... 86
Commencement. Sonnet. Karl 0. Thompson, '04 . . . 94
"Is the College Making Good?" George B. Churchill, '89 95
Memory. Poem. Harry Greenwood Grover, '06 . . . . 105
Finding the Modern College Range. Laurens H. Seelye,

'11 106

tlTije ^mfjerst lUusitrious;

Amherst IN Civil War Time. Joseph H. Sawyer, 'Q5 . . 118
Barrett Gymnasium, now Barrett Hall. Photograph

by Mills. Facing 119

The Alumni Council. Frederick S. Allis, '93 ... . 121

^f)c iioofe Cable

Smith, Luther's Correspondence and other Contemporary
Letters. Williston Walker, '83. — Morse, Peach
Bloom. J. F. G. — Palmer, Life of Bishop Gilbert.
J. F. G. Hartshorne, Worship in the Sunday
School. W. J, Newlin 127

Cfje ^nbergrabuates!

Review and Prospect in Athletics.

Review of the Football Season. Richard P. Abele,' II . 131
The Hockey Team 132

€>Uitial anb pergonal

The Trustees . 133

The Faculty 134

The Alumni 135

The Classes 138

LIBRI SCRIPTI PERSONS

Mr. Harry P. Swett, A. M., who writes the article on "Democracy and Culture,"
is Principal of the High School, Franklin, New Hampshire.

Rev. Karl O. Thompson, A. M., who writes the sonnet, "Commencement," is
Pastor of the Glenville Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio.

Professor George B. Churchill, Ph.D., who answers the question, "Is the
College Making Good?" is Professor of English Literature in Amherst College.

Mr. Harry Greenwood Grover, who writes the poem, "Memory," is a teacher
in Clifton, New Jersey.

Mr. Laurens H. Seelye, who writes the article on "Finding the Modern College
Range," is a student in the Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Principal Joseph H. Sawyer, L. H. D., who writes on "Amherst in Civil War
Time," is Principal of the Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Mb. Frederick S. Allis, who writes about the "Alumni Council," is Secretary
of the Amherst Alumni Council, and is resident in Amherst.

Professor Williston Walker, Ph.D., D. D., who reviews the book on Luther's
Correspondence, is Professor of Church History in Yale LTniversity, and Secre-
tary of the Trustees of Amherst College.

Mb. Richard P. Abele, who writes the Review of the Football Season is Assistant
Coach in Football, in Amherst.

Mr. Wilijam J. Newlin, who reviews Mr. Hartshorne's book, is Professor of
Philosophy in Amherst College.

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GRADUATES' QUARTERLY

VOL. Ill— JANUARY, 1914— NO. 2

THE COLLEGE WINDOW.— EDITORIAL NOTES

EVERY graduate who has taken the intellectual life seriously
is aware, I presume, of a certain period in his experience
when there came over him a sense of disillusion, a feeling
that somehow the high colors he had once imagined in life and learn-
„ . < ing had faded out and left only dull prosaism and
np . . commonplace. This is no exceptional feeling,

-J" , though in each individual case it seems so, and

indeed is unique according to temperament. The
man who has not had some touch of it and intelligently resolved it is
more to be pitied than the man who has. To some it is the fading
of a poetic and imaginative glamour; to some a sense of enigma and
bafflement in life ; to some simply blankness and boredom. It comes
quite generally about the time of the college course, and in connec-
tion with it. Then it is that the various departments of learning
deploy their treasures before the student, and like Bassanio in
the play he must choose, according to what is intrinsically in him,
between the casket and the gem. It is essentially nothing but the
elemental transition from adolescence to manliood, translated into
intellectual terms, terms of learning. Wordsworth has described
it in poetic and contemplative terms, in his famous Ode:

"The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest.

And by the vision splendid

Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day."

The light of common day, the light wherein we share and share
alike whatever our gifts or calling, and wherein lies our practical

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work, — this is what it reduces to. The sphere of liberal culture, as
represented in the college, is for us its atmosphere, its medium.
The light of learning, with all that it reveals of inspiring or dis-
couraging quality, is our light of common day.

Many treat the sense of disillusion that comes with this transi-
tion as if it meant the real color of things; and many accordingly
key their after life to it as if it were permanent. But this is a mis-
take. As a disillusion it is only a reactive emotional coloring,
and so is as unreal, as untrustworthy, as the illusion itself, being
indeed merely the same spiritual force working in inverse order.
Wordsworth did not treat the youth's faded vision as a thing static
and final. It is not long before he finds something better to take
its place and make the light of common day doubly luminous.
\Miat this is we need not stay to inquire, further than to remark
that its substance is

" The fountain light o[ all our day,"

and that its upshot is something very like what we seek in liberal
learning, when he makes it culminate

"In years that bring the philosophic mind."

Cardinal Newman, looking at the same period of transition, is
more explicit. After describing at some length the "many-colored
vision" of infancy and youth, and its gradual concentration into
form and definition, he goes on to say : " The first view was the more
splendid, the second the more real; the former more poetical, the
latter more philosophical. Alas! what are we doing all through
life, both as a necessity and as a duty, but unlearning the world's
poetry, and attaining to its prose! This is our education, as boys
and as men, in the action of life, and in the closet or library; in
our affections, in our aims, in our hopes, and in our memories.
And in like manner it is the education of our intellect; I say that
one main portion of intellectual education, of the labors of both
school and university, is to remove the original dimness of the mind's
eye; to strengthen and perfect its vision; to enable it to look out
into the world right forward, steadily and truly; to give the mind
clearness, accuracy, precision; to enable it to use words aright, to
understand what it says, to conceive justly what it thinks about,
to abstract, compare, analyze, divide, define, and reason, correctly."

EDITORIALNOTES 79

Thus Cardinal Newman, like Wordsworth, gets the transition
made by setting the mind at work in the light of common day,
accepting the prose of life if it must be prose, and working the haze
and glamour out of its youthful vision. The light of common day
is after all the best light there is; it shows things as they are, if we
will learn to take it so. But the change in scene calls for a cor-
responding adjustment in the beholder. To make up for what
the flatness and prosaism of common day have seemed to take out
of life, there must be put in the greater power and penetration
of the seeing eye, and the adult seriousness and balance of the
mind behind the eye. To the Cardinal this means a very definite
thing, the old-fashioned virtue of concentrated discipline. "The
instruction given [the student]," he says, "of whatever kind, if
it be really instruction, is mainly, or at least preeminently, this, —
a discipline in accuracy of mind." To the poet, who for his youth-
ful reader dreads the time when

"thy soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lie upon thee with a weight
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life,"

it means harking back to the healthy imagination and eager spirit
of childhood and therefrom reviving for permanent value those

"truths that wake.

To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor.

Nor man nor boy.
Nor all that is at enmity with joy.
Can utterly abolish or destroy."

The one would secure all the practical and prose avails of the
transition; the other would charge it anew with the poetry it has
seemed to lose.

Both are idealists. Both are aware that hindrances and handi-
caps lie in the way of making their counsels of perfection actual.
The Cardinal admits that his glowing description fits only the
minority. "Boys," he says, "are always more or less inaccurate,
and too many, or rather the majority, remain boys all their lives."
The poet is aware that both listlessness and mad endeavor must
be reckoned with, and that his ideal of recovered truths must sur-
vive untoward tendencies in both man and boy. The same

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obstacles to getting the perfect transition made loom large in our
College life, and too often prevail ; that is why, I suppose, so many
graduates come back to reunions and bewail their wasted opportu-
nities. That sad shrinkage from the net avails of learning, which
it is just now the fashion to blame upon the College courses and
instruction, goes back, when all is said, to the man himself; he has
met his disillusion and has not resolved it, has lived for years in
the presence of his opportunity and has not taken it seriously. To
some listless souls, who never had any youthful vision to dispel,
the revealing light of common day produces only the indiflFerence
of nil admirari. You recall how the "Merry Devil of Education,"
in Dr. Crothers's delightful essay of that title, describes this luke-
warm species of student. "Toward the end of his college course,"
he says, "he will show signs of superiority to his parents, and there
will be symptoms of world-weariness. He will be inclined to think
that nothing is quite worth while. That tired feeling is diagnosed
as 'Culture.' The undergraduate has become acquainted with
the best that has been said and known in the world, and sees that
it doesn't amount to much after all." This sort of thing, however,
though it has played some part in impairing the savor of learning,
is hardly more than matter for a flying smile. Not the 'listless-
ness " or conceit in the presence of academic wealth so much as the
"mad endeavor" after alien things, — the turmoil of sports and
rivalries and distractions, the haste for a paying vocation, the
pressure of the active life, — is the gravest obstacle to making the
transition ripen into the real self-mastery of learning. A silly
sentiment against prigs and pedants, too, and a morose determina-
tion to make study an infliction and grind, have their part in
Wordsworth's category of "all that is at enmity with joy." It
is, in fact, only by resolute survival in the face of foes and unwise
friends alike that the spirit of true learning can prosper until it
becomes for its devotee the light of his common day, the natural
way of living; and just on that account it is worth so much the more
when it does.

The College is called on all sides to stand and deliver. Its
courses, its administration, its teachers, its methods, must in these
critical days render account of themselves. And all these things
are vulnerable, as no one better knows than those who have them
in charge. But there is no occasion for apology or even putting

EDITORIALNOTES 8l

the College on the defensive. Its best defense is its steadfastness.
Meanwhile, it may be remembered that the College life is syn-
chronous with that momentous transition wherein the glamour
and unreality of youth is fading into the light of common day,
and the spiritual tissues are toughening into the fibre of manhood.
Behind, the juvenility of the secondary school; before, the ripened
adultness of the university and the professional school ; here stands
the College, neither in sternness nor in lenity, but in fellowship,
striving, so far as students and patrons will cooperate, to enrich
the common day with the clear-seeing, accurate mind, and the
love of sound learning as a possession for all time.

FROM the college teacher's point of view the most bafiling
problem in his cherished enterprise of learning, which to
him has become also the enterprise of teaching, rises at
the point where he looks over the boundary of the undergraduate
J . course toward the coming years of sequel. What

-, shall the study amount to after the bachelor's

examination is over? What attitude and interest
shall it leave in the graduate's mind, what prepared soil in which
afterward it may continue to grow and enrich his life of liberal
culture? It is just here that so much of the college course seems
to go for nothing, to slip away from memory and use, while the
man's proficiency lies in pursuits that seem to have no relation to
college at all. Of course, one can easily see how truly a part of
this shrinkage, perhaps the great bulk of it, must needs be so.
The student's undergraduate course is largely sampling and trying;
in the variety of studies that are prescribed for him he is learning
not only some rudiments of them but many important elements
of his own tastes and aptitudes. By means of these studies he
is finding himself. For some lines of learning he has jio taste at all ;
they go into his system and remain inert, or perhaps work like a
disease which on exposure he "takes," which runs its course mildly
or severely, and thereafter leaves him immune. For other lines
he has a native aptitude, and they easily pass from the sampling
stage to the joy of the specialty. For still others he discovers an
interest and finds in them a value undreamed of before; they bring
out certain deeper elements which may count for much in his later
life of liberal culture; if he does not go into further reaches of spe-

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cialized learning they are what make his college life Avorth while.
But the average graduate cannot use many of these to independent
and original purpose. They remain in his reminiscence as things
which he has "taken" and "passed," and for the most part he has
merely a diploma to show for it. A few are vital. The rest, —
well there is no call to judge harshly. There may be more ves-
tiges left than we are aware; and no knowing when, or how,
the germs may spring into life again and go on to untold en-
richment.

Still, it seems a pity that so much of the curriculum should have
to be sacrificed for so little net result. Every scholarly educator
has asked if there is not some remedy; if, as in intensive farming,
some greater yield cannot be had from the tremendous acreage of
the plowed and sown. I was thinking the matter over the other
day, when I happened upon the announcement of the New York
Times Book Review, giving their working principle: "Books as
news." Here, I reflected, is a suggestion both for teacher and stu-
dent in our enterprise of learning. After all, that is what we want
to get about the publications of the day, — simply the news. We
get distrustful of publishers' puffery of their wares ; who knows but
they want to sell us a gold brick .'^ We get tired of that tone of
criticism which assumes to know more about the subject than the
writer who has laid out years of research and meditation on it;
who knows but the critic is merely exploiting himself? It is the
news that we are after. If we have the news, fairly and intelli-
gently told, we can judge for ourselves whether we want to buy
or not, and the book itself does the rest. The analogy holds in
Learning as News. As the review has, as it were, conducted us to
the spot where we can judge the outside of the book, so the true
spirit of learning takes us to the inside, to the centre from which
we can build our scholarly edifice constructively. From there on-
ward our whole work is a voyage of discovery, full of the zest of
new things and of new meanings in old things. We lose the whole
worth of it by approaching our work either for the sake of som^e
shallow veneer of culture or in the superior attitude of the critical
high-brow. It is as news that learning appeals to us on equal terms;
neither claiming adulation as dictator nor patronage as suppliant,
but imparting of her stores as benefactor and friend. It is worth

EDITORIAL NOTES 83

much strenuous self -culture for us, teacher, student, alumnus alike,
to get and maintain this feeling toward learning. We do well in our
interpretations of life to reduce things to terms simpler and more
familiar, — that is the sound principle. But it takes off the dull-
ness and inertia of our quest to reduce things also to more interesting
terms — to values with zest in them. Stevenson has expressed it
for the teacher and author, but the student can appropriate it as
well. "Let us teach people," he says, "as much as we can, to
enjoy, and they will learn for themselves to sympathize; but let us
see to it, above all, that we give these lessons in a brave, vivacious
note, and build the man up in courage while we demolish its sub-
stitute, indifference." This is neither puffery nor criticism; it is
giving truth and instruction the zest of news.

To APPROACH learning as news is a simplification of things; it is
coming back, as it were, to a first principle. Our critical age has
become stuffed full with learning as doubt and criticism; it has be-
come self -conceited and sophisticated with its sense of mental clev-
erness and insight. There is need of such return. And it begins with
that healthy alertness and curiosity by which every-day men, accord-
ing to their sphere of interests, add to their stock of facts and truths.
The zest of news extends through all degrees of culture, from the
talk of the neighborhood and the reportage of the newspaper up
to the highest deductions of mind. You can gauge one's learning
or at least one's respect for learning by it. It may move among
trivial and ephemeral things; it may stop with the idle fact, of what-
ever nature, and yet never get wisdom from it; there are infinite
grades, indeed, between gossip and learning. The Athenians,
who "spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear
some new thing," may have been the inquisitive busybodies that
Demosthenes reproaches them with being; but they we re more than
gossips, they could appreciate a high class of news and judge it
from the standpoint of disciplined thought. They were alert and
responsive, at least; and that is more than can be said of some
whose chances have been far more rich and varied. It is a pity
if the standard of live learning in which they habitually moved
should put us college graduates to the blush.

The learning whose principles have been grounded in us in
college may furnish us news all the rest of our lives. We need not

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be original investigators in it or minute specialists; and yet we
can appreciate its growth and modifications as the years bring its
changes, — ^for every department of learning is alive and has the
interest of life. We can continue to appreciate its life and its
appeal— the history, the biology, the philosophy, the literature
which in college opened so many vistas of attractive research.
We can note "what is doing" in any lines that have interested us;
can enter into the growth of discovery and opinion and understand
it in the technical terms that belong to it. Our college course has
fitted us for this; has put the rudiments of many sciences into our
hands as a working-tool. In other words, it has enabled us to take
the news in learning, and to keep it fresh and moving. It is for
that purpose that it has made its curriculum so varied and com-
prehensive, so that each type of mind may find its own. We
cannot retain the information that was given us in the class-
room, but we can retain the ability to ripen what we have
and to get more. The whole sphere of the learning that finds us
is opened as a bureau of news. And so our college course, from
year to added year, is not merely a reminiscence but a continued
zest, wherein activities of the study mingle on equal terms with
the activities of the field and the fraternity, and learning is not an
outworn drudgery but a voyage of discovery.

THE Amherst Graduates' Quarterly has passed through
two full years and one quarter of the third year of a some-
what experimental, but on the whole, encouraging exist-
ence. Naturally, when we began we heard it whispered that we
p, p. could not survive our first year. But to quote our

rp , red-blooded young American, "we are still in the

P^ , ring and going strong." Beginning with a very

modest list of subscribers, we now number between
fourteen and fifteen hundred. The loyalty and generosity of a very
few alumni who guaranteed our existence for the first year, was
renewed and continued for a second year, in spite of a large deficit
after the first year. But our second year, although closed with a
deficit of a few hundred dollars, was considered encouraging
enough to continue on our third lap. In order, however, that the
Quarterly may advance towards its highest usefulness and in-
fluence, two important things are needed: First, more subscribers

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(there are over four thousand living alumni and non-graduates
on the College records); second, more advertisements [there are
hundreds of alumni in business who could well afford to advertise
with us — even if (which premise we deny) they derived no material
benefit therefrom].

At this point another member of the editorial board would
urge a third desideratum : more contributors. To be a contributor
both increases your own interest and adds to the interest of your
fellow-graduates. If in response you ask, " What shall I write
about?" the answer is, Any subject of live interest which your
life of liberal culture has yielded. Our cooperative ideal for the
Quarterly is to talk our intellectual interests over with one
another, and thus add to that stock of news of which the pre-
ceding editorial speaks.

One of our contemporaries has been materially helped by entire
classes having subscribed as a unit — guaranteeing 100 per cent,
of paid subscriptions, and defraying any deficit out of the class
treasury. Why is not this example worth while in regard to your
own College and its only Alumni publication? If this were carried
out in good measure — and we believe Amherst spirit can and will
do it — the future success of the Quarterly is assured. Will you
help along a good plan?

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DEMOCRACY AND CULTURE

HARRY PREBLE SWETT

EDUCATION is older then democracy. But new ideas that
are destined to hold their own in the higher life of the race
will inevitably modify our most ancient conceptions. They
lead us to discover what in the old is lasting, what temporary. This
is a law of mental growth, and it is illustrated by nothing better
than by the moulding or destructive action of the modern con-
ception of democracy, — an action that is apparent wherever we
look.

The fundamental ideals of democracy are, I believe, imperisha-
bly sound; and we can do nothing wiser than to combine the per-
manent elements of both education and democracy. But, in this
combination, we should remember that the reverse of the apper-
ceptive thought just hinted at is also true: old ideas should not
yield too easily to the new; they also should have a moulding
effect upon what may be denominated as modern. Not every-
thing that is called democracy is wise or permanent.

Wliat is true of education in general holds good for that phase
of education which we sum up in the term culture. In the time-
honored principles of a cultural education there are permanent
elements as well as in democracy. There is, it may be shown,
no implacable antagonism between the two, when we grasp the
essential principles of both in one thought. But^ — forgetting
neither phase of mental growth already mentioned — of the two,
democracy and culture, democracy is the larger as well as the newer
and more popular idea, and to it should accordingly be given the
right to choose the terms of the discussion. We need, that is, a
definition of culture which is entirely in democratic terms, a defi-
nition which no freeman, to go back to the good old English word,
can refuse to endorse, and which will be just as acceptable to the
humanist.

A good deal of discussion turns upon the value of Latin and
Greek as a means to higher education. This is likely to lead to
trivialities; but, even so, there is suggested an opportunity for

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complete agreement where difference is maintained. A democrat,
so to say, calls these languages dead; the classicist replies by ex-
plaining that they are fully alive, and bases his defense upon this
explanation. This, of course, gives the modern at once the ad-
vantage of position, without regard to any merits of the debate;
for both admit that the mere past is of too little value to defend.

This discloses plainly one of the sound instincts of democracy.
Its interests, when true, lie mainly in the future. Its citizens do
not look back longingly to a garden of Eden, nor sigh for the time
when there were giants in the land. They are right: with time
regarded as the standard for judging, it is the greatest human
glory to be able to control the future, the limitless unknown. So
long as its interests remain there, democracy will never be wrecked.
It will keep its daring, it will make mistakes, it may lose its reck-
oning for a while, but it will not become completely lost.

But if this paradise yet to be is not to prove a disappointing
mirage, the future m.ust always grow out of the past. The enthu-
siastic democrat absorbed in the future may bring himself to im-
agine that the future may be uncoupled from the rest of time;
he does not stop to think that such a future would run wild. The
ignorant person is often scornful of the treasures of the past; he
really parades only his ignorance. The culturist has a useful and
constant task to dispel ignorance and to cool extravagant enthu-
siasm by showing that the inheritances from the past are neces-
sary capital for developing the future. But these treasures are
of all varieties — literature, politics, religion, science, mathemat-
ics, language, the arts, manual and fine. It is a vandal waste
of human life to bring up a youth in ignorance of such treasures
of old. It is like slashing a Rembrandt; those treasures are as
much lost to him as the painting to the world.

While the future, in general, is boundless, one's individual future
must be selective of what in possibility is before one. A person
cannot be everything, if he is to be somebody. So of the past;
one cannot be skilled in all the accomplishments of other gener-
ations. We must select from what has been as well as from what
is not yet. But in selecting from the past we are not fated in our
choice; for the individual, as for the race, it is the future that
determines what in the past is for him of most significance. With
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the future controls our past more than the past controls our future.
We cannot change the past, indeed, but we can use what of the
past we choose. But this fact, that one's future determines what
use shall be made of the past, it must be admonished, does not al-
low one to rest content with a narrow choice. In this selection,
the person must remember that he is a social human being as well
as a desiring, planning individual; he cannot neglect his own hu-
manity without cramping his individuality.

With time still in mind, the most ardent classicist and the most
radical modernist may agree in another essential particular —
they may both contemn the love of the fleeting moment. The
mere present, without union with the past or future, is worth
nothing. But the love of the present is the danger of democracy,
as of all individuals or nations that look neither before nor after.
We may shut our eyes to the future, we can forget the past, but
we cannot then get away from the present. Our bodies are in the
present, the nerves of themselves know only the now. With either
the past or the future in our minds, we have authority over the
present; but with neither it has authority over us. But in its
proper relation the present cannot be justly scorned or neglected.
The present is the shifting point between the gone and the coming,
from which both may be valued, and from which new bearings
may constantly be made for the future. He is wise who so uses
the present. We would have a civilization which, to look at, is
magnificent; but this can happen only because we have had and
are yet to have a history.

But the problems of education are not settled best by discuss-
ing the present, past, and future. Time is a good setting for the
discussion, but we need to draw away from time in order to get
a good perspective. Time, moreover, is not essentially a demo-
cratic term. We need some principles which will comprehend
both democracy and education, and which, in addition, are not
affected intrinsically by age.

The fundamental educational principle of democracy ought
to be as new as the modern type of society and old enough to be
classical in the best sense of the word. Such a principle, ancient
and modern at once, may be found in Plato's theory of education
as enunciated in the Republic. In his ideal state the rulers were
to have the most careful training. They were to be educated

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to become "lovers of wisdom" and, as such, they were to attain
"a knowledge of what is for the interests of each and all the other
parts of the state"; and the interests of the state were "to be
the rule of all their actions." This "height of knowledge" was,
in a phrase, the attainment of a vision of "the whole."

This ability of the mind to grasp wholes is still recognized as
the highest human endowment — our ability to control the future
depends upon it. Philosophers make it their task to comprehend
in some way the totality of things; reUgion makes a practical
relation between this sensible and a supersensible world; the
scientist unites in complete laws myriads of facts of nature.

But, in one particular, the whole of modern democracy is far
superior to Plato's whole, broad as was his vision. With him,
only a select few could become "truly wise" through this view
of the whole; most men and women were to remain permanently
in classes, unable to reach, or to hope to reach, complete emanci-
pation of the mind. Both Plato and Aristotle thought that
slaves were necessary for the higher pursuits of superior persons.

To democracy, Plato's whole is only a partial truth, which it
has rounded into completeness. Our "whole" is based upon a
far higher estimation of human worth; we do not acknowledge
any stratified differences in normal human minds; it is beUeved
that not a select few, but all, may reach the governing principle
of their lives of having at heart the interests of all.

This principle of universal interest in all human beings is the
greatest gain of recent over earher times. It is the best new
basis for education or, indeed, for human advancement. But,
though it is democratic to its inmost meaning, its real significance
has been caught sight of so recently in history that it is used
very imperfectly as a basis for guiding conduct and thought.
If it be asked, for instance, who are included in the common phrase,
"the people," w^e must answer, all the people; but this answer
can scarcely be realized without reference to the conception of
time which was dismissed a short space above. "The people"
are not primarily the persons living in the present; they are more
truly those who are to come in the future, for they are so much
more numerous; the people include, as well, all those who have
gone before us, whose deeds and thoughts have helped to make
democracy the hope that it is today. No person that is willing

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to overthrow ruthlessly the institutions that have come to us
from the fathers can claim to have the democratic spirit in sin-
cerity and in truth; and no one who does not dare to abandon
a time-worn practice that has lost its usefulness, in order to ad-
vance the interests of the present or future generations, is truly
democratic.

A democracy, so understood, is, again, an amplification and
a reahzation of the classic sentiment. Homo sum; humani nihil
a me aliemim puto — ^because I am a human being, I think that
every other human being, every human characteristic, every
human need and desire have for me a deep concern. This is
the union of the democratic and the cultural spirit. Yes, democ-
racy, with its wholeness and its human sympathy, is unavoidably
cultural. Wliatever institutions or systems of thought are reared
upon it are also cultural, however much the new constructions may
seem to differ from what other generations or peoples have done.

Such is the first principle of a cultural education which is at
once democratic and classical, ancient and modern. It is the
duty of those who hope for the perfection of the human race,
to see to it that this social spirit, this interest in all mankind,
is attained by all. That education may be termed cultural,
as distinguished from other phases of education, which directly
aims to do this, and those studies cultural which purposely tend
to cultivate this spirit, or to investigate its nature and relation-
ships. Our people have always liked to think that there is, to
this end, no course of studies necessarily prescribed. They love
to think that from every spot where a human being is located,
whatever may be his environmental conditions, from that spot
is a path to the love of other human beings. To say that there
is no path is to doom them permanently to intellectual death;
to say that this cannot be attained without certain studies is
to advocate intellectual snobbishness; and snobbishness and
culture of this type are implacably hostile. Americans are proud
of their self-made men, who have reached real mental freedom.
They will not admit that Lincoln is an entirely isolated case,
due to a divinely endowed genius, which cannot be reproduced
in other men and women.

One of the objects of an advanced cultural education is to
investigate the best means for inculcating this social spirit in

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the young and also in the mature, who for any reason have been
retarded in acquiring it. This is a broader task than the cultural
education of a generation ago. It allows for a permanency of
principle and a variety of method, detail, and application, which
unceasingly gives it the zest of freshness.

A second object of such education is to show that all the activi-
ties of life are related to this idea and are wasteful unless unified
by this one comprehensive principle. Here, again, the details
of the investigation are endlessly new, although the same constant
problem. With increasing complexity of civilization and division
of labor in all fields of endeavor, this unification becomes increas-
ingly difficult. But — this suggests the permanent necessity of
a cultural education — progress of society depends upon keeping
this unity.

A third object is to show the relation of all other principles
of education to this, and to disclose wherein lesser principles
fall short of or are completed by it. Such a principle is efficiency,
now, possibly, more in the minds of all classes of persons than
any other educational idea.

Efficiency, it is to be noticed, is as natural to our democracy
as equality. It was first introduced into America by Captain
John Smith; efficiency was demanded by the natural environment,
which had to be controlled before homes could be established;
it is now as necessary, since the western coast has turned us back
upon ourselves and is forcing us to a more intensive and intelligent
efficiency.

Efficiency is, also, a valuable complement of the more general
social principle. It is commonly said of those who sound the
praises of fraternity, that they tend to run into inane sentimen-
tality. Those who cry efficiency are not of this type; they are
hard-headed, active persons, who are praised and who praise
others, because they "do things." To attempt to belittle effi-
ciency is to run counter to our natural vigor. Still more, effi-
ciency, as a standard, is older than Plato's thought of the whole;
it is older than the Iliad, the story of the efficient warrior; it is
as old as the first human beings, who had to defend with crude
weapons themselves and their families from the wild beasts.
On the basis of efficiency all peoples have judged their great men.
So were estimated Demosthenes, Pericles, and Praxiteles, Cicero

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and Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Washington. Let us
not hesitate to admit that efficiency is a permanent educational
principle. The advocates of Latin and Greek as the chief means
to culture, moreover, have always claimed that these studies
cannot be mastered without efficient mental action. Modernist
and classicist again meet here in agreement.

But efficiency is an incomplete principle, after all; it cannot
be its own standard. Art for art's sake, and virtue for virtue's
sake, are intelligible phrases; but efficiency for efficiency's sake
is a blind rule. Activity for the sake of activity is child's play,
unsuited to rational adults, except for purposes of recreation.
Nor does the expenditure of much force constitute efficiency;
Napoleon's army expended more energy during the campaign
to Moscow than during that of Marengo. An efficient act is
one that accomplishes the end intended, but, with efficiency as
the only standard, that end may be either large or small, good or
bad. The champion prize-fighter, the ward heeler that elects
his man, are entirely efficient according to their own standard.
If we should accept efficiency for efficiency's sake, we should have
to admire them as much as a statesman with international
vision.

In order to make efficiency the useful principle that it may be,
it is necessary to keep in mind along with it the view of the whole.
When we are wise, we wish to know how we can best spend our
time, how we can best put to use our abilities and conditions. This
can be determined in actuality only by the serviceableness of our
acts to society; and in proportion as our vision is broad, in that
proportion are we able to reach satisfactory decisions. Having
decided what we are to do, we have then to execute our thought.
Here efficiency has to be applied; it is the principle of execution.

Logically, the lesser principle is included in the larger, when the
latter is sincerely held. But life is not logic, practically. We have
to emphasize and apply now this thought, now that, before we
realize their true relations. Our country is now displaying stu-
pendous activity and talking efficiency. Whither is it all tending .^^
Some persons, possibly, can foresee; but — this is the important
question — do the actors themselves realize the end? If they
keep in mind the thought of all, they do; if they neglect this har-
monizing principle, the result will be — what history everywhere

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teaches — an iaharmonious clash, a readjustment, and a fresh
start. The path of progress can be made more straight by keeping
in sight the light of this one principle of the whole.

The two, together, make a practically complete basis for human
development. Together, they lack nothing of the ideal, nothing
of the practical. The idea of the whole is of the mind — a guide
for thought, universal; efficiency is for the body, through which
we perform all that we do. The two are in harmony with demo-
cratic tendencies, but are, besides, the enduring elements of every
system of education that has ever been. In a certain sense, the
mind of man never changes, but its constant reaction upon an
ever changing environment produces manifold effects. So, in a
sense, a true education never changes; its fundamental elements
remain the same throughout all time; but their application varies
to suit the shifting environment of nature and society.

Democracy is not a method for changing the nature of man, but
a means for developing the eternal possibilities of mankind. The
process of culture may be described in precisely the same words.
Naturally, it is found that, while their unessential externals have
at times appeared decidedly unlike, their fundamentals are prac-
tically identical. Both democracy and culture are found to mean
the broadest possible vision, which must include all human kind;
and both exclude applications that do not attain the highest
efficiency.

In brief, then, the function of the cultural part of education is
to preserve in active operation the greatest ideas the race has so
far developed. This can be done completely only by getting them
accepted by every individual. Democracy has helped us to see
clearly some of the most important of these ideas; and chief est
of these I have named efficiency and a broad-visioned equality —
the claim upon our interest of all human souls.

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COMMENCEMENT

KARL O. THOMPSON

ANTICIPATED as the day that ends
The steady happy course of fellowship,
Scholastic problems, sport and merry quip,-
Four years that bring us noble, lasting friends;
Remembered as the time when life ascends
To face its work for man with surer grip,
And sees ahead new realms in which to dip
With conscious power that grows as it contends.

A day of mingling past and future hope,
A day whose sweet associations woo.

Whose joy of ends attained with lesser strife
Poretells the truer joy of larger scope

That comes with sacrificing work to do, —
Prophetic day of ever growing life.

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"IS THE COLLEGE MAKING GOOD?"

GEORGE B. CHURCHILL

OF THE various devices employed by the newspapers and
magazines to enliven the "dull season" of 1913, not the
least successful was that of The Outlook, which on August
16 published an article entitled "Is the College Making Good?"
by Edward Bok, editor of the prominent educational paper, The
Ladies' Home Journal. College teachers who had almost for-
gotten, in the northern wilderness or by the cooling sea, that any
such things existed as college problems, and who could not yet
hear, even afar off, the trumpet-call of the September reveille, were
roused from their peace, annoyed, perturbed, and heated to a
temperature otherwise unknown in a fairly tolerable summer.
Attacks upon the efficiency of the colleges, too common to be
seriously disturbing, are taken as "a part of the day's work,"
during the college year; but if the enemy is to introduce the
fashion of battle in the season hitherto consecrated to peace,
where shall rest be found by the weary? It is to be assumed that
to the disturbance and heat caused by this thought was due some-
what of the lack of ceremony in the defense and counter-attack.

The substance of Mr. Bok's charge is this. In 1912 he had sent
a letter to each of the students about to be graduated from the
six leading women's colleges, asking what, in her opinion, college
had done for her physically, socially, and intellectually. From
the answers received "one hundred letters were taken as a basis
to see how these graduates, about to go out into the world after
sixteen years of schooling and drilling, would stand in a simple
test for composition, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and more
particularly to examine the thought and the quality of English. "

The result of the examination was that not a single letter was
absolutely correct, by the test mentioned; that only three could
be ranked between 90 and 100, and that more than one-third
failed to reach the passing-mark of 70. "The chief trouble was
in spelling," "punctuation was practically thrown to the winds,"
"crude and illegible handwriting" was frequent; as to grammar

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"the results were astonishing." Conclusion — that something
must be fundamentally wrong with our educational system.

In 1913, Mr. Bok applied a similar test to the 1913 graduates of
the five leading men's colleges. The letters received were better
than those from the girls. "They are fair," writes Mr. Bok.
"But it cannot be truthfully said that they are excellent, or what
we have a right to expect from a four years' course at college and
at least twelve years' previous training. "

Thus, he claims, the very least thing that a collegiate education
should do for a student — teach him simple good writing, spelling
and grammar- — it does not do. WTiio, then, shall blame the parent
that asks, "What benefit is there in an academic college course
for my son who is preparing for a business career?" The results
obtained from an examination of these letters, acknowledges
Mr. Bok, are, to be sure, only "straws"; but straws show the way
the wind blows, "and," he concludes, "judging from these straws,
the wind seems to be blowing a little bit 'sou'-sou'west,' in the
direction of a negative answer to the question in the title of this
article."

Now there was nothing new or unusual in this attack, with
which the college teacher has a long-standing and familiar acquain-
tance, save that, as delivered by Mr. Bok, it was unusually ineflfi-
cient and vulnerable. That it received so many replies in the
newspapers, in periodicals like The Nation, in The Outlook itself,
must be ascribed to the aforementioned heat and perturbation —
or to something else. The defense was as usual: It is not the
business of the college, but of the elementary and secondary
schools to teach composition, spelling and punctuation; it is not
the function of the college to teach the elementary principles of
business life and business methods ; it is the function of the college
to give the liberal culture that creates dissatisfaction with our
actual "practical" life of largely meaningless, wasteful, and selfish
activity. Then the counter-attack, alluring and certain. What
deficiency in logic, to reason that because a college student cannot
spell or write grammatically his college has not "made good" in
giving him knowledge, training and character, far more important!
What absurdity in attacking the colleges for not teaching boys
and girls to "know how to say what they mean, " when the mature
and practised Mr. Bok in his very attack, by his turgid, hetero-

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geneous sentences, his slovenly and incorrect diction, his grammati-
cal errors, even, shows that he too does not know how to say what
he means!

Bew^ildered by the vigor of this defense and counter-assault,
even the editors of The Outlook, in an endeavor loyally to support
their contributor, were led into putting into his mouth things he
had not said, and giving half his case away. As umpires of the
conflict, they declared, "We find nothing in the criticisms made
which controverts effectively Mr. Bok's main contentions — that
a college-bred man should write good English, that a knowledge
of one's own language is the very basis of all education, and that
the secondary schools, because of the pressure by colleges for high
examination standards in other branches, are not sending boys
up to college with the training in English which they should get
in the schools. "

And here, since most of Mr. Bok's charge against the college has
been transferred to the secondary schools, and what remains is not
directed against the English department, the college teacher of
English might breathe a sigh of relief — and go to sleep again.

But in that sleep what dreams do come ! The college teacher of
English knows that the victory is empty, that, whatever the defi-
ciencies of the attack, so far as English teaching is concerned the
cause was just. He knows that a large majority of the graduates
of our colleges cannot write mechanically correct, respectable
English. He may, or he may not, hold himself partly responsible
for the fact; but, if he is worthy of the name of teacher, he cannot
remain content with it. He may, or he may not, believe that the
blame should be laid elsewhere than upon the college; but he can-
not help eagerly desiring to find a way by which the college may
assist to remove the cause of blame. It is truly a condition and
not a theory that confronts him; and whatever the correct theory
of educational progress in English he is more interested in remedy-
ing the condition.

His first necessity is an adequate knowledge of the whole condi-
tion. As he begins to trace the first steps of the child he realizes
that the enterprise of learning English is one of unique and enor-
mous difficulty. It is the assumption of nearly all men, including
those teachers who do not teach English, that because English is
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him. The teacher of English knows that for this very reason the
exact contrary is true. Before the days of school begin, for some
three years, the child is acquiring the English of his family and of
the family servants. In nine-tenths of our families and from nearly
all servants he hears an incorrect, slovenly, more or less ungram-
matical English, and by the time he goes to school he has acquired
habits of speech which can be eradicated only by very great and
long-continued labor, if at all. During his school years he learns
most of his English, his habitual and practical speech, outside the
schoolroom; and, what is worse, he wwlearns outside, in the com-
pany of his comrades and of his family, a large part of what he
learns within. Rarely does his speech receive correction from
elder or parent, and of what he writes, no one save his teacher takes
any notice. He does, it is true, learn much in school, but what he
learns outside and becomes habituated to, is precisely that which
defeats the attempt to teach him the habit of a mechanically cor-
rect and grammatical English,

Of the teaching of English in the grade and secondary schools,
let this be said emphatically : The college teacher who really knows
the conditions will have to confess that the teaching of English
composition is as efficient in the schools as in the college, and often
more so; that the devotion and faithfulness to the work are greater.
It is true that the results are inadequate, that a knowledge of how
to secure results and how to measure them is rarer in this subject
than in almost any other; but the same is true in college. If the
task in the school seems almost impossible, it is made so by the
same factor as in college.

For by this time the investigator is aware that the chief cause
of defeat really lies outside the school and the college. The Ameri-
can people do not write or speak correct English, nor do they care
to do so. The habitual speech and writing of the vast majority,
including the school-bred, is far below any standard tolerable to
one who is really educated in English. Test it, you who read these
words, in any circle with which you come in contact. How many
of your acquaintances write excellently as regards mere mechanical
correctness in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and the power to
say simply and clearly what they mean? How many speak habitu-
ally an excellent English, grammatical, free from slang, clear in
meaning? And how many "simple, intelligent, correctly spelled,

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grammatical business letters" do you receive? One is tempted
to say that, like miracles, they do not happen. Certainly, they
are so rare as to convince one that the vast business of this vast
America has gained and holds its success without them.

A low standard of spoken and written English prevails among all
but the very well educated ; and it is to this standard, tremendously
powerful, constantly exerting its influence against the influence
of the schoolroom, so limited in scope and in time, that the pupil
unconsciously tends to conform even while in school, and to which
he does conform when, and after, he is out of it. That is what
the school teacher of English has to combat. He fights a fight
laid upon no other teacher; it is a marvel that he wins so far.
Improvement of teaching, extension of time, cannot make him
wholly victor. Somehow or other the pupil and the pupil's circle
must be made to care.

The college teacher, then, who is familiar with school conditions,
whatever his beliefs or hopes as to added accomplishment in the
schools, will recognize not only that they do not now, but cannot
for a long time, fulfil the task that he would like to lay wholly
upon them. If the college graduate is to write English respectably,
the colleges must accept the obligation; they merit all the blame
that is cast upon them, if they do not.

The first part of this obligation, one which it might be expected
by all to recognize and accept, is that it should preach, and do all
in its power to foster, a higher national standard in the workaday
English of the people. If a low popular standard causes such
diflSculty in the educational process of the schools, and the defects
of this process are largely or partly responsible for the poor Eng-
lish of college students, who should be so eager as the college to
raise this standard? Might it not be expected also that in the
college itself, of all places, there should reign a standard of the
highest; that it should seek to impress its students with the power,
the beauty, the sacredness of English pure and undefiled; should
teach them that poor English is disloyalty to all the ideals of culture
and, to be "practical," that it is ineflScient and unserviceable?
But where is the college that, as a college, is eagerly trying to
raise the popular standard or really maintains a high standard of
its own? Departments of English may do so, but to them the
other departments, the college as a whole, willingly resign the task.

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In their view, it is the task of a department, not that of a college.
Few, besides the teachers of English, give their assent to the propo-
sition of The Outlook "that a knowledge of one's own language is
the very basis of all education"; or if they assent, they do not
interpret "knowledge" as a knowledge above a very low standard,
not high enough to secure even the mechanically correct, respect-
able English for which Mr. Bok calls, and they do not interpret
"basis" as an indispensable foundation without which no educa-
tion worthy of the name can be built. \Aliy should they? Are
there not college professors, "well-educated" and highly reputed
men, who neither speak nor write a truly respectable English?
And how should the student, then, fail to think that the standard
set by his teachers of English is exaggerated, unnecessarily high
for the "practical " man, who is not to pursue a literary calling, but
a business or at most a business-like professional life? The atti-
tude of other departments and the success and standing of other
professors is for him convincing. And this attitude is supported
and strengthened by the attitude of the college government, the
trustees and faculty. \Miat college really makes the writing of
good English a condition for the reception of its B. A. or B. S.
degree? Other conditions and requirements there are. In Am-
herst College, for instance, every student must pass an examination
that proves his possession of a good knowledge of two foreign
languages, both modern or one modern and one ancient, before
he may receive his degree; but there is no examination that requires
the proof of his ability to write respectable English. There is,
indeed, no requirement that he shall study any English at all after
his Freshman year.

So that the English teaching of the colleges, as of the schools,
is immensely hampered by the influence of a standard far lower
than that of the department, a standard far more influential than
it with the eight-tenths of the students whom it is most necessary
to educate in English, a standard accepted by them, and rightly,
as the standard of the college. So long as it is the standard of the
college it is quite certain that the college will not "make good" in
sending forth graduates of nearly all of whom it may be said that
they write respectable English.

But it may be claimed that an efficient English department
should, in spite of these exterior difficulties, be able to produce the

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results desired. Let us then consider the difficulties within the
department. The boys that enter college, it might be thought,
should be found both better trained already, and more responsive
to training, than those who have not prepared for college. This
is the case with a few, and, it may be said, as set-off to the opinion
that their education in English has been scanted because of the
too heavy requirements of the colleges in the other departments,
that these few are generally boys who have received excellent
training in the classics. At the threshold, most colleges interpose
a barrier in the form of a statement to the effect that no student's
examination paper in English will be considered satisfactory if
seriously defective in punctuation, spelling, or other essentials of
good usage. Attempts more or less successful to enforce this
requirement are doubtless made in the colleges that admit by exam-
ination only. At Harvard, for example, it is known, the entrance
examination in English is found the most difficult to pass. But
it is equally well known that many men who write an English seri-
ously defective in the essentials of good usage are graduated from
Harvard, as from other colleges. In the large number of colleges
which, like Amlierst, admit upon certificate it is impossible to
enforce this requirement. In a certificated Freshman class the
men are found to show a very wide variation in ability to write
English, and few have really that ability upon which the college
pretends to insist.

Here is the job of the college cut out for it. And to handle it,
the English department is generally allowed a one-year's course
of three or four hours a week, required of all Freshmen, and in
this course, probably wisely, much of the time is devoted to the
study of literature. After this year the courses of the English
department are elective; and from any composition courses that
may be given those who need them most escape. Such further
courses are usually meant only for those of exceptional ability and
advancement. In the Freshman course the same pass-standard
must be maintained as is the rule in all the college courses. A
Freshman who manages barely to obtain a passing mark of 60
per cent, or even 70 per cent, can hardly be thought to have acquired
the ability to write good English. No one acquainted with the
actual conditions will be disposed to maintain that such a required
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most devoted effort, accomplish with many students the desired
result.

But this best of teaching and faithful effort, it must, perhaps to
our shame, be said, are very hard to procure. The reading and
correcting of students' themes, the continued drills in the mere
mechanics of writing, are a drudgery wearisome beyond compare.
Few college teachers are content to give themselves wholly to
this work, and the temptation to neglect and inefficiency are
enormous. Young instructors, to whom in many colleges this
work is given over, though mature experience and ripened ability
are required here if anywhere, may be content to begin their college
career in this work; but they expect soon to be promoted to the
teaching of literature, and rebel if the promotion is delayed.

Under all the circumstances, it is safe to say that in most colleges
the teaching of English composition is far less well done than the
teaching of English literature. At all events, it is true that college
English departments do not bring it to pass that the college " makes
good" in teaching its students as a body to write "good English. "

This paper is not meant as an apology for the English depart-
ment of Amherst College or of any college. Its purpose has been
to set forth baldly the actual conditions under which the teaching
of English is carried on in our colleges and schools, and so to show
that this "very least thing that a collegiate education should do
for a student" is really about the hardest of all the tasks imposed
upon it, and that its results in this work are in no sense straws from
which it is safe to judge whether the college is making good upon
the whole.

But the college cannot stop here, with an exposition of the
difficulties of its task. The task remains. The very existence of
the college is justified only if it is the clear proclaimer of the ideals
of intelligence and culture upon which the higher life of our people
depends, only if it is the loyal servant of these ideals, faithfully
and eagerly training the chosen youth of our country toward
realizing these ideals in their own lives and influencing therewith
the lives of others. Out from the college go the successive genera-
tions of graduates, uneducated and remaining uneducated in
English largely because of the influence exerted by the previous
uneducated generations, to exert in their turn the same baleful

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influence upon the generations that follow. Somehow the vicious-
ness of this circle must be abated, and the circle ultimately con-
verted into one of beneficent influence. However hard the task,
however distant its accomplishment, the teaching of college-bred
men to write good English is the very least thing at which the
college must aim. For the ability to speak and write good Eng-
lish, "respectable" English, is a primary and necessary tool, if
intelligence and culture are to be made efficient.

If it is to set itself in earnest toward the accomplishment of this
aim the college must begin by attacking those difficulties which
itself has created. If the greatest difficulty in the work is the
fact that the student who most needs training generally cares
least for it, he must be made to care. If he is strengthened in his
indifference by the apparent indifference of the college authorities,
they must adopt regulations which will convince him that the
college regards good English as a necessity, and will help to create
that compelling influence which is to make him care.

The governing bodies of the college, trustees and faculty, must
proclaim it as the unalterable policy of the college to secure in
every student the ability to write good English, that tolerable
minimum of mechanically correct and respectable English alone
referred to throughout this paper; and they must demand and
insist upon having loyal devotion to this policy on the part of
every member of the teaching staff.

The ability to write good English must be made an unavoidable
condition for the obtaining of the bachelor's degree.

Since the ordinary passing-standard of the college is not suffi-
cient to secure the end desired, English composition courses given
for the purpose of enabling all students to reach the recognized
college minimum of accomplishment in English, must be allowed —
compelled, if necessary — to set a higher standard.

There must be a system of cooperation between the English
department and all other departments of the college, in which
any directing or advising general committee of instruction must
be a party, by which, without hampering any teacher in his own
specific business, every student is held up to a certain standard
of accomplishment in the English of all his work.

Further, the English department must recognize or be com-
pelled to recognize, that while all proper courses should be offered

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and effort made for the advancement of those likely to acquire
some degree of genuine literary ability, its major obligation is to
the eight-tenths to whom English is to be merely a necessary means
to efficiency in their life-work. If more required composition
courses for deficient students are necessary, the English depart-
ment should be allowed to give them; and, in general, no student
should be allowed to escape required work in English at any time
in his college course until the department is satisfied that he has
attained the tolerable minimum, or cannot obtain it.

To do this work the college authorities should provide the
necessary staff of teachers. Few, if any, college English depart-
ments are today sufficiently manned for it. Most colleges could
probably safely and wisely contribute to this necessity by diminish-
ing the number of literature courses offered; but everywhere some
increase in the teaching-staff is imperatively demanded.

And, lastly, this teaching-staff must be composed of the right
kind of men. Here, the writer has already confessed, is another
of the greatest difficulties. To find men undismayed and uncor-
rupted by drudgery and drill, men who value the end as of worth
high enough to pay for all the work that it costs to attain it, men
of such pedagogical ability and enthusiasm as will reduce the
wearisomeness of the drudgery to the lowest possible limits, and
carry them and their students triumphantly over the long trail —
there is the rub. But drudgery and drill are not to be found in
the English department alone. In nearly all departments men
are doing such work uncomplainingly and faithfully. In our
schools thousands of teachers are doing work which in itself brings
no spiritual or intellectual reward, but only the reward that lies
in the attainment of professional success and in the life of the
taught. Such men there must be for service in the English depart-
ments of our colleges; if they are not to be found, the colleges and
universities must raise them up. And meanwhile by distribution and
sharing of labors we must make shift with the kind of men we have.

"And when will all these reforms be made?" asks with a smile
the skeptical critic of the efficiency of our colleges. Who knows?
But this is sure: these or most of them are the price that will
have to be paid before a collegiate education does do what Mr.
Bok rightly declares to be assumed in the mind of the average
parent as the very least a college education should do for a student,
— teach that student simple good writing of his native tongue.

MEMORY 105

MEMORY

HARRY GREENWOOD GROVER

THIS morn I heard the hermit thrush
Within the heart of our deep wood,
And straight from out my mind did rush
All sense of things that round me stood;
And I was back upon a lawn
Among the Pelham Hills at dawn,
A-gypsying with thee.

One star remains in all the sky,

Unpaled by Phoebus' distant car.
The httle birds that sang hard by

Upon a sudden cease, and far
From down the forest's waking throat
There comes to us a wondrous note,

A thrilHng note to us !

A note of love so liquid clear.

It seems more perfect than its theme;
A note of joy that day is near.

Of primal freedom such I deem
As men at dawn can only know
Who sleep beneath the stars and go

A-gypsying alway.

We rise from off the ground and stay

The breath to catch each note that marks

The measures of this wilding lay,
More sober than the song of larks.

More buoyant than the song of wren,

And sweeter than the songs of men:
Far sweeter than their songs !

The star grows dim, the east is bright.

As space behind the sun-god falls;
The song is stilled, and gone the night,

When, hark ! the song or echo calls
As now came back from whence 'twas gone
The memory of thee at dawn

A-gypsying with me.

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FINDING THE MODERN COLLEGE RANGE

LAURENS H. SEEL YE

IN AMHERST circles there has been much discussion of the
college. Its methods, its aims, its personnel — everything,
with the possible exception of its definition, has been churned
over many times, and still seems to bear churning. The chief
conclusion at which the layman can arrive after such discussion
is that something is the matter, that the college is unsatisfactory.
In this belief those interested in Amherst have only shared the
wider unrest. Educators state that the college does not educate,
that it fails to lead men up to new levels of living, that college
instruction imparts information without vitalizing it. Men of
affairs say that the college puts men out of touch with life, that it
makes them too "theoretical." Ministers tell us that college grad-
uates seem to have been alienated from the civic, and particularly
from the religious, activities of their home towns. And in the
maze of various opinions, and some knowledge, one might welter
hopelessly, all for the lack of the basic, essential point of view.
It would seem as though the correct point of view from which to
study the college as an institution is to be found in that distinct
field, known as "Education." Not from the standpoint of the
man interested only in language and literature, history, physical
science, or philosophy can a correct estimate of the college be made.
"Education" is a separate department in our larger universities,
a field as specific, as scientific, requiring as thorough a training, as
any one of the above-named disciplines. Whatever other light may
be thrown on the subject by the specialists in each of the first-
mentioned fields of study, the interested layman naturally turns
to the expert in the field of education for assistance in deciding
the issues involved. From the educator, the man trained in the
science of education, he hopes to secure those underlying, funda-
mental principles by which the various questions may be adjudi-
cated. Turning a deaf ear for the moment to the clamor of the
witnesses and the jurymen, he would address himself to the judge.
He must turn to the field of "Education," and take and use the

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principles that experts in that field have studied out and are using.
If in this field he cannot find any light on the question of the defi-
nition, function and scope of the college, where can he hope to
find it?

The modern movement in education is suggested by the titles
of recent books, "Education and National Character," "The Un-
folding Life," "Education and the Larger Life," and others. It
repudiates entirely that conception of education to which the
Cambridge man referred when he remarked that an Oxford edu-
cation enabled a man to allude gracefully to a great variety of
subjects. It makes education a great process, coextensive with the
life-process. In his recent book on " Education," Professor Thorn-
dike starts out by stating that anything, idea, object, situation,
or personality, which changes the human personality, is to such
an extent educative. President Butler says, "Education is part
of the life-process. It is the adaptation of a personal, self-con-
scious being to evironment, and the development of capacity in a
person to modify or control that environment."^ Thus education
is not simply a phase of life limited to the schoolroom; it is the
effect of all the elements of experience acting upon human beings.
This position effects important changes in the older practice which
implied that education and instruction were synonymous. In the
first place, education is a larger term than instruction. "For 90
per cent, of our people, character receives greater stimulus and is
more largely and continuously influenced and determined in agen-
cies which we do not think of as at all educational. The great
universities for American people after all, are the farms, the stores,
and the workshops. "^

In the second place, instruction— the passing on of ideas from
one mind to another— is by no means a satisfactory or vital proc-
ess; in short, it does not of itself educate. "Words about things
may or may not produce the desired tendencies to respond cor-
rectly to the things themselves. There are certain elements of
knowledge, certain tendencies to response, which can be got only

■ " Breadth of the Modern View of Education. N. M. Butler, Educational Review,
Dec, 1899, p. 425.

2 " Character Development Through Social Living." H. F. Cope, Religious Education,
Vol. 4. 401.
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by direct experience of real things, qualities, events, and relations.
. . . The original and fundamental form of learning, in the
child, and in the animal kingdom as a whole, is by connecting
actual movements of the body with the situations which life
offers."' Dr. Dewey says on this point, "The assumption that
information which has been accumulated apart from use in the
recognition and solution of a problem, may later on be freely em-
ployed at will by thought, is quite false. "^ Along the same line
Dr. Coe says, "Development, rather than instruction, is, there-
fore, the central idea in education. . . , Moreover, instruction
is not necessarily educative at all; for it may issue in increase of
knowledge, without any increase of self. Instruction is truly
educative, only when it contributes to self-development."^ In
brief, imparting information is not instilling wisdom. The ten-
dency of progressive thinkers is to maintain that a man is
educated, not by being informed or instructed, but by acting a
situation through, by thinking his way through a problem; in
short, by functioning in the stream of experience.

Through all the discussions one finds the social and moral aim
of education emphasized. President King, in his inaugural ad-
dress, said that the college had as its sphere, "the training of minds
to act influentially, as leaven in the life of society." President
Nichols, in his inaugural suggested that "while moral power is
latent in all active intellectual discipline, modern education needs
to be permeated with the sense of social obligations." The modern
movement demands the bringing out of the latent possibilities of
the person educated; the effecting of complete, spontaneous self-
realization. There is less than there used to be of the idea of
information passed out to the student or of instruction to be ac-
cepted on authority. Its methods emphasize physical and mental
activity on the part of the individual, directed by the teacher.
It endeavors to effect the alignment of the interests of the indi-
vidual with those of the body social; to arouse in the individual
creative activity that is socially directed. Modern education is
vital, social, ethical. In short, it aims at character.

' " Education." Thorndike, pp. 176 and 185.

2 " How We Think." Dewey, p. 53.

' " Education in Religion and Morals." Coe, p. 106.

FINDING THE MODERN COLLEGE RANGE 109

The application of this modern idea of education to the college
makes an important requirement, namely, that the college define
and hold before itself the modern educational aim. At present
there are two great obstacles to this. In the first place, the col-
lege is not sure of its aim. It is debating whether "Knowledge"
or "Character" should be its educational goal. Under various
guises one finds this issue ever present in discussions. In the sec-
ond place, admitting that "Knowledge" does not comprise in
toto the aim of the college, there is opposition to the word "Char-
acter" as failing to embody the college's undoubted intellectual
function. If these two obstacles were better understood, there
would be little difficulty in persuading the college to identify its
ideal with that of modern education,

A fair example of the controversy over the question as to whether
the aim of the college is "Knowledge" or "Character" is that
which appeared in this quarterly a little over a year ago. In order
to illustrate what is involved in such a discussion, both men will
be quoted. By examining their disagreement we may be able to
find the real issue involved. An article by Prof. F. J. E. Wood-
bridge, '89, of Columbia University, entitled "The Enterprise of
Learning, ' ' ^ stated :

"Character is far better than marks, but not in a college, just as it is far better
than the ability to swim, but not when you are in the water. . . . We should
like to see [the college] pursuing knowledge, not with the purpose of incidentally
imparting sound information about history, literature, and the progress of science
and philosophy, but for the purpose of turning such information into a powerful
stimulus to intellectual conquests and creative activity; . . . making young
people essentially intelligent and accidentally good, so that there may be a fair
chance that their goodness will be rational goodness, and not merely instinctive
and emotional goodness."

Dr. Cornelius H. Patton, '83, having discussed this article at
lunch with a group of college professors, says :

"If it is simply a question of emphasis, as between mental discipline and what
you call the outside interests, including character building, then I am not inclined to
take issue with you. If, however, it is not a matter of emphasis, butof aim in modem
education, then there are statements in your article which cut across some of my

1 Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, Oct., 1911, p. Icff.

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most cherished ideals. On page 15, where you are giving us what amounts to an
educational creed, you say: 'He frankly believes in the intellectual life as a better
life for man than any other. He holds to the conviction that it is far more im-
portant to make young people intelligent, rationally alert and inquisitive, blest
with a buoyant and trained imagination, than it is to make them efficient or to
make them good.' On the same page you state, 'He is assured that the world suf-
fers more from ignorance and folly than it does from vice and crime.' Now the
above statements put forth absolutely, as they are here, suggest to me the inquiry
whether your ideal of education is not Greek rather than Christian. Does it not
imply that the intellect is supreme in man rather than the spirit? It I gained any-
thing at Amherst, it was that man must be considered primarily as a spiritual being.
. . . Should not this conception of human personality dominate our educational
ideals?"!

Possibly because he feels that a precious ideal is being destroyed,
Dr. Patton fails to note Dr. Woodbridge's explanation of the "in-
tellectual life," which, to be sure, is not very clearly stated. Dr.
Woodbridge repudiates an intellectualism of the kind that teaches

"that theories of perception and of the way the mind acquires knowledge point
out the road to salvation, or that the essence of all philosophy is at last this, — that
the world of our experience is the only real world, or that the outcome of our intel-
lectual striving is the confession of ignorance."

Of such a view, he remarks that it is not surprising that some
people should come to the point of insisting

"that education should be practical and provide young people with the kind of
knowledge they will find useful in their future undertakings."

Later, in a rather hidden passage, he gives his idea of the intel-
ligent man, a man — who, looking out upon the world, saw

" not the constitution of things, but a prospect. His first questions were not, WTiy
does yonder sun shine self-poised aloft, or yonder rivers flow along their course?
He asked rather after the morrow and what lies beyond the enclosing trees. Hence-
forth paradise discontented him. He felt equipped for an enterprise. He would
attain an ampler existence than he discovered his to be. Forth he went, not to
live in accordance with nature, but to subdue it. At every step, there was borne
in upon him the realization that his anticipations must be disciplined, not through
any increment to his instincts and emotions, but through a progressive insight into
their import, their tendencies, and their efficacy, and through a progressive conquest
of natural forces. Put in words less figurative, we should say that philosophy is now
beginning hopefully to recognize that the primary function of the mind is imagina-
tion. The dawn of intelligence in the world indicated, not, first of all, that some

^Amherst Graditates' Quarterly, Jan., 1912, p. 118ff.
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, Oct., 1911, p. 18.

FINDING THE MODERN COLLEGE RANGE 111

one had become aware of its processes, but that some one was taking thought of
the future. It indicated that these processes would be learned because there had
first been born the intent to use them. In a cosmic sense it meant that concep-
tions of the future, ideals attractive and worth while, had now become factors in
the world to change and transform it, and that the discipline of the imagination
had become imperative."

And again in closing he says :

"Only let them (our colleges) pursue knowledge, not for the primary purpose
of imparting true and useful information, or of affording some proof and justifica-
tion of instinctive beliefs, but for the more exalted purpose of keeping the imagi-
nation awake and creative, and thus holding the mind true to its natural office of
enlarging the future that the present may be redeemed."

When we analyze this discussion, we find no issue clearly de-
fined. Dr. Woodbridge emphasizes the need for creative, imag-
inative mind; while Dr. Patton fears lest this position fail to take
the spiritual in man into account. We might sum it up roughly
by saying that Dr. Woodbridge offers, as the educational aim of
the college, intelligence that is primarily rational and "accident-
ally good"; while Dr. Patton would advocate character that is
primarily good and incidentally rational. The only element that
does stand out clearly is that each of them feels that both aims,
"Knowledge" and "Character," are in some way a part of the
goal of the college education.

This recognition of both of these aims is so important for the
development of the subject that we may well look at another
illustration. In President Meikle John's inaugural address, which
is on the same general subject, we find a feeling and implication
that both "Knowledge" and "Character" enter into the educa-
tional function of the college, but no explicit statement as to how
they come in. His words are: —

"Whatever light-hearted undergraduates may say, whatever the opinion of solic-
itous parents, of ambitious friends, of employers in search of workmen, of leaders in
church or state or business, — whatever may be the beliefs and desires and demands
of outsiders, — the teacher within the college, knowing his mission as no one else can
know it, proclaims that mission to be the leading of hi.s pupil into the life intellectual.
The college is primarily not a place of the body, nor of the feelings, nor even of the
will; it is, first of all, a place of the mind."i

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It would perhaps seem as though he were limiting himself to the
ideal of "Knowledge," but in the course of his address President
Meiklejohn shows what he means by an "intellectual aim": —

"But the college is called liberal as against both of these because the instruction
is dominated by no special interest, is limited to no single human task, but is in-
tended to take in human activity as a whole, to understand human endeavors not
in their isolation but in their relations to one another and to the total experience
which we call the life of our people. . . . When our teachers saj% as they some-
times do say, that the efiPect of knowledge upon the character and life of the student
must always be for the college an accident, a circumstance which has no essen-
tial connection with its real aim or function, then it seems to me that our educational
policy is wholly out of joint. If there be no essential connection between instruc-
tion and life, then there is no reason for giving instruction except in so far as it is
pleasant in itself, and we have no educational policy at all."'

In these sentences we find that the speaker believes the college
to have an ethical as well as an intellectual function. But once
again we recur to the question involved in the Woodbridge-Patton
controversy — how are these two functions connected in the college?
Evidently we should be on the wrong track if we started to argue
for either "Knowledge" or "Character" as opposed to the other;
for open-minded men realize that both must in some way be
brought into the theory of college education. How to bring them
in, is the question. The lack of understanding of the definite
function of each of these in the college scheme offers the first great
barrier to a clear definition of the aim of the college, and thus to
its alignment with the modern movement in education.

Ill

This failure to clarify the relationship between "Knowledge"
and "Character" results from the lack of definition of the word
"college." It is often assumed that all persons engaged in the
discussion have a definite idea as to what the college is. In none
of the instances previously cited does any of the men define what
he means by the "college." For purposes of popular conversa-
tion each man knows perfectly well what the college is, as dis-
tinct from other institutions. But when it comes to the question
of the theory of college education, then we must observe the col-
lege in action, and analyze and define its function in the social
scheme. When we do this we make an important discovery:
namely, that two factors enter into the idea of college — the cur-

1 Amherst Graduata' Quarterly, Vol. II., pp. 63, 65.

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riculum, and the community. The college appears as a curricu-
lum and as a community.

It will not be difficult to realize the first of these. The college
commenced its history as curriculum; it has remained curriculum
through succeeding years; and its chief excuse for existence today
is the curriculum, around which everything centers. It is the
curriculum which differentiates the special function of the college
from other social institutions, such as the home, the church, and
the vocation. It is because of the studies included in the curricu-
lum that the faculty have been brought together, and it is that
which keeps them together and alive. They recognize this fact,
that the college is curriculum. To a large extent, men who dis-
cuss college education start from this conception of the college.
Without doubt, the college is curriculum.

But it is more than curriculum. It is a community. This com-
munity consists of young men brought together by the curriculum,
not returning to their homes, but living together until they have
completed the curriculum course. This was not so apparent in the
early history of the college. Then men came simply for the curric-
ulum ; and the college as curriculum was concerned with the men
as they were members of curriculum classes. But slowly the col-
lege as curriculum began to recognize the college as community;
it began to see that the success or failure of the curriculum de-
pended upon the community life of the men. In fact, the
history of the American college, in one of its phases, shows the
gradual enlargement and extension of the authority of the faculty
— representing at first simply the curriculum interests — over the
extra-curricular life of the students, over their community life.
Probably this has not been done because of any theory on the part
of the authorities, but simply in response to a need, brought about
by changed circumstances. At any rate, today we find that in
their practice, the authorities recognize the college as a community.
This certainly does not mean to imply that the faculty have given
up their idea of the college as curriculum; nothing could be further
from the truth. Neither does it mean that the faculty think of
two definite and separate elements in the college, namely, curric-
ulum and community. But it does mean that the faculty are
realizing more and more that the curriculum ivork is vitally related to
the community life of the students. It means that in their practice
they do not assume that the curriculum is the whole college.

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This will help to illustrate what is meant. The faculty are
brought together to teach the men. They meet the men in the
classroom, — they lecture, answer questions, obviate difficulties,
make assignments, submit grades. This is their legitimate activity
in their relation to the college as curriculum. But when we ex-
amine the facts, we find that they do not stop there. They put a
minimum limit on the air- space in fraternity houses. They confine
social activities to certain hours. They enter into athletic activ-
ity and enforce eligibility requirements. They tell the men on
the musical clubs, college paper, and in dramatic societies that
unless they evince a certain activity in their curriculum work tliey
will have to eliminate outside activity : the faculty believe in a very
definite relationship between the two. Furthermore, the heads of
the curriculum require students to attend church. Unless this is
simply a relic of bygone ideas of religious instruction one would
naturally wonder what this had to do with the curriculum work. In
short, if the faculty believed that the collegewere simply curriculum
why should they depart from the curriculum to make rules and
regulations regarding extra-curricular matters? The faculty are
related to the college-as-curriculum; what right would they have
to step outside their prescribed circle of authority to legislate on
other matters, unless they assumed that the college includes the com-
munal life of the men as well as their courses? Here is the case of
a college student who becomes intoxicated, is arrested, tried and
fined. The faculty learn of it and request the student to leave
college. He may have had a high average in his courses. He may
not have exceeded his allowed absences. As a member of the col-
lege-as-curriculum he is faultless; and yet the faculty act in regard
to him. Woolly white as are his curriculum relationships, his
failure to come up to the standard of the college-as-community
consigns him to the goats. The only basis upon which the faculty
could take such action is that they believe the college to be com-
munity as well as curriculum.

The college authorities do not simply tolerate the college commu-
nity. Thej'^ take part in it; they enjoj^ its games and festivities;
they participate in its life. In fact, they foster it. As heads of
the curriculum and as members of the social order they act as
though the college-community existed, and as though its presence
were desirable. In their practice they believe that the community

FINDING THE MODERN COLLEGE RANGE 115

life of the college is integral with the curriculum life of the col-
lege.

The recognition of these two factors in the college throws light
on the controversy between those who support "Knowledge" and
those who uphold "Character" as the aim of the college education.
It will doubtless be generally admitted that the aim of the college
as curriculum is "Knowledge." What then is the aim of the col-
lege as community.' It must be the same as the goal of any com-
munity. In other words, it is identical with the aim of the larger
communal life, of society. It was brought out in the first part of
this paper that modern philosophy of the body social tends to pro-
claim "Character" as the goal of the whole social process.^ Con-
sequently, the aim of the college as community is "Character."
In the contention over the educational objective of the college it
has often been assumed that the college is simply curriculum.
Since "Knowledge" is the aim of the curriculum, those who have
supported this view have had the balance of evidence on their side.
The partisans of "Character" have often had to fall back on a gen-
eral religious or ethical desire in support of their position, just
because they failed to bring out the fact that the college is a com-
munity, is recognized as such by the authorities, and consequently
shares in the goal of the social process. We must never forget that
the college is not only thinking, in preparation for life; it is life. Its
two functions are not exclusive, they are complementary; for the
college is a curriculum-centered community. As such its aim is
"Intelligent Character."

The culminating interest of the layman is, therefore, that this
community life be admitted into the theory of college education.
The evident facts of the case show that the college is, and in prac-
tice considers itself, both curriculum and community. A partial
philosophy of the college might rest content with either one of
these factors. A thorough-going philosophy of the college must
include them both. If a comprehensive definition of the college
must embrace curriculum and community, a complete definition
of the aim of the college must incorporate "Knowledge" and
"Character." To say that the ultimate goal of the college is
"Intelligent Character" does not express a double aim, with con-

' " Society as actually constituted, exists for the sake of an end that is fundamentally
ethical." Chttline of Philosophy of Edttcation, J. A. MacVannel, p. 158.

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flicting, dissociated elements; each element fills out that connota-
tion which the other lacks; it holds before the college a rounded,
final objective for each individual, toward which must converge
the influence of faculty, alumni, trustees, and students.

Now that we have considered the first obstacle in the way of a '

clear statement of, and general agreement upon, the goal of college
education, we must see why it is that there is opposition on the part ■

of those who are interested in intellectual advancement to the use *:

of the word "Character" in connection with the mission of the '

college. It suggests to them a minimum of mental functioning.
This connotation, however, is already sliding down the pathway of
obsolescence. In order to show the way (one might possibly call it
the evolutionary way) of considering "Character," as the word is -

used in current literature and books on education, the following
tabulation of tendencies is offered. It does not pretend to be in-
clusive, exclusive, or to express exact divisions; it aims rather to
show the drift of thought, in order to present roughly the difference
between "Character" in its ancient and in its modern connotations.

Previous Tendency. Present Tendency.

1. To think character a "something" 1. To think character is the way in
which a man is. which a man acts.

2. To tliink of character as an hahit- 2. To think of character as habit,
ual way of moral living. i Growth of but more also. It is growth in moral
character meant extension and indura- living. Discrimination, and choice in-
tion of the bonds of habit. volved in growth. Growth in character

3. To think of character in an indi- a development, an unfolding,
vidualistic way — an attitude toward 3. To think of character as an acting,
God perhaps. living relationship toward men.

4. As a result of (3) to consider 4. As a result of (3) character is
character something static, for God dynamic, developing, evolving.

is changeless and unchanging. 5. To think of character as a will

5. To think of character as a matter working under growing ideals and en-
of the habituated will. larging knowledge.

6. To think of character as an 6. To think of character as a process,
essence. 7. To think of character as discover-

7. To think of character as "doing ing and doing the right, — the "right"
right," — the "right" being fixed. possibly influenced by circumstances

and by knowledge.
1 " Morality includes nothing more than a denial of ungodliness and worldly lusts, and a
living soberly and righteously in this present world." The Religious Education of Children,
Christian Quarterly, April, 1875, p. 192.

FINDING THE MODERN COLLEGE RANGE 117

In this general contrast one will see what the modern definition
of "Character" adds to the older definition. The person who
thinks that character has nothing to do with the mind, or is even
hostile to intellectual functioning, would seem to have secured his
idea of character from a religious tract rather than from personal
experience and observation.

Modern thinkers, like Dr. Woodbridge, who speak about the aim
of the college being "primarily intellectual" and "accidentally
good, " are pioneers in this new movement, and as such must hyper-
emphasize that element which has hitherto been neglected. As a
matter of fact, they do not wish intelligence without character.
By their definition of intelligence they trj^ to eliminate any such
possibility. They wish character that is intelligent. As this con-
ception of character takes increasing hold upon those interested in
the theory of college education — faculty, trustees, and all — there
will be much less opposition to their declaring unequivocally that
the aim of the college education is " Intelligent Character. " When
there is this universal agreement, there will be that efficient cooper-
ation which is made possible by common devotion to a great,
basic principle. Not until this is done can the college catch up
and put itself in the vanguard of educational activity. But when
the ideal of the modern movement in education is held clearly
by each, and in common by all, the college will exert that inspir-
ing, creative influence over the individual which is now sometimes
lacking.

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AMHERST IN CIVIL WAR TIME

JOSEPH H. SAWYER

THE Amherst class of 1865 entered college in September, 1861.
The Civil War had then begun and battles had been fought.
When the class graduated in June, 1865, Lee and Johnston
had surrendered and the grand review in Washington had passed.
The class entered seventy-eight men, and the whole college enrolled
two hundred and thirty-five in 1861-62. The class graduated fifty-
seven, and the college enrollment in 1864-65 was two hundred
and twelve. During Freshman year twenty -eight left the class, most
of them entering the army, and four enlisted during Sophomore
year. Late arrivals and members of other classes who returned
after expiration of their enlistments filled the vacancies in part.
In 1861-62 the faculty numbered seventeen; in 1864-65 it num-
bered fourteen. During these four years ex-President Hitchcock
died; Charles H. Hitchcock went to Dartmouth; and Lucius Bolt-
wood, librarian, resigned. The chairs of geology and zoology and
the office of librarian remained unfilled.

The course of study was straight classical: three years of Latin,
Greek and mathematics, with now and then a term of one of these
intermitted; one year of modern languages; one year of physics
and astronomy; one term in chemistry; a few lectures in zoology,
human anatomy and physiology; a minimum of English literature;
some English composition, debating and declamation; and the
whole crowned with the philosophical studies of Senior year. The
course was distinctly marked and had only one elective — the choice
of modern language. French or German could be chosen, but not
both. English was learned through translating foreign languages,
and there has not been better drill in accurate or elegant English.

This course of study was narrow, but it required good work ; and
the main purpose of education is not attainment of knowledge, but
increase of mental power. The faculty was composed of strong
men, and a serious purpose pervaded the student body. Has
Amherst known a stronger faculty than this class knew: President

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Stearns, the successful administrator; ex-President Hitchcock,
Ebenezer S. Snell, Charles U. Shepard, William S. Tyler, William
S. Clark, James G. Vose, Julius H. Seelye, Edward P. Crowell,
Edward Hitchcock, Jr. ("Old Doc"), W. L. Montague and R. H.
Mather? More than half of this faculty were clergymen, and the
college pulpit was filled by them in rotation. Very rarely was a
stranger seen in the desk on Sunday.

There were three fraternities in the beginning of the period here
reviewed and four in the end. None of them owned houses. Psi
Upsilon had a hall in Sweetser Block; Alpha Delta Phi, in Adams
Block; Delta Kappa Epsilon, in Phoenix Block; and, later, Chi Psi
in a new bank block. Not more than half of the student body
were members of these organizations and college politics was influ-
enced, if not determined, by that fact. Interchange of visits between
colleges was rare. The Hoosac tunnel did not exist, and Williams
was beyond the mountains. Yale and Harvard were far, far away.
Absences from college duties were few, very few. I recall seeing
four men start to drive across country to Williamstown to attend
some fraternity function, and wondering how they had the hardi-
hood to risk an absence of three days. Outdoor athletics? No,
not even swings in the grove. The college had no teams. Barrett
Gymnasium opened as the class of '65 entered, and Dr. Hitchcock,
who came from Williston Seminary with the dozen boys who en-
tered from that school, was the director. The novelty of the
exercise attracted visitors daily and the boys drilled like soldiers.
There was no fooling. Charts were posted and renewed at inter-
vals, giving physical measurements of each man, and there was
healthy emulation for excellence and improvement. The first
attempt at baseball appeared in the Senior year of this class, when
a man who could pitch straight ball — Lancaster of '68 — assembled
a team. But little interest, however, was awakened.

Altogether these four years were a solemn time. Men could not
be hilarious when classmates in the army were dying from wounds
or disease; when delegations were attending funerals in nearby
towns, and badges of mourning were so often in evidence. When
the life of the Nation hung in the balance and hope alternated with
despair at news of success or reverse of the national arms, boys
became mature men. But youth cannot be wholly crushed.
WTien news of the surrender of Lee was received the boys broke

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loose. The chapel bell was rung and a tumultuous rabble poured
forth. The college has known nothing like it since, nor will the
college know anything like it, unless another victory of as great
national import shall come. Down the street the boys ran in wild
confusion. As the crowd was passing the Baptist Church they saw
Professor Seelye going toward college on the opposite side of the
village green. A break was made across the Common and the
Professor was surrounded by a hatless crowd in diverse sorts of
attire, — all of them excited beyond control. Probably they
thought — but also probably they did not think, they only felt.
Somebody yelled for a speech. That brought quiet and expec-
tancy of something worth while. "Young gentlemen," said the
Professor, "having conquered our enemies, we must now conquer
ourselves. " This ended the celebration. But the boys were sure
that Professor Seelye had thrown away the opportunity of a life-
time for making a speech which would have won for him undying
fame.

Does some college boy of today think that the life a half century
ago, with so much work and so little play, must have been flat
and joyless? The only answer is that he who finds no delight or
satisfaction in his work will find neither delight nor satisfaction in
what he may call his recreations.

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THE ALUMNI COUNCIL

FREDERICK S. ALLIS

PRESIDENT NICHOLS of Dartmouth, speaking at a meet-
ing of the Dartmouth Secretaries' Association on the rela-
tion of the alumni to the College, is reported to have said:
"Alumni aid to the college takes various forms, and the readiness
of the alumni to give aid of one kind and another makes advisable
such definite organization as shall insure maximum results from
expended effort. . . . There is a field for a constantly working
body with a central office and a central secretary. The tendency
of the present is toward organization, and the message of the college
to the alumni is 'Organize.'"

An examination of the alumni organizations of our colleges and
universities show that to a considerable extent their alumni have
organized. Harvard has its "Associated Harvard Clubs"; Yale
its "Alumni Advisory Board," its "Alumni University Fund," its
"Association of Class Secretaries"; Princeton its "Graduate Coun-
cil"; Cornell its "Cornellian Council"; Dartmouth its "Dartmouth
Secretaries' Association" and its "Dartmouth Alumni Council";
Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
their Alumni Councils.

The work which these alumni organizations are doing may be
brought under three general heads. First, obtaining information;
second, increasing the interest of the alumni in the college; and
third, getting alumni to respond to the needs of the college.

The alumni headquarters is a Bureau of Information about
everything that concerns the college. It becomes informed about
the aims and ambitions of the President and the Faculty and their
educational policy; about the alumni, who they are, where they are,
what they are doing and how well they are doing it; how able they
are to give to the college time and money; about the alumni associ-
ations: what the condition of each association is; whether it is
doing any work as an association for the college; and what the
alumni associations of other colleges are doing to keep in touch with
their colleges and each other; about the class organizations and the

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efficiency of those organizations; the liind of reunions they hold
and the methods other colleges are using to promote the welfare of
the college through the medium of the class; about the under-
graduates, their organizations and activities; where they come
from; what sections of the country^ are practically unrepre-
sented; how many students need financial help, and are working
their way through college in whole or in part.

It is said that fifteen years ago one of our universities realized that
it was drawing its students largely from New England, and that
the university was little known in certain parts of the West. As a
result an alumni organization was started which has become a
powerful factor in making the university known all over this
country.

The next work of these alumni organizations has been to plan
systematically to increase the interest of the alumni in the college.
To do this they have undertaken three principal activities: —

First, the publication of an alumni paper or magazine, edited
from the alumni point of view which is informing, interesting and
in some cases of decided literary merit.

Second, the promotion of class reunions; the publication of class
records and class bulletins; the establishment of a trophy cup
competition; the doing every' thing possible to bring alumni back
to the college and give them a good time when they get back. The
larger universities have standardized the class records which are
published at reunion periods. These are published at a minimum
cost and contain material of much value to the college authorities
and often to the public as well. With a central office adopting
systematic methods and putting the experience of one class at the
disposal of all, the attendance of alumni at reunions steadily in-
creases and reunions become pleasanter, cheaper and more easily
handled.

A third activity is keeping the college before alumni during the
year through the medium of the local associations and clubs. Old
associations are strengthened, new ones are organized, speakers
are provided for the annual dinners, successful features adopted
by one association are put before others and every effort is made to
keep the college spirit strong in the local alumni group. In all
this work the alumni organization, through its committees and
executive officers is the promoting, directing agent. But an alumni

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organization which is simply a bureau of information and an
agency for making class reunions more successful and association
dinners more entertaining, has of course failed of its purpose. The
main function of all such bodies, to which these are subsidiary,
has been to aid the college, to help the President and Trustees
meet certain of its needs.

The needs of all colleges are about alike. Every college needs
money. Every college needs picked boys, boys who want an
education, boys who will be leaders because of birth or fortune, as
well as boys who have their own way to make and the stuff in them
to make it. Every college needs to be understood, to occupy an
approved place in the public mind, the mind of educators, of
parents and of the boys themselves, and of Colorado and Oregon
as well as New York and New England. And every college needs
at times help in solving special problems, the problem of athletic
control, of self-help for undergraduates, and often a problem of the
town where the college is located, the problem of better hotel
accommodations, of some common meeting place for Faculty and
alumni.

For some time Amherst alumni have known of the work which
alumni associations of other colleges were doing and have discussed
an alumni council for Amherst. In November, 1912, in response to
the petition of Frederick K. Kretschmar and others, the Trustees
appointed a committee to confer on the subject with an informal
committee of the alumni, consisting of Henry T. Noyes, '94, Henry
P. Kendall, '99, and Frederick K. Kretschmar, '01. Last winter
Mr. Noyes and Mr. Kendall met with the President and the Dean
of the College and Prof. Esty to consider the details of a proposed
plan, and later they met with the committee of the Trustees.

Last Commencement the Society of the Alumni passed a reso-
lution authorizing the president of the society to appoint a com-
mittee of fifteen alumni to prepare a plan for an alumni council
and when it had been approved by the President and Board of
Trustees to put it in operation.

Pursuant to this resolution William Orr, 83, president of the
Society, appointed the following committee :

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QUARTERLY

Pres. William F. Slocum

Class of

1874,

Colorado Springs

Henry P. Field, Esq.

1880,

Northampton.

Frank H. Parsons, Esq.

1881,

New York.

William Orr (ex officio)

1883,

Boston.

Joseph R. Kingman, Esq.

1883,

Minneapolis.

William B. Greenough, Esq

1888,

Providence,

Prof. Thomas C. Esty

1893,

Amherst.

Mr. Henry T. Noyes

1894,

Rochester.

Dwight W. Morrow, Esq.

1895,

New York.

Roberts Walker, Esq.

1896,

New York.

Mr. Henry H. Titsworth

1897,

Chicago.

Mr. Henry P. Kendall

1899,

Norwood.

Mr. Harold I. Pratt

((

1900,

New York.

Mr. Frederick K. Kretschmar "

1901,

Chicago.

Stanley King, Esq.

1903,

Boston.

Mr. Ernest M. Whitcomb

1904,

Amherst.

Mr. Noyes was not able to serve.

The committee held its first meeting in Springfield early in Octo-
ber. At this meeting a sub-committee was appointed consisting of
Mr. Orr, Prof. Esty and Mr. Kendall to confer with the President
of the College and the President of the Board of Trustees regarding
the details of a council plan.

This sub-committee held several meetings and the last of Octo-
ber the Committee of Fifteen adopted a plan, authorized the sub-
committee to present it to the Board of Trustees through the
President of the College, and voted if and when it was approved
by the Board to organize on this plan an Alumni Council. The
committee also engaged as its secretary Frederick S. Allis, '93. The
Board of Trustees at its November meeting voted unanimously to
approve the plan presented and expressed the opinion that the
council will be of great benefit to the college.

The plan adopted provides for changing the constitution of the
present Society of the Alumni and establishing a General Alumni
Association which mil be composed of all the living alumni of the
college and of all the living non-graduates who were connected with
the college one year or more. Its functions and powers will be to
meet annually during Commencement week and at such other
times as the President may appoint; to elect officers to preside at

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dinners and meetings of the association; to initiate suggestions for
action by the council, and to elect certain representatives-at-large
to the council. The deliberative and excutive body of the General
Alumni Association will be the Alumni Council.

The council will be composed of representatives from every class
and every alumni association or club and certain members-at-large.
The object of the council will be to advance the interests of Amherst
College by establishing closer relations between the college and its
alumni and promoting such activities as alumni individually and
collectively may properly undertake.

The business of the council, which will be varied, will be carried
on largely through committees. There will probably be a Com-
mittee on Alumni Associations, whose duty it will be to assist in
strengthening existing associations, organize new ones and promote
a group of aroused alumni bodies in each section of the country
which will keep its members in touch with the college and with
each other and engage in such local activities as each may decide
upon; a Committee on Class Organization, whose duty it will be to
cooperate with the officers of the several classes in the endeavor to
promote successful reunions, uniform class records and an efficient
class organization; a Committee on Publication, which will assist
in the management of the Alumni Quarterly if the Board of
Editors so desire; and Committees on Alumni Fund, Trophy Cup,
the Needs and Activities of the Under-graduate Body, and special
committees for handling special problems. Under the plan the
council must also be prepared to consider questions which may be
put to it by the Trustees or Faculty and give its opinion on them.

The plan states that the present intention is to hold only one
meeting of the council during the year and that during the winter
months, the hope being that the meeting will be held each year in
a different city and that in connection with the meeting of the coun-
cil there will be a general meeting and dinner of the alumni of the
vicinity. The plan provides for a secretary resident at Amherst
who will devote his entire time to the business of the council.

The service which this secretary will probably aim to render the
college and the alumni has been indicated by the outline given of
the work of alumni organizations generally. When the council
has been organized and the principal committees appointed, the
secretary will probably assist each committee to carry on its work.

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Representing in turn the several committees in charge, he may meet
with the Executive Committees of the classes holding reunions
and assist them to carry out their plans. He may gradually visit
the various alumni associations, cooperate with their officers in
extending their work and plan with them for the organization of
new associations. He may assist in the management of the Gradu-
ates Quarterly. By his residence at Amherst he will be enabled
to keep in touch with the college and by his frequent contact with
alumni he will be enabled to know them and, it is hoped, assist in
maintaining between them and the college authorities a cordial
and efficient cooperation.

The Committee of Fifteen are now at work drafting a constitu-
tion and by-laws for the Alumni Council, following the plan
adopted. As soon as this has been completed a copy will be mailed
to every alumnus, together with a report of the committee.

The committee are also at work organizing the first council. It
is clear that the success of the council will depend on the men who
make up its membership, and the seriousness with which they under-
take their work. The committee, therefore, are asking the officers
of the respective classes and associations to assist them in choosing,
as candidates for representatives in the first council, men, who by
the ability shown in their chosen occupations, have demonstrated
that they can be of great service to the college, and who by their
interest in Amherst in years past have shown that they will be able
and willing to give time to the council's afifairs.

The response of alumni to every request of the committee for
assistance indicates, the committee believes, the response which
the alumni body generally will make to this new work for Amherst.
The Alumni Council has the hearty approval of the President of
the College and the Board of Trustees, and they join with all friends
of Amherst in wishing it great and enduring success.

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arfjE poak arable

1901

Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters. Translated
and edited by Preserved Smith, Ph.D., Fellow of Amherst College. Volume I,
1507-1521. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Publication Society. 1913. Pp. 583.

It is a satisfaction to have this volume bearing the name of a scholar of Amherst
College. Dr. Smith has so made the 6eld of the German Reformation his own that
anything that comes from his careful pen is sure of a cordial welcome, and it is with
favorable anticipations that one opens the volume now under consideration. These
expectations are fully borne out by the content and by the manner in which Dr.
Smith has done his work. Luther's own letters are now made readily accessible for
the English reader, and they are immensely illuminated and increased in value by
the presentation of other epistles either written to Luther or about him and his
movement. In no other way can the reader gain so vivid an impression of the
hopes and fears, the struggles and expectations, and above all, of the growing clear-
ness of Luther's own apprehension in the important years which this volume covers.
The translation is especially well done. The letters read vivaciously, the effect is
very much as if English had been their original vehicle. The translator is to be
heartily felicitated on doing for the English reader of these letters what Luther him-
self did for the New Testament when he made the apostles and evangelists speak
German. The continuation of Dr. Smith's work will be awaited with anticipation.

WiLLiSTON Walker.
1904

Peach Bloom. An Original Play in Four Acts. By Northrop Morse. 1913-
Sociological Fund, Medical Review of Reviews. New York.

"Facit indignatio versus," wrote the Latin poet whom we ordinarily read rather
for grace than vigor; which may be paraphrased, when the poet is thoroughly stirred
by a great wrong his verse burns with the sense of it. In the prose medium of our
day, too, this is so. It is the salient feature of this Mr. Morse's first play, believed
to be the first play published by an Amherst graduate since Clyde Fitch's death.
We do not need the assurance that he "wrote it earnestly, and after much study of
the subject, — one of the most appalling problems of today. " The play, though ap-
pearing first in book form, was written for the stage, and is technically well adapted
thereto; but it was not "made to sell," in the ordinary acceptation, nor to capture
by its art or charm. In a word, it is a problem play (if we can call its subject a
problem rather than a horror), its subject being the White Slave Traffic Of course,
there is no question of didacticism here; the thing itself is its own burning, terrible
lesson. Nor is there any slightest tinge of salacity — -there cannot be, at the moment
when the veil is removed from the horror and the unspeakable vice appears as the
"monster of such frightful mien.
As to be hated needs but to be seen."

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Mr. Morse, by the directest methods, has made the monster appear as she is, ia
her most alluring habitat; and by the story of an unsuspecting seventeen-year-old
girl, who was quietly forced into the hell-place while doing an act of ordinary kind-
ness, he rescues her eventually in time to preserve her innocence intact, but only
at the hardest, and after the search-light is flashed upon the various motives of greed
and lust and secrecy, and at the hidden culture sources of the evil, which combine
to make the problem so inveterate. It will not do to give away the story; suffice
to say, it is thoroughly and skillfully wrought out, with every hearing and stage
requirement satisfied; it aims straight at its purpose and hits it hard. The question,
to the mind of the reviewer, is not as to its stage-power, but as to its fit audience.
Whom shall we in\nte, to sit side by side with burning cheeks and hear it? The book
seems rather one to be read, and as is earnestly hoped by a great many, — though
preferably not aloud. For too reticent mothers, for too heedless and confiding
girls, and for too self-indulgent young men, it is a prophylactic; and it is the part of
wisdom and tact to know how such things should be conveyed.

J. F. Genung.

1885

Mahlon Norris Gilbert, Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota, 1886-1900. By
Francis Leseure Palmer. With an Introduction by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, Pre-
siding Bishop of the American Church. Milwaukee, Wisconsin : The Young Church-
man Company. 1912.

A good many of us, I suppose, labor under the limitation of regarding a bishop as
belonging somehow to a higher order of beings, — one with whom we would never
think of being intimate, much as we feel the need of and prize the hallowing influence
that by virtue of his office emanates from him. To such mistaken imaginations
this gracefully written biography, wherein the biographer himself, though wholly
out of sight, makes himself felt in the love and discriminating respect he bears to his
subject, is to be recommended. It is not the ecclesiastic that we find portrayed here,
but the man; whose noble personality, whether in the hardships of Indian and pio-
neer settlements or in the comparative comfort of a western diocese, never failed to
find what was best in men, and to be a companionable influence among all. It is a
real uplift to read the life record of a man of whom the following could be said:

"Bishop Gilbert was more than a missionary. He was a leader of men. If
responsibility was to be borne, he shouldered it. If work was to be done, he met it
more than half way. If a choice were offered between a difficult and an easy task,
he allowed some one else to have the lighter burden. If one asked his counsel, he
never asked in vain. If directions were to be given, they were given positively, yet
tenderly. Virility, humaneness, hopefulness, charity, these were some of the
characteristics that caused the Bishop to be loved and followed. And all were
fused together by a true reverence for God and for his fellow-men."

These arc presumably not Mr. Palmer's words but the words of an editor,
written soon after the Bishop's death. To have such a personality for them, how-
ever, is an inspiration to a good biography; to preseive the record of such a char-
acter is a service to the church and the age; and Mr. Palmer has not missed
his opportunity.

J. F. Genung.

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1907

Worship in the Sunday School. By Hugh Hartshorne. New York, Teachers
College, Columbia University. 1913.

One of the handicaps of higher education is the inadequacy and inefficiency of
preparatory schools. What is true of the secular common school is even more
often true of the Sunday School. If the latter is to attain any marked success as
a social prophylactic against wrong-doing it is necessary that every available
force be employed, and that too with the greatest possible technical knowledge
and skill. Here, as elsewhere, willingness is a poor substitute for technique.

That "worship" is capable of being a powerful aid in Sunday School training,
but has been sadly neglected, is the theme of "Worship in the Sunday School,"
by Hugh Hartshorne. The author fully justifies his task in the first third of the
book by his excellent discussion of the individual and social significance of worship,
presenting it as preserving and revitalizing the higher values, and as being itself
a value — "a way of finding social fellowship" in common ideals. It becomes thus
both an end in itself, and also a means to certain valuable "feeling attitudes."

The efficient and intelligent use of forms and methods in worship for the devel-
opment and control of the desired "feeling attitudes" necessitates a study of the
nature of "feeling." To this study is given the second third of the book. The
discussion is in terms of "behavior" psychology, and quite properly so. The
author is widely read on the subject and has presented the problems of "feeling"
from every possible aspect so far as they relate to education in general and religious
education in particular. But it seems as if he had slipped into a pitfall that is
ever-threatening in the discussion of this peculiarly elusive topic. Of all words
"feeling" is the one richest in meaning. In psychology the term is so loosely
used as to include in different contexts such various sorts of data as "content"
{e.g., "feeling of heat"), "motor-attitude" (e.g., "feeling of fear"), and "state"
("pleasure-pain"). Philosophically used, the term often connotes consciousness
of one's unanalyzed process of reaction to a situation, as a whole {e.g., "feel con-
vinced"). Each of these and other "feelings" has its own adequate method of
treatment; but the community of name makes the fallacy of extrapolation extremely
hard to avoid. The author recognizes the variation in methods of treatment,
but seems to attribute it to differences in point of view of the writers quoted,
instead of to an intrinsic difference in the concept itself; hence in his use of the
term he too covers and includes an extremely wide range of psychological and
philosophical objects. This does not materially affect his practical application
to "worship," for the reason that nearly all "feelings" do have some r61e in this
experience; but it leaves his theory in some confiision which could have been
avoided by analysis into more specific concepts and separate study of the condi-
tions and methods appropriate to each.

The remaining third of the book is devoted to a most interesting accoimt of an
actual experiment in "worship" conducted by the author during the season of
1912-1913. Full details are given of the methods used, and of the attempts to
secure definite evidences of positive result. It is possible that this section and the
first will be of the greater interest and of very certain value to that great majority

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who in this age are more interested in getting results than in understanding the
theories that underlie successful processes.

A well selected bibliography suggests sources and opportunities for further
investigation. It seems to the writer that Martin G. Brumbaugh's "The Making
of a Teacher" would be a desirable book to add to the list on "Religious Education
and the Sunday School."

The present attempt to inject more intelligence and eflSciency into education
is a hopeful sign; and this book in its purpose and manner of presentation is a
very definite indication of progress in the field of Sunday School instruction.

Wm. J. Newlin.

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tKlje ?Hnbersrabuate£{

REVIEW AND PROSPECT IN ATHLETICS

Review of the Football Season. — The football season of 1913 was opened with
good material and the student body looked forward to a most successful season.
The first game with Rhode Island State resulted in a 10 to 6 victory. However, the
team showed a lack of drive and power which although inherent could not be brought
out. The men seemed possessed of a waiting attitude and were not carrying the
fight to their opponents. The Colgate game showed an improvement in these lines,
and for one half the teams played on even terms. But injuries which deprived the
team of both kickers broke down the Amherst game and Colgate won 21 to 0. This
game with resultant injuries marked the beginning of trouble. The following week
the team met Springfield and the latter's open game proved too much for a disor-
ganized back field. Trinity next scored a 14 to 0 victory over a team which, by that
time, had lost all confidence in its abilty. Again the team was defeated 9 to 0, this
time by Wesleyan, a team which was able to make only three first downs through
the line as compared to nine made by the Amherst team. This game was played in
a sea of mud and no real test could be made. Wesleyan, however, took advantage of
her opportunities, while Amherst did not; hence the former deserved victory.

The Dartmouth game found the Amherst team back on its feet and giving one of
the best battles of the year. Twice Dartmouth had the ball on the one-yard line
and failed to score in four downs. The policy of the coach in developing a strong
defense showed to advantage in this game, and from then on confidence appeared
among the men. The following week Worcester Tech was easily defeated 38 to 0.
The final game, resulting in a 12 to 0 victory over W'illiams on Weston Field, the
first in several years, gave a pleasant ending to what would otherwise have been an
unsuccessful season. The policy of the coach was fully justified as a careful analysis
of the game will readily reveal. Williams made only three first downs, one through
the line and two forward passes; thus an idea of the Amherst defense may be had.
On the offense Amherst carried the ball three out of the four periods, and only once
was Williams in possession of the ball in the former's territory. The score fails to
give any idea of the comparative strength of the teams.

Although the majority of the games were lost, I believe that a system has been
inaugurated which if followed will prove to be the making of future Amherst teams.
No team can progress without a knowledge of and an ability to carry out the funda-
mentals of the game. Once these are accomplished a team can build and progress
without danger of a serious setback.

During the early weeks of the season much dissatisfaction with both coach and
players was expressed by student correspondents. Such criticism, coming from
those who know little or nothing of the game, can do no good, and it is capable of
much harm, as it shakes the confidence of the players in their coach, which is the one

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essential for a successful team. Of course no Amherst man desires to see a losing
team, but, if criticism is necessary, it should come from one who is capable. For
years these critics have been at work, and never to my knowledge has any good re-
sulted. The tolerence of this practice lies with the student body, and as an alumnus
who has the success of Amherst teams at heart, I would heartily appreciate the
fostering of a sentiment against such work. The adjudgment of the work of coach
and players in Amherst football is especially the duty of Amherst Football Alumni,
and to them I make an appeal for a deeper and more active interest. If such can
be had then our teams will gain the success which is rightfully theirs.

The development of a winning team is no easy task, and, if such is to be had,
everj'one must put his shoulder to the wheel. One weak position makes a weak
team, and it is usually this unfortunate who receives the bulk of his opponents'
attention. Were the same position filled by a more capable man, not necessarily a
star, there would be a balance between a weak and a strong team. There are men in
college who possess as much as or perhaps more ability than those who are upon the
field, but they are unwilling to give it a trial. One does not necessarily need former
experience, although everyone will admit it to be of value. There are amongst the
student body a large number of men who like to play the game, but they never come
out simply because they think they have no chance to make the team. Yet right
in this lot lies the strength to give the college winning teams; for one or possibly two
men of ability are sure to be found, and these will turn the balance in favor of a win-
ning team. To say that such material is not available is preposterous, for class teams
always find eight or ten men other than varsity candidates ready to defend their
supremacy against their rivals, and that with only three or four days training. Such
actions only point to a predominance of class spirit over that of college, and such
sentiment will never produce a successful varsity. To you, men, as well as to the
alumni, I make an appeal for support of the varsity teams.

RicHAHD P. Abele,

Assistant Coach.

The Hockey Team. — The Amherst hockey team has just secured the services as
coach of John P. Henry, 1910, who played two years on the hockey team when he
was in college. For the past three years, Henry has been the star catcher for the
Washington team in the American league, which team finished second the past
two seasons. Henry is a good hockey player, and as he lives in Amherst, the team
is unusually fortunate in securing his services for the entire season. The schedule
of games has just been announced and shows two newcomers. Harvard will be
played for the first time in several years, while Tufts will come to Amherst for a
game January 17. The usual two games with Williams will be played; and the
schedule also includes the Aggies and West Point — the same as last year. The
team has been handicapped so far by lack of ice, and has resorted to soccer for the
purpose of conditioning the men. The outlook for the team is good.

The following are the games as announced:

January 7, Harvard at Cambridge. January 31, M. A. C. at Amherst.

January 10, Trinity at Amherst. February 7, Y. M. C. A. College at Amherst.

January 17, Tufts at Amherst. February 13, West Point at West Point.

January 24, Williams at Amherst. February 14, Williams at Williamstown.

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©tticial anb ^ersfonal

THE TRUSTEES

The autumn meeting of the Board of
Trustees was held in Springfield on
November 20. There were present
Messrs. Plimpton, Meiklejohn, Walker,
Ward, Pratt, Simpson, Patton, Robbins,
Rounds, Gillett, Williams, Woods and
Stone.

Announcement was made of the elec-
tion of Rev. George A. Hall (1882) by
the Alumni as a member of the Board.
Mr. Hall is at present in India.

The annual election of ofiicers and
committees of the Board resulted as
follows:

President — Mr. Plimpton.

Secretary — Mr. Walker.

Committee on Finance — Messrs. Simp-
son, Pratt, James and Whitcomb.

Committee on Instruction — Messrs.
Walker, Ward, Williams and Rounds.

Committee on Buildings and Grounds —
Messrs. Patton, Gillett, Woods and Hall.

Committee on Honorary Degrees—
Messrs, Stone, Allen, Robbins and Wil-
liams.

The report of the treasurer was ac-
cepted and approved for publication and
distribution to the Alumni.

Gifts were announced as follows:

From Frank L. Babbott, Esq., for a
scholarship fund of the class of 1878,
$3,000, and also a gift for current schol-
arships of $1,000.

From class of 1893, as a fund for the
establishment of the Alumni Council,
$2,500.

From Harold I. Pratt, Esq., for repairs
of the swimming pool, and for its current
expenses, $2,930.74.

From the class of 1902, on account of

its subscription towards Hitchcock
Field, $150.

From George D. Pratt, Esq., for the
purchase of land in connection with the
Pratt Health Cottage, $1,000.

From the parents of Mr. Clyde Fitch,
the contents of his study, including
books, works of art, carved oak ceil-
ing, etc.

In accordance with the suggestion of
Prof. F. B. Loomis it was voted that the
income of the fund presented to the
College last year by the Phi Delta Theta
Fraternity be used towards founding a
scholarship to pay the tuition of a stu-
dent from Amherst College in the \la-
rine Biological Laboratory at Wood's
Hole, Mass.

Probably the most important busi-
ness of the meeting was the approval by
the Trustees of the plan for an Alumni
Council, as proposed by the Committee
of Fifteen appointed by the Alumni at
its meeting at the la.st Commencement.
The establishment of this Council marks
a step of great importance in the pro-
spective efficiency of Amherst College.

Leave of absence for a sabbatical year
was voted to Prof. Frederic L. Thomp-
son, beginning next July.

In view of the importance, architec-
turally and otherwise, of cooperation in
the development of the College and its
surroundings, the Board voted "That
the Trustees request the fraternities
contemplating building to confer with
the Committee on Buildings and
Grounds."

The spring meeting will be held on
May 7, 1914, in Amherst.

WiLLisTON Walker, Secretary.

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THE FACULTY

President Meiklejohn will be one of
the speakers, on January 28th, at the
annual dinner of the Brown Alumni As-
sociation of Boston. He will conduct the
vesper service at Brown on March 11th.
In connection with his visit to Cleveland
in October, in addition to speaking at
the alumni dinner on the 24th, he
addressed two large audiences of mem-
bers of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers
Association, on liberal college training,
one of the audiences numbering about
3,500. Later he was entertained at a
small luncheon at the Union Club,
President Thwing of Western Reserve
University being one of the guests.
President Meiklejohn also spoke at the
dinner of Amherst Association of Pitts-
burg on December 30th, at the Fort
Pitt Hotel. The Brown Alumni
Monthly for October contained pictures
of President Meiklejohn in cricket
costume, taken at the time of the match
with the Australians last summer.

At the Triennial Council of Phi Beta
Kappa in New York, on September 10,
1913, Professor E. A. Grosvenor was
for the third time elected, for the term
of three years. President of the United
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. On
December 5th he gave an oration on
"A College Man's Morals" at William
and Mary College, where the society
was originally founded, the occasion
being the one hundred and thirty-
seventh anniversary of the founding of
the society of Phi Beta Kappa and on
the same day the college conferred on
him the degree of LL.D. This is the
fourth time he has received this degree.
On December Cth, he gave an address

on "The Intent of Phi Beta Kappa,"
in connection with the organization of
the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association
of Washington, D. C.

On November 26 Professor Charles
W. Cobb was married to Miss Harriet
Anderson, in New York City. — In the
January number of the Hibhert Journal
Prof. Cobb has an ai tide on "Certainty
in Mathematics and in Theology."

At a conference of Collegiate and Pre-
paratory School Teachers of the Bible,
held at Columbia University, New York,
Dec. 30, Prof. J. F. Genung read a
paper on "How to Teach the Bible as
Literature."

Dean Olds left Amlierst recently to
be gone for several months. The col-
lege turned out in force and heartily
cheered both Prof, and Mrs. Olds. Later
the Dean was prevailed upon to speak
a few words. Since this is his first
leave of absence in twenty-five years
he expects to enjoy it as a "second
honeymoon." He will travel in Europe
with Mrs. Olds, sailing from New York
in January and returning to Amherst
next May. The month intervening be-
tween the date of their departure from
New York and the present will be spent
in his old home in Rochester, N. Y.,
in New York, and in Poughkeepsie with
his daughter. Miss Clara Olds, who is a
Sophomore at Vassar. As the train
pulled out of the Boston and Main sta-
tion, the singing of "To the fairest
College" gave a final touch to a trib-
ute as splendid and spontaneous as
any ever accorded a victorious athletic
team.

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135

Professor Paul C. Phillips attended
three meetings at New York City in
December. The first was the meet-
ing of the Athletic Research Society
which will be held at the Hotel
Astor. The second was the meeting

of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association held at the same place.
And the third was the Society of
Directors of Physical Education in
Colleges, of which Dr. Phillips is
secretary.

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The Pacific Northwest Amherst
Alumni Association fraternized with the
Williams College graduates resident in
the same section of the country at a
joint banquet held at the Rainier Club,
Seattle, Wash., November 15. On the
same day at Williamstown, Mass., the
Amherst football team had scored a sub-
stantial victory over the Williams Col-
lege boys and news of this event came
by telegram to the alumni of the two
colleges while at the banquet. The
older men at the Amherst tables seemed
to be not far behind the younger fellows
in enthusiasm over the news, while the
Williams crowd withstood the good-
natured banter leveled at them and re-
minded their Amherst friends of the
record of the teams in the previous year
when results were difiFerent. The com-
mission form of government for cities,
a plan which will soon be voted upon by
the citizens of Seattle, was elucidated
in an interesting and sympathetic talk
by William C. Brewster of Amherst,
'88, who took office in June as one of the
five commissioners who rule over the
city of Portland, Ore. David Whitcomb,
of the class of Amherst '00, was toast-
master. Besides about twenty Williams
College men there were present the fol-
lowing Amherst alumni: W. C. Brewster,
'88, of Portland, Ore.; T. L. Stiles, '71,
of Tacoma; James B Best, '85, of
Everett, Wash.; Prof. Henry A. Simonds,
'83, of Bothell, Wash.; Ralph H. Clark,
'03, of Tacoma; and the following Seat-

tle residents: DeWitt A. Clark, '09; J. D.
Cornell, '10; Carroll S. Daniels, '10;
Ezra T. Pope, '90; D. B. Trefethen, '98;
Dr. Paul A. Turner, '04; Richard C.
Turner, '08; David Whitcomb, '00.

D. B. Trefethen was elected president
of the association for the coming year
and Dr. P. A. Turner secretary.

December 19, 1913.
Editor Amherst Graduates' Quar-
terly:

Dear Sir — Will you in behalf of the
Committee on Alumni Trustees kindly
do us the favor of calling attention in
the January number of the Amherst
Graduates' Quarterly to the follow-
ing matter viz: That the Nominating
Committee of Alumni Trustees will be
glad to receive suggestions for candi-
dates and would like to have the name
of each candidate suggested accom-
panied by full information, giving the
qualifications of the candidate. The
candidates must be laymen. Please
send the names to the chairman of
Nominating Committee in the early
part of January, so that the committee
may make proper selection of three
nominees and have their names sent
to the alumni on or before February,
1914 — as required by the constitution
of the college.

Respectfully yours,
Edward W. Chapin,
Chairman of Nominating Committee.

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UARTERLY

The New York Association. — The
fall smoker of the New York Association
was held at Healy's on Friday, Decem-
ber 5th. The retiring president of the
association, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman,
'66, gave an illustrated lecture on "Am-
herst in Bulgaria," based on his obser-
vations in Bulgaria and Servia last
spring. Professor Bigelow was the
guest of the evening, and spoke enter-
tainingly. Ex-President Harris also
spoke briefly. About seventy-five
alumni were present. Five new mem-
bers of the executive committee were
elected, as follows : Mallon, '87, Morrow,
'96, Walker, '96, Pratt, '00, and Bale,
'06. The executive committee subse-
quently elected the following officers:
president, Collin Armstrong, '77; hon-
orary vice-president, George Harris, '66;
vice-president, Geoige B. Mallon. '87;
D wight W. Morrow, '95; secretary,
John L. Vanderbilt, '01, 14 Wall Street,
treasurer, Harry V. D. Moore, '01.
The annual dinner of the association
will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on
the evening of Friday, February 27th.

The Brooklyn Association. — Forty
Amherst men attended an enthusiastic
banquet of the Amherst Alumni Associ-
ation of Brooklyn, at the University
Club of Brooklyn, Wednesday evening,
November 26th. James S. Lawson, '95,
president of the association, acted as
toastmaster. Dr. Edwin G. Warner,
'85, talked of his recent travels abroad,
taking for his topic, "The Land of the
Midnight Sun, or the Land of the Modern
Servant Girl." Edward M. Bassett,
'84, spoke on the "Regulation of Build-
ings in Size, Shape and Position."
Harold J. Baily,' 08, told of "What the
Association is Going to do in the Near
Future." Short speeches were also
given by Principal James D. Dillingham,
'87, of Elmhurst, N. Y., Rev. William

A. Lawrence, '61, of Jamaica, N. Y.r
Charles R. Fay, '90, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and Rev. Frederick P. Young, '00, of
Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Smoker. — The Brook-
lyn Association met at the University
Club, Brooklyn, for a smoker on Mon-
day evening, December 29th. A short
business meeting was held, at which J.

B. O'Brien, 1905, reported for the com-
mittee appointed by President Lawson
last winter to look up preparatory school
athletes with a view to interesting them
in Amherst.

On motion of E. A. Baily, 1905, the
following "Committee for Boosting
Amherst in Long Island Preparatory
Schools" was elected: Rev. F. E. Bolster,
'96, Chairman; E. G. Warner, '85; F. B.
Pratt, '87; J. D. Dillingham, '87; E. C.
Hood, '97; J. H. Low, '90; L. C. Stone,
'96; Edwin Fairley, '86; and Chas. R.
Fay, '90. With the exception of the
Chairman all of the men have had or
now have an active connection with
some Long Island high school. They
have power to add to their number, and
it is intended that every high school on
Long Island having an Amherst man
on its faculty should be represented.

II. J. Baily, 1908, outlined the plans
for the Annual Interscholastic Athletic
Meet under the auspices of the Associa-
tion. The meet will be held at the Com-
mercial High School Field, Brooklyn,
on Saturday May 9th. A large and
handsome trophy cup is offered to the
school winning the most meets in seven
years. The first three legs on this cup
have been won by the Polytechnic
Preparatory School of Brooklyn. Med-
als or individual cups are given to point
winners in the various events. The
first point winners in certain specified
events (the 100 yd., 200 yd., and 440 yd.
dashes; the 880 yd. and mile runs, high

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137

jump, broad jump, pole vault, shot put,
hurdle race and open relay race) will be
sent at the association's expense to
Amherst for the preparatory school meet
held there in the spring. Charles R
Fay, '90, is raising money for a scholar-
ship to be given to some deserving
Brooklyn youth.

President James S. Lawson, '95,
introduced the speaker of the evening.
Judge Isaac Franklin Russell, Chief
Judge of the Court of Special Sessions,
New York City. Judge Russell's unique
and entertaining address, "The Triumph
of the Truth," had many suggestions
for thought, sugar coated with witty
thrusts.

Two musicians helped make the even-
ing enjoyable, and a supper was served.
About forty men were present including
a good number of undergraduates.

The Cleveland Association. — The an-
nual dinner of the association was held
on October 24th at the Hotel Statler,
andwas attended by thirty -four Amherst
men. Chailes K. Arter, '98, president
of the association, acted as toastmaster,
and the principal speaker was President
Meiklejohn, who was asked to talk
informally on the afifairs of the college.

The Connecticut Association. — The
alumni of the Connecticut Association
will hold their annual dinner in Hart-
ford on Friday evening, February 6th.
President Meiklejohn has accepted an
invitation from Rev. Charles S. Lane,
vice-president of the Hartford School
of Religious Pedagogy and president of
the association, to be present. He will
speak on "What Is Being Done at
Amherst."

The Michigan Association. — On Nov-
ember 7th about twenty of the Michi-
gan alumni took dinner at the Hotel
Griswold, Detroit, in honor of the \dsit
of President Meiklejohn. The Amherst
Alumni Association was organized at
Grand Rapids, Mich., a year ago last
October with Professor Tyler as the
guest of honor. The new officers elected
at Detroit are: president, C. F. Adams,
'77; secretary', W. A. Sleeper, '09.

The Pittsburgh Association. — The
Amherst Alumni Association of Western
Pennsylvania held a banquet Saturday
evening, January 3, at the Fort Pitt
Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., in honor of
President and Mrs. Alexander Meikle-
john. Mr. Frederick S. Allis of Am-
herst was also a guest on this occasion
and about forty of the alumni and their
wives were out to greet them. Dr.
Meiklejohn was a speaker on December
31 before the Pennsylvania Educational
Society at Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh,
on the subject, "WTiat Knowledge is
For," and the large audience present
was very enthusiastic.

The secretary, Mr. Kenneth R. Cun-
ningham, writes: "We have in the
neighborhood of sixty or seventy-five
Amherst men in this vicinity and we
propose to hold several informal meet-
ings throughout the year and an annual
banquet. We have had an alumni
association here for quite a number of
years now, but it has not been very
active until recently. The officers pro-
pose to have regular dues hereafter and
to devote a portion of said dues to the
subscription for copies of the Amherst
Graduates Quarterly. In this way
we can keep up the interest of the men
in what is going on at Amherst and also
help the cause of the Quarterly. "

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1848

Rev. William A. Fobes died at the
age of eighty-six on December 22d at his
home in Lake View, Mass., after a short
illness from paralysis. After leaving
Amherst he graduated from Bangor
Theological Seminary and for more than
forty years held pastorates in various
towns of New England.

The death of Rev. Elijah Woodward
Stoddard, '49, at the age of 94, leaves
Rev. William Spooner Smith, '48, of
Worcester, the oldest graduate of Am-
herst in years. Rev. Arteraas Dean of
Mt.Carmel, Pa., was graduated six years
before the latter, in the class of 1842,
but his age is only 89. Mr. Smith was
born in Leverett, July 10, 1821, the son
of Paul G. Smith. He was fitted for
college at the old Amherst Academy on
Amity Street. He entered the class
of 1847, but at the end of his first year
left college to return in 1845, in the class
of '48. He studied theology for three
years at Union Theological Seminary,
graduating in 1852. He was ordained
in April of the same year, and served as
pastor of Congregational churches in
Prompton and Bethany, Pa., New York
City, and Stratford, N. H. His last
parish was in Guilford, Conn.

1849

Rev. Dr. Elijah Woodward Stoddard,
who for fifty of his sixty-one years in the
ministry was paster of the Succasunna
Presbyterian Church, died Wednesday,
October 29th, at Succasunna, N. J.
He was born at Coventry ville, Chenango

County, N. Y.. April 23, 1819. "When
Dr. Stoddard was 25 years old he started
for Amherst College, traveling by a four-
horse stage coach 150 miles, and 80
miles by railroad. He later spent three
years in Union Theological Seminary
and in May, 1852, was licensed and or-
dained to preach by the third presbytery
of New York. Dr. Stoddard's years of
early service in the ministry were as
follows: November, 1852, to November,
1855, at Hawley, Penn.; November,
1855. to May, 1860, at Amenia, N. Y.;
May, 1860, to May, 1864, at Angelica.
N. Y.

1850

Henry Walker Bishop died September
27th, 1913, at Pittsfield, Mass. He
was the son of Hon. Henry W. and
Sarah Tainter (Bulkley) Bishop, was
born in Lenox, June 2, 1829, and fitted
for college at Lenox Academy. He
attended Williams College 1846 to 1849
and Amherst for one year. He then
studied law at Lenox and at Harvard
Law School and was admitted to the bar
at Lenox in 1853. He practised there
from 1853 to 1856, and in Chicago, 111.,
from 1856. He was a Master in Chan-
cery of the United States circuit court
for the northwestern district of Illinois
in 1863. Mr. Bishop was married
August 8, 1861, to Anna H., daughter
of Joshua Richardson of Portland, Me.

Rev. William Hayes Ward has re-
signed as editor of the Independent
after serving in that capacity for forty-
five years. He will remain a contri'out-
ing editor. With his sisters. Miss Susan

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Hayes Ward and Miss Hetta Hayes
Ward, he will move shortly to South
Berwick, Me., where they have a summer
home. Dr. Ward is seventy-eight years
old, but is in good health. H- was
associate editor of the Independent from
1868 to 1870; superintending editor from
1870 to 1896; and since then editor-in-
chief.

1865
Dr. Joseph H. Sawyer, principal of
Williston Seminary, was absent from his
post, on important school business, dur-
ing part of the fall term, and in his place
the duties of principal were performed
by Charles A. Buffum, '75.

1867

Columbia University has appointed
John W. Burgess as exchange professor
to the Austrian universities for the year
1914-15.

Alfred Hoyt Granger's " Charles Pol-
len McKim," published in November by
the Houghton Mifflin Co., is dedicated
" to William Rutherford Mead, the last
of a great Triumvirate."

1869

Williams Reynolds Brown, Secretary,
79 Park Avenue, New York City.
Clarence Fuller Boyden, principal of
the Cohasset Grammar School, and for
a long term superintendent of the schools
in Taunton, died recently at his home in
Cohasset, Mass. His connection with
the public school system covered a pe-
riod of more than 40 years. He was
born in Attleboro, March 5th, 1846, the
son of Alexander A. and Harriet G.
(Fuller) Boyden. He received his early
education in the public schools of that
town and at the Stoughtonham Insti-
tute, Sharon. After his graduation he
taught school for a year in North Provi-
dence, R. I., resigning to take up the
5

study of law. He studied law with
Judge Allen at Salem, N. Y., 1870-
72, but owing to his father's death he
gave up his legal studies and resumed
teaching. He went to Taunton in 1872
as submaster in the high school there
and was afterward principal of the Weir
and Cohasset grammar schools. In
1899 he was elected superintendent of
schools and was re-elected until 1905.
He then resumed his former position as
principal of the Cohasset school, which
he held until his death. He was mar-
ried July 4th, 1876, to Isabell H.
Anthony, of Taunton, who survives
him.

Professor Emeritus Waterman T.
Hewett of Cornell University has re-
cently finished his work on "The Bib-
liography of the Writings of Goldwin
Smith." Professor Hewett has been
engaged in the preparation of this work
for several years. In this he has received
assistance from the librarians of the
Bodleian, the British Museum, and all
of the important libraries in the United
States. The book contains an Intro-
ductory Note by Professor Hewett, an
index of periodicals to which Goldwin
Smith contributed, the bibliography
itself, which was compiled fi'om all of
the original sources, and an Appendix.
Professor Hewett is spending the winter
in Egypt. In the spring he will travel
through the Holy Land, Greece, Italy
and Germany. Later he will spend
some time at the University of Oxford.
His stay abroad will be indefinite.

1870

George H. Eaton of Calais, Me., died
in Boston July 9. He was born in Mill-
town, N. B., in 1848, the oldest son of
Henry F. and Anna L. (Boardman) Ea-
ton. After graduating from Amherst, he
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lumber business. In the course of a few
years he became, with his brother Henry,
a partner of the firm widely known as
H. F. Eaton & Sons. In 1871 he was
married to Miss Elizabeth W. Boyden
of Chicago, and a few years later moved
to Calais, Me. He was a member of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, a director of the Maine
Missionary Society and a trustee of
Bangor Theological Seminary. The
prominence of Mr. Eaton in the business
world, together with his sound judgment
and strict probity of character, secured
him many positions of honor and trust.
He was the head of several important
financial institutions and philanthropic
organizations, and served the state in
both the House of Representatives and
the Senate.

The old Plymouth Church of Milwau-
kee, Wis., has been sold, and a new house
of worship in the north part of the city,
near the Milwaukee Downer College, is
in process of construction, under the
leadership of the pastor emeritus. Rev.
Judson Titsworth.

1871

Raymond L. Bridgman has been giv-
ing a series of lectures at the Massachu-
setts Agricultural College on "World
Politics."

1872

Rev. Albert H. Thompson, Secretary,

Raymond, N. H.

George E. Church died of heart dis-
ease, in Providence, R. I., on September
28th. At the time of his death he was
principal of the Pease Street Grammar
School of that city and was the oldest
teacher in grammar grades in point of
service, having been a principal in Prov-
idence grammar schools for 41 years.
These positions, his associations with
educational affairs and genial character.

made him very widely known. He was
born in Woodstock, Conn., in 1846, his
early education there being interspersed
with work on the farm and with assist-
ance to his father in making shoes. He
taught school one winter term at Hamp-
ton, Conn., when only 16 years of age,
and then studied at Phillips Exeter
Academy. Mr. Church was principal
of Thurber Avenue School for five years,
principal of 0.xford Street School for
twelve years, and since 1889 bad been
principal of the Pease Street School.
He was also ex-president of the Rhode
Island Institute; president of the Barn-
ard Club not only when it was an asso-
ciation of grammar school masters but
afterward when its field was broadened.
He was secretary of the American Insti-
tute of Instruction for five years and
president in 1899; was first chairman of
Board of Directors of Barnard Club
School of Pedagogy, and of Barnard
Club School of Child Study. He had
been president of the Amherst Alumni
Association of Rhode Island and a
director of the National Educational
Association for a number of years. He
is survived by a widow and two sons,
one, George Dudley Church, princi-
pal of the Family School for Boys at
Farmington, Me., the other, Fred-
erick Ashley Church, of the Mechanic
National Bank of Providence.

1873
John M. Tyler, Secretary,
Amherst, Mass.
Doane Rich Atkins died October
nth at South Haven, Mich. He was
born April 25th, 1845, at Truro, Mass.,
the son of Paul and Kezia (Paine) At-
kins. He prepared for college at Phil-
lips Andover Academy, and attended
Yale Divinity School, 1837-1876, grad-
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in 1877, was pastor first at Westbrook,
Conn., and then did home missionary
work in Dakota in the years 1881-1887.
He served at Brimfield, 1879-1881, and
in the Congregational Church, Calumet,
Mich., 1888-1892. He was the author of
a "Historical Discourse" commemora-
tive of 150 years of the Congregational
Church of Westbrook, Conn., "Report
on Olivet College" and "The David
Irving Calendar." He was married
December 25th, 1883, to Elizabeth
Wessen of Worcester.

Talcott Williams, director of the Pul-
itzer School of Journalism of Columbia
University, and one of the editors of the
Columbia University Quarterly, has just
been elected president of the Honest
Ballot Association, "a union of citizens
without regard to party to insure clean
elections in New York City, and to pre-
vent honest votes from being offset by
trickery and fraud," He was also elec-
ted president of the American Con-
ference of Teachers of Journalism at
Madison, Wis., on November 29th. Dr.
Williams gave an address before the
Christian association meeting of the
college on Sunday, December 7th. His
subject was "Journalism as a Profes-
sion."

1874

Elihu G. Loomis, Secretary,

28 State Street, Boston, Mass.

William F. Slocum recently celebrated
his twenty-fifth anniversary as President
of Colorado College. During his presi-
dency the college has grown from an
enrollment of thirty students and nine
instructors to a college of 587 stu-
dents and seventy-two instructors.
President Slocum was a delegate to
the Hague conference during the past
summer.

Melvil Dewey is the author of a chap-
ter on "Office Efficiency" in Dunham's

"Business of Insurance," recently pub-
lished in three volumes.

1875
Prof. Levi H. Elwell, Secretary,

Amherst, Mass.
Arthur F. Skeele has just finished a
pastorate of five years at Olivet, Mich.

1876

William M. Ducker, Secretary,
277 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

Rev. John Howland of the Colegio
International, Guadalijara, Mexico, was
one of the speakers at the Council of
Congregational churches held recently
in Kansas City.

The lecturer appointed for this year
on the William Brewster Clark Founda-
tion is Professor George Howard Par-
ker, of the department of zoology at
Harvard. His subject will be "Biology
and Human Problems."

1877

Rev. a. DeW. Mason, Secretary,

222 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

On October 12th, the Congregational
Church at Westfield, N. J., of which the
Rev. Samuel L. Loomis is pastor, dedi-
cated a new parish house. The building
is three stories in height and provides
splendid accommodations for all the
activities of the church. The basement
contains a large hall which will be used
as a gymnasium and basket-ball court,
also for a banquet and school room.
The main floor contains the assembly
room and class rooms for the Sunday
School and the balcony floor provides
other accommodations for school and
social work.

William Alexander Macleod died at
his home in Dedham, Mass., on Novem-
ber 3rd. He was the son of William and

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Helen (Harvie) Macleod and was born
in Providence, R. I., March 19th, 1856.
He fitted for college under the private
instruction of President Goodell of Am-
herst. He attended the Massachusetts
Agricultural College 1872-1876 and Am-
herst 1876-1877. He received the de-
gree of B.S. at Boston University in
1876, and LL.B. at the same university
in 1879. Mr. Macleod was the senior
partner of the law firm of Macleod,
Culver, Copeland (Amherst, '77) and
Dike, with offices in Boston and Wash-
ington, D. C, and had a widely ex-
tended reputation as a patent attorney.
He was also for many years connected
as president and counsel, with the
Florence (Mass.) Manufacturing Com-
pany of which the late Frank N. Look
was treasurer and manager. He was
married June 15th, 1882, to Lola, daugh-
ter of Ward J. McConnell, of Greens-
boro, N. C. Mr. Macleod passed some
months in Europe during the summer of
1913, in the effort to re-establish his im-
paired health, but was not able to re-
sume his usual duties on his return, and
lingered at his home until his death. A
delegation of the Class, consisting of
Copeland, Kyle, Keith, Tobey and
Graj% were present at his funeral. Since
his death his son, Cameron Macleod,
has been admitted as a partner into his
father's law firm, which continues under
the same firm name. Mrs. Macleod and
four children survive him.

Rev. A. DeW. Mason and Rev. Sid-
ney K. Perkins each have a son in the
freshman class of the college.

Sumner Salter has written arrange-
ments of the "Te Deum" and the "Ju-
bilate" which have become favorites at
West Point, where they are rendered
with a fvdl orchestra and a chorus of
eighty voices. The choirmaster wrote
the composer "that he did not know
Tvhat he would do without them as they

were used on all special occasions."
They are also used at Harvard, Yale,
Columbia and other colleges. Salter is
head of the Department of Music at
Williams College.

1878

H. Norman Gardiner, Secretary,
Northampton, Mass.

Henry P. Barbour was the principal
speaker when on November 5th ground
was broken for the new Congregational
Church at Long Branch, Cal., and on
the evening of the same day gave an
illustrated lecture on the new building,
which he has been largely instrumental
in getting erected. The building is to
cost $120,000 and it is believed that it
will be the finest of its kind in Southern
California.

Dr. Marcus B. Carlton, after many
years of exhausting work as superin-
tendent of one of the largest leper
asylums in India, has been nervously
prostrated and is now under the care of
Dr. Joseph A. Sanders, '78, in the sanita-
rium at Clifton Springs, N. Y. Class-
mates are asked to send him cheering
letters.

Rev. Edward O. Dyer is still a lover
of the mountains and the woods, among
which he spends his vacations, and of
literature, to which he occasionally con-
tributes. His latest publication was a
poem in fourteen stanzas called "The
Bells of Chester." Chester, Conn., is
where he is settled.

H. Norman Gardiner read a paper on
November 18th before the Hampshire
Association of Congregational Ministers,
meeting at Amherst, on "Eucken's Con-
tribution to Religious Thought."

Dr. Guy Hinsdale of Hot Springs, Va.,
was awarded the Hodgkins prize of
$1,500 by the Smithsonian Institution
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of New York City. The prize was
awarded for the best essays on Tuber-
culosis and Atmospheric Air.

Charles H. Moore, who recently re-
signed his position as organizer of the
Negro Business Men's League, is now
working in the interest of Bennett Col-
lege, Greensboro, N. C, one of the
schools established under the auspices of
the Freedman's Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He also
frequently contributes to the press arti-
cles dealing with the welfare of both the
colored and the white race.

Walter B. Mossman's daughter, Helen,
was married on October 11th, at Lee,
Mass., to Edwin Clyde Robbins, a grad-
uate of the University of Iowa and at
present a candidate for the Ph.D. at
Columbia University.

Rev. Stephen A. Norton has been
given a leave of absence by his church
in Woburn, Mass., and plans to travel
with his family for several months in
Bible lands and through Europe, sail-
ing from New York on the Caronia on
January 31st.

Rev. Stephen A. Norton and Rev.
Joseph H. Selden attended the meetings
of the National Council of Congrega-
tional Churches recently held in Kansas
City.

Orren Burnham Sanders died in Bos-
ton on September 25th, 1913. He was
born in Rockingham County, N. H.,
November 18th, 1855. After leaving
Amherst he went to Boston University
where he was graduated in 1879.

Frank W. Stearns' daughter, Emily
Williston, was married on November
15th at Newton, Mass., to William
Henry Giese, '02.

Alfred O. Tower, who is District
Superintendent of Schools for the South-
ern Berkshire District of Massachusetts,
is the editor of a set of books entitled.

"Gold Nuggets of Literature," pub-
lished by the Educational Publishing
Co., Boston.

1879

J. Franklin Jameson, Secretary,
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.

At a recent dinner of the men of the
Clinton Avenue Congregational Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y., held at the University
Club, Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, '79,
presided. Among the speakers were
Charles S. Hartwell, '77, Rev. Morrison
P. Boynton, '10, and G. Preston Hitch-
cock, '92. Edwin Fairley, '86, was
chairman of the dinner committee, and
other Amherst men present were Dr.
Arthur R. Paine, '71, Samuel C. Fairley,
'92, and Arthur P. Paine, '08.

A recent number of the Outlook con-
tained the following: "Henry Clay
Folger, Jr., is said to have one of the
finest collections of Shakespeariana in
the United States. He recently became
the owner of the late Sir. Edward Dow-
den's Shakespearean library, comprising
some 2,000 volumes. Book-collecting
is Mr. Folger's avocation; in the busi-
ness world he is known as the President
of the Standard Oil Company of New
York."

Professor J. Franklin Jameson, of the
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.,
will be one of the lecturers at Brown
University this year. At the annual
meeting of the American Historical
Association, in December, he read a
paper on "Reasons for Studying Ameri-
can Religious History," and led a dis-
cussion on the "Present Status in
Regard to a National Archive."

The New York Evening Post of De-
cember 11th reprinted from the Peking
Gazette an article by Professor Frank J.
Goodnow, legal adviser to tlae Chinese
government, on the draft constitution
prepared by a committee of the Chinese

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Parliament. After this was prepared,
a further draft, prepared by Professor
Goodnow, was submitted to Parliament
by the President of the Republic.
Professor Goodnow has been lecturing
at Peking University and also at the
Government, formerly the Imperial,
University.

Before his departure for China, Pro-
fessor Goodnow and Dr. Frederick C.
Howe were appointed by the Board of
Estimate of New York to investigate the
city's system of school administration.
Their report has recently been published
in part, and has aroused much favorable
comment.

The First Presbyterian Church of
York, Penn., of which Rev. John E.
Tuttle Is pastor, celebrated, in a series
of meetings from December 7 to 10, the
sesqui-centennial of the church and the
centennial of the granting of the charter.

1881
Frank H. Parsons, Secretary,

60 Wall Street, New York City.

Price Collier, the well known author,
who died suddenly last November, was
for one year a member of '81.

The Macmillan Co. has recently
published a volume by Rev. Charles H.
Dickinson on "The Christian Recon-
struction of Modern Life."

The Columbia University Quarterly
for December contained an article on
"The Appeal of the Natural Sciences"
by James F. Kemp. Professor Kemp
attended the international geological
congress at Toronto last August, and
before the opening of the congress re-
ceived the honorary degree of LL.D.
from McGill University.

Starr J. Murphy has been elected a
director of the Manhattan Railway
Company and of the American Ship-
building Company.

1882

John P. Cushing, Secretary,

New Haven, Conn.

In the October number of the Inter-
national Review of Missions, President
Howard S. Bliss, of the Syrian Protes-
tant College, Beirut, discusses the
Balkan War and its effect on Christian
work among Moslems. It will have as
a first effort a fresh awakening of the
Moslem mind, a greater readiness to
receive new ideas. This, however,
secondly, will not at once make them
more inclined to receive the Christian
faith, but for a time will make them
more bitter. Thirdly, it will put upon
the Christian missionary an obligation
to put emphasis on points hitherto not
sufficiently prominent, — so that while
he must continue to be as heretofore
ardent, zealous, fearless, tireless, con-
fident, he must also be discreet, tactful,
large minded, generous. "As never be-
fore he must convince men of his desire
to pursue his task in the spirit of frank-
ness, of humble-mindedness, of teach-
ableness, of fairness, of sympathy, and
of appreciation; in the spirit of gentle-
ness and sweet reasonableness."

At the anual meeting of the American
Historical Association, in December,
Frederic Bancroft read a paper on
"Some Phases of Ante-Bellum Poli-
tics."

Arthur F. Odlin, formerly judge of the
Court of First Instance in the Philippine
Islands, spoke at Mohawk conference
in October on "Independence, a Bane
and Not a Blessing."

Dr. Watson L. Savage, formerly
director of the Pittsburg Athletic Asso-
ciation, has returned to New York and
opened a private exercise studio at 56
West 45th Street, especially for individ-
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maintained in connection with the
gymnasium.

Walter S. Ufford and Miss Elizabeth
Moore, of Baltimore, Md., daughter of
John Wilson Brown, were married on
November 15th, at Baltimore. Their
residence is at the Argyle, 3220 17th
Street, Washington, D. C, where Ufford
is general secretary of the Associated
Charities.

1883

William Orr, Secretary,

307 Ford Building, Boston, Mass.

Walter Taylor Field had a poem,
"Thought for the Morning," in the
Congregationalist for October 16th.

The Bangor (Me.) Daily Commercial
of October 29th, contained a long article
based on a paper read by Martin L.
GriflSn before the Maine branch of the
American Chemical Society on the sub-
ject of the measurement and commercial
valuation of wood for the pulp and paper
industry. Griffin is chemist of the
Oxford Paper Co., at Rumford, Me.

Rev. Cornelius H. Patton of Boston,
who has just returned from a trip around
the world, visiting the mission stations
of the American Board, delivered the
closing address of the United Missionary
Campaign Conference at the First
Church, Northampton, Thursday even-
ing, December 4th. He is home secre-
tary of the American Board, having
oversight of the cultivation of the
churches with reference to obtaining
the men and the means for conducting
the Board's work. On December 14th,
Dr. Patton gave an illustrated lecture
in Johnson Chapel on "Along African
Trails."

1884

WiLLARD H. Wheeler, Secretary,
2 Maiden Lane, New York City.

Arthur H. Dakin is president of the
Amherst Country Club.

Rev. Frank J. Goodwin has an article
in the CoJigregationalist of December
18th entitled "Providing for the Min-
ister's Old Age."

James H. Tufts was recently elected
president of the American Philosophical
Association.

Guy W. Wadsworth is now engaged
with the Board of Temperance of the
Presbyterian Church as secretary of the
Western District, including the nine
Pacific Coast and Mountain States.
His headquarters are at Los Angeles,
Cal.

W^alter F. Willcox represented Am-
herst at the inauguration, in October, of
Kerr Duncan Macmillan as president of
Wells College.

1885
Frank E. Whitman, Secretary,

490 Broome Street, New York City.

Arthur F. Stone, former editor of the
St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Caledonian, has pub-
lished a volume entitled "Speeches of
Wendell Phillips Stafford," a jurist and
orator of whom Vermonters are proud.

In the January number of The Forum
is an article by Alvan F. Sanborn on
"The New Nationalism in France."

1886

Charles F. Marble, Secretary,
4 Marble Street, Worcester, Mass.
Rev. John Brittan Clark, pastor of
the Westminster Church, Detroit, Mich.,
preached at Washington, D. C, on
Sunday, November 24th, filling the pul-
pit at the 4^th Street Church. On the
following day he lectured before the
Waldernarian Society of Baltimore,
Md., repeating the same lecture that
evening in the First Congregational
Church of Washington.

Rev. Allen Cross preached recently at
the First Congregational Church at Am-
herst. He is at present living in Brook-

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line, but has no permanent pastorate.

Edward H. Fallows is president of the
Harmony Club of America.

Rev. Milo H. Gates, vicar of the
Chapel of the Intercession, Trinity Par-
ish, New York City, was recently elected
missionary bishop to Cuba, but de-
clined the appointment. The New
York papers published his letter of
declination, as follows:

My appreciation of the unexpected
action of the convention in electing me
to succeed Bishop Knight is the pro-
founder because you seemed to have
thought that I could in some measure
carry on the wonderful work which he
has built up in Cuba. I think that
everywhere those who are familiar with
the character of the Spanish peoples are
the most impressed by the real grandeur
of what, under God, he has accomplished
there. It is felt that his accomplish-
ments in Cuba deserve to rank with any
of the victories of missionary progress.

To have been privileged to share in
such a cause would be to me the great-
est joj\ Since learning your will I have
given every consideration in every way
one so called by so plain a voice from
God could give to learn my duty.

I have been aware that, in the inter-
ests of the work, an answer shoidd be
given at once. I feel that the decision
which I have made would have been the
same had I considered for weeks in-
stead of for days. My clear duty seems
to be to remain at my present post.

At the annual convention of the
American Bankers Association, held at
Boston in October, Clay H. Hollister
submitted his report as chairman of the
committee on bills of lading.

The North American Review for Jan-
uary contains an article by Daniel F.
Kellogg on "The Disappearance of the
Right of Private Property."

The Los Angeles Church Extension
Society under the able superintendence
of Rev. George F. Kenngott has made
remarkable progress. It now owns
property valued at $10,000. From The
Occidental College Bulletin, of Los An-

geles, under the head of Additions to
the Faculty, we quote:

George F. Kenngott, Ph.D., who of-
fers courses in Social Ethics this coming
year, is an honor graduate of Amherst
and Harvard, receiving his doctorate
from the latter. He is the author of
several works, one being "The Record
of the City," which has been adopted as
a text-book at Harvard. His activities
have been almost altogether along hu-
manitarian lines, and the blend of aca-
demic and practical training, topped by
his remarkable enthusiasm, have given
him a mastery of the subject rarely at-
tained. His class room, it is safe to say,
will prove a magnet for those students
who think more than carelessly upon
living questions.

1887
Frederic B. Pratt, Secretary,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Alexander Brough has been appointed
deputy comptroller of New York City.

Seelye Bryant of Winthrop Beach has
moved to South A^ttleboro, Mass.

In a recent number of The Chris-
tian World, Kanzo Uchimura, who is a
devout Christian Japanese, expresses
doubts of the success of American Mis-
sions in Japan, on the ground of the
difference in temperament and spiritual
attitude of the two races. The Ameri-
can practical and active nature seems to
him like lack of piety, and it does not
know how to approach the more mystic
and contemplative mind of the Oriental.

1888
Asa G. Baker, Secretary,

6 Cornell Street, Springfield, Mass.

The annual report for 1911 of the
American Historical Association, which
has recently been issued by the Smith-
sonian Institution, contains the twelfth
report of the Public Archives Commis-
sion, of which Professor Herman V. Ames
is chairman.

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Harmon Austin is located in Cleve-
land again.

Albert S. Bard is now engaged in a
new phase of work for the betterment of
New York City. He is one of a com-
mittee to investigate the complaints of
Broadway hotel keepers that the large
electric advertising signs are disturbing
the sleep of their patrons. He served
last year as secretary of the Billboard
Advertising Commission, appointed by
the late Mayor Gay nor; its report was
recently published, and is quite elaborate.
Bard is now secretary of the Municipal
Art Society of New York City, and is
also a member of the executive com-
mittee of the Honest Ballot Association.

Rev. Irving A. Burnap for five years
pastor of the Pilgrim Church, Parkville,
Hartford, Conn., has resigned to accept
a call to the First Congregational Church
at Ivoryton, Conn. He assumed his
new duties on November 15th.

Shattuck O. Hartwell of Kalamazoo,
Mich., was elected president of the
Michigan State Teachers' Association
at their recent meeting at Ann Arbor.

Warren J. Moulton, of Bangor Theo-
logical Seminary, has been a director at
the American school in Jerusalem during
the past year. In coimection with his
work. Dr. Moulton has traveled exten-
sively in Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
He returned this fall to Bangor Seminary.

John E. Oldham is now chairman of
the committee on public service corpo-
rations of the Investment Bankers'
Association of America. At their second
annual convention, held at Chicago in
October, he spoke on "Public Utility
Boards."

At a recent meeting of the directors of
the Paul Revere Trust Company of
Boston, Mass., William M. Prest, a di-
rector, was elected president to succeed
Edmund Billings, who resigned to be-

come Collector of Customs for the Port
of Boston.

Robert H. Sessions and Miss Mary
Fitzgerald were married on December
1st, at Duluth, Minn. Their home
will be at 708| East Fourth Street
Duluth, Minn.

1889

H. H. BoswoRTH, Secretary,

15 Elm Street, Springfield, Mass.

William Estabrook Chancellor had
an article, "Starvation Ahead for Mil-
lions, " in Neale's Monthly for September.

Rev. William H. Day, pastor of the
Congregational Church in Los Angeles,
Cal., the largest Congregational church
in California, and one of the largest in
the country, has been granted a year's
leave of absence during which he will
make a tour around the world.

Arthur Curtiss James is a director
of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum
at Newport, R.I.

At the annual meeting of the Maine
Teachers Association, held at Bangor
recently, an address on "Measuring
EflBciencies" was given by Frank E.
Spaulding, superintendent of schools
at Newtonville, Mass. Prof. Robert W.
Crowell, '89, of WatervUle, Me., also
read a paper.

1890

Edwin B. Child, Secretary,

62 South Washington Square, New York.

The item in the last issue of the
QuAETERLT Concerning Rev. Charles E.
Ewing was, we are glad to state, an
error, although reported apparently
with authority. The illness was of only
short duration, and his recovery was
complete.

Charles S. '^Tiitman will speak at the
tenth session of the conference on "The
Relation of Higher Education to the
Social Order," of the Religious Edu-
cation society at Yale University on

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March 7th. Mr. Whitman's topic will
be "Making Social Citizens."

1891

WiNSLOW H. Edwards, Secretary,
Easthampton, Mass.

Rufus M. Bagg, professor of geology
and mineralogy at Lawrence College,
Appleton, Wis., has recently published
an article on the "Pliocene and Pleisto-
cene Foraminifera of Southern Califor-
nia," Bulletin 513, U. S. Geological
Survey, and also in Economic Geology,
Vol. VIII, No. 4, June, 1913, and an arti-
cle entitled "The Discovery of Pyrrho-
tite in Wisconsin with a Discussion of its
Probable Origin by Magmatic Differ-
entiation."

The New York Evening Post of Octo-
ber 24th, contained an article on "The
Novels of Edith Wharton " by Henry W.
Boynton. The New York Times of
November 2nd contained a review by
Mr. Boynton of Brander Matthews'
"Shakespeare as a Playwright."

At the annual convention of the Amer-
ican Bankers Association, held at Boston
in October, Arthur B. Chapin addressed
the Trust Company Section on "The
Advantages of Cooperative Publicity in
Trust Company Functions."

At the annual dinner of the New
Hampshire Society of New York, held at
Delmonico's on December 13th, H. A.
Cushing was one of the speakers. He
has been elected a member of the Com-
mittee on Library of the Union League
Club of New York.

The date for the Boston alumni ban-
quet has been fixed for January 27th.
Rev. John Timothy Stone will probably
be the speaker of the evening.

Rev. Charles N. Thorp of the First
Congregational Church of Duluth,
Minn., is the first pastor in his city to

undertake the plan of down-town vesper
services.

Robert S. Woodworth has recently
completed, in collaboration with Pro-
fessor Ladd of Yale, a volume on " Phys-
iological Psychology. " He was recently
elected president of the American Psy-
chological Association.

1892

DiMON H. Roberts, Secretary,
Ypsilanti, Mich.

The executive committee of ten
members of the class is planning its
yearly meeting in New York, sometime
during the latter part of February or
the first of March. This committee
consists of ten members elected at the
twentieth reunion.

In the Boston Transcript of December
24th Professor Hubert L. Clark has an
article on "Carnegie Scientists in the
Antipodes," giving some discoveries
in Torres Straits, the great barrier reef
of Australia, by a company of scientists
of which he was one.

Cornelius J. Sullivan is now vice-
president of the National Exhibition
Company, the corporation which con-
trols the New York "Giants. "

1893

Frederick S. Allis, Secretary,
21 Main Street, Amherst, Mass.
The Class Secretary has received the
"Second Flight Cup" from the donor,
Charles Dyer Norton. The cup is a
copy by Crichton Brothers, New York
City, of a Charles II tankard. It has
a flat silver lid on which is engraved:

"Amherst '93
Second Flight Cup
While there is life there's hope"

On the cup are engraved the names:
"From Charles Dyer Norton to Mahlon

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Sistie Kemmerer, February 13, 1913,
John Francis Edgell, May 26th, 1913,
Mayda Belle Gill, May 30, 1913, Donald
Wales, June 21st, 1913, Sarah Eliza
Sigourney Esty, October 6th, 1913,
Frederick ScouUer Allis, Jr., November
21st, 1913."

On the bottom of the cup is engraved :
"The Class Secretary, as Custodian un-
der the deed of gift will give this cup in
succession to each Class child born after
January 1st, 1913, the child born last to
hold the cup permanently."

Two members of the class who at-
tended the reunion last June have re-
cently died. Henry H. Baker, a promi-
nent lawyer in Hyannis, died not long
since. He was counsel for the Cape
Cod Construction Company and a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the
Massachusetts Bar Association. He
had a wide reputation as a public
speaker and as a trial lawyer. ^\Tiile
assistant district-attorney for south-
eastern Massachusetts he won many
noteworthy cases.

Ernest M. Bliss of Attleboro also died
recently. Mr. Bliss had been seriously
ill for a number of years, but he was
present at the class reunion. He was a
member of the Attleboro firm of Bliss
Bros., and was prominent as the presi-
dent of the local Y. M. C. A. It was
under his administration that the asso-
ciation put up a splendid hundred thou-
sand dollar building.

The following resolutions have been
adopted by the class:

The Class of '93 of Amherst College
mourns the death of two of its members
both of whom were at the class reunion
last June — Ernest M. Bliss and Henry
H. Baker.

Bliss had been ill long and kept to the
end his spirit of hope and courage. He
served faithfully his town and his class
and his fellowmen.

Baker died under an operation for
appendicitis. As a lawyer and a public
servant he too won the regard of those
who knew him.

The class remembers these men with
pride and extends its sympathy to their
families.

Frank M. Lay is treasurer of the
Galesburg and Kewanee Electric Co.

Herbert C. Wood, connected until
last June with the Cleveland Public
Schools, has recently opened an oflace
for the practice of law and has given up
his school work.

George B. Zug, of the department of
fine arts at Dartmouth, has this winter
arranged for an extended series of art
exhibitions at Hanover. In the evening
course of lectures at Dartmouth, by
various members of the Faculty, his
subject was "The American School of
Painting."

1894

H. E. Whitcomb, Secretary,
Worcester, Mass.

Professor Eugene W. Lyman of Ober-
liu Theological Seminary is to conduct
a Question Box in The Congregationalist
and Christian World on the general sub-
ject "The Building of a Faith for To-
day." His purpose is constructive, to
build and not to undermine.

Rev. Austin Rice of Wakefield, pastor
of the First Congregational Church, re-
cently addressed the students of West-
ern College, Oxford, Ohio, at chapel
exercises.

In the December number of The Mis-
sionary Herald Principal Alfred E.
Stearns has an article on "China and
Western Civilization; an Indictment of
Modern Commercialism." "The great-
est obstacle to our progress is the for-
eigner," he reports as a remark from an
intelligent Western educated oflBcial of
Kwantung province; and goes on to
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must encounter in trying to bring to its
nation the advantages of western civil-
ization,— obstacles interposed by the
very nations to whom it has naturally
looked for help and guidance.

Harlan F. Stone has been elected by
the executive committee of the class to
the oflSce of class president. He has
appointed the committees necessary for
the Vicennial Reunion, and the race for
the Trophy Cup inaugurated by the
Class in 1904 is now on.

Willis D. Wood is a member of a
special committee of the New York
Stock Exchange to consider the ques-
tion of the admission of new issues of
securities to the list of the exchange,
and also the subject of corporate organ-
ization and financing.

1895
W'lLLiAM S. Tyler, Secretary,
30 Church Street, New York.
Herbert L. Pratt has been elected
president of the firm of Frederick
Loeser & Co., one of the oldest and
largest mercantile concerns in Brooklyn.
Rev. Jay T. Stocking of Newtonville
has accepted a call to the First Congre-
gational Church of Washington, D. C,
and has declined a call to a Milwaukee
church.

1896

Thomas B. Hitchcock, Secretary,
60 Federal Street, Boston, Mass.

Worthington C. Holman is now con-
tributing to System a series of articles
on the subject of advertising.

A son, Laurence Archison, has been
born to Rev. and Mrs. Herbert A. Jump.
Mr. Jump recently accepted the pas-
torate of the Congregational Church of
Redlands, Cal., and assumed his new
duties in December. An article by him
appeared in the December Congrega-

tionalist entitled "Winston Churchill,
Novelist and Preacher."

At the annual meeting of the Hamp-
shire branch of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children, Prof.
Everett Kimball, of Smith College, was
elected one of the directors of the so-
ciety.

John T. Pratt is one of the new direc-
tors of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Co.

Mortimer L. Schiff has been elected to
the Board of Managers of the New
York Zoological Society.

William S. Thompson, until recently
in the publishing business in New York
City, is now with the house of John C.
Winston in Philadelphia.

At the annual dinner of the Chicago
Bar Association, on November 12th,
Roberts Walker spoke on "The Income
Tax." The address was later published
in the Chicago Legal News.

1897
Dr. Benjamin K. Emerson, Jr., Sec-
retary,
72 West Street, Worcester, Mass.

Richard Billings has been elected a
director of the Brinson railway, a
Georgia company.

Rev. Carl M. Gates of West Port-
land, Me., has accepted a call to
Wdlesley Hills, Mass.

Edwin P. Grosvenor of Washington,
D. C, son of Prof. Edwin A. Grosvenor,
who has been connected with the De-
partment of Justice since 1905, and a
special assistant to the Attorney-Gen-
eral since 1912, in charge of the prose-
cution of the bathtub, harvester, moving
picture and other so-called trusts, has
resigned his position and will become a
partner of former Attorney-General
Wickersham and Henry W. Taft in
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tion with the Department of Justice,
Mr. Grosvenor has been exceptionally
successful. The law firm with which
he is now connected, which from
Strong and Cadwalader now takes the
name of Cadwalader, Wickersham and
Taft, is one of the oldest firms in the
city, having done business over one
hundred years.

Raymond V. IngersoU has recently
been appointed Deputy Commissioner
of Parks of New York City, having
charge especially of the parks in the
Borough of Brooklyn. He is also a
director of the Legal Aid Society of
New York.

Raymond MacFarland was recently
elected president of the New England
Association of College Teachers of Edu-
cation.

1898
Rev. Chaeles W. Merriam, Secretary,

31 High Street, Greenfield, Mass.

Charles K. Arter has recently been
chosen president of the Amherst Alumni
Association of Cleveland and vicinity
and Charles W. Disbrow, '94, secretary.

From the "Additions to the Faculty"
in the Occidental College Bulletin, Los
Angeles, we quote:

Another Amherst-Harvard man is
Professor Julius W. Eggleston, M.A.,
who comes to the chair of Geology and
Botany. Besides taking his master's
degree at Harvard, he was instructor
there before going to the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden. For the
last three years he has occupied a chair
in the Mineralogical department of the
Missouri School of Mines. Some dis-
tinguished names vouch for Professor
Eggleston's ability, and also for his
genuine interest in the varied activities
of student life.

The fellow-teacher here alluded to is
Dr. Kenngott of '86.

Rev. Oliver B. Loud of Vernal, Utah,
has accepted a pastorate at West Spring-
field, Mass.

G. P. Putnam's Sons have recently
published "The Cubies' A. B. C." with
pictures by Earl H. Lyall, and verses by
Mary Mills Lyall.

Cornelius B. Tyler has been elected a
director of Milliken Brothers, Incor-
porated, manufacturers of steel prod-
ucts,

1899

E. W. Hitchcock, Secretary,

26 Broadway, New York.

Burges Johnson is now associated
with E. P. Dutton & Co., with ofiBces
at 681 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

The First Congregational Church of
Keene, N. H., recently celebrated its
175th anniversary and also the 125th
anniversary of the dedication of the
church. The historical address was
given by the pastor. Rev. Rodney W.
Roundy, '99. An address was also
given by Rev. Lucius H. Thayer, '82,
of Portsmouth, N. H.

1900

Fred H. Klaer, Secretary,
334 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

The college treasurer has received a
check for $3,000 from Harold I. Pratt
to pay for the relining of the swimming
pool.

David TMiitcomb was toastmaster
at the fourth annual Amherst- Williams
banquet, held at the Rainier Club,
Seattle, Wash., on November 15th.
Among the speakers were William L.
Brewster, '88, who spoke on " Commis-
sion Government in Portland, "and D.
Bertrand Trefethen, '98.

1901

John L. Vanderbilt, Secretary,
14 Wall Street, New York.
Edwin C. BufiFum, known on the
stage as Edwin Cushman, is now play-

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ing in " Prunella" at the Booth Theatre,
New York City.

Aubrey C. Kretschmar is now located
at Rochester, N. Y., being associated
with the German-American Button Co.

Ernest M. Pel ton has recently been
elected president of the Central Advis-
ory Council of New Britain, Conn., an
organization composed of representa-
tives from all the charity organizations
of the city. A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Pelton on December 15.

Helen Kendall Smith, wife of Pre-
served Smith, died on December 23rd
of typhoid fever at St. Luke's Hospital,
New York City. The burial was from
her former home at Walpole, Mass.
Mrs. Smith was a sister of Henry P.
Kendall, '99, and a niece of George A.
Plimpton, '76.

John L. Vanderbilt was married on
October 30th to Miss Julia L. Park,
daughter of Mrs. Charles F. Park, of
Englewood, N. J. Mr. and Mrs.
Vanderbilt are now living at Walnut
Street, Englewood, N. J.

1902

Eldon B. Keith, Secretary,
30 South Street, Campello, Mass.
Henry W. Giese of Boston was
married at Newton, Mass., on Novem-
ber 15th to Miss Emily W. Stearns,
daughter of Frank W. Stearns, '78.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
William F. Stearns, '82. Robert W.
Maynard, '02, was best man. Mr.
and Mrs. Giese will live at 1408 Com-
monwealth Avenue, Boston.

1903
Clifford P. Warren, Secretary,
168 Winthrop Road, Brookline, Mass.
Frederick W. Shearer has been ap-
pointed state superintendent of schools
of Connecticut.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Washburn
have announced the birth on August
30th last of a daughter, Eleanor Rice
W^ashburn.

1904
Rev. Karl O. Thompson, Secretary,

643 Eddy Road, Cleveland, Ohio.

Joseph B. Eastman, secretary of the
Public Franchise League of Boston, has
been representing the carmen and con-
ductors in the arbitration hearings of the
Boston Elevated Railroad.

The trustees of Oahu College, Hono-
lulu, Hawaii, wishing to express in a
substantial way their appreciation of the
ten years of great work done by Prof.
Charles T. Fitts in that college, have
presented to Mr. Fitts a well appointed
mansion, with all the necessary equip-
ment for housekeeping.

The first break in the ranks of the
class since graduation came October 26,
1913, in the death of Rev. George
Horatio Hoyt. He died on October
26th at Ashfield, Mass., and the funeral
was at St. John's, Ashfield, Bishop
Davies and Rev. C. E. O. Nichols, '82,
being the officiating clergy. Hoyt gradu-
ated from the General Theological Semi-
nary in 1907, and had served as rector
at Southbridge, Oxford and Ashfield.
A local paper speaks of his death as
"a great blow to the people of St.
John's. Grave, courteous, sincere, con-
secrated, he never failed to win respect
and affection. His ministry was brief
but fruitful." A letter from Professor
Erskine of Columbia University says
of him: "For four years he has been
curate at St. Agnes' Chapel, where I
go to church, but the last two years he
has been absent on leave, trying to
fight off consumption. He made him-
self singularly loved and admired here.
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quickly in spiritual ways, and he was
a lover of Amherst."

Professor Sanford M. Salyer, a mem-
ber of the faculty of the University of
Georgia, is on leave of absence studying
English in the graduate school of Har-
vard University.

Ernest M. Whitcomb was operated
on for appendicitis at Pratt Health
cottage, December 16th, by Dr. Ralph
H. Seelye, '86, of Springfield. The
operation was successful and he con-
valesced rapidly.

1905
John B. O'Brien, Secretary,

309 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn,
N. Y.

The class of 1905 will hold a reunion
towards the end of January in New York
City. The date cannot be definitely
announced as the arrangements have
not been completed. Notices will be
sent out in ample time. Any members
of the class intending to visit New York
at about the time mentioned are re-
quested to notify the class secretary.
In Boston and vicinity a committee
comprising George H. B. Green and
Joseph W. Bond has been appointed to
look after class dinners and hereafter
the Boston members of the class, as well
as the New York group, will meet
regularly. The Booster, the class paper,
is slated to make an early appearance.

George B. Utter of Westerly has been
elected a member of the Republican
state central committee of Rhode Is-
land, and appointed a member of the
executive committee of the same organi-
zation.

Rev. Edwin H. Van Etten of Trinity
Church, Boston, has been speaking to
large noon-day audiences each Friday
on Winston Churchill's book, "The
Inside of the Cup."

Hugh H. C. Weed, recently vice-
president and general manager of the
Carter Carburetor Co. of St. Louis, will
locate permanently in New York as
sales-manager of the Johns-Manville
Co.

1906

Robert C. Powell, Secretary,

92 Canon Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

The New York members of this class
held their second reunion this fall at
Keen's Chop House in New York, on
Friday evening, November 21st. The
dinner was held in honor of the return
of "Billy" Williams from Mexico where
he has been assistant superintendent of
one of the plants of the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company. His story
of his experiences in the last six months
was intensely interesting, including the
capture by the rebels of the town where
he was stationed, and many parleys
with the generals of both sides. George
Harris entertained the gathering with
selections from grand opera, and some
of the Russian songs which have been a
feature of his recent concert work.
Those present were J. H. A. Williams,
Bale, Brown, Dillon, Hamilton, Harris,
Peacock, Worcester and Van Etten.

Frederick S. Bale has changed his
address to 126 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

The Outlook for January 3rd contained
an article by Ernest G. Draper on "The
College Man in Business."

Ernest H. Gaunt is now with Babson's
Statistical organization of Wellesley
Hills, Mass.

Rev. A. Harold Gilmore, who was
graduated from the Chicago Theological
Seminary last May, occupied the pul-
pit of the Congregational Church at
Turners Falls, December 21st. At pres-
ent Gilmore is a resident of Bowman-
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In the November number of Every-
body's there was an article entitled "The
Sex-Tangled Drama," by James Shelley
Hamilton, the author of "Lord Jeffery
Amherst." The same magazine for
December contains another article by
Hamilton entitled "The Play's the
Thing."

Rev. George E. Wood, who has had a
church at Red Oak, Iowa, has been made
president of Gaber College, Iowa.

1907

Chakles p. Slocxjm, Secretary,

262 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands,

Mass.

The plan for an interchange of letters
among the class, which was devised at
the reunion last June, is being put into
operation. The details of the scheme,
together with instructions for coopera-
tion, will be sent to each man. Powell,
Gary, and Whitelaw are in charge.
Notice of any recent change of address
should be sent at once to Chilton L.
Powell, Hamilton Hall, Columbia Uni-
versity.

Stanley D. Allchin, who has been em-
ployed in the leather business in South
America since 1911, has been granted a
furlough and will leave Argentine for the
United States in April.

Chester H. Andrews has recovered
from the severe attack of appendicitis he
suffered early in the autumn.

Harry E. Barlow has been appointed
general agent of the Connecticut General
Life Insurance Co. for Springfield, with
offices in Springfield and Amherst.

Bruce Barton was married on October
2nd to Miss Esther Maud Landall of
Oak Park, 111. On their honeymoon,
they stopped in Amherst at the time of
fraternity initiations. Barton had an
article in the Congregafionalist of Decem-
ber 18th, entitled "A Young Man's
Jesus."

The engagement of Edward C. Boyn-
ton to Miss Charlotte V. Pierce of
Evanston, 111., is announced. Boynton
is at present completing his course at the
Andover Theological Seminary.

Rev. Harold S. Brewster will soon go
to Bisbee, Ariz., to assume the rector-
ship of St. John's Episcopal Church.

Aaron C. Coburn was married on
December 1st to Miss Eugenia Bowen
Woolfolk, who was a deaconess at
Grace Church, New York, where Coburn
served as a curate until last spring. He
is now rector of the Episcopal Church
at Danbury, Conn.

John L. Fletcher has recently moved
to New York, where he has charge of
the National Quotation Bureau, 66
Liberty Street.

Chester C. Graham is now connected
with the J. E. Will Company, furniture
manufacturers, at Bloomington, 111.
Since his graduation he has been in
business in Minneapolis.

George C. Hood, who has been serving
in China under the Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions, has with two other
men opened a new mission station at
Nan Hsu Chou in central China.

John J. Morton, Jr., a graduate
of Johns Hopkins, has received an
appointment on the surgical staff of the
Brigham Hospital, Boston.

Walter S. Price and Dwight A. Rogers,
'08, who have been in the real estate
business together in Westerly, R. I.,
have dissolved partnership by mutual
consent. Price is continuing in the
business.

John W. Waller has recently concluded
an engagement in "Snow White" under
the management of Winthrop Ames.

Rev. John D. W'illard spoke at the
First Congregational Church of Amherst
recently.

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1908

Hahrt W. Zinsmaster, Secretary,

Duluth, Minn.
J. Stanley Birge is studying agricul-
ture at the University of Wisconsin.

William H. Burg is a member of the
firm of Smith, More & Co., 509 Olive
Street, St. Louis, Mo.

Harrison L. Clough is now with W.
H. McElwain Co., Merrimack, N. H.

Harry W. Davis is with the Univer-
sity orchards, Stevensville, Mont.

Charles D. Merrill is now with East-
man Dillon Co. of New York City,
dealers in investments and securities.

A. Maynard Steams is with the A.
T. Steams Lumber Co., Neponset, Mass.

1909

Edward H. Sudburt, Secretary,
343 Broadway, New York.
Arthur E. Bristol was married to Miss
Marian Fernold of New York City on
November 27th. After January 1st
they will be at home at 195 Hillside
Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J.

Charles P. Chandler will enter St.
Luke's Hospital, New York City, on
January 1st. Since graduating from
Columbia Medical School in 1913, he has
been practising in Montpelier, Vt.

Fred R. Gilpatric has been elected
secretary of the Connecticut Amherst
Alumni Association.

Donald McKay was married to Miss
Mabel Jones of Newton Highlands, on
November 29th.

Christian A. Ruckmich received the
degree of Ph.D. at Cornell University
last spring and is at present an instructor
in psychology at the University of
Illinois.
6

1910

Clarence Francis, Secretary,
26 Broadway, New York.
Clarence Birdseye has an article in
the November Oitting on "Camping in
a Labrador Snow Hole," and in the
December number on "The Truth
about Fox Farming. "

Joseph B. Bisbee, Jr., is now working
with the Dutchess Manufacturing Com-
pany in Poughkeepsie. His home
adiiress is 248 Church Street.

A son, Elliott H., was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Harris L. Corey on December 2d,
at their home in Toledo, Ohio.

Horace S. Cragin of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and Miss Sylvia Robinson of Rutland,
Vt., were married recently. They are
now living at 99 Norway Street, Boston.

John S. Fink has formed a partner-
ship for the practice of law with John R.
Keister. They have offices in Greens-
burg and Pittsburgh, Pa.

Weston W. Goodnow is installing a
cost account system in the office of the
Fort Orange Paper Co.

John P. Henry, star catcher of the
Washington "Senators, " in the capacity
of vice-president of the Players' Pro-
tective Fraternity, has formally ratified
the sweeping demands made by the ball
players' fraternity. Among the de-
mands in the list is a call for a complete
revolution of the drafting and releasing
system now in vogue in the major
leagues.

Alfred D. Keator has been appointed
chief of the Useful Arts Department of
the Minneapolis Public Library, Minne-
apolis, Minn.

Adolph M. Milloy has opened a law
office at 609 Masonic Temple, Erie, Pa.
Milloy 's partner is Samuel L. Gilson,
Princeton, '08.

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith announce
the marriage of their daughter Camilla
Elizabeth to Mr. Edward Eric Poor, Jr.,
at their home in Binghamton, N. Y., on
December 17th.

George F. Whicher is an instructor in
English in the University of Illinois.

1911

Dexter Wheelock, Secretary,
72A Willow Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Prentice Abbot, Jr.,
are spending the winter at 5 First Place,
Brooklyn. N. Y.

Thomas S. Cooke is employed in the
Whiting (Ind.) works of the Standard
Oil Co. of Indiana.

Frank P. Elder has been awarded a
$700 fellowship in chemistry at Colum-
bia University.

Robert H. George is completing his
work for the degree of Ph.D. at Harvard.
He will be married in April to Miss
Katherine Ames, Smith '11, of Newton,
Mass.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cyrus Straat
announce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Ruth Winnifred Straat
to Harold Watson Haldeman, son of
the Rev. I. M. Haldeman, of New York
City. Haldeman has recently received
his degree as electrical engineer from
Columbia University.

Harry Maynard, who was recently
married, is studying at the Yale Medical
School.

Charles B. Rugg is now chairman of
the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, with
offices at 744 Massachusetts Avenue,
Boston.

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Abbot, of
77 Lyndhurst Street, Dorchester, have
announced the engagement of their
daughter Dorothy to Leighton S.
Thompson.

Donnell B. Young, who is taking
graduate work at Columbia, has been
running with the Columbia track squad.
He won first place in both the 100 and
220 yard dashes in the interclass game
there on November 4th. On account
of the one year rule, he will not be
eligible to represent Columbia for
another year. However, he will be
of much assistance to Bernie Wefers in
coaching the Columbia quarter milers
and will probably join one of the city
athletic clubs.

1912

Beeman p. Sibley, Secretary,
639 West 49th Street, New York, N. Y.

C. F. Beatty is assistant superintend-
ent of the Wax Refinery of the Standard
Oil Co. of New York, at Blissville, L. I.
He is also studying civil engineering at
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.

W. F. Burt is assistant to the super-
intendent of the Kings County Works
of the Standard Oil Co. of New York at
Greenpoint, L. I. He is also studying
civil engineering at Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn.

D. F. Cass is assistant western man-
ager of the "Boot and Shoe Recorder."
A serial story of his is appearing in the
All-Story Magazine.

Herve Gordon de Chasseaud is in
London, England, with the Interna-
tional Banking Corporation of New
York, with offices at 36 Bishopsgate
Street, where he will royally welcome
any Amherst man passing through
Great Britain.

J. Z. Colton is manager of a cran-
berry bog at Shell Lake, Wis.

^Villiam Hallec's article, "WTiat
besides the Landscape.'* "which appeared
in the Quarterly last April, was re-
printed in the December number of the
Columbia University Quarterly.

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157

A. B. Peacock has resigned from the
city stafiF of the New York Sun and has
entered the advertising department of
the O'Sullivan Rubber Company, with
offices at 131 Hudson Street, New York
City.

Glen L. Sigel is now attending the
Harvard Medical School.

1913

Harold G. Allen is teaching at Milton
Academy.

Frank L. Babbott, Jr., is studying
medicine at Columbia.

Charles F. Bailey is in business in
Montpelier, Vt.

Raymond G. Barton is with Fox &
Co., clothiers, Hartford, Conn.

Kenneth B. Beckwith is with the New
Departure Manufacturing Company,
Bristol, Conn.

Chauncey Benedict is a laboratory
assistant at the Pratt Works, Brooklyn,
of the Standard Oil Co. of New York.
He is also studying civil engineering at
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Arthur H. Bond is studying civil engi-
neering at M. I. T.

Robert H. Browne is with the Musi-
cal Instrument Sales Co., New York
City.

Frederick L. Cadman is studying law
at Columbia.

Harold V. Caldwell is an instructor
in English at Ohio Wesleyan.

Louis G. Caldwell is studying law at
Northwestern University.

John L. Coates is with the Standard
Oil Co. of New York.

Samuel H. Cobb is studying medicine
at Cornell Medical School, New York
City.

Frank S. Collins is in the lumber busi-
ness with Barr & Collins, Oak Park, 111.

John W. Coxhead is in business with
the Larkin Company of Buffalo, N. Y.

Raymond W. Cross is with the Cross
Leather and Belting Co, of Rochester
NY.

John E. Farwell is studying at the
Harvard Law School.

Horatio G. Glen, Jr., is studying law
in his father's office in Albany, N. Y.

Paul F. Good is studying law in the
University of Nebraska. He has re-
cently obtained appointment as Rhodes
Scholar.

Wilton A. Hardy is with the Stand-
ard OU Co., New York City.

John M. Jaqueth is studying at the
Drew Theological Seminary.

John L. King is farming in Peacedale,
R. L

Herschel S. Konold is with the Lud-
low Mfg. Co., Ludlow, Mass.

Kenneth C. Lindsay is with Lindsay
Bros., makers of farm implements,
Milwaukee, Wis.

Henry S. Loomis is with the Library
Bureau, Boston.

Allison W. Marsh is in the Physical
Education department at Amherst.

Randolph S. Merrill is studying at
Union Theological Seminarj'.

W'alter W. Moore is in the sales de-
partment of the Cambria Steel Co.,
Johnstown, Pa.

Albert M. Morris is with Phelps
Dodge Copper Co., Douglas, Ariz.

George D. Olds, Jr., is with R. H.
Stearns and Co., Boston.

According to the official figures just
published, H. P. Partenheimer, who
played second base for the Syracuse
club last summer, was the best fielder
in the New York State League. He
played in 47 games, had 853 put-outs,
43 assists, and 8 errors, giving him a
percentage of 991. Partenheimer has
been appointed laboratory assistant in
chemistry at Amherst while doing grad-
uate work.

Herbert H. Pride is in the Mathe-

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matics department at Williston Semi-
nary.

Billiard A. Proctor is in the Stanley
Hardware Works, New Britain, Conn.

Perry A. Proudfoot is in the Rahway
(N. J.) chemical works.

Russell B. Rankin is with the New
England Casualty Co., New York City.

Emerson S. Searle is farming at
Hadley.

John W. Simpson is in the Harvard
Law School.

Winfield S. Slocum, Jr., is in the
Harvard Law School.

Walter W. Smith is head of the Physi-
cal Education department in the high
school in Uniontown, Pa.

Jack W. Steele is in the banking busi-
ness in Painesville, Ohio.

Frank P. Stelling is with the Stand-
ard Oil Co. of New York.

Lewis D. Stilwell is studying history
at Harvard.

Albert L. Stirn is representing his
father's silk factories in Paris.

Nelson Stone is studying at M. I. T.
Raymond W. Stone is farming in
Metamora, Mich.

John T. Storrs is studying law at
Columbia.

Robert I. Stout is in the banking busi-
ness in Omaha, Neb.

Erling A. Stubbs is with the Library
Bureau, Boston,

Hobart P. Swanton is studying law
at Columbia.

Miner W. Tuttle is with the Eastman
Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y.

Charles H. Wadhams is with the
Dispatch Lumber Co., East Rochester,
N. Y.

Ralph W. Westcott is with the Ameri-
can Screw Co., Chicago, 111.

Sanford P. Wilcox is studying busi-
ness law at Harvard.

Harry C. Wilder is in the hydraulic
machinery business with his father in
Malone, N. Y.

CALVIN ( OOLIDGE, Esq.
President of the Massachusetts Senate

CONTENTS

Page

Frontispiece: Portrait of Hon. Calvin Coolidge.

Facing 159

The College Window. — Editorial Notes 159

Of College Fenestration. — A Passing and a Return. —
Offensive College "Loyalty"

The Legislation of Sound Sense. Calvin Coolidge, '95 . . 171

The Span of Years. — In Arcady and After. Poetry.

W.A.Corbin,'9Q 174

The Buried Talent. Chilton L. Powell, '07 175

Deacon Stebbins Pleads for the Ghosts. Poem read at

the New York Alumni Banquet. Burges Johnson, '99 184

t^fje ^mfjergt SUugtrious;

Portrait of Julius H. Seelye. From photograph by Not-

man, 1880. Facing 188

Julius H. Seelye, Administrator and Teacher. William

Orr, '83 188

Clark, Silas Deane. A. D. Morse, '71 196

2tf)f tHntrergraliuatcs

Christian Effort and Expectation at Amherst. T. A.

Greene, '13 200

The Athletic Showing. E. M. Whitcomb 204

(Official anb ^ersional

The Trustees 206

The Alumni 207

The Classes 209

LIBRI SCRIPTI PERSONS

Hon Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait is given as frontispiece, and whose
inaugural speech as President of the Massachusetts Senate is the leading
article, is a resident of Northampton, a lawyer by profession, and has been
Mayor of Northampton and Member of the House of Representatives.

Mr. W. a. Corbin, who writes the poems " The Span of Years" and " In Arcady and
After," is professor of English literature in Wells College, Aurora, N. Y.

Mr. Chilton L. Powell, who writes the article on " The Buried Talent," is a
graduate student in Columbia University, New York.

Mr. Burges Johnson, whose poem, "Deacon Stebbins Pleads for the Ghosts,"
was read at the banquet of the New York Alumni, February 27, is literary
adviser in the publishing firm of E. P. Dutton and Co., New York.

Mr. William Orr, who writes the article on "Julius H. Seelye, Administrator and
Teacher," is Deputy State Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts.

Anson D. Morse, LL.D., who reviews Rev. George L. Clark's book on Silas Deane,
is Professor Emeritus of Historj' in Amherst College.

Mr. Theodore A. Greene, who writes on "Christian Effort and Expectation at
Amherst," is secretary of the Christian Association in Amherst College.

Mr. Ernest M. Whitcomb, who reports "The Athletic Showing," is \'ice-
president of the First National Bank in Amherst, and a member of the Alumni
Council of Amherst College.

iy^

THE AMHERST

GRADUATES' QUARTERLY

VOL. Ill— APRIL, 1914.— NO. 3

THE COLLEGE WINDOW.— EDITORIAL NOTES

IN the University of Virginia, which you know was founded
and planned down to its architectural details by Thomas
Jefferson, there is pointed out a window within which, a
few weeks before his death, the venerable statesman was seated
where he could watch the workmen as they set
Of College ^p^^ .^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ g^^j ^^g ^^ ^^^ beautiful Co-
rinthian capitals in the porch of the central Ro-
tunda. It was his last visit to the place on which he had expended
such thought and high hope. Curious it is, how a small incident
like this, recalled by some pertinent circumstance afterward, may
shape itself into a kind of parable. When many years later the
Rotunda was burned, that capital with its supporting shaft was
the only one that escaped unscathed; and the window through
which Jefferson looked, surrounded by restored work, remains
as it was when his university was coming into existence, — ^which
you know was just when Amherst College, with its ground newly
broken for Johnson Chapel, was waiting for its charter. The
remembered incident at Charlottesville, when the fire occurred,
at once acquired a local sacredness. It was as if the Presiding
Genius of the place, still spiritually present, were keeping faithful
watch and ward at the historic window, and as if the ideal which
brought the institution into being would in spite of destructive
influences keep its ancient principle intact.

It is because we feel at Amherst the presence of just such a
steadfast spirit, and would give it room and reach, that ever since
we started this Amherst Graduates' Quarterly the editorial
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stant heading, "The College Window." We have had in our
mind's eye some such station as that from which Jefferson watched
the growth of his design; and we would give the spirit there seated
the first say, the first chance of outlook and insight. Do not imag-
me that we have adopted this heading idly, or as a mere stage
flourish, like the "alarms and excursions" that figure in the old
plays. From the point of view of originality, indeed, it is perhaps
a little too reminiscent of Mr. A. C. Benson; but that is only be-
cause he had the ill grace to anticipate us, — you know how some
of the old writers, he who wrote Hamlet for instance, have a way
of stealing our best things. The College window is ours just the
same; our spiritual fenestration, so to say, for the free transmission
of light. No; I do not mean the window seat: that would be too
suggestive of smoke and sofa pillows, — something not for graduates
but for very soft and juvenile undergraduates, and not affording
the best view either within or without. Nor is it something to
look at merely from outside, as if it were a show or a landmark.
Some of us may recall how a poet, forgotten now but very popular
forty odd years ago, described it from a point somewhere near
Mount Warner: —

"And eastward still, upon the last green step
From which the Angel of the Morning Light
Leaps to the meadow lands, fair Amherst sat.
Capped by her many-windowed colleges. "

I suppose he saw our venerable dormitories and Johnson Chapel;
but he might have got much the same impression from a factory.
The windows were only features, and our College window was not
among them. Ours is a composite fenestration, the many gleam-
ing as one; and as it were diffusive, for each alumnus can look
through it where he is. And the steadfast spirit that keeps watch
and ward there is not some solitary editor but you and I, all of
us the graduates who in any way prize Amherst's welfare. The
editor who writes the notes is only a self-constituted spokesman,
trying to put into words the prospect that a view from the College
window yields.

Our College window is notable for the views it affords; views
equally good whether one is looking out or in. Windows are not
always built that way. Readers of the Biglow Papers will remem-

EDITORIAL NOTES 161

ber how Birdofredum Sawin found an edifice whose fenestration
was very different; "a kind o' vicyvarsy house" he called it,

" built dreffle strong and stout, . . .
An' with the winders so contrived, you'd prob'ly like the view
Better alookin' in than out, though it seems sing'Iar tu."

But you see, it was a prison, and he was inside, locked in; that
made the difference. Our reason for liking the inside view through
our window (for we like it too) is quite other : not because it looks
into a place of intellectual bondage or hebetude from which we are
free, but because it gives on a scene of vision and vigorous growth
in which we have shared, and with whose wholesome spirit we sym-
pathize. Sawin was thinking not of the view itself, which indeed
was unpleasant enough, but of the spectator, who was transferring
within his agreeable emotions at being outside. Our feelings
about the college are more like those of Jefferson at his window.
He sat within, and yet his regards were directed to a still deeper
inwardness; he was dreaming of the time, symbolized by the swing-
ing of that final capital into place, when his noble design would
be fully realized. He was planning alike for beauty and perma-
nence. Had he returned years later he might have seen the beau-
tiful carving on which his eye last rested still unscathed by the
hungry flame. And later still he might have seen, at the end of
the vista where had been open field, Stanford White's Adminis-
tration Building reverently true to his idea, yet with the improving
touch of modern artistry and scholarship. It is a parable for us.
There is a permanence of aim and principle in our inward view,
which we would guard and cherish in all changes; there is a growing
symmetry and beauty whose promise we would see made good in
every new design for Amherst's eflSciency and welfare. And as
graduates we are in the class with founders and builders; to us
it is given to create what we would see, because the Amherst
spirit has endowed us with eyes.

But it is not the view looking in that most concerns us, that
ultimately speaking concerns us at all. To look within is merely
introspection; its regards are bounded by a self -closed circle; and
introspection is essentially the same whether indulged in by the
individual anxious for the working-order of his soul or the college
anxious for the working-order of its curriculum. It, with the ad-

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justments that accompany it, is not an end but only a means to
an end; not therefore a thing to be worked for as a supreme object
but to be taken for granted and, so to say, primed and aimed for
action. The prescribed college methods, the systems of recitations
and lectures and marks and prizes, nay the merely disciplinary
studies, necessary as they are, belong to the inward-looking view;
and you know that such a prospect does not amount to much
unless the light inside is brighter than the one without. What
really concerns us, however, is the view looking from within out-
wards; wherein the light that floods the window reveals the
pageant of the world, the joys of creative thought, the values of
well-employed life. Here we are brought, as we so often are, to
one of the main factors in the new educational movement. Edu-
cators are discovering that in learning as in morals to seek your
life is to lose it. The self-regardful traits and trainings of college
life, — in other words the activities belonging to the introspective
look, — get only as far as the self; and they are good just so far
as they build and beautify a self better fitted for the nobler uses
of the world, and in that function they have their indispensable
place. But it is the self-effacing love of truths the disinterested
loyalty to the light of learning — in other words, the availing
ourselves of the rich and varied landscape of life as we look from
within outwards, — that gives our college fenestration its worthy
design, its dignity, its glory. It is to promote this larger out-
look, and from the outset of the college career to deepen the
student mind to understand and appropriate it, that a new pro-
fessorship has been founded, and a careful reconstruction of the
curriculum is being weighed and studied. We await the results
with sympathy and hope.

When I try to think who are stationed at the window to get
this view of the landscape of life and interpret it, my thoughts
cannot stop with the professors who are here teaching or with the
students who are making discoveries. I think of our alumni
who are in other institutions, doing such work as we are doing here;
of our specialist scholars who are scrutinizing some part of the
landscape more closely; of our professional men and men of business
who all over the land are making their insight and outlook available
in active and practical ways. WTi^" — to use the current phrase — •

EDITORIAL NOTES 163

it is up to US, all of us, to enrich the view from this College window;
no one is exempt. Then my thoughts revert to that day of fire
in the University of Virginia, when it seemed as if the Guardian
Spirit of the place were keeping watch over that element of
strength and beauty which had been put in position under his
direction, keeping it from scathe and change. We have such a
heritage to keep ; it survives in the composite view we have formed
of life and its issues, and in the wholesome spirit of Amherst. And
what we are to guard against is just what the old Biblical writer
warned young men to escape by securing the better part early,
lest they drift into that hardened, disillusioned, senile condition
where "those that look out at the windows be darkened."

MULVANEY is dead— I think," Mr. KipHng repHed in
a reminiscent meditative tone to an American reporter
a few weeks ago. It was in answer to an inquiry in
which the reporter intimated that the readers of Kipling, while
. they did not care to meet again the complete

and a Return ^^^ rounded characters of fiction like Huckle-
berry Finn or Henry Esmond, were very desir-
ous of hearing more from the redoubtable Irish private — "a corp'ril
wanst but rejuced" — Terence Mulvaney. It seems a pity that so
long as his creator is alive one who comes so near being a modern
D'Artagnan should become a mere twice-told tale. " No, he cannot
come back, " Mr. Kipling continued, however, after a few seconds
pause. "It won't do, you know. A character is born in your
thoughts, and grows and is developed, and takes on virtues and
vices, and becomes old, and then — well, just fades away, I take it.
And that is the way with Mulvaney. I couldn't revive him — I
could only galvanize him. He would be a stuffed figure with
straw for bowels, and glass balls for eyes, and the people could
see the strings I pulled him with. No, he is gone. "

That the literary favorite of yesterday should cease to be so
inspiring or convincing today is a fact too commonplace to be
moralized upon; it is not for this that I here take note of the pass-
ing of Mulvaney. Nor is to intimate that for a college generation
whose chief reading, as a student recently informed me, is Kipling
and O. Henry, it is time to revise their reading list and get a new

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preference. They will do that soon enough; there is a kind of
peristaltic movement in the time which attends to that, whether
we approve or object. And indeed it is of this peristaltic advance
of thought and sentiment, especially as regards the real values of
life, that the reported death of Mulvaney leads me to speak.
Mulvaney may be taken as a matured symbol of this movement,
and perhaps as a sign that it is ready to pass. From our college
window we whose age has given us some breadth of horizon have
observed the progress of it for years, not always without misgiv-
ing; for we have seen successive generations of young men growing
apparently more indifferent to religious matters, or even sharply
critical of them, while the fancy of the time has so lightly turned,
lured by the enticing art of fiction, to thoughts of the booze and
profanity and daredevilry which so characterized Mulvaney and
his mates. The sight of it has caused many pangs in parents and
pastors; many fears for the generation coming on the stage.
What is the future of religion to be? It is a far cry from the days
when President Seelye taught the Westminster catechism; and
since then there has been so much that was equivocal in relig-
ious thinking and practice that it is hard for men of the older
school to know, as the phrase is, "where we are at." The move-
ment of things has been so uniformly away from the austere and
dogmatic, and has dealt so tolerantly, not to say hankeringly, with
the untamed passions and appetites of men, that we seem to be
wellnigh at the opposite pole from the W'estminster confession.
It cannot come back, one feels sure. But — as his creator reports
— neither can Mulvaney come back; the big Irishman has done
the worst and the best that it was in him to do, and what we get
from him now we must get by memory. If he represents the end
of a tether in the dubious and equivocal direction, then it would
seem the next thing in order is some kind of return, some clearer
definition of real values. And there are not wanting those who feel
that such return is well on the way, is perhaps nearer than we
have been inclined to think. Nay, I am not sure we should figure
it as a return at all, but rather, when it comes, as a revealing stage
in that peristaltic movement of which I spoke, — a movement in
which the worthy has kept pace with the equivocal, though rela-
tively unfelt, until death reveals it. We need only go to Mul-
vaney himself and his ilk to assure ourselves of this.

EDITORIAL NOTES 165

It does not take a very long memory to recall the naughty but
delightful sense of theological audacity that greeted John Hay's
poem of "Little Breeches," which in a subheading he character-
ized as "A Pike County View of Special Providence." The senti-
ment of the poem is as crude as it can be; it was so meant; for
it portrays a rough and untutored mind brought into primal con-
tact with a sacred idea, and makes it the source of a genuine
though very rudimental article of faith. Another poem of Hay's,
"Jim Bludso, " makes a steamboat captain whose life is laden
with profanity and vice deliberately sacrifice his life to save the
passengers on his burning boat, and thus brings into common and
coarse personality an act of Christlike heroism. Such motifs as
these, in the forty odd years since the Pike County Ballads were
published, have had an extraordinary vogue and vitality; have
become so much a matter of course indeed that literature is per-
meated with them. To begin with they had a double object.
One, their unassumed object, was to bring essentially religious
values into the ordinary and unconventional affairs of life, making
them avail in the classes of men who had been numbered among
the reprobate. The other, in which their authors took a some-
what unholy delight, was to administer a shock to the smugly
virtuous and pious, who had monopolized the sanctions of religion,
and thus to rob religion of its holy pose and tone. It was this
second object that specially took the favor and fancy of readers.
It made the religious impulse unconventional, and gave what
men dearly love, a spice of depravity to it. Since then it is not
too much to say human nature and experience have been ran-
sacked to find this disguised religious motif operative, or as we
may say to find a soul of goodness in things evil; it has been per-
haps the leading sentiment in serious literature. No life has been
deemed too humble or reckless or coarse or wicked to have some
redeeming feature, however small: the mines, the lumber camps,
the cowboy ranches, the slums, the barrack rooms, have all been
requisitioned to furnish their quotas in revealing ennobling traits
of human nature. At the same time the reaction against the
saintly and pious has not lapsed but deepened. The man who lets
his religion show in overt expression and dogma has been taboo.
The verve, the romance, the tang of literature has been lavished
on the equivocal side of character; the daredevil has been made

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the interesting man; until it has come about that heedless readers,
many of them, associate religion only with hypocrisy and secret
fraud, and assume that genuineness of character can coexist only
with some picturesque form of "cussedness." A strange sort of
irony has thus crept into young men's estimate of life; a sort of
inverted hypocrisy, which, while secretly loyal to the good, puts
on the tolerance and swagger of evil. There is nobility in its
motive; but this sentiment against professing or divulging religion
may become a sort of spiritual disease; and needless to say, like all
diseases, it lowers the inner vitality. One can only hope that the
analogy of some bodily diseases will hold good, — that when the
perverse sentiment has run its course it will have operated to
cleanse the system.

Or this conversance with the equivocal elements of character
and reaction against the saintly and sacred, Kipling, by reason of
his commanding literary gifts, has long been a very influential
representative; and no character of his more clearly reflects it
than the hero of the Indian military cantonments, the ever reck-
less and thirsty Mulvaney. That is why we take the report of
his death as an event in literary history. He has reached the
point where he has nothing more to give us; his audacities have
worked their results, and have left his virtues ready to work theirs.
We cannot expect him to go out in a blaze of stage glory, as did
his prototype D'Artagnan. "The last mental picture I had of
him," said Mr. Kipling, "was on the edge of a cut in India, where
he was directing a gang of coolies building a railroad extension.
There is no doubt that he was a bit seedy and down at heel."
But it is not for the nemesis of his seediness that we cherish his
memory; neither is it, on the other hand, for his taking of Lung-
tungpen or his incarnation of Krishna. These are of the surface,
and there is something deeper. With every one of his escapades
there emerges some element of a sterling personality, some throb
of a true and loyal heart, some act of support and helpfulness for
men who almost owe themselves to his great sacrificing nature.
He has in him the elements of essential religion, essential Chris-
tianity. I am an admirer of Mulvaney, you see. And so I do not
mind what his creator says about his passing; for there is that in
him which does not die. It is only the ironies, the futihties, the

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cross-currents of his life that have died; and connected even with
these there is a mystery of resurrection, so that the equivocal in
him ceases to be equivocal. In a true sense we may say of him,
in the words of the Shakespearean song, —

"Nothing of him that doth fade.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange."

In other words, as we think of him in the nil nisi bonum spirit
that belongs to the dead, our regards return from the equivocal,
the perverse, the ironical estimate of inner things to the straight
values of life, and we are not ashamed to own them. That is the
real reason why so many of Kipling's readers want to hear more
about Mulvaney,

From our College window we can see this movement of return
on the way, as we look both without and within. It is coming
not by propaganda or by any disposition to force matters, but by
a silent understanding, a taking of Christian values for granted.
Professor Taft, when here, speaking in a private conversation of
the delight he had in resuming touch with college life after so many
years of separation from it, remarked that he found the students
of this generation much more moral than were the students of his;
this he could say, though there were other traits and customs not
so good as in his day. This may be a token; another, one feels
sure, is the evident increase of interest in religious thought, as
shown in the eager response to Professor Shotwell's lectures, and the
general quickening and deepening of serious inquiry. I am noting
this here as a primal aspect of a larger movement, namely, the aspect
of return: we may call it the return of respect for religion. To this
we must look as a first stage in the larger advance. Young men,
I think, are coming to see that not only the scapegrace and dare-
devil but the commonplace respectable man may be religiously
sincere and sterling; and obversely, that a profession of religion is
not necessarily a cover for hypocrisy, nor necessarily a piece of
outworn cant. In other words, they are learning to identify
religious values with the values of common life, and Christianity
with brotherhood and with social community of interests. It is a
return from the irony of being good and pretending to be bad to
the recognition of straight values, and the enlarging of these to the

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tolerance of the saint as well as the sinner, the man who has held
the faith as well as the man who has made the dubious detour of
ignorance and doubt. Of course the lesson is not all learned, and
the angels of the return will have to do without wings for a while
yet; but then, this is an earth fitted for other means of locomotion,
and time will not be lost if the new generation, emerging to a new
element, is sincerely engaged, like Milton's lion, "pawing to get
free his hinder parts." There is much yet to do, in thought and
will, to disentangle the ec[uivocal from the clear. But Mulvaney
can never more be, in men's imaginations, the mere tough that
he was; he himseK has blazed the way to finer things.

AT the suggestion of a much-esteemed graduate we reprint
here the following editorial article from the New York
Evening Post of Saturday, March 7; and as you read it
you will see that the only apologj^ needed for doing so is the apology
^~ . of appreciation. We would not be understood to

„ .. intimate that its animadversions fit Amherst; we

"T 1*- " ^^^^ quite sure they do not; they simply fit whom
they fit, and to select the example is the affair of
the reader. You will please consider the rest of this editorial
note, including the heading, as enclosed in quotation marks.

The reasons why a man should have a feeling of gratitude, or
even devotion, to his college are so plain that they do not need to
be stated. To put it on the lowest ground, he is a beneficiary of
the institution in which he was educated. What he got was fur-
nished to him at less than cost. The opportunities which he en-
joyed represented charity, and possibly sacrifice, on the part of
those who endowed his college; or else a free gift from the State.
To be insensible to all this would argue him an ingrate. It is no
particular credit to a graduate to be what is called "loyal" to his
Alma Mater. The virtue, if it be a virtue at all, belongs to the
negative class. To display it is no merit, though to be without it
would be a disgrace.

In a true and just sense, also, a college man should cherish grate-
ful remembrance of his teachers. They did their best for him
ungrudgingly, often, as he is compelled to admit on later reflection,
having to work on most unpromising and refractory material. In

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opeDing his mind and enlightening his ignorance, they did him as
great a service as it of tens falls to one man to receive from another.
Not to have a proper sentiment in return for all this would be most
unworthy. Something of this must have been in Herder's mind
when he said that a scholar who attacks his teacher, "bears Neme-
sis on his back and the sign of reprobation on his forehead." All
right-minded college men agree to that. In this and many other
significations of the word "loyalty" that might be mentioned, they
fully concede and act upon their duty to be loyal to their college.

There are, however, certain extensions or perversions of the
idea which they balk at and resent. One of the worst of them is
the fantastic notion of college "loyalty" which has grown up in
connection with undergraduate athletics. It has often been
exposed. The Headmaster of Phillips Andover recently wrote
about it in the Atlantic with both wonder and severe condemna-
tion. How does it come about that a set of ordinarily decent and
manly and honorable young fellows apply an utterly false and
indefensible moral standard to athletics? How is it that they will
condone and even applaud trickery, wink at cheating, and keep
silent in the presence of manifest falsehood? Why, it is because
they are bidden to do so in a spirit of intense loyalty to their school
or college. And, of course, the thing spreads into graduate life.
An alumnus is looked upon as a poor creature who will not go and
cheer himself into a frenzy, and chill himself into a rheumatism or
a fever, at one of the "big games."

Upon another strange form of graduate college loyalty we feel
bound to say a word. Every alumni association must know the
type of man we mean. He is the graduate, of anywhere from five
to twenty -five years' standing, who makes himself a perpetual
nuisance and offence through excess of what he calls "loyalty."
In his case, it moves him to be forever babbling about the "dear
old college," or else calling upon everybody he meets to yell for the
class of 1890. He infests college reunions, clapping strangers on the
back and putting his arms about college mates, and shouting that
he never can forget the time when Jones made a hit with the bases
full. At every college dinner he gets tremendously effusive, as
a result either of drink or a rush of sappiness to the head, and

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makes a speech declaring that if he could only let you see his heart
you would see that all his blood ran blue, or white and green, or
orange and black, as the case may be. This terrible college loy-
alist is the getter-up of all kinds of uncouth and impossible alumni
" movements." He is all the time proposing new funds, or passing
around subscription-blanks, or writing impudent letters to people
whom he does not know demanding that they join his particular
organization, or send him a thumping contribution, all for the
greater glory of the college to which he is so insufferably loyal.

He is ordinarily so dull and thickskinned, this type of graduate,
that it is almost hopeless to seek to wake him to his folly, or make
him see how offensive he renders himself to his fellow-alumni.
But if any word of ours could penetrate the dark of his intellect
and his sensibility, we could wish that it might rouse him to per-
ceive that a man who has nothing to brag of but his college degree
has a poor excuse for boasting. If he learned anything worth
while during his college course, he should have learned not to be-
have like a bounder; and if he has not learned anything since — as
he usually makes it too plain that he has not — he ought somehow to
be made to feel that his insistent and protesting identification of
himself and all his interests with the college through which he
somehow scrambled, is not the highest compliment to his Alma
Mater. There was a time in this country when the name Loyal-
ists meant something hateful. Such some forms of loud-sounding
loyalty might easily become.

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THE LEGISLATION OF SOUND SENSE

CALVIN COOLIDGE

[On the 7th of January, 1914, Mr. Coolidge was elected President of the Massa-
chusetts Senate, and on taking the chair delivered the following address. At the
suggestion of some of his fellow alumni, who sent the copy from New York, but
with his permission obtained later, the address, so compact of wisdom, so true to the
spirit of Amherst, is herewith printed. — Ed.]

HONORABLE SENATORS: — I thank you — ^with gratitude for
the high honor given, with appreciation for the solemn
obligations assumed — I thank you.

This Commonwealth is one. We are all members of one body.
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful
are inseparably bound together. Industry cannot flourish if labor
languish. Transportation cannot prosper if manufactures decline.
The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is
well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and
the neglect of one is the neglect of all. The suspension of one man's
dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws
must be justified by something more than the will of the majority.
They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That
state is most fortunate in its form of government, which has the
aptest instruments for the discovery of laws. The latest, most
modern, and nearest perfect system, that statesmanship has devised,
is representative government. Its weakness is the weakness of us
imperfect human beings who administer it. Its strength is that
even such administration secures to the people more blessings than
any other system ever produced. No nation has discarded it and
retained liberty. Representative government must be preserved.

Courts are established not to determine the popularity of a cause,
but to adjudicate and enforce rights. No litigant should be required
to submit his case to the hazard and expense of a political campaign.
No judge should be required to seek or receive political rewards.
The courts of Massachusetts are known and honored wherever men
love justice. Let their glory suffer no diminution at our hands.

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The electorate and judiciary cannot combine. A hearing means a
hearing. When the trial of causes goes outside the courtroom
Anglo-Saxon constitutional government ends.

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. In-
dustry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Gov-
ernment cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for
the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and
recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for them-
selves. Self-government means self-support.

Man is born into the universe with a personality that is his own.
He has a right that is founded upon the Constitution of the universe
to have property that is his own. Ultimately, property rights and
personal rights are the same thing. The one cannot be preserved
if the other be violated. Each man is entitled to his rights and the
rewards of his service be they never so large or never so small.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there were not
a highly educated class, and large aggregations of wealth, repre-
sented usually by the clergy and the nobility. Inspiration has
always come from above. Diffusion of learning has come down
from the university to the common school — the kindergarten is last.
No one would now expect to aid the common school by abolishing
higher education.

It may be that the diffusion of wealth works in an analogous way.
As the little red schoolhouse is builded in the college, it may be that
the fostering and protection of large aggregations of wealth are the
only foundation on which to build the prosperity of the whole
people. Large profits mean large pay rolls. But profits must be
the result of service performed. In no land are there so many and
such large aggregations of wealth as here; in no land do they per-
form larger service; and in no land will the work of a day bring so
large a reward in material and spiritual welfare.

Have faith in Massachusetts. In some unimportant detail some
other states may surpass her, but in the general results, there is no
place on earth where the people secure, in a larger measure, the
blessings of organized government, and nowhere can those func-
tions more properly be termed self-government.

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak,
whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation bet-
ter to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect

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to be called a stand patter, but don't be a stand patter. Expect to
be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate
to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reaction-
ary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak
by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give ad-
ministration a chance to catch up with legislation.

We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people, — a faith
that men desire to do right, that the Commonwealth is founded
upon a righteousness which will endure, a reconsecrated faith that
the final approval of the people is given not to demagogues, slavishly
pandering to their selfishness, merchandizing with the clamor of
the hour, but to statesmen, ministering to their welfare, represent-
ing their deep, silent, abiding convictions.

Statutes must appeal to more than material welfare. Wages
won't satisfy, be they never so large; nor houses, nor lands, nor
coupons, though they fall thick as the leaves of autumn. Man has
a spiritual nature. Touch it, and it must respond as the magnet
responds to the pole. To that, not to selfishness, let the laws of the
Commonwealth appeal. Recognize the immortal worth and dig-
nity of man. Let the laws of Massachusetts proclaim to her hum-
blest citizen, performing the most menial task, the recognition of
his manhood, the recognition that all men are peers, the humblest
with the most exalted, the recognition that all work is glorified.
Such is the path to equality before the law. Such is the founda-
tion of liberty under the law. Such is the sublime revelation of
man's relation to man — Democracy.

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THE SPAN OF YEARS

W. L. CORBIN

THE joy of living, best of all our joys ! — ■
To rove amid the beauty of the hills
And hear the melodies of earth and sky,
To battle in the mart of loss and gain,
To stand, if need, against the world for right,
To pause, companioned by the master thoughts
Whose power has shaped the course of centuries.
To lay us down with poets and with kings,
While the same stars keep watch above our sleep.
And dream great dreams that spring to deeds at dawn,
To toil and hope and love until the last; —
O God, we thank Thee for the little span
Of years between our two eternities.

IN ARCADY AND AFTER

I picked you a rose in Arcady

As I came musing along the lea.

I thought it the fairest flower that blows,

But you in your blindness put it by,

And let it die, and let it die.

I framed you a song in Arcady

As I came piping along the lea.

I thought it the sweetest song that lives.

But you in your deafness turned your ear.

And would not hear, and would not hear.

I shaped you a heart in Arcady

As I came laughing along the lea.

I thought it the truest heart that beats.

But you in your cruelty let it plead.

And paid no heed, and paid no heed.

Alas! no longer in Arcady
Do I go dreaming along the lea —
And now my rose has thorns, my song
Is sad, and my heart wears a pall.
But you in your sorrow love them all.

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THE BURIED TALENT

CHILTON L. POWELL

THE boy who journeys from home to college immediately be-
comes an object of interest to all who are associated with
him or his family. He is a man gone on a quest, a knight
enlisted upon a crusade, an argosy put to sea; and his return is
watched for by his own circle as Arthur's court watched for Sir
Galahad, as the people of England watched for Richard their king,
as the Venetian merchant together with his friends and his enemies
watched for the return of his argosies.

"Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth.
The better part of my affections would
Be with my hopes abroad."

And when the boy comes home at last, there is happiness and con-
gratulation. Even the most casual acquaintance marks him as he
passes, stops him to ask "how goes it," and later reports to the
neighbors that the Robinson boy is getting to be a fine strapping
fellow, as if they were all having a hand in his development. The
partner of Robinson senior, having met the boy at the office, goes
home in the evening, greets his wife in a way that makes her think
that the firm has put through another successful deal, and informs
her that "Mary's boy" is home from college for the holidays.
"Yes, very much improved, as far as I can see."

At the Robinson home the family gathers about to ask questions,
to tell the news, to discuss plans, to pick up the threads of the old
life together, and to find again the little circle complete, with him
who was lost restored to his place. It is a happy time, but under-
neath the surface of the friendly gossip and laughter the boy is
aware of a current of seriousness, of unexpressed thought and feeling,
which seems to center about him. In his little brother's touch,
like that of a doubting Thomas, in the furtive glance of his sister,
who seems not quite sure whether or not to approve his college-cut
clothes, in the kindly but searching questions of his father, who
seeks for signs of mental development, of increased breadth of view

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and scope of vision, and in his mother's Hstening silence, broken
now and then with a word or two, he feels that he is being examined
as never before and that an inventory is being taken by one and all
of the changes in him for good and evil. When the first gathering
is over and family or friends have scattered, and the "fine strapping
fellow" with the stamp of the college upon him is just Mary's boy
again, she, his mother, — as will at another time a serious-minded
father or sister or brother or a loving friend, — she talks quietly to
him and probes gently to discover what feelings are his, what ideals
he cherishes, what god or gods he worships; to learn in short whether
those things are still his which she taught him at her own knee,
whether he returns to her with the same character of sweetness and
light for which he has been known as her boy. Most mothers know
better than to look for an increased brightness of that light, and are
content if only the flame has not been extinguished altogether by
the storms they are taught to believe blow about the College
campus.

The three attitudes suggested here represent the three lines of
development that a boy is expected to obtain from the college. The
many look for the development of his body; his own circle is inter-
ested as a whole in the development of his mind ; and the few, those
who know him best and hold him dearest, are concerned with what
things he has in his heart. It is not my wish to discuss the relativ^e
importance of these three sides of the student's life and work at
Amherst. Surely, with the emphasis laid upon athletics by the
students, with the excellence of their management, and with the
splendid new field now in preparation, the physical side will be
seen to be taken care of; and since the recent renaissance of the
"enterprise of learning, " with the new President, new courses, and
new ideas, together with the best of the old, it is equally certain that
the mental side is receiving due attention from those who have the
chief purpose of the college in their hands. It is my wish, then, to
draw attention to the third side of the student's development, to
speak for a moment, in the midst of athletic victories and scholarly
achievement, of the things of the heart, which are largely emotional,
things esthetic, things rehgious in the broad sense, things having
to do with friendship, with love, with faith, with aspiration; —

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"All, the world's coarse thumb

And finger failed to plumb.
So passed in making up the main account;

All instincts immature,

All purposes unsure.
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount:

Thoughts hardly to be packed

Into a narrow act.
Fancies that broke through language and escaped;

All I could never be.

All, men ignored in me.

This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped."

These are the things — though the world may not see them, and the
business man from whom the college graduate seeks a position cares
not for them — which are the beginnings of the boy's inner life; and
whether or not it be the function of the college curriculum to meet
them, their life, growth, or death is, for the average boy, largely in
the power of his college environment.

So let us stop to look at Mary's boy as he approaches the college
on the hill, and let us consider the things that he will find there,
which will either feed bright the light he carries with him from his
home or will cloud or quench it perhaps forever. Unless he has
attended boarding school, in which case the crisis is less great but
still existent, this inner life, which Arnold has called the sweetness
and light of character, is still in its infancy, for it has been kindled
in the sympathetic atmosphere of the home or in the circle of a few
friends. It is still, comparatively speaking, a secret, a guarded
treasure, now amid strange scenes and faces to be communed with,
for a time at least, in solitude. And yet the boy is not by nature a
recluse; he longs for companionship both of the outward and of the
closer nature; his heart is ready to receive whatever is worthy of
admission to it. Later he may recognize that the main function
peculiar to college life is the pursuit of wisdom; but for the moment
the by-product, the gratification and development of his character
in its subtlest and most essential aspects, is the all-important goal
towards which he so wistfully aspires. Yet he is afraid. Physi-
cally he has no great fear, even in the days of hazing he had none;
mentally he believes he can hold his own; morally he is confident;
but for the rest, "the simple creed of childhood, " —

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"High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised;" —

for these he fears, because they are the things which he knows the
world's coarse thumb and finger fail to plumb. And in this spirit,
of confidence, hope, and fear, he picks up his suitcase, and drops
off the car at College Hall.

Only those of us who have left college, and have thought over all
it might have been to us had we only entered with our present wis-
dom, and have returned since to verify these later day feelings,-T-
only such of us realize fully what opportunities and influences
Amherst College offers for the development of even the innermost
hopes and ambitions of the entering freshman. It is not neces-
say for me to try to mention all of these influences now, as I wish
to speak of only one. I shall therefore dismiss the others, both
because they lie outside of my particular interest and because their
influence is too obvious to need discussion. Let me dismiss, then,
the influence of the scenery, obvious because it is great, although
few but the returning alumni recognize its full potentiality; let me
dismiss the obvious influence of curriculum and faculty, for both
the classroom and the faculty homes meet the personal and inti-
mate need of the students as far as is practicable; and let me
dismiss finally what is at present perhaps the most powerful per-
sonal influence, the typical man-to-man friendship between two
students of congenial natures, for surely this needs no exposition,
nor is it peculiar to college life, as David and Jonathan, Damon
and Pythias, will prove for us. There remains, then, for our con-
sideration the influence of the student body as a whole, that body
which is the life, the pulse, the raison d'etre, of the entire machine,
that strange, generally light-hearted, often fickle, always human
collection of individuals, which is found entirely unified in spirit
into one harmonious whole only on the athletic field. But what
power is there, breaking forth into a "long Amherst " for the team!
And the idealist dreams of the day when that power which sends
that cheer echoing among the reverberate hills will be a power
also for learning, for culture, for morality, for even

"All, the world's coarse thumb
And finger failed to plumb."

But let us leave generalities, and since the college as yet does not
possess a common spirit for things so subtle and fine, let us look at

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that one institution, existing ir the student body and partaking of
the force exerted by it, which by its nature is best fitted to make for
increased refinement, increased sympathy , increased appreciation, —
in short, for culture in the highest sense. At the same time let us
not forget that this is not the only influence, though it should be the
greatest, for we have already dismissed from our discussion influ-
ences sufficient in themselves to enable the student who fully avails
himself of them to keep alive that inner light for whose kindling his
family and friends have given freely of their dearest and best.

Before leaving these influences altogether, however, may I pause
to point out how much greater they would be if they were more
thoroughly and consistently supported by the students, if these in-
fluences could become an essential element in college spirit. That
a certain amount of this esthetic or finer spirit does exist is evidenced
by the universal response to anything of manifest beauty or worth,
as for example, the new fraternity houses, the view from behind the
church, the characters of certain men among students and faculty,
or the courses of recognized merit. The power of this spirit of pub-
Kc opinion is perhaps best seen in the attitude of students at their
very entrance to their courses. Wliat a difference in the attitude of
the class which has elected a course because "the fellows" recom-
mend it, and that of the class in a course required by vote of the
faculty ! Just suppose that the football-field spirit could be brought
in to support the enterprise of learning as a single conception;
suppose the boy who declared his intention of "going out for"
scholarly honors received the same backing of public opinion as he
who declares himself a candidate for an athletic team. Then Presi-
dent Meiklejohn would find no cause to remark, as he did in his
baccalaureate sermon, that class-room work often fails to disturb
the student's lethargy; he would find instead that the average
student was like that other one he described, "who is earnest about
the things of the mind, whose eyes flash at a fallacy, whose lips
tremble at a discovery, whose jaws are set in the face of a problem."
Or again, suppose that this great spirit of the college, the entire
pubhc opinion of that little kingdom unto itself, gave its support to
cultivate and honor things esthetic — "whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what-
soever things are of good report," — then indeed would there be, in
the college at least, what once a year we try to attain in the world
— peace on earth, good-will to men.

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But this condition is visionary, it is impossible; and the reason
lies in the fact that the things making for it are things of the heart,
which as yet we are reluctant, except at Christmas time perhaps,
to cry from the housetop or even to shout across the campus.
But although the goal is Utopian, is not a nearer approach to
it possible and worth while? And here we again return to ask by
what means, and in reply to consider that agent, hinted at above,
which in its conception as a servant of the college body is the ideal
influence towards the development of the spirit I am urging, and
which in its actual workings might have a great and lasting power,
had it not, like that other slothful and selfish servant, buried its
talent in a napkin, where it lies unused until commanded by its
original owner.

This institution, the servant of the college body, as I have called
it, is the fraternity. The fraternity is, or should be, a brotherhood,
a family, a home. Numbering about twenty-five, it should possess
not only the seclusion and protection that a shy or sensitive boy
needs for the fostering of the finer things of his nature, but also
sufficient strength to engender within itself an atmosphere, a spirit,
a force, comparable in strength to that of the student body, if not
indeed equal to it. An out-of-town professor visiting Amherst,
who was not altogether familiar with the fraternity idea, remarked
to a friend who was objecting to their influence, "But think what
a force we have here, if it should ever get started in the right direct-
ion." Whatever may have been in the professor's mind, certainly
all fraternity men must admit that by its very name, and by the
ideals it claims to stand for, the "right direction" for a fraternity
is toward those things which are essential to real friendship, to true
sympathy, to sincere brotherhood, all of which make for the devel-
opment of a character of sweetness and light.

And now we return to our freshman whom we left on the thresh-
old of his new hfe, in which the college is to be his world, and the
fraternity is to be his family and his home. The first two or three
days are unimportant to our investigation. The boy gets settled
in his dormitory to a certain extent, exchanges greetings with a few
of his classmates, or those he takes for his classmates, is con-
ducted hither and yon by he knows not how many fraternities,
and is finally pledged to one. The world now looks bright and
comfortable to him; his mates seem interested in him, they help

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him -vvith his schedule, they inquire how he hkes his courses,
they make themselves generally companionable; and all this
they do not so much because they are individually concerned
about him as because the spirit of brotherhood and brotherly
kindness is in the sir, because the fraternity is for a time unified
and harmonized by a common interest in its freshmen. Under
this truly fraternal influence, the newcomer, green and timid,
begins to feel at home, to expand, and to take his new found
acquaintances to his heart. Soon comes his initiation when he is
made a "brother in the bonds" and gets his first real thrill in
exchanging the fraternity grip with those who seem now almost
of his flesh and blood. Then follows the banquet in the honor
of his delegation, after which, elevated and inspired by the older
men who have come back to talk to him, he returns to his room
in solitude to lie awake far into the night dreaming dreams and see-
ing visions.

Dreams and visions they are too, as he will learn. Yet with
what ease might the fraternity make them come true ! We have
all been freshmen, and we know that these dreams of our fra-
ternity did not involve the impossible; after all, they presented in
one way or another, only a family of "brothers," whose relationship
we thought of without the quotation marks. For a moment our
freshman saw friends all about him; there was earnestness in the
speeches, there was sincerity in the songs, there was real fraternity
in the goodnight clasp of hands, and heart spoke to heart, unfalter-
ing and unashamed, for the spirit of sincere brotherhood was
kindled in all. May he drink it in to his fullest extent; for in
all probability never again will the mere thought of brotherhood
cause him to glow and thrill as on that first night, when he faced
his fraternity, his heart trembling, as it will tremble before the
world many times yet, with love and fear.

It is, of course, natural that a freshman's initiation should be
the greatest experience of his fraternity life; it is impossible for
the emotional stimulus there received to be repeated frequently
with equal power; but it is not natural and it is not right that
his fraternity should thenceforth leave him alone to work out his
own mental and spiritual salvation amid the new and strange
elements of his college life. It is this desertion that I deplore,
a desertion which results in a lack of any continual and unified

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brotherly spirit, constantly making for the development of those
finer qualities which we all know are the essential breath and spirit
of our characters. Such friendship and such inspiration is the chief,
if not the only, justification of the existence of fraternities at Am-
herst, for every other influence may be found on the campus at
large. Only the sweeter and finer things need a refined and re-
stricted atmosphere for early growi^h, and this the fraternity should
supply, together with the constant opportunity within its own
shrine for the practice and development of those things. For just
as the things of the intellect are increased and strengthened by
reason and thought, so are the things of the heart formulated and
matured by conversance with whatever pertains thereto, and prac-
tice is as necessary to perfect the one group as the other.

Yet, how often does the fraternity as a whole meet for the prac-
tice and cultivation of such things, for indulgence in the only con-
tributory factor it has to make to the life of the college? In my
experience at Amlierst, I can say that with the exception of initia-
tion banquets, not once did my fraternity hold such a meeting; nor
did I ever hear of any held elsewhere. I will, for the sake of an
example of the kind of meeting I refer to, instance one evening,
when a handful of us who had been out in the hills together, gath-
ered around the open fire to listen to the reading by one of the upper
classmen of some of Poe's stories. How simple, how natural, how
easily accomplished, such an experience is; and yet for a freshman — •
or for anyone else — especially if he is young or susceptible to in-
fluence, how inspiring it might be! To "sit awhile and think"
among men older and wiser, to bear them talk seriously and kindly
of life, of things beautiful and worth while, to catch a glimpse of
their inner selves, to look forward to life beyond the cloistered walls,

"AU instincts immature
All purposes unsure," —

what might not such an evening mean to a growing boy on the
threshold of manhood! And what a splendid thing for the older
men themselves and for the fraternity and for the college — the act-
ual assumption by the upper classmen of the responsibility'' of broth-
erhood! Of course, this kind of gathering is known to special
groups, to small handfuls, and most of all to twos and threes; but
how much greater momentum and influence might be obtained if

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it were adopted by a body large enough to win for it the prestige
and importance of public opinion and the stimulus and force of
college spirit. The fraternity is obviously the ideal organization
for such pubhc service, and since the college is not able to perform
this service for itself, it should demand it from the fraternity as
the price of its life.

But let us glance once more at Mary's boy before we too desert
him to work out his own life at the college, with the help of such
influences as he can find for himself, and to take his place in turn
among the upper classmen for the help or neglect of the succeeding
freshmen. He has come home, as we know, and his little world is
taking stock of him, and not only of him, but through him of his
college and his fraternity. And let us ask, "In what condition
does he come? Is he " very much improved," as far as the butcher,
the baker, and the candle-stick maker can see, and is that all ; or does
he come in the confidence of the stature and the wisdom and the
beauty of manhood to stand smiling before his mother, his father,
his brother or sister, his sweetheart, or his own self, like a hero of
old bearing with him the head of the dragon, like the captain of
the argosy whose sails are set and whose hold is filled with treasure
from afar, like the knight returning from the crusade laden with the
trophies of war and with the vision of the Holy City in his heart?
Ah, does he so return? We hope so. Surely he went forth with
such ambitions. But if not, — ^if he returns with the stature and
wisdom but not the beauty, having lost his early aspiration towards

"All I could never be
All, men ignored in me," —

if he returns thus, shall we not seek out that fraternity and
demand of it where is that sweetness and fight which at his initia-
tion was glo-udng in his heart, and shall we be satisfied with the
world-old reply, "I know not; am I my brother's keeper?"

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DEACON STEBBINS PLEADS FOR THE GHOSTS

SURGES JOHNSON

IT'S kinder hard on all you lads who came in here fer fun
To be haunted by a spirit from the class of Twenty-one !
A ghost ain't like a pugilist or statesman, that's a fac';
Fer he's not only willin' to, — he's able to come back.
I'm really here on business, fer my classmates, half in sport,
Sent me here to represent 'em and present a class report.
We think we've got as good a right addressin' the trustees
As those young kids in '84 who think they're all the cheese.
We've set thar t'other side the Styx from long ago till now
A seein' you folks runnin' things as well as you knew how,
Till suddenly we sez,"Land sakes! If them folks like hot air
There's plenty of it where we hve — we'll send along a share."
My fellow ghosts selected me, I was so tough an' old.
Because they thought I best could stand the change from heat to

cold.
You should see 'em crowd around me at the elevator door,
Repeatin' all the messages they'd told me twice before;
An' they shouted, " Good bye. Deacon! yltt revoir, old Pelham sport!
Give our greetin's to the college! Don't forgit our class report!
So here I be, Gol Bing it! with the manuscript they writ;
It was partly burnt in transit, but you'll git the gist of it.

Whereas a certain recent class saw fit to plan a course

To conserve our httle college, and conserve the student force.

And conserve our good professors, — ^why, we pledge two other

toasts —
And that's the conservation of Alumni and of Ghosts.

First, speakin' of alumni, we old spooks who first got through
Git to lookin' at the college from a special point of view;
Fer it seems to us far bigger than the buildin's that you see, —
It spreads from Beersheba to Dan, and clear from you to me.

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And we scurcely make distinction, when we gaze on her with pride,
Between the lads within her walls and those thet live outside.
And so we file this protest with the lady on the hill
Whom we call our foster-mother (though we're ghosts we do so

still);
She is lavishin' attention on about five hundred boys
Who scurce appreciate it they are makin' such a noise,
Whereas her thousand older boys from whom she claims support
Git each a yearly catalog and treasurer's report.
I see you crack your little smile, — "Thet's easy said," sez you,
"The lady now is overworked, what would you have her do?
You pore impractical old spook, the lady ain't a fool,
She can't be startin' at her age a correspondence school,
To give each busy graduate, whose culture's lost its sheen, —
Whose classic style is worn in spots, a coat of culturine!"
Ah well, we ghosts ain't sensitive, — we'll let you poke yer fun
Becuz you git a spectral plan from Eighteen twenty-one.
But what we clearly see is this : there's jest as many men
Thet's stayin' home from here tonight, and half as much again;
They're Amherst lads like you and me — -they studied jest as well.
And mebbe half of 'em could sing, and all of 'em could yell.
But each has lost some college zeal in chasin' fame or pelf,
And won't cough up five dollars jest to stimulate himself.
What though he needs the zeal he lacks, fer what his soul would

gain.
The college needs it even more; it's jest an endless chain.
And 'tis our spectral notion that the start won't come until
There's more directed effort from the Lady on the Hill.

Dear lady, listen to our plea! Incline your marble ear!

Thar's quite a number of your boys that sing your praises here, —

Thar's thousands more thet's somewhar's else, who'd gladly cry
All Hail,

But some of 'em are now in bed and mebbe some in jail.

But the chief official notice thet you give their loyal cry

Is to send out little bulletins to tell them when they die.

'Tis true, there's college magazines, — their number's been in-
creased,—

But the graduates who take 'em are the ones who need 'em least.

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There's Brother Brown and Brother Jones who didn't come to-
night;

They've half forgot their college days in all this city fight;

They knew tonight would bore 'em, jest to eat and talk and sit,

And they wouldn't read the Student and they covldnt read the
Lit.

And if they face you squarely they will ask you if it pays?

And they'll say "dear alma mater" seems to them a hackneyed
phrase.

So lady, you must form a plan, affectionate and wise,

Fer readoptin' children who have broken off old ties.

But if you want some more details on how it should be done

You'll have to wire the secretary. Class of '21.

The second part of this report — I blush before my hosts —
Is jest a plea from us old spooks to cherish Amherst ghosts.
Fer ghosts, I'd like to hev you know, are shy beyond compare.
They never like to haunt a place unless they're wanted there.
And when they flit to loved old spots, and no one bids 'em stay,
They sort of slink around awhi'e and then they keep away.
And shallow mortals shake their heads and lightly cry, "Pooh, pooh!
We want no ghosts!" and never learn the world of good they do.
Ah me! I've sat on College Hill, and seen 'em flittin' round,
Or hauntin' some old college room or some loved bit of ground.
Some time ago I chanced to stand upon the village green.
When Eugene Field went flittin'past to haunt some boyhood scene,
And Helen Hunt came strollin' by with some fair Indian maid.
And Beecher stood and looked about, — a grave and stately shade.
And all around were ghosts in blue — -I heard their muskets clang —
Who sought to find the books they dropped when thet far bugle

rang.
And there, the other side of town I saw red-coated forms —
The ghosts of Burgoyne's captured troops in Brit'sh uniforms.
And other tattered ghosts there were, who lived before my day —
Hard-fisted fellows off the farms who followed Dan'l Shay.
And though he's called a rebel now, er jest a trifle mad.
They say he lived in Pelham, and I'll bet he wan't so bad!
There's folks right here like Dan'l Shay, who'd like to raise a fuss
Because the tax blanl<s make 'em mad — and kick around and cuss !

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And many ghosts I saw thet day who hung their heads in shame
Because they found no httle shrine or spot thet bore their name;
Or Hke Noah Webster, mooned about from midnight until dawn
And found no comfort anywhere because his home was gone.
Dear Lady, thet's our other plea — we ghosts have too few joys — ■
Pray honor us a little more, — ^'twill help your livin' boys.
On all your ghosts heap equal praise— to those old red-brick dorms
Of classic Libby prison style, lure back our ghostly forms.
Build here and there a monument that bids the stranger heed;
Emblazon forth your honor rolls and let the children read.

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VLf}t Smf)er£it SUus^trious;

JULIUS H. SEELYE— ADMINISTRATOR AND

TEACHER

WILLIAM ORR

IT IS now nearly a quarter of a century since Julius Hawley
Seelye, amid general regret, brought to a close his long and
notable service to Amherst College. The passing years have
in no wise lessened the high regard and esteem in which his memory
is held by those who as undergraduates knew him as man, teacher
and administrator. Time has corrected hasty and crude judgments,
and has brought out in clear rehef those sterling qualities of mind
and heart whereby Dr. Seelye made so deep and lasting an impres-
sion on the College.

The story of his administration is a matter of record. One reads
of the growth of Amherst under his leadership, in material re-
sources, in teaching staff, and in students. Principles and policies
of college government and instruction, initiated by President Seelye,
have been tested and tried in succeeding administrations so that we
now possess a true appraisal of their worth and soundness. His
influence on higher education can be measured by the extent to
which his theories and methods have been adopted and put into
effect in other colleges than Amherst. Most significant of all tes-
timony to the large part Dr. Seelye had in the progress of the Col-
lege is the tribute to his personal power and eminence as a leader,
teacher and inspirer of youth, given gladly and gratefully by men
now active in the world's work, not so much by word of mouth as by
their fidelity to the conception of life and to the ideals of service
which Dr. Seelye ever maintained.

Dr. Seelye brought to the task and responsibilities of the presi-
dency large resources in personality, training, knowledge and expe-
rience. Nature endowed him with the stature and bearing which
commanded the respect of the student. When he became head of
the College, he was in full vigor of body. He was an effective
speaker. He was often called upon to address great gatherings on
public questions of moment.

JULIUS HAWLEY SEELYE, D.D., LL.D.

Fifth President of Amherst College

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His hold on the students was largely due to his absolute sincerity.
This quality, with his fairness in judgment and kindliness of spirit,
won the confidence of the undergraduate. Every student recog-
nized that Seelye, while just, was also generous and sympathetic,
and so, unconsciously, ties and bonds of friendship came to unite
the entire student body in loyalty to its head, a loyalty, which
those undergraduates — now alumni — express in their devotion to
the College, attested by gifts and volunteer service.

The wide and profound learning of Dr. Seelye made a deep im-
pression on the student. His memory of facts, dates and statistics
was both retentive and accurate. His knowledge comprehended
many fields. He was at home alike in Theology, Philosophy, the
Classics, History and in the pohtical and social movements of the
day. He was hospitable and open-minded towards new forms and
phases of human thought. Evidence of this attitude of mind is
found in the changes made in the program of college studies
whereby he introduced and encouraged modern courses in Lan-
guage, Science and Psychology. He exemplified in his own intel-
lectual hfe the noble utterance with which he confided the College
to his successor, — "Truth and Freedom — truth coming from what-
ever direction, and freedom knowing no bounds but those the truth
has set."

President Seelye was furthermore skilKul in imparting knowledge
and in instilhng a love of learning and of intellectual effort. As a
teacher, hke Socrates, he provoked thought by his ability to ques-
tion. His class room was often the scene of debate — the attack and
defense of positions. It was an arena whereon the student in the
grapple with real problems gained both knowledge and power.
Such a discipline did much to develop that independence of thought
and judgment combined with intellectual resources and initiative,
which is characteristic of so many men who have gone forth from
Amherst.

Until the cares and burdens of administration forbade. President
Seelye continued to teach his class in Philosophy. For a number of
years, he conducted an exercise on Monday mornings in the spring
term devoted to close analytical examination of the Westminster
Catechism. From time to time, he called together the entire Col-
lege in the evening, and discussed in open forum some pubhc ques-
tions of moment.

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His large experience in public life and wide acquaintance vnth.
men of affairs enabled President Seelye to bring before the students
clear and comprehensive reports on the great world movements of
the day. His visit to India, under the auspices of the American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, gave him an intimate
knowledge of the Oriental mind. It was a rich privilege to hear
him tell of the subtlety with which the advocates of the Hindu
philosophy argued in defense of their doctrines.

In 1874, Professor Seelye was elected a representative to the
National Congress in a campaign that attracted widespread atten-
tion. He found so great satisfaction in pubhc hfe that he was
strongly disposed to choose a pohtical career. His constituents
were entirely ready to support him, so acceptable were his services.
The unanimous call of the trustees that he become the head of the
College, however, led him to forgo this ambition. His life in Wash-
ington and acquaintance with national leaders gave him a wealth of
information which he used with effect in his public addresses and in
the classroom. He pointed the way to service of state and nation
as a career worthy of any graduate of the College. In the annual
town meeting of Amlierst, President Seelye could always be de-
pended upon to support measures for the public good. His
knowledge of parhamentary law and insight into the methods
of politicians often availed to overcome strong and organized
opposition.

The highest ideal of life that President Seelye ever held before
his students, both in his own life and in his teaching, was devotion
to the service of mankind. Such service, he maintained, could be
given in any calling. It was a question of the spirit of the man.
Knowledge and intellectual power were vain unless dominated by
this supreme purpose. On this theme, he discoursed, not in hack-
neyed phrase and in commonplaces, but with a force of language
and an earnestness of spirit that sent every word home. His ser-
mons on duty and human responsibihty impressed the most careless
and indifferent student with the real meaning and significance of
hfe. In such appeals, the man revealed most fully his greatness
of mind and heart.

In dealing with individual students. President Seelye was always
hopeful. He expected great things of every man. He was slow to
condemn. At times, the opinion was prevalent that he was hood-

JULIUS H. SEELYE 191

winked by the shrewd offender, who protested his innocence. But
looking back through the years, and with the saner judgment that
time gives, one reahzes that it was faith and hope that the student
would justify his confidence, that caused President Seelye — at
times in opposition to his Faculty — to refuse to dismiss theoffender;
and rarely was he disappointed in the final outcome.

The progress and growth of the College during the fourteen years
of his administration attest the soundness of his principles, pohcies
and methods, and his skill and ability as an executive. During his
term, the college grounds were enlarged, and a comprehensive plan
for its development made by Frederick Law Olmsted was put into
effect. The appearance of the campus was improved by the re-
moval of the dormitory East College, which stood just west of
the College Church. In the spring of 1882, Walker Hall with its
valuable contents of minerals, apparatus and records was com-
pletely destroyed by fire. By the energy of President Seelye,
the friends of Amherst were ralhed to its support, and within
a year. Walker Hall was rebuilt and the losses made wellnigh good.
The library building was increased by the addition of the portion
containing the book-stack, and was otherwise improved. Pratt
Gymnasium was erected, and the resources of the department of
Physical Training were further enriched by the gift of Pratt Field.
The value of buildings, land and funds received by Amherst during
the presidency of Dr. Seelye, and secured largely by his personal
efforts, amounted to over eight hundred thousand dollars. An ex-
amination of the names of the donors reveals the extent to which
the active interest of men prominent in all walks in life Vv^as
centered in Amherst College through their confidence in its
President.

In his administration of the College, President Seelye made cer-
tain departures from estabhshed practice which at the time were
looked upon as radical to a dangerous degree. It is now clear that
these changes were made with full understanding of the demands
of the time on institutions of higher learning. Science and other
modern subjects were calling for increased recognition in the pro-
gram of studies. The doctrine of evolution was transforming men's
views in all departments of knowledge. Less emphasis was placed
on the abiUty to memorize, and more on the capacity to think one's
way to the solution of a problem. The relations of professors and

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students were less and less based on the idea of paternal control
and oversight by the faculty.

President Seelye, while holding to all that was worthy and good
in the practice of the past, wisely and with rare foresight, so shaped
his policies that Amherst was prepared to meet the demands of the
future, and was thus happily tided over a transition period with a
minimum of stress and strain.

The scheme of college administration which went into operation
in 1881 did away, at one stroke, with many causes of friction and
disagreement between students and faculty that were inherent in
the minute and detailed college laws of former days. Under the
new plan, each student when admitted to Amherst was received as
a gentleman and as under obligation to conduct himseK as a worthy
member of the College. A step toward student self-government
was taken in the establishment of the College Senate — a body con-
sisting of four seniors, three juniors, two sophomores, and one fresh-
man, chosen by their respective classes. To the senate, the faculty
referred from time to time questions of college order and custom,
and matters of discipline.

While requiring regular attendance at all college exercises, the
new system provided that each student should be granted a certain
number of absences. In case this number was exceeded in any
course, then the student must furnish evidence, satisfactory to the
faculty, that the ground lost had been recovered. The term exam-
inations had become so important a factor in determining the rank
of the pupil that the value of the recitation was in danger of neglect.
These examinations were abolished and, in their place, reviews and
examinations at frequent intervals were substituted.

A flexible marking system was adopted in place of the use of per
cent. Students were grouped in four classes, according to their
standing, in the following order: Summa cum laude, magna cum
laude, cum laude, and rite. The effect of this change was to do
away with entirely futile distinctions, based on a difference in marks
of one or two per cent. Final scholarship honors consisted of ap-
pointment of the eight men of the highest standing, as speakers on
the commencement stage.

The underlying principle on which these administrative plans
were based was that, in dealing with young men of the age and
capacity of undergraduates, opportunity must be given them to grow

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in responsibility, through the freedom to direct in some measure
their own courses in college. President Seelye took the same
ground as all great teachers in his faith that the individual may be
trusted to use aright the opportunity of choice.

While President Seelye was a profound believer in the value of the
training and culture given by the Classics and Mathematics, he was
quick to recognize the claims of science, history and other modern
studies. The College catalogue shows a broadening of the program
of subjects along with which went modifications in treatment, in
accordance with the demands of the day. As a result, Amherst,
while maintaining the courses in EngUsh, Latin, Greek, mathe-
matics and physical science at high levels of efficiency, is known
also for her excellence in the subjects that have claimed a place
in higher education in the last three decades, as biology, the social
and pohtical sciences, modern languages and psychology. The
elective system was extended, under careful supervision.

Constant efforts were made to reduce the number of students in
each recitation, in order to permit of the effective instruction that
can only be given when there is opportunity for each member of a
division to recite at each exercise. During President Seelye's ad-
ministration, the number of the faculty increased from twenty-one
to thirty, or nearly fifty per cent., while the student body grew from
three hundred and twenty to three hundred and forty-seven. In
other words, the number of students to a professor was reduced
from sixteen to eleven. Amherst was thus safeguarded against the
evils of the lecture method of instruction which is the inevitable
outcome of large recitation divisions.

One test of the soundness of the policies of President Seelye is
the extent to which they have been followed by Amherst in succeed-
ing administrations. While there have been some changes in pro-
cedure, in the main the spirit and the methods have been found to
stand approved by experience. His propositions have not only
proved workable, but their effect on the College has been in a high
degree wholesome. Other colleges have also adopted and put into
effect the principles of administration and of instruction on which
President Seelye, with the vision and the insight of the statesman,
constructed his program for Amherst.

While President Seelye gave diligent heed to the organization and
conduct of the college as an institution, his supreme concern was the

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influence thereby brought to bear on the ideals and character of the
student. He devoted his talents and powers, without reserve, to
the endeavor to make Amherst a place for training men in a high
sense of duty and for efficient service. He had unusual opportu-
nity as a teacher of youth. As professor of philosophy, before
and after his election as President, he held a commanding position
in the College. As President, he sought every occasion to estabhsh
intimate and cordial relations with the students. His interest and
sympathy were akin to that of a parent. He came to know over
two thousand men during the thirty-two years of his service at
Amherst. In his presidency, he was in a position to impress his
ideals of life and conduct on over one thousand different students.
Many of these are now in the full tide of active life, and some meas-
ure may be taken of the results of Seelye's example and teaching.

One characteristic does appear to be true of the great majority
of Amherst men, and that is a high sense of devotion to public serv-
ice. One might name by the score graduates who are foremost
in the fight for good citizenship, for better social and civic condi-
tions— in a word, for effective appHcations of the principles of
Christianity to daily conditions. These qualities are characteristic
of the men who came under the influence of Seelye. He had the
faculty of developing capacity and power for leadership. Clergy-
men who received their training at Amherst are prominent in every
great conference and council, called to decide on matters of belief
or policy. In education, Amherst men are found as presidents of
colleges, university professors, leaders in research, in important
positions in secondary and elementary schools, and engaged in re-
sponsible administrative work.

The missionary impulse has by no means lost its power, and the
light from Amherst continues to irradiate the dark places of the
earth. In China, Japan, in Africa and India, those whom Seelye
taught are conspicuous by the wisdom and energy with which they
are adopting means and methods to present day conditions. Law,
medicine and business are also fields in which the men of Amherst
are showing distinctive quahty by making the calling not an end in
itself, but a means whereby to lift the level of human life a httle
higher.

Amherst College continues to emphasize the importance of liberal
training as an essential factor in the equipment of every man who

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would fully serve his day and generation. Such Hberal training
makes for broad outlook, generous sympathy, the discerning mind,
and sane and sound judgment. In maintaining these ideals, the
College is, amid a changing order, holding true to the teachings of
the man who had so much to do in shaping her policy for over
thirty of the ninety years of her existence.

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Efje poofe arable

1872

Silas Deane: A Connecticut Leader in the American Revolution. By
George L. Clark. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.

This book is a reminder that in the Twentieth Century of the Christian Era it is
still a requirement of the Lord "to deal justly." It is a wholehearted protest
against a cruel wrong done by our forefathers to one of the most eflBcient leaders of
the Revolution; — a wrong which although in small part confessed and expiated
more than fifty years after the death of the sufferer, is still in large part persisted in
by their posterity, — ourselves.

Righting old wrongs tends without doubt to the health of the soul. The more we
do of it, the less disposed shall we be to perpetrate and acquiesce in wrongs that
are new.

Mr. Clark has special qualifications for the chivalrous and patriotic task he has
set himself. He is an Amherst graduate of the class of '72, and the beloved pastor
of the oldest church in the historic town of Wethersfield, Connecticut, the home of
Silas Deane from his twenty-fifth year until he became a homeless wanderer. Mr.
Clark has a fervid love of justice, an abounding sympathy, and a patience that never
fails. He has also, as this and other good books amply prove, the spirit and the
tastes of the scholar.

SDas Deane was born in Groton, Connecticut, in 1737. He was graduated from
Yale in 1758, taught school for a time, then studied law, and began its practice at
Wethersfield in 1762. A year later, Deane, "who saw no necessity for starting at
the foot of the ladder, had the nerve to marry Mehitabel, widow of Mr. Joseph
Webb, five years his senior, and blessed with six children and a thriving store."
After his marriage Deane became a merchant, in which calling he was soon " widely
known as a man of enterprise, vigor, and good judgment." He took an active
part in the political struggles of the early Revolution, was a useful and distinguished
member of the First and Second Continental Congresses, and gave important aid
to the enterprise which resulted in the capture of Ticonderoga. Of Washington,
whom he met whUe in Congress, Deane wrote to his wife as follows: "I have been
with him for a great part of the last forty-eight hours . . . and the more that
I have become acquainted with the man, the more I esteem him. I wish to culti-
vate this gentleman's acquaintance and regard, for the great esteem I have of his
virtues. ... I know you will receive him as my friend, and what is more, his
country's friend, who, sacrificing private fortune, independence, ease, and every
domestic pleasure, sets off at his country's call to exert himself in her defence. . . .
Let our youth look up to this man as a pattern to form themselves by, who unites
the bravery of the soldier with the most consummate modesty and virtue." This
vivid and just appreciation of Washington clearly implies in the writer the existence
of praiseworthy civic ideals.

. But Deane was not elected to a third term. John Adams threw the blame on the
unsuccessful candidate himself. "The good people of Connecticut thought him

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a man of talent and enterprise, but of more ambition than principle." Deane's
own explanation appears in a letter to his wife: "I am quite willing to quit my
station to abler men. My long and thorough acquaintance with the genius of the
Assembly prevents my being surprised at any sudden whim. . . . On a review
of the part I have acted on the public theater of life, an examination of my own
genius and disposition, unfit for trimming, courting, and intrigues with the populace,
I have greater reason to wonder how I became popular at all. One of the greatest
pleasures I enjoy is the rectitude of my intentions and conduct." If there is in
these Vvords a suggestion of the prig, there is surely none of the demagogue; and of
democratic feeling there is not a trace. Perhaps too one may find a hint of that
political imprudence degenerating too often into recklessness which was destined
to wreck the career of SUas Deane.

On the second of August, 1776, the Committee of Congress for secret correspond-
ence commissioned Deane "to go into France, there to transact such business com-
mercial and political as we have committed to his care." This "business" was to
secure from France, then at peace with England," clothing and arms for twenty-five
thousand men with a suitable supply of ammunition and a hundred field pieces"
to be used by the Colonists against England. Another item was to sound the Count
de Vergennes as to the probable course of France in case " the Colonies should be
forced to form themselves into an independent state;" and to promote at the Court
of France as far as possible, inclinations favorable to the American cause. In other
words the post assigned to Deane was that of a diplomatic representative of the
government not yet recognized, a courtier without standing at Court, and a financial
agent without cash or established credit, who was nevertheless to purchase large
quantities of war material and to secure its safe transport to the insurgents. Nor
was this all; by the force of circumstances Deane felt himself compelled to enlist
and commission foreigners to officer the Revolutionary levies to a large but unde-
fined extent; and he was to do all this in the face of the determined opposition of the
British Embassador, aided by a large force of agents and spies.

Few chapters in American history are so interesting on public grounds, and at
the same time so crowded with picturesque and dramatic incidents as those which
narrate the career of Deane in France. He made mistakes, the most serious of
which was sending too many foreign ofiicers to the United States. Some of these,
it is true, notably Lafayette, De Kalb and Steuben, proved invaluable; but others
were worse than useless. And the suggestion that the Count de Broglie be made
Commander-in-Chief was a colossal blunder.

But in its most important features Deane's mission was greatly and even bril-
liantly successful. He achieved under formidable difficulties all that he had been
commissioned to do, — and more. He secured in generous measure arms, munitions,
and financial aid; and these helped, — perhaps decisively — to bring about the cap-
ture of Burgoyne, — a success which led France to grant us recognition and to be-
come our ally. And it was this recognition and alliance that prepared the way for
Yorktown, and the acknowledgment of American independence by Great Britain.

TheoflScial career of Deane, which had begim so auspiciously, terminated ab-
ruptly in 1778, when at the command of Congress he returned to the United
States carrying with him the portrait of the French King presented "in a box of
gold set with diamonds," a friendly and appreciative letter from Vergennes, the

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loyal affection of the noblehearted Beaumarchais, and a testimonial from his col-
league Franklin who wrote, "I esteem him as a faithful, active and able min-
ister who to my knowledge has done great and important services to his country,
whose interests I wish may always by every one in her employ be as much and
as efBciently promoted. "

In the United States Deane met with a chilling reception. For this his well-
meant but unwise course in commissioning so many foreign officers was in part
responsible. Ostensibly recalled to give information as to the state of Europe, he
was required to give a detailed account of all his expenditures. In the absence of
vouchers, which in the time of his command before sailing it had been impossible
to collect. Congress found his statement unsatisfactory. The true explanation of
the recall was that Arthur Lee, a fellow commissioner, who wished to be in control
of American interests in France, had conspired against both Franklin and Deane.
Lee worked on Congress through letter s to his two brothers who were members of
that body, one of them R. E. Lee, a man of much influence. Deane was accused by
Arthur Lee of misappropriating public funds. The accusation was false; but Deane
was not allowed to prove his innocence. He had friends, but Congress was so
organized that they were helpless. A determined minority could postpone indefi-
nitely action which the majority desired. After months of vainly pleading for
justice from Congress, Deane lost patience and aired his grievances through the
press. This course was unwise, it lost him friends, and opened the way for venom-
ous attacks from enemies.

Mr. Clark summarizes the early results of the recall as follows:

"During the fourteen months of waiting on men whose indifference and neglect
were cruel and heart-breaking, he was summoned but twice to meet the Congress
that had recalled him upon a pretence; he was treated like a criminal without a
criminal's opportunity to hear the charges and answer the complaint. "

Finding the struggle hopeless, Deane decided to return to France and put his
accounts in shape for settlement, hoping thereby to receive the large balance which
was his due and which he needed desperately. He reached France in July of 1780
in deep discouragement. In this second effort to secure justice his failure was as
complete as in the first and even more exasperating. He was ill, impoverished and
disheartened. In despondency he wrote in 1781 letters to friends in America
counselling reunion with Great Britain. Nine of these letters were intercepted and
published in New York. Most of Deane's countrymen regarded his course as
treasonable. Even Franklin and Jay, who had given steadfast support hitherto,
gave him over as lost. He was classed with Benedict Arnold, and it was widely
believed that he was in the pay of the British Government. From Paris, where
he was no longer welcome, he retired to Ghent; from Ghent after an unhappy so-
journ he went to England, subsisting everywhere on loans or charity, and growing
all the time more bitter, morbid and wretched. At last in 1789 just after embarking
for America he died on shipboard.

Was Deane a traitor because he despaired of independency, and wrote his friends
that it would be better to seek reunion with Great Britain on terms that would secure
all that we had wished and asked for previous to the Declaration of 1776.' To this
question Mr. Clark rightly answers. No. And contrary to the widely prevalent

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conviction of Deane's contemporaries Mr. Clark, after a review of the evidence,
concludes that there is no proof of the accusation that Deane was in collusion with
the British Government or in its pay.

But there is need of another question: On whom should rest the blame for Deane's
discouragement as to the issue of the struggle for Independence and the consequences
of that discouragement.* To this it would seem fair to reply: The blame rests
on those who ignored his great services, deprived him of the oflBce he had filled use-
fully and honorably, accused him falsely, not by open indictment but by innuendo,
of an infamous crime; and then, refusing him opportunity to prove his innocence,
persisted in persecution until through persecution he became a wreck in fortune,
body, mind, and spirit.

In closing, the reviewer would add that every thoughtful reader of this book
should gain from it much light on the aims, the spirit, and the men of the Revolu-
tion; a deeper insight into the injurious workings of private, when in conflict with
public interests; and lastly, a quickened sense of the dependence of those in public
employ on the justice of the people and the government whom they serve.

Anson D. Morse.

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3rf)e JHnbergrabuatejf

CHRISTIAN EFFORT AND EXPECTATION AT

AMHERST

Theodore A. Greene

The Amherst College of to-day is experiencing the first sensations of a remark-
able and unique intellectual awakening. One can not live in touch with our
college community this year without some realization of the slowly changing atmos-
phere. A goodly proportion of the diversified interests in undergraduate life is
furnishing us with increasing evidence of this fact. The star of the once all-engross-
ing "outside activity" is no longer in the ascendant. Competitions for the va-
rious organizations look less and less attractive to the undergraduate, as is evidenced
by the decreasing number of competitors for positions in both athletic and non-
athletic activities. The newly evolved Student Council is fast systematizing the
regulation of undergraduate affairs. The establishment of "The Mitre" adds to
an appreciation of the literary pursuits. Sophomores, under the new regulations,
are commencing logic and philosophy with the result that no longer are animated
discussions upon intellectual subjects to be confined to upper-classmen. Groups
of Sophomores may be found discussing ethics with Socratic dignity in their rooms
in fraternity houses or the dormitory. Once installed, the professor of social and
economic conditions — made possible through the George Daniel Olds endowment
— will be arousing even the Freshman to his responsibilities. The students are
beginning to think in a new way. A large proportion of the stimulus producing
this much to be desired effect may be traced directly to the influence of President
Meiklejohn.

Hand in hand with the intellectual awakening there is arising an interest in the
religious affairs of the college. Although we are now on a peculiar state of transi-
tion, yet, in the present situation there is much to be anticipated. As the result
of personal discussion not only with individuals but also with groups of men from
the three upper classes one can see that the student in Amherst College to-day is
adopting the scientific attitude of mind to this extent. There has been created a
desire to gain more definite understanding of the value of religion in personal life.
The undergraduate is saying to himself in the words of the proverbial Sunday-school
boy, "I must look into this Jesus Christ business." He would investigate before
either adopting or rejecting the Christian principles for himself. A practical ex-
ample of this budding interest is to be found in the fact that seven members of the
student body represented Amherst at the recent international convention of the
Student Volunteer Movement in Kansas City. Amherst had no delegation at
the same convention held in Rochester, New York, four years ago. A most prom-
ising opportunity for religious work and education is presenting itself in the im-
pending growth of our college during the years immediately to come.

This much it has been necessary to say in order to acquaint us with the present

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situation in Amherst. Now the question logically follows, "How is the Christian
Association striving to meet this arising interest on the part of the undergraduate? "
Similar questions have reached us from several of the interested alumni. As-
suredly they deserve at least a partial answer in these pages.

During the fall term an effort was made to increase the interest and the devo-
tional spirit of the first communion service. At that time some twenty-seven
students united with the College Church under the so-called "Wayside Covenant."
In preparation for this event letters were sent to the parents of all the Sophomores
and Freshmen calling their attention to the existence of the College Church and
to the purpose of the Christian Association. It is impossible of course to measure
the results of letters, necessarily stereotyped in form; but the warm note of appre-
ciation sounding in nearly all answers received, as well as the personal interest ex-
pressed, gave evidence of a real desire to cooperate.

Acting with the College Church, and striving as nearly as possible to give oppor-
tunity for a practical expression of the individual student's good will in some form
of service — both within and without the college community — the Christian Asso-
ciation is finding its place at Amherst. Jesus Christ sought not only to inspire
his followers, but further to crystallize that inspiration in action. Mere emotional
intensity or intellectual curiosity can accomplish little for the individual
unless some outlet is furnished for his pent-up thought and energy. Only
by attempting something is the college student — living as he does very largely
in a world of theory and idealism — brought to a true conception of either the small-
ness or the vastness of his vision.

In order to give the student an opportunity to investigate some of the facts about
religious life in the past, along educational lines, the Association is conducting
Bible Study classes in the fraternities and dormitories. "New Studies in Acts"
by Dean Edward I. Bosworth of Oberlin Theological Seminary is the text used.
Professor Arthur L. Kimball has charge of the normal class for the various frater-
nity group leaders. Special classes have been held for the Freshmen in the dormi-
tories with a course in "College Problems." These last groups were led by the
Senior advisers to the Freshmen in their respective entries. As the Bible Study
groups began, the Social Study classes were completing their work. There have
been three such classes; one on "Christianity and the Social Crisis"; one on "Both
Sides of Socialism," these two conducted by undergraduates; and one on "Com-
parative Religions" with the secretary.

Along the line of so-called "community service," within town, the Association
has found a way to help and to hold some sixty-three of the Amherst boys through
a regularly organized Boys' Club and a Boy Scouts movement. For the Boys'
Club the Physical Education Department has kindly given the use of the college
gymnasium two nights during the week. The Boy Scouts are rising from a former
and similar band in town, and have inherited from their forerunners a camp near
the Freshmen River. But the activities of the Association are by no means limited
to Amherst, the town. Twenty-seven Poles are being taught English, geography
and history in classes conducted three nights a week at the People's Institute in
Northampton. This means that fifteen students are giving one night a week reg-
ularly to this branch of the immigrant education work. Three more men con-

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duct similar classes for foreigners in the Northampton Y. M. C. A. Holyoke also
claims a share of our attention. At Grace Church one student has charge of a
Castle of the Knights of King Arthur, and another has a class of working boys in
"Literature and Current Events." Also for six weeks during the summer the
Association runs a vacation school, for which we supply a part of the necessary ex-
penses. Although much of the service rendered in these various ways has been
proved effective, yet beyond a doubt the greater benefit is derived by the individual
students doing the work. Living as many undergraduates do in an atmosphere
of privilege for thought with but very little opportunity for practice, through this
work with boys and the immigrant education they can and do get the point of view
of others less fortunate than themselves, and thus are afforded a taste of the rights
and responsibilities of approaching citizenship.

Still another side of the Association work, which is growing into an increasing
source of benefit both to the student and the community is the work of the Depu-
tation committee. Through the efforts of this committee arrangements have been
made for short visits of deputation teams to preparatory schools as well as to neigh-
boring towns. For example, such topics were treated as "The Honor System,"
"Athletics in College," "Experiences on the Grenfell Mission," "The Social Side
of College Life," "The Intellectual Side of College Life," and "The Manliness of
Christianity." By far the most interesting deputation of the fall term was an in-
ter-collegiate visit to the Preparatory Schools of Worcester, lasting for three days,
to which Amherst sent three representatives. Men from Yale, Princeton, Dart-
mouth, Harvard, Williams, Brown, W'. P. I. and Amherst united in presenting to
the prospective college men of the Preparatory and High Schools of Worcester an ac-
curate conception of college life. On the first day at mass meetings in each school
the athletic, the social and the intellectual sides of undergraduate life were pre-
sented. On the second morning a "hike" was taken with a luncheon and this was
followed in the afternoon by an exhibition basket-ball game and a relay race be-
tween the high-school boys and the college men. On Sunday the delegates spoke in
the churches, Sunday-schools, and Young People's Societies of W'orcester. Not
only was the opportunity of working with men from other colleges of unique advan-
tage, but the enthusiam of the delegates as well as the cordial reception of the
Worcester boys bore ample tribute to the efficiency of this particular side of As-
sociation work.

It is not expedient here to speak of the methods of personal work, although that is
by far the most important side in all religious activity. We must not regard the
Christian Association of Amherst as a "college activity" in the ordinary academic
phraseology but rather as "the quality of all the activities." How to interpret and
make manifest what this quality shall be is the problem. Personal influence is the
key to the situation. In order to gain an approach to the individual however, he
must first be appealed to along the lines of his ideals and ambitions. With this idea
in mind the Cabinet has planned for the year a series of talks upon the professions.
Already we have heard from representative men of the qualifications, opportuni-
ties and returns to be looked for in selecting the ministry, journalism, teaching or
medicine for a life work. The appeal for missions has been presented by Dr. Gren-
fell, Dr. Patton, Captain Cele and Rev. Dan Crawford, as it is our belief that an

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interest in missions is best stimulated through first hand information. If in ad-
dition to the direct appeal of the possibilities for service in the professions the in-
dividual student can be made to realize the power of Christ in his own personal
life as an aid to accomplishing his most complete work we shall indeed be striking
at the heart of the problem. The most significant and definite attempt to portray
the value of a religious experience as an asset in life was made at a special meeting
of the Association on the fifteenth of February. At that time President Meikle-
john spoke upon the necessity of a consideration of religion by all college men. He
was followed by some six of the alumni and trustees with short direct talks upon
"The Place of Religion in Personal Life." In order that such meetings may be
truly far-reaching in their results, careful and continual following up is necessary
on the part of some one vitally and permanently interested.

Right here comes "the rub." Past and present experience has shown that under
existing conditions in the religious work at Amherst just such painstaking and well
directed attention to individual cases is practically impossible. In order to have
a more vital and productive personal work it is necessary, not only to follow up a
time of quickening in the spiritual life of an individual temporarily, but also to
watch its growth throughout the four years of his college course. Under the present
system a continued interest in a single student is impossible, for now a general sec-
retary stays but a year.

Admitting the disadvantages of the moment, wherein lies the "expectation" in
our religious work.* Amherst College needs and hopes for a Religious Work Direc-
tor in the immediate future. This man must be more than a mere adviser of the
Christian Association. For convenience' sake he should be an ordained minister.
Furthermore he should be recognized as a member of the faculty and should teach
a course on "Religion," possibly under the Philosophy Department. This course
should include a study of the origin and history of religion, a comprehensive study
of comparative religions and in this latter category an exposition of the fundamen-
tals of Christianity. Of course there need be no attempt to dictate in the class-room.
Students must be left to draw their own conclusions. In the light of the present
intellectual awakening at Amherst there is no doubt that such a course, if
properly presented, will be well patronized. But again this Religious Work Direc-
tor must be carefully trained for his task, and must combine the qualities of an
educator, an organizer and a personal worker. He must keep the student's point
of view continually in mind. He must take his place prepared to spend from four
to five years at least in the work at Amherst. Such a man will be hard to find.
The very possibility of having such a director will entail a different and more certain
system of financial backing, as well as a renewed and increasing concern on the
part of the alumni. President Meiklejohn, the Board of Directors of the Christian
Association, and several interested alumni are engaged this very month in plan-
ning a means to secure just such a director of religious thought for Amherst.
Let us hope that when the call comes, a more than sufficient interest may be
aroused to meet this new development in the religious situation at our Alma Mater.

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THE ATHLETIC SHOWING

E. M. Whitcomb

Hockey. Although early indications were given of a successful season at hockey,
the results obtained were not satisfactory from the sporting point of view — prima-
rily because of poor ice conditions which prevented continuous practice and also
caused the cancellation of many games.

Starting the season with the Harvard game at Boston, the team made an excellent
showing — much better than could reasonably be expected with only two days of
practice — being defeated by the score of one to nothing. But this small Harvard
score was largely due to the magnificent goal defense by Kimball of Amherst who
made fifty stops. The Tufts game resulted in an eleven to one defeat — the Am-
herst team being in no condition to repeat after the unusual showing at Cambridge
the preceding night.

The rest of the season was mainly a series of no ice, defeats, and postponements,
the cold weather coming after the end of the schedule. Amherst defeated West
Point in a fast and well-contested game by the score of 5-4. The game with Wil-
liams was hard fought but resulted in defeat 3-2, while the strong Aggie team de-
feated Amherst 4-0, and the Springfield Y. M. C. A. game was a tie 1-1.

R. H. Bacon, '15, of Newton Highlands was elected Captain for the coming year.
Altogether, the Hockey season was not a success — but better ice conditions would
doubtless have made for more interesting sport.

Swimming. In contrast with the poor Hockey results, the success of the Amherst
swimmers this winter has been very encouraging. The team won the Triangular
meet over Williams and Brown by a good margin. Nelligan, '17, was the indi-
vidual star of the meet, taking three firsts, of which two were record breakers.

In the dual meet with Brown, Amherst again won by 1| points, Nelligan, '17,
again starring.

The Andover Academy team defeated Amherst in the second meet of the season
by a large score — none of the team appearing to be in form.

Harvard was decisively beaten on February 21st by 33-20 — Amherst taking four
out of five firsts and the relay race.

Although three of the good point winners of the previous year had been lost by
graduation. Coach Kennedy developed a combination of swimmers far superior
to any Amherst swimming team of former years. Nelligan, '17 shows promise of
still better records, while the veterans on the team made excellent improvement
over their performances the preceding season.

Baseball. Practice began in the cage in January under the direction of Captain
Strahan and J. H. Vernon, '12. George Davis, who coached the team last year
arrived in February, and cutting the squad began in earnest in March. Owing
to the severe winter weather which continued to the end of March, outdoor practice
of any kind was impossible, and the team started on its preliminary schedule of
southern games on March 26th.

The first game, with the University of Virginia, resulted in a victory by a 5-3
score, — Amherst playing good ball. The second game, with North Carolina A. &

Amherst

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M. College, was also won by Amherst 4-2, a batting rally in the sixth pulling the
game out.

It is too early at this writing to pass on the abilities of the team, but the material
looks very encouraging and the coach clearly demonstrated his capacity last year;
consequently we confidentlj' hope for another successful season.

Following is the season's schedule:

Ante-Season Schedule
Amherst
vs.
March 27. Univ. of Virginia at Charlottes\'ille, Va.

28. North Carolina A. & M. College at Raleigh, N. C .

30. North Carolina A. &. M. College at Raleigh, N. C.

31. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N. C.
April 1. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N. C.

2. Georgetown University at Washington, D. C.

3. Catholic University at Washington, D. C.

4. U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
6. Columbia University at New York City.

Regular Seasoji Schedule,
Amherst
vs.
April 18. Springfield Y. M. C. A. College at Amherst.
25. Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn.
May 2. Tufts College at Amherst.

6. Phillips-Andover Academy at Amherst.
9. Harvard University at Cambridge.
13. Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst.
16. Brown University at Providence, R. I.

21. Williams College at Amherst.
23. Brown University at Amherst.
30. Williams College at WlUiamstown.

June 3. Yale University at New Haven.

6. Keio University at Amherst.

10. Princeton University at Princeton, N. J.

13. Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst.

22. Dartmouth College at Amherst.

23. Dartmouth College at Hanover, N. H.

Football. Thomas J. Riley, former end on the University of Michigan team,
and the past four years coach at the University of Maine has been selected as coach
for the Amherst eleven for the 1914 season. In his first year at Maine, Riley turned
out a team that tied for the State Championship and in the following years won
three successive Championships.

The schedule of games is the best balanced one that has been offered in many
years.
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0fiiml anb ^ersional

THE TRUSTEES

At a meeting of the Trustees held in
New York on Saturday, March 14,
some important changes in the curricu-
lum were voted. The following is
President Meiklejohn's statement re-
garding these, as published officially in
the Student:

"The Trustees have approved the
action of the Faculty in voting certain
changes in the curriculum of the college.
The essential features are as follows:

"1. The establishment of an elective
course in social and economic institu-
tions in the Freshman year.

"2. The reduction of the reading re-
quirement in modern languages from
two languages to one.

" 3. The reduction of the requirement
of concentration from three majors and
one minor, to two majors. As against
this, no Freshman subject will be
counted as part of a major.

"The primary purpose of these
changes is to give greater opportunity
for studies in the humanistic sciences,
philosophy, history, economics, govern-
ment, etc. The new Freshman course
will serve as an introduction to these
subjects. The lessening of the require-
ments of majors and in modern lan-
guages will open the field for the con-
tinuance of these studies in the Sopho-
more, Junior and Senior years."

To this statement of the action of the
Trustees should be added the form of
statement taken by the ratifying vote
of the Faculty, at a meeting held March
20:

1. That an elective course in social
and economic institutions be put in the
Freshman year.

2. That students be required to read

at sight one modern language instead of
two as at present.

3. That in Freshman year a student
shall be required to take: —

1. English.

2. Mathematics.

3. An ancient language.

4. Two subjects out of the following

three groups :

a. J^oreign language.

b. Social and economic insti-

tutions.

c. Physics, chemistry, biol-

ogy.

4. That there be required in the
Sophomore year an ancient language
and the election of one subject from
each of the following groups:

1. English, modern language,
music.

2. Mathematics, physics, chem-

istry, biology.

3. History and philosophy.

The fifth course shall be elective.

5. That if the reading require-
ment of a modern language has not been
satisfied Freshman year, a modern
language must be elected in Sopho-
more year.

6. That the minor be discontinued.

7. That there be required two ma-
jors, one of which shall be chosen from
the subjects of the Sophomore year,
and shall be continued through Junior
and Senior year; the other may be of the
same nature, or may consist of Junior
and Senior studies. A major is defined
as six semesters of a subject taken over
a period of two years or more.

Other important matters considered
by the Trustees have not reached the
maturity admitting of report.

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The New York Association. — The
annual dinner of the association was
held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Febru-
ary 27th, and was attended by more
than two hundred alumni. The toast-
master was Collin Armstrong, '77, and
the speakers were President Meiklejohn,
Alfred E. Stearns, '94, Burges Johnson,
'99, and Mr. Henry E. Jenkins, district
superintendent of schools of New
York City. Maurice L. Farrell, '01,
in full armor to represent Lord Geoffrey,
dehvered a prologue. The '77 reunion
trophy was awarded to 1906, with
twelve present. The same number were
present from "89, and '06 won the toss.
The class of '77, the donors, had thirteen
present. The menu contained a photo-
graph of the Morris Pratt Memorial
Dormitory.

The Connecticut Valley Association.
— The annual dinner was held on
January 16th, at the Hotel Worthy,
Springfield. William F. Whiting, '86,
the retiring president of the association,
acted as toastmaster, and the other
speakers were President Meiklejohn,
Professor Henry M. Tj'ler, 'Q5, of Smith
College, Dr. Herbert C. Emerson, '89,
Frederick S. Allis, '93, and Professors
Emerson, John M. Tyler and Crook.
The singing was led by Blake, '97, and
Merrill, '99. About eighty alumni
were present. Dr. Emerson was elected
president of the association, George R.
Yerrall, '11, secretary and treasurer,
and William F. WTiiting, '86, repre-
sentative in the alumni council.

The Boston Association. — The annual
dinner of the association was held at
the Copley-Plaza on January 28th, and

was the largest gathering in the associa-
tion's history, more than five hundred
being present. The class of '78 secured
the prize for the largest attendance.
The toastmaster was William Orr, '83,
and the speakers were President Meikle-
john, Rev. John T. Stone, '91, Dwight
W. Morrow, '95, and Sydney D. Cham-
berlain, '14, Robert A. Woods, '86,
was elected president of the association,
and Harold C. Keith, '08, secretary.

The Chicago Association.— The young
alumni association had a very successful
dinner on January 31st at the Uni-
versity Club. Seventy-five men were
present, and the speakers were Professor
John M. Tyler and Frederick S. Allis,
'93. John M. Clapp, '90, of Lake
Forest college, acted as toastmaster.

George H. Mcllvaine, '01, was elected
president of the aossciation, A. Mitchell,
'10, secretary, and Percival B. Palmer,
'04, Marquette Building, treasurer.

The Philadelphia Association. — The
annual dinner of the association was
held at the University Club on February
13th, and was a most successful affair.
Frederick P. Powers, '71, editor of the
Philadelphia Record, acted as toast-
master, and the speakers were President
INIeiklejohn, Rev. Winthrop Greene,
Rev. John H. Eastman, '69, Barry
Bulkley, '87, Samuel D. Warriner, '88,
and Frederick S. Allis, '93. The singing
was led by Robert P. Esty, '97. The
new president of the association is Rev.
Charles E. Bronson, '80, and the secre-
tary and treasurer is Theodore W.
Seckendorff, 1353 So. Linden St., West
Philadelphia.

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The Washington Association. — The
annual dinner of the association was
held at the Cosmos Club on March
li2th. President Meiklejohn was the
principal speaker, and among those
present were three Amherst congress-
men, Gillett, '74, Rainey, '83, and
Treadway, '86.

The Brooklyn Association. — This
Association has given the College a
scholarship of $140 for the year 1914-
1915, open to candidates who have this
year completed their preparation in any
Brooklyn high school.

The Cleveland Association. — The
Association of Cleveland and vicinity
met informally for dinner February
25th at the University Club, Cleveland.
Charles K. Arter, '88, presided. Fred-
erick S. AUis, '93, the guest of the
evening, told about the plans for form-
ing an alumni council. The alumni
present at the dinner expressed their
interest in the plans and gave them
their enthusiastic approval. — Charles
W. Disbrow, '94, is Secretary of the
association.

The Alumni Council. — The final
meeting of the Organization Committee
of the Alumni Council of Amherst Col-
lege was held in Springfield at the Hotel
Kimball, on Saturday, March 28th.
There were present Pres. Wm. F.
Slocum, '74, of Colorado College, Wil-
liam Orr, '83, of Boston, Henry P.
Field, Esq., '80, of Northampton,
Frank H. Parsons, Esq., '81, of New
York, William B. Greenough, Esq., '88,
of Providence, Prof. Thomas C. Esty,
'93, of Amherst, Henry P. Kendall, '99,
of Norwood, Frederick K. Kretschmar,
'01, of Boston, Ernest M. \^Tiitcomb,
'04, of Amherst and Frederick H. Allis,
'93, Secretary of the Committee. A
constitution for the Council was
adopted and the members of the first
Council were appointed. The first
meeting of the Council will be held in
Springfield on Wednesday, May 20th,
the day before the Amherst Williams
Baseball game at Amherst. The com-
mittee will shortly make a formal re-
port to the Alumni.

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GENERAL

The appearance of the year-books
of the leading clubs is often an item of
interest as reflecting the activities and
associations of the alumni. Thus for
several years Amherst men have been:
secretary (Houghton, '93) and treas-
urer (Chapin, '91) of the University
Club of Boston.

Possibly the most unique club in the
country is the Century Association of
New York, which in many ways is
more similar than other American clubs
to the Athenaeum of London. It is
significant that on its roll are now thirty-
eight Amherst men, as follows: Abbott,
'81, Babbott, '78, Bliss, '82, Brownell,
'71, Child, '90, Clark, '72, Crittenden,
'81, Cushing, '91, Ewing, '88, Foster,
'98, Goodnow, '78, Goodnow, '79,
Hagen, '79. Hamlin, '75, Harris, '66,
James, '89, Kemp, '81, Morrow, '^95,
Mead, '67, Norton, '93, Noyes, '83,
Plimpton, '76, Pratt, '93, Prentice, '85,
Redfield, '77, Simpson, '71, Smith, '74,
Stone, '94, Swift, '76, J. B. Walker, '83,
W. Walker, '83, Walker, '96, Washburn,
'76, Whitman, '90, Whitridge, '74,
Willcox, '84, Williams, '73, Woodbridge,
'89. The Amherst member of longest
standing is Whitridge (1883), while
those elected in 1913 were Foster,
Harris, Morrow, Norton, Pratt and
Williams.

1853

Rev. James Buckland died at his
home in Los Angeles, Cal., on August 22,
1913, at the age of 83. He was the son
of Joseph and Rachel (Daniel) Buck-

land. He fitted for college at Whipple
academy, Lagrange, Mo. After gradu-
ating from Amherst he studied law at
Harvard and was admitted to the bar
at St. Louis, Mo., in 1856. His experi-
ence as a lawyer, however, was brief.
In 1856 he went into the mercantile
business at St. Louis and continued in
business until 1874. In 1875 he studied
theology with Rev. Dr. Albro at Cam-
bridge and with Rev. J. H. Brooks,
at St. Louis, Mo. He was ordained in
the Baptist Church on November 27,
1876, at East St. Louis, 111.

Ralph Lyman Parsons, died at his
home in Ossining, N. Y., on February
26. Dr. Parsons was born July 30, 1828,
at Prattsburg, N. Y. In 1857 he was
graduated from the New York Medical
College, and was medical superintendent
of the New York City Asylum for the
Insane from 1865 to 1877. He held
the same position in Kings County for
the year 1877-1878. In 1880 he moved
to Ossining and estabUshed a private
sanitarium for persons suffering from
mental and nervous diseases. He was a
member of many medical societies.

1855
The death of Appleton Howe Fitch
has been reported recently. He died
on August 28, 1913, at his home in
Kalamazoo, Mich., at the age of 68.
He was the son of John Augustus and
Lucy Ann (Howe) Fitch, and was born
in Hopington, March 11, 1830. He
fitted for college at Hopington school
and Wilbraham academy. After being
graduated from college he taught at

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Franklin academy, Dover, N. H., 1855-
1859; in Chicago, 111., 1857-1858; in
the high school at Dixon, 111., 1858-
1859; at Peoria, 111., 1859-1864. While
at Peoria he married Miss Elizabeth H.
Bennett of Chicago, III., October, 1859.
During the civil war he served as lieu-
tenant of the 139th Illinois Volunteers.
After his return from the war he settled
in Naples, Ind., as a manufacturer,
where he resided from 1864 until 1872,
when he moved to Kalamazoo, Mich.

Rev. Henry S. Kelsey died in Chicago
December 26th. He was known to
many of the oldest Amherst men as
"Tutor Kelsey," for he was a teacher
in the mathematical department of
Amherst for several years. Later he
studied for the ministry and occupied
important pastorates at Woburn, Mass.,
and New Haven, Conn. In recent
years he has been a member of the firm
of Kelsey & Gore, opticians, Chicago.
He sent three nephews to Amherst,
who were graduated in '76, '80 and '84.

1856

The sixty-fifth anniversary number
of the Independent, on January 5th,
contained an article by William Hayes
Ward on " Three Score Years and Five. "

The Independent during February
and March contained a series of articles
by William Hayes Ward on "What I
believe and Why."

1858

Rev. George Sayles Bishop, founder
and pastor emeritus of the First Re-
formed Church, East Orange, N. J.,
died suddenly on February 13, at his
home. Dr. Bishop was born in Roch-
ester in 1836. He spent forty-four
years in the ministry, of which thirty-
five were devoted to East Orange,
retiring in 1907. One of the best known

of his writings is his book, "The
Doctrines of Grace," published in 1910.
He was at one time editor of the Sower
and Gospel Field, the Reformed church
organ. In 1885 Dr. Bishop was
appointed Vedder lecturer at Rutgers
college and the Theological Seminary
at New Brunswick, and three times he
was elected to represent the Reformed
church in America in the councils of the
Pan-Presbyterian Alliance. He twice
represented the American Presbyterian
Church in the General Synod of Hol-
land.

Rev. Edward Payson Gardner died
at his home in Chester, N. J., on Thurs-
day February 19th at the age of 76.
His death came suddenly and was caused
by heart trouble. Dr. Gardner was
born in Buffalo, N. Y., on February 2,
1838, the son of Noah H. and Fanny
(Foster) Gardner. He fitted for college
at the private school of Mr. Lord in
Buffalo. From this school he entered
Hamilton college where he remained for
one year, entering Amherst the follow-
ing year with the sophomore class. He
attended Union Theological seminary
1859-1869, and was ordained as a
Presbyterian clergyman at Cherry
Valley, N. Y., on February 11, 1865.
He preached at Cherry Valley 1864-
1868; at Hoboken, N. J., 1868-1872;
at Woodland Ave. Church, Cleveland,
O., 1872-1876; at Portland, Me., 1877-
1878. He was the author of "Gospel
Work and Truth." He married Miss
Marietta Amanda Hall, of West Bloom-
field, N. H., September 5, 1877.

1860

Prof. William C. Esty, Secretary,
85 Elm Street Worcester. Mass.

Prof. George O. Little, D. D., has
published in a recent number of the
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ing interpretation of the Book of Esther;
in which paper he traces the double
plot of the book, which centers about
the two characters of Haman and
Mordecai, and shows how the purpose
is to draw the contrast between Luck
and Providence. His treatment ex-
plains the important part that Purim,
or the Feast of Lots, plays in the book;
also it gives a reasonable explanation
why the name of God is so studiously
avoided. His view, contrary to that
of many critics, is that the Book of
Esther adds a very important element
to revelation.

1861

The wife of William A. Lawrence
died of paralysis at their home in
Jamaica, N. Y., on February 16th,
after an illness of five years. Mrs.
Lawrence was a graduate of Mount
Holyoke college.

1863

George Ephraim Fuller, a retired
fellow of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, died suddenly of heart disease
at his home in Monson, Mass., Decem-
ber 23d, aged 74 years. Dr. Fuller was
a native of Wilbraham. He was one
of those who left college in '61 to enter
the army, where he served four years
and seven months. He had practised
medicine in Monson since 1868 and at
the time of his death was president of
the Monson National bank.

1864

John Brown Dunbar died at his home
in Bloomfield, N. J., on Thursday,
March 12. He was the son of the Rev.
John Dunbar, long a missionary among
the Pawnees on the Western plains.
John Brown Dunbar, the third son.

was born April 3, 1841, at Bellevue,
Neb., at that time Indian country,
where Pawnee, Omaha, and Oto Indians
roved. Mr. Dunbar was reared among
the Pawnees, and, of course, spoke their
language. He was considered an author-
ity on the language, grammar, and cus-
toms of this people.

His father gave Mr. Dunbar his pri-
mary education while wandering with
the Pawnees during his missionary
service, and he spent a year at Hopkins
Academy, Hadley, Mass. He served
in the Civil War, and from 1869 to 1878,
held the chair in Latin and Greek in
W^ashburn College, Topeka, Kan. After
leaving Topeka, he became Super-
intendent of Public Schools at Deposit,
and later for sixteen years held the
same position in Bloomfield, N. J. In
1897, he became connected with the
Boys' High School in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where he remained almost to the time
of his death.

Mr. Dunbar was a philologist, de-
voted especially to Indian languages,
and was deeply interested in the early
history and exploration of the South-
western L'nited States. In 1872-73,
he assisted Father Galiland, of St.
Mary's Mission, in the preparation of a
Pottawatami grammar and dictionary.
He prepared, but did not publish, a
brief grammar and partial vocabulary
of the Pawnee language. He furnished
the late Daniel G. Brinton, of Philadel-
phia, a collection of Indian songs.
Pawnee, Arikara, Caddo, and Wichita,
and papers on the religious beliefs and
usages and on the medical practices of
the Pawnees, and assisted Dr. John Gil-
mary Shea, of Elizabeth, N. J., on va-
rious Indian matters. To the Magazine
of American History he contributed an
important series of articles on the Paw-
nee Indians, wrote an appendix on the

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Pawnee language for Grinnell's "Paw-
nee Hero Stories and Folk Tales,' ' and
besides this wrote many articles on
Indians and early Western history.
He edited Cooper's "The Last of the
Mohicans' ' for the Ginn series of school
classics.

1865

Don Gleason Hill, for two years a
member of the class of 1865, died Feb-
ruary 21st, at his home in Dedham.
Not only was he a distinguished and
able lawyer, but he won a wide reputa-
tion for historical and antiquarian
research. For his studies along this
line Amherst bestowed on him the hon-
orary degree of A.M. Mr. Hill was
town clerk of Dedham for thirty- two
years, and held every other important
oflBce within the gift of the town for
extended periods. He was a member
of numerous historical societies and for
years president of the Dedham Histori-
cal Society. He edited the "Old Ded-
ham Records" in five volumes and
"Modern Dedham Records" in four
volumes. Rev. Joseph B. Seaburj',
'69, delivered a eulogy at the funeral
services.

1866

Rev. John E. Dame died in Dover,
N. H., on January 28th at the age of
74, after fifty-three years in the ministry.
He was born in Hollowell, Me., Decem-
ber 11, 1840, and after leaving he
attended the New Hampton Theologi-
cal seminary. He was ordained Octo-
ber 28, 1868, at Danville, Vt., and
after two years at Danville, he accepted
the call of the Free Baptist Church at
Lowell. Later he preached in Boston
and several other parishes in Massachu-
setts, Maine and New Hampshire. His
widow and five children survive.

1867

Payson W. Lyman, for twenty-five
years pastor of the Fowler Congrega-
tional Church of Fall River, Mass.,
has resigned.

1871

Professor Josiah Renick Smith, of
the Ohio State University, died in Co-
lumbus, Ohio, February 14. A resident
of Columbus practically all his life.
Professor Smith was beloved as a man
of culture, fine instincts and high
character. He was the author of text
books, numerous essays and critical
articles. He was born in Columbus in
1851, the son of Rev. Josiah D. Smith,
a Presbyterian minister. Educated in
the Columbus schools, after leaving
Amherst, he first taught in Columbus
high school and became assistant pro-
fessor of classic languages at Ohio State
University in 1876. From 1881 to 1883
he attended Leipzig university, and then
returned to Columbus, where the chair
of Greek language and literature was
created for him at the university. He
had held this post continuously since
then.

From the numerous tributes to Pro-
fessor Smith we quote the following:

In the death of Professor Josiah
Renick Smith Columbus has lost one
of her most beloved citizens.

Cultured scholar, teacher and author,
he left to the educational world a rich
legacy of scholarly achievements. But,
while he ranked high as an educator, to
a larger circle of acquaintances Pro-
fessor Smith was better known as a
musical critic. For years his criticisms
in The Citizen were eagerly sought and
universally accepted as the "last word"
by the best musicians of Columbus.
He was fearless and impartial and his
sincerity never was questioned.

Professor Smith had a lovable per-
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men lie never assumed dignity to
impress nor austerity to enforce. There
never was any sham or pretense about
him. He never was too busy to be
courteous. The humblest always found
him considerate without being patroniz-
ing. He was a real man and Columbus
will miss him.

1873

Prof. John M. Tyler, Secretary,
Amherst, Mass.

Charles N. Clark has been recently
elected one of the directors of the North-
ampton bank.

The death has been reported, on
July 29th, 1913, of Dr. John B. Swift
of Boston.

Rev. J. B. Thrall of Leicester has
accepted a call to the First Congrega-
tional Church of Asheville, N. C.

On February 22d, Talcott Williams
spoke at the twelfth annual conference
of New England Student Churchmen,
held at Amherst, on "Preparation and
Service." He recently delivered an
address on "The Public and the Press, "
at the "people's meeting "of the Church
of the Unity in Springfield.

Rev. Russell Woodman of St. Peter's
Church, Rockland, Me., died in London
on October 26, 1913. Born in Bucks-
port, Me., September 3, 1851, he was
early sent to the Abbott school for
boys, and thence to Phillips Andover
Academy. His first charge was Christ
Church, Hudson, N. Y. After holding
this position for a year, he went to the
General Theological Seminary in New
York. He then finished his studies at
Oxford, England. On his return, in
1884, he was ordained and accepted the
curacy of St. Peter's, Albany, N. Y.
After three years' service there he was
called to the rectorship of Trinity,
Albany, where he continued for ten
years. A nervous break-down made it
necessary for him to go to Maine.

After recovering somewhat from this
attack he took charge of St. Peter's
Church, Rockland, Me., in 1901.

1874

Elihtj G. Loomis, Secretary,
28 State Street., Boston, Mass.

Melvil Dewey was one of the speakers
at the annual meeting of the Efficiency
Society in New York City on January
17th.

Congressman Frederick H. Gillett
spoke on February 27th before the New
York Young Republican Club on " Spoils
in the Federal Civil Service."

1875

Prof. Levi H. Elwell, Secretary,
Amherst, Mass.

Charles A. Buffum gave a talk on
January 17th, at Williston Seminary
entitled "Venice and Milan."

Professor David Todd spoke on
February 2d at the Chicopee Baptist
Church on "Sun, moon and stars."

1876

W'lLLiAM M. DucKER, Secretary,
111 Broadway, New York City.

The following were present at the
dinner of the Amherst Association of
New York, Friday, February 27th:
Clark, Ducker, Guild, Hawes, Plimp-
ton, E. R. Smith, Stanchfield and Wash-
burn. All congratulate the Dinner
Committee on the success of their efforts
to make it " a live one. "

The William Brewster Clark lectures
of last year, by Professor James T.
Shotwell of Columbia University,
have been published by the Houghton
MifBin Co. in a volume entitled "The
Religious Revolution of To-day."

The Bulletin of Furman University,
Greenville, S. C, containing a history

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of Robert W. Patton's struggles in
obtaining his education, has just been
received. It is an interesting exhibi-
tion of indomitable persistency against
almost insurmountable obstacles.

George A. Plimpton was one of the
speakers at a Conference on Literary
Work, held in New York February 17th,
under the auspices of the Intercollegiate
Bureau of Occupations. He is one of
the twenty-nine trustees who will
administer the fund of $2,000,000 re-
cently given by Andrew Carnegie to
be used through the churches for the
promotion of international peace. He
is also treasurer of the Church Peace
Union.

George A. Plimpton has inaugurated
an original and unique feature, the
Permanent Educational Exhibit, in his
new fourteen story building at Fifth
Avenue and 13th Street, New York,
called the Educational Building. Here
are installed upwards of one hundred
exhibits, exclusively along the line of
education, in every conceivable branch.
The object in view is a bureau for
teachers' information, where may be
found all up-to-date methods pertinent
to their field of labor.

Rev. Arthur C. Powell, who for many
years has been pastor of Grace Church
in Baltimore, has recently resigned, and
is at present temporary rector of St.
Luke's, in the same city.

We regret to learn of the death of a
son of Charles P. Searle.

The Secretary will be greatly assisted
if '76 men will furnish him with any
personal information, so that the same
may be recorded from time to time in
this column.

1877

Rev. a. DeW. Mason, Secretary,
222 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nine members of the class of 1877 live

in Boston and vicinity : Bond, Copeland,
Dresser, Eddy, Gray, Green, Kyle,
Leete, and Tobey; and twelve in New
York and vicinity: Armstrong, Deady,
Fowler, Hartwell, Loomis, Marple,
Mason, Maxson, Morrell, Osgood, Pratt,
Redfield. No two of the men live in
any other one town or city.

The Annual Reunion of the Amherst
Alumni Association of Boston was held
on January 27 at the Copley Plaza Hotel
and was a great success. Seven "Sev-
enty-seven" men attended: Bond, Cope-
land, Dresser, Gray, Keith, Kyle and
Tobey. Four guests were also present,
making eleven in all in the circle sur-
rounding the table.

Charles F. Adams has been elected
president of the Michigan Amherst
Alumni Association.

Collin Armstrong has been elected
president of the New York Amherst
Alumni Association and presided at the
Annual dinner.

Mr. and Mrs. Collin Armstrong re-
cently gave a dinner at their home, 220
West 98th Street, New York City, in
honor of Dr. Talcott Williams, '73,
director of the Pulitzer School of Jour-
nalism in Columbia University, and
Mrs. Williams. Other guests were:
President Emeritus George Harris, '66,
and Mrs. Harris, District-Attorney
Charles S. Whitman, '90, and Mrs.
Whitman, Justice Bartow S. Weeks
and Mrs. Weeks and Col. and Mrs.
Henry W. Sackett.

Rev. Clarence H. Barber officiated
lately at the marriage of two of his sons,
one of whom is in business in Philadel-
phia and the other of whom has just been
settled as pastor of the Congregational
Church in Green's Farms, Conn.

Prof. John M. Clarke spent a portion
of last summer in erecting a monument
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of Sir William Logan, the first Director
of the Geological Survey of Canada, who
began his work in 1842.

J. Converse Gray has been elected
President of the Burnap Free Home at
Dorchester, Mass., for the fourteenth
consecutive year.

Prof. Charles S. Hartwell has under
his care seventeen teachers and 2700
pupils in one of the public schools of
Brooklyn.

Rev. Joseph B. Hingeley, as Secretary
of the Board of Conference Claimants
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
has raised $200,000 for this ministerial
relief fund of his Church and is pressing
on toward the "million dollar mark."

The Columbia Law Review for March
contained a review of Woerner's "Law
of Decedents' Estates" by Professor
Henry S. Redfield.

Judge Alonzo T. Searle has tried over
twelve hundred cases within the last four
years without suffering a single reversal
by the higher courts.

Henry Stockbridge is a member of the
Commission on Uniform State Laws of
Maryland, in which state he is also a
Justice of the Supreme Court.

Erasmus B. Waples is still suffering
from the results of a severe accident
which befell him nearly two years ago
while travelling in Europe, but is now
slowly progressing toward his normal
health.

1878

Prof. H. Norman Gardixer, Secretary,
Northampton, Mass.

Members of the Long Beach, Cal.,
Realty Board showed their appreciation
of the efforts of Henry P. Barbour in
behalf of the movement to secure bonds
for the harbor and port improve-

ment project in that city by reelecting
him at the annual meeting, held Jan-
uary 10, president of the organization
for another year. On January 20 Bar-
bour assisted, as chairman of the build-
ing committee, in the ceremonies con-
nected with the laying of the corner
stone of the new Congregational Church
at Long Beach, announcing the contents
of the box and directing the placing of
the same in the corner stone. The
handsome building, being erected at an
estimated cost of $130,000, owes its
existence in large measure to Barbour's
interest and energy.

The New York Times of Sunday,
February 8, contained an article by Rev.
William D. P. Bliss on the religious
militant organization, the Religious
Citizenship League, of which Bliss is
General Secretary. The League, it is
explained, differs from previous organi-
zations in plannmg to enlist religion in
a warfare in behalf of positive social
legislation. Among the measures ad-
vocated are suffrage for women, sup-
pression of white slavery by federal
investigation and prosecution, uniform
marriage and divorce laws in the differ-
ent states, prohibition of child labor, the
minimum wage for women, creation of a
National Health Bureau, extension of
the parcel post and absorption by the
Post Office of the telegraph and tele-
phone, and federal supervision of rail-
ways and steamship lines. The League
is non-partisan politically and non-
denominational in religion. Its head-
quarters are in the Bible House, New
York City.

Charles H. Moore had a letter in the
Greensboro, N. C, Daily News of Feb-
ruary 7 in reply to an ante-bellum south-
erner who had charged the negroes with
universal ingratitude.

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1879

Prof. J. F. Jameson, Secretary,
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.

Rev. Nehemiah Boynton served in
March on a commission appointed by
Mayor Mitchell of New York to advise
as to the proper closing hour for restau-
rants and dance halls. Their report
was in favor of 2 a.m. as the closing
hour.

Stanton Coit, of London, spoke before
the College Christian Association on
March 1st on "The Soul of America."
On January 19th he spoke before a
gathering of Congregational ministers
in Pilgrim Hall, Boston, on "How to
develop the spiritual resources of
America."

It was announced at the end of Feb-
ruary that Professor Frank J. Goodnow
had been elected to, and had accepted,
the presidency of Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, in succession to Dr. Ira Remsen,
who resigned in 1911. After leaving
Amherst, Professor Goodnow graduated
from the law school of Columbia Uni-
versity and later studied at the Univer-
sity of Berlin and at the Kcole Libre
des Sciences Politiques in Paris. Since
1883 he has been connected with Colum-
bia University, serving successively as
instructor in history, and as lecturer,
adjunct professor and professor of
administrative law, holding at present
the Eaton professorship of administra-
tive law and municipal science. He has
also served as acting dean of the faculty
of political science. He has received
the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Amherst, Harvard and Columbia. He
was the first president of the American
Political Science Association, and is a
member of the American Economic
Association, and of the Century, City
and University clubs of New York and
the Cosmos club of Washington. He

is the author of "Comparative Adminis-
trative Law" (1893), "Municipal Home
Rule" (1895), "Municipal Problems"
(1897), "Politics and Administration"
(1900), "City Government in the
United States" (1904), "Principles of
the Administrative Law of the United
States" (1905), and "Social Reform and
the Constitution" (1911), and the
editor of " Cases on the Law of Taxa-
tion" (1905), "Cases on Government
and Administration" (1906), and
"Cases on the Law of Officers" (1906).
For the past year Professor Goodnow
has been serving as legal adviser to the
President of the Chinese Republic.
In 1900 he served on the commission
which drafted the new charter for New
York City, and more recently he served
on President Taft's Economy and
Efficiency Commission. He also was
appointed in 1912 to investigate the
school administration of New York
City. He married Miss Elizabeth
Lyall of Brooklyn in 1886, and their
son, David F., who was a member of the
class of 1909, is now practising law in
New York City.

The Baltimore Sun contained the
following editorial:

The acceptance by Dr. Frank Johnson
Goodnow of the presidency of the Johns
Hopkins University brings to a gratify-
ing conclusion an effort extending over
a considerable period of time to fill one
of the most important posts in the whole
field of learning. The interest and the
concern created by this vacancy have
not been confined to Baltimore, but
have extended to all those engaged in
higher education the world over. The
result will be accepted everywhere as
satisfactory. From all accounts Dr.
Goodnow possesses all-around qualifi-
cations for the work that he is to take
up next fall. He is not only a scholar —
and by the way, his special field is one
that will appeal peculiarly to a large
city in the throes of solving its municipal
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"worldly knowledge, peculiarly fitted to
deal with those matters of administra-
tion which constitute so large a part of
the university's problem at this time.

The trustees of the Johns Hopkins
are to be congratulated upon the pa-
tience, fidelity and ability with which
they have pursued a difficult task to a
successful end. It will be a happy
announcement that President Keyser
will have to make at the commemoration
day exercises today. The announce-
ment will have the effect of stimulating
interest and creating high hopes in the
development of the plan for the Johns
Hopkins University in its new setting
at Home wood.

The Baltimore News contained the
following editorial:

The presidency of the Johns Hopkins
University is one of the great educa-
tional positions of the world. In seek-
ing to fill it after Dr. Remsen's resig-
nation two years ago the trustees could
do no less than set their standard as
high as the importance of the post re-
quired.

They have taken a long time to com-
plete their task. And as far as the re-
sult may be judged at this time, they
have not fallen below their own ideal.
This is the best answer to all criticisms
based upon delay.

They sought a combination of the
administrator and the research scholar,
and Dr. Goodnow is both. They
sought a man not too far advanced in
years, and the new president is 55.

Had the trustees waited long before
turning to him, the public might have
suspected that he had not the qualifi-
cations which would have commended
him at once. But it appears that he
was prominently considered early in
the quest, and that his name was
removed from the list of eligibles only
because his engagement as constitu-
tional adviser of the Chinese Republic
was believed by him and the trustees
to render his acceptance of the Hopkins
presidency impossible. By determined
efforts this obstacle has been removed
at last.

The Hopkins has had but three pres-
idents in the 38 years of its existence.
Oilman, the wonderful organizer, came
to the University with less prestige and
less evidence of all around capacity

than Dr. Goodnow possesses, Remsen,
the second, was a chemist first and last,
and took up the reins because he had
been accustomed to do so during the
periods of Gilman's absence. He has
never relaxed his hold upon the speci-
alty which has made the department
of chemistry at the Hopkins one of the
most famous in America.

It is no disparagement to either of
his eminent predecessors to say that
Dr. Goodnow possesses a versatility
and an intimate acquaintance with
public affairs outside of the field of
scholarship which few university men
in America have ever had. He has
lived as well as studied his specialty of
political science. If he shall measure
up in his new position to the standard
which his own record has set, not only
the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore but
he whole educational world will gain.

The New York Evening Post of Feb-
ruary 24 contained the following
editorial :

The question of the Johns Hopkins
Presidency has at last been solved by the
offer of the post to Prof. Frank J. Good-
now, and its acceptance by him. Pro-
fessor Goodnow's ability in his own
field, his administrative capacity and
experience, and his exceptional working
power give promise of success in his
new undertaking. In personal traits,
he differs from what is generally thought
of as the typical university president;
he is eminently plain and straightfor-
ward in his ways, and it will be through
these qualities rather than by means of
diplomatic management that his influ-
ence will be built up. He has a diffi-
cult and complex task before him, with
the Baltimore University not only about
to change its home, but branching out
into the field of technology. From the
very start, he will be confronted with
the conflicting claims of extent on the
one hand and quality on the other; and
we trust that he will recognize the vital
importance of firmly adhering, in spite
of all temptation, to the idea of high
quality as the paramount aim of the
University. It is upon that basis that
it has rendered its great service to
American scholarship and science, and
it is upon that basis only that its dis-
tinctive merit as an institution of
national importance can be maintained.

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1880

Henky p. Field, Secretary,
Northampton, Mass.

The following members of the class
were present at the dinner of the Boston
Alumni held in January : Blair, Farwell,
H. P. Field, Headley, Keith, Kelsey,
Packard and Perkins.

Frank W. Blair is financial editor of
the Boston Journal.

Rev. John DePeu, formerly of Bridge-
port, Conn., is now pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Williamstown,
Mass.

Rev. Parris T. Farwell has recently
resigned as pastor of the Congregational
Church at Wellesley Hills, Mass., and is
now doing editorial work for the Con-
gregaiionalist. He is author of a volume
on "Village Improvements," published
by Sturgis and Walton in their "Far-
mers' Practical Library "series. It has
been spoken of as "one of the most sug-
gestive and valuable of the whole series.
Dr. Farwell has had a wide experience
in some of the finest New England towns
and his wide study makes him an au-
thority on the subject. How far-reach-
ing the subject is may be gleaned from
the table of contents, for village im-
provement today is something more
than the beautifying of the streets and
the landscape. It means the improve-
ment of the whole life of the village — the
enrichment of the social life, the train-
ing of the children, the preservation of
health, the subject of law and order,
and greatest of all, the religious welfare
of the people. It is more than an ab-
stract discussion. Specific incidents,
many of them in the experience of the
author, are constantly cited. The ap-
pendix contains the rules of some of the
most efiicient village improvement socie-
ties in the country. The book is help-

fully illustrated. If our New England
towns might be guided by the instruc-
tion and experience of this book we
should have a 'country beautiful.' At
any rate, much has already been accom-
plished. That the book of Dr. Farwell
shows. But in many towns the work
has not yet begun. This is a book that
every one with civic pride should read
for suggestion."

Charles F. Hopkins has left Duluth
and is now practising law at Roseburg,
Oregon.

1881

Frank H. Parsons, Secretary,
60 Wall Street, New York City.

On February 11th, Rev. Charles H.
Dickinson spoke before the men's club
of the Edwards Church, Northampton,
on "The emancipation of the negro
renter." Henry Clay Hall has been
appointed by President Wilson a mem-
ber of the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission. He was born in New York
in 1860, and after leaving Amherst
was graduated from the Columbia Law
School. He practised law for a num-
ber of years in New York City and in
Paris, and since 1892 has lived at Colo-
rado Springs, Col., of which city he was
mayor in the years 1905-1907. He
also served on the body which drafted
for that city the new charter providing
for a commission form of government.
He has made a specialty of mining law
and of transportation problems, and
is regarded as one of the foremost
citizens of Colorado. The Outlook for
March 14th contained his portrait
and also an editorial, including the
following comment: "His reputation
for intellectual acumen, for judicial
fairness, for executive ability and for a
wide knowledge of public affairs is well
established."

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1882

John P. Gushing, Secretary,
New Haven, Conn.

Mary Williams Bliss, daughter of
Howard S. Bliss, was married at Beirut,
Syria, on February 12th, to Bayard
Dodge, son of Cleveland H. Dodge a
prominent Princeton alumnus.

Rev. James W. Blxler, of New Lon-
don, Conn., this winter gave a series
of lectures on "The History of Chris-
tian Doctrine" at Atlanta Theological
Seminary.

Rev. Philips M. Watters has been
elected president of Gammon Theo-
logical Seminary at Atlanta, Ga., an in-
stitution which trains colored preachers
for the Methodist churches in the south.

At the 275th Anniversary of the First
Congregational Church of Exeter,N. H.,
in December, Rev. Lucius H. Thayer,
of Portsmouth, delivered an address on
"Three Centuries of New Hampshire
Congregationalism."

1883

John B. Walker, Secretary,
50 East 34th Street, New York City.

At the annual dinner of the New York
Alumni Association, on February 27th,
the following were present: Blanke,
Houghton, Noyes, Rae, Semple, H. A.
Smith, J. B. Walker and Warren. Let-
ters were received and read from Gaboon,
Cochran, Dyer, Marsh, W. Nash, Orr,
Patton, Rainey, Rhees, Rugg and W.
Walker.

Henry A. H. Smith was married on
May 22d, 1913, to Miss Kathryn Yost
Leonhardt.

Rev. Cornelius H. Patton and Rev.
Williston Walker spoke before the col-
lege Christian association on February
15th on "The place of religion in per-
sonal life."

Dr. John B. Walker, according to the
Columbia Unirersify Quarterly, is now
visiting surgeon at Bellevue Hospital,
attending surgeon at the Hospital for
Ruptured and Crippled, and consult-
ing surgeon at Manhattan State Hospi-
tal and at St. Andrew's Convalescent
Hospital.

Rev. and Mrs. Henry Fairbank have
returned on furlough from the Marathi
Mission, Ahmednagar, India, and will
remain in this country a year.

Charles C. T. Whitcomb, Headmas-
ter of the Brockton High School, has
been appointed representative of the
Massachusetts State Board of Educa-
tion at the Panama Pacific Exposition.
He will have in charge the preparation
and curatorship of the educational ex-
hibit from this state.

1885

Frank E. Whitman, Secretary,
490 Broome Street, New York.

Rev. Frederick B. Richards, pastor
of Phillips Church, South Boston, Mass.,
has resigned to accept a call to the Con-
gregational Church of St. Johnsbury,
Vt.

James E. Tower has returned from
abroad and has joined the editorial
staff of the Delineator. WTiile abroad
he wrote a number of articles on topics
relating to the railways of France and
Italy for the American Magazine, the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, and other
publications. Mr. and Mrs. Tower
are now living at the Hotel Bret ton
Hall, New York City.

1886

Charles F. Marble, Secretary,
4 Marble Street, Worcester, Mass.

Rev. John B. Clark, for many years
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Church, Detroit, Mich., closed his pas-
torate there in February, and began his
new duties as pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church, Washington, D. C.
His departure from Detroit was marked
by a large public reception.

Mr. Clark goes from Detroit to the
First Congregational Church of Wash-
ington, D. C, where he will have a
wider opportunity to make himself felt,
and where he can deliver his message
to men of influence from all over the
nation. Essentially a thinker and a
poet, and therefore a philosopher, he
should be eminently fitted for his new
field of work. It is impossible to avoid
the conclusion that for a man of his
equipment and habit of thought, in
the very prime of life, the opportunity
that has opened to Mr. Clark is almost
ideal, and only congratulations and
good wishes can be offered him as he
embarks on his new venture.

The New York Evening Post of Feb-
ruary 28 contained an interesting letter
on "The Becker Case" by Daniel F.
Kellogg. Among other critical com-
ments is the following:

No intelligent person familiar with
the Becker case, or who has even read
the review of the case by the Court of
Appeals, can fail to know that this trial
was conducted on the method invariably
adopted by ambitious, inexperienced,
and reckless prosecutors and lawyers in
all time past — namely, of striving for a
jury verdict in their favor at any sac-
rifice whatever of legal principles, and
leaving it to chance and public clamor
to carry the verdict successfully past
the scrutiny of judicial review. The
attempt in the Becker case has failed
just as it has failed in a score of such
cases in our city since sensational jour-
nalism has had its sway. Our Court
of Appeals — constituted judges both of
the law and the fact in capital cases, as
our newspaper editorial writers seem to
forget— has shown that another law
exists in the State of New York besides
mob law; and every good citizen will
rejoice at the fact.

Robert Lansing was in March nomi-
nated by President Wilson to the impor-

tant post of Counsel to the Department
of State, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Hon. John Bassett
Moore.

Mr. Lansing was born at Watertown,
N. Y.,-October 17, 1864, and after leav-
ing Amherst was admitted to the bar
in his native town, and was there a
member of the firm of Lansing &
Lansing from 1889 to 1907. He served
as associate counsel for the United
States in the Behring Sea arbitration in
1892, and was later one of the counsel of
the Behring Sea Claims Commission.
In 1903 he served as solicitor for
the United States Alaskan Boimdary
Commission, and in 1909 and 1910
represented the fisheries interests in
arbitrations at the Hague. He has
recently been acting as agent of the
United States in a number of arbitra-
tion claims pending between Great
Britain and the United States. In
addition to membership in various pro-
fessional and learned societies, as well
as in the Metropolitan and Chevy
Chase Clubs of Washington, he has
been a trustee of the Watertown public
library and vice-president of the City
National Bank of Watertown. He is
one of the authors of "Government:
its Origin, Growth and Form in the
United States,' ' and is one of the editors
of the American Journal of Internaiional
Law. He is a son-in-law of Hon. John
W. Foster, formerly Secretary of State.
The New York Evening Sun said: "The
selection of Mr. Lansing was most
heartily commended as soon as it be-
came known that he had been ap-
pointed."

The New York Times contained the
following editorial comment on the
appointment:

The appointment of Mr. Robert
Lansing to the post of State Depart-
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much regretted retirement of Mr. John
Bassett Moore, will serve to relieve
the anxiety that has lately been frankly
expressed as to the conduct of the
affairs of that department in the
immediate future. Mr. Lansing has
had ample training for the onerous
post and is believed to have precisely
the qualities of mind required for the
performance of its duties. He is
versed in international law and within
the last twenty years has been of
great service to his country as counsel
in various cases of international dis-
pute. As a lawyer Mr. Lansing is
likely to confine his services in the
department to the exposition of the
legal aspects of the various problems
that arise, but the presence of a man
so experienced and well equipped will
not be the less beneficial in view of
the plentiful evidence of the lack of
experience in international procedure
in the Secretary of State's office these
days.

The New York Evening Sun com-
mented editorially upon the appoint-
ment in part as follows :

A Reassuring Selection.

The choice of Robert Lansing of
New York as counselor to the State
Department will lessen apprehension in
the country, which was inclined to fear
that Mr. John Bassett Moore's successor
would not more than equal in talent
for diplomacy some of Mr. Bryan's
other assistants, in which case the State
Department stood a good chance of
becoming a derelict in international
politics.

Deprived of the services of Coun-
selor Moore, it is comforting to know
what advice upon foreign issues — such
advice as Mr. Bryan will take — is to
come from one who has long specialized
in international matters. Mr. Lansing,
moreover, is a son-in-law of John W.
Foster, Secretary of State under Presi-
dent Harrison, and is to this extent
identified with the Department from
days when its methods won greater
respect that at present ....

With this experience and equipment

it appears that Mr. Lansing should be

able to offer the sort of advice which

the State Department most urgently

requires, and it is to be hoped that Mr.
Bryan will lend an ear to at least this
other voice of counsel.

Congressman Allen T. Treadway
spoke in Pittsburgh on January 29th at
the banquet commemorating President
McKinley's birthday.

William F. Walker died suddenly, of
angina pectoris, on January 24th, at his
home in Fair Haven, Vt. He had ap-
parently been in the best of health, and
on the day of the fatal attack had at-
tended to his business affairs as usual.
The son of Franklin W. and Elvira
(Sherman) Walker, he was born in Ben-
son, Vt., January 24, 1865, and fitted
for college chiefly at Hadley and at the
Troy conference academy, Poultney,
Vt. After leaving Amherst, he attended
the Albany Law School, and after com-
pleting the course there he became su-
pervisor of schools for Rutland County,
making his home at Proctor, Vt. He
was the first treiisurer of the Proctor
Trust Company, remaining in that posi-
tion until 1891, when he became cashier
of the First National Bank of Fair
Haven, the position he held at the time
of his decease. He had represented Fair
Haven in the general assembly, had been
state senator for Rutland county, and
for many years had been town treasurer
of Fair Haven, school trustee, library
trustee, and church treasurer, as well as
occupying other positions of trust. The
local paper spoke in the warmest terms
of his very substantial a nd helpful serv-
ices to the town. Mr. Walker married
on August 15, 1889, Miss Emma Spencer
Jones, of Benson, who, with two daugh-
ters and one son, survives him. The
funeral services were held on January
28th, and were largely attended both by
the townspeople and by many from sur-
rounding towns.

Among other tributes, one of the ac-
tive citizens of the county wrote: "I be-

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lieve that Mr. Walker was unquestion-
ably the most influential citizen of Fair
Haven. The town and every thing per-
taining to it, especially its finances, has
met an irreparable loss in being deprived
of his wisely directing and guiding
hand."

Robert A. Woods, of Boston, has been
appointed a member of the Boston
Licensing board, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Commissioner
Emery. The indorsement received by
Mr. Woods is said to have had much to
do with the appointment. Among his
indorsers were President Emeritus Eliot
of Harvard, President Lowell of Har-
vard, President Maclaurin of M. I. T.,
President Murlin of Boston University,
and Dean Hurlbut of Harvard. Follow-
ing his graduation at Amherst, Mr.
Woods took courses in theology and
social science at Andover Theological
seminary. He is now a director of the
South End house, Boston, an institution
devoted to social settlement work.

The Rev. James S. Young, pastor of
the Garfield (N. J.) Presbyterian
Church, who got out of a sick bed to
marry a couple in his church, died in
the General Hospital the next day,
March 26, of acute indigestion. His
vitality was so low that the doctors
feared to operate on him. Mr. Young
had been ill for a month, but insisted
on performing the ceremony at the
wedding of Miss Edna Butterworth and
William Kistler. He collapsed imme-
diately afterwards and was removed to
the hospital. Mr. Young was 50 years
old and a graduate of Amherst and the
Union Theological Seminary.

1888

Asa G. Baker, Secretary,

6 Cornell Street, Springfield, Mass.

By special request, Albert S. Bard

read a paper before the Bar Associa-

tion of New York City on March 10th,
on the election laws of New York, a
subject which he has thoroughly inves-
tigated.

The leading article in the New York
Medical Journal of December 27th is
the address at the opening of the State
Cancer hospital at Buffalo, made by Dr.
James Ewing, now professor of Pathol-
ogy in Cornell Medical College.

Prof. W'arren J. Moulton gave a stere-
opticon lecture at the ninth annual
convocation week of Bangor Theological
seminary entitled "A chapter of the
History of Jerusalem's Struggle for
Water."

Arthur H. Pierce died after a brief
illness of pneumonia on February 20th,
at his home in Northampton, Mass.
He was born in Westboro, July 30, 1867,
the son of Samuel and Caroline (Tufts)
Pierce. After graduating he first con-
tinued his studies at Amherst and served
as Walker Instructor in Mathematics.
In 1892 he took the degree of A.M. at
Harvard, and in 1893 was appointed to
the newly founded Ruf us B. Kellogg Fel-
lowship at Amherst. He then pursued
the study of psychology at Har-
vard, Berlin, Strassburg and Paris, tak-
ing the degree of Ph.D. at Harvard in
1899, and lecturing at Amherst under
the terms of the Kellogg Fellowsliip
from 189G to 1900. In 1900 he be-
came professor of psychology in Smith
College, and continued in that posi-
tion until his death. In 1901 he pub-
lished the results of his work as Kellogg
Fellow in a volume of "Studies in
Space Perception." He had been an
editor of the Psychological Bulletin
and secretary of the American Psycho-
logical Association. The funeral serv-
ice was conducted by President Burton,
on February 22d, and the burial was
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married, and is survived by a sister,
Miss Harriet Pierce, a teacher in the
Worcester High School. A memorial
service was held at Smith College on
March 1st.

The American Association to Pro-
mote the Teaching of Speech to the
Deaf has issued in pamphlet form
extracts from the report submitted to
the Board of Education of Massachu-
setts by John D. Wright, who was
appointed to conduct an inquiry into
the education of the deaf in Massachu-
setts. The Volta Review of January
contained an article by Professor
W'right on "The Economic Significance
of Deafness," being a paper originally
read before the New York Physicians
Association on December 17, 1913.
The same review for November, 1913,
contained an article by the same
author on "The Disadvantages of
Private Instruction in the Home."

tions between them and the people of
the United States. Dr. Day also bears
special greetings from the Congrega-
tionalists to their missionaries and fel-
low Christians in the Orient.

Arthur Curtiss James is a trustee of
the New York Trust Company and also
of the United States Trust Company of
New York. The New York papers an-
nounce that plans have been filed for
his new residence, which will occupy a
portion of the former site, on Park Ave-
nue, of the Union Theological Seminary.

Among gifts to Yale University re-
cently announced was one of $100,000
from Arthur Curtiss James and Mrs.
D. Willis James.

Edgar H. Parkman, of Thompson-
ville, Conn., is now grand master for
Connecticut of the Masonic order.

The Chronicle for February contained
an article by Frederick J. E. Wood-
bridge on "Faith and Pragmatism."

1889

H. H. BoswoRTH, Secretary,
15 Elm Street, Springfield, Mass.

George B. Churchill has been elected
a member of the school committee of
Amherst.

Dr. William H. Day, pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Los
Angeles, Cal., has been granted a leave
of absence for a year by the church after
a faithful and efficient pastorate of 12
years. Dr. Day left San Francisco with
his wife and mother on December 18th
for a trip around the world. Dr. Day
was asked by the International Peace
committee, representing many of the
churches on the Pacific coast, to be their
messenger of peace and good will to the
people of Japan, China and India, and to
express the desire for a better under-
standing and for the most cordial rela-

1890

Edwin B. Child, Secretary,

62 So. W^ashington Square, New York,

N. Y.

Henry C. Durand of Chicago has
pnrchased an estate at Dorset, \ t.,
where he will make his summer home.

Rev. Fosdick B. Harrison has ten-
dered his resignation, to take effect
May 1st, of the pastorate of the First
Congregational Church of Southington,
Conn.

The affirmance by the Court of Ap-
peals of New York of the conviction of
the four "gunmen" for the Rosenthal
murder has attracted further attention
to the important services of District
Attorney Whitman. In the February
number of the Cosmopolitan there is an
article by John T. Graves entitled
"Whitman, Peerless Prosecutor."

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Some idea of the work Whitman is doing
in New York may be gathered from the
following excerpt: "Whitman, in a day
when critics of the courts call for new
procedure, has shown that all that is
wanted is the old-time virtues of cour-
age, honesty, ability and devotion to the
public interest. In the face of incredi-
ble odds he has already confined
more corrupt members of the police
force in New York than all his prede-
cessors put together for a generation."

1891

WiNSLOW H. Edwards, Secretary,
Easthampton, Mass.

The New York Times of March 8th
contained a review of Williams' "Life
of William Pitt," by Henry W. Boyn-
ton.

The Nuova Antologia has recently
republished in pamphlet form H. Nelson
Gay's essay on " Cavour e Cesare Balbo;
Critica e contro-critica letteraria."

The Financial Chronicle of February
28th contained a letter by H. A. Gush-
ing, calling attention to a statute of
Parliament of 1719, forbidding "inter-
locking" directors and "interlocking"
stockholders, and antedating by about
two hundred years the policy, which
was supposed to be novel, of the pres-
ent administration.

The new Faneuil church edifice in
Brighton, Mass., where Rev. Andrew
H. Mulnix is pastor, was recently dedi-
cated.

Robert S. Woodworth has recently
completed a volume, in collaboration
with Professor Ladd of Yale, entitled
"Physiological Psychology." He was
recently elected president of the Amer-
ican Psychological Association.

1892

DiMOX H. Roberts, Secretary,
Ypsilanti, Mich.

On February 11th, William H. Lewis
spoke at the Massachusetts Agricultural
Gollege, and "gave a strong, interesting
appeal for the permanent franchise of
the negro."

The interesting announcement has
been received of the "George Burbank
Shattuck Lectures on Nature and
Travel." Shattuck, who is professor
of geology in Vassar College, gives three
illustrated lectures: "The Lure of the
Canadian Rockies," "On Saddleback in
the Yellowstone," and "An evening with
the Orchids." He also announces for
the coming summer an outing tour for
college men, covering New Mexico,
Arizona and Northern California.

Cornelius J. Sullivan, is a member of
the committee on athletics and the com-
mittee on special schools of the Board
of Education of New York City.

A story told in the editorial leader of
the Atlantic Monthly for February
sounded to us remarkably like an Am-
herst story, and was indeed attributed
to Amherst by a comment in the Spring-
field Republican. We give the story
here:

Years ago two college teams, intensest
of rivals, were playing the decisive game
of a baseball series. It was the end of
the ninth. One team led by a single
run, but the other, with two men out,
had two men on bases. Then the
batter knocked a Homeric fly to the re-
motest field. The two runners dashed
home. Far to the right, close to the
outer fence, a fielder, still famous in song
and legend, flew toward the ball. Could
he reach it? Not a groan broke the still-
ness. He is close to it! He is under it!
Ye Gods of the Nine Innings, he's got it!
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225

him. Over and over again he rolls.
Now he's up, and there clutched in his
right hand, is the ball.

Did he catch it? Did he hold it.'' No
mortal umpire could tell. A roar of pro-
test went up from the benches on the left.
With all the dignity of the National
League upon him, the umpire waved to
the rocking bleachers to be quiet, so that
his decision might be heard. But that
decision was never given. Sullivan,
captain of the team at the bat, — Sullivan,
who was a mill-hand before he climbed
the heights of Olympus, — understood
the amateur spirit. Disregarding the
umpire he ran toward the incoming
fielder, and, in the agony of prolonged
suspense, cried aloud, 'Honest to God,
Chick, did you catch it?'

And Chick, the hero, answered,
'Honest to God, Sully, I did.'

And so the game was won in the days
before coaching was made perfect.

The incident referred to occurred in
an Amherst-Williams game when Cor-
nelius J. Sullivan was captain of the
Amherst nine. The Williams man was
at first called safe, but the umpire later
reversed the decision.

1893

Frederick S. Allis, Secretary,
Amherst, Mass.

William H. Da\-is has put in a claim
for the Second Flight Cup. Gordon
Davis was born March 18, 1914.

The officers of the class have been
at work recently compiling the Fifth
Report of the class which will be pub-
lished some time in April. The book
will contain an account of the 20th
Reunion, illustrated with photographs,
a biographical record of each man in
the class, an account of the class gift
to the college, of the Second Flight Cup,
with a cut of the cup, the Treasurer's
Statement and a complete address list.
The form in which the statistics about
each man is recorded, is a new one and
is believed to be particularly good.

The report will be one of the best the
class has ever issued.

T. Bellows Buffum is now living at
Walpole, N. H.

At the recent dinners of the various
Alumni Associations, President Meikle-
john has spoken in the highest terms
of the efficient work that is being done
by acting Dean Thomas Cushing Esty.
Professor Esty has had the entire charge
of the Dean's office during the absence
of Dean Olds.

The Spur for March 15 contained
an interesting illustrated article on
"Killen worth," George D. Pratt's new
country house at Glen Cove, Long
Island. The writer speaks of it as
"especially notable as an altogether
admirable expression of a distinctively
English style of architecture adapted
to American use."

1894

Hei\RY E. W'HITCOMb, Secretary,
Station A, W^orcester, Mass.

The Executive Committee of the Class
published at Christmas a diary giving
the addresses and noting all the historic
pre-historic and future events of the
Class.

President Stone has appointed the
following committees for the Vicennial
Reunion : — Program, Backus, Whitcomb
and L. E. Smith; Finance, Brown.
Noyes and Mitchell.

Edward R. Evans is now pastor of the
Congregational Church at Pawtucket,
R. I., and lives at 41 Lyon Street.

Don Gleason Hill, hon. '94, died at
his home in Dedham, Mass., on Feb-
ruary 21, aged 66. He was a well
known attorney, historian and genealo-
gist, and a graduate of the Albany Law
School.

W^alter Clarke Howe, M. D., is secre-

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tary of the Suffolk District Medical
Society of Boston.

Dr. Fitz Albert Oakes has given up
his practice in Worcester, Mass., and
moved to Providence, R. I.

Bertrand H. Snell, reports bis hydro-
electric plant is now in active operation.
Engineering experts pronounce it one of
the most complete and up-to-date power
generating plants in the country.

Willis D. Wood is a trustee of the
Brooklyn Trust Company.

In an article on "Athletics and the
School" in the Atlantic Monthly for
February, Principal Alfred E. Stearns
deplores the dishonesty and foul prac-
tices that are prevalent in college games,
especially football, and regards these
things as a peril to athletics in our col-
leges and schools, and a deadly menace
to good morals. He raises inquiries
like the following:

With the clear knowledge before us of
the double standard of honesty so dis-
gustingly prevalent in our business,
professional, and political life to-day,
can we longer tolerate conditions which
reflect that national disgrace, and at the
same time provide unlimited material
for its continuance? And are we blind
and foolish enough to sit idly by and
allow irresponsible coaches, bereft of all
high ideals and governed by the lowest
motives, to deprive us of that which can
be, and ought to be, one of the most
helpful and wholesome influences in the
life of our schools.* And are we not
also aware that a clean and high-
minded coach may exert on our boys a
more uplifting and permanent influence
than that perhaps of preachers and
lecturers combined.''

His summarizing paragraph is:
Knowledge without goodness is dan-
gerous! In every sphere of life the
truth of that clear statement is abun-
dantly evidenced. If we cannot put
knowledge into the minds of our coming
citizens while fortifying that knowledge
with rugged honest}' and sound morals,
it will be better for our country, and
better for the world, that we close al-

together the doors of our institutions of
learning. Our student life to-day is
many-sided and complex. But in what-
ever sphere of that student life charac-
ter is at stake, there our duty calls us to
go; and we shall not be true to the
great trust reposed in us if we fail to
heed and answer that call.

1895

William S. Tyler, Secretary,
30 Church Street, New York, N. Y.

Hon. Calvin Coolidge of Northamp-
ton was elected president of the Massa-
chusetts State senate on Wednesday,
January 7th. He received 31 out of the
38 votes cast. His address on that oc-
casion will be found on another page.

Robert Bridgman died on March 21st,
at Bomoseen, Vt., after an illness which
began with an attack of pleurisy last
October. He was the son of Herbert
L. Bridgman, '66, and was born in
Brooklyn in 1874. He fitted for col-
lege at the Adelphi Academy, and after
leaving college went into newspaper
work, serving on the staffs of the New
York Sun and Tribune, and later being
real estate editor of the Times. In 1901
he married Miss Marion Klaproth, who
survives with a daughter, eleven years
old, and a son, Herbert L., Jr., ten years
old. The funeral service was held on
March 24th at the house in which he
was born, 604 Carlton Avenue, Brook-
lyn, and was conducted by Rev. Nehe-
miah Boynton, '79.

Carlton A. Kelley is now district
sales manager of the Southern Sierras
Power Co., and lives at Riverside, Cal.

The New York papers of February
6th, in reporting a dangerous fire in a
large apartment building on West 71st
Street, mention the services of Robert
H. Mainzer in arousing the sleeping
tenants and assisting them to the
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Augustus T. Post, ex-secretary of the
Aero Club of America, was prominent
recently in the cast of " Omar the Tent-
maker," Richard Tally's new play.

Officers of the Brooklyn Young Men's
Christian Association recently an-
nounced that the new summer camp for
boys was a gift to the organization from
Herbert L. Pratt. Mr. Pratt gave the
$25,000 with which the site was pur-
chased. The property, of seventeen
acres, is at Woodvale , Staten Island
and has a frontage of 450 feet on Prince's,
Bay.

There was an article in the Congrega-
iionalist for February 12th in commen-
dation of Rev. Jay T. Stocking.

1896

Thomas B. Hitchcock, Secretary,
60 Federal Street, Boston, Mass.

Sumner Blakemore is now teaching
at Harrison, N. Y.

Archibald L. Bouton has been elected
Dean of the College of Arts and Pure
Science in New York University, suc-
ceeding in this ofHce Professor Francis
H. Stoddard, '69, One of the New
York papers speaks of the new appointee
as follows: "No member of the Faculty
of New York University has ever been
more popular with the student body
than the new Dean."

W. Eugene Kimball is a trustee of
The People's Trust Company of Brook-
lyn.

Roberts Walker spoke before the
Stockbridge, Mass., Forum on Feb-
ruary 7th on "The Federal Income Tax
Act. " The address was later published
in pamphlet form. He served during
the past winter as chairman of a com-
mittee representing New York banks
and trust companies in connection with
the Income Tax Law. The committee

prepared forms of protest and issued
analytical reports on the forms of tax
return.

1897

Dr. Benjamin K . Emerson, Secretary,
72 West Street, Worcester, Mass.

Rev. Loring B. Chase of Sunderland
has been elected president of the Frank-
lin County Congregational club.

Frederick K. Dyar will probably
spend most of the next year in the north-
west. His office will be at 508 Empire
State Building, Spokane, Wash.

Austin B. Keep has been appointed
an instructor in history at the College
of the City of New York.

James D. Lennehan is now secretary
of the Life Extension Institute, with
offices at 25 West 45th Street, New York
City.

Rev. Oliver B. Loud is now pastor
of the congregational church at Mittine-
ague, Mass.

Rev. Augustine P. Manwell has re-
ceived a call to the First Congregational
church at Glovers ville, N. Y.

William W. Obear has been recently
appointed head of the science depart-
ment of the academy at Somerville,
Mass.

1898

Rev. Charles W. Merriam, Secretary,
31 High Street, Greenfield, Mass.

Mrs. Georgie Boynton Child, who
together with her husband, Alfred T.
Child, conducts the Housekeeping Ex-
periment Station at Stamford, Conn.,
is publishing with McBride, Nast &
Co. a book entitled "The EflScient
Kitchen," written "to answer the
question of the practical homemaker
who desires to put her housekeeping on
a modern basis."

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1900

Fred H. Klaer, Secretary,
334 So. 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Walter A. Dyer, after eight years
with Doubleday, Page & Co., has re-
signed his position as editor of Country
Life in America, and will devote his at-
tention to magazine writing.

Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton G. Merrill of
Santa Barbara, Cal., report the birth
of a son, Robert Eschenburg, December
29, 1913.

1901

John L. Vanderbilt, Secretary,
14 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.

The following members of the class
attended the annual banquet of the
Amherst Associ?tion of New York at
the Waldorf on the evening of February
27th: Bates, Eastman, Farrell, Moore,
Morse, Rockwell, Phillips and Vander-
bilt. Before the dinner, Farrell imper-
sonated Lord Geoffrey Amherst, being
attired in full armor, which, inciden-
tally, was last worn by E. H. Sothern
in "If I were King." Farrell appeared
in the balcony with the spot light upon
him and gave a welcome to the Sons
of Amherst from the spirit of Lord
Geoffrey.

H. Keyes Eastman has removed from
Omaha, Neb., and is now living at
Pierrepont and Henry Streets, Brooklyn,
N. Y. He is in the " Dromedary Dates"
business, being associated with Hills
Bros, at 64 Irving Street, Brooklyn.

Loren H. Rockwell has been promoted
to the position of Assistant Trust Officer
of the Title Guarantee and Trust Com-
pany, 176 Broadway, New York City.

Ernest H. Wilkins has written two
articles on Boccaccio, the first for the
Romantic Review, discussing the date of
the birth of Boccaccio, the second for
Modern Philology, entitled "The Ena-

mourment of Boccaccio." In collabor-
ation with Prof. William A. Nitze, for-
merly of the Amherst College faculty,
he has published through the Univer-
sity of Chicago Press a small book on
"The French Verb: Its Forms and
Uses."

1902

Eldon B. Keith, Secretary,
30 South Street, Campello, Mass.

John Eastman was married on Sep-
tember 30th to Miss Helen Sohl of
Columbus, O.

Rev. J. Mason Wells is teaching the
History of Philosophy in Swarthmore
College during the absence of Professor
Holmes in Europe. He is pastor of the
Baptist Church in Kermett Square, Pa.
In the Friends' Intelligencer for the
third month is an interesting article by
Mr. Wells on "The Awakening of the
Soul."

Rev. Jason N. Pierce of Oberlin, O.,
has accepted a call to the Second
Congregational Chuich of Dorchester,
Boston. This is the largest Congrega-
tional chiu-ch in Boston, having a
membership of 1200 and a Sunday
School of 1300.

1903

Clifford P. Warren, Secretary,
168 Winthrop Road, Brookline, Mass.
Stanley H. Tead is now in charge of
the classing of cotton for George H.
McFadden & Co., the largest cotton
firm in America, and has been trans-
ferred to its Philadelphia headquarters.
He is living at the Gresham Arms,
Germantown, Pa.

1904

Rev. Karl O. Thompson, Secretary,

643 Eddy Road, Cleveland, Ohio.
Several men of '04 met February 14
in New York, and designated the follow-

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ing committee to complete the arrange-
ments for the Decennial in June:
Howard, Bartlett, Eastman, Sturgis,
Clymer, Taylor, Kane, Ballon, Hawkins,
Dodge, O'Donnell, Biram, Pond, and
Beam. Indications are for a good at-
tendance. Quill is president of the
Class; address. Court House, Jersey
City, N. J.

A daughter, Florence May, was born
to Professor and Mrs. Thomas C.
Brown, February 1, at Bryn Mawr, Pa.
This is their third daughter and fourth
chUd.

Dr. Robert D. Hildreth, has received
an appointment as associate medical
examiner of Hampden County, Mass.

A daughter, Florence Harvey, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. William N. Morse
on December 23d.

An error was made in stating in the
last Quarterly that George Hoyt's
death was the first to occur since gradu-
ation; for in 1905 Paul Storke was taken
by typhoid fever.

1905

John B. O'Brien, Secretary,
309 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.

The marriage of Miss Helen Eyre
Paddock of New York City and Joseph
Dexter Crowell occurred on Saturday,
February 21st. Mr. and Mrs. Crowell
will live at 20 Rutgers Place, Nutley,
New Jersey.

Leonard G. Diehl's address is 628|
W. Galina Street, Butte, Montana.

Frank Strong Hayden, was married on
Saturday, January 21st, to Miss Mabel
Nancy Matthews of Wyoming, New
York. They will be at home after June
1st, at Farmstead, Wyoming, New York.

Yancleve Holmes is located at 114
Park Place, New York City.

The address of Hugh H. C. Weed
is 242 Summer Street, Stamford, Conn.

1906

Robert C. Powell, Secretary,
92 Canon Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Kingman Brewster recently opened a
law office in the Lyman Building, 374
Main Street, Springfield, Mass.

Walter P. Hubbard has purchased
the business of Goldthwaite, Hubbard
& Smith and is now conducting a gen-
eral real estate business in the Sterns
Building, 293 Bridge Street, Springfield,
Mass., under the name of the Walter
P. Hubbard Company.

1907

Charles P. Slocum, Secretary,
262 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands,

Mass.

At the Boston Alumni Dinner, held
at the Copley Plaza on January 27th,
Amesbury, Andrews, Blanchard, Boyn-
ton. King, and Slocum were present.

Felix Atwood has changed his resi-
dence to 94 Faxon Road, Atlantic, Mass.
He is still with the Osborn Manufactur-
ing Co. of Cleveland.

Bruce Barton had an article in the
Congregationalist for January 15th en-
titled "A Day with Deckei— The
Welfare W ork of Church House, Provi-
dence. " The Pilgrim Press has recently
published a book by Bruce Barton
entitled "The Resurrection of a So id as
Described by an Eye Witness." The
book is described as an indication of
keen spiritual discernment, coupled
with vigor of style and literary attrac-
tiveness. Barton is shortly bringing
out a book entitled "A Young Man's
Jesus."

Harold S. Brewster has been ap-
pointed rector of St. John's Church,
Bisbee, Ariz.

Harold R. Crook has left his position
in the public playgrounds of Chicago

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to accept the directorship of physical
education in the new Nicholas Senn
High School, situated in the Edgwater
district of that city. His address now
is 1253 Elmdale Avenue.

John L. Fletcher is now at 66 Liberty
St., New York City, in charge of the
national quotation bureau.

Clarence S. Foster, who is with the
U. S. Radiator Co., at Paoli, Kansas,
was promoted on February 1 to the
position of office manager and plant
cashier.

Hugh Hartshorn, instructor in Re-
ligious Education in the Union Theo-
logical Seminary and principal of the
Union School of Religion, was ordained
to the Congregational ministry at
Methuen on December 13, 1913.

Owen A. Locke has recently moved
from St. Louis to Cleveland, where he
is engaged in the bond business.

Word has reached the class secretary of
the death on February 14th of Homer
F. Tilton, familiarly known as "Stovie,"
who has been doing newspaper work in
East Las Vegas, New Mexico. The par-
ticulars of his death are as yet unknown
to us. The class has passed resolutions
expressing its sorrow and its sympathy
for his relatives.

John D. Willard, in addition to his
insurance work, is acting as agent for
the Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children, and is
earning the reputation of being a vigi-
lant fighter in the courts for the rights
of children to proper homes and edu-
cation.

1908

H. W. ZiNSMASTER, Secretary,
Duluth, Minn.

Plans for the 1908 Sexennial are
progressing very rapidly. The H. O.
Pease House at the corner of Northamp-
ton Road and Parsons Street has been

rented and a good crowd is expected
back.

Donald B. Abbott is now practising
law with Barber, McGuire & Ehler-
mame, 165 Broadway, New York City.

Gilbert W. Benedict is practising
law in Silver City, New Mexico. Home
address, 705 Cooper Street.

The announcement has been made
of the engagement of Miss Nancy
Isabel Gray, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
to John Oscar Delamater of the same
city.

Lieut. George C. Elsey of the 11th
Infantry is stationed at Texas City,
Texas.

Dr. John Gildersleeve is practising
at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital,
7th Avenue and 6th Street, Brooklyn,
N. Y.

Robert H. Kennedy is with the Pres-
byterian Hospital, New York City.

Arthur D. MacMillan is with the
Town Development Company, 118 East
28th Street, New York City.

The engagement is announced of
Charles W. Niles to Miss Natalie Stew-
art of New York City.

Mr. and Mrs. James Sprenger are the
proud parents of a son, James McCutch-
eon, born December 22, 1913.

William Sturgis, in the advertising
department of the Review of Reviews, is
president of the Representative Club,
New York's foremost advertising club.

William I. Washburn, Jr., and his
wife are spending the winter in Paris.

1909

Edward H. Sudbury, Secretary,
343 Broadway, New York City.

Roscoe W. Brink is now associate
editor of the Hearst magazine.

John A. Gardner, who was admitted
to the bar in June, 1913, is practising
law in Fowler, Ind.

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Stoddard Lane of Hartford, Conn.,
sailed for Europe on February 27 and
will study theology in Germany until
September,

Morris G. Michaels, who was admit-
ted to the bar in 1912, is in the law office
of Vogel & Vogel, 25 Broad Street, New
York City.

A son, Clinton White Tylee, Jr., was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton White
Tylee on December 28th.

1910

Clarence Fbancis, Secretary,
26 Broadway, New York City.

Earle A. Barney is now employed by
the New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Company at Springfield, Mass.

The engagement has been announced
of Edward T. Bedford to Miss Helen
Gaynor, third daughter of the late
Mayor of New York. Bedford is now
manager of the Novelty Candy Co.,
Jersey City, N. J.

Donald M. Gildersleeve, has opened
an office in Galen Hall, 184 Joralemon
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

William O. Goddard was admitted to
the bar in February, 1913, and is now
connected with the law office of J. S. &
L. W. Ross, Temple Bar Building,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

John P. Henry has signed a two year
contract to play with the Washington
team of the American League.

Twin daughters, Esther Catharine
and Mildred Claire, were born on De-
cember 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. Abraham
Mitchell, of Riverside, 111.

Bert King Taggart died at the Frank-
lin County Hospital, Greenfield, Mass.,
on March 5th. He was born at Miller's
Falls twenty-six years ago, the son of
John Taggart, general manager of the
Massachusetts Consolidated Railways.
After leaving Amherst he taught a year

in the Kent School, and since 1911 had
been on the staff of the New York Sun,
The engagement of Miss A. E.
Schaipp of Brooklyn, N. Y., to John
C. Wight has recently been announced.

1911

Dexter Wheelock, Secretary,
75A Willow Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Lawrence W. Babbage is in the law
office of R. D. Crocker, Newark, N. J.

Carroll Reed Belden was married to
Miss Fannie Arnetta Brown of Omaha
on December 27th. His address is
3332 Harvey Street, Omaha, Neb.

William E. Boyer is representing the
Lewis Mfg. Co. of Walpole, Mass., in
Canada. Address, 8 McGill College
Avenue, Montreal.

Frank Cary, who has just returned,
from two years' teaching in Osaka,
Japan, is studying at Oberlin Theolog-
ical Seminary.

The engagement of A. Harry Ehr-
good to Miss Katherine WTiitmeyer
of Lebanon, Pa., has been announced.

Robert H. George was married on
January 29th to Miss Katharine H.
Ames of West Newton, daughter of the
late Charles H. Ames, '70, and sister of
C. B. Ames, '16.

Harold W. Haldeman received from
Columbia University in June, 1913, the
degree of Electrical Engineer.

The engagement of Miss Ella Roe of
Corning, N. Y., and G. Arthur Heer-
mans has been announced.

Paul F. Scantlebury is with the Craig
Mountain Lumber Company of Win-
chester, Idaho.

Edward H. Marsh is with the Queens
Borough Gas & Electric Co., Far Rock-
away, N. Y.

Robert E. Meyers has returned from
Canada and has entered the wholesale
paper business with his father.

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John L. McCague, Jr., was married
on October 15th, to Miss Marie Duncan
Hollister of Omaha. They are living
at 5111 Webster Street, Omaha, Neb.

William McKenna graduated among
the first five in his class from Long
Island Medical college. He was vale-
dictorian of his class and passed first
in the examinations for entrance to the
hospital, where he is in charge of a ward.

Donald Parsons-Smith's address is
2459 Collingwood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio.

E. Marion Roberts is head of the de-
partment of physical education of the
Brockton High School, Brockton, Mass.

Ralph P. Smith's address is Post
Office Box 623, Lancaster, N. Y.

Harold Gray Storke of Auburn, N. Y.,
now a senior at M.I.T., has announced
his engagement to Miss Edith A. Miinch
of Arlington.

The engagement has been announced
of Louis E. Wakelee and Miss Lillie
Edith Coggins of Roland Park, Balti-
more, Md.

Waldo Shumway and Doimell B.
Young have been chosen among the
graduate students as members of Sigma
Xi, the honorary scientific fraternity at
Columbia University.

1912

Beeman p. Sibley, Secretary,
639 West 49th Street, New York City.

George Randall is living in Boston,
and is in the editorial department of
Footwear Fashion.

1913

GeofiFrey Atkinson is doing graduate
work in the Romance languages in
Columbia University.

T. J. Barus is with the W. T. Grant
Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y.

H. V. Caldwell is instructor in English
in Ohio Wesleyan University.

John E. Farwell has returned to
Geneva, N. Y., to take up work in law
and banking with his father.

Paul F. Good was in January selected
as a Rhodes Scholar for Nebraska in
Oxford University. Good is now study-
ing law in the University of Nebraska.
He is the first Amherst man to be ap-
pointed to a Rhodes scholarship.

W. G. Hamilton is with the McCor-
mick Lumber Co., at San Diego, Cal.

E. C. Knudson is with the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New
York City.

E. L. Morse is reporting on the New
York Press.

Charles E. Parsons is teaching and
preaching at the Mission for Deep Sea
Fishermen, St. Anthony, Newfoundland.

Hamiton Patton is taking work in
the Massachusetts Agricult ira! College.

C. M. Price is on the staff of the
Brooklyn Dal^' Times.

I. E. Richards has tranferred to the
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wis.

G. L. Stone is teaching at Aguadilla,
Porto Rico.

H. C. Wilder is studying electricity
and accounting in New York city.

On Saturday, March 14th, the class
held a dinner at Louis's in Boston. The
meeting was held primarily to discuss
the 1914 reunion. Those present were
Baily, Bond, Connelly, Jenkins, Noble,
Olds, Stilwell, Stimetz, N. Stone and
Storrs. President Bixby of the class
was unable to be present.

CONTENTS

Page

Frontispiece: The Webster Memorial Statue. Facing 233

The College Window. — Editorial Notes 233

In the Graduate Consciousness. — On Speaking Over
People's Heads. — The Retort Apodictical.
The Problem of "Distribution" in College Educa-
tion. Harold C. Goddard, '00 243

Hackensack Meadows. Poem. Harry Greenwood Grover,

'06 252

The World ON Trial. Walter A. Dyer, '00 254

Poem. Acrostic. Commemorative of the 350th Anniver-
sary of the Death of Shakspeare. Edwin N. An-
drews, '61 257

Goin' to the Shinty? Daniel V. Thompson, '89 ... 258
Postscript. Henry W. Boynton, '91 265

Cfje ^mfterst Sllugtriousf

Portrait of Henry Clay Hall. Facing 266

Henry Clay Hall. Edward S. Parsons, '83 .... 266

Portrait of Robert Lansing. Facing 268

Robert Lansing. From The Outlook 268

Holland, To the River Plate and Back. F. B. Loomis,
'96. — Tyler, The Place of the Church in Evolution.
Editor. — Farwell, Village Improvement. Editor

The Alumni Council. Frederick S. Allis, '93 ... . 272

®f)e THnbcrgratiuateji
The Lecture Courses. — Games and Athletics up to Date . 276

(i^fftctal anb ^ersional

The Trustees 281

The Faculty 283

The Classes 284

LIBRI SCRIPTI PERSONS

Richard Billings, who presents to the College the Webster Memorial statue
pictured in the frontispiece, is a graduate of Amherst of the class of 1897,
and is now resident in New York. The statue is a memorial to Noah Webster,
the lexicographer, who was president of Amherst's first board of trustees.

Harold C. Goddard, who writes the article on "The Problem of 'Distribution' in
College Education," is Professor of English in Swarthmore College, Swarth-
more. Pa.

Harry Greenwood Grover, who writes the poem, "Hackensack Meadows," is
a teacher in Clifton, New Jersey.

Walter A. Dyer, who writes the article, "The World on Trial," has discontinued
his work as editor of Country Life in America, and is now engaged in
magazine writing. He is a member of the editorial board of the Quar-
terly.

Rev. Edwin Norton Andrews, who contributes the acrostic poem on the name
of Shakespeare, is a minister until lately resident in Chicago but now retired
and living with a daughter in Columbia, South Carolina.

Daniel V. Thompson, who writes the article, "Goin' to the Shinty?" is Head-
master in the Boys' School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Henry W. Boynton, whose account of the "Shinty" is quoted from a magazine
which he edited in his college, is a writer whose work, especially in literary
criticism and appreciation, is well known, resident in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Henby Clay Hall, Esq., whose portrait is given in connection with the article
on him, has recently been appointed Interstate Commerce Commissioner by
President Wilson.

Edward S. Parsons, who writes the account of Mr. Hall, is Professor of English
Literature in Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

Robert Lansing, whose portrait is given opposite page 268, has been appoint-
ed by President Wilson as counsel for the Department of State, succeeding
John Bassett Moore.

Frederick B. Loomis, who reviews Professor Holland's book, "To the River Plate
and Back," is Professor of Comparative Anatomy in Amherst College.

Frederick S. Allis, who writes the account of "The Alumni Council," is Secretary
of that body, living in Amherst. He is a graduate of Amherst in the class of
1893.

Clarence E. Sherman, who compiles the Index, is Assistant Librarian of
Amherst College, a graduate of Trinity College, Class of 1911.

The syniljolical .statiio, Ijv the sciilj)tor William Dr\ den Packloeh, presented to Amherst
College hy Richard Billings, of the class of 1897, as a memorial to Xoah Webster, President
of the first Board of Trustees. From a photograph taken in the sculptor's studio, while the
work was still incomplete, — the right hand being unfinished, and the inscription yet to be
added: "I know in whom I have believed," — Mr. Webster's favorite watchwortl. The figure
is of bronze; the scat of red westerlv granite.

THE AMHERST

GRADUATES' QUARTERLY

VOL. Ill— JUNE, 1914— NO. 4

THE COLLEGE WINDOW.— EDITORIAL NOTES

WITH the arrival of another Commencement season, when
eighty -five more of our younger brothers are slipping
the tether of classroom and curriculum and becoming
college men at large, the thoughts and hopes — yes, and the sincere
In the Craduate ^^^ctions — of us who remain follow them into
^ . the world and into the enlarging future, where

Consciousness ., + ^ j .i i j *, • n-

they are to nnd themselves and their calling.

They are still college men, and more truly college men than they
have ever been. That is to say, in finding themselves and their
work they are finding in growing clarity their true relation to
their instructors, their studies, and that large entity, the College
which spiritually includes them all. They can never be lost to
us, however far they may go or to whatever heights of distinction
they may attain. Our solicitude is rather lest we become lost
to them. It is a thought that causes serious and wistful moments.
To pass coldly out of the regards of those for whom he has cared
and planned, to remain there, if he remains, only as a person
tolerated or apologized for, to feel that somehow through him
the college has failed of its ideal in the graduate estimation, —
are possibilities which no teacher is so thick-skinned as not to
feel with silent pangs. On the other hand, to discover that to
the students with whom he has worked the college means more
for his part in it, to become aware that in some ardent young
hearts he is a candidate for a living and uplifting memory, — is
to him a reward with which money or intellectual distinction cannot
compare. In a word, while at the Commencement season serious
thoughts are busy in every mind, in the minds of administration
and faculty they turn naturally to the question how we and the

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college of which we are representative are henceforth reflected
in the consciousness of the new graduates. For if we have meant
anything at all to the students, some memory of us, for good or
ill, must go to the ends of the earth.

A HINT of this is aflForded at final chapel and on class day,
when in sportive mood the sprouting j'oung alumni take it upon
themselves to give the oflScers and teachers bits of good-natured
criticism, roasting their foibles and mannerisms and perhaps
their besetting faults, shouting and singing it out for heaven and
earth to hear, and then— sometimes — assuring their victims that
they mean nothing by it. All this, you may say, is the mere
froth and effervescence of college sentim^ent, which it is better
for the boys to get out of their systems, and which dissipates
itself by its mere escape into the air. Yes, it is that and— some-
thing more, something which not infrequently the teacher will
do well to heed and correct, or at least to lay up in his self-con-
sciousness. It is one of his opportunities to get a glimpse of him-
self as others see him; and perhaps he can do himself and his
work a good service thereby. But of course these antics of the
student crowd go but an insignificant way toward revealing that
rooted and permanent consciousness which, as related to his
personality, the graduate carries with him into the world. The
students themselves would not have their jests rankle to a
wound.

There is another and more serious aspect of the case, which
depends on the student's honesty with himself. We are to suppose,
unless we deem the student either a cad or a numskull (neither
of which passes current at Amherst) that he has an ideal in
his student life, and that he forms his respect for and loyalty to
the college on the way it responds to his ideal. This is true
whether he takes his ideal seriously or not; true whether the
mark he draws is a prize or a blank. If, as I say, he is not a num-
skull, he knows whether he is doing good work or not, and when
his mark comes in, whether he deserves it or not. He may be
like a sport, whose only care is to learn the rules of a game and
manipulate them as he sees the game will bear; and so for a time
he may hug himself because he managed to squeak through.

EDITORIAL NOTES 235

But the still hour of reflection comes upon him eventually; and
when it does I think he is seldom indignant because he got too
low a mark. He is more apt to wonder why he got so much more
than he deserved. If it was because his teacher was too easy-
going, his sense of good fortune passes after a little into a mild
contempt for the teacher's leniency; it is as if he had caught the
teacher lying for his sake. If it is because the college standard
is too low, his contempt is in part transferred to the college, and
in his heart he blames it for keeping such a teacher. A teacher
or a college — which latter is merely the composite teacher — does
not gain the student's lasting gratitude by letting him through
easily; his whole self -consciousness, with its sense of the lack
they have let him incur, rises up in a sort of apology for his Alma
Mater and a wish that his children, when they come in turn to
take his place there, may be subjected to something severer.

Such, I think, is apt to be the graduate consciousness engendered
when the student has not taken his ideal seriously, and has laid
out his cleverness not in real study but in driving as near the
edge of failure as he can without falling over. There is, of course,
some zest in this, but the cleverness is sadly wasted, and sadly
regretted afterward. It is different when in his graduate life he
has made further explorations in liberal studies, — when from a
general student he has become a specialist. His contempt for
the teacher who was generous with him is mitigated, when he
comes to realize that on anything like absolute knowledge of the
subject the teacher had to mark him more than he deserved if
he graded him at all. He knows how exceedingly crude his
initial ideas of his subject were, how little he got out of it for any
real furnishing of his mind or sound mastery of the subject itself.
Then his thought of his teacher's motive passes from contempt
for his easiness to gratitude for his clemency. The teacher's
gracious lies in grading the student for so much more than he is
worth, may thus come to seem a kind of sacrifice; he has imperilled
his own reputation for the sake of keeping the loafing student
within the purlieus and atmosphere of liberal learning. On any
absolute view of the subject the student would be nowhere; the
teacher is well aware of that. He has to make up his estimate
not absolutely, but pour servir.

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There is a sense, therefore, in which the poor student — I do
not mean the slow student but the insincere one — has a potential
tyranny over his teacher. If the student were diligent and indus-
trious the teacher could conduct him through the higher reaches
and regions of his subject. If the student would meet the teacher
half way and enter into the spirit of his study he could know some-
thing of its real meanings. He could not do so otherwise. But
because it is only a listless task, he compels the teacher to keep
him on the lower levels; the teacher must turn him out a lower
grade of graduate, and the college must suffer correspondingly
in repute. It is so far forth at the mercy of the insincere student.
He comes to remember this some time, and perhaps then the
teacher gets something of his due. But I do not claim it for him.
He is slow to claim it for himself. Perfect teachers are as rare
as perfect students; and perhaps for every one the graduate
consciousness must make allowance, whether it justifies its own
course or not. And many a graduate never knows how much
allowance the teacher has made for him.

AN EMINENT professor in a neighbor college, on being re-
monstrated with once for lecturing over the heads of his
audience, replied naively that he had merely directed his
instruction to the place where their heads ought to be. The

/^ o 1 • ^ remark strikes one not so much by its wit — though

On Speaking . . . , , , •. , • • i ^ -.

p , , it IS witty too — as by its obvious rightness; it

TT J has the sane wisdom of putting the case of schol-

arly instruction just where it belongs. One de-
tects indeed a gentle suggestion that it is time for the worm to turn;
for it meets a hoary old criticism that for many years scholars have
justly or unjustly borne; but it is made in the serene mood of one
who knows what he is about, and will not let an outsider's stricture
warp him from his wisely chosen method and aim. We cannot say
this, of course, of all who are alleged to speak above people's heads.
Some there are who are so buried in their subject — or perhaps
their self-esteem — that they have no sense of their audience's
calibre left, and who never calculate where their hearer's heads,
or even their own head, ought to be. But it is not from such'
that one gets a discriminating answer like the one I have quoted.
There is a world-wide difference between the pedant and the

EDITORIAL NOTES 237

scholar, — between the man whose voice up there on the heights
comes through a veil of fog and the man whom we see on a sunlit
eminence whither it is a joy and a stimulus to climb. One may
be as far over head as the other; but the voices have very different
carrying power.

Where then ought the heads of his students to be.'^ Where
has he perfect warrant for locating them, so that he may place
his teaching there, without having to trim or dilute for backward
minds.'' I think the answer is not uncertain. They ought to
be just where they can take and appreciate his point of view.
That is the main thing. Most of our college teaching, so far as
the professor is concerned, is devoted to getting and imparting
points of view; the view itself, the real learning, is the student's
affair. There is for each of the departments a vocabulary, a
technique, a mode of approach and procedure, an atmosphere,
which the student must familiarize himself with, in order to
move at home among the positive ideas that he finds there.
All this is not the substance itself of his learning or achieve-
ment; it is but the preliminary, the means by which his head is
lifted to the place where it ought to be. Failing this, he is
bound to find the subject above his head. He can explore none
of its secrets, get none of its large outlooks, feel none of its
subtle interrelations. It is a hearsay subject to him, to be taken
on trust and memorized instead of mastered, until his head has
reached the height where he can begin to see and think and
construct for himself. And until he has reached that point
he has little if any reason to blame his instructor for speak-
ing over his head. The instructor, if he has a conscience, that
is to say if he is faithful to the subject that he has in charge,
must present it as it is; and for the rest, he must depend on
the cooperation of the student. Learning is not a thing im-
parted, as if you could take it out of one man's head and
thrust it into another; it is a thing shared. The problem of
the teacher, in this day of the enterprise of learning, is not so
much to simplify instruction, or so to manipulate it that the
student can get it on the run, as it is to induce that reaction which
we may call rising to the occasion, that rapport and mutuality
which comes so natural to men engaged in a common cause.

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Without this, he is doomed to speak over their heads; with it he
can advance with all enthusiasm to the heart of his subject, for
he can count on their heads being where they ought to be.

I MAY seem to be championing the teacher's cause at the expense
of the student. But I do not mean it so. Of all men in the world,
the student is the one about whom we can best afford to be
optimistic ; he it is over whose head it pays to speak, because in
open-minded interest he is bound for the place where his head
ought to be. He is not like the man we heard about the other
day who, feeling that his culture needed a little building up,
went to hear a lecture on literature, but his foundation for
such erudite thought was so slight that he had to confess he
could not tell the distinction between Omar Khayyam and
Hunyadi Janos. There is a decided distinction, but it was too
subtle for him; anything of a cultural nature, we may be sure,
would be over his head. The late Bishop Doane used to tell a
story of an old time-governor of New York, who, when the Bishop
found him once in his office, in a brown study, looked up and
accosted him with, "I say, Bishop, does it ever make you sick
at your stomach to think .f*" It is not hard to get over the head
of a man who thinks with his stomach; it is harder not to do so.
Then there is another class of people who are too self-centred and
opinionated to accommodate themselves to other people's ideas;
like Tennyson's Northern Farmer with his rector, tolerant enough
but utterly impermeable:

"I 'eard um a bummin awaay loike a buzzard-clock ower my 'ead.
An' I niver knaw'd whot a mean'd but 1 thowt a 'ad summut to saay.
An' I thowt a said whot a owt to 'a said an' I coom'd awaay."

When the college teacher compares his audience with such as
these he is abundantly reassured. He can count on an audience
intelligent, flexible, open-minded; its faults and shortcomings
are of another kind.

There is real warrant — I am still maintaining the teacher's
point of view — for deliberately choosing to speak over the student's
head, if the teacher has in him the magnetism of his subject and
can give it a truly uplifting power. It is in that direction that

EDITORIAL NOTES 239

sound education lies. Herbert Spencer's famous rule for
economizing the hearer's attention, in speech or writing, was to
give him less to do, to reduce the difficulties of expression to a
minimum, so that he could take in the idea without conscious
effort. But things easily obtained are cheaply held, and it is not
in student nature to put forth more energy than is necessary to
get the thing, great or small. The truer way is to stimulate the
hearer to do more, to call on his powers to wrestle with an idea
worth all his aspirations and pains. The best way to that result,
after all, is by the overhead method; which means maintaining
the highest that the student can bear — and a little higher, always
a little higher. You honor your student by addressing yourself
to the place where his head ought to be. You are taking the most
permanent if not the most immediate way to secure and increase
his interest. You give him a motive for effort and — if he is sincere
— a healthy shame for his ignorance. If he isn't sincere — well,
he might as well have a big truth fired at him as a small amuse-
ment, a solid challenge to thought, as a watered idea that leaves
him where he was before.

One thinks of the alternative. Not to take the risk of speaking
over people's heads is merely to yield to the general deliques-
cence of sharp and penetrative learning which is already too
prevalent in all schools and colleges of our land, and which, I think,
is one grave element in the general indictment of our educational
system. It is making your learning an entertainment instead of an
enterprise. I often think of the experience of the prophet Ezekiel,
who, as long as he had tough and trying truths to bring his people,
had to content himself with the thought, "And they, whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear (for they are a rebellious
house) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them."
Not a very exhilarating working-consciousness; yet one is not
sure the case is much more satisfactory when the instruction is
made more entertaining. He, at least, did not find it so. "And
lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they
hear thy words, but they do them not." The field of dolce far
niente entertainment is already over-furnished; we need not em-
phasize that. If one wants entertainment, there are the talking

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machine and the moving-picture show, whereby only a little
pleasant exercise of ear and eye is necessary to make one think
he is getting culture. But if the student wants the real article,
the thing that comes robust and tingling, not only with informa-
tion but with energy, let him commit himself resolutely to what
is now over his head, for his real education lies that way.

WE had been introduced to him only ten minutes before.
We were on the toast list at the same college dinner —
his, not ours — and were doingourbest to seem debonair,
with the pendulum each moment swinging nearer the bottom of

T'l- T> ^ ^ the list. He said:

The Retort ,,,, , « , , • ,

. ,. . . ^ 1 m sorry that Amherst has sanctioned summer

baseball. It will embarrass us in dealing with
the problem."

"Do you know," we had to reply, "We are of those — the unre-
generate — who feel that in the logic of events summer ball is sure
to come — like equal suffrage. We can't see why it shouldn't."

"Ah," he retorted apodictically (we are not sure quite what
that means, but the sound of it conveys just the manner of his
retort). "Ah," said he, "that's because you are considering the
Student instead of the Sport."

In the circumstances all we could say was, "That seems to be
a fair statement of the case."

We had to say something. We couldn't give way to our first
weak impulse, and observe that all undergraduates were divided
into Students and Sports, and in the role of guest we shrank from
coming out belligerently with "Quite so! How else should they
be considered.''"

So we put the subject by for further meditation.

A HUNDRED years ago no reckoning was made of the play element
in student life. That is, no official reckoning was made. Or if it
was actually made, it was in the form of prohibitions and penalties.
In consequence the students neglected their health, and, if they
remained healthy in spite of neglect, they worked off their carnal
spirits ("expressed themselves" as the Pestalozzian would put
it) by excessive drinking, fighting the townsmen, "going upon
the top of the college," smashing things and otherwise playfully

EDITORIAL NOTES 241

disporting themselves. Those were picturesque days, full of
gossipy interest. They began to wane, when about fifty years ago
the boys started to play a little more generally, and with a little
more system. When after a while the games became intercol-
legiate, play was elevated to Sport, something to be considered
apart from the Student. Of these games baseball was among the
earliest and is even now the only one that has become completely
popular — nay more, vulgar — of, or pertaining to, the crowd.

Of course when the crowd took up the Sport, it was subjected
to degrading influences. "Inside" baseball, for example, and
desire to win at any cost, and over-emphasis on the gate receipts,
and adulation of popular athletes, vicious attributes of which
football, still chastely academic, is quite innocent. The Student
is a gentleman, the professional ball player is a thug. History
establishes this broad thesis beyond peradventure. Recall the
fine dignity with which in the good old days the gown used to
repel the assaults of the town, or even, in advancing the gospel
of sweetness and light, used to carry the fray into the enemies'
territory. (The traditions of a game are matters of priceless
import. Witness the courtly amenities of modern basketball
which has come to man by way of the women's colleges.)

But worst of all, baseball has been made sordid as well as vulgar.
Hence the self supporting students, of whom there are doubtless
far too many nowadays for the safety of genteel culture, are
tempted to turn an ignoble penny of a summer's day by "holding
down a bag" or "tending a garden." These men when they
return to college are soiled with the dust of the world — filthy
mercenaries. They might help their collegiate integrity as indif-
ferent bookkeepers or clumsy salesmen, but if they ball well they
lose their own souls and endanger the Sport. What to do with
such lepers is clear. They may be readmitted to college, allowed
to associate with their fellow students — if there are any who do
not utterly despise them — encouraged to practice with the nine,
or even coach it, but for the sake of the Sport they must be rigor-
ously repressed during the twenty or thirty hours of intercollegiate
competition. It is at these periods that all their acquired depravity
breaks into virulent eruption and imperils the Sport.

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It is not natural to think clearly and logically. It is an almost
universal habit to jump at false assumptions and then to make
them starting points for futile argument. The idea that Sport
was made for the Student, is, of course, as indefensible as the
ancient fallacy that the Sabbath was made for Man. So, in the
light of reason, if we were back at that dinner and it were again
indicated (apodictically) that in considering a college problem
we allowed a feeling for the Student to enter into our calculations,
we should reply, sadder and wiser, "You speak truly, but now
that you call it to our attention, we see our error. "

P. H. B.

THE DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM 243

THE PROBLEM OF "DISTRIBUTION" IN COL-
LEGE EDUCATION.

HAROLD C. GODDARD

HOW frequently, when two contrasting incidents come close
together, each takes on a meaning which either, alone,
would have been powerless to reveal.

I recently had such a pair of experiences; and for a moment, in
the illumination that they kindled, they seemed, together, to
epitomize a central educational problem of our time, and to point
out the path along which its solution must be sought.

Six months or more ago, I chanced to attend a session of a night
school in one of our large cities. The students, ranging in age
from seventeen to thirty-five, were mostly men who, choosing or
compelled to leave school early, were attempting in this way to
make good part of their loss. There was an atmosphere of se-
riousness, of earnest intensity, pervading the room that was unmis-
takable. I was struck, particularly, by the pale eager face of a stu-
dent in the front row. He was, I should say, twenty-five years
old, and he had the air of a man to whom every moment is precious.
There was something almost pathetic in the nervous attentiveness
with which he hung on every word of the teacher; and when, as
he frequently did, he cast a quick glance over his shoulder at the
clock, there was an unfamiliar quality in that familiar gesture,
which showed that he, at least, wished to hold back the hand.
Nor was the interesting aspect of this young man merely his evi-
dent desire to learn. When his turn came to recite, the clearness
and concentration of his mind appeared; and when, a little later,
he took a modest part in a discussion which the young woman who
was conducting the class skillfully precipitated, I saw at once that
his mind had a distinctly philosophical cast, exhibiting that most
promising union of intellectual qualities: a capacity for accurate
observation and for swift but cautious generalization. I was
sufficiently attracted by the young man to pass a word with him
when the class was dismissed, and, afterward, to ask the teacher

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who he was. She told the familiar story, which nearly everyone
can parallel, of the boy compelled to leave school to help support
the family, of deprivation, and struggles, and sacrifice, but, through
it all, of ambition and an unquenchable determination to know.

As I walked toward the station for my train, the theatres were
disgorging their crowds, and passing one where a popular musical
comedy was being performed, I recognized, as they turned into
the street a few steps ahead of me, four college boys from the insti-
tution where I teach. A block or two farther on they descended
into a restaurant. They were, obviously, "coming out" on a
later train.

The next day, by some chance or fate, my classes seemed In-
fected with an epidemic of unpreparedness and inattention. In
one of them I gave, as I frequently do without previous notice,
a ten-minute written test. After the class a young man (one of the
four who attended the musical comedy) stopped at my desk and
explained that, owing to a severe headache the night before, he
had been unable to prepare the last half of the assignment. (His
paper, which exhibited a feeble attempt to "bluff" on the first
of the three questions I had given, showed conclusively that he
had not glanced at any of it.) He asked for the opportunity of
making up the deficiency. Both his excuse and his request were
quite unusual, for he was in the habit of flunking with perfect
equanimity. It was near the end of the semester, and he had
doubtless begun to realize his precarious position. I listened to
him in solemnity, remarked, in denying his request, that his final
grade would not be perceptibly lowered by his failure in this one
test, and, a bit inconsiderately perhaps, refrained from asking him
whether his head felt better.

Now could anything be plainer than that the opportunity that
this college student was so thoroughly abusing belonged by right
to the eager youth whom I had seen in the night school.^ He fitted
it as conclusively as the last piece of a puzzle fits its place. The
college boy, to be sure, did not belong in the night school (though
some of the privations and difficulties of the other man would have
done him good) . He was the son of a rich merchant, a thoroughly
likable fellow personally, and by no means a fool. But his mind
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arts to which he had come, all aspects of his college life taken into
account, was doing him more harm than good. It was but partly
his own fault, it was scarcely at all his teachers', that the intellec-
tual life of the institution had not gripped him. He ought never
to have been sent there. He belonged, if not in business, in some
technical or industrial school.

The case of these two men, mutatis mutandis, is, I believe, per-
fectly typical of countless others throughout the country. Not
only are there thousands of young men and women outside our
higher institutions of learning who ought to be in them; but there
are also thousands in them who ought to be, if not out of them en-
tirely, at least in other institutions than their own. Doubtless
until our society undergoes radical social and economic changes,
nothing like a final solution of these problems can be attained.
But in the meantime, even though the steps which we can take are
short ones, to perceive how things ought to be will enable us to
make those short steps steps in the right direction.

The matter of economic readjustment has been mentioned; and
a parallel, or at least a bit of nomenclature, from the economic
world may perhaps best make clear what seems to be the situation
in the sphere of education.

It has come to be a commonplace among economists that society
has solved the problem of "production" far more effectively than
it has solved the problem of "distribution." While families in
the congested parts of a great city are scarcely able, because of
prohibitive prices, to buy potatoes, acres of potatoes are rotting in
the country within a hundred miles (or bushels of them, possibly,
in freight cars within a hundred yards) . There is a freeze in Cali-
fornia, and the price of oranges is driven fictitiously up until they
pass into the class of luxuries, whereupon, the demand falling off,
the Florida grower is compelled to leave his fruit to spoil unpicked.
One huge section of the country longing for oranges; another sec-
tion longing for someone to take its oranges off its hands! One
needs to be no student of these matters, one needs only to open his
eyes, to see on every hand — some with a product which they cannot
use and of which they cannot get rid; others longing for the same
product, willing to make reasonable payment, but unable to ob-
tain it. Apples decaying under the trees in the country, or deteri-
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gazing at a row of the same fruit marked "five cents each." Here
we have almost a symbol of our accomplishment in "distribution."

Now what we need to realize is that there is a situation strik-
ingly parallel to all this in the educational world. Here, too, we
have solved the problem of production far better than we have
solved the problem of distribution — "production" in this case
meaning the creation of that power which education is able to
impart, and "distribution" the bringing of the many varieties of
this power to just those who can most profitably use them.

There stand our institutions of higher learning! It isn't that
we need more of them. It isn't so much that we need them better
equipped. It isn't primarily that we need better teachers, or even
that the ones we have should be better paid. It is rather that we
need the right students for them — out of the thousands of possible
students, the ones who belong precisely here, or there, and nowhere
else. And as the inevitable differentiation in function of our edu-
cational institutions proceeds, the need for this delicately appro-
priate distribution will grow greater and the attainment of it more
difficult.

I was reading the other day (somewhat tardily) the bulletin of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on
"Academic and Industrial Efficiency." The report is an admir-
able one, full, and suggestive in a high degree, and only a small-
minded person would criticize it for omitting matters not within
its province to discuss. And yet, as I read of schemes for the
maximum utilization of classrooms, of the economic organization
of janitorial service, of stenographic and other time-saving devices
for teachers, of the proper distribution of duties among the super-
intendent, the registrar, the treasurer, and the dean, I could not
help feeling (wise as it is to adjust such matters in accordance with
the most modern business methods) what drops in the bucket all
these little efficiencies are in the face of the Great Inefficiency:
the prodding and the dragging, the supplicating and the forcing,
the penalizing and the putting on probation, of unenthusiastic,
indifferent, misplaced students.

Let any teacher reckon up his time, count the endless hours given
to purely external tasks, which, with the right "distribution" of
students, either would be unnecessary or would regulate themselves :
the multifarious methods for the prevention of idling and lagging —

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reports and abstracts of outside reading, oral tests in the class room
of preparation, written tests and examinations for the same end,
with all the time and energy required for making them ready, giv-
ing, and correcting them ; the elaborate paraphernalia of attendance
— roll calls, excuses for absences, cut systems with their incessant
records and reports, the continual irritation and complications of
tardiness; marking — nine tenths of its burdens and unpleasant-
nesses; make-up examinations, appointments forgotten, assign-
ments misunderstood, library privileges abused; in short, all the
blunders that indifference can commit, all the interruptions and
demands to which delinquency leads, all the red tape which dis-
cipline renders necessary; these, and a hundred other things, and
more than any or all of them combined, the immense expenditure
of personal energy which alone is capable of ensuring that unity
of attention in the classroom without which the ablest teaching
is rendered of little account, an expenditure that might be reduced
two-thirds, if, at the outset, the undivided interest of the class
could be assumed. To all this waste should be added in many cases
the long vacation, which teachers of the more nervous type often
devote to getting back into condition to stand the strain again,
hours which, under other circumstances, could be more happily and
profitably employed — to say nothing of the untraceable waste of
those who give out entirely.

Nor are these problems, as those unacquainted with the facts
might be tempted to suppose, problems merely of local condition
or individual temperament.^ On the contrary they are found
wherever there are colleges, and they exist for teachers of the most
varied types and of all degrees of success and unsuccess.

'If any authority be deemed necessary to support such a statement, there is surely none
better than that of James Bryce. Speaking of "the things which the most judicious friends of
the Universities (including many of their presidents) hold to be now most needed," he says:

"It is felt that there ought to be a stronger pulse of intellectual life among the undergrad-
uates in the 'College' or Academic department. They are not generally idle or listless, but
rather, like most young Americans, alert and active in temperament. Their conduct is usually
good ; in no country are vices less common among students. But those who are keenly interested
either in their particular studies or in the 'things of the mind' in general are comparatively few
in number. Athletic competitions and social pleasures claim the larger part of their thoughts,
and the University does not seem to be giving them that taste for intellectual enjoyment which
ought to be acquired early if it is to be acquired at all." The American Commonwealth, Vol.
II, Chap, cix, page 761— New Edition, 1910.

Let me seize the opportunity of this footnote to add that I would not have anyone infer that
I consider the students the only ones responsible for the conditions now prevailing in the Ameri-
can college. On the contrary, I consider the teachers (among others) far more responsible
than the students. But that, as Kipling says, is another story.
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There are teachers, to be sure, who go their way in serenity, giv-
ing trifling attention to the Httle formalities and disciplines, the
countless little props and penalties of the classroom, such as those
we have just been enumerating. They generally enjoy good health.
But with few exceptions they are not the effective teachers. And
these few, with still rarer exceptions, are not among those who
openly pride themselves on being "above " these things. Teachers
of this latter type little realize how quickly, if the majority of their
colleagues adopted the same attitude, the intellectual life of their
institution would collapse.

Fortunately, however, there is another side to it. Every college
teacher, with greater or less frequency, has the experience (which
in a somewhat altered and less inspiring form comes oftener to the
university instructor) of having a class, usually a fairly small and
advanced one, every member of which is not only interested and
attentive, but enthusiastic, bent on doing more work than is as-
signed, on following the subject into its recesses and ramifications.
Then he catches a glimpse of w^hat a college as a whole might be! —
for then he can put his whole energy into teaching, instead of put-
ting nine tenths of it into the preliminary and accessory processes
of rendering teaching possible. And what undreamed of sources of
energy such an experience uncovers! Why! when one thinks of
the increased power of a whole faculty under such conditions, he
feels constrained, in his unbalanced enthusiasm, to fancy, even
in the face of the great god Efficiency, that our educational system
would not go wholly on the rocks if a class-room or two did once
a week bask for an hour untenanted in the afternoon sunshine, or if
a janitor did loaf occasionally on the chapel steps puffing his pipe.

When the day comes when the right boy is sent to the right
college, not only will the task of the teacher be transformed but a
whole group of present educational controversies will, in large
measure, disappear. When we have solved the problem of "dis-
tribution," we shall hear little more of the conflict between liberal
and practical, cultural and vocational, classical and industrial,
education. All types of education which have sufficient vitality
to gain and maintain a hold on the educational world are good —
for the right boys and girls. It is absurd to stuff a high school girl
with Euclid and Csesar and French and German grammar, and
send her out to the shop, or to be married, ignorant of the most

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elementary truths of social, industrial, and domestic life. But it
is equally absurd, on the plea that he must learn something to
enable him to earn a living, to bring up on manual training and
book-keeping a boy who in twenty years may be in a position of
influential political leadership, thereby depriving him of the oppor-
tunity of learning at first hand the lessons, so important for our
day, of the Greek and Roman and Mediaeval experiments in civili-
zation.

// we could only sort them out aright! To be sure, even though
an infallible selection were possible, not until there are social and
economic readjustments should we be able actually to educate in
accordance with their capacities all of those thus selected. But
a beginning can be made, and the more accurately we can point
out the particular type of education for which a given boy is fitted,
the greater the likelihood that the means for providing him with
that education will be forthcoming. The waste of our present
system, at any rate, in this matter of selection, is tragic. What
we need is a still further differentiation in function among our
colleges, and then, in the secondary schools, a curriculum espe-
cially devised to try out the capacities of the student, together
with principals and teachers, or possibly even supplementary
ofiicials created with this very end in view, who know the colleges
thoroughly and know the boys and girls as individuals. Surely a
higher institution would be willing to forgo many units of mere
information on the part of its freshmen, if it could be sure that
those freshmen were in all cases selected because of their peculiar
fitness for what that institution had to offer. Mistakes, of course,
even under the most favorable conditions, would be made. The
talents and ambitions of many a young man are slow in appearing.
But it would not always be too late to rectify an error; for colleges
will perhaps some time be honest enough to send away even good
students who, it discovers, can make better use of their capacities
elsewhere. How often does a college faculty or president do that
at present.'^ Perhaps a different policy in that regard would be a
commendable first step toward the desired goal. At any rate,
alumni should realize that it is not their duty to urge every good
fellow, or even every good student, to matriculate at the institu-
tion where they themselves were graduated. They should have
understanding enough of their Alma Mater, as well as loyalty to

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her, to discriminate. Even their own sons sometimes should go
elsewhere. To find a good man and a good institution is not
enough. The man must fit the institution.

Nor does this mean, as to a superficial view it might seem to
mean, the reduction of a student body to a level of monotonous
uniformity. We are not asking that the men who attend each
institution should be of a single type. That would be intolerable.
(In spite of his earnestness and ability, I should not want a whole
class made up of men like the one who caught my interest in that
night school.) Uniformity always means death. Diversity alone
ensures that clash which makes up intellectual as well as every other
kind of life. All that is meant is that, when an institution of learn-
ing has become conscious of an aim and policy, conscious of its par-
ticular purpose amid the multitudinous complexities of our edu-
cational world, there should be a measurable degree of conformity
between the character of the institution and the character of the
students which it welcomes. Their aim in life should be in harmony
with its aim, and they should offer some promise of being able to
realize that aim. Within these limits, the widest diversity is
possible and desirable: men of all temperaments, of all degrees of
wealth and poverty, of all kinds of social station and background,
of sufficient variety of blood and creed and tradition to make them
representative of our manifold American life.

Is it not true that there is a peculiar sense in which some of these
observations apply to Amherst?

It is the distinction of Amherst, if I understand at all the new
career on which she has entered, that she is one of the very first
small colleges of the land to become conscious of a special mission.
While it is difficult, if not impossible, to put that mission into
words, her graduates, most of them, feel with a tolerable degree
of clearness what it is, and have some sense of the sort of youth
that must be selected for her if she is to fulfil it. If it were possible
to see into the future and to forecast the careers of the young men
who are on the point of entering college, which are the ones, under
her new policy and consecration, whom we should choose for Am-
herst? It would not be enough, if I conceive this matter rightly,
to know that a young man was destined, in the current meaning

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of the phrase, to "make good." It would not fit a man to enter
Amherst, merely to foreknow that he was to build a great railroad
or direct a great bank, to be the governor of his state or the leader
of its bar, to become an eloquent preacher, to write a popular novel,
or to edit a metropolitan newspaper. These honors and accom-
plishments, it is true, might accompany or result from that which
should distinguish an Amherst man. But the test itself would lie
deeper.

That test lies in part in the character of our age. Unless all
signs fail, the world is on the threshold of great changes. It ap-
pears to be approaching an epoch comparable only with such epochs
in the past as the fall of the Roman Empire of the West or the com-
ing of the Renaissance. Under such circumstances there is need,
in a peculiar sense, of intellectual leadership. Every age, of course,
needs leaders, men to step into the places of the leaders of the
passing generation, to direct the already ordered processes of
society. But an age like our own needs more than this. It needs,
in an especial sense, creative leadership, men to formulate and make
effective ideas and purposes for a relatively new society. If I have
conceived the new Amherst correctly, it is men with the promise
of this power that she desires to search out. And this is why,
along with enthusiasm for the new scientific knowledge, she be-
lieves in retaining a like enthusiasm for that classical and historical
training, that acquaintance with the civilizations of the past,
without which no really enduring future civilization can be achieved.
Helpers in the creation of a new world (literally ! not in any vague
or sentimental sense), nothing less than that is what Amherst
hopes to turn out. It makes little difference whether her grad-
uates become doctors or lawyers, merchants or bankers, ministers
or teachers, journalists or scientific investigators, if only they go
out in the fullness of knowledge to help shape a more nearly
perfect society.

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HACKENSACK MEADOWS

HARRY GREENWOOD GROVER

AT close of day, whether of gainful strife
Or fruitless toil that brings but pain and hate,
From out the city's maddening surge, we're borne
Toward home-filled towns and acred country seats.
Between these lies, but all too soon passed o'er,
A stretch of idle land; and through it flows —
If flow it doth — the lazy Hackensack.
Broad-streamed, low-banked it lies, or moves, between
Unvaried fields of sober brown. Untouched
Of any hand are these save hers who spread
Them there for rest of eye and soul of man;
Requital fit for his more constant toil
Since Nature thrust him forth to earn his bread !
Not e'en the midday sky can make quite blue
The gray -brown quiet stream; for brown and gray
Are restful sights and "Rest for Man" was what
She called the work which here our Mother wrought.
The fishers' huts that edge the stream, man-built,
Appear not to intrude. They do not tower.
Nor vaunt themselves ! There is no war of hate
Or greed a-waging neath their peaceful roofs.
For these are homes of simple fishermen;
Mayhap such homes as He lodged in who taught
The fisher -folk who toiled on Galilee!
In rusty black-brown suits the crows flap by.
And fearlessly on ponderous wings some bird
Gray-clad — perhaps a gull such as old Walt
Saw hovering o'er the neighboring bay — now sails,
Now wheels and dips for food into the gray
Below. Save these and some slow ship that works
Its tedious way up stream or ever floats.
In all the stretch of restful land, in all
The endless sky o'erhead, naught else doth move.

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Here Spring will come with cloth of green to hide

The waste by Winter wrought. Flowers anon

Shall softly bloom and laugh as children laugh

Among the grass in some deep summer field.

Her hidden nest a humble bird shall here

Brood o'er and see at length the nestlings fly.

Wooings, matings, and other broods shall come:

In this brown grass, 'neath those brown breasts the arc

Of life is sprung full-wide, while we seek far

To know its span. The blackbird flashing in

His flight shall fill the midmost summer day

With song. Till, when the gray days come, once more

In myriad clouds they'll seek the land of sun

And leave the dry brown marsh to rains and cold.

And save for glistening frosts and patched snow

It lieth so till Spring brings back its life.

All through the change of wheeling bird, of grass

Now sere, now green, of flowers and ghosts of flowers,

Of hushed air and amorous-throated song.

The meadows stand, for some, unchanged. They bring

In every shifting phase, to him who looks

And him who bends his ear that gift of peace

Which comes to those who stand in old dim-aisled

Cathedrals high and, bowing, wait to hear

The prayer that marks the end of even-song.

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THE WORLD ON TRIAL

WALTER A. DYER

I SUPPOSE no one will gainsay me if I make a somewhat com-
monplace and trite statement to the effect that there seems
to be something the matter with our churches and colleges
and schools and other human institutions. This is merely admit-
ting that they are finite, mundane affairs. That they are sus-
ceptible of improvement I presume will also be conceded. That
they must be improved, or fall under the contempt of men, is my
contention. Of what men, — well, that is another story: for this
is frankly a one-sided paper, speaking for the ordinary man.

We are to-day demanding of our institutions that they show
cause for existence. Whether this is becau5^e we are all becoming
intellectual, or because we have become shrewd and skeptical, I
cannot pretend to say. I only know that we have become pragma-
tists — or Missourians — and are demanding a justification for every-
thing. Life has become too crowded for superfluities.

Now these institutions are dependent for their effectiveness on
the effectiveness of the human beings who compose them and guide
their destinies. There is no essence of eternal life in the institu-
tion itself; there is no extraordinary virtue in mere tradition or
momentum. The majestic and once revered institutions of Egypt,
Babylon, Athens, Rome, have crumbled like structures of sand.
If the vestal virgins sleep, the sacred flame dies out.

Consequently, the so-called learned professions — the personnel
of our institutions — are now on trial, on trial for their lives.

The medical jirofession is on trial. The day of the medicine-
man and the wizard is past. We have even ceased to stand in awe
of Latin prescriptions and demand to know the composition and
probable effects of the dose we take. If Christian Science or
osteopathy prove more reasonable or efficacious than allopathy,
we will adopt them. We have discovered the physician to be a
fallible being, with no mystic secrets of healing, and we demand
that he make good or get out. The whole profession is on trial.

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The law and the bench are on trial. If the law does not suit
us we will make a new one. Blackstone and legal Latin fail to
frighten us. What we demand is equity and common sense. If a
judge fails to show wisdom or justice, let him step down from his
bench in all his solemn robes. We have made bold to talk of the
recall of judges.

The church is on trial and the ministers thereof. The day of
priestcraft and its superstitions has passed. If the church fails
to furnish us with the spiritual food that we need, we will not go
to church. We can no longer be frightened or scolded into it.
The ministers are on trial for the life of the church. They are
in direct competition with the golf links and the moving picture
shows, and nothing will save them from that competition. The
sooner they realize it, the better for the churches.

The American college, too, is on trial, and the faculty thereof.
I recently heard a young professor state that he didn't propose
to lower his dignity by trying to interest the students. He would
conduct his course, and they could take it or leave it; if they didn't
come to college to study they might better stay away. In any event
it wasn't up to him.

It is up to him, however, and he cannot dodge the issue. There
is nothing divine about the curriculum; there is no law compel-
ling a student to study. The professors, I submit, are not engaged
merely to conduct courses and display their knowledge; they are
engaged to educate, and it is as important to educate a baseball
player as a grind.

Yes, the professor is on trial. He has got to demonstrate his
usefulness or retire. If he cannot hold the attention of his stu-
dents he is a failure. It is useless for him to fall back on the claim
that it is the students' duty to study. His course is in competition
with athletics, the junior prom., the fraternities. If they are more
effective than his course in securing attention, then something
is the matter with his course. When a college shows signs of run-
ning to athletics or to society, you may count upon it that some-
thing is wrong with the courses and the faculty. Anti-fraternity
legislation will never save a college from the consequences of its
own weaknesses.

For the American undergraduate is an open-minded creature.
He is not wedded to the tennis court or the bridge table if you can

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show him something equally interesting in your books or lectures.
He is young and red-blooded, and his studies will never absorb
him until the enterprise of learning is made as vividly interesting
to him as the enterprise of the gridiron.

John Spencer said: "When a farm boy carried wood for the
kitchen stove, wood was a bore ; carrying ball-bats for a game down
on the flats was a privilege eagerly sought. Stove- wood and ball-
bats may come from the same tree. The man is an alchemist who
is able to place the same halo about stove-wood duties that he
finds in ball-bat pleasures."

Nevertheless, it seems to be up to the faculty to do just that;
and — to uphold our contention — some few of them are doing it.

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ACROSTIC

EDWIN NORTON ANDREWS

[On the three hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the Poet's Death.]

WHO of the Albion race can fail to-day,
In honor of this name, the laurel spray.
Love's token, on the poet's brow to place?
Let other nations too his memory grace,
In meditative wonder at his skill
And world-wide knowledge of the human will !
Methinks all knowledge lodged within his brain.
Society, Art, Passions, Laws in train.
His master mind discussed; myself he shows.
Anon his fiery retribution glows;
Kind to the weak, he honors woman much,
Sets forth all evil as with magic touch,
Paints human virtue in most beauteous dress.
Envelops vice in horrid hideousness.
And with dramatic skill and rare urbanity,
Restores the mind diseased to mood of sanity.
Enfolds the world with sweet humanity.

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GOIN' TO THE SHINTY?

DANIEL V. THOMPSON
"Great was surmise in college, keen the conjecture and joke." — Clough.

THE appearance of a mountain changes not with distance
only, but with the lapse of time. Memory recalls not so
much the particular as the general. So, familiar as we
were with Mount Warner in '89, it now requires some effort to re-
call details; while as to the trend and meaning of our life upon it,
we see more clearly year by year.

Story

We were marooned, the two of us, over the Thanksgiving holi-
day, within the "glorious amphitheatre of hills." Chance brought
us on a tramp from North Hadley down the eastern slope of
Mount Warner. We descended the wild and bosky crest till we
came upon a smooth spot half way down, still green in November,
level, sightly, alluring. The fertile valley, the hills making obei-
sance to it, the air golden with the lowering sun, united to give
an unwonted peace and beauty to the hour. We loved at sight
that stretch of level turf. Why shouldn't we use our holiday to
build a cabin there?

On our right ran a "worm" fence. Over it we went, past a
tobacco barn in the midst of a tobacco field, past barnyard and
farm buildings, to the back porch of a neat cottage, where amid
vines, in an ample rocking armchair, sat a motherly looking old
lady. We begged a drink of water and began to excuse our
trespass. But Mrs. D., having as little English as we had French,
called her husband and two sons, ten and twenty, to assure us we
had done no harm, but were welcome to enjoy their hillside pasture
to our hearts' content. Could we even put up a little hut there.'*
Nothing easier or more natural. So possession was secured, and
then our patent was sealed in slender beakers of home-grown wine.

Page had a sober horse and nearly sober wagon, which in another
twenty-four hours had landed on our estate materials for putting

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up a shanty. It was to be ten by fifteen, with one big window, a
capacious fireplace, and a lean-to woodshed. The thing went
up by magic. Thanksgiving eve we finished the chimney, in
twilight so cold that the mortar would freeze before the brick could
reach it. But below in the fireplace were pine logs laid ready for
the match, and as the last brick shivered into place, forth burst
the blaze. What a house-warming was there; what cocoa boiling
in the crane; what an ample bunk we rolled into, and what blankets;
what hearts bursting with the sense of possession! Should we
never stop talking and laughing and go to sleep?

Sleep we did, and woke late to find a blizzard raging and our
blankets reblanketed with snow. With such conditions our
summer-seeming shanty was hardly built to cope. So when col-
lege opened we gave over our suburban retreat for the winter.
But even while we luxuriated in the effete town, we indulged the
joys of recollection and anticipation, receiving with but small
heed the jeers and queries of our friends, and deeming ourselves
happy in winning some champions and sympathisers, not only
among the fellows but here and there among the faculty. The
Hut was an object of friendly interest to men, for example, of such
diverse points of view as Professor Neill and Professor Garman.
And as for Professor Genung (whom we called " Uncle Johnny, "
though we really felt him as a contemporary) the Hut became as
if his own. Had we read Clough's Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich.?
No? Then we must read it. He should call the hut the Bothie.

When springtime came, a few of our class were desperate enough
to take an occasional chance on our hospitality; but in '91 we
found a kindred spirit, with ideals of leisure and contemplation
harmonious with our own. Harry Boynton would join us with
an unobtrusive gladness as we set out toward sunset, see with
joyous eyes the beauties of that long walk in the gathering dusk,
and share our glowing fire, primitive supper, and all-renewing
sleep. With gifts before which we should have been silent, he
listened eloquently to our nightly chat, and our tireless repetition
of lines we had learned by heart from Wordsworth, and Burns,
and Shelley. He had a wholesome scorn for our more frivolous
moments, and when our spirits rose to the point of mere nonsense,
Harry's objection was brief but sufficient — "Don't drivel!"

At a certain shadowy stretch of the road, as if moved by the

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romance of the place, the Skipper would burstlorth suddenly
into some song, usually the Two Grenadiers.

" Then armed to the teeth will I ride to my grave
The arms of my Emp'ror defending!"

Having made the initial error of pitching the tune somewhat
too high, he would approach boldly to the very last note he could
reach in that splendid climax, and then, with a slump which never
failed to make me roar with laughter, would continue the phrase
an octave lower. It would bring down an Opera House. The
technique is difficult; I've tried, and can by no means attain the
Skipper's astonishing virtuosity, his aplomb.

We had petitioned the faculty informally for excuse from morning
chapel on the ground that v/e were essentially not residents. The
matter, as concerning hygiene, was referred to "Old Doc "of blessed
memory. His reply, as recorded, is like him. "Gentlemen, if
you refer this petition to me, I shall deny it. There is nothing
better for the health than a brisk walk in the morning before
chapel." It is recorded also, but in the Apocrypha, that he added,
"Depend upon it, gentlemen, those young men don't go out to
that shanty for any good purpose."

The deepest pleasure associated with our enterprise lay in the
friendship, lasting long as life, which grew up between us and the
D's. I've never known a better neighbor than that French tobacco -
farmer, nor boys more capable and friendly than Louis and his
brother. To the end of our days we shall keep the memory of the
motherly figure of Mrs. D., and her hospitable heart, and her
high-pitched welcoming voice as we passed her porch at dusk,
"Goin' to the Shinty .f*"

It was something like that, but oh, so full of warmth and goodness,
so vibrant and sincere.

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Philosophy

In the atmosphere of freedom we were tacitly allowed to breathe
in that liberal college of Seelye's day, we boys developed a crude
and fractional but pretty honest philosophy of life.

There was a charm for us in any idea or enterprise which smacked
of the unusual. When Stanley came to College Hall and re-
counted his explorations in Africa, we were not only fascinated,
we were stimulated. It became commonplace to pursue a course
of life which afforded good houses to live in and smooth side-
walks to plant the foot on, which harnessed horses, and muzzled
dogs. We had another attack of imagination after our chat with
Lew Wallace, at Frank's, at the close of his lecture. Likewise
from our reading rose impulses to experiment in the sphere of
thought and language. We ardently believed that one must trust
his intuition quite implicitly or go blind ; that it was nothing neces-
sarily against a half truth that it was incomplete ; that the daily life
of the world was a lively pageant, highly symbolic, and interesting
and comprehensible in proportion to one's power of self-detach-
ment. The basic motive of our walk and conversation was a
modern interpretation of the old Greek, "Know thyself!" We
sought with a zeal worthy of a nobler end, to learn ourselves
through making the rest of mankind our looking-glass. Some
frank critics charged us with affecting eccentricity. But we were
perhaps as normal in our views of them as they in theirs of us.
We cast aside the conventional too rashly; they, not readily enough.
No doubt our conception of the duties and joys of college life was
too unsystematic to be altogether sane, but we certainly were
not posing. We aimed eagerly at finding, for ourselves, the real,
the intimate, the spontaneous, in nature and in man. "A violet
by a mossy stone" seemed to our eyes to offer more of truth and
beauty than an orchid under glass. This passion for real ex-
perience and original observation led us into queer situations, and
supplied us with unusual opinions, some of which were sounder
than others.

One may believe profoundly in the value of restraint and the
mastery of tasks, and yet recognize a possible virtue in different
conditions too. When the routine of the day or the week is over,
the heart of a boy should exult, the body stretch, the reign of

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impulse succeed to the tyranny of tasks. Judgment should yield
to intuition, considerate control relax into personal taste and the
enjoyment of friends, friends so much one's self that courtesy and
caution become both automatic and superfluous.

There was a voluminous poet in our class whose best line, as we
esteemed it, will vividly suggest what I mean by way of relief
from the exactions of "duty" and "society," — •

"Like a young colt that's broke liis halter!"

The young colt is as true to his nature when he has broken his
halter, as when he is held securely by that conventional restraint.
Who knows but he is then attaining even a higher development of
his powers, and thus making a more profound preparation for the
service of man.^* For the immediate convenience of his owner, the
halter did afford a useful check upon the colt's will; but now, he
runs and capers, he exercises superbly his natural gaits, he culti-
vates his social instincts, he is finding himself. By and by the
farmer will catch him again, and enthrall him in a stout new halter,
and then, in a docility suggested by self-interest, young Pegasus
will do his day's work in harness, and eat his oats from a crib. But
he will the better earn his keep because once on a time he had a
spirit to subdue, and powers demanding a trainer's care; and be-
cause this spirit and these powers gained some taste of freedom
and initiation in the open pasture, in those splendid moments of
his youth when he had proved too much for his halter.

When people can have their own way, they will often do wrong;
but it is a deeper and more illuminating truth that, unless they are
given a chance for responsible self-expression they can never
do right — never anything that can justly be counted toward their
souls' own record of achievement. We used our freedom to pursue,
in our own unguided way, the truth of life, as contrasted with the
facts of life. We wished not to confuse the science of life with
the art of living. What we yearned for, and made ourselves
sensitive to was the pulsating inner being of this "unfathomable
world."

We believed that in true friendship there was understanding so
complete that conversation was unnecessary. Silences were cur-
rent coin in our realm, golden symbols of contentment and of

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homage. We would walk a mile with no word beyond, say, a
quatrain from a sonnet of Shakspere's, —

"Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye.
Kissing with golden face the meadows green.
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy."

After some vigorous phrase from Sam Johnson or whimsical one
from Elia, it seemed as if the air were gleaming with images or
trembling with laughter. We had no need to chatter, and spoil
the sights and sounds. We were particularly under the spell of
that story of Carlyle's visit to Tennyson in which for the whole
evening neither spoke a word till the guest bade his host an appre-
ciative good night. Walking or sitting by the fire we put this
form of companionship to the test; and of course it was a thrilling
discovery to find that we too could enjoy talk without words.

Somewhere or other Matthew Arnold calls poetry a criticism
of life. Granted, then he who is to understand and enjoy literature
must find life in it, in ballad, drama, novel. It was largely this
instinctive seach for the inner or real in literature that drew
together our small group of devotees. But I take it, the same
impulse is what has drawn together this past year or two in the
college of today the larger group of boys and men who constitute
the Mitre, a fine and rational embodiment of the social-literary
feeling. Sympathetic literary companionship classifies and in-
tensifies the individual literary sense. It stimulates the imagina-
tion, it multiplies appreciation, it enhances the pleasure of rolling
a fine phrase under the tongue; the savour of a great passage rises
on the voice of the reader like the smoke of sacrifices into every
soul; in that fellowship evolve ideas and purposes unexpected and
precious. Life and literature mean more to each other. It may
seem trivial, but I confess with pleasure to a thrill at this very
moment from the recollection of certain sublime or gracious
passages with which the air would sound about us as we walked
along. There is no rhythm in all poetry, I believe, finer to tramp
to on a country road than the splendid and passionate energy of
Shelley's Alastor. Xr^ :^ ;• ,-;

When it became known about the college that two of the boys
had put up a shanty on the slope of Mount Warner, and walked

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out there of an evening or a Sunday afternoon to enjoy its seclu-
sion, those who themselves loved fresh air and liberty smiled on
us and understood ; while those whose taste preferred the modes
of living which custom and the age ordained, smiled in the Homeric
way, and didn't take the trouble to understand. We met all
varieties of good-natured comment, from lofty scorn to warm
sympathy. One would ridicule the rubber boots we found con-
venient on the country road; another would patronize our rural
tastes and pity our isolation; now and then a simple friend would
reason with us and seek to lead us back to paths of regularity.
But oh, the many, first and last, to whose free spirits our enter-
prise appeared both sane and happy, who had eyes to see, and
hearts to share, and sometimes even time and inclination to join
us on a common ground, and thus enhance our experience and our
memories of it, with their comradeship in freedom !

So the fellowship was enjoyed, the "halter broke," "books found
in running brooks and good in every thing."

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POSTSCRIPT

HENRY W. BOYNTON

[The following article, by the third member of the "Shinty" group, was published
in the Amherst Literary Monthly in March, 1891.]

NOT many years ago, on a little hillside that stands lonely
in the midst of the valley, there arose a palace. Out-
wardly it was no magnificent aflFair, being of bare boards,
and one story. There were two architects and two builders, and,
when it was done, two occupants. That was at first. After-
ward they took to themselves a third, who called himself blessed
of the blessed. Out on the lonely hill these three spent many
perfect hours. After the heat and flurry and tread-mill tasks
among the learned Philistines was done, out they would go, by
quiet evening roads, and under the leaning stars to — Heaven.
For as they strolled, suddenly the heat and humdrum seemed
very far removed, and there existed only these three, quietly
entering into the bosom of the great Pan. There was no babbling
of tongues; only now and then a thought leaping from brain to
brain with a single word or gesture. The long lanes receded,
margined here and there by a black-browed pine or shadowy elm,
and the little bridges held out their arms. And so they would
come to the palace, and entering, leave their lower selves upon the
threshold. The morrow was to come, but it had no care for them.
The moon came out, and a solitary bird sang hard by, and they
went to rest. And the Philistines called them fools for their pains.
And then in due course the two that were at first made an end
of learning, and went away. And the third was left alone, and
went betimes to the palace, thinking to find himself again, and
be comforted. And the way was long, and at the end no palace,
but only a wretched hut, comfortless and desolate. For the
princes were gone, and he found himself to be naught but a beggar.
And he cursed and came away, and went there no more, but
mingled with the world. And the Philistines called him a fool
for his pains.

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tKfje amfjersit SUusftrious;

HENRY CLAY HALL

EDWARD S. PARSONS

EARLY in the present year men of all political creeds in the
Rocky Mountain region united in expressing to President
Wilson the wish that he should appoint to the Interstate
Commerce Commission Mr. Henry Clay Hall, of Colorado Springs,
a graduate of Amherst in the class of 1881. To this united senti-
ment the President responded favorably, thus adding Mr. Hall
to the already numerous group of the "Amherst Illustrious."

This greatness of place and opportunity was not thrust upon
Mr. Hall. It was an achievement, the worthy reward of conspic-
uous ability, hard work, and willingness to serve wherever the
opportunity offered. To this fact his record amply testifies.
He was born in New York City in 1860. After his graduation
from Amherst he studied law at Columbia, and received the
degree of LL.B. in 1883. After two years of practise in New
York City he became assistant to Mr. Edmond Kelly, counsel
for the United States legation in Paris, and remained in that
capacity until 1892, when, on account of health, he removed to
Colorado Springs, where his brother, William M. Hall, was dean
and professor of history and economics at Colorado College.

In his new environment Mr. Hall came rapidly to the front. He
became general counsel for Colorado College and one of its law
lecturers, counsel for a number of other important corporations,
president of the local bar association and then of the bar associa-
tion of the state. In 1905 he was elected mayor of Colorado
Springs, the nomination having been entirely unsought and having
been made while he was out of the city. He gave the city a model
administration which lifted its civic life to a new level. He
succeeded in enforcing laws which had been almost a dead letter
in other administrations, and showed what could be done in such
an office by intelligence, honesty and well-directed energy. He

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HENRY CLAY HALL. ESQ.

Of the Cl.\ss of 1881

Appointed by President Wilson to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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had the honor of being cordially hated by those who had been
accustomed before his time to use the city for their own ends;
but even his enemies were compelled to acknowledge the vigor
and effectiveness of his administration. Later he was prominent
in the Chamber of Commerce, which has done so much for the
development of the city along the best lines, and for several
years he was chairman of its most important committee, that
upon municipal affairs. He was also at the forefront of the
movement to secure a commission form of government for Colorado
Springs, and was one of the wisest and most influential members
of the charter commission. Indeed, the framing of the charter
was largely the work of two men, of whom he was one. During
the last year he has served as city attorney, showing that, though
he once held the chief position in the city, he was not above serving
it in any capacity where he could be of use.

His career has thus, during the thirty-three years since his
graduation from Amherst, been a steady progress upward, until he
has now reached a height where all may see and measure his worth.

Mr. Hall has eminent fitness for the post to which he has been
summoned. He is not afraid of hard work. He has great sanity,
the ability to see the essential in any question, the capacity to
weigh argument and come to clear decision. He has a high sense
of honor, which will be unmoved by any considerations other
than those of justice and the public good. During his term as
mayor his refusal to make certain appointments and to desist
from certain policies lost him some of his best paying clients,
but there was no hesitation on his part. He can see through pre-
tense and has a thorough contempt for it. He brings to his new
work the keen interest of the student and of the man of affairs
in the problems which it presents and also a wide knowledge of
public conditions, not only in his own section, but in the nation
at large. Moreover, he has a rare felicity of expression. His
clarity of vision manifests itself in clarity of utterance, and with
the pen or the voice he is able to say what he has to say so that it
can be understood, and to say it with grace as well.

The Rocky Mountain Region is proud of its first representative
on the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Amherst may well
rejoice in the widening of her influence from the service he is to
render in this position of national responsibility.

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ROBERT LANSING

[From The Outlook, April 4]

THE first appointment [of two, to important positions in the
Department of State] is surprisingly good. It will help
much to fill the gap left by the resignation of John Bassett
Moore. Mr. Lansing has had a very considerable training for
his present post, and possesses the quality of mind necessary for the
performance of its functions, in so far as his services are to be
confined to the exposition of the legal aspects of the various prob-
lems that arise.

Mr. Lansing, a son-in-law of General John W. Foster, Secre-
tary of State under President Harrison, made his first entrance
into public affairs in 1892 by becoming Associate Counsel for
our Government in the Bering Sea Fur Seal Arbitration. Some
years later he became counsel for the United States Bering Sea
Claims Commission. Later still he was Solicitor for the United
States Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and still later was Counsel
for the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries in the arbitration at The
Hague. Mr. Lansing has latterly been in Washington, appearing
before the American British Claims Arbitration Tribunal as Agent
and Counsel for the American Government — a post to which he
was appointed by Mr. Knox, Secretary of State during the Taft
Administration. Mr. Lansing is an associate editor of the "Ameri-
can Journal of International Law," and is well known as an
international lawyer of ripe experience and judgment. His ap-
pointment is distinctly non-political and for merit only.

ROBERT LANSING, ESQ.

Of the Class of 1886
Appointed by President Wilson Counselor to the Department of State.

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Cfte poofe ZaUt

1869

To THE River Plate and Back. By W. J. Holland. G. P. Putnam's Sons,
New York and London, 1913.

This book is a narrative of the trip of Professor Holland to Buenos Aires and
back for the purpose of settinig up and turning over to the Argentine Government
Museum a replica of the giant dinosaur, Diplodocus, which is in the Carnegie
Museum, the replica being presented by Mr. Carnegie.

Doctor Holland has written an entertaining account of the voyage to Buenos
Aires, with descriptions of the cities at which he stopped on the way, such as Bahia,
Rio Janerio, Santos, etc., and a considerable description of life at Buenos Aires
and La Plata, with a running comment all through on the animals, birds and
butterflies which he saw. The picture is of especial interest as being from the point
of view of a guest of the officials and leading scientific men of the country.

Of particular interest are the incidental accounts of the preparation and presenta-
tions of replicas of this great dinosaur to the national museums of England, France,
Germany, Russia, and others, indicating how this spectacular specimen was sought
by the various countries and presented by Mr. Carnegie and the Museum at
Pittsburg.

The climax is reached when the skeleton of Diplodocus is finally in place, is pre-
sented by Mr. Holland, accepted by Sr. Pena, President of the Republic of Argen-
tine, and Mr. Holland is made a member of the Academy of Science of Argentine.

After a short trip into the interior of Argentine, the return journey is described
with pictures of the various West Indian Islands. The book makes very interest-
ing reading, and is finely illustrated with half tones, drawings, and several colored
reproductions of paintings of bits of the scenery made by the author.

F. B. LooMis.
1873

The Place of the Church in Evolution. By John M. Tyler. Boston and New
York: Houghton & MifHin Company. 1914.

If a man may be known by the company he keeps, so likewise may a book. This
book has its already well-manned company, in which it takes an honorable place,
and whose wholesome spirit it perpetuates. It will, one may confidently predict,
put the name of John Tyler among the names which, for their services to a sane
apprehension both of evolutionary science and religion, have won a widely felt dis-
tinction. The late John Fiske, one of this goodly company, whose unique expository
powers were devoted largely to naturalizing among general readers the evolutionary
philosophy, once revolutionary, of Huxley and Herbert Spencer, did his generation
great service by his two little books, now in every minister's library: "The Destiny
of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin," and "The Idea of God as Affected
by Modern Knowledge." Another of this goodly company was the late Henry

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Drummond, whose "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" disposed of the fatuous
idea once prevalent that science and religious faith ever had grounds for conflict or
needed reconciliation; and whose later "Ascent of Man" negatived the ignoble
connotation of the idea left by Darwin that the course of animal evolution from the
much exploited "hairy quadruped with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal
in his habits" was (to quote Darwin's title) a "Descent of Man." As we older
readers recall these very serviceable books, we realize how fast scientific thought
moves, after all, and how soon the doubts that once disturbed earnest minds become
obsolete.

It is with no idea of allaying doubts or reconciling conflicts, however, that Pro-
fessor Tyler steps into the company of Fiske and Drummond. Nor is he standing
on their shoulder to push on their thought from where they leave off. His con-
clusions come rather from a deeply meditated view of the magnificent field of
animal and spiritual evolution at first hand, and from specialized research. His
book, we may say, is a new reversal. Instead of identifying natural law in the
spiritual world, it traces, from the beginning, what we may call spiritual law in
the natural world, as if all nature, from the bottom up, were alive with the same
growing life. This quite changes our milieu; so that in following his thought we
soon bid farewell to Coelenterates and molluscs in our progressive discovery of the
stages of life succeeding. The chapters on "Stages of Animal Evolution" and
"The Rise of Altruism," epitomized from the author's earlier book on "Man in
the Light of Evolution," lay his foundation, and from this point the specific theme
begins to prophesy itself. As soon as altruism is broached — a subject which
Drummond carried as far as maternal instinct — the far goal begins to reveal its
possibilities; for altruism carried to its highest powers can be satisfied only with the
harmonious relations and functions of corporate life, that is, with something very
like a church. Hence the idea, at first thought somewhat estranging, of the place
of the church in evolution — estranging, unless we consent to a certain accommoda-
tion of both terms that they may fit each other.

But the accommodation of terms comes with all reasonableness and naturalness
as soon as we stick to the inherent vital principles of both. This is what Professor
Tyler does. It is the spirit of the theme, not its mere material embodiment, that
concerns him. And here he has an impulsion, an urgency, in the great spiritual
tide which is sweeping over the world. Since the decade beginning with 1883,
when Fis^ke and Drummond were thinking of evolutionary life in terms of the
individual, the thoughts of men have been taken up increasingly with the problems
of corporate life, of society and men in the mass, and the new science of sociology
is for the time eclipsing the claims of the individual. With this spiritual move-
ment, the philosophj^ of evolution must keep pace, or, if you please, must lead the
way into a clear view of its real inwardness. This is the task which Professor
Tyler's book has set itself. Through the chapters on "The Meaning of Personal-
ity," "Present Conditions," "Christianity," "The Church," and "Diversity of
Gifts," it translates its survey, so to say, into terms of universal humanity, the
language of the common man.

A notable feature of the book is its freedom from the abstruse and technical
terms both of science and religion. It is truly scientific, but in that self-juslifying
science which Huxley calls "disciplined common sense." Ilis church, likewise, is

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not at all the stiff ecclesiastic affair which makes us think of cathedrals and cer-
emonies; one finds no trace of churchly forms or terminology. His church is an
institution rather of life and spirit than of organized forms. And yet it is not
easy to substitute another name for what he has in mind, or to cut it loose from the
established institution; for it has the church's spring and inspiration in Chrisl, is
the working and living body of Christ, the diversely membered social and corporate
organism of which he is the Head. This personally developed organism has its
place, the supreme place, in evolution. The vast movement of vitalized nature,
which began with the Coelenterates, disclosed through ages and millennia its
marvelous potencies until not only man, with his powers adapted to cooperate
with and determine his own evolution, but Christianity, with the inspiration of its
personal source, and its diversities of gifts working together in one spirit, comes in
to crown the work. It is a fascinating story of tlie current which runs through all
animal and human life, told in a vigorous and familiar style, without parade of
science or learning, yet with the genuine heart of both — a treatment of a momentous
theme which every reader, general and special, may read with keen interest and
delight.

J. F. G.
1880

ViLL.\GE Improvement. By Parris Thaxter Farwell. Illustrated. New York:
Sturgis and Walton Company. 1913.

This book is one of a series, "The Farmer's Practical Library," edited by Ernest
Ingersoll. Of the series the editor, in his general introduction, says: "It proposes
to tell its readers how they can make work easier, health more secure, and the home
more enjoyable and tenacious of the whole family. No evil in American rural life
is so great as the tendency of the young people to leave the farm and the village.
The only way to overcome this evil is to make rural hfe less hard and sordid; more
comfortable and attractive. It is to the solving of that problem that these books
are addressed. Their central idea is to show how country life may be made richer
in interest, broader in its activities and its outlook, and sweeter to the taste."

It would seem, from a glance at the titles in this series, that this book of Rev.
Mr. Farwell's must subtend a very large arc in its range of subjects; it certainly is
almost encyclopedic in the number of very practical yet truly esthetic and moral
suggestions that it makes. The writer is described on the title page as "Chairman
of the Village Improvement Committee of the Massachusetts Civic League." He
is an advocate of village improvement, not merely as a matter of trees and parks
and roads and attractive homes, but also of health and cleanliness and law and
order and education and church and play. He is not concerned with untried
theories. He exemplifies every point by what has actually been done in various
places all over the land; and the numerous illustrations of streets, bridges, tree
vistas, fields, gardens, crops, have the persuasiveness of a veritable mission work
put in the most attractive terms. And one can say no better thing of the style and
workmanship of the book than that these are eminently worthy of a very worthy
subject. There is nothing dry or professional about it; it is like a neighbor sitting
down by our side and telling us just how, just why, and just what are approved
methods and results.

J. F. G.

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THE ALUMNI COUNCIL: FIRST ANNUAL
MEETING

Frederick S. Allis

THE first meeting of the Alumni Council at the Hotel Kimball, Springfield,
Wednesday, May 20, brought together a notable group of Amherst men.
Fifty-four representatives were present, from the class of 1848 to the
class of 1911, and from the associations of Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Con-
necticut, Providence, Worcester, Washington, D. C, Central and Western New
York, Cleveland, Chicago and Colorado.

Many of the members reached Springfield Tuesday evening, so that over forty
members were present when Chairman William Orr, '83, called the meeting to order
at ten o'clock Wednesday morning. After a brief introduction by the chairman
and the secretary of the Organization Committee, William Orr, '83, and Frederick
S. Allis, '93, giving an account of the work of the commmittee, Henry P. Kendall,
'99, outlined the various lines of activity which the CouncU might take up. The
topics of the morning were then discussed: "Publicity," by Collin Armstrong,
'77, and Richard S. Brooks, '92; "Graduates' Quarterly," by Ernest M. WTiit-
comb, '04; "Secondary Schools," by Alfred G. Rolfe, '82, William G. Thayer,
'85, William Orr, '83, William B. Greenough, '88, Charles E. Kelsey, '84, George

D. Pratt, '93, Grosvenor H. Backus, '94; "Summer Baseball," by John E. Old-
ham, '88, Charles A. Sibley, '87, Henry P. Field, '80, William C. Atwater, '84,
Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, '89. The secretary read communications on this
latter subject from Dr. Paul C. Phillips, '88, and Prof. E. B. Delabarre, '86.

The Student Council, in whom is vested the direction of Amherst Athletics,
had asked the opinion of the Alumni Council as to what attitude Amherst should
take towards summer baseball. To enable them to form an opinion, the members
of the Alumni Council had before them printed copies of a report by a special
committee consisting of Alfred E. Stearns, '94, Cornelius J. Sullivan, '92, John

E. Oldham, '88, Charles A. Sibley, '87, and Frederick S. Allis, '93, secretary. It
was voted that the report of this committee be received and the whole matter be
referred to the Committee on Athletics to be brought up at the next meeting of
the Council. It was also voted that the Graduates' Quarterly be made the
oflBcial publication of the Alumni Council. Before adjournment for luncheon,
Henry P. Field, '80, presented the report of the Nominating Committee. The
following officers were elected: president, William F. Slocum, '74, of Colorado;
vice-presidents, Charles E. Kelsey, '84, of Boston, Edwin Duffey, '90, of Cortland,
N. Y., Dwight W. Morrow, '95, of New York; secretary, Frederick S. Allis, '93,
of Amherst; treasurer, Ernest M. W^hitcomb, '04, of Amherst. Executive com-
mittee. President Slocum, ex officio; George D. Pratt, '93, of New York; Grosvenor
H. Backus, '94, of New York, chairman; Edward T. Esty, '97, of Worcester; Henry
H. Titsworth, '97, of Chicago; Henry P. Kendall, '99 of Norwood; Robert W.

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Maynard, '02, of Boston. Members-at-Iarge of the Alumni Council to serve for
three years, Richard S. Brooks, '92, of Springfield, Prof. Thomas C. Esty, '93,
of Amherst and Noble S. Elderkin, '01, of Lawrence, Kan. Standing com-
mittees, members of which are to be appointed by the executive committee,
were created, covering the following subjects: athletics, publicity, publication,
religious work, secondary schools, finance, alumni fund, revision of the constitu-
tion of the society of the alumni.

At two-thirty in the afternoon President Meiklejohn spoke informally to the
members of the Council. The President emphasized the fact that, although
Amherst no longer gives the degree of Bachelor of Science, its scientific courses
are stronger than ever. He also explained the purpose of the administration to
work out a more definite curriculum, believing that the liberal college must show
the same definiteness of purpose, the same domination by a single aim as is shown
by the technical or professional school. With much emphasis he declared that
Amherst must secure and keep the best teachers obtainable, the quality of the
teaching force being more important than the material equipment of the college.
At the conclusion of his address, the following resolution was moved by George
D. Pratt, '93:

"Resolved, That the Alumni Council, being informed of the desire of the Trus-
tees to increase the amount of money paid for instruction purposes, expresses hearty
approval of this policy and, as an expression of approval, authorizes its Executive
Committee to invite the Alumni Body to contribute to the Alumni Fund, which
will be available for this and other purposes. It further pledges its best efforts
to raise for this purpose seventy-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for the college year 1914-15, and a like amount, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, for four additional years."

Frank L. Babbott, '78, spoke in favor of the motion and it was unanimously
passed. Grosvenor H. Backus, '94, then explained the object of the Alumni
Fund, and Henry H. Titsworth, '97, spoke on the policy of including in one budget
not only the expenses of the Council but of all other projects for which contribu-
tions are asked from alumni, the Graduates' Quarterly, the lawn fete, the Chris-
tian Association, etc. Communications were read from the associations of Chicago,
St. Louis and Rochester, inviting the Council to hold the 1915 meeting with them.
Mention was made of the centennial commencement in 1921 and the desirability
of having every class hold a reunion at that time. It was voted that the Alumni
Council record its very strong appreciation of the thought and skill with which
Chairman Orr and his associates of the Organization Committee had worked out
the plans for the Alumni Council. The thanks of the Council were extended to
the chairman and members of the committee and to its secretary, Mr. Allis, for
their generous and valuable work for the college. After adjournment, through
the courtesy of alumni, automobiles were placed at the disposal of the members
and trips were taken around Springfield until the dinner hour.

The dinner in the evening was attended by 125 alumni. Dwight W. Morrow,
'95, was toastmaster and the speakers were William F. Slocum, '74, President of
Colorado College; Henry C. Hall, '81, of the Interstate Commerce Commission,
and President Meiklejohn. W. F. Merrill, '99, led the singing and an octette
from the College Glee Club also sang. President Slocum said, in substance: "The

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American college is the greatest factor in education, and the main purpose of the
college is to create a leadership so calm and intelligent that it will grapple with and
master the important problems confronting our country." Mr. Hall said that the
main purpose of the college, as he saw it, was to fit boys for the utmost service of
which they are capable. He paid a high tribute to President Wilson as a great
public servant, and brought a personal message of greeting from him.

President Meiklejohn, in the final speech of the evening, thanked the men who
first started the Alumni Council project and fought for it, and he thanked the class
of '93 for making the Council possible by their gift last commencement. He then
spoke of two essential features in the life of the college, first the teaching and second
the life of the student outside the classroom. More and more, he declared, was he
impressed with the fact that there is no work in the social scheme equal to that of
the college teacher. He pledged himself to do his utmost to make the teaching in
Amherst college wise, sane and vital.

With regard to the second feature he urged that the social life of the student
must not be left to mere chance. While we must respect the independence of the
students in the government of their own affairs, we must constantly seek to make
conditions favorable for their development in moral, religious, social and physical
enterprises.

He concluded by saying that his feeling was one of jubilation. He had counted
on the support of the trustees and had found it far beyond his expectations. He
had known that the alumni were devoted to the best interests of the college but
had not dreamed that such big results could be achieved so soon. He had believed
in the mission and future of Amherst, but every day the greatness of the opportunity
was broadening before his eyes. He said he had been welcomed by the toast-
master as a comrade, and as a comrade he gave hearty thanks to trustees and
alumni for their generous and loyal support.

As indicating the representative character of the Council, I append the follow-
ing list of members present:

Representatives from classes: W. Spooner Smith, '48, W'orcester; Alexander B.
Crane, '54, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Calvin Stebbins, '62, Framingham, Mass.; Francis
D. Lewis, '69, Philadelphia; John Bates Clark, '72, New York; John M. Tyler, '73,
Amherst; William F. Slocum, '74, Colorado Springs; William Ives Washburn,'76,
New York; Collin Armstrong, '77, New York; Frank L. Babbott, '78, New York;
Henry P. Field, '80, Northampton; Frank H. Parsons, '81, New York; William Orr,
'83, Boston; William C. Atwater, '84, New York; Samuel H. Williams, '85, Glaston-
bury, Conn.; Charles A. Sibley, '87, Boston; John E. Oldham, '88, Boston; Frederick
J. E. Woodbridge, '89, New York; Oliver B. Merrill, '91, New York; George D.
Pratt, '93, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Grosvenor H. Backus, '94, New York; Dwight W.
Morrow, '95, New York; Edward T. Esty, '97, Worcester; Ferdinand Q. Blanchard,
'98, East Orange, N. J.; Henry P. Kendall, '99, Norwood, Mass.; Harold I. Pratt,
'00, New York; Frederick K. Kretschmar, '01, Boston; Robert W. Maynard, '02,
Boston; W^alter R. Washburn, '03, Boston; Ernest M. Wliitcomb, '04, Amherst;
Frederick S. Bale, '06, New York; Harold C. Keith, '08, Campello, Mass.; A.
Mitchell, Jr., '10, Chicago; Laurens H. Seelye, '11, New York.

Representatives from Alumni Associations: Boston, Charles E. Kelsey, '84,
William F. Merrill, '99; Brooklyn, Walter H. Gilpatric, '99, New York; Central

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Massachusetts, Charles F. Marble, '86, Worcester; Central New York, Edwin
Duffey, '90, Cortland; Chicago, Henry H. Titsworth, '97, E. Preble Harris, '10,
Chicago; Cleveland, George P. Steele, '88, Painesville, Ohio; Connecticut, Ernest
W. Pelton, '01, New Britain; New York, William S. Tyler, '95, New York; Rhode
Island, William B. Greenough, '88, Providence; Rocky Mountain, Henry C. Hall,
'81, Colorado Springs; Washington, D.C., Gilbert H. Grosvenor, '97, Washington;
AVestern New York, George Burns, '08, Rochester.

Representatives-at-large from General Alumni Association: Alfred G. Rolfe,
'82, Pottstown, Pa.; William G. Thayer, '85, Southboro, Mass.

Members-at-large from Alumni Council: Richard S. Brooks, '92, Springfield;
Thomas C. Esty, '93, Amherst; Jason N, Pierce, '02, Dorchester; Stanley King,
'03, Boston.

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l^fje ?Hnbersrabuates{

The things which are of most importance, in the long run, in the undergraduate
life of the College, are the things which are least susceptible of report: the steady
routine of the class-room, the laboratory, and the library; things which prove the
student's staying-power, and which only a keen interest in the subject can save
from being irksome. That a goodly degree and range of interest of this latter
sort, however, has been present throughout the year has been asserted by compe-
tent observers; it has been specially proved, also, by the attendance and attention
to the special courses of lectures which have been given. As we compare this year
with some years of the past decade or so, the difference is very marked and very
encouraging.

THE LECTURE COURSES

It was to some extent a disadvantage that in arranging for the convenience
of the several outside lecturers who have visited us the College had to "bunch its
hits" to one small part of the college year; one course beginning almost as soon
as another left off, so that all three courses came between Wednesday, February
11, and Friday, April 17, with the spring recess of two weeks occurring just before
the third course. That all should have been so well attended and appreciated is,
under such circumstances, a good sign.

The Henry Ward Beecher Course. — This course, designed to furnish "sup-
plementary lectures in the Departments of History and the Political and Social
Sciences," was given this year by ex-President William H. Taft. No more felici-
tous choice of lecturer could have been made; both for the wisdom, breadth, and
tolerant good sense which characterized all his lectures, and for the charm of his
personality. It was felt by all to be a rare privilege to be in such familiar associa-
tion with one whose experience has been so rich and broad, and whose judgment
of affairs of the state and of political issues is so sound. His 6rst lecture, given on
Wednesday, February 11, was a preliminary one, rather more a public speech
than an academic lecture, on "Signs of the Times." It was given to a large and
general audience in College Hall. The second, given Wednesday, February 18,
in the chapel, and merely to the college, was entitled "The People, the Constitu-
tion, and the Courts,"— rather discursive, as the title would indicate, but directed
mainly to a criticism of the recall of judges and judicial decisions. His legal and
administrative experience contributed richly to the elucidation of his subject.
The third, given Wednesday, March 4 (exactly one year after his retirement from
the presidency) was again in College Hall, and given to a general public. Its
subject was "The Executive "—its powers, limitations, needs of betterment. The
fourth, given Wednesday, March 11, had for subject "The Monroe Doctrine."
College Hall was crowded, many standing. The lecture, which was informing,
discriminating, elucidative, left, along with the personality of the man, a most
delightful and charming impression.

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The Clyde Fitch Course. — The income of the Clyde Fitch fund, which "is
to be used for the furtherance of the study of English literature and dramatic art
and literature," was this year devoted to "the remuneration of an eminent lecturer,"
Mr. William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and manager, who has done so much for the
drama of his own land, and ranks eminent among the most modern writers of verse.
His first lecture was given on Friday, March 13, only two days after the close of
Professor Taft's course. He spoke of the permanent and universal elements of
poetry and the drama, holding a brief for the natural and unsophisticated. In the
second lecture, given on Monday, March 16, he spoke of the modern trend in art,
especially modern lyric poetry; and was largely reminiscential of the "generation"
of emotional debauchees of "the naughty Nineties" ' whose work, to a virile
judgment, seems a sort of denatured poetry. The third, given on Thursday,
March 19, had for subject "The Theatre and Beauty," and spoke of
certain modern effects in staging and scenery derived from the painter's
sense of artistic values — a subject on which he, being a painter as well as
a poet, could speak with discrimination and appreciation. All of Mr.
Yeats's lectures were discursive, expressed in good style, contained many interesting
though not very profound thoughts, and on the whole left with us the impression
that only a small and somewhat provincial field of the poetic art had been presented .

The William Brewster Clark Memorial Coixrse. — This lectureship, founded
last year, and devoted to the general subject "The Modern Point of View," was filled
this year by lectures on biology, by Professor George Howard Parker of Harvard
University. His four lectures dealt with the following subjects: "The Nervous
System," given Thursday, April 9; "Hormones," Friday, April 10; "Reproduction,"
Thursday, April 16; "Evolution," Friday, April 17. Of the course in general
Professor Loomis writes:

"The lectures were of great interest, especially the one on Hormones, and were
attended by large numbers, the last lecture having the largest attendance. The
average attendance of students was about 200, of students from Mt. Holyoke
about 75, and of the faculty and public around, 75. Beside the lectures. Professor
Parker talked to some of the classes."

GAMES AND ATHLETICS TO DATE

The following account of the situation in sport and athletics is given by an
alumnus, whose interest is keen and discriminative.

Baseball. — Up to the time of go ng to press, the results of the baseball season
have been somewhat mixed. The team has shown streaks of fine playing, as in
the Williams game, and also a most childish sort of ball tossing, as at the Harvard
game. The southern trip in the early spring gave promise of a very successful
season, but so far the team has not lived up to its early form.

The first game of the season was with the Springfield Y. M. C. A. college and was
won by the score of 4-3, a very erratic game — Amherst getting twelve hits and
two errors, although the Amherst pitcher had to be changed — Robinson replacing
Brough.

Wesleyan was beaten by the score of 3-1 in a pitcher's battle between McGay of
Amherst and Lanning of Wesleyan. McGay pitched an unusually good game.

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securing thirteen strike-outs and allowing only six scattered hits. The Amherst
team played an errorless game and the whole team put up an excellent exhibition
of ball.

The Tufts game resulted in another victory for Amherst, 4-1, with Robinson
pitching. He struck out ten men and gave only two hits. Although the team
contributed five errors, these errors were not costly, and we secured six hits off
the Tufts pitcher. The score might have been larger, except for Tufts pulling off
two double plays.

Amherst certainly played prep-school ball when Andover came to town. Owing
to the Andover team having to catch the train, the game had to be called as of the
fifth inning, which left the score 1-1, although in their half, Andover had knocked
out two more runs — Andover really playing superior ball. The exhibition was
ragged and most uninteresting.

After these early successes and evidences of good ball playing, it was most dis-
appointing to have the Harvard game result in the poorest exhibition of ball Am-
herst has put up in years. Robinson, the star pitcher, was confined to the hospital
by sickness and the team at Cambridge started with McGay in the box, who did
well for four innings, but was replaced in the fourth by Goodridge, who did his best
to hold down the Harvard hits. Amherst made eight errors and only secured
three hits, against fifteen hits for Harvard. A home run was made on a bunt,
owing to the ball being thrown around the diamond and dropped by everybody,
apparently, who had a chance to put his hands to it. It was the poorest ball
playing the team has put up this season. This is particularly to be regretted,
owing to the presence of a large number of alumni and sub-freshmen at the game.
This is the second time the Amherst team has gone all to pieces in this game with
Harvard in the last ten years, with apparently no reason, unless it be "stage fright."

The game with Brown, on May 16, at Providence, was won by Brown by the
score of 6-4, being very poorly played, with critical errors on the part of the Amherst
team, five being charged up, three by the third-baseman, although nine hits were
made off the Brown pitcher. The three costly errors gave Brown the lead in the
second, which won the game. Goodridge, the Amherst pitcher, played good ball,
only allowing six scattered hits, and had the team backed him up, it would seem
as though Amherst should have won.

May 21, the annual Prom game with Williams was played on Pratt Field, and
Amherst won a splendid victory by the score of 8-3. Robinson, who had been sick
for three weeks, pitched for the first time and made a fine showing. Hodge,
Williams's pitcher was driven from the box in the fifth inning, being poorly supported
by his in-field in addition to allowing some costly hits. Amherst had only one
error charged against it with eight hits off Hodge, whereas the Williams team
made six errors and secured three hits.

The following Saturday, Brown was played on the home grounds, but Amherst
was defeated to the score of 2-1, owing to the poor support rendered Robinson by
his own in-field. Amherst made seven errors, against Brown's three. Without
these errors, Amherst would undoubtedly have won, although Crowell pitched a
splendid game for Brown, striking out eight men. Robinson pulled himself out of
two or three tight boxes by splendid pitching.

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The postponed game with M. A. C. was won by the State College by the score
of 3-0. The Agricultural team put up a splendid article of ball and Davies, as
pitcher, while doing fine work himself, received excellent support. For Amherst,
Robinson pitched well, but was most wretchedly supported by his infield, — errors
and poor throws costing all three scores. Furthermore, the team couldn't hit
safely in pinches and was thus weak at both ends of the game.

The return game with Williams at Williamstown on May 30th furnished
sweet revenge to the Williams rooters, as they defeated Amherst 6-i. As in the
two previous games, Amherst had a balloon ascension in one of the innings and
fuddled the ball until the winning scores had crossed the plate. Otherwise the
game was fairly well played.

The team seems to be composed of rather erratic players, men who can play
brilliantly one minute and the next minute make the most foolish plays imagin-
able. The good work of the few steady men on the team is quite useless on
days when this erratic playing develops.

Track. — Amherst's ability in track athletics has certainly been hard hit in the
last few years, and it will be disappointing for alumni of olden days to learn how
low track athletics have fallen.

The annual inter-class track meet was held on April 18, and was won by the
juniors, 58 points, the sophomores being second with 34. No performances of unus-
ual merit were recorded.

The following Saturday a dual meet was held with M. A. C, Amherst winning
by a score of 85-41, Amherst winning eight firsts. The weather was cold and no
records were approached, although some of the events were closely contested, n

The dual track meet between Brown University and Amherst resulted in a
victory for Brown 65-60, the result being in doubt until the final event was run
off. Amherst was strong in the sprints, while Brown's strength lay in the distance
and weight events. For Brown, Captain Bartlett was the individual star, taking
first in the hammer throw, discus and shot, and tied for first with Captain Iluth-
steiner in the high jump. Cole was the star for Amherst, winning first in the 100,
220, and 440. Nelligan, '17, took first place in the 120 yard hurdles. A strong
wind was blowing and no records were broken.

The dual meet between Williams and Amherst was very disappointing to the
Amherst supporters, as Williams ran away with the meet, 90-1/3 to 34-2/3. Con-
trary to expectations, Amherst failed to score in either the 100 or 220, although
Cole won the 440. Williams had a well-balanced team, completely blanketing
Amherst in many events.

The result of the Williams meet did not give any encouragement to the success
of Amherst in the inter-coUegiates held in Boston, which resulted in Amherst's
winning only one-third of a point in the entire meet by tying for fourth place in
the high jump.

Amherst might possibly have done something in the Inter-collegiate 440, had
Cole not been indisposed and unable to run. All told, the season was very dis-
appointing. What Amherst needs in track athletics are athletes with ability. It
seems as if the college were never poorer in athletic material than at the present
time. While splendid support was given Coach Nelligan in the way the men
turned out, there are few of any marked talent in athletic lines. Athletic meets
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have reached such a high point of development, that it really takes stars to win
inter-collegiate events.

The athletic association is to be commended for the very successful inter-
scholastic track meet which was held at Amherst on the 16th. Teams from Poly
Prep, Brooklyn, Worcester High School, Powder Point, Holyoke, Springfield,
Hartford, Concord and many other preparatory schools contested, and the meet
was won by Poly Prep of Brooklyn by the score of 25-14/15 points with Worcester
Classical High School second with 23 points. The Brooklyn team was sent up
through the loyalty of the Amherst Alumni Association, who had previously
held a meet in Brooklyn, the winning team of which they sent to the Amherst
meet.

Tennis. — The Amherst tennis team has Lad a successful season. In the opening
game with Brown, Cady and Shumway displayed good playing ability and the
team won both the singles and doubles.

The match with Wesleyan was lost by the score 4-2, Wesleyan winning all the
singles and Amherst winning both doubles.

In the New England inter-collegiate tournament held at Longwood, the singles
championship was won by Cady, who defeated the runner-up, his teammate.
Shumway, in a very close and interesting match. Amherst was shut out of the
doubles in the first round by the Trinity pair, who were the final winners of the
doubles. As a result of this final, Amherst has 5\ points out of the necessary eight,
which are needed to win the cup competed for by eleven New England colleges.

The dual meet with Trinity was an even break, 3-3, Trinity winning both doubles
and Amherst enough of the singles to tie the score, although Cady, the inter-col-
legiate champion of the week before, was defeated by Bergman of Trinity in straight
sets. Several matches are yet to be played.

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281

(Official antr pergonal

THE TRUSTEES

Of what the Trustees did at their
meeting in Amherst on Thursday, May
7, there is little to report, and that
chiefly of a routine nature. The resig-
nation of Professor Grosvenor, which
he had announced on April 15, was
accepted, and it was voted to make him
Professor Emeritus. The location of
the Webster Memorial statue, the gift
of Riciiard Billings, '97, was decided on;
it is to be placed at the end of the double
row of trees which extends from the
back of the College chapel to the west
end of College Church. The statue, a
picture of which is given as the frontis-
piece of this number of the Quarterly,
will in that location be an impressive
object.

The chief importance of the meeting
centred in what was done to the Trus-
tees. It was the occasion of President
Meiklejohn's first annual report. As
this is already presumably in the
hands of all the alumni, there is no
occasion to enlarge on it here; and
discussion of its proposals would be
premature. Its main interest consists
in the tentative scheme for a radically
new curriculum, as outlined in the third
section of the paper. This scheme is
proposed in the conviction that Amherst ,
in common with other liberal colleges
of her kind and time, "stands at the
parting of the ways, and that critical
problems are awaiting her decision."
The report will receive much discussion,
as it deserves to do; and all the alumni
will look forward with keen interest to
the scheme's development from its
vague and tentative form to a rounded

and usable curriculum. We give here
the tabular outline, with the President's
remarks introducing it:

"For the sake of stimulating the
friends of the college, students, alumni,
faculty, and trustees, to the discussion
of principles and methods, may I sketch
here the outline of a curriculum con-
cerning which I have already had much
discussion with colleagues and students.
The plan is offered not as a final solution
of our curriculum problems, but as a
preliminary statement of a point of
view which, if valid, may perhaps
receive more adequate expression in
other ways. It is offered not for adop-
tion but for criticism and consideration."

Proposed Curriculum for a Liberal
College

Freshman Year

Sophomore Year

Social and Eco-
nomic Institutions
Mathematics and

Formal Logic
Science
English

European History

Philosophy

Science
Literature

Foreign Language

Elective

Junior Year

Senior Year

American History

Intellectual and
Moral Problems

History of
Thought

Elective Minor
Elective Minor

Elective Major

After a presentation of its advan-
tages, which of course the alumni will

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read and weigh, the President concludes open to challenge. And even if they

this part of his report as follows: were valid, it is clear that this embodi-

„ . T 1 iu- J 1 t ment of them is a mere sketch which
As 1 leave this proposed plan for , , , •. • .
your consideration. I must apologize ^° become a plan only as it is torn
for saying so much concerning its sup- apart, put together again in new forms
posed advantages. May I say again ^^^ ^'^^^ needed supplementation, sub-
that the plan is presented simply for Jected to all the generous interpretation
criticism, and its claims have been set and criticism which men give each other
forth in the hope that counter claim and when they are working together in a
attack may reveal its defects. The plan common cause which is more important
does express certain principles in which to them than is their own discussion of
I believe. But those principles are jt. "

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283

THE FACULTY

William I. Fletcher, who was for
twenty-eight years, until 1911, Otis
Librarian, and is now Librarian Emer-
itus, observed his seventieth birthday
on April 28.

On tendering his resignation as pro-
fessor in Amherst College, after nineteen
years of service in that capacity. Profes-
sor Edwin A. Grosvenor presented, on
April 15, the following letter of resig-
nation:

"It is not lightly that I hereby tender
my resignation as professor of modern
government and international law in
Amherst college, said resignation to
take effect at the close of the present
academic year.

"It is needless to say that no one is
more interested in the weKare of the
College than myself. No one more
heartily desires the happiness and suc-
cess of every one in any M-ay connected
with it. The recollection of twenty
years' service in it is my precious pos-
session. Nor can I too strongly ex-
press my grateful appreciation of the
courtesy and regard invariably shown
me by the students. Every student of
mine I think of as my personal, life-long
friend.

"I am not resigning to seek rest or
relaxation. There is literary work
which I have undertaken, for the com-
pletion of which my pubhshers are
pressing, and which, 'while the best of
my time and strength is devoted to col-
lege duties, it is well-nigh impossible to
accomplish. There is other work also
which I hope to do."

Professor Herbert P. Houghton sailed
Saturday, May 16, for a two months'
trip in Europe. He sailed to Naples,
his plan being to visit Pompeii, Rome,
Florence, Pisa, the Italian and French
Riviera, Rhone valley, Marseilles,

Lyons, Geneva, and thence down the
Rhine and Moselle rivers to Cologne and
Antwerp, returning about the middle of
July-
Professor Lawrence H. Parker sailed
May 2 for Europe, where his family
has been during the past year. His
plans include six weeks' study in Paris,
until the university closes, after which
he will visit Germany and England,
returning before college opens in the
fall.

Professor Frederick L. Thompson,
who will take his Sabbatical year, will
begin it with a trip round the world,
visiting Japan first and giving special
attention to China. In February he
will return to England, where he plans
to devote the remainder of his year at
research work in the Record Office,
London.

In Nature, for May 21, is an article by
Professor Da\'id Todd on "The Total
Eclipse of 1914 in Turkey and Per-
sia," which gives full directions for
travel, outfit, facilities, etc., for visiting
the remote regions where the weather
is likeliest to be cloudless and the air
clear, for observing the eclipse under
the most favorable conditions. It may
be regarded as giving a pretty accurate
outline of the trip he proposes to take
this summer.

Many unsigned reviews in The
Nation are by Professor Todd; among
which may be mentioned as especially
notable a review of Sir Thomas Heath's
book, "Aristarchus of Samos, the An-
cient Copernicus," in the number for
December 25, 1913.

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THE CLASSES

General Note

In making two corrections of dates
given in the last number of the Quar-
terly, we take occasion to remind our
readers of a defect that frequently
occurs in the sending of items, which
can be avoided by taking a little thought.
A newspaper clipping will be sent, for
instance, in which an account is given of
some person who died "recently," or
"last Wednesday," or whose "funeral
occurred yesterday;" and yet no clue
is given to the date of the paper, this
being carefully scissored away. To
quote such an item a month or two
afterwards in a quarterly publication is
not very satisfactory; and sometimes
a great deal of research is needed, or
may be wholly in vain, to get the date.
Both of the errors which we herewith
correct are due to this defect in the
reports sent to us. They will be found
in the items for 1858 and 1871.

1851

Nathan Noyes Withington, for 23
years editorial writer of the Newbury-
■port (Mass.) Herald and recently its
contributing editor, died May 8, aged
86 years, in that city. He was a mem-
ber of the Authors' Club of London, and
was formerly a representative in the
General Court. He served in the
Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry dur-
ing the Civil War.

1852

Augustus G. Kimberley, Secretary,
367 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Former Egyptian and Sudanese
students of ex-President Daniel Bliss,
D. D., first president of the Syrian Prot-
estant College in Beirut, Syria, have

erected a large statue in memory of his
work during the thirty-eight years of his
presidency. Doctor Bliss became presi-
dent when the college was founded and
has built it up until it has become inde-
pendent and a power in the East,
sending its students, Syrians, Egyptians,
Mohammedans, and many others, into
all parts and provinces of Western Asia.
Doctor Bliss retired from active service
in 1903, passing his work over to his son,
but he is still living in Beirut and inter-
ests himself in the activities of the col-
lege, which this year enrolled a thousand
students. Doctor Bliss is one of
Amherst's oldest alumni.

1858
Rev. S.\muel B. Sherrill, Secretary,
415 Humphrey Street, New Haven,
Conn.
Henry E. Hutchinson died May 8,
in Brooklyn, N. Y.

N. B. Rev. Dr. George Sayles Bishop
died March 12, not February 13 as was
erroneously reported.

1866

Herbert L. Bridgman, Secretary,
604 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Herbert L. Bridgman, of the Brook-
lyn Standard-Union, was chosen presi-
dent of the American Newspaper
Publishers' Association at their annual
meeting in New York, April 23. Mr.
Bridgman is one of the directors of the
newly formed City Club of Brooklyn.

1867

The resignation of Professor E. A.
Grosvenor, after nineteen years of
service as professor in Amherst, is noted
in the news relating to the Faculty, on
another page.

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1869

William Reynolds Brown, Secretary,
79 Park Avenue, New York Citj-
Dr. William J. Holland, director of
the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, is
the author of an exceptionally interest-
ing and valuable book entitled "To the
River Plate and Back." The book is
reviewed on another page.

Professor Henry Preser\ ei Smith has
just published with the Scribners a book
on "The Religion of Israel." In this
book, which traces the historical devel-
opment of the religious beliefs and prac-
tices of the Hebrews, he shows especial
skill in throwing the light of comparative
religion on the problems which he in-
vestigates. The book aims to be simpli-
fied for the uses of the general as well as
the special reader.

Dean Francis Hovey Stoddard of
New York University was the guest at
a farewell dinner by the members of the
Faculty of the University on April
30, at the Manhattan Hotel. Dean
Stoddard retires at the end of the scho-
lastic jear, and Dean-elect Archibald L.
Bouton, his successor, also an Amherst
man in the class of 1896, was his guest
at the dinner. The Faculty presented
a testimonial of their esteem to Dr.
Stoddard.

1871

Pbof. Herbert G. Lord, Secretary,
623 West 113th Street, New York. N. Y.

The death of Professor Josiah Remick
Smith, of Columbus, Ohio, occurred
February 15, instead of February 14, as
erroneously reported in the last number
of the Quarterly.

1876

William M. Ducker, Secretary,

111 Broadway, New York
Rev. Clark S. Beardslee, professor of
biblical dogmatics and ethics at the

Hartford theological seminary since
1888, died April 14 in Hartford, Conn.
He was born at Coventry in 1850 and
was graduated from Amherst in 1876
and from the Hartford theological
seminary in 1879. Previous to 1888 he
held pastorates in Congregational
churches at Lemans, la., Prescott,
Ariz., and West Springfield. He was
the author of a number of books of a
religious nature.

George A. Plimpton, president of the
trustees of the college, is in Europe
for a stay of some months. After a
visit in England, he travelled across the
continent to Constantinople, where on
June 3, he attended the dedication of
five new buildings for the American
College for Women, of which he is a
trustee.

Herbert H. Sanderson died April 7,
at his home in Lancaster, N. H. Mr.
Sanderson was educated in the Sunder-
land schools and academies of Shel-
burne Falls and Easthampton. He was
graduated from Amherst College with
the class of 1876. He was at one time
proprietor with E. H. Phelps of the l^ew
England Homestead, and was its pub-
lisher and assistant editor. Lately he
had been editor of the Lancaster Daily
Gazette. In 1887 he married Florence
P. Carruth of North Brookfield, who sur-
vives him.

1877

Rev. a. DeW Mason, Secretary,
222 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Prof. H. S. Redfield of Columbia Law
School, has been seriously ill with pneu-
monia at his residence in New York,
but is now out of danger and steadily
improving.

Prof. Lucien I. Blake has returned
from several years' residence abroad
and has gone to Berkeley, Cal., to
deliver there a course of lectures in

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Cosmic Physics, before the University
of California.

Collin Armstrong has been chosen as
the representative of '77 on the newly
organized Alumni Council. He is also
a member of the executive committee
of the Sphinx Club of New York City.

The forty-sixth annual meeting of
the Congregational Conference of New
Jersey met at Westfield, N. J., lately,
in the Westfield Congregational Church,
of which the Rev. Dr. Samuel L.
Loomis is pastor.

The following changes in the addresses
of members of this class appear in the
"Address List of Alumni," just issued
by the College: Charles P. Bond, Esq.,
123 Adams Street, Waltham, Mass.;
Prof. Frank H. Coffran, Martin Pazze
High School, Buffalo, N. Y.; Prof.
Arthur H. Pearson, Oberlin, O.; Rev.
Sidney K. Perkins, Lock Box 325,
Manchester, Vt.; Chas S. Ryder, Esq.,
5446 Amboy Road, Hugiienot Park,
Staten Island, N. Y.; Prof. Erastus G.
Smith, 649 Harrison Ave., Beloit, Wis.;
Rev. Rufus B. Tobey, 75 Lincoln Ave.,
WoUaston, Mass.; Nathan S. Williams,
Esq., 901 Berger Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.

E. A. Thompson, who, on receiving
the degree of M. S. in 1912, was adopted
as an honorary member of '77, has been
the subject of an extended article by
Ray Stannard Baker in the American
Magazine for April. The article has
been copied in part, in several papers,
including the Literary Digest. To call
him "E. A. Thompson, the Tinker," as
Mr. Baker does, is a striking way of
putting the case, as befits a magazine
style, but that it is not intended to be-
little the scientific and artistic value of
Mr. Thompson's work is abundantly
evinced by the laudatory tone of the
article. He makes it clear, though, by

adducing only a part of the data, that
Mr. Thompson is what the college has
named him — a Master of Science.

1879

Prof. J. F. Jameson, Secretary,
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.

The Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton
has been elected a trustee of the Ameri-
can Seaman's Friend Society. In the
last year the society provided 6,130
free meals for shipwrecked sailors, free
lodging for 4,865, distributed 17,028
bundles of literature, and sent 253 loan
libraries to sea; 84,781 letters were
written and received by the society.

In the Contemporary Review for Janu-
ary is a review of Stanton Coit's recent
book "Social W'orship." The book is
published by George Allen, London.

Charles M. Pratt has recently given
to Vassar College a magnificent entrance
building of gray stone in collegiate
Gothic style, in recognition of the ser-
vice of ex-President J. M. Taylor.

Prof. Francis R. Hathaway died at
his home in Salem, on March 20. After
graduation he became a teacher of
science in the Murdock school, Winchen-
don, from which he was called in 1900
to the head of the scientific department
of the Salem High school. He is sur-
vived by his widow, and one daughter.
Miss Evelyn Hathaway.

1880

Henry P. Field, Secretary,
Northampton, Mass.

Dr. Frederick J. Bhss, dean for men
at the University of Rochester, has
resigned. Dr. Bliss will return to the
Orient in the autumn, resuming his
archaeological research work there.

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In the New York Times Book Review
for April 19 is the following book review:

The Begintnings of Libraries. By
Ernest Cashing Richardson. Prince-
ton University Press. $1.

It may be a far cry from Forty-second
Street and Fifth Avenue, from Great
Russell Street or the Vatican, to a
knotted cord and a notched stick pre-
served in a hut by a primitive man,
but across even such a gulf of years
passes the librarian of Princeton Uni-
versity in the search for that which has
made him famous, the beginnings of
libraries. He goes back even further
than that, for he starts his study with
the alleged libraries of the antediluvian
patriarchs — the collection Adam is said
to have written before he was asked to
vacate the garden, and the bon voyage
box of books Noah is reputed to have
taken with him on the ark. These, of
course, Mr. Richardson considers only
in the light the legends have cast on
the history of man's mind. Real libra-
ries began when man commenced to
keep records, when he tallied up the day's
hunt on a notched wand or set down the
story of his prowess in picture writing
on birch bark, or skins or wampum
belts. A collection of such, according
to the author, constituted a library.

The work of the librarian had a be-
ginning no less interesting. Priests
were the original guardians of books,
and they kept them in an especially
reserved cave or hut. The bookcases of
those days were clay jars, chests, and
skin pouches. When you wanted a
book you went to the cave and the priest
hauled one forth from the skin pouch,
and you sat yourself right down there
on the spot and did the reading while
the librarian stood at a respectful dis-
tance keeping his eye on you, just as a
museum guard does in these days.

Though Mr. Richardson's book was
written avowedly for librarians and
library students, it contains many facts
and opens up many avenues of specu-
lation that will prove of interest to the
layman, who finds on his shelf of favorite
authors, as, no doubt, found his primi-
tive forefathers, the gateway to what
Chaucer calls "the blissful place of the
herte's hele and dedly woundes cure."

1883

John B. Walker, Secretary,

50 East 34th Street, New York City.

An article appeared in The Congrega-
tionalist of April 27 by Rev. Howard A.
Bridgman on " Erikson, a Modern Cru-
sader, the human link between America
and Albania." In the issue of April 16
he published an article on Dr. John R.
Mott and his work. Mr. Bridgman
preached the baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class of Clark College,
Worcester, on June 14.

W^illiara B. Owen, Esq., died April 19,
at Vineyard Haven, Mass.

1884

WiLL.\RD H. Wheeler, Secretary,
2 Maiden Lane, New York City.

The record of the annual reunion of
the class, held at the Hotel Kimball,
Springfield, Mass., December 21, 1913,
has recently appeared. It is a neatly
printed book of seventy-two pages
which every alumnus of the college
should read. Quite naturally, it sounds
the note of "Here's to Us"; but who is
minded to dispute the claim that "The
class of '84 has excelled all other Am-
herst classes; its members were not only
bound together in college, but especially
because after graduation the class has
kept together. . . . Today '84 of
Amherst College leads any class of any
college or university in America in the

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number of yearly reunions — this being
the thirtieth annual and thirty-sixth
Class Reunion."

The School Review for May contains
an article by Professor James H. Tufts
entitled "The Teaching of Ideals," be-
ing an address delivered by Professor
Tufts at the meeting of the Harvard
Teachers' Association, at Cambridge,
March 7, 1914.

1885

Frank E. Whitman, Secretary,
490 Broome Street, New York City.
At a dinner of the Union College
Alumni Association of New England,
held in Hartford, April 29, Rev. Sherrod
Soule gave an interesting address on
" Connecticut's Contribution to Union,"
a subject on which his intimate knowl-
edge of Connecticut history enabled him
to speak with special authority. The
address was illustrated with stereop-
ticon views.

Irving H. Upton has recently been
appointed acting head-master of the
Roxbury High School, Boston.

1886

Charles F. Marble, Secretary,
4 Marble St., Worcester, Mass.
In an article entitled "The Salutation
to the Soul," in The Congregationalist
for April 9, Rev. Allen E. Cross gives
an appreciative interpretation of the
Japanese and Chinese custom of ances-
tor worship and of prayer to the dead;
treating it not as a superstition, but
showing how consistent it may be with
certain aspects of Christian belief.

Rev. Charles S. Thayer, Ph.D.,
librarian of the Case Memorial library
of the Hartford Theological Seminary,
has been elected president of the Con-
necticut Library Association.

Robert A. Woods has an article in
the March number of the American
Journal of Sociology entitled "The
Neighborhood in Social Reconstruc-
tion."

1887

Frederick B. Pratt, Secretary,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Frederick B. Pratt was a member of
the Campaign Committee of the Na-
tional Society for the Promotion of
Industrial Education, formed for the
purpose of raising $100,000 by May 15.
Secretary W'illiam C. Redfield, of the
Department of Commerce, who re-
ceived a degree from Amherst last June,
is president of the society.

1888

Wallace M. Leonard, Secretary,

23 Forest Street, Newton Highlands,

Mass.

In the report of his year spent as
Director of the School of Oriental Re-
search in Jerusalem (1912-13), Professor
W. J. Moulton calls attention to the
rapid destruction of ancient buildings
and other antiquities going on con-
stantly in old parts of Palestine. " Might
not a society," he says, "for the preser-
vation of Syrian and Palestinian antiqui-
ties, that should include all the friends
of archaeology among the nations repre-
sented in Jerusalem, do something to
create public sentiment and help the
proper officials to perform their duty?
And might not such an organization
bring nearer the day when there should
be, not merely more thought of preser-
vation, but likewise of the restoration
that would be so easily possible in many
instances.'" A serious question for
friends of classical and ancient learning.

Rev. and Mrs. Elbridgc C. Whiting,
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phlet, announce the establishment of a
Country Home School for Girls, " Whit-
ing Hall," at South Sudbury, Mass.
"The purpose of the school is to receive
growing girls into an environment of
sound health, thorough instruction, per-
sonal care, and natural and beautiful
living. It is a Home School in the
Country, in the real sense." The fall
term begins Tuesday, September 22 —
the opening of the school.

1889

Henhy H. Bosworth, Esq., Secretary,
15 Elm Street, Springfield, Mass.
F. E. Spaulding, City Superintendent
of Schools at Newton, Mass., has been
elected City Superintendent of Schools
in Minneapolis. He had been men-
tioned for Associate City Superintend-
ent of New York to fill the vacancy
caused by the recent death of Edward
L. Stevens.

1890

Eo-mN B. Child, Secretary,
Flushing, N. Y.
J. Herbert Low is one of the board of
directors of the Municipal Club of
Brooklyn.

1891

WiNSLOW H. Edwards, Esq., Secretary,
Easthampton, Mass.
At the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Tract Society, held in New York
City May 13, the Rev. Dr. John Tim-
othy Stone was elected honorary vice-
president of the society.

1892

Richard S. Brooks, Secretary,

The Republican, Springfield, Mass.

At a dramatization of the Book of

Job by the Dramatic Society of the

University of Wisconsin, Rev. Addison

A. Ewing took the title role in a per-
formance given in Milwaukee, and
later (May 14) in Madison, Wis. The
play is treated somewhat after the
manner of the Greek drama, with chorus
and without curtain. Dr. H. M. Kallen
of the department of philosophy in the
University of Wisconsin, arranged the
book for presentation, and in the Play
Book, published by the Wisconsin Dra-
matic Society, publishes a series of
articles on the dramatic art of the
ancient Hebrews.

1894

Henry E. Whitcomb, Secretary,
Station A, Worcester, Mass.

The Ninety-Four Bugle, issued by the
class on May 1, contains an interesting
article by Alfred E. Stearns on his recent
trip to the Orient.

Dr. Edward W. Capen is secretary of
the Kennedy School of Missions, which
is affiliated with the Hartford Theolog-
ical Seminary. He is the administra-
tive head of the school and occupies the
chair of sociology and missions on the
faculty. He has recently . published a
book entitled "Sociological Progress
in Mission Lands," based on a course of
lectures which he delivered in Pitts-
burgh in February, 1912.

1895
William S. Tyler, Secretary,
30 Church Street, New York City.
Dwight W. Morrow, who for many
years has been with the law firm of
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, has be-
come associated with J. P. Morgan &
Co. in a confidential capacity.

1896

Thomas B. Hitchcock, Secretary,

86 Worth Street, New York City.

Albert Ira Montague died April 10.

He was born in Sunderland in 1874,

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and fitted for college at Wesleyan
academy, Wilbraham. After gradua-
tion he taught mathematics in Law-
renceville, N. J., from 1896 to 1899,
and later in several preparatory schools.
In 1908 he took the position of parole
officer for the Lyman school in West-
boro. After acceptance of this position
he returned to Sunderland to live, and
had made his home in that village for
the past six years.

Mortimer L. SchiflP has been elected a
director of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.

Rev. Edwin B. Robinson of Holyoke
has been appointed one of the eleven
members of the "Social Service Com-
mission of Congregational Churches,"
which was established at the Congre-
gational convention at Kansas City last
fall.

E. C. Witherby of Syracuse, who has
been general manager of the Semet-
Solvay Co. for several years, was re-
cently elected to the Board of Trustees
of the Syracuse Trust Company.

J. N. Haskell is pastor at Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.

J. V. K. Wells, Jr., has left Buckland,
Mass., where he had been settled for
several years, and now has a church at
Bergen, N. Y.

R. H. Cochrane has become pastor of
the First Congregational Church of
Marion, Mass.

G. T. Pearsons is sales manager of
the Haydenville (Mass.) Brass Com-
pany.

Rev. Edward F. Sanderson, for several
years pastor of the Church of the Pil-
grims, Brooklyn, presented his resig-
nation May 17, to be effective June 1.
Hereafter Mr. Sanderson wDl devote
his time to social service work.

N. Frederick Foote is New England
manager for the advertising house of
Paul Block, Inc., with offices at 201
Devonshire Street, Boston.

1897

Dr. Benjamin K. Emerson, Secretary,
72 West Street, Worcester, Mass.

Professor Raymond McFarland of
Middlebury College, Vermont, has been
elected president of the New England
Association of College Teachers.

Mrs. Mary Adeline Chase, wife of
Rev. Loring B. Chase, pastor of the
Congregational church in Sunderland,
died May 8, after a five-days' illness
with pneumonia. She leaves, besides
her husband, a family of three daugh-
ters.

Karl V. S. Howland, who resigned
from the oflSce of treasurer of the Out-
look Company in May of last year to
join the staff of the Mentor Association,
an educational and periodical enterprise
of the American Lithograph Company,
has become publisher of The Independ-
ent.

Dr. Oliver T. Hyde, of Silver City,
New Mexico, has been elected president
of the Copper Baseball League.

1899

Edward W. Hitchcock, Secretary,
26 Broadway, New York City.

Professor David C. Rogers, Ph.D.,
of the University of Kansas, has been
appointed full professor of psychology at
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
He succeeds Professor Arthur H. Pierce
(Amherst, '88), who died on February
20.

Frederick H. Atwood has been trans-
ferred from the New York branch of
the Millers Falls Co. to the home office.
He will make his home in Greenfield,
Mass.

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1900

Fred H. Klaer, Secretary,
334 So. 16th Street, Philadelphia.

Walter A. Dyer had a story in the
Associated Sunday Magazine for May
3, entitled "Ishmael."

In the April number of The Century
Professor Harold C. Goddard has an
article on "WTiat is Wrong mth the
College?" He epitomizes the reforms
he would make under three heads:

"1. Eject from the student body the
intellectually inert.

"2. Eliminate from the faculty the
narrow specialist.

"3. Encourage every influence that
tends to unify, to socialize, to humanize
knowledge. "

Annie Louise Broughton, wife of Rev.
Horace C. Broughton, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Canton, Pa.,
died March 6, in Dorchester, Mass.,
where she had been ill for four months.
She leaves a family of four children.

Rev. George H. Driver, pastor of the
First Congregational Church at Exeter,
N. H., and Miss Helen Pitman Bell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Upham Bell, of Andover, Mass., were
married on Thursday, April 23.

1904

Rev. Karl O. Thompson, Secretary,
643 Eddy Road, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Harrison L. Packard has ac-
cepted a call from Littleton, Mass., to
the Congregational Church at Shel-
burne Falls, Mass.

Rev. Karl O. Thompson has recently
received the M. A. degree from Olivet
College, Michigan.

1905

John B. O'Brien, Secretary,
309 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
One of the most successful class re-
unions which Nineteen Hundred Five

has ever had was that of Saturday,
March 28, 1914, at Keen's Enghsh
Chop House, 66-70 West 36th St., New
York City. Nearly twenty members
of the class were present, and listened
with a great deal of interest to an ac-
count of Amherst as she is to-day, which
was given by Maurice Clark, one of
1905's representatives on the Amherst
faculty. Those present included Alpers,
Baily, Clark, Freeman, Grover, Gil-
bert, Hopkins, Holmes, Knight, Lynch,
Moon, Nash, O'Brien, Patch, Rathbun,
Weed and Wing.

Charles Ernest Bennett will be mar-
ried on June 25 to Miss Mabel Mar-
guerite Morris, of Piermont-on-Hud-
son, New York. The ceremony will
take place in the Reformed Church of
Piermont, of which the bride's father
is pastor.

John G. Anderson has been writing
a series of very interesting golf articles
for the New York Sun. They have ap-
peared every Monday, and have at-
tracted wide attention.

George Schwab recently presented
to the biological museum at Amherst
a valuable collection of snakes, frogs and
fish, collected by him in the province
of Kamerun, German West Africa.
Among these are several specimens of
the "hairy frog," the first ones to come
to America. The presence of hairs on
the frog is supposed to represent some
high and as yet unknown sense of per-
ception. This exceptional collection
will be on exhibition during Commence-
ment.

Rev. Edwin Hill van Etten, who has
been curate at Trinity Church, Boston,
for the past three years, has been called
to the rectorship of Christ Church, New
York. Mr. Van Etten has made a
notable record in Boston. While in

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college, he was a member of the Student
board, president of Phi Beta Kappa,
manager of the track team, college
organist, winner of the Hyde prize and
several other honors.

A son. Ransom Pratt Rathbun, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Rathbun
on Tuesday, April 7. Mr. and Mrs.
Rathbun are now residing at 601 West
177th St., New York City.

Ralph S. Patch is teaching at the
Plainfield High School, Plainfield, N. J.

The marriage of Josiah Bridges Woods
and Hilda Louise Llrickson took place at
the bride's home in Washington, D. C,
on April 30. It was largely an Amherst
affair. The ceremony was performed
by Dr. Stephen M. Newman of Wash-
ington, D. C, president of Howard Uni-
versity, who was the pastor of the bride's
family during her childhood and bap-
tized her. He was assisted by Dr. Jay
T. Stocking (Amherst, '95), the present
pastor of the First Congregational
church of Washington, D. C. The
groom, with his cousin, Alan M. Fair-
bank (Amherst, '11), as best man,
awaited the bridal party at an impro-
vised altar built under a bower of flow-
ering dog-wood. Chilton Powell (Am-
herst, '07), of Baltimore, Md., and John
Hunter (Amherst, '07), of Washington,
D. C, friends of the groom at college
and in his later business life, preceded
the party. They were followed by E.
Edward Wells (Amherst, '03), formerly
of Hatfield, now of Baltimore, Md., and
Randolph S. Merrill (Amherst, '13), of
Patersou, N. J. William W. Gilbert
of Washington, D. C, and Edward N.
Lacey (Amherst, '90) of Boston, carried
the ribbons which they, with the help of
the other ushers, extended from the door
to the altar.

Mrs. Woods is a graduate of George
Washington university of Washington,

D. C, in the class of 1913, where she was
vice-president of her class, president of
the Christian association and a member
of the Sigma Kappa sorority. Mr.
Woods is a son of the late Rev. Robert
M. Woods (Amherst, '69), and Mrs.
W^oods of Hatfield, and is a graduate of
Phillips Andover, 1901, and Amherst
college, 1905, where he was a member of
the Psi Upsilon fraternity. At present
he is the Hartford representative of the
Judd paper company of Holyoke. Mr.
and Mrs. Woods will reside at Hartford
after having spent a short honeymoon
at Pocono Manor, Pa.

Edward H. Gardner has been ap-
pointed assistant professor of English
in the University of Wisconsin.

1906

Robert C. Powell, Secretary,
92 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Augustus H. Bartley of
Bartley, N. J., announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Meta Sharpe
Bartley, to Frederick Sewall Bale, son
of the late Rev. Albert G. Bale, who
was for nearly thirty years pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Melrose,
Mass. Mr. Bale was graduated from
Amherst College in 1906.

George Harris, Jr. has recently fin-
ished translating thirty Russian folk-
songs, which are to be published by G.
Schirmer & Co. Mr. Harris will spend
the summer in Europe. He plans to
sing in London.

1907

Charles P. Sloclth, Secretary,
262 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands,
Mass.
An article appeared in The Outlook of
May 2, entitled "When your Son is a
Fool," by Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton has
also written for The Woman's Home
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and religion, some of which have already
appeared and are attracting favorable
notice. Barton is also writing for Col-
lier s Weekly, with which he is connected.
He left on May 7 for a two months' trip
to the Pacific coast, in the interests of
that paper.

Chilton L. Powell has been appointed
to one of the William Bayard Cutting
travelling fellowships of Columbia Uni-
versity for 1914-15.

1908

Harry W. Zinstiiaster, Secretary,
Duluth, Minn.

Hugh W. Hubbard is at present en-
gaged in teaching and missionary work
at Poo Ting Fu in Northern China.

William S. Kimball has removed his
law office from the Massachusetts Mu-
tual Building to the Stearns Building,
293 Bridge Street, Springfield, Mass.

H. Bonney is now located at Buenos
Aires, Argentine Republic, South Amer-
ica.

E. C. Cohen is practising law at 37
Wall Street, New York City.

O. S. Tilton has just returned from a
business trip to South America.

C. E. Merrill is now located in the in-
vestment business for himself, with of-
fices at 7 Wall Street, New York City.

William Sturgis was recently ap-
pointed eastern advertising manager of
Today's Magazine, with offices in New
York City.

William I. Washburn, Jr., and wife
are settled for the summer at No. 6 Aite
de Varenne, Paris, France.

The engagement of A. H. Keese of
Los Angeles to Miss Grace W. Vander-
bilt of New York City, Vassar, '07, is
announced. The wedding is set for this
October.

H. W. Davis is in Stevensville, Mon-
tana, on the University Ranch.

A. M. Rowley is with the S. & C.
Merriam Co., Publishers, Springfield,

Mass.

Eben Luther is with the American
Taximeter Company, 1209 Vine Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

A daughter was recently born to Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Mulry of Brattleboro,
Vt.

1909

Edward H. Sudbury, Secretary,
343 Broadway, New York City.
W^illiam A. Vollmer has been ap-
pointed editor-in-chief of House and Gar-
den, publi-shed by McBride, Nast &
Co., New York. He had previously
served as managing editor of that mag-
azine, since his graduation from Am-
herst.

Clayton E. Keith of Brockton coached
the Vermont Academy hockey team the
past season and turned out a very suc-
cessful team.

Donald D. McKay is now at Guapi,
Colombia, where he is engaged in timber
operations for the Colombia Timber and
Mining Co., of which Harry E. Taylor,
'04, is treasurer.

Joseph Long Seybold of Minneapolis
was married to Miss Catherine Lyon
Roberts of the same city on May 16.

1910

Clarence Francis, Secretary,
26 Broadway, New York City.

Clarence Francis was married on May
5 to Miss Grace Berry of Cranford, N. J.

Alfred L. Atwood, varsity football
captain in 1909, was recently elected a
member of the board of selectmen in
Norwood, Mass.

294

AMHERST GRADUATES QUARTERLY

Charles J. Hudson, who was assistant
in the Amherst college observatory last
year, has just published his first astro-
nomical paper. He is at present working
in the large observatory at Allegheny,
Pa.

1911

Dexter Wheelock, Secretary,
144 Pearl Street, Brooldyn, N. Y.

George B. Parks has recently been
elected Kellogg Fellow of Amherst Col-
lege for the term of seven years. Parks,
who is now taking post-graduate work
at Columbia, will pursue the study of
English and comparative hterature
abroad.

Donnell B. Young has been ap-
pointed laboratory assistant in Zoology
at Columbia.

Frank Cary is president of the junior
class at Oberlin College. He was assis-
tant coach of the Oberlin football team
which tied for the state championship
last fall.

Judd A. Detterick, ex '11, is to be ad-
dressed at Mora Road, East Las Vegas,
New Mexico.

Wm. P. S. Doolittle is now connected
with the Utica Saxon Motor Corpora-
tion, Utica, N. Y.

Brice S. Evans, ex '11, has a son born
March 1, 1913. His address is 76 Quint
Avenue, AUston, Mass..

The engagement of Clayton B. Jones
to Miss Helen Armstrong of Elizabeth,
N. J., was announced last March.

T. Leo Kane is connected with the
Iron Age magazine.

T. Frances Kernan is an instructor in
the science department of the Blake
Scliool, Minneapolis, Minn. His ad-
dress is 1803 Hennepin Avenue, Minn-
eapolis.

Gordon T. Fish is connected with the
Department of Biology in the Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale University.

Laurens H. Seelye will travel in Eu-
rope this summer.

Carl K. Bowen is with the George G.
Bowen's Sons Lumber Co., Charles-
town, N. H.

W. Newton Barnum is with the Fred-
erick H. Levey Co., manufacturers of
printing inks, 222 Forty-Fourth St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

John H. Keyes' mail address is 36
Webster St., Brookline, Mass.

Horace R. Denton's address is Steger
Building, Chicago, 111.

Hylton L. Bravo is with the Wash-
burn Lumber Co., 415 Earl St., Toledo,
O.

Joseph T. West's address is 6611 Ran-
dolph St., Oak Park, 111.

Merton P. Corwin is living at 114 Van
Buren Street, Jamestown, N. Y.

Laurence W. Babbage is in the law
oflBce of R. D. Crocker, Newark, N. J.

Edward B. Lloyd's address is Box 52,
Sandwich, Mass.

Edmund S. Whitten is professor of
German at St. Stephen's College, An-
nandale-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Charles F. Snow received the degree
of M. B. A. from Harvard in 1913. His
present address is "Stagger Inn,"
Nashua, N. H.

Leonard H. Wilson is one of the man-
agers of the Southern Talking Machine
Company, 595 Third Street, San Ber-
nardino, Cal.

Lee D. Van Woert is a member of the
law firm of Thompson & Van Woert,
Oneonta, N. Y. He is prosecuting at-
torney of Oneonta, N. Y., and is also
engaged in the ice business there. He
has two sons.

THE CLASSES

295

A son, Roger, Jr., was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Roger Keith on March 31.

Frederick J. Pohl is planning to take
post-graduate work in English at Co-
lumbia next year.

1912

Beeman p. Siblet, Secretary,
639 West 49th Street, New York City.

Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Merritt Stuart of Bing-
hamton, N. Y., to Miss Helen Mat-
thews of New York City.

RajTnond D. Hunting was married
on March 31 to Miss Theo Masson
Gould of West Newton, Mass. Mr. and
Mrs. Hunting are to make their home
in Brookline.

Announcement has been made of the
engagement of L. R. Stebbins of Ruth-
erford, N. J., to Miss Ruth Christie,
daughter of Judge and Mrs. Milton
Demarest of Hackensack, N. J.

Harry Vernon has signed a two-year
contract to pitch for the Brooklyn Fed-
eral League team. During his four
years at Amherst, Vernon won the rep-
utation of being one of the best college
pitchers in the country.

Clarion A. Davis has a son, James
Phelps, said to be the class baby.

Waldo Shumway has been appointed
laboratory assistant in zoology at Co-
lumbia.

Harold W. Crandall has been awarded
the Schifl Fellowship in History at Co-
lumbia for the coming year.

Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Baird of Brook-
lyn have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Ella Francine, to How-
ard D. Simpson.

Spenser Miller has won the George
William Curtis Fellowship in public law,
valued at $615, at Columbia University.

1913

Louis D. Stillwell, Secretary,
60 Matthews Hall, Cambridge, Mass.

Theodore A. Greene, the present sec-
retary of the college Christian Associa-
tion, will return next year as "religious
director." The alumni advisory board
of the association decided to adopt a
policy which provides for a permanent
leader in the college to direct in the
church, religious and secular undertak-
ings of the association.

A recently announced engagement is
that of Miss Edith Piatt Warner, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gaylord
Warner, of 56 Montgomery Place, and
Hamilton Patton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert W.Patton, of Highland Park, 111.
Miss Warner was graduated from Smith
College last June. Her fiance received
his degree from Amherst at the same
time.

INDEX

To The First Three Volumes of the Amherst Graduates'

Quarterly

Compiled by Clarence E. Sherman

Academic Reciprocity. (W. H. P. Faunce.) II, 92.

Allis, Frederick S. The Alumni Council. 111,121.

Alumni, The. I, 70, 174, 263, 342; II, 97, 167, 256, 345; III, 59, 135, 207.

Alumni Council, The. (F. S. Allis.) Ill, 121.

First Annual Meeting. Ill, 272.

Amherst's Excellent Choice. (Rush Rhees.) II, 132.

Andrews, E. N. Acrostic. William Shakespeare. Poem. Ill, 257.

At the Sign of the Big, Red Apple. (W. A. Dyer.) Ill, 22.

Barrett Hall. Plate. 111,119.

Baxter, Arthur H. A Lost City of the Etruscans. Illustrated. II, 141.

Beecher, Henry Ward. (S. P. Cadman.) With portrait. II, 327.

Letters, Some Beecher. With portrait. II, 341.

Biblical Idiom, Relation of the, to the Idiom of Evolution. (J. F. Genung) I, 207.
Bigelow, William P. Shifting Emphasis. I, 308.
Book Table, The. Reviews in order of authors:

Bliss, Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine. I, 337.
Boynton, H. W., World's Leading Poets. II, 162.

P. H., London in English Literature. Ill, 53.
Bridgman, First Book of World Law. I, 337.
Chancellor, Class Teaching and Management. I, 67.
Our Presidents and Their Office. Ill, 54.
Churchill, Tragedy of Richard the Third. II, 253.
Clark, Silas Deane; A Connecticut Leader in the American Revolution._^III,

196.
Clark, Control of the Trusts. II, 251.
Dickinson, Education of a Music Lover. I, 64.
Dyer, Lure of the Antique. I, 67.

" Richer Life. I, 164.
Elliott, David Thompson, Pathfinder. I, 339.

" Peter Skene Ogden, Fur Trader. I, 339.
Farwell, Village Improvement. Ill, 271.
Field, Fingerposts to Children's Reading. I, 338.

" Rome. Ill, 53.
Fiske, Boy Life and Self-Government. I, 256.

Challenge of the Country. II, 164.
J'uess, Byron as a Satirist in Verse. II, 164.

2 INDEX

Book Table, The. Reviews:

Gay and Rod, Bulletin and Review of the Keats-Shelley Memorial No. 2.
I, 343.

Hallock, Hawaii Under King Kalakaua. I, 258.

Why Our Flag Floats Over Oregon. I, 258.

Hartshorne, Worship in the Sunday School. Ill, 129.

Holland, To the River Plate and Back. HI, 269.

Houghton, Cicero's Defense of Old Age. I, 166.

Keep, Library in Colonial New York. I, 339.

Kenngott, Record of a City; Social Survey of Lowell, Mass. I, 334.

Kimball, A. L., College Text-Book of Physics. I, 254.
E., Public Life of Joseph Dudley. I, 165.

Loomis, Hunting Extinct Animals in the Patagonian Pampas. H, 254.

Lyman, Theology and Human Problems. I, 65.

Mason, Outlines of Missionary History. II, 252.

Morse, Peach Bloom. Ill, 127.

Norton, Call of the Heights. I, 67.

Palmer, Mahlon Norris Gilbert. Ill, 128.

Pottle, Poems. I, 67.

Smith, Life and Letters of Martin Luther. I, 62.
Luther's Correspondence. Ill, 127.

Stocking, City That Never Was Reached. I, 167.

Stoddard, Introduction to General Chemistry. I, 163.

Stone, Recruiting For Christ. I, 68.

Swift, Youth and the Race. II, 161.

Tyler, Recollections of the Civil War. II, 250.
" Place of the Church in Evolution. Ill, 269.

Ward, Commentary on Habakkuk. I, 337.

Whicher, On the Tibur Road. I, 260.

Wilkins and Rand, Dantis Algherii Operum Latinorum Concordantiae. II, 254.

Wilkins and Altrocchi, Italian short stories. II, 255.
Boynton, H. W. Postscript. Ill, 265.
Bridgman, Herbert L. George Harris: Presentation Address. With portrait.

Ill, 46.
Brown's Gift to Amherst. (W. G. Everett.) II, 148.
Bulgaria, American Influence In. (George Washburn.) II, 203.
Buried Talent, The. (C. L. Powell.) Ill, 175.
Burrill, Edgar W. The Passing of the Old in Drama. II, 223.

Cadman, S. Parkes. Henry Ward Beecher. With portrait. II, 327.

Cadwell, Louis G. The Housing of Phi Beta Kappa. II, 189.

Carducci, The Poetry Of. (E. H. Wilkins.) II, 317.

Christian Effort and Expectation at Amherst. (T. A. Greene.) Ill, 200.

Christian Work in the College. (L. H. Seelye.) I, 155.

Churchill, George B. Is the College Making Good? Ill, 95.

Civil War Time, Amherst in. (J. H. Sawyer.) Ill, 118.

Clark, Hubert L. The Quest of the Vital Force. II, 294.

INDEX 3

CL.4SSES, The. I, 71, 176, 265, 345; II, 99, 171, 262, 347; III, 61, 138, 209, 284'

Clubs and Seminars, Among the. (G. B. Parks.) I, 151.

Coadjutor of Four Colleges, A. (A. J. Hopkins.) I, 245.

Coates, Hallam F. The Honor System in Rudimental Conditions. I, 107.

Cobb, William H. At Sea. Poem. II, 25.

College and the Man. (G. W. Thompson.) II, 306.

College President's Job, The. (W.DeW. Hyde.) II, 86.

College Range, Finding the Modern. (L. H. Seelye.) Ill, 106.

College Window, The. See Editorial Notes.

Commencement, The ninetieth, 1911. I, 44.

The ninety-first, 1912. II, 26.

The ninety-second, 1913. Ill, 40.
Coolidge, Calvin. The Legislation of Sound Sense. Ill, 171.

Portrait. Ill, 159.
Corbin, William L. Keats. Poem. II, 316.

Poems. II, 147.

Poems. Ill, 174.

Two Poems. I, 114.
Crowell, Edward Payson. (A. D. Morse.) With portrait. I, 31.

" Presentation address. (J. F. Genung.) Portrait.

Ill, 49.
Curriculum, Yesterday and Today in the. (J. M. Tyler.) I, 39.

Democracy and Calture. (H. P. Swett.) Ill, 86.
Democracy and Learning. (R. P. Utter.) I, 304.

Dickinson, Henry N. Reversion. Poem. II, 316. ,

Distribution in College Education, The Problem of. (H. C. Goddard.) Ill, 243.
Drama, The Passing of the Old in. (E. W. Burrill.) II, 223.
Draper, Ernest G. Pleasures of an Amateur Print Collector. Ill, 29.
Dyer, Walter A. At the Sign of the Big, Red Apple. Ill, 22.
The World on Trial. III.

Editorial Notes. List in order of publication:
Between Ourselves. 1,1.
Put it in Writing. I, 3.
A Note from the Beginning. I, 6.
The Meeting of the Ways. I, 8.
An Institution of Learning. I, 95.
The Everlasting No. I, 98.
The Place for Men of Vision. I, 101.
How it Feels to be an Alumnus. I, 104.
We are Overheard. I, 197.
The Educational Pulse-Beat. I, 200.
Being a Cynosure. I, 204.
College Life and Chaucer. I, 279.
The Cry for Efficiency. I, 283.
That Piece of White Nephrite. I, 286.

4 IND EX

Editorial Notes. List:

The Grace of Imputation. II, 1.

The Call of the Subject. II, 4.

Marks and Remarks. II, 7.

Our Mid-October Event. II, 9.

Such Large Discourse. II, 119.

EfEciency and Deficiency. II, 123.

These Here Professors. II, 126.

A Young Graduate Echo. II, 130.

The College Atmosphere. II, 283.

Product or Person.'' II, 287.

Der Zweck dieses Spiels. II, 289.

Our Centenary Memorial. II, 293.

When Greek meets Greek. II, 193.

The Student Nature. II, 198.

Amherst's Reflected Lustre. II, 202.

To What Purpose Then.'' Ill, 1.

A Nursery of Ignorance. Ill, 5.

From Our Item Editor. Ill, 9.

Getting the Transition Made. Ill, 77.

Learning as News. Ill, 81.

From Our Treasurer's Desk, III, 84.

Of College Fenestration. Ill, 159.

A Passing and a Return. Ill, 163.

Offensive College Loyalty. Ill, 168.

In the Graduate Consciousness. Ill, 233.

On Speaking Over People's Heads. Ill, 236.

The Retort Apodictical. Ill, 240.
Enterprise of Learning, The. (F. J. E. Woodbridge). I, 12.

Comment on. I, 115.
Erskine, John. Cherry-blossom. Poem. I, 223.

Wildwood: In Memory of Edward Hitchcock. Poem. I, 24.
Everett, Walter G. Brown's Gift to Amherst. II, 148.
Evolution Idiom. See Biblical Idiom.

Faculty, The. I, 171, 341; IH, 58, 134, 283.

Faunce, William H. P. Academic Reciprocity. II, 92.

Forbes, William T. Chief Justice Rugg. I, 37.

Eraser, Harold L. Dr. Murray in the Class Room. With portrait. I, 326.

Garfield, Henry A. Reaction and Progress. II, 82.

Genung, John F. A Hero of Half a Century. With portrait. Ill, 49.

Memory Song to Amherst. II, 74.

The Significance of Pratt Memorial. Illustrated. Ill, 155.

Relation of the Biblical Idiom to the Idiom of Evolution. I,
207.

Talcott Williams. L 231.

INDEX O

Goal and the Game, The: Baccalaureate Address. (President Alexander Meikle-

john.) Ill, 11.
Goddard, H. C. The Problem of Distribution in College Education. Ill, 243.
Goin' to the Shinty.? (D. V. Thompson.) Ill, 258.
Goodell, Henry Hill. (J. M. Tyler.) With portrait. I, 235.
Greene, Theodore A. Christian Effort and Expectation at Amherst. Ill, 200.
Grover, Harry G. Hackensack Meadows. Poem. Ill, 252.
Memory. Poem III, 105.
" A Prayer for the Hungry. Poem. II, 222.

Hall, Henry Clay. (E. S. Parsons.) Ill, 266.

Portrait. Ill, 266.
Haller, William. What Besides the Landscape.'' 11,211.
Harris, Elijah Paddock. (G. G. Pond.) With portrait. I, 125.
Harris, President George. Administration of. (Williston Walker.) I, 291.

MemorialAddressouDr.Hitchcock. Wifhportrait. 1,22.

A Personal Appreciation. (W. J. Tucker.) I, 296.

Portrait. I, 279.

Presentation Address. (H. L. Bridgman.) With
portrait. Ill, 46.
Harris, George, Jr. My College. Poem. II, 302.

Poems. I, 302.
Hitchcock, Dr. Edward. (President George Harris.) With portrait. I, 22.
Honor System in Rudimental Conditions, The. (H. F. Coates.) I, 107.
Hopkins, Arthur J. A Coadjutor of Four Colleges. I, 245.
Hyde, William DeWitt. The College President's Job. II, 86.

Inauguration of President Meiklejohn, The. Illustrated. II, 37.

Intellectual Honesty. (H. C. Lodge.) II, 10.

Is the College Making Good.' (G. B. Churchill.) Ill, 95.

Johnson, Burges. Deacon Stebbins Pleads for the Ghosts. Poem. 111,184.

Lansing, Robert, Sketch of. From The Outlook. Ill, 268.

Portrait. Ill, 268.
Law. Frederick H. In Amherst town. Poem. 111,21.

The Purple Hills of Amherst. Poem. II, 209.
Legislation of Sound Sense, The. (Calvin Coolidge.) Ill, 171.
Livingstone, A Touch With. (M. L. Todd.) II, 221.
Lodge, Henry Cabot. Intellectual Honesty. II, 10.
Loomis, Frederick B. The Amherst 'OC Patagonian Expedition. I, 239.
Lost City of the Etruscans, A. (A. H. Baxter.) Illustrated. II, 141.
Lowell, A. Lawrence. The Duty of Scholarship. II, 79.

March, Francis A. (F. W. Stearns.) With portraits. I, 129.

6 I ND EX

Meiklejohn, President Alexander. (W. G. Everett.) II, 48.

(Talcott Williams.) With portrait. I, 321.

Goal and the Game, The : Baccalaureate Ad-
dress. Ill, 11.

Inaugural Address. II, 56.

Portraits. I, 321. II, 1, 48, 94.
Morris Pratt Memorial Dormitory, Inscriptions in the. II, 154.

Plans and Elevation I, 143.

Plate. II, 119; III, 77.

The Significance of. (J. F. Genung.) II, 155.
Morse, Anson D . In Memoriam: Edward Payson Crowell. With portrait. 1,31.
Murray, Gilbert. (H. L. Eraser.) With portrait. I, 326.

Nelligan, Richard F. America in Stockholm. II, 19.

New England College in Leadership, The. (W. F. Wilcox.) I, 224.

Orr, William. Julius H. Seelye — -Administrator and Teacher. With portrait. 111,188.

Park, James W. President William Frederick Slocum. With portrait. II, 239.

Parks, George B. Among the Clubs and Seminars. I, 151.

Parsons, E. S. Henry Clay Hall. Ill, 266.

Patagonian Expedition, The Amherst '96. (F. B. Loomis.) I, 239.

Phi Beta Kappa, The Housing of. (L. G. Caldwell.) II, 189.

Phi Delta Theta House, The. Plate. II, 283.

Philologists, Two Amherst. With portraits. (F. W. Stearns.) I, 129.

Poems. Alphabetical List:

Acrostic: William Shakespeare. (E. N. Andrews.) Ill, 257.

After the Show. (George Harris, Jr.) I, 303.

At Sea. (W. H. Cobb.) II, 25.

Brother. (George Harris, Jr.) I, 302.

Cherry-blossom. (John Erksine.) I, 223.

Commencement. (K. O. Thompson.) Ill, 94.

Deacon Stebbins Pleads for the Ghosts. (Burges Johnson.) Ill, 184.

Hackensack Meadows. (H. G. Grover.) Ill, 252.

In Amherst Town. (F. H. Law.) Ill, 21.

In Arcady and After. (W. L. Corbin.) HI, 174.

In the Street-car. (George Harris, Jr.) I, 302.

Keats. (W. L. Corbin.) H, 316.

Life's Paradoxes. (G. W. Thompson.) II, 18.

Memory. (H. G. Grover.) Ill, 105.

Memory Song to Amherst. (J. F. Genung.) II, 74.

My College. (George Harris, Jr.) Ill, 302.

Poe. (W. L. Corbin.) L 114.

Poem. (G. W. Thompson.) II, 140.

Prayer for the Hungry, A. (H. G. Grover.) II, 222.

Purple HUls of Amherst, The. (F. H. Law.) II, 209.

Reversion. (H. N. Dickinson.) II, 316.

INDEX

Poems. List :

Richard Watson Gilder. (W. L. Corbin.) I, 114.

Sonnet to Amherst College. (G. W. Thompson.) II, 140.

Sonnets. (G. W. Thompson.) Ill, 28.

Span of Years, The. (W. L. Corbin.) Ill, 174.

To a Song Sparrow. (W. L. Corbin.) II, 147.

Wildwood. (John Erskine.) I, 24.

Wordsworth. (W. L. Corbin.) II, 147.

Written on Thought of Leaving Amherst. (F. J. Pohl.) I, 317.
Pohl, Frederick J. Written on Thought of Leaving Amherst. Poem. I, 317.
Pond, George G. Elijah Paddock Harris: Presentation Address. 1,125.
Postscript. (H. W. Boynton.) Ill, 265.
Powell, Chilton L. The Buried Talent. Ill, 175.
Print Collector, Pleasures of an Amateur. (E. G. Draper.) Ill, 29.
Psi Upsilon House, The. Plaie. II, 193.

Reaction and Progress. (H. A. Garfield.) II, 82.
Rhees, Rush. Amherst's Excellent Choice. II, 132.
Rolfe, William J. (F. W. Stearns.) With portrait. I, 129.
Rugg, Arthur Prentice. (W. T. Forbes.) I, 37.
Portrait. I, 95.

Sawyer, Joseph H. Amherst in Civil War Time. Ill, 118.
Scholarship, The Duty of. (A. L. Lowell.) II, 79.
Seelye, President Julius H. (William Orr.) With portrait. Ill, 188.
Laurens H. Finding the Modern College Range. Ill, 106.

Making Christian Work Effective In the College. I, 155.
Shifting Emphasis. (W. P. Bigelow.) I, 304.
Sigma Delta Rho House, The. Plate. Ill, 1.

Slocum, William Frederick. (J. W. Park.) With portrait. II, 239.
Sovmding the Key Note: Comment on "The Enterprise of Learning." I, 115.
Stearns, Foster W. Two Amherst Philologists. I, 129.
Stockholm, America in. (R. F. Nelligan.) II, 19.
Swett, Harry Preble. Democracy and Culture. Ill, 86.

Thompson, D. V. Coin' to the Shinty.? IH, 258.
Edmund A. (A. J. Hopkins.) I, 245.
Garrett W. College and the Man. IL 306.

Life's Paradoxes. Poem. II, 18.
Poems. II, 140.
Sonnets, III, 28.
Karl O. Commencement. Poem. Ill, 94.
Todd, Mabel Loomis. A Touch with Livingstone. II, 221.
Trustees, The. I, 69, 169, 262, 340; IL 96, 166, 344; IH, 57, 133, 206, 281.
Tucker, William Jewett. President Harris: A Personal Appreciation. I, 296.
Tyler, Jolm M. Henry Hill Goodell. With portrait. I, 235.

Yesterday and today in the Curriculum. I, 39.

8 I NDEX

Undergraduate Affairs. I, 49, 151, 155, 160, 250, 331; II, 117, 189, 278, 357;

III, 34, 131, 204, 276.
Utter, Robert P. Democracy and Learning. I, 304.

Vital Force, The Quest of the. (H. L. Clark.) II, 294.

Walker, Williston. President Harris's Administration. I, 291.

Washburn, George. American Influence in Bulgaria. II, 203.

Webster Memorial Statue, The. Plate. Ill, 233.

What Besides the Landscape? (William Haller.) II, 211.

Wilkins, Ernest H. The Poetry of Carducci. II, 317.

Wilcox, Walter F. The New England College in Leadership. I, 224.

Williams, Talcott. (J. F. Genung.) I, 231.

Portrait. I, 197.

The President-elect. I, 321.
Woodbridge, Frederick J. E. The Enterprise of Learning. I, 12.
World on Trial, The. (W. A. Dyer.) Ill, 254.

Young.D. B., of Amherst Equalling Intercollegiate Record in 440-yard Dash, 191 1.
Plate. I, 53.

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Full text of "Amherst Graduates' Quarterly"

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